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Evening star., 1963-01-23
THE PASSING SCENE
By WILLIAM S. WHITE
The Manly Debt We Owe Britain

from the skies and freely
spent its substance and its
lives awoke at last from the
nightmare of war. And to
what? To an implacable pres
sure Cat which the United
States Of America stood at
the very forefront) to strip
from her all that she had in
colonial wealth; to tear from
the living body Of the old
Commonwealth every over
seas resource she might have
had to repair her ravaged
strength.
But not even all this ends
the tale of the hero of war
who was to fare so i'll In the
peace which so indispensably
he had helped to win.
The harsh realities forced
the United States to pour out
treasure, not upon tired and
broken old England but upon
those other lands - whether
ex-enemy, as in Germany, or
Intellectual ally, as in France
which 1t was now necessary
to bolster against the sick
appeal Of communism.
Britain Got Sympathy
We could always depend
upon the British, tired and
broken or not. So to Britain
we gave, perforce. our SYM
pathy; to the others we gave
our billions. So at length
these others, Notwithstanding
their past guilt and failures.
became, not Britain's fair
equals but Britain's subsi-
died superiors in the eco
nomic rat race which was
one of the legacies of the war.
The British are stout fell
lows, and very proud, too.
But, to repeat, they have had
altogether too much to bear
for altogether too long. They
would reject pity; but manly
help in mutual respect they
need from us. Help in the
economic rat race "a deter
mination here that no Charles
de Gaulle and no dozen
Charles de Gaulles shall fur
ther push Britain down. eco
nomically or otherwise-thAt
Storied first home of an
American Republic which
was. after all, raised UP BY
British men.
What. then, is required Of
us? Why, simply. all that
may be required by them to
keep that honored place
which by blood and valor and
brains and historic decency
they have a hundred times
overearned. If they are no
longer quite a top power in
this world. they have irre-
placeable values to offer still.
And that world without them
would be poor beyond belief
for US as well as for them.
(Copyright, 1963)
Evening star., 1963-01-23
The 'Fronkenstein of Urban Renewal

by the Redevelopment Land
Agency and the National
Capital Planning Commits
sion which will, II approved
by the District Commission
ers, allow homes all over
Washington to be seized by
the RIA and sold to the
National Capital Housing Au-
thority to be used as perma-
nent public housing units.
That means that your home
and my home can be seized
for that purpose or any other
purpose.
The appalling magnitude
Of the RLA's power is be-
ginning to dawn on the peo-
pie of Washington.
According to the District
OF Columbia Redevelopment
Act Of l945. the RIA can
seize any real property In
an urban renewal area of
the city without giving you
any reason. II you doubt
that, look at the Southwest
area or Columbia Plaza area
where hundreds of houses
and business properties have
been seized by the RIA.
There is a law pending be-
fore Congress and sponsored
by the Federal City Coun-
ell that will. II enacted, turn
the whole city OF Washing
ton over 10 the RIA for 40
years. And when that law
becomes effective. the RIA
and the National Capital
Planning Commission can
seize your home, office build
Ing, store, garage or what
have you without giving you
any reason.
other cities such as Chi
cago have voted urban re-
newal out. The citizens OF
Washington cannot do that
because they have no vote.
II doe1 not do the value
OF your real estate any good
for II TO be generally known
that 1t is subject 10 seizure
at any time at the whim OF q
few power-hungry men In the
RIA and the NCPC.
william Webster.
Evening star., 1963-01-23

A hard-used cousin Of the
United States has fallen Ill,
and wearily so, and now re-
quires our help and UNDER
standing, for the sake of
ordinary decency but most Of
all for the sake of ourselves.
This cousin is Great Brit
ain. And this national illness
is like that personal illness
which comes as a chilling
vision upon a middle-aged
war veteran long, long after
the guns have rusted in the
silence of the yesterdays,
Suddenly, as though in the
middle Of the night, he sees
clearly that all his old ex-
ertions and perils have ended
in dust and ashes for him
and that his late rivals and
even enemies are doing far
better than he in the world
they lately sought to destroy.
He wears, along with his
wound stripes and the in
visible medals that bring no
profit in the market place.
the gray badge Of economic
fear while more fortunate
men are living it up on top
of that world which only his
vaior and honor had helped
to make for them.
This parallel between an
ex-soldier now suffering
post-combat fatigue and a
nation suffering the same,
through no fault whatever Of
its own, is not inexaet. 1t is
plain, given the smallest per-
ception and understanding,
that today's Britain has had
altogether too much to bear
for altogether too long. (And
it is petty undertone to the
tragedy that the most brittle
Of Epgland's young enter
tainers now WOW them on
this side of the Atlantic by
venomous commentaries on
the land of their BIRTH.
Barred by France
The nation which so long
stood alone against HitleriSm
"a Hitlerism backed for q
time by Stalinist Russia, too
now finds itself barred
from its best hope to recover
its wasted strength, the Euro
pean Common Market. And
by whom2 BY the country,
France, which went to its
knees before Hitler's very
first blows and left that
islanH kingdom across the
Channel, that England which
was once forever green, naked
to o storm which blew not
merely against England but
against all free men every
where.
The nation whose civilians
uncomplainingly underwent
not days and weeks but
months and years of bombing
Evening star., 1963-01-23

AoAo-AnE LASI ACIs by
Barrie Pitt. End-paper
maps. maps. diagrams,
photographs. 31S PIP. CW.
w. Norton g. Co.; $3.50
And now, If you will avoid
tripping over that arm stick
ing out of the mud there, we
will go back to the trenches
Of World War /.
We last met in front of a
flame thrower at Verdun.
Today we are under gas shells
at the Marne.
Our guide is Barrie Pitt,
an information officer with
the United Kingdom Atomic
Energy Authority. Mr.. Pitt
finds recuperation from his
tasks in the writing Of spe-
cialized accounts Of World
War /, in which he tells us,
"9,998,771 men of all nations
were killed in the fighting or
as q direct result Of it, and q
further 6,295,512 had been
sufficiently seriously wounded
for their subsequent lives to
be marred by physical suf-
fering."
What the cost was in
mental and spiritual pain" he
continues, cannot be even
imagined, for imagination
loses Its sensitivity when 1t
attempts to encompass so
vast a field"
"19l8-The Last Act" is
concerned with the finale on
the Western front. Mr.. Pitt
crosses the lines, examining
the planners and combatants
on both sides with equal ease.
Needless TO say, 1t Is not
very pleasant. Here, he de-
scribes the beginning of the
March 81 German attack on
st. Quentin:
TONS OF STEEL and
high explosives fell with
Shattering force upon the
forward positions and the
battle zone lin back Of
them. AS the men crouched
deafened and dazed in their
trenches or staggered drunk
enly toward control points,
the ground rocked and
heaved under them. the sur
rounding fog coiled and
twisted. then sweetened sud-
denly with the sinister taint
Of lethal and lachrymatory
gas. Shocked. cursing with
anger yet sick with fear.
those who survived the first
few seconds pulled on their
gas masks and listened de-
spite the m selves for the
sound Of their own deaths
rushing near"
Mr.. Pitt. and hence his
readers. have three related
weapons against this horror:
contempt, irony and sarcasm.
Gradually, over the next
week." we read. "Petain
brought Gouraud 10 see that
his troops could be Just as
heroic beyond the range Of
the German artillery. and
thus alive. as within the
range, and dead. As, in COM
mon with most OF his con-
freres, Gouraud had not
clearly appreciated this point
before. II must be said that
for a man Of his age, this
acceptance Of military reality
was an intellectual advance
OF no mean order"
Evening star., 1963-01-23
Answers to Questions
BY THE HASKIN SERVICE

Q. A certain type OF blu
ish-white light. produced by
chemicals is called Bengal
Light. Why2-S.N.
A. An English writer on the
history Of fireworks says that
Bengal Light or Bengal Fire
was originally so called be
cause, at that time, the only
overseas source OF saltpeter
was Bengal" The vivid and
sustained blue-white light is
produced by a mixture OF po-
tassium nitrate (saltpeter),
sulphur, and antimony, In
various proportions, pulver-
lied. mixed, and pressed into
shallow vessels.
Evening star., 1963-01-23
A BOOK FOR TO-DAY
Another Trip Throuqh Trenches
BY DONALD MINTZ

This is not much defense
against gas. tanks and heavy
artillery, for the Big Bertha
is mightier than the wise
crack. Still it is something,
and for the most part the
rea der can hover a few
inches above the muddy
trenches even If he cannot
escape the machine gun fire.
For Mr.. Pitt, as for other
students of war, Petain is q
genuine hero, not for any
heroic qualities themselves,
but for the sound realization
that 1t was idiotic to defend
every inch of ground simply
for its own sake. and equally
idiotic to mount frontal at
tacks simply for their own
sake whenever there was any
opportunity and sometimes
when there was none.
THE GERMAN GENERAL,
Erich Ludendorff, emerges as
the loser. first for failing
properly to exploit offensive
successes in the first half
Of 1918. and second. for los
ing his nerve.
Ludendorff, we are told.
had stayed at his desk. HE
had therefore seen events
through the reports which
arrived in 1t, and interpreted
them in the light Of his own
knowledge, experience, intui-
ton or Imagination. From
these he had drawn, during,
September. the conclusion
that his country's forces were
on the brink OF defeat, and
so he had insisted that an
armistice be asked for.
He had been considerably
mistaken" But by the time
he realized the error. the
home front had collapsed,
not because Of the famous
but mythical stab in the
back" but because Luden-
dorff, himself had panicked.
Mr.. Pitt ends on a somber
note. After the end of hos
tilities. German troops con-
tinued to guard a Russian
prison camp. On a cold night
most OF the sentries were
concerned simply with stay
ing awake. One, however,
stood In his box, unaware
OF his present discomfort. his
mind busy with a hundred
half-formed. shadowy ambi-
tions. his pallid, nervous face
twitching with cold and con-
centration.
"obergefrieter Adolph
Hitler was pondering the
future"
, 1963-02-04
Legislature Drops
Election Low And
Introduce New One

The Legislature, upon re-
ceiving word from the Cover
nor that the bill had been We
toed, dropped it and introduc
ed another, Bill No. 1906. The
Democratic minority motion
ed that pubic hearings be
held en- the bill but this was
denied by the Unity members.
The motion was put by Sen
ator Gus Coward, who point
ed out that there were still
many Objectionable features
in the bill. The Democrats
tried to speak under "Prive-
lges Of the Floor on Vicorp
but were denied this oppor-
tunity, the report said.
The text of the Governors
message will be published to-
morrow.
, 1963-02-04
YEAR-OLD PETERS
REST MURDER CASE
BY POLICE

A year ago, February 3, 49,
81, Jose Ortiz Diaz was muir
dered in his home at Peters
Rest. Police investigated, but
was unable at the time to get
anywhere. Today a release
issued by Commissioner Otis
Felix states that upon re-
ceipt Of a lead given to the To-
cal Bureau Of Investigation
on january 80, Commissioner
Felix flew to st. Croix, accom-
panied by Detective Deme-
trio Lopez on February | and
actively assisted Deputy Com
missioner c.. M. Plaskett and
the members of the local Blu
reau of Investigation in solv-
ing the murder.
Hipolito Rivera Soils, 80,
was arrested and charged
with murder in the first de-
gree. His accompiice in this
crime will be taken into Gus
tody.
Francisco Santos Figueroa
was arrested and charged
with misprision of a felony.
Santos is being held with
out bail; Francisco was releas
ed on her own recognizance.
, 1963-02-04
Democrats Entertuin
Severed Hundred
Persons ut Cruner PIX.

Several hundred persons
attended the picnic given by
the Christiansted and Freder-
iksted Democratic Clubs at
Cramer Park yesterday. Not
only were the Dmocrats on
hand to enjoy the buffet lunch
con but there were many from
the opposition party who took
part in the festivities, which
included eating, drinking and
dancing. The quadrille was
featured and many took part.
Senator's Ron de Lugo, Gus
Coward and Frits Lawaetz
were on hand and participated
in the fun.
, 1963-02-04
Hon. E. w. Borrow.
Premier Of Barbados,
Is Surprise Visitor

E. w. Barrow, Premier OF
Barbados, was a surprise vlsl-
tor to St. Croix and particular
" to his sister, Miss Sybil
Barrow, Pharmacist and pro-
prietress of the Santa Cruz
Pharmacy.
Attorney Barrow is not a
total stranger to ST. Croix. He
was brought here at the age
of three months by his parents,
Rev. and Mrs. Barrow and left
at the age Of seven. He attend
ed school in Barbados and in
England where he received
his degrees & became a prac-
ticing attorney. As head of the
Democratic Labor Party he
became premier in 1861, sue
ceeding Sir Grantley Adams.
Mr.. Barrow was in the Unit
Continued on Page A.
, 1963-02-04
Tofen Funeral Services In New York
Attended By Hundreds
GOV. ROCKEFELLER. SEN. JAVITS SEND
TELEGRAMS: FLOWERS BY GOV. PAIEWONSKY

New York, NY Funeral services for Ashley |. Tot
ten, International Secretary-TreasureF of the Brother
hood Of Sleeping Car Porters. were attended by over
1900 persons in ST, Martins Episcopal Church in New
York. Mr.. Totten died last week while vacationng in
the Virgin Islands.
, 1963-02-04

Three ministers, the Rev.
DR.. John II. Johnson Of St.
Martins; Rev. James E. Gun
Their of the Lutheran Church
Of the TRANSPORTATION, and
Rev. DR.. George NJ. Piaskett of
the Epiphany Church, Orange,
New Jersey, and a native of
the Virgin Islands, officiated
at the services.
Although a Lutheran, Mr..
Totten had been active also in
St. Martins, and in many civic
and fraternal groups. This
along with st. Martins great
er seating capacity were the
stated reasons for conducting
the services there.
Leading Organizations and
Groups Represented
All labor organizations, and
many of the prominent civic
groups in New New York City
and elsewhere were represent
ed in the large gathering. In
addition to the three minis
tiers, each Of whom spoke brief
ly of Mr.. Totten's work in be-
half of his fellowmen, repre-
~sentatives of labor, civic
groups and the business COM
munity also paid tribute.
A. Philip Randolph, 1nterna-
tional president of the Broth
erhood recounted Totten's
tireless efforts to lift the Bro
therhood and its members
meager existence to a place
of recognition. Gel. Leopold
Philip, president Of the Up
town Chamber Of Commerce
spoke of Totten's cooperation
and his tireless efforts on be-
half of his native Virgin Is
lands, which he loved SO well.
Malcolm A. Jackson, vice pre-
Continued on Page a
, 1963-02-04
Territorial Bourd Of
Realtors Meets In
ST. Croix

The Virgin Islands Associa-
ton of Boards of Realtors held
an all day meeting at the Ma
hogany Inn in Christiansted on
January %, 1868. The purpose
Of the annual meeting was the
installation of new officers. Mr..
Sam Pivar Of st. Croix was in
stalled as President, and Mr..
Doug Millar as Secretary. OF
fcers from st. Thomas were
Mr.. Warren Brown as Vice Pre-
sident and Mr.. William Bach
man as Treasurer.
Mr.. Warren Young, Counsel
for the Association, spoke brief
" on pending legislation con-
corning the Board. Guest at
the meeting WIS Professor Re
ginald Isaacs, Director Of City
Planning, Harvard University,
who is the consultant to the
Virgin Islands Planning Board.
Professor Isaacs spoke briefly
on the Importance Of planning
in the Islands.
Approximately 10 members
from st. Thomas attended the
meeting.
Hon. E. w. Borrow,
Premier Of Barbados,
Is Surprise Visitor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09

skirt and bodice the pleats
are basted in from top Of
skirt down four inches as
pattern suggests. Is it better
to leave basting In, holding
pleats in rigid position while
turning up hem or should
the pleats. fall loosely before
m arking the hemp Mrs.
Tx.
Answers / prefer to mea-
sure the hem with the bast-
ing out. In this way, the skirt
win fall exactly as it viii
when you are wearing 1t
without the basting, and will
drape over the contour Of
your hips naturally. rl.
Miss Scott is olwoys slod TO hear
from her readers, and whenever pos
sibIs will use their questions in her
column, but because Of the greet
volume Of mol received dolly, she
eonnot onswer individual letters.
In response to requests for
reprints Of her series on slip
coUers, Patricia Scott has
compiled them in booklet
form, Hon To Make Slip
covers" For pour copy of this
helpful booklet, iDrite to Miss
Scott In care of The Star, en-
closing a long, selt-dddressed,
stamped envelope and zoe In
coin to couer cost OF printing
and handling.
g 1868. Publishers Newspaper syndieats
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09
Pep Up Dresses
With New Collar
Rv PATRICIA scoTT

in your pattern. With right
sides together. stitch the
two sections Of the collar to-
gether, leaving the neck
edges open. Trim seams, turn
to the right side and press.
Cuta bias binding one inch
wide and the necessary
length. Bind open both edges,
sewing through both collar
pieces. Turn in ends; turn
in free edges Of binding and
stitch over seam.
Question: How do you
m easure for sleeve length
when altering a pattern? Do
you keep your arm straight?
Miss R.N.
Answer: When measuring
from shoulder to wrist. keep
the arm straight down and
measure inside from under
arm seam to wrist. For
shoulder to elbow and elbow
to wrist, bend arm at a right
angle so that the shoulder to
elbow part Of the arm is
straight down to your side
and the elbow to wrist part is
straight across your stomach.
Question: I'd like to trim
some dresses with sequins
and some with beads. How do
you sew them2-Mrs. A.
DEM.
Answer: For beading (top
sketch sew each bead along
a line Of design using the
backstitch. You can sew on
sequins in the same manner
middle sketch. or. you can
place a bead in the center of
each sequln (bottom sketch).
Some people take the easy
way out and use sequins that
are already banded together
and slip-stitch them to the
garment.
Question: When making a
dress with impressed pleats
in the skirt. before joining
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09
SEAMS TO ME

wonderful pep-up on
dark winter days is q crisp
white collar on a dark wool
dress. Make your collar de-
tachable, so you can remove
in a fifty to wash.
Question: Some Of my
winter dresses look so dreary
I'd like to brighten them up
with white removable collars.
Do I use the same collars as
In the patterns and how do I
finish them?-Miss DIV.
Answer: Yes. use the collar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09
Points for Parents ;, ,.,.. r..-.. v.r...

Childrens participation in family council decisions
should be in accordance Nth their and understanding
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-26
BY ANNE CHRISTMAS
Star Staff Writer

A 17-year-old Montgomery
County youth pleaded guilty
yesterday to a manslaughtel
charge in the death of his
brothers 15-year-old fiancee
in a plane which crashed last
October 10, soon after he spirit
ed it away from the Montgom-
cry County Airpark.
David A. Price, who has been
in the county jail since he was
released from the hospital fol-
lowing the fatal joyride nine
months ago, made his plea be-
fore Circuit Court Judge Wal
ter H. Norman, who post
poned a verdict.
The boys contemporaries
attorney. Barnard T. Welsh,
told the court that David did
what any 16-year-old boy of
his class, who was interested
in planes might have done
and EXCEPT for the horrible &C
cident, he would have had the
same spirit as a Corrigan, a
Lindbergh or an Earhart."
The victim, Bernadette Flint
of Baltimore, was described by
David IS lust like a sister to
me she and my brother
were supposed to have beer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-26
Plane Drops
Rocket on
Eastern Shore

SALISBURY, Md, July 26
(AP) Navy ordnance teams
were sent to a swampy, wooded
area on the Eastern Shore to-
day to search for a rocket acct
dentally dropped from a plane
on a training mission.
The Navy said the air-to-
gound rocket is five inches in
diameter and five feet long. 1t
contains Sc pounds Of explo-
sives and was described as dan
gerous.
Heliccpters from the Norfolk
Navy Ease unsucessfully
searched a l50-acre wooded
sector in the Fairmont-King
ton area of Somerset County
until darkness last night.
A Navy spokesman at Nor
folk said search parties from
the Naval Weapons Station at
yorktown, Va, were sent TO re-
sumo the search early today.
The Navy spokesman said
the rocket dropped after a NAL
function Of controls on the
propeller driven aircraft. The
plane. a Skyraider, had taken
off from the carrier Forrestal
off the Atlantic Coast
The rocket was desrcibed as
being silyer-flint In color with
an olive drab warhead. The
Navy said the explosive prob
ably did not discharge because
the missile fell into a marshy
area and buried itself
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-26
Youth Awaits Sentence
In Fatal Plane Crash

married two days after the
crash"
David testified that he be-
came interested in flying and
was given one lesson while he
was employed at the airpark
to pump fuel in airplanes,
wash them and taxi them
around the field. He told Judge
Norman that he had "soloed
8 of 10 times" and that he had
never been ordered not to fly
by the operators of the airport
in upper Montgomery County.
mo one told me not to fly
or to fly" he said. II figured
I could fly fairly good. 1t no
more occurred to me that
would crash that airplane than
you would think you'd crash
your car didn't think it
would hurt anything"
Montgomery County Police
Officer o. w. Sweat testified
that airport officials called
David "a very poor pilot" The
president of the Freestate Avia-
ton Co., which operates the
field, said that David was fired
two months before the acct
dent because his working hours
had become cratic after he
purchased a car.
Judge Norman said that he
had not decided whether he
would accept David's plea OF
guilty. He postponed his ver-
dict until next week to give
him time to consider the mat
ter fully.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-26
Stute Distributes
Cigarette Tuxes

ANNAPOLIS, July 26 (AP)
Baltimore City and the %
counties will receive checks
totaling $2,868,69 this week as
their share of the cigarette tax
revenue for the last quarter
of the fiscal year.
State Controller Louis l.
GoldStein said the checks boost
to $11,022,044 the amount
subdivisions have received
from the State as their share
Iof the 6-centS-a-pack tax for
the entire year.
Amounts distributed to
counties, showing fourth
quarter payment, with total
for the year in parentheses
include:
Calvert, $14,021 ($53,058) ;
Carroll, $45,694 ($173,233)
Charles, $29,220 ($11O,53D ;
Frederick, $62.044 ($235, 479)
Howard, $32,712 ($123,070) ;
Montgomery, $324,611 ($1,221,-
110); Prince Georges. 1882
Isl 1852, 916), and st. Marys,
$34,635 ($131,05D.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-26
Police to Check on Discrepancies
In Second Borcroft Re-enoctment

A second re-enactment fol-
police yesterday of events sur
rounding the mysterious Lake
Bancroft death of Edwin G
Grimsley turned up diScrep-
ancies in the stories told earlier
by witnesses.
Police Chief William L. Dur
rer said the differences were
not of major importance. But
he said detectives will reques-
ton the 10 people who were
on Beach 4 of the lake when
the 35-year-old Fairfax County
businessman died there July Is.
Mr.. Grimsley's body was
found in six feet of water half
an hour after he swan in
pursuit of four teen-age boys
in a canoe after they ha d