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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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tries to exchange prisoners as
a step toward reducing tension.
The resolution rejected a 1
Syrian countercharge that Is
rael massed tanks in the area '
and exchanged fire with
the Syrians. It noted that
Secretary-General U Thant re
ported that no evidence of such
a military display was found ,
by the truce supervision organ- ■
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achieve unity and establish
"independence from exterior
influences.”
Despite the public silence,
there were private expressions
of bafflement and annoyance.
Authorities could not under
stand what Gen. de Gaulle was
getting at. They thought, how
ever, that his statement at the
present time of crisis between
the Diem government and the
Buddhist leaders could only
make trouble if it was to have
any effect at all.
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.