European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse European edition army Navy air Force unofficial publication of the . Armed forces to Europe North Africa and the Middle East volume 18, number 83 5 cents daily 10 cents sunday Friday july 10, 1959 survivors of Lahe tragedy Wade ashore Saigon up some of the 44 survivors of the danish pleasure bout tragedy Wade ashore after the explosion death toll 53 in danish boat Haderslev Denmark a Denmark s second maritime Dis Aster within six months has claimed 53 lives. Frogman found additional bodies on the Bottom of Haderslev Lake where a crowded pleasure boat with at least 97persons aboard blew up and burned within an hour. Police said 44 passengers definitely were saved. The danish shipping inspection Board a government Agency supervising shipping Security measures said the boat was loaded far beyond its. Capacity.". Reduced capacity it said the former capacity limit of 75 was recently reduced to "35 after the Agency was told the boat carried Only -37 life belts two for the Crew and 35 for the passengers. The Agency also said the owner failed to report a recent Over hauling of the Gas engine which is required by , the Agency said an inappropriate makeshift Gas pipe was found in the soldering wreck. Ripped Craft burned. And Sank in Haderslev Lake with a loss of 53 fives. Up telephoto some foreigners including germans and belgians were re ported missing but police refused to give their names pending Possi ble identification bodies. Of 35 charred bomb Mars negro s Lawn Little Rock Ark. A a bomb blasted a Small Hole in Thelan at the Home of l. C. Bates negro publisher whose wife Heads the Arkansas chapter of the National Assn. For the advancement of coloured people there were no injuries and no major damage was reported. They took nothing but the Kitchen Sank Tampa Fla. Up the old phrase they got everything but the Kitchen sink worked in re verse for Home builder Anthony reported to police that someone broke into his Home still under construction and stole Only the Kitchen sink. 2 . Advisers killed by Vietnam communists communist terrorists attacking from the Jungle threw a plastic bomb into an american military advisory group s Billet near Here. In the ensuing blast and Exchange of gun fire two americans two vietnamese and one of the attackers were killed. A third american was injured. The americans killed were maj Long gets rid of his doctors Baton Rouge la. Up gov. Earl Long apparently got rid of his doctors thursday but conflicting reports about the state of Long s health led to general con fusion at the state Capitol. His executive Secretary a. A. Fredericks said the governor was great and that doctors were be ginning to annoy him. There was no doctor nurse or psychiatrist inthe mansion thursday. But a High state official said Long was failing a team of six doctors said he seems More fatigued than he has been prior to this on the other hand Fredericks said his condition is so improved that a team of doctors who called on Jim late wednesday decided an attending physician is not Neces . National debt rises to $284 billion Washington a the .wound up the financial year with its greatest National debt and Only enough Money in the till to pay government Bills for three weeks. Treasury figures just released disclosed that when accounts we rewound up june 30, the National debt was $284,816,000,000, and there was an operating Cash balance of $4,379,000,000. Last year the figures were $276,444,000,000 and $9,029,000, 000. Dale r. Buis of Imperial Beach calif., and m sgt Chester m. Ovnand of Copperas Cove Tex. Capt Howard b. Boston of Blairsburg Iowa was wounded. In Washington . Officials said they Are certain the South Vietnam government is. Doing everything possible to capture the terrorists. The attack one of several in stances of recently stepped up terrorist activities in South Vietnam occurred shortly after 7 pm Dur ing a movie showing. Five to 10 men armed with cont. On Page 21. Col. 3 Herter hints at possibility of Berlin pact Washington a Secretary of state Christian a. Herter said thursday there May be some possibility of Allied agreement with Russia Over the future of Berlin. At his first news conference since taking office Herter stressed however he is not optimistic about the outcome of big four foreign ministers talks due to resume in Geneva monday. Herter reiterated that president Eisenhower would shun any Summit meet ing with Russia s Premier Nikita a Khrushchev unless Progress is made at a lower level on easing East West problems. But under questioning he declined to say just How much pro Gress would be adequate for or. Eisenhower to attend a Summit Parley. Believes soviets trying in a 40-minute meeting with newsmen Herter said he believed the soviets Are genuinely trying to reach agreement with the ., Britain and France on German issues. Thus far he said the soviets have avoided using the Geneva talks mainly As a propaganda forum. The talks ended three weeks ago in deadlock a tier of negotiations. Herter said he plans to visit Ber Lin at the conclusion of the coming Geneva foreign ministers Confer ence. Herter also made these other main Points pianos shift Herter expressed Hope that or. Eisenhower and France s president Charles de Gaulle will meet before Loo Longford a discussion of problems which have led to the withdrawal of . Fighter bombers from French soil. Herter noted at his news Confer ence that talks at the ambassadorial level have been under Way in Washington on de Gaulle s re quest that France be Given control Over nuclear weapons stored on French soil. Mideast he expressed optimism that there has been an improve ment in the Middle East situation especially in . Relations with Iraq and the United Arab Republic. He told a news conference the cont. On Page 2., col. 5 Senate blocks new cuts oks 3.5 billion Aid Washington a the sen ate passed 65-26, a pared Down $3,54.3,320,000 foreign Aid Bill after rejecting All new efforts to slash deeper the overseas spending authority president Eisenhower asked. However it let stand $383.5 Mil lion in cuts previously voted. The final total was below the $3,909,-400,000 the president asked but above the $3,542,600,000 voted bythe House. The Senate acted under the Shadow of a Broad hint earlier in the Day from or. Eisenhower that if his foreign Aid authority was Cut too deeply he might Call Congress Back into special session later this year to consider hiking it. Senate democratic Leader Lyn Don b. Johnson of Texas opposed by a majority of his fellow democrats helped the republicans fightback All new efforts to Cut the Aid Bill in the final hours of voting. The Senate also voted for sus pension of foreign Aid to any coun try which expropriated . Prop erty without just compensation. It adopted 59-32, an amendment by sen. Styles Bridges . To the foreign Aid Bill after a debate which brought mention of land expropriation by Cuba s Fidel Castro. The amendment says that when Ever the president determines thata foreign government is taking cont. On Page 2. H col. 5 weather forecast continued f air with morning Siuze. 4. Low 2.air a i Liim service pavements buckle pools filled sizzles in stifling 90s from press Dis patches Frankfurt the tempera Ture in West Germany s capital City of Bonn shot up to a Blister ing 98.6 degrees thursday As Many other parts of the country sheltered in the 90s. Frankfurt and Coblenz had read Ings of 97, Darmstadt and Karls Ruhe 95, Heidelberg 93, and Trier 92. In Hanover and the Lueneburg Heath in lower Saxony the thermometer Rose to 95 degrees rec ords for both places. Looking Oil the Bright Side of the current heat wave a Young Motorist in Bonn pits the 98.6-degree temperature to Good use. The egg was Fried just As she liked it sunny Side up. Up photo Garmisch Germany up the thermometer at the Peak of the in Spitze Germany s High est Mountain at 9,899 feet read 53 degrees thursday. It was the highest Reading recorded at the Mountaintop in 50 years. Hamburg established a new mar for the hottest july Day in its history 92 degrees. As p h a 11 pavements softened and buckled in the port s sweltering weather and in Many parts of the Cit conditions were so bad that Street car transportation was German cities suffered through temperatures in the mid Gont. On Page z to col. 8
