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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24

stroke he suffered in Deem
Der, 1861.
The younger Of his two sur
viving sons - Senator Edward
n. Kennedy, Democrat Of Mas
sachusetts - broke the news to
his ailing father in an upstairs
bedroom Of the main house in
the Kennedy Cape Cod COM
pound.
Wife With Him
With him at the time were
his wife. Mrs. Rose Kennedy.
73, and a daughter, Mrs. Eunice
Shriver, wife of Sargent Shriv-
er, head of the Peace Corps.
Also present was DR.. Russell
s. Boles. IT., a neuro-surgeonI
summoned from Boston to be
near the patient If needed.
DR.. Boles said Mr.. Kennedy
took the news of his sons
death very WELL" The elder
Kennedy displayed "tremen-
dous courage" the doctor told
reporters.
Asked II the late Presidents
father would be able to travel
to Washington for the funeral,
DR.. Boles replied: Physically.
he's okay; he was in Chicago
three weeks ago"
The family had been expected
to fly to Washington today, but
as an intermittent drizzle be-
came heavier, the family plane
Caroline remained parked at
Hyannis Airport.
Late in the afternoon a
source close to the family an
nounced Mrs. Rose Kennedy
would attend Z am. mass Sum
day in Hyannis and other
members of the family the 8 or
Q o'clock masses.
May Fly Here Today
This source indicated the late
Presidents mother, Senator
Kennedy, sister Eunice and
possibly others including Anne
Gargan, q cousin, would fly to
the Capital about noon Sunday
In midafternoon yesterday,
the Rev. John Cavanaugh, for
mer president Of Notre Dame
University, q longtime friend
Of the elder Kennedy, arrived
at Hyannis Airport from Wash
ington aboard q Military All
Transport service plane.
Mr.. Kennedy first learned
of his sons assassination about
1910 am. CEST.
A moment later, the flae
outside Mr.. Kennedy's home
which had flown at full staff
from daybreak, was lowered tc
half staff. Onlookers took II
to mean the father had beer
given the sad news at thai
time.
Wife Takes Walk
At about II am. Mrs. Rosl
Kennedy took a lonely wall
outside the house. She WalkeC
about 100 yards in q drizzlI
and then returned indoors.
In apparent difference to tn
family in its hour Of grief
there were no spectators out
side the cluster of three Ken
nedy summer homes on tn
seashore.
The mother of the late Pres
ldent attended the 7 am. Mas
at st. Francis Xavier Catholi
Church in Hyannis in the com
pany of a niece, Anne Gar
gan, and the family chauffeur
Frank Saunders.
She stayed for a secont
Mass. The church was abou
half full. A few women wen
to her and touched her arm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-24
Father Bears Up Well
When Told of SIoyinq

HYANRIS PORT, Mass. Nov. % CAP)-The grief of q
father who has lost today 10 75year-od Joseph
p Kennedy q hours after the rest of the world knew Of the
Presidents assassination.
The tragic had been withheld from the elder Kennedy
until today because Of his poor physical condition from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-13

Vote, and police trainee, Gary TedeSco,
were sent to roadhouSe to investigate
complaints of excessive noise. Inside,
they found Falco, Thomas Trantino, an
other man, four women and the bar
tender. Sergt. Vote discovered a gun on
the bar, wrapped in towel, and started
to pick it up. Trantino grabbed him from
behind and shouted to Falco to get the
officers gun, which he did. Then Sergt.
Vote and Tedesco were ordered to strip.
Sergt. Voto attempted to resist and was
shot to death. TedeSco, kneeIing in his
underwear, was shot and killed-for no
reason at all.
So Thomas Quinn, a New York
police lieutenant, knew what he was up
against when he received a tip that
Falco was in the hotel room. With sew
eral other officers he went to the hotel,
found Falco and ordered him to sur
render. Instead, according to the police,
the struggle and the shooting followed.
On the basis of what happened in the
New Jersey roadhouse their story, 1t
seems to us, is entirely believable.
But George E. Rundquist, executive
director of the New York Civil Liberties
Union, apparently does not believe it.
In a, formal complaint to District At
torney Frank s. Hogan, he said the be-
havior Of the police in the Falco shooting
was mot unlike Ku Klux Khan lynch
ing party"
Perhaps the Civil Liberties Union
official has evidence to support this
charge. If not, he is guilty Of dis
gracefully irresponsible accusation. Mr.
Hogan should take him before the grand
jury which will investigate the shoot
ing, and make him put up or shut up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-13
Peace of the Grave

The President seemed to be in
damn the-torpedoes mood at his news
conference. Our policy in Wet Nam, he
said, is very simple" one. I'VE are
not there to see a war lost" And he
added: We support what helps to win
the war; we oppose that which tends to-
ward defeat.
This does not fit in too we'll with
some of the inspired reports which have
been creeping into the news-reports
which raise doubt as to whether our
prime objective is to win the war or to
put the Skids under President Diem.
And it does not jibe at all with thesis
which seems to be gaining currency
in liberal circles these days and which
has been most explicitly formulated by
the editors of The New Republic.
AS we understand this thesis, 1t
doesn't make a great deal Of difference
whether the war against the Wet Cong
in South Wet Nam is won or not. Pen
tagon arguments to the contrary are
"unperSuaSive." The real Importance"
Of South Wet Nam is psychological, and
even this is not too important. For
there. is way out which gets around
both the military and the psychological
difficulties.
This remedy is to come to terms
with Ho Chi Mini and to unite South
and North Wet Nam under his rule.
This would dispose of Diem at no great
er price than the betrayal Of our prom
Uses to the people Of South Wet Nam.
And, in the New Republics view, 1t
would "Serve Americas primary pur-
pose in Southeast Asia" since Ho could
become another Tito" and thereby
block Communist China'S expansion.
OF course, our principal objective
is to prevent the expansion Of Commu-
mist China and the spread of Peking's
influence. But it takes lot Of wiShful
thinking to conclude that this can best
be done by throwing in the sponge in
war which has not been lost and which
may be going little better. Ho Chi
Mini, who has indicated sympathy with
China against Russia, might not turn
out to be another nationaliStic Tito. He
could very well prove to be another
Castro, except that his loyalty would
run to Peking. And what Of the peace"
which such deal might bring? Perhaps
1t would end the shooting. But If expe-
rience teaches anything, 1t is that it
would be peace of the grave as far as
freedom, or even hope of freedom, in
South Wet Nam is concerned.
The Presidents Every simple policy"
Is much the better. Some adjustments
in Saigon may be possible, but we are
deeply committed in Wet. Nam. Our
national credibility is at stake. We have
no real choice except to fight 1t out
there to the bitter end.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-13

Kicking Congress around is an old
American sport and one which has
reached new popularity this year. The
humoristS and the reformers have all
been working over their favorite targets
on Capitol Hill
1t is refreshing-and genuinely use
ful-for the American Political Science
Association to break into this chorus of
catcalls and jeers to honor several mem
bers of Congress with Distinguished
Service Awards.
The biennial honors were presented
last Friday to Senator Clinton P. Ander-
son, Democrat Of New Mexico, Senator
Leverett SaltonStall, Republican Of Mas
sachusetts, Representative George H.
Mahon, Democrat of Texas, and Repre-
sentative Thomas B. Curtis, Republican
Of Missouri.
We join the political scientists in
saluting them. The variety of their po-
litical views and their styles of operation
bear out one theme of the awards: That
Congress offers scope to men Of many
talents. Senator Anderson has been as
aggressive in pushing the causes in
which he believes as Senator SaltonStall
has been skillful in contriving the COM
promises that permit legislation to go
forward. Representative Mahon, the
chairman of the Defense Appropriations
Subcommittee, is symbol of logged,
effective committee work. Representa-
tive Curtis has become perhaps the lead
ing champion Of effective floor debate.
The Congressional Distinguished
Service Awards were suggested by for
mer Senator William Benton Of Connec-
ticut, not just to honor individual law
makers but Ito dramatic the crucial
role of freely elected legislative body
in maintaining the values and processes
Of our democratic society"
We share with Mr. Benton and the
American Political Science Association
the view that recognition, not ridicule,
is more likely to inspire members Of
Congress to fulfill the responsibility the
Founding Fathers laid upon them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-13

was discovered Gin fine PRINT
that there was q 5000 deduct
ible provision in the clause.
Since we have always carried
500 collision insurance on
our car, this meant that we
had to pay 500 for this acci-
dent.
A little over a year ago, in
West Virginia, I was stand
ing still waiting behind a car
prepared to make q left turn,
when I was clobbered from
the rear by an uninsured
motoriSt. who pushed my car
into the one in front. This
one was worth $1,000, but
again I had to pay 500. The
State trooper told me that the
driver at fault would lose his
license. but to date the in
Surance company has been
unable to recover. and it still
cost me 500, plus the loss of
my car while 1t was being re-
paired, plus additional travel
expense.
I suggest. sincerely, that II
you are going to promote an
uninsured motorist law, that
it be comprehensive, such
that insured motorists who
are not liable for an acct
dent, are not saddled with
costs resulting from the &C
tons of an irresponsible mo-
toriSt.
John ], Metz
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-13
Ben Bella on TOP

In Algeria this Sunday Premier
Ahmed Ben Bella will be elected Presi-
dent by virtually unanimous vote, with
only the Berber mountain people hold
ing out against him. This is practicable
on the basis of last Sundays popular
approval Of national constitution that
gives him dictatorial power and outlaws
all political parties but his own.
This party is the National Liberation
Front. and he Is in absolute control of
it. Among other things, it has the right
to name candidates for both Parliament
and the presidency, and Of course it will
not name anyone without Mr.. Ben
Bella'S say-so. He has no opposition in
that sense. He has eliminated all his
rivals, falling some Of them.
So Mr.. Ben Bella stands alone on
his eminence. What kind of dictator
will he be? Although he has banned the
Communists as party, he has called
upon them to work with him in carrying
out his program for Socialist revo-
luton" in Algeria. Further, while de-
claring that he Is not a MarxiSt, he has
indicated that he will welcome aid from
the Soviet bloc as we'll as from France
and America-hiS country'S chief helpers
at the moment. Aid he certainly will need,
and over long period of time, for the
Algerian economy is in desperate trouble.
AS far as the United States is con-
cerned, the assistance extended thus far
has consisted chiefly of massive food
shipments that have been Of literally
vital Importance to millions Of hungry
AlgerianS. Yet the country'S official
press and radio never let a day pass
without viciouSly vilifying and libeling
America and the American way Of life.
Mr.. Ben Bella, who has visited and
praised Fidel Castro, apparently favors
such vituperation; at any rate, he has
done nothing to stop it.
Like his recent declaration that he
has 10000 troops standing ready" to
help overthrow the Portuguese in An
COLA, this hate-America campaign is
one Of number Of things that cast
doubt-to put 1t mildly-on Mr.. Ben
Bella'S intentions. The free West has
reason to view him with a wary eye.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-13
Teacher Shortage

Ninety-one students are In
a class in one Of the District
high schools. There are other
instances OF almost equal
overcrowdedness. This in
credibly appalling situation
is the direct consequence Of
congressional delinquency in
granting enough money to
employ needed teachers.
Some Congressmen have
been sounding off about the
Districts being a cesspool Of
crime and juvenile delin-
quency: they have always
voiced q readiness to hire
more police dogs. They would
be rendering a service more
productive OF future good
especially for the youth Of
our city whom at present they
are cheating-if they would
use their weighty influence
to lead Congress into author
izing immediate appointment
Of necessary teachers and into
speedy appropriating action.
J. W. Haywood, jr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-13
Raqe for WIGS

Wigs, let's face it, are here to stay.
How else is milady to avoid those blasted
curriers'? How else remain so enduringly
in style, her hair forever matching the
fashion and color Of her dress? And
what, after all, is more important than
that?
So 1t is no surprise that the girls are
rushing to the wiggers, their eyes flash
Ing and, In many cases, with their little
fists clutching our money. Most Of them
are receiving satisfaction from honest,
reputable dealers. But stable minor
ity, as The Star has revealed this week,
are not. The hair" in some of the wigs
was worn previously by Yaks Some wigs
develop bald spots. Some, curlless curls.
There are at least few complaints Of
skin rash, or falling hair. And the VIC
tim often finds herself stuck not merely
with a worthless wig, but long-term
debt.
1t is all very we'll to drag out the
old maxim Of cduedt emptor at such
times. But the fact is that the "busi-
nessmen" responsible for shady or uues-
tionable practices in the current wig
boom are past masters at the art of
selling. And there is no great difference
between being bilked out Of $500 for a
worthless wig and paying $500 for a
useless used car.
The answer, as in the case Of shady
used-car operators, lies in some form Of
District licensing OF wig-sellers-an
authority which the Commissioners
could invoke without legislation. They
should do SO without delay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-13
Like q 'Lynching'?

There is only the police version Of
what happened when frankie Falco,
gunman, ex-convict and killer, was shot
to death in a New York hotel room last
week. Falco was killed, police say, when
he grabbed gun held by one Of several
arresting officers and tried to take 1t
from him.
But the details Of what happened
AZ hours earlier are known because there
were several civilian witnesses.
A New Jersey police sergeant, Peter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-13
THE PASSING SCENE
BY WILLIAM S. WHITE
There's Danger in Crying: Peace!

and quite truthful cries Of
three administrations - Tru-
mans, Eisenhower's, and now
Kennedy's-that the Nation
must never for one moment
relax in its determination
and its sacrifices before the
hulking menace from the
East.
UnarguabIe Danger
Now, in order to accomplish
heavy Senate approval of the
treaty, 1t has been necessary
for the administration to be
saying what seems to be two
quite different things at the
same time: First, that this
treaty is, in fact, some adj
vance in the cold war. Sec
ond, that nevertheless we
must not for an instant let
down our guard, since in
bottom truth the cold war is
just about where it was be-
fore. These two statements
are not really mutually ex-
elusive; but they are inevi-
tably confusing.
Adding to the difficulty is
the fact that while the ad-
ministration's first point is
only arguably sound, there
cannot be the smallest ques-
ton that It's second point is
profoundly and unarguably
sound.
Washington is therefore in
a position roughly opposite
to that in which it IS unwise
to cry fire" in a crowded
theater. Here, 1t is very dan
generous to cry peace" or
any other reaSsuring word
that even remotely sounds
like peace"
1t is against all these CIR
cumStances that the first
major public speech deliver
ed by Secretary of State
Dean Rusk since the treaty
was negotiated should be
read. Before the American
Legion in Miami Beach, the
Secretary found it prudent to
stress the quite undated
danger from international
communism more strongly,
or at any rate with much
more effective impact, than
any Of the presumed oppor-
tunities for further negotia-
tons that might now be open
to the West.
1t all comes, at last, to
this: For better or for worse
the treaty is now an accom-
plished fact in all. but the
most literal sense. We must
live with it. But will the
country, upon mature reflec-
ton. now insist upon staring
at a pie in the sky that sim
ply is not there? Or will it
prove itself mature enough
to go on carrying the old,
nasty, necessary. load with
out that constant, unrelieved
shock treatment rom the
national leadership to which
it had become so well accus-
toned?
20 1e63)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-13
A BOOK FOR TODAY
Scholarly Look at High Bench
By DONALD MINTZ

much sense Of the quota
lions from the decisions
themselves.
On the other hand, Prof.
TreSohni Is to be congratu-
lated for including citations
and photography and for
explaining to the reader, be
he student or layman, what
the mysterious numbers and
letters of a citation mean.
The student particularly
ought to learn as soon as
possible that not all useful
information can be obtained
attractively prepackaged and
that anyone can understand
the meaning of 1863 U. s.
1856 (1962)."
The cases themselves have
largely gone into history.
Considering the current
Juror about the Supreme
Court, it is probably just as
well. The student who reads
Prof. Tresolini's little book
will learn about the Courts
long concern for civil liberty
without confronting any Of
those recent cases about
which he may hold too many
strong emotions to be open
to knowledge.
Accordingly, Brown v. Board
of Education which cannot
possibly be ignored, is
treated in an historical con-
text as a postscript to and
realization of Justice Har-
lan's celebrated dissent in
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1853 Y. s.
537 1896.
Harlan Changed Views
Justice Harlan was a for
mer supporter of slavery and
member Of the Know Moth
ing Society. Shortly after
the Civil War and before his
appointment to the bench,
he changed his views saying
LET 1t be said that ! am
right rather than consist
ent."
The famous announcement
that "Our Constitution is
or-blind, and neither
knows nor tolerates classes
among citizens" comes from
his Plessy v. Ferguson dis
sent. He went on to expose
the fraudulent nature Of
separate but equal" and
roundly denounced the idea
as unconstitutional.
But the earliest Of Prof.
Tresolini's upholders Of civil
rights Is none other than
that celebrated, old judicial
villain, Justice fancy. The
case is Elk Parte Merryman
in which fancy denied the
legality Of Lincoln's suspen-
sion OF the writ Of habeas
corpus. For all Prof. Treso-
lini's good will. 1t Is hard not
to believe that fancy was
nearly as interested in har-
assing the Administration as
in protecting a citizen.
Justice and the Supreme
Court It's faults withstand
ing, is an excellent introduce
ton for student and layman
alike to q vital area Of the
Courts work. One hopes
that II will be widely read.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-13
Syrian Attacks
John J. Metz

The Minister Of the En-
bassy of the Syrian Arab Re-
public challenges the United
States position on the issue
Of the Syrian murder Of two
Israeli farmers, as expressed
by Adlai Stevenson in the
U. N. and supported by your
editorial Of September 2. The
condemnation was Endorsed
by representatives Of every
continent Of the world in the
Security Council, by the US.
the U. K, France, Ghana,
Norway, the Philippines,
China and Brazil. The Syr-
ian position drew support
only from Arab Morocco and
the U.S.S.R. These facts
surely speak more eloquently
than the Syrian letter to the
editor.
Charles Gamer
In his attack on your fine
and honest September 2 edi-
torial, DR.. Jawdat Mutt Of
the Syrian Arab Republic
conveniently forgot the hun
dred or more incidents Of
Syrian attacks on Israel's
farmers and fishermen dur
ing the last nine months.
The Syrian counter-com-
plants against Israel were all
dismissed in the U.N. report
as being devoid Of founda-
ton, as DR.. Mufti's letter
would seem to be.
Donald e. WOlpe
DR.. Mutfi's letter. coming
as 1t does after the proven
and condemned Syrian MUIR
der. would seem only to add
insult to injury and to I'M
derscore what the real cause
Of the trouble is In the Md
die East.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-13

4IIC 1lISJ CLEAR dIlu uIlucLII-
able legacy Of the limited
nuclear teSt-ban treaty with
the Soviet Union, even before
that pact has been ratified
by the Senate, is a sense Of
letdown and Of take-it-eaSier
now moving in the American
air.
The administrators policy
planners call it "euphoria,"
and because Of 1t they are in
a curiously awkward position.
Their earnest support Of the
treaty must be constantly
and strongly proclaimed. But
their anxiety lest it lead to
a slackening of congressional
and popular will is no less
real, though 1t Is mentioned
only in cautious tones.
That such a slackening has
already occurred, in Con-
gress at least, is an I'M
doubted fact. 1t may seem
ironical, but it is nonetheleSs
true that this accommoda-
ton with the Russians, not
withstanding all Of President
Kennedy's warnings that the
great contest has thereby lost
none of its essential peril for
the West. is going to be cost
ly in many ways.
1t will, for one sharp and
concrete illustration, help
bring yet further cuts, before
Congress is through, in the
already tattered foreign aid
program. The half-billion-
dollar reduction made by the
House of Representatives to
scale the authorization down
to $3.5 billions will not be the
end Of the tale. If final con-
gresSional action does not
produce an additional half
billion dollar cut then every
present omen is absolutely
wrong.
Too Much Hope
And in more subtle ways
the damage is considerable.
Internationalism in general is
slipping badly in Congress
not by any means altogether
because. of the treaty but in
important part because Of
it. This approach or quasi
approach or maybe approach
call it what one will-to
less strained relations with
the Soviet Communists is
causing altogether too much
hope to break out altogether
too prematurely in too many
men of Congress.
For long years these people
had been fed up with carry
ing the hard, tough load
whic h unrelieved cold war
had placed upon them. The
treaty seems somehow to
make the load rather less
real, rather less necessary, in
the sense that it seems, how
ever slightly, to relieve the
cold war itself.
The truth is that a whole
political generation has been
conditioned by the endless
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-13
There's q Little String Attached, Bossv
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