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PONTIAC '53 4-dr.; hydramatie
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-16
Job, Production Rises
Are Reported by U. S.

copper, aluminium, scrap metals,
rubber. lumber and petroleum
products.
Credit Tightening
The boards shift from a pol
icy of credit ease to a measure
of credit tightening apparently
was partly influenced by such
price developments-the think
ing being that if this happens
even before a business recovery
is fully underway, there might
be real imitation danger once
recovery is accomplished.
The Labor Department at
tributed the insured unemploy-
ment decline chiefly to recalls
in plants reopening after vaca-
ton shutdowns, and new hiring
in such seasonal industries as
food processing and apparel.
Part Of the drop also was due
to claimants exhausting their
benefit rights.
The volume of initial claims,
indicating new layoffs, edged
up 6.400 to 324,900 during the
week ended August 9. Part of
this was attributed to layotfs
caused by model changeovers
in the automobile industry.
In recent months the number
of workers claiming benefits
has declined by slightly more
than a million since the week
ended April IL, when the 1858
peak of 1858, 800 was reached
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-16
Reed Defends SO Bill
On Request by Swope

Representative Reed Of New
York denied today that there
was anything sinister" about
1856 legislation which allowed
a tax-free bequest to a techno-
logical institute in Israel.
Mr.. Reed, top-ranking Re-
publican on the House Ways
and Means Committee, COM
mented that he sponsored the
bill ION its merits" to foster
beneficial research in Israel.
He added that he knew of no
improper pressures for the bill
in Congress or at the White
House.
Dorothy Thompson in today's
column cited the legislation as
an example of penetration lin
American politics. in behalf Of
external interests"-namely
Israel. She said the 1856 law
let 1SraepS Technion receive So
million from the estate of Ger
ard Swope without payment OF
$4.5 million in Federal estate
taxes.
Deny Veto. Was Urged
Treasury Department officials
familiar with the case denied
Miss Thompson's assertion that
Secretary Humphrey recon-
mended a presidential veto of
the bill, only to have his opin-
ion overruled through Zionist
pressure on the White House.
Secretary Humphrey stopped
short Of recommending a veto,
according to the departments
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-16

See news story below for comment on
Miss Thompson's article.
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DOROTHY THOMSON
Swope's Israeli Institute Request

. Congress-" The bill was
jumped over other legislation
and passed both houses
unanimously.
But there was another OBJ
stacle. The Secretary Of the
Treasury, who had opposed
the bill throughout. an
nounced that he would advise
the President to veto it. The
veto could not be overridden
because Congress was in re-
cess. mfr. Tulin resorted to
friends :. (who) went to the
White House. The amend
ment was signed and became
law August 6, 1885,"
This bill is unique. 1t pro-
vides that where a trust is
established by the viii Of a
testator for the life of { BEN
ef1ciary who Is 30 years old
=. at the time of the tesla
tors death. and who is given
the power to appoint recipi-
entS Of the principal :.
upon his own death and by
his own will, and such bene-
ficiary files an AFFIDAVIT with
the Internal Revenue Bureau
within one year of the death
of the testator naming the
educational institutions which
he intends to appoint as re-
cipients >. then the Federal
Inheritance Tax on the origi-
nal amount is waived"
AS every reader will see,
this bill was tailored to one
case. 1t applies-by inference
Of the Jerusalem Post article
only to requests to educa-
tional institutions, emitting
charities. 1t makes no provi-
sion that such institutions be
American.
Mr.. Swope's will, probated
in January. 1858, gave this
whole American-made trust
to a foreign institution.
Who were the highly
placed persons in the United
States" whose names are not
revealed? Who were those
who gave Incredible help?
Who were the friends" visit
ing the White House who
OVERRIDE the Treasury's rec
concentrations?
This is what I mean by
penetration in behalf of ex~
ternal interests. The source
of the information is Israel
Zionist, openly published,
available to all.
But what Americans ever
heard of this bill? Was any
public comment made on it
here?
Publicity would have
spoiled everything"
(Released b. the Bell Syndicate. Incl
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POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Ike is mad at Defense Department study on how to
surrender Password of the new proect You may retire
when ready Gridley"
The Government to keep its California navy yard
from sinking into the get into outer space
at least we try to keep above sea level
Republicans predict victory at the polls They may not
get the Arab vote but they'll all those like recesons
deficits imitation and bad weather
Senator Mcclellan and RacketS Kennedy are busy
collecting selections for their Club
Football starts TV. Kids disappointed They can't
understand plot where the hero field unmoested
by six-shooters, dynamite fame throwers
The Federal Reserve Board thinks the big threat is
imitation It's afraid that dollars to doughnutS will become
an money bet
Congress approves humane slaughter bill It'll be illegal
to slaughter people with Hbomb they're first stunned
by conventional weapons.
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Justice Starts
GoIdfine
Case Review

The Justice Department has
begun a review of the House
contempt citation against Ber-
fnard Goldfine, but a decision
on whether to prosecute the
New England industrialist will
be held up until sometime next
month.
United States Attorney Oliver
Gasch, who would prosecute
any case against the gift-giving
friend of Presidential Assistant
Sherman Adams, is mentioning
and is not due to return until
after Labor Day.
The contempt citation-voted
Wednesday-waS received by
Mr.. GaSch's Office yesterday
from the House.
Mr.. GaSch's assistant, United
States Attorney Edward P.
Troxell. said the case would be
reviewed and a final decision
made after Mr.. Gasch has a
chance to confer with Justice
Department officials.
Mr.. Goldfine was cited for
contempt after he refused to an
swer % questions of the House
Legislative Oversight subcom-
mittee while it was investigat-
ing possible improper pressure
a g ainst Federal regulatory
agencies.
Mr.. Goldfine refused to an
swer the questions dealing with
uncashed cashiers checks be-
cause, he said. they were ir-
relevant. Previous testimony had
brought out that Mr.. Goldfine
had given presents to Mr..
Adams and other Government
employees.
Mr.. Goldflne denied that any
Of the checks were used as gifts
to officials or to procure favors
for Aim
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Tyeoons Saying so What? of Nosser
Called Blind to Threat to Free World
CONSTANTINE BROWN

Not long ago this column
devoted some attention to a
citizen named Mr.. SO What.
He's a friendly, cheerful fell
low who just likes to get along
comfortably. Not for him is
all this worry over interna-
tional affairs, crises in the
Middle East, meetings Of the
statesmen to solve world
problems. So what if a new
dictator is readying a new as
sault on the peace Of the
world? So what?
Mr.. So What came to mind
recently in conversations this
writer has had with promi-
nent businessmen who can
properly be called "tycoons"
in their respective fields of
enterprise. Doing business
with Hitler and with the
Japanese warloads before
World War II was one of the
things that disarmed us
enough to encourage the die
tators' aggressions. Now here
is a sample or two of the
modern way to do business
with those whose ambitions
are a threat to peace.
The first Mr.. So What Ty-
coon, who deals in oil and
is very rich and very COM
placent. took this reporter to
task for allegedly being too
hard on Egypt's Canal Alb
del NaSser. Hes all right"
said Mr.. So What. HE is now
deepening the Suez Canal by
four feet and widening it by
six feet. When the job is fin
iShed we can send our heav-
lest big tankerS through the
canal instead of sailing them
all the way around Africa.
When the old Suez Canal
Company had control of the
ditch, they wouldn't spend
a cent on Improvements. Now
Nasser is bringing the canal
up to modern requirements.
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Shortsightedness on World Trade

What Tycoon certainly ought
to know what any reporter
ON international affairs GER
tainly knows--that both the
Soviet Union and Communist
China have been long em-
barked on plans for gigantic
economic and industrial devel-
opment. And those big plans
are going to take a lot Of oil,
even before they are q quar-
ter completed. Russia has oil,
lots Of it. but not in tie
amounts she will need, or
even enough for current
needs today. China is much
worse of than that, so far
as petroleum is concerned.
With this situation, the
building Of new pipelines
from the Middle East to the
refineries o. the Caucasus
would be the best answer the
Soviets could want. They
would then be assured of q
copious supply of fuel. and
the Chinese could share it,
or even build a pipeline of
their own-a not impossible
procedure. especially If Iran
goes down the drain for the
West.
The Communist bloc, in
deed, would find advantage
enough in simply denying the
oil of the Middle East to the
West, even if for a time they
themselves were to be unable
to use it. All Western Europe
runs on Middle East oil. At
the time of the Suez in
vaSion. when NasSer plugged
up the Suez Canal and the
Syrians cut the pipelines, the
efforts of the United States
to get American and Vene-
zuelan oil to Europe were far
from sufficient, and tremen-
dously more expensive than
was thought at the time.
These Mr.. So What's seem
to see no further than the
ends of their noses, or their
pocketbooks and bank bal.
anceS. They are blind.
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files. He wrote to Budget Direc-
tor Percival Brundage on Au-
gust 3, 1856, that though the
Treasury Department has OBJ
jected and continues to object
to this completely new depar-
ture in estate taxation, it is not
felt necesSaryOto recommend
disapproval of this bill by the
President" President ,Eisen-
hover signed the bill into law
on August 6, 1856.
Observers noted that Con-
gress considers many bills de-
signed to ameliorate the effects
of quirks In the tax laws. The
Treasury Department often OBJ.
jects to legislation aimed at
helping individuals or SIN a IL
groups, but the veto power is
used sparingly.
Discussed Bill With Tulin
Mr.. Reed acknowledged that
he discussed the bill with
Abraham Tulin-identified by
Miss Thompson as the man who
pus h e d the legislation-but
said he never met Mr.. Swope,
who was president of General
Electric. The New York Con-
gresham agreed the legislation
was aimed at the Swope be-
quest.
While no information is avail
able on whether anyone but
Mr.. Swope has taken advantage
of the 1856 legislation, the Ian.
guage could aid some other
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beneflciaries. The law does not
apply only to foreign requests.
Nor is it confined to educational
institutions; it applies equally
to religious, charitable, literary
and scientific organizations.
Mr.. Reed introduced an iden-
tical companion bill to tn e
measure finally enacted, which
was sponsored by Representa-
tive Keogh, Democrat of New
York. Mr.. Keogh could not be
reached for comment.
Charity Called Beneficiary
When the House passed the
bill July "a, 1856, Mr.. Reed
took the floor to- say that it
prevents a very harsh and in
equitable result from occurring
under the present estate tax
law. The sole beneficiary of this
legislation will be charity"
Neither Mr.. Swope nor Israel
was mentioned in perfunctory
House and Senate debate. The
Senate passed the bill on July
26.
Before the bill was enacted,
requests to charity we're tax
free only if the deceased-in
this case Mr.. Swope's wife
specified a charity in the will.
She did not name a charity,
leaving to him the decision on
bequeathing the remainder of
the trust upon his death.
The 1856 law makes chari-
table requests tax-free when
the surviving spouse names the
charity-but only in strictly
limited circumstances.
Thus, the effect of the bill
was to treat Mr.. Swope's be-
quest the same for tax purposes
as if Mrs. Swope had named
the Technion in her will
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Story Behind So Million Held Example
OF External Penetration in u. S. Policy

$350.000 to, Israel's Technion.
But Tulin was determined
to get Mr.. Swope's fortune.
I'm 1855, Swope's wife died.
He had turned over most of
his fortune to her, thinking
she would outlive him I.
and she willed him about
So million in trust, the in
come to go to him for life
and the principal to go upon
his death to such persons or
organizations as he should
direct IN his will"
Mr.. Tulin made out his
will," which made IsraeI's
Technion the sole beneficiary
of this trust.
But this was not sufficient.
Since he had inherited this
fortune from his wife there
would be a Federal tax Of
$4.5 million on it. Mr.. Tulin
wanted the whole sum.
There was nothing in the
Internal Revenue code that
could help us Then a
thought struck me. Why
couldn't we amend the code?
1t would mean putting a bill
through Congress, but it was
the only way"
He needed Swope's permis-
sion. He was shocked in the
beginning" But mastering
every ounce Of his not incon-
siderable persuasive power"
Tulin convinced him that it
was nothing to be ashamed
of" and betook himself to
Washington.
There I put in the hard
est four months of my life.
-. I worked in complete ST.
lence. Publicity would have
spoiled everything I did
not talk to a single Jewish
member of Congress. They
would favor it anyway"
The bill, introduced into
the House by Representatives
Reed Republican, and Ke-
OCH (Democrat) of New York,
was an amendment to Sec
ton 2055 of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1945. But
Tulin, fearing that Swope
might die before the bill
passed, was up against an
obstacle. Congress was about
to adjourn, and there was a
log jam of 500 bills that had
priority"
"'At this point I received
incredible help. People have
-. told me that nothing like
it ever happened before in
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Miss ThOmpsOn's article.
by Mocha Levin, interviewing
Abraham Tulin. Mr.. Tulin.
an American citizen, is Ito
quote Levin "a veteran Zion
ist"-and a brilliant attorney,
who in all major POLITICAL
legal problems affecting Israel
has been a chief counsellor.
interviewing Tulin during
his visit to Israel last May,
Levin says, THE story is too
fresh to be told in its entirety.
Many highly placed persons
in the United States who
were involved are still active
in public life, but the drama
behind the So million Gerard
Swope bequest to the Tech
Mon can now be revealed.
(The "Technion" is the
archaeological Institute in
Haifa, Israel.)
Mr.. Tulin was the leader
in organizing the American
Technion Society, whose chief
business was to raise funds
for the institute in Israel.
He wanted, and succeeded.
in meeting the late Gerard
Swope, president of General
Electric and a multimillion-
aire.
Mr.. Swope was a Jew al
though few people realized
it. >" His parents had emf
grated to the United States
in the 1840s, and Anglicized
his name, Gershon Schwabe,
to Gerard Swope.
Swope was enormously in
fluential. HE was called on
by several Presidents to head
commissions and stood for
years as chairman of many
boards of directors
Swope was over 80 when he
met Tulin in 1858. Until then
he had shown no interest in
Zionism. Tulin approached
him through his interest in
technology, and between 1858
and 1855 Swope contributed
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I'm all for him"
When he was reminded
that Col. Nasser's interfer-
ence in the internal affairs
Of his neighbors was men,
acing the peace Of the whole
world and could easily bring
on World War III, Mr.. So
What replied: $50 what?
He's a strong man. and the
strong must always dominate
the weak"
Another Mr.. So What Ty-
coon, also an Gilman and also
very rich and very compla-
cent, took a similar attitude
toward the problems of the
Middle East as they could af-
feet those Of the West, of the
entire free world, and even
Of himself. He was annoyed
by the suggestion that Mas
ser with his overall control
of both Suez and much of
the oil pipeline installation
in the Middle East had the
West, particularly free Eu-
rope, at his mercy. When it
was pointed out to him that
within the next few years the
oil of Iraq, now in the Nasser
camp, and the rich fields of
Kuwait would almost certain
ly be in NaSser's hands, he
said: $50 what? These Arabs
must sell their oil to some
body. They can't drink it and
they won't take baths in it.
They won't have any market
for it except in the West. Let
Nasser go ahead and nation
alize the oil industry there:
if he does, I predict that the
West will be able to buy
the production on our own
terms, and probably m u C h
cheaper than we get it now
because we won't have to be
splitting everything flfty-f1fty
with a bunch of sheikhs and
sultans."
Now this latest Mr.. So
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By the Associated Press

A further drop in insured
unemployment and the third
straight monthly rise in indus
trial production was reported
yesterday by Government statis-
ticianS.
Unemployment among work.
erS covered by unemployment
insurance dropped by 80.700
to 2,342,100 during the week
ended August 2, the Labor De-
partment said.
This was the lowest level of
insured unemployment since
the week that ended December
81, 1857.
At the same time, the Fed
eral Reserve Board said out
put Of the Nations mines and
factories increased in July to
1873 per cent of the 1947-49
average. This compared with a
revised June figure of 1871.
60 Increase Since April
Industrial production now
has risen 6 per cent from its
recession low of 1875 in April.
This tended to buttress the
boards guaranteeing that the
recession is passing and the
new worry is possibly imitation.
The apparent turnabout in
business conditions was one of
the reasons cited by a spokes-
man for Thursdays board de-
cision to raise the discount rate
at the San Francisco Reserve
Bank to 2 per cent from ia
per cent.
Another reason given for in
creaSing the interest charge on
member banks borrowing from
the Reserve System was a re-
vival Of inflationary sentiment
which has paralleled the i'm
proved economic outlook.
In reporting on the July
business situation. the board
Roted price increases for steel,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-16

In the previous column I
spoke Of external penetra-
tons that have shaped Amer
lean policy. Here I will speak
Of the influence exercised by
Observation-Disclosures Zion
ists) upon Congress and the
White House, giving one sin
gle illustration.
The Jerusalem Post (IsraeD
on May 20 carried an article
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-16
Man, s., Is Knitted
In Stomach in Fiqht

Luther Holmes, So, of 1882
Seventh street NV. was
stabbed in the stomach with a
knife early today during an
argument with another man in
Mount Vernon Park, Seventh
and K streets NV. police said.
He was taken to Casualty
I hospital. in critical conditicn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-16
8 Men Arrested
At Restaurant on
Gaming Charges

Police made three arrests in
an alleged gambling operation
at Ciro's Restaurant, 1707 De
Sales street NV. yesterday.
Arraigned on charges of set
ting UP a gaming table were the
proprietor, Carmine Gallotti:
Frank w. Jones, SIS, of the 1900
block Of Massachusetts, avenue
NV, who police said took bets
at one of the booths, and Mar
vim c. Hardin, As. Of the 5000
block of Eastern avenue, Silver
Spring. who police said was
making bets.
Commissioner James F.
Splain set bond at $1,000 on
each and continued the pre-
liminary hearing until June IL.
Detectives Robert DeMilt and
Robert Hill said the operation
involved about 5000 a day In
bets on horses, prize fights,
baseball games and the num-
bers. They said they had kept
the place under surveillance for
a month.
The arrests came about 1880
pm. and did not disturb custo-
mers who were having lunch.
The restaurant remained open.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-05-16
House Unit Unanimous
On New Pentogon Bill

could stop it only by passing a
bill.
The President could veto such
a measure. and a two-thirds
vote in both Houses would be
required to override the veto.
Thus. in the language Of a
committee announcement, the
group preserved ITO the Con-
gress its constitutional respon-
sibility to provide for an Army.
Navy, Air Force and Marine
Corps"
Criticism Cited :
Chairman Vinson, Democrat
of Georgia, interviewed before
the start Of the showdown ses-
sion refused to discuss what
was going into the draft
of the committees bill. But he
gave a strong indication yester-
day by inserting in the Congress
sional Record. with high praise,
a letter from Ferdinand Eber-
stadt, who headed previous re-
organization commissions.
Mr.. Eberstadt's letter strongly
supported the position taken in
he past by key committee men,
bers: Agreement to a staff in
crease and possibly other
changes Mr.. Eisenhower said
are needed for simplified
command. but opposition to
the administrative reshufflings
which have been criticized as
possibly approaching merger of
the forces or reduction of con-
lgressional control.