European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday August is 1959 career cop keeps order in Little Rock Little Eck Ark. Cap Gene Smith is a police chief who in the eyes of his men has gusto face anybody or the responsibility for Keepin Confer when two High schools were integrated Here fell on Smith Andis Iso Man police Force. For most of them it was not an a assignment. Smith and 100 officers battled and repulsed segregationist mob at Central High in 1957.Smith directed his men at Central High this week when a sowd of approximately 200 segregationists marched on the school before it reopened on a segregated basis. Police swung their night Sticks and with the cooperation of firemen spraying water on the crowd broke up the demonstration. At 6-feet 2%-inches and 200pounds, the 45-year-old Smith looks like the career police officer he is. I Don t consider myself a Hardman Smith said. But i m hard headed where the Law is does he consider integration the Law of the tend that s out of my province Smith replied. But Well do every thing we can to protect life and property and to preserve the Public peace. That s what we do every in 1957, Smith was assistant chief. He and his men erected barricades to shut off the crowd from Centra. The crowd of about rushed the barricades when it Learnett nine negroes had entered the school. Club swinging officers repulsed the attack. Police made no Effort to keep the crowd from forming or to break it up after the attack of the barricades failed. When the mob continued to grow the negroes were removed from the school they returned later under protect Tion of Federal troops ordered Here by president Eisenhower. Smith discounted segregationist charges that half of his men planned to resign if they wereordered1 to enforce integration. I Haven t heard a single com plaint he said. My men Are used to enforcing the Law. I dont expect them to Smith joined the Force in 1935and was a Serge Artt when he joined the Navy in 1941. After his Dis charge from the Navy in 1946, he became Captain and was promoted to assistant chief in 1953. In May 1954 he was demoted to sergeant by then chief Marvin Potts on charges of conduct in becoming an officer he filed suit against Potts and was reinstated under court order three months later when Potts resigned in thefall1 of 1957, the City civil service commission chose Smith As chief. Bunt am ret beef. ,.Smith was a football and track Star at Little stick Randw Central High school. His children a boy and a girl both now grown were educated Here. Just Call me a police officer Smith said. That s what i chose to be and looking Back i Don t think i d change closer relationships firm tells of junkets in Bahamas for officers Washington up a top official of the Martin co. Admitted dts. House investigators that his firm had flown High ranking military officers to an exclusive country club in the Bahamas for Gay weekend terries. George m. Bunker chairman of the Board of the firm was promptly told1 to Supply a House armed services investigating subcommittee with a Complete list of the offi cers who made the trips. It was brought out that Martin deduct the Cost of the junkets in its tax payments. Bunker said the purpose of the to weekend pleasure trips was touring about a closer relationship Between Martin officials arid those ill the military. Government and Industry influence peddling the subcommittee is investigating possible influence peddling on defense contracts especially by re tired military brass and the so called munitions Martin which p produces the Titan and other missiles has about $800 million Worth of defense work under contract. Bunker also testified that 62 re tired military officers Are working for Martin including four generals and five admirals. They include maj Gen Frederick Dent ret and maj Gen Kingston Tibbetts ret. Dent is director of missiles an electronics at the Baltimore Divi Sion. He makes $25,000 a year i addition to his annual air Force retirement pay of $10.836. Titan baes Tibbetts has responsibility for Fine installation of Titan bases be ing established by the air Force. He also makes $25,000 a year from Martin in addition to his military retirement pay of $8,580. Another witness Charles , president of the Raythelon manufacturing co., w a 11 h a a he had 22 retired offi cers on the payroll and that six of Triem were actively engaged i contacting Pentagon officials on present contracts and defens work developments generally. He readily admitted that information picked up Over the lunch table and so on was relayed Back tothe company to help obtain de sense business. Senate Bill boosting vet pensions Washington a the sen ate passed by 86-6 a veterans pen Sion Bill boosting the Cost of Bene fits not connected to military serv ice by $10 billion Over the next 40years. The Bill now goes Back to the House for consideration of minor differences Between Senate an House versions. Restores rates before passage the Senate by a75-20 vote stripped out of the measure a series of changes its finance committee had made inthe House Bill. These would have Cut its Cost by an estimated $2billion Between now and the year 2000. The effect of this vote on a amendment offered by sen. Robert s. Kerr a okla was to restore largely the provisions of the House Bill on the new pension vote on the Kerr Amend ment was a Sharp defeat for the Eisenhower administration and raised the possibility of a. Veto. Helps widows the Bill which concerns Only pensions for veterans with non service connected disabilities an their dependents would bring widows of world War ii and korean War veterans under the pro Gram on the same basis As world War i widows effective july 1, 1960. No Veteran or dependent now on the Rolls would have his or her pension Cut by the measure an about 65 per cent of them would get increases for shame Henry Chicago up a Man named Henry Ford stole a Chrysler Here. Finch s girl Friend comforted Carole. Tregoff left is comforted by her father James and step Mother Gladys at West Covina Calif. During a preliminary hearing for the girl on charges that she aided her Lover or. Bernard Finch kill his wife july 18 in. West Covina. Up photo 4 lost As army copter rams Gable explodes Russell Springs by. A an army helicopter hit a Cable Over a tributary of Lake Cumber land and crashed into the Waters of Wolf Creek. An army spokesman said two officers and two enlisted men were aboard. All were presumed dead the names of the Fatir were with held pending notification of next of Kin. The helicopter was being used Mother of polio hit 4 warns others Uxbridge mass. Up ayoung Mother whose four children were struck with polio after she jailed to have them get Salk shots has urged other parents not to Beso careless. It was just carelessness on my part said mrs. Marie Plante Majeau the facilities were. Definite by available Here but my husband was killed in an Auto Accident last april and i just did t get to four children were the town s first polio cases of the year. Her two other children were nowt with tote non paralytic Type of polio. I m a very unhappy and Wor ried Mother tonight she said to tag reporter Joseph Petty. She answered i certainly would when asked if she would urge other parents to take advantage of the free Salk anti polio vaccine. 6,800 inoculate some 6,800 children and preg Nant women have been inoculated in Uxbridge this year. Only a handful of children other than mrs Majeau s did not receive the shots. The four children were hospitalized in satisfactory condition. Hos Pital officials said titty Werff in i no danger but would be confine for some one of the stricken youngsters David Plante 5, was hit for a Sec Ond time. He was the town s Only polio victim during the 1955 Epi Demic. Others hospitalized were Ken Neth Plante 8, his sister Donna 7, and their step brother Michae Majeau 3 under close observation were theother two youngsters Randolph Plante 6, and Steven 1.mrs, Majeau s second husband David was killed1 in a car Accident Prtt pc by troops from it. Campbell on Maneu vers near Wolf Creek dam Jin South Central observers reported a Small sex Losion when the helicopter hit the Cable. The aircraft then flew apart land fell into the 59-foot deep water he said. Warrant officer Dies Len new York crash new York up a 30-year old . Army warrant officer afternoon of injuries received after his h13 helicopter crashed into the roof of a building on governors Island. Headquarters said he was Mak ing a Landing approach when the helicopter toppled Over backward Sand fell near the sea wait the Pilot was identified As molester g. Munderick of the air Section of the 52d antiaircraft brigade stationed at Miller Field Staten Island. By. 2 die fighting Shureb fire Lisbon up two firemen were killed during a fire which destroyed the largest Church in lisbon1, Chweh at St. Dominic judge Trego f Case could collapse West to Etna Calif. Cap a judge told the prosecution that its murder Case against Carole Tregoff could collapse like a House of cards without one this element he said is a full presenta Tion of air statements miss Tregoff has made in and out of court. Miss Tregoff 22, is accused with her 41-year-old Lover. Eta. R. Bernard Finch to murder Finch a wife Barbara. , was slain july 18. At miss Tregoff s preliminary hearing municipal judge William m. Margin urged the prosecution to Speed up presentation of state ments made by the defendant. These include those the girl made to police on three different occasions after the murder. The judge said your Case could collapse i like Ahouse of cards without one Point. That Point is the Keystone of Theatch and that is the defendant s testimony or statements. I would suggest full disclosure now of extra judicial and judicial state Carole surprised Deputy District attorney Fred wac hello responded by calling detective sergeant Hiram Powell of Las vegas nev., to the , with the Clark county sheriff s office testified that after the killing he contacted miss tre Goff at a hotel where she was working As a cocktail waitress. He said he Tol d her he was looking for Finch and she advised him he Wasat her apartment. Powell said i that when he told her Finch Wasj wanted in connection with his i wife s murder she said i can t believe it Powell said he and other officers found Finch in bed at the girl s apartment the Day after the kill Jing. Miss Tregoff later came to the i sheriff s office to see the doctor but was not permitted to talk to him until West Covina police arrived some hours later. When they did meet Powell said i they embraced and guns brandished j the doctor s wife was shot to death outside the Finch Home in West Covina miss Tregoff has said she saw mrs. Finch with a gun in her hand in the garage of the Home during a dispute Between the1 doctor and his wife. A maid Hassid she saw the doctor with a gun in his hand during the quarrel. Before the hearing whichello said Finch and miss Tregoff had been1 sharing a love nest for months before mrs Finch was killed whichello said Finch rented a apartment in Monterey Parki no far from West Covina 10 months ago. Carole went there the prosecutor said after separating fro her husband James pappa whom she divorced last january. Whichello said Finch rented the apartment under an assumed name
