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THE EVENING STAR
Wothington, D. C„ Monday, April 22, 1963
DEMOCRATS
Plan Seen Backed
By Attorney General
Continued From Pace A-l
Kennedy, challenged Represent
ative Bob Casey, a conserva
tive Democrat, in that primary
and was decisively defeated.
It is unclear whether the poll
was used to aid Mr. Hooten or
discourage him from making
the race. But the fact of na
tional committee interest in
the primary was unmistakable.
Other 1962 primaries where
challengers of incumbent Dem
ocratic Congressmen reportedly
received encouragement and
indirect aid from Washington
were:
Texas—7th district, where
Benton Musslewhite. a young
Kennedy supporter, challenged
Representative John Dowdy
and lost by less than 100 votes.
Tennessee —3d district, where
Wilkes T. Thrasher, jr„ de
feated Representative James B
Frazier in the primary but lost
in the general election to Re
publican William E. Brock 111.
Tennessee sth district,
where Richard Fulton chal
lenged Representative J. Carl
ton Loser in the primary and
went on to win the seat in No
vember.
Tennessee 9th district,
where Ross J. Pritchard failed
in a bid to defeat Representa
tive Clifford Davis in the pri
mary.
Flareups Caused
In addition to these six pri
maries involving incumbents,
White House and Democratic
National Committee officials
interested themselves quite
openly in primary contests to
select Democratic candidates
for newly-created districts in
Florida and California.
Intervention by these “down
town” officials in congressional
politics has been the major
point of contention in the
generally smooth relationships
between the Democratic Na
tional Committee and party
leaders in the House.
There were a few flareups
last year, when the con
gressional officials complained
that the "downtown group” was
pushing national issues, like
medicare, too hard on candi
dates in districts where other
issues were more likely to sway
voters.
There was one major, private
blowup over “downtown's” de
mand for detailed accounting
of funds transferred from the
Democratic National Commit
tee to the House and Senate
campaign committees.
The newly-reported “purge”
plans pose a more serious crisis
than any of these incidents to
co-operation between the White j
Houseand the national com
mittee. on one hand, and the
congressional leaders on the
other.
Some Blunt Comments
Representative Kirwan of
Ohio, chairman of the Demo
cratic Congressional Campaign
Committee, said that organiza
tion “never Interfered in the
primaries and certainly won't
as long as I'm chairman ”
Others on Capitol Hill were
even more blunt in their pri-j
vate comments, charging the
plan was a “power play” by the
administration which might
wreck the Democratic party.
Aside from the question of.
"downtown interference,” an
issue on which Congress is al
ways sensitive, the chief com
plaint of these Democratic
leaders is that the “purge” |
strategy may actually lead to ;
the election of more Republi
cans from the South.
I. Lee Potter, director of the
Republican National Commit
tee’s Southern division, leaped
on the first published reports
of the “purge” plan with glee.
He Issued a statement accus
ing the Kennedys of "repaying
Southerners by stabbing them
in the back" and predicted
that “after years of being
kicked, mauled and stomped on
by the liberal clique of the Dem
ocratic Party, Southern voters
will realize the only effective
means of battling the Ken
nedys is through the Republi-j
can Party.”
G. O. F. Seen Gainer
Capitol Hill Democrats argue
the "purge” plan is self-defeat
ing in many Instances. They
contend that, in their eagerness
to replace a conservative Dem
ocrat with a liberal, the “pur
gers" may set the stage fori
election of an even more con-,
servative Republican, as hap
pened last year in the Frazier-
Thresher-Brock primary and
general election.
The advocates of this view
point have some sympathizers
in the White House. But others
on the President's staff reject
this view.
"What did we lose?" one pres
idential aide asked, in reference
to last year's contest in the
Chattanooga district “We got
Frazier off the Ways and Means
Committee, where he was vot
ing against us on medicare. All
it cost us was one more Repub
lican in the House, a man
whose legislative Influence in
the next 10 years will be zero."
Generally speaking, Whit
House officials whose duties
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I bring them into frequent con
- tact with Congress tend to take
. a cautious-to-dlm view of the
y “purge” plan, while those who
operate more broadly in the
II political field tend to approve
r, it.
K These differences may prove
- crucial when the time comes
i for deciding, in specific cases,
~ whether a challengr will be
[. helped in a primary contest
. against an Incumbent. Specu
lative "purge lists" exist, but
1 the key decisions on where help
i will be given will not be made
for some time.
>
, Strategic Agreement
1 Overriding the differences In
f. views on tactics within the
White House is the widespread
. agreement that long - term
strategy requires a basic re
orientation of the Democratic
t Party in the South from its
. present predominantly conserv
ative cast.
This view Is known to be
shared by the Attorney Gen
. eral. He is known to accept
j with equanimity the prospect of
certain interim losses to the
Republicans in the South as
part of this process.
: According to his analysis,
which underlies the Southern
operations of the White House
and the Democratic National
Committee, the industriallza-
Ition and urbanization of the
South make Increasing two
party competition Inevitable.
•| “The Republicans are go
-1 ing to get votes from lots of
“Southerners whom you can call
' conservatives, or purebreds, or
1 die-hards or whatever you
1 want,” one official said.
i
Negro Role Assessed
But within a decade, this
analysis holds, the increasing
Negro registration, soon to be
1 speeded by the expected adop
tion of the anti-poll tax
{amendment, plus the legal de-j
struction of county unit systems!
and apportionment schemes
that dilute urban voting,
strength—all these, taken to-1
gether, will produce a mixture i
of minority, labor, liberal and
middle-class voters in South- ;
ern Democratic parties com- .
parable to that in most North- '
ern States today.
It is inevitable, these offi
cials say, that Southern Demo- ;
cratic officeholders adapt to
this change or be replaced.
Adaptation is the preferred
i means. “Downtown” Demo
cratic officials note with pleas
ure the fact that Senators Rus
sell and Talmadge of Georgia,
{both traditionally viewed as
| conservatives, voted for the ,
President's mass transit bill !
this month.
Many of the disagreements (
on the proposed “purge" stem
from differing judgments on j
how rapidly a given Represen- ,
tative or Senator is likely to |
"adapt.” The prevailing view
of Capitol Hill Democrats is
that each member is the best
judge of his own district and ,
! should not be pressured to
change by the threat of Wash
ington intervention in his i
primary.
Within the White House, the
more purely “political” opera
tors tend to be more impatient
than those who have persuaded
1 increasing numbers of South
ern Democrats to "go along"
, on specific parts of the Presi
dent's program.
There is no disagreement
over the propriety of seeking
Democratic candidates in
. Southern districts now held by
. Republicans who will, if elected.
I "at least not be committed
i against the President."
And there is no real doubt
that. In a few districts, where
: the incumbent Democrats are
t Judged unbudgeable obstruc
tionists, ways will be found to
; help worthy challengers in the
[j primaries.
If this makes them "purg
i ers," the most influential of the
i “downtown" Democrats are
. quite willing to be “purgers.”
POLICY
Continued From Page A-I
, Laos may stem from the Mos
, cow-Pelping split. The authorl
. ties pointed out that the 80.
. viets, in competing with the
aggressive Red Chinese for
. Communist bloc leadership,
. may be more willing to allow
. aggressiveness by the Southeast
I Asia Reds.
Laos is Important to the se
■ curity of the West in the sense
s that if the Communists gained
i control of it, and exploited their
t control, they would threaten the
rest of Southeast Asia. And if
■ Southeast Asia fell, the Red ln
; fluence would expand to Indo
• nesla and cut the non-Commu
t nist world in two.
s Today's Security Council
- meeting was the second In three
I days on Laos.
. Relentless Red pressure on
l the small Southeast Asia king
i dom was the subject of a
" similar meeting Saturday and
; prompted the departure for
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The 21 Americans freed from Cuban prisons by
Fidel Castro today board a bus for a trip to
hospital processing as well-wishers shout greet-
retary of State W. Averell Har
rlman on a save-Laos diplo
matic mission.
There was no Immediate in
dication what steps the Security
Council might take in connec
tion with developments In Laos.
The sending of the 7th United
States Fleet, now on duty in
the Pacific, into the Gulf of
Siam as a demonstration of
strength is one of the courses
that could be followed.
Pro-Communist Pathet Lao
forces have been threatening to
dominate all of Northern Laos,
but Mr. Harriman left Wash
ington on an optimistic note.
“The neutralists seem to be
holding out from the accounts
that are coming through," he!
said. “They seem to be quite
determined not to give up.”
In Laos, meanwhile. Neutral
ist Premier Prince Souvanna
Phouma extracted another
promise of a cease fire from l
the Pathet Lao.
A similar truce arrangement
last week lasted oniy hours.
Meeting last year at Geneva,
14 nations decided that Laos 1
—then caught in a three-way
tussle among leftist, centrist
and rightist forces—should be
removed from the cold war.
Over the week end, Secretary
of State Rusk called in the
Ambassadors of India, Poland
and Canada, the three nations
that supervise the Geneva pact
in Laos, and told them the
United States hopes the Job
will be done effectively.
Then, Mr. Harriman was
sent on to Paris and London!
for conferences with French
Foreign Minister Maurice j
Couve de Murvllle and British
Foreign Secretary Lord Home
Mr. Harriman conceivably
could go on to Moscow, al
though he said this has not
been discussed. Russia serves,
with Britain as co-chairmen of!
the Geneva agreement.
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PRISONERS
Released Americans
In Good Condition
Continued From Page A-l
i a morning newspaper and was
[ “very happy” in the belief that
i he would be released from a
, 30-year prison term.
“But they say he's not coming
now,” the father said, sadly.
Enso Bighinattl, Red Cross
representative who went to
; Cuba and returned on today’s
flight, said he did not know
the reason why six of the 27
Americans known to be in
Cuban prisons did not return.
Waiting for Long Time
Austin F. Young, Jr., former
United Btates Army colonel
convicted of attempting to
form an anti-Castro army in
j the hills of Pinar Del Rio Prov
ince, said ho had been in prison
six days short o Hour years
when he was freed.
“I feel very good,” said, tne
lean, blond adventurer. “I have
been waiting for this a long
time.”
Mr. Young said he first was
sentenced to death but tne
sentence was reduces to 30
years.
Donaln Joe Greene of Gas
tonia. N. C., declared that
“words can’t express my feelings
on being back among friendly
people.” He said his weight
had dropped from 240 to 165
pounds during his Imprison
ment
Like the others, Mr. Greene
declined comment on treat
ment received in Cuban pris
ons, but he said the Americans
often were singled out "for
some real nice little duties.”
Mr. Greene also was sen
tenced to death and then had
his sentence commuted to 30
years. He said he suffered from
mumps and an ear infection
while in prison but was told no
| drugs were available.
Sentence Commuted
“AH I want to do now is
rest,” he said, adding that he
plans to leave as soon as pos
sible for Gastonia.
1 John Robert Oentile, 31, of
ings. The 21 arrived at Homestead Air Force
Base south of Miami.—AP Wirephoto.
Cleveland, said he received
poor food and harsh treatment
in Isle of Pines. There were
two hunger strikes, he related,
and the last one “ended In
some people being shot.”
“People were hit on the head
and some were stabbed with
bayonets,” he said.
“Our breakfast was a little
coffee and a piece of bread.”
erhe said. "We seldom saw any
j meat.”
Treatment changed consid
erably for the better last De
i cember when Mr. Donovan be
gan his negotiations. Mr. Gen
tile added.
All the prisoners looked pale
and thin. Most of them wore
Cuban-style white shirts, slacks
and crepe sole shoes.
The plane had flown to
Havana early this morning,
carrying 11,500 pounds of baby
food—part of the $53 million
in foods and medicines that
Mr. Donovan traded Premier
Castro for the 1,113 Bay of Pigs
prisoners. The plane was
chartered from Pan American
Airways.
Held on Isle of Pines
Most of the Americans
were sentenced on charges of
counter-revolutionary activity.
Seventeen of them are known
to have been held in a special
compound on the Isle of Pines.
The Red Cross announced
1 that with the cargo delivered in
today’s flight and by the
freighter American Surveyor
now unloading in Havana har
bor. S3B million in goods will
have been delivered to Premier
Castro.
Mr. Donovan said yesterday,
when he announced the Castro
government’s decision to re
lease the Americans, that it
was “an action of clemency in
the past of the Cuban govern
ment.”
“It does not involve any
further pledges of drugs, medl-1
cines or baby food to the Cuban [
people." he said.
List of Men
Released
By Castro
MIAMI, Fla. April 22 (AP).
—Following is a list of the
men who arrived at Homestead
Air Force Base today after
liberation from Cuban pris
ons:
Miami.
I. Gilberto Rodriguez, Miami.
2. Hector Varona, North
Miami.
3. Juan Pedro Koop, Miami.
4. Vidal O. Morales, Miami
Beach.
5. Eustace H. Vanbrunt,
Baltimore.
6. Daniel L. Carswell, East
Chester, N. Y.
7. Richard Allen Pecoraro,
Staten Island, N. Y.
8. Donald J. Greene. Gas
tonia, N. C.
9. Alfred Eugene Gibson,
Mount Glliad, N. C.
I 10. Lamar Dezaldo, Miami.
11. Leslie A. Bradley, Rob
binsdale. Minn.
12. Joaquin Angel Oasario,
Miami.
13. Austin F. Young, Miami.
14. Edmund K. Taransky,
New York.
15. Leonard L. Schmidt,
j Chicago.
16. Fernandez G. Sanchez,
Miami.
i 17. John A. Gentile, Cleve
land.
18. Dario F. Prohias, Miami.
19. Thomas L. Baker,
Dothan. Ala.
20. James D. Beane, Frank
linville, N. C.
21. George R. Beck Jr., Nor
ton, Mass.
COURT
Continued From Page A-l
high court agreed to hear argu
ments on an appeal by Frank
Costello, 71 - year -old former
gambling syndicate kingpin,
from a Government order for
his deportation.
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view a Court of Claims ruling
suspending lost pay proceedings
before it by William L. Greene,
whose security clearance case
lead to a major Supreme Court
ruling in 1959.
In the pilot’s case. Justice
Black said the court had agreed
Mr. Green’s appeal because of
“the obvious importance of even
partial Invalidation of a State
law” designed to prevent dis
crimination in job opportuni
ties.
The Anti - discrimination
Commission had found Mr.
Green was not selected for a
pilot's Job with Continental be
cause of his race and had or
dered him enrolled in one of
the airline’s pilot training
classes.
Justice Black noted that any
State or Federal law requiring
Job applicants to be turned
away because of their color
would be invalid under the due
process and equal protection
clauses of the Bill of Rights.
He said it was "impossible”
to believe that executive orders
Intended to regulate air carrier
discrimination among employes
so pervasively as to preempt
State legislation intended to
accomplish the same purpose.
Mr. Green, who decided to
seek an airline career while on
Air Force duty in Japan in
1956, said Continental had
hired five other pilots who ap
plied at the same time he did
in 1957 but had less experi
ence. He said he was the only
Negro.
Since leaving a Job flying
with the Michigan Highway
Department in October, 1960,
he has been unemployed ex
cept for several months during
which he worked at a dairy.
Coateilo Decision
Costello, who came to the
United States in 1895 from
Italy, was naturalized in 1925
and denaturalized in 1959. He
was convicted in 1954 of evad
ing income tax for 1948 and
1949.
He was ordered deported in
1961 as an alien "convicted of
two crimes involving moral tur
pitude not arising out of a
single scheme. .. .” The second
Circuit Court of Appeals re
jected an appeal.
The Supreme Court today
questioned whether the deporta
tion provision of the Immigra
tion and Nationality Act applies
to one who was a naturalized
citizen when convicted.
The Government argued Co
stello was an alien when con
victed because his naturaliza
tion later was voided as having
been obtained by fraud.
The deportation attempt was |
started shortly before Costello
was released from Federal|
prison in the tax case. Last year
the Supreme Court upheld
revocation of his naturalization.
In Mr. Greene’s case, the Su
preme Court ruled in 1959 that
he was Improperly deprived of
his Job by a security proceed
ing. Mr. Greene at the time was
an 818,000-a-year vice president
of Engineering and Research
Corp. of Maryland.
The high court decision
backed rights to confrontation
and cross-examination in se
curity clearance proceedings.
Adverse findings in the Greene
case later were ordered stricken
from official records.
Mr. Greene, seeking compen
sation for $49,000 in what he
called lost earnings, sued the
Government in the Court of
Claims. The court suspended
proceedings “pending pursuit of
administrative remedies by the
Department of Defense.”
The administrative proce- 1
dure, his appeal said, provides
for possible restitution of lo6t
earnings after a finding that a
security clearance is presently
Justified and the earlier ad
verse finding was unjustified.
Mr. Greene said his present
Job does not require a clearance
and he is not seeking one. He
said that the present case is
"suit for money” and “should
be tried by courts, not a se- :
curity board.” i
Laos Premier
Obtains New
Stop-GapTruce
VIENTIANE, Laos. April 22
(AP).—With a new cease
fire promise from the Pathet
Lao, neutralist Premier Sou
vanna Phouma says “all hopes
are not lost to restore peace"
, in Northern Laos.
Prince Souvanna appeared
doubtful, however, that the
latest stop-gap arrangement
will work any better than last
week's cease-fire. It was brok
en within hours.
Prince Souvanna reported
after a flying visit to the
Pathet Lao headquarters of his
, half-brother. Prince Souphan
ouvong, that the pro-Com
; munlst command agreed to
halt its drive against the
’ Plaine des Jarres until after
1 the premier returns to the area
1 in a day or so to resume peace
efforts.
The premier said Gen. Kong
Le, commander of the be
leaguered neutralist force, also
was ordered to observe a tem
porary cease-fire.
Neutralists Bottled Up
In the past week, the Pathet
Lao has bottled up the neu
tralist forces on the Plaine des
Jarres after forcing them out
of the several positions they
held outside the Plaine. There
has been fear that the rightist
army under Gen. Phoumi
Nosavan might step in and try
to block the Pathet Lao ad
vance, plunging Laos into
another civil war.
“Fighting must cease in
order to give me time to find a
satisfactory solution acceptable
to both sides," Prince Sou
canna said.
The Premier set up an
other truce eight days ago on
a similar visit to the Plaine
des Jarres, 110 miles north of
Vientiane. A few hours after
he left, fighting broke out
again.
He was accompanied on his
trip yesterday by the ambas
sadors of Britain and the
Soviet Union/ the co-chairman
of the Geneva Conference.
Foreign Ministers Lord Home
of Britain and Andrei Oromyko
of the Soviet Union exchanged
notes over the week end on the
Laotian situation. It was not
.known, however, whether they
were near agreement on con
|crete action.
The Soviet Communist Party
newspaper Pravda again ac
cused “imperialist circles of
the United States and their
agents” of fomenting strife in
Laos in an attempt to liqui
date Prince Souvanna and his
neutralists. The party organ
Ignored statements by the
Prince blaming the fighting on
the pro-Communist Pathet Lao.
Red Chinese Premier Chou
En-lai accused the United
States of* “open violations” of
the Geneva agreement. Mr.
Chou said his government
would “unremittingly do its ut
most to uphold the 1962 Geneva
agreement."
Thai Buildup Hinted
In Bangkok there was specu
lation that the United States
might build up military
strength in Thailand because
of the tense situation in Laos.
Lending support were the ar
rival there today of Admiral
Harry D. Felt, United States
naval commander in the Pa
cific, the expected arrival of
Gen. Paul D. Harkins, top
United States military official
in Southeast Asia, and the sud
den return from Washington of
United States Ambassador Ken
neth Young. Mr. Young went
directly from the airport to a
meeting with Premier Marshal
Sarit Thanarat.