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Article Questions Legislators' Ethics
WASHINGTON — (UPI) Demands were mounting today for a congressional inquiry into an anonymous lawmaker's charge that there are "congressmen who cheat."
The article, signed "by an anonymous congressman as told to Jack Anderson," told of un-identified members who allegedly sell influence, misuse public funds, and pad payrolls.
A number of members said the accusations, in an article in Sunday's Parade Magazine, tended to cast an unwarranted reflection on the whole membership.
THE HOUSE ADMINISTRATION Committee, meeting in closed session today on another matter, was expected to discuss suggestions for it to look into the matter.
They believed that an impartial inquiry would turn up no factual evidence to support the article's more serious allegations.
Most members approached the issue doubtfully. Many were irked at the indication that one of their number had told tales on his fellows and, especially, what he had leveled in some cases what amounted to criminal charges, without identifying his targets.
"MAKING SUCH A BROADSIDE generalization, the implication could attach to anybody," Rep. Porter Harry, D-Va., said. "I suppose in a body
this big there have been some violations of ethical standards. But as for the more serious things, I would think they are rare if they ever took place at all."
Hardy, who originally said the inquiry should be made by a government operations subcommittee of which he is a member, said today that on further study he believes the issue was within the jurisdiction of the Administration Committee, which handles housekeeping matters.
Rep. H. R. Gross, R-Iowa, also called for an inquiry by the Administration group. Some members of the committee planned to raise at today's session the question of whether an effort should be made to run down the charges.
The anonymous author said he could name a dozen congressmen who not only take their overseas vacations at taxpayer expenses but come back "showing a profit."
AMONG THE MORE SERIOUS accusations was that one member had profited $4,000 by giving inside information that Congress was to buy added land for a new House office building.
He said one member returning from Paris pulled out a fat roll of frances issued him for the trip, and converted them at Idlewild into a sheaf of $100 bills, "which he regarded as a bonus for the hardship of visiting Paris."
Russia, America Fail To Find Berlin Solution
WASHINGTON — (UFI) Officials said today the first Soviet-American conference in five months on the Berlin issue had failed to spark any new hope for a solution.
The State Department said the discussion, the first of its sort since the Cuban missile crisis in October, was "friendly and businesslike," but neither side had anything new to propose.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Russian ambassador Antoy F. Dobrynin hashed over the subject at a one-hour conference yesterday and agreed to meet again, but set no specific date.
STATE DEPARTMENT spokesman Lincoln White said he could offer no clue as to why the Russians asked for the meeting. He said Dobrynin advanced no new Soviet proposals and no papers were exchanged. The United States has made it clear that the next move is up to Russia.
Dobrynin said upon leaving the State Department that "we just began an exchange of opinions about the German and Berlin situation." He agreed that another meeting would be held and said it would come "rather soon."
SITTING IN on the Rusk-Dobryn-in talks were Llewellyn E. Thompson, former ambassador to Moscow and now a state department adviser on Soviet affairs; Martin J. Hillenbrande, head of the State Department's Berlin task force; and Georgi M. Kornieko, Soviet embassy counselor.
White said that in the talks, Rusk was seeking evidence that Russia had softened its stand enough to warrant full scale East-West negotiations on the Berlin issue.
Water Ballet Show Opens Here Tonight
The KU Women's Synchronized Swim Club will present its annual water ballet show tonight and continuing through Friday.
The program will begin at 8 p.m. in Robinson Gymnasium.
Routines, which were developed by the girls themselves, will feature team. trio and duet numbers. Approximately 20 girls will participate in the program.
"Ripples with Rogers," the theme of the show, combines the musical scores of Richard Rodgers with the swimming talents of members of the Quack Club and physical education classes.
White added there had been no advance information from Moscow or the Soviet embassy as to Russia's intentions. Since the Soviet Union took the initiative to get the talks going again, there was some speculation that Moscow might have a new approach.
BUT MOST OFFICIALS believed Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, beset by troubles at home and abroad, simply wanted to give the appearance of doing something to appease the Communist East Germans.
While Rusk participated in the first talk with Dobrynin, officials said it was likely that Thompson would take over subsequent discussions.
Voice Instructor To Give Recital
Edward Sooter, assistant instructor of voice, will present a vocal recital at 8 p.m. Monday in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Sooter played the leading role in the recent University Theatre production "Albert Herring." He has appeared as solist in Bruckner's "Te Deum" with the University Chorus, Honegger's "Joanne d'Arc," Menoti's "Consul," Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" and others.
In 1960 Sooter was named regional winner of the Metropolitan Opera auditions. He has appeared with the Baltimore Symphony as soloist in Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" and in the productions of "Messiah" and "Elijah" by the Wichita Choral Society.
His recital program will consist of "Cantata No. 160" by Bach, a "Cantata" by Scarlatti, "Three Divine Hymns" from "Sinfonia Sacra" by Purcell and "Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Piano" by Britten.
Two Awards Given For Study Abroad
The recital is sponsored by the School of Fine Arts and is open to the public without charge.
Two Bavarian State Scholarships for study abroad during the 1963-64 school year have been awarded to University of Kansas students.
Laird Patterson, Larned senior, will study biochemistry at a technical school in Munich, and Carol Betlack, Leoti senior, will study bacteriology at the University of Wurzburg.
Rose Morgan Scholar To Speak on Chaucer
C. L. Wrenn, Rose Morgan professor and medieval literature scholar, will speak on "Chaucer as a Poet" at 4 p.m. today in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Prof. Wrenn will emphasize the poetic side of Chaucer as compared to the moralistic view that people often apply to him.
Prof. Wrenn has been the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University in England. Prior to this appointment, he taught in several countries.
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