RAGE TWO
Congress Passes
Minimum Wage
WASHINGTON (IP) —The administration won a thump
ing victory in the House yesterday when its minimum wage
bill was approved by a surprising 230496 margin.
Passage by the House completed congressional action on
the controversial measure, to which President Kennedy had
AF Announces
Successful Firing - .
Of Titan Missile
' VANDERBERG AIR FORCE
BASE, Calif, (iP) A huge Titan
missile thundered out of its un
derground lair yesterday in a
successful first test of a "hard
ened" ICBM launch system.
It was intentionally destroyed
about 40 miles down - the Pacific
missile range after surviving two
periods of severe stress. Its range
is 5.000 miles and more.
The test pioneered an armored
underground launch system de
signed to enable the United States
to strike back after atomic at
tack.
CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (/P)
—A forecast of squalls in the
Atlantic cast doubt yesterday
on whether astronaut Alan B.
Shepard Jr. will be able to make
his pioneer flight into space
this week.
The prime goal was to learn if
the two-stage Titan, this coun
try's largest and most powerful
rocket, could survive the flame
and sound-wave punishment of
leaving its hole.
It did, and later came through
another all-out buffeting 20 miles
up.
The Air Force, fearing either
assault might be enough to de
stroy the missle, said it was de
lighted.
The firing took place despite a
40-knot wind that kicked up visi
bility-obscuring dust.
Prosecution Links Eichmann
To Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
JERUSALEM (/P) Th e
proSecution yesterday intro
duced evidence in the trial of
Adolf Eichmann directly link
ing him
,to the tragic chain of
events that led to the doomed
Warsaw ghetto uprising against
the Nazis in 1943.
Prosecutor Gideon Hausner held
back his evidence until the end
of a day of testimony from wit
nesses who took part in the Jew
ish rebellion against numerically
superior and 'better-armed Ger
man troops in the conquered Pol
ish capital.
Hausner introduced a copy of
the minutes of a meeting .Eich
mann 'attended with Nazi Foreign
Ministry officials in April 1942.
The minutes showed that
Eichmann asked Foreign Minis
try representatives to consent
"or to say there is no objection
to extending all security police
measures which may be neces
sary in the interest of preserv
ing public order in the Warsaw
ghetto to all inmates."
Agreement of the ministry was
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given top priority among his leg -1
islative proposals. The Senate ap-'
proved it earlier 64-28.
The bill boosts the existing $l
- minimum wage to $1.25
over a 28-month period and
brings 3.62 million retail and serv
ice industry employes under the
act's coverage for the first time.
Secretary of Labor Arthur J.
Goldberg applauded the action
as a great advance in social leg
islation. He said the bill will
afford "long overdue protection
to a large group of underpriv.
ileged Americans."
"This is the.
first and b'
step toward pr
viding minimu,
wage protectir
to all America,
whom the fed(
al law can a)
propriately co
er," he said.
Twice befog
in the House sit
ilar bills h
gone down to de
feat before a John F. Kennedy
conservative co-
alition of Republicans and South- ,
ern Democrats. Up until yester
day's vote each side was talking
of victory by two or three votes.
Ironically, it was a combina
tion of Southern Democrats and
and big city Republicans that
helped the administration win.
Thirty-three Republicans, most
of them from areas hard hit by
unemployment, bolted the con
servative coalition as did nearly
half the Southern Democrats.
The key to winning Southern
support was a series of exemp
tions for specific groups written
into the bill during a House-Sen
ate conference.
These removed . certain cotton
gin employes, tobacco processors,
livestock auctioneers and others
from coverage.
required, Hausner said, because
Jews of foreign nationality had
'been trapped in the _ghetto after
the 1939 invasion of Poland.
Hausner also submitted docu
ments in which Eichmann report
'
, ed foreign nationals would be
'evacuated from the ghetto.
The prosecutor implied that
Eichmann's request for Foreign
Ministry approval of maximum
security measures was, in effect,
a method of clearing obstacles to
permit a Gestapo clampdown on
the ghetto, where half a million
Jews lived as virtual prisoners.
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G-E Head
Questions
Price Fixing
Bill
WASHINGTON (P) How
could sales people have fixed
prices behind Robert Paxton's
back while he was president
of General Electric? "I must
be pretty damn dumb," he replied
yesterday.
Paxton, who officially retires at
the end of the month, told the
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly
subcommittee he had given sub
ordinates explicit instructions "to
have no truck" with deals to fix
prices.
But, the G-E president contin
ued. his sales people evidently
"went underground" and diso
beyed his orders.
Paxton testifies he found out
about price-fixing 25 years ago
and decided then "I'd have noth
ing to .do with such monkey
business." And, iie added, he
kept his pledge.
"It became rather generally
knovilm that I wasn't receptive to
that kind of conduct," said Pax
ton, who took a leave of absence
from General Electric in January.
because of ill health. '
The white-haired Paxton, who
has earned as much as $300,000
a year as G-E president, agreed
with . Sen. Philip A. Hart, D-Mich.,
that it would have been wiser to
grill employes about their activi
ties rather than simply instruct
them against meeting with com
petitors to fix prices.
He said, however, he .had felt
it was-"sort of a womanish char
acteristic" •to question people
about an activity after they had
been forbidden to take part in it.
Food Stamp Pian
To Begin June 1
HARRISBURG 'W) G o v..
Lawrence yesterday set June 1
for President Kennedy's food;
stamp plan to go into effect in'
Fayette bounty.
The program will provide food
purchase subsidies for some 7,000'
households immediately and pump
between $55,000 and $70,000 a
week into the economy of the de-
I pressed region, Lawrence told his
weekly news conference.
Fayette County is one of the
(eight regions in the U.S. selected
!for pilot programs under the
stamp plan.
The southwestern county is one
of the nation's hardest-hit areas
of chronic unemployment. Pres
ently it has an unemployment
rate of 29.7 per cent of its work
force.
The plan will provide stamps
free to destitute persons with no
income.
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Diplomat Sentenced
As Communist Spy
LONDON (VP) A British
diplomat who was subjected
to Communist brainwashing
attempts as a- captive in Korea
was sentenced yesterday to 42
years in prison for spying for the
Soviet Union.
George. Blake, 38, the father of
three children, was handed the
stiffest prison sentence in modern
British history after pleading
guilty to espionage charges, which
were not published in detail.
Informants said the heavy sen
tence was meant to serve as a
warning and deterrent to others.
Blake is believed to have given
the names of eight British agents
to the Soviet counterespionage ap
paratus during a period of almost
a decade.
Even with time off for good '
behavior Blake, formerly Brit
ish vice consul in Seoul, Korea,
cannot expect to gain his free
dom until he is SS.
For reasons of national security,
Atty. - Gen. Sir Reginald Manning
ham-Buller declined to reveal the
precise nature of the information
communicated to Moscow.
However, he . quoted Blake as
saying in a statement: "I must
freely admit that there was not an
official' document of any impor
tance to which I had access which
was not passed to my Soviet con
tact."
The attorney general explain
ed that Blake saw many impor-
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Pant secret papers but fortun
ately did not get his hands on
documents relating to nuclear
weapons.
Sentence was passed after the
court under Lord Parker, the chief
justice, had been in secret session
only 54 minutes.
During World War 11, Blake
served as a translator in the navy.
With the coming of peace he
joined the Foreign Office where
he learned Russian. At that period
he always seemed to those who
met him as a firm anti7Commu
nist.
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