European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 14, 1963 National affairs the stars and stripes Page 7 a sub Thresher vanished with 129 aboard atomic submarine Thresher carry inn 129 men. Was Lott at Nen after a Steep tent dive in the Atlantic inst week in the worst single ship peacetime disaster in . Navy history. Navy Secretary Fred Korth declared the sub lost after remand yellow gloves and other de Bris were picked up by search vessels. Earlier an Oil Slick had been sighted in the area about320 Miles East of Boston. The depth at that pot 8.400 feet eliminated the possibility of urn Val. The san so named for the Thresher shark native to the american coast was on its first run at sea after nine months in the Portsmouth.  . It arrived in the test area wit hits escort ship the Skylark lout tuesday. Shortly after noon the order to submerge was Given and t,13 22 . Est the world s fastest and deepest diving submarine disappeared beneath the  cmdr John w. Harvey 33. The Captain is other officers and the 96 enlisted men of the Crew were at their stations. Seventeen civilian technicians were Seal termed throughout the us million hip watching equipment under test the submarine performed nor Mal underwater exercises until Early wednesday. At 9 17  the Thresher passed a message to the Skylark. The message the Navy said was purely routine so routine that it was not even recorded. Naval steel prices Tot heeling steel corp., a it relatively Small steel pro Ducer in an Industry of giants increased some steel prices last week exactly one year after a boost triggered a bitter clash be tween president Kennedy and the  increase prompted a drop in the Stock Market As Wall Street awaited White House re action. The president postponed for a Day and a half his planned holi Day trip to Palm Beach Fla. To study the increase. Then on thursday he issued a statement in which he held Ope the Prospect of administration acceptance of selective rather than Broad Price boosts. After the president s statement stocks zoomed to new 1903 . Kennedy said Price adjust ments up or Down As prompted by changes in Supply and demand Are not in compatible within a framework of general Stabil Ity. Sources said it was probably something like comment inn emergency test  that was the inst word Henr from the Thresher. Eight hours later an Oil Slick was sighted. The Oil Slick was detected again thursday morn ing at 10 30 and this confirmed the position of the , the plastic debris and the gloves of the Type used in working with nuclear reactors were found. The Thresher commissioned on aug. 3, 1961, was an attack sub Marine it was designed for use Grinst other submarines and surface vessels. It did not carry Polaris  George w. Anderson chief of . Naval operation said there was absolutely no Chanc of nuclear explosion in the sub nuclear submarine Thresher which went Down in the Atlantic with 129 men aboard. Up1 photo go pay Bill Given committee of the mouse armed service committee last week approved a $1.1 billion pay increase for 1.8 million servicemen. Exempted would be 832,000 draftees and enlistees serving out a two year military obligation. The committee approved an oct. 1 effective Date for the pay raise. The pay Bill trimmed tomake it More appealing to con Gressional budget cutters was�325 million below the 51.3 Bil lion recommended earlier by subcommittee. Other developments on Capitol Hill last week the United states made Britain s sir Winston churchillian american citizen. In a White House ceremony president Ken Nedy issued a proclamation at congressional direction Confer ring honorary citizenship on Churchill. The 88-year-old Brit ish statesman watched a telecast of the ceremony which was transmitted by communications satellite. It was the first time the United states had made any one an honorary citizen. The Senate passed the administration s youth employment Bill designed to furnish hundreds of thousands of jobs in conservation ramp and local Public service projects. The Bill now goes to the  president won a Villal showdown fight with the econ omy bloc when the House voted to restore 9450 million for a pub Lar works program to combat unemployment. The vote reversed the decision of the haute appropriations committee which Hod knocked out All of the $500 million the president had re Quested. The House passed legislation which would remove the Sliver bucking from the Dollar Bill an thereby free 1.3 billion ounces of Silver to be made into coins. Defense Secretary Robert s. Mcnamar told an Economy minded Congress to Cut the defense budget if it must rather than foreign Aid. Mcnamara appeared before a House committee on be half of president Kennedy s $4.5 billion foreign Aid request. The defense chief also said . Military Aid to Morocco is being phoned out rep. H. A Gross a Iowa said he objected to any Aid for Morocco after Reading that the moroccan King while on a visit Here has or dered five custom  columnist Jack Anderson re fused to toll a congressional committee the name of an Anonymous congressman who gave him information for an article titled congressmen who  he offered to give other information to Back up his claim that there Are cheats and Cal Sci ers in Congress but he would not identify the source of his in formation. The committee would not allow him to read a pro pared statement after he refuse to name his news source. Polaris a3 Success baseball season opened president Kennedy last or tuesday opened the 1963 major league baseball season by tossing out the first Ball at the Washington senators Baltimore orioles game in the us. Capital world the orioles won 3-1. A total of of 234.647 fans turned out for sports the nine open ing Day games an average of 39331 or  sports developments in last week s headlines new attacks were voiced against boxing after the death of two fighters during the week end. Francesco Velosquez. A 10 year old army private first class died in Corbo Dole. Pa., after he was knocked out in an Amateur bout. The other fatality was Normon Smith a 26-Yoor-Oldaustralian professional who died in Brisbane after a technical knockout he was the second australian Boxer in three Days Todie a a result of ring injuries. The fatalities raised to five the number of ring deaths this year. Carlos Ortiz of new York successfully defended his world lightweight title by scoring technical knockout Over exiled cuban Doug Valliant in san Joan.  in c k 1 a  stood off a fierce bid by Tony Lema and Sam Snead and at 23 became the youngest player Ever to win the masters Golf tournament. He fired a final round of 72 for 286. The highest masters winning score in seven years in play at Augusta  Baird a member of the setae team captured the All events Crown in the us a r Hup. 1963 men s civilian Bowling championships at germ sch Germany. Ryle Navy lust week Success j. Fully fired an advanced ver Sion of us Polaris a3 missile from Cape canaveral som 2.000miles across the Atlantic into in it tuned target. It was the Iru flight of the pre prototype tar to Cal version of the a3. It will eventually be Able to strike Atland targets up to 2,880 mile away. Later in the week the Navy s first attempt to launch the a3from a ship ended Iti failure when the missile veered off course Sec Ond after liftoff and wan destroyed. The a3 was fired froma submarine like launching Lubo aboard the ship observation Island u few Miles off Cape co Naverne. In related developments Lusi week an air Force Industry Teum successfully launched a sold fuel minuteman icbms Moi e Ihnn 4.000 Miles Down the Atlantic missile Range from the Cape. The soviet press reinforced Western theories thai the soviet Moon rocket. Lunik in probably was a failure. Moscow newspapers published Only Brief communiques announcing that the Lunik Hod passed the Moon s surface at a distance of 5,281 Fluit was decided in washing ton that the Pentagon May Sal Vage $200 million from the can celeb Sybolt missile program. That would be More than in lathe $3t 3 milion Congress allotted to the project Thea year. The Senate meeting in secret set Ion for the first time i nearly 20 Jears refused to vote a is cud up for the Nike zeus antimissile missile in approving its $13 billion weapons authorization Bill. The closed door ses Sion was engineered by  Thurmond , who wanted to cite classified data i support of a $106 million a celer at Ion of the Nekr zeus missile killer  $14.951 billion Bill which cleared the Senate was $905 Mil Linn icky than the version approved by the House and $407 million less than the total authorization proposed by the administration. Marine nor is there any danger of radioactive contamination to shipping. In a statement from the Whitehouse on thursday president Kennedy said i am deeply distressed that the attack submarine Thresher is missing and possibly lost. This boat pioneered a new Era in the eternal drama of the sea diving deeper and going faster than an submarine before u. The courage and dedication Oft hero men of the sea pushing ahead into Depths to Advance our knowledge and capabilities. Is no less than that of their forefathers who led the Advance on the fron tiers of our civilization ,. The future of our country will always be sure when there Are men such As these to give their lives to preserve  Canada vote Lester b. Pearson s lib eral party pledged to nuclear arms and the closest pos sible relations with the United states last week won one of the most critical National elections i Canadian history but failed to Avert a political crisis. The Pearson Force fell five seat Short of a Clear majority in the 265-m Ember o  e of com Mons. The liberals won 128 with 133 needed or u majority. _ the conserve live party Cap-1 turd 96, the so-1 c i a 1 credit 24 and the new � Democrat 1. Prime mini Ster John dle Fen Baker plunged the country in to a crisis by refusing to step aside jul cutly and allow the victorious liberals to form government. The armed services votes were to be tabulated Over the week end. Five seats were in the conservative column by such a close margin that the service vote might switch several to the liberals. At week s end Pearson apparently was assured of majority support after six social credit member in o Surprise move issued a statement volunteering their support for a Liberal government. The pledged sup port would r u 1 s e Pearson s standing to 134, one More vote than needed for a majority.  Canadian Clie ebs Lester Pearson is applauded in Ottawa after his Liberal party came out on top in balloting. A photo