European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                March 31,1953 secret agent res loafing Dock jobs Washington March � on undercover agent testified Here t lie used political pan to get a in the Jersey City waterfront maybe 1q, or 15 minutes Jujj Stork per night at $133 a week. Witness Joseph Napolitano. A Senate Commerce sub com under sen. Charles w. Of nil that the Altitude labourers on the government was Lynde Sam s Takin Money. I might As we take too Tano said he went after Job when new York City commission agent Robert told him an undercover Man needed to ferret out Irreg in waterfront activities if Apolitano said he went through 1 is from Jersey City 5th Leader Bill Guthrie to Dep mayor Bill Flannagan to get Job at the Claremont terminal i f. The us. Was picking up the for crating and shipping items As. Clean up Union witness said he was Pill on payroll in january 1352 after Given a card bearing the of Anthony Tony cheese lit to and a recommendation Dominic Strollo the terminal Boss. For suggestions on Dean the waterfront Napolitano ated you ought to Dean Union first. They definitely r too much Power on the docks. Should give More Power to the actors to hire their men. And you should definitely take it of the docks. The involved is the International Jpe men s Assn. Al. Political and Union to the witness said there l this big gangster  the group is searching for Dom the brother of Anthony Bender Strollo who Testi the stars and stripes test hop on Vest pocket Bronco Bonn roof raising fete defended by Wolfe Washington. March 30 Dos Genn g. Wolfe. Execute a. Rector for the . High commissioner in Germany is protesting Vene mently against insinuations that completion of an american housing part a wits be Ebrat i wit � Beer  m " " is. Newspapers for missing the significance of it relations Between americans1and germans. He explained to a House com Mittee which is investigating the financing of the state department s pan american airways employee Pat Powell takes a ride on shorty called the world s smallest horse upon his arrival in new York from London tar exhibitions in Atlanta. The 2-year-old sited described As full grown is 2s inches High 3 inches tone a weighs 59 pounds. In Riitano said his Job was to chock of Wood under due a crate while a Helper did ame on the other. Sea Charlesr a much asked How Long Stook and Napolitano replied you longer to ask me that n than it took me to put a Cade Ujj Zitano agreed with Tobey it amounted to stealing from gov Emmen to keep More the Job than were needed Strate a said that when. It went on in March 3352 men Ritre Laid off from 31 shift. And. Tic. Remaining t were Able to do the Sam of work. -. That when the army in charge showed up the  spoken Over i speaker system tipped off to get on their  sex pos mistress lists 146 California reds los Angeles Calif March 30 cop an elderly Gray haired former pos mistress disclosed Here she was Ait undercover Fri agent in the communist party for six years and gave the House in american activities committee a list of 146 party members. Mrs. Edith Maicia said the names were taken from the parly s Treasury reports. She told the committee of hundreds of meetings of Nephew to wed March 30 of Isenhower Nephew of pres and son of mrs i duct of Junction City in marry Jean Hootman off or and mrs. Edgar of Washington a Here Ittak the couple will make in san Francisco Grunewald appears at secret session in tax scandal probe Washington March 30, up Henry w. Grunewald Washington s Best known mystery Man yielded to the pressure of a contempt conviction and told House investigators in a secret session what tie knows about tax scandals. It. Was a. Complete reversal of form for Grunewald known As the silent dutchman Seal Story promised members of the subcommittee who had tried to question Grune Wald four tires before refused to say what the testimony was about. They said he would be questioned further at another secret session today. One committee member said however that newsmen will get a real Story when Public hear Ings Are held. Grunewald who moved about in both democratic and Republican circles had figured in 1951 Testi Mony about an alleged s500, tax Shakedown. .-.-. -. He bad pleaded guilty to con tempt of. Congress earlier this the Southern California party held but was Given a Chance to " i  we f a  9 \ 1 foot Dok v f try Ivett wafer is employed As a clerk f "purge1 himself before sentencing. The dues she Toft the committee ranged from 10 cents a month for unemployed members to $2 a 560 month for persons earning week or More. The former Tombstone ariz., pos mistress testified calmly blink ing frequently under the television lights in the hearing Hall in the Federal building. As she read off the list of names she adjusted her thick glasses and leaned for Ward toward the Battery of Micro phones. She named Cyril Gerber As chairman of the group assisted by his wife Louian i believe he was a los Angeles schoolteacher said. She police believe woman tied to tree cremated Michigan City ind. March 30 up three boys found the charred body of a woman who authorities said apparently was tied to a tree and burned to death. Police said several pieces of wire and plastic clothes line were bound around the woman s Waist. They believe the woman about 45,broke away from the Bunting tree and collapsed nearby starting Small grass fire. Building program in Germany that age old traditions called for a Cere Mony when the roof was raised on any new building and that it was in accordance with this custom that the Richt fest was arranged. He defended the g9.51i-mar� Cost by pointing out that 7,000 workmen were involved in the construction and were invited to Lake part in the ceremony which was attended by German officials and by John j. Mccoy then High commissioner. It was an insult to the germans or. Wolfe declared for our news papers to describe the affair As a Beer party. They poked fun at a tradition which is important to the Workingman of Germany and have embarrassed our relations with Ger Many cites descriptions rep. Charles b. Brownson r in the committee chairman said the reference to the Rich test As a Beer party might have been due to the fact that official descriptions of the affair had included a refer ence to the waving of Ber bottles by those present when the roof was put in place. While the committee was concerned mainly with the German building situation in View of the fact Tiit construction there was carried Forward without specific congressional authorization. Wolfe also was questioned briefly about the German economic situation. He said that the German Federal Republic during the next year would need no Dollar Aid from the . Except to assist Berlin and pointed to the favourable position which the German government has been Able to maintain in relation i to the european payments Union both Wolfe an James Riddle Berger chief of the state depart ment s German Bureau said that congressional approval would be sought for further expenditures in Germany on consular residential and other housing. They noted that with the exhaustion of counterpart funds and Sim Ilar Mark credits dollars would be needed for further expenses in Germany since the. Decline in the amount of . Economic Aid will result in the drying up of the source of the counterpart available in the pact. House group asks probe of commissaries Washington. March 30 up a House government operation subcommittee announced Taf it has asked the general account ing office to investigate the commissary sit Maltas of All Federal  the subcommittee is headed Byre. Cecil h. Harden Rind of 11 women in the House. She in a statement that the subcommittee wants to determine to what extent government commissaries Are necessary. We want to know if they am needed whether they Are subsidized through Federal funds How the affect local business and the governmental tax base she said the subcommittee soon til schedule hearings on All kinds of commercial Type activities Iau  merchants have complained to Congress from time to time that military commissaries far service men provided unfair Competition to private Enterprise. The military cracked Down on the extent of the tems available in commissaries several years ago after an Nivea Galion bj1 the House armed serv Ces committee. Jury assails a Qadi terror seized if 77t jaded guns.  March 3d up Foj eked up a missing 13-year a Here and found him the Bell aircraft corp. Announced that it Gen William e. Kepner a Veteran of More than 40 years Active duty in the army Navy air Force and Marine corps will join the firm april 1, Kepner was expected to be elec Ted to the newly created position of executive vice president by the company s Board of directors april 6. In making the announcement company president Lawrence d. Beil said Kepner s extraordinarily Broad experience with troops and equipment in the Field makes him a great asset to the company. Kepner s most recent assignment before retiring from the air Force feb. 23 was commander in chief a River. At the police station the Young Ster told his father you can take me Home Bat i won t stay.1 authorities turned him Over temporarily to the children s detention quarters in nearby Bingham  " ,. J Stevenson due in Saigon Saigon indo China March 30 up former democratic presidential candidate Adlaie Steven son will arrive Here tomorrow fora five Day visit to the indo China Battlefront an official american source said. Miami. Fla March 30 a a Federal grand jury investigating racial violence and the Kun Kikuc klan in Florida has reported Catalon of terror that seems  l. A Broome and Emory s. Akerman members of the Justice department directing the investigation in Florida handed judge John w. Holland a 12-Page report. The report detailed acts of Vio Lence for which it said the klan was responsible and said of the Kun flux klan it is founded on. The worst instincts of Mankind. At its Best it is insole right and bigoted. At its worst it Sis sadistic and  most of the terroristic outrages listed in the report occurred i Central of Horta where the jury said such things have been going on for  others occurred a greater meant slaying is Well planned the report said that two years before the murder of or and mrs. Harry t. Moore in their Home near minis fla., on Christmas night 1351, a floor plan of the Moore House was exhibited at a meeting of a Central Florida Lavern and that newspaper clippings of Moore s activities a Ere read tit Lavern meetings. Moore a negro was state coordinator of the National association for the advancement. Of coloured people at the time he and his wife were killed in an explosion that wrecked their Horn. Among incidents listed in the report were the dynamite no of Carver Village a negro subdivision in Miami the burning of a negro s House in Miami in 1jm?,. Burning of crosses to the Minuni area and klan stickers on a theater in fort the jury said to at Federal . Is wholly inadequate. It ii inherently a problem for state and local authorities