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THE WEATHER: “ts, ' District and vicinity—Clearing and cooler tonight with the low near 68. Fair and cool tomorrow. High and low temperatures of the last 24 hours: High, 89, at 3:45 p.m. yesterday: low, 74, at 12:55 a.m. today. 108th Year. Arlington Gets South Post of Fort Myer Cemetery to Use 190-Acre Area in Relocation Plan Arlington Cemetery will be enlarged in a few years by the addition of the 190 acres that now make up the South Post of Fort Myer, the Defense De partment announced today. Use of the tract lying di rectly east of the cemetery is Map on Page A-6 scheduled to begin in fiscal 1964. The long-range plan en visions first the development of 81 acres of the post. Ultimately, when the entire section is de veloped, the cemetery will pro vide adequate space for the Nation's servicemen dead until about 1979. Relocation Due Plans also are under way for relocation of buildings and serv ices now on the post, made up largely of temporary barracks and structures in use since World War 11. A law requires disposal of many of these fa cilities by July 1,1962. Several thousand persons work or live on the post. These include about 2,000 personnel of the 1020th Special Activities Wing of the Air Force and an element of the Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks. There are barracks for 584 Air Force en listed men. A spokesman for the Military District of Washington was confident all these personnel and facili/es would be retained for this area, but had no in formation as to where they would be relocated. North Post to Stay The North Post of the fort, where the famed 3d Infantry Division ceremonial group is stationed, is of a* permanent nature and will not be affected by the transfer. Arlington Cemetery now is made up of 419.47 acres. 339.11 of which have been developed. The Army estimates that the present acreage will be oc cupied or reserved in 1957. Since establishment of Ar- j lington Cemetery :n 1864 more I than 105,000 persons have been buried there and grave sites 1 have been reserved for 24.000 close survivors eligible under the law. In addition to' service men and women, their husbands and wives and certain of their children are entitled to burial in this and other national cemeteries. However, no more than two gravesites are per mitted each family. Several bills have been in troduced in Congress for trans fer of the 20-acre Nevius site, on the north, to the cemetery, but none has reached the en actment stage. Fighting Convicts Injure 3 Guards HAGERSTOWN, Md.. Aug. 10 (AP).—A fight involving about 20 inmates of the Mary land Reformatory for Males near here broke out today dur ing the lunch tjour at the mess hall. Three guards were injured quelling the disturbance. Supt. Clement J. Ferling said the disturbance started when Marylond Assembly to Get Prison Overcrowding Problem. Page B-3 the inmates, eating on the first lunch shift, began fighting and a pitcher of hot coffee was thrown. Those involved in the fight were quickly returned to their cells. The cause of the dis turbance was not immediately determined. There was no indication the outbreak was connected with recent prison unrest over a change in parole benefits for prisoners working on outside public works assignments. The most seriously injured of the guards, Alvey Heltibridle, 48. was taken to Washington County Hospital by ambulance. The other two guards, Emmert Stains, 47, and Joseph A. Rick ard, 32. were sent to the hos pital later. 111/- NEED HELP? FOR FAST ACTION in finding just the help you want use STAR CLASSIFIED. CALL LINCOLN 3-5000 Ask /or an ad-taker. No. 223. Phone LI. 3-5000 ■HMH sWMH JiMt' i ■ ■ ■ ■■ . A crowd of Russians gathers at a Moscow street corner to read news papers carrying the text of the 4.000-word indictment against Capt. Francis G. Powers, the pilot of the U-2 plane downed over Russia. (Story on Page A-2.) —AP Wirephoto via radio from London. City Lowers Fund Plea To $3 Million Figure Request for Extra $7 Million Reduced In Anticipation of Sales Tax Increase By GRACE BASSETT Star Staff Writer The District Commissioners told Congress today they could reduce their request for a Federal payment from $7 million to $3 million and still keep the city budget in the black. This reduction is based on the Commissioners’ assump tion that a sales tax increase from 2 to 3 per cent would clear Congress. New sales tax revenues would be $5.5 million. Added to the $3 million Federal pay , ment. the yield would cover the District’s anticipated deficit of $8.5 million for the year which began last July 1. Also. Robert E McLaughlin, president of the Board of Com missioners, pointed out that financial officers had discov ered $2 million more would be coming into the District this year than previously had been estimated. So the city could expect a little cushion from the surplus | if Congress freed the payment and imposed added sales taxes. Budget matters are due to come before a Senate fiscal sub- , committee considering a House passed sales tax increase. Wants Talk With Frear Senator Bible said he wanted ! to talk with Senator Frear. Democrat of Delaware, who heads the subcommittee, before deciding on any course of ac tion. Mr. McLaughlin reported that j the District needs $225.4 mil-; lion to cover general operation; expenses. Only $216.9 million is in sight. The spending total includes $lO.l million pending in the supplemental budget, 7.5 per cent pay raises for District em ployes to cost $9 million and an additional supplemental budget of $155,000 now before the Budget Bureau. “The need for financing these | pending items is extremely im- | portant if the District is to j meet its essential needs,” Mr.' McLaughlin wrote. "The proj ects in the public works pro gram (lumped in the supple mentafl budget before Congress) are fully as important as the maintenance items that have already been approved. "The most imoprtant items Airline Merger to Cost No Jobs, Capital Told By the Associated Press United Air Lines said today that a merger with Capital Airlines would provide for the continued employment of all of Capital's 7,800 workers. W. A. Patterson, United president, gave this assurance on the eve of voting on the merger plan by directors of the two companies. Capital's board of directors will meet at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City tomorrow morning, and United directors will meet at their offices in Chicago. Under a plan announced July 28, Capital will merge into United with the approval of Capital’s British creditor, Vickers-Armstrongs. Stock holders of United and Capital will vote on the merger in October. After that, the Civil Aeronautics Board will make known its position. Since United will be the sur viving airline, there has been no questions as to retention of its 23,300 employes. Capital’s workers have been worrying, however. Mr. Patterson said in a pre pared statement that he was distressed by remarks attri buted to him that United W fecnina Blaf V J y WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1960—72 PAGES Hom. D.li,er.d: o.il, od s«»d. y , P „ mo.th, $1.95 5 CENTS are overcrowding in institutions, continuation of the program of providing adequate schools, and acceleration of the abate ment of river pollution.” 4 Developments Cited The Commissioners explained their decision against increas ing real estate taxes this year in the light of four develop ments. Noting that he favored j a property tax increase. Mr. I McLaughlin said that former , j Commissioners A. C. Welling i and the late David B. Karrick , voted to maintain present rates ; because: First, $2 million more than estimated in tax revenues was found. Second, it "appeared that 1 ! Congress was unwilling to con ■ sider any tax legislation other 1 than the sales tax and ... we should assume that the sales tax increase would be en acted.” I Third, a sales tax plus a real I estate tax increase would force ; middle and low-income resi dents of the District to pay more taxes than most of their 1 surburban neighbors. Fourth, it was proper for Congress to allow Federal financing of remaining costs of operating the Nation's ' Capital if District residents ' were being taxed by Congress up to $5.5 million more. I Massey Recovering MONTREAL, Aug. 10 (AP). —Former Gov. Vincent Massey was reported by his son Lionel : to be getting along fine yester : day in Royal Victoria Hospital follbwing minor surgery for an > undisclosed ailment. would “do its best” to fit Capital's personnel into the merged airline. "All Capital employes will be integrated into the merged company.” Mr. Patterson said, adding that he would do his best also to fit Capital's officers into United’s management structure. Mr. Patterson said he and oher United officers soon will start a tour to every station and installation of Capital. "We will visit Capital and see what their operation is all about,” he said. Mr. Patterson said the pre liminary study of Capital would permit immediate implementa tion of the merger, once it is authorized by the CAB and thus might prevent «.ny losses during the reorganiza. on pe riod. Officials of the airline hope for quick CAB action so that if the merger is approved it can go into effect early next year. Capital chose merger as a solution of its difficulties after its British creditors started foreclosure action last April on Capital's overdue $33.8 mil lion debt for its fleet of Vis count airplanes. Soviets Expel U. S. Attache Charge He Set Up Spy Apparatus MOSCOW, Aug. 10 'AP’.— The Soviet Union today ac cused the United States afr attache. Col. Edwin M. Kir ton, of setting up a spy ap paratus here. It ordered him to leave the Soviet Union. His assistant, Capt. Irving T. MacDonald of Provincetown, Mass., was warned on similar charges but was not told to leave. In Washington, the State Department accused the Soviet Union of obvious retaliation in expelling Col. Kirton. Lincoln White. State Depart ment press officer, said the action was "obviously taken in retaliation for the fully war ranted expulsion" of the Soviet i Embassy's third secretary, Petr Y. Ezhov, on July 22. Espionage Charged The State Department ordered the Soviet diplomat to leave the country immediately, charging he had bought aerial photographs of strategic areas in the United States. It called his actions "espionage activity.” Col. Kirton. 50. returned with United States Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson from Frankfurt on the Ambassador's Air Force plane this afternoon. He had flown out, after an un eventful visit to the Baltic states, to serve as the Ambas sador’s escort officer. Nearing the end of his tour of duty, he had planned to fly tomorrow to Wiesbaden to greet his successor as Air At tache here. Col. Melvin Nielsen. Instead, both he and Mrs. Kir ton will leave permanently on Monday. They will fly aboard a Scandinavian airliner to Co penhagen. Capt. MacDonald still has a year to go on his Moscow tour of duty. Both men had hoped to be observers at the trial of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers next week. Col. Kirton made an ex pert inspection of the U-2 wreckage. He also arranged the return of the body of Maj. Willard G. Palm, pilot of the RB-47 shot down by the Rus sians. United States Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson and his aides immediately went into a huddle with the two officers, both of whom speak fluent Rus sian. Not Submissive Enough The most serious charge against Col. Kirton was that he “organized an intelligence ap paratus” shortly after arriving in the Soviet Union. The accusations, contained in an official Foreign Ministry statement issued to the press, said he had been detained by See ATTACHE, Page A-6 4 U. N. Troops Reported Killed BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug. 10 *AP).—Four United Nations Tunisian soldiers have been at tacked and killed by Africans apparently involved in tribal warfare in the Congo, the Bel gium Radio said today. If confirmed, these would be the first U. N. casualties in the Congo. The radio said the shootings occurred in Kasai Province, for some time the scene of bloody inter-tribal warfare between the Luluas and the Balubas. The radio said four Tunisians died of injuries suffered in the attack. An officer was drowned while trying to escape from his at tackers by swimming across a river, the broadcast added. Eisenhower Urges Congress Action Denies Plan To Improve Arms Cash President Eisenhower today heatedly denied a statement by Senate Democratic Leader Johnson of Texas that he still plans to impound $621 million of defense appropriations de spite his step-up in the defense posture. When a reporter asked him about the Johnson statement, Usable Defense Funds Total $621.3 Million. Page A-17 made yesterday, the President bristled and countered by ask the newsman, Jack Bell of the Associated Press, why he as sumed the statement was cor rect. Mr. Bell replied that he was merely quoting the Senate leader. The President said he knew no reason why anyone should assume there has been a defi nite decision to impound that much of appropriated funds. Cite* Need of Study Mr. Eisenhower said that when Congress takes out of the defense budget $1.3 billion of items recommended by the Ex ecutive and puts in $l.l billion for other purposes, a lot of study is required in carrying out the revised budget. He added that it could not be said at this time that some of the money is frozen. Later the President also de nied that he had been in fluenced by Vice President Nixon and Gov. Rockefeller of New York to step up the de fense program. He also said he had no recollection of being upset by discussion of the de fense plank which went on at the Republican convention. As to the changes he recently ordered in defense readiness, the President said. “I was not influenced by anybody except my own military and State De partment advisers." Remarks Red Shift He said anyone who has not noticed changes in Communist tactics recently is not "read ing very well.” He said the changes he has ordered in de fense posture are all a matter of maintaining confidence among our allies. In discussing the Republican defense plank, the President said he had had a good many conversations about its con tent. He explained that the platform deals with the years ahead while his decisions have dealt with past years. He said it would be ridiculous to argue that conditions would be the same in both eras. UAR, Cuba to Trade CAIRO, Aug. 10 (AP).—The United Arab Republic will im port $7 million worth of sugar and $2 million worth of to bacco from Cuba, the Middle East News Agency reported last night. The agency said the UAR will export $9.5 million worth of textiles, shoes and rice to Cuba. FMG 4ND HOT POKER Leader Dirksen's Burdens By MARY McGRORY Star Staff Writer Curly-maned, butter-throated Senator Dirksen of Illinois is an oppressed minority leader if ever there was one. The standard-bearer of the G. O. P. Senators often winces and cries aloud under the fell blows of circumstance, but inevitably he bucks himself up with the thought that "When you carry the flag, you carry the flag.” Senator Dirksen was a soldier in World War I, and he still responds lilje an eager dough boy to the orders of his general, who in the legislative wars of today is President Eisenhower. Often at the White House, Senator Dirksen confided yes terday in an impromptu press conference, when other legisla tive leaders beg off, he will say to his leader, “Cnief, give me that hot poker." Sometimes the double burden of the flag and the hot poker proves burdensome and the mi nority leader admitted on the floor that sometimes, In diso bedience of the instructions on ancient parchment, “one wearies In well-doing.” What made it especially wearisome for the minority leader yesterday was that he Might Attend U. N., President Indicates Hints He Would Talk Disarmament If He Decides Attendance Is Needed By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Associated Press Btaff Writer President Eisenhower held open today the possibility that he may take part in some United Nations meetings on dis armament if he decides his personal attendance Is neces sary. Mr. Eisenhower discounted the possibility of a private talk with Soviet Premier Khrushchev if Mr. Khrushchev heads the Russian delegation to the U. N.—but again the President held the door open. He said he would be pre pared to see Mr. Khrushchev U. N. to Begin Arms Session on Tuesday. Page A-2 if he thought that would be useful. He explained he had considered the possibility so remote that he had not really thought about it. However, under questioning at his news conference, Mr. Eisenhower said he would in vite Mr. Khrushchev to Wash ington if he thought it would serve any useful purpose, He called the likelihood remote. Mr. Eisenhower made these other points bearing on United States foreign relations: 1. He has found the negotia tions with Russia at Geneva on a nuclear test ban treaty very disappointing and -discourag ing. If the negotiations come to the place where no progress is possible the United States will have to protect itself—pre sumably meaning it will have to resume nuclear weapons test explosions. But Mr. Eisenhower reaf- Antarctic Pact Backers Lose in Initial Test By the Associated Press A d m i n i s t r ation hopes for ratification of the 12-nation Antarctic treaty were set back today when proponents failed to muster the necessary two thirds majority in a test vote. The vote was 56-29 against a motion by Senator Engle, Democrat of California, to defer action on the controversial 1 treaty until next January 25. While defeat of the motion itself required only a majority, j proponents of the treaty were ; two votes shy of the two-thirds ■ majority required for ratifica- I tion. However, the test was indeci- ;' sive since 15 Senators did not ! vote. The 15 could swing the' decision either way. And even if only the 85 who voted on the delay proposal took part in the final roll call, a one-vote switch , would put the treaty over. ( Three and a half hours of debate on ratification itself j were scheduled before the final . vote. Johnson Sees Problems The test count bore out a 1 statement by Senator Johnson, 1 just ahead of today s session. 1 that the treaty “is in some 1 trouble." The Texan, Democratic leader 1 r. |a I Fl SENATOR DIRKSEN was called upon by his chief to bring forth two civil rights measures which he himself suggested be tabled during the civil rights debate last winter, a prolonged wrangle which Senator Dirksen described del icately yesterday as “a rather vigorous crusade." For anyone else it would have been a rather awkward mo ment. For Senator Dirksen, who is militantly human about Night Final Late New York Markets, Page B-17 firmed a promise which he said he had made long ago. to the effect that there would be no nuclear weapons test explo sions in the atmosphere so long as he is President. Such ex plosions cause radioactive fall out. 2. The President knows at the moment of only one threat by Mr. Khrushchev to make a major move this summer or fall—that is the threat to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany if the West Ger man Bundestag meets in West Berlin in September. The peace treaty move would trigger an East-West crisis over Berlin, he said. 3. He praised as another step forward the U. N. Security Council’s new mandate to Sec retary General Hammarskjold to find a peaceful solution in the Congo. 4. Although full details are lacking, it appears most of Laos remains loyal to the royal gov ernment in Luang Prabang. jNo changes in United States i economic or military aid policies are being considered now. and his party’s nominee for Vice President, said he did not know just how much trouble but "some very strong men are very much against it.” Senator Johnson said Presi dent Eisenhower's message Monday, calling for enactment of more than a score of items in the short session of Con gress, “riled up some people." Senator Johnson said Sen ator Bridges of New Hampshire, chairman of the Senate Repub lican Policy Committee, is op posed to Mr. Eisenhower's plea for ratification. But Senator Dirksen of Illi nois. the Republican leader, said he thought all but five of the 34 Republicans would sup port ratification. New Administration Look Senators Kennedy of Massa chusetts, the Democratic presi dential nominee: Johnson, and Jackson of Washington, the Democratic national chairman, all voted with Mr. Eisenhower against delay. Senator Engle contended the Senate should defer action toj allow a new President and new Secretaries of State and De fense to look over the treaty. But Senator Mansfield of . See TREATY. Page A-6 human failings, it was an oc casion to make public confes sion about human frailty, a luxury which, unlike other pol iticians. he never denies him self. “No one.” he said, head thrown back, voice throbbing, “will ever embarrass the mi nority leader by charging him with having changed his mind or reversed his position on other occasions. One cannot have been in this man's town for 28 years in the House and Senate without recognizing the verities of political life.” The minority leader recalled feelingly the long dark night of the filibuster in the rich, purple, antimacassar prose that is his hallmark. “I was trying to woo Mor pheus,” he crooned, as the galleries leaned forward in glee, "and suddenly that awful clang occurred and I thought, ‘Goodness, who wants to go through all this again?”’ “Compromise.” he said with an arch look across the aisle, "is not an unknown art in the political field.” V But lest he be thought too crassly practical in d&lmg with principle, the SenatoJexhibited a Victorian gentility in the See DIRKSEN, |Page A-7 Asks Politics Be Put in Second Place By J. A. O’LEARY Star Staff Writer President Eisenhower today challenged the Democratic Congress to get on with his leg islative program and denied it would take too long to accom plish at this session. “We simply cannot say po liticking is more important than the country’s business," Mr. Eisenhower told a news conference, referring to Demo cratic plans to adjourn about Labor Day for the election campaign. The President said “all this talk” that Congress would need weeks or months to carry out his recommendations is “a little silly.” He said it could be done “very quickly” by Democratic leaders, who have a two-thirds majority in Congress. Defends Rights Proposals The political atmosphere that has marked the recon vening of the Senate this week dominated today's press con ference. Mr. Eisenhower de fended all of the 21 proposals 'he asked the returning Con | gress to consider in his Monday 1 message, including the two civil rights provisions the Senate sidetracked yesterday. Mr. Eisenhower recalled that ’ he had asked for those two provisions in January and again in May and it would have been ' inconsistent not to repeat the ' recommendation now. He said all this talk about his having embraced new pro grams for this session is “just a little bit silly.” This was in answer to Senator Johnson’s jclai mthat the President has ; embraced a large part of the new Democratic platform. To illustrate, the President said he has been asking Con gress for a bill to help re develop areas of chronic un employment for five years. Congress and the President have never been able to agree on the details. Draws Laugh Asked if he would go over the head of Congress to the country if Democrats continued to block his recommendations, the President drew a laugh when he answered, “Possibly I’m doing that right now.” As the President issued his challenge to the Democratic Congress. 12 G. O. P. Senators sponsored a civil rights bill in corporating four main provi sions of the Republican plat i form. It caused only a momentary flurry, but showed that the issue iis likely to remain very much j alive despite the tabling of the I more limited bill yesterday. Senator Javits, Republican of New York, who introduced the measure today, asked that it remain on the clerk’s desk until Friday so that additional mem bers would have the opportunity to sign as co-sponsors. His I further request that the second See CONGRESS, Page A-6 Shocks Felt in Bogota BOGOTA, Columbia. Aug. 10 <AP>.—Moderate earth shocks which seismologists said may have centered in southern Peru were felt here at 1:15 a.m. and 2:49 a.m. EST yesterday. The epicenter appeared to be about 1.500 miles south of here. GERMAN WOMAN AIDS REFUGEES REFUGEES from East Germany continue to flock into the huge Marianfelde Refugee Center in West Berlin. A German woman im prisoned for seven years by the Communists tells of her work at the center in an interview with Staff Writer Amy Young today on Page I C-9. ARLENE FRANCIS discusses the less laudable aspects of humbn nature in the fourth of 12 articles ' from "That Certain Something," newly published discussion of th* elements of personal charm, appear ing today on Page C-2. Guide for Readers Amuse'ts C-16-17 Features B-12 1 Business B-14-17 Lost, Found A-3 Classified D-6-13 Obituary _ B-4 j Comics - D-15-17 Society— Crossword —D-17 Home...C-1-lS Editorial A-16 Sports D-1-5 Edit'l Articles A-17 TV-Radio .8-13 Hove The Star Delivered to Your Home Daily and Sunday Dial Lincoln 3-5000