European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes August a 1959house unit demos balk at 1$ Gas tax hike Washington up rebel Lious democrats on the House Public works committee walked at approving a Penny a gallon boost in gasoline taxes to keep the inter state Highway program going. They revolted against a Compro Mise Highway plan which has been approved by the House ways and Means committee and is backed by the House democratic Leader ship. Their stand raised a new danger to efforts to resolve a financing muddle that threatens to mire the read program. The revolt touched off a Day Long series of huddles Between speaker Sam Rayburn the rebel Lious Public works committee democrats and democrats on the ways and Means committee which drafted the financing plan including the tax  was not Clear what would happen next except that the Public works committee where the financing scheme is now pending would meet , it was understood told the Balky Public works committee members they had no Choice Butto Send to the House floor Legisla Tion containing unchanged the ways and Means tax  was said to have left open the possibility  Public works committee might get a crack at changing the financing formula when the. Bill gets to the floor. The ways and Means committee after weeks of grappling with the problem last thursday endorsed a Revenue plan calling for a 22-month Penny a gallon tax hike be ginning sept. 1. After that excise tax recipes would be boosted from general Revenue to beef up the Highway Trust fund for three years. Navy expects to use Moon As space relay station to Hawaii by end of year Washington a a revolutionary radio communications system using the Moon As a relay station is expected to be in regular opera Tion Between the . And Hawaii before the end of this year the Navy  involves sending messages on a trip totalling about a half million Miles in less than three  plans tour of Usa eur Heidelberg special court Ney Johnson assistant Secretary of the army for logistics will visit Usa eur Headquarters tuesday and wednesday to Confer wit Gen c. D. Eddleman Usa eur  Secretary begins his Europe an tour saturday when he arrives in London for a three Day visit. Johnson and his party will arrive at Rhine main Airport in Frank Furt tuesday and Fly to Heidelberg by  tentative schedule includes visits to com z and base Section he in France and the  depot Mannheim sub de pot 7th army he and Southern area come he in Germany. The logistics chief also will tour ele ments of the 3d army div and the 24th div at  major stops include ver Ona Rome and Paris. The Secretary will return to the . Sept. 18. Eddleman to Brief two visiting officials Heidelberg special Claret. Timberlake head of the . Mission to Bonn and Eugene Schaus Luxembourg minister of defense will Call on Gen c. D Eddleman monday at usage urho. Timberlake will arrive for an official luncheon and briefing with the Usa eur commander. Luxembourg s defense minister who in paying a Courtesy Call Wil receive an afternoon troop Honor ceremony. 40 Navy helicopters grounded after mishap Norfolk a. Up about 40 Navy Sikorsky has helicopter a this Atlantic Headquarters and i Mediterranean bases have been grounded a spokesman said. The action followed the break Down of the Tail Assembly of i helicopter during Maneu vers Las week. No one was injured in the incident. Presumably the first step in us no the Moon or artificial satellites As relay Points Between widely separated parts of the world the sys tem would open up Many new channels of communication for the Garth s already crowded airways. Also scientists anticipate that he space relay largely immune system would be to blackouts and for the Moon in a less favor Able Light see Story on Page 6. Other interference Phenomena of nature. Some even say it s pos sible the system might be immune enemy jamming. The Navy a cur rent statement on the status of the project appeared to be much stronger than one it made Early in april. At that time a spokesman said the Navy had Hopes that within a year it would Jse Able to Bounce radio messages off the Moon on their Way from Washington to Hawaii and vice versa. The present comment came when the service denied an unofficial report that the system already is in operational use by the Navy. Being checked  said a spokesman in reply to a query. The system is no operational at the present time but it is being checked and tested and the Navy anticipates it Wil be in operational use before the end of Thi s  it was Learned that there is transmitting station at Annapolis md., and a receiving station Ai Cheltenham my. On the a Wai end there is a transmitting station at Opana and a receiving station at Wahiawa both on the Island of Oahu. The system would have limitations. Transmission Between any two Points on the Earth such As Hawaii and Maryland would be limited to times when the Moon was visible to both Points at the same time. A naval scientist told a reporter that for the majority of possible transmission circuits Between various Points on the Earth trans Mission time would be less than12 hours a. Day. But even with its limitation she said the system would open up a completely new spectrum o radio frequencies for broadcasting Over half the Earth at a time. Sharon saddled with shoes Tih ""1 h by a truss guiding cuban Recta Cia reports Minneapolis Minn a a . Intelligence spokesman has reported that Moscow sent a so Viet intelligence officer to Cuba last May to guide local communists on How to penetrate the government of Fidel Castro. He Alsto said the soviets Are secretly training More and More latin american communists in Russia on How to set up communist dictatorships at Home. This word was Given out by Gen c. P. Cabell Deputy director of the Central intelligence Agency in a speech prepared for a meet ing of the american legion s National Security commission. Names officer Cabell declared that Kremlin tactics have run full Circle from missile rattling to smiling faces. Cabell named the soviet intelligences of Fleer As Vadim Kotcher Gin. He said Kotchergin was sent to Cuba under a false name ostensibly As a member of a so Viet  Union delegation and has since returned to Moscow. The communist party of Cuba has been Given soviet guidance on How to penetrate and exploit the government of Fidel Castro Cabell added. Primary targets Are the agrarian reforms Trade unions and the army he said. Not at All Happy after being drafted As shoe Sitter while the other girls went swimming Sharon Connell 3, sits dejectedly in South Portland me during an Outing of the Camp fire girls. A photo von Manteuffel receives18 months for execution Dusseldorf Germany up one of Germany s top world War ii tank commanders was sentenced to 18 months in jail for ordering a sentry shot for cowardice on the russian  court sentenced former Gen Hasso von Manteuffel despite his plea that the shooting was an example to the rest of the  von Manteuffel became a Dep Uty in the West German Parlia ment after the War and is now businessman. Hitler ordered All soldiers who deserted their posts shot whatever lady Churchill flies Home for Eye surgery London a lady Churchill flew Home from a Mediterranean vacation with a sore eyelid. She told reporters she will undergo minor Eye operation Here monday. Asked whether her husband sir Winston will return from the Riv Iera soon she said i Hope not too soon. I think he ought to  postman scoffs at Jinx but. Washington a James , 35-year-old postman is the Man who delivered the Fame Hope Diamond to the smithsonian institution last november. Around the million Dollar Dia mond there has Long been an a\3f8 of tragedy and violent death says he wort end War Witt be but since delivered the Diamond Todd has had a leg crushed Bya truck his wife Mother of four suffered a heart attack and die while Todd was recuperating. Todd was thrown from a car in an Accident suffering a head in jury. His dog Smoochy leashed put Side the House jumped through a basement window and strangled on the Leash. Pour second Story rooms of his House in nearby seat pleasant my were wrecked by fire. But Todd s troubles have Noth ing to do with the 44�/fc-Carat Dia mond he says i Don t believe any of that  the circumstances. It was this or Der von Manteuffel was carrying out when he ordered the 22-year old sentry shot 15 years ago. The jury reached its verdict after More than four hours of Delibera Tion. Earlier von Manteuffel in final testimony said he believed at the time i Only did what i had to  Soldier failed to do his duty in order to save his life which was not in extreme danger he said. After the execution. He said not one Soldier in his. Division sur rendered to the russians or was found to be disobedient. Thousands of wounded and sick soldiers were saved because of the firm stand of my troops von Manteuffel said. He added if i was wrong in my hard decision then High court think of the position of a divisional commander in a critical time. Neither the division nor my self in nine War years had Ever faced such a critical  the executed Soldier was sentenced to two years imprisonment by a court martial. Von Manteuffel admitted to the court he overruled this decision. Von Manteuffel s division was fighting on the Eastern front at the time of the incident in 1944. 2d heart girl flies to . Munich up the second Little German girl in two Days flew to the . Friday for a vital Hole in the heart operation. Margarita Silbereisen 5, will undergo the delicate operation atthe Mayo clinic in Rochester Minn. Profi John Kirklin will per form the operation. The $5,000 for the journey and the operation was raised by a Ger Man newspaper and the German red , another Hole in the heart victim Carola Lorenz 6, flew to new York from Frankfurt. American soldiers helped raise part of the Money for her opera Tion which also will be performed in the Mayo clinic. 1,500 deaf meet in Wiesbaden Wiesbaden Germany up More than 1,500 deaf persons from 35 countries met in this town on the Banks of the Rhine River for the annual world Congress of the deaf. Representatives of the soviet Union communist China and Yugo Slavia sat among free world Dele Gates to hear discussions piped into specially magnified loudspeakers and  and others with Normal hearing found the noise almost deafening. Oil struck in Libya Tripoli Libya a Esso Standard Libya has struck Oil at a rate of 15,000 barrels daily in Zelte two syr Tica in the North West Corner of Cyrenaica it was officially announced Here. Man turns Green along with grass Oklahoma City up a state Highway employee Owen t. E. Watts said he got clipped for $86. The culprit his new Power Lawn Mower. Watts said he was Riding the self propelled machine across the Lawn when he noticed the grass cuttings were two shades of Green. Closer investigation Dis closed the off color clipping were shreds of greenbacks from Watts Wallet. Watts turned Over the chopped remains of his $80 to the . Treasury department in Hopes of regaining his lost Cash