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Evening star., 1963-02-08
AdeIo Rogers St. Johns
To Be Ad Club Guest

Adela Rogers st. Johns,
newspaperwoman, teacher
and lecturer. will be guest
Of honor at q Hearts and
Flowers" brunch to be held
by the Women's Advertising
Club Of Washington on Sum-
day at the American News
paper Women's Club on
Twenty-second street NV.
Mrs. st. Johns Is also
author Of the current best
seller. Final Verdict" q
biography of her father. the
celebrated trial lawyer Earl
Rogers.
Mrs. st. Johns literally
grew up in q law office. She
became her fathers full
time companion at the age
Of eight. She went to school
in law courts and had for
playmates the clerks. police
men, bodyguards. acquitted
murderers, denizens Of
Chinese tong wars. politicians
and the other fascinating
personalities who peopled
her fathers life. Among her
fathers famous cases was his
representation Of Clarence
Darrow when he was charged
with jury bribery. All Of this
she accounts in the biography
with almost total recall.
She also tells Of her run
ming duel with her fathers
Evening star., 1963-02-08
California
Officials
Entertain

The County Supervisors Of
California, who are in WASH
ington for a national meeting
with their counterparts from
other States, honored q num-
ber Of California VIPs In the
Capital at a reception last
night at the Mayflower Hotel
Chief Justice and Mrs. Earl
Warren headed the list of
honor guests who also In
cluded members of the Cali
fornia congressional delega-
ton and their wives.
Among the other prominent
Californians on the honor
guest list were Postmaster
General and Mrs. j. Edward
Day and Assistant Postmas-
ter General and Mrs. Sidney
w. Bishop, Assistant Secre-
tary Of State and Mrs. Fred
erick g. Dutton. Undersecre-
tary Of Commerce and Mrs.
Clarence D. Martin, Jr., and
Undersecretary Of the Inter-
ior and Mrs. James K. Carr.
About 30 supervisors are
here from California for the
meeting.
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alcoholic urge which culmi-
mated with her signature on q
court order to put him away
for his own good. But her
father asked permission to
croSs-examine the witness
and took on his beloved
daughter. He won: and died
free and far too soon.
Mrs. st. Johns began her
newspaper career with the
San Francisco Examiner and
went on to q journalistic
career with the Hearst news
papers for three decades.
She covered the trials Of
Bruno Hauptman In the
Lindbergh kidnapping case
and the romance Of Wallis
Simpson and England's Ed
ward VIII.
Now in addition to writing
she is conducting writing
courses. Her daughter, Elaine
st. Johns, Is q writer, and her
son, Richard st. Johns. is a
lawyer. She counts 10 grand
children and three great
grandchildren in her imme-
diate family.
Mrs. Margaret K. Scott,
president Of the Women's Ad
Club. will introduce Mrs. st.
Johns at the brunch.
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FASHION NOTEBOOK :
SuzyPorker'sNo
The Silent Type
BY ELEM

as q fashion photographer in
Paris, because she found the
French mistreat models. and
preferred taking pictures to
having them taken Of her
self. She was q second as
sistant fashion photographer
on Paris VOGUE. Now she
only has one camera, a Rol-
liflex which she uses only
to take photographs Of her
daughter.
She openly admires Coco
Chanel and injects her into O
conversation casually, but
most certainly Of her she
says, "she hates diamonds.
I've seen her get q big pearl
and have 1t sawed In half and
set 1t in brass because she
wants 1t that way. She'll
drill holes through emer-
aids and rubies and string
them like baby beads on a
necklace. That's what you
call style"
The tall, willowy redhead
wearing the navy blue wool
suit with a white silk blouse,
then got up from the curved
green sofa and announced,
I'm off to The Smithsonian
to put that Dolley Madison
dress on and be photo
graphed. I don't know II they
plan to put me in the vitrine,
too. Maybe they'll put up a
sign saying please don't
feed
For the lucky on-lookers
by The Smithsonian's col
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lection Of First Ladies Dress
es Suzy was probably the
most animated mannequin
there. The others all wear
different dresses, but they all
have one expression on their
facets the same dead pan.
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Isolated Boy Survives
40 Days on Potatoes

FORT SMITH, Northwest
Territory, July 6 (AP).-The
13-year-old son of a Missouri
evangelist told today how he
survived for 40 days on raw
potatoes after his teacher per-
ished in a flood, leaving him
alone on an isolated northern
island.
81 wasn't afraid" Kenneth
Youngman, son of Alexander
Youngman, an evangelist work.
ing in the Northwest Territories,
said.
The elder Mr.. Youngman
who represents the Association
of Fundamental Ministers Of
Missouri, said he took Kenneth
and his school teacher, Anna
Thiessen, At, of Coaldale, AL
berta, to a cabin on an I'M
named island in the Peace
River about 80 miles south OF
Fort Smith last March.
He stocked the cabin with
food before leaving them to 60
on an evangelical mission,
Kenneth gave this account OF
what happened after his father
departed:
For more than a month
things went quietly as Miss
ThiesSen taught Kenneth Bible
studies and his school lessons
On May /, the boy awoke to
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ROME. - Stock taking of
the much advised against
visit of President Kennedy to
Italy at such an inopportune
time is in order. It can be
said that after the tumultu-
Gus reception in West Ger
many and the emotional binge
in Ireland the Rome visit was
definitely an anticlimax. 1t
angered many official and
unofficial members of the
Presidents large party and
apparently annoyed the Pres
ident himself.
There we're sparse crowds
to greet the motorcade in
Rome's sizzling heat and the
applause was hardly audible.
But the air was rent with
the honking of angry motor
lists in the worst traffic jams
the city has ever had because
of the blocking off of streets.
Government workers, given a
halliday off at the last min
ute to greet the distinguished
guest, went to the seashore.
Partly at fault were the
many changes in the pro-
gram. There were changes
from the very beginning to
the last moment. After indie
cision between arrival at Mi
Ian or Rome the latter was
finally determined on. And
the day Of arrival was not
only the day of Pope Paul's
coronation but the same hour
of 6 pm. when Rome's high
est officials must, of course,
attend the Vatican ceremony.
Arrival time was then post
poned to 9 pm. Then the
presidential party was in
formed that the coronation
was scheduled to run for three
hours. Finally the party de-
cided to spend a night near
Lake Como and come to Rome
the next morning.
Hence, the frictions be-
tween the Italian police and
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ARTHUR HOPPE
Plan is Evolved, Betwixt Hors dTOeuvres,
To Save Millions on Diplomatic Parties

I hope you remember my
best friend, Mr.. Dick Tuck.
He is the distinguished po-
litical scientist who Travelled
faithfully with Mr.. Nixon in
the last two campaigns and,
though very modest, helped
the reporters make crowd es-
Inmates. Which were very
modest. Perhaps, I suppose,
because Mr.. Tuck was work.
ing for the Democrats.
Since then the question
Whatever happened to Dick
Tuck?" has been asked by
many people. most Of them
creditors. And I'm glad to re-
port that he's right here in
Washington, moving in diplo-
matte circles, primarily from
the hors d'oeuvre table to the
bar and back again.
tits a living" says Mr..
Tuck modestly. eff you like
stuffed eggs"
AS there are only two or
three diplomatic receptions
out on Embassy Row a week,
Mr.. Tuck does have his lean
days. But he has put his keen,
analytical mind to work and
now has great plans for the
future. He told me about
them when we went out to
say goodbye to one of the Am
basSadors who had requested
the pleasure Of the company
at his farewell party of a
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Post-Mortem on the Italian Visit

his encourage understood the
underlying reason for the cool
reception is uncertain. But 1t
is significant that the plans
for the Presidents visit were
changed once more at the
last minute. Instead of re-
turning to Rome from the
Naples NATO headquarters as
planned. Mr.. Kennedy de-
cided to go directly to Wash
ington.
The Kennedy working visit
produced no tangible results.
The question of the multina-
tional crews on miSsile-armed
surface ships was barely
touched upon. Mr.. Kennedy
was asked by Prime Minister
Macmillan to shelve the mat
ter until next spring" Actu-
ally, according to Italian Of
ficials, nothing more will be
heard about the plan. Thus,
the main point on the Rome
agenda was hardly men
toned, to the great delight
of Prime Minister Giovanni
Leone.
The Italians did not have
to be convinced by Mr.. Ken
needy to strengthen their ties
with Britain and work for her
admission into the Common
Market. This is a firm policy
of any Italian government
and was reaffirmed when Mr..
Macmillan visited Rome last
spring.
Then what was the reason
for this controversial diplo-
matte safari? The answer
from those in the presiden-
tial encourage was: Just to
strengthen the damaged
NATO fabric and consolidate
the wall of isolation around
President de Gaulle."
Diplomatic observers here
believe that this did not nee
essitate a visit by Mr.. Ken
nedy, which ended in a Ia
mentable climax after Ger
many and Ireland. The Itali-
ans need no particular urg-
ing to be against Gen. de
Gaulle.
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POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Khrushchev's lament on the Russian Chinese split
announced I'd bury Yanks said it lightly just for
pranks But Chinese Reds obtuse bokes They want to
bury me for Jokes
Industriaist Charles Percy for Governor of n-
nos Alot of businessmen becoming candidates Any
thing to get away from that hectic office politics.
The Robert Kennedys have baby. Politics is get
ting exciting The Kennedys alone multiplying faster than
the Republican Party.
Family vacation SCHEDULED Two weeks on the sand-and
so the rocks
Former British War Minister Profumo is fined $l12O
for speeding Than teach him to stay from fast
and stick to fast women.
The draft-Goldwater outfit is selling Barry Goldwater
bridge card There's doubt he sweep the ladies
of the Thursday bridge cub-but how about their
maids?
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MAX FREEDMAN
Rights and the Commerce Clause

nation and the commerce
clause. He was silent on this
point for the sufficient rea-
son that there had been moth
ing in the history Of the Su-
preme Court under these
three chief justices to suggest
that the commerce clause
could be used to guarantee
equal human rights.
The book ends with a long
quotation from James Brad
ley Thayer - the constitu-
tional mentor Of Justice
Frankfurter - arguing with
wisdom and eloquence that
the principles Of the Consti-
tuition leave Americans free
to deal with the problems Of
an expanding and unknown
future. Mr.. Thayer wrote:
Men have found, as they are
finding now, when new and
unlooked-for situations have
presented themselves, that
they were left with liberty to
handle them. OF this quality
in the Constitution people
sometimes foolishly talk as If
1t meant that the great BAR
riers of this instrument have
been set at naught, and may
be set at naught, in great
exigencies; as if it were al
ways ready to give way under
pressure; and as If statesmen
were always standing ready
to violate it when important
enough occasions arose. What
generally happened, however,
on these occasions, is that the
littleness and the looseness of
mems Interpretation of the
Constitution are revealed and
that this great instrument
shows itself wiser. And more
far-looking than men had
thought. 1t is forever dwarf
ing its commentators, both
statesmen and judges, by dis
closing its own greatness"
This may be another of
these occasions of constitu-
tional revelation when we are
destined to discover that the
commerce clause has a perth
nency to our racial problems
never before imagined. The
Department Of Justice clearly
thinks so, and that in
coming weeks it should take
every chance to prove this
case amply and overwhelm-
ingly. Otherwise. disaster
awaits this part of the bill in
Congress.
(copyright, 1963)
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friend of Mr.. Tuck's, who
couldn't go, fortunately.
1t was a garden party. Per-
haps a half hundred guests
who had come to bid a fond
farewell to the good old Am
bassador from WhatsitSname,
as one lady put it, were mill
ing about.
Mr.. Tuck selected several
high-protein hors d'oeuvreS
and a waiter handed him a
drink with a warm smile of
recognition. I said I hadn't
realized Mr.. Tuck was so we'll
known.
"Oh, no." said Mr.. Tuck.
Actually. the food, the drinks
and the walters are the same
at all these receptions, be-
cause they are from a cater
ing service. 1t makes for a
staple diet and familiar faces. "
And monotony?
well, yeS," said Mr.. Tuck,
"but it's lucrative, and I plan
to break into the field"
Catering drinks?
mo-" said Mr.. Tuck" Ca
tering guests"
Guests?
EYES," he said. Live guests
cause a lot of breakage. And
they often fail to appear. I
plan to cater stuffed guests
to each of our 100 embas-
sizes for their receptions. I will
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hear water rushing around the
cabin. He went outside and
began building a raft.
Ice chunks in the flooding
Peace River frightened him
so he and Miss ThiesSer
climbed to the roof of the
cabin. For the next two days
they had nothing to eat anc
kept warm by tearing tar
paper from the roof and burn
ing it.
Miss Thiessen slipped intC
the icy waters about two day.
later after their cabin became
awash. q.
"I saw circles going out IL
the water where she fell IL
but she didn't come up again,
he said.
Later he found her lyinl
face down near the cabin
Kenneth lived on potatoes anC
potato Feelings for the mex
40 days.
He waved a white cloth Il
tugboats on the Peace Rive
after the flood waters receded
but no one noticed him.
Kenneth's father returned
to the cabin June 20.
II wasn't afraid. I haC
faith in the Lord and I knew
my daddy would come" Ken
meth said.
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Gasoline Station
Robbed of $10O

An armed hold-up man wear
ing a brown scarf over his face
robbed a Landover MD serv-
ice station attendant of more
than 500 early today. Hyatts-
vile police reported.
The attendant, Alfred v. Mil
Ter, 40. Of 1905 Sheriff. street,
Palmer Park, told police he was
sitting at a desk at the Scott
Gas Station, 68l5 Annapolis
road, when the masked man en-
tered at $40 am.
The man threatened TO shoot
Mr.. Miller with a small revolt
yer, police said. Mr.. Miller said
the man was q Negro.
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fornia, $1,000; Senator Russell
B. Long, Democrat Of Louisi-
ana, $500; ex-Representative
Loser, Democrat of Tennessee,
$3.50; Representative Pucinski,
Democrat of Illinois, $1,000,
and Representative Roosevelt,
Democrat of California, $1,000.
Payments totaling $775.96 to
Mr.. Lee also were listed.
Five of the candidates re-
ceiving CEG funds-Senators
Bennett, Dirksen and Long and
Mr.. King and Mr.. Frazier
were members of the tax
writing Senate Finance or
House Ways and Means COM
mittees.
Purpose Not Specified
NonPartisan Committee for
National Betterment-This
group reported expenditures of
$7,7l5 from January / to Octo-
Der %, when it went out Of
existence. Recipients were
mostly conservatives, including
Representative land now Sen
ator) Dominick, Republican Of
Colorado, $500: Representative
Dowdy, Democrat Of Texas,
$3.50; Representative Grant,
Democrat Of Alabama, $3.50;
ex Representative McSween,
Democrat of Louisiana, $3.50:
Senator Morton, Republican Of
Kentucky, $500, and ex-Repre-
sentative Rousselot, Republican
Of California. $3.50.
None Of the reports Of the
group gave any indication Of
its purpose. In October, 1862,
however, its officers decided 1t
should disband. A successor Or
ganization was formed, which
proclaimed its interest in its
title-the Lumber Political Ac-
ton Committee
The new Lumber Political
Action Committee spent 3d.
076 in the month before the
elections, aiding Republicans
and Democrats, liberals and
conservatives alike. Among the
recipients: Mr.. Aspinall, $500;
Representative Hansen, Demo-
crat Of Washington, $500: Sem
ate Com m cree Committee
Chairman Magnuson, Democrat
Of Washington, $500; Repre-
sentative Mcintyre, Republican
Of Maine, $500; Senator Morse,
Democrat Of Oregon, $1,000;
and Representative Westland,
Republican Of Washington,
$500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-06

Bankers Congressional Com
mittee-Like the lumber group
this group chose a title which
reflects its actual composition
The chairman is L. Shirley
Tark of the Maine State Bank
Chicago. The other officers
are all bankers with the ex-
ception of the secretary, w
Vernon Scott, president OF
the National Tax Equality AS
ISOLATION of Washington, and
a registered lobbyist. Mr.. Scott
told CO the Bankers Congress
sional Committee was com
pletely autonomous" although
1t is located in the same office
as the National Tax Equality
Association and another lobby
ing group, the National Asso-
ciated Businessmen.
Mr.. Scott said the Bankers
Congressional Com mite G
sought to raise money for can
didates who would support "the
stable dollar, economy in gov
eminent, curbing initiation
Federal tax equality and sound
Federal monetary policy"
The group listed receipts Of
$11,850 and gifts Of $10,786
which went to is recipients, lS
of them Republicans.
The Democrats were listed as
Representative Griffiths OF
Michigan and Representative
Keogh of New York. Each got
$500. The 1862 contribution
reports also indicated another
$500 gift to Mr.. Keogh. Both
Mrs. Griffiths and Mr.. Keogh
are members Of the Ways and
Means Committee.
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have the Department Of JUS
tice, for the first time, using
the power of Congress to reg
ulate interstate commerce as
a constitutional device for the
protection and enforcement
of equal rights for the Negro,
even when the owner of the
private property may wish to
discriminate on grounds Of
race and color. 1t Is incon-
ceivable that the Department
of Justice would have adopted
so novel and far-reaching
a principle until it had con-
WINGED itself that the new APP
proach was constitutionally
sound. This means that At
torney General Kennedy has
a great many detailed argu-
mentS which he has never
been able to use because no
one as yet has asked him the
right questions.
1t is no service to the bill
to abridge its meaning in the
hope, probably false, of easier
passage. Nor will the bill be
helped by a controversial and
clouded history in the COM
mittee stage. The place for
political controversy is on the
floor of the House and Sen
ate when the bill Is under
actual debate. The committees
have the more humdrum but
essential task of clarifying
the legislation, making its
scope absolutely plain, and
defining its meaning precise
ly. This work would now be
done IN a very different spirit
if the Department of Justice
were expounding the new leg
islation before a committee Of
scholars from the leading law
schools instead of before these
Congressional groups. The
need of such a scholarly ex-
animation can be easily es-
tablished. In 1886, Felix
Frankfurter, then still at the
Harvard Law School and not
yet on the Supreme Court,
went to the University of
North Carolina to deliver a
classic analysis of THE Com
merce Clause Under Marshall,
fancy and Waite" Not once
is there any reference in this
book to any possible connec-
ton between racial discrimi-
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Health Chief Fills
TB Control Post

After a four-year vacancy,
the job of chief of the Districts
division of tuberculosis control
will be filled Monday.
DR.. Murray Grant, District
health director, revealed the
filling of the post today.
DR.. Grant said the new divi-
sion chief would be DR.. Ian
McLaren, who was DR.. Grants
successor as head of the Cat
taraugus County IN. " health
department.
DR.. Grant later came to
Prince Georges County, Md, al
its health officer and last veal
accepted the Districts health
dictatorship. DR.. McLaren has
been serving recently as a dis
trict health officer of the State
of New York at Johnstown.
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A group Of mysterious politi-
cal spending committees, theil
names often giving no clue tc
their actual intent, received
and spent a substantial amount
Of money trying to influence
last years congressional cleo
tons.
The law requires all inter-
state political committees to re-
port their receipts and outlays
to the Clerk of the House. The
reports are open for public in
Spection.
Most of the groups did file
reports. But most used innocu-
Gus cover" names. A study
by Congressional Quarterly
turned up the following:
Citizens for Better Govern.
ment Committee-This grour
received $500 but failed to re.
port its funds, either Federally
or on the State level. Inves-
tigation by CO showed the
funds were intended for the
Utah Senate campaign of Dem.
ocrat David S. King. Neither
Mr.. King, a member Of the
House in the last Congress, MOI
his campaign treasurer would
explain why a non-descriptive
name was used, or why the
group failed to make a report.
Principal donors to the group
were the Democratic Senatorial
Campaign Committee ($5,000)
and the Committee for Good
Government" an affiliate Of
the JAW Omitted Auto Work.
ers), which gave $4,000.
Funds to Both Sides
James H. Lum, a Political
Committee for the November 6,
1862 Election"-This grouI
did report, listing receipts Of
$ll,929, and contributions OF
$l0,252 TO candidates ranging
from liberal Democratic to con-
sentative Republican.
James H. Lum is assistant To
the president of Monsanto
Chemical Co., Of st. Louis, Mo,
Contributors to the group were
executives of MonsantQ Chem
ical including the firms presi-
dent and chairman Of the
board.
When asked about the group
Mr.. Lum said 1t was a personal
thing" that did not involve the
company. The Corrupt Prac-
tices Act forbids gifts by corpo-
rations and provides that any
corporation officer who wilfully
violates the law in this respect
shall be fined up to $4,000 and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-07-06
Old Coins Stolen;
Valued at $3.50

Theft of old coins valued at
$3.50 has been reported to po-
lice by Ernest w. Hampton, of
672 Maryland avenue NE.
Mr.. Hampton told police the
coins were in a suitcase left in
his car parked at Seventh
street and Maryland avenue
NE. Thursday night. The car
was entered by breaking tbs
right front vent window.
Mr.. Hampton said there were
about $500 worth of nickelS
pennies, dimes, quarters, half
dollars and silver dollars. These
coins. he said, date from the
year 1860 through 1857 except
for eight silver dollars which