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Evening star., 1963-01-09
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

Congress isn't much institution it is a long
breathing spell between two fights how to begin
and the other on when to quit.
Thanks to Postmaster General Day the nickel wins the
award for the greatest comeback Of the decade
Ike urges Congress to money. It's tack born
Of experience From his days in the White House he learned
doesn't do much good to urge President to cut spending
The Pentagon is disturbed at that James Meredith
may quit the University Of Mississippi This means the
Force.
Republicans complain they're the Nations only minority
group without Government agency to protect them from
discrimination.
The United States and Russia report that the Cuban
crisis has ended in compromise Russia keeps troops
the isand-wh promise to eat Castro out of house and
home
Evening star., 1963-01-09
Red China's F aithfuIin India
Seen Shifting Underground

ureS against threats to democ-
racy at home.
Frustrated in their attempts
to seize power by violence, the
Communists switched in 1857
to parliamentary means and
were successful that year in
taking over the southern state
of Kerala through the ballot
box. The first and only Commu-
mist rule in an Indian state
ended in % months, where the
collapse of law and order
and the threat of violent civil
war forced the President of In
dia to take personal rule of the
state. New elections were held
and the Communists thrown
out.
At the time Communist
leader DANCE told a reporter
why should we worry. We will
take our revenge and settle all
the scores when we win Delhi
It's only matter of time. After
all, the world is ours"
Evening star., 1963-01-09
ERIC SEVAREID

NEW YORK-Anger is a
counterpart of Joy, and, since
this is supposedly the "cool'
and beat" age of joylessness,
it is logical to assume that
the last angry man expired
with the waning notes of the
last hurrah.
Around Manhattan, one
encounters his ghost occa-
sionally, in the form of a
brief, low-pitched whine, but
that is the closest approxi-
nation of what used to be
known as indignation, not
to mention the righteous
wrath Of the citizens" These
terms now seem so archaic
and arcane that one puts
them down, even though
fenced in by quotation
marks, with some embarrass-
ment.
We are by no means a Ma
ton OF sheep in relation to
other peoples, however big
and formidable, as Khru-
shchev discovered in the case
of his Cuban missiles; but
we are truly sheeplike in our
encounters with bigness with
in our own society. We sput-
ter, and that is all.
1t is my fortune or mis-
fortune to have been con-
ditioned in the cohesive, uni
tary cell of the small town.
An emergency meant that
everybody turned out with
extra efforts to make things
work. If the men of the
town did not open the school
doors after a three-day bliz-
zard, 1t was only because
they couldn't find them. The
other night I landed at Idle
wild airport in a gentle snow
fall. The passengers bags
were dumped just anywhere;
there was no order; there
we're no directions. Five hun
dred people milled about in
exhausted confusion, even
tually recovered their belong
ings. only to discover that
most taXi-drivers, those par
agons of fictional ruggedness
and bonhomie, had quit for
the night. Takes too long to
make buck" as one of them
explained.
We are now in the fifth
week of the typographers'
strike which has, directly and
indirectly, closed down every
major newspaper in tie
country's biggest city. 1t is a
strike which comes as close
to utter senselessness as any
that I can recall offhand,
From the evidence available
Evening star., 1963-01-09
DAVID LAWRENCE
u. Ms Silence on Soviet Actions

the United States. Fidel Cas-
tro was told he is free to
maintain his military alliance
with the Soviets. The Soviet
Union was told it is free to
strengthen its military base
in Cuba. Thus, the potential
threat against this country
continues.
If the Monroe Doctrine had
not been scuttled, the con-
tinued presence of any Soviet
military or political forces on
the island of Cuba would be
considered a hostile act and
subject to military action.
The Monroe Doctrine banned
the establishment of any Eu-
ropean system" in any coun-
try in this hemisphere. Ameri-
can Presidents for more than
a century-and-a-half have
enforced the doctrine.
The Organization of Ameri-
can States has affirmed the
principles Of the doctrine but,
inasmuch as President Ken
nedy now publicly has pledged
himself not to use military
force to interfere with the
Soviet occupation of Cuba,
the other states of this hemi-
sphere are similarly bound to
do nothing. Not since the
Monroe Doctrine was pro-
claimed has any European
power successfully invaded
the Western Hemisphere, set
up a military base with its
own troops, and maintained
control Of the civilian govern
ment of any country, as has
just happened in Cuba.
The United Nations has au-
thorized its military forces to
intervene in such situations
as have arisen in the half
civilized Congo, but not a
single resolution condemning
the Soviet aggression has
even been sponsored in the
United Nations by any gov
ernment, including that of
the United States. Though
the Charter has in it many
high-sounding phrases about
dealing with threats against
the peace of the world, the
U.N. seems to have lost its
vocal chords where the Soviet
Union is concerned.
(Copyright, 1869
Evening star., 1963-01-09
Housing Officials
To Talk at PorIey

Four top housing authori-
ties are scheduled to speak at
the Fourth Annual Innercity
Conference which opens at
10:3O am. today at the Wash
ington Cathedral's College of
Preachers.
Host to the "a delegates rep
resenting % cities will be the
Rev. Charles D. Kean, pastor of
Epiphany Episcopal Church,
1919 G street NV.
Scheduled to speak during
the sessions that close Friday
are Neal Hardy, Federal Hous-
ing Administration commissions
er; william Slayton, Urban Re-
newal commissioner, Marie c.
Mcclure, commissioner Of Pub
lie Housing, and Knox Banner,
executive director of Downtown
Progress.
Evening star., 1963-01-09
KuIorumu Group
Acts to Solve
Snow Removal

The Kalorama Citizens Asso-
citation last night took initial
steps toward an investigation
Of snow removal problems
which have hampered a portion
of Northwest Washington dur
ing recent winters.
The associations president
Cover M. Koockogey, author
lied the formation of a COM
mittee which would determine
whether present snow removal
laws are sufficient or need
amending.
In a supplementary move,
Mr.. Koockogey also is having
Evening star., 1963-01-09

communications sent to various
embassies and chanceries in
hopes of stimulating snow re-
moval action by these organ
izations. Copies of the letters
will also be sent to the State
Department.
The preliminary action was
taken at the groups monthly
meeting after members of the
association cited incidents re-
Sulting in injuries to pedes-
trians because of snow and ice
conditions.
Featured at the associations
meeting, held at 1900 Twentieth
street NV, was the presenta-
ton of a film produced by the
Washington Gas Light Co.,
called Pipeline to Tomorrow. E"
The film highlighted various
services performed by the local
utility.
Evening star., 1963-01-09
Invasion Of Congo While Failing to Act
On Reds Cuba Seizure Is Criticized

since the Monroe Doctrine
was proclaimed by the Presi-
dent Of the United States in
1928.
Mr.. Kennedy, Of course,
has said that, If there is an
attack from Cuba directed
against any country in this
hemisphere, the United States
will feel free to invade Cuba
and to take whatever meas
ures elsewhere that it may
decide are necessary. But, so
far as activities confined to
Cuba itself are concerned, the
President has adopted a mo
invasion" policy. While he
wants to see the people Of
Cuba liberated and hopes
they will be some day, the
United States is today COM
mitted against any military
invasion to accomplish that
purpose. Mr.. Kennedy's last
official statement on this
point was read by him at the
opening of his news confer
ence on November 20, 1862.
He said:
I'VE will not, of course,
abandon the political, eco
nomic and other efforts of
this hemisphere to halt sub
version from Cuba, nor our
purpose and hope that the
Cuban people shall some day
be truly free. But these poll
cies are very different from
any intent to launch a mill
tary invasion of the island"
So the Soviet governments
occupation of Cuba contin-
ues - with 1900 Russians,
mostly troops, along with de
fensive" missiles and other
weapons - while the United
States makes no effort to get
them out.
News reports in the last
few days have enormously
stated that the United States
withdrew from the United
Nations negotiations without
being committed against in
vasion. But the repetition of
such a pledge was unneces-
sary, since the scope of it
had already been outlined on
November 20 as the policy of
Evening star., 1963-01-09
ERIC SEVARElD
The New York Strike SenseIess

other ranks Of employees with
in a big company. The labor
movement, or what Jimmy
Hoffa frankly calls the ia
Dor business" was based on
a class concept that steadily
loses its validity. The di-
vision is increasingly a false
one. The ultimate result sure
ly ought to be a commonality
Of interest among all ranks
within a firm or an industry,
with stock ownership widely
distributed among all ranks.
No doubt many union lead
ers would lose power, and
many union bureaucraeies
would be checked in their
own kind of empire build
ing. No doubt, also, this
would be a happy improve
ment over conditions of the
kind that now prevail in New
Yorks publishing industry
where the greatest and best
newspapers, which both mold
and express the life Of the
community and provide its
spirit and meaning, are now
obliged to face the question
of whether, after genera,
tions, they can carry on at
all in the biggest and wealth.
lest city of the land.
This strike is a scandal
to nearly everyone, apparent
ly, save the men who called
it. They possess what is
known as the special strength
of the shameless.
(All Rights Reserved
Evening star., 1963-01-09

The Soviet Union set up
offensive missile bases in
Cuba that threatened this
country, but the United Ma
tions, which piously pro-
claims itself as the champion
of moral force in the world,
has decided not to speak,
officially or otherwise, any
word of condemnation of
this flagrant act Of Soviet
aggression.
The Security Council has
dropped the matter, presum-
ably because the Soviets can
veto any action taken there.
Action by the General AS
sembly, however, is not sub
ject to veto by any single
power. Yet nothing is to be
done there either about the
Soviet aggression, which
many people think could
have brought on a world war.
President Kennedy was
commended widely in the
press for having influenced
the Soviets to withdraw their
missiles from Cuba. Nikita
Khrushchev was commended
by the President himself, who
described as "statesmanlike"
the Soviet Premier's decision
to withdraw those missiles.
The American and Soviet
representatives then took up
the problem in New York
at the U. N. and now have
agreed to announce their
abandonment of any further
steps.
This leaves the Soviets with
distinct victory and the
United States with a defeat
and a reversal of its own
historic policies. For the
Soviets have exactly what
they had before the missiles
were sent into Cuba-plus a
pledge by the President that
there will be no military in
vasion of Cuba either to Sc
cure on-site inspection or to
rid that country of the Soviet
military base and 1900 So
Wet personnel. They today
occupy and control the first
European colony established
in the Western Hemisphere
Evening star., 1963-01-09
Sometimes Harsh

Mr.. Nehru, whose neutralism
has sometimes led him TO ap-
pear sympathetic to Commu-
mist powers abroad. has never
hesitated to take harsh meas
Evening star., 1963-01-09

cows side in the Sino-Soviet
struggle.
The second, comprised of the
tougher cadre of the Party ma
chinery, will go underground.
This group, supported by most
of India's hard-core Commu-
nists, favors Peking and a
policy of violence to weaken
India for Communist domina-
ton forced by China's military
might.
Some observers here go so
far as to argue that there is
no split among the Communists,
but that all secretly favor Pc
king.
One Chief Minister of a state
where Communists are power
full said privately this week:
What China wants is to form
a peoples government here
with Indian puppets. And it's
the aim Of every Indian Com
munist to capture power what
ever means he adopts, even let
ting his country be overrun by
China"
Condemnation Called PhOny
The Chief Minister claimed
the official Communist con-
demnation of China's invasion
was phony. There is no de-
fection from China except what
they have planned ahead as
an ingenious method of lying
low and acting to safeguard
their real game"
Despite this country's appar-
emily fertile ground for social
discomfort with its shocking
disparities between rich and
poor, India was slow to have a
sizeable Communist party.
The main reason is that when
most Indians were fighting for
their independence and telling
the British to quit India" the
Communists, whose Russian
bosses were Engand's wartime
allies, opposed the movement.
Then, as the new nation
under Mr.. Nehru struggled to
set up its administration, the
Communist leaders, meeting in
Calcutta, decided upon an in
Surrection to establish the rule
of the proletariet. In Telen-
CANA. they tried to start their
Indian Yenan in a central
India area where exploitation
and poverty was rife. This at
tempt TO seize power by vio-
|lence was quelled when Prime
Minister Nehru ordered army
troops to Telengana in 1851.
Evening star., 1963-01-09
BY RICHARD CRITCHFIELD
cas- Special to The Star

So special 10 Inc star
NEW DELHI.-India's 1O0,-
900 Communists are again
shifting back to the more ia
miliar Red tactics of under
ground subversion.
Maneuvers here indicate the
Communist Party of India may
soon split - with half favoring
the Soviet Union and half
quietly and secretly remaining
loyal to Peking.
Five years ago. the Commu-
nists made a bid for respecta-
bility in India by adopting a
policy of seizing power through
parliamentary means. 1t began
to pay off. In the 1862 general
elections, the Communists cap
tured 90 of the 500 seats in
India's Lok Sabha equivalent
to England'S House of Com
mons. With almost IL per
cent of the popular vote, they
controlled the most sizeable op-
position in India to Prime Min
lister Nehru's ruling Congress
Party. The Communists had
reasonable hopes of continuing
to make gains by exploiting
dissatisfaction over the slow
pace of economic development
and of growing corruption and
complacency in the country's
administration.
Shattered Myth
The Chinese army's march
through the Himalayas blasted
these hopes overnight. The
myth of the Communists as a
trustworthy political party was
shattered.
For a few days at the height
of the border war, 1t appeared
that the Cpl might even face
extinction. Mobs converged on
party headquarters. Four hun
dred leaders were jailed.
The Communists were saved
by Mr.. Nehru's unwillingness to
antagonize Moscow by taking
sterner measures. An 18th
hour condemnation Of Chinese
aggression" was published by
the national Communist lead
ership in Delhi.
The party Chairman, willy
and ruthless s. A. DANCE, has
watered down the earlier con-
demnation in recent speeches
while on a jet-tour Of Moscow
and the East European capitals.
Since the Communists have
no political future here as long
as China's guns are poised on
India, the party is now divid-
ing into two groups.
Take MoscOw's Side
One, which will operate Of
ficially, will rally around the
aging Mr.. DANCE and take Mos
Evening star., 1963-04-23
Banquet
Tonight

The annual banquet Of the
District Of Columbia section
of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers Is be-
ing held tonight at 1880
o'clock in the Capitol Plaza
Room, Continental Hotel.
Mr.. Carlos Fallon, admin
istrator of value engineering
at the Missile and Surface
Radar Division of Radio Cor
poration of America in
Moorestown. N, j.. will be the
guest speaker.
MIR. Fallon's topic will be
Decision Making for Great
er Value in Design, Produe-
tion--and at Home" He in
tends to show how techniques
for making engineering deci-
sions can be applied to de-
ciSions in the home,
Evening star., 1963-04-23
Vussur Book Sale

The 18th annual vaSSar
Booksale will open on Thurs
day and will feature a table
Of books written. auto
graphed and donated to the
VaSsar Club by authors liv-
ing in the Washington area.
Thousands Of books will be
on sale April Is and 26 from
10 am. to 9 pm. and April
81 through May l. Except
Sunday from 10 am. to 6
pm. at 1924 New York ave-
nue. NV.
The group Of autographed
books included such best
sellers as Seven Days in
May" and The Silent
Spring. as we'll as SIX con-
temporary affairs society Sc
lections by such local nota-
bles as Arthur Schlesinger,
Merriman Smith and Rich
ard Rovere.
Attorney General Robert
Kennedy's "Just Friends and
Brave Enemies is one of the
contributors Hom the New
Frontiers
Evening star., 1963-04-23
Glass Exhibit

Herman Perlman, glass
sculptor, will continue his
sculptured glass art exhibit
until June l under the aegis
Of the Washington Hebrew
CONGREGATION.
1t is now open to the pub
lie from 8 am. to 5 pm. daily
and from 10 am. to / pm. on
Saturdays and Sundays.
Evening star., 1963-04-23

Foreign embassies also
have made contributions to
the sale.
There are art books, chill
dren's books, history and
literature from France, swe-
den, Spain. Latvia, the Meth
erlands, Norway, Pakistan.
Viet-nam, the United Arab
Republic and the Soviet
Union.
All proceeds will go to pro-
vide scholarships to Vassar
for outstanding Washington
area girls. eleven Of whom
are now benefiting from past
sales.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-11
Judge Dismisses
Homicide Churoe
In Buby's Death

An Arlington judge yesterday
dismissed a homicide charge
against a young shipping clerk
accused of beating a 2-year-old
child to death in early June.
Richard John Drouillard, %
had been charged in the death
of Thomas Douglas Seals after
the child died of brain hem
orrhages last June.
County Court Judge Wesley
w. Cooper said yesterday tes-
timony in preliminary hear
ing for the clerk reflected cir
cumstantial evidence" that
Drouillard might have mistreat-
ed the child. but said there was
insufficient evidence to warrant
the homicide charge.
The defendant denied striking
the child with his fist or any
other object and said it twice
had been hoSpitalized with
"convulSions" before June.
Arlington police said at the
time of the child'S death, Drou-
lizard was staying with the boys
mother, Linda Caroline Seals
20, in an apartment in the 1906
block of North Quinn street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-11
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT

District and vicinity - In
creasing cloudiness tonight,
low in the middle COS. Con-
siderable cloudiness and more
humid tomorrow with a chance
of scattered showers in the
afternoon or evening.
Notwithstanding cloudi-
ness tonight with lows Sc to
81. Mostly cloudy tomorrow
with scattered showers over
the mountains and a chance
of scattered showers in the
east in the afternoon, highs
rs to 80.
misunderstanding cloudl-
ness tonight with lows So to
&c. Considerable cloudiness
tomorrow with a chance OF
scattered showers in the west
and north in the afternoon or
evening, highs rs to "a.
Lower Potomac and CheSa-
peake Bay - Southeast winds
at 10 to Is knots tonight will
become southerly at 10 to 20
knots tomorrow. Increasing
cloudiness tonight followed by
considerable cloudiness with o
chance Of scattered showers
tomorrow afternoon or eve
ming. Visibility 5 to 10 miles
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-11
Capt. Leroy A. Coffin, 81,
Navy MeteoroIogy Aide

Capt. Leroy A. Coffin, USNR,
an official in the meteorology
division of the Naval Weapons
Bureau. died Monday at his
Arlington home, after a heart
attack. He was 81.
A 1881 graduate of the Naval
Academy, Capt. Coffin was on
active duty during World War
II and the Korean War. He was
on board the USS Essex in the
Pacific in the World War.
Between his graduation and
World War II, he worked for
the United States Weather
Bureau. At the end of the
Korean conflict, Capt. Coffin
Joined the Bureau of Naval
Weapons. At his death he was
assistant director Of meteor
illogical management there.
A native of Winthrop, Me,
he lived in st. Paul, Mimi,
before attending the Naval
Academy. He was a member of
the Society of Meteorologists.
Capt. Coffin leaves his wife,
the former Sarah Fandrick, of
5527 North Thirty Second
street, Arlington, the home ad-
dress; two sons, Daniel of
Huntsville, Ala, and James of
Seattle, Wash; two brothers,
James of SOB George Wash
ington drive, Camp Springs,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-11
Earlier Deduction
Of SCI Losses
Provided by Bill
BY the Associated Press

Maryland depositors of bank
rupt savings and loan institu-
lions would be permitted TO
claim their losses for income
tax purposes at an earlier date
than Is now permitted under a
bill introduced in Congress yes
terday by Representative Ma
thias, Republican of Maryland
They now are permitted to
take a bankrupt savings ac-
count loss only after a final
distribution Of assets or after
1t has been determined that
no distribution can be made.
The Matthias bill would per-
NIT depositors to claim up to
$4,000 a year for three con-
secutive years as an income tax
deduction.
Should distribution be made
later, the taxpayer would be
obliged TO report as income in
the year Of receipt any money
previously claimed as a loss de-
duction,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-11
Mrs. 6. A. Wilson
Widow of Former
Iowa Senator

Mrs. George A. Wilson, SO
widow Of a former Republican
Senator from Iowa, died yeSter-
day Of heart illness at the home
Of her daughter, Mrs. Mary w
Cohn, 1891 Stephenson place
NV.
Mrs. Wilson, a native OF Des
Moines. had lived here for the
last year and a half. Her hus-
band, who died in 1858, was
Governor of Iowa for two terms
from 1889 to l943. and served
in the Senate from l943 to l949
He was defeated for reelection
by Senator Guy M. Gillette, a
Democrat.
Mrs. Wilson leaves, besides
Mrs. Cohn, three sons, James
H. Wilson, an Air Force SER
geant stationed in Newfound-
land. George A., jr., OF Des
Moines, and John D., OF Perry,
Iowa.
Funeral services will be Fri
day in Des Moines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-11
DR.. BYRD MAKES IT OFFICIAL
Montgomery Council Rejects
Accommodations Law RepeoI

The siX-member, Republican
controlled Montgomery County
Council yesterday voted 4 to 2
against a motion to repeal the
county's public accommoda-
tons law.
However, of the six members
who voted, two Republicans
supported the laws repeal and
two voted against the motion.
Republicans Thomas M. Will
son and John H. HiSer voted
in support of repeal while the
other two G. o. P. members,
Kathryn E. Digs and Mary E.
Hepburn, voted against the
motion.
Grover K. Walker and Jerry
P. Williams, the two Democratic
members, also voted against
the laws repeal. John AAFloyd,
council president, abstained be-
cause he was opposed to the
criminal penalties involved in
the rule, although saying he
was against the actual repeal.