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Evening star., 1962-03-11

slim. Yet they must negotiate
with the hope that some stray
beam Of light will disclose the
road to mutual trust.
1t is officially a meeting OF
the United Nations DiSarma-
ment Committee, set up by the
General Assembly of the U.N
Members are:
West-United States, Britain,
Canada, Italy.
East-Soviet Union, Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia, Poland, Ro-
mania.
Others-Brazil. Burma, Ethi-
opia, India, Mexico, Nigeria
Sweden, United Arab Republic.
Speeches Nicely Polished
France also belongs to the
committee, but pulled out of
this meeting, saying in effect it
had no hope such a large con-
ference could find even partial
solutions to the disarmament
question.
Like actors in some endless
play, the delegates convene
with brief cases bulging with
papers. their speeches nicely
polished. Opening statements
will stress the danger human
ity faces and call for an end
to the arms race.
Why, if all say they seek the
same goals, are the prospects SO
slight of making any real start
toward disarmament?
The stakes involved are high,
The subject itself is dizzily
complex. A great nation could
kill itself off by making a
faulty judgment in the field
of arms control.
There seems little hope for
that, either.
Secretaries To Confer
To test the temperature on
nuclear testing. the United
States and British foreign sec
retaries, Dean Rusk and Lord
Home. will get together with
Russia's Andrei A. Gromyko
ahead of the 17-nation talks.
Britain and the United States
urge a treaty to enforce a pro-
hibition of nuclear tests for all
time.
Mr.. Gromyko's government
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Unbroken Record
Of Failures Hangs
Over Arms Talks
But Geneva Delegates Still Must
Seek q Rood to Mutual Trust
BY TOM OCHILTREE
Associated Press staff Writer

GENEVA March 10-Here is peaceful Geneva II nations
Will make new try Wednesday to find the that has
mankind through the centuries way strip
weapons.
bleak and unbroken record Of failure will hang the
delegates They know their chances through are
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United States has promised mil
lions in financial and economic
aid. Britain isn't far behind
There are so American peace
corps teachers in 81 high
schools. American agricultur.
lists are training farmers anc
developing what seems likely
to be a highly successful rub.
ber plantation industry. Othel
Americans are helping to es.
tablish a medical training in
stitute. Canada and West Ger.
many are helping with techni.
cal aid. Britons and Canadian!
are training Ghana's defense
forces.
Ghana's trade with the West
currently about 95 per cent Of
the total, will continue at about
IS per cent even under recent
negotiations with the East bloc
In the first 10 months Of last
year Ghana exported to Amer.
lea $73 million worth of good:
against $40 million in the same
period Of 1860. Imports in the
same periods rose from SIT
million to $29 millions. Ghans
exports cocoa and minerals;
imports food, textiles, oil and
machinery.
Eastern Credits
Eastern bloc countries have
agreed on $3.50 million in cred
its. mostly over a 1920 year
period. About all Eastern coun-
tries have done so far in a
practical way, however, is tc
send in technicians to make
studies.
In die a tions are that the
East's main infiltration will be
in the economic field, with EN-.
phasis on developing Ghanaiar
industries. These are project!
the West normally would leave
Evening star., 1962-04-19
Fairfax Board Approves
History Mclean Job

The Fairfax Board of County
Supervisors last night approved
the controversial request for
three History apartments at
the girlhood home of Jacque-
line Kennedy.
The board, acting at the end
of a hearing that lasted until
midnight. voted. S to 2, to grant
a rezoning for the 46-acre
Merrywood estate in Mclean.
Citizens of the Mclean area
appeared at the hearing a
strongly opposed the project,
contending that it would down.
grade the area, cause traffic
problems and ruin the Potomac
Palisades.
They appeared stunned when
Supervisor A. Clairborne Leigh
who represents the Dranesville
district including Mclean,
moved at the end of the seven
hour session that the applica-
ton be granted.
He said he acted reluctantly
but added: THE conclusion is
almost inescapable, that this
is the place to have apart
ments."
The boards action is the first
approval for an apartment
project in Mclean. Opponents
had argued that once one
apartment was approved, many
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other requests would follow
The two votes against the re-
zoning were cast by Supervisors
Anne Wilkins and William H.
Moss.
The SIC million project is
planned for a tract on Route
1913, about 400 feet from the
George Washington Memorial
Parkway, on land at the edge
of the Potomac River. De-
velopers plan to put 1000
apartment units on the land,
owned by Hugh D. Auchincloss,
Mrs. Kennedy's step-father.
Lytton Gibson, attorney for
Sheldon Magazine, the devel-
oper, said the project would
contain high luxury" apart
ments and town-houses.
Representatives of the de-
veloper and of protesting citi-
zenS appeared at the hearing
with slides, maps, photographs
and exits" containing statistics
on the project.
They disagreed on virtually
every important point, includ-
ing the expected impact on
traffic, the suitability of apart
ments for the land, whether
single family homes could be
built on the land and whether
the trees could be saved.
Evening star., 1962-04-19
AFTERMATH OF sLAYNG
Feor Enters Southeast WASHINGTON Neqhborhood

They said they knew Mrs.
Minard ION sight" but were not
close friends. All expressed
concern about the changing
neighborhood." But one woman
felt otherwise. Mrs. Raymond
Gleason of 3006 Massachusetts,
avenue Sc. said, II think the
new generations got something
to do with it" as she dug up
the ground around a border of
flowers. I've lived here 30
years, and we never used to
have a bit of trouble.
But two years ago January
I was attacked not 25 feet
from where Mrs. Minard was.
I was walking with another
woman and two boys walked
up and hit us. One had a dog
chain wrapped around his fist.
I was knocked down but We
screamed and a man came out
and helped and the police came
and got them. They didn't
try to take our purses, they
were just plain mean" Resi-
dents said incidents were from
both white and colored.
Sitting on the porch steps
was her 27-year-old daughter,
Mrs. James Skourtis, 1922 K
street Sc.
1--WE lived here all my life.
My husband and I live Just
down the street, where she was
stabbed. We have a little boy,
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Woman, a.,
Found Dead
On Sc. Steps

A woman Unidentified by
police as Karen DeverauX, "a,
was found dead today on steps
leading to the rear of a duplex
| in the 2800 block of Second
street Sc. Deputy Coroner
Richard L. Whelton said she
died of asphyxiation or suffo-
cation.
Police found a 51-year-old
man who said the woman had
come to his apartment in the
200 block of Newcomb street
Sc. about 2::30 am. He said
she was ill and after lying on
a council for a time, lapsed into
unconsciousness.
The man told Capt. Lawrence
A. Hartnett, homicide chief,
that he became alarmed but
did not wish to call an ambu-
lance because of the commotion
it would cause.
So he pushed the woman
from his first-floor apartment
window, dragged her through a
short alley, and then about 200
feet through another one, and
left her in a sitting position on
the steps where she was found.
About 5 am. a passing mo-
toriSt saw her still sitting there,
but did not stop. Later Mrs.
Mabel Butler saw the woman
from her kitchen window at 210
Oakwood street Sc. and called
police.
When found, Mrs. Devereaux
was lying face down. DR.. Whel-
ton said the only marks were
bruises on the knees and toes.
Later police questioned a
male acquaintance of Mrs. Dev-
ereaux who lived in the 2200
block of Savannah terrace S. E.
Police said she has a 7-year-old
son living with relatives.
Capt. Hartnett said the mans
statement would be given to
the United States Attorney to
whether there were
grounds for charges.
Evening star., 1962-04-19
BY MYRA MACPHERSON
Star Staff Writer

The streets looked so peace
full. Spring sunlight on yellow
forsythia bushes, green lawns,
modest white frame and brick
homes.
Housewives were hanging
clothes out to dry, working in
gardens, walking their children.
And yet fear was there-a
new and compelling emotion,
felt since Monday night when
in that neighborhood a woman
was stabbed to death.
From her back yard at 3010
Massachusetts, avenue Sc.
where she was hanging clothes.
Mrs. Earl Kidwell looked over
to the back porch of 1922 Mas
Sachusetts avenue.
"She lived on the top floor
over there" she said. speaking
of Mrs. Olive Minard, the 65-
year-old widow who had but
half a block to go from the
bus stop to her home when she
was attacked.
I'm a waitress. I work nights
and I used to walk up where
she got off the bus, to catch
a cab. I'll never do that again.
We have 6-year-old girl. I'm
scared to death to let her out"
Her husband stood nearby,
patting a large German Shep-
Evening star., 1962-04-19
EisenhoWer's
Wife toJoin
Culture Unit

President Kennedy announced
yesterday that Mrs. Dwight D.
Eisenhower has agreed to serve
with Mrs. Kennedy as honorary
cochairman of the National
Cultural Center.
Telling a news conference
that he was happy to make
the announcement, Mr.. Ken
nedy noted that the project for
a National Cultural Center here
began during the administra-
tion of former President Eisen-
hover.
He described the center as
"the most significant cultural
undertaking in the history of
Washington" and said it "is of
enormous Importance to the
cultural life of our Nation as
a whole"
He added, II am gratifled
that Mrs. Eisenhower will be
part of this undertaking, which
we hope to bring to success in
the coming months"
Evening star., 1962-04-19
OF SLAYING

herd. II just bought him today,
on account of all this, and I'm
going to keep him, too. I've
lived here for 10 years. This
used to be a nice area, now in
summer you're afraid to leave
your doors open. If you got
to keep your doors and windows
locked, we've going to move
back to Virginia"
Desperate for clues, detec-
tives searched sewers in a 10
block radius from the scene of
the crime.
Still to be found is the mur-
der weapon, believed to be
very sharp pocket knife welded
by strong male who possibly
struck from behind over the
victims right shoulder.
Two men arrested in the past
two nights for pocketbook
snatching have been at least
temporarily cleared as suspects.
The second was a 22-year-old
unemployed laborer charged
with a pocketbook snatching
February "a at Minnesota
avenue and Eli place Sc, not
far from the scene of the
Minard stabbing.
More than 100 persons have
been questioned and police still
have found no one who can
throw any light on the crime.
Many of the residents in the
area have lived there for years.
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have ever received anything
free from the slot machine in
tereStS."
Mr.. Hume said the dinner
was arranged by Rudolph Car
rico. chairman of the Charles
County Democratic Control
standard campaign practice"
! Mr.. Hume, who lives in
Charles County. has been urg-
ing that legality Of slot ma
chimes in his county, st. Mary's,
Anne Arundel and Calvert be
repealed.
Gov. Tawes has maintained
it is a matter of local option
and rejected State intervention.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Hume pro-
fesSed a certain kinShip with
the insurgent Democratic move
ment in Prince Georges County
The county'S Independent
Democrats, who are trying to
dislodge the traditional party
organization, have not Endorsed
ony of the three major candi-
dates for Governor. Mr.. Hume
running without a complete
State slate, has not Endorsed
any local candidates. either.
But he told two Independent
Democrats: II feel that if I win
Gin Prince Georges, the In
dependent Democrats will win"
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four. and we don't even let him
go out and play by himself
anymore.
When we were kids we used
to go all over the l1eighborhood.
None of us were ever afraid.
When we went out on the
streets we knew everything was
going to be all right. But not
now"
Mrs. Gleason said, "it's no
use to put any more lights in.
It's just like moonlight now,
except that stretch where she
walked isn't as well-lit as this
street."
A swinging yellow door opens
onto the foyer of Mrs. Imri
McCloud's home where Mrs.
Minard lived. Three letters
were still in her mailbox. Her
cat and a bird are in Mrs. Nc
Clouds downstairs home. Mrs.
McCloud, white hair pulled
straight back. sat sewing a
dress.
Il never knew fear in my life.
My homes been broken into
three times, I've had my purse
taken from me on buses. It's
getting so you expect it every
time you go out. Move? l have
no plans to move"
1t is a very short walk from
this house to the fence at 3031
K street S E. where Mrs. Minard
Evening star., 1962-04-19

was found stabbed and dying
Monday night. The street is
travelled often by people who
walk to and from the bus.
Mrs. William Nelson of 730
CroisSant Place Sc. wheeled her
baby past. LAS you can see we
all use this block. The bus stop
is only over there. OF course,
I'm frightened now. but you
don't leave an area for that.
You don't run from a place like
sinking ship. The only trouble
we've really had were with
some teen age gangs in our yard
but they went away as soon as
we told them to-"
Mrs. Otto johnson, a few
doors from the corner of the
stabbing stood on her porch at
2019 31st Street Sc. and stared
at the corner.
II heard the ambulance COM
ing. but that was all. We've
lived here six years. They've
just recently added three or
four more lights. I used to go
out in the elley and search for
our cat at night, but I won't
any more unless my husbands
with me-"
She excused herself to go to
the store, Il want to get back
before it gets dark"
In the late afternoon, it still
looked peaceful. Then a police
car drove slowly by.
Evening star., 1962-04-19

as an Air Force cadet in 1941,
Joined the Royal Air Force and
flew Hurricanes and Spitfires,
rejoined the United States Army
Air Corps and ended the war in
a German POW camp after a
midair collision.
The alert itself began calmly
in the wing control room. Two
officers picked up phones, spoke
briefly into them and then hung
up. Outside, a siren walled.
Troops of the wings Air Police
unit ran from their ready room,
piled into trucks and raced to
the ramp in front of the hangar
Armed guards were posted at
the four corners of the hangar
and at road intersections.
A pickup truck with red light
flashing patrolled the ramp
near the lined-up aircraft.
Suddenly, air policemen in
the truck spotted a "saboteur'
standing forlornly near one OF
the planes.
Two men with rifles held him
at gunpoint, leaning with out
stretched arms against the
fender of the truck. He was
carefully searched, his hands
were handcuffed tightly behind
his back and he was hauled
away.
Members of the wing are now
looking forward to the possibil-
ity of release from active duty
in August. But Gen. Millikan
feels that the time they have
spent in training has not been
wasted.
Evening star., 1962-04-19
Crash Kills ;
In BeIvoir Copter

WILLIAMSBURG, Va, April
19 (AP).-A twin-rotary Army
helicopter from Ft. Belvoir
plunged into woods near here
today while on a training mis-
sion, killing the three crew
members aboard.
1 Rescue workers recovered the
bodies from the wreckage after
flames had been Snothered
with chemicals.
An eyewitness said the craft
plunged to earth nose down
from its trailing position in a
line of three H-21 Shawnee
troop-carrying helicopters.
The craft was on a training
mission from Ft. Belvoir in
northern Virginia to Ft. Eustis,
on Virginia'S lower peninsula-
Evening star., 1962-04-19
ALERT AT ANDREWS
Guordsmen Show Were Reodv'

The siren on the roof of the
12lSt Tactical Fighter Squad
ron at Andrews Air Force Base
walled in a steady, monotonous
blast at 11:10 o'clock this
morning.
For a moment, nothing hap
pened.
Then, doors of the hangar
and the pilots ready room
opened. Pilots and crew chiefs
ran to a waiting line of F-10O
Sabrejet fighters. Engines rose
to a screaming wall
Less than 10 minutes later,
four planes in a flight led by
Capt. Roger Richards, an Air
National Guardsman from
Alexandria, streaked off the
runway.
Their hypothetical target:
Enemy troop Notifications near
"Gimo Air Force Base" under
attack by the forces of Ell Sol.
Test of Readiness
The practice alert was part
of a demonstration of the war
readiness of the 18th Tactical
Fighter Wing, an Air National
Guard unit recalled to active
duty on october /, 1861. In ad-
dition to the 121St Squadron, the
Wing headquarters at Andrews
controls the 136th Squadron at
Niagara, NY, and the 120th
at Denver.
"The purpose of this practice
alert" said Brig. Gen. willard
w. Millikan, the Wing COM
mander, sis to let people know
what we've accomplished since
we were recalled to active duty.
We're no good If we can't move
and this exercise is designed
to show that we're ready to
move"
The Wing has a total of
about 1900 officers and air.
men. Most of them are mem
bers of the Air National Guard
but about 300 are reservists
called up to bring the wing to
full strength.
About 1000 Air Guardsmen
and reServists are STATIONED at
wing headquarters at Andrews.
Most of them are from the Dis
trict, Maryland and Delaware.
Reported in October
In a briefing before the alert
began, Gen, Millikan, whose
home is at z North FlaXton
Place, Alexandria, told how the
wing members had reported to
their bases on October 4, 1861.
Within two months, we had
all our men supplied. They had
received a total of As, 900 Shots"
he said. Our pilots were ready
to fly anywhere in the world.
The number of planes out of
service had been cut from
nearly 10 per cent to zero.
"Of our total strength, prob
ably a lot of our people were
not happy about being re-
called" he said with a wry
smile. But we have tried to
help them learn that the mill
tary life need not be a bad
life-that they can take this
opportunity to learn some
thing"
The general was washed out
Evening star., 1962-04-19

THE LAST witness was
William G. Hardy, a Phi. D.
who has headed the Johns
Hopkins hearing clinic in
Baltimore for Is years.
DR.. Hardy brought out
that only about 10 per cent
of the hard of hearing con-
suit doctors before buying
hearing aids and that most
doctors know little or moth
ing about hearing.
There are four types of
deafness, he said, and diff
ferentiating them is very
difficult, even for the expert.
Some cannot be aided in any
way.
"The hearing aid" he said,
makes sound louder and
that is all that it can do"
He suggested that making
sound louder "in this noisy
world" can be a problem to
the deaf.
The Rambler learned that
Acousticon, Inc, claims that
it brought out the first hear
ing aid so years ago.
The vacuum tubes (elec-
tronics) lightened tn m.
Substitution of the transis-
tors for the tubes made tiny
hearings aids possible.
They are now encaSed in
the bows of eyeglasses. There
is a small one-it is not the
best possible-that can be
inserted in the ear, battery
and all.
mo one is getting fat on
this business" said a staff
aide. Something is wrong
with the whole economy of
the industry"
Evening star., 1962-04-19

NOllIII1lGGCC.
He added it is a matter of
record that Mr.. Carrico has
repeatedly announced his un-
swerving loyalty to the slot ma
chine. This is simply another
example of the kind of favor
the slot machine people render
those who favor them"
THE supper attended by
Charles County Democrats who
are supporting Gov. Tawes and
his running mates" replied
Tawes' headquarters, was held
at the United Methodist Church
in La Plata and was typical OF
church suppers with which all
citizens are familiar.
THE supper was attended by
more than 80 Democrats, be-
tween 230 and 240 meals were
served and each meal cost $l.50
Arrangements we're made by
William L. Fewke and cost of
the affair was borne by the
Tawes ticket headquarters in
Baltimore.
Malice Alleged
"The malicious charge that
slot machine interests paid for
the supper is an unfair reflec-
ton on the church and the
good people who were present.
"Other opponents Of Gov.
TaweS in this campaign have
resorted to desperate tactics
but, until now. this gentleman
(Hume) has shown some re-
straint. We hope that the
unSavory tactics employed by
others will not come to be ac-
cepted by Marylanders as a
charge in an exchange between
two of the principal candidates
for the Democratic nomination
for Maryland Governor in the
July Is primary. The head
quarters said it paid for the
tickets.
In between handShaking in
Prince Georges yesterday, Mr.
Hume asserted:
Sees Link TO Slots
THE Governors supporters
gave a free dinner in his honor
in Charles County last night
and it was an historic occa-
sion. 1t was the first time that
the people of that county
Evening star., 1962-04-19
Slot Funds Paid Towes
Dinner Bill, Hume Says
Governors Office Denies Charge
On Defruyinq La PIutu Expenses

David Hume touring Prince Georges County has charged
that free dinner behalf Gov Tawes in La Plata Tues
day financed if wholly at least part by the slot
machine the Governor has accepted warmly in the
past"
Tawes headquarters Baltimore quickly denied the
Evening star., 1962-04-19
The
Rambler
Attends
Hearing on Hearing


Kefauver.
She is a little older. (Aren't
we all?) Her shoulders were
a little more rounded as she
hunched over the micro
phone on the witness table.
Her voice is not as shrill
as when we first heard her
on the radio 80 or more years
ago.
She was an important wit
ness, not only because she is
Eleanor Roosevelt, the relict
of Franklin D., but because
she has the courage to be
seen with a hearing aid.
IT WAS NOT visible from
the press table. She was
wearing a navy blue beret
and a matching blue coat.
Perhaps the arrangement of
her gray hair concealed it.
Her testimony was that
there are clinics where one
can obtain guidance about a
hearing aid.
This interested Senator
Carroll of Colorado, a broad
shouldered man with gray
ing straight hair, neatly
parted.
He told her that a member
of his family, mot my imme-
(diate family" had paid
more than 5000 for a hearing
aid which did not help him
at all. The Senator said: "He
did not go to a doctor; he
thought it merely mechan-
ical problem"
Mrs. Roosevelt said that
was typical.
The next witness was SEN
ator Maurine Neuberger of
oregon. She looked very
pretty; perfect profile and
curly hairdo. She told about
the Oregon law regulating
the sale of hearing aids,
passed when she was in the
legislature. oregon is the
only State to do this, she
said in answer to a question
from the chairman.
The chairman, Senator
Kefauver of enneSS
made a great point of stum-
bling over the pronunciation
of biologist" and "audiolo-
gist," terms for experts on
hearing.
The oregon law, she said,
did not require that per-
sons selling hearing aids be
either. It did require them
to be high school graduates
and pass a test on the appli-
cation of electronic aids to
the ear.
But" she added, "the
Oregon law has done Moth
ing to correct the price sit
uation. Persons buying hear
ing aids still pay 10 to is
times the price of a tranSis-
tor radio whose components
are essentially the same"
She also suggested that in
this field, as in some others,
competition makes for high
er prices.
"If one firm is successful
in selling a hearing aid for
$4O0, other firms say: Ours
is just as good, why shouldn't
we get as much?'"
Evening star., 1962-04-19

THE Governors supporters
gave a free dinner in his honor
in Charles County last night
and it was an historic occa-
sion. 1t was the first time that
the people Of that county