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Evening star., 1961-05-02
Man Fined $3.50
On 36 Charges
In Single Chase

Lamar Edward (Polly)
Brown, So, was sentenced yes
terday to a $3.50 fine or 345 days
in jail on SO traffic charges
stemming from a police chase
on April 10.
Brown, according to Assistant
Corporation Counsel Thomas C.
Bell, led six scout cars on a
three-mile chase in Southeast
and Northeast Washington after
police tried to stop him for
passing through a red light.
He was stopped when his car
bounced off the side of a pur-
suing police car and rammed a
utility pole near the corner of
Fifteenth and Duncan streets
NE, Mr.. Ball said.
Brown, Of the 200 block OF
Kentucky avenue Sc, was
found guilty in Traffic Court
after a hearing before Munich
pal Court Judge Andrew j
Howard. jr.
Brown also faces charges OF
unlawful possession of a pistol
and violating the uniform mar
cotics act, a misdemeanor.
These are set for trial May %
Evening star., 1961-05-02
NewLong-Runge
PoIuris Is Fired

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
May 2 (AP).-A longer-range
Polaris missile Scooted more
than 1900 miles down the
Atlantic tracking range yes
terday, registering its seventh
success in nine launchings.
Officials reported all test
goals were achieved as the
stubby, solid-fuel rocket leaped
from a land-based pad and
streaked to an ocean target
It was steered by q precise
inertial guidance system.
The new model Polaris. the
Az, is being developed to carry
q thermonuclear warhead to
targets 1,725 miles away, COM
pared with the / ,380-mile maxi
mum reach Of operational Po-
larises stationed on the nucleaI
submarines George Washington
and Patrick Henry.
Evening star., 1961-05-02
6. 0. P. Says
Sa|inger F|irts
With the Truth

The Republican National
Committee today accused White
House Press Secretary Pierre
Salinger Of being 100 per cent
careless with the truth" in his
denialS of secret orders to
"glorify" President Kennedy in
Government public works an
nouncements.
The committees publication,
Battle Line, published the pur-
ported text of a confidential
Interior Department memoran-
dunn to back its allegations.
Mr.. Salinger was not avail
able for comment. He left
last night for Paris to arrange
for President Kennedy's visit
there the latter part of the
month.
This memo not only demon
strates how Salinger misleads
the public and the press" Bat
tie Line said. ut shows that.
while tightly censoring legiti-
mate news, a concerted at
tempt is being made to feed
out propaganda to glorify
President Kennedy"
The publication said the
memo was issued April "a over
the signature Of Orren Beatty,
assistant to Secretary of the
Interior Udall.
AS quoted by Battle Line, the
memo criticized the handling of
a recent announcement Of the
contract award for the $39
million Yellowtail Dam project
in Montana, and an earlier
award for some Florida project.
1T is mandatory that we give
the White House 48 hours
notice before we announce con-
tracts of this Sort" the pur-
ported memo said.
1T is not enough to send a
draft press release to Pierre
Salinger's office. We must also
notify Lawrence O,Brien (pres-
Evening star., 1961-05-02

ridential assistant for congres.
sional liaison).
"On the Florida matter, fol
example, a press release went
to the White House Friday, but
O'Brien's office was not noti-
fled, when considerable mileage
could have been made by giving
the White House a chance be-
fore the week end of notifying
interested members Of Congress
please, without fail, give
this office an extra copy of any
proposed news release covering
announcements Of this type at
least 48 hours in advance, and
we will see that they are deliv-
cred to Mr.. O'Brien.
"The Secretary has asked me
to follow through on this"
Evening star., 1961-05-02
7 House Republicans
Blast First 100 Doys'

his opposition sufficiently clear
on that matter.
1--WE have tried to point out
q disturbing trend toward ap-
peaSement which is the prod
uct Of the first 100 days." men,
bers Of q House Republican pol
icy subcommittee said in an
overall summary. There are
other instances where this
trend has been manifested In
areas of secret diplomacy, votes
in the U. N. and similar fields
"By and large. the first 100
days has shown that If the
trend toward unrealistic, wish
full thinking and appeasemenr
is not corrected at once, there
may we'll be a very limited
number Of 100-day periods left
to us during which we can
enjoy our liberty and its bless
ings. An examination of the
first 100 days reveals not a
parallel with the first 100 days
Of the New Deal, but rather q
trend that brings discomfort
ing thoughts Of the 100 days
to Waterloo"
Policies Blasted
On the domestic scene, the
scheduled speeches and the
summary statement of the SUBJ
committee, headed by Repre-
sentative Rhodes, Republican
| of Arizona, hit much more
specifically at many Of the
policies and programs launched
since the Kennedy administra-
tion took office.
1t attacked the administra-
tion for failure to keep cam
paign promises in some areas
ana lot proposing IlScaIIy IRE
sponsible programs"
The summary charged that
many fiscal policies would dis.
rupt traditional Federal-State
relationships, lead to an un.
balanced budget and impose
public programs in areas where
private enterprise should bt
encouraged.
The series of speeches thi.
week was begun this afternoon
by Representative Byrnes, Re-
publican Of Wisconsin, with 6
general review Of the first 10(
days.
Evening star., 1961-05-02

on May 81. Tickets are 500 per
plate or $1,000 for a table Of 10.
1t is being held at the National
Guard Armory in Washing
ton, D. c.
The procedure that the Sec
retary has asked to follow is
to have all checks made pay
able to the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, and if for
some personal reason you do
not wish to follow this SuggeS-
ton, please contact me.
Send your check to me to-
gether with a note indicating
to whom and where you wish
the tickets mailed.
Thanks for your co-opera-
ton.
Sincerely,
j. K. EVANS.
&c: The Hon. Stewart L. Udall.
II have said many times,
both as a Congressman and as
a cabinet officer, that candor is
the order of the day." Mr.. Udall
said in explaining why he had
called the press conference.
No Tickets Sold
Mr.. Evans was not available
for comment. His office re-
ported that he was in New York
but Mr.. Udall talked with him
shortly before lunchtime and
invited him to attend the press
conference. However, Mr.. Evans
was not present as far as could
be learned.
The effort Of the oil man to
sell tickets, Mr.. Udall said, zap
parently is a complete bust"
Neither he nor I have sold any,"
When he told Mr.. Evans he
hoped he and his friends would
attend the dinner, Mr.. Udall
said, he was thinking about
maybe four or six people. When
he learned about the Evans
letter. Mr.. Udall said, there
was nothing I could do. I told
him I was flabbergasted and I
hoped he would recall the let
ters. He told me he would"
The Secretary said that he
and others in the Interior De-
partment were doing no diff
ferent about such fund-raising
affairs than the previous ad-
ministration did. "Fund-rais-
ing" Mr.. Udall added, "is one
Of the unhappy facts of life.
We have to deal with it."
What Mr.. Evans did. Mr..
Udall said, "he did on his own"
The only oil decision he has
made officially since becoming
Secretary, Mr.. Udall said, was
one involving residual oil i'm
ports and in this "Mr. Evans
own company got clobbered."
The Asiatic Petroleum Corp.
is q subsidiary of Shell Oil Co.,
which, Mr.. Udall said, was hit
hard by his ruling.
He (Mr. Evans) was rather
pained about that" Mr.. Udall
remarked.
Evening star., 1961-05-02

Cuban revolutionary song, 1--WE
Shall Triumph"
Mr.. Castro said, IF Mr.. Ken.
nedy does not like socialism.
we don't like imperialism. We
don't like capitalism"
Cuba has as much right to
set up a socialist state 80 miles
from the United States coast
as the United States does to its
form of government, Mr..
Castro said.
why do they fear us? .
AS Khrushchev said, this shows
they have no faith in their own
system.
It was clear from Mr..
CaStro's context that by
socialism" he meant Com
munist" or something much
like it.
He used the word traitors"
to describe Latin American
nations which followed the
United States lead in severing
diplomatic relations with Cuba,
and vilified President Kennedy,
who earlier was burned in
effigy.
Kennedy had better get rid
OF that hate, that phobia
against our revolution" Mr..
Castro said in a 31a-hour
speech that ran into the early
morning and left him hoarse.
The bearded Prime Minister,
wearing a uniform, a beret and
a pistol at his waist, spoke
after watching for IA hours as
legions of laborers, peasants,
athletes and some heavy mill
Itary equipment moved past
him.
Evening star., 1961-05-02
BY MARY McGRORY
Star stan Writer

William s. CHM was once
a vice president and division
manager Of the General Elec.
trio Co. In his best years, ht
earned $l35,000 a year. He /:
now unemployed, but to Judge
from his appearance before the
Senate Antitrust Subcommit-
tee, unembittered.
For most Of his Is years
with GE, Mr.. CHM was a
salesman, and he is the type
a handsome. hearty. hail-fel-
low we'll met. And he is still
loyal to the company which let
him go in March after he had
served a 30-day Jail sentence
for violation of the antitrust
laws.
Chairman Kefauver suggest
ed that he had been fired.
"a Little Nicer"
I'D like to put it a little
nicer than that" protested the
witness. II agreed with Mr.
Cordiner (the president Of GE)
that it would be in my best in
terest and the company'S II ]
resigned"
Mr.. CHM had other little
niceties, too. He complained
that the press had been "reck-
less" in reporting antitrust
cases, using the phrase price
rigging" when they might have
said "price-f -fixing"-a practice
Mr.. CHM is still not entirely
convinced is immoral, although
he admits 1t got him into
trouble.
Cropping for an explanation
Of why what he liked to cal,
"stabilizing the market" went
on, he said, I'VE understood II
was against the law. but people
didn't consider 1t a serious Law
violation. The moral issue
didn't seem to be important al
that time"
II he failed as Q philosopher
Mr.. CHM reverted to type as 9
salesman. He was giving 9
pitch for his boss, the recently
retired president Of Genera
Electric. Robert Paxton. whC
Evening star., 1961-05-02

The first 100 days of the
Kennedy administration got
sharply contrasting evaluations
from Republicans and Demo-
Gratis on Capitol Hill today.
Republicans said the new
Administrations performance
so far brings discomforting
thoughts Of the 100 days to
Waterloo"
The Democratic congressional
leaders, however, pronounced
themselves satisfied with the
Kennedy record. Senate Demo-
cratic Leader Mansfield said
after a breakfast meeting with
President Kennedy at the
White House that I'VE are
doing as well as can be ex-
pected, and are satisfied with
the progress we are making"
House Speaker Rayburn, who
attended the White House
meeting along with other con-
gressional leaders, also said he
thinks I'VE are making good
progress"
G. o. p. Fires Blasts
But key G. o. P. members.
in a series of seven House
speeches starting this after
noon, sharply attacked the ad-
ministration's record in domes-
tic affairs. They refrained
from direct comment on re-
cent foreign policy reversals in
Cuba and Laos.
However" they declared,
1--WE believe there is q very
legitimate question which can
be raised over the trend toward
appeasement that has mani
tested itself since this admins
tration took office. Many Of the
old 'Acheson appeasers' have
reappeared on the scene, still
befogged by the notion that
softness is the best reply to
Soviet aggression"
They complained particularly
that some high-level admins
tration officials, including
United Nations Ambassador
Adlai Stevenson, cast doubt or
this country's determination to
oppose admission of Red China
to the U. N. They added that
IMr. Kennedy has not made
Evening star., 1961-05-02
CUBA
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Castro warned that United
States cities are "ir danger OF
becoming another Hiroshima.
He said churches will be al
lowed to remain open.
Mr.. Castro said it was an
historic May Day because
workers who used to express
their demands ito those who
were completely deaf to their
interests no longer have
to submit to those trials.
Nov everything the gov
ernment does or can do has
one sole and exclusive purpose,
which is to aid its class, its
people"
The crowd broke into the
Evening star., 1961-05-02
UDALL
UDALL
Secretary Denies
Dinner Ticket Plea
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81 would honor President
Kennedy.
Mr.. Udall said he was zap
palled" at the letter and did
not see it or a copy Of it until
after it had been sent out.
Recipient PhOned Him
The first he was aware of
Mr.. Evans solicitation, Mr..
Udall said, was when one of
the persons who received the
letter telephoned him. Mr..
Udan said the person, a
friend, considered the letter
was improper and would be
embarrassing" to the Sec
retary.
"And it was embarrassing,
Mr.. Udall added.
He said he telephoned Mr..
Evans. who has an office at
TOO K street NV.
In the conversation, Mr..
Udall said. Mr.. Evans agreed
that the letter was a mistake
and said he would endeavor to
recall them.
The Evans letter to the oil
and gas men carried a notation
that a copy was being sent to
Mr.. Udall. The Secretary said
he had received a call about
the letter three or four weeks
ago-before the copy had
reached him.
Mr.. Udall said he had known
Mr.. Evans all during his Serv-
ice in Congress and that he
had met him several years ago
when Mr.. Evans went to Ari-
zona for his health.
No Quota Mentioned
The Secretary said he
thought it was at a dinner
party at Mr.. Evans home when
he mentioned to the oil man
that he hoped he and his
friends would attend the $780,
a-plate dinner.
Mr.. Udall also denied that he
had asked Mr.. Evans to dispose
Of a large quota Of dinner tick
cts, as was indicated in the
Evans letter. II told Mr.. Evans
I had a lot Of tickets" the
Secretary said.
He explained that he had a
lot of tickets but was not as
signed any quota. He did not
disclose how many tickets he
had.
Mr.. Udall called the special
news conference in his office to
discuss the Evans letter after
accounts of it had appeared in
The Washington Daily News.
The letter. as published in
the News today, follows:
April 5, 1861
Dear Friend:
Secretary Udall. who happens
to be a friend Of long-standing,
has asked me as q personal
favor to him to solicit the OIL
and Gas Industry in Washing
ton in an effort to help the
Secretary dispose of his very
sizeable quota Of tickets for the
Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. "
The Dinner will be held on
President Kennedy's birthday
Evening star., 1961-05-02
KENNEDY

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more cautiously than in the
earlier Kennedy administration
weeks to pick out the vital is
sues and the effective means
by which the United States
can make clear to Russia and
the world that it has no in
tention Of yielding under So
Wet pressure. An example is
the go-slow approach to q de-
cision on more direct involve
ment in such a remote jungle
country as Laos.
At the same time, well-tn-
formed sources said two courses
of action are still under the
most serious consideration If
truce hopes again collapse:
/. Military intervention IN
Laos by forces Of the Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization coun-
tries backed by the United
. States. This way Of putting
1T suggests the administration
Is thinking in terms Of inter-
vention by the SEATO mem
bers willing to act-the Philip
pines, Thailand and Pakistan-
with the United States furnish
ing primarily sea and air sup
port.
2. An appeal to the United
Nations to take a hand in
bringing the Laos crisis under
control. This could be a sub
stitute for action through
SEATO, officials indicated, but
would more likely be taken
along with SEATO interven-
ton. The idea is to ask the
United Nations to send a
watchdog group; perhaps
should the need arise the U. N
could develop some such role
as the one it has played in the
Congo, where an international
police force has sought to ex-
ert a stabilizing influence.
Mansfield Confident
Meanwhile, Senate Demo-
cratic Leader Mansfield said
today, after a meeting OF
Democratic congressional lead
ers with President Kennedy
that he knew Of no intention
on the part of the Kennedy ad-
ministration to write off Laos
and concentrate on the defense
of other Southeast Asian coun-
tries.
1--WE have full confidence ir
the President" Senator Mans
field said. 1--WE have every con-
fidence that he will be able
to make the right decisions
and come up with the right
conclusions"
Senator Mansfield also sale
he was unaware of any plan tt
send United States troops intc
Laos.
The Laotian situation brough
out a reinforced Security Coun
Gil yesterday, with apparently
score Of advisers around tn
conference table with Mr.. Ken
nedy.
There was no announcement
OF any decisions that may hav
been reached. The full roster o
who attended was withheld.
Evening star., 1961-05-02
Ex-GE Officer
Defends Boss
In Price-Fix
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG
Star Staff Writer


A former General Electric
Co. vice president today freely
admitted his role in meeting
with competitors to fix prices,
but insisted that the present
top management of the COM
pany had nothing to do with
it.
Appearing under subpoena
before the Senate Antitrust
Subcommittee, William S. CHM
testified that he had twice
been told by then GE president
and now board chairman,
Ralph J. Cordiner. to stick to
company policy and avoid anti
trust violations.
Mr.. CHM, who was fined
$l2.500 and sentenced to 30
days in jail in the price-fixing
scandals, said the first time he
got these instructions from Mr..
Cordiner was when he became
general manager of GE's trans
former division in 1914. This
advice lasted, he said, as long
as 1t took him to get from Mr..
Cordiner's office to the office Of
the late Henry v. Erben, then
executive vice president and
the No. 2 man in the GE hier-
archy. Mr.. Erben, he said. told
him to go ahead and meet with
competitors.
Philosophy Changed
The second time Mr.. Cor
diner called him in to repeat
the antitrust advice. he testi-
fled. was when he became vice
president and general manager
Of the turbine division. Then,
he insisted. he became a diff
ferent man.
This time I was damned
worried" Mr.. CHM testified.
My colleagues were gone. I
realized I had no alternative
but to change myself and
change fast. Any philosophy
had grown up with in the COM
pany was now a thing of the
past"
Mr.. CHM was one Of seven
persons who went to Jail in
the Governments big anti
trust case against the electrical
industry, which involved 20
companies and As individuals.
Unlike other indicted Cen
eral Electric officials who have
appeared before the subcom-
mittee. Mr.. CHM was not dis
ciplined or denoted for his ad-
mitted activities. This, he ex-
planned. was because of the
company'S three-year statute of
limitations on price-fixing ac-
tivitieS, and he contended that
he had not participated after
he became head Of the turbine
division. In March of this year,
however. his resignation was
suggested aalong with those of
the other Is GE employees who
got into antitrust troubles.
Defends Two Officials
Mr.. CHM insisted that Mr..
Cordiner and Robert Paxton,
recently retired GE president.
were consistently opposed to
any price fixing meetings and
he emphasized that he became
a changed man once he got into
turbines.
Chairman Kefauver brought
up 40 meetings which the Sem
ator said had been attended by
members Of the turbine division
while Mr.. CHM headed it. Mr..
CHM insisted he knew nothing
about thtem at the time.
Senator Kefauver referred
particularly to a meeting which
an earlier witness testified was
attended by Mr.. CHM.
Mr.. CHM testified that that
was a social encounter at a
trade association meeting and
no price agreements were made
there by him.
He said that after that meet
ing II realized the futility of
going to trade association meet
ings because you Immediately
get yourself under suspicion"
He vowed that he will never go
to another trade association
meeting.
Evening star., 1961-05-02
New WITHHOLDING

The House Ways and Means
Committee yesterday approved
a bill which would permit the
Government to withhold mu-
nicipal income taxes from Fed
eral employees wages. The meas
ure now goes to the House.
Evening star., 1961-05-02
SALESMAN'S PITCH
Fired GE Official
Backs Ex- Bosses

Will take MS place on Cne VIII
ness stand tomorrow. He also
put in a word for the present
president, Ralph ]. Cordiner.
He drew a picture Of Mr.
Paxton as a smart man, a sterr
man, a "venomous" market
man, devoted to the economic
theories Of Adam Smith, the
advocate Of pure competition
He was so stern, so venomouS
so much an Adam Smith man
in fact, that Mr.. CHM feared tc
tell him that for years that he
had engaged in the practice Of
meeting with G. E. competitor!
to fix prices.
Luckily. the system protected
the formidable Mr.. Paxton
from ever knowing what was
going on.
This is the hard part tc
get over. Senator" said Mr.,
CHM. There was a weird or
ganizational setup. The sales
department was completely iso-
lated from the engineering and
manufacturing department"
"Never COndOned Deals"
Mr.. Ginn's immediate boss
was the late Henry Van Erben
who told him that "Mr. Paxton
doesn't understand these
things"
Mr.. CHM insisted, "He never
ordered it, never condoned any
dealing with competitors;
never told him anything about
it,"
Mr.. CHM said he was much
more scared Of Mr.. Paxton than
Of Mr.. Cordiner."
What he said bore this out.
In November, 1854, when Mr.
CHM was made general man
ager Of the transformer divi-
sion, Mr.. Cordiner called him
to New York and told him tc
Operate the division in ac-
cordance with company policy
and with the antitrust law"
This lasted as long as II
took me to get from his office
to Erben's office" Mr.. Ginr
reported cheerfully. "Erber
told me to go on meeting, but
to use my head"
Mr.. CHM was not the least
put out by Mr.. Cordiner's lee
ture.
COrdiner'S Practice
LAS I understand 1t, Cordiner
made it a practice to talk to
all new division managers on
this subject. I don't know how
good my reputation was. I Sus-
pect 1t. wasn't too good. He
didn't imply he knew I had
been a bad boy in any way"
It wasn't until a third meet
ing with Mr.. Cotdiner on the
subject that Mr.. CHM began Il
see the error or at least the
impracticality of his ways.
II was worried" he said. my
air cover was gone. Erben was
gone and I was working directly
with Paxton. I realized I woulc
have to change my ways anc
change them fast"
And so he did. But, he said
wistfully, after a long morning
Of admissions, THE system
would have worked II everyone
wanted it to work. It wouldn't
have been necessary to meet
and break the law"
Evening star., 1961-05-02

The cornerstone of our prosperous free enterprise
system is the independent investment of inde-
pendent Americans. This week, the nation cele.
brates this important part of our way of life.
In the Washington area, $4,000 people are con.
tributing to Americas prosperity with savings or
loans in the q member associations of the D. C..
League. Their invested savings provide funds to
finance area homes and buildings vital con-
tribution toward growing America!
This is ''Invest in America Week" and we urge
our savers and all Americans to make an extra
effort to make an additional or greater investment
You can add to your Savings Account, buy U. S.
Savings bond or two, purchase some stock or
bonds! -. Whatever your choice, let's show our
faith in America, let's make an investment this
week. Investments in America mean more and
better jobs in greater, stronger America.
Evening star., 1961-05-02
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