European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes Friday August 21, 1959 Crews recover bodies of crash victims Montsena Spain up Sal Vage Crews thursday recovered the bodies of 32 persons who die when an English charter plane crashed into this Mountain North of Salvage operations were slowed by fog Over the area for the second Day in a plane a chartered pcs of the British trans air ltd., crashed into this fog shrouded Mountain wednesday while in route fro Barcelona s Prat Airport to Lon Don with 29 students and three Crew members aboard. No official explanation of the Accident Spain s second major air catastrophe of the year was one minute before crash ing the ill fated plane had radioed to the Barcelona Airport All Well and on bodies were taken to the Hospital clinic Here for identification. But a clinic spokesman said Idon t see How anyone will be Able to identify from the scene High on the slopes of Montsena Mountain the highest Peak in this area said the bodies were charred beyond recognition. Air cur Bui 00 foil Defife Pilot or. Steel report shows rises continued from Page 1 wages lagging profits and Low ering worker productivity negotiations continued to drag along with no Progress reported toward solving the deadlock. Some of the main items in the government report wages Gross hourly earnings in steel Rose $1.43, or by 85 percent from january 1950 to May 1959. Real hourly earnings Rose by 50 per january 1950 to the sum Mer of 1959, steel wages As a whole Rose by greater percentages and by greater absolute amounts than wages in most of the Economy. In terms of average hourly earnings steel wages Are higher than those in most other Indus tries. The May average of $3.10 in the steel Industry compared with$2.23 in manufacturing As a whole $2.68 in of Basic steel products Are at Peak Levels. Steel prices have risen higher and faster than wholesale prices in Gen eral and much More than retail the first half of 1959 with the 1940 average the prices of All commodities at wholesale advanced by 134 per cent. In the same period the consumer Price in Dex Rose 107 per cent in contrast with the 178 per cent Rise for steel. Meanwhile the Al Cio pledged unprecedented labor wide support to the half million members of the United steel workers in their five week old strike up reported the federation s executive Council meeting at Unity House pa., proclaimed this comin labor Day sept. 7, As support the steelworkers Day similar to the British version this air car can Glide Over land and will be put into production at year s end by the Curtiss Wright. Air water on an air Cushion eight to 16 inches High. The vehicle seats Craft corp. In South Bend ind., but will not be offered for Sale to four has a 300-hp motor and is capable of speeds up to 62 Mph. It the general Public. Associated press photo it Gen Meloy to be new Vii corps cd Washington up it Geng. S. Meloy 4th army cd. At it. Sam Houston tex., will assume command of Vii corps in Europe in mid october army. Secretary Wilber m. Brucker has announced Here. Meloy will replace it Gen Gor Don b. Rogers who will return to the . In november As Deputy cd of the Continental army come. Meloy will be replaced at 4tharmy by it Gen Edward t. Wil Liams now Deputy cd of the Continental army come at it. Monroe 1927 graduate of West Point Meloy served As 103d inf div chief of staff in Europe during world War ii and commanded the 19thinf regt of the 24th div in Korea. Car Jordan resume ties Jerusalem up Jordan and the United Arab Republic car thursday resumed Diplo Matic relations for the first Tim since the iraqi revolution last Hussein s government decided at a Cabinet meeting thurs Day to accept the nomination of Hamad Fathi Radwan As car ambassador to Jordan. The King broke off relation with car president Gamal Abdel Nasser because he suspected a Connivance in the july 1958, assassination of Hussein s Cousin King Feisal of Iraq. The acceptance of the car ambassador designate had been considered Only a formality. Gop committee woman Dies Charleston . Up mrs. Frances Ogden Stubblefield Republican National committee woman for West Virginia since 1944 and prominent newspaper pub Lisher died in Charleston memorial Hospital. She had been in ailing health for several months. Draper report emphasizes Gravity of red threat need to combat it Washington up the re port of the Draper committee special presidential committee named to study the . Foreign Aid program stresses the need for constant foreign military Aid in View of the communist expand ing global report was sent to Congress thursday. Chairman of the com Mittee was William h. Draper jr., investment banker who for Merly served As an assistant Secre tary of the army. The report said we have considered the Gravity of the communist threat in All fits aspects political economic military and sub Vei Sive. We have taken cognizance of the obvious emphasis that the communist place on their expanding global offensive. The International objectives of the communists which their Lead ers have repeatedly stated Are be ing coupled with their related an rapidly expanding Domestic and International economic soviet Union is making a military expenditure comparable to that of the United states. Their objective of equating and exceed ing the United states in selected areas of their own choosing has provided an unusual psychological stimulation to their people which we must More than match by dedication to our own the report said this called forthe . To stress its own economic growth science technology Mili tary preparedness and National morale which will determine our future ability to compete with communist Challenge to free world it continued All this represents a Strong Chal Lenge to the free world and particularly to the United states. It poses More than a military or Industrial Challenge and it requires More Han a military or Industrial answer. It requires a positive individual and National dedication greater emphasis on hard constructive work. Less rather than More emphasis on Challenge also warrants an 2,000 soldiers join Hunt for lost boy Harvard mass. Up two thousand soldiers of the army s2d inf Brig volunteered thursday to join a massive manhunt for an8-year-old Texas boy afraid of the dark and lost in Woods More than 12 child David Wells of Arp tex., is the son of Sec Garry Wells stationed with the 2d inf Brig support unit at it. Devens. The brigade is an atomic age unit de signed for immediate action in any worldwide emergency. Col Hugh. Rutledge Provost marshal at Al Devens appealed for Volun Teers to join the Hunt police and maps had been search ing since the boy was reported missing wednesday night. Two thousand men from the brigade volunteered and 200 were called out to search an area of Woodland Between routes 2 and 2a from the base s 93d trans unit and police from Shir Ley a y e a and Harvard joined bloodhounds from the state police in tracking the said the boy always wanted to be near lights at night and had been seen playing with some children at the Devences housing project not far from it. said the boy s family had moved Here Only 10 Days ago and this child is not familiar with our equivalent Effort by our economically advanced allies. grow ing political and economic strength warrants their assuming an in creasing portion of their defens burdens and an expanding role in promoting the economic develop ment of the less developed coun the Draper report said yearly military Aid has averaged lately about $2.5 billion. The military forces which behave helped build cannot be sustained except on a solid foundation of annual support of this order of magnitude. We believe that the much Lowe amount which is Likely to be appropriated for the fiscal year 1960involves a serious Security danger for the United states and the free world without mentioning Laos or any other country by name in this Parton the report the document nevertheless hinted at the importance of Aid to countries of that Type. The Draper committee submitted to president Eisenhower 354 Pagso of supplementary data about Mili tary and economic Aid to other nations compiled by unofficial re search institutions. This include reports on military assistance pro Grams to Many nations including the Philippines Vietnam Laos Japan Lebanon Iraq nato coun tries and latin America. Copper strike Broadens As 3.650 More walk out Douglas Ariz. A workers at another major . Copper firm struck thursday. Picket lines went up at Phelps Dodge corp. Proper ties in Arizona Texas and Cali fornia. The new walkout by the inter National Union of mine Mill and smelter workers halted operations at Douglas Bisbee and Morenci All in Arizona Elpaso tex., and los Angeles. Mine Mill represents about 3,650 Phelps Dodge workers2,496 of them in Arizona. The Chain of Copper strikes started aug. 10 when mine Milland the United steelworkers walked off their jobs at Kennicott corp plants Kennicott employs about 1,500persons in its Western operations 38th tactical Wing moves to Sembach continued from Page 1 Marietta Ohio 38th commander said the move is greatly advantageous to the Wing providing larger facilities. He said however he regretted leaving behind the close ties an warm friendships at Hahn air Hahn officials also announce that the air base runway was closed to All traffic last saturday for re pair and resurfacing. It will re main closed for several renovation is part of the nato air base maintenance pro Gram. In Utah Nevada Arizona and new Mexico. Another 2,300 mine Mill member struck aug. 11 at the san Manuel Copper corp., san Manuel Ariz., and the magma Copper corp., Superior Ariz. Anaconda co. Was hit wednes Day by a walkout of 5,600 miners and smelter men at plants in five Montana and Utah cities. Laos urges Dag to study revolt from press dispatches United nations . Government of Laos has asked United nations Secretary Gener Al Dag Hammarskjold to study the situation in Laos and suggest solution to the conflict there. The request was contained in Aletter handed the Secretary general by ngon Sananikone special envoy of the laotian Vientiane Laos government officials announced communist rebel units Are moving through six provinces of North and South Laos Down to the Border of South Vietnam. Government forces braced for what they feared would be an All out offensive. Tunisia slates Tariff change Tunis a president Habib Bourguiba announced that the existing customs agreement Between Tunisia and France would be abolished and new tariffs imposed. Bourguiba added that Tunisia would Trade freely with countries in the Dollar zone t j
