European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday August 2$, 1959 Mercedes solves International problem special car built to carry president Adenauer Bonn a at least one inter National crisis has been resolved. They be built a new car for presi Dent Eisenhower and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The Man responsible for the solution is Fritz Koenecke general director of Daimler Benz the firm that makes the Mercedes car. Koenecke was called in for help when the deplorable situation developed that nowhere in Germany was there a car to suit the needs of the president and Adenauer on their return trip from the Airport to Bonn wednesday. Adenauer wanted to use his own Mercedes a shiny Black touring car but it just would t do. It has no open roof for instance and or. Eisenhower wants to stand up and wave at the crowds along his 18-mile route. What s More the car was too Small to seat three people on tieback seat. And three were needed the president Adenauer and an interpreter since neither Speaks the other s language. The seat beside the Driver must be reserved for a secret service agent All sorts of suggestions and were brought before the protocol people. But in this country world famed for Auto motive production no car could be found with an open roof an enough leg room. Finally in stepped la solve your problem he said. Ill have a car built and that s what he did. Mercedes engineers at the firm s Stuttgart Plant used the 1959 Model of the Mercedes 300, its big Gest product As. The starting Point. They designed a Model without a roof so that or. Eisenhower May stand to his heart s Content. Then they made reductions in the extent of the upholstery on either Side of the car providing More Interior room enough for three in the Back. And As the final innovation they installed hand grips so thata Man standing up while the car is in motion May balance himself properly. The Weatherman s Advance word was Good news for the open top project. The weather Bureau said wednesday evening would be dry and warm and that there was Little Chance of rain. The specially designed Mercedes car presumably could be fitted with a sliding Canvas roof in the event of rain or a substitute steel roofed car could be ordered to stand by. Cons saw bars Warden furious fort Madison Iowa a ten convicts have sawed their Way out of the state Penitentiary Here in less than three months. Warden John Bennett is furious. This is damned embarrassing he said of the escape in which six convicts armed with homemade knives broke out during prison Church services. Two the escapees Are still a Large. Three surrendered without a struggle after holding a fort mad Ison minister s wife their three children and a neighbor boy at knife Point for 2% hours. The fourth was captured in the Woods near the prison shortly after the 9 am break. Just no Good those Guys Are just no they knew they could Cut through the bars after those four convicts did it last june the Warden said. I have asked time and again for new cell windows he continued. The Rev. William w. Swift was away when escapees Charles car Lyle 30 Ronald Bessler 22, and Samuel Parras 40, broke into his House less than a mile from the prison. Mrs. Swift and her children Olivia 5, Bill 3, and Charles 10 weeks were Home. One of them Parras had a Nasty Cut Over his Eye and his blood made an unholy mess of our upstairs bathroom mrs. Swift said. Otherwise they did no dam age to us or the House and they even helped warm a bottle for the convicts held a Kitchen knife at mrs. Swift s Back when a neigh Bor boy Robert Thomas jr., 17, called up and offered to come Over to keep her company. They made me Tell Robert to come Over and then they made a prisoner of him too mrs. Swift said. She added i tried to run away once and got the children out of the door. But they caught me and made Mecall the children Back. I did t panic though because they told me they would give them selves up before they would hurtle and the the Trio was captured by Dep Uty prison Warden Bernard Nel son a member of the Rev. Swift Schurch. The Thomas youth had signalled to police that the convicts were inthe House. Nelson broke into the basement crept up the stairs and got the drop on the convicts. Still at Large Are Charles Robert Wallerick 25, and Arllie Harrison Elliot 25. Refugees Dock at last after stowing away on a danish freighter and sailing from port to port for five months four yugoslav refugees were welcomed to Austria As residents or possibly to emigrate elsewhere later. From left to right Are mate Akrap Slavko Svraka and or. And mrs. Yvo Fujio. The refugees were refused Asylum in seven different countries before Austria accepted them a photo scots pipe open 13th culture fest Edinburgh a the pipes Are playing the scots Are smiling and the $8 million invasion is on. The Golden Magnet is Edin Burgh s 13th International festival. When does the City go to sleep asks the visitor Over whelmed by an artistic array of 44 performing groups. A some of the folks never do 4 states probe food sickness from press dispatches health officials in four states Are investigating a rash of food poisonings that struck 239 person sat company and religious gather Ings Over the weekend. The biggest epidemic struck about 145 persons at the annual Outing of radio materials co. Employees and their families at Attica ind. The previous weekend about 750 persons had become ill at Arf other company picnic in Indiana. In c i n c i n n a t i at least 14 persons who had attended religious singing Assembly sought treatment for food poisoning a hospitals. And in Cheyenne Wyo More than 60 persons were ill after two group picnics an outbreak of food poisoning at the Wisconsin state fair prompted authorities to suspend temporarily four restaurant employees at the fair. Says the hotel Bellboy in Holiday fettle. � during the three week festival there Are to be 174 performances of dance music theater and variety entertainment. In addition there s to be a film festival Art exhibit and a dozen lesser theatrical events by ambitious College and school groups. These latter Are not part of the official festival but have banded together this year As the fring society an Impromptu lure to further tourist spending. It is estimated that 250,000 will spend the estimated $8 million. The swarming Vanguard has jammed hotels and the Pennant Gay streets Are filled with a mix Ture of faces and voices from All parts of the world. The weather has suddenly turned Gray and chill but there is no damping the High spirits. The festival opened sunday with sir William Walton conducting the Royal philharmonic orchestra in a program of his own works. The real Rush of events started with monday s triple theatrical openings. The Royal opera co. Of Stock Holm will offer an extended Reper tory. Among other highlights will be Finland s National Ballet the Brit ish premiere of Sean o Casey s cock Doodle Dandy seen last season in new York and from Broadway the ballets of Jerome Robbins. As an extra flourish for this 13th season a series of programs will Honor the Bicentennial of the birth of poet Robert Burns. 11 survivors from ship reach Manila after ordeal Manila a eleven survivors of the sinking of the Pilar ii off Palawan Island arrived in Manila and told of an agonizing ordeal in rough shark infested seas. About 100 persons Are feared Lostin the sinking. A Young couple the wife five months pregnant said they sur Vived by clinging first to a water Buffalo and later to pieces of wreckage. We could hear agonizing cries for help said 22-year-old mrs. Vivencia a agon and we could see Sharks but her husband Rodolfo 24, said we were too frantic our selves to Brave Sailor burned in jail fire Toms River no. A when eight prisoners died in a fire at the Ocean county jail sunday a Veteran of 18 years of Navy serv ice emerged As one of the heroes. He s Gerard Lau 40, a ship fitter 2c stationed with the naval air Reserve training unit at Freeport,. Lau was visiting his father across the Street from the jail when the fire started. With him were his wife and two children Marguerite 16, and Jerry 11, they were sitting on the porch be foregoing to mass William Lau the father a re tired new York policeman broke Down and wept As he told what happened. The family saw smoke coming out of the jail and heard prison ers screaming get us out dashes to jail the younger Lau sprinted across the jail Yard and entered the door just As flames came shooting out. He was one of first to reach the second floor where the fire . The explosion which followed the fire blew him downstairs. He la hidden in smoke. Firemen were unable to find him. Finally Lau came crawling from the jail his stomach badly burned. He was taken to a Hospital uncritical condition. Poor kid the father said. He s a Good boy he s so Strong he pan pick up five William Lau said his son had fought fires on shipboard in. The Navy As a ship fitter his Job was largely repair work he has been an instructor at Freeport. Teaching youngsters in the Reserve they said the water Buffalo apparently a work animal belonging to one of the passengers struggled too much in the water and they were forced to shift to floating debris until they were picked up hours later by a fishing vessel. Three other survivors said they also Clung to wreckage and finally made it to a Small Island. One of the three businessman Leopoldo Arrisgado said he saw Many Sharks nearby and heard loud cries from that direction. He himself was not attacked. First account Juan Mostero 40, quartermaster of the ill fated ship gave the first account so far of the sinking. He said the Pilar ii left the Northern Palawan port of Pacuit shortly after wednesday Midnight. Four hours out he said. Gusty winds began forcing the ship Overon its Side. He said the Captain ordered All passengers to shift to the other Side in an Effort to balance the ship. Put Mostero said the ship keeled Over and everyone leaped into the sea Selassie ends yugoslav visit Belgrade up emperor Haile Selassie left Yugoslavia after a nine Day visit As guest of presi Dent Tito
