European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Closing stocks european edition took n flee from Gas tank blast thursday August 20, 195?33 feared lost in Spain crash of us Airliner from press dispatches Barcelona a British charter Airliner carrying Load of students Back to England from a Spanish Vaca Tion crashed North of Here wednesday killing All 33 persons aboard according to first reports reaching Here the passenger list included 25 British citizens 14 men and 11 women including the Pilot Copilot and stewardess. Other victims were a Ger Man two iranians an Irish Man a Malayan and three spaniards. All were believed to be Between 18 and 23 years old. Some of the British group had been vacation ing in Palma Majorca while the others were dispersed throughout Spain. The plane crashed shortly after taking off from Prat Airport. Ambulances and Rescue teams were sent from Here after word reached this City despite reports that All firemen flee for their lives As a tidal wave of flames roars toward them after the explosion of a gasoline storage tank in Kansas City. The explosion killed two of the firemen injured about 100 others and hospitalized at least 50. Spectators police and other firemen tackled Many of the burning victims and rolled them on the ground to put out the flames. The blast was set off by a burning filling station and spewed a huge Jet of fire 200 feet into a group of fire men fighting the Blaze. United press International photo signed arms Bill stresses missiles. Cd Washington up the nation s armed forces faced up to greater emphasis on the develop mento Long Range missiles As Well As defences against enemy submarines and intercontinental rockets with president Eisenhower s approval of a $39,228,239,000 defense appropriations Bill. The new arms Bill to finance a fighting  2,545,000 men was Only $19,961,000 or about 1/20 of 1 per cent shy of the sum he asked Congress to appropriate. The legislation also carried a specific ban on administration plans to Cut the army National vacationers still trapped As quake Rescue is stalled West Yellowstone Mont. A earthquake born avalanches still trapped campers and Fisher men in the wild mountains of see photo on Page Southwest Montana wednesday. The known death toll was re Vised downward to eight but it May go higher. Many vacationers officials did not know How Many huddled at a makeshift Campground on a Hill aide where they were supplied by air with blankets water food and Cigar ets. Leaden skies stalled a helicopter Airlift Rescue operation and delayed Start of a bulldoze probe into the huge slide at Rock Creek Campground where the top of a Mountain gave Way and created a new Hill 200 to 300 feet High. This search was to determine whether other quake victims May be buried in the Debi is. A 15-year-ol d survivor Martin Stryker of Berkeley Calif., told How his father and Stepmother or. And mrs. E. H. Stryker died in the slides. They could t have known font. On Page col 1j guard from 400,000 to 360,000 men. It also had extra funds which could be used to forestall reductions in the Marine corps from 200,000 to 175,00 men and the army Reserve from 300,800 to 270,000. Here is a Brief rundown on the Bill army$9,375,805,000, a budget increase of $390,805,000. The army got an extra $375 million for modernization including $137 Mil lion for work on the Nike zeus antimissile weapon. Funds provided will support an 870,000-Man, 14 division army. Navy $11,006,503,000, a budget Cut of $101,272,000, Congress provided $35 million for a Start on a nuclear powered Carrier instead of the administration request for $260 million to build a conventional one. The Money will finance a Navy of 630,000 men 864 ships and 7,200 planes and a Marine corps of 200,000 men in three divisions and three air wings. Air Force $17,472,706,000, which is $294,494,000 below the budget. This will maintain a Force of 845,000 men and an Active air cd aft inventory of 19,988 planes. Ike Macmillan slate to talk from press dispatches Washington president Eisenhower and British prime minister Harold Macmillan will make a joint radio television talk from London aug. 31, James c. Hagerty the president s press Secretary announced. Secretary of state Christian a. Herter will address the North at lactic treaty organization Council during his visit to Paris with the president nato he announced. The president will visit Macmil Lan French president Charles de Gaulle and other Western leaders to get their views before he con fers with soviet Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev in Washington. Aboard had perished. An official at Prat Airport said cont. On Page it col., bulletin Washington a the government turned Loose u mass of figures wednesday to show that in the strike closed steel Industry wages prices Ulm profits have been going up for Yean. Secretary of labor James p. Mitchell revealed the figures tit the direction of the president. Discoverer i blasted aloft Vandenberg air Force base Calif. A the sixth satellite rocket in the trouble plagued discoverer series roared out to Ward space wednesday. In its nose was a capsule which the air Force Hopes to snatch from the air Over Hawaii thurs Day a Needle in the Haystack feat never yet accomplished. Discoverer a fired from this West coast missile base last thursday performed perfectly until time came to eject the capsule on the 17th orbit the next Day. The capsule s radio Beacon failed to function and it apparently fell into the Pacific undetected by search planes and ships. First stage a Thor its first stage a medium Range Thor using a powerful new fuel successfully pioneered by discoverer a Rose swiftly until almost out of sight then arched southward toward an orbit around the Earth s poles. If All its thousands of parts function properly the satellite is to eject the capsule 26 hours after launching. As the capsule Para chutes earthward a Squadron of eight or nine c119 flying boxcars will try to Snag the Parachute on a trapeze like apparatus suspended beneath each plane. Etain ground personnel Start move to Germany Etain France a ground personnel from the Usan base at Etain started moving 10 Germany wednesday but Transfer of the 75 fido super Sabre fighter bombers has been postponed until next tuesday. The 75 planes in the Wing had been scheduled to Fly to their new Home at Span Dahlem Germany thursday. No reason was Given for the revised schedule