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S. WHITE

The American foreign aid
program needs a hard-boiled
examination of a sort it has
never had before.
Away with those kindly re-
surveys by its friends of
which it has had so many
and from which so little has
come. Extraordinary as this
sounds. it requires now to I'M
dergo a clinical probe from
among its enemies, who will
look at its faults more in
anger than in sorrow.
Running foreign aid has
become the hardest and most
thankless job in Washington.
This, in a bleak sentence, ex-
presses the chill inheritance
which now befalls David Bell
as the newly appointed for
eign aid administrator.
He follows a long line Of
men, sturdy characters on
the whole. who came in here
determined to straighten up
the shop in three months. but
found that the task had
neither beginning nor end.
The latest of these is the
retiring Fowler Hamilton.
To David Bell. this COL
umnist offers a'decent SYM
pathy and also two recon-
mendations which, though
seemingly frivolous, are
meant with total seriousness:
1. That, as his first act.
he stimulate q new look at
foreign aid by a committee
of the crustiest bankers, bu-
reaucrat-haters and anti
foreign aid people he can
find. From this panel he
should automatically exclude
any person who ever remotely
favored the program. Thus
when the verdict from the
new inquest does come in, it
will at least be free of any
public suspicion that the jury
was loaded.
This would appear a dan
gerous recourse to doubtful
cures. But the fact is that the
program, for all its manifold
shortcomings, has, in the past
certainly, been enormously
useful to the free world. This
correspondent believes a
strictly hostile inquiry into
it would anyhow establish
that much and moreover
would have the great virtue
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Tough-Minded Ideas for Convincing
Congress on Program Are Suggested

of clearing the air once and
for all.
For if every instance Of
waste or corresponding or
foolishness could be put out
on the public record, by men
not open to the faintest sus-
picion of pro-aid bias, a be-
ginning could be made to-
ward the real problem. This
is to salvage all that is good
and kick out all that is bad.
2. That Bell take a decision
to deal in Congress hereafter
to the farthest possible extent
more with aids enemies than
with its friends. These friends
are in combat fatigue. They
have so long heard so many
reproaches against the pro-
gram, SOUND or unSound, that
they are now very defensive
men, no longer really reliable
either as its allies or as good
potential critics.
In this the new admins
traitor would have nothing
to lose - and Just possibly
something to gain. Speaking
generally. the programs
enemies are the tough types
within the House and Sc
nate Appropriations commit
tees who for years have had
to pony up the money for a
policy they have never really
understood and never liked
because it has largely been in
the hands of the foreign af-
fairs committees.
Some of their hostility
and it is this hostility
which is the vital factor In
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servatives is another harsh
element of the COP. prob
lem.
There are some unusual
elements in what might be
called the Democrats curse
of bignesS.
One is Senator-elect Ed
ward Kennedy. The Presi-
dents brother has not yet
put in his committee bid,
and all the leaders can do is
hope that he will exercise a
self-restraint which has not
hitherto been manifest.
The Johnson rule would
seem to entitle him to one
good committee. This rule
is the creative contribution
Of the Vice President who
won party acceptance of the
idea that no Senator could
have more than one prize
committee assignment until
all his fellows had one, too.
Other Democratic Senate
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one new seat and Republic
cans one, as both Senators
Capehart and Wiley enjoyed
this prize spot.
The Republican fight for
the Foreign Relations va
cancy promises to be fierce
but a bare chance exists for
Senator Cooper of Kentucky,
former Ambassador to India.
He is, however, out-ranked
by numerous conservatives,
including Senator Mundt of
South Dakota, who is said to
want the place.
copyright, 1892
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face them again in 1854.
Senator Muskie Of Maine is
one who wants to be moved
to a more preStigious place
and there are plenty Of
others.
AS always, half the Senate
is scrambling to get on For
eign Relations so they will
get in on the big news, enjoy
a richer and fuller social life
and travel ever more widely.
This committee almost surely
will be changed from its
present 1l-6 ratio to 1875.
This would give Democrats
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NAACP Recruiting
Efforts to Win Awards

More than 300 persons and
civic organizations received
awards last night for recruiting
new members for the District
branch of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement Of
Colored People. Fg
The top award, a silver cup,
went to the Shiloh Baptist
Church at Ninth and P streets
NV. for recruiting more than
1000 new NAACP members
during a four-month member
Ship drive.
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POTOMAC FEVER
BY FLETCHER KNEBEL

Budget Director David is the new Of foreign
aid. It's real promotion from the Governments least
gamorous job to its most unpopular
Khrushchev orders freedom in Soviet literature
The conal hero longer has get ahead by running
collective He do by marrying the collective bosss
daughter.
The Southern Association of Colleges puts Ole Miss on
probation Ole Miss supposed study Civil war-not
re-enact it,
Dr. Teller predicts atomic explosions will be used to
move mountains Well that's okay Let's just them
to any continents.
Yuletde ballad The first Christmas so senti
mental: The Best of the Season-from Main Street Car
Rental.
appears that sending arms to Just about every
body but the Venus de Milo.
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nications for the duration and
left the Navy with the rank of
captain.
After the war, DR.. Engstrom
helped found the Engineering
Research Association, a private
scientific firm with which he
served as executive vice presi-
dent. From 1851 to 1856, he was
a vice president of Remington
Rand, Inc. He left the firm to
serve as a deputy director of
the National Security Agency
and returned to a vice preSi-
dents post with Remington
Rand of the Sperry Rand Corp,
in 1859.
DR.. Engstrom was a member
OF the Cosmos Club, the Yale
Club in New York and the st.
Paul Athletic Club in Mime
sofa. His awards included the
Distinguished Service Medal
and Order of the British EN-
pire.
He leaves his wife, Karen; a
son, Morten H, and two daugh-
tiers, Kristine and Karen, all
of Buzzards Bay, Mass.
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graduated from the University
of Maryland in 1856, and work.
ed as salesman in Woodward
and Lothrop'S menswear de-
partment while waiting to be
called to active duty.
He went on active duty in
October. 1856. He had Just
transferred to Fort Worth aft
er three months at the Squad
ron Officers School at Maxwell
Air Force Base in Montgomery,
Ala, where he was graduated
at the top of a class of 900.
He was a native of PinehurSt,
N. C.
1t. Mckenzie had been in
the Air Force ROTC at the Uni
verSity of Maryland, and was a
member of Delta Tau Delta
fraternity.
He married the former Caro-
Ign Nicely of Temple Hills, Md,
in 1856. The couple had a
daughter, Lesley, 4, and a son,
19-month-old Kyle.
He also leaves his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh H. McKen-
zie, and two brothers, Donald
and William. all of Pinehurst.
Services will be held at las
pm. Monday at Temple Hills
Baptist Church, with burial in
Arlington Cemetery.
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Howard T. Engstrom, So,
Scientist, Rand Official

Howard T. Engstrom, SO
a scientist and corporation ex-
ecutive, died Thursday in Bos-
ton.
DR.. Engstrom, who lived in
the Washington area nearly &c
years, was director of research
for Naval Communications dur
ing World War II. At the time
of his death he was a wise pres
ident of Remington Rand
Sperry Rand Corp, and a men,
Der of a Department of Defense
advisory board of scientists.
DR.. Engstrom, a native OF
Boston, earned degrees from
Northeastern University, the
University of Maine and Yale
He was a national research fell
low at the California Institute
of Technology in 1929 and 1880
He also was an international
fellow at the University of Got
tinen in Germany.
DR.. Engstrom taught as an
associate professor in mathe-
NAUTICAL physics at Yale until
the outbreak of World War II
He served in research commu-
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John L. Barrett, so, VA
Hospital Administrator

John Langley Barrett, so, a
hospital administrator and
former District resident, died
Thursday at the Veterans Ad-
ministration Hospital, Buffalo,
N. Y.
Mr.. Barrett was born here in
1902 and was graduated from
Central High School.
While in Washington he
served as director of the physi-
cal therapy department of the
Mount Alto Veterans Hospital.
During World War II he joined
the Army Medical Corps as a
captain and after service in
Iceland was discharged with
the rank of major.
He later served on the staff
of veterans hospitals in Can
andaigua and Buffalo, N. Y.
He was the assistant director
of the hospital in which he
died.
In his will, Mr.. Barrett re-
quested that his eyes be used
for a corneal transplant in the
interest of medical science.
He leaves his wife, the former
Marian Sweet of the home, in
Buffalo; a son, John, jr., an
Air Force captain stationed at
MCGUIRE Air Base, N. j., and
a daughter, Linda Barrett
Spears of Fayetteville, Ark.
He also leaves four sisters,
Mrs. Hattie coleman Of % Rock
Creek road NV; Elsie Sicily
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Meade Kaufman,
Service Foreman
With C&P

Meade D. Kaufman, SIS, a
service foreman for the
Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Co., died at work
Wednesday of a heart attack.
Mr.. Kaufman, who lived at
3424 Rutgers street, Hyattsville,
was born in Acme, Pa, attended
schools there and in the District
and began working for the
telephone company in 1928 as
an neutrality-suspicious. He be-
cfSe foreman in 1852.
He was a member of the
Telephone Pioneers of America
and of st. Marks Catholic
Church in Hyattsville.
Mr.. Kaufman leaves his wife,
Regina. and son. Warren, of
the home address: two other
sons, James. of 1903 Loyola
street, Silver Spring, and Gill
bert, of South Bend, Ind. He
also leaves four sisters, Mrs.
Maria Keslar of Mt. Pleasant,
Pa; Mrs. Verna Gowton of
Philadelphia; Mrs. Marcella
Reynolds of Somerset, Pa, and
Mrs. Genevieve Gregor of Good
year, Ariz., and two brothers,
Seneff and Wilmer, of Mt.
Pleasant, Pa.
Services were to have been
at II am. today at st. Marks,
1901 Adelphi road, Hyattsville,
with burial in Gate of Heaven
Cemetery.
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Harold Hoff, 81,
Sales Executive
For Ourismun

Harold j. Hoff, 81, a sales
conSultant with OuriSman
Chevrolet. died yesterday at
Sibley Hospital after a heart
attack.
Mr.. Hoff, a native of New
York, was a petty officer in the
Navy from 1916 to 1919. After
the war he married Mollie Our
iSman of Washington and came
here to live.
He was a member of the Scot
fish Rite Society, a 32d degree
Mason, and an active member
of the Variety Club.
He leaves his wife of the
home address, 4201 Cathedral
avenue NV; a son, Hubert, of
4100 w street NV, and a
daughter, Mrs. Irving Lewis. of
1913 Plainview road, Bethesda.
Funeral services will be at
1890 pm. Sunday at the B.
Danzansky Funeral Home, 3501
Fourteenth street NV, with
burial in the Washington He
brew Congregation Cemetery.
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Four U. S. Victims
Of AIgiers Crash
Are Identified

ALGIERS, Mar. 10 (AP).-
The battered bodies of four
Americans were identified to-
day after the crash of a con-
verified bomber near Algiers'
Maison Blanche Airport.
The plane, property of the
Lloyd Beck Masonry Co. of
Seattle, Wash, plunged nose
down last night into the wet
field while making an approach
for landing.
Seconds before the converted
BIS crashed, one of it's engines
fell off in flames.
The four victims were identi-
fled as: Lloyd Beck, 40, Sc
attic, the pilot; Edward Miller,
40, Los Angeles; John Carter,
az, Seattle, and William Walsh,
California.
The plane flew from Lisbon
bound for TuniS. It had made
a brief stopover in Tangiers.
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1t. James T. Mckenzie,
Victim of Bomber Crash

First 1t. James T. Mckenzie,
USAF, q, a former Oxon Hill
resident and a graduate of the
University of Maryland, was
killed Monday in the crash of
a B-58 jet bomber at Fort
Worth, Tex.
1t. Mckenzie and two other
creWmen were in the bomber
that crashed and exploded only
a few hours after another B-58
of the 43rd Bomb Wing had set
cross-country speed records.
1t. Mckenzie was defense
systems operator on the plane.
Carswell Air Force Base au-
thorities said the plane was
starting a night training flight
and carried no weapons. Cars
well is headquarters for the
43rd Bomb Wing where both
the Inflated bomber and the
one that broke three trans
continental records Monday
were stationed.
1t. Mckenzie grew up in
Oxon Hill. and attended the
high school there. He was
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Adrian Recinos, Former
Guatemala Envoy, Dies

Adrian Recinos, rs, a former
Guatemalan Ambassador to the
United States, died yesterday
in Guatemala City.
Mr.. Recinos, a leading fig
ure in Guatemalan politics for
40 years, was Ambassador here
from 1928 until 1913.
Several times in his career he
was encouraged to run for the
Guatemalan presidency. He did
so after leaving Washington.
lost, and went into retirement
for Is years.
For while he was Guate-
mala's Ambassador to the
United Nations, and in 1853
and 1860 was Ambassador to
Spain. He finally retired last
year because of failing health.
He was born in Antigua,
Guatemala, but spent his child
hood in the mountainous prov
ince of Huehuetenango, and
went to the university in
Guatemala City.
He entered the diplomatic
service as soon as he was
graduated in 1907, and, while
he was stationed in Guatemala
City, taught several college
philosophy courses. One of his
first books was called Lessons
in Philosophy" which was used
in schools throughout Central
America.
A liberal and an avowed
friend of the United States, Mr..
RecinoS was the leader of the
1921 political movement which
brought Gen. Jose Maria Orel-
lana to the head of state. At
President Orellana's request,
Mr.. Recinos was made head of
the Ministry of Foreign Rela-
tons in 1922.
In 1928 he was appointed en-
voy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to France,
Spain and Italy, was decorated
as commander of the French
Foreign Legion of Honor, and
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Juan March,
Rich Spaniard

MADRID, Spain, Mar. II
(AP). - Juan March who
worked his way up from 6
Stevedore to become one Of
Europe's richest men, died to.
day.
The 80-year-old financiel
succumbed to injuries suffered
in an automobile accident Feb.
ruary Is.
Mr.. March began his life!
work on the docks at Palma
de Mallorca, and ended il
owning many Of SPANS largest
industries, power companie.
and banks.
He was sometimes called tn,
last pirate of the Mediter.
ranean" and "the bad bow O,
Spanish finance" because O,
the manner in which HI
amassed his vast fortune. Blu
in the last days of his life h,
donated $16.6 million for 8
charitable foundation which
bears his name.
On his deathbed he signed
documents giving the founda.
ton another fortune.
Size of Wealth is Secret
The exact size of Mr.. March.
wealth was a secret he shared
only with his bankers, but fl.
nancial circles said he wa.
among the richest men ir
Europe and perhaps the richest
man in Spain.
He founded his fortune b,
acquiring the tobacco monop.
oily for Spanish Morocco, Their
branched out into sugar, chem.
lcals, textile production, ship.
ping, banking and public utili-
ties. His holdings included
most of the island of Mallorca
He had repeated run-ins with
the government until General
isslmo Francisco Franco came
to power. During the earlier
dictatorship of Gen. Migue
Primo de Rivera, Mr.. March
was charged with piracy on the
Mediterranean. Disguised as g
priest, he escaped to France
and remained there until the
affair blew over and he was
absolved. He returned to be-
come a trusted financial ad-
wiser to the ruler.
The republican government
arrested him and accused him
of illegal business procedures
He was held a year and a hall
without formal charge, Their
bribed his jailer and escaped
His jailer went with him and
was later rewarded with a good
job in, Mr.. March's financial
empire.
Free Hand in Spain
During the civil war, he was
credited with being Gen. Fran
co.'s financial genius and after
the FascistS' victory seemed to
have a free hand. Only one
more deal got him into trouble
his acquisition of the BARGE
Iona Traction, Light and Power
Co., a $350-million corporation
The corporation had its head
quarters in Canada and in
cluded Canadian and other for
eign interest. The eusted own
ers claimed Mr.. March acquired
the concern through a fake
bankruptcy, and the Canadian
government formally protested
to Spain. But Mr.. March de-
MED wrongdoing and kept the
property.
Associates described his as a
"spidery old man with a
crooked neck-but a keen
mind"
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several years later returned tt
serve as president of the
Guatemalan Congress.
When President Orellana
died in 1926 Mr.. Recinos fig
ured as a strong candidate for
the presidency, but he threw
his support behind Gen. Lazaro
Chacon, who won.
AS Ambassador to the United
States, Mr.. Recinos was known
as a quiet man who was most
effective working behind the
scenes, and who left most OF
the diplomatic socializing to his
wife, Maria.
Besides his wife, Ambassador
Recinos leaves a son, DR.. Adrian
Recinos, jr., of 209 Creswell
drive. Falls Church; four
daughters in Guatemala: Mrs,
Beatriz Matheau, Mrs. Laurita
Garcia-Prendes, Mrs. Mary
Campos and Mrs. Isabel Rios,
and IL grandchildren.
The funeral was yesterday in
Guatemala City.
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Dratha

SMITH; BEkNICE v. On Thursday
a N SIS s. 1872 81 h sERN ICE y sn ayn
wife of James Z. Smith. III
late Mrs. Smith is resting in tn,
Morris A.. Carter a. Co. Funera
Home. 305 H st. NV. Notice O.
services later.
SMITH, LIT. q. g. DAVID GERALD
On Monday. March 5, 1862, a.
GHsiTfS' sM Ef IT. w al a D f.
formerly Of Falls Church. Va, be.
Smith father Of Deborah u and DeniSt
Of Bruce Smith of Falls Church
Bangor. Me. aud Dr., Lowell B
Smith Of ChiIlicgthe Ohio. Friends
2S47 Wilson Svd,, Arlington, Va.
| Funeral services will be held at
Fort Myer Chapel nh Monday. March
II, at ! pm. lnternent Arlington
National Cemetery. IL
SUMMERS. INFANT EDWIN. On
Th tn Sd ge Mi iNFAS y l EBW,S t sa Ss
mers. He also is survived by two
grandmotherS, Mrs. Mary Wright
and Mrs. Marcella Johnson. After
a pm ea SUNDAY at he M RnSart f MsEon
VI.
Funeral Home, $500 Nichols ave
Sc. where funeral services will be
held at IL am. Monday March L.
1nterment Harmony Memorial Gem
etery.
THOMAS. EDWARD R. Suddenly, on
Tuesday March 8, 1862. EDWARD
r io THOMAS, husband Of Grace E;
and Reginald r. Thomas. He also
is survived by his mother, Mrs.
Evelyn Thomas: one sister, Mrs.
Ethel Dickerson; one brother. Ray
other relatives and friends, friends; FH ,;
be private. IL
THOMAS. WILLIAM. On Wednesday.
March z, 1862, WILLIAM THOMAS
Of I120 Neal st. ne. formerly Of
father lV II " Wls lam Sel0y Wdod fFaa sf,
and stepfather Of Susie A. Mccall
He also is survived BY three great
grandsons, six acknowledgements,
tiye great great granddaughters,
the Stewart Funeral Home, 80 H
st. ne. after IL am. Sunday,
March arch y. Funeral on Monday
NJ E Zion liz ff Church The ffDrs III s.
NV. at l pm. Interment Lincoln
Memorial Cemetery. IL
TooMBs. GLENRoY H. Suddenly,
on Wednesday, March Z. 1862.
Ge q nsc H. H To 90 H. Of 99o7
Of Francis Toombs and brother of
mrs IS surv vivian By I fxo Hs sO
Relatives and friends may call at
Gasch's Funeral Home. 4739 Bal
timore ave. Hyattsville, Md. after
10 am. Saturday, March TO-. where
vfrN11 h. 1al
MaFeh y YIN at De 1e nf!S pm On MG fnteE.
ment Arlington National Cemetery
day, February IS, 1862. FLORENCE
B. WALKER of 1922 25th st. NV,
devoted sister of sarahellen Busey
ana Elmer Walker, beloved aunt of
sna cs Gf Re aeSfse W WsshhnEton
Elmer Walker and Fulton Walker.
Other relatives and friends also
survive; Funeral services on Satur-
S gay; MaF Fns I9 a a. Pho no at the
island ave. NV. interment National
Harmony Memorial Park.
WILCOX, SARAH PRICE. On Friday
March o, 1862, at her nome. Con
SARAH PET PRICE N MiEco%' wife MOI Ii
Louis Bee Wilcox and mother of
MIS-. Harry @. Bartlett Of WASH
ington. D. c. Funeral services at
the Stewart g. Mowen Co., los
West North ave, Baltimore. Md,
on Monday. March 12. at II am.
Interment Druid Ridge Cemetery,
Baltimore. Md.
YOUNG. GEORGE. On Thursday,
March s. 1862, GEORGE YOUNG
of 1858 Montague ST. NV, devoted
husband of Mary S. Young Notice
OF funeral later. Services by Fra
zier. IL
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of TIT G street NV; Mrs.
Violet Blewett of 705 Eighteenth
street NV, and Mrs. Edna
Davis of 9 Toronto court, Alex
andria and two brothers, Mil
ton of Lanham, Md, and Lester
of 705 Eighteenth street NV.
Services will be held at 2 pm.
Monday at Gawler's Funeral
Home, 1855 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. NV. Mr.. Barrett's body
will be cremated.
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Obituaries
Garh nf Thanka

sIIyERMAN, DAVID p. The family
Of DAVID p, SILVERNAN wishes
70. thank their many relatives and
friends for the flowers, cards and
otner expressions Of sympathy dur
THE FAMILY II
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Mnurtlinua

scHREIBER, IRWIN R, There will be
IRWIN R. secHREIBEHfR on suada q
March IL, 1862, at . pm. at
King David Memorial Park. Rela-
tives and friends are invited.
EDITH M. SCHREIBER AND FAM
lily. 4,lO,1l