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Evening star., 1961-06-05
Truman Sees
Common Sense
As Race Answer

NEW YORK. June S (AP).-
Former President Truman said
today progress toward integra-
ton has not been fast enough,
but contended its problems can
be solved through common
sense and not hammer and
tongs."
Mr.. Truman, on his morning
walk, was accompanied by
about a dozen persons. One of
them was James Peck, a Free
dom Rider who was attacked in
Birmingham, Ala, last month.
Mr.. Peck, an official Of the
Congress of Racial Equality
told the former President he
was disappointed by his remark
last week that the Freedom
Riders are agitators who should
stay home instead of stirring
up trouble" in the South.
What I said the other day,
I meant" Mr.. Truman replied.
Segregation is everybody'S
business, but its problems can
be settled with common sense. :"
Later. he added that good
will also is needed, and not
hammer and tongs."
Evening star., 1961-06-05
Stevenson Mission to South America
Gets Off to Good Start in Venezuela

CARACAS. Venezuela, June S
(AP).-Adlai Stevenson's spe-
cial presidential mission to
South America appeared today
to have gotten off to a good
start.
AS Mr.. Stevenson began his
second day Of private talks
with President Romulo Betan-
court and other Venezuelan
officials, United States officials
were reported highly pleased
by the cordiality of his recep-
ton from both the public and
the leaders of Venezuela.
The chief United States dele
gate to the United Nations,
here as the personal repre-
sentative of President Ken
. nedy, got a warm welcome at
the airport yesterday from a
friendly crowd of 400 to 500.
They applauded and smiled as
he stepped from the plane and
strobe through the terminal.
No Hostility Seen
Heavily armed national
guardsmen and police were
there as routine precaution,
but there were no hostile mani
festations either at the airport
or along the route through
downtown Caracas, where for
mer Vice President Richard M.
Nixon ran into violent anti
American demonstrations in
1858.
Mr.. Stevenson held a long,
private talk with Mr.. Betan-
court last night at the PreSi-
dents home. The two officials
appeared in high good spirits
as they posed for photographers.
Buenos Aires Next
They talked for two hours
before sitting down to dinner.
Also taking part in the talk
were Venezuelan Foreign Min !
lister Marcos Falcon Briceno,
United States Ambassador Teo-
doro MoScoso and Lincoln Cor ,
don, who heads Mr.. Kennedy's !
task force on Latin American r
economic assistance. !
Mr.. Stevenson's program TO- /
day included a luncheon meet t
ing with Mr.. Betancourt and
talks with the foreign minister S
Evening star., 1961-06-05
New TrujiI|o
Regin1e0kays
StudybyOAS
BY GEORGE SHERMAN
Star Staff Writer

The new government of the
Dominican Republic told the
Organization Of the American
States that it will welcome and
cooperate with a special OAS
lfact-finding committee if it is
sent to that country.
The Dominican Foreign Min
lister Porfirio Herrera Baez,
arrived here late yesterday with
this message and sat in briefly
on a meeting this morning of
the special sanctions COM
mittee" of OAS.
The meeting had been called
to consider requests from the
United States and several other
OAS delegates to have a spe-
cial investigating committee
make an on-the-spot survey of
the Dominican Republic follow
ing the assassination last week
of Dictator Rafael Trujillo.
There have been reports of
wide-scale repreSsions and ar
rests by Trujillo'S successors.
The seven-member sanctions
committee"-which met for /
hour is minutes this morning
appointed the representatives
from Panama, Uruguay and the
United States as a committee
to meet with the Dominican
Foreign Minister later today.
1t was understood they would
try to work out terms for send
ing the fact-finding committee
to the Dominican Republic.
The sanctions committee was
to hear the results this evening
and, it was expected, decide on
whether to send the fact-find-
ing committee.
The sanctions committee was
established last August after a
special meeting of American
foreign ministers in San Jose.
Costa Rica, decided to apply
sanctions against the Trujillo
regime. The committee was
C h arged with determining
whether sanctions should be
increased or decreased.
Following the Costa Rica
decisions all OAS members sew
cred diplomatic relations with
Trujillo and applied partial
economic sanctions.
Today Venezuela circulated
a strong declaration in the
Sanctions Committee denounc-
ing the new Dominican govern
ment and calling for continu-
alton Of sanctions.
Venezuela asserted that the
Dominican regime has not
changed since the death of
Truillo and sanctions should
be continued. That country
urged an extraordinary session
of the permanent OAS Council
to present concrete proposals"
for bringing the Dominican
Republic back into the OAS
system. These would include
freeing Of political prisoners,
free elections and return of
political eXileS.
Evening star., 1961-06-05
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
VASurvey Shows Need for Action
To Correct Sick Leave Abuses

presently is special assistant |
to the director of the Bureau
OF Employment Security inl
the Labor Department. Mr..
Wolfe. incidentally, was pro-
gram chairman of last weeks
Society for Personnel Admin
istration conference.
REGULATORY AGENCIES
"A Senate Judiciary subcom-
mittee starts hearings Friday
on a bill to allow the chairmen
of the Governments regula-
tory agencies to delegate more
authority and responsibility
to key employees in the agen-
cies. If enacted, the bill could
result in upgradine of jobs for
a considerable number of en-
ployes In regulatory bureaus.
Senator Carroll, Democrat OF
Colorado. is chairman of the
subcommittee.
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
I-thirty-eight States have
signed agreements with the
American Federation of State,
County and Municipal EN-
ployeS for a union dues check
off system for State employees
who belong to the union. This
achievement on the part of
AFSCME, the largest growing
union in the country. is Spurr-
ing Government employe un-
ions efforts to get a similar
dues checkoff system for the
Federal Service.
Also. AFSCME has secured
a union shop agreemnt with
the city of Philadelphia. This
means that new city employees
have to join the union within
80 days to hold Cheir Jobs. Gov
ernment employe leaders don't
advocate the union shop for
the Federal Service, but they
do say it points up the justifi-
cation for the forthcoming
presidential order establishing
abor-management bargaining
procedures and official union
recognition in Governemnt.
Evening star., 1961-06-05

president, respectively, Of a
New York public relations firm
about how they contracted
with Mr.. Castro's tourist Of
fices to find Americans to go
to the party, all expenses paid,
and to steer Negro tourists into
Cuba, at cut rates.
What did Mr.. Louis do, busi-
neSS-wiSe?
Nothing" murmured PR
man Louis, whose famous dead
pan and slightly rumpled COL
lar contrasted with the effer-
vescent, natty President Rowe.
ITO tell the truth, I didn't
do nothing at all about the
contracts" Mr.. Louis said. II
just started the conversation. "
Found Is to Go
The Louis prestige helped
the firm round up rs Ameri-
cans for the Cuban fling. But
Mr.. Rowe said he could pro-
Evening star., 1961-06-05

duce only excuses from the
CubanS' first choices - Roy
Campanella cIt would be too
strenuous"), Jackie Robinson
("I have to stay home with the
.kidS"l and Willy Mays ("The
last minute, I couldn't make
it.~.
ut was the same old party
business" Mr.. Rowe said, to
mark the first years anniver-
Sary of the Cuban revolution.
But afterwards, while guests
were swimming, Mr.. Castro
himself paid a surprise call at
their hotel.
HE stayed and talked to us
for a couple of hours. He gave
us the impression that he was
very sorry relations between
our countries were not better" f"
Mr.. Rowe added. 1--WE assumed
he wanted them to be better.
He spent all this money on US. p"
Evening star., 1961-06-05

of a month or more without
loss of pay or use of annual
leave.
VA intends to follow up on
its survey by taking steps to
cut down on the use of sick
leave. An educational cam
paign will be conducted stress
ing the insurance" angle
the desirability of not using
sick leave unless absolutely
necessary so employees will have
sufficient sick leave on hand
for lengthy illnesses.
Also a program will be un-
dertaken among supervisors
emphasizing various steps to
curb unnecessary sick leave use.
And all offices and field units
will be put on special notice
that there is to be a crack
down on unjustified sick leave
use.
CHANGE OF ASSIGNMENT
Ernest Belts, personnel di-
rector of the Agriculture De-
partment for the past eight
years, has resigned and taken
the job of deputy personnel
director of the State Depart
ment. Mr.. Belts is the first
personnel director among the
Governments major agencies
to move elsewhere since the
K !nnedy administration took
over.
4
csc POSSIBILITY - c
Packard Wolfe, a Labor De.
partment official, is being men
toned as a possibility for the
Republican vacancy on the
Civil Service Commission. Var.
ious professional groups al
wess as some members of Cong
ress - among them some Dem
ocrats-are backing Mr.. Wollt
to be a Civil Service Commis'
, sioner.
Mr.. Wolfe, 43, has had al
extensive career in Government
He has held various manage
5 ment and personnel posts. H.
Evening star., 1961-06-05

Castro urged Americans to
stay in Cuba, to meet the peo-
pie and to go anywhere they
liked without guard. He even
supplied a plane to return
those who had lost their re-
Servations by staying over.
Only Understood Money
Still later, the Cuban tourist
office sent a contract written
in Spanish to Mr.. Rowe, who
said. "The only thing I under
stood was their check for
$4,000" The firms job was to
stimulate travel to Cuba. But
continued break downs In
United States-Cuba relations
led Mr.. Rowe to ask out of
the contract last July.
Mr.. Louis, in a blue check
sportscoat, sat between two
other company executives, his
large hands crossed in front
of him. He smiled once-when
Senator Keating, Republican
of New York, incorrectly iden-
titled a former company part
ner as counsel.
MY wife is counsel. And
she's sitting right behind me"
said the Brown Bomber, boxing
king from 1887 to 1948. "If ]
make a mistake, she'll pull on
my coattails."
Evening star., 1961-06-05
Rusk Briefs NATO
On Vienna PurIey

PARIS, June S (AP).-United
States Secretary Of State Rusk
gave the Permanent Council Of
the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization a 15-minute fill-in
today on President Kennedy's
talks with Soviet Premier Khru-
shchev.
Evening star., 1961-06-05
BY JOSEPH YOUNG
Star Staff Writer

A Veterans Administration
survey Of the sick leave use
by its employees suggests that
improvements in holding down
sick leave use can be made
throughout the Government.
The VA, which is the Gov
ernment's second largest non
defense agency, found that gen.
orally the situation is fairly
good but that it definitely can
stand improvement.
Edward Silberman, VAS
personnel director, declares:
when viewed in terms of
the total Federal population,
for example, even a l per cent
improvement in sick leave usage
could result in as much as a
million additional man-hours
available to the Government
That's not an inconsiderable
amount of money"
At the instigation Of Mr.
Silberman and VA Admins
traitor John Gleason, the VA
recently made the survey
among its employees. 1t found
/. That newer employees anc
those in the lower grades USE
considerably more sick leave
than do other employee.
2. The number of separate
sick leave absences in VA ha'
decreased, but the duration O.
the average absence has in
creased.
8. Women, on the average
use more sick leave than men
4. In age groups, women un
der 40 and men so and over ar
the highest users of sick leave
5. The sick leave taken b.
men is fairly stable from ag
20 to 49, rises at SO, and reache
its high at so and over.
6. An encouraging factor wa
that 43.4 per cent of all VI
employees had sick leave balanc
es of 500 hours or more; l
per cent had sick leave accum
ulation of 1000 hours or more
About 7 out of every 10 EN-
plcyes could afford an Hines
Evening star., 1961-06-05

operation on economic and
social improvement.
working together" he de-
clared, "our governments will
seek a new era of social justice
and economic progress by mo-
bilizing the economic and hu-
man resources of our hemi-
sphere on an unprecedented
scale.
I'VE lust also re-examine
and improve existing institu-
tions and practices to make
them more responsive to the
needs Of ordinary people,"
Evening star., 1961-06-05

and the minister of finance. He
leaves tomorrow for Buenos
Aires, the next stop on his
1S-day tour of 10 nations.
In a news conference upon
arrival, the United States en-
voy placed strong emphasis on
improved economic and social
conditions as the main purpose
OF his trip. He denied that he
had come to South America to
try to forge an alliance against
Ffdel CaStro's Cuban regime but
said he was ready to discuss any
Evening star., 1961-06-05

matters any chief of state might
bring up during his tour.
Mr.. Stevenson did not refer
to communism as he had Just
before leaving New York, when
he said that Gin the long run
the improvement Of living con-
ditions Of the common people
in South America is the best
defense against communism"
Mr.. Stevenson told Venezu-
elan newsmen he had come here
primarily to consult with lead
ers on ways to perfect and ac-
celerate inter American CO.
Evening star., 1961-06-05
Did Nothing for FideI,
Joe Louis Testifies
By GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer

Joe Louis never to lead with his chin uuietest
man at Senate hearing today
The former heavyweight champion Of the world was also
the qeest man at post party thrown Castro for
Americans in Cuba to celebrate New Years. 1860 William Leon
Rowe told the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Mr.. Rowe and Mr.. Louis testified as president and vice
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-03-16
z Negro Clerks
Sturt Work at
Lynchburg Store

LYNCHBURG, Va, Mar. IS
(AP). - Leggett's department
store chain here has hired two
Negro women clerks, putting
into effect a policy announced
last week by eight firms doing
business here. The two began
work today.
Harold G.. Leggett said, as OF
now, the policy applied only to
the operation here. Leggett'S
operates some 80 stores in five
States.
Mr.. Leggett said two more
Negro clerks would be hired
later for a suburban, store in a
shopping center.
We're just doing what we
think is right-what is best for
our store" said Mr.. Leggett. A
Lynchburg indignation leader,
Rev. Virgil A. Wood praised the
action and called it "a coura-
geous move"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-03-16
Rees Faces ifeSentence
If Defense Pleas Fail

the Jackson family kidnap
murders.
The 32-year-old Hyattsvill,
/ Md musician, impaSsive a
he was during his five-weei
trial, appeared in Federal Cour
here for pre-Sentence motion
by his attorneys, William :
Evans and William j. O-Don
nell. His parents and the par
ents of the Apple Grove CVa.
woman he was convicted o
kidnapping and numbering, ais
sat quietly in the courtroom
to await the next move.
Judge Thomson, after hear.
ing three hours of argument,
by Rees' attorneys and tn,
prosecutors, Assistant United
States Attorneys Robert E. Ca
hill and H. Russell Smouse
announced he would return
written ruling. He could have
ruled against the motion from
the bench yesterday and i'm.
mediately sentenced the con-
victed kidnaper.
Since the jury did not rec
ommend the death penalty TO,
ReeS, Judge Thomson ma,
sentence ReeS to any term o:
years up to life imprisonment
This would make him eligible
for parole in Is years. Defens
attorneys have 10 days from
the date of sentence to file ar
appeal with the Fourth Circuit
Court of Appeals.
Rees was convicted of alb
Quoting Mrs. Mildred Jackson,
81, and her 5-year-old daugh-
ter, Susan Anne, on the night
of January II, 1859. Mrs
Jackson'S husband, Carroll v
Jackson, 90, and another
daughter, Janet, 18 months
also were abducted and slain
The bodies of the mother and
Susan Anne were found in
a shallow grave near Gam
Drills. Md, on March 81, 1859,
two weeks after the father and
Janet were found murdered in
the woods of Spotsylvania
County, Va.
Meanwhile, Louisa and Spot
sylvania County authorities
have filed detainers against
Rees at Baltimore City Jail.
Louisa County, where the
Jacksns lived has charged him
with kidnapping and SpotSyl-
vania has charged him with
murder.
Rees attorneys spent three
hours yesterday citing cases to
support their contention that
there was reasonable doubt of
his guilt; that the testimony
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Tuzzo
should have ben excluded from
the jury and that an FBI
search of Rees' parents home
was unlawful.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-03-16
One Slain, Rival Shot
In Soldiers Home Duel

Thirteen shots fired in a
Soldiers Home parking lot duel
were climaXed yesterday with
the death of one man and the
wounding of his rival who later
was charged with homicide.
Richard L. Francis. 80, of the
1900 block of Forty-fifth street
NE, fell dead on the lot with
head and chest wounds.
Capt. Lawrence A. Hartnett
of the, homicide squad said
Francis, a Post Office employe,
was waiting at the lot for Will
liam C. Fields, A, of the $500
block of Southern avenue NE,
a Soldiers Home employee.
Capt. Hartnett said Francis
and Fields apparently had been
feuding over a woman, and that
Fields shouted: Go ahead and
do what you said you were
going to do"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-03-16
Gasque to Resign
As School Chief
In Two Counties

FRONT ROYAL, Va, Mar.
Is (AP) @. D. GaSque an
nounced yesterday he will re-
sign June 80 after Is years as
school superintendent of War
rem and Rappahannock Coun-
ties.
In his statement announc-
ing his resignation, Mr.. GaSque
said he was leaving to accept
another type of educational
work" He declined to elab-
crate.
Mr.. GaSque guided Warren
County schools through the
troublesome days of racial in
tegration and his adminiStra-
ton was credited with the lack
of turmoil when Negroes first
entered Warren County High
School here.
He came here in 1924 to serve
as commandant of Randolph
Macon Academy and a year
later was named principal OF
Warren County High. He served
in that post for 20 years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-03-16

According to Fields, Francis
drew a ,25 caliber automatic
and fired from about eight feet.
and Fields responded with 9
,38 caliber revolver, Capt. Hart
nett said.
In the furry, Francis free
seven shots and Fields six, bott
backing away all the time
Francis fell first, then Field:
dropped, shot in the side. HI
was charged with homicide anC
placed in a detention room a
District General Hospital.
The battle occurred beside {
hospital building near Nortl
Capitol street, but none of thu
patients reported seeing it. Tn
antagonists had parked thei
cars within 100 feet of eacl
other.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-03-16
Bid to Fourth enm
Is Sought by Thomson

Alexandria Delegate James
M. Thomson announced today
he will seek denomination for
a fourth term in the Virginia
House of Delegates in the July
IL Democratic primary.
Mr.. Thomson, in a prepared
statement, outlined problems he
said the Legislature will face
next year.
q They include reapportion-
ment. he said, adding that as
the only Northern Virginia
member of either the House or
Senate Privileges and Elections
Committees, he could be
helpful" in obtaining another
House member from AleXan-
dria.
In the House Court of Justice
Committee, of which he is a
member, he said he would seek
authorization for circuit
judgeship for Alexandria, the
only area in the 18th Judicial
Circuit which does not have a
resident circuit judge. The
circuit also includes Fairfax
and Prince William Counties.
AS a member of the Appropri-
ationS Committee, he said he
would work to obtain funds for
the Northern Virginia branch
of the University of Virginia.
He added that he was most
anxious" to include funds in
the capital outlay program for
a 100-bed self-sustaining men
tai hospital for Northern Vir-
ginia.
Mr.. Thomson was a leading
supporter of Virginia's mas
sive resistance" policy against
school indignation which re-
suited in closed schools before
the resistance laws died.
Mr.. Thomson was born Aug
ust 9, 1924 in New Orleans.
He is a lawyer and took his
law degree at the University of
Virginia. An Episcopalian, he
is married to the former Sarah
E. Jennings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-03-16
VIRGINIA BRIEFS
Barns Burn
InVicinity
OF Sterling

Barn fires continued to
plague the area around Ster-
ling, Va, last night. One build
ing was destroyed and another
partially burned.
The destroyed barn, belong
ing to Fred F.. Tavenner, was
the fifth of his hit by fire in
three years. Mr.. Tavenner, a
dairy farmer, lives 2 miles
south of Sterling in the Lou
doun County sector near the
new Dulles international Air
port.
The barn contained 5000
bales of hay. 1t was on the old
Sterling Farm on State Route
636, a mile north of Sterling
Mr.. Tavenner rented the barr
! for storage.
Two other barns burned on
the same property last Novem-
Der 6, the day on which still
another barn, on Mr.. Taven-
ner's own farm, also was de-
stroyed by fire.
Firemen found the fire al
Mr.. Tavenner's 50-by-30-foot
frame barn too far gone tc
save it when they got the cal
shortly after IL pm.
! On the waW Herndon fire
men sighted another barn or
fire within the village of Ster.
ling and put it out before it die
too much damage. They reported
finding definite indication Of
arson there,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-03-16

The Alexandria School Board
last night set aside the issue
of local pupil placement.
In a surprise switch, the
board rescinded a vote made
minutes earlier calling for local
assignment powers, and voted
unanimously to set the prob
lem aside.
The action came after mem
berS disagreed on whether to
seek enactment of the local law
Immediately or to delay it
until after the July l deadline
for applications under current
State placement procedures.
Immediate enactment, School
Supt. T. C. Williams said,
would "penalize" applicants,
who would face an April 5 dead
line under local placement.
Board members Leonard M.
Knight and Hite w. Sweeney
opposed a proposal by Frank
Luckett asking the city council
to enact a local assignment law.
Votes supporting the meas
ure from Mrs. Dan E. Kerbel,
Mr.. Luckett and German c.
Ridgely carried it, however.
After the debate on when
to enact local placement legiS-
lation, Mr.. Sweeney called for
resembling the earlier vote. The
request was supported by Mr..
Luckett, Mr.. Knight and Mr..
Sweeney. Mrs. Kerbel opposed
it. Mr.. Ridgely abstained.
Chairman Thomas B. Mech
ling was absent.
Mr.. Williams earlier told the
board: The advantages or dis
advantages of the two systems
are not very apparent except
that method of procedure and
application blanks for same
will have to be worked out for
the independent system, while
the State Pupil Placement
Board provides the necessary
blanks and procedures for OPP
Grafton under it.
What will I tell the people
who apply after April So" Mr..
Williams asked about the pro-
posed deadline.
In other business last night,