European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 28, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday augut 28, 1959 stars and stripes from House of screwdriver . Offers to sell Russ goods displayed at fair Washington a the . Has offered to let. The russians buy a vast array of products displayed at the american National exhibition in Moscow from their . Manufacturers. The items Range from a House to a screwdriver. Secretary of Commerce Frederick h. Mueller described the offer Asa Goodwill gesture. Such a Sale presumably also would be Good business for Uncle Sam. It would save the Cost of  goods Back to the . The . Offer covers about 1,800american-made items including the $200,000 closed Clr Cut color Tunit before which vice president Richard m. Nixon and Premier Nikita Khrushchev last month held their Impromptu debate on the cold War. Also on the list is the $13,000prefabricated House which the rus sians claim is much better than most americans can afford. Mueller said the . Would be pleased if the russian people get a Chance to own and use american goods they saw at the  1 000 items covered by the offer normally would require .export licenses before they could be sold to the  said these goods in this Case can be sold without License if american manufacturers and the soviet government can make the necessary arrangements. Other items offered include Al equipment in a Model Kitchen Dis play Home furnishings hand an portable tools radios a Complete Home workshop i i equipment pleasure boats sporting goods of fice equipment farm machinery automobiles photographic equip ment motion pictures in conditioners and fashionable american clothing. The Commerce department Saidt also has authorized disposal of a heart lung machine which takeover the function of the heart Dur ing a cardiac operation. This machine will not be sold however. It  donated to the russians bythe my Ionedes Hospital of Brook Lyn. Legion stalls on changing racial Rule Minneapolis Minn. Up the National convention of the american legion has refused to drop the White Only membership restriction in its honorary 40 and 8society. Instead the delegates ordered negotiations to Settle the. Touchy racial Issue. The drive to take the Whit Only clause out of the Constitution Minneapolis up John hobble 41-year-old Farmer an loan official from Liberal kan., was elected commander of the 40 and 8. Elected assistant com Manders were Sam Friedman Memphis Tenn. Fred rarity de troit Archie Rouleau Auburn me or. John o. Firth Mori Mouth 111. Reginald c. While Charlestown w.va., and Henry Odom. Meridian miss. Of the Honor and jesting society was led by delegates from Alaska Hawaii and California. The Voiture Post at Santa Clara Calif., recently lost its charter after it inducted Gerald Lee an sex officer from san Jose Calif., into its 40 and 8 group. Lee is of Chi Nese descent. Move Defeated the convention delegates by a1,650-1.388 Roll Call vote rejected an alaskan Resolution to immediately end discrimination in the 40 and 8. The delegates by a voice vote then adopted a proposal requiring the legion and 40 and 8 officials to meet and Settle the Issue. Earlier the convention has adopted a Resolution which branded the White Only clause in the 40 and 8 Constitution  member of the committee which had introduced that Resolution said it was a Clear  the committee member who re fused to be identified said if the Issue in t settled by i960, the legion convention probably would withdraw its recognition of the 40 and 8. Husband held As wife Dies under car wheels Ontario Calif. A an air Craft worker pushed his wife from an Auto during an argument an then drove Back and Forth Over her crumpled body police . Barbara Heisel 24, Mother of four was dead on arrival at Hospital. Robert Heisel 25, was booked on suspicion of murder. Attending air Force symposium Cope s chief denies having vote blacklist Washington up the retired air Force Gen James h. Doolittle left was among1 the dignitaries attending the ballistic missile and space symposium in los Angeles. Other included left to right assistant Secretary of air Force Joseph w. Charyk t. Keith Glennan administrator of the National aeronautics an space Agency Charles h. Terhune jr., vice commander of the Nasa missile division and Charles Morrow of the space technological laboratories. United press International photo Boeing blames politics new Jork for Sharp jump for criticism of 707 new York a a Boeing air plane co. Spokesman blamed politics for much of the criticism of the 707 Jet airliners. Obviously nettled Over a rash of publicity which followed several emergency landings the Boeing of fice Here called a news conference to explain the reasons for them. Most of the correspondents rep resented the British press. Boeing has orders to deliver 15 707 Type planes to the British overseas air ways corp. A. M. Johnson chief flight test Engineer said the 707 had been made a political football by som persons. Perhaps it s the penalty for be ing  he said. Those who Are demanding the grounding of the707 do not have the facts. Small incidents Are being  s not a safety Issue at  Johnson said the company is on schedule in the manufacture of the clerical right not to testify on confidences asked in Bills Washington a clergy men in Federal courts would be allowed to withhold information Given in Confidence during ministerial duties under legislation introduced by sen. Kenneth b. Keat ing ,. The privilege would be granted in District of Columbia courts by a House passed Bill now before the Senate. Keating s amendment to the measure would extend the clergymen s privilege of withhold ing confidential information to All Federal  of clergymen on private communications would be prohibited unless the persons concerned consented to testify. / 707 for Boac. The first of 15 Issue to be delivered in december. All will have Rolls Royce Conway engines. Johnson said the 53 jets which have been delivered so far to com Mercial airlines have Clown from20 million to 25 million Miles and have had less trouble than anyplace produced in the past. 4 killed 3 injured in toll Road crash Elkhart ind up four persons were killed and three injured one critically when a car went out of control on the Indiana toll Road careened across a divid ing ditch and crashed head on into another Auto. One of the dead was Bernic Sharrigan 56, of Highland Park mich., Driver of the out of control car. Police said her car weaved wildly past five cars forcing four of them off the Road then zigzagged across the divider an slammed into an Auto driven by Christine wolfed. 18, of Fostoria Ohio. Killed in the Wolfelt Auto wer Christine s Mother mrs. Agnes Wolfelt 45, and Carl Fieritz 57,and his wife Thelma 59, of Tiffin Ohio. Mrs. Fieritz was mrs. Wol Felt s sister. Christine was reported in serious condition and her father Herman. 46, was injured critically. Her brother Danny 5, was fair. Iii Russ classes Albany. . Up the slate education department has reported it expects a marked in crease next year in the number of Public High schools offering language courses in elementary russian. Thirteen schools gave courses inthe russian language last year the department said. For most of themis was the first year such courses were offered. The department said it did not have figures on the number of students enrolled in the courses. Car crash kills m set Camp drum . Up m sgt Alfred Williams 41, of Union Beach n.j., was killed when the car he was operating crashed into a t Roe. Williams was a reservist in training Here with the102cl armoured cavalry. Director of the Al Cio s political department has denied he com piles a blacklist of congressmen on the basis of their voting rec ords. James l. Mcdevitt head of the federation s committee on political education Cope said however Cope will continue to publish tabulations of How senators an House members Vole on key is sues. He made the statements in Aletter to rep. John Dent a a printed in the current edition of Ope s political memo. Contains Roll Cal the same Issue contained the Complete House Roll Call on initial passage of the Landrum Griffi labor Reform Bill. The measure was bitterly condemned by thearl Cio As anti labor. In a preface to the Roll Call Cope disclosed 16 of the 181 House i members endorsed by Cope in last fall s election voted against labor and for the Bill in the key 229-201 vote. I if 14 of the 16 had voted the other Way the Bill would have been killed Cope noted. It said Only four of 52 freshman congressmen who had Cope backing Brewster Brock Downing and Johnson voted for the Bill. Dent had written Mcdevitt task about press reports that the Al Cio political Arm has pre pared a blacklist on the basis of a Senate vote on tax Reform proposals. Mcdevitt s replying his reply Mcdevitt said the reports were based on an article Ina previous Issue of the Cope news letter detailing which senators voted in favor of or against propos als designed to close tax loopholes. To say that this reporting of vote constitutes a blacklist is the most arrant nonsense Mcdevit wrote Dent. I can Tell you categorically an without qualification that Cope  blacklist or purge list or anything that remotely resemble these items he added. It never has had and so Long As i am it director never will  Cope for several years has distributed to local Al Cio organizations a list of right and wrong votes by congressmen Onkey issues. Boycott Issue bogs labor control talks Washington a Senate House conferees on the labor control Bill have bogged Down on the Issue of secondary Boycotts taking some of the glow off Hopes Lor a Quick Compromise  John f. Kennedy . Reported some sticking Points had developed in the Boycott Issue one of the three chief areas of Dif Ference Between the House and Senate , who cosponsored the Senate Bill said he believed i would be possible to work out compromises on the other two main issues organizational picket ing and no mans land cases although no final votes were taken. Conversion to vapor lights sought for new York City new York up plans have been put Forth for a multimillion Dollar system of Mercury vapor lights in the City. The department of water Supply Gas and electricity said the con version to vapor lights would re quire six years to Complete an would Cost $64 million. Commissioner Armand d Angelo said he City would save almost half million dollars the first year because of Low Energy consumption. He predicted the new Light Ning would Aid in cutting crime and traffic accidents. D Angelo asked the City plan Ning commission for $10,690,000 in the 1960 capital budget for the initial conversion. If approved the commissioner said the system would be installed first in areas with High Crim rates