European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 6 the stars and stripes monday september 21, 1964 be a screwball it s cheap and it beats to by Dick West Washington iup1 theother Duy i overheard a group o children discussing their up rants. The trouble Ullh adults now Nodi is in they inn l know How to unlit loan ilium is lives tiny 10-year-old girl was saying. That s agreed one other playmates. My parents arc miserable unless they have something or somebody to enter lain Ihm. They claim they can think of anything to do by them a 9-year-old boy said he in noticed hat Seldom make things to play with the Way grownups once did. They have in imy everything and then they soon eel bored will it he think television hits ruined them said the 10-Yenr-old. I leaves them keyed up and rest less. If there i Noah link to Wale Hon television they Aru at Loose kiddies May have a Point there but in my Case h s u bum rap. I am one adult who Mill invents most of own amuse ment. Like when i first moved to Washington. Somebody gave me a briefcase for Christmas Idin t need a Hrie Fease but started carrying it around we Lime anyway. It ave me a great Deal of pleasure and satisfaction to move about the National capital Ullh an empty briefcase. I even look ii to Dinne parties and other social functions. I would cull the hostess aside and ask her Loput it in a Safe place. Eventually Iho vip set her switched to attache cases. That spoiled me fun of carrying a empty briefcase so i began car ruins a yardstick is not an Ordinary two sided yardstick. Ii has four Side can be used for measuring things and Chr other three sides advertise the first National Bank of Bard is something infinitely enjoyable about going out in the evening jauntily swinging a Yard Slick that advertises the first National Bank of Baird Tex. I particularly enjoy checking it at a hot Check stand. Even More amusing is a Pic lure that i have lacked up be Hind my desk in Iho House pres gallery. It is a copy of the Monu Lisa to which has Ben added aboard and Mustache. Put it up for die Benefit of tourists who frequently wander into the gallery by mistake. Always slops them cold. They stare at the picture a few seconds then nudge each other and been talking in whispers. 1 like to think that when they get Back Home and Are asked what impressed them most about the . Capitol they will say that it was a picture of the Monolisa with a Beard and Mustache. These Are simple pleasures yes. But they show that adults can still entertain themselves i they really put their minds to it. . Club will assist . Students 1iempstead . Impi Hofstra University has the Green Light to establish a scholarship fund with $25.000 in Bingo proceeds donated by the Ilem Stead i. Elks club. The donation made last aug.18 by members of elks i Odic 1485, was Given enthusiastic approval by the state Bingo control commission in Albany. Commission chairman Ira announced the approval with great pleasure he said the elks deserve a great Deal of credit from their Community an the University for this very Fine gesture with an additional $12,900 i Matching funds from Hofstra s Ford foundation Challenge Grant the new Slemp stood elks memorial scholarship fund willbe valued it $37,000. Establish Colo Honor the Lodge s War dead and to recognize Community service of Mem Bers the fund will provide Aid each year to at least one deserving student who lives in Slemp Stead or has earned a noteworthy academic and service record at Hempstead High school. To Umpstead american legion Post 3m donated $500 in Bingo proceeds to the University earlier. Parents of 5 Given 10 years for stealing . Papers Detroit flip or. An mrs. Robert b. Murphy were each sentenced to 10 years i Federal prison in connection with the theft of hundreds of priceless historical documents from the National archives in Washington and other places. Sentence was pronounced by Federal judge Thomas Thornton. The couple had been convicted june 29 following a three week trial. The specific charge was Possession of stolen government documents from the National archives. The couple s five children we returned Over to the Wayne county welfare in a Rove of Docu ments confiscated Liy the feb from the couple s apartment Here were such items As a memorandum written by Abraham Lincoln on the Duy at his death and 90letters written by president James items have a value that cannot he translated into Dollar Sand cents but dealers said they would be Worth a minimum of Ahalt million dollars on the mar Fri had been tracking Down Murphy for some Lime an had painstakingly pieced together an incredible Story of grand theft and fraud on a National scale. Murphy. 45. A onetime Sailor and his wife Elizabeth 32, were arrested in their Detroit apart ment last january. A treasure ruffled feelings called misunderstanding Mcnamara praises Gates role Washington a Secre tary of defense Robert s. Me Namara has complained to his Republican predecessor that sen. Barry Goldwater has made ii increasingly difficult for him to keep defense matters outside the partisan political the Pentagon disclosed his by making Public a Telegram me Nauru wrote on aug. 31 to Thomas Lutcs the Eisenhower administration s lust Secretary of defense. Mcnamara accused old Wutch the Republican presidential Nom Inee of phrasing his attacks Asto cast doubt on the credibility of our military Power Goldwa Ter has thus jeopardized our National Security he released the Tele Gram along with a statement in the easy Way when u comes la gelling Trees oat of Ike Forest Oregon loggers have found thai nothing Beau hitching the trunks to a helium balloon and toning away. A photo which he said. It is unfortunate that any misunderstanding has Arisen about my opinion of my predecessor. Thomas Gates. I have the highest regard for him and for the personal contributions he made to our nation Security us Secretary of the actions followed Gates re lease in new York of a letter to Max Tanura saying that Mena Mara Hud been unjustly critical in an assessment of the Penta gon s operations under lairs. Ciales said remarks made by Mcnamura in an appearance be fore the democratic platform committee lust month were not True presentation of the department taken Over in lift by letter sought to counter these Mcnamara allegations the gales run defense depart ment depended upon u single strategy the military services failed to coordinate planning in inventory of weapons was no Complete to wage certain types of warfare and that in nation s strategic nuclear weapons were vulnerable to enemy missiles. Dillon plays role the four Page dear Tom Telegram noted that Secretary of the Treasury Duuglas Dillon had indicated to him thai Gates was concerned about the statements before the platform said he was re leasing it it Lutes request. I told his predecessor i recognize the cause of you concern and the importance of keeping the defense department out of Arena the partisan political i need hardly Tell you in much i appreciate your contributions to the National Security an the importance of programs and policies you instituted us Secre tary of it nit turn said that fur three and one half years he has tried to prevent defense policies an programs from being discussed in a partisan efforts to keep defense former slave Dies at 111 South Bend ind. A Charlie Graham a negro born into slavery in tip pah county,miss., died it the age of 111. A resident of South Bend since1m3 he onre said that slavery As he had known in was Notas inhuman and As torturous an some mailers outside the partisan political Arena have become increasingly difficult Over the Pas several weeks As sen. Goldwater has persistently made defense partisan political Issue Mcna muru cited nine passages from Magazine articles s p e e c h c a broadcast interviews Goldwa Ler s acceptance speech and froma Goldwater Book where i statements alleged thai the United Stales is in second place that this administration s defense policies add up to uni lateral disarmament that the Mcnamara leadership has shown titter disregard for new weapons and similar positions my purpose in responding Mothese attacks by sen. Gold Alcor has not been n make the defens policies and programs of this country a partisan political a Inumaru mid gues. Rail her my purpose has be nip attempt to assure that our Al lies and our enemies As Well aside american people retain their Confidence and respect for the credibility of the strategic deter rent and conventional military Power of this dozens injured in 21-cur pileup in Mississippi Hernando. Miss. A a21-car wreck involving tans going 10 the Mississippi Memphis stale football game in Oxford miss., injured dozens of persons an created a 20-mile truffle Jam on interstate 55. Every ambulance in Northwest Mississippi was called to shuttle the injured to hospitals from their War Ifni n mlle no h of Memphis. Apparently none was seriously Hurt. A Highway patrol office termed it the most fantastic mess of smashed cars i be Tom Clark of Memphis who was in the pileup described How 11 occurred curs were real close and go ing fast. Then a car pulled off Iho median strip into the raffle there was a grinding crash then everything went mad. Ii was like big accordion the worst thing i have Ever trove of seven suitcase crammed to the bursting Point with priceless historical paper was recovered. Detroit police said came to the main Detroit Library dec. 19 and offered to sell a letter rom Henry Hamil ton British military governor of Detroit in cd 1778. She said she found the letter in her Windsor Home in the Back of an old Pic Ture. Receives $55 for document or n. Mcclaferty As called herself on visits to the Library said she was sell ing the idler because she needed Money. She received $55 for the document. Library officials be came suspicious when the can celled Check came Back with a Detroit address on the endorse ment. Twice More in a Span of 12days mrs. Murphy visited the Library. She sold two batches of letters for $270, some of the let ters dealt with taxis Cass Michigan territorial governor in the Early 1800s, and a diary of col George r. Clark s 1779 Cam Pulga in Ohio. At the same Lime that was Selling documents to the Library her husband Dingus cd As or. Mcclaferty was going through the building searching for More loot. He looked through rare books an removed pages and entire Sec Lions from them. About this time the libary was becoming suspicious of mrs my tile Fri was called Check of the Library s rare books Section showed Many Docu ments missing. Library Fri cooperate working with the Fri. Library officials pursue used mrs. Murphy to return after the holidays wit More documents. They also told Murphy he could have free a Cess to the rare books Section. The Fri put the couple under surveillance and Uliey were arrested. More than 100 forged Docu ments were among the thousands of legitimate ones recovered from Murphy indicating he was considering fraud As Well As the Sale of stolen goods. The National archives was brought into the Case when it was Asre Fer Verlod in Fhi f 1m2. Discovery of the theft was do inked because the Lolen Docu ments did not turn up on the Market until u your later. Ten More Cartons of document were recovered in Chicago. Fri a cols traced them there from waybills in Murphy s Possession. During his Long rial Here officials of the National archives testified that Murphy represented himself us u researcher or a Chicago publication firm plan Ning an encyclopedia of lesser known National figures. The suit. Murphy declined to View photostat or microfilms but insisted on seeing original records. Learned that Murphy Posinger. Bradford Murphy did " search at the archives for two Mont Perio the full of
