European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday july 25, 1963 the stars and stripes Page 3 Bonn bans imports of 2 products Bonn a West Germany banned the import of Green Beans and cucumbers in an attempt to keep prices up and stall threat ened Demon strut Ion � by Farmers. The ban takes effect saturday. In the palatinate area near the French Border Farmers have been talking about setting up roadblocks just like the protesting peasant across the Frontier. German Farmers Are less riven to such demonstration than the French. Last saturday the West German government announced that it was stopping imports of Beans and the cucumbers used for pickling fro mall countries outside the common Market. Now the measure has been extended to hit the six common Market countries too. Finding their products unsaleable on wholesale markets some West German Farmers have been coming to town and underselling were offering cucumbers Al 15 to 25 pfennig 3.79 to 6.23 cents a Pound and Beans at 30 to 30 pfennig 5 to 7.5 cents. Potato growers were calling Tot a government subsidy because flow prices heavy production and t big carry Over pram last year. Trouble was also brewing among fruit Farmers because of Low Price sat the Bottom of the trouble is the fact that West German farms Are Small and less efficient than Inmany other countries. Importer food would generally be much cheaper than Home grown if 1were not for government Protection. Hamburg victim of bombing raids rain of Hamburg Germany up the allies called it operation go a Moonlit no Rel 20 years Bro the British Royal air for Ennd the . Army air Force be Jan a 10-Day rain of fire on Ham Nigg like nothing since divine flumes snuffed out the biblical City of catastrophe which simply staggers the imagination a Cit of a million persons has been destroyed in a manner unparalleled in history wrote nazi prop Auala minister Josef Goebbels in his diary after surveying the damage. It was recalls electrician Carl w a 1 d m a n a who lived through it. Governors g Miami Beach up the National governors conference climaxed its civil rights Battle by instructing its executive commit tee to give the racial Iskui top priority in the coming year. But its democratic majority firmly refused to have the con Ference go on record at this 55th meeting with a direct civil right declaration or accede to gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller s demand that the study be made by a is e Cal , denying he Hod used the conference to Advance his presidential ambitions claimed a Victory from the end result. He said the conference had done essentially what he final vote giving the executive committee its assignment was 38 to 3, with Rockefeller Andall but three Southern democrats present supporting the motion of fire be operation Gomor nth opened the allies Era of thousand plane raids. From july 25 to aug. 3, he i. The Raf struck by night and the . Bombers by any. The allies a Jated o revenge the Blitz of Britain and to break the German Wilt to fight. The bombers destroyed 348.776 dwell Ings three quarters of h a a turn s Homes. They Sank 180,000 tons of shipping in the left 900,000 persons homeless. They killed 47.854. Air marshal sir Arthur Harris chief of the Raf bomber come sent the first wave of 740 bombers Over the City on july 23. They dropped fire bombs to set the City Ive race Issue gov. Dempsey Connecticut demo crat. Five Southern governors were not present at the time of the vote. The conference voted 25 to 17 notable Rockefeller s proposal far a special committee and it also overrode a gop motion to suspend the rules so a civil rights endorse ment could be passed. Gov. Carl e. Sanders Georgia Democrat said the executive com Mittee might consider going to witness the aug. 28 negro Marchon Washington. He called the assignment pure southerners from Arkansas Georgia North Carolina Louisiana and Virginia were not in on thelast vote. Governors of Florida Tennessee and Texas voted for the executive committee study. A Short time earlier Republican failed by 16 votes to win a re umbiimb8bs Wihib bpm ii say Blini a full Kwh pc ii full Hitik a i Ebell juju Msj i .1uh1 us Mii. Gan 20 y aflame. Waidmann now c3, re Mem prs it Well. Suddenly my bed began to dance. The window p fines splintered. With great difficulty i Imide my any to Tow air raid fihe iter Down lie Street lie said. During the dish to the shelter. sold ten Earth it f shaking. Houses burned like the All Clear sounded Threet tour later. Firemen soldiers and thousands of volunteers tried to bring tile disaster under control. But it Dawn 297 american bombers came with blockbusters. Ignore Iroff the fire of three on Al rift regiments the . Bomb in priority quire three fourths majority to Force a civil rights declaration from the meeting. The vote was27 to 18 against them with three democrats joining the republicans. Florida attracts tourists despite big distractions Tallahassee Flo. Up Florida s tourist traffic increased by 150.000 persons last year Over the 1961 season setting a new record of 13,010,389 visitors to the state. And the state s tourist promotion commission say they came de spite the Seattle world s fair Thelong drawn out airlines dispute and the cub in tourists one of the biggest industries the Sunshine state ban come from everywhere but mostly they came from new York and Illinois. Florida development commission said 1.431,143 tourists from new York flocked to the state last year. Ears ago cars dropped their Load on targets As the railway Yard munitions plants the Portland dockyard and the submarine pens. The Allied plane dumped Alu Minum i Iff to Cloud null radar screens. They jammed the radios of the. German ack ack Crews and fib tar pilots. But july 25 and 26 were Noth ing compared to what come to Wolf a Liili a Walt Lynnn said. Burned into in Runga what happened to Hamburg thei tight of july 23 etched itself into the German language. They coined the word Stirm firm fire storm to describe it. About 200,000 Allied bombs most of them incendiaries. Ignited the fire storm a Harbinger of the holocausts that cume to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. About 40.000 person died that night. The tinman thai shot up from Hamburg locked in a tent of fir Over the City. Oxygen inside the tent burned up. Thousands of persons untouched h fire or blast suffocated from Lack of like Buffet then cold air zoomed into the vacuum and sent embers whipping like Butikis across the City. I minutes most of Hamburg was an allies lost 57 planes. Police later told of protecting downed Al lied airmen whom enraged Ger mans wanted to hurl into the flames. Months later captured Al lied airmen reported German survivors spitting at them. Walt Man n recalls that the morning after the fire storm we could not see the could not even see the sky just thick dark smoke he said. Two More Raf saturation strikes followed on july 30 and aug. 3. Then the bombers went on to the Peene Munde rocket St salons swept the Ruhr Industrial heart land and did even greater damage to Dresden. Operation gomorrah did not quite erase Hamburg from the fac of the Earth like its biblical pred pcs a t Lamburg re was secant with 1.040.s31damn. Ohio and Pennsylvania lied for third it around 780.000 each. Is a major world port and West Germany s largest City. Did it break the German will to fight both Allied and German experts think not. Perhaps More importantly some experts believe operation gomorrah proved Man s will Tolive. Fairhope. Ala. Up four said the Hamburg newspaper vacationing children drowned in i die Welt marking operation go Mobile boy when a Small Refl on Morrah a 20th anniversary tote raft overturns 4 children Drommi which they were playing drifted into deep water and overturned. Their Mother mrs ii. Peter Reed of Birmingham was on the Naftch at the time. Authorities i found her wading through the surf in u state of Shock looking for the both a of the children. Flt Fabors of mrs. Reed who was to Milln lazed. Sold she told i them site wan taking the children1 Tina. 9 Pelor 6 Nicholas 4. And Paul. 2 to the Bay to collect Mea shells. The body of Paul was found by a 16-year-old girl fishing about Quarter of a mile from the scene. Of the tragedy. Raids reprisals for the Gorman t bomb Hall on Coventry could no bring about the hoped for collapse. The foe failed to reckon that the will to live would press on wherever there showed a Way even Small narrow Way to live to three per Honn killed in crash near Detroit Detroit turd Throe Persona were killed in a two Curt Olla Ionon the Detroit Toledo freeway about two Miles North of were Manuel Francis Mendez jr., 27, Wyandotte Rulp Custer Smith 36. Del Oil and Smith s adopted son Ralph 6 weeks. Witnesses a at Riff of Beautiful Girt arrive St London s old Bailey to testify in the tee trial 0f or. Stephen word. From left axe Sally Joan Morris Marilyn Mandr race Dalleo who riven the Moat detailed testimony and Margaret Bucardo. Word face five Legal count a photos anybody seen a jail mount Jewett a
