European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes tuesday August 18, Racket report claims 250,000 looted by teamster leaders Washington up the Senate rackets committee will charge in a forthcoming report that Philadelphia teamsters using terror and brute Force to enforce their control looted the Union Treasury of about $250,000. The report alleges that Raymond Cohen head of Philadelphia local107, used subterfuge intimidation threats and physical violence to keep the local in the hands of laotian army rebels clash near Vietnam Vientiane Laos up laotian government officials have confirmed that fighting is going on Between laotian and rebel forces in the Northern provinces of Sam Neua and Phong Sal which Border on Vietnam. They would not confirm Ordeny however reports that the fighting had spread into the Nort Central laotian province of Luang Rabang much farther away fro North vietnamese territory. Britain and the soviet Union have exchanged proposals in London for restoring peace inlays. A reported. The Exchange details of which have not been made Public took place at the for eign office Between British minister of state John Profumo and soviet ambassador Jakob Malik. The two men met As representatives of their respective governments which were designated As co chairmen of the 1954agreement granting Independence to Laos. The meeting was called a Britain s request Brig Gen Oun Ratti Kul com Mander of the laotian forces told newsmen Over the week end that there was fighting in both Sam Neua and Phong  officials said the govern ment troops were mopping up rebel forces in some Small areas of the two former provinces which Only a few years ago were completely under the control of the leftist Patchet lao fighting units whose former members now make up most of the rebel forces. A/2c sues railway for loss of leg san Francisco a an air Man who conceded he was trespass ing sued the Southern Pacific Railroad for $200.000 for loss of Aleg under a freight car in a Reno nev., freight Yard. A/2c Nathaniel Woodruff 22,now at Travis air Force base filed the suit in . District  said he fell asleep under a Box car and his leg was run Over when the car was switched. His suit said the Railroad know people frequently fall asleep in switch Yards and has a duty to trespassers to exercise Ordinary care in conducting switching operations.  and unscrupulous of it was established by the com Mittee that Cohen was handling nearly All his own personal Finan Ces in Cash even expenditures of Many thousands of dollars the re port says. This was during the same period that the $250,000 in Cash was being removed from the Union Treasury under various  second Section the charges against the Phila Delphia teamsters Are included in the second Section of the commit tee s formal report on its 1958 hearings. The report has not yet Bee filed in the Senate but a copy showed the first Section of the report blasted teamster president James r. Hoffa for permitting hoodlums and racketeers to Over run his Union. Cohen who Heads Philadelphia largest teamster local invoked the fifth amendment in two appear ances before the committee. After the committee first disclosed som of his activities Cohen was promoted in the teamster hierarch to the Post of International trustee of the Union. The committee s Philadelphia re port outlines 26 specific charges against Cohen and his officials. I asserts that his underhanded dealings included the rigging fan election to acquire the Post of local Secretary treasurer in 1953. Ital ignited funds with apparently unlimited funds to work with Cohen sur rounded himself with a squad of hoodlums and sex convicts whose Job it was to stamp out All com petition to Cohen in the coming election by fear threats and Phy Sical violence the report says. It adds that these Goon squad tactics enabled Cohen to stifle the democratic processes of the Union and to Drain the Union Treasury of Large amounts of Cash under the Guise of Legal expend  it says it amounted to nothing less than a  Neo nazi arrested on Money charge Oldenburg Germany a former maj Gen Otto Ernst re Mer once Leader of a postwar Neo nazi political party has been arrested on a charge of illegal financial transactions in connection with the Sale of farm equipment. Remer played a key part inputting Down the German army revolt against Adolf Hitler in 1944.since the War he has served time in prison on political charges. His socialist Reich party was declared illegal and dissolved. Leaders Promise action conferees get two labor Bills Washington a a Senate House conference committee has received two labor control Bills one passed by the Senate the other by the House. Democratic leaders have repeat edly assured that labor control legislation will be enacted this  republicans had not pressed their demands for a vote on accepting the tougher House approved measure known As the Landrum Griffin Bill without a conference although sen. Karl e. . Expressed fear Ofa deadlock which might result in no Bill at All. Or passage of the Milder Senate Bill authored by sen. John f. Kennedy a Mas Senate democratic Leader Lyn Don b. Johnson said he is willing to stay in Washington until Jan 3,when the 1960 session will con Vene if necessary to pass a labor regulation Bill. Kennedy who will head the Senate conferees backed up John son saying there is going to be Abill this year. Armory recruited to treat food poisoning victims the National guard armory at Angola .ind., i converted into a Hospital to treat 150 of the 800 victims of food poisoning at a picnic at Buck Creek ranch. Two hospitals were reported filled to capacity. None of the stricken appeared seriously ill. Story Page 6. A photo 4 airlines seek More Mats use of their planes Washington up four transoceanic airlines Are ready to begin talks with the defense department in response to a congressional recommendation that the military make greater use of com Mercial airlines for its transport needs. The airlines pan american world airways Northwest airlines Seaboard and Western airlines an trans world airlines asked the civil aeronautics Board to Sanc Tion the talks. They said they would seek to work out an agreement that would expand peacetime handling of Mili tary cargo and personnel by com Mercial planes. The airlines statement said Suchan agreement would create a greater military Reserve Airlift. A number of private airlines have Long maintained that the huge government operated military air transport service Mats did not make enough use of commercial aviation. Holmes loses Case of russian royalties Moscow up the supreme court of the russian Republic has turned Down the plea of an Ameri lawyer in the Case of Sherlock Holmes. It rejected a claim pressed by a Harvard expert on soviet Law Harold j. Berman on behalf of the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle or royalties on soviet translations of the Holmes stories Conan Doyle wrote. The claim ran to 2 million rub is in the Case which saw Ber Man make the first appearance of any Western lawyer before the supreme court of the largest of the republics which make up the so Viet Union. Berman originally submitted disclaim to a Moscow City court nov. 15, 1958, and lost. The claim was then dismissed As  he was Given the right to a peal to a higher court Berman made his Oral arguments not on the basis of soviet copy right Law which does not protect foreign writers but on the grounds the soviet publishers had been unjustly enriched by the works of Arthur Conan Doyle he said that since 1917 soviet publishing houses had published More than 11 million copies. The most popular work was the hound of the  Oas foreign ministers said agreed on peace plan continued from Page i resent Tive democracy in the americas. But at the last moment Confer ence sources reported Cuba and venezuela1  their precise objections were was not disclosed but the two nations have been leading and dominican aide denies attempts to invade Cuba Ciudad Trujillo dominican Republic a a High dominican army officer says the dominican Republic government has played no part in any attempt to invade Cuba. He said that statements by cuban Premier Fidel Castro show that an alleged invasion of Cuba was set up by Castro himself. No dominican citizens participated and no dominican weapons were found in the reported invasion he said. Garcia Trujillo said cubans invaded the dominican Republic in june and were wiped out but no before dominican blood was shed. In Havana cuban authorities continued to release hundreds of persons jailed during a drive against what the government called the dominican backed conspiracy. Officials apparently Are satisfied the reported plot against Castro regime has been smashed. About 4,000 civilians and army men we retaken into custody. Locates of forming a policy against dictatorships which Noni Terven zionist advocates feared might Lead to War in the Caribbean. Cuba s Premier Fidel Castro and the Strong Man regime of Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo of the dominican Republic have been at Odds. The Trujillo regime has charge that recent invasions of the dominican Republic had their Spring Board from Cuba. Castro charged that a widespread conspiracy against his government last Welc was fomented by Trujillo. In the first Case of violence for Mally brought to the attention of the conference Haiti s foreign minister Louis Mars protested against an invasion of the negro Republic by a Small band of revolutionaries. He said the invaders had landed on Haiti s South coast and Are being hunted by haitian troops. The protest was handed to for eign minister German Vergara Donoso of Chile chairman of the conference. The note May be referred to the Oas instead of being taken up by the ministers for Mally. The note did not accuse an government of instigating the in Vasion. In announcing the new agree ment Melo said formal approval was expected to be registered Ata full committee meeting later. Its main Point he said is that the task of watching and report ing on outbreaks in the Hemi sphere will be entrusted to the existing peace committee of theotas