European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 7, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1950 the stars and stripes pages exc Ops say Binaggio tried tour Bethem Jefferson May 6 ousted Kansas City police commissioners have charged that political Boss Charlie Binaggio bad offered bribes and other pressure to set himself up As a Crar Over Kansas City and the accusations came As a fed grand jury at Kansas investigating the re tamed its first one of them named Charles Moo face Binaggio predecessor As the North Side political chief and Kansas City underworld Hie accusations against Binaggio were made by Hampton Cham Bers and Robert Cohn who were removed from the City police com Mission by Forrest Smith after they refused to resign at his Large Roll of Bills both Chambers and Cohn said they had informed the governor last summer when Binaggio made Bis attempt to influence the Kansas City Star said Binaggio tossed Large Roll of Bills into Conns Lap in the bribery attempt and that Cohn tossed the Money Cohn said the stars Story was substantially Correct in a formal statement issued said Binaggio bad pressure on me o help up Kansas City to Gam of course everybody knows Binaggio and his crowd to throw Kansas City wide open to the gambling Chambers he also wanted to reach out into other but i was never Able to learn what other objectives he had in Loudspeaker system aids Truman press conference May 6 Loudspeaker system was used at president Truman news Confer ence for the first a microphone was on the presi dents desk and six others were spotted about the room for use by questioning the conferences Are held in a big room in theold state department because of the Large they were moved there last week after Many years of being held in the presidents use in those United states Little dough goes far in fete cake for tar san May 6 of didst realize what she was doing when she wrote the local chamber of Commerce and asked that they give her Sailor boy Friend a birthday miss Thorp enclosed a Check for she asked the chamber to buy Seaman John Robert of a cake on his 19th the chamber provided a cake Large enough to serve so persons and organized a party aboard Gib sons the escort Carrier among the guests was rear adm Frank commander of car Rier up Berlin Kally in scheduled for May 24 new May 6 Mon an organization opposing communism at Home and has announced it will sponsor a hold Berlin rally in new York on May with Gen Lucius former Neucom commander As chief the purpose is to provide a message of support and encourage ment to the people of Western Berlin and focus american Tim bomb plotter faces trial for attempted murder West los May 6 up Tim bomb plotter John Grant must stand trial for the attempted murder of his wife and children by bombing an court officials said the 31yearoid aircraft Engineer will be arraigned May 22 in Santa Monica Superior court on seven counts arising out of his thwarted murder he is charged with six counts of attempted murder and one count of violating the state safety code by placing explosives aboard an Grant admitted to the police he planned to Tim bomb the Airliner in order to kill his and two and collect thirteen other persons were aboard which came the plane april 17 within four minutes of being after boiler blast in Seattle firemen and police pick their Way through an explosion shattered apartment building where 12 people were a boiler in basement blew wrecking the four Story Brick building and for blocks Public opinion on the fact that Berlin today is the front line in the cold which May Well be won or lost in the solution of the Ger Man Overall heiress named parents beneficiary los May s Louise Ozerell acquitted too years ago of a Parent murder will Reee Ioe a month from their insurance policies for the rest of her and later will receive nearly from their this teas disclosed in a court accounting filed by her Emanuel and Fred in relinquishing guardian the now is married to former policeman Robert Cannon miss Orwell and her then Fiance George chum there freed after a lengthy her wealthy end Walter were killed in a 1347 yacht expo teacher freed in charge of molesting students May 6 schoolmaster Dickey was freed Here yesterday by a jury on charges that he had pawed Young girls in the classroom and popped their the jury deliberated for Only 43 minutes before returning a not guilty verdict in favor of the 53 year old spectators immediately shouted gleefully in the and school children thronged around who mopped his brow and a Relief that earlier in the Day an 11yearold girl had charged that Dickey had pawed her during a spelling and fondled but other teen agers testified in defense of their video blamed for drop in restaurant business new May 6 Dusty sources that sales of food in new York City restaurants have declined approximately 10 per cent from the corresponding period of a year food men attributed tace drop to a general tightening of Public spending and the greater number of television sets in they pointed out that when people at tended Heaters More Faey frequently dined 202 of fail to Clear loyalty Board hurdles May 6 total of 202 persons has been re leased front government service on loyalty grounds daring the past three the civil service com Mission loyalty review Board said approximately persons Are employed by the a total of cases has been finally passed upon by loyalty of resulted in the individuals getting some 451 persons were ruled in eligible for government of the 202 were 43 were restored to service after appeals and the remaining cases Are lightning hits Streetcar in Pittsburgh 12 Hurt May 6 lightning struck a Streetcar in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh yesterday and first reports said about 12 passengers were the carrying about 30 had just made a Stop in the business District when the Bolt Motorman John Kutz said he had opened the doors of the car when the lightning it seemed like an he Jet closeup the second Martin xb51 Jet bomber makes a Low level ran during a test after making a Normal the Pilot brought the three Jet plane in Low across the Field to give observers a closeup normally such a View is obtained Only from the official Chase plane that follows the xb51 on its department of defense House unit bars Cut in beverage tax May 6 the House ways and Means com Mittee has voted to keep the gallon 10 cents a Jigger whisky and the impost on it refused to Cut off the s that Beer and liquor Consumers now pay in taxes each by rejecting to me liquor tax by a gallon to would have trim iced Federal revenues by the Fra barrel Beer tax by so cents a barrel it would have saved drinkers about a spokesmen for management and labor in the distilled spirits and Matt beverages industries had pleaded for a reduction of the on the ground that the High levies were encouraging illegal tax free Moon Sixie and Bootleg opera they causing unemployment in the Legal taxpaying liquor and Beer in the action kept at s the size of excise cuts approved thus far by the items Cut include end movie time capsule lists bargains new Yore May 6 a pair overcoats marked passage to cheaper by but the year was it was brought into Sharp focus when a time capsule yielded newspapers dated april that the papers with and bargains were sealed into a Lead Box in a Cornerstone of the College at physicians and surgeons now being ads in the newspapers offered a five room apartment on manhattans 12th St for e advertised he would extract Teeth under 50 among the documents and Lite newspaper headlines stood out and the Lead Story was a gruesome in a new Jersey farm it a poor Mother Laid open the heeds of four of her Little children with an a and then took sports pages noted the Brook Lyns win they had beaten the Baltimore there were spectators at least 300 of that number being the new York Tribune Europe federation favored in poll new May 6 Gen William Donovan said a test poll showed the majority of the people in the Italy and Western Germany favored european chairman of the Amer ican committee on United said 64 per cent of those polled endorsed such while Only 9 per cent opposed the other 27 per cent were Donovan said the poll was con ducted by the Eric Stern Public opinion research with Headquarters in London and and that similar polls now Are being conducted in Turkey and witnesses say Adler Loyal May g an International flavor spiced the libel suit trial instituted by entertainers Larry Adler and Paul As evidence was introduced from Paris and the testimony was submitted their attorneys continued to seek to prove to a Federal court jury they Are not the Hester me of has one deposition read into the rec Ord was that of London attorney John a conservative member of who has known Adler both in this coun try and in said that the musician always was very pro British and a Loyal Law abiding citizen of even during the period of the russian Germany pact Early in world War no picture of Stalin the Paris whose Testi Mony also was taken by was the adlers Jeanette she said the Harmonica player had neither a picture of Joseph Stalin nor a russian Flag in his never held communist meeting there and had never done anything to show he was disloyal to his the Montreal who appeared in was i col George former Public relation officer with the Indian army in Middle Easl he said that although the British military intelligence had ejected some entertainers and including a Tass Agency re As Security it had cleared Adler As completely co parents plead guilty in hunger death of 3 new May s Mother and father pleaded guilty Here to a charge of first degree Man Slaughter in the starvation death of their 3yearold last Al general sessions judge Saul Streit set june 1 for sentencing Guy and Mary both they Ace possible terms of up to so the was found in an emaciated condition in their Manhattan oat and died three Boon