Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1959, Tokyo, Japan                                Sunday february is 1959 the stars and stripes Page f Ike Mamie drop plan to meet in Texas Austin Tex. A president Eisenhower will be an overnight visitor in Texas wednesday on his Way to Mexico. But there will be to romantic reunion with Mamie in san Antonio where they courted. The president will spend the night at Bergstrom air Force base near Here his plane Columbine Iii is scheduled to arrive at 7"i30 Phi wednesday and he will Stayat the air base. He is scheduled to leave about 6 am thursday for Acapulco to be guest of Mexico s president Adolfo Lopez  of mrs. Eisenhower who is now in san Antonio said earlier that if was possible that the presi Dent would join her in the Cit where As a second lieutenant he courted her Back in 1915. Train trip that was before the White House announced the president schedule. Mrs. Eisenhower said that she planned to leave san an Tonio by train saturday for Phoe Nix she will spend two weeks Ata health and Beauty resort there. The president s wife and he sister mrs. G. Gordon Moore of Washington also a former Sanantonio resident entertained about 25 guests mostly military personnel in their $60-a-Day san an Tonio hotel . Eisenhower also was to be the guest of Honor at the Lacklan Dair Force base officers club. $21,924 stolen in Switzerland Basel Switzerland up Asack containing 10 Gold ingots Worth 94,500 Swiss francs $21,924 disappeared from a sealed German postal truck at the Basel main station police announced Here. They said the 44 pounds of Gold belonging to the Swiss Bank corp oration Fyk Schweiz Rischer Bank Verein were discovered missing from the Van shortly after 1 pm after it had been shunted from the Basel transit Post office to the main station. The theft was the second major robbery to be reported in Switzer land within the past two  feb. 2, four masked and armed men stole a bag containing1.4 million Swiss francs $317,000 in notes  a Post office truck i front of the Geneva Branch of the Swiss National Bank. 7,145 pied on Italy roads. Rome a More than 7,000persons died in traffic accidents in Italy during 1958. An official sur vey showed there were 198,335 High Way. Accidents with. 7,145 deaths in 1958, compared with 188,854 accidents and 6,936 deaths in the previous year. Magazine says Russ try to beef up tuw4 to meet Challenge of crack . Jetliners % i. A by Robert j. Serlin Washington up Russia apparently stung by the flashing performance and Lux Ury of new . Jetliners is reportedly improving its own Jet transports. The unofficial but authoritative publication air Force said it has Learned that the vaunted red jetliner tu104 is undergoing extensive modifications so  compete with Ameri Ca s new Boeing 707 and the forthcoming Douglas pcs. The Magazine said the russians Are coming out with a new version of the tu104 called the tu104b. It said the plane will have a fuselage four feet longer than the original Model and probably will use More powerful engines. The report confirmed suspicions in aviation circles that the russians Are a lot a happier about their show piece Jet than they would Ever admit publicly. Soviet officials have Long ragged that Russia put commercial jets into operation two years ahead of the . The soviet Union achieved this however by the simplest shortcut possible it merely modified a medium bomber into a transport plane. The result was a hybrid jetliner with Many weaknesses. . Aviation experts have criticized thetu104 for these shortcomings it is underpowered Short ranged an gulps fuel in Mammoth quantities. It lands at speeds dangerous by american safety standards. Its brakes Are weak several tu104s Are reported to have overshot runways. Its pressurization system is inferior Pas sengers who have flown in the red Jet complained of leaking Fountain pens and physical discomfort. It is considered far overweight one recent report said it weighs 40,000 pounds More than jetliners of similar size and performance. Air Force called the tu104 a ground Lov ing air plane with unspectacular perform  it indicated the plane required More Takeoff room than comparable . Jetliners. The Magazine said the new tu104b will have larger Wing flaps and bigger engines to improve its Takeoff performance. The russians have tried hard to sell thetu104 to european airlines without Success. The Price tag is said to run hundreds of thousands of dollars under american made jetliners. But most european experts who examined the red transport turned it Down As being too costly to  if they gave the plane away we could t afford to Fly it one european air line official snid. Lad lasses and cutlasses a pirate and his lassies set their sights on Tampa fla., during Gasparella Day an annual event in which 100 citizens Board a pirate ship and sail up Hul Borough River to capture the City. A photo women influence 70% of purchases say Fellers your suit was made for females Kansas. City. A for the Man who cherishes the thought that women dress to please men a men s Clothier offers this de Flating thought the Industry designs men s bolls with Louse up child s fun Santa be . A the new Mexico department of Public health has a big problem on its hands after finding lice on the real human hair of children s dolls. The department an Agency  loves to use five syllable words told of a child who twice became infected with head lice. The department referred to this., As an infestation of pediculosis. I said pediculosis is identified among communicable diseases As an infestation with lice. The synonym is Lou siness the handbook on communicable disease control Points out that any person May become Lousy under suitable conditions of exposure. But it does to say anything about  or. Jqhn c. Mitchell District health officer telling of the child who twice became infected told of the family s unsuccessful efforts to find the source. Finally the Mother discovered something suspicious in the hair of couple of dolls which had been purchased around Christmas time dolls advertised to have real human  when the dolls Heads were Cut open they were found to be full of lice. Clothes with women in mind. L. N. Rieman of Chicago Sale manager for a nationwide cloth ing firm told 500 persons at showing Here woman influences 70 per Centof Man s clothing purchases. She bemoans the sloppiness of  women consultants to make certain. The Industry really knows what women wan their husbands to buy. Rieman said his company maintains women fashion consultants. He pointed to a new suit Villedas the biggest news since the Ivy league look and said that s the Continental look. It keynote is elegance. We re going out to . That suites designed to complement her new  ladies the suit features peaked lapels a fashioned Waist a cutaway front and Cuffe sleeve Attlee arrives in . New York up Earl Attlee former British prime minister arrived Here for a four week lecture tour. Intimidation charged in Jukebox probe Washington a a Brooklyn Man refused to say whether he picketed for unions allegedly used to shake Clown Coin machine opera tors. Senate investigators charged he had been frightened into  Parker s refusal to talk came As an apparent Surprise to the Senate rackets committee. Robert f. Kennedy the group s counsel said Parker 28, had spoken freely to the investigators As recently As thurs Day. Kennedy called it an outrageous turnabout. The fact is you have been intimidated and that is Why you decline to answer Kennedy told the perspiring witness. Committee chairman John  dark also tried to Jolt Parker into talking. But Parker persisted in his refusals plead ing the fifth amendment. Mcclel Lan finally Prev from him a weak no sir in reply to repeated questions As t o whether he re fused to testify because he was scared. Linked to gangsters other witnesses had named Parker As a professional picket for ale Cohen a new York Union figure. The committee also has hear testimony linking Cohen s name with new York gangsters and wit alleged efforts to exact tribute from the new York Jukebox Industry. Cohen was summoned to the witness chair and Kennedy demanded to know whether Cohen had threatened Parker. This Man was about to testify you told him to take the fifth amendment Kennedy told  Cohen refused to reply invoking the fifth amendment which offers Protection against possible self incrimination. He stuck to that position in the face of Mcclellan s needling questions Are you a thief. A thug. A gangster an american Citi zen life tin eat. This series of exchanges came toward the close of a Day Long hearing during which Albert s. Denver a top figure in new York Jukebox Industry testified his life was threatened More than once after he fought intimidation and pressure by racketeering , head of the music operators of new York inc., said his Industry is frantically in need of help to keep hoodlum element from muscling in. The committee was unable Roget any information from mrs. Sylvia Goldberg a Brunet wit heavily pencilled eyebrows. She re fused on fifth amendment grounds to say whether she had been president of a local Union Rugby Cohen. Kennedy said that like Parker mrs. Goldberg previously had an swered questions put to her by committee investigators. But the counsel said she was not in the same class As Parker. Kennedy said the rackets group had no derogatory information about Parker. Author fights for of to visit red China Washington up the second test of the state depart ment s right to ban travel by americans to communist China has started through the courts. Waldo Frank 70-year-old author asked Federal judge Charles f. Mclaughlin to order the state department to let him go to China this Spring to lecture on american literature write newspaper articles and gather material for a Book. Mclaughlin put off a decision to await a . Court of appeals Rul ing in the Case of newsman Wil Liam worthy jr., who ignored the travel ban two years ago and Nowise suing for renewal of his pass port. The appeals court hears worthy Case next month. Adm Granthan named governor of Malta London a adm sir Guy Fantham has been appointed governor and commander in chief of the British Colony of Malta. Grantham commander in chief atthe Portsmouth naval base and Al lied commander in chief of the Channel area will succeed maj Gen sir Robert Laycock who is re tiring. Sets to Aid parents of 6th set of twins Baum older Germany Spe Cial m sgt l. E. Livingston president of the  regu Lar army sergeants announced Here that the association is Send ing $150 to help a Jacksonville fla., couple to meet expenses incurred by the birth of. A sixth set of twins. Twin boys were born this wee to mrs. Lawson Pearson 34, wife of to to repairman who says he earns $60 a week. The boys be came the couple s 15th and 16thchildren, 11 of whom Are living. In a Story published in yester Day s editions of the stars and stripes mrs. Pearson told of Aneed for a new baby bed a stroller a Playpen and diapers