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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 18, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday july 18, 1959 the stars and stripes Page $ Herter intends no action on Bohlen Ike Washington a president Eisenhower and his Secretary of state appear to be in disagreement about what has been done toward giving ambassador Charles e. Bohlen a top Post in the state department. Or. Eisenhower was asked at his news conference if Secretary of state Christian a. Herter had Dis cussed with him the possibility of naming Bohlen. Now ambassador to the Philippines As the state department s chief adviser on soviet affairs. The president replied that Herter twice had mentioned this to him because he said Herter had seen newspaper stories that such a move was under contemplation. Horror has done nothing the president said Herter told him he had done nothing about the matter and did t intend to. At this Point a reporter broke in to note that Herter had said at a recent news conference that he hoped to use Bohlen s services and to convince the ambassador he should not retire when his Job in Manila is completed. Bohlen has said that unless he is Given a top Job in the depart ment Here he will retire after 35years service. Or. Eisenhower replied he does t care what was said at the Herter news conference. He said Herter had told him just what the president had previously reported the Secretary said and that was the last time he saw Herter. Opposed by 2 senators Bohlen s possible Elevation to a High department Post has been opposed by Senate Republican Leader Everett m. Dirksen of Illi Nois and sen. Styles Bridges of new Hampshire chairman of the Republican policy committee. Although some other republicans have announced support for the proposed move Dirksen and Bridges have told Herter that Bohlen s defense of the world War ii Yalta agreements ought to bar him from any command Post. E to test Elf act of togetherness oldest of Dars Dies in . At 106 new Rochelle . A mrs. Harlow , 106, believed to be the oldest living Mem Ber of the daughters of the Ameri can revolution died Here. On her 100th birthday in 1953 she received congratulatory messages from president Eisenhower and new York s gov Thomas . Her late husband was a civil War Veteran. She was the Mother of a Spanish american War Veter an and the grandmother and great grandmother of world wars i and ii veterans. Guardsmen to Aid police Hartford Conn. A serv ing without pay 40 to 60 National guard volunteers in army uni forms Are going to help state police in directing traffic on Connecticut highways on weekends. Leo j. Mulcahy state police commissioner said they will have the Power of arrest. One astronaut works controls while another rests in artists sketch of the space capsule the air Force will use to test the effect of close quarters on space travellers. Associated press photo Oil to ban retired men says Spaatz new York up retired air Force Gen Carl Spaatz says it would be Folly to forbid retired military officers to accept employ ment in defense Industry. Spaatz said a congressional investigating committee headed by rep. F. Edward Hebert a la would be doing a highly useful Job if it can Clear away the Miasma of misconceptions which now envelop the process of weapons procure ment by the de sense depart ment. He said Spaatz some reforms doubtlessly were needed. Writing in the july 20 Issue of Newsweek Magazine Spaatz de fended the usefulness of former officers in defense work. The nation needs All the brains and experience it can bring to the task of meeting the military challenges by soviet Russia he wrote. Spaatz also said his experience showed that former senior offi cers employed by manufacturers Bend Over backward not to influence their former associates in the Pentagon. 2-Wifeman May lose both san Francisco up the two wives of Robert Runyon were standing by him in a Legal sense but there was no Assurance that either Ever would live with him again. One of them his most recent was sure she would t. His first and the Mother of his two children has t made up her mind whether to give him another Chance. Runyon 30, pleaded innocent to a bigamy charge and was jailed for Lack of $2,500 bail. Preliminary hearing was set for next monday. Wants to help mrs. Dorothy Runyon 30, his wife of seven years said i want to help him in every Way i can. You can t be married to a Man for seven years without hav ing a great Deal of feeling about  she said she has not decided whether to take him Back. Joan Nelson 23, former airline stewardess who quit her Job to marry Runyon and take a Honey Moon trip to Las vegas said she was going Home to St. Louis soon  like to see everything done for him that can be. I want to see him straightened out. But i think i must heal my broken heart. Robert belongs with his wife and  both women Are slim attractive Brunet and remarkably similar in appearance. Moscow style show changes sought Washington up George v. Allen . Information Agency d i r e c t o a is calling for More changes in the us fashion show to open in Moscow soon. Allen who saw a new York pre View called it a pretty Good show on the  but he suggested that models should be engaged in a broader Range of activities doing  think the show could Well display the girls in the Kitchen for instance or participating in some sports activities he said t. Agency officials emphasize that the show is Stillin process of change. They said the new York preview for fashion critics was in tended to get ideas for improve-1 ment. The entire production will be subject to the review of exhibition director Harold Mcclellan when it gets to Moscow next week. Allen had no comment on the decision to drop two Tableaux depicting an integrated  g which involved negro models at tended by White attendants. But Richard g. Gushing the Agency information director noted that six other acts involving negro models Are still in the show. Three of the 47 participating Are negroes. Gushing said the decision to drop the two wedding scenes was made by officials of the fashion Industry who Are producing the  said the directive Given them by the Agency was to keep the show in Good taste and to Demon Strate the Quantity and Quality of clot Les available to the average american woman Meyner . Demos push Meyner for . Office Trenton . Up an eight Page  describing gov. Robert b. Meyner s qualifications for National office has been sent to democratic leaders through out the nation. The document entitled Man of action is being circulated by Meyner s new Jersey boosters who feel he is a hot candidate forthe democratic presidential o r vice presidential nomination next year. The literature which outlines the governor s Ca reer in politics is being put out by an organization known As new Jersey friends for Bob  it mentioned no National office but Point by Point describes the various aspects of Meyner s Back ground that could Appeal to the National convention. The pamphlet emphasizes Meyner s past Appeal to Independent voters his rags to riches Rise to political stardom his prudent housekeeping of state government and his world travels. Executive director Robert j. Burkhardt of the democratic state committee said the pamphlets Are being distributed to All delegates to the 1956 democratic National convention and to other state and National democratic leaders. Burkhardt said the pamphlet was drafted after the state com Mittee began receiving requests from out of the state for Back ground on the governor. Meyner frequently has been mentioned As a possibility for presi Dent or vice president on the democratic ticket next year. 2-Man Chambers duplicate space stress problems Minneapolis a one of the dilemmas of future space flight How Well people hit it off under the stresses of prolonged boredom and confinement May be partially answered during the next year. The air Force has disclosed it plans to begin this fall a new series of mock space flights in which two men will be sealed in a seven ton chamber for periods up to 30 Days. Their space Cabin will be bigger More realistic and More sophisticated than the one which the air Force has been using to isolate one Man at a time at Brooks air Force base in Texas. Its equipment will include a processing system to convert human waste into pure distilled drinking water. The process has been tested for two months and was described As absolutely sound by its developers. Spacemen will be Able to smoke warm their soup sleep in bed and change clothes. Almost ready the two Man chamber being built by Minneapolis Honeywell regulator co. For the air Force is 90 per cent Complete. It will be turned Over to the department of astr ecology of the air Force school of aviation Medicine a Brooks in september. At first we will try Shorter periods because we want to be absolutely sure that the men who operate it Are trained in All its functions said it col George r. Steinkamp of the air Force school. Eight feet High and 12 feet Long the elliptical steel tank will be equipped with a bed sanitation unit atmospheric controls a panel Board of controls and a screen on which will be flashed hypothetical problems for the make believe astronauts to solve. Court orders blood for girl fort Wayne ind. A a 7-year-old girl has received a blood transfusion by court order al though her parents considered it sinful. The child Katherine Baker remained in critical condition in Parkview memorial Hospital Here. Doctors had insisted she needed a transfusion to save her life. The child suffered a deep Cut in falling through a storm door. The parents or. And mrs. James Baker of fort Wayne took her to the Hospital but said a transfusion was against their beliefs an Jehovah s witnesses. Hospital asks court Hospital officials got authority for the transfusion from judge Lloyd s. Hartzler in Superior court. I never knew a thing about it said mrs. Baker when told of the court order. I told them to do everything possible for the child outside of a  John Allendorph local official of Jehovah s witnesses said his sect believes it s sinful to use blood in any Way except on the altar for atonement of  he quoted Leviticus 17 11. The Bakers both Active in the sect have five other children from 7 months to 10 years old. Shark reported in Bay Falmouth me. Up swim mers have been warned that a Large and possibly dangerous shark has been reported in Casco Bay. Waters off Falmouth  
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