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Weather Forecast
District and vicinity—lncreasing cloudiness
and occasional rain beginning late this
afternoon or tonight, high in the lower 80s.
Low tonight near 38. Tomorrow, mostly
cloudy and somewhat warmer with occa
sional rain. High, 50 degrees, at 4 pm. yes
terday; low, 33 degrees, at 5:30 a.m. today.
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U.S. Protests Reds' Alaska Flight
Police Seek
Bribe Figure
In Slots Vote
Only One Witness
To Offer; Towes
Plans New Test
By WILLIAM DUKE
■Ur SUtt Writer
ANNAPOLIS, Mar. 16—The
"most wanted man" in Mary
land State police files today
is a figure in dark glasses and
broad-brimmed hat who was
reported to have offered S3OO
for a vote against the anti-slot
machine bill.
State police and the attorney
general’s office began the
search for the man at the
direction of Gov. Tawes last
night, as the administration
kept up a search of its own
for more votes to support the
slots bill.
The measure, which would
outlaw the one-armed bandits
within five years, was defeated
by two votes on Wednesday. It
was revived by the House of
Delegates in a parliamentary
maneuver yesterday and final
consideration will be given
Monday.
Talks With Mitchell
State Police Capt. Thomas
Smith, head of the special In
vestigations unit, started his
inquiry yesterday by talking to
the only person who saw the
“mystery man”—Delegate Clar
ence M. Mitchell 111, of Balti
more’s 4th district.
In the midst of heated de
bates Thursday. Mr. Mitchell
informed his colleagues that he
had been approached in the
State House corridors and of
fered money “to take a walk
or to vote against” Gov. Tawes’
legislation to outlaw the ma
chines in the four Southern
Maryland counties where they
are now legal.
Mr. Mitchell said yesterday
that he told the State Police
the same thing he told the
House that the man was
standing at the top of the main
State House stairway and that
he wore dark glasses and a
hat.
The investigation comes
when the administration is
taking a last effort to get the
72 votes necessary to pass the
bill when it comes up for re
consideration Monday.
Yesterday, the administra
tion’s steamroller put through
a motion to reconsider the bill.
It also pushed through another
motion to delay the final vote
until next week.
The administration was
stalling for time to allow tem
pers to cool in the wake of Mr.
Mitchell’s sensational dis
closure. His statement came
at a time when the House was
already divided and angry at
insinuations made the night
before that gambling money
had swayed 23 votes to defeat
the Governor’s bill.
Reason for Delay
Delegate Thomas H. Lowe,
chairman of the House Judi
ciary Committee, told the
House that the delay on the
test vote until Monday was
necessary because many mem
bers were absent yesterday.
“We don’t want It to appear
as if there have been any
shady deals,” he said.
Under the rules, however, the I
administration must make its
final move Monday. If the
Monday vote fails, the bill dies,
at least for this session.
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THE SEASON OPENS
High school students with maps and pointing fingers are a sure sign
of spring in Washington. Sharon DiMenico (left), Bill Ei and Myra
Jarrell, students from Dundalk, Md., had a fine day for sightseeing
yesterday.—Star Staff Photo.
Woman Is Stabbed in Back
In Apartment House Lobby
A 50-year-old grandmother
was stabbed in the back three
times by a young man who
grabbed her as she entered the
lobby of her Southeast Wash
ington apartment house early
this morning.
The victim of the attack was
Mrs. Avie E. Hornback of 210
Oakwood street S.E. She is in
good condition at Andrews Air
Force Base Hospital with
wounds in the back and lungs.
Police said there was no ap
parent motive for the stabbing.
She is a clerk at J. C. Pen
ney’s Store in the Eastover
(Md.) shopping center.
Saw Man Outside
Mrs. Hornback told police
she first noticed her assailant
—a white man about 25 or 30
years old, with fair complexion
—as she walked from the side
walk to the entrance of the
apartment building, about 40
feet down a U-shaped court
yard.
It was 2 am., Mrs. Hornback
was returning from an eve
ning out with an escort, and
was going up to the apartment
while he looked for a parking
space.
Mrs. Hornback shares a sec
ond-floor apartment with her
two daughters, Betty, 10. and
Mrs. Hazel Davis. 29, and two
grandchildren, Brenda Davis,
9, and Mike Davis, 5.
Mrs. Hornback recalled being
sl2 CHECK BOUNCED
S7OO Million Order
Just Bit Too Much
Julius Garfinckel & Co. has
many wealthy customers, but
the credit manager smelled a
rat when the store received an
order by mail recently for S7OO
million worth of clothing.
Payment was Inclosed—one
check for SSOO million, another
for S2OO million—but store of
ficials decided to have police
look into the matter anyway,
just to be on the safe side.
What made them suspicious,
first of all. was that the two
letters with the checks both
had postage due on them.
Furthermore, the orders them
selves were a little unusual:
Three hundred and sixty-five
complete outfits for President
Kennedy. Attorney General
Robert Kennedy. Senator Ed
ward Kennedy, Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller and Assistant Sec
retary of State Averell Harri
man.
They're all millionaires, and
can presumably afford a new
suit for each day of the year
if they feel like It But unfor-
WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1963-32 PAGES
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MRS. AVIE HORNBACK
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a little uneasy when she first <
saw the young man cutting I
across the courtyard behind ’
her. She decided against run- i
ning, though, telling herself !
he probably lived in the i
apartment. i
Just as she got to the en
trance. the youna man reached
her and remarked pleasantly,
"It’s a chilly evening, isn't it?”
Pushing through the un
locked outer door, Mrs. Horn
back entered the brightly-lit
lobby and turned to go up two
steps and through some swing
ing doors to the stairway.
Just as she reached the doors,
tunately, the checks weren’t
signed by any of them. The big
spender was an old Garfinckel's
customer whose credit rating
wasn't nearly as good. In fact,
he had recently paid for some
fancy engraved stationery with
a rubber sl2 check. Store of
ficials remembered the inci
dent without difficulty, since
the S7OO million orders were
written on some of the fancy
stationery.
Armed with this information,
police arrested a 31-year-old
District resident on a false
pretense charge for the sta
tionery caper.
The check writer said he
thought he had enough funds
in the bank to cover the checks.
And he indicated the S7OO mil
lion order was In the nature
of a Joke.
Garfinckel’s didn't think it
was so funny. It's not every
day you get an order like that.
What if they had been stuck
with 1.825 Ivy League suits,
size 44 long?
the young man threw his left
arm around her neck and
stabbed her three times in the
back.
Penknife Believed Used
Mrs. Hornback screamed and
the man fled, apparently down
some back stairs to the outside, |
Residents of the building,;
awakened by the screams, ran
to Mrs. Hornback's aid, but
none saw her attacker flee.
Police said the weapon was
apparently a penknife. The
blade penetrated a heavy fur
cape and a thick silk dinner
dress. One wound punctured
a lung.
The Hornback apartment
building is only a short dis
tance from St. Elizabeths
Hospital.
Police said the attack on Mrs.
Hornback resembles two inci
dents in the immediate neigh
borhood within the past six
weeks. Both involved unpro
voked beatings of women by a
young white man, although in
neither of those cases was the
victim seriously hurt.
Warm Spell
Predicted in
District Area
The Washington area will
sweep into spring on breezes
warmed by above-average tem
peratures. the Weather Bureau
reported today in its monthly
30-day outlook.
The bureau reported tem
peratures for the area will av
erage about 5 degrees above
the normal seasonal high of 59
and low of 40.
But while the warmth of the
> month to come may dispell
I memories of one of Washing
-1 ton’s coldest winters, the area
: also is likely to be swept by
. above - average thunderstorm
i activity.
1 Washington will receive
about 4 to 6 Inches of rain
’ from the edge of frequent
, thunderstorms centered in the
; Central and Southeastern
States, the bureau said.
Tonight, the low will be near
[ 38 with rain, and tomorrow
, will bring continued cloudiness
and even more rain.
The Weather Bureau reports
> a low centered over the Central I
i Plains States is causing a flow
of warm moist air into the
. area from the Gulf of Mexico
i to give the city a couple of
days of light rain.
A hint of things to come was
in the air yesterday when the
. high temperature reached 50
; a 4 p m Today got off to a
, chilly start with a low of 33
at 5:35 am.
Russian Ship
Leaves Cuba
With Troops
If Fully Loaded,
Vessel Might Have i
2,000 Men Aboard
HAVANA. Mar. 16 <AP).—A :
gleaming white Soviet ship!
glided through the Caribbean ■
today carrying up to 2,000 Rus- 1
sian troops home.
The 15.286-ton Admiral
Nakhimov sailed from here last i
i
Move to lor Aid to Brazil Spurred by 1
Red-Tint Report. Page A-5 .
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night and, if loaded to capacity,
would enable Premier Khru- 1
shchev to claim he had techni- ;
cally fulfilled his pledge to '
President Kennedy to remove
“several thousand” troops by
mid-March.
There was no comment at all I.
from Washington on Soviet |.
troop movements out of Cuba— j
reportedly on direct orders (
from Mr. Kennedy.
Four Russian ships had sailed
earlier with units of the Soviet
armed forces which the United ,
States estimated numbered 17.- ‘'
500 in Cuba at the beginning i
of February. The United States (
said there were 22.500 here at i
the height of last October's
crisis.
There was no official an
nouncement on how many per- ,
sons sailed on the Nakhimov ]
nor what their military classi
fication was.
Cruise Atmosphere
All yesterday, hundreds of
young Russians, clad in sports,
shirts and slacks, poured on to
the old Ward Line pier where
the ship was tied up. They were
driven to the harbor in drab
Soviet army trucks, many of
which also were loaded with
bed-rolls and suitcases.
The young men carried small
bags and packages, like tour
ists’ souvenirs, and the whole
affair had more the atmos
phere of a week-end Caribbean
cruise than a trans-Atlantic;
troop movement.
The Nakhimov formerly was
the German ship Berlin. The
Soviet Union took her over as
war reparations after the de
feat of Hitler. Last December
26 she took another contingent
of Soviet military personnel
1 home.
1 Only a handful of persons
enjoying the sea breeze were
' on the waterfront as the ship
1 steamed out past Morro Castle
at 5:30 p.m. The red hammer
and sickle were emblazoned on
1 her twin stacks.
1 I
U. S. Officials Silent
' State Department Press Of
-1 fleer Lincoln White would tell
newsmen in Washington only
- that the Department would
have nothing to say over the
' week end. He declined to
answer "one way or the other”
as to whether the United States
was satisfied with the rate of
the Soviet pullout.
Privately, some authorities
said there appeared to be no
big rush by the Russians to
get out of Cuba the several
thousand military personnel
' they promised to remove by
mid-March.
But these usually Informed
sources were not saying just
how many troops have left, or
what type. They noted it is
See TROOPS. Page A-3
MASSAGE TECHNIQUE
'Dead 7 Baby Given Life
By WILLIAM GRIGG
Star Ststt Writer
The infant was born dead,
i Her heartbeat had been re
corded during delivery, but now
it was gone. The newborn's
’ lungs were also still, and its
1 throat was filled with thick
green meconium, a bile-like
‘ mucus.
t To the young physician st
anding the birth, "there
seemed to be only one thing to
1 do.”
' In this way, closed - chest
’ heart massage found a new ap
plication, one that promises to
1 save many an infant's life. This
technique, previously perfected
for older patients at Johns
Hopkins Hospital and used by
I rescue and emergency person
nel in Baltimore, suddenly be-
) came a technique for the de-
II livery room of the hospital too.
' Working quickly, Dr. Donald
Hit. Mathews slipped a tube
> down the infant's throat and
’ cleared out the mucus. Then
he began resuscitation, me-
i chanlcally pushing air lightly,
again and again, into the in-
Lfant's lungs.
i Then, most important, he
I pressed on the newborn's chest
above the heart. He pressed
Nitze Reported in Line
To Succeed Gilpatric
Expert in Security Affairs Expected
To Become Deputy Defense Secretary
By FRF.D S. HOFFMAN
Alioettted Pre.. Bt.II Writer
Paul H. Nitze, head of the Pentagon's “little state de
partment,” is rated the leading prospect to become the De
fense Department’s second in command within a few months.
' Another possibility, although reportedly no longer the
front runner, is Army Secretary Cyrus R. Vance.
A new top aide to Defense Secretary McNamara will
have to be chosen sometime
this summer or early fall to
replace Roswell L. Gilpatric.
Mr. Gilpatric, suave New;
York corporation lawyer, has
given notice he plans to step
out as Deputy Secretary of
Defense some time between
July and October to return toi
private practice.
Mr. McNamara and President
Kennedy reportedly have not
yet made up their minds who
will replace Mr. Gilpatric.
Heavy Burden
Whoever it turns out to be
will have to take over an ex
tremely heavy workload. As
Deputy Secretary, Mr. Gilpatric
has shouldered a great share
of the burden of running the
giant military establishment.
Although Mr. Gilpatric and
Mr. McNamara are dissimi
lar types, they have meshed
smoothly and associates say
they don’t know of a single
serious difference between the
two men over more than two;
years of working in double har
ness.
The 56-year-old Mr. Nitze!
now is Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Se
curity Affairs. His organiza
tion keeps its eyes on events and
developments in all parts of
the world, and handles the mil
itary aid program.
He was one of the heads of
a United States mission that
I went to India to survey that
country's military needs in the
waxe of last fall’s Chinese Com
munist border attacks.
Rated a brilliant mind, Mr.
Kennedy Studies Data
For Costa Rican Talks
PALM BEACH. Fla., Mar. 16
(AP). President Kennedy
- boned up today on the eco
: nomic problems of Central
I America in preparation for
next week's meeting in Costa
s Rica with six Latin American
I chiefs of state.
> In addition to going over the
> reports. Mr. Kennedy was re-
• Taxing with swims in the sea
i side pool at the gleaming white
mansion of Col. C. M. Paul.
He also was expected to take
afternoon cruises today and to-
> morrow on the placid waters of
I Lake Worth aboard the presi
’ dentlal yacht Honey Fitz.
Cuba Issue at Forefront
• Mr. Kennedy's meeting with
the presidents of the five Cen-
j tral American nations and
• Panama was billed as one to
discuss strengthening of bonds
i between the countries.
> But there was no doubt the
> threat posed by the Cuban re
-1 gime of Fidel Castro will be the
1 chief concern of the Monday
' through-Wednesday sessions in
' San Jose.
I Costa Rican President Fran
i| cisco Orlich has said a Cen
' tral American common market
1 is the primary purpose of the
I meeting. He has said Central
I lightly, using only two fingers,
[over and over.
The pressure kept blood cir
culating and carrying oxygen
about the body. Without this
oxygen, the newborn's brain
would have been seriously dam
aged.
At 2:31 a. m—l 2 minutes
after the infant's birth—the
little girl's heartbeat returned
and progressed at a nonpal
rate. At 2:49. the baby gasped.
She breathed on her own from
then on.
That was October 30. 1961.
Dr. Mary E. Avery, a Baltimore
pediatrician, has followed the
girl's growth and found her
progress normal.
The beauty of the new tech
nique. which was also used in
dependently at Columbia Pres
byterian Hospital in New York
at about the same time, is that
a nurse or midwife can do it.
in combination with mouth-to
mouth resuscitation.
Since 1957, heart massage
after cutting open the in
fant’s chest had been used oc
casionally. sometimes with suc
cess, In several hospitals But
such a radical operation intro
duced the dangers of bleeding
and infection.
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Nitze formerly was director of
the key policy planning staff 1
in the State Department during 1
I the later years of the Truman 1
administration.
He has a reputation for ’
abruptness of manner, which 1
contrasts with the easy urban
ity of Mr. Gilpatric.
Mr. Vance, soon to turn. 46.
is another member of the Mc
< Namara circle and is regarded
highly for his administrative,'
and organizational abilities.
Before becoming Army Sec
retary last July, the youngish- i
looking Mr. Vance was the De- ’
sense Department's general
counsel. He headed the major
reorganization work done in
the Pentagon after Mr. Mc-
Namara took over.
Recovers After Surgery
Last fall, Mr. Vance was out
of action for weeks because of[
a back ailment that required
surgery. He has recovered and
is putting in full time at his
| desk.
The factor that apparently!
has dropped Mr. Vance into
second place for the Gilpatric,
job is his so far brief tenure!
I as Army Secretary.
Mr. McNamara has been
counting on Mr. Vance to re
vitalize the Army and to super
! intend some potentially revo
lutionary changes in that serv
. ice. This job is just beginning
’ and Mr. McNamara may feel
■ it unwise to give the Army still
; another civilian chief at this
. stage.
I America will seek additional
' financial and technical help
from the United States within
lithe Alliance for Progress, with!
- economic integration of the
. areas as a prime goal.
Mr. Kennedy is studying
these problems this week end
i Secretary of State Rusk and 1
■ six congressmen are due here;
tomorrow to accompany the M
■ President to Costa Rica. But
; White House Press Secretary i 1
, Pierre Salinger said he knew of ]
, no plans for the President to 1
- confer with them prior to their 1
early Monday morning depar-
| ture. i
Before leaving Washington 1
yesterday with his brother. At
torney General Robert F. Ken- 1
1 nedy, the President had con- 1
( ferred with Representative 1
1 Morgan. Democrat of Pennsyl- !
* vania, on foreign aid. It was 1
1 then announced the President
will send Congress a special
• message on the subject within
■ the next two weeks. i
; <
Some Cuts Predicted
i Mr Morgan, chairman of the
House Foreign Affairs Com- I
mittee. predicted Congress will
vote substantial foreign aid |
I funds, although he said there 1
1 probably will be some cuts in <
I the $4 9 billion budget request.
,1 Besides, after the kinds of |
difficult births likely to stop i
an infant's heart, the mother ]
i may require care. To perform ;
i open-chest heart massage on
i the child, the physician might (
have to neglect the mother.
By contrast, closed-chest ,
. heart massage doesn't even re- (
quire a physician. The entire ■
delivery staff at Johns Hop- ]
kins is now being trained in ,
the technique.
Dr. Mathews, born and edu- .
cated in Argentina, is 34 He is
a resident physician and post
graduate student at the hoe- .
pital. In June, he will return '
to Argentina.
In an interview. Dr Mathews
emphasized that the technique
is not away to restore to life '
all infants born dead. Only
those whose hearts have been
still only a short time can be
revived to live normal lives
'But there is a small group of
newborn who can be revived by
this technique so that they can
live long, normal lives, * he
[said.
■ Detailed steps in the tech
nique are reported to the med- 1
. leal profession in the current
' 'March 18) issue of the Jour
[ nal of the American Medical
Association. I
10 Cents
Note Delivered
In Moscow on
Air Violations
Russians Increase
Reconnaissance
Against West
The State Department re
ported today that two Soviet
reconnaissance planes flew over
Alaska yesterday, in violation
of United States air space.
The United States protested
to Moscow today "these over
flights of United States ter
ritory.”
A note released by the State
Department declared the United
States Government "expects
that the Soviet government
will take all necessary meas
ures to prevent any repetition."
The Soviet government an
nounced in Moscow it had re
ceived the protest a few min
utes before the State Depart
ment announcement.
A State Department spokes
man said that "this is the first
clearly established incident of
a Soviet overflight of the
United States.”
Ship “Inspected”
Another Soviet plane is re
ported to have "inspected” a
United States ship in the
Pacific several days ago in
another incident emphasizing
the Soviet Union's recent ex
; pansion of its aerial recon
naissance activities. Defense
Secretary McNamara has re-
I ported similar long-range re
connaissance over United States
.ships in the Atlantic.
Officials at first said pri
vately there was no interception
i of the Soviet planes, but later
■ said this was incorrect.
The Defense Department said
that several F-102 Air Force
. fighters were sent up from
[ Alaskan bases and that “there
1 was interception" of the two
1 Soviet planes.
i By interception, the Penta
i gon explained that the
flew near the Soviet craft and
followed them during their
flight over Alaskan territory.
A Pentagon spokesman said
that although there was “no
visual contact" with the Rus
sians, their course and the posi
tion of the American intercep
tors was closely followed by
I radar.
The Soviet planes flew at
altitudes ranging from 17.000
to 35.000 feet at speeds between
350 and 400 knots, he said.
The radar-tracked course
placed their deepest penetra
tion into Alaskan airspace at
about 30 miles, the Pentagon
said. The two craft appeared
to have approached "in trail,"
that is. one behind the other.
The Pentagon was not able
to say whether any shots, mis
siles or rockets, were fired by
the American Air Force inter
ceptors.
The Soviet aircraft were
never "within range” of Nike
anti-aircraft missiles, it added.
The two planes flying sep
arate courses were over United
States territory for about 25
minutes each, the protest note
said. This was in the region
of Kuskokwim Bay.
North of Aleutians
The bay lies at the south
west corner of Alaska just north
of the beginning of the Aleut
ian island chain.
The State Department chart
ing of the courses of the air
craft showed that they ap
proached Alaska across the bay
from the southwest. Ona flew
off to the west, crossing over
See NOTE, Page A-3
Women Badly Hurt
In G St. Accident
A mother and daughter were
critically injured shortly after
12:30 pm. today when a car
hurled them into a display
window at Garrison's Toy and
Novelty store at 1315 G street
NW
Witnesses said the car, driv
en by a woman, apparently
went out of control, shot tn
reverse across the sidewalk,
and crashed into the window.
The mother and daughter were
looking at the display in the
window. A fire department
rescue squad had to dig one
of them from the glass and
other debris
One of the victims was
rushed to George Washington
University Hospital and the
other to Casualty Hospital.
MOTHER SETON
TO BE BEATIFIED
AMERICAN CATHOLICS art
celebrating the beobfreohon of
Mother Seton For ths itory of how
Mrs Eliioboth Ann Boyley Seton,
• widow vith fire children, began a
new life that led her to the second
highest honor beitowed by the
church, tee page A-6.
,