European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday september 12, 1967 stars and stripes Page 3 trept Sinatra Billie Holiday from performing .v.r. To kill humiliating9 cabaret Law by Henrietta Leith new York a a Law that was blamed by Many forthe death of jazz Singer Billie Holiday that deprived new York ers of Frank Sinatra s talents for years and that once cause Sherman Billingsley to deny any connection with the Stork clubman soon be Only a bitter Mem  s the Law that requires All cabaret and dance Hall employ Esin new York City to carry id cards and until recently to be fingerprinted before they received the  imminent demise the City Council is expected to repeal i wednesday a Ould be Victory in a Battle of decades against it by nightclub performers and their Tress Celeste Holm and Comedi an Henry Morgan charged there was widespread corruption in the handling of the i  committee said the late comedian Richard Buckley some said his License troubles hastened his death from a hear condition had been offered a card for $100 although previously denied one. In the investigation that Fol Lowed officials threatened to Call Sinatra to testify on whether he worked at the Copacabana without a card and whether some special consideration was , in Hollywood Veri fied that lie did t carry a car when appearing at the copa. He added i Don t intend to ketone. If this Means i can t appear in new York i won t appear in new  and he did not except for Benefit at Carnegie Hall where no card was  a recent hearing on the i unions. Terrific boost Bunker says peace talks possible before next year s . He Cion it also would mean according to Many performers a terrific boost to the City s night life be cause Sinatra is not the Only big name performer who has stayed away from new York clubs be cause of a requirement Man consider humiliating. Other performers while Willingto meet the licensing require ment were unable to work be cause they were refused a card. The most famous example is miss Holiday who never was granted a permit after a narcotics conviction. Police officials had com plete control of the cards wit no Appeal possible by those turned  Law dates Back to 1931, the height of the Lawless prohibition Era when the police department started licensing cabarets and dance Halls As part of a clean up  conditions in the clubs and Halls of that Day have Bee described As intolerable with prostitutes operating openly Andall crimes up to murder frequently disrupting the entertain  repeal of the volstead act in 1932 that ended prohibition there gradually came respectability. But the City kept the License procedure going requiring fingerprints and identity cards with photographs for any one who worked in a place presenting live entertainment. Cards were denied to those with police records. Performers and their spokes men in the unions grumbled about the regulations  the years but most performers who wanted to make a living in Newyork went to the police station to be fingerprinted and get the Little card and went Back to get it every two  night club artists dislike of the Law came to a head in1960, when a committee of actors and writers including a Washington a . Ambassador to South Viet Nam says he sees a possibility that negotiations Between the two sides in the Vietnam War might begin before next year s Amer ican presidential election. Ellsworth Bunker agreed that the War As suggested by former ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge might simply fade away with no definite settlement. The other possibility Bunker added is that it will come to negotiations. And i Hope it  asked whether negotiations might take place before the . Presidential elections he an swered it seems to me it impossible  Bunker denied however hav ing any secret information about the Prospect of  reasons he said were nothing very tangible except for several factors which could contribute to  spoke on the lbs radio to show face the nation prerecorded last thursday in  Factor he said would be the realization in Hanoi that there is stable constitutional government in Saigon and that continued fighting is futile. Another he said is the psychological effect of the elections Here in  he also cited the evolution of the constitutional process and the development of the pacification program to re claim formerly Viet Cong con trolled  to say again whether All this could produce negotiations before november 1968, Bunker repeated i think i could very Well i think  Bunker also said that he feel the end of the War is closer now than it was a year  think that we have made very steady Progress he  think we Are beginning to see Light at the end of the  Rusk says Romney claim is nonsense Washington a Secre tary of state Dean Rusk de scribed As nonsense sunday Michigan gov. George rom Ney s charge that the Johnson administration has been trying to Snow the Public with Misin formation on Vietnam. Rusk asked about Romney Contention that he was brain washed during a 1965 visit to Vietnam replied certainly the charge that the Johnson administration has been trying to mislead the american people is circulation office phone numbers Germany Berlin Civ 7393g8brumerhaven, Civ 45311, Mil 7664 Frankfurt Civ 06108-2017, Mil Offenbach 755  Civ 5117, Mil Vosel Weh 7050mannheim, Civ h7m02, Mil lie Ina 61s Munirji Civ 5165023, Mil 7350nuernberg, Civ 7766-17, Mil 6513 Stutt Ikirt Civ 85425, Mil 7230wiesbaden, Civ 420770, Mil js595 Greece Athena Civ 985189italy leghorn Mil Camp Darby 1465 Spain Madrid Civ 2228290, ext 3011 United kingdom London Civ Hui slip 322&i, ext 127 subscribe now government housing Only we re  continued to give effect to a Southeast Asia treaty the Seato pact which was negotiated and which was ratified under a Republican administration with Broad bipartisan support with Only on dissenting vote in the Senate. Everyone understood at that time what that treaty meant Rusk added. Role explained explaining the United states role in Vietnam he continued we re now giving effect to the commitment we made in sup port of the Security of the countries covered by that treaty. Or. Romney i think has some problems about sorting this out within his own party Rusk said and although the Secretary of state has Many responsibilities what happens with in the Republican party is not world s jews donate $400 million to Israel new York a jewish groups in the United states and other free nations have raised Between $400 million and $500 million for Israel in the Wake of the Middle East War a jewish organization official said Satur Day. In the United states alone the official said the Israel Emer gency fund of the United jew ish Appeal Uja received do nations and pledges of Between$150 million and $200 million in one month from june 5, the Day War broke out through july 4. The organization Israel Bond shas collected More than $100 million in Cash to date95 percent in the United states and 5 per cent in Europe and sales Are still much better than they  were the official said. Outside the United states the official said fund raising the big countries three were great Britain Canada an France followed by Switzer land and South Africa. While the largest donations came from United states Resi dents the official said the in Tyas Well As millions of other americans that 2.5 million jews faced extermination just As 6 million jews did in the nazi Era. Before the Middle East crisis the israeli government was put Ting up $2 for every $1 from american charitable interests to meet the needs of some 500,000newcomers to the country. How  when the crisis began Thuja spokesman said Israel asked United states donors Totake up the whole  Monkey disease kills 5th worker marburg Germany up a 19-year-old girl Laboratory assistant died sunday from the mysterious Monkey disease which already has killed four other co workers it was announced. A spokesman for the univer sity clinic in marburg said the latest victim Christel Fischer had Only begun working this year with the Institute. Cense Law the City Council was told that years ago when the late Sophie Tucker was told she d have to be fingerprinted to perform in a club Here she went into  but miss Tucker had recovered from the Shock when Dur ing the 1960 hearings it was Dis closed she had been working at Jack Silverman s International on Broadway with an expired i  the authorities said so Phie then 74, would have to get the License renewed to keep on singing she replied Why should i Honey i went Down town in 1958 to have myself mugged and fingerprinted like a common criminal. I did that once but i m getting old too old to keep going Clown there  two  the charges of corruption brought a response from the police a massive inspection of night clubs. Everyone had assumed that Sherman Billingsley was the Host if not the owner of the cafe society hangout known familiarly As the  when the inspectors came around looking for id cards Billingsley had none. He was quoted by police As saying Hent Only did t own the club he did t even work  just hang around he said. The authorities did t buy this and ordered the Stork to suspend i be music for fou Days As punishment. Card for rabbi the copa and several other clubs got similar treatment an there was a Rush of cabaret employees to get cards. Amon them was a rabbi who had to have a card because he super Vised the preparation of Kosher food at the cafe Sahara which specializes in israeli food and  month later mayor Robert Wagner took the cabaret licenses out of the hands of the police and turned them  tothe department of licenses. Eventually the License commissioner took it upon himself to Cut out the fingerprinting of per formers. But he said he had no authority to eliminate the cards. Opposed by Mayo mayor John Lindsay came out against the Law. And City coun cil president Frank o Connor said he opposed it because it violates the Basic concepts of Ter National Community outdid the other four dead also were themselves and May have even giver More on a per capita a one of them Abc is Rusk spoke on the radio television program sues and  Romney has said that during his 1965 Vietnam visit military and civilian officials told him the United states was there Only to advise the South  then and in contradiction to this information he said the vietnamese conflict has become an american  accused president Johnson of systematically issuing inac curate reports and predictions and of withholding information. Sis. The greatest support for the Campaign came from the arabs the Uja spokesman  their constant threats heard  radio daily fro May 15th when Nasser presi Dent Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt began his warlike moves the feeling grew Amon the american jewish commune either Laboratory assistants or animal handlers who had worked with a shipment of Monkey from Uganda which were being used in vaccine research. Apart from the dead victims,25 Laboratory workers animal handlers and a woman doctorate isolated in marburg and Frankfurt hospitals suffering from the disease which first broke out about three weeks ago.  this happened Long before Billie Holiday the lady Day who reached the Heights of jazz in the 1930s and 1940s, died in municipal Hospital in 1959 with 70 cents to her  died of dope and drink. But there Are Many who thin that if the License Law had t kept her from singing in Newyork for 10 years before her death her Story might have ended differently. Italian leaders in Ottaw Rome up italian pres ident Giuseppe Sara Gat and for eign minister Amintore Fanfani flew to Ottawa monday to Begina three week trip to Canada the United states and Australia. Cant. Robb s parents relieved. Milwaukee wis. A president and mrs. Johnson announcement that their older daughter Lynda is engaged to Marine capt. Charles s. Robb of Milwaukee comes As a Relief to his parents or. And mrs. James s.  were worried if he were  going to Settle Down said the father an airlines sales executive. We were worried that he was going to be a con firmed Bachelor All his  Charles is 28.mrs. Robb said that her son who will wed miss Johnson in White House ceremony in de Cember let his parents in on the secret about a month ago say ing that we be decided to take the big  he swore a to utter secrecy " mrs. Robb told newsmen at an interview hastily arranged a their comfortable town House on Milwaukee s East  Robbs said their son was disappointed by his assignment to a White House detail two years ago because lie preferred a fielc1 assignment. The Robbs moved to Milwaukee in 1957, just after r o b b graduated from it. Vernon va., High school