European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse European edition weather forecast partly Cloudy and Lii Usy. Hic i 80,Low 50. Air weather service r1pes volume 18, number 91 army Navy air Force unofficial publication of the . Armed forces in Europe North Africa and the Middle East .vv--.-. New of network Washington is Ai Force Secretary James h. Douglas opened the air Force s new global communications network by apr Ping a Gold Telegraph key on his Pentagon desk. Story on Page 6. 5,cents daily 10 cents sunday saturday july 18, 1959 group oks .5 billion foreign Aid Washington a Senate and House conferees Friday approved a Compro Mise $3,556,200,000 foreign Aid Bill reflecting cuts of less than 10 per cent from presi Dent Eisenhower s req Westfe. Senate conferees accepted a House provision setting up in the state department an office of inspector general and comptroller to audit and control All forms of assistance under the measure. The Bill sets a $67 million limit on military assistance to latin. America in the fiscal year that be Gan july 1. Final figures the final figures in the Bill represent a Cut of $353.2 million from the $3,909,400,000 or. Eisen Hower asked. The major Cut$200 million from the request for $1.6 billion in arms Aid reflected the View of Congress that the administration is Over emphasizing military assistance abroad and forcing some countries to endanger their living standards by arming beyond their needs. The Senate had voted to author ize $1.3 billion in military Aid spending for the fiscal year which began july 1. It had stipulated that .$893,750,000 or about 70 per cent of this be Given to the nato allies. This left Only $406,250,000 for All other areas of the world. The House voted $1.4 billion without earmarking funds for specific areas. Ike Mitchell discuss strike Washington a president e i s e n h o w or and Secretary of labor James p. Mitchell Dis cussed the steel strike situation Friday for 1 hour 45 minutes the White House declined to provide details regarding the ses Sion. The president and Mitchel conferred alone after the weekly meeting of the Cabinet. Joseph Finnegan chief of the Federal mediation and conciliation service returned to Washington to report to Mitchell on talks in new York with representatives of both sides in the Dis Pute. Finnegan has no further talks scheduled with the Disputant until monday. Is photo of Presley stolen at Ohio exhibit Ravenna Ohio special a photograph which formed a part of the second Placo Wehming entry from the stars Ana stripes in the photojournalism Hort course Competition at Kent state University has been Stolon the Ravenna record and courier Tribune reported. The photo was one of 1,000 on exhibit As examples of top news pictures. Subject of the photo taken by Guenter Schneltzer Elvis Presley in Germany. Reunion in London sir Winston Churchill puffs on a Cigar and poses with his guests British prime minister Harold Macmillan left and american financier and statesman Bernard Baruch during their visit to his residence in London. A photo 47 killed As downpour sets off Korea Stampede Pusan Korea a an estimated 47 persons mostly Chil Dren were killed and 125 injured Friday when a sudden torrential rain caused some 70,000 spectators at an outdoor show to Stampede for the stadium Gates police re ported. The crowd was watching a music and comedy show sponsored by a local newspaper at the Pusan City stadium. The sudden downpour caused a wild Rush for the stadium s main Gateway and two Side Gates. Senate approves Smith s promotion to full general Washington up the Senate Friday approved the pro motion of it Gen Frederic h. Smith jr., to full general. Smith will take command of Safe from Gen f. F. Everest aug. 12. The Senate also confirmed the nomination of maj Gen Donald w. Mcgowan As chief of the National guard Bureau. The Senate also approved the promotions of army maj Gen Rob Ert w. Colglazier jr., to the rank of lieutenant general and air Force maj Gen James e. Briggs to lieutenant general. Air Force Gens Otto p. Weyland and Earle e. Partridge were approved for the retired list in their present rank. 6 reds get terms Iii West Germany Karlsruhe Germany a the Federal supreme court has sentenced six communists to prison terms ranging from six months to,2% years for distributing communist leaflets in West Germany. " the communist party is. Outlawed in West Germany. Scores of people were trampled in front of the three exits. The downpour was believed to be the fringe of typhoon Billie which skirted the West coast of the korean Peninsula bringing rain and gales to most of South Korea. Cabinet try in Israel fails Tel Aviv up Premier David Ben Gurion has failed in his efforts to form a new government and will continue in office in a caretaker capacity until general elections in november Tel Avi radio said Friday. President Itzhak Ben Zvi asked Ben Gurion to form a new Cabinet after the prime minister resigned because of criticism of an arms Sale to West Germany. Tel Aviv radio said Ben Gurion will Tel Ben Zvi next week of the situation and offer to stay on in office until november. Closing stocks Ney York a the Stock Market slumped again Friday. Steels rails and motors led the decline. Resigns on t accept president says Havana up revolutionary Leader Fidel Castro re signed Friday As prime minister of Cuba. But president Manuel Urrutia speaking to thousands of cubans who massed before the presidential Palace in Havana said the government would not accept the Resigna Tion. Tiki revolution cannot be directed by anyone other than Fidel Castro he said. You can be sure that the Resigna Tion presented by him will not be accepted by the urgent session Urrutia met in urgent session with members of the Cabinet in the Palace to disc less Castro s sur prise action. Following a morning Long meeting the Cabinet went to cuban armed forces head quarters at Camp Liberty to re quest Castro to reconsider. There was no reason Given immediately for Castro s decision to step Down from the Post he has held for five months. The official rebel radio said cont. On Page 2ih col. A Ike says newsmen misinterpreted his Bohlen remarks Washington a Philip Pine ambassador Carlos p. Romulo said he has been informed that president Eisenhower considers the press has misinterpreted his remarks on the appointment of Charles e. Bohlen . Ambassador to the Philippines to a top state department Post. Romulo said he was told by under Secretary of state c. Doug Las Dillon that the president instructed Dillon to Cable Bohlen stating that he was misinterpreted. At his news conference the presi Dent was asked about the appoint ment of Bohlen As adviser on so Viet affairs to Secretary of stat Christian a. Herter. See Story on Page r. The president replied that Herter had spoken to him twice about the matter but nothing was being clone about it at present. The president added that re ports to him from Herter had been completely this was widely interpreted As an indication of coolness by or. Eisenhower ment Here. To a Bohlen assign Gromyko deaf to West bid on Berlin pact Geneva a soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko rejected a vigorous Western bid Friday to get him to Cut his asking Price for a Stopgap Berlin settlement. The Western Powers were reported steeped in pessimism. Private meeting for the first time since the for eign ministers conference resumed monday the big four met privately. The ministers talked for nearly three hours and the West reported no the West was seeking to get Gro Myko to talk about a Berlin Settle ment without insisting on a com Panion agreement that delegates of the two Germany sit Down at the same table and negotiate with each other. Yet Nyel informants reported that Gro Myko said again and again that the soviets would not separate Berlin from a pan German move. Western officials said it was too Early to talk of a break off but they added that if Gromyko continues to stick to his same line the Confer ence May end in failure. Euro Mart nations of Mutual policy Bonn up the finance ministers of the six european common Market countries ended a two Day conference Here Friday by deciding to work out a Mutual fiscal policy. The conference called by West German finance minister Franz Etzel was the first of its kind the main object of the proposed Mutual fiscal policy is to ease the sales of goods imported by one member nation from another curses end Long night in Juarez Elpaso Texas up gov. Earl Long fighting mad because his aides went to sleep while he toured Juarez night spots stormed into the Hilton hotel Early Fri Day and tried to kick Down a door. Captain Douglas Durrett of the Louisiana state police tried to re Strain the enraged governor but Long cursed and kicked at the door of his room until a Bellboy rushed Down for a key. Go you Wake up in there Long shouted As he beat and kicked at the door in a vain at tempt to Wake his sleeping associates. Durrett gave up his struggle to restrain the belligerent governor. And they say he s sick Dur rett said As he watched Long s door kicking. Why right now that Man could whip any 50 men in Long stopped kicking and beat ing at the door when a Bellboy produced a key. Then he rushed into the room woke his associates and rebuked them prof Anely for not being up to let him in. Long hatless timeless and rum pled turned up at the hotel at about 7 am after making the rounds All night. His associates apparently unable to keep up with the governor dropped out and re turned from Mexico to Elpaso to sleep. Earlier in his fast paced eve Ning Long had to be restrained font. On Page %4 col. 1
