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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, August 25, 1959

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 25, the stats and stapes s births upl2miuion itt red China Washington up the pop Illarion reference Bureau says in its animal report that the Popula Tion of red China is increasing at Trie rate of 12 million a year and that of India at the rate of 8 Mil lion a year. Latin America s population May nearly quadruple before the end of tils Centre it said. The Bureau is a nonprofit organization supported by foundations and individuals the annual report was issued by Robert c. Cook  said that human population has grown in this Century faster than any time in history. There has been an increase of 1.3 billion persons. That is More than the total world population in 1850, he said. Greatest growth the greatest growth is taking place in less developed areas wherefore than half the world s people live in poverty he said. The reason is that death rates have fallen spectacularly tit a result of new medicines and improved Sanita Tion while birth rates remain High. Commenting on this increase Coo said surely any reasoned assistance to the world s underdeveloped areas must recognize and give ardent consideration to the problem of too rapid population growth. How a reduction in births is to be achieved is open at present to wide differences of opinion. But that some simple inexpensive and generally acceptable Way must be found is beyond  head on crash kills 5 in Texas Cleveland Tex. Up grinding head on Highway crash in dense fog near Here killed five persons. Three were killed instantly. Theother two died later in hospitals and a sixth person was still uncritical condition. Dead Are Fred Hall Johnson 55his wife Leona 50 and their son Charles 18, All of Lufkin  c. Brannon 24, of live Oak Fla., and Enoch car Knighton 29, of Houston. A second Johnson boy Harold,14, was still in critical condition. Washington mashup kills four hurts two Colfax Wash. A four persons were killed and two critically injured when two Auto mobiles collided while rounding a curve on a Highway five mile South of Here in the Eastern part of the  of a car in which three were killed were or. And mrs. Charles l. Marshall and or. An mrs. Thomas a. Martin All of nearby Pullman the state patrol  Lone survivor was mrs. Mar  of the second car bearing a Spokane License plate were identified As Fred h. Bell of Verat Lale a Spokane suburb and Richard Bell believed to be from Spokane. Bell was killed. Hawaii representative opens new chapter House turns in last territorial Delegate a Washington a for the first Tim since 1800, the House of representatives finds itself without a  nation has run out of territories from which delegates May be elected. The last of a Long line of delegates dating Back to Pioneer Days lost his seat in the House Laet Friday when president Eisenhower proclaimed Hawaii the 50th state. He is John a. Burns. He has yielded his seat to Daniel , Hawaii s first elected representative to  the House still has a commissioner a. Fernos Isern who represents puerto Rico Commonwealth As distinguished from a Terri  s the difference Between a commissioner and a Delegate a commissioner represents an area not intended to become a state. Delegates and commissioners have no Vot ing rights in the House although thay can debate with the other members and serve on committees. Their pay has been the same As a voting member. They May make  started the practice of allowing territories to Send delegates to the House in1794, when James White took his seat As a Delegate from the territory South of the Ohio  in 1796, the territory became Testate of Tennessee and Andrew Jackson be came its first representative in Congress. In 1800, the House received another Dele Gate from the territory Northwest of the Ohio  two years later the territory was admitted to the Union As the state of Ohio and a congressman replaced the Dele  then on the number of delegates varied As new territories were carved out of the South the West the Northwest and the e Midwest. At one time there were 10 delegates in the House representing the territories of Arizona Colorado Dakota Idaho Montana Nebraska Nevada new Mexico Utah an Washington. The number fluctuated from Congress to Congress As the territories became states and at the Start of the present Congress in 1958,there were Only two from Alaska and Hawaii. Alaska shed its territorial status for statehood lust year. Road Block creates Concrete problem mrs. Hildred Borders sits in an unav a Section of a Road being built in front of her Cincinnati Home. Later a temporary court order got her out of the Way. But she still claims the City has no paid her for property which she says she owns in the Street widening project. Up photo Sheen asks drive for converts to Aid fight on reds South Orange . Up Bishop Fulton j. Sheen urged that roman Catholic laymen increase their efforts to gain converts in order to Aid the Church in its struggle against communism. The Bishop delivered the main Sermon at the Marian demonstration attended by More than 23,000 persons at Roosevelt stadium in Jersey City. The rally ended the four Day second world modality Congress attended by More than 3,000 delegates from 40 countries. In his address Bishop Sheen stressed the theme that had sounded through the Congress since it opened the menace a communism to the roman Cath Olic  Sod lists Are roman catholics generally laymen and women who work closely with the Church both in following private religious practices and in trying to influence Public Trine. Opinion with Church Doc Public interest in space held vital to exploring los Angeles a How Longwill the american people go on financing expensive space explorations a top scientist asking this ques Tion at a meeting of the nation s space experts said it will be Many Many years before com Mercial and military benefits justify the hundreds of millions coed s teen attackers sent to reformatory Tallahassee Fla. Up two White teen agers convicted of rape of a Florida negro coed Las june have been assigned to a correctional institution for first  Are Ollie Stoutamire 16, and David beagles 18. Another of the four sentenced to life terms for the rape attack w. T. Collins Worth 23, has been assigned to a Road work Camp. The fourth Patrick g. Scarborough 20, is in Raiford state Penitentiary. ,100 paid for san Quentin cons Art san Quentin Calif. A More than 5,000 Art patrons flocked to the state prison Here for its19th annual arts and crafts show. They virtually bought it  artists could not hover unobtrusively near their own paintings hoping to overhear Praise about them. They were Busy elsewhere with prison routine  trustees acted As financial agents and the total take on the opening Day of the two Day show was ?3,100. Each prisoner artist will get 90 per cent of his picture s sule Price on the Day he is freed. The other 10 per cent goes to the prison welfare fun which furnishes supplies for the show. Landscapes and abstractions were popular subjects but there were some interesting portraits including one of mrs. Elizabeth Duncan recently convicted in the jealousy murder of her daughter in Law. Some movie stars apparently had been painted from  ranged from 25 cents to $1,200. Of dollars required for the exploration of the Moon and the  the answer to the problem Sai Dalbert r. Hibbs of the California Institute of technology s Jet propulsion Laboratory depends upon the Public s collective curiosity and its Pride accompanied by a sense of urgency to satisfy them  the missile scientist told the fourth symposium on ballistic missile and space technology itis vital to assess the Public s interest and determine whether this interest can be  life on other planets Hibbs said surveys show that experiments leading to the Detec Tion of life in some other part of the universe interest people far and away More than anything  interest should certainly be taken into account when planning the program for  in return for financial support Hibbs said the space program can offer realistically the Hope of Vic tory in our race with the soviet Union for superiority in space technology. But it cannot look for Ward indefinitely to Public sup port on the basis of International Competition alone. Eventually the program must rest solely on its scientific  four Day symposium at the University of California at Losangeles is Spon saved by the air Force ballistic missile division and its civilian research Organiza Tion space technology Labora tories inc. Mickey Cohen to address lawyer meet Miami Beach up under world figure Mickey Cohen arrived Here to speak on Crim does not pay to a trial seminar sponsored by a san Francisco at Torney. The attorney Melvin Belli de fended Cohen last week on a charge of assault against the chief of the Federal narcotics Bureau in los Angeles. The jury became dead locked and Cohen pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and was fined$200. Cohen said he was detained by Miami police for about an hour when he arrived Here by plane rom Chicago. They questioned me about murder that happened in Chicago last week Cohen said. I spent five hours in Chicago before Fly ing Here but i did t hear of any  he said the two Miami officer who questioned him were real polite  of them even gave me his card Cohen said and said he hoped i would Contact him if i needed  seminar attracted about 800 lawyers from across the  spokesmen said the meet ing was held in conjunction wit the University of Miami Law school and was not a part of the big american bar Assn. Convention  Chicago saturday Fred Evans. 60, once a close associate of a Capone was shot Down and killed by two masked gunmen. Son of sex chairman of demo party killed Smith Lake . A Michael Mitchell 25, son of former National democratic chairman Stephen Mitchell was killed in uranium mining operation in West Ern new Mexico. Mitchell who was exploration manager for the firm was working on the sinking skip a machine that takes dirt from the Bottom of Amine Shaft when killed. Shake Well serve cure for alcoholics Cincinnati a Cecil Scott in inspector for the stat medical Board says a Cincinnati Man offered to cure alcoholism Ith u strange diet. Hurry Douglas Reynolds 43,wound up in jail charged by Scott with illegally practising Medicine. Scott said Reynolds asked $200for recommending As an alcohol ism cure in diet of those items juice of carrots spinach Lemons apricots figs apples and  and Cherry. Vegetables mexican Corn Small creamed poas and Ruta Bogas. Of yes and port wine  
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