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Evening star., 1961-07-19

Capitol Ideo
Put Forth

House Speaker Rayburn yes
terday was asked to set up a
committee to see If q little
Capital" should be established
elsewhere in the country.
Making the request, as he
has frequently done in the
past, was Representative Pat
man, Democrat Of Texas.
Mr.. Patman, who introduced
a resolution which would set
up the committee, asked that
1t study and report to the
House on the following ques-
tions:
/. Whether it is desirable for
a supplemental Capital" TO
be established.
2. Whether the Capital
Evening star., 1961-07-19

Study Moon
Project Here

The man-on-the-moon race
is getting off the ground this
-administratively, at least
in a three-day meeting Of
space contractors here.
Some 1900 manufacturers
representatives are being told
told by Space Administration
experts what they must do in
order to bid on parts of the
project. In a closed meeting,
which started yesterday, the
manufacturers are studying
three proposals for moon rocket
hardware.
The Martin Co., Convair and
General Electric all did detailed,
separate feasibility studies for
Apollo. the moon project. These
Evening star., 1961-07-19
Cleanup Campaign
Called Aid to Police

NIAGARA FALLS, NY. (AP)
"A cleanup, paint-up. fix-up
campaign helps fight crime,
Police Supt. J. Milton Ltchard
says.
Trim and better lighted yards
and alleys not only reduce the
number Of hiding places for
attackers. but, he says, "as
youthful energy Is. converted
into productive actions, the
value Of juvenile decency be-
comes clearer to youngsters"
Evening star., 1961-07-19
Fingerprints Required
;Of Van Line Executives

IA District Court judge yes
terday refused to waive finger
printing requirements for five
moving company executives
charged with antitrust viola
tions.
Chief Judge David A. Pine
thus took q different view"
than that taken last June 2
by District Court Judge George
L. Hart in another antitrust
case involving six executives
Of Washington building ma
terial firms.
The question came up as
Judge Pine was requested by
attorneys for the executives Of
four Of the Nations largest
moving firms to allow their
clients not to appear PERSONAL
ly to enter pleas at a Sched-
uled arraignment here next
Friday.
On his own motion, Judge
Pine suggested that the mat
ter Of fingerprinting and pho
tographing, normally required
for defendants when ar
raigned here on criminal
charges, should be settled
right now, even, though Fran
els Shea, representing one Of
the defendants, suggested this
could be settled at the ac-
tual arraignment.
Recalls Waiver
Mr.. Shea then recalled that
last month Judge Hart had
allowed the fingerprinting and
photographing requirement to
be waived In the case Of the
building material firm execu-
tives. Mr.. Shea said the only
purpose Of the fingerprinting
and photographing was to
facilitate reapprehension If q
defendant does not appear" for
trial.
This was the same grounds
on which Judge Hart had
allowed the requirement to be
waived earlier, saying that he
did not feel the executives
would flee from justice. Judge
Hart took this action over the
objection Of Justice Depart
ment attorneys.
However, Judge Pine agreed
with the position Of the Justice
Department, saying it would
''be o great mistake to treat
these defendants in a different
manner than any other de-
fendants are treated simply
because they are very promi-
nent people and because they
are very successful business
men,"
81 think in the case Of illness
or something 0f that sort the
court should exercise It's diScre-
ton; but. certainly not to allow
defendants who are important
people to be treated differently
from defendants who are not
important people," the judge
said.
y Requires Presence
a Judge Pine also refused to
permit attorneys for the five ex-
ecutiveS to appear for their cli-
ents, requiring that the ex-
ecutives themselves must be
physically present during the
scheduled arraignment.
q However, he did permit the
delay until July 2s Of the ar
raignment Of one Of the de-
PENDANTS, John Sloan Smith,
president Of Aero Mayflower
Transit Co., Inc, Of Indian
apolis, in order to permit Mr..
Smith to attend a business
meeting in Dallas.
The firms and individuals
named in the indictment, IN
addition to MIR. Smith and the
Mayflower company, are:
North American Van Lines,
Inc. Of Fort Wayne, Ind.,.
James D. Edgett, president,
and Paul Clarke, assistant
president; Allied Van Lines
Inc. Of Broad View, H., EN-
NETT J. Flavin. executive vice
president; United Van Lines
Inc. Of st. Louis, Mo-, Loren
A. 'Laramore, executive vice
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of creating q rocket with ct
least 10 million pounds Of
thrust.
Evening star., 1961-10-22
Coalition Rule
Voted in Bonn

BONN, Germany, Oct. 81
(AP).-Leaders of West Ger
many's Free Democratic Party
voted today to join a coalition
government with Konrad Aden-
auer as chancellor on condition
that Foreign Minister Heinrich
Won Brentano is replaced.
The vote touched off what
appeared to be a clear break
in the party between members
for and against the aged Aden-
auer.
The steering committee OF
the right-wing party, which
holds the balance Of power in
the new Bundestag dover
house, between DR.. Adenauer's s
Christian Democrats and the
opposition Social Democrats
made the choice after an H.
hour meeting.
They advised the party''
Bundestag members to accept 6
coalition-if the Foreign Minis
try question is settled. The
Christian Democrats are sched.
uled to meet next week ana
win consider whether to accep
or reject the demand that Mr.
Won Brentano must go.
The majority that swung to
days decision was reported b,
participants at the meeting t,
be very small.
Immediately after the vote
the party's two deputy chair
men, Oswald Adolf Kohut AM
Heinrich Schneider, resignet
their posts in protest. MI
Kohut also resigned as part
chairman in the state Of Hess'
Evening star., 1961-10-22
u. ). PROBING
Stock Frauds,
Bankruptcies
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG
Star staff Writer

Attorney General Robert F.
Kennedy charged yesterday
that money from racketeers
and hoodlums is showing up
in fraudulent stock deals, and
the problem is becoming in
creasingly acute" j"
He disclosed that during his
recent cross-country confer
ences with Federal prosecutors
he alerted them to stock manip-
ulations by the racket ele-
ment. He said the securities
frauds are still centered in
New York, but indications are
that the problem is spreading
to the west.
The stock swindlers range
from selling unregistered stocks
to pushing stock prices up and
down artificially with the
same operators buying and SELL
ing to give the impression of
heavy trading.
A Las Vegas gambler has
turned up in a major series of
stock manipulations. A dele
gate" to what was widely re-
garded as a crime convention
at Apalachin, N. Y, pleaded no
contest to an indictment in
volving a boiler room" op-
Grafton. Boiler rooms" are
batteries of telephones manned
by skilled con-men who push
worthless or overpriced stocks.
The gambler was one of a
group accused of selling un-
registered stock through mis-
leading sales literature and an
intensive telephone campaign.
The same group allegedly en-
gagged in a series of stock trans
actions to raise and fix the
market price of the stock as
an inducement to purchasers.
Grand Jury Inquiry
A current New York grand
jury investig alton, it was
learned. is focused on financial
manipulations by racket ele-
mentS.
Investigations directed by the
Justice Departments Organized
Crime and Racketeering Section
are turning up other links be-
tween the underworld and le-
gitimate business.
In trying to get a complete
picture of how the racketeers
operate-and where they may
be open to proSecution-Justice
Department attorneys are pro-
ceeding on the theory that the
profits Of their illegitimate busi-
ness have to be invested some
where.
Thus, they are uncovering in
stances where racketeers are
using strong-arm tactics to
achieve a monopoly. or applying
Evening star., 1961-10-22

extortion and bribery to theo-
retically legitimate business.
To keep current on the ac-
tivities of the racketeers, the
department has compiled a list
of some 700 names. All divisions
of the Justice Department
from antitrust to tax - have
been alerted to notify the
Criminal Division whenever
these names crop up.
Fraudulent Bankruptcies
This move has uncovered an
other aspect of racket activity
in legitimate business - bank
ruptcy frauds. In several bank
ruptcy fraud Investigations now
before grand jurieS, the alleged
bankrupt has emerged as the
front man for a racket opera
ton.
One bankruptcy case came to
the Criminal Divisions atten-
ton because the name of a mid
west racket figure cropped up,
In that case, a businessman
went into bankruptcy and the
court appointed a trustee to
conserve the assets and pay off
creditors. When the trustee
went to the mans place of
business, he discovered the
mans stock had disappeared
overnight.
He reported routinely to the
United States attorney, who
asked the FBI to look for the
missing assets. In the course Of
the investigation it developed
that the assets had been dis
posed of by several men listed
as racketeerS by the Organized
Crime and Racketeering Sec
tion.
An attorney in the section re-
quested further investigation,
Agents discovered that the
racketeers had helped dispose
of the assets because they had
invested in the business and
wanted to get their money back
In another case a man formed
a company and got credit from
suppliers to stock his shelves
Before creditors began pressing
him to pay for the merchandise
Il he unloaded it at discount
prices. He could afford to sell
more cheaply than his competi-
tors because it was all profit
Once he disposed of the stock
he went into bankruptcy and
left town.
The pattern of fraud in that
case came to light while Justice
Department attorneys were
looking into the associates of q
|, known racketeer. They found a
confederate had twice gone into
bankruptcy.
/. Investigation disclosed that
he had been the front" for the
racketeer, who had furnished
him enough capital to set UP
the fraud and had taken the
lions share of the profit.
4 Another bankruptcy appeared
legitimate until a Justice De-
partment attorney looking into
a racketeer's business interests
found he had invested in the
company that went bankrupt.
This was another case of get
ting merchandise on credit and
swindling the creditors via the
bankruptcy route.
Evening star., 1961-10-22

close to the amount the District
will lose because of the change
in the collection system.
Police Chief Robert v. Muir
ray fought the bill on both
sides of Congress, arguing that
police cannot trace stolen bot
ties without stamps.
However, the measure was
supported by liquor dealers and
Frank E. Weakly. chairman OF
the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board.
Evening star., 1961-10-22

lcient Carian language Of SOL
diers hired by the Lydians.
And pottery in a gorge filled
centuries ago resembles that Of
the Phyrgians, traditional one
time oVerlordS of the Lydians.
And an early Christian vault
yielded wall paintings of birds
and flowers.
The exploration will continue
next year with cooperation
from the Massachusetts, Insti-
.tute of Technology geophysics
department.
Evening star., 1961-10-22
Doctors Flee Chino

HONK KONG, Oct. 81 CAP.
More than 100 Chinese physi-
clans have fled Red China to
this British crown colony in
the past two months, says the
South China Morning Post.
Evening star., 1961-10-22

An ornamental floor indicat-
ing highly sophisticated interior
decoration was found in a small
room of a Roman villa of 400
AID, its mosaic pattern still
bright.
The archaeologistS entered
the tomb of a Lydian lady of
long ago. Sitting the earth
brought to light the first gold
dating back to the time Of the
father of Croesus, about 600
years before Christ. The name
of Croesus has long been linked
with riches.
Out of the earth came a o.
500-year-old, half-inch gold
bead, delicately adorned with
tiny gold globules; an agate
pendant on gold wire, and a
silver figuring of a hawk.
Nearby was found remnants
of an ancient Lydia bazaar
where large-scale blonze cast
ing was carried on in the 9Th
and 7th centuries BIC.
Some time in the long ago,
some Lydian diners had aban-
doned their dishes and their
meal, never to return. Prof.
Hartmann suggests the inter-
ruption may have been due to
an attack by Ionian Greeks
who, in 499 BIC. fell upon
Sardis and burned it.
Resembled Early Coins
In the bazaar were little
blobs of copper identical in
shape and weight with the
earliest known gold and silver
coins.
There were inscriptions on
pottery, apparently in the an
Evening star., 1961-10-22
Passage Unexpected

Mr.. Back said the bill pro-
viding for a direct reporting
setup had been pending at least
three or four years and I'VE
hadn't expected it to pass"
The finance officer said the
District had recommended un-
successfully that the bill pro-
viding for the reporting system
be amended to apply the tax
at the time the liquor was ac-
quired rather than when it was
sold.
He said that If this amend
ment had been adopted, the
loss in revenue would have been
relatively minor ard supervi-
sion Of liquor purchases would
have been much easier.
District finance officials had
estimated last July that reve-
Inue from the liquor tax would
be $6.2 million this fiscal year.
However, this month the eSti-
mate was scaled down to $50
million as officials realized the
impact of the new law.
A clause in the amendment
| providing that the tax would
be paid only after a whole
saler had made a sale was a
sleeper" District officials did
not Immediately grasp the full
effect Of this system.
Mr.. Lowe also said that the
new liquor tax reporting sys-
TEN will cost the District an
additional 100000 a year to
enforce.
In another development, Dis
trict officials estimate they will
lose $4,000 in anticipated rev.
enues from the beer tax and
$4,000 from the wine tax be-
cause Of a recent court decision
requiring adoption of the re-
porting tax system for these
beverages.
COmpensating Revenues
| However, the new District
revenue picture compiled this
month shows that better than
anticipated revenues from other
taxes will almost compensate
for the loss on alcoholic bever-
age tax receipts.
Last July the total revenue
for the general fund was esti-
mated at $164,645, 900. This
total is now expected to be
$164 4,478, 900, a drop Of $l67, 900.
| II it had not been for the
new law on liquor tax pay
ments, Mr.. Tobriner said I'VE
would have had million more
dollars to apply to such pro-
grams that we felt were neces-
sary" in the 1868 budget.
! He added that it might also
have been possible to use this
money for capital works prof.
ects authorized by Congress in
the 1862 budget only if suf-
ficient revenues were available
Il Mr.. Tobriner said the drop
: in estimated liquor revenues
was not responsible for the
, 1862 welfare budget reduction.
1t had not been expected at
the time this budget was ap-
proved.
Tax Rise May Be Sought
The beneficiaries of the Dis
: trict's tax loss are the men,
: bers of the liquor industry here
/ But this windfall for the
t liquor industry is expected tc
:. spur efforts by the District
government to persuade Con-
= gress to boost the liquor taz
y here, an authoritative source
o reported.
A Senate subcommittee rec.
, commended at the last session
of Congress that the liquor ta1
d be raised from $1.25 a gallor
d to $1.50, but this was defeated
:. in the House. If it had passed
Y this tax boost would have yield
:. ed an estimated $1.1 million
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year because of the new sys-
tenn, the loss suffered this year
in the switch from prepayment
to post-payment will never be
recovered.
Evening star., 1961-10-22
Interior SOphisticatiOn

Excavators have begun dig
ging out a late-Roman bath,
bright with tapestry-like mo-
saics several hundred yards
from the marble court. A heat
ing system once conducted hot
air beneath the floors and
within the walls. The carefully
preserved floor will go to the
museum at Manisa.
Evening star., 1961-10-22

The way Project West Ford will work is in
dicated in the sketch above. third of a
billion tiny copper needless launched from
California, yesterday, will go into an orbit as
indicated by the haIf-tOne band. Ground
stations in California and Massachusetts, will
communicate with each other by bouncing
extremely high frequency radio signals off
the Orbital band.-Sketch by Star Staff
Artist Zang Auerbach.
Evening star., 1961-10-22
SkRDIS

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Of transition from the Roman
to the Christian world, when
pagan philosophers and Chris
tian saints shared an intensive
quest for otherwoldlines," Prof.
Hartmann added.
Scholars said such works were
attempts by artists to portray a
subjects inner life and were,
therefore, soul-portraits.
Adjacent to the long-lost ave-
nue., the Harvard Cornell re-
search team is uncovering a
large Roman gymnasium. Capt.
tails topping its colonnaded
marble court carried as decora-
tons the sad or laughing heads
of satyrs, heads of gorgons with
snakes for hair, and other
mythical creatures.
One inscription records the
building of the marble court
in the years 2l1 and 212, while
another speaks Of gold-covered
roofs, moSaics, and marble in
lays applied to the building dur
ing its restoration by Bysantine
architects during the 5th and
9Th centuries A. D.
Evening star., 1961-04-17
Airline Flights
ToCubu Cease
After Invasion

NEW YORK, April II CAP) -
Guiana Airlines reported today
that because Of the invasion In
Cuba its service to Havana has
been suspended indefinitely.
A spokesman for the airline
said the airport in Havana has
been closed since pm. yester-
day.
A New York Havana flight
and a Havana New York flight
were Cancelled yesterday and
two similar flights today also
were suspended.
Teletype communications be-
tween Havana and New York
still operated this morning, but
the last two messages received
took Az hours, the spokesman
said.
Cubana'S operations to Ha-
vana have been on a curtailed
basis in recent months. The
line is one Of the few continu-
ing to operate between the
United States and Havana.
Delta has been on a one-a-
week basis with it's flight from
New Orleans to Havana and
Venezuela and back.
The only other airline Oper-
ating to Havana from the
United States is Pan American.
Its flights leave from Miami.
FORT WORTH. Tex, April
IT .-Fidel Castro's gov
at mid-morning to-
day ordered a halt to all flights
Of foreign aircraft over Cuba
and in the vicinity of the island,
a Federal Aviation Agency
spokesman said here.
The ban applies to United
States military aircraft at the
United States Navy'S Guanta-
namo base, according to an
answer given a query by the
FAA.
Evening star., 1961-04-17
|RefugeePi|ots
| Get Hearings

MIAMI, Fla, April II (AP).
Hearings were set today for
two of five Cuban aviators
whose flights to Florida refuge
created week end sensations.
The proceedings were called
for Guillermo Verdaguer, pri-
vate pilot for Fidel Castro, and
Mr.. Verdaguer's brother, Ro-
berto, a major in Castro's Air
Force. They flew q Guiana
Airlines cargo plane to Jack
sonville Friday and asked aSy-
lum.
Edward Ahrens, district di-
rector of the United States I'm
migration Service. said hearings
also would be held this week
for three flyers who set Cuban
Air Force BPS bombers down
in South Florida after raiding
Castro airfields.
Identities Of these three were
withheld by the immigration
Service, which said it was
observing the mems wishes.
Meanwhile, Premier Castro, in
a fiery Havana denunciation
Of United States imperialism, "
challenged the United States to
prove the bombers were de-
fecting Cuban Air Force mem
berS as they claimed to be.
The men who landed B-26s at
Miami and Key West were
granted provisional political
asylum yesterday. Their hear
ingS are expected to be for
malitieS.
The immigration Service said
the men asked that their names
be withheld because they have
families in Cuba.
The pilot who landed in Mi
ami wore a fatigue cap and
trousers and a T-Shirt. He also
wore dark glasses and shielded .
his face with his hands when
photographers attempted to take
his picture while he was being
whisked away by immigration
officials.
Spokesman for the Revolu-
tionary Council claim that six
planes took part in Saturdays
raid, and that five of the ships
anded safely outside Cuba.
They said the sixth was ditched
1T sea.
Sources in Key West said a
search was made yesterday in
he area around Dry Tortugas,
/ cluster Of islands about IS
niles west Of Key West, where
one report said a plane was
seen going to. However, the
Navy would not confirm that
such a search was made.
Evening star., 1961-04-17

measures, events would develop
which would be fraught with
terrible consequences for the
cause of peace"
Mr.. Roa charged that the
United States had permitted
the counter-revolutionaries to
train in Florida and had per-
mitted private planes" to fly
more than so missions over
Cuba with pamphlets and mill
tary supplies.
Cites Promised Aid
He told the committee he had
pledges from Mexico, Brazil
and Ecuador that they would
come to Cuba's side in the
event of an invasion.
Mr.. Roa had been scheduled
to deliver an hour-long speech
attacking the United States for
alleged plans Of aggression
against the regime Of Prime
Minister Castro. He already
had laid before the committee
a charge that the United States
was responsible for Saturdays
dawn airfield bombings.
Mr., Roa gave no details of
the Cuban landings. but he used
the word invasion" to describe
the operation. He delivered a
detailed indictment of both the
United States and Guatemala
for alleged plotting to over
throw the Castro government.
The Kennedy administration,
he said, has continued and in
creased what he called crimes
and depredations" against Cuba.
He charged specifically that
Guatemala and the United
States were training Cuban
refugees as subversives and
SaboteurS.
Evening star., 1961-04-17

President Kennedy bring to the
United Nations the three air.
men who landed in Miami and
Key West after the attack.
Speaking at burial services
for seven OF the eight persons
killed in the air raid, Mr.. Cas-
tro accused the United States
government yesterday OF fl
nanCing the dawn air attack
and likened it to the Pearl
Harbor blow OF 194l.
At his most violent pitch in
months, the Cuban prime min
lister ragged that American ag-
gressions against Cuba were
born Of resentment because
we have made a socialist revo-
luton right under the nose Of
the United States"
Cuba was attacked with
Yankee planes, with Yankee
bombs. with Yankee arms and
with mercenaries paid by the
Yankee Central Intelligence
Agency" the prime minister
cried hoarsely.
Mr.. Castro cited the U-2
spy plane incident and said
the United States has no right
to the least prestige nor the
least respect in the world"
He pointed out that Wash
ington had to retract its orig
Inal denial that the U-2 was
On a spy mission over Europe
once the Russians revealed
they had the pilot, Francis
Gary Powers, and he had con-
Castro enemies at home con-
,inued to show defiance Of his
pledge to wipe out terrorists
Two bombs exploded in the
Havana suburbs during the
hight. Where they went off
and what damage they did was
1ot known at once.