European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 3 l p0p. Calls for Aid to biafran City up Pope Paul i declaring he was distressed and worried at human suffering in nigerians Moi div for an emergency Aid program to save the lives 5ttsands caught up in the country s civil War. 70-Vear-old Pope said in a letter to emperor Haile Selassie pfc inn whose nation is Host to nigerian biafran peace talks sat he flt profound re lick at the Starl f the talks Willic linens the Way to i rut he added we cannot but be deeply distressed and worried at the suffering of the victims of the current conflict. On this occasion we presume to set Forth our insistent appeals that in View of the pressing necessity that threatens the life of i thousands of innocent persons proper priority be Given to the serious problem of humanitarian Aid and of the practical Possi ability of bringing it in time to the people who Are dying of hunger i and Church May yield masterpiece Ovada Italy a a painting which was concealed Ualifi a " and ignored behind a huge can Ivas in a local Church for Over two centuries May be by 17th Century Spanish master Diego Velasquez experts say. The Canvas an altar piece 2.5 Yards High and 1.5 Yards wide shows Christ on the Cross and Mary standing nearby. For some unknown reason it had been concealed under a red cloth. An italian Painter discovered it when out of curiosity he asked the local priest to show him what was behind the cloth. Railways out of steam Liverpool. England a after 143 years British railways has finally blown the whistle on the steam engines. The Furnace was quenched Here sunday night on no. 45110, thelast steam locomotive operating on a Standard gauge track forced into retirement by diesel electrics of a new age. Small private railways will chug on with steam but officially sunday s in mile round trip from Liverpool to Carlisle and Back was the end of the steam Era for the state run British was a journey loaded with nostalgia. Some 450 passengers each paid $37.80 for the special Farewell run that included Champagne and commemorative scrolls for them. Some passengers wore Black armbands. Crowds along the track mourned the passing with fluttering handkerchiefs. Barnard looking to Baboon hearts princely plunge Japan s Prince fir swims with a lifeguard in Lake Humana 100 Miles Southwest of Tokyo. Cheering him on Are his brother Prince Aya and their Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko. They were vacationing at the resort. A j i e. Germany merciless to political prisoners Sydney Australia a Barnard heart trans Plant Pioneer arrived in Sydney monday and spoke of the possibility of using the hearts of Baboons to keep humans alive. If we had an unlimited sup ply of hearts millions of people in the future would Benefit fro heart transplantation he said. We May have to move to Ani Mal hearts but in my View no artificial heart has yet been developed which will do better than a human heart from the right kind of donor. The hearts of pigs sheep or calves would hardly be suitable but hearts of the Pri mates such As Baboons might Barnard Here to attend the australian medical Congress said a High mortality rate had to be expected in heart transplant because the patients were so ill when surgery begins. But As relearn More it certainly will Bandit weds secretly in Church caglia1u, Sardinia up a sardinian Bandit wanted by police to serve a sentence for murder thumbed his nose at his knt by c Omil i Down fro we mils to get married in Church. Embarrassed officials Learned monday that Pasquale Pau 40, fad married Angela Marras 29,n the Parish Church of the Little own of on uni july 20. His Bride had testified in his defense last May. Pau was not in court because he had gone int hiding after the killing. The wedding came to Light when it was registered in the town Hall. The Parish priest of Nani had dispensed the couple from publication of wedding banns and conducted the service after Midnight. Now police have gone Back to combing the Rocky Hills of Sardinia for the Bandit while his Bride lives quietly with her Mother. Spain squeezing Gibraltar again Auie Cikas. Spain up pain has subtly applied new pressure on Gibraltar and there a or arts monday that other Hanes win be taken against e British Colony shortly. Offish t ust is officials Havel a c am a a thirty five Octan i 1ks luding the bige1.1111 Michelangelo and Mori a Vinci were tied up5ssry a. Asnikeoicrew8for the strike Egan last wednes Wiuf will continue until thurs Day. It has grown Day by Day with ships of the Sirrenia line operating Between the Mainland and the Island of Sardinia hit lines Are affected the italia Lloyd Triestino Adriatic and Sirrenia. Berlin up East Ger Many has no bargain sales in the punishment Market for those seeking a different Way of life from communism according to a report issued in West Berlin. I the costs to be paid Are always the same death injury or imprisonment. A study issued by the examining committee of free jurists and the West Berlin police shows at least 8.120 persons have been jailed for political reason sin East Germany. The study published on Thieve of the seventh anniversary of the Berlin Wall claims another2,507 persons trying to escape into the Western half of the divided City were arrested. 47 shot forty seven Many probably ignoring Calls by East German soldiers to halt were shot the study says. Other figures show that sinc August last year. East German Border guards fired 42 times a those trying to reach the West. They used tear Gas once. Eleven uniformed guards themselves fled successfully into West Ber Lin. In the first 12 months of the Wall shots were fired 360 times at refugees tear Gas was used385 times 967 persons were arrested and another 284 picked up while using Legal crossing Points Between the cities. Two Hundred and seventy nine East German Border guards fled. The decline since then can be attributed to the communist Bor Der defences undergoing continuous say that the communists maintain 228 watchtower around the West Berlin City limits and there Are 179 runs for fierce dogs. The free jurists an Organiza Tion of private Western lawyers said that since August. 1961. Mast East German convictions for political crimes were in connection with fleeing the state. Five death sentences have been handed out against political prisoners and 55 have been sentenced to lift in prison. Czechs capture 4 of 6 fleeing East Germany Munich up czech Bor Der guards sunday captured four of six Young East germans who tried to flee through Czechoslovakia to West Germany it was announced monday. Two of the captured refugee were 17-year-old girls. The oth ers two of whom got through in a wild mid afternoon dash across Frontier Meadows to re Hau West Germany were men in their Early 20s, bavarian Bor Der police reported. West German police watched helplessly As the czechs pounced on one struggling Man tied him and carried him out of sight. According to the two who escaped the group came f r o m siamese tit ins in for East Berlin and wore discovered by a czech patrol As t h e y approached the Frontier. Aboul 30 czechs helped by four guard dogs rushed Between them and their goal. The czech manhunt continue for hours until bavarian police informed their czech counter parts that the remaining two were in the Cech guards obviously have received order to tighten up their Border against e a s t germans trying to reach t h Ewest a West German spokes Man said. Sunday s captures came 1\hours before East German communist Leader Walter Ulbricht met czech leaders at Karloy \ Arv. Paris up French surgeons monday separated a pair of siamese twin girls flown Here from their Liny native Village in the West african nation of Togo. The operation on 40-Day-old Blanche and Irene was immediately pronounced a they came out of Ane the Sia their condition was com Petely satisfactory d o c t o r s isaid. Only the second of its kind Everto take place in France the operation lasted three hours and15 minutes. The twins were attached at the lower Back and the buttocks in a rare malformation estimated to occur Only once in every 300,000 to 400.000 births. Rare antique car destroyed in crash Bencher Iii. A twelve persons received slight injuries Here in a two car crash that destroyed one of the cars a 1931 Marion. George Morton Taylor of Gary i Downer and Driver of the antique 7-Passeuger, 16-Cyl Inder Sedan said it caught fire after the collision. He said the car was one of four in the a i lion
