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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09
Division Lift
To Europe
Set Oct. ~
BY the Associated Press

Exercise Big Lift, the air
movement of a full armored
division and supporting fight
ers, will start for Europe Oc-
tober %.
The Defense Department ear
lier had disclosed plans for the
massive troop airlift of some
10000 Army and Air Force men
but had not set a specific date.
The exercise, biggest of its
kind in history, will test the
ability of the United States to
move large combat forces over
seas quickly.
Its outcome may determine
whether stable forces stationed
in Europe and possibly the East
may be reduced in the light
of growing United States air.
lift capability.
Some 240 transport planes
will carry the 14.500 troops
of the I'd Armored Division and
supporting truck and artillery
units from Fort Hood, Tex. end
bases in Virginia and North
Carolina to Germany.
{ At the same time, a 1900
man composite air strike force
composed mainly of jet fighters
will leave Dove Air Force Base
and Loring Air Force Base in
Maine for bases in France
This force win number liz
planes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09
Trade Policy
Probe Is SET

The Senate Foreign Rela-
tons Committee will embark
on a general review Of this
country's foreign trade policy,
Chairman Fulbright announced
today.
Senator Fulbright said that
during a two-hour closed ses-
sion with Secretary of State
Rusk he detected considerable
dissatisfaction" among Sena-
tors because the United States
has been financing some of
the trade of friendly nations
with Communist countries in
stead of getting the benefit
of trading directly with the
Soviet bloc.
1t was agreed, Senator Full
bright said, that the commit
tee should review the entire
subject with the State Depart
ment.
Senator Fulbright said some
transactions have been made
in Canada but financed from
New York because American
interests were not permitted
to extend credit directly to a
Soviet buyer.
1t was clear that the pro-
posed study is an outgrowth
of the current discussion of a
possible sale of American wheat
to Russia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09
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vertisement section include the
Washington Publishers Associa-
ton, which recently notified
the committee that it considers
the language in the bill vague.
ambiguous and unnecessary be-
cause of safeguards in other
statutes.
Deleted earlier by the SUBJ
committee was a controversial
requirement setting minimum
price for retail liquor store
sales. This provision had been
designed to eliminate the ''loss
leader" items offered as bar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09
Kennedy Picks
Reilly for ETC

President Kennedy said to-
day he intends to appoint John
r. Reilly. of Bethesda, as a
member of the Federal Trade
Commission.
At the same time it was an
nounced the President will re-
nominate Philip Elman, also Of
Bethesda. for a seyen-year term
on the commission.
Mr.. Reilly, 80, is head of the
executive office of United
States attorneys in the Justice
Department. He is a native of
Dubuque, Iowa.
Mr.. Reilly will succeed A.
Leon Higginbothan. who has
been named for a Federal
judgeship in Pennsylvania. Mr..
Reilly's term will expire in 1869.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09
Tax Cut Hearings
To Open Tuesday

The Senate Finance Com
mittee today scheduled public
hearings on tax legislation to
start next Tuesday, with Treas
ury Secretary Dillon as the
first witness.
Chairman Harry F. Byrd,
Democrat of Virginia, told re-
porterS the committee also will
hear testimony by Commerce
Secretary Hodges, Budget Di-
rector Kermit Gordon and
probably Walter w. Heller.
chairman Of the Presidents
Council of Economic Advisers.
Testimony by witnesses from
outside the Government proba-
bly, will start october 81 or %,
Senator Byrd said.
About lis witnesses have
asked to testify.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09

gain inducements by the high
volume. cut-rate liquor stores.
Mr.. Springer today said that
the elimination from the bill of
such provisions might well
prove to be a hollow victory if
the ABC board is given free
rein on adoption of regulations.
He emphasized that the scope
of the authority of the indie
pendent board would be a mat
ter for, legal debate.
Other provisions of the ap-
proved bill include extension of
"::stand-up" drinking privileges
to hotels and clubs and includ-
ing of champagne in the def
milton of light wines to permit
its sale on Sundays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09

troops penetrated so miles into
Moroccan territory. King Has
san II sent one Of his ministers
and a military aide to Algiers
to demand that Mr.. Ben Bella
take measures to prevent fur
ther incidents.
There have been previous
clashes in the ill-defined
frontier area, and last week
Mr.. Ben Bella accused the
Moroccan government Of mas
sing trops along the border in
support Of the rebellious
Berbers. On Sunday, Algerian
and Moroccan officials pledged
brotherhood in a reconciliation
at Oujda, near the
border.
But the Algerian govern
ment's major concern was the
rebellion of the Berber tribes
men, who are chatting under
Mr.. Ben Bella's one-man rule.
Last week Ben Bella assured
the nation that no regular
army troops would be used
against "the sister population
of Kabylie," stronghold of the
two-million Berbers. Most
roadblocks on the approaches
to the mountains were manned
by the gendarmerie. a mill
tarized police force. The
Berbers led by Hocine Ait
Ahmed and Col. Mohand on
eel Hadj, rejected government
appeals for peace talks. And
yesterday Ben Bella said: IF
necessary we will arm hun
dreds of thousands Of Al
gerians" to crush the revolt.
You will see in several
days." he told a news con-
ference. mo force in the world
will stop U.S."
AS yet, no shooting has been
reported between government
forces and the rebelious tribes
men manning posts in the
mountains.
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! Probe old of Mob S
] Decree on Narcotics
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cotics peddler himself, Valachi
said he had heard while he was
in prison in Atlanta that the
weekly payments had been
raised to $3.50.
But Valachi said that in New
York the bosses didn't make
these payments to their sol
diers" and this caused some
grumbling.
'Paid with Their Lives"
He testified that If gang
members In Chicago were
caught dealing in narcotics,
after getting the weekly pay
ments to lay off. they had mo
chance at all" He said a
couple were caught in Chicago
and they paid with their
lives"
Asked what the penalty was
in the New York mob of Vito
Genovese, in which Valachi was
a lowly soldier, Valachi said
that eff they had the evidence
on you, you were dead"
He acknowledged, however,
that he had broken the rule.
And so had some Of the bosses.
especially Albert Anastasia, ="
he said. Valachi named Geno-
vese, now in prison after a
narcotics conviction. as another
boss who violated his own rule.
Valachi said the rule against
trafficking in narcotics was
put into effect for Genovese's
mob in 1913 but that it did not
apply to all the Cosa Nostra
families until after the Staying
of Albert Anastasia in 1857.
VaIachi UncIear on Year
He said the rule was put into
effect in Chicago around the
same time" but he did not
make clear whether he was
talking about 1913 or 1857. Nor
did he explain how Anastasia
violated a rule that he said
didn't become general until aft
er his death. Anastasia was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09
$l.25 D. c. Wage Floor
A Peril, Senators Told

employ the unskilled, the un-
trained and the transient.
These people could be driven to
unemployment compensation
and relief rolls If their job OPP
lportunities in restaurants were
ended, he said.
The practical problem is that
a cook who makes So hourly
win want more money If q
dishwasher is raised to SIPS an
hour, according to Mr.. Cock
rell.
He protested that men are
already making the SIPS hourly
and that reporting, under a
new law. would simply cause
employers more paper work.
Current District law guarantees
women and children q mini
mum wage for certain work,
but does not cover men.
Seven Objections Cited
William H. Press, executive
vice president of the Metropoli-
tan Washington Board Of
Trade, registered strong OPP
position for seven major rea-
sons. He claimed the bill would:
Fix a minimum wage exceed
ing that in all States except
Alaska, Washington. Con-
necticutt and Massachusetts,.
Apply to employment, like
domestic services, exempted in
most States.
Place the District at a COM
petitive disadvantage in its
market AGRA because neither
Maryland nor Virginia has
minimum wage laws in effect.
Create cumbersome pro-
cedures for employers already
subject to the Federal wage
and hour law.
Curtail job opportunities for
the handicapped, the aged stu
dents and other marginal mem
bers Of the labor force.
Add costs to private welfare
and charitable agencies to care
for the ailing and aged cast
out of temporary employment.
Adversely affect the economy
because labor could be re-
cruited at lower costs in Mary
land and Virginia suburbs than
in the District.
Mrs. Jean Sisco, assistant
vice president of Woodward
& Lothrop, said the law
would upset progress of the
retail industry with the Labor
Department in developing fair
wage and hour rules.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09
u. S. Studies
Wheat Sales
Competition
BY the Associated Press

Agriculture Department Of
ficials said today the United
States is studying various
means by which it can COM
pete effectively against Canada
in the world wheat market.
These officials, who re-
quested their names not be
used, said Canada has been
underwriting the world wheat
price-selling the grain at
prices lower than would pre-
vail If present world supply
and-demand factors were al
lowed to influence markets.
Short crops in Soviet-bloc
countries and Western Europe
have put wheat in a position,
these officials said. where
modest price advances could
be expected in the months
ahead, possibly as much as 10
cents a bushel over the recent
range of about $l.79 to $1.82 a
bushel.
A Canadian sale of 100000
tons made this week to Japan,
a major United States market,
set the price for the next eight
months. This forward pricing
the officials said. is contrary
to long-term trading practices
and can be expected to MIMI
mize the potential price
advances.
They said the United States
in selling wheat to Japan, may
be forced to meet the Canadian
price during the next eight
months even though world
prices should be higher because
Of the supply and demand
situation.
These officials said they
made strong protests to Can
ada at a conference here Mon
day with members of the Cana
dian Wheat Board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09
Ben Bella Cancels U.N. Trip,
Hints ShowdownW With Rebels

ing. They only understand the
language of machine guns" s
Mr.. Ben Bella, who had been
scheduled to leave today for
New York, also announced that
10 persons had been killed In
a clash in the coal-rich Co
lomb Bechar area of the
Northwest Sahara, which both
Morocco and Algeria claim. He
blamed the incident on 'un-
controlled Moroccan elements"
AN apparent slap at the
Moroccan government-but did
not say which side suffered the
casualties.
Change in Strategy
The Moroccan government
blamed Algeria for the clash
and charged that Algerian
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09
Froneo's Greetings

SPANS Foreign Minister,
Fernando Maria Castiella saw
President Kennedy today and
said he brought friendly verbal
greetings from Gen. Francisco
Franco. Y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09
WHEAT
Senate Study Asked
Before Sale to Reds

countries. He said the Soviets
cannot get additional wheat
form any other source than the
United States.
Humphrey Disagrees
Assistant Senate Democratic
Leader Humphrey CHALLENGED
Senator Dodd's statement. He
said Canada has plenty Of
wheat left but lacks shipping
facilities.
Senator Dodd said the United
States ought TO insist that "as
a condition Of bailing the
Soviets out Of their new man
made agricultural crisis, the
Soviets call a halt to their
subversive activities in this
hemisphere and elsewhere.
Senator Dodd was joined in
offering the resolution for the
special committee by Senators
Proxmire, Democrat Of Wis
consin; Cooper. Republican Of
Kentucky; Mundt, Republic.
can Of South Dakota; Scott,
Republican Of PENNSYLVANIA,
and Dominick. Republican Of
Colorado.
A big question Is whether
wheat can be sold to the Com
munist bloc countries at the
subsidy price.
so Cents Above Market
Since American wheat costs
about 50 a bushel on the do
nestle market, about so cents
a bushel above the world mar
ket price, the Government pays
an export subsidy so that
United States wheat will be
competitive in international
trade.
But this subsidy has been
denied to shipments to Iron
Curtain countries. If it should
be approved for a sale to Rus
STA now it would mean Russia
would be buying United States
wheat at a lower price than an
American consumer.
Advantages TO U. S. Seen
Secretary Of Agriculture Free
man said today any export
subsidy paid on wheat sold to
Russia would go not to the
Soviets. but to American wheat
farmers. He said that export
subsidies are used by every
wheat-exporting nation.
There is apparently some
effort being made" he said,
ITO imply that any sale to the
Soviet Union would be different
from regular commercial wheat
sales for export. We would sell
wheat for cash on the same
basis as in any cash export
sale, just as we have done for
years. Any cash export sale Is
made with an export subsidy,
and this sale would be no
different" e
There also are many prac-
teal and immediate advantages
to be gained from a cash sale.
1t would greatly improve our
balance -of-payments position.
it would decrease the cost of
Government storage and ham
ding to the taxpayer. and it
would provide q healthy adj
dition to farm income" he said
in a speech at North Platte,
Nebr.
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the Presidnt is "caterwauling
around about this thing" and
not making a decision.
At the same time, Senator
Dirksen emphasized that he
hadn't been asked by the
White House to approve the
deal nor had he been consulted
about 1t. He had conceded
previously, however, that Vice
President johnson talked to
him about it.
What was clear from Senator
Dirksenis statements was that
there will be no Republican
promise not to make an issue
of the deal in the presidential
campaign.
Pressure From Both Sides
Senator Milton r. Young,
Republican Of North Dakota,
made it clear in a separate
interview that Mr.. Kennedy
can't escape criticism by Veto
ing such a deal. Senator Young
said that If the President lets
the opportunity go by to dis
pose Of some of the huge
American SURPRISES Of wheat
he will hear from the farm
ers."
Senator Goldwater, Republi-
can of Arizona, said today
President Kennedy should in
sist on immediate removal Of
all Soviet troops and weapons
from Cuba as a condition to
the sale of any American wheat
to the Soviet Union.
The Arizona Senator tried to
attach the same conditions to
the nuclear test-ban treaty, but
failed.
He also urged that the Rus
slams be required to pay the
full United States price for
wheat, so that "our taxpayers
who have subsidized wheat at
upwards of so cents a bushel
do not have to pick I'D part of
the Khrushchev tab"
Nixon Opposes Deal
And in New York, former
Vice President Nixon said last
night, II am against this deals
of the United States selling
wheat to Russia.
Il believe that under no cir
cumstances should the Presi-
dent Of the United States ap-
prove this deal unless he gets
the consent of the Congress of
the United States" the Repub-
lican said.
Mr.. Nixon, appearing on the
Mutual network radio program
Conversation" said that get
ting wheat from the United
States would enable the Soviet
Union to lead the people in
the production of war mate
rails" and in space and other
activities connected with the
cold war"
Would Remove Pressure"
"Why should we take the
pressure off their economy at
the present time" he asked.
Six Senators-four Republic
cans and two Democrats-have
demanded that any transaction
be delayed until it can be
looked into by a special COM
mittee which would report
February /. In negotiations
with private United States
grain dealers, Russian repre-
sentatives were said to want
the grain shipments to begin
no later than early November.
Senator Dodd. Democrat Of
Connecticut, told the Senate
that unprecedented purchases
by Russia and Red China have
stripped the grain reserves Of
Canada Australia and other
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09

ALGIERS, Oct. 9 (AP.-A
showdown appeared to be build
ing up today in Algeria's Ber-
Der revolt as President Ahmed
Ben Bella Cancelled a trip to
the United Nations General
Assembly and moved more
troops toward the rebel strong
hold in the Kabylie Mountains.
Reports 10 Killed
Apparently abandoning hope
of settling the dispute by nego-
tiation, Mr.. Ben Bella ordered
troop conveys into the noun
tains east of Algiers and told
a news conference:
There will be no discussions
with the criminals, no bargain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09
Reports 10 Killed
BY GRACE BASSETT
Star Staff Writer

Businessmen warned a Senate
subcommittee last night that
a flat SIPS minimum wage in
the District would force work.
ers out of jobs and handicap
business.
They were received without
c ON m emit by Subcommittee
Chairman Morse. Democrat of
Oregon, who has crusaded fot
two years for a SIPS minimum
wage and time-and-a-half pay
for more than 40 hours Of work
a week.
Labor Department and ALL
CLIO spokesman already have
assured the subcommittee that
the community is paying too
high a price for cheap labor.
Workers paid less than 81 an
hour include more than one
quarter Of employees in motion
picture theaters. for example,
and workers paid under $1.l5
hourly include 81 per cent of
employees in eating and drink
ing establishments.
20 Pct. Increase Held Forced
The proposed law would
force a 20 per cent payroll in
crease by restaurants and de-
mand attenuation, John F.
Cockrell, of the Restaurant
Association of Metropolitan
Washington, maintained.
He foresaw automatic dish
washers replacing human dish
washers, and food cutters, in
stead of cooks helpers, max
ing cole slaw.
Mr.. Cockrell reminded the
Senator that restaurants often
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09
Could Be Broken

Even If, as Valachi has
claimed, the monsters talk in
guarded riddles and abbrevia-
tons, Mr.. Bergin said, sooner
or later the code" could be
figured out by police tapping
the wires.
He said it would be lone
tool" in the fight against
organized crime, not necessarily
the key that would lock up
every hoodlum in the country.
Valachi, explaining why an
immunity offer would have
meant nothing to him, told
the Senators he would have
served 400 years." rather than
talk. Remember, I took an
OATH" he said.
AS for the weak" ones, he
said the bosses never ask them
to do much anyway. for the
very reason that they might
talk if arrested.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09

listed in previous testimony as
the boss of another New York
gang before he was killed, not
as a member Of Genovese's
mob.
Valachi said narcotics were
one Of the principal money
makers for the mobs, but the
ban on dealing in them was
ordered for Genovese's mob
after publicity and prosecutions
had reached a peak.
He said members defied the
rule because of the profit, the
big money. to be made from
handling narcotics. He said
that if they were arrested they
had to stand another trial by
the family (mob) after their
Government trial"
Testimony Backed
John j. Bergin, assistant at
torney general of New Jersey,
testified that his general in
formation" tends to collaborate
Valachi's version of the Mo-
retti killing.
Sworn as a witness, Mr.. Ber-
gin told the subcommittee that
New York and Philadelphia
mobsters make New Jersey a
bedroom State" much TO his
annoyance.
Many Of them, he said, live
outwardly respectable lives be-
yond reach of any successful
prosecution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09

John j. Bergin, an assistant
attorney general Of New Jersey,
told the Senators today he is
an enthusiastic advocate of a
general immunity statute for
cooperative witnesses.
IAN unqualified offer of i'm
munity is invaluable" he said.
BY unqualified" he explained,
he did not mean immunity for
all crimes a man may have
committed. only for those on
which he was prepared to give
information.
As for overlapping, Mr.. Ber-
gin said. he feels it is necessary
in<combating organized crime,
despite his innate repulsion"
to the practice.
SWe must have it wire
tapping" he said, explaining
that if tapping we're allowed,
-four men can do the work of
4Oe."
Senator Javits, Republican of
New York, speaking from what
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09
VoIochi Doubts Value
Of immunity Offer

he said was bitter personal
experience" when he was his
States Attorney General, asked
Mr.. Bergin if he thought the
value Of overlapping out
weighed the unfavorable as
poets. invasion Of privacy and
civil liberties. AS a liberal, he
said, he was concerned with
this question.
Outweighs Bad
Mr.. Bergin said he thought
the good outweighed the bad,
but noted that his boss, At
torney General Arthur j. Sills.
feels just as seriously" on the
opposite side.
Senator Mundt, Republican
Of South Dakota. not to be out
done by Senator Javits, said
that "as a conservative" he re-
sents overlapping as much as
any liberal. But he indicated
he rather liked the idea of four
civil servants doing the work
of 400.
AS an indication Of the value
Of overlapping, Mr.. Bergin said
that mobSter Willie Moretti
had some 400 telephone num-
bers on his body when he was
slain in a New Jersey restau-
rant in 1851.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-09
BY DAVID BRAATEN
star staff Writer

Senate crime investigators
today added flesh and bones
to the usual flow Of blood IN
their probe Of the CoSa Nostra
underworld syndicate.
They took testimony on the
merits Of statutes to legalize
overlapping and to grant i'm
munity from prosecution to
criminals who tell what they
know.
The Senate Investigations
Subcommittee's star witness,
ex-mobster Joseph Valachi, said
an offer Of immunity would
have had no effect on him, but
there are weak" members Of
Cosa Nostra who might be
tempted to sing.
Valachi himself Is perhaps
the most famous singer" in
underworld history but, as he
told the Senators. I'm talking
without any immunity now"
He is serving a life sentence
for murder, and has told the
Senator's he decided to talk
only after the mob tried to
kill him.