European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse Ross Theofi european edition 1953 fund tripes Ross unofficial publication of the . Armed forces in Europe 1953 fund 10, number 344 s cents a copy $125 to month monday March 30, 1953 Blaze at la. Home Argo fla., March 29 Nysp fire swept through an old folks Home within a jew minutes Early this morn King and killed 33 persons i Post of whom were trapped their Beds. A Twenty five other a g e d Tefrul infirm residents escaped in were rescued before flames engulfed the one Story Fram Eig on Florida s West coast of the survivors suffered and one was in critical most Over 65 but one of the victims was 69 years old. The other was it Tropic nurse Gertrude Warnick who saved one. Old woman and Jyring to Rescue another. Or. 3. O. Norton Pinella count officer gave the count As bodies recovered 25 survivors none missing., i course that is just working lists Given to us from Mem tie said. Tettat seemed to be accurate count at the is were still digging a the charred. Timbers in there might victims Only person who could give on Page 16. Col. 5. Memo blasts so v. " a Ndia iia town ind., March 129 a Railroad cars loaded with exploded and blasted goal mining town last night a towns 275 residents a Luy escape death or serious ammunition started explode tier part of the train was and shells were still sex three hours Phe wrecked Many Homes and flames through a wide Irea. By Midnight the fire was control sufficiently so that from the naval am an depot at Crane Irico the la their base. Explosions were heard occasionally and r fire fighters remained on during Pijie night. A Lyons so lost an Eye in Mast and his daughter mrs Medcalf 50, suffered cuts and Cummins 28, suffered in to the. Head and face As 3her sister Georgiana james82, suffered a lacerated fit of the residents were on pne is col. 3 Ink Art car show crowd record if March 29 Apt s biggest postwar Auto t fair closed Here today. F the . Leathernecks attacking Force with rifles machine guns and mortars while Allied artillery hit the communist troops with heavy Beds preceded their attack with artillery control the attack lasted approximately two hours and United press Cor respondent Tobert Udick. Reported that the marines retained1 full control of the height. Elements of the 1st Marine div had retaken the Hill 12 hours be fore the attack when they fought cont. On Page a col. 2in Ottawa for official talks a March 29 tap French Premier Rene Mayer arrived Here today for talks wit Canadian officials. Mayer who came from three Days of talks with president Eisen Hower and other ".. Leaders i Washington was greeted by prime minister Louis St. Laurent de sense minister Brooke Claxton and other Canadian said he came to Canada with the greatest Confidence to discuss the French View thereat problems facing the demo Cratie nations easier forecast Cloudy with rain showers and gust winds Over the Tow countries Ger Many and Northern France. Partly Cloudy Over Southern Ger Mariy and Italy. Air weather service Tokyo March 29 a Denmark w. Clark said today his United nations come favors re opening the korean truce talk s if the communists Are serious about exchanging sick and wounded pcs before the War s end. The reds handed Over a note minus venom and going straight to the Point at pan Mun Jom. Accepting Clark s proposal of feb. 22 for such an Exchange. The note coupled with its acceptance of sick and wounded pm Exchange a request for resumption of the truce talks which were broken off last oct. "5.clark sa3, we Are going to study this offer very closely. We want to be sure there in t any thing in it we Don t red China s piping and North o r e a s Pyongyang radio under scored their emphasis by repeating the note Over and Over in English chinese japanese and korean. Rome March 29 up fist stringing session of the italian Senate today passed the government s electoral Reform Bill despite frenzied communist attempts to paralyse the chamber with the worst outbreak of Vio Lence in parliamentary history. Earlier Story Page 5. Hoge to take Over 7th army command at noon wednesday by Ernie heed St of correspondent Stuttgart March 29 is it Genii William m. Hoge a vet eran of both world wars and the korean Campaign will officially As sume of the 7th army wednesday. A ceremony at noon t hat Day a Patch Barracks in Vaihinger will Mark the departure of it Bencharles l. Bolte from 7th army to become Usa eur commander in chief and the turn Over of the 7th army to stands Honor guards from 7th, army units two composite battalions Pacolor guard a saluting Battery and the 7th army band will participate in the ceremony. A Large crowd is expected and Spectator bleachers Are being erected Between world War ii tanks behind the flags of North Atlantic treaty organization nations will be Fly ing. The two generals will speak at the , a native of Booneville mo., was graduated from West Point in a bit. On Hajje 16, col. I girl Falls hard for Bea Cambridge mass., March 29 up leaning from a third floor window to wave Goodby to a Dat who had just escorted her Home from a motorcycle ride Jane pres Cott 23, tumbled 20 feet to a Muddy Lawn and broke her wrist. Us soviets open talks tomorrow London March 29 a Britain and the soviet Union will get together Over the conference table tuesday Iberlin to thrash out ways of preventing air incidents Over Germany. A government statement today said this Date was pro posed by Gen Vasili Chulkov soviet commander in chief in Ger Many and has been accepted. The meeting is a sequel to the shooting Down of a Royal air Force Lincoln bomber by soviet mig15jet fighters Over the air corridor Between West Germany and berlin17 Days ago. To inform Aries the foreign office said today that although the meeting will be Between Only British and russian representatives the British govern ment will keep in close touch with the . And French government during the talks. A British protest calling the shooting Down of the bomber an unwarranted and brutal act olag ression was followed almost immediately by a suggestion from Chulkov that the two countries should meet and talk Over the problems of air safety Over the corridor. Four Days ago Britain asked the user to fix a time and Date for the Berlin informed sources said air chief marshal sir Robert Foster commander of the 2d tactical air Force would head the British delegation to the con Ference. George Turner spokesman for the British High commission Iberlin said he knew no details As to where in Berlin the meeting will be held. Flood ousts 3,000 in new England Boston March 29 up flood crests which already have drive some 3,000 persons from their Homes and caused millions in damage to Northern new England moved slowly into Massachusetts and Connecticut army Engineer corps re ported that the worst was Over inward hit Maine new Hampshire and Vermont but floods were still to come in the Southern portion of the of acres of Rich farm land in the Connecticut River Val Ley were under water. Some families already had been evacuated i Massachusetts and Connecticut. The network of dikes around Industrial cities was believed Ade quate to prevent disaster. 8-month Tot is $f4, sweeps Winner new York March 29 up if baby who is 8-month-old Susan Hample needs a new. Pair of shoes she can have them by the Gross today for she holds the winnings 140,000 Sweepstake ticket. Susan merely gurgled As excited relatives neighbors and friends milled around the front Steps of the apartment House in which shelves to discuss the. Windfall. Susan is Juie infant daughter of a factory worker. " her Grandfather obtained a ticket in her name on Early Mist Winner of the grand National steeplechase at Aintree England. Her parents William 23, Annmarie Hample 19, said they plan to use the balance after taxes Toby a new House on Long Island and put the rest into a Bank for Susan. $56,000 ticket Holder Dies just before race Chicago March 29 ins a rags to riches Story was marred yesterday by the death of a 67-year-old Chicago delivery Man whose ticket in the Irish sweep stakes was Worth $56,000. The Saga of Alex Hanson was re lated by his two sons Woulard a Drussell and his daughter mrs. Dorothy Lyle who lived with him in their modest Home. Hanson who has been suffering from a chronic liver ailment for a Long time left the sweepstakes ticket with his daughter before cont. On Page 16, col. 1
