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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday november 14, 1958 the stars and stripes Page 7 arrested in arms plot e. Steadman left Waits in custody of fort , a la.,police officer Leo Callahan after his arrest on charges of being Pilot of an arms Laden plane seized by authorities at an Airfield near fort Lauderdale. Also arrested were 22 persons identified As cuban rebels or sympathizers. Steadman was born in Huron . Up photo major s Holdup spree leaves widow mystified it. Leaven or fish Kan. A mrs. Russell e. Parker aimlessly caressed an empty Coffee cup still puzzled by the question which had tormented her for sleepless hours. I know people Are asking Why an officer with a Fine record would do this thing she said. I cannot answer them. I simply  her husband a 40-year-old army major from Laurel miss., was shot and killed monday night As he fled with $568 he had stolen in a Holdup at a downtown Kansa City movie theater. The theater manager John e. Dugan shot the decorated Veteran of world War Viand Korea. The parkers came to it. Leaven Worth from Cochin ky., in August. He was taking a 10-month course at the army s command and Gen eral staff College. They lived in the upstairs of a private Home i Leavenworth. They have no Chil Dren. I have no idea. There was no hint. That anything was so desperately wrong said mrs. Parker. He seemed to be in goo spirit. He seemed to be in Good health. We would Rise Early and have breakfast together and he would leave for class at 7 45. Then at 3 30 he would come Home. He usually studied until dinner time. After dinner sometimes he would go to the officers club for a while. He was Happy go Lucky in a Way but he took his studies seriously. He was determined Todo Well. I wanted to help him. I had no outside activities. When he left after dinner he told me he was going to the club. I know he had some worries on his mind but i could Only guess at them. He always tried to shield me from problems. He always wanted me to be  an army spokesman said Parker May have worried about financial problems. He had helped pay heavy medical expenses incurred recently by his parents or. And mrs. Edgar Parker in Laurel. Pentagon official denies military plans . Space Aims peaceful new York a the chief of America s Mili tary space Agency has asserted the . Has no offensive Aims in  w. Johnson director of the Pentagon s and Vance research projects Agency Arp delivered this View to the new York slate bar Assn. The comment came at. A time when Russia was charging in the United nations that the . Aspired to military domination of the Moon. I can say categorically to you that the United states has no military offensive objectives in space Johnson said. It is a fundamental moral attitude of the entire american people that we have no desire to aggrandize territory on Earth to infringe upon the sover eign rights of other nations or to seek the Extension of american Power through military moans be Tiheyon Earth or in  but at. Another Point Johnson emphasis cd the Effort of the . To prepare defensively for space warfare. The need for tills has been recognized since 1947,Johnson said adding our programs have been devised to achieve full operational readiness during la 19150-1962 time. These dates were selected on the basis of the Best judgments available. They have Boon adjusted us new information and new circumstances  Johnson did not explain what projected weapons or vehicles he referred to in mentioning the attain ment of operational readiness for space defense. Auto producer sees new role for . Cars Detroit up the Auto buyer of the future will look More for engineering changes than he Willfor styling modifications american motors corp. President George Romney says. Romney also predicted compact cars the term he applies to am s rambler will make up 50 per cent or More of the Auto Industry sales before 1970. He said any future casualties in the. Auto Industry would be in the Middle Price Field. The american Public still wants Good looking car but a car is no longer the Symbol of prestige it used to be " he said. Prosperity has made it possible for almost everyone to buy a car of his  has changed the primary Pur pose of the automobile from a pres Tige item to a Means of transport  the am president said this trend was heralded by the fact that the big three of the Auto Industry has already reduced the number of Basic body shells available. His prediction of 50 per cent of the Market for the compact car be fore 1970 followed his reasoning on the change in a buyer s attitude toward cars. With the disappearance of much of the prestige buying the Public will be looking for cars in the Aren where the Low priced models of the big three were when a car was first primarily a Means of transportation he said. The Low priced cars have abandoned that area in search of prestige and the compact car has taken Over. Basic transportation cars of the Post sold More than half of the Market and there is no reason to believe they won t do it again when the Public returns to buying cars for that purpose instead of  after Long  Colo. A Rudolph Martin Warden of the Pueblo county jail says he will quit. He first went to work in 1931. Martin said he has decided the Job is to dangerous. Invalid s pet trapped 9 Days in Wall can of pebbles helps in cat s Rescue Atlanta a a rescuer scared Tennie the cutout of a Hole in a building Wall by using a tin can filled with pebbles. The cat imprisoned for nine Days was freed through efforts of j. W. Ray manager of the atlant humane society. An expert animal rescuer reportedly flying from Boston had not shown up when the cat was freed. Tennie one of two cats owned by Claren Degoursey g7, fell from the window ledge of the hotel where Coursey lives. The hotel adjoins another Structure with Only six or eight inches separating the buildings. Debris littering the Crevice hampered numerous Rescue efforts. Tennie hid from rescuers part of the time apparently by crawling into a Hole in one of the Walls. Efforts to reach its hiding place through a window in the hotel basement were unsuccessful. Finally Ray entered a vacant store in the building adjoin ing the hotel removed a basement window and cleaned out paper old bricks and other material that had collected Between Walls of the  lowered the tin can eight feet below the window ledge and rattled it loudly. Tennie ran from the Hole into the hotel basement. Ray quickly close the basement window rounded up the missing feline and restored it to Coursey. Two youngsters in the hotel basement delayed the Rescue Effort in an Earnest desire to help. While Ray was in the basement of the vacant store the two boys poked around the hotel basement window opening with Sticks. Ray had to run them off before Tennie would approach the hotel basement window. Coursey a near invalid whose Only companions Are his cats was Happy Over the Rescue. He re marked that his pet was in Good shape and evidently had eaten much of the food he tossed into the Crevice. Giant Power producer a huge Turbine spindle part of the Philadelphia Khz citric co s new 325,000-kilowatt super pressure Power Plant it Eddystone 1 a., Dwarf workmen in West in House electric corp s Lister i a., Plant. When installed the Turbine will use steam at a record 5,000 Poilu la of pressure heated to 1,200 degrees fahrenheit. Inti photo Cambridge beats Chicago 524486, in telepathy meet Chicago Aid whoever says Tipiere in t British american accords an t seen the results of the first transatlantic intercollegiate mind Reading match. University of Chicago scholars sadly admitted somewhat in the spirit of their gone but not for gotten football team that the went Down to defeat 524-486, at the minds of Trinity College Cam Bridge scholars. Otherwise the match was a Vic tory of mind Over Matlor-4,000 Miles of Terra Firma and the deep est Ocean in the world. For the students claim that they sat Down in rooms an Ocean a Cul Ture and six hours apart and guessed what their foreign counterparts were thinking 20 per cent of the time. Held last Spring the extra sensory perception match was held last Spring the obvious time to read minds trans Atlantic ally and the results were just released. This is How the students stretched minds across the sea each school s varsity mind Reading team composed of 10 Stu dents lined up in classrooms a their schools. Laurence Victor led off for Cam Bridge by concentrating on the image of a card held before him for 20 seconds. The american students mean while thought As hard As the could on the things that could pos Sibly be running through a Young britishers s mind and wrote the Down. After the English team had sent1,250 images of astronomical sym Bols the Chicago team began transmitting and the Trinity Stu dents receiving. The schools exchanged received messages by mail and added up the results. Twenty per cent of the images had been correctly received. The Odds against something like that Are 2,000 to 1," said Stev Abrams Captain of the Chicago team. This might prove As import antas when Benjamin Franklin flew his Kite Abrams added. Other Chicago students wondered if mind Reading might not take the place of the University of Chi Cago s football team abandoned some years ago to devote More time to things of the mind. Instructions followed Detroit a the fraternal order of police Lodge 102, gave the Public schools Here 11,000 rulers bearing the legend play Safe Rule out  school officials promptly sent them Back. They said the Metal Edge made the rulers unsafe  
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