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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04
Morton Sees
Budget Victory

TOWNSVILLE, Va, July 4
(AP). - Republican National
Chairman ThruSton B. Morton
says congressional Democrats
have been hearing from home
on the spending isSue-and are
in retreat.
IF we Republicans continue
to keep the spotlight on budget
busting bills. the Nation will
have a balanced budget in this
fiscal year." Senator Morton
said.
The Kentucky Senator came
to Virginia'S 9th Congressional
District to express optimism
over his party's future, here
and over the Nation.
AS for the country as a whole,
he said in remarks for a G. o. P.
dinner last night:
THE ingredients for a Re-
publican Party victory are pres
ent. Our job is to put them to-
gether ;.
Republicans at the Nation,
State and local levels are on
the offensive more strongly
than at any time since 1852.
The result is that the Demo-
Gratis are busy defending them
selves on several fronts for the
first time in years"
Senator Morton said public
opinion is strongly behind the
Eisenhower administration on
the issue of imitation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04
Pressure Seen
For u. ). 10
Admit Batista
BY the Associated Press

An agent for Fulgencio Ba-
tiSta, deposed dictator Of Cuba,
said Senators are requesting
the White House and State De-
partment to allow Gen. Ba-
tista to come to this country to
live.
Ed Hart, who registered with
the Department of Justice as
an agent Of Gen. Batista and
his family, declined to name
the Senators at this time, but
said they included both Re-
publicans and Democrats.
Senator Capehart, Republican
Of Indiana, a senior member of
the Foreign Relations Commit
tee who Specializes in Latin
American affairs, told a re-
porter in response to an inquiry
that he understands some of
his colleagues may have urged
that Gen. Batista be allowed
to come here.
Approves Such a Course
Senator Capehart said he
himself has not talked to the
State Department about the
matter and II certainly am not
using any pressure but think
1t would be splendid thing If
we would do it,"
The Senator noted that Gen.
Batista, who took refuge in the
Dominican Republic after his
regime was overthrown six
months ago by Fidel Castro,
lived for a time at Daytona
Beach, Fla, and has a home
there.
He said he holds no particu-
lar brief for Gen. Batista, but
he added:
HE is a controversial figure
in the Caribbean area, and his
presence is causing trouble
there. I think it would help if
we removed him as a cause of
the trouble.
my hope would be that we
would let him in here. In my
opinion, the best interests of
the United States would be
served"
Visa Reports Denied
The State Department last
night denied reports that Gen.
Batista already had been grant
led a visa to enter this country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04
Potential Danger to u. S. Is Seen
In New European Economic Bloc

cooperate, it will be helpful.
But few believe 1t is. The
Common Market is not now
in a mood to work with 1t.
Great Britain, greatly wor-
ried by the initial success
and the great potential Of
the Common Market. was,
with Sweden, a leader in the
formation Of the new group.
It almost certainly will de-
velop into a self-serving bloc,
as the Common Market al
ready is doing.
A talk with commerce Of
flcials in Washington and an
economist Of repute produces
the somewhat ominous con-
cluSion that If the two trade
blocs do in fact become self
serving, the damage to this
country will be great. Unem-
ployment almost surely would
increase and certain indus
tries, already feeling the
pinch of European COMPETE
ton, would be grievously
hurt.
In recent years, since
European industrial recovery,
Western Europe has bought
about one-fourth of all this
country's exported goods.
This has had an annual value
Of more than 81 billion. 1t
has been, and is, our largest
regional market.
The rise Of two trading
blocS, offering common mar
ketS and free trade between
the member nations, will
draStically reduce United
States exports to the whole
OF Western Europe.
Economists gravely point
out that the two trade blocs
are fully capable of a very
substantial degree of self
sufflciency. This capacity
would be greatly augmented
by a Joint, co-ordinated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04
RALPH McGILL
A Threat to World Trade

course. The Common Market,
for example. would have
vast French outlets in Africa
for finished goods. Africa is
q rich source of raw mate
rails, including iron, alumni
mum ores and uranium, to
mention but three. The
newer group Of seven nations
would have, through Great
Britain, a tie with all the
British commonwealth mem
bers as markets and sup
pliers Of materials for manu-
facture.
What causes our trade ex-
perts to fret the more about
the possibilities is that the
suggestion by Sweden for
such an organization. with
Britain as a silent partner
in the call, was avidly &C
cepted. In q matter Of a day
or so they had agreed on a
cut Of 20 per cent in all
tariffs to be effective by July,
1860.
1t is possible the two blocs
will work out agreements for
nondiscrimination, even If
they attain no direct, inter-
locking cooperation. The
United States may be ex-
pected to encourage this pos
sibility.
But starkly before the
United States is the impor-
tant-to-employment prob
lem Of not merely maintain
ing. but increasing, our ex-
ports to Western Europe.
There is, say economists,
just one way to do this. And
that is to make agreements
for reciprocal reduction of
tariffs.
This will cause great cries
Of anguish in and out Of Con-
gress. But the OK, while not
quite in the ditch, is on
the edge Of IT,. And If he falls
in. the effect will be some
what like that Of Humpty
Dumpty's.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04

is looking for any indications
Of lobbying, influence or pres.
sure tactics on behalf of any
particular weapon or individual
service.
Defense contractors already
have been polled to learn what
retired high ranking military
officers or civilian officials they
employ, and these persons have
been sent individual question
naireS.
The subcommltte begins
hearings Tuesday, with Deputy
Secretary of Defense Thomas
s. Gates, jr., scheduled as the
first witness.
The associations also are
being asked to list retired Off
GERS or officials in their employ
The subcommittee additionally
asks, as any person employed
or affiliated with your organi-
zation registered under the
Lobbying Act?"
If the association questioned
replies yes" to an inquiry as
to whether it concerns itself
with "any activity of or for the
Department Of Defense" it is
then asked further questions.
These include its dues struc-
ture, any other sources of in
come, who solicits dues or other
income, a breakdown of SAL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04
COAST FAMILY
GETS FIRST GIRL
IN 200 YEARS

HOLLYWOOD, Calf.
(AP).-Oh, boy! It's a grill
That was the cry in the
Richard E. Carpenter
household today. For Mrs.
Carpenter has given birth
to the first girl born into
the Carpenter clan for 200
years.
1T has been seven or
maybe eight generations
since the family had a
girl" Mr.. Carpenter, 30,
said joyfully last night.
The Carpenters live in
nearby Paramount. The
daughter, Laura Anne, was
born Thursday at Holly
wood Presbyterian Hospital.
They have one other
child "a boy, naturally,
aged 2.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04

Perhaps because of a
national psychology of eter-
nal sufficiency produced by
generations Of Fourth of July
orators, the American citizen
is bored with talk of world
trade. He vaguely knows
that the textile people are
not in favor of it and the
automobile manufacturers
are. But he prefers that
"They" take care Of it.
"They" is Washington.
Hence, news that a second
free-trade alliance has emer-
ged in Western Europe will
cause hardly a ripple. Few
papers will trouble them
selves to print anything
about 1t. Rare will be the
television commentator who
discusses it. 1t is not so in
tereSting a subject as rape or
riot.
But in Washington "They"
are concerned. And in the
large banks of the Nation,
and in Offices Of major cor
porations there are worried
frownS.
The new free-trade alliance
is composed Of Britain,
Sweden, Denmark, Norway.
Switzerland, Austria and
Portugal. 1t is formed out Of
an economic necessity to
counter the already func-
tioning European Economic
Community or Common
Market. established some
years ago by West Germany,
France. italy. The Neither
lands, Belgium and Luxem-
bourg.
The new alliance insists it
is not formed to compete with
the Common Market, but to
provide a mechanism for
maintaining broad economic
cooperation in Western Eu-
rope.
If it is indeed designed to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04
BY HOWARD DUTKIN
Star Stah Writer


A tug-of-war is going on ir
the Defense Department ovel
the content of an executive or.
der being drafted to meet Mon
days Supreme Court decision
striking down a key provision
of the security screening pro-
gram for civilian defense work
ers.
Until the court acted, en-
ployeS in private induStrie:
holding Government contracts
did not have the right to con.
front their accusers if they
were named as security risks
The high court held that this
procedure was invalid, basing
its decision on the fact that the
non-confrontation hearing had
never been authorized by the
President or Congress. A ma
jority of the justices also indi-
Gated doubt as to whether the
procedure would be conStitu-
tional even if it had been au-
thorized, but the court did not
reach this point in it's ruling
Shortly after the decision was
announced President Eisenhow-
er ordered a study of what
should be done next and Penta-
gon experts began working on
the draft of an executive order
which will meet the Courts
finding of a lack of proper au-
thorization.
Two Schools Of Thought
There are two schools of
thought at the Pentagon as to
what approach the new order
should take in the matter OF
conformation.
One group of experts would
take notice of the courts ap-
parent miSgivings about the
conStitutionality of the present
program, with or without au-
thorization. They would remove
the protection now given Gas
ual informantS" against dis
closure of their identities. Pro-
fesSional informants, such al
undercover agents Of intelli-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04

Mi. Hart said in a state
ment:
Within the past two days
the most serious urgings were
presented by more than one
influential Senator to the
White House, the State De-
partment and the Bureau OF
immigration seeking to obtain
Immediately the right of asy-
lum in. the United States fol-
Gen. Fulgencio Batista.
The general has repeatedly in
Dictated his desire to join men,
berS Of his family at his Day.
tona Beach home, to withdraw
from politics altogether and to
remove himself as a focus of
political antagoniSms in the
Seething Caribbean area"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04

bilities for the establishment
of new industries were consid-
cred by foreign investors dur
ing the year but none came to
fruition."
The situation is the more
troubled in that the northern
part of the country, despite a
gift Of surplus United States
corn, is suffering from fairly
serious famine while the south
is gripped in a water shortage.
The water shortage was cush-
Toned for visiting Americans
and other potential foreign in
vestors staying at the swank,
government-owned Ambassador
Hotel. But in the native town
the women slept by the pumps
in the hope that they might get
a little water for drinking or
cooking.
Stale Jelly Roll
All this means that the po-
litical difficulties of DR.. Nkru-
nah are being enhanced by the
economic situation. The Prime
Minister has promised a lot of
pie = in = the sky for the last
eight years and produced MOTH
ing but stale jelly rolls. The
fact that the situation is by no
means entirely his fault makes
it no less comfortable for him.
He desperately needs some
thing dramatic-like the sign
ing Of an agreement with the
United States to build the Vol
Ia River project-to keep him
self politically solvent. If he
has to turn to the Russians,
communism in West Africa will
get a big boost.
On the other hand, the Unit
ed States will earn no pladdits
from the opposition in Ghana
if it supports an uneconomic
project which would only serve
to cement DR.. Nkrumah's po-
lltical hold on the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04
Security Ruling Stirs
Defense Tug-of-Wor

gence units, still would be pro-
tected.
The so-called casual in
formants," are non-profession-
als-neighbors or co-workerS of
the defense worker in question,
for example. Under current
pra ctice, the Government
pledges to protect their identity
unless they are willing to be
identified.
The other point Of view,
which is held by most security
officials, is that dropping the
protection of secrecy for all in
formantS would dry up valuable
sources of information and i'm
pede the Nations ability to pro-
tect its military secrets.
Hurdle Postponed
They feel the executive order
should be drafted to continue
the program as it is now set
up, with the present non-con-
frontation provision. This, they
recognize, involves more risk if
the program should be taken
back to the Supreme Court for
a constitutionality test. But
that is a hurdle to be taken
later, they say.
Actually. Defense officials
estimate that conformation is
denied in only about Is per
cent of all security cases that
reach the hearing stage. In
about half the cases which
reach the hearings, the accused
persons does not contest the
facts but merely challenged the
conclusions reached. Thus there
is no need for witnesses.
The Government seeks to
have witnesses appear wherever
permission can be obtained and
it is deemed not to infringe on
investigative methods.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04

aries by classes of employees.
The subcommittee asks for a
sample Of publications.
1t inquiries also about the ad-
vertiSing budget and who ad-
ministers it and specifically
about sums spent for enter
tainment, grants and honora-
RUINS - payments for such
things as speeches and articles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04
TROUBLED GHANA
Cocoa Price Spells
Riches or Rags

Negro Communist w. E. B. Du-
Bots urged Africans to com
pare the offers of the monop-
olized Western private capita
lists with those of socialist
countries like the Soviet Union
and China, which with infinite
sacrifice and pouring out OF
blood and tears are at last able
to offer weak nations needed
capital on better terms than
the West"
Dubois went on to say that
acceptance involved mo bonds
which a free African may not
safely assume" while Western
aid meant slavery and colonial
control"
Declining Balances
DR.. Nkrumah'S build-at-any-
cost attitude is indicative of
more than boyiSh enthusiasm.
Not only has he pledged him
self politically to the project
but Ghana's present economic
condition is not as good as it
might be. Her overseas bal
anceS have been steadily de-
Ginning since 1854. a drop OF
rs per cent. So has gross ma
tional per capita expenditure,
Although there has been no
flight of foreign capital from
Ghana, neither has there been
a great rush on the part of
foreign investors to put their
money into the country. A re-
cent United States Department
Of Commerce report on Ghana
commented Soberly and ac-
curately: "A number of posi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04
Gross Nets but Little
In War on Expense
BY ARTHUR EDISON
Associated Press star Writer

| ASSoclAteu FreSB SJan Wrlter
II Congress didn't stress COM
mittee work so much and put
more emphasis on floor debate,
Representative H. r. Gross of
Waterloo. Iowa. would be one
Of the best-known legislators.
Drop in on the House almost
any time it's in session.
Chances are Mr.. Gross, a
Republican, will be there. If
the bill involves money, and
most bills seem to, chances are
he will soon be suggesting ways
to cut the appropriations.
A former reporter and news
commentator, Mr.. Gross, at so,
has been a Congressman for
more than 10 years. Yet he
couldn't look less like the
traditional back-slapping poll
tician.
He's a small man, and his
Iexpression-or rather lack of
it-makes him look like a
marked-down version of the
poker-faced Buster Keaton.
The House has just consid-
cred a bill that includes money
for the State Department.
Lush Dining Room
Here's a sample of Mr.. Gross
in action:
Mr.. GroSS-The yare going
to spend $263,000 on a dining
room?
Representative Bow, Repub-
iican Of Ohio-I think that is
included. That is the dining
room and an international
conference room.
Mr.. GroSS-Are they going to
use platinum on the floors and
walls? I just do not know
how anyone can spend 1858, 900
on a dining room.
Well. it never was cleared up
whether they are going to eat
high on the platinum over at
the State Department, and the
item stayed in the bill.
But Mr.. Gross is the type
who believes no item is too
small to be challenged.
He spotted a $1,000 item for
entertainment, and suggested
it be kicked out.
Soft Drinks Come High
This is for $1,000 worth of
Coca Cola" Representative
Rooney, Democrat of New York,
told the House. "It is for the
folks we bring from overseas
under our educational exchange
program and if, along the way,
after having spent some four,
five or six thousand dollars on
them, bringing them from their
native lands, they see everybody
else at the railroad station or
airport having a Coca Cola, we
should be such good hosts as
to give them a Coca Cola, too.
This amendment involves only
$1,000"
Wouldn't Mr.. Gross withdraw
his amendment?
mo-" Mr.. Gross said, to no.
body's surprise, II will not with
draw it. 1t says entertain
ment.' It does not say anything
about Coca-Cola."
Naturally, Mr.. Gross lost. So,
up to $1,000 worth, the drinks
and/or entertainment will be
on the House. |
Opposes Handouts
Mr.. Gross is against what he
calls foreign handouts"
He is against Congressman
going on long trips at Govern
ment expense. What are we
getting with all these junketing
outfits that have been going all |
over the world?"
He is against officials who
golf on the taxpayers time.
By their very nature, most of
his arguments are lost. But &C.
casionally he wins one.
tits hard to tell" he said,
chow much you accomplish. But
I think there are intangibles."
But despite his constant eco
nomy talk, the Federal budget
stays high. Doesn't he ever feel
completely frustrated?
mot completely" said the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04
Kishi in London

LONDON, July 4 (AP).-
Japan'S Premier Nobosuke
Kishi will have two meetings
with Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan and one with Sir
Winston Churchill on his four
day Mid-July visit to Britain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04
Probers Seek Evidence
Of Weapons Lobbying
THE EVENING STAR
Washington, D. C., Saturday. July 4, 1859
By the Associated Press

House investigators asking 30odd defense ana
military service organizations where they their money
Another question how much do they spend for things
as entertainment and advertising
The questionnaes within the past DAYS
by the House Armed Services Investigations Subcommittee It
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04

man from Waterloo. But !
think every one who tries to
deal with Washington feels
frustrated"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04

of Fernando Pc by an Accra
blacksmith. While the European
firms devoted themselves to the
exploitation of the country'S
more exotic products such as
timber, gold, diamonds and
manganese. the little man
planted cocoa.
Production rose from 80
pounds in 1891 to a record crop
of $4,000 tons in 1886. This
years crop of about 100000
tons, 10 per cent above the
average for the past decade,
should earn for Ghana about
100 million, or well over half
the country's exports by value.
Ghana's cocoa is grown by
800, 900 peasant farmers on in
eficieht plots averaging about
three acres. Production runs
about $50 pounds to the acre
but any farmer worth his mail
order catalogue should get four
times that amount. Ghanian
cocoa periodically has been
swept by blight because ade-
quate control measures we're
not applied.
Political Wager
To lessen Ghana's depend
ence on a crop which has been
subject to violent price fluc-
tuations, Prime Minister Nkru-
nah is betting his political
shirt and his country's econom-
ic viability on the grandioSe
Volta River project.
The scheme, if and when it
is completed, will cost about 81
billion. 1t involves damming
the Volta 10 miles from it's
mouth to form a lake 230 miles
long and 5000 square miles in
area. This would provide pow
er to run a smelter to process
into aluminium the vast bauxite
reserves large enough to last
200 years. AS part of the scheme
a new railroad and q deep
water port, the latter approach
ing completion, will have to be
built.
Government spokesm e n
maintain that initial annual
production would reach 100, 900
tons and could easily be dou-
bled. They maintain that the
scheme would give employment
to 10, 900 Ghanians and increase
the value of the country's ex-
ports by 40 per cent to $3.50
million.
Economic Survey
There is only one problem:
Financing. The scheme has
been under consideration for a
number of years but neither
the United States or Britain
are convinced that it is eco
nomic. A team jointly financed
by the United States and
Ghanaian governments is just |
winding up a new survey of
the situation. If the report is
favorable, the United States
will probably make the credits
available to Ghana. If it is
unfavorable, the United States
may offer to finance a smaller
project on the Volta which
would help Nkrumah save poll
tical face.
But in private conversations
Premier Nkrumah has indi-
Gated that he would rather
scrap his country's Five-Year
Development Plan. which in
CludeS badly needed schools,
clinics and agricultural extern
sion centerS, rather than aban-
don the original project. There
has also been talk that Ghana,
II the West turns it down, will |
turn to the Soviet Union for
financial assistance.
At DEFENDERS Accra Pan
African Conference, American
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04

This is the lost Of four articles on
Ghono. Mr.. Hempstone is on Ieove
from his job as q Stor reporter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-07-04
BY SMITH HEMPSTONE
Contributing Writer

ACCRA, Ghana.-The price
Of cocoa spells progress or pow
erty for Ghana, the worlds
largest producer of the bean.
Cocoa was introduced to
Ghana from the Spanish island
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-02-22

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-29
WEE WOMEN

brim from the crown iirst)
and reshaped 1t to q current
style. added q tiny veil. mar
row velvet ribbon band and
q brilliant red rose.
The iirst time I wore It,
q friend admired 1t so much
that she offered to buy 1t
at q price I couldn't refuse,
and the hat was actually
over six years old.
I learned the "dunking"
method while watching pana-
mas being woven and shaped
in Panama years ago. OF
course, any hat remodeling
depends on the kind Of ma
terial used and whether its
present shape can be remod-
eled to suit your type.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-09-29

ably an inn or reputable
hotel. for an overnight stay
during the Christmas holi-
days.
If overnight accomoda-
tons would not be available,
We would like the names Of
recommended dining rooms
within this area aside from
the usual reputable chain
restaurants. It must be with
In reasonable cost, and for
overnight inn. we would like
to accommodate my hus-
band. six-year-old daughter.
myself and q widowed sister.