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Evening star., 1961-07-05
KUWAIT

SOuSAuuCu CEOAH ELSG L dBe
Saudi Arabia-Kuwait'S chief
backer in the league-ab-
stained Iraq has said it will
oppose Kuwait's admission.
The British here feel that il
the league fails to solve the
Kuwait crisis, they may have to
hand over the sheikdom's de-
fense to the United Nations
The British defense force has
been welcomed in Kuwait, but
there are fears a prolonged
stay would allow Iraq to whip
up anti British feeling through
out the Middle East.
The first public Kuwait criti-
cism of the British intervention
was voiced yesterday by the ma
tionalist paper Hadif, which
represents Kuwait's wealthy
merchant class. 1t repeated
the claim Of a Cairo newspaper
that the British put Mr.. Kas-
sem UP to claiming Kuwait SO
they could bring troops in.
British Foreign Secretary
Lord Home said in London
Britain will keep a force in
Kuwait big enough to protect
its independence but no larger
than that"
British Air Marshal Sir
Charles Elworthy now has
about 10000 British regulars
under his command here plus
10000 Kuwait regulars, desert
tribesmen and Saudi Arabian
volunteers.
Fifty transport planes loaded
with men and equipment
landed in Kuwait yesterday.
Most of the new troops were
dispatched to defensive posi-
tions in the desert northwest
of the capital.
Britain has notified the
United Arab Republic war
ships of the Mediterranean
Fleet will sail through the
Suez Canal en- route to Kuwait.
1t will be the first time Brit
ish warships have passed
through the waterway since
1856.
Near the Iraqi border. light
armored cars sped across the
desert watching for signs of
movement on the other side,
With the protective screen of
troops, tanks, armored cars and
artillery thrown across the
bliStering desert, work began
to give the troops some degree
of comfort.
Heat Takes Toll
A large staff of cooks was
flown in to get the men off
emergency rations. Helicopters
ferried boxes of oranges to the
desert to help combat thirst
and the monotonous diet.
Most of the British troops
are hardened to the scorching
desert. They belong to the
strategic reserve Britain keeps
abroad and have been trained
IN extreme heat.
But Kuwait's scorching heat
was taking a toll nontheless
overcoming "a military men SC
far. Half the cases, from a
marine unit among the first to
take station in the soaring
desert hills, we're flown back
to the aircraft carrier Bulwark
for treatment. The best were
treated at a local hospital in
Kuwait.
AT Farwania airport, main
landing center for the British
forces. an airma1 was killed
when he walked into a whirling
propeller.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
DAVID LAWRENCE
How to Simulate Manned Orbit

Australia to 100 miles in
sertion altitude near Ber-
muda".
The same official state
ment defines the expected
landing place as, 200 miles
east of Bermuda, in the At
lantic Ocean. Helicopters will
be used to recover the main
landing parachute" carrying
certain equipment and data.
It would, of course, be feas-
ible simultaneously to send
an astronaut into the air sep
arately in a plane flying in
the stratosphere, parachute
him to a landing, and tell the
world that a man had actu-
ally been aboard the satellite
itself in the round-the-world
flight. 1t undoubtedly will
be possible to put an Ameri-
can astronaut aboard a Satel-
lite itself some day and send
him around the world many
times-where there are to-
day several American satel-
lites still circling the earth
after many months of flight.
But the United States hasn't
been ready to take the risk of
a single human life until a
test has been made.
The Russians may have
taken such a risk, but the
evidence" they have pro-
duced thus far is by no means
convincing. In fact, several
statements made by Yuri
Gagarin and Gherman Titov
about what they saw from
orbital flight are not be-
lieved at all by a number of
scientists in America, France
and Britain. Both the Rus
sian airmen spoke, for ex-
ample, of having seen plowed
fields while in orbit. Maybe
they saw them on the way
down to earth, but there is
no known telescope that could
be installed in the Spacecraft
used from which-at an alti-
tude of nearly 160 miles
one could distinguish a
plowed from an unplowed
field on earth.
1t was important for the
Communists to register a
first" in space at this criti-
cal time in world history,
and they would, Of course,
not hesitate to simulate an
actual flight in order to gain
a propaganda victory.
(Copyright, 1851
Evening star., 1961-08-21
Pruvdu Reports
Johnson Visit
Was Provocative

MOSCOW, Aug. 81 (AP). -
Pravda today printed a Berlin
dispatch declaring Vice Presi-
dent Johnson's mission to the
divided city was intended "to
heat up the already tense stu
alton in West Berlin"
The writer, Correspondent
Vladimer Kuznetsov, said II
seems West Berlin-not East
Berlin-has become "a military
police camp"
He said provocative military
demonstrations were held in
West Berlin after Mr.. John
sons arrival and commented
that the 1,500 American re-
Inducements who arrived Sun
day marched through the city
to the tune of military bands.
johnson developed a truly
feverish activity" Mr.. Kuznet-
sov wrote. From morning un-
til night he prowled along the
borders of democratic CEaSt)
Berlin, arranged reviews of
American military units, ex-
cited the West Berlin popula-
tion and met with Mayor Willy
Brandt and Foreign Minister
Heinrich Won Brentano behind
closed doors. He is trying to
save the bankrupt policy of the
frontline city"
Evening star., 1961-08-21
Billy Graham Urges
Prayer, Strong Stand

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 81
(AP).-The Rev. DR.. Billy Gra-
ham has suggested to President
Kennedy a three-point program
for Berlin which he says would
wake up the American people,
frighten their enemies and en-
courage those living under
communism.
The evangelist put forth the
program yesterday at the start
of a month-long Greater Phil
adelphia Crusade at Conven-
ton Hall.
DR.. Graham said the Presi-
dent should:
First, call for a United Ma
tions General Assembly meeting
to find out why the refugees
are fleeing East Germany.
Secondly the President
should again spell out in a
speech in no uncertain terms
that we will not retreat, COM
promise or appease anywhere
in the world-that from now
on we are starting a peaceful
counter offensive to roll COM
Evening star., 1961-08-21
New York Political Crisis BoiIino

his real sin seems to have
been that they found they
could not direct him. Next,
they forced a break with the
genuine Democratic bosses,
headed by Representative
Charles Buckley of the
Bronx.
They forced Wagner to
abandon these real bosses,
who had made him in the
first place. Then their vague
cries of corruption" against
De Sapio, who holds no pub
lie office anyhow, inevitably
boomeranged. The voters
needed no degree in political
science to know that if there
really was such corruption in
New York as the reformers
said there was, the reform
ers' man, Wagner, for years
had been the responsible
head Of the city.
Now, the unfortunate Wag-
ner has been compelled to
detach himself from an
other set of old friends. He
is trying to force out of office
the very same unpaid city
school board he himself ap-
pointed, abandoning them
a nd incidentally Smearing
them-aS he had abandoned
the real bosses.
This absurd and tasteleSs
episode has put the very pub
lie schools of New York into
politics, and nasty politics,
at that. The Republicans,
naturally, are exploiting this
mess.
What it all proves is that
the ultra-liberals have not
graSped the first reality of
American politics. This is
that ours is a two-party sys-
tenn or it is only a bowling,
Squabbling farce. Only frantic
disorder and futility will re-
ward those politicians who
try to set themselves up as
the only right and righteous
men by creating splinter
movements. .s.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
Ribicoff Asks
NEA'sSupport

Welfare Secretary Ribicoff
today asked educators not to
kill the administrations new
education bill, a compromise
he hopes will get through Con-
greSs.
He told AZ National Educa-
ton Association leaders meet
ing here that the new program
"iS the only possible one that
provides a basis for any legis-
lation this year."
He warned the educators
that if they insist on the
Presidents original bill, now
mired in religious controversy,
they may get nothing. "a
great danger that faces educa-
ton legislation now is that its
strongest supporters will insist
on the original program" he
said.
do not snuff out the life of
this program at the moment
of its BIRTH" he asked.
The new bill does not pro-
vide aid for teachers salaries
but extends aid to federally
impacted areas, provides as
sistance in building school and
college facilities and would ex-
tend the National Defense
Education Act for one year.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
Strong Contest for MoyoroI Office
Is Causing National Political Concerr

ton Democrat, Arthur Levitt.
this would only add yet more
venom to an already feroci-
GUS Democratic in = fighting
which has produced one of
the most irresponsible polit-
ical campaigns in memory.
Levitt would never be ac-
cepted by the reform Demo-
Gratis. These, headed by Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt and former
Senator Herbert H. Lehman,
very likely would be able to
destroy him in the end any,
how.
And if the victor should oe
the present Mayor, Robert
Wagner, the regular Demo-
Gratis would owe him less
than nothing and would give
him even less. Whichever
way it went, as between
Levitt and Wagner, the
Democratic Party as an or
ganized and responsible en-
tity in New York would lie
in something close to sulking
ruins.
And, for the crucial point,
the national Democratic
Party has always found it
hard to survive national cleo
tionS without a strong base
"a money-in-the-bank kind
of thing-in New York.
What has brought the
Democrats to this pass is an
increasing Balkanization, an
increasing erection of splin-
ter groups, due to the rule
or-ruin self-righteousneSS of
the ultra-liberal reform ele-
ment.
These people opened long
ago a melodramatic CRU
sade" against the so-called
boss" of New York, Carmine
De Sapio of Tammany Hall.
They had managed in the
past to get along with him;
Evening star., 1961-08-21
CoIesviIIe Road to Have
New Names in October

the Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commits
sion, the agency charged with
numbering houses and naming
county and State roads with
in its regional district.
The changeover is designed
to clear up the confusion often
confronting motorists who are
looking for Colesville or Coles
ville-G -Glenmont roads, in Mon
gomery County, a commission
spokesman said.
He said some name chang
ing also is in store for some
Montgomery roads.
He added that Colesville, in
Prince Georges, actually is an
extension of Adelphi road, and
that when it meets Queens
Chapel it becomes an extension
of East-West highway Estate
Route 410).
Evening star., 1961-08-21
WILLIAM S. WHITE

A New York domestic poll
tical crisis, as well as a Berlin
foreign crisis. is boiling ever
higher for President Ken
nedy. And he can do con-
siderably less about the one
than about the other.
Incredible is the word even
to tough national politicians
for the. savage mayoralty
fight now going on in a city
which is more than a city
is, indeed, more important
politically than any half
dozen of the smaller States.
The national Democratic
Party, and also all 1864 Re-
publican Presidential aspir-
ants except Gov. Rockefeller
of New York, have much to
lose and nothing to gain. For
if the outcome is capture of
City Hall by the Republicans
through their mayoral candi-
date, Louis Lefkowitz, Rookie
feller will go into the 1864
Republican national conven-
ton with immensely added
strength.
He would be a far more
formidable challenger to his
two rivals for the Presiden-
tial nomination, Richard
Nixon and Senator Barry
Goldwater of Arizona, than
today. A victory for Lefkowitz
would be, nationally, simply
a victory for Rockefeller. He
would be in the proud and
powerful position of having
beaten the biggest center of
urban Democratic strength
IN the country.
On the other hand, an ul-
innate victory in the mayor
atty race for any Democrat
would by no means strength
en- the Democratic Party
nationally or President
Kennedy, either. If this VIC
tor should be the organiza-
Evening star., 1961-08-21

This dandy sewing machine has built
in dioI thot performs countless sewing
tosks! SeWs forword and reverse, over
pins and needles. Has outomotic durner,
oUtomotic bobbin winder, and 7-speed
foot control.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
Adenuuer to Visit
Berlin Tomorrow

BONN, Germany, Aug. 81
(AP).-Chancellor Konrad Ad-
enauer will fly to Berlin tomor-
row for a one-day visit to the
troubled city, the West Ger
man federal press office said
today.
It will be Mr.. Adenauer's
first trip to Berlin since the
Communists barricaded the
city's sector border on Au-
gust 13.
The opposition Free Demo-
Gratis, West Germany's third
largest party, criticized the 85-
year-old chancellor for not hav-
ing gone earlier. 1t said a spe-
cial cabinet session last week
concerning the crisis should
have been held in Berlin and
not in Bonn.
Evening star., 1961-08-21

munism back in Eastern
Europe.
Third, the President should
call a day of prayer as
A time of petition to God to in
tervene in the world situation,
that we might have the courage
to do his will for a just peace
A major part of our praying
would be for the people under
communism"
DR.. Graham, who has preach
ed to some 80 million persons
in mass evangelistic meetings
over the globe, said:
II am convinced that if such
action were taken it would
have the immediate effect of
Gods help in our desperate
situation; it would wake the
American people up from their
lethargy; it would frightcn and
sober enemies; it would en-
courage millions of people who
are under the heel of tyranny.
AS a minister, DR.. Graham
said, he does not usually dis
cuss political situations but,
he added: "I feel it is time
for the preacher to speak out. "
Evening star., 1961-08-21
AirIift 'Rescues'
Stranded British

LONDON, Aug. 81 (AP).-A
stream of hastily chartered
planes flew into London air.
port yesterday with thousands
Of British tourists who had
been stranded in vacation re-
sorts throughout Europe by COL
lapse Of a private airline called
Overseas Aviation.
The airline, a charter COM
pany, grounded it's planes and
went into liquidation with
debts of more than $1.4 mil
lions.
Travel agents scrambled for
phones to book return flights
for stranded passengers. Pleas
for transport had come in from
Italy, Spain, Majorca and the
French Riviera.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

American troops and Lyndon Johnson reinforce Berlin
GI. slogan: "An the way with LBJ"
With the Great Wall of China and the cement bar
rer in Berlin Khrushchevs latest offering the masses
wall-to-wall communism
Kennedy sisters tour Communist countries after Bob
visits Africa and Teddy Latin America Touch football out
The new family game is overseas keep-away.
Republican congressman rebuff Gov Rockefeller on for
egn aid They prefer leadership only further
away, but they're not what it is
One fellow the two safest people in his neighborhood
the social worker and the mail social worker
okays the relief checks-and the mail brings them
Khrushchev views Lyndon Johnsons Berlin mission as
allied trckery When he signed the agreements nobody told
him the occupying powers included Texas.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
ForestviIIe Wins
Mojorette Trophy

The junior majorette corps
of Forestville, Md, won the
grand champion trophy Satur-
day at the seventh annual
"twirl-off" of the Greenbelt
Festival majorette contest.
The Forestville tiny tots
group won a first place trophy
and the two Junior teams won
first and third place trophies
at the contest held at the
Greenbelt National Guard Ar
mory. The teams are sponsored
by the Forestville Volunteer
Fire Department.
Evening star., 1961-08-21
Project Mercury Automatic Flight Plan
Points to Possibility of Russian Trick

six feet across its widest di-
ameter and nine feet from the
blunt heat shield to the top
of it's parachute container,
will contain all the complex
space-age equipment which
makes it possible to fly the
complete orbital mission on
an automatic basis. In ad-
dltion to the standard on
board systems through which
the pilot can control the We
hicle, electronic equipment
and sensing devices have
been installed to try to du-
plicate mans judgmental
and corrective capacity.
"Other mechanical devices
will be on board the MA-4
Spacecraft to attempt to re-
produce the actions of man.
A tape recorder, located in
the vicinity of what would be
the pilots head. will record
the noises of flight into space
and back to earth. A special
color camera will be pointed
out of the portfolios to record
the view. Another camera will
look through the pilots peri
scope while a third one re-
cords instrument panel read
ings.
Special Instrumentation
has been installed in the
MAJ spacecraft to record
vibration, accelerations and
temperature.
During the flight, infor-
nation from tracking and
ground Instrumentation
points around the globe will
pour into the Goddard space
Flight Center of the National
Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration at BeltSville,
Md, at the rate, in some
cases, of more than 1000 bits
per second. Upon almost in
Simultaneous analysis, the in
formation will be relayed to
Cape Canaveral for action. e..
1.-The orbiting phase of the
mission will last approx
mately 110 minutes and will
carry the Mercury craft
around the earth at attitudes
ranging from 154 statute
miles off the west coast of
Evening star., 1961-08-21
DAVID LAWRENCE

IN EUROPE.-Did the Rus
slams, in their anxiety to
achieve a worldwide propa-
ganda victory in the midst
of the Berlin crisis, send an
automatically operated sat-
elite around the globe with
tape recordings aboard and
then land a well-rehearsed
"cosmonaut" by parachute
from a separate flight, and
claim to have actually sent a
man around the globe?
The evidence with which
to answer the foregoing ques-
tion conclusively either way
has not been made available
to the public. But, bearing
on the subject of automatic
space flights, the United
States Government, through
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, has
just issued an enlightening
and significant statement
describing a satellite to be
launched this very week from
Cape Canaveral, Fla. 1t reads
in part as follows:
"The most comprehensive
test to date-orbital flight
and re-entry on a completely
automatic baSiS-iS the next
step in Project Mercury.
THE spacecraft in this test
is similar to the one in which
the United States Mercury
aStronauts will fly in orbital
flight. Since this is the first
orbital flight of a Mercury
craft, a mechanical crew.
man Simulator will replace
man in the cockpit. The
'crewman' simulator will con-
sumo oxygen, expel carbon
dioxide and fill the cabin
with heat and moisture much
as a man would in the course
of normal breathing.
"On this flight, two As
minute voice tapes will broad
cast pre-planned messages
to stations in the worldwide
network of tracking stations
to check on high-frequcncy
and ultra high frequency
transmisSions.
"The spacecraft, measuring
Evening star., 1961-08-21
Essmun to Retire

EDGEWOOD, Md, Aug. 81
(AP) Brig. Gen. Gradydon C.
Essman will retire at the end
of this month as commanding
general of the Army Chemical
Center and the Chemical Corps
Material Command.
His successor at Edgewood
will be Col. Lloyd E. Fellenz,
soon to be promoted to briga-
dier general, who has been di-
rector of military operations in
the office of the chief chemical
officer in Washington.
Evening star., 1961-08-21

Colesville road in Prince
Georges County will belong
only to the record books after
October l.
The major county road,
from University boulevard to
Queens Chapel road, will be
renamed Adelphi road. From
Queens Chapel to the Balti-
more boulevard, it will become
East West highway.
Remaining was approved by
Evening star., 1961-10-24
Jockey Reynolds
Battles Duvidson
AT Shenandoah

CHARLES TOWN, w. Va,
Oct. "a (SpeciaD. - Shenan-
doah Downs has the last COM
petition-free program OF its
meeting tonight and track Of
ficials are looking to it with
anticipation after last nights
squirt in business. Shenandoah
posted a S232.649 mutuel ham
die last night without Mary
land competition.
It was the best week siD"|
Maryland half-mile racing =
gan at Bel Air and left the
average for the 25-day-old ses-
sion at $l96,000
A one-night riding battle is
shaping up for this evening
with Larry Reynolds. leading
rider on the half-mile circuit,
invading Shenandoah for a
crack at Jesse Davidson. The
latter rode three winners last
night to run his total for the
25 nights to As as he contin-
ued to run away with honorS
Reynolds led Maryland jockeys
at every track at which he rode
Reynolds has the mount on
Mrs. Shirley T. Payne's Man.
uel who tops a field Of nine
in the featured U. N. Purse at
a mile and one sixteenth. Man.
uel will draw his chief COM
petition from Robert D. Greer's
Rogation, beaten in a photo
last time out, and Francis M.
Ballenger's Chryblen, a con-
siStent platter on the Charles
Town circuit.
Evening star., 1961-10-24
By DICK SLAY
Star Staff Writer

All week enc George Wash
mgton University savored its
fastest football victory in
many years, then yesterday
was served a sour course. AS
sistant Coach Bobby Collins has
been called back in the Army
ard will miss the final two
games of the season.
Collins, the popular back
field coach, who will be % to-
morrow received notice yester-
day that he is to report to Fort
Gordon, Ga, no later than a
week from Thursday to join
the 359th Civil Affairs Com
pany. He will be in the service
"a year unless released sooner,
according to his orders.
A Reserve first lieutenant
Collins had been prepared fol
recall but had hoped it would
not interfere with more than
one football season.
Coach Jim Camp said that q
replacement would not be hired
before the first of 1862 and told
Collins he would like TO nave
him back after the tour of duty
Evening star., 1961-10-24
Loss of Collins Knocks
:CoIonioIs Off CLOUD 9

There's no doubt in my mind
l would like to come back. No
one hates to see me leave as
much as I hate to leave" he
said.
Collins, married and father
of a boy, 6, and a girl. 3, says
he probably will take his fam
| lily with him to Fort Gordon
next week, after helping CIV
in the game Friday night with
Boston University at D. C.
Stadium.
The only other piece Of news
impaired by Camp yesterday at
the weekly luncheon with the
alumni was that Dick Drum
mond will retain the No. A
jersey he wore in the 1912
romp over William and Mary
last Friday.
Drummond was given No. A
for the first time as a gimmick
to correspond with his initials
the fourth letter in the alpha
bet. and he reacted with -four
touchdowns that night.
Asked what would happen to
the old No. "a on Drummond's
helmet, Camp replied, "I'll paint
the helmet myself, if neces-
sary,"
Evening star., 1961-10-24
THIRD TIME FOR WARREN
Spain and Donovan
Lead Majors in ERA

NEW YORK. Oct. "a (AP)
Warren SPAIN of Milwaukee
and Dick Donovan of Washing
ton are the major leagues
earned run leaders for 1861.
But SPAIN probably doesn't
know just how proud he
should be of his accomplish
ment. He gave up 88 earned
runs in 263 innings for a 3.O1
mark, the second highest for
National League leader. Bill
Walker of the New York Giants
won it with 3.08 in 1929.
The veteran lefthander also
won the title in 1947 and
1858.
Donovan, on the other hand,
has plenty to crow about.
Associated Press statistics
compiled yesterday showed he
yielded As earned runs in 169
innings for a 2.40 mark.
He thus became the first
Washington pitcher to win the
crown since 1928 when Gar
land Braxton led the league.
Donovan recently was traded
to Cleveland.
Jim O'Toole of Cincinnati
was second in the National
League with a 800 record, fol-
lowed by Curt Simmons of st