European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday july 15, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 3 government considers cutting sick pay fair East German women taking its toll by Heman Bay North american newspaper Alliance Berlin growing sick lists of women workers exhausted from heavy manual labor Are posing a serious problem for East German Industry. Female diseases also have jumped to alarming proportions in East Germany resulting from women working Long Hourat strenuous labor. R. Statistics available show that some 45per cent of All women employed Are on sick lists because of fatigue. The number of miscarriages among women workers is High. V in order to persuade women to stay on the Job the East German government Isnow considering the suspension or at least the reduction of sickness allowances. The government is calling women who go on sick leave  exploitation of female labor is a part of the communist doctrine of Equality of  under the labor system women Are integrated into jobs previously monopolized by men because of the heavy physical work involved. Employment of women in mines for example is regarded As part of progressive  at present Between 15,000 and 20,000 women Are employed in the state run Copland uranium mines in East Germany. They work 12-hour shifts without a break. In addition to these about 2,500 women work at a factory in Magdeburg constructing heavy machinery 1,500 women Ata state run rolling Plant 2,200 women in a heavy Cable factory and 1,000 in a fertilizer Plant. These Are Only a Small part of East German female labor Force. The women work at strenuous Manua labor in steel Mills with men melting Down crude steel. They haul heavy equipment around locomotive repair shops and Load and unload tools which often weigh Sev eral tons. The women also work with shovel grading Parks and Road shoulders. They labor on construction Sites arid handler vet guns and welding equipment. At Railroad stations and shipyards they carry heavy goods Over Long distances. Some 40 per cent of the working popu lation in East Germany Are women. Last year 46 per cent of All jobs in state run enterprises were Given to women. The women workers Are confronted by even More difficult tasks in the future. The officials have declared they intend to raise the production quota of each worker at least 150 per cent by 1960. The soviet Union is pushing its Campaign to build East. Germany into a highly industrialized satellite. It can Only accomplish its goal through the employment of additional women since men Are urgently needed for the army. Hogan full of to prote result asked new York a declaring the Public has a right to know whether it has been cheated District attorney Frank s. $6g an urged a judge to make Public a12,000-word grand j , present ment  quiz shows. " it would be difficult to envision a present ment More in the Public interest Hogan said in a20-Page Brief filed with general ses Sions judge Mit Chell d. Schweit Zer. The j u de on june 10 ordered the presentment sealed. Later he said the court s authority had been challenged and he invited interested parties to file opinions. Schweitzer said he probably would not reach a decision until sometime in August. A presentment is a report by  jury of an invest Fatiori. It May allege wrongdoing but unlike an indictment does not charge specific persons with the commis Sion of crimes. Hogan said in his Brief that the Public has a right to know the extent to which it has been duped and cheated and the television Industry needs the facts to clean its own house.". He disclosed that the grand jury which investigated reported Rig Ging of to quiz shows by the coaching of participants had re Quested the presentment be sent to legislative arid regulatory  can b e Little doubt Hogan said that the National resent ment would Lead to legislation an regulation designed to prevent a recurrence or continuation of  Atlantic liners plan fare cuts London a Twenty six shipping lines operating on at lactic routes have announce they will Cut round trip fares by 10 per cent in the off season next  statement by the Atlantic conference an organization of shipping lines said special con Cessions will also be offered to emigrants travelling from Europe to North America. It did no specify them. The lower fares will be in effect Between november and june on the westbound journey an from september to april on the eastbound. These Are month when business normally slackers because of fewer american tourists on the routes. " to offset the reductions Ordinary one Way fares and High season fares will be increased about 7% per cent said a Cunard line spokesman. No water shortage Here a broken water main sends a spout of water skyward in downtown Hamburg showering a delivery truck and drawing crowds of interested onlookers. Associated press photo milk in St. Louis shows record strontium Content Washington up milk samples from the St. Louis area last april showed a two year rec Ord High Content of radioactive strontium 90, according to the Public health service. The service said some scientist blame the boost on atomic weapons testing. But they did not pin Point whether the source was american russian or British. The St. Louis milk samples showed a strontium 90 count of 37.3  a litre i april almost double the average for the past 12 months. But officials said that while no Good the level was still below the maximum average permissible of 80  for a life time exposure for the Genera population set by the National committee on radiation Protection and measurements. The service reported that Bot the monthly Levels and the longer term averages for the milk samples unclaimed freight Hartford Conn. Up a freight office had trouble getting rid of an item which was unclaimed because it was damage Din transit. It was a full sized Loco motive. From 12 stations across the coun try were believed below the Levels considered Safe by the  reason for the consistently higher Levels in St. Louis Over the two year period has not clearly been determined the service said. But it added that the location of weapons testing Sites in rela Tion to the pattern of winds and rain in the area is believed by some scientists to be a principal  scouts chief says he d admit red youths Manila up maj Gen d. C. Spry top ranking International boy scouts official said Here the youth organization would be willing to admit communist members provided they took the scout oath an adhered to its principles. Spry director of the International boy scouts Bureau spoke at conference shortly after he arrived to attend the world boy scout Jamboree opening july 17 at mount a Kinmg some 40 mile South of Manila. Spry told newsmen the boy scouts movement accepts boys an men who Are willing to take the scout oath and stick to its traditions and  he said however that he Felt the reds looked with Disfavour on the scout movement. Not joiners i do not see the possibility of the communists joining because there is no organized scouting movement there in communist countries to which boy scouts International could extend its recognition Spry said. He said that leaders of scouting movements in communist satellite countries have been executed exiled or forced into red youth movements. Arriving Here with Spry was William d. Campbell International commissioner of the boy  America. Spry said the Jamboree the first to take place in Asia willbe attended by 8,000 philippine scouts and 3,000. Foreign Delegate from 62 countries. The. 10-Day gathering is being held at a specially constructed Jamboree City covering some 720 acres. Spry a 43-year-old Canadian joined the scout movement As Wolf cub in 1923. Big Winner loses As losers grab funds St. Catharines. Canada up Jfred Gaspich will go right Home the next time he wins Money play ing cards. Gaspich told to ice us two men he won from insisted he count his winnings after they invited him to Stop at a tavern for a drink Fol lowing the game. He said when he pulled out the $80, the two grabbed the Bills and ran. Yank in Cuba gets new Post Havana a capt. Herman Marks an american who became chief executioner for the revolutionary government has a new Job command of a troop unit in la Villas province. Sources confirmed Marks trans Fer from Cabana at his own re quest. The 37 year old sex con vict directed the execution of 59 persons while he commanded revolutionary firing squads there. Associates said Marks has taken the cuban c i t i Marks zen ship that was offered to All americans and other foreigners who fought in prime minister Fidel Castro s rebel forces. His friends say Marks has Bee studying diplomacy and Spanish with an Eye to a possible ambassadorial appointment. Marks born in Milwaukee has record of at least 32 arrests in . H e served 3v2 years in wis Consin state prison on a morals conviction. He was freed june 6, 1956, and worked in the . Merchant Marine before joining Castro s rebels in the Sierra Maestra in december1957. Kolov Back in Moscow London a soviet first Deputy Premier Frol r. Kozlov has arrived Home in Moscow from his visit to the .radio Moscow said the tu114 carrying Kozlov made the trip from new York in 9 hours 48 minutes. Re enactment of Hannibal s trip ave coated elephant to Cross Alps London a a team of three British sail makers announced with some Pride that they Hove finished making an overcoat for an elephant. The overcoat contains 90 Square feet of Canvas or enough for a Small Sailboat and has a padded Cotton lining it is intended to keep the cold Alpine winds off an elephant named Little jumbo. Overcoats Are not commonly worn by elephants but neither Are the beasts often seen in the italian Alps. Little jumbo is going there pretty soon in an attempt to re enact the famous elephant crossing by the carthaginian general Hannibal who gave the romans so much trouble in 219 . The re enactment was dreamed up by a British historian professor j. M. Hoyte of Dungate Manor Surrey. Most historians believe Hannibal Complete with elephant cavalry descended on the romans by Way of the 4,500-foot Mongine puss or the 6,000-Fqotlittle St. Bernard. Hoyte hns a different idea. He thinks Hannibal arrived via Clapier pass which wends its Way 7,300 feet above sea level. The professor walked the route himself a couple of years ago and is con Vinced an elephant or elephants could do the same. The zoo in Turin Italy agreed to lend him an elephant namely Little jumbo to see whether it can be done. The expedition leaves in about a month