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Evening star., 1960-02-09
Latin Nations DepIore
Oppression by TrujiIIo

Cuban representative to the
OAS. said during yesterdays
debate his government gives
complete backing to the grave
accusations" made by Venezu-
ella against the Trujillo re-
gime.
On behalf of the Dominican
Republic. Ambassador Virgilio
Diaz Ordonez denied that any
violations have occurred. He
suggested that Venezuela
brought the charges at the spe-
cial meeting of the council in
order to divert attention from
its own domestic troubles land
the fact it collaborated in an
invasion of our country last
year"
Denies Mass Arrests
The Dominican envoy re-
jected the idea that thousands
Of persons have been arrested.
The actual total, he said, is
1913. and all of these were sub
mitted to legal processes, in
accordance with our laws and
constitution, with defense guar
anteed."
Ambassador Falcon Briceno
declared mo one on earth"
could question the good faith
or the facts of the pastoral
letter.
The ll-member general COM
mittee Of OAS is considering
the Venezuela charges in execu-
tive session. officials at the
Pan American Union were un-
certain how long they would
remain in session and various
diplomats acknowledged they
are not sure what, specifically,
could be done about the situa-
tion in the Dominican Republic.
Evening star., 1960-02-09
Actress in Hospital

HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 9 (AP)
"A back injury suffered during
q stage performance two years
ago Is troubling Actress June
Havoc again. She was placed
under observation yesterday at
Cedars Of Lebanon Hospital.
Evening star., 1960-02-09
He Enjoyed Jail?

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Feb 9
(AP).-A head count at the city
jail's noon meal showed one too
many prisoners yesterday. Po-
lice found a recently freed pris-
oner in line with the trustees
and threw him out.
Evening star., 1960-02-09

has said he knows where Mrs.
Porumbeanu Is but is not tell
ing.
Mr.. Schneikart's demand
that Mr.. Hoffman and Mrs.
Benedict disclose where his
daughter is will be argued in
court Thursday.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Porumbeanu,
IS. and a blond identified only
as "Sheila from Long Island
when nightclubbing together.
But the Romanian-born for
mer chauffeur said it meant
nothing-he is still true, he
said, to Gamble.
Evening star., 1960-02-09

LIE pTOSTaIn WOulQ D6 q
watered-down version of the
health insurance program for
present Government workers
which starts in July.
Because Of the cost aspects,
the benefits for retired workers
and their dependents would be
less liberal to start with and
would decline each year as
they grew older.
ANNUITY INCREASE
Meanwhile, Chairman Murray
of the House Civil Service
Committee had some good news
for retired'Fe workers and
their survivors.
Mr.. Murray said he has been
assured that the House Appro-
priations Committee will vote
funds to continue the 10 per
cent temporary annuity in
crease voted in 1858 which is
due to expire June 80.
Mr.. Murray received a letter
from Representative Thomas,
Democrat of Texas, chairman
OF the House Appropriations
subcommittee that handles
civil service retirement fund
matters, that funds to continue
the 10 per cent annuity increase
will be approved.
SCIENTISTS AND ENGI-
NEERS-The National Society
of Professional Engineers has
proposed a more flexible system
of fixing the pay of Govern
ment engineers and scientists.
In letter to the House Civil
Service Committee which now
is making a study of the Fed
eral salary problem, the society
urged that Federal agencies be
given the authority, if practical,
to set starting rates Of pay for
scientists and engineers at a
level which compares COM
petitively with prevailing in
duStry rates.
Also, the group urged that
the Government have the au-
thority to quickly, efficiently
and effectively" adjust scien-
lists and engineers pay as
comparable industry rates
change.
In addition, the society
urged a separate pay schedule
for professional employees in
Government with realistic
salary scales set, merit raises
provided for outstanding per-
formance and removal of
limitations on the number of
top-paylng civil service jobs.
-
APPEAL UNDER CON-
SIDERATION-The Civil Serv-
ice Commission is now debat-
ing whether to appeal a United
States Court of Claims de-
cision which gives greater ap-
peal and hearing rights to
veterans in Government who
are fired because of receiving
unsatisfactory perfor nance
ratings. elss
The csc says it is not true
that it has decided not to ap-
peal the case to a higher court.
No decision has been made
one way or the other, it was
emphasized.
Also. it declared that even if
the courts decision was unchal-
lenged. the greater rights would
Evening star., 1960-02-09

not be accorded to non-vet-
Grams in similar cases.
Briefly, the court held that If
a veteran is fired because Of
an unsatisfactory performance
rating. he is entitled to a full
appeal and hearing before the
csc on the merits of the case.
The csc has always held that
in such cases the veteran was
not entitled to an appeal on the
merits of the case but only
whether the dismissal was pro-
cedurally correct.
The court remarked that
using the unsatisfactory per-
formance rating method to fire
inefficient employees is doing
things the hard way. 1t sug-
gested the easiest way is to pre-
fer charges against employees
and then take action to rid
them from the Federal payroll.
However, the court said that
if the unsatisfactory perform
ance rating method is used to
fire employees, then veterans
among them do have the right
to an appeal and hearing be-
fore the csc, the same as they
do in cases where charges are
brought against them.
PRESIDENT CRITICIZED
Both the American Federation
of Government Employees and
the National Federation of Fed
eral Employees have renewed
their criticism Of President
Eisenhower for opposing Gov
ernment pay raises this year.
The AFGE executive council
meeting here this week de-
clared that Federal employees
need and deserve a pay raise
not a pay study" This referred
to the Presidents request for
a pay study instead of a pay
raise. The AFGE group said
delaying necessary salary ad-
justments pending completion
of an unnecessary pay study
will only result in making an
unfair situation that much
worse"
The NFFE charged the Presi-
dent with being inconsistent in
his action last week in asking
Government agencies to train
promising employees to replace
the top Federal careerists who
will retire in the immediate
years ahead.
Vaux Owen, NFFE president,
said Mr.. Eisenhower's action in
opposing a pay raise in his
budget message to Congress
last month immeasurably weak
ems the Governments effort
to retain and attract the best
possible career people. Mere
words won't help keep in Gov
ernment its most talented and
promising young people who
can't afford to turn down the
much higher salaries offered
by industry, Mr.. Owen noted.
Moreover, the actions taken
by this administration to re-
move certain positions from
the civil service has been seri-
ously diSquieting to highly
qualified career employees who
have advanced to managerial
positions on merit alone" MI.
Owen said.
Evening star., 1960-02-09
THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT
Senate Unit to Okoy
Retiree Health Bill
BY JOSEPH YOUNG
Star Stan Writer

The Senate Civil Service Committee next Tuesday is
expected to health insurance program 800
retired Government workers and their dependents
subcommittee headed by Senator Marlborough, Demo-
ert Of Texas met the legislation yesterday and agreed
to recommend approval to the full week
Evening star., 1960-06-08
LATIN AMERICAN NOTES
u. S. Firms in Cubo
Decline Soviet Oil

ancourt declined last night to
attend a reception given by
Cuba's visiting President Os-
Waldo Dorticos in the Cuban
Embassy after a crowd of pro-
Castro students blocked his ac-
cess to the Embassy.
Thousands of students had
marched to the residence of
Cuban Ambassador Luis Or
lando Rodriguez after waiting
in vain in the main hall of the
university to hear a speech by
Mr.. Dorticos. The visiting
President apparently stayed
away because Mr.. Betancourt
made him promise to refrain
from making any political re-
marks during his visit, part of
a six-nation Latin American
tour.
When it became apparent
Evening star., 1960-06-08

Mr.. Dorticos was not coming
to the university, a student
leader proposed a march to the
embassy residence.
Mr.. Dorticos appeared in re-
sponse to the students insist
ent shouts and thanked them
for their support. He added
Evening star., 1960-06-08

that he was prevented by proto-
col from addressing them fur
ther. Cuban Foreign Minister
Raul Aoa then took the micro
phone and addressed the crowd.
Meanwhile Mr.. Betancollrt,
apparently annoyed at being
caught in the jam. returned to
his home.
Evening star., 1960-06-08

HAVANA, June 8 (AP). -
United States petroleum COM
panies notified the Cuban gov
ernment yesterday they will not
refine Soviet crude oil as re-
quested by the government, in
formed sources said.
The sources said the COM
panies, Standard Oil (of New
Jersey and Texaco, made their
position known in a letter to
the Cuban Petroleum Institute.
A third refinery operating in
Cuba, British Shell. was re-
ported to have sent a similar
letter.
There was no immediate
comment on the report either
by the companies or the gov
ernment.
The institute announced
May 81 that Standard of New
Jersey, Texaco and British
Shell each had been allotted
SOC, 900 tons of Russian crude
oil to refine this year.
Cuba obtained the oil in ex-
change for sugar under a big
trade agreement signed with
Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas
Mikoyan earlier this year.
Evening star., 1960-06-08
Dorticos Snubbed

CARACAS, Venezuela, June 8
(AP).-President Romulo Bet
Evening star., 1960-06-11
Cubo Takes Over
Z Luxury Hotels

HAVANA, June IL (AP).-
The Ministry Of Labor today
took over two of Havana's larg-
est luxury hotels, the Nacional
and the Havana Hilton. Both
are operated by Americans.
Both hotels have been run
ming at large deficits since the
collapse Of Cuba's. tourist trade,
The 700-room Nacional has
been operated since 1855 by
Pan-American Airways' Inter-
continental Hotel Corp. The
630-room Hilton has been op-
Grated since 1858 by the Hilton
Corp. for the Cuban Hotel and
Restaurant Workers Union
which owns the Havana Hilton
The Labor Ministry's decree
ordering intervention" gov
ernment operation which often
precedes state ownership-also
directed the takeover of the
downtown st. Johns Hotel, the
residential Hotel Rosita de
Hornedo and Havana's largest
night club, the Tropicana.
Labor and economic difficult
ties" were cited in the decree.
Evening star., 1960-06-11
Miami Suit Names
Godfrey, De Orsey

MIAMI. Fla, June II (AP) -
Arthur Godfrey, television per-
sonality, and c. Leo De Orsey,
Washington attorney, were ac-
cuSed yesterday of conniving
with the owners of the Kenil-
worth Hotel to drive out the
management.
The complaint was in a suit
which said Mr.. Godfrey and
Mr.. De Orsey have offered to
buy the hotel for So million.
Kirkeby Hotels, Inc, has
managed and operated the
hotel for the last five years.
It asked Circuit Court to block
the sale; restrain the owners
-Kenilworth Hotel, Inc.-and
Mr.. Godfrey and Mr.. DeOrsey
from bringing any type of court
action aimed at removing the
managers, and straighten out
the involved deal and set forth
tho rights and duEes of all
parties. y
Evening star., 1960-06-11
NATO Post Goes
To Gen. H. P. Storke

NAPLES, Italy, June II (AP) &.
"A new commanding general
has been appointed for the
North Atlantic Treaty Organ
ization headquarters in Izmir,
Turkey.
An announcement yesterday
by Gen. Lauris Norstad. Su-
preme Allied Commander in
Europe, said 1t. Gen. Harry P.
Storke of the United States
Army had been appointed to
succeed 1t. Gen. Paul D. Har-
kins as commander of allied
land forces in Southeastern Eu-
rope, with headquarters at
Izmir. Gen. Storke will take
over the command about August
Is.
(Gen. Storke at present is
commander of the lst United
States Corps in Korea. At the
United States 9th Army's head
quarters in Korea it was said
Gen. Harkins is to become dep
uty commander and chief of
staff, United States Army Paci-
flc at HawaiiJ
Evening star., 1960-06-11
BoWIes Sees
Good Deeds,
Bad Excuses
BY BETTY MILES
Star Staff Writer

ATLANTIC CITY, June Ill
Americans must stop giving in
decent reasons for doing de-
cent things like helping Chile,
a Representative and former
United States Ambassador, be-
lieveS.
When our Government gen.
erously rushes large shipments
of food and medicine to shat
tered Chile, we explain to each
other that this is smart propa-
ganda to set back the Com
munists," Chester wles,
Democratic RepreSe n tative
from Connecticut, told the Ma
tional Conference on Social
Welfare yesterday.
1T is as though we have felt
it necessary to justify decency
by proving that the real rea-
sons for our actions are not as
decent as they SEEM" Mr..
Bowles said.
why do we give bad reasons
for doing good things?" he
asked. Because we don't want
to seem to be suckers"
Also, Mr.. Bowles declared,
Through our fears and frus-
trationS we have come to act
AS though our chief national
purpose in world affairs is not
to maintain and extend our
basic American commitment
to human dignity, but simply
to thWart the Russians"
In a press conference ampli-
flying his address to the closing
session of the 87th annual
forum of the conference, Mr.
Bowles observed:
1--WE give Khrushchev a
chance to say to other coun-
tries. Thank us Russians for
all we've done fer you and also
thank us for what the Amer
leans have done, too.'"
Americans have adopted the
semantics of materialiSm and
manipulation to explain some
Of their most admirable actions
Mr.. BowleS contended.
Mr.. BowleS is encouraged
however, by more good crea-
tive thinking in America today
than in a long time"
He looks for a reassertion OF
our historic Identification with
idealism and compassion.
I'VE can no longer pretend,
he said, that we're not what
we are"
Evening star., 1960-06-11
Area Players
Capture Bridge
7 ourney Titles

Area players have taken top
honors in the 18th annual Po-
tomac Valley Contract Bridge
Championship which opened
yesterday at the Sheraton Park
Hotel.
Mrs. Beverly Torrey and
Mrs. Allyn G. Whitehead won
the women's pair event while
Maj. William Christian and
Paul Kibler took the mems
pair title.
Miss Jenny Bryant of WASH
ington and Mrs. M. F. Ruffner
of Corpus Christi, Tex, finished
second over SO pairs in the
women's match while area
players David Murray and
Larry Reynolds were runner
up in the AZ pair mems compe-
tition.
Robert Jordan of Philadel-
phia, a former Washington
resident, and Mrs. John Liss-
berger Of Baltimore. won the
mixed pair championship last
night over a record field of
148 couples. Mrs. Dixie Bortz
and Paul Kibler, boht of WASH
ington, tied with Mrs. K. T.
Higgins and Alan Pierce for
second honors IN this event.
The tournament, which is
sponsored by the Washington
Bridge League, continued to-
day with the two-Session open
pair title match. Team of
four play is featured tomorrow
afternoon and evening. Special
single-seSsion pair games are
slated for 8 o'clock tonight,
1890 and $50 pm. tomorrow
Evening star., 1960-06-11
Italian Beauty
Wins Title of
Miss Europe

BEIRUT, Lebanan, June IL
AP).-Curvaceous Anna Ranal-
Ii of Italy tonight was elected
Miss Europe of 1861.
An international panel of
judges selected the beauty from
San Bendetto del T-onto in
competition with queens from
Is other countries.
Named to her court of hon.
or in the following order were
Miss Germany, Rita Simon;
Miss Sweden, Monica Abra-
hanson; Miss Austria, Luise
K a m m mayer, and Miss
France, Brigitte Barazer de
Lannurien.
A crowd at Beirut's lavish
new casino broke into cheers
and band struck up the Ital-
ian national anthem for the
winner.
The 18-year-old girl told re-
porters she doesn't have the
usual beauty queens ambition: ::
She doesn't want to be a movie
star.
Miss Ranalli already has ap-
peared in one Italian film and
has signed a new contract.
But I want to cancel it," she
said. Il don't like the movie
atmosphere"
AS soon as she was crowned,
Miss Ranalli was escorted to the
table of Lebanon's Premier All
mad Daouk at the Casino. The
Premier kissed her on both
cheeks-and several of his min
listers followed suit.
This weeks show was the first
European beauty contest held
outside Europe. Next years will
be held here too.
Evening star., 1960-06-11
CONGRESS
Continued From First Page

Continued From First Page
August the Democratic nominee
for President might find him.
self addressing Mr.. Nixon as
"Mr. President" day after day.
Unfinished Bills
If July S-three days before
the first convention-is used
as an outside target day for
adjournment, the leaders have
% working days left. They
also have approximately %
major pieces Of legislation to
dispose Of.
High on the list are 10 re-
naming appropriation bills,
including the $40 billion de-
fense budget and the $3.2 bill
lion foreign aid measure.
Also pending in one or both
houses are the following bills,
most of which hold strong po-
litical appeal in an election
year:
Federal aid to schools. which
still faces delay in conference
to settle House and Senate Diff
ferenceS.
Revision Of the minimum
wage law, which has not passed
either branch.
A SIS billion Senate hous-
ing bill, which bears little re-
semblance to the House meas
ure.
Health insurance for the
aged, still awaiting action in
both houses, and highly con-
troversial.
The wheat control bill, passed
by the Senate but still pending
in the House.
Extension of sugar quotas,
pending in both houses, which
could provoke debate ever
American policy in dealing with
Fidel Castro in Cuba.
Extension of existing cor
poration and excise tax rates
and increasing the national
debt ceiling, awaiting Senate
action.
A public works bill, which
may encounter a veto and have
to be passed twice.
Continuation of the highway
construction program.
The Federal pay increase
Evening star., 1960-06-11
Man Searches 40 Years,
Finds Brother in Jail

CHARLOTTE, N. c., June
II (AP).-An Alabama mans
40-year search for his brother
ended yesterday in the Meek
lenberg County Jail.
Big, muscular Erwin (Bee)
Whitaker, so, stood outside the
bars Of a cell and called to
the small, battered man in
side: "Howard?"
rs that you, Bee?" The
little man replied.
ITS me-" said Bee Whitaker
We're going home, boy. You
want to go home
This was the reunion for
which Erwin Whitaker had
spent two-thirds of his life.
On a spring morning 40
years ago Howard Whitaker
climbed astride a mule to take
a bag of grain to a mill. The
mule came home; Howard
didn't.
Bee Whitaker was in the
Army at the time. I'm 1890
Howard sent me $50 he'd bor-
rowed from me 10 years be-
fore" said Bee. He was in
the Navy then. We never heard
from him again"
Bee and another brother
Jesse, left their farm neal
Huntsville, Ala, in 1886 and
headed in different directions
to find Howard.
The closest we ever got,
said Bee, was in Washington
D. c., when Jesse tracedpnim tc
a hotel. Howard had Aeckec
Evening star., 1960-06-11

refusal of foreign oil firms to
refine Soviet crude oil was an
"act Of treachery" oriented by
the United States State De-
partment.
The refusal was part of a
plot to destroy his revolution
by leaving Cuba without oil, he
said, and warned that the
companies should "rectify their
decision or accept the con-
sequences"
Let them not say later
that the government attacked,
appropriated or con1Scated1
them" he added.
The revolutionary prime
minister protested that the
American Esso and Texaco and
the British Shell companies
were retiring their personnel,
technicians and funds "in total
disrespect for the laws Of the
nation"
He indicated his government
might not resort at once to
seizure. The foreign oil COM
panies, he said, acted under
consultations in Washington
with the idea that the Cuban
government would instantly
move against them.
Conspiracy" Is Charged
ESQ, Texaco and Shell re-
Gently informed the Havana
government they could not ac-
cept an offer to refine 900, 900
tons of Russian crude oil be-
ing received by Cuba under a
trade pact with Moscow.
The Cuban Petroleum InSti-
tute said then that the refusal
was of not much Importance"
and that there was no reason
for reprisal by the Castro re-
gime.
Mr.. Castro charged a con-
Spiracy against his revolution
in claiming the firms are re-
flning Soviet crude oil in Ar
gentina.
Mr.. Castro said the Cuban
Petroleum Institute went after
Russian oil when big American
monopolieS blocked Cuban pur-
chaseS from an independent
United States company In
Venezuela.
Soviet crude oil was Of su-
perior grade and cost only $2.14|
per barrel, compared with $500
charged by big American COM
panieS, he said.
Evening star., 1960-06-11

out a few hours earlier. Jesse
laid himself down in the same
bed Howard had slept in"
Jesse later Joined the Army.
Bee kept looking, supporting a
wife and seven chil1ren ss he
did.
He came to Charlotte from
Baltimore earlier this week.
Following his usual routine, he
checked ct a police station,
found an arrest record but no
address. Al a poolroom, he
was told that Howard Whit
aker, 81, was always seeing at
torney Marvin Ritch.
Marvin Ritch knew where
Howard waS-in Jail awaiting
an appeal on an assault charge.
Howard's story gradually
came out. He had served a
long hitch in the Navy in the
1920S. He said he had held
the welterweight boxing cham
pionship Of the Navy. ami once
put down Mickey Walker for
the full count He had, per-
haps, $50 to 200 fights In the
ring.
Always, however, wanderlust
was foremost. He never went
home, he said, because "they
had each other and there was
just me and I didn't have any
thing to take back"
Brother Jesse, he's coming
tonight with the money to get
me out" Bee said.
And Howard replied, I'm
going home"
Evening star., 1960-06-11

Helicopter Corp. of Fort Worth,
Tex, and Hydraulic Research
& Manufacturing Co. of Bur-
bank, Calf.
The $22 million sale price
represents the book value of
these assets. The group will
form the Bell Aerospace Corp,
a wholly-owned Textron sub
sidiary. The present manage
ment of Bell Aircraft is ex-
pected to manage the group.
Bell Intercontinental, with
assets of $57 million, will use
the sale money to expand or
to diversity its non-defense
business. James Connaughton,
president of Wheelabrator, is
expected to head the new
company.
Evening star., 1960-06-11
Castro Denounces u. S.
Again, Charges Spying

HAVANA, June IL (AP).-
Prime Minister Fidel Castro as
serted last night that a United
States military plane took
movie films and photographs
of a Soviet ship of Cuba's coast
and denounced it as "an act of
espionage"
In his third blast against the
United States in SO hours. Mr..
Castro rejected two United
States protests received by his
government. He countered with
the pirate plane" disclosure
and an attack on foreign oil
companies in Cuba.
The Cuban leader showed a
TV audience pictures of a twin
engined plane that appeared to
be a United States Navy patrol
craft flying near a ship he iden-
tined as Russian. He listed
the aircraft's registry number
as "LFl28-390."
Crew Took Pictures
The Soviet ship was 10 miles
on the north coast of Matanzas
province, adjoining Havana
province, Mr.. Castro said. The
plane hovered over the vessel
so long, he added, that the So
Wet crew had time to row out
and take the pictures.
Mr.. Castro rejected as vio-
lent and virulent two United
States protests and declared
they reveal the spirit of ag-
gression" by the United States
against Cuba.
Washington said in a sharp
note yesterday that Cuba was
making false and offensive
charges against the United
states. An earlier note accused
the Castro government of an
intense official campaign of
SANDER" against the United
States Government.
Mr.. Castro delared his gov
ernment would never reply to
Washington's demand for an
explanation Of the shooting at
a United States Submarine in
Cuban waters last month. He
referred to the incident of the
sub Sea Poacher, fret on by a
Cuban frigate reportedly after
the sub failed to identity her
self.
"Act Of Treachery"
Switching to the petroleum
issue, Mr.. Castro charged that