European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes monday july 20, 1959 germans to Honor leaders of resistance for plot to kill Hitler Berlin up fifteen years ago on july 20, 1944, a Small wooden hut hidden deep in an East prussian Forest was shattered by an explosion designed to wreck the creator of Germany s downfall. Minutes later the code word Valkyrie was flashed throughout the country to inform the plotters that the dictator was dead. But the homemade bomb failed to kill Adolf Hitler and As a result More than 600 wehrmacht office Sand civilians belonging to the Only genuine resistance movement against the third Reich regime were brutal executed. One of the survivors of the plot Gen Adolph Heusinger now in Spector general of West Germany sound Estehr. Now for the first time has officially paid respects to the group. Monday the wreaths of West German president Theodor Heuss and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will be Laid outside the plot Hensse prison execution Block where Hitler s revenge was carried out. Planted in room and tuesday the july 20 victims will be honoured in the courtyard of the former wehrmacht supreme headquarter s in Berlin s Bendler str. Where four of the plotters among them count Glaus von stauf Fen Berg a 37-year-old colonel were executed Only i hours after the bomb exploded in Hitler s Wolf s Liiri Headquarters at Rastenburg East Prussia. The bomb concealed in a Brief � Case and planted by stauffen Bergin Hitler s conference room in time for the morning conference with his generals exploded at 12 42 pm wrecking the ceiling and shatter ing the conference table. Believed Hitler dead but it failed to kill Hitler. His hair was set on fire his right Arm partially a realized and his right leg badly burned. Stauffenberg left immediately after he saw the conference room explode. He flew to Berlin dead. Believing Hitler was about Midnight he was shot to Gether with three other Wehr Macht officers in the headquarter courtyard. The list of the july 20 victim recalls some of the noblest names in the German resistance move ment. Rommel include Dit includes Field marshal Erwin Rommel and Gen Otto von Stuelp Siagel wehrmacht commandant of Paris who both committed suicide rather than face the travesty of atrial adm William Canaris Mili tary intelligence chief who died at Mossenburg concentration Camp col Gen Ludwig Beck chief of the German army general staff who also committed suicide or. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler former mayor of Leipzig who was nominated by the plotters to be Hitler s successors Chancellor Field marshal Erwin von Witzleben German array com Mander who was brutal by strangled to death. Georgia vandals Burn paintings. " Columbus. A. Up Van dals painted crude nazi swastikas on the Walls of a Georgia Art museum Here and burned about $15,000 Worth of paintings and exhibits. Police said they believe the gang is the same one that painted swastikas at the rear entrances of two jewish synagogues Here in the past three Days., the Art destroyed at the Colum bus museum of arts and crafts was mostly by Georgia painters and represented events in Georgia s Early history. Quake scares chileans Arica Chile a a Strong prolonged Earth Shock sent Resi dents fleeing from their Homes . Output surpassing expectations continued from Page 1 $442.5 b illion achieved in 1957, and was nearly $4 billion higher than the earlier estimates of last year s output. Part of the showing was attributable to Price increases the depart ment said. In physical terms 1958 production was about 21/� per cent below 1957 and even slightly Les than that of 1956. National income a measure of earnings from current production was shown in the new study to have totalled $366 billion last year Only $500 million below 1957. In spite of the heavy curtailments in manufacturing payrolls caused by the recession. However the service industries covering such Fields As retail and wholesale Trade and transportation showed a gain for the year As did finance and government. Income higher personal income was higher in 1958 than in 1957, having been boosted Early in the year by unemployment compensation and other government payments which helped offset the decline in pay Rolls. Over the year personal income totalled $359 billion a gain of $8.5 billion from 1957. In the first Quarter of this year the new study showed personal income was atan annual rate of $371.8 billion. This also was an upward revision of previous estimates the figure previously had been reported As $365.7 billion. Marines Honor. Fallen comrades Arlington a. Up for Mer Marine corps Gen Graves b. Erskine ret sunday led the 3d Marine div Assn. In memorial serv ices for their fallen comrades be Side a huge statue of the iwo Jima Flag raising. See Story on Page 3. ,. Erskine is now an assistant to defense Secretary Neil h. Mcelroy. Five former members of the 3d div who won the medal of Honor at tended the ceremony. Five other of the division s medal of Honor winners died in Battle. The iwo Jima Monument mod eled after a world War ii combat photograph shows a band of mar Ines planting the . Flag atop it. Sur Bachi during the Battle. Scandinavian Trio with an Eye problem a cinder in the Eye of Lis Stolberg right of Denmark gets the careful attention of Marie Louise Ekstrom of Sweden at the miss universe contest in to Buff Beach Calif. At left is a third scandinavian contestant Jor Umi Kristiansen of Norway. The cinder finally was re moved without difficulty. " More news of the an Nual Beauty pageant appears on Page 4.ap photo Long says sheriff roughed him up Ruidoso . A Louisi Ana s gov. Earl k. Long stalked out of the Ruidoso Downs Racetrack before the program was Over shouting that he had been Man handled by a new Mexico sheriff. Long got into an automobile provided by Ruidoso Downs and sped immediately Back toward Elpaso his Headquarters for the last Sev eral Days. Earlier when Long arrived at this Southern new Mexico resort track he had been subjected per haps without his knowledge to a Shakedown by the same sheriff for possible weapons. As he stalked out of the track Long pointed a free office space in do. For study says Bender Washington a former sen. Geprge h. Bender the team Ster Union s controversial $125-a Day ant corruption Sleuth con firmed he still has free office space in the Library of Congress. He denied using it on teamster Busi Ness. Bender has been at loggerheads with the Senate rackets commit tee. It contends the teamsters Union has t turned a hand to re move alleged gangsters and racketeers from positions of Trust asides to the u n i o n s president Janies r. Hoffa. X it is True Bender said that he still has a study room reserved for him at the Library. But it has no relationship whatsoever to the teamsters Union he added. He said he uses the study room As a base for research for two boo she is writing. Bender said one of them will be a Book on legislation legislative experience and information on How things Are done based on his career of 14 years As a House member from. Ohio and two years in the Senate. The other he said will be a work on the Munich  year was that Confer ence a reporter asked. I m not sure Bender replied. It was just before world War  m doing considerable research on it when i have the  Bender a Republican was elected to the Senate in 1954 to fill the term of the late sen. Robert . He was Defeated for re elec Tion in 1956 by former Ohio gov. Frank j. Lausche a Democrat. Finger toward sheriff s. M. Sallie Ortiz and said All i wanted to do was change my seat. If i Ever saw a convict he is one. If i Ever saw a Bruiser he is one. Why do you turn these people Loose on Asick Man witnesses said Long got up from his assigned seat at Ruidoso Downs and attempted to move Down quite a number of seats. Ortiz took him by the Arm with a suggestion the governor was perhaps  noise and then the argument started. Ortiz with a smile on his face kept suggesting to the governor that he return to his As signed seat. Unconfirmed reports said that while Long was at the track he placed bets totalling $12,000 to $15,000. He was known to have bet $2,250 on one race alone. When he left he said i broke about even and i think i May be a couple of Hundred dollars  Taipei will drop Aid in China flood areas Taipei Formosa a the Chi Nese nationalists have decided to make Airdrop of Relief supplies to flood sufferers in communist Chi a by chartered unarmed civilian air transports. Prior notice of the drops will be Given to the chinese communists through the International Redcross at Geneva mrs. Herter of tors. Groin to a Vaj presents Cren eve a f t it a Etc t Raia a re. Rvin to i on. Or a i-1 a  Geneva up mrs. Lydia Gromyko wife of the soviet for eign minister now can listen Toradio Moscow broadcasts on a transistor radio Given her by the wife of . Secretary of stat Christian a. Herter. Herter has refused to Send a gift to Gromyko even on the lat Ter s 50th birthday anniversary Las week. But mrs. Mary Herter and mrs Gromyko had at least one Exchange of presents during the first six weeks of the big four foreign ministers conference Here each invited the other to lunch once and May do so again in the near future. Mrs Gromyko started the Exchange late in May when her Hus band and Herter were snarling teach other at work every Day. Mrs. Gromyko who Speaks eng Lish phoned mrs. Herter and said she was having lunch for a. Few women. She asked mrs Herter to join them. Mrs. Herter did. Then mrs. Gro Myko reversed Normal etiquette which requires a guest to Send he hostess a thank you note and gift by sending mrs. Herter gifts. A huge soviet delegation car drove up to the Herter Lakeside residence the Villa Greta one afternoon and delivered three packages they contained a bottle of Vodka a Book of pictures of the soviet Union and a fancy Box which women keep on their dress ing tables. A few Days later mrs. Herter phoned mrs. Gromyko and said shews having some women for lunch. She asked mrs. Gromyko to join them. Mrs Gromyko accepted though her husband still was exchanging scowls and frowns with Herter. Mrs. Herter now had to Send mrs. Gromyko a gift. Rumor has it that she and mme. Maurice Couve de Murville wife of the French foreign minister toured every shop in Geneva looking for just the right thing. But mrs. Herter sent mrs. Gro Myko a Small transistor radio the kind couples take along on sunday picnics. Then everybody went Home for three weeks. Now. They both have returned to Geneva with their husbands. Their first get together was when lunched with their the Gromyko House. Husbands at