European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday August 29, the stars and stripes Union group asks probe of business. Washington a the machinists Union s executive Council has demanded that Congress investigate reports of business corruption. The1 Union group said this would make labor corruption look Pale by comparison. The Council adopted a Resolution and sent it to All members of con Gress saying that five years of investigating Cor labor corruption have shown that about $10 Mil lion in Union funds were stolen Over a 15-year period. It charged that business corruption runs into billions annually and is far More prevalent than Union corruption. No vacuum it should be noted the coun cil s Resolution said that although some corruption has certainly been shown to exist in the american labor movement this corruption did not and could not existing a vacuum. It is in fact a part of a Pat Tern of corruption tha t is deeply rooted in the ethical deterioration of business and Industry in Amer Ica today. This deeper corruption of our business society is of course Well known to the Law makers and to the administration How in Power. It is therefore fitting that since they have used corruption As an excuse to legislate away the rights of Trade Union members and officers they should now undertake to investigate and Correct the greater corruption that exists inso Many other areas of our Sci Start the machinists Council said Congress should look deeply into such things As these the reported $5 billion which according to life Magazine nor Mally changes hands among businessmen and industrialists in the form of kickbacks payoffs and bribes every year. The $250 million which As matter of Public record has been deducted by employers As with holding taxes from wages of employees but which has never been turned Over to the United states Well known examples of tax evasion by corporate boards of directors who vote themselves Stock options Worth millions at the expense of stockholders and ultimately at the expense of All other 6 cities linked in to auction new York a closed circuit television company said $2 million Worth of government sur plus goods will be auctioned off oct. 7 on a six City circuit. Buyers in any of the cities new York Chicago Philadelphia bos ton St. Louis and Columbus Ohio can bid on the surplus items the Sale will take eight hours. Details were announced by Tele prompter corp., which is supervising the auction telecast for the government. The items for Sale will be Dis played at the Granite City 111. Army Engineer depot Shelby Ohio air Force depot and Phila cd Elohla naval shipyard. They will be shown on huge television screens in each of thesis cities. A bidder will raise a numbered paddle and the auction Eer in his City will notify a Chie auctioneer in new York who Wil recognize the bidder and get he bid via a two Way radio circuit among the items to be sold reconstruction and Road machinery generators trailers machine tools ice plants printing presses and clothing. Newest entries in Small car Field two of the newest of the Small cars Are the Crofton Bug above and t he Morris mini minor right. The Bug made by the Crofton Marine engine co., san Diego Calif., has a 35-hp Over head Cam engine of four cylinders the British motor corp. Mini minor has front wheel drive four Forward gears arid 110 rear Axle and reportedly will run up to 50 Miles on. A gallon of Gaso line. Up photo above boy 18, plunges to death in Cave As rope Breaks Chattanooga Tenn. Up an 18-year-old Chattanooga youth plummeted nearly 300 feet to his death into the mystery Hole Cave on Lookout Mountain near Here. The sheriff s office said the Vic Tim Joseph s. Shadden jr., was being lowered into the Cave with a rope by two companions. John Thompson 15, and Rick Stewart both of Chattanooga said they were lowering Shadden with an old rope when the rope sawed apart on a Sharp Rock. Thompson said Shadden had fashioned the old rope into a Sling seat and had fastened one end of the rope around a tree. They said Shadden had been lowered Only about 15 feet when he fell. Officers said Shadden fell about 75 feet to one level in the Cave bounced off of some Sharp rocks and then catapulted about 200 feet to another level. 2 killed 8 Hurt in. 2-car crash Dublin. A. Up two cars collided at the intersection of two county roads Here. Two women were killed and eight other per sons including five children were Hurt seriously. Thelma Hester 40. Driver of one car and her Mother mrs Gladys Hester 62, were dead on arrival at a Hospital Here. Paulette Simmons. 10, Savannah ga., was listed in very critical condition at another Hospital. Other children in serious condition were Braxton Starley 9, Dublin Herbert Mctyer 12 Dublin and Gary Simmons. 9, Savannah. The others injured were Bob morgan25, Jerry Hester 62, Lamar Stew Art 58, and Harvey Lee Padgett,13, All of Dublin is sergeant9s mine As Rich As claimed or a fiction Merced Calif. Up is one of the world s richest Mercury mines located somewhere in the new 49th state or is the alas Kan Bonanza just another tale fan old prospector s wife an air Force sergeant claims he inherited the mine from a woman he befriended and he s firmly con Vinced it s Worth As much As $40 million. T sgt Thomas l. Howlett 28, said he investigated the mine personally and had it appraised by experts. He said he mailed his claim to the . Commissioner in cold Bay Alaska and received confirmation that it was received. Considerable magnitude Don Eberlein of the . Interior department s geological sur vey Section in san Francisco said he had not heard of a Mercury mine of this magnitude in Alaska. There is one that produce Mercury near flee mute Alaska he said. The . Commissioner at cold Bay confirmed that Howlett filed six claims in the Chignik Region but said the papers were returned to the sergeant because they were not in duplicate. The commissioner said the papers will be backdated to the original filing Date aug. 8, when they Are returned in duplicate. Information on the exact location will be a matter of Public record when the filing is completed. Family corporation Howlett who is stationed at Castle air Force base Calif., said he has formed a corporation owned by his family to develop the mine. The company includes his father a. B. Howlett of nor Folk a. The sergeant said he plans to return to Alaska in two weeks and Hopes to have the mine producing by next Spring. Howlett s enlistment in the air Force runs until 1965, senator offers sweeping plan on unification Washington up sen. Clair engled Calif has proposed full Pentagon unification which would eliminate the designation army Navy air Force and Marine corps. To said the defense department should be organized according to functions and missions. There should be at least a retaliatory striking Force a limited War Force a Continental defense and a Logis tic command he said. Efficient dictatorship the senator said the system of government in he . Is challenged by one of the most efficient examples of a dictatorship. . Supremacy in space is threat ened he said not by Lack of Talent but by Lack of skill in he offered two organizational proposals for action at once. The Pentagon s advanced research projects Agency is a fifth wheel and should be abolished he said. Civilian and military space pro Grams should be partially Consoli dated by creating a military applications division in the National. Aeronautics and space administration. May seek inquiry looking toward the goal of unification and the end of what he called the bureaucratic quagmire the senator proposed a three phase reorganization study under the jurisdiction of the Senate armed service s committee of which he is a member. He added that he May formally propose such an in Quiry later. Quoting liberally from critical comments by Gen Maxwell , retired army chief of staff vice adm Hyman g. Rickover Navy nuclear propulsion expert Gen Bernard Schriever the air Force missile chief and others who have criticized Pentagon Organiza Tion and budgeting procedures Engle said the resulting overlap Ping and. Duplication twists the line of command and slows the decision making process. It takes us As Long to plan to build a weapon As it takes the so Viet to plan and build it Engle said. Thief knows the Tri angles Chicago a the truck Driver went into a South Side shop for a cup of Coffee when he came out his truck containing 6,000 clean diapers was gone. Operators of the diaper Sei vice dispatched emergency packages to waiting customers. Piping travel bar contested Washington a court action has been begun by rep. Charles o. Porter Dore in an attempt to obtain a passport to visit red asked . District court Here for an injunction preventing Secretary of state Christian from refusing to Issue such a maintained in the com plaint filed by his attorneys that the state department has no right to withhold a passport to visit a country with which the . Is not at said at a news Confer ence that his main Legal Issue is separation of Powers whether the executive department has. The right to prevent a member of con Gress from entering another coun try. Union All burned up Over hot weather Issue Ladysmith wis. Up the Issue of whether a Man has to Wear a shirt to work on a hot Day sparked a bitter paper Mill strike Here people thought it was an inter Esting Little hot weather news item when some of the warm workers stripped to the Waist and the Peavey paper Mill ordered them to put their shirts Back on. But then 195 of 220 hourly workers went on an unauthorized strike in protest. Eight Days later the strike was affecting this entire Community of4,000. Bitterness has developed be tween the company and the Union both the Mill and employees feel the Pinch merchants say it s Hurt ing business and the pulp Wood Industry is Mill is continuing production of its toilet tissue Towel and Napkin products but on a limited basis with about 25 workers on the Job. The company said there have been numerous reports of employees being threatened with phys ical injuries property damage and loss of their jobs if they return to the Union denies the re , this is the time that the Peavey paper Mill buys pulp Wood which workers in the area have been cutting All summer. Now at least temporarily ther it no Market for it Here
