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Evening star., 1961-08-11
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Evening star., 1961-08-11
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE

PLYM. ,57 2-dr. sedan; straight
stick. 9 cyls.;. good economy
car. Today's bargain. S495.
GUY STECART
Evening star., 1961-08-11
AUTOMOBILES FoR SALE

RAMBLER 81 Ambassador Custom
4-d-,. sedan; Inca silver and
black, 7. and h., auto, p.s., p.b.,
tdivtd'sl seats, reclining back,
Wv. tires; new-car guarantee.
Summer special. S2,9o5.
Evening star., 1961-07-09
EVERYBODY SELL!
But Some Stand and Wait

He found gas stations that
could teach lessons to some of
the city's pluShest stores.
He found cab drivers throw
ing away tips by insulting or
neglecting passengers.
And he found poor salesman
ship in Secretary Hodges back
yard.
The reporter started his buy
ing spree by getting on a street.
car at the Library of Congress.
Does this car go near Blank
department store?"
Seventh and Pennsylvania, !"
Slurred the driver. What would
Ian out-of-towner have made of
that statement?
Twenty-Five" said the
driver. 1t dawned on the re-
porter that "25" must mean the
price of the fare. He dropped
it in, sat down and was caught
by a sign next to the driver:
Our Employees Have Pledged
Themselves to Cheerful Cour-
teouS Rapid Transit Service"
SPORTS STORE: The man.
ager Signaled for a salesman as
soon as the reporter entered.
Finding that the reporter was
looking for an item the shop
didn't carry, the salesman
stressed that the firms other
store three blocks away had a
very complete line. He volun-
teered the complete address and
Evening star., 1961-07-09
Gen. Chuno
Held in Plot

SEOUL, Korea, Sunday, July
9 (AP).-Lt. Gen. Chang Do
Young today was accused of
leading a plot to assaSsinate
Maj. Gen. PAX Chung-Hi, who
relaced him as head of South
Korea's ruling military junta.
An officer attached to the
Junta's central intelligence bu-
reau told newsmen Gen. Chang
and 43 other officers were ar
rested Monday and are now
undergoing a thorough in
vestigation." Chang was re-
ported under house arrest.
Names were not given.
Gen. Chang led the May
military revolt that overthrew
the elected government of Pre-
mier John Chang no relation) ,
but PAX was the mastermind
Va Vic COup.
Gen. Chank assumed the
premiership of the military re-
gime with PAX as his deputy.
But PAX remained the strong
man and ousted Chang on
July 3.
1t. Col. sub Chung-Soon,
deputy director of the Junta's
intelligence bureau, told news
men that Chang and 43 other
officers plotted to eliminate
by assassination PAX Chung-Hi
and other persons in the CEN
tral force of the revolution.
Evening star., 1961-07-09

halted the car about Is feet
away.
While neither has ever driv-
en-, Virginia explained their
quick reaction this way: 1--WE
just did it automatically"
John said he knew where the
brake pedal was from watching
his mother drive.
After they brought the car
to a halt, the children, whose
father is Arlington Police Pvt.
David L. Mcdonald, ran to
their mother and were going to
pull her onto the curb.
Some people came by" Vir-
ginia said. land a lady said
she would call the ambulance. 3"
Seeing that their mother
would be cared for, the chill
dren ran eight blocks to their
grandmother's house.
In the car with the McDon-
aid children we're their two
cousins, Pat and Pam Hume,
both II, of Newport News. None
of the children was injured.
Evening star., 1961-07-09

building on New York avenue
between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth streets NV. 1--WE
have been advised that the
Fine Arts Commission would
not permit it." he said.
Mr.. Thorn said that the
trustees are deeply grateful
for Mrs. Halpert's offer and
are keenly aware of the value
of the collections. He estimates
the cost Of a new wing as
$500,0O0, with another hall
million needed as endowment
to insure its upkeep. 1T was
with extreme reluctance" he
said, that we felt compelled
to turn down a very generous
offer and a very significant
collection of contemporary
American art"
Mr.. williams said, 1--WE Just
don't have the money. Nor dc
we see any immediate posi-
bility Of getting it"
Mr.. Thorn related the ques-
See CORCORAN, Page F-G
Evening star., 1961-07-09
Bomb Thrown
AtU. 5. Envoy
Wet Nam Attack
Is Luid to Reds

SAIGON, South Wet Nam
July 8 (AP).-Two men be.
lieved to be Wet Cong Commu.
mist threw a homemade grenade
at United States Ambassador
Frederick E. Nolting's car to.
day as he drove home to lunch
It landed on the car roof but
failed to explode.
Worried government officials
feared the attack as the pre-
lude to a new Communist ter.
rorist campaign aimed al
Americans in this capital. Two
Americans have been wounded
in grenade attacks since April
and a number of Vietnamese
killed or injured.
Mr.. Noting apparently was
mistaken by the attack.
waited IN AMBUSH
The attackers apparently had
waited in ambush on a street
corner for Mr.. Nolting's car
When it appeared, the grenade
s to 8 inches long and 3 or 4
inches in diameter, was thrown
at the rear window. But the
aim was bad and it landed on
the roof.
Mr.. Nolting's bodyguard in
the car fired three times at the
assailants but apparently
missed. They hoped on a
motorcycle and escaped.
The Ambassador, a 50-year-
old career diplomat whose home
is in Chantilly, Va, was ap-
See BOMB, Page A-4
Evening star., 1961-07-09

walking directions and pointed
the way from the door.
DEPARTMENT STORE NO
1: In mems store, employees
wandered about or talked
among themselves. There were
mo other customers.
After eight minutes, the re-
porter left.
Down a short flight to the
book department. the reporter
found a refreshing change
May I help you?" asked a mid
dle-aged woman brightly.
I'm just browsing for a gift,
thanks"
The woman smiled: This is
a marvellous place to find one
Best sellers are there and the
other new novels are here.
Politics at that table. Take
See SELLING, Page "A
Evening star., 1961-07-09
BY WILLIAM GRIGG
Star Staff Writer

Following up Commerce Sec
retary Hodges article, Every
body Sell" in This Week Mag
azine, a Star reporter set out
to buy" in Washington. He
found salesmanship here is an
uneven thing.
Some statesmen serve, but
others only stand and wait.
He found neglect and en-
thusiastic service within the
same downtown department
store. He found some big sub
urban stores fail to keep an
adequate supply of goods.
Evening star., 1961-07-09
Art Worth 81 Million
Rejected by Corcoron
By FRANK GETLEIN
Star Staff Writer

The Corcoran Gallery of Art
has been offered as a gift a
group of four New York City
art collections, with an esti-
mated minimum value of So
million, that would place the
Corcoran among the top two
or three collections of goth
century American art in exist
ence.
At a recent meeting of the
Corcoran trustees, the offer
was rejected.
The main reason for reject
ing a gift that any museum
in America would envy was,
according to Corcoran director
Hermann Warner Williams, jr.,
the conditions imposed by the
donors. The donors insist that
the collections be housed in a
new. specially built wing of the
Corcoran. The trustees cannot
see their way to new construc-
ton at this time.
Between the two parties
there is a difference of opinion
on the cost of a new wing to
house the gift. Spokesman for
the ionorS, Mrs. Edith Gregor
Halpert, director of the Down.
town Gallery, New York. said
last week: There is no need
for an elaborate building with
pillars, Renaissance windows
and marble facing" Mrs. Hal
pert said she has no formal
architectural estimates, but
that two New York architects
have estimated the cost in
formally as "about a quarter
of million dollars" Unadorned
cement block, she said, could
be used to create a satisfactory
annex for the collections.
No Bare Blocks
According to the Corcoran's
treasurer and trustee, Corcoran
Thorn, unadorned Gem en- t
block could not be used on a
Evening star., 1961-07-09


suggesting either time or place
for such conference.
Naming President Kennedy,
British Prime Minister Mac
MILAN and French President
de Gaulle, he said the Soviet
Union had the right to appeal
to them Ito display wisdom
in the solution of the German
problem, to attend a confer
ence together with other peace
loving states and to conclude
a peace treaty Con Germany ;"
Stresses Common Sense"
Common sense is needed
above all now," Khrushchev
went on.
LET us sit down at a table
and calmly discuss all questions
without resorting to threats.
We propose the convocation. of
a peace conference and we shall
go there with our draft treaty.
Let the Western powers make
their proposals, submit their
drafts for a peace settlement.
We shall discuss all proposals
and accept those which will in
the best way facilitate the
strengthening of peace and
which pay due regard to the
interests and sovereignty of all
states"
Mr.. Khrushchev is particu-
larly interested in the sover-
eighty of Communist East Ger
many, which the Western
powers refuse to recognize.
Soft Talk and Threats
The Premier coupled soft
peace conference talk with
rocket threats in a Kremlin
speech before graduates of So
Wet military academies.
Mr.. Khrushchev declared that
the new measures to build up
Soviet military power were
forced by the refusal of the
Western allies to back down on
the subject of a German peace
treaty and West Berlin.
I'VE are taking them due, to
the emerging circumstances be-
cause we cannot neglect the
interests of the Soviet peoples
security" he said.
He warned the West that If it
starts a war over Berlin 1T will
end with imperialism's COM
plete debacle and ruin"
Determined to Sign Treaty
Mr.. Khrushchev said this
country is determined to sign
a peace treaty with Communist
East Germany. He has said be-
fore that a treaty will be signed
by the end of the year.
He urged the United States,
Britain and France Ito display
See KHRUSHCHEV, Page AS
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Picture on Poee AS

Picture on Page AS
Hills. said she lost her balance
when she tried to close the car
door which flew open as she
was turning south onto South
Lexington street off Arlington
boulevard.
THE next thing I knew. !
found myself on the ground"
recalled Mrs. Mcdonald after
she was treated at Arlington
Hospital for abrasions of both
legs.
Her daughter, Virginia, 13,
who was riding in the back seat,
reached over and grabbed the
steering wheel. Then she told
her brother, John, IL. to hit
the brake with his foot. They
Evening star., 1961-07-09

and the United States supports
his attempts to bring the Congo
back under the central govern
ment.
There is cautious optimism
tn at President Kasavubu's
other major rival. Leftist An.
toine Gizenga, will make his
peace by joining a revised CEN
tral government when Parlia-
m ent reconvenes sometime
toward the end Of the month.
Mr.. Gizenga, who inherited
the rabid nationalist mantle OF
asSassinated Patrice Lumumba,
has formed his own government
at Stanleyville in the Eastern
Congo.
But the feeling is that Mr..
Tshombe and Katanga hold
too many trump cards to ca
pitulate to either the central
government or the United Ma
tions.
Claims Pact Forced
Ten days ago he reneged on
an agreement he signed in
Leopoldville to end secession.
Once back in his own capital
of Elisabethville, he claimed
the pact was the price he had
been forced to pay for his re-
lease from the Leopoldville Jail
In April President Kasavubu
had Mr.. Tshombe arrested
when he sought to walk out of
a meeting of Congolese leaders.
The Katanga government
survived we'll during Mr..
Tshombe's absence. Officials
here find no signs that it has
ceased to be the most stable
government in the divided
country.
One Year of Secession
During a year of secession,
Katanga has taken on all the
trappings of sovereignty. It has
its own stamps, a loyal army,
and a separate currency backed
See CONGO, Page A-4
Evening star., 1961-07-09
OTHER VIRGINIA
PRIMARY STORIES

Virginia Republicans give their
nomination for governor to n. Clyde
Pearson, who pledges thot closed
schools in the Stote will be q major
issue in the November subernu-
torioI compoisn. pose B-3.
Analysis Of the Virginia primary
compoien, pose C-5.
Other stories on the Democratic
primory, pages BIZ and B-3.
Evening star., 1961-07-09
INTERPRETIVE REPORT

and other agencies having ad-
miniStrative responsibility.
Even after these working
rules have been drawn up, q
further shakedown period is
expected in which experience
with the acts new approaches
will have to develop, officials
say.
Many months will 60 by be-
fore all wheels have q chance
to turn on some new phases of
the program. In some cases,
even additional State legiSla-
ton will be needed before aids
can be made effective.
Both Government and in
dustry sources doubt whether
some of the new laws most
revolutionary provisions can be
put into general effect within
less than a year.
Full implications Of some of
the provisions can only be
guessed at.
Mortgage Fund Question
Even the all-important ques-
ton of whether mortgage funds
will be made available for
generous new encouragements
to housing production-such as
35-year mortgages-is likely to
See HOUSING, Page Ala
Evening star., 1961-07-09
Quoke Recorded

PASADENA. Calf, July 8
(APD An earthquake of po-
tentially destructive forces was
registered at the California In
Stitute of Technology today, To-
Gated 6,400 miles distant and
possibly in Europe. The quake
was of 81 magnitude on the
Richter open end scale.
Evening star., 1961-07-09

they DelleVe 1t spells economic
disaster for the rest of the
Congo.
Before the Congo's inde-
pendence and Subsequent tur-
Tshombe Revokes Expulsion Of Belgium
Consulate Page A.
mol, about rs per cent of all
Congolese wealth was produced
in this one province-mainly
through cobalt and copper
mines.
Unless that wealth is shared
with the rest of the country,
these officials reason that the
Congo will become a perpetual
ward of the United Nations.
U. s. Boycott" Policy
And the United States-the
chief contributor to the United
Nations-would have to shoul-
der one more heavy financial
burden.
This is a major reason why
the United States refuses to
recognize an independent "Ka-
tanga state" and is pressuring
its European allies to follow the
same course.
Another reason is the great
favor this boycott" policy
finds among African national
iSt leaders all over the conti-
nent, who generally regard Ka-
tanga Premier Noise Tshombe
as a Belgian puppet. He relies
heavily on Belgian advisers
particularly in the powerful
Union Miniere copper combine
to run the mines.
May Force Peace
The one hope remaining here
is that the continuing isolation
of Katanga may force Premier
Tshombe to patch up his quar-
rel with the central CongoleSe
government under Joseph Ka-
savubu in Leopoldville.
President KasaVubu is con-
Sidered a moderate in the spec
trum of African nationalism,
Evening star., 1961-07-09
Quick-Acting Children
Stop Driver|ess Auto

Two quick-thinking Fairfax
County children stopped a rum
away car yesterday after their
mother fell out of the drivers
seat into the street.
Mrs. Mary v. Mcdonald. SO,
of 1908 Edgar Court, Pimmit
Evening star., 1961-07-09
Mortgage Fund Question
Koreu Storm Kills q

SEOUL, Korea, July 8 (AP)
"A week Of heavy rains has
claimed % lives with two miss
ing, the Home Ministry re-
ported today. A total of 762
houses were either damaged or
inundated by floods.
Evening star., 1961-07-09
ALL IN A MAZE
ALL IN A MAZE
Liberal Housing Act
Also Is Complicated
BY ROBERT J. LEWIS
Star Staff Writer

The new housing legislation
signed a week ago by President
Kennedy is the most generous
in the Nations history, but also
the most complex.
Builders are marking time
until housing agencies have
chance to interpret" 1t.
fright now we're in a maze. >
a washington home building
spokesman said last night.
An official Of the National
Association of Home Builders
added:
Were trying to explain to
our members what FHA hasn't
explained to us yet, so we're
still cropping around"
Bonanza Lies Ahead
Everyone seems agreed on
one thing: Washington's small
army OF housing lawyers, con-
SultantS and expert advisers
will find the act provides an
unequalled bonanza for fees.
The legislation sets up many
new programs and liberalizes
old ones. 1t provides for:
/. aforementioned rental
housing for moderate Income"
families.
2. Thirty-five-year mort =
cages. with some extending to
40 years for moderate-income
families.
3. Liberal 20-year home re-
habilitation loans.
4. Larger loans and smaller
down payments for home buy
ers.
5. A vastly increased public
housing program and 81 billion
/ for urban renewal grants.
Evening star., 1961-07-09
TopAdvisers
See Kennedy
On Berlin
By DAVID s. BRODER
Star Staff Writer

HYANNIS PORT. Mass, July
8.-On q calm sea, under cloud
less skies, President Kennedy
conferred with three major
advisers today on the gather
ing crisis in Berlin.
Mr.. Kennedy met for more
than four hours with Secretary
Of State RuSk, Secretary Of De-
fense Mcnamara and Gen,
Maxwell Taylor, his personal
military consultant-first on
the sunporch of his summer
home, then aboard his fathers
yacht, the Marlin.
The talks, which Secretary
Rusk called relaxed but profit
able" ranged over the Berlin
and German questions and
touched on problems in South
east Asia. They were inter-
rupted by breaks for swimming
water skiing and a shipboard
lunch of fish chowder and hot
dogs.
On the chief question Of the
moment-the White House re-
action to Soviet Premier Nhru-
Shchev'S Moscow speech an
nouncing a step-up in Russian
military spending and a pro-
posal for a summit conference
on Germany-there was no in
formation.
No Comment
Presidential Press Secretary
Pierre Salinger said Mr.. Ken
nedy and his advisers Were in
formed of the Khrushchev
speech as they boarded the
Marlin just before / pm, after
two hours of talks on the porch
Of the Presidents white clap
board summer home.
But he said Mr.. Kennedy
would have no comment on the
Soviet military diplomatic
maneuverS until he has had a
chance to study the full text of
the speech.
Mr.. Khrushchev, without sug-
gesting a time or place, appealed
directly to President Kennedy,
British Prime Minister Mac
milan and French President
de Gaulle to "attenda confer
ence together with other peace
loving states and to conclude a
peace treaty" on Germany.
Secretary Rusk, talking to
reporters at the Barnstable
Airport this afternoon before
his return flight to Washing
ton, noted that Mr.. Khru-
Shchev has made q series of
speeches on Berlin in recent
weeks and said he would not
comment at this time on the
seriousness or the novelty of
the contents of the latest dec
laration.
Formal Reply Set
The Secretary said Americas
formal reply to the aide mem
oire on Berlin handed President
Kennedy by the Soviet Pre-
mier in Vienna last month would
be sent to Moscow next week.
Mr.. Rusk said consultations
with other governments on the
note are in progress, but "aS
far as we're concerned the text
is in good shape"
Mr.. Rusk, Mr.. Mcnamara
and Gen. Taylor arrived at
Barnstable Airport. in a twin
engine Air Force transport at
1915 this morning.
The three men drove direct
ly to the Kennedy home, where
they posed for photographs
with the President on the brick
See KENNEDY, Page AS
Evening star., 1961-07-09
Heavy Vote
Seen tuesday
In Virginia
Byrd's Control
Is Major Issue
For Democrats
BY JOHN BARRON
Star Staff Writer

Registrars forecass an ex-
ceptionally large turnout in Vir-
ginia's Democratic primary
Tuesday in which voters either
will suppress or sanction an in
Surrection again the political
dominance of Senator Harry F.
Byrd.
In choosing Democratic
nominees for governor, lieu
tenant governor and attorney
general. voters also may provide
answers awaited by politicians
throughout the South and else
where in the nation.
Running in defiant revolt
against the Byrd organization
are 1t. Gov. A. E. S. Stephens,
State Senator Armistead
Boothe and T. Mumford Boyd,
a blind law professor from the
University of Virginia.
Candidates of the organiza-
tion who vigorously have de-
Tended it's reign are former
Attorney General Albertis S.
Harrison, State Senators Mills
Goodwin and Robert Y. Eutton.
The primary. characterized
by some as the States most i'm
portant in two decades, could
produce an unprecedented vote
in Northern Virginia where
many politicians believe its out
come will be decided.
Registrars in the area report
that a flood OF requests
for absentee ballots probably
heralds an unusually heavy
vote for a primary. Polls will
be open from 6 am. to Z am.
State Senator Charles r.
Fenwick, Tenth District Demo-
cratic Chairman, said yesterday
that the number of ballots cast
in Alexandria, Arlington, Fair
fax and Falls Church may climb
to $4,000. Alexandria Delegate
James Thomson predicted it
will reach 10000. About $4,000
Northern Virginians partici-
pated in the 1859 primary.
Interest Grows
Reports from other parts of
Virginia also describe a late
surge Of interest in the fights
for the three highest offices
of the State where Democratic
nomination usually Is the
equivalent Of election. Many
areas of the State also are pick
ing nominees for the House of
Delegates, and for some other
local offices.
Selection Of the nominees on
Tuesday is considered unusually
significant for several reasons.
The elections should offer an
indication of what Virginians
now think about the former
policy Of massive resistance to
any desegregation, the ensuing
school closures and the free
dom-of-choice" plan which re-
placed 1t.
They also may reveal whether
a majority is ready to re-evalu-
ate the conservative fiscal poll
cies State administrations long
have followed.
But the underlying issue
transcending all others in the
primary is whether the influ-
ence of Senator Byrd will re-
main the controlling factor in
Virginia politics, as it has been
for 36 years.
Relying on Harrison
Although an associate of
them for many years, Mr..
Harrison repeatedly was not
the first choice Of Byrd fol-
lowers this year. They evidently
backed him partially in belief
that he would be a winner who
See PRIMARY, Page Az
Evening star., 1961-07-09
u. S. Officials Despair
Of United Congo Now
See Nation Facing Economic Disaster
II Kutuneu Insists on Seeding
BY GEORGE SHERMAN
Star staff Writer

American officials have lost hope that there will be any
quick return of wealthy Kaanga Province to the Congo fold
While these officials deny they writing off Kaanga
they the secesont province and the rest the
troubled country become whole again
And if the detection of Katanga becomes permanent
Evening star., 1961-07-09
Summit Talk on Germany
Proposed by Khrushchev
Big BuiIdup
Orderedi in
SovietArnns

MOSCOW. July 8 (AP).-
Premier KhruShchev announced
today that the Soviet Union is
increasing military spending
by $3.5 billion and hating the
cutback in its military man
power because Of what he
called threatening gestures by
the West in the Berlin crisis.
But at the same time he
called for a summit conference
on Germany.
"One must call not for war
but for peace" he said, without
Evening star., 1961-07-09
Regulations Undistributed

So far, regulations" to put
the act into operation have
not been issued to FILA offices
Evening star., 1961-07-09

West Seeking FormuIa to End Crisis
Poss AS
Experts Forecast Berlin Crisis
Timetable. At
Evening star., 1961-07-09

they believe it spells economic
disaster for the rest Of the
Congo.
Before the Congo's inde-
pendence and subsequent tur-
Evening star., 1961-07-09
Relying on Harrison

Although an associate of
them for many years, Mr.
Harrison repeatedly was not
the first choice Of Byrd fol-
lowers this year. They evidently
backed him partially in belief
that he would be a winner who
See PRIMARY, Page Az