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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, February 14, 1959

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   Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1959, Tokyo, Japan                                Saturday february 14, 1959 the stars and stripes Dollar just won t to anywhere Florida wife has 6tk set of twins Jacksonville Fla. Cap a Dollar just won t go anywhere is the lament or mrs. Lawvon Pearson 34, who gave birth to her sixth set of twins and 15th and 16th children Here. Eleven Are living. The couple has been married 19 years. Pearson 40, is a to repairman who a a ij4c 11uo la in i a a 1 i says he earns $50 to $60 a week. They pay $42 rent for a two bedroom apartment he says they barely make out and have no luxuries. A big problem is diapers said mrs. Pearson. I Haven t got Many and Haven t bought any for these two latest yet. My husband can t help at Home because he has to work All the time Day and night. " but i would t give one of these i  Are More problems than food and the Lack of husband help around the apartment. I need a new baby bed she said. " the one i got is about workout. I Don t have a stroller or a h High chair but i do have a play pen except it s  a pretty 14-year-old daughter Phyllis is staying but of school Totake care of the children at Home mrs. Pearson explained. In he care Are Troy l Yuri. And Roy Flynn 14 months Donna Fay and Ronnie Fay 5 Rosalie and Russell Lee 8 and Steve 11 Leon 19, lives in Knoxville  new ones Are named Larry and Garry. Clue suggests soviets making a bombs As potent Ash bombs v Washington up scientific detectives Are " puzzled Over radioactive clue which suggests the possibility that Russia May he Mak ing a bombs As powerful As h bombs. The clue also appears to indicate the russians Are far Richer in the costly fissionable material Ura-nium-235, than previously supposed. If the detectives Are on the right Trail soviet weapon makers have been making lavish use of this pre Cious stuff to produce a bombs probes hear testimony in Penny Arcade Boac will Start round the world Jet trips april 1 London a British Over seas airways corp. Budac announced Friday it will Start the first round the world Jet Airliner service april 1.Comet 4 pure Jet aircraft will link London Hon Kong and Tokyo. Via the Middle East. Four times week in each direction. Britannia Jet prop airliners will link London and Hon Kong twice weekly by Way of the . And Wake  flying eastward from London will be Able to change fro the Comet to the Britannia during a three hour Stopover in Hon Kong and Fly around the world in Little More than 3% Days a Boac spokesman  fastest Westward round the world trip from London would take 4 Days because of a one Day Stopover for the connection Thongkong. The Comet service to Hon Kong equal in Power o five Megatons 5 million tons of int. Hitherto it has been suppose that Only a bombs could generate that much Power. The new Evi Dence according to still tentative conclusions indicates the Russia shave succeeded in packing into an atomic warhead weighing Only 1%tons As much destruction As they could cram into a Hydrogen War head weighing 10 tons. X clue spotted if this is True it Means the so Viets can deliver five Megatons of violence Over intercontinental Dis Tances with the same sort of rocket they used to launch sputnik Iii. The clue is Neptunium-239, Short lived artifice element. After some big explosions in Las autumn s soviet nuclear tests Neptunium in considerable amount was detected in fallout which settled on Japan. It also is said Mohave been spotted in new York state. The super bomb if it exists would pack Megatons of violence into a weapon far More compact than Anh bomb of similar Power scientists say. This appears to lend credence to soviet claims they have a five megaton warhead which can be delivered by the rockets which launched Ivy ton sputnik Iii. It also suggests that Russia possesses enough u-235 to employ it in the manner suggested by Ali Neptunium clue in the japanese fallout. And Tokyo will routes serving cover various Between them Frankfurt Zurich Beirut Teheran Karachi Delhi Calcutta Rangoon and Bangkok. 15 killed in Iran slide Teheran a thirty per sons Are missing and 15 dead after an Avalanche which rolled three trucks and a bus into a Steep Valley Northeast of Here. Reports said 20 survivors Are hospitalized. The Senate caucus room looked More like Penny Arcade than a hair of government when the Senate rackets committee opened it probe int Ocoin machine gangsterism. Facing camera at Jar left Arthur Kaplan a staff investigator traces the growth of underworld infiltration while in fore ground committee counsel Robert Kennedy left chairman John t. Mcclellan dark and sen. Frank f. Church of Ida listen and take notes on the testimony. Up photo secret police files Bare Gangland Jukebox ties Washington up a new York police investigator testified that the notorious 1957 Apalachin n.y., crime convention pardoned a hoodlum from an underworld death sentence but fined him $10, 000 of r out of line activities in the Jukebox rackets. James s. Mooney a new Yor police lieutenant told the Senate rackets committee that the of fender Carmine Lombardozzi awaited his Fate under guard in garage at the state where the crime convention was held. Mooney now on loan to the com Mittee As an investigator mad Public information from secret files of the new York police. It was go subs for Star Tenor after one Day notice draws Praise Washington up Mallory Walker a 23-year-old Soldier from Long Beach calif., stepped fro the chorus to sing a difficult operatic role without a rehearsal and " on Only a Day s , 23, took Over the Lead ing part in Stravinsky s the Rake s Progress after Tenor John Mccollum became suddenly in disposed. Walker sings in the army chorus at nearby it. Myer a. It was pure coincidence that he knew therole of Tom Rake Well in the Stra Vinski opera the score of which  written by Chester Kallman. He had Learned Auden and it in recent months in the Hope that when he completes military training in is months he will be Able to move into an operatic career. In accepting the leading role Walker turned Down an offer for a delay in the opening night. Con sequently he went on stage with out Ever having practice with the orchestra. Milton Berliner,.music critic forthe Washington daily news called his performance  he also praised the Young Singer for a remarkable feat in taking Over the demanding part on such Shor notice. Berliner said Walker was Espe Dally Good in the opera s lat scenes. He first detailed disclosure of Whytook place at the crime conclave which was broken up by a police Aid. His testimony highlighted the hearing on the committee inquiry to underworld teamster Union inks in the multimillion Dollar Coin machine Industry. In other testimony staff investigator Arthur Kaplan gave eve Deuce on charges that racketeers Are conspiring with a teamster ocal to take Over the entire vend no machine operation in the new York area. Mooney also testified that Lom Dardozzi occasionally serves As a labor consultant to big shipping companies and has assisted in settling waterfront  said Lombardozzi owned a company the Mobile Marine Power and equipment co., whose sole asset was a second hand army sur plus Generator. But Mooney said the company was Able to rent the Generator to the Monte Marine co.,a big Dock firm for about $750 a . John f. Kennedy a mass said it was quite obvious that the rental was a fraudulent front to cover up payoffs to labor unions. He called this a shocking breach of the  that s the Way it appears Mooney agreed. . Bill to lower mating age killed Santa be n. M. A the new Mexico Senate treated rather lightly then killed two Bills which state sen. William Osborn Dros Well said were Good and Neces  the Bills would have lowered theage for marriage with parental consent from 16 to 14 for women and 18 to 16 for men. The other was a companion Bill lowering theage on statutory rape from 16 to 14. Now the Only Way a girl of 14can get married is to have a Doc Tor s certificate that she is preg Nant he said. A lot of kids Are finding out about this and using this Means to Force the  mental exam asked for Egan Chicago a a group of City officials and police of auror a 111., being sued for $5 million for violation of civil rights have petitioned the . District court to order a psychiatric examination for Aurora mayor Paul Egan. Attorneys for Donald Curran Aurora s police chief and six police men four City commissioners and corporation counsel Charles Darling charged in the petition that Egan is megalomaniac suffering from delusions of grandeur. The charge is contained in their motion to dismiss a suit filed in Federal court by Egan As an out growth of his arrest last oct. 14 while he was making a speech inthe City Council chamber. He was convicted of disorderly conduct and fined $100 but the conviction was reversed by a City court jury. Egan s lawyer said the Mayo would not take the psychiatric examination. Two Rhode islanders charged with slaying of manufacturer 24 algerian rebels to die Oran Algeria a Twenty four algerian nationalist rebels have been condemned to death and 11 to life imprisonment for series of terrorist attacks which left 38 victims. Nashua,-n.h. A two Rhode Island men have been charged with murder and a third Man with being an accessory in the slaying of m Aurice Gagnon,41, wealthy Cumberland r.i., Plas tics  with murder were Fred Martineau 33, of. Pawtucket a Drussell j. Nelson 30, of provi  w. Almonti 29, also of Providence was charged with be ing an accessory after the crime. Gagnon was to have testified last week against Martineau and Nelson in connection with a break in at his Well furnished trailer Home in  j. Gillan 39, of Cen trial Falls was arraigned in Cen trial Falls District court on a charge he attempted to bribe gag non to keep him from testifying against the two men. Gillan p leaded innocent and was iced in $10,000 bail for hearing feb. 24. Gagnon s body was f o u n slumped in his expensive Cream coloured Sedan parked in a Nashua lot about 8 am monday. Martineau Nelson and Almonti had been arrested 12 hours earlier for loitering in Nashua and were undergoing routine questioning when word of the discovery of Gagnon s body was relayed to police by the boy who discovered it. Gagnon s will filed in Lincoln thursday left an estimated $553, 000 personal estate and household effects to his two children Maiv Rice a., jr., 11, and Kenneth a 15, in equal shares. Gagnon s widow Sophie 38,from whom he had been separated for two years was left Noth ing  
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