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THE EVENING STAR
Washington, O. C.' Saturday, March 17, 1962
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-'.- Two chariots collide during a race at a Phoenix (Ariz.) rodeo yesterday,
’•'■ injuring the horses but not the drivers. Taking a spill (arrow) is Corky
;• Randall whose father, Glenn Randall, is driver of the other chariot.
The Randalls, along with the horses and chariots, appeared in the motion
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failings in Louisiana
Prompt Protests Here
Pickets from several East Coast cities were scheduled to
demonstrate here today against what they feel is Justice De
partment inaction concerning the cases of two integrationist
demonstrators jailed in Baton Rouge, La.
Two of about 40 college students were arrested this morn
ing while walking from Baltimore to participate in the demon-
stration at the Justice Depart
ment here. Police said they
tyere walking on the pavement
of U. S. Route 1 in Beltsville
After being warned to walk on
the shoulder.'
Police Pvt. R. A. Darling of
Prince Oeorges County identi
fied the pair as Penelope R.
Patch, 18, of Englewood. N. J.,
and Colston R. Stewart 111, 18,
of the 1700 block of Upshur
street N.W. Both said they
were students at Swarthmore
College.
• They were arrested under a
State law on disturbing the
peace “by obstructing or hin
dering the free passage of per
sons passing along” a public:
highway, police said. Miss J
Pstch was released on SIOO
borfd. A spokesman for the
sfrrdent group said bond would
be posted for Mr. Stewart dur
ing the day. Both are sched
uled to appear in Hyattsville
Peoples Court March 27.
■’ Organized by CORE
,The picketing has been or
ganized by u Jhe .Student Non-
Violent Co-ordinating Commit
tee,and the Congress of Racial
Equality, according to Julius
Jobson, head of the Washing
ton CORE branch.
Last night, three young men
who said they are Howard Uni
versity students, were evicted,
via wheelchairs from the Jus
tice Department building where ■
they said they went in an at
tempt to see Attorney General
Kennedy about the Baton
Rouge cases.
Stokely Carmichael, 21, one
of the group, said they refused
to leave the building until 9
p.m., when some guards and
men in civilian clothes lifted
them into wheelchairs and
rolled them out of the building.
The other students identified
themselves as Tom Kahn, 23,
and Courtland Cox.
~A Justice Department spokes-
TODAY'S V/EAT HER REPORT
District and vicinity—Clear I
tonight with low in lower 30s.
Tomorrow, sunny and slightly
wanner.
j; Maryland—Fair tonight and
tomorrow. Low tonight of 26
|o 32 in north and 32 to 36 in
south. High tomorrow of 42
{o 48 in mountains, 48 to 54
Isewhere.
Virginia—Clear tonight with
row of 26 to 32 in mountains,
28 to 34 elsewhere. Mostly
iimny tomorrow. High of 50
to 55, 45 to 50 in mountains.
/Lower Potomac and Chesa
peake Bay—Small craft warn
ings are displayed. Northwest
Winds of 10 to 20 knots tonight
snd tomorrow. Fair weather
With visibility over 10 miles.
Road Conditions—AAA
•♦West— District of Columbia to Penn-
Mlvania turnpike, clear; Pennsylvania
turnpike, snow covered in spots from
Somerset. Pa. to Pittsburgh. Pa.; other
wise clean; Ohio turnpike, clean; U.S.
4[> west to Ohio, snow covered wrest of
know covered west of Romney. W. Va.;
Frostburg. Md.; U.S. 50 west to Ohio,
thS. 60 through West Virginia, clear.
South—Shirley highway and US. 1
to Richmond, Richmond south, and
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It will be colder along the Eastern Seaboard and warmer in the central
portion tonight. Widely scattered showers will occur in the Central
and Southern Plateau regions and in the Northern Pacific and Northern
Plateau regions. Elsewhere it will be mostly fair to partly cloudy —AP
Wirephoto Map.
man said the trio was told
there were no grounds for Fed
eral intervention in the Baton
Rouge cases. The trio was also
told they would have to wait
two weeks for an appointment
with the Attorney General.
' Mr. Hobson said that CORE
feels there is "urgent necessity
for quick action” by the Justice
Department to protect the Con
stitutional rights of the jailed
integrationists.
Their arrests last December
were an outgrowth of demon
strations at Southern Uni
versity, a Negro college, over
the expulsion of several stu
dents for sit-in activities against
segregation, according to the
Associated Press.
One. Dion Tyrone Diamond.
20, of Petersburg, Va., is being
held in lieu of $6,000 bond on
(several charges, including tres
passing, unlawful assembly and
vagrancy. He faces trial next
month.
21-Months Term
The other, the Rev. B. Elton
Cox of High Point. N. C„ a
field secretary for CORE, was
fined $5,700 fend sentenced to
21 months in jail after being
convicted of Impeding justice
|by demonstrating near the
courthouse, failing to move
when ordered to do so by of
ficers, and obstructing side
walks.
Mr. Hobson said CORE feels
both were subjected to “exces
sive bail” and that the charges
against them are “without
[ foundation.”
I Students and CORE mem
[ bers from New Haven, Conn.,
. New York, Philadelphia, Balti
[ more and Washington are ex
, pected to participate in today’s
demonstration, the CORE lead
er said.
District of Columbia to Charlottesville,
clear.
North —District of Columbia to Har
risburg. Pa., Hanlsburs to Buffalo. N.
Y.. District of Columbia to Delaware
Memorial Brldte, New Jersey turnpike
to New York City, and New Ingland.
clear.
River Report
Potomac River muddy at Harpers
■ Ferrv and muddy at Orest Falls.
I Shenandoah muddy at Harper's Ferry.
Temperatures for Yesterday
I Midnight 39 Noon 46
1 4 a.m. 37 4 pm. 44
Sam. 39 Bp.m. 39
Record Temperatures for the Year
Hlehest. 64 on February 5.
Lowest. 9 on January 11.
Tide Tables
(Furnished bv the U. 8. Coast and
Oeodetlc Survey)
Today Tomorrow
Hich S:3oa.m. 6:18 a.m.
Low 12:35 a.m.
Hish 5:53 o.m. 6:39 p.m.
tour _ _ 12:08 p.m. 12:57 p.m.
For hilth and low tides at the fol
lowina points subtract times indicated
from the above: Annapolis. 3V, hours;
Bloody Point Llaht. 414 hours: Colonial
Beach. 6 hours; Deale. 4(4 hours: Sol
omor’s Island. 6(4 hours; Point Look
out 7*4 hours.
The Sun and the Moon
Rises Sets
Sun. today 6:17 a.m. 6:17 a.m.
Sun. tomorrow 6:15 a.m. 6:18 p.m.
Moon, today 3:02 p.m. 4:28 a.m.
Automobile llahts must be turned on
14 hour after sunset.
Liberal Book
Attacked by
Republicans
By the Associated Press
Republicans in Congress
have blasted a book published
yesterday as a threat to United
States security.
“This Democratic-sponsored
book,” said Senator Dirksen of
Illinois, “could well be renamed
‘Our American Munich.’”
The same suggestion came
from Senator Morton. Repub
lican of Kentucky, who said in
a Senate speech that Congress
should repudiate the book to let
the world know it “does not
represent the thinking of the
vast majority of Congress. Dem
ocrats or Republicans."
The volume that stirred up
the G. O. P. storm was de
scribed by a Republican Na
tional Committee research
paper as a series of essays by
consultants to a group of Dem
ocratic Congressmen and for
mer Congressmen.
The book is called "The Lib
eral Papers" and it contains an
introduction written by Repre
sentative Roosevelt, Democrat
of California, one of the leaders
in setting up the "Liberal Proj
ect,” a study group formed by
several House Democrats in
1959.
Some of these Democrats
have disavowed any connec
tion with the project. Some oth
ers, including Mr. Roosevelt, de
clined comment.
The Republican critics, who
also included Representative
Halleck of Indiana, the House
G. O. P. leader, and Senator
Goldwater of Arizona, said they
were more fearful of the book’s
impact on other countries than
on Americans.
“The real menace,” said Mr.
Halleck, "is that it could lead
not only our allies but the
Communist world to doubt that
we in America will stand firm,
or believe that any position
that America takes means any
thing.”
Senator Halleck and Senator
Dirksen devoted their regular
weekly news conference yester
day to denouncing what they
described as this “astounding”
and “incredible” book.
Precipitation
Month '62 '6l Normal Record Yr.
January .1.59 3.12 3.24 7.83 '37
February 3.65 5.71 2.44 6.84 'B4
March . 2.32 4.18 3.0.3 8.84 '9l
April ___ 3.24 3.06 9.13 'B9
May 2.57 3.98 10.69 '53
June 4.84 3.41 10.94 'OO
July ___ 3.95 4.26 11.06 '45
Auaust 6.31 4.75 14.41 '2B
September 1.02 4.12 17.45 '34
October 2.37 2.85 8.81 '37
November 1.75 2.73 7.18 '77
December 2.88 2.61 7.56 'Ol
Temperaturea In Various cities
H T,
Abilene 67 45 Knoxville 52 28
Albany 40 33 Little Rock 66 34
Albuqu que 56 31 Los A'aeles 61 51
Anchoraae .32 14 Louisville 40 27
Atlanta 58 30 Memphis 50 21)
Atlantic C. 47 33 Miami B'ch 82 56
Baltimore 47 29 Milwaukee 36 25
Billinas 43 28 Mpls-StPaul 34 4
Birm aham 64 34 MUeomery 63 33
Bismarck 35 12 NewOrle na 64 32
Boise 52 28 New York 50 36
Boston 52 35 Norfolk 47 34
Buffalo 32 29 Okla. City 66 31
Burlinaton 40 27 Omaha 29 16
Charleston 61 42 Omaha 29 16
Charlotte 58 32 Phoenix 74 41
Cheyenne 43 22 Pitsbureh 34 29
Chicago 37 31 Portland 50 33
Cincinnati 37 30 Raleigh 55 32
Cleveland 32 28 Rapid City 45 22
Columbua 33 28 Reno 49 34
Dallas 67 44 Richmond 54 33
Denver 50 28 St. Louis 34 22
Des Moines 30 13 S’t Lake C. 50 "7
Detroit 39 28 8. Antonio 66 42
8111B 111 ? 1 , 1 !, 2§ 1? 8- Fran'co 58 SO
Fort Worth 68 45 Savannah 64 40
Fresno 61 43 Seattle 57 37
Houston 68 40 Tampa 65 46
„ IS w'hington 47 33
India polls 32 26 Wichita 53 30
Jackson 59 35
Kansas C. 41 27
Objects in Sea
Spur Search
For Airliner
MANILA, Mar. 17 (AP).—
Search planes reported sight
ing five partially submerged
objects in the Western Pacific
today along the scheduled
route of a chartered airliner
that vanished with 107 persons
aboard. No persons were seen
in the immediate vicinity.
The United States destroyer
Brister was dispatched to de
termine what the objects are.
The joint rescue center at
Agana, Guam, said the Brister
is expected to reach the area
at dawn tomorrow. A KC-97
plane was ordered to circle
above the objects until the
Brister arrives.
Photographic Squadron 61 at
Guam sent a Sky Warrior jet
to photograph the objects from
the air in hopes that the pic
tures might reveal some identi
cation and possibly furnish a
clue to the fate of the four
engine Super-Constellation of
the Flying Tiger Line.
Hopes Grow Slimmer
A United States Air Force
spokesman declared earlier
that "chances are getting slim
mer every minute” that any of
the 107 aboard the missing
plane would be found alive. The
plane was presumed to have
crashed or ditched after leav
ing Guam Thursday night for
a 1,600-mile hop to Clark Air
Force Base near Manila.
(Investigators gathered at
the Burbank, Calif., headquar
ters of the Flying Tiger Line
to re-fly the airliner’s route in
the hope of finding some clue
to its disappearance. Sabotage
has been hinted and so has
the possibility that the plane
was hijacked. Another question
was a possible link with the
crash earlier Thursday of a
Flying Tiger cargo plane in
Alaska.)
The propeller-driven air
liner, with a crew of 11 Ameri
cans, left Travis Air Force Base
in Northern California Tues
day carrying 93 United States
Army men and three South
Viet Namese bound for South
Viet Nam. The Army men re
portedly were to join the
United States forces bolstering
the South Viet Nam govern
ment’s fight against the Com
munist Viet Cong guerrillas.
Made Three Stops
The plane made scheduled
refueling and service stops at
Hawaii, Wake Island and Guam.
It was last heard from 270
miles west of Guam, when the
pilot radioed a routine mes
sage without a hint of trouble.
After fruitless flights yester
day and last night, officials
tripled the search area and
pressed nearly 100 planes and
nine ships into systematic criss
crossing of more than 250,000
square miles of calm Pacific
waters.
More than 50 planes from
United States Air Force and
naval installations in the
Philippines and 40 more from
United States bases on Guam
scoured almost every conceiv
able path the pilot of the miss
ing plane might have taken.
Each plane was assigned a
1 60-square-mile search area. The
I Philippine-based planes cov
ered an ocean rectangle 700
miles long and 180 miles wide
along the airliner’s scheduled
route, and the planes and ships
from Guam scoured a compar
able area.
List of Those on Plane
The Army released yesterday
the following names of men
aboard a transport plane re
ported missing over the Pacific:
vllle vi* ■’°* e,,h r ' Broome ot D»n-
Sertt. Ernest T. Dixon of Jessup,
MountKJ; N B cr J - Atk,n ’ " BUek
BSMeu’of^BuVlinVton. 0 !? 8 C R ° bßrt ”
N Sertt. Robert J. Bako of Elbridge,
_ **• M ®ertt. Henry F. Blernscke of
Colorado Sprints, Colo.
Calif Pvt ’ L * rry D ' c,nnon b! Chino,
Do ß v ß r M T?n‘n ,t Wllll,m P ’ CS!eldln ' Ot
tutu. oF t- Luciu ’ D - Croft of Au ’
_ .Specialist 4th Class Lawrence A
Fox of Canastota. N. Y.
11. Sergt. Howard R. Galllneau. Jr.,
husband of Mrs. Catherine E. Oalll-
E' aa Place 8w - Alderwood
Manor, Washington state.
1 „-- Beret. Clarence F. Ganance. Jr.
of Rensselear, N. Y
I 13. Sertt. 1/c John L. Geisler of
Granite, Md. (Baltimore County).
S.i 4 jo.e, ca r i?f. R ° b ' rt ail ““ tn of
Wash S ' r " Walter olynn es Tacoma.
R oy »’
clnVitl^g?" I *’ w - ar,,,,U1 " Cla -
Newbura r Mo. 1/e B ‘ dn<y L ’ Orl, ’° m of
h.V! A? D K- c ‘ a .U st . 4th Class Douglas A.
Haas of North Syracuse. N. Y.
Os Fort ß ‘H r Slch l u’c‘. C1 A a r*li MelVlß L ’
Mt' Auburn, W ' Hend " ,on of
S.S-Fr. P n V ci.co RO cVl‘f. N H ' ndmon •'
Vls’ta, Calif cllnton M Hoy ® f Sierra
®JS c i, a “ a J sth ... c,asa Timothy
Hookins of Spokane. Wash.
foMe%hio° hn *■ K * rlb ° ° f Belle -
Kl^?? e «o» 4th C.g}‘ 8S Ch ">“ E
Coiumbu e . r, {j. W * rren M Lehmkuhl
Calff 1- Nicholar Nichols, Jr.. Sea
er. 29 0 t R ‘ ,m ° nd '• My *
30. Specialist 4th Class Roter L.
Oliver of Victory, Wls.
Wls 1 ’ Pvt ' J,clt C ' p, ckard of Lodi,
32. Specialist 4th Class Charles W
Pa .rd° n "* of Colorado Sprints. Colo W
Sergt. Ist Class Edmond Saens
of Lakeview Terrace. Calif.
h „; l t, B S e f ,a,lat ■ ,th claa » Fred W. Tal
bot of Salamanca. N. Y.
Calif Bertt ' Peter TharnT of Vallejo,
tusta' Ga at ’ Jack B ' Tl,,num ° f *u-
s. C “ 88 R ° SB C ' W ‘"“ r
Hams. ??. ra Vac 1 o B i>. C,a^sS ibert Wl '’
W 9 Va Vt ' Homer D Adams of Yukon.
clas s Jam « R Armes.
Mtmdaee, Austria 8 ' ’’°* nn ' ArmM °<
Gri}>ite M c 8 y er Hi D ° n " d A B,rnM of
42. Pfc Thomas W. Baxley of
Thomasville, Ga. oi
n.t’L Specialist sth Class Richard
Bayse ot Prince George. Va
•‘J. sertt. Ist Class George W. Bliss
ot Fort Jay. New York City.
_„ 45 - Pvt - James Bowen of Indlanap
nils, inn.
4C. Sergt. Ist Clasx John J. Burna
of San Luis Obispo. Calif.
„ 4 7\ Ser l t John H- Callahan of
Hazleton. Pa.
48. Specialist sth Clan Edvard D
Cox of Amarillo. Tex.
4ft. Sertt. Harold L. Curry of Man
gum, Okla.
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A ST. PATRICK'S MASS
The Most Rev. Patrick A. O’Boyle (left), archbishop of Washington,
enters St. Patrick’s Church, Tenth and G streets N.W., today to celebrate
the 170th annual St. Patrick’s Day mass. More than l;100 persons at
tended.—Star Staff Photo.
President Hears Irish
Claim First on 'Troika'
President Kennedy, whose
Irish ancestry is beyond dispute,
marked St. Patrick’s Day this
morning by hearing the Irish
Ambassador claim that the
Irish had a “troika” long before
the Russians developed one of
their own.
Ambassador Thomas J. Kier
nan noted that the Russians
boast of having invented or dis
covered practically everything.
He said, however, that the
shamrock flourished long before
the Russians and that in one
respect it is “our troika.”
A troika is a three-horse
Russian sleigh and the term
has been widely used to describe
any group run by three chair
men.
At a White House ceremony
“for the purpose of celebrating
OLDEST AUDIBLE SATELLITE
STARTS TO SHOW ITS 4 YEARS
FORT MONMOUTH, N. J. (AP).—Vanguard I com
pletes its fourth year in orbit today.
The world's oldest audible satellite is beginning to
feel its years. It doesn’t talk as loud or spin aS much f
as it used to. 1
The Army Astro-Observation Center here reports
signals have grown fainter and don’t come through on
every orbit.
The spin has slowed from three revolutions per
second to one every 23 seconds. Scientists blame the "
damping effect of the earth’s magnetic field for the'
slowdown.
One thing the voyager doesn’t lack is miles. The
latest log shows 543,195,264 miles in 15,712 orbits. It
still whirls 400-1,000 miles above the earth.
The 6-4-inch, 2*/2-pound “grapefruit” followed the'
space trail blazed by Russia's Sputnik I and II and the 3
United States Explorer I. But these have long been silent.
5. Specialist sth Class Douglas P.
Dickey of Alexandria. La.
51. Pvt. James A. Edwards of Hence
ville. Ala.
52. Bergt. Ist Class Lindsay K.
Hester of Fort Monroe. Va.
, 53. Pfc. Samuel L. Hunter of Claf
lin. Kans.
54. M. Sergt. William R. Jarvis of
Glendale. Ky.
55. Pvt. John C. Jennings of Newell,
W. Va.
56. Sergt. James W. Johnston of
Clarksville, Tenn.
57. Pvt. John H. Jones of Colum
bus. Ga.
58. Sergt. John J. Jones of Ogden.
Utah.
59. Sergt. John Kanisky of Haren
(Goon). Holland.
60. Specialist sth Class Guy W.
Kinnison of Kaneoho. Oahu. Hawaii.
61. Bergt. Jack Lattie of Grove
ton. Ga.
62. Specialist 6th Class Adam 8.
Leddy of Guam.
63. Specialist 4th Class Franklin D
McClure of Dallas. Ga.
64. Pvt. Stanley W. McEntee of
Detroit. Mich.
65. Sergt. Steven Medwid of 1331
Leesburg court. Alexandria. Va.
66. Sergt. Billy W. Mick of Sierra
Vista. Ariz.
67. Sergt. Tom B. Morrison of
Plattsmouth, Nebr.
68. Sergt. Frank E. Pelkey of
Farmington, Me.
69. Pvt. Lawrence R. Perkins of
Chicago. 111.
70. Sergt. Ist Class James Powell of
Fort Worth. Tex. .
71. Bergt. Ist Class Walter a. Rein
hardt of Hammond. Ind.
72. Sergt. Ist Class Hubert L. Rice
of Waynesville. Mo.
73. M. Sergt. Delbert L. Riggins of
Boise. Idaho.
74. Warrant Officer Edison L. Rob
erts of Takoma. Wash.
75. Specialist sth Class Eddie F.
Robinson of Benton. Ark.
76. Specialist 6th Class Leslie Rod
erick. jr.. of Huston. Mo.
77. Specialist 4th Class Samuel Rog
ers of Pine Bluff. Ark.
78. Specialist 4th Class George Bager
of Bergton. Va.
79. S. Sergt. Leslie M. Salada of
Erie. Pa.
80. Specialist 4th Class Donald A.
Sargent of Ossipee. N. H.
81. Pvt. Andrew A. Sherd. 111. of
Radner. Pa
82. Sergt. Effisio Simola. Jr., of
San Antonio. Tex.
83. Specialist George M. Slocum of
Westfield. N Y.
84. Specialist 6th Class Elmer Smith
of Louisiana. Mo.
85. Sergt. James Sorenson of Spans
way w»sh.
86. Specialist 4th Class James H.
Taylor of Olive Branch. Miss.
87. M. Sergt. John A. Thomas of
Ridgeway. Ohio.
88. Specialist 4th Class Clarence
Thompson of Bake Spring. Tex.
89 8. Sergt. James Twitcv of Brook
lyn N. Y.
90 Specialist sth Clasa Wallace L.
Walcott of Tacoma. Wash.
91. Specialist 4th Class Leonard J.
Wedge of Millinocket. Me.
92. Sergt. Ist Class John B. Wen
dell of San Antonio. Tex.
93. Specialist sth Class James Wong
of Lohalna Maui. Hawaii.
The Fv’ng Tiger line released these
names of crewmen aboard the missing
plane:
Capt Gregory Thomas. Red Bank.
N. J., pilot.
Co-Pilot Robert Wish of Calabasas.
Call*.
Co-Pilot Bob J. Gazzaway of Fill
more. Calif.
Flight Engineer George Nau of
Pacoima Calif.
Flight Engineer Clayton McClellan
of San Mateo. Calif.
Navigator Gradv Burt. Jr., of Bald
win Park. Calif.
Navigator William Kennedy of Bain
tree. Mass.
Senior Attendant Barbara Wamslev.
Burlingame. Calif. •
Stewardess Christel Reiter of San
Mateo. Calif.
_ Stewardess Hllderarde Muller of San
Francisco.
Stewardess Patricia Wassum of Ban
Francisco.
St. Patrick’s Day” Ambassador
Kiernan presented shamrocks
, to Mr. Kennedy. He said they
were flown over from the old
sod.
“Why don’t you make a little
speech,” Mr. Kennedy suggested
as reporters and photographers
surrounded them. “Tell how
i fortunate it is to be Irish.”,
Mr. Kennedy wore a green tie
with a shamrock design. So
did Democratic Representatives
: Kirwan of Ohio and Fogarty of
Rhode Island, who accompanied
the Ambassador to the Presi
dent’s office. Mr. Kennedy
walked with Ambassador Kier
nan to a car outside the White
House offices and then told
reporters he planned to cele
brate by working the rest of
the day.
SATELLITES
Continued From Page A-l
said recently the Russians do
not have an anti-missile sys
tem even as advanced as the
Nike Zeus.
The Soviet Prime Minister
boasted that United States ra
dar stations, geared to detect
Russian missiles aimed at the
United States across the North
Pole, have lost their importance
because, he said, "the new
global rockets can fly around
the world in any direction and
strike a blow at any set tar
gets.’’
What he meant was that
Russian missiles fired east or
west, rather than over the
North Pole, for example, could
i avoid detection by radar sta
: tions of the Ballistic Missile
i Early Warning System. Two
BMEWS stations now are in
operation, with a third power
ful radar site due to come into
use later.
The BMEWS would be ex
l pected to give this country
about 15 minutes warning of q
missile onslaught.
The Midas system, using in
fra-red sensors that would de
tect the heat from rocket ex
haust right after blastoff, is
calculated to double the warn
ing time.
The plan is to launch six or
eight Midas satellites into a
polar orbit several hundred
miles high. Spaced about the
globe in a north-south path,
with the earth rotating below,
these satellites would be able to
scan the entire surface con
stantly.
Therefore, it probably Wouldn’t
wouldn’t matter from which
points or in which direction!
the Russian rockets were:
launched.
The Storm is Gone
AND
SPRING
Is On Its Way
Come Down Next Week I
End or Anytime Soon |
Brookings Elects
Four Trustees
The Brookings Institution
has announced the election of!
four new members to its Board
of Trustees.
They . are Gordon Gray of
Washington, Louis W. Cabot
of Boston, David M. Kennedy
of Chicago and H. Chapman
Rose of Cleveland, Ohio. Trus
tees are elected for three-year
terms by the old board mem
bers.
Mr. Gray, former Secretary
of the Ai-my and director of the
Office of Defense Mobilization,
is chairman of the board. He is
president of the Piedmont Pub
lishing Co.
Mr. Kennedy, a former As
sistant Secretary of the Treas
sury, is chairman of the board
of the Continental Illinois Na
tional Bank Trust Co-. Mr.
Rose, former Undersecretary of
the Treasury, is a lawyer. Mr.
Cabot is president of Cabot
Corp.
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JAMES E. WALKER
ACCIDENT
Continued From Page A-l
home, died of internal injuries
at Suburban Hospital yester
day.
Montgomery County police
said that Mrs. Romeo, of 11107
Newport Mill road, near Ken
sington, was run over after she
apparently tried to get out of
her car when it began rolling
backward down a sloping drive
way with no one at the wheel.
Mrs. Romeo and her husband
Joe were getting ready to leave
home in the car, police said.
Mr. Romeo forgot something in
the house and went in after
it, leaving his wife in the car,
according to police.
When the car began moving
backward, Mrs. Romeo ap
parently attempted to get out
the right door. But she was
knocked down by the opened
door, dragged by the car to
the curb, and then run over,
police,said. The car,was halted
at an upgrade when a man who
was passing by jumped into
the car and stopped it as .it
Started drifting frontward to
ward the woman again, jtolice
said.
The victim was taken by the
Wheaton Rescue Squad to
Suburban Hospital.
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William E. Shannon • Frank O'Luchs
SENATOR V/AHTS
U. S. TO GIVE
CIGARETTE FACTS
. By the Amo elated Preu
Senator Neuberger, Dem
ocrat .of Oregon, has called
for a Federal program to
inform the public on "the
hazards of cigarette smok
ing."
Under a resolution she
Introduced yesterday. Con
gress would ask President .
Kennedy to appoint a
commission on tobacco and
health. The commission.
In turn, would carry out
the program.
Senator Neuberger un
derwent surgery for cancer
last year. Her late hus
band, Senator Richard
Neuberger, Democrat of
Oregon, also suffered from
cancer.
Senator Neuberger told
the Senate evidence that
cigarette smoking causes
lung cancer continues to
pile up. She declared:
“The Federal Govern
ment has a vital role to
play in eliminating this
scourge.”
Bus Wreck Kills
10 Riders in Italy
' ROME, Mar. 17 (AP).— A bus
on a local run in Sicily plunged
off a bridge into a small river
today, killing at least 10 pas
sengers. Other passengers—,
number unknown were re
ported trapped in-the bus.
The accident—in which the
bus was pitched into the Imera
River between the towns of
Caltanissetta and Enna—raised
to at least 21 the death toll in'
Italy’s worst winter storm in
years. It was feared the tolf
would go higher., ' *
Seven crewmen from a
! sunken cargo ship were missing.'
and presumed dead as a result
[of the three-day storm and
police searched the mountains'
of Southern Italy for. a lost
truck with five men.
Snow was still falling from
the Alps to Southern Italy,'
except in scattered provinces
including Rome, Naples and
Eastern Sicily, Even where the
air was crisp and clear tem
peratures were generally sub
freezing. * ' ’ ’
Four trains carrying a total
of about 200 persons were
trapped by snow, three of the
trains in usually sunny and
dry Southern Italy hear Bari. 1
Two in Car Miss
Plunging From
11th Street Span
Two men narrowly missed
crashing off the Eleventh street
bridge today when their car
smashed into the railing, its
front wheels hanging over tnfe
edge. ■ ''
Police said the two men
jumped out of the car and
boarded a ' bus. They were
picked' up , shortly afterwards.
The car jumped the curb and
smashed into the double rail<
ing, knocking out a section of
the top rail and bending the
bottom one. The bottom rail
held, however, and the car
came to rest on the sidewalk.
The accident occurred on th«
north end of the bridge with
; the car headed south. The drop
to the ground below, would
have bee nabout 60 feet.
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Liner Hits Rock,
All Aboard Safe
CANNES, France, Mar. 17
(AP).—The 18,000-ton Italian
liner Venezuela with 190 pas
sengers aboard was deliberately
grounded today after striking
a rock which ripped a hole in
her starboard side.
All passengers were safely
evacuated, authorities said,
after Capt. Michel Petro ran
his vessel ashore to prevent
her from foundering. The 300-
man crew was later taken off.
The Venezuela, formerly the
French liner Degrasse was en
route to Central America. Port
authorities said the Venezuela
had struck a rock off the Isle
Saint Honorat, just off the
Riviera vacation spot.
Actor Asks Right
To See Children
SANTA MONICA, Calif.,
Mar. 17 (AP).—Bette Davis has
been ordered to answer a peti
tion for child visiting rights
filed by her former husband,
actor Gary Merrill. t
The actress filed suit last De
cember, complaining Mr. Mei>
rill was $1,400 behind on pay
ments for support of their three
children. Mr. Merrill told her
he would pay the money if per
i mitted to see the children.