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Evening star., 1961-10-22

the students wreStled and the
suspect said he became an
noyed and fired the shots that
struck the victim.
Simmons was arraigned on a
first-degree murder charge be-
fore Justice of the Peace E. H.
Myers and was ordered held
without bail for the January
session of the Randolph County
grand jury. County Prosecuting
Attorney L. Baker Fowler. in
the meantime, ordered an au-
topsy.
Parents Notified
The elder Mr.. Leatherwood,
a civil engineer with the Army
Engineers Corps here. and his
wife were notified of the shoot
ing and left Immediately for FL
kins, arriving there about noon
yesterday.
Their son was a 1858 gradu-
ate Of Bethesda Chevy Chase
High School where he was or
the track team. He had trans.
ferred to Davis and Elkins last
year from Wesley Junior Col
lege, Dover. Del. A professor at
Davis and Elkins described him
as "one of our finest students. "
He was studying business ad-
ministration.
Besides his parents. he leaves
a sister. Mrs. Philip Norton, OF
the Wilson lane address.
Evening star., 1961-10-22

cleaning green eyes, admit
ting, IT amt going after her
alone"
They caught Spooky. But un-
aware that Mr.. and Mrs. Hayo
and their three children loved
her, they plunked her out a
window onto the Capitol
grounds.
Days ago, a Capitol police
man, Pete Petrachus, saw the
green eyes taunting him in a
basement locker room in the
Senate wing. Spooky vanished
before he could attack.
She moves fast, paced per-
haps by rats and birds that
must be her fare.
I'VE think of her often and
wonder how she is" Mrs. Hayo,
of 10114 Fifty-first avenue
College Park, Md, said. Does
she look well fed?"
Spooky, by last fleeting re-
port, is fat and saucy.
Evening star., 1961-10-22
Pleasant Weather
Expected Today

Barring the possibility of q
few clouds, the Washington
area and the surrounding coun-
tryside will have a bright and
pleasant Sunday.
Fair weather also is in store
for those planning to make the
annual fall pilgrimage to Sky
line drive to view the display
Of leaves, now in full glory de-
spite the heavy rain yesterday.
Temperatures will reach into
the COS today.
The heaviest rain in the area
struck Charlottesville, Va,
where 1856 inches was recorded
in the 28-hour period ending
yesterday morning. Richmond
had 6.23 inches.
Minor telephone trouble also
was reported in Washington
yesterday. Cable troubles in
duced by the rain that fell
steadily Friday night and yes
terday knocked out service on
a few lines in the Lincoln ex-
change, the Chesapeake g. Po-
tomac Telephone Co. said, but
service was quickly restored.
Evening star., 1961-10-22
Road Was of Marble
In Ancient Sordis

shops were part of a rebuilding
project begun about the veal
400 AID. Some 200 years later
came disaster in a Persian
invasion.
Byzantine engineers who lat
er levelled the toppled columns
and walls and laid out a hum
bier, cobbled road, unwittingly
saved a masterpiece of Sculp-
ture. It is the bearded head of
some ancient, apparently a part
of a statue which stood in the
colonnade before the Persian
destroyers overran the city.
The archaeologists suggest it
depicted a sage or a saint.
Brilliantly carved, the por-
trait-head vibrates with nearly
fanatic spirituality" reported
Prof. M. A. Hartmann of Har-
ward. He and Prof. A. Henry
Detweiler of Cornell directed
the expedition.
1T well expressed the spirit
See SARDIS, Page A-6
Evening star., 1961-10-22

itectural distinction that will
blend and support the National
Cultural Center and extend the
park-like character Of the Po-
tomac River frontage"
Under itSplan. the firm said,
underground parking for 1,25C
cars would be provided.
Prize winning Architect
In addition, the company's
designs would provide for 49,
900 square feet Of underground
community shopping facilities
and $4,000 square feet Of
ground-level luxury speciality
shop and restaurant area tc
complete the self-containec
character Of the development
There would be three under.
ground levels Of parking area
Prof. Moretti, a distinguish
ed Italian architect. In ls6C
received Italy's Gold Medal fol
Arts and Professions. and ir
1857 was the recipient Of hii
country's National Prize fol
Architecture Of the President
Of the Republic.
Mr.. Fischer. partner in hi
27-year-old Washington archi.
tectural firm, is a former di.
rector Of the urban develop.
ment division Of the Nationa
Housing Agency. Listed among
his architectural work in the
Washington area are the BNa
Birth Building, Rhode Island
avenue and Seventeenth street
See WATERGATE, Page A.;
Evening star., 1961-10-22
Green-Eyed Phantom
Hounts Capitol Halls

A green-eyed cat Is stalking
the corridors Of the United
States Capitol.
Spooky Is her name.
She arrived, by mistake,
some three months ago. Hel
master. william Hayo, a me-
chanical inspector, heard hei
meowing in the trunk Of his
car.
He carried her to his office
in the East Front. Shed have
none Of the milk set out for her.
She sat on the window sill
Twice she escaped and was
rescued from cars in the plaza
Once Mr.. Hayo's friends fished
her out of a truck.
That same afternoon, she
disappeared.
In September, she was cor
nered under some newspaper
racks. Capitol police rounded
UP q posse. One boy with a
! broom backed away from the
Evening star., 1961-10-22
Access Rights at Stake

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Oct. 81
(AP) A marble avenue where
ancient shoppers thronged, q
Roman bath colorful with mo-
saics, and a glimpse of tabled
gold antedating the time Of
Croesus were listed today
among discoveries of a ,Har-
vard- Cornell University expe-
dition in Turkey.
A report today told of the
expeditions fourth summer at
ancient Sardis which - for
much of its 3,O00-year history
was the Paris of the ancient
world.
The 80 scholars and 200
workmen found that the grand
shopping street of Sardis had
road and sidewalks paved with
marble-50 feet wide. It was
flanked with mosaicked colon
nades where citizens and shop
pers could chat out Of sun and
rain.
The stately avenue and Its
Evening star., 1961-10-22
U. S. Expects New Bid
From Russia on Berlin

the principal Communist nego-
tiator in the Berlin and Ger
man problems.
Previously Russia had insist
ed that the West would have
to deal with East Germany for
access rights once a separate
peace treaty were signed. In
his speech, Mr.. Khrushchev
made only one passing refer
ence to the requirement for the
West to deal with Communist
East Germans.
The United States has been
pressing Russia to incorporate
acknowledgment of Western
rights of access to Berlin in
any peace treaty that Moscow
eventually may sign with the
East Germans.
u. S. Not Optimistic
Mr.. Khrushchev told the
Communist Party Congress
last week that IF the Western
powers display readiness to set
tie the German problem. the
question of the time limit for
the signing Of a German peace
treaty will not be so material;
we shall not insist then that
the peace treaty be signed by
all means before December 81,
1861"
American officials are not
optimistic that RussiaN would
offer to begin Big Four negoti-
ations on a basis the West
could readily accept.
France and West Germany
See POLICY, Page Az
Evening star., 1961-10-22
Today's Star

RAPID READING is on &C.
quired skill. In onother instdIl-
ment Of its series on the subject.
This Week Mosozine offers test
OF your obility to retoin whot you
hove read. Hints on improving
your eopoeity for retention ore in
eluded. See Pose ls Of the muso-
zine.
A SETTLING NATION obout to
srupt, is the Dominion Republic,
according to George Shemon, Stor
staff writer. who hos just com
pIeted q l6,800- mile tour studying
problems foeins countries Of Lutin
America. Reod his onoIysis on A-lo.
LOVE AFTER 20 con be far
more satisfying thon the eiddy in
fotuotions Of youth, writes Howard
Whitmon in the seventh Of q H.
port series entitled "Your Mid
die Years." Todoy's ehopter,
"Muried Love in Middle Age and
After" is on Pose B-l.
A VETERAN Of 20 yeors in the
construction business, Joe Curtin
hos never seen onythins to equal
the project he's assigned to now
the new House Office Building
on Capitol Hill. HoroId J. Fleek-
noes word and picture story Of
the construction boss and his prob
lens. "Portroit of Man in q
Hole" is on Pose 4 of SUNDAY,
the Stor Magazine.
AUTUMN WEATHER in the Po-
eonos is Turing week -endeH to the
colorful mountoin resorts in Penn
syivoniu. The Stor's troyeI editor,
chorles Yorbroush, lists ottroe-
tions Of the oreo on todoy's TroveI
Pose, E-l0.
Evening star., 1961-10-22


huge but extremely diffuse
radio-reflective belt viii form
the basis Of q new communica-
tions satellite system. The one
shot experiment-which will
not be repeated until scientists
are sure it viii do space science
no harm-is known as Project
West Ford.
West Ford was boosted into
space about 10 O'Clock CEDT)
yesterday morning as a piggy
back" pay load on q military
satellite launching. The rs
pound package got a free ride
when the Air Force launched
Midas ", a 3,500-pound instru-
ment package designed to de-
tect missile launchings.
Launched From California
Launched from Point Arguel-
10, Calf, the Atlas-D booster
veered south before firing its
Agena-B second stage. This
placed the Midas and West
Ford packages into orbits that
would carry them over the
North and South Poles on
every pass around the earth.
West Ford's orbit is nearly
circular and takes Just under
three hours.
The West Ford package was
a canister filled with copper
needles" embedded in q bind
ing material. This material is
supposed to disintegrate In the
vacuum of space, freeing the
needles to go into individual
orbits.
Over a period of a few days
the $50 million hairlike pieces
of copper are expected to
spread out into a swath about
five miles wide and Is miles
thick, girdling the earth from
North to South.
Radio signals at 5000 mega
cycles - q higher frequency
than those now commonly in
Iuse-will be bounced from one
ground station to another via
See WEST FORD, Page At
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Reds Hit Satellite
As 'Anti-Scientific'

MOSCOW, Oct. 81 (AP)-
The Soviet News Agency Tass
today protested against the
launching Of the United States
satellite that released copper
needles in space.
Tass denounced the expert
ment as "anti-scientific." It
said the launching was carried
out 'in spite of the fact that
many scientists Of the world
protested against these Ameri-
can plans, stating that they will
create difficulties in exploring
cosmic space"
Evening star., 1961-10-22
U.S.Atom Superiority
Stressed by Gi|patric
Bethesda CoIIegion, q,
Slain in West Virqinio

A 21-year-old college senior
from Bethesda was shot and
killed yesterday after an argu-
ment in a parking lot in the
college town Of Elkins, w. Va.
Donald Leatherwood, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben F. Leath-
erwood Of 5614 Wilson lane,
died at Memorial General Hos
pital in Elkins four and a half
hours after two fellow Davis
and Elkins College students
brought him to the hospital.
1t. Lawrence Perchan of the
Elkins police said the slain stu
dent was shot twice, behind his
left ear and in the back.
Charged With Murder
Charged with murder, 1t.
Perchan said, is william c.
Simmons, so, a former pool
room bartender, who lived alone
in a converted school bus on an
alley beside the parking lot just
a block from South Davis street,
the main thoroughfare in
Elkins.
Mr.. Leatherwood apparently
had gone to the parking lot
with two other students at
2:40 am, 1t Perchan said. when
they encountered Simmons. 1t.
Perchan said the .32-caliber
pistol used in the shooting was
found in Simmons bus.
The students who brought
young Leatherwood to the hos
pital refused to tell reporters
whether they had been with
him at the time of the shoot
ing. They were still being ques-
toned by police last night
about the circumstances Of the
dispute with Simmons that led
TO the shooting.
Suspects Story
However, 1t. Perchan said
Simmons signed a statement in
which he said the college stu
dents came to his bus "for
something to drink" but he
turned them away.
1t. Perchan said Simmons.
who has a police record for
intoxication, declared In his
statement that the young men
came back and swung at him.
but missed. Then. according to
the statement, Simmons and
Evening star., 1961-10-22

ment aid, and probably Is the
largest Of its kind in Washing
ton history.
The company is one Of
Europe's oldest and most well
established. II. is now building
q new Hilton hotel in Rome
and q group Of office buildings
in Montreal, which viii include
the Montreal Stock Exchange.
Known as Societa Generate
Immobiliare Of Rome. it is rep
resented In the United States,
In sponsorship Of the WASH
ington project, by Nicolas NJ.
Salgo Of New York. who will
be managing partner Of the
development.
Mr.. Salgo said the firm has
owned the land outright for
almost two years. The company
is sponsor Of a separate CO.
operative apartment building
in the area-the Potomac Plaza
Terraces, 100 Twenty-fourth
street NV. which is now
almost completed and partially
occupied.
Favored Location
The triangular site Of the
huge new projects consists Of
the most favorably located part
Of the Foggy Bottom land
formerly owned by the Wash
ington Gas Light Co.
The land Is bounded by Vir-
ginia avenue, New Hampshire
avenue, r street and Rock
Greek parkway. and is adjacent
to the site of the proposed
National Cultural Center.
Buildings projected include:
Three apartment structures
to have a total of l.400 units.
A 350-room residential hotel.
An office building to have
200 900 square feet Of space.
A group Of 10 single-family
town-house VILLAS"
Development research and
architectural plans have been
studied for more than a year,
the firm said.
ZOning Rules Cited
Architects for the develop
ment are Prof. Luigi Moretti.
Of the University Of Rome, and
Milton Fischer, Of the Wash
ington firm of Corning Moore,
tElmore & Fischer.
The firm said that under
present coming regulations it
could cover rs per cent Of the
land, build 1900 apartment
units and provide parking for
only ATS cars.
1t doesn't wish to take adj
vantage Of this coming, how
ever, it stated. because 1t be-
lieves the result would provide
fewer amenities that the site
deserves.
Instead, the firm wishes to
cover only 80 per cent of the
land, it said. and provide arch
Evening star., 1961-10-22
BY EARL H. VOSS
Star Staff Writer

United States Ambassador
Llewellyn Thompson Leaves
Washington today for Moscow
where he hopes to hear a new
Khrushchev offer to settle the
Berlin problem before the sign
ing Of a Russian-East German
peace treaty.
Western speculation that an
offer may be made, perhaps
publicly during the second week
of the Communist Party Con-
gress in Moscow, is based on:
/. Soviet Premier Khru-
shchev's offer to lift his De-
cember 81 deadline for signing a
separate peace treaty and his
soft-pedalling East Germany's
role in providing Western access
to Berlin.
2. Foreign Minister Gro
myko's talks with President
Kennedy and Secretary Of State
Rusk earlier in this country,
where it was learned yesterday,
Soviet willingness to make a
deal with the West on Berlin
without reference to the East
Germans was made "a little
clearer" than Mr.. Khrushchev
was last Tuesday.
Access Rights at Stake
Western sources feel it may
have been significant that Pre-
mier Khrushchev, in his Com
munist Party speech last week.
pictured the Soviet Union as
Evening star., 1961-10-22
Soviet Threat
Answered by
Defense Aide

HOT SPRINGS, Va, Oct. 81
(AP)-In a speech approved
by administration leaders, a top
defense official said tonight
the United States has items Of
thousands" of vehicles for heap
ing nuclear destruction on an
enemy.
In an obvious reply to Soviet
Premier Khrushchev's bomb
waving speech Of last Tuesday.
Deputy Secretary of Defense
Roswell L. Gilpatric said:
THE Soviet's bluster and
threats of rocket attacks against
the free world-aimed partic-
ularly at the European MEM
bers of the NATO alliance -
must be evaluated against the
hard facts of United States nu-
clear superiority"
Even if Russia launched a
surprise attack, Mr.. Gilpat-
rick said the United States
could strike back with a blow
fully as heavy as the enemy's
initial onslaught.
U. S. Confident
Therefore" he said, I'VE are
confident that the Soviets will
not provoke a major nuclear
conflict" He added:
Although we are confident
that we would ultimately pre-
vail in a test of strength, no
matter at what level conflict
might be initiated by the So
Wet Union, this does not alter
our determination to seek a
peaceful solution to the worlds
problems"
The circumstances Of Mr..
Gilpatric's remarks, prepared
for a meeting of the Business
Council, were noteworthy.
At Washington a Pentagon
spokesman said in answer to a
reporters question that the
text of the speech was given
"the highest possible clear
ance." This meant that both
President Kennedy and Secre-
tary of State Dean Rusk had
approved, if in fact had not
ordered the grimly worded
statement by the defense
official.
L followed by a few days
Mr.. Khrushchev's speech at
the 22d Soviet Party Congress
in Moscow.
Prop to Negotiators
1t could be intended to pro-
vide military underpinning and
backup for United States nego-
tiators at conference tables.
Mr.. Gilpatric said this coun-
try's confidence in being able
to deter Communist action
or resist Communist blackmail"
is based on sober appreciation
of the relative military power
of the two sides.
Then, in what seemed to be
an oblique reference to better
intelligence and assessment Of
the Russian military machine,
Mr.. Gilpatric added:
while the Soviets use rigid
security as military weapon,
their iron curtain is not SO
impenetrable as to force US
to accept at face value the
Kremlin's boasts"
Here he began outlining the,
See GILPATRIC, Page Az
Evening star., 1961-10-22
Albanians Shun Congress

Albania's leaders. apparently
expecting trouble, did not at
tend the Party Congress here,
although Communist parties
from about 80 countries arc
represented.
The Albanian letter appar-
emily was broadcast in part by
the Tirana radio and recorded
by Radio Free Europe in Mu-
mich.
1t repeatedly was a biting
attack on Mr.. Khrushchev, add
ing to the evidence that ideo-
logical and political differences
within the party are mounting.
1t was said to have noted
with sympathy" that Premier
Chou En-lai of Red China in
cluded the Albanians among
See COMMUNISTS, Page Az
Evening star., 1961-10-22
$50 Million Project
Set for Foggy Bottom
Huge. Privately Financed Development
Plunned by Rome Reul Estate Firm
By ROBERT J. LEWIS
Star staff Writer

An internationally known real estate development firm
with main offices in Rome disclosed plans yesterday for $50
million apartment hotel and office development 10acre
tract in Foggy Bottom that overooks the Potomac River
The project viii be privately financed without Govern
Evening star., 1961-10-22
Radio Needles
0rbiting Earth
Package Carries
$50 Million Hairs
BY WILLIAM HINES
star Science Writer

The United States placed a
globe-girdling radio antenna"
into a polar orbit 2,100 miles
high yesterday.
Composed Of a third Of a
billion tiny copper wires. the
Evening star., 1961-10-22

RAcING-Kelso probably took horse
Of the yeor honors for the second
straight year in winning the Jockey
Club, Gold Cup at Aqueduet. cieodc,
2-yeor-OId fiIIey, won the Sl6l,ssS
Gordenio Stokes at Gorden Stote Park
by 10 lengths, eosed up at the finish
by Jockey Willie Shoemaker.
Details in Sports Section
Evening star., 1961-10-22

Also Sunday. The star Mosozine;
This Week Messzine; Ty Moso-
zine and Comic Section.
Index Of Subjects
Evening star., 1961-10-22
Liquor TaxLaw
ToCosf DC.
ST Million
Surprised Officials
Coll End of Stamps
Reverse WindfuII'
By CHARLES d. PIERCE
Star staff Writer

The District government, al
ready caught in a tight finan-
cial squeeze, will ose 81 million
this fiscal year because Of the
unexpected effect of a sleeper"
provision in an amendment to
the liquor tax law.
The surprise 81 million loss
viii occur because Of congress
sional action in substituting q
tax reporting method for the
stamp system on liquor sold in
the District.
Schuyler Lowe, director of
the Department of General
Administration, said the new
procedure. switching liquor
taxes from a prepayment to
a post-payment system, will
result in "a one-time loss" that
viii not be recovered.
Its q windfall in reverse, I"
Mr.. Lowe said.
Commissioner walter N.
Tobriner described the loss as
something we can i'll afford. /"
He added that while the Com
missioners had strongly opposed
the bill doing away with tax
stamps on other grounds, I'VE
apparently overlooked the fl
nancial loss involved"
Back Explains
Kenneth Back. District fl
nance officer. gave the follow
ing explanation for the loss in
liquor taxes which viii occur
when the new reporting system
goes into effect December /.
At present District liquor
wholesalers and retailers who
import special brands buy tax
stamps in advance Of their pur-
chases. from distillers.
However, under the new sys-
tenn liquor dealers will report
by the 10th of each month the
quantity Of beverages subject to
taxation sold by them in the
previous month. The tax pay
ments, passed on to retailers
and, in many cases, to Gus
tbmers, are not due until the
18th Of the month following
the sale.
Stamp Buying Down
Liquor wholesalers already
have started to cut back on
their liquor stamp purchases in
anticipation Of the change to
the reporting system on De-
cernber /.
As a result alcoholic beverage
tax receipts dropped $225. 900
in September below the level of
q year before. Similar declines
are expected IN Lne remaining
months this year.
In addition to the losses in
stamp inventories. the District
government also viii get stung
next June, the last month OF
this fiscal year.
Under the present method,
the District receives tax reve-
nue. from liquor sold in June in
that same month or earlier
through sale Of tax stamps.
But under the new system,
wholesalers will not have to pay
the tax on liquor sold in June
until July, the first month Of
the new fiscal year. This means
that the District will not get in
this fiscal year the $400, 900 or
100000 normally expected in
June from this revenue source.
While liquor revenue collec-
tions will not be reduced next
See LOSS, Page AS
Evening star., 1961-10-22
SPORTS ROUNDUP
Michigan State
Tops Irish, W.;
Maryland Wins

Undefeoted Michigan Stote. ronk-
ed No. ! in the Nation rallied for
two touehdowns and q field goal in
the second hoIf and detected Notrs
Dome, 1T, Yesterday. e.
Maryland troveIed TO Denver and
shut out the Air Force Academy,
2l-0,
VPl shut out Virsinio 200, at
Roonoke.
Other football scores:
Evening star., 1961-10-22
Albania Scores
Khrus|1cheV in
Congress Note
We Now Know
Where Our Friends
Are,' Suslov Says

MOSCOW, Oct. 81 (AP).-
Little Albania, assailed by Pre-
mier Khrushchev for clinging
to Stalinism, struck back in a
letter to the Soviet Communist
Party Congress today, Congress
sources reported.
The family dispute came
nearer a head, the informantS
said. when the letter from AL
banian leaders accused Mr.
Khrushchev of making wreck
ing attacks against Communist
unity.
Mikhail A. Suslov, a member
Of the PreSidium of the party's
Central Committee and a top
party theoretician, was report
ed to have declared after see
ing the letter:
I'VE now say finally that we
understand clearly where our
friends are"
Mr.. Khrushchev all but read
the Albanian Party out of the
Communist bloc Tuesday when
he accused its leaders of ad-
herring to the Stalinist cult OF
personality and engaging in
Stalin-lke repressions Of the
people.
MOlOtOv Expulsion Forecast
The arrival of the letter was
reported as Pravda. the official
Communist Party newspaper
clearly forecast the expulsion
from the party Of v. M. Molotov
and his Stalinist comrades IN
the antiparty group Of 1857.
The paper said the 4,40S
delegates at the Congress
unanimously support the
speakers who raised the ques-
tion Of excluding from the
party those who participated
in the disSident group"
The paper named Mr.. Molo-
tov. former foreign minister
under Stain; Lazar Kagano-
vich. q former righthand ad-
ministrator for Stain; former
Premier Georgi Malenkov: for
mer President Klementi Y.
Voroshilov; former Premier Nj
kolai Bulganin; former Presi-
dium members Mikhail Pervuk-
hin and Maxim Saburov, and
former Foreign Minister Dmitri
Shepilov. This indicated all
eight may lose their party
cards.
Evening star., 1961-10-22

Soviet Scientists Suggest Weather
Control Plan. Pees AS