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Filipino forum. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1928-196?, 1957-02-08
Former Commercial
Atfache Here On
Business Survey

Manuel ). KuSt1a, Pnlllpplne
Commercial Attache to the United
States Bureau of Foreign and Do
nestle Commerce of the Depart
ment of Commerce from 1928 to
1927 when the Secretary was Her
bert Hoover, has been making
business survey since January 8
when he and his wife arrived here
on the CANADA MAIL of the
American Mail Line Mr.. Rustia re-
calls that their office was then in
the Lowman Building and the Dis
trict Manager was Shirl H. Bla-
lock who is now retired and living
in San Francisco.
While in Seattle as appointee of
the late Governor General Leonard
Wood, Mr. Rustia also took up
graduate studies in international
trade and politics at the Univer-
sity of Washington where he re-
ceived his M.B.A. degree in 1925,
later finishing all credits for the
doctorate prior to being trans
ferred to New York City where he
managed the Philippine Govern
ment Commercial Agency until
1881. He later became Assistant Di-
rector and Acting Director of the
Bureau of Commerce in Manila.
In Seattle, Mr. Rustia founded
the first Filipino newspaper in the
Pacific Northwest, the Philippine
Seattle COlOnist. Upon his depar-
ture from Seattle, the present pub
Usher of the FILIPINO FORUM
took over his publication. Mr..
Rustia also ran a Filipino Students
Clubhouse in the University dis
trict with the late Mrs. Jane Gar
rott as house Mother.
Following a stint of about three
years as director of the well-known
Manila department store, AGUIN-
ALDO'S, which he helped to con-
vert to a modern retail institu-
ton, Mr.. Rustia had been in bust
ness prior to the war in advertis-
ing agency work and after the war
in foreign trade. He had been act
i've in teaching in Manila UNIVERSE
ties, retiring in 1945 as Admins
trative Officer of the University of
the Philippines.
He was PROFESSIONAL lecturer in
Economics and International Trade
at the Far Eastern University
University of the East, Philippine
Women's University, Union Col
lege, University of Manila, besides
the University of the Philippines
the State university.
He is now president and general
manager of the firm of the same
name engaged in international
trade with head office in Manila
and branches in Tokyo, New York
and now along the West Coast. His
firms main lines are in building
materials, small machinery anc
/ provisions, mainly wheat flour.
Two sons by a former marriage
are Ernest. a concert-pianist, Alb.
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for 81 years, and has since been elected
each successive term without opposition.
His son Tim has worked in the clerks Of
fee from time to time, but now Is en-
ployed by the State Department.
Mr.. Tom and his wife, the former Eliza
beth Cole Gray, live in a lovely old house,
Oddangles, on the outskirts of Warrenton.
Il started building In 1911" he says, "and
I'm still working on the house. You never
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get through with house"
Oddangles was selected as name be-
cause there isn't a right-angle corner on
the place.
II had peach of German word picked
out that meant about the same thing" he
saws. but the First World War came along
and / couldn't use it.
II haven't the slightest idea now what
it was"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-24
The Bright Teeners
Who Want to Know
By GEORGE FLYNN
Teen Editor Of The star

Every Sunday the Nation watches Jury of teen
ayers toprawer political figures demanding
the individual and partisan stands the issues
o time.
Nine times out of TO- viewers panel of Washington
shooting the questions the Youth Wants to Know
telecaSt
Who are these teenagers? Who chooses them? How do
they seem much How do they feel about their
temporary fame TV personalities?
TEEN went behind the scenes last weeks MIC pro-
ducon of Wants to Know to get the story OF the
typical bright young knot genuses who sit on the shows
panel. -
They're picked by the National Education Association
from high colleges in the Washington area Miss
ntinuedo
ken to Photograph, Page 8.
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Algeria:
New Talks

France confirmed officially last
Thursday that secret negotiations
between. French of1icials and AL
gerian Nationalist have been TAX
ing place in Tunis. capital Of
Tunisia. Premier Habib Bour-
guiba Of Tunisia has long urged
such talks as a means of ending
the bloody revolt in Algeria, which
Paris insists is an integral part
Of metropolitan France.
The Tunis parleys repeatedly
are promised on continued asso-
citation of Algeria with France.
Insistence of the Nationalist on
French recognition of Algerian
political independence has APP
parently been waived in return
for guarantees of French material
and technical assistance to a self
governing Algerian common
wealth,
French Premier Bourges-Maun-
curry won National Assembly
: vote of confidence Friday when his
demand for special powers to end
Algerian rebel terrorism in France
proper was approved $50 to 1873.
An average Of two Algerians a day
have been slain in France in re-
cent weeks in clashes and asSassi-
nations. ascribed to the activities
Of rebel agents.
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Jury Trial Issue

A much larger test will come
after the question of keeping or
junking Part III is settled.
This will involve the jury trial
issue, which has troubled some in
fluential liberals whose pro-civil
rights records are unqueStioned.
The controversial provision.
against which the Southerners
have raised the loudest cutlery
would not permit a jury trial for
defendants charged with flouting
civil rights injunctions.
Although liberal ranks have
broken over the jury trial issue,
Mr.. Eisenhower has not retreated
from his position that the Senate
must retain the provision for try
ing civil rights contempt cases
before court without a jury.
Despite the fact that the South
erners have stated that there can
be no compromise on this point,
1t is this issue that is keeping
would-be peacemakers busiest. 1t
is recognized among these COM
promisers that any olive branch
offered the South in the matter
OF jury trials would be a futile
gesture. But the compromises are
being fashioned to attract nom
Southerners who have Joined the
Southern Senators only on the
issue Of jury trial denial, or have
expressed concern over it.
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Drama and irony

Although the usual bitterness
has been absent from this civil
rights f1ght-which has not
reached filibuster proportions as
yeti nevertheless was not with
out both drama and irony.
On the one hand, there is the
spectacle of the Southerners,
whose political lives might be
threatened if any extension of
the vote upsets the old one-party
system that has continually re-
elected them and to which they
owe their long seniority. They
seem to know that they cannot
win in the end. They can only
fight the good fight as they and
their constituents see it, and
meanwhile make somewhat
plaintive supplication to the
Yankees, as Senator Russell did
when he begged that the Senate
will not take action here which
would deal unjustly with us"
On the other hand. there are
the liberal Northern Democrats.
such as Senators Humphrey and
Douglas. who have been known
more for their advocacy OF civil
rights legislation than anything
else. Now. they are in the po-
sition of having to watch Re-
publicans lead the cause they have
served so long. The Republicans
will claim the credit. Being poll
ticians. they are not unaware that
this issue offers the @. o. p. the
chance to become the majority
party Nationwide by winning the
fealty of the Nations largest mi
nority.
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For-Reoching Effects

The effect of last weeks offer
will be far-reaching. The tax
payer, of course, will pay the high
er interest. Already. the cost OF
carrying the debt amounts to al
most 10 per cent of the entire
budget. 1t now costs about 81 bill
lion more TO carry the debt than
it did in 1852. figured on the basis
Of refunding the entire debt. AS
old issues mature and are ex-
changed for issues at higher rates.
the cost continues to increase.
But the effects Of the new issue
go far beyond what is reflected
in tax bills The cost of time
purchases are likely to climb,
whether the item purchased is a
toaster or home ALREADY vet
eran buying a home on a 30-year
CT loan will pay more in interest
than the amount shown on the
original price tag on the house,.
Small businessmen hoping to
expand also would feel the in
crease If it is reflected in a general
rise in interest rates. For instance.
an independent auto repairman
would find financing the time
purchase Of new piece OF equip
ment more costly than 1t would
have been a few months ago.
emocratic Senator Kerr
charges that this policy OF higher
interest rates, which restricts cred
it. has contributed to imitation.
rather than slowing it. as Mr..
Humphrey once claimed 1t would.
Only last week, the Agriculture
Department blamed higher inter-
est rates for helping TO increase
the production costs Of farmers.
The debt structure. then. is still
far from the overhaul Mr.. Hum
phrey promised in 1883 But the
big troubles are still to come. In
coming Treasury Secretary Robert
B. Anderson faces the problem OF
reflnancing still another $50 bill
lion within the next year. He has
as yet little reason to expect that
he can manage 1t any less ex-
pensively than Mr.. Humphrey.
There was one bright note in
the Government fiscal picture last
week. however II was the an
nouncement that, for the second
year in a row. Uncle Sam had
managed his affairs in the black.
The 1857 fiscal year that ended
on June 80 showed a surplus OF
Sis billion. despite unexpected
increased costs. A similar unfore-
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political hue, the world watches
closely. Last week, with Nikita
Khrushchev's victory over his adj
versaries apparently so secure
that he felt safe in assigning
Georgi Malenkov to q Siberian
power plant instead of a salt
mine, the emerging new look"
was beginning to take shape.
The ebullient MIR. Khrushchev
returned to Moscow from a tri-
umphal tour Of Czechoslovakia on
Tuesday with Premier Nikolai Bull
ganin at his heels. A year ago.
when the two Soviet leaders took
a trip. they went side by side. The
change is significant.
In the course of his journey to
the Czech satellite. Mr.. Khru-
Shchev attacked the West and
capitalism in general, along with
Yugoslavia's Tito and other de
viationists."
But the attacks on the West
were not unqualified. I'VE say to
the capitalist that we must CO.
exist in peace and we think our
system will win because it is SUI
perior," he told an audience IN
Pilsen.
Back in Moscow. Mr.. Khru-
shchev lost no time in tackling
the job of rebuilding Communist
fences. On Thursday. at a "dacha"
outside Moscow, the party chief
met with Vice Presidents Edward
Kardelj and Alesandar Rankovic
of Yugoslavia. Marshal Tito's top
aides; Enver Hoxha, Albanian
Communist boss and arch enemy
of Marshal Tito: Todor Zhivkov,
Bulgarian party secretary, and
others high in the councils of
communism. No details were re-
vealed as to the meetings dis
cussionS, except that the party
xryae InI,,
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Mr.. Humphrey. when he took
Office. saw the answer to a lot of
his problems in a higher rate OF
interest for those who lend to the
Government by buying Govern
ment securities. Consequently, he
raised the interest on long term
Government bonds from the pre-
vailing 27s per cent to 3A per cent.
1t was hoped that holders of obli-
cations that we're near maturity
would exchange them for the
longer-term bonds. At the time
of the offer. the new issue sold
above par. an indication that
buyers would have taken them for
less than 3A4 per cent, had they
been offered for less.
The issue. naturally, was over
subscribed. and the effect of the
higher rate was to force the pre-
vailing rates throughout the
economy to rise. There were nu-
merous side effects. Lenders, for
example. began to prefer conven-
tional mortgage financing to FILA
and VA mortgages. the rate on
which was frozen.
The effect on the problem of
debt management. after the spiral
process was set in motion, was to
cause investors to shy from future
long-term commitments and wait
out the possibility of still further
rate increases. Additionally, the
announcement in 1853 that the
Federal Reserve Board would not
be asked to buy slow-moving bonds
from the Government encouraged
lenders to hold back in expecta-
ton Of higher yield.
Last week the Treasury offered
three short term securities at the
highest rate since the bank holi-
day in 1888 in order to refund
SEA billion worth of issues coming
due in August and October. The
new certificates and notes we're
offered at from 35s per cent to
4 per cent. The offer was made
only to holders of these securi-
ties and was not opened to cash
subscriptions. The legal limit is
"A per cent.
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Federal Pay:
Raise in Offing

Bills to increase the pay Of Fed
eral workers gained ground in
Congress last week, but the wise
civil servant was not quite ready
to count chickens that may never
hatch.
Post Office and Civil Service
Committees in both the House
and the Senate voted for a pay
increase to Government workers
and a raise in veterans pensions
that would cost more than 81
billion.
1t was believed that sentiment
for the increases was strong in
both the House and the Senate,
and that most, II not all. the in
creases would meet majority APP
proval. But there we're two hur-
dies such legislation would have
to surmount:
. A veto threat by Mr.. Eisen-
hover, who has warned that
raise Of such proportion would
lead TO an unbalanced budget for
fiscal 1858 and further imitation.
History has shown, however. that
1t is not difficult TO override a veto
OF pay increase bill.
. Although the House will take
up the measure tomorrow. the
proposal. along with numerous
other items. will become a part OF
the logjam backed up until late
in the session BY the protracted
Senate fight over a civil rights bill.
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gotiations and the gloomy outlook
ascribedto the British and French
delegations. there were still opti-
mists who expect results from the
London meeting. Mr.. Zorin, al
though complaining of Mr. Stas-
sens intention to take three more
weeks to present the American
proposals in 'installments," never
theless continued to take a con-
ciliatory attitude limiting broadly
a willingness to compromise diff
ferenceS.
While the disarmament talks
dragged along in London, the
changing character of modern
warfare was once. again empna-
sized in Washington.
On Tuesday, while Secretary of
State Dulles was telling his news
conference that the United States
was considering the establishment
OF nuclear arms stockpiles in
Western Europe, the White House
ordered cut of 100, 900 men from
the 2.8 million-man armed forces.
The slash was to be effective by
the end Of this year, and the
Pentagon estimates it will save
5000 million. Additional cuts were
forecast.
The plan to furnish European
allies with atomic weapons stock
piles. Mr.. Dulles explained, would
involve change by Congress in
the Atomic Energy Act. which
now bars such shipments.
Our allies, the Secretary de-
clared. must not be wholly de-
pendent on the United States for
nuclear deterrents against ag-
erosion.
I'VE don't think that is a
healthy relationship" the Sec
rotary said, therefore we are
studying ways whereby, through
perhaps a NATO stockpile of
weapons and various arrange
ments Of that sort, there can be
assurances to our allies that If
they are attacked. If war comes,
that they will not then be in the
position Of suppliants, as far as
we are concerned, for the use of
atomic weapons"
The stockpile plan as revealed
by Mr.. Dulles seemed certain to
provoke sizeable reaction from
Europe-and not all Of it from
the Communist bloc. The un-
easiness in Western Europe over
the prospect of nuclear warfare
most Of the capitals are within
mere minutes Of Soviet-held air.
fields or missile-launching sites
has created a vocal opposition to
further steps toward atomic arma-
ment.
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Foreign Aid:
Rejected Plea

Despite repeated warnings
from the President that major
cuts in foreign aid would imperil
the Nations defense, a fractions
House Of Representatives voted
Friday to cut STAT million from
the administrations requested
$3,864. 410, 900.
In the hectic hours before the
final vote authorizing the Mutual
Security Act Of 1857. the House
rode down the defenders of the
measure and voted also to curtail
sharply the proposed development
loan fund, feature of this years
revamped program. Plans to put
foreign aid on a longer-term basis
permitting two or three-year
assistance programs instead of
single year arrangements-were
also defeated in the House vote.
Still another key feature of this
years bill was denied by the House
when it voted on Wednesday to
keep military aid and military
support funds in the International
Cooperation Administration bud
get rather than in the Defense
Departments.
The skirmishing on the House
floor and in the cloakrooms
brought an admission by Speaker
Sam Rayburn that he had lost
control of his fellow Democrats.
Mister Sam" urged foreign aid
hackers to accept amendments
weakening the bill rather than
risk loss Of still more ground.
Administration spokesman now
say they look to the Senate House
conference on the measure (the
Senate passed it with most of the
administrations proposals intact
to restore some of the cuts in
funds and the two-year feature of
the development loan funds.
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Zhukov Visit?

After the capitulation of Hitler's
Germany in l945, the commanders
OF the Allied armies got together
in Berlin and found themselves
mutually congenial. Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower. Supreme Com
mander Of the Allied Forces in
Europe. and Marshal Georgi Zhu-
kov, top Soviet commander, eStab-
ished friendship that appar-
emily has survived the cold war.
AT his press conference last
wednesday. Mr.. Eisenhower OBJ
served in response to a newsman's
question, that he couldn't see any
harm" in an exchange of visits
between the Soviet Marshal, who
is Minister of Defense for the
Soviet Union. and Defense Secre-
tary Charles E. Wilson. The Presi-
dent reaffirmed his opinion that
the Soviet military chieftain was
AN honest man."
Such a meeting would unoues-
tionably mean a personal talk be-
tween the President and Marshal
zhukov if the latter came to
Washington: There were no in
dlcations that such a visit had
been discussed in administration
quarters. but the Eisenhower re-
ceptiveness excited considerable
comment here and in the Euro
pean press.
Initial reaction in the State
Department was one of some dis
may. The unhappiness, carefully
anonymous. was occasioned BY
two major considerations:
. A Zhukov visit, almost certain
to be warm and cordial, might
revive the spirit Of Geneva" that
followed the summit" confer
ence Of 1855. The spirit"
cautious diplomats say, was an
expression of hope rather than
reality, and as such was a danger
to the free world. Its renewal
under present conditions would,
IN their opinion, be equally with
out substance.
. The American-led effort to
bring severe United Nations
censure to bear against the Soviet
Union for the brutal suppression
OF the Hungarian revolt of last
autumn would be scuttled by
zhukov visit. Marshal Zhukov
has been credited with sponsoring
military intervention in Hungary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-21
REVIEW OF THE WEEK
Civil Rights: No Vitrio|

For the first time in 10 years.
civil rights legislation has become
the official business before the
Senate. The bill now being de-
bated with vigor. yet with certain
amount of sweet reasonableness,
is the bill drafted by the Eisen-
hover administration. 1t would:
Q Establish a special civil rights
division in the Justice Department.
. Create a Federal civil rights
commission armed with subpoena
powers.
. Give the United States At
torney General authority to insti-
tute action in the name of the
United States in behalf Of any
person who swears that his civil
rights have been violated or are
about to be violated.
The House-passed measure went
directly before the Senate Tues
day, under a procedure which has
bypassed committee consideration.
But the top = heavy 71-to-l8
vote which made this pro-
cedure possible could hardly be
interpreted as representative of
senatorial demand for passage of
the bill. 1t was, rather. an indica-
ton of spirit of compromise and
a Southern realization that no
longer can consideration of civil
rights bills be prevented solely by
that old standby. the f1libuster.
AS the week ended, only the die
hard proponents Of the bill seemed
q little less willing to compro-
mise. Earlier. this group had APP
peared ready to accept some
watering-down of Part III of the
bill, which would permit the At
torney General to seek injunctions
in any civil rights case. including
school indignation cases. Senator
Humphrey, Minnesota Democrat.
and Minority Leader Knowland,
for instance. had agreed that a
proviso in Part III which would
have allowed for enforcement by
Federal troops. invoking an old
Reconstruction law, had no place
in the bill.
But by Friday night it was plain
that efforts to find a compromise
had failed, and Senator Knowland
announced that he would not offer
one, but would let the bills first
test come in vote on an amend
ment striking the entire Part III,
thus leaving the measure a right
to-vote bill and nothing else.
This test-not crucial to final
passage of the bill-was likely to
come early this week, and because
of widespread Senate feeling that
the bill should only offer voting
guarantees, Part III appeared
doomed. The amendment to
strike it was offered by Senators
Aiken, Republican of Vermont,
and Anderson. Democrat of New
Mexico, which was indicative Of
the compromise sentiment of the
older Senate liberals, as opposed
to that of some of their younger
colleagues who all along have
been cool to the idea of giving up
any ground to the South.
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Hoffd Cose:
AcquittoI

seen increase in income made the
difference.

James Hoffa. volatile vice
president Of the big Transfers
Union, was back in business this
week after being acquitted of
charges that he tried to plant a
hired spy on the staff Of a Senate
committee that was investigating
him.
Mr.. Hoffa had been indicted on
three counts: Conspiracy. bribery
and obstructing congressional
investigation. The prosecution
charged that Mr.. Hoffa. through a
union attorney, had approached
John eye Cheasty. an attorney.
with the proposition that Mr..
Cheasty get job on the staff Of
the special Senate committee in
vestigating labor and furnish in
formation from the committees
files.
Mr.. Cheasty said Mr.. Hoffa Of
fered him $4,000. and that, after
consulting with members Of the
committee, he agreed to go along
with the scheme. The FBI watched
and photographed the first meet
ing between Mr. Hoffa and Mr..
Cheasty, and after the second
such meeting Mr.. Hoffa was ar
rested.
Mr.. Hoffa maintained at the
trial that $1,000 he had paid Mr..
CheaSty was for Mr.. Cheasty's
legal services, and that he had no
idea the lawyer was working with
the committee.
Immediately after his acquittal.
Mr.. Hoffa announced that he
would seek the presidency OF the
is million member Transfers
Union at the September conven-
ton in Miami. Dave Beck. cur
rent president. has announced
that he will not seek reelection.
Mr.. Hoffa can be expected to be
a strong candidate. especially in
view Of his acquittal. and If he
wins it could pose a serious i'm
mediate problem in the union and
ultimately in the entire labor
movement.
But before then, he has one
more piece Of business to clear up:
A Federal indictment on wire-tap
charges in Detroit.