European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 17, 1958 the stars and stripes More yanks see Europe via autos Washington a a record 150,000 americans Are touring Europe by car this year the american automobile Assn. Aaa reports. Russel e. Singer aaa executive vice president predicted that 200,000will choose this Means of visiting european tourist centers next year. Singer told a recent meeting of the society of american travel writers that in spite of a business recession at Home and War threats Light activates aspirin size Power unit Plant animal Battery developed Berkeley Calif. A two scientists have produced a Battery out of Plant and animal Mailer. I generates electricity when exposed to Light. The Battery is a Little Large than an aspirin Tablet. It yields Only a feeble flow of current butt May be the forerunner of a Power unit which could be use for instruments in satellites operating on sunlight the scientists said. First production of electricity in in Many parts of the world Amer r leans this year will spend $250 Mil lion More for foreign travel than they did in 1957. Singer said that in the first eight months of this year the aaa has obtained 88,000 foreign driving per mits for americans 57 per Cen More than in the corresponding period of 1957. Rentals up z9% he added that automobile rent als to americans abroad Are 20 per cent greater than last year and automobile sales overseas to americans Are up 20 per cent. Conducted Tours for aaa Mem Bers in foreign countries Are 62 per cent greater than a year ago. And Independent foreign Tours for members Are 26 per cent greater in number and 39 per cent greater in value Singer said. Favourably impressed the travel official added that 70managers and officials of Automo bile clubs in 31 states who recently made a 30-Day study tour in nine european countries were favourably impressed b y Europe s preparations for the Jet age. Singer said they found consider Able expansion and modernization of hotels and noted much build ing of motels Highway construction and repair and increasing us of automobiles by american tourists. Missing a expert s yacht lifted from sea Salvage ship raises 38-foot yacht owned by Rich Ard h. Tingey Bethlehem steel co. Nuclear Power expert missing on a voyage off the Massachusetts coast. Tingey disappeared sept. 6. The yacht which was recovered off Duxbury mass., is believed to have sunk the next Day. Indiana rigs own murder Chesterton ind. A state police said a Valparaiso ind., far implement dealer rigged up a crude device to make his suicide look like murder. And they would like to know  body of Walter w. Bartz 63, was found in his automobile on Alane off a county Road five Miles East of Chesterton. There was a .22 Cal Bullet wound in his head and he held a crude firing device in his left hand. Device failed state police said Bartz had drilled a Hole in a two Inch Bolt to hold a Cartridge held it to his right Temple with his left hand and fired it by striking it with Ahammer held in his right hand. A screen door Spring rigged with a Hook and Rod was attached tothe firing device so the Spring would hurl it through the car window into a Cornfield after it was fired. State police said the Spring slipped off in the firing of the  empty Wallet was found on the Back seat of the  Elmer Johnson said sanity exams ordered for a nil tax Clergyman Cincinnati a the  f. Mccrackin pacifist minister who refuses to pay in come taxes or enter a courtroom under his own Power has been or dered confined for psychiatric examination. . District judge John h. Bartz had been despondent cause of ill health. Be no crime to kiss girl in jail judge rules Gastonia . Up kiss ing a girl in jail is not against the Law in  Ray Cline 25, and Bobby Dean Owens 21, went before Lodge j. Will floss jr., on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a 15-year-old girl. The state charged that Glin and Owens trustees at the county jail had kissed the girl when they took food to the cell where she was being held As delinquent. It s no crime to kiss a pretty girl even if she does happen to be in jail at the time floss said and dismissed the charges. Druffel issued the order after Mccrackin 1did not appear Friday morn ing for arraignment on an indict ment charging failure to respond to an internal Revenue service summons. 2was taken into custody in front of his Church an hour Anda half later and carried bodily to a cell in the . Marshal s office.3was Ridden in a wheel chair from his cell to the Entrance of the courtroom and then carried before the court.4refused to stand when judge Druffel entered.5refused to stand up and plead to the indictment. Eurlich inc Denton sept. 12, the 56-year-old rec Tor of the West Cincinnati Barna Bas Episcopalian and presbyterian Church also had to be carried into . Commissioner s court to face a contempt charge. Rev. Mccrackin who has re fused to pay income taxes for 10 years on the ground the Money issued for War purposes had just been carried to a chair in Druffel courtroom when George Normile following custom tapped the gave land said Rise  everyone in the courtroom stood but the minister. Normile pointed the Gavel a Mccrackin and said hey you i said stand  the minister ignored the second request Deputy marshal lifted him to his feet and held him  him sit if he wants to Druffel said As he moved to the Bench. . Attorney Thomas Stueve then read the indictment. It charged Rev. Mccrackin with failing to respond to a summons then As is customary in Suc Hases Stueve asked Rev. Mccrackin o step before the bar and Entera plea. I cannot step before the bar voluntarily Mccrackin replied. After the government attorney repeated the request several times be turned to Druffel and said in View of the defendant s a Ion it Appeal s that he does not Lave the mental competence to understand the purpose of the proceedings Here today or have the ability to prepare his own de  junked cars plague . New York up the police department said one of its biggest headaches is the car owner who decides to junk his vehicle by just stripping it and leaving it on the Street. The department has three Gar Ages filled with 865 unclaimed abandoned and stolen cars. Romany in fact that a Public auction will be held nov. 12 at polic Headquarters to get rid of some of the junk heaps. The police department said some old cars Are abandoned when their owners consider them no longer useful and it s cheaper simply to leave them on the Street than Mohave them towed away. Spirit of Christmas reaches fabulous Heights in Dallas Dallas a a Dallas department store put out a Christmas Catalon with a Page of gifts Lis Tedas frankly fabulous and pardner they weren t  listed include Black Gold a Royalty interest in More than 750producing Oil Wells in the Mam Moth Sac Roc unit in West  for your most gifted heir it was priced at $8,750. But Don Trush someone already Lias bought that  the world in 98 Days is another stunner. It s describe Das a trip off the beaten track to places bypassed by time  Are plenty of those in Stock. They re $12,800 for two or $8,000 for  there s a set of China in Queen Elizabeth s own pattern 102pieces for $8,620 170 bunco of per fume for a Mere $2,500, a Complete Home soda Fountain or a set of Crystal glasses the same owned baking Saud for arabian nights in  car plays billiards wrecks store Interior san Bruno Calif. Up  Alexander of Millbrae Calif., drove her car through the front window of the Leisure Towne shop in san  car bounced around the Small shop s Walls like a giant Billiar Dball demolishing the store s Interior. The explanation As shews trying to Park mrs. Alexander hit the accelerator instead of the Brake. The Gas pedal stuck. This manner was reported by or. Melvin Calvin and David Ken Nain the current Issue of the journal of chemical , a chemist at the univer sity of California is one of the Foremost researchers in photosynthesis. That is the process bar which plants convert sunlight an simple chemicals into food and Energy. Carns is a gradual chemistry student. The Battery differs from existing solar batteries in that it uses Only organic compounds derived fro Plant and animal life. Most of them contain inorganic material such As silicone the main ingredient of Sand or other minerals. Calvin said the idea came Wonhe and koans found chloroplasts the cells which contain Chloro Phyll arc built something like a layer cake with layers of protein fat and chlorophyll alternating. Chloroplasts produce Energy by absorbing  packets of sunlight with this Energy they Changewater and Carbon dioxide into sugar for Plant food and  All life on Earth is de pendent upon this process. The layer cuke arrangement of the chloroplasts is like the Struc Ture of conventional solar  Are made up of alternate thin layers of substances like the plates in a storage Battery. When sunlight strikes the solar batteries they produce electricity. Some of these batteries have been used i american satellites. Calvin hit upon the idea of using not chlorophyll but two organic dyes which have Peculiar electrical properties. These dyes Are poor conductors of electricity when leptin the dark but Good when exposed to Light. Chemically they have structures something like the layers of materials in chloroplasts. Making thin wafers of the two Dye powders the experimenters stacked them in layer cake Fash Ion exposed the finished product to Light and Tot a tiny electric cur rent. The two dyes used were Phthalocyanine and  schuster Kin May file suit Albany up the court of appeals has ruled that the family of Arnold schuster shot to death six years ago after he identified Bank robber Willie Sutton May sue new York City and collect if they can prove the City was negligent. Schuster a Young Brooklyn pants Salesman spoiled sullen on a new York City Street and notified police who captured him. About three weeks later schuster was shutdown by an assailant who never has been found. The state s highest court Over ruled lower court decisions throw ing out the $500,000 suit brought by Max schuster the dead Man s father. Folice Burden feared the four Man majority in an unbearable situation faces new England Telephone co. Warren . A bears Are wrecking new England Tele phone co. Poles Here in a misguided search for Honey. The phone company does t know what to do about the  company said the bears hear the humming of the wires and Are tricked into believing the noise i caused by bees. Some 50 poles Are under attack by the Bruins Harold m. Robinson company officials  All of them show Evi Dence of Bear visitations but the worst ones have been cuffed out to a depth of two or three inches he said. What they do is stand on their Hind legs and swat at the poles with their front  opinion written by judge John Vanvoorhis said it is the duty of citizens to help in the arrest an prosecution of citizens and it is therefore the duty of the govern ment to see that such citizens Are properly protected. The three Man minority argue Din an opinion by chief judge Al Bert Conway that citizens had no special duty to help police run Down criminals. The minority said that to allow the would be to place Burden on police for round the clock Protection of every witnessing every Case. The decision Means that the Casmay now be brought to trial and damages can be collected if a jury is convinced the City was negligent. Schuster suit a tremendous