European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 31, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 7i i Humphrey second in poll California demos favor Stevenson for president. Iby North american newspaper Alliance Washington a private poll of California democrats conducted recently for the party organization shows Adlai Stevenson still ahead in the presidential sweepstakes with sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minne Sota a fairly close second. Sen. John f. Kennedy of Massachusetts the acknowledged front run Ner nationally was a poor fourth behind sen. Stuart Symington of Ike oks aide to head review of . Policy on disarmament Navy Sayi Veteran is hell run for top Post Zanesville Ohio up a Navy Veteran who thinks the . Needs a common Man to run its business has announced he will run for president As a write in candidate in 1960. He is Jack Richard Moore an attendant at Cambridge state hos Pital. This country needs someone who knows the common Man s problems and Way of life Moore said. I think the other candidates would do the Job All right but i believe i could do  Moore said if he could get the necessary funds he would stump the country. My friends say it can t be  i am willing to try. I would like to prove that the common Man does have a Chance to be president of the United  meets requirements Moore who is married and the father of two boys and a girl said he has checked All available requirements and found that he fulfils them or will when he be comes 35 next month. Moore said there is a lot of waste in the government and he would lower officials salaries to relieve the poor Man of the Burden in the keep of the  there Are others who would Dothe jobs As Well for less he said. Moore said he did t have the backing of either of the two major parties but would Welcome support by either or both. He said he supported the present overseas Aid programs and the Federal Highway projects but said defense spending should be Cut. Missouri although he led califor Nia gov. Edmu rid g. Pat Brown. The governor ran first however in a separate sampling of vice presidential preferences. A new York polling firm asked some 650 party leaders in califor Nia which Democrat would fare Best against vice president Nixon. These were the results Stevenson 29 per cent Humph Rey 24 Symington 17 Kennedy 12 Brown 7 sen. Lyndon John son of Texas 4, and rep. Chester Bowles of Connecticut 2. Five per cent of the responses were distributed among sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee gov. G Mennen Williams of Michigan gov. Robert b. Meyner of new Jersey and sen. Paul h. Douglas of Illi Nois. Postcards tabulated All democratic county committee members were asked to state their Choice in the postcard poll As Fereall members of the state Central committee All democratic members of Congress and of the state legis lature and 75 per cent of the state s democratic club presidents. Responses came from 34 per cent of those queried. The state is expected Washington up president Eisenhower directed a Broad re View of . Disarmament policy including plans for contributing to a just and durable peace through world arms reductions. The White House announced that the chief executive had approved selection of Charles a. Coolidge a Boston attorney to carry out the review on behalf of the state and defense departments. Coolidge had been chosen for the Job by Secre tary of state Christian a. Herter. The president s action thus opened the question of possible renewed negotiations with Russia Over arms control. The White House said that Coolidge would consider comprehensive and partial measures of arms control and reduction which if internationally agreed would con tribute to the achievement of United states National Security of  pre eminent among these objectives Are reducing the Burden of armaments and contributing to achievement of a just and durable peace the White House added. The study will draw on the experience gained from previous and current International efforts toward these  Coolidge 64, has served As a Spe Cial assistant to the Secretary of defense on occasion during the Eisenhower administration. Previously he was director of inter National Security affairs for the state department in 1951, and an assistant Secretary of defense in1951-52. Hopes others will run scared to have water thief gets shut off Gainesville a. Up the former president of Best ice  with stealing 300 million Gallons of water by tapping a City water line was convicted Here Anddrew a two year prison term. J. P. Reynolds also was fined $1,725 and placed on probation for 23 years. He was freed under $30, 000  City of Gainesville charged Reynolds engineered a special Tapon a sprinkler system inside his Plant and during a two year period ending last april stole an estimated 300 million Gallons of water. Reynolds was charged with 25 counts of simple larceny. He Drew the prison terms on the first two counts and the fines and probation on the remaining  declared from the. Witness stand that i have never stolen anything charging the accusations were an outgrowth of grudges former employees held against him about 74 delegates second in num Ber Only to new York and thus will have a key role at the Conven Tion. Smathers supported by fellow senator Washington a the favorite son candidacy of sen. George a. Smathers a Fla forthe i960 democratic presidential nomination got the support of theother Florida senator Spessard l. Holland. Holland said in a statement methinks that if Florida sends a Dele gation to the party convention pledged to Smathers it will have a great Deal More influence that i otherwise would have on the Choice of the  that Smathers has provided Liaison Between the Liberal elements of the democratic party and our Southern democrats hol land said his colleague is being mentioned As a possibility for one of the places on the National  s potential candidacy apparently will bar National aspirants from any contest in Florida next year. Previously Florida has been regarded As one of the test ing grounds for democratic presidential aspirants. Art Anions of Akron Ohio who will vie for National drag race championship honors in Detroit next month dons a fearsome mask to match his Green monster during a test drive in los Angeles. He says hell scare All other Drivers out of the race. Up photo Hunt for Franklin papers pierced curtain 5 times baseball kills . Boy Oakville . Up a 2 year old boy was killed when he was struck by a baseball during a game at a Long Island summer amp Lawrence Herbert of Suring Side Queens ., was struck in tier the left ear by a pitched Ball. Kentuckian Thrifty but a vote getter Frankfort by. Up Sam Uel s. Cannon of Corbin likes in expensive election campaigns. Reporting to the Secretary of state on his primary race in which he won the Republican nomination for Kentucky attorney general Cannon listed $2 for a photograph and 50 cents for Stamps. New Haven Conn. A for the past five years two american professors Tiave been conducting worldwide scholarly search for the papers of Benjamin Franklin. The Hunt was the first step in a massive 15-year project to edit an publish through the Yale University press a 40-volume edition of the papers of Benjamin Frank  search pierced the Iron cur Tain five times or of. Leonard w. Labaree said. Photo copies of Franklin items in Moscow Lenin Grad Warsaw Prague and Leip Zig East Germany Are included in the  new Type face has been de signed called Franklin which is based on the St. Augustin ordinal ref Pierre Simon Fournier which Franklin used in his press a Passy France. The new Type will be used in the publishing of the  have known for two centuries that one of the nation most remarkable sons was Frank professors said that  the Leningrad Library came Aholo copy of a letter by Franklin to his son in Law Richard Bache and from Moscow came a photo copy of a letter written to Frank Lin announcing his election to the Imperial Academy of sciences which is now the Academy of sciences of the  the search finished apparently not. Labaree said he has just been notified that a newsgroup of Franklin letters has been unearthed in the Prague Library. If there Are other papers throughout the world we will try and find them he added. Sailor drowns As 7 swim toward girls Welland Canada up seven Young sailors on a . Navy destroyer saw some pretty girls on the nearby Shoreline of the Wei land canal. They set out to swim about 300 feet across the canal to the West Bank. Five made it. One Sailor drowned and another was Rescue unconscious from the water. The dead Sailor was identified a apprentice Seaman Martin l. Dur Ham 19, of Binghamton ., As signed to the  Warrington which was awaiting passage through the waterway to resume a tour of great lakes ports As part of the Navy s operation Inland seas. Grappling operations were underway in an Effort to locate Dur Ham s  apprentice Seaman. James Murphy 19, Clarksville. Mo., became exhausted and was pulled from the canal. Provincial police said Murphy was taken to Welland county Hospital for treat ment and observation. Probe of bottleneck at canal proposed Toledo Ohio up us. Rep. Thomas l. Ashley a Ohio said a bottleneck at the Welland canal in the St. Lawrence sea Way caused losses amounting to millions of dollars by delaying Ocean and Lake vessels by As much As four Days. He called on the Commerce department for a full  congressman said canal and lock facilities Are inadequate a Welland canal which connects lakes Erie and Ontario and serves As a bypass of Niagara  said the delays were costing from �2,000 to $4,000 per ship per Day Ever since the canal opened to traffic april 25.ashley just completed a tour of the Seaway. Ticket writing Champ tags mayor s car Chicago a detective Jack Muller the police department Champion traffic ticket writer tagged mayor Richard j. Daley s shiny new Black limousine righting front of the City Hall. The mayor was not present when Muller wrote out a ticket for the car which he said was in a no parking zone near the la Sal Estreet Entrance of the City Hall. Muller whose Normal assignment is a far North Side police District was in the Loop to appear in a court Case in the City Hall. But after leaving the court room he walked around the City county building and tagged the mayor s car and 23 other autos for being illegally  of the mayor s Drivers watched from a City Hall window while Muller ticketed the mayor s car. Then he rushed out and drove the car into the City parking garage across the  Learned about the. Ticket when he returned to his office. He said it was a Surprise but added that the parking Fine would be  also tagged the car of Coroner Walter e. Mccarron. A Block from the City Hall he Hung tickets on two cars which he said a to illegally parked. Escapee requests 6more secure jail Keene . A Frank Rice 36, whose three escapes from the county House of correction have caused his original 30-Day sentence to grow to 180 clays asked for and got a maximum Security sentence. Rice formerly of Fitchburg mass., pleaded guilty before judg Earthur Olson in Keene municipal court to an escape  originally was sentenced for a Drunken disturbance. He walked away from the county farm and got another 30 Days. In june he escaped again explaining later it was too hot to work on the farm. I thought i d take a Vaca Tion and come Back in the fall when it was cooler and finish my  was Given another 60 Days bringing his sentence to 120 Days. When Olsen gave him another 60, Rice considered briefly and then asked for maximum Security at Hillsboro county jail