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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-17
Rep. Charles NJ Matthias. jr.:

HNtps UTILITIES vi. MathIaS, IT.:
Strong Opposition - Four
weeks ago wrote of a startling
change in our foreign policy.
At that time the Secretary of
Commerce announced that the
Government would henceforth
permit sales of surplus farm
products to the Soviet Union
and its European satellite ma
tons at subsidized prices. Such
a policy would permit the gov
eminent to use American tax
dollars to purchase surplus
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-08-17
Comments From Capitol Hill ::
by ::
Sen. Beall Rep. Matthias ::

in the program and recent de.
velopments in international re-
lations have caused me to feel
that the whole program should
be re-evaluated.
We must ask ourselves, HAS
this Congress the right to obli-
gate the American people and
their children and grandchild-
rem for generations to come for
grand OUTLAWS for foreign aid of
doubtful value?"
More Federal Employees =
Instead of reducing the number
OF government employees, as
was promised, the present Ad-
ministration is adding more EN-.
ployees, by the thousands.
In February, 5,304 were add.
ed; in March, 7,089; in April,
12,455; in May, 1903; and in
June, 1888. That's net increase
in one month. The total number
of federal employees on June
80 mot including the military
was 2,419,681. Only 16S,991 of
these are in Washington, D. c.
The others are scattered from
Dan to Beersheba.
California alone has 239.464
federal employees. Some of this
vast federal government EN-.
ployment is hard to understand.
For example, the IVA, which
operates primarily in and for
the States of Tennessee. Ala
bama, Mississippi and Kentucky,
has employees in 16 other
states and the District of Co
lumbia. We are perplexed about
the need for IVA employees in
far-off California. The tentacles
of the federal octopus reach
into every nook and GRANNY of
our very existence.
Evening star., 1961-05-15
WILLIAM ) WHIIE
Nixon Has High Hopes for Futur'

is Mr.. Nixon who must carry
out these decisions. And so
his own hopes must rise or
fall on a campaign policy he
will not really make.
History is repeating itself
with oddly insistent rhythm.
For the very same Nixon, not
denying that he had reached
his elevation precisely because
Of Dwight Eisenhower, never
theleSs was never entirely free
in 1860 to run his own show.
The Eisenhower shadow was
forever over his head; as q
part Of the Eisenhower Ad-
ministration he had to defend
~ SNCI IyHI1cIc. -..-
Now that shadow is to per-
sist in 1862, the year in which
Mr.. Nixon has two great
necessities: To show that he
can lead the G. o. P. to at
least some relative congress
sional victory and thus to
justify his own claims to the
presidential nomination In
1864. And to show, by what
the 1862 returns may say, that
the Republican Party with
himself at the top would have
a genuine chance at the
White House in 1864.
Evening star., 1961-05-15
DORIS FLEEsON
Crusaders VS.. the President

supporters who think that in
an open society controversy
should beN encouraged, not
merely allowed, dislike the
present conformist trend.
With this group the Ma
tons publishers and editors
who declined to follow the
Presidents pipe down" lead
are enjoying rare popularity.
In still another field ths
President has not achieved
symbolic identity with the
aims he breaches 80 elo-
quently. He has exhorted the
Nation to sacrifice and
warned Of long years Of peril
which will exact its full meas
ure Of devotion. Yet life goes
on much the same in this
pleasant Capital. with every
one taking about the same
steps in the same minuet fol-
lowed during the Eisenhower
administration.
It will be difficult to move
and shake a comfortable
country when the pacesetters
in Washington follow such
comfortable ways. Inesca.
pahly. the President and his
wife are first among the pace
settlers.
Evening star., 1961-05-15
RALPH McGILL
The Agony of British Labor

carefully courted. the paci-
fists and those persons who
have q genuine fear Of nu.
clear war. This emotion In
stronger In Great Britain and
those countries Of Europe
which. suffered severe damage
and loss Of life from bomb
ing in the Second World
War. Fear and revulsion have
caused thousands Of persons
to insist that Britain re-
nounce all treaties and any
use whatever Of nuclear
weapons.
But for the moment, the
clouds over British Labor are
showing signs Of silver lining.
Hope is justified.
DR.. King is . magnificent
example Of all that is best
In the British Labor Party.
The SON Of . coal miner, he
worked for his education,
took honors In secondary
school and at the universities.
He was for some years Q
teacher and q headmaster. He
came to the Labor Party via
the Christian Socialist phil
osophy. A gentle man. full Of
wisdom and Of great integri-
ty, he is one Of the real hopes
Of Western revival.
Evening star., 1961-05-15
DORIS FLEESON
Schlesinger Rebuts ADA Complaints;
Sacrifice Seen Locking in Capital

The complaints Of Ameri-
cans for Democratic Action
against the Kennedy admin
istration sound somewhat
thin and are probably pre-
mature. They have been re-
butted by historian Arthur
SchleSinger. jr.. with his usual
eloquence and rare learning.
President Kennedy breaches
. crusade, but he does not
really like crusaders. They
are too untidy for his orderly
mind and precise habits Of
thought. They are not very
good about taking direction.
They do not amuse him as
they did Franklin Roosevelt,
who spurred them on to fur
nish the political ferment and
winds Of change for the New
Deal. Roosevelt had conf
dence he could navigate
surely and successfully in any
situation; he also felt it was
politically useful to him to
let the scapegoats multiply.
Former President Truman
had something Of Kennedy's
problem. His political judg-
Evening star., 1961-05-15
WILLIAM S. WHITE

Richard M. Nixon is walk
ing a taut rope in trying to
prepare the Republican Party
for the 1862 congressional
campaign, on whose outcome
he believes will hinge all the
@. o. P.'s hopes-and his
own-for the presidency in
1864.
The area Of permissible at
tack for the Republicans has
been sharply limited, not in
principle against Mr.. Nixon's
will but certainly to a de-
gree he himself would hardly
have contemplated.
This has been done by
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
the symbolic and unfading
leader from a Republican
past who still has a greater
actual authority with the
rank and file than does the
party leader of the present
and probable future, Mr..
Nixon himself.
For eight years as Vice
President, Nixon remained
always under the amiable
shadow of Gen. Eisenhower.
And now, even though he led
the Republican ticket last
fall and lost the presidency
in only the narrowest way,
he Is still plainly the second
man to a majority of G. o. P.
voters. What Ike says" still
means more than what Dick
says" even though it is
Dick" and not Ike" who
must do the job of directing
the party in the wars Of 1862.
General Eisenhower's recent
meeting at Gettysburg with
the old associates of his
administration has put the
party on notice that he means
for it to "be completely BIZ
partisan" on foreign affairs.
In this field, he says, it must
stand behind" President
Kennedy.
To be sure, Mr.. Nixon him
self had shown no wish to
Evening star., 1961-05-15

ment said that the liberals
were on the right track So
cially and economically, but
he did not enjoy the intellec-
tlal exercise involved in per-
sonal association with them.
His frequent exaSperations
took the form Of scorn for
fake liberals" Those he
liked. however, he gave the
same fierce loyalty he &C
corded his political associates.
It also seems apparent that
Kennedy's close victory was
rather intimidating to him.
His Difference toward so many
OF his elders who thoroughly
disbeheve what he said in his
campaigning offers proof Of
that. His actual proposals
are modest indeed compared
to his arguments.
Perhaps he has come to
feel that the country is more
conservative than he thought:
certainly many among his
political and personal friends
want him to think that this
is so. Whatever the reason,
those among the Kennedy
Evening star., 1961-05-15
POTOMAC FEVER
By Pete Wymo
BY FLETCHER KNEBEL

Kennedy returns from Florida, goes to Canada plans
trip to Europe He's decided Eisenhower right after all
the to succeed in the White to get out of
whenever you can,
Nixon, after his speaking tour he thinks the
country made mistake last November According to the
polls, people with him-and can't wait to make it
again in 1854.
Scientists say turn out to be the best
nauts. 1t figures there's thing drivers
need, it's plenty Of space
The KennedyS will be heavily guarded in Paris Gaulle
Is taking though Jacquene has already
promised she won't smugge out chefs
Democratic State Department officials say their prede-
spent too much time apanes The new team has
learned don't have leave the ground to keep foreign
policy up in the air.
Evening star., 1961-05-15
DAVID LAWRENCE

Fidel, Castro and many Of
his associates, some day may
be tried, for international
crimes just as Adolf Eich-
mann is being tried today in
Israel.
Prominent lawyers familiar
with the proceedings In which
war criminals were tried and
punished after World War II
say that Castro's crimes can
be dealt with in the same
manner as in the Nuremberg
or Tokyo trials.
This view is held, for in
stance. by DR.. Brendan F.
Brown. professor of law at
Loyola University School of
Law in New Orleans and for
merly dean of Catholic Uni
versity Law School here.
Prof. Brown told this
correspondent that, while
hologically" it would
have been better for Eich-
mann to have been tried
BY an international tribunal
rather than by one country,
there Is no question in his
mind Of the lawful right to
try Eichmann for interna-
tional crimes.
In the event that Fidel
Castro is forced to flee Cuba,
he could be arrested and
brought before an interna-
tional tribunal along with
any civilians as well as mill
tary men connected with his
regime who had any part in
the mass killings. Many Of
the victims were shot to
death by firing squads as a
result of hearsay evidence
and without being given the
rights Of judicial process.
The important point is that
. claim of sovereign jurisdic-
ton does not immunize any
government official from
punishment for crimes he
may commit against interna-
tional society. This is stressed
IN a book written a few years
ago by Prof. Brown in col
liberation with the late Jo-
seph B. Keenan,, who was
Assistant Attorney General
OF the United States and
served as chief counsel In be-
half Of the United States in
Evening star., 1961-05-15
Porty's HumiIioting Election Loss
Leaves GoitskeH With Stature

munists, who are few In
Britain, by the usual methods
Of patience, tireless attention
to detail, and unquestioning
acceptance Of party disci-
pline, have attained disturb
ing influence in three major
unions, transport and general
workers. engineering, and the
electrical trades.
The paradox is that C. p.
membership in Great Britain
is accurately estimated at
somewhere less than 10000.
Confronted with the inability
to win either parliamentary
or local elections, the COM
munist party members were
directed to devote full atten-
ton to capturing elections to
the governing bodies Of
unions representing m q jor
industries. In this they have
been unusually successful.
But within recent weeks
their traditional ability to de-
ceive was upset. The Com
munist party was revealed TO
have been stealing elections
in a manner more fragrant
than even the most corrupt
machines in America would
attempt. They printed extra
ballots. This Is not new. But
they became too confident
and careless.
The secretary of at least
one union, who had mailed
the official ballots out one
evening, received marked bal
lots back the next morning
before those to whom the
genuine ballots were ad-
dressed had received them.
Also exposed were technical
reflections Of ballots from
unions known to be anti
Communist.
All at once the Communist
party labor leaders were re-
vealed as corrupt and ruth
less. While this will not dis
turb the Communist men,
bers, it is expected to have
an effect on the others who
cannot avoid seeing the be-
trayal Of members by the use
Of fake ballots and false
technicalities. This may make
members see the need to re-
form election procedures to
make them conform to ma
jority opinion.
The CO m m u n is is have
Evening star., 1961-05-15
Moss EXECUTIONS Held Punishable
As Were War Crimes at Nuremberg

the Tokyo war crimes trial.
It Is, made clear In the
Keenan-Brown book that in
ternaticnal crimes are COM
mitted in time Of peace as
well as war. The authors,
after referring to the Hague
Convention of 1907, declared:
"This convention prohib-
tied acts, committed against
a background Of war. of such
q nature as to lead national
society to punish them, If
they had been performed in
peacetime, and If they had
been within the jurisdiction
Of a 'competently functioning
authority. :.
Certain other features
characterize crimes against
humanity. They are inhu-
manitieS which result from
policy decisions made on the
highest plane Of civil or mill
tary authority. They are the
effects Of a definitely crimi-
nal state policy. They are not
the isolated and casual afro
cities and inhumanities which
are perpetrated by soldiers In
the heat Of battle. -.
But crimes against hui
manity would be impossible
without the active direction,
or scQuieSeence, Of leaders in
control Of the. originating
sources Of supreme power In
a state and in a position to
coordinate that power over
a wide area Of operation so
as to produce simultaneous
patterns Of the wholesale in
fraction Of the laws Of hu-
manity in widely separated
localities and under widely
differing circumstances and
conditions.
The defendants Tin the
Tokyo trials) did not per-
ally commit crimes
against humanity, but they
were responsible for frequent
and habitual commission Of
such crimes insofar as they
ordered, permitted or agreed
to them, or made no effort
to prevent or stop them.
"The society Of nations and
OF men In international re-
lationshipS has claimed and
exercised the rightful power
Evening star., 1961-05-15
International Trial for Castro?

and authority to hold In
dividuals accountable for
violations Of law which COM
plementS, controls and reg
ulates international society,
and to mete out appropriate
punishment for these infrac-
tions, even the death pen
atty. THE right which
International society has
claimed and exercised in try
ing and Furnishing individ-
uals for breaches Of the GRIM
inal law of the world commu-.
nifty is sustained by an analy-
sis of historical data"
Thus the Tokyo and Nu-
remberg trials serve as q
warning to individuals In
Cuba that they will not es-
cape punishment by claim
ing, as Eichmann does, that
criminal acts were ordered
by someone higher up in the
government. Indeed, the text
Of Article 8 Of the charter Of
the international tribunal
which tried the Japanese
militariSts says:
Neither the official posi-
ton, OF any time Of an ac-
cused, ror the fact that an
accused acted pursuant to
order Of his government, or
OF . superior. shall, Of itself,
be sufficient to free such ac-
cused from responsibility for
any crime with which he is
charged, but such eircum-
stances may be considered in
mitigation Of punishment, If
the tribunal determines that
justice so requires"
Hence it may be said that
those individuals who have
participated directly or in
directly in the mass execu-
tions in Cuba-which now
number several hundred
may some day find them
selves facing an international
tribunal. For, as MeSsrs. Kee-
nan and Brown wrote in their
denunciation of "savagery
and barbarism" in peacetime
as well as war:
IF the message Of the
Tokyo and Nuremberg cases
goes unheeded, surely there
is but very little hope for the
beginning Of q new age
among men in their interna-
tional relationships"
(coprishG 1861
Evening star., 1961-05-15
RALPH McGILL

DR.. Horace King, a dis
tinguished Labor MP, and q
deputy speaker Of the House
Of Commons, currently visit
ing in America, presently
finds himself with more hope
for Q Labor Party victory
over dissension than at any
time in the past three years.
The peculiar and painful
aInbivalence Of the party, a
development of comparative
" recent times, caused it to
defeat its able and courage
Gus leader, Hugh Gaitskell,
IN the party's annual meet
ing last October.
The issue was defense Of
Great Britain. An estimated
80 per cent Of the Labor
membership believes in de-
Tending the nation. But be-
cause labor union votes are
cast by the union leadership
In blocs, GaitSkell lost by a
narrow margin which was,
nonetheless. humiliating.
Gaitskell emerged from the
election, however, with such
integrity that those who de-
feated him were somewhat
uncomfortable. Standing be-
fore them In advance of the
balloting, he told them he
was aware Of the impending
result, that it was one con-
ceived in error. and that he
would not compromise but
would continue to urge upon
the party that it support
the party's national defense
policy.
What has cheered Mr..
King, and others Of his party
who regard the Anglo-Ameri-
can alliance as necessary and
desirable, is the fact that the
Engineering Union, with al
most three-quarters Of a mil
lion members. has reversed
} its stand Of last October. II
this new position Is main
tanned, then Mr.. Gaitskell
win be sustained In the au-
tumn, and the Labor Party
viii then have an opportunity
to regroup and reform. It
can then become an oppo-
sition party in fact and not
in name.
An unexpected dividend in
the form Of q Communist set
back. also cheers Mr.. King
and those who stand with
@ugh Gaitskell. The Com
Evening star., 1961-05-15
Eisenhower's Influence Dims
Glamour of Former Vice President

tear the Kennedy administra-
ton apart. But the general
order now issued from Gettys-
burg calls for a most un-
qualified restraint, indeed. 1t
means that no Republican
will have Eisenhower support
in the 1862 congressional
campaign for any sharp at
tack in the one area in which
Mr.. Kennedy is politically
weak, the state of the world.
This means, in turn, that
the Republicans must hit the
Democrats where they are
StrongeSt-on domestic issues.
The Democratic congressional
domestic record plainly will
be a pretty solid one by 1862.
This the senior Republicans
do not in private deny.
Moreover, the one point of
potential domestic danger to
the Democrats, the business
slump, may well have wholly
disappeared by then. The
economy for weeks has been
obviously on the rise. And
now there are solid reports of
the first really important job
increases since last fall.
There is no purpose in this
column to criticize General
Eisenhower's unusual gener-
osity in putting foreign policy
partisanship out of bounds.
Far from it. For his action is
not only right; there is also
a special justice in it. He
himself as President was pro-
tected by his Democratic
opposition in foreign affairs.
He is now properly repaying
a proper debt. aside from the
far bigger thing of serving
the country's highest inter-
eSts.
Still, these facts do remain:
1t Is Mr.. Eisenhower and not
Mr.. Nixon who is making the
real command decisions as to
the nature Of the 1862 Repub-
hcan campaign effort. But it
, 1961-01-11
Judge Moorhedd
Crooks Down: IL
Lose Auto Licenses

Judge William Moorhead began
cracking down harder on traffic
a w violators on Wednesday
morning when $3.50 in fines were
collected and eleven licenses
were suspended.
Carlos Torres Rosa was fined
SIS for careless driving and Ii
cense suspended for one month;
also SIS for failure to report an
accident.
Juan Carton was also fined SIS
for driving under theinufence of
liquor; another SIS for careless
driving and his license suspended
for 6 months. Roberto Aloyo was
fined SIS for careless driving and
his license suspended for three
months. Garry Thomas Kilbride
was fined SIS for leaving the
scene of an accident and his Ii
cense suspended for one month.
Elmo Alexander Horsford was
fined SIS for negligent driving
and his license suspended for one
month";. Andrew Delermo Evans
was fined SIS for reckless driving;
SIS tor speeding ana his license
suspended for three months. Eric
L. Bougn was fined SIS for reck-
less driving and his license sus-
pended for thee months; Antonio
Walters was fined $25. for reck-
less driving; SIS for speeding and
his license suspended for six
months; Fremont Canton was
fined $25 for speeding and his IL
cense suspended for six months;
Hermeneglldo N'asquez was fined
SIS for speeding; Eladio Daniels
was fined Sis for reckless driving
and his license suspended for
three months.
, 1961-01-11
Dep. Of HedlthW Worms
Punches rs Of Cerdmu
Stone DinnerWdre

DR.. Melvin Evans, Commits
sioner of Health, has issued the
following release:
'The public's attention is here
by directed to the fact that GER
tain dinnerware appearing under
the name of "CERAMA STONE"
and manufactured by the Laurel
Company has shown an undesir-
able quantity of lead pigment
and that a significant quantity of
the
dinnerWare by such acid foods as
applesauce, salad dressing, and
tomato juice.
The Department of Health has
been advised that the manufac-
turing firm has stopped production
of "Cerama Stone" dinnerware
and has made efforts to recall this
product from its retail outlets.
Nevertheless, the public is eau
toned against the purchase and
use Of this product as it might re-
suit in lead poisoning"
, 1961-01-11
Former Baseball Stdr
Now Chief Engineer
Of IBEC Corporation

Rafael Ocasio, one of Puerto
Rico's outstanding baseball stars
for the past few years with the
Humacao Greys, has been named
Chief Engineer of the IBEC
Housing Corporation in Puerto
Rico, it was announced.
Ocasio, who was named as the
most valuable player with the
Puerto Rican team which won
the Central American Olympics
baseball title in Caracas in 1853,
recently announced his retire
ment from baseball. He had been
the second baseman and main
stay of the Humacao team which
won the Eastern Section cham
pionship during the 1860 Puerto
, 1961-01-11
Personal Mention

MI. and Mrs. Olaf Larsen are
vacationing here with Mr.. and
Mrs. Sidney Phillips, who accom-
panied them down. They arrived
at Christmas time and plan to re-
main until the first week in Feb
ruary.
Mr. Larsen is the eldest son of
the late Postmaster B. r. Larsen.
Although this is the first visit Of
Mrs. Phillips to st. Croix, her
parents were Crucians who be-
came permanent residents Of New
York where she was born.
, 1961-01-11
g Men Found Guilty
In Nun. Court for
Aggravated Assault

In the Municipal Court on
Monday Emerson Ussery W a
found guilty of three charges of
aggravated assault and battery;
James Gentry was found guilty
on a single charge of assault and
battery. The case against William
Nc Kay for disturbance of the
peace was dismissed.
The case grew out of a fight
which took place on the evening
of November 9th in the King
Christian restaurant. Those IN
vo1ved included Felix Rosa, Ne
mencio Comacho and Joe Burke,
During the melee Rosa was
knocked down, Comacho lost sew
eral teeth and Burke was thrown
into the sea.
Assistant District Attorney Cen
eral Peter O'Dea came over espe-
clally to prosecute the case on
behalf of the Government. The
defendants were represented by
Attorney Frank Padilla.
Judge William Moorhead post
poned sentencing until February
9TH. IN the meantime, the Court
has sent a request to the home
Town OF the defendants to check
on their records.
teI1x Romero was found guilty
for resisting arrest and was Civ
en- ten days in jail; and for petit
larceny an additional twenty
days.
Judge Moorhead said however,
that because Romero is a sailor
he would recind the sentence pro-
vided that he will leave the Is
land. AT the request of His Honor,
Mr.. Polanco saw to it that the
sailor board the motorship "Ex-
plorer."
, 1961-01-11
Thirteen " Old
Boy Knocked Down
BY Auto on Co. Street

Raymond James reported to
the Police that while driving his
car west on Company Street in
Christiansted on Tuesday night,
in the vicinity Of Mencho's
Bakery, Ashton Caroline, 10, ran
across the street and was hit by
the right end Of the front bumper
of the car and knocked down. The
lad was taken to ~ Charles Har-
wood Memorial Hospital.
After examination by Doctors
Karrell, Joseph and Por, the boy
was found to be unhurt and sent
home.