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Evening star., 1960-09-14
Hospital to Have
Prayer Room

An inter denominational
committee of clergymen and
laymen is conducting a fund
drive to buy furnishings for a
prayer and meditation room at
Fairfax Hospital.
The drive, to be conducted
in churches and synogogues,
has a goal of $4,000. Mrs.
Mark w. Alger. president of
the United Council of Church
Women, Falls Church. is chair
man of the committee.
Completion of the hospital
is expected in January.
Evening star., 1960-09-14
The
Rambler
Takes q Look
At Whistler Art
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

@@SANGa AAA1ANANAD -
A Whistler show is current
at the Arts Councils Galleries
on st. James square, Lon
don. 1t is attracting favor
able clinical attention.
Among the many pictures
In the exhibition is the Moe
turne in Black and Gold:
The Falling Rocket"
This is the painting that
caused John Ruskin to pro-
test:
II have seen and heard
much of Cockney impudence
before now, but never ex-
pected to hear a coxcomb
ask 200 guineas for flinging
a pot of paint in the public's
face"
Whistler sued for libel and
won. Ruskin had to pay the
cost and the nominal dam
age of one farthing, which
Whistler wore on his watch
chain thereafter.
But Ruskin was lucky. He
died in 1900. How many pots
of paint have been flung in
the public's face Sincel
All this reminded the Ram
bier that he had never seen
the Whistlers in the Freer
Gallery.
The gallery is the compact
stone building in the Smith
Sonian group, at Twelfth
street S.W., just west Of the
main building.
Evening star., 1960-09-14

two sides are quite far apart
at the moment" He said union
demands would cost one of the
larger hotels $420.000 a year.
However. he said, based on
past experience, I'VE don't
usually get together until the
last day."
Samuel Levine. an attorney
for the unions, said they are
seeking improvement in sub
standard" wages, better work.
ing conditions, a pension fund
and improvement in the han
ding Of health and welfare
benefits.
Present Wage Cited
IF the employers remain
completely indifferent to the
needs of the employees, they
will have to take full RESPONSE
bility for the strike" Mr.. Levine
said.
Mr.. Levine cited, as exam
Piles. the present wages Of some
workers the union wants to inn
prove. For a 40-hour week, he
said, unSkilled kitchen workers
receive 1920; bus boys, $500,
and maids, $42.90.
Negotiations have been going
on since last Wednesday.
Evening star., 1960-09-14
ECHO ! TO MAKE
2 PASSES TONIGHT

If weather permits. the
Echo l balloon satellite will
be visible twice tonight as
it passes over the WASH
ington area. according to
the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration.
The satellite may be seen
at:
7:12 pm, north of the
city, 81 degrees above the
horizon, travelling south
east.
9:18 pm. south OF the
city. 81 degrees above the
horizon, travelling south
east.
Evening star., 1960-09-14

budget. Completion Of the
project, however, would be sew
eral years away, he added.
Morton Hoppenfold. National
Capital Planning Commission
civic designer. explained to
board members yesterday that
normally the sidewalk between
the new Southwest expresSway
and 1 street S.W., where Fourth
street will dead-end at the new
Town Center. would be only a
few feet wide. with a narrow
park strip added.
However, National Capital
Parks plans call for a 35-foot-
wide sidewalk made of brick
panels and concrete on the west
side of Fourth street next to
the three-acre school play
ground. Trees would be planted
on either side Of the pro-
menade, which would also ex-
tend along g street on the
north side of the playground.
NOOkS in Shrubs
That part of the promenade
bordering the playground would
be planted with shrubs, and
game tables would be located at
intervals among the shrub-pro-
tected hooks. Mr.. Hoppenfeld
said.
In other business yesterday,
the recreation board decided
to ask the District Commits
sioners to restore a $4,000
item in the fiscal 1862 budget
requests. providing a new
swimming pool next to the
Kelly Miller Junior High School
in Northeast Washington.
Evening star., 1960-09-14
Alexandria 6. O. P.

The Alexandria Republican
Precinct Committee will meet
in the new Republican head
quarters at the George Mason
Hotel, at $3.50 o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1960-09-14
Housing Chief
Won Resign
InAIexandria
Boswell Refuses
Council Request
To Leave Post
BY JOHN NEARY
Star Stan Writer

j v. Ward Boswell, 82-year-
lold chairman of the Alexan-
ldria Redevelopment and Hous-
ling Authority, today refused
a demapd from the City Coun-
eli that he resign.
"I'll never resign. they'll
have to put me out" he said
when informed of the coun-
ellis unanimous vote last night.
Council action followed pre-
sentation of a citizens petition
requesting a grand jury in
vestigation of two houses owned
by Mr.. Boswell in Hammond
Court which violate the housing
code, according to Health De-
partment records.
Edward Gulewicz, who pre-
sented the petition signed by
eight citizens. said the resie-
nation was needed to counter
act lack of confidence in
urban renewal in the city,"
Mayor Asks Meeting
Mayor Leroy S. Bendheim
told the council he felt a
health department report
that the Hammond Court
dwellings are "in violation of
the housing code makes it en-
barrassing to the council and
the housing authority for (Mr.
BoswelD to retain his posi-
ton"
Mayor Bendheim appointed
Vice Mayor Joseph N. Pam
coast and Councilman Josiah
S. Everly to join him in meet
ing with Mr.. Boswell today or
tomorrow.
Mr.. Everly made the motion
asking for the resignation.
Councilmen James M. Dun
can and F. Clinton Knight re-
fused to serve on the commit
tee to meet Mr.. Boswell.
Mr.. Gulewicz. whose property
at 221 North Pitt street adjoins
the Hammond Court dwellings,,
asked for Mr.. Boswell's resigna-
| ton.
Code Enforcement
He asked for enforcement of
the city's housing and hygiene
code: opening health depart
ment records to the public:
launching a crash public houS-
ing program t'befoHe we 60
ahead with any kind of urban
renewal and changing the
term N"urban renewal to "ur-
ban rehabilitation"
Councilman John J. Ewald
moved that Mr.. Boswell be
asked to resign.
HE should have resigned
when this broke in the press"
he said, land not waited for
council action"
Mr.. Boswell told a reporter.
II hope to have the privilege of
discussing it with the council,
if they will give me the op-
portunity."
After such a conference, he
said, he would have no reason
to retire"
I'm not a bit worried about
getting out of the Housing
Authority" he said. This has
been going on for 10 years. It's
because of the houses in Ham
mond Court.
They've been trying for 10
years to get those people out"
The Hammond Court houses
are currently occupied by
Negro families.
Evening star., 1960-09-14
SchooIfor1, 900 Inmates
Proposed for Lorton
Budget Seeks $236. 400 for Facility,
Asks $4,000 for District Jail

new $236 400 school building the Reformatory
Lorton va has been proposed in the Department of Cor
rections budget for the next fiscal year.
The structure would accommodate 300 inmates
The bdget report the Department Corrections
Evening star., 1960-09-14


THEN WE WENT to the
Peacock Room. This is the
work of Whistler the interior
decorator. He painted an en-
tire dining room or small
banquet hall for Leyland so
that it would be a Satisfac-
tory setting for a painting
Leyland had purchased from
him several yesrs before
THE Princess From the Land
of Porcelain"
The princess" is in a XII
mona, her black hair falling
down her back. She is stand
ing in front of a blue jar
holding a fan. The picture is
above the fireplace. Whistler
painted the shutters and
panels of the room with huge
blue peacockS on a gold back
ground. He cut the red border
from the rug on the floor to
obtain harmony.
In the upper left hand
corner of 1.-THE Princess" is
the date, 1864. That was the
last full year Of the Civil
War. The West Pointer was
content to be in London. He
never returned to the United
States. But two years later
he went to Santiago, hoping
to take part in the fighting
between the Spanish and the
ChileanS.
He may be remembered as
a wit long after all his paint
ings are in storage. In his
Gentle Art of Making Enc
mics" he tells how he pune
tured the ego of young Oscar
Wilde:
Wilde: I wish I had said
that.
Whistler: You will, oscar,
you will.
His painting of a young
woman with her golden hair
falling down her back and a
brush in her hand inspired
Swinburne's Before the Mir
ror." 1t contains one of the
finest apoStrophes to
Woman:
Come Sno10, come wind or
thunder,
High up in air,
I match my face and ,Donder
At my bright hair.
Evening star., 1960-09-14

CHARLES L. FREER MADE
a great fortune building rail-
way cars. He began collect
ing Whistlers in the 1880s.
In 1900 he helped form
American Car g. Foundry
and retired to devote him.
self to his hobby. He went
to Japan and China and pur-
chased more than 1000 items
of oriental art.
Whistler may be attracting
attention in London, but
most of the WhistlerS in the
Freer, are In storage.
It's live storage. At our
request we were escorted to
a downstairs room where
great racks were pulled out
of the wall. They were hung
with small paintings and
pastels, including several of
the "nocturnes," inspired by
the mist of the Thames.
There are several larger
Whistlers on exhibit in Gal
lery 9. Anyone who has not
visited this has missed some
thing-the portrait Of Theo-
dore Roosevelt by Carl Mel
chers. There Is only one word
for it and that Is:
"Bully!"
Whistler had a way of max
ing his male subjects look
like Whistler-but not the
portraits Of himself. His self
portrait in the Freer pictures
a youth one might imagine
encountering on the streets
of Florence or Rome or Mad
rid in the High Renaissance
not the young man who
had just busted out of
West Point.
The standing portrait of
his bearded patron, F. R.
Leyland, the Liverpool ship
ping millionaire, has a
slender grace of carriage that
one associates with Whistler.
Evening star., 1960-10-09
D. c. STUDIOS
BY BONNIE AIKMAN

BY BONNIE AIKMAN
The Junior Leagues 25th Hour
hobby program, opening its third
season next Sunday, (WTOP-9)
will introduce a new host and host
ess. They are Mrs. Donald R. Lar
rabee, who's been the shows be-
hind-the- e-scenes worker in the past,
and area Attorney Kent Thorup.
Interviews with persons engaged
in unusual hobbies will continue this
year but, promises Mrs. Larrabee,
we're going to do more in the area
of suggesting leisure time activities.
Tall, dark-haired Mary Beth Lar
rabee is no newcomer to local TV-
radio. After her graduation from
Cornell University (B.A, drAmaticS)
she became assistant to the program
director at VOL when it was still a
Mutual affiliate. She interspersed
Evening star., 1960-10-09

New hosts of The 18th Hour, Mrs.
Donald Lorrobee ond Kent Thorup.
this activity with a number Of free
lance acting chores on radio and
later became assistant producer for
Evening star., 1960-10-01
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

The glory road old mems department: Ted Williams at
AZ quits baseball with final home Jack Kennedy at 43
strives to leave the United States Senate similar fashion
Kmushchev figured the easiest way to get the United
Nations out of New York send invitations to all his
Communist pals Bring your bottle Big lease breaking
party"
Listening to Nixon, the country is well of it could
by itself To hear Kennedy, it's in foul shape no
mere mortal could 1t.
Ike says Nixon is best prepared for the White House
For Dick has pondered the administrations slogan for
running the government Look Ma, no hands!"
One rural preacher he'll pulpit to
candidates religion That's the mems Bible
class is for.
Little Known Geography: Kentucky was famous from
tier State Daniel Boone lived there once but then pushed
on and went to work in Detroit.
The trouble with the Parent Association that
it's awful hard to teach parent anything these days.
Evening star., 1960-10-01
SeuwoIfGets
New Reuctor,
HigherSpeed

GROTON, Conn, Oct. /
(AP).-The USS Seawolf, a
nuclear submarine, was re-
commissioned yesterday by re-
mote control.
1t was the first recommls-
sioning Of an A-sub and the
first in modern history in which
the ceremony was held indoors.
While the Seawolf. housing
a new engineering plant, sat in
a driving rain in the Thames
River, about 500 persons
crowded into a cafeteria three
blocks away for the exercises.
The commissioning pennant
was raised on telephoned orders
to the submarine.
Rear Admiral Frederick B.
Warder, commandant of the 9th
Naval District and the chief
speaker, said "this new plant
will give her (Seawolf) higher
speed and greater safety"
The 330-foot, 3,260-ton Sea-
wolf started her new career
with q pressurized water re-
actor which replaced the old
sodium plant.
Seawolf, Americas second
A-sub, first Joined the Navy
two and a half years after the
famed USS Nautilus, the pio-
neer nuclear ship.
Evening star., 1960-10-01
New Huven's S
Pay DeferroI
Plan Refused

Railway labor leaders today
announced rejection of a New
Haven Railroad plea for de-
ferral of 10 per cent of en-
ployes wages.
The Railway Labor Execu-
tives Association released a
letter to George Alpert, presi-
dent of the New Haven, stating
that lit would be wrong in
principle for our organizations
in this situation to commit
the employees to such an OBJ
legation"
Mr.. Alpert several weeks
ago asked unions on the the
New Haven to agree to post
pone 10 per cent of employees
wages for six months. He re-
newed the plea here on We'd
neSday at a meeting OF the
RLEA.
The RLEA letter confirmed
earlier hints by the union lead
ers that they were against
Mr.. Alpert's proposal. The labor
leaders said the plan in effect
calls for employees to make
Evening star., 1960-10-01

examiners recommendation to
dismiss a complaint against the
UNIV Local 2311. The examiner
said Local 2311 had not en-
gagged in any unfair labor prac-
ticeS.
The union contended that it
was not responsible for any mis-
conduct on the part of the
strikers.
"In effect" the examiner said,
"they have sought to establish
that they were no more than
innocent bystanders to the
events in question: That the
employees of the charging par
ties (companies) had gone on
strike Of their own volition, that
they had remained on strike
without any inducement or di-
rection from the respondents
(the union) and that the latter
had not authorized picket or
assembly lines"
But the examiner held that
the evidence was to the con-
trary, and that the whole
strength Of the union was
thrown into the struggle.
Evening star., 1960-10-01
Marine Bundsmun
Reaches 90

William s. deLuca, the oldest
living member of the United
States Marine Corps Band. re-
Gently celebrated his Goth
birthday.
A native of Belmonte Cas-
tello. Italy, he came to this
country at the age of 81. Five
years later he began what was
to become a 23-year career as
a piccolo player with the
Marines.
He retired In 1921 with the
rank Of principal musician
or what would today be con-
sidered q master sergeant's
rank.
Mr.. deLuca now lives with
his grandson, Air Force Mai.
Frank c. Gass, jr., at 1895
Arcadia place NV.
Evening star., 1960-10-01
BY the Associated Press

Secretary of Defense Gates
has invited top labor leaders to
a Pentagon discussion October
I on the tagging Atlas missile
base construction program.
The Defense Department also
yesterday to tighten re-
sponsibility for the vital con-
struction program by assigning
direct contract administration
for the Atlas base at Platts-
burgh, N. Y, to the Army En-
gineers' new ballistic missile
construction Office headed by
Brig. Gen. A. C. yelling, former
District Engineer Commissioner.
Both steps were designed to
speed to completion the inter-
continental ballistic missile
launching sites, some of which
have fallen as much as five
months behind schedule.
Gen. Gates invitation to
George Meany. president of the
AFL-CIO, and other labor lead
ers follows up a similar meet
ing defense officials had July 20
with missile industry represent
atives.
Besides Mr.. Meany, invita-
Evening star., 1960-10-01

interest-free loans to the rail-
road.
Mr.. Alpert has said the New
Haven is in serious financial
difficulties. He has limited at
lay-offs unless the 10000 en-
ployes help out by approving
the wage deferral plan.
G. E. Leighty, chairman Of
the RLEA, also told a press
conference today that his or
ganization plans to sue the
Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion to secure adequate" pro-
lection for members jobs when
the Erie Railroad and the Del
aware, Lackawanna and West
ern Railroad merge. Mr.. Leigh
ty said the ICC order author
izing the merger falls short
of reasonable projections for
the jobs of employees of the
two railroads.
Evening star., 1960-10-01
Labor Chiefs to Confer
On Missile Base Loo

tions went out to Walter P.
Reuther, president Of the Unit
ed Auto Workers; David j. Nc.
Donald. president Of the Unit
ed Steelworkers Union; A. j.
Hayes, president Of the Inter-
national Association of Ma
chinistS, and several other top
labor representatives.
At the July 90 meeting the
Defense Department shouldered
a good part of the blame for
the slow pace Of the site con-
struction program, citing an
overlapping and conflicting
management Setup.
A direct result Of the meet
ing was the organization of the
Engineer Corps ballistic mis-
sile construction Office under
Gen. yelling, with headquar-
ters in Los Angeles.
The $24 million Plattsburgh
project is the third to be trans
ferred to it. Earlier in the
month it took over contract
administration of the Atlas
bases at Lowry Air Force Base,
Denver, Colo, and Ellsworth
Air Force Base. Rapid City,
S. Oak.
Evening star., 1960-10-01
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Portent of the New Third Force

pose Western positions more
often than not.
Only If the Kremlin con-
tinues to everyday its diplo-
matte and missile-rattling
hand could such an outcome
be avoided. Given the long
experience and undouhted
skill of the Communist ma
neuverers in Moscow, Peiping
and elsewhere. it is highly
probable that over-plays will
be rendered infrequent in
time.
Obviously. then, the out
look for the free world in the
councils Of the U. N. is dim
mer than it was some years
ago. Although the prospect
of the third force" has
existed ever since the former
colonial areas have begun
achieving independence, al
most no one expected that
their arrival as full-fledged
members of the council of
nations would be so swift
and precipitate.
Worst Of all, many If not
most Of these newly-arrived
sovereign" nations are woe
fully unprepared for the ex-
ercise of sovereign rights and
especially obligations. Like
unschooled and undisciplined
children. they are extremely
likely to bestow what favors
they may have on the big
man who hands out the most
candy. even if it is stale.
OF course, the West has a
gleam Of hope in the posi-
bility that the men like Mr..
Nehru and Marshal Tito
whom we have ceaselessly
supported. will be able to re-
strain the exuberance Of
their recently-released col
leagues. India and Yugo-
Slavia, with possibly the UAR
and even Indonesia, might be
effective enough to apply the
brakes If they wished. Ma
tions, like people. learn eau
ton with experience, and
sometimes apply it.
Evening star., 1960-10-01

to become effective next year,
was modelled after control sys-
TENS already used by the
United States, Britain and
Canada under their bilateral
agreements with nations in
Europe, Asia. Africa and Latin
America. Most Of the countries
that adopted the plan receive
their fuel and equipment from
there three powers, either
through IAEA or on a bilateral
basis.
Must Report to Agency
Once the IAEA takes over
control, countries receiving
uranium for research or power
production will have to report
to the agency how 1t was used
and the agency will have the
right to check to determine If
the reports are true.
IAEA also will control the
plutonium output of the re-
actors to make sure that this
by-product of nuclear process
is not used for secret atomic
weapons production.
The inspection plan now gies
back to the agency's board of
governors. which will work out
the legal and organizational
details.
Evening star., 1960-10-01

q safeguard against military use
Of nhclear fuels and reactors
supplied to less-advanced coun-
tries under agency's atoms for
peace" program.
1t was adopted by 43 of the
"a 1AEA members yesterday,
marking a defeat for the Com
munist bloc. which opposed the
plan as a Western attempt to
spy on the nuclear secrets of
other nations.
Side With Communists
Siding with the Communists
in the Today conference were
India. the United Arab Repub-
lie, 1raq, Indonesia and Cuba,
who opposed inspection as an
infringement Of national SOW
ereignty.
The UAR announced it would
turn to the Soviet Union for
uranium and technical assist
ance in nuclear power produc-
ton and research to avoid the
unfair pressureS" of agency
inspection. India and the other
opposing countries also were
expected to invite Russian help.
United States Chief Delegate
John McCone, in rejecting the
Communist charges, said the
United States was ready to
open four Of its reactors to
agency inspection.
The inspection plan, expected
Evening star., 1960-10-01
Farm Prices
Up | Per Cent
BY the Associated Press


A ! per cent increase in
farm product prices in Sep
tember heartened Eisenhower
administration officials today.
This upturn, which was re-
ported late yesterday by the
Agriculture Department, fol-
lowed a 2 per cent decline in
August.
Farm prices are an issue in
the presidential campaign,
with Democrats claiming Re-
publican failure to protect ag-
ricultural returns. Department
officials said they expect farm
prices to continue close to
present levels this fall and
winter.
The September prices aver
aged ! per cent below a year
ago and nearly Is per cent be-
low the record high set in 1851.
The level Of prices paid by
farmers in September held un-
changed at the August level.
The September increase in
farm prices was based largely
on rises in prices Of dairy
products, fruit and eggs. De-
clines were reported for meat
animals, potatoes and CONNER
cial broilers.
Prices Of hogs-an impor-
tant source Of farm income in
the politically important Mid
western corn belt-declined
nearly 5 per cent during the
month. But they averaged
about II per cent higher than
a year ago.
Dairy product prices rose 8
per cent during the month,
Evening star., 1960-10-01
Vests Hope of Restraining NeutroIists
From Turning Left Put on Key Leaders

and West blocs, they will Of
necessity be compelled to
work together. This they must
do at the U. N. and also in
the course Of their own rela-
tionS with individual nations
in the existing blocs.
The results, it is easy to
see, will be a de facto neu-
tralist bloc, whether or not
the bloc leaders accept the
term. Such a bloc of similar
minded nations could in
theory do much good, per-
haps. in helping to ease world
tensions. But in practice,
judging by some Of their at
titudes in New York, it could
also do a great deal Of harm,
especially because in the long
run an uncommitted bloc
would be almost sure to lean
toward one existing bloc or
the other.
Assuming, then, that an
uncommitted bloc proves
able, as 1t will, to WELD great
power in the United Nations
as a balance between East
and West, then to which
side in the long run would
the preponderant Sympathies
of the uncommitted bloc go?
This Is an easy question to
answer. but not a happy one
for the West. Because there
is not the slightest prospect
that the lean would be toward
the free world bloc the
West. Probably on many is
sues the uncomn:Gted or
neutralist bloc would refuse
to pull Moscow's chestnuts
out Of the fire, as was the
case last week when they re-
fused to indorse Mr.. KS de-
mand to replace the secre-
tary general Of the U. N. by
a Soviet-type praesidium.
But on major, substantive
issues, neutralist nations
could be depended on to OPP
Evening star., 1960-10-01
Brother Aids
Kennedy Drive

HOUSTON, Tex, Oct. / (AP).
The younger brother of Sen
ator Kennedy continues a swing
through Texas today in a bid
for support for the Democratic
ticket.
Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy
spoke at Fort Worth, Arlington
and Dallas yesterday and speaks
today at three schools here
Rice University, the University
of Houston and Texas Southern
University, an all-Negro insti-
tuition.
Throughout his swing Mr..
Kennedy berated Republicans
and forecast good things II his
brother and Senator johnson
are elected.