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The Republican., 1963-12-03

encourage creative and imaginative
play, Toy Guidance Council re
ports.
Mechanical animals do amazing
new tricks in today's toyland
Among the ingenious new models
is a pooch who catches a ball in
his mouth when it is thrown and
gives it back when his ear is
tWickcd and then walks away
The highly realistic dolls and
animals also are accompanied by
models that are inspired by sheer
fantasy, thus giving the doll world
an all time record for intriguing
variety.
The Republican., 1963-12-03

Keep the plant out of drafts and
N 70 safe distance from extreme
heat or cold. Sci it on tray OF
pebbles and add water up to the
level Of the pebbles but not touch
ine The poi; A. the water cvapo-
rates. it increases ,hc moisture in
the air. Add mere water daily TO
keep constant lcVcl
The Republican., 1963-12-03
Poinsettiu Lasts With
Attention To Its Gore

Favoritc flower for Christmas
giving is the poinsettia It's cs-
pecally appreciated because it
lasts beyond the Christmas season
but only if proper care is taken
Tine poinscttia loves warmth and
humidity
The Republican., 1963-12-03
Oliver Has Choice
OF Radio, TV, Or
Record Players
Todoy's Trend Is Toward
Furniture Styled"
Entertainment

The new tclcvisions, record
players and radios are furniture
styled to fiji with any decor
For years, women have com
planned that practical but not par
ticularly pretty telcvisions record
players and radios were detracting
from Jhcir decorating schemes.
Then, when hi-fidelity came
cong. with its many oddehaped
paris and mcchanisms, the clutter
seemed to be complete.
Today. however The trend is TO
incorporate entertainment systems
into room schemes.
The newest tvs. radios and rec
ord players are housed in cabinets
and cases, that are not only attrac-
tive. but also automatically styled to
enhance every decor Even hi-fi
tuners and amplicers display a
smart new look
This Christmas. when selecting
entertainments gifts, you'll be able
TO choose from a wide array of
Colonial, traditional, French Pro-
vlncial and contemporary styled
models in every color, veneer and
wood
Dual Purpose
Very new are actual pieces of
furniture that contain built-in tvs.
record players or radios. Many OF
these do "doub c-dutv" as for in
stance a bench, with built-in tv and
stcreo. that converts to a desk in
moments These, Of course are
especially appropriate for use in
smaller homes and apartments
whore space is at a premium
Many of the new entertainment
models are good-looking enough 30
become the focal point of a room,
and very often they dc, Keeping this
in mind smart S2ntas will make it
point TO check the preferences
of the person for whom the gift
is intended before shopping
The Republican., 1963-12-03

It is a good idea to follow the
advice of your local tobacconist
instead of picking a pipe solely on
the basis Of price or eye appeal.
Sweet smoking quality is to be
found in almost every price range
and the tobacconist can suggest
the shape and style most suitable
to the individual
The Republican., 1963-12-03
Pipe Smokers Like
To Get New Ones

Nothing you can give a man for
Christmas will become part of his
life as quickly and completely as
new pipe. 1t will give him many
hours of quiet enjoyment
The Republican., 1963-12-03
REMEMBER CERTIFICATES

Presents to please everybody on
the list, big gifts and little gifts,
arc abundantly available in local
stores. And for Santas who can't
decide on the right gifts, there's
still nope Gifts certificates are
easy to give. sure to please.
Evening star., 1963-01-06
Armed Bundits
Hold Up Two
Highs Stores

Two Highs stores we're rob-
bed by several bandits in sep
arate holdups yesterday. The
dairy products chain said the
thieves took a total of S67.69.
In the first holdup, police
said a gunman took $20.69 from
a Highs establishment at 207
Fifteenth street NE.
The store manager, Miss 10
Iris Thomas, told police the
gunman placed the money in a
paper bag and escaped in an
auto in which an accomplice
was waiting.
A lookout was broadcast for a
colored youth 10 or 20 years
old, about 5 feet Z inches in
height, wearing a tan wind
breaker, brown trousers and
black shoes.
Robbery Squad detectives
said another Highs store - at
2001 Eighteenth street NV
was robbed of SAT by a knife
carrying bandit at 1920 pm.
Miss Geneva Merrett, "a, a
clerk, said the bandit, after
asking and paying for a pack Of
chewing gum. handed her a
note which read: This is a
holdup. Put all the money in
the bag. Hurry if you value
your life."
Miss Merrett said the thief
carried a butcher knife. A police
lookout described him as a 25-
to-27-year-old Negro about s
feet 5 inches tall, weighing
about 145 pounds. He wore an
Army-type field jacket, green
pants and a dark cap.
Evening star., 1963-01-06
Forum Series to Debate
Religion in Schools

William B. Ball, executive di-
rector and counsel for the
Pennsylvania Catholi: Welfare
Committee, is expected to take
a firm attitude favoring last
years Supreme Court decision
on religious observanceS in
schools. Lawrence Speiser, di-
rector of the ACLU's Washing
ton office, will take the oppos-
ing view.
Bishop Dun swings In the
middle" said Ben D. Segal, To-
rum moderator and IUE edu-
cation director.
The session will be at 8 pm.
on the fifth floor of the Dis
trict Building, Fourteenth and
E streets NV.
The Northwest Community
Forum series other meetings,
at the Cleveland Park Library
all at 8 pm. on their respective
dates, will be;
February 13-"The Plight of
Our Schools; March 13-
Crime and Punishment in the
Nations Capital; April 10
Foreign Policy in the New
Frontier" and May 8-"The
Public Welfare Dilemma"
Evening star., 1963-01-06
3 Bandits Get
S1,130in HoIdup
Of Liquor Store

Three bandits robbed a
Northwest Washington liquor
store of $1,130 yesterday and
escaped after locking the store
owner and a clerk in a rear
room.
Robbery Squad detectives said
one of the robbers entered the
Hamilton Beverage Store at
l245 Twenty y-second street NV
at IL am. and confronted the
owner, Louis e. Ross, At, OF
North Chevy Chase, with a 49,
caliber pistol.
AS the armed bandit searched
MIR. Ross pockets, police said
two other men, apparently un-
armed, entered the store. After
ordering the owner and an
employe, William H. Mutt, to
lie on the floor, the three mer
took $1,106 from a safe and O
cash register.
Police said the bandits also
took SIS from Mr.. Ross and IS
from the store clerk. The
thieves locked both men in 6
room at the back of the store
and fled.
The armed member of the
trio was described in a lookout
as a Negro, 20 to Is years old
5 feet 7 inches tall and weigh
ing $50. He wore a black leather
Jacket. A second bandit wal
described as a Negro of 20 tC
rs, height 5 feet, 8 inches anc
weight about $50. He wore 6
lig h t-colored thre e-quarter'
length jacket. No detailed de-
scription Of the third man was
given.
Evening star., 1963-01-06
Man Found Dead
In Hotel Room

A South Carolina man was
found dead in his hotel room
yesterday in Silver Spring,
Montgomery county police re-
ported.
Police said a maid at the
Corvin Castle Hotel, 10 Old
Post office road, discovered the
body of Robert Grady Benson,
81, of Gaffney, S. c.
Evening star., 1963-01-06
Grand Lodge Officer

j. August johnson, jr, has
been elected grand secretary of
the Grand Lodge, F. A. A. M.
of the District of Columbia. Mr..
johnson, who was grand mas
ter of the lodge in 1860, is re-
tiring from the Internal Reve-
nue. Service, after more than 4S
years of Government service, to
fill the office.
Evening star., 1963-01-06

The Democrat sponsored
Northwest Community Forum
series of public affairs discus
sions will open w e d n e S d a y
night with retired Episcopal
Bishop Angus Dun, a Catholic
welfare director and an Amer-
can Civil Liberties Union Off
cial debating Religion in the
Public Schools"
The forum series, sponsored
last year by individual Demo-
cratic precincts, this year is
backed by the international
Union of Electrical Workers
and Northwest Democratic Pre-
cinct groups.
Evening star., 1963-01-06
South Rhodesiu Hits
u. N. Air Violations

SALISBURY, Southern Rho
desia, Jan. S (AP) The Rho
desian Federal Government in
formed the United Nations
today it Is placing fighter plane
patrols on its borders with
Katanga because a number of
u. N. fighters violated Rhode
sian airspace.
A government sta tie m e n I
charged that three U. N
Swedish Saab fighters flew
over Rhodesian territory this
morning. 1t referred to similar
violations last year for which
the United Nations apologized
Evening star., 1963-01-06
COP. Group
Rops U. Ms
RokinCongo

The executive committee OF
the Young Republican Fedora
ton of Virginia yesterday criti-
cized United States policy in the
Congo, contending that 1t vio-
lates the principle of self
determination"
A resolution by the group
expressed utter contempt fol-
the interventionist military
role of the United Nations in
the Congo-Katanga dispute and
for United States support of the
same"
A co-sponsor of the Katanga
resolution was Sam Garrison
one of three college students
who journeyed to the Congo
last summer and interviewed
Katanga President Noise
Tshombe, U. N. and Central
Congolese government officials
for a report on the Katanga
situation.
Mr.. Garrison, a senior at the
University of Virginia, is a vice
chairman of the Young Repub-
lican Federation.
The Executive Committee
also urged "wholehearted sup
port of the full execution oi
the Monroe Doctrine as 1t ap-
plies to Cuba and that the
United States not in any way
compromise its sovereignty Of
traditional position in this mat
ter"
State Republican Chairman
Horace E. Henderson told thu
committee that the G. o. P
would become the dominan'
political party in Virginia thi'
year.
The group met at the M. T
Broyhill Building in Airing
ton.
Evening star., 1963-01-06
IT'S WARMER IN THE COOLER,
VAGRANT TELLS POLICE JUDGE

NORFOLK (AP).-A 36-year-old vagrant has written
Police Court Judge Lleweyn Richardson asking him to
make his 90-day sentence at the city farm longer
1.-THE work is hard" he wrote, "but don't mind, for
here can and have shoes and cloths The only cloths
have is a few summer And guess would freez
with them on during this cold weather"
The letter headed Season Greeting" and concluding
"very truly wishing you and your staff merry, merry
Xmas and very happy New Year." drew sympathy but
little else from the judge who is allowed to reduce mans
sentence but not lengthen it.
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tenn Of twelves instead Of tens,
e.g, IL inches to the foot and IL
pence to the shilling, despite a
sweeping reform on the Continent
in the 10th century to bring all
measures into q simpler decimal
structure.
An early symptom Of trouble
came in World War I when the
British Army chung to Its curious
measures. puzzling allies by such
oddities as calling q gun o six
FOUNDER instead Of by Its shells
diameter. And the problem con-
tinued to handicap the Tommies
in World War II on a far broader
scale.
Today both the British and
American armies are gradually
adopting the metric system, as
their scientists did long ago. but
old Albion stu finds her cur
rency and commercial measures
a cumbersome anachronism In
foreign trade. Any importer who
must move . British product
through other currency areas
knows the headaches Of trans
lating o 5 per cent tax on IS
pounds three shillings and SIX
pence.
With entry into the Common
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29

Market becoming more essential
to England's future, what once
seemed only quaint has become a
grave problem. Other countries
which have already dropped the
British duodecimal system In favor
of tens include India. South Africa
and Burma. Australia will switch
in 1865. calling its chief unit the
dollar. New Zealand also plans
q conversion within four years.
Last week, after nearly two
years Of study, q British govern
ment committee recommended a
new decimal currency. The plan
calls for keeping the traditional
pound, which dates back to
Roman times, but would make 1t
equal an even 100 cents. The
change would require . three
year transition period before
D-Day (for Decimalization).
Even as the report shook The
City, London's financial center,
observers agreed that at least for
the short run, things would be
cheaper by the dozen. England
has l.5 billion pennies and / bill
lion happenings TO take out Of CIR
culation, as a starter. Estimated
cost Of decentralization: $3.50
million.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
Trode:
Headaches

The poultry war between the
United States and Europe
headed toward arbitration last
week. Canada, meanwhile, dis
closed q new trade headache:
II may cut in half imports of
U. s. cars. And in q historic
move, Britain limited q switch
to a decimal system for its cur
rency, q sign Of renewed Com
mon Market efforts.
Free trade, one Of the greatest
blessings which a government can
confer on q people. Is in almost
every country unpopular"
In the intervening century,
and-a-half since British essayist
Thomas Darlington Macaulay
penned those words, the world has
tinkered nightly with tariffs
without getting much closer TO
the blessing he promised.
The current Washington mi
graine over Common Market
duties on American chicken ex-
ports, prompted by poultry-rais-
ing States with powerful con-
gressional delegations, is a prize
example, Since the Market hiked
its duty last year from 40 to 1874
cents a pound on our chickens,
the situation has been heading
in the opposite direction from
free trade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
THE NATIONAL SCENE

Council Of Ministers made an
apparent final gesture: A 10 per
cent cut, bringing the duty down
to 12.1 cents a pound. Washington
replied in q softer tone and Of
fered a way out. 1t still protested,
but was willing to submit the
whole quarrel to an independent
Judge.
In all likelihood, the Solomon
will be a committee Of the Cen
eral Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade. After hearing both sides,
the GAIT panel would rule on
whether $46 million is an accu-
rate figure. (The Common Mar
ket thinks It's more like SIG mil
lion. and France shrugs 1t off as
a $12 million bagatelleO Assum-
ing GAIT finds the Yankee esti-
mate on the high side, the United
States under the scheme would
adjust its retaliatory tariffs down.
ward.
Not so easily solved is Canada's
distressing trade deficit in deal
ing with this country. The loss
has been running at $l.4 billion
a year. and although American
investments north of the border
largely offset this ($l.2 billion
annually, the leakage has reached
serious proportions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
Space Budget

Not so kindly handled was the
civilian space budget, which has
been under fire this year from
some skeptics who wonder II
reaching the moon first Is really
worth $40 billion. A House APP
propriations subcommittee peeled
the annual money bill last week
down to $751; billion Tvs. more
than $5.7 billion asked by the
White House,.
Advocates OF the moon at-any-
price theory have warned that
Congressional Sailing on the
Project Apollo money this year
already has set back the schedule
by five months. Helping not at
all was President Kennedy's re-
cent proposal Of a Joint United
States-Soviet lunar shot, which
left some lawmakers more con-
fused than ever about spending
limits.
A day after President Kennedy
signed a new quarter billion-dol-
lar bill to help build new medical
schools last week. another educa-
ton measure passed q milestone.
The Senate Labor Committee APP
proved a SIT billion authorization
for private and public college con-
struction spread over the next
five years.
Anticipating objections by some
Congressman on church-state re-
lations, the measure would limit
the grants to science, engineering,
and library buildings. Included
also was o step-up in vocational
education grants to States from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
Blow to Detroit

Top officials OF the two ma
tions wound UP talks in Washing
ton a week ago with the disclosure
that Canada may reduce Its i'm
ports Of United States autos by
about 5000 million to halt the
outflow. Cars represent the larg-
est single item in its trade deficit,
and the cut would trim our auto
sales there by nearly IS per cent.
No definite decision has been
reached, but 1t brought thought
full expressions 10 United States
Commerce and State Department
officials.
Plainly. the new Liberal gov
ornment in Canada is Its own
boss, whatever the opposition
party may have said in recent
elections.
For the last 10 centuries or so,
England has proudly gone It's in
sular way in such matters as
currency, weights and measures.
Often as not. 1t preferred q Sys-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29

the Munich settlement as COM
patible with the survival of
Czechoslovakia. Sir Winston
Churchill and I, then, Of course,
out Of office. were sitting together
discussing a cartoon which de-
rided as scaremongers those who
held opinions such as ours, when
the news Of the German entry
into Prague was brought to us.
It should be worth while to
probe how these mistaken
thoughts could have grown so
strongly and to have a care lest
they should thrive again. Funda-
mentally 1t was the fault Of
"appeasement," of cherishing the
illusion that to buy a little time,
even at the expense Of the Secu-
rity Of an ally at second remove,
was to contribute to peace,
whereas 1t was in truth a sur
render to the threat Of force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
The Foreign Scene

Indonesia's Foreign Minister Su-
bandrio at the United Nations last
week.
Meanwhile. the British seethed
over Mr.. Sukarno's attitude and
actions. Indonesian police tried to
break open q fireproof safe in the
burned out shell of the British
Embassy building last week, APP
parently in search Of state secrets.
And Mr.. Sukarno has given no
satisfactory reply to British de-
mands that he tell them exactly
when he plans to turn back to
their owners British firms seized
the week before last as q "protec-
tive" measure.
In anticipation Of grimmer days
ahead. the British Foreign Office
ordered the female staff person.
mel and dependents Of Embassy
officers, including the wife OF the
Ambassador. to leave Indonesia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29

Communists are more likely to
figure In that part.
But 1t Is to be hoped that the
lesson Of Munich will be in the
minds of those with whom the
responsibility lies to give guidance
and to say mo" They should,
above all. remember that after
the Munich agreement, as in
every other instance Of surrender
for appeasement's sake, the ap-
petite Of the demanding power
had grown with what 1t fed upon
and soon returned for more, to be
satisfied either by persuasion or
by force; or to be resisted with
greater difficulty than before.
The % years which have passed
since Munich have seen many
attempts to overthrow or subvert
the ideas and practices Of free
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29

Nations for observers to v lew
and report upon these events was
refused by the acting secretary
general. The pretext was extra
ordinary: That to do so would be
to depart from neutrality unless
both parties agreed to their
presence. 1t can hardly be ac-
cepted that the alleged aggressor
and the victim must agree before
the United Nations can inform
itself on events In response to an
appeal from one of its members.
When I read Of these happen
ings. the memory Of the we'll
intentioned Runciman mission
came back to me with its in
evitable failure, and unacceptable
sequel. The wolf and the lamb
having been cautioned In the
same terms. the wolf Is not the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29

him before. The first German
troops were to enter the
Sudetenland on October /. The
Czechs were notified as to what
was expected Of them after the
deal was conSummated. Grasp
ing his much publicized UNI
brella, Neville Chamberlain re-
turned to London to promise
peace in our time"
The real meaning of Munich
was that Germany took over
1000 square miles Of Czecho-
slovakia in which dwelt 2.8 mil
lion Sudeten Germans and
100000 CZechs. Lost to the
allied cause was a vast fortifi-
cations bastion which German
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Continued From Page B.
teries and off-track betting, the
Attorney General thinks the Ma
ton better off without them.
The requests were not new. Mr..
Kennedy and others have long
sought tougher Federal laws to
deal with the grave national
problem Of organized crime-with-
out success. Some lawmakers are
skeptical Of the Mafia's pub
licized power. claiming the whole
story is a straw man kept alive
by enforcement officials to win
annual appropriations from Con-
greSs.
But the details unfolded by
Valachi last week could hardly
be the invention Of one fertile
mind. He returns to the stand
Tuesday, and with promises Of
information on many gangland
slayings.
Whatever the past record was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29

item Of the year, defense. whisked
through the Senate in hours in
stead Of the days 1t usually takes.
Lawmakers approved SAT, 1888, 707,-
900 in appropriations for the
fiscal year ending next June 80.
1t sweetened up the House version
by 1888 million but fell shy Of
the administrations request by
$1.4 billion.
Chairman Russell Of the Sen
ate's Armed Services Committee,
adroitly managing the bill on the
floor. beat off several efforts to
trim 1t down. Such cuts, he said,
carried the germ Of unilateral
disarmament that could bring this
country to its ultimate destruc-
ton"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29

"A great war can hardly be
avoided any longer" Field Mar
shall Hermann Goering Of the
Third German Reich told an as
sociate On Black Wednesday,
September %, 1888. 1T may last
seven years and we will win it"
Goering was proved wrong,
largely because of a fearful
British Prime Minister, Neville
Chamberlain, and a befuddled
French Premier, Edouard Dalai
der, and their incredible capitu-
lation to the demands of Adolf
Hitler at a meeting on Septem-
Der 20 In the baroque Bavarian
city Of Munich. World War II
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29

least bit embarrassed and only
Graves permission to approach its
Jaws within striking distance Of
its victims throat, which being
granted, the final meal is simply
delayed a while. So 1t was that
Munich settled nothing except the
fate Of Czechoslovakia, just as the
heralded agreement about West
ern New Guinea settled nothing
except the fate Of the Papuans,
behind the facade Of a plebiscite
after the event.
The practicable sequence has
followed with Indonesian clamor
for Borneo and Sarawak, coupled
with q denunciation Of the new
federation of Malaysia. II ndo-
nesia is once again appeased, 1t
is doubtful that she will be the
final beneficiary. The Chinese
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-29
While the World Listened

Last week the great and thoughts for
postertv:
Waste Of natural human resources
Is disastrous. President Kennedy. conservation tour
I'm the circle travel dumb dangerous than 100
ats"-Joe Valachi.
II thought nobody could wrong and such fool
to do such thing Prime Minister Macmillan on Profmos deceit
before Commons.
why shouldn't breasted Jackets
Anyhow he likes themJohn Taylor editor on Prince
Philips clothing habits
II personally would find 1t difficult combat Santa Claus
wilkins NAAcP proposed Negro boycott Of Christ
mas buying.
1T ncomprehensbe TO how speak cruelty
should thanked Ambassador
Lodge Madame Mus criticism OF United States officers Saigon