European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes Hennings accuses foreign Aid chief of Traud in data rift Washington a sen. Thomas c. Hennings do has accused president Eisenhower s foreign Aid chief of perpetrating what the senator said amounts to a fraud on the american referred to testimony by James w. Riddleberger director of the International cooperation administration Ica that he would not withhold facts about the foreign Aid program no matter How damaging they May , in asking the sen ate appropriations committee to restore nearly $400 million Cut bythe House out of or. Eisenhower s foreign Aid Bill made Clear How Ever he would refuse to make available Ica s own evaluation re ports on the Success of foreign Aid projects Renews dispute Riddleberger said i shall treat As privileged the judgments and recommendations of my staff which were considered in reaching my de he said that honest differences of opinion Are the Price of an Independent and imaginative by saying he would not with hold facts and refusing to release the evaluation reports Hennings said in a statement that Riddle Berger s testimony amounted to a fraud on the american Hennings renewed the controversy Between or. Eisenhower i and congressional committees Over what constitutes matters of executive privilege which can constitutionally be withheld from con Gress. Improperly withheld the controversy centers around a provision in the House appropriation Bill to Cut off economic Aid funds for projects on which evaluation reports Are not available to Congress and the general account ing said that for months the Ica has been withholding such reports said it was impossible for him to reconcile the withholding of these reports and the statement that Ica would not withhold facts about the foreign Aid program Khrushchev to get free rein in . Washington a presi Dent Eisenhower probably will go beyond the protocol requirement toward a visiting government head by personally going out to Friend ship Airport near Baltimore to Welcome soviet Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev on his arrival it was Learned Here. Khrushchev will have full free Dom to go anywhere he pleases in the ., and by what Means he wishes. If he wants to Fly in his russian plane however a . Navigator will have to go along. The invitation for Khrushchev s visit had been extended irrevocably in Early july before Nixon left for Russia and would not have been cancelled even if Nixon had been badly received or had recommended against inviting the soviet Leader. Or. Eisenhower figures Khrushchev decided to come because Khrushchev thinks he can do As Good a propaganda Job Here As lie has in other countries. Will let situation jell the president wants to let some weeks go by after Khrushchev s visit before he travels to Russia. He intends to let the situation Jelland to Tell the Western allies about his Washington talks with . Eisenhower s soviet trip sunday August 9, while Brigitte bar lot movie Babette goes to War received its world premiere in the Moscow film fest the bosom French actress prepared for her latest film will you dance with Brigitte sits on the Lap of her sister Mijano As she reads script in a Nice France studio. United press International telephoto Oregon debris searched ". A. For More blast victim Roseburg Ore. Up work men dug through the. Wreckage of a blast levelled area of d downtown Roseburg saturday in an Effort to determine whether the explosion of six tons of dynamite and ammonium nitrate May have taken As Many As 30 lives. Hennings said the president s own Power in determining what papers can be kept secret can not be exercised by every sub ordinate in the executive adm Burke beginning 3d term As Navy chief Washington is adm Arleigh a. Burke will begin his third term As chief of naval operations this month becoming the first peacetime Navy Leader to be appointed by the president to serve in that position for three consecutive came to his Washington Post from an assignment As com Mander of destroyer Force at lactic Fleet in August 1955. His 35-year Navy career began with a commission from the naval acad Emy in 1923, probably will last five or six Days though the russians spoke of 12 president would like to see Kui Bashev a Volga River City 460 Miles Southwest of Moscow. West Ern leaders dealt with the City As the temporary russian capital in would War would also like to revisit Stalingrad to see How much has been reconstructed of the City once devastated by the nazis. He sees Little Point in visiting Man places because when Riding in an Auto he does t get to see much but crowds of people. Ike. Vienna strike averted Vienna up a threatening strike of All Vienna hotel Coffee House and restaurant employees which would have paralysed Vienna tourist traffic was cancelled in last minute move saturday. Continued from Page i is to arrive in the . Sept. 15.the president has announced he will visit Khrushchev in Moscow sometime before dec. 31. He gave no specific was no word on plans for a meeting with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. But some reports indicated that Ade Nauer might go to London to Confer with or. Eisenhower Dur ing his visit there. New strike posed As Copper Union pact on deadline Pittsburgh up us. Metal production dented by the 25-Day old strike faces new curtailments with 8,300 Copper workers poised for a walkout unless contract de mands Are met by monday.,-the United steelworkers Union which represents 500,000 striking workers in steel Mills in 24 states said it would Call out 2,300 work ers in Kennicott Copper operations in Utah and Arizona unless settlement is reached by monday 6,000 Copper workers in Utah Arizona Nevada and new Mexico members of the International Union of mine Mill and smelter workers have the same deadline. After a week of meetings be tween representatives of the steel Industry and the us in new York chief Federal m e d i a t or Joseph f. Finnegan said there has been no real Progress. He warned against any false Hopes that the two sides were on the Way to an agreement. Florida father slashed to death Sarasota Fla. A a Horri fied Young wife found the bound and gagged body of her husband at is father s Home Here. His Throat was slashed from ear to ear and his face was taped like a Mummy police chief Robert m. Wilson raid detectives found no motive for the killing of Chander Ste Fensand no blues to the assailant an to Wilson said Steffens 22, had been struck on the head and had one Stab wound which punctured a lung and another which entered the Abdomen. Hands bound steffens1 hands were tied behind his Back with rope and his feet were bound. His face was taped except for Small areas around the eyes nose and Mouth mrs. Betty Steffens attractive Blond Mother of two Small Chil Dren said she found her husband body in a bedroom at the Home of his Pai ends. The wife s father l. T. Thomp son said his daughter and Steffens had a disagreement about a week ago and that she filed suit for divorce. But Thompson said they had been reconciled. Acting gov. Walter Pearson termed it one of the worst Dis asters in the states history. Dam age was estimated at $10 million to $12 million. The red Cross in a preliminary Survey listed 647 businesses and Homes damaged or destroyed. Deputy Coroner Russ carry said nine bodies were recovered from the rubble. A Little girl died in a Hospital. Three mox a persons we known missing and presumed dead. Sixteen persons remained i hospitals four of them. In critical condition. Engineers meanwhile were checking buildings still standing in the downtown area to see if they were in danger of crumbling from structural defects caused by the explosion. The blast levelled eight Square blocks of the City. A 15-foot-deep Crater marked the place where Driver George Ruther Ford parked his six ton Load of dynamite and ammonium nitrate the truckload of explosives was set off by a fire in the warehouse near which Rutherford berthed his Rig for the night. The known dead include assistant fire chief Roy Mcfarland Harry Carmichael about 50 Jam Knight 20 Dennis Tandy about 18 Bonnie Jean Berg 19, and 4 year old Virginia Lee Kuykendall who died in a Hospital. The Little girl s Mother was one of those in critical condition and her sister and father were listed As serious missing and presumed dead Are policeman Don Desues 32 William Unrath about 45, owner of i wrecked soft drink bottling Plant Martin Pust Eva Mcdonald Anc Wayne Townsend i Pupil placing in Little Rock Little Rock Ark. A attorneys for the National Assn. Forthe advancement of coloured peo ple a act have asked the . District court Here to require the Little Rock school Board to admit negro students to Public school son a. Prescribed school zones motion also asks in effect an order restraining the boar from using the 1959 Pupil place men Law to assign negro students to various schools. It was under this Law that the Board hoped to keep integration t6 a minimum when the High schools open next wednesday. Al though 60 negroes applied for admission to White schools Only six were assigned to attend them and the rest slated for Horace Mann High school for negroes. School Board silent school Board members declined comment on the court action until they have had a Chance to study Marshall of new York and Wiley Branton of Pine Bluff. Ark., filed the , a segregationist Leader threatened a buyer s strike against downtown merchants Here if High school integration comes As scheduled wednesday. Additional threats if one negro even attempts to attend a White High school said Amis Guthridge we Are calling on the people of every school District in Arkansas to stage a buy ers strike against Little Roc main Street merchants and against every firm that employs even one , attorney for the segregationist capital citizens coun cil also said his organization had planned other actions in connect Ion with integration but said he Oulen t reveal Williams president of he Little Rock chamber of com Merce when asked to comment Aid he Felt additional comment would be in poor torrential rain floods Homes in Richmond Richmond a. A torrential rain flooded streets Anc Homes Here saturday submerging cars and washing away a Smul Bridge. Water stood 6 feet deep in one Street no lives were lost. 1 dead 2 Hurt i Navy crash Wellfleet mass up a twin engine Navy Antisubmarine plane crashed into raging surf about 100 feet off the Beach Here killing one Man and injuring two no swimmer who was driving along the Beach plunged into through water to Rescue cmdr Daniel r. Rehm of new Orleans com manding officer of Antisubmarine so vs822 and it Jimmy w. Carlsr also of new were reported suffering from Shock and multiple fractures and other injuries at the Otis air Force base Hospital near fal r. Brewer 34, of East Ham said he was driving along the Beach when he saw the plane plunge into the surf. He splashed into the water and helped the two injured men to Shore. But the t h i r d crewmen was missing and presumed dead. The Navy has not yet notified his family. Truck Driver s undress changes jail address los Angeles up truck Driver Billie Thomley 37, of Al Berta Utah arrested for Brawl ing with two other truck Drivers was consigned a protesting the men s division of the county the Driver stripped for a Shower attendants blushed tossed her a Towel and hustled her out to the women s
