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In Need of Prayer

SAN DIEGO. Calf. (AP).-
A 5-year-old neighbor Of Bill
Veeck, jr.. said their trash col
lector was very religious. He
took of his hat after the bot
tom Of o trash barrel fell out.
the boy said. lifted his eyes to
the sky and asked God for
help.
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gle for economic supremacy"
To Offset this danger. he said.
America should put its ideas.
ideals and treasure" into an
aggressive campaign to pro-
mote Its way Of life.
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QUERY LIMITING POSSIBILITY
or FRAUD LRKS PRESIDENT

President Eisenhower 1ared up in a show of anger
today at what he called newsmans implication that
someone in the executive branch of the Government is
guilty of fraud
The President snapped that he doesn't believe any,
thing of the Sort
Mr.. EiSenhower's dspleasure was reused at his news
conference by question from Clark R. Molenhof, rep
resenative of the Mones Register and Tribune and
the Minneapolis Star and Tribune.
Mr.. Mollenhof spoke of what he called secrecy
ecutve branch operations He said there had been
gestons that such might fraud and mis-
management
The reporter asked how Mr. Eisenhower squared that
situation with laws requiring publication of information
and with the Presidents responsibility to uphold the Con-
stitution.
With show of anger, Mr. Eisenhower suggested that
Mr. Molenhof put his question in writing and let him
take careful look at it, He should do that the
President added because he had stated an implication
that someone guilty of fraud.
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Secretary Mitchell that the
proposed $l.25 minimum wage
bill would be inflationary.
+: 2. Warned that any COM
promise on financing the high
way program would mean slow
ing down the rate Of construc-
ton II 1t involves less than the
one and one-half cent increases
in the gasoline tax he recon-
mended to keep the program
solvent.
a In denyin gthat he has made
excessive use Of the veto power,
Mr.. Eisenhower gave reporters
some statistics when asked II
he feared a stalemate on major
legislation.
The President recalled that in
eight years Grover Cleveland
issued 584 veteos. In IL years
he said Franklin d. Roosevelt
vetoed Ga bills. even though he
never had a Congress of the
opposite party to deal with. The
President said his own record
to date is l40 vetoes, adding,
land so far as I know none was
| on a partisan basis"
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Barring a quick settlement.
the Nationwide steel strike
could begin slowing down big
Washington area building prof.
ects in about two weeks.
Among the first to be affected
would be the new Central In
telligence Agency structure in
Langley, Va.
j. Slater Davidson, vice presi-
dent in charge of construction
for the Charles H. Tompkins
Co., said lack of steel may shut
down that project in two to
four weeks.
THE strike will be a severe
blow to any job that is in the
structural framework phase of
construction" he said. ANY
large job that does not have a
supply on the site is going to be
out of business in two weeks or
a month"
See Months Leeway
A spokesman for the General
Service Administration said
other large Government build
ing projects in the area should
be in the clear for at least a
month.
The contractor has stock
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Senate Majority Leader john
son has been saying recently
the final total may not be too
much below the Eisenhower
budget.
The Senate passed the big
defense bill, 900, late yester-
day after two days of debate,
1t included in the measure
500, 594 $4,000 of new money
as well as $3.50 million of trans
fer authority from revolving
funds.
The new cash was $346 mil
lion r:ore than President Eisen-
hover asked and $746 million
more than the House voted.
NucIear Carrier Item
The Senate put into the
measure $3.50 million for the
Nations second nuclear-pow-
cred aircraft carrier, instead
of the $3.50 million conven-
tional carrier budgeted by Mr..
Eisenhower. An amendment
proposed by Senator Proxmire,
Democrat of Wisconsin, to
eliminate the $3.50 million was
defeated.
The Senate approved also its
Appropriations Committees &C
ton in adding $405 million to
the 81 024.000,000 Mr.. Eisen-
hover asked to give the Army
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Area Work Vulnerable
If Long Strike Ensues

piled a steel supply for Federal
Offica Building No. 8 at Fourth
and C streets S.W.. the GSA
said, and other major projects
have either passed, or not yet
reached, the phase where q
steady supply of steel is vital
Capitol Architect j. George
Stewart said the contractor
has a sufficient supply of steel
to begin structural work on
the new House Office Building
scheduled to start September !
Other Projects in Clear
He estimated that other Cap
itol Hill projects, such as the
extension of the East Front
and construction Of a subway
terminal at the new Senate
Office Building, are in the clear
for six to eight weeks.
Henry Gichner, president Of
the Fred S. Gichner Iron Works
Inc, said the most immediate
effect of the strike would be 9
shortage of certain sizes AMI
shapes of material.
He said the company's over
all inventory is substantial,
and the volume of fabrication
can continue at reasonable
levels, for some weeks"
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coal, railroad, ore mining and
Great Lakes shipping indus
tries, have been laid off or will
be soon.
It's not expected that steel
users, who have been stockpil-
ing supplies for months, will
feel any shortage Immediately.
But industry sources say the
booming demand for steel has
cut deeply into stockpiling
plans. There is less steel avail
able than many users would
need to carry through a strike
Of major duration.
However, the auto industry,
Steel's biggest customer, is in
position to go so days or more
without particular difficulty.
Value of production lost by
the strike in the steel industry
alone is estimated at some $500
million a week. Loss in wages
and other benefits to steelwork-
ers is calculated at about $40
million weekly.
Each side sternly accused the
other of precipitating the
strike.
Mr.. Mcdonald had proposed
a one, two or three year con-
tract granting a 15-cent hourly
package pay increase annually
This was the settlement in a
three-year pact in 1856 which
ended a 34-day strike.
The industry rejected the
proposal outright.
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u. S. Anti-Red
Status Due Study
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
The Senate has voted a $780,
600 study of the effectiveness
Of the organization of the Fed
eral Government for the con-
test with world communism.
Senator Jackson, Democrat,
OF Washington, author of the
resolution setting up the
project, said it had the support
of the Eisenhower administra-
ton.
He said the study would be
concerned chiefly with the eff
f1ciency of Federal agencies in
working up and carrying out
an integrated national policy
"for the solution of the prob
lens of survival with which the
free world is confronted in the
contest with world commu-
nism."
A Government operations
subcommittee which Senator
Jackson heads will make the
study.
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DIXON-YATES
Continued From First Page

OOASD7OOu EAOIN EhSt age
Atomic Energy Commission
plants.
Mississippi Valley had been
set up by Middle South Utilities,
Inc, headed by Edgar H. Dixon,
and the Southern Co., headed
by Eugene A. Yates.
The contract stirred up a bat
tie in Congress over charges
that private power was usurp-
ing a public power area.
Mr.. Eisenhower ordered the
contract Cancelled in 1855.
At the time the city of Mem
phis, Tenn, decided to build a
power plant of its own rather
than take power from the
Dixon Yates plant.
Joining Judge Madden in
holding that Mr.. Wenzell played
no role of conflicting interests
we're Judge Don Laramore of
the Court of Claims, and United
States District Judge Albert B.
Bryan of Alexandria, Va. Judge
Bryan was especially assigned
to sit with the court to hear the
case.
Chief Judge Marvin Jones
and retired Judge Stanley F.
Reed of the Supreme Court, who
also was assigned especially for
the case. dissented.
Judge Madden said former
Budget Director ROWAN d
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prepared for another round Of
speech making and SAID such
fruitless public debate might 90
on for the rest Of the week.
Western rejection Of Mr..
Gromyko's move to bring the
Germans into the secret ses-
sions resulted in no Big Four
session yesterday. The West
ern ministers took advantage Of
the brief recess to try to put
their own policies and tactics
in order for the rest Of the
conference. All available in
formation indicated they didn't
get very far.
Russian Proposal
The key problem dividing
the allies is what price to pay
the Soviets for a Berlin agree
ment, which would amount to
a truce in the crisis created by
the Russians last November
with their threat to give the
East German Communists con-
troll Of the allies trafflc with
their garrisons in West Berlin.
The Russians have proposed
that they continue their
present traffic conrol for 10
months while a committee Of
East and West Germans ne
gotiates toward German reuni-
f1cation and a peace settlement.
If they failed to agree in IS
months. the problem would go
back to the Big Four.
Mr.. Herter and British For
eign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd re-
portedly feel some kind of Ger
man negotiations must be ac-
cepted as part Of the price for
deal. But Mr.. de Murville is
said to be opposed to any kind
of an alderman group. The
French argue such an arrange
ment would give the Russians
an opportunity to interfere in
West German affairs.
West German Foreign Min
lister Heinrich Won Brentano has
suggested broadening the scope
of the present Berlin negotia-
lions with Russia to include
the basic, long-term issues of
reunif1cation and a peace settle
ment on the grounds it would
give the West more room to
maneuver.
Other Allies Oppose
The Americans, British and
French are against this, con-
tending the only thing the con-
ference may achieve is a deal
on Berlin. The ministers made
their usual proposals on Ger
man Identification and a Euro
pean security system at the
start of the conference in May
and as usual got nowhere.
The British and Americans,
however, generally support an
other West German suggestion
that negotiations for reunifca-
ton and a German peace treaty
be handled by a permanent Big
Four commission instead of by
an alderman committee. The
West and East Germans would
work with the commission as
advisers, an arrangement that
in diplomatic terms means less
formal recognition of the Com
.munist East German regime.
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tied by exceptions, it is the
function of Congress and not
of this court to spell out such
limitations and exceptions"
Recalls COnsultant Role
Judge Madden recalled thai
Mr.. Wenzell served earlier, ir
1858. as a consultant to the
Budget Bureau to make a study
of the iva.
His report, not surprising
indicated that the Government
was, to a considerable extent
substituting the IVA" Judge
Madden said.
Judge Madden said. the
Eisenhower administration de-
cided it would, if feasible. 90.
tain needed additional electrl'
cal power by contracting with
a private generating enterprise
instead of building the TVA
Fulton steam plant. Mr.
Hughes, he continued, theI
called in Mr.. Wenzell.
Mr.. Hughes recognized Mr.
Wenzell as sympathetic to thu
administrations purposes anC
policy with regard to public
power and private enterprise
the judge said.
Planned Private Capital
Judge Madden commented
that Mr.. Wenzell and hi
permanent employer, FRS
Boston, wanted to explore thu
possibility of making a con.
tract for erection of a general.
ing plant with private capital
He added:
Their enthusiasm in thi'
purpose equaled, no doubt, but
could hardly have exceeded, that
of the President of the United
States and his director of thu
Bureau of the Budget.
"Wenzell was hired by thu
director because he was s
knowledgeable person and wa
on the Administrations side O.
the political-economic contro'
versy about public versus pri
vate generation of power. 1
could hardly be expected tina
the administration would hirt
as a consultant an expert from
the ranks of the enthusiasts TO,
public power. The administra'
tons policy was a perfectly le
climate one, and it has a ligh
to use all legitimate means tt
make its policy succeed. tt
powerful urge to get a contrac
put it at a possible disadvan'
tage, but no claim is made il
this case that the contract
which was made was an i'm
provident one."
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Hughes used Mr.. Wenzell as an
expediter and to keep alive the
interest of private utilities in
the project. But Judge Madden
said, Mr.. Wenzell had substan-
TALLY nothing to do with the
substance of the contract.
Judge Madden said the Gov
eminent conceded before the
court that the contract it sought
to repudiate was an honest one
arrived at after hard and skill
full bargaining by representa-
tives of the Government with
complete fidelity.
He wrote that the Dixon
Yates contract became useless
to the Government only be-
caues of the decision of Mem
phis to generate its own power
THE purpose of the contract
being thus frustrated" Judge
Madden said, "the Government
summons, in order to escape Its
responsibility under its honest
contract, the moral and legal
generalization that a servant
cannot faithfully serve two
masters.
Our conclusion is that Wen
zell's activities were not within
the prohibition of the statute
Conflict of INTEREST," on which
the Government relies, nor
were they such as to render
the contract unenforceable on
the grounds of public policy
Judge Bryan said in a con-
curing opinion that the very
points relied upon by the Gov
eminent to invalidate the con-
tract were originally vouched
for by the Government to
conclude it.
Justice Reed said in his dis
senting opinion that the Dixon
Yates claim for damages should
be dismissed on the ground Of
public policy.
Judge Jones said in a sep
arate dissenting opinion the
majority conclusion that the
contract was enforceable
seems to stem from an under
standable desire to avoid 6
harsh result in this case"
Judge Jones added that the
policy so clearly expressed ir
the conflict-of interest statute
leaves no room for equitable
considerations" He wrote:
ITO my mind, the policy
means that in a situation such
as revealed in this case, the
tendency or the likelihood oil
a disadvantage to the Govern
ment invalidates the power
contract. I cannot join in chip
ping out exceptions to a policy
so forceably laid down by Con-
gress nor agree that the con-
f1ict of interest statute means
little when it says much. If the
! policy is to be narrowed or lin
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more modern weapons and
equipment.
The longest floor debate in
volved a relatively small pro-
vision earmarking 500 million
for commercial airlines out OF
the 1928 million the bill would
provide for the Military Air
Transport Service.
Senator Thurmond, Demo-
crat Of South Carolina, called
this a subsidy to the private
carriers and sought to cut it to
$50 million. He lost on a tie
vote, 46-46.
Vice President Nixon was in
the chamber and could have
broken the tie, but elected not
to do SO.
Nine Bills Reduced
The Senate made fairly small
cuts totalling 1928 million in
the first nine regular appropri-
ations bills for fiscal 1860 which
it considered. The year started
two weeks ago on July /.
But 1t more than wiped out
the savings by going 1855 mil
lion over the budget on the
bill for the Labor and Health
Education Welfare Depart
mentS. Most of this was for
health research.
Then it exceeded Mr.. Eisen-
hower's requests by $50 million
on the public works bill carry
ing money for water projects
for all parts of the country.
And, finally. it went $346 mil
lion over on defense.
But all three of these in
creases probably will be whit
tied down somewhat in con-
ference since the Senate al
lowances are well beyond those
voted by the House,
The Senate has exceeded the
House figures on II of the IL
money bills which have passed
both branches. @
Chance for More Cuts
There also will be an OPP
portunity for some further cuts
on four big money bills yet
to be considered, particularly
on the foreign aid measure
which always is sharply dis
puted.
Others still ahead are a
cleanup supplemental money
bill, an atomic energy appro-
priations bill, and a military
construction measure. Demo-
cratic leaders look for some
cuts on all of these.
However, congressional ac-
ton on appropriations usually
does not tell the final story
on spending in any fiscal year.
Part of the cuts made in them
often are restored by later
supplemental appropriations.
And some spending items do
not go through the appropria-
tions process at all but instead
are authorized in other legis-
lation directly out of the
Treasury. Housing bills are an
example of this type of financ-
ing. .--. ~
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RoyoI Recognition

EAST ANGUS, Quebec (AP) {.
Mr.. and Mrs. John DeSruis-
seaux received congratulations
from Queen Elizabeth when
they celebrated their 65th
wedding anniversary. OF their
is children, II are still living.
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EISENHOWER'S FIRST CHOICE
CONGRESS
Continued From First Page

COntlnueu FROM rlTSJ rage
ing management Of a $3.50 bill
lion public debt. He said the
Government is seeking too
much short-term credit and
must have interest rates that
will enable it to spread the debt
over a longer period Of years.
The President said there are
two bad amendments being
considered in Congress in con-
nection with Government in
terest rates. One is the two
year limit on the authority and
the other a provision that the
Federal Reserve Board should
buy the bonds to increase the
money supply. He said he
thought the Reserve Board
would consider that an un-
sound operation, but would
make no prediction as to
whether he would rather have
no bill than such authority.
The President denied he is
trying to establish Govern
ment by veto and expressed
hope compromises will be pos
sible with the Democratic
controlled Congress on i'm
portant legislation.
He said there has been nc
damage to his personal rela-
tons with Speaker Rayburn
and Senate Democratic Leader
johnson. He was greeted with
hearty laughter at his news
conference, however, when he
added that getting along Off
cially with a Congress of the
opposite party is mo bed Of
roses"
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licized speechmaking sessions.
The conference has become
snarled by disagreements, not
only between Russia and the
West, but between the Western
powers themselves on some
issues.
British and Soviet officials
were reported to have made
some progress on getting the
talks into a series Of social
meetings on various levels
shortly before the Big Four
ministers went into a formal
session at the Palace Of Ma
tons today.
Talks in Snarl Now
Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei A. Gromyko plunged the
conference into confusion
Monday by announcing he
would insist that delegations OF
East and West Germany be in
cluded in any future secret
talks. The West promptly re-
jected this effort to win for
East Germany a bigger role in
the conference. They con-
slider the East German regime
is a puppet of Moscow, and
not representative of the Ger
man people.
Meanwhile experts from
Western delegations began try
ing to work out a compromise
plan for an alderman COM
mission to work on a scheme
for German uniflcation and a
German peace treaty. The all
German commission is one of
the prices the Soviet Union is
demanding for an interim
standstill on Berlin and it is
one of the issues that also di-
vides the West.
French Foreign Minister
Couve de Murville was desig-
mated to lead of for the West
at the formal session today with
q demand that Mr.. Gromvko
clarity whether Western rights
in Berlin would be guaranteed
during a Berlin freeze.
Offensive Not Possible
The Western Foreign Minis
tiers so far were unable or un-
willing to seize the diplomatic
offensive against Mr.. Gromyko
in an effort to get serious nego-
tiations started on a temporary
Berlin settlement.
One of the reasons appar-
emily was that the allies were
unable to agree on terms they
can accept which might also
be acceptable to Mr.. Gromyko.
The Western ministers are
convinced that if any settle
ment is to be negotiated with
the Soviet Union, it will have
to be hammered out in secret
sessions. Their proposal to
resume secret talks has been
frustrated for the time being,
however, by Mr.. Gromyko'S in
sistence on including German
representatives.
Semipublic Session Opens
A formal, semipublic session
began at 4:01 pm. (10.01 am.
EST this afternoon at the
Palace of Nations, but Western
officials discounted the POSSIBLE
Ity of achieving anything. They
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Geneva May Achieve
Series of Social Talks
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
Associated Press stan Writer

GENEVA July l5-Brtain and the Soviet Union were re-
ported today have made toward revvng secret
talks at the Big Four foreign ministers conference
Western nformants said the foreign ministers or their
deputies may begin series Of social meetings later this week
in order to take negotiations Of the glare of wepub
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Presidents total APPROPRIATIONS
requests when 1t winds up the
1859 session.
Democratic leaders have been
predicting such a cut, although
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Funds bySenote Exceed
Eisenhower Requests
BY the Associated Press

The Senate far has exceeded President Eisenhowers
budget requests by 1858 million with passage of the biggest
of the money bills-the $40 billion defense measure
Despite this record however Congress still seems to
be in good position to make overall in the
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EEL

Continued From First Page
after two months of contract
negotiations that had gotten
nowhere.
The union gave no indica-
ton Of retreating from its de-
mand for higher wages and
improved fringe benefits. Just
as steadfastly, the industry
stuck to its position that it
could not increase production
costs, but must be able to effect
some economies.
Those were the basic posi-
tons when negotiations began
10 weeks ago. They remained
unchanged as the strike began.
Threat to Economy
The walkout shut of so per
cent of the country's steelmak-
ing capacity and threatened to
slow down the entire United
States economy, booming once
more. after a Gripping recess
sion. Steel companies not rep
resented by the USW and those
with agreements on contract
extensions comprise the 10 per
cent of the industry unaffected
by the strike.
At the urging of President
Eisenhower, deeply concerned
over the potential effects Of the
strike, Joseph Finnegan, direc-
tor of the Federal Mediation
and Cancellation Service, ar
ranged separate meetings this
afternoon in New York with
representatives of the industry
and union.
Promptly at midnight-and
in some instances before
workers streamed in orderly
fashion from mills across the
country.
Major steelmaking facilities
had been halted in anticipation
Of the strike and the final shut
downs came without incident.
Mixed Emotions
Men at the mills greeted the
strike with mixed emotions.
Some left their jobs reluctant
ly: some militantly.
Will it be a long strike?
1t could be, judging from the
adamant positions of union and
management.
The dispute, in a nutshell, is
this:
The union contends steel
worker productivity and indus
Try profits justify increased
wages and benefits.
The industry says a boost in
labor costs would be imitation
airy: it must, in fact, institute
economy measures.
Effects Felt Quickly
Effects nf the stTika yuera folt