European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 9, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May the stars and stripes Page. I ii it w. Taro st xes soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov Ruji Echt on Dummy spaceman in the National aeronautics and display at the Seattle world1 fair. A photo Freeman says Estes fraud Case ballooned All out of proportion Washington a Secretary of agriculture Orville a Freeman said the Billie sol Estes Case and its connection with his department is being ballooned All out of proportion to us  told a news conference that despite All that had been written and said about the Case the facts boil Down to this three department employees have been accused of receiving gifts from Estes a West Texas financier under fraud indictment but that Estes got no favors in return. Freeman said that the manner in which the department has handled the controversial Cotton acreage allotments held by Estes has been such thai eates might Well complain that he has been sharply dealt  big turnout Freeman s news conference brought a big turnout of newsmen Many of whom do not regularly cover the department. The Secre tary had promised to answer All questions relating to the Estes affair. Present were a number of top Freeman aides. Including under Secretary of agriculture Charles s. Murphy. There have been demands from Republican Congress members for a sweeping investigation of Eslos relations with the agriculture department. Estes at 35, Hud built a West Texas business Empire involving be in Ait saw no god or Angels soviet cosmonaut Thow said he saw no Dumig his 17 orbit. Ton Caine up at b news at the Seattle world the 38 hour he spent d changed Obj philos of thinking. People a there is a god the 2t-Yar-old soviet lied by to toy travel Tolje Earth a Day Long x _ and did t be him. God or Angels our first Orbital flight bin no god helped build the tic feet wry made i Dott believe in god. It believe in Man his strength his possibilities and Hia  Titov expounded on his materialistic Faith after he and his wife had spent nearly two hours tour ing the , science exhibit to the fair. They were personally Eon ducted by or. Athelstan Spilhaus. Federal commissioner of the exhibit. Takes us. Space ride Titov took a simulated trip a billion billion Miles into outer space in the science Pavilion s space Aii Uxa but said the moving picture did not depict the return to Earth the Way he saw it when he finished Jib space flight. I could t Aee Alt of the Earth a you would from outer space tie Caid. The height of my capsule was lower and the Angle of the Earth s dimension different Titov praised the ?6 million u, display saying he liked it very much and Felt it was some thing everyone should be. He was particularly interested in a conv sleeping illness deaths in Florida disclosed Jacksonville Fla up sleeping Alcones spread by mos jul toe killed seven arsons in the Tampa Bay a i 1a fall a state Hapl Tii official . Albert a Hardy acting state health officer id investigation of the aces ii itt of carried out of i wetly to avoid i wife Mong Florida s residents ind tourist a he urged Javore fund for Mosquito plex Electr Nolc computer which sent an imaginary satellite into1orbit, and in a trucking station for a transit navigational satellite j now orbiting the Earth. Later in san Francisco Ellov \ smilingly criticized the . Space program. I old a news conference that if he were invited to join an Amer ican in a . Spacecraft i would be a bit afraid because there Hove been quite a lot of failures in your program he said he had seen the space Craft in which . Astronaut Alan. Shepard mud a suborbital space flight Titov remarked it s not even Good enough for flying in  As for american automobiles the cosmonaut said. It seems to me you have to pay More attention to this  he said that it s just a matter of Lime before americans will be Able to get places faster by walking than by driving. Mum on the Moon the handsome russian major parried questions about which country would land a Man on the Moon first and about the existence of god. He said his Grandfather believed in god but that his grandmother did not and kept throwing religious pictures out the window. The grandmother he said. Is still alive and Grandfather is not. We have an example Here that belief to god does not always help. I believe in toil and labor and the reason of Man huge Cotton holdings and storage of government Grain. Last month he wits indicted by a Federal grand jury on charges of fraud which alleged he sold chattel Mortagua on nonexistent fertilizer tanks. Among questions that republicans have raised is whether there was favouritism in Estes securing of c o 11 o n planting allotments later cancelled from the agriculture department. Freeman said that to looking Back he could say that the department s investigation and con sequent cancellation of Moro than 3,000 acres allowed Estes in 1961 to grow Cotton under a control pro Gram could have been handled More expeditiously. The depart ment has held that the allotments had been obtained by Estes in an illegal Munnsjr from Farmers who Haking Aid Barbara Ann of Zhuk 5 months sits with rapt attention during a test of her new hearing Aid Barbara who a born deaf was fitted with the. Device a month ago and now cries when it in taken off. She la the daughter of or. And  Rasht us of is. Leu to up photo fumes overcome 52 firemen Kenilworth my. Up fumes from a blazing tractor trailer loaded with Hospital chemicals overcame 52 firemen. Fire officials said the men suffered smoke poisoning and chemical Burns. None was believed in serious condition. Child stirs big fuss night disappearance of the Young daughter of Robert Sklet Broad Way musical Star aused a flurry of concern until a baby Jitter finally shewed up will the civil Kluthe child Alcott. 51 was unharmed and told of Sheba Wondy Lutui " pwt fro i  a a Juhik Getty. _ is few Retti Ted to the woman s apartment around mid night both she and Nicolette were missing. The baby Sitter Juanita in jeez 32, brought the child Back Home monday. The woman who does not speak English said Che did not that mrs. Goulet Wasto pick up her daughter sunday -.,- went to Brooklyn with Alco Latte and three of her own Ceil or fun Ion ,.relath. She Aai Vnod a lost on the want Ait in Fly arriving at the relative s Home at 4 . She decided to sleep late. She did not realize the Costmo ton she had caused until relatives heard a radio broadcast this morn ing police said. She  Home. Mrs. Goulet and her 28-year-old husband have been legally Sepa rated for the past year. Goulet now is appearing in Camelot the child s Mother who  at 5 30 ., fainted when her daughter was returned to her. Had been pushed off their farms by government agencies under the right of eminent Domain. In reply to questions the Secre tary said he had mentioned the Estes affair in passing with president Kennedy and had Dis cussed it in detail with presiden tial aides. He said atty. Gen. Rob Ert Kennedy had taken an Active hand in the investigation of the Case being made by the Federal Bureau of investigation. Much of the conference entered on the Estes Cotton allotments. These allotments had been leased by Estes from Farmers to whom he claimed to have sold forms after they had lost their original land under government purchases. A department investigation last fall Jed to an opinion by the depart ment general counsel that the Estes Cotton plan was not a Bona tide Sale of farms but a scheme to acquire allotments in violation of in a. Preemie said there was no particular need for Racehorse Speed we were a new administration had new state Farmer committees and were deeply involved in a new feed Grain  the Secretary said that in the future there would be More expeditious handling of cases of this kind. I wish to Mph Nolze that the government has t lost a dime not a single dime to Esteah said. This cannot be said for some of the big finance companies which apparently have lost Mil Lions to Estes. The department could have come out much worse. 6suicide gun9 kills husband Glendale. Calif a Holly Wood film editor John a Sampson broke Down a door and grappled with his wife for a gun with which she was threatening to kill herself. The gun went off. Hours later Sampson so died of a Bullet wound in the Abdomen. The shooting in the Simpsons Hillside Home climaxed three Day family quarrel police  to a police spokesman mrs Jeanne Sampson 40, Tele phoned her parents and told the she was going to commit Milf de. She then took a revolver from a Dresser drawer and  into the bathroom calling her daughter Terry. 10. The girl entered the bathroom and mrs. Sampson locked the Doon telling Terry Don t  Terry screamed and Sampson rushed to the door. Go away  Terry shrieked. You la get Hurt Sampson broke the door Down. In the struggle he was shot in the Abdomen. Four surgeons tried for several hours to save his life but Sampson died on an operating table. Red labor official sentenced in Calif. San Francis Obrown a longshoremen s to Talon executive was sentenced in . District court Here to six month in jail for violation of the Federal Law which prohibits a communist from serving As a Union official. The maximum sentence could be one year for the offence a Mlade meatier and a 910,000 line. Richard Gladstell defense attorney said he would Appeal. Brown remained at Liberty on $5,000 Ball. Brown has made no secret of life membership in the communist part having been a candidate on the party ticket at various times for governor , representative and san Francisco supervisor