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   Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1959, Tokyo, Japan                                Fog 2 the stars and Stipes sunday february 15, 1959 last saw City As world War ii bomber Pilot Jimmy Stewart revisits9 Berlin Berlin a movie actor Jimmy Stewart dropped in Here the other Day and got his first look at a City which he had seen Only from the air As a bomber Pilot during world War ii. T certainly was t sight Eeling then he recalled in his familiar drawl. I remember they had about 18 blocks of antiaircraft guns and they All seemed to go off at  the rebuilding City Stewart commented i did t come Here to find out what happened during the War. My wife and i were Hunting tigers in India when we decided i would be a Good idea to see Berlin. After All Berlin is really Back in the news and we wanted to get a first hand  Stewart did t know it but to himself was getting Back into the news at that very moment. In Washington government officials were disclosing that president Eisen Hower has recommended that Stewart a re serve colonel in the . Air Force be elevate to the rank of brigadier general. Advised of this Stewart had Only the la conic comment it s a great Honor to have been  but on his reactions to Berlin Stewart was More talkative. After stepping off his Airliner at West Ber Lin s templehof Airport one of the first things he did was tour soviet run East Ber Lin. In East Berlin he reported the whole atmosphere was one of Grimness. The tremendous destruction is still visible every where. In West Berlin you have to look  to see evidence of the  to outdoor sports Stewart said seriously i be come to love fishing and Hunting. For somebody in the hectic business i m in. It s the Best Way to get real  the idea of taking a vacation and lying in the Sun somewhere has never appealed to me. Also i Don t like the idea of dashing from one foreign City to another. I have found that the world s big cities Are mostly alike these Days. They Are All packed and All of them have traffic  first thing most american tourists do is look for an american style restaurant or hotel. If you re going to do that you might Aswell stay at Home. But with Hunting and fishing it s different. You really get to know the  Stewart and his wife the former Gloria Patrick Mclean spent four weeks in India two of them in the Jungle. Fred Allen s widow to wed Virginia county parents keep makeshift classes Portland Hoffa former radio Star and widow of comedian Fredallee shares the smiling Outlook of advertising executive Joseph Bines who announced they la be married monday in new York. A pair indicted for poster tying Goldwater to Saline Washington up a fed eral grand jury Hus indicted two men on charges of circulating uie Lection Campaign poster depicting Josef Stalin As plugging for tin election of sen. Barry f. Gold water a Ariz. Indicted were Frank Goldberg an employee of Goodyear aircraft corp. Phoenix Ariz., and Earl n Anderson employed by the International Assn. Of machinists in log Angeles. The men were accused on two counts of violating the Federal corrupt practices act which pro Hibits publication of Anonymous derogatory Campaign material the maximum penalty on each count is 51,000 and a year in jail. The men were charged with transporting from California and then circulating in Arizona a poster showing Stalin winking and saying Why not vote for Gold water the caption under the cartoon said Goldwater was lauded by the to actor Hurt in collision Hollywood a actor Herschel Bernardi 35. Was injured critically in the collision of his motor Scooter and an  plays the role of it Jacob in television s Peter Gunn mystery series. Mine Mill smelter Union which was expelled from organized labor for communist domination. Politic make strange  Goldwater who campaigned on right to work legislation opposed by some unions won a second term in the . Senate by defeating democratic gov Ernest h. Land. U.8. Cotton aids Spain needy Barcelona Spain is More than 150,000 mattresses have been made at the factory operated by Caritas Espanola Here. The cot ton is sent from the . Through the Catholic Relief services for distribution to Spanish needy. Front Royal a. Up Warren county parents voted 545-4to keep their children in private makeshift classes rather than sen them to an integrated Public High school a count of ballots  Warren county education foundation which sponsors the tuition free classes announced the tally of the ballots which were taken Home by students for their parents to Mark. More than 150 ballots still Hadnot been returned by Friday but they could not affect the Over whelming majority in favor of continued private education evidenced by the count and by a near unanimous voice vote at a Public meet ing thursday night. Duncan c. Gibb. Foundation pres ident withheld official announce ment that his group would stay i business. It was obvious however that the private classes would continue. Senator won t talk at Richmond state sen. Mosby Pei Row of Lynchburg continued to fend off reporters queries on the Progress of his 40-member 1 e i s 1 a t i v e study commission charged with blueprinting Vir Ginia s future course in the integration crisis. Neither the commission nor its11-member Spade work committee met Friday but c a p i t o 1 source indicated agreement had been reached in thursday s closed door committee meeting on at least one phase of operation. Gibb s announcement will await hearing in Baltimore monday before Federal appeals judge Simon e. Sobeloff. Sobeloff will Rule on a request from the count for a delay in a lower court edict that the county s Only High school open wednesday on an integrated bases. The school has been close since last september. 22 negroes involve the school Board repeatedly has announced it will open the schools ordered unless Sobeloff Grants an unexpected delay. The school Board t stand has raised the possibility that 22 negroes might enter the big Hilltop schoolhouse alone. Nearly 800 of the 1,050 White High school students in the county have attended the foundation s Pri vate classes since last fall in facilities ranging from a youth Cen Ter to a Confederate museum. The foundation is supported entirely by private donations. School superintendent q. D. Gasque re ported that though application forms for Virginia s new $250 Pri vate school tuition Grants were available in his office he had received Only a few requests for in formation on the program. De Gaulle speech changes workers scowls to cheers Toulouse France up president Charles de Gaulle addressed a crowd of French work Ingmen saturday for the first time since he instituted his Auster Ity program. Austerity has meant higher prices for All of them at no in crease in pay. The workers gave him a sullen greeting but by the time he had finished a five minute speech they were warmly cheering him. The scene was the Sud aviation aircraft factory Here and the occasion was the opening of de Gaulle s first trip out of Paris since he stepped up to the presi Dency a month ago. Two thousand workers had ignored communist urgings to boy Cott de Gaulle in the first place. And when Hie said you Are Lucky to be building this magnificent plane the twin Jet Cara Velle which is shooting across Al skies he got a storm of applause. De Gaulle s four Day trip is expected to reveal How austerity has affected his popularity and this was the first indication. Brazilian cops arrested Goiania Brazil. Up army col Osmar Dutra has ordered the arrest of 27 policemen involved inthe machine gunning of a workers Barracks in which nine men were reported slain. Reports said the police fired on the labourers after they protested a water shortage. Indiana City tied up As bus service halts Evansville ind. A Cit bus service stopped abruptly Here leaving Indiana s fifth largest City population 128,000without an Public transportation except taxi cabs. The company cannot continue to absorb the losses  state ment issued by Wayman Redman superintendent of Evansville City coach  William Davidson promptly accused the bus company of bad Faith and asked the Indiana. Public service commission to Grant a franchise to the first qualified line that applies. That s a Heck of a Way to do Davidson said reporting he had t been notified until Midnight about the sudden end of service. Bus passengers were left stranded on Street Corners unless they happened to be along the routes of two suburban bus lines which added emergency pickups. School buses two Independent lines took Over the hauling of school children to replace the coach lines charter service using some City bus Drivers. John w. Van Ness Public serv ice commission chairman i Indianapolis said the commission probably would Grant temporary permit for bus service if a petition is  lines said last month it would Stop service Jan. 31. Later however it promised to continue operations until a qualified Suc Cessor was ready to take Over the service. Redman said he received orders to Stop the service from Manferd Burleigh president of the Parent firm. City coach lines Detroit because the Evansville line has gone into the red by $125,000 in the last 18 months 6 feared dead As tug sinks Vancouver a the 90 foot american tug Henry Fos struck a Rock in a 70-mile Gale and Sank in Canadian Waters with apparent loss of six crewmen. One Man was saved. The survivor chief engineered Ward Hanson of port Angeles,wash., said the mishap in the 4 am darkness happened so quickly there was no time to radio for help. Another Man deck hand Rich mond t. Lothian also of port Angeles was brought to the medi Cal Center at Ganges Harbor Brit so Columbia but was dead on arrival. The skipper of the port Angeles based tug was a Veteran employee of the Foss tug and Barge co.,Warren Waterman 47, of port Angeles. Others apparently lost were Lawrence Berg 56, mate Martin ,51. Assistant Engi Neer Oswald h. Sorenson 47, deck hand and Erick w Danielson 60,Cook, All of port Angeles. Crewmen of the Canadian Ferryce Peck took Hanson and Lothi an s body to Ganges Harbor Vic Oria. Bunche save negroes prepared to discuss integration Pace Birmingham Aln Fatir re i i i a ii. ,. Birmingham Ala. Up Ralph j. Bunche under Secretary of the United nations snick Here that american negro leaders Are prepared to discuss approach method and Pace of integration if anyone can be found in the South today with whom to  once  Bunche told the  annual forum is a National and not a sectional problem. Lei me say that despite he tempest Over integration in the schools i am As confident As Ever that the problem s on the Way to solution even in the deep is  Bunche whose Grandfather was a slave. Said that of a world population of 2.8 billion two thirds or 1.9 billion Are non White. He said from the world perspective the american negro is Well off better Oft indeed than most nonwhite and very Many White  he is supposed to be better off because As an american he enjoys the material Bene fits of life in the most highly developed society in the world. And l hasten to add that this is neither gift nor Boon for the american negro contributed mightily and unselfishly and witless Reward than others to the growth and strength and prestige of this great and Rich land we helped build our country. Moreover that the american negro i relatively better off than Many other Peoples does not in the least temper his demand or the Justice of that demand for All of the rights privileges and opportunities to which he is entitled As an american citizen. Negro leadership is reasonable on the question of desegregation. It recognizes fully that there Are questions of approach method and Pace which Are variable from Community to Community and which can and should be discussed if anyone can be founding the South today with whom to discuss   
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