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Arab Boycott

While Congress has under
consideration the foreign aid
bill, American taxpayers
should be made aware of GER
tain trade practices of GER
tain beneficiaries of foreign
aid, under which American
business firms are being
threatened.
Members Of the so-called
Arab League which have been
the beneficiaries of our mu-
nificence, have the unmiti-
gated arrogance to step up
their boycott against Israel by
extending it to this country,
yea to the very business firms
which pay heavy taxes for
operation Of the foreign aid
program.
The following incident is
an example of the standard
procedure Of the boycott:
A Minnesota firm, which
makes mechanical, optical
and electronical measuring
devices, received a letter
dated May 10, 1862, from
DR.. Abdul Karin ell Aidi,
commissioner general of the
Central office for the Boy
colt Of Israel, in Damascus,
informing the company that
"the Arab countries are still
in a state Of war with Israel"
and warning that If 1t still
persists in establishing a
subsidiary manufacturing
plant in Israel the company
will be blacklisted in all Arab
countries and will be denied
access to extensive Arab
markets"
On May %, the president
OF the company replied: I'VE
are not impressed by your
threats of intimidation and
blacklist. If the Arab states
had progressed industrially
and scientifically to the point
where your markets were lu-
crative for our markets, we
would still not be impressed.
The effort you are expend-
ing in fomenting hate and
strife can be better used to
bring about something of
substance for your people.
Cease your war with the Is
raeliS and you will find this
corporation and most Amer
leans ready and anxious to
extend to you a welcome and
helping hand"
Our State Department has
done nothing about this en-
croachment into the free en-
terprise system of our coun-
try, except to offer lame ex-
cuses on behalf of these coun-
tries which are biting the
hands Of those who feed them.
Abe Shefferman
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Dote to Remember

The decisive campaign in
the war for Cuban independ-
ence from Spain was the
liberation of Santiago by
allied Cuban and United
States forces. Now on the
64th anniversary of that
mutual victory, we should
invoke the memory of it as
a symbol both of faith in
freedom and of the historic
partnership between these
two nations of the Americas.
The partnership of 1898
should also be recalled as a
symbol Of equality among
Americans. The sacrifices
were made and the battles
won by men of severalkreli-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-16
Aid for Algeria

The violent and dramatic
aspects of Algeria's drive for
independence have received
full news coverage. But as so
often happens in situations
Of conflict there are nameless
sufferers about whom we. hear
next to nothing.
In the fighting Of the last
few years, villages in Algeria
near the borders of Morocco
and Tunis were obliterated
and 2 million inhabitants
concentrated in "regroupe-
ment" camps. Now these peo-
pie are free to return-but to
what? Instinctively they go
back to their familiar hills
and valleys; due to French
foresight even crops are in.
But there are no houses, there
is no food or clothing, and
most urgent Of all there is
no medicine or medical Serv-
ice.
For several years the Amer
lean Friends Service Com
mittee has been working with
the 100000 refugees who had
fled across the borders to
Tunis and Morocco who are
likewise returning destitute to
their former homes. With this
experience the Also has
been asked by the Algerian
transitional government to
bring in whatever immediate
relief it can.
Contributions to the Amer
lean Friends Service Com
mittee may be sent to:
Friends Meeting of Washing
ton, 2111 Florida avenue
NV, Washington 8, D. C..
Used clothing and blankets,
clean and if possible mended,
may be left at the Meeting
House entrance on Decatur
street just off Florida avenue.
David H. Scull,
c h a irm an, International
Service Committee Friends
Meeting of Washington.
c. Edward Behre,
Member of the Board, AFSC
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-16

article concerning q General
Accounting Office audit of
our finance operations. Seven
paragraphs later you brought
out that the particular item
on which the headline was
based involved only $557 out
Of over $75,000,OOO of such
funds. Nine law suits would
have been necessary to COL
lect an average Of $62 each,
with little likelihood that all
cases would be won.
In my Judgment the in
tegrity and capability REPRE-
sented in the administration
Of the tax laws Of the District
of Columbia are equal to, if
not better, than will be found
anywhere else. This achieve
ment exists despite the fact
that the District Of Columbia
has under one governmental
structure and under one adj
ministration as complex and
as varied a system of taxes
as will be found any place, by
reason Of the fact that we
have the taxes and fees COM
mon to States, counties, spe-
cial districts and cities.
I am attaching for your
review a copy of the complete
comments that the Commits
sioners made on the draft of
this audit report Of the Gen.
eral Accounting Office and I
think you will observe that
in large measure the recon-
mendations Of the General
Accounting Office were di-
rected toward refinements.
In this connection, during
discussions in February, 1862,
on this report, we called to
the attention Of the General
Accounting Office personnel
the fact that the manner in
which they were describing
these items would lead to
scare headlines, Following
that discussion, I was given
to understand that the open
ing paragraph in the sum-
mary probably would be as
follows:
Our review disclosed no
deficiencies in the collection
activities pertaining to the
real estate and other tax
programs except for some de-
lays in taking action to en-
force the collection of delin-
quent income and franchise
taxes. Also, our review dis
closed, certain weaknesses in
other enforcement and collec-
ton activities. These matters
are summarized below, and.
along with other matters, are
commented on in later sec
tons of the report"
In our Judgment this is a
much more appropriate de-
scription Of this audit report
than was actually included.
We do not know why the
agreed upon paragraph was
omitted.
I would hope that you will
give this response treatment
OF q type that would help
remedy some of the damage
to public confidence in our
tax administration that your
headlines and article have
surely caused. Without public
confidence. effective admin
iStration of tax laws is made
so difficult that serious con-
sequences inevitably result.
Schuyler Lowe,
Director Of General Admins
tration, Government of the
District Of Columbia.
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LETTERS TO THE STAR

Pen names may be used if
letters carry tDriterS' correct
names and addresses. All let
tiers are subject to condenSd-
ton. Those not used DiH be
returned only lDhen accom-
panied By self = addressed,
stamped envelopes.
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A BOOK FOR TO-DAY
u. S. Shocked Electrical Industry
By DONALD MINTZ

THE GREAT PRICE CON-
SPIRACY. The Story of
the Antitrust Violations
in the Electrical Industry.
BY John Herring: S66 pp.,
charts, table. (Robert B.
Luce, Inc; $500
Case No. 20361 - United
States VS.. Westinghouse Elec-
trio Corp, ct al, Case No.
2O40l - United States VS..
General Electric Co., ct al,
Case No. 20398 Unite d
States VS.. Allen-Bradley Co.,
ct al. In all there were 20
such antitrust cases brought
by the Department of Jus
tice against virtually all of
Americas major manufacture
ers Of heavy electrical equip
ment. The court action took
place towards the end of
President Eisenhower's term;
President Kennedy was in Of
flee when the sentences were
meted out.
THE Great Price Con-
Spiracy," by John Herring, a
Washington journalist, is a
summary of these compli-
Gated cases and it is solid
ly based on court and SEN
ate hearing records.
The economic factors in
volved were enormous. The
"conspiracies involved tn e
sales Of z to 8 billion dol
lars during the comparative
ly short period covered by the
criminal indictments" And
it must be borne in mind
that all of the indicted COM
panies and individuals plead
ed guilty or nolo contendere
to these indictments.
The dictionary defines nolo
contendere as "a plea by the
defendant in a criminal pros
ecution, which, without ad-
hitting guilt, subjects him to
conviction, but does not pre-
clude him from denying the
truth of the charges in a
collateral proceeding"
THE INDICTED companies
and individuals were charged
with unlawful price fixing. If
the court had accepted nolo
pleas - and they are very
common in antitrust cases
= amy subsequent damage
suits would require proof
from the ground up" How
ever, by pleading guilty,
they hold themselves subject
to civil damages"
In these cases, the Gov
eminent argued against &C
ceptance of many of the nolo
pleas, and Federal Judge j.
Cullen Ganey ruled in the
Governments favor in an I'M
precedented number of in
stances. In Mr.. Herling's view,
this is an important point.
The limited punishment pro-
vided in the antitrust laws
can be supplemented and
victims can seek redress in
damage suits that would
otherwise be impractical.
More important to the gen.
eral public is the revelation
of the extent to which Grim
inal conspiracy penetrated
the highest reaches of man
agement. No company presi-
dents or board members were
indicted and none served the
remarkable Jail sentences
pronounced by Judge Ganey.
1t is true that the evidence
against them vas circum-
stantial, not probative. But
unless one forms personal
opinions according to the
rules Of evidence, it is i'm
possible to dispute the view
that top arrangement must
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his conduct Of the cold war
retains public confidence and
backing. But, by and large,
his domestic programs do not.
At all events, there is solid
support for the conclusion
that nothing reasonably likely
to occur on congressional
election day in November can
fail to strengthen the mod
crate conservative tend
ency in both the Senate and
House.
Republican prospects for
gains, at least in the House
of Representatives, are plainly
on the upSwing.
Even should these gains
not materialize, however, and
the House return with about
the present Democratic ma
jority, there would be no
more likelihood of any true
Kennedy control there on
domestic issues. Indeed,
there would be less likeli-
hood.
Influence Growing
For the fundamental fact
Of life in Congress is that
the degree of decisive legis-
lative influence of the COM
mittee chairmen, as dis
tinguished from the official
party floor leaders in both
chambers. has risen all
through Mr.. Kennedy's
tenure. 1t will continue to
do so.
And the committee chair
men, taking them all in all,
are a good deal more con-
sentative than the floor
leaders, and much less ready
to heed the President on
domestic affairs. Moreover,
this movement of committee
chairman dominance, at the
expense of the official party
leaders who speak to and
for the President, has long
momentum on its side.
So the situation comes to
this: The President, if he
gets a Republican House.
obviously will have to 60
easy on reform legislation.
If he gets a Democratic
House, he will be confronted,
obviously but profoundly, by
all those Democratic COM
mittee chairmen.
Nearly all of them will be
back. You don't become a
chairman in the first place
unless you have a habit of
being reelected again and
again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-16

@. What was Henry Fonda's
first moving picture?-C. E.
A. Henry Fonda, producer
and star, first went to Holly
wood in 1885. for q CO.
starring role with Janet
Gaynor In THE Farmer
Takes a Wife," following his
appearance on Broadway in
the stage production Of that
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. THE PASSING SCENE
BY WILLIAM S. WHITE
Riqht Turn Ahead for CONGRESS

All present evidenc e
strongly suggests that no
matter what may happen in
detail in the congressional
elections this fall, the Con-
greSs Of 1868 will require
President Kennedy to make
far more accommodations
with it than demands upon it.
For the new Congress is
very likely to be more con-
sentative, in its operations
if not in its public face, than
the present one.
The first phase of the New
Frontier may be said to be
dying with this cid Congress.
The Kennedy administration
is reaching a crossroad. Be-
ginning next January with
the new Congress it will take
the right fork, meaning that
it will become a bit more
conservative, or it will enter
upon a sterile and futile
struggle with Capitol Hill.
The position in a sense will
not be unlike that after 1888
for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In that year the steam went
out Of the more reformist
drives Of the New Deal. Five
years of a rather wild liberal
ism came, almost unnoticed
at the time, to a close.
They ended for a variety of
reasons, including the posi-
bility OF a war to stop Hitler
as well as a turn in national
taste away from innovations
and back toward a more con-
sentative order.
New War Danger
Now also there is a posi-
bility Of war, this time with a
Soviet Union which is return
ing to a more dangerous line
over Berlin. And there is
also now a discernible ma
tional mood away from even
the far more moderate well
farist aspects of the New
Frontier. Mr.. Kennedy is not
really being challenged in his
foreign policy leadership. But,
as Roosevelt was in 1898, he
is under persistent challenge
on those domestic parts of
his program which the people
believe too expensive or un-
necessary or both.
Constituents mail to some
OF the most faithful of con-
gressional New Frontiersmen
shows this to be true. It
seems the President person.
ally remains popular and that
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GAO Tax Audit

The purpose of this letter
is to protest the manner in
which The Star Of July IL
presented a news item Of a
General Accounting office
audit of the tax activities of
the District Of Columbia
government.
In a page-one story with
the following headline, ID. C.
Seen Lax in Collecting With
held Levy" you published an
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Answers to Questions
NJ Hvrra wraCDrNy oEDvyYrH

A. reader can get an answer. By
mail, to any question Of fact By
writing The Star Information Blu
reau, 635 T street NV. WASHINGTON
4, D. c. Please inclose return post
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See Editorial: "Solutory Review
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Honford's Steam

The House is scheduled to vote to-
morrow on legislation designed, in effect
to prevent the literal throwing away of
great potential national resource.
The resource is the steam that will come
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-04
Cecil c. Fletcher, Engineer
With Public Health Service

Cecil Cyril Fletcher, So, a
public health engineer with the
Public Health Service, died
Monday after a heart attack
at his home, 301 Cameron road,
Alexandria.
A native of Portsmouth, Va,
Mr.. Fletcher had been a resi-
dent of this area since 1885.
Mr.. Fletcher had been an
employe of the United States
Public Health Service since
1925. At his death, he was
health engineer in charge Of
the services shellfish program.
He was the recipient Of a
Health, Education and Welfare
Department Superior Service
Award in 1860.
A member of Masonic Lodge,
No. 276, Mr.. Fletcher was &C
tive in st. Luke's Episcopal
Church and was a former
vestryman.
He leaves his wife, Elsie
Tompkins Fletcher, principal
of Holm Hills Elementary
School, Alexandria, daughter,
Mrs. Carolyn Hucks, a teacher
with the Army in Butzenbach,
Germany, and his mother, Mrs.
Ernest Fletcher Of Portsmouth.
Va.
He also leaves three brothers,
Charles, Frederick and John,
all of Portsmouth.
Friends may call at the
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Miss Clara Bow,
Singer, Pianist
At Night Clubs

Clara Bow, singer and blues
piano player here, who worked
with jazz greats such as Ella
Fitzgerald and Ray Charles,
died shortly after midnight
Sunday at Freedmen's Hospital.
She had been featured at
The Place Where Louie Dwells,
235 @ street NV. since last
February.
Miss Bow, who was IL. was
born in Kansas City, Mo. At
the age Of 16 she moved to Los
Angeles, where she studied
music both privately and in
the public schools.
She studied under the late
Art Tatum in Los Angeles and
in New York. and it was at
his suggestion that she formed
her first group, a four-piece
combo, about 1943 under her
maiden name, Clara Lewis.
Her first big musical break
came in Los Angeles in 1941,
when she was picked to take
the place of Ella Fizgerald's
regular accompanist, who be-
came i'll just before a radio
show. She later worked with
Judy Garland.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-04
Ruth Howorth,
Was Editor for
Chemical Society

Miss Ruth Howorth, asso.
ciate editor of Applied Publi-
cations of the American Chem
ical Society, died Sunday at
the Washington Hospital Cen
ter of cancer. She lived at
1928 Eastern avenue NV.
Daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Howorth of Wilkes
Barre, Pa, she earned her BIS.
and MS. degrees in textile
chemistry at Pennsylvania
State University, where she
held a Pennsylvania dry clean
ing fellowship from 1889 to
1949.
She was a member of the
Chemical Society of Washing
ton. the American Association
of Textile Chemists and Color
lists, the Order of the Eastern
Star and the American ASso-
citation of University Women.
She attended the National
Presbyterian Church.
She leaves three brothers,
Frank, George and James, all
of lkes-Barre.
Funeral services were held
last night at the S. H. Hines
Funeral Home, 2901 Fourteenth
street NV. Burial was to be
in Wilkes-Barre.
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Mrs. W. Pusour,
Active Worker
In Baptist Church

Services have been held here
Tor Mrs. William L. PaSour, an
active church worker here for
more than 40 years, who died
last Tuesday.
The former Bertha Nave
Black, Mrs. Pasour was born
in st. Francisville, Ill, and was
graduated from the State Nor
NAL School. For several years,
she taught elementary school
in Illinois before coming to
Washington more than 40 years
ago to work for the Veterans
Administration.
Mrs. Pasour was a member
Of the First Baptist Church at
Sixteenth and o streets NV,
where she was president Of the
Ann Jackson Sunday School,
president of the Women's Mis-
sionary Society, and leader of
the Ann Haseltine Judson Cir
Gle.
She was also a member Of
the Ruth Chapter of the Order
of the Eastern Star and, for
many years, did volunteer work
at local hospitals.
Burial was in Arlington Gem
.etery.
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Arthur J. PheIon,
Served u. S. Here

Funeral services and burial
were held yesterday in Bur-
lingame, Calf, for Arthur j.
Phelan. IS. former Immigra-
ton and Naturalization Service
official, who died Friday after
a heart attack in Burlingame.
Mr.. Phelan had been an en-
ploye of the immigration and
Naturalization Service for 80
years. He retired in 1852 as
district enforcement officer Of
the agency in San Francisco.
During World War II Mr..
Phelan served with the service
here as an assistant commits
sioner Of the immigration and
Naturalization Service.
After his retirement Mr..
Phelan was active In private
practice as a lawyer in San
Francisco.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-04
AT. DuffieId, ST.,
Laurel telephone
Linemun, at So

Alton T. Duffield. ST., Sc. of
LAG Lafayette avenue, Laurel,
a lineman for the Chesapeake
& Potomac Telephone Co. of
Maryland, died Monday at
Laurel General Hospital, after
a long illness.
Born in Clay County. w. Va,
Mr.. Duffield joined the tele-
phone company in Washington
in 1924. He later transferred to
the Maryland suburban area,
where he worked until his
death.
Mr.. Duffield belonged to the
Alexander Graham Bell chap
ter Of the Telephone Pioneers
of America; the Lions Club of
Laurel; the Moose Lodge of
Laurel and the AnacoStia Ma
sonic Lodge.
He leaves his wife, Mabel, of
the home address; a daughter.
Mrs. Norma C. Robinson, 1922
Ward place, Laurel; and his
son, Alton T. Duffield, jr., Of
1886 Laurel avenue, Laurel.
He also leaves two brothers
and four sisters: Albert and
Camden Duffield, Mrs. Charles
Indursky, Mrs. Frank Wurm
and Mrs. Robert VanAuken,
all of Detroit, Mich, and Mrs.
Everett Mckinney of Fairmont,
w. Va.
Services will be at II am,
tomorrow at the Laurel Funeral
Home, $50 Washington Boule-
ward, Laurel. Burial will be at
Meadow Ridge Cemetery, Elk
ridge.
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Bryon Bowling Dies;
Shriner, GSA EmpIoye

Bryan Bowling, g.. active
Shriner here. died yesterday
after a heart attack while at
tending a convention Of Shrin-
ers from North America in To-
ronto, Canada.
A native of Knoxville, Tenn,
Mr.. Bowling lived at 5102 Sew
enth road South, Arlington for
many years.
Mr.. Bowling was employed as
an electrician by the General
Services Administration for
more than 80 years.
He was a member of Alex
andria Kena Temple Shrine.
Mr.. Dowling's first wife, the
former Kate Thomas. died in
1855. He later married Mrs.
Marilynn Brady.
Besides his wife, he leaves
two step daughters, Mrs.
Thomas Richardson Of 1923
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Ex-ConsuI Found Dead
Under Calvert Bridge

The body of Mahlon F.
Perkins, 70, a retired Foreign
Service officer, was found yes
terday on Beach drive below
the Calvert Street Bridge.
Police said Mr.. Perkins APP
.parently plunged from the
bridge shortly before Z am.
He was discovered by K. E.
Mansfield Of 7437 Fourteenth
street NV. as the latter was
driving along Beach drive on
his way to work.
Mr.. Perkins, who lived with
his wife Fanny at 1902 Wyom-
ing avenue NV, was a former
consul general in Barcelona,
Spain, and for many years was
an assistant historical ad-
wiser at the State Department.
He also server as counselor Of
legation at Picking, China. He
had been retired for Is years.
Mrs. Perkins told police that
her husband had been in good
health and had not appeared
depressed. She said he left the
house apparently to take a
walk early in the morning, TAX
ing neither his car keys nor his
wallet. No notes have been
found.
Mr.. Perkins was born in
North Adams, Mass, November
%, 1882. He graduated from
Harvard University in 1904 and
entered the advertising busi-
ness. In 1909 he accepted an
as a student in
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Kerby H. Fisk, So, Former
Washington Post Executive

In 1941, he Joined Prudential
Insurance Co. of America as
general manager Of the bond
department, and became vice
president in 1851. a position he
resigned in 1856.
A resident Of Montclair,
N. j., Mr.. Fisk also was a di-
rector of the Montclair Ma
tional Bank & Trust Co. and
of Minneapolis Honeywell Reg
ulator Co.
He leaves two daughters,
Helen Heath Fisk of Montclair
and Mrs. Richard Daley, of
Short Hills, N. j.; his sister.
Mrs. Fanchon Gray, and a
brother, Arthur. both Of New
York City. His wife, the former
Grace Emery, died last year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-04

! Seventh road South. Arlington,
and Mrs. Walter Payne, GIG
Donahue court, Falls Church;
six daughters, Miss Margaret
Lynn Bowling of the home ad-
dress; Miss Antigone Bowling
of 1901 North Irving street,
Arlington; and Mrs. Elm er
Greer of 1908 BIT East Capitol
street; Mrs. j. S. Vaughan of
1904 Beacon place, Riverdale;
Mrs. G. s. Wright of 1903 Deal
drive, Oxon Hill and Mrs. r. F.
Connell of Dayton, Ohio.
He also leaves two sons,
George of 2506 Pawnee street,
Adelphi, and w. B. of 1880 Sew
enty-ninth avenue, ForeStville;
and three sisters, Mrs. Elm e +
Dunn, Miss Julia Bowling and
Mrs. Belle Hubbs, all of Knox
vile.
Funeral arrangements are
incomplete.