European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse European edition we so a j St Ile pendent May get or bewildered on processing \ army Navy air Force unofficial publication of the . Armed forces to Europe North Africa and the Middle Cait states Itle Static Phoenix Ariz. A thirty six persons who passed bad checks ranging from $1 to $210 Are in for trouble. City prosecutor Vernon Croaff said he going to prosecute All 361 to checks were for City traffic fines. 1, number 36 5 Cal doily 10 cent sunday wednesday May 23, 1962 crash kills 26 wv2 explodes Burns in Field near Munich of Outlook Lor puny Cloudy Wittl Little rain. 6j, 1 w 45 Driber a filth Tom Trantum it cured t b e i d y i 4 �.tn, 11\ 375 so m 46 i9 94 a "b2 ii tse a a to Eudy pc turny obit. To 1 Mun Rit pc 71 pvt cd $3 i Metw k Al pc "71 . Is 50 �048 participants As they moved into France from Algeria documents seized by police indicated that the gang was undecided on the place and Means to be used in the assassination attempt. First plan seemed to have been to carry out the attack in the Ca thedral at Limoges sunday morn ing out there is no evidence that anything was done to put this int effect two members of the group appeared in South Central France last week during an official tour by de Gaulle. Polite picked up their Trail and the two men apparently aware that they were under sur Vellance fled to Paris. As the details slowly became known it appeared that a Chain of Chance circumstances first set police l on the trail0" forty eight hours before Degaulle left last wednesday night on a four Day speaking tour of South Central France three secret army a agents were arrested in mar Seille two others were netted the my succeed in Blip England j staff since military service. He has commanded the 3rd air Force i Britain since March 1961. H Puryear a 1932 graduate of West Point was i Safe Deputy chief of staff for operations at Wiesbaden Germany until he was named month later to chief of staff prior to the Wiesbaden assign ments he held " posts As chief of cant on Page of of ool 4 ame Day in Paris. Both groups it is understood revealed that plans were afoot to assassinate the presi Dent during Hia provincial tour. Then Francois Leca a secret font. On Page 84, col. 1 Munich is a four engine Navy plane with 26 per j sons aboard crashed and burned six Miles East of Munich Riem Airport tuesday. Military investigators reported there were no plane a super Constellation wv2f had taken off from Rhine main air base at Frankfurt earlier in the Day on a routine flight. It had come to Germany from Rota Spain on a navigational training flight according to a Navy spokesman at Rota. The wv2 is a Navy Early warn ing radar aircraft which carries a Crew of 22 to 26. Minutes before the crash the Pilot radioed the German air Force base it 20 mile West of Munich to request Permis Sion fur an emergency Landing. The main Section at the plan crashed in a Field 10 Miles East of Munerh witnesses said he plane exploded and burned after crash ing. Wreckage scattered wre Skaee was s at tried Over a wide area the plane s Tail was found six Miles Cost of the crash site. A pan american world airways Pilot capt. O. Abramsen. Flying in the Vicinity of the crash said he saw a Section of the plane s Tail pass by his aircraft. He said the Navy plane was flying at 10.000feet when it began to disintegrate. Gon rollers from the Munich Riem Tower spotted the failing plane and called the Schleissheim army Airfield for assistance from 8th trans in. Battalion helicopters were sent to the scene with a medical ambulance team. . Army officials who took front. On Page set col. So smoke Cloud threats ease for orbit try Cape canaveral. Fla. A twin threats of weather and Forest fire smoke have dissolved and project Mercury officials Are optimistic that astronaut a Scott Carpenter con be launched on his Orbital flight thursday. Weather experts said Smoky Haze from two widely scattered fires was not settling in this area As previously feared. They said there probably will be some Haze in the launching area thursday but i should not interfere with camera tracking of the Atlas Booster rocket see related Story Page 24 j f1res in Everglades the fires Are in the Everglades swamps South and West of Cape canaveral. Possibility of above the Cape thursday apparently vanished when a storm front in the , Midwest shifted direction to the North Northeast. The storm monday was pushing the Clouds toward Florida. Death scene flames lick at the scattered de Bris from a four engine Navy plane that crashed near Munich killing 26. The plane was on it flight from Rhine main air base Frankfurt. Up
