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Evening star., 1961-04-09

Of Nevada. have promised to
pay prompt attention to the
election proposals.
Other Matters Ahead
But Senator Bible said a
District tax program and leg
islation to increase judicial
for Juvenile Court
would take precedence over any
other local matters this session.
Already developed far more
than the election measures are
suggestions in both houses for
overhauling redevelopment and
renewal procedures here.
Representative McCulloch,
for one, sees no reason for
hasty action to perfect an elec-
ton law in the District. A pre-
else and exacting lawmaker, Mr.
McCulloch, as senior minority
member of the Judiciary Com
mittee, will be respected, II not
followed, by such senior Dis
trict Committeeman as McMil-
Ian. Davis Of Georgia, Loser of
Tennessee and Dowdy OF
Texas.
Congressmen from Ohio are
impressed with equal represen-
tation of parties through
"challengers" at every polling
place In their State elections.
This kind of safeguard, If ap-
piled in District elections set
up by the Commissioners bill,
would be within the discretion
of the Board Of Elections to
establish.
Residence Requirement
The Commissioners bill
would set a 6-month resi-
dence requirement for voting.
This was favored by local DEM
ocrats and is bound to be op-
posed by both local and con-
gressional Republicans.
But Commissioners rejected
a District Democratic recon-
mendation for 19-year-old vot-
ing, and accepted the Repub-
licans' 21-year-old eligibility
requirement.
Both major parties could
nominate candidates, under
Commissioners proposals
Their system of permitting
other parties or groups to NOM
inate-by petition signed by
500 District residents-was a
compromise. Dem ocra is
thought $50 signers sufficient.
Republicans wanted a bar
against nominations by parties
advocating overthrow of the
Government by force and vio-
lence or making race a quail
Evening star., 1961-04-09

THERE'S A steady effort
Of time to bury events in OBJ
livion," as Procopius pointed
out 1,50O years ago.
In LEnfant'S case, the
facts are clear.
In 1789, he asked George
Washington for the dob of
laying out the Federal City.
He said the plan should
"be drawn on such a scale
as to leave room for that
aggrandizement and embel-
liShment which the increase
Of the wealth of the Nation
will permit it to pursue at
any period, however remote"
He got the job in March,
1871.
Nothing was said about
how much he was to be paid.
He worked rapidly and
made enemies.
He was dismissed in Feb
ruary, 1892.
Not until 18 years later
did Congress pay him for his
work.
Most of the $1,394.20 he
received went to creditors.
He became destitute, was
befriended by william Dud-
ley Digges, a Prince Georges
County farmer. On his
death in 1925, he was buried
in an obscure grave on Mr..
DlggeS 1arm.
When the Mcmillan Com
mission revived LEnfant's
plan for the Identification
of Washington in 1902, the
country suddenly remem-
bered him once again.
Congress provided $1,000
for the monuments first
act Of contrition.
His body was exhumed and
lay in state in the rotunda
Of the Capitol.
Present at the dedication
Of the monument on May %,
1911, was Theodore w. Noyes,
then editor of The Star.
Next day, in an editorial
as valid now as it was so
years ago, he wrote:
"L'Enfant dealt grandly
with the problem of his day,
and with the problem of the
future, so far as the broad
plan of the original city was
concerned.
Our ambition should be
to deal as worthily with the
problems of today as he did
with those confronting him."
Evening star., 1961-04-09
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer

Congress this week will re-
ceive a proposed presidential
election law drafted by the
District Commissioners to COM
promise local Democratic and
Republican versions.
Upon arrival at the Capitol,
the draft will become middle
ground for leaders of the ma
jority and minority parties in
the House.
Representative Celler, Demo-
crat Of New York, chairman OF
the Judiciary Committee, plans
to analyze the Commissioners
draft before introducing his
own bill. The Celler bill is ex-
pected to combine features of
the New York law with the
District proposal.
Harsha Plans Bill
On the Republican side, Rep
resentative Harasha, a member
of the District Committee, will
offer a bill with the powerful
advice and consent of Repre-
sentatives Nc CuIloch and
Brown. All three Congressmen
from Ohio want to see the anti
fraudulent-voting projections
Of their State law written into
the first Federal statute for
elections in the Nations
Capital.
Representative Broyhill, Re-
publican Of Virginia, already
has sponsored an elections bill
This interest of experienced
politicians will affect both the
substance of the District elec-
ton bill and the way in which
the legislation is handled.
viii Benefit Parties
For the second time in q
decade, a District bill will bene-
fit political parties. The first
time was in 1865, when Con-
gress set up primary elections
here. So party preferences are
likely to be more persuasive
than views Of the District Com
missionerS, whose recommends
tionS generally dominate locaI
lawmaking in Congress.
The Commissioners ideas
will serve more as a meeting
ground for Democrats and Re
publicans than as a guide.
Congress, as a result of po-
litical interest, is expected to
move more slowly than the
Commissioners would prefer.
No staff studies have begun
in the House and Senate Dis
trict Committees, which will
handle the bill. Both Chairmer
Mcmillan, Democrat of South
Carolina, and Bible, Democrat
Evening star., 1961-04-09
Cities
end People
A Nation Says
1t Is Contrite
BY ROBERT J. LEWIS


The afternoon was fine.
The sky was clear. The breeze
was cool.
It was a summer day in
May, just so years ago.
Here, on this grassy slope
high above the Potomac, a
Nation was to open up its
heart.
This was to be a day in
which a. hundred years Of
neglect and indifference were
to be acknowledges day
Of most solemn expiation.
A man who had been
showed aside was to be rein
stated with all honor.
A memory was to be re-
called that never should
have been forgotten.
A monument was to be
dedicated to an artist in full
view of his master work-the
Sunlit, shining city stretched
below.
Here on a knoll in front
Of Arlington House-directly
across the Potomac River
from the city he designed
more than a century be-
fore-the Nation was finally
to express its fullest graft
tude to Maj. Pierre Charles
L'Enfant.
Evening star., 1961-04-09

PRESIDENT TAFT arose
and said:
LEnfant will now lie here
appropriately in state, and
rest, with the gratitude Of
the Nation he served so we'll"
Jules Jusserand, the French
Ambassador, spoke:
with the mind of a poet,
with the soul of a prophet,
perceiving future ages as if
they were the present, a man
foreSaw over a century ago
what we now see, and that
man lies under the monu-
ment which a generous vote
of Congress allows us to
dedicate today"
Another speaker, Elihu
Root, alluded to events of long
before which suddenly had
made a Nation conscience
stricken.
"LEnfant died obscure"
he said.
According to prevailing
standards Of life, he died a
failure. But a century has
now passed away. 49,"
The band played "The Star
Spangled Banner"
Red, white and blue rib
bonS were removed. A flag
which draped the monument
was taken away.
Again the band played,
this time THE Red, White
and Blue"
The benediction was pro-
nounced.
Why had this ceremony
taken place at all2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-30
Year Residency
For Relief Clears
Senate Group

The Senate District Commit
tee yesterday cleared legislation
to make uniform a one-year
residency requirement for pub
lie welfare recipients.
Committee members, after
consultation with Senator Byrd,
Democrat of West Virginia,
chairman of the Senate Dis
trict Appropriations Committee,
also approved an amendment
calling for a $500 fine or one
year jail term as the penalty
for fraudulent relief collections,
Other bills reported by the
committee would:
Permit insurance companies
offering variable annuity con-
tracts to participate in the
management of ensuing invest
mentS.
Allow the District to seize
gambling equipment and auc-
ton it, provided that owners
have an opportunity to reclaim
it through the courts.
Authorize construction by the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.
of a siding in the vicinity OF
Taylor street NE, the siding
to provide rail facilities for a
liquor warehouse and a bakery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-30
By LEE M. COIN
Star Staff Writer

Unemployment is sticking at
high recession levels despite
the economy'S strong upturn.
The Labor Department re-
ported yesterday that the rate
of jobleSsneSs, adjusted to dis
count purely seasonal factors,
was SO per cent of the labor
force at mid-August. The rate
was SO per cent in July, too.
August was the ninth con-
Secutive month with the unem-
ployment rate close to 7 per
cent-far above the Kennedy
administrations interim" goal
of 4 per cent. The rate has
been 68 or SO per cent each
month since last December, ex-
cept for the Sc per cent re-
corded in January.
Labor Secretary Goldberg,
who announced the figures at
a news conference, offered a
guess" that the unemployment
rate will decline to between 5
and 6 per cent at the end of
this year. He indicated this
would not be big enough i'm
provement to satisfy the adj
miniStration. which plans to
propose public works legislation
to stimulate employment next
year.
The number of unemployed
workers declined from $4,000
in July to 4,542, 900 in August,
according to the departments
report. The decrease was nor
NAL for this time of year, so
the seasonally adjusted unem-
ployment rate remained I'M
changed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-30
BRAZIL
Three Military Chiefs
Reject Congress Plan

yesterday and landed at Cum
bica military air base near Sac
Paulo.
Marshal Denys was pledged
full support by the mmfnder
of the 1st Army, probably Bra
zil'S strongest military force,
which has its headquarters in
Rio. Its commander, Gen.
Nestor Souto de Oliveira, sent
him a message that his forces
we're ready to receive and full
fill without vacillations and
without loss of time any order
of your excellency as the chief
of the army"
Congress scheduled a joint
session in BraSilia today to de-
bate a remember parliament
tary commissions recommended
ton that the constitution be
amended to make the presi-
dency a chiefly ceremonial
post. The governing power
would be put in the hands of
Prime Minister chosen by
Congress.
The commission approved
the plan l0-3-with three
members not voting-despite
its previous rejection by the
military chiefs. Some congress
sional sources thought congress
might pigeonhole the proposal
under pressure from Marshal
DenyS, who wants a conStitu-
tional change that will bar the
leftist Goulart from the presi-
oency.
Mr.. Goulart, heretofore the
darling of the left wing who
has based his political career
on support from the labor
movement, made a bid for con-
sentative support with a state
ment issued in Paris.
mo government" he said,
will be able to set itself up
without the backing of all the
responsible forces III Brazil"
The Vice President said he
is ready to serve "in the in
terests of the CRepublic's) fu-
ture and its political, economic,
social and spiritual well being"
He said he wants to uphold
"the laws of the constitution"
and to assure the stability of
the regime and the peace Of
the interior"
Rio, Brasilia and other cities
were tense.
Police and army forces used
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-30
Senate Unit
OKs Envoy
For Brazil
By the Associated Press

The Senate Foreign Rela-
tons Committee was told yes
terday the United States is
maintaining a handS-off pol
levy on developments in Brazil
in the wake of the government
turnover there.
The committee got a closed
door briefing from Lincoln
Gordon, President Kennedy's
nominee for Ambassador to
BAIL, and Wymberley Coerr,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State for teT-American At
fairs.
1t subsequently voted APP
prevail of the nomination of
Mr.. Gordon, a professor of the
Harvard University Business
School. Mr.. Gordon recently
accompanied Secretary of the
Treasury Dillon to the confer
ence in Uruguay to launch the
Kennedy Alliance for Prog
reSS" program.
Janio Quadros resigned as
President of Brazil in a sur
prise move Friday and the
Brazilian military has turned
thumbs down on the succession
of leftiSt Vice President Joao
Goulart. Mr.. Goulart has been
waiting for the situation to
clarity.
Senator Humphrey, Demo-
crat of Minnesota, said after
the committee briefing that Mr..
Gordon and Mr.. Coerr had
little information to contribute.
That situation is still being
carefully observed" Senator
Humphrey said they reported,
and no conclusions have been
drawn from the developments
there"
They said the question of
new leadership is one for the
Brazilian Congress to deter
mine, the Senator reported.
Our Government is main
tanning a continuing hands
off policy" Senator Humphrey
added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-30

West foreign ministers con-
ference on the Berlin crisis.
The commentator, Victor Bah
kin, said Mr.. BrentanoS pro-
posals on negotiations were "a
screen for the military prep
arations Of the Western coun-
tries"
The East Germans still held
an American soldier seized at
the West German border early
yesterday near the Bavarian
town of Neustadt. A United
States Army spokesman said
Sp. 4/c Bobby E. Scott, 20,
of Edgerton, Mo-, was arrested
by Communist police while on
regular patrol with his unit.
Issue of Airliners
West German police said the
soldier was a few yards inside
Communist territory but APP
parently did not notice it be-
cause it was dark. The Ameri-
can unit was patroling in a
section where East German
workers were putting up barbed
wire.
Fresh indications piled up
that the Communists want to
interfere with comm ercial
flights between West Germany
and Berlin, despite Western
warnings against any tamper-
ing with access routes.
Adm quoted Otto Winner, an
East German foreign ministry
official, as telling a teachers
conference in WeiSSwaSser:
THE use of the air corridors
for the profitable business of
American, British and French
airline companies is illegal"
Replying to a Soviet note last
week challenging free use of
the air corridors, the Western
Big Three told Moscow there
never has been any limitation
whatsoever on their use by the
aircraft of the Western powers.
The corridors get light use
by military aircraft. Pan Amer
lean Always, British European
Always and Air France run
about so flights in and out of
Berlin daily.
At present the Communist
authorities have no control over
the passengers in the allied air.
liners which use the two air
ports of West Berlin. But they
make no secret of their ambi-
ton to force them to pass
through their police net.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-30
JobIess Rate Still Hioh
Despite EconomySpurt

Unemployment totaled 3,788,-
900 in August. 1860, when the
rate was So per cent.
Total employment rose to
68,539,000 in August from g.
100000 in July and 68,282, 900
in August, 1860. The August
total was a record high for the
month.
Mr.. Goldberg cited as a
hopeful" development better
than seasonal reduction in
long term unemployment.
There were 100000 workers
unemployed Is weeks or longer
in August, compared with l.
100000 workers unemployed Is
weeks or longer in August,
compared with 1,634,000 a
month before and $4,000 a
year earlier.
Included in the long-term
group we're $4,000 workers
who had been unemployed q
weeks or longer in August,
compared with 1,O26,000 a
month before and 414,O0O a
year earlier.
Total August employment in
cluded 62,215,0OO in non-agri-
cultural industries and $685.
900 in agriculture. Employment
in agriculture totaled 6,453, 900
in July and 6.454,O0O in August,
1860. Outside agriculture, en-
ployment was 62,046,OO0 in
July and 61,828,OOO in August,
1860.
Counted as employed in Au-
gust were 3,1l1,000 persons
who worked part-time because
full-time work was unavailable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-30
RIGHTS
Continued From First Page

Continued From First Page
effectively if it were made
permanent.
Senator Clark rose to its de-
Tense after Southern Senators
maintained the commission had
hurt rather than helped efforts
to bring about better racial
understanding.
Senator Sparkman, Demo-
crat of Alabama, called the
commission "a merchant of
discord." Senator Fulbright,
Democrat of Arkansas, termed
it IAN affront to the people of
the South" and "a trouble
making body" Senator Thur
mond, Democrat of South Caro-
lima. said it has shown "a COM
plete disintereSt in the truth. "
Generally. the SouthernerS
contended the effort to extend
the commission is politically
inspired.
Roy wilkins, chairman of
the Leadership Conference on
Civil Rights which speaks in
the name of 33 national or
CARNATIONS interested in the
subject. wired President Ken
nedy and Democratic Senators
an appeal to back a longer eX-
tension of the commissions
life.
Calling for permanent es-
Establishment of the agency, or
five years at the minimum,
Mr.. Wilkins said that would
remove it from the arena of
partisan politics" and enable
it to do the job for which 1t
was created.
The telegram said the plan
to kill moves for a longer eX-
tension is both a denial Of
the Democratic Party's COM
mitment to the protection, of
the rights of Negro citizens
and a politically gratuitous
submission to a minority of
the Senate"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-30
Russia Stops
Generalization
OF SerViCemen

MOSCOW, Aug. 30 CAP).-
Again blaming the United
States and its allies for the
current world tension, the So
Wet government says it has
stopped returning servicemen to
civilian life and warned that
aggreSsors will be wiped out
"once and for all" if war starts.
A statement issued last night
by the Communist Party Cen
trail Committee and the Soviet
cabinet said Marshal Rodion
Malinovsky, the Soviet defense
minister, had been ordered to
hold up rehabilitation of mill
tary personnel whose service
would normally end this year
until the conclusion of a peace
treaty with Germany"
The number of men involved
was not announced, but Soviet
Premier Khrushchev had an
nounced on July 8 that a mill
tary cutback of IL million men
which began last year was being
halted because of the Western
attitude on Berlin. How far
the cutback had already gone
was never announced.
Premier KhruShchev on
August 7 warned that Soviet
troop strength might have to
be boosted even further. He
accused the West of pushing
the world Ito a dangerous
brink" in the conflict over
Berlin, which stems from Mr..
Khrushchev'S pledge to sign a
peace treaty With East Germ
any'S Communist regime by the
end of the year. The Conmu-
niSts contend a treaty would
give East Germany control over
Western access routes TO West
Berlin.
President Kennedy responded
! to the Soviet diplomatic Of
fensive by offering to negotiate
but stressing the Vests in
tention to fight for Berlin if
necessary. He called for the
biggest United States troop
buildup since the Korean War,
including the right to hold mill
tary men in service if necessary.
| The latest Soviet statement
accused Mr.. Kennedy f max
ing threats, reinforcing them
with an arms buildup by the
UnlCeI States and its North
Atlantic allies and presenting
something like an ultimatium
demanding essentially that we
Withdraw in general the ques-
ton of the conclusion Of a
peace treaty with Germany"
IF the imperialists," said the
statement, "in connection with
the signing of a peace treaty
with Germany, again seek to
draw us into the abyss of war,
we are fully resolved to put
an end once and for all to
the forces engendering agrees
sion.
THE lovers of CANDLES must
know that, should they I'M
leash war, given the new bal
ance of power now reigning in
the world arena, the aggresSors
will be crushed"
The statement concluded with
the usual declaration that Rus
STA would never strike first
and an expression of hope
that common sense" would
prevail in the West.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-30
$4,000 to Prey
For Berlin Peace

More than $4,000 Catholic
men in "a churches will say
special prayers for a peaceful
and just solution TO the Berlin
crisis at the Lords Hour prayer
vigil from $50 pm. to 1890
pm. tomorrow.
The Most Rev. Philip M.
Hannah, Auxiliary Bishop of
Washington, will participate in
the prayers at St. Matthews
Cathedral, 1927 Rhode Island
avenue NV.
The Lords Hour is sponsored
by the Confraternity of the
Blessed Sacraments, an organi-
cation of Catholic men pledged
to spend an hour on the eve
of the first Friday of every
month at prayer for various in
tentions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-30
RAILS

Continued From First Page
polling considerations of ma
tional defense"
Population Growth Cited
1t added that it IS clear
beyond any reasonable doubt
that the progressive elimination
of direct and indirect subsidies
which operate to the dis
advantage of railroad pas
senger service cannot be a.
chieved in time ito save that
part of the service which,
under conditions of COMPETE
tive equality, could be con-
tinued."
Recommending rail passenger
subsidies partly to meet that
problem, the commission said
that because of population
growth commuter service will
be far more essential 10 years
from now than it is today.
"Inasmuch as rail facilities,
once lost, cannot be recon-
structed except at fantastic
cost, it would be the height of
folly to determine the essen
TALLY of rail service on the
basis of present patronage and
without regard to definite
future needs" the commission
said.
One Commissioner Dissent
Only one of the 10 commits
sioners who took part in the
case dissented outright from
the recommendation for Fed
eral aid.
Commissioner Howard G.
Freas said he could not concur
in this.
Critical as the situation
here is, I am of the opinion
that at least some of the States
and many of the municipali-
ties should provide greater as
sistance before resort is made
to cash Federal subsidies" Mr..
Freas said.
Commissioner Abe McGregor
Golf said he concurred in The
subsidy recommendation pri-
marily on the ground an ade-
quate rail network must be
maintained in the interest of
national defense. He added,
however, that if substituting of
commuter traffic is necessary,
it is the responsibility of
States and localities involved.
Commissioner Donald P.
Mcpherson did not take part
in the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-30
MAIL CARRIERS
GETTING TIRED
OF SNOW, SLEET

BUFFALO, N. Y. (AP).
After years of wading
through everything from
billiards. to hailstones, the
mailman has asked for a
reprieve from heavy wea-
ther.
The State Association of
Letter Carriers yesterday
adopted resolutions urging
laws that would suspend
mail delivery in weather
emergencies and cut the
mailman's day from eight
to six hours when the
temperature climbs above
30 or drops below 10.
He would still draw a
regular days pay in both
cases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-30
Child, 5, Burned
AS Clothes Ignite

A 5-year-old girl was burned
seriously today when her
clothes caught fire in her back
yard.
Firemen said Charlita Nor
ris Of 433 Tenth street NE.
apparently was playing with
matches. She was taken to
Casualty Hospital in serious
condition with burns of the
chest, arms and abdomen.