European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes thursday May i7f if Jav 1 a & r Imam la aide with Estes gifts Washington Sec tary of agriculture Orvllle l. assistant Secretary of Africa store James to Ralph tuesday night in connection with by Genai coeds Texas a training for a Post As agriculture attache to the Philippines is the third department official either Tobey tired or to resign in connection -l.-. ,. Ire Emery a. Jacobs Deputy administrator of the agricultural stabilization an observation service who re and William Morris who. Was an assistant to Ralp Sorris Wass tred after he refused to make himself available Lor questioning. T i assistant Secretary of labor Jerry r. Holleman also has re signed in. The Case saying he a. Celled a $1,000" gift from Estes to i &inmw0 Washington living expenses -. \ Ivy on. Fri be ports Len announcing the action against Ralph space eat Isard in a state ment that. Jie1 acted on the basis of reports lot the Federal Burea of investigation which invest gated Ralph s connection with. Agriculture depart ment my Oye Shaa Lieen named in tesilmojiy1bej Are a Texas court of " injun any conducted by Texas l Wilson the testimony clothing gifts to the1 offi Chalk j Wilson said Estes courted department favors in connection with Grain storage and Cotton production operations under the de Parteni font " � a details action detailing his action against Ralph. Freeman s statement said Justice has reported to me that personal Long Destanee iphone Calls were made by � Ralph a charged to Bluie credit card. Thissel site Credi. Activity we blend with those Dis closed Ralph s of text a regarding is relation Vith Estes does not in my judgment measure up to the High standards of conduct required for a person representing our govern ment in an overseas assignment to the. Action came As. Presiden Kennedy delivered an endorsement of Freeman whose resignation has been demanded by congressional. Republicans because of the Estes Case i Mckennedy came to Freeman s defense in a letter addressed to Allen i1jellender, a la Chai Manol the Senate agriculture com Mittee. The president arranged Forit to be read at a banquet tuesday night t As part of v world food forum celebrating the agriculture department s Centennial i in Mahilo meanwhile the Tex As attorney general s office filed a civil antitrust suit against est Sand others including the big com Mercial solvents suit in Federal District court Here accuses Estes and the others01 conspiracy to sell anhydrous ammonia fertilizer below Cost to drive competitors out of business. Penalties upon conviction would Range from $50 to $1,500 per Day for each Day the alleged conspiracy was in were Estes personally and Bilue sol Estes doing business As Farmers co. Lester Stone co., United elevators and commercial solvents inc. Superior manufacturing co. And three officers of Superior Coleman d. Mcspadden. Harold e. Orr and fuel Alexander. 56 american tourists a stranded in Moscow strike for envoy s Iii Moscow a fifty six stranded american tourists stage what they called a sit Down strike outside . Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson s office wednesday. The americans most of them in their 70s Are on a round the world tour and have been held inthe soviet Union against their will since saturday because their visas to proceed to Afghanistan were not in order Thompson finally saw tour director David Winn of Glendora Calif and a Small committee after they had besieged his ninth floor office for an hour and a half Estes Case figure tells of being confined Jordell of Mary 9ones Washington a 51-year-oldgovernment Secretary Center of a hot controversy stemming Iro m the Billie. Sol Estes Case has told the Washington evening Star she does riot know Why she was taken from the agriculture department in a police patrol Wagon Aud confined in a psychiatric Ward. Under 1 he headline the strange ordeal of miss Mary Kimbrough Jones the Star carried an inter vie with the woman. Sen. John j. Williams r-dcl., charges Attiat miss Jones was rail roamed into a mental Ward for refusing to cooperate in covering up corruption linked with thyestes scandal he said she was dragged " off screaming held 12 Days and then found to be mentally sound Secretary of agriculture Orville i p Feeman called Williams charge preposterous and in agriculture de-thinkable.11 apartment physician said miss Jones was so disturbed on the Day t up Presnor a High or Ture wind flow a to j t Ortix of fou 1 Jii today Southern Germany will have . of the continent will be partly Cloudy new Sitter by showers. Cloudy skies Wilh rain will spread i Over fing Huid As a Tram front approaches during the after a Belll new or cant Newark Norfolk out City Phoenix eol Dett High Low Pitt Burgh 90 53 part a Gencius d. Clay ret gave the ate foreign relation what sen. John Sparkm aft described As a generally and optimistic picture of Thelin situation. Spar Feman acting chairman the committee said Day indic Alki j the West is in a better 4, stronger position militarily it psychologically than at any lint i in the last eight months. A i Clay who recently returned final i his assignment As president k3s Nedy s special representative be Berlin to re enter private business \ said he Felt there Are no Irre Eoa Bonn cutting car import tariffs 50% Bonn a the West German Cabinet wednesday decided to Cut tariffs by 50 per cent on cars from other common Market countries in retaliation for Price increases made by West German producers. The decision is expected to be approved by the bundestag lower House in two or three weeks and then go into effect immediately. Tariffs on Small cars Are to be reduced from 10 to 5 per cent of the Selling Price at the West Ger Man Border and on larger cars from 125 per cent to 6.25 per cent. Only the smallest cars those with less than Soo cubic centimetres cylindrical volume will not be. Affected. The economics ministry Esti mated that the reduction wiil apply to about 50,000 of the 80,000 cars imported annually from other common Market count France Italy the nether Belgium and Luxembourg. At the news conference the Cabinet decision was bounced government press Felix von Eckardt made tithe change in tariffs was used to try to Force producers into line. Citable differences with Konrad Adenauer Over How True \ Goti ate an agreement on Alecea to i West Berlin and that r elation tj1 \ tween the two governments at As close As Ever. I gather he does not attach too much importance to any difference the Chancellor May have with Sparkman told reporters. Clay s closed door Clay said there to genuine fear although it is nut justified that if we do any Mai that May be taken As a Reco Gat Tion of East Germany our interest f in West Berlin May Lessen and tfc8- time May come when we would Vic r be willing to stand up and fld i for West Berlin and West pm Clay said in effect that Ife \ need not have those fears of to. American position s added. P 1 c n n d Tab in
