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Evening star., 1961-03-13
House Committee Held Vital to Cut of
conspirutors from innocent Victims


ican institutions would grow
by leaps and bounds. The
Communists know this, and
that's why they have gotten
behind the drive to abolish
the House Committee on
Un-American Activities. 1t
means the difference be-
tween exposure of the Com
munist activities inside this
country and hiding the facts
about attempted subversion.
The House committee, to
be sure, has an even more
important role-to educate
those who are innocently de-
ceived by Communist subver-
siye tactics in America. Per-
haps the clearest explana-
ton Of what is going on to-
day has come from the pen
Of Roy M. Brewer Of New
York City, vice chairman Of
the Council Against Commu-
mist Aggression. He writes:
"The extreme effort which
the Communist Party is
making to destroy and dis
credit the Committee on Un-
American Activities Is evil
dence of the fear which the
party has for the disclosures
Of the committee.
II doubt If there is any
person in America who has
spent a greater personal ef-
fort to help those persons
who have been victimized by
the deception Of the Com
munist conspiracy than have
I. No one has more fully
recognized the necessity Of
separating the hard core
who are the perpetrators of
the conspiratorial work-and
the victims who make up the
periphery Of the apparatus
under the mistaken belief
that they are working for
civil rights and humanitar-
ian causes.
But this should not blind
us to the fact that the periph-
cry is an important part
Of the Communist apparatus.
Without 1t the Communist
Party could not confuse and
divide us as they now do.
Therefore any disclosures
which tend to break the line
Of communication between
the hard core and the periph-
cry group will reduce the ef-
fectivenesS Of the overall
operation to the degree that
Evening star., 1961-03-13
Congo Crisis Points Up Need to Send
All Our Capital to the U.N. Arena

better under such conditions.
The outlook admittedly is
grave. No solution seems in
sight. One would be possible,
perhaps. If the two great
powers agreed. But they do
not.
Meanwhile, the best hope
seems to be to replace Raj
eshwar Dayal as U. N. COM
mander. India is sending
more troops but will accept
another leader. It may be
possible to set up an African
advisory committee to assist
in the U. N. policy in the
Congo.
The Soviets, meanwhile,
not merely oppose, but boy
colt all meetings held by the
secretary general.
There are signs of Arab
arms and supplies going to
the pro Russian Gizenga
regime. But Mr.. Nkrumah
warns Western representa-
tives not to equate African
nationalism with Russia or
communism; he has advo-
Gated the U. N. force. There
are many contradictions in
what is an almost hopelessly
involved and tdbally divided
region.
The Soviets have one tre-
mendous advantage. They
could. the moment an air.
port was open to them and
the U. N. authority removed,
begin to pour in hundreds,
even thousands, of teachers,
technicians and supplies Of
all sorts. They could, and
would. begin building schools
and factories.
These are the basic tools
Evening star., 1961-03-13
RALPH MeGHL

. UNITED NATIONS. N. Y.
Tsome Of the staff accom-
panying Andrei Gromyko
here for the General Assem-
bly, session are new. Un-
like their predecessors, they
have not yet learned who in
the other delegations speak
and who understand Rus
sian. .
When Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt made her first ap-
pearance here as a newly
designated delegate, she was
escorted by United States
Ambassador Stevenson. One
Of the new staffers from
Moscow. watching from the
rear of the hall. said to a
friend:
., They really are bringing
out all their capital, aren't
they?"
: 1t was, in a way, a recogni-
tion of the fact that the
United States is bringing out
Its best resources in the bat
tie to win mems minds and
save, II possible. the char
acter and strength of the
United Nations. It also was a
tribute to the personalities
Of Gov. Stevenson and Mrs.
Roosevelt. They are respect
ed and they are influential
because Of their established
integrity and achievements.
They are indeed some of the
best capital possessed by our
capitalistic system.
I Events in the Congo pres
emily are under no control
whatever. They are likely to
remain chaotic for some
time. It is a ,truism that
Communist affairs always do
Evening star., 1961-03-13
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Republican lament: H-diddle- -diddle, stand here
and fiddle while Jack makes The Kennedys
laugh to such sport and march by platoon
United States Ambassador Tommy Thompson had q
pleasant enough talk with Khrushchev his shirt
and Nkita still had his shoes on.
It's rumored another Kennedy relative will get high
administration post: Caroline head the Childrens
Bureau.
The Peace Corps IDEA is bold antirecession move The
Government will have to draft thousands go
and rescue the Peace Corps.
If this school-ad fight much longer, President
Kennedy down in history Martin Luther
Evening star., 1961-03-13
DAVID. LAWRENCE

The House of Representa-
tives has Just given an over
whelming vote Of confidence
to its Committee on Un-
American Activities, But
while this is constructive, it
doesn't altogether solve the
problem Of how to expose the
efforts of the Soviet govern
ment to infiltrate certain
colleges, churches, newspa-
pers. radio and television
stations, labor unions and
businesses in the United
States. There are also many
cause" organizations with
obstensibly worthy purposes
which are Communist-in-
spired.
The real problem is how to
distinguish between those in
dividuals who sincerely and
honestly advocate policies
they truly believe in and
those who are influenced by
Intermediates to write or
demonstrate in behalf of va
rious causes. Many such in
termediaries are believed to
be in the pay of the Com
munists.
The very move ment
launched recently on such
an extensive scale to abolish
the House Committee on Un-
American Activities has be-
come suspect. While there
are many persons who on
principle do not like any
congressional investigations,
there are others who, though
joining in the attack on the
House committee procedures,
are strangely silent when
other congressional commit
tees use virtually the same
tactics TO ferret out the facts.
There was q time in Amer
lean history when newspa-
pers and magazines alone
took the leadership in ex-
posing wrongdoing, but the
courts lately have narrowed
the freedom Of the press IN
this respect by decisions in
libel cases. Testimony and
statements given before Con-
gress and its committees, on
the other hand, are immune
from damages for libel when
published. If. therefore, COM
mittee investigations were
abolished, the opportunities
for misleading the American
people and subverting Amer
Evening star., 1961-08-13
Congress to Step Up
Action on D. G.. Bills

taxes. The bill is described as
an encouragement to bankers
in other cities to loan money
locally, particularly in the
urban renewal field.
The machinery by which local
citizens will vote, probably in
the next Presidential election.
It amends the law under which
delegates are elected to national
political conventions, sets the
voting age at 81. requires a
years residence and limits alb
Sentee voting to members of
the Armed Forces and those in
the Foreign Service.
Another bili, also expected to
pass without objection, would
save the home Of band director
and composer John Philip
Sousa, at 318 independence
avenue Sc. 1t also provides the
District with representation in
the Capitol's Statuary Hall by
authorizing the District Com
missioners to furnish statues of
Sousa and DR.. Harvey w. Wiley,
author of the Pure Food and
Drug Law.
Evening star., 1961-08-13
Shirley Buses
Muy Get Lanes

Exclusive bus lanes on the
new, improved Shirley highway
now being planned were sug-
gested yesterday in an agree
ment of cooperation between
the Federal Bureau of Public
Roads and the National Capital
Transportation Agency.
The agreement, emphasizing
coordination of planning for
mass transit in connection with
widening of Shirley highway,
was announced by Secretary of
Commerce Hodges.
One aspect of the agreement
is to consider recommending
that Virginia highway officials
provide exclusive bus lanes for
express transit service during
rush hours once the Shirley
highway is widened from the
four to eight lanes.
A few weeks ago Virginia and
Bureau of Public Roads Of
ficialS agreed that Shirley
should be widened by four
lanes and brought up to inter-
state highway standards.
Yesterdays agreement fol-
lowed talks between c. Darwin
Stolzenbach, administrator of
Meta, and Rex M. Whitton,
Federal Highway Administra-
tor.
Evening star., 1961-08-13
DISTRICT OFFICIALS WATCH
CAP Scans 'BIost' Effect

tation missions to the Glenn
Dale Hospital and the Laurel
Children's Center.
The Laurel and Glenn Dale
sites are mobilization points
for District employees under
the city's civil defense plan.
Col. Drake said in the event
Of an actual attack, the CAP
light planes could probably &c
into action in the Washing
ton area within about two days
after an atomic blast.
In addition to the tasks
posed by Col. Drake, Col. Good
win said his patrol members
would simulate radiation sur
veys, and traffic observations
and relay the information back
to the Lorton headquarters
through the Washington Civil
Air Patrol headquarters.
Following the civil defense
maneuver, the air patrol car
ried out a practice search and
rescue mission for a downed
airplane.
Evening star., 1961-08-13
BY JOHN M. McKELWAY
Star Staff Writer

The House tomorrow is ex-
pected to approve a collection
of bills of interest to liquor
dealers, foreign doctors, mer-
chants, police and firemen.
bankers and the voteless Dis
trict resident.
The action will also repre-
sent the start of a week of
stepped-up activity by Congress
on behalf Of District affairs.
On the Senate side, on Tues
day, the District Commission
erS will begin their fight to
restore at least $4.5 million cut
by the House from the Dis
trict's budget for the current
fiscal year. The hearings will
run at least three days, under
the craftsmanship of Senator
Byrd. Democrat of West Vir-
ginia.
The Senate, also, may find
time to handle the city's tax
bill which has been pending
for a month. The biggest item
in the bill is a sales tax in
crease from 2 to 3 per cent,
capable of producing at least
ST million for the balance of
the current fiscal year.
District bills scheduled for
action by the House tomorrow
include:
An amendment to the AL
coholic Beverage Control Act
which will wipe out the present
use of liquor stamps as the
method of collecting alcoholic
beverage taxes. Liquor dealers,
who handled about A million
stamps last year, would be able
to pay taxes through a monthly
reporting system, the same
practice followed for taxes on
beer and wine.
A measure which will en-
able foreign doctors to take an
examination for a license in the
District if they have first
passed a test given by a ma
tionally recognized examining
board.
One repeating an 1871 stat
ute which has kept trading
stamps out of the District. It
will also allow large manu-
facturers to enter the District
with merchandising schemes
previously banned by the stat
ute. An identical bill has been
introduced by Senator Bible,
Democrat of Nevada and chair
man of the Senate District
Committee.
Another aimed at enabling
police or firemen to retire with
disability pay, although the dis
ability was not service-con-
nected but aggravated in the
performance of duty.
A measure which amends To-
cal tax laws so as to specifically
state that income received by
an out-of-State investing ms
titution from a mortgage loan
made on District zeal estate is
not subject to Distffct franchise
Evening star., 1961-08-13

devious at the makeshift air.
strip-a dirt road.
Col. Macdonald Goodwin, di-
rector of emergency services
for the CAPS National Capital
Wing, and his men landed
without difficulty on the
bumpy, short runway.
They were briefed by Col.
Thomas j. Drake and Frederick
s. Beckner. Of the plans and
operations unit Of the District
Civil Defense Office.
Col. Drake said the area
north of American University
and west of Rock Greek Park
would probably suffer only
slight damage in the event of
an enemy strike at Chantilly.
In addition to the aerial
survey of the Northwest WASH
ington area, disaster prob
lens" confronting Col. Good
wins so patrol members in
cluded bringing 500 pounds OF
emergency medical supplies
from Frederick, and tranSpor-
Evening star., 1961-08-13
Policeman Suspended
In Auto Permit Case

A Washington policeman, on
the force II years, was Sus-
pended yesterday following
charges of driving on a re-
voked permit for two years and
making a Misrepresentation in
applying for a renewal.
Pvt. Rodney M. Turner, 35,
was charged with two counts
of failing to surrender his per-
nit, two counts of failing to
surrender his registration and
tags, one count of operating on
a revoked permit and one count
Of obtaining a permit by mis-
representation.
Deputy Chief Lorraine T.
Johnson said the police inves-
tigation of the case began
Wednesday following a tip.
Pvt. Turner was charged in
Municipal Court Friday and
the case was continued until
August 29S-'
Evening star., 1961-08-13
By JOHN NEARY
Star Staff Writer

District Civil Defense Off
cials went aloft with the Civil
Air Patrol from a bean field
airstrip yesterday in their first
test of nuclear-age disaster
plans.
Airborne, they anne d
Northwest Washington for
damage" from a make-believe
20-megaton nuclear blast at
Dulles International Airport at
Chantilly.
The maneCver called for
simulated mercy runs from the
bean field, near the District
governments attack relocation
site at the Lorton CVa.) Re-
formatory, to points in Mary
land.
The disaster manelver got
under way after Civil Air Pa
troll members and defense Off
cials made a morning rem
Evening star., 1961-08-13

Deputy Chief johnson said
Pvt. Turner failed to report
an accident in which he was
involved on April Is, 1859, after
which his permit was revoked
by the Department of Motor
Vehicles. A second order to
surrender the tags and permit
was made June 20, 1860, follow
ing a court judgment.
In August, 1859, Deputy Chief
johnson said, Pvt. Turner ap-
piled for renewal of his permit
and failed to note that his
earlier permit had been re-
voked, a specific requirement
on the application.
The charge on a revoked per-
NIT was made Wednesday when
Pvt. Turner drove his car to
the Second Precinct, Deputy
Chief johnson said.
Evening star., 1961-08-13
Lodgings Listed

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Aug
IL (AP).-West Virginia farm
ers have until September l to
get their names in a new bro
chure listing their homes as
places for lodging for sports
men and tourists this fall. The
Department of Natural Re-
sources and State Department
of Agriculture hope the new
listing will contain about 500
farms.
Evening star., 1961-08-13
Federal Building
To Be Dedicated

MARTINSBURG. w. Va,
Aug. IL (SpeciaD This city's
new 81 million Federal Build
ing will be dedicated October
18, with Federal officials par
ticipating, it was announced
today by Postmaster Marlin S.
Eckerd.
Represented on the pro-
gram in addition to local agen-
cies will be the Post Office De-
partment, General Services
Administration and other Fed
leral agencies. United States
Senator Randolph, Democrat
of West Virginia, will be the
principal speaker. Senate r
Robert c. Byrd. also of West
Virginia, will attend as well as
Representative Staggers of the
I'd district.
Evening star., 1961-08-13
Youth Court
Seen
AsCruciuI

A crucial meeting on the
city's Juvenile Court situation
will be held Tuesday by a sub
committee of the House Dis
trict Committee.
At that time the subcommit-
tee, headed by Representative
Davis, Democrat of Georgia,
will wind up hearings on its
bill to place the youth court
under the Jurisdiction of Mu-
nicipal Court.
The subcommittee also is
scheduled to 60 into executive
session after the hearing and
could, for the first time since
arguments started for addi-
tional judges at the court, re-
port out a bill to the full
committee.
Representative Mcmillan n,
chairman of the full commit
tee, has promised to bring some
form of Juvenile Court legisla-
ton to the House floor at this
session of Congress.
The Davis bill is beset by
controversy, however. It seeks
to reduce the age of juveniles
brought before the court from
18 to 16, turn the court into a
branch of Municipal Court and
allow adult court judges to
hear juvenile cases. Also, it
authorizes a new Judge for
Municipal Court.
The gap continues to widen
between the House and Senate
over how to reduce the courts
present backlog of cases.
Joining other Senators who
have maintained three judges
are needed at the court is
Senator Smith, Democrat o1
Massachusetts.
Last night, Senator Smith, ir
a statement, said he was firmly
convinced the city needs "ar
independent Juvenile Court
with three full-time judges"
Evening star., 1961-08-13

the White House as to pros
poets even if the President
adopted the center'S cause as
his own. A combination Of
bad luck, trials and errors,
loose organization, and the size
of the job left the Eisenhower
trustees with virtually no more
money in the bank in 1851
than they had in 1858 for con-
Struction.
Nearly three years. of the
congressional five-year limit
for fund raising have slipped
away.
Trustees recommendations
to fill vacancies on the board
were buried on the Presidents
desk by one crisis after an
other-Cuba, Laos and Berlin.
Trustees legislation to en-
large the site was ignored even
by original sponsors of the
center act: Senator Fulbright,
Democrat of Arkansas, deeply
involved in foreign relations,
and Representative Thompson,
Democrat of New Jersey, man
|ager of the Presidents educa-
ton program.
President Kennedy began a
fact-finding study to decide
whether to revive the center
or forget it.
ssion al sponsors
minced no words in telling his
investigators they believed that
the trustees had fumbled by
delaying the fund drive and
planning a "grandiose" center,
too expensive to be realized.
Records Defended
L. Corrin Strong, acting
chairman of the trustees, and
Jarold A. Kieffer. secretary, de-
Tended their record with a de-
tailed report of board activities
since 1858.
The Presidents decision to
proceed probably was based
primarily on the thinking Of
three other men whose judg-
ments he values personally.
They were General Maxwell
Taylor, military advisor and
former president of the Lincoln
Center in New York; William
Walton, Washington artist, and
LeMoyne Billings, Madison
lavenue public relations man.
who believes the center could
be sold to the public.
In the last several weeks the
President has filled three board
vacancies with Stanley Marcus,
president of the Dallas, Texas,
department store which bears
his name; Mary Lasker. wealthy
New York leader whose fam
| lily Lasker Foundation con-
tributes generously to non
profit causes, and. Richard
Reynolds, president of the
Reynolds Metal Co., Richmond,
Va.
They replaced Philip M. Tai
bott and Robert L. Wood who
resigned, and filled a vacancy
existing on the Eisenhower
board.
President Kennedy also has
accepted the resignation of
John J. Emery of Ohio. Others
are expected tr resign shortly
to give the President a clear
majority of his own choices on
the board.
Hold-over members are Floyd
D. Akers, Mrs. Ethel Garrett,
Ralph E. Becker, Mrs. Cath
crime F. Shouse, Daniel w. Bell
and Mr.. Strong, of the District;
Winthrop w. Aldrich and
Ralph j. Bunche of New York;
John Nicholas Brown of Rhode
Island, and Frank H. Ricket-
son, of Colorado.
Evening star., 1961-08-13

! enVlSloned Dy the EISENHOWER
board:
The President is expected to
meet personally with trustees
after he has selected two in
fluential Americans to be chair
man of the board and head
of the national fund drive.
These two appointments are
the next major step toward
Salvaging the center project
since the White House decided
last month to inject life into
plans rather than let them die.
The center was authorized
by Congress in 1858 with a
directive that sufficient funds
be on hand to start building
by 1868 or else the project
would be abandoned. Architect
Edward Durrell Stone designed
a $75 million center overlook
ing the Potomac in Foggy
Bottom. Later, trustees asked
him to reduce his plans to q
first phase" shell costing $50
million.
Present bank balance, of the
center fund three years after
Congress inaugurated the prof.
ect is $13,425.
About 100000 has beer
spent for administrative costs
land acquisition, designs, anc
a report on center uses.
The nationwide fund drive
never began.
Staff Down to Three
Since the election of Presi,
dent Kennedy. the headleSI
board of trustees -forme, e,
Health, Education and Welfar,
Secretary Arthur Flemmini
was chairman-has conducted
a holding operation. A stat
once numbering between 20 anC
Is has Shrunk to three.
Virtually the only activity o
the board now under way is
negotiation with the Office O
Education to finance a stud,
of educational television facili
ties in the center.
BY law the President name
Is trustees from private life
An equal number are mem
bers by reason OF their posi-
tions in the executive and legis
lative branches of Govern
ment.
From a practical standpoint
the center's success is bound tt
the Presidents interest.
A serious question arose al
Evening star., 1961-08-13
Cite,
o'd Rqpk
Mr.. Brimmer's
Lost Dreom
By ROBERT J. LEWIS

ny HUBERT j. LEWIS
THERE'S ALWAYS some
l. body lurking around
who's ready to knock a hole
in peoples dreams. u
The latest thing we've
read on this says that the
Great American Dream is a
SINGLE family house sitting
in the middle of its own plot
of ground-and that it's a
lot of bunk.
Instead Of being an asset
according to this report
this single-family house "can
be both a community and a
homeowner liability"
As we were reading this,
we got to thinking of Earl
B. Brimmer, a man who
came to see us about six
years ago.
Mr.. Brimmer was one of
those millions of Americans
who were dreaming that
Great American Dream.
Nobody, up to that time,
had knocked a hole in Mr..
Brimmer's dream. But-as
you might suspect-it was
going to happen sooner or
later.
1T DID HAPPEN, and we
think that knocking a hole
in Mr.. Rrimmer's dream was
one of the dirtieSt tricks ever
played by a city on any Of
its citizens.
1t wasn't a case of mans
inhumanity to man.
1t was a case of Mr.. Brim-
mer being caught in the in
human machinery that the
best of laws and regulations
can sometimes turn out to
be unless they are tempered
with justice.
FOR OVER IS years, Mr..
Brimmer has been dreaming
of building a house for him
self and his family.
Back in 1925, he bought a
lot and paid $1,500 for it. It
is in the 5000 block of Bran
dywine street NV. At first,
it had a big drawback. The
street had not, been cut
through.
Mr.. Brimmer was married
the year before he bought
the lot and decided he would
build as soon as the city
opened up the street.
But time went by. The
street wasn't cut through.
The lot was inaccessible.
Eight years later, Mr..
Brimmer had three children
and another on the way. He
could wait no longer.
So he bought a row house
at 2214 Thirty-eighth street
NV. and moved in with his
family.
His dream wasn't dead. He
was just waiting. Just as
soon as Brandywine street
reached his lot, he intended
to build.
Meanwhile, he continued
to pay the taxes. He liked to
visit the lot, look at the oak
trees, and dream some more.
TODAY, THREE of Mr..
Brimmer's children are mar
ried and have children of
their own. The baby that
was on the way when the
family moved into the row
house is now Is years old.
Brandywine street was cut
through six years ago. Mr..
Brimmer was overjoyed. He
could go ahead at last.
But then something hap
pened.
The CITY was having a