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
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"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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