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, 1961-12-29

Thursday & Friday
UNITED ARTISTS present
There Was a Crooked Mar"
starring
Norman Wisdom & Susan York
The fun is explosive. as a daring
dynam!ter dabbles in demolition!
It's che of the latest and funniest
comedy from Britain.
Also World Wide News
Saturday afternoon & evening
Sunday afternoon
Sunday evening closed
Monday afternoon & evening
Tuesday afternoon
GOTH CENTURY FOX
IN COLOR
ALL HANDS ON DECK"
starring
Pat Boone, Buddy Hackett, Bar
bara Eden, Dennis O'Keefe
There is fun breaking loose all
over the seven seas in this picture
The Theater will remain closed
Sunday Night 1890 performance
New Years Eve.
Evening star., 1961-08-24
? MILLION MORE ORDERED
Public Demand Soors
ForCD Shelter Books

House and asked for Frank B.
Ellis, the OCDM director. He
was out, but his staff found
1000 pamphlets for me-"
Mr.. Cook said visitors to the
fair were asking for an average
of 1,1O0 fall-out shelter PAM
phlets a day. A year ago, he
said, he gave out about 300 a
day.
The OCDM national head
quarters has received as many
as 10000 individual requests
in a day-more than a months
supply earlier this year. The
Berlin crisis and the Kennedy
administrations revitalization
of civil defense are credited
with stimulating public interest.
An OCDM spokesman said
bulk requests for pamphlets
we're being doled out on the
basis of established need. A
request from Texas for $4,000
pamphlets had to be slaShed
draStically, he said.
The basic shelter booklet
contains plans for several kinds
of home shelters for use by
skilled do-it-yourself builders
or contractors. 1t also tells
how to stock the shelter with
food and equipment and how
to use it in time of emergency.
Evening star., 1961-08-24
BY RICHARD FRYKLpND
Star Staff Writer

The Civil Defense Admin
istration ordered two million
home fallout shelter booklets
today to satisfy an unprece-
dented public interest in civil
defense.
The demand for shelter in
formation has been so great in
recent weeks that pamphlets
have been rationed. Many loca
branches of the Office of Civil
and Defense Mobilization have
run out.
Howard L. Cook, assistant tC
the deputy director of Civil De-
fense in Montgomery County
said yesterday that he had tt
go directly to the top in order
to get enough pamphlets tt
meet demand at the Mont.
gomery County Fair.
THE State office said it wa
all out" Mr.. Cook said. "Balti'
more civil defense people sale
they were just taking name!
and promising to mail the lit
erature at some later date.
went to the regional office anc
they didn't have any. I ever
called OCDM national head
quarters at Battle Creek, Mich.
but they couldn't help me.
Finally, I called the Whit
Evening star., 1961-08-24
BY the Associated Press

Congressmen have been told
their chances of surviving a
nuclear attack are no better
than an average citizens, and
likely worse.
Civil Defense Director Frank
B. Ellis, supporting proposals
for reconstituting the House OF
Representatives in case it
should be decimated, didn't put
it quite so bluntly, but his
meaning was plain:
One can assume that
the casualties among the
membership of the House of
Representatives would probably
be proportionate to the total
casualties. This could vary, OF
course, if the House were in
session at the time"
BY broad implication he was
talking about Washington as a
likely priority target.
Mr.. Ellis testified before a
House Judiciary subcommittee
considering proposed amend
ments to the Constitution tc
keep the House functioning ir
case of disaster. The basic law
now provides no means o1
filling vacancies in the House
except by special elections
Senatorial seats may be filled
by temporary appointments BY
State governors.
The proposed amendments
would provide for appointments
to the House in case of nationa
emergency. Some specify thu
Evening star., 1961-08-24

the wheels. The lever snapped
off in his hand. Co-pilot Sal
Conilio, 81, frantically went to
work. He grabbed a monkey
wrench from a tool box, pushed
it into the levers slot and
turned it. But he had no way
of knowing if he had succeeded
in getting the wheels down.
The tower at Quonset Point
waved the plane off because
the visibility there was too poor
for ground crews to check the
gear. They ordered the De-
to proceed to National.
At 1887 pm, when the plane
was 20 miles out, a state o1
emergency was declared. Their
it was the job of the control
tower watch supervisor, Arthur
F. Stevens, and his tower crew
to bring the craft in safely. He
telephoned Sticks chief pilot
in Norfolk to get permission for
the "touch-and-go" test. &c
ahead" the chief pilot said.
Mr.. Stevens explained the
"touch-and-go":
The pilot, hoping the landing
gear is down, comes in as
though he were going to land
But he keeps the air speed up
When, and if, the wheels touch
down, the pilot must determine
to the best of his ability, i.
they are locked.
"It felt all right to me-" Mr.
Andrechyn said later, 80 I de-
Evening star., 1961-08-24
By RUPERT WEIGH
Star Staff Writer

1t was a tense "a minutes
last night as a DC-4 cargo
plane with a possibly crippled
landing gear circled National
Airport, made a test touch
and-go pass at the field and
then landed safely amid the
flashing red lights of more
than 80 pieces of crash equip
ment.
Although the pilot of the
unscheduled Slick Airlines
plane later described it as "a
normal one," it was far from
that for the air traffic control
man in Nationals control
tower and for the men of the
emergency crews and the Ar
lington fire department who
waited along the one lighted
runway as the four-engined
craft numbered in to test its
gear.
The plane, on contract to the
Navy, had started its trip in
Boston. 1t was to have landed
at Quonset Point (R. H. Naval
Air Station, Philadelphia,
Washington, Patuxent MD
Naval Air Station and then its
home base at Norfolk.
= But last night, as it ap-
preached Quonset Point, Pilot
Henry Andrechyn, 36. reached
for the lever which lets down
Evening star., 1961-08-24
Troubled DC-4 Puts Down SofeIy
As Airport Disaster Force Stands By

cided to try it" After the
brief touch on the turf, he
pulled the DC-4 up and circled
the field again.
Rescue squads. ambulances,
foam trucks and regular fire
engines moved in as close to
the runway as possible, all with
flashing dome lights. The
lights on all runwayS except
No. 38 went out, and a hush fell
over the controlmen and Of
ficials gathered in the tower
lAll other air traffic in the
Washington area re m a in d
aloft in emergency holding
patterns.
One voice droned over the
radio. Slick two-four-zero"
made it's approach. When the
wheels touched down, it still
was not certain whether they
were locked. They might be
supported only by the gears hy-
draulic pressure, and collapse
any moment. AS the DC-4 rolled
down the runway, the blinking
red lights fell into step and
followed it as closely as
possible.
The wheels held.
Mr.. Stevens said last nights
emergency was the first of its
kind at National in four years,
He said National has unlimited
back-up crash equipm e n t.
Were prepared for any kind
of a major disaster, he said.
Evening star., 1961-08-24
DAVID LAWRENCE
Communicating With People

certain appeal in attracting
listeners. But it is difficult
to understand the object of a
radio interview with a movie
star on what constitutes
"SophiStication." Surely, the
Voice of America could use
its precious time more wisely
and more effectively.
The Communists, of course,
repeat and persist with their
points day after day, and
they broadcast in simple Eng
liSh that can be readily
grasped. Much of the broad
casting on both sides is, to be
sure, done in foreign Ian
guages, and here the matter
Of simplicity is especially i'm
porGant.
These criticisms are not
new. They have been made
by this writer for the last
decade to public officials,
particularly on the wording
of the broadcasts, which
still are often hard for the
average listener abroad to
catch. Simple expressions
are better for the radio than
the phraseology and big words
of overcondensed press as
Sociation dispatches.
AS for editorial commen-
taries that are supposed TO
reflect American public opin-
ion, the selection by the
Voice of America is not rep
reSentative of the American
press at all. Rarely are any
newspapers in the Midwest
quoted, and rarely are some
of the best announcements
in Congress spread around
the world.
There is sometimes, more
over, a tendency to give a
left-wing twist to many items,
and there is at times an in
difference to the conservative
point of view in America.
There is constant apology,
too, for various defects in the
American system, without an
effort to explain that even
racial problems must be
handled by constitutional
law and not by mobs. 1t is
tragic that American ideals
are so little expounded, while
American shortcomings are
so much emphasized. The
whole problem of communi-
cation in foreign policy needs
a new look.
(Copyrisht 1851
Evening star., 1961-08-24
Swiss Observer Sees American Actions
Weakening Our Hold on Friends

in his own government, his
hand was forced and he COM
mitted an act Of aggression
against his former dear
friend
Nov, possibly against his
better judgment, Bourguiba
is turning toward Russia and
the Arab League.
And because Unite d
States Presidents have been
willing to meet with Khru-
shchev anywhere, any time
even when one of them was
left at the post in Paris and
then inSulted by being dis
invited to Moscow - the
statesmen of Italy fear that
their country can no longer
stand firm against the
SovietS.
How long do you think
Franco and Salazar, who
with all their faults keep
their countries on an even
keel, can last when the
United States policy is to
side with the Kremlin and
its anti-colonialism cam
paign?
You may ask what about
Germany; It has no internal
problems, and the leader,
Adenauer, is strong. But why
should the Kremlin worry
about Germany? If all their
allies are weakened by seri-
Gus troubles, can West Ger
many survive for long?
Let us look toward the
Middle East once more. Tur-
key is at the cross roads;
the military junta is divided;
some believe in standing by
the commitments to NATO;
others prefer neutralism and
friendship with Russia.
Look at Pakistan, one OF
your StauncheSt allies. II
Evening star., 1961-08-24

ZURICH, Switzerland. -
Headlines of the daily papers
reflect nothing but trouble
throughout the world, with
vastly important crises re-
legated to inside pages to
make way for the newest
crises or the latest develop
ments on a current one.
This flood of adverse news
has made me ponder more
on the prophecies of my
Swiss friend whose large in
dustries in foreign lands have
made him an earnest and
thoughtful student of world
developments and who pre-
dicted the United States
would be plagued with num-
erous internal strains. The
following is a continuation
report on his views.
In Europe" he told me,
"the main targets of the
Communists are de Gaulle
and Adenauer. 1t is obvious
that the Soviets are trying to
pull in the net around de
Gaulle. The pattern which
beSetS France is similar to
that in many other free
countries. The French Presi-
dents sound idea of an Al
gerian-French community
at one time welcomed by
the FLN-has, now been re-
jected by the rebels. Then
there was the abortive mill
tary coup last spring which
is being used by the Com
munists who are, by indirect
methods, melting the 'ultras'
in France.
"Tunisia'S Bourguiba play
ed a cunning hand. He was a
friend of France and De
Gaulle, but under the i'm
pact of the unseen forces
Evening star., 1961-08-24
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Where u. S. Policies Stir Doubt

now has recognized the
Soviet supported Algerian
rebel government. President
Ayub Khan is slowly turning
toward the Moscow-Peiping
combine.
IN the Far East the strong
man of Korea fell before the
student riots which had the
support of your government.
Don't say it isn't so. Was
not the student leader invited
to lunch at the American
Embassy with President
Eisenhower when he visited
that country? Although the
anti-Comnunist military has
taken over since June, i
doubt that in the present
turmoil Korea can long sur
vive.
And Japan, the strongest
of all Asian countries, has
been licking its wounds from
the student riots of 1859 and
after, casting a doubtful eye
to Washington, is quietly and
expediently working toward
economic agreements with
Communist China.
"Also in the Far East we
have the perennial contro-
versial figure of Chang Kai-
Shek. 1t is true that Presi-
dent Kennedy used strong
words to reassure the free
world that you will do your
utmost to prevent Commit
mist China from being ad-
mitted to the United Ma
tions. But will your strongly
liberal-minded U. N. Am
bassador, Adlai Stevenson be
able to muster sufficient
votes to prevent Red China's
case from reaching the U. N,
agenda?
The vastly interesting
comments of my friend will
be concluded in the next
column. II
Evening star., 1961-08-24

cies reach as much as 10 per
cent. For 20 years, he said,
there have never been more
than 3 per cent vacancies in
the House at any time.
Assistant Attorney General
Nicholas De B. Katzenbach
suggested that any amendment
proposed to the States be
couched in broad language, pro-
viding that Congress should
specify how to fill vacancies
in the House. This would leave
room, he said, for a law that
would cover the situation even
if it were impossible to assem-
BILE enough representatives to
certify officially that the House
was depleted.
Evening star., 1961-08-24
U.S.. Bocks Plan to Keep
House Goingin Disaster

governors would have appoint
ing power if half the seats were
vacated: others, if as many as
las members were wiped out.
Mr.. Ellis, arguing that con-
tinuity of representative civil
government in case of nuclear
attack is essential to the pres
ervation of our way of life, said
Congress should consider emer-
gency appointments if vacan-
Evening star., 1961-08-24
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Small boy with father. viewing the Washington Monu-
ment: That's trouble pop All missileand thrust
Moscow claims any Communist bloc comrade is free to
abroad OF course may few snags the
border.
Cultural trends: The fellows who used to hjack aipanes
have down earth-and started hackng oil paintings
The Newburgh story: AIs not well in welfare High fare
and too many going to the we'll for it,
France and Britain build tunnel under the English
Channel The English and French figure it's torture enough
mngng with other without getting seasick crossing
the Channel to do it.
Evening star., 1961-08-24
u. S. Broodcosts to Other Motions Hit
As Defensive and in Need of Insight

EN- ROUTE FROM EU-
ROPE.-The most important
problem that confronts the
United States Government
today is how to communi-
cate with other people around
the world.
There is no lack Of radio
or mail or press facilities. 1t
is not a matter of funds, nor
altogether a problem of get
ting the right personnel for
such an institution as the
United States Information
Agency. 1t is a matter of
constructive and we'll
thought-out policy and con-
centration in a courageous
way on simple detectives in
the great crusade to win the
hearts and minds of people
in other lands.
The overseas broadcasts to-
day from America are defen-
sive and often seem to be in
the pusSyfoot category, in
stead of the militant kind.
This isn't the fault of the
Voice of America but of
some misguided policy direc-
tives of past years.
Consequently, the Voice of
America is inadequate and
not as effective as it could
be. 1t is doing some things
we'll and others poorly. 1t. Of
course, needs more funds
from Congress to improve its
work-the Russians spend
millions where we spend pen
nieS. But, above all else, it
needs a recognition by the
President and Congress that
the task cannot be left to
subordinates to fulfill on the
basis of directives fitfully
supplied in a sort of haphaz-
ard way through a fluctu-
ating diplomacy.
What the United States
Government needs is a man
of cabinet stature to sit
alongside the President and
spend his whole time on
what might be called "the
public relations of the United
States"
What's needed is someone
who has had actual contact
through diplomacy or other
wise with the peoples of Lat
Evening star., 1961-08-24

in-American countries, Asian
countries, Middle Eastern
countries and European coun-
tries-someone with common
sense who understands the
psychology of foreign peoples.
He can have beside him
plenty Of specialists in COM
munications and in the Gus
toms of the foreign press,
but he needs, above all, to
be able to advise the Presi-
dent and his cabinet as to
how what is currently hap
pening abroad is affected by
American action and how
suggested American policies
would be received in other
countries.
Nor is communication a
problem altogether of me-
chanical facilities. AS much,
if not more, can be accom-
plished by indirect con-
tact with foreign countries
through word-of-mouth-
conversations with key per-
sons in other lands. This
means more contacts by our
own diplomats with impor-
tant persons not only in the
press but in other walks of
life in each country. 1t means
an organized and not a cas-
ual effort. In a total sense,
it means reaching through
to the heart of the people
whose friendship America
seeks.
Improvement of the Voice
of America broadcasts is i'm
perative. One wonders why
so little time is given on
these programs to news and
serious subjects in the news,
and why so much time is
consumed on rock-and-roll
music or highbrow lectures,
some of which seem to apol-
ogize for Americas free
enterprise system.
This writer has been lis
tening by Shortwave radio
nearly every night for years,
both at home and abroad, to
the broadcastS of the various
Communist-bloc stations as
we'll as to the Voice of Amer
lea and the overseas service
of the British BroadcaSting
Co. Music undoubtedly has a
Evening star., 1961-08-24
Red to Visit Finland

HELSINKI, Finland, Aug. "a
AP).-PreSident Leonid Brezh-
nev of the Soviet Union will
visit Finland September 22-30
the government said.
Evening star., 1961-08-24
ON VACATION

Doris Fleeson is on va
cation. She will resume
writing her column on
Monday, october 2.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-01-10
Holders Vote
Stock Increase
AT kcLach|en

Stockholders of McLachlen
Banking Corp. today approved
a proposed increase in capital
stock Of the bank to $500, 600
from 100000 to permit sale OF
more shares to holders.
The capital increase and
plan to offer the additional
shares are subject to approval
by the Controller of the Cur
rency and the Virginia State
Banking Department where
the bank is chartered.
Lanier P. McLachlen, board
chairman of the bank, said that
If regulatory authorities ap-
prove, the par value of the
capital stock will be reduced to
$25 a share from $50 and addi-
tional shares will be offered
present holders at the rate OF
one new share for each five
shares now held: The price will
be SIS a share and the dead
line for holders to exercise
their purchase rights will be
at the close of business Febru-
airy Is. he said.
Proceeds from sale of the ad-
ditional shares will amount to
100000, of which 100000 will
go to capital stock account and
100000 to surplus. Upon CON-
pletion of the offering, Nc
Lachlen Banking will have
100000 of capital stock, $780,
900 Of surplus, or a total oil
STA million.
Chairman McLachlen told
stockholders gross income of
the bank set a new record of
more than 81 million in 1860
and that net earnings on the
present $50 par value stock
were equal to $l1 a share after
taxes and depreciation.
Book value of the $50 par
stock was $125.16 a share on
December 81. The bank paid
Sc a share of dividends or IL
per cent on the $50 par shares
in the year. A semi-annual
dividend of So a share was paid
January /.
Reelected directors were:
Leonard B. Doggett, jr.; E. j.
Boothby, P. Y. K. Howat,
Archibald McLachlen, George
Miller. Guy D. Cowl, Clyde D.
Garrett, J. c. Harding, Lanier
P. McLachlen, G. A. Pendleton,
Emory L. Croft and H. L.
Richardson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-01-10
Suburban Trust
Nets $2,774,135
Durinu Year

Net earnings OF $2,774,l35
were reported at the annual
meeting Of Suburban Trust Co
yesterday by Chairman of the
Board T. Howard DucKettt and
President J. Robert Sherwood
The company transferred to
reserve for losses on loans
$396,40l and $l,$54,7l8 was
transferred to reserve for Fed
eral income taxes. leaving a net
profit after taxes and reserves
OF 81, 323,0l5, equivalent to $4.lS
per share.
Cash dividends paid during
the year totaled $6l5,050, leav-
ing a net transferred to undi.
vided profits Of SLOT, 965. which
is equivalent to 1924 per share
Stockholders approved the
recommendation of the boarc
of directors to issue an addi-
tional 53,783 shares, which
will bring the capital stock Of
the company up to 370.O0(
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-01-10
First National
Elects Kraft as
Bourd Member

Morris L. Kraft, president Of
the Southwest Market Center,
Inc, was elected a director of
the First National Bank of
Washington at the annual
stockholders meeting today. it
was announced by President
A. Scott Offutt.
Mr.. Kraft has been a leader
in the food business here for
a number of years and in adj
dition to his interest in the
center. has been identified
with United Food Stores and
District Hotel Supply Co. He
also has been identied with
Julian Realty Co. and Carlyle
Realty Co. He is a director
of Woodmont Country Club,
the. Hebrew Home for the
Aged, the Jewish Community
Center and Washington
Hebrew Congregation.
Other directors were re-
elected as follows: Mr.. Offutt
Earl M. Anderson, jr.; Edward
F. Colladay. F. Joseph Dono-
hue, w. Carlton Eacho. Julius
Goldstein, Edward T. Harding
Barge L. Hartz, Frederick A.
Hessick, Arthur C. Aoughton
Charles H. Jagels, Karl F.
Jorss, Donald F. Mackenzie
Charles H. Pardoe, William C.
Shelton, C. Haskell Small
Philip Smith, w. r. Winslow
and William B. Wolf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-01-10

its fixed price Is that the big
gest benefits would 60 to
foreigners. The United States
uses about 100 million ounces
of silver a year. of which about
IS million ounces are imported.
Has 3 Options
To preserve its stockpile, the
department would have at least
three options:
/. It could raise its selling
price. which is determined by
administrative action. This
would encourage silver produc-
ton and lessen dependence on
the Treasury's reduced supply.
2. It could refuse to sell sill
YER, which would free the price
from Treasury Department die
tation.
3. BY administrative action,
it could withdraw from circula-
ton silver certificates in de-
nominations of IS and more
This would free about 500 mil
lion ounces of silver (now back
ing these bills) which could be
added to the stockpile.
The department wouldn't
want to withdraw certificates
of less than IS because they
have no equivalent in Fed
eral Reserve notes.
OF the three possibilities, the
third appeared the most likely
because it would be the only
option that would both pre-.
serve the stockpile and main.
tain the Treasury's power tt
fix a price ceiling. However
there would first have to be @
policy decision on the part Of
the incoming Kennedy admin.
istration.
And no matter what cours,
the new administration adopts
it will face opposition either
from the Western mining
States or from the silver-usini
industries in the East.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-01-10
Assets Record Set
At Columbia Federal

Assets of Columbia Federal
Savings and Loan Association
set new high of $73,089, AS
at the end of 1860. a gain of SIS
per cent from $68,648,842 a
year earlier, President Clarence
E. Kefauver announced today.
Invested savings also rose to
$64, 654,424, a gain of 1876 per
cent from $56,898,190 a year
ago. Real estate loans totaled
$50. 440, 991, a 1912 per cent
jump from $54,867,944 at the
end of 1859.
Reserves aggregated $685.
OBJ on December 81, an increase
of AL per cent from $3,477,807,
Dividends at the rate Of 4
per cent per annum amounted
to $2.372,220 for $1,000 savers
lin 1860.