European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday August 26, 1959 world War ii Booby traps await unwary in Sahara by North american newspaper Monnat Alexandria Egypt four million problems confront Ameri can and British Oil firms along the Northern Edge of the african Sandbox fronting the Mediterranean. These Are the relics of War the mines and Booby traps left behind on the vast desert Tilting ground where Allied and German Armie shuttled Back and Forth in world War nearly 1,000 Miles along the coast from Al Alamein through Obruk and Benghazi and far beyond mine Clearing squads an demolition Crews Are still pressing their dangerous the 4 million mines known to have been Laid by German British French and italian forces Only one fourth of them have been Dis covered and is also estimated that another million probably Lay hidden in other undiscovered danger areas some of them As far As 100 Miles Inland from the this Broad expanse of desert where the american Esso co. Has just made a promising Oil strike death lurks beneath every clump of Sagebrush. In the last two years mine Clear ing Crews have suffered 18 fatal-ities12 libyans and six foreign ers. Among the nomadic tribes that wander across this North african area the casualty toll is far higher. It is estimated that at least one person is killed each week. Even As far South As Kura and Marzuk in the f e z z a n area of Libya wartime Booby traps in excellent condition still await the unwary. The mine Clearing and demolition Crews travel with the Oil company geologists. Experts with mine detectors walk at the head of every Oil exploration party. When mines Are located they Are detonate from a Safe distance with electrical charges. Then Arab boys Clear what Are known As Safe lanes through the scrub and through these lanes Are the oilmen permitted to 1940 until British Field marshal Bernard l. Montgomery break through at Al Alamein in 1942, both the allies and the Ger mans covered their retreats with minefields in their see saw Battles. They hedged themselves in with mines. Even far into the desert isolated patrols protected them selves with rings of mines around their nightly Al Alamein area 100 Miles West of Alexandria is no less potential death trap. The desert roads Are All plainly marked wit signs warning travellers not to stray off the main recent explosion near Al Alamein proved to be a Boon . The blast resulted in the discovery of a Tomb dating Back 2,000 years to the Days of Cleopatra. The geologists working for for eign Oil companies eight Amer ican one British one dutch British and one French Are accustomed to coming suddenly upon some undisturbed relic of the War. found a food and ammunition dump with crates of British canned beef still in perfect Condi Tion. Another geological Crew found crashed Liberator bomber which started an investigation by . Air Force. Ten Miles West of the Royal air Force station at Vladem near Obruk an investigating party found the remains of Arraf bomber and a . Mitchell bomber. There was evidence that the two planes had collided prob ably at night. The oilmen say they can still find undisturbed War relics be cause the roaming bedouin Are now aware of the mine danger an usually follow the Well defined tracks. Any object lying behind Aridge May remain undetected for years. My conscience forbids architectural student Wolf Hess 21, son of imprisoned sex nazi Rudolf Hess poses under a picture of his father to explain Why he refuses to serve in the German army. You will surely understand that my conscience forbids me to do military service for the judges of my father a service which As can be seen from my father s verdict could bring me into trouble later and possibly bring me to a similar court Keystone photo confusion grips Jakarta after new Money policy Jakarta a confusion gripped this capital City As a result of the revolutionary financial Meas ures formulated by president Sukarno monday. Shops in the banking and Busi Ness centers of pasar Baru Glodek briton s fear of Wasp sting proves real Wortham England Apivor Pindar 37, was haunted by the fear of wasps. Two years ago he discovered he was abnormally susceptible to their Poison. He got stung on therm and was taken unconscious to Hospital. That s when his Nightmare started. Pindar father of four children dreamed was being stung to death. This week his wife went to Clear a nest from the Garden. An angry Wasp buzzed past her straight for her husband. It stung him on the thumb. Pindar died in his wife s arms10 minutes later. German Nike unit nearly operative Bonn up the first Ger Man army unit to be equipped with american Nike Hercules missiles will become fully operative Early next month the West German de sense ministry announced. The missiles which can be equipped with atomic warheads will be operated at first by four batteries of an artillery battalion. Under North Atlantic treat organization agreements the War Heads will remain under american control. . Industry suffers steel strike boosting Germany by Omer Anderso North american newspaper Alliance Essen Germany West Ger Man steel men Are predicting irreparable damage to the Ameri can steel Industry through the current strike. It is the consensus of German steel makers that the . Strike is opening the american Market wide to foreign steel exports and. In the process providing foreign producers with a Bridgehead for an expanding invasion of the .Market. Closing foreign markets to american steel exports . Steel has losing out in the foreign Market since the korean War an the present strike promises to slam the door shut. When american Mills banked their furnaces Ruhr steel was in the doldrums. Already and despite the High inventories in the .,West German Mills Are being flooded with orders from America a Survey shows that German steel exports to the . Are up 25 per cent since the strike. The forecast Here is for a Long strike. And if so. The Ruhr expects to have an insatiable Market in Theus. The German steel Industry hit Peak production of 23 million tons in 1957, last year production slumped to around 21.5 million tons. The Ruhr has a capacity of around 25 million tons and the Outlook is that the germans will Rush to put this full capacity to work for the american Market. But the real threat to . Steels from worldwide steel production expansion. Twenty new steel plants have been constructed Innon communist countries since the korean War most of the plants in the so called underdeveloped nations. Of the 20, the germans have built a third of the plants under German Industry s private pro Gram of assistance to less developed countries Senen and other areas remained closed and shoppers were milling around waiting to make their Pur chases. The pint Kettil area in Down town Jakarta considered the largest and busiest Trade Center and a nest of speculative hot Money i Indonesia was found paralysed by the government s monetary Meas ures. Trade was at a standstill. Jakarta s 124 Small and big ban Sand Stock Exchange institutions were closed. Military police guarded All Banks. Business transactions in Al spheres of activity were at a stand still and the Trade sector was enveloped in a paralytic atmosphere. Hard to decide who got the Bird Atlanta up Vernon Cecil Whiddon 45, of Forest Park ga., was driving along when his car collided with an Atlanta police car Here. Whiddon blamed the collision Ona Pigeon. He said his car struck the Bird and feathers flew All Over his Windshield preventing him from seeing the police car. The Motorist was charged with speeding 30 Mph in a 25rmph zone. But the policeman m. J. Spears was charged with failing to Gran the right of Way. Doors open to africans in native Robes Madison wis. Up of u r labor and Trade Union official from Ghana said they solved the segregation problem in the .by wearing their colourful native Robes. The visitors from the West african Republic said they got in segregation problems when Wear ing american clothes but had no difficulty when they wore their National Robes. Members of the group Are Isaac e. Ink Nash 43, president of the railway employees Union of Ghana David a. Tawiah 39, presi Dent of the maritime and dockworkers Union Anthony Brachie 46, of the mine workers Union and v. K. Mingle 36, general Secretary of the government clerical and technical employees Union. Ink Mash Leader of the group said they were barred from restau rants in Washington d.c., and Annapolis feel that because negroes Here Are not allowed in som restaurants the same attitude is being shown to us. 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