European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 4, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Peg 2 the stars and stripes monday september 4, 1967 Washington up ask the Pentagon a simple ques Tion and what do you get you get pertinent information and rationalization that s what you get. An unidentified Mother of two wrote to sen Abraham Ribicoff d-conn., asking Why the government does t Stop Selling cigarettes on military bases if smoking is so bad for your . Shirley c. Fisk Deputy assistant defense Secretary for health and medical affairs gave Ribicoff the following policy statement which includes pertinent information and rationalization which i believe will clarify the Posi Tion of the department of de sense in this matter the department recognizes the unique role of the cigarette in the contemporary Ameri can culture. The therapeutic value of cigarette smoking to certain individuals in a Situa Tion of stress is also recognized. On the other hand smok ing and health reports and subsequent publications Lea every Little room for doubt that cigarette smoking can affect health. After thorough Analy Sis the department announce that distribution of free cigarettes in military Hospital would terminate and educational programs for military personnel pointing out the Haz Ards would be initiated. With respect to the smoker s need the armed forces insure that anyone who desire cigarettes can Purchase them. In situations where purchases not possible cigarettes Are contained in prepared meal issued under combat conditions. Others Are made available periodically in a ration Sun dries supplement pack. When the individual does not have funds to Purchase cigarettes he May obtain a loan or Agrant from the red Cross for that purpose. The red Cross does not expect the loan or Grant to be  department is interested in the health of All person Nel and since nothing has yet demonstrated that cigarette smoking does not adversely affect health the present policy is considered sound. Violence erupts in Milwaukee March Milwaukee up Ope housing demonstrators returning from a peaceful m a r a t h o March to City Hall and into e South Side neighbourhood threw fire bomb cursed police and hurled rocks which injured Aleast one officer saturday night other rocks shattered the window of a Bookstore and the rear window of a passing car at thebus intersection of 12th Stree and Wisconsin Avenue. Fire bomb tossed fire bomb was tossed under a police car but it was extinguished without damage. Father James e. Groppi i roman Catholic priest who spoke to the marchers As they rested on the Marquette univer sity Campus said the Marche would continue until the Black Man can walk Down the  to the Rock throwing the demonstration had been in Sharp contrast with marches earlier in the week which resulted i mass arrests bottle and Rock throwing and tear Gas attack by police on White mobs seeking to attack the White and negro demonstrators. Youths turned Back the Only incidents on the pre dominantly polish South Side were scattered heckling and a attempt by three White youths to intercept the marchers. The youths were turned Back by police. In the same area monday and tuesday the marchers were attacked with showers of Rock Sand bottles and chants of ish  pol the March led by Fathe Groppi denounced by Milwaukee s mayor As a White Uncle Tom seemed a peaceful even cheerful affair on the Way to City Hall. Then from City Hall s Steps old t1 ii a j 4 i the slim intense priest challenged his followers Are you tired no the crowd shouted  do you want to go father Groppi asked South Side South Side the crowd answered and took up chant of fair  this was the signal for Fathe Groppi and his marching mate civil rights militant Dirk Greg Ory to Lead their followers out into the polish neighbourhood which was the scene of tumultuous marches monday and tues Day. Saturday s March was the most ambitious launched by father Groppi  assistant Pas Tor of a negro inner Core neighbourhood Church which has become the storm Center of the civil rights movement in this racially tense City. For two nights his marchers had been blocked by policemen using Teai Gas and swinging nightsticks. The officers were enforcing a state of emergency ban on nigh Side demonstrations imposed by mayor Henry Maie wednesday. Father Groppi him self was arrested twice along with hundreds of others Maier lifted his March ban saturday. The mayor who quelled a full blown race riot five weeks ago by clamping a24-hour curfew on the City said that if Milwaukee has another riot father Groppi is respond  the marchers joked with accompanying policemen on their two mile walk from St. Boniface to City Hall which was deserted of major municipal figures. The Only jarring note came when the marchers passed Freedom House their Headquarters which was destroyed by a fire bomb in the Wake of tuesday s March. Burn baby Burn some marchers chanted. Army releases names of five killed in wreck near Munich Stuttgart Germany special the army has released the names of five Vii corp soldiers killed in a vehicle Accident Early Friday near  victims All of he co 82nd engr in were sgt. Willie b. Butler 22, son of mrs. Myrtle l. Butler an Nona Tex. Spec. 4 Gary e. Sack 21, son of or. And mrs. Ewald sack . Frederick k. Roggen 19, son of or. And mrs. Fritz , Lorain Ohio. Spec. 4 Gene r. Tucker 21,son of mrs. Blanche c. Tucker Troy . Pfc. Alfred a. Olsen 18, son of or. Anc mrs. Alfred a. Olsen  five died shortly after Midnight when the army three Tutan Shamim exhibit ends Paris up the exhibition of the treasures of the egyptian King tutankhamen closes Mon Day after setting attendance rec ords and earning nearly $1trillion for the Campaign to save Egypt s antiquities from theising Waters of the Aswan dam. Quarter ton truck in which the were Riding apparently ran off the Highway and struck a Road Side barn a Vii corps spokes Man said. A Brick Wall of theban collapsed on the vehicle killing the occupants the spokes Man said. The Accident occurred near Amburg about 20 Miles South East of in Olstadt and 25 mile Northeast of Munich. An investigation is continuing. Back in harness Mari Lou Macdonald who broke her backing a skydiving Accident 14 months ago leans against the wind As she jumps Over the Toronto waterfront. The saturday dive kept Promise she made herself when doctors told her she would never Parachute again. She landed All right this time showing Why Sheds the women s Champion of Canada. A photo korean Gold Miner fights clock r to trim Aivre o i w Chong Yang South Korea a breathing difficulty was reported sunday by a South korean Gold Miner trapped 375 feet underground As Rescue workers inched their Way to save him. A physician who talked with Kim Chang son 35-year-old father of five children clinging to life on water and Wood bark the past 12 Days quoted him As be ing encouraged by the digging sound that i hear much slower now than  Rescue work has continued round the clock since the Cave in. Rescue workers said the must dig about another nine feet before the trapped Miner can breached and that Kim can be rescued by tuesday morning. The Rescue workers have Sedan electrical saw oxygen and other mining equipment mostly provided by the . 8th army support come. Four american Soldier technicians from the command with Drew Friday after teaching korean miners How to use the equipment. The physician said the Miner our image would be damaged protest to series on hero Custer Muskogee okla. A principal officers of five Indian tribes say they Are opposed tothe television series on general George Custer scheduled this season by the american Broad casting co. Television  making a series where Custer will be the hero the image of the american Indian would definitely be damaged said Over toil James principal chief of the chickasaws an president of the inter tribal coun cil. John Brown chairman of the Seminole nation and vice presi Dent of the Council said he Dis approves of the series if the Yare making Custer a hero unless they give us equal  and his 267 officers and men were massacred by the Sioux indians when they Rode into the midst of a huge India Encampment in 1876. Custer was to have waited for another unit to join his before the attack but he reportedly disobeyed orders and decided to attack the indians on his  had been successful against Cheyenne indians in an expedition 10 years earlier. In another Custer development it was reported in Washington that the remains of maj. Marc us Reno have been moved to Montana for reburial alongside his comrades who died in the massacre known As Custer s Las stand. Reno who survived the Massa Cre was accused and later cleared of cowardice in that fight. But he was later Dishonour ably discharged from the army for conduct unbecoming an offi cer. He died 78 years  summer acting on a petition by the major s grand Nephew an army Board of re View exonerated him and made it possible for him to be buried with Honor in Custer Battlefield National cemetery where More than 200 victims of the Massa Cre Are buried. Custer himself was buried at West  s remains were removed aug. 16 from an unmarked Graven Washington s Glenwood cemetery and sent to Montana Forre Buria. Probably would fall into a Domain two or three Days adding that the next few Days would Tell his Fate. Kim s wife was reported suf Fering from exhaustion. When they reign the . Pours Washington up the Senate foreign relations com Mittee issued a report thursday on How much it paid to feed visiting dignitaries during thelast fiscal year. Most of the Bills were hefty. The committee lavished $91 on Coffee Tea and food for presi Dent Cevdet Sunay of Turkey and$82.28 for Coffee and food for King Hassan h of Morocco among others. But the biggest bargain came april 27 when the panel provided Coffee Tea and food to four members of Kenya parliament. The total Tab was $8. Weather . Temperatures h us l.72 56 Atlanta 62 49 Boston 66 46 Buffalo 66 58 Chicago 77 48 Cincinnati 74 45 Cleveland j2 55 Denver 77 47 Detroit 80 90 Houston 78 59 Kansas City 90 79 lob Angelea 87 79 Miami 72 49 mils St. Paul 71 65 new York 88 75 Phoenix 94 66 Salt Lake c 78 58 san Francisco 76 67 Seattle 76 60 St. Louis 70 53 Washington