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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Good spot i or a gondolier european edition ripes army Navy air Force unofficial publication of the . Armed forces in Europe North Africa and the Middle East volume 18, number 98 5 cents Dally 10 cents. Sunday saturday july 25, 1959 Nixon cites danger k in ii �7 Iirene Valalas rail a 4%-Lnch rainfall in Miami Beach made scenes like this common at bus stops. Girls bound for work went Barefoot to meet buses along Alton Road where water overflowed the curb and seeped into number of shops. Associated press photo fires plague Germany water threat continues Frankfurt up fires swept West Germany As the nation s 90-degree heat wave continued. % in lower Saxony alone More than 30 Forest and Brush fires broke out Friday. Police reported 25 fires in the Honnef area near  German and British army Maneu vers on the Hohne training area in lower Saxony were broken off after Only one Day because airmen bring rain to area Wiesbaden Germany Spe Cial _ five members of the 7100th support Wing made it rain in this drought parched area Friday. A c47 took off from the . Air base Here about 5 30 pm to seed Clouds around the area in the Hope it would rain an air Force spokes Man said. The five Man Crew found the right kind of Clouds about five Miles West of the City and seeded them causing rain. The air base weather station confirmed the rain and its cause but called it an undetermined amount of rain Over an undetermined area. The air Force spokesman said Friday s Cloud seeding was believed to be the second such i Germany and the first in the country in 10 years. Sparks from vehicle exhausts started scattered heat fires. Throughout West Germany Iso lated villages were out of water and major cities were threatened with Lack of drinking water. Fish Industry Hurt the German fish Industry also suffered because of the drought. In fish Breeding lakes near bad old Sioe thousands of fish Are dying because the shallow water pro Vides too Little oxygen. The filling of Public and private swimming pools and the washing of automobiles Are punishable by Fine in some sections of the coun try. Friday s High was 95 degrees inthe Rhine main Region. Weather forecasters predict thunderstorms for Southern Germany but continued heat and drought in Central and North Germany. East zone explosion kills 7 Berlin up seven workers were killed and several others severely injured in an explosion in a state operated factory near Leipzig East Germany the East German news service reported Fri Day. Soviet Renews invitation to Ike for visit Moscow up soviet Premier. Nikita s. Khrushchev said Friday he thought a visit to Russia by president Eisenhower would be very useful in improving relations Between our two countries and in strengthening world  in a speech at the opening of the american National exhibition in Moscow he said we should be glad if president Eisenhower found it possible to. Visit the Soyie  of " of Khrushchev extended tire a Jovita a Tion to or. Eisenhower and at the same time extended Best  a successful tour to vice presi Dent Richard m. Nixon who formally opened the exhibition  i x o n earlier had handed Khrushchev a letter of greetings from or. Eisenhower. 6 a Little Progress noted at Geneva Geneva a the big four slogged away in secret Friday on some of the main terms of a Ber Lin  spokesmen noted a Little  soviet foreign minister an Drei a. Gromyko s delegation la bleed As useful the three hour plus meeting of foreign ministers new tropical storm threatens Tettas coast new Orleans up the season s fourth tropical storm boiled up just off the Texas coast Friday. Tropical storm Debra lashed the Gulf with winds up to 65 Mph. It was about 40 Miles Southeast of Matagorda and was headed for land at Matagorda Bay. Russ Force . Exhibit to withdraw 100 books Ivio scow up the . Has withdrawn at s. O v i  request part of its Library exhibit fro the american exhibition Here Thomas j. Mclaughlin manager of. The Hook exhibit said. He said some of the things that have been banned Are Ridic  he particularly mentioned a 1959 world almanac among the approximately 100 withdrawn. T 1ci/?/_. Strikes 166 for Washington Apt a Para Lytic polio cases increased by 50 per cent last week to a 1959 weekly High of 166. They ran More than three times the number listed for the comparable 1958 week. The Public health service said. 257 polio cases were reported in the nation during the week ended july 18. In the week ended july 19, 1958, there were 52 paralytic cases among 123 polio cases  Jan. 1 through july 18 there had been 956 paralytic cases compared with 437 in the similar 1958 period and 1,500 in 1955, the year Salk polio vaccine was Intro  half of last week s Para Lytic cases occurred in four states Missouri 20, Texas 20, Alabama 15 and Tennessee 12. Trades views publicly with Khrushchev Moscow a vice president Richard m. Nixon told soviet Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev Friday in a rough and Tumble Public de Bate it would be a great blow to peace if the Geneva East West conference were allowed to fail. Nixon traded comment with the soviet Leader while escorting him for two hours through the american National exhibition in Moscow s Sokolnik Park. At one Point Khrushchev accused Nixon of threatening him. Nixon denied this but said i. Don t believe the cause of peace is helped by your reiterating the Point you just made that you have More strength than we have because that is a threat  argument recorded while 200 newsmen photograph ers and cameramen eavesdropped the two men engaged in a running foreign policy debate while they looked Over the exhibits of dolls swimsuits and  of the unscheduled fire works was recorded while they cont on Page 24, col. 1 Castro makes new pitch As cubans rally support Havana a Fidel Castro was All primed to play baseball Friday night in support of his agrarian Reform , Olive drab uniform Mili tary boots and All Castro was scheduled to pitch at least part of closing stocks new York a after a higher Start the Stock Market closed a Shade lower Friday. I trading was moderate. Heiress says she was kidnapped Chicago a new Jersey heiress Jacqueline Gay Hart miss ing since tuesday ran up to a policeman in Chicago s Grant Park Early Friday. She sobbed hysterically that she had been kidnapped in Newark. Police and agents of the Federal Bureau of investigation immediately began a searching Check of her Story. I went Over her Story 20 times said it Charles Pierson Chicago  of detectives. There were nov discrepancies. She offered to go on the lie Box take a poly graph lie Detector test. If she s acting she s a hell of an actress he said. Pierson said he had not discount photos on Aafje lit de the possibility the Beautiful lond Bride to be had a recurrence of amnesia which affected  after an automobile acc. Dent two years ago. Miss Hart 21-year-old daughter of Ralph a. Hart executive vice president of the Colgate palmolive co., ran sobbing to a parked police car in the Post Midnight darkness and cried where am i where am i policeman Jack Blakeslee told her she was in  name is Gay Hart she told the surprised officer. I want to Call my dad in new.  and his partner James Meskell took her to the detective Bureau where she gave a Dis traught rambling account of two font. On i age i ool 9 a five inning contest Between his soldiers and his police. Proceeds from the game will go to the agrarian fund which is to help peas ants get started on the lands Cus Tro seizes from big owners and gives to the landless. The revolutionary chief onetime College hurler of Little Success will in opposed by one of his top lieu i Nants army chief Camilio Cien egos. Both Are right handers. The game is part of the 26th of july revolutionary movement s anniversary Celebration w h i c h reaches its Peak sunday. See Back ground Story on Page Ita half million peasants re then expected to Jam vast Plaza it.5 to shout support for Castro s pro  will also decide whether or not their revolutionary Leader resumes the Post As Cuba s pre Mier. The peasants decision is cer Tain to be affirmative. Thor fired Cone found Cape canaveral Fla. Up an air Force Thor missile Thun dered skyward Friday packing a Small movie camera capable of taking pictures 300 Miles above the Earth. The nose Cone and camera were recovered induct near Antigua is land. If All went As planned the Cam Era should have started taking pictures at the time the Missil Booster Section separated from the nose Cone about 125 Miles above the Earth. A similar flight last May resulted in photographs of the Earth from the highest Altitude yet achieved. Some 40 feet of film taken then showed the Florida Peninsula As the nose Cone separated. Weather forecast a artly Cloudy and Fuir with some Early morning Haze and isolated  in the afternoon an dearly evening. Ii in a 88, Low 04. Air weather service soviets reject new plan on a Baro control posts Geneva up Russia Fth Day reacted the West s latest nuclear test Bah Sahf Concession whereby 80-Inan control posts on nuclear Power territory would be staffed with one third russian one third .-British and on third International personnel. But soviet Delegate Semyon Tsu Ripkin said Russia would accept 10 foreigners on posts in soviet territory As  his previous Best offer of seven  
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