Congress Begins Session;
U.S.
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Voting
To Discuss
Civil Rights,
Other Issues
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Air Force Plans Test
Of New Missile Alarm
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Opening Conducted
By Nixon, Rayburn
WASHINGTON (P) - Congress
began its election-year session
yesterday amid handshaking and
backslapping.'
But Democratic leaders lined up
civil rights and other issues cer-
tain to end the bipartisan good-
fellowship quickly..
The Senate and House were
caled to order as the clock struck
noon. Only the opening" prayers
stilled the chatter of members
greeting each other after a four-
month interval.
Wielding the gavel in the, Sen-
ate was Vice-President Richard
' M. Nixon, more than ever before
a center of attention now that he
is rated a shoo-in for the Repub-
lican Presidential nomination.
In the House, the familiar bald-
domed figure of Speaker Sam
Rayburn (D-Texas) was given a
standing ovation when he walked
in to preside over the opening
ceremonies. Rayburn has been
speaker for 15 years--longer than
any other in history. For him the
day had added significance. It
was his 78th birthday.
This first day of the 86th Con-
gress' second session was devoted
to preliminaries, such as the
swearing in of two new members
-- Sen. Norman Brunsdale (R-
N.D.) and Rep. John Kyl (R-
Iowa).
Today President Dwight D.
Eisenhower will drive up to Capi-
tol Hill and, before a joint ses-
sion, tell Congress what he ex-
pects of it.
CAPE CANAVERAL MP - The
Air Force expects next month to
make the first flight test for Proj-
ect Midas, a satellite system de-
signed to provide the United
States with an almost instant
warning of a missile attack.
Midas, which stands for Missile
Defense Alarm System, wil use in-
frared sensing devices to detect an
Intercontinental Range Ballistic
Missile (ICBM) the moment it is.
launched.
The alarm would be flashed im-
mediately to this nation, which
then would have about 30 minutes
to prepare for a nuclear bom-
bardment. This is the approxi-
mate travel time for an ICBM.
This is short notice. But it is
twice the warning which will be
given by the giant radar screens
of the Ballistic Missile Early
Warning System (BMEWS).
These radar dishes, expected to
go into operation late this year
in Greenland and Alaska, are
geared to spot an ICBM header
toward America after it has been
airborne about 15 minutes.
The extra 15 minutes provided
by Midas would be immensely val-
uable in activating defense and
retaliatory measures.
This nation's liquid-fuel ICBMs,
which have a minimum operation-
al countdown of 15 minutes, would
have more time to get off the
ground, out of the way of the at-
tacking missiles and on the way
to enemy targets.
Strategic Air Command planes
would have additional time to get
into the air.
Thousands more persons could
reach protective shelters.
Officials emphasize that only
research and development phases
of the Midas system will be
handled at Cape Canaveral. Sev-
eral experimental launchings, in-
cluding the first one scheduled for
February, will be made here to test
vehicle design, electronic systems
and ground support equipment.
The infra-red technique will be
tested during rocket firings from
the Cape.
Operational Midas satellites will
be fired from Vandenberg Air
Force Base, Calif., probably be-
ginning in 1961.,
It is believed that five or six
operational satellites, launched
into polar orbit at different times,
would provide complete and con-
stant scanning of the earth's sur-
face.
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Not in Favor
Of Federal
Registrars
Proposal To Comat'
Negro Discrimination'
WASHINGTON (P)-The Eisen-
hower Administration was report-,
ed yesterday to look with disfavor,
on a proposal to use federal vot-
ing registrars as a means of over-,
coming discrimination against
Negroes.
Sources within the executive de-
partment said key Administration
officials had decided against back-
ing this highly controversial rec-
ommendation of the Civil Rights
Commission.
In line with this report, Senator
Everett M. Dirksen (R-Il.) told
newsmen at the start of yester-
day's Congressional session he
does not think President Dwight
D. Eisenhower will submit any ad-
ditional civil rights measures.
'Waving Red Flag'
Dirksen, the Senate's Republi-
can leader, compared the plan for
federal voting registrars to wav-
ing "a red flag" in the face of
Southern foes who have denounced
it as an unconstitutional invasion
of states' rights.
There were advance rumblings
of a battle over civil rights legis-
lation even before the legislators
had settled into their seats.
Speaker of the House Sam Ray-
burn (D-Texas) told a news con-
ference a bill can be passed by the
House within two weeks if enough
members want it.
A measure embodying most but
not all of Eisenhower's civil rights
proposals last year is now bottled
up in the House Rules Committee,
dominated by a coalition of
Southern Democrats and Repub-
licans.
Rayburn said the easy way to
shake this bill loose and get it to
the floor would be for a majority
of the 437 House members to sign
a petition to take it away from the
Rules Committee.
Lacks Signatures
Such a discharge petition is be-
fore the House but lacks the re-
quired 219 signatures.
Rayburn said he was not advo-
cating this course and had never
signed a discharge petition him-
self. He said he was just point-
ing out how a bill could be brought
up if enough members want it.
Across the Capitol, Senate Ma-
jority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson
(D-Texas) told newsmen, "I think
it is obvious that Congress will
consider and act on a civil rights
bill at this session."
The civil rights issue is closely
linked to political maneuvering
this Presidential election year.
Johnson, who is being pushed by
Rayburn, for the Democratic Pres-
idential nomination, recalled that
Senate leaders agreed last ses-
sion to take up civil rights legisla-
tion by Feb. 15.
A denauer
Threatens
A nti-Jews
BONN (JP) - Chancellor Kon-
rad Adenauer and his top aides
last night ordered swift court ac-
tion against all Germans accused
of anti-Semitic activity.
A communique issued after an
extraordinary cabinet meeting
also called for speedy enactment-
of a bill to stiffen penalties
against persons "stirring up hat-
red against groups because of
their natural origin." The present
law limits the penalty to three
months in jail.
The meeting agreed unanimous-
ly "that cases under investigation
should be brought to court as
quickly as possible and that the
penalties should correspond to the
severity of the misdeeds," the
communique said.
Adenauer called the meeting to
discuss ways of dealing with the
wave of anti-Semitism that began
in Germany Christmas Eve and
has spread around the world.
The conference was called
shortly after government spokes-
men said their investigations so
far' has failed to produce any evi-
dence of a concerted neo-Nazi
campaign against the Jews in
Germany.
Mostauthorities, German and
foreign, took the position, the
desecration of synagogues, the
painting of swastikas and anti-
Semitic slogans on walls and the
threatening of Jews was chiefly
the work of hoodlums and crack-
pots.
Adenauer has said there are in-
dications of "a planned action de-
signed to discredit the federal
government in the eyes of the
world."
New outbreaks were reported
yesterday in West Germany, West
Berlin, Belgium, Italy, Greece,
Norway, Mexico, Argentina, the
United States and elsewhere.
The German Jewish Council
filed slander charges against
Friedrich Schmidt of Bonn, mem-
ber of the right-wing German
Reich Party. The Council ac-
cused him of telling a party meet-
ing Dec. 34 that a synagogue is
not a house of God.
Judrge Vews
Advancement
Circuit Court Judge James R.
Breakey said yesterday that com-
plete cooperation of law enforce-
ment officers, local attorneys, the
University, and other agencies is
contributing to an efficient ad-
ministration of justice in Wash-
tenaw County.
Addressing an audience of Ann
Arbor Rotarians, the judge noted
two accomplishments by friends
of the court: the automatic col-
lection of alimony and the pro-
vision for a marriage counselor.
Breakey also noted another
achievement in the financing of
the probation department. The
collection of fines is now provid-
ing two to four thousand dollars
more than the department re-
ceives annually from the county.
Every attempt will be made to
improve the court in the future,
Breakey said.
WASHINGTON(P) - Sen.
Frank J. Lausche (D - Ohio)
threatened yesterday to try to
spoil a plan to sew up Ohio's 64
Democratic Presidential delegates
for Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-
Mass.).
Denouncing the plan as having
"no sense of democracy," Lausche
said he might run a slate of Pres-
idential delegates of his own
against the Kennedy delegation
headed by Gov. Michael Vb Di-
Salle.
Unless he runs, too, Lausche
said, "Ohio Democrats will have
no opportunity to express a
choice" for the Presidential, nom-
inee. Lausche hasn't -saidywhom
he supports.
Gets New Plug-
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-
Texas), a potential rival of Ken-
nedy for the Democratic nomina-
tion, got a new plug- yesterday
from Speaker of the House Sam
Rayburn (D-Texas), who told a
news c on fe re n ce Johnson's
chances are very good.
Questioned about Rayburn's
statement, Johnson said he Is
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY:
Lausche Threatens Kennedy in Ohio
standing on his previous state-
ment that he is not a candidate
for the nomination and does not
expect to get it, but would take
another look if the convention in-
dicated it wants him.
Rayburn said that, contrary to
some published reports, he has
not discussed the possibility of
getting former President Harry S.
Truman to back Johnson. Ray-
burn said, however, he would be
glad to accept any supporthe
could get.
May Reject Chair
Rayburn is expected to an-
nounce soon that he does not want
to be permanent chairman of the
Democratic convention, a post he
has held for the last three party
meetings, because he wants to be
free to advance Johnson's cause.
ISome of Kennedy's supporters
here said -- perhaps hopefully --
that Lausche won't follow through
with his proposal to run as a f a-
vorite son in Ohio. He has been a
powerful vote getter in the state,
in which he served five terms as
governor.
Rep. Wayne Hays (D-Ohio), a
Kennedy candidate for delegate
and a long-time political foe of
Lausche, told a reporter he hopes
Lausche does run.
May Expose Record
"This would give us a chance
to expose his miserable record as
a senator to the people of Ohio,"
Hays said.
If Lausche does compete as a
favoriteson-- and he said this
depends ion whether he can line
up a delegate slate before the Feb.
3 deadline -- Kennedy's plans for
the Ohio May 3 primary could
well be changed.
Unopposed, Kennedy had
planned to concentrate on other
states, leaving Ohio to Disalle.
But with Lausche also running,
Kennedy would face a different
situation.
Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-.
Minn.), for example, told a re-
porter that in those circumstances
Kennedy might be forced to cam-
paign in Ohio on his own. °
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