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Evening star., 1961-05-01
White House PorIey
.eiqhs Laos Action
Truce Offer
Under STUDY
By Kennedy
BY the Associated Press

President Kennedy called in
the National Security Council
again today to weigh a more
active role for the United States
in Strife-torn Laos.
Presumably, Mr.. Kennedy and
his top military and diplomatic
advisers will consider the pos
sibility Of United States and
allied military intervention as
a means of countering Com
munist advances in Laos and
elsewhere in Southeast Asia.
They also may consider
bringing the Laotian problem
before the United Nations.
Any intervention would be
made through the Southeast
Asia Treaty Alliance. =
Lemnitzer in Asia
Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer,
chairman Of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, was to visit Saigon, South
Wet Nam, today on an inspec-
tion tour. In Bangkok, Thai
land. SEATO headquarters, he
declined to discuss the Laos
situation with reporters yeSter-
day.
Today's is the fourth session
of the National Security Coun-
Icil within 10 days. 1t last met
Saturday. Today's meeting may
be the critical one.
Pierre Salinger, White House
press secretary, said it is i'm
probable that any statement will
be issued after today's meeting.
There was a chance tension
in Laos would be eased by the
time Mr.. Kennedy met with
his advisers in late afternoon.
The State Department was
studying news dispatches from
Laos which told of a rebel
backed cease-fire offer.
Although there was no Of
ificial comment in Washington,
one official here said privately
the move by Prince Souvanna
Phouma "iS encouraging-if
true"
Troop Shift Cancelled
While it remained in doubt
whether a cease-fire formula
could be worked out, the United
States Cancelled the airlift of
some 5000 troops to Europe for
a planned NATO exercise.
United States armed forces
appeared to be preparing for
any role they may be called on
to play in Southeast Asia or
elsewhere. And, they were doing
it in a tight-drawn secrecy
equaled only in wartime.
Mr.. Kennedy cut short his
week end rest in the Virginia
countryside yesterday to review
the Laotian crisis with top
Government officials.
Shortly after a helicopter de-
posted him on the White House
lawn, Mr.. Kennedy went into
conference with Secretary Of
State Rusk. They were Joined
by Secretary of Defense Nc
Namara, other State and De-
fenSe Department officials anG
by McGeorge Bundy, special
assistant to Mr.. Kennedy on
national security affairs.
On emerging from the White
House, Mr.. Rusk told reporters
the conference had been on
Laos and other matters"
Chairman Fulbright, Demo-
crat of Arkansas, of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
yesterday firmly opposed send
ing American troops into Laos.
Senator Fulbright acknowl-
See KENNEDY, Page AS
Evening star., 1961-05-01

SuoohS rloek 10 Hovono for Moy Dol
Rites. Pooe As
with a half smile on his face
as Defense Minister Marshal
Rodion MalinovSky addressed
the paraders and the 10000
spectators admitted to the
square.
Maj. Gagarin, Mr.. Khru-
shchev and other top Soviet
leaders watched as Marshal
Malinovsky, saluting and erect
in an open automobile, reviewed
rank upon rank of soldiers
sailors and airmen.
Russians poured into the
capital by the millions for the
holiday, one of the biggest days
of the year in the Communist
world.
The day in Moscow was bitter
cold and cloudy, with rain q
possibility.
Maj. Gagarin, in recorded
May Day greetings broadcast
today. said the day is a festival
Evening star., 1961-05-01
Laos Assured
U. 5. Support
By Hartman
Rowing Envoy Puts
Truce Delay Up
To Khrushchev

VIENTIANE, Laos, May
(AP).-Pledging staunch United
States support to the pro-West-
ern government, w. Averell
Hartman declared today any
delay in a cease fire sis square
Ily up to Premier Khrushchev
and he must bear responsibility
for it."
The rowing ambassador for
President Kennedy came here
from two days of conferences
in the royal capital of Luang
Prabang, where he and Cam
bodia's neutralist chief of state,
Prince Norodom Sihanouk,
pressed for moves to establish
a cease fire as a first step
toward peace.
Mr.. Hartman told a news
conference the United States Is
doing everything possible to
promote the cease fire but will
continue to stand behind the
government in the Laotian
civil war.
SihanOuk Withdraws
Sihanouk told reporters in
Vientiane earlier in the day
that King Savang Vathana OPP
poses a 14-nation peace con-
ference on Laos, a stand that
might throw up another road
block to a cease fire.
But Mr.. Hartman said the
Laotian government of Premier
Boun Oum and the United
States both still favor the IA
nation conference after a cease
fire.
Sihanouk said he is with
drawing his sponsorship be-
cause King Savang Vathana
opposed anything but a settle
ment among the Laotians
themselves.
Sihanouk has been acting in
a role Of mediator in the civil
conflict and it was he who first
suggested the 14-nation con-
ference. The Communicated
rebels made this the corner
stone of their peace proposals
Sihanouk talked to reporters
on a stopover here from Luang
Prabang, the Laotian royal cap
ital. The development came as
government and pro-Commu-
mist rebel emissaries were sup
posed to be seeking each other
out on the front north Of Vien-
tiane to discuss a cease fire.
Sees Fading Chances
The impact of the Kings de-
cision is difficult to assess. The
King by tradition stands aloo1
from politics. But as the crisis
deepened in Laos he took 9
more active role in trying tc
settle the conflict-and the pro-
Western government listened
to his counsels.
Without elaboration, Siha-
nouk said he now feels there il
"a worse chance for peace"
Sihanouk and Mr.. Hartman
conferred the past two days
with the King. during crema-
ton rites at Luang Prabang fol-
the late King Sisivang Wong.
Sihanouk told a news confer
ence in Vientiane that the King
insisted the Laotian factions
must settle their problems
themselves. He said for this
reason he is withdrawing his
invitation to the warning fac
tions to meet at his capital OF
Phoum PENN.
In Difference to the King, he
said he was withdrawing both
Cambodia's sponsorship Of the
l4-nation conference at Geneva
See LAOS, Page At
Evening star., 1961-05-01
S. Plans No Attack
On Cuba, Rusk Says
Morse Expresses Relief on Assurance
During Inquiry Into Invasion Fiusco
By ]. A. O'LEARY
Star Staff Writer

Secretary of State Rusk told Senators today Kennedy
administration has plans to intervene with military force
in Cuba.
This announcement was made by Senator Morse Demo
crat OF Oregon chairman of the Subcommittee
American Affairs after the Secretary of State had briefed
Evening star., 1961-05-01
Eisenhower Refuses
Second Guess on Cuba
Wouldn't Probe Fiusco Tor U-2) Now;
Admits Involvement in Training Troops
By MARY McGRORY
Star staff Writer

GETTYSBURG, Pa. May 1.-Former President Eisen-
hover told the country today he will have part of any
poSmortemS the Cuban fasco.
Nov is not the time to rake the ashes" he said
in the presence Of the full Republican leadership.
II would say that day history will tell the whole
Evening star., 1961-05-01
VARIED READING
ONFEATURE PAGES

A SUFFERER from chronic hives
gets expert advice in Dr.. Peter J.
Steincrohn's column, "Stop Killing
Yourself" Featured olso ore Deor
Abby, Jim Bishop and FomiIy coun-
Gil. Poqe B-l8.
Evening star., 1961-05-01

MOSCOW, May l (AP).-
Moscow celebrated the first
May Day of the space age
today with Cosmonaut Yuri
Gagarin in a place of honor
on the Red Square reviewing
stand next to Nikita Khru-
Shchev.
Looking trim in air force
uniform, Maj. Gagarin stood
Evening star., 1961-05-01

cubons Flock to Havana for Moy Doy
Rites. Poee AS
Evening star., 1961-05-01
THE WEATHER: =. r"II IRE Report or

District and vicinity-Mostly cloudy to-
night and tomorrow with showers and pos
sibly thundershower. Low tonight 56.
High and low Of last "a hours: High, 81,
at 6 am. yesterday; low, SO, at Z am. today.
Evening star., 1961-09-25

it clear that this doesn't carry
over into the domestic field.
Losses Would Hurt
He was quoted as telling con-
gressional leaders that it would
be a critical blow at his ad-
ministration'S world position if
the Democrats should lose a
substantial number of Senate
and House seats. He felt, the
President was said to have
added, that the Democrats are
going to have to fight back
harder than ever against the
Republican attacks on the ad-
ministration'S record.
Democratic National Chair
man John M. Bailey accused
his Republican counterpart yes
terday of responsibility and
of trying Ito make political
capital out of a hfe-and-death
international crisis"
Its dangerous. The Repub-
lican Party ought to have bet
ter sense" Mr.. Bailey told a
Cuyahoga County Democratic
rally in Cleveland.
Mr.. Bailey said that G. o. P.
Chairman Millers recen t
speeches attacking the adminis-
tration's foreign policy are an
attempt to shake the conf
dence of the American people
and divide them just for the
hope of a few votes"
Evening star., 1961-09-25
1862 JAZZ FESTIVAL HERE
HAS INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR

International jazz will to Washington next
spring with the blessing of President Kennedy
The First International Jazz Festival will be held
here in early 1862 under sponsorship of the Presidents
Music Committee Of the People People Program.
The festival will take form in over several
days and will include performances by many major figures
OF the jazz world The festival will feature symphony
orchestra concert an evening of jazz ballet dance
childrens concert and chamber music concert
Compositions by leading jazz writer's will be pre-
miered at the festival The program will include displays
OF original jazz manuscripts art and photography
hbits, discussion groups screenings of motion pictures
about jazz and musicians and a collection of jazz
memorabilia.
Mrs. Jouett SnouSe Music Committee chairman
announced that planning committee been formed to
aid in preparing the festival 1t includes the recording
company executives George Avakian, NeShui Ertegun
and John Hammond and Composers Russell Sanek
and Gunther Schuler.
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Kent Indicted
On Nine Counts
By Grund Jurv

Morris A. Kent, jr., 16, was
indicted by a District grand
jury today on two counts of
rape, three counts Of robbery
and three counts of house
breaking.
Young Kent, who has been
on probation from Juvenile
Court since he was IA years
old, was arrested earlier this
month after police said they
traced him through finger
prints found in a Dupont Cir
Gle area apartment of a 34-
year-old secretary who had
been beaten. robbed and raped
September 2.
According to police, Kent was
a suspect in three rape cases,
two cases of assault with intent
to commi rape and six assaults.
However, the grand jury
charged him only with the rape
of the secretary on September
2, plus the charges of house
breaking and robbery in con-
nection with the same case.
Another incident resulting in
charges Of rape, robbery and
houSebreaking relates to an
assault on woman here in her
apartment on June 5.
The indictment also charges
Kent with housebreaking and
robbery in another apartment
on June IL. The boy was orig
inally under the jurisdiction of
the Juvenile Court here, but
jurisdiction was waived to the
adult District Court on Sep
ember IL, a week after the
boys arrest.
Last Tuesday a District Court
judge refused to order the
youth returned to the Juvenile
Court control, and today's in
dictmen thus becomes he first
step-after waiver-toward an
adult trial.
Evening star., 1961-09-25
HODGES REVEALS
HOW GIRLS FIGURE
IN SECURITY STEPS

CHICAG Sept. 25
(AP) Secretary of Com
merce Hodges today dis
closed one of his depart
ment's closely kept secrets.
Here it is as told by Mr..
Hodges in a speech pre-
pared for the convention
of the National Stationery
and Office Equipment As
sociation:
Many Commerce De-
partment safes contain Sc
cret information, so their
combinations ust be
changed every time there
is a shift in personnel.
The security officer who
handles this job was asked
how he thinks of so many
new combinations.
We'll" he replied. its
not so hard. I look at the
secretary in the office and
make the combination a
reasonable approximation
of her measurements -36
"a 49,"
Evening star., 1961-09-25

who announced the appoint
ment, said Mr.. Mitchell will
continue to serve in his present
post of publisher of the Ameri-
Can Home.
Other changes announced at
Curtis include the appointment
OF John j. Veronis as vice presi-
dent and advertising director
of Ladies Home Journal, sue
ceeding Maurice S. Gould. Mr.
Evening star., 1961-09-25
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Reforms Needed to VitoIize
Civil Service, Macy Says

their co-workers. Identical
Job descriptions frequently fail
to tell the whole story, Mr..
Macy said. Il think we need
more administrative leeway for
the recognition of quality"
6. Expanded training pro-
grams for career development
of employees at all levels plus a
Federal civilian senior staff
college.
7. More aggressive recruit
ment for the Federal service in
the colleges.
s. More disturbance of the
status quo" While not en-
couraging the congenital
trouble-maker, agencies should
take care not to stifle the
man with ideas, the man who
makes people think about what
they are doing and why they
are doing it. This can be a very
useful kind of disturbing in
fluence."
9. Improved employe-man-
agement relations in Govern
ment.
10. General pay reform Of the
entire Federal salary structure.
IL. Better standars for eval-
uation CT employe performance.
y 4
INCENTIVE AWARDS-The
Civil Service Commission dis
closed today that 189,367 Fed
eral employees were rewarded
for ideas and efforts in the
Governments incentive awards
program during the past year.
A total Of 110,295 employees
earned special recognition for
suggestions and ideas, while
1902 were rewarded for high
performance.
! The government paid out
more than S13 million IN cash
awards to these employees. In
return, the government bene-
fitted in the amount of $101,-
467,873 in the way of savings
from beneficial suggestions and
improved work performance.
Evening star., 1961-09-25
RIGHTS
Continued From First Page

/ Continued From First Page
ton in all districts by 1868,
the Tooth anniversary of the
Emancipation Proclamation.
The Kennedy administration
did not indorse legislation to
carry out this provision of the
platform this year, however.
A second commission recon-
mendation-for a cutback in
Federal grants-in-aid to educa-
ton in States where school
segregation existS-appears to
run counter to administration
policy.
Administration spokeSmen
opposed all efforts to add anti
segregation riders to school aid
legislation in Congress this
year.
Nonetheless, five of the six
civil rights commissioners in
dorsed a proposal that Con-
gress fix each States share
Of Federal education grants ac-
cording to it's degree of COM
pliance with the Supreme
Court decision. States where
there was full compliance
would get their full share.
States where there was no
compliance would get only SO
per cent of their normal share,
with a percentage somewhere
between so and 100 going to
States where there was partial
compliance.
Commissioner Robert S.
Rankin, a professor of political
science at Duke University, dis
sented from the recommenda-
ton, saying, Il do not believe
that school children should
be made to suffer for the err
rors of their elders"
Cites New Rochelle
In a parallel recommenda-
ton for colleges. the commits
sion said no Federal funds
should be sent to publicly con-
trolled colleges with discrimi-
natory admission policies.
Four commission members, not
identified by name, said the
same principle should apply to
privately run colleges.
For the first time, in this re-
port, the commission focused
major attention on "de facto"
school segregation in the
North and predicted that the
widely accepted practices of
separating races by careful
drawing of school district
boundaries may be chal-
lenged in the courts.
The decision of a Federal
court in the New Rochelle,
IN. ", case earlier this year,
1t said, was probably the most
significant single event" in the
education rights field since the
Little Rock judgements of
1858.
The court upheld the claim
of Negro parents that school
district lines in the New York
Evening star., 1961-09-25
BY JOSEPH YOUNG
Star Staff Writer

Chairman John Macy of the
Civil Service Commission de-
clares that the present civil SER
vice system has to be draStically
revised to meet the vital needs
of the times.
In an article written for
looking Ahead" the monthly
publication of the National
Planning Association. Mr.. Macy
said the traditional practices of
the civil service system must be
evaluated to ascertain whether
they meet the demanding test
Of future Government obliga-
tions."
Among Mr.. Macy'S proposals
are:
/. The possible withdrawal by
Civil Service Commission from
giving Federal job exams.
perhaps the time has come.
or is coming. when the commits
should go out of the examining
business altogether, discharg-
ing its obligation under the
Civil Service Act by setting
standards, inStructing examin-
ing boards, End inspecting their
activities for ccmp|oance with
regulations" Mr.. Macy de-
clared.
antique Distractions"
The csc already has dele
gated some examining author
ity to exam boards throughout
the country. Giving UP the ex-
amining functions entirely
would enable the csc to give
attention to more vital person.
mel problems.
2. Shortened and simplified
examining and placement pro-
cedures. Mr.. Macy said it now
takes too long before a person
takes an exam and the time
he actually is placed in the job
3. Elimination of antique
distractions" to securing the
best possible people for Fed
Evening star., 1961-09-25

eral jobs. In this category Mr..
Macy declared that the So
called apportionment and mem
bers-of family provisions of the
civil service law have clearly
outlived theih usefulness" and
should be repealed.
Any such artificial restric-
tions as the attempt to distrib-
ute appointments to the Fed
eral service proportionately
throughout all the States, and
the exclusion of qualified ap-
plicants solely because two
members of the family are al
ready employed by the Govern
ment. are wholly inconsistent
with today's labor market, and
operate against, rather than
for, the public interest" MI.
Macy added.
y
MORE CAREER MOBILITY
4. The csc chief also called
fer more career mobility" in
Government, whereby the abl-
est managerial and executive
people can be shifted for vary
ing periods to other agencies
in Government which may need
their services. He criticized
the "provinciality of careers in
a single bureau, the narrowneSs
of occupational and agency
specialization, and the conse-
quent waste of under-utilized
skills or unfulfilled potentials. "
Also, Mr.. Macy urged career
exchanges with governmental
jurisdictions outside the Fed
eral service-with State, county
and municipal Governments
This also would help in the ca
reer development of Fedora,
executives, he declared.
). More pay fleXibility. Mr.
Macy said administrator;
should have the authority tc
reward employees with higher
salaries for excellent work, ever
though their Job descriptions
and the nature of their duties
may technically be the same a!
Evening star., 1961-09-25
RIGHTS
Challenge to North
In Districting Seen

City suburb were "gerryman-
dered" to keep Negro and white
pupils in separate schools. This
decision, the commission said,
may well make ANY existing
segregation D.. constitutional
ly suspect" no matter what its
origin.
Warns Northern Schools
School boards in northern
cities, it said, may have to
prove that (SchooD zoning
follow (raciaD residential pat
terms by coincidence, not de-
sign; that the sites and sizes
Of schools were not fixed to
assure segregation; that racial
residential patterns were not
officially created in the first
instance"
The New Rochelle ruling, the
report said, Challenges many
school boards in the North and
the West which have thought
they were immune from at
tack because existing segrega-
ton did not result from school
assignment explicitly by race"
The commission also recon-
mended that Congress author
ize Federal technical and fl
nancial aid to help school dis
trictS overcome the special
problems connected with desc
gragation. including loans to
districts that have lost State
aid as a result of a decision
to deSegregate.
It called on the President to
take steps to assure that no
children of military personnel
are forced to attend segregated
schools and to assure that IL
braries receiving Federal aid
make their facilities available
to all residents of their COM
munities.
Evening star., 1961-09-25

Gould was named vice presi-
dent for new business develop
ment at the Journal.
John L. Collins, sales man.
ager at the American Home,
succeeds Mrs. Veronis at adver-
tising director of that magazine.
Evening star., 1961-09-25

sion ne expects general agree
ment for an all-out effort to
capture additional House and
Senate seats.
G. o. P. National Chairman
William E. Miller and Repre-
sentative Wilson, Republican of
California, head of the G. o. P.
Congressional Campaign Com
mittee, already have said that
if Republicans work hard
enough they can capture the
House. Senator GoldWater aims
for a nine-seat gain in the
Senate, where the G. o. P.
now is outnumbered "a to SO.
Hard Attacks FOreseen
From the tack taken recently
by Gen. Eisenhower and the
three party chairman, Presi-
dent Kennedy and his advisers
have concluded they can eX-
pect hard-Swinging attacks by
the Republicans on foreign
policy actions as well as on
domestic programs.
Mr.. Kennedy was reported
by close associates as having
been upset about Gen. EiSen-
hower's recent attack on his
handling of international de-
velopmentS. Mr.. Miller has been
especially critical of the Presi-
dents role in the Berlin crisis.
Senator Goldwater and MI.
Wilson have added to this
chorus.
The President has decided,
it was said, not to answer any
of these attacks himself but
to work at preserving the sur
face bipartisanship on inter-
national matters. There is every
expectation that as negotia-
tions over Berlin get in the
tough stages he will call on
Gen. Eisenhower to stand be-
side him.
But Mr.. Kennedy has made
Evening star., 1961-09-25
E. Kent Mitchell
Heads MAGAZINE

PHILADELPHIA. Sept. Is
ape. Kent Mitchell has
been appointed general man.
ager of the Ladies Home
Journal.
Robert E. Macneal, president
of the Curtis Publishing Co.,
Evening star., 1961-09-25
Elisabeth in Peipinq

TOKYO, Sept. 25 (AP). -
Queen Dowager Elisabeth Of
Belgium arrived in Peiping to-
day on a goodwill trip, Peiping
Radio reported. She was in
vited by Sal Chou, president Of
Communist China's National
Women'S Federation.
Evening star., 1961-09-25
GO. P. Plans AII-Out
Campaign for Congress
BY JACK BELL
Associated Press Staff Writer

outline for get-tough campaign against the Demo-
the 1862 congressional elections may of
meeting today of three party leaders with former President
Eisenhower
Chairman Godwaer Of the G. o. p Senatorial Campaign
Committee said before he left for the Gettysburg
Evening star., 1961-04-01
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Evening star., 1961-04-01
Army to Let I2-Acre Troct

ported crops In surplus
supply will be prohibited.
Sealed bids on the property
will be received by the Real
Estate Division, Army Engi-
neer District. Washington,
First and Douglas streets
NV, until 2 pm. April II.
Evening star., 1961-04-01

The Army Engineers is Of
fering a tract of some II
acres at the Fort Detrick
Military Reservation, Fred
erick County, Md, for a five
year lease beginning about
the middle of April.
Use of the land will be
limited to agricultural pur-
poses and still further to the
growing of hay grasses and
canning or truck crops.
Cultivation of price-sup-