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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-01
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AFRICA-ANGRY YOUNG

III ASASEN -NANOksA AOCANS
GIANT. BY Smith Hemp
stone, jr. Praeger: $3.50
Mr.. Hempstone has spent
four years in Africa report
ing its fascinating awaken
ing for The Star and other
newspapers. His book is re-
quired reading for all who
need an up-to-date report
on the diverse new continent
which has suddenly burst
upon the world scene.
He writes:
This much may be said
for the New Africa: 1t may
be naive. immature, bonn
bastic and sometimes slight
ly ludicrous: it may be go
ing off in all directions at
once, often to its own detri-
ment; it may be going in en-
tirely the wrong direction;
but 1t is alive. not stagnant.
Great forces have been un.
leashed - within five years
the Afro-Asian block will
hold at least so of the 104
seats in the United Nations
General Assembly - and
Africa is a continent on the
move. We may not under
stand her but we ignore the
New Africa at our peril"
Needed Information
His colorful travelogue and
chronicle of the political
forces at work in the New
Africa puts between two
covers most of the informa-
ton the well-informed need
to judge the events unfold
ing there.
Mr.. Hempstone Stunned
the crises in Africa which
monopolized the headlines
to build a foundation of
knowledge on all the new
nations in the middle belt of
Africa.
He travelled by car, by
truck and on foot, not by
plane. to learn to know the
real Africans. not those who
profess to speak for her or
who represent her Towering
states in the United Nations.
There is subtle humor, fear
of the unknown in the Dark
Continent, admiration, some
times evaporation in this
diary Of four years research.
Foreign Problem for u. s.
Through it all one senses
Mr.. Hempstone's deep con-
Germ that his country, its gov
eminent and its people, know
too little about the awakening
young giant" which is al
ready becoming a major
problem in foreign policy for
Washington.
Africa is more than a COL
lection of idealistic national
ismS. Mr.. Hempstone reports
that the shadow OF black
Imperialism" is falling across
the Dark Continent. Ethi-
opia has its eyes on the new
Somali Republic; Ghana's
Nkrumah finds his border
with Togo to be artificial"
and is also suspected of COW
citing Ivory Coast territory.
All these are problems with
which American diplomacy
will have to deal in the years
ahead and Mr.. Hempstone
has provided reference work
for all Of us in understanding
the basic problems.
EARL III. VOSS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-01
Borrett Prettymon, Jr, Writes
Of Courts Life and Death Cases
DEATH AND THE SUPREME

DEATH AND THE SUPREME
COURT: The drama be-
hind the life-and death
decisions Of the nine men
from whose Judgment there
is no appeal. BY Barrett
Prettyman, jr. CHarcourt,
Brace e. World, Inc; $4.950
1t is rare to find combined
in one individual a nose for
news, a gift.for sound report
ing, a thorough training in
the law and an informed
respect for the problems and
the processes of Supreme
Court jurisprudence.
Yet it is this happy COM
bination. catalyzed by crisp,
lucid writing, that has made
a young Washington attor-
ney, E. Barrett Prettyman,
jr., the author of a most
readable and thoughtful
book, his first. We are con-
fident it will not be his last.
For this book has an appeal
wide enough to embrace at
the same time members of
the legal profession as we'll
as lay addicts of the Perry
Mason school of defense in
the practice of criminal law.
In addition to its entertain
ment value, Death and the
Supreme Court" is a con-
structive effort to create
more popular understanding
Of the role of the Supreme
Court in its search for JUS
tice under law.
OLA DCdtu SChbCHCS
The author has selected
six criminal cases in which
the death sentence, was i'm
posed and appeals for review
were granted by the Supreme
Court, the outcome in each
case contributing to the read
er's suspense. OF the six
cases, Washington is the To-
Gale for two of them, and we'll
known Washington attorneys
and policemen and judges are
in the cast of characters.
The dramatic circumstances
Of each case are conveyed in
narrative form, beginning
with carefully selected reIe-
want details and atmospheric
background of the crime itself.
The detective work by the
police, their methods in OBJ
tanning confessions and other
discriminating evidence are
recited with delightfully."- can
did detachment. Mr.. Pretty
mans objective reporting of
the facts leaves their inter-
probation to the juries and
the judges in the trial courts
and the final decisions and
opinions to the nine lonely
men of the Supreme Court,
whose preoccupation. unlike
that Of the public. is not with
the nature of the crime or
depravity of the criminal. but
with the processes Of justice
and whether. by accident
or design. there was error in
its administration.
On that point the learned
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-01
GENERAL

THE NEW YORK l KNOW.
BY Marya Names. Photo
graphs by Herb Snitzer.
Lippincott; $7.50.D Miss
Names widely admired
series of articles on New
York in The Reporter mag
azine were the inspiration
for this book. The city's
neighborhoods come to life
in that particular blend of
wit and wisdom which is
Miss Names great gift.
They're all delightful; each
man will have his favorite
and many will lean toward
the affectionate. wry pic
ture Of Greenwich Village.
THE VOICE OF LATIN
AMERICA. BY William
Benton. Foreword by Adlai
Steve son. CHarper's;
$685. Mr.. Benton organ
lied the first peacetime
Voice Of America broad
casts, was a United States
delegate to eight inter-
national conferences. and
served in the Senate. From
his background and also
a recent tour OF the States
south of our border ne
reports on the Impotence
of Latin America.
CITIZENS OF ONE WORLD.
BY Jerome Davis. with
chapters by Adlai Steven
son and others. (Citadel
Press: $3.50 DR.. Davis,
who has held the chair of
practical philanthropy at
Yale, has written many
books on International,
economic, social and relig-
ious questions.
DIFFERENCE AND DE-
TENSE. BY Glenn H, Sni-
der. princeton, $500 A
book dealing with the crit
ical issue Of the choice be-
tween the Difference of
and the defense against
military attacks, by an as
sociate professor of inter-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-01
Goes Behind Scenes
Other Books of the Week in Brief

volume includes his mas
terpiece, The Captains
Daughters" a long story
and a series of shorter
ones including The Snow
Storm" and The Queen OF
Spades" The translationS
are by Natalie Duddington.
THE SWING. BY Vera Cac-
ciatore. Lippincott; $3.50.
Also available in paper
bound at $l.65D The title
is from the first of three
novellas in this slim book
by a native of Rome who
is the curator of the Keats
Shelley Memorial House
there.
KING DAVID. BY Gwyn
Jenkins. doubleday:
$500 The Old Testament
tells some hair raising
stories of David. Add con-
siderable research, as Mr..
Jenkins did, and you are
promised an even more
thrilling story in this his
torical novel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-01

justices Of the Supreme
Court do not always agree
among themselves. And this
failure to agree is in itself
one of the dramatic elements
of the book. we'll summarized
in this passage;
1T is in this area-the
area of what persuades
the mind-that the work
of the court becomes most
fascinating. Nine men are
presented with identical
facts and arguments. They
arrive at opposite conclu-
sions. Why? Surely there
is no single reason but
rather a plethora of pulls
and tugs and crosscurrents,
a series of reactions built
on heredity, environment,
experience, mentality and
judgment. Into this rum
bling, bubbling pot is
thrown the element of
death. A mans life is at
stake. An adverse deci-
sion rendered and the man
suffers inhuman agonies
until he is finally strapped
into a metal chair and
convulsively Jared until
his heart stops. There is
no recanting then. No sec
ond thoughts or hindsight
or better judgment. There
is no bringing him back.
This is the one factor that
distinguishes the death
case from every other.
=. And in the close case
the fact Of death can be
decisive"
Goes Behind Scenes
In the course of the six
narratives. strictly factual
but as readable as any de-
tective story fiction, the
author takes the reader be-
hind the scenes in the ST.
preme Court with descrip-
tons Of procedures, customs,
their surroundings and we'll
drawn profiles-in-miniature
of the justices participating
in the selected cases. Having
served as a law clerk to three
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-01

national relations and
member of the staff of the
Social Science Foundation,
University of Denver. The
book is from Princeton's
&c inter- Of International
Studies.
COMBAT MISSILEMAN. BY
James Baer and William E.
Howard. CHarcourt Brace g.
World; $4.75.D A non-tech-
nical book. the purpose of
which is to tell where we
stand in missiles in rela-
ton to Russia.
HISTORY and BIOGRAPHY
SINGAPORE: The japanese
Version. BY Col. Masanobu
Tsuji. Translated by Mar
garet E. Lake. with an in
PRODUCTION by 1t. Gen. H.
Gordon Bennett of the Aus
tralian Imperial Forces,
Malaga. 1912. (St. Mar
tins; $500 A reply to
Sir Winston Churchill's ex-
PLANTATION of the British
defeat by the Japanese Of
ficer who planned the Ma
layan campaign.
TRAGIC ISLAM How
Communism Came to Cuba.
BY Irving Peter Pflaum.
'Prentice-Hall; $685. Mr..
Pflaum. foreign editor of
the c hicago Sun Times,
travelled for six months
back and forth across Cuba.
He has answers for many
questions.
THE NEW FACE OF AT
RIGA: South of the Sa-
hara. BY John Hughes.
Longman's Green; So
The author, correspondent
of the Christian Science
Monitor, presen to first
hand accounts of the ex-
plosions sweeping the con-
tinent south Of the Sahara.
THE PATRIOTIC CHIEFS.
BY Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Viking; So A chronicle
of Indian leadership in re-
sisting the white man.
DRAMA
BEST AMERICAN PLAYS:
1918 = 1858 Supplementary
Volume. Edited with an in
PRODUCTION by John Gass-
ner. Grown Publishers,
$3.50 Mr.. Gassner who
formerly headed the Thea
ter Guilds play depart
ment, has published many
collections Of plays. Some
plays he liked he could not
include. To solve his con-
science he has gathered O
new set. This one leans
heavily to the popular rath-
er to the permanent: 'Har-
vey" and the "Teahouse Of
the August Moon" for Ia
stance" Green Grow the
Lilacs" will have a certain
value as source of okla
homa!" but it's hard to see
why anyone would want
nowadays to read Rain"
or yellow Jack" or "Clar-
ence."
Evening star., 1961-01-02
European Schools
Offer Courses

-Four British and two Aus
trian summer schools are offer.
ing special six-week courses to
American undergraduate and
graduate students next July
and August.
Courses will be offered by the
British University Sum m e I
Schools at several locations, by
the Salzburg Summer School in
Austria, and by the University
Of Vienna.
A limited number Of partial
and full scholarships are avail
able. Further information ear.
be obtained from the Institute
Of International Education,
1880 P street NV.
Evening star., 1961-01-02

wage increases and fringe ben-
efits have resulted in Q reduc-
ton Of the work force. One OF
the provisions demands that
employers pay for childbirth
operations Of their women en-
ployes and foot the bill for o 10
week rest period.
In one case, an owner Of, a
match factory, which employed
80 firls. reported 40 Of them
became pregnant and he had to
close the plant.
The highly touted Pan Amer
ican Highway is not looked
upon with such enthusiasm
here since 1t runs through q
remote part of the country and
is little help to business. In
all Of Honduras, there are only
60 miles Of paved road net In
cluding the Pan American n
Highway.
DR.. Morales estimates that
Honduras needs loans Of at
least SIS million Immediately
to get the country back on its
feet economically.
Trying desperately to Offset
the pro-Castro forces Is a small
branch Of the Frente Revolu-
cionario Democraticio, which
has its headquarters in Miami.
Head Of the chapter is DR.. Es-
teban Blanco-S -Sanches. a former
Havana criminologist. He op-
crates out of a small laboratory
in downtown Tegucigalpa.
meeting with exiles coming
through and turning out prop
|aganda pamphlets.
Asked about q possible inva-
sion Of Cuba from Central
America. he replied, 1--WE are
waiting for orders from the
Miami frente."
He did not know how long
he would have to wait.
Tomorrow: The dilemma Of
Fl Salvador.)
(Copyright. Miami Herald Publishing
Coz
Evening star., 1961-01-02
Second ia q Series

lof Charge d'Affairs Juan Mas
Second in q Series
45.year-old Castro tirebrand
freely come and 60. Mr.. Mas Il
lably suited for the Job. having
ibeen trained in the intelligence
section Of the Cuban Foreign
Ministry.
The Embassy's Cienfuego.
Library-"the public is invited
- is lined with Communis,
Imanifestos, histories Of such
Revolutionary heroes as Lenin
Stain and Castro, and anti
American treatises.
In the rear Of the library, 9
small room is used for lecture,
land meetings between embassy
officials and Hondurans tick.
leted for conversion.
Caught In Middle
The tragedy Of impoverished
Honduras Is that 1t Is caught
lin an internal political bind
which works to the advantage
Eof Mr.. Castro.
The powerful left-wing seq
Iment Of President Ramon VIII
leda Morales Liberal Party Ii
staunchly pro-Castro. To re-
main in power, the doctor
president must make conces-
sions to the party's leftist fac
tion. As q result. he is forced
Into o hands-ofi toward Castro
sympathizers.
DR.. Morales himself Is pro-
United States. But In an OBJ
vious effort to save face, he
maintains that the best way
Ito fight Castro Is to ignore
him and he will 60 away.
I'VE should surround Castro
with indifference" he declares
lhalf-heartedly.
Meanwhile, FL Cronista, the
country's largest newspaper.
follows the Communist line,
licking Mr.. Castro's boots and
spitefully attacking the United
States.
The paper is run by Ventura
Ramos Alvarado. the Honduras
Representative Of Prensa La
tina. the Castro propaganda
wire service. Fl Cronista Is
currently planning construc-
Ition Of O five-story building.
mainly with subsidies received
from the Cuban embassy. 1t Is
estimated the embassy doles
out $35,000 monthly to radio
stations and newspapers.
Islands Important
El Cronista Is responsible for
raising the dispute over the
American-used Swan Island to
an emotional pitch. Although
the problem Of ownership Of
the pinpoint islands on the
Caribbean coast Is given low
priority in United States State
Department affairs, Il 10 one
of the most vitality important
Issues in Honduras today.
Honduras has never occu.
pied the islands (Great Swan
and uninhabited Little SWAMI
They were first inhabited In
1857 by an American named
George v. White.
An official State Department
memorandum notes: "Senti-
ment in Honduras over this is
sue has grown to unprece-
dented heights in the past six
months"
CDR. Morales Is riding q crest
of popularity because Of his
successful negotiations with
Nicaragua over q long g-disputed
buffer zone between the two
countries. Awarded to Hon
duras, the area, which has the
dual name Of "Gracias o Dios''
Thanks to Color Mos
quitia, Is about as large as Fl
ISalvador.)
Also in Mr.. Castro's favor here
Evening star., 1961-01-02
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Evening star., 1961-01-02

lis a 400 to S0o-mils Caribbean
coastline almost all of which
is suitable for smuggling in men
and contraband. Recently. II
Cubans were captured trying to
make a landing and returned
to Havana. But Honduras Of
flcials frankly admit they can
not stop the trafiic coming in
from Cuba.
Red Party Outlawed
The Communist Party, as
such. is outlawed, but it oper-
ates under Partido Revolucion-
ario Hondureno. The party, led
by 80 or so hard-core members,
is especially active in labor and
student groups. The leftest
students Of the university are
in the minority. but are ac-
knowledged to be the most in
fluential and effective in organ
national tactics among the
1000 enrolled.
The most notable diplomatic
coup was pulled by Mr.. Mas and
the Communists involved the
celebrated case Of the Mexican
ambassador. At o formal af-
fair. the Mexican envoy stood
up, delivered an attack on the
Morales government and de-
Tended the Cuban revolution.
The president, who was pres
ent. finally demanded that the
ambassador sit down and be
quiet. The ambassador left on
vacation shortly afterwards and
has yet to return. but the Incl
dent became the talk Of Hon.
duras.
Honduras economic position
Is as delicate as It's political sit
uation. Uunited Fruit. the big
gest e nterprise in the coun-
try. has threatened to pull up
stakes and take its $35 million
annual banana trade with It.
Affected would be 10000 HON.
duras workers. The company
has been severely hurt by COM
petition from Ecuador and an
uncontrolled seige Of Panama
disease which destroys the
roots Of the banana trees.
Recently. however. the COM
pany Indicated 1t will remain In
Honduras. Nevertheless, its &C
tivities have been seriously cur
tailed to the detriment Of the
economy Of Honduras. Stand
ard Fruit also has been hit A.
nancially.
New Labor Code Hurts
A new government labor
code, instead Of boosting btlsi.i
ness. has cut into II. Required
Evening star., 1961-01-02
Shannon & Luchs
Get Town Center

Webb & Knapp National
Corporation Of New York an
nouncsd today the appoint
ment OF Shannon & Luchs Co.
OF Washington as rental and
managing agents for its twin
apartment houses nearing
completion in the Town Center
at Fourth and M streets S.W.
The two eight-story buildings
contain 256 units renting from
Evening star., 1961-01-02

sss.5o for an efficiency to $3.50
for q two-bedroom. The first
apartments are expected to he
ready for occupancy next
month.
Shannon & Luchs also is the
Evening star., 1961-01-02
SHADOW OF CASTRO
Honduras Is Used
As Clearing House
BY DOM BONAFEDE
ContributinR Writer

TEGUCIGALPA Observation-Disclosures today Is the gate
way for Castroism in Central America.
The Cuban Embassy in this capital city is the clearing
house the expectation Of Fde Casro revolution In this
vulnerable corner Of the hemisphere.
From Embassy flows Of propaganda ballyhoong
Evening star., 1961-01-02

manager Of the Capitol Park
Apartments near the Town
Center. A spokesman for the
firm said all the units in that
apartment house are rented.
Evening star., 1961-01-02

the rewards Of Castroism.
Agents, under the direction
|of Charge d'Affairs juan Mas
Evening star., 1961-06-11

this great airport, so swiftly is
civil aviation growing that al
ready we must begin to plan
other subsidiary airportS for
Washington as we must
throughout the Nation"
With impatience bordering on
petulance, President Roosevelt
told a press conference he was
"tired of waiting for Congress"
to pick a site for Washington's
new airport after IL years Of
wrangling and abruptly pin
pointed the mud-flats along the
Potomac as the new airport
location. The date was Septem-
ber 26, 1888.
The idea wasn't new Gravelly
Point, where Powh tan's
Nameroughquena Indians once
fiShed, had been spotted as
having airport potential as
early as 1921 when A. Reed
.Towner, a World War I pilot,
forecast rapid growth of civil
aviation and the need for q
landing field.
BY 1926 a Government-called
conference picked Gravelly
Point as an airport first-choice,
based on a 1924 estimate by
Army Engineers that one could
be built there for $2.9 million.
AS has been deplored, action
to replace old Hoover Field near
the present Pentagon site with
the new airport didn't keep
pace with aviation progress.
Noise of the wrangling over
site selection attained near
nuisance value until the Roose-
velt decision stifled it with the
Gravelly Point selection. Even
there, National draws another
parallel with Dulles. One of
the other favored sites was
Camp Springs, where AndrewsI
Air Force Base now stands.
For accessibility, no airport
in the world equals National.
Years before the final selection
was made, engineers had been
pumping river-bottom mud on
to the Gravelly Point flats. Be-
fore the concrete mixers went |
Evening star., 1961-06-11
AS one drives through Wash
one soon stops.

AS one drives through Wash
ington, one soon stops.
"DETOUR" the sign says
Currently there are Is con-
Struction areas to be routed
around in the District, not
counting blocked streets in the
redeveloping Southwest.
Drivers turn onto detours and
grit their teeth. Too often the
roads cannot take the new
traffic routed onto them. The
poor detourS are made of grave
or stabilized gravel covered
with asphalt or aSphaltic con-
crete.
Streets with heavy traffic
require reinforced concrete or q
reinforced concrete bass with
an asphalt top.
Better DetOurs Elsewhere
Highway association officials
with offices in Washington say
that throughout the United
States motorists are demanding
and getting better detours. In
many recent contracts, the Off
'cials say, the contractors for
the main construction are also
Evening star., 1961-06-11
SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!
Rouqh Is Word for Detours

used for detours are not torn
up by the heavy vehicles.
8. Reconstruction, by the
District, of streets that will be
used as detours-rather than
reconstruction after the street
is torn up by detoured traffic.
The District, after all, has
great advantages over other
governments planning detourS.
Detours are harder to plan in
areas where county, State and
Federal roads are mixed SO
that State officials must get q
county'S permission to route
traffic on one of the latter'S
roads.
Enviable Position
With control over most of
the Districts streets and with
corporation from neighboring
governments, the District De-
partment of Highways and
Traffic is In an enviable posi-
ton for "detouring at a dis
tance"-the dispersal of traffic
along open streets from blocks
away from the construction
area. Then the traffic de-
toured in the construction area
can be kept to a minimum.
In other areas, the public's
demand for better detour plan
ming is being needed. So far,
it hasn't been in Washington.
Evening star., 1961-06-11
Howard Professor
Gives Scholarship

RICHMOND. Va, June 10
(AP).-A former Virginia Union
University history professor
has established an annual cash
award equal to a years tuition
for the University'S outstand-
ing history major.
1t was set up by DR.. Rayford
W. Logan, now head of the
history department at Howard
University in Washington.