European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse To v avi\.f. T View of off " " " " " a 1$fc the5 stars and stripes wednesday july 1, 1959 n predicts higher living standards Benson says . Favors common Market Bonn a the . Favor the european common Market be cause it will eventually Load to general expansion of Trade Secre tary of agriculture Ezra Taft Ben son said was answering a news con Ference question whether . Export a particularly of cereals would be hit by the six nation common Market which started operating this doubted that it would have any Short term effect an said that in the Long run it would raise living standards and enable europeans to buy in Eye american products. Benson is spending two. Days in West Germany Between visiting the International food fair in Lausanne and speaking at the july 4 danish american Day in Copenhagen. He called on West German stat Secretary Theodor Sonnemann at the West German agriculture ministry but said he had no specific problems to discuss with the Ger Man government. Benson said America s surpluses were being reduced As new legis lation came into effect to end what he called political crops Harve Tedas the result of wartime Laws that had been continued denied that efforts to dispose of the surplus abroad constitute dumping. Benson said the record spoke for bares $62,000 Deal by Hoffa pal Washington up the sen ate rackets committee was told that a Friend of teamsters presi Dent James r. Hoffa made More than $62,000 on jackets some Lack ing Union labels which the team sters bought for distribution Amon members. The Friend Benjamin Dranow also was reported to have secretly acquired All the Stock in a Florida land project sold As Home Sites for retired Union counsel Robert f. Kennedy said Dranow got in on both theland and jacket deals after some of his earlier dealings with Hoffa had been brought out by the com Mittee last fall. $1 million loan he cited Dranow s activities Asan example of Hoffa s failure to clean up abuses exposed by the committee. One of Dranow s earlier exploit involved getting a $1 million loan from the teamsters for his Minne Apolis department store shortly be fore the store filed a bankruptcy petition. When Dranow was called for questioning about the loan last fall he refused to answer questions invoking the fifth amendment against committee was told that Sev eral thousand of the $341,841 Worth of jackets the Union bought from Dranow were produced by a non Union contractor and did not have a Union committee investigator also said the Union could have save about $52,000 on the jackets if it had asked for bids instead of farm ing out the business to Dranow. Committee investigator Carmin Bellino testified that Hoffa Chan need orders for the 26,495 Blue an Gold jackets bearing the teamsters Label through Dranow. They were distributed free to members of de troit locals 299 and 337.bellino said Dranow collected at least $6,000 in commissions from one company which made the jackets and made $56,000 on Stockd als with another. On eve of Royal wedding itself. Every agreement made to Supply wheat As Aid included clauses to protect the Normal com Mercial markets of such countries As Canada and Australia he obtained from surplus sales were used to promote in the receiving countries Benson officials were making arrangements for Benson and his wife to visit Berlin before going on to Copenhagen. Nuclear talks resume under watchful eyes a. J 01 Isa i Llo Thor proves flexibility in 350-mile test gape canaveral Fla. Up a versatile Thor the air Force s 1,700 mile Range ballistic missile demonstrated its flexibility in a successful 350-mile Short twas the first such minimum Range flight of a hours after the missile blasted off and began an unusually Steep climb the air Force announced that the missile achieve most of its test of officials said the Thor s nosecone landed in the planned Impact area in the Atlantic Ocean. In formation received from the test flight will serve to Advance the reliability and operational Range flexibility of the air Force said the purpose of the test was to show How Itcan take Over at the 300-mile mis Sile Range limitation imposed on the army by the department of defense. In most recent firings the Tho has been sent 1,500 statute Miles to the intermediate Range Impact area near Antigua in the West indies. Geneva a the East West Ticon Ference drafting a nuclear test � ban treaty resumed its work tue in Day under the watchful eyes Olp t four senior Mem a be is of the Ike Congress Anc 5 Lich airman John it a. Mccone of the american atomic Energy commission. For several weeks american Brit v ish and soviet of delegates to the conference have been wrestling with the problem of effectively controlling a nuclear test ban with the East and West wide apart on the we will see some Prog Van Zandt Mccone Holifield Prince Albert of Belgium embraces his Fiancee italian Princess Paola Ruffo i Calabria after her arrival in Brussels for their wed Ding which is scheduled to take place thursday. A wire photo Grange chief challenges Congress on farm Aid bus train crash toll 44 As girl 16, Dies Tauffen Germany up the e death toll in Germany s wors Accident in 10 years Rose to 44 when a 16-year-old girl from Tauffen died of injuries received , crash of an express train an a bus at a Railroad crossing of 27 injured persons now hos Jas vitalized three Are still in critical condition. Vav Washington a the head of a big National farm Organiza Tion said it is the responsibility of Congress to develop a workable farm program whether or not the president will sign it. We May eventually have a president who will sign it said Herschel d. Newsom master of the National Grange. Newsom was the Lead off witness before the House agriculture com Mittee at hearings to develop Gen eral farm legislative policy in the Wake of presidential vetoes last week of wheat and tobacco Bills. Newsom spoke out. In reply to a statement by chairman Harold d. Cooley that Congress must be concerned with what the president will sign in working out legislation. Rep. Charles b. I i even a Iowa asked Why the big farm organizations cannot agree on a general farm program in the same manner that organized labor settles its differences on labor programs. Are we to listen from year to year to different proposals o farm groups and place the responsibility on the committee for resolving these differences he demanded. Newsom replied he considers that to be the situation. Actor s rites slated Hollywood a funeral services for actor George Reeve were scheduled wednesday in the Wayside Chapel of Gates. Kingsley and Gates mortuary. His Mother mrs. Helen Bessolo said the Bod will be moved later to the family plot in Cincinnati. Wife divorces actor chandlery awarded children los Angeles up actor Jeff Chandler s wife has divorced him on testimony she developed an ulcer As a result of his indifference to the needs of red haired mrs. Marjorie Chand Ler 40, charged him with extreme mental cruelty declaring he was completely absorbed with his career and had no time for family mrs. Chandler was awarded Cus Tody of their Chil Dren Jamie 11, and Dana 9 a $75,000 Westwood Ress said sen. Albert gored Tenn with Gore were sen. Bourke a Iowa and reps diet Holifield a Calif and James be. Van Zandt a a. Mccone and the bipartisan con-1 mrs. Chandler Home. $25,000 re 4 Yvo Senate unit oks overseas of c Washington up the sen judiciary committee has Given minute approval to a Bill keep ing the immigration door open for another year to orphans adopted t you a citizens overseas in r off fe5pei co rnmittee1 also sent to the a Fijn the floor a Bill to make it _.-_.w9 ju6tjce department x it Lon records into met conducting antitrust investigations under a provision enacted two years ago. Orphans under 14 can be brought to this country by their american Foster parents As non quota immigrants. The provision had been scheduled to explore tues Day the Exten Jpn a added to Abill which would extend Fon two years authority for the Immi Gration service to waive the ban on tubercular immigrants under certain conditions. The antitrust Bill favored bythe administration authorises the Justice department to obtain rec ords from companies without going to jury As is now required. Cash and $2,106 monthly Alimony. She also was to receive $500 monthly for child support. The couple was married Here in october 1956. Chandler 41, has been linked romantically with actress Esther Williams. Annual july 4 party scheduled in Paris Paris is americans in Paris will be received july 4 by . Ambassador to France Amory Houghton at the annual Independence Day Garden party at the american embassy. Upon presentation of passports tickets for the affair Are available at the embassy. One person will be admitted per ticket. The traditional reception held in the Gar Den at 16 ave Gabriel will take place from in am to 12 30 pm. Hickey Looper Gressional group arrived Here Mon Day night to get a first hand at the conference. A Are Mem a Bers of the joint congressional atomic Energy committee. The . Is represented by Delegate ambassador James Wadsworth. Semyon k. Tsarapkin a Heads the soviet delegation sir. Michael Wright leads the Brit a. Ish delegation at the nuclear talks h 13 k school destroyed by flames Haverhill mass. Up fires destroyed a High school building Here despite the efforts of firemen from 10 towns to douse the flames no one was in the building Heij the Blaze broke out. An adjoining Church was also Sei ablaze but firemen were Able t
