Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1959, Tokyo, Japan European edition weather forecast continued Cloudy and Hay. High28 Low 25. Air weather service the is ripes army Navy air Force unofficial publication of the . Armed forces in Europe North Africa and the Middle East International base a now International settlement has sprung up at the onetime Headquarters of the . 12th air Force Ramsten air base Ger Many. Today French Canadian German and american personnel live and work there. See Story Page 18. Volume 17, number 301 5 Centi Dally 10 cents sunday monday february 16, 1959 Seg Iii forms pro nato Italy Cabinet Rome up Premier designate Antonio Segni has formed a new pro Western government depending on outside support a g a i n St Strong communist and socialist opposition Segni and his All Christian Democrat Cabinet will be sworn in monday. He will go before parliament in about a week to seek a vote of Confidence. The new pro nato government ending Italy s 20-Day crisis lacks a. Majority in the chamber of deputies. But Segni has amassed enough support from Center and right of Center Small parties to give him an 80-vote margin to Rule. Fanfani coalition the new Premier s Choice of program Cabinet and parliament Tery allies halted the government s slight move to the left under the coalition reign of ousted Premier Amintore Fanfani. Fanfani represented the left leaning faction of the Christian democrats Italy s largest party and formed a coalition with the left of Center social Democrat Par cont. On Page 2%, col. 1 ends crisis Dulles is Given Chance for part time duties up Pho Oantonio Segni new wage Bill due for study Washington up Legisla Tion to raise the Federal minimum wage to $1.25 an hour and extend wage hour Protection to an additional 7 million workers will be introduced in Congress this week. The Bill will be sponsored in the Senate by Sens. John f. Kennedy a mass and Wayne Morse d Ore and in the House by rep. James Roosevelt a Calif. They said that the Bill would bring under the wage hour Law seven new types of enterprises. The measure also would remove or modify the exemption now provided to 12 other types of enter Prises. I the sponsors said their Bill would Correct the shocking fact that millions of citizens cannot earn enough no matter How Many hours they toil to maintain them selves and their families at a higher level than Bare subsistence. The present $1 minimum is even Les adequate in 1959 than the original 25 cent minimum was in 1938," they said their legislation would not affect a and a enterprises since it specifically exempts All businesses in which the owner Anc members of his immediate family do the for inflation they said labor department studies show that past increases in the minimum wage have shown that higher earnings for the lowest paid Are not reflected in higher crowds Hail Makarios on arrival in us London a archbishop Makarios flew triumphantly into Ondon sunday night to discuss the future Independence of Cyprus the turbulent Island from which the British exiled him three year Sago. Thousands of wildly excited Creek cypriots jammed roads around the Airport to Welcome their spiritual Leader flying in from Athens. Convoys of greeks the Black bearded archbishop will sit Down tuesday with the foreign ministers of Britain Greece and Turkey in a formal conference aimed at granting re publican status to Britain s Mediterranean Island Colony. Horn tooting convoys of cars an coaches had carried cheering Mem Bers of Britain s greek Community cont on Page 2jf, col. 2 greatest for something Chicago up a. G. Hughes former president of the National ass. Of Home builders told the group s 15th annual convention that Texas is still the largest and greatest Glacier free state in the Mcclellan Barden set labor goal new anti Racket Bills loom in Senate House Washington a a drive for legislation to clean out labor racketeers has been announced by sen. John l. Mcclellan dark and rep. Graham a. Barden . Mcclellan Heads the Senate rackets committee which has spotlighted gangster tie ins with labor unions. Barden is chairman of the House labor committee. Mcclellan and Barden said they plan to introduce similar though not identical anti racketeering Bills this week. They intend to introduce separate legis lation later proposing changes in the Basic Taft Hartley Law. Complicate picture the Mcclellan Barden proposals promised to complicate the Labo legislation picture in the Congress where the administration and sen. John f. Kennedy Dimass have put in rival measures. Mcclellan said my Bill will go further than either of the present Bills in one respect the unions will have to comply with certain standards and Page 2, col. 3 6 adults 4 children die in 2-car crash Alamo Tex. A ten per sons four of them children were killed near Here sunday when two cars collided on a rain Slick High Way. Police said five adults and fou children were in one Auto and a Man was alone in the other car. All were killed. Police said the victims had not yet been identified. Indiana town Safe As flood Crest passes by associated press flood threatened West t e r r e haute ind. Came through a crucial test when the Crest of the flooding Wabash River flowed past the town without destroying the Sand bag Dike holding off its backwaters. A huge ice Jam began breaking up under mild temperatures up Stream at Delphi easing another peril on the Wabash. The lower end of the ,1am began moving downstream in Small sections. The sandbag Dike on sugar Creek was punctured but quickly patched As the flood Crest built up Earl saturday. Later it proved equal to the Wabash had been expected to reach a height of 24.3 feet at West Terre haute saturday. Light rain helped raise it to 24.610.6 feet above flood stage. It remained cont. On Page a col. B liner Battles mountainous Atlantic Waves surgeons say time needed to be definite Washington a Secretary of state John Fos Ter Dulles doctors have Given him. A fighting Chance to recover enough from cancer to stay on the Job at Leas part time. In private talks the Doc tors were reported annoyed at some reaction to Dulles new illness which already had counted him out of action at this critical Point of world affairs. They insist it is too Early for any definite prognosis. They said medical science is far from pow Erless in dealing with cancer. Per haps More importantly they said no doctor would Ever count out a Man of Dulles physical strength and will Power. Dulles new cancer discovered when he was operated on for her Nia at Walter Reed army medical Center is adenocarcinoma a Glan Dular cancer. It is a recurrence of the cancer for which he underwent intestinal surgery at Walter Reed nov. 3, 1956. May try drugs the doctors have ruled out fur ther surgery. Radiation therapy is to Start this week. If that does not control the cancer medical experts say a variety of other treat ments could be tried drugs de Rived from nitrogen Mustard Gas or perhaps injections of radioactive Gold. In Many cases doctors say it is possible for the patient to return to work especially persons of advanced years. Dulles will be 71 on feb. 25. But it seemed unlikely that cont. On Page 21, col. 5 ice coated Bow of the German liner Berlin plows into a mountainous wave in the North at lactic during a crossing from Europe to new York. Waves 40 feet High were encountered. A thin ice accidents drown 3 boys Boston up two pairs of Brothers plunged through thin ice into frigid water in separate Acci dents in the Boston area. Three of the four boys drowned. In the first Accident 8, and his brother Jose 5, fell through the icy surface of River in the Back Bay Section and drowned. Policeman Thomas Gavin dived fully clothed into the cold water in a vain Rescue Effort. The office himself had to be hauled to safety. A few hours later in the Jamaica Plains Section six year old James Leblanc and his brother William 8, went through ice while playing on Ward Sullivan 23, leaped into the water and saved the older brother one of the family s nine children. Police later recovered Young. James body. The rescued youth was reported recovering at children s Hospital. Sullivan was treated for a Cut forehead
