European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page if i i -.-r. Al the stars and stripes thursday March 16, str 7e. Of flight to Freedom in airliners � -v1 of six Iron curtain escapees who asked Asylum after a Freedom flight to Rhine main in a commandeered czech Airliner Tell their Story to newsmen in Frankfurt. Eek to right Bohvmil Saran Boz Ida medic Miroslav slovak the Pilot Antwoin Volej Kek Helmut Cermak and mrs. Cermak. Is photo by Fean Tett of flight a gon timed from Page d his statement about czech feelings after Helmut Cerniak 28, a War time Royal air Force radioman and one of the Lour who seized the plane said lie had planned to Fly " advice from Shine main thai the skies Over England were Doggy prompted him to ask permission to land at a inf main said Cermak who had been planning his escape for years the Pilot Miroslav slovak .24. Said lie bad expected the plane to be attacked by czech Antt aircraft fire or Mig. Fighters As it crossed the Friech German of Rotter the Jilot  he never feared attack  . Planes after he crossed the Border. A was Aii Accident and Good Luck Attiat we Are Hetyei said slovak serious looking Youni Naii fact that we " Are. Here Speaks Tot itself he had been a Pilot with the czechoslovak National airways since 1949. The six agreed that the recent change of government leaders in Czechoslovakia brought no Hope to the people there. In fact things look worse now Titan  c e r m a a Sharp featured and tender was accompanied by his wife Hanna 30, the Only adult woman on the plane. She was in on the plot from the  traced the inception of the plot and later the Pilot and the others related what went on aboard the plane during the fateful ride of almost three hours. 7 Cermak said he was dismissed from jigs Job As navigator and radioman with the czechoslovakian National airways about three years r for his wife himself and Boz Ida med a a a year old slav who. Had gone 16 czech Oslo Vaijda to study  slovak Saiji the plane left fragile. For Brno int Normal fashion. After abwitv4u minutes he turned Bleb the controls to the Copilot and went back1 to the a a Seeger Section. He asked medic arid Cermak to join him  in the pilots Cabin. The three overpowered the other three Crew members Cermak a fluid not say if they were armed but yesterday . High commissioner James a said three of the e plotters were armed.,. Slovak took Over the controls and Cermak handled the. Radio. Medic guarded the Copilot the radioman and the plane s Captain. Slovak immediately swung toward thy West and flew Low. He hedge hopped. To avoid czech radar and planes he said adding lathe " expected to be picked up by searchlights at the Border and encounter czech antiaircraft and " i1ew by sent of pants at tie Border he. Turned off the radio and lights and flew by the seat of my pants slovak said. Between Nurnberg and Munich he went up to 10.500 feet. They made Contact with a . Of plane in this Jay Unity.  said that As the approached. Frankfurt he radioed Rhine main for permission to Fly straight to England. He  he was prompted by his wartime service with the Raf As a radio Man navigator. Anton in Volejnicek 29, a former economics instructor at the Prague school of economics who was not in on the plot described what went of among the passengers. I was tired after a business trip he said i fell asleep. When i awoke"1 some of the passengers were. Nervous and some were knocking at the door of the Pilot s  he said he listened in on a Steward s phone and heard the radio conversation with Rhine main. At that moment i knew what was going on he said. Be returned to. His seat and waited for what would happen  he told the other Pas sengers that there was nothing on the intercom. He wanted to create no additional excitement. If you Haye a family in Czechoslovakia it is difficult to make up Rii ind in a Case like this tie said. He has v wife but no Chil Dren using in Brno but he derided m stay. The reason is Clear in t it he asked requisitions eyed in bribe trial of by John correspondent i March is5 is he prosecute we  pro cd Rosment. Requisite inns As evidence Baay if the be Lief Ai  martial of a army a officer if barged with soliciting v and accepting bribe s from three German Irnis Nian fac Turing map Malci Jris arid vehicular equipment " capt. Boris thai Maori China surm Veridia i theater Veter an is charged huh Ipa King More than $n,ooqobr9flt ip.1 Marks by asking for and deceiving commis Sions up. To .1q per cent on can tract awarded the Mari rms. A Faison served As " Supply officer for. The e t714thintelligence Upin nearby Schwetz Ungeri. In is. Tiie ,. As i of Queen Mary Mourne Coj Coronation will go on. F continued from Page i Fere with her crowning on june 2. Meanwhile millions of britons mourned in their own private Waythe death of the regal old lady who for Over a half Century carried with gracious dignity All the traditions of Royalty. In the emotional words of prime minister Winston Churchill she looked a Queen she acted like a Queen.1 Queen Elizabeth and other Mem Bers of the Royal family attended service today at Marl Borough House where Queen filary lived her last  order for court mourning issued by. The. Lord Chamberlain said "  Queen commands that the court shall Wear mourning for on month from this Day for her late majesty Queen Mary grandmother of her majesty the court to go out of mourning on saturday april 25, next.1. There were no official orders for general mourning and it was understood this would be left for individuals and concerns to decide themselves. United press  of the Royal family. Can celeb Public engagements although the Queen will give away Royal Maundy Money -7 the traditional alms giving april. 2. Churchill Speaks the Coronation committee held a. Full Nieting Flo Day under the Edukat of  meeting arranged some the and  was a Iho relatively reiterated after the meeting that there would be no change in the Coronation plans Churchill  in so 1 e m Black Rose in the a Louse of com Mons and spoke with unashamed emotion of. His affection for Mary a que air ,40r. Years of his Public  " Trie 7fr#ear�ild Premier whose path Nad Mary s repeatedly evidence procure ment req fios asserted by initiated and Haimson an addressed to the Finis concerned. S under  by trial counsel witness Geitgey e. Tybursky an american civilian pm. Played As procurement officer in Heidelberg since May 1949, Ridenti Fletr the documents. He said that earlier this month lie had been ordered to go through the files of which he Custo Dian and pull out every 6ga" form requisition demand bearing Haimson s signature att return them Over to the 7765th audit Section. The defense did not attempt to deny that the procurement requisitions were signed by the accused. However it was brought out by defense counsel that responsibility for. Final action on Purchase of supplies and equipment for the 7714th up rested with Tybursky. The eight Man court headed by col Charles h. Blumenfeld of g4, Usa eur will reconvene Conjor Row. Maj Morton s. Jaffe a div Usa Reuh is Law officer sex or seven More witnesses Are expected to be called. T h r frug Atwa wars and in five paid tribute to her As a -4ady- and a pillar of strength to the Froff i family and the Jia Tion in troubled times. Churchir miss teed the flowing eloquence of Shine of his great War time speeches in his valedictory tribute loathe woman who was As much a so Bol Aste of British strength of character. Void he our hearts she looked a Queen she acted like a Queen. Her death leaves a void Iii our hearts Church Kun said in a shaking voice  introducing a motion calling on the House of commons to approve a formal expression of sympathy to Queen Elizabeth ii on the death of. Her grandmother. I. Queen Mary bad been ill for More than a month. With what doctors described As a gastric ailment the exact nature of which was no disclosed death came within hours of a sudden unexpected turn for the worse in her  generations of britons who Mammoth Skeleton found Florence March 25 if couple of banners near Here slowed up part of the Skeleton of a a goo Lott year old Mammoth today and found intact two Ivory tusks measuring More than seven feet in length. Archaeologists said the tusks were the longest Ever fount in Italy. Knew and loved her As a Symbol of Royalty paid their Troj afeard throughout the far Flo of British Empire and Commonweal with its 575,000,000 inhabitants Fueg were dipped and minutes of Titene 1 5observed/t y president Eisenhower sent w deep personal sympathy and i called Queen Mary was a find and great Queen. Free Peoples Tiff Over will mourn her Foss she was like your own veto the f i say was i Hijenio Mother said one of the Mourner who crowded in silence about her stately Marlborough House Rev Tidence in London s foggy gloom last night. Poor old soul and Date wanted so badly to see her child crowned murmured another Churchill breads news Churchill his voice breaking Witti emotion gave a hushed House of commons and the world the first news of Queen Mary s death Las night. Holding a single Sheet of Whit paper in his trembling hand the 78-year-old Prine minister attired in dinner jacket said or. Speaker i Rise to move the adjournment o the House. I hav with great regret to make the announcement thit Queen Mary has  a few cries of dismay from Public galleries broke the quiet simultaneously a few away,.a solemn attendant the fourth and lust bulletin Day on the Gates of Queen. Marlborough House residence was edged in Black and said simple while sleeping. P Mary died at Twenty minutes ten o  ". Women wept men bared their beads and women wept As the Queen s Sonal Standard was lowered some had waited All through to anxious hours from the Yunc Tif first medical bulletin Wasat 12 30 Germany Lime y announcing the Queen had a relapse. The Duke of Windsor urgently by doctors for Hist Lurf f can arrived at his Mother Aliffi shrouded bed just nine Moas after she died. Forty five Mimi pcs later Gray and drawn he left noticed by the crowd which waited. Of. Earlier three generations of Royal family had called to Par last respects to the. Darkened. Filled with Flowers and me Menici of other years beco Gities the old Queen was scions when her granddaughter Queen Elizabeth a stepped by to her bedside. Patni Zed the Young Queen and. Her face and smiled. " the funeral will follow Little More than 13 months _.,of Kingjr George i the seen eldest among Queen Mary 9tt Hudren. He died feb. R 1384 this daughter Elizabeth the throne. In addition to the Doke Sor two other children the Duke of Gloucester we and maty Princess to the Duke of Kent died 1� air crash during the Prince John Queen Maryj my child died in infancy in " Hartness named armed forces 1 & e of Cir continued from Page v cd of the signal corps depot at Philadelphia has been transferred to the office of the army assistant chief of staff g4i for logistics effective Early in May. Hartness who7 we be 55 March 28, is a 1918 graduate of the . Military Academy. During world War ii he served As assistant commander of the 26th inf div with which he went to Europe in the fall of 1944. La september 1945 he was made Deputy assistant chief of staff g3, for the theater general Board head quarters 15th army in Germany. Beamed to . Hartness returned to the . In october. 1945 to become presi Dent of army ground forces Board no. 3 at it. Benning a. In november 1946. Hartness was made assistant commander of the 7th inf div in Korea and la june 1948 was appointed Deputy commandant of the command and general staff College at Fenworth  Bechara i commandant in August 1980, in october of that yes Ness was Given Oomman in jj1 newly reorganized 4th w of then at it Benning. La Hartness Monred with to to Germany in his new assignment chief for the armed Fen Ness will supervise a vast wide program of troop and education