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Evening star., 1959-02-07
Senate Probe to Shift
To Jukebox Industry

Myer mike Singer, a hulk
ing 37-year-old business agent
for Los Angeles Teamsters
Local 626, declined to make
any reply to charges that Cd
he had become a price-setting
czar of the Los Angeles grease
rendering industry and 90 had
extorted $1,000 contributions
from two grease professors to
help pay for $500 auto given
him as a surprise" at a testi-
monial dinner.
He also. declined to say
whether he had used Teamster
funds to pay a woman COM
panion's travelling expenses tc
Hawaii and Washington. The
identity of the woman was kept
secret.
Committee Chairman Nc
Clellan, Democrat of Arkansas,
linked Mr.. Singer with a band
of "scoundrels trying to take
over the economy of this
country" He warned against
any attempted reprisals against
witnesses.
Evening star., 1959-02-07
POTOMAC FEVER
FLETCHER KNEBEL

Democrats in a fix Congress is only month old
and already they're running out of things which to
spend the money haven't got
Ike's not anxious to visit the Kremlin When he's in
a tourist mood he prefers to visit the White House
Democratic presidential candidates Sore Khru-
shchev denounced Hubert Humphrey iar-and the
of them didn't get honorable mention.
.
Prison Boss Bennett wants to build another Alcatraz
Criminals clamoring for public housing part of
their minority rights.
West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt visits Washington
Foreign visitors focking America to scenic
wonder-the Missile Gap.
Political glossary: Majority rule-H you a glum
husband and smiling wife eating out. that's another
triumph for majority rule
Secretary Dulles confers with Frances De Gaue There
ought to be enough starch left from that meeting
open laundry
Evening star., 1959-02-07
Teomsters' Monitors
Near Cleanup Power

them. and asking the Judge to
prevent a union convention.
Mr.. Hoffa contended the mon
itors has only advisory au-
thority.
Judge Let's upheld the mon
itorS and barred the union from
holding a convention at which
Mr.. Hoffa planned to seek re-
election. Mr.. Cunningham
asked the Circuit Court of Ap-
peals to dissolve the monitor
ship, or at least to prevent ex-
pansion of the monitors power
Agrees With Judge Let's
The appellate court ap-
parently agreed with the con-
tention of Judge Let's and the
monitors that the petition was
premature, since the Judge has
not yet issued a binding order
Mr.. Cunningham'S lawyers had
argued that the court should
act to forestall an abuse OF
power by Judge Let's.
Edward Bennett Williams
general counsel for the Team
sterS, also opposed Mr.. Cum
ningham's petition. Mr.. Will
liams apparently wants Judge
Let's to issue his order so il
can be appealed.
The monitors are considering
attending a meeting of the
Teamsters' general executive
board in Miami starting Feb
ruary %, presumably to press
their cleanup demands.
Evening star., 1959-02-07
SIS Years Given
Womon's S Slayer

A man was sentenced to serve
from five to Is years yesterday
at District Court for second de-
gree murder in the strangling OF
a woman, whose weighted body
was found in the Anacostia
River last September.
The defendant, Philmore
Clark, AZ, had been indicted on
a charge of first degree murder,
but last December pleaded
guilty to the lesser charge of
second degree. Sentence was
imposed by Judge John j.
Sirica.
The victim was Ruth C.
Reeves, 38, of the 200 block of
Thirty-fourth street Sc. Her
body, weighted with a piece of
concrete slab wired to it, was
found in the river by three
boys.
Investigators found the piece
of concrete slab exactly
matched ends with another
piece found in Clark's yard.
The indictment charged that
Clark, whose home was in the
300 block of C street NE,
strangled the woman with his
hands last September Z.
Evening star., 1959-02-07

ecy discussion by DR.. Crowley.
5:35 pm. WGMS-"Su Sunday
Vespers, a music program by
local church choirs.
8:I5 pm, WWDC-Interview
with Mrs. Walter SWEET, Chris
tian World Missions chairman
of Eastern Montgomery County
Church Women, on the pro-
gram, Men of Faith"
$3.50 pm, WWDC-Dr. Hal
verson discusses Lord of the
Sabbath" from Fourth Presby-
terian.
9 pm, WEAM-"The Hour
of Inspiration" with DR.. Crow
ley.
$50 pm, WMAL-The Rev.
William Tefft. procurator Of
the Dominican House of Studies
here. speaks on the program.
This Nation Under God"
9:45 pm, WMALr-Dr. Rob-
ert Van Deusen interviews a
spokesman for the Week of
Witnessing" on the program.
Church News"
$50 pm, WOOK and
WFAN-FM - DR.. John j.
O'Connor of Georgetown Uni
verSity moderates a discussion
of why Christian Social Ac-
tion?" on the program, Faith
of Millions"
11:30 pm, WOL-"Sacred
Hour" with news of Washing
ton area churches.
l am, WRC-"Inspiration."
same as above.
Evening star., 1959-02-07

Interpretation be fortified by
transitory judicial opinion or
not. AS an administrator he
is not an executionerl He
cannot plead ignorance Of
the Constitution. He cannot
avoid his responsibility to the
white citizens of the South
as we'll as its colored citizens.
Richard L. FeIdman.
Evening star., 1959-02-07
Khrushchev Said
To Be Very Sick

BERLIN. Feb. 7 (AP).-The
West Berlin tabloid Nacht-
Depesche said today Nikita
Khrushchev gave the appear
ance of being a very sick man
during the recent Soviet Com
munist Party Congress.
The newspaper, quoting un-
named Czech Communist
sources, said the Soviet Pre-
mier looked as if he had aged
greatly, was unusually nervous,
and was rumored to be suffer-
ing from a tumor.
The Nacht-Depesche was the
only newspaper to carry the
report, which could not be
confRned from other sources.
Evening star., 1959-02-07
CHURCHES ON THE AIR

The following radio and tele-
vision programs will originate
from Washington area stations
tomorrow:
TelevisiOn
$50 am, WTOP-9-Lt. Col
Maurice R. Holt, staff chaplain
of the Civil Air Patrol. will
speak on Have You a Flight
Plan?" on the program, "Ail
Force Chapel of the Air"
$50 am, WTOP-9-"MasS
for Shut-Ins," celebrated by the
Rev. William P. Anderson
director of the Catholic Tele-
vision Guild.
$50 am, WRC-4-"Tht
Answer to Alcoholism" on the
program, How Christian
Science Heals"
l am, WRC-4-"Inspira'
tion," with the Rev. Paul Jones
of Union Methodist Church.
Radio
7:30 am, WEEL-Hour-lo -lonG
inspirationsl service conducted
by DR., Dale Crowley, Washing
ton radio minister.
8::45 am, WARL-"HoW
Christian Science Heals"
1905 am. WMAL-"Hour oi
Power" from the Central Union
Mission.
IL am, WFAN-FM-The
Rev. S. Lewis Morgan, jr.
speaks during Petworth-M Mont
gomery Hills Baptist Church
service.
II am, WFAX-The Rev
A. w. Jackson speaks during
Cherrydale Baptist Church
service.
IL am, WARL-The Rev
Henry H. Sink speaks during
Lomax A.M.E. Zion Church
service.
IL am, WEAM-Dr. Richard
C. HalverSon speaks on THE
Humanity of the Saviour
during Fourth Presbyterian
Church service.
1880 am, WOOK-The Rev
H. B. Roepe speaks during First
Trinity Lutheran Church serv-
ice. Repeated at 1905 pm,
over WFAN-FM.
2:30 pm. WPIK-The Rev.
John Tavlarides, assistant dean
of st. Sophia Cathedral, ex-
plains the Greek Orthodox
stand on the invitation of Pope
John XXIII for an ecumenical
council during the st. Sophia
Hellenic Orthodox Hour.
4:30 pm, WPIK-"The Fu-
ture Revealed" a Bible proph-
Evening star., 1959-02-07

issued a communique saying
the vessel was caught shortly
before noon while fishing two
miles inside the Norwegian
four-mile fishery limit.
A big Russian fishing fleet
one estimate placed the number
of ships at 300-began trolling
in the herring grounds of the
Norwegian coast yesterday, Sew
eral of the vessels crossed the
four-mile limit then but were
chased out by a Norwegian pa
troll boat.
Rear Armiral Erling G. Host
vedt, commander of the west
ern naval area, said at the time
the boundary violations might
have been accidental, since the
vessels hug the boundary with
drifting nets and in following
herring schools might slip
across the four-mile limit with
out knowing it.
There was a similar occur
renee in 1857 when the Nor
wegians seized a large number
of Soviet trawlers. The Rus
slams had to pay damages and
the catch of the captured YES
sells was confiscated.
Evening star., 1959-02-07

Vast powers to clean up the
TeamsterS Union are almost
within the grasp of court-ap-
pointed monitors today.
The United States Circuit
Court of Appeals cleared the
way late yesterday-at least
temporarily-by denying a pc
tition to block the grant of
power by District Judge F.
Dickinson Let's.
John Cunningham, a Team
ster member from Flushing,
N. Y, had asked the appellate
court to prevent Judge Let's
from ordering the union and
its president, James r. Hoffa,
to obey the monitors.
Now that Mr.. Cunningham's
petition has been denied, Judge
Let's probably will issue the
order promptly. He indicated
in a memorandum opinion last
December that he will give the
three-man board of monitors
all the authority they ask.
Plan to Move Fast
Unless the Teamsters win
a stay of Judge Let's order
pending appeal, the monitors
plan to move fast against Mr..
Hoffa and his key supporters.
They intend to process a long
list of charges against the union
president. and may try to ouSt
him from Office.
The monitors also will insist
on prompt compliance with sew
eral pending orders, including
demands for action to expel
Owen B. (Bert) Brennan of
Detroit from the union. Sim
liar proceedings are pending
against several other associates
of Mr.. Hoffa.
Other actions planned by the
monitors include establishment
of tight financial controls and
constitutional safeguards, COL
lection of debts owed to the
union by ex-President Dave
Beck and dissolution of the
misunderstanding commission"
hired by Mr.. Hoffa last August.
The commission is headed by
former Senator George H.
Bender. Republican of Ohio.
If Mr.. Hotfa balks at obey
ing the monitors, he risks prose-
cution for contempt of court.
Judge Let's appointed the
monitors in January, 1858,
under a compromise ending
litigation by dissident Team
Sters who tried to keep Mr..
Hoffa from taking over as
president. They charged his
election in the fall of 1857
was rigged. He was allowed to
take office professionally, sub
ject to supervision by the mon
itorS.
The monitors went back to
Judge Let's complaining that
Mr.. Hoffa was refusing to obey
Evening star., 1959-02-07
Negro Publisher
Sues NAACP

ABBEVuLE, S. c., Feb. Z
(AP).-A Negro newspaper
publisher has filed a IS million
libel suit against the National
Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People of New
York, the Anderson County
NAACP Chapter and six An
derson Negro leaders.
Davis Lee, who publishes the
Anderson County weekly Her.
aid, contends in his suit that
he was libeled in articles pub
lished in December, 1858. He
says he is opposed to forced
integration.
Mr.. Lee charges that the
articles were published in the
Afro-American, a weekly news
paper at Baltimore, Md.
Mr.. Lee charged in the suit
that the six Anderson Negroes
conspired to put him out of
business.
In addition to the Anderson
Herald, Mr.. Lee owns the
Newark IN. j. Telegram and
says he has a financial interest
IN other papers.
Evening star., 1959-02-07
Slightly Cynical

/ have read of the move
ment in Congress for a large
Franklin D. Roosevelt Me-
mortal in West Potomac
Park. I read of the Demo-
cratic opposition to the Presi-
dents budget, mainly on the
grounds of more money
needed for the Defense De-
partment to cope with the
cold war.
Since the cold war stems
directly from the agreements
made by Roosevelt and his
successor at Yalta, Teheran
and Potsdam (these are his
accomplishments that have
most affected this country'S
and the worlds future) it
would be fitting that the
money that might be ex-
pended on this memorial be
channeled to the Department
of Defense. If it fails to help
and the cold war turns to a
hot war, then instead of
World War III we could call
it the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Memorial War! ]. S.
Evening star., 1959-02-07
Moral Strenqth'

Constantine Brown on jan
uary 30 informs his readers
of the superiority Of the Ger
man military machine" over
the Allies in World War ! and
the exceptional quality Of the
Nazi forces in World War II.
Moreover, he states that the
Allies won these great wars
because Of the moral strength
possessed by some Of the Al
lied nations and implies that
this could be true in the fu-
ture.
One may question what
made the German leaders in
itiate these great wars. Was
it Hitler's belief Of German
military and technical supe-
riority?
Will the Soviet Union be
willing to begin such a con-
flict on the estimate that they
are militarily and technically
superior to the United States?
If the Soviet Union is ahead
in the missile field, what are
the needs Of our Nation to in
sure peace? The answer to
these and other questions is
perhaps what the administra-
tion is guessing at. However.
what the administration does
not seem to contemplate is
what is the need of our Ma
ton to insure that other ma
tions will not, by subversive
elements and psychological
warfare, be brought into the
Soviet orbit. A nation near
the Soviet Union hearing Of
American inferiority and of
Soviet superiority may, by
fear, be forced into neutrality
and peaceful coexistence."
In previous wars (aS COM
pared with preSent-day con-
f1ictS) so much was not lost.
Today. even the victor loses
too much to make war profit
able but. as stated earlier, our
problem is one of combating
psychological and Subversive
warfare. If we are to be sue
ceSSful in preventing Korean
type conflicts, in maintaining
psychological superiority"
over the Soviet Union, and in
preventing the subversion of
free nations, we must increase
our defense effort. and pro-
vide an adequate budget
which will meet the needs of
our Nation.
Basil ScarIiS.
4
The Brown point seems to
be that the moral stamina,
the conviction of a whole
people that they are fighting
worthy cause" is invincible.
Would that it were so sim
pie that the good guys always
win; that we are the good
guys and they the bad! But
some of the guys we once
called good we now call sat-
elites. And let us not forget
that the bad, as we'll as we
good, believe that, in C. BIS
words: "They are fighting a
worthy cause" Constantine
Brown might better aid our
cause if he dealt in realism
instead of emotion.
VIM. C. Mclaughlin.
Evening star., 1959-02-07
Parliamentary Debate

David Lawrence advocates
a parliamentary form Of
United States Government.
He deplores what he con-
siders TO be an unresponsive-
ness to the will Of the
electorate, felt to be exhibited
when the last biennial elec-
ton returned a Democratic
majority TO Congress during
the tenure of a Republican
President. The parliamentary
system, says Mr.. Lawrence,
would provide for the fall Of
the executive and his parlia-
ment simultaneously, as in
England. His advocacy Of a
different form of Govern
ment seems to indicate a
misunderstanding of a GER
tain aspect Of our Govern
ment.
Our Constitution was not
written by "the people" but
by "the leaders Of the
people" The eminent gen.
tlemen who assembled in
Philadelphia were not elected
by universal suffrage. These
leaders of the people" had
little confidence in the ability
of the uneducated, ill-inform-
ed, and easily led masses to
govern themselves wisely. and
in the Athenian democracy
and the Roman republic,
whose histories made up an
important part of their
education, they had ex-
amples Of the errors and
weaknesses in popular rule.
In the England which had
recently ruled them they had
an example of the parlia-
mentary form of government
and obviously rejected it. AS
for the capacity for miSrule
possessed by the masses, con-
slider how our American
masses so long shouldered us
with FDR, who sweet-talked
the United States of America
into colossal debt, social
unrest, a world war, and the
foundations for an Arma-
geddon.
The President was not in
tended to be the leader OF
Congress, as Mr.. Lawrence
seems to imply. Congress is
a unit apart and independent,
and is meant to and is able
to supply its own leaders. The
presidential office corre-
spends most nearly to that
of the crown, and his obliga-
tion is meant to be to all the
people, not to any party.
Mr.. Eisenhower seems to
consider that his duties as
an administrator excuse him
from his responsibility to all
the people. Mr.. Eisenhower
protests he is not a lawyer
and, therefore, knows nothing
about the merits of the
States rights arguments in
the segregation integration
dispute. Not only is it not a
Presidents proper duty to
lead a political party, but
it definitely is his duty to
see that the execution of the
laws does not work a hard
ship on large segment of
the country, whether his own
Evening star., 1959-02-07
BY the Associated Press

The Senate Rackets Com
mittee turned from the Los
Angeles greaSe-rendering in
dustry today to take a look
at the fight for domination in
the jukebox and coin-machine
field.
Committee Counsel Robert
Kennedy said the committee
on Tuesday would begin a
three-week inquiry into the
activities of a number of fig
ures in the coin-machine
industry.
There will be considerable
testimony about major under
world figures" Mr.. Kennedy
said, land the fear and intim-
idation that pervades the in
dustry."
The committee turned up
an unco-operative Teamster
Union official yesterday who
invoked the Fifth Amendment
approximately 100 times in re-
fuSing to answer questions
about charges flung by Los
Angeles grease renderers.
Evening star., 1959-02-07
Hot Off to HIST

Plaudits to former Presi-
dent Truman for politely and
firmly declining a bid to the
Lincoln sesquicentennial din
ner, where he would, pre-
sumably. share honors with
former President Hoover and
the present incumbent in the
White House. For, however
well meant. the superflciality
of the invitation is all too
apparent. The welter of news
stories on the chumminess
and human interest angling
would doubtless bolster the
morale of the laundering
Republican Party. But at this
late date nothing of value
would be served. Mr.. Truman
would be placing himself in
an untenable position where
by he would play third, or, at
best second fiddle to the
celebrating bigwigs. 1t takes
no imagination to visualize
the news pictures: The grim
ming President flanked by the
man whom he has consist
emily snubbed, flouted and
ignored.
Should Mr.. Truman's re-
sponSe be necessary in the
national interest of amity
and/or good will, one knows
that personal feelings would
be set aside. AS many Re-
publicans take great COM
fort in referring to the for
mer President as "the little
man." I am delighted, in this
instance that he will be "the
little man" who wasn't there.
A. l.. III.
Evening star., 1959-02-07
u. S. Forced
To Borrow
SIS Billion
By the Associated Press


The Government is going tt
borrow SIS billion in new casi
next week because of unex'
pected difficulties in ref1nanc'
ing part of the national debt.
The announcement by thu
Treasury yesterday came as {
surprise. Only a week agC
Treasury officials said they
hoped to get by without such
a borrowing until April.
The need for the new casf
arose when the Treasury of.
fered new securities earlier
this week in exchange for $14,.
872,0O0,000 in maturing secur-
tiles.
But holders of $2,081, 900, ,00C
of the old securities reSectec
the offer and demanded pay
ment in cash. This is known
as attrition and officials sale
it was somewhat heavier thar
expected"
Since the Treasury doesn't
have the cash on hand both Il
pay off these cash demands anc
safely meet the Governments s
day-to-day obligations, it i!
forced to borrow the new cash
To raise the money, the
Treasury said it will auction
217-day tax anticipation bill
next Wednesday. The bills viii
be dated February 16, will ma.
ture September 81 and will bt
accepted at face value in pay
ment of taxes due Septem-
ber Is.
The Treasury offered no ex-
planation for the heavy attri-
tion in this weeks refinancine
attempt. The attrition rate
came to % per cent in contrast
to what officials called a nor
NAL rate of about 10 per cent
in such refinancing programs.
Evening star., 1959-02-07
Pay Too Low,
Firm Asserts
BY the Associated Press

Executives of a firm doinI
multi-million dollar missile
space research for the Air
Force said today salaries paid
to their key personnel are too
low.
Louis Dunn, president OF
Space Technologies Labora.
tories, Inc, Inglewood, Calf.
said 80 per cent of his techni-
cal staff who leave give higher
salary elsewhere as a reason.
This, he told a House Gov
ernment Operations Subcom-
mittee yesterday, convinced
us that on a man-for-man
b-for-job basis our salaries
are too low"
The subcommittee has had
complaints from other con-
tractors that, among other
things, the firm-successor to
Ramo- Woodbridge Corp. - has
been paying excessive salaries
to recruit scientific personnel.
Formed in 1854
Ramo Woodbridge, founded
in 1854 with only 18 EMPLOYEES
grew to a multimillion dollar
firm employing 3.269 in 1857.
Figures submitted to the SUBJ
committee show Ramo-Wool-
bridge paid SO employees more
than $4,000 each in 1857. Sal
aries for the founderS-D. E.
Woodbridge and Simon Ramo-
were listed as $50,024 each for
1857.
They now are in a new Or
ganization called Thompson,
Ramo, Wooldridge-a merger
with Thompson Products Co.
OF Cleveland. Thompson, Ramo,
Woodbridge owns Space Tech
nologies Laboratories.
DOOlittle Testifies
Retired Air Force Gen.
James H. Doolittle, chairman
of Space Technologies, told the
subcommittee he believes it is
probably inevitable that his
firm will have to be separated
from Thompson, Ramo, Wool
bridge.
AS to criticism about the
firm having a unique monopoly
in balliStic missile research, he
said the United States is catch
ing up fast with Russia in mis-
Sile development and that "it
is very difficult to find fault
with success"
Evening star., 1959-02-07
FuIbrieht Gets
Senate Post
BY the Associated Press

The Senate has formally
named Senator Fulbright.
Democrat of Arkansas, chair
man of its Foreign Relations
Committee and Senator Rob-
ertSon, Democrat of Virginia
chairman of the Banking and
Currency Committee.
Senator Fulbright succeeds
91-year-old Senator Green,
Democrat of Rhode Island, who
stepped out as head of foreign
relations. citing worSening eye
sight and hearing.
Senator Robertson takes over
the Banking Committee from
Senator Fulbright.
Evening star., 1959-02-07
Austrian Leader Off
On Visit to U. S.

LONDON, Feb. 7 DIR.
Bruno Pitterman, Socialist vice
chancellor of Austria, left to-
day for a To-day official visit
to the United States.
He has been attending a
meeting of European Demo-
cratic Socialist leaders in Lon
don.
Mr.. Pitterman will visit
Washington, Chicago and New
York and will be received by
President Eisenhower.