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dreds of known-but untouched
-racketeers.
AS a result of these reports
Mr.. Kennedy gave this APP
praisal:
IT say the situation is worse
than it was 10 years ago in
terms of the financial power of
the racketeers, the extent OF
their operations, the number OF
people involved and their polit-
ical power. That power includes
the corruption of some local
police forces"
He disclosed that the Justice
Department now has informa-
ton on three major race wire
networks serving the gambling
world through telephone hook
ups.
Our information Is such
that we now know the details
of these wire setups. The
gamblers can't operate without
them" he said. These are
cases where it would appear we
could move ahead with prose-
cutions if we had the legislation
we need on the books"
Drive Tops Expectations
Mr.. Kennedy also disclosed
that the co-ordinated ap-
proach to organized crime that
he mapped out soon after TAX
ing office has progressed fur
ther than he expected by this
time.
He said the information
coming from the FBI, Fedora
Bureau of Narcotics, Interna.
Revenue Service, Immigration
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-13
AFTER SIX MONTHS
Undromotic Rusk
Wants 1t That Woy
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer

If the country at large has
no clear idea of what Secretary
of State Dean Rusk is all about
as a human being, it is because
he wants it that way.
II do not think the public
policy should turn on the per-
sonality of one man." he says.
Dean Rusk is not important.
What is important is the office
of the Secretary of State.
would rather that the country
should say after a situation has
been resolved, That man has
been working hard"
His recent predecessors had
wildly defined styles. Dean
Acheson was the dapper, sharp
tongued advocate in the courts
of world opinion; John Foster
Dulles, an air-borne missionary
ceaselessly fitted through the
caplColS OF the world, preaching
to the natives the Brightness of
our cause.
But Mr.. Rusk, a large quiet
man whose press conferences
are drab and whose very asides
are guarded, has not yet con-
jured UP an image in the pub
lie mind. He has, however, a
clear idea Of his role.
Target of Speculation
"The primary task of the
Secretary of State is to serve
the President" he says.
In personality conscious
Washington, the senior officeI
of the cabinet has been the
subject of endless, baffled
speculation. Was it his ten
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years as the head of the Rookie
Teller Foundation, listening to
the pleas of mendicants that
made him so impressive? What
is his relationship to the Pres
ident, a younger man, whom
he never knew until chosen to
bear with him the terrible bur-
dens of war and peace?
Mr.. Acheson and Mr.. Truman,
despite their disparate back
grounds, got along swimming
ly: Mr.. Eisenhower held Mr.
Dulles is fraternal affection
took every public opportunity
to praise and defend him.
BY contrast, Mr.. Kennedy
See RUSK, Page AZ
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Presidents Niece
Chokes on Formula

SANTA MONICA, Calf, Aug.
IL (AP) .-Six-week-o old Robin
Leslie Lawford, niece of Pres
ident Kennedy, started choking
today and was rushed from her
home to Santa Monica Emer-
gency Hospital in a police car
with her nurse.
Hospital attendants treated
and released her. They said she
apparently had choked on her
formula but was in good condi-
ton. The baby is in the nurses
care while her parents, actor
Peter Lawford and the former
Patricia Kennedy, are vaca-
tioning in Europe.
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CorcoranGefs
Art Treasures
PIuns of Gallery
Win Acceptance

Mrs. Edith Gregor Halpert
said yesterday she will give the
valuable Halpert Collection of
modern American art to the
Corcoran Gallery here and is
working to garner other dom
ors' paintings for the gallery.
The Halpert Collection is the
largest of the collections re-
Gently offered to and at first
reluctantly refused by the
Corcoran Gallery. In total, the
collections are valued at a min
imum Of 50 million.
The Corcoran did not feel it
could comply with one of the
conditions placed on the gift,
the construction of a new wing
to the gallery. Subsequently, it
offered to set aside part of the
. present building as a wing for
goth century American art.
Mrs. Halpert told The Star
yesterday that the Corcoran is
certain Of getting a collection
Of modern art"
Other Names Secret
Her collection, she said, will
be presented all at one time. If
the other owners agree to the
new conditions, their art prob
ably will come to the gallery
piece by piece, Mrs. Halpert
said from her summer home at
Newtown, Conn.
She said she talked with the
other two prime donors by
telephone recently but that
they had not received official
correspondence from the Cor
coran and could not commit
themselves.
The donors names, which
have remained secret even from
the Corcoran, will be received
here Tuesday. Mrs. Halpert
said. This will permit George
e. Hamilton, jr.. president of
See CORCORAN, Page ALL
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ly not a swap" because the
United States would have re-
turned the $4,000 Cuban craft
under due legal processes any
way.
But the agreement had all
the other appearances of a
trade, with Cuba's Castro
regime agreeing to send a crew
to Key West Tuesday to pick
up the patrol boat and the
United States sending a crew
to Havana to return the air.
liner the same day.
AirIiner Worth S3.2 Million
In terms of a trade, the
United States got the better of
the deal because the four
engine airliner is worth some
$3.2 million.
But the airliner wasn't doing
Prime Minister Fidel Castro
much good because he did not
have equipment handy to start
it and if he had flown it OUT
side Cuba, it might have been
seized by foreign officials.
The Electra was hijacked to
Havana July "a by a gun-toting
passenger. The craft had been
on a run from Miami to Tampa,
New Orleans and Dallas.
Prime Minister Castro
promptly released the 80 pas
sengers and 5 crew members
but kept the hijacker.
His possession of the plane
in the face Of continued United
States demands for it's release
helped raise Washington tenn
peratures to near-boiling point
earlier this week with the hi
lacking Of Pan American jet
liner to Havana. But it turned
See CUBA, Page All
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DC. Rebuffs
RosenbergBid
Conditional Permit
Offer Is Denied
By SAM EASTMAN and
ROBERTA HORNIG
Star staff Writers

0bnE 6t1AA "Ai1OAs
A deal under which Ross
Rosenberg would have dropped
his current fight for used cal
dealers permit in return for 8
salesman's license now, an6
possibly a dealers license later
has been rejected by licensing
officials.
The compromise, repeatedly
discussed by both Mr.. Rosen-
berg's lawyer and the District
assistant corporation counsel
handling the case was this:
Mr.. Rosenberg would with
draw his request for a used car
dealers license, which has set
off shakedown, conflict-of-in-
terest and political pressure
charges.
In return, the District would
give Mr.. Rosenberg, immedi-
ately and without qualifica-
ton" a used car salesman's
permit. In addition, the city
was to pledge, in effect, that
Mr.. Rosenberg would have a
running start on winning q
dealers license later this year
Record Would Decide
Under this last point, Mr.
Rosenberg would be given q
dealers permit November l il
he keeps a clean record as a
salesman. He has held a tenn
porary Salesman's license here
since June.
But on Friday, j. J. Ilgen-
fritz, chief of the Department
of Licenses and Inspection
turned down the plan.
Asked to comment yesterday
Mr.. Rosenberg's attorney, Der.
nard T. Levin. said his client
See LICENSE, Page Ali
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U. S. Pledges ST Billion Aid TO Latin
Motions by March. Poee Az

interested in the promised dol
lars of the Alliance for Progress
than in the profound economic
and social reforms United
States Treasury Secretary Dill
Ion has emphasized they must
take to get them.
For their part the Latin
Americans are sceptical about
final congressional approval oil
the American share of $40 bill
lion aid promised. They also
suspect the United States aims
to control closely how it is
spent.
And off in the wings the
Cuban delegation led by Err
nesto (Che) Guevara, firebrand
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Uruguay Conference
Vexed by Suspicious
BY GEORGE SHERMAN
Star Staff Writer

PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay
Aug. 12.-Despite all the fine
words blowing through this
windy resort on the cold At
lantic shore, an undercurrent
of suspicion runs through the
special Inter-American Eco
nomic and Social Conference.
The United States suspects
the Latin Americans are more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-13
Rockets in U. S. Called
Far Worse Than in 81
Robert Kennedy Cites Race Wire Data,
Stresses Need for Anti Crime Bills
BY MIRIAM OTTENBERG
Star staff Writer

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said yesterday
that organized crime in America today far than
it at the time of the Kefauver hearings decade ago
He's got intelligence reports which he says prove it.
More than half dozen Federal agencies chan
neing information into the Justice Department hun
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-13
Cuba to Surrender
Hiiacked Air|iner
U.S.. Will Return
Patrol Boat Held
For Castro Debt
By the Associated Press

The State Department an
nounced last night Cuba has
agreed to return the hijacked
Eastern Airlines Electra and
the United States will return a
hijacked Cuban patrol vessel
next Tuesday.
Press Officer Joseph w. Reap
said the agreement is definite
Pilot Of Hiiueked PIone Urges Armed
Guards. Poee Al
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East zoneAc
On Bloc sCaII
To Halt Exodus
Refugees Flow
Muy Be Biggest
Day in 8 Years

BERLIN, Sunday, Aug. 10
(AP)-East Germany's Com
munists sealed the border be-
tween East and West Berlin
early today at least to Ger
mans.
The border closing was a
lightning response to a direc-
tive from Soviet Russia and her
East Bloc partners for "a re-
liable watch and effective con-
troll" to stop the refugee flood
from East Germany.
West Berlin customs first re-
ported the main crossing point
at Brandenburg Gate was
closed.
They have shut it tight"
said an officer. Cars cannot
go through in either direction,
no pedestrians either"
Later West Bedlin head
quarters said the entire border
was closed.
Elevated Hats
Service was halted on the
elevated rail line, run by the
Communists. which links East
and West Berlin and is the
main line for escaping refugees
as well as East Berlin COM
muters who work in West Ber-
lin.
The Communists also were
hating cars and pedestrians
police said.
I'm sorry but you'll have to
ring off," a police inspector
said to a reporter who called
I'VE need all telephone lines
urgently for official calls"
An Associated Press reporter
drove a car with allied mill
tary license plates through the
Brandenburg Gate, however
This may mean the border
closing applies only to Ger
mans-not foreigners. A Com
munist officer told the re-
porter there were no special
orders as far as the reporter
was concerned.
Effective Control Ordered
Customs officers on the
Western side of the Brandon
burg Gate said elevated trains
stopped running at 1870 am.
and German cars were barred
after 2::30 am.
Soviet Russia and other
Communist nations in the
Warsaw Pact, in a directive is
sued to East Germany early
today, demanded a reliable
watch and an effective con-
troll" around West Berlin-in-
GLIDING the border between
East and West Berlin. The di-
receive was published by the
East German news agency
Adm.
There was no immediate re-
port of what concrete action
was taken, but the terms of
the statement made it plain
that the appeal was directed
against the refugees.
Refugees slipped into West
Berlin faster than ever today
despite all Communist efforts to
hold them back by force and
propaganda appeals.
West Berlin authorities said
that between 4 pm. Friday and
$50 pm. today 1852 new ar
rivals registered at Marien-
felde. reception camp. This
was the highest figure recorded
for any similar period during
the current rush. Additional
See REFUGEES, Page AS
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Toduy's Star

obloId
Also SUNDAY, The Star Magazine;
This Week Magazine, ~ Moso-
zine, Comic Section and Fall Grow
ure CotoIoe Of Curtis Brothers Furn-
iture.
Index Of Subjects
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THE WEATHEP. Full Report
on Poss B-2

District and vicinity-Mostly sunny and
pleasant today with the high in the lower
sos. Fair and cooler tonight with the low
near "a. Fair and continued pleasant to-
morrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-31
7 Prince William
Schools Integrute

OCCOQUAN, Va, Aug. 81
Three Negro children entered
two white Prince William
County schools today without
incident.
Two children walked into Oc-
coquan Elementary School and
one went to Garfield High
School as county schools were
integrated for the first time.
There was no police activity
at either school, though officers
from the County sheriff's Of
flee patroled near the high
school.
School Supt. Stuart Beville
said the admission of the Negro
children to the two schools
came off peacefully.
Our theory" he said, has
been to take care of these
children exactly as we would
any other children"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-31
Road Blast
In Fairfax
Draws Fine

A construction supervisor
working on the new inter-
state Route 66 through Fairfax
County was fined $500 yester-
day for blasting without a
permit.
Otis DunCanSOn, supervisor
for J. o. and C. M. Stuart, In
corporated, contractors for an
8-mile section of the road
between Fairfax City and Cen
treville, pleaded guilty to the
charge. Judge j. Mason Grove,
who levied the fine, suspended
$75 Of it.
Mr.. DunCanson was charged
last Friday after residents in
the area of construction near
Germantown road complained
a blast had showered large
boulders on their homes.
Fire Marshal Willies Burton,
whose office investigated the
complaints, said about a ton
and a half of dynamite had
been set off. Some boulderS
were thrown 300 feet, he said,
shaking houses and damaging
plaster.
A temporary injunction was
also issued Friday by Circuit
Court Judge Paul E. Brown re-
straining the contractors from
further blasting. That order is
still in effect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-31
Enjoys Wife
Fails to Identify
Robbery Suspect

The wife of the Costa Rican
Ambassador has failed to iden-
tify a 21-year-old suspect as
the man who beat and robbed
her in the Embassy last Satur-
day.
Mrs. Manuel G. Escalante
and her sister, Mrs. Carmen
McCurdy, who also was at
tackled, failed to pick the man
out at a special lineup at Police
Headquarters yesterday after
noon.
The suspect, however, identi-
fled by police as Harold Thorn
ton, of the 100 block of Abbey
place NE. was charged with
the June 5 rape of a District
woman on California street
NV, less than two blocks from
the Costa Rican Embassy. That
woman picked him out in a
lineup earlier yesterday.
Thornton already was being
held in connection with a rob-
berry at the home of GuStave
Ring, 2432 Massachusetts, ave-
nue. NV. His bond was set in
that case at $4,000.
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Big Bandit Gets
More Than $500
At Liquor Store

A fat, gaily-clad gunman took
between $500 and $7OO from a
Silver Hill liquor store last
night after expressing regrets
to two clerks, Prince Georges
County police reported.
The bandit first asked for two
fifthS of Scotch at Meyers
Liquor Store, 1901 Silver Hill
road, according to one of the
clerks, Joseph P. Breen, 46, of
5000 Brinkey road, Oxon Hill.
Il told him $12.52 plus tax
and reached for a paper bag.
He pulled a gun and a bag out
of his coat pocket and said to
put the money in it" Mr.. Breen
said.
Mr.. Breen said the gunman
ordered him not to put any
checks in the paper bag. The
gunman added that he didn't
want to do this" Mr.. Breen
said.
Before fleeing, the bandit or
dered Mr.. Breen and the other
clerk. Paul E. Meyers, 81, of
4817 Temple Hill road, Temple
Hill, to lie on the floor behind
the counter.
Police broadcast a lookout for
a Negro. IS years old, about six
feet tall, weighing about 300
POUNDS. and wearing a black
cap, dark trousers, a brown and
Orange-striped sports shirt. and
dark SunglaSses.
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Mr.. HartWig said the site
of the school was advantageous
to the program because it was
in an urban area but not close
enough to Washington to re-
quire a blast shelter" The
Rockville shelter will be used
to protect children from radio
active fallout and not neceS-
sarily from the effects of a
nuclear blast.
Mr.. Hartwig said that local
CD officials and school Off
Gals have been requesting Fed
eral aid for the project for
about a year. He said they
began to work for the grant
after the County Council ap-
proved a resolution requesting
county officials to set up a
shelter program.
The county school board
last September approved the
program after reconsidering a
former vote against the shelter
at Rockville.
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cants for top county positions
The county council can chose
any applicant for the job, based
on any consideration it wants
to make.
At present, there are three
full-time judges and one sub
Stitute judge on the Peoples
Court. These judges, formerly
called trial magistrates, handle
traffic cases, arrangements.
and cases involving lesser crime.
The State Legislature speci-
fled that the County Council
must consider recommendations
for the Peoples Court bench by
the County Bar Association.
The council, however, is not
bound to follow these recon-
mendationS.
The news release said the
prospective judges must be at
lesat 30, practicing Maryland
lawyers, and county residents
for at least five years.
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APPLICANTS SOUGHT
Montgomery Has Job
At $4,000 for Judge

If you're a Montgomery
County lawyer and want a $15,-
00O-a-year job for eight years
as Peoples Court judge, you can
apply to the County Council in
writing. But nobody will guar
antee you'll get it.
The council yesterday used a
press release to announce that
the judgeship, created by the
Maryland Legislature at its last
session, was open.
Lawrence E. Speelman, clerk
Of the council, said today that
the notice of the court opening
was made to conform with a
policy of the council that all
vacancies in public office would
be announced in advance.
Mr.. Speelman said, however,
that this is the first time a
judgeShip, usually object of po-
litical discussion, had been an
nounced in this manner. The
council made the resolution to
attract a wide range of appli-
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at State institutions of higher
learning.
Mr.. Mann, a member of the
Governors Budget Advisory
Board, said he had a very
satisfactory" conference with
Gov. Almond about the money
while the budget group was on
tour this week.
He expressed hope in his let
ter that lit will be possible to
find the funds to fill these
needs or provide a deficit ap-
preparation to meet at least
part of this great demand"
Virginia colleges this year
received an unprecedented
number of applications for
scholarships, far exceeding the
appropriation for that pur-
pose" Mr.. Mann said. Il I'M
derStand on good authority that
by early fall we will probably
have more than 800 eligible
students on the waiting list. ="
He observed that students
pay off the scholarships by
teaching in public schools. This
feature. he said, presents an
excellent chance for us to catch
up on some of the (teacheU
shortage. During the current
year of l960-61 we needed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-31
Virginiun's Body
Is Found Near
Mount Vernon
Rural Phase Brought Up

The body of an Alexandria
man was found near Mount
Vernon about 1920 am. to-
day to end an intensive search
that began last night.
Searchers had been combing
a marsh along the Potomac
River not far from where the
mans car was found on STRAIT
ford lane in the Dunbarton-
on the Potomac community
when they discovered the body,
Fairfax police reported.
Police said the victim was
Charles B. Fender, So, of SIT
East Nelson avenue, a railroad
ticket agent at Union Station
here. Police said he apparently
died of natural causes.
The search last night started
shortly after Mr.. Pender'S car
was found about $50 pm. by
his Son-in-laW and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Smith,
who were out looking for him
after he failed to return home
for dinner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-08-31
Meter Readers Death in MQnhoIe
Laid to Drowning After Collapse

One of the latter group, STAN
ley DenSmore, a Silver Spring
electrical contractor working for
the w. C. & A. N. Miller real
estate firm, developers of Sum-
ner. used his truck radio to
notify the firm, which in turn
summoned the Glen Echo Fire
Department.
Then Mr.. Densmore took
child'S plastic hula hoop. cut
it as hose to breathe air into
the mouths of Mr.. WEIGH and
Mr.. Walter, inside the manhole.
They were both alive then
and breathing" reported E. A.
Marseglia, a brick and stone
contractor who was with Mr..
DenSmore. That boy who
pulled through owes his life to
Mr.. Densmore."
Glen Echo firemen arrived,
and Fireman Mark Davis went
down the hole with an air tank
to pull Mr.. WEIGH and Mr..
Walter out. Mr.. Walter, how
ever, was pronounced dead on
arrival at Suburban Hospital.
Mr.. Walter was a native
Of Takoma Park and had lived
in the suburban Maryland area
all his life He attended Ia
koma Park Junior High School
and Montgomery Blair High
School in Silver Spring. He had
worked for the WSSC for three
months after working in a serv-
ice station at -Four Corners for
several years. He was an Army
veteran who served in Korea
just after the signing of the
peace truce there.
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TODAYS WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity-Fair,
not as cool tonight, low about
~. Mostly sunny, continued
hot tomorrow.
. Maryland-Fair, not as cool
tonight, low, IS to 70. Mostly
sunny, more humid and con-
tinued rather hot tomorrow.
d, Virginia-Fair tonight. but
,some cloudineSs in southwest
,portion, low, 81 to 70. Partly
CLOUDY, more humid and rather
,hot tomorrow, a few showers
= likely in southwest.
Lower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay Mostly southerly
winds around 5 knots tonight
and south to southwest winds
5 to Is knots tomorrow. Fair.
Visibility 6 to 10 miles, but
locally 2 to 4 miles in early
morning haze.