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107th Year. No. 353.
City Heads Ask
$252 Million
For'6o Budget
$4.5 Million More
Sought Than Staff
Recommended
By SAM EASTMAN
Star Staff Writer
The District Commissioners
have proposed a budget for the
next fiscal year that is $4.5
million higher than that rec
ommended by their staff three
months ago.
For the year beginning July
1, the Commissioners recom
mended a budget totaling
$252.7 million.
The figure also is nearly $lO
million higher than the latest
estimate of $242.8 million for
the current fiscal year.
Officials declined to give any
spending breakdown of the
$252.7 million budget requested
by the Commissioners.
Reflects Higher Revenue
The Commissioners were able ,
to raise the total appropriation
recommended by their aides, and 1
still present a balanced budget,
because of a recent increase in .
revenue estimates. I
It had been announced ear- 1
lier that the Commissioners had 1
indorsed staff recommendations
for increases in seven city taxes, i
Last September officials esti
mated that this financing
measure would bring in an ad
ditional $8.3 million during the
next fiscal year, and then $12.7
million annually. The tax in
creases. along with a requested
$32 million Federal payment
and about $22 million in Gov
ernment borrowing, balanced
out the $248.2 million in spend
ing. (
Last October, however, the
finance office raised revenue '
estimates for the current fiscal '
year by $2.7 million and for the '
next fiscal period by $3.1 mil- 1
i
Request Cut
The Commissioners’ staff had 1
cut nearly $24.5 million from 11
departmental requests. The '
heads of 15 city departments •
asked for restorations totaling
about $12.6 million.
Os the $248.2 million, about >
$203.9 million was for operat
ing expenses and the balance '
for capital outlay.
The Commissioners last '
month submitted spending rec- ,
ommendations and revenue
estimates to the Federal Bureau
of the Budget because the city
must recommend a balanced
budget, the appropriation re
quests were limited to the es- :
timated amount available un
der present taxes. If Congress '
approves the proposed tax in
creases, the Commissioners then
will submit additional spend
ing requests which would bring
up their recommended budget
to the $252.7 million figure.
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Refugee Couple to Get
Ch ild ren As te rl5 Years
Appeal to Khrushchev During Visit
To U. S. Will Finally Unite Family
CHICAGO, Dec. 19 (AP).—A Chicago couple was over
come with emotion yesterday on learning an appeal to Rus
sian Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev had lifted the Iron Cur
tain and they soon will be reunited with their two children
after 15 years.
Soviet officials in Moscow told the United States Embassy
the two Lithuanian children. |
Regina Leonas. 20. and her
brother Tomas, 17. will be sent
to Chicago to join their parents
some time next month.
Their parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Paulius Leonas, who had made
a personal plea to Mr. Khru
shchev for reunion with their
children when he was in Des
Moines last September 23. were
thrilled when told of the Soviet
action.
“I thought we would have to
wait longer,” said Mr. Leonas,
43. a real estate dealer. “This
is a big shock, but oh, what a
good one.”
Mrs. Leonas. 41, was so ex
cited she could hardly talk to
a reporter “A big surprise . . .
I cry . . .Oh, I don’t know how
I feel.” she said in gasps.
Mrs. Leonas, asked if she
would have to begin getting 1
the house ready for their ar
rival, said: "No. no. everything ■
is ready. Each will have a bed
room.”
When the Leonas couple met
Mr. Khrushchev at Des Moines 1
and asked for help in getting i
their children out of Russia, he 1
promised to see that the chil
dren rejoin their parents.
“Take care of this." he told i
his Foreign Minister, Andrei i
Gromyko
The Leonases fled from Lith- <
Two Cuban Executions
Raise Total to 557
PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba. De
cember 19 < AP).—Ex-Corpl.
Luis Lara Crespo and ex-
Sergt. Jose Morffi Reyes were
executed by a firing squad this
morning at a shooting range
at Rius Rivera army camp
here.
Both men were sentenced
to death Monday after con
viction on charges of promot
ing an uprising against Prime
Minister Fidel Castro from
hideouts in the mountains of
Eastern Pinar del Rio Prov
ince. They were the first to
be executed in Cuba since last
June.
Lara, 21. had been under an
earlier death sentence as a war
criminal. He escaped but was
recaptured.
Morffi was 34 years old.
Hoped to Escape Penalty
The executions, first since
suspension of firing squads
last summer, brought the un
official total of such shootings
by the Castro regime to 557.
Military officials supervising
the executions said that until
yesterday. Lara had hoped to
escape death because he be
lieved Castro would not permit
any more executions.
Lara had been in the same
detention cell with Frank
Austin Young, 38. of Miami,
who escaped 10 days ago.
taking one of Lara's assistants
with him. Both were recap
tured. Young has begun serv
ing a 30-year sentence imposed
on him by a military tribunal
for counter-revolutionary ac
tivities.
Lara told officials he, too.
could have escaped “and I
would have been harder to re
capture." except for his belief
that a reprieve would come.
American Gets 13 Years
In Havana a United States
citizen faced a long prison sen
tence for alleged counter-revo
lutionary activities.
John V. Martino, an ailing
Miami. Fla., businessman ac
cused of serving as a link be-
Coral Hills Man Held
In $l,OOO Jewel Theft
A 30-year-old Coral Hills
<Md) man was arrested in
Baltimore early today and
charged with taking $l,OOO in
jewels yesterday from the home
of a doctor in Northwest Wash
ington.
Robbery Squad Capt. Nunzio
Bonaccorsy identified the sus
pect as Richard McGuigan, of
the 1500 block of Fifty-ninth
avenue. Coral Hills. He was
charged with robbery.
Capt. Bonaccorsy said a de
scription furnished by a maid
at the home of Dr. and Mrs.
David H. Kushner, 2915 Alber
marie street N.W., led to the
suspect’s capture.
The maid, Edith Herrin. 47,
of 1340 Fairmont street N.W..
told police the intruder had
posed as an exterminator, and
mentioned the name of an
exterminating company.
Police checked with com
pany officials and they pro
duced the name of a former
employe fitting the descrip
tion furnished by the maid.
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V V WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION
!
uania in 1944 to escape Com
munist oppression. They left
the children with Mrs. Leonas'
parents, escaped to the British
zone in Germany, and lived in
England and Canada before
coming to Chicago as displaced
persons in 1953. They became
naturalized citizens last Janu
ary.
They had no direct com
munication with their children
for more than 11 years. They
had sent a number of written
appeals to Mr. Khrushchev to
let their children come to the
United States. But as recently
as last July they received a
letter from Moscow telling
them, “There is no possibility
to consider favorably your re
quest.”
However, since the meeting
with the Kremlin chief in Des
Moines, they have received
letters from their children in
dicating they had filed papers
and were awaiting word from
the government.
The United States Embassy
in Moscow said it will take
about a month to complete im
migration formalities and get
the children on their way to
Chicago.
•jtween anti-Castro forces in
. Cuba and Florida, was handed
a 13-year sentence yesterday.
The prosecution had asked for
' a 20-year term.
Martino. 49. joins two other
, Americans convicted by revived
military tribunals within the
past month Pilot-Adventurer
Young, sentenced to 30 years,
and Peter John Lambton of
Nassau, Bahamas, given 25
years.
A fourth American. Miami
Herald Reporter James Bu-I
, chanan, is being held for trial
on charges of aiding Young in
his brief escape last week.
Two Americans Freed
Two Americans arrested last
week when they came to Ha
vana to join the Caribbean 1
Legion were released last night. 1
Military intelligence headquar
ters said the two— Edwin R.
See CUBA, Page A-12 ;
5 i
- Traffic Toll Now
' 500 in Maryland i
, Maryland yesterday recorded (
its 500th traffic fatality for 1959
) —22 more than for the same 1
: date last year.
State police called the figures
’ "shocking" and said 450 of ,
’ Maryland’s 551 State troopers
will be out patrolling the high
j ways over the Christmas and !
] New Year's holiday.
The 500th fatality was Her
man Heine, a 73-year-old re- ■
tired salesman, who lived near
[ Ashton. He died of injuries .
. suffered when his car collided ;
f with a farm truck at Brown '
Bridge and Lime Kiln roads. !
between Ashton and Laurel, in
southern Howard County.
5 Lt. Col. William H. Weber, *
■ State police executive officer,
■ said 41 men now in training
will be added to the force in
; about a month. He said State 1
■ police are asking for 40 more 1
- imen in the next budget. 1
The maid then identified a
picture of the ex-employe.
Later, acting on a tip. De
tective Sergt. Leonard G. Kragh
and Detectives Charles P. Linn
and D. A. Allen, along with
Baltimore police, captured the
suspect in a Baltimore hotel.
None of the loot—a strong
box, the jewels, and an un
known amount of non-nego
tiable securities—was recov
ered, Capt. Bonaccorsy said.
The maid told police that
after inspecting the house for
termites around 2 p.m.. the
man pulled a gun and ordered
her to show him the safe in
the basement.
The gunman tried to get
her to open the safe, she said,
but she didn’t know the combi
nation. He then forced her up
stairs. where he tied her with
Venetian blind cord.
He found the small strong
box in a closet, and took it
with him. leaving her lying
bound on the floor, she said. A
friend who works nearby
stopped by for a visit later and
found her, she said.
WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1959—26 PAGES
President Makes Plea
To De Gaulle on NATO
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The Big Four Western leaders pose around a
conference table in the Paris home of French
President Charles de Gaulle, They are (from
left) West German Chancellor Adenauer,
Laos Shakeup
Eases Stand
Strong Anti-Red
Position Dropped
BANGKOK. Thailand. Dec.
19 <APri—A shakeup in the
government of Premier Phoui
Sananikone in Laos has elim
ipated a group considered
rightist, diplomatic reports
from Vientiane said today.
This apparently is an after
math of this summer’s crisis in
Laos.
Among the dismissed min
isters are some who led in
pressing Laos’ charges of Com
munist intervention before the
United Nations. A subcommit
tee from the U. N. Security
Council failed to find evidence
supporting the charges out
right.
More Neutral Policy
Laotian diplomatic sources
here were asked whether the
change means a more neutral
policy by Mr. Phoui’s hereto
fore strongly anti-Communist
and pro-American government.
“That’s right.” replied one
Laotian diplomat.
Mr. Phoui publicly declared
Laos’ neutrality during U. N.
Secretary General Dag Ham
marskjold’s visit to Vientiane
last month.
Laotian sources here said the
change signifies a more elastic
rolicy toward the Communist
backed Pathet Lao rebels.
They said they did not know
whether the new government
plans to resume negotiations
with the Pathet Lao. some of
whose leaders are in jail.
Drive Dwindled
Mr. Phoui’s old government
had charged the Communist
regime of North Viet Nam with
aiding the Pathet Lao. The
Communist field campaign
dwindled shortly before U. N.
fact-finders arrived in Vien
tiane.
The group which left the gov
ernment is known as the Com
mittee for the Defense of Na
tional Interests <CDIN). It had
nine members in the former
cabinet. The CDIN was ada
mantly opposed to talks with
the Pathet Lao and branded
them as traitors.
The Laos Embassy said Mr.
Phoui remains Premier and has
taken over the ministries of for
eign relations, national defense,
public works, information and
social action.
Eleven Slain in Java
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec.
19 'AP).—Rebel bands swooped
down on West Java settlements
Thursday night, looting and
burning homes and killing at
least 11 persons, dispatches to
Jakarta said today. A group
of about 40 rebels accounted
for 10 of the victims in a raid
on a rubber plantation.
Western Accord Soug ht
As Big 4 Begin Talks
Embittered U. S.-French Relations
Must Be Cleared Up to Start
By CROSBY S. NOYES
European Correspondent of The Star
PARIS, Dec. 19.—The Western Big Four got down to
business today with a minimum of formality like people who
realize that they have a great deal to do in very short
time.
The opening round of talks among President Eisen
hower, French President de Gaulle. British Premier Mac-
Millan and West German
Chancellor Adenauer was in
keeping with summit tradition.
The four leaders showed up
at the Elysee Palace unat
tended by their armies of ex
perts and advisors. Aided only
by interpreters, they sat down
together in Gen. de Gaulle’s
private study for the opening
session of their three-day con
ference.
On the surface their task
might seem simple enough. The
problem of working out “a time,
place and agenda" for the sum
mit meeting with the Russians
in itself is largely solved al
ready But behind the immedi
ate objective of this meeting is
the larger one of working out
something approaching com
mon Western positions for the
coming negotiations. And this
will demand all of the patience
and skill which the Big Four
can bring to bear.
Air-Clearing Necessary
In fact before these discus
sions can even begin, a good
deal of preliminary air-clearing
will be necessary. It is no acci
dent that after this morning's I
Battered Woman Sticks
To 373-Mile March
LONDON. Dec. 19 (AP).—,
Battered by wind and rain,
grazed by a passing car and
with one leg hurting. Dr. Bar
bara Moore trudged doggedly
past the one-third mark today
in her 373-mile march from
Edinburgh to London.
The 56-year-old dietician
resumed her marathon walk at
dawn after resting 90 minutes
at an inn in the tiny north
country village of Tow Law.
At that point, she had cov
ered 125 miles since she left
Edinburgh just before noon
Thursday.
“The doctors wanted her to
rest this morning,” said inn
keeper Walter Allan, “but she
insisted on getting back on
the road Her leg was hurting
her when she left.”
The British Automobile As
sociation said the back road
used by Dr. Moore was “not
recommended for driving.” It
did not assess the road’s walk
ing potential
Dr. Moore was grazed and
shaken up by a passing car in
the night. Earlier, she took
such a buffeting from the wind
and rain that at one point
she was blown into a ditch. I:
President Eisenhower, British Prime Minister
Macmillan and Gen. de Gaulle.—AP Wirephoto
via radio from Paris.
meeting Mr. Eisenhower stayed
behind for an hour of private
conversation with Gen. de
Gaulle. Given the present em
bittered state of Franco-Ameri
can relations, the outcome of
the whole conference could
hang in the balance.
This talk apparently was
different from the polite ex
changes which took place
during their meeting in Paris
last September. Gen. de Gaulle
reportedly raised a matter over
which he has been stewing un
happily for weeks: The Ameri
can failure to support the
French position in the recent
United Nations debate on
Algeria and what he considers
as a general lack of follow
through on Mr. Eisenhower’s
promise to back his North
African policies.
In this connection. Mr. Ei
senhower’s trip has only added
fuel to the French President’s
slow burn. The communique
published after Mr. Eisen
hower’s meeting with Tunisian
President Bourguiba Thursday
might have seemed innocuous
See POLICY, Page A-3
1 The doughty doctor, who
usually eats only fruit juices
and honey, has subsisted on
her march so far on grapes,
apples and fruit juice.
The Russian-born wife of
English Sculptor Harry Moore
undertook the long-distance
walk to prove that women can
be as tough as men. Twice in
recent weeks she trudged 110
miles from Birmingham to
London.
Dr. Moore’s husband is not re
lated to the noted British sculp
tor Henry Moore.
The Birmingham - London
route meanwhile was once again
a footpath for a huge turnout
of long-distance walkers.
Nearly 250 men and women
from all branches of the armed
services set out on the highway
yesterday in what was billed as
the “March of the Century.’
But by this morning only 11
were still on the road, with ;
some 35 miles to go.
The mass march was spon- I
sored by a London Sunday
newspaper, which set as a con
dition that the marchers re- 1
main in pairs. h
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Red Military
Growth Cited
NATO Is Informed
Os Rapid Gains
PARIS. Dec. 19 <AP).—Au
, thoritative informants said to
( day the Western alliance has
been given a secret intelligence
report showing Soviet military
might is increasing at an enor
• mous rate.
These informants said the
report was presented to the
I foreign and defense ministers
, of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization Wednesday by
United States Admiral Walter
F. Boone, he was representing
. the American-British-French
military standing group which
plans NATO strategy.
“The delegates were alarmed
“ and shocked,” one informant
’ said.
; Pessimistic View
‘ Exactly what Admiral Boone
said could not be learned, but
■ he was reported to have pre-
■ sented a pessimistic view of in-
> creasing Soviet power in con
t ventional as well as nuclear
1 arms.
5 Among the things Admiral
■ Boone reportedly told the min-
> isters:
11. The Russians have a mis-
sile which can fire a 1.800-
. pound atomic warhead up to
I 5,000 miles.
> 2. The Soviets have opera
! tional missiles of relatively
■ short range which can be fired
1 from submerged submarines.
' These missiles are relatively
> inexpensive and are being
I stockpiled quickly.
Admiral Boone was said to
have expressed concern that
while they were preaching
See NATO, Page A-3
New Attack Sub
Is Launched
GROTON, Conn., Dec. 19
(AP>, The atomic-powered,
whale-shaped Scorpion, a
speedy attack submarine,
plunged into the Thames River
for the first time today amid
colorful ceremonies.
She was christened by Mrs.
Elizabeth S. Morrison of Arling
ton. Va.. daughter of the late
Comdr. Maxmilian G. Schmidt,
the last commanding officer of
the Scorpion of World War 11.
which was lost in action.
The 252-foot vessel, a sister
ship of the USS Skipjack, the
Nation’s fastest and most
maneuverable submarine, slid
smoothly down the ways in the
shipyards of her builder. Elec
tric Boat Division of General
Dynamics Corp.
Despite cloudy weather, an
applauding crowd of several
thousand persons witnessed the
launching, the third here this
year. The Scorpion has been
preceded by two nuclear fleet
ballistic missile submarines.
George Washington and Patrick
Henry. It is under the com
mand of Lt. Comdr. Norman B.
' Bessac.
Saturday
Final
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Forces
PARIS. Dec. 19 (AP)
President Eisenhower today
urged French President Charles
de Gaulle to give ground in
his opposition to integrating
Frances military forces with
those of its Western allies.
This was confirmed by au
thoritative sources after Mr.
Eisenhower and Gen. de Gaulle
met for 55 minutes after the
opening session of a three-day
Western summit meeting.
Mr. Eisenhower was reported
to have supported Secretary of
State Herter, who earlier this
week told the 15-nation NATO
ministerial meeting that an in
tegrated European defense sys
tem was the basis on which the
United States keeps troops on
the continent.
“Frank and Friendly"
Gen. de Gaulle’s reaction was
not outlined. Presidential Press
Secretary James C. Hagerty,
however, described the De
Gaulle-Eisenhower talks as
"very frank and friendly.” He
said they might get together
again this week end.
Despite the differences, a
highly placed source said there
has been a marked improve
ment in the atmosphere of
United States-French relations.
The informant said the
Americans have convinced the
French of Mr. Eisenhower's
sincere support for Gen. de
Gaulle s program for ending the
Algerian rebellion. The French
still have ruffled feelings be
i cause they had expected strong
er United States support for
their Algerian plan. But they
are beginning to play down the
disagreements, he said.
The change was in marked
contrast to the situation only a
few days ago when it was being
said freely that Mr. Eisenhow
er's stock never had stood so
low in France.
In General Agreement
Earlier. Gen. de Gaulle, Mr.
Eisenhower. British Prime Min
ister Harold Macmillan and
West German Chancellor Kon
rad Adenauer opened their
meeting in general agreement
that an East-West summit
session should be held.
Their talks ranged over
hopes for unifying Germany
and the question of divided
Berlin as well as East-West ne
gotiations on nuclear disarma
ment.
The four leaders took up the
drafting of specific negotiating’
proposals to be laid before So
viet Premier Nikita S. Khru
shchev at an East-West meet
ing next year.
A working group of diplo- J
mats from the four nations is,
expected to be set up to po
lish these proposals and to iron
out differences.
Opposes Troop Integration
Gen. de Gaulle opposes the
incorporation of French forces
in NATO and Mr. Eisenhower
is the obvious spokesman for
the 14 NATO allies of France,
all of whom are in favor of
defense integration.
Following the Eisenhower-
See EISENHOWER, Page A-3
Parts of Virginia Get
3 Inches of Snow
By the Associated Press
Snow up to 3 inches in depth
in Southwest Virginia and from
1 to 2 inches in some Central
Virginia areas greeted early
risers today. State Highway
Department officials reported
ao difficulties in keeping roads
open.
The greater depths fell in a
12-county Southwest Virginia
area, where the fall ranged
from ‘ 2 to 3 inches.
Snow also was reported in
Southside Virginia from Rich
mond to the North Carolina
line. x
DID CHRIST
HAVE BROTHER?
DID CHRIST hove brothers ond
sisters? This is the provocative
question asked by Dr. Carlyle Adams
in his column ’’Our Religions.” The
article appears on Page A-7.
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