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Evening star., 1963-09-19
POTOMAC FEVER
BY FLETCHER KNEBEL

JFK pleads for tax cut The bracket hes in, you can
hardly blame him,
Russia blames bad crop weather at home In buying
Canadian wheat The Sovets have had run of bad
weather: as years since the reyolutonand not good
crop year yet
The 16 astronauts sell their personal stories for ei mil
lion. Headline; Moon Men Start BY Moonlghtng"
The House votes SITS million for falou shelters 1853
will be remembered the year when drove the bomb
underground-and jumped in after 1t. ~.
Household repair proverb stitch time saves nine
and costs ten. ,.-..... :,
Evening star., 1963-09-19
CHARLES BARTLETT
Two Supreme Court Vacancies

the President might consider.
Some feel that the retire.
ments of both Justice Doug
glas and Justice Felix Frank
furter will leave an academic
gap on the court and create
a need for the literary flour
ish and historic perspective
Of an eminent professor. An
articulate lobby Of the Ior-
mer students Of Paul Freund
Of Harvard arises loyalty and
loudly on the occasion of each
vacancy.
This sentiment is coun-
tered within the administra-
ton by a feeling that the es-
sential need Of the justices
is for closeness to the reali-
ties Of the life on which they
sit in judgment. The tend
ency of judges, particularly
on the High Court, to grow
austerely apart and to be-
come fixed viewpoints in q
legal ivory tower is q weak
ness to which academicians
are suspected of being par
ticularly prone.
The Supreme Court is the
arbiter Of the Federal sys-
tenn. and 1t tends to become
particularly prominent in
national life at times when
the two-party system is par
ticularly weak. This is one
of those times and Congress
has inclined to defer to thE
courts leadership so persist
emily that one justice, John
Harlan, was recently moved
to protest. There would be
little more virtue in Great
ing a rigidly liberal than a
rigidly conservative court.
The requirement now is per-
ceived to be for balanced,
practical men who have the
courage and flexibility to con-
front the times. The proto-
type Is Mr.. Kennedy's first
appointment to the court,
Byron White, and the subse-
quent searches will be for
men Of similar quality and
temperament.
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Evening star., 1963-09-19
Chance to Shape Tribunals Future Seen
In Replacement of Douglas and Black

ophy and a major harbinger
of the Supreme Courts out
look over the years ahead.
He will be obliged to decide
whether to set the precedent
of placing a Negro on the
court. Many contend that
just as Catholics and Jews
are traditionally represented.
the Negroes, numbering one
ninth of the popul q tion,
should be accorded one Of the
nine seats.
The President Is believed
In the past to have been dis
posed to this view and the
question will be whether the
peaking of racial tensions
makes this a more or less
propitious moment for the
move. Many feel that the
hostility Of the South toward
the Supreme Court is so Sc
we're already that the addi.
ton Of a Negro justice would
make little difference.
There is q question wheth-
er 1t would. be fitting, at an
emotional crossroads in the
Nations history, to name a
justice whose own emotions
might impinge his judicial
objectivity. The obvious
choice would be Appellate
Judge William HASTE, who
has been on the Federal
bench since l946 and enjoys
a superb reputation.
But it Is disturbing to hear
doubts from some of those
who know Judge HASTE we'll
and share his ideals of equal
ity that his judicial tempera-
inent would override his
deep-grained instincts as a
civil rights crusader. His
qualities as a tough and stub
born battler for his race
would threaten his capacity
tossit In ultimate Judgment
on the issues of the battle.
The same doubt would apply
to almost any Negro whom
Evening star., 1963-09-19
DAVID LAWRENCE
Mourning Civil Rights Victims

has been charged and is be-
ing held IN Jail.
August 10, 1963-Serina
Taylor, Ia, killed at Jersey
City. N. j., by a shotgun
blast fired by white man.
One white charged with
murder, a second with as
sault with intent to kill. In
cident grew out Of earlier
argument between seven or
eight whites and a group Of
Negro youths, and about
half-hour later two Of the
whites returned to scene in
a car and fired shotguns at
random. Girl killed as she
stood on steps of house
talking to friends.
September 4, 1868 - John
d. Coley, 20, killed by bullet
in the neck during rioting
that broke out in Birming-
ham after home Of Negro at
torney Arthur Shores was
bombed for second time in
two weeks. Not determined
who fired bullet that killed
him.
September IS, 1963--Four
Negro girls - Cynthia Wes-
ley, IA, Denise McNair, II,
Carol Robertson, IA. Addie
Mae Collins, Al killed by
bomb blast in Sixteenth
Street Baptist Church in
Birmingham. Johnny Robin
son, 16, died from shotgun
wound inflicted by a police
man when he ignored po-
lice orders to stop throwing
rocks at whites cars during
the disorder that followed
church bombing. Virgil Wade,
IS, was killed while riding
bicycle just outside Birming-
ham, and two white youths
charged with the shooting
Michael Lee Farley. l6, and
Larry Joe Sims, 16--signed
statements admitting firing
the shots.
In addition to the above.
Dennis Earl Robinson, l6,
white, Is still In a critical con-
dition in a Birmingham hos
pital. He was hit by a rock
thrown by q Negro boy IN
the violence that followed
the bombing on September IS.
There have also been many
whites and Negroes injured
during these disorders. but
not critically. AL these VIC
Tins might well be remem-
bered on the day of mourning
proclaimed by the President.
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Evening star., 1963-09-19
ARTHUR HOPPE
Get Your Committee Just 1898

full Appreciation to our
Chairman with a space for
the purchaser to fill In his
name.
Instant Committee, like
any new committee, folds
easily. In stores, however, in
a cardboard box requiring
only two square feet of shelf
space, thus saving hundreds
Of dollars in office rent alone.
All titles and declarations Of
principle are, Of course, easily
erasable so the product may
be reused over and over
again. And when finally
worn out, the cardboard box
itself may be boiled for seven
minutes to create Instant
Committee Dinner"
With mass production, we
hope to be able to market In
slant Committee at S3.98
each or. $37.16 q dozen. In
return for 100 unwinding
bands, we plan to offer as a
special bonus an Instant So
ciety or, for 1000, an In
slant Movement,
The only law in Instant
Committee so far. is that due
to mass production require
ments, the names Of the 100
distinguished sponsors are
the same In every package.
And who's going to buy the
idea Of q half-dozen COM
mittees, all composed Of the
same people?
Take your head out Of
that paper bag, Mr.. Lehman.
We've got q question we want
to ask you.
Evening star., 1963-09-19
No Office Wall Complete Without One
With Sponsors, Letterhe0ds, Petitions

No sir, What worries me
Is thinking about all the
ddle-of-the-road Ameri-
cans who don't have a single.
solitary committee lying
around the house.
Imagine how the middle
of-the-road-American feels.
these days. He can't pick up
his paper without reading
where the Radical Right or
the Radical Left has formed
this or that new committee
to stamp out that or save
this. And there he is, not a
committee to his name. No
status. No prestige. It's
enough to make him q rad
ical.
So In order to insure
peace, preserve the domestic
tranquility and make money,
I've begun market research
on a new product. It's called:
Instant Committee"
Instant Committee will
come in three designs: Emer-
gency, Standing and for the
quality trade. Ad Hoe.
Packaged attractively in
red, white and blue bunting,
the kit will consist Of a dis
posable gavel, a wall plaque
saying Justice for ALL" q
list Of 100 Distinguished
Sponsors, one letterhead, 500
petitions to Congressmen be-
ginning, I'VE deplore 80. :"
and a Certificate Of Crate
Evening star., 1963-09-19
LetdOwn Expected

Instinctively, however, Off
cials expect a letdown. The
Kennedy administration is
making 1t clear TO the Diem
government that present lead
ers can remain, so far as the
United States is concerned, Il
Evening star., 1963-09-19
ARTHUR HOPPE

We've got a new national
committee on the national
scene. It's called "The Ma
tional Committee against the
Treaty of Moscow" mean
ing the nuclear test ban.
And I'm worried
What worries me is the
committees headquarters Is
inlthe Madison avenue office
of Marvin Lehman Associ-
ates, Inc, a public relations
firm. And that's already the
home of q half-dozen Right
Wing com mittees. The
American Committee for Aid
to the Katanga Freedom
Fighters, The Committee for
the Monroe Doctrine and,
less specifically, The Com
mittee of One Million. cone
million what2" I'd like to
know
But it's not the overcrowd-
ing that worries me, al
though I bet 1t worries the
building superintendent.
C'Now look here, Mr.. Lieb-
man, you said 1t was only
you and a couple Of steno-
graphers when you rented
the place -. ~
Nor am I criticizing the
efficiency Of this arrange
ment. After all. If the One
Million wish to confer pri-
vately with the Freedom
Fighters about the Monroe
Doctrine, all Mr.. Liebman
need do is stick his head in a
paper bag.
Evening star., 1963-09-19

The prospective retire.
ments Of the two remaining
New Deal justices on the
Supreme Court, William o.
Douglas and Hugo Black, will
offer President Kennedy an
important opportunity to
shape the nature and future
OF this Olympian body.
Justice Douglas will reach
the age of 65 on October 16,
a date after which he can
retire at any time on full
pay of $4,000. He has not
given notice to the court that
he intends to exercise this
option, but his restlessness
in the robes has long been
noted.
Plans have been made for
Justice Douglas to join,
after he steps down, The
Center for the Study Of
Democratic Institutions that
is operated by Robert Hutch
ms Fund for the Republic.
The shift is given appeal
by Justice Douglas feeling,
after "a years on the bench,
that he has amply expressed
his views and should seek
the creative challenge offered
by the center in Santa Bar
bara.
The timing Of Justice
Blacks resignation remains
uncertain. He is in excellent,
even lively, health, but he is
also n. 1t seems inevitable
that he will yield at some
near time, in his own and
the Nations interest, to the
solace Of retirement. The
tendency Of men in Congress
as well as in the judiciary to
outstayr their full capabilities
in public office is q blemish
Of the system.
The Presidents probable
opportunity to name two as
sociate justices in place Of
these strong liberal figures
will be an important measure
Of his own political philos-
Evening star., 1963-09-19
Enlargement of Presidents Proposal
For -Four Negro Girls Is Suggested

President Kennedy has
been asked by members of
Congress to proclaim soon a
day of mourning for the four
Negro children killed in the
bombing of a church in Bir-
mingham last Sunday. This
is a step that would empha-
size the Nations profound
regret that such a tragedy
could have happened.
1t would. however, be fit
ting if the President also
asked the American people to
mourn for all the victims
white and Negro - who have
died as a result of racial dis
turbances in recent months.
The records show that, in
the space of a few months,
deaths Of four whites as we'll
as nine Negroes, or a total of
IL persons, have occurred. AS
yet, no one has been convict
ed in any Of these cases.
There have been 81 bomb
ings in Birmingham alone in
the last eight years, but the
one last Sunday was the first
in which anyone was killed.
This has given rise to the
theory that the dynamiting
was intended primarily to
terrorize, because in every
church bombing except the
last the BIS exploded
either before or after serv-
ices. A news dispatch from
Birmingham says some white
leaders have accused Negroes
of being responsible for the
bombings to gain national at
tention for their cause.
But thus far the American
people have no way to fix
the responsibility for these
bombings. There has been a
lot Of loose talk-some Of 1t
bordering on libel--mention-
ing certain public officials
as responsible for the
murder of children at the
Birmingham church.
The killings in recent
months have occurred under
differing circumstances but
usually in connection with
demonstrations" or riots,
thus raising the question as
to whether public Demon
Strations under highly emo
tional circumstances are
really useful. Protests at pub
lie meetings gain publicity
Evening star., 1963-09-19
BY EARL H. v0sS
Star staff Writer

The United States intends to
maintain steady pressures on
the South Wet Nam govern
ment of President Ngo Dinh
Diem for changes in policy
and perhaps personnel" to i'm
prove chances of winning the
guerrilla war against the Com
munists.
Policy and perhaps person.
mel" were the focus Of President
Kennedy's critical television
interview two weeks ago.
Personnel need not be
changed II policy adjustments
meet the United States idea OF
what needs to be done TO win
the war, authorities here say.
They insist now their never
has been a special focus on any
single person TO leave the gov
ernment. Mr.. Kennedy said
perhaps" personnel, high
sources point out, and he men
toned personnel" not leaders,
Brother n Reported Target
President Diem's brother. Ngo
Dinh Nhu, was reported TO have
been a special target for re-
moval, along with his wife.
Administration officials, de-
feated in their hope to remove
Mr.. Nhu a few weeks ago, now
take the long view that Presi-
dent Diem and his brother
ought to be arranging a transi-
ton to a younger generation
American officials think they
already have achieved impor-
tant changes in South Wet
Namese policy since President
Kennedy first spoke against the
Diem regime early this month
They are willing to wait for
Evening star., 1963-09-19

just the same as street DEM
onstrations, but it is the
latter which become provoca-
tive because there are still
many citizens who do not
understand the right of pc
tition and resent the express
sion of views with which
they don't agree.
But, in order to introduce
a spirit of mutual under
standing and in the hope
that the processes of reason
will be substituted for vio-
lence and threats of violence,
a day Of mourning pro-
claimed nationally by the
President could have con-
structive results. Every fam
ily-both white and Negro
which has suffered a loss
deserves the sympathy and
compassion of the Nation. In
the news dispatches for the
last IL months, the follow
ing deaths have been noted:
WHITES .ss
September 80, 1962--French
newsman Paul Guihard and
Walter r. Gunter, television
repairman Of oxford, Miss.
slain during riots that ac-
companied the forced en-
rollment Of Negro James
Meredith at the University Of
Mississippi. Unsolved.
April 30, 1963-William L.
Moore, Baltimore postman,
shot to death near Gadsden,
Ala, while staging a one
man freedom walk" to de-
liver a letter to Gov. Barnett
of Mississippi, urging racial
moderation. The Etowah
County grand jury refused
on September IS to indict
Floyd L. Simpson, 40, ar
rested in connection with the
crime two days after Mr..
Moore was killed.
June 6, l963-Fred Link,
"a, automobile m c h mic
killed by a rifle bullet fired
into a crowd Of whites during
a riot at Lexington. N. C.
Three Negroes have been
charged with his death.
NEGROES
June 13, 1963-Civil rights
leader Medgar Evers, 81, shot
from ambush in driveway Of
home at Jackson. Miss. A
white man, Byron Beckwith,
Evening star., 1963-09-19

The signed columns on these pages, like the
crrtoon beloO intended to present Star readers
Nth 10ide range of opinions issues of the day.
including opinions tOhtch conflict Nth our otOn
The Stars uie0S are expressed in its editorials
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-20

THIS WEEK &ooo.ins / October 20. 1903
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Evening star., 1963-04-13
Kennedy Easter Service
To Be at Fathers S Home

President Kennedy made a
private visit to st. Edwards
Roman Catholic Church shortly
after 7 pm. on Good Friday.
Regular Good Friday services
were held from noon to 3 pm.
at the church. Mr.. Kennedy
was met by the church pastor
Msgr. jeremiah p. O'Mahoney
and other churchmen.
The President continued his
program of relaxation today,
with no official business
scheduled.
He took his family and
friends on a 2-hour-and-40-
minute cruise yesterday. The
wind was kicking up the waters
Of Lake Worth and the Allan
tic as Mr.. Kennedy scheduled
another outing today with Navy
Undersecretary Paul Fay and
his family again among the
boating guests.
Evening star., 1963-04-13
Boeing Strike DeodIine
Neors;; Talks Resumed

the union feels it can recon-
mend TO its members or the
company agrees to binding
arbitration Of all issues.
Roy Siemiller. union vice
president and chairman Of its
Aerospace-M Missile Conference,
said Boeing locals had been sent
instructions calling for q strike
at 1901 am. Tuesday in each
time zone.
In addition to Seattle. Boe-
ing's principal installations rep
resented by the Macninists are
at Wichita, Kans.. and Cape
Canaveral, Fla.
The AFL-CIO Auto Workers
Union is also threatening to
strike Boeing installations at
Philadelphia.
Officials have expressed fear
that Machinists' picketing Of
Cape Canaveral might stall ac-
tivity at the Nations biggest
missile-launching facility.
Mr.. Siemiller said Boeing had
made no settlement offer and
was standing pat on the pro-
posal voted down by both union
and nonunion production work.
ers in a recent election held
by the National Labor Rela-
tions Board.
Evening star., 1963-04-13

PALM BEACH, Fla, April 13
(A?). - President Kennedy
plans to attend Easter services
at his fathers ocean-front
home, the vacation White
House announced today.
He and his family attended
similar private services there
last Easter.
The Presidents father, fo~-
mer Ambassador to England
Joseph P. Kennedy. is still re-
covering from a stroke he suf-
fered in December, 1861, and
spends much of his time in a
wheelchair.
The church services have
been held in his home as O
special convenience and as a
courtesy to the elder Mr.. Ken
nedy, IA, who has done much
for the Roman Catholic Church
in this resort community and
his home town of Boston.
Evening star., 1963-04-13

A last-ditch effort to heac
off a strike against the Boeins
Co., maker Of Minuteman mis-
siles, got under way here to-
day. A strike deadline expire:
at midnight Monday.
Negotiators of both sides met
with Federal mediators thi'
morning with plans TO meet
again tomorrow and Monday
II necessary.
SO far no agreement is ir
sight," said Walter A. Mag
giolo Of the Federal Mediation
and Cancellation Service after
yesterdays meetings with the
company and the AFL-CIC
Machinists Union.
I'VE will work right down II
the deadllne Monday right Il
b
necessary" Mr.. Maggiolo added
The Machinists' contract
with Boeing ran out on Sep.
tember Is. 1902. A Taft.
Hartley law court injunction
which banned a strike for n
days. expires Monday after
noon.
John Sullivan. president o.
the unions local at Seattle
Wash. site Of Boeing's biggesi
plant, said the Machinists vii
strike at midnight Unless 4
receives a new Boeins offei
Evening star., 1963-04-13
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity - Some
cloudiness this afternoon, but
mostly sunny high in lower COS,
Fair and cool tonight, north
west breeze. Tomorrow, mostly
sunny and cool, high near so,
continued breeze.
Maryland-Fair tonight, lows
ranging from upper 20s in
mountains to lower 40s along
the coastal and bay areas. Fair
and cool tomorrow, north
west breeze Is to 20 miles per
hour. High tomorrow, SIS to
63.
Virginia-Partly cloudy this
afternoon, few sprinkles in
southwest portions of State
Partly cloudy to the south to-
night, otherwise fair, low 35 to
40 in mountains and 40 to As
elsewhere. Fair tomorrow with
ais TO 20-mile-per-hour breeze,
high in the COS.
Lower Potomac and Chesa-
peake Bay-NorthweSt winds
about Is knots through tomor-
Evening star., 1963-04-13

tube with the printing
bakers flavoring," on it.
Zone paint-smeared large
sized orange rubber glove.
One paint-smeared large
neoprene glove.
(Vice Admiral Bernard L.
Austin, head Of the court of
inquiry, said the items might
have been from the Thresher.
He added. however, there
would be no final determina-
ton until after laboratory
and other testsO
The search has now begun
to focus on the actual location
of Thresher on the bottom. A
datum" chart consisting OF
the submarines last : | nown
position was being replaced
today by a physical marker, q
buoy floating on the surface
tethered TO a point on the bot
tom by a long buoyant prophy-
lene cable. Depth at this point
is now calculated at 1885,
fathoms 1880 feet on thu
basis of four precision reading!
yesterday.
Capt. Andrews ordered hi;
little task force to start 9
methodical bottom mapping
expedition once this new buoy
Is in place. The ships will
form a straight line abreast
Evening star., 1963-04-13
Kennedy Book Fovorites
Include Spy Thriller

NORTH BELLMORE, N. Y,
April 13 (AP).-President Ken
nedy's list of favorite books,
requested by a Long Island
housewife for her community's
new library, runs heavily to
thick biographies, but also in
cludes a lurid spy thriller.
The list was contained in a
letter from Ralph A. DUNCAN,
a presidential assistant, to Mrs
George Cowan. president of the
Friends of the North Bellmore
Public Library.
IL Are Favorites
Here are the II books Mr.
DUNCAN said the President calls
his particular favorites:
Lord Melbourne" by LORD
David Cecil, a power-behind.
the-throne biography of Queer
Victoria's Prime Minister anc
confidential adviser.
"Montrose," by John Blu.
chan, biography of the Scot
tish statesman and soldier tha'
also makes a rousing adventure
story.
Marlborough" by Sir Win
ston Churchill, the history o.
Churchill's illustrious family
particularly the first Duke o.
Marlborough. who was said Il
have had singular diplomats
skill in handling men,"
John Quincy Adams and tn
Foundations Of American For
eign Policy" by Samuel Flag
Bemis, a biography of the sixth
President, who. as Secretary o
State under President Monroe
had a major role in draftinI
the Monroe Doctrine" MI
Kennedy devoted a chapter h
him in his own Pulitzer PrizI
winner, "Profiles Of Courage.
THE Emergence Of Lincoln,
by Allan Nevins, two volume
covering the four years pre-
lceding Lincoln's election to tn
presidency.
"The Price Of Union," b,
Herbert Agar, a history Of th'
American political system. par
ticularly It's contradictions ant
inconsistencies.
John c. Calhoun. American
Portrait" by Margaret L. Colt
Vice President under Johi
Quincy Adams and Andrew
jackson. AS q Senator from
South Carolina he was a de
fender OF States rights In tn
slavery issue.
"Talleyrand." by Duff Coop
er, biography OF the brillian
and unscrupulous French dip
Ilomat during the times OF tn
revolution and Napoleon.