European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes Friday july 17, 1959 Butler Speaks in ignorance says president Washington a presi Dent Eisenhower described a ridiculous the Contention of demo cratic National chairman Paul Butler that the democratic party stands for the wage earners and republicans support the Money about Butler s statement or. Eisenhower replied heatedly that the kindest thing he could say about the democratic chair Man s assertion was that it was made in ignorance. Or. Eisenhower added that what the Republican administration is attempting to do is to hold Down inflation so that what a Man earn today will buy the same amount of groceries it formerly did. The president said his administration is combating constant Price rises the cheapening of Money and excessive costs. All of this the president said plays an important part in the handling of Federal finances. He said the Federal debt of More than $280 billion has to be handled All the time. When you get to the Point where you can t borrow for longer than five years he said the situation is difficult. Or. Eisenhower has asked con Gress to lift the present 4% per cent interest ceiling on Long Ter Bonds but Congress has not acted on the that some Short term Treasury Bills have sold recently for As High As 4.7 per cent interest the president said something Hasto be done to scatter debt pay ments Over a period of 30-years ahead. He said Short term govern ment borrowing is drying up private lending sources. Desegregation plan ordered in Neil Orleans new Orleans a a fed eral District judge has ordered the Orleans Parish county school Board to present by March 1, 1960, an Overall plan covering the com plete desegregation of the Public schools in the . District judge j. Skell Wright issued the order. He said the school Board apparently has done nothing to comply with his directive of february 1956 ordering the Board to end segregation with All deliberate Speed. Wright s order suggested that the Board consider a plan under which the first Grade would be de segregated the first year the first and second grades the second year and so on until All grades have been covered by the yanks push on around world Frankfurt a two americans on a 40-Day around the world flight left Here thursday after Athree Day Stopover. Dan Sorkin a disc jockey and Frank Hansen an Airport official both from Chicago reached Rhine main Airport Here monday from Copenhagen. The two men Are using a two engine Piper Apache plane for the flight they Hope to Complete in 40days. They took off july 2 from Chicago. They said before departing Here they will be Back in their Home town aug. 11. From Here they Fly to Zurich and then to Rome Athens Beirut Teheran Karachi new Delhi Cal Cutta Rangoon Saigon and Manila. 4 Jehovah witnesses arrested in Russia Moscow up the news paper Komsomol Skaya has reported that four soviet members of the Jehovah witnesses religious sect had been sentenced to prison for anti soviet activity and criminal responsibility for state the newspaper said the accused were linked with the International Headquarters of the sect in Brook Lyn and had smuggled subversive literature into Russia. Duchess wins divorce London a the Duchess of Newcastle has win a divorce from the Duke on grounds of desertion and adultery. French algerians Battle in Paris Paris up a group of off duty French soldiers include. Ing some paratroopers exchanged gunfire with algerians at the Edge of the moslem slums on Paris North Side. The shooting started on the Southern rim of the Goutte d or District which is crowded with algerians. Police arrived Battle and reported three had been injured they taken to the Russ fishermen photographed near Alaska curious russian fishermen watch an american fishing boat As it nears their Freezer ship operating off the Alaska Mainland. The americans on a Mission to scout foreign fishing boats in North Ern Waters spotted 29 russian Craft and 21 Jap anese boats. Associated press photo paper finds club critics part of restricted groups new York up some of the politicians who criticized the West Side Tennis club when it president barred negro Ralph Bunche from membership belong themselves to organizations that explicitly exclude negroes the new York world Telegram and Sun said. At least seven belong to restricted fraternal orders. Some also belong to country clubs which for one reason or another have not a single coloured member the newspaper said. The seven Are mayor Robert , City Council president Abe Stark Borough president John t. Clancy of Queens and four . Senators Hubert a min Clifford p. Case b. Keating . And Thomas h. Kuchel a Calif elks members All but Humphrey belong to the benevolent and protective order of elks the newspaper said. The Story quoted the following pro vision from the elks Constitution membership in the order i limited to White male citizens of the world Telegram bad one fits reporters question Humphrey another critic of the West Side Tennis club after he spoke to the50th anniversary convention of the National Assn. For the Advance ment of coloured people at the Newyork coliseum. No i Don t think so Humphrey . Loan to Yugo okd Belgrade a the . Development loan fund has an the powerful engine of an Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile ignited Early thursday but the trouble plagued rocket failed to Getoff the ground. The misfire was the latest in series of trouble for the missile scheduled for a 5,500-mile flight Down the Atlantic missile Range. It was crowned with a new Typ of tactical nose Cone that the air Force hoped to recover from the Ocean. Polaris blown up in canaveral test Cape canaveral fla. Up a Navy Polaris test rocket exploded in the air moments after twas launched Here. The 28-foot rocket forerunner of the Navy s submarine launched ballistic missile Rose smoothly at first then veered sharply making almost a Complete arc and blowup. Three flaming fragments Plum meted into the sea. The department of defense said the rocket developed a malfunction and was destroyed by the Range safety a Navy spokesman said this waste first Complete failure in a Polaris test since last september. In the current series there have been three successes seven partial successes and two 5 army veterans flying to Russia Philadelphia up . Army veterans including Gen John e. Dahlquist ret left hereby air on the first leg of a journey to Russia to meet veterans of there army. The trip is sponsored by therms of Friendship inc., an organization devoted to establishing Contact Between american and russian veterans. Dahlquist now a stockbroker was accompanied by his wife. The others included James Gaboda of Glassboro n.j., a professor Wil Liam j. Girl of Cleveland Ohio postman Sam Shaikewitz of St. Louis an insurance broker and Thomas Ireland of Washington Salesman. The group left for Miami to be joined by or. Winston Burdine a psychiatrist from Atlanta an Winston guest horseman and operator of guest airlines. Million fled East zone since 1950 Berlin a because of the constant flow of refugees communist East Germany s population has dropped More than a million since 1950, information Bureau West re ports. The Bureau said it has obtained an Advance copy of East Germany annual yearbook which shows that the population figure at the endow 1958 was 17,311,707. This represents a drop of 1,076,493 from the figure officially listed for august1950. Meanwhile the West German refugee ministry said there has been no increase in emigration to the communist East and that there Are still 10 refugees from East Germany for every Emigrant going in the other direction. The ministry said Only 3,689 West germans had moved to East Ger Many in the first Quarter of the year and 977, who had gone to the East previously came the figure with 13,695. West germans who went to East Germany in 1958. The ministry pointed out that West germans Are free to move across the Iron curtain any time they want with bag and baggage. East germans who want to leave must do it in secret leave every thing behind and risk jail sentences
