nate investigators Open Probe Into laker's Activities
Strong Civil Rights Measure
blocked on Committee Vote
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Presi-dcnt
Kennedy today won his
battle to block a civil rights bill
he felt was too strong to pass
Congress. The House Judiciary
Committee rejected the meas
ure by a vote of 19-15.
After the long-delayed show
down vote, the committee
turned to consideration of a
less sweeping civil rights bill
which, like the strong bill it re
places, would touch on nearly
every area of racial tension, in
eluding voting, use of public ac
commodations, desegregation of
schools and ob discrimination,
The vote on the strong bill
was the first order of commit
tee business when it met be
hind closed doors. Members
who left the room after the bal
loting disclosed the vote.
Wins Final Effort
The showdown came less
than an hour after President
Kennedy called both Demo
cratic and Republican House
leaders together for one final
effort to nail down agreement
on the compromise. He obvious
ly was successful.
The committee action cli
maxed strenuous personal inter
vention by Kennedy and other
top administration officials in
the civil rights fight.
Democrats and Republicans
who had been lined up for the
stronger bill went into the ju
diciary meeting conceding that
tlicy probably had been beaten.
Some of them already were
calling the proposed compro
mise a good bill that they
could support.
Speaker John W. McCormack
had given somewhat of an ad
vance tipoff to the committee
action after the White House
meeting of leaders of both par
ties with Kennedy. He was
clearly optimistic in reporting
"substantial progress" toward
agreement on a bipartisan bill.
Those attending the joint
meeting after the regular leg
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GOP leaders Leslie Arends,
111: Charles Halleck. Ind and
William McCulloch, Ohio, the
latter ranking GOP member of
the judiciary committee. On
the Democratic side, the con
ferees included the speaker,
House Democratic Leader Carl
Albert of Oklahoma, and Judi
ciary Chairman Emmanuel Cel
ler, N.V.
Although both bills are built
on the same framework, the
stronger measure, drafted by a
judiciary subcommittee, would
go far beyond anything Ken
nedy asked. The biggest objec
tion was to the "part three"
section that would permit the
Justice Department to initiate
court action in any case in
which an individual claimed his
constitutional or legal rights
were being violated. The admin
istration also balked at proposals
to apply the new voting provi
sions to all types of elections
and to bar racial discrimination
in nearly every type of private
business conceivable.
The bipartisan compromise
included a much - limited part
three that would restrict feder
al intervention to civil rights
cases involving race, religion or
national origin. The Justice De
partment could not step in un
less the offended citizen had
started action of his own.
Compromise Coverage
The compromise also would
include a public accommoda
tions section that would exempt
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The voting section would cov
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Surplus Wheat
Stocks Moving
To Open Market
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Agriculture Department said
Monday it had begun to move its
surplus wheat stocks into the
open market.
Between July 1 and mid-October,
the department sold about
35 million bushels of wheat out
of the government-owned sur
plus. In the same period last
year practically no government
wheat was sold.
Sales are being made now be
cause rising demand has pushed
the open market price of wheat
up sharply in recent weeks. For
some classes of wheat, prices
have risen to or above the level
at which government surplus
grain is available for sale.
Prices Pushed Up
Under present regulations,
the surplus wheat can be sold
only when market prices reach
105 per cent of the price sup
port rate or higher. Market
prices have been pushed up to
that level because the 1!)3 crop
was smaller than potential de
mand during the current mer
keting season.
Acriculture Department ex
perts now believe that if the
Soviet Union and Communist
satellite countries buy up to 200
million bushels of American
wheat, total American exports
this season will reach one bil
lion bushels. The total domestic
and export demand will amount
lo one billion, 600 million ousn
els.
mand during the current mar
If this forecast is accurate,
total demand for American
wheat will be about 465 million
bushels greater than the 19fi3
crop. This means automatically,
that 4li5 million bushels would
have lo be sold out of the gov
crnmcnt surplus in order to
meet all demands. Sales at that
level would leave the surplus
next summer at about 725 mil
lion bushels, the lowest since
l!)5:i.
The Acriculture Department
also predicted today that the
season average wheat price to
farmers this year will average
moderately above the support
price of S1.R2 a bushel. Last
vear the market price average
was exactly the same as the
support $2 a bushel.
Youths Appear
In Seaside Court
SEASIDK (UPI) - Thomas
Rice, 20, Longview, Wash., was
found innocent of a charge of
riotous assembly by a Municipal
Court lurv Monday.
The charge stemmed from
rioting bv youths here during
the Labor Dav holiday weekend
Judge John Black found three
Seaside youths guilty of charges
in connection with the disturb
ances.
David Veilinmue, 21, was
fined $:I04.50 and sentenced to 30
days in jail for buying and sup
plying alcoholic beverages to !
minors. '
Dunne Young la, was fined ;
$19.50 for disorderly conduct by
reason of destruction of private
proicrty and Brent Painter, 18. i
was fined $19.50 for disorderly
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West German
Woman Dodged
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen
ate investigators today opened
an inquiry into the outside busi
ness interests of former Senate
Democratic Secretary Robert
G. (Bobby) Baker but side
stepped questions on the pos
sible involvement of a West
German girl.
Sen. B. Everett Jordan, D-N.
C, chairman of the rules com
mittee conducting the inquiry,
said he knew "nothing" about
the activities of 27-year-old El
len Rometsch, the name-dropping
former wife of a West
German army sergeant.
Asked if the question would
come up, ben. Howard w.
Cannon, D-Nev., said: "It
doesn't appear to have any ma
teriality now. If it appears to
later, we might go into it."
Sen. Joseph S. Clark, D-Pa.,
said he also was in the dark
about the woman. She was giv
en a ticket home by the West
German government following
an investgation of her penchant
for high living while her hus
band was based in Washington.
Sen. John J. Williams, R-Del.
the committee's first scheduled
witness, showed up armed with
a stack of notes and papers. He
told reporters his presentation
would take "some time."
The GOP senator already had
begun his own informal inquiry
idto Baker's financial opera
tions when the Senate, on his
resolution, ordered the rules
investigation into Baker's ac
tivities. Baker won his spurs as "Lyn
don's boy" back in 1949 when
he became the unofficial aide
of the then freshman senator
from Texas, Lyndon B. John
son. In 1955, Baker was
elected by the Senate Demo
crats to post of Secretary to
the Senate majority.
the senate Rules Committee s
inquiry into Baker's multiple
"outside activities" opened to
day with advance notice that it
might be denied any informa
tion "of a criminal nature" turn
ed up by the FBI or the General
Accounting Office.
Jordan, the courtly, 67-year-old
chairman of the committee,
explained that the Justice De
partment did not want to com
promise any legal case that
might arise from its findings.
Rep. H. R. Gross, R-Iowa,
brought up the German wom
an's activtiies Monday during a
House speech attacking Baker.
Members of Congress and the
public are entitled to know
whether there was any element
of security violation concerned
in this speedy and hitherto un
publicizcd deportation," he said.
He did not elaborate.
Vancouver Blast
Hurts Three Men
VANCOUVER, Wash. (UPI)
Three men were injured in an
explosion at the Food Machin
ery and Chemicals Corp. plant
here Monday.
Taken to the Vancouver Me
morial Hospital were Palmer
Jorgenson, 52, Camas, Wash.,
and Horace Kibbler, 58. Van
couver, both chemical operators,
and Milton T. Sanders, 27, Van
couver, a process engineer.
The explosion twisted steel
beams and shattered reinforced
concrete walls. A fire then
broke out.
Robert P o I a n s k y, resident
manager of the plant, said he
did not know the cause of the
explosion and was unable to es
timate the damage. However, It
was thought that a solution in
a two-story stoneware container
exploded.
The plant, which manufac
tures hydrogen peroxide, was
not closed by the blast.
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U.S. ARMY CONVOY CLEARED BY SOVIETS
BERLIN (UPI) The U.S. Army sent a small convoy through
East Germany to the West today and Soviet border guards passed
it swiftly without Incident.
MEXICO CITY BAN'S ONE-ARM DRIVING '
MEXICO CITY (UPI) The English-language Daily News said
today the Municipal Traffic Department has banned one-arm
driving in Mexico City.
The newspaper said practices forbidden by the department
include "embraces or other amorous practices while in a speeding
vehicle."
U.S. TRADE NEGOTIATOR ARRIVES IN BONN
BONN, Germany (UPI) W. Michael Blumenthal, U.S. Deputy
Assistant Secretary nf Stale for Trade, was here today for ex
ploratory talks with West German officials concerning next year's
so-called Kennedy round of tariff reduction negotiations.
KHRUSHCHEV ACCEPTS BID TO VISIT NEPAL
MOSCOW (UPI) Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev and President
Leonid Brezhnev have accepted an invitation to visit Nepal, Radio
Moscow reported today.
No date has been set for the visit, agreed upon during the visit
here of Nepalese Prime Minister Dr. Tulsi Giri.
Idaho Power Said
Showing Disregard
At Hells Canyon
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Idaho Power Co. was accused
Monday of showing "cavalier
disregard" for the public inter
est in seeking to eliminate fish
passage facilities at its Hells
Canyon project in Idaho.
The charge was made by the
Washington Public Power Sup
ply System (WPPSS) in a pe
tition to the Federal Power
Commission.
WPPSS attorney Evelyn N.
Cooper urged the FPC to turn
down the company's request.
She also asked that hearings be
reopened in Portland, Ore., on
Goldwater Urges
Disposal of TVA
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Sen.
Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., has
suggested that the government
sell the Tennessee Valley Au
thority (TVA) to private indus
try. Goldwater said in a letter last
weekend to Rep. Richard Ful
ton, D-Tenn., that he was "quite
serious" about the proposal
that the government dispose of
the network of dams and power
generating stations.
The GOP presidential conten
der said that TVA paid only 5
per cent of its annual gross to
local government in lieu of
taxes. It would have to pay
five and one-halt times as much
if it bore a levy comparable to
other taxes paid by private
business, Goldwater said.
Goldwater said he believed
the TVA would be better oper
ated and would be of more ben
efit for more people if it were
part of private industry.
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fish passage problems resulting
from construction of dams on
the Snake River.
The petition filed by Mrs.
Cooper said the Idaho Power
Co. motion was prejudicial to
the interests of both the WPPSS
and the public.
She said abandonment of ef
forts to pass fish over the com
pany's dams would hurt WPPSS
in its effort to gain approval of
the Nez Perce project on the
Snake River.
WPPSS, a Washington State
public power agency, is seeking
FPC approval of the Nez Perce
project in opposition to an ap
plication by the Pacific North
west Power Co. to build the
High Mountain Sheep dam.
Mrs. Cooper's petition said
approval of the company's re
quest to abandon efforts to pass
fish over its dams was "con
trary to the public interest."
Reduction of the fall Chinook
and steelhead runs above the
dams would hurt the people of
the upper Snake River Basin
"without proper justification"
on the basis of hearings so far,
the petition said.
"Such cavalier disregard of
an important fishery resource
is intolerable," it said.
The public power agency said
approval of the company re
quest also would reduce the
FPC's role to that of "rubber
stamping" proposals of state
fishing agencies.
Such agencies, she charged,
were often influenced by what
power companies wanted.
Stocks Continue
To Move Forward
NF.W YORK (UPI) Stocks
continued to move forward to-1
day. i
U. S. Steel moved up nearly I
'2 followed by gains of large :
fractions to a point in National,
Armco. McLouth, Inland and
Youngstown Sheet.
General Motors tacked on a
point. Chrysler was off nearly 1
but Ford advanced a large frac
tion. I
Raytheon dropped more than j
2.
Union Carbide and Eastman
Kodak were UD about 2 and 1.
respectively. American Crystal j
Sucar. Havcg. IBM and Kerri
McGee were up 1 or more.
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Statuesque German
Denies Washington
BONN (UPI) - A statuesque
German model who was oust
ed from the United States as
an undesirable issued a blanket
denial today of her reported
Washington hi - jinx in high
places.
Mrs. Ellen Rometsch, 27, said
she never had intimate rela
tions with men other than her
husband while living in Wash
ington.
Mrs. Rometsch, divorced
since returning to Germany
last August, issued a statement
to the German press agency,
which distributed it to all West
German newspapers.
She telephoned the agency
from her parents' home on a
farm near Wuppertal, in the
Ruhr, where she apparently has
been living for several weeks.
Arrest Threatened
Reporters besieging the farm
since Monday noon were fright
ened off Monday by a farm
hand carrying a shotgun. To
day, they were told by a mem
ber of the Rometsch family If
they did not leave the proper
ty, police would be called and
asked to arrest them for tres
passing. None of the reporters or pho
tographers at the farm nad got
ten a glimpse of the model or
her young child by late this
afternoon.
Villagers in the neighboring
community of Hasslinghausen
told reporters Mrs. Rometsch
has been living with her par
ents since late in September,
when a Bonn court granted the
divorce asked by her husband.
They said she has spent most
or all of her time on the farm,
and none could recall ever see
ing her in the town.
In her statement to the Ger
man press agency, Mrs. Ro
metsch said she thought suspi
cion had been drawn to her be
cause of her friendship with a
woman employed on Capitol
Hill as a secretary.
She said she had known the
woman and the woman's em
ployer socially, but she did not
name them. Apparently she re
ferred to Carole Tyler, another
beauty, and Robert G. (Bobby)
Baker, former Senate Demo
cratic secretary who is under
investigation by the Senate
Rules Committee.
Meetings Denied
Mrs. Rometsch said that when
she first went to the United
States two years ago, she also
was friendly with another
young woman who was said
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number of influential persons
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But Mrs. Rometsch denied
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Open house for the new Grants
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An invitation to drop in and
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The interior of the branch of
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persons, even at cocktail par
ties, to which she was invited
because of her modeling activi
ties. She also denied she ever was
alone or in small groups with
men other than her husband.
Mrs. Rometsch said the FBI
interrogated her about four
weeks before she and her hus
band returned to Germany on
Aug. 21, and that she told them
the same thing.
Both Mrs. Rometsch and her
husband, Rolf, told the Ger
man press agency their di
vorce had no connection with
the allegations being mads
against her in Washington.
Divorce trials in Germany
are closed and only the fact of
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