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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, February 27, 1950

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 17, 1950 the stars and stripes Page 3 shots of Stutt trait Chutis s i fatal plunge a near fatal fall results when daredevil parachutist Robert kites attempts to leap fro the famed 150-foot suicide Bridge id pasar Demi Calif. This dramatic series of photos shows the Accident which left the War Veteran a broken mass of Bone. La Eft  u hanging from a rope from which he intended to jump. In succeeding panels he releases Chute attempts to kick it open with his feet to catch wind then plummets into the unopened Chute when he loses his grip on the rope. Last photo shows Niles wrapped in the shrouds of his fouled Chute at the food of the Bridge. He had been planning to jump from the Empire state building. Ins photo headline Roundup us election tops news of week by Bernard Liebe staff correspondent the British people who five year Sago Laid Down a thumping majority for socialism and the labor party went to the polls and again entrusted their government to prime minister Clement r. Allee and his labor followers. Although labor had Only a  of the 625 seats in the House of commons their leaders appeared determined to carry out their nationalization policies. Jubi Lant conservatives headed by Winston Churchill riddled a ibs seat majority labor held in the last parliament. Elsewhere newspaper headline during the week gave major space to the u.  Action in breaking Diplo Matic relations with Bulgaria the trial of Robent a. Vogeler for spy ing in Hungary and the critical  labor picture brought on by the continuing Coal strike. The u.  Broke off relations with communist controlled Bulgaria be cause of that nation s refusal to withdraw her demand for recall of u.  Minister Donald r. Heath. The extraordinary peacetime step the slate department said followed be cause of Bulgaria s Lack of cordiality and for constantly denouncing and insulting the United  it to executive Robert a. Voge Ler was sentenced to 15 years by a hungarian communist court i Budapest for spying in Hungary. Steel Mills started to Bank fur Naces railroads to Lay off men an automobile manufacturers to cur Tail operations All As a result of  vanishing Coal stockpile in the  other parts of the world Aly Khan broke Bis leg in a skiing Accident in Switzerland. The mercy Billing trial of or. Hermann san Der opened in new Hampshire and in the zone mrs. Yvette Madsen went on trial charged with the slaying of her air Force officer husband last october. 3 services launch big Caribbean tests Norfolk va., feb. 26 a the largest . Army Navy and air Force airborne and amphibious operation in peacetime history began  Convoy protected by Navy land and Carrier based aircraft sailed from Norfolk to seize enemy held territory in the Caribbean  construction battalions. Supported by army and Engineer units provided installations nor Mally present under War conditions in an  battalions will support the aggressor Force which is under the command of it Gen w. H. K. Morris cd Caribbean command. Combined Fleet exercise when this u.  Operation ends nearly 100 warships of the u. S., British Canadian and the nether lands fleets will practice defense against submarine and air attack. This joint exercise due to Start Hithe same area about March 15. Will be the largest International Maneu vers in Western hemisphere Waters since the  the same time a separate it.  Netherlands exercise will be carried on off Cuba. Accent on teamwork in the u.  Operation which began yesterday the ground forces of the aggressor Are under Brig Gene win Sibert cd. . Army forces in the  William Fechteler com Mander of the . Atlantic Fleetis in Overall command of the opera  Gen John a Hodge cd v corps at it. Bragg a c., assembled formidable invasion team with a heavy accent on army Navy of and Marine corps teamwork Atlantic Fleet submarines will harass the invasion Convoy As it steams toward its objective an Navy and Marine aircraft will strike against the invasion forces. Chiang seen returning to presidency Taipei  Chiang 26 up Gen Kai Shek will return As president of nationalist China within two weeks High official sources said  sources said Chiang s advisers have convinced him that act ing president i Tsung Jen Nown new York for medical treatment will not return to China soon. Father of 39 hits triple. 71 years old wed seven times Lamesa tex., feb. 26 ins Edgar m. Torres father of 39 Chil Dren went Back on his Cotton pick ing Job yesterday while two of Bis newly born triplets Are doing Fine in a Lamesa  third of the triplets was born , 71-year-old native of Spain has been married seven Tim Sand is the father of 39 children of whom 36 Are now living. He is the Boss of a Cotton picking Crew on the n. B. Teague farm in Southwest Dawson Torres first six wives died Nat ural deaths. His present wife whom he Narried 16 years ago Lias Given birth to 15 children. Or. L. E. Stan differ said the 39 children born to Torres is a record so far As i trial begins in air murder Quebec feb. 26 up the Crown will Call the first of 150 wit Nesses tomorrow to Back up its charge that a Dapper jeweler killed his wife by time bombing a loaded Airliner. Before the murder trial of j. Al Bert Guay was adjourned for the weekend prosecutor Noel Dorio told the jury he will prove 1guay engineered the plot to Plant a homemade clockwork bomb in the baggage compartment of adc3, causing it to crash last sept. 9 near Sault a Cochon Quebec killing 23 persons including his 29 year old wife rita.2he planned to pin the crime on plump Plain mrs. Margaret fire whom he had induced to place the package containing the bomb aboard the air plane before it left the Airport Here.3then Guay planned to desert mrs. P i t r e and marry vivacious Marie Anne Robitaille 17, waitress with whom he had lived for several months financing them with $10, 000 insurance he took out on his wife s life before the crash. Mrs. Pitre who has confessed she placed the package aboard the plane has denied she knew it contained a bomb. Graziani fights War again verbally Rome feb. 26 up Marsha Rodolfo Graziani standing trial be fore a military tribunal on charges of collaboration with the German army yesterday boasted he could have bagged the entire British 8th army if Hitler had sent me in reinforcements which i had asked for Many months before the sur Render of the Axis forces in  the 68-year-old former com Mander of Mussolini s army How Ever failed to explain How he would have carried out the Man Euver an admitted Bis forces never fought against the 8lh  a rimless monocle to his right Eye the White haired marshal quickly passed on to action which he carried out against italian partisans. He denied he had order any partisan shot and said those captured had been treated As prisoners of War. I fought them Only for Mili tary reasons and not political ones As i Hava been charged be said. . Unemployment May Snag Aid fund Washington feb. 26 up . Unemployment and British elec Tion results put new stumbling blocks today in the path of congressional approval for the 52,950,000,000 Marshall plan renewal.   Tae i a tin1. A Ator Paul g. Hoffman and his top aids regard the forthcoming third year of Marshall plan operations As the make or break year. But they expected the roughest kind of going mormon tells of czech jail in Congress. Britain s tentative share of the new foreign spending would be $587,100,000. The two issues of British politics and . Unemployment caused by foreign imports supplied ammunition for those in Congress Bent on curtailing or eliminating the pro Gram. Here is a sampling of the arguments Taft sees danger sen. Robert a. Taft Robio told reporters that stepping up imports of Western european goods As urged by Hoffman might be pretty dangerous to do and might throw people out of work Here particularly when British Industry becomes As efficient As our own. Sen. Pat Mccarran a Wev said the return of the British labor dirty even with a greatly reduced majority will strengthen the hands of those seeking a Marshall plan cutback unless assurances Are Given by Britain there will be Nomore nationalization of Basic in  the unemployment and British politics issues were cited not Only by those who favored foreign spending cutbacks. Coa Natly raps Britai chairman Tom Corm any a Tex whose Senate foreign relations committee already has conducted week of hearings on Aid renewal argues that Britain is trying to isolate the United states and de stroy our foreign Trade and  he is nettled particularly by British efforts to oust american Oil interests from Commonwealth markets. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge or. A mass heretofore one of the re covery program s strongest go supporters told a reporter the Issue of unemployment caused by for eign imports will be raised again and again he said we must not lose sight of our own Domestic problems because our people Are being Hurt by a flood of imports."1 Lodge is concerned particularly by shipments financed by the Ega of american Petroleum products to Britain products he believes could be obtained largely from the Ster Ling area and without Dollar Aid. Stromboli ban asked Philadelphia feb. 26 ins the presbytery of Philadelphia largest in the presbyterian Church of the .has adopted a re Riu Tion calling on christians every where to Boycott the film Strom Boli. Salt Lake City feb. 26 ins one of two mormon missionaries imprisoned 27 Days by czech secret police then expelled from the country reported yesterday the were questioned severely for three Days but were not treated with brutality or Force. Details of the arrest Aad imprisonment were carried in a copy righted Story in the Deseret new after a Tran Ocean Telephone inter View with Stanley e. Abbott. 23, of Lehi Utah. Abbott and  Aldo Johnson 22, of Idaho Falls Ida Are at Zurich awaiting passage Home. Abbott told the newspaper that he and Johnson were arrested without warning Jan. 28 and he Din separate cells in a prison at Olomouc Czechoslovakia. He re lated it was not until a Day later a Learned we had been arrested on suspicion of spying. No charge were Ever written against us. We never appeared in court. For the first three Days we were questioned by the secret police. The questioning was severe but of brutality or Force was  Abbott said he could not talk freely about the experience because of the possibility of endangering the work of about 230 converts  Price change Small in . Stocks new York feb. 26 inst stocks were mixed yesterday with most Price changes meager. Dividend casualties were weak Friday. Co lost % to 28 and Packard gave up Point to 4. Both omitted common  Woolen an earlier dividend casualty was Down to 23.leaders were mixed. . Steel and general motors were unchanged. American cya Amide jumped a Point to a new High of 56 a. Rail were mixed. Bonds were  sales were 620,000 shares. Spellman in Portugal Lisbon feb. 26 a Francis Cardinal Spellman and a party of 507 american holy year Pilgrim arrived Here yesterday  
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