European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To saturday july 18, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 3 this is the picture Ike got. House group drafts Union Bill of rights Washington a the House labor committee has completed drafting of a Union Bill of rights patterned closely after sen ate passed legislation. The House provisions were described by one source As a refinement of Senate language. Driving toward a Windup the committee now has Only Taft Hart Ley labor act amendments left to consider before completing a tentative labor management Bill for House action. In revising the Senate s Union members guarantees however the House group set up civil remedies for those who feel their rights and privileges have been violated bunion officers. These were substituted for Crim Inal penalties struck from the Bill earlier. Sets up safeguards the criminal enforcement pro vision in the Senate Bill would have made it a crime for Union officers to threaten discipline or take reprisals against Union members for exercising their rights. The House Bill however sets up what Are described As safeguards against improper disciplinary action against members. It provides for a fair hearing and other procedural safeguards under Union rules for members who Are fined suspended or expelled. Panel passes rights Bill Washington Cap a first Short step toward getting a civil rights Bill before the Senate brought expressions of contrary Hopes from opposing. Sides. Southern opponents emphasized they would continue their fight to Block a measure that was passed by a Senate judiciary subcommittee 4-3. It could be amended into some thing More drastic cautioned  d. Johnson . Advocates of a stronger Bill saw in the subcommittee s action the possibility that the logjam May be breaking. The Bill approved by the subcommittee has Only two sections one would require state and local officials to keep voter registration records for three years and ballots for 18.m9ntlvs, and to make them available to the attorney general for inspection upon de Mand. The other would extend the life of the civil rights commission from sept. 9 of this year until Jan. 31, 1961. It was created two years ago primarily to investigate com plaints of discriminatory denial of voting rights a. But this is one he liked Best the painting on the raft1947" Bottom was selected by presi Dent Eisenhower As his Choice at the russian Art exhibit in Newyork but when sending the president a gift from the show soviet  out Spring is approaching1952" top. Or. Eisen Hower said he was pleased with the gift and had it placed in a con Ference room near his office. Associated press photo dec explains need for big a stockpile Washington a atomic Energy commission officials have assured Congress the . Does not have More than enough atomic bombs on hand. By this members of a House appropriations subcommittee meant so Many that using them would threaten to wipe out humanity. In testimony made Public Here Brig Gen a. D. Starbird of the dec s military division said . Could expect to lose so much of its Stock of a weapons if War occurred that those left would not be More than we could safely  bombs would be lost he told the committee because the . Would no atomic blow. Strike the first to me our whole National philosophy is that we Are not going to engage in a preventive War he said. This being True we have to be prepared if he the enemy does try a sneak attack. We have an example of what could happen in Pearl  dec chairman John a. Mccone added that the increasing variety of atomic weapons keeps necessitating a bigger stockpile. Mccone told the subcommittee there is evidence the . Is ahead of other nations in studies aimed at harnessing a bomb Power Foi peaceful uses. We feel that we Are making better Progress and More Progress than other nations he said in closed door testimony. Rep. Clarence Cannon do commented that there have Bee press reports that the russians were devoting greater resources to the fusion Field arid were pro Gressing More rapidly than the West. You can take that for what it is Worth Cannon said. But it i astonishing How much these re porters give us that is dependable House probe scores Navy on overcharges in defense contracts Washington up House investigators charged that Navy officials must have been incompetent or deliberately careless in negotiating a dozen or so defense contracts on which the government was overcharged More than $12 million. Rep. Porter Hardy jr., a a said members of a House armed services investigating subcommittee could draw no other  is a reflection All the Way up to the Secretary of the Navy he declared. Hardy and other members of the House group spoke out sharply after experts from the general accounting office made a special re port on the contracts to the sub committee firms involved the subcommittee was told thata series of audits Over the past two years showed excess costs in defense contracts with the follow ing companies. Chance Vought aircraft Dallas Tex. Aircraft radio corp., Boon ton . Bell helicopter corp., fort Worth Tex. Philco corp., Philadelphia Westinghouse elec tric corp. Air Arm division Baltimore Libra scope inc., Glendale Calif. Mcdonnell aircraft corp., St. Louis Collins radio co., Cedar rapids Iowa Birdsboro Armor cast inc., Birdsboro a. General motors corp. Diesel engine Divi Sion Cleveland Electra products co., Cleveland and the Lambert engineering co., St. Louis. Pentagon is accused of blocking inquiry Washington up chair Man f. Edward Hebert of a House armed services subcommittee investigating defense contracts charged that the Pentagon was try ing to Block the inquiry. The Louisiana Democrat said the defense department had issued a directive withholding certain re ports and records from the general accounting office Gao. Gao is Congress watchdog on government spending and is help ing Hebert s subcommittee conduct its investigation. The Only conclusion i can draw is that they Don t want us to find out where the bodies Are  Hebert said. If there is nothing wrong Why cover up nature of probe Hebert s subcommittee has been digging into charges that retired High ranking military men hired by private Industry have influenced the award of defense contracts Worth millions of dollars. The House watchdog unit also has been investigating alleged waste and incompetence in defens contracting generally. The defense department said Hebert apparently was referring Toa july 9, 1958, directive which states that budgets for any future fiscal year will not be  the department takes the Posi Tion that All of its budget Docu ments Are confidential until approved by the budget Bureau an submitted to Congress. Korea adoptee Dies As plane lands in . Tampa Fla. Up a 4-month old South korean orphan adopted by a Bradenton fete couple died Iii the arms of a stewardess justas the plane came to a halt at the end of a.9,000-Mlie flight to the in Fant s new Hom e. The Foster parents or. And mrs. Lowell Brubaker were standing on the runway when the plan landed. Mrs. Brubaker said she saw a stewardess come to the door of the plane with a baby in her arms. She was All covered up in the Blanket and. I saw her Little face she. Said. She said the stewardess turned and disappeared into the plane. Afew minutes later the stewardess came out and told her the Little girl was dead. Mrs. Brubaker said we tried to get an american baby but could t. So we worked and waited for a year with a korean adoption Agency and finally were  said now i Don t know if we Are going to adopt an other one or not. The Shock is just too  the child made the Long flight from Seoul in the care of an adoption Agency worker. The worker whose identity was not known by police Here left Tampa by air soon after arrival. \ the stewardess told the Bru Bakers that the child had appeared to become ill Only about two hour before the plane arrived Iri Tampa she told the Brubaker that the Little girl appeared to be gasping for air. An autopsy was ordered to deter mine the cause of death. Silly secrecy Over monkeys rapped anew Washington up rep. John e. Moss a Calif has complained anew about the defense department s silly secrecy about monkeys it used for military re search. Moss chairman of the House government information subcommittee renewed his criticism of secrecy policies in a statement titled More Monkey business pre pared for publication in the con Gressional record. He recalled that last april when he reported the on again off again secrecy about the use of monkeys in research he Drew a violent at tack from Robert a. Dechert de sense department general counsel. Moss said the defense depart ment s apparent explanation for stamping the experiments confidential was that the state department feared this would Haven Adverse reaction in India where some people worship monkeys and that Russia could exploit this. The congressman said the Absurdity of this policy is Laid Bare by a report published in the Maga Zine aviation week stating that Russia is making no Bones about the fact it is importing Planel Oadson monkeys from India for experiments. Thus there is no propaganda advantage to be gained by a russian charge that the United states issuing monkeys for research for Russia is doing exactly the something he said. Moss said the real reason . Monkey secrecy is  military Security Stamps reused in this Case and in Many other instances to cover up in formation until the administration press agents can squeeze out of it every possible drop of publicity for their own particular cause he said. A letter from Dechert to mos was made Public. In it Dechert denied there was a defense department secrecy policy regarding monkeys. Spain in nato idea advanced Washington up rep. Vic Tor l. Anfuso  urged president Eisenhower and the state department to take immedi ate Steps to have Spain include Din the North Atlantic treaty organization nato. Were it not for the Spanish revolution Spain would surely have gone communist and might have dragged along All or most of Western  he said. Anfuso said Spain is a staunch Friend and ally of the United states and has permitted this country to establish important military bases in its territory. And yet despite this cooperation on the part of Spain the nations who Are associated in Nat have thus far failed to admit Spain As a member Anfuso said. This i something to be deplored for one cannot visualize the logic or the practicability of omitting Spain from this Mutual defense