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Adenauer Fights
Free Democratic
Attacks on Rule
BONN (P)-Konrad Adenauer faced yesterday a crisis that threat-
ened his 13-year career as West Germany's first and only chancellor.
But the 86-year-old leader, a cagey politician, appeared to be
holding his ground.
He has until tomorrow to answer demands of the conservative
Free Democrats-partners \ in a coalition with Adenauer's Christian
Democrats-for the firing of two top civil servants involved in a dis-
pute over the government's order for the arrest of top executives of
the widely read news magazine
POLITICAL LARGESSE?:
Announce Federal Projects
Macdonald Tells of Red China Advance
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KONRAD ADENAUER
... scandal shocked
WORSHIP:
May Declare
Church View
On Lfierty
VATICAN CITY (P)-Belief was
widely expressed yesterday that
the Roman Catholic Ecumenical
Council will take a strong stand
in behalf of religious liberty.
1 Bishops from several countries
say they expect the meeting to
produce a positive pronouncement
affirming the right of all men to
worship according to the dictates
of their own consciences.
"This would be in keeping with
the spirit of the church," Arch-
bishop Eugene D'Souza, of Nap-
pur, India, said. "I think the coun-
cil will give definite expression to
the rights of freedom of belief and
worship."
The matter has sometimes been
a source of friction between Ro-
man Catholics and Protestants, as
in predominantly Catholic Spain
and some Latin American coun-
tries, where Protestants have com-
plained of restrictions.
Der Spiegel. They are held on
suspicion of treason.
The Free Democrats have threat-
ened to pull out of the coalition,
thus laying open a road for Ade-
nauer's ouster.
Hold Balance
Adenauer's party holds 241 seats
in the Bundestag (parliament).
The Free Democrats threw in their
67 seats to give Adenauer a clear
majority over the opposition Social
Democrats, with 191.
Adenauer's troubles spring from
the cloak of secrecy surrounding
the arrest of the publisher and
four editors of Der Spiegel. Friday
night, an army colonel was added
to the list of the arrested.
Justice Minister W o l f g a n g
Stammberger, a Free Democrat,
charged he was bypassed by gov-
ernment officials in the investiga-
tion and arrest. He has submitted
his resignation but said he would
withdraw it if Adenauer met con-
ditions he has set down. Four oth-
er Free Democrats in the cabinet
have pledged to follow Stamm-
berger out if he decides to do so.
Critical Article
Der Spiegel, consistently criti-
cal of Adenauer and his govern-
ment, allegedly published military
secrets in an Oct. 10 issue on Gen.
Friedrich Foertsch, chief of staff
of the West German armed forces.
The article created no big stir
when it came out. Legal action
taken more than twonweeks later,
however, caused an u p r o a r
throughout the country. Fears
have been expressed that freedom
of the press is threatened and
Nazi-like methods reintroduced to
silence opposition.
The Free Democrats held a long,
heated meeting Friday and pre-
pared a letter demanding the
ouster of the No. 2 men in the de-
fense and justice ministries who,
they maintain, shared in the re-
sponsibility for keeping Stamm-
berger from being informed. In ef-
fect, 4the letter is an ultimatum
to Adenauer to guarantee that his
Christian Democratic party will
attempt no future one sided ma-
neuvers and instead cooperate with
its coalition partner.
WASHINGTON (P)-New federal
projects to cost a half-billion dol-
lars were hustled into view of the
nation's voters in the week before
elections.
The steady stream of contracts,
grants and loans will provide
something for every major sector
of the electorate-big cities, towns
and urban areas, farmers and in-
dustry.
One big chunk of pre-election
spending announcements stemmed
from President John F. Kennedy's
allocation of the first $165 million
of the recently enacted $400-mil-
lion accelerated public works pro-
gram.
High Gear
Federal agencies quickly went
into high gear assigning the mon-
ey to qualified projects ranging
from multi-million dollar grants
to rebuild city slum areas to con-
struction of recreational facilities
in a remote Alaksa moose range.
The outpouring of government
largesse presumably will benefit
both Republicans and Democrats,
and there were no complaints from
Republican congressmen that their
states weren't getting their share.
But one GOP campaign spokesman
said the timing of the announce-
ments "seems to be a political
means of favoring the Democrats."
The spokesman, Paul Theis of
the GOP Congressional Campaign
Committee said there was "no
question" it would give campaign-
ing Democrats a boost.
Two Slow
An official of the Democratic
National Committee, S a m u e 1
Brightman, retorted, "if we were
not doing normal business they
would find fault with that and say
we were too slow."
Democratic members of Con-
gress, at any rate, seemed to have
more new federal projects to an-
nounce during the week than GOP
members-perhaps because Demo-
crats are much more numerous in
Congress.
In government protocol, mem-
bers of Congress are usually given
first whack at announcing a new
project in their states.
Sen. Clair Engle (D-Calif) an-
nounced the week's biggest single
item-a $320 million contract from
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration to a Cali-
fornia missile firm.
A NASA spokesman said the
contract, for development of the
Saturn moon rocket, was awarded
routinely and the timing was
"coincidental."
MESC Reveals
Jobless Drop
DETROIT ()-The Michigan
Employment Security Commission
(MESC) said yesterday that the
number of unemployed workers in
Michigan fell 12,000 in the period
from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.
The MESC said 128,000 workers
were out of jobs as of Oct. 15, com-
pared to 140,000 Sept. 15.
The 128,000 figure represents 4.5
per cent of the state's total labor
force and is the lowest unemploy-
ment figure since December, 1955
when 83,000 were unemployed.
HONG KONG ( - rMalcolm
Macdonald said yesterday Red
China has turned the corner but
will require decades before its
leaders accomplish the "gigantic
task" of turning it into a modern
industrial and agricultural state.
The former co-chairman of the
Geneva conference on Laos arrived
in Hong Kong yesterday after a
four-week tour of Communist
China. He said he covered 7,000
miles and had several long talks
with Premier Chou En-Lai and
'other leaders.
"The people and government of
China are confident but not com-
placent," he told a news confer-
ence. "They know and admit they
are still inexperienced in many
modern affairs and the task of
turning their colossal teeming
country into a modern industrial
and agricultural state is gigantic.
Optimism Disappears
"Earlier optimism that this can
be done very quickly has disap-
peared and more sober calculations
that it will take at least several
decades have been confirmed," he
added.
Macdonald predicted it would
take "a considerable number of
years" before Red China is inde-
pendent agriculturally and "many
more years than that" before it
achieved this industrially.
He said the Chinese now realize
they must rely on their own labor
and resources and can depend on
U.S. Pilot .Dies
In Viet Nam
SAIGON (P) - A United States
Army sergeant feeding ammuni-
tion to a machinegun aboard his
escort helicopter was fatally
wounded yesterday as the South
Viet Nam government scored one
of its biggest successes in months
against Communist guerrillas.
Another escort helicopter pilot
had a narrow escape-a bullet
pierced his armored vest just over
the heart.
Five HU-1A helicopters escorted
10 other helicopters lifting a bat-
talion of Vietnamese troops into a
battle 60 miles southwest of Sai-
gon where Viet Cong guerrillas
nearly overran an outpost in the
Vinh Long area Wednesday. The
government launched a counter-
attack that has been going on
since.
CHARGES-Former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon (left) and
New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller were among the major candi-
dates who are accused of dirty or misleading politics by their op-
position. Other leading incumbents face charges of corruption in
their administration.
Charges of Fraud Enliven
Closing Days of Campaign
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MUSKET '62 proudly announces
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Charges of
fraud and dirty politics have mark-
ed closing days of key election
races across the country.
In Michigan, George Abrams of
the Committee for Honest Elec-
tions plans to continue his cam-
paign against Detroit vote fraud
Tuesday despite a court injunc-
tion barring the "intimidation of
voters" and reported charges by
state Democratic chairman John
See Election Special, Pages 4A-D
J. Collins that Abrams' operation
is a Republican scheme to scare
Negro voters from the polls.
New York City Mayor Robert
Wagner came up last week with
charges against incumbent GOP
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller to enliven
an otherwise dull race. He accus-
ed Rockefeller of using misleading
pictures in a GOP pamphlet on
public housing. One picture, im-
plied a public housing project in
New York, was actually located in
Chicago, he charged. Another pic-
ture of an alleged tenement is a
Brooklyn industrial building, he
added.
Influence Peddling
The other charges involved in-
fluence peddling for Republicans
in New York City.
Democrats crying "foul" have
accused the GOP of smearing in-
cumbent California Gov. Edmund
G. Brown with campaign pictures
and literature. They have gone into
court and got three injunctions in
the past week aganist some of the
anti-Brown material.
Republicans, countering with
their own smear charges, filed a
$2-million damage suit against the
Democrats Friday and got a court
order against use of two anti-
Nixon leaflets.
Hot Fight
The governorship fight is boil-
ing hot with corruption charges in
Ohio, too, in the race between in-
cumbent Democrat Michael V. Di-
Salle and Republican state audi-
tor James A. Rhodes.
DiSalle has prodded a grand jury
into investigating charges of fraud
in the auditor's office in the ren-
tal and purchase of adding ma-
chines. Two independent account-
ing firms looked into the charges
earlier in the week, at Rhodes' re-
quest, and said they found no evi-
dence of fraud.
Personal Attacks
Pennsylvania has been providing
some of tle roughest campaigning
anywhere, with issues all but bur-
ied under personal attacks.
One big matter of dispute: Re-
publican William S c r a n t o n,
wealthy first-term congressman,
has been trumpeting through the
state that corruption blackened his
Democratic opponent Richardson
Dilworth's regime as mayor of
Philadelphia.
Dilworth concedes there has
been some, because few cities are
without it, but that he cleaned it
up.
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no outside help-"and that in-
cludes Russia."
He said Chinese leaders made
no reference to their differences
with the Soviet Union but he did
not seeassingle Soviet technician
during his extensive visits.
He added that he saw no evi-
dence that Red China was on a
war footing except for militant
propaganda against the West and
most recently against India. Chi-
nese leaders in discussions with
him referred to British arms ship-
ments to India but did not protest
them, Macdonald noted.
"They understand our Common-
wealth obligations," the former
British high commissioner to In-
dia said.
Macdonald pointed to the great
uniformity in China and said many
of the answers he received to his
questions were "stock answers."
"The people are generally re-
laxed but it is a Communist state
and the people don't have the
freedoms of opinion and other
freedoms we have in the West," he
said.
"But to the Chinese nature this
makes little difference. The Chi-
nese people are not like us. They
don't want to get up and make
speeches in Hyde Park."
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FLINT-Harlow H. Curtice, one-
time $15-a-week bookkeeper who
became a president of General
Motors Corp., died at his home
yesterday. He was 69.
DAR ES SALAAM - Dr. Julius
Nyerere, head of the Tanganyika
African National Union, yesterday
increased his already overwhelm-
ing lead as ballot-counting con-
tinued in the nation's first presi-
dential election.
TLYER, Tex. -- Veteran court-
room strategist John Cofer de-
clined to call any defense witnesses
yesterday in the Billie Sol Estes
theft and swindle trial. His dra-
matic announcement that the de-
fense rested caught most in the
courtroom by surprise.
HONOLULU-Ships and planes
have moved into position to ob-
serve today's rocket-borne nuclear
test above Johnston Island in the
Pacific.
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