Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1959, Tokyo, Japan Sunday february 22, .1959 the stars and stripes Jukebox discs counterfeited probes told Washington a the Senate rackets committee is investigating in alleged Chicago Gangland plot involving Cut rate counterfeit phonograph records. Chairman John l. Mcclellan cd Ark ordered men accused of the conspiracy brought in for question ing when the hearings resume tuesday. The Story of the counterfeiting bobbed up in testimony that a Combine of mobsters and corrupt Union officials has run a $100,000 a year Shakedown Racket against Chicago Jukebox operators using terrorists to enforce committee has charged that Jukebox racketeering in chicagoan new York Are part of a nationwide conspiracy by under world figures and some top Union officials to dominate the Coin machine Industry. Business ruined Ted Sipiora c h a r g i n g that gangster backed Competition has ruined his Chicago record whole Saling business swore that counter Feit records became part an parcel of these manipulations. He said this involved the making of Low Cost reproductions of recordings and placing on the counterfeit labels to stamp them As the product of reputable record ing firms. He said the counterfeiting was done in Cincinnati but that when one of those involved was caught the Man was merely fined $50 in a Cook county Chicago investigator Arthur Kaplan placed the $100,000 Cost Tabon the Chicago Jukebox Racket. He testified this was the Price Juke Box operators were required to pay for labor peace and for gangsters permission to have their machines undisturbed in taverns restaurant Sand other locations 3 teen age girls Given six months for bomb hoaxes Fulton . A three pretty High school girls All 17 and from Middle class Homes were sentenced to six months in jail for telephoning a series of bomb threats to their school. A fourth girl 16, was placed on probation for two years. Only one Karen Gardner pleaded innocent to the disorderly con duct charges brought against others Gloria Jean Dickquist Sylvia Rossman and Helen Lamb pleaded guilty. The judge convicted miss Gardner. One to Appe Althe Gardner Dickquist and Rossman girls were sentenced to six months by judge Maurice b. Conley in City court. He granted the Gardner girl a 10-Day stay so her attorney could Appeal in Oswego county court. She is free in $500 other two entered the county Calls the girls made caused evacuation of the school five times. The judge said he placed the Lamb girl on probation rather than sentence her to jail because of extenuating circumstances. He said her father a Short order Cook had neglected the family and Helen had been forced to care for two younger children. Their Mother is dead. Paris tourist flow drops Paris up fewer tourists came to Paris and the Riviera in 1958 than in 1957, the French National tourist office announced. The number of foreign tourists inthe Paris area fell from 1,576,554 in 1957 to 1,372,355 in 1958, a drop of 12.9 per cent the official announce ment said. Hitch skier an avid skier solves the baby sitting problem at dim Muir calif., by taking on a Young hitch hiker at the mount Shasta ski bowl. The child hangs on to pop s Knees for a free ride. A to play reminiscent of Orson Welles shocker space raid9 panics us London a Groat numbers of britons were thrown into panic when they Hoard the startling announcement on television that space ship was Over London and ready to drop bombs. It was All part of the dramatic opening scene of a play. The prime minister has an announcement. London the Cabi net has decided is to be evacuated. " the play began. Television viewers watching the commercial network s production of before the Sun goes Down could see an unidentified motion less satellite hanging in the night sky Over London. Or so they thought. Flood of Call women fainted. The network s switchboard was inundated with other viewers called Scot land Yard to complain. They demanded the play be stopped. It was frightening their wives they was awful the worst thing i have Ever seen said a. E. Parker of Fulham. The operator of one pub said Many Ashen faced people in his neighbourhood came Rushing into his Public drinking House for some thing to Calm their nerves. Protest runs out of Gas As lesson backfires Baltimore a mrs. Jamesf. Thompson said she was tired of trucks using her driveway tomake deliveries. Besides her daughter and her grandchildren were moving in and they could i play in , when an Oil truck pulled into the driveway to deliver Oil Toa neighbor she removed the Igni Tion keys and said the Benson fuel corp. Would have to get a court order if it wants the truck said her action would teach them All a Good overnight mrs. Thompson ran out of fuel Oil. She called he regular fuel Oil distributor. Sorry the firm said we can to get in to your House. An Oil truck is Block ing the called Bensons. Could she have some Oil in that , they said. The temperature overnight was near Zero. G. W. Benson an official of the fuel firm said he had offered to pay mrs. Thompson for any dam Ages although a police Captain had said there were none. I m really sorry about the whole thing Ben son said. When mrs. Thompson remove the keys from the truck she brought an abrupt end to a fuel de livery at an adjoining garage. An attempt was made to Roll the truck out of the driveway without the keys but mrs. Thompson st Odin front of the vehicle. We have plenty of trucks Ben son said. We May just let this one sit where it the whole thing brought Back memories to older americans Hereof Orson Welles broadcast two decades ago of War of the play concerned an eccentric Irish drunk and a lonely unhappy girl who find them solves the Only two people left in an evacuated London. The network wont ahead with tin1 play but at its conclusion made this to understand that the play has caused some alarm. It was of course As a play but nevertheless to should like to apologize if the opening caused any Dillon says soviet actions belie Wron War Chare Washington a under Secretary of stale a. Douglas dil Lon said that in View of soviet actions on Berlin lie disputes so Viet Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev s statement that the West is preparing for the wrong War a military one instead of an eco nomic one. Dillon w a r n e d never he less against soviet pressure to Lake Over the world through economic Means rather than outright Mili tary Force. The under Secretary for economic affairs spoke to the House for eign affairs committee in closed session Jan. 29. A censored Tran script of his testimony was just made Public. It includes an account of his talk with soviet Dep Uty Premier Anastas i. Mikoyan. Aid by reds Dillon said the whole communist bloc has been vigorously dangling Aid and Trade inducements before underdeveloped countries. He referred to statements by Khrushchev to sen. Hubert h. Humphrey a Minn during the Aga Khan body placed in new mausoleum Aswan Egypt a the Bod of Aga Khan Iii was placed in its final resting place in a new mausoleum on the Edge of Egypt s West Ern desert plateau near ismaili leaders and his grandson and successor princ Kerim Aga Khan in led the pro cession of 3,000 Ismail is dressed i White As the body was carried from its temporary grave near the rive to the new mausoleum on a Hill overlooking the Nile. This is no joke it s real Monkey business senator s Moscow visit last de Cember. Dillon said i think quite a significant one is Bis statement. That w were probably preparing for he wrong War with our nato preparations although i am not so sure that makes much sense in Light of the Way they Are acting in Dillon added but nevertheless that is what he sail and that what we ought to look out for is the economic com petition and warfare that the so Viets were going to use that the were going to use such economic Means in winning Over the world to their Feterman a Businesslike Chimpanzee is the first of his kind to hold a postal account in West Germany at least. The attendant has credited his account with 50 Marks a gift from Cologn journalists toward the million Marks $238,000 needed for a new Monkey House. A photo Mikoyan then when Mikoyan visited dil Lon in Washington last month he was very aggressive accused the . Of making Trade impossible and said America would have to extend big credits to Russia in order to promote Trade betwee the two countries Dillon reported. Dillon said he did Tell Mikoyan that Congress . Public opinion and soviet worldwide attacks against America ruled out . when he arrived at my office it was Clear he had planned what he would say when he left because he conducted himself there so that there could be no other outcome Dillon said. The under Secretary said that the russians increased their number of economic technicians by 1,200 Toa total of 2,800 in 17 free world countries last year compared . Worldwide increase of goo technicians abroad. However there Are 4,000 american technicians in the whole of Africa and Asia com pared with 2,800 russians he said. New Germany approach tied to Freer e. Zone Milwaukee wis. Up a state department official said that new plans for the relations be tween West Germany and communist East Germany could be considered if the russians Loose their stranglehold on the East zone. Mrs. Eleanor Lansing Dulles special assistant to the director of the department s office of German affairs said there was room for new proposals if the communist granted More Freedom in their zone. She did not go so far As to say that the West would consider so Viet proposals for confederation i the russians granted More free Dom in East Germany. But she said a new approach could be taken if there were More representative government there. Missing boy 8, found drowned under ice Fairfield Conn. Up the search for a missing boy ended when his body was found under the ice at old Samp mortar Reser voir Here. Eight year old r o b e r t Carlso last was seen when he left a Friend s House in route to his Home. He told the Friend he was going to Stop at the Reservoir to test the ice. His Mother reported the boy missing about two hours later
