European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 4, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes october 195ft Kefauver says Kansas City clean now Kansas 3 up a Senate crime investigating com Mittee closed its open hearings Here after a weird three Day Parade of witnesses ranging from the governor Missouri Down to police hoodlums and Estes Kefauver chairman of the committee which resume similar hearings in Chicago said an interim report on the Kansas City proceed Ings will be issued in closing the three Day session Kefauver expressed belief that Kansas City is a clean Community but there is a hard Core of racketeers and criminals still in this Kefauver they Are quiet now because the heat is Kefauver said the committee Learned a lot about the interstate angles of the horse race wire serv ice the wire service used he was organized in Chicago and extended to Kansas City for Sale to bookmakers in mis Kansas and Bina Fugio named in nearly every aspect of the hear the name of the slain Charles political Boss of the North Side River wards and underworld c h i of t a i who was last april appeared there also were numerous references to the shadowy sinister Sicily spawned Black the last witness was Jackson county sheriff Jacques who was questioned about the dynamited courthouse vault from which the 1m6 primary election ballots were fur dome was asked if he was charged with the duties of policing the no one is charged with the duty of policing the Pur dome much testimony entered around three crimes which put Kansas City in the National ballot Box the double murder of Binaggio and his Friend Charles and the March 1949 killing of Wolf country club Man Ager and Jukebox Czar who was on the verge of becoming a formidable competitor in the liquor distributing business in this three h i g ranking police officials testified that solution of any the three crimes was stymied by terrorizing of for to take Mcbride radio spot new 3 a Eleanor Roosevelt will replace vet broadcaster Mary Margaret Mcbride on a daily women Abc the National Broad casting her son Elliott will serve As announcer on the 45minute miss Mcbride is transferring to die american broadcasting Starling she said she left Abc because a 15minute portion of her 1 to 2 pm show had been sold inadvertently and she wanted to keep tour hour Roosevelt also appears on an Abc sunday afternoon network television show which usually emphasized political life in the City room Kirk Douglas As realistic reporter by James Padgitt Hollywood men who see Kirk Douglas impersonating one of their Craft will have to look Sharp to find any movie boners in Ace in the director Billy a stickler for realism and tried to avoid any deviation whatsoever from Bona fide journalistic tech Nique in this picture of a crack reporters handling of a big the director called in plenty of and Kirk Douglas tech visors to help him out on in cavities of first of Kirk spent three Days actually doing leg work and sub sequent rewrite coverage of routine stories for the los Angeles evening Herald and he worked under the supervision of City editor Agnes Hal who plays Kirks editor in the took his training in the City room of a Hollywood working with the managing to get an insight into the work Ings of Western Wilder and Douglas spent considerable time in the offices of the Albuquerque trib Albuquerque journal and the Gallup Independent when the com Pany was on location in new tutored by Trio editors Dan of the trib Wayne of the and of the Gallup did the tutoring and advising on such matters As How stories Are filed to wire the approximate salaries paid reporters on such where the news Hawks Corrie from and How they Marilyn of International news tutored Douglas in the mysteries of working a teletype the actor picked it up in no time at Wilder himself is an perhaps that is Why he is taking such pains with Ace in the Virginia town Back to normalcy after severe polio blow 3 schools have reopened for pupils Here and this Community will come Back to life after the worst polio epidemic in National medical Normal civic activities were being resumed today As the town tried to forget the disastrous summer Dur ing which there had been 180 Vic Tims of poliomyelitis in w y t h e county the rate of new cases has drop Ped to less than one a Jay and the worst is believed seventeen of those afflicted with the disease Only 15 of the patients remain in Wytheville became almost a ghost town since the epidemic started in business was the towns movie was the Community baseball team dropped out of the Blue Ridge the army and Navy refused enlistments from Wythe and tourists bypassed the once a popular summer wife seeks sur cease from food 3 Jean asked for a divorce from her on the charge that he misapplied the food she brought Kauffman said in a suit that Kauffman rubbed her face with smoked slugged her on the head with a bottle of put Macaroni in her bed and threw eggs at Truman letter 3 Truman which raised the ire of the Marine netted the Marine corps league and the league stands to make an additional because of the according to George Eul past National he the league plans to print copies of the letter and sell them for the letter dubbed the marines As navys police Force with a propaganda machine comparable to the president later Harry president of and an army private in world War bought the letter As a collectors terms of the Sale allow the marines corps league to distribute copies and provide that no copies be distributed until after the 7 the letter was sent originally to Gordon Mcdonough r he gave it to the paper denies monopoly act new 3 the new Orleans time Picayune and states has denied engaging in any monopolistic practices injurious to the competing new Orleans item or in violation of the anti Trust attorney general Howard Mcgrath filed a civil suit in District court Here june complaining that the time Picayune publishing and four officials violated the Sherman act and employed monopolistic business practices damaging to the it was the first civil action brought by the government charging a newspaper with injury to another newspaper argument outlined the time Picayune publishing gos filed in u District declared if the Sherman act is to be construed As permitting the courts to regulate the advertising or circulation rates of or the size or Content of or to prohibit newspapers from charging one rate for advertising in All of its morning and whether published under the same or different then such Sherman act is unconstitutional because it violates the provisions of the first amendment to the Constitution of the United states that Congress shall make no Law abridging the Freedom of speech or of the the time Picayune publishing publishes the time spic Ayune a morning and the new Orleans an afternoon the sunday paper is the times Picayune and Stork pays 19th visit As Auto passes Hospital 3 Hardy has explained Why his wife went to a Hospital for the birth of their 19th child when the first 18 were born at we were out for a drive sunday and she began to have labor pains just As we passed this he we just didst have time get her British Cowboy writer to see West first time new 3 Charles a wild West writer with an Oxford is heading for his first look at the wild the 33yearold londoner has been writing about the Amer ican West for 15 never been West of Wale for the last two Chilton has been writing and producing a Cowboy Indian thriller called riders of the Range for the British broadcasting he is on his Way to Tomb for the 19 he is an honorary Deputy marshal there although he has never seen the to be boosted by 10 per cent 3 Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer has announced the steel Industry will boost its producing capacity by tons a year by the end of 1952 in response to military the two year expansion of nearly 10 per cent matches in Speed the Best efforts of world War it will bring the country ingot producing capacity to tons from steel Industry sources it was Learned virtually All of the expansion will be carried out by 20 firms without government blast Furnace increase in he the Industry will expand blast Furnace capacity by net tons of pig Iron to a total of tons in the same Sawyers statement called the commitment a tangible demonstration of the vast productive Power american not Only now but in the years immediately ahead of the Peak wartime military de Mand was ingot tons in he or less than half the capacity planned for the end of the announcement did not Dis close which companies Are participating in the Threesa crowd 3 Bowman has won a divorce of the ground his her and himself shared the marital bed for four years of married All Bowmans tenderness and kindness went to the he Union agree to 10cent raise 3 International Union of electrical workers Cio and Westinghouse electric have agreed on a years contract providing a 10cent hourly wage increase and company financed the new contract covers Clor presented Westinghouse the 10cent hourly wage increase was retroactive to in addition the company agreed to pay into a 1 cent per hour per employee effective the fund will used to adjust Job inequities and will be administered jointly the company minimum the new contract is similar to the one reached by the Iuerio last month with general the pension plan provides a 5100 minimum for workers retiring after 25 years of it will be completely company paid for those earning less than a workers retiring at any time after 1 with 15 years of service Wil be eligible for pensions after the social insurance program includes life insurance from depending on employee earn Ings sickness and Accident insurance up to per week for 36 weeks hospitalization for employees and their dependents maternity benefits and total disability provi 2 unions postpone strike against 15 hotels 3 two unions have postponed a strike for pay scheduled to Start yesterday against 15 major Phila Delphia and set up a joint committee to meet with hotel management the strike would have tied up the leading hotels on the eve of to morrows world series the joint negotiating committee was set up at a meeting of hotel of the hotel and club employees Union Al and the restaurant and bar tenders Union wedding 3 Jacqueline and her state trooper Herbert were married yesterday and there was no sign of the mysterious Whistler who report edly threatened to prevent tie pianists talk it Over Duke Ellington right and president Truman compare musical notes at the White the famed twi musician gave the president original score of parts of the portrait of which he wrote under commission from Toucan in