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Evening star., 1961-11-21
$1,060,000 Found by Tax Agents
In Home of GombIe's Grandmother

wealthy typewriter manufac-
turer. died October 20.
She left Gamble a trust oi
about So million, the income
on which is expected to be
100000 to $4,000 a year after
taxes.
Mr.. Porumbeanu, 81, had
been jailed Friday on a con-
tempt Of court sentence of 80
days and a $3.50 fine. He was
freed in $4,000 bail yesterday
pending the appeal.
He was found guilty Of con-
tempt in violating a February,
1860, court order that he stay
away from Gamble until she
was 81. They eloped two months
after the order was issued,
while she was still a minor.
She will be 81 next January.
The couple was living with
their 7-month-old son in a
villa near Zurich, Switzerland,
when Mr.. Porumbeanu decided
to return to New York for dis
position of the contempt
charge. She and the child are
still in Europe.
Evening star., 1961-11-21
BY ROBERT ]. LEWIS
Star staff Writer

Interior Secretary Udall, an
avowed believer that Washing
ton has too many statues, is
preparing to send another i'm
portant piece of sculpture into
exile.
That was disclosed today at
a meeting of the Fine Arts
Commission, which sh arply
challenged a plan to loan" a
bronze figure of DR.. Benjamin
Rush to Dickinson College at
Carlisle, Pa.
DR.. Rush was a signer of the
Declaration of Independence,
an early leader in the anti
slavery movement and, for a
time, surgeon general of the
Continental Army.
Last May Mr.. Udall turned
over Gutzon Borglum's statue
of William Jennings Bryan to
the city Of Salem, Ill, ION
loan"
Such statuary loans, Douglas
w. Orr, a commission member,
said today are "apt to become
permanent"
Mr.. Udall has asked Secretary
Of the Navy John B. Connally
to smooth the way for the
transfer.
The statue is now in posses
sion Of the Navy Department. II
lis located on the grounds OF
Evening star., 1961-11-21
UdoII Set to Bonish
Another D. 6. Statue

the Navy Bureau of Medicine
and Surgery at Twenty-thirC
and E streets NV. It was un-
veiled there June II, 1904, al
ceremonies where President
Theodore Roosevelt was the
speaker.
The bronze figure must be
removed to make way for the
road approaches to the new
T h eodore Roosevelt Bridge
across the Potomac.
The Fine Arts Commission
has recommended a new loca.
ton in a public park at Eight.
eenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue NV.
In favoring removal Of the
statue from Washington en-
tirely, Mr.. Udall is in a posi-
ton Of disagreement with the
board of trustees of the Ameri-
can Medical Association, which
donated the figure to the
American people.
In an action last August, the
ANA board asked that the fig
ure be kept in Washington and
relocated on the site recon-
mended by the Fine Arts Com
mission.
Mr.. Udall said he thought
the statue at the college will
give the monument added sig
nificance and attention"
DR.. Rush is credited with be-
ing one Of the founders Of the
college.
Evening star., 1961-11-21

thousands of dollars-this batcl
from behind the kitchen sink
the newspaper said.
It said the discovery was
made November 3 when agents
entered the Upper East Side
mansion with a search order
signed by Surrogate S. Samuel
DiFalco.
The securities and money
were turned over to the sur
rogate's office for safekeeping
The Journal-American quoted
a tax official as saying:
1T was like a treasure hunt
We found one cache under a
bed, another in the back of a
closet on an upper floor.
There was no apparent
rhyme or design in the method
the money was secreted about
the place. 1t was stuffed in
any old dark corner or remote
Granny.
The securities were put
away more diScreetly - they
were neatly stacked in drawers
around the house"
Mrs. Benedict, widow of a
Evening star., 1961-11-21

NEW YORK, Nov. 81 (AP).-
State tax agents searching the
home of the late Mrs. Kath-
crime Geddes Benedict found
$1,060,000 "strewn all over the
house." the Journal-American
said today.
1t said the fortune, consist
ing of negotiable and non
negotiable bonds and 100000 in
cash, was discovered under
beds, in closets, even behind
the kitchen sink"
Mrs. Benedict was the grand
mother of Gamble Benedict,
who eloped with Andre Porum-
beanu despite the grandmoth-
er'S attempts to block their
marriage.
The report Of the find coin
cided with release of Mr..
Porumbeanu in bail pending
appeal Of a contempt of court
conviction growing out of his
to the heiresS.
1t took the tax agents a
whole day to retrieve all the
and securities, then an
other day for the Cleanup"
which turned up a few more
Evening star., 1961-11-21
IISe Koch Asks Release

AICHACH, Germany, Nov.
,21 (AP).-Isle Koch, wife of
the former commandant of
the Buchenwald concentration
camp, has appealed to the
Human Rights Commission in
Geneva for her release from a
German life sentence, the Ba-
Ivarian justice ministry re-
ported today.
Evening star., 1961-11-21

goal at the last report luncheon
yesterday.
Donald S. Bittinger, general
campaign chairman, said men,
bers will seek an increase in
corporate and employe gifts
from some firms that have al
ready contributed, and also will
try to get a contribution from
firms that gave nothing at all
Government employees are
thoroughly canvassed during
the drive, Mr.. Bittinger noted,
but other members of the
Washington working force, par
ticularly in service and re-
search firms, may not have
been covered.
Mr.. Bittinger noted that by
the last meeting of the cam
Evening star., 1961-11-21

paign yesterday $7,092,159 had
been raised.
IF the money continues to
come in as it has in the past
after the formal campaign pc
riod, there might be 100000
in the pipeline" he said.
But this still would only
bring us to STA million, leav-
ing 100000 still to be raised"
He believes the Committee of
100 may succeed in raising that
100000 that will spell success.
1--WE haven't given up hope, "
he declared.
The campaign has been ex-
tended to December 6, he said,
when a report on further prog
ress will be given.
Evening star., 1961-11-21
Rockefeller
Hunt Pushed
New Guinea Area
Combed Closely

HOLLANDIA, New Guinea,
Nov. 81 (AP) "A land, sea and
air rescue force combed a saw
age coastal area of Southwest
ern New Guinea today for
Michael Rockefeller, and Dutch
officials steadfastly held out
hope that he would be found
safe.
Four rescue parties set out
through jungle swamps while
a score of ships and Papuan
canoes, Dutch Navy Neptune
planes and a Beaver of the
Dutch New Guinea Airlines
searched from river, sea and
air for New York Gov. Nelson
A. Rockefeller's 23-year-old
son, who disappeared Sunday
after a boating accident while
on a scientific expedition.
Governor Charters Jet
Gov. Rockefeller and Mi
chaels twin sister took off from
Honolulu today in a huge char
tered jet for the 10.000-mile
flight to New Guinea over a
course never flown by a COM
mercial aircraft. 1t was to
land at Biak on the north
coast after a refueling stop az
Wake Island.
Naval units plucked a Dutch
companion of young Rookie
feller, DR.. r. w. Wassing, "a,
out Of the sea yesterday. DR..
WasSing reported that he last
saw Michael-whom he de-
Scribed as a strong swimmer
about IA miles offshore at
tempting to reach land with
the help of a makeshift float
Of empty gasoline cans.
DR.. Wassing told rescuers
that the misadventure started
last Thursday while he and
Mr.. Rockefeller toured the
mouth of the Eilenden River
in a prahu, a small native boat.
They were collecting primitive
art and sculpture for the New
York Museum of Primitive Art
See ROCKEFELLER, Page A-S
Evening star., 1961-11-21
Fighting Reported
In Wet Nam

SAIGON, South Wet Nam,
Nov. 81 (AP) Heavy fighting
between Communist Wet Cong
rebels and government forces
in the southern Mekong delta
area was reported today by
the Defense Department.
During the past few days,
AZ Wet Cong and % govern
ment troops were killed in
skirmishes in the regions, a
communique said.
The military situation in the
high plateau area in the CEN
tral part of the republic was
reported relatively quiet. with
only occasional clashes.
Evening star., 1961-11-21
BIuebeIIe Skipper suit
In $50 Unsettled Here

Georgianna contended in the
suit, a hysterectomy was made
necessary.
At an interrogatory session
on August %, 1859, Govern
ment attorneys asked the cou-
pie if they had been plaintiffs
or defendants in any civil suits.
Harvey's reply was yes" He
had obtained a judgment of
$4,000 from the United States
Government in January, 1856,
from Federal Court in Alexan-
dria for loss of his yacht Torba-
tross which had been in col
lision with the hulk Of the
sunken battleship Texas in
Chesapeake Bay near Tangier
Island. Harvey had asked
$4,000 in that suit.
Divorced in 1858
The court papers revealed
that Georgianna had divorced
Harvey in october, 1858. She
said in a deposition later, when
asked what the grounds were,
that 81 said he had an ex-
tremely militant manner"
They were remarked soon
after the divorce, according to
the papers, but then Harvey
divorced her again in Decem-
Der, 1859.
The Government, in asking
dismissal of the damage suit
last week, contended the two
year statute of limitations had
run out. The lawyers for the
plaintiffs, however. countered
that the statute did not apply,
because the Government with
held information about the
surgery from Mrs. Harvey until
long after it was performed.
1t is believed that both Har-
vey and Georglanna had been
married before their first
wedding. Harvey's latest wife,
Mary, "a, apparently died
aboard the Bluebelle.
Evening star., 1961-11-21
IT BuIubus Killed

ELISABETHVILLE, Katan-
ga, Nov. 81 (AP).-Savage
fighting among Baluba refu-
gees over a camp water supply
killed at least II and seriously
wounded 81 others, the United
Nations said today. African
witnesses said the toll was far
higher.
Evening star., 1961-11-21
AREA FOOTBALL
STARS CHOSEN

THE FIRST of the oreo aII-stor
scholastic footboII squods selected
by Evening Stor sportwriters-the
AII-Suburbon Virsinio squod-is
nomed todoy on Pose A-l9. The
All-MoryIond list will oppeor tomor-
row, the AII-Prep Thursday and the
AII-lnterhieh Friday. The AII-Met-
rOpOIiton squod will be listed in
Sundays Sports Section.
Evening star., 1961-11-21
Rains POnders
Entering Race
For Speaker
AIubumun Indicates
He Moy Challenge
Mccormack Bid
By the Associated Press

Representative Rains, Demo-
crat Of Alabama says he is CIV
ing serious consideration to be-
coming a candidate for Speak
er Of the House.
Representative John W. Nc
Cormack, Democrat of MasSa-
chusetts, is the leading con-
tender for the post made vacant
by the death last Thursday of
Speaker Rayburn of Texas. Mr..
Mccormack has been serving
as acting speaker since Mr..
Rayburn was retired to the
sidelineS by cancer.
Mr.. Rains said in a statement
yesterday he had been urged
by many of my colleagues from
various sections of the country
to be a candidate" and added:
II am giving the matter SER
ious consideration"
Mr.. Mccormack is a Roman
Catholic, and his election as
Speaker would give members of
that religion the two top posi-
tions in Congress, as well as the
presidency. Senator Mansfield
of Montana, Senate Democratic
leader, also is a Catholic.
Could Split Majority
Should the 59-Sear-old Rains,
a Baptist, decide to challenge
the 70-year-old Mccormack, it
would provide a rallying point
for members who do not be-
lieve q Catholic should be in
the top spot In both branches
of Congress. 1t could inject the
religious issue into the Speaker
ship race and split wide open
the Democratic House majority
already threatened with a fight
over the majority leadership.
Democrats will nominate
their candidates for Speaker
and majority leader at a party
caucus several days before the
next session of Congress on
January 10. The caucus nom
nations usually amount to
election.
The party already faces a
battle over the majority leader
ship post which Mr.. Mccormick
would vacate if elected Speaker.
Representatives Albert of Okla
homa and Boiling Of Missouri
are the announced candidates,
with Mr.. Albert having the in
side track.
Liberal SOutherner
Mr.. Rains supporters expect
him to draw considerable
strength from the South and
from some Northern liberals
dissatisfied with Mr.. McCor-
mack. He has probably the
most liberal voting record Of
any Southerner and for years
has sponsored Democratic hous-
ing legislation. Mr.. Rains en-
tered Congress in 1945.
Many Southerners, however,
consider Mr.. Rains too liberal
and some of their top leaders
have said privately they would
support Mr.. Mccormack, him
self a liberal.
Mr.. Mccormack, a House
member since 1928, lost some
of his Northern strength when
the House refused to consider
President Kennedy's broad
school aid bill this year. Some
NorthernerS blamed Mr.. Nc
Cormack for the action because
the bill did not include assist
ance for Catholic schools.
Evening star., 1961-11-21
BY PHIL THOMAS
Star staff Writer

A 100000 damage suit filed
by Julian A. Harvey and one
of his wives, Georgianna,
against the United States Gov
.ernment still is pending in
Federal Court here, it was
Learned today.
Capt. Harvey, a retired Air
Force lieutenant colonel, was
Terry JOS Story Of Horror Aboard
Ketch. Poss A-6
skipper of the Bluebelle when
five persons died under cir
cumstances indicating mass
murder nine days ago off the
Bahamas. Harvey committed
suicide by slashing his wrists
in Florida when he learned
that Terry 10 Duperrault, IL,
of Green Bay, Wis, had sur
VlVed the tragic voyage.
The little girls story led the
Coast Guard to say it appeared
to be mass murder by a man
gone berserk.
Reporters today could not
Immediately locate Georgianna.
She was divorced from Harvey
for the second time in Deem
Der, 1859.
Studied by Judge
Last week Federal Judge Jo-
seph c. McGarraghy took un-
der adVisement a Government
motion to dismiss the suit on
the grounds that the statute
Of limitations had expired. The
papers filed in the case by Lam
don G. Dowdey and Emmett L.
Sheehan, Washington attor-
neys, removed the veil today
from one phase of Capt. Har-
vey'S life.
Civil Action $3.50, filed in
1859 here, asked $250,000 dam
ages for Georgianna and $780,
900 for Harvey for lack of con-
Sortium because of what the
wife described as a "carelessly
performed surgical operation"
by doctors at Boiling Air Force
Base in February, 1866.
The documents indicate the
couple had been married in the
fall of 1854 and that Georgi-
anna had a complicated preg-
nancy in February, 1855, while
Harvey was stationed at Boil
ing. AS a result of the surgery,
Evening star., 1961-11-21
HIS IMAGE SLIPPED
Party Views Brown
In Fond Evaporation
By MARY McGRORY
Star staff Writer

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21.-When in announcing he would
for Governor Richard NJ Nixon referred to the
cratic incumbent, Edmund G. Pat Brown "amiable
bumbling man." there greaU ripple of indignation
through the Brown ranks
nixon may be right about Pat as man" said one Brown
Evening star., 1961-11-21
Committee of 100 Set
To Boost UGF to Goal
Formal Drive FoIIs go Short of TotoI;
More Gifts Sought to Reach $7.8 Million
BY BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

The United Givers Fund today announced organization
of Committee of 0O composed of leading business
men, to try to bring the 1861 campaign to victory
The committee up with Morris Cafritz as chair
The campaign fell 9O8 per cent short of its $7S million
Evening star., 1961-11-21

case and his wavering course
during the pre-convention pc
riod between John F. Kennedy
and Adlai Stevenson are cited
as cases in point.
Now, facing the fight of his
life, he is being implored to
stand on his record as an
administrator and to leave the
criticism of Mr.. Nixon to
Mr.. Nixon's primary adversary
former Gov. Goodwin Knight
Factional Split
He is, at the moment,
harassed by factionalism with
in the ranks that has reached
the proportions of paranoia.
When President Kennedy
came here to indorse the Gov
ernor at a $100-a-plate din.
ner, he brought down the
house with deadpan remark
about the state of the party
After campaigning in New
York." said the President, 1T
is a pleasure to come to a
State where all the Democrats
are all united"
Nothing could have been
funnier.
Conversation among politi-
clans here is marked by long
pauseS and icy glares. 1t is
not possible to sort out all
the grievances, but a remark
able number have been aired
on televiSion.
Former National Committee
man Paul M. Ziffren recently
reviewed the circumstances OF
his deposition to an interested
audience. Mr.. Ziffren's sue
cessor as national committee
man, Attorney General Stanley
Mosk, recently made a public
statement about the insult
ability of two men who have
been presented as candidates
for Federal judgeships by
United States Senator Engle
Large Encourage
The President brought a
large entourage of high-level
political talent to indicate his
sincere interest in a fresh de-
feat for his old rival. Mr..
Nixon. In the party were the
national chairman, John M
Bailey; the party treasurer
Matthew McCloskey; his legis-
lative haison man, Lawrence
F. O'Brien, who handled the
delicate pre-convention nego-
tiations in the State, and Hy
Raskin, the Western staff man
who stayed on to try to patch
things up.
All the California politicians
told all the Federal men, in
cluding President Kennedy
that if Mr.. Kennedy really
wants Gov. Brown to win, he
must help him in the cam
paign.
The President, they report,
seemed receptive to the idea.
Evening star., 1961-11-21
AT est Ban PorIey
Will Be Resumed
u. S. Orders
Negotiutors
To Geneva
By the Associated Press

The United States ordered its
nuclear test ban negotiators
today to return to Geneva in
preparation Tor new sessions
with Soviet negotiators. But
the Government ruled out re-
sumption of an uncontrolled
moratorium.
A spokesman at the State
Department said the United
States will continue testing nu-
clear weapons as necessary for
the national security.
In effect, that ruled out an
apparent condition which the
Soviet Union laid down In its
acceptance of the proposal to
go back into the test ban ne
gotiations which were broken
off when the Russians them
selves resumed testing Septem-
ber /.
In a formal statement the
State Department announced
that Russia's agreement earlier
today to a United States
British proposal to resume the
Geneva negotiations "iS well
comed."
Evening star., 1961-11-21
Reds Give Warning

Ine Soviet note dispatched
to London and Washington had
warned in effect that If the,
Western powers tested during
the renewed negotiations at
Geneva the Soviet Union would
make its own decisions on what
it would do.
In Washington this was re-
garded as a slick maneuver by
Premier Khrushchev to put
pressure on President Ken
nedy to halt all United States
nuclear tests now that the So
vietS have apparently COM.
pleted or nearly completed
their present series. =
That was the meaning seen
in official quarters here in
Moscow'S agreement to re-
sumo negotiations at Geneva
November %.
VIII Avoid Trap
But Kennedy administration
officials said privately that the
President has no intention of
getting caught in any such So
Wet trap. He will never agree,
they said, to a return to an
uninspected moratorium on
weapons testing such as accom-
panied the three-year round of
Geneva talks which were sus-
pended in September.
pended in September after
Russia resumed testing.
The real decision before the
President, these officials said,
is not whether to halt all test
ing, as implied by the Soviets,
but whether to go from under
ground to atmospheric explo-
sions in order to make expert
ments which are not possible
underground.
KhruShchev's Hopes
Presumably Mr.. Khrushchev
hoped to block atmospheric
testing if he cannot stall all
testing.
The Russian note on further
test talks was received at the
State Department from Am
bassador Llewellyn Thompson
in midmorning. Secretary Rusk
Immediately took it under
study.
To date the Russians are
known to have carried out 81
explosions since September /.
President Kennedy ordered a
resumption of American tests,
but underground so they would
be free of radioactive fallout.
BY October 29 the United States
had announced four explosions.
United States officials said
that behind the argument over
testing and the related effort to
manipulate world public opinion
is the grim fact of the nuclear
weapons race and the decisive
question of which of the two
super powers will finally come
out ahead. Mr.. Kennedy has
said the United States has a
wide lead in nuclear weapons
and he intends to keep it.
Evening star., 1961-11-21


follower, but he certainly
couldn't say that he has not
been a good Governor"
Other California Democrats,
who outnumber Republicans by
8 to 2, discuss their leader with
a fond evaporation - and
frankness that might in any
other State and in any other
party indicate that the cause
was lost.
1.-THE trouble is" said one
Of his best friends, that Pat
does not have the lofty eleva-
ton and reserve of some pub
! lie figures. He's more like one
of the family, and that's the
way everyone talks about him
But they like him, and they
will work for him when the
time comes"
Said another, pat is suffer-
ing from a slipped image, but
he is an excellent Governor
He just has to remember that
he is"
Courageous in Duty
A legislator put it this way:
Hes been absolutely coura-
geous as an administrator. It's
only as a politician that he
appears gItleSs."
Gov. Brown has, as a mat
ter of fact, fulfilled seven out
of eight major campaign prom
ises. He has enacted a strong
civil rights program, a water
progam and a reform of the
States higher educational sys-
TEN. But in political matters
he has shown a tendency to
share his uncertainties with
the public that has not con-
tributed to the picture Of an
unfaltering leader. His visible
agony over the Caryl CheSSmar