SATURDAY, much 11, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1967 11W MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE Dodd Denies Misconduct New York QUOTA SYSTEM PROPOSED: Republicans Democratic Chairman Asks Show Split Equal Negro Representation In Fund Raising Activities Negro Leaders Fail To Assist Meredith; Want Powell Elected Calls Benef it Income Tax Free Present Senate 'Cominttee To Investigate His Financial Concerns WASHINGTON (P)-Sen. Tho- mas J. Dodd, denying any mis- conduct, offered today to return the money raised- at testimonial dinners for him to any persons who attended under the impression they were contributing only to his campaign funds. The Connecticut Democrat, in advance of public hearings start- ing Monday by the Senate ethics committee on his financial affairs, said income he received from the testimonials was a tax free gift to be used as he saw fit. The senator, making public a financial statement showing a net worth of about $54,000, said "I have not enriched myself from public office. Indeed, the contrary is the fact." Political Office Costs Dodd said he had received $170,00 from testimonials organ- i zed in his behalf from 161 through 1965 and that $140,000 went to pay off political expenses dating from 1956,' when he first ran for the Senate. He added that the cost of hold- Ing political office over an eight- year period far exceeded the other S$30,000. Dodd said that after he was elected to the Senate in 1958-two years after his first bid failed he was $150,000 in debt. Friends aware of this burden, he said, de- cided without any encouragement from him to hold a testimonial dinner to help extricate him from his debts. He said he consulted his former law partner, Federal District Judge Joseph Blumenfeld, and Blumen- feld "advised me that the pro- ceeds from this fund raising event constituted a tax free gift 4 and should not be included in my income." President Johnson, then vice president, spoke at two such din- ners in 1961 and 1963 and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey spoke at one in 1965. Dodd said that so far as he knew "no donor has challenged the fact that the 1961, 1963 and 1965 fund raising events were tes- timonials-that 'is, noncampaign fund raising events. "I would like any person who came under the mistaken impres- sion that it was for my campaign fund to communicate with me," he said. "I will return their money immediately if they were thus misled." Personal Means Inadequate He said that if his personal means were inadequate to make refunds, he would borrow what- ever was necessary. The white-haired senator said these are the facts about his fi- nancial condition: ! "I own no stocks, bonds or other securities, nor have I owned any since I came to the Senate. ! "I have no hidden assets, such as cash, savings acounts, or other business interests of any kind in this country or any other country." There were, however, bitter ovdrtones in his speech. "Thanks to the Supreme Court's decisions there is protection to- day for murderers and other com- mon criminals against trial by press," Dodd said. "For a U.S. sen- ator, however, there is no such protection. I say this from bitter experience." -Associated Pres FACULTY BURNS ART Wlitewater State students, in Wisconsin, gathered in the street outside the University Center yesterday to watch faculty members burn paintings and sculpture in protest of what they called administrative pressure against a faculty show for including a sex painting. Pres. Walker Wyman quit during the controversy. DESTROY ENEMY PLANES: ThaiBased U.S. Jets Hil North V ietna mSteel Mi NEW YORK (A)-The New York Republican party shows increasing signs of splitting along racial lines over the selection of James H. Meredith to oppose Democrat Adam Clayton Powell in a special congressional election called for April 11. City Hung ^.n Rights Commis- sioner William Booth on Thursday Sjoined a growing number of prom- inent Negro Republicans who strongly object to running Mere- dith as their party's candidate against Powell. Booth said he and other Harlem Negro leaders believe "Adam Clay- ton Powell should be returned to Congress, and any attempt by anyone denying him this right is unwanted." Charge Racial Bias The commissioner joined for- mer baseball star Jackie Robin- son, an aide to Republican Gov. .Nelson A. Rockefeller, several Harlem Republican district lead- ers and a large number of Harlem residents in saying Powell's ex- clusion from the House of Rep- s resentatives was not a political matter, but a racial one. Booth's statement added im- petus to a feud growing within the r Republican party between its pre- dominantly white leadership, and the predominantly Negro district leaders in Harlem. Since the 33-year-old civil rights veteran was recommended by the Republican executive Committee from the 18th District, not one Negro Republican leader has come forward to support him. "At this time the Republican party would be much strongerif we'd go along with Adam," said Lucille Pickett Williams, a co- 'leader of 18th Congressional Dis- trict Republicans. The Republicans have quietlyt scheduled meetings next Monday night to confirm Meredith as the -ar nominee. Mrs. Walker said the hs meetings would be held at five he separate neighborhood Republi- can clubs, instead of the usual one big meeting. IG "Obviously the county leaders JG selected the local candidate," she said. Splitting the meetings up, ert she said, is "solely for the purpose si- of having each leader control his out local group of county committee the people," so the vote comes out as desired. WASHINGTON (P)-Democratic National Chairman John M. Bailey moved Friday for an early decision on the racial integration of South- ern convention delegations amid indications a compromise solution may be adopted. Bailey told the Democratic Na- tional Committee that within a week to 10 days he will name a successor to the late David L. Lawrence as chairman of the Equal Rights Committee, created at the 1964 Democratic National Convention to prevent a repetition of a seating fight between rival white and Negro delegations from Mississippi. He scoffed at press reports the committee is considering estab- lishing a quota system so that, for example, states with a 20 per cent Negro population might be required to have a delegation with at least 10 per cent Negro repre- sentation. Opposition to Quotas This proposal was presented to the committee by Mildred Jef- frey, Michigan national commit- teewoman, and drew immediate strong protests from Southern Democratic leaders. Baily said this proposal was merely the "particular point of view" of one committee member, and Mrs. Jeffrey confirmed this. Two other members of the com- mittee, Eugene N. Wyman of Cali- fornia and the Rev. E. Franklin Jackson of the District of Colum- bia, the latter a Negro, said they oppose establishment of any quota systcmn in picking convention dele- ates. Equal Participation Terms What seems likely to emerge, party leaders said privately, is a requirement that all citizens including Negroes have equal par- Rumor Stalih JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (A") - A, Louisiana official told a federalj appeals court yesterday that a' sweeping decision upholding fed- eral school integration guidelines would have strong impact nation- wide-not only in the South. "Do you think the law can be applied in one part of the country and not another?" asked Judge James P. Coleman of Ackerman. Miss., one of the 12-member 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. "No," replied William P. Schu- ler, assistant attorney general of Louisiana. "If you do, then we don't have a Constitution." Court Members Differ j Schuler was the fifth lawyer to argue in behalf of school boards in Alabama and Louisiana against a Dec. 29 ruling by a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit. The decision held that U.S. Of- fice of Education guidelines were a minimum for school integration n's Daughter Defected From Russia ticipation at all levels, in the se- to the convention's Credentials lection of convention delegates, in- Committee which would review 3luding primaries, state commit- the status of any delegates whose tee meetings, and county, district presence at the convention is chal- and state conventions. lenged. This will not necessarily require Bailey said later that he expects Negroes and members of other a final decision to be made later minority groups to be included this year in order to give all states in the actual convention delega- time to put into effect whatever tions, the leaders said, but merely procedures are agreed on. Rec- that they have participated fully ommendations of the Equal Rights in their selection. Committee must be approved by The final decision would be up the full national committee. Lawyers Fight Civil Ili glis Act in Court SAIGON (P)-U.S. Air Force F105 Thunderchiefs blasted to- day at North Vietnam's biggest heavy industry, that Thai Nguyen steel mill, and shot up three Com- munist MIGS that tried to inter- vene, the U.S. Command an- nounced. "Bombs were on target" at the mill, 38 miles north of Hanoi, but there was no immediate assess- ment of the results, a spokesman said. The plant, situated in a coal and metal muining region, was reported to have been contributing bridge seetinns, cargo barges and petro- leum drums to the Communist war effort. In military potential it could rate right along with such earlier targets as power plants, oil depots and transportation fa- cilities. Use Thailand Bases The spokesman said that, of the challenging jet fighters, one was destroyed, another probably was downed and the third damaged. One of the Thunderchiefs was re- ported hit. For the first time in two years of American aerial operations from bases in Thailand, it was official- ly announced that the Thunder- chiefs staged the raid from that Southeast Asian ally of the United States. Secrecy that had shrouded these operations was lifted Thurs- day in Bangkok, the Thai capital. The Joint Chiefs were strongly in favor of wiping out North Viet- namese petroleum depots long be- fore Johnson gave the go-ahead last summer. They also were on record as favoring the destruction of power plants before these in- stallations were okayed for attack. Two highly important targets, in the Joint Chiefs' view, still are off limits to American bombers. These are the Haiphong har- bor, North Vietnam's sole major port, and the airfields from which North Vietnam's MIG jet fighters operate. U.S military men, led by the Navy's admirals, favor mining the and laid down: a principle of af- firmative action toward integra- tion. , Members of the court, now the largest federal bench in the na- tion, displayed sharply differing views on how to integrate schools and on the basic issue of forced integration versus the approach of nonsegregation policies. Coleman's questions about ap- plication of the 1964 Civil Rights Act-and the giudelines-followed remarks of a directly opposite view by Judge John Minor Wisdom of New Orleans, La., who wrote the Dec. 29 opinion concurred in by one judge and dissented from by another. Executive Burden Wisdom maintained that the Constitution as construed by the Supreme Court in its historic 1954 decision places upon school au- thorities "a duty or compulsion to take affirmative steps." His deci- sion, under review, laid down this principle. Wisdom and Judge John R. Brown of Houston, Tex., indicated in their remarks that the burden of integrating schools should be shifted to the executive branch of government. "Is there anything wrong with the court saying the time has come for the Departmen of Health Education and Welfare-HEW- to take over?" asked Brown during one exchange with school board attorneys. Challenge HEW Authority Coleman and Judge Griffin B. Bell of Atlanta, Ga., however, in- dicated reluctance to follow ad- ministrative agencies. Referring to Commissioner of Education Har- old Howe, Bell said: "We don't know where he'll lead us." "I don't think this court has to go along and mimic HEW," Coleman said. "If something is right, we can say it on our own, can't we?" Attorney Reid Barnes, speaking for the Bessemer, Ala., school Board, told the court: "If you think following Mr. Howe will lessen the problems, you're wrong. It will multiply them." Barnes also .challenged Wis- dom's finding in his opinion that congressional intent was not to apply to the South a prohibition in the lam against steps to achieve racial balance. Haiphong harbor to bar it to Com- is anxious to see the Vietnam w munist and free world shipping, ended and any challenge to RL Most of North Vietnam's pet- sian shipping might force t roleum supply, and the trucks on Soviets into a direct role in t which the infiltration of equip- Vietnam war. ment to South Vietnam depends The U.S. Air Force's top ge to a great extent, enter North erals want to knock out the M Vietnam through Haiphong. fields near Hanoi. But civilian officials have balk- But Secretary of Defense Rob ed because they feel there would . McNamara has takenthe po be a serious risk of a clash with tion that the MIG force of ab the Soviet Union. 100 jets poses no real threat to t These officials feel that Russia American air defensive. Wilson Battles To Avert Public Split Within Labor Government ROME (-4)-Joseph Stalin's 42- year-old daughter, Svetlana, re- ported to have defected from the Soviet Union, left Rome late yes- terday aboard a special U.S. gov- ernment plane, the newspaper Giornale D'Italia said. Earlier a police official at Rome airport said Miss Stalina had ar- rived in Rome a few days ago from India. The newspaper said she had been staying in Rome since at the residence of the U.S. ambassador. There was no con- firmation of the report. The State Department and U.S., Soviet and Indian officials in New Delhi, Rome and Moscow all disclaimed any knowledge of the matter. But Russian sources in Moscow said Miss Stalina left the Soviet Union, about two months ago with the 'ashes of an Indian believed to have been her husband. Await Rome Arrival Informants at Rome airport said Miss Stalina arrived in Rome early Wednesday on a flight from New Delhi. The Rome Airport News Service said it was told by a police official assigned to the international ar- rival and departure terminals that "a person who arranged for Miss Stalina's arrival" was due in Rome eventually. "Only after that time will the entire matter be made public," the unidentified police officer said. Death of Companion The sources in Moscow said Miss Stalina had been living in the Soviet capital with an Indian Communist named Brijesh Singh who worked as a translator for the Soviet "Progress" publishing organization. The informants said Singh died last December or January at the age of 59 and was cremated in Moscow. They said Miss Stalina obtained permission to accompany his ashes to India and visit his family there. Miss Stalina is believed to have two children, a son 21 and a daughter 15, both still in the So- viet Union. Miss Stalina had two brothers, Lt. Gen. Vassily Stalin of the air force and Jacob Stalin. Various reports have said Vasily died in a force labor camp or is confined in Moscow's Lunianka Prison. Jacob was reported shot to death in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945. LONDON (/P)-Prime Minister' Harold Wilson, jolted by three electoral setbacks, battled Friday night to avert a public split in his Labor government, The two men at the center of the dispute share responsibility for g e t t i n g government business through Parliament and keeping the rank and file in line. They are: Elder statesman Emanuel.Shin- wel, 82, chairman of Labor mem- bers of Parliament and something of a hawk on matters of party discipline. Theoretician Richard Crossman, 59, leader of the House .of Com- mons, who favors a tolerant tech- nique for keeping lawmakers in line. Split in Government Alongside each man stand im- portant members of Wilson's gov- ernment. Some already have of- fered to resign if their man does . not get his way. The issue that brought the fuss to the boil: claims of some Labor- ites, mainly left-wingers, to be permitted on grounds of consci- ence to withhold their votes when government action does not con- form with party pledges. Shinwell, a onetime defense minister, bitterly assailed Cross- man for what he plainly sug- gested political double-dealing. His blast came on a chill day for the Wilson's government. Weakened in Elections The Labories were still reeling from a belting in three special elections. They held two and lost one to the opposition Conserva- tives. But in the process, Labor -candidates lost massive support, even in long-time Socialist strong- holds. Chief beneficiaries were Welsh and Scottish nationalists up to break London's control of their affairs. The electoral protest carried a warning for Wilson. It was that in Wales, Scotland and the Mid- lands there is an undercurrent of revolt against London politics. If the voting pattern recurred in a national election, it would cost Labor the power it has wielded since October, 1964. Men like Crossman, Shinwell, Labor Floor Manager John Silk- in and Paymaster General George Wigg set out to formulate a code of conduct. One had been virtual- ly agreed upon when Crossman came out publicly in favor of pre- serving a liberal disciplinary re- gime for Labor members of the House of Commons and added sig- nificantly: "As long as the chief government whip Silkin and I are in charge, there will be no question of putting the clock back." World News Roundup NEW YORK-The stock market soared early yesterday in reaction to President Johnson's request for restoration of the 7 per cent busi- ness investment tax credit. The advance was broad with gains out- numbering losses by about 10 to 1 around midday. 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