European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes monday. September 18,1989 pre Pearl Harbor Campaign by British agents detailed Washington a British agents planted propaganda in american newspapers harassed political enemies in Congress and labor unions and waged eco nomic warfare in this country in the years before Pearl Harbor according to a secret history quoted by the Washington Post in sunday s editions. Agents headed by sir William step Hanson. Celebrated in the 1976 Book a Man called intrepid waged their Campaign out of an office in Rockefeller enter in new York known As British Security coordination the history said. The Post said that 10 leather bound copies of the423-Page document prepared in 1945 were said to have been distributed but that none has surfaced until now. The newspaper said it was allowed to take Exten Sive notes on a copy of the history but did not name its source. Several american newspaper publishers As Well As columnists Walter Lippmann Walter Winchell Anddrew Pearson were described As helpful to the British Effort to discredit isolationism and harass nazi sympathisers. The history portrays America on the eve of world War ii As easy to manipulate. The paper quotes the history As saying these people though fully conscious of their wealth and Power in the aggregate Are still unsure of themselves individually still basically mists of history former president Abraham Lincoln s statue is shrouded in steam As workers use High pressure Host s during an annual cleaning last week at the Lincoln memorial in Washington. On the  the Post said the history details a Media Campaign against Gerhard Alois Wistrick allegedly a German agent in the United states with close tics to Torkil Richer the president of Texaco. A first class news Story was written by Csc and placed through an intermediary in the new York her Ald Tribune under headlines such As Hitler agent ensconced in we Schesler the history said. Westrick was deluged with threatening Telephone Calls it said. A hostile crowd gathered outside his  his american contacts deserted him Accord ing to the document. The history said a British front group called fight for Freedom passed out 25.000 handbills at a septem Ber 1941 speech in Boston by isolationist Republican sen. Gerald p. Nye of North Dakota attacking him As an App scr and a nazi  it said British agents tried unsuccessfully to sow confusion at an America first rally at Madison Square Garden a month later by distributing duplicate tickets. The history said the British started a Rumor  ranged All the Way from publicizing mis leading information about Allied strategy to undermining the prestige of an individual nazi by encouraging salacious gossip about his private  leave Congress paper asks Frank Boston a the Boston Globe in an editorial in sunday s editions urged rep. Barney Frank to re sign for his own Good and for the Good of his constituents his causes and  Frank says he would consider not running again if a House ethics investigation of his relations with a male prostitute damages the causes he considers important in Congress. Do other people who share my values pay a Price if i am Here the Massachusetts Democrat asked. If that s so then i would not run for  Frank conceded in an interview with the Boston Globe conducted in Washington and published sat urday that disclosures about his relationship with Stephen l. Gobic have already diminished his influence on some of the Liberal causes he has supported. A Newsweek poll released saturday showed 46 per cent of americans said Frank should t be re elected because of the scandal. Forty five percent said they would vote against any homosexual candidate for of fice according to the poll of 600 adults interviewed sept. Hand 15. The same poll found 60 percent of americans be Lieve that homosexuality should t keep a person from being a member of Congress and 50 percent said that the sexual preference should t Stop a person from becoming president. The poll has a 4 percent margin of error. Frank s disclosure of his homosexuality in 1987 did t prevent him from gaining 70 percent of the votes in his 1988 re election bid. He represents a pre dominantly democratic District that encompasses parts of Southeastern Massachusetts and some Boston suburbs. Stateside Hudson River area dosed after Oil spill discovered Albany . A a 30-mile stretch of the Hudson River was closed to water traffic saturday after several thousand Gallons of Oil were discovered spilled in the River authorities said. The River was closed from Albany s port to below Cal skill after a Petroleum product believed to be a heavy fuel Oil spilled into the River late Friday night according to officials from the state department of environmental conserva Tion. The spill which originated in the Albany port was about 20 Miles Long and extended from Al Bany to Coxsackie said coast guard official from governors Island in new York City. Officials said the spill was toward the Western Shore of the River and there was concern Over wildlife and waterfowl in the area. The parties responsible for this hit and run environmental disaster will face stiff penalties said commissioner Thomas Jorling of the environmental conservation department. They will also get a Bill from new York state for the Cost of the  2 men would be rescuer killed by Well s Gas fumes Decatur Tenn. A two men trying to clean a Well were overcome by methane Gas fumes and died saturday along with a third Man who tried to Rescue them authorities said. The two were Clearing land to make room fora trailer in Rural Meigs county about so Miles Northeast of Chattanooga said Jim Mullins dispatcher with the county sheriffs department. Gary Harden 26, and Jerry Buckner. 31, had climbed into the 49-foot, hand dug Well when they were overcome by the fumes. At least one of the men had entered the Well to clean it. Said Robert Cartwright another dispatcher. An emergency medical technician David Mccullum 27, was overcome by the Gas As he tried to Rescue the two Mullins said. 4 Swiss tourists robbed on subway in Manhattan new York Dpi knife wielding thieves robbed four Swiss tourists saturday during subway ride and one of the tourists was slashed in the face when he tried to resist the robbers transit police said. The tourists were approached by four me who demanded All their belongings As they trav eled on the downtown no. I subway train i Manhattan at 9 a.m., transit police spokesman Al o scary said. He said the thieves stole jewelry Cash wallets and a video camera and then left the train. But one of the tourists 32-year-old Bruno Krulle grabbed one of the thieves As he tried to flee and a fight ensued. Krulle was slashed on the left Side of his face o scary said. The wound is serious enough that it May have an Impact on his  sex Sears clerk settles $8.2 million suit Over wrench Chicago a a former Sears Roebuck and co. Store clerk has settled his dispute with the retail giant Over profits from a popular socket wrench he invented More than 25 years ago. Peter Roberts of Tennessee was 18years old in 1964 when he invented a Quick release wrench that eventually sold by the millions. On Friday the 44-year-old Robert settled an $8.2 million Patent infringe ment Case that alleged scars had cheated him out of his rightful royalties from the  spokeswoman Kathy Gucfa declined to give any details of the agreement saying part of the settlement is that neither Side will comment on  was believed to be on his Way Home to the Chattanooga suburb of Redbank and could t be reached for com ment. His attorney John Davidson declined to comment. Roberts was a clerk at a Sears store i Gardner mass., when he invented the wrench in his spare time. The wrench has a push Button thru permits removal of sockets from the tool with one hand. Roberts obtained a Patent for the wrench design in 1965, and scars paid him $10,000 for rights to the Patent. He then joined the air Force. While stationed in England he saw a Sears cat Alog and was astounded at the display the wrench got because he said the com Pany had led him to believe the tool had Only minor sales potential. But from 1965 to 1975, Sears sold More than 19 million of the wrenches for a net profit of More than $44 million according to documents in the Case. I was real Young and when you Teyoung you May tend to Trust people too much Roberts once said of his decision to take Sears  sued in 1969, see Keg to rescind the agreement under which he As signed the Patent to the company. A fed eral jury in 1978 awarded him $1 million after finding that scars fraudulently obtained the  also asked for damages for the estimated 14 million socket wrenches old after 1977. He estimated that Sears earned $172 million from sales of the wrench Between 1977 and 1982, but attorneys for the retailer said the profit was closer to $5  april 1982, a Federal jury found that scars violated the Patent an awarded Roberts $5 million an award later increased to $8.2 million by the judge on the grounds that the infringe ment was  decision was overturned in 1983 by an appeals court which ordered a new  said after the appellate court decision that he kept pursuing the Casemore for the principle than the Money. I m right they re wrong he  be wrapped up a majority of my life around the thine. I m just trying to get what is justly and rightly  new trial was in its fifth Day Fri Day when the settlement was reached