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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
AFTER BREAKFAST

AFTER BREAKFAST I
stopped in on Joe Rauh, vice
chairman of the Democratic
Party.
He was not as concerned
as the Republican chair
man on congressional reac-
ton to the cost of the vote.
eve have the vote by con-
stitutional amendment and
Congress won't take it away"
He agreed that apathy is
the m ain problem but
doubted that $4,000 voters
we're actually registered in
the 1860 primary whic h
brought out only $4,000.
Much of that registration
was carried over from 1856,
our first primary" he said.
I'VE used the list of reg
istered voters to send out no.
tees and a big portion of
them came back. There's a
big turnover in Washington
in four years. Many had
moved and left no forward
ing address.
That we vote only every
four years is the big prob
lem.
I'VE hope to get out the
vote through organization.
We have one third of the 81
precincts organized. We are
working on a second third.
We hope to have them all
organized come election day
1864.
I'm most cities there is
some kind of election every
fall. Perhaps home rule
would help"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
Crime Bill
Compromise
Is Foreseen
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer

Washington Police chic
Robert v. Murray today indi-
Gated he would accept Justice
Department safeguards in leg
islation that would give police
more leeway in holding and
questioning suspects.
Deputy Attorney General
Mic olas deb. Katzenbach
limited that Justice, too, might
agree to compromise by cutting
the number Of safeguards for
suspects.
This willingness to give and
take at a Senate District Com
mittee hearing was the first
clear indication that the heart
of a House bill might be kept
alive in the Senate.
The major provision of the
omnibus anti-crime bill, cleared
by the House, would prevent
the barring Of confessions solely
because of delay between arrest
and arraignment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
CONVENTIONS
TODAY

The National Lum Der
Manufacturers Association
goes into the second day
at the Shoreham.
The Association of Mill
tary Surgeons of the United
States goes into the Sec
ond of a four-day conven-
ton at the Statler Hilton.
This information is supplied
By the Convention and Visitors
Bureau Of the Metropolitan Wash
tngton Board Of Trade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
Missing Papers Hunted
Columbia Plaza Fiqht

urban renewal program, said
that while he does not know
what was in the missing files.
Il feel they were important"
IF this material wasn't i'm.
portant. we would not have
been keeping it. The loss of
any file is significant. I don't
want to minimize this situa-
ton"
Asked if he had any idea
what happened to the folders,
Gen. Duke said 81 don't know
where they went or what hap
pened to them"
The files disappeared before
Gen. Duke was assigned to duty
as Engineer Commissioner here.
An intensive search has been
made for the folders, but no
trace of them has been found.
Two staff members of the
House District Committee who
visited the District Building
Friday were told that the rec
ords had disappeared.
Check Other Files
The committee staff MEM
bers returned to the District
Building again yesterday to
check files in the offices of
Walter N. Tobriner, president
OF the District Board of Com
miSsioners, and Gen. Duke.
These committee staff mem
bers have also been looking
through Columbia Plaza files
in several other offices in the
District Building.
Meanwhile, all Columbia
Plaza records in the Districts
Office of Urban Renewal have
been transferred to a locked
file. Previously these documents
had been stored in a cabinet
without a lock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
ContractCanceIed,
Library Board Hit
In Prince Georges
Commissioners End Power
To Purchase in Study of Bids
BY PETER MASLEY
Star staff Writer

The Prince Georges County Commissioners have removed
major purchasing from the library board and have
declared invalid contract the board signed with Remington
Rand Corp
The contract would certainly se competitive bidding"
said County Attorney Robert Matthias provided
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
By CHARLES d. PIERCE
.t Star Staff Writer

An investigation has been
launched by the District gov
eminent into the disappearance
of certain papers on the con-
troverSial Columbia Plaza
project.
The probe was ordered yes
terday by one of the District
Commissioners, but the nature
of the investigation was not
divulged.
Won't Minimize
Three of the Is folders of
Columbia Plaza papers kept in
the Urban Renewal Office at
the District Building were
found to be missing last March.
Engineer commissioner
Charles M. Duke. who super
vises the District Governments
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05

as being very concerned
about apathy regarding next
years election. He said that
in Washington there is a
feeling similar to that in
Indian reservations-many
resident feel they are wards
Of the Government.
Washington is SIS per cent
Negro and Negro apathy
about voting is a matter of
statistics in Northern cities,
he said.
I'm Harlem a striking fig
ure like Adam Clayton Powell
is not able to bring out a
large percentage of the po-
tential votes"
The Republican chairman
is concerned that the con-
gressional appropriations of
$260,000 for next years cleo
tons may cost as much as
81 a vote.
Congress will not put up
with that"
There are other drawbacks.
A large portion of Washing
tons $4,000 residents over 81
CHATS the census figure) are
employed by the Govern
ment. They have noticed the
changes from Democratic to
Republican administrations
that have occurred in their
lifetime. 1t makes them hest
tant about registering as
Democrats or Republicans to
vote in the primaries.
The Hatch Act is thought
to prohibit Government EN-
ployes from working for the
party. They are not avail
able to serve as precinct cap
tains or stuff envelopes or
ring doorbells.
And 1t has engendered
fears beyond its scope. Gov
eminent workers are afraid
to wear campaign buttons
or have stickers on their
automobiles, although the
Civil Service Commission has
made it clear that this is all
right away from work.
He said the 1860 primary
had brought out a disap-
pointing vote. OF $4,000 reg
istered, only $4,000 voted.
Inexperience was another
difficulty. Ballot boxes were
lost from trucks on their way
to the Armory, where the
counting was going on, and
never were recovered.
"Just inefficiency," he said.
"The missing boxes indicated
no political pattern.
"But it took inexperienced
workers, mostly women, days
to tabulate the big paper
ballots"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
The
Rambler
Notes
This Is Election Day
BY GEORGE KENNEDY

BY GEORGE KENNEDY
This is the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in
November = election day.
1t is an off year.
Elections across the coun-
try are largely municipal.
Nothing different in WASH
ington.
Banks and liquor stores
open. No day off for Govern
ment workers.
But next year come this
Tuesday citizens in the Dis
trict of Columbia will vote
for President.
I breakfast occasionally at
the round table in the Press
Club with Carl shipley,
chairman of the Republican
Party in the District.
Yesterday I asked him
about it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
Time Limit Objection

The Colorado Republican OBJ
jected to the 6-hour time limit
as a flag" for either an arrest
ing officer to hold all suspects
that long or to a suspect to
keep quiet that long and then
go free.
Chief Murray said he could
not emphasize too strongly the
dire need" for the Mallory
modification, a controversial
local issue in Congress for five
years.
81 recognize therefore, that il
may be necessary to consider
some compromise positions
which do not impair excessively
the effectiveness of these pro-
poSals, in order to obtain early
legislative relief in some form,
Chief Murray assured Commit
tee Chairman Bible, Democrat
of Nevada.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
Dissent Recalled

Mr.. Katzenbach explained
that a 1853 dissent by four
Supreme Court justices sug-
geSted that the simple warning
in the House bill was not ade-
quate.
Private questioning by police
without permitting the arrested
person to be accompanied by
his lawyer amounts to denial of
due process of law, Mr.. Katzen-
back noted that these justices
believed.
But Senator Dominick, Re-
publican of Colorado, said he
was dubious of writing many
requirements into the law.
1.-THE more you have, the
more shillalahs you give to de-
tense attorneys to say require
ments haven't been lived up
to-" the Senator said.
what if you had just the
first two safeguards?" Senator
Dominick asked.
This would go a long way
toward preserving Constitu-
tional rights of defendants, y
Mr.. Katzenbach said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-05
Mallory Ruling

The language seeks to modify
a Supreme Court ruling which
freed convicted rapist Andrew
Mallory on grounds his con-
fession was obtained during an
unnecessary delay" after his
arrest and before his arraign-
ment.
The House insisted that ar
rested persons must be advised
before police question them
that they need not say any,
thing.
But Justice recommended
four more safeguards for de-
PENDANTS. Mr.. Katzenbach, In
opening testimony this morn
ing, asked for:
/. A plain warning to a de-
PENDANT that any statement BY
him may be used against him
2. A chance for defendants
to notify a relative, friend OIL
lawyer.
8. An end to police ques-
tioning after arrest, and before
completion of any confession
at six hours.
4. A witness, other than 9
policeman, to observe question.
ling.
Evening star., 1963-01-14
Bonn Promises Support
Of NATO A-Force Plan

"The talks lasted two hours,
he said. I'VE will discuss this
theme for a long time to come
maybe weeks or months"
Today's talks we're attended
on the German side by Foreign
Minister Gerhard Schroeder
and Defense Minister Kai-Uwe
Won Hassel. Mr.. Ball was ac-
.companied by Thomas K. Fin
letter, United States Ambassa-
dor to NATO, and James Green
field, Deputy Assistant Secre-
tary OF State. Mr.. Ball returns
to Washington tomorrow.
Mr.. Hase said today's pledge
by the Germans would help
boost creation of a mutual and
effective defense force.
Bonn government sources had
no immediate comment on Pres
ident de Gaulle's news confer
ence statement in Paris that
France cannot join the British
American agreement establish
ing the multinational Polaris
force.
Evening star., 1963-01-14

BONN, Germany, Jan. IA
CAP. - Government leaders
headed by Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer promised United
States Undersecretary Of State
George w. Ball today West
German support for multilat :
eral nuclear force within the
North Atlantic Treaty Organ
ization, government press chief
Karl -Guenther Won Hase re-
ported.
All NATO members are to
have rights and duties in the
new force in accordance with
their strength and ability, Mr..
Hase told n news conference
He said orders to cooperate
in realization of this aim would
be issued to the West German
Ambassador to NATO, Wilhelm
Grewe.
Mr.. Hase described today's
talk with Mr.. Ball as extra
ordinarily positive" but added
that details are nottan.
that details were not discussed
Evening star., 1963-01-14

great problem on how to fit
Britain into the Common Mar
ket.
Britain Might Give In
He added, however, that
there has sometimes been rea-
son to think that Britain is
considering Transforming itself
to apply all the conditions ac-
cepted and practiced by the six
Common Market members.
But the question now, Gen.
de Gaulle said, is to know if
Britain can put itself into a
position to drop ties with the
commonwealth, cease to pro-
tect its agriculture and to break
its ties with the three trade
area nations. He said it Is up
to Britain to reply.
Referring to possibilities Of a
larger Atlantic community, in
which the United States would
presumably be the leader, he
said this might be justified in
the eyes of some but that this
was not what France wanted
when it joined the Common
Market.
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DE GAULLE
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He said that France had never
asked for this.
Gen. de Gaulle declared that
he could foresee many difficult
ties and complications in using
a force with multinational con-
troll. He made 1t clear that
France intended to be its own
boss with its own nuclear
force.
Why" he asked, should we
buy Polaris missiles from
America since we have neither
the submarines nor the nu-
clear warheads for them? And
when we have such a sub
marine and the warheads,
what then will the Polaris be
worth?"
He asserted that no one could
say II, where and how the
American nuclear armament
would be employed for the de-
Tense Of Europe. He conceded
that the American arsenal re-
nained the essential guarantee
Of world peace, but said the
American deterrent "does not
necessarily meet all the even
Qualities which might confront
Europe"
Brussels Talks Resume
On the subject of the Com
mon Market. Gen. de Gaulle
said he feels Britain occupied
an economic position incom-
patible with the Common Mar
ket. But he said that If Britain
wishes to reorient its economy
it will be welcomed by the six
Common Market nations.
Britain resumed negotiations
in Brussels To-day for enetry
into the continental trading
bloc. France has been cool to
the application.
Gen. de Gaulle said Britain
had asked to join the Common
Market but on its own condi-
tions. Britain, he said, is in
sular, maritime and linked
through the commonwealth
with distant, diversified coun-
tries. Britain's economy is
mostly commercial and indus
trial with little agricultural, he
went on.
I'm brief" Gen. de Gaulle
said, "the nature and structure
Of Britain is profoundly diff
ferent from the continental
states" He said this posed a
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Evening star., 1963-01-01
Civil Service SIeuths

Charles Guteau cost the life Of President, but his
act Of assassination did in two minutes for the
Of clean than the civil service refoers had
managed to do in two decades
Today, force of than TOO investigators in the
Civil Service Commissions Bureau Of Personnel Investiga
tons carries the congressional mandates and preden
ta orders that began coming into being after the shooting
of President Garfield in 1891 Their goal is to insure that
the men and women in the Federal service not only
competent reliable but of answering loyalty to their
country.
When James Garfield inaugurated in 1884, the
usual swarm of offceseekers descended Washington
demanding payment for services rendered in the election
One of them perpatetic lawyer author evangelist
and swnder named Guiteau. He had written speech in
Garfelds behalf which had been delivered, but he
thought the least the President could do appoint
him ambassador to Austria.
July 1884, Guiteau awaited the President in the
old red brick building that then Washngtons railroad
station AS the President passed. Guteau shot him in the
back In the press. Guiteau portrayed disap-
pointed office seeker in search of and the whole
sordd story Federal patronage suddenly and dra
matically brought into perspective
President Garfield died September 49, 1881. Less
than three months later Senator George Pendeton of
Ohio chairman Of the Senate Committee Civil Service
Reform was ready with bill to regulate and improve the
civil service favorably reported to the Senate in
May 1882-just a month before Guteau hanged-and
was signed by President Chester A. Arthur on January l6
1888.
Evening star., 1963-01-01

he was just getting advance
information. E"
The ninth witness: Il know
nothing about his family ex-
cept they're supposed to have
a lot of political power. I don't
think much of him as an engi-
neer. I tried going to him for
information, but he always
referred me to someone work.
ing under him"
The tenth witness: Hes not
very informative about his per-
sonal affairs. He's very discreet
and not a blabbermouth at all. "
Adams blinked at that as
the information he was pick
ing up could only have come
from Duchet - his family's
money and power, his heroic
war record, his ballerina wife.
Duchet had lived at the same
address since 1858 and -four
neighbors told Adams they
knew him we'll. They were
unanimous in singing his
praises-a quiet man, a good
neighbor with a heart Of gold
They knew him as a single man
Puzzling over the marriage
Adams visited an apartment
listed by Duchet as one of his
three Chicago addresses, but
the turnover of tenants in sew
en- years temporarily defeated
him. BY checking city direc-
tories. he traced two former
neighbors, both women with
good memories.
Il didn't ask him anything
about his personal life" the
first volunteered. He JUS
Evening star., 1963-01-01

ly asked every key employe at
the plant to fill out a per
sonnel security" QUESTIONABLE.
Along with the others, Duchet
answered all the questions.
Like all the rest of us, Duchet
had been filling out question:
naires for years. There's a
form for everything-for jobs,
taxes, credit, insurance, college,
the draft, passports. Since more
people are honest than dis
honest, the questionnaires we
fill out may be checked only
specifically unless some glar-
ing discrepancy presents itself
Perhaps Duchet figured his
"personnel security" question:
naire would be handled the
same way-just go into a file
in Washington and be forgot
ten. None of his answers had
ever been questioned before.
The rising young engineer
overlooked one fact: The gov
eminent no longer takes its
security for granted. The
agency awarding the contract
to Duchet's plant was one
known in government parlance
as highly sensitive" Under
the law, private contractors
given access to this agency's
secrets had to get the same
security clearance as the gov
ernment's own employees.
Routinely, then, Duchet's
questionnaire arrived with a
batch of others at the Civil
Service Commissions Investi-
cations Division one August
day in 1859. Routinely, the
"highly sensitive" agency re-
quested a full field investiga-
ton" Of John Duchet. That
meant checking his life back
to his birth, with particular
emphasis on his adult years.
Every answer the engineer had
given would have to be verified
if it took a dozen investigators
to do it. And the agency
wanted the answers in a hurry,
so it could get the device into
production without delay.
Within 70 hours, copies of
Duchet's QUESTIONABLE were en-
route to investigators in three
cities, along with enough infor-
nation to let each one know
what the others were checking
The Duchet file had been giver
a number to keep track of il
among the thousands in vari'
Evening star., 1963-01-01

! to any two witnesses. He took
into account that man might
appear different to his boss
than to the men who worked
under him, that the witnesses
own personalities might affect
their opinions. Still, Adams
figured, if he interviewed
enough witnesses he should get
a reliable composite picture.
Here's what he got:
The first witness: Hes prob
ably all right but not the type
Il would care to associate with
outside of business. Too ego
tistical. From what he told
me, he was married some time
| in 1854, but it only lasted a
few months. He said I should
not tell anyone he had ever
been married"
The second witness: II heard
his wife was a ballet artist
who Travelled all over the world.
Somebody told me they're now
divorced"
The third witness: Johns
father is president emeritus OF
a large university and the fam
lily is quite we'll off. John was
married to a hometown girl, a
very talented danseuse, but as
Il understand it, the marriage
was annulled. John has quite a
war record. but he doesn't say
much about it. He was wounded
by machine gun fire from a
strafing German fighter plane
in North Africa. He showed us
the scar"
The fourth witness: John
told me he had seen his former
wife's parents on a visit home
and they gave him a very pleas
ant reception. John would
like to remarry but his family
doesn't want him marrying be-
low their cultural and financial
status. :"
The fifth witness: John
isn't the sort to talk about his
personal affairs, but I did hear
he'd been m arried at one
time. :"
The sixth witness: II under
stand he comes from a very
wealthy family but his father
is dead. John has quite a war
record. He told me once
that as he lay near death on
the battlefield, he vowed he
would devote his life to some
worthy project if he was spared.
When he recovered from his
wounds, he went into teach
ing. ;"
The seventh witness: John
is the type to get under your
skin, the way he's always talk
ing about himself. If you met
him face-to-face, you'd think
he was the cleaneSt-cut chap
you ever saw, but he shouts at
meetings and threatens to re-
sign if anyone put any pressure
on him. He might divulge
secrets just to prove how i'm
portant he is"
The eighth witness: while
he worked under my supervi-
sion, he used to pump me witt
questions about my job. Later
y when he replaced me, I realized
Evening star., 1963-01-01

thorities. Duchet departed and
no one in the town had ever
seen him again.
Source of Trouble
Meanwhile, Investigator Tom
Gordon was checking the fac
tory in Fountain City where
Duchet said he worked during
the four-month gap spotted by
the investigators.
II remember him." the super
visor said. "A constant source
of trouble. One thing that
sticks in my mind is the way he
had of telling fantastic stories.
He was usually late for work
and would come up with the
most unbelievable excuses. -"
The supervisor recalled that
Duchet had lived at a nearby
inn. There, Gordon found two
women residents who remem-
bered him well, but not fondly.
Duchet, they said, claimed his
father, an admiral, had been
killed In action In the Pacific
and his sister was a famous
physician. The hotel owner, an
elderly widow, was completely
taken with Duchet. While he
was living there, she COM
planned several times that
money had been stolen from
the cash drawer. Other guests
reported their trinkets were
missing.
Some time later, the two
longtime residents took a trip
through Indiana and out of GU
riosity decided to pay a call on
Duchet's family in Gary. The
sister was there. They thought
her a very nice woman, but she
was a stenographer-not a fa-
nous physician. Before they
left, they noticed something
that shook them. The sister
used a cigarette lighter which
one of the women recognized
AS the one she had missed while
Duchet was in residence. She
knew it was her lighter from
its unusual shape, even before
she spotted her initials.
When the reports from Far
rell and Gorden reached Wash
|ington, the desk officer under
stood why Duchet had omitted
mentioning his teaching career
and his short stay in Fountain
City
If the investigators had ae-
cepted Duchet's answers as he
gave them, his vulnerability to
blackmail and his compulsive
urge to impress his fellows
would never have been uncov-
cred. Having come this far,
Duchet could be expected to do
anything to protect himself
from exposure. AS for his de-,
sire to be somebody, what would
be more likely to impress others
than an inside knowledge of the
workings of a secret device?
The Civil Service Commission
investigators had simply gath
cred the facts. 1t was up to
their client, the highly sensi-
tive" government agency, to de-
eide whether, on the basis of
these facts, John Duchet could
be trusted with information in
volving the national security"
The answer was mo" .~
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