European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday november 16, 1958 the stars and stripes Page 9 Allen denies 6 anti Western Usia charge Washington up George v. Allen director of the . In formation Agency has denied an ousted employee s charge that voice of America broadcasts to Iran have shown anti Western Bias. Allen told House investigators he was confident that persian Lan Guage broadcasts and All others beamed in foreign tongues have followed the voice s approved eng Lish language news line. He testified after rep. Porter Hardy or. A chairman of the investigating subcommittee Chai ged that the voice apparently takes great pleasure in Broad casting Adverse news of . Internal problems. Hardy s complaint entered on the use in persian language Broad casts of a word meaning discrimination when the word segregation had been used in approved English language scripts. Accused voice s a e e d Mirbaha a translator broadcaster from the voice s per Sian desk said this usage and some others which he opposed reflected anti Western sentiment among some desk employees. Mohammed Zarnegar chief editor of the persian desk testified that discrimination was used be cause the persian word for Segre gation would be meaningless to the iranian people. Abol f. Fotouhi also of the per Sian desk said Mirbaha was trying to get Back at his superiors be cause he Felt persecuted at los ing his Job. Hardy said the subcommittee was not equipped to pass judgment on which persian word should have been used. He said his concern was that apparently the voice of America takes great pleasure in advertising the Little differences we have at Allen testified that if the for eign language broadcasts strayed from approved voice policy he would get a fast Kickback on what was aired. Noting that voice programs Are broadcast in 37 languages he conceded that super vision is a but with respect to Mirbaha s charges Allen said when an employee of an Agency is found unsatisfactory he naturally thinks of All sorts of reasons. This frequently happens in the Usia and i must say to my great regret particularly among employees of the for eign language big Yule season seen Boston up retail sales during the Christmas shopping season will set an Al time High record United business service has predicted. Total Dollar sales should be 3 to 5 per cent higher than the previous Peak established last year the service said. Court backs indians bars land seizure Washington a the Tuscarora indians have won n major round in their fight to prevent the flooding of More than 1,000 acres of their Reserva Tion in Western new York for a big Power project. The . Court of appeals blocked for the time being at least the seizure of tribal lands for a storage Reservoir for the $625-million Niagara Falls Hydro electric development. The court of appeals sent the Case Back to the Federal Power commission saying the commis Sion cannot License a Reservoir on the tribal lands unless it can find a Way around a proviso of the Federal Power act. This provides that the commis Sion shall not Issue a License within any government Reserva Tion without first finding that it will not interfere with the Pur pose of the reservation. $4.so in Nickels costs Only 4o cents Money makers really make Money by Bob Considine Washington up about the Only Money making department of the Federal government is the Money making department. We make 145 one cent pieces out of a Pound of Metal made of 95 per cent Copper and the rest tin and Zinc which costs us 30 cents assistant director of . Mints Leland Howard said. The Alloy from which we make Nickels 75 per cent Copper and 25 per cent Nickel costs us 40 cents a Pound. We get 90 Nickels to the Pound or $4.50. And so it goes. In our department we say that one Way to unbalance the budget is to Cut despite the Rise in the Cost of living Small change is More in demand than Ever because of the up sweep of Cash and carry grocery markets sales taxes excise taxes parking meters and the spreading epidemic of the vending machine. Nearly 70 per cent of the 33 tons of coins minted each Day in Phila Delphia and Denver Are pennies 1.4 billion of them each year. About $1.8 billion Worth of Nick Els and dimes Are punched out each year. Americans need More change in their pockets than Ever before. A Symbol of this need is the fact that 900 million White pennies Are still in circulation. The White Penny Hom Eliest Coin in our annals was minted Only Dur ing 1943, some 1,093,000,000 of them. They were made of steel plated with Zinc to keep them from rust ing. There was of course a Copper shortage. There has not Boon a Coin change since the Benjamin Franklin half Dollar in 1948. No Silver dollars have been minted since 1945. The Only Call for them Howard said is around Las vegas Rono and a few places like that. For some reason a the Treasury has 250 million of them stacked and ready in Case the East Ever becomes interested in them again. Americans have Given up on certain coins before they gave up on the Long since fallen into discard Are the half cent piece Tho 2-cent piece the 3-cent.er and the 20-cent piece. There s always been a lot of trouble with the $2 Bill whose last remaining Friend seems to be Boston for reasons too inscrutable for Treasury department to fathom. The Bureau of engraving and printing works around the clock printing now paper Money. It has gone easy recently on $100,000 Bills which Bear Woodrow Wilson s picture As c v o r y b o i y knows. Banks hand bom bark and Forth. There Are enough to meet the de Mand. There arc 8-45 ten thousand Dol Lar Bills in circulation today. One Hundred of them Are immobilized in a showcase in Joe w. Brown s gambling Hall in Las vegas. Joe tried to get 100 More of the 10 grand notes not Long ago for a Las Hogns float in the Rose bowl Parade but the red faced . Government said it just did t have that much Money at least in $10, 000 Bills. There s $3,340,000 floating around the country in $5,000 Bills. Award for a sub Developer vice adm Hyman g. Rickover left receives the Gold medal of Honor of the army and Navy Union from the organization s nation Al commander Warden v. Ankeny in Washington. The citation paid tribute to the innovator of the newest development in the Sci ence of Rickover is known As the father of the atomic sub United press International photo doctor says sect scorned care of dying children Dalton a. A a health officer says that 12 or 13 children of members of a Small religious sect have died from illnesses not treated by doctors and that most of them could have been saved. Or. Cecil Jacobs District health commissioner Here identified the sect As the Church of god Union Assembly a Small group not connected with the main Church of god organization. Jacobs said health authorities Learned of the illnesses in the death reports. He added that the parents made no Effort to obtain medical Aid. Most of the children the District commissioner said died last Winter from Lobar pneumonia a disease readily combated by antibiotics. Current Case members of the sect include or. And mrs. Otha Gillespie of at Lanta who refused medical treat ment for their daughter Patsy 7, who is suffering tuberculosis of the Bone. They said there is no Church Rule against medical treat ment but each member decides for himself. Doctors in Atlanta said medical treatment would cure Patsy but without it the child May develop fatal meningitis of the brain. After considerable publicity in Atlanta the gillespies announced they Are bringing Patsy Here to escape Public gaze and a spokesman said the child will slay with the Rev. R. V. Hall mrs. Gil Lespie s father. Jacobs said the juvenile court placed two children Here under medical care and both were saved. One he added had pneumonia with multiple abscesses and the other a fractured Skull. Wedemeyer Book blasts policies in War in China Wedemeyer new York up the already tall stack of books about How world War ii was mis fought has grown two inches higher. Gen Albert c. Wedemeyer has added a blistering volume called Wede Meyer the Book Calls world War ii the War nobody w o a and includes these assessments 1 Winston Churchill lacked the Wisdom and statecraft of his predecessors who had made eng land the world s greatest Power. Churchill could never reconcile his own concepts of grand strategy with sound Mili tary decisions. Acting on intuition and impulse without regard for implications or waged War More like an Indian chieftain from the Arizona territory. He pursued policies which hastened Britain s decline to her present stains of a 2franklin d. Roosevelt primarily responsible for the fact that Japan s attack on pear1 har Bor had been deliberately provoked. And the subsequent loss of the Philippines where the american Garrison was regarded As expendable by an admin St ration Bent on getting us into the european War by the Back Montgomery outsmarted 3field marshal Viscount Mont Gomery outsmarted for a considerable length of time by Field marshal Erwin Rommel in North Africa even when he had an Over whelming Force manpower fire Power and air 4--Harry a. Truman should never have authorized use of the atomic bomb against Japan As the War was already almost Over. But should be credited with Many costule decisions including defense of Korea in 1950. 5dwight d. Eisenhower even some of the men most Loyal to Eisenhower nevertheless Felt that Ike was leaning Over too far in favouring the British although i was sceptical at the time i feared my friends were right when Eisen Hower began to weaken his sup port of the Cross Channel operation invasion of France in 1943." g Adolf Hitler a madman who interfered with military opera Lions. To a catastrophic 7 Josef Stalin a ruthless seeker of world domination who made continuing mistakes on his own. The biggest mistake the russians made after world War ii was in not exploiting the Good will they enjoyed in our country in pursuance of their revolutionary ends they should have continued to deceive us by a show of Truman dict of much of Wedo Moyer s Book is devoted to what he Calls a tragic and misguided Effort by the tru Man admin St nil Ion through Gen Ceorge c. Marshall to Force Chiang Kai Shek into coalition Rule of postwar China with the communists. He depicts Chiang in the War time and postwar years As any thing but a dictator. He suggests Chiang was a victim of uncontrollable circumstances but a Man who did his Best to overcome the weaknesses and oppressive charac Ter of the nationalist government and its decreasing popular Biller passages Wedemeyer is particularly Hitler about the Truman Acheson Mur shall refusal to Back Chiang solidly in the postwar s showdown wit the communists. The chinese government he wrote if assisted in establishing the internal peace that Only Mili tary strength can guarantee would eventually have been Able to pro Gress toward the modern demo cratic state which had seemed to be in sight in 1937 before the japanese Wedemeyer repeatedly projects the idea that the Western allies shoud have waited in " Hitler and Stalin had exhausted each other and then moved in to exercise the historic role of arranging a balance of Power thus precluding the domination of Europe by either the communists or the Rockefeller to quit Caracas firm role Caracas Venezuela up Nelson a. Rockefeller has announced he will resign All administrative connections with his mul Simillion Dollar investments in Venezuela before his inauguration As governor of new York next Jan. 1, the announcement was made at a meeting at his Monte Sacro ranch 125 Miles West of Caracas. Rockefeller s press Secretary Richard Amper who spoke to the governor elect by Short wave radio released the announcement i Caracas. It Diu not indicate whether Rockefeller planned to take similar action regarding his investments in the . Or abroad. Other interests he had indicated previously that some such action might be taken because of his desire to devote his entire attention to being governor of new Rockefeller has other major in vestments in Brazil Al Salvador Costa Rica and Peru. He had been president of the International Basic economic corp. In Venezuela until a few months ago when he resigned to become Board chairman. Rockefeller owns 51 per cent of the Stock. He said he does not know its present Market value but when the corporation was organized 14 years ago his equity amounted to $14 million
