European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                It Tel 6 the stars and stripes sunday August 16, 19s9 12 toll takers indicted in Bridge fraud Springfield 111. Up Federal grand jury has indicted 12 employee of the Rock Island Cen Tennial Bridge on charges of conspiring to defraud the . Govern ment by pocketing Bridge  of those indicted were chief toll collector John c. Kaiser an assistant chief collector Thomas m. Downs Rock  Fri said the accused toll takers engineered the alleged thefts by turning of automatic de vices which counted vehicles Cross ing the Bridge and pocketing All or part of the tolls they  said there were Indi cations some toll takers had been pocketing the tolls since shortly after the Bridge was opened in1940. Others named the others indicted were Paul. Crawford Clair r. Lamburg Gordon r. Brasch Ernest Wood Ward Guy e. Sherman Herman Duyvejonck Edgar a. Mcdonald All of Rock Island and Ralph w. De Vine of Davenport Iowa Charles f. Thorpe of Taylor Ridge 111., and John d. Wilson of Milan 111. The indictments were returned before . District judge Charles g. Briggle and suppressed until those named were notified and appeared before the . Commissioner at Rock Island. Bond was set at $3,000 for  penalty upon conviction is a Fine of 510,000 or five years in prison or both. Money taken the indictments did not say How much Money might have been taken. Earlier estimates placed the amount Between 5100,000 and $750,000. The basis for indictment by the Federal government was that the Mississippi River Bridge which connects Rock Island and Daven port was constructed under con Gressional authority and that the alleged conspiracy prevented the carrying out of the congressional act which included the require ment that the Bridge be made Afree one when it was paid for. 2 couples die in plane crash los Angeles up two couples were killed when their Small plane disintegrated in flight and crashed into a Hillside of the Santa Monica mountains. Witnesses said the plane seemed to fall apart just before it crashed a Quarter mile from a Nike missile installation. The plane did not Burn. The Pilot was identified As Lero Thompson 38, of los Angeles. The other victims were his wife Evely 33, and or. And mrs. Lunda , of Downey Calif. Thompson chief Engineer of Beverly hotel owned the plane jointly with his assistant Glyn Hasal. Hasal said the plane left Van Guys Airport in route to okla homa City Thompson s Home town actor James Craig to wed Las vegas Nev. A film actor James Craig says he an actress Jill Jarmyn will be married Here aug. 22. Oji for a Model t throttle ave cot pre set ideas Detroit up the trend toward Economy among the motor ing Public is bringing Back a modern version of the old pre set throttle on cars. Motorists remember that they used to be Able to increase their gasoline mileage by using a pre set throttle to maintain a steady Speed while they were travelling through the open country. Many of them have wished they could have the pee set throttle on their modern cars. In the Days of the Model t Ford it appeared in the form of a lever on the steering wheel. This lever could be pulled Down to any de sired level and would then hold the car at a steady rate of Speed depending upon How far Down twas pulled. That Type of pre set throttle vanished during the Era of the Model a Ford but it was succeeded by a Knob on the dashboard which could be pulled out to hold the throttle pedal at any desire setting. This Type of preset throttle Hung around on cars until just after world War i then the Auto Industry began building such powerful cars that safety officials Felt it was Dah get Ous to have a device which would maintain a steady Speed until it was released manually. They Felt it could cause accidents because it was difficult to overcome the Power of the engine with brakes that did t keep Pace with the rapidly increasing Power of the engine. " so the pre set throttle vanished. But it is making a comeback Ina modern form which releases the setting automatically whenever the Driver touches the Brake. There Are several types in existence now and All afe growing in popularity. The Tito companies Are offering Type which will even adjust the throttle setting to maintain an even Speed when going up an do in Hills. But this self adjusting mechanism is expensive and the Cost of this Type of device is slow ing Down its acceptance by the Public. To answer this problem an inde pendent company has developed Amore simple device called Glide control which Sells for $30 outdoes riot maintain n constant Speed when the car is going up or Down Hills. The manufacturer of the  unit says it can be attached to any car within an hour and will pay for itself in a few months through gasoline  show it can save up to 25 per cent of the Gas Bills of a average Driver. If a Motorist a flints to pass a car while driving with the unit i operation he merely has to press Down on the accelerator until he is past and then release the pres sure and the unit again takes con  addition to gasoline savings the device eliminates dangerous Turnpike fatigue. Taking a whirl at the weather Helen la Mobley 18, of Indianapolis basks in the Sun atop a Heli copter outside a War surplus outlet in the Indiana City. Up Gangland style killers strike in Chicago tavern and Alley Chicago a style killers struck Gangland twice during Early morning hours riddling minor hoodlum As he sat in a tavern and blasting another Manin a West Side Alley. One victim was John Miraglia,43, whom police named As a minor hoodlum and former associate of Paul Needle nose Labriola a gangster who was strangled i March 1954 and his body stuffed into a car trunk. Police said Miraglia was sitting at a tavern bar on the near North Side when two masked men Cen tired and pumped four slugs into Miraglia s Back. Then they fled on foot without saying a word. The other victim was identified through fingerprints As Edward Kochanski 41. He was found shot several times through the head in an Alley. His pockets had been ripped and All identification had been removed from his body. Police quoted one witness new ton Long 40, As saying he saw two men Speed away from the Al Ley shortly after he heard shots. He raced from the Kitchen of his Home and found Kochanski s body. Nazi idolize sentenced for burning paintings Columbus a. A a Young Library Page who admittedly hate jews and idolizes nazi doctrines Drew a 6 to 10-year prison sent ence for burning $5,000 Worth of  Hubert Calhoun told the youth Richard a Smith jr., to forget the Tommy rot of hero worshipping Adolf Hitler and de vote his time to learning the his tory of America Smith pleaded guilty to second and third degree arson and two counts of malicious mischief. The state dropped a burglary  Young Man s attorney said Smith had been brainwashed by an older person and described him As being contrite in heart Ami con fused in  if year owl youth whose hobbies Are chess and painting admitted breaking into the co Lumbus museum of arts handcrafts july 17 in search of Money. Finding none he ripped painting from the Wall and set fire to them believing them to have been the works of jews. He also scrawled swastikas on museum Walls solicitor general prose Csutor John land said Smith told him he considered Hitler the re incarnation of whatever divine source that May  strikes at phonies hypnotist s tests debunk theory of heroic feats new York up the Circle on the Plain White card had Bee drawn with an Ordinary Lead pen cil yet the Man saw a Blue  s strange you la say but you May be satisfied when told the Man was hypnotized and the hypnotist had told him he was going to see a Blue Circle. Don t jump to conclusions. An other Rhian was shown the same Plain White card with a pencilled Circle on it and he was t hypnotized. He merely was told to imagine the Circle was Blue an to keep on imagining until he saw a Blue Circle. He did see one a plainly As the hypnotized Man had. This is among the newest experiments of or. Theodore Xenophon Barber of Harvard University who is one of a number of scientists trying to get to the scientific Bottom of hypnotism arid thus take the phoniness out of it. This Experiment struck at tire phonies of hypnotic phonies. This is the idea promoted by entertainers and other nonscientific hypnotists that a person under hypnotism is capable of superhuman accomplishments be ing Able to do things neither Honor any other human being can do while a hypnotized and in a Normal state. In previous scientific experiments this business of seeing non existent colors while hypnotized has had an even stranger after math. Hypnotized persons have death by drinking ruled not covered by insurance plan Albany . Up the appellate court has ruled that Nman was not covered by work men s compensation when he drank himself to death at a company Christmas  the ruling the appellate court overturned a decision by the work men s compensation Board which awarded a widow compensation for her husband s . Israel Herman was awarded $2,430 for a period from he husband s death on dec. 21, 1956, to july 11, 1958. She was to receive$30 weekly thereafter. Her husband employed by there endpoint barrel and drum re conditioning co., of Brooklyn died of acute intoxication testimony at the compensation hearing  appellate division said work men s compensation did not cover when the intoxication was the re sult of excessive personal use of alcohol which departed from an rational relationship to the  the compensation Board had Hel the company liable because it had provided the liquor at the Christ Mas party seen the nonexistent colors fade away and then get replaced by other colors after images equally  colors of these after images inevitably were Basic components of the original nonexistent color they were complementary rather than clashing. This suggested that in this instance a least hypnotic seeing of the non existent was Many cuts better than Normal seeing of real colors. Barber first duplicated this Experiment using six College Stu dents who were Good hypnotic subjects and with whom he had experimented before. Under Hyp Nosis Only two of the six saw the colors on the Plain White card which had been suggested to them by Barber but those two also saw the after images and in complementary  then suggested that they weren t going to remember the experience this is called giving amnesia in scientific hypnosis parlance and brought them out of their trance. Half an hour later they began staring at the same pencilled circles on White cards again but this time in their nor Mal states. Keep looking at the White Circle on this card until you arable to make it appear Blue he instructed them one by one. Try very hard to imagine the color Blue and then project the imagined color on the  four of the six gave up within two to four minutes saying it could t be done. But the other two saw Blue circles. They weren t the same two who saw Blue while hypnotized. None took More than five minutes of concentrating an they also saw the complementary  noted that these two Al though not hypnotized put them selves into trance like states so hard were they concentrating on getting the color onto the  in his opinion this ability to concentrate on one thing while excluding everything else is the basis both of becoming hypnotized and of performing unusual feats while hypnotized denture misadventure sends con to Hospital Wethersfield Conn. A inmate Donatl Parker s after noon Nap Vas interrupted at Wethersfield state prison when he swallowed his false Teeth. Parker 43, was taken to  Hospital in Hartford. The dental plate was  surgery was needed. Parker was reported in goo condition. He is to return to Pris on where be is serving � 10 to 15-year term for theft of an automobile