European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Pug. 2 the stars and stripes Thun Day april 18, 1963 Adenauer reported still against Erhard As successor Bonn up West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has refused to withdraw his opposition to the nomination of vice Chancellor and economics minister Ludwig Erhard 01 his successor. It Wai Learned stand made in Defi Ance of the majority wish of his Christian democratic party came As new Tor Lelouda gathered Over the succession Issue. Autho Hutto Murce Cald both Adenauer s closest Friend and adviser minister without portfolio hoi n Rich Krone and Christian Democrat la majority Lender half Rich von Brentano have failed to talk the 87-Ycnr-old chancello around. Krone and von Brentano saw Adenauer in code Nabla on Italy s Lake Como. The Chancellor s Vura ton place. Adenauer returns to Bonn Fri Day evening. Von Brentano. Also vacationing in Italy comes Backover the weekend. Trio two men will it tend a show Down meeting of their party s Par fury executive on leaders hoped to be Able at the meeting to name the nex Chancellor to take office when Adenauer retires As he has prom ised in the fall. It was Learned they now expect new crisis Over the succession question because of Adenauer s position. The sources said von Brenton would have announced Adenauer s with a fun did in his acceptance of f fare if he line Mission to cad i Niimi. Instead von Brenton is Refus ing to Tell even ranking Christian democrats what happened when he saw the Chancellor. Enough information has leaked however to make it Clear that Adenauer refused to change his stand the sources said. Adenauer and Erhard together have led West Germany Slanco the first postwar government wat formed in 1049. Adenauer admits that Erhard it an economics master. But his Dep Uty lacks sufficient political and diplomatic ability to be top Man. Adenauer argues. The Christian democratic part is solidly behind Erhard however. They View him As the Bett a possibly the Only Man to help them Stem a growing electoral trend towards Tho socialists. Despair Over daughter s death grieving Chicago father kills self Chicago and James Lee the grieving father who sold almost All he had after hts 9-year-old Daugh Ter s death and donated the proceeds in her memory has committed suicide police said. Two policemen said the watched helplessly As Lee. 46, a modestly wealthy Man stood in Telephone Booth in a North Side tavern and shot himself with a re jeep accidents fatal to two two is. Soldiers both assigned to 7th army support come units died in separate accidents tuesday when their jeeps overturned the army has the first Accident pfc Leonard a Pink. 19. Of uie Abbul Ord killed when his vehicle flipped Over on the autobahn North of Mannheim. According to reports. Puke was travelling at Swo Milesian hour when the private car Driver ahead of him suddenly applied his Brake. When the jeep s brakes were applied the vehicle turned Over. Pink we pronounced dead atthe 130th Hospital in Heidelberg. Two passengers in the jeep with like escaped with minor injuries. The dead Man u survived Byers. Ada l. Plunke of Cohoes . In second Accident which too place about Midnight tuesday a 39-year-old second lieutenant of the 3rd army Cav died when the jeep Hwu driving went Down a embankment at Baum older and turned other officers in the jeep escaped with minor injuries. Nam eat the lieutenant la being withheld pending notification of next of farm Lara. Three american soldiers were killed tuesday night Han their Sedan struck a tree a Rone North at her on Highway 1ad three Wen thrown Clear of the army spokesman said the cans of the Accident we unknown. A sudden Fin struck the Lee apartment March 4 and Lee s Only child Shirley was killed. He Mother had died when she was 2. It could t have been much worse if the world had burned up Lee said at the time. The police officers said they Wen summoned to the tavern near Lee Home by an unidentified per son. They arrived As Lee with his feet braced against the door of the Booth raised the revolver to his head and pulled the sergeant James Moon said two notes found in Lee s pock Eta indicated despair Over the deaths of his daughter and his wife. Trotting Balne friends said he had built his modest wealth first in a trucking business started with a single truck a drove himself. Then he shifted to building investment an management so he would be Doe to the her death he had been donating All Bis Money and posses Sion to charitable institutions so that Shirley in a sense can live gave the it apartment Budd ing when the fire occurred Anda Flat to the lutheran Church of st. Philip when Shirley attended school. A plaque in her memory we placed in each building an another i her third Grade room. Lee also mad donations to the Hodley school for die Blind the Victor c. Neumann Center Lor retarded children the Lions dub Camp for visually handicapped children Ravenswood Hospital. Autos Ana Hospital and Uhlly children s Home a indicated april 8, when the donations had been made that he we considering moving to a lutheran Camp for men. I won t need anything a said. I Don t want any thing. Just something to help my Little girl s Lee was so grief stricken at the urn of his daughter1 death thai a asked total strangers to attend services March 8 so she could have a Nice funeral re said he had no family to attend. Sis a Outlook for t . Tod a v occluded front Canning Cloudy wether with rain Over Western France and Uwi Eastern part of the British Lutes. The remainder of France Western Germany and thelow countries will be partly Cloudy with isolated Nln showers. . 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