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110th Year.
India Rejects
Key Provision
Os Cease-Fire
U. S. Planes Fly
Supplies to Bolster
Troops at Border
NEW DELHI, Nov. 26 (AP).
—An Indian spokesman re
jected today the key provision
in Communist China’s procla
mation of a cease-fire in the
Himalayas and withdrawal of
Chinese troops.
At the same time, huge
United States transport planes
were airlifting Indian supplies
toward border areas as part
of the efforts to beef up In
dian forces during the lull.
Peking’s withdrawal plan
would leave its troops deep in
Indian territory, the spokes
man said, and India cannot
allow China “in reward of ag
gression to extend their un
lawful control of Indian ter
ritory.’’
Since the cease-fire was put
into effect by China last Wed
nesday, Indian troops have ob
served it. This was the first
direct comment on the Chinese
proclamation, although there
have been government indica
tions that its terms were un
acceptable.
Still Under Consideration
The spokesman said after
reading a prepared statement
that the Chinese proclamation
is still under consideration. But
his statement appeared to leave
no room for India to accept it.
India is believed to be stall
ing for time to rebuild its badly
smashed army before rejecting
or openly violating the terms of
the proclamation and thus end
ing the cease-fire.
Prime Minister Nehru has
been reported as saying there is
no reason for Indian troops to
fire when the Chinese have
promised to withdraw toward
the border on their own. Peking
has said the withdrawal will
begin Saturday. The trouble is,
the spokesman said, that the
Chinese want to set the border
at a point inside Indian terri
tory.
Peking's plan would leave the
Chinese “sitting on a further
2,000 square miles” that they
did not control before the
latest agression, the spokesman
said.
That area is in Ladakh, at
the northwestern end of the
disputed border between India
and China. India says the Chi
nese captured up to 2,000 square
miles and is now claiming this
area lies behind the boundary
which would be frozen by the
proclamation.
India insists the Chinese
must withdraw to positions
held before September 8 and
let the Indian army re-estab
lish posts overrun since then
by the Chinese. Chinese incur
sions into northeast India be
gan September 8 and the full
scale Red offensive started
October 20.
As the spokesman’s state
ment appeared to bring India
and China closer to a resump
tion of fighting, American and
British missions moved toward
the end of their job of plan
ning means to strengthen In
dia's defenses.
Generals Visit Area
Generals from the two West-;
ern countries completed a visit
to Indian army corps head-i
quarters in the northeast and
flew back to New Delhi. They
had talks with commanders
whose forces were broken by
See INDIA, Page A-6
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Seeks First Place
BALTIMORE, Nov. 26 (AP).
—Rennie Marks went to court
to make sure his name will be
first on the voting machine.
He officially adopted "Aabach”
as his last name. He is a candi
date for city council,
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INTERPRETATION
De Gaulle's Victory
Shatters Opponents
By CROSBY S. NOYES
Foreign CorretpondeDt of The Star
PARIS, Nov. 26.—Charles de Gaulle’s stunning victory in
yesterday’s elections leaves Frenchmen asking themselves
what is happening to their country.
In other countries it is normal enough to have a solid
majority in Parliament backing the government. In France
it has never happened before in the history of the Republic.
Yesterday’s vote in runoff contests resulted In victory for
264 deputies pledged to support
Gen. de Gaulle—a comfortable
majority of the 482-member
National Assembly. The only
other parties to gain seats were
Communists and Socialists who
helped each other in many local
i contests.
Center, Right Decimated
Anti-Gaullist parties of the!
center and right were deci
mated. The extreme right wing
was almost entirely wiped out.
losing 20 scats and returning
only a single deputy.
This unanimity of French
voters was so unexpected, sc
unheard of—one might almost
say so un-French —as to be
vaguely disquieting to some ob
servers. The elections, it would
seem, marked a violent turning
point in the political life of the
country. Many are wondering
today what the final conse
quences may be.
Reinforce Conviction
For Gen. de Gaulle himself
there is perhaps no great prob
lem. Inevitably this new victory
will reinforce his conviction
that he represents—in his per
son and in his policies the
profund will of the country.
The probability is that it also
will reinforce the essential
Boothe to Step Down
As Alexandria Senator
After 14 years in the Virginia
Assembly, Alexandria State
Senator Armistead L. Boothe
has decided to step out of
office.
The man who became one of
the South’s foremost advocates
of gradually accepting school
desegregation—at a time when
his State was closing schools
and denouncing the Supreme
Court—announced in a brief
statement today that he would
not seek re-election next year.
Senator Boothe, 54. gave
several reasons. First, he said,
the pressure of work with his
law firm and responsibility to
his clients “make it imperative
that I devote full time to the
law.”
Once out of personal politics,
he hopes to “lend a more useful
hand” in helping guide the
growth and business develop
ment of Northern Virginia. He
also noted that many of the
objectives sought by Delegates
with whom he worked in Rich
mond have been achieved.
Among these, he said, is that
"The public school system is
now safe from open attack.”
He added somewhat hopefully,
"Statesmen of real political
power and with the steely
courage possessed by 18th cen
tury Virginians will some day
restore public education to the
one county in the United States
where it does not exist.
Public schools in Prince Ed
ward County have been closed
for four years to avoid integra
tion.
“My experience since 1938 in
representing the citizens of
Alexandria, and since 1948 in
working for the welfare of Vir
ginia has been mostly reward
ing and happy,” Senator Boothe
said. “As long as I live I shall
owe my town and my State an
incalculable debt of gratitude
which I cannot repay in whole,
but which I shall constantly try
to repay in small part most
joyfully.”
HE WAS HERE
Kilroy of Gl Fame Dies
BOSTON, Nov. 26 (AP).—
The little-known man whose
name was one of the best
known of World War II died
Saturday night.
James J. Kilroy was 60 years
old.
The words “Kilroy was here,"
usually accompanied by a crude
cartoon of a figure peering
over the top of a fence, were
familiar to every American
serviceman—to say nothing of
puzzled natives in every country
where American troops showed
up even briefly. The slogan
was chalked on the rubble of
shattered European cities,
scratched in the sand of Pa
cific beaches and carved on the
wall of probably every barracks
washroom in the United States.
Although there were several
theories of the legendary Kil
roy’s identity and origin, Mr.
Kilroy’s explanation was gen
erally credited as the soundest.
He went to work as an inspec
tor at the Fore River shipyard
in Quincy (Mass.) two days be-
Ifore Pearl Harbor, and began
W Iwium Slur
V J V WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION L/
*** B WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, PAGES
' Gaullist characteristics of these
’ policies in both foreign and
internal affairs.
In the foreign field this cer
-1 tainly means renewed emphasis
1 on France’s independent role
within the Atlantic alliance
and the renewed assertion of
France's leadership in the con
struction of Europe.
It is a blow to those who
have deplored Gen. de Gaulle's
efforts to create an independent
French nuclear striking force.
It is equally a blow to those
who have preached the creation
of a United Europe built around
supranational institutions.
Internal Policy
How it may affect the
chances of Britain’s entry into
the European Common Market
remains, to be seen. But it
seems unlikely that the French,
who have always been rigid in
these negotiations, will be any
less unbending.
For Frenchmen, however, it
is the question of internal pol
icies that arouses the most
interest and the greatest
doubts.
The election, without ques
tion. amounted to a ringing in
dorsement by the country of
See FRANCE, Page A-8
Differences over school de
segregation brought about Sen
ator Boothe'S fall from favor
in Virginia's ruling Democratic
group, the Byrd organization.
He had kicked up his heels be
fore—as a leader of the Young
Turks in the House of Delegates
who became impatient with
those who preferred to move
more slowly in coping with
State needs.
Parting With Byrd
But such displays of inde
pendence were tolerated as a
desirable demonstration o f
spirit and aggressiveness from
one who was expected to “go
places’’—perhaps even to the
State executive mansion.
When Senator Byrd charted
Virginia's “massive resistance”
course, Senator Boothe parted
company with the organization
for keeps.
Even before the Supreme
Court’s school segregation de
cision, the lawmaker from Al
exandria had warned the State
to prepare for such an even
tuality. He wrote in 1949 that
Virginia could prevent calam
ity by demonstrating to the
Federal Government and courts
that the State was ready to
eliminate discrimination as fast
as public opinion would accept
See BOOTHE, Page A-6
Former Army Head
Arrested in Iran
TEHERAN, Iran, Nov. 26
(AP). A former commander
in chief of the Iranian Army,
Gen. Abdullah Hedayat, is
under arrest on charges of em
bezzling more than $2 million.
An Army spokesman, an
nouncing the arrest yesterday,
said a military tribunal will
shortly try the 63-year-old
general, who retired in 1961
after being commander in
chief more than five years.
»
marking “Kilroy was here" on
equipment to show test gangs
he had checked a job.
The slogan soon spread all
over the shipyard, and then—
as the equipment was sent out
to overseas bases—all over the
world. Somewhere along the
line, the little cartoon was
added, it become standard
whenever a QI scribbler had
time to enscroll It.
As Americans found them
selves in stranger and stranger
Castro Asks Inspection
Os Exiles' Bases in U.S.
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President Kennedy walks by a pair of mounted
Honest John rockets during a tour today of
Fort Stewart, Ga. At left are Gen. Maxwell
D. Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
G. 0. P. Drive
For South Hit
Liberals in Party
Attack Goldwater
By DAVID 8. BRODER
•tar Staff Writer
A group of young Republicans
today condemned leaders of
their party for supporting the
campaigns of “segregationist”
candidates in the South.
The editors of Advance, a
liberal Republican journal pub
lished in Washington by young
Harvard alumni, said Republi
cans who provided funds and
encouragement to G. O. P. sen
atorial candidates in Alabama
and South Carolina were dis
loyal to the traditions of their
party and were "playing into
President Kennedy’s hands.”
Their editorial singled out for
criticism Senator Goldwater of
Arizona, chairman of the Re
publican Senatorial Campaign
Committee; Representative Bob
Wilson of California, chairman
of the Republican Congressional
Campaign Committee, and I.
Lee Potter of Virginia, staff di
rector of “Operation Dixie” for
the Republican National Com
mittee.
"Not Earthshaking”
It said the three men
{damaged the party by “publicly
exulting” over the "signifi
cant but hardly earthshaking
achievement” of G. O. P. candi
dates in the South earlier this
month.
This year. Republicans re
elected all their incumbent
Southern Representatives,
elected five new men to the
House, threatened in two Sen
ate races and elected the first
Republican Governor in the
history of Oklahoma.
/ But the editors of Advance
See REPUBLICANS, Page A-13
places, the urge became irresis
tible to leave behind some evi
dence of their passing, and
“Kilroy” saw service in every
theater of the war.
When the ’ war ended the
American Transit Association
sponsored a Nationwide contest
to discover who originated “Kil
roy was here.”
Still employed at the ship
yard, Mr. Kilroy submitted his
claim and proof and was de
clared the winner. His prize:
a 22-ton trolley car which was
delivered to his home in Hali-
. fax.
The phrase continued to pop
iup over the years wherever the
situation seemed to call for it.
Scientists inspecting one of
the guinea-pig battleships used
in the first H-bomb test found
“Kilroy was here” freshly
painted on the blistered hull.
Mr. Kilroy—shipyard worker
and onetime Massachusetts
State Legislator and Boston
City Councilman — is dead. His
name may well live forever.
End to Weapons Race
Urged by President
Kennedy Asks Nuclear Test Ban
As Conference in Geneva Resumes
GENEVA, Nov. 28 (AP).—President Kennedy expressed
the hope today that the new round of East-West disarma
ment negotiations will end "the upward spiral of weapons
competition.”
The President in a statement read to the reopening of
the 17-nation conference said the talks should give priority
to endinc nuclear weapon testa
once and for all.
‘‘A moment may be at hand
to Initiate the beginning of the
end of the upward spiral of
weapons competition,” the
President said.
Mr. Kennedy noted that the
United States has completed a
recent series of atmospheric
nuclear testa. There is hope, he
said, that Russia will conclude
its test series soon, and this
suggests that the time may be
ripe for a real start toward
halting the arms spiral.
Task Seen Urgent
Apparently with the Cuban
crisis primarily in mind, the
President said that crucial de
velopments within recent weeks
confirmed the need and urgency
of the task before the Geneva
conference.
"It is clear,” he said, “that
a renewed and immediate ef
fort must be made to halt the
constantly increasing tempo of
the arms race if there is to be
assurance of a lessening of the
danger of war.
“It is, therefore, my con
tinued hope that serious nego
tiations will proceed at once
on those initial measures of
disarmament which could if
put into effect without delay,
materially improve interna
tional security and enhance the
prospects for further disarma
ment progress.”
The only measure he speci
fically mentioned in this con
nection, however, was a nuclear
test ban.
Resumption of tht confer
ence today was expected to
Tunisian Sahara
Floods Kill 40
TUNIS, Nov. 26 (AP).—At
least 40 persons died and hun
dreds were injured today as
floods caused by torrential
rains spilled over fringe areas
of the Tunisian Sahara.
Primitive mud - and - stone
homes crumbled under the
downpour in the oases of Nesta
and Tozeur, and thousands of
rain-soaked refugees camped in
schools and public buildings.
The Tunisian Interior Min
istry said 60 per cent of homes
in Nesta and 40 per cent in
Tozeur were uninhabitable.
Most of those killed were in
Gabes, a port city on the gulf
bearing its name.
Four truckloads of food and
supplies were rushed to the
stricken areas in order to bring
the first relief to the homeless.
President Habib Bourguiba
dispatched four cabinet min
isters to the scene, as rain con
tinued to fall and danger of
further damage persisted.
Staff; Gen. Earle Wheeler, Army Chief of Staff,
and Gen. Herbert Powell, Commander of the
Continental Army Command.—AP Wirephoto.
show whether the Cuban crisis
and the India-China border
war has pushed any of the
eight nonaligned members of
the conference toward the
West’s position of insistence
on disarmament inspection.
End Race
American Ambassador Ar
thur H. Dean, who read the
President's statement, said the
wise statesmanship on both
sides which helped solve the
Cuban crisis should now end
the world’s arms race.
Mr. Dean, heading the United
States delegation, was the first
speaker as the talks resumed
after an 11-week recess. He
said the talks reopened under
more hopeful auspices than the
deadlock in which they ad
journed, and added:
“We have a moment in his
tory favorable to a real begin-
See GENEVA, Page A-13
SILENT SPRING—2
Pest Poisons Reach
Everyone on Earth
By RACHEL CARSON
For the first time in the history of the world, every
human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous
chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
In the less than two decades of their use, the synthetic
pesticides have been so thoroughly distributed throughout
the animate and inanimate
world that they occur virtually Second of 12 arfidcs in o
everywhere. They have been *•««* excerpted from "Silent
recovered from most Os the Spring" challenging, contra
major river systems and even
from streams of groundwater wor id ground us.
flowing unseen through the
wrth. Residues of these chemicals linger in soil to which
they may have been applied a dozen years before. They
have entered and lodged in the bodies of fish, birds, reptiles
and domestic and wild animals so universally that scientists
carrying on animal experiments find it almost impossible
to locate subjects free from such contamination. They
have been found in fish in remote mountain lakes, in earth
worms burrowing in soil, in the eggs of birds—and in man
himself.
These chemicals are now stored in the bodies of the
vast majority of human beings, regardless of age. They
occur in the mother’s milk, and probably in the tissues of
the unborn child.
All this has come about because of the sudden rise and
prodigious growth of an industry for the production of
man-made or synthetic chemicals with insecticidal prop
erties. This industry is a child of the Second World War.
In the course of developing agents of chemical warfare,
some of the chemicals created in the laboratory were found
to be lethal to insects. The discovery did not come by
chance: Insects were widely used to test chemicals as
agents of death for man.
The result has been a seemingly endless stream of syn-
See SILENT SPRING, Page B-18
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Kennedy Visits
Buildup Bases
Inspects Troops
On Cuban Alert
By GARNETT D. HORNER
Star Staff Writer
FORT STEWART. Ga. Nov.
26. President Kennedy in
spected the atomic firepower of
the Ist Armored Division here
today and told the soldiers that
they and their comrades in
arms are “the keystone of the
arch of freedom” around the
world.
The President flew to nearby
Hunter Air Force Base from
Washington this morning and
then to Fort Stewart by heli
copter for his first visit with
troops during a day-long fly
ing inspection trip of units
alerted during the Cuban crisis.
Speaking to the men of the
Ist Armored Division brought
here from Fort Hood, Tex., at
the height of the Cuban crisis,
Mr. Kennedy told them that,
regardless of how persistent
American diplomacy may be, it
depends, in the final analysis,
“on the power of the United
States.”
And that power, he added,
comes from the courage of
American citizens and “you
See KENNEDY, Page A-6
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Ties Checks
In Cuba to
New Demand
HAVANA. Nov. 26 (AP).—
The Castro government offered
today to allow inspection of
Soviet withdrawal of offensive
weapons from Cuba if the
United Nations confirms dis
mantling of bases from which
counter . revolutionaries are
operating against the Castro
regime.
The government "also re
peated that Prime Minister
Fidel Castro’s five-point pack
age, including United States
abandonment of the Guan
tanamo Naval Base, remains
“indispensable to a true and
definitive solution of the crisis.”
The government issued the
statement a short time before
Soviet First Deputy Premier
Anastas I. Mikoyan left for
New York after 24 days in
Cuba. Mr. Castro and other
government officials bade him
farewell.
Russia has said it already
has withdrawn 42 missiles and
has promised to pull out about
30 jet bombers that can carry
nuclear bombs. The United
States has lifted the Naval
blockade it imposed in October
when the Soviet offensive
weapons were discovered in
Cuba, but Mr. Castro has con
tinued to refuse to admit in
, ternational Inspectors to verify
the Soviet actions.
U. 8. Scores Plan
In Washington, a State De
partment spokesman described
the Cuban proposal as a move
“to avoid adequate interna
tional arrangements” for mak
ing sure Cuba will not again
become a base for offensive
weapons.
But Press Officer Lincoln
White declined to say flatly
that the United States is
rejecting the proposal.
The Cuban statement said:
“Cuba demands that the
United Nations verify in the
territory of the United States,
Puerto Rico and oher sites
where aggression against Cuba
has been prepared, the dis
mantling of training camps tor
mercenaries, spies, saboteurs
and terrorists, of centers where
subversion is prepared and the
bases from which pirate ships
sail against our shores.”
Conditions Outlined
The statement added that
unless the “United States and
its accomplices of aggression
against Cuba accept this in
spection by the United Nations
on their territories. Cuba will
not accept by any concept In
spection” on its soil.
Mr. Castro originally had re
jected any foreign inspection on
Cuban soil. Then Soviet Premier
Khrushchev sent Mr. Mikoyan
to talk with him, and Mr.
Castro began to speak of oppo
sition to “unilateral inspec
tion.” Sources at the U. N.
said the Cubans and Russians,
in discussions of a Soviet-
See CUBA, Page A-12
27 Die in Brazil
As Planes Collide
SAO PAULO. Brazil, Nov. 26
(AP). —A Brazilian air liner and
a light private plane collided in
flight and crashed today in a
mountainous area 65 miles
north of here. All 27 persons
aboard the two plnaes perished.
The planes fell near the small
town of Paraibuna and police
from there made their way to
the wreckage and reported there
were no survivors.
The two-engine air liner,
with 23 aboard, was flying from
Sao Paulo to Rio. The light
plane, out of Rio. had four per
sons aboard. All on the two
planes were reported to be
Brazilians.
There was doubt as to the
exact ownership of the smaller
craft.
Paraibuna police told report
ers a resident of the area saw
the planes collide.
The air liner, belonging to
Vasp, had left Sao Paulo at
8:40 a.m. The wreckage was
spotted by air force planes
about noon.
THE GENTLE SEX
BARES ITS TEETH
WHEN STUNG to retort, ths
“weaker sex" can express its foul
ings in pretty strong language, Jim
Bishop discovered as the mail came
in following a recent column in
which he hinted that perhaps some
women ore les* than perfect. He
capsulizes the vituperative letter*
in today's column on Page 1-13.
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