European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes october 13 miners killed in 2d West Virginia blast an explosion deep within a South Eastern West Virginia Coal mine snuffed out the lives of 13 miners and injured four two of Umb among the dead were the superintendent of the mine and As thirty seven others working nearer the Entrance managed to unharmed in the blast it was the second mine explosion in two Days in the West Virginia Coal Fields and brought the total dead to 22 miners died when trapped Gas ignited in a Pocahontas fuel mine on the Virginia West Virginia Border near about 90 Miles Southwest of up reported Percy an official of the Ogleby Norton Coal operator of the Burton where tuesdays blast of said the explosion was due to an accumulation of rescuers worked in Waist deep water and chilling cold to get to the trapped of the 17 trapped deep in the bowels of the slope Only four it was four hours before the first survivor was helped to the while the dangerous and dreary Rescue operation survivors of the dead miners huddled in the mine company their Hopes dwindling with each passing hour and each new body brought two of the dead miners were High officials of the Ogleby Norton i n e superintendent of and Eddie the assistant super in addition to the two those whose bodies were recovered were Pete John Gwen Kyle Henry Ralph Henry Howard Donald Davis and Harry loses Stripe in grease trap Case of outside the Wurt martial building at with he civilian of during a recess in the general Mart a partial which convicted him on four of when of International photo army convicts 2d no of mistreating trainees a the army convicted another noncommissioned officer for the grease trap maltreatment of recruits at infantry training a general court martial convicted sic Charles of pm on four of seven charges out of mistreatment re from a disciplined logged com Pmj of a training battalion Here Manas was reduced in rank one to sergeant and fined t Rio nth Over a period of Ata Veteran m sgt George so of the company s toe was sentenced in a last he was reduced one Stripe to sergeant first cuu and fined trial of 1st it Gerald of the company is to begin shortly he is charged neglect of duty and unbecoming an the Lanter Jawed a to with 11 years of army us medic certifies smoking caused death London Jupi a London Phy Mircia uourb4 be considered Percy Lawrence died of cancer Raused by Nolc too Paul told a Coron Cra that la opinion in a connection Khz went lung and he filled a pm left Tom tic Errati Fine to Utah lie mid Larf Naff had smoked to m a kaid it extremely rare for a no Smolter to get can cer of the the Coroner found that Law Luul dead from natural was convicted of forcing one recruit to shout an obscene conducting a mock hanging for a trainee who went to sleep on a firing having one recruit suspended headfirst into a mess Hall grease trap to Eyebrow and kicking a can of the Greasy solution from the trap into the face of a the court composed of six officers and three enlisted men could have sentenced him to a maximum of 5h years in prison and a dishonourable discharge upon conviction on All four charges of Mal treating recruits and three As fault and Battery Moman had pleaded innocent to All observers at this two Day trial and a previous one last week labelled them the grease trials because of testimony on recruits being forced to get bodily into the smelly pits where Kitchen wastes Are disposed Sadu Tir Tower first it John of trial who corresponds to told the court mar tial in his closing arguments that Moman was guilty of extraordinary dictatorial and sadistic Abus Ive defense attorney William town Send of said to Man May have used poor judgment in a mock hanging of one recruit caught sleeping on the firing and in forcing one sensitive Young recruit to sound off with obscene but he pointed out that testimony indicated Moman had been following an example set by Sovie in the obscenity Roosevelt honoured new York fashion division of the federation of jewish philanthropies has named Eleanor Roosevelt woman of the Century and said she was the exemplification of the words written Over the Post office for neither rain nor Snow nor sleet Stop her on her appointed Hill guilty in innocent of planning it by Howard writer the eight member court martial trying pfc Mckinley Hill on a charge of premeditated murder in the death of his German girl Friend reached a verdict wednesday night finding the 24 year old Soldier guilty of but innocent of planning her sentencing was scheduled for thursday after the court recon Venes at am and hears mitigation during which Hills Mother Ella of will the army had charged during the three Day trial that Hill Fol Lowed his girl Margaret to the Lan Stuhl tavern known As johnnies country after a and that me beat her to death with his hands and an unknown Blunt instrument in the w o m e n s rest room of the found lying on floor the woman was found lying on the floor of the room on the night of March and taken to a Lan Stuhl where she died approximately 18 hours during the testimony showed Hill was seen quarrelling with the victim and scuffling in a foyer adjacent to the taverns rest other witnesses Testi fied they saw the accused follow the woman into the room and minutes later emerge in a crouched position and hastily leave the it was not established during the trial that anyone actually saw Hill strike the but s sgt James an airman from Ramstein air testified Dur ing Early stages of the trial that he heard a woman scream come from the closed room just before he saw a person he identified As Hill come running another witness said he had seen motions through the Glass por Tion of the door after observing the couple enter the during the second Day of Testi Mony defense attorneys Franklin Potter and Thomas Lancian moved to have an autopsy per formed on the victims body to determine conclusively the cause of her the courts Law col Alan of rejected the out court motion on the basis that German authorities at the time of the woman death ruled an autopsy in their closing arguments the defense emphasized that not one Iota of evidence has been submit Ted to support the prosecutions charge that Hill struck the victim with his hand or an unknown Blunt nor that the accused Ever planned to kill or do great bodily harm to the defense also cited the Testi Mony of Wlhelm Ger Man physician who attended the that no Trace of a Basic Skull fracture causing cerebral listed in the death certificate As the cause of could be seen in rays taken of the injured pressing the Case for the army were a Chandler and 1st it Joe of the defense was assisted by 1st it Leo col Sidney of the army quartermaster depot at is presi Dent of the Presley to begin 1st Maneu vers in Germany 3 Frankfurt Elvis Presley dons Battle dress next week for his first Maneu vers since coming to Presley 32d tank in stationed at Friedberg near Frankfurt goes the Field 3 and will stay at the Grafe Wohr Man Euver area near Nurnberg until the 32d goes to the Field with other units making up combat come c of the 3d army army officials said Presley will have to go on Maneu vers three times a year with his this Means Presley will switch his luxury suite in nauheim hotel for an army tent pitched at the Grafe Wohr training Presley is a scout jeep Ike praises Keating in new York a Eisenhower joined Rockefeller and Kenneth Keating in a demonstration of Unity Between the who zip House and the in new he told two new Yolk to which he rata that by sending r to Albany they will elect a or just As great As the Fine senator he said they will Keating it for the police estimated that so persons saw the president am two motorcade trips through prior to his departure Tagerty earlier his news James Hagert brushed aside some Public Aladj ports that Rockefeller a Tive attitude about current politicking Rockefeller himself rallies at state gop and at those of the Nixon National citizens that to have Eisenhower his Campaign really is at the latter meat was made that press Cut Benhower will close his ing for a Republican con great nationally televised speech Naf Baltimore Friday of informed funds had been raised to the Baltimore said coined the Opportunity to Spaak the gop cause whatever the whatever the if its it Taafe possible to be in his two the did not such a spendthrift and in reference that have punctuated i speeches he said the Are fighting in this Cam against what he called the Wing of the opposition that does not hold to principles that have country be acknowledged that there differences at times within the publican no one can truthfully say up Hast found something the object he said in reference to of the actions of his own but a can he the principles of Thrift and an Effort to dec aide named by Bee Washington up presi Dent Eisenhower has appointed Kenneth s Dean of the cot lege of chemistry at the pity of to the atone Energy commissions general visor Berlin bans Rock Roll a her riot Berlin a Bill americas Rock n Roll wednesday had this divided City rocking with screams of outrage from East and after investigating the wild riot at the sunday night performance of the guitar strumming Singer and his the shocked West Berlin Senate banned All future Rock n Roll tues East Ger Many official communist denounced Haley in a frontage editorial for turning the youth of the land of Bach and Beethoven into raging stories of the violent clashes be tween West German police and Youthful Rock n rollers at Haleys concert in Essen tuesday night and at Hamburg monday made frontage Haleys Berlin show turned into a Fista Nestick Battle Between 900 youths and resulting in four injured 18 arrests and Marks damage to the West berlins new jazz Circle has threatened one West Berlin news pictures on Page it paper with a lawsuit for describing Rock n Roll As a spokesman said the action was taken in agreement with the Ger Man jazz accusing the newspaper of de liberate the spokesman said jazz is the other to Only primitive people find Rock n Roll at our jazz concerts As As people sit still and As quietly As if they East and West Berlin papers agreed that the Haley was the worst disturbance of a kind that Berlin has but Unity of views ended the Western newspapers aril Young rowdies used the Haley Olav Cert As an excuse to stage just for the the problem mainly As one Venile the communist party or fab branded Haley an of so called aggressive poll fians who were seeking exploit Rock n Roll to create atom War psychology among