European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                European edition weather forecast 1 Ftp try i oud and slightly win met i to 78, Lotf 50. Service volume 18, number 121 army. Navy air Force Fth a a Pom � Eor a North. Rockets bed Glare America s busiest Day in rocket is pictured on Page 17, with Testi not All successful of Titan Quito and Polaris and search for satellite capsule. Middle decaf 6 jul. & tent Dally 16 c4nti sunday to Cut 7 seas monday August 17, 1959 the 24-foot diameter propeller of the Tanker National defender dwarfs a Painter giving the ship its final touch up before launching at the Newport news a shipbuilding co. The 86,000-Pound Bronze propeller is largest Ever installed in . Ship and the vessel 810feet Long is the largest Tanker in America. Up photo austrian copters Supply 500 stranded by floods Vienna up austrian army helicopters have started an Airlift operation to Supply the Little summer resort of Fil Zmoos where about 500 foreign tourists Are still marooned As a result of this country Sworst flood disaster in 60 years. The death toll of the current disaster has increased to 11. All Vic. Tims Are austrians who were either drowned by the raging Waters or killed by lightning. Among the last victims were two children Ingrid Rast 5, and her 6-year-old brother Johann who drowned in the ram paging Waters of the Kessener storms in Brazil claim 46 lives Rio de Janeiro a at least 46 persons were killed and hundreds More injured in violent wind and rainstorms which lashed Southern and Central Brazil. Thousands of cattle in the Rich farming areas of Santa Catarina and Parana were lost and enor. Mous property damage was re ported. Heavy Rains were continuing and Rivers were rising steadily in the area. Ache River in the Tyrol. Danube receding despite new rainstorms Vienna a despite new cloudburst the Waters of the Danube River were receding above the capital City sunday night. This meant the Overall flood danger i Austria seemed to be Over. Only a few roads and rail line were still flooded. American Parley " j to ease tensions Debre hints displeasure at visit Swap Ile Bouchard France up Premier Michel Debre said France must gather All her strength under the gaullist regime to avoid being crushed by the world s giants Russia and the . Debre gave this Public hint on the French government s displeasure Over the forthcoming Eisen Hower Khrushchev talks in a state ment to an agricultural exhibition Here. History goes ahead rapidly and surprising changes can occur Debre said. He added who would have said Only six years ago that visits will be care fully organized one Day Between the chiefs of government of mos cow and Washington. France must be heard to avoid being crushed by agreements Between the very big Powers a nation like France must be capable of making itself heard and  French government leaders have been reported to View with mis Givings the opening of direct talks Between Moscow and Washington. Reliable sources reported that at last wednesday s special Cabinet meeting in Paris president Charlesze Gaulle called the Eisenhower Khrushchev Parley a historic turn in America s foreign policy. Debre indicated that France was More than Ever determined to win a larger share in the formulation of Allied policies within the Frame work of the Atlantic Alliance. Debre indicated France was not contemplating a drastic foreign policy move that would separate t from its Western allies. Heart victim conciliation group urged by ministers Fleet adm William f. Hajsey adm Halsey 9 16 killed 80 Hurt i Formosa quake Taipei up nationalist chinese police and troops have started Salvage work in Southern Formosa where the Island s worst earthquake in eight years killed at least 16 persons injured 80 and Eft 6,000 homeless. The violent tremor followed devastating floods which left nearly 2,200 dead missing and injured i Central Formosa North of the quake area a . Marine medical team started insulating. 150,000 persons against typhoon fever feared triggered byte floods. Fishers Island . A Fleet adm William f. B u 11 Halsey ret was found dead in bed sunday at the Fishers Island country club in Long Island sound. He was 76. The death of the world War i Leader was attributed to a heart attack. Bert f r a z e a manager of the country club said he found Halsey dead in his q u a r t e r s after in Santiago Chile up a working group at the san Tiago conference of foreign ministers of the organization of american states Oas unanimously approved a Resolution empowering the inter american peace com Mission to act As conciliator in a Caribbean crisis. Secretary of state Christian a Herter so far has conferred with picture Page if about 10 foreign ministers in Sid meetings Here. Herter earlier conferred privately with brazilian foreign minister Horacio Lafer on economic prob lems. Lafer said Brazil and the .were now close together on the idea of issuing a declaration emphasizing the serious economic difficulties faced by latin America. Inclusion of this subject in Santiago declaration would be a Victory for Cuba whose leaders including Premier Fidel Castro have maintained that widespread Pover front. On Page 2jf, col 9 . Said planning atom spaceship new York a american scientists plan to use an atomic bomb for the first time to test the feasibility of powering space ships As big As Ocean liners the new York times said. Whether the plan is fulfilled rests on the out come of the nuclear test ban talks in Geneva the times added the Power said the newspaper,wqujr1 come from controlled nuclear  regarding the Geneva talks note was made that the . Defense department already has stated twill be ready to resume nuclear tests after oct. 31 if no agree ment has been reached by  scientists the times said Are predicting the Advent of commercial space flights to the Moon As Early As the mid-1970s."the project s nickname is put put because the ship would be. Propelled by a rapid succession of atomic explosions said the times. The official code name is project Orion and plans were said to have been revealed first on july 2. 1958. Roy w. Johnson director of the advanced research project Agency was said to have discussed with the Senate space subcommittee March 26 the idea of launching a "1,000-ton space platform with controlled nuclear explosions. President Eisenhower i Gettysburg said that in the death sunday of Fleet adm William f. Halsey he had lost personal Friend and All Ameri cans have lost one of their great natural  Halsey s old Comrade in arms Gen of the army Douglas Mac Arthur expressed great Shock at the Admiral s passing. He was one of our greatest fighting admirals Macarthur said and his name and Fame will always be associated with our great Victory Over  Vest gating to see Why the Admiral had failed to come to breakfast. Halsey took a Small Force de Pinto japanese Waters Early in february 1942 for a strike at the marshal and Gilbert islands our first naval offensive of the War. Later in the War. His rampaging 3d Fleet battered the japanese from the Palau to their Home islands. Between july 10 and aug. 15, 1945. Forces under Halsey s com Mand destroyed or damaged 2,804 enemy planes Sanft or damaged148 japanese combat ships and Sank or damaged 1,598 merchant vessels. This was in addition to heavy blows at Industrial target Sand War industries. He carried out the first raid on Wake Island after the japanese had conquered the Little Marine font. On Page 8$, ool. By baseball american league Washington 200 002 2006 9 0 Baltimore 000 000 010i 9 3 Lii bios  8hyde a Ami court  Walker. A her s and Ginsberg. A Kamos 11-14. To Walker 8-7. First game a Ston 060 000 0006 6 0 new York 310 000 0105 9 i Jas ale delude 2kelly and White menus shunt 2 2routes 8 and Terra. W Yelnek la i. A Maas 11-b. Ii Mantle 2 Ilir Onsberry 4howard 15. Cleveland at Detroit postponed rain. National league san Francisco 200 010 0104 9 0 Chicago 200 300 oox5 6 i Antonelli Miller 7s. Jones s and Lun Ritli. Schmidt is Andersin Alston 8 and n Yeii Iii. W Anderson to. Antonelli Lfi-7. Us Mays 21. 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