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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-04-26
NEW u. S. ATTORNEY
Complex Legal Issues
Face David Acheson
BY PHIL THOMAS
Star Staff Writer

An enlightened and de-
termined effort to resolve legal
conflicts over insanity and po-
lice arrest methods will be made
by the Districts new United
States Attorney.
This is the forecast made by
friends and close associates of
David C. Acheson, who was
confirmed by the Senate this
week for the job as the Dis
trict's chief prosecutor. He will
be sworn in today to succeed
Oliver Gasch, a Republican ap-
pointee and United States At
torney since 1856.
The 39-year-old Mr.. Acheson,
partner in a Washington law
firm here, isn't saying right
now just what he is planning.
The first thing I'm going to
try to do is learn the job" he
said.
while I'm learning the
needs, I'll be making up my
mind, with the cooperation
and consultation of the staff -
start With What I've Got"
/ Conceding the fact that he
has never argued a criminal
case in court, Mr.. Acheson said
he can only start with what
I've got"
Those who have worked with
the young lawyer think he has
plenty to offer. They describe
him as a man capable of
thinking before he acts-then
acting very firmly"
They point TO his service in
the Washington law firm of
Covington & Burling, one Of
the larger legal firms in the
Nation.
They say he never traded on
the fact that his father, for
mer Secretary Of State Dean
Acheson, had been a partner
| in the firm when the younger
AcheSon became an associate
in 1850.
And they insist that-if any
thing - David Acheson had
much to overcome simply be-
cause he was the son Of a
famous man.
Goes Ahead Aggressively
David showed himself to be
an intelligent student Of q
problem, a student capable OF
going ahead without being told
exactly what to do and going
ahead aggressively," said one
friend.
1 Fellow lawyers long asSo-
ciated with Mr.. Acheson be-
lieve he is genuinely eager"
to tackle knotty legal prob
lens that have beset the United
States Attorneys Office, the
Police Department and the
courts here for the past sew
eral years.
These problems have evolved
into a legal fight over three
major points: The insanity de-
tense in criminal trials, police
procedures relating to interro-
cation Of suspects, and search
and seizure.
Mr.. GaSch has fought a run
ming word battle with the
United States Court of Appeals
here on at least two of these
points, at the same time start
ing a program to educate his
staff and the police in what the
courts feel can legally be done
in enforcing the law.
A Restrictive Doctrine"
Mr.. Gasch has termed the
Supreme Court doctrine '(the
Mallory rule) on questioning Of
suspects a restrictive doctrine.
And he has taken much the
same attitude on the court
doctrine Durham rule) gov
erning the insanity defense
here.
Mr.. Acheson, one friend be.
lieves, wants to get at what
those involved are driving at
in this struggle.
The police are critical Of
the courts and the courts are
Evening star., 1961-04-16
Red Feat Prompts Congress
To Urqe Millions on NASA

turn out to be more crash than
program, they wanted to know
how soon an American could be
placed on the moon. DR.. Sea-
mans said it conceivably could
be done by 1867, if this became
a matter of national policy.
DR.. Seamans did not speak
to this point with much con-
viction or much enthusiasm.
Prevailing opinion seems to be
that the only American likely
to get to the moon by 1867
would be a suicide mission VOL
unteer. The vehicles to get a
man to the moon and back,
and the equipment to support
him while there, simply will
not be available and tested
that early.
Since the Russian man-in-
space triumph, a parallel has
been drawn between the situa-
ton today and that which pre-
vailed at the start of World
War II vixen President Roose-
velt set a goal of $4,000 planes
When Mr.. Roosevelt's planners
told him the goal was unat-
tainable, he told them to go
back and do their arithmetic
again.
The parallel, while attractive
is not exact. The building OF
$4,000 planes involved an ex-
Evening star., 1961-04-16

satellites during the Interna-
tional Geophysical Year 1857
So. BY the time the ICY was
over, exactly one Vanguard
satellite weighing 314 pounds
had gone into orbit.
The whole program, which
ended with a successful launch
ing September 18. 1859, saw
three satellites placed in orbit.
All three are still out there,
and the first one, launched
March IT, 1858, is still beeping
away.
Quantitatively, Vanguard was
not much. Its payload - rs
pounds in three packages-cost
the taxpayer nearly SIS million
a pound.
Qualitatively, the program
was a highly successful first
effort. taking into consideration
the fact. that it was laid out
literally from the ground up as
a non-military operation. All
the Russians satellites and all
but two of our own since VAN
guard have been boosted by
military missiles adapted for
space work.
Along with the name Van
guard, one other program it'll
Evening star., 1961-04-16

tension of an assembly line
technology geared to so planes,
500 or 5000.
The building of a rocket ship
which can take a man to the
moon and bring him back in
wolves the creation of a tech
nology which for practical pur-
poses does not exist today.
The other part of the paral-
lei that fails to hold up on
close examination is in the
m a tier of manpower. The
$4,000 planes Mr.. Roosevelt
called for were to be flown by
men whose mission was to kill
or be killed. If through faulty
construction the wings dropped
off a plane or two, that would
be an Individual tragedy but
no great national calamity.
The rocket to the moon, how
ever, would have as its primary
objective getting a man there
and getting him back with or
without samples and with ma
tional prestige riding in the
nose come.
knowledge of these ia ct S
causes space planners to be a
little more cautious than Con-
gress. Talk is cheap, while in
terplanetary space ships are
very expensive.
Evening star., 1961-04-16

Army built Jupiter and the Air
Forces Thor and Atlas were
first-stage rockets in the series.
Five Pioneers bear Roman
numeral designations, although
there were nine in the series
and only four successes. This
is because the series started
under military auspices and
ended under NASA jurisdiction.
In general, the military num-
berS all it's shots, successful or
not, while NASA gives numbers
just to those that work.
Though Pioneer is now dead,
the programs founded in Pho
neer go on. Successors to the
Solar-orbiting Pioneers " and
v will be known as Mariner;
later versions of the three un-
successful moon-orbiting at
temptS will have such names
as Ranger. Surveyor and
ProSpector.-W. H.
Tomorrow: plOrer -
Americas first succesS).
Evening star., 1961-04-16

has passed into history. This
is Pioneer, the name given to
nine deep-Space penetration
attempts between August, 1858,
and December, 1860.
Successful Pioneers probed
the radiation belts around the
.arth, went into orbit around
the sun, and set a long
distance communications rec
ord in interplanetary space.
Unsuccessful ones included
three consecutive attempts to
place instrument packages into
orbit around the moon.
Unlike Vanguard, which was
based on the use of one type of
rocket, the Pioneer program
used a variety of boosters. The
Evening star., 1961-04-16
Spuce Fund Cut
Reversal Asked
BY the Associated Press

In the aftermath of Russia's
man in space achievement. an
influential House Democrat
has called for reversal Of ad-
miniStration cuts in funds for
nuclear-powered rocket deve-
lopment.
Representative Price, Demo-
crat of Illinois, told the House
Thursday that the Budget
Bureau turned down a total of
about $29 million requested by
the Atomic Energy Commission
and the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration to
begin a flight program.
Il am informed on good
authority" he said, that these
cuts could result in delays of
six months to a year in first
flight, and that the present
target date Of 1966-67 could'not
be met unless full restoration of
these funds is made now"
Evening star., 1961-04-16
= INTERPRETIVE REPORT

who appeared with him. They
agreed that more money now
probably would get more re-
suits in the long run, but re-
fused to state this positively
or to specify probable results
in more than general terms.
OF the millions of words ut
tered before the Space Commit
tee in its three years of life,
probably none have been more
to the point than these of DR.
SeamanS:
ITO beat the Russians in
wolves a lot more than what
you do in 1862"
The committee members ap-
peared anxious to get a pro-
gram - almost any program
going on a crash basis. APP
parently overlooking the fact
that crash programs often
Evening star., 1961-04-16

VI axes W DC lCllLONCO 44OAA OAAC
American effort in space.
The accuracy of his state
ment is rapidly becoming clear.
Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin had
not even arrived in Moscow
after his orbital ride before
Congress was urging millions of
additional dollars on the Ma
tional AeronauticS and Space
Administration.
1t now appears likely that
NASA will get authorization in
the coming fiscal year for some
thing close to SIS billion, rather
than the $1,109, 100000 recon-
mended by President Eisen-
hover or the $1,235, 100000
asked by President Kennedy in
his March budget revision.
NASA's original request to
the then Republican dominated
Bureau of the Budget was
$1,417,O 100000. This is close to
the figure long regarded as
"optimum" by space agency
planners. DR.. Homer J. Stew
art, former NASA plans chief,
said a year ago that SIS billion
was probably the most the
agency could use judicially in
fiscal 1862. DR.. Robert c. Sea-
mans, associate administrator
of NASA, told the House Space
Committee Friday that SIS
billion would be a realistic"
1862 maximum figure.
The Space Committee hit a
new high in generosity during
DR.. Seamans' appearance. Re-
publicans and Democrats wed
with one another to offer ad-
ditional funds to NASA de-
spite DR.. Seaman's calm and
consistent refusal to make any
rash promises.
The committee members were
at once critical of what NASA
had been doing with its cur
rently available funds and in
sistent that the agency be
given more money. An observer
remarked, 1T seems that the
way to get mere money from
this committee is to fail ir
the mission we already have
Nowhere was the inconsis-
tency more marked than in two
statements made within 6
space of five minutes by Rep
reSentative Fulton, Republican
of Pennsylvania In one breath
he told DR.. SeamanS the COM
mittee should authorize an ad.
ditional $47.6 million fol
Apollo. a multi-man-in-s
project, so the Appropriations
Committee can give it to yoU
when you want it." In vir-
tually the next breath Mr.. Full
ton observed, II think we are
tagging Tin space) on man,
agement."
Some of the Space Commit.
tee members seemed irked al
their inability to get any glow
ing forecasts from either DR.
Seamans or Geroge M. Low
NASA's manned flight chief
Evening star., 1961-04-16

limbus Somos Apollo 4.
Rebound Tiros Prospector
these ore just some of the projects
to which Americas spoce hopes will
be pinned in the coming yeors. To
help readers fomiIiorize themselves
with these coming heOdliners in the
exeitine-ond expensNe-ossouIt on
spoce. The Stor hos prepared o
series Of background ortieIes, CT
which this is the first.
Evening star., 1961-04-16
ASSAULT ON SPACE
Vanguard and Pioneer
Now Part of History

When the Russians stole march the United States
with SputnkS and II in late 1857 dSgrunted Americans
quipped that should be called Rearguard
instead of Vanguard
Project Vanguard Of too little and too late.
1t $110 million program launch series of scientific
Evening star., 1961-04-16
BY WILLIAM HINES
Star Science Writer

high ranking space official remarked that the best
thing that could happen to the American space program would
be for the Russians to put a man in orbit.
What he meant that the impact of such Soviet r-
would the doors of Fort Knox to swing and all
L. kn nnunaf frnrnt
Evening star., 1961-04-16
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Mrs. Marilyn (Roper) Wank,
at Ii 1-4432.
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Evening star., 1961-08-05
Split Skirts Worry
British Stewordesses

LONDON, Aug. 5 (AP).-
British airline stewardesseS
have complained that Oriental
girls with eye-catching slit
skirts have an unfair advantage
over their Western sisters on
the airways.
I'VE feel we're being left out
in the cold" said a spokesman
for the Western girls. 1--WE
have to wear colorless nail var
nish and regular uniform skirts,
while the Oriental girls can
wear split skirts, colored nails,
earrings and even stiletto
heels"
ALI the girls work for the
British Overseas Always Corp
The spokesman for the Western
girls said they are afraid that
because of the popularity OF
the Oriental stewardesses--
BOAC may try to hire more
Oriental girls at the expense
of Occidental Stewardesses.
In a formal protest to BOAC,
the Western stewardesses said
the girls with the cheongsams
Chinese Sheath-like slit skirt
Evening star., 1961-08-05

dresSeS-are being introduced
on the Pacific routes to the
West Coast of the United
States and flights between
India and the Far East. -
The stewardesseS are also
afraid that BOAC may use the
girls on flights between the
American West and East Coasts.
Capt. Frank Wilson, chair
man of a stewards and stew
ardesses panel. told newsmen
a decision is possible by BOAC
on the complaint next week.
+ A spokesman for BOAC said
the Oriental girls can wear slit
skirts, earrings and painted
nails If these are a part Of
their native dress.
AS for spike heels, the air.
lines man explained:
These are out. No stew
ardesSeS of any kind can wear
them on duty in airliners."
BOAC said Oriental girls
were trained in London and
began working on its planes
about three years ago.
Evening star., 1961-08-05

District and vicinity - Con-
Siderable cloudiness with scat
tered thundershowers tonight
and tomorrow. Low tonight
near 10. ..
Maryland - Cloudy, showers
and scattered thunderstorms
through tomorrow may be To-
cally heavy over east tonight.
low 81 to 10. Continued rather
cool tomorrow.
Virginia - Cloudy, showers
and scattered thunderStorms To-
cally heavy over east tonight
low 81 to 10. Considerable
ctou diness and somewhat
warmer with scattered thunder
showers tomorrow.
sLower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay-Variable winds S
to 10 knots tonight. Southeast
to. south winds 10 to Is knots
tomorrow probably shifting tc
northwest in afternoon or eve
hing. Mostly cloudy, showers
and scattered thunderStormS
with locally stronger winds
High tomorrow, 80 to SO. Visi-
Evening star., 1961-08-05
7 of Is American Victims
Recovered From Swiss Bus

Of 3705 Woodbine street, Chevy
Chase, Md.
Il sat in the third row next
to the window on the right
side" she said. Suddenly
was thrown forward. 1 realized
the bus had been hit. There
was a crash, and 1 think it
was there I broke my pelvis.
The bus was pushed to the
edge. I saw Bruno Giacomello,
our Italian driver, trying to
pull the bus back to the road,
but ne could not make it and
we went over.
But then I felt the water
rising around me and that
gave me the determination to
fight. I began to paddle, pulled
myself up and opened a win
dow and swan to a rail of
the broken steel fence hanging
down into the water"
Evening star., 1961-08-05

she retired. We always wanted
to travel together. She Is
among the missing.
LAS I tried to pull myself ur
and out of the window I felt a
hand which grabbed my arm
and pulled me out. 1t was
Bruno (the bus driver).
II held on to the coach but
it sank rapidly and 1 managed
to reach a tire floating only
few yards away. Others held
on too; then a young man
dived in and helped us"
Mrs. ISaacS is a sister of Wal
ter Bryan, 5439 Thirty-Second
street NV.
The only other American
woman still in the hospital in
Stans is Mrs. Margaret Mitch
ell, 66, Of oxford, N. C. She
is the aunt of Dooley Mitchell
Evening star., 1961-08-05
Loans Ready
.ForVireinio's
CoIIeqions

Undergraduate and graduate
students in 18 State-supporteo
educational institutions in Vir-
ginia are now able to borrow
up to. $3.50 a year for thei1
studies under a new loan pro-
gram which went into effect
July /.
Delegate Harrison Mann
chairman of the State Educa-
ton Assistance Authority, said
that 10 banks and branches
in the State are already par
ticipating in the program which
would make loans repayable at
the flat rate Of AZ per cent q
year while the student is in
college.
He said, however, that a stu
dent may put off payments
until after college If he chooses,
in which case the loan would
be paid off in installments at
5 per cent interest over a fouI
year period. The maximum
monthly payment would be
$84.28 for those who had bor-
rowed the full amount, he said
Mr.. Mann said that student.
must apply directly to banks
participating in the program.
Under the plan a student
must show that he is properly
registered or has been accepted
at a State-supported institu.
ton. He must also prove Fl.
nancial need.
Banks in nearby Virgins
participating in the program
are the Alexandria Nationa
Bank, the First and Citizens
National Bank, Alexandria; the
Arlington Trust Co., the Secur-
ity National Bank, Falls
Church, and the Vienn
Trust Co.
1
Evening star., 1961-08-05
Migrant Killed,
Suspect Seized

VIENNA, Md, Aug. S (AP).-
A 4o-year-oId migrant laborer
was shot and killed on a farm
near here today, and a suspect
in the Staying was arrested sew
eral hours later in Norfolk,
Va.
The victim was identified as
Johnnie Wilson Of Indianola.
Miss, who was shot five times
with a revolver. Arrested in
Norfolk and charged with mur-
der was Clifford Ware, rs. Of
South Carolina. Police said
Ware waived extradition, and
was to be returned to Maryland
today. Police said he had
taken a bus south Immediately
after the shooting.
Evening star., 1961-08-05
Rape in Porkfoirfox
Charged to 2 Youths

ment reported several weeks
ago.
Capt. Rector said similarities
between this case and the Alex
andria break-in and rape led
him to notify Alexandria po-
lice.
Detectives Clarence Fitzsim-
mons and Roy Canard of Alex
andria fingerprinted the two
and the prints were matched
with prints found in the Park
fairfax apartment by the Alex
andria Identification bureau.
Prose OF the city'S
charges, 1t. Johnson said, must
await completion of the coun-
tvs case.
Evening star., 1961-08-05
BeardensWait
For Hearing
OF Grand Jury

Ell PASO, Tex, Aug. S (AP).
An ex-convict and his wild
eyed son were lodged in jail
here today awaiting a grand
jury hearing Monday for hi
jacking a jet airliner and at
tempting a forced flight to
Cuba.
United States Judge R. E.
ThomaSon ordered a special
grand jury convened to deter
mine whether to indict Leon
Bearden, SO, and his son, Cody,
16. Both are being held under
500, 900 bond.
The pair pulled firearms on
the crew of a Continental Air
lines Boeing TOT and IS other
passengers Thursday, then or
dered the pilot to fly the SIS
million jet to Cuba.
Plane Tires Punctured
A barrage of bullets from
heavily armed officers at Ell
PaSo's International Airport
shot out the landing gear tires
so the plane could not take off.
A 43-year-old border patrol
man, Leonard Gilman, later
slugged the elder Bearden and
FBI agent Francis Crosby
grabbed the boy, thus spelling
their plan.
They face charges of hijack-
ing the plane and taking it
across the New Mexico Texas
State line and with kidnapping
those aboard. The plane was in
flight from Los Angeles to
Houston.
Mr.. Gilman yesterday ap-
peared before the Senate Avia-
tion subcommittee considering
bills to impose sitter penalties
for airborne crimes.
Penalty in Question
What penalty might be in
store for the BeardenS is still
in question. If they had shot
someone. as they threatened.
the Government could have de-
manded the death penalty un-
der Federal kidnapping laws.
A Federal officer in on the
questioning Of the pair said the
elder Bearden, who has a rec
ord for robbery, must have had
a motive. But it's not neces-
sarily one you or I would un-
derstand."
He wanted to take his fam
lily to Cuba. He doesn't think he
can get any justice in this
country. In his mind, there was
only one way to get to Cuba,
and hijacking the airliner was
it," he said.
Evening star., 1961-08-05
Bio Power Failure
CrippIes Cleveland
CIEVEI,AND. Aue. s ZAP

CLEVELAND, Aug. S (AP).-
A falling tree branch near a
rural substation was blamed for
q mammoth power failure yes
terday in a 1,700-Square-mile
area served by the Cleveland
Electric Illuminating Co.
The failure, biggest in Cleve-
land history, hit four-county
area in north central and
northeastern Ohio shortly be-
fore noon.
Some 2 million persons were
inconvenienced in their daily
routines as lights went out,
rapid transit and trackless
trolleys stopped, television and
radio stations went off the air
and electric-eye doors at super
markets and elevators in office
buildings stopped operating.