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Russians Release Yale Professor
U. S. Seizes
Control of
Merrywood
Deposits $500,000
To Halt Building
Os Apartments
By JOHN BARRON
Bt*r Staff Writer
The Federal Government has
seized control of the bitterly
disputed Merrywood estate to
halt apartment construction on
the Fairfax County shores of
the Potomac.
A Justice Department attor
ney hurried into Alexandria's
Federal court minutes before It
closed yesterday, laid down a
$500,000 check and a declara
tion demanding a "scenic ease
ment” over the entire 46-acre
tract.
At the instant the “declara
tion of taking” was filed, the
Department of Interior by law
acquired the easement prohib
iting developers from building
anything but single-family
homes on the land.
Department of Interior rep
resentatives, accompanied by
park policemen, this morning
posted signs at Merrywood
proclaiming Government su
pervision. The signs also
earned of controls established
by the easement.
Although the present private
owners retain possession of the
property, the easement subjects
them to eight other restrictions
in its use.
One forbids the cutting of
any tree larger than 3 inches
In dianjfter without written
permission from Interior Secre
tary Udall.
Acre Lot Minimum
Another specifies that the
land may not be subdivided into
lots smaller than one acre. A
third empowers the Interior De
partment to make inspections
at any time to assure enforce
ment of its controls.
The Government suddenly
Intervened yesterday after de
velopers started clearing trees
on the estate which last year
was sold by Jacqueline Kenne
dy’s stepfather, Hugh D.
Auchlncloss and subsequently
was rezoned.
An Interior Department
spokesman said that action,
which evoked jubilation, con
sternation and outrage in
Northern Virginia, will at once
stop any further physical prep
arations for apartments.
According to testimony last
year, the syndicate now own
ing Merrywood is composed of
builder Sheldon Magazine, car
dealer William Page, attorney
Lytton Gibson and Fairfax
Sheriff John Taylor.
Fight Shapes Up
The $500,000 deposit repre
sents a Government offer of
compensation to them for rights
they will lose unless they can:
persuade the court to abolish
the easement.
Both Mr. Gibson and Sheriff
Taylor said there is no question
that they will fight to eliminate
it.
Instances in which courts
have prevented Government
from exercising its power of
eminent domain have been rel
atively rare. But then so have
instances in which government
has used such power to secure
easements like that at Merry
wood.
Should the easement with-
See MERRYWOOD, Page A-3
"And above all, let's back
up our threats of charity
with force."
Columnist Arthur Hoppe,
very much tongue-in-cheek,
is alarmed by Prince Sihan
ouk of Cambodia because he
"won't take any more of our
money".
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Safeway store at 717 Eleventh street N.W. to-
Production,
Jobs Hit Peak
Idle Rate Same
For October
Br the Aieoelated Frew
October industrial production
moved to a new peak, by a hair
line edge, and non-farm em
ployment also set a record in
that month, the Government
has reported.
Increasing output of auto
mobiles and most other con
sumer goods nudged the indus
trial production index to 126.6
agains the September figure of
126.9, the Federal Reserve
Board reported. The index uses
the 1957-59 production level as
the 100-point base in figuring
output.
The October rate of 126.6 was
a new record but was just
barely above July’s 126.5. The
rate for October, 1962, was
119.2.
The reserve board reported
new construction at a record
annual rate of $66.5 billion, 5
per cent above 1963.
Despite a slight decline in
department store sales, retail
sales were reported at a record
level, 5 per cent over October
1962.
Non-farm employment ran
slightly counter to the normal
pattern by rising a net of
100,000 to 58.3 million in Octo
ber, a month that normally
shows no change from Septem
ber, the Labor Department re
ported.
Agricultural employment held
steady at 5.4 million while
total employment including
self-employed, unpaid family
workers and domestics —also hit
a new peak at 69.9 million.
October unemployment was
unchanged at 3.5 million, leav
ing the adjusted rate at 5.5
per cent of the working force,
about where it has been all
year.
AB&W Strike
Is Deferred;
Meeting Set
The AB&W bus drivers’
strike scheduled for 5 am. to
day has been deferred in
definitely at the urgent request
of Virginia’s Gov. Harrison and
the Federal Mediation Service.
Negotiators for the union
and company are to meet in
Richmond with Gov. Harrison
on Monday or Tuesday. This
means that a strike could not!
be rescheduled until at least 24
hours after the meeting.
The 24 hours is the custom
ary notice given by the union
to allow regular passengers
time to find other transporta
tion.
The bus line serves 35,000
customers daily in Alexandria,
South Arlington and Fairfax
County.
Union and company repre
sentatives met last night at the
George Mason Hotel in Alex
andria with a representative
'of Gov. Harrison and with
Federal Mediator Gilbert Mc
iCutcheon in an effort to re
| solve the deadlock.
Walter J. Bierwagen. inter
national vice president of the
Amalgamated Transit Union,
said later: “We’re still on dead
! center.”
The union members rejected
the latest company offer of a
three-year contract package
that included a raise of 27
cents an hour.
WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1963 —32 PAGES
Drivers' Strike Closes
Many Safeway Stores
Picketing Spreads to Supermarkets;
Some Outlets Attempt to Stay Open
Pickets appeared today at Washington area Safeway
supermarkets as negotiations to resolve a truck drivers’
strike remained deadlocked. Most stores closed down.
Spot checks of Safeway stores throughout the Washing
ton area indicated that a few stores were attempting to re
main open.
Most store employes did not appear to be crossing the
j Teamsters* picket lines. A
Safeway spokesman said the
decisions on opening or closing
the stores were being made on
an individual basis at each of
, the 221 stores.
All-Night Meeting
Negotiators for Safeway and
the 265 members of Teamsters
Local 639 met through the
night at the Hay-Adams Hotel
to work out the contract dif
ferences.
They adjourned this morn
ing until 4 p.m. when negotia
tions were to resume.
Most Safeway stores in the
District were closed with a
picket or two out front, but
there was no set pattern.
Some of the stores never
opened as employes arriving for
work refused to cross the picket
line. Others opened for busi
ness in the absence of a picket
line, but the employes left
when pickets showed up. The
stores were then closed.
Lighter Business
In other cases, when em
ployes beat the pickets to work,
they stayed on the job and the
store remained open although
business was reported lighter
than normal.
At one store, 3941 Minnesota
avenue N.E., two workers got
to the store before the picket
line was set up at 4 am. The
store was open.
At another. 1613 Montello
avenue N.E., business was nor
mal because, for some reason,
there was no picket line.
The manager of one North
west Washington store, which
was closed by a lone picket who
got there at 4 am., was taking
the opportunity to catch up on
his paper work. He also was
wrestling with the problem of
unloading his perishables, in
cluding large amounts of steaks
and roasts for a special beef
sale.
Meat Cut
"The meat is all cut and
will lose its bloom over the
w’eek end.” he explained, “and
I can’t freeze it. because we
’sell only fresh meat.”
He said he was told to get
rid of the meat and vegetables
the best way he could and was
trying to sell it to restaurants
or small groceries. If he can't
Mothe r D i es Afte r G i iTs
Halloween Injury Death
A Washington mother died
of an apparent heart attack
yesterday five hours after her;
9-year-old daughter died from
a Halloween injury.
The mother, Mrs. Rubye
Franklin, 39. was at Children’s
Hospital when her daughter. I
Katherine, died at 4:30 p.m.
Mrs. Franklin fainted, and was
given a sedative, police said.
Hospital authorities then
learned that Mrs. Franklin had
high blood pressure and a his
tory of heart trouble, and she
was rushed to Washington
Hospital Center. She died at
9:40 pm.
The double tragedy had its
beginning Halloween night,
day as a solitary picket, Lloyd Butler, walks his 1
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: sell it. he said, he will orob
t ably give the produce to or
-1 phanages or other charitable
[ ■ institutions.
In Maryland, most stores
also were shut down.
I Supermarkets in Silver
. Spring. College Park, Landover.
, Palmer Park, Waldorf. Hyatts
[ ville. Gaithersburg and Ta
. koma Park were closed. Most
were Picketed and clerks would
. not cross the lines, the store
. managers reported.
Bethesda Store Open
•
j The store at 4940 Bradley
■ boulevard. Bethesda, was open
early today. But the manager
■ indicated he would close before
. the day's end.
In Virginia a check of seven
stores disclosed that all but
two were open this morning
' in spite of picketing.
One store manager in Vienna
said that his store might close
down prior to normal closing
time if the meat and produce
in stock were sold out. Some
of the stores which opened re
ported that a portion of their
clerks did not cross the picket
line.
The strike started Thursday
after three weeks of negotia
tions. The old contract expired
October 31.
Agreement Expires
A union agreement to move
perishable goods from the dis
tribution center to the stores
expired at 8 o’clock last night.
The Safeway management
has offered the Teamsters a
three-year contract with hourly
pay raises of 43‘/a cents for
meat truck drivers, 42 cents for
other drivers, 40 Vi cents for
loaders and 39 cents for helpers
The union has asked instead
for a two-year contract with
an hourly pay raise of 56 cents
for everyone.
Under the old contract, meati
truck drivers earned $2.91 an
hour; other drivers, $2.77; i
loaders, $2.66 and helpers, $2.54.
i i
Brezhnev Visits Iran
MOSCOW, Nov. 16 (API.—
> President Leonid Brezhnev of
; the Soviet Union left today by
i air for a state visit to Iran
as guest of the Shah.
when Katherine went out trick
or-treating with her 7-year
•old brother and a 16-year-old
youth acting as baby-sitter.
According to police, the
youth struck Katherine on the
right thigh when the girl re
fused to return home when he
told her to.
Mrs. Franklin noticed a
swelling a few days later, police
said, and was told by her doc
tor to take the child to a hos
pital. This she did on Novem
ber 10.
The girl was operated on.
but died of a pulmonary em
bolism.
The 16-year-old is in cus
tody of juvenile authorities,;
, charged with homicide.
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Kennedy Sees;
Polaris Firing
1
Shown Progress
On Moon Project
CAPE CANAVERAL. Nov. 6
iAP).—President Kennedy to- '
day observed one of America's
major strategic weapons sys- 1
terns in action—the firing of a
Polaris missile from a sub
merged submarine.
The nuclear sub Andrew
Jackson unleashed the 31-ft.
rocket while gliding slowly be-,
neath the Atlantic Ocean about
30 miles off Cape Canaveral.'
The Navy reported the mis
sile performed perfectly as it
streaked across the sky toward
a target more than 1,500 miles
down range.
The launching climaxed a
whirlwind presidential visit to
Cape Canaveral where earlier
the Chief Executive:
Viewed the world’s most pow
erful rocket, Saturn I; dis
cussed the two-man Gemini
program with Astronauts Leroy
Gordon Cooper and Virgil I
Grissom: received a progress
report on the Apollo man to
the moon project; flew in a
helicopter over America’s
mushrooming moon port, and
then to a ship 30 miles at sea
to watch the Polaris firing.
Gives Firing Order
The President was aboard
the deck of the missile support
ship USS Observation Island,
standing about 1,200 yards off
the Jackson’s starboard side.
Mr. Kennedy himself gave
the firing order today. From
the Observation Island, the
President—using the code name
"American Chief"—barked a
radio command to the sub
marine captain. Comdr. James
B. Wilson of Wayne, Pa.
The visit was calculated to
boost the embattled manned
lunar landing program, which
has come under heavy criticism
from some quarters recently,
primarily because of the high
cost, estimated between S2O and
S4O billion.
Budget Still Pending
Congress still has not ap
proved a fiscal 1964 budget
for the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration,
.which originally requested $5.7
billion. Earlier this week, the
Senate Appropriations Com
mittee approved a sharply
trimmed $5.19 billion figure.
Astronauts Cooper and Gris
som. veteran space pilots of
the Mercury manned flight
program, co-ordinate overall
; Gemini planning as their spe
cialty assignment on the 30-
man astronaut team.
The first unmanned Gemini
orbital flight is scheduled in
February. The initial two-man
orbital mission is slated late
next year. Eventually, Gemini
teams will remain in orbit up
i to two weeks and will rendez
j vous their spacecraft with
other orbiting satellites to
practice techniques essential
i for Apollo.
The mammoth Saturn 1;
rocket towers 16 stories above
the base of the launching pad
No. 37. Engineers are getting
it ready for its first two-stage
See KENNEDY, Page A-3
Reds Launch Satellite
MOSCOW, Nov. 16 (AP>
The Soviet Union today
launched its 22d Cosmos earth
satellite, Tass announced. The
Soviet news agency said the
unmanned satellite was
\ equipped with scientific appa
ratus for studying outer space,
and all the equipment is func
tioning normally.
U. S. Oil Pads
Are Canceled
By Argentina
lllia Acts Despite
Stern Warning
By Washington
BUENOS AIRES. Nov. 16
(AP).—Argentina last night
ignored a United States warn
ing of possible serious conse
quences and annulled its multi
million-dollar oil contracts with
eight American and four other
foreign companies.
President Arturo Dlia carried
through with a campaign
pledge and issued decrees
placing foreign petroleum pro
duction and development under
the control of the government
run oil agency, Yacimientos
Petroliferos Fiscales The de
crees authorized YPF to use
force if necessary to take over
the operations.
It was not immediately known
whether the companies would
be fully compensated since the
final annulment papers will be
drawn up by Argentina’s Pro
curator General. There was no
indication when he would de
liver his decision.
Legal Action Seen
The United States companies,
who have estimated that they
invested $397 million for drill
ing and exploration operations,
have already indicated they
will take legal action to gain
compensation.
President Kennedy has main
tained that the United States
could not block the long
threatened annulment but that
the United States would press
for full compensation for the
American firms.
Washington also has indi
cated to Argentina that the
' i annulment could result in i
’ reduction or cutoff of Unitec
States aid and private invest
- ments.
United States Undersecretar
; of State W. Averell Harrimai
stressed the United State
stand to Mr. lllia only las
week during a stopover ii
Buenos Aires before attendini
a conference of Latin-Ameri
can nations in Sao Paulo
Brazil.
Aid Cutoff Seen
In Washington, congressional
leaders said today that Argen
tina's seizure of American oil
properties is almost certain to
result in cutting off United
States aid to that country.
Senate Democratic leader
Mike Mansfield of Montana
and Republican leader Everett
M. Dirksen of Illinois agreed in
separate interviews that Argen
tinas action is a serious blow
to the Alliance for Progress.
State Department officials
had no comment immediately
but there were indications the
United States was watching
the situation with deep con
cern.
Economy Minister Eugenic
Blanco announced the decrees
which annulled all develop
ment, exploration and service
contracts signed by the oil
companies since May 1, 1958
when former President Arturc
Frondizi was in power.
The decrees maintained that
those contracts were illegal and
See OIL, Page A-3
'WORTH ALL THE TROUBLE'
Father Steals Child,
Hits Hospital Care
LOS ANGELES. Nov. 16
(AP).—“Daddy, I love you.”
Robert J. Moreland said
those words, spoken by his 3-
year-old daughter, made it all
worth while.
Mr. Moreland. 30. is in jail
on a child-stealing charge.
He's accused of taking the
little girl, Sancie Ann, from
the communicable disease ward
at General Hospital where she
was being treated for en
cephalitis (sleeping sickness).
Mr. Moreland said he took
the child from the hospital be
cause he was convinced she
was not receiving proper care.
; “She couldn’t talk at all the
night I carried her down the
fire escape,” he said.
“A week later, she said her
first words. She said: “‘Daddy,
I love you.' That was worth all
the trouble.”
Mr. Moreland, a construction
worker, said he took the girl
to La Mesa and later to Chula
Vista, where he treated her
and saw that she had medical
care.
“I gave her what she needed
most—love,” he said.
Within two weeks. Mr. More
; land said. Sancie Ann was able
to walk again and he took a
, job at a Chula Vista roofing
plant.
Police arrested him and re-
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■ U. S. Now Set
■ To Open Talks
' Russian Action
Clears the Air
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I By BERNARD GWERTZMAN
, Star SUH Writer
j High United States officials,
pleased by the Soviet govern
> ment s release of Prof. Fred
. erick C. Barghoorn. today said
the way is clear for beginning
of the postponed talks on a
new cultural exchange agree
,,'ment.
( American officials and edu-
■ cators had been scheduled to
i. leave for Moscow this week
F for talks beginning next Tues
i day on a third renewal of the
exchange agreement.
" The arrest of Dr. Barghoorn,
s a specialist in Soviet affairs
" at Yale University, led Presi
t dent Kennedy on Thursday to
8 order an indefinite postpone
e ment in the talks.
Mr. Kennedy, at his press
’ conference Thursday, asserted
ie that Prof. Barghoorn was not
* a spy and that his arrest periled
a the future of the United States-
Soviet cultural relations.
Officials here said that the
■" y Russians had removed the
in roadblock to the talks by com
es plying with the United States
st Government’s demand that Dr.
in Barghoorn be released.
lg Frank G Slscoe. director ol
*' the Soviet and Eastern Euro
°> pean exchanges staff was out
of town today and therefore
officials thought it unlikely
that any definite announce
il ment on the talks would be
.- made before Monday Mr. Sis-
II coe heads the operations of the
o exchanges and was scheduled
d to conduct negotiations in Mos
cow along with United States
r Ambassador Foy D. Kohler.
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? 20 From Iron Curtain
v Seek Turkish Asylum
s ISTANBUL. Turkey. Nov. 16
y iAP>.—lnformed sources said
e about 20 Iron Curtain residents
g have fled a Soviet cruise ship
- and have asked political asy
lum in Turkey.
0 The ship, the Pobeda (Vic
-5 tory) was on a Black Sea
cruise carrying many of the
p elite of the Communist world.
q She sailed for home late yes
» terday after Turkish political
’ police refused to return the
“ refugees. Sources said among
those who fled were two Rus
sians, two Poles, three Hun
d garians and three East Ger
-3 mans.
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1 ROBERT J. MORELAND
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1 turned father and daughter to
a Los Angeles. The girl was put
r in Juvenile Hall while Mr.
Moreland went to jail.
d Mi - . Moreland faces the
child-stealing charge because
. Sancie Ann was made a ward
e of the court when her parents
a were divorced last December,
g "I love the child.” he said.
“I am her father. I want her
;- with me.”
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TV Radio B-ll
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Dr. Barghoorn
Flies Io London
From Moscow
Reds Cite Kennedy's
'Personal' Concern
Over Spy Charges
MOSCOW, Nov. 16 (AP).—
The Soviet Union today re
leased Yale Prof. Frederick C.
Barghoorn. Mr. Barghoorn was
placed aboard a plane bound
for London, "expelled” by the
Russians, who said his release
came as a result of President
Kennedy’s "personal concern”
in the case.
The plane carrying Mr.
Barghoorn arrived in London
at about 12 noon (EST) after
a non-stop flight from Mos
cow.
But the Russians stuck by
their claim that Mr. Barghoorn
was a spy and that they had
enough evidence to bring him
to trial in a Soviet court.
Mr Barghoorn was placed
aboard a British plane barely
four hours after Foreign Min
ister Andrei A. Gromyko in
formed the United States Em
bassy’s Minister Counselor,
Walter Stoessel, that he was
being released.
Sharp U. S. Reaction
The 51-year-old professor, a
Soviet affairs specialist at
Yale, was arrested sometime
around the end of October and
charged with espionage. Amer
ican officials were not in
formed of the arrest until last
Tuesday.
United States reaction was
immediate and violent. Presi
-1 dent Kennedy ordered post
ponement of negotiations with
the Russians for a two-year ex
s tension of cultural agreements.
1 The Russians appeared shocked
t by the United States reaction.
1 Although informed that Mr.
■ Barghoorn was to be expelled.
United States Embassy officials
e did not receive word of the
e time of his departure. It was
' purely by accident that two
,s United States officials hap
r - pened to be at the airport when
a green sedan bearing Mr.
'* Barghoorn arrived with five
' or six Russian plainclothes
‘ men.
e
y Waiting for Kohler
• i Mr. Stoessel and another Em
-5 bassy official, James A. Klem
‘ stine, had gone to the airport
; to meet Ambassador Foy D.
’ Kohler, returning from a 24-
’ hour trip to Copenhagen. They
! learned that Mr. Barghoorn
had been taken to a little room
to be shipped out on a British
European Airways plane forced
to lie over 24 hours because of
bad weathfiT-
Soviet authorities indicated
they had tried to notify the
' American Embassy of Mr.
1 Barghoorn’s departure but due
1 to some unexplained "mixup”
1 the notification never did get
through.
All other passengers were
first put aboard the plane, then
■ Mr. Barghoorn was driven di
rectly to the ramp, accom
panied by the plainclothesmen.
He wore a gray coat, gray
; scarf and a soft-brimmed hat.
' He carried an airplane bag.
another small canvas bag and
a black umbrella.
Wished Pleasant Journey
Witnesses who saw him get
aboard said he showed no signs
of strain. He shook hands
with one of the men he ac
companied, then said, "Good
by.”
One of the men with him
replied in English:
"Goodby. Pleasant journey.”
In London British European
Airlines said the plane from
Moscow was due at London
See BARGHOORN, Page A-3
Ghana Official Slain
On Trip to Interior
ACCRA, Ghana. Nov. 16 < AP >.
—Ghana's Deputy TYade Min
ister. Michael Darko-Sarkwa,
was slain yesterday at the town
of Akwatia, 59 miles northwest
of Accra, police sources reported
today.
Details were not immediately
available.
Mr. Darko-Sarkwa. 48, had
gone with Trade Minister A. Y.
K. Djin to open a diamond
marketing office in the area.
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