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Evening star., 1962-05-27
BALLS LETTER

This is the tert of Under
secretary of State George
Balls March 29 letter to
Chairman Stennis of the SEN
ate Armed Services Subcom-
mittee Investigating "muz-
zling" charges transmitting
the State Departments er-
PLANTATION OF Dhy certain
statements in speeches of
military leaders Uere CEN
sored::
In accordance with your let
ters Of March 6 and March 7,
1852. and with the understand
ing reached during my testi-
mony before the Preparedness
Subcommittee, I am enclosing
our explanations for deletions
or changes in certain speeches
Of Defense Department per-
sonnel.
These speeches group them
selves within five chronological
periods, as follows:
/. The time Of the U-2 Incl
dent and the abortive Paris
summit conference of May,
1860.
2. The inauguration Of Presi-
dent Kennedy and the first
weeks of the search by the new
administration for means of
establishing communications
with the Soviets.
8. The events of April, 1861,
including Gagarin's space
flight, the attempted landing in
Cuba and the beginning of the
Geneva conference on Laos.
4. The Vienna summit meet
ing with President Kennedy
and Premier Khrushchev in
June or 1861.
5. The events surrounding
the beginning Of the Berlin
crisis in June and July Of 1861.
Relations Sensitive
You will note that each Of
these periods was one in which
relations between the United
States and the Communist
bloc were in a particularly SEN
sitive and critical state. In
order that the committee may
be fully aware of the detailed
political context in which the
changes were made, we have
arranged the explanations in a
looSe-leaf book according to
these periods, preceded in each
instance by a chronological
summary of the relative events.
I believe this form Of presenta-
ton gives added force to the
considerations Of time, place
and circumstances which I set
forth in my testimony before
your committee. (Nineteen
speeches, nearly all Of them
delivered early in 1860, do not
fit into any of these periods
and have therefore bee n
grouped separately
The explanations herewith
furnished to the committee
have been prepared by specially
assigned officers working under
my personal direction. They
have drawn upon contempo-
ranoouS note made by the re-
viewers and consultation with
appropriate officers in the Pub
lie Affairs Bureau and in the
regional and functional bu-
reaus of the department. $
Backs Censors
You will recall that In my
testimony I said that, by and
large, we are satisfied that the
department has performed its
duties in connection with the
review of speeches in a credita-
BILE and responsible manner. 1
would like to say that in as
sembling the explanations at
the request Of your committee,
I have become more than ever
confident that this statement is
correct. There have, Of course,
been a few instances in which
Evening star., 1962-05-27
Hearings May Decide
Districts S Water Future
BY CHARLES PIERCE
Star staff Writer

The Washington has vital stake in the hearings
the Army Corps of will this the Potomac
River Basin.
Hearings be held Luray Petersburg W. Va, and
Chambersburg Pa will give indication whether public
action will permit construction in these Of the dams
Evening star., 1962-05-27
AvuIunches Feared

INNSBRUCK, Austria, May
IS (AP).-Winter returned to
the Austrian Alps today with
heavy snowfalls blocking noun
tain roads and causing danger
of avalanches in tourist areas.
Evening star., 1962-05-27

Wnlcn engineers say are needed
to supply additional water for
the National Capital area.
Col. Warren johnson. Army
district engineer, has recon-
mended starting construction
Of eight major dams on Poto-
mac River tributaries within
the next 10 years. with erection
Of a large dam near Seneca,
Nd. proposed by 1871.
Byrd Opposed
However. the opposition of
Senator Byrd, Democrat of
Virginia. and other political
leaders makes it unlikely that
the Seneca dam will be even
started by that date.
The Seneca dam is unlikely
to receive the enthusiastic sup
port the rural co-ops had
given to earlier plans to con-
struct a major reservoir at
River Bend.
j. c. Brown, Potomac Basin
co-ordinator for the National
Rural Electric Cooperative
Association. said yesterday that
we will not support the Seneca
site-it's a retreat from the
best site at River Bend. Seneca
is not as good a site as River
Bend either for the storage Of
water or the generation of
hydro-electric power"
All this means that the
Washington area will probably
have to depend for some time
on dams in the mountainous
areas of West Virginia, Vir-
ginia and Pennsylvania. some
Of them $50 miles away.
Water stored in these reser-
voirs could be released during
dry periods to flow down the
Potomac.
Ask Pollution Fight
T,,a,. tI,z a1aana~ts - Sarar
Evening star., 1962-05-27
INVESTORS

continued from rage Al
and that it abetted violations
Of margin requirements.
The principal allegations,
however. dealt with distribu-
ton Of what was supposed to
be public offering Of the stocks
10 a favored group which in
cluded certain promoters. af-
filiates, counsel and their rela-
tives and associates.
Resale Plans Cited
The SEC investigators
charged that the firm. in max
ing the favored distribution and
rejecting buying offers from
the general public, knew that
certain members Of the favored
group planned to resell it to
the public at prices above the
public offering price Of SO.
Stock in Visual Dynamics
went as high as $l3. In its Of
fering circular. the company
said 1t was developing an audio-
visual device called the "phono-
visor" by which the sound Of
records produced by the COM
pany would be synchronized
with pictures on a film strip.
The company said 1t had a
contract with Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt in which she agreed
to record 10 programs dealing
with the workings Of the Uni
ted Nations. stories and read
ings for children and stories
for children about United Ma
tions countries.
The counsel for both Visual
Dynamics and Chemionics was
listed as Model, Pincus and
Hahn. a Philadelphia law firm
Listed As Counsel
The same law firm was either
listed as counsel or had men,
bers on the board Of directors
Of at least six other stock offer
ings widely distributed here.
AS in the case Of Visual
Dynamics and Chemionics, a
survey Of stock offerings filed
with the SEC showed these
stocks were either underwritten
oS sold mainly by American
diversified or a firm with some
of its personnel.
In its order launching pro-
ceedings against Best and
Carey, the SEC investigators
charged that the investment
firm not only acted in concert
with members of the favored
group to allocate the stock to
them but also hid the identities
of the real buyers of the stock
among this group.
The investigators also alleged
that Best and Carey sold the
"unseasoned and speculative"
securities without have made
the inquiries which would have
disclosed the true nature and
worth of the stocks.
Firm Accused
The firm was accused o.
making false and misleading
statements and failing to make
disclosures to investors about
the financial condition and OBJ
legations Of the companies, till
identity and interest Of the pro
moters, and the distribution o.
stock to the favored group.
The court Injunction signec
yesterday against Mr.. Sheppard
followed q complaint that hi
firm violated SECS net capita
rule which provides that a firm!
aggregate Indebtedness canno
be more than 20 times its ne
capital.
The SEC affidavit in supper
of the injunction alleged tina
the firms net deficiency Il
capital under the net capita
rule amounted to $26, ,470.03 a
of April 80. Mr.. Sheppard con
sented to the Injunction, bu
his attorney opposed appoint
ment of a receiver, also re
quested by the SEC. The cour
ordered a hearing Tuesday o.
the question Of appointing
receiver.
Evening star., 1962-05-27
RACE AGAINST DEADLINE
Congress Has q Heart,
Falls for Baby in Iran

took 2-year-od baby to that legislative and
executive wheels really whizz in emergency despite
Senate busters House and presidential travels
The result related yesterday by Representative Walter
Democrat Of Pennsylvania, that Aria Lynn Atabay is
citizen
Evening star., 1962-05-27

A wide choice Of Spinets and Consoles Of
excellent makes. You con hove Piano
in your home et low cost. Phone or visit
eny Of our three stores for detoils. We
are the Washington Areo's Largest Music
Co.
Evening star., 1962-05-27
Ask Pollution Fight

Even the opponents of dams
concede that the rapidly grow
ing metropolitan area will need
Evening star., 1962-05-27

and that it abetted violations
Of margin requirements.
The principal allegations
however. dealt with distribu-
ton Of what was supposed to
be public offering Of the stocks
TO a favored group which in
cluded certain promoters. af-
filiates. counsel and their rela-
tives and associates.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-09

his committee as a springboard, so
sensationalized the wrong-doings and
alleged wrong-doings of an infintes-
imally few labor leaders, that the
Congress was panicked into approx
ing the poorly-drawn Landrum- Grit
fin lawyers relief Act.
Referring to McClellan's pending
proposal to prevent strikes in defense
industries, Helena attorney Charles
V. Huppe stated in a recent analysis
of the proposed legislation prepared
for the Montana State Council of
Carpenters. that "even in war time
our government has never gone so
far in granting executive authority
over employer-employee relation
ships -
In Washington, D. c., President
George Harrison of the Railway
Clerks, speaking before a labor con-
ference on amendments proposed by
Mcclellan to the antitrust laws,
amied at outlawing any effective
transportation strike, called on all
of organized labor to fight zone of
the most indefensible, drastic and
dangerous bills ever to be before
Congress. eve have already seen,
through enactment of the Landrun-
Griffin Act, how the isolated ex-
cesses of few can be exploited into
the passage of punitive labor legisla-
tom, he said, and added that if labor
doesn't wake up the public ITO the
real facts they twill again fall prey
to another attack even as the blood
from our most recent wounds is still
McCIellan's bill relative to the
strategic defense facility, ac-
cording to Huppe, sis SO broad and
all inclusive as ''to stagger the
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-09
Democratic Chairman
Challenges COP On
>Riqhf-fo-work' Stand

WASHINGTON, D. C. = Demo-
cratic National Committee Chairman
John M. Bailey has challenged the
Republican party to tell the Ameri-
can people if. it is for or against So
called "right-to-work' laws.
Bailey noted that the Oklahoma
COP organization is helping to circu-
late petitions calling for state con-
stitutional amendment prohibiting
union shop agreements. In other
states, he said, Republicans also are
"allying themselves with the extrem-
lists of the far right" in support of
"right-to-work"
The Democratic chairman declared
that everyone who has studied the
ISSUE knows that Hwork" laws are
designed to cripple unions and stack
the cards in favor of anti-union en-
ployers whenever the two sit down
at the bargaining table"
The effect of laws banning the
union shop, he said, is ''to throttle
free and fair collective bargaining"
Pointing out that the Democratic
party is specifically pledged" to OPP
pose "right-to-work" laws, Bailey
called on COP national leaders to
issue an "unequivocal statement of
their position.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-09

if it was placed on referendum.
| asked him for his thoughts on the
John Birch Society and he said there
were extremists on both sides of the
fence, "for your personal informa-
tion," he confided, 81 am not MEM
ber".
He then went into the Birch beef
that the United Nations needed scare
full scrutiny.
He doesn't like the federals con-
trolling water but there are fields
where the state and federal govern
ments must work closely together.
He thought that the Governor and
1t. Gov. should be voted in together
like the national ticket but thought
that Paul Rice, a Democrat who will
take over when he goes to Seattle,
will not disrupt any programs of his
during his absence.
He announced that C. Lowell Purdy,
48, Havre wheat farmer, would be
the Commissioner of Agriculture and
that Jack Hollowell, Al, state adver-
Using director, would be his execu-
tive secretary.
The press of varying ages and sex
has big job to do and would always
be welcome to his office, and he said
he would not suppress anything of
value to the state
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-09
MPCo. Gets Green Light For

Continued from Page One)
than Is higher than the of other
privately-owned utilities.
which spends thousands thousands
of dollars maintain expensive lobby in Helena during
each legislatures for propaganda advertising
influence
public opinion, is entitled to the exorban rate
approved this week by Commissioners Holiness Boedeck
and Smith.
What's do about it? WE'LL in addition raising funds
for appeal through the suggest either the
adjustment of worthless regulatory commission, better
STILL legislation to transfer the utility from private to State
ownership (See editorial 49, Just Why ask should
Montana people undergo round after another of officially
plunderng of their for the benefit of the ut
ity tockhoder85 of whom of state and
whose principal interest Montana how much they
extract from it's people dvidends?LB
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-09

imagination and all industry or
business, excepting the most local
of retail outlets could be brought
under the act.
The proposed legislation, the analy.
sis states, puts the responsibility fol
any and all labor strife on the work
ing man and does nothing to deal with
the responsibility of employers such
as sub-contractors, "the source of
most trouble so far encountered in
this area on the missile project, and
"there has been no move by the fed
eral government to tighten restric-
lions on this practice-or to screen
the responsibility of such sub-con-
tractors.
A case in point, Huppe says, is the
sub-contractor who takes the job
from the low bidding general con-
tractor: ''The sub-contractor is gen
orally a gypo-operator who cannot
be bonded for a major job, so the
major job is bid by firm which
breaks it into short term jobs and
subs them out. The very fact that
these jobs are of short duration makes
this proposed bill mockery. For by
the time the administrative macilin-
cry Tin McCelllan's billy has func-
toned many of the subcontracts
would be completed, and completed
under protest and mandatory work
orders. The lack of responsibility
of the gyppo sub-contractor is a
major source of dispute at the pres
ent time.''
McClellan's bill purported to pre-
vent strikes on defense projects,
Huppe says, would make a one-man
arbitrator complete car over the
earnings of workers and income of
industries in this country. 1t would
spell the final end of the free labor
union movement in this country and
as in other totalitarian countries
make them instruments of the state.
The Railway Clerks National Pres
ident warned that while many would
believe it is 'unthinkable" that Con-
gress would pass such an extreme
it is being advertised as
a "stop Hoffa" proposal.
He noted, 1--WE have already
seen, through enactment of the
Landrum-Griffin Act, how the iso-
lated excuses of a few can be ex-
plotted into the passage of punt
tive labor legislation.
Harrison added, ''The stakes are
high and we can expect the avowed
enemies of organized labor to spare
no effort to secure passage of law
which would put us in a strait
jacket i. plans are matured to whip |
up frenzy to push this bill through"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-09
Post-Dispafch Is
Realistic

No scientific basis exists
for concluding that a vast
shelter building program
would assure national sur
vival in about nuclear war.
1t is better to face the fact
that our society could not
survive.-ST. LOUIS POST
DISPATCH.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-09
State House Beat
FRANKLY SPEAKING
By FRANK SMALL

Chief Justice of the Montana Su-
preme Court James Harrison swore
in Tim Babcock as our Governor
Tuesday. Tins our Governor any
way but everyone thought it would
be good idea to get him on his oath
again. The specific reason escapes
everyone but we know this should
be done.
Big Jim kinda bobbled the deal by
maneuvering Tim into a left-handed
salute by having him put his right
hand on the Holy Book. The pictorial
value would have been poor if Tim
put his left hand on the Book for
he was standing to the left of the
Judge.
This same effect was created when
a photographer reversed the mega
tive of a swearing in ceremony of
another official last year. The Butte
Standard couldn't believe this breach
of formality so they reversed the
negative and Tins right hand went
up.
Then Tim fumbled the oath little
when he said defect instead of pro-
tect the constitution but all the super
stitious people thought poor be-
ginning means good ending.
One thing which certainly caught
the boys from the press unaware was
Tins going straight to the table TO
begin his press conference. We were
drawn right into the show.
The implication of this turn of
events is going to make quite a
change in the department of the
Capitol newshounds.
We are going to have to watch our
personal appearances a little more
carefully and emulate United Press
chief George Remington. George COW
ers his tummy with a bright yellow
vest
The press gave Tim the once over
lightly touching on variety of sub
jects but persuing none of the SUBJ |
jects in detail.
His first trip out of state will be
on April % to the Seattle fair. He |
will not ride in a National Guard |
plane because they do not have any
thing airworthy for carrying civilians.
His legislative program has not
yet been formulated but will continue
with the retrenchment theme-with
the notable exception of the Univer-
sity system which is boiling into open
revolt because of the national neces-
sity of the times.
Retrenchment raids on the So mil
ion Hail Board and similar trust
funds is to continue because of the
to private business. How
ever this familiar song will not be
carried into the Liquor Control Board,
Il would hesitate to recommend
,hange". ;
The Editor of the MONTANA CIT I
ZEN wanted to know about the sales
AK which is close to his alleged
leart. Since the income taxes of the {
$50 Legislature-not as Tim would
AVE it the result of 1861 retrench-
nent-will show a non-deficit gencr-
u fund by July 1868, he did not ia {
or it unless it was replacement t
or some present tax and then only t
r
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-09

A behemoth among freight cars
is being tried out in Germany. The
carrier is 1876 feet long and has
twenty axles. 1t has a dead weight
of 10 tons and can carry 220 tons
of freight. Two years in the making,
the new car was first put on public
view at Nuernburg.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-09
Mcclellan Would Further
Hamstrine Wage Farmers

The American labor movement again being faced with
national legislation proposed under the guise stopping
Hoffa but which, if it works like Landrum- Griffin will stop
everybody but Hoffa labor leaders warning their
bers The bills have been introduced by Senator John Mcclellan
DArk In 195859, it will be remembered Mcclellan using
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-09
LEGISLATURES ARE
SOURCE OF TROUBLE

The source of the difficulty goes
back to the state legislatures, which
pass the laws drawing the Congress
sional districts. These legislatures
are, for the most part, also dominated
by rural lawmakers at the expense
of the people who live in the cities.
One recent study showed such to
be the case in these states: California,
where IL percent of the people can
elect majority in the State Senate;
Rhode Island where 1876 percent can
do the same; Nevada, 1875 percent;
Maryland, 15.5 percent. The city of
Atlanta, Georgia, with population
around half million, had one state
senator, while rural district with
only 1921 inhabitants also had one
senator.
Mayor Ben West of Nashville,
Tenn, has described a rural county
as. one with SOIL cows. 4,739 pigs
and horses, 3,948 people, and one
state representative.
MISREPRESENTATION of the cities
adds up to this: lobbyists for special
interests can work more handily with
lawmakers who come from small
communities.
When you hear talk of the con-
sentative coalition in Congress and
how effective it can be, remember
it is the unequal system of repre-
sentation that explains the source
of it's power.
(c) 1862 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-09
THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES,

UNREPRESENTATIVES
President Kennedy's determination
to create new Department of Urban
Affairs in the Cabinet has drawn fire
from Republicans who call it a poll
tical maneuver. The Democrats do
not deny this, but they believe it is
good politics.
The manner in which the Admins
tration has introduced the subject
has raised some questions as to wheth-
er the proposal is seriously intended,
or whether it is a propaganda gambit
designed to nail down the Negro vote.
The President took the virtually I'M
paralleled step of announcing in adj
vance of Congressional action that
he intends to name his present hous-
ing chief, Robert Weaver, a Negro,
to the new post.
This is a defiant gesture of the
sort the President has not employed
in pushing for the public school aid
bill or his medical care proposals.
1t seems out of keeping with his ap-
parent determination to avoid
knock-down drag-out fight with Con-
gress. So the charge that he is play
ing politics with the issue does not
seem unbelievable.
Up to now there has been very
little educating of the public about
what is involved. But if the Admin
istration intends to keep the issue
alive it can be assumed that the
process of educating the public will
soon begin.
Making political football tends
to becloud another issue directly re-
lated to creation of new Depart
ment of Urban Affairs, i.e., the pres
emit composition of the House of Rep |
1t was in the House
Rules Committee that the President
encountered his first defeat of the
session, when the Republicans solidly
ined up with Southern Democrats to
Kill the new federal department.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1962-02-09
WATCH ON The POTOMAC

Four of the most powerful men in
the House come from small towns or
farm districts. They are Howard w.
Smith of Virginia, chairman of the
Rules Committee; Wilbur D. Mills of
Arkansas, chairman of Ways and
Means; Oren Harris of Arkansas,
chairman of Interstate and Foreign
Commerce, and John L. Mcmillan of
South Carolina, in charge of the Dis
trict of Columbia Committee.
You can look at the problem from
almost any angle, and find little evil
dence to contradict the Administra-
TONS central theme, namely, that
there is misrepresentation in Con-
gress from relatively small districts.
If Congressional districts were
evenly divided, each Congressman
would have 410,481 constituents, ac-
cording to the latest Census figures.
Yet in California there is one dis
trict that has over one million in
habitants, while another has only
$4,000. In Florida, the district
around Miami counts $4,000 people,
while the rural Eighth District has
only $4,000. In Michigan one dis
trict which includes part of Detroit
has 100000 residents, while district
in the upper Peninsula counts only
$4,000 Inhabitants.