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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                16, w3 the stars and soft fee Tish March. 25 Al a the old lady with one Eye f injured opened the Tippe overturned Iknou clambered out with the t Painter s ladder Lite a cup of Tea. That eed Queen Mary a the utile group around the truck that hadit in a suburban Lon to Jost a few Days Short birthday. Her Huband v had died in 1336.year her favorite son. Duke of Windsor had Ber with her Unco pro duty by giving for the love of woman of whom she at to lose one son in Force plane crash in in then in 1352, she beloved son in King who had taken his Edward s place on the death bravely i she taking it a Friend court official. Her Majester to bad news the Mary took that As she everything in her Long Elizabeth Elizabeth a flew Back to take the throne crowds that huddled the Royal residences Sawr a High old fashioned come away from Sheriji Bilborough House in her garb again she was on to Buckingham Palace to a a the new Sovereign Toije homage before the Young of whom As a baby she had arms. R celled her the perfect and the perfect Queen. Ffo%3hoasewife she loved the an. 6aatj_fi__ Dean iltis in the vast Palace and in Marl House. As a Queen she of majesty. To obligation was dedicated to her obligation. She never d How the Duke of could leave his throne girlhood she had schooled be mistress of her Emo All tiny her husband chosen for her. World War i she was Hospital. She asked what of tour majesty there Here the surgeon could sit with him show what you feel it my More Good than  went to the bed a faceless Man a Youn burned Only his recognizable. Queen Down beside my close touch him her face of what she Felt to him i could t 00 it she she had left the room. Course there is simply can t  during Blitz world War n she stayed like other members  during the Ger a bombings. A Dud bomb Garden of her residence to go away when in it to remove it. Instead id poked around the Crater with her Long was Britain s Firsti Queen Consort in 400 the reign of Henry. R lad been English born itt Beir own right. But abroad for their i the imperious Queener gave Queen Mary to Hwy was the daughter vacant and hence sons Duke of born May 3$, 1867.in the tall hand Queen some regal Young woman material for a Queen. By Victoria s desire she became engaged to her Cousin Albert Duke of Clarence elder son of the Prince of Wales the future King Edward vet. The wed Ding Date was set. Wedding presents started to arrive. The Duke got pneumonia an was dead within a  Mary went off to France to mourn her betrothed. She was not left to mourn  summoned her bade she told her to Betroth herself to the Duke of York Clarence s younger brother. As usual she obeyed. She and the Durfee of York were mar ried july 6, married is tear sin those somewhat unromantic circumstances there started the Happy marriage that was to endure for 42% years. As the Duch Ess of York As Princess of Wales As Queen. As Queen Mother after the. Death of her husband George v and As dowager Queen after the death of her son George i she made her Way deeper and deeper into the hearts of her people. She became Queen when King Edward Vii died in 1910 an moved into Buckingham Palace. She lived there through the reign of her husband and took part with him in his Silver Jubilee after35 years. After his  afterwards and the accession of Edward via she remained for a few months in the Palace. Then came the announcement she was moving to Marlborough House. It was reported she did so be cause of her disapproval of  Simpson for the. Love of whom Edward gave up his throne in december 1336. Judward who is now the Duke of Windsor had taught her to smoke Cigar ets one of her rare conces Sion to modern frivolities. She be came an avid radio listener but never a Tele viewer. She would no accept the Telephone. The Tele phone is not an instrument for Queens she said. Crowds along the mall used to watch her As she drove in her High big limousine ramrod straight with her quaint Toque hats her ensembles in various pastel tints to match her Stock Ings and shoes and always Wither parasol Bee tired greatest ovation in front of the Back seat was a specially installed instrument panel Queen Mary was a Back seat Driver. She liked to see what her chauffeur was  by year she had become More popular until she was cheered nearly everywhere she went. On the Day of London s Vic tory Parade in 1946 she received a greater ovation than anybody else. At one Point above the blare of bands and tramp of marching feet a raucous Cockney voice roared go it old girl you a certainly stuck it from a Lon Doner there could have been no higher Praise. Pilot fees 4,000,000 Miles London March 25 Ftp British overseas airways capt . Jones yesterday completed 4,000,000 flying Miles nearly 160 times around the world. He is 54 and has been flying85 years. Korea hero visits officer he saved pvt Courtney i Stanley 19, Mansfield la., talks to his wounded Coli col Harry a. Clark jr., Columbus go. Stanley won the Stiver Star for holding off More Thim a Down chinese Beds in Korea killing eight of them while first Aid was administered to Clark Ftp world news secrecy hokum Baruch Washington March 25 Bernard m. Baruch said yesterday congressional committees should Stop holding so Many secret meet Ings and Tell the people what s going  this talk about government secrets is a lot of hokum he said. Foreign agents know More about military matters than our own people. They went to the heart and Center of the atomic bomb before i knew one was being made. Mother leaps to death outside  s Vatican City March 25 up a poor 49-year-old widowed Mother of three children desperate because she Felt her prayers were la vain took her own life by leaping Down the 100-foot elevator Shaft leading to the cupola of St. Peter s  Pignotti was unconscious when she was removed from the Bottom of the Shaft and died a. Short while later in the Santospirito Hospital. A note found in her handbag said i shall kill myself because St. Peter has not granted me the Grace i asked  elevator Shaft leading to the cupola of St Peter s is actually outside the Basilica itself and the huge Church therefore will not have to be re consecrated. During the 1350 holy year an italian ended his life inside the Basilica itself and it was consecrated anew on that occasion. Reec Agency Aims to hike output Paris March 25 up eighteen Western european nations last night established a european productivity Agency with a 5200,000 nest egg from the . To boost their Industrial and farm output. Us. Special representative Wil Liam a Draper jr., told the closing session of a ministerial conference of the organization for european economic cooperation Reec that the new Agency to increase the old world s production efficiency can count on Strong .support" if it succeeds experts pointed out it will help decrease Europe s dependence on american Aid. Swiss arrest 2 As spies for czechs Bern March is Furj Ssiss Federal police have arrested a Ger Man and a Swiss suspected of military espionage for Czechoslovakia it was announced Here , two other Swiss citizens cent on trial in Basel today charged with economic espionage for the  two arrested men sold for several years and until a Short while ago. A great Deal of Western military secrets to czech agents a announcement of the Federal attorney s office said. The two arrested men were 56-year-old, German National Rudolf Roe ser s manager of a publishing House is Lucerne and 43-year-Oldswiss citizen Xaver Schnieper a journalist living in Lucerne. � Ohio judge dismisses Truman War suit Cleveland March 85 up Truman no longer is president the Federal judge Paul Jones dismissed citizen s suit that charged former president Harry s. Truman illegally declared War in  judge ruled that since or. Duchess of Windsor distressed new York March 25 up the Duchess of Windsor was very distressed at the news of the death of dowager Queen Mary. A spokes Man Tor the Duchess said there i nothing else one can say. The Duchess was in her Waldo Fastoria towers apartment when the news came. Her husband the Duke of Windsor rushed to London several weeks ago because of Bis Mother s illness. Queen Mary never approved other son s marriage to the former Wallis Warfield Simpson for whom he gave up the British  Duchess has not been admitted to court social circles an has avoided accompanying the Duke on  to  Duchess of Windsor s spokes Man said she cancelled a dinner engagement for late last night and has cancelled All social engage ments for the next few weeks. She and the Duke will remain in new York after is return until they go to Europe for their summer vacation."-. Question is  mandamus and injunction Euit was brought against or. Truman last year by a local attorney charging him with declaring War on disown Book and asking the court to Force him to withdraw troops from Korea. � reds expel two Hon Kong March 25 a the last two foreign missionaries in Shansul province of Northern China reached Hon Kong today after being expelled. Franciscan fathers Bernardino larghetto 73, of Frontino Italy and Francisco Zucca. 4% of Ancona Italy were ordered out by the Redson charges of espionage after three years of House arrest returnee says Russ killed 1,000 japs Tokyo March � ins a Wom an repatriate from bed China told officials that 1,000 Japan semen and women were lined up and machine gunned by soviet troop shortly after the end of world War Ilmis. Kesae Kuraishi one of 3,90 japanese sent Back from cd Mun China in the past two Days xal4the victims or colonists front Japan. She charged they were seized Bytha soviets and slain in reprisal for the fact that a russian plan had been fired upon from the ground. She and her husband were Lef for dead after the incident we left she said took place in manchurian  went to Manchuria in 1944."mrs. Kuraishi said. When Russia entered the War All the men wer drafted. In september 1949, not knowing that the War had already ended we fired at a russian plan and were taken prisoners a were lined up and rak4by machine gun fir As punishment for shooting at the plane. My bos band and myself escaped death when we were covered by fallen,bodies." mrs. Kuraishi landed at the Japa Nese port of Mai Zulu monday with 2,006 other repatriates. Soviets renew peace talk London March 25 a to cow radio in a direct peace Appeal to american listeners said today Russia is spending so much Money on economic and cultural develop ment that it cannot possibly a gearing up for another world  renewal of the flood of assurances that the soviet Union wants peace Wlinich began soon after the death of Joseph Stalin came from Timofeyev one of mos cow radio s Ace commentators. Tuno Fenev declared soviet con Sumer prices have been Cut five times since the end of world waru resulting in a doubling of Industrial workers and Farmers  he added real wages under the five year plan Are to increase by at least 35 per cent by 1953 compare with 1950, now could a government follow such a policy of reducing costs a policy requiring tremendous budgetary outlay and at the same Tim convert to War Trad make expensive preparations for hostilities our . Listeners know by experience that when a government gears its country to an arms drive there is a Rise in living costs taxation gets heavier and real wages drop  Farouk exempted from Italy taxes Rome March 3 up Italy ministry of finance has exempted former King Farouk of Egypt from paying income tax in Italy it was revealed  ministry said the former Monarch living in exile Here since his abdication last july will receive the same treatment granted to sex King Aman Ullah of Afghanistan who has been living itt Rome since 19go. A ministry official explained it was an italian tradition to waive payment of income and sur taxes in the Case of exiled  a pointed out however that it Farouk should Start any kind fan Industrial or commercial work in Italy he would be subject to taxes lust like any   
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