European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thi sta1s and stapes thursday a flu a 13, us Diplomat backs billion for arms Aid Washington a a state of department spokesman said the Berlin crisis emphasizes that Western Europe is still a High priority target of soviet Imperial  " Foy d. Kohler acting assistant Secretary of state for european affairs asked the Senate appropriations committee to vote pres ident Eisenhower $1.4 billion i arms Aid funds to meet what he called perhaps the greatest Chal Lenge Ever faced by North at lactic treaty organization allies. Can never relax if a $100 million House Cut be Low that figure is allowed to stand he said it May weaken the free world s ability to weather the crisis. He testified in support of a $3.5billion foreign Aid Bill of which military assistance including $517million for Europe is a major part. The witness said the $65 million in economic assistance for Europe is vital in a period which May Leone of the most critical Ever faced by Western  he said it is important to . Security to continue such assist Ance to Spain Yugoslavia and Berlin. Fare Matte of Laws says Douglas military grocery cterhs9 assailed saves 2 Virginia Washington up sen. Paul h. Douglas . Says nearly5,000 . Servicemen Are being used As grocery store clerks i military commissary stores which make a farce of the  Are losing the equivalent of two full combat regiments by hav ing enlisted personnel sell bread meat and canned goods Douglas said. He said a farce has been made of the Law governing such establishments inside the . The Law Douglas said provides for commissaries in areas where service Secretary certifies that no adequate facilities Selling Gro Ceries at reasonable prices Are conveniently , he said a very great number of the 269 commissary stores operated by army Navy air Force and marines have been certified where adequate Commer Cial facilities Are conveniently available. He mentioned it. Myerin nearby Virginia where he said there Are supermarkets just out Side the Gate. He also listed it. Belvoir va.,. Me axe md., it. Mcnair d.g., it. Sheridan. 111., and the Walter Reed army medical Center  said the employment of 4,798 at an average wage of $3,468 an total pay and allowances of $35, 182,996 is an example of inefficient and uneconomic use of Mili tary personnel similar to the use of enlisted men As officers serv  practice Douglas said is perhaps the most glaring example of an area where the government competes quite unnecessarily with private  said the defense depart ment s statistics show that the Norfolk a. Up two sailors an american and an Itali an were saved from the Atlantic Ocean by a . Navy submarine mpg sue ship the  Kittiwake. An american diver suffered oxygen poisoning while diving along Side the Kittiwake off the Virginia capes. He was pulled to the sur face placed in the ship s decompression chamber and rushed Back to Norfolk for treatment. Seaman spotted while the e ship was nearing port a crewman spotted the italian Sailor Garguillo Francisco Floun Dering in the water Francisco from the Liberia merchant Collier White River told officials he fell off the vessel As it steamed from Norfolk to Rotter dam. He said he had been in the water 40 Miles from land for at least an hour. ,. Both Tyler and Francisco were created at the . Navy base her and were reported in Good Condi Tion. Number on strike Rose 15 pet. In 1st half of 59 Washington up fifteen per cent More workers went out on strike the first six months of this year than during the same period last year the labor de apartment has reported. The report showed that the 1,875strikes started during the first six months of this year idled 775,000 workers. About 450 strikes began in june 50 More than in May. Javelin hurled by boy accidentally kills sister los gatos Calif. A javelin thrown a a 14-year-old boy practising with the Hope of making Hia High school track team bounced off a tree limb Ami killed Bis 8-year-old sister. The end of the Spear struck Maria Englert in the neck be aide her Collarbone with such Force it penetrated her lung pulmonary artery and her heart. She died 50 minutes later in it Hospital. The javelin we thrown few fee brother Thomas. . Statisticians take note miss Washington of 1959,"Virginia Pailes 21, of Hyattsville md., will represent the District of Columbia in the miss Amer Ica pageant at Atlantic  36-24-38. A photo pastor charges arsonist set Chicago school fire Chicago up an arsonist set the fire last dec. 1 at our lad of the Angels school a Blaze which claimed 95 lives the pastor of the Parish has charged. Msgr. Joseph Cussen made the accusation in an interview with the Chicago daily news in which he also said that an attempt was made last june 25 to set fire tothe Church adjacent to the school. A 16-hour guard has been maintained in the Parish since the school fire capt. Harry Penzi said and increased to an around the clock basis after evidence of arson was found in the Church. There s some nut Loose  told the daily news in re German born scientist new chief of army lab it Monmouth .  Ziegler 48, German born authority on satellite instrumentation and communications has been named chief scientist at the .army signal research and develop ment Laboratory Here bom in Munich. Ziegler came to America in 1947 to work at the Sig Nal Laboratory. Iterating his belief that the Blaz Ewas set deliberately and was Noi the result of bad housekeeping As some persons have suggested. A Coroner s Blue ribbon jury of experts conducted lengthy in Quiry into the school fire by failed to determine its cause. Bavaria casinos Musi close by 1965 Munich up Bavaria s state government banned the future construction of gambling casinos and ordered All currently operating to close their doors by 1965. The crackdown came. After the Windup of a lengthy trial ii which a former state Premier and thereof his ministers were convicted for taking kickbacks from Industrial its in Exchange for permission to build casinos. The state government edict can cels a plan to build five new casinos. Commissaries in the . Did a366,659,000 business in the 1958 fiscal year Selling to some 914,24? permit holders More than 80per cent of them stationed off ,6 Nill tary posts served. Citing a lower markup in commissary. Stores 3 per cent As compared with 15 to .20 per cent n privately owned stores Doug As said the result is a subsidy o military personnel within the  Inetal  he said the armed services should have Ade Quat e pay and allowances without Uch arrangements. Order limiting i orderlies Sicily to Host Beauty contest Palermo Sicily up the annual Bikini and body. Fest to elect miss Europe will be held Here sept. 6. " for the first tune Poland Yugo Slavia and Romania will Send their lovelies. " other countries to enter the com petition Are Austria Belgium Den Mark Finland France Greece Britain Iceland ital Luxem Bourg the Netherlands Switzer land and Turkey. The festival begins sept. I and ends with the final election sept 6th e Winner  represent Europe in the miss universe contest Long Beach Calif. Marine killed 8 Hurt in Bazooka rocket blast Gamp Lejeune . Up a Veteran Marine corps instructor was killed when a Bazooka anti tank rocket exploded prematurely on the Camp Geiger firing Range eight others were injured. Officials identified the dead Man As sgt Henry Carbajal 29, who wife and two children reside a North Woods . Eight injured trainees were taken to the  naval Hospital Here for treatment of injuries ranging from broken legs to lacerations. Galled w a s h i n 6 t o v a Tolje Arni y s new. _ order reducing the lumber of officers orderlies has seen described As nonsensical by congressman a retired colonel who contends  men Are wrongfully used As servants. Rep. Frank Kowalski a Conn said the order apparently keeps orderlies for generals but ends the authority for such help in the Field the one place where orderlies Are clearly needed and  the new regulation distributed. U e s d a y eliminates a provision which permitted one orderly for each commanding officer of a Bat Talion regiment or group. It no states orderlies Are authorized on the basis of one for each Gen eral officer  Kowalski commented that this simply proves that All. They Are. Trying to do is make an impression by reducing numbers while they still retain servants for  completely astray the army has gone completely stray on this and somebody ought to take a Good hard look at theman who issued this order to determine whether he should be relieved of authority to Issue further orders he said. Kowalski said the original Reg Lati on on orderlies was not in tended to provide servants for officers at their quarters in garrisons or forts but instead to allow com Man Ders regardless of a n k to have time saving help in the field."under1 wartime conditions even a Captain commanding a company needs an orderly Kowalski said. He s got enough to do without having to drive his own jeep put up his own tent and Rustle up disown food but at Home in peace time it s a different Story. Geti reals Don t need military servants to walk  and do their wives  1,200 fight California fires san Francisco a twelve Hundred men Are fighting to Check a dozen Forest fires blazing Over 10,000 acres of Northern California. Hearing opens on Finch girl Friend West Covina Calif. A an eager overflow crowd of spectators heard medical testimony at preliminary hear ing for Carol Tregoff accused of helping murderer Lover s wife. The hearing later recessed until thursday will determine whether the red haired girl Friend of or. R. Bernard finc becomes a co defendant at his Mur Der trial. The two Are accused inthe july 18 Guin slaying of the Doc Tor s socialite wife " Cole a pathologist testified that the victim died of a gunshot wound with massive Hemorin Hage the defense established it was impossible to determine accurately the Caliper of the fatal Bullet. For the most part the proceed Ings were almost a Carbon copy of Finch s hearing two weeks ago at the conclusion of that four Day session the 41-year-old surgeon was ordered held for  Tregoff a status in the Case hinges on whether her constitutional rights were violated at the earlier hearing she was arrested after testifying that she was Presley at the Finch Home the night mrs. Barbara Finch was  attorney contends she was not advised of her rights prior tothe testimony and that the Tran script is inadmissible in the present hearing. The prosecution argues that it was unnecessary to advise her of her rights since she was no charged at the time she took the stand. She was unsmiling and showed no emotion. As in the first hearing the Liu tial witness was or Gerald pfc. Ridge forensic pathologist and Dep Uty i county medical examiner lie testified that mrs. Finch died of a gunshot wound with massive Haemorrhage. He described How the Bullet  the victim s left shoulder exited near her right breast