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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17
Racket Probe
Starts Feb. Is
Start Feb. Is
By JAMES 7. NEWTON

The special Senate committee
investigating racketeering in la
Dor and industry will begin pub
lie hearings February IS with an
inquiry concerning activities Of
the Ia million-member Team
sters Union in Portland. Ore.
Subject Of the Portland hear
ings involve alleged efforts Of
local Transfers officials to take
over the city police department
as well as connections with gam
bling and prostitution rings.
The big rackets investigation.
headed by Senator Mcclellan.
Democrat of Arkansas, is ex-
pected to last more than a year.
Investigators have leads" on
racketeering that will take them
to most Of the major cities Of
the country.
While the Transfers, the
country's largest union. is the
major early target of the
select eight-member committee,
charges filed with the group in
volve a member Of other labS-
organizations, as well as collu-
sion between unions and en-
ployers.
To Check Paper" Locals
In fact. q committee source
said that leads have been COM
ing In so fast from all over the
country that 1t was impossible
to tell at the moment Just how
extensive the investigation will
be.
Early In the hearings the COM
mittee will look into charges
that the International Team
|sters chartered seven paper"
locals in New York City in an
effort to swing a city-wide union
election to a favored candidate.
New codes Of ethical conduct
approved by the AFL-CIO. with
which the Transfers Is afiiliated,
condemn the practice Of setting
UP paper" locals, whereby
charters are issued to individuals
before there are any members In
the locals.
In some instances the charters
have fallen into the hands Of
underworld elements and that
was alleged in the Transfers
New York situation. However,
Transfers of1iciais claim that not
only do all their New York locals
now have members, but that they
are clean"
James r. Hoffa. OF Detroit,
Teamsters vice president and
Midwest boss. was expected to
figure prominently in the New
York investigation, as will John
Dioguardi Johnny Dio), hood
lum now under indictment In
connection with the acid-blind-
ing Of Victor Riesel. labor
columnist.
To Call Sam Berger
Another witness viii be Sam
Berger. fired several days ago
as manager of a New York local
OF the International Ladies Gar.
ment Workers Union. His resig-
nation was requested by Union
President David Dubinsky after
he had pleaded the Fifth
Anne sdment before a grand jury
investigating racketeering.
Rackets committee sources
say that Dio and Berger owned
q flower business together, and
that Berger first interested Do
in the labor movement in 1850.
Committee aides, it was
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Civil Rights Questions
Protested by BrowneII
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as the queries were not "degrad-
ing or insulting"
Question Finally Withdrawn
Senator Erwin broke in to ex-
plain that 1--WE don't imply Prcsi-
dent Eisenhower is going TO call
out the militia or use the Army
and Navy to enforce orders
against segregation" He insisted,
however. that the questions were
pertinent because the old law
still exists and conceivably could
be used to enforce future court
orders.
!. Mr.. Young finally withdrew the
questions. He offered to appear
personally next week as a wit
ness to tell why he thought the
presidential power under the Re-
construction era law was GER
maine to discussion Of the pro-
posed civil rights legislation.
Perhaps it would be more sp-
propriate if I testified and if the
Attorney General were not SUBJ
Jected to questioning by staff
employe," Mr.. Young said.
Mr.. Brownell then was ex-
eased, at least temporarily.
Despite Senator Ervin's expla-
nation that he was engaged SOLE
" in IAN educational process
BY questioning witnesses at
great length. Senator Hruska,
Republican of Nebraska, served
notice he would object strenu-
ously if he became convinced
that such prolonged questioning
amounted to a filibuster.
Talmadge Takes Stand
Senator Talmadge. Democrat
OF Georgia. testified at the sub
committees afternoon session.
His prepared statement had been
released Friday but in the course
Of questioning by Senator Wat
kins. Republican of Utah, he
asserted that civil rights viola
tons in Georgia were greatly ex-
aggerated.
He charged that most com.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17
His Condition Good
After 7-Story Drop

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 10 R.-
A 31-year-old man was reported
in good condition at Allegheny
General Hospital today after
falling seven stories in an ele-
vator used in the construction
Of buildings.
Robert Jones OF Pittsburgh
suffered only a jaw fracture and
wrist laceration In the fall FRI
day. Police said a cable broke
on the elevator. which is peing
used In construction Of the. new
Bell Telephone Co. buildif
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17
STEVENSON
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COnt1nue0 from FIST rage
This is the sorry harvest Of ap-
peasing and provoking the
Arabs; Of misleading and exas-
perating our best friends"
Mr.. Stevenson said he was glad
the President "at least admitted
what we Democrats had been
shouting for over a year-that
we are in plenty Of trouble in
the Middle East" he said. How
ever, Mr.. Eisenhower asked for
authority he already possessed
when he asked Congress for a
resolution authorizing the use of
force II necessary to resist COM
munist aggression in the Middle
East.
Seen IS "SettIed Policy"
II thought resistance to Com
|munist aggression had been the
settled policy Of the United
States for a decade" he said,
land that Greece and Turkey
and Korea were the best evil
|dences Of it.
And. / trust that the Presi-
dents resolution wasn't intended
to limit our resistance to Com
munist aggression to the Middle
East alone"
The resolution. he said, looks
less to me like a serious approach
to the real problems of that area
than another example Of Madi-
son avenue diplomacy to dis
tract public attention from the
Administrators failure"
"As some Of you may have
noticed, something happened on
my way to the White House
again." he said. but / haven't
lost heart"
Western Results Cited
He said the record Of the cleo
ton entities the Democrats of
the West--where the party made
its only gains in Congress-to a
louder voice In party affairs than
ever before.
Why did Democratic candi-
dates run so well in the West?
Mr.. Stevenson attributed the
showing to ''young. aggressive
State parties"
The party's titular chief urged
Democrats not to succumb to the
belief they can win in 1858 and
1860 by "a base on balls" The
Republican candidate. he said.
will be hard to beat.
Mr.. Stevenson said the Demo-
cratic Party must pick its issues,
stand by them. fight for them.
Not only in the Hobbies and
cloakrooms of Congress. but
everywhere and all the time and
by all Of u.s."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17
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would be 1.400 miles away from
its parent body and its chiefs.
the surgeons general of the
three services.
2. An inter-service agency. 1t
would be based on post OPP
Grated exclusively by only one
Of the services.
8. AS some observers have
noted, it would be lin the mid
die of nowhere"-certainly re-
mote from an international tour
list mecca like the Nations Capt.
tai.
4. Many Of the exhibits-es-
pecially the historical relics
are closely Unidentified with the
growth Of the city as the seat
of Federal government.
S. Its usefulness to the many
medical and scientific agencies
and organizations conferred
around Washington would all
but end.
In Two Sections
The medical museum actually
consists Of two parts. One is a
teaching section located in the
Armed Forces Institute Of Path
ology building. The downtown
branch" aside from augment
ing the uptown function serves
exclusively for the information
and education of the general
public.
The museum was created q
year after the outbreak of the
Civil War by a far-sighted Army
surgeon general. William A..
Hammond. His purpose was to
get specimens and records of
wounds and diseases in an eff
fort to find ways Of reducing the
mortality rate among the troops.
The first exhibits. according
to old accounts, were three
dried and vanished specimens
on a little shelf above the ink
stand Of the curator" Nobody
knows what they were. although
they're still probably kicking
around in the collection some
where.
The original purpose is clearly
reflected in the exhibit halls as
they exist today. Prominent
among the displays are Civil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17

plants Of that kind originated
in Northern States and ARE used
by politicians to try to get Negro
votes in big cities" He denied
that Negroes face undue Diff
Iculties in voting in Georgia or
that they lack ample opportunity
to obtain redress in State as well
as Federal courts.
The tension between Attorney
General Brownell and Senator
Erwin started building up almost
as soon as Mr.. Brownell resumed
his testimony yesterday morning.
The North Carolina Senator
suggested q possibility that under
the proposed civil rights bill.
some officials of the Justice De-
partment could get inside infor-
nation from confidential FBI
reports and use 1t as background
for public testimony.
BrOwnell Is "Nettled"
Mr.. Brownell said he was "a
bit nettled by the inference" that
any Justice Department official
would make improper use Of FBI
material which ordinarily is clas-
isified. He promised he would do
everything he could to give the
committee information obtained
by the FBI concerning COM
lplaintS Of civil rights violations
in some Southern States. This
would depend on whether he can
obtain the consent of the origi-
nal compliments to disclosure
Iof such material, he said.
Still another line of question:
ing by Senator Erwin dealt with
Ia provision in the administra-
tons bill that would allow the
Attorney General to seek Fed
eral court remedies such as in
functions even without the con-
sent Of individual citizens d.
rectly affected.
Mr. Brownell declared that
such power would be in line with
similar authority which the JUS
tice Department already has in
% statutes including the anti
trust laws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-17
District May Face Loss
Museum

War weapons and actual ex-
amples Of some Of their effects
Pathological specimens are not
by any means all that the mu,
scum has to offer. Educationa
units with models. pictures ane
written explanations tell particu'
lar stories. Exhibits are loanee
out to organizations and scien.
tific shows. Motion pictures deal
ing with some aspect of rnedi'
cine are shown free to the public
every Sunday.
Now Taking Inventory
Documents. many in that beau
tiful longhand Of the last cen.
fury. record some Of the early
observations Of military medi'
cine. Items Of historical Interest
abound. such as the worlds
largest collection Of microscopes
the bullet which killed Lincoln
q section Of Garfield's spine pen.
etrated by his assassin's bullet
a rare set of Revolutionary Wal
surgeons tools which look more
like an iceman's gear than any.
thing else.
To house the $4,000 articles
adequately, an estimated $4,000
square feet Of space would be
required. Using the GSA cost
per-foot gauge. a new museum
of that size would cost about 81
million.
At the moment the museum
staff is engaged In taking a COM
plete new inventory of its pos
sessions. This is a first step
toward preparing budget iusti-
flcations for new building.
Although Institute officials
seem reasonably content with
the structure they must newt
ably vacate. 1t is generally agreed
that q permanent Washington
home is needed for the museum
alone. scarcely less than for its
scientific partner. the medical
library.
When the museum gets its
eviction notice. an anticipated
Is months to three years from
now, it will have been Its fiftn
Aside from the unlovely tempo
it now occupies. the museum has
been housed in a bank building,
q one-time store. q schoolhouse,
a theater and an Anticipated
Federal building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-15
Green to Return
To Senate Soon
By the Associated Press

Senator Green, Democrat OF
Rhode Island, who entered
Bethesda Naval Hospital Fri
day after what his aides de-
scribed as a touch Of heat ex-
haustion." was expected back
in his Offices late today or early
tomorrow. ~ u
Hes feeling just fine today. "
a secretary said. Hes going
to check in with us later to
tell us whether he'll be in to.
day or tomorrow.
The 89-year-old chairman OF
the Foreign Relations Commit
tee collapsed while attending
a reception at the Embassy OF
Pakistan. He later walked into
the hospital without assistance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-15
Mon Disurmed
By Wife in Staying

BRISTOW. Okla. July is up.
"A 36-year-old farm wife beat
her eStranged husband with a
brick and helped disarm him
at their home yesterday after
her father was slain by a shot
gun charge fired from ambush.
Sheriff Travis Aston said Mrs.
Ollie Stevens told him she at
tackled Lloyd Stevens. 40. after
he had killed her father and
advanced toward her with a
shotgun.
Stevens is being treated at a
hospital here for head injuries.
Mrs. Stevens was wounded in
the left hip by shotgun pellets.
She also is hospitalized. but
attendants said she would re-
cover.
Sheriff Aston said Mrs.
Stevens told him Stevens. who
had been ordered by Superior
Court to stay away from the
family home. appeared at the
farm Saturday night. Mrs
Stevens and her two daughters.
Is and II. left home and spent
the night at the home of her
father, Charley Brewer. 60.
Mr.. Brewer escorted Mrs.
Stevens and her daughters back
home yesterday morning. AS his
pickup truck rolled into the
yard, Stevens leaped from be-
hind a tree and shot him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-15
Typhoon Weukens,
Headed for Chino

MANILA. July is (P.-Ty-
phoon Wendy slowed down to
merely storm proportions over
the south China Sea today. It
headed for the Red mainland
after a romp through five
rich agricultural provinces en-
northern Luzon that caused
heavy crop damage.
Still packing 70-mile-an-hour
winds, the storm continued its
northweSterly course 1t was
expected to hit the China coast
between Hong Kong and
Swatow.
Strong winds battered the
Nationalist Chinese bastlon of
FormoSa as the storm roared
toward the mainland. But there
were no reports of casualties or
heavy damage on the island.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-15
Editor in Clinton
Gets News Award

CARBONDALE. ILL.,, July II
(R.-Horace v. Wells, jr., ed
itor of the Clinton (Tenn.)
Courier-News, today received
the 1857 Elijah p. Lovejoy
award for courage in jour-
nalism.
Mr.. Wells accepted the
award. a bronze plaque honor
ing an Alton GILL abolitionist
editor killed by a mob in 1897
at a third national conference
of weekly newspaper editors
sponsored by Southern Illinois
University's Journalism depart.
ment.
DR.. Howard Long, depart.
ment chairman. said Mr.. Well:
devoted himself to the princi.
Piles of law and order while
subjected to the scorn anc
abuse Of a large segment oil
his community"
Mr.. Wells in March received
the Green Eyeshade award pre-
sented by Atlanta's Chapter OF
Sigma Delta Chi. professional
journalism fraternity. 1t cited
his contributions to journalism
in the best tradition of the
profession"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-15

enabled the committee to keep
the House bill indefinitely,
whereas Senator Morse is now
proposing a two-week time
limit. It would require a
switch Of only four votes in the
earlier roll call to send the bill
to committee.
Three Bl0es Seen
The Senate appears to be
lining up into three blocs on
the civil rights issue. namely /:
Northern liberals, who want no
change in the House bill: Dem
ocrats from the deep South,
who want no bill at all, and a
group of moderate in both
parties who favor a middle
course.
The latter group appears to
be gaining strength, and may
eventually win. Although the
Southerners will vote against
even an emended bill, on the
ground that the Federal gov
eminent is intruding on States
rights. they probably would try
to avoid a last-ditch filibuster
against a modified right-to-vote
bill.
Senator Mundt. Republican
of South Dakota. took the long,
est step toward compromise
Saturday. when he prepared a
substitute, limiting injmctions
to voting rights. allowing jury
trials where questions of fact
exist, and curbing the subpoena
power Of the new Civil Rights
Commission.
Douglas, Javits UnyieIding
But the weekend comments
OF Senator Douglas and Repub-
lican Senator's JavitS of New
York and Potter of Michigan
indicate friends of the House
bill will fight hard against any
major curtailment of its pro-
visions.
Senator Douglas said Part 8
should be kept in the bill to
provide additional means of
enforcing what he called good
decisions of the Supreme
Court on school integration
and other civil rights.
mo one with any sense is
going to try to enforce integra-
ton in the common schools of
Mississippi now" said Senator
Douglas, "but if this, bill can
be passed as it is. it should
help progress in that direction
in some of the border States "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-15
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paign on the school segregation
issue.
"All along" said Mr.. Almond.
Il have had every confidence
that Bob Whitehead would
make his own decision and be
guided in arriving at that de-
cision by that which he con-
Sidered best for the party and
best for Virginia.
However one might disagree
with him, no one could ever
question his loyalty to the prin-
Iciples Of the Democratic Party.
OF course l am gratified with
his decision which he has based
on very cogent reasoning"
Stephens Delighted
Mr.. Stephens said:
Il am delighted at Bob
Whitehead's decision and felt
all along he could take no other
course as a loyal and consistent
Democrat"
State Senator Ted Dalton of
Radford. the Republican NOM
inee for Governor. said Mr..
Whitehead's withdrawal re-
moves from the campaign the
most skillful and best informed
debater / know on State affairs.
l consider Robert Whitehead
one of the ablest Virginians of
my time"
Mr.. Whitehead advocates pu-
pill assignment by localities as
the best defense for segregated
schools. the same approach ia
vored by Senator Dalton.
On July S. between the NOM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-15
MURRAY CITED
BY q MEMBERS
OF GRAND JURY

Police Chief Robert v.
Murray today received this
letter signed by % members
of the May grand jury:
I'VE the members of the
May. 1857, grand jury
compliment you on the
performance of the Metro
politan Police Force. The
members of the force who
have testified before US,
typify alertness. conscien-
tiousneSs and a wholesome
concern for the human APP
proach to their duties.
I'VE have been impressed
en- numerous occasions by
the dispatch with which
the force has solved crimes
a d apprehended Grim
inalS.
I'VE feel that the citizens
of the District of Columbia
are fortunate in having the
services of such a COM
petent police force"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-15
Big Concessions Banned
BY KnowIond on RIGHTS

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belief that the Senate was
"shackled and handcuffed" and
could do nothing but accept
the House bill without crossing
a 1T" or doting an 81" Or reject
it altogether.
He called attention to the
many notifications that have
oeen suggested and said the way
has been paved for ''meaningful
action"
Mcnamara Adamant
Senator Mcnamara, Demo.
crat Of Michigan. opened TO-
days debate with a charge
that the principal motive Of
the compromise seekers is &C
gut this bill Of any effective
ness"
He said the diehard op-
ponents of the bill will vote
against it even if it is strip.
ped down to the enacting
clause, and added:
Their compromise feelers
amount to proposals Of APP
peasement-of surrender even
before parliamentary debate
begins-exacted by the threat
that the debate will never
end"
Technically. the debat. thus
fan has been on Senator
Knowland's motion. A vote on
1t is assured tomorrow, and
even about foes of the bill
concede the motion will carry
The Senate has agreed to
call the roll of those present
at 4 pm. tomorrow, and then
allow not more than two hours
of debate before voting on the
motion.
Anderson View Encourages
Senator johnson told the
Senate it seems "very likely
the opposing sides will net take
that much time after the roll
call. and that a vote by 5 pm
is possible.
Southern leaders were en-
couraged yesterday when Sen
ator Anderson, Democrat of New
Mexico. a supporter of civil
rights legislation. said he has
become convinced the House
measure is too stringent"
Senator Anderson came out
for elimination of the much
discussed Part 3 of the bill
which would enable the Attor-
ney General to get civil court
injunctions in all types of civil
rights cases. Most Of those who
are talking compromise want
the Injunction process limited
to voting rights.
But Senator Douglas. DEM
ocrat Of Illinois. a leading ad-
vocate of the House bill. said he
will fight any move to eliminate
part 3.
Last month, when the bill
arrived from the House, the
Senate refused by a vote of
As to SO to let it go to the
Judiciary Committee, because
that group has failed to act on
a similar measure since jan
uary.
But that motion would have
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-15

OF the school where a group OF
people was gathered.
He asked me what 1 was
going to do about keeping Me-
groes out of Clinton High
School" Mr.. Britain said.
Il told him 1 could not dc
anything because of the court
order to integrate.
MIR. Kasper told me that in
other places Negroes had not
been accepted into schools.
l said those places wereS not
under court order.
"KaSper asked me again what
l was going to do. I told him
l had three courses. to obey the
law, to disobey the law or to
resign my job. l intended to
obey the law. told him.
"Kasper told me they'd kick
me out Of that school before
the year was over or they'd
kick the Negroes out, one" The
principal testified that unrest
the following two weeks re-
suited in the reduction in en-
rollment from about 800 at the
start of the term to about sc
at the end Of the first week in
September.
The trouble. he said, wa.
confined principally to outside
the school. BY the middle oil
September. he said. student.
started coming back to schoo
until there were finally about
$50 in attendance on an aver.
age day.
From September until late ir
November. I'VE operated a.
normally as a school can oper.
ate under those conditions.
Mr.. Britain went on.
There were no problems unit
the latter part Of November. ;
he said. Then in November anc
December we had more con.
centrated internal problem,
than in any other comparable
period.
White students in the hall,
were wearing badges thai
stated. Keep White School:
White"
On November %. Mr.. Brit.
tain said. Negro students die
not attend school. This was
the first time in the school year
that no Negro students were in
attendance, he explained. The
mass absence continued through
the following Monday. Deem
Der 3.
At the conclusion OF Mr.. Brit
tain's testimony. defense law
yers moved for the general ex-
clusion Of his testimony as not
being competent evidence as to
charges against the Clinton "a.
Judge Taylor rejected this mo-
ton, and also more specific
motions concerning individual
points in Mr.. Brittain's testi-
lmony.