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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20
FueIing Mishop
Delays Effort
To Hit Moon

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla,
Jan. 20 (AP).-A fueling mis-
hap with the Atlas booster
rocket has resulted in at least
a four-day delay of an attempt
to launch the Ranger III space
craft to the moon.
When the problem developed
during a checkout of the Atlas
yesterday, project officials at
first felt the launching would
have to be postponed at least
a month.
But a revaluation last night
showed there was a possibility
the difficulty could be corrected
in time for a Friday firing. But
officials said chances were slim,
The shot had been scheduled
Monday.
Friday is the last day of a
five-day period when the moon
is in a favorable position for
the firing. The next such pc
riod starts about February 20,
There is a possibility, officials
said, that next weeks period
might be stretched one day,
through Saturday.
Ranger III is intended to take
closeup television pictures as it
nears the moon, then detach an
instrument package which is to
land on the surface and radio
back information on moon
quakes and meteor hits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20
Court Denies
Lower Bond
For Morgan

The United States Court OF
Appeals has refused to set bond
for Daniel Morgan pending out
come of his appeal from a
District Court conviction for
imperSonating a lawyer.
Morgan, a 50-year-old former
convict, was sentenced IN No
vember to serve 3 to 10 years in
prison. He was convicted by a
jury on all counts of a account
indictment.
The bogus lawyer asked the
Court of Appeals to set his
appeal bond at 81 900. Earlier
District Court had set bond at
$4,000, which Morgan was un-
able to put up and termed
excessive"
Assistant United States At
torney John r. Schmertz, in
papers filed with the Appeal
Court, opposed the $1,000 re-
quest. The prosecutor said there
was a strong probability that
Morgan would flee the juriSdic-
ton if his request were granted
The Court of Appeals, in g
brief order handed down yes
terday, said that Morgan lis
not eligible for release on bono
pending appeal" Morgan is
presently in jail.
Morgan, who represented
himself much of the time dur
ing his lengthy trial here, has
filed a statement with the APP
pea Court declining to start
serving is prison term prior tc
a hearing on his appeal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20
FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

One thing about President Kennedys Federal budget
Nobody around Palm Beach Hyannisport Snub him
for trying to go second class
New York electricians win five-hour day The next
thing will be strike because there isn't enough time
job for coffee break.
The Church Of England reinStates the Devil in its ter
mnoogy Another victory for the farm lobby These days
you just can't offend anybody with pchfork
They're calling the Dominican Republic the Domino Re-
public. Every other day another government topples
Initiation note: The only thing left this country that
you get for nickel is five cents.
First New Frontiersman: II think I'm hero just
signed from my club End New Frontersman Dscrimina-
ton? 1st Yeah They posted for of dues
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20
THE LANGUAGE
IS ALTERED, BUT
GRADES THE SANE

STANFORD, Calf. (AP).
Stamford University has
decided to say nicer things
about some grades in an
effort to lessen tension be-
tween $3.50 students and
their parents.
A &C" is to become sat
isfactory" instead of fair"
while a ID" will be known
as minimum credit"
rather than "b arely
passed"
Failure (by parents) to
recognize the changing de-
mands on our students &C
counts for a large part Of
parental dissatisfaction
with their offsprings' per-
formanceS," a university
committee said yesterday.
The descriptions for "A"
and "B" grades remain I'M
changed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20
Political Dark CIoudinItoIion Skies

Minister Fanfani, who has
been in office 10 months,
has decided to attempt the
formation of a ft-of-center
government in collaboration
with the liberals" and with
the assistance of the Social
lists headed by Pietro Nenni,
who are very close to the
Communists led by Palmiro
Togliatti.
All observers, whatever
their opinion may be worth,
believe that the new cleo
tionS, if MI. Fanfani's ideas
of a left-of-center coalition
prevail, will result in
strengthening the Communist
Party. This reporter does
not intend to go into the
complexities of Italian poll
tics which Italian experts
themselves fail to understand.
But what is obvious is that
nobody except some politicians
wanted the crisis which may
affect the remarkable prog
ress of the country.
Fanfani's decision to move
from center to the left was
finally taken, according to
some of his fellow cabinet
members, after his visit to
Washington where he had
interesting" talks with some
of our more ardent From
tiersmen. He also was influ-
enced, according to some
sources, by his long friendly
talks with Nikita Khrushchev.
Whatever the real cause of
Mr.. Fanfani's contemplated
change, there is no doubt
that if his plans succeed there
may be a serious change
which could affect Italy's for
eign policy, especially if Sig
nor Nenni plays an impor-
tant role. He already has
stated publicly that while IA
voring the NATO, he be-
lieves Italy must adopt a neu-
tralist policy. How he is 60
ing to reconcile loyal" mem
bership in the NATO with
neutralism is a riddle which
is unexplained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20

ROME.-Italy faces a po-
litical crisis which could
throw 1t into a turmoil last
ing from two to six months.
The interesting feature of
the Forthcoming crisis is that
nobody knows why Prime
Minister Fanfani insists on
having it. The country GER
tainly does not want it. Italy
is doing better than at any
time in the last 100 years.
There is a steady boom: I'M
employment, heretofore one
of the country''s chronic all
ments, is practically nom
existent.
The labor surplus has been
for the last five years alb
sorbed by Germany, Switzer-
land and France to the tune
of some 100000 Italians a
year because of their own la
Dor shortage. Now, the unem-
ployed from the south, a still
depressed area, find ready
employment in the unprece-
dentedly booming northern
Italy. The Germans and
Swiss, facing the loss of Ital-
ian labor, are trying to de-
wise schemes of attracting
Americas unemployed.
The standard of living in
this country has had a great
er boost than anywhere else
in Europe. The Fiat automo-
bile factory figures that its
entire production for the next
four years is already sold out.
And only 80 per cent of the
production is earmarked for
export. The rest is being sold
within the country. This is an
adequate yardStick to judge
the rising standard of living
these days.
Government and private
housing projects are con-
structing modern apartments
and houses for workers who
no longer are satisfied with
the old-fashioned housing of
the past and want bathrooms
and refrigeratorS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20
MESSAGE TO WHITE HOUSE
Rights Group Feels
1t Isn't Registering

possibly including running
against George Romney, new
est G. o. P. hope, said he
was convinced the President has
made his position known and
made it clear where he stands
Mr.. Goodell who last Wednes-
day asked a former Governor of
Michigan, G. Mennen Williams
now in charge of Africa for
the State Department, to speak
to the President about the COM
mittee bill, agreed that Gov
Swanson should add his voice
Chairman Roosevelt Their
sought to bring matters into
perspective. He suggested they
stop fretting about the Presi.
dent for a moment.
1T would be nice if we coulc
do this as an expression Of
the will of the Congress-" he
proposed.
Mr.. GOOdeII's View
But Mr.. Goodell was quick
to point out it was folly tt
think of Congress going it alone
on civil rights legislation, par
ticularly in the Senate. Mr.
Goodell, who is being harder
on the President at the mo-
ment than Ev and Charlie ano
Committee combined, said Mr.
the Republication Nationa,
Kennedy was keeping quiet or
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20
INTERPRETIVE REPORT

will have that much less food
to eat this winter.
China has been suffering
from a severe wheat shortage
the last three years, and has
been forced to import large
quantities of foodstuff from the
West to keep its population at
a subsistence level.
Praised by Chou
At the time of the signing,
Premier Chou En-lai praised
the Albanian leadership and
said it followed the correct
line. "Mr. Khrushchev has called
the Albanians "dogmatiSts" and
unfit to follow the feminist
path"
The correct line" meant by
Chou is the Chinese one that
seeks to decentralize Moscow's
control within the international
movement. 1t also is more ag-
gressive toward the West, feel
ing that Mr.. Khrushchev's
peaceful coexistence" theory is
naive.
The EXPERTS here believe that
by assuming Albania'S eco
nomic support. the Red
Chinese are trying to show
other Communist countries that
they do not have to rely on
Moscow for support.
In recent months, the Chinese
have made gains in other Asian
parties, formerly controlled by
Moscow. The Albanian party,
however, is the only non-Asian
group to align itself with Pc
king.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20

Sl25 mllllOn 1Or InlS pellOu
and Sino-Soviet experts here
expect the figure to rise.
The experts say the $125 mil
lion, only a small bite out OF
the Chinese budget, may mean
the difference between life and
death for the HoXha regime
which now is completely cut off
from the Soviet bloc.
All Aid Stopped
During the last year, the
Soviet Union stopped its aid
program to Tirana completely
And at the Communist Party
Congress, Premier KhurshcheV
made it clear there would be
no further support until the
Hoxha regime was replaced
The Albanian boss has been q
strong supporter of Red China
in it's theological dispute with
the Kremlin.
The five-point agreement
signed by the Albanians and
Chinese provides for economic
scientific, and technical CO.
operation between the two
countries. No sum was men,
toned, but the communipue
said the agreement was reached
after friendly and sincere
talks"
Experts here see the pact as
a further indication that the
Soviet-Chinese split is con-
tinuing to expand.
They say that China APP
parently is willing to further
ALLEVIATE Moscow in return fol-
tiny Albania's political sup
port within the Communist
movement. 1t also means thai
the hard-hit Chinese peasant
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20
Smothers Expects
Congress to Cut
Transport Taxes

Senator Smathers, Democrat
of Florida, is confident Con-
greSs will accept President
Kennedy's recommendation to
repeal the 10 per cent tax on
bus, rail and water travel and
to cut the rate to 5 per cent on
airplane tickets.
The Florida Senator is chair
man of the Surface Transpor-
tation subcommittee and also
is on the Finance committee
which will handle the tax bill.
He said yesterday he was
pleased by the Presidents rec
concentration because it would
benenfit both the travelling
public and "the hard-pressed
passenger transportation in
dustry."
For several years Senator
Smathers has advocated repea,
of the transportation taxes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20
CONSTANTINE BROWN
FonfonTs Plan for a Left-of- Center
Coalition Reqime Called Mystifyinq

For the first time in it's his
tory, the Italian treasury
boasts of a $3.5-billion I'M
committed gold reserve. The
Italian currency is as stable
as the Swiss and French
franc and the German mark.
1t is less subject to fluctua-
ton than the pound sterling
and even the dollar.
These blessings, which at
the outset of the boom five
years ago fell only on the big
fellows, have spread to al
most every Giovanni and
Lena in the country. Italy is
living in a modern golden
age; some graft at the upper
levels; Snarled traffic in even
the smallest cities, and a con-
tinually rising cost of living
because there is an unprece-
dented demand for conSum-
ers' goods. Our time-honored
inStallment plan has not
made its appearance here yet.
Almost everything is being
paid for in cash.
Yet, despite this bonanza,
there is a major political
crisis in the offing which for
the time being is being ig-
nored by the average citizen
but could have serious effect
on him if it drags on.
The Italians take their
newly regained democracy Sc
riously. Since the fall of fas-
ciSm there are in Italy more
than a dozen parties and par
ties within parties. The many
cabinet changeS-which have
We'd with those in pre-De
Gaulle France-have brought
into office a large number of
new faces. But they all fol-
lowed the pattern set by de
Gasperi, the founder of the
Christian Democratic Party,
with cabinets changing but
not fundamental policies.
The country progressed de-
spite its politicians.
This may change. Prime
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20

civil rights so he could gel
Southern votes on other bill
nearer his heart.
Chairman Roosevelt, feeling
things had gone far enough
said he had been in touch with
the proper member of the White
House staff and that he wa.
getting Cooperation and CO.
ordination"
Out in the corridor later, Gov
Swanson indicated he coulc
not carry the committee mes
sage to the Chief Executive.
II have a very full schedule, ;
he said. 1.-THE President has ex-
pressed his deep concern"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20
Smallpox Won't Spread
ToU. S., Officials Say

without a single case identified
and confirmed in this country
said DR.. Langmuir, head of the
archaeological branch of the
Communicable Disease Center
in Atlanta, Ga.
Danger Discounted
He said his agency realizes
there is a possibility one case
could enter the country but
added he is confident there
will be no outbreak.
Meanwhile, a different kind
of outbreak was reported by the
Health SerVice-influenza.
Atlanta's Communicable Dis
ease Center announced the out
breaks extended from Florida
and Georgia to the West Coast
but gave no figures on the
number of cases.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20
Salt Tears at Flood Tide att. S.U.

The offer from the Army
was deeply resented. The di-
rectors and the alumni re-
minded Maj. Sherman of his
contract and of his obliga-
ton and promise to remain.
They asked him if he had
not, indeed, been happy. He
said that he had. But, he
added, the offer from the
Army was challenge.
The alumni committee,
concealing their irritation
with any man who would
wish to quit Louisiana, man
aged a counter offer. They
presented Maj. Sherman with
a blank commission from the
States Confederate COM
mand. He could, they said,
fill in the rank himself.
The young idol said he
couldn't turn down the chal-
lenge presented by the Army.
He owed it to himself, he
said, to take it.
Then, as now, the rage of
Baton Rouge citizens knew
no bounds. The river showed
a definite rise, but the pop
ulation at the time was
small. And, after all, Mai.
Sherman was merely the SUI
perintendent, not the foot
ball coach.
To this day, neither Ba-
ton Rouge nor the state of
Louisiana has forgiven Mai.
Sherman for reSigning to &C
cept the Army challenge. If
this feeling toward Superin-
tendent Sherman set any
precedent, it will be impos-
sible for Mr.. Dietzel to re-
turn, even on a visit. Mr..
Sherman has been dead since
February IA, 1891, and the
people of Louisiana still grow
angry when they recall his
resignation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer

Feelings of futility and rejec-
ton frequently overcome the
members of the special House
Education and Labor Subcom-
mittee as they struggle to bring
forth a civil rights bill guar
anteeing equal employment OPP
portunitieS.
President Kennedy, they feel,
is not with them.
They have sent messages
down to him by a couple of
witnesses, but they don't feel
they are getting through.
In a week of hearings, they
have heard various individuals
and organizations attest to dis
elimination. But the people who
could do something about it
the Chamber of Commerce, the
National Association of Manu-
facturers and the National
Management Association - all
said they were too busy to come
Committee attendance has been
Spotty, too.
Silence From White House
What the faithful few brood
about when they meet however
is the silence from the White
House. The President, they hap
pen to know, has sent up a
a whole sheaf of bills and en-
issaries to watch over them.
Theirs is not included.
HE hasn't even sent enybody
up here with draft" mourned
Representative Goodell, Repub-
lican of New York.
Mr.. Goodell never misses an
occasion to remind Subcommit-
tee Chairman Roosevelt of CAL
ifornia that while the Federal
equal opportunities bill has BIZ
partisan support, it has no lead
ership.
Il hope before we are
through to smoke him out" he
said.
Chairman Roosevelt tries not
to associate himself specifically
with such sentiments although
they appear to be his own.
Asks Governor TO Help
But yesterday he took the
unusual step of asking a wit
ness to put in a good word
for the bill with the President
if he got the chance.
He told Gov. John B. Swain
son of Michigan, a State which
leads in civil rights legislation,
that there was "a body of
opinion which says the prob
lem can be handled at the
executive rather than the legis-
lative level"
THE body seems to be in
the White House." said Mr..
Goodell quickly.
Gov. Swanson said he
thought the problem could best
be handled by legislation.
II hope you will make your
philosophy known at 1900
Pennsylvania" Mr.. Roosevelt
said.
Gov. Swanson, who has
pressing problems of his own,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20
Best Man. Star
Gets Divorce

JUAREz, Mexico, Jan. 20
(AP).-The 15-year marriage
of Frank Lovejoy has ended in
divorce.
The actor was granted a
Mexican divorce in the Juarez
Third Civil Court yesterday.
His petition charged incom-
patibility of character.
Mr.. Lovejoy, 38, and his wife,
Veronica, were married May 81.
1947, in Maybrook, N. Y, and
separated a year ago. They
have no children.
After the court proceedings,
the actor, whose real name is
Franklin M. Doolittle, returned
to Washington, where he is ap-
pearing in The Best Man" p
the National Theatre.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20
Louisionons Grind Teeth Flat in Grief
That Coach DietzeI Is Leuvinq for Army

of grief which caused Old
Man River to attain flood
stage. Reports from barge
captains were that within
three days the river was COW
cred with corpseS of fresh
water fish, unable to exist
in a river made salty by
alumni weeping. ct is not
true, as reported in the first
dispatches, that Huey Longs
statue had tears on its
cheeks. Stories that graves
were opened by earthquake
and that the sheeted dead
were seen in the streets were
not confirmedD
The Civil War was, of
course, involved. A sports
writer, peering through his
tears at his typewriter, tapped
out the consoling news that
Baton Rouge had survived
Federal occupation during the
Civil War and should be fiber
tough enough to live down
Mr. Dietzel's departure.
1t was perhaps the well
known local political climate
which prevented the writer's
from saying that not since
the resignation of the gla-
morouS and popular Maj.
William Tecumseh Sherman
from Baton Rouge had the
city seen so much sorrow.
Superintendent Sherman had
made a huge success of the
military college which later
became LSU. IT. 1861 he,
too, had an Army offer. The
redheaded young Sherman
was immensely we'll liked and
was a lion at all social func-
tions. In addition, he had
put the college on a winning
footing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20
2,274,250 Using Mails
To Study at Home

relatively new as compared
with it's acceptance abroad.
The pioneering International
Correspondence Schools, Scran-
ton, Pa, were founded in 1890.
Correspondence schools are
widely used in the Soviet
Union to augment the educa-
tional program, DR.. Hunt said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20

An estimated 2,274,250 do
it-yourself" students in the
United States are enrolled in
correspondence courses rang
ing from etiquette to cleo
tronicS.
The estimate is that of the
National Home Study Council,
whose accrediting commission
concluded a tWo-day meeting
yesterday at 1000 K street NV
The commission, whose men,
bers are the accrediting Off
GERS for the unseen alma matters
of more than a million STU
dents, was examining qualifi-
cations of schools either under
going five-year denomination
or newly applying for accredi-
tation.
Set Up in 1855
Some SIS schools are accred-
tied by the commission, which
was established in 1855 anc
approved by the United States
Office of Education in 1859 al
a nationally recognized accred-
iting agency. The council esti.
mates that more than so pei
cent of all private home study
students are enrolled in these
schools.
DR.. Herold C. Hunt, Eliot
professor of education at Har-
ward University and vice chair
man of the commission, saio
there were fewer than &C
schools on the accredited list
seven years ago.
les Pioneer in 1890
He said the home study
movement in this country is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20
RALPH McGILL

For a time it appeared that
even the mighty Mississippi,
the Father of Waters, might
not be able to carry away
all the tears caused by the
resignation of football Coach
Paul Dietzel, who quit Louis
lana State University to go to
West Point.
For about a week the river
was at flood stage. ConvictS
repeatedly labored t hroug h
the night to bolster and build
higher the bikes SO that the
lands about Baton Rouge
would not be inundated and
New Orleans endangered.
The flood threat was very
real for the reason that tears
of both rage and grief were
shed by the bucketful. Us
ually when a coach departs
there are only a few tears
of regret, barely enough to
lay the dust. But in the case
of the handsome and sue
cesSful Mr.. Dietzel, the tear
full rage of many citizens
was even more intense than
the grief of others. They
could not conceive that any
one would wish to cut the
tie that bound to Louisiana.
That Mr.. Dietzel mace a
financial sacrifice in order
to take the new challenge
caused such a crashing of
teeth in Huey Longs old cap
ital that fishermen said it
sounded as if all the drum
fish in the Mississippi were
gritting their teeth in one
mighty simultaneous SYM
phony of drums.
1t was this sudden cloud
burst of tears of rage and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20

Two United States Public
Health Service officers say
they are confident Europe's
outbreak of smallpox will not
spread into the United States
The two officerS-DrS. James
G.. Teller and Alexander Lang
muir-based their confidence
on a solid program" of quar-
antine and vaccination.
DR.. Teller, chief of the divi-
sion of foreign quarantine,
said that although the out
breaks in Europe are more
serious than they have been
in many years quarantine
measures undertaken by the
Public Health Service reduce
to a minimum the possibility
that the disease may be intro
duced into this country"
He said 20 confirmed cases
and two suspected cases have
been counted in England, Ger
many and Switzerland. Eng
land has reported 16 Of the
cases and six deaths.
Baby Boy Dies
The latest to die in England
was a 3-year-old boy. He dieo
yesterday in Oakwell Isolation
Hospital near Leeds, a center
for treatment of the disease
since it was brought into
Britain by two Pakistani i'm
migrants three weeks ago. The
outbreak was first reported il
Karachi, Pakistan.
The Defense Department ha
announced that the United
States is shipping a million
units of smallpox vaccine tt
Britain. Each unit is good TO
10 inoculations.
1t has been IL or Is year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-01-20
Pei ping Aid to Albania
Sign of Bigger Red Split
By BERNARD GWERTZMAN
Star staff Writer

Despite serious problems, Communist China has
decided to continue providing economic support Tor the anu
Soviet regime of Abania's Enver Hoxha.
The Chinese decision, announced in Peking last week,
means Tetungs government will be Abanas main
benefacor five China already has promised