European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 19, the stars and stripes Young woman around town Page 7 Diane Struble of Lake George ., passes bottle Back to boat full of relatives and Well wishers after taking break in her swim around Manhattan Island. The 26-year-old Blond completed the 30-mile grind in it hours. At right is her manager Paul Lukaris. Associated press photo 3-year safety probe mandatory car seat belts studied by House group Detroit a when you got into your car this morning did you fasten your scat Belt you probably Don t have a seat Belt in your car. Most people Don t. Some Day Congress May pass a Law requiring them. The subcommittee on health and safety of the House interstate and foreign Commerce committee has been making an intensive study of automotive safety for the past three years. It is headed by Ken Neth a. Roberts an Alabama Democrat. Wants Federal Law Roberts has seat belts in his car. He believes others ought to too. He has a Bill pending that would require All available safety devices on cars purchased by the government. He believes in fed eral legislation to set up minimum safety standards on All cars. Roberts turned his attention to car safely after getting a Law passed that requires Home refrigerators to be equipped with some method of opening the door from the inside. For cars Roberts considers minimum safety Law one that includes seat belts crash proof door locks that won t open under in pact Protection against steering wheel injuries and a code of Brake and tire performance among other things. Ford was . Auto manufacturers who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on safety research and engineering insist they Are making significant Progress in the Field of automotive safety. Ford was the first to promote a special safety package which included seat belts a deep dish steer ing wheel safety door locks pad ded dashboard and Sun visors Anda safety rear View Mirror. The locks and steering wheel design have become More or less Standard in the Industry but not seat belts. In 1956, the first year belts were ordered on 7 per cent of the Fords. The figure dropped to 2.4 per cent in 1957 and was Down to 2.3 per cent of 1959 Mode run. Everybody seems to be interest Din making it safer to ride in or drive a car. But there Are Many ideas on How Best to accomplish it. Who is the villain the Driver the car or the Highway safety aimed at Drivers the interstate Highway program for 41,000 Miles of limited Access roads in the next 10. Years is aimed at correcting much of the Highway problem. Charles a. Chayne vice presi Dent in charge of the general motors engineering staff recently wrote a paper on automotive de sign contributions to Highway safety in which he said further gains in crash injury Protection Are also to be anticipated although it would be wish Ful thinking to expect any major breakthrough in this area in the near future that would provide anything closely approaching immunity from serious injury in High Impact  the bulk of the safely campaigns is directed at the Drivers. Driver training has become compulsory in some Public schools. License examinations have been stiffened. So has Law enforcement. Retired editor Dies Olean  Up Henry Roe Helsby retired editor of the Olean times Herald and a Newspaperman for More than half a Century died in his Home Here. He was 73. Hair raising Art Brothers paleface on Capitol Hill by North american newspaper Alliance Washington the death whoop is still raising the hair of some of the country s Mosic red blooded Pale faces congressmen. Death whoop is the title of an Oil painting by Seth Eastman. It shows and Londian standing Erec and holding at Arm s length the Scalp of a White Man. Sprawling at his feet is the hairless White Man at an Angle so that the Are once covered by his Scalp is plainly visible. The portrayal rendered by the artist on commission from the fed eral government hangs in the committee room of the House com Mittee on Interior and insular affairs. And As has happened in the past there Are those who would like to give the picture Back to the indians. Demo con Rolback during the Long years of straight democratic control of con Gress recalls rep. Walter Rogers a Tex the picture was display Din the room in such a Way that the minority members always looked straight at it. The republicans complained. Nothing happened until the gop won control of the government and the death  the party promptly swung the painting around to the other Side of the committee room so that it would stare at the democratic members. Some six years ago it was pointed out to the committee that the group now was dealing with civilized indians and that the picture cast a bad Light on the peaceful red men. . Treasury preparing income tax crackdown on americans living abroad Washington up the . Is preparing a new crackdown on american tax cheaters living abroad. The move is a result of an amendment last year to he 1954 internal Revenue code requiring persons working abroad to file income tax returns even if they Are exempt from paying taxes. The internal Revenue service estimates a half million americans abroad May to affected by the Law. Most of these persons were to have filed returns for the first Tim before last june 15. The irs is now scanning these returns to see whether the persons Ike coaches David holes out in nine Gettysburg a. A righthand like this said president Eisenhower. Grandson David was getting Alesson from one of the More prominent golfers of the nation. But either something was wrong with the coaching or the execution. David promptly swatted the Ball off to the right of the Green. Or maybe it s just that David lets it be known that he likes baseball better than Golf. Early Start the president and his 11-year old grandson were up Early Fin starting nine holes at the Gettys Burg country club by 7 40 am. It appeared As if the youngster who looks More and More like his Grandfather As he grows older had borrowed a Straw Bat from the chief executive. Anyway he was wearing a Straw embellished with a Brown spiral the same Type the president had worn on the links on several occasions. Or. Eisenhower was in Tan Slacks and sports shirt while David supplied High visibility along the fairways with a Brig tred shirt and Gray Slacks. Good Star both got off fairly decent drives and then set out David was at the Helm of or. Eisenhower s Blu electric Golf cart. Starting on the ninth Hole he president was Down the Middle with his tee shot and five Yards off the Green with his second. Fie was on in three but needed two putt for a bogey five on the 410-Yard Hole. David s third shot was 20 Yards off the Green. Or. Eisenhower came Over picked out an Iron and showed David How to use it with right hand like  David s Effort after the coaching veered off to the right a few feet off the Green. More instructions keep your head Down the president instructed As David sized up the next shot. Don t look  went wrong there too. Take it Over or. Eisenhower suggested. Hit behind it.  grandpa demonstrated , David holed out in nine. Minorities housing aide Washington up Federal housing administrator Norman p. Mason has appointed George w. Snowden a negro As his assistant to improve service to minority groups. Former Scottsboro boy slays wide kills self new York a Cpd Arthurle Roy Wright 42, who fatally shot his wife and then committed Sui cide has been identified As one of the nine Scottsboro negro boys who escaped the electric chair in the 1930s. Police said Wright was identified As the youngest of the Scottsboro boys by his brother James an unemployed construction worker. He said he would notify their Mother in Tennessee and arrange for her to attend the funeral Here. Wright a merchant Seaman killed his wife Kathleen 36, in their Harlem apartment after an argument in which he accused her of being unfaithful police said. He then shot himself and was found dead on the floor with the gun and an open Bible at his Side Wright wag 14 when he figured in the sensational Scottsboro Case which erupted in March 1931. Two White girls charged they were the victims of a gang assault in a freight train at Scottsboro Ala. The supreme court twice re versed death sentences for Wright and the other defendants. Charges against Wright and four others who maintained their innocence finally were dropped in 1937. The other four were sentenced to Pris on terms. Living abroad qualify to be exempt from paying . Income taxes. Up to now the government practically had to accept the individual s Deci Sion that he was exempt from taxes. The new Law strengthens the Treasury in its policing Powers. Revenue officials said it is to Early to toll How Many will be caught cheating or How much Money is involved. To be completely exempt from paying lures on income earned abroad a . Citizen must be Liv ing in Aon Lher country with the intention of remaining indefinite. In addition the Only income which is exempt is that received for personal services. Income on investments is still subject to .taxes. If a person is working abroad on an assignment wit h the intention of eventually returning to the ., the Rule is slightly different. He May claim a tax exemption for up to $20,000 of his income if he has been living abroad for 17 out of the previous 18 consecutive months. Neither exemption applies to government or military personnel on assignment overseas. Both of these groups must file ret urns and pay taxes As though they we reliving in the . No one is subject to taxes for both the . And the country in which he is living. Any taxes paid to a foreign country can be subtracted from what the person owe Uncle Sam. The new Law is expected to be especially helpful in turning up people who have been evading taxes Over the past several years. A Treasury official said that if a return filed this year shows that a person abroad should have been but was not paying taxes All along his past record will be examined  in such tax evasion cases the official emphasized would to on a Case by Case basis with the government probably go ing after Only the big Lime evaders. The Treasury can prosecute Mackany number of years statute of limitation apply filed. When no return since thedoes not has been $14000 lost aboard train Liberty  Up a mail Pouch containing $142,000 in cur Rency has disappeared on a 100 mile train run it was disclosed Joseph Fersch president of the Sullivan county Bank in Liberty said the Money was sent from Here to the Federal Reserve Bank in new York by registered mail for Deposit on aug. 6. But officials of the Bank in new York confirmed that it never arrived. Fersch said the Money apparently disappeared after it was put on the train at Liberty but before the train reached Hoboken n.j., whereas armoured truck was to have taken the Money to new York. It was missing when the train arrived at Hoboken. Fersch said the Money was in a variety of denominations from $5 to $100 Bills. The Bank has no record of the serial number of the ills