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Evening star., 1961-06-14
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG
Star Staff Writer

Southern reports that JUS
tice Black will retire from the
Supreme Court and TENNESSEE
Senator Kefauver will replace
him drew scant support from
the principals in Washington
today.
Justice Black, who has said
that he would quit only II
forced to by i'll health, sent
pointed word through his Of
flee that he has selected his
law clerk for the next term and
that he was playing tennis to-
day.
Senator Kefauver, a Demo
crat who won reelection ir
1860, said he hoped that JUS
tice Black, who is rs, would re.
main on the bench for many
years.
He emphasized that he hac
not been approached by any.
one about the court post.
The third name mentioned
in reports widely circulated ir
Southern newspapers during
the past week was that of Gov
Buford Ellington of Tennessee
According to these reports
Gov. Ellington was to succeed
Senator Kefauver in the Sen
ate.
Lending some fuel to these
reports was the presence al
Evening star., 1961-06-14
Senators OK
Unchanged
Tax Measure
By the Associated Press

The Senate Finance Commit
tee today approved without
change President Kennedy's bill
to extend present corporation
and major excise tax rates for
another year.
Senator Smathers, Democrat
of Florida, offered an amend
ment to repeal the 10 per cent
passenger tax on bus, air and
rail fares, but this was beaten
10 to Z.
Senator Kerr, Democrat of
Oklahoma, proposed an amend
ment to end the 10 per cent
levy on local telephone service,
This lost on a voice vote.
In recent years, the commit
tee has accepted amendments
to cut or wipe out the travel
and telephone levies.
When the House passed the
1861 extension measure last
week, an effort to repeal the
passenger fare tax came within
seven votes of success.
The travel tax brings in about
$500 million a year, the tele-
phone levy $500 million.
The extension bill would con-
tinue for another year taxes
yielding $3,659,O00,000 of an
nual Federal revenue. 1t would
keep the corporate income tax
rate at So per cent and main
tain Korean war rates on ex-
ciseS applying to liquor, beer
wine, cigarettes, cars and auto
parts and accessories, loca,
telephones and travel.
Evening star., 1961-06-14

candidacy as well as issues
ranging from urban renewal "a
port development. including
conflict of interest.
The turnout. however, was
less than q third Of the city's
nearly 26,500 registered voters
Census figures show Alexan-
dria has nearly $4,000 persons
Of voting age.
Cites Late Drive
Mr.. Bendheim, 54-year-olC
attorney, conceded defeat al
10 pm, after returns we're ir
from 10 Of the city's 20 votine
places, showing Mr.. Mann Lee
by 784 votes, with a total vote
cast, at the time, Of $3.50.
In conceding, Mr.. Bendhein
said, ''It looks to me like the
people have spoken. !, o1
course, bow to their will.
wish him the best Of luck"
Later, Mr.. Bendheim said hi
traced his defeat to the effec.
tiveness Of Mr.. Mann's late
announcement, admitted BY
Mann supporters as an attempt
to catch Mr.. Bendheim with
his defenses down.
Mr.. Bendheim, who had no
See ELECTION, Page B.;
Evening star., 1961-06-14

started water skiing about noon
near the villa of ship owner
Marcos Nomikos, where she is
staying as the guest of Premier
Constantine CaramanliS. She
returns to Washington tomor-
row.
Two navy patrol boats kept
guard and three small speed
boats kept swimmers and other
boats away.
On the nearby public beach
lined with outdoor cafes, Sc
curity officers in plainclothes
sailors and officers in uniforms
and regular police warned of
everyone with a camera. They
even kept people from crossing
sections of the public beach and
the coastal road.
Mrs. Kennedy had some good
runs around the sunny, blue
harbor. At one point, she fell
into the water close to several
swimmers. A Speedboat quickly
came up to two AthsRian
women in the water not far
from Mrs. Kennedy and her
speedboat. The women SWIM
merS were ordered to keep
away.
Earlier Story on Page C-1)
Evening star., 1961-06-14

until the day Of unification."
He said that the way to peace
cannot be found either in
Soviet Premier Khrushchev'S
proposal to turn only United
States-supported West Berlin
into a free city or in the Vests
insistence on a status quo in
Berlin until Germany is re-
united.
City Seen Crucial
Berlin is the lever which
may ease Europe towards a
more durable security or push
the Western nations and the
Soviet Union into a new vor-
tex of irrationality at whose
center lies the graveyard of
humanity" Senator Mansfield
said in an address prepared
for Senate delivery.
He said that the United
States will not be driven,
pushed or barred" from full
filling its responsibilities fol
freedom in Berlin.
But he warned that the
United States commitment to
Berlin'S defense extends from
a beginning of firmneSS "to a
Evening star., 1961-06-14

final pledge Of the lives and
fortunes of every man, woman
and child in the Nation"
1--WE are not engaged at Ber-
lin with the fast draw and
wax bullets of television any
more than the Russians are
engaged in a harmless game
of chess" Senator Mansfield
said. "In the last analysis we
are engaged now, as we have
been in Berlin, with the whole
future Of the United States" ="
Talks as Individual
Mansfield, the administra-
tons spokesman in the Sen
ate, made clear that in advanc-
ing his suggestion, which is
close to a position he has been
advocating for years, he was
speaking as an individual
Senator.
He said that in addition to
the Western proposal for a free
West Berlin and the Western
insiStence on a status quo, "a
third way may lie in the crea-
tion of a free city not in West
See MANSFIELD, Page At
Evening star., 1961-06-14
THE JUNIORITY SYSTEM
Senate Bock-Rowers HoDpv

waiting constituents. Also, if a
Senator wishes to chat with a
fellow back-rower, he can ap-
proach him from behind. To
reach a man in the middle of
the chamber, you may have to
climb over a colleague or two.
Oratorically, according ts
Senator Gore, it has advan-
tages. "If you stand in the
middle, you have half your
audience to your back. I, my
self, when speaking, like to sur
vey all I hope to conquer.
Irreverent members of the
back row have been known to
study the form and style of
senior orators performing
further down in the chamber.
Unlike the back-benchers 'of
the British House of Commons,
they do not heckle the speak,
ers, but their low-voiced COM
mentary keeps them amused.
How 20 Get Ahead
watch him." said one to
another, as a committee chair
man expounded to the Senate,
that's how to get ahead in the
Senate"
The back rowers are rather
proud of the fact that they
have provided most of the re-
bellion in their party in recent
years. One of their leading
members, Senator Mccarthy of
Minnesota, brilliantly nom
mated Adlai Stevenson at the
Democratic convention last
July. Two abortive uprisings
were led against Majority
Leader johnson from their
ranks. One was led by Sena-
tor Gore. another by Senator
Proxmire,
Evening star., 1961-06-14
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer

Within the most exclusive
gentlemen'S club in the world,
as the Senate is sometimes
called, another club has been
formed. It does not have the
usual status of congressional
cliques like House Speaker Sam
Rayburn's Board Of Educa-
tion," or the inner circle once
presided over by Senate Ma
jority Leader johnson.
1t is rather a loose confed-
Grafton of independent indi-
viduals whom geography and
juniority brought together and
whom congeniality unites. They
meet only on the floor. 1t is
simply "the back row."
Traditionally, all new mem
berS are placed in the back row
of the chamber. AS they ad-
vance in age and wisdom they
gradually move up through the
middle to the front rows.
The Lineup
But the % Democratic Sena-
tors who sit nearest the back
door have no wish to move.
Among them are such veterans
as Monroney of Oklahoma and
Gore of Tennessee who stub
bornly decline the honor of
seats further forward.
The lineup, of predominantly
liberal cast, includes Metcalt
of Montana, Maurine Neuberger
of Oregon, Burdick of North
Dakota, Carroll of Colorado,
Mccarthy of Minnesota. VIII
liams of New Jersey and Prox-
mire of Wisconsin. They are
called "the bombers" by Sena-
tors sitting elsewhere.
Evening star., 1961-06-14
Pointing Costs
OiImun $4,000

LONDON, June IA (AP).-
President Kennedy's Pal m
Beach host, Oil Millionaire
Charles Wrightsman, today
paid 100000 pounds 1892, ,OOO)
at an auction for a Goya por-
trait of the Duke of yelling
ton.
The painting, sold by So
theby's for the Duke of Leeds,
depicts the hero of the Napo-
leonic wars at the age of 43.
Mr.. Wrightsman has a large
art collection at his New York
apartment and his home in
Palm Beach, where the Presi-
dent rested last week end.
Evening star., 1961-06-14

4 4,122-to-3, ,345, unofficial COM
plete returns showed.
Mr.. Bendheim, a city coun-
Gilman since 194s and Mayor
since 1855, was the only mem
Der Of his party's slate to be
defeated. Another incumbent
defeated was independent F.
Clinton Knight.
The Mann victory climaxed
a campaign that was slow to
start but stormy in it's lasi
week, following Mr.. Mann's an
nouncement as an independent
Democrat" write-in candidate
running without party backing
Democratic unity held firm
in the race for city council, ir
which nine candidates werC
vying for three-year terms or
the six seats. The new council
and Mayor will take office
July /.
Winning Candidates
Elected to the council wert
Democrats Eugene w. Zim-
norman, 46, an electrical con.
tractor, with 5,815 votes
James T Luckett. jr., so, ar
accountant with the Southern
Railroad, 4,97S votes; Timothy
SWEET, "A, an insurance execu.
tive, 4,819 votes; John K. Pick.
ems, AZ, an attorney, 1851 votes
James M. Duncan, jr., So, 6
real estate dealer, 4,576 vote.
and John j. Ewald. so, yard.
master at Potomac Yards, Abs
votes.
Reelected without opposi.
tion, were City Attorney v
Floyd Williams, 43, with 6,01T
votes and Miss Margaret w
McMenamin, city collector
with 6,047 votes.
Edged out by Democratic
solidarity in the council race
were Mr.. Knight; Mrs. Mildred
F. Councillor, the lone Republi-
can candidate and Edward j
GulewicZ, an independent.
Wide Interest Shown
While only 4,318 persons
voted in the 1858 city general
election, the unofficial total
yesterday was 8.137, indicating
the wide interest stirred in the
campaign by Mr.. Mann'S
Evening star., 1961-06-14
LaosPdr|ey
HearsP|edge
Souvdnnd
Prince Declares
Foreign Troops
Will Be Barred

GENEVA, June II (AP).-
Prince Souvanna Phouma, who
wants to become Premier Of a
neutral Laos. told the Geneva
Laotian conference today that
if his country becomes COM
pletely independent it will never
allow foreign troops or bases
on its soil.
I'VE will proclaim our neu-
trality and our desire not to
enter into any military alli-
ances," he said.
Prince Souvanna, go, came to
Geneva with his half-brother
Prince Souphanouvong, leader
of the Communist = backed
Pathet Lao rebels. Prince
Souvanna, a former Premier,
calls himself a neutralist and
is recognized by the Com
muniSts as Laos legal Premier,
The two are slated to meet
Saturday at Zurich with Prince
Boun Gum, Premier of the
WeStern-supported royal Lao
tian government.
Il hope the Zurich meeting
will enable Laos to send a single
delegation to the conference,
Prince Souvanna said.
Red Delegates Praised
The next speaker was Prince
Souphanouvong. He said he
also hopes the Zurich meeting
will contribute to the settle
ment Of the Laotian problem
and the Geneva Conference. f"
Prince Souphanouvong con-
tended Pathet Lao and neu-
tralist troops have respected
the cease-fire order since May
3, despite reports Of fighting
from Laos.
He then praised what he
called "the contributions ir
Geneva" by the delegations
from the Soviet Union. Com.
munist China, Poland and
North Wet Nam.
The storm of East-West &C.
cuSationS at the 14-nation par
ley showed signs Of abating
Long delayed bargaining or
rival peace plans may be near
Reply Drafted
w. AverelI Hartman, CHIEF
United States delegate, drafted
q reply to charges by Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gro
myko that the United States il
Stalling the talks. Mr.. Harri-
man expects to speak to-
morrow.
Western spokesmen indicated
they are ready to call for the
conference to break up into
working groups to consider
Soviet and Western proposals
for unifying and neutraliZine
the Southeast Asian kingdom
and keeping it peaceful.
The Russians, who accused
the West yesterday of Stallins
See GENEVA, Page Al
Evening star., 1961-06-14

Their unanimity is never
complete, although it came a
notch closer with the defeat OF
Senator Blakley of Texas, who
sat between Senators Metcalt
and Neuberger and who literally
leaned over backwards to avoid
their exchange of liberal views
There remains Senator Thur
mond of South Carolina. a
staunch conservative, who sits
on the aisle with Senator
Hartke of Indiana on his right
Senator Thurmond, explains
another back-rower, "joins ir
the camaraderie but never in
the revolutions"
"With Deep Regret"
Senator Clark of Pennsyl-
vania took note of the institu.
tion of the back row and its
likemindedness during the de.
bate on the housing bill.
"It is always with deep re.
gret that a member in the back
row of this chamber rises tc
oppose an amendment proposed
by another member in the back
row." he said when he rose tc
differ with Senator Gore, who
sits one seat away.
Senator Neuberger, who re-
CARDS her Senate situation az
Ideal, explained the charm o1
the back row.
1--WE don't stand in awe ci
each other" she said.
Geographically the back row
is considered desirable because
of it's proximity to the cloak.
room and its promise of repost
land to the corridor with it;
Evening star., 1961-06-14
Heariings0pen
Budget
Citizens Line Up
To Let OFF Steam
BY JOHN McKELWAY
Star Staff Writer

District citizens were taking
advantage today of a rare op-
portunity to let off steam be-
fore members of Congress.
About IS witnesses were
lined up in a full day of hear
ings before a House subcom-
mittee on District Appropria-
tons which is due to report
shortly on the city's $500 mil
lion budget for the next fiscal
year.
Today's first witness was
actually a resident of Alabams
Representative Andrews, q
Democrat-who requested ar
expanded police canine corps
Mr.. Andrews told Chairman
Rahaut. Democrat of Michigan
and Representative hatcher
Democrat of Kentucky, thai
more police dogs would hell
stem the city's recent reign ot
terror"-a series Of rapes anc
robberieS.
1OO-DOg Corps Proposed
He said dogs can be a deter.
rent to crime because they havC
more Of a psychological ef.
feet" on the criminal element
than do policemen.
I'VE have got to protect the
citizens Of Washington anC
the visitors here" Mr.. Andrews
said. "It's time somebody tool
action"
He specifically requested {
canine corps of 100 dogs. Tn,
present force numbers 10.
Two witnesses had rather
strong language for the com,
mittee.
Mrs. c. Rhodes Cox, pas
president of the District PTA
said Congress was responsible
for the Districts critical finan,
cial situation.
And Mrs. Susan c. 1amens'
dorf of the Ben Murch HON,
and School Association salt
that if the committee does no
raise the Federal payment t,
the District, it would be "fail
See BUDGET, Page B.,
Evening star., 1961-06-14
Authority Limited
20 Arrested in Cubu

KEY WEST, Fla, June II,
(AP).-Twenty Cuban business
men have been arrested in
Havana on charges of altering
prices, Havana Radio said. The
broadcast yesterday did not give
further details but urged house,
wives to report instances Of.
price changing by shopkeepers.
. o.,
Evening star., 1961-06-14
CUBANS FEAR
COMMUNISM

FIoEL CASTRO is losing support
among his own people who fovor the
recent revolution in Cubo but fecr
the influx Of communism, soys Re-,
porter Jim Bishop from the corib-
beon island, on Pose B-l4.
Evening star., 1961-06-14
Mann Gusts Bendheim
In Alexandra Upset
Write-In Candidate Elected Mayor;
Purty Slate Keeps Council Control
BY JOHN NEARY
Star Staff Writer

surprise turnout of than 5000 voters has swept
independent wren candidate Frank Mann to victory
Mayor of Alexandria, in humping political upset
Mr.. Mann, 41year-old potato chip manufacturer and
former city councilman, yesterday defeated Leroy Bend
helm, Democratic nominee for reelection by vote of
Evening star., 1961-06-14
Picture on Pose AS

W. SSS ENTS
orators, mechanics, oilers and
air compressor operators
walked out early today after a
final negotiating ession
reached q Stalemate Monday.
Harold J. Nightlinger, execu-
tive secretary of the Construc-
tion Contractors Council, said
the unionists' demands are
"way out of line"
Shortly after the walkout
officially began at 7:30 am,
construction bosses at three
Federal office projects in
Southwest Washington said
work was nearly at a standStill.
Hundreds IdIed
The three projects, all office
buildings, are at Eighth street
and independence avenue S.W.,
Second and c streets S.W., and
at Twentieth street and Vir-
ginia avenue NV.
j. R. Cole, project manager
for the independence avenue
building, said hundreds of
laborers, carpenters, cement
mixers and other conStruc-
ton workers were idled by the
walkout.
Richard c. Morauer, preSi-
dent of the contractors council,
said the full impact of the walk
out will not be known until
tomorrow morning. He de-
clared the engineers wage de-
mands are so high that some
contractors operating today on
interim agreements will refuse
to continue their projects on
that basis.
]. c. Turner, business mana
ger of the engineers Local n
here, said that despite the
strike, about 900 operating en-
gineers will report to work for
certain contractors in the area.
No bridge or highway projects
were affected.
Mr.. Turner said the non-
striking engineers are employed
by contractors who already
have granted a requested wage
increase or contractors who
have agreements with the ma
tional union.
Smithsonian Project Hit
Another major Federal prof.
ect where construction was af-
fected by the strike is the new
Smithsonian Institution build
ing on Constitution avenue
NV, between Twelfth and
Fourteenth streets.
A project spokesman said
most construction crews re-
mained on the job at the
Smithsonian site. He added,
however, that if the strike con-
tinues for another two or three
days the absence of the heavy
machinery operators will have
an increasingly paralyzing ef-
feet on the project.
The local union has asked
for a 10-cent hourly pay in
crease for all its members, to
be followed in the second year
of a two-year contract by addi-
tional increases ranging from
10 to Is cents. The higher Sec
ond-year increases would be
paid to top classification en-
gineers, such as crane and hoist
operators.
The contractors have made
two alternate offers, the first
calling for an eight-cent-an-
hour wage increase this year,
to be followed by a Seven-cent
increase next year.
The alternate offer would
provide a 26 per cent pay in
crease for union members, a
raise considerably higher than
the Scent offer, but would
eliminate straight time salaries
for the engineers top classifi-
cations.
Under this proposal, crane
operators would receive an i'm
mediate pay raise from $3.97 to
S. per hour but would be paid
on a "broken-time" basis-their
wages to be paid only for hours
actually worked.
The unions business agent
termed the contractors second
proposal a contentious, frivo-
lous offer, made with tongue
in.ohaoIy -
Evening star., 1961-06-14
Make Berlin Free City,
Senator Mansfield Asks
International Protection Vitul to Bur
Atomic War, Democratic Leader Says
BY the Associated Press

Senate Democratic Leader Mansfield suggested today
establishment Of internationally protected free city,
Of Berlin to avert EaSt-West nuclear clash.
The Montana Senator said that if the world must live
with divided Germany, peace itself requires
that "Berlin-all Berlin-be held in peace and trust
Evening star., 1961-06-14
Strike Ties Up
MajorBui|ding
Projects Here
3 U. S. Jobs Hit
Hard by Operating
Engineers 'WuIkoui

A strike by some $50 mem
bers Of the Operating Engi-
neerS Union today virtually
halted construction work on
three major Government build
ingS and slowed work on 40 to
SO smaller commercial build
ing projects.
The operating engineers -
crane operators, bulldozer op-
Evening star., 1961-06-14
Castro Tractor Deal
Seen Begging Down
U. Party :
Leaves Cubu
omorrOW

HAVANA, June IA (AP).-
United States negotiators ar1S--
nounced today they will leave
Cuba tomorrow whether or not
they get a tractors-for- -pris-
oners agreement with Fidel
CaStro-and indications were
they will not. .
A spokesman made the an
nouncement while the four.
man American team sat COOL
ing its heels in a Havana
hotel, awaiting another meet
ing with Cuban officials.
It still was unclear whether
they would get to see Prime
Minister Castro personally. The
group had expected to meet.
with the Cuban chief today.
He was reported to have re-
turned to Havana from East
ern Cuba last night. .'-
The four non-Government
United States technical experts
arrived yesterday to work out
a swap of 500 tractors for the
1,214 Cuban invasion prisoners.
Mr.. Castro holds. In a two
hour meeting yesterday, Cuban
President Osvaldo Dorticos
stuck to Mr.. CaStro'S terms,
which are unacceptable to the
American negotiators.
A spokesman for the United
States group, Duane T. Great
house, said arrangements were
being made to fly back to
Washington tomorrow no mat
ter what happens in talks to-
day. -
Terms Are Defined
He said the team will report
promptly in Washington to its
parent Tractors for Freedom
Committee of prominent United
States citizens who are raising
funds for the tractors. The
committee heads are Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Walter P.
Reuther and DR.. Milton EiSen-
hover.
The Castro provision on an
exchange of prisoners for trac-
tors-an idea which Mr.. Castro
himself first advanced-was
spelled out in firm tones in
today's Havana newspapers.
which are government con-.
trolled. -
Mr.. Dorticos was reported to
have stuck to Mr.. CaStro's de-
mands for heavy tractors, of,
the kind used for big conStruc-
ton jobs ranging from roads
to airfieldS.
The United States team is
offering smaller tractors for
farm work, not the big ones.
Mr.. Dorticos also was cited
as ruling out the exchange for
tractors of three of his prize
prisoners captured in the in
vasion of April IT.
These are Manuel Artime, the
invasion leader; Jose San.
Roman, ont of the battalion
commanders, and Rafael Bolt
var Fuentes.
The Havana radio reported
that the three men will be freed
only in a man-for-man ex-
change for Francisco (the
Hook Molina, Albizu Campos
and Henry Winston.
Authority Limited
Molina is a Cuban citizen,
awaiting senttncing in New
York for the Staying of a g.
year-old girl a political scuffle
among pro and anti-CaStro.
Cubans. Campos is a Puerto
Rican nationalist leader who
has been in jail for several
years, and Henry Winston is a,
See TRACTORS, Page A-6~
Evening star., 1961-06-14
THE WEATuED. Full Report
''hN' on Pose BIZ

District and vicinity-Variable cloudiness
with scattered showers and thundershowers
tonight, low in the middle COS. Clearing and
cooler tomorrow with showers in the morn
ing. High and low of last "a hours: High
81 at $3.50 pm. yesterday; low, II, at $40
am. today.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-05-26
Social and Personal
( MINNEAPOLIS 4

Out Of Hospital Miss Ada Cunningham $50 E. SO St. re-
turned home on Wednesday, May IT. from Fairvew hospital
where she had been patient She improved and making
good progress.
Anniversary Celebrated: Mr. and Mrs Earl Brent 1929
Fourth Av g. had the pleasure observing their 26h wedding
on Tuesday evening May 16 with few friends