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Evening star., 1960-10-14
New Active TBCoses
Put DC. Next to Top

Washington residents who
think tuberculosis is under
control would do well to read
the statistics, the District Tu-
berculosis Association warns.
The District last year
ranked second in the Nation
in the rate of new. active
cases Of TB reported per
100000 population. public
health experts yesterday re-
minded the associations an
nual meeting. About 200 per-
sons registered for the meeting
in the Department Of Health,
Education and Welfare audi
torium.
Among the 18 largest cities,
the Districts rate of n per
100000 ranked second only to
Baltimore. with a rate of ap-
proximately 30, the associa-
tion's figures show.
Furthermore, the Glenn Dale
Hospital superintendent, DR..
Moe Weiss. reported that the
Districts TB death rate per
100000 persons last year was
actually higher than in 1857.
He told a morning session that
last year the rate was 14.8
deaths, compared with 12.5 in
1857. The 1859 death rate was
slightly lower than in 1858.
1870 Goal Suggested
"You can't draw a fair COM
parison. however, between the
Districts rate and Virginia's
rate of "a, or Maryland's rate
of Al in 1885," DR.. Weiss eau
toned, because the State
rates represent. both rural and
urban areas"
DR.. David J. Sencer of the
PISS Department Of State
Services, suggested in an ad-
dress to the morning meeting
that the District seek to reduce
it's case rate to "a by 1870. He
said his agency will attempt to
help reduce the national rate
of 33 per 100000 by about 10
per cent annually.
IF you think that sounds
easy, let me remind you that
out national TB rate of decline
Evening star., 1960-10-14

blood. shows whether TB Is
actually present or very recent
in an individual.
Standard tests now in use
cannot themselves show whether
the individual has active TB.
The older tests are based upon
blood factors induced by TB,
"but the individual could have
contracted and recovered from
TB years previously" DR.. Field
man said.
Both the older and the new
tests are always backed up by
X-ray examination, however,
he added. DR.. Feldmah said the
new test, developed under a
National TB Association grant
at the University of Chicago, is
about 80 per cent reliable.
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in recent, years has only been
8 per cent" DR., Sencer pointed
out.
New TB Test
DR.. Floyd H. Feldman, re-
search director of the National
tuberculosis Association, re-
ported on a new test for TB
which he said is a marked i'm
provement over older methods
Of detecting the disease.
The new test, a relatively
simple test tube technique using
Evening star., 1960-07-08
DORIS FLEEsoN
Time of Danger for Candidates

Doubt remains that he can
Surmount the religious issue.
Many liberals still hesitate;
the old pros, many of whom
are fellow-C Catholics, feel it
win hurt them in their own
States to have Kennedy at
the head of the ticket. But
the basic dilemma for the
doubters is the lack of ap-
peal of the other candidates.
Listing the committed dele
gates is called here playing
the numbers game" It can
be done in many ways. The
Stevenson managers, for ex-
ample, have figures showing
Kennedy has picked up only
four new votes since the
Oregon primary. They pri-
vately feel he has about $40
of the necessary 761, and they
profess to feel the total will
start to melt on a second
ballot.
Manager Robert Kennedy
is rather frank in his admiS-
sion that much depends on
how much they can increase
their votes in first-ballot
switches or on the second
ballot.
None of this is particularly
revealing. It was apparent
weeks ago that only a ground
swell of support for a dark
horse, probably Stevenson, or
some disaster to the carefully
constructed Kennedy edifice
would change the outcome.
Evening star., 1960-07-08
Military Action in Cuba When?

by the foreign ministers Of
the American republics. Con-
gress served notice then that
no such transfer of sover-
eighty would be recognized
and declared that, if such
transfer seemed likely, the
United States Gin addition to
other measures" would con-
suit with the American re-
publicS "to determine on the
steps which should be taken
to safeguard their common
interests"
Inasmuch as this is a cam
paign year, it is quite pos
sible that President Eisen-
hover will feel impelled to
ask Congress for a Joint
resolution authorizing him to
take certain steps to prevent
the SovietS from getting a
foothold in Cuba. The pos
sible shipment of Soviet arms
to Cuba has already been
reported. 1t was precisely to
avoid a similar situation in
1914 that President Wilson
ordered a ship carrying Ger
man arms to Mexico to be
halted and turned back to its
point of origin. To accom-
plish this, the customs house
at Vera Cruz was seized by
United States Marines,
The United States is not
anxious to become involved
in a military way in Cuba,
but there have been hints by
the Castro government of
possible seizure of the United
States naval base at Guam
tanamo, which is maintained
under a Cuban-A m erican
treaty of many years stand
ing. Certainly any attempt to
interfere with the operation
of that naval base would be
resisted by United States
forces.
Castro can have peace and
he can do what he pleases
internally. But the moment
he conflScates foreign prop
critics, does not pay for them
and threatens the safety of
foreign citizens, the United
States will not hesitate to use
force to secure redress and
protection, not only for it's
citizens, but for those Of
Britain and other countries
whose lives and property
have also been threatened,
(copyright, 1960)
Evening star., 1960-07-08
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Right Extremists VS.. Johnson

Butler, though still ma
tional chairman, long since
was ousted by his own col
leagues as national commit
teeman from his own state
of Indiana. ziffren was just
similarly ousted by his own
colleagues in California. PERL
man never held elective office
and for eight years has held
no appointive office. He was
Solicitor General in the Tru-
man administration. Rauh
never held any public office.
He speaks for a splinter group
called Americans for Demo-
cratic Action. One of ADA's
highest stated aims is the de-
feat of johnson.
Elected United States Sen
ators from the South who are
supposed to be on the plat
form committee have pub
licly complained that the But
Ter group for the first time
in history has refused even
to consult with them. One
Of these Senators, Sam Err
vim, jr., of North Carolina,
is a distinguished former
judge and an honor graduate
of a scarcely pro-Southern
law school, that of Harvard
University.
And he represents the most
liberal State in the South
and one of the most liberal
in all the Nation-on race
problems.
Evening star., 1960-07-08
Problems of Lond-Hunqry Dutch

stand why taxes go up. No
where is there a necessary
understanding of costs and
needs.
The Soviets' use Of scare
techniques also tends to un-
balance budgets. The BIO
bomber issue in our own coun-
try is an example. Meanwhile,
the Soviets themselves are
placing more and more en-
phaSis on their navy. They
are building new types of sur
face ships of the missile
carrying type. These will be
correlated with their sub
marines.
All these things were talked
about as we looked at the
cold, wind-tossed seas where
for centuries navies, repre-
senting the ambitions of con-
querors and the hopes of peo-
pies on their shores, have
fought and died. The roses
in the admirals garden were
beautiful. The wind was blow
ing petals off the open ones.
covering the grass with the
red and yellow of their
beauty.
1T is a pity one must talk
and think of war because
man cannot learn how to
govern or live without it," he
said.
And one could say only
yes.
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to the Senator's candidacy is
total, No delegate has COM
planned publicly, however.
Adlai Stevenson's support
ers have wrung their last
drop Of advantage from Ma
tional Chairman Paul But
ler's grudging acceptance of
the Stevenson candidacy.
They first trumpeted the
story Of Buffers pantry"
two tiny, remote rooms near
a kitchen allotted to them
by the chairman. Now they
are suggesting that it is not
yet time to let young Bob
by Kennedy push Stevenson
out of the picture"
Senator Stuart Syming-
tons supporters implore their
friends to hang on. Senator
Lyndon JohnSon's headquar-
terS is swelling in numbers
and decibels by the minute.
The essential facts are un-
changed. Kennedy has pulled
far in front with his we'll
planned, amply-financed ef-
forts of the last four years.
He goes before the conven-
ton with a broader base than
anyone had suspected he
could. The party as a whole
is not wild about him, but
then it is not wild about the
alternatives, either.
Evening star., 1960-07-08

sponsible conduct undoubtedly
now rests upon the chairman
Of the convention platform
committee, Representative
Chester Bowles of Connecti-
cut. For much more than
Senator Johnson's future is
involved here. Involved also
is the future of Senator
Kennedy himself, should he
emerge the nominee.
Kennedy's danger is that
over-zealous friends" might
write a civil rights plank so
wildly vindictive and un-
workable as to lose him the
South and the Border States
as well in the November elec-
ton. Any such plank, again
ironically, would be wholly
alien to Kennedy's record and
convictions.
Though a genuine liberal on
civil rights, he believes in a
rational approach to an old
and passionate problem. And
he maintains, so far, the
warmeSt of political friend
ships with the m oderate
SouthernerS.
Representative Bowles, a
frank but fair-minded Ken
nedy partisan, was appointed
to the platform post by DEM
ocratic National Chairman
Paul Butler. Butler, also a
Kennedy backer though late
ly a quieter one, has been
cutting at johnson tirelessly
for years.
No one supposes Bowles
personally will be less than
fair. The question is whether
he can restrain others. The
Butler appointed platform
co-chairman, Philip Perlman,
is an extremist civil rights
advocate, as is Butler. Two
additional such advocates,
with great influence before
the committee are Paul Ziff-
rem and Joseph Rauh, jr.
Both have had a widely
known animosity to johnson.
Evening star., 1960-07-08
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Kennedy strategists view of rival candidate man.
ayers: Il only wish had all the confidence they lack
One leading Democrat is alarmed He proposed
rules change to bar vote switches goes through the next
thing you know they'll be taking delegates sacred
right to doube-cross the candidate of his choice
%%%&
Adlai Stevensons position this convention is crystal
clear nominated he'll accept with pleasure If elected
he'll faint with surprise
One Lyndon johnson backer ready for an emergency
On his lapel he button, "A the Way With LBJ"
Underneath he has another Switched Today to JFK"
There's spirit of gay optimism among Democratic
delegates which can only be explained by the sudden
surge Of the "stop-everybody" movement.
Political theme songs: Hubert Humphrey-"Dont Get
Around Much Any More"
Iheres some doubt We'll conquer outer space It's
been tried futey for by the girde manufacturers
Evening star., 1960-07-08
DORIS FLEESON
Much Pre-Convention Activity AimIess
But Forces Know 1t Can Be Crucial

LOS ANGELES - These
are the dangerous hours for
the rival Democratic presi-
Dental candidates when the
adrenal glands are stimu-
lated by crowds, bands,
clashes of temperament and
the sheer difficulty Of keep
ing reasonably well-fed, we'll
clothed and well-housed.
Most Of the delegates have
not even arrived, but the
Biltmore Hotel headquarters
is packed body to body. Most
Of the energy expended is
aimless; the candidate pat
tern is established and will
alter little, if at all, before
the caucuseS of key delega-
tions-California, Illinois and
Pennsylvania.
Yet at this point the in
cautious phrase. too much
pressure, or even too little,
or a crowd psychology could
affect the outcome. The
forces of the candidates are,
therefore, in motion.
Robert Kennedy is putting
all the heat he can on dele
gates known to be leaning or
friendly. He has been ac-
cused in the past of using
too heavy a hand in such ef-
forts. Certainly he is young
and enthusiastic. and the
Kennedy family commitment
Evening star., 1960-07-08
Reclamation and Housing Needs Pile Up
For Crowded, Fast Growing Population

a sense, the problems of all
nations, more especially the
crowded, small countries of
Europe. The Netherlands has
a population of about IL mil
lion. Already thousands of
acres hard-won from the sea
have been taken over for
housing. Few single homes
are being constructed. Flats
climb high and a hundred
families can be housed on
the space once used comfort
ably by one family.
The Dutch navy is losing
some of its best young men.
They are emigrating to the
United States, Canada or Aus
tralia. The challenge of land
in the latter country, for ex-
ample, is so great that Can
berra maintains a large i'm
migration Office in The Hague
to care for the hundreds who
apply.
Population presSures are
such that harrassed govern
ments are vulnerable to So
cialiSt preSsureS. There is a
need for more housing. In
many areas it is desperate.
There are demands for serv-
ices by government in the
field of medical care and en-
ployment. In a very real sense
this situation plays into the
hands Of Soviet propaganda.
Military budgets are in
creasingly heavy because of
the costly technical advances.
1t becomes easier to listen
to the siren song of the So
viets that they want peace
and that only the Americans,
with their NATO and SEATO
alliances, threaten war and
make it necessary to MAIN
tain expensive nayies and
armies.
A small country, with a fast
growing population, is hard
put to maintain any military
strength in the face of such
pressures. The United States,
as rich as it is, already hears
the voices of discomfort from
Its people who cannot under
Evening star., 1960-07-08
Venezuela PurIey

CARACAS, Venezuela, July
8 (AP).-United States Am
basSador Edward Sparks met
with President Romulo Betan-
court for an hour yesterday.
1t was said they discussed
reports that if international
organizations failed to impose
collective penalties against the
Dominican Republic, Venezuela
would apply them unilaterally.
Mr.. Sparks declined to COM
met on what he and the Presi-
dent had talked about.
The Venezuelan government
has charged Dominican COM
Iplicity in the June "a attempt
to aSsasSinate President Betan-
court.
Venezuela has called for a
meeting of all American re-
Evening star., 1960-07-08
Foes Seen Trying to Break Candidacy
BY Demanding South-Boitinq PIonks

Bitter men already repudi-
ated in their own States by
their own closest party asso-
ciateS are moving to try to
break Senator Lyndon B.
Johnson's presidential candi-
dacy in advance.
They are attempting to
drive even his supporters
from the moderate-as well
as the conservative-South
out of the Democratic con-
vention before the presiden-
tial balloting begins.
They are demanding civil
rights and allied planks so
irrationally extreme as to
make it impossible for any
moderate-from any section,
for that matter--to accept
them.
Though they are unlikely
to accomplish their objective,
the possibility does exist. And
johnson himself knows it. In
leaving here for Los Angeles,
the Texan unhesitatingly con-
ceded his chief rival, Senator
John F. Kennedy, to be the
front runner "as of now"
Senator Johnson nevertheless
showed no great worry over
this situation.
His principal concern, in
stead, was that his Southern
and Border State supporters
might be taunted into angry
reactions by the sustained
provocations of ostensible
South-baiters who are more
exactly Johnson-baiters.
The message OF highest
priority he carried to his
hackers in Los Angeles-as
ironically, the only Senate
leader ever to pass real civil
rights legislation in eight
decades-was this:
mo matter what they do or
say to you, don't let them
make you lose your heads"
A heavy obligation for re-
Evening star., 1960-07-08
RALPH McGILL

From a Dutch notebook:
At the northernmost tip of
the Netherlands is a point of
land called Den Helder. Once
Louis Napoleon built a naval
base there. Across many CEN
turies naval ships have sailed
and fought in its waters.
Not far from it is the new
est and most incredible of the
Dutch reclamations of land
from the sea. It will trans
form a large corner of the
zuider Zee into badly needed
land.
1t was raining and a hard
wind blew. Vice Admiral G.
B. Fortuyn looked out at the
cold, slate-gray seas and
spoke of his faith in the new
concept of fighting ships.
The Dutch navy is the larg-
est among the small nations
of the world. 1t is smart and
well-trained and proud.
when the second great
war began" he said, Hitler
had perhaps 81 submarines.
These almost won for him. 1t
is unwise to forget that not
until the battle of the At
lantic had been won could
the tide of war itself be
turned. Had the Allies not
held the Atlantic they could
not have supplied armies and
civilians.
1T will be so again. The
next war will be won or lost
in the Atlantic. We know
the Russians have some 500
submarines and that $50 of
them are operational at all
times. The others are in re-
serve.
But from some sea any
point OF Russia may be
reached. This is the lesson.
1t is one most difficult for
European statesm e n and
Journalists to learn. They
still think in terms of the
historic old concept of land
armies"
Our problems of life are
many" he said.
And they are. They are, in
Evening star., 1960-07-08
U. S. Seen Obligated to Protect Rights
OF Its Own and Other Foreign Citizens

to seek to establish a foot
hold in this hemisphere by
annexing or dominating ter
ritory not previously colon
lied by them. The Soviet
government, by gaining con-
troll Of the Castro regime, is
today flagrantly disregarding
the Monroe Doctrine.
In recent years the Monroe
Doctrine has been accepted as
an international obligation of
all the Pan-American states.
In 1854 at Caracas, Vene-
zuela, the 10th Inter-Ameri-
can Conference, attended by
members of the Organization
of American States, adopted
a resolution which declared:
THAT the domination or
control of the political insti-
tutionS of any American state
by the international Com
munlst movement, extend
ing to this hemisphere the
political system of an extra
continental power, would
constitute a threat to the
sovereignty and political in
dependence of the American
states, endangering the peace
of America, and would call
for a meeting of consultation
to consider the adoption of
appropriate action in ac-
cordance with existing trea-
ties"
Such a consultation does
not require unanimous action.
Indeed, it may be just an in
termediate step before a deci-
sion is made by the United
States, along with several
other countries. to use mill
tary force as authorized un-
der Article 81 of the United
Nations Charter. The only
requirement is that the
United Nations Security
Council be given proper
notice of the steps taken.
1t will be recalled that back
in June, 1910, there was a
threat of Nazi conquest of the
French, British and Dutch
possessions in this hemi-
sphere. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt secured the adop-
tion by Congress of a joint
resolution implementing a
document previously signed
Evening star., 1960-07-08
Chile Fund SWeIIed

State Department employees
Wednesday donated $4,729,08
in cash of $6.018.80 they have
pledged to Chilean relief. A
suitcase full of bills and coins,
presented to Sonora de Muller,
wife of the Chilean Ambassa-
dor, brings the total contribu-
tions Of area residents, business
firms and Government depart
mentS to $113.017.16.
Evening star., 1960-07-08
DAVID LAWRENCE

The time for action on the
Cuban problem has come. The
patience of the United States
government is not unlimited.
Dealing with an erratic in
dividual like Fidel Castro re-
quires precautionary meas
ures. So Americans are
rapidly getting out Of Cuba.
In a little while they may all
have been evacuated. though
no formal warning to leave
Cuba has as yet been issued
by the Department Of State
here. Out of the 5000 Ameri-
cans living there, nearly 5000
have already departed with
their families.
Is all this the forerunner of
military action? Not unless
Castro provokes such a crisis.
But if he does, he will find no
hesitation on the part of the
United States to employ its
military power to protect the
lives and properties Of its
citizens.
The Castro government has
conf1scated the property of
Americans, British and other
Europeans involving hund-
reds of millions of dollars,
and threatens more seizures.
Confscation in itself is not
a basis for military action,
but, if the property is ac-
tually stolen and nothing but
worthless notes is issued in
exchange, the American
Government is justified in
taking over the properties
and retaining possession until
such time as a free govern
ment comes into Office which
will respect the rights Of
Americans and other foreign
citizens in Cuba.
The United States Govern
ment has an obligation not
only to its own citizens, but
to those of other govern
mentS. For ever since the
Monroe Doctrine was pro-
claimed in the early days of
our Republic, the United
States has acted as a trustee
for the citizens of other
countries. The doctrine was
designed as a warning to
European governments not
Evening star., 1960-07-08
Consul Is Shot

CALI, Colombia, July 8 (AP)
An apparently demented for
mer employe forced his way
into the Swedish Consulate
yesterday and shot Consul
Costa Stodberg five times.
Mr.. Stodberg was reported
in grave condition after an
emergency operation.
The aSsailant, identified as
Gustavo Martinez. repeatedly
struggled with the consul and
an embassy accountant for an
hour before he started shoot
ing. He was arrested.
Mr.. Stodberg had planned to
leave for Sweden. next Saturday
to visit his wife.
Evening star., 1960-07-08
WheutIey Y to Hold
Soiree lnternutionuIe

The Phyllis Wheatley YWCA
will hold a "Soiree interna-
tionale" from 6 to 8 pm. Sum-
day at the Thirteenth street
annex, l7l9 Thirteenth street
NV.
Miss Lucy Hahn, the daugh-
ter Of the Ambassador from
Ghana, will be presented as
Miss Soiree Internationale."
Evening star., 1960-07-08
New Law Spreads
Prospecting Costs
BY the Associated Press

Ds tIe HssUCIdItu FTtSB
President Eisenhower yester-
day signed a bill removing the
four-year limitation on the de-
duction of mining exploration
costs from Federal income taxes.
The bill makes no change in
the present overall deduction
limitation of 100000 or the
annual limitation of 100000.
Evening star., 1960-07-08
LATIN AMERICAN NOTES
US. Embassy Counters
Hoiti's Aid Complaint

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti,
July 8 (AP).-The United
States has challenged Haiti's
claim that the country has re-
ceived inadequate financial aid
from Washington.
The United States embassy
here said $4O,569, 900 have been
allocated to Haiti since 1850.
President Nicholas Francois
Duvalier last month told Hal
tians money received in Point
Four technical assistance came
to $4,3O0,OOO.
Evening star., 1960-07-08

publics to investigate the
charge.