European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fridge 4 Duclos pressed in vote bid red waging Uphill French ballot fight by Preston of Over Montreuil France a Jacques do los second ranking Man in the French communist party is having a cat and dog fight for his Assembly scat in a District just outside  the first time in 23 years he Hus a real fight on his hands for the government tried to Rig his District by including a lot of conserva Tive territory in which he never before had to  defeat would be of vast importance because he is by far the most vocal communist in the party especially since the top Man Maurice Short had a  has three opponents but Only one of Thorn counts seriously. In his in test Campaign meeting in a drab Little room in a Montreuil school he attacked the candidate lie fears most Henri Frenay for Mer member of Premier Charles Fie Gaulle s postwar Cabinet. Fre got a lot of publicity in his Campaign by challenging Duclos to a debate which Duclos refused. The stars and stripes tuesday november 18, 1958 chinese nationalists pass the ammunition Impi photo Duclom warring on to Baleo says London up1 the soviet Union has declared a propaganda War against smoking radio mos cow says. Replying to a question from a British listener a soviet woman broadcaster or. Ludmila Bakse Lova said the effect of tobacco on the human body is carefully studied and the results Given due publicity in Russia. The presence of so called can cer causing substances in tobacco smoke which when introduced into in smals cause malignant tutors has been proved she said. Or. Bakse Lova said soviet scientists have shown smoking complicates and hinders the treatment of nervous disorders. Every Effort she said is made to stress the ill effects of smoking. A great amount of printed mat Ter on smoking is published and circulated throughout the country soviet medical officers and scientists lecture on its harmful effect in clinics clubs and  she said those who want to Stop have Only to see their physician or. Bakse Lovo said the Prog Arr is particularly directed at teen agers. Grave problem London up the consistory court of the Church of Engle Yumet to decide on the Case of Clergyman who objects to the words rest in peace on u Tombstone. The Rev. Raymond Ileal says rest in peace is a command i in prefers May he or she res in  lost face the communist parly head quarters said Annj such meeting would Only wind up in a riot and they probably Are right. But do Clos failure to accept the Chal Lenge lost him face. The real trouble he faces is that his District gave a majority vote to the do Gaulle Constitution in the referendum on sept 28. Twas the first time in Many years that the District had Ever turned against Duclos who  against the Constitution. Fewer than a Hundred attended he Duclos meeting a Small turn Lut for the virtual head of the a ional party. The mayor of thrown himself a communist said t was hard to get people stirred in about the election. Good speaker but Duclos stirred them up nevertheless. He is a Good orator and i Good Small meeting talker. He told them the communist party was working for a higher level of old age pensions. He also said the party is working for unemployment insurance. Clearly a number of his audience in a poo Quarter would Benefit from that. He attacked the americans by saying that in return for marshal Laid the americans had insisted that communists be thrown out of the government. The fact that the party was thrown out of the government by a socialist Premier in 1947 before Marshall Aid did t bother him. But he knew he could prove that americans have Long been unhappy about the presence of Romany communists in key French industries including the sensitive nuclear  and his followers Don t seem to have organized the Campaign very Well. A number turned up for a meeting earlier in the week because it was announced in human it a the communist official paper. Duclos seemed never to have heard about it did t show  mayor of Montreuil said Duclos normally got 51 to 52 per cent of the vote on the first round enough to elect him without taking part in the Runoff vote week afterwards. But this year the government added the town of Rosny to his District a town that is Only 35 per cent communist. Chinese. Nationalist troops massed in Bow of Landing ship at Quemoy pack ashore eight Inch howitzer wheels for possible use against communist Shore batteries which have threatened to resume every Day firing. The chinese reds now shoot Only on Odd numbered Days. A photo freed tourist says German reds sought . Recognition via arrest Bonn a a Young Ameri can tourist held for a month in East Germany on spy charges said the communists apparently decided to let him go when they realized they could not win an diplomatic advantage by holding him. George s. Milroy of Ann Arbor mich., was released unexpectedly saturday after being arrested oct. 17 for taking a photograph of a russian Headquarters in East Ger Many. Milroy said he was not mis handled by his captors but was put under terrific psychological pressure to admit being a spy. Milroy said he protested under lengthy interrogation that he was an innocent tourist. Motive revealed Milroy said a girl interpreter betrayed the communist motives to him when she said through you we will get the . To recognize the Der East Germany he kept demanding to be put in touch with . Consular authorities but was always told your Consul won t speak to  Milroy was arrested near Neu Streltz 70 Miles North of Berlin while driving from Copenhagen. While he was held in jail in East Berlin he was unaware of the crisis Over Berlin set off bythe speech of soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatening to hand Over soviet occupation pow ers to the German communist  it was shortly after that speech that his captors suggested he should apply to the East Ger Man government for an interview with a .  to that this request had been answered that s impossible the . Diplomatic authorities won t Deal with  he was also told it was impossible to Telephone . Authorities because there we Reno phone connections Between East and West  interrogators Drew up the re quest to the East German govern ment. It said i hereby request that you create the possibility for me to talk with . Diplomatic  then said the interpreter working on this document blurted out her revealing remark about recognition for the East German  that i gathered they were not making any headway in their efforts to get in Contact with . Diplomatic people Milroy  happened after his writ ten request was sent off. Suddenly last saturday he was told he would be released As his transit visa expired that Day. He was Given Back All his possessions and escorted by police to the inter zonal Frontier. When he had driven into West Germany he discovered that . Authorities had not been in formed of his release. So he Tele phoned the . Military Mission Iberlin and told them he . European edition the stars and army Navy air Force marooned ship re floated Charleston . A the Hermitage a Navy floating Dock went aground in the Narro Channel of the Cooper River Here while heading toward the Atlantic on an outgoing tide. No one was reported injured. It was re floated some six hours later. Old Skeleton gets of to leave Italy Rome a  the 10-Niillion-year old Skeleton believed to be an ancestor of Mankind is on its Way to  for n while it had a very modern problem. It could t get a passport. To be specific italian authorities delayed giving Swiss scientist or. Johannes Hurzeler permission to take it out of Italy  Hurzeler has the permission and the valuable Skeleton was shipped from Grosseto to his Laboratory at the Basel museum of natural sciences. Hurzeler found the first Complete Skeleton of  a pint sized pre Man last August in the Bacinello Lignite mine near Grosseto North of  discovery pushed the possible beginnings of the human race Back nine million years earlier than any previously known Dawn Man remains. At his Laboratory Hurzeler will remove Coal de posits from the Skeleton test it for its exact age and try to determine How  in the flesh looked and lived. Col John d. Nottingham Usan editor in chief it col t. J. Cunningham jr., Usa asst editor in chief Nathan j. 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