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Western Su1nod Pub.
Service Commissioner
In v. /. For Study

Ell Lua Manuvae, a member OF
the three man public service COM
mission recently Independent Wes-
tern Samoa, is visiting st. Thomas
and st. Croix for the next several
days to investigate local Agricul-
turaT Programs and means of ap-
plying Virgin Islands methods to
improving his homeland's econo-
mic development.
The visitor from the South
Pacific is touring the United
States and its Caribbean areas as
part Of the foreign leaders program
of the cultural exchange program
of the United States Department.
He is accompanied by Michael
Vale, who is working with the
State Department Division Of
Language Services.
Arriving in st. Thomas Monday
morning after inspecting Agricul-
tural and Economic development
programs in San Juan, Commission
er Manuvae was met by Alfred
Lockhart, Deputy Commissioner
of the Department Of Agriculture.
He will return to his home in
Apia, capital of Western Samoa,
on September Is following a two
week stopover in Hawaii.
Tuesday Commissioner Manuvae
will fly to st. Croix to spend two
days there on inspection tours and
working closely with DR.. Richard
Bond, Director of the Virgin
Islands Agricultural Program for
the United States Department Of
Agriculture.
The islands comprising Wee*
Samoa, a little more than LOO
square miles in area, lie about so
miles east of America Samoan
group.
Apia has about 10000 Of the
areas total population Of 10000
scattered through five islands.
Mountainous with peaks rang
ing up to 6.4OO feet, Western
Samoa depends primarily on
Agriculture. Such crops as Copra,
Cocoa, Bananas, Coffee and
Spices flourish in rich soil liberal
" spaked by the average rainfall
Of 112 inches.
Commissioner Manuvae visited
Government House Monday after
noon. A sturdy, outdoor type Of
SO, he was attired In a dark suit
coat and the comfortable, skirt
, 1962-08-14
Christiansted Democrats Tell President
Anduze 10 Preside Or Resign Post

Members Of the Democratic
Club Of Christiansted through its
Secretary, Calvin D. Burke, at its
regular monthly meeting held last
night at the Fort unanimously
went on record informing the Pre-
that they expect him to discharge
his duties as President Of the or
ganisation ,"or have the good grace
to resign"
The Secretary's letter trans
mitted to DIR. Auduze, on behalf OF
the membership, and preside out
that he had failed to carry out his
duties and preside over the meet
ings of the Club for more than
three months without any explana
ton.
President Auduze is given five
days from the receipt of hte letter
to state whether or not he intended
tives that failure to act within
The letter closed with the aiterna-
TO perform his duties as President.
five days will be taken by the
membership as an indication that
he has resigned.
Last nights meeting was re-
cessed until next Monday evening
when it will reconvene, The letter
to DR.. Anduze follows:
christiansted, St. Croix
August IA, 1862
DR.. Aubrey Anduze
President
Democratic Club of Christiansted
Christiansted, st. Croix
Dear Mr.. President:
BY the unanimous request OF
the members present at the regu-
lar monthly meeting of the Dem
ocratic Club of Christiansted on
Monday, August 10, 1862, ] have
been asked to convey the follow
ing message to you.
The Club respectfully requests
that, after your unclaimed abb
sence from the Club for more than
three months, you return to the
Club meetings and discharge your
duties as President of this organl-
cation, according to your oath OF
office, to lead and carry out the
wishes of the majority of the mem
beers In true Democratic fashion;
or have the good grace to resign.
We have all read in the Press
that you are DESTROYS Of retiring
from the political picture to give
more time to your personal affairs
and business. We agree that this
is your prerogative, but we must
insist that, should you feel unable
to gi7e the Club your loyal help
as promised us on your accept
ance of the Presidency, you resign.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-15
Matthias Backs
Drive for Trees.

Representative Matthias, Re-
publican Of Maryland, speaking
before the Kalorama Citizens
Association, last night voiced
support for the groups drive
to bring the Districts tree re.
placement program up to date
According to officials Of the
citizens group. the District IL
six years behind in its tree re-
placement program.
Tomorrow evening the as
ISOLATION will sponsor a meet
ing of representatives Of Wash
ington organizations to map 9
campaign to Save Washing
tons Trees" At this meeting
the garden editors of Washing
tons three daily newspaper!
will discuss the tree problem
The program is scheduled fol
8 pm. in the community room
Of the Washington Post.
In other action the associa-
ton Endorsed proposed legisla-
ton that would establish in the
District a council of civic lead
ers to supervise the preserva-
ton Of historic landmarks and
to encourage cultural develop
ment.
Last nights meeting was
held at the Women's City Club
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-15
Police Hunt Man
On Fire CHARGES

Police today are looking fol-
a man who used gasoline tt
turn a woman friend into 9
human torch on February Z
and then set a fire in her house
last night.
1t. Israel Tew of the 10th
precinct said the suspect is q
heavy-set 49-year-old coloreo
man, S feet 6 inches tall. He is
believed to be the man who
drenched 45-year old Elizabeth
OVERLY, of 3545 Sixth street
NV, with gasoline and ther
set fire to her with a match
on February 3.
The woman still is in critica,
condition in Providence Hos
pital with burns received ir
the attack at her home. Police
said her 12-year-old son rar
three blocks to the 10th pre-
cinct station house after the
attack to call for help.
Last night about 11::35, 1t
Tew said, fire broke out in the
unoccupied, two-story brick
house on Sixth street. The
blaze. limited to a chair in the
living room, was quickly ex-
tinguished. Police said the
locked house had been entered
with a key.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-15

generals wife as a defendant
charging that the contracts
provide for $4,000 in annual
payments to Gen. Olmsted'.
wife after his death.
The general, who served dur
ing World War II in the China
theater, called Mr.. Casey's
charges baseless.
He added that law firms for
the two companies which drew
up the retirement benefit con-
tracts have said the contracts
are legal and binding and that
full disclosure of their terms
was made to the boards of d.
rectors and stockholders in
volved.
Says Total Is 100000
Gen. Olmsted said the re-
tirement benefits total only
$685. annually, payable upon
his retirement in 1878, when
he will be 70.
The general said that the
board of directors of Financial
General had failed to re-
nominate Mr.. Casey as a direc-
tor. The board of the Inter-
national Bank took similar
action today, the general said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-15
HyuttsviIIe Man
jailed for Thefts

A man arrested as a men,
Der of a large safecracking
ring received a two to six year
prison term today in District
Court after pleading guilty to
three theft charges.
Sentenced by Judge Burnita
S. Matthews was George E.
Gillespie. rs, of the $500 block
of Chillum Heights drive,
Hyattsville, Md.
Gillespie, a $166-a-week
bricklayer. pleaded guilty to
stealing three safes and more
than $1,000 with other men in
February and March Of last
year.
Judge Matthews, noting that
Gillespie had been permitted
to plead guilty to only three Of
a number of charges, rejected
request for probation, which
she said she did not feel would
be appropriate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-15
z Bandits Rob
Store in ChiIIum

Two bandits, one of them
armed with a revolver. held up
a Highs store at 5908 Riggs
road in Chillum. Md, last night
and fled with $44.
Prince Georges County police
said the men walked into the
store about 1l:10 pm, pur-
chased a dozen doughnuts, and
then took the money from the
cash register. Two clerks, Rob-
ert w. Bongers of 1906 Hamilton
street, Hyattsville, and Mrs
Mildred E. Bowman, ia Elm
avenue, Takoma Park, were on
duty there at the time.
A lookout was broadcast for
two colored men, about 81 or
% years old, one of stocky build
and weighing about 220 pounds
and the other of slender build
weighing about 100 pounds.
The latter had a thin NOUS
tache, police said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-15

where she was known as Eliz-
abeth Dunbar.
She repeatedly used the
wrong name in yesterdays visit
to American and a suspicious
employe notified the investiga-
tors, who were then in the
building.
Mrs. Matthews was charged
with being in possession of an
$l8 Federal check she was not
authorized to have, detectives
said.
United States Commissioner
Sam Werlich today set bond
for Mrs. Matthews at SIS, COO
and continued a preliminary
hearing on the check charge
until March to permit her to
consult with an attorney.
Detectives said United States
postal inspectors are assisting
in the invetigation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-15
Woman Who Used Alias
Held on Check Choroe

A 27-year-old woman, al
ready under investigation, was
arrested yesterday after police
said she gave a different name
to a Southeast Washington
savings and loan teller.
The woman, identified as
Mrs. Shirley Matthews of the
1900 block of Fifth street NV.
is the mother of four children
Check Squad Detective Harry
Matthews and two Secret Serv-
ice agents were checking the
woman's account at the Amer
lean Savings and Loan Asso-
citation, Third and Pennsyl-
vania avenue Sc, where, they
said. she is listed under the
name Elizabeth j. Wilson. The
case has been under investiga-
ton for several weeks.
A few doors from the saving.
firm. police said. Mrs. Mat
thews had another account al
the National Capital Bank, 31t
Pennsylvania avenue Sc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-15
Gen. Richardson
Promotion Slated

President Kennedy today
nominated Maj. Gen. James
Lowell Richardson for the rank
Of lieutenant general.
Gen. Richardson. who has
been commanding general OF
the 25th Infantry Division, will
succeed 1t. Gen. Paul D. Har-
kins as deputy commander and
chief of staff of the Army in
the Pacific. Gen. Harkins. pro-
NOTED to four-Star rank, has
been named to head the Ameri-
can military mission in South
Wet Nam.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-15
Eugene Casey Attacks
Gen. OImsted Pension

A stakeholder of the Interna-
tlonal Bank of Washington and
the Financial General Corp.
has asked the District Court to
order cancellation of retirement
benefits to the companies pres
tdent and board chairman.
In two suits filed with the
court yesterday, Eugene B.
Casey, a Montgomery County
landowner and time aide
to Presidents Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman,
charged that an alleged $780,
600 annual benefit due Mai.
Gen. George Olmsted CUSAR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-15
Study Of Plant Life
Extended by Grunt

u CHICAGO (AP).-A scien-
tific study Of the plant life OF
Guatemala, started in 1941 by
Paul c. STANDBY. former cura-
tor Of the Chicago Natural His
tory Museums herbarium de-
partment, will continue under a
new research grant.
Mr.. Standby retired and the
work is continuing under DR.
Louis A. Williams who has re-
ceived a new award of $29,-
s. from the National Science
Foundation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-15

retired) is a waste of corporate
assets for the personal gain and
benefit" of Gen. Olmsted.
Wife Also a Defendant
The suits complain that ap-
proval of the retirement con-
tracts was obtained from cap
tive" boards of directors with
out full disclosure to these
boards and stockholders that
the general had been receiving
compensation of more than
100000 per year from affili-
ated and subsidiary companies.
The two suits also named the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-15
Coast Guard Group
To Present Medal

James A. Reed, Assistant Sec
rotary of the Treasury, will
present the Treasury's silver
lifesaving medal to 1t. Comdr
Alfred P. Tanner of Oxford
Ohio, at 8 o'clock tonight at the
annual Coast Guard Reserve
Officers Association dinner at
the Naval Weapons Plant.
Comdr. Tanner is credited
with saving a drowning man
last April in the Ohio River.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-02-15
Curator to Speak

The Washington branch of
the English-Speaking Union
will meet at 8:l5 pm. tomor-
row in Room 43 of the Natural
History Museum. Miss Gym
thia Adams, assistant curator
Of musical instruments Of the
Smithsonian Institution, will
speak.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
BALTIMORE
LIVESTOCK

BALTIMORE, June 2 CAP) USDA).-
Cattle: Receipts 1875 compared TO lSI2
last week and Is4s last year. Supply
about IS per cent slaughter steers and
balance mostly cows. General trade &C
tive and market fully steady with in
stances strong to IS cents higher on
slaughter steers and heifers early Mon
day; cows closed strong.
Slaughter steers and heifers: Small lot
choice and prime 1880 lb steers 200,
bulk choice slo-l2Oo lbs 2S.5o-2625, few
ShSs,os Gp S ana csoise 5 5o az s0S 90
Load and few lots choice 77o-825 ID
heifers $500, 2 lots mixed good and
choice 1924 lbs 24.50-2500, load and
few lots good 6o4-el2 lbs 22.50-24.00, I lot
standard $50 lbs 2l.25.
Cows and bulls: Utility and few com;
cutter l4.50-l6.5o, utility and commercial
bulls 2o.00-2l 90, individual utility n $50.
Feeders: One lot choice and fancy
800 ID feeder steers 1900, few lots good
and choice $4,000 ID 24.oo-2eoo, ! LOT
low good $50 lbs 23.s5, few lots medium
to mostly u SOoS 3; $1,000 ,n lbs S 2soOg "a N
feeder heifer calves 22.oo.
Veal and calf auction: Vealers ad'
vanced fully 10000 during the week;
slaughter calves virtually absent; choice
lso-22s ID veal 32.oo-34.oo. couple head
prime S4.UO-N.VOS goOu lAV-Zoo 10 INV
So 100, standard 26.00-29 90, few head cul
and utility $500 lbs l9.50-26.o.
Hogs: Receipts 2875 compared to ga.
last week and 2464 last year. Compared
to last Thursday barrows and gifts &C
tive, fully steady to rs cents higher; MOI
enough sows on offer to establish trend
Fully 90 per cent of weeks supply
held on dealer consignment. US No J..
lS5-22o ID barrows and gifts lI.25-H.50
during the week, mixed No l-3 2l0-24.
lbs l6.25-l7.oo, No 20 25o-265 lbs ISIS
1900, few No 285-330 lbs 14.50-l5.25
Few mixed No l-3 33o-S5o lib sows Ills
14.25.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
TREASURY BONDS

NEW YORK (AP)-Over the Counter
us. Government Treasury bonds, weekly
high, low and closing asked prices, the
net change from the previous weeks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
BUSINESS
BRIEFS

BituminOus Production in
the week ended June 2 totaled
100000 tons compared with
8,250,000 in the previous week
and 1896, 900 in the like week
a year ago.-National Coal As
ISOLATION.
Crude Petroleum Stocks, do
nestle and foreign, on June 2
totaled 253,S10,O00 barrels,
down 3,157,00 for the week.
Bureau Of Mines.
Braniff IntI. Always an
nounced it will inaugurate Jet
flights between Houston and
Denver via Dallas and between
Dallas and Chicago via Kansas
City on July /.
Radio Corp. Of America plans
transatlantic cable transmits
sion of commercial data at
/ 500 words a minute, begin
ming next month.
Elgin National Watch Co.
announced plans to change It's
incorporation from Illinois to
Delaware. Stockholders vote on
June 26 on this proposal and
an increase in the number Of
authorized shares.
Va.-Car. Chemical Corp. an
nounced plans for the forma-
ton Of a new fertilizer COM
pany at Bad Axe. Mich.
Sinclair PetrOchemicals, Inc,
has contracted to purchase Ger
tain properties and assets OF
Texas Butadine & Chemical
Corp.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
PEOPLE
IN
BUSINESS

William HI. Meckling has
been named head of the eco
Monies division, Operations
Evaluation Group in Arlington,
specialists in antisubmarine,
air and amphibious combat
analysis.
Robert L. Waters is the lew
president Of the Insurance
Managers Association Of D. C..
Robert L. Lauriault is vice
president; Kenneth r. Under
wood, secretary-treasurer, and
directors are Arthur M. KeIting,
John G. Orear, Edmund M.
Neary and william j. Nell
Vaine.
M. S. McCIain has joined
Armour & Co. as Maryland
zone manager for Grocery
Products Division, Riverdale.
Albert /. Drucker has been
appointed branch manager for
ACQUISITION of Washington.
Henry L. KrOnstadt has been
named public relations advisor
to the National Cultural Cen
ter here.
Joe L. Browning is new tech
nical director at the United
States Naval Propellant plant,
Indian Head, Md.
Bertram L. Boone has been
appointed marketing repre-
sentative here for Telecomput-
ing Corp.
Eugene e. Leach of Wheaton
High School has received the
National Merit Scholarship
award from the Reuben H.
Donnelley Corp. The four-year
scholarship will enable him to
study journalism at Harvard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
Auto Output
Gains, Steel
Slides Again
BY JACK LEFLER
Associated Press Ruxinesu Write,


NEW YORK, June 9.-Presi-
dent Kennedy promised this
week to recommend an income
tax cut, and pressed Congress
for action to keep the economy
from faltering.
The automobile industry
zoomed along at the head Of
the industrial parade. In May
it sold 656,837 United States
made passenger cars, the high
est since September Of record
1855.
On the other hand, steel pro-
duction fell last week for the
ninth straight week. Output
of 100000 tons was 3.6 per
cent below the previous week.
A Commerce Department
survey indicated that manu-
facturers expect continued sales
increases through September
but are not looking for a boom.
They anticipate the current
ard third quarters each will
show gains of 50 billion.
Another Government study
showed that businessmen plan
to spend 1912 billion this year
to expand and modernize plants
and equipment. The amount
was unchanged from one an
nounced three months ago. The
1861 expenditure was $34.4
billion.
The railroads and IL unions
representing 100000 non-oper-
ating workers agreed to recon-
mendations of a presidential
fact-finding board which pro-
vides a wage increase of 1923
cents an hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
CHICAGO GRAIN

CHICAGO, June . CAP).-A few scat
tered flurries of buying failed to pull
the grain futures market out OF its
bearish trend this week and prices con-
tinued their general downward trend on
the Board of Trade.
Corn, under stiffest pressure, slipped
almost four cents a bushel on the July
delivery and about three cents on others.
Except for a relatively meager demand
by export and other commercial in
terests, buyers were virtually non-exiaent
in that pit.
The pressure was almost entirely
liquidation which took the open interest
down sharply on most days. On Thurs
day, 1t dwindled more than 8 million
bushels In July corn alene and for the
week spectators pulled out more than
10 million. II reduced the total for shat
contract and for the five deliveries to
the smallest figure in several months.
However, dealers said there probably
still was a good deal more pressure to
come
Wheat closed MN cents a busheI
lower than a week ago, July S7.llJs-M
corn 2Ha-3zs lower, July $l.l03s-b; oats
9t-lh lower, July 6sss-zs; rye 3 cents
higher to " lower, July Sl.3la-32; soy.
beans N7-29s lower July $2.45lS-45.
Range Of prices for the week:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
CAPITAL SECURITIES

MISUNDERSTANDING STOCK EXCHANGE
Transactions for the Week Ended Friday, June
Compiled by Exchange Offcialsl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
COMMODITIES

NEW YORK. June ? CAP).-The As
ISOLATED Press index of IS key commod.
tiles prices this week made its first
advance in three weeks.
The index edged up to I6o.3I from
l6o.2s last week. II stood at 1898 a
year ago.
Textiles reached a new 1859 high. Food
and livestock also advanced.
Industrials and nOnferrous metals
dropped to new lows. Grains and cot
ton also declined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10

"A COMPLETE SEARCH
AND PLACEMENT PRO-
GRAM FOR QUALIFIED
EXECUTIVES"
More thon 400 of the no.
tons most respected firms
ore now seeking executives
for positions in the $4,000
to $4,000 range through
MESSING. Executive personnel
DESTROYS of obtaining O new
position for personal and pro-
fessionol growth will be in
terested in our Executive
Search Proorom. Our stoff of
81 persons offers you conf
dentiol service, and on estob-
lished record of outstanding
success.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
Larger U. S. Sum Urged

Legislation to make the Fed
eral payment to the District
government automatic, and
somewhat above the present
amount, received strong in
dorsement Of the bankers.
The proposal has been intro
duced by Senator Bible, Demo-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-10
Capitol Bankers DepIore
Bureaucratic Red Tape
Delaying Big Projects
By DONALD HADLEY
Star Financial Editor

HOT SPRINGS Va. June 9.-Bureaucratc delay, dissen-
sion and ndecsion becoming increasingly
to important Washington developments the District Bankers
Association charged today.
In resolution adopted close of its annual
convention The Homestead here the Association urged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-03
TONIGHT SHOW
BOON TO GRIFFIN
BY BERNIE HARRISON
CUNT on one thing
for sure this TV
summer - MerV

summer - Merv
Griffin will be back on the
Tonight" show.
The likeable young TV en-
tertainer's two-week stint on
the show last month follow
ing the shows Hollywood
debacle, opened MICS eyes
to his potential. 1t also "shook
me up a Bit" he observes.
Until then, he had been
happy with his daytime TV
chores and an occasional for
ay into the nighttime circuit.
Now he admits, candidly,
he'd relish such an assign
ment on a permanent basis.
NBC didn't take long to
make up its mind. When the
mail began to pour in that
first week in record numbers,
it Immediately began negotia-
tions with Griffin's agent.
He was set for only one
more week at that time July
3O). There'll be many more.
He knows what such a
chore might do to his life,
but he's young (late 3O's) and
willing to chance it. when
l took over Tonight" he
said, my wife shook hands
with me and said goodby."
He meant what he said
when he told guest Henry
Morgan that he'd rather do
a show geared to entertain
ment than one of opinion and
controversy. He understands,
too, that he might find him
self doing this-in months to
come-aS Jack Paar did.
Evening star., 1962-09-12

itwo-party system in the Dis
trict.
Meanwhile. the Democrats
were ignoring precinct pressure
for the moment to open .
Dollars for Democrats" drive
to aid congressional candidates
Representative Dlngell, Dem
ocrat from Michigan. speaking
at the organizational meeting
at the District Building, said
he rated the 87th Congress as
the most productive since the
73d Congress under Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
The IT. day fund raising
drive will begin Friday and in
clude door-to-door solicitation
of funds. Eight booths will be
set up on downtown street cor
ners for the same purpose.
Two-thirds o fthe funds will
go to the local Democratic
Central Committee-one-third
for Congressman who have
backed home rule, and another
third to the precinct organiza-
tions. The rest will be used
by the Democratic National
Committee.
Evening star., 1962-09-12

1885 Wisconsin avenue NV,
the lifeguard on duty, pulled
Dorothea from the bottom Of
the pool. He was presented a
Red Cross Certificate of Rec
ognition for extraordinary per-
sonal action"
There were no drowningS at
pools operated by the Recrea-
ton Department during the
summer.
The board voted to invite the
National Recreation Association
and the American Recreation
Society to have the 1866 Re-
creation Congress in this city
in commemoration Of the as
sociation's 60th anniversary.
The board postponed election
of officers until its next meet
ing.