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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10

office of Civil Defense and Mo-
bilization which, under the Presi-
dents reorganization plan, will
become the Office of Emergency
Planning.
Emergency Hospitals
About $50 million of this $685.
million will be used to buy emer-
gency equipment, most of it for
1000 emergency hospitals of 1000
beds each. These hospital units,
which are prepackaged and con-
tain most of the facilities found
in ordinary hospitals, can be set
up in a short time. The OCDM
already has 1000 of them in
storage over the country.
Most of the remainder will be
used for salaries and given to
the States on a matching fund
basis for civil defense uses.
About $2.5 million will be used
for construction of a Federal
regional emergency operational
center in Massachusetts,. This
underground center for the New
England area would be the sec
ond regional one, the other being
at Denton, Tex, and serving a
five-State area in the Southwest.
Civil defense officials hope
eventually to construct an opera
tional center for each of the
eight regions. A national under
ground center for Federal Gov
eminent operation already has
been constructed.
Another $73 million request
has been made by President Ken
nedy for stockpiling wheat and
medical supplies in critical areas.
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A Dissertation on Democrats Diction

why, up to now I've always
listened to what he said, rather
than how he said it," replied Mr..
Burkart; land I might add that
1 deeply enjoy listening to him.
He speaks excellent English, COM
poses accurately when he talks
off the cuff, and it is difficult to
find regionalisms in his vocabu-
larry or grammar"
His accent"
A Locine of Forms
Il would put it this way: Mr..
Kennedy speaks cultured New
England, with a lacing of forms
which are common to Eastern
Massachusetts,. 1 am carefully
not saying Boston, because the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-09-10

Although mass evacuation plans
are still on paper in most big
cities, the heart of civil defense
strategy is the belief that fallout
shelters offer the best means of
survival in nuclear attack. There
likely would not be sufficient time
to move people out of the popu-
lation centers in an attack.
Emergency Food Stocks
Nearly $50 million was appro-
priated for equipping the desig-
mated shelters with food stocks
and emergency supplies such as
lighting equipment, tools and
firSt-aid supplies.
About $40 million will be used
to expand and improve warning
systems. One study is reported
to have found that during civil
defense exercises few persons
heard outdoor sirens and few
paid any attention to them.
A sum OF $40 million is Sched-
uled to be spent to begin devel-
opment of a household warning
system which would operate by
use of a buzzer plugged into cleo
trical outlets. To make this work
would require installation of Spe-
cial generator transformers by
each local power company.
About $13.5 million is to be
spent for research and develop
ment in such fields as shelter
construction, shelter behavior
and emergency equipment.
These items are part of the
Defense Department budget.
In addition, Congress has APP
propriated 1865 million for the
Evening star., 1961-11-17
WILLIAM S. WHITE
Harvest of Shame in Africa

mainly on the insistence of
people who have never even
been to the areas they have
been so determined to save.
There has been a blind, in
incredible foolishness which
has infinitely harmed the
Africans themselves.
Few wanted forever to deny
independence. But some
wanted to let it come soundly,
marching only with the abil-
ity of the colonial peoples
to understand and practice
it. But the men in a hurry
could never wait and their
ceaSeleSs bowling all but si-
fenced those who wanted to
60 forward only slowly and
with care.
To say a single word
against independence" -
anywhere, for anybody, in any
circumstanceS-has been to
involve epithetS like ''imperi-
alist," as this correspondent
has painful cause to know.
But now that the independ-
Observation-Disclosures people
have had their way, what
will they do about the mu-
TIMES, the rapes, the murders?
Write letters to the United
Nations?
Evening star., 1961-11-17
Portugal to Free
u. S. Missionaries
After Probe
BY the Associated Press

The State Department said
yesterday it has word from the
Portuguese government indi-
eating that four American
Protestant missionaries will be
released after Portgual has
completed an investigation of
activities in Angola.
Officials said they did not
know exactly when the four
would be freed.
They were arrested in Sep
tember on charges of being
implicated in an anti-Portu-
guese rebellion in Portugal's
Angola colony in Africa.
Representative Wickersham,
Democrat of Oklahoma, said
Tuesday that Secretary of State
Rusk had told him the four
would be given their freedom
soon.
The State Department press
office said the four had been
visited by an American official
in Lisbon and were found to
be in good health and good
spirits. They were seized by
Portuguese authorities earlier
this year and were transferred
from Portugal to Angola about
9 month ago.
Evening star., 1961-11-17
2Acquitted Here
Of Charges of
Stock Sale Plot

A District Court judge has
acquitted two Washington area
men of charges of conspiring
to defraud purchasers of stock
in a uranium mining company.
Judge Edward M. Curran,
who heard the evidence in the
case without a jury, said there
was a reasonable doubt in his
mind that a conspiracy existed.
The defendants were Nathan
Wechsler of the 1900 block of
Yorktown road NV. and Her.
man Singer of the 2800 block
of Washington avenue, Chevy
Chase, Md.
The two men were indicted
last May, charged with con-.
spring with Coombs and Co.
in the sale Of common stock of
the Lost Canyon Uranium and
Oil Co.
In 1855. Coombs and Co. was
Evening star., 1961-11-17

training in the first princi-
pies Of self-government.
We threw the Dutch out
Of Indonesia; now we have a
pro-Communist regime there
and a total denial of any
democratic rights to the peo-
pie. We helped push the Bri-
ish out of the Gold Coast.
Now it is the proudly in
dependent" and also pro-
Communist state of Ghana
where it is a crime even to
criticize the successor boss to
the dreadful British.
We have helped harry the
French. again our old allies,
in all their African depend
encieS.
We have done all this be-
cause of a reformist notion,
arising from the professional
liberals, that because indie
pendence is right in princi-
pie it is necessary to have
independence" everywhere,
Immediately and withi no
nonsense about preparing
those who must, presumably,
exercise its responsibilities.
And it has all come about
Evening star., 1961-11-17
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Kennedy makes political speaking tour It's the ideal
time close enough to the 1862 elections help Democratic
canddates-and far enough away he can't blamed if
they lose.
African students in break windows at the French
embassy They're following old Marxist maxim People
who live in grass houses should always throw stones
Goldwater asks Republicans to quit 'feuding" Barry
wants the COP to close ranks shake with itself
and promise never to criticize party member who
Governor of New York.
Albania progressive than other Communist coun-
tries They're already erasng Khrshchevs from street
signs and public buildings-even before he's dead.
Signs Of the times On the neghborhoods faout shell
ter-"No Vacancy"
There $4,000 taxexempt foundations One genius
even founding foundation to train experts get paid
by foundation without really working.
Evening star., 1961-11-17
DORIS FLEEsoN
The President Helps Mognuson

story. Unlike his other big
problem, New York, it is in
Democratic hands, but har-
mony is the lost chord in
the States practice of the
political arts. The threat of
Richard Nixon in the State
house will probably unity
Democrats more than their
own President can do.
The President, however, has
much to gain by merely
showing himself to the public
whose confidence in him is
reflected in all channels of
public opinion. 1t is the belief
in some sophisticated po-
litical quarters that presi-
Dental status with the voters
Is the only true source of
power over Congress; it is
certainly an important one.
Evening star., 1961-11-17
Y. 5. Backing of Quick independence
For Colonies Held at Fault in Violence

The harvest of shame. of
rape and murder and mu-
tiny, is spreading in those
marvelously independent"
African lands which the
screeching propaganda of
"anti-colonialists" has freed
from the shackles of the
Western powers.
They are free at last of
"colonialism"-and also free
of any self-responsibility any
order, any justice, any per-
sonal freedom or even per-
sonal safety. and of any
decent hope for their own
people.
On and on go the frightful
dispatches: Belgian women
are ravished in the great new
independent" nation of the
Congo, which until lately had
the unbearable misfortune
of an orderly rule by the Bel
gians looking to an eventual
and true independence once
the Africans were capable of
governing themselves.
So-called leaders" of this
or that area turn gunner
loose on the gunmen of other
leaders" A central gov
ernment" was anointed by
the United Nations itself to
break an evil "secesSionist"
movement in Katanga, the
only province still wholly
pro-Western and wholly anti
Communist.
But this central govern
ment" now finds some diff
ficulty. It's "troops"-and
this according to United Ma
tions officials themselves
are spending some time in
drunken looting and happily
butchering Italian soldiers
sent there to support the very
government" whose troops"
have now murdered them.
All this the United States
of America has decisively
helped to bring about. The
blame is surely wide enough
to go round. to cover every
administration back to and
including that of Franklin
Roosevelt.
For nearly 20 years this
country has been obsessed
that all "colonialism" must
at once be abolished, even
where the local populations
have had no glimmer of
Evening star., 1961-11-17

The public might as well
get used to the idea, for a
while anyway, as the Ken
nedy administration de-
velopS one of the best-oiled
political machines in Amer
ican history - possibly ex-
ceeding in power the national
organization which Mark
Hanna of Mckinley days op-
Grated at the turn Of the CEN
tury.
There is a certain ruth
leSSneSS in the way things
are done, as evidenced by
the manner in which Post
master General j. Edward
Day was pulled out at the
last minute as the principal
speaker at the White House
regional conference in Phila-
delphia this week. These
meetings are supposed to be
nonpolitical and nonpartiSan
and for the benefit of all
citizens. because they are
paid for by the funds of all
taxpayers.
1t is, of course, well known
to anyone familiar with poll
tics that the party organiza-
ton in Philadelphia is i'm
portant to the Democrats in
Pennsylvania, and that the
city has a substantial num-
ber of Negroes, whose votes
mean much in every election
nowadays. Perhaps the best
way to tell what happened is
to reproduce here a news
story read by the people of
Philadelphia - Republicans
as well as Democrats. 1t
was printed in the Evening
Bulletin there on Wednesday
of this week. 1t reads as
follows:
Attorney General Robert
F. Kennedy will replace
Postmaster General j. Ed
ward Day as the main speaker
in a White House regional
conference in the Sheraton
Hotel here tomorrow night.
The announcement of the
substitution of the Presi-
dents younger brother for
Evening star., 1961-11-17
DAVID LAWRENCE
A WeH-OiIed Political Machine

feels he would like to recast
that statement And Day
withdrew the offending SEN
tence. The Postmaster Cen
eral was 70 have shared the
platform here orroW
night with Robert c. Weaver,
administrator of the Housing
and Home Finance Agency"
Mr.. Weaver is the most i'm
portant Negro in the Ken
nedy administration, and it
seems hardly likely that he
would have objected to shar-
ing the platform with Mr..
Day. 1t is difficult to un-
derstand why politics should
enter into the selection of
any speaker representing the
Government of the United
States when the White House
regional conferences were set
up to deal with matters per-
tanning to full employment
and economic growth, oppor-
tunities for youth, opportun-
tiles for senior citizens, and
opportunities for our cities"
The stated purpose of the
meetings, which are being
held in IA cities throughout
the country, is ito inform
citizens of recent legislative
and administrative develop
mentS and accomplishments,
with particular emphasis
upon the impact of legiSla-
ton upon the region in
which the conference is held"
If Mr.. Day is not qualified
to speak in Philadelphia for
the Post Office Department,
because he offended the Ma
tional Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People.
perhaps it soon will be argued
that he is disqualified also
from running the mail serv-
ice for the entire country.
But if he has to be sacri-
feed for politics-though he
happens to be one of the
ablest men ever chosen to
head the Post Office Depart
ment-the country will have
to accept this also as the in
evitable result of partisan
manipulation of govern
mental functions by Demo-
cratic Party politicians today.
(Copyright, 196D
Evening star., 1961-11-17

ment, however, indicted three
former officials of the Mutual
Broadcasting System, alleging
there was a scheme to broad
cast propaganda cloaked as
genuine news.
Among the defendants named
in the Dominican Republics
suit were Guterma, a former
Mutual Broadcasting System
president; Hal Roach, jr., son
of the Hollywood producer, and
the Mutual Broadcasting Sys-
tenn.
Lawyer Edward L. Carey,
who represented the Dominican
Republic. said the case against
Mr.. Roach was dismissed be-
cause of improper service and
a settlement reached with Mu-
tual. Guterma was given prison
terms in other cases here and
in New York.
Evening star., 1961-11-17
Dropping of Postmaster General Day
AS Conference Speaker Criticized

Day was made by the city
representatives office today.
Sources in Washington
said Robert Kennedy was
brought in because Pennsyl-
vania Democratic leaders
among them Mayor Dill
worth, Gov. Lawrence and
United States Senator Joseph
Clark-were disappointed be-
cause they felt Day wouldn't
be a big drawing card for
the conference.
THE State Democratic
leaders, the source said, de-
cided they would rather have
either the Attorney General
or Secretary of Labor Arthur
j. Goldberg or Secretary of
Health, Education and We'll
fare Abraham A. Ribicoff. So
Clark urged the White House
to substitute one of them for
Day.
THE Postmaster General
has been in the news re-
Gently. Sources in the
White House are known to
feel he committed one of the
big bloopers of the Kennedy
cabinet in a statement on a
mailman whose dismissal had
stirred a racial controversy.
The mailman, w. w. Law,
of Savannah, Ga, is that
States head of the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People. Law
was charged with five viola
tions and dismissed last Sep
tember, but a three-man ap-
peal board recommended
that he be reinstated with a
reprimand. Day did reinstate
Law, but he said he did so
regretfully and added:
"'I would not want a per-
son with Laws record of con-
duct delivering mail to my
family home
"At his news conference last
week, President Kennedy was
asked what he thought about
Days statement.
"'I think the President
replied, he probably today
Evening star., 1961-11-17
Churchill Sings
At School Festival

LONDON. Nov. II (AP).-Sir
Winston Churchill yesterday
Joined in singing school songs
at the Harrow School Speech
Day festivities.
For his 21st visit to his old
school since 1910, the former
Prime Minister made his way
into Speech Hall, leaning keav-
lily on his walking-stic and no.
ticeably without the customary
cigar. He will be 81 in two
weeks. Among the GOO white
collared boys, he Joined with
Lady Churchill in the singing.
Evening star., 1961-11-17
DORIS FLEESON

FTeSlQeIlb h6IlIlBuy Il6dQ6Q
a long array Of notables par
ticipating in the formal can
rization of Senator Warren
Grant Magnuson as one Of
the Evergreen States most
cherished institutions to-
gether with totem poles and
the University of Washing
ton.
Officially the affair cele-
brated the Senator's 25th
year in Congress. Prac-
tically, it was designed to
raise money for his cam
paign for reelection next
year. At last count more than
1000 persons were paying
500 apiece for this purpose.
Just to nail down the evi-
dence of White House es-
TEEN for Maggie" a regional
conference on Western prob
lens will be staged in Sc
attic the following week. All
this despite reports in the
Seattle Times that Senator
MagnuSon is considered un-
beatable in many quarters,
both Republican and Demo-
cratic, and may have only
token Republican opposition.
But he is personally one of
the most popular Senators,
and he could write a sue
cessful textbook on how to
run a political office for the
benefit of the constituents,
including business. This at
tention plus a lack of ambi-
ton to shine nationally has
kept him in Congress and
landed him in powerful
places.
He is chairman of the In
terstate and Foreign Com
merce Committee, enjoys a
priced and senior place on
Appropriations and ranks
third on the majority side of
the Aeronautical and Space
Sciences Committee. All three
bear directly on his States
major economic interests and
combine to discourage Re-
publicans from competing.
They suggest also why the
President headed west in a
rainstorm to salute him.
After Seattle Mr.. Kennedy
was due to bow before an
other cherished Democratic
monument, Chairman Hay
den of the Senate Appropria-
tions Committee.
Neither of these affairs
was designed to be partic-
Evening star., 1961-11-17
Dominion Suit
In Rudio News
Deal Dismissed

The Dominican Republics
1859 suit in District Court to
recover S75O,OOO allegedly paid
Alexander Guterma and others
to broadcast good news about
the island nation has been dis
missed for lack of prosecution.
The Dominican Republic
contended it contracted for
legitimate news broadcasts to
counteract what it believed to
be unfair treatment of Domin-
ican events in certain segments
of the American press and ra-
dio.
The United States Govern
Evening star., 1961-11-17
Popularity ofWestern Senator Indicated
As 1000 Pay to Aid His Reflection

ularly partisan, as both
Senators enjoy support in
both parties. Even if they
had been so designed, the in
terposition of a national fu-
neral for Speaker Rayburn
which the President will at
tend would preclude it.
All the influences which
are bringing Democratic
leaders together in joy and
sorrow are, thrc ugh Texas,
unifying. The Speaker
preached and lived party re-
sponsibility and his former
colleagues will be remember
ing it.
California will be another
Evening star., 1961-11-17

enjoined by the Securities and
Exchange Commission from
further sale of stock on grounds
that its liability had exceeded
the legal limit allowed broker
age firms under SEC regula-
tions, The investment firm
later was declared bankrupt.
Evening star., 1961-08-30
Arlington S Last Chance

There was a time when Arlington
County could have reserved large acre
ages of natural landscape for park
purpoSeS-at small COST That time is
long past, however The county has
grown so rapidly in recent years that
little open space remains undeveloped.
A few remnants Of woodland can be
seen along several streams, but they
will not stay green very long unless the
county moves to acquire them for parks
or recreation areas. We hope, therefore,
that Arlington will support the recon-
mendation of its Planning Commission
for preserving at least three such un-
spoiled valleys.
The stream basins involved are
along Gulf Branch, Hitchcock Branch
and Windy Run. These areas have been
designated on official land charts as
open space for public use, but formal
action will be needed to insure their
protection in the future. This is our
last chance" said County Board Member
Thomas Richards, ardent proponent of
the park program, ito maintain little
oaSeS of nature in our crowded urban
community" 1t is chance that should
not be allowed to go by default
Evening star., 1961-08-30

improved situation to demand that the
big companies Sweeten their original
offers. Armed with strike authorize
tions but now agreeing to continue
negotiations until September 6, Mr..
Reuther also is in a position to bear
down on whichever one of the three
targets he may choose. Actually,
the union president himself has said
the UAW will not strike if agreement
is "cloSe" at deadline time. 1t is quite
likely that negotiations will move to an
around -the-clock schedule between now
and the zero hour. What happens then
may be governed entirely by Mr..
Reuther'S definition of how close is
"cloSe," in terms of agreement with one
or all of the Big Three.
Evening star., 1961-08-30
Mr.. Goldberg Conducting

Reaction to the news that the
Metropolitan Operas labor troubles will
go to binding arbitration was best ex-
pressed perhaps by one of the Nets
own stars. Soprano Leontyne Price,
scheduled to sing the leading role when
the 196162 season opens with "The
Girl of the Golden West" summed up
the wide interest in this crisis in culture
in these happy words: "The important
thing is that everyone cared. The PreSi-
dent cared, the Secretary of Labor
cared and the public cared"
Certainly the evidence bears out
Miss Prices evaluation. When the opera
management and representatives of its
orchestral musicians reached the salary
deadlock on August 7 that prompted
announcement of the seasons Cancel
lation,' it was greeted by a chorus of
regret and diSmay. It was obvious that
many people, in many walks of life, did
care and President Kennedy took the
unprecedented step of asking Secretary
of Labor Goldberg to intervene per-
Sonally. The outcome is likewise un-
precedented, in that Mr.. Goldberg has
consented to be more than mediator,
conciliator or perSuader-he will be the
arbitrator under a management-labor
agreement that his determinations will
be final and binding.
Mr.. Goldberg himself has defined
his role in this case as unique, but has
added in effect that he is not about
to make habit of arbitrating labor
controversies. AS such things go, this
dispute itself is an unusual one
involving the life of ga great cultural
resource of the Nation" Something
more than money and music really is
at stake in this effort to assure that
the Met will have another of its tradi-
tionally glorious openings. So we join
with all the many others who "cared"
in hoping that Mr.. Goldberg will have
no undue trouble finding a formula for
harmony.