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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 17, 1959 the stars and stripes Page Disalle vetoes Ohio Billon fair Trade Columbus Ohio up gov. Michael Disalle has vetoed the fair Trade Bill in the name of the free Enterprise system and in the face of Strong objections by Ohio s smaller retail merchants. Unless the legislature overrides his action the door to ungoverned pricing of fair Trade products opened last year by an Ohio supreme court decision will remain ajar. The Bill would have allowed manufacturers to set minimum prices for their products sold even by retailers who did not make such agreements. The High state court had ruled that part of Ohio s 26-year-old fair Trade Law Union  Ohio Small business com Mittee said it would not have asked the general Assembly to pass the Bill if it had not received Assurance of the governor last november that he was not in. Sympathy with predatory Price wars and that everyone loses in them including the  the committee urged legislators to override the veto As the governor had said the Issue of setting minimum retail prices on fair Trade items was a matter for the legislature to de cide after he was elected. Senate can barely hear itself if Peak. A. " jul by Frank Eleazer Washington up it is generally conceded that . Senators talk More and Are heard less than the members of any other Legisla Tive body. For a while there was Hope something was about to be done about it. No curb on the senator s word age Ever was thought Likely of course. But serious consideration was Given by Senate leaders to in stalling an amplifying system so visiting taxpayers could hear what the lawmakers were saying. Sen. Alexander Wiley a wis reminded the Senate just the other Day that nothing has come of this. And it looks know like nothing will at least not soon. Senators have been polled by the rules committee on whether microphones and amplifiers should reinstalled in the Senate. One third voted Aye. One third voted no. One third said maybe so maybe not. So the rules committee has made its own decision. No Public address system will be installed in the Senate unless it s the Best in the world. The $25,000 system recently proposed by the Capitol architect the same system which House members have found reasonably satisfactory for years was t nearly Good enough it was decided. So now the committee has ordered a  and i guess this wives stick by California at bigamy hearing wife divorces writer Viertel Santa Monica a screen writer Peter Viertel s wife divorced him saying he deserted her be cause of love for another. Mrs. Virginia Viertel did not mention the name of actress Deborah Kerr whom Viertel is expected to  Kerr won a divorce from her husband British to producer Tony Bartley in Santa Monica Las week. Mrs. Viertel 43, said her 38-year-old husband left her March 1, 1952, saying he would not  agreed to pay a minimum of $12,000 yearly Alimony and child support. Means that 20-20 vision plus lip Reading ability will continue principal requirement for reporters trying to cover the Senate. Wiley noted that those in the press and Public galleries Aren t the Only ones who often can t heart word of wheat s said in the sen ate. He said the members can t hear each other. Senate debate often consists of a private Chat Between two member standing three feet apart. What got Wiley worked up was that often the two members Are Sens. Lyndon b. Johnson a Tex and Everett m. Dirksen r-i11. They Are the majority and minority leaders respectively and it behoves All right thinking senators to have in mind at All times what they Are talking about. Except when he gets his Dander up about something Johnson is among the better known whisper ing senators. Dirksen usually addresses the Senate in the soft Pear shaped tones of a senior part Ner in an old and dignified firm of undertakers. Wiley sits right behind Dirksen and if he can t hear the exchanges Between the two leaders it stands to reason the 90 or so senators further removed from the posts of command might As Well have remained in their offices. The two wives right photo of Robert Runyon 30, left meet in san Francisco s Hall of Justice vowing to stick by him at his bigamy  Runyon 80 seated pregnant Mother of two sons and Joan Nelson 24, whom Runyon mar ried this month console each other during the hearing. Miss Nelson former airline hostess said Runyon did t say he was married. Up photos All figured in new York strike six indicted in newspaper extortion composer die s at 79 Portland Ore. Up Swiss born composer Ernest Bloch 79,died in a Hospital Here. He was Best known for his opera. Macbeth and his tone poem  new York up a new York county grand jury has indicted six members of the newspaper and mail deliverers. Union on charges of extorting $110,600 from 19 news paper distributing companies in the new York area. All six were indicted by a Feder al grand jury june 30 on charges of violating antitrust and anti racketeering Laws in connection with the wholesale distribution of news papers and  Union prevented new York City s major newspapers from pub Lishing in a 19-Day strike last de Cember. Indicted were Samuel Feldman 40, former president of the Union Irving Bitz 56, vice president of rescuers work to free trapped waiter Torres 18, grimaces in pain As firemen work to free his Arm caught in a dumb waiter in Chicago. Torres had placed dishes in the dumb waiter and his Arm became entangled in the mechanism firemen worked 45 minutes to free the youth United press International photo the Bronx county news and a nominal member of the Union Harry Waltzer 59, business agent William Walsh 59 former business agent Angelo Lospinuso 43, for Mer business agent and Michael a Pozzati 59, a nominal member of the Union and vice president of the Pacific news co. District attorney Frank s. Hogan said Bitz served a six month term in 1949 in connection with a Cincinnati Clearing House swindle and was one of the go Between in the attempt to get Back col Charles  s kidnapped baby in 1932. Judge voids ban on film Chicago a a Federal judge has overruled a Chicago police ban which has blocked screening of the movie Anatomy of a murder on obscenity grounds. He gave per Mission for the film to be shown uncensored. Judge Julius h. Miner of the . District court held that the film was neither immoral nor obscene. He issued an injunction re straining the City of Chicago from interfering with the showing of the movie in a downtown theater. The movie distributors Columbia pictures corp., had brought suit to prevent police commissioner Tim Othy j. O Connor from demanding that certain dialog be deleted. Paa flight Crews agree on contract new York a agreement has been reached on a new con tract Between pan american world airways Paa and 1,200 flight service personnel. The settlement came just hours before a scheduled strike by Stew Ards stewardesses and purses. The agreement is believed to be similar to a fact finding Board recommendation. Bill seeks safety in Federal autos Washington a the fed eral government a big buyer of automobiles would be required to take the Lead in putting safer Carson the roads under a Bill approved by a House Commerce subcommittee. The Bill by rep. Kenneth a. Roberts a la would specify that autos bought by the govern ment be equipped with safety belts padded dashboards or other safety devices selected by the Secretary of Commerce. The subcommittee also approved a measure by rep. Paul f. Schenck a Ohio which would prohibit the use of motor vehicles that Dis charge excessive amounts of Hydro Carbon into the air a Factor in creating smog. Bill would restrict foreign competitors Washington a a Bill to require foreign manufacturers to bring their wages and working conditions into reasonable relation ship with those in the . If they wish to Export to this country i being considered by rep. John s. Monagan a Conn Monagan has told the House heis drafting such a measure to improve the lot of american manufacturers losing business to Low wage Low Cost foreign competitors. Plastic bag claims life of 8-month-old Independence to. Up Doug Hileman 8 months old was found smothered by a plastic bag in his bed at his grandmother shome Here officers said the bag of the variety used by dry cleaning concerns had been spread Over the Corner of the bed beneath a leak in the  parents or. And mrs. Frederick Hileman had left the baby with Hileman s Mother mrs Sara Hileman while they went on vacation the state Highway patrol located them at the Lake of the i ozarks to notify them of their1 son s death  
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