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The general lends a hand Washington Merry-gorounrl NAACP meeting, in Washington only a prelude to scheduled big march More than 1,000 persons are in Washington today for a legislative conference of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People, but this is only a kind of curtain-raiser for the huge march oh Washington scheduled for Aug. 28. Mass petitioning is nothing new for the NAACP, which calls a legis lative conference in the nation's capital at least once a . Congress. Two years ago, when the NAACP hfcld its annual convention in Phila- delphia, it organized a new kind of freedom train from that city to Washington, where delegates from more than 40 states spent the day button-holing senators and repre sentatives and urging immediate aption on civil rights measures. ' The NAACP is of course one of the sponsors of the march on Wash ington in late August. This "petition Jn boots" Is beginning to take on something of the aspect of an as sembly rather than a demonstration of protest. ; Personal mass picketing is older than the republic. In Boston before the Revolution Samuel Adams had an effective weapon with which to intimidate royal officials and tories through his control of various mobs. In 1783, just after peace had been made with England, the Congress of the Confederation was driven from Philadelphia by threats of mutinous troops demanding overdue back pay. In more recent times Washing ton has been beseiged by Coxey's Army in 1894 and by other armies of the unemployed, and in the De pression of the 1930's by hunger and bonus marchers. These demonstra tions were remarkably well disci plined; nevertheless, they were usually marked by violence. When federal troops were used to evict bonus marchers from their camps In July 1932, President Hoover de clared that "government cannot be coerced by mob rule." the White House by suffragists In 1917 brought on some violence. Ac cording to one version: Sometimes that crowd (around the White House) would edge nearer and nearer until there was bu,tv a foot of smothering, terror - fraught space between them and the pickets. Literally those women felt they had their backs to the wall. Occasionally they had to mount the stone coping. Always too they feared that any sudden movement within the packed, slowly approaching hostile crowd might foam into violence , ... Catherine Flanagan saw a plain-clothes man hit six sailors over the head in succession with a billy . . . Virginia Arnold's hands and arms were torn as though in a struggle with some wlld beast. President Kennedy on July 17 took much of the sting of protest out of the Aug. 28 demonstration by his endorsement of the "peaceful assembly" which he said flatly was "not a march on the Capitol." Sen. Barry Goldwater on July 29 said he regarded the civil rights demonstra tion as "perfectly proper" as long as it "stays peaceful." The sponsors of the assembly are taking the greatest pains to in sure against violence, Including the use of 1500 marshals specially trained by the "Guardians," a pri vate association of New York police men skilled in crowd control. Wash ington police and other law enforce ment officers began planning six weeks ahead. Nevertheless, with more ti:an 100,000 Negroes and whites expected to demonstrate, the threat of violence continues to be real if not from the marchers from the inevitable crowds they will draw. And for all the drama of the demonstration, whether it will have as much effect on legislation as the energetic lobbying of the NAACP and similar groups Is highly dubious. Even the persisting picketing of Not going to get very far almost always followed. Three members of Congress from Oregon, Representatives Dun can, Green, and Oilman have intro duced a bill which should gain a lot of support, but probably won't move very far in the legislative mill. The three have suggested the influence of Congressmen be eliminated In the choosing of postmasters and rural mall carriers. Since this is the sole major source of patronage left to members of Congress, one sus pects they will hesitate to abandon It, regardless of the headaches it may cause. ; The way such appointments are now made is this: a civil service ex amination to find which persons Interested in a postmastershlp are lively to be most competent. The names of those candidates topping the list are sent to the member of Congress from that district, provid ing he happens to be a member of the majority party. He, after reams f "advice" from a string of home town politicos, makes a "recommen dation" to the Post Office Depart ment. This "recommendation" is There is no doubt that elimina tion of the Congressional recom mendation would be an improve ment. Too often, now, the man ulti mately named to the job has little or no experience In postal work. Career employes of the postal serv ice who rank high on examinations frequently find themselves passed over in favor of a Democrat, or Re publican, who has worked long and hard for the part. And the career official, because of the Hatch act, has been unable to match this par ticular qualification of the man who ultimately winds up with the job. But even though the proposal would be an Improvement, it prob ably won't get very far. Postmaster ships often are a headache to mem bers of Congress, to be sure. The appointments take time, time which could better be put to other uses. But the appointments also are an opportunity for a political payoff. And political payoffs help keep Congressmen In office. Four Congressmen try to stop deportations My NickdV -Worth Events of 1963 are merely beginning on civil rights Jack Anderson WASHINGTON In a search through federal crime files, this column has come across the names of four members of Con gress who have tried to save mob sters from deportation. These were not obscure hood lums who could easily pass them selves off as aggrieved constitu ents. They were big-time, big-money racketeers with international police records. Case No. 1 Congressman Mike Kirwan, the tough, twinkling Irish man from Youngstown, Ohio, in troduced a private bill to save Frank Cammarata from exile. The Sicilian born Cammarata, lean and mean, is a graduate of Detroit's infamous Purple Gang. Ho is described in the Federal Rogues' Gallery as "a killer, hold up man and narcotics distributor." Congress failed to share Kir wan's benevolent attitude toward the mobster, and in 1938, Cammar ata skipped to Cuba in order to avoid deportation to Italy. He soon fell into the clutches of Dictator Fidel Castro who had Cammarta arrested for possess ing cocaine. But word got back to U.S. narcotics officials that the racketeer's real offense was smug gling drugs without giving the Cas tro government its cut. Castro Cons Mobster FBI files tell a fascinating ac count of how the bearded Cuban dictator tried to take over Cam marata's operation. He used two renegade American hoodlums to try to trick Cammarata Into dis closing where he got the stuff and how he disposed of it in the United States. One of the hoods, who used the alias of Carl Weston, actually was planted in Cammarata's cell to win his confidence. But the wily racketeer was too experienced at keeping his mouth shut and didn't tumble for the ruse. Case No. 2 Louisiana's like able Congressman Jimmy Morri son introduced a private bill to stop the deportation of New Or leans mobster Silvostro Carollo. A darkly menacing fellow with black, thinning hair and a long curving face, Carollo is currently No. 34 on the internaional list of narcotics violators. "This man," says the report un der his mug shot, "is a danger ous man and has been connected wilh narcotics traffic for many years." Ills arrests go back to 1923 and, oncompass everything from swind-' ' : ling to the attempted murder of a mmwmtt narcotics agent. Again, Congress learned the truth about the man in time to pigeonhole Morrison's bill. Carol lo was depoarted to his native vill age of Terrasini, Sicily, where he now operates the biggest bar in town. Gangster's Shrimp Luncheons Parenthetically, Carollo isn't Morrison's only acquaintance on the shady side of the law. The handsome, happy-go-lucky lawma ker used to be a frequent guest of underworld lobbyist Murray Olf at shrim luncheons. On at least one occasion, Morrison arranged a good time in Las Vegas for a group of congressional secretar ies. Case No. 3 Olin "The Solon" Johnston, the South Carolina sen ator, somehow was persuaded to introduce a private bill for the special benefit of Nicolo Imp. 3 tato, one of Kansas City's most notorious gangsters. Impastato is a light, thin-faced, shy-looking man who wears rim less glasses and resembles a col lege professor more than a crime czar. But beneath his mug shot in the Federal Rogues' Gallery ap pears this ominous passage: "Ha been known to use vio lence, including murder, to main tain his organization; though de ported, he still has an income from rackets in the United States." Racketeer Farmer When Johnston's bill failed to save him, Impastato slipped across the border into Mexico to continue directing his operations from the Mexican side. However, the Mexican authorities obligingly deported him to Italy, saving Un cle Sam the trouble. He now operates a farm outside the same village of Terrasini where Carollo lives and laments. Case No. 4 Congressman George O'Brien, recently retired by his Detroit constituents, drop ped a private bill into the House hopper to keep racketeer Ralph Cannavo in this country. The slender, blue-eyed, fair-haired mobster actually has been de ported three times but keeps bouncing back. His niche In the hall of infamy is assured by this caption beneath his mug shot: "A hardened criminal who has never had a legitimate source of income; has engaged in counter feiting and narcotics trafficking for many years." These are strange constituents, indeed, to be on such good terms with the men who make the laws they break. Urban League advances Negro upgrade program By Al Kuettner UPI Staff Writer One of the most ambitious pro grams ever advanced for the up grading of the Negro race in America has been proposed by the National Urban League. The proposal, quickly named the "Domestic Marshall Plan," would call for the expenditure of the estimated $10 billion over a 10-year period. The project's aim would be to close the gap, except socially, between the Negro and white citizen of the United States, Tho Urban League, which con ceived the idea and wants to manage it, acknowledges there aio many hurdles to surmount before final plans can be an nounced. That is expected within the next three months. "We are just putting the meat on the bones now," Herman Sweatt, assistant director of the Urban League in the South said. Tho spokesman said the federal government is exploring "at a high level" the feasibility of the project. Whitney Young Jr., Ur ban League executive secretary, was in a day-long conference at tho White House Tuesday during which tlie proposed program was discussed. Young visualizes the program being financed by federal, state and local governments as well as by private foundations. The U. S. "Marshall Plan" would finance job training and apprentice courses for Negroes, scholarships, health programs, business financing, book buying and tutoring. "The gap between Negro and white, across the board, is always widening in terms of such things as education and income," Sweatt said. "If we are going to close that gap, something in addition to equal opportunity has to be add ed. We must go beyond equality." The Urban League feels that, because of the long lag between the education of large masses of Negro and white children, the fi nest teachers should now be made available to Negroes, whether in integrated or in 100 per cent Ne gro schools. The proposed pro gram would help pay the cost. The Urban League plans to con centrate heavily on the advance ment of job opportunities for Ne groes and it is here that much of the money would be spent. U.S. retaliates against Common Market actions WASHINGTON (UPI) The United States announced today it will take retaliatory measures against imports from European Common Market countries for in creased duties placed on Ameri can poultry by the Western Euro pean economic bloc. Christian A. Hertcr, President Kennedy's special representative for trade negotiations, said that for one tiling, the United States would withdraw tariff concessions it has made on items in which the European Common Market countries do $46 million In export trade with the United States per year. Hearings to determine tlie ex tent of U.S. tariff increases will begin Sept. 4. Herter issued a list of 19 Items from which the United States, af ter public hearings, will select those on which to withdraw :he concession it has made to Com Mon Market exporters. The biggest single item is wine, accounting for $22.4 million in sales per year to the United States. The next largest Item is made up of trucks and buses, on which sales by Common Market countries to the United States are $14.8 million per year. Other prin cipal items include photographic najcrs. film, gelatin, brandy and elcotric shavers. The Bulletin Wednesday, August 7, 1963 An Independent Newspaper Robert W. Chandler, Editor Clenn Cushman, Gen. Manager Jack McDermott, Adv. Manager Phil F. Brogan, Associete Editor lou W. Meyers. Circ Manager lern E. Dyer, Mech. Sup't. William A, Yates, Managing Ed. ntt.ml ti SwHt CUim Miller. JarMiarj 1 U1T. at Uw r tme it Bend unrl un1?r Ai-t of Miirrh s. 1ST. PuMlird auiy xrpt Supdajr and cartaln holidays b rti BorJ Hulitun. Inc. "When men differ In opinion, both sides ought equally to have tho advantage el being heard by the public." Benamin Franklin. "We were shackled," quotes Huntington To the Editor: In your issue of July 29. Mrs. Poor says my attack on the U.N. stirs her curiosity. Her coming out and seemingly defending a despotism, like Russia, stirs my curiosity. To me that is what her letter implies, for the U.N. domi nated by Khrushchev is his In strument for winning world pow er. I place confidence in Congress man Utt because he states facts, in his warning of America of her grave danger. We need to "be ware of the false prophets, who come to us in sheep's clothing but Inwardly they are ravening wolves." Russia, as proven in her action in Cuba and in Hungary, is a "corrupt tree" and "no good can come out of her." Adlai Stevenson says, the U.N. is not a soverign power. Never theless, the U.N. has power, and the treaty which brought us into the U.N. is so drawn that it places the U.S. under that power, as U.S. Congressman Utt proves conclusively in his reference to the voting down of the Bricker amendment in the U.S. Congress. Mrs. Poor says, "with regard to the military engagement in Korea, Mr. Huntington reflects one of several interpretations." She does not deny the fact that the U.S. lost the war in Korea, at a cost of millions in money and thousands in men. I agree with Utt, we were shackled. Does Mrs. Poor want us to remain shackled? Perit Huntington Sr. Sisters, Oregon, Aug. 6, 1963 Soviet troops join Americans in quake area SKOPJE, Yugoslavia (UPI)-So-viet troops Tuesday joined Ameri can soldiers who arrived ten days ago to aid this city shattered by earthquake. About 500 Russian soldiers brought 125 bulldozers and other machines to help clear away the rubble from the. July 26 earth quake which ruined the once model city and killed an estimat ed 2,000 persons. Yugoslav officials said the So viet army unit came after an agreement was signed with the Soviet government. A 250-man U.S. Army hospital unit arrived only two days after the disaster and has been treating injured sur vivors ever since. The American medics said they will stay as long as they are needed. Today, Lt. Col. Vladimir Gunjkov, the commander of the Soviet unit, told newsmen his unit also will stay as long as it Is necessary. The U.S. Army medical team began treating patients as soon as it arrived. Gunjkov no sooner arrived by train with his bull dozer unit than he, too, said he wanted to start work immedi ately. There is a great deal of work to do. Yugoslav officials, having end ed their intensive hunt for bodies In the nibble, mapped prompt plans for rebuilding the city. They announced this morning plans to throw up prefabricated houses for 12.000 persons before winter sets In. The 12.000 will form the nu cleus of the workers rebuilding a city which lost 85 per cent of its dwellings in five seconds of trem hlins earth. About half the pre nuake population of 200.000 have fled or been evacuated. Bandits behead 42 persons in Colombia raid BOGOTA, Colombia (UPD Machete-wielding bandits beheaded 42 persons Monday in assaults on four vehicles on a highway about 60 miles northwest of Bogota, ac cording to an army announce ment. The announcement said the bandits stopped a bus and three government dump trucks at a point on the highway between the towns of La Dorada and Victoria in eastern Caldas State. The occupants of the vehicles were forced into a small house near the highway, robbed and be headed one at a time, the army said. The victims reportedly were public works department laborers ind peasants on their way to market. The incident occurred in an area where bandits have massa cred thousands of persons in re cent years despite army efforts to maintain order. WHY CATS PURR BONN (LTD - Dr. Paid Ley hausen of the Max Planck Insti tute for the physiology of behav ior is conducting experiments to find out why cats purr, it was re ported today. By Lyle C. Wilson UPI Staff Writer Not just around the corner, but far, far down the road await the moment and the method of peace ful adjustment of darkening con troversy over the rights of Ne groes as American citizens. The events of 1963 are merely . the beginning. The Kennedy civil rights proposals now before Con gress are merely a starter. The trouble in the streets, the demon strations, the riots, the bloodshed and the violence probably are merely openers for what is to come. It is sufficiently evident by now that substantial numbers of white persons in the North, as well as greater numbers in the South, will resist the demands of Ne groes. It is equally evident that the Negroes will not back down. Strong and wise leadership in some communities has obtained an accommodation between the Approval given tax relief bill WASHINGTON (UPI) The House Ways & Means Committee Tuesday gave its final approval to $40 million in special tax relief for professional athletes, actors, authors and others whose incomes fluctuate. The proposal, recommended by President Kennedy, would enable taxpayers to "average" their tax able income over a five-year pe riod in computing their tax bills. This would permit a person to avoid being thrown Into an ex tremely high tax bracket should he suddenly strike it rich after a period during which he strug gled along on a modest income. The committee made only one change in the draft of the pro posal which it previously had ten tatively approved for inclusion in its big tax-revision-and-reduction bill. The revision would bar use of the averaging device to lower tax rates on income from gam bling, or "wagering" of any kind. Moving swiftly toward the finish line in tlie drafting of a compro mise version of Kennedy's tax cutting program, tlie committee also: Affirmed an earlier decision to scale down the tax advantages of "trafficking" in real estate which have been systematically exploited by syndicates of in vestors set up for that purpose. The tougher tax rules would pro duce about $15 million In new tax revenue from profits from sale of real estate. Gave the administration a surprise $30 million tax victory by reversing its earlier decision to grant a special new tax break to high-paid corporation execu tives enjoying lavish fringe bene fits. The committee Monday decided to leave untouched all of the tax concessions enjoyed by the oil in dustry except the relief that big oil producing firms got from a Republican Congress nine years ago. House approves lumber bill WASHINGTON (UPI) The House Tuesday approved Senate passed legislation designed to help the U. S. lumber industry, espe cially in the Northwest, meet Ca nadian competition. The House approved by voice vote a bill which would amend shipping laws to permit immediate decreases and increases in freight rates on lumber. The legislation was introduced in the House by Rep. Thor Tol lefson, R-Wash. The house voted on the Senate passed bill after substituting it for Toliefson's bill and making a minor technical amendment. opposing forces. But these com munities are exceptions rather than the rule. Must Have Vote What the Negro needs more than a welcome mat in front of places of public accommodation or even more than he needs job equality with the whites is his need for the vote and the wit to use it. The peaceful adjust ment of the darkening controver sy over the rights of Negroes as American citizens lies in the bal lot box, local and national. The vote and the right to east, it are the foundation stones and the symbols of American citizen ship. It is a fact that there is Southern resistance to the regis tration of Negroes and to their participation in elections. But the resistance appears to be neither so angry nor effective as is the opposition to other parts of 'Ji civil rights program, including the integration of public schools. It seems reasonable to believe that Congress would more quick ly enact and Uiat the South would more calmly accept all-out legisla tion to assure the right to vote . than all-out legislation In any other civil rights direction. The whole civil rights program probably would have made more and better progress if the vote had been the prime target be tween 1956, when the Eisenhower administration became interested and 1963 when the Kennedy ad ministration moved suddenly to make good on 1960 Democratic presidential campaign promises. Minority Can Be Factor A substantial minority vote can become a powerful political fa-v tor in any community and in the nation, provided that the minor ity realizes its powers and its limitations and has smartly ag gressive leadership. During and immediately after World War II. Southern Negroes poured out of the South and into great North ern cities Chicago, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia and so on. Shortly they became substantial minorities. The Negro vote is a balance of power now in every great industrial state. That is why so many Northern senators and representatives would ram the Kennedy civil rights program down the protesting throats of their Southern collegues. Had the Northern Negro vote been smartly led, the situation would be different today in Chi cago, Detroit, New York and Philadelphia. The Northern Ne groes have the voting muscle to elect governors and mayors who will do their bidding. But the Ne groes drove too soft a bargcin. They elected governors and may ors who talked integration but who actually went along with subtle segregation in jobs, in housing and in almost all else. The Negroes and the governors and mayors are learning now, the hard way, that the winds of chango are blowing in the North as in the South. The Northern Negro voter is about to come of age. That means that some hypo critical Northern governors and mayors will be licked next time around. Few will mourn their passing. A phoney lot! Barbs What's the use of getting fixed for life if it made you worry your self to death doing it? Some people stop at nothing when it comes to lending a hand. Hodgepodge Did you ever get the impres sion that mosquitos are drilling for oil? A Texas man deserted his wife and seven children and probably can be found in some nice quiet place. 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