A-2 *** THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. WEDNESDAY February m. iaas * Ha HjjKsA iu>L *-»r 1 I) _Jr yaJf Hn' M m W ."tSI /(/,. ■ \'":l'llSS''^^’' ! ' ; v r’ „ ' ICY WAIT WINS A BARGAIN—This family waited eight hours for a 99-cent television set, finally went home to avoid pneumonia, but got the set anyway— thanks to four benefactors. Mrs. Margaret Paul drapes blankets on her brood (left to right), Dana, 8; Kathryn, 10; Marjorie, 2, and Philip, 7.—Star Staff Photo by Gene Abbott. Rein, 3 NLRB Silent on Red Charges David Rein. Washington lawyer, and three other former Na tional Labor Relations Board attorneys declined yesterday to\tell the House Un-American Activities Committee whether they ever were Communists. The lawyers were on the NLRB staff at various times between • 1937 and 1946. They had been listed as Communist cell members by Herbert Fuchs, who told the committee he was in an NLRB cell with the men. Mr. Fuchs said he quit the party in 1946. Mr. Rein was asked about his own and his wife's activities. He refused to talk about alleged j Communist associations on grounds of the Fifth Amendment and husband-wife and lawyer client relationships. He said, however, that “I have ever engaged in espionage, never given confldental informa tion to unauthorized individuals and never advocated overthrow of the Government by force or violence.” When asked if the Commu nist Party was a conspiracy to overthrow the Government. Mr. Rein said, “Not to my knowl edge.” The other former NLRB law- ; Rains Easing In Northwest PORTLAND. Oreg., Feb. 22 (IP). —Rains eased off and cooler set in to allay the Pa cific Northwest flood today. Torrential rains—as much as 7 inches in 24 hours in South-; ern Oregon—had sent streams out of their banks, but no major river went on a rampage. Several score of families had to be evacuated from their homes In Southern Oregon before the rains eased and the streams be gan receding. Farther north, where the rainj was light but the snow melti heavy, three persons lost their I lives in Eastern Washington. Two men, repairing an irriga tion discharge tube, were caught j in a flash flood near Prosser,! Wash. Both Clifford Hack, 44,1 Pasco, and his brother, Harold Hack, 39. Kennewick, drowned. Ray Hemmer. 34, Chelan.; Wash., also drowned when his! snow removal truck backed up : too far and dropped into Lake Chelan. Grants Pass in Southern Oregon was isolated for hours'; yesterday as water flooded all i routes. The water receded soon, however, and all major highways were expected to be re-opened ; today. The Rogue River there, which i surged up to 3IV* feet in last December's disastrous floods, crested at 19 1 /* feet late yester day. That was about 2 feet over i flood stage, but damage was i minor at that level. TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT .District and vicinity—Pair and cokl again tonight and tomor row. Low tonight near 20. Maryland—Fair and cold to night with low 5-10 in west. 10- 15 in center and 15-22 In east. Pair and cold tomorrow with high near 30 in west to around 40 in southeast. Virginia—Pair and cold again tonight and tomorrow but some cloudiness in the mountains 1 Low tonight 12-20 in west and north and 18-24 in southeast. Wind—Mostly northwest 15- 25 miles per hour tonight and tomorrow. Good visibility. ,0 /o I f WIAIMI* IU«AU ... N—Np.h* * "1 il Figure* Show low Tomporotwrot tapocted J \J wtsn mu liloyJ WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST—Rain will continue to night along the North Pacific Coast, while snow will fall In most of the rest of the Northwest quarter of the Nation. Snow also is expected over Lake Michigan and in the North ern Appalachians and Ohio Valley. Oklahoma and the Texas coast will have rain.—AP Wirephoto Map. , —j i yers questioned were Abe Martin i Kurasch, New York; Joseph Robison, New York, and Allan i R. Rosenberg, Newton, Mass. All invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked about former Red i ties, but all denied they ever had transmitted confidential infor mation to unauthorized persons (during their Government serv ice. Mr. Rein, in a statement left With the committee, called the investigation “unlawful and un constitutional.” Representative Walter. Dem ocrat of Pennsylvania, chairman' of the committee, said Mr. Rein had appeared before the commit-, tee dozens of times as a lawyer for other witnesses and that he; knew the rules would not permit -him to read “a stump speecfr.” BOYCOTT Cemthmed From First Fage There was no way to tell how Mr. Sinclair voted on the in-: . dictments. The great majority of Negroes who once patronized the buses have refused to ride them since: Mrs. Rosa Parks, a seamstress, was fined sl4 December 5 for not complying with State and 'city laws requiring separate fa cilities for white persons and , Negroes on public carriers. 1 Mrs. Parks refused to move to the back of a bus when ordered to by the driver. ! A young Negro attorney, Fred D. Gray, was indicted Friday for unlawful practice. He is charged with filing an anti-segregation suit in United States District Court without the consent of one of the five Negro women whose names appeared on the complaint. Led by Clergymen i In their final report, the grand jurors said the Montgomery Im provement Association, led by several Negro ministers, had kept the boycott going by contribut-i ing SIB,OOO. “Small incidents have been magnified out of their true im portance and ugly rumors are: being spread among both races,” the/jurors charged. The report declared that seg-i regation in schools, public trans portation and elsewhere would be maintained in Alabama “within these laws which reflect our ways of life.” The law under which the in- ' dictments were returned was’ aimed primarily at labor disputes.! It was approved by the State 1 Road Conditions—AAA Pennsylvania Turnpike—Slip per spots in west. U. S. 40—Icy west of Cum-i berland. Md. U. 8. 50—Slippery in moun tains. New York Thruway Some* drifting snow from Syracuse to Buffalo. aiTCr Bfptrl 'From 0. B Engineer!) Potomac River cloudy et Herpere (Ferry end muddy St Greet Fells; Shen andoah cloudy et Hamers Ferry. | Temperaturee for Veaterdmy 'Reaninee Washington National Airport i Midnight .IS Noon 36 ♦ am .. 33 4 p.m. 39 Sam. 34 6 p.m. 30 Record Temperatures This Year H.ghest, 63. on January .VI. Fabruary IS and lf>. Children Win TV Set With Assist From 4 | Braving Valley Forge like weather, four TV-happy children i won the television set of their i dreams today. But they needed a quadruple assist to get it. [' The Paul children—Kathryn, t 10; Dana, 8; Philip/ 7, and Mar- I jorie, 2—had saved their money ‘ for weeks to buy a television set [ during today’s George Washing-, . ton birthday sales, t Their mother, Mrs. Margaret Paul of 1450 Harvard street N.W., saw an ad for several 99-cent TV ’>sets at the Muntz TV store, > Fourteenth and Harvard streets N.W. j Start Long Cold Wait i! As soon as the children were i out of school yesterday, they as sembled in front of the store for ■ the long wait until opening time. / There was one man ahead of ; them. James D. Clayton, 20. of 1505 Twenty-second street N.W. Soon another man was in line | behind them, Edwin Junkin. 18. of 1401 Sixteenth street N.W. Then Mrs. Paul Joined them. TPfi planned to take turns in lihe through the nfcbt. : But by M p.m.. tie weather— ’headed for a bitter 20-degree : low—had laces blue and teeth : chdttertn*. Blankets couldn’t keep out the cold. So the men took over. Mr. Clayton and Mr. Junkin got the store manager to agree the Pauls could go home, come back in the morning and still get their TV set. Good Samaritan Then the manager decided not I to risk a mix-up in the morning . He sent an employe to the firm's I Wheaton (Md.) warehouse to get a set and deliver it to the Pauls. He also returned their 99 cents. The fourth man played his role nobly. He delivered the set and , had it Installed and working soon (after midnight. His effort moved him so fast, in fact, that he got a ticket for speeding on the way from Wheaton. ■! Ferguson in Saigon SAIGON, South Viet Nam, Feb. 22 UP).—' The United States Am bassador to the Philippines, Homer Ferguson, arrived in Saigon today for a two-day offi cial visit. He is expected to meet President Ngo Dinh Diem. After a brief call in Phom Penh, Cam bodia, the Ambassador will fly to Manila on his way back to the United States. Legislature In 1921 and prohibits! boycotting, by two or more per sons without “a just cause or legal excuse.” I Lovett. 20, oa January 24. 2g end [February 22. Bleb tod Lew of Let! 24 Hours I Hlth. 30. et 3:56 p.m. ; Low. 20. et 8:20 am. Tldt Table* 'Furnished br the United State* Coast j and Geodetic Survey) _ Today Tomorrow, High 4:11a.m. 5:10a.m. 1 jLow 11:13 a, m, _ a m. !H!*h 4:40 p.m, 6:56 p.m. Low 11:54p.m. 12:10p.m. \ Tba Sun and Moon ’ . _ Rises Sett (Sun. today o:slam. 5:53 pm. Sun. tomorrow 0:40 a.m. 5:54 p m. Moon, today 2:13 pm 4:04 a.m. Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after aunaet. Precipitation Monthly precipitation In Inchea In the iCapitai 'current month to date: Month 106t‘ 1056 Avg Record January 100 0.31 3.24 703 37 February 2.38 3.13 2.44 004 04 March 37 0 3.03 0.04 'Ol April ... 257 3.00 0.13 'BO I lay ... 3.30 3.00 10.80 '53 June ... 2.78 3.41 10 04 'OO July ... 2.32 4.28 10.63 'BB August 14.31 4.75 14.41 "28 September ... 0.85 4.12 17.45 '34 October ... 8.48 2.85 8.81 '37 November ... 1.83 2.73 7.10 '77 December 0.22 2.81 7.56 'Ol Temperature la Varleis CUlaa H. L. H L. Abilene 70 40 Kansas City 40 28 Albany 24 03 Kev West 70 86 Albuqurroue 30 30 Knoxville 60 28 Anchorage 12 o:< Little Rock 62 57 Atlantg 57 36 Los Angefc* 67 40 Atlantic Cttv 37 15 Louisville 40 20 Baltimore 38 -:o Memphis 50 35 Billings 51 37 Miami 70 53 Birmingham 50 31 Milwaukee 21 03 Bismarck 07 oo Minneapolis 10 -5 tolse 57 42 Montgomery 01 35 otlon 31 10 New Ormans 63 40 Buffalo 22 OH New York 32 15 Burlington 22 03 Okla. Cttv 82 3H, Charleston 57 41 Phlladenhla 35 17 Chariotte 63 32 Phoenix 75 42, Cheyenne 4H 27 Pittsburgh 'Mi li J Chicago 26 11 P'tland Me. 31 05 Cincinnati 38 10 p'tland Ore. 43 34 j Cleveland 25 14 Reno 54 43 1 Columbus 31 14 St. Louts 30 23 Dallas 86 40 San Antonio 71 50 i Denver 55 20 Ban Diego 83 47 Des Molnee 28 10 a. Francisco 62.5* Detroit 23 15 Savannah 60 35 Duluth 17-IQ Seattle 43 31 Fort Worth 65 4« Tampa 7 0 44 Houston 60 53 Washington 3H 20 Huron 07 01 Wichita *1 srt Indianapolii 32 15 THE FEDERAL SPOTLIGHT I Life Insurance System Reserve at $47 Million By JOSEPH YOUNG i The Civil Service Commission reported today it has built up | a contingency reserve fund in the Federal employe life insurance ; system of more than $47 million. The fund has been receiving about SIOO million a year In employe and Government contributions and paying out about 574.5 million annually in the less than two years it has been in ; operation. At recent hearings by the : House Appropriations Commit l tee on the 1957 Independent Of | flees bill, the Increasing reserves \ in the system prompted mem [ bers to ask whether the com [! mission planned to recommend [ that benefits for Federal em [: ployes be increased. *; Representative Thomas, Dem | ocrat of Texas, chairman of the ( | subcommittee handling the \ I money bill, asked if the CSC would recommend to Congress that the insurance rate charged employes be decreased or the amount of life insurance in creased. Commission Chairman Young said it is too early to tell what should be done with the con [itingency reserve fund. He said » one possibility is to use some of the excess fund in supplying Federal workers with some type of health insurance. In its report today, however,! the commission made it plain it had no intention of recommend ing an increase in Federal em ploye life insurance benefits or a decrease in_.the amount they are now paying. It also made no mention of utilizing any ex cess funds for a possible health insurance program. The commission said the sub , stantial margin of receipts over ’ disbursements had been antici- 1 1 pated. But is pointed out the ■ reserve cannot be considered a I! surplus that would Justify lib eralization of the benefits or re duction of employe withholdings > or agency contributions. The CSC emphasized that thej ' reserve should be built up as, /rapidly as possible in the early | 'years of the program, since Claims are bound to rise as an (increasing number of employes retire or .reach the age of 65. NOj . premiums are collected from ’ these groups, which already have , more than 60,000 members. ( Liability for insurance held by j retirees is already estimated at $26.5 million, which must even-, ( tually be taken from the service. ! In addition, assumption of lnsur ‘ ance held by members of non r profit associations of Federal ' Jet Training : Site Identified Representative Lankford. Dem ! ocrat of today identi fied *th* Bite where ttmiNavy, . hopes to locate qjjbt aif*train . ing field near Dlvidsonville in , Anne Arundel County. >i The field—on a S.flOO-acre ' tract—would be used by the Naval Academy for training pur-| poses if Congress authorizes it. Mr. Lankford said the Navy • told him the projected site is ■ bound by Route 50-A on the north, Route 214 on the south, the headwaters of the Patuxent 1 River on the west and Route 244 on the east. Mr. Lankford declared that ’ the area is too densely populated ' for a jet airbase and that the area is heavily used by airplanes ; from Friendship Airport and An j drews Air Force Base, HOLIDAY Continued From First Page fantastic bargains offered as “leaders” bV merchants. But throughout the day, tons of mer chandise left the shelves to the mutual benefit of merchant and . customer. One of the most popular places last night was an auto agency , i in the 1500 block of Rhode Island avenue N.E. By 10 pjn. 150 per sons were lined up for today’s sales. Leading the parade wasj 17-year-old Arthur J. Burke of; 3317 Chauncey place, Mount Rainier, Md. He had been there since noon yesterday eyeing a 1949 Nash that was going for 2 cents. Young Burke also was considering the high-cost field— a 22-cent 1949 Hudson and 46- cent 1947 Buick. It began looking like a tent ' city, as a dozen or more went up in the area. The thoughtful com pany supplied customers with food and drink during the night. One All-Night Sale One discount shop put on an all-night sale, serving hot dogs and coffee, and doing a thriving business. Not all shop-keepers chose to remain open for the half-day sales. In the window of the Charles Ernest Jewelers, 711 Fourteenth street N.W., was a picture ofj Washington surrounded by fresh flowers and flags. A sign In thej i window read: "Closed in honor! of George Washington.” j AIRPORT Continued From First Page i been highly critical of the I Andrews proposal. Monday he ; said "if I ever saw a dangerous : recommendation for air safety, this |his subcommittee report to the ijfull Senate Commerce Commit-! „ tee will be made today if it can | be drafted in time, i Commerce and the CAA have ' estimated that if construction | were to start today on a second airport, it will be at least three years before the first plane could ' land. 1 l! 1 employes will cost $33 million over a period of years. The CSC reported that $56 . million in insurance claims al . ready has been paid to families sos Federal employes who died. . Benefits in accidental death and . dismemberment claims and other I charges brought the total outlay . to about $66 million. Total receipts have been sll3 . million, leaving a surplus in the ' fund of about $47 million. *** * * i EMPLOYE TRAINING BILL— : Administration officials have 5 asked the House and Senate Civil Service Committees to hold I early hearings on the bill to - allow outside training for Fed - eral workers. President Eisen hower has taken a personal in terest in the legislation. Inci ’ dentally, the bill’s cost would be II $842,000 a year. In yesterday’s ’ earlier editions, the cost was in j advertently given as $842 million. [** * * [ JOBS —The Civil Service ! Commission has announced an exam for offices appliance re . pairmen at $1.63 to $2.07 an hour. ** * * ISMAR BARUCH—The death of Ismar Baruch is a great loss to all who knew him, as well as to the million of Federal work ‘ ers who never knew him but who benefited so greatly from his achievements. As the Civil Service Commis sion official best versed on clas sification pay matters and an expert on most other phases of i employe matters, Mr. Baruch was the one man most often called on by committees of Con gress to aid them in drafting Federal employe legislation, j Members of Congress knew (they could count on his ability! and integrity on matters of em ploye legislation. Mr. Baruch had a hand in drafting all Fed eral pay legislation during the last 35 years. His work in draft ing the 1923 and 1949 Clas sification Acts had well earned for him the title of “Father of the Classification Act.” A warm and kindly man. be loved by all who knew him, | “Barney” Baruch will be missed not only by his commission col leagues and those on Capitol Hill, but by all those who were privileged to know him. LOBBY * Continued From First Page experience on the Democratic Campaign Committee. “Would the Senator from New York disqualify Senator Gore be cause he has served on*the cam paign committee?" asked Senator Johnson. » \ | “I think (Senator Gore is em inently qualified (to make the investigation) as chan man of: the Elections Subcommittee, but not as a member of the cam paign committee," Senator Leh man replied. The way was cleared for in troduction of the Johnson - Knowland resolution when the Senate Republican Policy Com mittee unanimously indorsed it earlier yesterday. The Demo cratic policy group had approved it Monday. Sees Probe “Wide Open” Although the inquiry is an outgrowth of the controversy over the natural gas bill, Chair man Bridges of the Republican Policy Committee told reporters, “If we’re going to have this in vestigation, it will be wide open.” Senator Bridges said it could cover lobbying by agents for for eign governments, by the Amer icans for Democratic Action, the Committee for an Effective Congress, by labor unions and by groups Interested in postal, trucking, sugar and other legis lation. Senator Bridges added some members of the G. O. P.’s policy group also reported yesterday that they have been lobbied more { by Government departments than by Interests outside of the Government. “If you want to see what goes on here," Senator Bridges con-j tinued, “you ought to go up! against one of these departments on an appropriation bill, with all! the friends they can bring tdj bear.” Hennings Bill Opposed During the Senate debate yes terday Senator Johnson said 0p- eHAS THE BEST Frying m Chickens IN TOWN! Stand on CIA By President Is Discounted Presidential opposition to a i proposed congressional commit t'tee to "watchdog'’ the Central (Intelligence Agency probably will /have little effect on the resolu tion to set up the committee, its /author said today. Revelation of . the President’s opposition was 5 sparked by a series of stories on the CIA in The Evening Star, 1 according to Capitol Hill sources, r Senator Mansfield, Democrat r ot Montana, said the decision on ■his resolution was “entirely up 1 to Congress.” The President, he / pointed out, does not get a chance to sign—or veto—such a. resolution. - It is rare for a President to; stake a stand on concurrent; ; resolutions, as they deal ordi-l 1 narily with Internal congressional ) matters. Backers of the Mans-, - field bill thought the President’s - opposition might backfire and! ■ help the measure. Bridges Discloses Stand 5 Senator Bridges, Repuolican j 5 of New Hampshire, disclosed thej ‘ presidential stand yesterday, j ’ He said Senate Minority Leader j Knowland of California told the! e G. O. P. Policy Committee in 1 closed session that Mr. Eisen ’ hower is "very much opposed” to ■ creation of a CIA watchdog group and that he believes the ’ agency is “too sensitive” to be s (examined by a standing com !!mittee. ‘ The Mansfield resolution. ’ which has 35 bipartisan co-spon ! sprs, was approved, 7 to 2, by; the Senate Rules Committee on ! ■ January 25. Senators Hayden; ■ of Arizona and Hennings of Mis- j 1 souri, both Democrats, voted j f against it. The measure would; 1 create a House-Senate commit- j 1 tee similar to the Joint Com-, ■ mittee on Atomic Energy. It ' would keep a continuing check on the CIA, which now is super ' vised on Capitol Hill only ' through intermittent contacts with House and Senate appro i priations and armed servidl subcommittees. ) The bill has been held up in; committee waiting for a minority report from Senator Hayden.' I Formal reporting of the bill is ! scheduled pow for tomorrow. The Evening Star stories told •of widespread support for thej , watchdog proposal among Con- I gressmen of both parties—as well as grave doubts among many I Congressmen that the super / secret intelligence agency should be subjected to closer scrutiny, j Sidetracking Move Seen The Hoover Commission last ■summer recommended that Con -1 gress consider creation of a ; watchdog committee and also urged that a presidential com mission be set up to check the CIA periodically. The commis sion was organized—ln whatj Mansfield bill backers interpreted as partially a move to sidetrack the congressional committee. Senator Bridges, chairman of the Republican Policy Commit . tee, said he would support the Mansfield resolution unless a compromise can be worked out: to put Congressmen on the: presidential commission. Senator Butler, Republican of / Maryland, a co-sponsor of the resolution, said. “It is the re-j ; sponsibility and obligation of ■ Congress to know what the CIA I is doing." position has developed to the Hennings election control bill, 1 and the Democratic Policy Com ’ mittee has failed to clear it in ’ its present form. He said, how -1 ever, he has assured Senator ■ Hennings that if he will prepare ; amendments to meet the objec ’ tlons, lie, Senator Johnson, will 1 co-operate to get it up. Senator Hennings confirmed ■ this, but Senator O’Mahoney : observed. “We don’t pass legls ■ lation on assurances, we pass it 1 with votes.” • One of the sources of opposi tion to the bill is that it would bring primaries as well as elec tions under Federal control. In ' Southern States the primaries ’ are equivalent to election. ‘ Senator Johnson said the new. > broad investigation will have a two-fold objective—first, to find out if anyone has attempted 1 improperly to Influence Sena jtors, and, second, to be construc tive “and not Just get headlines, ) heroes and white knights." I— -1 It’s easy to register and ! qualify as a District voter. Go < to registration headquarters on ground floor of the District Building and sign up. Stevenson Lists Replies To Truman's Criticism NEW YORK. Feb, 22 UP)— Adlai E. Stevenson gave his ver-! sion today of what former Presi dent Truman called "mistakes”! in the Illinoisan's 1952 campaign! as Democratic presidential can didate. j Mr. Stevenson acknowledged | there had been poor co-ordina ; tlon between his headquarters . and Washington, but said he ! had not been aware of it at the . time and regretted it'now. i He defended his position, how ever, on several other campaign , ! phases criticized by Mr. Truman ! in the former President’s mem j oirs. i Mr. Stevenson made his reply i; ■ in the New York Times, which is i , publishing the memoirs. Mr. Truman said that Mr. Stevenson, by appointing Ste- 1 , phen A. Mitchell to replace, /Frank E. McKinney as Demo-: . cratlc national chairman, and by , I setting up campaign headquar ters in Springfield, 111., gave the ,jimpression he wanted to dis-, /associate hiihself from the Tru man regime. I Concerning the chairmanship appointment, Mr. Stevenson said i ‘that “appointing a personal Kefauver Blasts Curbs on Unions MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 22 (IP)— Senator Kefauver, Democrat of , Tennessee, ended a four-day Minnesota campaign last itight /with a call for removal of what ijhe termed the “union-busting j provisions” of the Taft-Hartley, I; Law. [! Senator Kefauver drew ap plause from an audience oP about 400 at the Minneapolis ,'Labor Temple when he said; j j “The Eisenhower administra tion promised to eliminate cer tain features of the labor act /but the first thing they did was to bring a bill out of a Senate] (Committee with three w four] more strike-busting provisions.’’: The Senator attacked what called the Eisenhower adminis tration’s “failure to keep faith with the people" on such mat Buy the Original, Proven MODERNFOLD - '' jy Often Copied—Ne»er Equolled Give your home EXTRA SPACE ience with America’s quality - J* ■ || H modelfng necessary. 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It was my Cap. ital, and my continuing respon sibility was there through the campaign.” To a Truman contention that he “went on the defensive” on the question of Communists in Government, Mr. Stevenson said that “as I reread these speeches now they seem to me bluntly forthright on the subject of Re publican smears and slanders on the Communist Issue.” “Finally,” said Mr. Stevenson, “Mr. Truman may be right that if I had accepted his proposal in January <1952) to run for the nomination, I would have re'r ceived at least 3 million more votes. “But I don’t see how I could (have done it—in good faith— even if I had wanted to, because I had already asked the people of (Illinois to re-elect me as their Govenor and it was too late to withdraw my petition.” jters as labor law changes, the jf&rm program and foreign policy. Senator Kefauver said Secre tary of State Dulles was “walk ing around on the brink of war while the people want peace, go ing up, down and sideways in his foreign policy, everywhere but forward.” Senator Kefauver fold his audience that if elected Presi dent he would see to It that "labor has the right to bargain collectively, organize and oe treated on an even basis with industry and agriculture.” He accused Secretary of Agri culture Benson of making t “fraudulent” and "smug” ef forts to blame labor unions foil jtbe plight of American fanners. [ He said Mr. Benson has i’’tried to escape the wrath of farmers over his dismal farm (program and attempted to shift blame for their tragic plight from himself to the labor unions.’ The Senator is competing with Adlai Stevenson for Democratic (delegates in the March 20 presi dential primary.