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THE EVENING STAR
Wmhington, D. C., MonWoy, August 13, 1962
'SUICIDAL TRIP' WASN'T
Lone Youth Soils Pacific
BAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 13
(AP>.—A Japanese youth who
crossed the Pacific alone in a
19-foot sailboat on a diet of
Japanese rice. beer, sake and
fresh fish wants to stay in
the United States two years
to learn English.
But the plans of Kenichi
Horie, 23. of Osaka, are some
what clouded by the fact that
he arrived without passport,
visa. immunization record,
proof of financial stability or
a sponsor.
While the Immigration Serv
ice. the Public Health Service
and the Japanese consulate
work on the problem, young
Horie is staying at the home of
a consulate employe in a sort
of amiable protective custody.
He sailed into San Francisco
Bay yesterday after a three
month voyage from Osaka. The
surprised Coast Guard escorted
him to St. Francis Yacht Har
bor on the San Francisco ma
rina and called for the Immi
gration Service.
With the aid of his Japanese-
English dictionary Mr. Horie
got across to officials his plan
to stay two years and learn
English. Then he passed
around cups of saki to curious
onlookers.
The Coast Guard studied the
little sailboat with small cabin
forward and fpund only a tiny
radio-direction finder, a sex
tant and a compass. No auxil
iary engine or radio communi
cations gear encumbered the
adventurer.
“Obviously one hell of a
navigator.” mused one Coast
Guard man.
Mr. Horie's family in Osaka
was overjoyed at the news of
his safe arrival.
The Japanese government,
which had given him up for
dead, said it was astounded.
Japan had denied Mr. Horie
a passport on the ground the
planned trip was suicidal. His
family was against it, too, but
explained that Mr. Horie was
a determined, adventurous i
youth. |
Kennedy Back to Work
After Change of Scene
By the Associated Press
President Kennedy flew home
today from a weekend of sailing
and relaxation off the Maine
Coast, to prepare for a televised
talk to the nation on taxes and
the economy.
Mr. Kennedy's Air Force jet
landed at Andrews Air Force
Base at 11:26 am..more than
an hour after his planned ar-1
riyal time. He made the hop 1
to the White House aboard a
helicopter.
Rain and fog marred much
of Mr. Kennedy’s weekend in
Maine. Fog was partly to blame
for his delayed departure. It
held up his helicopter flight'
from John’s Island to Bruns
wick Naval Air Station and
shrouded the naval base as the
presidential jet took off.
After several summer week
ends at Hyannis Port. Mass..
Mr. Kennedy got a change of
scenery this time, visiting
Boothbay Harbor. Maine. He
stayed at the Island Summer
home of former heavyweight
boxing champion Gene Tunney.
The President got in some
more sailing yesterday in the
62-foot Coast Guard yawl
Manitou. But he was out only
2 hours and 20 minutes before
Unions Want
Inquiry Into
Rail 'Poverty'
By the Associated Press
Railway labor organizations
have asked Congress to inves
tigate what they call "the pov
erty’ myth” about railroads.
In a letter to all members
of Congress, the Railway Labor
Executives Association said
railroad corporation claims of
poverty are false and are based
solely on self-diagnosis.
Association Chairman G. E.
Leighty said in the letter that
not only is the claim of pov
erty false but "there is strong
evidence that the assumed
•poverty’ is the basis for a sub
tle but successful public rela
tions campaign to win Con
gressional and public support
for mergers, employe layoffs,
reduction of passenger and
other services and escape from
regulations.”
Urging a thorough Congres
sional study of the railway in
dustry, Mr. Leighty said rail
way employes find it “difficult
to join publicity-seeking ‘hand
wringers’ when we note that
United States railroads had at
tained $11.4 billion in capital
surplus and retained income at
the end of 1960, an increase of
$4.4 billion from 1950.”
The railroads contend that
“featherbedding” jobs un
necessary to operation of their
services—is costing up to SSOO
million a year. Pending efforts
to eliminate these jobs have
brought about litigation be
tween the unions and employ
ers. coupled with a strike
threat by the operating unions.
In asking Congressional in
quiry, the union association
said the latest full-scale in
quiry was the Truman-Wheel
er investigation in the 1930 s
and that “revealed that the
railroads had evaded the law
flagrantly by acquiring control
of other railroads through such
as holding companies.”
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Kenichi Horie on the 19-foot boat he sailed
from Japan to San Francisco.—AP Wirephoto.
His father, Yoshio Horie, 48, i
said Kenichi had heard thatj
some Americans had crossed |
I the Pacific in small boats "and
j decided if they could do it, so
could a Japanese.”
He said Kenichi had pur-' i
ichased the boat, Mermaid, i
from his savings.
The youth worked for his fa
ther, an auto parts dealer, until
he set sail May 12, from Nishi- ’
nomiya, a beer and sake pro
duction center on Osaka Bay. :
He arrived in apparent good i
health, his only immediate need 1
a haircut. ! (
Mr. Horie proudly showed ‘ i
returning to the Tunney home
to work on his tax speech to
the Nation tonight.
Mr. Kennedy found the sail-''
Ing weather better yesterday,
'than Saturday when he spent '
I seven hours on the water. |'
There was a mild breeze and '
: small swells rippled the At-!'
lantic off the Maine coast Ex-1
perts said it was ideal weather i
for a landlubber to be out. but i
that the breeze was too slight :
and the water too calm for a
real yachtsman to have maxi-/
mum fun.
Mr. Kennedy attracted a'
crowd of about 500. many of
them on boats moored in Booth
bay Harbor, when he attended
mass yesterday at Our Lady,
Queen of Peace Church over
looking the waters.
He made the 10-mile trip to
and from John’s Island on a
40-foot Coast Guard utility
boat. The boat tied up at the
fisherman's co-operative wharf..
He was accompanied by his
sister, Pat Lawford, wife of
actor Peter Lawford, and Paul
B. Fay, Undersecretary of the
Navy.
The Lawfords, Mr. Fay and
James A. Reed, Assistant Sec
retary of the Navy, joined the
President in his afternoon
! sailing.
Look at 1963 Tax Plan
Likely in Kennedy Talk
By the Associated Press
President Kennedy may offer an advance peek at his
plans for a 1963 tax cut when he speaks to the Nation tonight
on taxes and the lagging economy.
Most observers in and out of Government were con
vinced he would reject suggestions that a quick tax cut
offers the best chance of averting any early recession.
Mr. Kennedy was likely to give attention in his 7 p.m.
EDT television-radio address to
his stalled requests for stand
by authority to cut taxes and
launch a public works program
in the event of a recession. If
Congress should approve these!
proposals, the door would be
kept open for a possible tax
cut later this year.
Strong recommendations for|
quick tax reductions have come!
from such diverse quarters as:
the AFL-CIO and the United
States Chamber of Commerce.
But those who were convinced
that Mr. Kennedy would turn
down the appeals said that for
one thing, there is formidable,
congressional opposition to the
idea of considering a deficit
expanding tax cut in the wan
ing w’eeks of an election-year
session.
Business Pickup
Also, major economic indica
tors surveyed by Mr. Kennedy
and key advisers at a White
House conference Friday
showed a moderate business
pickup in July.
But. perhaps equally im
portant, the Treasury is fear
ful that a 1962 tax cut would
undermine administration ef
forts to achieve a major reform
of tax laws next year.
It was learned that work on
the 1963 reform bill was far
enough advanced to permit dis
closure of certain key details.
Several officials said it seemed
logical that Mr. Kennedy would
seize this opportunity.
To Kennedy merely
Coast Guardsmen and report-
I ers around his little sail boat.
Everything was neat and in
order from the wave-battered
bow to the emblem of the rising
sun on the stern.
| His tiny cabin contained a
soggy cardboard carton of books
ranging from English grammars
I and Japanese novels to ukulele
i songbooks and navigation ta
bles.
A red plastic water container
was still more than half full,'
and a side cupboard contained
instant coffee, instant cream,
tiny canned Japanese plums,
glass vials of liquid vitamins
and, of course, a can opener.
Pilot Uninjured
In Richmond
Crash Landing
RICHMOND, Aug. 13 (AP).
A disabled Beechcraft Bo
nanza overshot an 800-foot
'section of foam-covered run
way at Richmond’s Byrd Field
during a crash landing yester
day, but the plane skidded to
a safe stop and the pilot es
caped injury.
The pilot. H. H. Tiffany of
Green wood, discovered his
! landing gear would not go
down when he attempted to
land earlier at Emporia. He
then flew to Richmond and
circled the airport for two
I hours to burn up his fuel.
i Meanwhile, fire trucks of the
9217th Air Force Reserve Re
covery Squadron—on duty at
Byrd Field this week end—laid
down a foam covering on run
way 6. Officers said Mr, Tif
fany came in too high and
missed the foam area.
Doctors of the recovery
squadron examined Mr. Tiffany
and declared him uninjured,
though shaken up a bit.
It was discovered after the
crash landing that the landing
gear would not extend because
a retractable step leading to the
cockpit had become jammed.
Mr. Tiffany, a Waynesboro
attorney, rented another plane
after the accident and flew to
meet his wife, Kay, and their
16-month-old daughter at Em
. poria.
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has said he will seek a top-to
bottom cut in individual and
:: corporate tax rates, effective
| next January 1. He also has
promised the resulting revenue
loss would be only partly offset
by elimination of certain special
tax benefits now available to
limited numbers of taxpayers.
Tonight’s talk will be Mr.
’ Kennedy’s first address to the
Nation since his March decision
!to resume nuclear testing. All
television and radio networks
; have scheduled broadcasts, some
/live and some at later hours.
While Mr. Kennedy could
point tonight to record July
prosperity, in terms of produc
tion and incom, he has made
no secret of his dissatisfaction
with recent economic growth.
Since January, the economy
' | has consistently fallen well be
, low administration goals.
r And while Mr. Kennedy has
; posed a number of bills aimed
| at spurring growth and attack
. ing recessions, they have moved
. slowly, and uncertainly through
I the congressional maze.
It seemed likely that Mr.
II Kennedy would urge favorable
j action on a bill to encourage
11 business investment in more
• modern equipment, by offering
• them tax credits. The Treasury
| has put great stock in this
I measure, coupled with the re
-1 cent reform of tax deprecia
tion guide lines, as a means of
’ promoting
EAL Predicts
Full Service
NEW YORK. Aug. 13 (AP).
—Eastern Air Lines, hit by a
six-week strike of union flight
engineers, says it expects to
resume full jet service by Au
gust 23 and have the rest of
its fleet operating not later
than September 30.
Referring to the August 23
resumption. Eastern president
Malcolm Maclntyre said yes
terday, “We fully expect addi
tional (striking) flight engi
neers will have returned to
work by that date.”
“In any event,” he added,'
“jet co-pilots who have already
been certificated as flight en
gineers or are now in training
. . . and qualified flight engi
neers who have already re
turned to work will be available
in sufficient numbers to fly
these jet schedules with three
man crews.”
The strike by the AFL-CIO
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Abandonment of the Martin!
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Young on Vacation
Joseph Young is on vocation.
The Federal Spotlight Column will
be resumed on his return.
Nehru Prepared
To Begin Talks
With Red China
NEW DELHI, Aug. 13 (AP).
—Prime Minister Nehru said
today his government is pre
pared for preliminary talks
with Communist China to try
to remove tensions and create
a climate conducive to eventual
discussion of their boundary
dispute.
But he repeated India's stand
that actual border negotiations
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Chinese withdraw their troops
from the 12,000 square miles of
the Ladakh area of Kashmir
which they have occupied.
Editorial critics had said In
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and Mr. Nehru’s statement in
Parliament August 6, opened
the door to concessions in La
dakh because they seemed to
permit negotiations without
the withdrawal of troops.
Mr. Nehru told Parliament
this was a misunderstanding
and a misconception of the
government’s stand.
Lost Penny Starts
Salk Vaccine Fund
CHATTANOOGA <AP). A
lost penny started the whole
thing.
When someone at Erlanger
Hospital lost a penny, it was
taped to the top of a counter at
the seventh-floor nursing sta
tion. Others were added—and
before long, more than 2,000
pennies were sticking to the
counter.
The nurses think they have
a good thing going—for Salk
vaccine.