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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday Augu 23, the stars and strip i Page Congress Unity. Says fight on to mount lags Washington up a con Gressional s u b c o m m 111 e e has charged that.,the. Administration was lagging the Dom Baing radio Active fallout Hazard produced by nuclear tests.1a report by the House Senate radiation subcommittee suggested that if instruments can be developed to get information Back to Earth nuclear tests might be conducted at distances Halfway to the Moon or farther to avoid hazards. It advocated better staffing in the atomic Energy commission s biology and Medicine division More use of other agencies and greater attention to radiation i milk the hot spot problem in localities where fallout is usually intense. Rate of testing. While stating that artificial contamination of the atmosphere so far was Small compared to natural sources of radioactivity the sub committee noted that until this year the rate of testing has been sharply upward. Contamination in 1957-58 exceeded that for. All previous years. It is generally agreed the report said that in considering acceptable radiation exposure limits. The Best Assumption is. That any dose however Small produces some biological effect and that this effect  Law says 2 senators on political vendetta Ike names 5 in delegates Washington a president Eisenhower nominated five  representatives and five alternates to the coming session of the Gen eral Assembly of the United nations. Their terms would be for no longer than . 31, 1959. The i representatives Are Henry Cabot Lodge present  to the in rep. Jame g. Fulton a a rep. Clement Zablocki a wis Walter s. Robertson of Virginia a former assistant Secretary of state and George Meany president of the Al Cio. The following were nominated to be alternates. Virgil m. Hancher president of the state University of Iowa Charles w. Anderson jr., Louis Ville ky., lawyer Erie Cocke jr.,of Dawson ga., vice president  Delta air lines mrs. Oswald , new York a Veteran in official and Harold Riegelman new York lawyer. Washington a the United Auto workers Law Union has accused two re publican senators of waging a political vendetta against the Law and its president Walter Reuther As a. Means of winning re election next  Conway administrative assistant to Reuther and Joseph l. Rauh jr., the Law Washington counsel levelled the charge at of Sens. Karl e. Mundt of South Dakota Fri to Gertio  said that am tubers of the sen ate Racket committee Mundt and Curtis were making the Law the victim of a political  he said the two Sena were steering the course of Hie  hearings which Conway. Labelled the Kickoff for their 1960 re election  of the Rauh Conway statements Curtis retorted this is Art inquiry for facts and the facts developed can speak for them  said that when the facts Are in will be the appropriate time to say whether the practices disclosed Are  Mundt said that As of now there is Evi Dence that Law members were subjected to taxation without representation by use of some of their dues payments for political purposes. The Law denies  and Rauh spoke at a news con Ference after the rackets committee had recessed until wednesday its preliminary Public hearings on the Auto  complained about being unable to get their Side of the Story into the com Mittee record. Conway described the news conference As the Only Way the Law has to defend itself against charges he said Are  rackets group is conducting what is billed As a preliminary study intended to he pit decide whether it should go into a full scale probe. Rebel paratroopers fall into Laos army hands communist rebel paratroopers Are roped to Gether by their laotian army captors after they were seized in Northern a of. New fighting has reportedly broken out in the area. A photo italian american group picks . For 61 meet Boston up the sons of Italy in America announced Washington ., would be the site for their next convention in 19g1. The order has opened its 26thnational biennial convention Here. Bull up missiles to join 6th Fleet Carrier Squadron Washington is the Navy s newest operational guided missile the Bull up will join the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean it was announced Here. Attack so 34 the first Squadron in the Atlantic Fleet to be equipped with the new air to surface weapon designed for close support of ground operations is aboard the Carrier Saratoga in route to the Mediterranean the Navy said. The Carrier Lexington deployed with the 7th Fleet in the Pacific earlier this year with attack sq212 on Board is also equipped with Bull  the Navy noted. Developed by Martin for use by both the Navy and air Force the missile weighs 571 pounds and misdirected to the target by pilots us ing a simple radio command guid Ance system. Described by the Navy As extremely accurate Bull up is the Only missile of its Type now operational with any service the Navy pointed out. Contempt of Congress sentence of University teacher upheld Cincinnati Ohio up the . Sixth circuit court of appeals has upheld the contempt of con Gress conviction of a University of Michigan professor who refused to answer the questions of a House in american activities subcommittee. Prof. Horace c. Davis 33, told the subcommittee in May 1954 Thad no right to inquire into his political  court refused to alter his six month sentence to Federal Pris on and a $200 Fine. They were imposed in August 1957 by judge w. Wallace Kent of grand rapids Mich. Davis refused to answer 26 questions before the subcommittee. Some of them dealt with his under graduate activities at Harvard University and the publication of pamphlet attacking the House com Mittee s investigations. He also refused to say if he had been or was a communist party member. Nepal confirms tibetans have entered country Katmandu Nepal a the Nepal government has announced publicly that tibetan refugees have entered this Himalayan nation. The government also said it handmade representations to the Chi Nese communist government on the treatment of nepali traders in Tibet. The statement broke an official silence on the tibetan situation by Nepal whose Long Border with Tibet is virtually undefended. 550 refugees the official statement said 550refugees had crossed the Border since the chinese crushed the Lhasa uprising. They had been granted Asylum and some settled with relatives in Nepal the state ment added. An official source said More refugees still Are coming in and Are expected to continue arriving until Winter closes the High him Alaya passes. This bring the number of tibetans who have fled across the Southern Border since March to about 13,000. India hits granted Asylum to about 12,500 including some who crossed into the Indian protector ates of Sikkim and Bhutan As deltas India s Northeast Frontier Agency. In the last three weeks the Indian government has charged that chinese authorities in Tibet or toddler drowns in Washer Duarte Calif. Up eight Een month old Elsa Barney drowned after falling head first into an Idle washing machine while her Mother was hanging out the Wash. Obstructing Indian traders there by Banning usual currencies Indian complaints have receive what new Delhi considers unsatisfactory answers. The Nepal government statement said nepali traders also Are encountering obstructions. It said representations have been mad through Nepal s consulate general in Lhasa and by the nepali embassy in new Delhi to the communist chinese embassy there. For some time reports have been circulating in Katmandu of chinese troops attempting to exercise authority in a few areas on the nepali Side of the Border. Judge urges rally to bar integration Pine Bluff Ark. Up associate Justice Jim Johnson of the Arkansas supreme court told statewide segregationist rally to do what needs to be done to prevent integration of the Dollar Way school District next month. The eyes of Arkansas Are on you Johnson a staunch segregationist said. I m not going to stand Here and Tell you what needs to be  Are depending on you you know what needs to be done and we know you will see the heritage that needs to be passed on to you children will be Johnson said. Stadium rally caravans from South and East Arkansas arrived at the rally a Hestand stadium to help White residents of the school District just outside Pine Bluff protest desegregation. A petition presented to gov. Orval Faubus thursday asked him to use All Force at your com Mand to prevent illegal Federal court orders which Are forcing the District to accept three negro children in the formerly All White school sept. 8.aims Guthridge attorney for the capital citizens Council in Littlerock also spoke to the crowd of about 1,000. Much of his talk Wasan attack on the press. Reporter harassed Patrick j. Owens reporter forthe Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock said state police grabbed his notes twice to look at them. He said As he stood in a Tele phone Booth dictating his Story to his newspaper an unidentified Man ran up after the second state police Check and grabbed his notes then jumped into a car and sped from the scene. Square peas Hooters too Chicago up the National canned pea Council said it would like to see the development of a Square pea which won t slip off the Blade of a knife. Bee Tiam 8�, weds his Secretary 27 London api sir Thomas Beecham. Irascible 80-year-old clean of British conductors has disclosed that he has secretly married his 27-year-old Secre tary Shirley Hud son. The wedding sir Thomas third took place at civil ceremony in Zurich Switzer land aug. 10.nol a w o r d leaked out until Beecham placed a six line notice in the London daily Telegraph. It said simply sir Thomas Beecham and miss s.  marriage took place quietly on aug. 10 at Zurich Switzerland but Cham Between sir Thomas Beecham an miss Shirley  not even Beecham s closest associates knew of the wedding. But he had Given some clue. At a recent recording session with the Royal philharmonic orchestra Beecham recorded Handel s the great  then he and the new lady Beth hum asked out of the studio and vanished on their Honey Moon. They Are believed to be i Switzerland. Beecham s first wife was Utic Welles daughter of a new York doctor. The marriage which took place in 1903, was dissolved in 1943.in the same year he married Betty Humby a famous concert pianist. She died in september 1958 As her husband was conducting it series of concerts in Buenos Aires  
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