European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes monday november 17, l?5f Senate body to probe teamster feud with Texas trucking firm Washington a allegations of bombings and intrigue churned up in a new Senate rackets committee investigation of the teamsters at hearings monday the committee will seek the facts about the Union s Long and sometimes violent feud with the southwestern motor transport co., of san Antonio Tex. The company has charge Dot suffered costly reprisals for Refus rpm to tit Hief s blows end woman s amnesia state close Call for service station attendant fug to go along with teamster de mands that its employees be forced into us Union without their Story will Mark one phase of the Senate committee s investigation to show whether Federal Laws against secondary Boycotts Are tight enough. In a secondary boy Cott Union pressure is exerted against firms handling the services or products of a company involved in a labor dispute. I n 4 h Hack to 1954 the Texas company has con tended thnh dynamite nos and other violence As Well As hot cargo boycotting were brought to Bear in efforts to Idle its trucks and bring it and its Drivers to terms. The dispute goes Back to 1954.committee counsel Robert f. Kennedy give newsmen few details of what ground the inquiry will said a key witness will to Texas Ranger Zeno southwestern company has charged that in addition to violence against its trucks it was plunged into a business squeeze when the Union ruled that any cargo handled by South Western Strucks was too hot to be accepted for transshipment or delivery brother truckers having teamsters Union contracts. Alaska s Yule gift Reindeer Washington a Alaska s first Christmas gift to its sister states will arrive in Washington in Early december. The gift ten rein behalf of the 49th state the Bureau of Indian affairs offered the Reindeer some time ago. But there was one condition. The City of Washington had to find a Wayto cart the animals across the con Board of Trade official announced that two firms have do noted their hauling services. Alaska steamship lines will pick up the Reindeer in Seward Alaska nov a a and ship them to Seattle. Trucks of the consolidated freight. Co. Will be waiting there dec. 4 to carry the Reindeer to Washington the Reindeer will take part inthe capital s annual Christmas Page ant of peace which begins dec23. After the pageant they will be exhibited at the Natl Noal zoological Park. Miami Fla. Up blows on the head administered by a robber apparently restored the memory of a woman who said she had suffered from amnesia for six months police reported. Detective sgt Albert. Biblo said he believed the Story told by mrs Florence Chesler 45, of St. Louis who was found badly beaten and bruised in the closet of her hotel room last wednesday. Officers quoted mrs. Chesler As saying she realized her real identity while under treatment forthe injuries it a local Hospital. She said a Young Man had entered her hotel room threatened Lor with a knife beaten her and a Ken $2,200. Struck by car the woman had registered at the Lotel May 20 As mrs. Doris Collins of Dallas. She said she had assumed that identity after losing Ler memory As a result of being struck by a car in san Antonio. Detectives said woman told hem she now remembers having Bucu on a vacation visit to Texas and having several thousand dollars in her purse. She is a nurse she said. Her Story has been confirmed Ina Telephone conversation with mrs. Albert j. Alt the woman s sister who lives in St. Louis officers said. The woman s son it cmdr Dan Chesler stationed at Kingsville Tex., reported his Mother missing May 4 at Dallas. Biblo said the son was planning to come Here for her. It was All so horrible mrs Chesler said of the experience. It was so horrible i want to forget about charge rejected in baby s death Houston a a grand jury has refused to indict mrs. Iris a Norra Conrad 19, in the death Oher month old baby. District attorney Dan Walton referred the Case to the grand after he had filed a murder charge in the nov. 2 death of the baby Linda Dawn charging mrs. Con Rad had thrown the baby to the . Conrad admitted dropping the baby but insisted she did no intend to harm it. She said she and her husband parents of four children since their marriage four years ago will tryt rebuild their shattered lives. Two of the four children die from pneumonia. The surviving Ehold is Robert Shane 3%, Johnson to air for space reins in in suspect arrested with empty Safe Chicago up Steve Marros 36, was drilling into a Safe when police broke into his Kitchen it James Lynch arrested mar Rotas a suspect in the burglary of a Safe from a service station a called on the station owner to identify it. That thing i be been trying Roget rid of it said the station owner. The Safe was empty but Marro was held for investigation. Service station attendant Paul Jones of Miami Dazely Survey the car that came within inches of crushing him when it rolled off the grease rack. Scrambling for his life Jones injure head on the rack but managed to get Clear of the car before it plunged to the Concrete. A photo United nations . Up Senate majority Leader Lyndon b. Johnson of Texas arrived to pre sent to the in a detailed . Plan for outer space control and to demonstrate to the world solid bipartisan congressional backing for it. The Texas Democrat chairman of the Senate space and astronautical committee arrived by air an went immediately into Consulta Tion with . Ambassador Henry Bot Lodge at the latter s hotel. Johnson was to address the Gen eral Assembly s main political com Mittee monday. Lodge already had put before the 81-nation group a Resolution sponsored by the .and 19 other countries calling for a year s study by a special commit tee of possibilities for in action to preserve outer space for peaceful uses. Oppose Russ tone the . And its Western part ners strongly oppose Russia s Effort to link space control with Dis armament a line taken by the so Viet Union in the current Geneva talks on nuclear test suspension and measures against Surprise at tack. Russia s Resolution the outer space problem with a demand for elimination of All foreign Mili tary bases a Man Uever directed at . Installations in Europe the near and Middle East and North Africa. At the current stage of the de Bate which began last wednes Day the . Did not share Hopes expressed by some diplomats that Russia eventually might join the West in support of a unanimous Resolution to begin the first Diplo Matic exploration of outer space. . Diplomats consulted soviet Deputy foreign minister Valerian a. Zorin on the Western Resolution before it was presented to the com Mittee by Lodge. Zorin refused to join in sponsoring it saying i would be better to hear the de Bate in the committee 3 gop leaders on nato trip Washington up three republicans most Likely to figure in the Senate s gop leadership shakeup have left on one of the last congressional trips abroad of i Comet Jet flights booked heavily London a regular trans Atlantic Comet Jet service is Only 48 hours old but it already looks like a whopping Success. Almost every Comet flight be tween Load on and new York from now to year s end is fully booked according to reports from the Brit ish overseas airways corp. The British Jet entered daily transatlantic service last Friday and offers a 10%-hour westbound ride with one refuelling Stop a Gander Newfoundland or Kef Lav in. Iceland. Eastbound Comet passengers make the hop in from six to 8% hours. The 85th in the cast of con Gressional delegates to the Forth coming North Atlantic treaty organization nato parliamentary conference in Paris Are Senate gop policy chief styles Bridges of new Hampshire we May wind up As Republican floor Leader succeeding sen. William f. gop whip Everett m. Dirksen of Illinois who has Bee generally regarded As the most Likely successor to Knowland but who May have Liberal opposition sen. Thomas h. Kuchel of Cali fornia who seems to have the most support from gop liberals for a place on the leadership team As whip or assistant Leader. Most of them will spend five Days at the nato sessions in Paris visit the sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean and then go to London to attend the nov. 26 Dedi cation of the american Chapel in St. Paul s Cathedral. Runaway boys i19 Cross continent Dallas Ore. A two Runa Way 11-year-Olds from Somerville mass., wound up broke and hungry in the police station at nearby in dependence 3,200 Miles from Home. One Kenneth Rockwood told police chief George Utley of in dependence he formerly lived her and had come Back hoping to find an aunt and Uncle. No relative were located. The other Kenneth Amber Wasa Grade school companion in som i Orvllle and said he accompanied his Friend West to see buffaloes and indians. They had found neither buffaloes nor indians. Utley quoted the Amber boy assaying he financed the trip by Tak ing $122 from his family s Home Safe. He also had his parents Check Book with him but it apparently had not been used. Route ended at Salem 15 Miles East of Dallas. They were taken to the police station at Independence by a Motorist who had picked them up near Salem As they tried to Hitchhike the remaining Way to Dallas. Utley said the boys first told him their families were moving the boys said they spent $95.141west and were to meet them Aton two bus tickets and the re Dallas the same Story the chief minder of the Money on food said apparently had been used Toad trinkets. Their bus trip which get by police who questioned them necessitated eight changes in in Chicago . Communism dead sex red editor says new York a John Gates former editor of the new Yor daily worker says that for All practical purposes the communist party in the . Has it May continue to exist in definitely but Only As a living Corpse he added. Gates who broke with the communist part after the so Viet Union s intervention in the hungarian revolt made the com ment at a news conference i connection with the publication of his Book the Story of a american he said the party now has fewer than 5,000 members wit Only one third of them paying dues and few carrying on meaningful the average age level he said is More than 50 and there hag been nor a tent of Young persons. L
