European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday August 30, \9s9 the stars and stripes Bird Man. Smiling confidently Otto Standke 71, arrives at mount Vernon . Cigar in Mouth Bird chasing kit in hand. Woman Given death penalty in slaying Cincinnati up mrs. Edythe Klumpp 41, was sentenced to the electric chair for the Mur Der of her love rival minutes after she changed her Story and accused her Lover of the slaying. Throughout her trial mrs. Klumpp insisted that she killed mrs. Louise Bergen in a struggle Over a gun during a quarrel about her relationship with mrs. Bergen s husband William. She said she tried to Burn the body the next night in an Effort to cover up the slaying. Her attorney William f. Hop Kins startled the courtroom by Reading a Long statement in which mrs. Klumpp accused Bergen of killing his wife during a struggle Over a pistol. Threats revealed the attorney said mrs. Klumpp did not accuse Bergen earlier be cause he had threatened her anther four children. The Blue eyed night school sew ing teacher sobbed As she listened to the judge sentence her to the electric chair. She had wept quietly while her attorney had read the Surprise statement to the court. Deputies hustled her from the courtroom to an elevator which took her to her cell on the seventh floor of the courthouse. To die dec. 15 the judge sentenced the blonde Divorcee to die in the Ohio electric chair in Columbus on dec. 15. If she is electrocuted in the Penitentiary in Columbus she will be the fourth woman to die in the big Stone prison. Her Story was a Complete turn about from her testimony during the june trial. At that time she maintained that she shot mrs. Bergen during a struggle for a pistol. I sex Navy Secretary says columnist s charges false Kimball denies influence won Polaris Job Washington up former Navy Secretary Dan Kimball has denied that he used influence at the Pentagon to get a big missile fuel contract for Aero Jet general corp which he now Heads As president. Kimball who told House investigators he was separating f i c Tion from fact said the charge by newspaper col u m n i s t Dre. Pearson and his kimba11 writing associate. Jack Anderson was totally untrue. He testified before a House armed services subcommittee investigating possible influence peddling on defens e contracts. Anderson claimed in testimony last week that Superior wire pulling by Kimball got Aero Jet a contract to provide solid fuels for the Navy s Polaris missile. If Kimball had not used his in fluence at the Pentagon Ander son said the contract would have been Thi Okol chemical corp. Kimball called the charges Noth ing More than innuendoes which Pearson and Anderson fabricate every so often when they have in Complete information on which to base their he said his company won the contract because we Are the Best in the business and we try to keep ahead of the Field at All we got the Polaris Job on that basis and no other he said. Kimball also denied claims by Anderson that i the Polaris has dropped farther behind schedule than any other priority missile be cause of engine failures. The facts Are he said that there have been 13 flight tests. And of the 26 motors involved in this two stage missile Only one failure in one motor has occurred that is attributed to the solid pro Pellant system he said. In three flight tests and possibly in a fourth one Aero Jet supplied components contributed to failure but it should be noted that these particular components did not exist prior to the Polaris program and were being flight tested for the first Kimball also struck Back at Loose allegations by Pearson to the effect that he doubled his holdings of general tire co. Stock while serving in top Navy posts during the Truman administration. Kimball was executive vice presi Dent of Aero Jet a general tire subsidiary before going with the Navy. He returned to the company in 1953. During the time he was in government service he said the com Pany s common Slock was split two for one. He said it was Soleim a corporate move and he had Noth ing to do with it. Adm William m. Fechteler re world War ii hero and former chief of naval operations also had been scheduled to testify be fore the subcommittee but his appearance was put off until tues Day. Fechteler now holds a �38,000-a year Job with general electric co., one of the nation s top defense con tractors. He also gets $12,168 a Yearin Navy retirement pay. Chairman f. Edward Hebert cd la said Fechteler s testimony next week will wind up Public hearings in the Long congressional investigation. He said the subcommittee then plans to Hammer out recommendations for new Laws covering the hiring of retired military officers by defense will be presented to Congress when it reconvenes in january. Bongos have City beat los Angeles a i went to the Gas House and saw a Bathtub in the Middle of the Roo m with a Man just sitting in it. Just sitting in it a. S. Roberts a conventional sort of Guy was telling the police com Mission Why he does t like the beatniks. Beat frs in Case you Don t dig the term Are a curious collection of Queerly dressed convention hat ers in full flight from the world and in fresh Pursuit of Art. The express themselves by flailing Bongo Drums and by painting and writing and sometimes apparently just by sitting in bathtubs. The police commission is holding a hearing to determine whether the beats should get an entertain ment License for an establishment called the Gas House one of their hangouts in the Beach Community of Venice. Many citizens Are appalled by the idea. Take mrs. Mabel Hardy who lives in an apartment building across from the Gas House. She complained of Bongo noises and said some beatnik has been parking a 1933 Hearse in front of her apart ment. A lot of us Are old and Don t . City taking no chances.with-, Rock v rollers Keyport . A would 3,000 Rock n Roll fans in this Community make a lot of work for the Keyport Rescue squad or could they help raise Money fora new ambulance the Rescue squad thought the latter so it invited Rock n Roll advocate Alan freed to appear with his showcase of but City officials feared that Reed s followers might prove too much for Keyport s 15-Man police Force and they asked the Squanto cancel the show. The squad complied. Feel very Good she said and that Hearse did t make us feel any another witness was Michael s. Kelly who said he posed As. A beatnik and visited the Gas House As an agent for the civic Union a civic improvement group. There was drinking going on he said. There were some juvenile drinking the beatniks assert Only Coffee and. Sweet cider Are served at their Haven but Kelly insisted there were stronger potions. How do you know it was wine he was asked. I tasted it he said. Kelly also said he saw nudes. How Long did you stay on this occasion he was asked. About l i months he replied. The audience in the hearing room _ about half beatnik and half Square broke up. Kelly later explained he thought he was asked How Long he had been spying for the outside world. Eric big daddy Nord a a foot 7-Inch, 300-Pounder who has been running the Gas House said Dur ing a recess in the hearing the world just can t stand the sound of Bongo Drums. Think of the Good that could be brought with Bongo Drums pounding out a message of peace. Bur people Are afraid of bongos. The sound of bongos would be better than the beep beep beep of another . Moon shot forecast in Early october Washington a look for another shot at the Moon sometime from oct. 2-4. Reliable sources report there will be an attempt to Send a 375-Pound american space probe in the Vicin Ity of the Moon and if All goes Well into an orbit around it. In its monthly swing around the Earth the Moon will be at its closest Point on oct. 4 when it will be about 220,000 Miles away. But even with the Best Sharp National guard tank taken on Joy ride Monrovia Calif. Up an m74 National guard tank was moved out into the Street when the armory floors were being re surfaced. Apparently someone could t resist the temptation Roget in and rumble away. The tank was recovered with a burned out engine a few hour Slater. Shooting by the rocketeer the space probe would take about 33 i hours to reach a Point 10,000 to20,000 Miles from the Moon conceivably the closest approach that might be Raade on this venture. When the Pioneer in space probe was launched in March it took 41 hours for it to reach its closest lunar approach37,000 Miles from the Moon As it sped past it into an orbit around the Sun. Thus the new probe May be launched As Early As oct. 2 in order to try to make a close rendezvous with the Moon on oct. 4. However if there Are technicolor other delays in the launching there would be a couple of Days leeway when the Moon still would be relatively close to the Earth. Watch those toadstools new York up the new school in Greenwich Village announced that because of Many re quests a course in mushroom identification had been added to the fall curriculum. House passes Bill prompting Auto safety devices Washington up the House has passed a Bill to encourage car manufacturers to in clude government adopted safety equipment on All new cars. The Bill which goes to the sen ate would require the Commerce department to establish safety standards for All new government purchased automobiles. It was opposed by the department. Before approving the Bill by voice vote the House rejected 265 j2s, a motion by rep. John b. Ben Nett a Mich to Send the Bill Back to committee Bennett had denounced the Bill As dictatorial legislation that would put the Federal govern ment in the business of Engineer ing and designing he referred to Hopes of sponsors that car makers would follow the government s Lead and include such safety devices on new automobiles. Rep Walter Rogers a Tex had criticized the measure As a promotional scheme he said it would permit car makers and accessory dealers to reap Large profits by Selling the government All kinds of safety both charges were denied Byre Kenneth a. Roberts a Al chairman of a House Commerce subcommittee which recommended the Bill. He said the Bill was Worth while if it resulted in saving Only one life. The Commerce department would be required to make a study of safety devices through its Bureau of standards. Those adopted by the department would become mandatory one year and 90 Days after enactment of the Law. The standards could include such devices a s safety belts crash proof dash panels and safety steering wheels in All passenger carrying Federal vehicles. The standards would not apply to combat vehicles or to cars leased by the government they would apply to replacement vehicles for the Federal govern ment s Fleet of about 40,000 sedans and 5,700 station wagons. Ike vetoes .2 billion water Bill Washington a the White House has announced that president Eisenhower has vetoed a $1,206,000,000 water project Money Bill. He objected to the Bill s pro vision Cor 67 unbudgeted projects the presidential action was Dis closed in a message to the House. The White House said it was one of or. Eisenhower s last official actions before he left for Europe. The Bill would have provided $30 million More than the president re Quested. The Hulk of the Money would have gone to the army engineers and reclamation Bureau to plan build and maintain flood control navigation p Ower. Beach erosion and reclamation projects. Discussion of possibilities of overriding the veto of the big Bill with its scores of purely local construction jobs immediately arose. Speaker Sam Rayburn a Tex said an Effort would be made in the House wednesday to override the veto. Fowls out. But the Bird Man from great Bend Kan. Failed in his efforts to rid mount Vernon of Pesky starlings. He clanged his aluminium Pancake flippers with gusto he sounded the chime around his neck All to no Avail the City will pay him $4,000 if he succeeds but so far he s Only driven the Birds a Block away. Otto says he in t giving up. A
