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UN Blasts South Africa
For Ignoring Resolutions

FINANCE, DEFENSE:
Verwoerd Asks British Ties


LONDON MP)-Prime Minister
Hendrik Verwoerd sought yes-
terday to soften the blow of South
Africa's secession from the Com-
monwealth by a bid for continued'
financial and defense links be-
tween his isolated nation and
Britain.
His offer of cooperation was
eagerly taken up by Prime Minis-
ter Harold Macmilan, who told the
House of Commons the rupture of
the 51-year relationship was a
tragedy. Macmillan also declared
the doors of Britain's Common-
wealth always will be open to,.
South Africa if there should be

a change of heart fri
try.

that coun-I

The determination of other
members, particularly the Afri-
cans and Asians, to denounce
South Africa's racial segregation
practices prompted Verwoerd Wed-
nesday to withdraw his applica-
tion for continued membership
when his country changes from
monarchial to republican status
next May31.
At a news conference last night,
Verwoerd denied he had been un-
willing th compromise.
He said his decision came after

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hearing a series of "unbridled at-
tacks on South Africa by prime
ministers and presidents of the
African and Asian countries and
of Canada.
One attack, he said, was by
President Kwame Nkrumah of
Ghana who gave notice that he
might either move for the expul-
sion of South Africa or withdraw
Ghana from the Commonwealth.
Ouse Debates
On Civil Rights
For Michigan
LANSING (P)-Rumblings of a
possible civil rights fight are stir-
ring the Legislature and the nine
men on the House State Affairs
Committee are -confronted with
their annual dilemma:
What to do about bills to put
new teeth into Michigan's civil
rights laws.
Backers of legislation to broaden
the scope and power of the Fair
Employment Practices Commission
(FEPC) made their yearly trek to
the Capitol Wednesday in an at-
tempt to pry the bills out of the
committee.
In equal number, spokesmen for
real estate groups and home own-
ers associations appealed to the
committee to do as they have done
before and bottle them up in a
committee pigeonhole.
The bills, sponsored by 12 Demo-
crats, would change the name of
the FEPC to the Human Rights
Commission and extend its au-
thority to cover housing, schools
and public accommodations as
well as employment.
It would prohibit discrimination
in real estate deals unless an indi-
vidual is selling or renting his own
home or housing containing less
than five units which he occupies
in part himself.
Similar legislation is pending in
the Senate.
Yesterday, a group of Republi-
cans headed by Rep. Thomas J.
Whinery (R-Grand Rapids), sub-
mitted a bill that would accom-
plish the same objectives. How-
ever, the commission's authority
in the housing area would be
limited to structures built with
public assistance.
Most of theearguments, pro and
con, have been aired before the
House State Affairs Committee
each year for several yeas. The
same spokesmen usually appear
for both sides.
Lawmakers were slightly bored
with yesterday's hearing.
World News
Roundup
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Senate
yesterday approved by a 72-18
vote United States membership in
the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development
(OECD) as a step toward closer
economic coordination among
North Atlantic nations.
* * .
WASHINGTON - The federal
prosecutor who led a raid smash-
ing a numbers ring in the Penta-
gon said yesterday he has receiv-
ed information indicating gam-
bling operations in other federal
installations.
Joseph S. Bambacus, United
States attorney for eastern Vir-
ginia, declined to name the in-
stallations.
* * *
WASHINGTON - The United
States has bounced radio signals
off of Venus in the start of an
experiment to determine whether

the planet spins on its axis, and
if so, at what speed.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration said yester-
day that strong, clear radio sig-
nals had been reflected back to
earth from Venus in a 70-million-
mile roundtrip taking about six
and a half minutes.
BORGANA
COATS*

Move To Add
'CoastArea
Condemned
Assembly Proposal
Wins U.S. Support
UNITED NATIONS OPf) - The
General Assembly yesterday cen-
sured South Africa for repeatedly
ignoring United Nations resolu-
tions aimed at eventual freedom
for the territory of South West
Africa.
By a vote of 74 to 0 with 9
abstentions, the Assembly ap-
proved a resolution that criticizes
South African moves toward an-
nexation of the huge territory on
Africa's southwest coast.
The action came on the heels
of South Africa's decision to with-
draw from the British Common-
wealth because of criticism of its
white supremacy policies. There
was speculation that South Africa
might also withdraw from the
United Nations.
Nine Abstainers
Only two members of the Com-
monwealth-ritain and Australia
-were among the nine abstainers.
The others were Belgium, the Do-
minican Republic, Finland, France,
Luxembourg, Portugal and Spain.
The United States voted for the
resolution despite .the feeling of
Britain, France and other colonial
powers that it had legal short-
comings.
The resolution was aimed at the
meeting of Comonwealth prime
ministers in London, where South
Africa's decision to withdraw was
announced Wednesday.
It called on UN members closely
associated with South Africa to
bring pressure on that country to
change its policies in the former
German - ruled territory it took
over in 1915, and governs under
a League of Nations mandate.
Long Rejected
South Africa has rejected for
years UN resolutions calling on it
to place South West Africa under
UN trusteeship so it can eventu-
ally achieve independence.
South West Africa covers an
area of about 318,000 square miles,
larger than Texas. Its population
is about 540,000, including 66,000,
Europeans.
The resolution charged South
Africa with holding a referendum
last October aimed at assimila-
tion of the territory, but limiting
the vote only to the European
population.
It said such action lacked moral
or legal basis, and was "repugnant
to the letter and spirit of the
mandate."
South African conduct in the
territory, it added, "constitutes a
challenge to the authority of the
United Nations."
Some delegates in the Assembly
used harsher language. Francisco
A. Delgado, the Philippine ambas-
sador, said South Arfica sought to
keep the native population in per-
petual bondage.

Senator

Sees

Disadvantages
In Farm Aid
WASHINGTON' - Sen.
George D. Aiken (R-Vt) predict-
ed yesterday that "Congress will
take a very long look" at Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy's proposal
to let farm groups write their
own programs subject to veto.
"If farm groups can write their
own tickets, some will ask why not
let labor or industrial groups do
the same thing," Aiken said.
Soviet Conductor
Praises 'U' Band
MOSCOW (R)-Soviet conductor
Natan Ranklin praised the Unit
versity symphony band yesterday
as the product of a gifted musi-
cian, conductor William D Revelli.
The Soviet Tass news agency
said Rakhlin told Revelli the band
played with "optimism, a noble
temperament and great expres-
siveness."
Rakhlin paid tribute to the
band's teamwork and keen sense
of style and taste, Tass said.

RUDDIGORE

.President
Announces
Farm Plan
WASHINGTON (P) - President
John F. Kennedy proposed yester-
day that Congress stand aside and
let the farmers themselves have
a major.voice in solving their
own problems.
Kennedy said the iexing prob-
lem of overproduction needs a
commodity -by - commodity ap-
proach which should be worked
out by farmer groups in consulta-
tion with the secretary of agricul-
ture, and then submitted to Con-
gress for a final review.
The legislators thus would retain
a veto power over individual pro-
grams.
Special Message
In a special message to Con-
gress, Kennedy said American
farming is a highly efficient in-
dustry whose very efficiency and
productivity lie at the heart of its
own distress.
"I am deeply concerned - and I
believe the Congress shares that
concern, along with most of our
consumers, taxpayers and the
farmers themselves," he said, "that
our farm program is drifting into
a chaotic state, piling up surpluses,
penalizing efficiency, rewarding
inertia and noncompliance, and
constantly being torn and weak-
ened by disputes and conflicting
pressures. y
Income Lower
Asserting that farmer incomes
are lower relative to the rest of
the population than at any time
since the 1930's, Kennedy added:
"This is not a situation that can
be ended by any one sweeiing act
of magic. It will require diligent
study, hard work, imaginative in-
itiative and sound constructive
leadership. But I believe that "the
decline in farm income and the
drift in farm policy can both be
gradually reversed by the .program
I recommend."
Kennedy's proposal for do-it-
yourself farm programs is not a
new idea; it was included in sev-
eral farm bills proposed in the
last Congress.

To Debate Unemployment Bil
WASHINGTON (i)-The Sen-
ate headed into battle yesterday Byrd's amendment, in effect, The amendment could be
over the way to finance President would tax the industrial states pealing to the Senate, where s
John F. Kennedy's top priority with the most unemployment at states wield considerable powe
anti-recession bill-a $927 million a higher rate than the other The AFL-CIO joined the
measure to extend unemployment states.
compensation. Benefit 40 States ministration in opposing the B
comensattlpioByrd said the amendment would amendment. In a telegram to
hSenHbatle pitted thBinfe benefit 40 states, who otherwise senators, AFL - CIO Presi
against the influence of the ad- would have to shoulder the burden George Meany said the bill
aginstathionlec fh d of paying for the excess unem- fore the Senate was ,"far infer:
minitraton.ployment in the 10 other states, to the bill passed by the Hous
It involved an amendment put
into the bill Wednesday by Byrd's
Finance Committee. The bill went Worst of RecessionGone,
Secretary of Labor Arthur J.
Goldberg and Lawrence O'Brien,Fe
conferred all morning with indi-
vidual senators and made it clear WASHINGTON (P) - The six-
Kennedy did not want Byrd's d"Industrial production was
amendment ntrialproduction was halted in changed in Februray. Nona
Ask Passage February the federal reserve cultural employment declined,
They told senators the adminis- board announced yesterday, the rate of unemployment
tration would like the bill just the mained at about the Decem
way it passed the House March 1. de boadetether ecnom January level.
The bill would put money into the opm g "Retail sales advanced. C
hands of an estimated three mil- b s ece s archg mercial bank credit and the mo
lion unemployed Americans who -or has arrived at-its bottom. supply increased.
have exhausted their benefits or At 102 per cent of the 1957 "Between mid-February
will do so during the two-year life average, the output of mines, mills mid-March, common stock p:
of the program. and materials was far below the rose on balance."
After conferring with Goldberg record level of January, 1960-111 The bright spots in the prod
and O'Brien, Senate Democratic per cent of the 1957 average - tion picture 'included incre
leader Mike Mansfield of Montana but was unchanged from January, output of iron and steel. Howe
told newsmen: 1961. production of auto parts, bu
"The administration wants the The board's monthly "National ing materials, and some other c
House bill, and we're going to try Summary of Business Conditions" able materials continued to
to get it." said: cline.

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