European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday August 5, 1959 Parley of top red chinese reported Tokyo a communist China s Boss Mao Tze Tung is believed to have summoned the Chi Nese Hierarchy to a secret Confer ence to plot some important new move either on the Domestic or the asian scene. The absence of China s top officials from weekend celebrations of the 32d anniversary of the chinese communist army strongly suggests that such a conference called. The presumed presence of to military men at the meeting raised the likelihood that Mao s pet project the peasant communes May be under attack and May be re vamped. The army forms the Back Bone of the commune system an controls individual units. Mno too idealistic the chinese hinted that the communes May be undergoing change when Kiangtung province party chief t to Chu recently Mao was not infallible. T to said a Mark of greatness was to change a policy and discard the original formula if it were found incorrect. To be afraid to change one policy and discard an original formula is to be guilty of idealism t to wrote in an official journal. Mao resigned As chairman of China to devote himself to the Job of straightening out the communes which put 99 per cent of the country s 500 million peasants into big Barrack Type gave them a $500 million subsidy to help bail them out. Buta report that the country s 37 big cities still Are suffering a food shortage indicates they have not bounced Back. Red interest in lao another pressing problem which could be aired at the meeting Isth situation in Laos. Fighting has broken out there Between Royal troops and those of communist North Vietnam. By enlarging the still tiny Dis Pute piping could underscore its argument that the three nation armistice commission should be re instated in Laos. The commission which has on communist member and is headed by neutralise India would Dis courage moves by pro Western Premier Phoui Sananikone to in crease . Military Aid and muzzle examining the possibility of at tempting to seize one or both of the major nationalist held Island which lie off the chinese main land. Such a move would be an at tempt to determine whether Amer ican policy towards Formosa has undergone a change since the death of former Secretary of state John Foster Dulles. The communists also Are believe concerned Over the projected visit by Khrushchev to the . It seems unlikely that the conference would More than discuss it. The chinese would oppose Sulla conciliatory gesture chiefly be cause it would occur about the time the . Again was opposing chinese entry into the in. Rockefeller and a possible sounding Board the communist influence lao forces there. Pat net the chinese leaders also could be housewife swims across puget sound Seattle Wash. Up am Hiland 38, a Long Beach calif., housewife swam across puget sound from Bremerton Wash., to Alai Point Here. It was the first time such a venture had been at tempted. She covered the 16-mile distance in 5 hours 59 minutes arriving Here nearly two hours ahead of sched ule. New York gov. Nelson Rockefeller in ties a stimulates As he talks with from left goes. Harold w. Hundley Rind William g. Stretton r-ii1. And George Docking a Kan at governors conference in san Juan puerto Rico. Russians publish Book about . Pianist Cliburn London a the russians Are so wild about Van Cliburn the pianist from Texas that the have published a Book about him. Radio Moscow said the Book has been brought out in a 75,000-copy edition. The author Sofia Hen Tova noted critic writes that it was not her aim to write the pianist artistic biography that would be premature the broadcast Art is not yet fully formed and is still developing. The author draws extensive Lyon comments on Cliburn and his Art by leading soviet musicians Dmitri Shostakovich Genrikh Neil Haus Svyatoslav Rikhter and Emi Gilels. The Book also gives some glimpses into the musical life of America Cliburn won Moscow s Tchaikovsky International piano Competition in May 1958. Rockefeller has told friends the Only thing that could prompt him to run for gop presidential nomination in i960 is conclusive evidence that vice president . Nixon would lose to a democratic opponent. See Story on Page 7. Up i of the future previewed at army Assn. Convention by Robert Dunphy staff writer _ Washington is one of the capital s hotels has taken on the appearance of a space age for Tress with rubber masked soldiers of the future inside and guide missiles ringing the Lawn. The occasion is the annual meet ing of the Assn. Of the . Army whose theme this year what is a " modern army is illustrated by futuristic weapons on display about 120 Booths displayed items highlighting army advances in fire communications and Logis tics. The top attraction was the sol Kier of the future a Martian like creature with a transistorized helmet Thermal face mask As pro Teie Tjon Aga inst nuclear attack and / jumping belt1 for getting about. Also on display was the army Snew Vest pocket tactical air de sense system coordinating antiaircraft missile firings at split second speeds with the location of hostile aircraft. Another big attraction was the new Bazooka missile jointly devel oped by the army and Marine see also Story on Page 9 corps which is capable of being fired from the shoulder against Low flying enemy planes. Also displayed for the first time was the army s new Ultra sensitive radar capable of detecting an ene my Soldier at night at two Miles distance and indicating a moving jeep As far As 10 Miles away rebels open twin drives to Cut off 2 Laos states Saigon up rebel Force shave increased their grip on Phong Saly and Sam Neua provinces i Northern Laos during the past 48 hours according to reports reach ing Here. German town hit by 3 rockets from crippled . Jet Wiesbaden Germany is three buildings in Moosburgger Many were slightly damaged by rockets from an abandoned f86 , according to officials Here. The f86, assigned to the 440thfighter interceptor so at Erding air station near Munich was on a routine night training flight when fire and explosion forced the Pilot to eject from the Craft. Apparently the fire in the plan set off the propellant in the mighty mouse rockets carried bythe Jet. Three of them struck the Roosburg buildings but their War Heads did not explode. Search for rockets air Force and German official were searching for the remaining 21 rockets. Residents in the Are were warned to watch for the rockets and not to touch them. The f86 Pilot 1st it Harold , 27, of san Leandro calif., was not injured in the Para Chute jump from the burning Jet. He ejected at about 8,000 feet. The 440th so is part of the 86thfighter-interceptor Wing which is headquartered at Ramstein airbase Germany. Horns unsafe in traffic Denver up Denver police recorded one of Dent in the City Centennial Parade. A parading of scratched and dented a passing Auto with his wildly tossing head. The rebels now Are reported con ducting a double movement in an attempt to Cut off the two prov inces from the remainder of the country. The laotian army was said to be concentrating its forces on the defense of Sam Neua and on the Hua Muong military Post while the army at the same time is organizing its counter guerrilla forces in the Jungle to combat rebels. Message to in in the capital Vientiane the government was understood Mohave sent a message to Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold at the United nations. According to the message the present situation in Laos created by the forces of the communist Patchet lao is in violation of the Geneva agreements. It also claimed the rebel forces were trained and equipped by communist North Vietnam. Kennedy says incomes Ned Congress Aid Seaside Ore. A three serious gaps in the Protection of american incomes must be plugged by Congress sen. John f. Ken Nedy a mass told the Oregon Al Cio at its convention Here the senator a probable Candi Date for the democratic Nomina Tion for president said he was a Friend of labor who had earned the hostility of James a. Hoffa head of the teamsters Union. Before Kennedy a appearance the Oregon state culinary Alli Ance voted to submit a convention Resolution inviting the teamsters to rejoin the Al Cio from which they had been ousted. Kennedy declined to comment on it. Minimum wage boost Kennedy told delegates the mini mum wage needs to be boosted to $1.25-an hour from the present $1to keep up with rising costs that unemployment insurance is inadequate and there has been a disturbing increase in the number of persons without a Job for four months or and the final Challenge Kenned said is to give adequate Protection to older persons whose social Security checks have been eaten away by . Delegates hit youth fete Vienna a a statement issued by a majority of the . Delegates tuesday denounced the seventh world youth festival As a tool for the advancement of world communism at which the truth was distorted free speech Vas suppressed and non com miniets were beaten up by festival thus the 10-Day communist sponsored festival closed tuesday n a burst of ideological fireworks. While the communists were advertising a grandiose Winglup Celebration tuesday night in the Vienna City Hall Square two groups of american participants sued statements denouncing the Estival As a communist travesty of the austrian anti communist Outh organizations issued state ments telling the disillusioned american participants and the rest the world that we told you All Long and months in Advance that his festival was a communist their experience Here Learly 200 of the americans plan o join Post festival Tours of rus a. Many others applied for thrips to Moscow Leningrad and
