Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1960, Page 1

¥ . Full Report > THE WEATHER: [l District and vicinity—Clear and cool to- night, low near 60. Mostly sunny and con- tinued- pleasant tomorrow, high near 80. High and low, temperatures of the last 24 hours: High, 92, at 3:40 p.m. yesterday; low, 68, at 7:10 a.m. today. 108th Year. No. 177. Phone LI. 3-5000 ‘TORNADO’S JOY RIDE Violent winds lifted this auto in Gwynedd, Pa., early today and slammed it against the home occupants of the house of John Dickinson. The tornado blew off the story on Page A-2.)—AP WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURD, roof of the house and carried it 300 feet. Four WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION AY, JUNE 25, 1960—38 PAGES 51 Killed in Of Brazil Airliner ¢ Fhening Star Home Delivered: Daily and Sunday, per month, $1.95 Saturday Final Real Estate, Pages B-1-14 5 CENTS Crash House Unit 0K | McMillan Plan For D. C. Awaits Floor Action By SAM EASTMAN Star Staff Writer A bill to raise Washington's |general sales tax from 2 to 3 |per cent was reported today by |the House District Commitee. The measure, sponsored by |Chairman McMillan and op- {posed by the Commissioners |and the city’s major business organizations, is scheduled to go to the House floor on | Monday. | The bil was reported at an executive session today with 16 members present. A committee spokesman said he “thought” there had been one opposing |vote. Committee members had isaid Mr. McMillan, Democrat | escaped injury. (See Wirephoto. Herter Rejects Korea Is Still Hotspot Atiacks on Trip Despite 7-Year Truce Reds Mark War Anniversary With New Demand for Pullout TOKYO, June 25 (AP).—The free world was reminded today—the 10th anniversary of the Korean War—that the armistice which ended the fighting in 1953 had not solved its problems. The Communists observed the anniversary with a new demand that United States troops pull out of South Korea and other parts of Asia S as well. that the Korean war was a While all was quiet on the Communist victory. | military front, North Korea.| Communists in other parts of supported by the Communist the world joined the North world, trumpeted its demand Korean cry as they proclaimed for a United States pullout in a “joint struggle” to drive the rallies, over press and radio and United States out of South in a meeting with U. N. com- Korea. mand represéntatives near Pan- In Hanoi, capital of North munjom, where the Korean Viet Nam, 10,000 persons truce was signed. gathered yesterdsy and adcpted a resolution demanding that General Retorts “United States imperialism get But on the Western side, out of South Korea and South Gen. I. D. White, commander in Viet Nam.” v chief of the United States Army| In Japan, pro-Communist in the Pacific, issued a retort. Koreans held anti-American In a war anniversary state- rallies at 60 places throughout ment, the four-star general, the country. Defends President, Admits Some Error By the Assoclated Press Secretary of State Herter says criticism aimed at the ad- ministration after cancellation of President Eisenhower’s visit to Japan “smacks a bit of the hypereritical.” Mr. Herter, in a letter to Sen- ator Wiley, Republican of Wis- Wiley Defends President on Swmmit, Page A-3 consin, defended Mr. Eisen- hower's determination to go ahead with the trip, despite riotous demonstrations in Japan, up until the time the Japanese government felt com- pelled to withdraw the invita- tion. “It is neither in the charac- ter of the President nor in the true spirit of America to turn and run when trouble looms ahead,” Mr. Herter wrote. “Perhaps, had the Japanese government realized before our President left the United States that the domestic tur- moil would reach menacing proportions, they would have withdrawn their invitation earlier. “But this I emphasize: The President would definitely have proceeded, these disturbances notwithstanding, had the in- vitation not been withdrawn.” Mr. Eisenhower already was in the Philippines when the in- vitation for his scheduled three- | day visit to Japan was with- whose troops guard the truce front, warned against bowing to such a demand. “Our stand in Korea ‘made clear to all that democracy and freedom are not mere words we speak but a concept of gov-| ernment and a way of life for which we will fight to death,” Gen. White said. “The continued physical pres- ence of armed United States, United Nations and ROK troops along the demilitarized zone and elsewhere in Korea is a mighty deterrent to further ag- gression. Equally as important as the maintenance of our, strength is our proven deter- Lloyd Discounts Any Rift Between Soviet, Red China VIENNA, Austria, June 25 (AP).—Foreign Secretary Sel- wyn Lloyd of Britain cautioned the western world today against drawing comfort from the apparent policy rift be- tween the Soviet Union and Communist China on the ques- tion of peaceful coexistence. President Quits Hawaii Today Drafts TV Speech Today’'s action by the com- Defendmg T"p mittee apparently erases any HONOLULU, June 25 (AP). hope by city officials that Mr. —President Eisenhower ends McMillan would relent in his his six-day Hawaiian rest stop rg)?:;sition to the city’s tax pro- today and flies back to Wash- ~ A}l byt one of the District's ington to report to the Ameri- proposed tax raises — an in- can people on his controversial crease from $2.30 to $2.50 in Far Eastern journey. the real estate ]‘abel—would re- uire : The President is reported to 9”“, Cg;':‘,:g:f;:’::l ;:vpero::l' have drafted a hard-hitting thority to adopt an increased speech denouncing the Com- |real estate rate. munists for plotting with young| The six apparently dead tax Japanese students to block his rise proposals are to increase visit to Tokyo. the individual income levy, by refuelin, Travis Air lowering the taxable income Fo::;er];a;»w:n gcztlirurnim he brackets from $5,000 to $2,000: is due to arrive at Andrews ehmmnu_nn of exempuon_s to Air Force Base about 8 a.m. to- | !he unincorporated business morrow, two weeks from the Iranchise tax, to take in self- day he set off on his 23,000- employed professional persons mile good will trip. and others; an increase from of South Carolina, had empha- sized that no information should be given out on this point. The bill was proposed by Mr. McMillan as a substitute for the Commissioners' recom- mended seven-point tax pro- gram. ‘ Package Hope Dim ¥ . 2 to 3 cents in the cigaretie His 30 - minute television- tax: 5 rise from $1.25 to $1.50 radio report to the Nation will per gallon on liquor; doubling originate from his White House the $1.50 per barrel tax on office at 7:30 p.m. Monday. beer, and extending the 2 per cent sales tax to local telephone service. Grocery Levy Stands Mr. McMillan's bill would raise the general sales tax from 2 to 3 per cent, but would not change the city’s 1 per cent Annoyed by Criticism Mr. Eisenhower is reported annoyed at the barrage of at- tacks on'his Far East mission by leading Democrats who have joined in blasting his inability to visit riot-ridden Tokyo as Salts Lok o trccories a biow to American prestige. Mr. McMillan’s measure may To meet this assault, Mr. Ei- have rough sailing during the senhower is understood to have closing days of Congress. Op- focused his speech on his con- ponents on the Senate District tention that the visits he was/Committee include Senator able to make—the Philippines, Morse, Democrat of Oregon, Formosa and Korea — were who is against all sales taxes. “completely successful” in At yesterday's hearing, Com- See EISENHOWER, Page A-2 See BUDGET, Page A-11)| Sales Tax Rise Grill Explosion Kills To3Pct. Gels Alexandria Attorney Richard 8. Luckett, jr., 38- year-old Alexandria attorney, died today from burns suffered when a geyser of flame en- veloped him as he was light- ing his backyard grill with an alcohol shellac thinner. Mr. Luckett poured the thin- ner from a gallon can onto the charcoal in his brazier and the fluid exploded. Neighbors who rushed to his home at 311 Park road when they heard the explosion at 5:30 last night theorize the thinner was ignited by hot coals in the brazier. Wife Beat at Flames Mr. Luckett, dressed lightly in shorts and sports shirt, was ‘enveloped in the flames which shot out of the can. His wife Virginia attempted to beat out the flames and then urged him to roll down the sloping back yard. 4 Despite his agony and shock, Mr. Luckett followed his wife's instructions. Joseph M. Man- ning of 1319 South Walter Reed drive, Arlington, who was vis- iting next door to the Luck- etts, found Mr. Luckett lying on the lawn still aflame when Le arrived. Mr. Manning beat out the rest of the flames. Battalion Chief Milton T. Penn of the Alexandria Fire Harold Kill Faces July 6 Hearing Melvin Davis Rees, jr., 31, was in Federal custody in Memphis, Tenn,, today, awaiting a hear- ing on July 6 in connection with the murder of Margaret V. Harold. The former Air Force man and University of Maryland student was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion in West Memphis, Ark., yesterday on a specific charge of “unlawful flight to avoid prosecution” in connection with the Harold slaying, which oc- curred in 1957 near Annapolis. He is now being held under $50,000 bond. Rees was arrested in, the Arkansas town across from Memphis, Tenn., where he w. working as a piano salesman A nightclub singer who identi- fied herself as Mrs. Rees blamed his implication in the Anne Arundel murder on an “insanely jealous former musician friend,” who accused her husband of the slaying in a letter written two years ago. Warrant Issued in Baltimore In Baltimore, United States Commissioner Ernest Volkart said he issued the fugitive war- rant against Rees yesterday, based, on an affidavit by the Federal Bureau of Investiga- 1 American § Aboard; Shipf Falls in Bay E e} RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil |June 25 (AP).—A Brazilian air- |liner with 51 persons aboard § |including at least one Ameri-f&: |can, plunged into Guanaba |Bay last night while approach-§ |ing Rio de Janeiro. Searchf® |teams found parts of bodiesgs |{and wreckage but no survivors. | The twin-engined Convair, ol a 600-mile flight from the new |capital of Brasilia with a mid |way stopover at Belo Horizonte, |was listed as missing nearl: eight hours. The crash was confirmed |early today when navy searc crews found the plane's wreck |age in the bay off the island of} |Paqueta, about 10 miles up the bay from Rio’s Dumont Air. RICHARD S. LUCKETT, JR. port. Later the searchers reported finding parts of bodies andgs pieces of luggage that hadi? floated up on the beach. o # < Department, a friend and neighbor of the Lucketts, who lives nearby at 303 Park road, arrived at the scene shortly | after Mr. Manning. As Chief | Penn leaned over Mr. Luckett, the victim uttered: “Milt, tell them it was alcohol.” Soon afterward, an ambu- lance took Mr. Luckett to Alex- andria Hospital. He died there i at 7:55 a.m. today. T nglo - 0 Both Mr. Manning and Chief fi:‘,:,:: inr:lzelru(i?nio Gs:o);x See LUCKETT, Page A-2 Pfistern, Janet S. Latter and H| &R ! V. Lee. But the line could no confirm their nationalities oy give their addresses. Mr. Thompson's wife told re porters in Rio that her hus band had been in Belo Hori zonte on business. Earlier reports had said th plane might be carrying sev . eral Brazilian Congressmen whq tion that a murder charge is often travel from Brasilia fo pending agains. the suspect. week ends in Rio. It was lates Anne Arundel autherities were learned that only one con awaiting the 12turr. of Capt. gressman—Jose Gomes Talaricq Elmer Hagner from Memphis —had boarded the flight i before proceeding with formal Brasilia. Arriving at Belo Hori filing of the charge. zonte he learned the plang While the FBI made no com- would be delayed. ment on the other four un- ~ “I had to be in Rio early,’ solved murder cases, police in he told newsmen later. “I asked |Prince Georges and Anne |if I could transfer my ticket td Arundel Counties in Maryland another airline leaving soonerf and police in Virginia were | The airline said it could nof going beyond routine reaction make the transfer. I bough on the pickup of a murder another ticket and I'm alive suspect. tonight.” Theyv were _revnewing the Preparing to Land mysb;rlo;x‘s slaym;z of the Jack- Real Airlines said the plan son family in 1959. Mr. and ) Mrs. Carroll V. Jackson lnd‘]e"’ Brasilia with 17 passen > > American Official Aboard Among those listed aboardie L’ was Newton B. Thompson, native of Waterville, Me., whq was an official of the America Bond & Share Electric Co. A spokesman for Real Air nes said the passenger lisi ing Suspect DY DO [their two daughters, Susan 86'S and five crew members aS|Ann, 2, and Janet, 18 months, ¢ Picked up the remainder - |\vanished January including a woman and infant, at Belo Horizonte, halfway be tween Rio and Brasilia. The airlines said Pilot Joad Belloc radioed the Santos Du mont Airport tower shortl: before 6 p.m. He said he wag approaching the landing field at 1,800 feet and was just ove Paqueta Island. Then the radid went dead. Officials at the tower had be lieved at first that the plan had turned off course and gof lost in the heavy fog tha blanketed the area. ; 11, 1959, \while returning to their Apple Grove (Va.) home after visit-| ing relatives. Six weeks later| the bodies of the father and younger daughter were found in a shallow grave 2 miles west of Fredericksburg, Va. Ten days later, near Annap- olis, the bodies of Mrs. Jackson and the other daughter were found buried. Earlier this month, a Fairfax Trash Man Committed County trash man was com- mitted to a Virginia mental drawn. mination to use it when neces- sary. ... “I have noticed the differ- ences of emphasis in the Com- “We know that the enemy munist camp and I find them will attack again whenever and interesting,” he told a news ference yesterday, accused So- wherever he sees weakness and | conference at the end of a viet Premier Khrushchev of‘imzecidsion inst.e?d offlstreylmth three-day visit here. “I think | i .|and determination. How long it would be a mistake, how- | Te:fi:{ingli;mgmbebg St::,e‘;‘isf:g-the threat of attack will last ever, to bet to much on actual | Americans on the choice of NO one knows.” or :lleged slips in the Commu-; nist camp.” % ::eslldl::;\t. voiced confidence Other Bods I | Premier Khrushchev told a| that Japan's basic good will| Reports from Pyongyang said Romanian Party congress this| and alignment with the West 300,000 Koreans gathered in the Week Soviet policy would con- | will continue despite the riot- Red Korean capital in an an-|tinue to be based on peaceful See HERTER, Page A-3 Diversary eve rally yesterday coexistence. Red China agreed, | . and shouted “Yankee-go-home” except that Peiping declares it | demands. is impossible to coexist with Speakers revived war atrocity the United States. \ charges against United States troops and played on the theme Accuses Khrushchev' Mr. Herter in a news con- FOR YOUR DREAM HOUSE WINDOW BURGLAR| | GETS $30,000 IN | Tokyo Mob Shouts cARTIER'S GEMS | . 'Yankee GO Home'; NEW YORK (AP).—A burglar smashed a display TOKYO, June 25 (AP).—| yindqow at Cartier's world Nearly 5,000 pickets chanting| famous jewelry store be- “Yankee go home” marched| fore dawn today, scooped past the American Embassy $30.000 worth of gems ""fj toward Parliament today in sped offin & getaway car, B . In his haste he left in Japan’s 11th ‘“'”'_m day of the splintered glass of the leftwing demonstrations. 18-inch-wide and 35-inch The marchers were blocked| deep window three rings by a solid wall of police 50 worth more than $3,000. yards short of the embassy The thief used a bolt building. They continued to- cutter to shear the padlock ward Parliament and the off a heavy metal grill official residence of Prime protecting a doorwhy and variety of best real estate |Minister Nobusuke Kishi, where, window at the store at offerings by leading build- |some dispersed. Fifth avenue and Fifty- ers and brokers throughout | Some of the demwnstrators, the Washington area. {organized by the Cominunist| second street. He smashed the thick plate glass with a For the home of your Party and leftwing labor unions, sledgehammer. dreams, in the right loca- carried placards demanding a Conrad Nillson, one of tion, at a price you can pullout of American troops| three guards in the four- afford to pay. from Japan and South Korea. story building, said he - | Similar demands were voiced| heard the crash and saw |by a rally of 3,000 pro-Red| the getaway. He fired two | Korean residents of Tokyo, held separately to mark the 10tn shots into the ceiling to summon the other guards. anniversary of the Korean war. 4 THE STAR HOME and REAL ESTATE SECTION TODAY Today and every Saturday shop The Star for a wide SHOP THE STAR BEFORE YOU BUY Hugh O’Brian (left), Niagara Falls Mayor Miller and Moscow Mayor |hospital after Dutch Telepa- thist Peter Herkos fingered him |as a suspect in both the Jack- ison and Harold slayings. Mrs. Harold, a clerk-typist at |Fort Meade, Md., and mother |of two children, was shot |through the head in a parked |ear on a lonely dirt road near |Route 450 in Anne Arundel |County, 12 miles from Annap- glsl,s'xg;mthe afternoon of June was an apparent suicide. She had been sitting in the car with M/Sergt. Roy D. o STOCKS The sergeant said a “tall, IN THE SPOTLIGHT bushy-browed, man” climbed into the parked car, pointed a s 5res ann ovnk higi CLowin snub-nosed revolver at the back price and net change of Mrs. Harold's head and de- 8§ Risme s st Before the couple could re- Am Motr ply, he fired once, killing Mrs, Ky}t help. When he returned, the Unis Min slayer had gone, leaving Mrs, 3401 NJ The Associated Press reported | gaoecr I See HAROLD, Page A-2 LearlInc Plastic Bag Suicide EEHAWKEN, N. J. Jund (AP).—A home economied teacher at Weehawken Hig School who lectured studen recently about the dangers of plastic bags has been found dead, a plasjic bag fastened around her head. Police said Miriam 8. Freud, 62, a widow, 8d Kiymn 4187 30Ys manded money. Motrs Harold. Sergt. Hudson fled for|Com! Solv Harold’s purse containing $91. Marat Gy Gen T&E! | French and Rebels “Set Up Paris Talks AREA ARTISTS Bobrovnikov—before the egg flew.—AP Wirephoto. | TUNIS, June 25 (AP)—A EXHIBIT IN CHURCH! WYATT EARP STANDS BY Red MayorEgged in Canad NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, June 25 (AP).—The Mayor of Moscow was splattered yester- day with a raw egg, thrown by a man believed to be a Lithu- anian refugee, as he posed for pictures during a good-will tour of Canada. Nikolai Bobrovnikov, who was posing with TV's Wyatt Earp, Hugh O’Brian, and two Cana- dian Mayors, was hit squarely on the neck. The egg-thrower, identified by police as Ged Janusomis, 20, was caught after a 10-minute chase through Victoria Park. He was arrested on undisclosed charges and later released on $200 bail. » representative of the Algerian rebel government left for Paris today to set up a conference between rebel Premier Ferhat Abbas and French officials to discuss a truce in the 5'2-year- old rebellion. WASHINGTON AREA ARTISTS exhibit their tolents in media rang- ing from oil painting to architecturs in the third annual Washington Re- ligious Arts Festival at Blessed Sac- rament School. For the festival story and picture, see Page A-6. continued Ahmed Boumendjel, Algerian Gyide for Readers pose for pictures while police director of military and politi- A chased Janusomis, the photog- ¢ affairs, made the trip ac-|Amuse’ts A-14-15 Lost, Found -_A-3 rapher said companied by Ben Yahia, chief Churches __A-6-9 Obituary ._.A-10 Mayor Bobrovnikov made no 8id to Abbas. " [Classified A-15-23 | Real Est...B-1-14 comment on the incident. President Charlies de Gaulle ‘c-'""‘“ G ‘:3 Society— Mayor Miller declined to dis-|has promised the rebel emis- | cioswor ;i Home . lg cuss the incident further, say-|saries safe conduct to France “f ,'1": rbeir Sports __A-12- ing it might “jeopardize inter- and the right to return at any | F9it! Articles A-5/TV.Radic . A-15] national relations.” time. et ] ‘ Mr. O'Brian to EC the death yesterday of MrsB® 5393088 Crbeevt e e ol - R AR E AR NN =z 3 CHANRANAN IR ey s