European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and strips monday August 1?, 1959 president in top physical shape for big program Hagerty says London a president Eisenhower is in perfect health As he faces one of his toughest schedules since his election White souse press Secretary James Hagerty said. The president s program for the rest of this year is very heavy Hagerty said but his doctors have cleared it. He s in perfect Hagerty talked to reporters be fore flying to the . To report to the chief executive at Gettysburg. The presidential Secretary was winding up an arrangements Mak another Story Page ing tour of three european capitals. Discussing what a reporter called a Back breaking schedule Hagerty said i Don t know if you can say he s looking Forward to such a schedule shoppers crowd streets buyer strike appears failure in Little Rock Little Rock Ark. A an economic Boycott called As an anti integration action appeared a Flop Here. The buyers strike started aug. 10, two Days before High school integration which began on a note of Brief violence but continued peaceably Guthridge attorney for the capital citizens Council called the Boycott after charging the main Street merchants with aiding Inte Gration. The merchants supported a moderate stand on the school Issue. He said he still feels it has been Benny Fields Dies in . Fields new York a Benny Fields the old soft shoe song and dance Starof the vaudeville Era is dead at 65.his wife Blos som Seeley who had teamed with him in vaudeville and on. Broad Way said he suffered a heart at tack at their hotel. They had recently returned from a month Long engagement at a Las vegas nightclub the desert Sands. They had been married 37 years. Fields Low voice and relaxed manner whether he and Blossom were exchanging Patter or he was singing made a big hit with audiences through several decades. He was the epitome of the vaudeville entertainer and most people will remember him in top hat and tails strutting and step Ping to a bouncy tune. Two songs he liked melancholy baby and Lullaby of Broadway were considered his theme songs. A movie was made about Benny and Blossom called somebody loves it told the Story of two people who stayed together through a career that stretched from vaudeville to television credit for Blosso Benny credited Blossom with the Success of their marriage but redid offer one Rule for married people one thing we always avoid Isth word always you know you re always late or you re always griping or you re always at the Ball game. That s about the Only Rule for successful marriage i can think of off hand except to pick a girl Washer to blame for dirty trick Fresno Calif. A jiggle ,. Crash ,. Poof. And $1,500 went up in smoke an automatic washing machine s vibration Jig Gried a Gaso line Jug off a garage shelf at the Home of air. And mrs. Llewis Weese the Jug fumes were ignited by the water Heater s Pilot flame. The resulting fire caused dam age estimated at $1,500. Generally but a Cham Ber of Commerce official and officials of a merchant s group said the Boycott had not even been noticed. The manager of a Large department store said there had been no signs of business falling off. Streets were crowded with spokesman for the citizens Council Guthridge had planned a press conference in connection with the Boycott but called it offal the last minute. 707 crashes on test flight Calverton . A a four engined Boeing 707 Jet liner on a training flight with five american airlines crewmen aboard crashed in a Long Island potato Field shortly after Takeoff. All five crewmen were killed. They were capt. Harry Job 45, of Ridgewood n.j., who was acting As chief Pilot instructor on the training flight flight Engineer Andrew Anderson 40, of Jericho ., acting As chief flight Engi Neer instructor capt. Fred Jeberjahn 50, of Palos Verdes Calif. Capt. William t. Swain 49, of los Altos Calif., and flight Engineer e. A. Freeman 36, of Santa Clara Calif. The plane which in commercial operations carries More than 100 passengers burst into flames. De Bris was scattered Over a wide area. The plane had taken of from a Jet runway of the Grum Man aircraft co. The scene of the crash is in Suffolk county farm area. The nearest farm houses or buildings Are about 1,000 feet away from where the plane hit. The plane crashed about seven Miles Northwest of Riverhead. A populous Long Island town 75 Miles East of new York City. This was the first crash of a 707jet. The largest pure Jet passenger plane in operation. The Boeing 707 has been involved in several emergency land Ings recently most of them caused by failures in the plane s Hydraulic Landing gear system. Ike invites Colombia chief Gettysburg. A. A president Eisenhower has invite president Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia to visit the . Early next year. Lleras has accepted the invitation subject to approval bythe colombian Congress. But i know he s anticipating it with a certain addition to the european tour which will also include an Over night visit to Balmoral in Scotland As Queen Elizabeth s guest1 Hagerty listed the following High lights of or. Eisenhower s pro Gram entertaining soviet Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev in washing ton. The adjournment of Congress and the presidential work this entails. An official visit by the president of Italy. A visit by the president of Mexico. A trip to Moscow. And then the reconvening of Congress and the budget message. His doctors know it All Hagerty said and they be Given him a clean Bill of health. He looks and feels . Eisenhower will be 69 in less than a month. Ministers move to ease tensions in Caribbean area continued from Page i to is an underlying cause of Politi Cal instability. The Resolution said that a body capable of exercising conciliatory functions was needed. It said the peace commission would study the causes of present tensions and recommend measures to eliminate them. To this end the commission will consider ways and Means to avoid any activities having for an end the overthrow of constituted governments the Resolution said. It will also consider the relation be tween the economic development of states and strengthening of representative democracy in the Western hemisphere. The commission May act on its own or at the request of two or More states but its acts will be subject to the express consent of the state in whose territory it May carry out an investigation the Resolution stated. The Resolution made it Clear that the commission s new Powers would be valid until the next regular meeting of the Oas scheduled for Quito Ecuador Early next year. South Africa cops kill 2 rioters Pietermaritzburg South Africa a police fired on a mob of rioting africans in a Vil Lage near Here and two rioters were shot dead and an african police Constable was Hurt. The trouble sprang from the jailing of 30 african women for three months Friday for destroy ing a hut belonging to soil Conser vation authorities. Douglas Mitchell member of parliament for the South coast area of Natal cabled South african prime minister Hendrix f. Verwoerd that open rebellion was developing among africans in the 100-mile area Between Durban and Harding. Actress takes unscheduled header actress Janet Leigh right is treated by nurse Roselle Novello for cuts and abrasions of Bier Arm and leg caused when miss Leigh slipped and fell on an Iron grating. The Accident occurred while miss Leigh was playing1 a scene in who was that lady in which she heaved a bucket of water at husband Tony Curtis Center. A Topi Fleet adm Halsey Dies at 76 after heart attack continued from Page 1 Garrison there. He also commanded the forces which took the air Craft Carrier Hornet close to Japan s shores in april 1942 so that army bombers under then a tool James h. Doolittle could take off to bomb Tokyo. As commander of the South Pacific area and South Pacific forces in 1942, Halsey s forces Defeated the japanese in the Bat Leof Santa Cruz and scored a smash ing Victory at Guadalcanal in the Solomon islands. It was these accomplishments that brought him his full Admiral s stars. Took Over shoestring Halsey recalled that when he took command his Force was Only a shoestring and that after Guadalcanal he had available just one damaged Carrier one damaged battleship one Cruiser and a very few destroyers. As commander of the 3d Fleet Halsey had an influential part in the selection of Leyte for the rein Vasion of thu Philippines. At was end his Fleet was roaming at will off Japan even shelling coastal cities. In late 1945, at the age of 63, Halsey hauled Down his Flag in retirement after having been Onset duty since 1938. Thus ended 45 years of Navy duty. I m an old Man he said. Let the Young Fellows take however Halsey remained Active As an adviser to the Secretary of the Navy and did not officially move on to the retired list until March 1, 1947. In his tribute to Halsey burkes id son of Navy Captain Halsey was born at Elizabeth,n.j., oct 30, 1882, the son of a Navy Captain. In 1900 he received an appointment to the Nava Academy where he played football. Halsey married Frances Cooke Grandy of Norfolk va., in 1909, and they had two children mar Garet who married Preston , and William Frederick Halsey Iii. Adenauer meets Norstad cad Nabbia Italy up vacationing West German Chan cellar Konrad Adenauer met Gen Lauris Norstad supreme Allied commander in Europe and Nat Secretary general Paul Henri Spaak of Belgium at an informal lunch near Here. Briton seeks slave mart9 wife West Clandon England a Charles Lecocq a 65-year-old Gardener plans a trip into the land of the arabian nights to buy a Young wife. I reckon i la have to pay about40 pounds $112but i la go up to 60 pounds $168 for a really shapely and attractive girl Lecocq told reporters. I prefer 36-22-36," he , who earns $28 a week has applied to the iraqi embassy in London for a visa allowing him to visit Baghdad. It has t Bee granted yet. But the belgian born Gardener is far from discouraged. He has been saving a Long time for the trip and thinks he knows exactly How to go about purchasing a spouse. There s a big building in Bagh dad where orphaned Arab girls site sold to wealthy people As Domestic servants Lecocq said. I Shau just walk in choose the girl l want and marry her if she disagreeable. Then i la bring her Back Why travel so far for a wife i m getting on a bit Lecocq. Explained and i know i m not Good looking. English girls Are just no interested in
