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Evening star., 1963-08-24
School Band Director
Admits Banks

JACKSON, Mo-, Aug. "a
(AP) The director of the
Jackson High School Band ad-
mitted yesterday he robbed two
banks in nearby communities
of more than $4,000. He was
arrested after witnesses identi-
fled him at a concert he was
conducting.
Richard Burton Partridge,
SO, signed statements that he
robbed the Bank of Advance
Mo-. of $9,637 last October II
and the Chaffee CMoD Bank oi
$12,78O on August 5. Highwa!
Patrol Capt. o. L. Wallis said.
Partridge was charged in {
Federal complaint and held ir
lieu of 100000 bond.
Fell Behind on Bills
"The people here are shocked
by this" said John Critics. sher-
iff of Cape Girardeau County
HE was we'll respected"
"He said he got behind or
his bills. He apparently de-
cided to rob the Chaffee Bank
after spending all the money
he had taken in the first rob-
berry and falling in debt again, ,
Sheriff Critics said.
"He sure fooled a lot OF peo-
ple," said Norman Swan OF
PocahontaS, Mo-, director oi
Evening star., 1963-08-24

portionment of State legisla-
ureS.
Create a court of the union
which could overrule the United
States Supreme Court.
Opponents of the amend
ments, led by Nat Washington
of Washington State, Frank
King of Ohio and Howard
Miyake of Hawaii, offered an
amendment to the Merritt
Committees resolution which
would have had the conference
disappearing the proposals, but
this was defeated.
The middle-road resolution
was adopted 26-16.
Earlier, Alaska and Hawaii
delegates had threatened to
withdraw from the conference
because of what they described
as ''high-handed" tactics by
conference officials.
Evening star., 1963-08-24
Thugs Yoke, Rob Five;
Two Suspects Seized

yoked and robbed of $55 at the
gate of the u. S. Soldiers Home,
Second and Upshur streets NV.
He told police four Negro males
attacked him as he returned
to the home at 1880 am,
punched and kicked him and
then took his wallet, watch and
cigarette case.
One aSsailant was described
as between 28 and 80 years old,
$50 pounds and wearing a
short-sleeve brown sport shirt
Shortly before, at 11:40 pm,
Robert l.. Mackie, 35, listed al
507 T street NV, was grabbed
from behind by three men who
took $62 and his wristwatch
according to police.
One assailant was described
as a Negro, 5 feet Z inches tall
l30 pounds. scar on one cheek
wearing gray pants and q
brown short sleeve polo shirt
Evening star., 1963-08-24
Smoke on Rood,
Crash of 5 Cars
Leaves z Dead

BRISTOW, Okla, Aug. "a
(AP).-Blinding smoke from a
range fire billowed onto the
Turner turnpike yesterday and
caused a five-car, four-truck
pileup that killed two persons
and injured five.
Jim Costner, a veteran Of %
years on the highway patrol,
termed it the worst accident
he had ever seen. He estimated
property damage at $250,000.
Killed were Kirby A. Wal
lace, 81, Tulsa, and Jess Cope
land, AZ, Rogers, Ark, both
truck drivers. Witnesses said q
sudden gust of wind whipped
thick smoke from the grass
and timber fire across the
four-lane turnpike which ex-
tends from Oklahoma City oi
Tulsa.
When one car stopped, the
other four cars and the foul
trucks piled up.
Evening star., 1963-08-24
Group TruveI
Developers Get
FTee-Trip Status
BY the Associated Press

The Civil Aeronautics Board
has authorized Allegheny Air
lines to grant free trips to
group-travel developers.
To qualify, a developer must
assemble and make transporta-
ton arrangements for a group
of at least Is fare-paying
passengers.
On round-trip travel, the
group is required to travel to-
gether on the outbound flight
but individual members may
return separately within the
30-day time limit Of the re-
duced fare that is available to
passenger groups.
The American Society Of
Travel Agents had asked the
board to deny Allegheny's ap-
plication for free-trip authority
ASTA said the plan would
establish a new classification
of travel agents without the
financial stability and expe-
rience of recognized agents.
The CAB replied that II
already has granted similar
authority to three other loca'
service airlines-Central, From
tier and Mohawk-and knew OF
no problems that had arisen.
Evening star., 1963-08-24
Criticism of Collection Strs Memories
OF Coolidge Bookshelf Incidents

cause they were gifts. Most of
the titles would make a goat
sick.
Yet on his own Coolidge
was not too bad. William
Allen White remembers that
Coolidge, while Governor of
Massachusetts, was shown
one of Emily Dickinson's
manuscripts. He examined
the paper and then ex-
claimed: She writes with her
hands; I dictate That GER
tainly is one difference be-
tween the President and the
poet.
DR.. A. s. w. Rosenbach
once told the American An
tiquarian Society that Coo
lidge was interested in
Shakespeare-and wonderful
phrase - and liked to own
good editions. The President
invited DR.. Rosenbach to
bring the original manu-
script of Alice in Wonderland
to lunch at the White House.
The famous book collector
explained that the first edi-
ton, which displeased Lewis
Carroll, was suppressed.
Suppressed said the Pres
ident, I cid not know there
was anything off-color in
Alice"
When Coolidge learned that
the Government had paid
SIS million for a copy of the
Gutenberg Bible, togeth er
with three thousand OF h er
books from the 18th century,
he cried out almost in agony:
II should think that an ordi-
nary copy of the King James
version would have been
good enough for those Con-
gressmen."
Once Mr.. Mearns had to
assemble the books in the
White House after the place
had been renovated. A dog
Evening star., 1963-08-24
Other Agreements With Moscow

only a modest portion of the
Communist striking force.
The main Communist force
is stationed in areas to which
Western control officers will
have no access. Air recon-
naisSance, according to avail
able reports, will be forbidden.
American military men
know that the Russians are
masters at isolating foreign
erS who, by agreement, could
poke their noses into Soviet
military affairs. They recall
that during World War II
when at the pressing request
of Stain we sent a couple of
bomber wings into Soviet ter
ritory to cooperate with the
Soviet air force, our men
were completely isolated and
surrounded with barbed wire
in their assigned areas. Amer
ican military observers were
never allowed on the battle
field until weeks after tn e
fighting was over. An Amer
lean naval team which was
sent to Siberia for air OBJ
servationS useful to both the
Russians and ourselves was
so completely isolated and
endured such rough treat
ment at the hands of the
Russians that it had to be
recalled.
The argument that Mr..
Khrushchev is not Stain and
that conditions - particu-
larly the feud with Peking-
have changed him radically,
are taken lightly by profess
sional military men. T. e
leopard does not change his
spots. The leaders of the Rus
sian people today are in no
way different from those of
20 or 30 years ago. The ide-
illogical crisis in America and
Britain may change our in
ternational objectives, but
the Communist objective re-
mains unchanged.
Evening star., 1963-08-24

the jackson consolidated school
district. HE did a good job
of directing the band and was
popular"
Partridge had been at Jack
son three years.
Both banks are within 80
miles from the Partridge home
in Southeast Missouri.
$1,000 Recovered
None of the money taken in
the first robbery has been re-
covered, police said, but more
than $1,000 of the Chaffee
money was found-Still In a
bank wrapper-in a strong box
at the high school. Two pistols
also were in the box along with
a pair of clip-on sunglaSSeS
worn by the hold-up man.
A white station wagon used
in the Chaffee robbery led to
the arrest, Capt. Wallis said.
Police learned Partridge had
such a car and found it hidden
in a barn near Jackson. Part
ridge was described to en-
ployes at each bank.
Officers and four witnesses
went to the band concert
Thursday. The witnesses iden-
titled Partridge as he con-
Quoted the band. He was
arrested afterward.
Evening star., 1963-08-24

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. "a
(AP). - Fourteen teen-agers
found themselves in prison
clothes today after a traffic
judge began a breakdown on
drag racing and reckless driv-
ing by young motorists.
Judge David MacHauer yes
terday sentenced the IA -
ranging in age from II to 19
to 10 days in jail. He then
cut their sentences to three
days so they could get out for
Sunday.
Judge MacHauer said he
passed up the usual fine and
drivers license suspension be-
cause it apparently had failed
to make a stern enough i'm
preston.
Sending the youngsters to
night driver training school
he said. also had no effect
Perhaps" the judge said
Evening star., 1963-08-24
The New White House Library

persisted in lavishing its un-
wanted affection a on Mr..
Mearns while he Squatted on
the floor attending to the
books. Even an unabridged
Greek lexicon, flung sharply
at the dogs ear, brought no
assurance that the nuisance
had been permanently re-
moved. The rest of the story
should be told in Mr.. Mearns'
own words.
"I stood in the doorway
and looked across the room. I
looked and went Su d denly
and completely and murder
ously mad, for the curtain in
the corner outlined the form
of my insufferable tormen-
tor. 1 ran across the room,
drew back my right foot TO
propel him with a kick that
would drive him through the
walls and over the portico
and down the Mall and into
the Tidal Basin, and throw
ing aside the curtains to
make more deadly accurate
my aim, I looked down.
II looked down at the
President of the United
States kneeling before a
small safe. He had heard me
coming, and when 1 reached
him he pushed back his
small straw sailor hat and
phlegmatically asked me over
his shoulder, How are you
getting on?' I do not remem-
ber what I replied, or wheth-
er I replied at all, but I have
not forgotten the salving
kindness of his impeccable
imperturbability Let justice
be done, for it is due him,
and it is high time for the
rest of us to repeat Will Rog-
ers' tribute when Calvin
Coolidge Gied: BY golly, you
little red-h e a d. ID New En-
glander, I liked you
Somehow the picture of
that dog and the President
blows into oblivion the So
lemn certitudes of the Times.
Evening star., 1963-08-24
ARTHUR HOPPE
Our Puppy-Iess CoIumnist Borks

"And, golly gee, I guess II
you sent me one I'd throw
away my crutches and run
through our integrate e d
neighborhood to pose for the
national photographers in
my Boy Scout uniform with
my best friends, Tony Gil
uSeppe, Herma a n Katz and
Sam Cheong, whose dads are
all civic leaders but POLITICAL
ly independent. AS of now.
But I sure wouldn't want
you to give me a puppy just
because my Dad has SO mil
lion. To be honest he doesn't
care about politics. Like he
says, I never found a candi-
date I wanted to give my So
million to. Yet So maybe
he'll just give it to the SPCA.
If that's where I have to go
to get my dog.
"P.S. I'm very photogenic. "
So what happens? I get a
letter back from some un-
derling saying: Study very
hard, for everything g you
learn in school will help you
in your ambition to be Presi-
dent some day."
"Is that justice? There's a
mixup somewhere.
But I'll get to the bottom
of it. After all. if a perfect
letter like mine doesn't win a
puppy, what will our youth
think of White House eff
cheney? It's enough to des-
troy their faith in the Ameri-
can Way.
Evening star., 1963-08-24
MAX FREEDMAN

The New York Times has
been much too solemn about
the books chosen for the
White House by a committee
headed by the librarian at
Yale. It ran a list of the
books on page after page.
Then it wagged its solemn
little head in a reproving
editorial in which it regretted
the absence of the great
European writer's from the
the list.
All this fuss over a casual
collection of books. Many of
the books do not cease to be
commonplace and trivial
merely because they have
been chosen by famous schol-
ars. Some selections do more
credit to the vanity of ignor-
ance than to the discernment
of scholarship.
President Kennedy needs
less help than any President
since Theodore Roosevelt in
making up his mniG about
books. Around him in the
White House is a group of
men born to grapple with
libraries. So this official COL
lection cannot be meant pri-
marily for President Ken
nedy. 1t is intended, rather.
for his successors - and to
save the shelves of the White
House from the accumulated
horrors of miscellaneous
gifts.
How horrible those shelves
could be in normal times can
be seen in David c. Mearns
article on "A Neglected Book
man: Calvin Coolidge AS a
leading official of the Library
of Congress, Mr.. Mearns had
a great deal to do with the
White House Library. Coolidge
should not be judged by these
books. But he kept them be-
Evening star., 1963-08-24
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

The Senates Tx probe indicates that Pentagon Of
fca can't to get together the truth In fact
days they can't even agree on the same fib
Some Republicans boom Milton Eisenhower for PreSi-
dent Their slogan ready: Ridden by Kennedy anxeteS
and neuroSes? Take Midtown Eisenhower"
Agriculture Secretary Freeman says he won't resign
Analysis Either going sayor hasn't got the word
yet.
Senator Goldwater has his campaign year New Years
Eve motto ready Ring out the old Ring in the ancient
Aggressors' proverb: Strike where the iron is not.
The treaty convnces Red Chinese leaders that
there's future in cortng Khrushchev He's just not the
burying kind
Evening star., 1963-08-24

In four yokings late yester-
day and early today, thugs
made off with 1894. Police
rounded UP a teen-ager and a
27-year-old man who was
charged with robbing with
force and violence in one OF
the yokings.
The victim, Clarence Walker,
%, listed at 927 P street NV,
told police he was attacked by
a man in the 1900 block OF
Ninth street NV. and forced
into an alley where another
Joined the attack.
He said they knocked him
down, beat him and took SIT,
Pvts. Lewis r. Harris and
Henry c. Millner Of the second
precinct spotted the teen-ager
a 17-year-old, at Ninth and Q
streets, and chased him two
blocks before capturing him.
Also arrested a short time
later was Earl j. Thomas, listed
in the 1900 block Of Eleventh
street NV.
In another robbery James
Allen, listed at 1888 Seventh
street NV, told police that he
and his 12-year-old son were
yoked and robbed of 5000 at 4
am. today as they returned
from a party.
The victim said he had given
5000 to his son to hold. While
in the l700 block Of Swan
street, they were attacked by
three men, knocked down and
robbed, he told police. He could
give no description Of the as
sailants.
George A. Bright. 43, was
Evening star., 1963-08-24
SUKARNO SHUNS
CLASSIFICATION
OF LADY KILLER

MANILA (AP).-A Fill
pino woman reporter who
interviewed Indonesia's
President Sukarno in ia
karta said today he doesn't
like being called a lady
killer.
Nimia Arroyo of the
Manila Times said Presi-
dent Sukarno told her:
do I look like a lady
killer? I'm not. I just ap-
preciate women because I
like everything created by
God"
Mr.. Sukarno said "As for
a beautiful woman, I would
call her that If she has
a good personality and
character. Beauty to me
is from the inside"
Evening star., 1963-08-24
Survey in Suruwuk

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Aug.
"a (AP) .-Indonesia and the
Philippines each will send eight
observers within the next two
days to join a United Nations
survey team probing sentiment
in Sarawak and North Borneo
on joining the projected FEEDER
alton of Malaysia with Malaga
and Singapore.
A foreign office spokesman
made the announcement after
Foreign Minister Subandrio
said a dispute over the number
of observers to be furnished
by Indonesia and the Philip
pines had been settled.
Evening star., 1963-08-24
CONSTANTINE BROWN
Some Previous Communist FuIfiIlments
Of Accords With West Are Recalled

Eventually, the Swiss and
Swedes, fed up with their
status, moved into South
Korea a few miles from Pan
munjom. We invited the Poles
and Czechs, whose SubverSive
activities had been carefully
watched by American and
South Korean intelligence, to
60 back to North Korea. That
ended the inspection phase"
of the Korean armistice.
This lesson of the past is
being overlooked today when
negotiations are in course to
establish similar teams In
East and West Germany. The
reasoning of our diplomats,
whose policy is relaxation OF
tension at any price. is that
we are dealing with Mr..
Khrushchev, not Mao TIE
tung.
According to reports in
Germany - which is now be-
ing consulted - the Kremlin
is entitled to station repre-
sentatives at railway juno
tions, airfields and important
highways to watch that no
undue concentration of forces
takes place. The main forces
of the NATO are in Ger
many. The control of the
Russians, who would be free
to move about, would thus
be complete.
But what about the British
and American officers who
will be stationed only in East
Germany? They will have ac-
cess neither to Poland, Czech
oslovakia or the Soviet Un-
ion. It would be from those
areas, not East Germany,
that a surprise offensive
would be staged.
The six Russian divisions
in East Germany and the
10000 East Germans are
Evening star., 1963-08-24
Stevenson's Ex-Wife
Faces U. S. Tux Suit

CHICAGO. Aug. "a (AP).-A
Federal income tax lien for
$l5.873 was filed yesterday
against Mrs. Ellen Borden
Stevenson, divorced wife Of
United Nations Ambassador
Adlai Stevenson.
The Internal Revenue Serv-
ice, which filed the action
contends Mrs. Stevenson failed
to pay $14,895 in income taxes
In 1857 and $978 in 1869.
Mrs. Stevenson lives on Chi
cago's Near North Side.
She obtained a sivorce from
Mr.. Stevenson in l949.
Evening star., 1963-08-24

MUNICH. - No one likes
to admit that Premier Khru-
Shchev obtained a spectacu-
lar victory when he persuad-
ed Washington and London
to sign the Moscow treaty
for a partial ban on nuclear
testing. But this treaty
opens further a vista for
other similar agreements -
such as inspections to as
sure against surprise attack.
Russians would be stationed
in West Germany and Brit
ish and Americans in the
East German zone.
Our diplomats have short
memories. Only 10 years ago
this summer the Korean ar
mistice was signed. 1t pro-
vided for inspection teams
to supervise its strict apph-
cation by both sides. We
chose representatives from
Switzerland and Sweden, two
strictly neutral countries. The
Communists chose Poles and
CzechS, their partners. The
Communist team went to
South Korea. But while the
Communist inspectors were
given the freedom of the land
and were allowed to move
about to their hearts con-
tent, the Swiss and Swedish
officers were confined to
within six miles of their as
signed place.
The Swiss and Swedes be-
came, in fact, honored pris-
oners of the Communists who
Immediately proceeded to
build large airfields and to
re-arm their Chinese and
North Korean troops with
modern equipment. They saw
nothing and knew nothing.
We scrupulously observed the
armistice terms and did moth
ing to improve our military
position.
Evening star., 1963-08-24
legislative Conference
Compromise Foi|s Split

HONOLULU, Aug. "a (AP)
Southern and Midwesterr
delegates to the National
Legislative Conference pushed
through a middle the-roao
resolution on proposed United
States constitutional amend
mentS last night. They hailed
it as a means to avoid a break
up of the organization.
The resolution at the clos
ing session neither supported
nor opposed the three pro-
posed amendments. It left the
question up to individuals to
act as they see fit.
The resolution had the ef-
feet of beating down strong at
tempts to put the conference
on record against the amend
ments.
L. G. Merritt of South Caro-
lima, chairman of the Resolu-
tions Committee, told newsmen
the resolution was offered in
"a spirit of compromise"
Avoid Conference Split
I'VE realize many will be dis
appointed" he added, but we
hope to avoid Interruptions
unpleasantness and a split oi
the conference which has
worked amicably for many
years"
The proposed States rights
amendments under discussion
would:
Permit State legislatures tC
initiate Federal constitutional
amendments without congress
sional action.
Eliminate Federal jurisdic-
ton in court cases over ap-
Evening star., 1963-08-24
Prison Sentence Ends
Fugitive 's1-Yeor' Break

cause you were the MASTER
mind in this check-passing
operation"
The law finally caught up
with Floyd in Australia.
Australian authorities. in CO.
operation with the State De-
partment, lifted Floyd's visa
and ordered him to leave the
country.
Returned Last Week
Floyd returned to the United
States last week by ship and
surrendered TO a newspaper re-
porter who turned him over to
the FBI.
Assistant United States At
torney ]. Hardin Marion told
the court that Floyd and three
other persons had passed 7C
worthless checks and had taken
in $4,000 during the four-day
Labor Day week end in 1861
He said the checks showed ur
at almost every shopping center
in the Washington area. includ-
ing the suburbs Of Maryland
and Virginia.
Evening star., 1963-01-20

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Evening star., 1963-01-20

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