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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-21

STRASBOURG, France
Harsh criticisms of Wash
ington's weird policies" are
being made by men who may
assume responsibilities in a
United Europe. More and
more the term "Utopians" is
being used in describing men
who surround President Ken
nedy. and these are the tar
get of criticism rather than
the American people or the
Chief Executive himself.
There is unanimous agree
ment that never in history
has a nation been so self
less, so generous and so will
ing to sacrifice both blood
and treasure as the United
States for the cause of free
dom all over the world. No
nation throughout the ages,
it is agreed, has spent so
much to oppose tyranny.
Wars" said a representa-
tive of a minor NATO men,
Der, have always been fought
for gainful purposes. America
alone has fought two major
wars for no other purpose
than the suppression of ty-
ranny. At the end of the
last war you had victory in
the hollow of your hand. Yet,
you chose to hand over the
victory to the most dedicated
enemy of freedom-interna-
tional communism.
THE mistakes of your all
ing President Roosevelt at
Teheran and Yalta have cost
you tens of billions of dol
lars, and may result in the
reshaping of the world on the
Communist pattern. No soon
er were naziism and faScism
crushed than we were all
faced by the threat of i'm
perialiSt communism. We
were all compelled to rearm
at a gigantic cost.
Nov, when Europe has
become a power capable of
restraining the new tyran-
ny. you seem to have lost
heart and are doing your ut
most to placate the enemy.
Your government has pam
licked the American people
and now it wants to panic
Europe with the bugaboo that
unless the free world makes
concessions to the Kremlin
we are faced with destruc-
ton"
The Europeans wonder why
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-21

ton and the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers are
Socialistic groups.
Senator Johnston, like all
solid Southern statesmen, has
voted and Illuminated against
civil rights. Everyone under
stands this. But Olin does
manage to speak we'll of the
common man, and the many
textile workers in the State
are grateful. Olin was not
behind the door when poll
tical brains were passed out,
and so he supported medical
aid to the INDECENT aged
through Social Security. He
also had the good sense not
to denounce or refuse legiti-
mate Federal benefits. He does
not call them creeping So
cialism, and he does not car
ry on a lot of nonsense about
welfare measures being COM
munistic.
1t is perhaps true that he
is something of a liberal in
South Carolina, if he is
measured against the hys-
terical Birch Society con-
Servatism, which is so ram
pant in the politics of the
State.
Mr.. Holdings carried CAL
houn County, which is in
the low country where the
surrender of Gen. Lee is still
regarded as an unfortunate
act of weakness by a noble
man worn out by the pres
SureS of war. The surprise
was that Senator Johnston
carried Charleston, the cita-
del of old Southernism, but
North Charleston also votes.
1t is industrial and is not
well thought of by the gen.
tility of Charleston.
There was one other rea-
son for Mr.. Holdings loss to
the great liberal, Senator
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-21
DORIS FLEESON
Failure to Attack Foes of His Program
Seen Letting Votes Escape on Pet Bills

President Kennedy is not
furnishing air cover for his
troops on measures which at
tract the fire Of special in
tereSts.
In private he works hard
to persuade his former COL
leagues that his proposals are
in the national interest and
that his party needs a bet
ter record of performance for
the fall election. Prosperity
is surely Just around the cor
ner for the makers of the
White House dinner napkins,
but the legislative results are
not forthcoming.
He remains reluctant to
identify and explain the en-
envy for the voters. His in
Inmates say that this is be-
cause he is a consensus man,
determined to find the big
geSt parcel of common ground
before he moves. Politicians
regard this as an academic
concept i'll suited to the pre-
cinct wars.
One of the rare occasions
which found the President
out in front was the rally for
medicare. Its circus atmos-
phere did not appeal to all
of his advisers, nor was it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-21
Robert Kennedy Comments Seen Hint
U. 5. Moy Have Encouraged Illegal Act

Mr.. Kennedy was interro-
gated by william H. Law
renee of Abe. Here is a YER
batim transcript of what the
Attorney General said:
-
The President and the
administration were COM
mitted to attempting to
stop the initiation in the
United States, and in that
effort of course steel plays
a major role. With the
concurrence of steel execu-
tives. management, the
President and Mr.. Gold
berg, Secretary of Labor,
had many meetings with
representatives in the steel
union to attempt to prevail
upon them to not make
their demands excessive.
It was understood in the
meetings with the steel
executives, Mr.. Blough and
others, that this effort was
to be made so that with
the unions demands being
reasonable that the price
of steel would not have to
be raised. 1t was with this
understanding that the
President and Arthur
Goldberg went ahead and
finally, I think, through
their efforts prevailed upon
the union to keep their
demand in extremely rea-
sonable level, which was
recognized by all through
out the United States, and
a contract was signed on
very reasonable terms and
recognized as such, and
then a short time later the
steel companies led by U.
S. Steel, raised their prices.
Thereafter, realizing what
the effect would be on
the economy generally,
what the effect would be
on all of the other indus
tries, if this remained, the
President did what he could
to exert (assert) the public
interest and the various
branches of the depart
mentS of the Executive
Branch of the Government,
were brought into play. I
think he had a responsible
ity to defend and protect
the public interest.
@. Did you say there was
an understanding with Mr..
Blough that steel prices
would not be raised?
A, No.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-21

one of his better appearances.
Perhaps it fortified his re-
luctance to take the role
more often.
Meanwhile the votes slip
away on many of his pet bills,
and Democrats who should
automatically be counted in
the Kennedy corner are
among the escapes. This
years tax bill is a prime ex-
ample.
It's future daily seems more
doubtful. though the fugi-
tive taxes it is designed to
catch would be largely hand
ed over to business in the
form of an investment credit
for the modernization of
plant and equipment. The
President paSSionately de-
Tended the measure at a press
conference, but has not late
ly returned to the attack.
Only a relatively few Amer
leans are substantially af-
fected by the, proposals to
withhold taxes on interest
and dividends and by in
creased taxes on foreign sub
salaries of United States
corporations. But they are
able through their banks and
business connections to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-21
Anti Trust Law and Steel Prices
@. I thought you did say

@. ! thought you did say
that just a minute ago.
A. The effort that was
made with the union-the
steel union-waS made with
the complete understand
ing of the steel executives
that the Government was
bringing this pressure to
keep the steel union and
Mr.. David Macdonald from
raising their demands to
too high a level. During
that whole period it was
the effort was being made
so that the steel companies
in turn would not have to
raise their prices.
@. Well, if there was not
an understanding, Mr..
K enne dy, there was at
least an assumption on the
part Of the administration
that. there would be no
steel price rise after this
non inflationary wage
agreement was signed?
A. That is correct.
@. And it was on this
feeling of an assumption
rather than an under
standing that the President
felt in effect that he had
been double-crossed. right?
A. That is correct. The
steel company executives,
however, never said, never
indicated, said or stated
that they would not raise
their prices, but it was an
understanding as you de-
scribed-that if we were
successful in keeping the
union demands at a low
level and a contract was
signed which was non-in-
flationary it was the I'M
derStanding that the price
of steel would not be
raised. Shortly afterward
the price of steel was
raised.
Yet, if the shoe was on
other foot and any "aSsump'
ton" or understanding" wa
reached among management
executives in any industr.
whereby prices would be raiseC
or maintained at a given level
the Department of Justice, OF
the basis of past perform
ance, would be the first tt
assert that concerted actor
with or without Government
encouragement or consent i,
a violation of the antitrust
laws. For that's what thu
Supreme Court has ruled i
the "law of the land" today
(Copyright, 1892
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-21
DAVID LAWRENCE

PRESIDENT Kennedy has al
ways maintained that he
acted in the public inter-
est" in the steel-price con-
troversy. His brother, the At
torney General, has Just
given some interesting back
ground on what happened.
He says that the administra-
ton based its action on an
assumption" or under
standing" that the steel in
dustry would absorb the
added wage cost of 500 mil
lion without increasing
prices.
Did the steel companies,
however. have any such "un-
Outstanding" with the Gov
eminent when prices were ad-
Vanced or even when they
were held down? Was there
concerted action between the
White House and any steel
company to fix the price of
steel at present levels? Did
the administration encour-
age any illegal act?
In an antitrust case in
1910. oil companies, which
had been indicted for fixing
the price of gasoline, argued
that a Government agency
had encouraged, co-operated
and acquiesced in their pro-
gram. But the Supreme Court
of the United States ruled:
Under the Sherman Act a
combination formed for the
purpose and with the effect
of raising, depressing, fixing,
pegging or stabilizing the
price of a commodity in in
terState or foreign commerce
is illegal per Sc. =.
Though employees of the
Government may have known
of those programs and
winked at them or tacitly ap-
proved them, no immunity
would have thereby been OBJ
tanned.
For as we have seen price
fixing combinations which
lack congressional sanction
are illegal per Sc"
The Attorney General last
Sunday spoke on the Amer
lean Broadcasting Co.'S pro-
gram called Issues and An
Swers" and indicated that he
would have welcomed a con-
certed action to hold prices
and that he believes there
was, by implication, some
kind of an assumption" or
understanding" to that eff
feet anyhow as between the
steel companies and the
President.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-21
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

One dowager reports gay, rollcking afternoon She
and her friends all went Kennedy" meeting threw
darts at his pictWe-and sold all their stock
second attempt to explode a nuclear bomb high in
the heavens ends in failure Suppose Somebody Up There
trying to tell something?
Falout shelters have style People got tired
OF crawling upstairs to have lookout.
Commerce Secretary Hodges calls fresh thinking"
by businessmen It's JFKs complaint against business Not
enough fresh thnkerS-and too many fresh takers
With skirts going up. what this country needs is a
summer replacement for the knee joint.
The Senate is delightful place to work If a Senator
grows weary of taxes and budgets he always drop
around to the Mcclellan committee and chat with the B-grs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-21
RALPH McGILL
Holdings Trounced by a Liberal

Johnston. Many of the prop
er CharleStonians had deter
mined not to vote Democrat
ic. Now that the party is led
by a Roman Catholic and
the grandson of an immi-
grant Irishman, they have
screwed up their courage to
the point of voting Republi-
can. They are Joined in this
by some of the new class of
industrial entrepreneurs who
have come into the State to
set up or manage manufac-
turing plants.
The new Republicans are
not, according to private in
formation, entirely happy
with their candidate. Their
nominee, Selecte d by the
State convention, is a Co
lumbia newspaper columnist
and the author of a pro-
Segregationist book title d
THE Case for the South
1t is not true, however. as
some cynical CarolinianS
have said, that the ghosts of
John c. Calhoun and Barn
well Rhett came out of the
grave to indorse him. Will
liam Workman clings to what
he emissions to be the essen
tial virtues of the Old South.
His book is not quite clear,
but seemingly these virtues
include keeping the Negro
firmly in his place and en-
couraging industry while
maintaining the old agrarian
ways. This is a little mixed
up, and Mr.. Workman does
not quite fit the image of
modern RepublicaniSm, but
nonetheleSs, he will receive a
nice vote.
South Carolina has more
common sense and political
integrity than Mississippi or
Alabama. There is in that
State little of the shocking
vulgarity and violence of
speech and action that one
finds in the politics of the
other two States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-21
Europeans Rap Kennedy Aides

ington believe in remaking
the face of the old world &C.
cording to an image which
approaches the MARKHAM doc
trines rather than those of
classical liberalism"
There is no doubt that the
center of power in the free
world remains in America.
The feeling here is that the
mistakes of the previous ad-
ministrations were insignifi-
cant compared to those of the
ardent theoreticians of the
preSe administration.
President Kennedy. in the
opinion of European obServ-
ers, is a well-intentioned and
high-minded man, but the
problems confronting him at
home and abroad are too
great even for a man with
wide experience.
So much more are they
for a President with limited
know-how and who has never
had the time for reflection
which De Gaulle and AIDE
nauer have had over the
years. Moreover, their con-
Germ is confined to Europe
alone. Those of Mr.. Ken
nedy encompass the globe.
And no one man, regardless
of how brilliant, can cope
with so many serious prob
lens without expert advice
from men of experience. And
none of Mr.. Kenedy's init
mate advisers can qualify as
such.
The image abroad of the
United States of America is
that the free world Is being
guided by Utopian theoretic-
ianS and a President whose
energetic purposefulness has
been replaced in the face of
these difficulties by hesita-
ton and irritation-a some
what confused leader of the
free world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-21
RALPH McGILL
South Carolina UphoIds Johnston
Despite Governors HILARIOUS Tao

South Carolina offers a
new example of the wonder
full world of Southern poll
tics. Those who keep an eye
on the political news know
that Senator Olin Johnston,
veteran representative of the
Palmetto State, recently hui
inflated Ernest F. Hollings
in the senatorial primary.
Gov. Holdings. a man of
great responsibility and be-
loved by the Carolina gen.
tility, had never lost an cleo
ton until he met Senator
Johnston.
Gov. Holdings ran as the
businessman's candidate.
This proved to be mildly
hilarious, as most of the big
mules of Carolina were sulk-
ing in their tents and deter
mined to vote COP. So, the
businessman's candidate had
almost no business support.
There we're some, incident
ally, who felt that Mr.. Hol-
lings also was a victim of
deserved retribution. In 1860
he had supported presiden-
tial candidate John F. Ken
nedy. Later, when the power
structure in his State turned
against Mr.. Kennedy, Mr..
Holdings also cooled. 1t was
such an opportunistic switch
in order to join with local
preSsures that it failed to be
convincing.
Most hilarious of all, how
ever, was Mr.. Holling s'
charge that Senator John
Ston was a liberal and a tool
of labor. One of the en-
chanting features of South
ern politics is its high per-
centage of the preposterous
and the irrelevant. To charge
Senator Johnston with being
a liberal was roughly equiva-
lent to insisting that the
American Medical ASSocia-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-06-21
CONSTANTINE BROWN
NATO Man Wonders Why 'Utopions'
Try to PIocote Hungry Soviet Bloc

we pay only scant attention
to the actual conditions be-
hind the Iron Curtain. The
power of the USSR is skim
thin. Its nuclear power is
exaggerated. We assume that
there are no flaws in the Red
armor. But even admitting
that the Soviet Union has
the power it boasts of. no
nation can wage war under
the distressing economic con-
ditions which prevail on the
other side of the curtain.
This is no longer wishful
thinking, propaganda or
gueSswork. KhruShchev him
self has admitted the utter
failure of his various eco
nomic plans. and he is TAX
ing pains to conceal the fact
that the Russian people are
desperately hungry. In mod
ern days the saying that IAN
army fights on its belly" ap-
plies not only to the fighting
men, but to the whole ma
ton. If it were not for
Americas generosity to its
enemies. the starving people
of Poland would rise against
their government. A similar
situation exists in all the
satellite countries.
The bosses of the USSR
and their puppets do not dare
reintroduce wartime ration
ing. AS a Subterfuge they
have increased drastically the
price of living essentials, in
Guiding food. In China there
is unprecedented starvation
which has taken a toll of sew
eral millions of lives in the
last IL months.
do the leaders of the Eng
disappearing nations be-
lieve," the NATO representa-
tive asked, that under these
conditions the oppressive re-
gimes can really think Of
fighting a war, particularly
when they are aware of the
military power the free world
presents? Certainly not. The
Russians are engaged in the
most gigantic bluff known in
history, because they know
that the Utopians in Wash
The Nome nugget., 1962-06-27
CLOSE STRIP JOINTS IN MIAMI BEACH. FLA.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. R = Po- lice closed all five of Miami Beach's strip joints last night. The police chief said they were fire traps.
 Testimony before a Senate ir- vestigating committee in Washing ton last week indicated that some of the night clubs at Miami Beach controlled by the under a world and allowed open solicitation for prostitution.
 I've been planning this for months, 7 said Police Chief Michael Fox. Other investigations held 1t up"
 Fox said he intended to keep the clubs closed until they complied with Fire Department regulations.
The Nome nugget., 1962-06-27
HALABY TERMS FLIGHT ENGINEERS STAND ON
 STRIKE IS PURE BUNK"

WASHINGTON W - A principle union claim in the present airline labor controversy - that a flight engineer must be qualified me cfanic in order to operate jet planes safely has been termed pure bunk by the governments t's top civil aviation official.
 Najeeb Halaby, Federal Avia- ton Administrator, says such a claim as advanced by the Flight Engineers International Assn. is "a base lieo
 Amy spokesman for the Flight Engineers Assn. who claims that air safety is involved, or cornpro-
 nissd,' Halaby said, lis just IT, responsible and distorting the situ- ation for his own end. There is no safety compromise, and there won't be any"
 Government officials made pulp lie here portions of a news confer ence Halaby held on the matter Monday at the Investment Banking Assn. Convention at Santa Barbara, Calif.
 It was believed to be the first time a top government official has said jet plane can be operated just as safely whether the flight engineer is skilled mechanic or not.
 Tn refinement of the term featherbedding, as indicative of the function of useless employees, EIalaby also said that the practice of some airlines in using four-man srews to operate jets is mere sfeatherbelding" He plainly saw he fhree-man crews operating for ome airlines as sufficient.
The Nome nugget., 1962-06-27
HOUSE OKAYS $36 MILLION FOR MASS NOMINATIONS

WASHINGTON R The House has passed and sent on to the Sen ate 3 bill to set up a three year program of mass imlnunization against polio, diphtheria, whoop- ing cough and tetanus.
 The program backed by $36 million in federal funds would be administered at state and local levels, and emphasize inmuniza- tion of children under 5. People of all ages would be eligible but states would have to pay for vac cine for the elders.
 The federal grants would be given to states to buy vaccine and pay for planning, sss prom Ssttiion and oi ssiii Ss<siiiiza iza tiurl. S
The Nome nugget., 1962-06-27
MOST OF STATE REMAINS UNDER CLOUDY SKIES
By The Associated Press

Most areas of Alaska remained under cloudy skies today, although mostly clear skies were reported over the Kobuk Valley and Norton Sound.
 Steady, light rain was falling over the upper Panama Valley, the Copper River Basin, the eastern portion of the North Gulf Coast, Cook Inlet sssa sa she lie Yukon YuHzofs- kokwim Delta.
 The all-tirne record of rainfall for the month of June was broken at Anchorage last midnight when fhe months total topped 2.99 inches. The old high for June at Anchorage was 2.94 inches, set in 1949.
 Overnight temperatures ranged from low of 29 at Barter Island to a high of 52 at Juneau. Yester- days high was TO, also at Juneau.
The Nome nugget., 1962-06-27
Place Second in Art Contest

George Richter, 16, son of NIT, and Mrs. Clarence Richter of Los Angeles, and grandson of Christie Waldhelm, won second place in the State of California art con test sponsored by the Native Daughters of the Golden West.
 Prior to this young Richter won the Los Angeles contest.
 All pictures were on historical subjects. His winning entry was of the Wells Fargo Station at Sierra City in 1872
The Nome nugget., 1962-06-27
ACTOR JAMES GARNER GETS PUSHED AROUND BY POLICE IN GERMANY

MUNICH, Germany R - Amer ican actor James Carrier said yes terday he was clubbed and pushed by police in the weekend rioting in the Bohemian quarter of Schwa- ping.
 Garner, from Los Angeles, is making a picture here. He said he was walking in Schwabing Sat- ur5iiay night when police stopped him.
 T found myself in the middle of crowd" Garner said. Suddenly group of police stopped me. I told them I was American but they pushed me to one side and one of them grabbed my wallet, which was sticking out of the back of my slacks.
 My passport and about $400 were in it and he was just about to throw it in the gutter when I snatched it out of his hand"
 Garner, who is 6 feet 2 and weighs about 190 pounds, said he was later stopped again, together with two American soldiers who were iTl uniform
 Five or six police began push ing me around and swinging at me with lead weighted rubber clubs and one of them hit my arm" 1" Garner said. One soldier was knocked tc the ground and the lower plate of his false teeth fell out.
 Garner said he and the two soldiers finally managed to escape into the crowd.
 aI was shocked, disappointed and little angry said the 3d. year-old actor q just don't under stand police hitting women and saw quite bit of that. ]"
 Police earlier reported the arrest of 200 persons, including three Americans whom they did not identify, in post-midnight battle with crowd described as beat niks About 300 police were in yv5eS;aved iii the fifth straight night of rioting in the Bohemian quar- ter.
 The zoting heeaxs last 1sI:.=s<sa. T . ~ when police tried to break up an iInpromptu concert by three young gsaitarists aster residents had com plained.