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Evening star., 1961-04-08
GNU Art Show.
Winners Listed

Winners have been an
nounced in the Student Art
Show Of the George Washing
ton University Department of
Art and the Corcoran School of
Art, which opened this week
at the university library and
will run through April 26.
First prize winners are: Oil
painting, Gay Glading of 1922
N. Kenmore street, Arlington;
water color, Marion E. McVay
of 1925 Seventeenth street NV.
Washington; sculpture, Erna
Marie NeveS of $500 Rannoch
road, Bethesda, and graphics
Marguerite E. Fowle of 9405
Locust Hill road, Bethesda.
The contest was open to
George Washington University
students enrolled in the uni
versity's Department of Art OF
1.-THE Corcoran School of Art.
Evening star., 1961-04-08
Menace in South Wet Nam

perfect talent for nepotism.
and most Of his relatives and
his wife's are on the public
payroll. The armed forces
have a $3.50 loyalty, one
that is certainly attached to
the hand that feeds them, but
one not entirely dependable.
one feels, if a genuine crisis
were to test their attach
mentS.
To the north is North Wet
Nam, the Communist state
led by the willy and deter
mined Ho Chi Mini. It is no
trick at all to sneak across
the border from North to
South, particularly since
hardly anyone knows where
the border is in any event.
Thus the Red guerrillas can
be constantly reinforced. and
their leaders can keep in
close touch with the Red
wirepullers in Hanoi where
all the mischief is created.
In the country districts the
peasants are terrorized into
refusing American aid. They
are ordered to ignore the
efforts of American agricul-
tural technicians who are
attempting to teach them
modern cultivation methods,
replacing the ancient, scrab-
bling, non-productive and
ck-breaking toll they have
known for centuries.
In Saigon, itself, the mass
of the people are perfect and
plastic material for the Com
munist agitators. They work
long hours for incredibly low
wages, while they watch the
government elite and the
American mission personnel
buzz about the teeming g
streets in shiny big cars. All
this is exploited to the hilt.
South Wet Nam will, it is
feared, be a greater menace
than Laos to the security of
all Southeast Asia in the
near future.
Evening star., 1961-04-08
President Praises
johnson After Trip

at the nuclear talks, was most
worthwhile.
The President also said
he had received word from
Thomas K. Finletter, United
States ambassador to NATO,
that Mr.. Johnson's speech in
Paris did a good deal to
strengthen the support which
NATo must have if NATO is
to present an effective shield. "
In Geneva, Mr.. johnson
said, he voiced Mr.. Kennedy's
determination that this coun-
try explore every possible ave-
nue. Of reaching agreement"
on ending nuclear tests.
Asked If there was any kind
Of deadline for the conference,
Mr.. Johnson said: mo, not as
long as there's hope, there's
life"
Evening star., 1961-04-08
KoiruIu's 13-Doy
Fast Is Ended

KATMANDU. Nepal, April 8
(AP).-OuSted Premier B. P.
Koirala abandoned his 13-day
fast today after the Nepal
government agreed to let him
challenge his detention in
court.
Mr.. Koirala and several
other leading ministers were
removed from power by King
Mahendra last December on
charges Of misrule. Since then
he has been held in detention.
Mr.. Koirala's sister, Mrs.
Vijayalakshmi, announced the
ending of his fast and said the
former Premier is "in a very
weak physical condition"
She said the government also
had agreed to grant Mr..
Koirala'S demands that he be
allowed to confer with his de-
tained colleagues, meet and be
allowed to correspond with his
relatives and be given access
to foreign and local newspapers.
Evening star., 1961-04-08

resentatives come in here and
offer an explanation"
The development is signifi-
cant because three of the bid
ders - General Electric Co.,
Westinghouse Electric Corp,
and Sangamo Electric Co. of
Springfield, nl.-were defend
ants in a recent Federal anti
trust case. The case resulted
in heavy fines against the
companies and 30-day prison
terms for several key business
executives.
With one minor exception,
the bids for meters to be used
by the municipal light plant to
register consumption Of elec-
tricity totaled $68,691.
A Westinghouse spokesman
said prices quoted for watt
hour meters are prices which
are printed in Westinghouse
catalogues which are in the
hands of 1000 Westinghouse
customers all over the United
States.
The customers can look up
the prices themselves just as
they could look up prices in
a mail order catalogue, the
spokesman added.
1T seems clear that it's al
most impossible, mathemati-
cally speaking. for them to have
arrived at identical bids un-
less they got together in ad-
vance Of their bidding" said
Mr.. Locher. The bids seem to
me to be the result of a joint
policy"
Bronis J. Klementowicz, utili-
ties director, said: "At best, it's
fishy. And it's brazenly routine
We've been getting bids like
this on meters for years now.'
Vincent M. De Melto, the
light commissioner, said the
Evening star., 1961-04-08
Red India Party
Luuds Lumumbo

BOMBAY. India, April 8
(AP). A bust Of Patrice
Lumumba was garlanded and
the short-lived career of the
slain Congo ex-Premier was
praised yesterday at the OPEN
ing of the sixth congress of the
Indian Communist Party.
Mr.. Lumumba was called a
martyr of the African anti
colonial movements by speakers
led by the party general Sec
retary, Ajoy Ghosh.
Nearly 400 delegates attended
the opening ceremony. Michael
Suslov, secretary of the Soviet
Communist Party. was not on
hand, but he had a warm well
come at the railroad station on
his arrival earlier.
Evening star., 1961-04-08
BY WILLIAM GRIGG
Star Staff Writer


Top Government officials
heard a sales pitch here this
week which could result in the
mass production of inter-
changeable solid rocket Sec
tionS.
These sections could be COM
bined into many sizes Of rock
cts for almost any conceivable
space mission.
Officials of both the Depart
ment Of Defense and the Ma
tional Aeronautics and Space
Administration have been tolc
that still unplanned space
projects could be greatly speed.
ed by the new concept.
The segments could be built
in advance and slipped together
to form the kind of rocket
needed for the job decided
upon.
The segments are of three
kinds: Front, center sections
and tails. Each contains solid
fuel packed like a firecrackel
with a core drilled in it.
A front and tail can be COM
bined to make a low-powel
rocket engine. To hop it up, one
or more centerS are added. Fol
really big jobs, several rocket
engines, each made of tail
front and one or more center
sections. are clustered.
The key to the new system
is a new assembly method in
which each the rims of over
tapping sections are held to-
gether by three or more steel
bars. These bars can be insert
ed between two sections by
hand in about two minutes
With bolts and other methods
similar job may take hours.
Suppose you want to put a
25, ,000.pound object in a 400.
Evening star., 1961-04-08
Mr.. Davis Meets the Grass Roots

pickets had they left their
protesting placards outside,
were calling attention to their
belief they do not regard
Mr.. Davis as a representative
of all the people Of his dis
trict. They were represent
ing laid-off employees in as
sembly and production plants
and those who already are
having to subsist on Federal
surplus foods.
Mr.. Davis opposed the dis
tressed area aid because it
went to those "who had not
kept pace" and also because
it and the wage bill :usurp
free enterprise in the individ-
ual States"
Mr.. Davis has always been
willing for taxpayers in other
areas to help pay the dis
tressed farmers of his district
who have not kept pace,
and his reduction of human
suffering to a States rights
statistic cause some Of his
supporters to vince. After all,
it was free enterprise which
freely closed the noncompet-
tive mines and plants. The
Governors of West Virginia
Kentucky and Pennsylvania
have been unable to move
industry into the more dis
tressed areas. The families
there can't eat the windy
political speeches on States
rights.
Even as Mr.. Davis spoke,
the Federal Government was
moving to send Federal aid
to tornado distressed districts
in the Southern half of his
State. He did not protest this
as a usurpation of the rights
of free enterprise to relieve
the distressed.
1t is a long time between
Salvation Army Christmas
food baskets, and more and
more questions will be asked
about conservatism" of this
sort. Does it really help free
enterprise? Is it true or false2
Evening star., 1961-04-08
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

In the spirit of self-denia of the Kennedy the
White House has off fat back and hush puppies Tor the
duration-and hired French chef
Ode to order: Now hail the Society of Birch
which meets two blocks from the church. One swg of its ism
will from prison So sayeth the bark of the Birch
Dick Nixon says Kennedys political honeymoon is about
Only trouble for Republicans. Caroline's is
just beginning.
The Chryser for not letting dealers
handle SudebakerPa IkeS administration
Valiant The New Frontier is off Lark
Fdel Castro admits second front has opened against
him in Cuba Ones in the mountains-and ones in the
BARRIERS union.
President Kennedy receives rs leading MasonS Monday
got special mission: Wall up the Catholic bishops
for him.
Evening star., 1961-04-08
Red dNibbIino
ToContinue,
Burke Says
By the Associated Press

Admiral Arleigh A. Burke
says the Communists will con-
tinue "nibbling and piece
meal aggressionS" until the
United States can make local
wars unattractive and un-
profitable to the Communists" "
The Chief of Naval Opera
tions also told the Senate
Armed Services Committee yes
terday that the Soviet Navy
has long range submarines
that can operate off United
States coasts from bases inside
Russie.
And, he added, the Russians
also have submarines believed
To be able to launch balliStic
missiles. So far as is known,
Admiral Burke said. no Rus
sian submarines are nuclear
powered. although the Soviets
are likely to produce the
atomic powered underwater
craft soon.
Admiral Burke and Navy
Secretary Connally testified
that too many active Navy
ships and aircraft are cid and
should be replaced.
Mr.. Connally said most Of
the BIT ships now in service
were built during World War
II. And, he said, many Of the
Navy'S 6,913 aircraft are aging.
Admiral Burke and Secretary
Connally also said that a STEP
up in numbers Of the nuclear-
powered PolariS missile sub
marine fleet. urged by Presi-
dent Kennedy. has caused a
squeeze on funds and man.
power needed by the Navy and
Marine Corps to carry out
other miSsionos.
Their testimony was made
public outside the closed hear
ing. The committee is taking
testimony from top service
officials on Mr.. Kennedy's de-
fense program.
Evening star., 1961-04-08
BY GEORGE SHERMAN
Star staff Writer

Two appointees of the Ken
nedy administration have
served joint notice of uncom-
promising war on violators Of
antitrust laws.
Assistant Attorney General
Lee Loevinger, new head OF the
Antitrust Division of the JUS
tice Department. and Paul Rand
Dixon, new chairman of the
Federal Trade Commission,
spoke out yesterday before a
crowded meeting of the Anti
trust Section Of the American
Bar Association.
Afterwards, a spokesman said
it was the first time in the
history Of the antitrust section
that they had had to hang out
a standing room only" sign
The annual meeting was held
in the main ballroom Of the
Hotel Statler.
To Treat ViOlators as Criminals
Mr.. Loevinger said that all
those apprehended violating the
antitrust laws will be treated
as criminals, "and will person
ally be subjected to as severe a
punishment as we can PERSUADE
the courts to impose"
He said successful prosecu-
ton recently in Philadelphia
Of major electrical equipment
firms should dispel a popular
view that antitrust violations
are. "at worst, venial offenSes
Of no more moral significance
than a parking ticket"
Conspiracy to violate the
antitrust laws is economic
racketeering which gains no
respectability by virtue of the
fact that the loot is secured
by stealth rather than by force, p"
he said.
Mr.. Loevinger was echoing
his chief, Attorney General
Robert Kennedy, who has in
dicated the Justice Department
is considering legislative pro-
posals to prohibit management
officials from holding office in
The company after conviction,
The Landrum-Griffin Act pro-
vides that a union official con-
victed of certain crimes cannot
continue to hold union office.
Chance for Cooperation
For his part, Mr.. Dixon told
the meeting he welcomed the
request from Mr.. Kennedy that
Evening star., 1961-04-08
Georgia Lowmoker Gets Some Protests
On His Stand on Depressed Areas Aid

lied and the second is almost
so. The third is rural. Mr..
Davis predecessors were bold
enough to take a chance and
run outside the protection
of Georgia's notoriously in
equitable county unit system.
CA vote in the rural county,
for example, is worth so or
so Of those in the more urban
two0 Mr.. Davis has always
invoked the security of this
unit system under which a
candidate may receive the
most votes and still lose the
election. This is odd, in a way,
because the So-called politi-
cal power structure in the
counties of his district have
always been on his side.
But presently, there are
growing doubts about Mr..
Davis so-called conservatism.
Is it a true or false conserva-
tism? Does it fit into a de-
veloping industrial future?
Is it good for the free enter
prise system to have a repre-
sentative whose mind and
attitudes seemingly are as in
flexible as the laws of the
MedeS and Persians.
To Mr.. Davis the grass
roots have always been in
the business and county
courthouse communities. On
this return for the annual
Easter visit to the roots he
spoke at a meeting called to
hear his opposition to aid to
the Nations distressed areas
and to the minimum wage
law.
This year, for the first
time, Mr.. Davis encountered
a picket line. Some SIS we'll
dressed, attractive looking
young men and women, who
could have taken seats in
the business meeting without
being identified as labor
Evening star., 1961-04-08
RALPH McGILL

Each Easter the Congress
men go home to put ear to
the political earth and to feel
the public pulse. Washington
correspondents refer to this
annual outgoing as a journey
back to the grass roots.
We might take one such
Homecoming to a Deep South
district where industry is de-
veloping and study it briefly.
1t involves a Congressman
whose conservatism is stol-
idly and proudly of the far
right. It is a conservatism
which labor views as strongly
hostile. 1t is one which has
opposed, generally, the social
legislation Of the Roosevelt,
Eisenhower and Kennedy ad-
miniStrationS. The record has
a strong anti-Negro bias of
the South African variety, as
old as the public record. In
cluded also is a furious op-
position to any and all civil
rights measures.
If one could melt down all
the Stereotypes of Southern
conservative dogma Of pref
udice and reaction and put
same in a mold, the resultant
squeezed-out figure would be
a congressman who speaks,
thinks and votes as does
James C. Davis of Georgia's
5th District.
In much of Mr.. Davis dis
trict so much asphalt and
concrete have been laid down
for industry, shopping cen
ters and freeways there is
not much room left for grass
roots. What room there is for
roots is largely confined to
the lawns of spreading subur-
bia homes purchased in the
long-pay manner with fed
orally guaranteed mortgages.
Mr.. Davis district includes
three counties. One is urban
Evening star., 1961-04-08
SIip-on Sections Give
Rockets Extra Power

mile-high orbit. This requires
slipping IS parts together into
a four stage rocket.
If you want this rocket to
lift a 35,000-pound load, you
add extra center sections to the
first and second stages and
create a 19-segment rocket.
Aerojet- General Corp. has
been experimenting with sec
tions 100 inches in diameter.
The center sections are II feet
long.
The corporations scientists
told Government officials they
are now eager to work on
l40-inch segments. This size
is about the maximum that
can be easily transported on
railroads or trucks.
The firms scientists are also
negotiating for funds to de-
velop a liquid injection system
for DETECTING rocket blast and
thus turning the rocket.
Aerojet-General believes it
can build Segmented boosters
with is million-pound thrust
of 60 second duration for
100000 each in large guam
titles. This is considerably less
than the cost of huge liquid
boosters with similar capabili-
ties that are now being pre-
pared.
In his presentation, DR.,
Ernest Roberts, assistant man
ager Of Aerojet-General's solid
rocket work in Sacramento,
Calf, emphasized that the
rockets can be built almost
Immediately because they re-
quire only standard equipment
and conventional propellants.
I'VE believe" he said, that
as far as the first stage Of a
rocket is concerned, solids are
cheaper than liquid for any
and all missions.
Evening star., 1961-04-08
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Communist Threat There Is Called
Even Greater Than in Laos

tactics are bound to work in
a nation" that has never
been a nation, where an i'm
poverished and illiterate peo-
pie struggle for a bare sub
siStence in a jungle land
without roads, a dequate
communications, markets or
modern necessities.
South Wet Nam offers,
even more than Laos, an
excellent example of all this
at its worst. Billions Of dol
lars in United States assist
ance has been poured into
Saigon, not always in we'll
planned projects. yet the
results to date are almost
unrecognizable in the lush
green jungles where Com
munist-led guerrillaS and
trained infiltrators and sab
oteurs make a mockery of
economic efforts.
President Ngo Dinh Diem,
a man of democratic inclina-
tionS but oftentimes dictato-
rial practices. rules a gov
ernment in Saigon whose
authority, after dark, is lin
tied to the capitals city
limits. When the thick,
weighty darkness of the
tropical night falls over
South Wet Nam, the guer-
rillas rule the roads, the
villages, the little peasant
compounds, almost the entire
countryside.
Mr.. Dinh Diem so far has
been able to fend off several
major attempts at q coup
against his regime, and most
of these have not been Of
Communist origin. The Com
munists proba bly,. almost
certainly prefer to keep
things as they are. for the
more confusion they can ex-
plot, the better.
Mr.. Dinh Diem has a
Evening star., 1961-04-08

Lord Home, the present
British Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs who was
Sir Neville Chamberlain's
private secretary during the
latter's negotiations with
Hitler at Munich, may not
be the most prophetic foreign
minister the tight little isle
has ever had. But he was
certainly voicing the gloomy
truth when he warned, i'm
mediately after the confer
ence of the SEATO ministers
at Bangkok. that the Laos
crisis was not nearly so dan
gerous as the existing Situa-
tion in South Wet Nam.
When the Geneva Confer
ence of 1854 split up the
former French Indo- China
into four parts OaoS. Cam
bodia, North Wet Nam and
South Wet Mann, there were
few observers wise in the
ways of international COM
munism who expected the
situation to last. Sooner or
later, it was obvious, the
Communists would move in
on these three parts of the
old French colony which
remained, at least techni-
cally, within the bounds Of
the free world.
In a sense, the move has
been later rather tn an
sooner. But the Communists
can we'll afford to wait. Why
fight. why eXpend money and
effort, for something that
like an overripe apple will
drop into ones lap without
the persuasion Of aggression?
Let the aggression be un-
derhanded and in the dark
of the moon. Let it be covert,
not overt. Let it be by sub
version. by penetration, by
infiltration. Why hurry? The
Evening star., 1961-04-08
Embassies Employees
Facing Extra 7 ak Bite

ON to their American employees
Apparently, some embassies
failed to do so, and there were
cries of anguish from their en-
ployes this week when word
finally circulated that the social
security taxes were due
In at least one embassy
American employees have been
given a bonus" to help pay
the social security taxes.
Evening star., 1961-04-08
u. S. Will Wage War
On Antitrust VioIotors

the Federal Trade Commission
find out if defendents in 56
past antitrust cases are comply
ing with the judgement against
them.
Here is an opportunity, he
said, for a demonstration of
the joint and interlocking re-
sponsibility of the two agencies
in the field of antitrust. 1t also
inaugurates a new era of CO.
operation between the agencies
Departing from his prepared
remarks, Mr.. Dixon added that
authority for this type of CO.
operation has been on the
statute books since 1914 in the
FTC act. but 1t has been only
used three times in all the
Al years" He said the Federal
Trade Commission had also
previously failed to use other
powers and he promised to
challenge unfair trade practices
permitted by that neglect.
At the outset, Mr.. Dixon told
the meeting he did not believe
the Sherman Antitrust Act and
the FTC-with their broad
sweeping language"-could be
put through Congress today.
He blessed the Lord" several
times that the election of the
Kennedy administration has
provided another chance for
their proper enforcement.
IF we want an America with
some Semblance of small and
middle business, we must get
on with our work." Mr.. Dixon
concluded. IF we don't. all we
will have left in our lifetime
will be a few giants"
Opposes Exceptions of Law
In his earlier remarks, Mr..
Loevinger said his division "is
not receptive" to pleas of legis-
lative proposals for special ex-
ceptions to the antitrust laws.
He said the difficulties caused
by enforced compliance with
moral principles set out in the
legal codes were not limited
only to business.
The temptation to get rich
quickly by dishonest means
abounds in private life," he
illustrated. Some succumb, but
we do not listen sympatheti-
cally to the plea that theft or
embezzlement, for example,
should be legalized because it
is so difficult to acquire wealth
by other means"
Evening star., 1961-04-08

prices quoted this year were
uniformly lower than prices Of
fered last year for the same
items. GE, Westinghouse and
Sangamo bid identically in
1860, too, he said. He said the
three cut prices 80 cents per
unit on some items and SO
cents for others.
The two other companies en-
tering bids we're the Allen
Electric Co. of Cleveland and
Duncan Electric Co., Inc, Of
Lafayette, Ind.
Evening star., 1961-04-08
Film on Negro Jobs
Presented to Library

The film, Burden Of Truth" !"
has been presented to Harry
N. Peterson, chief librarian of
the DC. Public Library, by
Francis c. Shane, executive
secretary of the United Steel
workers Of America Committee
on Civil Rights.
The film, which will be avail
able for private showings in
the District, deals with the
problems faced by educated
Negroes in obtaining jobs.
Evening star., 1961-04-08
5 Electrical Companies
Offer Identical Job Bids

CLEVELAND, April (AP).-Officals at City Hall
pressed surprise yesterday when sealed bids by five electrical
companies II different types Of wathour meters
opened. Each offered identical prices
Law director Ralph S. Locher said he would put off
awarding any companies until rep
Evening star., 1961-06-10
Home Show Date
Set for 1862

The 18th annual Home and
outdoor Living Show spon-
sored by the Home Builders
Association of Metropolitan
Washington. Inc. will be held
February 16 through Is at
the National Guard Armory.
Dates for next winters ex-
position were announced by
James w. Pearson, executive
vice president of the associa-
ton and managing director
of the show.
1.-The theme Of the 1862
show will be Live LeiSurely
Now - Prepare for Leisure
Living on Retirement" Mr..
Pearson sad.
We added that present
plans call for construction of
two full-sized houses on the
armory floor for the upcom-
ing show. One will be a vaca-
ton house "in the Japanese
motif" and the other will be
q home for retirement which
Evening star., 1961-06-10
White Walls

The color of your rugs,
furniture ana accessories will
make your room seem warm
or cool when your walls are
painted white or q neutral
color. For q feeling Of
warmth, use more orange,
yellow, red or red purple. For
a cooler effect. more blue,
green, pale violet and tur-
quoiSe will do the trick.