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Evening star., 1962-04-11

When laying out a pattern
DO TT SLOWLY AND
CAREFULLY. This is a time
when haste really makes
waste. Once you've cut into
your fabric, there's no going
back, even though you've
made an error.
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Question: There are two
things I'd like to know about
laying out a pattern. One,
why co some of my pieces
turn out off grain even
though I've measured each
from the center of the grain
line marking to the selvage
and it looks straight? Sec
ond, if it saves yardage. why
can't I place pieces along the
crosswise grain, instead of
with the lengthwise grain as
the cutting diagram indi-
cates?-MrS. B. D.
Answer: Your pieces are
off grain because you're not
measuring properly. Meas
uring from just one point of
the grain marking will ac-
complish nothing. Measure
from one end Of the line to
the selvage. Pin that end in
place. Then measure from
the other end of the grain
line to the selvage and shift
the pattern piece until both
measurements are the same.
and pin the second end in
place. Do it this way and you
will know your pattern piece
is placed properly. For your
second question:: Don't
change cutting diagrams.
Patterns have been tested
and the companies producing
them have decided which
way each piece should be cut.
The lengthwise grain Is
stronger and stiffer. and a
garnet falls more gracefully
when the lengthwise grain
runs vertically on the body.
The material also wears bet
ter. You'll find too, that the
crosswise grain str e t C h S
more than does the length
wise. However, gathers fall
more gracefully when the
gathering threads run along
the crosswise grain. So do
stick to the layout on your
pattern.
QUESTION: How can I do
plain hemstitching? I think
it's also called single hem
stitching.-Mrs. F. F.
ANSWER: First draw out
the necessary threads. Turn
up the fabric forming a hem
and baste it along the line
where the thread was drawn
(see top illustration). Then
working from left to right on
left to right on the wrong
side Of the fabric, put the
needle through the hem anc
take up about four thread!
Evening star., 1962-04-11
SEAMS
TO Me-. .
Lay Patterns Out Carefully
Because Haste Makes Waste
BY PATRICIA SCOTT

on the needle. Pass the
needle around the threads,
and then through the hem
fold again (see bottom illus
tration).
QUESTION: How much
ease is allowed in a pattern?
1 mean, between actual mea-
surements and the finished
dreSS.-MiSS S. T.
ANSWER: Most pattern
companies use 3 to 5 inches
at the bust, depending on the
garment. For instance, a
kimono Sleeved bodice often
has a 5-inch ease, whereas a
sleeveless bodice has about 8
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14

This is the llth Of IA articles con-
densed from the book, THE U-2
AFFAIR. which tells The story be-
hind the most explosive espionage
eose Of the 10th century. Copyright
1867. by Dovid Wise and Thomos
3. Ross. Published ia New York by
RoRdom House, Inc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14

Gated opposite "Children's
World" the new department
store on Dzerzhinsky SQUARE
named for the first chief Of the
Soviet secret police. A massive
stone structure, it looked like
an office building and had, in
fact, housed an insurance COM
pany in Czarist days.
Lubianka had once been a
hotel. too. but now in the dark
ness and rain it seemed as if its
doors had never been opened, as
If they had been sealed shut
from the start. The lower-floor
windows were barred from the
inside and not a light shone
from them.
Barbara tried to leave the
cab, but the driver warned her
against it. Mr.. Jaffe got out
md stood a few feet away.
Barbara sat alone and looked
at the cold prison walls. She
cried, first in sobs and then
softly.
When she could cry no more,
Mr.. Jaffe took her back to the
hotel to await the trial.
Tomorrow: The TrioI.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14
By JOSEPH YOUNG
Star Staff Writer

Fresh from his triumph in
South Carolina. Chairman
Johnston Of the Senate Civil
Service Committee plans to
tack Federal and postal en-
ploye pay raise legislation onto
the postal rate Increase meas
ure.
Senator Johnston's stunning
2-to-1 margin gives new m
petus to the move to tie pay
and rates together in order to
assure postal workers and
lower-salaried Federal workers
more of a pay raise than was
proposed by President Ken
nedy.
Combining rates and pay
also would assure employees a
pay raise effective this July /,
and not leave it until jan
uary l, 1868, and spread out
over three years as proposed
by the President. The very
least employees can expect is a
reinforcement raise starting
July /, with another increase
July l., 1868.
Back of all this is the feel
ing that President Kennedy SO
strongly desires postal rate in
creases, which already have
passed the House, that he would
be willing to compromise On
the pay issue.
Senate passage of a COM
bined pay-rate bill would then
send the legislation to House
Senate conference, since the
House in the meantime is ex-
pected to approve its own Fed
eral and postal employe pay
raise bill.
Meanwhile, the Senate Civil
Service Committee is expected
to wind up its nay and rate
hearings soon. Then the move
is expected to be made to tie
the two together.
Administration officials con-
cede that Senator Johnston is
the key figure in Congress nav
on the pay raise and postaI
rate legislation. In this towr
where nothing pays off Sc
strongly as political success
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14

Bureau Of Prisons, revealed
that authorities now believe
that Morris and the Anglin
brothers ARE off the island
Until Mr.. Wilkinson'S state
ment, officials had insisted IL
was possible the men were still
holed up in a waters edge cave
on Alcatraz itself.
"Alcatraz is DID," Mr.. Wilkin-
son said. ut is in a debilitated
condition. 1t would take a lot
of money-$5 million-to bring
1t up to the standards we re-
quire for maximum security.
This place needs a lot of
spent on it If we are to
continue to operate it."
Both Mr.. wilkinson and
Warden Blackwell said the gen.
eral erosion Of pipes and con-
crete in the prison "undoubt-
edly contributed to the ease Of
the escape"
II would say erosion made the
escape eaSier-how much easier
I don't know" Warden Black
well said.
THE best-run prison in the
world is going to have an occa-
sional escape" Mr.. Wilkinson
added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Johnston to Tack Bigger Raise
To Postal Rate Increase Measure

Senator JohnSton's victory in
South Carolina, plus the fact
that he was identified with the
Kennedy administration in con-
traSt to his opponents anti
administration stand, gives him
greater stature than ever before.
y
CONSIDERABLE HELP
Although they are not publi-
Ching it, the bigger postal en-
ploye unions and one or two
Of the Government employee
unions did a lot of campaigning
in South Carolina in behalf of
Senator Johnston.
Not only were postal and
Federal employees in South Car
DINA apprised of Senator john
ston's sterling record on behalf
of Government workers, but
employee leaders also worked
to enlist industrial union sup
port for the Senator.
ONE-BIG-UNION MOVE
William Doherty, president of
the National Association of
Letter Carriers, announces that
he will make a new bid to the
leaders Of the various postal
employe unions for a merger
of all the groups into one big
postal employee union.
A similar effort several years
ago was rebuffed. However
Mr.. Doherty, who is retiring as
NALC president in September
says he feels such a merger
might be approved this time
Aware of apprehension on the
part Of some of the other postal
employe unions that the giant
NALC might swallow them UP
and that Mr.. Doherty would be
the kingpin of a merged postal
movement, he said that his
pending retirement should re-
move such fears.
so much more could be done
for postal workers in the way
OF pay and other benefits and
improved working conditions If
all the postal unions pooled
their resources into one big
merged organization" Mr.. Do.
Iherty declares. He said he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14

would make his merger pro-
posal this summer.
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EXCLUSIVE RECOGNITION
The Agriculture Department
has granted exclusive recogni-
ton to the National Association
Of Agricultural Sterilization
and Conservation Service
County Office Employees under
President Kennedy's new Gov
eminent labor management
Executive order. The group
represents $500 employees in
the various Asses offices.
This is the second exclusive
recognition granted under the
Presidents order thus far, and
both have been issued by Agri-
culture. Previously Agriculture
gave exclusive recognition to
the departments meat inspec-
tors.
NARCE-Glenn Simcox was
reelected president of the Ma
tional Association of Retired
Civil Employees at the groups
biennial convention at Tulsa,
Okla.
OPEDA - Gordon Fox has
been elected president of
OPEDA Organization of Pro-
fessional Employees of the De-
partment of Agricultural. 9th
ers elected were Kenneth But
Ter, executive vice president;
Earl Glover, Lewis Mccain,
Thomas Ronningen, vice presi-
dents; Bernice Hornbeck, sec
retary-treasurer; Charles Burk-
head, Daniel Currie, S. B. Her.
rell, Roy Magruder, George
Phillips, C. Kyle Randall and
Job Savage, members of Execu-
tive Committee.
4
COMMERCE Commerce
Secretary Hodges has informed
the Civil Service Commission
and the House Civil Service
Manpower Subcommittee that
there are no plans to effect a
reduction-in force at Com
merce. The csc and the House
group had offered their help
after Mr.. Hodges indicated that
some employees were doing I'M
necessary and obsolete work.
However, Mr.. Hodges later said
his remarks were misinterpreted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14
UduII Plans Trip

Secretary of the Interior
Udall plans to visit Hawaii,
American Samoa, Guam and
Saipan on a Pacific trip in
July. Mr.. Udall said yesterday
his July travel schedule also
will carry him to Seattle, to
the Allagash area in Maine,
to Indiana and to Coastal North
Carolina.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14
9. O. P.
Bill to DeIuy
Rail Mergers

A bill to force a temporary
halt to most major railroad
mergers has run into some Re-
publican go-slow signals in the
Senate Antitrust and Monop-
oily Subcommittee.
IF we are going to give seri-
GUS consideration to this bill
1t will take a long, long time, u
said Senator Dirksen Of ILL
nois, the Senate Republican
leader, yesterday.
Senator Kefauver, Democrat
Of Tennessee, the Subcommit-
tee chairman and chief spon-
scr Of the measure, disputed
Senator Dirksen's contention
that it would put "a freeze
on railroad mergers.
Senator Dirksen replied, how
ever, that it would tie the
hands Of the Interstate Com
merce Commission and added:
IF this is not a freeze, I don't
know what a freeze is"
Senator Kefauver said 1t
would effect "a limited mora
forum" and maintained this is
to give Congress and
the Executive Branch time to
investigate the overall impact
Of proposed mergers and to de-
velop new criteria for their ap-
proval.
The measure would prohibit
the ICC from approving. prior
to December 81, 1868, any
involving a railroad
with assets Of $500 million or
more. If it found that such a
consolidation might substan-
tally lessen competition or
tend toward a monopoly. It
would not apply to any line in
bankruptcy, trusteeship or re-
ownership.
The dispute between Senator
Kefauver and Senator Dirksen
broke out at a second day of
subcommittee hearings at
which railroad labor spokesman
strongly urged passage of the
legislation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14
Talks on Canal
Slated for u. 5.
And Panama
By GEORGE SHERMAN
Star Staff Writer

Star Staff Writer
President Roberto F. Char
of Panama said today that q
United States Panama COM
mission, agreed to by him and
President Kennedy, will discuss
Panamanian sovereignty over
the Canal Zone.
II recognized no limitations
on the work of our representa-
tives." he said at a press con-
ference here that wound UP
two days of talks with Mr.. Ken
nedy and other officials.
In their talks, Mr.. CHAR
said, President Kennedy had
indicated that the two United
States representatives would be
Joseph Farland, Ambassador to
Panama, and Robert Fleming,
Governor Of the Canal Zone.
Lists Four Topics
Mr.. CHAR listed four areas
which the bilateral commission
S to explore:
/. Restoration Of Panamanian
sovereignty over the Canal
Zone.
Q. Revocation of the clause
in the Unitde States-Panama
treaty which gives the United
States perpetual ownership of
the canal.
8. Participation by Panama
in the operation of the Canal
Zone.
4. Improvement of labor con-
ditions so as to make Pana-
manian workers equal to United
States workers in the Canal
Zone.
Only the last two points of
the four were mentioned in the
joint communique issued at the
White House yesterday.
The United States has con-
sistently held the position that
the 1855 treaty is to be i'm
proved" not renegotiated.
Looks for Revision
President CHAR indicated
that in his view the commission
is to lay the basis for revising
that treaty.
He said that he found Mr..
Kennedy Sympathetic" to his
approach on Panamanian
sovereignty over the canal and
pointed to the passage in the
communique which said dis
cusSions" are necessary when
one of two friendly nations is
dissatisfied with their treaty.
United States officials. how
ever, say this country's agree
ment to discuss the canals ar
rangement does not signify
willingness to change the
treaty. They say such a change
await a decision of a
new sea level canal through
the Isthmus.
Mr.. CHAR said that the rep
resentatives Of the two gov
ernments would begin work in
Panama when he returns on
Saturday. He is spending two
days in New York, including
} visit to the United Nations. |
The visitor said that his mis- |
sion in Washington had been |
satisfactory" and had laid
the basis for better understand |
ing between the United States |
and Panama.
Symbolic Concession
The United States agree
ment to fly more Panamanian
flags in the Canal Zone is re-
garded here as a symbolic con-
cession to Panamanian nation
ahsm. After riots in the Zone
in l950-60, President Eisen-
hover agreed to fly one Pam
amanian flag at one end of the
canal.
In a separate development,
the Inter-American Develop
ment Bank annouced a $2,762,-
600 loan to Panama today
under the Alliance for Progress.
The funds-which add to $12I
million aid already given under
the Alliance-are for improve
ment and expansion of the
water supply systems of seven
towns in the Panamanian
interior.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14
BY DAVID WISE and
THOMAS Il ROSS

The Alexander w. Parkers of
Richmond had two unfamiliar
guests for the July 4 week end
at The Homestead in Hot
Springs, Va. They were a
charming couple. Northerners,
yes, but soft-spoken, with the
manners Of a gentleman and
his lady. New faces were
something Of a rarity at The
Hot" as Virginia's First Fam
lilies called their mountain re-
sort, and the couple were the
center of curiosity.
Meet some old friends of
mine," Mr.. Parker said gra-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14
The w AFFAIR
Barbara Weeps Outside the Prison

about it. Barbara was on the
margin Of despair as night fell
in Moscow on the eve Of the
trial.
In this forbidding city in this
foreign land she had no one
but q stranger-friend, a televi-
sion reporter who had come to
record her husbands doom
Through the long evening and
the long night, Mr.. Jaffe drank
with her and listened to her
anguish. She was beyond con-
ISOLATION.
A Wife's Gesture
At 8 o'clock in the morning
Barbara announced. I'm going
to the prison"
She was not to be dissuaded
and Mr.. Jaffe called a cab.
The girl at the desk checked
with the police and called them
back. They could go if they
promised not to try to get in
side the prison.
Gary was being held at Lubi-
anka, the headquarters Of the
KGB and the central prison for
political offenders. It was To-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14

AAA OAAA 40 NAACShAAS OAAp CNC4A'
visitors to the prison.
"A widening search by Gov
eminent agents is strengthen
ing speculation the three-John
Anglin. 80; his brother Clar-
ence, 81, and Frank Lee Morris
3-may have engineered the
first successful escape from the
2S-year-old maxln,um-security
institution.
Island Searched
Since the disappearance was
discovered early Tuesday, heav-
lily armed soldiers, now num-
bering 200, have been combing
Angel Island in the possibility
the convicts may have landed
there on a driftwood raft in
their flight from Alcatraz ~
miles to the south. Alcatraz
is 1K miles north Of the San
Francisco shoreline.
A fourth convict was reported
in on the escape plot but didn't
flee. He was identified as
Allen Clayton West of Atlanta,
Ga. The four used spoons to
chisel loose ventilator covers
leading to a service passage
behind their cells.
From there the Anglin BROTH
ers and Morris climbed up a
pipe, over a roof and q fence
and then down to the waters
edge.
Warden Olin Blackwell said
Tuesday he didn't believe the
men could have made it to
freedom by swimming without
aid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14

OF Wrang1ng with the State
Department and the Russian
Embassy in Washington.
Mr.. Parker and Mr.. Rogers
we're refused visas as counsel
for Mr.. Powers but were
granted entry as unofficial adj
visers to Barbara. Still, they
now might be IN q position to
carry out their central mission
for the CIA-to contact Mr..
Powers, even though he was a /
prisoner Of the KGB, the Soviet
Secret Police.
The lawyers were under CHA
instructions to make every
effort to secure an interview
with Mr.. Powers. Then they
were to question him closely !
on the Russian claim that his |
plane had been hit by a rocket |
at $1,000 feet. They were to try |
to determine whether, in fact, |
he had been hit at all and
whether his plane had crashed,
as the Soviets alleged, or had
made a forced landing. Finally,
they were to interrogate Mr..
Powers on why he had not de-
stroyed his plane according to
plan.
The highest intelligence au-
thorities in the United States
Government frankly did not
know the answers to these
questions. They had some
electronic information which
seemed to cast doubt on the
Russian claim, but it was in
conclusive.
Barbara Can't Sleep
Mr.. Parker and Mr.. Rogers
arrived in Moscow with Barbara
on Saturday, August IS, III
hours after Oliver and his wife
Ida. /
Barbara had been awake
almost the entire way from New
York. On the flight to Brussels,
too tense to sleep, she talked
the night through. over drinks,
with Sam Jaffe. a CHS reporter.
She had been thoroughly
,briefed by the CHA before leav-
ing and a reporter did not fit
the official definition Of a per-
MISSILE confidant. But Barbara
was tired Of the rules and Sam
was easy to talk to.
A short way out Of New York,
three young Americans joined
them in the forward compart-
ment. They claimed to be busi-
nessmen and tried to make
small talk with Barbara. Fail
ing in that, they occupied
themselves by closely following
her conversation with Mr..
Jaffe.
There was a two-hour lay
over in Brussels, but again
Barbara declined to rest, in
sisting that Mr.. Jaffe continue
their conversation in the ter
minal lounge.
Rebuffed in Moscow
The four days in Moscow
prior to the trial we're spent in
a fruitless effort to see Mr..
Powers and Premier Khru-
shchev. The Russians rebuffed
their every effort, and the
American Embassy could offer
little encouragement. They, too,
had been turned down on re-
peated request to interview the
pilot. ptsT& L
1.-THE farther you stay away
from u.s." the Embassy told the
family, "the better it will be
for you" ~
Barbara sent a desperate
to her husband, but
she received neither a reply
nor an indication that it had
been delivered. Her worst fears
were coming to pass.
The United States Govern
ment was impotent. Mr.. Khru-
shchev could not be located.
She could not see Gary before
the trial and, outside the court
room, might never see him
again. He could be shot or
to Jail for life and
there was nothing she could do
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14
Outside Help Suspected
lin AIcotroz Getaway

SAN FRANCISCO, June IA tAP) The convcts who
fed Acatraz Island Prison in Bay may have
bad outside help, it reported today
The San Francisco Examiner said it has learned from
reliable source" that the FBI working theory the
three made the cold swring to the main
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14

] ""N a"S "fSsa GAPtSsNS G1PioHuSe
eose Of the 10th century. Copyright
1862. by Dovid Wise and Thomo.
3. Ross. Published ia New York b,
Rondom House, Inc.
ciously as people stopped by his
table in the dining room. He
was a tall, distinguished and
prosperous lawyer, much
Travelled in the North and else
where. But the charming cou-
pie were not old friends. They
hac registered at the hotel un-
der q pSeudonym. They were
agents Of the CHA. They were
there to talk about captured
w. pilot, Francis Gary
Powers.
Mr.. Parker had been reached
by the CHA circuitously. There
was an outside chance that an
American might be permitted
to defend Mr.. Powers at his
forthcoming trial and some
one responsible was needed.
Early In June the State De-
partment had approached the
Virginia Bar Association and
it had nominated Mr.. Parker.
a past president, and his close
friend. Frank W. Rogers Of
Roanoke.
They Prepare Themselves
The two Southern gentlemen
saw their duty and accepted on
June 81. In the intervening
weeks they had spent much of
their time in Washington, coll
laborating with CHA and State
Department officials on a de-
tense for their fellow Virginian
from Pound.
CHA men would hold whis-
pered conferences with them
in hotel rooms, then descend
by separate stairways to rejoin
them at a restaurant. Letters
and notes were frowned upon.
Communication was by word Of
mouth-in person or by tele-
phone. 1t all seemed a bit silly
and cloak-and-daggerish, but
the lawyers went along, not
presuming to judge another
mans profession.
The Virginians and the CHA
had come to a meeting of
minds, by the Fourth OF july
when Soviet Deputy Premier
Mikoyan disclosed at an Amer
lean Embassy celebration in
Moscow that the pilot would
have a public trial.
The Parkers returned the
next day to Richmond to meet
Barbara Powers. the pilots
wife. She had been trying to
get to Moscow to see her hus-
band and the CHA decided to
put her under the Parkers'
wing.
Impatient at Restraint
Though a headstrong girl.
Barbara followed the Parkers'
advice, at least in the begin
ming. They were impressed by
her intelligence bat disturbed
by what they thought was a
lack Of restraint. Barbara was
impatient with the Govern
ment's efforts on her behalf
and bridled under the GAS,
discipline.
She had never been close to
her father-in-law, and now she
was particularly annoyed at
his freedom to maneuver.
Oliver Powers had not been
taken into the GAS confidence
and so he was not subject to
its direction.
Oliver obtained a visa almost
Immediately, but Barbara's
xv,o. Ialax,aI g.. z~,..-Y ..t--
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-14
Getaway Indicated

Yesterday, at a news confer
ence, Fred Wilkinson Of WASH
ington, assistant director of the