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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-02
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

New York newspaper readers happy with the end Of
the strike They missed ia days of bad they'll
have to worry about.
Military coup in Guatemala Won't happen here De-
Tense Secretary Mcnamara spends much time tesfyng
before Congress- the military can't find him in his office
long enough to throw him out.
signs of the For millions of Americans April
is will be the first Robin of spring.
President Kennedy, AS confers with Britains Labor
Party chief Harold Wilson, A. JFKs motto for the Western
world: GO young, West man."
If it's Rockefeller Kennedy in ga at least the cam
ddateS get in each others harwhiCh than you
say for the time Ike against Stevenson.
The two-yearod NewFronter still has its growing pains
and the pain growing the number of Russian
troops in Cuba.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-02
CHARLES BARTLETT
TeIst0r Scramble on the Ground

the State Department on its
negotiations with other
countries.
When the 500 shares in
the corporation are offered
to the public in accord with
the law in late 1863 or early
1864, the lure Of space and
the assurance Of some Fed
eral participation may mis-
lead investors to prize them
excessively. 1t is firmly clear
that the dividends will not
flow until many impressive
hurdles Of engineering and
diplomacy have been con-
quered. If on the other hand
the prospectus describes all
the problems in details, the
shares may prove hard to
sell.
The biggest problem is
likely to come within the
United States Government
where some officials, stimuli
ated by the liberal Senators
fight against the corporation,
are diScerned to be ready to
spring upon the entrepreneu-
rs with all the weight which
the law allows them.
II the corporation becomes
the focus of a game Of
bureaucratic handball and If
direct negotiations with
authorities in other countries
are blown to the scale Of a
disarmament conference, the
evolvement Of the network
can be long delayed. Rapid
progress will only be possible
if the public interest remains
broadly defined as the OBJ
jective of being first into
service with a communica-
tions network.
Even with all the obstacles
which the corporation faces.
the network remains a better
prospect than the race to the
moon for allowing the Nation
to make its mark in space.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-02

to avert this alternative is
the new corporations best
guaranty Of success in these
early and uncertain days.
The liberals are startled
by the salaries, $4,000 and
100000, which have been
voted the top officers Of the
new corporation by its in
corporators, but able men
were quick to see the haz-
ards Of operating in the
Shadowy region between Gov
eminent and private control
and it was not easy TO in
duce them to take the Jobs.
The liberal Senators are
disturbed by the fact that
NASA has asked SIS million
in the 1864 budget to per-
form further research on
communications satellites.
They point out that the pri-
vate corporation will be the
chief beneficiary Of this re-
search and ask why the Gov
eminent should pay for it.
NASA responds that most
Of the money, some $44 mil
lion, will go to advance the
art of placing satellites in
synchronous orbit that will
make them stationary in re-
lation to the earth. The OBJ
jective is deemed important
to the national interest, as
we'll as to the communica-
tions network. Congress au-
thorized this type Of Coop
Grafton and the launchingS,
although they will be paid
for by the corporation, will
be executed by the Govern
ment.
But the big problems are
expected to arise from other
aspects Of the involvement
with the Government. The
law requires the corporation
to deal with the FEC on rate
and other regulations, with
NASA on its launchings and
other assistance, and with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-02
DAVID LAWRENCE
Policy of Inuction Against Cuba

with Cuba is also hardly
neutral"
Secretary Rusk, in his
March IL speech, said:
Nov, we are discovering
with regard to Cuba that,
having failed to take the
steps that might have
prevented in years past the
establishment Of a MarXist-
feminist regime in Cuba, that
the problem of finding a cure
is more difficult"
The foregoing might we'll
be paraphrased and applied
today as the administration,
instead of finding a cure,
permits the SovietS to
strengthen their hold inside
Cuba. 1t has even enlisted
the help of Great Britain'S
navy to keep Cuban patriots
from attempting to regain
their homeland.
Mr.. Rusk also said in his
speech that "the presence OF
Soviet forces in this hemis-
phere cannot be accepted as
a part Of the normal situa-
ton in this hemisphere"
But the SovietS not only
have been infiltrating Guate-
mala and Brazil, but they
are still maintaining a mill
tary force in Cuba, less than
a hundred miles away from
the coast Of this country.
Senator Stennis, Democrat
OF Mississippi, chairman of
the Senate Subcommittee on
Military Affairs, said in a
speech the other day that,
without positive action on
our part, our neighbors to the
south may fall one by one I'M
til the entire hemisphere is
lost to US" He added that he
was convinced that 1.-The Gu
ban situation is the most i'm
mediate, pressing, and impor-
tant problem facing our Ma
ton today"
Yet the administration is
using its influence to dis
courage a counter-revolution-
airy movement against the
Castro regime, which DELHI
erately invited the Soviet gov
eminent to send troops and
build missile bases in Cuba.
How can the United States
justify a policy of inaction
against the Havana regime
and invoke neutrality" laws
against the only individuals
who wish to risk their lives,
their fortunes and their
sacred honor" to overthrow a
tyrannical dictatorship?
Copyright, 1859
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-02
US. Efforts Against ti-Costro Attacks
Described as Result of Confusion

refuge in the neutrality laws
seems to be in conflict with
the following declaration
on March II by Secretary of
State Dean RuSk:
Then we have felt, along
with many others of our
allies, that the kind of
Cuban regime that we have
today not only is not fit to
participate as a regime in
the activities of the inter-
American system, but that
with its declaration of sub
verSive and other types of
war upon the hemisphere, it
is not entitled to normal
economic or other relations
with the free world"
The neutrality laws were
plainly designed to apply to
expeditions started on United
States territory against coun-
tries with which the United
States maintains friendly
and normal relations. But a
state of war now exists, for
all practical purposes, be-
tween Cuba and the United
States. Also, a blockade was
undertaken last autumn, and
foreign ships were inter-
cepted by the United States
States Navy. In recent weeks
Soviet-built MICS, flying
from Cuba, have attacked
unarmed American ships.
In the last several months,
morever, a hostile military
operation, involving the cree
ton Of bases equipped with
missiles as well as bomber
planes, had been carried on
inside the territory of Cuba.
This was aimed at the
United States. One wonders
what more proof the Gov
eminent here needs that any
steps taken by this country
to protect itself are proper
under international law and
that so-called neutrality"
laws do not apply in the
present circumstances to
Cuba.
Actually, the constant use
of air surveillance by the
United States over Cuban
territory is not really in line
with the customary inter-
probation of the concept of
neutrality" The continu-
GUS pressure by the Govern
ment here upon other gov
ernments to boycott, all trade
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-02

Confusion, If not frustra-
ton, today characterizes the
policy Of the administration
toward Cuba.
Nearly two weeks have
passed since President Ken
nedy told a news conference
that the Soviet government
had withdrawn only 5000
troops out of the 1900 sta
toned on Cuban soil. He
then added:
1--WE are waiting to see
whether more will be with
drawn, as we would hope
they would be. The month of
March is not finished yet.
and we should have a clearer
idea as to what the total
numbers should be in the
coming days.
The month of March has
passed, but the clearer
idea" has still not material
lied. The only action that
has been taken by the ad-
ministration is a sharp
warning-not directed to the
Russian government-but to
the poor Cubans who have
bravely attempted to raid
ports and start guerrilla &C
ton such as Fidel Castro
himself employed when he
fought his way into power.
1t seems to be regarded as
legitimate for the United
States to encourage and as
sist in Guerrilla type warfare
in South Vietnam against
Communists there, but some
how the effort of the Gu
ban patriots to rescue their
own country by similar tao
tics is frowned upon Off
cially in formal announce
ments from the Department
Of State and the Depart
ment of Justice. Neutrality
laws are cited as standing in
the way. 1t is announced
that such laws will be en-
forced by the arrest of those
Cuban patriots who attempt
to launch from American
territory any expeditions to
wreSt their homeland from
Mr.. Castro and the Soviet
troops.
Contradiction after con-
tradiction, m oreover, has
emerged to becloud the state
ments issued by the United
States Government. To take
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-02
ERIC SEVAREID

LONDON - Nature has
obeyed the calendar, a rare
thing for the sceptered is
land and the sun broke
through to illuminate Lon
don's old tile roofs and new
glass hotels precisely on the
first day Of spring. This &C.
Cured simultaneously with
the latest statistics which
show a sharp drop in unem-
ployment - the basic politi-
cal barometer In Britain
but 1t is clear enough that
Prime Minister Macmillan's
winter of discomfort has not
ended, any more than that
OF President Kennedy.
The ruling Conservative
Party will do its best TO take
credit for the rise in Jobs, II
not for the sunshine, and is
expected TO pour money into
the distressed areas Of Wales
and the north country for
months TO come in what
probably will be a vain eff
fort TO regain its momentum,
lost long before President
Kennedy lost his. The Pres
ident is only UP against Con-
Rress, a tangible. calculable
opposition, while Mr.. Mac
milan is UP against the nat
ural cycle Of British politics.
which would normally put
an end 10 one party's rule
after so long a stretch as IL
unbroken years.
This government Is UNI
popular and would be even
more 80 were II not able 10
point over It's shoulder at
President de Gaulle, who has
served as lighting rod 10
draw away much Of the nat
ural anti Americanism
around here. opinion polls
show the Labor Party ahead
in general estimation, and
the latest by-election, In
Colne Valley shows another
precipitious drop In the
standing OF the Conserva-
tives. Britishers, like Ameri-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-02
ERIC sEVAREID
Ballot Test is Nearing for Britain

an end to the whole, exhaust
ing effort and simply take
this island out Of the big
power game altogether. II
Britain should become a kind
OF large, industrial Sweden,
so be it. they think. It may
yet come TO that, and GER
tainly will II the American
nuclear shield and the Ameri-
can military presence depart
Europe. as Gen. de Gaulle
seems to desire. In the mean
time, the bitter Illustrations
OF apparently having fallen
among three stools-Europe,
the United States and the
Commonwealth-show UP in
every other session OF Parlia-
ment. Right now, as they get
the information in bits and
pieces, members are In a rage
about all the money and eff
fort and time lost in obsole-
scent or aborted weapons sys-
TENS. Britons simply cannot
stomach wastage on this
scale, as Americans do. be-
cause they simply cannot af-
ford II; and the only pleasure
they take In Gen. de Gaulle's
nuclear arsenal efforts is the
perverse pleasure OF knowing
that the French will find out
that they can't afford II,
either.
The world is readjusting
and moving on Just too
rapidly for the British 10
keep up with it-so far-and
the rat gnawing deep In their
vitals is the thought that they
are losing or have already lost
control Of their own destiny.
This has produced neurotic
symptoms even in this sane
and steady body polite. SO
the charm OF this wonderful
old city can't be quite what II
was TO the history-con
visitor. The sun on the streets
and rooftops helps. but in
doors the chill Of this winter.
so disastrous for the plumb
ing and the Foreign Office.
still hangs In the air and
reaches the bones.
CAN Rishts Reserved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-04-02


DIRECTORS
WILMER J. WALLER
EDWARD c. BALTZ
Perpetual Building Association
CROSBY NJ BOYD
ErecutiUe Vice President and
The Evening Star Newspaper Co.
w. A. BOYLE
President
United Mine Workers Of America
A. BRlTTON BROWNE
Executive Vice President
Randall H. Hagner a Company
CLARK M. CLIFFORD
Attorney at Law
BARNUM L. COTTON
EDWXRD cosTlGAN
corson and oruman Company
HARRY L. CURTIS
Curtis Bros. Furniture Company
w. CARLTON EVANS
President
Washington Tobacco Company
LEOPOLD v. FREUDBERS
Insurance
NoRMHN 8. FROST
Attorney at Law -
v. MANNING HOFFMAN
Firs nSsS. Insurance Company
WEllY X. Hopkins
Attorney at Law
w. lEDRU kOONTZ
Real Estate and Insurance
DR.. JOHN L. LEWIS
Physician
H. GABRIEL MURPHY
i. GABRIEL Murphy Co. Inc.
Insuranee--Bonds
WILLIAM A. ROGERS II
Addison Chevrolet Sales. Inc. and
Barry-Pate Motor Company, Inc.
BENJAMIN 7. ROME
otorss LYMAN Construction Co.
LEONARD p. STEUART
I, sieuart. Inc, and
Imperial Investment Company
Or J. LAWN THOMPSON, JR.
Physician
LEO A. WALSHE
!. walshs, Inc, Real Estate
ROGER J. WHlTEFORD
Attorney a. Law
WASH B. WILLIAMS
American American Sale, Company
Evening star., 1963-05-30
Flash Fire Put Out
Aboard Destroyer

PORTLAND, Me-, May 80
(AP).-A flash fire in the after
fire room slightly damaged the
USS Blandy as the destroyer
docked here yesterday for a
Memorial Day visit.
Comdr. Edward G. Kelley Of
Newport. r. l., the skipper,
said the damage was confined
to pipe insulation and wiring.
He described it as slight, but
wouldn't give a monetary esti-
mate. He attributed the blaze
to a rupture in the high
pressure lubricating system.
There were no casualties, but
one crew member, Seaman ].
Metcalfe, was overcome by
smoke. City firefighters quickly
revived him with oxygen.
Part of the Blandy's 323-man
crew went ashore on Maine
State pier to make room aboard
for city firefighters and a So
man crew from the USS john
ston, another destroyer in port
for the holiday. which helped
Blandy'S personnel,
Evening star., 1963-05-30
Fire Damages Jet
On Ground at Newark

NEWARK. N. j.. May 80
(AP).-An American Airlines
Jet plane. parked at the end OF
a runway with no one aboard.
was damaged by fire today at
Newark Airport. No one was
injured.
The four-engine 900 Convair.
valued at more than 81 million.
landed at the field at 1850
last night after a flight from
Chicago and was parked over
night In an isolated area at the
end OF a runway. The airport
tower noticed flames and smoke
coming from the cabin area OF
the plane early today and sum-
moned firemen.
An airline spokesman said he
was unable TO estimate the
damage.
Evening star., 1963-05-30
Major Headaches Found Developing
With Cancellation Not Feasible
DORIS FLEESON

Events have conspired to
transform President Ken
nedy's trip to Europe from a
congenial blending Of work
and the amenities into a mi
graine headache Of formi-
dable proportions.
An attempt to retrieve it
rests upon the desk of Nc
George Bundy, the Presi-
dents foreign policy adviser.
Practically the only decision
yet reached Is that the jour-
ney must be made despite
the difficulties.
The longest shadow has
been cast by the critical ILL
ness Of Pope John, the Pope
Of change who has captured
the imagination Of people
all over the world. More than
any other single person, in
cluding the first American
President Of the Catholic
faith, Pope John has justified
the American voters who
abandoned past apprehen-
sions to elect John F. Kennedy
to lead their Nation.
Presidential advisers had
feared that an audience
which saw the President pay
ing religious homage to the
head Of his church might
arouse prejudice at home.
This seems merely fretful to-
day as the world waits upon
news from the Pontiff's bed
side. An opportunity clearly
has been lost. A further diff
Guilty arises from the fact
that the President might be
on hand should a controversy
Of principle ensue over the
choice Of a successor.
The political background is
equally somber.
Italians are still wrestling
with the results of an elec-
tion which failed to choose
Evening star., 1963-05-30
CompIic0ting the Income Tax

cies, whether carried by an
employers payment Of pre-
MUM or by the employe him
self, are included also as q
part of the estate of the de-
ceased and are subject to
taxation again If the estate
exceeds a certain amount. So
the Government even now
has a means Of taxing life in
surance policies, but has not
until q few weeks ago con-
sidered the imposition Of an
income tax payment on the
premium money paid by the
employer on the basis that
this has to be considered as
a part Of an employees in
come.
One argument used by the
Treasury's experts to justi-
fly what they are doing is
that the self-employed have
no such advantage. The num-
ber Of self employed, Of
course, Is relatively small,
and 1t would be easy enough
to allow the self-employed to
have an exemption for life
insurance premiums up to
the amounts left untaxed in
the case Of those persons who
are not self-employed.
Broadly speaking, the Gov
ernment has winked at the
habit Of many citizens in fail
ing to include in their in
come tax returns certain
benefits received from their
employers. The Supreme
Court Of the United States
has ruled, however, that, II
the payment by the employer
arises primarily from "the
constraining force Of any
moral or legal duty" or from
"the incentive of anticipated
benefit" of an economic ma
ture, it is not a gift and that
what controls is the inten-
ton with which payment,
however voluntary, has been
made"
The companies, to be sure,
get a tax deduction for all
payments or expenses in
Cured in connection with the
employees services to it, in
cluding gifts or benefits. The
current theory, however, is
that the individual has owed
and still owes an income tax
on all such costs unless
Congress now specifically
exempts these benefits from
taxation.
@ 1868. New York Herald Tribune, Int
Evening star., 1963-05-30

a stable majority to carry
the burdens Of government.
Worse, the Communists made
gains and are demanding a
voice in the inevitable coali-
ton which will assume re-
sponsibility.
West Germany Is in a sim
liar state of flux. Chancellor
Adenauer is on his way out,
but he is determined to wrest
the last ounce of influence
and publicity from his office.
President Kennedy dare not
snub the grand old man nor
enter into significant negotia-
tions with his probable sue
cessors.
The President will go to
Berlin, and it will be a SYM
bolic show of great impor-
tance. Here again, however,
he will be in the middle be-
tween the Chancellor and
Mayor Brandt who are Of OPP
posing parties and outlook.
France was never in his
calculations and it Is still
out. Gen. de Gaulle has not
altered his opposition to the
grand design to which the
administration was COM
mitted.
Prime Minister Macmillan,
confronted with his strongest
electoral challenge to date
from the Labor Party, would
welcome a Kennedy visit
along the lines of the bland
Eisenhower journey which
helped him so much in 1859.
But this year Labor poses so
vigorous a challenge it would
seem politically unwise for
the American President to
seem to intervene in British
politics.
Of the original Kennedy
schedule, only Ireland seems
unscathed. To put it into a
monopoly position would
Evening star., 1963-05-30
OF VIEW
POINT OF VIEW
An Opportunity for Rights

lministration believes, to achieve
the full measure of social JUS
tice they have so long been
denied.
Unless rights are granted by
new law, the administration
fears, they will he fought for
with results no one can wish.
Intellectually, the decision
has been made to commit the
power and prestige of the pres
idency to channeling this So
cial revolution into peaceful
channels. What remains now
is to settle on the form and
the style of the proposals to be
made.
In these decisions, political
considerations have a part
but not a dominant part. Lin
coin, after all, delayed the is
Suance of the Emancipation
Proclamation and limited its
scope for political reasons.
The Presidents proposals
will, for the same reasons, be
drawn with some caution. But,
in this case, unlike others, he
is not seeking a Lowest COM
mon denominator" of agree
ment.
The Top Issue
This crisis, as seen by the
White House, is simply too big
to permit that. Fretting by
outsiders on the effect Of a
strong civil rights proposal on
the rest Of the legislative pro-
gram is not wrong; 1t is simply
irrelevant. The tax bill is ex-
pected by presidential aides to
stand on its own feet. None of
the other proposals before Con-
gress has anything like the i'm
portance Of civil rights legisla-
ton under current conditions.
Evening star., 1963-05-30
Probers Split on Loss
Of$7MiIIion Securities

over criticism Of the Federal
Reserve System.
News Restricted
The loss Of the securities was
detected August 8. Federal Re-
serve banks and branches, but
not commercial banks, were
alerted September 10, and news
men we're informed March ~
after the story had been broken
by a San Francisco newspaper
The bank theorized the Sc
curities were inadvertently left
in an envelope by an employe
transferring securities 10 a new
container. and we're subse-
quently destroyed. An investi-
CATION by bank officials and
the Secret Service concluded
that theft was highly unlikely.
Evening star., 1963-05-30
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

President Kennedy celebrates his 46th birthday healthy
and vigorous He'd better be- BY the time youngest ready
for college, hell>be on Social Security.
Barry Godwater is roaring into presidential orbt first
man in history to be powered aloft by retro-rockets
Kentucky Democrats defeat Happy Chandler for Cover
nor Politically the only State to be Happy in New York
You're not whether New Frontiersmen keep their
eyes on the stars to follow the the price
Of sugar.
Cuba The land that they flee the home Of the grave
The White House proposes transportation plan for
Washington D. c. Republicans are enthusiastic They'll
spend any amount to get the Democrats moving aga-pref
erably back to Boston.
Evening star., 1963-05-30
DORIS FLEEsON
The Presidents Trip to Europe

seem unwise from any point
of view.
The State Department
frankly admits it has little
to offer in the present
situation in the way Of ad-
vice. 1t does not deny that
the nuclear disarmament pot
is on the boil or that tariffs
and trade are of prime i'm
portance. But the harsh
realities Of change in Europe
are acknowledged, and so is
the necessity of putting an
acceptable facade on a
journey which many Kennedy
advisers wish could simply
be cancelled.
@ 1853, United Features Syndicate