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Evening star., 1961-03-05

he was far stronger than Fin
letter or Murray.
Since then there have been
plenty of troubles in New York
City. Scandal after scandal has
broken out in the city administra-
ton, and it has been DeSapio,
rather than Wagner, who has
borne the blame. This year,
frightened that the Liberal Party
might join the Republicans in a
fusion movement that would throw
the Democrats out Of City Hall
Wagner has called for DeSapio to
resign as county chairman for
the good of the party"
Where He Was Right
1t is the height of irony that
the resignation would help the
party. So DeSapio, the man who
was right about Wagner in 1858,
right about Hartman in 1854,
and, large number of New York
ers argue, right about Hogan in
1858, is now liability.
1t is not DeSapio's fault that
the public picture of Tammany
Hall is the Tammany Of Boss
Tweed'S day 80 years ago, not the
New York County Committee of
1861.
Entirely aside from the fact that
New York went for President Ken
nedy by 100000 votes last fall,
DeSapio's leadership in New York
City has cut the size of a gross
and inflexible county committee to
manageable size, provided equal
representation for women, in
Stituted direct election of district
leaders through primaries and led
in the battle to bring voting ma
chimes into use for local primary
elections.
The fact that he has made pri-
maries available to Democrats try
ing to unseat his leadership is
unique enough.
Evening star., 1961-03-05

The President is a pragmatic
man. He doubtless understands
that he can attain his goal only
gradually, over a number of years,
and at considerable additional
spending.
One way to ease the extra spend
ing burden would be to hold down
the increase in the military
budget by rejecting the idea of
ceaselessly piling up strategic
weapons and their delivery sys-
TENS and, instead, concentrating
on improving, and making less
Vulnerable enough of these all
out war forces to deter or destroy
any enemy.
Evening star., 1961-03-05

and steadily and apparently still
are climbing. Thus, no one can be
certain, at this point, what the
final cost will be or, because of
delays, when the Minuteman
bases will be finished.
President Kennedy called the
House investigation most help
full" Whether he or Defense Sec
retary McNamara will order the
appointment of a "czar" to direct
the missile base program remains
to be seen. There are indications,
however, that both will take a
close interest in seeing that good
management is provided.
Evening star., 1961-03-05

dustry's petition for help. United
States typewriter manufacturers,
the commission said, have con-
centrated so in recent years on
developing and marketing elec-
trio machines that they've stopped
making improvements in their
manual models, while foreign pro-
ducers have kept turning out bet
ter and better ones.
Foreign Cor Popularity
Most Americans VINO have
bought foreign cars have done so
out Of a conviction that the do
mestic item is less well designed
for their needs. The versatility
built into foreign-made sewing
machines nearly drove the Amer
lean industry completely to the
wall, although in the case of sew
ing machines. as with typewriters,
Evening star., 1961-03-05
ICBM Bases:
A Sloppy Job

The chairman Of a House
investigating group last week
charged that the Air Forces
ICBM base construction is Gin
a mess" calling 1t sloppy job
which is costing a great deal
more than expected"
Americas first intercontinental
ballistic missile, the Atlas, was
pronounced operational by the
Air Force in September. 1859.
Today, 10 months later, despite
a concurrent program of base
construction and missile develop
ment and testing, there are, ac-
cording to the New York Times,
only nine Atlas missiles combat
ready. None is in a protected,
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Continued From Page C-1
began paying lip service to the
idea of bolstering non-nuclear
forces and backed off use of the
words massive retaliation"
Now that the Kennedy admin
istration has determined to act
in this area, it will find that
progress may be painfully slow
and costly.
Politicians of West European
countries. with the possible ex-
ception of West Germany, are
likely to be reluctant to press for
more troops because that takes
money, which takes taxes.
Here at home, Mr.. Kennedy
faces budget watchdogs of both
parties who want no spectacular
rise in spending-for defense or
anything else. In addition, the
Air Force. a powerfully influential
organization with its $18-billion-
plus annual budget, may be ex-
pected to oppose any big emphasis
on increasing our small war
capabilities.
Evening star., 1961-03-05

tax credit for firms which invest
in new plant and equipment in
amounts which exceed their cur
rent tax allowance for deprecia-
ton. This system of liberalizing
depreciation, in contrast with
other plans having wider indus
try support, would give a greater
advantage to industries and firms
which have not made major out
lays for modernization in recent
years. To a considerable extent,
though by no means wholly, these
are the very industries which have
a high cost and import competi-
ton problems.
Loss Of Export Markets
There is another tax issue, too,
though it is more closely related to
the other side of the United States
world trade problem-the loss Of
export markets. This Is the pro-
vision of the present tax law
which enables American firms to
avoid taxes on the earnings of
their overseas subsidiaries unless
and until they bring these earn
ings back into this country. This
provision, many feel, is an open
invitation to American firms to
set up foreign producing facilities
to manufacture products not only
for sale abroad but for re-impor-
tation into this country. Most
American industrialistS deny any
intention to produce abroad. for
reimport to the United States and
the practice does not, in fact, ap-
pear to be widespread, but there is
some evidence that it is growing.
The Kennedy administration is
all but positively committed to
change this provision of the tax
law, too.
Another charge which is made
against United States industry In
the context of the import problem
is that it has allowed its technol-
ogy to lag, thus giving foreign
producers an additional advantage
in the race to cut COSTS.
A particularly dramatic exam
pie of this came with the recent
announcement that a Japanese
company has developed a revolu-
tionary spinning machine which
combines what used to be three
separate operations into one.
Thirteen American textile COM
panies have already placed orders
for this machine, thus presum-
ably laying the groundwork for
reducing their operating costs and
improving their competitive posi-
tion in the world market - but
Evening star., 1961-03-05

proved technology. President Ken
nedy and Secretary Of Labor Gold
berg have publicly associated
themselves with this management
view, although in carefully un-
specific language.
One of the most fundamental
tasks Of the Labor Management
Policy Committee which Mr.. Ken
nedy recently appointed will be
to find ways to ease the personal
hardships of workers displaced by
machines, thereby, it is hoped,
gaining organized labor's cooper
alton in agreeing to such layoffS.
A government financed refrain
ing program for the displaced
workers conceivably even in
cluding payment Of a living al
lowance while the worker is being
retrained - may be proposed.
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the Supreme Court has made that
very clear. Therefore, there would
be no possibility Of our recon-
mending it,"
Almost all constitutional lawyers
agree that the Federal Govern
ment is barred from making any
direct grants to private or paro-
chial schools.
Evening star., 1961-03-05
More FIexibiIity

The Kennedy aim, it is under
stood, is not to discard or down
grade our atomic striking power.
In the opinion of many observers,
it is to provide more flexibility
for our armed forces so that we
need not, at least initially, have to
respond to any aggression with
nuclear explosives and thereby
risk mutual suicide.
This flexibility can be obtained
by increasing the numbers of out
conventional forces and providing
them with more modern weapons
and equipment.
Evening star., 1961-03-05
BY ALAN EMORY
Contributing Writer

The New York Democratic poll
tical ferment has brewed a potent
question about Carmine DeSapio:
Is he a black villain, as some
of his enemies claim, or is he, as
his friends say, sadly, the victim
Of political misfortune?
Certainly DeSaplo's position as
head of Tammany Hall has
created an unfavorable public i'm
age. but recent New York political
history divides opinion on how
much responsibility DeSapio bears
for the worst mess the New York
Democrats have suffered in more
than 40 years.
DeSapio's friends, and some Of
his opponents. say he is the most
effective leader the Democrats
have had in the Empire State
since the salad days of James A.
Farley. Yet he has been saddled
with the blame for the split be-
tween the so-called reform ele-
ment," headed by former Senator
Herbert H. Lehman, Mrs. Roose-
velt and NATO Ambassador
Thomas K. Finletter, and the reg
ular party organization.
The Irony Of 1t
Partly it's justified, but the
irony is that DeSapio is the poll
tical goat, the man who must
go" to save the Democratic Party
from disaster in New York when
it was, thanks to his efforts, that
the Democrats elected their most
popular Mayor of New York City
in decades and their first Gov
ernor Of the State in IL years.
And even that doesn't take into
account the day-to-day democ-
racy that DeSapio instilled in his
party's machinery. moves that won
him applause.
The point in the situation is
illustrated in the comment of the
New York leader who expressed
his personal liking for DeSapio,
praise for the reforms he had in
stituted and the success he had
achieved for the Democrats.
But" the leader added in the
time-honored tradition of political
honesty, Il won't go down the
drain with him"
What may write finis to De-
Sapio's political career is the call
for his custer that came from New
York Mayor Robert F. Wagner.
Yet Wagner would never have
been Mayor if it hadn't been for
DeSapio.
DeSapio came up the hard way
in New York politics, winning a
local leadership over the estab-
lished leadership, then becoming
the first Of Italian extraction to
move in 1949 into the top spot in
Tammany, previously an exclusive
haven for the Irish.
The next year he almost ruined
himself, when three Italians ran
for Mayor of New York and the
organization Democrat, Ferdinand
Pecora, lost to independent Vim
cent r. Impellitteri. But that was
the preliminary. In the main
event DeSapio proved his worth.
Wosner's Nomination
Came 1853 and DeSapio beat
back the opposition of three of
the five New York metropolitan
area county chairmen and won
the Mayors nomination for Wag-
ner. The smashing victory that
was Wagner's made DeSapio look
good, but he looked even better
the next year.
Everyone was saying Repre-
sentative Franklin D. Roosevelt,
jr.. was a sure bet to win the
nomination for Governor, and he
looked like even money to trip
Senator Irving M. Ives. the Re
publican candidate, in the race for
the mansion in Albany.
DeSapio surveyed the situation
carefully and found out otherwise.
So he began rounding up support
for the administrator Of the mu-
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litical luster the job of national
committeeman from New York,
succeeding Edward J. Flynn Of the
Bronx.
But the world started crashing
down less than IL months after
that.
The Hogan Compoign
Early in 1858 DeSapio became
convinced that Frank S. Hogan,
the popular district attorney Of
New York County (Manhattan),
Evening star., 1961-03-05

blame him. Roosevelt, about
whom he had held reservations,
was the only Democratic member
Of the State ticket who lost, trail
ing Republican Jacob K. JavitS for
attorney general by 10000 votes.
Three years later DeSapio saw
Wagner reelected Mayor of New
York City by the largest margin in
history, nearly a million votes.
At that point it didn't look like
anything could happen to De-
Sapio, who had added to his po-
Evening star., 1961-03-05

tual security (foreign add pro-
gram, w. Averell Hartman, who
had never run for political Of
flee. Hartman won the nomina-
ton and then astounded the
dopesters by squeaklng into the
governorship by 11,000 votes in
one Of the closest races in State
history.
DeSapio, soon to be named Sec
retary Of State in the Albany ad-
ministration, was riding the crest
OF the wave, and no one could
Evening star., 1961-05-16
ChiIdren's Theoter
Marks Anniversary

A luncheon marking the 18th
anniversary Of the Children's
Theater of Washington will be
held at noon tomorrow at the
Presidential Arms.
The group, sponsored by the
District Recreation Depart
ment, stages children'S drama,
fantasy, dance productions and
one-act play festivals.
Guests at the luncheon will
include the theater's executive
board. officers and advisors.
Evening star., 1961-05-16
HOLLYWOOD
Bette Just Shrugged
BY SHEILAH GRAHAM

other than Marion Brando."
Marion, who did a good job as
a director with "One Eyed
Jacks" won't be acting much
longer. And that will be our
loss.
was introduced to 19-year-
old Judy Dusseau, who plays
an extra in the Elvis Presley
starrer, Blue Hawaii" She was
formerly a secretary in the
Paramount publicity depart
ment. I asked her to compare
the jobs. This is easier, more
money, but not as regular" the
pretty blonde conceded. Later
I saw her on the set, and I hope
she made the right decision. Is
it better to be a very pretty
secretary, or Just a pretty
extra? She stood out in the
first Job. Is one of many in the
second.
How's this for a title-"A
Lion For the Bestiary?" This
is the name of a story, now
being written by Albert Zug-
smith and Robert Hill, to be
made into a movie. Steve Allen
and Jayne Meadows had agreed
to make another movie for
Zugsmith following college
Confidential" But I have q
sneaking hunch this has been
Cancelled by mutual agreement.
Evening star., 1961-05-16

HOLLYWOOD, M anal. -
You could have heard a breath
drop when Hope Lange, on the
set Of "a Pocketful Of Mira
cles," asked to have her dress
ing room set up next to the
No. / dressing room, occupied
by Glenn Ford. Because the
lady in the No. 2 room was
Bette Davis! Hope and Glenn
have been going together" as
you probably know. But to
push the tempeStuous Miss
Davis from her rightful place!
Well, everyone expected the
studio to cave in. But. instead,
Miss Davis said, You can put
my dressing room at the end
of the row if you like; I
couldn't care less. Then she
added, This sort of thing
belongs to a Hollywood that's
dead and buried" 1t was
Bette's Hollywood, in the glori-
Gus olden days before television
and stars who prefer to live
abroad.
Marion BrandO, ST., stopped
at my table in the Paramount
commissary, and I asked this
pleasant, gregariouS gentleman,
How did you happen to have
a son like Marlon?" Some
parents might have been an
noyed, but the older Brando
replied. Il have the Strangest
family, don't I? One of my
daughters is an artist, another
is an actress, and Marlon"-I
helped him with, "is an acting
genius" I'm sure he agreed
with me. He continued: Mar
lon loves privacy and hates
acting" When did he start
wanting to be an actor?" I
asked. "Since he was 2. He
always wanted to be someone
, 1961-08-23
RANDOM
RAMBLINGS
y by Andy Adams


It is rare to encounter anything
that constitutes completion of ma
terialistic endeavors or vision into
The 1uture.
The most well developed and
closely scrutinized plans change so
rapidly that one wonders whether
Or NOT Iore thought is worthwhile.
Plans for raising a family sell
dom materialize as dreamed. One
may start to build a home con-
tract is signed and before the ink
is dry, changes are proposed,
amendments added and the origin
al document has an entirely new
face. Peace and trade treaties ri
honored for very short periods by
their signerS a new carefully
Worded piece of paper is duly
scribed to replace the old and this
in turn, will be scrapped before
it's termination date.
So it goes from Mr.. Average
Citizen, to business large and
small, to governments most mo-
mentous and highly heralded pacts
81. all actions, paper otherwise,
can be categorical under sUnfin-
ished Business.
If an attitude of defeatism is ac-
cepted, one can have finished
business.
The nautical term Irish Pen
nants" Struggling ends Of a line)
follows through every phase Of
life. Unfinished completed ~ ac-
tons bring a certain amount Of
progress but creation of neurosis
is the price paid.
Happy is a person with a SIM
pie mind! And he, too, has
troubles!!
, 1961-08-23
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The Wizard Of Baghdad"
Dick Shawn, Diane Baker, The
Flying & Talking Horse, The Sui
tan turned into Parrot
Tuesday evening at $3.50
Ell Case de una Adolecente"
Martha Miiares, Raul Farrell, Arina
Welter
Wednesday
Double Feature Day
LIST Feature:
POSSE FROM HELL"
in color.
Audie Murphy, John Saxon, and
Rudolpho Acosta
End Feature:
GOLDEN BLADE"
IN COLOR
Rock Hudson and Piper Laurie
Thursday 8 Friday
TUNES OF GLORY
Alec Guinness, Dennis Price and
John Mills
Saturday
Double Feature Day!
lst Feature
CARTOONS
End Feature:
TAP ROOTS"
Susan Hayward, Van Helm, Julie
London, Boris Karloff
Sunday & Monday afternoon and
evening and Tuesday afternoon.
THE FACTS OF LIFE"
, 1961-08-23
EYES ON BERLIN

@EA
THU FAR Allied powers have done nothing more
than lodged a strong protest on the sealing off if the East
German Sector of Berlin. An even stronger protest has gone
directly to Moscow. But the cold, hard fact remains-the Rus
slams have closed all the borders, and East Berlin is nothing
more than a concentration camp surrounded BY barbed wire
and concrete, ringed with Russian tanks, and Russian soldiers
armed to the teeth.
THE NATION GUARD is being activated and incor-
porated in the active I. S. Army, thousands in the Navy have
had their tour of duty extended, and by the end of June
1862, the Army will have reached about a million men. All
Of this is in view Of the very, very serious crisis which the
Berlin situation brought about.
BUT H GREAT propaganda advantage is with the
West Whether Or not these nations elect to use it to its full
est is to be seen. Khruschev has boosted of his workers para.
disc, Of how he will catch up and pass the United States in
a short while, and Of how hf will bury us all. Yet, with
all this the communist world can not endure an existence side
BY side with the democratic way.
DURING TIL month Of July alone. over 10000 refugees
fled from East to West Berlin. Hundreds Of thousands did this
during the year, depicting East Germany Of much Of its ef
fective and technical manpoWer. The difference between
East and West Berlin was 50 great that no amount Of induce
ment could contain the East Germans. They simply continue
ed to flow into West Berlin. Completely embarrassed by this
state Of affairs, Khruschev could do nothing but seal off the
border with barbed wire, bayonets, and concrete.
THE SITUATION is just beginning, No one knows
whether, before long, the whole world will be engulfed in a
fight to the death, and whether atomic war will spell the end
of civilization. Our young mon and womenwilb be called upon:
and they will respond. II the meantime we watch and pray
that the leaders will not make a wrong move.
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, 1961-08-23

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Evening star., 1961-01-05
Six Get 30-Doy Terms
For Lynchburg Sit-ln

Green, %, of Lynchburg, both
Negro students at Virginia
Theological Seminary and Col
lege.
The courtroom crowd was
estimated at 800, about equally
divided between whites and
Negroes. 1t included parents Of
the defendants, several Lynch
burg clergymen. professors and
students. Several times during
the trial they cheered the two
defense attorneys, Julian H.
Golden of Pineville, KY, and
Linwood w. Holt, a Negro, Of
Norfolk.
Commonwealths Attorney
Royston Jester III presented
the States case in a routine
way, asserting the law was not
on trial, but only the students
who were charged with simple
trespaSs.
Mr.. Holt Immediately began
pressing for rules of procedure
and clashed repeatedly with
the judge, who accused him of
trying to put on a show." At
one point the judge told him
if he didn't calm down he
would be ordered out Of the
courtroom
Evening star., 1961-01-05

LYNCHBURG, Va. Jan. 6
(AP). Six young college
students-four white and two
Negro-were sentenced to 80
days each in Jail today on
charges Of trespassing in a De-
cember IA racial sit-in demon
stration at a drug store here.
They noted appeals and were
freed on bond of $1,000 each
pending their appearance in
Corporation Court on Feb
ruary 7.
Judge Joseph P. McCarron
convicted them moments after
he ordered the crowded court
room cleared. The spectators
had cheered a burst of oratory
on the part of a defense at
torney and jeered the judges
admonition to be quiet.
The defendants. all of whom
pleaded not guilty, were George
Terrill Rumback, 20, of Arling-
ton and James E.. Hunter, 10,
Of Indianapolis, both of Lynch
burg College; Rebecca M. owen,
20. Of Saluda and Mary Edith
Bentley, 20, of Newark, N. j..
students at Randolph-M Macon
Women's College, and Barbara
Thq las, 81, and Kenneth
Evening star., 1961-01-05
Hearing Ends, Transit
IRuling Due by Jan. u

PUG. chief accountant, thai
fare riders have invested $2.l
million in excess bus deprecia-
ton has not been successfully
contradicted.
Mr.. Mclean had testified al
the hearing that buses should
be deprecated on q 17-yeal
service life rather than. on the
14-year basis. He also rec
ommended that the existing
per cent annual bus deprecia-
ton be changed to 81 per cent
However, Harvey M. Spear
counsel for D. C. Transit. told
the commission that If the
depreciation life of buses Il
extended to II years the public
will be forced ito ride on Older
and older buses"
He said that the average life
for buses in the United States
Is IL years.
Staff witnesses testified al
the hearing that of D. C
Transit's 1.060 buses, 3l6 are
Is years old or older.
However. Mr.. Spear said that
o. Roy Chalk, president Of D
c. Transit, has been trying to
modernize the fleet by buying
100 new buses each year for the
last three years.
Evening star., 1961-01-05

I The District Public Utilities
Commission completed yester-
day o hearing that started last
September on a proposed D. C.
Transit System fare increase.
! The commission will rule by
January % on the company ap-
plication to increase its token
fares from five for q 81 to four
Tor 95 cents.
: The original deadline Of
january IL was extended with
the consent of. the company to
give the commission time to
study the 400.oo0-word tram
script.
George F. Donnella, counsel
for the PUG. stan which op-
posed the fare increase, said in
his concluding argument that
The main issue in the hearing
was depreciation Of buses.
Mr.. Donnella said that tes-
timony by e. Edward Mclean,