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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Cd recast f Cloudy Wotli Talon cd  the Lute afternoon and evening 84, Low 03.air weather service european edition volume 18, number 113 army by air unofficial publication of the . Armef6rcs in Corona North Africa and the Middle East the real Montmartre tawdry a Galle is not All of the Montmartre Quarter of Paris. Pora glimpse of its better Side and a review of its history see pages12, 13. 5 cats daily 10 cents sunday 100 drown As floods hit Formosa Taipei up More than30,000 persons in Central for Mosa abandoned their Home saturday to seek Refuge on Highlands from the worst flood in More than half a Cen Tury. Reports reaching her saturday night said More than 100 persons were drowned and an additional 100 per sons were missing and feared swept away by the floodwaters. The reports said villages and Farmland on the Island s Westcoast stretching h u n  e d s of Niiles from Miaoli to Chiayin were still inundated. There had been no news from this area for som hours. It was believed the death toll will climb As More reports come in from the isolated areas. Communications gut railways highways and Tele phone communications have been Cut off from the flooded area. Observation places which re turned from flights Over the area said Light rain was still falling but the Waters were receding. Meanwhile official reports said the floods had left More than 10, 000 persons homeless. All available policemen through out the Island were ordered to join the Rescue teams in the flooded area. The weather Bureau reported that the rainfall amounted to. 17 inches in 12 hours but the Island s Southern Northern and East coast areas were not affected. Germany gets 2d heat wave Frankfurt up Germany s eased into its second heat wave Ina month saturday with a tug of its Collar and a Rush to the swimming pools. After a week of Clouds and rain the heat wave was Back with a vengeance. Temperatures had climbed Over the 80-degree Mark in downtown Frankfurt by 11 Amand weathermen said the heat wave would continue. Cars began jamming highways out of Germany s major cities Early in the morning and police reported that the jams threatened to reach the proportions of Early july. In july with temperatures in the 90s for three straight weeks traffic to swimming pools and beaches reached its highest Peak. Hurricane Itol s to per runs High the Magrisi Turfe of Hurricane Dot s fury can be higher and higher right in a White Spray gauged by wave slamming into seawall left obscures Church Steeple in the background photo on Hawaii s Kona coast and then rising Hurricane sent bowl anglers fleeing to the Hills. That the up being developed by Navy to spot missiles radar sees around Earth s curve Washington a the Navy has disclosed development fan experimental radar system which can look Over the curve of the Earth and spot a ballistic mis Sile almost at once after it is launched 5,000 Miles away. But it is Only a device still in the arly development stage and no actual operating system has been set up. The program named project Tepee has been in Progress about 2% years. A scientist told a news Confer ence that successful tests in detection were made during last summer s High Altitude nuclear missile experiments Over the sout Atlantic and in the mid Pacific. In those tests atomic explosions paddle wheel orbiting 26,400 to 157 Miles Cape canaveral Fla. A explorer i the most . Satellite is circling the Earth in an orbit that is wider than it appeared after launching. The space Agency in Washington said new calculations showed at mid afternoon saturday that the paddle wheel satellite is swinging another Story Page 2 out 26,400 Miles from the Earth and then coming Down to within 157 Miles at the Low Point. It takes the 142-Pound satellite 12 hours 45 minutes to make one orbit around the Earth. The National aeronautics and space administration Nasa said fascist foe Dies Rome a Don Luigi Stur 87, fascist fighting priest who funded the italian Christian Democrat party died saturday. Reports from the world wide track ing network indicated valuable scientific information is being relayed Back to Earth from 15 scientific experiments through the satellite s three transmitters. Of the missiles were detected Forra location in the . William j. Thaler of the Nava research office said in answer to a question about the system tha you could Hope it would double the warning time possible Uncle ballistic missile warning systems now being  Tho a systems Are intended to give about 15 minutes warning when the missile is about Halfway in flight to target. Thaler said that Only experimental equipment has been use Dup to now but we Are confident that a system capable of reliable detection Over intercontinental ranges is feasible. The same Basic techniques have also demonstrated a capability of detecting a nuclear explosion from thousands of Miles away. Thus it could be employed As one Means of discovering violations of a nuclear test  Kwof hop Over pole called Boring routine Fairbanks Alaska up the Pilot of one of two f100f Jet planes which made the first Iet fighter flight across the North pole has described their trip As kind of Boring and  the two supersonic super Sabre jets landed Here after ground Crews chased a wandering Moose off the runway at Eielson air yank s wife in Russia wants out Centralia Iii. Up the1 wife and three children of a . Air Force officer reportedly seeking russian citizenship retrying to get out of Russia a relative said Here. Mrs. Gladys Howard said he sister mrs. Libero Ricciardelli and the children Are sick to  mrs Howard said Ricciardelli former world War ii flier took his family to Europe Early this year on what her sister Norma thought was a vacation trip. She said she in t surprised a reports by the soviet press that Ricciardelli wants to become a Citi zen of the user. Mrs. Howard said she believe the three letters she has received from her sister were  know she in t getting some of my letters because of the Way she writes and i m very careful of what i write to her mrs. How urd said in an interview Here. In her last letter. Mrs. Howard said her sister wrote that the children cried every Day an asked their father to return to the . The children Are a 13 year old girl and boys 9, and 11. Mrs. Howard said she has appealed to a number of authorities for help and understands the army is looking into the  Don t know where else to turn she said. Force base. They covered the 5,405 Miles from Wethersfield England in 9 hours 37 minutes. We cruised Between about 27, 000 and 37,000 feet the whole Dis Tance said capt Robert Titus o Norfolk va., Pilot of one of the planes. There was t much to do up there. It was kind of Bori Gand routine. The other plane was piloted by Brig Gen Charles f. Blair jr., air Force Reserve officer and a com Mercial Pilot on the Atlantic run for pan american airways. Blair is a special consultant for the air Force. Col Stephen Henry commander of Eielson fab greeted the men when their planes touched Down just one minute apart. The jets had to Circle the Field twice while ground Crews shooed away the wandering Moose. We were just sort of moping Long during the whole trip said Titus. He said the jets averaged about 500 Mph during the flight. Sunday August 9, 1959 Ike Broadens visit plans for Europe Washington a president Eisenhower Satur Day broadened plans for his trip to Western Europe to in clude talks with italian pre Mier Antonio Segni and two top officials of the Nort Atlantic treaty organization nato. Separate meetings with the nato officials and the italian Premier will take place in Paris after or. Eisenhower has ended conferences with French presi Dent Charles de Gaulle. It was announced earlier that president Eisenhower will go to London aug. 28 for talks with British prime minister Harold Macmillan and then to Paris sept. 2 for the meeting with de Gaulle. To Confer with Luns White House press Secretary James c. Hagerty said the presi Dent will Confer with Joseph m. H. Luns the Netherlands minister of foreign affairs and president of the nato Council and with Paul Henri Spaak nato Secretary Gen eral. Hagerty followed this with a second announcement that or. Eisenhower will meet with the italian Premier for discussions on world problems of Mutual interest. Segni will also visit the . Starting sept. 30, Hagerty said. Or. Eisenhower s trip to West Europe is preliminary to his talks in Washington with soviet pre Mier Nikita s. Khrushchev who front. On Page 2tf col. 2 Ike urged to visit Berlin Washington up a new York congressman urged presi Dent Eisenhower saturday to visit West Berlin on his trip to Europe later this month to Confer with Allied leaders. Rep. Samuel s. Stratton . Ice in a Telegram to the presi Dent that a visit by him to the ormer German capital would pm Jhansi a our determination to Tancl firm in  he said such a visit would show the world t h e r e had been no slackening in the . Position de spite the invitation for soviet pre Nier Nikita s. Khrushchev to come o this country in september. By visiting Berlin in person before or. Khrushchev comes to Washington you would be Able o give Clear and dramatic proof hat our position in regard to Ber in As Well As toward our nato lilies remains unchanged Strat on told the president. Baseball National league first  Philadelphia Oil 100 0003 8 0 t. Louis 100 200 i ox4 9 0 Viilu its Annii  it.-, Millim i Hulth. V Millir 1-0. I  i hm1. Hit it. Lull-., Mumbai ii. American league  
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