PLACE THE FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE ON THE SUBVERSIVE LIST

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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX A7615
Lee Ensel, Springfield.; Frank Strieby,
Quincy; Carl 'T. Meyer, Jr., Springfield;
Harper C. Allen, Springfield; Ray Sam-
ples, Jacksonville; Jack Huff, Quincy;
Richard Crook, Springfield; E. C. Bane,
Jacksonville; J. E. Fetter, Quincy; Rus-
sell D. Shambrook.
From the young men now entering the
military academies must come tomor-
row's military leadership for the United
States. Therefore, I am most anxious
to select the best available talent. I
appreciate the fine cooperation of the
members of the interview boards in
making possible this mode of selection.
Here are the candidates:
Charles E. Adkins, Springfield, - Ill.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Adkins.
William Robert Kastien, Springfield,
Ill., son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert D.
Kastien.
John S. Lowe, Springfield, Ill., son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Siebert Lowe.
John B..MacWherter, Jr., Springfield,
Ill., son of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Mac-
Wherter.
John William Mavis, Rochester, Ill.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin M. Mavis.
Anthony Pianezza, Springfield, Ill., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Pino Pianezza.
David J. Sweet, Springfield, Ill., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Sweet. .
Thomas Stewart Church, Rochester,
Ill., son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander S.
Church.
Lawson Eugene Barclay, Macomb, Ill.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Barclay.
David B. Owen, Bushnell, Ill., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Owen.
John Neale Watson, Macomb, Ill., son
of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Watson.
Rollie Platt, Quincy,. Ill., son of Mr.
and Mrs. Edward J. Platt.
Larry York, Quincy, Ill., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert G. York.
John Leonard Komnick, Athens, Ill.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben J. Komnick.
Ted Olson, Jacksonville, Ill., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin G. Olson.
Robert DeForrest Burley, Jr., Beards-
town, Ill.; son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert D.
Burley.
Barry Davis English, Jerseyville, Ill.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. William W. English.
Michael Eugene McFain, son of Major
and Mrs. Robert E. McFain.
Larry Vail Agans, Rushville, Ill., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Lora V. Agans.
Darrell Dean Althide, Basco, Ill., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Orville F. LaBonte.
Howard R. Arnett, Carlinville, Ill., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Russell T. Arnett.
Douglas Earl Asby, Gillespie, Ill., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Leland E. Ashby.
Roger Damon Cox, Plainville, Ill., son
of Colonel and Mrs. Omer L. Cox.
Jack F. Curry, Mendon, Ill., son of Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene M. Curry.
Tim Doolin, Ashland, Ill.
James Timothy Farrell, Pittsfield, Ill.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Farrell.
James David Ivers, Eldred, Ill., son of
Mr. and Mrs. James Ivers.
Roger Lee Keithley, Blandinsville, Ill.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert L. Keithley.
John Martin Silvester, Staunton, Ill.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Silvester.
Richard Manard, Baylis, Ill.
Gary D. Schwartz, Quincy, Ill.
Douglas Lee Butler, Springfield, Ill.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Butler.
William J. Daughton, Springfield, Ill.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Daughton.
Thomas Michael Feger, Springfield,
Ill., son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold H. Feger.
John William Gilman, Springfield, Ill.,
son of Mr. Paul Barber.
John Lapicola, Springfield, Ill., son of
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Lapicola.
Jay Samuel Griswold III, Camp Point,
Ill., son of Mr. and Mrs. Jay S. Griswold.
Steve Gustison, Quincy, Ill., son of Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert W. Gustison.
Alfred E. Hempen, Hamilton, Ill,, son
of Mrs. Margaret Hempen.
Thomas G. Holford, Quincy, Ill., son of
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Holford.
Forrest Dean Krell, Williamsville, Ill.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Krell.
Robert Lewis Hormell, Jerseyville, Ill.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack L. Hormell.
James Lee Narup, Golden Eagle, Ill.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett C. Narup.
Eugene Randall Olson, Quincy, Ill., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Weslie W. Olson.
Robert P. Randolph, Macomb, Ill., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony W. Randolph.
James Merritt Shank, Clayton, Ill., son
of Mrs. and Mrs. Herbert M. Shank.
Daniel J. Schoenekase, Quincy, Ill., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Schoenekase.
Carl Damrau, Jacksonville, Ill., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph G. Damrau.
Joseph Lawrence Barbush, Benld, Ill.,
son of Mrs. Eileen Barbush.
Paul R. Bonansinga, Springfield, Ill.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Bonan-
singa. -
Thomas Lloyd Dukett, Springfield, Ill.,
.son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd J. Dukett.
Corley Lee Keran, Springfield, Ill., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Keran.
George Robert Laswell, Springfield, Ill.,
son of Lt. Col. and Mrs. Harry T. Laswell.
Robert S. Micheletti, Springfield, Ill.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Americo Micheletti.
Fred Edmun Smith, Bushnell, Ill., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred K. Smith.
Jeffrey D. Kinnan, Rochester, Ill., son
of Maj. and Mrs. Floyd H. Kinnan.
Willie Cox, Alexander, Ill.
John Keith Feikert, Carthage, Ill., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Dale W. Feikert.
James Herbert Hoener, Quincy, Ill., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert H. Hoener.
Craig S. Cherry, Girard, Ill., son of Mr.
and Mrs. Bob S. Cherry.
The Ship of State Sails On
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
HON. RICHARD FULTON
OF TENNESSEE
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Friday, December 13, 1963
Mr. FULTON of Tennessee. Mr.
Speaker, under unanimous consent to
extend my remarks, in the Appendix of
the RECORD, I bring to the attention of
my colleagues a moving poem by Mr.
W. C. Rion of Goodlettsville, Tenn., en-
titled "The Ship of State Sails On":
THE SHIP OF STATE SAILS ON
They knew, who planned our Ship of State,
Who saw Her strong and proud and great,
She must withstand Time's lasting tests-
Strong, to the urge of helm and sail;
Proud, to defy the storm and gale;
Great, to surmount the towering crests.
Came first the vision, and the plans,
Next, choice of skillful artisans
To make of parts the perfect whole.
Then, graceful, down Her ways She fled;
Her bow-wave o'er the oceans sped;
Proclaimed to all Her destined role.
Designed for Peace, yet geared for War;
To neither seek aggression, nor
Give way to threats from any source.
For such a ship, for such a test,
The Nation's fittest, finest, best
Were called to keep Her true to course.
Her Captains, Mates, Her able men,
Oft gained the praise of tongue and pen,
And only bigots came to mock.
Not always sailed a sea serene-
She found Herself at times between
Charybdis' whirl and Scylla's rock.
And not alone met foreign foes-
She felt the painful, nagging throes
Of fearful stresses from within.
Oh, good to fight in Freedom's name!
Oh, good, the quest for honored fame!
Oh, shame to face a people's sin!
She lately sailed a charted sea,
Thought safe from lurking enemy,
Her bridge, a brave, skilled Captain trod;
Then came the shots that rocked the world,
His high held flag forever furled,
Why his-known only to his God.
He died-an Abel to hate's Cain-
We trust, sans knowledge and sans pain;
So young, so brave, so loved, so right!
We shared the gloom, we wept our tears,
But found a solace for our fears-
The dawn must always. follow night.
Thank God for tried and truWd Mate,
On whom no time nor tide can wait
To mount the bridge, and take the corm.
He ended brief confusion's reign,
And Freedom's-Mope still rides the main-
The Ship of State sails on and on.
-W. C. RION.
Place the Fair Play for Cuba Committee
on the Subversive List
TENSION OF REMARKS
HON. WILLIAM C. CRAMER
OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Wednesday, December 11, 1963
Mr. CRAMER. Mr. Speaker, the re-
cent and horrible assassination of Presi-
dent Kennedy has put the spotlight,
quickly dimmed, on the Fair Play for
Cuba Committee of which the Presi-
dent's assassin was a member. The exist-
ence of the Fair Play for Cuba Commit-
tee is no news to many of us who have
been trying desperately to alert the
American people to Castro's network in
the United States.
The committee, a pro-Castro, Commu-
nist-front group, is closely tied to Cas-
tro's growing network in Latin America
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - APPENDIX December 13
as well as in this country. Another Cas-
troite group that attempted to halt the
election in Venezuela, and which con-
tinues to raise havoc in that country as
well as far too many other Latin Amer-
ican nations, was doing and continues to
do the bidding of Fidel Castro.
Mr. Speaker, there is no difference
between the various Castroite groups In
Latin America and the Fair Play for
Cuba Committee in this country. Their
goals are the same, their leaders are
Castro and Khrushchev, their methods
are violence and bloodshed. Their rela-
tionships are interlocked.
And yet, despite the fact that President
Kennedy's assassin was an Individual
who was proven to be a member of this
Communist-front organization which,
according to Castro himself has its mem-
bership files In Havana, the organization
in this country is allowed to thrive and
to continue to turn out literature de-
signed to fertilize the minds of men like
Lee Oswald.
The abundance of publicity and prop-
aganda protective of the leftwing has
provided a convenient shield behind
which this abominable organization has
hidden. You can be assured, however,
that their activities have not ceased and
that they are continuing to recruit in-
dividuals and are continuing to turn out
the real hate literature In our society.
An example is found in the literature
of V. T. Lee, a national director of the
Fair Play for Cuba Committee who, in
a Castro-supporting scandal sheet he
printed in Tampa (Fla.) when he headed
the Tampa chapter of the Fair Play for
Cuba Committee, accused President Ken-
nedy and Senator Eastland of "withhold-
ing diapers from Cuban babies." In
this issue, the Senator is labeled a
"hatchetman" and a "loudmouth," and
reference Is likewise made to those "jack-
asses in Washington."
I say it's time we woke up to the fact,
too long overlooked, that groups and
organizations that advocate bullets
rather than ballots and who urge the
replacement of our form of government
with atheistic communism deserve to be
treated like the common enemy of our
freedoms that they are and to be dealt
with accordingly.
How long can we countenance this
cancer in our system? How long will it
take to get action against this group of
American-hating U.S. citizens who are,
In effect, acting as foreign agents?
For many months I have been calling
for placing the Fair Play for Cuba Com-
mittee on the Attorney General's sub-
versive list. See CONGRESSIONAL Rzc-
oRD. March 15, 1962. For too long this
request has been ignored. The failure
to place this organization on the At-
torney General's subversive list becomes
increasingly baffling when one reviews
the anual FBI report for fiscal year,
1961, which states in part:
FBI investigations also have shown that
the Fair Play for Cuba Committee has been
heavily infiltrated by the Communist Party
and the Socialist Workers Party, and these
parties have actually organized some chapters
of the committee.
I shall continue to request that this The aet of July 31, 1769, specified that the
organization be placed on the subversive customs collector was to board vessels and
list and regllest.lt now, authorized him to obtain or hire boats or
Until we take affirmative action against cutters for his use. In August of the fol000
constructlonction Congress of 1 10 0 cutters sappropriated -$the e be-
pro-Castro organizations, the can- for r the year.
cer cue
cer of communism will grow until it I11- ginning of the Revenue Cutter Service which
feels our-entire system. Is now the U.S. Coast Guard.
Protector of the People
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. JOHN LESINSKI
OF MICHr9AN
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, December 12, 1963
Mr. LESINSKI. Mr. Speaker, the U.S.
Bureau of Customs is planning to cele-
brate 175 years of unbroken service to the
American people during its anniversary
year in 1964. Because of its unique
place in American history, and the great
variety of the tasks assigned to the Cus-
toms by Congress it would seem fitting
to make part of the record a well-docu-
mented article which appeared in the
October 1963 issue of the Electrical
Workers' Journal entitled "Protector of
the People" in which the work of Cus-
toms is described:
PROT#CrOR or THE P#oPLE-BUREAU OF
CUSTOMS To CELEBRATE 175TH ANNIVERSARY
Every year brings an Increasing number of
tourists, to our shores and an increasing
number of American tourists returning from
abroad. Every one of these persons comes
into contact with the Bureau of Customs-
many for the first time. Although its in-
troduction to them may be a now experi-
ence to the majority of the public, the Bu-
reau of Customs, U.B. Department of the
Treasury, is no newcomer on the American
scene, for, on August 1, 1964, the Bureau will
celebrate its 175th anniversary. Indeed, It
outdates by a month the Treasury Depart-
ment of which it is a part.
Even before completing its work on elect-
ing our Nation's first President, the First
Continental Congress had been making plans
for our first tax. So, It is not surprising
that three of the first five measures adopted
by that Congress were on customs matters.
The second statute of the First Continental
Congress, "An act for laying a duty on goods,
wares and merchandises Imported Into the
United States," was approved on July 4, 1789,
and was signed by George Washington.
Duties were to be collected "from and after
the first day of August next ensuing."
Newspapers referred to this first tariff act
as the "second Declaration of Independence."
The third statute laid duties on the ton-
nage of ships and vessels. The fifth law,
"An act to regulate the collection of the
duties imposed by law on the tonnage of
ships or vessels and on goods, wares and
merchandises Imported Into the United
States," was approved on July 31, 1789. The
next day, the Customs Service was In op-
eration.
FIRST SHIP To PASS CUSTOMS
The first vessel to come under this act
arrived at the port of New York from Leg-
horn, Italy, on August 6, 1789. The brigan-
tine Perils, James Weeks, master, had a mis-
cellaneous cargo consigned to one Wllllan
Seton who paid $774.71 in duties. The col-
lector of the New York port was John Lamb,
a hero at the capture of Fort Ticonderoga.
Until 1913. when Congress passed the in-
come tax law, customs revenues provided the
majority of our Nation's receipts. Two mil-
lion of the total $2y2 million collected in
1789 were from customs duties. Today, cus-
toms revenues swell our coffers by $1% bil-
lion, but this amount is only a small per-
centage of our total revenue.
FAMOUS COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS
Throughout its history, the Bureau of Cus-
toms has employed men famous in American
history and literature, including President
Cheater A. Arthur.
Historian George Bancroft was a collector
of the port of Boston. He appointed Nathan-
iel Hawthorne as measurer in the Boston
customhouse at an annual salary of $1,500.
Four years later, Hawthorne was appointed
surveyor of customs. It is said that, while
sitting in the customhouse, Hawthorne found
old records that Inspired him to write his
famous novel. "The Scarlet Letter."
Herman Melville, author of "Moby Dick"
and many other famous works, was an in-
spector in the New York customhouse for 20
years. His salary of $4 a day was later re-
duced to $3.60 a day.
The famous poet, Edward Arlington Rob-
inson, worked as a special agent at the port
of New York and received $4 a day.
Another employee at the customhouse in
New York was Matthew A, Hensen, who ac-
companied Adm. Robert E. Peary to the
North Pole. This same customhouse has
records of manifests and entries for mer-
chandise imported and duties paid by Presi-
dent George Washington. Various ports
have records of negotiations by Thomas Jef-
ferson and other famous American person-
alities.
MAIN FUNCTIONS OF BUREAU
The main functions of the Bureau of Cus-
tome are the assessment and collection of
customs, the prevention of fraud on customs
revenue and the prevention of smuggling.
The purposes of customs duties are twofold:
the raising of revenue and the protection of
American Industries, thereby safeguarding
our economy. Thus, we meet Customs in
one phase of its role as protector of the
people. It also protects the health of our
citizens and animal life by cooperating with
the Department of Agriculture in preventing
the entry of diseased animals and plants,
Impure seed and destructive insects. We will
note other aspects of the Bureau's role as
protector as we learn of itsvarious services.
The Bureau of Customs employs 8,811 men
and women, only 282 of whom work in the
District of Columbia office. Other Customs
employes perform their duties at interna-
tional airports,. seaports and border and in-
terior ports. The majority of them are
located In customhouses and appraiser's
stores. Appraisers examine, appraise, and
classify Imports. Special agents are also em-
ployed In the States and in foreign countries
in investigative and. enforcement capacities.
Men in the investigative field work out of
uniform in civil and criminal cases. En-
forcement officers usually wear uniforms and
perform police duties, primarily in combating
smuggling.
A customhouse is a building where goods
may be entered or delivered, customs col-
lected and paid, and vessels entered and
cleared. It is the principal office at the
American ports of entry located in the 47
customs districts of the United States and its
territories. Each customhouse is under the
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