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Steel Price Increases
Viewed as Arbitrary

Presidents anxiety to prevent
another split with business,
which could hurt the economy.
Watching Closely
Moreover. recent price in
creases in steel and other in
dustries have had no serious
impact so far on overall price
indexes. officials said.
Nevertheless, they said, the
administration Is watching
price trends closely. The Coun-
ell of Economic Advisers, for
example, has intensified its
surveillance of prices. So has
the Federal Reserve Board.
This concern started before
the current round of steel price
increases. Prices have risen in
recent months for such pro-
ducts as aluminium. glass and
paper. Some industries that
had been selling below list pric-
les have reduced or eliminated
discounts.
Officiale see no immediate
danger that initiation pressures
are building up, but they are
on guard.
Oblique References
Walter w Heller, chairman
of the Council of Economic Ad-
visers. referred o bliquely to
price increases in a speech here
yesterday before the American
Council on Education.
He said rising output per
man hour has allowed the econ
omy since 1860 to enjoy rising
wages, rising profits and price
s stability - all at the same
time. He added:
ut will be to the best inter-
ests of the country-and the
industries concerned - to
maintain this fine record"
Steel industry leaders in the
past have denied that they
raise or administer prices arbi-
trarily. They have argued that
higher prices we're needed to
make up for increased produc-
ton costs - mainly for labor
= and to finance investment
in modern facilities.
Reject Arguments
But administration officials
c ontended today that these
arguments are not valid now.
They said there is no cost
push" since rising output per
man-hour has reduced produc-
ton costs per unit. Further
more, they said. profits have
been rising.
If price rises spread too far,
these officials warned. pressure
may build UP for wage increas-
es in excess Of productivity
gains. Rising prices would
weaken the ability Of the United
States to compete on world
markets, to the detriment Of
the balance Of payments, they
added.
The economic circumstances
are right for price SIT ABILITY,
they said.
It would be q good thing, one
official said, If steel and other
industries followed the lead Of
the auto industry in avoiding
price increases. He noted that
the auto industry is booming
on increased sales volume and
steady prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-05
By LEE M. COIN
star staff Writer

CNAA ctaAA NIlHEL
The new round Of steel price
increases cannot be justified on
grounds Of rising costs or fall
ing profits. high-ranking ad-
ministration officials charged
today.
Rather. they said. leading
companies are using their power
to raise steel prices arbitrar-
lily, without due regard for the
best interests Of the economy
or the steel industry.
Steel producers are admin
istering" prices, one official
said.
He was referring to a theory
advanced by some economists
that administered pricing"
practices are followed IN indus
tries dominated by relatively
few big companies.
In these industries, according
to the theory, leading compa-
MES set prices arbitrarily, in
stead Of responding to forces of
supply and demand in a COM
petitive market. Smaller COM
panies follow the lea ders on
prices, the theorists maintain.
Used as Example
Steel Is used as the main ex-
ample Of price administration.
Some economists put the main
blame on the steel industry for
the initiation of the 1866.
Administration officials
made no effort to hide their
irritation at the recent steel
price increases, but said they
doubt President Kennedy will
blast the industry or try to
force cancellation of the price
boosts,
The President did declare
war on the industry in April,
1862, when steel prices were
raised across the board. The
in d ustry retreated and can
celed the price increases.
But the Presidents victory
caused trouble between the adj
ministration and the business
community. Many businessmen
blamed the steel battle for the
stock m arket break Of May,
1862, and for the economys
showdown last year.
Selective Raises
When the industry raised
prices last April on about 80
per cent Of steel production,
the President made no effort to
force a roll-back. He noted that
the increases were selective,
rather than across the board.
and said they only restored
price cuts Of recent years.
The industry now is nibbling
again. The round of price in
creases now in progress will af-
feet about one-third Of steel
production. If it spreads
throughout the industry.
Thus, the two rounds of "se-
lective" price increases may
raise prices on about 70 per
cent Of the industry's output.
The administration calculates
that the total 1868 increase win
amount to about 2 per cent, av-
eraged over total steel produc-
ton.
One reason for the admin
istration's cautious attitude in
the situation presumably is the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-05

David Niven is a writer, it
seems. He'll be good If he writes
as well as he talks. He is now
Evening star., 1963-01-31
BY CROSBY S. MOVES

by ChOSbH y. NOHES
Foreign Correspondent of The Star
PARIS, Jan. 31.-In contrast
to the relatively resigned tone
of Washington and London, an
angry counterattack against
the high-handed leadership of
Gen. de Gaulle is building up
ong Frances European
partners.
The counteroffensive so far
largely has been confined to
words-some of them very Of
fensive indeed. But there is
reason to believe opposition to
the French President soon may
take the form of deeds and a
direct challenge to his preten-
tions as undiSputed ruler of
the Common Market group.
Reaction Against Concept
The reaction is partly an
emotional one against what
Frances partners have not
hesitated to describe as Gen. de
Gaulle's "diktat' at Brussels.
In a community supposedly
based on mutual trust, these
leaders resent the way in which
the generals decision was ruth
lessly imposed on the five
other members.
But it is also reaction against
the De Gaulle concept for the
Organization of Europe and its
role in world affairs which
emerged with startling new
clarity in the Common Market
crisis.
For the moment, the coun-
terattack is being led by
spokesmen for the European
group-such figures as Jean
Monnet, Maurice Schumann
and Rene Pleven-whose in
fluence, it must be noted, is far
greater in other countries than
in France itself.
Principal Objection
These apostles of European
federation and Atlantic soli-
darity are finding large and
sympathetic audience among
other members of the Common
Market. And if their cham
pionship of the British cause
is somewhat contradictory to
the hope for a politically fed
Grated Europe lin which Brit
ain could not take part), there
is still great enthusiasm for
their outspoken attacks on Gen.
de Gaulle.
The main objection to the
generals blueprint for Europe
is its EXCLUSIVELY. The real re-
bellion that is developing is
against the notion that Europe
must organize itself as some
thing apart from the larger At
lantic community. And, in
particular, that it must free
itself of American "domina-
ton" in political. economic and
military fields.
This central theme of Gen
de Gaulle's policy leaves most
Europeans - including large
numbers Of Frenchmen cold
There is little confidence in
the generals argument that
French nuclear power event.
ually will be a substitute for
Americas as q war deterrent.
His prophesy that Europe one
lday may be able to negotiate
a settlement with Russia, in
dependent Of the other West
ern allies, inspires more alarm
than faith.
While it is most unlikely
Gen. de Gaulle ever will change
his mind on these vital ques-
tions. it is also highly unlikely
he will succeed in imposing his
views on his European part
Iners. And where these views
take the form of concrete action
I-as was the case in Brussels
Evening star., 1963-01-31
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Teller Says Test Bon
Endongers U.S.. Security

the first of a series to be re-
! leased.
DR.. Teller disputed the view
that a test ban would halt the
arms race and limit the spread
of nuclear weapons.
1T is unlikely that the ban
will restrain the Chinese" DR..
Teller said. But it is highly
probable that the ban will be
resisted by the French and we
shall be expected to exert
pressure on them. This may
strain NATO to the breaking
point. The Russians may desire
a ban for this very reason"
He recalled that in 1888
the Western allies abandoned
ICzechoslovakia and this led to
World War II. Had the Munich
agreement prohibited fighter
planes and radar, the conse-
quenees would have been the
fall Of Britain" he declared.
"The Russians want US to
sign a Munich-type agreement
and in this they are supported
by widespread public clamor.
hope that patriotic Congress-
men Of both parties will resist
the pressure Of a public fright
Evening star., 1963-01-31

Foster, head Of the United
States Disarmament Agency
called him last night specifically
to term inaccurate a news
story in The Washington Star
yesterday which told of new
compromise" proposal involv-
ing a sliding scale" of on-site
inspections on Russian soil.
Mr.. Hosmer said Mr.. Foster
did not elaborate. but simply
telephoned him to contradict
the news story.
The Republicans plan releas-
ing at least three more papers
in the next few days, including
one by Mr.. Foster, the Kennedy
administrations chief negotia-
tor in the test ban talks now
going on in New York.
We're not going to play
politics with it," Mr.. Hosmel
said in explaining the invita-.
ton to Mr.. Foster to present
the administrations view. Mr.
Hosmer earlier had accused the
administration of having q
"treaty-for- -treaty's-sake psy-
Ghosts" after the Russians Of
fered a few inspections on Rus
sian soil to police a possible
ban.
other Participants
Others called on by the
COP. group to discuss the
current talks are Lewis l.
fStrauSs, former head of the
Atomic Energy Commission
under President Eisenhower
and Stefan Possony, of the
Herbert Hoover Institute of
War, Revolution and Peace.
I'VE don't want a nucleal
war" Mr.. Hosmer told the AS
sociated Press yesterday. I'VE
don't like to be called war
mongers. But I think we have
to be very sure the security OF
our Nation is being protected in
any test ban treaty we may
reach with the Russians"
Evening star., 1963-01-31
Move Weighed to Open
File on Cubo Invasion

however, that the transcript
has been sent to State Depart
ment officials for renewed
study.
Il would give great weight
to the security people and their
comments on what could be
published" Senator Hicken-
looper said. Il would not want
to see anything published that
would adversely affect our Sc
curity. But I would be per-
fectly willing for the rest Of
it to be published"
Senator Aiken, Republican of
Vermont, a committee member
who heard the testimony, said
he would not object to its pub
lication although he would not
urge it.
Anybody could prove almost
any point he wanted to by it"
Senator Aiken said in a sepa-
rate interview.
Among other things, he said
it added UP to the fact that
while certainly the invaders
expected air cover" the wit
nesses took a united position
that I'VE never promised United
States Air Force personnel to
provide it,"
Senator Dirksen said in an
interview that Statements are
flooding in from all over the
country about what went
wrong. I am assembling a very
interesting file which will lay
before the Senate Republican
Policy Committee soon fol
whatever action it wants to
take"
Evening star., 1963-01-31

de Gaulle's ambitions for Eu.
rope would be crippled severely
In this connection, a recent
German opinion poll sheds light
on the attitude of the public.
Asked which world leader they
placed most confidence in to
keep the peace, As per cent oi
the Germans polled chose Pres
ident Kennedy. Nine per cent
named Mr.. Adenauer. Berlir
Mayor Willy Brandt and Gen
de Gaulle each polled 2 per cent
For the man who proposes to
lead Europe out of its reliance
on the United States, these re-
suits would seem to add up to
a fairly serious obstacle.
Evening star., 1963-01-31
Both Success Scored
By Pershine Missile

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla,
Jan. 81 (AP).-The Pershing
artillery missile. scheduled for
operational development in
Western Europe later this year.
last night scored its seth sue
cess in as test launchings.
The Army announced that
the Pershing's guidance sys-
TEN tilted the missile after
launching to simulate a jolt
from hurricane force winds.
The Pershing then righted it.
self and sped to a target 200
miles away.
Evening star., 1963-01-31

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Evening star., 1963-01-31

for the West German govern
ment. Quite clearly, most politi-
cal leaders would like to keer
the treaty issue completely
separate from the issue of Brit
tain and the Common Market
partly because they believe in
French German reconciliation,
partly because they hope to
ease the departure Of aged Ger
man Chancellor Adenauer by
providing him with a suitable
monument for his life's work.
Ratification Not Easy
In light of reaction to Gen
de Gaulle's current perform
ance, however, ratification of
the treaty may be no easy mat
ter. And if it is rejected, Gen.
Evening star., 1963-01-31
By EARL H. VOSS
Star Staff Writer

House Republicans today
opened their campaign against
a nuclear test ban treaty with
the release of a warning by DR.
Edward Teller that it would
"endanger our security and
would help the Soviet Union in
its plan to conquer the world.
DR.. Teller, often called the
father of the H-bomb and a
leading developer Of advanced
nuclear weapons, charged the
test ban treaty now being
sought by the Kennedy admin
istration would have three ad-
verse effects:
/. 1t would prevent vital
Improvements of our atomic
explosives"
2. 1t will not interfere with
Russian progress"
3. 1t may endanger the
NATO Alliance"
First in Series
Representative Craig Hos
mer, chairman of the Republi-
can Conference COMMITTEES or
Nuclear Test Ban Negotiations
said the Teller statement was
Evening star., 1963-01-31
BY the Associated Press

The State Department was
reported today weighing the
possibility of releasing long,
secret testimony taken in a
1861 senatorial investigation OF
the Cuban invasion disaster.
The testimony. recorded in
closed-door sessions by the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, was said to have pro-
duced unanimity among high
administration officials that no
United States air cover was
promised invading refugees.
But Senators who heard the
officials or read the record said
it remained unclear whether
three non-United States air
strikes had been planned and
one or more canceled-a point
Senate Republican Leader Dirk
sen has been belaboring in a
personal investigation.
Senator Hickenlooper OF
Iowa, chairman Of the Senate
Republican Policy Committee
called yesterday for release OF
all of the testimony which
would not affect national Sc
curity.
Senator Hickenlooper, a For
eign Relations committeeman,
said there were "a number OF
unreconcilables" in the testi-
mony. Secretary of State Rusk,
Allen w. Dulles, then director
Of the Central Intelligence
Agency, and Admiral Arleigh
A. Burke. then Chief of Nava'
Operations, were among the
witnesses.
Senator Hickenlooper said
release Of the testimony had
been discussed by Foreign Re-
lations Committee members
But he said no formal action
had been taken. It was learned
Evening star., 1963-01-31
INTERPRETATION
Challenge to De GouIIe
Building Up in Europe
INTERPRETATIONS

he can expect to meet con-
certed opposition from Frances
five Common Market partners.
Situation Unique
In fact, the situation in Brus-
sells was unique. In negotiations
over Britain's entry into the
Common Market, Gen. de
Gaulle was in a position to i'm
pose his decisions against the
will of the majority. In months
to come, however, the shoe will
be on the other foot.
The truth is simply that Gen.
de Gaulle, for all his prestige,
is not able to impose his
peculiar concepts on Europe as
a whole. And at this point his
partners are eager to give the
general his comeuppance.
Most observers now are pre-
dieting a period of stagnation
within the Common Market
itself and a complete halt in
movement toward closer eco
.nomic and political -integration.
Vital decisions that form the
second stage of the move toward
q real economic community now
seem likely to be postponed in
definitely. These include such
difficult problems as harmoni-
cation of tax systems through
out the community, develop
ment of a common financial
policy, budgetary planning and
eventually a common monetary
policy. None of these steps
seems possible in the climate
of mistrust and antagonism
that the Brussels meeting has
produced.
Even day-to-day business of
the market itself may be in for
hard times. The Dutch, for
example, are threatening to
raise distractions to signing
the recently negotiated con-
vention defining the associa-
ton of the European market
with African states. There is
also the problem of relations
with Algeria, which rom the
French point of view is of
urgent Importance.
In any of these matters the
other five Common Market
members could well show them
selves as intransigent as Gen.
de Gaulle. Although nothing is
likely to be done to damage
the machinery built up over
the last five years, the spirit
which created the Common
Market in the first place will
not be easily revived as long as
Gen. de Gaulle rules in France
An even more critical test
OF the new mood of rebellion
in Europe will be the effort
for ratification of the Franco
German treaty of cooperation
by the Bundestag.
The problem is a tricky one
Evening star., 1963-01-31

Iened by crisis and misled by
the mirage of peace" he said.
! DR.. Teller charged the test
ban would prevent United States
Improvement of its missile de-
fenses and projects to penetrate
missile defenses.
IF the Russians install a
satisfactory defense system
while we are unable to do so,
this will put us at the mercy
of Soviet blackmail and aggres-
sion," he said.
The United States needs
more tests to complete develop
ment Of clean and cheap nu-
clear explosives for missile de-
fense, battlefield use and peace
ful applications, the physicist
said.
He warned that recent Soviet
concessions offering three aux
iliary unnamed control posts
and three on-site inspections
inside Soviet territory will
certainly not permit the control
of small underground tests"
Even bigger tests can be
carried out secretly in space, u
he added.
The United States, Britain
and the Soviet Union have
agreed in principle to ban tests
in space without any special
provisions for international
verification that the ban would
be observed.
The United States has ac-
cepted the Soviet position that
national systems to verify a
test ban in the atmosphere,
under water and in outer space
are sufficient.
II a test ban we're negotiated
and Russia broke the treaty as
it broke a test moratorium in
1861, the Soviet Union might
take "a position of command
ing leadership" in the world,
DR.. Teller said.
Representative HoSmer, in
releasing the Teller statement
to reporters today, called the
Kennedy formula for a test ban
highly dangerous He said
the present concept expects a
cheater to inform on himself.
The United States has aban-
doned demands for interna-
tional control stations on So
Wet territory and is now willing
to accept data from nationally
controlled stations "interna-
tionally supervised"
Mr.. Hosmer said he had in
formation a test ban treaty
might be imminent and sug-
gested 1t might take the form
of an executive agreement that
does not require Senate ratifi-
cation.
Evening star., 1963-01-31
Food Affects Pigs

North Carolina State College
experiments indicate that pigs
grow faster on less food If it
is ground finely.
Evening star., 1963-01-31
Cites Secrecy

His basis for this. he said, is
the high secrecy now surround
ing the test ban negotiations
in Washington and New York.
Mr.. Hosmer said William c,
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MoIoysion
Envoy Host

The Malaysian Ambassa-
dor and Datin Ong gave q
black-tie dinner party last
night for members Of the
House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee who visited Malaysia
last month and officials of
the State Department.
The party of 10 gathered
at the Ambassadors resi-
dence on Albemarle street at
8 o'clock and were treated to
a combination Chinese-Ma-
lay feast-bird's nest soup,
sweet and sour roast duck,
stuffed Chinese mushroom
and mixed vegetables, fried
chicken, lamb curry with rice
and a dessert of quail eggs
and lotus seed.
Among the guests asked
were Representatives Glenn
ent j. Zablocki, Peter ]. FIRE.
inghuysen, William T. Muir
ply and Vernon w. Thorn
son, with their wives, and
Deputy Undersecretary Of
State for Political Affairs
and Mrs. U. Alexis Johnson.
Also invited were Assistant
Secretary of State for Far
Eastern Affairs and Mrs.
Roger HilSman, Mr.. and Mrs.
James D. Bell and Mr.. and
Mrs. David Cuthen.
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at the party include d the
Chief of the Navy Dental
Corps and Mrs. Frank M.
Kyes, the admiral revealing
he was elected a vice presi-
dent of the American Dental
Association at its recent con-
vention, and the Chief of Ma
val Personnel and Mrs. VIII
liam A. Schoech, who were
going on to a dinner given by
the Director of Naval Intelli-
gence and Mrs. Rufus L.
Taylor, who'd been at the
party earlier themselves.
Representing a contingent
from the Navy League were
the vice president of the
Washington Council Of the
LIE ague and Mrs. H arold
Stehman, and the National
Director of the League and
Mrs. Preston Mercer who
had with them their house
guests, Mr.. and Mrs. States
Mead of New York, down for
the week end to see the Navy
Maryland football game to-
day.
Mr.. Mead is vice president
of Chase Manhattan Bank,
and is also director of the
leagues Northwestern Coun-
Gil in charge of its Sea Cadet
Corps.
Other guests attending in
cluded Vice Admiral and
Mrs. Rufus E. Rose, Vice Ad-
miral and Mrs. Alfred G.
Ward, Maj. Gen. and Mrs.
Philip c. Wehle, the director
of the Navy Research Lab
and Mrs. Bradley F. Bennett,
the head of the Nays Div
ing School and Mrs. c. H.
Hedgepeth, and Capt. and
Mrs. George A. O'Connel, jr.