European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse A euro the Star european edition ripes army Navy air Force unofficial publication of the . Armed forces in Europe North Africa and the Middle East volume 17, number 213 5 cents daily 1,0 cents sunday tuesday november 18, 1958 chief of armed forces seizes Power in Sudan test ban offer by Russ fails suit West to Gen pledges closer link with Egypt Khartoum Sudan up the army seized Power throughout Sudan monday. Commander in chief it Gen Ibrahim Abboud took Over blood Lessly As chief of stat with a pledge of stability at Home and closer relation with Egypt abroad. Abboud 58-year-old career officer dissolved the civilian government f Premier Abdullah Khalil suspended the Constitution and decreed a state of emergency enforced by armoured cars through out the capital. There was no opposition. The general belief was that no major changes were to be expected in sudanese 3-year-old Republic had been pro Western except during the 1956 Suez invasion and Only last month negotiated an agreement for Mili tary Aid from military takeover was first announced from Omdurman radio across the Nile from Khartoum. During the hours of darkness just before Dawn armoured cars had taken up positions around the a Pital and guarding the Airport and the suspension of the Constitution was announced at Day break. Armoured units other armoured units took up precautionary positions guarding All embassies and government of noon Abboud summoned the ambassadors of All 22 nations rep resented Here including the .,soviet and United Arab Republic envoys. He read the7 text of his Declara Tion of Power and then asked for prompt recognition from their governments. Business went on As usual in the capital. The quiet seemed Complete except for the precautionary troop disposition and the unusually cont. On Page 2t, col. 5 Topi Tel photo it Gen Ybrahim Abboud weather forecast mostly Cloudy with no change in temperature Hish 50, Low 43.air weather service army Convoy spans soviet zone safely from press dispatches Berlin a . Army Convoy monday completed a 110-mile trip through the soviet zone from Ber Lin and passed the soviet s Helm Stedt checkpoint into West Ger Many without incident an army spokesman said. It was the first Convoy to go through since the russians blocked one Friday. Monday s Convoy was led by a sergeant and another enlisted Man in a jeep with Only Drivers in the two open flatbed trucks one carrying a wrecked vehicle and the other Oil Drums. 6-minute delay the soviets held the Convoy for Only about 6 minutes at the Check Point outside West Berlin while they checked the papers. Then the vehicles headed Down the 110-mile autobahn link to West Germany. In letting the american Convoy go through the soviets did not actually Back off from the position they took Friday in halting the previous american Supply Convoy. The key Issue of the right to in Spect the interiors of the trucks cont. On Page 2%, ool. If . Warns soviet on 2 air attacks Washington a the . Has charged that russian fighter planes staged dangerous and provocative attacks against american planes 10 Days ago Over the Baltic sea and the sea of Japan. A formal note demanded that the soviet government take immediate Steps to halt such interference with american air Craft. The note warned that in the future commanders of american aircraft will be under instructions to take any defensive action which they consider necessary and a the attacks came within five hours of each other nov 7 in widely separated areas. The . Planes were flying what the state department called Normal air Force training flights Over International in the Baltic attack soviet fighters fired twice at an Ameri can plane at 33,000 feet. The note said the attack occurred 66 Miles from the nearest soviet territory. The american plane withheld cont. On Page 2jt col. 5 Geneva up Russia offered the West a purported new Concession to save the Geneva nuclear conference monday but the West said it was no Concession and that it did nothing to ease the East West russians offered to negotiate two separate agree ments one for Banning nuclear tests and one for controls to enforce the ban and suggested the agreement be signed simultaneously. The soviets refrained from their expected Flat condemnation of the . Offer of a nuclear testing ban treaty. Instead in an unexpected tactic Al move they handed the West a new slightly revised draft working plan designed according to communist sources to keep the dead locked Geneva atom talks alive.2-week deadlock the nuclear conference has been deadlocked for More than two weeks Over Russia s demands for an immediate East West pledge to halt nuclear testing. The West insists on in fusion of a control sys tem As an integral part of any nuclear ban new soviet proposal called for this Agenda 1discussion of discontinuance of nuclear tests and a control sys tem a a draft agreement on Dis continuance of tests a a draft agreement on con trols.2simultaneous signing of both agreements.3a report to the ., British and soviet governments on the re sult of the Western sources pointed out that what the soviets had done was simply to juggle paragraphs in effect they still were demand cont. On Page 2h col. I Ike plans Holiday Washington up president Eisenhower will leave thursday or Friday for Augusta ga., an will remain through thanksgiving on a golfing vacation the Whitehouse announced monday Pope names 23 cardinals. 2 from . Vatican City up Pope John Xxiii monday raised the sacred College of cardinals to its greatest strength in history with the naming of 23 princes of theroman Catholic Church who will be invested in a series Ocon histories beginning dec. 15. Two Are americans. The 23 new cardinals who raise the strength of the sacred College to 75 members include in addition to the americans 13 italians two frenchmen and one each from Mexico Uruguay Britain Spain Austria and Germany. Msgr. John o Hara archbishop of Philadelphia and msgr Richard James gushing archbishop of Boston were the two americans. They will bring to four the num Ber of american cardinals. The other two Are Francis Cardinal Spillman archbishop of new York and James Francis Cardinal Mcintyre archbishop of los Angeles. But the pontiff this time did not replace the vacancies in Detroit and Chicago caused by the deaths in Rome this year of Edward cont. On Page 2, col. 1 High octane books go on Sale nine in one car Driver of other killed in crash san Augustine Tex. Up five adults and five children were killed and another person critically injured monday when a pickup truck swerved into the path of a crowded old Model Sedan on a curve. All nine persons in the 8 or 9 year old Sedan were killed in the Headon crash while the Only survivor of the Accident was a Pas Senger in the pickup truck which was driven by Charles Aaron Mcclelland who was Garner manager of a funeral Home Here identified the occupants of the Sedan As Ralph Lee Reed his wife and baby daughter his Mother in Law mrs. Johnnie Mae Mccollister her four children and James Rayson of Shelbyville Tex. Gen f. F. Everest Safe commander orders new High test from Wiesbaden Esso attendant Karl Holzhauser. Sat photo Coupon books for the Purchase of High octane gasoline at All Ger Man Esso filling stations go on Sal tuesday at 10 air Force Exchange sales Points in Germany and a european Exchange system stores that regularly handle Quarter master gasoline coupons. According to col Richard , chief of Alex in Europe the Coupon books will be sold a Sembach air base Span Dahlem air base Hahn air base Rhine Maiji air base Pitburg air base and at the Pitburg shopping Center the Ramstein shopping Center and at three locations in Wiesbaden Wiesbaden air base Lindsey air station and the Haine Berg shop Ping Center. Coupon books come in 120 and 200-liter sizes and Are Good at Esso stations in West Germany and West yes spokesman at Nurnberg said that the Coupon books had been distributed in time to go on Sale at All but the most Remote yes stores High test gasoline rated at 97-98 octane under the research method used by american gasoline firms will be offered to authorized customers who May Purchase All or part of their monthly gasoline rations in the High octane fuel. Cost of the fuel is 27 cents a gallon
