European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I fsr s j of a \ july 17, Tuffe stars and stripes a " to i rime figure takes fifth in Chicago probe Chicago a Thomas mor Gano reputed Indiana agent forthe Chicago crime Syndicate re fused to answer questions at a hearing to determine if he should be deported to his native Italy. After giving his name the 59 year old underworld figure repeat edly cited the fifth amendment to All questions thereafter for his refusal to give answers. At an earlier hearing on july 6morgano pleaded the fifth Amend ment 77 times. The immigration and naturalization service is seeking Morgano s deportation on ground that he has been convicted of two crimes of moral turpitude. Both convictions involved his alleged failure to pay liquor taxes. Several witnesses called the government called several witnesses at the hearing conducted by Otto Eck. Special immigration service inquiry officer. Glen Dunsmore custodian of rec ords at the Federal prison at Milan mich., testified Morgano served a six month prison sentence in 1938for a liquor tax violation. Morgano s attorney was given10 Days to file briefs in support of argument that Morgano is being criminally persecuted by Immi Gration authorities. Morgano who operates a restaurant in Valparaiso ind., recently figured in testimony before the Senate rackets investigation committee dealing with attempts to establish a crime monopoly in Porter county ind., in which Val Paraiso is situated. Chief Deputy sheriff Harold Rayder identified Morgano to the committee As the Man who offered him $150,000 for exclusive gambling and vice rights in the county. A tape recording of the offer was played at the hearing. New system to track missiles a new tracking system for the Atlantic missile Range at Cape canaveral flu., undergoes a final checkout at the san Diego Plant of con Vair astronautics division. Engineer 0. M. Hay checks the Radoms which Are made of plastic and protect parabolic antennas. The new system called azure Mark ii  to give the air Force More precise data during missile firings. Up photo starving in the midst of plenty world hunger blamed on taboos Dixon Yates claim upheld from press dispatches Washington the . Court of claims has upheld the claim of the Dixon Yates Combine for dam Ages because the government can celeb its controversial Power con tract. The Combine asked for $3,543,-778.45. The contract made with the atomic Energy commission called for construction of a $107 million Power generating Plant at West Memphis ark., to replace Power drawn off Tva by the dec the contract stirred up a Hor net s nest of opposition from Tva supporters and Public Power advocates and was cancelled by presi Dent Eisenhower when the City announced it would build its own Plant. The Combine represented in the suit by the Mississippi Valley generating co., said expenses in the amount of the suit were incurred before the cancellation. By North american newspaper Alliance madij3on, wis. Asians and africans would be less hungry if they would give up senseless taboos regarding food an authority on world nutrition problems says. Or. Frederick Simoons just re turned from a tour of several underdeveloped Cox tries notes that there Are millions of tons of unused food in the world in thievery places where people Are dying of famine and malnutrition. He claims the refusal of people in certain parts of the world to eat poultry or pork is comparable to Lowans refusing to eat Corn kansans wheat or Wisconsin Resi dents placing a taboo on  fear of egg Simoons says he is persuaded that millions throughout the world Are starving in the midst of plenty. He Points out that in Many parts of Africa eggs Are avoided As inhibitors of growth and Fertility and that women of child bearing age Are forbidden to eat them. In some areas he has found that the egg prejudice has extended to Chicken with the result that poultry Lead a charmed life with no possibility of being tossed into the pot. To translate food taboos int terms which can be understood by americans Simoons explains that no one in the . Would consider eating dog meat. Yet dog meat Isa delicacy in Many Asia and Afri can countries. Regarding pork he discounts the theory that this form of meat was banned in ancient times because of its disease causing potential. He says it is improbable that Man in those Days understood the rela two americans selected for 10mo mile Australia tour new York up two Ameri cans have been selected by the american australian Assn. To make a tour of Australia. They Are Benjamin m. Rice jr.,28, of Peterborough. N.h., and Marguerite West 26, of  has been to Australia be  two americans who had never met before their selection from among the candidates of More than 100 . Corporations will make a 10,000-Mue trip through Australia. They will be guests of the Junior committee of the association an organization of american banking and Industrial companies doing business with or operating in Australia. They will leave san Francisco aug. 17 by Jet Airliner for Sydney and Melbourne. They Are due Back in the  on sept. 22. During their trip they will visit schools and universities address meetings and make radio broadcasts and attend civic receptions. Tio ship Between pork and Trich , he says the taboo on pig meat originated because of social Pride. Pigs do not lend themselves to herding the Way goats and sheep do he Points out. Therefore the Only people who ate pork were tribes who settled permanently around water holes and these settled tribes always were Rega Dedas socially inferior toy the Nomac Lic tribes. In this Way Simoons says pork became a Symbol of Low class. To eyestrain varies with kids experts warn new York up can Tele vision damage the eyes of you growing child it depends on the child. A child with poor eyesight for example May complain of Eye fatigue after watching a half hour cartoon pro Gram while a child with Good Eye sight will experience no More fatigue watching to than he will from any other visual exercise. Nevertheless the National society for the prevention of blindness and other expert groups urge parents to be Alert for any undue train or fatigue associated with Tel viewing. There Are More than eyes to worry about in the Case of a child who becomes a Glutton for Tele vision. Or. Frederick j. Stare of the Harvard department of nutrition warns that too much time spent sitting in front of the to set May deprive a child of the Opportunity to get the exercise he needs. And this according to experts on the subject May tend to make a child fat later in life today Simoons says this taboo has been reinforced by religious sanctions depriving hundreds of millions of moslem of a plentiful Supply of meat holy cows similarly he notes millions of hindus Are deprived of beef since they regard the cow As holy. Only the outcasts of hindu India the untouchables indulge in beef eating according to Simoons. He says the untouchables often Arete Best nourished people in their  example of a senseless food taboo according to Simoons is horse meat. Although it is readily eaten by scandinavians and Cen trial asians it is repellent to Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Peoples. The reason for this he says is that in pre Christian times the horse was holy to some Peoples and came to be regarded As Pagan  noted scientist says that food taboos cannot be met head  As an example of the gradual approach he favors he cites the vegetarian eggs recommended by the . Point in program in India. The eggs actually infertile Hen s eggs which cannot Hatch gradually Are acc Stoming hindus to the idea of eating regular eggs which Are traditionally avoided by vegetarian hindus because they Are animal products. Thief sought in slaying of us detective London a clues rolled in to Scotland Yard from two continents and built up the image of a soar faced desperado sought in the slaying of a London detective. With its biggest dragnet in years drawn tight Over Britain the Yard hunted 30-year-old, German born Guenter Fritz Erwin Podola a former East Berliner who came to Britain last year after he was deported from Canada. Podola was named As the Man sought by detectives chasing the gunman who shot Down detective sergeant Raymond Purdy in Lon Don s fashionable Chelsea District last monday. Slayer s diary Purdy 43-year-old father of three children was shot Down by a Man he had arrested. On his body was found a diary seized from the killer. Entries in the diary led the Yard to Contact the Royal Canadian mounted police in Ottawa who Telegram med a description of Podola. The Yard flashed an Appeal to Interpol the International police organization asking police of Continental capitals to search their records for information about Podola. File receive within hours a file on the Man was messaged to Scotland Yard bythe police of West Berlin. The Canadian police said Podola arrived in Canada As an immigrant in 1955 and As deported last year after convictions for car theft and housebreaking. Former acquaintances of Podola said in Berlin that he fled fro the communist East zone about five or six years ago. Suspect describe Podola was described As about 5 feet 8 inches tall with Light Brown hair and a curved scar Over his right Eyebrow. Detectives believe the Man they Are searching for May be Short of Money and Likely to resort to fur ther violence. It figures Buffalo . Up Louis f. Sholl director of mathematics inthe Buffalo schools checked re sults submitted by 61 schools which participated in the annual math contest and discovered that in 17 of them arithmetical errors were made by teachers who tabulated the scores. Many of the police engaged on the Hunt were specially issued with revolvers a rare proceeding in Britain. The Yard believed their Man had left London and was hiding out elsewhere in the country. June retail sales top $18.6 billion Washington up nation wide retail sales set a june record of $18,662,000.000. The Commerce department  were $2 billion higher than the june 1958 total with autos alone accounting for $1 billion of the  department said that taking seasonal factors into account june retail sales dipped four tenths of1 per cent from May. Small de Clines were reported by clothing drug and grocery stores. Modes improvements occurred in other lines. Federal milk stockpiles urged to feed . After a attack Washington up rep. Samuel s. Stratton d-. Urged the government to consider the feasibility of stockpiling milk to help feed the country in Case of nuclear  made his suggestion to agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson and Leo a. Hoegh director of civil defense  said recent congressional hearings showed that milk sup plies would be lost because of Radl action if Merica suffered such a attack. The congressman said the government should take Steps now to build up an emergency Supply of milk in various regions of the country. Stratton said the move would re quire More research on better methods of storage but Progress already was being made in that direction