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A-4 THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. C., Friday, August 30, 1963 PRESIDENTIAL GREETINGS Stricken A. P. Man Still Pert By ARTHUR EDSON Associated Press Staff Writer When Henry Griffin, an As sociated Press photographer, went to the hospital, his old friends wanted to cheer him. So he got phone calls from President Kennedy and former Presidents Eisenhower and Truman. Mr. Kennedy also wrote a letter, as did Vice Pres ident Johnson and scores of Senators and Representatives. At 47, Mr. Griffin is a legend, and as friendly, as unabashed, as noisy, as cheerfully demo cratic as a pack of Airedale puppies. The hundreds who know him, with his loud, husky voice and his loud braying laugh, were shocked at the diagnosis: can cer of the throat. And there's rnlef that although his voice bet has been removed, he is getting along nicely. “I just wanted you to know.” Mr. Kennedy wrote, "that we will be thinking of you,” and at the bottom he scrawled In his own hand, "Best of luck.” Individualist Always Offhand, Griff doesn’t ap pear like the type the world’s great would cotton to. He got through a year of high school, but all that education didn’t corrupt the primitive man. His talk remained pungent, and on him, it sounded natural. Once he was upbraided for smoking in the Mormon taber nacle. ‘‘l’m sorry, ma’am,” he said U. S. Aides' Plans For Trip Abroad Irritate Senators By the Associated Press ! State Department plans to send United States delegations to 531 internaional confer ences this fiscal year have nettled Democratic Senators McClellan of Arkansas and Magnuson of Washington. "I think some of this is being overdone.” Senator McClellan ( told Richard Gardner, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for international organization af fairs. yesterday when he urged a Senate Appropriations sub committee to restore $197,000 cut by the House from funds to finance the delegations. So many Government dele gations are circling the world on missions “they may be working at cross purposes,” Snator Magnuson said. “I’m afraid that the right hand may not know what the left hand* is doing.” Mr. Gardner proceeded to ex pain the purposes of the con ferences. but the Senators showed little enthusiasm for them. MHIHII k MAIL AND PHONE ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY, EX. 3-6070 Bond's Downtown Prinoo George's 7 Corners 1335 F St. N.W. Plus Shopping Center Shop Thundoy Monday thru Friday Mon.. Thun., Fri. 9 30 to 9 Until 9,30 9 30 to 9 30 ira h . BwS B- • ■ I HENRY GRIFFIN s —AP Photo i contritely, “but I didn’t see 1 no sign.” ’ j On January 2,1933, he joined the AP in his native Baltimore, and soon showed the stuff re* & quired for the rough life of a t spot news photographer. , A year later, he came to ► Washington. Then, the war: ; North Africa, Italy, France, I Germany, Poland. In Decem ber, 1945, he was back home. Legends become impossible • to unravel. Did he really save Gen. I Eisenhower’s life by warning h Custody Exam Set For Actress LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30 (AP) —Singer Joan O’Brien has been ordered to undergo a psychiat ric examination before a judge decides whether she may have 1 custody of her two children. [ Superior Court Judge Fred erick F. Houser said yesterday he believed alleged suicide at tempts by Miss O'Brien were only to “arouse sympathy in various husbands.” The actress’ first husband, band, singer Billy Strange, 32, is seeking custody of their son Russell, 7. Her second husband, advertising executive John F. Meyers, 41, seeks custody of their daughter, Melissa Ann, 5. The former husbands have tem porary custody of the children. I ’ I Birth Rate Slowed NEW YORK.—At present the birth rate in the United States is only about half as high as it was in 1800. him that a road was mined? Did the next fellow down it really get blown to smithereens? Dropped Clock on General It certainly was true that he once almost knocked Gen. Eisenhower out. This came on November 4, 1952, at the end of the presi dential campaign. The General was posing for pictures in Bos ton, and Griff was trying to move a clock that messed up the shot. But it slipped, and down it went on Gen. Eisen hower’s bald head. For once Griff was morti fied. He fled—and returned only after Gen. Eisenhower, his wound swelling but not serious, insisted he come back. It's also true he fell for Mr. Truman. Mr. Griffin was on a press plane accompanying Mr. Truman to Kansas City. The ramp was pushed to the door, and then unaccountably re moved. Griff, always in a hurry, fell 12 feet to the concrete be low. He fractured six ribs, one of which pierced a lung. Truman Sends Own Doctor Mr. Truman sent his own physician. Gen. Wallace Graham, along to make sure Griff got the best of care. Well, it seems strange to find noisy, brash Griff silenced, forced to learn to speak again and now reduced to tapping out replies over the phone, two taps for yes. one for no. But his friends, great and lowly, will be pleased to know the tap-tap sounded jaunty, like a man who soon will be ready for anything. I ■ AI l 118 >1 fWJy 7 ”12 PvjTf a wr/ IrP w Z> 7f / : hIO ifP k /// * J if ■ / /« ’I n %iiL / ■ i g Moil and Phone Orders Promptly Filled, EX. 3 6070 FAIR IHOf Bond's Downtown Prinoo Georges 7 Corners 1335 F St. N.W. Plaza Shopping Center Shop Thursday Mon. thru Fri. Men , Thun , Fri. *•3O to 9 until 9:30 9 30 to 9 30 Reds Expected To Fight U. N. Move in Killing UNITED NATIONS. N. Y„ Aug. 30 (AP).—The Soviet Union was expected to come out today against a United States-British resolution call ing on the United Nations Se curity Council to condemn the ■wanton murder” of two Israeli farmers near the Syrian border. Council members expected Soviet Ambassador Nikolai T. Fedorenko to indicate in an address whether he would veto the resolution. Asked where the Russians stood, a Soviet delegation spokesman said “of course we shall support the Arab coun tries as always.” Speed Is Urged The resolution was presented to the council yesterday with a plea for speedy action. But Morocco, with the sup port of the Soviet Union, sought to stave off a vote until next week. The council agreed to con tinue debate today, then decide whether the vote should be delayed. The resolution would "con demn the wanton murder at Almagor in Israel territory of two Israel citizens.” Seeks Prisoner Exchange It called to the attention of the Syrian government that a United Nation inquiry developed evidence that the killers ap peared to have entered Icrael from the direction of the border with Syria and left in the j same direction. It also called for both coun- Rusk to See Envoy on De Gaulle Stand By the Associated Freu_ Secretary of State Rusk scheduled a late afternoon ap pointment with French Ambas sador Herve Alphand today amid widespread interest and irritation here over President de Gaulle’s intervention in the Viet Namese political crisis. United States officials with held comment on Gen. de Gaulle's public statement yes terday offering to give assist ance to the people of Viet Nam in any effort they made to - I > tries to exchange prisoners as a step toward reducing tension. 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Saigon Discounts (In Saigon, a government' spokesman said the French President’s remarks were of “no Importance," adding: “We in terpret this as the personal view of Gen. de Gaulle, nothing more.") There was speculation here, however, that Gen. de Gaulle was making a bid to reassert French influence in Southeast Asia, where the French lost out in the Indochina revolt after World War 11. I 1 Mr. Rusk set his meeting l r with Mr. Alphand for 5 p.m.j Aides said that the time was , selected earlier this week, prior 1 to Gen. de Gaulle's statement . and following Mr. Alphand’s . recent return from home leave 1 in France. Mr. Rusk and Mr. Alphand < i have customarily met before 1 Mr. Alphand’s trips home and s following his return. The two ’ men have, in fact, spent con i siderable time during the last j eight months discussing the I French-United States split | within the NATO alliance and I trying to find ways of main -1 taining co-operation on points 1 of agreement. Question Opportunity The meeting today afforded ; an opportunity for Mr. Rusk at least to ask Gen. de Gaulle’s ' Ambassador what Gen. de Gaulle is trying to accomplish. ' So far as could be deter mined, there was no advance 1 consultation by Gen. de Gaulle I 'with United States officials on 1 I the statement. It is understood 1 the United States Government was advised a few hours ‘in advance that Gen. de Gaulle would make some kind of«tate i ment. The French leader has some. ’ times complained that he was 1 not sufficiently consulted on United States policy and he may have felt that he would demon strate his argument to Presi dent Kennedy in a practical way. Talk on Telstar Tels ta r Engineer Bruce Relchelderfer will give an il lustrated talk on Telstar at 7 p.m. today at the Washing ton Hotel, 1842 Sixteenth street N.W., at the opening session of the annual meeting of the American Cryptogram Associa tion. Tonight’s session is open to the public. The meeting runs through Sunday night.