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Kennedy Hears From De GouIIe

an able soldier. He has an
excellent intelligence from
a number of Iron Curtain
countries where the French
prestige and love for France
have remained steady over
the centuries. He has formed
the opinion, shared to a great
degree by professional SOL
diers here and abroad, that
the Kremlin is using its un-
questionable strides in rock
etry for intimidation and
blackmail purposes. The Rus
sian general staff has not
lost it's excellence. 1t knows
we'll that the Western bloc
is capable of a devastating
retaliation should anybody in
the Kremlin be FOOLS h
enough to press the button"
Moreover, what purpoS
would an aggressive nuclear
war serve for the aggrandiZe-
ment of international COM
munism when the lands it
wishes to dominate were laid
waste? Hence, the Russian
insiStence, cleverly disguised
by missile-rattling, that the
world return to conventional
warfare. This suits the Soviet
purposes because of the mas
Sive manpower it possesses
now, as it has in the past.
Despite the Soviet man
power superiority, Mr.. De
Gaulle is convinced that
NATO can more than meas
ure up to the Russian mas
Sive forces. He seems con-
vinced that if we don't show
weakness time is on our side.
The militant reactionary
forces of. international COM
munism will be politically de-
feated, provided that the ma
jor nations of the free world
remain unyielding on mat
terS of principles and don't
accept even a Sugar-coated
solution to questions such as
Berlin and the future of the
free African countries.
According to some know
ledgeable sources, the friend
ly and almost fatherly COM
munication of the French
chief of state impressed
President Kennedy who has
recently described himself
jokingly as an ardent De
Gaullist.
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BY the Associated Press

The House Agriculture Com
mittee yesterday approved, but
with little enthusiasm, a State
Department recommendation to
cut United States sugar pur-
chases from the Dominican
Republic.
The action came in commit
tee Endorsement of an admin
istration bill to extend the
United States Sugar Act.
Under the bill, marketing
quotas are fixed for domestic
and foreign supplierS of the
American market. from March
81, 1861, to December 81, 1862.
Committee members said a
first informal vote for the anti
Dominican plan was 17-15,
Later the committee formally
approved a bill with the pro-
vision, 25-6.
The State Department asked
authority to prevent the Do
Iminican Republic from getting
benefits from the halt in Amer
lean purchases of sugar from
Cuba. United States officials
said the authority, which does
not affect the Dominican Re.
public's regular quota Of 10000
tons, was asked because tht
United States does not wan
to be in the position of taking
something from one dictator tt
give it to another.
Authority to continue th'
ban on United States Sugal
purchases from Cuba is in thC
full bill approved by the com
mittee.
! The Dominican Republic wa
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Bailey Plans
To Increase
Party Talks
BY the Associated Press

Democratic National Chair
man John M. Bailey says he
intends to make more use of
the party's Executive Commit
tee than his predecessors did
Il will meet with them oc-
casionally to provide a conduit
of ideas from the national Level
back to the local organiza
tionS," Mr.. Bailey told report
ers before his first meeting
with the group today since he
became chairman.
Eight of the II Executive
Committee members were to
meet in closed session with the
chairman to discuss fund
raising to erase a 1860 cam
paign deficit of $2.8 million,
and ways to strengthen party
organizations.
Included in the deficit figure
is an item Of $35O,000 to pay
for expenses of President Ken
nedy and his Staffs between
election day November 8 and
Inauguration Day January 20
The Federal Government
not the national committees
should pay these travelling and
other expenses of a new ad-
ministration preparing to as
sumo power" Mr.. Bailey tolo
reporters.
One big affair being arranged
to get the committee in the
black is a dinner here May 81
to celebrate President Ken
nedy's 44th birthday, which
actually is on May 90.
Mr.. Bailey met with five
former national chairmen al
luncheon yesterday and formed
an ex-chairmen's organization
headed by James A. Farley
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comply with the program,
which is designed to reduce
feed grain. production this year.
The programmes presented
to CongreSS-would offer high
er supports at $1.20 a bushel
for corn, and payments to
farmers who reduce grain acre
ages in line with the program.
Those who did not cut back
would be left to the mercy of
prices which the Secretary
could depress by dumping sur
plus grain on the market.
Senate Version
The Senate passed a version
of the program yesterday by a
1926 vote which did not carry
this sale authority. Many Sem
ators claimed such authority
would give the Secretary too
much power over markets.
The House, on the other
hand, passed bill Thursday
carrying this sale authority.
Senator Ellender, Democrat
of Louisiana, who 5teared the
Senate bill, said House ccm-
promisers must drop the provi-
sion "or there will oe no bill. "
A March Is deadline has
been set for passage Of a bill
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RALPH McGILL

A visitor to the office
where the unique Peace Corps
is being organized was soon
caught up by the enthusiasm
and the dynamic dreams of
those involved.
Look" he said, "all this is
wonderful. You have here
some of the finest go-ahead
persons I've ever met. Haven't
you got one or two dour
characters around here who
are sitting in a corner say
ing, 1T won't Work'?'
The Peace Corps won't
have any such brakes put on
it's planning or dreaming for
the reason it is a sound one
and is headed by a young
man who believes in it-R.
Sargent Shriver. 1t already
has stirred the imagination
of thousands of young men
and women who want to ex-
press their own ideals in
tangible form and, at the
same times serve their coun-
try.
Basically, the Peace Corps
idea is a missionary one. The
men and women who serve in
it will do so without pay.
Mr.. Shriver himself will be
in that category. They will
go, when trained and ready,
to countries in Latin Amer
lea, Africa and Asia, where
there are shortages of teach
erS, agricultural experts and
persons who know how to set
up and manage offices and
programs for various agen-
cies, health needs, press re-
lations, and legislative pro-
grams covering needs in all
these fields.
The Peace Corps will sup
plement, not suprlant, exist
ing aid programs. Mr.. Shriver
emissions a Nationwide re-
cruitment. Volunteers will be
sent, from a carefully
screened pool, though private
agencies, universities, United
States Government agencies,
United Nations agencies, and
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Missionary Type Program Called Sound
And Beneficial to All Sides

directedly administered Peace
Corps programs.
Mr.. Shriver sees the dan
gers. Despite screenings,
there is rather sure to be a
few persons sent abroad who
don't fit in and who involve
themselves. the corps and
their country in embarrass-
ing situations. There will be
an occasional one who will
come home to do a SenSa-
tional, accusing magazine
article or interview. All this
is anticipated and will be
avoided insofar as careful Sc
lection permits.
There already are critics
who denouncH the Peace
Corps as an odd-ball outfit.
And, in the sense that it is
new, imaginative and daring,
it is. We live in time when
those who think Federal aid
to education is necessary are
labeled radical liberals, and
those with a new, fresh idea
are odd-ballS to those whose
view of today is that it is
really yesterday-or ought to
be, if it isn't.
1t will not be an easy thing
to be a missionary for peace
and the basic American
ideals. But thousands of
young college students and
graduates are already inter
ested in trying. Those who
are selected will receive spe-
cial training. Subjects for
Peace Corps study are: In
tenSive language courses and
completion of classes in his
tory, economies, politics and
culture of the area as well
as sufficient study of Ameri-
can history and society.
The corps will not be re-
stricted to college graduates
But all who are chosen will
receive special training
courses of from six weeks to
six months, depending on
their preparation and assign
ment.
The target is to recruit the
best qualified of this years
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POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Republican lament for 64: Not even Rockefeller COM
plete with mandolin match that White House dweer
the lovely Caroline.
They say the Presidency is the hardest job in the world
and the Vice Presidency of the easiest So why has
Jack Kennedy gained 10 pounds while Lyndon johnson
has been losing 20?
Jack Paar and Ed Sullivan feud guest star fees
To hear Sullivan tell it, Paar pays TV performer as
though he were Dick Nixon after the first debate
Iowa Football Coach Forest Evashevski will head a
division of the peace and bring Rose Bowl touch
football to the Congo.
Another Kennedy brother-in-law. Steve Smith, gets
Government job. This is civilized New Frontier.
1t is neither lawless in-awless.
Republican Congressman Kearns claims Democrat
Adam Clayton Powell seeks "evict" him from office
G. o. P chant: Lock the door and holer foul Adam
Clayton's the prowl"
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if it is to have any effect on
this years crops.
Anticipating trouble and de-
lay, administration farm Off
cialS have started drafting a
compromise plan that avoids
the controversial sale authority
for the Secretary.
Other Plan Eyed
One plan under constdera-
ton would retain the present
$1.O6 a bushel support for corn,
All growers would be eligible
for the support but farmers
who cut back acreages in line
with the program would get
Government payments Suffi-
cient to bring their return on
corn up to the $1.20 originally
proposed
In other words, the support
would be supplemented by a
14-cent payment. This pay
ment would be in addition to
what the Government would
pay on land withheld from pro-
duction.
The theory of this plan is
that retention of the present
price support rate would keep
non-complying farmers from
benefiting from price-boostine
effects that would flow from
the $1.20 rate. Hence, there
would be more incentive to &c
along with the program, gel
the S1.06 support rate plus the
14-cent support payment anc
the additional payment on the
retired land.
Under this plan, there woulc
be no need for the Secretary
to have authority to sell Gov
ernment grain to depress prices
of the nonco-operating farmers
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Farm Support
Boost0rdered
BY the Associated Press

Secretary of Agriculture
Freeman has ordered increases
in Government support prices
for dairy products, rice and
peanuts, a move he says will
boost farm income by from
81 billion to 81 billion.
Mr.. Freeman said yesterday
the increases will have small if
any effect on per unit consumer
prices.
He denied there was any
connection between his action
and Senate debate on Presi-
dent Kennedy's emergency feed
grain program. Eastern Sena-
tors have argued the feed grain
bill will increase feed grain
costs for the dairy industry.
Senator Aiken, Republican of
Vermont, said during the de-
bate that since the hike in
dairy support prices was
planned by Mr.. Freeman he
was dropping his effort to
force this action by amend
ment to the feed grain bill.
The support price for milk
used for manufacturing was
set at $3.40 a hundredWeight,
up 18 cents. The support for
butterfat was put at 60.4 cents
a pound, compared with the
old rate of 59.6 cents.
! The new dairy supports go
into effect immediately.
The new support for rice, ef-
fective with this years crop,
was set at SAT- a hudred-
weight compared with SAP for
last years crop.
The peanut support was set
at 1921 a ton for 1861 COM
pared with $201.24 for last
years crop.
The peanut support was set
at 1921 a ton for 1861 COM
pared with $201.24 for last
years crop.
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Hoffu States
JuIyEIection,
Sees Victory
IN the Associated Press

James R. Hoffa has Sched-
uled a special TeamSterS Un-
ion convention to start July
3 at the Deauville Hotel,
Miami Beach, Fla, at which
he will stand for reelection
as the unions president.
A monitor arrangement to
supervise the unions affairs
after corruption charges had
been eleveled at the Team
sters' leadership was dissolved
last week by the United States
District Court here, clearing
the way for new election.
Mr.. Hoffa's original election
to a five-year term in 1857
was challenged as rigged. Un-
der terms of the court order
he will stand for reelection
and expects to win a new
presidential term.
In his call to local unions
to elect 2,100 delegates and
as many alternates as local
unions desire to send to the
special convention, Mr.. Hoffa
urged that delegate selection
be conducted by secret ballot
in the locals in accord with
election procedures laid down
by the court and by Federal
labor law.
Teamsters headquarters ad-
vised all locals to conduct del
egate elections with the su-
pervision of outside election
agencies where practicable
Besides holding officer elec-
tions, the convention will con-
slider proposed changes in the
unions constitution. Also Mr.
Hoffa will recommend tha'
the union broaden it's jurisdic.
tional field to take in any typt
Of workers not now organized
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CONSTANTINE BROWN
French Chiefs Friendly Reply Cites
Strono Points of Free World

President Kennedy has
been busy writing affable
personal letters to important
heads of state, from Nikita
Khrushchev to Charles de
Gaulle. In these miSSiveS he
assured them all of his de-
votion to the cause of peace
and of his intense desire to
see an end to the present
world tensions.
Although, according to in
formed sources, Mr.. Kennedy
has not committed himself
to any particular solution
except the generality that
peace must be achieved lest
civilization perish-his let
ters are said to eXude good
will toward all and malice
toward none.
The reaction of men such
as Chancellor Adenauer has
been instantaneous. The
Government of the West
German Republic rushed to
the assistance of the dollar
by revaluing the mark de-
spite the grumblingS of
many segments of the Ger
man industrial population
and despite the fact that
Mr.. Adenauer has to face the
German electorate next fall.
The British took advan-
tage of the Presidents ardent
desire for global relaxation
of tensions by making a pub
lie announcement that Her
MajeSty'S government would
actively support the admis-
sion of Communist China to
the United Nations.
President De Gaulle is re-
ported to have answered with
an almost "affectionate" let
ter. But, according to know
ledgeable sources, there was
an admonition in the flow
cry style of the French Pres
ident to his almost 80 years
younger colleague, not to
chase too hard for the will
of the WiSp. Under Mr.. De
Gaulle's iron hand France has
emerged in the last two years
as the determining power in
Europe.
Although France is smaller
and less prosperous than its
neighbor across the Rhine,
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the De Gaulle policies have
made it the leader of what
many describe now as the
European bloc. Mr.. De Gaulle
used to be described as a re-
dictionary in the days before
he become a virtual dictator
by the consent of his own
people in a free election. AS
a matter of fact, however,
his domestic policies as well
as those he has followed in
Frances African colonies
and more recently in Algeria
show him to be a liberal.
He is determined, however,
to see that French domestic
and overseas problems are
settled by France herself
without any inmixtWe of
outsiders and in particular
the United Nations which he
considers as a moribund
body.
Mr.. De Gaulle, like Mr..
Adenauer and other NATO
leaders, is anxious to see the
present world strains reduced
to a minimum. But he does
not believe. apparently, in
rushing headlong into any
kind of agreement with the
Soviet Union. which has been
waging a relentless cold war
for the last Is years. Any
kind of concessions, without
a solid, worthwhile, quid pro
quo, he insists, would serve
only to further weaken the
Western world.
Mr.. De Gaulle contends.
and is said to have indicated
in typical delicate French
phraseology to Mr.. Kennedy,
that the free West - the
United States and the pres
ent massive continental Eur
opean bloc from the Channel
to the Elbe-repreSentS the
most powerful organization
tho world has ever seen It's
assets are a combined pop
ulation of more than 300 mil
lion people with enormous
resources, ability, agility and
knoW-how. 1t represents an
impressive military power, SO
long as we do not give up our
main deterrent, nuclear wea-
pons and missiles.
The French President is
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Lodqe to Install

Robert S. Birns Of Forest
Knobs, Silver Spring, will be
installed as president of Her.
itage Lodge of B'nai Birth
Langley Park, Md. at a dAner
at 8 pm. next Saturday at the
Villa Rosa. $40 Roeder road
Silver Spring.
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Bourd to Meet

The District Recreation
Board will hold it's regular
monthly meeting at tbs pm
Tuesday at 3149 Sixteenth
street NV. The 1868 budget
will be discussed.
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Compromise Sought
In Feed Grain Dispute
BY the Associated Press

The Kennedy administration is working on compromise
settle differences between the Senate and the House
the emergency feed grain program.
The chief point of controversy provision to give Secre
tary Agriculture authority sell Government
surplus less than support and market prices
Such sales would epress and farmers to
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Novel Pillows

Pillows in unusual shapes,
but matched in fabric to the
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1000 See
New Homes

Some 1000 peopl turned
out for the opening of the
new Ridgeview Estates de-
velopment in Montgomery
County, Q spokesman for the
builders has reported.
The builder, the B. Con-
struction Co., has completed
six homes in the new COM
munity which is at Fairland-
BeltSville road and Fair
Ridge drive, some is miles
west of new Route 20.
John P. Fitzsimons is
architect of the homes which
are all electric, eve to the
heating which is by heat
pump. The building firm
plans q total of $50 homes
for the community, accord
ing to Andris Realty, the
agent.
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$2.2 Billion
Mortgage Debt
Rise Noted

The total nonfarm home
mortgage debt increased $2.2
billion to o total Of $144
billion during the first quar-
ter Of this year. the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board
reported this week.
The increase was seven
per cent below that registered
: in the first quarter Of 1860,
the THLBB said, and the
quarter marked the sixth
consecutive one in which the
: increase has been less than
the year earlier one.
However, the agency said
that the decreases had been
steadily narrowing in recent
quarters and it predicted that
when second quarter data are
collected they will show an
increase over the second
quarter last year.
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Right Paint
For the Job

Flat paints are recon-
mended for walls and cell
ings because they diffuse
light evenly without glare.
This is true for living
rooms, bedrooms, and din
ing rooms, but for baths and
kitchens where greater re-
sistance to moisture is de-
sired. use gloss or semi-gloSs
paints and enamels. The
latter are recommended for
woodwork, too, because they
can be scrubbed.
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Fabrics Can Soften Modern Upholstery

Sofa is red, one chair is light
green, another is cream col
ored leather. Rug ID light
grey and the woodwork is
natural. What color should I
paint the walls and ceiling
and what should / have for
draperies?
Al. A light, green color
could be used for the walls;
for the ceiling, an even light
er shade You might select
a small scale print for the
draperies and some cushions.
The print could have a pale
green background with a de-
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BY BETTY PEPlS
Contributing Writer

seating piece, are another'
evidence of this trend to
draw attention to upholstery
which, until recently. has
been taking q back seat.
Half-moons and hexagonals
are two popular forms.
Finishing touches, like con-
trasting bindings, and three
rope-like welts instead Of the
usual single one, are other
factors contributing to this
new dressmaker look.
Questions and Answers
@. My living room is small
with very little wall space.
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sign in rosy-red and cream
color. Have some rosy-red in
the accessories.
@: Our bedroom set is blond
oak and there are, in the
room, floor to ceiling dra-'
peries to conceal a storage
space. The walls are now a
deep blue, what other color
would you suggest? We have
two other bedrooms, one is
in applebloSsom, the other
pale green. We want some-
thing different for this one.
A: A muted aquamarine
blue should be a good back
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ground color for the blond
oak furniture. Use this same
color for the draperies that
conceal the storage space.
At the windows. however, use
a print in perhaps aqua
marine, Bristol blue and
white. BedSpread should be
plain aqua, dust ruffle Of
print If you'd like. Cover a
chair in same print. Use
Bristol blue and crisp white
for accessories.
Q: I am in a quandary
about decorating my living
room. Walls are ivory and
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white chintz print covers an:.
other chair and the same
chintz for draperies. The rug
is green.
A: I think a pale. muted
green that blends with the,
rug would be a pleasant back
ground with the colors you,
now have in the room. Paint
the ceiling the same color, or.
a little lighter.
"a Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate Festure)
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two chairs could be in warm
shade Of apricot. Draperies
should be in a textured fabric,
raw silk type of weave? in the
ivory color of the walls. In
troduce some deep, rich bot
tie green in the room in ac-
cessories, pillows.
@: What color should I
paint my white unfinished
plaster walls. We have a red
sofa, a green chair. Red and
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the rug is grey. 1t is a small
room and has very. little wall
space. Could you please sug-
gest colors to use for a sofa,
two chairs, draperies and ac-
cessories? Would a print be
all RICH ton the sofa?
A: 1t would be better not
to use q print on the sofa
since your living room is so
small. 1t could be covered in
either ivory or soft grey. The