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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, July 31, 1959

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Friday july 31, 1959 More expected say Vienna police 2 at red festival ask Asylum Vienna a Vienna police reported that two Iron curtain youths have defected from the communist sponsored s e v e n t h world youth festival Here to As Asylum. A police spokesman said so far we have two we can Tell you about a hungarian girl Anda czechoslovak boy. But we expect quite a number More if they can get away from their communist guards.". " meanwhile Vienna s anti communist newspapers which a a boycotted the festival displayed prominently the report that two soldiers from communist Czecho Slovakia defected and asked Polit ical Asylum in Austria because we could t stand communist Rule any  it came while anti communists from the . And other countries who obtained festival credentials fought for what they called some free speech in this communist run  the Battles for free speech included Street brawls requiring police intervention. The festival still has six Days to go. Rand asks ban Washington up a House armed services sub Oman Luttee has urged the army to Issue a Regula Tion prohibiting using enlisted men for housekeeping chores for High ranking officers. The. Suggestion came after army witnesses conceded to the subcommittee that the army now has no Sharks attack diver boat ii California la Jolla Calif. A a skin diving lifeguard has 15 tooth Marks on his thigh to vouch for this fact Sharks Are on the prowl off the California coast. Verne Fleet 25, said he was skin diving in la Jolla Cove when a six foot Hammerhead shark attacked him. It did t Hurt he says. It Felt More like a prickling sensation. I rolled in the water and brushed i away with one hand. Then i saw it Vas a  the shark swam around him inlay circles. When Fleet headed for Shore it swam away. A 10-foot length of fishing line trailed from its Mouth Fleet said. Swim suit shredded Fleet has puncture Marks on his upper left thigh. The lower Edge of his swimming trunks was shredded. The attack occurred 300 Yards from where Robert Pamperin 33, was killed by a great White shark last month. The boat of Fisherman James l. Handles jr., also was attacked offal Jolla Cove by a 10-foot White shark. The shark snatched some fish Hung Over the Side. Candies fired four shots and thrust a Metal Spear into the shark s head before it swam away on the coast North of the Golden Gate at san Francisco an 8-foot,500-Pound Man eating shark was caught in a fish net. It was the third big shark of that species caught in the area within five Days. Itaf reported expecting in 1960 Paris a the newspaper France soil thursday said it had Learned that Brigitte Bardot is expecting a baby Early next year. Columnist merry Bromberger said he had had confirmation from Georges Henri clo zot who has been directing miss Harriot s latest picture. When a reporter telephoned Louvot he said i Don t know anything but if i did know some thing i would say  rumours of a baby for by have been current for several weeks but have never been confirmed by the actress or her husband Jacques Charrier. Air base to Bear name of Kincheloe mrs. Iven c. Kincheloe jr., widow of the Inte air Ace and her children look Over official notice at Minneapolis informing her of the renaming of Kinross air Force base in Michigan to Kincheloe fab. Kincheloe killed in air crash last year was to have flown the x15, the air Force s first space plane. Left is col Robert b. Nowell of Bunker Hill fab near Peru ind. Story on Page 8. A 5 at units leaving Germany for us cont i was running wide open at about 14 knots and Cut the engines to avoid running up on it he said referring to his sighting of one whale. Then a second whale travelling directly toward us on the port beam came up right under us Hegard. He and his fishing party of four were plenty scared he said when the great mammal lifted the Craft. I d say it lifted us a Good four feet but it sounded submerged Quick enough to drop us Back in the water on an even keel.-. Mattituck. By. A it was a pleasant cruise on the Calm Waters of Long Island sound until the giant creature burst from the Depths ahead and invaded Edward Jacobi s 25-foot yacht. Jacobi of Regp Park n.y., was at the Helm zip Ping along at 20 knots when the creature Flung itself through the Windshield below the flying Bridge it landed in the Cruiser s Cabin. Moments later there was a Racket below like a barroom Brawl. Jacobi figured his Cruiser had been invaded by a shark so he stayed at the wheel. After a time the noise stopped and Jacobi Wen below for a peek. His unexpected guest was a 400 Pound porpoise a playful harmless Critter if there Ever was one. But the porpoise s playfulness Cost it its life and All but wrecked the Cabin of Jacobi draft and Chelveston would be taken Over by 3d air forces sept. 1. The fourth Sac base in England Lakenheath. Will be transferred to 3d air Force control oct 1, the spokesman said. The exact deploy ment of Sac units now occupying the four bases was not disclose for Security reasons. Combat readiness of the unit involved will not be reduced Dur ing the shifts the spokesman pointed out saying that the unit Sall will be flyable during the changeover. No extra work will be required on the bases in England to ready them for the incoming units the spokesman said and no figures Are available on the number of British personnel that might be employed at these bases once the moving Day is Over. $28 million airmen and their families will be housed both at on base of instal lations and on the local Economy just As is the Case with 3d air Force and 7th air div airmen already in England the spokesman  of the units from France and Germany is expected to boost the British Economy by about $28 million annually. No new treaty arrangements be tween Britain and the . Are necessary to base additional Ameri can planes in England under terms of the present agreement i . Planes and nuclear weapons based in England Are under sole control of the us. But the.. Has agreed not to use these weapons without the consent of the British government regulation defining use of i orderlies. Assistant Secretary of the army Dewey Short flanked by three army manpower experts agreed to look into the matter. The subcommittee is inquiring into the Overall question of efficient utilization of military manpower. It also is investigating charges that servicemen Are used to perform menial tasks for officers. Kowalsky suggests rep. Frank Kowalski a con critic of the armed services Man Power policies made the Sugges Tion that a regulation wag needed to prevent abuses in assigning enlisted men to perform servants chores. He was backed by chairman Mel Vin Price d-i1l Kowalski a West Point graduate with 33 years army service said he was aware the rules authorize general officers to have orderlies. But he questioned whether some officers were hot abusing the Privi lege by assigning their orderlies to sweep floors scrub the Kitchen Cook clean toilets in an officer s Home and Wash the dishes after the wife has a  wife might request col j. S. Lawrie Deputy army manpower director conceded that orderlies duties Are not  Kowalski also questioned if an enlisted Man. Has to take order from an officer s wife. Lawrie said no there is nonlegal basis for a wife to give an enlisted Man an  however he said a general s wife might Sug Gest or request that a Soldier As signed to a Home should answer the Telephone. Long returns to Louisiana Monroe la. Up gov. Earl k. Long came Back to Louisiana raring to Call a special session of he legislature and daring his Polit Cal foes to try to impeach him for erratic conduct. Returning from a 17-Day Western vacation advised by his physicians he 63-year-old governor gathered a score of state legislators at Avion Roe Motel to reveal is plans for a special session. Long also plans a strenuous stump tour through Central Louisi Ana. It will be the second speech making tour in his bid for re election since he got but of a state mental Hospital by firing the me who ran it. Seven Coal miners believed dead in pitfall Herne Germany up Lope has been abandoned Here for seven Coal miners buried in a Rockfall. Spokesmen for the Hibernia coalmine Here said it can be taken for. Certain that the miners died when buried under tons of falling Rock. Troops to get weapon against strafing plane Aberdeen ism  
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