European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 14, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Thursday september 14, 1967 Senate oks Campaign funds Bill Washington a the Senate passed 87 to 0 tuesday a Bill designed to bring full Public disclosure on All Campaign contributions in presidential an congressional elections. It would Knock out the presen Campaign spending limitations Long considered outmoded. Butt would seek to make effective the $5,000 limit on gifts that on individual can give to any one candidate by outlawing evasive methods now considered Legal. The Senate rejected by a Nar Row 46-42 vote an Effort to tie into the measure a requirement that All members of Congress and candidates for those office disclose publicly All their sources of income assets an liabilities. An impertinence Senate Republican Leader Everett m. Dirksen of Illinois declared before the vote that the proposal by sen. Joseph s Clark d-pa., is an impertinence and outrage that ought to be roundly  were several vote switches on Clark s proposal Ashe Roll Call progressed slowly. It ended up supported by 29democrats and 13 republicans and opposed by 24 Democrat Sand 22 republicans. This is the fourth time the Senate has passed a similar election Reform measure in recent years. The previous three died in the House but supporters say the Yare confident of better chances there this year. The legislation similar to that proposed by president Johnson May 24, is now being considered by the House administration committee. Sweeping overhaul Johnson declared last May that a sweeping overhaul of the Laws governing election campaigns should no longer be  he said Basic re form with an emphasis on Clear and straightforward Dis closure is essential to insure Public Confidence and involve ment in the political  the Bill would have an effective Date of next january so it would cover the 1968 election before passing the Bill the Senate stripped from it 79 to 7 provision which several Mem Bers said would make it a Richman s family  this provi Sion would have exempted fro the $5,000 contribution limitation any gift to a candidate by his wife child grandchild Parent grandparents brother or  senators who might be affected voted for the Amend ment Sens. Robert f. Kennedy d-n.y., and Edward m. Kennedy a mass. Sen. Russell b. Long d-la.,opposing the amendment said the aim of the measure is to re strict improper influence on a candidate and there would Beless of this if a candidate received $100,000 from his father than if he raised $5,000 from each of 20 outside contributors. The stars and stripes letter leads to arrest after 2 years Moth new York up two years after the mysterious disappearance and death of he two Young children an Anonymous letter led tuesday to the arrest of a Strawberry blonde former cocktail waitress on murder indictment. Authorities said they still sought a unknown male accomplice. Mrs. Alice Crimmins 28, was charged with first degree Mur Der of her 4-year-old daughter Alice authorities said the child died of  body of her 5-year-old son Edmund was found later but the indictment did not men Tion the boy s death. Probe continues District atty. Thomas a Mack Ell said the single murder charge was handed up because the Evi Dence in his hands at the moment was sufficient Only for charging the Mother in the girl s death. The boy s death he said continues under investigation i Don t believe it declare the angry mrs. Crimmins when she was taken into custody inthe parking lot of her Queens apartment  hours later As she was led through an Iron Gate leading from the courtroom where she was arraigned to a detention cell mrs. Crimmins screamed and crumpled to the  less than an hour $25,000 bail was furnished and she was released. Ashen faced and trem bling she left the courthouse on the Arm of her tall Wavy haired husband Edmund 29. A lawyer comforted Edmund Crimmins puts an Arm around his wife lice when she fell on courthouse stairs. A photo sunken ship with ammo still hunted faces trial was with them. She did t kill anyone Crimmins said. She did t harm  it was mrs. Crimmins the separated from her husband who reported her children missing from their Garden apartment on july 14, 1965. The Little girl was found strangled within five hours but when the boy s body was discovered five clays later it was too decomposed for the cause of death to be  indictment handed up late monday by a Queens grand jury charged that the pretty Young Mother wilfully Feloni. Ousby and maliciously killed Alice Marie by choking Stran gling and asphyxiating by her hands or by ligature binding tragic mistake the husband a trans world airlines Mechanic at Kennedy Airport sat in the Back of the courtroom with mrs. Crimmins Mother and brother. Crimmin smiled at his wife and called her arrest a tragic  District attorney refused to discuss the motive although he indicated one was presented to the grand jury. But he disclosed that it was the Anonymous letter that provided fresh information leading to the  writer a woman who was tracked Down by investigators testified before the grand jury and was expected to be material witness in the Case but Mackell refused to divulge he name. Washington up the Navy is still searching for a sunken ship loaded with explosives lost off Alaska last month. The ship is an old wartime Liberty ship the Robert l. Stev Enson. The Navy deliberately Sank it on aug. 10, loaded with 2,000 tons of defective world War ii explosives As part of a joint Navy air Force research program aimed at developing methods for detecting nuclear explosions. The ship was lost when it was towed to the sinking Point 32 Miles off Amchitka in the aleutians. Although its sea Cocks were opened As planned the ship filled Only slowly with water and drifted in the current to an undetermined Point approximately 17 Miles off , it is believed it settled on the sea floor at a depth i excess of 3,000 feet but not deep enough for its fuses pre set to discharge at 4,000 feet to set off the explosives  missing ship May constitute a Hazard to shipping. The Navy is trying to find it with the Aid of a magnetometer. Torture blonde sentenced Newark . A Monique on Cleef was sentenced to 1 months in jail tuesday on charges of running what a described by authorities As House of  however judge Leon Kap ordered that the 42-year-old dutch born former Model be confined for Only four months and serve probation for the remainder of the sentence. She was also fined $1,000. In sentencing miss von Cleft la judge said to her you. Are a cruel calculating woman he added you were engaged in a sordid business. You solicited sick people who cannot relate in a Normal  her co defendant James Alber Beard 38, was Given a suspended six month sentence and place Don probation for 18 months. He was fined $500. The two were sentenced on two counts of conspiring to commit lewdness and maintaining building for lewdness. Their lawyer Harry Durkin said he would Appeal. Beard and miss von Cleef were convicted in june. The jury which deliberated for about 2j/2hours before returning the ver  was told by Kapp this ase is important not Only to the defendants but to our so mercy of his Chicago a the grand jury returned a murder indict ment tuesday against Rober Waskin 23, in the fatal shoot ing of his Mother who was suf Fering from terminal leukaemia. Police had arrested Waski after they found his Mother mrs. Daniel Waskin 52, Shotin her Hospital bed aug. 8. Joann calender 27, a nurse at Wesley memorial Hospital told police she saw Waskin place a pistol on a desk in his Mother room after she heard shots. She said she asked him Why he shot his Mother and that he answered because she begged me  my Mother had been suffer ing a Long time Waskin told police. All the time she cried. My father cried. My brother cried. She begged me to do  four Days before the shooting the Mother was taken to the hos Pital suffering from an overdose of sleeping pills that police said was Given to her by the  gave her the pills police quoted Waskin As saying. Tried to put her out of her  piety and Way of life As a civilized  the Platinum blonde who was born Maria Baradine Coats and Beard were arrested dec. 21,1965, during a raid on their House in a residential Section of new Ark by police. The arrests followed a tip by postal authorities. Police said two carloads of Tor Ture devices whips chains leg Irons boxes of pornography and files with names of More than 1,500 clients were confiscated in the raid. Much of this was introduced As evidence inthe trial. The prosecution s key wit Nesses during the 10-Day trial was lieutenant Arthur Macnus son of the Essex county sheriff s office who testified that he had posed As a client and made an appointment with miss von Clee for an hour of discipline at $50. Cheese it he said that when he appeared for the appointment miss von Cleef told him to strip while she prepared to whip him. At that Point police raided the Louse. Another witness for the prose cution or. Jack Chernus direct or of psychiatry at St. Barnabas medical Center in nearby Liv Neston described miss Vondleen s role As that of a super Queen who would treat a client As a Princess would punish a stable boy after catching him King lustfully at  Chernus also condemned flair a Magazine believed published by miss von Cleef and Beardan confiscated during the raid is containing materials with Nooci ally redeeming qualities and which would Appeal Only to Theau Rient interests of Sado to masochists. A defense witness or. Frank Caprio of Washington d.c., author of 21 books on abnormal psychology said he would not condemn Sado masochism an said to those who liked to be roughed up in the bedroom twas like the whipped Cream and Cherry on the ice Cream  during his summation the de sense charged that the prosecution was trying the Case on the grounds of morals rather than Law. Prosecutor John Noonon told the jury that he was dealing Only with Law but added that an acquittal would be tantamount to saying Monique come Back to Newark with your chains and  Monique von Cleef