European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes death of a pet a passerby tries to Comfort mrs. Ethe Geatrakas sobbing As she holds her pet dog which was struck and killed by an automobile in Dover . Mrs. Geatrakas of Syracuse n.y., was on a visit to new Hampshire and was walking her pet when it was hit by the car. A photo army is gliders for on Washington up gliders May soon be making Stealthy reconnaissance sorties Over communist infiltration routes in Viet army has awarded a $2 million contract for production of the gliders. If Early experiments Are successful a Small number of the Light aluminium Craft May be brought into serv ice within a year. Known As the qt3, the surveillance gliders will boar Little resemblance to the . Troop carrying gliders that were towed in the sky from England to land infantry forces in France during world War sources say the new gliders will have a Small engine to Power their own like oils. Except for the fact that they will operate at Low Altitude not More than 20,000 feet and usually Well under 5,000 they will somewhat resemble the High flying u2 reconnaissance planes. The have enormous wings to keep them aloft during Long periods of a powered hostile territory the qts s engine will be shut off an the Craft will dip Low and Glide Over infiltration routes insolence. A special device will be used to make them difficult to Judy Garland Case against aide dropped new York a a charge by entertainer Judy Garland that her former personal manager Thomas Green had stolen two Diamond rings valued at $110,000was dismissed wednesday by the criminal court. Green s lawyer had asked for dismissal on the ground that miss Garland had not appear Din court since she filed the charge in april. Green 29, told judge Williame. Ringel that miss Garland had telephoned him from Bosto wednesday morning and said she wished to drop the charge. Still Good friends leaving the courtroom Green told reporters he was still Good friends with the Singer and that he planned to Dine with her in Boston wednesday night. He said the rings were pawned for �1,000 and now have a government Lien against them. In previous court appearances Green s lawyer told the court that Green had been miss Gar land s constant companion for three years and her Persona manager for 2% years and that they had planned to marry inlay. Miss Garland denied the marriage plans and her lawyer argued that Green was an employ of the corporation handling miss Garland s business affairs. 2 escape As Jet crashes Burns Otis air Force base mass. A two . Ail Force officers escaped serious injury tuesday when their f101b voodoo Jet fighter crashed on Landing and burned. Air Force officials said a. Ilic Kok 26, of Silver Springs md., the Pilot an maj. Neil a. Gagen 36, of min Neapolis minn., the radar intercept officer jumped from the Craft before it began to Burn. Bosom expanding firm must refund $800,000 san Francisco up the Post office has ordered an Oak land firm which manufactures female breast expanding device to refund Gross receipts from86,000 mail order customers received since Jan. 24.at $9.95 per breast expanding device refunds would total More than $800,000. The Mark Eden breast expander co., which is fighting the order in a Federal court suit says none of its customers have complained about the Clam Shell shaped product. Perfectly Happy. Some longhair in Washington without Ever seeing our witnesses has ruled we must re fund the Money now held by a trustee e d e n s attorney Nathan Gray told the court. Yet Here Are those people perfectly Happy about Pur product and even sending in for the Post office says Eden advertising goes too far in say ing what it will do for the feminine bustling. The bust Developer Battle started in 1965when the department said the firm was using the mails to de fraud because the device was wholly company disagreed and the fight has been going on eve since then. After several hearings the department ordered the firm to tone Down its advertising. Eden agreed to change its ads but the Post office objected to the new compliance advertising in de Cember 1967 As still being mis leading. The company claims the de vice will expand female breasts by up to five inches. A Macing conduct for cops Baltimore my. A police commissioner Donald d. Pomerlee has disciplined five patrolmen for unauthorized use of chemical Mace and tear Gas against each other Wade h. Poole Deputy com missioner said the five police men lost some time off for con duct unbecoming an officer during their Skylark in the Park ing lot of the Eastern District maced each other and set off some tear Gas in a patrol car said Poole. Mace is s Spray that incapacitated a per son. Detect by Means of their aluminium skins the gliders Are to be equipped with miniaturized infrared sen sors to examine the trails an cameras to photograph the movement of men and to some sources the development of the gliders i tied in with the construction of the so called Mcnamara line of barbed wire and electronic sensors across the narrow Waist of Vietnam below the demilitarized zone. If so they would com yith i 71 pc tile Ark tunicate ele ground devices Lect movements info the protect lots As Well As Theof their Mission hip sum ably would night. The army off Haliv i sealed Only that he Roin Rac the gliders was ,., to Lockheed miss Icv a $co., with sehw./,.,- corp. And conic corp. As Sib Conn. ,. I k Hio Vornen Hilt is pro. Only at re form it s a bit baffling trains Are squeezed but commuters Aren t new York a Thelong Island rail Road can celled about a Quarter of it morning Rush period trains again wednesday but somehow its90,000 commuters got into Man Hattan without too much difficulty. I Don t understand it. People must be on vacation said com Muter Henry Wettingfeld of Queens As he emerged from a normally crowded train in Man Hattan. Although 28 of about 90 morn ing trains had been cancelled Wettingfeld said the train Herode was about the same As it has other commuters had similar reports. Auto traffic on the Long is land expressway was somewhat heavier than usual but a traffic department aide called the increase not . Lester Wolff a Long is land Democrat asked the inter state Commerce commission and the . Department of transportation tuesday to investigate the Railroad s operations. The Long Island blames the train cancellations which started 10 Days ago on a shortage of cars caused by a slowdown by inspection and repair men inthe dispute Over the planned Dis charge of 18 men. The men s Union Lodge 886 of the brother Hood of railway Carmen denies slowdown and says aging equipment and under Manning of repair facilities Are to blame. As the Railroad cancelled 53 $852,000 in trash West Palm Beach Fla a the Glades county school Board has petitioned a Cir Cuit court judge to order replacement of $852,000 i Bank certificates noting we surmise that the certificates inadvertently found their Way into a wastebasket and were incinerated with other i a. Must worried 12 countries see decline in morals Princeton . Up Apoll of 12 nations showed that the people believe moral standards Are declining in their countries the Gallup poll reported wednes Day. . Cili ens Are the most Wor ried with 78 per cent believing that morals Are declining an the Netherlands was next with c7 per cent. Finland was the least worried at 46 per cent but Only 30 per cent of the finns though morals Are better now than previously and another 20 per Cen saw no change. Four per cent of the finns had no opinion from the other countries the percentage which feels that mor als Are worse was Britain 62greece, 55 Uruguay 54 nor Way 54 Canada 53 Sweden,52 Switzerland 51 France 50, and Austria 48.the Gallup poll also asked for opinions on honesty and on life in terms of religion. In these categories the replies were very similar to the replies on morality with far More people believing there has been a decline than those who see improvement. In the matter of religion the dutch were the most negative with 77 per cent believing Relig Ion there has declined As against 9 per cent who think it has in creased. In Switzerland 65 per cent said decline to 16 per Cen who saw growth. Only in Greece was there an even division with43 per cent on ouch Side. Morning an trains tuesday a run Rush hour Nassau count executive Eugine h. Nickerson called for the dismissal of Wil Liam j. Ronan. Chairman of the state metropolitan transportation authority which owns the said lion an had re fused to assume his the lorm Island demo cratic official said he had sent Telegram to that effect to re publican gov. Nelson a. Rocke Feller who is vacationing in Seal Harbor Maine. . Capital ending sunday ban on liquor Washington Washington City if i the Council Lias an voted to ending the City by hard liquor restaurants. 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