European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page s x15 measures horizon. Icer Radir runt the x15.nc a tall up Al rocket ship measured Edw tit  wednesday in a flight to Aid Apollo astronauts he or. M1 if  from me Musij. Dana we dropped in the Jet Black clvl1?" jul from beneath the Wing of a b52 Mother ship Over manned. F the to minute flight to this desert test Railroad Vail y. R�w., l As Vir sirhed a Speed of 3,443 Miles an hour 4/ z limes the Vujko Siul urling the 83 seconds that its powerful rockets ced o soil ii urine Ned Anamaude of 5 Miles. Was ignited. Tanj f space Agency said the j97th flight of Kiwas aimed at More clearly defining the Earth s Hori on is would be used As a reference Point for Apollo astronauts. Gov. Hughes backs Mccarthy burglars haul away 16 valued at $1.4 million a 5 Moines Iowa a gov Harome. Hughes of Iowa announced wednesday his sup-5$ of the presidential candidacy of Minnesota sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy because he agrees with Mccarthy s stand on Viet , chairman of Iowa s 46 vote delegation to the democratic National convention said Mccarthy is the outstanding living spokesman for an orderly conclusion of the Vietnam War. Hughes is chairman of the National democratic governors conference and of a committee working to insure an open demo cratic convention in Chicago. Bradford a. A burglars broke into the country Home of Art collector t. Edward Hanley Early wednesday and stole 16 works of Art valued at11,394,000 by Haley s wife. The two most valuable pieces of Art Hanley s wife told police were a 1901 Pablo Picasso paint ing entitled Moulin Rouge Val used at $500.000 and a 1906 ?.an-1 be Watercolour valued at $450,000. I the other pieces which included works by Renoir Boucher. Latour Rodin Degas Goya and Modigliani were valued a from $75 to $50,000. The works of Art which included paintings drawings an Bronze statuary were among 1,000 pieces collected by Hanley descendant of a Bradford Oil and Brick family Over 45  police said the thieves got into the House by cutting screen on a window that let them into a Kitchen. They forced Latch on a door and entered the rooms where the Art objects were Hung. All of the pieces were on the first floor police  said Hanley 75, and an unidentified housekeeper were asleep in second floor bedrooms when the burglary occurred. Art objects from Home they said they could not fix time for the burglary hut believed it was in the Early morn  s wife Tullah. A former egyptian dancer was in new York on a business trip when the burglary occurred. She flew Back to Bradford and Marie the loss  s Home is just a few Miles outside of ibis Northwestern Pennsylvania Community near the Pennsylvania new York state line. It lies several Hundred Yards off Pennsylvania 219 and is surrounded by thick Pine Trees and shrubbery. Declasse cation suit filed san Francisco up a Federal judge has deliberated a realest by Stanford writer Julius Epstein that the top secret Label be removed from army files dealing with relocation of rus sians alter world War  s District judge Oliver j. Carter took the Case under sub Mission after hearing arguments from Epstein s attorney and representatives of the Federal  his comments before taking the suit indicated it was unlikely he would Rule in Epstein s favor in the first declassification Cas brought under the 1967 Freedom of information act. Once the government has classified this document As top Sei ret. This court is without jurisdiction Carter said. T air corps Pioneer die s los Angeles a m. Sgt. Carl Truman Hale among 16 enlisted men who formed the first company in the army air corps is dead at 81.he died of cancer monday 56 years after he volunteered for the flying Experiment while j on duty with the signal corps Unalaska. I when he made out Transfer papers to the air corps fore runner of the air Force Hale said his first sergeant scoffed you la be sorry. Them things in t Safe. You la just get killed that s  retired in 1938. With 30 years of service. He is survive div his widow and two children. Bad break for dogs san Francisco up the California supreme court has ruled that a dog cannot be a beneficiary under a  ruling came tuesday in a 27-Page decision concerning the estate of Shelnut Kussell a wealthy eccentric of   Handwritten will made out in 1957 and discovered at the time of her death in 1965, left half of her estate to her Airedale Roxie. But the will was contested by the dog Lover s Niece mrs. Georgianan Russell Hen Brce of Alpharetta a. She was appealing from an Adverse decision by a lower  supreme court ruling that half the estate must go to mrs. Hembree said As a dog cannot be the beneficiary under a will. The attempted gift to Roxie. Is  chinese Center for . San Francisco a for Mal ceremonies tuesday marked the Start of the 27-Story, $15 Mil this is the second of a Seres of cultural centers being devel oped by the san Francisco re development Agency in cooperation with neighbourhood inter ests. The first was a recently completed japanese Center. Anchors aweigh the i a. Navy torpedo boat dry docked in California for sailing on land without a permit continues on the final leg of its 2.000-mile trip. Up photo will 4 am Paigin Rocky Lindsay pledge full support of Nixon Hibi Tion Hall and a pedestrian Ridge to Portsmouth Square and the Chinatown area nearby. Lion chinese cultural and Trade Center on the site of san fran Cisco s old Hall of Justice. Due for completion in 1970, it Mil include a 572-room hotel Wear Garaye auditorium sex Cas Well fire kills 4 Buras a. A _ a High pressure offshore Gas Well erupted i Angush fire wednesday while under repair by a workover"8. Police suit our men were killed three missing and 22 injured. Uke a giant Blowtorch the Well flared on through the  to Suoi i Allie in capping wild Wells were gathered for the serous work of trying to bring it Back under control. Grant files Ciulik five suit Krasnuk Warner anc.k1.ks ai1 l i ii producer Norman and others Are suing Sil filed tuesday in Superior cd curl alleged Hros. Improperly sold kits of the film in Price below it arts inc., in a before us two actor discreet for Avalue to seven package Deal firms  Krasna. Stanley Donen Granley co., Stanley Donen films inc. And Granley productions said they were to have divided 75 per cent of these receipts of the film. New York a Richard Nixon won pledges of full support wednesday from gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller and May or John v. Lindsay the Newyork republicans he wants to help him win the Urban vote in his presidential Campaign. Standing beside the Republican presidential nominee on the Steps of Grade mansion the mayor s residence. Lindsay said. "1 am supporting this  said he intended to make perhaps four trips out Side of now York City campaigning for . Rockefeller who unsuccessfully challenged Nixon forthe gop nomination said he would speak for the candidate in other Stales and take charge of the gop Campaign in new York  and Nixon met in the presidential candidate s fifth Avenue  smilingly accepted Lind say s offer of help and  assistance will be of great help and could be crucial i som of the crucial  Lindsay and Rockefeller Are favourites of the party s Liberal Wing and their offer to stump for the ticket could be a big help to Nixon in carrying the populous slates he says he needs to win the presidency. In a joint statement. Lindsay and Nixon said we recognize that our views of National policy Are not entirely in Accord. It is not our intention to ignore or suppress any differences Between us. But the mayor believes that Only a new administration led by Richard Nixon and committed to fresh and progressive approaches can bring the change which our nation  Nixon and Rockefeller joined each other in a statement Declar ing they Are 1111111x1 in the conviction that the progressive Spir it of the Republican platform clearly Points the path to a gop Victory in november. Rockefeller s pledge was a Isih Point of a Day dedicated to promoting Republican Unity for Nixon s White House race. Other Republican leaders Call ing on Nixon in his fifth Avenue apartment were Sens. Jacob k. Davits of new York and Edward w. To Brooke of Massachusetts. I Lipport the ticket and 1make no qualification about that either qualitatively  javits told newsmen. Torpedo boat again sails the i git my ays 1 san Bernardino. Calif. Up it was anchors weigh for the Navy torpedo boat landlocked a week in Theca on pass area by red tape. The 67-foot-Long boat and the truck hauling it were permitted by California officials to resume the last 50 Miles of a 2.000-mile journey to the Long Beach naval ordnance test station near los Angeles the boat and truck had been parked beside interstate 15 in the pass since aug. 12. When a Cali fornia High w a y patrolman stopped them on grounds the vessel was too wide too High an probably too heavy to legally travel on California highways.1 state division of highways officials Here snipped the red tape wednesday afternoon and told i Len Milsap. Driver of the seven i Axle truck and trailer he could set sail for in no  Driver for transcontinental haulers inc. Of  mane Vered the truck and boat most of the Way to the Westcoast by staying on Back roads i however when he swim Diilio interstate 15, a freeway. Ins troubles Bey an. T 7 bus victims found Gifu. Japan up a total of67 i hues have been recovered following sunday s bus Accident in which 107 persons were swept 1 by landslides into the rain swollen Waters of the Hula hive