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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-18
tom SAWYER" KEEPS

tom SAWYER" KEEPS
company with one of Francis
Scott Keys copies of The
Star Spangled Banner" a
bell cast in England in the
18th century, a Civil War
newspaper printed on wall
paper, which tells of the
1858 siege of >Vicksburg; a
case of religious vestments
and chalices, and some wildly
colored egret plumes.
THE plumeS were taken
from a passenger at the air.
port and officials gave them
to us. They are illegal to
bring into the country" said
Father Repetti.
And not the least item of
interest in this room is
Father Repetti, who has been
archiviSt since 1945 and was
a prisoner of the japanese
during World War II. He is a
tall, kind man of 70 who
stands very straight and has
a nervous habit of taking off
his glasses and then peering
closely at things.
From 1928 to 1912 he was
with the Philippine Weather
Bureau, Manila Observatory.
For the next three years he
was interned at Los Banos in
the Philippines.
There was little to do.
We ate what little food they
gave u.s."
He shrugged his shoulders
as if this were not a time
for remembering. We took a
final look at the manuscript
we had come to see, before
leaving this room of the past
in the basement of Healy
Tower.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-18
BY LEE FLOR
Star Staff Writer

A proposal to change L
miles Of streets in downtown
Washington to one-way traffi
ran into powerful opposition
today.
Several influential civic anc
business groups testified before
a Board of Commissioner
hearing that they opposed the
proposal in one form or an
other. Two groups asked for
additional hearings before any
specific part of the plan was
installed.
A letter from chairman
Mcmillan of the House District
Committee was read at the
start of the hearing.
Mr.. Mcmillan, a South Caro-
lima Democrat, said: Il GER
tainly see no reason why there
should be so many one-way
streets as in my opinion this
is the first Ntep in completely
destroying the convenience and
usefulness of the Nations Cap
ital so far as visitors and
businessmen are concerned.
Il certainly am opposed to the
proposal"
William H. Bell, assistant
vice president of D. c. Transit
System, Inc, said the changes
would alter riding habits of
100000 daily bus passengers.
About 5000 daily bus trips
would be changed.
Tripled Bus Congestion
Changes in bus lines would
almost triple bus congestion at
Fourteenth and H streets, Mr..
Bell warned.
About half of the curb zones
for passengers waiting for
buses on Thirteenth and Four
tenth streets would be elimi-
mated. At the same time, a
number of buses using the two
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streets would be tripled, he said
The Commissioners shoulC
"re-evaluate" the one-way pro,
posals, and his firm would like
to take part in the re-evalua.
ton, Mr.. Bell said.
Witnesses for two business
groups asked for hearings be-
fore any portion of the pro-
posal was put into operation.
John w. Thompson, jr.,
representing the Metropolitan
Washington Board of Trade,
said the Board approved the
changes lin principle"
Each change should be care
fully judged on its own merit
at public hearings before being
put into effect" Mr.. Thomp-
son said.
Others Support View
+ E. A. Pritchard, executive
vice president of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association,
said one hearing was not
enough for, such a complex
traffic change. Before any
street or part of streets is made
one way. a separate hearing
should be called, Mr.. Pritchard
said.
Engineer Commissioner Fred
creek j. Clarke, the only Dis
trict Commissioner present at
the hearing, said more one-way
streets are needed.
There are now 81 miles of
one-way streets in downtown
Washington. There has been
little addition to traffic ca
pacity of downtown streets
since 1852, but the number OF
cars using these streets has
increased IS per cent. Gen
Clarke said.
1t will take months or years
to install some of these Is ad-
ditional miles of one-way
streets. If important objections
are brought out at the hear
ing, some of the proposed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-18

HomeWard bound traffic
from Maryland and Delaware
ocean resorts experienced long
waits at the Chesapeake Bay
Bridge last night.
A bridge spokesman said ii
was heaviest Sunday night SO
far this year but normal" for
a hot week end.
THE summer season is here, "
the bridge spokesman added.
Traffic along U. S. Route so
on the Eastern Shore. approach
ing the bridge was backed up
several miles and took as much
as an hour and a half to reach
the bridge toll gates, one mo-
torist reported.
Many cars overheated and
stalled in the long lineup on
Route so to compound the trou-
bles and brought numerous
State police cars to the area
to keep traffic moving.
The worst period was be-
tween 9 and II pm.
Everyone Took Advice"
Judging from this, it was
evident that many of those
caught in last nights jam had
taken the advice of John B.
Funk, chairman-director of the
Maryland State Roads Com
mission after a similar jam the
Sunday before.
In the 9 to IL pm. period,
he said, actual crossing time
of the bridge took Is minutes;
but it took far longer even to
get on the bridge. Three minor
collisions on the bridge during
this time added to the delays,
although the cars involved
were quickly removed, the COM
mission spokesman said.
The days total traffic count
for the bridge was 22,500, COM
pared to 1905 on the same
Sunday a year ago.
Traffic UpSwing
This continued the upSwing
of traffic over the bridge, now
running some 81 to % per cent
over the previous year. The
total count yesterday was al
most equal the maximum num-
Der on any one Sunday last
summer, the commission
spokesman added.
IF this rate continues" he
added, "last nights jam will
be nothing to what we can look
for on Sundays to come"
Last night, Is extra men
were assigned to patrolling the
bridge and trying to move
traffic as fast as possible. But
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lateral pending a hearing at
$50 am. tomorrow, he reported.
DR.. Windle said the picket
ing continued after police
halted the fracas and warned
the teen-agers against further
interference. Similar picketing
during the past month has
been concentrated mostly at
the Glebe, Buckingham and
Arlington Theaters, all part of
the Neighborhood Theaters
chain, but is being expanded TO
embrace others, ne added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-18

said, I've never read it, you
know" That made two in the
room who had never read
Tom Sawyer" and so what
better way to start than with
the original?
And having laughed
through 'InnocentS Abroad"
there was a curiosity to
see how Mark Twain wrote
whether he rewrote, whether
he Scrawled his sentences.
A velvet string was united
and there was the first page
of the classic boyhood story.
1t was slightly yellowed, the
only page that showed its
age.
In a firm, disciplined hand
were written Sept. IA. Friend
Bliss Don't forget to put this
in Tom Sawyer.
ITO my wife this book is
affectionally dedicated. Yrs.
Clemens"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-18
Plan to Add 1-Woy Streets
Hits Civic Opposition

changes will be cancelled, Gen.
Clarke said.
Importance TO Area Noted
The one-way proposals are
OF great importance to the
Washington region and to the
downtown area, Robert H. Levi
said.
Mr.. Levi. vice president of
the National Capital Down.
town Committee, said:
IF we are, to achieve a re-
vitalized downtown, the elimi-
nation of traffic congestion
from our streets is a first or
der Of business.
"One-way operations increase
the capacity of streets, lower
accident rates. improve bus
service, and help cut congestion.
If we can do all of these
things, then our downtown
can begin to function as it
should as the heart of a great
metropolitan area"
10th Street Plan Opposed
Opposition to a specific part
of the proposal came from An
drew Parker, president of
Woodward & Lothrop, Inc. In
letter, Mr.. Parker said he
opposed changing Tenth street
from its present one-way status
to two-way.
Civic groups favoring the
changes in principle were the
League of Women Voters,
Washington Planning and
Housing Association, and the
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
The Georgetown Citizens As
ISOLATION made ..rong pro-
test against part of the
proposal.
Philip K. Robinson, associa-
ton president, said the group
opposed proposals to make P
street one-way west and @
street one-way east between
Wisconsin avenue and Twenty
second streets, NV.
Mr.. Robinson said a great
deal of traffic, including three
bus lines. would be thrown onto
P street. When similar
arrangement was tried two
years ago, weStbound traffic
was backed up to Rock Creek
Park for several hours every
afternoon.
Would Bar Parkway
The proposal would make
Rock Creek parkway inacces-
sible from the west through
Georgetown. since the en-
frances to the parkway for both
north and southbound traffic
are from P street.
Several businessmen with
firms on Ninth street NV,
testified in opposition to the
changes.
John w. Lyon. president of
the Washington Parking ASso-
citation, said this drastic
change is just an experiment"
George S. Freedman testified
for the Columbia Heights
BuSinesSmen's Association. Mr.
Freedman said:
"All Of D. c. has become a
metropolitan area. We are on
posed to traffic patterns that
are geared to flow all traffic
into the downtown area at the
expense of other fine shopping
areas throughout the city"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-18

FOR S55 NEAT and small
pages the story unfolds from
a thin-nubbed pen. 1t seems
Mark Twain thought well
before he touched the page.
The only reviSions the RAM
bier quickly noted were when
he changed to more COL
loquial expressions or when
he scratched out what he
felt to be excessive.
For example, where can
that boy be, I wonder?" was
scratched out and rewritten,
Whats gone with that boy,
I wonder?"
In another sentence where
Twain wrote, 1.-The old lady
whirled and skipped, like a
scared girl" he had drawn a
line through "like a scared
girl" and while Tom was
devouring hot bread and
beefsteak" was changed to
while Tom was eating his
supper"
Father Repetti said the
manuscript was given to
Georgetown by the widow of
a wealthy New Yorker, Mich
olas Brady. The first type
script of this original is in
Twain's home State, Missouri.
There are varied stories as
to how the Bradys got the
copy, but the one told most
often is that as a child dur
ing the last part of the 10th
century, Nicholas lived across
the street from Twain.
From his house Nicholas
could see Twain propped up
in bed, writing. Twain be-
came his hero and he later
acquired the manuscript
from him.
Father Repetti said, Some
one once gave Twain a type
writer. In those days they
were pretty crude things and
he gave up in disgust and
gave it to a friend with the
note, AS you have no morals
1 am sending this typewriter
to you-becauSe it causes me
to swear too much"
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that has helped has been Tom
my'S lot in his 10 years.
A vacation camp would be
something of value in the new
life ne is being helped TO
build.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-18
The
Rambler
Finally Reeds
Tom Sawyer
BY MYRA MACPHERSON

The priest took down the
brilliant red-bound volume
from a shelf in the vault of
Georgetown University's ar
chives room and placed it on
a table. Then he and the
Rambler found they had
something in common.
AS the Rev. william c. Re-
petit opened the book, he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-18

George Kennedy is III. He will resume
his column on his return.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-18

changes will be Cancelled. Gen.
Clarke said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10

Edward Coomey of Auburn,
special appraiser for the DPW.
The indictments charge con-
spiracy to defraud the Govern
ment in land takings involving
the Worcester Cold Storage Co.
and the Kulin Waste Co., in
Worcester.
The indictments charge the
five with craft, trickery and
deceit" and allege an agree
ment to cause the State to pay
Worcester Cold Storage more
than the property was worth.
Yesterdays indictments
brought to IA individuals and
two corporations accused by
the grand jury after 10 months
investigation into Massachu-
sets land takingS for the Fed
eral highway program.
Judge Glynn represented the
Worcester Cold Storage and
Warehouse, Inc, during land
taking negotiations. John ia
cobson, its president, had ties.
titled before a House subcom.
mittee in Washington that hi
paid Judge Glynn's law firm
$9,250 as a fee for handling the
transaction.
An official of the subcommit.
tee was quoted as saying the
iudg0's fees from land case.
! .-,r'.I some 100000. Judge
Glynn told newsmen the report
is a "damnable lie"
Judge Glynn tentatively i
set to appear before the sub.
committee next Tuesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
Present Leadership Believed Recognizing
Thot We Aren't Decoyinq, But Movinq

number of bombs. It's leaders
frankly admitted that they
employed them because the
MoSlem rebels had been sue
cessful with them.
Here again was a miscal-
culation that ignored lessons
plainly written in both an
cient and modern history. 1t
is that bombs and terror are
not enough. Events, justice,
morality, a correction of long
existing injustices - all of
these outweigh bombs. They
become a great wind which
blows through the years.
One million persons, even
though they own and control
most of the commerce,
wealth, property and military
power, and for seven years
have been supported by con-
tinental France, have not
been able to put down a rebel
lion that had within it the
strong forces of events in
this last-half of the goth
century-and had always
that wind of history at its
back.
Editing his memoirs in
September of 1841, Chateau
BRAND added a conclusion:
Just as a man who is dan
gerously ill becomes preoccu-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
B&A Line Faces
Strike Monday

ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 10 (AP).-
Employees of the Baltimore and
Annapolis Railroad announced
Thursday they will strike Mon
day unless a contract dispute is
settled.
w. F. Lester, vice president
Of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, said the strike was
authorized by 80 employees.
He said the brotherhood had
exhausted all procedures under
the Railway Labor Act and is
unable to agree with the B&A
on a new contract.
The previous pact expired
December /.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
Kennedy to Greet
Ahidio at Airport

President Kennedy will go to
National Airport to welcome
Ahmadou Ahidjo, President of
the Cameroun, when he arrives
in Washington Tuesday for a
two-day official visit.
The head of state of the new
African republic will be accom-
panied by IL high-ranking
aides, including three cabinet
ministers.
The two-day visit includes
luncheon meetings with Mr..
Kennedy Tuesday and Wednes-
day.
The first will be at the White
House, and the second at Blair
House, the Presidents guest
house, where Mr.. Ahidjo will
be host.
Mr.. Ahidjo is scheduled to
leave Washington for New York
Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
A New France; q New World

pied with what is waiting for
him beyond the grave, a ma
ton which feels itself decay
ing grows anxious about its
fate. The old European
order is expiring; our pres
ent conflicts will look like
puerile struggles in the eyes Of
poSterity the authority of
experience and age, birth or
genius. talent or virtue-are
all rejected =. :"
Yet, that Europe which he
saw dying attained a greater
power and glory in the years
after the old writer and phil
oSopher's death. The
France that developed out Of
the history after Chateau
brands time became an even
greater France. The lesson
would seem to be an old one
those peoples and nations
that are not resilient enough
to seize, direct and assist in
channeling the forces OF
change will equate change
with decay and lose their
faith and perspective.
It is a new world-in 1862.
A new France is emerging as
part of what must be called a
new Europe. Our present
leadership sees that we inev-
itably are a part of this new
ness. We are not decaying.
We are moving. 1t is helpful
to read good biographies-like
that of Chateaubriand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
A View of a Strong Europe

the newly born states Of Asia
and Africa. They want their
place in keeping with their
achievements and their his
tory.
The same motives prevail
in regard to the organization
Of the Western European
Confederation-the success
sor of the highly successful
Common Market. 1t is true
that some of the smaller
members, still under the i'm
pact of the philosophy of
what Gen. de Gaulle de-
scribes as the anglo Sax
onS," are heSitant about the
proposed Europe of the Faith
erlands. They believe they
may get greater individual
advantages from a melting
pot" organization such as
Washington and London are
intimating. But, according
to some French analysts who
have made an intimate study
Of the situation, the aver
age Belgian, Dutchman or
German would rather pre-
serve and maintain fully his
national characteristics, his
pride in history under his
national flag than to melt
away into a colorless nom
national combine.
It is this philosophy which
makes Gen. de Gaulle insist
on national rather than
merged armies in the NATO.
The Germans were compelled
to place all their military
power under the North At
lantic Command for a strong
reason; powerful Soviet prop
uganda to the effect that the
Germans were militariStS and
seeking revenge over their
victors fell on fruitful soil
in some sections Of the Amer
lean and British public.
Gen. de Gaulle has no such
misgivings over his German
ally. Moreover, he is unwill-
ing to permit the French
forces to do more than CO.
operate with those of
Frances allies. He believes
that heterogeneous armies
fight with less vigor than
those which are fighting I'M
der their national flag. Fur
thermore, the present coali-
ton is not the offspring of
power politics, as has always
been the case in history.
We are all in the same boat,
and must defend a civili-
cation which risks crumbling
under the blows of the Com
munists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

August Heckscher is named White House culture
sutant at SIS day. Culture cheaper under Eisenhower
They used to mugge the stuff in between bridge hands
KhruShcheV boast Soviet agriculture is econom
ca Over here the Government the farmer not
things In Russia, the farmer does the thing for
nothing.
Washington guide: And this is the White House, where
the Kennedys stop off to show family travel movies to each
other"
Gov Rockefeller says Republicans won't roll and
play dead in "a. They intend to kick and all the
way to the election chair.
The United States and Russia agree cultural
exchanges. First to arrive will be chorus of Communist
brickayers singing that old East Berlin favore After
the wall is over"
The House of Representatives finally responded to Ken
nedys inaugural plea-ask not what your country
for but what you do for your county-and killed
a bill to add three congressman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
BY the Associated Press

Senator Oren E. Long, Demo-
crat of Hawaii, says he won't
seek reelection this year.
Senator Long, 10, told report
erS yesterday it was the judg-
ment of both himself and Mrs
Long that as thrilling as it is
as it has been-to be a men,
Der of the Senate, we did not
wish to obligate ourselves tc
60 well beyond the usual re-
tirement age away from
Hawaii"
In a statement, Senator Long
said "if and when Congress-
man Daniel K. Inouye, Demo-
crat of Hawaii, announces his
candidacy for the Democratic
senatorial nomination, it is my
intention to support him in the
campaign"
Senator Long was one of
Hawaii's first two Senators. He
was elected July %, 1859, after
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
Senator Long Of Hawaii
Won'tSeek Reelection

serving as territorial governor
of Hawaii, secretary of the Ter
ritory, and superintendent OF
public instruction.
There was no immediate
comment from Representative
Inouye, who is regarded as a
certain candidate for the six
year Senate term beginning
next January.
Senator Long described as
IAN abSurdity" reports he had
made a commitment to Mr..
Inouye prior to the 1859 cleo
ton to serve only one term.
Asked the reason for his re-
tirement, Senator Long said:
Il have no specific answer to
that. People do retire, whether
bankers, plantation managers.
school principals or sometimes
even attorneys.
I'm in my 74th year. That
is not the reason-certainiy not
the sole reason. But I am aware
of the calendar"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
Mr.. Mabardi said he collected

Mr.. Mabardi said he collected
5000 as a fee in one case and
$500 in the other and that none
of it went to Mirkin. But, hi
added, he received telephone
calls from an unidentified per.
son at the Department of Pub.
lie Works in reference to both
cases.
He said an unidentified per-
son also called him, suggested
they had mutual acquaintance
and told him he could get prop
erty cases ION a $3.50 basis"
Suspected Offer As Bait
II said that I was not inter-
ested and he said there was nc
harm in it," Mr.. Manardi tes-
titled, adding that he could not
recognize the voice of the caller
Mr.. Wright suggested that
the offer was bait and Mr.
Manardi replied, Frankly, ]
do not know"
Also appearing yesterday was
Arthur P. Wilcox, former chair
man of the departments real
estate review board which SET
the final appraisal figures on
property for the Federal-State
highways. Mr.. Wilcox said the
five-man review board was de-
pendent like a jury" on figures
submitted to it by State and
private appraisers.
He added, 1--WE were led tc
believe that the people doing
the appraising were competent
people. You must bear in mino
that the appraisal work thrown
upon the Commonwealth was
simply tremendous. There were
not enough competent ap-
praisers."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-03-10
RALPH McGILL

In a new edition of the
memoirs of Francois Renee
de Chateaubriand, there is
early in the volume a memory
of his boyhood. Chateau
BRAND, whose life straddled
two continents and two CEN
turieS," was born in 1853 and
died in 1848.
When about nine years old
he was taken to a family
chateau for a brief holiday.
His father had revived some
Of the old feudal rights, in
Guiding a fair. In his latter
years the old man, writing
Gin 1910 of his childhood
happiness; said: Peasants in
clogs and breeches, men of a
France WHICH is now no more,
watched these games of a
France which was then no
more"
Chateaubriand, who saw
the American and French re-
volutions, the storming of the
Bastille, the Terror, and who
lived, and was honored, under
Bonaparte and in the reStora-
ton Of the monarchy that
followed, could write in 1914
that the France in which he
lived was the fourth he had
known in his remarkable life.
There is a new France to-
day. In between 1848, when
Chateaubriand died, and now,
the historians could say there
have been numerous periods
of which one might say,
This was a France which no
longer exists"
Before the Nobel prize win
her, Albert Camus, died in
the absurdity of an auto
mobile smashed against a
tree, he persisted in belief
that there was a new France
and that a settlement was
possible in Algeria. He was
himself an Algerian and he
wrote out of affection and
love for his native region. An
agreement was possible. 1t
could have been had years
before but for the intransi-
gence of the European set
tiers who angrily refused any
solution save their own.
Camus died in 1860. Most
observers doubt an armiStice
was then a possibility. The
bloody years of rebellion have
become the more CORY as a
France we all know moves
into the fringes of yet
another France. The secret
army Of resistance admittedly
employed increasing terror.
Its members used a fearful