European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To Teg 2 th1 stars and monday August 10, jailed with client in $1 million fraud Case Paris up police disclosed they have arrested the chief cashier of the american express office in Paris on charges of defrauding the company of an estimated $1 million. Court officials identified the Man As Martin Allen 33, of Philadelphia. Police also said they have arrested Allen s accomplice Renato Grassi,37,. Of Milan Italy. Both men were brought before investigating Magis trate Rene Duval of the Paris court of Justice who ordered them jailed on charges of fraud. Court sources said Grassi appeared to be the chief Benefactor of the illegal Money deals. The said the embezzled funds were spirited by the two men out of France and deposited in Swiss Banks. Police work several top men of the Paris police were called in to unravel the Case which May Call for the cooperation of Interpol International police organization. Court sources said Allen had confessed to the embezzlement. Grassi sources said was a Well known client of the company and a personal Friend of Allen. The italian was said to frequent gambling resorts and casinos i France where he frequently had lost Large amounts of Money. Often when in want of Cash Grassi would turn to Allen who Lent him Money on his own authority from the company s fun sit was alleged. Allen informed h i s superiors when Grassi failed to reimburse the borrowed Money sources  company promptly lodged a formal complaint against the  roof Springs leak Washington a the roof of the Capitol developed a leak As a heavy rainstorm hit Washington. Water from clogged drains on the Capitol dome spilled into the Senate Library stack room the office of librarian Richard . But no. Damage was reported to the 200,000 volumes which include debates and Bills going Back to the War of 1812 stored in the room. Water also flowed into the House document  employees scurried for mops and bucket to bail out land Ings an d stairs just off the Rotunda. The office of Capitol architect  Stewart said drains were clogged with debris including Coffee Cartons and lunch wrap pings left by workmen cleaning and repairing the dome. German Auto buying up 20% Over 1958 Frankfurt up germans Are buying More new cars than Ever before. The Federal traffic Bureau said380,065 new automobiles were registered in West Germany in the first half of this year. This Numbert 20, per cent or 63,311 cars higher than the same period in 1958. U.s., Canada plan talks on missile Sites Washington a Secretary of defense Neil h. Mcelroy is expected to discuss with Canadian defense chiefs this week a Penta gon plan to locate some of the now authorized american Bomar an Nike Hercules missiles on Canad an soil. The Washington Post said Mem Bers of Congress have disclosed that the question of moving some of the planned air defense Sites from the Northern part of the  to Canada is being seriously considered at the Pentagon. The Post said the matter is expected to come up during Mcelroy s one Clay visit to Ottawa on tuesday. Military advantages there Are some considerable military advantages in locating More of the North american anti aircraft missile bases Well North of the Border and some financial and political disadvantages on the other Side the Post Story said. These military considerations Are being pressed in support of mov ing such bases the Post said. The 350-mile to 400-mile Range Bomar if placed at Sites above Canada s populated area per Hapsas far North As the mid Canada radar warning line would be Able to intercept enemy bombers farther away from key targets and population centers. Similarly 90 mile Range Nike Hercules bases in Southern Canada might score More hits. Missiles could keep a mass raid under attack longer and have better Chance of destroying the bulk of the bombers Short of their targets. Reds mend chinks in Iron curtain Vienna a the Iron cur Tain barbed wire fences watch towers and minefields erected by Austria s communist ruled neigh Bors Hungary and Czechoslovakia along their Western frontiers is being renovated austrian police reported. They said that communist Crews Are Busy All along the Border re moving old mines and replacing them with new ones. Old barbed wire fences Are carried off and new fences Are taking their place. An innovation is Concrete poles instead of the easily decaying wooden poles of the barbed wire fences. Off Way w meet $pdfi$0r at no. Port mrs. Astrid Manns 41-year-old German widow arrives at pier in Hoboken n.j., with her four1 children left to right r Edith 11 Klaus 10 reporter gets news of nothing Mech Hild Vii and Lothar 8, a newsman reported lie was unable to locate the five after they drove away with their sponsor Lokie g. Lynch  mystery trails German widow 4 kids Oxford miss. A can Agerman woman and four children whose arrival in the . Was widely publicized just drop out of sight some Light was shed on the mystery when a resident of this quiet Mississippi town told the associated press he had talked personally with the woman. George Forbes of Oxford said he went to a nearby farm and talked to mrs. Astrid Manns 41, and her children who had arrived in the . By ship from Germany tuesday. The widowed mrs. Manns thought she was meeting a Man who was going to adopt her Chil Dren and marry her. Flans abandoned however Lokie g. Lynch sr., 70-year-old widower and Farmer near this Community had other plans. Lynch told the widow on her arrival that because of publicity in the papers he had become embarrassed and was neither going to adopt the children nor marry her. Lynch later was seen driving away with mrs. Manns and her children in a car she had brought from Germany. When asked at his son s Home in Oxford where the Manns family is Lynch told a newsman my Busi Ness is my business. I have Noth ing to  in this town of less than 5,000 Lokie g. Lynch or. Fair lady7 weeps at Swan song of role London a Julie Andrews took her applause As she has done a thousand times since my fair lady blazed into Success. This time a Stream of tears 3d in week slain in . Holdup killings Westhampton , a a 5q-Yearold woman was slain in the third Holdup killing in a week in a Small area of Suffolk county in each Case the victim was working alone in a business establishment at night each was slain by .32-Caj Bullet and each time the Cash Register was rifled. Am three robbery slayings netted pc tween a Liq and j50 in. Cash latest victim was mrs Rei Currier of. West Yaphank. She was found shot to death in a Dine she and her husband had Pur chased Only is weeks ago. She had been bound hand an foot with Kitchen towels another was tied around her neck and 8scarf was stuffed in her Mouth. She was kitted by a Bullet fired Auto her left  Cash Register on Ohleh the no Sale sign had been rung up had been rifled of about $132.three Day s earlier Lawrence Kircher 53, a Counterman at anal night diner in nearby Smith town was found slain in similar fashion and $10411 had been taken from the Cash Register first of the killings was that of Hans Saehmann a 54-year-Olddelicatessen operator at slip the Bandit got about $100, slowed through her makeup. Sud Denly she made off for her dress ing room and stayed there More than an hour crying her eyes out. Thus 24-year-old Julie parted from ageless Eliza Doolittle therole which made her an International Star. She looked Back to the first night in new York 3% years ago anther first number the magic and intensely moving moment when the Little Cockney Flower girl sings wistfully of her dream of luxury warm hands warm face warm  now she said she plans a Long rest just a quiet and Ordinary time with my  she was married last May to stage designer Tony Walton her steady boy Friend from  Days persons it seems almost impossible to find anyone who knows or a least will Tell of the whereabouts of the German family. Lynch s son Lokie Lynch jr.,operates a service station in Oxford. When asked if he knew where the Manns family was he replied no sir i just Don t  the widower s granddaughter Hada similar reply. She said i Don t know anything about All this. You la have to ask somebody  even t he police in Oxford seemed confused. They said they thought the family was at Lynch s farm nine Miles from Here but they were not sure. One member of the police department who asked not to be identified said he did t know where the family was. Anyway that s the status in Oxford. Everything is quiet and no body is talking. Food poisoning hits 11 in family Grundy a. Up eleven members of a Kentucky family Are recuperating in a Hospital Here from what doctors described As food poisoning. Hospital officials said or. An mrs. Bill Sullivan seven of their 11 children and Sullivan s parents or and mrs Bent Sullivan were stricken after eating a noon meal at their Home in nearby Fence Creek by. Doctors theorized that Oleo mar Garine was responsible for their illness. The 11 who became ill had eaten some Margarine while the four children not affected had not eaten any Margarine. Canned worm brings $50/000 spinach suit West Union Iowa up Ethel Thompson sought $50,000damages from the Pel Monte co. Of California. She alleged in a suit tiled in District court that she stiff ere4severe mental anguish nil Phy Sical pain when she ate � can of spinach then found a worm inthe Bottom of the can