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Congressional
Leaders Split
On Space Race
Dirksen Satisfied
With Timetable,
Johnson Dissents
By CECIL HOLLAND
■tor SUB Wrltar
Congressional leaders of both
parties came away from a
White House briefing today in
disagreement over whether
the Nation is moving fast
enough in its invasion of outer
space.
Senator Dirksen of Illinois,
leading candidate for O. O. P.
Senate floor leader, expressed
satisfaction with the space
program. He said the admini
stration has accelerated its
space plans and that it’s time
table, which he would not dis
close, includes a plan for
launching a manned space
rocket.
But Senate Democratic Lead
er Johnson of Texas expressed
disappointment after the morn
ing session with President Ei
senhower and his advisors. “We
should be going further faster
in our military and space pro
grams,” he said.
Defense Figure Up
The President reportedly told
the lawmakers that defense
spending in the new fiscal year,
which begins July 1, would be
about $40.9 billion—an increase
of roughly SIOO million over the
current year.
Apparently this figure, dis
closed by Senator Wiley Re
publican of Wisconsin, as he
left the meeting, explained part
of the disappointment ex
pressed by Senator Johnson,
who also is chairman of the
Senate Space Committee.
The White House meeting
was called to acquaint congres
sional leaders with legislative
proposals in the military, space
and foreign fields the President
will put before the 86th Con
gress, which convenes Wednes
day. On Friday the President
will deliver his state-of-the-
Union address. He will submit
a detailed budget for the 1960
fiscal year on January 19, it
was disclosed after today’s
meeting.
Twenty-five party leaders
and senior members of the
Armed Services, Appropriations
and Foreign Afiairs Commit
tees of the Senate and House
attended the bipartisan meet
ing. Vice President Nixon also
was present.
Other Facts Disclosed
In addition to the apparent
disagreement over the speed of
this country’s space program,
the lawmakers also disclosed:
1. The Administration will
ask for mutual security funds
“substantially” aoove the $3.3
billion approved by Congress
last year.
2. Authorization of several
additional billions in monetary
funds will be sought for the
International Monetary Fund
and the World Bank, which
lend money to underdeveloped
and distressed nations.
3. No “substantial” increase
will be sought in military
spending.
Except for the military figure
reported by Senator Wiley, the
lawmakers disclosed no infor
mation on how much spending
the administration will recom
mend. Senators Dirksen and
Johnson said there had been
an agreement not to disclose
the amounts until the Presi
dent sends his budget message
to Congress.
Senator Dirksen said the
See CONGRESS, Page A-7
Pakistan Air Training
KARACHI, Pakistan, an. 5
(AP).—A staff college for air
force officers will open here to
day. The first class of 15 of
ficers will ne squadron leaders
and wing commanders.
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Mikoyan Goes for Surprise Stroll
In Downtown Area Despite Wind
By EARL. H. VOSS
■Mr BUS Wrltar
Anastas I. Mikoyan, First
Deputy Premier of the Soviet
Union, t strolled the gusty
streets of downtown Washing
ton yesterday, unassuming and
unnoticed.
Oolng along with the small
Mikoyan party, sometimes at
Mikoyo* Talks With Dallas. A-6
a distance of half a block or
more, three American plain
clothesmen moved along un
obtrusively. so far away they
hardly oould have been effec
tive if there had been any
sudden trouble.
No Soviet security police
were in sight.
There was a brutal, dust
laden wind out of the north
west. Once it snatched the
Deputy Premier’s gray fedora
away. Another time it smashed
a street light nearby.
Otherwise, it was a typically
quiet Sunday aftemon in the
Nation’s Capital. There were
few cars on the streets, fewer
pedestrians. Mr. Mikoyan ig
nored the red lights at cross
ings when he thought the risk
was small, but sometimes mis
judged and broke into a trot
to evade oncoming cars.
He read the plaque on his
toric St. John’s Church off La
fayette Square; paused to peer
into a New York avenue book
store featuring Boris Paster
nak’s “Dr. Zhivago;" chatted
with a squirrel; fought a stiff
northwest gale to reach the
base of the Washington Monu
ment, and dropped in at the
Cororan Art Gallery.
Like a good many American
tourists, he wagged his head at
the modern art he found at the
Corcoran. He paused before a
design of concentrle squares
'Flying Finn' Is Seized
Over 'Citizen's Arrest'
Tried to Handcuff Col. Moore,
Mrs. Eisenhower's Brother-in-Law
One of the “Flying Finns,” whose tiffs with the law have
punctuated the news for years, was arrested at National Air
port today for attempting a “citizen’s arrest” on Col. G.
George Moore A brother-in-law of Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower.
Airport police picked up George Finn, 45. and charged
him with being in a restricted are*. The Californian posted
$25 collateral and was released.
Airport Director L. W. Burton said Mr. Finn boarded an
Eastern Airlines plane about i
9:30 a.m. after being denied’]
permission by attendants. i
There he encountered Col.
Moore, bound for New Orleans. ]
and attempted to place hand- <
cuffs on him, Mr. Burton said.
Airport police were called at 1
the behest of the plane’s com- ■
mander and attendants.
The second of the Finn twins,
Charles, told reporters and
police they wished to stop Qol.
Moore in connection with evi
dence they had concerning vio
lation of banking statutes.
Charles said that George had
telephoned the FBI before at- 1
tempting the arrest, announc- t
ing he was going to make the j
citizens’ arrest.
The Finns have been involved '
in several arrests of this nature 1
during the course of a long
fight to regain an airplane they I
contend was illegally taken i
from them about seven years i
ago. i
Charles said the FBI advised i
George against trying the ar
rest. I
“But George went ahead i
anyway, called Col. Moore off i
the plane, and attempted tol
Woman TV Columnist
Starts Contempt Term
NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (APh—
Newspaper Columnist Marie
Torre surrendered today to be
gin a 10-day jail sentence
rather than disclose a news
source.
Miss Torre, who writes a
syndicated television and radio
column for the New York Her
ald Tribune, appeared before
Federal District Judge Sylvester
J. Ryan and was remanded to*
custody of a marshal at
10:05 a.m.
“I have great hope that this
action will lead to legislation
which will protect a newsman's
sources,” she told reporters as
she arrived at th*> courthouse.
The 34-year-old mother of
two children was accompanied
to the courthouse by her hus
band, Hal Friedman, a tele
vision producer.
Judge Ryan had found Miss
Torre in contempt for refusing
to disclose the source of a
story she wrote in 1957 con
cerning Movie Star Judy Gar
land.
Miss Torre was dressed in
black as she stood silently be
fore Judge Ryan.
“Has the defendant changed
her position in this matter?”
the judge asked.
“Her position remains the
same,” said Mathias Correa, her
attorney. “It is no different
than that taken before.”
Judge Ryan immediately or
dered:
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POLICY MAKERS MEET—Soviet Deputy
Premier Anastas Mikoyan poses with Secre
tary of State Dulles in a State Department
anteroom today.—AP Photo.
entitled “Homage to the Square:
‘Yes,’” by Joseph Albers.
“I have a grandson who Is
eight years old,” the 63-year
old Mikoyan observed as he ad
justed his rimless pince-nez.
“I think he could do it also.”
Soviet Embassy aides were
still assuring reporters that Mr.
Mikoyan was “resting” after his
long, hard flight from Moscow,
when the Deputy Premier sud
denly swept out the Embassy
door and down 16th street yes
terday at 2:30 pm.
put the culls on him,” Charles
said.
“Col. Moore fled to the tele
phone and called the FBI,”
Charles said.
“Now George Is trying to get
to see J. Edgar Hoover of the
FBI.”
Adenauer Hopeful
As He Reaches 83
BONN, Germany, Jan. 5
(AP).—K o n r a d Adenauer
turned 83 today and said he’s
looking forward to the future
with a certain measure of opti
mism.
“I’ve been hearing a lot of
talk bout the bad year that’s
ahead of us," West Germany’s
chancellor said. “But for my
part I am by no means pessi
mistic.”
Mr. .Adenauer was looking
his age. He is not entirely re
covered from a severe cold
which has been bothering him
for more than a month.
“The defendant is remanded
to the custody of the marshal
to begin serving her sentence.”
As Miss Torre turned to leave
the courtroom, the judge said:
“if you change your mind,
Miss Torre, you may commu
nicate with the court.”
Judge Ryan referred to a
standing opportunity for Miss
Torre to purge herself of con
tempt at any time by disclosing
her news source.
Authorities arranged for her
to serve the sentence in the
Hudson County Jail in Jersey
City, N. J. It is one of several
Institutions in the metropolitan
area where the Federal Govern
ment boards women for short
terms.
Miss Torre arrived at the jail
shortly after noon. She was
fingerprinted and issued a blue
and white jail dress. She was
assigned a large cell on the
seventh floor.
Her mother and a house
keeper will care for the two;
children while she is in jail.
Miss Torre has arranged for
guest writers to handle her
column during her jail term.
Judge Ryan has said that the
columnist again may be ad
judged in contempt—even after
completing her sentence—if
she persists in refusing to iden
tify the Columbia Broadcast
ing System executive she quot
ed anonymously in reference to
Miss Garland.
With him were Vladlihlr
Burdin, a First Secretary in the
Soviet Foreign Ministry who
was a member of the Washing
ton Embassy staff 10 years ago,
and Mrs. Tamara Mamedov, the
trim cultural attache of the
Embassy, dad all in black—
high-heeled shoes, sheer hose,
cloth coat and feathered hat.
Mr. Mikoyan was four blocks
away before Ambassador Mik
hail Menshikov and the Deputy
Continued on Page A-6, CoL 1
Monitors Seek
Powers Okay
Tough Rule Asked
For Teamsters
By LEE M. COHN
Star Staff Writer
Court - appointed monitors
moved today to nail down the
vast powers they claim to
clean up James R. Hoffa's
Teamsters Union.
They submitted a tough
three-page order for signature
by District Judge F. Dickinson
Letts. Submitted with the order
was a 75-page set of proposed
factual findings and legal con
clusions—also for Judge Letts'
signature—blasting Mr. Hoffa
for “bad faith” in actions de
signed to "frustrate and block”
the cleanup.
Judge Letts plans to hold a
hearing Friday on the order
and findings. He may approve
them as they stand or modify
them.
Approval Expected
If the judge, as expected,
signs an order in line with the
one submitted, it will empower
the monitors to break up the
machine that helps President
Hoffa rule the union with a
membership of 1.6 million. The
order would clear the way for
ousting Mr. Hoffa’s key sup
porters from office, revising
union election rules and tight
ening financial controls.
And the order would posts
pone indefinitely the conven
tion Mr. Hoffa scheduled for
next March to get rid of the
monitorshlp. ,
Ultimately, the order could
establish grounds for removing
Mr. Hoffa from office—either
for defying the monitors or on
corruption charges.
Judge Letts last month ruled
See TEAMSTERS, Page A-3
Dulles Has Virus,
Ottawa Trip Off
Secretary of State Dulles has
developed a virus infection and
will not go to Ottawa as previ
ously planned, the State De
partment announced today.
Press Officer Lincoln White
told reporters of the decision
as Mr. Dulles was conferring
with Soviet Deputy Premier
Anastas Mikoyan. The virus
infection developed early Sun
day afternoon, Mr. White said.
"While it is today better and
under control,” he said, “the
attending physicians have ad
vised the Secretary to forego
his planned trip to Ottawa and
curtail his working schedule for
the next few days to assist his
rapid recovery and his return
fully to duty.”
(Earlier Story on Page A-9)
Raab Off on Tour
VIENNA, Jan. 5 (AP).—Aus
trian Chancellor Julius Raab
left by air today for Copen
hagen. From there tomorrow
he will fly across the pole for
a 10-day official visit to Japan
to seek to expand Austrian -
I Japanese trade.
Red Rocket Radio Out
As Orbit of Sun Nears
Martial Law
Imposed on
Havana Area
Urrutia Awaited;
Castro Hailed on
Triumph March
BULLETIN
HAVANA (AP). Havana
province was proclaimed un
der martial law temporarily
today pending the arrival of
Provisional President Man
uel Urrutia.
By LARRY ALLEN
Auociatod Preu BUS WrlUr
HAVANA. Jan. s.—Fidel
Castro and thousands of his
hard-fighting soldiers con
tinued their slow westward
march of triumph today, sav
oring the adulation being
heaped on them as they ap
proached Havana.
Tens of thousands in cities,
towns and villages turned out
to cheer wildly as Castro and
his motorized columns made
their way from the Oriente
Province center of their re
bellion which overthrew the
dictatorship of Fulgencio Bat
ista last week.
The progress was slow: Cam
aguey, 300 miles from Havana,
last night; tonight Santa Clara,
scene of the decisive defeat
which forced Batista to flee,
140 miles further along the
March, and Tuesday Matanzas,
56 miles from the captital.
Castro and his men were ex
pected in the capital Wednes
day aftetrnoon for one of the
greatest welcomes in Cuban
history.
Welcome for Urrutia
In a prelude, Manuel Urrutia,
named provisional president by
Castro, was awaited in Havana
from Santiago de Cuba today
to take the central government
reins. A big welcome was
waiting for him, with govern
ment offices closed so that em
ployes could participate.
The people of Havana
awaited Castro with full stom
achs for the first time since the
collapse of the Batista govern
ment and the dictator’s pre
dawn flight to Ciudad Trujillo.
The rebel chieftain, now
commander in chief of Cuba's
armed forces, ordered an end
to the paralyzing general
strike which had closed the na
tion’s stores, business and in
dustries and tied up transport
and communications.
City Returning to Normal
He had said he would call off
the strike when he was con
vinced Havana was safely in
the hands of his men. There
were still some scattered Ba
tista holdouts, but reports from
nis commanders in Havana as
sured Castro the situation was
fully under control and noth
ing could upset his hard-won
victory.
There were Immediate signs
of a return to normal In the
tense and excited city.
Newspapers began appearing
again. Stores flung open their
doors to do a landoffice busi
ness selling foodstuffs to hun
gry Habaneros. Taxis and
Continued on Page A-3, Col. 1
Rights Probers Allowed
To Inspect Voter Data
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan.
5 <AP).—The Federal Civil
Rights Commission was given
the right today to look at voter
registration records in three
Alabama counties, but only by
agreeing to inspect them in the
counties where they are kept.
A compromise agreement
signed by United States Dis
trict Judge Frank M. Johnson,
jr., provided that a commission
Investigator will be allowed to
see the records at a time and
place “mutually agreeable" to
Federal and State authorities.
But the order stipulated that
arrangements to get access to
the files must be made by Fri
day, the date originally set by
Judge Johnson for registration
officials to produce the records
before the commission in Mont
gomery.
The court order limited the
records to those which have a
direct bearing on the Civil
Rights Commission’s investiga
tion of Negro voting complaints.
Negroes in three counties—
Barbour and Bullock and
Macon—and in three other
counties have complained to
the Federal agency that they
were denied the right to vote.
The commission attempted
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MESSAGE FROM OUTER SPACE—Signals
received from the Soviet rocket are recorded
in Moscow by two employes of the Russian
post ministry. The Russians lost contact with
the rocket today.—AP Wirephoto via radio.
Zero Cold Predicted
For Suburbs Tonight
Reading Would Be Lowest Since 1936;
Wind Topples Trees on Homes, Wires
A bitter cold wave, ushered in yesterday by a damaging
windstorm, may drop the temperature in Washington’s sub
urbs to zero tonight, the Weather Bureau announced.
A low near 6 degrees is expected in the city. By 8 a.m.
today, the mercury had dropped to 15, equaling the season’s
low recorded on December 16. It began to rise slowly after
the sun came up.
If the temperature hits zero, it will be the first time
that reading Gas been recorded
here since January 23, 1936,
the bureau said.
Power Off 3 Hours
The cold front moved in be
hind frigid blasts that reached
53 miles an hour yesterday
afternoon. Scores of trees werq
toppled throughout the area,
and they fell on power lines,
autos, houses, and one child.
The Potomac Electric Power
Co. reported that falling trees
felled 25 to 39 power lines and
two poles, cutting off power in
scattered areas for as much as
six hours.
The largest area affected was
Green Meadows, in West Hy
attsvllle, where homes and a
shopping center were without
electricity for more than three
hours.
A PEPCO spokesman said the
to get registration flies in six
counties for a hearing held
December 8-9, but was blocked
by the resistance of State au
thorities and registration offi
cials.
Judge Johnson was asked
then to order the defiant offi
cials to produce the evidence.
Today’s hearing was to deter
mine whether the Alabama
officials could legally withhold
the information the commis
sion sought.
The hearing was first delayed
30 minutes, then an additional
; 15 minutes, while attorneys for
I the Government and the Ala
bama officials huddled together
in the office of United States
Hartwell Davis.
After this meeting Judge
(Johnson signed the compromise
agreement.
Taipei Releases 1,000
TAIPEI, Jan. 5 (AP).—More
than 1,000 draftees who had
completed their two-year hitch
of military service arrived from
the offshore islands last week
and were mustered out. They
returned to their homes in
various parts of the island.
Metropolitan
Edition
New York Markets, Page A-17
worst damage occured in a path
from Bethesda, through North
west Washington, Brightwood,
and into West Hyattsville and
Upper Marlboro.
Extra PEPCO crews were
called in last night, and by
midnight, most service had
been restored.
Tree Strikes House
Poles were felled in Marlboro
and at Glenwood and Rosewood 1
streets in Bethesda.
Plate glass show windows |
were blown out in Four Cor-i
ners, and Mount Rainier, Md.,l
and in Alexandria, Va.
A huge oak toppled into the
two-story row house of Clara
E. Coleman at 610 Kenyon;
street N.W., and 12-year-old
Vera Copeland of 317 Constitu
tion avenue N.E., was slightly
injured by a falling branch
near her home.
At 3311 Ross place N.W., the |
family of Benjamin Carroll
spent a suspense-filled hour as
firemen tried to keep an 80-
foot pin oak from falling on
their house.
Firemen were called when
the tree began to fall toward
the house, and then was halted
by a power line. They tried to
secure the tree with ropes, but
it finally fell, crumpling oart
of the porch roof and blacking
out the house and a neighbor’s
as it tore down the power line.
Burglar Alarms Set Off
In the District, police re
ported the high winds set off
more than a dozen burglar
alarms, and in Herndon, Va.,
a strong blast toppled a truck
body onto the rear of a car.
Noboay was hurt.
State Police at Leonardtown,
Mt., _ -o, „2t* Lu. cjasb
was forced to beach a crash
boat at Point Lookout near
midnight because high waves
threatened to smash the craft
if they brought it into a pier.
In St. Marys County, the Col
ton Point area was blacked out
for more than an hour when a
main power line broke near Dy
nard, Md.
The frigid spell will continue
tomorrow, and for the next five
days temperatures will average
4 to 8 degrees below the nor
mals of 44 high and 29 low.
A half-inch of snow or rain is
expected Thursday or Friday.
Device Gets
New Name,
'Mechta'
By HAROLD K. MILKS
Associated Press Staff Writer
MOSCOW, Jan. s.—The So
viet Union’s cosmic rocket con
tinued its headlong dash toward
a solar orbit today In man’s
greatest conquest of space.
Its radio signals ceased as
the 1% ton device—now called
Mechta (dream)—went past
370,960 miles in its plunge from
the earth. It had then been
in flight 62 hours.
Resources for feeding the
radio equipment had become
exhausted, the Soviet news
agency Tass said.
“The program of observa
tions and scientific investiga
tions of the rocket has been
completed,” an announcement
said.
Tass predicted the rocket
will finally enter an orbit
around the sun Wednesday or
Thursday. It is due to go into
orbit between the orbits of the
earth and Mars. Mechta is due
to take 15 months to go around
the sun. traveling elliptically.
Orbit of 447 Days
The actual number of days
required for the solar orbit will
be 447, scientists said. This is
$2 more than it takes the earth
—in a tighter elliptical orbit—
to go around the sun.
The Russians calculate this
orbit would have a maximum
diameter of 214% million miles.
The rocket would get no nearer
the sun than 91% million miles.
The mean distance of the
sun from earth throughout the
year is about 93 million miles.
At its nearest point in its orbit,
however, the earth is about
91% million miles from the
sun, and at Its farthest about
94% million miles.
The name Mechta was ap
plied to the rocket today by
Pravda, Communist Party
newspaper. When it was an
nounced last Saturday that the
rocket was headed toward the
moon Russians began calling it
Lunik, a combination of Luna
(moon) and Sputnik.
Scientists here figured that
it was traveling at a maximum
speed of 2.45 kilometers (1.52
milas) a second when It passed
the moon yesterday at a dist
ance of 4,700 miles.
To Bare Radio Results
Results of radio transmis
sions between the rocket and
ground stations will be publish
ed as soon as they are analyzed,
Tass said.
Dr. G. M. Clemence, scien
tific director of the United
States Naval Observatory in
Washington, said that some
time in February or March the
earth will pass between the
rocket and the sun.
When the Soviet rocket
Continued on Page A-7, Col. 1
Balloon Gondola
In Barbados
BRIDGETOWN. Barbados,
Jan. 5 (APl.—Officials here an
nounced the gondola of the
British balloon Small World ar
rived today at the Crane Hotel
beach on the southeast coast
of this island. There were no
immediate details.
Nothing had been heard trom
the balloon for 19 days.
The Small World, with a crew
of four—three men and a
woman, left the Canary Islands
December 12 for an attempt at
a wind-propelled crossing of
the Atlantic. Barbados was the
target. Its radio had been silent
since December 17.
An earlier report, just before
Christmas, had the balloon in
Venezuela, but that report
proved to be a hoax.
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