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AND HAIRCUTS sl.so?—Maj. Alistair Ritchie of the ScoU
Guard combe hie bearskin cap before talking with reporters
to promote travel to Britain. The tall, round box at his left
is Dio hatbox and what looks like a candlestick is the hat*
rack.—Star Staff Photo.
Redcoats Return to Wage
Battle for U.S. Tourists
By RICHARD RODGERS
The Redcoats are returning,
and like his forerunners who
routed Dolly Madison from the
White House, their advance
guard might be expected to take
a dim view of us.
Especially considering that
Scots Guard bearskin hat, 20
Inches from hull to mast, much
of It over his face. '
But Maj. Alistair Ritchie re
ports Her Majesty’s Own can,
too, see through the fringe.
Maj. Ritchie arrived last night
for *a three-day visit. Unlike his
1814 chaps, the only burning de
sire he has here does not concern
the White House. His mission is
one of goodwill, encouraging
Americans to tour his native
isles. The major’s tour is spon
sored by the British Travel As
sociation.
Ne Stranger in C. 8.
Maj. Ritchie, 34, an infantry
man for 15 years, is no stranger
to these former colonies. He was
stationed In Canada three years
and got down to the States
occasionally. His uncle, Gen. Sir
Neil Ritchie, was chief of the
British military in Washington
in 1950-51.
“How do you know where
you’re going under that thing?”
someone asked him last night.
“Or where you are, for that
matter?”
“Oh, one can see,” he replied.
Sure enough, closer inspection
detected his eyeballs peering
through the fringe that has
plagued Guardsmen since 1815.
It Is one of the few times the
red tunic and bearskin hat has
been on approved exhibit in this
country. The major’s hat, by the
way, used to be worn by a female
bear. Guards officers wear she
bearakins, as opposed to the en
listed Guard’s male bearskin,
because the females, even as
distaff humans, employ the
brighter plumage.
Maj. Ritchie already has
netted New York. After Wash
ington. he will tour eight other
American cities, plugging British
tourism the while. Then he will
meet his ScoU Guard's band for
another Travel Association trip
through America.
Always With Foot Soldiers
He is no bandsman, however.
His Army years have been with
foot soldiers, in Europe in World
War ll—he was wounded—and
since then in Malaya and Egypt,
among others.
But back to that hat. Far one
thing, it should not be referred
to as a hat, at all, but a cap.
The reason it doesn’t complete
the covering of his face is that
it has a weblike skullcap inside,
something like a Gl’s helmet
liner webbing.
Nor does it weigh so much.
And the major totes M around
Apple Harvesting
Begins in Virginia
WINCHESTER, Ve., Sept. 16.
—Harvest of Virginia’s 1955
apple crop is underway with the
first of the expected 6-mlllion
buahel crop on its way to the
fresh fruit market and canneries.
Demand for packed fruit is re
ported excellent here, especially
for the Red Delicious variety.
Most processing planU have
opened and all will be in opera
tion by sometime next week as
the picking moves into full
swing.
And in connection with the
harvest, Virginia apple producers
and officials are seeking to dispel
with a concentrated advertising
campaign a feeling which the
Virginia State Horticultural So
ciety says many consumers and;
many distributors have that the;
Virginia apple crop was wiped:
out by the March freeze.
Dr. Walter 8. Hough, ento
mologist at the Winchester Fruit
Research Laboratory, said prac
tically all of the fruit in this
area is in good shape, except fori
a few orchards in the path of
summer hall storms. He said
the else is normal.
inside a metal hatbox, some half!
of which is hinged to permit the!
cap’s exiU and entries.
The ScoU Guards and the
other Buckingham Palace Guards
—Coldstream. Grenadiers, Irish
and Welsh—are top fighting men.
They do not perform their gorier
tasks inside bearskin hats, of
course.
The five regimenU’ dress uni
forms are alike, but with several
variations, the biggest being the
arrangement of the tunic's but
tons. In all outfiU, the hat is the
same, though.
“It is hot,” the major volun
teered.
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Probe to Question Smith
About Foreign Service
By ROBERT K. WALSH
A House subcommittee planned
today to ask Gen. Walter Bedell
Smith, former UndersecreUry of
SUte, whether any applicanU for
the Foreign Service were rejected
because their relatives were se
curity risks.
The question arose late yester
day in testimony of Dr. Henry
M. Wriston, retired president of
Brown University. He was chair
man of a SUte Department
“public committee” which last
year recommended major revi
sions in the Foreign Service
system.
Dr. Wriston told the House
Government Operations subcom
mittee studying Federal overseas
personnel problems that he knew
of “one or two instances” of ap
plicanU who met security and
other requirements but never
theless did not receive appoint
ments because of doubt atyout
loyalty of relatives.
He said he mentioned this to
“the Secretary.” presumably Sec
retary of SUte Dulles. He did
not reveal names or deUlls of
the InsUnces. He indicated they
occurred more than a year ago.
Jurisdictional Question
The House subcommittee
seemed uncertain whether it has
jurisdiction to pursue the se
curity matter very far. Chair
man Hardy, Democrat of Vir
ginia, said he would ask Gen.
Smith—the first witness sched
uled for the third day of hear
ings today—if he knew of any
applicant refused a Foreign Serv
ice appointment or any Foreign
Service officer actually fired be
cause of complaints against
relatives.
“As a general thing,” Mr.
Hardy commented, “I think it
would be an awfully poor prac
j tice.”
Deputy UndersecreUry of
SUte Loy Henderson, who testi
fied after Dr. Wriston yesterday,
was not questioned on the sub
(ject. He told reporters later that
’ he has heard of no such case af
fecting applicanU or Foreign
'Service personnel since he took
‘ office last January.
> He recalled discussion some
i.ttme ago concerning an “in-law”!
■ of an applicant. But this did not;
- prevent the applicant from be-i
’ ing accepted for the Foreign
Service, he said. He added that
!he probably would discuss the
[ general matter with Dr. Wriston.
i Dr. Wriston’s brief remarks
came in connection with an ex
! planatlon that his committee
last year did not deal with For
eign Service personnel security
problems. He disclosed that he
personally made a few “sample
checks” along that line.
Ties With ReUtives
“What I looked into, for ex
ample. was where a person who
himself passed the security test
but had been barred from ap
pointment because he was re
lated to someone else,” he said.
Asked whether the applicanU
in those InsUnces were "stigma
tized,” he replied:”
“I felt that there were one or
two Instances. They were not
stigmatized because it was all
confidential and no one knew it.
But they just did not get the
appointment.”
Dr. Wriston also told the sub
committee that he strongly “felt
that every individual should
sUnd on his own feet and be
judged on his own merlU and
not be barred because of a black
mark against a relative." He
indicated that he made much
the same-sUtement to “the Sec
retary.”
He disclosed that he took issue
with Scott McLeod, SUte Depart
ment security chief, last year for
having made a political speech.
“I made a personal remark
to Mr. McLeod to the effect that
when a security officer made a
political speech it Impaired his
effectiveness as a security of
ficer," Dr. Wriston said. “I do
not recall what he answered, or
if he answered at all. He may
have regarded my remark as
something that did not require
a response.”
Dr. Wriston also denied what
he described as persistent ru
mors that his committee’s report
conUined a “secret section” crit
icizing Mr. McLeod.
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Kon-Tiki Leader
Off for South Seas
OSLO, Norway, Sept. 16 (JP). —
Thor Heyerdahl, who captained
the raft "Kon-Tiki” across the
South Pacific in 1947, left by
air yesterday on a new scientific:
expedition to the South Sea j
Islands.
He was accompanied by his
wife and 2-year-old daughter.
They will fly byway of New;
York to Chile, where they will
Join the rest of the party, which,
Includes American, French, Nor
wegian and Chilean scientists.
Heyerdahl said they would sail j
to Pitcairn and Eastern Islands,!
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his theory that the Polynesian
Islands were populated by mi
grants from South America. (
Heyerdahl hopes to compare
the giant stone sUtues on Easter
Island with sUtues erected in'
South America before the days
of the Incas.
Navy Academy Employe
Held on Rape Charge
ANNAPOLIS, Sept. 16 <£>).—Ai
four-count indictment has been
returned against Bobby George
Reed. 20-year-old steward at the;
Naval Academy, charging him;
with the rape of a 15-year-old
girl.
The Anne Arundel County;
Grand Jury cited Reed, who is;
colored, Wednesday on charges
of rapt, carnal knowledge, as
sault with intent to commit rape
and simple assault. The girl, who!
is white, told police she was
attacked after accepting-a ride,
jin Reed's car while waiting for
a bus.
The grand jury also indicted
! Raymond H. Ringgold. 29, of;
[Severn, on a charge of homicide
jin the death of William H.;
jßruchey, 18. of Baltimore, who
{was shot while attempting to;
siphon gasoline from a truck
parked at a building materials;
plant owned by Ringgold’s'
father.
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