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Congress OKs
10% Pay Rise
For 1 Million
» % ,
President Expected
To Sign; 220,000
Here to Get Boost
Congrws this afternoon com
pleted action op the 10 per
cent Government employe pay
i slae bill and sent the measure
to the White House.
President Eisenhower Is re
garded as certain to sign the
measure which will give 10 per
cent salary increases to more
than 1 million classified em
ployes. about 220,000 of them
ih the Washington area. The
pay raises are retroactive to;
last January 12.
House approval today com
pleted congressional action on
the pay measure. The Senate
had approved the measure last
Priday.
Included in the bill are Dis
trict government classified em
ployes. legislative and Judicial
personnel, foreign service and
Veterans Administration med
ical personnel.
The cost of the measure is
$340 million a year.
The pay raises are retroac
tive to January 12, 1955, the
same as in the case of postal
workers. It raises the $16,000
Classification Act ceiling to
<17.500.
In addition to a 10 per cent
pay raise, the measure adds
599 top-grade jobs to the Fed
eral career service.
It also seeks to make Gov
ernment recruitment easier by
allowing the hiring of college
graduates in professional ad
ministrative and scientific Jobs
at entrance grade 7 instead of
the present grade 5.
The bill also requires future
appointees to Government
super-grade Jobs to pass mini
mum Civil Service Commission
qualifications. The only excep
tions are presidential assistants
or presidential appointees to
Federal Jobs.
D. C. Requests
Federal Grants
For Jobless
The District Unemployment
Compensation Board today
asked Secretary of Labor
Mitchell for Federal grants to
local unemployed who have
exhausted their benefits.
The request from Board
Chairman Robert E. McLaugh
lin was sent to the Secretary in
accordance with terms of the
anti-recession legislation signed
\ by President Eisenhower two
weeks ago.
Acceptance by the Secretary
is considered assured.
Grants may be made, under
the law. to jobless Washing
tonians who have run through
their compensation.
Some 8,000 unemployed are
on the eligible list today, ac
cording to C. A. Wharton,
executive director of the board.
But board officials said many
of these recipients may have
found work since their com
pensation ran out.
Unemployed who are eligible
are asked to apply for extra
benefits on their regular re
porting day to the board at
1724 F street N.W. offices.
Soraya in London
LONDON. June 17 UP).
Princess Soraya. divorced wife
of the Shah of Iran, arrived
from America today to spend a
few days in London. She and
her mother came from the liner
Queen Elizabeth to London by
the boat train and a cordon of
railway police kept newsmen
from interviewing her.
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J X WITH SUMDAY MORNING EDITION
Lebanon to Get Troops
From U. S. if U.N. Asks
Marines Might Also Aid Regime
In Other Contingencies, Dulles Says
By EAKL I*. VOBS
Star Stag Writer
The United Btates is ready to send troops to support
the Lebanese government if the United Nations requests
them. Secretary of Btate Dulles reported today.
American troops, now in the area, also might be ordered
to the defense of President Camille Chamoun's regime in
other contingencies. Mr. Dulles,
said, but he refused to say what
these would be.
The Secretary, at his news
conference, also charged the
Lebanon Kegerted Asking Strang U. N.
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Soviet Union with breaking off
preparatory talks for a summit
conference. This, he said, was
tfle best interpretation of the
Soviet Foreign Ministry's blast
against the West for alleged
stalling in preparatory talks.
He expressed doubt about
Soviet intentions to go through
with the technical talks on in
specting a nuclear test ban,
scheduled to begin in Geneva
July 1. But these negotiations
are expected to go forward, he
said, and the Western group of
scientists plans to be in Oeneva
July 1.
Anxiety Depicted
The situation in tiny Leb
anon causes very considerable
anxiety to those who believe in
the independence and integrity
of countries of the Middle East,
Mr. Dulles commented. The
independence of these nations
is a vital interest of the United
States, he said.
Even though the struggle in
Lebanon assumes in part the
character of a civil disturb
ance, Mr. Dulles said, there is
Senate Asked to Restore
Part of D. C. Budget Cut
By ALEX R. PRESTON
atmfteS Writer
The Commissioners today
appealed to the Senate to re
store some of the money cut
out of next year's District
budget by the House Appropri
ations Committee.
1. They sought restoration of
$1.5 million of a $5 million cut
for»«r Street Widening Project
Abendoned. Page 1-2
in the Federal payment. This
would bring the total contribu
tion to $21.5 million.
2. They asked that slightly
over $4 million be put back
after the House group had
trimmed out sll.B million from
the total budget. The Com
missioners' revised total budget
request now comes to $207.2
I million.
Ironically, the city heads have
i been forced into the position of
J revising their requests down
ward even before the House has
an opportunity to weigh their
original requests against the
lesser amounts recommended
by the House Appropriations
i Committee.
i This Js because Senator Pas
tore, Democrat of Rhode Island,
in charge of the Senate Appro
Presidentof Philippines
Greeted by Eisenhower
President Carlos P. Garcia of;
the Philippines and Mrs. Gar-|
cia. arriving for a three-day
state visit, were warmly greeted
at National Airport today by
President Eisenhower.
Also in the welcoming party
were Secretary of State Dulles.
Picture on ff A-3
Philippine President et Pinnacle es
Career. Page A-l:
Garcias Hare Full Schedule. Page t-5
Robert McLaughlin, president l
of the Board of District Com
missioners: Wiley T. Buchanan.
jr„ chief of protocol, and Army
Chief of Staff Maxwell D.
Taylor.
President Garcia greeted the
airport crowd with a wide
smile and a wave of the arm
as he and Mrs. Garcia and!
members of their party stepped
from the plane.
After handshakes all around. |
President Eisenhower said to
Mr. Garcia, “Hold still for pic-!
tures," as news and television,
photographers crowded against
ropes set up to hold back the
throng.
Military units assembled in
the area presented arms as a
21 - gun presidential salute
j boomed out. The Navy Band
played the national anthems
of both countries.
Commissioner McLaughlin
presented a gold key, tied in
red. white and blue bunting, to
Mr. Oarcia and his wife.
President Eisenhower told the
visitors that there was a great
degree of personal sentiment in
his welcome.
He recalled that as an aide
to GenAXmglas MacArthur in
enough outside interference to
qualify under a United Nations
1949 definition of indirect ag
gression.
United Nations representa
tives already sent to Lebanon
have recommended, he said,
that a larger force with greater
elements of mobility be pro
vided to patrol the Syrian-
Lebanese border. These recom
mendations are being very
sympathetically considered by
lU. N Secretary-Oeneral Ham
ms rskj old, Secretary Dulles
said, and the United States
would be disposed to support
any action along those lines
that he recommends.
i! Would Answer Troop Call
At the time this was taken
to refer to the possibility of
shipping more American equip
ment to Lebanese forces. Later,
however. Mr. Dulles said he had
meant diplomatic support prin
’ cipally.
But if there were a call made
, for the United States to par
ticipate with troops, Mr. Dulles
; said he thought the administra
tion would be willing to go
I along with that also.
The Navy announced yester
i day that 1,700 Marines will
. leave for the Mediterranean
. area about June 25 to relieve
II Continued on Page A-t, Col. 1
priations Subcommittee on the 1
District budget, began hear
ings today on the budget for the|
fiscal, year beginning July 1.
The House, however, has not
scheduled action on the city’s
budget bill until tomorrow
afternoon or Thursday.
Robert E. McLaughlin, presi
dent of the Board of Commis
sioners. was the lead-off wit
ness before the Pastore group.
He presented figures showing
i the city's total budget requests
originally were $215.1 million.
The House Appropriations
Committee allowed $203.2 mil
lion. The Commissioners, in
asking for restoration of $4,-
096.950, today brought their
revised estimates down to
$207.2 million.
The Commissioners also low
ered their Federal payment re
quest from $25 million to $21.5
million. But Mr. McLaughlin
told the subcommittee:
“It should be borne in mind
that the Commissioners will
need to increase this request
(for a Federal payment) when
the supplemental for pay in
creases are submitted in the
next session of Congress."
Here are excerpts from Mr.
McLaughlin's testimony, which
See D. C. BUDGET, Page A-3
the Philippines during 1935 to
1940 he “learned much of your
country.” He said. “I found
many warm friendships Chat
exist to this day."
President Garcia said he w*s
greatly touched by “this wel
come to your beautiful city—
the capital city of the free
world.”
"I come not as a stranger
nor merely as one of your
friends and allies, but I com
bearing the affection of a peo
ple who you have served so
well and so long,” he told Mr
Eisenhower.
During his visit. Mr. Garcia
is expected to seek substantial
United States economic assist
ance.
Mr. and Mrs. Garcia flew
from Honolulu aboard Mr. Et- ;
senhower's personal plane, thej
Columbine m.
After military honors at the
airport, the two Presidents
rode together in a procession
ito the President’s guest house
across Pennsylvania avenue
from the White House.
A series of ceremonial visits
by the Pnilipplne President
preceded a formal state dinner
at the White House tonight.
In the course of later discus
sions, Mr. Garcia and other
Philippine officials are expected
to seek more than $350 million
in long-term loans and credits
for such purposes as procure
ment of steel, chemicals, uibber
and other raw materials to in
crease their country's produc
tive capacity: dollar credits to
Philippine private industry,
and such public projects as ir
rigation. port improvement and
bridge reMnstruction.
Adams Denies He Sought
To Influence Goldfine Case
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WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING—Press Secretary
Hagerty leans over to confer with Presidential
Assistant Sherman Adams at the White
House, where Mr. Adams read a prepared
President Received Vicuna Cloth
But Gave It Away, Hagerty Says
President Eisenhower received ]
some vicuna cloth from Boston
industrialist Bernard Goldflne
in November. 1956, but the I
President gave it to a friend, the !
White House said today. 1
Presidential Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty told report- j'
ers the President thanked Mr. i
Goldflne by letter for the cloth :
but “never had anything made
out of it.”
Mr. Hagerty said the Presi
dent does not recall to whom
he gave the cloth.
“We’re trying to find out,” he
added.
Denies Report
Mr. Hagerty made the dis
closure while denying a report
by Columnist Drew Pearson
that the President had received
a three-quarter length vicuna
coat from Mr. Goldflne.
Mr. Hagerty commented:
“Ten lies in one story, one
more in his column."
Explaining the President’s ac
ceptance of the vicuna material,'
Mr. Hagerty said the President
| "gets many things like this sent
to him. He does acknowledge
them."
This is how Mr. Hagerty out
lined the 11 errors he said were
contained in' an article' and
column by Mr. Pearson, pub
lished today:
1. President Eisenhower re
ceived a vicuna coat from
Sherman Adams' good friend
Bernard Goldflne. “That is not
true,” Mr. Hagerty said.
Two Vicuna Coats
"The President has two vi
cuna coats,” he continued, “one
which he has had since the
middle '4os, and one which he
had about 1952. It is true that
Mr. Goldflne in November,
1956, sent the President some
vicuna material and the Presi
dent did thank him for that
material But he has never had
anything made out of it.... He
gave it to a friend and he
doesn't know whom he gave
it to. . • . We’re trying to find
out."
The President thanked Mr.|
Goldflne by letter and “also
thanked him for the good
things he said about the Pres
ident,” Mr. Hagerty added. Mr.
Eisenhower never had a coat
made from the material. Mr.
Hagerty said, because “he just
didn't need it.”
2. Mr. Pearson reported Mr.
Adams said the President got
a coat. "Obviously not true.”
commented Mr. Hagerty.
3. Mr. Pearson says it was a
three-quarter-length coat. “Ob
viously untrue," said Mr.
Hagerty.
4. Mr. Pearson reported that
Mr. Adams. President Eisen
hower’s chief aide, used an air
credit card in the name of one
of the Goldflne com panic*
“That’s Just a lie.” Mr. Hagerty
said
5. In the same sentence. Mr.
Adams was reported as receiv
ing “sMeral rugs.” Repeated
Mr. Hagerty: “That is also a'
lie.”
6. “Still in the same sen
tence," Mr. Hagerty said, Mr.
Pearson reported Mr. Adams
had received a considerable j
amount of furniture for his
Washington home from Mr.
Goldflne. "That is another lie.”
Mr. Hagerty said. Saying there
were three “lies" in one sen
tence, Mr. Hagerty added :|
"That is some sort of a record.”*
He said Mr. Adams has “no
furniture from Mr. Goldflne in
his Washington home."
Never in Store
7. Mr. Pearson reported Mr.
Goldflne would load Mr. Adams'
trunk with an assortment of
whisky and champagne. “There
again if is completely false,” Mr.
Hagerty said.
8. Mr. Pearson said Mr
Adams and Mr. Goldflne
shopped together at a tailor
shop patronized by Mr. Gold
flne and at Jordan-Marsh De
partment store in Boston. “Gov.
Adams tells me he has never
been in Jordan-Marsh in his
life," Mr. Hagerty asserted.
Mr. Hagerty. however, ac
knowledged that Mr. Adams
had accompanied Mr. Goldflne
to a tailor shop in Boston once
or twice. He was asked if the
presidential aide paid for his
own suits. “Sure,” Mr. Hagerty
replied.
9. Mr. Hagerty denied that
Mr. Adams received whisky and
champagne and repeated that
Mr. Adams did not "embark
on shopping sprees” with Mr.
Goldflne.
10. Mr. Pearson said former
PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES
Legend of Adams
Withers on Stand
By MARY McGRORY
Star SUIT Writer
It was the Washington
equivalent of a reversal of
the forces of nature.
There sat Sherman Adams,
the loftiest, frostiest man in
Washington, being told to his
face by a junior Congressman
that people who live in glass
houses should not throw stones.
”1 might say,” said Repre
sentative MO6S. Democrat of
California, his voice trembling
with remembered wrong, “that
I probably share the feelings of
a great many of my colleagues
who campaigned in 1952 under
the whiplash of a very critical
judgment Imposed by others on
the conduct of the previous ad
miniitration. Those who were
judged also said it was a mat
ter of judgment, not intent.”
The jammed caucus room,
for whom Mr. Adams' presence
was sensation enough, .eaned
forward in disbelief. Mr. Adams,
who in htttaeart of hearts must
statement to the press before going to Capitol
Hill to testify before a House subcommittee
on his friendship with Bernard Goldfine.—
Star Btaff Photo by Ranny Routt.
L
' Air Force Secretary Harold Tal-:
bott demanded an interview
with President Eisenhower but
was refused it by Mr. Adams,
and that Mr. Adams demanded
Mr. Talbott’s resignation then
and there. "A complete lie.” Mr.
Hagerty said. “The President
personally saw Mr. Talbott
prior to the time he resigned.”
“The resignation was a mat
ter between Mr. Talbott and
* the President,” Mr. Hagerty
, added. He said he had an
nounced to the pi ess as the
time that Mr. Talbott saw the
President.
11. "The last one really is
another beaut,” Mr. Hagerty
said. Mr. Pearson reported In
-1 dustrialist Goldflne did not
. show up until after lunch for
a 10:30 am. appointment v.ith
the President. ‘The President
has never had an appointment
, with Mr. Goldflne and one has
1 never been made,' Mi. Hagerty
said.
President Unavailable
' r The only two times Mr. Gold
s fine has been in Washington.
Mr. Hagerty said, the President
. was unavailable, being once in
; Chicago and once in a National
» Security Council meeting.
» Mr. Pearson said that Mr.
. Hagerty also had been friendly
j with Mr. Goldflne.
1 "I have never met Mr. Gold
flne in my life.” Mr. Hagerty
t first said. Then he amended it:
1 "I have never known that I met
t Mr. Goldflne.”
k He explained he may have
*. shaken his hand on a trip to
Boston but “I do not know the
r gentleman.”
have expected it. eyed his lec
turer balefully and leaned back
to take his medicine.
"I think,” Mr. Moss went on
to say to the unhorsed cru
sader before him, “that we must
apply at all times the same
rule and the same standard."
The past week has dented
the legend of the thrifty,
frugal, "no-nonsense” Yankee
who sits by the President. He
has been revealed as one who
like other men. enjoys gracious
living and fine clothes.
And Mr. Adams, who risked
all to come before this sub
committee, obviously took a
certain wry pleasure in nicking
the myth some more, partic
ularly as it aided his own case.
So that his kindnesses to his
friend Bernard Ooldflne would
indeed appear as "routine” as
he insisted they were. Mr.
Adams presented himself as a
man who is forever at the beck
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Metropolitan
Edition
New York Morkoh, Page A-21
adaMs text
Friendship
Os Goldfine
Described
Following is the opening
statement of Sherman Adams,
the assistant to the Presi
dent, before the Sub-commit
tee on Legislative Oversight
today.
Yesterday I requested permis
sion to appear before the Com
mittee today. My purpose here
this morning is three-fold:
First, to review with you fully
the questions that have been
Taxi of Adomi' Questions and
Answers. Page A-17
raised regarding the propriety
of any actions of mine in rela
tion to Bernard Goldflne.
Second, to give full and frank
answers to any question you
may wish to ask me in that
connection; and
Third, with specific reference
to the matters with which this
committee is immediately con
cerned. to outline for you what
I consider to be the duties of
the assistant to the President
and the manner in which such
duties, under our system, should
be performed.
If I may, I should like to
begin with this last topic. Dur
ing the past 5Vi years. I have
tried to make myself available
to every person—whether a
member of Congress, an official
of the Government, or a private
citizen—who had a legitimate
problem with any of the Fed
eral departments or agencies
that he wished to bring to the
attention of the White House
or members of the White House
staff.
Tells of Requests
Obviously. I could not hope
to cope with every problem pre
sented to me personally. But
I have tried to see to it that
the President's staff has made
every effort to deal with every
proper request that has been
presented. Were lor the mem
bers of the staff to refuse to
entertain such requests that
come to us from members of
the Congress, officials of the
Government, or private indi
viduals. we would not, in my
opinion, be fulfilling the duties
which have been assigned to
us in our position in the Gov
ernment. Personally, I hope
the day will never come when
, a member of the Congress or
, a responsible Government
official cannot perform such
services.
In the process, of course.
, there is always involved the
: differentiation between re
quests that are proper and re
. quests that are improper. Rea
i lhung this, however, I can wttfc-
I out reservation express to you
i my belief in the scrupulous
. honesty of the members of the
i White House staff in perform
: ing their duties in a manner
I tea TEXT. Page A-l
Didn't Use
Prudence,
He Admits
By CECIL HOLLAND and
ROBERT K. WALSH
•tarsus Writer,
Sherman Adams testified to
day that while he was not guilty
of misconduct in his relation
ship with Boston industrialist
Bernard Goldfine, he would act
"a little more prudently” if he
had It all to to over again.
The presidential assistant's
disclaimer of misconduct was
contained in a prepared state
ment he read to the House Sub
committee on Legislative Over
signt on his arrival at a packed
Capitol Hill hearing this morn
ing.
His remark that he would act
more prudently than he had
done so came just before the
subcommittee excused him after
a morning of testimony.
Mr. Adams went to the Cap
itol to respond to charges that
he had accepted lavish gifts
from Mr. Ooldflne and. In re
turn, had helped the indus
trialist in his difficulties with
Federal agencies.
Unaware es Restirction
At one point under question.
President Eisenhower’s No. I
aide pleaded ignorance to
knowledge that Mr. Goldfine
had received Information from
Federal agencies In violation of
the law and Federal agency
rules.
Ha said he was unaware that
there was a prohibition against
discloeure of the type of in
formation Mr. Goldfine appar
ently received from the Fed
eral Trade Commission.
‘‘Had I known that,” he said,
"my decision quite obviously
| might have been different." He
'apparently referred to call* he
I made In behalf of Mr. Goldfine
requesting information about
i FTC and Securities and Ex
change Commission matters ef
fecting Mr. Goldfine’s com
panies.
Would Be More Prudent
And a short time later, ho
told the Congressmen:
“If I had those decisions
(concerning Mr. Ooldflne's re
quest for information) before
me now I believe I would have
acted a little more prudently.”
In his prepared testimony,
Mr. Adams acknowledged that
he had received an expensive
rug and a vicuna coat from Mr.
| Goldflne.
But he asserted that the rug,
worth $2,400, was merely bor
rowed from his industrial
friend, and that the material
used in the coat had cost Mr.
Ooldflne's mill only $69. The
coat has been called a S7OO
garment.
In that statement, too. Mr.
Adams asserted that “I know
of no action requested or taken
by me or by any member of the
staff with any Government of
ficial that has resulted in any
benefit to Bernard Goldflne
that he could not have received
had he gone to the agency in
volved and he and I had been
complete strangers.”
The question of possible vio
lation of laws and Federal rules
came up during the questioning
Continued on Page A-6, Col. I
CRITIC MEETS
AUDREY HEPBURN
AUDREY HEPIURN it lending
her acting skill to a difficult role m
"The Nun's Story," no* being filmed
et Rome's big Cmecitta studios.
Joy Cormody, The Star's touring
drama critic, reports on his meeting
with her in the first et e series of
columns on movie-making activities
abroad on Page A-11.
FLAG-RAISINGS era over and
Washington area beat and yacht
dabs have ambitious cruising pro
grams set up far the warm season.
News of the boating enthusiasts can
be found today on the Leisure
Sportsmen Page, A-27.
HOMEMAKERS, 100 strong, set
-1 Had dawn at tba Unnervy of
Maryland campus yesterday and
right away started looking like col
lege girls. Star StaH Writer Amelia
Yeung writes about their busy week
today on Pago 1-4 of the Woman's
Section.
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