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son that he just wanted to know
about the justification of the
thousand new positions being re-
quested so that he would be able
to justify them in turn to- Re-
publican Senators.
Call for the "Knife"
Senator johnson kept exhort-
ing Mr.. Larson to follow the
leader. President Eisenhower, he
said, had cut the foreign aid
budget by $500 million. Could
Mr.. Larson not do likewise?
Senator Mansfield said he was
all for USIA, but he thought it
had grown too fast. Senator
johnson said he hadn't heard
anybody say they would cut any,
thing, and Senator Saltonstall
reluctantly agreed, and left.
BY the afternoon of the last
day, the Senators were all tread
ing a new and perhaps inevitable
by-path. They were wondering
out loud If they should they dis
agree with the President. would
they have their two cents worth
on the Voice Of America? Would
the Voice, for instance, Senator
johnson wanted to know, reflect
the clashing opinions of Secre-
tary Of the Treasury Humphrey
and Secretary of State Dulles on
the budget?
Our policy" said Mr.. Larson.
who by this time had given over
most of the question answering
to his subordinates, who were
present 80 strong, would be to
give attention to the official poll
icy Of the United States"
Senator johnson reminded Mr..
Larson that the President had at
one time said the budget was his
budget; then that it could be cut
and finally that It shouldn't be.
Are you aware that the peo-
pile Of other countries will be as
confused as we are?"
There was a long silence and
then Mr.. Larson returned power
fully. "in order to answer that I
would have to know how con-
fused we are"
Mr.. Larson had scored and
everybody including his sena-
torial critics, had a good laugh.
But it seemed that his patient
advocacy was not enough to con-
vert the USIA from stepchild to
touch-me-not status with the
meh on Capitol Hill with the
long knives.
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saying they provide AZ per cent
of all college graduates and that
sit would be a tragedy of the
first magnitude If unsupported
State institutions we're to grad
ually drive the private colleges
and universities out Of exist
ence."
Calls Direct Aid Unlikely
He called direct Federal aid
to private colleges unlikely and
in many respects undesirable. :"
warning that such aid could i'm
pair their independent integ-
rity."
Mr.. Nixon said one major new
source of endowment for private
colleges should be corporations
and other business enterprises
which compete for the graduates
the colleges produce.
such contributions should be
considered just as important an
item Of business expense as an
investment in basic research" he
said.
Mr.. Nixon made q brief talk
Of appreciation at the degree
awarding ceremony and asked
all students to take part in public
affairs after their graduation.
Both our major political par
ties can use new blood" he said.
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charged I'VE and Virginia six.
In 1852 the District went to five
cents. and in 1854 to six. All now
charge six cents a gallon. The
Districts former advantage has
thus been lost.
Q. Many Washington residents
have been moving to the suburbs.
District motor vehicle registra-
ton has gained only slightly.
while that in nearby communi-
ties is soaring.
3. Virginia has a special mile
age levy on trucks. The trucker
must pay the equivalent Of gas
oline tax for mileage traversed
in the State II he bought his
gasoline elsewhere. Maryland has
voted a similar tax. This hurts
District gasoline sales TO inter-
state truckers
4. District redevelopment and
highway construction are seri-
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interested in determining wheth-
err Beck reported the income
from the fund deal and paid
tax on it and on his other A.
nancial transactions which have
been aired by the committee.
Beck already is under indict-
ment for alleged evasion of 1850
Federal income taxes.
Reviewing the testimony be-
fore his committee last week.
the Senator said that the record
has clearly revealed and future
testimony also will reveal" that
Beck has wholly preached his
trust" as head of the Team
sters.
He added that Beck used his
position Of tremendous power
to further financial gain of him
self, his family and certain
friends"
On another matter. Senator
Mcclellan emphasized that he
still wants to know whether the
Transfers Union is paying
Teamster Vice President James
R. Hoffa's legal expenses in the
bribery case he is involved in
as defendant.
Lawyer Questioned on Fee
Hoffa has been indicted for
an alleged attempt to bride a
Mcclellan committee attorney.
Hoffa sought to obtain informa-
ton on the committees plans
and information from its files,
it is charged.
Senator Mcclellan said he
wrote to Hoffa's attorney, Ed
ward Bennett Williams, on April
/. asking whether his fees were
being paid out Of Teamster
funds. Mr.. Williams replied later
that he had not yet discussed
fees with his client.
The Senator said he favors a
law barring the use of union
funds for the defense Of a union
official indicted for a crime.
The principal witness called
for tomorrow's session will be
Roy Fruehauf, president of the
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degree at q conv0catl0n.
He said that as a result of
Russian efforts in education, "it
: rs estimated that so per cent of
the Soviet college graduates
each year are in the natural and
physical science fields. as COM
pared with approximately Is
per cent in this country"
I'm actual numbers, $4,000
scientific and technical students
were graduated in the Soviet
Union in 1856, while there were
only $4,000 in the United States. I"
Mr.. Nixon added.
Wants Law Studied
He recommended that serious
consideration" be given to
changes in the income tax law
which would make deductible
the expenses of tuition and other
fees paid to colleges.
He said also that individual
donations to colleges "are in
creasingly difficult to obtain be-
cause Of high income tax rates"
and said provisions to encourage
such contributions should re-
ceive serious consideration when
the fiscal situation Of the Fed
eral Government is such that
we can afford a reduction in
taxes"
Mr.. Nixon praised the role Of
privately supported colleges.
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Of Mr.. Diem. was given by the
Wet Nam Ambassador, Tran Van
Chuong. at the embassy.
Mr.. Diem then received the
chiefs of diplomatic missions in
Washington at the Hotel Stat
ler's Presidential ballroom. I'm
mediately afterwards there was
a reception in honor Of the Pres
ident given by the Ambassador
and Madame Chuong in the
same room. The final event was
a dinner given at the embassy
by the Ambassador and Madame
Chuong.
See Simulated Battle
At Fort Belvoir. where the
President arrived at about 8 am,
he was greeted by about $50
young officers of the Wet Nam
army who are students in the
Engineer School. This ceremony
took place in a big room over
looking the Potomac at Mac
kenzie Hall. the officers club.
A 2l-gun salute doomed as the
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northeast District line, $165. 900.
Widening Of Key Bridge to six
lanes with streetcar tracks lifted,
$535.000; a ramp through the
arcade Of the Liberty Loan
Building connecting Maine ave-
nue. with Fourteenth street NV,
$156.000; the Wentworth avenue
widening to six lanes from East
Capitol street to Quarles street,
sits, 900. with two underpasses.
one overpass and four pedestrian
overpasses totaling SAT- million.
The passes are slated for COM
pletion this summer.
Highway Director J. N. Rob-
ertson said highway building
stress will shift from the north
east approaches to the new East
Capitol Street bridge after this
summer to sections Of proposed
liner belt. The Anacostia free
way and the long-delayed CEN
trail Potomac River bridge are
top priority projects.
Public Buildings
Schools - Shadd Elementary,
Fifty-sixth and East Capitol
streets Sc, $747,3lS; Moten
Elementary, Evans and Morris
roads Sc, $687, 222: Coolidge
High stadium, Fifth and Tuck
erman streets NV, $1ol .206;
Patterson Elementary addition,
South Capitol street. between
Danbury and Elmira streets
S.W., $270,837: Draper Elemen-
tary addition. Waller place be-
tween Wheeler road and Ninth
street Sc. $199,096; Shepherd
Elementary addition, $3l5,732.
Van Ness Elementary, Fifth
street Sc. between L and M
streets, $716,401; Hart High,
Sixth and Mississippi avenue
Sc. SIS million; Woodson Jun
ior High, Minnesota avenue and
Fotte street NE, $2.1 million;
Mckinley High addition. Sec
ond and T streets NE, $675, 957,
due to be completed Friday: La
Sale Elementary. Sixth and
Riggs road NE. 1881, 1858. with
completion due in November;
Garfield Elementary, Twenty.
fifth and Alabama avenue Sc,
$433, 87e.
Penal - Heating plant addi-
tons, $184,462.
Police - Women's Bureau,
North Capitol and K streets,
$583. 1858. completion date, July 9.
HeaIth-Psychiatric Building.
d. c. General Hospital, $751;
AL. completion date. January.
1858.
Welfare-Staff housing. Chill
dren's Center. SCOT ,696: laundry.
Children's Center, $132,313; Re-
ceiving Home addition, with
classrooms. infirmary space, an
assembly room and more play
space for children, 1000 Mount
Olivet road NE, $461, 1858; Sc
curity cottage at Children's Gen.
ter, 1896, 9g5: infirmary at Chill
dren's Center, $780, 42. compile
ton. date. June IT.
Libraries - AnacoStia branch,
Eighteenth street and Good Hope
road Sc. $296.118; Woodbridge
branch, Rhode Island avenue
and Eighteenth street Me-. COM
pletion date. August. 1867.
Fire Department-No. 80 En-
CINE and No. Is Truck Com
pany Twenty-fourth and Irving
street Sc. 1927 ,467, completion
date. August. 1857.
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Beck's Letter Is Studied
For Possible Mail Fraud

Fruehauf Trailer Co. Of Detroit
Committee Counsel Robert F.
Kennedy said that the Senators
would seek to determine whether
Beck tried to obtain financial
favors" from the Fruehauf COM
pany.
Mr.. Kennedy recalled that the
committee already has testimony
that Beck lent SIS million to
Mr.. Fruehauf in 1853 when the
trailer manufacturer needed the
money to retain control Of his
company.
The loan was repaid with in
terest. but there is additional
testimony that later, when Beck
needed ready cash. the FruehauI
company persuaded the Brown
Equipment Co., a New York
trucking firm. to lend the Team
ster chief 100000.
Another witness scheduled fol
tomorrow is A. M. Burke. head
of the mortgage loan department
of the Occidental Insurance Co
Of Los Angeles.
Handles Union Insurance
In this case, the committee i,
going to look into Beck's per.
Sonal relationship" with Occi-
dental, which handles insurance
for the Western Conference Of
Transfers and also its welfare
and pension funds.
It was borught out in testi.
mony Friday that Occidental ha,
agreed to buy $4,000 worth Of
mortgages a month in Seattl,
through the National MORTGAGE
Co., a firm in which Joseph Nc.
Evoy. the nephew Of Beck's wife
holds a third interest. Beck l!
reported to have put up $4,000
for Mr.. McEvoy's stock.
Mr.. Kennedy said that the fact
that Mr.. Fruehauf and Mr.. Burke
have been called to testify
should not be interpreted as in.
dicating any wrongdoing on theil
part"
Clark Clifford. former legal ad,
wiser to President Truman. il
representing Mr.. Fruehauf.
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Jukurtu Plot Charged

JAKARTA. Indonesia, May. II
@.-The Jakarta military COM
mand said today it has uncovered
a plot by a group Of rebel army
officers to stage a coup d'etat
here. 1t said the officers. mainly
from Sumatra and East Indone-
STA, were armed with stolen
weapons"
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ID. c. Using 500 Million
Of New Works Projects
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in terms Of money. not projects.
he said.
Richard P. Dunn, who heads
the new works committee, ex-
poets to report to Gen. Lane
within two weeks.
Major projects completed under
the old works program are:
Sanitary Engineering
Storm sewers-Some SIC mil
lion of brick-lined or reinforced
steel pipes draining II areas
throughout the city. A big prof.
|ect was the Piney Branch relief
sewer laid along Piney Branch
road, Randolph street to Kansas
avenue and up Kansas to Upshur
street NV. Sanitary Engineer
ling Director David v. Aud now
has under contract So million Of
more Piney Branch drainage
work from Kansas and Upshur
streets to Fifth and Ingraham
streets NV. to be finished in
1858.
Sanitary sewers-Hundreds Of
extension sewers have given sub
divisions new spurts Of growth,
especially south Of the Anacostia
River. in the far northeast and
along fringes of Rock Greek
Park. Mr.. Aud said. Extensions
laid cost SIS million, replace
ments, 100000. and new lines
put down before highway jobs.
$780, 900.
Spent on the 100000 Falls
Branch relief sewer. 500, 900,
and on the $500. 900. Connecticut
avenue sewer system. 100000.
Blue Plains Plant
Some 81 million is under con-
tract at the Blue Plains sewerage
treatment plant. Bids will be
opened in two weeks for another
50 million, Mr.. Aud said.
This plant, slated for compile
ton in 1858. will remove more
pollution from the Potomac than
any other single work built or
projected in the Metropolitan
Area. according to Mr., Aud.
He explained that the addition
will treat sewerage so decompo-
sition in the water won't rob the
river Of oxygen. The oxygen bal
ance should keep the river 80
lper cent pure once the plant is
working at capacity.
Water - About $3.50, 900 in
mains in the vicinity Of Military
road. Foxhall road and Fort Du-
pont. Work is progressing or
major southeast Washington
mains and a big crosstown main.
The District Is about to advertise
for bids on a new Brentwood re-
servoir, across parkland from the
Columbia Institution for the
Deaf. This will store water sup
plying the central city.
Almost finished are a clear
water basin at Dalecarlia and q
Dalecarlia pumping station that
will more than double water
pumping capacity for the city.
Sanitation "A $2.5 million
refuse incinerator at Mount
Olivet road and West Virginia
avenue NE. Mr.. Aud said, the
furnace had reduced open burn
ing on the Kenilworth. land Al
and cut the costs of burning
refuse in half.
Highways
The East Capitol street WIDEN
ing and the East Capitol Street
Bridge, $8.l million; the New
York avenue extension running
northeast from Bladensburg
road to the Anacostia park line
and South Dakota avenue paw
ing from Bladensburg road to
New York avenue. SIG million;
Independence and Constitution
avenues and c street widening
to lead to the East Capitol Street
Bridge. $1.6 million; L street
NV. widening from New York
avenue to Seventeenth street
$3l7. 900: Sargent road NE. from
South Dakota avenue to the
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ously affecting existing gasoline
stations. Southwest redevelop-
ment Is wiping out some 80 sta
tons. and the downtown-girding
inner-loop expressway is expect
ed to dislodge 30 more. And there
has so far been no definite pro-
vision for replacing any Of them
The Federal highway program
also forbids locating gas stations
along the right-of-way Of new
express highways. These condi-
tons. according to business lead
ers. threaten to make the sales
decline worse.
S. District coming policies are
discouraging the satisfactory re-
location of dislocated gasoline
dealers, according to industry
leaders. The city's coming regu-
lations bar gasoline stations al
many potentially profitable loca-
tons. and the Board Of Zonine
adjustment is allegedly reluctant
to grant exceptions.
6. Gasoline stations cluster
just outside the District line to
grab of profitable. and tax
producing. business which zonine
keeps from being served inside
the District.
Z. Suburban dealers entice
customers with trading stamps,
which the District bans.
Highway officials yesterday
conceded that much Of the
city's new oad-building is leav-
ing the gasoline dealer-and the
gasoline tax collector-in the
lurch.
In the Southwest redevelop-
ment area, for example, the city
has just launched construction
of a new freeway which viii
extend eventually from the
Fourteenth street bridges TO the
Sousa Bridge in Southeast.
Most of the roadway will be
elevated or depressed below
ground level. affording little
chance Of access to gasoline sta
tons. engineers noted.
In Anacostia the city is due Il
get another expressway without
gas stations. Interstate motor
lists. engineers said, will almost
unavoidably fill their tanks al
the Maryland or Virginia ends
skipping the Districts Golfers
entirely.
Truck Mileage Taxes
The impact of the new truck
mileage taxes Is already being
felt hard. Speed & Briscoe, 9
truck gasoline station at New
York avenue and BladensburG
road NE. closed down April 2s
partly because Of this tax. They
had operated here 20 years.
The Arm has been paying the
District 100000 a year in gaso-
line taxes. Lee Speed. one of the
firms partners. said he was NOV
ing to Ashland. Va, because
business had dropped too much,
The gasoline tax yield also is
being whitfield back this year by
a gas tax exemption granted by
Congress to D. c. Transit Sys-
TEN. Inc. This exemption applies
only If the transit firm can't
make a SIS per cent operating
return without 1t. Highway Di-
rector John N. Robertson said
yesterday he expects to have to
waive the full tax. This may cut
into the tax revenue by $500, 900,
he estimated.
Last year. the gasoline tax
yielded $12.255, 900. Last years
taxable gas sales totaled 1884,
83l 1858 gallons. This year. ON
cial guesswork indicated, gallon
age may not be much more than
1913 million, and the money total
probably won't be more than
$ll.6 million or SILT million.
Highway officials had hoped to
raa1t1a Nff v,,iiisox.
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LARSON

Continued From First Page
"in the grip of an alien philoso'
ply" Over and above all this
as Mr.. Larson himself said II
q National Press Club speech. oul
information agency has no ma
tural constituency"
Mr.. Larson's best friend on the
committee was Senator Salton-
stall. Republican Of Massachu-
sets, who did his best. but found
himself most often in the role
of peacemaker-an unrewardine
occupation, which many on
lockers felt was comparable to
that of acting as liaison between
bull and matador.
Senator johnson led of the
proceedings on May 2 with what
many thought was an ominous
CLEAN in his eye. He quoted one
OF Mr.. Larson's speeches In
which the Information Agency
director said that, What we dc
and what we are is 100 per cent
more important than what We
say" The majority leader. who
nobody thought for a minute
was not enjoying himself, went
on to say, in reference to why
the House cuts should be re-
stored, I'VE look to you as q
distinguished author and spokes-
man for your party to enlighter
U.S."
The Dean Has Woes
AS BELTS the former dean Of q
law school, Mr.. Larson had pre-
pared his case in what he re-
peatedly referred to IAN orderly
and methodical manner"
He had been before congress.
sional committees earlier or
matters affecting social security
and workmen's compensation;
but these we're popular causes
and expansion of our propa.
ganda program. he found out. Il
not. In any case, Senate Appro'
priations Subcommittee hearings
partake more of the bull-sessior
than courtroom atmosphere.
To most observers watching
the little drama in the hearing
room, it seemed that the roo
problem was one Of communica'
ton. For instance, Mr.. Larson
was asked what he considered
the aims of the USIA by senator
Mansfield, who mad taken stronl
exception to the "alien philos.
ophy" passage and in any cas-,
thinks that the agency shoulc
be returned to the wing of thu
State Department. Mr.. Larson
In reply. read a prepared passage
In which he referred to what HI
called "global themes"
Senator johnson. who speaks
In the salty idiom Of the Texas
plains, impatiently dismissed
these "glittering generalities" ant
called on all to see that nevel
before had he had such difficult!
in getting the facts as from
USIA.
Don't propaganda u.s. h,
said tartly, lust answer ou
questions"
Senator Saltonstall steppedlnt,
the fray. Gould you do this il
Just one paragraph" he aske'
beseechingly of Mr.. Larson.
AS the day wore on the Sen
ators displayed an almost obses
sive interest IN such matters a
as.chess problem in an agency
PREPARED magazine and exactl!
what q second man in our Ethio
plan ONCE would do.
In several exchanges reminis
cent Of the dialogue between Re-
Riding Hood and Grandmother
Senator johnson told Mr.. Lar
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Tax Law Revision to Aid
Colleges Urged by Nixon

GREENCASTLE Ind May II OP+-vice President Nixon
called Russias higher education frightening both
its basic philosophy and its size today suggested
revisonS to aid colleges in this country.
Mr. Nixon spoke at business and industry day luncheon at
DePauw University after receiving doctor Of
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Program Urged
To Spur Science Study

81 400 with grants Of. up to
$4,000 to institutions for each
fellowship to help improve
teaching facilities.
Estimates Talent Cost
He estimated the cost Of this
talent development program"
would be 81 million a year when
in full operation. At the out
set, Senator jackson said, this
program would probably be
financed largely by contribu-
tions from NATO and from
member governments. He said
1t would be in the "enlightened
self-interest" Of the American
Government TO pay half Of the
total cost.
He suggested an increase in
summer study institutes to be-
gin next year in both the United
States and Europe. He said
emphasis in these institutes
should be on nuclear engineer
ing. applied mathematics and
solid state physics. He rec
commended that the institutes
be sponsored BY existing edu-
cation centers. No cost esti-
mate was provided for this pro-
gram.
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al Home Loon Fund
Due to Expire Soon

The Veterans Administration
said today It's backlog Of funds
for direct CT home loans will
be exhausted by the end Of
this month. Available funds
totaled 1855 million on
August /.
Thereafter only about SIS
million per month will be
available for direct loans until
the program expires next June
80. a spokesman said. These
funds will become available
from repayments on loans.
President Eisenhower killed
Tuesday q bin which would
have made another 5000 million
available and extended the
program until July IS, 1859.
The direct loan procedure
was enacted seven years ago
to provide funds for veterans
in rural areas who could not
obtain loans from private
sources.
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POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Ike begins his Rhode Island vacation picks his is
sues with care and the issue Of vacations stands
firmly with the workers against the bosses.
Republican Gov. Foss Of South Dakota says he won't
run for once in 1853 In view Of events you got to
admit that Republican picked better year for IT.
Problem Of the day. How to whistle optimistic in this
missile age ballistic.
Democrats believe in being consistent In one BREATH
they claim things going from bad to In the
they contend they'll win Congress in 1858 the White
House In 1860.
The advantage Of the sports becomes obvious as
school begins No other vehicle sneak between the
Of q schooboy safety patroman.
The State Department takes calm view OF Russian naval
maneuvers OF Norway After all there's wringing
your hands after you've all the skin of