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VV Planting Evil i Riesel's Column- Hoffa Meets Mystery Man There can be no doubt that these Hoffa Velson gabfests were held. Confirmation comes from a particularly unimpeachable source in this instance. That source is James Hoffa himself. His admission came during questioning by the McClellan. Committee's racket busting Bob Kennedy on the afternoon of Sept.

16 testimony which has been overlooked by the public, but which has national labor circles buzzing. They had not expected this. Hoffa 's admission came when. Kennedy sprung a sudden question during the long duel which will burn like acid through the history of this decade. Kennedy asked Hoffa if he knew" Irving Charles Velson.

Hoffa said he did. He said he had known him for about a year. Kennedy quit sparring and landed one. "You've had conferences with him, have you not?" the committee's chief counsel asked. "That is right," Hoffa replied.

He also said the sessions were held in New York. "That is in connection with the association the possible association with Harry Bridges organ- By VICTOR RIESEL -For more than a year now James Hoffa has been meeting secretly with a mysterious New York waterfront operajive. That man is Irving Charles Velson, of many aliases. He has been charged during a Senate Internal Security Committee hearing with being an aide of a Soviet master spy who acted as liaison between the American Communist underground and the Soviet secret police. The Hoffa Velson conferences have been held in New York which soon will be the setting for the first meeting of the new Conference on Transportation Unity.

In the past week Hoffa and his aides have been making transcontinental telephone calls inviting unions in land, air and sea transportation to that parley. One of those invited is Harry Bridges' left wing International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, the Pacific Coast dockwallopers. In the long talks with Hoffa, the western longshoremen have been represented by Velson except at the "summit" meetings between Hoffa and Bridges himself. ization on the West Coast?" asked Kennedy. Hcffa said that was right.

Then Kennedy asked Hoffa if the Teamster chief knew that Velson had refused, before a Congressional probing committee, to answer "whether he (Velson) has peen or was presently a member of the Communist Party; whether he had been a national military director of the Young Communist League, or whether he had been in secret contact in the 40's with one Rolf Hudson, a top Communist Party Finally, Kennedy asked if Hoffa knew that Velson had refused during the same hearings, to say whether or not he (Velson) "work-1 ed in the underground of the Communist Party with Alexander Stevens, also known as Jay Peters. Were you aware of all that?" After conferring with his counsel, Hoffa said he knew nothing about that. "I have no knowledge of anything that Velson docs except the discussions I had with, him," Hot-fa asserted. Retorted Kennedy: "I thought you were interested from the conversations that you have had before this committee on prior occasions. whether there was any Communist background on any individual with whom you were associated." The Editorial Page BENEATH THE SURFACE The United States has once again forestalled General Assembly debate on the question of admitting Communist China to the United Nations.

The U. S. resolution, which postpones formal consideration of the matter for at least a year, was adopted by an Assembly vote of 44 to 28, with 9 abstentions. Beneath the surface of that victory there are things that need pondering. The most striking aspect of the vote emerges when it is compared with previous balloting on the same question.

The United States resolution won slightly more than 54 per cent of all Assembly votes this time. That compares with a little over 59 per cent in 1957, and 70 per cent in 1955. The decline suggests. that we may not again be able to keep the Red China question off the General Assembly agenda. Perhaps even more important are the reasons for this dwindling support of the U.

S. position. One potent reason is that the makeup of the United Nations has changed greatly since 1955. Prior to that time; it was always easy for the United States to command big Assembly majorities. But since then more than 20 nations have been added to the U.

N. roster. These include four members of the Soviet European bloc, a few so-called neutrals, and a number of Asian and African nations that cannot be counted on for more than sporadic support of United States positions. There are other important factors in this country's declining U. N.

power. Part of that decline springs from opposition to some elements of our foreign policy, including our heavy leaning to military rather than economic foreign aid, and the stress we place, on developing military alliances. Even the 20-nation Latin American group, which we have always been able to count on, has showed signs of unrest. All in all, our victory on the Red China resolution had its disheartening undertones. The Pennsylvania Siory- Dems Repeat Issue of State Unemployment War Bobby Fischer, the chess whiz, is described as an "average teen-ager." It's about like picking the prettiest girl in town and naming her Miss Average Girl.

Washington Merry Threatens By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Allied diplomats aren't advertising it, but they are daily more concerned over the U. S. -Chinese deadlock, They (ear that the rest of the world may be pulled into a war which they will have to fight. This was the reason for the secret huddle between British Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd with Russian Foreign Minister Gromyko. Lloyd got nowhere.

He found Gromyko unwilling to lift a finger to influence the Red Chinese. This fear has now spread to Eisenhower himself and he has made almost frantic pleas to John Foster Dulles to make sure Chiang Kai-shek does not pull us into war on the Chinese mainland. It was because of the President's worry that Adm, Harry Felt, U. S. Commander in the Pacific, recently held a three-hour conference with Chiang.

Chiang had been threatening to go it alone if the United States made a deal with Red China at Warsaw, and Felt cabled the National Security Council after his three-hour talk that Chiang was still threatening to go it alone. The Admiral reported that Chiang was threatening not only to attack the Chinese shore batteries but to reinvade the Chinese mainland. He told the Admiral that the Chinese people would hail his return as a conquering hero and join the battle to overthrow the Communists. Admiral Felt reported to Washington that there was no question but that Chiang hoped to expand the Quemoy crisis into a full scale war which HE STARTED ZANE GREY Alvah James, 79, the newspaper man who aided the career of Zane Grey, died recently at Lackawaxen, in the very home where Grey lived. James was something of a Huckleberry Finn himself, starting as a youngster in Whitestone, Va.

He and a boyhood friend took a rowboat and with a home-made sail, spent a year going up the Atlantic coast to the Hudson River, thence to the St. Lawrence and down jto New Brunswick and Maine, before heading back to Virginia. In later trips James hiked across the Isthmus of Panama, sailed to Peru, climbed the Andes and floated down the Amazon on a raft! He had worked on the Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer and several papers in the South. More than half a century ago he opened the romance of the West to Zane Grey, introducing him to Col. C.

J. (Buffalo) Jones, the frontiersman and hunter, who became the focus of Grey's "The Last of the Plainsmen." A few hours after his beloved wife died on Sept. 21, Mr. James also expired. He was a cousin of the late Edwin L.

James, former managing editor of The New York Times. Hoffa said, "Thanks for the information. I will take care of it." What surprised informed labor circles was Hoffa's strategic tactical error and incomplete briefing revealed by the Velson conferences. Two of Hoffa's advisers are considered to be among the shrewdest, best informed experts on the American Communist movement. These are the so-called egg-heads of the Teamos, vice-president Har-old Gibbons and public mail and counsellor, Edward Cheyfitz.

Both are former CIO officios. Both were in a position to know that Irving Charles Velson was ousted from the Marine and Shipbuilding Workers Union by its president, John Grogan, for pro-Communist activities. The conclu-sion in labor circles is that either Gibbon and Cheyfitz are not as de-tailedly informed as they were reputed to be or that they did not know of the Hoffa-Velson whisperings for some curious reason. Hoffa's testimony could well crack the egg heads in his desk set. Their value to Hoffa stems from their contacts with intellectuals, respectable political groups and industrial circles.

They can survive being red-faced over the parade of big Teamo muscle through the McClellan Committee hearing room. But red-hued Velsons are another matter. So They Say INDIANAPOLIS -Vice Presi-dent Richard M. Nixon, on Repub-lican chances in the elections this fall: "We will lose if we continue to backpedal and to allow ourselves to be a punching bag for tlie cheap below-the-belt cracks ot Harry Truman and his ilk." NEW YORK Godfrey P. Schmidt, court-appointed monitor of the Teamsters Union, on charges by Teamster boss James Hoffa that Schmidt solicited and received contributions from employers and employer groups: "I know there is no conflict of interest." MIAMI Federal Judge Harold R.

Medina, in asserting spiritual forces are the greatest weapons against Communism: "All history gives the lie to the theory that everything is done for, money. In fact, no big hing ever has been accomplished without a spiritual force." SAN FRANCISCO Harry S. Truman, asked about his grandson while ringing doorbells for the Democratic Party: "My grandson walks, runs and talks all the time just like his granddaddy." RICHTER rirhts rem 14 I ays we're not. book that says bubble baths a Go Roupd to Spread would pave the way for his return to power. The secret conference between Felt and Chiang was the backstage reason for the blunt announcement in Washington later that the United States was not unleashing Chiang Kai-shek to bomb or invade the Chinese mainland.

In other words, the Eisenhower administration finds itself in exactly the same position as the Truman administration when, during the 1952 elec tion, Eisenhower was criticizing Truman for not unleashing Chiang Kai-shek. End of a Mystery Man Having played some part in first exposing Henry Grunewald, the mystery man, it may seem paradoxical for me to say a kind word for him now. Henry's trail first crossed mine when I was investigating the manner in which friends and agents of Pan American Airways were listening in on the conversations of Howard Hughes, head of Trans World Airlines in Washington. Grunewald and Lt. Joe Shimon of the Washington police force engineered some of these wire taps, Grunewald was guilty of a lot of finagling.

But the more I saw of him the more I became convinced that he was a small tool used by big operators. When it came time to take the rap, be took it. I have spent hours trying to get Grunewald to talk about the big companies which employed him. He wouldn't talk. He remained loyal to the end.

He tried to write his memoirs to make a little money for his court costs. But the memoirs were valueless without the story of who employed him. The story neva (Oct. 31) to discuss the suspension of nuclear tests under an international control system. The West wants to use this occasion for a resumption of broader disarmament considerations, Russia wants an unconditional suspension of tests.

The subject of Red China probably will then crop up. Such demand could in present circumstances in effect bloc any further disarmament negotiations for an indefinite period. Until now Russia has carefully bypassed the issue of Red Chinese participation in arms cut negotiations. Issue Not Raised She has done so despite the Tact that both the West's and her own disarmament proposals provided for a reduction of Communist Chinese armed forces as well as their own in any future global arrangement. Nor did Moscow raise the issue when earlier this year East and West debated the convocation of a conference of scientists from both camps in Geneva to examine to possibilities of nuclear explosions detection.

At one time there was a hitch in these preliminary talks when Russia tried to back out; it was then assumed that Peiping had attempted to veto the meeting because it had been left out in the cold. However, the Geneva conference took place and its- Eastern representatives in fact recommended with their Western colleagues that a test detection control system should be spread worldwide that would have to include China. Autumn's obvious elements are arriving. The leaves are turning and coming down and the days are varying between periods of clouds and occasional sunshine. ial "sales tax and unemployment." In 1954 It will be recalled, the nation and Pennsylvania was fighting what is now known as the 1954 "recessive dip." Unemployment rolls of the Keystone State, as elsewhere, were mounting.

Pennsylvania unemployment became a hot issue with Democratic candidates. The recession as it affected Pennsylvania at the time was blamed on then in office Republican administration of Gov. Fine. Democratic candidate Leader pledged repeatedly that if elected governor, tackling the unemployment problem would be a key point of his administration a his administration would handle the problem. It is certainly a truism that tackling the unemployment problem actually became one of key points of the Democratic administration of Gov.

Leader. However it is also a truism that the nation's economy as a whole picked up considerably in 1955 and 1956 carrying Pennsylvania along with it. Riding the crest was the Leader Administration. The 1957 decline, however, clouded the picture. Pennsylvania's unemployment rolls began to soar along with unemployment throughout the nation.

The1 simple fact is that unemployment in Pennsylvania during the Leader Administration reached its highest point since the end of World War II, as statistics of the own Department of Labor and Industry point out. This of course has not been peculiar to the Keystone State. It is a trend generally followed throughout the nation. Yet with all this, the very same issue that Democrats used to advantage on a Republican administration four years ago has become a prime campaign issue with Democrats in the gubernatorial race this year! There is a decided functional difference however. Instead of blaming themselves as the administration this time.

Secondly, the area redevelopment assistance bill passed by this year's Democratic controlled Congress (without an appropriation) and vetoed by Republican President Eisenhower, much to the disgruntlement of Mr. Leader who bustled to Washington on several occasions in support of the legislation, has become a top campaign issue for Democrats of the Keystone State. STRICTLY IKS. Kiof Features Syndicate, Inc. World "There's nothing in the rule allowed to take By MASON DENISON HARRISBURG It is ironical perhaps that one of the big basic issues of Pennsylvania's current gubernatorial campaign insofair as Democrats are concerned should center around the Keystone State's unemployment problem.

The irony of all this lies in the fact that it was just four years ago that then hopeful Democrats headed by now Gov. Leader plugged the unemployment issue to the hilt. Today, four. years later the very same issue has been made a key issue by Democratic office seekers. Gov.

Leader, at the time of his candidacy in 1954 when asked by this column to serve as guest writer for a day on the subject of what he thought were the basic issues of that campaign, spelled it out pointedly as the then controvers- 22 Years Ago SEPTEMBER 30, 1936 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wheeler of Santa Ana, are guests of the former's cousin, Mrs. Damon C. Barlow, and family.

Rev. A. C. McClelland, of Denver, is visiting his sister, Mrs. C.

J. Crawford, and brother, R. W. McClelland, in Franklin. One hundred fifty persons attended the Sieak dinner at Franklin Club Tuesday evening, which marked the opening of fall and winter activities at the club.

Improvements made during the summer months include remodeling of the "oyster reconditioning of the bowling alleys and a game room on the first floor, Beginning Saturday, Oct. 3, night club dancing and entertainment will be a feature, with Chic Far-rell and his orchestra playing this week. A very pretty wedding took place Saturday, when Miss Pauline Romaine Wallace, daughter of Mrs. Helena Wallace, of Pardee, became the bride of James A. Rodgers, son of Mrs.

Christine Rodgers, of this place. The ceremony was performed in St. Anne's Church at Pardoe, and the couple will reside in Grove City. Mrs. Albert Fricke and Mrs.

Frank McDaniel were hostesses at a prettily appointed party on Tuesday evening at the latter's home, 1122 A Buffalo Street, honor-ing Mr. and Mrs. Alan A. Brown, a recent bride and groom. Mrs.

Brown was formerly Miss Janet Marie Hefferman. Mrs. R. B. Barnes captured first prize in the women's golf event at the Wanango Country Club today.

Other good scores were turned in by Mrs. A. R. McGill, Mrs. A.

C. Burwell, Mrs. C. E. Cox and Miss Gertrude Lucas.

The registration bureau in the Court House will be kept cpen Friday evening until 9 o'clock and until 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon to give tardy voters their last opportunity to register. The Cushing-Hutton artists, the second number of the Collins Festival series of entertainments will be presented at the Baptist auditorium Thursday evening. The artists will appear before the Ki-wanians in the Park Hotel at noon. 44 YEARS AGO-SepU 30, 1914 While one of the agitators at the Eclipse Oil Works was being cleaned this afternoon, the building took fire and in a few minutes the entire interior of the large building, which was probably 40 by 100 feet, was a mass of flames. Sparks from the fire fell onto the roof of the barrel house, and it soon was ablaze.

As far as could be learned, no person had been injured up to 3:45 o'clock, and by that time the fire in barrel house had been extinguished and the other fire was almost under control. remains untold and, with his death, will, never be told. Certain powerful executives on Madison Avenue and Wall Street can now quit worrying; Grunewald died lonely find Without friends. He had befriended many. When Richard Nixon was running for the U.S.

Senate in California and needed money, Grunewald sent his personal check for $5,000. But Nixon wasn't around to help him last week. NLxon helped Congressman Adam Clayton Powell. of Harlem to delay a tax prosecution. Powell had influence over the Negro vote.

Grunewald had lost his influence. Grunewald had been convicted of fixing a tax case, but the U. S. Supreme Court set aside the verdict. Tried again on the same charge, a hung jury refused to convict.

That should" have ended it. But last week, the Justice Department notified' Grunewald he had to stand trial again on Oct. 6. On the day he received that, news he suffered a stroke from which he never recovered. The Justice Department in this administration has hounded Lamar Caudle, who ed nothing, and Matt Connelly who received two suits and an overcoat from a tax evader who was convicted.

Connelly was certainly imprudent but he got far less than Sherman Adams got from Bernard Goldfine, who has not been prosecuted for his various tax arrears, violations of the wool labeling act, and eight-year delay in filing reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Adams, you can be sure, will not be prosecuted. Neither will Chairman Len Hall, whom the House Government Operations Committee has accused of violating the Corrupt Practices Act, nor the other conflict-of-interest officials to resign from this administration. They have influence in high places. Henry Grunewald, the one-time influence peddler, had lost his influence.

So, notified that he would have to face the expensive, grueling ordeal of another court trial, Oct. 6, Henry quietly passed on to another world where influence doesn't count. Washington Pipeline GOP Chairman Meade Alcorn has warned the White House that the Quemoy crisis may cost the Republicans millions of votes. It will rob the Republicans of their best campaign slogan against the Democrats that the Democrats are "the party of war." Chief Justice Earl Warren did some backstage parleying with Justice Tom Clark of Texas to persuade Clark to go along with the Court's unanimous decision against any further school integration delay at Little Rock. Clark at first was for a delay, but bowed to Warren's plea that the Supreme Court could not kowto to mob violence.

Grab Bag IT HAPPENED TODAY 32 A. D. Feast of St. Jerome, commemerating birth date of one of the four great Latin church fathers. 1777 Continental Congress convened at York, Pa.

1938 At Munich meeting, Britain, France and Germany agreed to dismember Czechoslovakia; Neville Chamberlain delivered his "peace in our time" message in London. HAPPY BIRTHDAY To Ralph Forbes, actor; Fa-Jien Sevitsky, conductor; Deborah Kerr, actress, and Kenny Baker, actor-singer. Foreign News Commentary Russia, Via China Has Blocked Disarmament The British government's removal of many restrictions on installment buying will be helpful if accompanied by facilities for installment paying. It's a matter of record that the American yacht Columbia won all four contests from the British contender Zephyr. And it took good sailing to do it! With the first month of school having slipped by, young America is pretty well convinced that learning is serious business this year.

Never underestimate the interest and potentialities of our boys and girls. A sunny, cheerful Monday is a big help for any week, especially this one with more problems (and more bills) than usual. Bankers can be your best friends. Be kind to 'em. Thev're human, too! By K.

C. THALER LONDON (UPD- Soviet Russia has thrown a new monkey-wrench into the disarmament debate which may block any major arms-cut accord for an indefinite period. In a thinly veiled warning Russia virtually served notice on the West that there would be no solution of the disarmament problem without Red China's participation. This was the reading by diplomatic experts of a seemingly casual remark by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko during an oration at the United Nations Assembly in support of Communist China's admission to the world organization. Gromyko, pleading for the Pei-ping's regime admission to the U.N.

said until this happened many important questions such as disarmament could not be dealt with properly. This was Moscow's way of saying that Red China will have to participate in future in disarmament negotiations if they are to get anywhere. Fits into Pattern The move fits into the picture of latest developments in the Sino-Russian alignment and gives fresh support to recent indications Communist China's growing pressure on the Kremlin. So far Moscow has not yet formally raised the point. But judging from previous experience Western diplomats expected to be confronted with a demand for Red sChinese participation when disarmament issue is revived.

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