European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday Augurt Leif the stars and stripes Page 3 Laos of Eurvil time bomb in asian cold War North Vietnam g u i f of s i am p. Tuss Tokyo up a the cold Waris turning hot in the tiny kingdom of Laos strategic heart of South East Asia. It could turn red hot in a moment or even explode. For Laos has become a miniature cockpit i which the forces making for ten Sion in Asia Are in open conflict. American armed troops of the Royal laotian Are battling Iii the Remote mountainous forthwith communist rebels who Are armed by communist China an North Vietnam. Not Many men Are involved probably fewer than 2,000, but this snakes the situation no less explosive. Land locked Laos is virtually in the dead Center of Southeast Borders of this 86,000-Square a Rifle nation touch on red China and North Vietnam neutralise Burma and Cambodia and pro Western Thailand and South Viet Nam. Trouble in North for 620 uneasy Miles it shares its Border with red China an North Vietnam. And by no coincidence it is along these Borders in the Northern provinces that re rebels Are now fighting with government rebels at least 600 Strong Are remnants of a communist army that swarmed across the North vietnamese Border into lao sin the closing Days of the indochinese reds seized the provinces Saly and Sam Neua handheld them when the Geneva agree map locates Laos Center of latest flare up in the Gold War. Ments were signed in 1954. Typhoid hoax jails student Monticello to. Up College student paid a $152.80 Fine in magistrate1 court for coaxing police into believing there was an Iowa typhoid epidemic so he could win a $25 bet that he could ride in a so Iliad car. Charles d. Paris,.24, of Chicago an osteopathic student at a Kirks Ville mo., College admitted he perpetrated a hoax of a typhoid epidemic at Ford Madison Iowa. He said he did it to win a be that he could get a ride in a patrol car from Quincy 111., to fort Madison which is cleaning up from a Flash flood following a9- Inch rain. Posing As or. Burnett bound for the Iowa City to Check on a typhoid outbreak Parisi said he secured the free ride to the Iowa Missouri Border. Cars dispatched two Keokuk Iowa policemen were dispatched to the state line to pick up the doctor and escort him to Keokuk where a third state car was to Rush him to fort Madi son. Keokuk police chief George Jones said the arrangements were made in response to a Call fro Missouri authorities that or. Bur Nett was in route. Parisi however got no farther than Keokuk. Police had checked with the City s hospitals Learned no report of typhoid had Bee made and asked Keokuk police to investigate. Parisi then admitted the hoax Missouri authorities were called to pick up Parisi for another free ride this time to Monticello where he was fined $152. Four Swiss drown As car plunges in Lake Viznau Switzerland up four persons drowned in Lake Lucerne police reported when an inexperienced woman Driver struck a Roek Wall with her car crashed through a railing and plunged into the Lake. The woman and her three Pas sengers were All natives of Switzer land. Barbara Hutton denies k t $200,000 style spree Tangier a Barbara hut ton angrily labelled reports that she bought $200,000 Worth of fancy frocks from a Paris fashion Houseas completely i am furious about those news paper stories she said. Miss Hutton has been Here for three Days taking it easy at her luxurious Home in the old Walle Dasbah. The stories were published aftera spokesman for the Lanvin Castillo House in Paris Long favored by miss Hutton said that she had bought More than half of the new fall Winter collection. The collect fit to be tied Judy Scott tries a new twist to the Indian rope trick on Beach fit Silver Springs Vii Tion included 171 asked if it were True that the purchases Cost As much a $200,-000, the spokesman replied of a lot More than that.". Miss Hutton acknowledged that i bought a few things for myself and my but she ducked question about How Many gowns and Coats she had ordered or what they s my b i n e s a she Hutton looking slightly plump and very relaxed revealed that she. Has just completed health cure. As a followup she plans to Slop drinking alcoholic beverages and Cut Down on her was seen strolling through the streets of Tangier wearing a Plain White Blouse Brown pants and is a vacation town and one usually wears informal things she explained. Road iced in the 80s Greensburg ind. A the temperature was in the 80s but ice blocked state Highway 46 three Miles East of Greensburg for More than a half hour. Two tons of Iceni 100-Pound blocks was dumped on Tufe Highway when a truck up set. Since then the government has been trying to absorb the communists without being swallowed it self. This attempt Lias kept Laos Sim Mering for five years and it is impossible to say whether the Situa Tion will finally come to a boil now. Pro Western prime minister Phoui Sananikone has cracked Down on the reds As no other laotian Leader has before him. The communists who feel Sananikone is driving them to the Wall May be attacking in the Northern pro princes in the beginning of a last stand. The current crisis grew out fan agreement reached in novem Ber 1957 by two half Brothers neutralise Prince Souvanna Phou a the Premier and pro communist Prince Soukhanouvong a Man with great popular worked out a plan to Inte grate the 6,000-Man Patchet la army with the 25,000-Man Royal laotian army and to bring communist parly members into the government. The tide quickly began running Strong for the communists. I looked As if Laos would have a communist government by i960,when the next. General elections were scheduled. But a. Government shakeup Ina gust 1958 stemmed the tide and began turning it against the reds. Louisiana asks . Court to void civil rights act Shreveport la. A Louisiana has asked a three judge Federal court to strike Clown the civil rights act As unconstitutional. Attorney general Jack Gremillion of Louisiana said the congressional act setting up the executive Agency to collect information for con Gress has rules that deny a person s Basic rights to know his accuser and have a Chance to defend himself. The Federal government replied that the act protects a person s rights because it provides for summoned witnesses to have the advice of an attorney. W. Wilson White. . Assistant attorney general agreed with the state s Contention that the com Mission s rules of procedure Are inextricably connected with the act and that if the rules fall so will the act. The special court took the Cas under advisement. Attorneys were Given 10 Days to file additional briefs on some phases of the argument. Rules on witnesses w. M. Shaw of Homer Legal counsel for the state joint Legisla Tive committee on segregation held that the commission s rules allow witnesses to appear without a Chance to Cross examine opponents. He said these rules May be struck Down by the court without involving the civil rights act. Shaw represented individuals not registrars of voters who were subpoenaed by the commission for a hearing on denial of voters rights scheduled earlier in Shreve port but stopped. He told the court. We Are seek ing to protect the. Reputations of the people we represent. We Are entitled to seek due process flaw in protecting our Good the stuffs called Texas confetti Vicenza Italy a these prodigal americans Vicenza police exclaimed in amazement and they had some cause for it saw a big american car cruising the streets shortly after Midnight strewing what police sup posed were handbills of some the car was gone passers by began picking up the they turned out to be about $50 Worth of american Dollar Bills and italian 1,000 Lii a banknotes. Algerian War branded As fratricide Monrovia Liberia a the conference of Independent Africa states meeting Here has denounced As fratricide the use of Africa troops by France in the algerian War. The conference called on France to recognize the right of the Al Gerian people to Independence to withdraw troops from Algeria and to end hostilities and enter int negotiations with the provisional government of Algeria. It appealed to members of the North Atlantic treaty Organiza Tion nato to urge France to desist from using nato arms in the algerian War and called on All Friendly and peaceful nation everywhere to use their influence to end the algerian conflict. In debates urgent the conference also recommended to Independent african governments that they prepare for United nations debates of the Al Gerian question. The first Day of november was adopted by the conference As Al Gerian Day. The nations were urged to proclaim the Day As a expression of Solidarity. The conference suggested the setting up of permanent machinery to establish a group in the in of Independent african states for continuous consultations. . To exhibit Quality foods Washington up the agriculture department has announced that Quality foods from farms of America will be the theme of the . Exhibit at the International provisions and Fine foods exhibition in Cologne Ger Many from sept. 26 to oct. 4. But it s Bittern about whole thing Brooklyn cops jail Rowdy Bird new York a Brooklyn police Haye Learned to take the bitter with the better. But a Balky Bittern is something else again. The Liberty ave. Police station became a place of confusion when two patrolmen appeared with a formidable squawking Bird with a four foot Wing Span. My god what s that asked desk sgt Robert Winter. Patrolman Andy Nappi looked at fellow patrolman Barnett Cohen and replied we think it s a Cross Between a Stork and a vagrant Stork vulture said Cohen. He was loitering at Atlantic and Hopkinson avenues and causing a crowd to All scrutinized the creature. It was about a foot and a half Tali had Orange circles under its eyes Green legs a Sharp beak and with three toes on each Winter Don t put him in a cell. They be just been cleaned. Tie him to a chair in the Back belligerent Bittern also known As a swamp scavenger flew into such a rage that he finally had to be put into a cell before he was taken away by representative of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals
