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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-29
Albert Deutsch
Tribute Is Set

A memorial tribute to Albert
Deutsch, prominent medical
writer, will be held at $3.50 pm,
Friday in the auditorium of
the Clinical Center of the Ma
tional Institutes of Health.
The program, sponsored by
the Albert Deutsch Memorial
Foundation, will include adj
dresses by l. F. Stone. jour-
naliSt; DR.. Jack r. Ewalt, pro-
feSsor of pSychiatry from Har-
ward University; Austin Mac
Cormick. professor emeritus in
criminology from the Univer-
sity of California. and Charles
I. Schottland of Brandeis Uni
versity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-29
Cancel Maryland Freedom Ride,
Governor Again Urges CORE

ton to the United States SEN
ate, protested CORES plans, de-
claring they would do more
harm than good. He pledged
his continued support for pas
sage of an anti-discrimination
law in Maryland, but eau
toned that he would not yield
to outside pressure.
In the wake of his state
ment, the Montgomery County
chapter Of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement OF
Colored People characterized
Mr.. Lees stand as AN express
sion Of petulance."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-29
TUT, TUT THERE'S NOTHING TO 1T
Gallery Exhibit Revives Tale of Curse

Upon entering, he looked
almost instinctively at the
cage and saw coiled within
it a cobra holding in its
mouth the dead canary"
This radically changed
the natives grapevine tune
to dire forecasts.
Early in the spring of
1923, Lord Carnarvon, who
had Loyalty backed Mr..
Carter, was stung on the
cheek by an insect. The
bite became infected, and
he fell i'll and died of
pneumonia. The curse be-
gan to gallop in the
fevered brains of news
papermen the world over.
Deaths Aid Legend
The deaths of Lord
Carnarvon'S brother that
year, a technician, of one
of Mr.. Carter's closest
collaborators and of Lord
Carnarvon's nurse were
instantly linked with the
,urSe.
Mr.. Carter hotly de-.
bunked the curse tale I'M
til his death in 1899 at the
age of Sc. DR.. Breasted
patiently explained the sit
uation when accosted by
newsmen until his death
at 10 in 1885.
His son Charles Breas-
ted, who was with him
throughout the work at
Tut's Tomb, declared in
Pioneer to the Past" a
biography Of DR.. Breasted:
1T is as useless to argue
with individuals who be-
lieve in the curse as with
the press with its 'morgues'
crammed with Tutankha-
mems curse stories which
during the mad era Of the
'20S sent calculations soar
ing until, for reader inter-
est, archaeology was rated
second only to murder and
sex. Whatever befell
those who were involved in
any phase of the Tutankh-
amen discovery merely re-
Elected mortality averages
which are a commonplace
to every insurance actu-
ary."
But only yesterday, Mrs.
David Breasted remarked,
But there was an inscrip-
ton on the tomb. I know
that"
So what are you going
to do?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-29
THE UGF AT WORK
Agency Found a Home for Kelvin

Janet Plummer slipped into
the rocking chair and took
her new baby in her arms.
Within minutes after she
and her husband, Robert J.
Plummer, arrived at the
nursery at Family and Child
Services of Washington on
Friday. they had received their
baby. Kelvin, and a detailed
account of his likes and dis
likes. including his fondness
for lullabieS.
Mrs. Plummer wasn't sure
Kelvin would enjoy her sing
ing, but she plans to try. In
the refrigerator at home were
bottles made up to Kevin's
formula. His room was ready.
And all the Plummers' friends
had been alerted by a delighted
Mr.. Plummer that the great
day had arrived.
Take Kelvin Home
Exactly seven months after
the Plummers first went to Fa-
mily and Child Services about
adoption, they were taking
Kelvin home.
The couple has been married
six years.
1--WE feel a family isn't COM
plete without children" Mrs.
Plummer said.
1--WE definitely wanted a boy.
I tried not to picture how the
baby would look, but we think
he looks a little like U.s."
The Plummers had a chance
to see Kelvin the week before
they took him home. Before
that. they had been visited
and interviewed by a case
worker from Family and Child
Services, and the baby, too,
had been studied.
Adoption Policy
Mrs. Plummer is a nurse at
TKsA-I |
Plummer is employed at the
Government Printing Office.
Mrs. Plummer will continue to
work for a while, but looks
forward to staying home with
the baby eventually.
Family and Child Services is
"a nonsectarian agency with
many functions, supported pri- J.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-29

1850 B. c., the legend
comes up of the curse on
anybody who tinkered with
his tomb.
People will tell you the
curse was inscribed upon
the tomb.
Not long ago after the
tomb was found in 1922, it
got so that every time any
person died who was re-
motley connected with the
discovery, the curse fable
was solemnly trotted out.
Fortunately the whole
routine had Quoted down
considerably until the an
nouncement that an ex-
hibition carefully called
from the hundreds of ex-
quisite artifacts found in
the tomb would be shown
outside Egypt for the first
time. It opens Friday at
the National Gallery Of
Art.
Curse Rumor Spreads
That did it. The curse
crept back into the news.
Sorry to cast a wet
blanket upon such an ex-
citing yarn, but there
never was a curse inscribed
on King Tutankhamen'S
tomb, or on any of its ex-
traordinary contents.
Neither is there any sub
sanitation for a common
version that the priests of
ancient Egypt cast deadly
spells upon Pharaoh's
tombS.
Either way, natives in
the area where Tut's tomb
was found had little idea
of curses on it or surround
ing tombs.
So you may go with i'm
punity to see the items
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-29
BY PAUL HOPE
Star Staff Writer

Gov. Tawes said yesterday
that neither he nor the Mary
land General Assembly can be
blackjacked into bowling to the
demands Of the Congress of
Racial Equality, which plans a
Freedom Ride in the State.
The Governor, who said that
Maryland officials are as anx-
ious as CORE to end racial dis
elimination in hotels and res
taurantS. asked CORE again to
call off the demonstration.
He said that If it is carried
out. however. he will preserve
law and order"
THE entrance of the Free
dom Riders can serve no other
purpose but to disrupt an al
ready delicate situation" Gov
Tawes said.
Plans Cavalcade
CORE is planning a Novem-
Der II cavalcade of cars con-
tanning about 1000 Freedom
Riders to test racial policies
of restaurants along Route 40.
Gov. Tawes said previously
that he thought the Freedom
Ride might do more harm than
good to the attempt of Mary
land and State Department Of
ficials to get Maryland restau-
rants to drop racial bars. Yes
terday the Governor said:
Again, let me state that I
do not question the right of
this organization to embark on
such a program. I do question
the wisdom of such action. I
am firmly convinced that the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-29

here, which in an artistic
sense and workmanship
would do credit to Tiffany's,
Carriers or anybody else.
The fact remains that the
discovery Is one of the
greatest and most revealing
in the history of archae-
ology.
The hex story has been
an interesting case in folk
lore. The find broke upon
readers faded by dull Sto-
ries of fruitlesS post World
War I conferences.
Tomb Is VandaliZed
Howard Carter, an Eng
liShman and a longtime
friend of Lord Carnarvon,
his hacker, had been con-
WINGED for years that one
undiscovered tomb, that Of
Tutankhamen. lay in the
Valley Of the Kings Tombs
at Luxor. On his last try.
after years Of fruitless dig
ging. he struck incredible
paydirt.
The tomb had been brok-
en- into centuries before
and resealed. 1t developed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-29

renting homes as we'll as those
living in apartments may
apply.
6. Military personnel also
may apply, since the agency
recognizes that military life is
a way of life for many in the
age range wanting a family.
Family and Child Services is
one of the agencies for which
the United Givers Fund hopes
to raise $7.8 million in its cur
rent campaign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-29

Influx OF FreeQ0m Riders In
Maryland will seriously jeop-
ardize chances for enactment
of equal accommodations leg
islation either at a regular OF
special session Of the General
Assembly"
Gov. Tawes has said he IA
vors enactment Of laws to bar
hotels and restaurants from re-
fusing to serve Negroes. He took
the stand after several Negro
diplomats were refused service
in restaurants along Route 40
one Of the main arteries be-
tween New York and Wash
ington.
Follows Sit-in
The Governors statement
yesterday followed a sit-in
demonstration at a Route 40
restaurant near Baltimore in
which five New York Negroes
were arrested for trespassing
when they refused to leave
after the proprietor told them
they could not be served.
The five, one of whom was
identified as the president OF
the New York unit Of the Ma
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People
were released on bond pending
a court hearing next Friday
A spokesman said they had no
connection with CORE.
In his statement, Gov Tawes
said that a program of moral
suasion" has been undertaken
in Maryland to promote a
political climate conducive to
the enactment of equal ac-
commodations legislation"
He has refused to call q
special session of the General
Assembly now on the grounds
that he does not feel the time
is right yet for enactment of
the legislation. He apparently
plans to test the issue at the
30-day session of the General
Assembly in February and if
the law fails at that session
plans to call a special session
later.
Cannot Yield
1.-THE stated aim of the lead
ers Of the Congress on Racial
Equality is to force a calling
of a special session in Novem-
ber." said Gov. Tawes. In eff
feet. they have offered me and
members of the General As
sembly an alternative: Call a
special session in November or
face the consequences. Under
no circumstances can the Gov
ernor of Maryland or the Gen
eral Assembly yield to such
an ultimatum."
In New York, where CORE of
ficials from seven States and
the District of Columbia were
meeting to plan the demonstra-
ton, a spokesman said CORE
had given the Governor mot
at ultimatum but rather a
statement of position"
He said CORE hopes to be
able to discuss the question
further with Gov. Tawes, and
is accepting an invitation from
the Maryland State Commits
sion on Interracial Problems
for a meeting some time before
the scheduled demonstration
date.
Last week Blair Lee III, can
didate for Democratic nomina-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-29

the District Building on Friday
In its report on the District
budget, the Senate subcommit-
tee on District Appropriations
recommended that the Welfare
Department set up a special
team within available funds
to comb the welfare rolls for
freeloaders. The report was is
sued in early September.
On October 6, District Com
missioner John B. Duncan and
Welfare Director Gerard M
Shea announced plans to set uI
the team. 1t would be composed
of five investigators. drawn
from the departments inveS-
tigative staff of 10.
Lacks Byrd Okay
But the team has not started
to function because it lacks the
specific approval of Senator
Byrd, Democrat of West Vir-
ginia, head of the Senate sub
committee, and Representative
Rabaut. Democrat of Michigan
head of the House group.
The request, according to
Commissioner Duncan, also in
cludes a plea to hire five more
investigators to take over the
duties of the five who are
pulled out of the department tt
handle the special investigation
1t is questionable whether
Senator Byrd, who suggested
the investigation, will approve
the new positions. In effect, il
would mean approval of per-
manent irveStigative staff OF
%, to be financed in the next
fiscal year through an increase
in the departments budget
Currently, the jobs can be paid
for through surplus funds
which turned up at the end OF
the last fiscal year.
Seen Imperative
1t is Mr.. Shea's position that
the five new positions are i'm
perative. If not filled, he says
a backlog of cases referred fol-
investigation by case workers
would drastically increase. The
backlog now stands at 1900.
The investigative staff
which checks complaints
throughout the welfare field
originally was set up in 1856
after an examination of de-
partment practices by the Ra-
baut committee.
An investigator is used wher
a case worker suspects, for ex-
ample, that a welfare recipient
may have some other source OF
income or support. The chief
headache in recent years has
been in locating the fathers OF
illegitimate children in cases
where the mother is receiving
welfare payments in the Aid to
Dependent Children category.
Last year. the investigative
staff CLOSED" a total of 1877.
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marily by the United GiverS
Fund.
1t has this policy on adop-
ton:
/. Married couples of any race
may apply. Placement usually
takes no longer than a year
at the most.
2. The family must live with
in an area of so miles from
the center of Westinghouse
make study and supervision
feasible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-29

3. Usually, for placement of
infants, it is preferable for the
adaptive mother to be from 81
to 40 years old, and the adop-
tive father from Is to As.
4. Placements are made with
families within varying income
brackets. The ability to pro-
vide love, physical care and Sc
curity for a child is more i'm
portant than financial status,
the agency feels.
5. Homeowners and couples
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-29
Oven Burns Woman

Mrs. Edith N. OFT, "a, of 1000
Spruall drive, Kensington, Md,
suffered burns to her face and
arms yesterday when her oven
backfired, the Kensington Vol
unteer Fire Department re-
porter. Firemen said she was
treated and released from Sub
urban Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-29
BY DAVID BREASTED
Star Staff Writer

Let's have a go at
Strengthening out this bust
ness of King Tut'S curse.
Determined souls have
tried and apparently failed
in the last four decades.
The situation may be per-
manently out of hand.
Just about every time
you hear about King Tut
ankhamen (circa 1875
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-29
Relief Rolls Probe
Stalled for Okoy
By Congress Units
Team to Seek Out FreeIouders
Awaits Byrd, Rubuut Approval
By JOHN McKELWAY
Star staff Writer

special OF investigators up by the District Com
mones three weeks ferret out freeoaders" the
ctys welfare rolls has yet to to work.
The program stalled pending approval by two
committees of which suggested the idea the first
place
letter requesting approval of the project from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-29

Dovid Breasted, who herewith attempts
to put the quietus on the legend Of
King Tut's curse, is the grandson Of
Dr.. Jones n. Breasted. the 0rchoe-
oIogist who was one of the first
persons to enter the reopened tomb.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-29

SAS11G VI I1leIu GIldL people
don't like.
CONSIDER Park avenue,
for example-and it's deep,
dark secret.
This is New York'S widest
and most elegant street
center for years of the city's
most luxurious apartment
life, and now fast becoming
the fashionable new focus of
big-business skyscrapers.
Along its sidewalks are
handsome evergreens planted
in huge, ornamental jardi-
nieres.
Down its center, for block
after block, is a handicapped
garden, now abloom like a
cracking inferno with the
color and excitement of au-
tumn chrySanthemumS.
Next to dismal ribbons of
railroad track, an elegant
street like this would be in
conceivable. Yet no street
in America is closer to a
railroad til n fashionable
Park avenue.
The secret is that the
tracks are hidden below
the street. They are covered
over, out of sight, and
crowned with a central
man-like garden. Because
they're hidden, they do no
harm. In full view, they
would quickly destroy this
street.
CROSS TO THE center of
Park avenue at Fifty-first
street, lean over and look at
a little brass plaque.
This section of garden
and landscaping," it reads,
"is maintained by Urls
Brothers"
Reading this, you remem-
Der that Urls Brothers are
among the biggest New York
builders. This is the outfit
that's going to build the big
Washington Hilton hotel on
Connecticut avenue.
Their job is building, and
making a buck-not garden
ing. They're practical peo-
pie, you can assume, and not
just lovers Of beauty. They
deal primarily with things
like borrowing money, pay
ing interest, putting steel
Orders and beams in place,
dickering on prices of work
to be done-all fairly I'M
esthetic matters that, on
first thought, seem to have
very little to do with hiding
railroad tracks and growing
chrysanthemums.
On second thought, how
ever, you must concede that
your first thought was
wrong. For if Park avenue
was not an attractive street,
neither the Urls Brothers,
nor anyone else, would think
of it as a place on which to
build, to walk, to live-or to
make a buck.
S%&
ONE NEEDN'T always be
intoning to oneself that
beauty is a practical matter
to recognize the values of a
beautiful city. But since
Americans are, above all, a
practical people, it's reassur-
ing to know that beauty has
down-to-earth virtues.
Under these circumstances,
Washington is probably very
fortunate that so many peo-
pie are concerned over what
effect the Inner Loop ex-
pressways will have on the
city's appearance.
Deciding what to do about
them is Washington'S big
problem of the moment.
How far can expressways go
without doing more harm
than good?
In debating this, all sides
can agree on one thing: Any
city's appearance is a prac-
tical matter. If it's pleasant
to look at, it will be good to
live in.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-29
Cities
and People
Good to See,
Good to Use
BY ROBERT ]. LEWIS

0NE OF THE TRUEsT
~ things that can be said
about a city is that if it is
pleasant to look at, it will
be good to live in.
The pleasantest parts of
the city are the most attrac-
tive to people.
This goes for residential
neighborhoodS as we'll as for
business sections.
Railroad tracks, for exam
pie, are no thing of beauty.
Therefore, in most cities, the
sections Stringing along rail-
road tracks are avoided by
people. It's not the railroad
tracks, themselves, that do
the harm. It's the dismal
sight of them that people
don't like.
Evening star., 1961-03-14

planned their opposition on the Senate
floor, largely on the grounds that Mr..
Meriwether has been associated with ad-
vocateS Of racial discrimination in
Alabama political affairs. The same
charges were made before the Banking
and Currency Committee, which then
recommended confirmation. Even among
Senators normally counted on the
liberal side, however, the case against
Mr.. Meriwether has not been established
to the point where 1t was considered a
disqualification and Senator Douglas of
Illinois made personal appeal in favor
of confirmation.
In all administrations, some presi-
Dental appointments arouse controversy
and sincere differences of opinion.
When approved, however, the test and
the real judgment of right or wrong rest
in the performance of the individual.
Mr.. Meriwether will now have his op-
portunity to prove that the confidence of
the President and the support Of the
Senate are justified.
Evening star., 1961-03-14
Iinkerinq With the Bible

: Undoubtedly vast amount of Prot
estant scholarship involving a wholly
new translation from the original He
brew and Greek Sources-haS gone into
the production of 1.-THE New English
Hble: New Testament" Undoubtedly,
too, the translating group is devoting the
same sort of painstaking and learned
labor to the task of preparing the Old
testament and the Apocrypha for pub
Hcation in due course. And we may
take it for granted that some people
Will find the completed work highly
readable, with the language modernized
and certain obscurities Of the King
James Version cleared up.
With that said, however, there is
reason. to regret what the tranSlauors
have done to many of the great passages
OF the old English Bible. Day Thorpe,
The Stars book critic, made an impress
sive point Of this, citing numerous quite
depressing examples, in his review yes
terday. Thus the new version flattens
the beautiful language of what the King
James Version has to say about such
things as the lilies of the field, and
ABOUT sounding brass and a tinkling
cymbal. And it revises Suffer the little
children to come unto me, and forbid
them not" into this: Let the children
come to me; do not try to stop them"
One wonders what will happen to
poetry like the Song Of Songs when the
New English Bible embraces the Old
Testament. One wonders, indeed, why
anybody should feel impelled to tinker
With the power and the glory of the
language Of the King James Version,
and the same holds truae for Catholic
modernization of, the Douay Version.
The literary beauty of these great books,
even If the words and phrases are occa-
sionally archaic, ought certainly not to
be watered down or made pallid Just
for the sake of simplifcation. Such
reViSioniSm seems to us to be a kind of
vandalism.
Evening star., 1961-03-14
Springtime Optimism

It has become almost traditional
that Secretaries Of Commerce tend
generally to take more optimistic view
Of the state Of the national economy at
any given time than do their Govern
ment colleagues. Since becoming a
member of Senator Kennedy's cabinet,
Secretary Hodges has spoken con-
siStently in hopeful terms about busi-
ness upturn in the near future and his
remarks in a recent television interview
were even. more strongly optimistic. -
Mr.. Hodges now feels that the
bottom of the decline of the past year
has been reached and that economic
activity is about to move upward.
Actually, in this instance Mr.. Hodges
is not alone, either in Government circles
or among economists outside of Govern
ment. Both Treasury Secretary Dillon
and Labor Secretary Goldberg have
cautiously marked the second quarter,
beginning next month, for a business
turn-around. While the conventional
indicators are somewhat mixed, Secre-
tary Hodges and most Of those sharing
his view have pointed first of all to a
February upturn In retail sales as prime
evidence that the economic tide has
changed.
In keeping with his hopeful view,
Mr.. Hodges also expressed the opinion
that a temporary" tax cut would be un-
necessary as an anti-recession move.
Such step had been suggested, for con-
sideration at least, by task force which
submitted an economic study to Mr..
Kennedy in January but there has been
diminishing interest shown in admins
tration circles. The President himself
has said that no further major economic
moves will be recommended until re-
evaluation Of the economy is made in
mid-April. Presumably If the signs
then are still encouraging, of1cial at
tention viii be directed only to long
term planning for desirable govern
mental action. a