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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-24
Acquitted Officer EIoted
Court-MortioI RuIino

FORT SILL, Okla, Aug. "a
R.-With tears in his eyes, a
41-year-old combat veteran
said It sure feel fine" over and
over again after being ac-
quilted yesterday by a general
court-martial of four charges
of negligent homicide.
The eight-member court
cleared 1t. Col. Walter P. Ber-
ger, Philadelphia, in connec-
ton with the deaths of four
soldiers during a mock infantry
attack at the Army's artillery
center here June %.
Col. Berger also was found
not guilty Of a charge of dere-
LECTION of duty.
The 16-year veteran, asked il
he had ever doubted the out
come during the two-day trial
declared las a career officer ]
had nothing to live for except
hope of acquittal."
In his testimony yesterday
Col. Berger stated that 1t. Col
Walter D. Short, officer ir
charge Of the public demon.
stration Of the infantry at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-24
Wartime Secrecy
To End on Goods
Shipped Abroad
Ry the AssoeIated PCS

Representative Moss. Demo-
crat of California. said today
the Government has agreed to
lift a 15-year-old secrecy lid
on lists of goods shipped out of
American ports.
The Treasury Department
action to allow newsmen to see
manifests of outgoing cargoes
was taken after repeated efforts
by the New York Journal OF
Commerce. a business news
paper, to end a practice that
began in World War II.
Mr.. Moss, who heads the
House Government Information
subcommittee, said in a state
ment that the Journal Of Com
merce for more than a century
before World War II had access
to the export manifests. The
information was restricted or
security grounds during the wal
and the practice continued
afterward.
Up-to-date statistics on wha'
| goods ships are carrying abroad
is valuable information fol
many businesses. A subcom.
mittee official said the informa'
ton now is put out by tn,
Commerce Department in gen
eral form, but only after ;
lapse of three to six months.
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TEXT ON RIGHTS
Jury Trial
Language
Agreed On

FOLLOWING is the tert OF the
compromise jury trial PROFIT
sion iOhich broke the dead
lock ouer the ciuil rights bill:
I'm all cases Of criminal con-
tempt arising under the provi-
sions of this act, the accused.
upon conviction, shall be pun
ished by a fine or Imprisonment
or both; provided. however. that
in case the accused is a natural
person (by legal definition. an
as distinguished from
an organization) the fine to be
paid shall not exceed the sum
of $1,000, nor shall imprison-
ment exceed the term OF six
months: provided, further, Klat
in any such proceeding fol
criminal contempt. at the dis.
cretion Of the judge, the &C
cused may be tried with Of
without a jury: provided
further, however, that in thu
event such proceeding TO-
criminal contempt be tried be-
fore a judge without a Jury ant
the sentence Of the court upoi
conSiction is a fine in excess o
the sum of $500, or imprison
ment in excess Of As days, tn
accused in said proceeding, upol
demand therefor, shall be en-
titled to a trial de novo beforI
q jury, which shall conform a
near as may be TO the practic
in other criminal cases."
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Girurd Will Go
On Trial Monday

MAEBASHI, Japan. Aug. "a
Rl.-GI William S. Girard will
be escorted to court by two
majors and handed over to
Japanese authorities Monday
for trial on charges of fatally
shooting a Japanese she'll
picker.
The hand-over, outside Mae
bashi district courthouse, will
be the first time custody of the
22-year-old soldier will be given
to foreign authorities-a step
that was fought by Specialist
Girard's family and lawyers.
Eighteen japanese policemen
have been assigned as guards
and to keep order at the court
Chief Defense Lawyer Itsuro
Hayashi announced meanwhile
that Specialist Girard's Japa-
nese wife Haru will not attend
the trial.
Mr.. Hayashi said he made
the decision because "the Japa.
nese public took a dim view o,
Girard's marriage it was
premature. My plan was Il
have them marry during thu
trial in traditional japanese
fashion, with mystelf as a go.
between"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-24
New Hoffo Evidence
Is Sought by Senators

Dio complained that Thomas l..
Hickey, Transfers vice presi-
dent, insisted on trying to or
ganize 10000 New York City
taxicab drivers. Dio wanted to
organize the cabbieS through
the union he dominated. Local
102 of the United Auto Work.
ers (AFL). Committee Coun-
sci Robert F. Kennedy charged
that Hoffa was backing Dio
against Hickey.
Commissioning with Dio.
Hoffa called Hickey-known as
Honest Tom"-a stupid son Of
a -"
Hofa was at a loss to ex-
plain why he had called his
fellow officer such a name.
The committee contends
Hoffa was trying to "circum-
vent" Hickey through Dio to
gain power in New York.
Hoffa's lawyer. George
Fitzgerald. objected to use of
the wire taps-and to questions
based on them-on grounds
that the phone calls bear di-
rectly" on a pending indict-
ment of Hoffa and two aSso-
ciates for overlapping.
Chairman Mcclellan dropped
the matter and announced the
committees decision to recess.
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Beck Denies Role
In Phony Charters

SEATTLE, Aug. "a R.-Dave
Beck, international president
of the Transfers Union. de-
MES he issued charters to the
phony locals set up in New York
in 1855.
In testimony yesterday be-
fore the Senate Rackets In
vestigating Committee in Wash
ington, James r. Hoffa. Mid.
western boss of the Transfers
said Beck made the decision or
issuing the charters.
II personally did not know
anything about the issuance o.
those charters until after theN
were issued" Beck said at hi
Office here. "They were ISSUED
from the Transfers Office b!
my executive assistant in m!
absence"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-24

Syrian and Egyptian efforts to
initial a leftist government,
has United States support and
aid.
35-Year Veteran
Mr. Henderson, IS, is a for
mer Ambassador to India and
Iran and Minister to Iraq. He
has been in the foreign service
for IS years and headed up the
State Departments Bureau Of
Middle Eastern Affairs during
some of the critical days of the
Arab-Jewish conflict over Pal
estine Immediately after World
War II.
In recent months he has rep
resented the United States at
meetings of the Baghdad Pact
council.
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tack, gave the order to resume
firing AZ shells.
The shells fell in the area
occupied by the. attacking in
fantry company, killing four
and injuring Is soldiers.
Col. Berger's testimony was
in conflict with that of Col.
Short, who had declared he
first ordered a cease-fire when
it appeared mortar shells were
falling in the wrong target
area. He said he talked with
Col. Berger by telephone and
told him he could resume firing
if he wished after checking the
mortarS to make sure they
were being fired correctly.
Col. Berger said yesterday
l"Col. Short is confused and
doesn't remember things as
they happened at that time"
He said the order to resume
fire was Col. Shorts decision. !"
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Brucker Says Reds
Log on Missiles

LOS ANGELES, Aug. "a up.
Army Secretary WILDER M.
Brucker said yesterday he is
confident the United States is
far ahead of Russia in de-
veloping intermediate-range
missiles.
But, he said, IF Russia
should get the 1,500-mile mis-
sile first. she could blackmail
countries Within that entire
range from her borders) !"
Mr.. Brucker spoke enthu-
siastically during a news con-
ference of a new United States
missile, the Jupiter. He said
the weapon has had spectac-
ular success" and is being pro-
duced ahead of schedule.
Mr.. Brucker, on a national
tour, arrived by plane from
San Francisco and took an Ali
Force helicopter to the Fire.
stone Tire & Rubber Co. plant
which is producing the Cor.
poral guided missile for the
Army.
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Continued From First Page

= -
1858. He admitted buying
them, but refused to admit or
deny using the recorders to
tamper with a Detroit grand
jury investigating labor racket
eering.
Hoffa refused a definite an
Swer when Chairman Mcclellan
asked: Did you not buy them
and did you not use them for
the specific purpose of placing
them on witnesses so when they
came out of the grand jury
room you could hear their tes-
timony?"
The committee tried to show
that New York labor racketeer
Johnny Dio helped Hoffa in
efforts to breach the grand
jury's secrecy. 1t played re-
cordings of two wire-tapped
phone conversations between
the two men.
Conversation on "ThOse Things
On June 2, 1858. Dio told
Hoffa, II got a couple of those
things" and maybe I'll have
four of them tomorrow. The
implication was that the
"things" were miniature re-
corders, but Hoffa testified
that he could not remember.
{ On June 16, Dio asked: Did
my man get there all right?'
sHoffa assured him he had. and
ss''they are doing that work."
/. Dio told Hoffa they are the
best; they work for the U. N
and everything else. now-anC
whenever you want to need 'em
any part of the country. if yol
want to find out they're YOU
people. you let me know"
Can't Explain Epithet
Senator Mcclellan impa.
tiently commented: IF thes'
things (the tapped converse
tions) do not refresh you.
memory. it would take tn,
power of God to do it. It's be
yond the capabilities or in
strumentalities of mankind"
In the June 16 conversation
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Phone Workers
May Walk Out

The Communications Work.
erS of America today were
threatening a Nationwide tele-
phone strike unless contract
demands are met by midnight
tomorrow.
Joseph A. Beirne, president
Of the communications workers
said in the Washington area
alone about 500 telephone
equipment installers affect
ed directly If the strike comes.
AS many as $500, including OPP
orators and other workers Of
the Chesapeake e. Potomac
Telephone Co.. could be af-
fected if picket lines are re-
spected. he said.
The situation depends on the
outcome of negotiations in New
York to replace the current
contract expiring at midnight
tomorrow night. Mr.. Beirne
said. The threatened strike
would affect $4,000 telephone
equipment installers in 43
States and the District Of Co.
lumbia.
At issue is a new contract
between the Western Electric
Co.. manufacturing arm of the
Bell System, and the union.
Joseph E. Dunno, CWA ma
tional bargaining director, said
after a meeting yesterday, that
the membership authorized q
strike by a 10 to l vote.
Mr.. Dunno said the union is
asking a o. cents an hour
package. He said wages now
range from $l.39 to $3.50 ar
hour.
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|MaiIers' Strike
Ends in Detroit

DETROIT. Aug. "a (P.-A
labor dispute, which started
eight days ago and closed
Detroit's three major daily
newspapers. was settled today.
The afternoon Detroit News
and Detroit Times quickly
started preparing Saturday
editions.
A dispute over refusal of
mailers to work beyond a Is
hour double shift at the News
last Saturday resulted in pick
citing and refusal Of the Team
sters Union to cross picket
lines.
After Sunday editions, which
also carried the News mast
head, the Times and Free Press
closed down, saying a strike
against one member of the
Detroit Newspaper Publishers
Association was a strike against
all three. The international
Mailers Union. which claimed
to represent the News mailers
termed the action a lockout.
Today's settlement, announced
shortly after 7 am, followed
James r. Hoffa joining the me-
gotiations. Hoffa. Midwest
Teamster boss. flew here from
Washington where he had beer
a witness before the Senate
Rackets Investigating Commit
tee yesterday.
The Mailers Union said 81
mailers were fired by the New:
when they declined to continue
overtime work. The News sale
it fired 81 for refusing to con.
tinue overtime in an emergenc!
caused by a mechanical break,
down. The paper charged thu
mailers had created a man
power shortage to regularly re-
quire overtime work.
Hoffa said that under today
dispute settlement the 81 mel
are to be allowed to appear be
} fore the Joint standing commit
tee of the QTU) union TO
screening purposes" Those ap
. proved by the committee, Hoff,
: said, would return to work.
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Musician Sentenced

WATERLOO, Iowa, Aug. "a
(R.-Richard Van Arsdale, 81,
former member Of Count
Basie's band and the Waterloo
Symphony Orchestra. yester-
day was sentenced to six
months in jail on a bad check
charge. He studied music at
st. Louis University and at one
time played over st. Louis radio
stations and had his own trio.
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u. S. Sends Henderson
On Mid-Eost Mission
BY the Associated Press

Veteran Diplomat 10y Hen
derson has been dispatched to
the Middle East to figure out
how the United States and its
friends can cope with the Com
munist threat in Syria.
Mr.. Henderson stopped of In
Athens today en- route to An
kara. Turkey.
State Department officials
repeatedly are convinced that
Syria is not yet a Soviet satel-
lite by any means. Although
pro-Soviet army officers have
dominant power, these officials
believe some way may yet be
found to block a complete
takeover by Moscow.
Mr.. Henderson, a top State
Department troubleshooter, left
Washington Thursday, but the
State Department did not dis
close his departure until about
"a hours later. Late yesterday,
however, the department an
nounced he was on his way to
visit Turkey and probably other
Middle Eastern countries.
Choice No Accident
The ENJOYS choice of Ankara
the Turkish capital, appeared
to be much more than acci.
dental. In that city he car
confer without delay with Tur.
kish Prime Minister Adnar
jMenderes, King Hussein o.
Jordan and King Faisal of Iraq
Turkey, Iraq and Jordan ar
Syria's principal neighbors.
Turkey is an ally of tn
United States in the North AT
lantic Treaty Organization ant
Iraq is a member, along will
Turkey, of the anti-Commu
mist Baghdad pact.
Jordan. a recent target o
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TeumSterS
Map Defense
On Monday
BY the Associated Press

The Executive Board of the
Transfers Union assemblies in
Los Angeles this week end to
firm up the unions defense
against corruption charges
which could lead to expulsion
from the AFL-CIO.
Key figure at sessions open
ing Monday will be James r.
Hoffa, Midwest boss Of the I'M
ion and an odds-on favorite to
succeed Dave Beck as presi-
dent.
Hoffa has just finished
four-day stint of questioning by
the Senate RacketS Commit
tee, whose members accused
him of misusing union funds
and of allying himself with
gangsters and hoodlums to en-
nance his own union power
Hoffa faces more questioning
later.
The Transfers win be pre-.
pairing for a series of AFL-CIC
hearings on corruption charges
initiated by Federation PreSi.
dent George Meany. The ALL
CLIO has served notice that il
the union does not square it.
self, it will be ousted from tht
Federation.
AFL-CIO officials obviousl!
hope they will not have to taxi
that step. The TIE a m S err
Union. with approximately H.
million members, is the Fed
eration's largest.
Corruption charges will b
weighed first by the AFL-CIC
Ethical Practices Committee
then by the AFL-CIO executive
council. and finally by the Fed
eration's convention, to be hell
in December.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-24

Korea. The remainder of the
changes, caused by an ordered
reduction of $4,000 military
personnel, will involve pri-
marily a cutback "of some
combat and combat support and
service elements" the Army
said.
Activities Facing Shutdown
Among the major activities
to be closed are Murphy Army
Hospital at Waltham, Mass,
and the Seattle (Wash.) Army
terminal. There are 181 en-
ployees at Murphy and $50 al
Seattle. OF the employees al
Murphy, ISL will be offered new
jobs. A total of $40 workers
at Seattle are expected to be
offered new positions.
In addition to the Aberdeen
depot, eight other depot anc
storage facilities will be closed
A total of $3.50 persons are
employed at the eight facili-
ties, but 1927 will be absorbed
by other activities.
The other installations to bt
closed are the Jacksonville
(Ind) Quartermaster Depot
Belle Meade General Depot
Somerville, N. j.. Delaware
Storage Activity, Pedricktown
N. j., Curtis Bay Storage Ac.
tivity. Baltimore. Camp Stan.
ley (Tex) Storage Activity
New Orleans Storage Activit!
and Bostos Storage Activity
Six Government owned in.
dustrial plants with a tota
employment Of go will be shu'
down.
They are Kankakee Unit
Joliet Arsenal, H.; HoosieI
Unit, Indiana Arsenal, Charles
town. Ind; Edgewood md.
Ordnance Assembly Plant (5l
workers.; Ravenna Arsenal
Apco. Ohio; Louisville Ord
nance Plant. Minden, La: ant
Sunflower Ordnance Works
Lawrence. KanS.
The Army was unable t,
give Immediately an estimat
as to what amount of none,
would be saved. 1t said the re
auctions are consistent Will
the $4,000 reduction in militar
personnel previously ordered b
Defense Secretary Wilson an,
the limitation of expenditure
to .950.000,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-24
3 Boys Burn to Death

YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, Aug. "a
(R.-Three young boys burned
TO death yesterday when
trapped by flames in a den
they had fashioned out Of
baled hay inside a barn near
Johnstown. The victims were
Peter Mitch, jr., and his cous-
ms, John Dalton Pebley, jr.,
IA, and Donald Pebley. 10. They
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-08-24
Reufher Pushes
Initiation Fight
Despite Rebuff

DETROIT, Aug. "a R.-
Walter Reuther. president of
the United Auto Workers
Union, says he will continue
to press for a joint union
management fight on initiation
despite rejection by two Of the
auto industry's Big Three car
makers of his first proposal.
ChrySler Corp. yesterday
Joined General Motors Corp. in
turning down Mr.. Reuther's
suggestion that the Big Three
cut prices on 1858 cars 500 in
exchange for inspected union
concessions in new contract
bargaining in the spring. Mr.
Reuther has billed his proposal
as an attack on the inflationary
price-wage spiral.
I'VE want these corporations
and the American consumer
to know that we are not giving
up on this positive and con.
structive plan to fight imitation
just because of this first re.
fusal," Mr.. Reuther declared.
Says GM Sets Policy
He said he saw in TIN
Chrysler rejection a "knucklinl
under" to the dictates Of thu
auto company's largest com
petitor-General Motors, which
the union president said, set
the major policy line in tn
auto industry.
Ford Motor Co., which witt
GIN and Chysler comprise tn
Big Three, has not as yet re
piled to the Reuther proposal
An answer is expected owe
the week end.
Chrysler's reply, like GMi
of Thursday, agreed with MI
Reuther Of the need to hal
imitation.
Neither company. however
agreed with the JAW presiden
that the pricing of its product
was rightly a matter to b
settled at the bargaining table
Suggests Wage Cut
1T would be just as logical,
L. L. Colbert, president Q
Chrysler. said, "for the auto
mobile industry to ask mem
bers of the JAW to take an i'm
mediate and sizeable wage cut
which the companies woul
then take into consideration
J in pricing their 1858 automo
biles."
Mr.. Reuther already has sal
abe JAW would not agree I
any wage reduction to mate
his suggested cut in the factor
price of new cars. But he ha
said that further union bar
gaining with the auto compan
les would be conducted "unde
the framework of the economi
conditions" resulting from h
: proposed car price cut.
] Hourly rates auto worker
now get about $3.50 an hour.
, GIN. in rejecting the ReuthG
plan. suggested instead that tn
: JAW extend its GIN contraC
S two years as a contribution
' economic stability"
The Chrysler reply made r
counter-proposal.
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Continued From First Pag.

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lation If it is deemed necessary.
The commission will have sub
poena power and may conduct
secret hearings when deemed
advisable.
New Division in Justice
3. Set up a new civil rights
division in the Justice Depart
ment, headed by a new Assist
ant Attorney General.
The party leaders also an
nounced that the final agree
ment will include an amend
ment to make it clear that the
penalty carried in the bill for
unauthorized disclosure of Sc
cret testimony taken by the
commission will not apply to
newspapers. 1t has been ex-
1 planned that the penalty was
intended to prevent employees
or witnesses from disclosing Sc
cret testimony. But the Ian
guage was so broad that 1t
might have been used as a GEN.
sorship weapon against news
papers.
The jury trial compromise
was based largely on a proposal
advanced three days ago by
House Republican lea ders
That proposal was that sole
discretion be vested in Federal
judges to grant or deny jury
trials in criminal contempt
cases growing out of injunc-
tions issued to protect rights
If the judge denied a jury
trial, however. he could not i'm
pose a penalty of more thar
a $500 fine or 80 days in jail.
Democrats objected to thi;
draft on the ground that i
required a judge to determine
the penalty in advance Of the
trial. AS rewritten yesterday
the compromise still vests dis
cretion in the judge to begir
the trial with or without 9
jury But if the trial is with.
out a jury and the judge i'm
poses a penalty of more thar
$500 or more than As days II
Jail. the accused may demand
a new trial with a jury.
Limits Jury Trials
The compromise confines jur!
trials for criminal contempt Il
voting cases under this bill. anC
eliminates Senate Language
which would have granted jur.
trials for criminal contemp
under more than 80 other laws
The compromise also pre-
serves the rights which judge
would have had under both tn
Senate and House bills to i'm
prison election officials for civi
contempt. without a Jury unit
they promise to obey cour
orders designed to protect vot
ing rights. In these cases tn
accused official would be re
leased as soon as he agreed t
comply. This type Of proceed
ing could be used where regis
J. tration clerks refuse to plac
qualified individuals on tn
/. voting rolls.
/ G. o. r. Makes Concession
n In return for the concessio
n Democratic leaders made to tn
e Republicans to limit the jur
n trial provision, the Republican
: have abandoned any effort
X restore the original House pre-
t vision which broadened the bi
II to cover racial indignation {
! any other civil right. Thus, I'll
: bill remains strictly a votir
" rights measure.
d Senator johnson called IL
le compromise IAN appropria
,r middle ground" He said
: was the price OF getting a b
ID this year and he regarded it ;
N a good bill.
If Senator Knowlandd called
l. constructive and fair" ar
lie predicted 1t will have the owe
IN whelming support of Dol
l. Houses.
re Mr.. Martin said 1t is not I
Is that he would like 1t to b
,e but called 1t progress" al
pledged his support.