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police to make sure that the defectors
fearful wife was not being coerced into
deciding to return to Russia The en-
suing fiSticuffs, in which Mr.. Pono-
marenko apparently was punched, must
be blamed on his and his party's tough
boy behavior.
Yet, with typical arrogance of the
type that the Kremlin frequently dis
plays, especially toward the smaller
countries of the free world, Ambas-
sador Ponomarenko has warned the
Netherlands that it may suffer far
reaching consequences" as a result of
the scuffle. Dutch Premier Jan de Quay,
however. has reacted calmly, and he
has plainly indicated that the Soviet
Embassy and it's personnel need to be
taught some diplomatic manners "a
point UNDERSIGNED by the fact that Mr..
Ponomarenko has been expelled, with
the Soviet Union retaliating by taking
similar action against the Dutch Ambas-
Sador to Moscow.
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Bully in Holland

The story of the detecting Russian
scientist and his wifes anguished fare
we'll to him at Amsterdams airport
constitutes yet another example of the
personal tragedy that is so often in
volved in the flight of people Westward
from behind the Iron Curtain. Wholly
apart from that, moreover, it serves as
a striking illustration of how. bullying
Soviet diplomacy can be.
Certainly the Kremlin's Ambassador
to the Netherlands man named Pono-
marenko-had no right to intervene
as he did, with six brawny aides, in the
altogether proper efforts of the Dutch
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Suicide-or Murder?

An investigation of the fatal
shooting nearly two years ago of Povl
Bang-JenSen, United Nations diplomat,
has led an Internal Security subcom-
mittee of the Senate to raise new
questions as to the correctness of the
suicide" verdict of the New York City
Medical Examiner. The subcommittee,
headed by Senator Dodd of Connecticut,
said the circumstances of the shooting
Wee such as to make it still unclear
whether it was suicide or murder" That
the circumstances were strange is, in
fact, the only clear thing about Mr.
3ang-Jensen's death.
The Danish official had just been
suspended from his U. N. post as assist
ant secretary of committee investi-
eating the Inflated Hungarian revolt of
1865. His suspension resulted from his
refusal to surrender to the U. N a list
of freedom fighters who had testified
about Soviet brutality. Mr. Bang
Jensen explained that the witnesses had
been promised that their identities
would remain secret and that it would
be betrayal of trust If their names
were to become known to Russian U. N.
officials.
Not long after his suspension the
Danes body was found in small New
York park with bullet in the head, a
pistol at his side and suicide note in
his wallet. The pistol was identified
as Mr.. Bang-Jensen's and a police ex-
pert said the note was in the dead mans
handwriting. Although the medical
examiner ruled that the evidence proved
suicide. New York police to this day
have listed the death as an open case"
The Senate subcommittee, agreeing
that the case still is open" said There
are too many solid arguments against
suicide, too many unanswered questions,
too many serious reasons for suspecting
Soviet motivation and the possibility
of Soviet implication" The report
pointed out that it is known that Mr..
BangJensen had been approached "by
a would-be Soviet defector who wished
to convey information concerning Soviet
control by key persons In the U. N.
Secretariat and Soviet infiltration of
American intelligence"
Whether the many unanswered
questions" of the Bang-Jensen case will
ever be answered is, to say the least,
doubtful. We are reminded Of Wash
ington'S famous Virginia Macpherson
murder-suicide strangling mystery of
the late '20s. In that sensational case
one grand jury held that she had been
murdered, although the police ruled
that it was suicide An FBI inveStiga-
ton supported the police theory and a
second grand jury also upheld the
police finding. The court expunged
the first grand jury report from the
records. However, as in the Bang
Jensen case, there are those who still
believe that the Macpherson case should
remain open"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-14
Agency Shop Setback

The Supreme Courts refusal to
review Kansas decision banning the
so-called agency shop seems to be
entirely consistent with the intent of
the Taft Hartley Act
That much-debated statute per-
mits union shop agreements under
which an employee must join union,
generally within 80 days, In order to
hold his Job. But this same law also
permits States to enact legislation
banning the union shop, and 19 have
done so.
The agency shop is a union
sponsored device to get around the ban
on union shops. Under its terms, an
employe is not compelled to join a
union. But he is required to pay to the
union the equivalent Of initiation fees
and dues paid by union members. This,
it seems to us, Is an evasion of the union
shop ban, for it's effect, II not its intent,
IS to put pressure on nonunion employees
to join up.
In any event. the Supreme Court,
for practical purposes, has said that
the agency shop can lawfully be banned
Ill LAdIlSdS. Allu IL IAdIlSdS CdIl uO Llllo
the remaining 10 right States,
or for that matter any State, presumably
can do the same If it wishes.
Another effect of the courts action
is to bring into question recent ruling
by the National Labor Relations Board
on the agency shop issue. In a to l
decision, the board held last month that
the agency shop is lawful form of
union security contract under the terms
of Indiana's right-to-work law. This
ruling, with two new Kennedy appointees
on the board, reversed to decision
last February in which the board held
that the agency shop was banned in
Indiana.
This flip-flop by the NLRB may be
attributable to nothing more than the
change in its membership Or there
may be significant difference between
the Kansas law and the Indiana law
In either event, it now seems clear that
Indiana, If 1t wants to do so, can legally
ban the agency shop.
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Couqht in the Middle

"a. The serious predicament in which
an employer can find himself when
rival unions fight for control of his
employees is we'll illustrated in an Airing
ton case before the National Labor Re-
lations Board. The firm 'in the middle"
is the Arlington Asphalt Company.
whose employees have been organized
by the United Mine Workers But, &C
cording to report by an NLRB ex-
aminer, rival building trades unions of
the AFL-CIO have indicated that some
sort of retaliation might be reSorted
to If the company's UNIV workers ap-
peared on an AFL-CIO-dominated job.
In view of this threat, the examiner
has ruled Arlington Asphalt was justi-
fled in asking District so of the UNIV
to guarantee the company against any
losses that might result from the COM
pany'S recognition of the UNIV union
as bargaining agent for it's employees.
The case came to the NLRB upon
the complaint of District so that, by
injecting demand for $4,000 bond
from the union to guarantee against
loss from interunion warfare, the COM
pany was refusing to bargain in good
faith, as required by law. The union
and management had agreed on all
points of contract except the bond
requirement. District so argued that
1t could not be expected to reimburse
an employer for damage inflicted by
an outside union. The examiner pointed
out in his report that neither the union
nor the company discounted the pos
Sibility of picketing or other action by
AFL-CIO unionists.
In fact, Trial Examiner George l..
Powell told the board that another
paving contractor CorSon & Gruman,
was forced off the Fourteenth Street
bridge Job as a result Of pressure" by
an AFL-CIO union which resented the
fact that the contractors employees
we're members of District so. And one
Of Arlington ASpha1t's partners testi-
fled that similar pressures had been
applied to force his firm off several
jobs here. The examiner therefore
found that there lis reasonable ground
for believing there would be work
curtailment" that would hurt the Ar
lington firm and that, since such a
curtailment would affect working con-
ditions" of the employees, the company's
demand for bond against possible loss
was properly an issue for bargaining
Nevertheless, General Counsel Stu
art Rothman Of the NLRB has been
quoted as saying he would ask the
board to reverse Examiner Powell'S
ruling. If the reversal should be
granted. however, companies which,
like the Arlington firm, are innocent
victims of interunion controversies will
be left without protection against shut
downs and possible bankruptcy resulting
from causes beyond their control-but
within the control of responsible union
leaders.
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White 'GIobetrotter'?

l have been reading about
all the laws being recon-
mended whereby owners of
what were once called private
business establishments (de-
partment stores. movie
houses, restaurants. etc. in
Guiding the Redskins foot
ball team must employ Ne
groes or avoid further dis
criminatory treatment of the
Negro.
Are any similar laws con-
templated whereby all Negro
organizations and businesses
must employ members of the
Caucasian and other races?
I am thinking about the
possibility of seeing the Har-
lem Globetrotters Basketball
Club on a court with four
members Of the Negro race
and one member of one of
the other races.
X. l.. Collins.
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Freedom Riders

In his article "Desegrega-
ton and Politics" David Law
renee says that the psychol-
ogy Of the freedom riders is
the only way to get things
done is to take the law into
your own hands," Evil
IDENTIFY Mr.. Lawrence is not
cognizant Of the decisions
that the courts have been
handing down for years as
sorting that racial discrimi-
nation on interstate buses
and their terminals is I'M
lawful. The freedom riders
are not to blame for the
violence that resulted in a
few" places. but the local
governments are. as in the
school degeneration dilem-
ma, local Southern authori-
ties ignore the law and re-
main true to local tradition.
The purpose Of the free
dom riders was not to in
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Answers ABC

As a member of the Airing
ton County Board from 1852
through 1858 and as a former
chairman Of that body, l am
shocked by statements ap-
pearing in the political bro
chure mailed recently to
Arlington voters by the Lowry
for County Board ABC Cam
paign Committee.
The most glazing misstate-
ment of facts in a listing Of
Some recent accomplish
mentS OF the County Board
under ABC leadership" is the
statement that the Board
Raised teachers salaries,
expanded the school program,
and improved county services
with no increase in tax
rates"
Please, taxpayers, look at
your 1857 real estate and
personal property tax re-
ceiptS. You will find that in
1857 you paid three dollars
twenty-four cents C$3.24 per
hundred dollars on real estate
and four dollars twenty-nine
cents t$4.29) per hundred
dollars on personal property.
Then take a look at your
1851 real estate receipt and
your personal property tax
bill (Which is due in Deem
ber). You paid three dollars
eighty-one cents CS3.8D per
hundred dollars on your real
estate and you will pay
four dollars thirty-five cents
($4.35D per hundred dollars
personal property. Think
back to January l. 1858.
when ABC took control of
the County Board. You were
paying five dollars $500
for your local automobile tag.
Today you are paying ten
dollars $4,000. ABC has
doubled it. Businessmen, take
a look at your business
privilege tax. ABC has raised
it twice for you.
Do you call that no in
crease in the tax rates? I
call it a false statement in
an effort to fool the voters.
Another statement is that
the Board completed the
master plan" Such an asser-
ton Is a pure myth. After
all the taxpayers money that
has been spent on the So
called master plan, we still
do not have one.
The Lowry for County
Board ABC Campaign Com
mittee should stick to the
facts. Indeed, it is lament
able that the ABC political
party would resort to such
tactics In an effort to con-
fuse and deceive the voters.
Leone b. Buchholz.
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VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Peory's island Rediscoyered?
By THOMAS R. HENRY

from the point where first
seen in a half century or so.
The newly discovered ice is
land, with hard ice about so
feet thick, may well remain
adrift for a century. The
discovery is credited to Max
Brewer and Robert Fischer
of the Nays Arctic Re-
search Laboratory at Point
Barrow. while flying over the
area. They circled it many
times before landing.
The discovery says a
Navy report. is of major sig
nificance to the Arctic Ocean
research effort. An ice is
land. as differentiated from
ice floes or pack ice. has
permanence. Such islands
have broken off from thick
shelf ice, presumably near
ElleSmere Island in the Ca
madam Archipelago. After
having broken off from a
shelf area, the island gets
caught in the constantly
moving. melting, re-freezing
and breaking pack ice. Yet it
is thick and strong enough to
remain intact. Ice islands
are scarce. Only a few of
them have been seen during
Arctic flights in the past Is
years
Drifting Research Station
The Navy has made use of
a hitherto discovered smaller
one, Fletcher's Ice Island, for
a drifting research station.
This now has gone aground
off Point Barrow and lost its
value. 1t is planned to trans
FER the station to the new
island.
Such islands, says the re-
port, offer the only stable
platforms from which an
Arctic Ocean environmental
research program can be con-
Quoted. The Arctic Research
Laboratory has developed the
capability for setting up and
supplying this type of re-
search station by aircraft. A
camp is designed to accom-
modate the individual pro-
grams. The buildings, al
though all of the same size,
are configured differently
inside as to desk, laboratory,
space, machinery
and the like. since each re-
search study has its own spe-
clal requirements"
There is some probability,
according to the report, that
the newly discovered island
was the one reported by Ad-
mlral Peary more than a
thousand miles away early in
this century.
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Not 'Unioue'

In reference to an article
in The Star on a UNIQUE"
class in Roberts Rules bring
ing unionists and executives
together, I wish to alert you
and the Washington public
that there are a good MANY
other parliamentarians in
this area and several of them
teach parliamentary law and
practice.
An active Unit of the Ma
tional Association of Parli-
amentarians. the Sartwell
Unit, is the only one organ
lied in Washington. Mrs.
Franklin G. Sartwell is our
founding president and org
anizer. She is a Registered
Parliamentarian and con-
ducts day and evening
courses fessionaly
throughout the area.
The Sartwell Unit was or
ganized in January. 1860. for
the purpose of further study
and practice of parliamentary
law. We have all been stu
dents in Mrs. Sartwell's
course. Many Of our men,
bers have served with the
White House Conferences on
Children and Youth and on
Aging as parliamentarians
under her leadership.
Lucille b. Swanton,
President, Sartwell Unit of
National Association of Parl-
iamentarianS
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tentionally break the law or
incite riots. They were only
using their rights as guaran-
teed by the Constitution. 1t
is unfortunate that the
world had to know that all
United States citizens are
not given equal protection Of
the law.
I agree with Mr.. Lawrence
that as a result Of the ICES
new ruling the freedom rides
are at last unnecessary. Ex-
preSsions Of gratitude to the
ice and the Attorney Gen.
eral!
II 0uir,fon Cordon
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A large island Of hard,
drifting ice, specifically
nearly indistinguishable from
land island. has been dis
covered by Navy explorers in
the Arctic Ocean about 1870
miles north Of Point Barrow,
Alaska.
The 5-square-mile island
with its piles of rocks and
boulders looks. even to the
most discerning observer, re-
markedly like a snow-covered
land mass. Its gently roll
ing topography" says a Navy
report of the discovery. lis
similar to a snow-covered
meadow and differs markedly
from the surrounding char
acteristic pack ice whose per-
fectly flat surfaces alternate
with thin. jumbled, blocky
broken ice. From dunes of
glacial debris the ice slopes
gently. like a seashore, until
it reaches the pack ice ocean.
This results in large eXpanSeS
of beach along many parts OF
the island. Elsewhere there
is a more rugged coastline
where blocks of sea ice are
either pushed up on the
shore or butt up against it,
forming pressure ridges. At
one point a river, muddy with
glacial silt and pebbles, cas-
cades off the edge of the
island. During the summer
it is a torrent. The rock
piles look very much like
mountains. owing to the
faulty depth perception which
so commonly afflicts obServ-
ers in Polar areas"
No Land Islands
It now is generally admit
ted, says the Navy report,
that there are no land islands
in the Arctic Ocean. Yet
both Admiral Robert E.
Peary. discoverer of the
North Pole, and his rival, DR..
Frederick Cook, claimed to
have seen such islands. More
recently Russian Arctic ex-
plorers have made similar
claims. Land islands also
have been reported by Eski-
mos. But always, when the
sites later were revisited,
there were no islands there.
How could such experienced
observers have been so COM
pletely fooled?
What they actually saw,
says the Navy report. doubt
less were hard ice masses
similar to the one Just dis
covered north of Point
Barrow. One easily could
have drifted thousand miles
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Shorinq Know-How

Recently was attracted
by an article which said in
part: The chairman OF the
United States Atomic Ener-
gy Commission disclosed that
the United States and Rus
STA are discussing plans to
join forces in building the
worlds biggest nuclear &C
celerator to produce the
fantastic power of 500 to
1000 billion electron volts"
1 am not surprised If the
Russians agree to full CO.
operation. AS in the past, the
Russians will agree to work
with our American scientists
any time they have the OPP
portunity in order to gain
significant knowledge which
they do not possess, for they
are convinced by now that
our scientists are brilliant,
free-thinking men. Actually
in the past. during the many
meetings with Russian pro-
fessional people, I wonder
what useful information our
side has gained? But being
honest and STRAIGHTFORWARD
Americans, we give and give
in good faith. only to have
1t slapped back at us in the
form of insults. What they
learn from us. which they
obtain from our scientists at
these meetings. or by their
usual method, all adds to
Mr., Khrushchev's potential
to bury U.S."
The article in question
pointed out that the United
States now has the biggest
accelerator. producing 30 bill
lion electron volts. and the
biggest Russian accelerator
produces 10 billion. Now we
propose to give them the
know-how to produce some
thing they cannot produce
by themselves. II they could
do this on their own, surely
they would not share with us.
II our scientists know how
to build the worlds biggest
nuclear accelerator, then
let's go ahead and build it
without the Russians. Their
contribution will probably be
nil, their gain will be SUBJ
stantial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1961-10-14

Rockefeller OF New York,
Republican, both of whom
are up for reelection next
year, take pleasure and COM
fort from these struggles. In
California, Richard M. Nixon,
the Republican candidate for
President in 1860, and Good
win Knight, former Governor,
are accusing each other of
seeking to gain support for
his candidacy for the Re-
publican gubernatorial NOM
ination by promises of polit-
ical preferement, one for the
other.
The struggle among the
Democrats in New York, on
the other hand, is terrifically
intense, with Mayor Wagner
leading a revolt against the
Democratic organization of
New York City. His victory
for denomination has not
lessened or eliminated the
bitterness which exists among
the Democrats there. In a
city where the Democratic
superiority in registered vot-
ers is three or four to one
over the Republicans, Mayor
Wagner is expected to win
against his Republican OPP
ponent, Attorney General
Louis Lefkowitz.
Nevertheless, for the first
time in many years the Re-
publicans are making a real
effort to elect a mayor of
Greater New York. Their
hope lies in the fact that
Mayor Wagner's administra-
ton over the last eight years
has been riddled with scandals
in most departments of the
city government. They are
aided, too. by the contest
among the Democrats them
selves. No one quite knows
what the Democratic bosses
of Manhattan. the Bronx and
Brooklyn will do in the COM
ing election. Carmine G. De-
Sapio. the Tammany leader,
has said nothing. while
Joseph T. Sharkey, a Dem
ocratic boss in Brooklyn, and
Charles A. Buckley. the leader
in the Bronx, have voiced
only half-hearted support of
the Democratic ticket. The
situation is further compli-
Gated by the candidacy of
City Council President Law
renee E. Gerosa, a Democrat
who is running as an indie
pendent and will attract
votes from both Mayor
Wagner and Mr.. LefkowitZ.
G. o. p. Eye Gains
The Republicans will claim
material gains if they can
cut Mayor Wagner's plurality
considerably below the 920.-
000-vote lead he had over his
Republican opponent four
years ago. 1t is even possible
that he may not receive a
plurality of all the votes cast.
a ] t ugh winning. Gov.
Rockefeller has thrown him
self enthusiastically into this
mayoralty campaign. He will
gain in prestige if his candi-
date does well.
AS the weeks have passed.
the attacks on the Kennedy
d m I'M s tration have in
creased, particularly of his
handing of foreign policy.
The criticisms have come
from others besides Republic
can leaders. He has remained
aloof from the political cam
paignS so far. Nevertheless,
the G. o. P. will seek to find
resentment and disappoint-
mnet in these elections if the
Democrats lose ground.