European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 4, 1959 the stars and stripes log 3 i i a i recovered Cone from successful Atlas .1 1 an Atlas nose Cone largest re entry vehicle Ever recovered by the ., is examined by can t Donald l. St Colinan right project officer for the Atlas missile program and Mack Morton civilian expert at Cape canaveral Fla. Flight was of inter Continental Range. A photo jewish Congress opens sessions in Stockholm Stockholm up the 300 delegates of the world jewish con Gress entered into initial discus Sions on the major jewish problems after the formal opening of the fourth plenary Assembly in Stock Holm City Hall. On the Agenda was a political Survey dealing with the position of jewish communities in the world. In his opening speech president of the Congress Nahum Goldmann revealed that the Congress had invited 10 jewish communities in the soviet Union to the Congress but none was Able to  to political directors l. Easterman of London and  of new York sustained efforts were made to secure the interests of the soviet  there was no reply Froni the rus Sian government. Keep trying Goldmann said the Congress will continue to try to establish Contact with jewish communities in the soviet Union the reason Given by nearly All of the communities that they Are purely religious and cannot participate in a political Assembly like this has very Little  soviet jews to claim that they Are Only religiously interested is in View of their official status More of a Paradox than for another jewish Community he said. Up for political debate was also the disintegration of the egyptian jewish Community. The Sinai Campaign in 1956 forced More than 20,000 jews to leave Egypt. Plight in Egypt the 10,000 jews living in Egypt now Are barely Able to maintain their synagogues and other institutions necessary to secure Elemen tary jewish existence. Compensation for jews forced to leave the country abandoning pos sessions Worth millions is a matter of great concern to the Congress. Without jewish Unity Gold Mann said there would be no jewish people today. To have maintained this Unity in centuries of dispersion was perhaps the great est achievement of our Genius of self preservation but the More the jews become integrated in the life of their countries the More the 28 britons die on highways London a at least 28 per sons were killed and 400 injured inroad accidents As britons streamed from cities to beaches during the three Day August Bank Holiday. Differences Between their various forms of life grow. The main Pur pose of the world jewish congresses to help achieve the maintenance of jewish  divorce Law foe freed from jail plans Campaign Ann Arbor Mich. Up Neale d. Hills 23, who went on a hunger strike for nine Days in pro test Over the divorce Laws paid$500 in Back Alimony and was re leased from jail. I want to get. Things rolling now on the outside he said. I feel i have accomplished All i could in jail by focusing attention on my protest against the unfair divorce Laws. Now As soon As i get a Job i am going to Start circulating petitions to get the Laws  Hills was sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of court when he refused to pay his wife $20 a week in Alimony. He said he would pay for support of his two children if they were left in the care of a Neutral party but refused to give his wife any Money. Judge James r. Breakey jr., offered to d i s m i s s the contempt charge if Hills paid half of the $1,007 he was in arrears on his Alimony payments. But Hills at first refused the offer. He started fasting when he was sent to jail and refused food for nine Days before Deputy sheriff Theodore Geatros himself paying Alimony told Hills he would be better off to pay the Alimony get out of jail and then organize a Campaign to change the Laws. Dalai Lama asks  To educate tibetan refugees new York a the Dalai Lama Lias asked America and other countries abroad to educate 1,000young tibetans As future leaders of his race the american Emer gency committee for tibetan refugees reported. Lowell Thomas chairman of the committee said the request was made by the Dalai Lama in a re cent conference with the Field director of the committee Travis Fletcher at Musso Orie India. The Dalai Lama also asked that America and other countries accept As permanent immigrants a Many of the tibetan refugees in India As possible to relieve India of caring for the refugees. Help started Thomas said the american com Mittee had already contributed$150,000 Worth of drugs including antibiotics and vitamins. American pharmaceutical firms have donate another $130,000 Worth of drugs. Thomas added that there Arenow 13,000 tibetan refugees in India and that in addition there Are approximately 8,000 who have come to. India in the Normal course of Trade and who will no return to Tibet you Don t think it grows on Trees Bristol England up local boys have found a real live Money tree. Three Penny Penny and half Penny coins trickled Down from the branches of a 50-foot Beech tree on Ravenswood Road. On youngster collected 6 shillings 8 cents from the tree. Police said jackdaws probably collected the coins in a nest High in the tree. The nest probably slipped and Down came the coins officers said. Swiss official Calls nation s principle of neutrality outdated sign Switzerland a Swiss foreign minister Max Petitpierre suggested that Switzerland Sli Ould ease its time hallowed neutrality principle to play a greater role in West european integration. Petitpierre told a Swiss Independence Day rally that the traditional Swiss notions of neutrality and Independence Are rapidly becoming outdated end the Swiss people so would realize they can no longer stand alone As they have during the past 144 years. Swiss foreign policy has been based on a rigid principle of Neu reality since the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire in 1815. Any Challenge to this policy a s Long been a taboo in Swiss Public life. The policy kept the nation out of to world wars and out of these Orth Atlantic Alliance. It has also prevented Switzerland applying for membership in the United nations. Petitpierre did not Call for any fundamental change in the Neu reality policy. But his unusual warning was seen As an indication that a gradual modification of the policy was in the wind. Petitpierre is known to be particularly concerned Over the possible effects of the european common Market on the Swiss Economy and favor Switzerland s full collaboration with the outer seven group of nations. Switzerland s Fate is linked with that of the Community to which it belongs by reason of its geographical position the civilization to which it belongs and the principles which inspire its National life Petitpierre said. We must realize that a Small nation can no longer pursue its path alone and in isolation. The threats to which we Are exposed Are in subtler and More Complex form than those which faced our forefathers. We have less need As before to protect our in dependence against our neighbors than to contribute with them to the Unity Prosperity and social stability of  us ship crewmen give blood in  Boston a three of the Crew of has victorious big British aircraft Carrier appeared at the new England medical Center and offered blood while the ship was tied up in  was their practice they said to make such donations at port they visited. Richard j. Mccol Lough 35, of Newcastle England displayed 14 donation cards. Harr Barber 24, of Sheffield showed 10, and John Stephenson 23, of Birm Ingham showed 8. Many Distant ports were represented including Hon Kong Singa pore and Malta. Calm Leslie Bratton Dies at Denver Home Denver a rear adm Leslie Emmett Bratton Retone time acting judge advocate Genera of the Navy department died at his Home  native of Hastings neb., brat ton 73, was graduated from the  Naval Academy in 1905, George Washington Law school in 1915 and the naval Wai College at newportr.i., in 1929. Bridge naming creates Arch rivalry in . New York a All you have to do to Start an argument on Staten Island these Days is ask who was Giovanni a verrazano history tells us he was. A foot Loose florentine who came this Way More than 400 years ago. He credited with discovering manhat Tan and the Hudson River in 1524. The controversy started when the state decided to do him Honor. It was suggested that the Bridge Over new York Bay which will link Brooklyn and Staten Island Bear his  was t a Peep from Brook Lyn. But Many Staten Island Resi dents were outraged. They Felt the Ridge should be called Staten Island Bridge and the Staten Island c h a m b o r of Commerce agreed. Indignantly these people will Point out to anyone who la listen that verrazano who sailed for the French was an out and out pirates far As they re concerned there s a Staten Island ferryboat named after him and that s memorial enough. One outspoken Staten Islande described verrazano As nothing More than a foreigner who mad a navigational  that line of argument is How Ever hardly a telling one. The same description could be applied to Christopher Columbus. Gas Well blast kills one 2 others missing Houma la. A one Man Vas dead two others were missing and five were hospitalized with Burns after a Gas Well blew out of control and exploded in Timba Lier Bay. The explosion set Gas afire and he flames Rose 400 feet in the  Blaze destroyed a huge mov Able drilling Rig valued at More ban $1.5 million. The dead Man was identified As 3urton Gonzales sr., of Gonzales la., Captain of the j. Ray Mcdermott Barge. Missing and feared dead were Lufus Bourque of Kaplan and Wilton Latiolais of St. Martinville. Visiting father Burton Gonzales jr., 15, was in Ril ical condition. He was visiting is father when the Accident occurred. The other injured were Robert Whittington of Morgan City in serious condition Edward Netter Ville 19, also of Morgan City unfair condition Nootsie Barras 27, of St. Martinville in fair condition and Clemens Devillier 46, of Breaux Bridge in Good condition. John Barras 50, of St. Martin Ville father of Nootsie Barras was released after treatment for Shock and exhaustion. Survivors said a Flash fire on the tug j. S. Rebel which was moving the Crane Laden Barge into place near the Well set off the fire. Whittington was Captain of the tugboat. The Barge and tug trying to Sal Vage a sinking drilling Rig had apparently filled with escaping Gas and a spark evidently ignited theas. . Exports regain favor Washington up Testate department reported that discrimination against   has decreased sharply since the european common Market began operations Early this  department made Public a Brief Progress report in reply Toa request by rep. Hale Boggs d la chairman of the House ways and Means subcommittee on tariffs and Trade. Discriminatory practices in tuns  Goods have declined the department said not Only in the common Market area of Western Europe but in All parts of the world during the past seven months. The report said  should mean substantial Trade opportunities for  Exporters. Check the guarantee it May cover the Fine St. Louis up the St. Louis county Library had a boo returned after being 10 months overdue. Mrs. Wilson Miller librarian said the Borrower explained he just forgot about having  the volume was titled ten Days to a successful