European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Psf to 6 the stars and stripes saturday August a 1959 congressman says 8 firms cheating . Washington up a demo cratic congressman accused eight aircraft companies of being self ish mercenary and irresponsible in refusing to refund $105 million in excess profits to the govern . Alfred e. Santangelo of new York told the House in a speech that the Money belongs to the people of the United states but the defense firms won t give it up. Perhaps some of the retired military who Are directors of these defense contractors could use their influence to convince their business colleagues who made Mil Lions of dollars in excess profits to repay the United states govern ment he  charged that the group was led by North Ameri c4n aviation  which made $29 million of excess profits from 1953 through 1955 and refuses  congressman said the other companies were Boeing $27.5 Mil lion Fairchild engine & air plane $2 million Lockheed $12 million Martin $9.7 million Tempco air Craft $4.2 million Douglas $12 million and Grumman $8.5 million. Santangelo said his figures Cov ered Only the years from 1953 through 1955. The totals for the period since then he said have not been determined As yet. Most Likely he said they will run into the hundreds of  Santangelo said other aircraft manufacturers have demonstrate their patriotism and unselfish Atti tude by refunding excess profit when the Federal renegotiation Board made a determination. He said this group included Bell air Craft Mcdonnell Northrop Chance Vought con Vair and re Public aviation. Actor arrested on gun count Bristol township a. A actor Michael o Shea was arrested Here after allegedly displaying a pistol in defense of his actress wife Virginia Mayo during an argument Over the air condition ing in a restaurant . Glenn w. Bricker a Levit town physician preferred firearms charges against o Shea before Justice of the peace John Melvin. O Shea and miss Mayo were lunching at a restaurant Here. They had just completed a week Srun in Tunnel of love at the Bristol playhouse and were pre paring to leave for Newport r.  miss Mayo Felt cold and attempted to adjust the thermostat to raise the temperature. Bricker seated at a nearby table suggested that miss Mayo have one of the waitresses adjust it. Miss Mayo resented the intrusion by Bricker who is also abit player and one word led to another. Then o Shea stepped in. Bricker told Chapin that o Shea pulled open his coat and displayed pistol and a set of Handcuffs. O Shea was Given a hearing be fore Melvin and released in his own recognizance for a further hearing. Scientists soy element trapped in rocks Moon pioneers probably to make own oxygen by Thomas b. Henry North american Nevis paper Alliance Washington Pioneer Moon men probably will be Able to make their own oxygen. This Gas essential to All higher life As known on Earth disappeared from the surface of the Earth s cold satellite Many millions of years ago. With sufficient Power How Ever it can be extracted from Moon rocks. This is the conclusion of Carlo. Kiess and k. Lassovsky George town University astronomers in a report on lunar conditions prepare for the . Air Force for future Moon voyages. Also they report the satellite in All probability has some sort of atmosphere of its own made up of. Heavy gases and less than one trillionth As dense As the Eartte s atmosphere. Anything like Terres trial air composed of Hydrogen and oxygen must Long since have escaped into space they say but dense gases must continuously Rise from eruptions and leakage from the rocks. Only the very heavy gases can persist very  first Moon men says the re port will easily be Able to p to vide for themselves in underground shelters. The temperature is expected to be just about the same As in deep caves under the sur face of our Earth. The chemical compounds of Many rocks contain lots of oxygen which can be liberated Given enough Power. The Power used t6 run the Moon base will be atomic Power the most compact Type of fuel that can be sent in rocket ships from the Homeland. On the other hand Hydrogen is probably completely unavailable on the Moon so that water and liquid Hydrogen for further rocket flights will have to be brought from Earth and stored in underground  several astronomical observation recently Point to the probable exis tence of a lunar v atmosphere a astronomers say. At times Well de fined mists have been seen an there Are evidences of Clouds arid Twilight. Cute Competition from California cutting a right shapely figure Down Florida Way these Days at Cypress gardens is a Gal named Judy Hoyer a resident of a state the Florida chamber of Commerce does t recognize namely California. Judy of Fresno will take part in the National water ski tournament to be held at Laconia . United press International photo Radium watch Painter Dies of 1920 poisoning Chicago a another Mem Ber of the so called society of the living dead that doomed group of women who in the 1920s painted Radium on watch dials is dead. Mrs. Beatrice Workman 54, of suburban Park Ridge died from Radium poisoning. Her husband Thomas 57, told newsmen his wife had suffered from effects of the Radium Poison ing for 30 years. Before her marriage in 1923,  was one of a group of girls working at the Radium dial co. In Ottawa 111. It was their Job to paint the numbers on watch faces with a Radium base paint so the dial would glow in the dark to keep the bristles pointed the girls often licked the brushes wit their tongues before dipping them in a Radium Salt solution. Many complained of a Salt taste. The supervisor told them not to mind it. They did t know it but they were slowly being  than 100 girls working in four Radium painting watch dial companies in the . Were affected. The atomic Energy commis Sion made an elaborate study of those who were  Ottawa group totalled about 25 girls. How Many still survive is not known. Speedy Stork overtakes another Airliner new York a High Hying storks Are catching up with air flies with increasing frequency. A baby was born aboard an East Ern air lines plane in route from puerto Rico to new York just Aday after twins were born on a fan american world airways plane flying from London to new York via Gander Newfoundland birth on the Eastern airline pointed up an announcement the line had issued Only a couple of hours earlier. It said it was stepping up training of its flight attendants in obstetrical Aid. The latest birth was the eighth on an easter plane Eastern said it would place new stress on obstetrical Aid at its training school for stewardesses a Miami and give refresher courses annually to All us flight attend ants. The birth on the puerto Rico new York flight came two hours after the plane left san Juan a radio Telephone message from the Pilot Captain j. H. Macgregory said the Mother and child were doing Well. Stewardesses Juanita Hill of Clemmons n.c., and Julie Bozzelli of Akron Ohio assisted the Mother. The Mother s name and address were not immediately available v s. $7.5 million tar get for foreign promoters by David Barnett North american newspaper Alliance Washington foreign governments Are pumping More than $7.5 million a year into the .to buy american Good will and to lure . Tourists and custom ers. Attorney general William Rogers in a report to Congress disclosed 55 foreign government information and tourist offices rep resenting 34 different countries Are beating publicity Drums inthe . Last year the report showed the offices spent $7,605,263 and employed 637 persons. These offices Rogers said Are the source of the. Greatest volume of political propaganda disseminated the United  within group oks plan for huge atom smasher Washington a the Senate House atomic Energy com Mittee said it would Send to con Gress next week a Bill authorizing $105 million for the world s largest atom  two mile Long linear Electron accelerator is to be built at Stan Ford University Palo Alto Calif. President Eisenhower announce plans last May to build the atom smasher As an important tool i Basic atomic research. The president submitted the re quest for the authorization soon after his speech but the joint com Mittee held it up for a detailed  is estimated the accelerator will take about six years to build. At present Russia has the largest atom smasher. It is in operation at Duna near Moscow. Ike reports progression atoms for peace Washington up president Eisenhower has reported to con Gress that the International atomic Agency made significant though modest Progress last year in its program to promote peaceful us of atomic Energy. He submitted to Congress the second annual report on this coun try s participation in the Agency covering the year 1958. The Agency made major strides last year toward completing its organization Al Structure the report said. The Agency achieved a significant though modest amount of Progress in establishing its substantive program of bringing the benefits of the peaceful uses of atomic Energy to the Peoples of its members or. Eisenhower re ported. He referred particularly to the increased attention Given to the needs of less developed  the report said that by the endow 1958 the Agency had received 25 requests for technical assistance from 18 members the total expenditures As com piled by the department from re ports of foreign agencies required under the foreign agents registration act showed an increase of some $400,000 in a year. Because the soviet bloc countries do not maintain official govern ment information or tourist offices expenditures of the communist countries Are not included in the total. The government s file of registered foreign agents How Ever shows 32 companies or individuals listed As agents in the . Of the soviet Union alone. Most of the soviet registrants Are listed As agents of i tourist the russian travel Agency. Main commercial distribution Point for communist propaganda is the four continent Book corp. An imported publications and products w h i c h Are registered a agents of the All Union soviet Book Combine in Moscow. Doubles in year each of five offices represent ing foreign countries almost doubled their expenditures during the past year the report notes. They wer the Arab information Bureau the australian news and information Bureau the austrian state tourist department the Ber Muda Trade development Boarland the Japan tourist Assn. The British Are by far the big Gest open spenders in the  British information services reported expenditures of $1,027,135last year the British travel Assn. $798,817, and the British Broad casting corp., $265,227. Man who plotted Crosby kidnapping sentenced in theft los Angeles up Eugene Thome Kling 41, who once admitted planning to Kidnap the wife of Bing Crosby has been sentenced to life imprisonment for a $25,000 supermarket robbery. Superior judge Clement d. Nye handed Down the sentence after Kling pleaded guilty to one count of kidnapping for the purpose of robbery and one count of Rob Bery. Kling admitted robbing the Market in nearby Lakewood on May 30, 1958, with Wilburn e. Davison 49, now serving a sen tence of from five years to life in Alcatraz prison. The defendant confessed his planto Kidnap Kathy Grant for ran som when he was arrested three months ago in Tampa. Fla. Just a Little Nipper Pittsburgh a a Pitts Burgh housewife put a robber twice her size to flight. The robber grabbed mrs. Clara b e r v i n slammed his hand Over her Mouth and demanded $5. She Sank her choppers in Hie hand and off he ran