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Evening star., 1962-01-21
so Years AGO

A great hawk that for
years had wintered in the
tower of the old Post Office
building, at 11th and Penn
sylvania avenue NV, feast
ing on pigeons, was the vic
tim Of an unknown sniper
so years ago. The Star Of
January 18, 1912, said The
Post Office tower hawk Is
dead! A bullet ended the
career of the picturesque ban
dit bird as he perched on the
corner of the high tower of
the Post Office. No one but
the man who did the deed
knows who speeded the rifle
ball to it's mark. The body
Of the bold-feathered ma
rauder was found on the par
apet Of the 9th story Of the
building by Assistant Super
intendent Shaw this morning.
The great speckled bird meas
ured AZ inches from wing tip
to wing tip. The Postmaster
General. as tribute to his
fame and prowess in the bat
tie for existence, has directed
that full honorS be paid to
him. A delegation from the
office Of the press room Of
the Post Office. Jesse Suter
and his messenger and As
sistant Superintendent Shaw,
will form a funeral escort to
convey the body to a local
taXidermiSt. When prop-
erly stuffed, the hawk will
stand as a monument to his
past triumphs in the office
Of the Postmaster General.
A book will contain the rec
ord of his career, culled from
sources,
Evening star., 1962-01-21
FROM THE STAR FILES.

absence at home. One
years reticent suffering is
enough; and as we never were
and never intend to be a puff
sheet for jefferson Davis, or
any other statesman or poll
tician, we speak the more
plainly. We believe less adu-
lation real and hollow, of our
public men, who have yet
done nothing, would have
been attended with more be-
neficent results; and dare also
believe that the sooner our
press ceases this slavish adu-
lation, and confusion of the
cause with any set of men,
the sooner the cause is like
ly to prosper. >" The Star
pointed out that this out
burst induced a vigilance
committee to wait upon the
editor"
Evening star., 1962-01-21
RegrettobIe Typo

Across the many years
I have been privileged to
write the weekly message,
Spires of The Spirit" I have
deeply appreciated the pains
taking effort Of everybody at
The Star who has anything
to do with this column to
make sure that it is accur-
ately printed. During the
years there have been sur
prisingly few typographical
errors. On January IA there
happened to be one which
embarrassed me very much.
One of my best friends on
the Hill was the late Speak
er Sam Rayburn. I admired
him greatly! In the opening
paragraph of the Spire,
Night Is Not Eternal" 1
spoke Of two national legis-
lators who had passed on
since adjournment of the
First Session of the 87th
Congress. I referred to them
as two towering public serv-
ants, one from the Senate
and one from the House. The
next sentence was, The
statesman who will be sorely
missed on the House side is
Sam Rayburn Of Texas"
Following was this sentence,
THE statesman who will be
sorely missed on the Senate
side is Styles Bridges" The
reference to Mr.. Rayburn
was omitted. OF course the
article itself. in references
which followed. indicated
that I was speaking of two
men-not one.
The failure to mention at
the beginning, Sam Rayburn,
was simply a typographical
mistake. 1t was in my man
uScript.
Frederick Brown Harris,
Chaplain Of the Senate.
Evening star., 1962-01-21
Terror in the Conqo

II the United Nations command in
the Congo could defeat Noise Tshombe's
army in EliSabethville, it ought to be
able to deal with the 200 or 300 mutinous
Congolese troops who have been ter
rorizing Northern Katanga in recent
weeks
Presumably it was these troops or
some Of them, who butchered 13 Italian
alrmen in Kindu last November. On
New Years Day they slaughtered 19
European priests and an unknown num-
Der OF African civilians at Kongolo, in
Northern Katanga. Now they have
struck again. An aerial survey indicates
that they have seized a mission in the
Katanga town of Sola and the worst
is feared for the mission staff of
dozen Europeans and about 40 young
African girls who were being trained
as teachers.
= Earlier in the week it was reported
that the U. N. command had offered
all possible assistance to the Congolese
government in Leopoldville, and, more
recently, U. N. spokesman has said
that "our best civilian and military
minds are at work on what we can do
and we will certainly take every possible
action"
Up to this time, however, no effec-
tive action has been taken-not even
IN the case of the Italians who were
murdered as long ago as last November.
No doubt the factors of terrain and
distance present a real problem in
Northern Katanga. But the U. N. was
able to muster the weapons, the troops
and the planes to blast Elisabethville
and smash Katanga's relatively strong
army. 1t ought to be able to assemble
enough force in Northern Katanga to
destroy or disperse these murderous
marauders. At least, having destroyed
whatever capacity Mr. Tshombe may
have had to cope with these intruders,
It ought to try
Evening star., 1962-01-21
Imperfect Is Riqht'

Editorials such as that in
The Sunday Star on the
United Nations promote pub
lie confidence in a news
paper.
If, in 1855, when the pub
lie first became aware Of
hitherto unknown facts, the
State Department had not
gone all-out to block a
planned official investigation
OF the United Nations-an
investigation instigated by
Congressman Usher Burdick
and backed by 200 Congress-
men-the U. N. would have
have been happily discon-
tinued then and there.
To propose today. after a
perfect record Of disastrous
consequences due to U. N.
policy, to bankrupt our own
economy to purchase United
Nations bonds. seems but a
grim joke.
1t behooves each American
to write to his Congressman
today!
Bella M. Norwood.
y
The Star truly spoke for
the American people in Sun
days excellent editorial I'm
perfect Is Right" on the
United Nations. Not liking an
imperfect world has nothing
logically to do with recogni-
ton of the dangerous char
acter of the monster which
we helped to create, which
we are still supporting, and
which will destroy us as it
has destroyed everything else
in its path.
The U. N. is through; the
American people don't want
1t. Let us now pick up the
pieces and change the pat
tern. Only a dub sticks to a
losing game.
Evening star., 1962-01-21

fore the Liberty Bell in Phil
adelphia Changed forth it's
fateful challenge. In response
to the call from that spire
in 1774 the House Of Bur-
gesses proceeded in a body to
the church to ask for Divine
guidance. AS his diary re-
cords George Washington
spent the day there in fast
ing and prayer. The church's
archives show that this de-
vout churchman stood at that
altar at least IA times in
connection with baptismal
ceremonies. Little did that
one, destined to be called the
Father of his Country, real
ize that the very prayer book
he reverently used in that
church was to have the
prayer for the British king
pasted over with a petition
for the President Of the
United States-who would be
himself!
And now more than a
hundred and sixty years
after Washington was laid
in his Mount Vernon tomb.
Williamsburg and Bruton
Church still belong to all
America. We could wish for
every pilgrim. as the time
next draws near the birth of
Christ, at least one Christ
mas journey to Williamsburg
restored. Its justly famous
inn. lodges, lodgings, taverns
and motels, are yearly crowd
ed by those yearning to ex-
perience the peaceful spell OF
a Christ Birthday away from
the artificial glitter which is
not gold. Permeating every
thing is the solemnity Of SIM
plicity. In every window of
this idyllic town there is
placed one cleaning candle.
Everywhere the lights are
quiet and calm and flash not
on-and-off. The old, old ad-
vent carols are drenched with
the traditional Christmas
joy. The snowy fashions OF
modernity are exchanged
for the Colonial costumes and
customs. Red, red apples are
seen as of more appeal for
decoration than painted,
brittle baubles. In pictur-
esque hostels, with the same
names they bore so long ago,
attractive meals await where
gaudy illumination would be
but a rude invasion in the
realm of candles. And think
of attending a concert in the
governors palace in a cam
delight setting in which the
last governor, could he re-
turn, would see no change in
the spacious mansion.
What patriotic American
standing in front Of vener-
able Bruton Church, gazing
at the slender finger pointing
heavenward where the moon
rides in splendor, would not
feel moved to make out his
personal l. o. U. to DR.. Good
win. and to John D. Rookie
feller, jr., for joining their
faith and their works in a
vision whose symbol is q spire
of prophecy and a dream
come true?
Evening star., 1962-01-21
Monuments to FDR

With the oft published
picture In mind of the big
Three" at Yalta and the out
come Of that momentous con-
ference, the continuing per-
sistent preoccupation with a
further memorial to F. D. R.,
seems to me redundant. We
seem not to see the forest
for trees. East Germany is
surely all the memorial that
Stain could have wished for;
the existing world state must
be credited in large measure
to F. D. R., and what Great
Britain has become will, in
due course rebound to the
glory CD Of Churchill. To
what purpose then add dead
stones when there are the
Kremlin walls in Russia and
III EHSU Berlin!
These Kremlin walls pre-
sent the added advantage of
background for the hanging
of commemorative slabs for
the defunct NRA, the AAA
and the Supreme Court
packing bill and the estab-
liShment of the permanence
of the time-honored last
Thursday in November for
the observance of Thanksgiv-
ing Day. In its cockeyed
stance, the Stonehenge is, at
least, representative Of the
cockeyed ideologies it would
represent.
Olga G. Foley.
4
1t is the duty of those
citizens of Washington who
have enjoyed the beauty of
our city. and feel some re-
sponsibility for its future, to
speak out against the pure
uglinesS which is being foiSt-
ed upon us in the guise of a
memorial to Franklin D.
Roosevelt. I don't see how
anyone can support the
building of this monStrosity
as a symbol of their affection
for him unless they have been
so deluded by the question
able authority of the present
crop of art critics that they
refuse to believe their own
eyes.
I was never an extravagant
admirer of Mr.. Roosevelt,
but I admit to- a twinge of
pity for any human being
who can be so pilloried be-
Fore the world without an
opportunity to cry out in his
own defense. Can it be
that his character was as un-
balanced. as warped or as
menacing as these leaning
monoliths would suggest? Or
was his use of power as hap
hazard, as unrestrained or as
unpredictable as these vio-
lently sprouting m monsters
would indicate?
If there must be a me-
mortal at this time, let those
who loved Mr.. Roosevelt
and they were legion-search
their hearts for a fitting
symbol, appropriate to his
memory and a contribution
to the beauty of the Capital
of this Nation.
ArmiStead Peter, Sd.
Evening star., 1962-01-21
Aqrees With Us

l enjoyed The Stars edi-
torials of January 16 and II
entitled soft on Rightism?"
and wild Blue Yonder."
The Star was mentioned on
the front page of the canu-
ary National Review Bulletin,
which is not only the leading
conservative journal in the
Nation, but it also has the
largest ~~irt rl'n of any jour-
lia. D. . nnIUn.
Ronald H. Harner.
Evening star., 1962-01-21
SPIRES OF THE SPIRIT
A Spire and a Dream
BY DIR. FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS
CHAPLAIN Of the United Staten senatA

The dream pictured the
, restoration of a historic
town which the long years
had buried with forgetful
neglect. After a sleep of a
century and a half the
requiem for Williamsburg,
Va. seemed to be ashes to
ashes. Then, three decades
ago. from the spire of Bruton
Church there sounded trump
cts Of resurrection. They were
pressed to the lips of the be-
loved rector. the Rev. w.
A. R. Goodwin, who with a
glowing vision walked about
that cemetery of past glory.
That dream was to restore
for modern America, not just
rebuilt habitations, but the
reenactment of a way of life
in all the pristine Beauty of
this 18th century city when
it was a Colonial greenhouse
for gracious living, gentle
culture, and sound learning.
The accomplished objective is
one of the most fascinating
sagas of any project whose
aim has been to turn back
ward time in its flight.
An old adage warns be
ware of a man with an idea"
That idea burning like fire in
a prophets bones kindled a
like flame in the heart of a
great philanthropist, John D.
Rockefeller. jr. That part
nership harnesSed to the
dream the needed millions for
the Transformation of a
sacred spot stricken by the
blighting years to recovered
loveliness like that of the
tabled winged creature, Phoe-
nix. rising in new beauty
from the ashes of the old.
And so, with the dream full
filled, for unnumbered pill
grimS the roads to this
charming revolutionary town
lead straight back to the days
when a British Governor in
royal trappingS symbolized
the Scepter of George III.
Here to the capitol and to
Bruton Church came fire.
quently George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, P trick
Henry, and a dozen other
pillars Of the rising revolt.
The increasing plain talk at
the capitol and the uninhib-
tied conversation at the inns
and taverns echoed the omi-
nous warning that England's
tyrannical policy had already
cost one king his head, an
other his crown, and might
cost a third his most flour
ishing colonies.
In that emerging revolu-
ton the spire of Bruton
Church was the emblem that
the fundamental faith of the
new Nation was spiritual.
Within the sacred walls of
this Williamsburg shrine with
its high. stiff pews and the
tall canopied pulpit, just as
it Is today, was an ornate
curtained enclosure for the
Governor and one gallery for
slaves and another for COL
lege students. The provision
for collegians indicates that
never was the light of learn
ing dimmed even when the
town deteriorated. To the
academic halls of William
and Mary, the oldest Colonial
college next to Harvard, the
procession of students never
ceased. 1t was here in 1776
that the golden scholastic key
was fashioned - still in the
Goth century the most coveted
emblem Of intellectual excel
lence.
The Bruton Church bell
rang out to proclaim Vir-
ginia's separation from the
British Crown six weeks be-
Evening star., 1962-01-21

in his power by any means
whatsoever to advance the
cause of this evil force. His
every effort is expended
must be expended-for the
destruction of freedom wher-
ever it exists and for the
placing in Communist servi-
tude all of us who cherish
freedom. If a smile and a
joke from an affable but hos
tile diplomat are accepted as
evidence of friendship and
blind us to the peril we face,
then certainly our days as a
free and sovereign Nation are
numbered.
T w Rarnns
Evening star., 1962-01-21
LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used il
letters carry UriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
terS are subject to condenSd-
ton. Those not used DiH be
returned only When accom-
panied by self = addressed,
stamped envelopes.
The Adak sun., 1962-07-02
ANNOUNCEMENTS

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Evening star., 1962-01-31
One Suspect
Freed in Theft
Of EmbussyGem

United States Commissioner
Sam Wertleb yesterday dis
misse housebreaking and rob-
berry charges filed against one
Of three suspects in last sum-
mer's $4,000 jewelry robbery of
two women at the home Of the
Costa Rican Ambassador.
Freed was Albert w. Eaglin,
%, of the 1400 block of Girard
street NV. Oscar Altshuler,
assistant United States attorney,
said there was insufficient
evidence to hold him.
Mr.. Wertleb continued pre-
liminary hearings for the two
other suspects until February
13. Two key witnesses, one the
Ambassadors wife. are out Of
town.
Alfred P. Huff. %, of the 230O
block Of First street NV, is
charged with robbery and
housebreaking. Christine Pat
terson, 81. of the 500 block Of
Evening star., 1962-01-31

MANS case was continued to
yesterday when Judge Harry
l.. Walker disqualified himself
from hearing it. Judge Wal
ker said he once threatened
to jail Putnam for calling him
up about other cases.
Putnam, of the 1400 block of
Pennsylvania avenue Sc, has
been known to telephone
judges, prosecutors and de-
fenSe attorneys to argue about
cases in a lengthy record COW
ering Is years.
While serving time for for
gerry he picked up the nick
name "the jailhouse muralist''
for murals he painted on the
jail's rotunda.
Faced with Putnam's sweep
ing motion yesterday, Judge
Thomas c. Scalley pondered it,
observed that it is exhaustive"
and continued the latest case
to Friday.
Evening star., 1962-01-31
Veteran of Court Battles
Moves to Pick Judae

A veteran Of several cour
battles has asked that is Of
Municipal Courts 16 judges be
disqualified from trying his
latest case.
Frederick Rex Putnam, 43
filed a motion with the court
yesterday naming Chief Judge
John Lewis Smith, jr., as the
only Judge eligible to try him
for threats, drunkenness ano
disorderly conduct.
Executed in hand-printed
block letters, the motion gives
three easons: Prejudice
with no further explanatory
Putnam's own criminal record
and IAN untrue article" in a
newspaper.
He apparently referred to the
report of his first court appear
ance on the new charges, which
specify that he threatened a
woman acquaintance over the
phone and in person.
In his first appearance, Put
Evening star., 1962-01-31
President Names
3 to Arts Group

President Kennedy named
three more persons late yester-
day as members of the Advisory
Committee on the Arts for the
National Cultural Center.
They are Kay Halle, Wash
jngton correspondent for Cleve-
land radio station VICAR and
feature writer for the Cleveland
Plain Dealer; Huntington
Cairns, secretary, treasurer and
general counsel of the National
Gallery of Art, and Leland Hay
ward, theatrical and movie
producer.
Evening star., 1962-01-31
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Evening star., 1962-01-31

Shepherd street NV, is accused
of receiving stolen property.
Victims Of the robbery were
Mrs. Manuel G. Escalante, wife
of the Ambassador, and Mrs.
Carmen McCurdy, whose home
is in Stone Mountain, Ga.
The women were locked in a
closet during the robbery by
intruders last August 26 at the
Embassy residence, 2112 S street
NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16
SUB AT ANCHOR
4 YEARS CALLED.
CUBA INVADER
BY the Associated Press

Cuba claims its waters
were invaded by an Ameri-
can submarine which the
United States Navy says
has been tied up in the re-
serve fleet for the last four
years.
The Cuban Armed Forces
Ministry in Havana yes
terday identified the sub
marine as the Seahorse and
said it violated Cuban ter
ritorial waters on Monday.
1t said the craft was No.
$500.
But the United States
Navy said the Seahorse,
which bears that number,
has been out of active serv-
ice since 1947 and has been
anchored with the Pacific
Reserve Fleet at Mare Is
land, Calf, since 1858.
In addition to claiming
the submarine invasion of
its waters, the Cuban Min
istry also asserted that an
American plane twice vio-
lated Cuban air space on
Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16
East German Guards
Gun Down Comrode

that the guard wanted to fol-
low his patrol leader to the
west.
A few hours earlier a gun
duel had ragged in an East Ger
man border area adjacent to
West Berlin, between guards
on a 35-foot police watch tower
and a man crouched behind a
pile Of paving stones IS yards
away. The man on the ground
was killed, and two Of the
guards on the watch tower were
wounded.
EyewitneSSeS believed the
dead man was a member of the
border police trying to escape
to the west or to cover others
trying to escape.
On Tuesday, an East German
captain was killed in an ex-
change of fire between East
and West German border
guards near the town of Bad
Hersfeld.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16
Bottle Rocket
Studies Ordered
By the Associated Press

The Army has selected
Chance-Vought division of
General Dynamics and Chrys-
Ter Corp. to make further de-
velopment studies of the pro-
posed Missile B battlefield
weapon.
Competition in the design for
the missile now has narrowed
from eight firms to the two
companies. The total value of
the new contracts is about 81
million.
On the basis Of the new
studies, the Army expects to
take one of the companies as
the prime contractor for Mis-
sile B, a weapon intended for
use with either nuclear or con-
ventional warhead to replace
the Honest John and Lacrosse
missiles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-16
BY the Associated Press

Representative Vinson, Dem
ocrat Of Georgia, influential
chairman of the House Armed
Services Committee, Endorses
fully a call for clamping tight
congressional controls on the
Secretary Of Defense's power
to shuttle military organiza-
tons.
Mr.. Vinson yesterday gave
his support to a subcommittee
report which expressed deep
concern over creation by Sec
rotary Mcnamara of several
unified agencies anSwerable d.
rectly to him.
THE time has come for Con-
gress to reassume its RESPONSE
bility and reassert its authority"
over the Defense Department,
said the report by Representa-
tiveS Hardy, Democrat of Vir-
ginia. and Bates, Republican
of Massachusetts,.
They said the Capitalization
of power and decision-making
will develop a "no-decision or
indecisive philosophy" unless
Congress acts to preserve the
chain of authority and RESPONSE
bility of the separate military
departments under the Defense
Secretary as an overall policy
maker"
The committee urged legisla-
ton to legalize clearly unified
agencies already established.
And it proposed creation of
congressional watchdog groups
to maintain continuing scrutiny
over them to prevent the merg-
ing of the military services, for
which, the subcommittee said
"the groundwork is being laid"
by Pentagon administrators.
More Importantly, the COM
mittee would define Stricter
limits to the point of complete
ly eliminating the Secretary'S