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Evening star., 1962-02-20
THE PASSING SHOW
.OIney Fully Assured
OF Capital Culture
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Critic Of The Star

Yes it's true that Washington has cultural quarter to
compare with New Yorks Times Square with its hoeinthe-
wall coffeeand shops movie epoa pornography stands
dance halls, beatnik lounges etc.
Nor has it anything like FranciscoS Chinatown with
its contiguous srptease caehenic center Orleans
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11
FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Herbert Hoover proposes Council Of Free Nations"
That's the Republican Party for To up with their
first idea in decade they have to call in the
charter members.
Latest miracle drug is called the New Frontier pill One
dose puts the country Cloud Nne-where floats for four
years with visible of support
Polls show voters aren't happy about prospects of tax
cut They figure the least is relieve
them of the burden Of spending their own money.
Jacquelne and Caroline Kennedy swimming in Italy
For family of the Kennedys to have awful
hard time keeping their heads above water
The Senate okays Gen. Maxwell Taylor as chairman Of
the Joint Chiefs No chance of with Russia Taylor
will be too busy fighting the Air Force.
Russia spurns our compromise on banning A-teSS
Increasing contact with the outside world great help to
Russia Her negotators have learned to NO" in 81
languages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11
Soviet Charges
Hostile Acts Grow
In West Berlin

LONDON, Aug. IL (AP)-
The Soviet government has
sent notes to the three Western
Allies protesting "the intensi-
fication of provocative acts in
West Berlin against East
Germany, the Soviet Union
and other socialist states, I"
Tass reported today.
The Soviet note, the news
agency said, was sent to the
United States, France and
Britain and it said:
1.-THE West Berlin authori-
ties, in collision with the Fed
eral German Republic, have
recently been organizing new
serious provocations. Fascist
elements in West Berlin have
been trying in the last few days
to blow up the frontier con-
structions of the Germ a n
Democratic Republic.
Bomb explosions have led
in a number of cases to loss
of life. Leaflets directly ap-
pealing for sabotage activities
against the government of the
German Democratic Republic
and other socialist countries
are being dropped from West
Berlin"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11
3 Firms Robbed
Within 7 Hours

Three robberies, two of them
armed, occurred last night
within the space of two hours.
At 9:05 pm. three men held
up the Gallaudet Pharmacy, at
1000 Florida avenue NE. and
took between $500 and $500.
According to the manager,
James E. Brown, 60, the men
demanded the money in the
safe. When he told them there
was no safe, they rifted the
cash register and fled on foot.
At 9:35 pm. the Norman
Shields Tourist Home. at 459
Massachusetts, avenue NV,
was robbed and the manager,
Robert S. Murphy, beaten. He
said three men entered and one
asked for a room. The other
two then attacked him, knock
ing him to the ground.
They repeatedly took about
SIS from him and fled. Mr..
Murphy was treated for a
broken nose and a possible
broken jaw at Casualty Hospi-
tai.
At 1851 pm, a different type
of bandit robbed Highs Store,
at 100 Eleventh street Sc. This
one was polite and asked for
$50 from the clerk, Mrs. Dolores
johnson, while pointing a black
revolver at her.
Mrs. johnson gave him all
the money in the register and
he relied Thank you" and left.
She estimated the loss at a lit
tie more than $50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11
Unionist Likely to Be
Jamaica Ambassador

BY North American Newspaper Alliance
A 60-year-old labor union
official who never went beyond
grammar school is the admin
istration'S No. choice for
Ambassador to newly indie
pendent Jamaica.
He is william Doherty, pres
ident of the National Associa-
ton of Letter Carriers and a
vice president of the AFL-CIO
Executive Council. He is one
of the most effective labor
lobbyists on Capitol Hill.
If Mr.. Doherty gets the ap-
pointment-and it looks like a
virtual certainty-he will be
the first representative of the
labor movement ever to be
named an ambassador.
A native of Glendale, Ohio,
where he started work as a
commercial telegrapher after
graduation from Plessed Sacra-
m ent parochial grammar
school, Mr.. Doherty now lives
in the Bradley boulevard area
of Bethesda.
In 1882 he headed the Ohio
State Association of Letter
Carriers and three years later
was elected to the Executive
Board of the national associa-
ton. Later he was elected
president Of the national union
and in 1943 was named a vice
president of the AFL.
When the AFL and CLIO
merged in 1855 Mr.. Doherty
was elected a vice president of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11
Missile Tests
Get Hit, Miss
By the Associated Press

The United States fired two
ballistlc missiles yesterday
one a success, the other a fail
ure-on opposite sides of the
continent.
At Vandenberg Air Force
Base in California, foot-long
fragments of an advanced At
las F missile, Intentionally
blown up when it strayed off
course, spattered a wide Sec
ton Of the Santa Maria VAL
ley, northwest of Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, a Polaris Az
rocket was launched success
fully at Cape Canaveral, Fla,
in a test of components for the
advanced AS submarine model.
The Air Force said strong
winds blew particles Of the At
las over the mainland after the
intercontinental rocket was ex-
ploded IS miles off the coast.
No injuries or damage were
reported.
Officials asked residents not
to touch the pieces of debris,
possibly contaminated by acid.
Witnesses said the 82h-foot
missile - only Atlas model
stored in a silo before launch
ing-vanished in a bright ball
OF orange flame, followed by a
Earring roar heard for miles.
Goal of the giant missile
was a target area near Wake
Island 1000 miles down the
Pacific missile range.
The Polaris missile, said the
streaked to it's target l.
500 miles away after a ground
launching.
The Polaris carried guidance,
warhead and other componeuts
for use on the long
er-range A-3.
The AS Polaris is designed
for a 2,880-mile range. The Az,
is operational, can hit
targets up to 1,725 miles away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11
BROWN
ltoIy's Murios Wary of Algeria

arms and supplies TO Hanni-
bal when he was at the gates
of Rome and that the deci-
sion was thumbed down.
Hannibal fled and committed
suicide and the Carthaginian
leaders sent to Rome as proof
of their friendship not only
their best arms but also the
flower Of their youth. Car
thage was ripe for picking.
Today not a stone remains of
that great city.
In these times little men
like Mario fear that there
may be a Carthage in re-
verse. It is exaggerated, at
least some believe, that the
great monuments of Rome
will exist for all generations.
But every Italian feels in his
bones that their country is
in for some political up
heavals in the notebooks
tant future. AS the Fanfani
left government inches to-
ward the left, faint rum
blings are beginning to be
heard from the right. There
is a general feeling that al
though the unity Of Europe,
being pushed vigorously by
President de Gaulle and
Chancellor Adenauer, will
help stem the Communist
tide pushed by the Soviets,
it is also necessary that the
nations prepare for the day
lest the dream of unity dis
integrate. And, it is believed,
each country must remain
free Of Communist influence
II that great European COM
munity is to be strong.
What has brought about
this feeling is that all Eu-
rope is viewing with a criti-
cal eye the policies emanat-
ing from Washington. And
Washington is openly frown-
ing at the leaders such as
Salazar and Franco whose
ideas Of social progress do
not dovetail entirely with
those Of some of our influ-
entail policy makers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11
Leftist Trend of the New African Notion
Under Ben Bella Worries Common Folk

that Italy has more shores
than mountain borders and
across the Mediterranean lies
potential danger for Italy.
He knows that American
bases have been removed
from Morocco Il wonder IL
DOC" at Grubb's drugstore
on East Capitol street is
aware Of that; that Tunisia
is not q strong bulwark
Though Bourguiba would
like it to be. ] told him) and
that on Libya's borders there
is Egypt which has been
lettering toward the left
since SueZ.
Mario told me with a sober
face that communism can
spread across the water as
well as land. When I pointed
out that Italy already has a
legal Communist Party, he
gave an Italian shrug, spread
his palms upward and re-
piled: They wouldn't amount
to anything If Fanfani hadn't
brought us Aperture a ST.
nistra'." With the new left-of-
center government. he said,
the Communists have been
making all kinds of strikes;
including newspaper strikes
at least two days a week.
Mon buono," he said.
There is no doubt that a
victory for Ben Bella would
be another notch in the
Communist gun. The Medi-
terranean has been the scene
of too many battles over the
centuries not to keep the
Italians aware of what goes
on along its shores. The
Roman empire fought many
Of them and Carthage re-
mains in these parts an omi-
nous example of what ap-
peasement can mean. The
Italians know that the men
Of Carthage debated in their
councils whether to send
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11
Friend of Mao
Flees Red China

HONG KONG, Aug. II (AP),
"A one-time swimming COM
panion of Red China's Chair
man Mao Tze-tung swan
more than IL miles to reach
freedom in this British Colony,
the independent newspaper
kung Sheung reported today.
The newspaper carried a brief
announcement of the escape It
did not identify the swimmer
by name.
The report described the
swimmer as a top-rankine
Chinese Communist athlete who
took part in Red China's ma
tional athletic meetings and
swan with Mao Tze-tung
across the turbulent vi River
in Kwangsi in 1859.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11

ROME. - PoIl-taking is
tricky at best, but because
Mario, the young man tend
ing the newsstand where I
buy my morning paper, al
ways expresses his opinion
Of the days news before I
can read it, I am tempted to
believe he represents the
thinking Of his friends.
Recently he greeted me
with, "Oggi, va a sinistra !
Algeria" He pointed to the
headline announcing the
victory Of Marxist Ben Bella
over the moderate Ben
Khedda. There was concern
in the young mans face.
Non e buono." he added.
What it added up to for
me was that the little
people" in the countries who
have had an intimate &C
quaintance with revolutions,
wars and political strife fol-
low the worlds news far
more carefully than the aver
age American. Even the
youngsters Of Europe who
have only a vague recollec-
ton Of the last war seem
to inherit a sense of portent.
And the young people in
their mid-twenties and thir-
ties all too well remember
the terrors of war.
And so I chatted with
Mario for a few minutes
before returning to break
fast on our terrace. His
contention was that with
Ben Bella's takeover, Algeria
was now in the left column.
His mind isn't cluttered with
a close study Of world con-
ditions; he Just seems to
have a birds eye view of
things. On the theory that
"out Of the mouths Of
babes -. :" I wonder If
Mario's conclusions are not
correct.
What worried him was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11
English and American Mills Believed
Unable to Compete With Asio's

been so wholly committed to
the profit system that it
never got around to opening
a public library until a few
months ago. It was so hard
at work and had its nose so
deeply buried in the profit
and loss sheets that not un-
til this year did it build a
municipal center where art
exhibits and concerts may
be held. Yet, the literacy
rate is about 80 per cent.
Rare is the Chinese family
which isn't determined to
have every one Of its several
children get an education.
There Is one exception. The
families Of the boat people,
those who have always lived
on boats and seem deter
mined to continue, are diff
cult to interest in sending
their children to school.
Vocational schools are not
popular. The British try to
argue that a university de-
gree doesn't always guaran-
tee a job. but that skills
would. One Of the officials
who works at this said he
rather admired the Chinese
stubbornneSs. II have had
them tell me they would
rather be a laborer with a
degree than a skilled worker
without one. Those who have
any chance at college will do
anything and make any sac
rifice to get there"
There are rickshaw men
here as there are not in
Taipei, Taiwan. There is
something degrading about a
man putting himself between
shafts and pulling another
human being. In Taipei the
rickshawS have given way to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11
PoIIer Pleads Not Guilty
In Pension Fund Case

Lou Poller, a former Miami
bank president, pleaded not
guilty yesterday to perjury
charges growing out of a grand
jury investigation of a Team
sters Union pension fund.
Mr.. Poller, who formerly
lived in Washington, appeared
before District Court Judge
Charles F. Mclaughlin, who set
bond at $4,000 and scheduled
the trial for October 90.
The indictment of Mr.. Poller
on August revealed that the
Justice Department is investi-
eating the multi-million dollar
Central States, Southeast and
Southwest Areas Pension Fund.
Seven Perjury Charges
The indictment, which
charge seven instances of per-
jury, accused Mr.. Poller of
falsely denying knowledge of a
meeting in his Miami bank Of
flee with a pension fund trus-
tee.
Mr.. Poller also was accused
of falsely denying knowledge of
an agreement between the pen
sion fund trustee and a New
York businessman involving the
sale Of some property in st.
Louis.
The grand jury investiga-
ton, according to the indict-
ment, is concerned with pension
fund loans and whether such
loans have been properly
described in reports to the
Secretary of Labor.
Mr.. Poller, 81, has been quot
ed in Miami newspapers as
saying he borrowed also, 900
from the pension fund to gain
control of the Miami National
Bank.
Free on Bond
Mr.. Poller. who resigned as
president of the Miami bank
after he was indicted here,
declined today to comment on
the charges.
Earlier, he was reported by
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11

the Executive Council of the
joint labor group.
He is due to retire from his
union post next month.
Last week Mr.. Doherty visited
Jamaica with Vice President
johnson and the official United
States party which helped the
country celebrate its independ-
ence.
Father Of nine children, Mr..
Doherty is associate editor of
the Postal Record, the official
organ of letter carriers and
postal service workers through
out the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11
RALPH McGILL
Hong Kong: Trade and Textiles

pedicabs. In Hong Kong, the
rickshaw man is a declining
breed. The British, with a
typical attempt to protect in
dividual rights, decreed there
would be no more licenses
issued. Those that had them
could keep them. So one
sees mostly middle-aged and
older men trotting about the
streets with a passenger in
the cab of their rickshaws.
Americans, save for an oc-
casional tourist, won't take
them. Local residents say.
We'll, they are cheap and !
know that if I do ride in one,
the puller will have a bowl Of
rice"
The rickshaw is a symbol
Of the old, almoSt-dead
Asian past. The modern
Chinese is as Woodworking
as ever. But today he is, with
traditional ingenuity, turn
ing out cheap electronic and
transistor equipment in small
factories which look hope
lessly chaotic and impossible
of production.
Before the Second World
War, Hong Kong was all
trade. Today she is produc-
ing so many cheap textiles
that the British unions are
IN loud and anguished out
cry and Congressman in the
United States who represent
textile States are also COM
planning.
Out here one thing is
rather plain. The mills in
England and the United
States would do well to learn
they cannot really compete
with the mills of Asia, and,
for that matter. of Italy, in
producing tee-shirts, cheap
cotton shorts, and other such
soft goods. That, too. seems
a part of the many adjust
ments ahead Of us.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11

airline for transport back to
America.
The government said Soblen
would not be allowed to stay
in Israel if he returns, but
would be permitted to 60 to any
country which will have him.
Communist CzechoSlovakia has
offered him a visa.
Under law Britain cannot de-
port Soblen to the United
States by placing him aboard
a ship or another airliner on
its own initiative since the
British American extradition
treaty does not cover espionage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11
RALPH McGLLL

HONG KONG. - Coming
into Hong Kong, the big jets
swing in over the city, make
a turn out to sea, bank and
seem to skim the tops Of the
buildings before they settle
down on the one long air.
strip which juts out into the
bay. One somehow has the
sensation Of landing in a
park in the center of a huge
metropolis.
The approach is theatrical.
It is somewhat symbolic of
this city, which, paradoxical-
ly, from its beginning has
been dedicated to trade and
the faSt-turn-over of invest
ment, rather than to frivol-
ity, narcotics and interna-
tional espionage for which it
is known. It is a solid city of
banks and investment houses.
Its beautiful hill-surround-
ed harbor is rarely without
some IS to IS ships at anchor
or at the docks. Yet, it is a
center of illegal narcotic OPP
erations. Without question,
it has a high percentage of
espionage agents, petty and
major. 1t is over-crowded.
Thousands of its people work
for shockingly low wages.
Many are unemployed. Yet,
the crime rate is incredibly
low. It is, in point Of fact,
much safer at night than the
larger cities of the United
States or Europe. Even the
touts who seek to invite one
into bars where one may
dance with beautiful girls, or
who know lonely ladies of
much charm who wish COM
pany, are polite in the Ches-
terfieldian manner.
This Is a city which has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11
SOL Firm
Admits Cash
Supply Low

Maryland Financial Savings
and Loan Co. of Kensington
last May did not have cash in
the bank to cover withdrawal
requests but was operating
within the law. the firm stated
yesterday.
An admission that cash was
not sufficient to cover with
drawals was included in the
company's written reply to a
receiverShip petition filed in
Montgomery County Circuit
Court on July 30. At the same
time, the court froze company
assets.
Alger Y. Barbee, attorney for
Maryland Financial, asked yes
terday that the receivership
petition be dismissed and the
freeze lifted.
Filing the reply in Rockville
he denied State charges thai
the firm was in an impaired
and insolvent condition.
Mr.. Barbee said the COM
pany admits it had withdrawal
requests on file exceeding the
cash money in the bank and
AYERS that such was brought
about by unjust and adverse
publicity insofar as this associ-
alton was concerned"
In the receivership petition
filed by Assistant Attorney
General Joseph s. kaufman.
the State alleged that last May
81 Maryland Financial with
drawal requests on file totaled
at least $4,000 while cash on
hand and in the bank was
$5,742.
In the reply yesterday, the
firm also denied all allegations
concerning fictitious values of
property and valuations exceed
ing fair market values"
The State has charged that
Maryland Financial assets last
April were $95,348 while a
deficit totaled SITE, 651. A hear
ing on the receivership petition
is scheduled for 1870 pm.
Thursday in Montgomery Cir
cult Court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11
Gets Bipartisan Greeting

the Associated Press as say
ing he had been caught in
the middle" Of a "vendetta"
between Attorney General
Robert Kennedy and James
Hoffa.
Mr.. Poller, represented be-
fore Judge Mclaughlin by My
ron Ehrlich, was released after
bond was posted.
Mr.. Enrich said his client
had come here voluntarily to
enter his plea and planned to
return to Miami. The judge
gave Mr.. Enrich IS days to
file preliminary motions in the
case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11

He planned to get in some
work on a speech he will deliver
to the Nation Monday night in
which he will announce his de-
cision on whether to recon-
mend a tax cut this year.
Gets Bipartisan Greeting
1t was foggy and a light rain
was falling when the Presidents
big Air Force jet landed at the
Brunswick Naval Air Station
last night. but the President
got an enthusiastic welcome
nonetheless.
Maine politicians, Democrats
and Republicans alike, well
coined him to the Pine Tree
State. 1t is Mr.. Kennedy's first
visit to Maine since his election.
Air station officials estimated
the crowd at 1000. This was
smaller than had been expected
since it was the day of the
Naval Stations annual charity
fair. Bad weather cut the
crowd.
But the President was re-
ceived with cheers from the
crowd, a 21-gun salute, a Navy
band and a Marine guard Of
honor.
The welcome was nonparti-
san. Senator Muskie, Democrat
of Maine. who flew up from
Washington with the President,
commented that seven years
ago when he was Democratic
Governor of Maine, he well
coined former President Eisen-
hover to the State.
This time, Senator MuSkie
said, the honor fell to Gov.
John H. Reed, who is a Re-
publican.
Senator Margaret Chase
Smith. Republican Of Maine,
and a number of Maine State
legislators and political party
officials also joined in the
welcome.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11
Nobel Winner Named

President Kennedy yesterday
named DR.. Edward Mills Pur-
cell, a Nobel Prize-winning
physicist, as a member of his
Science Advisory Committee.
DR.. Purcell is professor of
physics at Harvard University.
He won the Nobel Prize in 1852.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-11
Reds Free japanese

TOKYO, Aug. II (AP).-
Twenty-Five japanese fisher
men detained for alleged vio-
lation of Russian territorial
waters off Hokkaido were re-
leased today by the Soviet
Union.