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FBI information on Congressmen during Hoover years

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two former FBI officials have confirmed that the agency collected ar.d filed information about members of Congress during and after the regime of Director J. Edgar Hoover. FBI officials refused Monday to discuss the reports and the agency’s present policies, but reportedly were drafting a statement expected to be made public today. Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif., qhairman’of a House Judiciary subcommittee responsible for overseeing FBI operations, also was preparing to announce details of subcommittee hearings examining the FBI practice of keeping files on congressmen.

Arab terrorists given refuge by Iraq

PARIS (AP) Three Arab terrorists who held 10 hostages in a Paris airport restroom for 18 hours were finally given refuge by Iraq early today after four other Arab governments refused to take them, an Air France spokesman reported. The terrorists were allowed to leave Paris Monday morning on an Air France Boeing 707 in return for releasing the hostages. The gunmen ordered the

Ghou hints American troop withdrawal

TOKYO (AP) Premier Chou En-lai has given President Ford a broad hint that the Chinese Communist regime would like to see more American troops withdrawn from Taiwan soon. In a “state of the nation” ad-

Senate legislation introduced

INDIANAPOLIS ( AP) - Discounts for cash-paying customers and aban on temporary alcoholic bevei age permits for events such as the Vevay Wine Festival were among 93 measures introduced in the Indiana Senate Monday. Merchants who honor general purpose credit cards would be required to give cash-paying customers at least a three per cent discount under a bill sponsored by Sen. Adam Benjamin Jr., D-Gary. The bill (58439) would apply to any merchant who honors a credit card other than his own. Sen. Martin K. Edwards, RNew Castle, sponsored the Alcoholic Beverage Commission bill. In addition to outlawing temporary ABC permits, the bill (58470) also would increase excise taxes on alcoholic beverages. It also includes provisions for eliminating annual fees for alll liquor permits and for automoatic renewals of licenses following investigation by county liquor boards. The bill apparently does not specifically authorize price-fix-ing by the ABC. ABC officials have said they will not enforce present price-fixing policies without specific guidelines by the 1975 legislature. New cars would be exempted from the state’s 4 per cent sales tax if purchased in the period from Jan. 1, 1975, to three months after the bill becomes law under a measure sponsored by Sen. Thomas J. Teague, DAnderson. A bill requiring no-fault insurance for motor Vehicles was filed by Sen. Gene Snowden, RHuntington. Benjamin also introduced a bill (58441) that would replace the current justice of the peace system with a network of “referees.” An assigned risk program would be available for medical personnel unable to obtain malpractice insurance under 58444, sponsored by Sen. James A. Lewis Jr., DCharleston. The measure also provides for a review of licenses of those unable to purchase malpractice insurance fend requires companies selling malpractice insurance to sell it for all classes. Sen. Graham A. Richard, DFort Wayne, introduced a measure (58507) that would change the method of selecting the public counselor, who is

Deputy Atty. Gen. Laurence H. Silberman agreed Monday to testify before the subcommittee Jan. 30, according to Justice Department spokesman Robert Havel. The FBI agreed to comply with Silberman’s requet for “all the material” in its files on at least 10 members of Congress, Havel said. A high-ranking official at the FBI after Hoover’s death said he saw some files on members of Congress but most of them he examined contained only newspaper clippings. This source, who asked not to be identified, said he saw another file on a member of Congress under criminal investiga-

volunteer crew of three to fly to Lebanon, but Beirut airport authorities would not let the plane land. The pilot tried Kuwait, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, but all three turned him away. He landed in Baghdad Monday afternoon by a ruse, the Iraqi news agency said but was forced to take off after taking on eight hours fuel. The French airline said the

dress to the National People’s Congress in Peking last week, the 76-year-old premier said there are still fundamental differences between China and the United States, but “owing to the joint efforts of both sides, the relations between the two

now picked by the governor, and would fix his salary at art amount not less than that of the chairman of the Public Service Commission. The bill also would allow the public counselor to appeal any court or administrative decision adverse to consumer interests. The state Mental Health Department and the governor would be authorized to Close three of Indiana’s mental hospitals in a four-year period beginning in 1979 under a bill (SE£‘.3) sponsored by Sen. John M. Mutz, R-Indianapolis. Other bills introduced Monday would: —Allow banks and trust companies in different counties to merge or consolidate. SB4BB. Mills. —Provide for a code of ethics for judges and prosecuting attorneys. SBSOI. Mutz. —Establish statewide standards for the operation of motor vehicle license branches and require public disclosure of branch records. SBSOB. Richard. —Provide civil immunity for state licensing agencies and their members for conduct within the scope of their duties. 58438. Benjamin. —lnclude certain public employes under the employment security law. 58450. BosmaShawley. —Provide for the certification of auto mechanics and registration of auto repair facilities. 58471. Teague. —Require all postal service vehicles to have fishing red rear lights and prohibit motirists from passing stopped postal vehicles. 58497. Snowden. —Prohibit fraudulent, infair, unconsnsciounable and unethical conduct by bill collectors. 58498. Snowden. —Require a majority rather than two-thirds vote by citycounty councils on proposed zoning ordinance changes. 58502. Mutz. —Change the formula for distributing highway funds to local governments from one based on population, vehicle registration and road mileage to vehicle registration only. 58504. Mutz. —Prohibit the merger of corporations without the conesent of corporation employes. 58514. Bauer.

tion, but he declined to discuss its contents. He said information on members of Congress was scattered through three sets of files. One set was the criminal file

French ambassador in Baghdad negotiated with the Iraqi government while the plane flew back and forth across the Middle East, and the Iraqis agreed shortly after midnight to let the terrorists surrender to them. There was no indication what would be done with them. The terrorists tried to attack an Israeli airliner at Orly Airport Sunday afternoon, but a

countries have improved to some extent in the last three years, and contacts between the two peoples have developed.” Then* he added: “The relations between the two countries will continue to improve so long as the principles of the SinoAmerican Shanghai communique are carried out in earnest.” The Shanghai communique which President Nixon and Chou signed in February, 1972, promised the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Taiwan some 5,000 remain and ultimately full diplomatic relations

Bill to be filed in House to provide local-option parimutuel betting

INDIANAPOLIS (AP)-A bill will be filed in the Indiana House this week providing lo-cal-option parimutuel betting, it was announced Monday. Rep. Craig B. Campbell, DAnderson, said he would sponsor the legislation, now being drafted. Ralph L. Wilfong, Carmel land developer and horse enthusiast, told a news conference of plans to build a $9.4 million horse racing track in Indianapolis if the bill becomes law. Wilfong said other tracks might be opened in Lake County in northwestern Indiana and Evansville and in the state’s southwestern corner. Parimutuel tracks now operate in Chi-cago-near Gary—and in Henderson, Ky., just across the Ohio River from Evansville. Indiana voters rejected an “advisory referendum” on parimutuel betting in 1968, but Marion and some otheflarge counties voted in favor of it. Campbell said his bill would allow thoroughbred, harness and quarter horse racing. Among 50 bills filed in the House on Monday were measures that would: —Appropriate I per cent of the motor vehicl highway ac-

*Disastrous year’ for currencies

NEW YORK (AP) - Last year was another disastrous one for world currencies, says Franz Pick. They were debased in value by official devaluations and the issuance of overly large supplies. In years past, says this monetary consultant to Industry and governments, the refugees from money could find sanctuary in other investments, such as art and just about anything else that might be auctioned. But alas, 1974 was a treacherous one at the auctions also. “The Victorian credo of investment, income and growth had become meaningless, yielding only negative returrt-

on “guys under active criminal investigation,” including occasional senators and House members. Another set was a collection of letters and memoranda, similar to those main-

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policeman spotted one of them and fired at him. This set off a gun battle in the terminal in which 21 persons were injured, including one of the terrorists who was shot in the arm. The Arabs herded four men, five women and the 3V 2 -yearold daughter of one of the women into a restroom and forced the adults to stand all night. One of the hostages, 70-year-old Father Vades Gonnet, said

between the two governments. Each now maintains a liaison office in the other’s capital, a step short of full diplomatic relations. Chou sees the ChineseAmerican rapprochement as a means of countering Soviet expansion in the Far East. He also views the JapaneseAmerican alliance as an aid to this policy. Speaking Monday in Peking with Shigeru Hori of Japan’s ruling LiberalDemocratic party, Chou reportedly said the ties between Washington and Tokyo are “of very great importance,” and the Japanese people must

count for bicycle trails. HFI4OB. Coleman. —lncrease by $3,500 the minimum salaries for county recoders. HBI4IO. Larson. —Change minimum salaries or county sheriffs to the same level that state police lieutenants receive $12,662, and for deputy sheriffs to the same level that state police troopers receive, $9,724. HBI4II. Zirkle. —Make the minimum term of the first contract between a school corporation and the superintendent 36 months and require that subsequent contracts be at ledst 12 months. H 81413. Roach. —Require group accident or medical insurance contracts written after June 30, 1975, to provide benefits for diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. H 81415. Bauer-Cook. —Provide a state income tax credit for contributions to neighborhood organizations and activities to upgrade improversied areas. H 81420. LamkinJ.G. harris. —Reduce to three months the period in which execution is prohibited in a real estate mortgage foreclosure action on mortgages executived after June 30, 1975. H 81416. Fruechtenicht. Switchy the Indiana

s,” said Pick in his annual report on investments. Early in the year it was okay, he observes, but “after the start of the autumn auctions in Manhattan, London, Geneva, Zurich and Paris, the monetary wreckage ... reduced the assets of art dealers as well as collectors.” By the end of the year, even the Japanese had gone home, leaving the surging market in Far Eastern art Without its base. The old masters, French impressionists and postimpressionists had to be repurchased by owners. Pick is a very angry man, angry about devaluations, which he terms “fraudulent

tained by most government agencies for use in legislative dealings with members of Congress. The third set was the general information files “which in-

the gunmen forbade the hostages to talk, so he prayed quietly. “Very softly I uttered collective absolution and sketched out the sign of the cross,” he said. “All night the terrorists behaved very correctly. However, we felt that if the negotiations had failed they would have killed us, also very correctly.”

“fully understand their significance.” Chou in his speech to the congress predicted that the ideological quarrel between the Chinese and Soviet Communist parties will “go on for a long time.” But he again held out the olive branch, saying the debate over Marxism should not obstruct relations between the two neighbors. He aid negotiations on their border dispute have “yielded no results” since 1969, largely because Moscow refuses to agree to a mutual pullback of troops.

primary election to July, instead of May, and state political conventions to August, instead of June. H 81417. Fruechtenicht. —Authorize manufacture and sale of personalized license plates. H 81419. Reppa-Dbois. —Projibit the packaging or sale of any products labeled “honey” which is not pure honey produced by honeybees. H 81417. Bushemi. —lncrease welfare payments for funeral expenses of dependents and aged, blind or disabled persons from $250 to $350 and increase payments for burial rights and plots from $l5O to S2OO. H 81428. Campbell. —Prohibit employers from inquiring about a job aplicant’s arrest record. H 81430. Crawford. —Establish one public school district in Marion County. H 81431. Crawford. —Remove the strike provisions from the 1973 teacher collective bargaining law. H 81432 J.G. Harris. —Require Indianapolis police and firemen to live no more than three miles outside, Marion County. H 81433. LAMKIN. —Require registration of out-of-state political contributors. H 81434. Lamkin.

state bankruptcies,” angry about the dilution of monetary values, he terms “monetary demolition.” Since 1946,, he estimates, there have been 1,500 full or partial devaluations, which he maintains is a good deal the cause of “the tides of business recession” turning into “the waves of economic depression.” Unable to stop the Weakening of currencies, Pick long ago began studying the alternatives to holding currency. And almost anything-wine, art, old ships, metals seems to hold its value better than currency.

eluded lots of hearsay and scurrilous information and that’s the reason the FBI is so careful about who sees those files, and they ought to be,” the former official said.

Demos react to Ford

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional Democrats, led by Speaker Carl Albert, say they can do a better job than President Ford in directing tax relief where it’s needed, fighting the energy crisis and helping the pqor cope with inflation. In making these arguments Monday night, Albert joined other Democratic leaders in a steady drumbeat of criticism against Ford’s economic and energy proposals. Albert, in a broadcast reply to Ford’s economic address last week, said the Democrats who control Congress would welcome cooperation from the executive “We are not seeking confrontation. We are seeking solutions.” But he said Ford’s proposal to

Heavy fighting south of Da Nang

SAIGON, South Vietnam (AP) Heavy fighting was reported south of Da Nang today for the first time in six months, and the Saigon command claimed 141 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong were killed. A spokesman said fighting broke out around Que Son, 25 miles south of Da Nang, as South Vietnamese forces were trying to consolidate their defense line west of the town. A communique said two South Vietnamese soldiers were killed and 16 were wounded. There was heavy fighting in the region last August when the Communist command ordered

Inflation worst in years

WASHINGTON (AP) Government statistics being announced today show that inflation in 1974 was the worst in 28 years. The cost of living for the first 11 months of the year was up 11.4 per cent and the December increase is expected to push the over-all rise for the year into the 12 per cent range the sharpest rise since World War II pi ice controls ended in 1946 and the worst in any period unrelated to war. Wartime controls were lifted in July 1946 and prices soared 18.2 per cent that year. Since the government began measuring consumer prices in 1913, the largest increase ever recorded during peacetime was 11.6 per cent in 1916, the year before the United States entered World War I. Although paychecks took a beating last year, consumers can find.some solace in the fact that the rate of inflation has been easing in recent months. Recession is dampening inflation and government economists say that while prices will continue to increase in 1975, most increases will he smaller and less painful to consumers. Food prices, however, ar expected to climb at a 15 per cent annual rate during the first half of the year, according to Agri-

Appeals courts behind in work

WASHINGTON (AP) - With the nation’s appeals courts falling farther and farther behind in their work, a proposal to hire staff lawyers to give the judges a hand has stirred up controversy. The plan will be discussed at a four-day National Conference on Appellate Justice, opening Thursday in San Diego, Calif., under auspices of the National Center for State Courts and the Federal Judicial Center. The conference is being held against a backdrop of what its sponsors call a “staggering inflation in caseload” in appeals courts. In the New Jersey Appellate Division, for example, the number of appeals rose from roughly 1,000 in 1960 to more than 3,500 in the 1971-72 term. From 1960 to 1970, appeals filed in the 11 U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal increased 200 per cent, while the number of

Some material on members of Congress may have found its way into FBI files through government wiretaps on other persons, this source said. John P. Mohr, a retired FBI

rebate 1974 income taxes by 12 per cent would put 43 per cent of the refund into the hands of the richest 17 per cent of taxpayers. Democratic leaders have asked the House to pass by the end of March a tax reduction for middle and lower income persons only. Albert said Ford’s proposals for oil taxation would mean price increases as much as 25 per cent for gasoline, heating oil, electricity, food, fertizilier and other products. Albert asked what good it would do a family to get a $75 to SIOO tax rebate if at the same time the family’s gasoline and heating oil bill went up by $250 to S3OO. Albert said Congress would have to consider such things as

an eastward push into the coastal lowlands. During the drive the government lost Thuong Due, a district town 25 miles northwest of Que Son. More small clashes were reported within 10 miles of Saigon, and the government said four Viet Cong and one government soldier were killed. But government spokesmen said despite a rash of such actions recently, there was no evidence of a Viet Cong build-up in the area and no serious threat to the city. A 12-ship supply convoy was reported forming on the Mekong River near the border between South Vietnam and Cam-

culture Department forecasts. President Ford's economic advisers had predicted that inflation would ease to 6 or 7 per cent this year. But that was before Ford proposed new energy taxes last week which the administration acknowledged would add another two percentage points to this year’s Consumer Price Index. The record inflation rate in 1974 compared with an 8.8 per cent rise in living costs in 1973. In both 1972 and 1971, the nation had an inflation rate of 3.4 per cent. The Consumer Price Index, published monthly by the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, measures average changes in prices of goods and services usually bought by urban wage earners and clerical workers. In other economic developments: House Speaker Carl Albert criticized President Ford’s income tax and energy conservation proposals. Ford’s plan to rebate some of 1974 income taxes would put 43 per cent of the refund into the hands of the richest 17 per cent of the taxpayers, Albert said in a broadcast reply to Ford’s economic proposals. Albert said the House Democratic leadership is pushing for a tax cut that would help low

cases filed in the first place rose only 50 per cent. Nobody seems to know why so many more cases are being appealed. A memorandum from the National Center for State Courts suggests that population increase, changes in laws and changes in public attitudes have played a part. Whatever the causes, the courts have been unable to keep up. The median time for handling appeals in the federal circuit courts in fiscal 1974 was seven months and in many state appeals courts it is longer. The National Center launched a four-state project in 1972 to test whether using a central staff of lawyers would help. Courts in Nebraska, Virginia, Illinois and New Jersey were chosen, for the experiment. The results have been reported by Daniel J. Meador, University of Virginia Law School professor and director of the

veteran who once was an assistant to Hoover, also confirmed that the FBI routinely collected and preserved information about members of Congress.

gasoline rationing, prohibiting the sale of gasoline on Sundays, excise taxes on automobiles with high horsepower and possibly other measures. Other Democrats also were criticial of Ford’s proposals. —Rep. A 1 Ullman of Oregon, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee where all tax bills originate, said he favored a cut in 1975 withholding tax rates instead of the single-shot tax rebate on 1974 taxes that Ford has asked for. Ullman also said Ford’s proposed tariff increase on imported oil was unfair. He said that while rationing is “a tough bullet to bite," it would probably have to come as the “ultimate objective.”

bodia preparatory to making a run up the river to Phnom Penh. All roads into the Cambodian capital have been cut for several months, and there have been no river convoys for nearly a month because the Khmer Rouge insurgents’ guns dominate a 45-mile stretch of the Mekong south of the city. Although U.S. and Thai pilots are flying in ammunition and other military supplies daily, the city has received no rice, fuel or other nonmilitary supplies since Dec. 24. Rationing of gasoline and electricity began Friday.

and middle income taxpayers. He also said Congress might consider gasoline rationing, gasless days and higher taxes on large autos instead of Ford’s plan to raise all fuel prices. —General Motors Corp. said it will rebate up to SSOO to buyers of specified models of the firm’s small cars. The rebates are retroactive from Jan. 13 and will extend to Feb. 28. Chrysler Corp. and Ford Motor Co. previously announced rebate plans. —The Federal Reserve Board reduced the amount of money that banks must keep on hand to back up deposits. The Fed said the action would release about sl.l billion in money previously held in reserve. The move is in line with an antirecession approach to the money supply. —Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr., head of the new Energy Research and Development Administration, said the United States must put a brake on energy use. He set a 10-year goal of one million barrels a day in synthetic fuels derived from coal. —Six banks around the country joined the trend toward lower prime interest rates. Slackening loan demand and an easier money policy by the Federal Reserve have led to the trend.

project, in a volume distributed in advance of the conference. Meador concudes that a court with such a staff can be more productive without the judges losing control over the decisionmaking process. Not everybody agrees. “I am profoundly aware of the state of the workload pressure motivating courts into this pattern, but I am against yielding to that pressure,” says U.S. Circuit Judge George Clifton Edwards Jr. of Detroit. “I think judicial decisionmaking should be done by judges. I do not think memoranda prepared by staff attorneys should ever appear as the order or opinion of the court.” The argument is not a new one. There have been charges from time to time that some U.S. Supreme Court justices and other jurists have relied more heavily on their law clerks than they should.