European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse It Page 2 the stars and stripes delegates find respite at Lakeside diplomacy hits Geneva s beaches so " Geneva a if you want to find out what s going on in Geneva take a spin Down to Lake Geneva and put on a pair of swimming trunks the re you la find a thriving Busi Ness in Beach of the Western Dele a Tio h s o the foreign ministers con Ference can be seen holding court at the Public Beach a minister May turn . Joseph Luns the dutch foreign minister basked in the Sun at the Beach one Hope chief spokesman for the British foreign office is a regular court Holder at the Beach. So Are some officials of the Amer ican French German delegations. A reporter will sometimes pick up items of Wisdom. It s easier to get information than to find a Tel Ephone s Only one Public phone Booth at the Beach and the conversations of Bikini attired lady swim mers Are sometimes very Long in appearance of diplomats at the Beach by no Means implies that anyone is shirking work. This is a conference of longtime lapses and off hour business can be done almost has been broiling in a monumental heat wave and air conditioning practically does t s hard to Tell what the soviet delegates do during their off hours but you Don t see them at the Public Beach. Foreign minister an Drei a. Gromyko spends most of his time in his luxurious Villa be Hind Hedges and american and French ministers have private Lakeside Villas. British foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd lives in an elegant town House. The press floes a lot of scram bling about town in an attempt to get gems of information. s a lot of sidewalk standing waiting for meetings to end and there Are plenty of Tete a Tete luncheons with officials. But you re More Likely to catch a Diplomat relaxed mood atthe Beach. All you have to do is find him. A lot of diplomats Loo quite unfamiliar in swimming trunks. British court rules woman told to repay . Millionaire s gifts London a the British High court has ordered an English woman to give Back More than $200,000 in gifts she received from an american millionaire who had been declared legally to be mentally incompetent. The millionaire is George . Saves 23 in Honduras Tegucigalpa Honduras up Twenty three american tourist Sand a nonresident chilean were evacuated from Tegucigalpa As government troops fought to crush pockets of rebel resistance. Col Patrick Mcguiness . Mil itary attache and Marine guard the . Embassy braved heavy fire to Rescue tourists trapped in government appealed to the populace by radio to help spot snipers hideouts for the army. Rebel snipers holed up in build Ings and houses located in the Hills overlooking and surrounding the Center of the capital making it difficult to oust them. To be admired is to suffer executions stayed for . Pair Beaufort . Up a White Man convicted of raping a negro woman and a negro youth convicted of attempting to rape White woman have received stays of execution pending appeals of their cases before the South Carolina supreme aug. 14 execution Date of Fred j. Davis 24, a White Marine convicted of raping a 49-year-old negro woman and Israel Sharpe 19, a Beaufort negro convicted of the attempted rape of a White Marine corps housewife has been postponed pending appeals of both Westinghouse jr., described in court As son of the founders of the Westinghouse electrical co. Westinghouse 76, is now confined in a sanitarium at new Westminster in Canadian British Columbia. The englishwoman is mrs. Grace Margaret Smith age not Given of Northwood for a Trust company representing Westinghouse s estate said he gave mrs. Smith $200,000 in Cash and Blue Chip stocks be tween november 1954, and january 1955. In july 1955 he was declared legally to be of unsound mind. No opposition counsel for mrs. Smith said she would not oppose a court order to give Back the Money but declared or. Westinghouse and were engaged to be married and the engagement was broken of by mrs. Smith in november 1954. They were close and intimate friends and had known each other for 17 years so that it was hardly a Fly by night other gifts the Westinghouse estate was rep resented by its receiver the Royal Trust co. Of Montreal. The com Pany said that in addition to his lavish gifts to mrs. Smith Westinghouse gave $151,000 to zips a housewife of fort Worth Tex., and $182,000 to Patricia Pierce an sex taxi Driver from Den ver before relatives had Westing House company s lawyer said there had been a successful Law suit to compel mrs. Zips to return what she got and that miss Pierce had agreed to hand Back a substantial part of her big gift. Thursday july 16, 1959 Virginia vote shows Almond keeps control Richmond a. A gov. J. Lindsay Almond s slim control of the Virginia Senate in furtherance of his Freedom of Choice school s e g r e g a to o n policy appeared strengthened a bit of the basis of the democratic Primar ies tuesday Toifl governor s forces in the 100-member h ouse May to ave suffered a net loss of two votes. But Here Almond s Edge still May be five or More. On the last showdown test at the Spring session of the Gen eral Assembly his Senate margin was Only a single vote. Opponents Defeated two senators who voted with those seeking stronger measures to prevent school integration were Defeated. They were Sens. Stuart Hallett of Newport news and Hampton loser to former sen. Victor p. Wilson and w. Marvin Minter of Mathews loser to Fred w. Bateman an attorney from the Warwick area of Newport news. Bateman favors local option elections on school operations. Voting was reported brisk to heavy in those areas where the school segregation Factor figured in the outcome. Elsewhere the elec Tion in which local officials also were nominated saw the customary modest summer turnout. Fabian the 16-year-old Rock n Roll Singer gets a Bandage for a minor Cut from nurse mrs. Anna Baker at los Angeles International Airport. A mob of teen age fans broke a window in his car after his arrival from new York United press International photo is the first White Man Ever to receive the death sentence for criminally assaulting a negro woman. India Bankers urged to Boycott red Kerala Bombay India up the South India Bankers Assn. Has called on All Banks in India to Boycott the communist dominated state of Kerala. If the Boycott were enforced Kerala would soon face a major problem in raising adequate finances for its development plans. Site of icelandic shrine put off limits to yanks Reykjavik Iceland up outings by american military personnel with icelandic girls at National shrine have caused the icelandic government to Rule the area off limits to servicemen. The shrine is the ancient icelandic capital of things Ellis 30miles from Reykjavik where the world s first parliament met in the 10th Century. The area has a prom 27 dead in landslides Calcutta up at least 27 persons have been killed in land slides following heavy Rains in the Calimpong area reports reaching Here said. The reports said linemen playing football were buried alive in a slide. Long in undershirts. Hosts minister of. -. A 43 fort Worth Tex. Up gov. Earl k. Long of Louisiana received the president of the Gen eral. Ministers Assn. Of fort worthwhile wearing undershirts and a sport shirt. ".the, president of the association the Rev. G. W. French jr., called upon Long in his hotel suite at Long s invitation., Xong 63. Is in. Fort Worth rest he is said to be suffering from a nervous breakdown heart trouble and the aftereffects of a a a go t stroke. Prev. French pastor of St. Marks methodist Church visited the gov for two hours during part of the visit Long kept a Towel draped Over his tone of their conversation was a religious one Rev. French said but he found it almost impossible to get in a word. Long did nearly All of the talking. The minister did t chide Long for the cursing he has been doing in fort Worth. But on his Way out he asked an aide of Long whether he had cursed so much in Public. The aide told him Long had Al ways cursed but not so much i Public before. _ Long later said he suspects that his wife Blanche is trying to make up. She called me on the Telephone the other night and said sire still loves me Long announced. Huh she loves me like a cow loves a he gave up Hope of being invited to address the Texas legislature the Tyler Tex courier times in this connection printed a front Page editorial entitled governor Long go Home our legislature has trouble enough without becoming a Forur for governor Long the editorial said. It should refuse to invite him to do anything but leave Texa nent place in icelandic tourist literature and is a favorite spot for historians doing research into the Housand years of the parliament called the lathing. But to the americans the Hannesson things Ellis curator said the shrine was Justa place to pitch tents overnight and have a party. Hannesson complained about the situation in better to the editor of a Reykjavik paper and the icelandic foreign ministry imposed the ban on Amer one weekend Rev. Hannes son said the place was littered with empty cans bottles paper and other government posted extra policemen around the area to enforce the ban. It said the prohibition would be of indefinite americans Are stationed at be Finvik air base near Reykjavik. The base is a stopping Point for transatlantic flights of the Mili tary air transport service. Greeks find Boston balloon Salonika Greece a a weather balloon from Boston has been found on a Beach 60 Miles South of this North Greece City. A statement from the authority said the balloon apparently had drifted off course. It was found deflated raising a. Question whether it had floated Down from the air or had been washed up by the sea. Its Gondola had weather record ing instruments a transmitter and a note asking that the balloon if found be returned to the Boston meteor logical Institute the Harbor authority said it was turning the balloon and Gondola Over to the . Consulate general in Salonika for shipment Back to Boston. Prince Philip receives do it yourself boat kit London up Prince Philp is getting a do it yourself Sailboat kit. A we foot catamaran is Enro Ute to the Royal estate at bal moral for the Prince who is an expert Yachtsman. Philip ordered the double hulled boat in unfinished form which Means he or someone else will have to Rig paint and put i together. It saved him $87 of the $554 Price. Last civil War vet May get special Honor Washington a president Eisenhower would be authorized to direct that the flags Fly at half staff upon the death of the last surviving civil War Veteran under a Bill approved by the Senate judiciary committee. The Veteran Walter w. Williamson Houston Tex., is 116. He served in the Confederate army. Favorite concubine flees to Convent Aden up Sand Bint considered one of the world s most Beautiful women and favorite concubine of the Imam of Yemen has run away. She. Refused to return to the Imam s harem and has taken Refuge in n Rome Convent. The Imam is in Rome following medical treatment. See1 Story on Page 3. Syrian born Saud Bint has had a fantastic arabian nights career. Bandits kidnapped her in Syria As a girl and sold her into slavery in saudi Arabia. She passed into the ownership of King Sand who gave her to the Imam of Yemen As a present . 11
