Virginia Special Session
Meets On Poll Tax Issue
RICHMOND, Va. (UPI) A
"lame duck" special session of
the Virginia General Assembly
meets Tuesday to consider leg
islation which would short cir
cuit the anticipated federal ban
on the poll tax.
The controversial poll tax is
expected to be outlawed in fed
eral elections next year with
passage ot the 24th Amend
ment to the U S. Constitution.
Thirty-six of the necessary 38
slates have ratified the anti
poll tax amendment which
passed in the 87th Congress with
bipartisan support
Virginia Is now one of five
states to require a poll tax of
its electorate. The others are
Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi
and Texas.
Gov. Albertis S. Harrison,
who called the special session,
wants the poll tax kept on the
books in state and local elec
tions as does U.S. Sen. Harry
F. Byrd, D-Va., czar of Virgin
ia's Democrat organization.
Requires Two Books
Tliis would require maintain
ing two sets of books at the
polls one for those paying the
$1.50 poll tax and another for
those fulfilling requirements for
voting in federal elections but
refusing to pay the poll tax.
Last week Harrison handed
down the administration's pack
ace bill to the appropriate leg
islative committees, called into
session a week early. The bills
would permit Virginians who re
fuse to pay the poll tax to vote
in presidential and congression
al elections by filing a certifi
cate of residence six months be-
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fore the election the same cut
off date as for paying the poll
taxes. Those failing to pay the
poll tax could not vole in state
or local elections.
Harrison and tlie state attor
ney general believe the propos
als would prove compatible with
the U.S. Constitution.
Harrison said he hopes the
special session will last less
than five days. Figured on a
four-day basis, cost of the ses
sion would be approximately
$20,000.
Considerable opposition has
been voiced in the stale to re
tention of the poll tax at any
level. However, Harrison's pro
posals are expected to clear
both houses which are domin
ated by conservative Byrd-or-ganization
Democrats.
Stiff Opposition
Clamoring against retention of
the poll tax are most Republi
can politicians in the stale; Ne
gro and labor organizations,
church groups and women's
clubs. Leading the anti-poll tax
forces is Rep. W. Pat Jennings,
D-Va., and a dissident Democrat
faction calling themselves "Vir
ginia Democrats for the Repeal
of the Poll Tax."
Democrat Sen. Edward L.
Brecden Jr., a Norfolk lawyer,
has drafted a resolution calling
for a referendum for a consti
tutional convention to repeal the
poll tax for all elections, and
Republican lawmakers plan to
introduce anti-poll tax legisa
tions this week. Such legisla
tion, however, is expected to be
buried in the privileges and
elections committee on which
sits Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr.,
son of the l.S. senator.
Administration Democrats say
they want the poll tax merely
because It is a convenient way
to keep voter lisls up to date.
Republicans chargo lite Demo
crats with trying to manipu
late the electorate and perpetu
ate the Byrd organization.
Scnalnr Byrd said he consid
ers the Kill tax a simple and
non-burdensome way of deter
mining which Virginians are el
igible to vote. Ho indicated he
did not like annual registrations
ns a means of maintaining up-to-date
voting lists.
Polo is played, on the same
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python and one of two boa constrictors which her son Gary left for her to sell when
he moved from St. Louis. Fletcher Sapp, a friend of her son, holds one of the boa con
strictors and Charles Hoessle, employe of St. Louis Zoo, holds head of python wrapped
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Red Searchlights Endanger
BKRM.V IUPH - The Com
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Skirt Decision
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judge here refused today to de
cide when a short skirt ceases
to be fashionable and becomes
an immoral invitation.
The judge dismissed charges
of soliciting against three
young women who were arrest
ed because they sat on a park
bench here, in short skirts and
with crossed knees.
Police said passorsby com
plained that the girls were
showing a "scandalous" amount
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week by turning searchlights on
them as they were making
their landing approaches, West
ern officials said Saturday.
The Western allies filed a
sharp protest with the Soviet of
ficer at the Four - Power air
safety center, a Three Power
statement said.
The searchlight tactics might
indicate the Communists were
switching their pressure on al
lied access right to the air cor
ridors from the highways where
the Soviets held U.S. and Brit
ish military convoys in a scries
of incidents in the last month,
informed sources said.
The searchlights were turned
on Pan American airliners as
the pilots were bringing them
down on their approach runs to
a landing at Tempclhof Airport,
an allied spokesman said.
Tho first incident occurred
about 6:30 p.m. (12:30 p.m.
EST) Thursday, and the
searchlight technique was re
peated on Friday night.
After the second incident, the
U.S., backed by Britain and
France, protested to the Soviet
representative at the air safety
center.
The allies said the Commu
nist action "constituted a haz
ard to the flights," a spokes
man said.
The searchlights flared up on
the airliners as they were over
the western edge of Berlin. The
planes were at a height of
about filH) yards, inlormed
sources said.
It was not known whether the
lights were operated by Fast
Herman or Soviet troops. Bolii
have bases near the (light
Though il seems to be a sin
gle star, Polaris (the north
star) actually is a system of
three stars, according to t h e
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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circled city.
The Communist tactics were
not protested Thursday because
they were regarded as possibly
accidental, the spokesman said,
but the U.S. officer at the air
safety center protested immedi
ately when the searchlights
went on again Friday night.
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Bugged Phone, Red Letter X, Sleuth Vs. Sleuth,
All Lend Sense Of Melodrama To Otepka Case
WASHINGTON (LPIi - A
"bugged" phone, a red letter
"X." a purloined typewriter rib
bon, sleuth hunting sleuths and
charges of untruthfulness and
malice.
These are the ingredients of
what has become known as the
"Otepka Case" Washington's
latest fight involving State De
partment security and relations
between Congress and the Exec
tive branch.
In its higher aspects the case
raises the issue of whether the
State Department can forbid its
employes to give certain infor
mation to Congress.
On a lower plane it is a
snarling office quarrel. But the
fact that it takes place among
security agents lends a tone of
melodrama.
The central figure is Otto F.
Otepka, 48, a sad-eyed veteran
investigator and chief of the
evaluations division of the State
Department's Office of Secur
ity. The division handles secur
ity clearances for department
employes.
On Sept. 23 Otepka was noti
fied of the department's inten
tion to dismiss him on 13 charg
es. Three of these accused him
of giving documents concern
ing loyalty to J. G. Sourwine,
chief counsel of the Senate in
ternal security subcommittee,
which has been investigating
State Department security.
A directive signed by former
President Harry S. Truman
March 13, 1948, closes govern
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ment loyalty files to Congress
to protect individuals unless
the President opens them. The
directive is still in effect, and
the State Department recently
invoked it to deny information
to the subcommittee.
Eight other specifications
charged Otepka with unauthor
ized declassification and "mu
tilation" of documents by snip
ping off the "confidential" la
bels before allegedly giving
them to Sourwine.
Two others accused him of
preparing lists of questions for
the subcommittee to use in in
terrogating his boss, John F.
Reilly, State Department secur
ity chief. The department called
this a "breach of the standard
conduct expected of an officer."
Before going deeper into the
story it is necessary to under
stand a Washington institution
known as the "burn bag."
A clever spy can learn much
from an official's waste basket.
Because of this, government
trash, including carbon paper
and used typewriter ribbons, is
placed in brown paper sacks
called "burn bags" which are
collected and taken to an incin
erator. Tlie burn bag is a brood
ing presence under the desk of
employes high and low in most
agencies of the government.
The State Department said that
for some time Otepka's burn
bags had been under surveil
lance. A friendly secretary had
been graciously offering to take
them to the depository for Otep
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ka's secretary. On the way she
marked each one with a red
"X." Then she made a phone
call. Within minutes the 6ag was
retrieved and turned over to
security chief Reilly.
The evidence against Otepka,
the department said, was ob
tained from bits of paper pieced
together, carbons which were
held up to tlie light and a used
typewriter ribbon all from the
paper bags.
On Oct. 14 Otepka, in a writ
ten answer, denied all tlie
charges and made some of his
own. He denied clipping the
documents. He said such infor
mation as he had given the
committee did not fall under the
Truman directive but was a
matter of telling . the "whole
truth."
"I have reason to believe,"
Otepka wrote, "that my office
telephone has been tapped and
that my desk and my safe
have been surreptitiously open
ed and searched."
Accuser Becomes Accused
The next chapter involved a
dramatic turn in which accuser
suddenly became the accused.
Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn.,
a member of the subcommittee,
declared that Reilly and other
security officials had, in effect,
denied knowledge of tapping
Otepka's phone but had subse
quently amplified their testi
mony in letters conceding that
an attempted phone tap was
made. Reilly and Elmer D.
Hill, chairman of security's di
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vision of technical services,
were placed on administrative
leave by the State Department.
Reilly and Hill both stated
they considered their original
testimony accurate. They said
their additional statements were
made to avoid any misunder
standing. Otepka, in a later written ap
peal from his dismissal, charged
Reilly and others with "untruth
fulness," "malice," and "over
zealous attempts to build a case
against me." He asked that all
concerned take lie detector tests,
and offered to take one him
self. His appeal is still pending.
State Department officials re
gard the case as an "echo" of
the era of the 1950's when tlie
late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy
was charging that the State De
partment was riddled with Com
munists. Diplomatic officials argue that
the department cannot function
if personnel are the subject of
security "witch hunts" by se
curity men who go to Congress
outside channels. Members of
the subcommittee argue that
what is at stake is Congress'
right to full investigation of the
administrative branch of govt',
ernment.
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