European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes wednesday March 25, 19$j Ridgway visits Liine bases in tour Windup. Kaiserslautern. March 24 a Gen Matthew b. Ridgway inspected this big Ameri to de sense bastion behind the Rhine River today. The shape commander flew to base near Here this morning from Bonn where he at " tended a Farewell dinner yesterday or retiring it Gen Manton s. Eddy Usa eur commander in chief. Ridgway paused to tour the airbags Home of the Jet equipped 86th fighter bomber Wing. Then in a jeep he visited the Rhine ordnance and Engineer depots looked at the. American housing project in Vogel Wen near Kaiserslautern and lunched at the new military Hospi Tal in Lan Stuhl this afternoon the general flew Toul air base in France on his Way Back to shape near Paris. Tra Els by. Carers Ridgway flew to lands Uhl with the general then returned to France by car. Accompanying Ridgway on the flight from Bonn to Lan Stuhl i mrs. Rids Way it Gen Charles l. Bolte and mrs. Bolte Brig Gen Anthony Drexel Biddle. Jr., and mrs. Biddle and it col t. C. Fitzgerald Ridgway s aide. Ridgway was met Here by Brig Gen Oliver w. Hughes cd Western area Comdr who escorted Ridgway Bolte maj Gene to Williams chief v f staff Usa eur and Brig Gen Frank a. Henning g4. Usa heur on a tour of the area. Ridgway s party last night at tended a Farewell dinner Given for Eddy by High commissioner James b. Conant. Eddy is retiring from the army March-31. Gen Thomas to Handy Ridgway s Deputy in the . Euro Pean command and mrs Handy also were at the dinner. The shape commander flew to Wiesbaden sunday inspected . Installations in that area and then cruised Down the Rhine to Bonn yester stay aboard a . Navy Rhine River patrol Craft. Eddy will be succeeded As usar eur commander by Bolte who presently commands the 7th army. Ailing Queen Mary feared near death continued from Page 1 Greatcoat and Bearskin hats stood rigidly. The aged Queen s sudden turn for the worse came As a Shock to britons who believed she was Well on the Road to recovery after being stricken with a stomach ailment five weeks ago. The illness of the regal old lady who has been held up As a Symbol of British Royal tradition Over eras spanning from the victorian to the atomic age cast a som tarness Over the Gay preparations for the Coro nation of her granddaughter on june -2. Queen Mary s death would leave it up to Young Queen Elizabeth alone to decide whether to Post Pone the Date of her crowning. The general impression is that the solemn ceremony would go ahead on schedule but that the normally festive celebrations would take on a More subdued tone. Czech Freedom plane at Rhine main 3 allies study soviet Parley 1f it bid Conant / is j t " 1. I \ m & ? ? of a 5 to to or t v \ is 2 of tip Slif so j the czech National airways escape plane parked at Rhine main air bases a photo 29 czechs Fly to zone in " continued from Page 1. From the moment it crossed into Western the plane a c47 Type landed at Rhine main at 10 30 pm under radioed directions \ from . Air authorities Safe said. Two of the passengers who had not been in on the escape a Lari joined the four who engineered it in asking Asylum As political the Climax to two years of planning try a czechoslovak couple . High commissioner James b. Conant disclosed Here to Day. Organized by Mechanic Conant listed As organizers of the plan a Mechanic at the Skoda works who had served in the British Royal air Force during the War As a navigator and radio operator the Mechanic s wife i Wiroslav slovak 24 a Pilot for the czech airline arid a television Engineer. The Mechanic and his wife identified As Helmut and Hana term acc had been trying to flee Czechoslovakia for two years. Conant said they finally teamed up with the air line Pilot and hatched the Success Ful scheme with television Engineer a serbian and naturalized czech citizen was brought into the scheme at the last Pilot took the plane off from Prague s Airport at 7 30 pm on a routine flight to Brno. The three other conspirators were masquerading As of the Freedom plotters were armed but Conant was unable to say which. Turns toward zone when the aircraft was Between half and two thirds of the distance to Brno the Pilot began making a gradual right turn toward the . Zone of Germany. This tactic was. Successful and the Pilot brought the plane Over the bavarian Border North of Munich without arousing suspicion of other Crew revealed that at this Point one of the conspirators presumably the Skoda Mechanic entered the flight Cabin and slugged the radio operator the Skoda Mechanic took Over As radio operator and navigator while the Copilot was forced at gunpoint to stay put and continue with the other j. Plotters apparently kept the passengers under armed plane was tracked a of Frutti time it grossed Bonier Wiesbaden marctr24 special the position of the Czechoslovakia National airways p la n e which landed at Rhine main. Air base last night was known from the moment it crossed into Western Germany Safe disclosed today. The transport s Altitude Speed and direction As Well As its Type were determined at the same time. The Pilot of the. Czech c47, unfamiliar with Usan. Radio frequencies experimented with the plane s radio until he tuned in Ona Safe Pilot securing Landing instructions from the Rhine main control Tower. The czech Pilot followed the same instructions contacting the Tower shortly after the Safe plane tended and asking permission to land. Safe he declined to reveal any further details. Us Russ talks. Continued from Page i four engine Lincoln of world War ii Vintage was shot Down in flames March 12. Most of the wreckage fell in the soviet zone near the East West German Border. Four other British and american planes were attacked by soviet or czechoslovakian migs Over Ger Many in that tense and her Western allies protested in angrily worded rejected the protests March 18 hut expressed regret atthe loss of British lives and suggested a conference of competent military representatives of the United kingdom and the soviet Union to avoid further such incidents. Surveillance without letting them know a result most of the plane s occupants not directly concerned in the plot Conant reported. Did not \ realize anything was amiss until the Landing at Rhine continued that the Fugi Tive aircraft tuned in on a . Plane in conversation with Rhine main and the homed on the Rhine main beam., contacts Rhine main Jav Eiula by the Skoda Mechanic got in Contact with Rhine main Conant said an explained the situation to the control Tower seeking assurances that if the czech aircraft landed those who desired would be r e c e i v e d. As political. Refugees. The High commissioner said Halian hour elapsed while the control Tower operator rounded up some body with sufficient authority to give such assurances. This was then done and the plane was instructed to land on the military Side of the was then that the two other passengers a former English teacher dismissed by the czech communist regime and an architect also asked to be received As political refugees. All 29 aboard the plane were Given hot meals and quarters after a Brief questioning by air police last night. They were screen dec and interrogated today and the six seeking Asylum posed for photog Raphers. 23 seek return the High commissioner revealed that the 23 others have said they want to be returned to Czechoslovakia. Conant said he was unable to say when or How they would be said he first Learned o the Landing half an hour after it occurred. He did not receive detailed rep Ort however unti shortly before his press conference today. He explained that the plane was permitted to land under the Standard american policy of granting Asylum to political refugees and that the half hour delay in sane toning the Landing had no significance. Dozen b36s91,3qo troops take part in new Nevada a test continued from Page 1 close they were to the actual explosion a Brilliant Flash which lit the Nevada desert at 5 13 am Post the atomic Energy commission which directs the proving ground operations said More planes were involved today than in any previous the dec said the new blast was fired from a 300-foot Tower or Yucca Flats proving ground 75. Miles from Las explosion appeared much brighter Here than the one that opened the 1953 series last tues Day. And its Coral Tinti a Cloud which divided As it Rose deemed much faster in rising. The dec did not disclose the Energy of the new blast or describe the Type of device being tested. But the sound of the explosion which takes about seven minute to reach this resort and gambling Center was not so loud As last week apparently was due to atmospheric conditions which govern How loud and Strong a Shock wave will be at a Given Gen William Bullock director of an army Man Euver in which1,300 troops were stationed in Fox holes 4,000 Yards from ground Zero reported there were no casualties. The dec said animals including pigs and rabbits were exposed to the blast for study of biomedical effects. Planes had been noted Over the test Range in previous tests several explosions have been bomb drops but never in n Umbers compare with the 53 announced b36 is capable of carrying an atom bomb cargo from the to any target in the world. A continued from pays t o abandon Berlin. Berlin is Apost of Freedom that we Are o maintain Conant observe Conant said he would directly in the outpost City s be problem if the Stream refugees should assume flood portions and continue for he disclosed that a considerable a reduction in the Hico budget k j Iff e my contemplated. Conant Sarah Tel furl to inn Tii it i � Cut try la if to a a a u Jil been giving study to the it for the 1953-54 fiscal year. Budget plans budget reduction had been contemplated in connection with the switch from Hico embassy status Conant said. The budget being Congress will be substantially a. Than the current budget y Conant Strong Gest Era German interest in european unification As the most striking of my impressions of these six we Efet that he has been High a Orantek sooner. T the High commissioner voiced Confidence that the european Annaf treaty will be ratified by All so countries "sihce-1 have heard Otto \ practical Conant said he will Fly Tath us. April 4 to be with Cha Cebot Konrad Adenauer during Lafter suit there 7 s. Study of files on Bowen set Washington March 24 the Senate foreign relations Cora Mittee decided today to have Twa senators examine Fri Filea flit Charles e. Bohlen nominated a ambassador to task was assigned to seas Robert a. Taft a Ohio and j. Sparkman a Ala. Taft. The Senate republics Leader and Sparkman. The 19si democratic vice president nominee both Are supporting Bohton s appointment. During hearings on Boult no Secretary of state John Foster Dulles gave the committee evaluation of the material in tic Fri files. He said there was no. Ing to raise doubt about loyalty or Security. But some critics of the appoint ment have been insisting that " senators themselves should Over this material. Taft suggested during a Senate debate on Boljen that might be Well to have such examination although he that he personally was per willing to accept Dulles apr of tithe Senate May reach a vote tomorrow. If Tonca Sai we con i ail the 1th to to Ajha s Ute be Hifai in de j Paris police seize top reds in continued from Page it paper l humanity Lucien most co Secretary of the i a toilet Secretary of the Cut Frachon go year Lisa tary general of the Cut fled night before the police raid police Are Hunting him. All were charged with undermine the morale or army and endanger the the was fhe same charge j which Alain be leap another Cial of the Cut has been jail since last october. Part of the evidence has continued attacks nist labor leaders and pres 0a left Otth i e 9 government for continuing in indo China against the nist backed vie Minh a. F the w Elti it
