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Pneumatic hammers chip away at the stone
masonry piers which once supported the Aque
duct Bridge over the Potomac near Key Bridge.
Army engineers built the bridge more than 130
years ago, soldiers tramped across it in the
Kennedy Bars
Airline Strike
Court Refuses
To Issue Injunction
BULLETIN
President Kennedy acted
today to postpone for 60 days
a threatened strike by some
10,000 ground personnel of
Pan American World Air- <
ways by bringing into effect <
emergency provisions of the 1
Railway Labor Act, which (
also applies to airlines.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 14 (AP>._ i
A Federal court judge refused '
today to grant Pan American '
World Airways an injunction
against a strike'by the Trans- '
port Workers Union. But there 1
appeared little immediate 1
chance of a walkout.
John O’Donnell, an attorney,
told Judge John F. Dooling, jr.
that if President Kennedy ap
points an emergency board in :
the dispute, the union would 1
not strike for the duration of 1
the board’s deliberations and
for 30 days thereafter.
Judge Dooling had made the
ruling against Pan American.
Pan American, which ii.ime- 1
diately filed notice that it would :
appeal Judge Dooling's ruling, (
said the case had been certified
to the President. The line in-, 1
dicated it would appeal in the '
United States Circuit Court of '
Appeals in Manhattan.
A labor contract between the 1
union and Pan American ex-,
pired May 31 and there have
been unsuccessful negotiations
since.
Pan American sought the in
junction on the grounds that
the union had failed to take all
steps necessary under the Rail-
See AIRLINES, Page A-6
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TEARING OUT A PAGE FROM THE PAST
Arlington Court Clears
Five in Race Picketing
Judge Brown's Ruling Casts Doubt
On Effectiveness of Virginia Law
By JOHN BARRON
Star Statt Writer
An Arlington County Court today acquitted five integra
tlonists accused of violating Virginia’s anti-picketing law
by parading before a segregated theater.
The decision of Judge Paul D. Brown cast doubt on
whether the statute will be effective in achieving its purpose
of curtailing anti-segregation
demonstrations at business es
tablishments.
His ruling in effect upheld
arguments by Defense Counsel
Joseph L. Rauh, jr., who con
tended that peaceful demon
strators cannot be convicted
unless it is proven that they
were acting maliciously.
After the pickets were freed,
one of their spokesmen an
nounced that they will continue
their silent marches before
Arlington theaters which refuse
to admit Negroes.
Mr. Rauh said that any
theater manager who tries to
have them arrested now will
be liable to legal action on
charges of “malicious prosecu
tion.”
Joint Action Proscribed
One section of the anti
picketing law, which became ef
fective last month, makes it a
crime for people to act jointly
for the purpose of “willfully
and maliciously injuring
another in his reputation,
trade, business or profession by
any means whatever ...”
Other provisions make it 11-
A WORD ON THE DOLLAR
Congressmen Listen ;
To Alien Economists
By MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer
In a gesture at once humble
and lavish, the Joint Commit
tee on Economics imported
three Europeans to tell it what
is wrong with the American
economy.
The committeemen went to a
great deal of trouble to bring
them here. They had to pluck
an Italian out of the Mediter
ranean, a Swiss off an Alp and
an Englishman out of a boat.
And by their urgent invita
tion they admitted that the
Old World can now teach the
New a little something about
the affluent society.
Ten years ago such an exer
cise would have been unthink
able, not to say dangerous.
During the McCarthy era, a
bid to a London School of Eco
nomics professor to share his
thinking with innocent Con-1
gressmen would have shaken;
the Republic to its roots. To
pay his way at taxpayers’ ex-;
pense would have started a
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Civil War and the public used it until 1933
when it was dismantled. Now the Army is
clearing the river of the old abutments as a
practice exercise and to make room for rowing
regattas.—Star Staff Photo by Paul Schmick.
legal to conspire “for the pur
pose of maliciously compelling
another to do or perform any
act against his will or pre
venting or hindering another
from doing or performing any
lawful act . . . ”
During the trial. Mr. Rauh
declared that by carrying signs
bearing such slogans as “Ne
groes are Americans too” and
’’This theater segregates,” the
pickets evinced malice toward
no one and merely exercised
their right of free speech.
He said that unless the stat
ute were interpreted as requir
ing that malice be proven, the
law would make it a crime for
a baseball pitcher and catcher
to conspire to prevent a batter
from hitting a home run.
High Court Ruling
Judge Brown noted that the
Virginia law is virtually a dup
licate of one first enacted in
Wisconsin. In sustaining the
legality of the Wisconsin stat-J
ute, the Supreme Court ruled
that it was constitutional be- ;
See PICKETS, Page A-6 ;
.storm equal to thunder and
lightning over the Army den
tist Irving Peress.
But yesterday, Alan C. L?
Day, a professor at the London
school which the late Senator
' Joseph R. McCarthy of Wis
consin never hesitated to des
ignate as a nesting-ground of
■ subversives, was brightly spout-
■ ing unorthodox opinions with
: out let or hindrance.
’ The committee probably
1 could have gotten the same in
• formation from home - grown
witnesses. The advantage of the
s continental trio was that it
i could say with impunity things
; that might have sounded un-
American from the locals.
Prof. Day and his compan
ions, Jurg Niehans of the Uni
. versity of Zurich, and Ettore
, Lolli, executive vice president
of the Italian Banca Nazicnale
( del Lavoro, agreed that they
were slightly surprised to find
i themselves in a Capitol hearing
i room.
Then they all went on to say
See ECONOMIC, Page A-6
Rivers Urges
Muslim Probe
Sect Held Made
To Order for Reds
By GRACE BASSETT
Star Stolt Writer <
The Black Muslims should be
Investigated, House leaders
agreed today. But nobody was
volunteering to do the job.
The Rules Committee agreed
to a resolution to let the Un-
American Activities Committee
study the racist religion, it
Chairman Walter, Democrat of
Pennsylvania, wanted to.
Mr. Walter, who is chairman
of the Un-American Activities
Committee, said he thought the
Speaker should appoint a spe
cial committee for the task.
Representative Rivers, Demo
crat of South Carolina, author
of the resolution before the
I Rules Committee, disclaimed
any desire to head the investi
gators himself.
Explosions to Come
He went before a sympathe
tic Rules Committee Chairman
Smith, Democrat of Virginia,
to warn that recent riots at the
; District’s Youth Correction*
Center at Lorton, Va., were
only glimmers of political ex
plosions to come.
To the South Carolinian, the
Black Muslims were “made to
order for Communist infiltra
tion.”
He estimated their strength
at 70,000, although Black Mus
lim leaders claim 250,000 mem
bers.
“The Communists didn’t have
70,000 when they took over
Russia.” Mr. Rivers reminded
the Rules Committee.
‘Dedicated £o Death’
He insisted Black Muslims
were “dedicated to death and
violence.”
“They teach black supremacy
and white suppression.” Mr.
Rivers said. "Congress ought to
dissect this organization and
open its unsavory history for
America to see.”
Black Muslim prisoners or
supporters rioted at the Dis
trict’s Lorton institution on
July 31 and August 2.
Earlier, a District Court de
cision of Judge Burnita S.
Matthews ruled that Black
Muslims should be allowed to
practice their religion at die
prison. One inmate, W’illiam T.
X. Fulwood, had charged he
was discriminated against be
cause of his religion.
Mr. Rivers criticized Judge
Matthews again for "just being
naive.” Echoing his earlier
See MUSLIM, Page A-6
Berlin-Peru Flights
LIMA, Peru, Aug. 14 (API.—
The West German Lufthansa
Airlines plans to establish reg
ular service between West Ger
man and Lima by 1963, offi
cials said.
Soviet Secrecy
Shrouds Plans
Os Cosmonauts
2 Still in Orbit
With No Word on
Time of Return
MOSCOW, Aug. 14 (API.—
The Soviet Union’s space team,
extending records with every
hour, was reported continuing
its group flight around the
earth late today.
Radio Moscow announced in
a 5 p.m. (10 am. EDT) news
broadcast that the two newest
Soviet cosmonauts one
already aloft three days and
the other two days—remained
in orbit.
In a joint message, the two
said, "We are but a short dis
tance apart from each other
and we have established de
pendable communications with
each other.”
Their message also asserted
"the outlined flight program
will be carried out fully.”
But there wasn’t the slight
est official indication how long
the program would last. The
Soviet government continued
to maintain absolute secrecy
about the future schedule of
the flights.
Both Feel Fine
The report said both men
feel fine and that their equip
ment is functioning perfectly."
The radio said that at 4 p m.
Maj. Andrian ’’Falcon” Niko
layev had completed 52 orbits
and Lt. Col. Pavel “Golden
Eagle” Popovich 36.
Moscows central television
station broadcast at 4:10 p.m.
what it claimed was a direct
television transmission from
Vostok TH. piloted by Maj.
Nikolayev.
Maj. Nikolayev could oe seen
raising his log book, looking
from left to right and, at one
time, smiling.
The announcer pointed to a
porthole of the Vostok 111 and
said that, through it, it was
possible to see Vostok IV, car
rying Col. Popovich.
Reported Close Together |
This would indicate the two
space ships, launched a day
apart on almost identical orbits,
were still close together. West
ern trackers have said the two
I ships now are several hundred
miles apart after being as close
, as 75 miles.
A good time for the landing
supposedly would have been
about 2:30 p.m., when Vostok
[ 111 would have been over the
[ central Volga Valley where oth
, er globe-circling Soviet ships
. have come down.
Maj. Nikolayev completed his
. third day in orbit at 11:30 a.mJ
• (4:30 a.m. EST) and Col. Popo
i vich finished his second day
' aloft at 11:02 a.m.
The satellites’ route for one
circuit was roughly 25,500 miles.
At that rate, Maj. Nikolayev
would have covered 1.326,000
miles in 52 orbits and Col. Po
, povich 918 miles in 36.
Col. Popovich was seen in
' j Vostok IV on television last
, night. Bulletins broadcast by
, the Moscow Radio said he had
reported himself in good health
and busy carrying on his work.
Going On and On
i:
Throughout the day here
there was speculation that the
two ships might be brought
down, although the talk was
loaded with uncertainty. The
television broadcast reported
coming directly from Vostok 111
appeared to indicate the flights
were going on and on.
“The flight continues,” said
a Tass announcement in what
sounded like an indication that
the two space men would not
land today.
Earlier a Soviet informant
had said something interesting
would happen in the afternoon,
when both cosmonauts would
See SPACEMEN. Page A-6
PRfTTY, BUT TOO YOUNG
No Key for Beauty Queen
By ROBERTA HORNIG
Star Staff Writer
Miss Washington, as pretty
as she is, can’t have a key to
the city.
She was turned down today
by the District Commissioners
on grounds that she isn’t old
enough to be distinguished.
The matter came up when
the vice president of Radio
Station WWDC, Norman Reed,
wrote a letter asking that Miss
Ann Harris Verner, who will
represent Washington in the
Miss America bea<-y pageant
in Atlantic City next month, be
Kennedy Bars Tax Cut
Before First of Year
Reduction Now Held Unjustified;
'Creative' Slash Proposed January 1
By GARNETT D. HORNER
Star Start Writer
Deciding against a quick tax cut, President Kennedy
plans a “creative” slash in income taxes effective next
January 1.
The President told the Nation in an optimistic economic
' review last night that an emergency tax cut “could not
• now be either justified or en
' acted.”
' But present high taxes are a
, “drag on the economy,” he said
Text of Address. Page A-5
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' in calling for action next year
’ to remove “tax roadblocks to
' new jobs and new growth."
He said Chairman Mills of
the powerful House Ways and
Means Committee and Demo
cratic House and Senate leaders
have assured him co-operation
in steering basic tax reform
legislation through Congress
fast enough next year to make
it effective as of January 1.
The bill he will submit to
Congress in January will in
clude "an across-the-board,
top-to-bottom cut in both
corporate and personal income
taxes” and “long needed tax
reform that logic and equity
demand,” Mr. Kennedy said ■
without disclosing details.
Would Aet if Needed
He described his aim as “a
creative tax cut, creating more
jobs and income and eventually
more revenue.”
While he does not believe
emergency action to cut taxes
now is necessary to prevent a
recession, the President said if
time should prcte such action
i necessary later tl is year he will'
call Congress bate into special
, session
i Speaking to the Nation by
i Nickel Records Burned,
! Humphrey Quiz Urged
By the Associated Press ,
A Government auditor told
Senate stockpile investigators
1 today they should question 1
George M. Humphrey, former
' Secretary of the Treesury, and
, his son, Gilbert Humphrey,
I about burning of records cov
. ering multi-million dollar prof
its on stockpiled nickel.
Walter M. Henson, a super-
J visor for the General Account
• ing Office, who has spent
i months auditing the records
. and income taxes of the M.
i A. Hanna Corp., said the rec
ords were destroyed in Feb
i ruary and March of this year.
That was shortly after Presl
’ dent Kennedy urged the cur
r rent special Senate inquiry led
by Senator Symington, Demo-
Jcrat of Missouri.
Mr. Henson testified that two
r companies, set up by the Hanna
I interests formerly headed by
■ George Humphrey, had netted
profits of more than $39 mil-
Jllon on investments of about
; $4.5 million in supplying nickel
r under a series of contracts
[ signed January 16. 1953, just
i before Mr. Humphrey took of
fice as Secretary of the Treas
ury under President Eisen-
I hower.
No Company Risk Seen
Mr. Henson said it was the
: most favorable arrangement to
' the contractor and worst for
I the Government he ever had
j seen.
He said the Government was
committed to pay a premium
price for up to 95 million
pounds of nickel and Hanna
took no risk.
Mr. Humphrey Is scheduled
to testify Thursday.
Melville C. Robinson, nego
tiator for the Defense Mate
rials Production Administra
tion, said yesterday he fought
against the arrangements for
given both a key and a procla
mation.
Commissioner Walter N. To
, briner turned to the board sec
retary, Geoffrey Thornett, and
asked what the city’s policy
should be.
Mr. Thornett replied that in
the light of a new policy to
present keys only to distin
guished persons, he didn’t think
19-year-old Miss Washington
qualified. The amount of key
. giving has been cut down be
i cause the city has received too
many requests.
The Commissioners’ new key
policy went into effect last
; February 8. Only 24 keys have
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Doily and Sunday, per month, 2.25
television and radio from his
White House office, Mr. Ken
nedy said the pace of economic
recovery this summer has
brought further gains although
it is “not as good as all of
us would like."
Economic indicators for July
“do not warrant the con
clusion that we are entering
a new recession," he asserted.
Set Higher Goal
“Far from justifying a crisis
atmosphere.” he said July
figures show another record
high in industrial production,
a new reduction in unemploy
ment, rising employment and
income, and higher department
store, auto and other retail
j sales.
But to overcome the effects
of a five-year slowdown and
move the economy forward to
ward full employment, he said
the United States should be
producing S3O billion more a
year than it is.
He urged the American people
to help push through Congress
this year six measures “de
signed to give us more jobs
and more growth.”
He listed the investment tax
credit, emergency public works,
youth employment opportuni
l ties, foreign trade expansion
and higher education bills and
a measure to renew temporary
See KENNEDY, Page A-4
i months but Hanna adopted a
“take-it-or-leave-lt" attitude
and there was much pressure
Ito open up new nickel produc
tion during the Korean war.
GAO Report Cited
In a statement launching the |
hearings. Senator Symington
cited a GAO report which said
the coptracts “eliminated prac
tically any risk of financial
loss to the Hanna companies.
William N. Lawrence, top
official of the Office of Emer
gency Planning, and Louis
Brooks, of the General Serv
ices Administration, testified
the Government still is bound
to accept 17.5 million more
pounds of nickel from Hanna
under the deal and doesn't
need any for the stockpile.
They said the Government
will lose money by the time
it gets rid of all of the nickel
surplus, but did not estimate!
how much.
Cuban Athletes
Flee in Jamaica
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug.
14 (AP). A Cuban refugee
spokesman said four Cuban
weightlifters and their coach
defected last night and went
into hiding. They were attend
ing the Cential American-Car
ibbean games here.
Frank Diaz Silveira, a mem
ber of the Anti-Castro Cuban
Revolutionary Council, said
Coach Julio Cespedes went into
hiding before the opening of
the weightlifting events last
night. After hs failed to show
up, weightlifters Sergio Oliva,
Juan Torres, Geraldo Diaz and
Ignacio Herrera followed him.
Mr. Diaz said the five hoped
to go to the United States.
been given out since then, com
pared with 62 for the same time
last year.
Mr. Tobriner, who had
crowned Miss Verner when she
won the contest, said he be
lieved she was very pretty and
said he had a high regard for
her. But he agreed with Mr.
Thornett.
Mr. Tobriner said that in
stead of a key or proclamation
he would write her a letter
wishing her luck.
Mr. Reed later commented:
“I am sorry. We can only
hope that if she comes back
to us as Miss America she will
be sufficiently distinguished
enough to warrant a key.”
10 Cents
Cloture Vote
Assures OK of
Satellite Bill
Rule 22 Invoked
Ist Time Since '27;
Roll Call Is 63-27
By J. A. O’LEARY
Star Staff Writer
For the first time in 35 years,
the Senate today applied its
anti-filibuster rule to clear the
way for action on the admin
istration's communication sat
ellite bill.
Democratic and Republican
leaders worxing together mus-
Ownership is Key Issue in Satellite
Bill Debate. Page A-7
Roll Call on Cloture Page A-6
tered the two-thirds required
to invoke the Senate's contro
versial Rule 22. under which
each Senator will be limited to
one hour of speaking time.
The vote was 63 to 27. or
'three more than the required
two-thirds.
I Twenty - nine Democrats
joined 34 Republicans to put
cloture over.
Five Southerners Absent
Only two Republicans—Gold
water of Arizona and Tower of
Texas—joined 25 Democrats in
opposition. Five Southern Dem
ocrats who probably would have
voted against cloture were not
present.
Although nearly 100 amend
ments already at the clerk's
desk may be called up by the
opponents of the pending
private enterprise bill, once a
Senator has used up his hour
he can only call for a vote
on each or all of his amend
ments.
This could take several day*
if the opposition insists on dis
-1 posing of all amendments. But
. the adoption of the cloture
rule today doomed to failure
their efforts to put off action
on the satellite bill until after
the November elections.
Failed 20 Times
This is only the fifth time
the anti-filibuster rule has
been invoked successfully since
it was placed on the books in
1917. The last occasion was in
1927 on the question of pro
hibition enforcement. Since
then cloture motions have failed
20 times, mainly on civil rights
bills.
The atmosphere in the Sen
ate was tense as the clock
struck 1 p.m. and under the
rule, the Vice President was
required to put the question.
The Senate chamber was
crowded with secretaries and
members of committee staffs.
Before the first Senator could
answer his name, Senator Gore.
Democrat of Tennessee, raised
the point of order that many
individuals not entitled to the
floor were present and asked for
enforcement of the rules.
Four Enter Late
Vice President Johnson di
rected all unauthorized per
sons to leave, but no one was
I detected leaving.
When the first call of the
roster had been completed the
vote stood at 63 to 23. far more
than two-thirds. But three
more Democrats and one Re
publican entered the chamber
late and all voted “no.”
This made the total vote 90
and the number required to
curb debate 60. The leadership
had finished with three votes
. to spare.
Whether it will take hours
or days to pass the bill now
depends on how many of a tall
stack of amendments the op
ponents call up for a vote. But
passage of the bill within a few
days is assured.
In the final hour of debate.
See FILIBUSTER, Page A-6
Britons Can Spend
More in Travels
LONDON, Aug. 14 <AP)._
The government today author
ized the British tourist to
spend more money abroad.
The amount of foreign cur
rency and travelers’ checks
which can be taken overseas
without special authority from
the Bank of England was
raised from S7OO a year to S7OO
a journey.
HISTORIC GAME
STILL ROLLS ON
BOWLING on the green, a unique
game that dates back to the time
of Sir Walter Raleigh, is still played
in the old New England whaling
port of New Bedford, Outdoor Edi
tor Charles Covell discovered. Read
about it on the Leisure Page, A-17.
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