European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes wednesday february 25, 1959 Alexander Guterma proves striking counterpart of Serge Rubinstein another Brilliant financial Star plunges to Earth by Arthur w. Evoke to new York a every so often there flushes across the american financial heavens a Star of great brilliance. Then abruptly it plunges to  there was Serge Rubinstein. Today there is Alexander l. Guter  Brooklyn Federal grand jury lost week opened an inquiry into Guterma s financial Empire an Uma ing Industrial Pyramid that shows signs of toppling. He is enmeshed with the Security and Exchange commission Sec and is under $5,000 Bond As a deterrent against leaving the country. Rubinstein was a fantastic figure. He came out of czarist Russia moved across Europe and Asia and arrived in the . In 1938. He once controlled 17 corporations at a time was Worth millions. But years of retribution in the courts told on Rubinstein. When he was mysteriously slain four years ago at the age of 46, his assets had dwindled to less than $2 million offset by More than a million in , unlike Rubinstein has no criminal record. Nor has it been proved that he was dishonest in any of his financial dealings. But otherwise by his own account Glerma is a striking counterpart of Rubinstein in Back ground and in the acquisitive talents by which he built up an Indus trial  his Success he once said i get up Early and i stay up late and in Between i put in a lot of hard work also i be been very , Quick witted and a steel nerved Gambler says he was photo Flash freezes Bullet at 2-Millionth of a second or. Harold k. King Crynn of the Massachusetts Institute of technology " Pioneer in the development of stroboscopic photography Holth u balloon us n .22-cnl Bullet marked by Arrow  though it. The action Vii photographed in Edgerton s stroboscopic Light Laboratory at n Speed of 1 /2,000,000th of a second. A microphone picked up the sound of the Rifle fire tripped Light and picture As the Bullet broke the balloon. Edgerton was selected outstanding Engineer of 1058 by a group of engineering societies. A photo Mitchell says foreign labor hurting for children die farm wages working conditions los Angl is up labor seer Elary James p. Mitchell said cheap foreign labor was pulling Down wages and forcing . Farm workers to live in conditions that were an affront to the can science of the american  Mitchell reiterated his Promise to draft legislation setting mini mum wages and hour s for . Farm workers and evaluating imported foreign help. He said the labor department was studying the situation. In a speech at the National con Ference of farm labor services Mitchell said the Public would de Mand an end to conditions in which the average migratory farm worker earned $892 a year. Get ing worse in this country the Secretary said we do not choose to keep Down our Bills including our food Bills it the Cost of overworking and under paying human  he said the economic status of farm workers had been gelling progressively worse. Foreign labor Prog r a m s in themselves often permit employers to evade the necessity to pay wages and to do the Many other things needed to attract and re Tain Domestic farm workers he  importing cheap foreign workers Mitchell said farm own ers eliminated Competition for . Labor which would raise wages and improve working conditions. He said the use of foreigners seemed to endanger the legitimate aspirations of american work ers. Where the use of foreign kick in this Hooch Hattiesburg miss up arresting officers said Howard folks and Birgil Breeden were really living dangerously. They were charged with operating a Moonshine still in the Impact area of an artillery firing Range. Workers has become the Normal not the exceptional  he said there was no sound justification for using foreign labor ers where i he demand was predictable and the Job lasted Long enough to draw unemployed Domestic workers. The Secretary said he intended to draft his corrective legislation carefully so As not to put. Too great or sudden a Load on agricultural  Mitchell said the National in Terest demanded that the wages living conditions and Security of . Farm workers be increased to attract better workers. High Price supports held detriment to Small Farmer Washington a sen. John j. Williams a Del told the Senate that two Large farm operators collected More than $2.5 Mil lion in government farm Price supports in 1957. The High rigid support pro Gram is Little More than a government guarantee on the operations on corporate Type farming Williams said and actually encourages and underwrites Absentee ownership to the detriment of the Small  the senator said the two larg est government supports were $1,41 0,902 to he producer s Rice Mill inc., Stuttgart ark., on Rice and $1,157502 to the Delta and Pine land co Scott miss on Cotton. Williams also read a Long list of other 1957 Price supports run Ning above $100,000 to More than $1 million. The senator later explained that the sums mentioned were govern ment Loans on the value of the Price supported crops and that if the Market Price should Rise the producer had the privilege of re paying the loan and getting his commodity Back from the govern ment for Sale in the open Market. The government usually acquires most crops put under loan. For several years Williams has asked repeal of current farm Price support Laws and urged that the Secretary of agriculture be Given greater discretionary authority to lower the support prices on the Basic crops. As stove explodes in House trailer Branchville n. J. A four children huddled in bed in their family s House trailer were killed when an Oil stove exploded. Mrs. Eileen Henderson 26, Mother of the children was visiting in a nearby Home at the time and was burned trying to Rescue the youngsters. Their father Robert Henderson was away at work in a garage. Henderson 28, rushed Home from the garage in Newton. Five fire men had to hold him Back from entering the blazing trailer. The trailer was attached to a one room cottage in Frankford township in the Northwest portion of the state. Both were levelled by flames. Mrs. Henderson was taken to the Hospital in fair condition. State police said a space Heater in the doorway connecting the cot Tage with the trailer blew up. Killed instantly were the four children in a bed nearby Linda 6, Robert jr., 5, William 4, and Barrett 2. Mrs. Henderson was visiting in the Home of her sister in Law mrs. Barrett Henderson about 100 feet away. Arlene Dahl separated Hollywood a Arlene Dahl and Fernando lamas have separated miss Dahl announced. Miss Dahl and the Argentine actor were married in 1954. Newspapers report circulation loss born in Irkutsk Siberia april 29, 1915. He describes his father As a general in the Imperial armies of the Czar. Like Rubinstein Guterma moved on to China and just before world War ii appeared in Manila As sales manager for the american biscuit co. He branched out later Rode out the War because he did not hold american citizenship and came to the . In 1950 with a Pool of investment capital advanced him by Manila industrialists. Guterma first set up hemp and Cotton plantations in Florida. He used the Stock of these ventures to buy into other industries then repeated the process again and again until he had interests in Oil uranium hotels chemicals soap pow Ders advertising and broadcasting. During his tenure the Sec maintains the Stock of Many of these firms Rose steeply then plummeted until it was nearly worthless. The Sec blames this erratic pattern on manipulations which it contends Cost investors millions of dollars. The current Sec attack on Guterma stems from Stock dealings of f. L. Jacobs co., which he Heads and the Bon Ami co., a soap powder firm. Trading in both stocks was suspended temporarily Pend ing a wider inquiry into the firms. Acquired control Guterma acquired control of f. L. Jacobs in 1956. The firm later took Over the Scranton corp., a big manufacturer of lace. Scranton in turn became a holding company for Hal Roach studios in California and the Mutual broadcasting co. From 1955 to 1957, Guterma headed United Dye and chemical co., which purchased the Bon Ami firm. From this transaction stemmed an intricate series of corporate Maneu vers which gave Guterma a voice in control of a wide variety of enterprises. Presumably he is a Man of considerable wealth though much of his Success is attributed to Bor rowed Money. He is a familiar figure at gaming tables in Havana and Las vegas. He has a private plane with two pilots a Connecticut estate and a new York hotel suite. He has three children by an american wife. Warrant obtained the Sec obtained a warrant against Guterma last week on charges of failing to file financial reports required by Law. The Sec claimed knowledge that Guterma and an associate planned to leave the country by air for Istanbul Turkey. Responded Guterma this is the biggest outrage by publicity hounds i Ever heard of. This is a lie. This is like getting a Man for spitting on the  Federal District judge Sidney s. Sugarman set Guterma s bail at $5,000. In the midst of the Sec hubbub Guterma yielded control of his Industrial Empire to Hal Roach jr., a son of the film producer and a big stockholder in f. L. Jacobs. On feb. 17, the Brooklyn grand jury moved in. And on the same Day the immigration service be Gan looking into the american citizenship Guterma acquired Only two years ago. And just to make it a Black time All around for him two men talked their Way into his Lombardy hotel suite bound and gagged his Blond wife Anita and his 14-year-old daughter Carole and escaped with an estimated $45,000 in jewels and Philadelphia Dpi the circulation of daily newspapers in the . During 1958 was off by almost u Quarter of a million from the previous year. It represented the first such loss in the past seven years according to the 91st annual edition of n. W. Ayer & sons. The Ayer directory of news papers and periodicals which will be published Early in March said the 1958 circulation figure 56,458, 011, reflected a decrease due to strikes in several Large cities and the fact that Many papers were forced by rising costs to raise the Price per copy. The daily circulation of . Eve Ning papers increased a few thous and to 34,184,797 while the morning papers showed a loss of several Hundred thousand to a total of22,273,214. Sunday newspapers lost 173,121 circulation for a total of 46,631,755. The number of newspapers in creased Over the preceding year for the second consecutive time. Counting both English language and foreign language dailies in the ., there Are now 1,493 evening papers up 12354 morning papers Down 2584 sunday papers up 26 and seven All Day papers the same As 1957. Cash. . 30,000 beetles Richer Washington up the smithsonian institution reports it has come into a veritable Bonanza of beetles30,000 of them p. I Cartwright a . National museum entomologist collected the beetles in al Salvador and has turned them Over to the smithsonian insect collection