February 25, 1955

NY, Kings, Queens, Richmond and Bronx dist attys offices rept hundreds of phones tapped legally each yr; statistics; widespread use by FBI in natl security cases since '41 noted; Assoc Licensed Detectives of NYS sec Shumbord repts 350 of 500 agencies use no taps; warns of use by unlicensed agencies; divergence in NYS, Fed and other states legis noted; tap methods, legal aspects discussed

Bundestag begins 2d reading on Paris accord for sovereignty

US Intergovt Relations (Kestnbaum) Comm studies rept of its subcom (Bennion) which finds Fed aid for school bldg, lunch programs, vocational educ and pub libraries unnecessary; findings reptdly approved by US Educ Comr Brownell, member of panel

US Appeals Ct sets aside FCC ruling limiting single ownership to 5 TV stations and 7 standard FM radio stations, Storer Broadcasting Co case; Storer had appealed FCC rejection, without hearing, of its bid for Miami, Fla, TV station license; Ct does not rule on bid; Storer pres and duMont network exec comment

Tompkins charges Amer Com for Protection of the Foreign Born, Anti-Fascist Refugee Com and CRC with deception in collection and spending of $3.5 million; Patterson scores com and Rogge; queried by com counsel Rosenblum on absence of donors names on receipts; com accountant Abraham points out discrepancies in CRC records; Patterson challenges analysis; CRC natl dir Robeson denies knowledge of sums raised by orgn; Foreign Born Com aide Green invokes 5th Amendment on whether Mrs Roosevelt, C Bowles, other well-known people authorized use of their names in fund-raising brochure; Anti-Fascist Com chmn Straus invokes 5th Amendment on all questions; NAACP aide Moore and Princeton Com sec Imbrie disagree on help given Trenton 6 by outside orgns