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CONSTANTINE BROWN
Other Agreements With Moscow
Some Previous Communist Fulfillments
Os Accords With West Are Recalled
MUNICH. No one likes
to admit that Premier Khru
shchev obtained a spectacu
lar victory when he persuad
ed Washington and London
to sign the Moscow treaty
for a partial ban on nuclear
testing. But this treaty
opens further a vista for
other similar agreements
such as inspections to as
sure against surprise attack.
Russians would be stationed
in West Germany and Brit
ish and Americans in the
East German zone.
Our diplomats have short
memories. Only 10 years ago
this summer the Korean ar
mistice was signed. It pro
vided for inspection teams
to supervise its strict appli
cation by both sides. We
chose representatives from
Switzerland and Sweden, two
strictly neutral countries. The
Communists chose Poles and
Czechs, their partners. The
Communist team went to
South Korea. But while the
Communist inspectors were
given the freedom of the land
and were allowed to move
about to their hearts’ con
tent, the Swiss and Swedish
officers were confined to
within six miles of their as
signed place.
The Swiss and Swedes be
came, in fact, honored pris
oners of the Communists who
immediately proceeded to
build large airfields and to
re-arm their Chinese and
North Korean troops with
modem equipment. They saw
nothing and knew nothing.
We scrupulously observed the
armistice terms and did noth
ing to improve our military
position.
ARTHUR HOPPE
Our Puppy-less Columnist Barks
'White House Is Going to the Dogs!'
(His l-Want-a-Pooch Plea Flopped)
EN ROUTE TO
WASHINGTON.
Oh, I know what you’re
• aying. You are saying,
“What’s that fool Hoppe
going to Washington for this
time?” I don’t blame you.
People certainly go to Wash
ington for unbelievable rea
sons these days. For example,
the man across the aisle says
he’s going there to sell carrot
juice to the Pentagon. Who’d
believe that?
But with me it's different.
I am going to Washington to
demand the answer to a key
question of grave concern to
our Nation’s youth:
How come I didn’t get one
of those dogs Mr. Kennedy’s
passing out free?
You will recall that when
Miss Caroline’s Russian dog,
Pushinka. produced pups in a
gesture symbolic of Soviet-
American friendship, 5,000 of
us wrote in asking for one of
the litter. And, sure enough,
two of the puppies have now
been issued to kids. Along
with releases to the press.
Miss Karen House, 10, won
one in the big contest by
writing the White House that
the puppies were “pretty”
and having one would make
Thugs Yoke, Rob Five;
Two Suspects Seized
In four yokings late yester
day and early today, thugs i
made off with $334. Police I
rounded up a teen-ager and a
27-year-old man who was
charged with robbing with
force and violence in one of
the yokings.
The victim, Clarence Walker,
28, listed at 927 P street N.W.,
told police he was attacked by
a man in the 1300 block of
Ninth street N.W. and forced
into an alley where another
joined the attack.
He said they knocked him
down, beat him and took sl7.
Pvts. Lewis R. Harris and
Henry C. Millner of the second
precinct spotted the teen-ager,
a 17-year-old, at Ninth and O
streets, and chased him two
blocks before capturing him.
Also arrested a short time
later was Earl J. Thomas, listed
in the 1300 block of Eleventh
street N.W.
In another robbery James
Allen, listed at 1538 Seventh
street N.W., told police that he
and his 12-year-old son were
yoked and robbed of S2OO at 4
a.m. today as they returned
from a party.
The victim said he had given
S2OO to his son to hold. While
in the 1700 block of Swan
street, they were attacked by
three men, knocked down and
robbed, he told police. He could
give no description of the as
sailants.
George A. Bright, 43, was
Stevenson's Ex-Wife
Faces U. S. Tax Suit
CHICAGO, Aug. 24 (AP).— A
Federal Income tax lien for
$15,873 was filed yesterday
against Mrs. Ellen Borden
Stevenson, divorced wife of
United Nations Ambassador
Adlai Stevenson.
The Internal Revenue Serv
ice. which filed the action,
contends Mrs. Stevenson failed
to pay $14,895 in income taxes
in 1957 and 8978 in 1959.
Mrs. Stevenson lives on Chi
cago's Near North Side.
She obtained a slvorce from
Mr. Stevenson in 1949.
Eventually, the Swiss and
Swedes, fed up with their
status, moved into South
Korea a few miles from Pan
munjom. We invited the Poles
and Czechs, whose subversive
activities had been carefully
watched by American and
South Korean Intelligence, to
go back to North Korea. That
ended the “Inspection phase"
of the Korean armistice.
This lesson of the past is
being overlooked today when
negotiations are in course to
establish similar teams in
East and West Germany. The
reasoning of our diplomats,
whose policy is relaxation of
tension at any price, is that
we are dealing with Mr.
Khrushchev, not Mao Tze
tung.
According to reports in
Germany which is now be
ing consulted the Kremlin
is entitled to station repre
sentatives at railway junc
tions, airfields and important
highways to watch that no
undue concentration of forces
takes place. The main forces
of the NATO are in Ger
many. The control of the
Russians, who would be free
to move about, would thus
be complete.
But what about the British
and American officers who
will be stationed only in East
Germany? They will have ac
cess neither to Poland, Czech
oslovakia or the Soviet Un
ion. It would be from those
areas, not East Germany,
that a surprise offensive
would be staged.
The six Russian divisions
in East Germany and the
150,000 East Germans are
her "so happy.” Which is
very nice. I’m sure. And Mr.
Mark Bruce, 9. was awarded
the other for explaining that
he accidentally hit his last
dog on the head with a base
ball bat. So he needed a new
one. And only a dog lover
could quarrel with that.
But neither letter, in all
due modesty, could hold a
candle to mine. After all, I’ve
devoted years to studying the
letters our youngsters con
stantly write the President.
And I feel I know the kind
most likely to get action. Al
low me to quote my entry:
“Dear Mr. President: I
know you are the greatest,
kindest man in the whole
wide world and you would
never have time to think of a
typical little freckle-faced,
barefoot, very photogenic
American boy like me. Even
if I do live in California,
which may swing the ’64
election.
“But, whillikers, I sure
would like one of those cudd
ly little puppies of yours.
Ever since I told Dad about
stuffing my last puppy down
the garbage dispose—all be
cause I cannot tell a lie, I’ve
been sad.
yoked and robbed of $55 at the
gate of the U. S. Soldiers’ Home,
Second and Upshur streets N.W.
He told police four Negro males
attacked him as he returned
to the home at 12:50 a.m.,
punched and kicked him and
then took his wallet, watch and
cigarette case.
One assailant was described
as between 28 and 30 years old,
150 pounds and wearing a
short-sleeve brown sport shirt.
Shortly before, at 11:40 p.m.,
Robert L. Mackie, 35, listed at
507 T street N.W., was grabbed
from behind by three men who
took $62 and his wristwatch,
according to police.
One assailant was described
as a Negro, 5 feet 7 inches tall,
130 pounds, scar on one cheek,
wearing gray pants and a
brown short sleeve polo shirt.
Prison Sentence Ends
Fug iti ve'sl-Y ear' B reak'
BALTIMORE, Aug. 24 (AP).
—A Maryland man had his
day In court yesterday after
traveling half-way around the
globe for more than a year
to avoid it.
William Robert Floyd, 37. of
Marlow Heights, walked out of
United States District Court
on July 27, 1982. just seconds
before he was to have been
sentenced on bogus check
charges.
He had told his lawyer,
Alan H. Murrell of Baltimore,
that he wanted to take a
break. Judge Edward 8. Nor
throp, in the meantime, had
recessed court for five minutes
to study a pre-sentence report.
Sentenced to 5 Yean
When Floyd returned yes
terday he faced the same
Judge, who gave him five years
in Federal prison.
“I am imposing the maxi
mum sentence, not because
you walked out of court,”
Judge Northrop said, “but be-
only a modest portion of the
Communist striking force.
The main Communist force
is stationed in areas to which
Western control officers will
have no access. Air recon
naissance, according to avail
able reports, will be forbidden.
American military men
know that the Russians are
masters at isolating foreign
ers who, by agreement, could
poke their noses into Soviet
military affairs. They recall
that during World War II
when at the pressing request
of Stalin we sent a couple of
bomber wings into Soviet ter
ritory to co-operate with the
Soviet air force, our men
were completely isolated and
surrounded with barbed wire
in their assigned areas. Amer
ican military observers were
never allowed on the battle
field until weeks after the
fighting was over. An Amer
ican naval team which was
sent to Siberia for air ob
servations useful to both the
Russians and ourselves was
so completely isolated and
endured such rough treat
ment at the hands of the
Russians that it had to be
recalled.
The argument that Mr.
Khrushchev is not Stalin and
that conditions particu
larly the feud with Peking—
have changed him radically,
are taken lightly by profes
sional military men. The
leopard does not change his
spots. The leaders of the Rus
sian people today are in no
way different from those of
20 or 30 years ago. The ide
ological crisis in America and
Britain may change our in
ternational objectives, but
the Communist objective re
mains unchanged.
“And, golly gee, I guess if
you sent me one I’d throw
away my crutches and run
through our integrated
neighborhood to pose for the
national photographers in
my Boy Scout uniform with
my best friends, Tony Gi
useppe. Herman Katz and
Sam Cheong, whose dads are
all civic leaders but political
ly independent. As of now.
“But I sure wouldn’t want
you to give me a puppy just
because my Dad has $3 mil
lion. To be honest he doesn’t
care about politics. Like he
says. ‘I never found a candi
date I wanted to give my $3
million to. Yet.’ So maybe
he’ll just give it to the SPCA.
If that’s where I have to go
to get my dog.
“PJ3. I’m very photogenic.”
So what happens? I get a
letter back from some un
derling saying: "Study very
hard, for everything you
learn in school will help you
in your ambition to be Presi
dent some day.”
“Is that justice? There’s a
mixup somewhere.
But I'll get to the bottom
of it. After all, if a perfect
letter like mine doesn’t win a
puppy, what will our youth
think of White House effi
ciency? It’s enough to des
troy their faith in the Ameri
can Way.
Smoke on Road,
Crash of 5 Cars
Leaves 2 Dead
BRISTOW, Okla., Aug. 24
(AP).—Blinding smoke from a
range fire billowed onto the
Turner turnpike yesterday and
caused a five-car, four-truck
pileup that killed two persons
and injured five.
Jim Costner, a veteran of 23
years on the highway patrol,
termed it the worst accident
he had ever seen. He estimated
property damage at $250,000.
Killed were Kirby A. Wal
lace, 31, Tulsa, and Jess Cope
land, 42, Rogers, Ark., both
truck drivers. Witnesses said a
sudden gust of wind whipped
thick smoke from the grass
and timber fire across the
four-lane turnpike which ex
tends from Oklahoma City of
Tulsa.
When one car stopped, the
other four cars and the four
trucks piled up.
cause you were the master
mind in this check-passing
operation.”
The law finally caught up
with Floyd in Australia.
Australian authorities, in co
operation with the State De
partment, lifted Floyd's visa
and ordered him to leave the
country.
Returned Last Week
Floyd returned to the United
States last week by ship and
surrendered to a newspaper re
porter who turned him over to
the FBI.
Assistant United States At
torney J. Hardin Marion told
the court that Floyd and three
other persons had passed 70
worthless checks and had taken
in 16,000 during the four-day
Labor Day week end in 1961.
He said the checks showed up
at almost every shopping center
in the Washington area, includ
ing the suburbs of Maryland
and Virginia.
CONRAD'S CARTOON
I'V* I® W r*
Ml
“We’d like to conduct just one more test. . .
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL
The Senate’s TFX probe indicates that Pentagon of
ficials can’t seem to get together on the truth. In fact, some
days they can’t even agree on the same fib.
** * *
Some Republicans boom Milton Eisenhower for Presi
dent. Their slogan is ready: “Ridden by Kennedy anxieties
and neuroses? Take a Miltown Eisenhower.”
** * *
Agriculture Secretary Freeman says he won’t resign.
Analysis: Either he’s going to stay—or he hasn’t got the word
yet.
•« • «
Senator Goldwater has his campaign year New Year’s
Eve motto ready: “Ring out the old. Ring in the ancient.”
«• * «
Aggressors’ proverb: Strike where the iron is not.
** • ♦
The test-ban treaty convinces Red Chinese leaders that
there’s no future in courting Khrushchev. He’s just not the
burying kind.
14 Teen Drag Racers
Given Jail Sentences
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 24
(AP). Fourteen teen-agers
found themselves in prison
clothes today after a traffic
judge began a crackdown on
drag racing and reckless driv
ing by young motorists.
Judge David MacHauer yes
terday sentenced the 14
ranging in age from 17 to 19
—to 10 days in jail. He then
cut their sentences to three
days so they could get out for
Sunday.
Judge MacHauer said he
passed up the usual fine and
driver’s license suspension be
cause it apparently had failed
to make a stern enough im
pression.
Sending the youngsters to
night driver training school,
he said, also had no effect.
“Perhaps,” the judge said
Legislative Conference
Compromise Foils Split
HONOLULU, Aug. 24 (AP).
—Southern and Midwestern
delegates to the National
Legislative Conference pushed
through a middle-of-the-road
resolution on proposed United
States constitutional amend
ments last night. They hailed
it as a means to avoid a break
up of the organization.
The resolution at the clos
ing session neither supported
nor opposed the three pro
posed amendments. It left the
question up to individuals to
act as they see fit.
The resolution had the ef
fect of beating down strong at
tempts to put the conference
on record against the amend
ments.
L. O. Merritt of South Caro
lina, chairman of the Resolu
tions Committee, told newsmen
the resolution was offered in
“a spirit of compromise.”
Avoid Conference Split
“We realize many will be dis
appointed,” he added, “but we
hope to avoid interruptions,
unpleasantness and a split of
the conference which has
worked amicably for many
years.”
The proposed States* rights
amendments under discussion
would:
Permit State legislatures to
initiate Federal constitutional
amendments without congres
sional action.
Eliminate Federal jurisdic
tion in court cases over ap-
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after thinking over the situa
tion, “a jail sentence com
bined with school will meet
with better success and prove
to be a deterrent.”
The boys, convicted of reck
less driving by drag racing and
other dangerous driving prac
tices, will hear lectures and see
films while in jail.
They will serve their time in
the city’s regular house of de
tention uniforms and go out
on work details under police
guard.
In sentencing the teen-agers,
Judge MacHauer said the court
does not consider them crim
inals or delinquents. But, he
said, drag racing and speeding
on their part “has gotten out
of hand.”
He warned he will sentence
other 17, 18, and 19-year-old
youths to jail for similar traffic
violations.
portionment of State legisla
ures.
Create a court of the union
which could overrule the United
States Supreme Court.
Opponents of the amend
ments, led by Nat Washington
of Washington State, Frank
King of Ohio and Howard
Miyake of Hawaii, offered an
amendment to the Merritt
Committee’s resolution which
would have had the conference
disapproving the proposals, but
this was defeated.
The middle-road resolution
was adopted 26-16.
Earlier, Alaska and Hawaii
delegates had threatened to
withdraw from the conference
because of what they described
as “high-handed” tactics by
conference officials.
Survey in Sarawak
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Aug
24 <AP».—lndonesia and the
Philippines each will send eight
observers within the next two
days to join a United Nations
survey team probing sentiment
in Sarawak and North Borneo
on joining the projected Feder
ation of Malaysia with Malaya
and Singapore.
A foreign office spokesman
made the announcement after
Foreign Minister Subandrio
said a dispute over the number
of observers to be furnished
|by Indonesia and the Philip
pines had been settled.
MAX FREEDMAN
The New White House Library
Criticism of Collection Stirs Memories
Os Coolidge Bookshelf Incidents
The New York Times has
been much too solemn about
the books chosen for the
White House by a committee
headed by the librarian at
Yale. It ran a list of the
books on page after page.
Then it wagged its solemn
little head in a reproving
editorial in which it regretted
the absence of the great
European writers from the
the list.
All this fuss over a casual
collection of books. Many of
the books do not cease to be
commonplace and trivial
merely because they have
been chosen by famous schol
ars. Some selections do more
credit to the vanity of ignor
ance than to the discernment
of scholarship.
President Kennedy needs
less help than any President
since Theodore Roosevelt in
making up his mnid about
books. Around him in the
White House is a group of
men born to grapple with
libraries. So this official col
lection cannot be meant pri
marily for President Ken
nedy. It is intended, rather,
for his successors and to
save the shelves of the White
House from the accumulated
horrors of miscellaneous
gifts.
How horrible those shelves
could be in normal times can
be seen in David C. Mearns’
article on “A Neglected Book
man: Calvin Coolidge.’ As a
leading official of the Library
of Congress, Mr. Mearns had
a great deal to do with the
White House Library. Coolidge
should not be judged by these
books. But he kept them be-
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Developers Get
Free-Trip Status
By the Associated Press
The Civil Aeronautics Board;
has authorized Allegheny Air
lines to grant free trips to
group-travel developers.
To qualify, a developer must
assemble and make transporta
tion arrangements for a group
of at least 15 fare-paying
passengers.
On round-trip travel, the
group is required to travel to
gether on the outbound flight,
but individual members may
return separately within the
30-day time limit of the re
duced fare that is available to
passenger groups.
The American Society of
Travel Agents had asked the
board to deny Allegheny’s ap
plication for free-trip authority.
ASTA said the plan would
establish a new classificcation
of travel agents without the
financial stability and expe
rience of recognized agents.
The CAB replied that it
already has granted similar
authority to three other local
service airlines—Central, Fron
tier and Mohawk—and knew of
no problems that had arisen.
SUKARNO SHUNS
CLASSIFICATION
OF LADY KILLER
MANILA (AP).—A Fili
pino woman reporter who
interviewed Indonesia’s
President Sukarno in Ja
karta said today he doesn't
like being called a lady
killer.
Nimia Arroyo of the
Manila Times said Presi
dent Sukarno told her:
“Do I look like a lady
killer? “I’m not. I just ap
preciate women because I
like everything created by
God.”
Mr. Sukarno said “As for
a beautiful woman, I would
call her that if she has
a good personality and
character. Beauty to me
is from the inside.”
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THE EVENING STAR
Washington, D. C, Saturday, August 24, 1963
cause they were gifts. Most of
the titles woudl make a goat
sick.
Yet on his own Coolidge
was not too bad. William
Allen White remembers that
Coolidge, while Governor of
Massachusetts, was shown
one of Emily Dickinson’s
manuscripts. He examined
the paper and then ex
claimed: ‘She writes with her
hands; I dictate.’ That cer
tainly is one difference be
tween the President and the
poet.
Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach
once told the American An
tiquarian Society that Coo
lidge “was interested’ in
Shakespeare—and wonderful
phrase and liked to own
good editions. The President
invited Dr. Rosenbach to
bring the original manu
script of Alice in Wonderland
to lunch at the White House.
The famous book collector
explained that the first edi
tion, which displeased Lewis
Car r o 11, was suppressed.
‘Suppressed?’ said the Pres
ident, ‘I did not know there
was anything off-color in
Alice.”
When Coolidge learned that
the Government had paid
$1.5 million for a copy of the
Gutenberg Bible, together
with three thousand other
books from the 15th century,
he cried out almost in agony .
“I should think that an ordi
nary copy of the King James
version would have been
good enough for those Con
gressmen.”
Once Mr. Mearns had to
assemble the books in the
White House after the place
had been renovated. A dog
School Band Director
Admits Robbing 2 Banks
JACKSON, Mo., Aug. 24
(AP).—The director of the
Jackson High School Band ad
mitted yesterday he robbed two
banks in nearby communities
of more than $20,000. He was
arrested after witnesses identi
fied him at a concert he was
conducting.
Richard Burton Partridge.
38, signed statements that he
robbed the Bank of Advance,
Mo., of $9,637 last October 15
and the Chaffee <Mo.) Bank of
$12,780 on August 5, Highway
Patrol Capt. O. L. Wallis said.
Partridge was charged in a
Federal complaint and held in
lieu of $60,000 bond.
Fell Behind on Bills
“The people here are shocked
by this,” said John Crites, sher
iff of Cape Girardeau County.
“He was well respected.”
“He said he got behind on
his bills. He apparently de
cided to rob the Chaffee Bank
after spending all the money
he had taken in the first rob
bery and falling in debt again,”
Sheriff Crites said.
“He sure fooled a lot of peo
ple,” said Norman Swan of
Pocahontas, Mo., director of
Congregation Beth El
of Montgomery County, Maryland
(A CONSERVATIVE CONGREGATION)
invites members of the Jewish faith residing
in the Montgomery County area to attend an
OPEN HOUSE
Sunday, August 25 and September 1, 1963
2:00 to 5:00 P.M.
in the Congregation Auditorium
8215 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, Md.
OL. 2-5393
Rabbi Samuel Scolnic, our officers, and directors
will be on hand to meet you and your family.
persisted in lavishing its un
wanted affection on Mr.
Mearns while he squatted on
the floor attending to the
books. Even an unabridged
Greek lexicon, flung sharply
at the dog’s ear, brought no
assurance that the nuisance
had been permanently re
moved. The rest of the story
should be told in Mr. Mearns’
own words.
“I stood in the doorway
and looked across the room. I
looked and went suddenly
and completely and murder
ously mad, for the curtain in
the corner outlined the form
of my insufferable tormen
tor. I ran across the room,
drew back my right foot to
propel him with a kick that
would drive him through the
walls and over the portico
and down the Mall and into
the Tidal Basin, and throw
ing aside the curtains to
make more deadly accurate
my aim, I looked down.
“I looked down at the
President of the United
States kneeling before a
small safe. He had heard me
coming, and when I reached
him he pushed back his
small straw sailor hat and
phlegmatically asked me over
his shoulder, ‘How are you
getting on?’ I do not remem
ber what I replied, or wheth
er I replied at all, but I have
not forgotten the salving
kindness of his impeccable
imperturbability. Let justice
be done, for it is due him,
and it is high time for the
rest of us to repeat Will Rog
ers' tribute when Calvin
Coolidge died: ‘By golly, you
little red-headed New En
glander, I liked you.”
Somehow the picture of
that dog and the President
blows into oblivion the so
lemn certitudes of the Times.
the Jackson consolidated school
district. “He did a good job
of directing the band and was
popular.”
Partridge had been at Jack
son three years.
Both banks are within 30
miles from the Partridge home
in Southeast Missouri.
$7,000 Recovered
None of the money taken in
the first robbery has been re
covered, police said, but more
than $7,000 of the Chaffee
money was found--still in a
bank wrapper—in a strong box
at the high school. Two pistols
also were in the box along with
a pair of clip-on sunglasses
worn by the hold-up man.
A white station wagon used
in the Chaffee robbery led to
the arrest, Capt. Wallis said
Police learned Partridge had
such a car and found it hidden
in a barn near Jackson. Part
ridge was described to em
ployes at each bank.
Officers and four witnesses
went to the band concert
Thursday. The witnesses iden
tified Partridge as he con
ducted the band. He was
arrested afterward.
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