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Evening star., 1961-05-27

munist bloc and the other the
uncommitted nations.
Since last year the Soviet
Union has extended this tri-
partite principle Of unanimity
to the nuclear test ban treaty,
seeking to subject the control
system to a veto. American
officials say the pattern is also
being extended. to the inter-
national control commission for
Laos.
Mr.. Kennedy is said to view
his first meeting with Mr..
Khrushchev as a short, gen.
eral, informal affair, intended
mainly to afford each leader
an opportunity to meet and
measure the other.
BY manner more than Spe-
cific statements, Mr.. Kennedy
expects to convey to the Soviet
leader the sense of confidence
of the new administration in
the free worlds basic strength,
despite recent setbacks. The
reSurgence Of Europe is a key
factor in this new feeling OF
confidence, officials say.
It is possible that Mr.. Ken
nedy and Premier KhruShcheV
! See MEETING, Page Al
Evening star., 1961-05-27
Negro Pastor Shooting
Laid to Six in Alabama

said the group-including three
of the South's most widely
known foes of racial separation
had left their meals un-
touched since lunch yesterday
Five others arrested with
them on breach of the peace
charges Thursday posted $1,000
bonds each and caught a plane
for home last night.
The spokesman for Gen. Gra-
ham said he did not know why
the six Negroes were fasting.
However, one of those re-
leased, George B. Smith, a Ne
gro student at Yale University
said the others would not cal
until one of their leaders is
permitted to make a telephone
call to his wife.
The student said the Rev
Ralph D. Abernathy Of Mont
gomery had made repeated re-
quests to phone his wife since
their arrest but was refused
Mrs. Abernathy said this morn
ing she still had not talked with
her husband.
Mr.. Seay, 62-year-old Meth
odist minister and executive
secretary of the -integration
Montgomery Improvement AS
sociation, was wounded as he
stepped out of his home in the
See RACIAL, Page As
Evening star., 1961-05-27
NINE. MERCY REASSURED
District Will Replace
Lost Key to the City
BY GILBERT GIMBLE
Star staff Writer

We're sending this message
today to Nine. Isabelle Mercy,
the woman who as a child gave
candy to group Of American
doughboys fighting in France:
Another key to the city is
on its way"
But, let's start at the be-
ginning. -.
Nine. Mercy arrived in Wash
ington Tuesday accompanied by
her husband Henri.
When she was s years old,
the American Expeditionary
Forces liberated her village Of
Stonne, in the Ardennes. They
were the men Of the 307th In
fantry.
She greeted them with home
made caramels, made with
sugar that had been shipped to
the villagers by the American
Red Cross.
The survivors Of the 307th
Infantry are holding a memo
rial service tomorrow in New
York's Central Park. The men
invited Nine. Mercy to be on
hand for it.
Her trip included q visit to
the White House Tuesday and
a presentation Of the key to the
District. Then she went on to
New York.
But somewhere in her travels
the key to the city was lost.
She sent q telegram to The
Star this morning. 1t told Of
losing the key. She said:
Evening star., 1961-05-27
5 Koreans to Die
In Ferry Piracy

SEOUL, May 27 (AP).-Five
South Korean youths were
sentenced today to death fol
piracy and the murder Of two
soldiers who opposed their un-
successful attempt to hijack 9
ferry boat and flee to North
Korea last winter.
The Mokpo district court gave
prison terms ranging from a
year to life Imprisonment to II
others in the plot.
The gang boarded a ferry
plying between Mokpo and Yosu
on December Is disguised as
passengers, killed two resisting
soldiers and ordered the skipper
Of the boat to head for the
Communist north.
The captain talked them into
abandoning the boat because ii
was a slow craft. They seized
two other passing boats in sue
cession but finally ran out OF
fuel and a Japanese ship picked
them UP as they drifted on the
Yellow Sea.
Evening star., 1961-05-27

not expected to sprnig any sur
prises in the discussions.
High American officials ex-
pect four main topics to be
discussed: Nuclear test bar
prospects, Laos, general dis
armament and Berlin German
reunification.
The first two points are to be
raised by Mr.. Kennedy. Mr.
Khrushchev is expected to
bring up the other two.
Push 1859 Plan
While the Soviet Union has
indicated waning interest in a
treaty banning nuclear tests
it still is pushing hard for the
general and complete" dis
armament plan Mr.. Khru-
shchev advanced at the United
Nations in September, 1859.
The demand for triumvirate
control in international organ
izations was advanced by Mr.
Khrushchev at the 1860 U. N
General Assembly session. He
proposed replacing the U. N
secretary general with a three
man control group that could
act only in unanimity.
One of the three would rep
resent the West, one the Com
Evening star., 1961-05-27
Holiday Gives
Long Week End
ToMony Families

With Memorial Day on Tues
day, many families had a four
day week end with q day OF
vacation and fled the city last
night and this morning.
Bus, plane and train traffic
was a little heavier than usual
and local bus stations moved
extra sections last night. For
many, this is a clean-up-the-
beach-house week end.
But tumbling temperatures
over the entire Eastern hall
Of the United States forecast
poor swimming weather al
area beaches which in warmer
years have seen a great march
to the sea. Temporal ture:
dropped to A at 6:45 am. here
today.
Temperatures were to re-
main cool today with a high oi
IS, with a SUMMER and warmer
Sunday comfortable fishing
weather. The Weather Bureau
expects the thermometer to fall
again Monday. but skies will
continue to be fair.
Evening star., 1961-05-27

MONTGOMERY, Ala, May
~ (AP).-Six white teen-asers
have been arrested for the
shooting Of a Negro integration
leader, State and county au-
thoritieS announced today.
A prepared statement by Maj
Gen. Henry v. Graham said the
youths, all Is or II years old,
have been charged with shoot
ing the Rev. Solomon s. Seay,
ST., in front Of his home Thurs
day. Their names were not re-
leased.
Gen. Graham, speaking also
for the sheriff's office and
State criminal investigators,
said the investigation showed
Mr.. Seay was slightly wounded
by a pellet gun fired by one Of
the six.
The general, in command of
National Guard troops enforc-
ing martial law in Montgomery
and the rest Of the county in
the wake of last week ends race
riot, said the five other youths
were in the car when the shot
was fired.
Six Negroes in the Mont
gomery jail, meanwhile, refused
food today. They are awaiting
trial as q result of attempts to
integrate a bus depot lunch
counter.
A National Guard spokesman
Evening star., 1961-05-27
Prisoners Fly
Back 10 Cuba
Pleased by Result
OF Tractor Offer

KEY WEST. Fla, May 81
(AP).-Havana radio reported
today the arrival of a committee
Of 10 prisoners who had been
in the United States to nego-
tiate Prime Minister Fidel
CaStro's prisoners-for- tractors
proposal.
The radio said the prisoners
declined to make any state
ments to the press and went
directly to the naval hospital
in Havana where the other
members of the April II in
vasion forces are being held.
The 10 landed at the Rancho
Boyeros Airport south Of Ha-
vana after q flight from
Miami.
Before leaving Miami the
prisoners expressed hope for
an early return to the United
States. The group, represent
ing some 1900 captured in the
invasion attempt, spent a week
in Miami and Washington try
ing to implement the Castro
offer to free them in exchange
for 500 tractors.
I'VE are very pleased with
the results of our negotia-
tions." spokesman for the
grim faced prisoners said.
Referring to a tractor fund
raising committee formed by
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. DR..
Milton Eisenhower and Walter
Reuther, the spokesman con-
tinued:
1--WE are very grateful to the
Roosevelt committee for what
it has done regarding our lib
Grafton"
The spokesman, Ulises Carlo
who had accompanied the in
vaders as war correspondent,
added: I'VE are confident we
shall be back very soon and
that negotiations will come out
as planned. We thank the Amer
lean people for their work."
The committee will report to
Prime Minister Castro on its
tractor negotiations and hopes
to learn today whether he
accepts the deal.
Evening star., 1961-05-27

down an offer of fried chicken
Mr.. Burgess called back:
"All I want to do is get out
of here right now"
Coffee. candy bars and sand
wiches were lowered to the
youth. and six-inch pipe was
installed that carried oxygen
to him.
Some Bad Moments
He had a couple of bad mo-
ments during the early night
hours. A floodlight lowered intc
the well went out momen.
tarily. then his oxygen supply
failed briefly. Both times he
was Gained down by his Older
brother, % = year old Rannie
Burgess.
! Ralph Burgess. employed by
the Southern Desk Corp. here
took on the well-cleaning jot
with his father on the King
George County farm of Everett
Henderson near here, off Route
218, when his fathers sched-
uled assistant failed to show
up.
The youth was lowered into
and out of the narrow vel
astride a five-gallon bucket
He filled it with mud at the
bottom, then was pulled back
to the surface by rope.
Mud shifts Suddenly
Witnesses said Mr.. Burgess!
shouted a warning when thu
mud suddenly shifted on one ol
his trips down. The hauling
rope was relaxed, but the casing
shifted and the bucket fell 6
short distance. Somehow, one
of Mr.. Burgess feet was pinned
against the side of the casing
While rescue workers were
summoned, Mr.. Burgess sew
eral times tried to free himself
without success. Once ne triec
to dig himself free with a bis
kitchen ladle, but as fast a!
he dug the mud oozed in again
Mr.. Burgess mother and IT.
year-old wife kept a vigil a
the scene with other relatives
and hundreds of curiosit.
seekers.
Evening star., 1961-05-27

"Since I am returning to
France this Wednesday eve
ming, I would greatly appreciate
your assistance in helping to
locate this cherished gift from
your city fathers"
A call by The Star to District
Commissioner Walter N. To-
briner explained the situation.
His reply was to ask The Star
to send the message Immediate
ly.
Madame Mercy'S second key
to the city will reach her be-
fore she leaves New York.
Evening star., 1961-05-27
FHA Interest
Cut 10 544%
Designed to Aid
Home BuiIdinq
BY the Associated Press

Effective Monday, the in
terest rate on new FHA-insured
home loans will be 514 per cent.
President Kennedy yesterday
ordered the second Il per cent
reduction in three months and
announced other moves to stim-
ulate the home mortgage mar
ket and the construction in
duStry and roll interest rates
back from levels he regards as
"unrealiStic."
To the future home buyer.
the two "a per cent reductions
from the old FHA rate of 534
per cent will mean a SAT-
monthly saving on a 20-year
$4,000 loan. The White House
said payments for principal,
interest and FHA insurance
premium on such q loan will
come to $3.50 a month in
place of S90.06.
Some Delay Seen
Mortgage specialists esti-
mated, however, that it will
take a few months for the new
reduction to become fully eff
fective because Of the discount
points" system under which
buyer and seller of mortgage
negotiate a price below par.
Under this system, only a
part Of the February reduction
from 5A per cent to 51a per
cent was effective Immediately.
But mortgage experts said the
points had been worked off
prior to yesterdays second re-
duction.
In connection with the new
interest rate, Mr.. Kennedy an
nounced that the Federal Ma
tional Mortgage Association
will step up purchases of FHA-
insured mortgages from banks
and loan companies to free
their funds for new lending.
The FNMA announced an in
crease in the price it. will pay
to 100 per cent of face value of
mortgages carrying the old 5s4
per cent interest rate, SO to 100
per cent for 51a per cent mort
cages and 81 to SO per cent for
mortgages at the new 514 per
cent rate.
The White House also an
nounced an effort by the Fed
eral Home Loan Bank to en-
courage savings and loan as
See FHA, Page A-3
Evening star., 1961-05-27

nation conference on Laos here
said there had been "at least 80
breaches Of the cease fire by
Pathet Lao forces" between
May 13 and yesterday.
Some of the violations were
isolated incidents, but many
reflect a pattern Of premedita-
tion," the statement added.
Doubts About Conference
The American charges raised
grave questions about the fu-
ture of the international con-
ference.
The United States entered
the negotiations here only after
the Indian Canadian-Polish in
ternational control commission
certified on May II that a
cease fire prevailed in Laos. :
Britain wants new instruc-
tions sent to the control COM
mission so that it can police
the truce more effectively. Thus
far the move has been blocked
by the Soviet Union, the other
conference co-chairman.
The American statement
handed to newsmen, contained
a list of dates and places Of al
legged cease fire violations.
1t maintained the pro-Com-
munist rebel forces in Laos are
attempting to improve their po-
sitionS "in cynical disregard Of
the cease-fire agreement"
Attacks Continuing
Focusing on one area in par
ticular, the statement said:
Since May 13, daily attacks
by the Pathet Lao have oc-
CURED in the Pa Dong area of
Southern Xieng Khouang Prov
ince. -,
This 600-square-mile area
was largely under royal Lao
army control at the time the
International Control Commis-
sion reported the de facto cease
fire.
Continuing Pathet Lao at
tacks have given their forces
artillery sites within range Of
the airstrip at Pa Dong.
"The attacks have ranged
from brief skirmiShes to size
able infantry assaults supported
by heavy artillery-also fire.
quent artillery bombardment."
Britain to Prod Russia
A British source said the
British delegation was aware of
the reports of continuing trou-
BILE. The informant added this
was the reason British delega-
tion leader, Malcolm Mac
donald, tried so hard to get
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minis
ter Georgi Pushkin to agree to
send new instructions to the
International Control Commis-
sion - India, Poland, Canada.
Mr.. Pushkin refused to accede.
Now the British government
arranged to prod Moscow di-
rectly on the subject. The For
eign Office in London sent in
structions to Sir Frank Roberts,
Britain's Ambassador in Mos
COW, to raise the issue at the
Soviet Foreign Ministry.
The international Control
See GENEVA, Page Ar
Evening star., 1961-05-27
y. s. Charges Reds
Break Laos ruce
Conference
AtGeneVu
Menuced

GENEVA, May 81 (AP). -
The United States charged to-
day the Communicated Pathet
Lao rebels are engaging in a
systematic violation Of the
cease fire in Laos.
A statement issued by the
American delegation to the IA
Evening star., 1961-05-27
First in Fish

TOKYO, May 81 (AP).-Who
caught the most fish? The
Japanese. They took about 20
per cent of the world catch,
estimated at 80 million tons
last year, the Agriculture-For-
estry Ministry reports.
Evening star., 1961-05-27

shaft by rescuers at 7:15 am
after reScuers freed his foot
Doctors at the scene said he
was in good shape despite
spending the night in mud UP
to his waist at the bottom Of
the well he had been cleaning
when he became trapped.
Earlier this morning rescuers
had broken through the well
casing beneath Mr.. Burgess
and began clawing through
mud and gravel to reach him.
II oozed down on them as they
dug toward him. Finally, they
managed to free him.
Worried About Family
In a hospital interview, Mr.,
Burgess told reporters today:
II wasn't worried half as
much about myself as I was
about my wife and kids. II il
had killed me, they would be
alone. I talked to my wife a
couple Of times and she just
told me to be calm. She was
worse than I was"
II was a little nervous when
I first got caught down there
and about S am, I had the
feeling I wasn't coming out,
but / did"
The slight young man said
the only injury he sustained
was when he struck himself on
the knuckle with a hammer
while trying to nail some
boards together to keep the
sand from falling on him.
Ate Two Sandwiches
He said he ate two sand
wiches and dram: two thermos
jugs full of coffee during his
ordeal.
II could hear the rescue
workers up there and in the
tunnel and it made me feel
good" Mr.. Burgess told re-
porters. Il prayed most of the
time but 1t was a heck of a
feeling, I can tell you.
"The rescue workers told me
to be calm and I told them
I'd try"
Prayed All Night
Mr.. Burgess 17-year-old
brunei wife, Linda, who hac
watched the rescue, accompa.
MED her husband to the hospi-
tai. She told reporters there
Thank God he's safe and
OK. He said he prayed all
night and I did, too."
He told me he's not goine
In any more wells" Mrs. Bur.
CESS said.
The young couple lives in 9
trailer at Chatham Heights
near here.
John T. Ellington, a profes.
sional well-digger, said the
rescuers' main problem had
been to clear debris from the
shaft SO Mr.. Burgess could be
freed. AS fast as muck and
gravel was hauled to the sur
face, more sifted down and kept
Mr.. Burgess entrapped.
New Shaft Sunk
Through the damp, cold and
sometimes rainy night, profes-
sional well-diggers and anna
teur rescuers first sank a new
shaft 8 feet from the well, then
inched through a 2-foot slant
ing tunnel they had to dig by
hand to get beneath the
trapped youth.
There was communication
most of the time between the
rescuers and Mr.. Burgess
father of a 3-week-old boy
Ralph, jr., and a 14-month-old
girl, Deborah.
Twice. when a rescuer jok-
] ingly suggested a fishing TRIP
and when his mother called
Evening star., 1961-05-27
Dip ChiIIs New York

NEW YORK, May 27 (AP).
The temperature dropped to
a record low for the date today
40 degrees at $40 am. The
previous low for May q was
43 set in 1915.
Evening star., 1961-05-27
Kennedy to Reoffirm
Disarmament I ernns
Due to Tell KhrushcheV Soviet Plan
For Unanimous Control Hos No Chance
BY EARL H. VOSS
Star Staff Writer

President Kennedy plans to tell Soviet Premier khru-
hchev the Soviet Union has hope OF succeeding with
its general and complete" disarmament program so long
insists unanimous control with its built-n veto
This is expected to be major Kennedy theme when
President the Premier in Vienna next week end
No formal agenda has been set and Mr. Kennedy is
Evening star., 1961-05-27
Young Father Is Freed
After Is Hours in Well
Wife Watches as Rescuers HouI Up
Virqinion Who Was Trapped in Shuft

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, May 27 (AP)-A young father
trapped the bottom of 30foot we'll 16 hours freed
early today.
At Mary Washington Hospital, his condition de-
Scribed good.
Ralph w Burgess 19, hauled up the 36-inch-wi
Evening star., 1961-05-27

Loos Fighting Still on, Writer Finds at
Scene. Pose AZ
Loos Premier Of to Fronce to See
combodio Chief. Pose AZ
Evening star., 1961-05-27
RABBI TO LEAD
RIGHTS BATTLE

RABBI BALFouR BRIcKNER will
Ieove Temple Sinoi here in July to
devote himself to soeiol oetion--
civil rights, civil liberties and roee
reIutions. His decision to leove the
congregation is described in on in
terview with the religious leoder on
Pose AS.
SWINDLING con be O Ioudoble
skilI-in bridge. The foke and phony
woys thot con get q bridge ployer
something he's not entitled to are
described on Pose Ala.
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TILE MIeAFuHn. Full Report
IH6 VEAIH6N. on Pooe Al

District and vicinity-Clear and cool to-
night, low in mid-40s, near 40 in suburbs.
Mostly sunny and warmer tomorrow, high
in lower 70s. High and low of last "a hours:
High, 70, at 1880 am. yesterday; low, A,
at 6:45 am. today.
Evening star., 1961-01-18
Auto Cutback
Seen Clipping
Steel Upturn

NEW YORK. Jan. 10 (AP)-
Cutbacks by automakers In
orders for steel may wipe out
much Of the expected recovery
in January" Iron Age maga-
zine said today.
The weekly Woodworking
magazine forecast a 10 per
cent rise in January steel ship
ments over December. A pick
up in orders from general steel
users was cited.
The publication said the bad
news from Detroit has begun to
threaten the February-March
outlook but added a qualifica-
ton:
ANY pickup in automotive
sales would result in immediate
reinstatement of set back
orders. However, a major re-
scheduling of automotive ton
mage is at best a hope, not an
expectation"
The auto industry"s con-
sumption of steel last year
reached a new high percent
agewise in the first II months
Of 1860, with hot-rolled, cold
rolled and galvanized sheets ac-
counting for 35.8 per cent of
all steel shipments. The maga-
zine said 12-month figures will
show that 1860 was second only
to 1855 in shipments of the
three types Of steel.
AS against adverse influences
"tempering early-year enthusi-
asm," Iron Age cited these good
signs:
A seasonal pickup in tin
plate; gains in seamless tubing
for oil operators and reports of
better business from ware
houses, particularly in the
Midwest, and a Is per cent
pickup over December at some
large service centers.
Evening star., 1961-01-18
Hotel Chain
ToMurket
Own Coffee

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 (AP).-
One Of the Nations oldest
family owned hotel chains is In
the process Of returning to the
same business from which IL
originated more than so years
ago.
Manger Hotels. Inc, Is re-
entering the retail market with
its own brand Of coffee and
other foods.
The firm was founded In 1906
as q coffee business and
branched into the hotel field
with the purchase of the Plaza
Hotel in Chicago two years
later. Now 1t has IA hotels and
motels in 10 cities, but has not
sold coffee on the retail market
for more than so years.
The coffee. q premium CO.
lombian-Brazilian blend. will be
sold in major supermarket
chains and drugstore outlets as
well as in the chains hotels.
Julius Manger. jr.. chairman
and son Of one Of the founders,
said the diversification into the
retail food field is the. first in
the hotel industry. He said the
decision to retail coffee re-
suited from satisfaction of Gus
toners Of the Manger hotels.
Manger hotels in Washing.
ton are the Annapolis, Hamil-
ton and Hay.Adams.
Evening star., 1961-01-18
Schepmoes Head:
North Virginia
Insurance Group

Robert L. Schepmoes has
been elected president Of the
Northern Virginia Association
Of Insurance Agents. fire and
casualty group.
MIR. Schepmoes is secretary
treasurer Of George T. Reeves,
Inc, in Arlington and has been
with the firm IA years since
graduation from Washington
Lee High School and Ben
Franklin University.
Other new officers are Mrs
Marion Duncan Of Alexandria,
vice president. and G. M. Gil
bert Of Arlington, secretary
treasurer. New directors in.
clude Donald Riley, James r
Lupton and c. B. O'Shaugh-
messy.
Evening star., 1961-01-18
CHICAGO
LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO. Jan. IS tAP) (usDA).-
Hogs 1000; slow. butchers steady to
20 lower; mostly 25 lower on weights
20 lbs and down; sows steady to %
higher: poor shipping demand: mixed
grade IL and mixed 1-3 19O.220 ID
butchers 17.50.1S.00, mostly $780,
1875: mixed 2-3 1851. so; mixed
1-3 and mixed 2-3 220-240 lbs 1900
1873; mixed 2-3 and IS 24O-270 lbs
16.5O-17.25: mixed 2-3 and 3s 27O-
300 lbs 18.00-l6; 70: mixed grade la
and mixed 2-3 300-400 ID sows 1850
1910: mixed 2-3 and IS 400-550 lbs
Cattle i2,Ooo: calves 100; slausht.r
steers and heifers steady to SO higher;
cows steady 10 strong: bulls fully steady !:
yealers strong; no sales stockers and
feeders; q half q dozen loads prime
!, ,085- ! $50 10 steers 39: :s5:s9, 30; bulk
choice and mixed choice and prime
,450-1, 800 lbs 35.50-3S. so; load lots
mixed good and choice 9O0-1 800 ID,
%. .50-27 90: good "a 90 1925: a few
utility and standard 2O.5O-21 90; mixed
choice and prime heifers 27.50-2S.OO;
bulk choice 25.25-27 so; mixed good
40: utility and standard 1880.
2275; utility and commercial COW,
l2;00-l5,50; utility and Commercial
bulls 1S.50-21 90: good and choict
vealers FL .00-26.0O: cullS down to IL 90