European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and strips wednesday May 15, West Point honors hawkish Dove Bob Hope West Point . A Phyllis Diller at a miss unlit in t fashionable to be a retired Gen. Maxwell himself a hawkish it was the first time the verse contest he told Gen. Hawk a d Hope. In to Sylvanus Thayer award Point. . Himself Dove entertainer Bob Hope accepted the Sylvanus Thaye award monday at the United states military Academy for entertaining american troops around the comedian who will be 5 on May 26, was cited by the Academy 19,000-member association of graduates for giving freely of his time and Talent to raise the morale and warm the hearts of two generations of award a Gold medal and an embossed scroll was Given to an entertainer. Previous recipient included former president Dwight d. Eisenhower the lat Secretary of state John Foster Dulles and the late Francis car Dinal Spellman. Hope in his typical dead pan style accepted the award with a series of rapid fire feel As out of place As Dean Martin at an . Meeting or Phy livers contest . Schuyler president of the association who presented the told the audience that the Vietnam War was an unpopular but i Don t remember a pop ular War he said. It May not be popular but we be got 500,000or 600,000 of the most popular men Over there fighting for outlives and we be got to Back them up. It in thank said. I a strange kind of Bird. I m no Pigeon. I m a hawkish Dove. If i have to Lay an egg for May coun try i m about 3,500 cadets officers and guests attended the presenta Tion dinner in the Cadet mess Washington Hall. Hope shared the head table with a distinguished military contingent including general of the army Omar Bradley and retire Taylor the s r established in 1958 by the Etny s association of graduate commemorates the fifth or intendant of the school who i. Known As father of the Mary u it is presented annually by the association to an american Citi zen whose service to the nation typifies personal Devotion to the ideals expressed in the motto of West Point duty Honor cow. 2 children slain Case of empty cribs opens for . Mother cheering fan monkeys singing Star Dave Jones gives his private Telephone number to Rhoda Cook 11, during a visit to her sickbed in Phoenix Ariz. Rhoda was carrying an album by the pop group when she was struck by a car causing her to lose a leg. A photo new York a red haired Alice Crimmins trial in the 1965 strangling of her four year old daughter began Mon Day with the state for the firs time suggesting a motive in the baffling slaying her determination not to surrender her Chil Dren in a custody fight. Mrs. Crimmins husband Testi fied for the state and at one Point was asked in Cross examination by the defense did you kill your children no sir and neither did my wife replied the husband who was challenging for custody of the children at the same time they were slain. The prosecution objected an state supreme court Justice Peter Farrell ordered the answer stricken. There has been no con Tention by the state that the Hus band knew anything about the death of his daughter or . Dist. Atty. Anthony Lombard Ino in his opening statement told an All male Queens county jury there will be statements from the stand that she would never pro Duce these children in 2nd suspect seized in Fla. Deaths Tallahassee Fla. A Jack Griffith a karate expert from Miami was arrested her monday in the murders of two former California secretaries whom police wanted to question about a transcontinental Securi ties conspiracy Case. Griffith wearing Only a pair of trousers was arrested at a House he said he rented fou Days ago in this capital City some 450 Miles from whisky Creek near fort Lauderdale where the bodies of the Secreta Ries were found. Jack Murf the surf Mur Phy 30-year-old Beac boy turned jewel thief also charge Din the murders surrendered to Miami police last week and i being held in the county jail at fort and Murphy were charged with first degree Mur Der in the slayings last dec. 8 of Terry Rae Kent Frank 23, of Amberly Ohio and Annalie Marie Mohn 21, a German National. After the bodies were found an audit at the los Angeles brokerage House of Rutner Jack son and Gray revealed $488,732 in securities were missing. Losangeles police said the thefts were discovered after mrs Frank a Divorcee and miss Fohn quit the firm and move to Miami Beach. Later six men were indicted in new York on securities conspiracy charges. Commission claims zoning Laws keeping negroes out of suburbs Washington up presidential commission said monday that zoning Laws whether by design or not often work to keep negroes out of the suburbs. Paul h. Douglas former democratic senator from Illin ois who is chairman of the National commission on Urban problems released the report that linked zoning to some of the nations racial controls often have the unfortunate consequence i not the intent of making it difficult for Low income minority families to live in Many Urban places Douglas report found that economic segregation with racial Over tones resulted from zoning Laws that required extra Large lots wide streets and other Stan Dards that raised site costs. The commission was appointed by president Johnson Jan. 12, 1967, to study building codes zoning land use and technology for ways to increase the suppl of suitable Low Cost housing in the. Nation. The report carefully note that Many zoning regulations which Spring from a desire to maintain a Nice Community do not necessarily have the intent of keeping out negroes but it said this is often the result. When it becomes Universal the question arises where do the poor go Douglas report said that by conservative estimate 18 Mil lion acres of land would be needed for Urban development by the year 2000. If the present pattern Alurban growth continues 75 per cent or More of the growth will take place in the present metropolitan areas and almost entirely in the suburbs rather than in the Central cities the report said. The report one of 50 being undertaken by the commission said the removal of restrictive land use controls cannot be expected by itself to solve on of the most difficult problems of present Day Lombardino said that two Days before tiny blonde Alice Missy Crimmins and Herlue eyed brother Edmund 5, disappeared from their cribs the defendant found out that a maid privy to All of Alice s con duct was going to testify on be half of her since the slayings mrs. Crim mins 28, has been named co respondent in a divorce Case involving a construction executive and his atty. Martin Baron replied the custody fight did not change the love and affection she had for her began after four Days of jury selection. The Small Chestnut panelled Queens county courtroom was filled the death of the crimmins1 Chil Dren the Case of the empty ribs has been one of the most intriguing mysteries in the files of the new York police department for nearly three years. The children vanished from their Kew gardens apartment july 14, 1965. Their bodies were found five Days apart one mile in either direction from their Home. Death cause unknown cause of the boy s death never was determined and the first degree murder charge against mrs. Crimmins deals Only with the strangling of the girl. The maximum penalty is life imprisonment. Baron told the jurors that mrs. Crimmins was a Good and Loving indicated mrs. Crim mins would take the witness stand during the in bail the shapely defendant came to court in Awine red velvet. Jumper and High collared White Blouse. Former cocktail waitress she displayed no emotion even Chher husband Edmund 32, the u fled As an Early witness for me Styfs testimony was elicited in so appearance
