European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                S test succeeds in5�00-mile flight Thor fails., blown up Cape canaveral Fla. A an Atlas logged it first successful flight in More than five months and a Thor was exploded seconds after launching in a spectacular mis Sile show Early tuesday., the Atlas rumbled 5,500 Miles Down the Atlantic missile Range shortly after Midnight and a recovery ship plucked its nose Cone from the Ocean an hour later two hours after european edition the stars and ripes army Navy air Force unofficial publication of the . Armed. Forces in Europe North Africa and the Middle East volume 18, number 95 5 cents daily 10 cents sunday wednesday july 22, 1959 is Savannah christened by first lady Camden . A the glistening White Hull of a knife nosed ship took to the water tuesday to become the world s first atomic powered passenger cargo vessel. I s. Mamie Eisenhower struck a bottle of Champagne on  Bow and said i Christen thee Savan  the 21,000-ton is Savannah is showpiece of nuclear Power gleam ing fittings ultramodern decor viewing windows to see the machinery and television to peer with safety into the atomic generators inner Workings. 00 passengers 110 crewmen its. Passenger list will be Small 60 persons the cargo carrying capability modest about 10,000  the Savannah will be 110 officers and crewmen the deck officers and engineers specially trained. There Are a half dozen nuclear powered ships afloat and More building All of them american and All via Craft except  exception is the soviet ice breaker Lenin presumably still waiting for first sea trials under atomic Power. Speed of 20 knot officials say the 20,000 horsepower atomic Plant of the Savannah Isof conservative water cooled uranium fuelled design. With 20,000 horsepower the new Savannah s single propeller should drive it a Normal Speed of 20 knots. This will provide reliable and Long lasting operation but it will not match the plus-30 knot Speed of the fast conventional pow ered Ocean liners. Successor set t in Strauss Job Washington a presi Dent Eisenhower tuesday nominated Frederick Henry Mueller for promotion to Secretary of com  has been under Secre tary of Commerce since oct. 311958. For two years before that he was assistant Secretary for Domestic  has been acting Secretary since rear adm Lewis l. Strauss ret stepped out of the Commerce spot after the Senate rejected his nomination. Strauss had been serv ing under a recess appointment made while Congress was not in session. He Atlas launching the Thor Lew up High in the sky. The air Force announced that the Range safety officer de troyed the Thor when his instruments detected a malfunction Lause of the defect was not immediately known. However it appeared the missile failed to halt to upward climb in the Normal  of the Atlas nose Cone off ascension Island was a first for the missile. Thor Able Simu lated warheads have been retrieved from the water in this area but previous Atlas payloads eluded searchers. The air Force will study the Cone to see How it withstood the tremendous heat it encountered on re entry into the Earth s Atmos phere from a height of More than than 300 Miles. It is part of a test program to discover the proper nose Cone for carrying thermonuclear warheads. The Atlas Success was a big boost for . Hopes for an operational cont on Page 2b col. 1 red St Pup 111 . Seen Washington a rep. Francis e. Walter a a. Said tuesday the Kerr Lin has sent orders to . Communists to intensify training of key revolution Aries in sabotage subversion and , chair Man of the House committee on in american activities made the statement in opening commit tee hearings on communist train ing operations. Walter said that in May James a Jackson jr., whom he described As one of the top communist conspirators operating in the United states returned Here from mos  s orders from the Krem Lin which have now been transmitted to the comrades in the United states Are to intensify the cont. On Page 2j/, col. It West ministers renew warning to end talks Walter closing stocks new York a the Stock Market made a firm recovery tuesday after three sessions of losses. Steels and motors led the Advance. Weather forecast fair to partly Cloudy. High 92, lowg8. Air outlier service Bobby Hill takes leave of Schweitzer soviet told reduce Berlin truce terms Geneva a Secre tary of state Christian a. Herter and his allies tues Day warned for the second successive Day they would walk out of the big four talks unless Russia quickly cuts its terms for a Berlin  Andrei a. Gromyko of the soviet Union refused to Budge in a 21/l hour secret ses Sion. His exchanges with the for eign ministers of the ., Britain and France sometimes were bitter and angry. The head on clash Between her Ter and Gromyko Over a vital political principle that could re shape the Germany of tomorrow left the big four conference in a state of almost unrelieved gloom and crisis. American. British French and even soviet delegation spokesmen All agreed that no Progress had been made and that the breaking Point could come next week. The possibility of a failure raised new the danger that the East West dispute Over the future of. Berlin could move from the hands cont. On Page 21 col. T Bobby Hill 13-year-old son of a Usan sergeant in Italy prepares to leave or. Albert Schweitzer Center at Lambarena French equatorial Africa after delivering $400,000 Worth of medical supplies to Schweitzer s Hospital and another Hospital in Libreville. Bobby conceived the idea of aiding the world famous medical missionary and an italian to station aired his Appeal for funds. Italian and French transport planes flew the supplies to Africa. Bobby was accompanied by of it col Frank Macwalters left. Uti photo steel firm asks injunction to free men inside plants Pittsburgh up Jones and Laughlin steel corp. Has appealed to the courts to free hundreds of nonunion employees unlawfully imprisoned in their plants see photo on Page it by belligerent pickets since the Start of the nationwide steel strike. Jones and Laughlin the nation s fourth largest steel producer and Queen will Fly Home following tour London a Buckingham Palace tuesday announced that Queen Elizabeth will Fly Home after her strenuous North Ameri can tour instead of making a 10 Day sea crossing. The announcement followed consultations Between the Queen and Hep doctors it came after a spat of dispatches from. Correspondents covering the tour that the Queens far More ill than Royal officials will  Queen Cut two Days from her visit to Northwest Canada because of an upset stomach. Prince Philip her husband made the visit alone. In Edmonton Canada it was re ported the Queen has recovered from her stomach upset and no further departures from the sched used program of the Royal tour Ocanada Are  announcement came from Esmond Butler the Queen s pres Secretary who said surgeon capt p.  had consulted with the Queen. He found her Well rested after a relaxing weekend in Whitehorse where a  cancellation of part of her  new plan is that the Queen will continue to the tour s end on aug. 1. Then she will Fly Home in Stead of crossing the Atlantic aboard the yacht  London Buckingham Palace said the decision to get Home earlier was taken in Canada and Royal aides in London did not know the exact reason. One of the 32 firms forming the Industry s coordinating committee filed injunction petitions in the Washington up Secre tary of labor James p. Mitchell announced tuesday he would set himself up As a one Man fact finder to investigate the causes of the week old steel strike. Mitchell said he would gather All the facts relating to the dispute and report periodically to presi Dent Eisenhower. To said the action was unprecedented. Courts of Allegheny and Beaver counties a. The company charged members of the United steelworkers have sealed off the entrances to the firm s plants at Pittsburgh and Aliquippa by illegal picketing. The Legal actions first filed since the strike started wednesday came As . Mediation and conciliation service director Joseph of Finne Gan conferred separately in new York with company and Union be cont. On Page 8/t, col. .51 Herter to visit West Berlin Berlin a Secretary of state Christian a Herter will Fly to West Berlin saturday for Aone Day visit the . Mission announced. A spokesman said Herter would arrive in mid morning and leave sometime in the evening. Mayor Willy Brandt w h o has just started a vacation on a farm near Munich will return to Berli Friday to Welcome Herler West Berlin City Hall officials  addition to conferring with Brandt on the Berlin situation Herter will dedicate a West Berlin Street that is being named after the late John Foster Dulles. Baker to be bred for space potential Baton Rouge la. A the Navy plans to develop a Breed of space monkeys f r o m Baker the famous Squirrel Monkey who sur Vived the Jupiter missile  spokesman for the Navy said the service wants to Breed bake to see in her offspring will be even More adaptable to space to avel. Bulletin Washington a the Senate tuesday passed a $1.8 Bil lion benefits Bill providing educational Grants and Loans and Home loan guarantees for 4 Mil lion Post korean veterans. The vote was 57-8.1. The Bill now goes to the House