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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tif 6 the stars and stripes wednesday August 12, 1959 rocket mail is delivered months later Cape canaveral Fla. A two letters Rode 5,000 Miles in a Thor Able nose Cone recovered from the Atlantic last May the . Air Force disclosed. Although they travelled faster than any mail in history the letters were slow in reaching their destination. The giant rocket boosted the letter carrying nose Cone to a Speed of 15,000 Mph and dropped it in the wafer off ascension Island 33 minutes later on May 21. Over two months and several thousand Miles later the letters were delivered to the addressees maj Gen Donald m. Yates com i Mander of the air Force missile test Center and col Henry e. Warden the Center s Deputy com Mander for tests. Letters lost Warden told a news conference recovery ship picked up the Cone four hours after it landed an brought it to Cape canaveral. A search of the Cone however failed to reveal the letters. Officials thought they might have burned up in the 9,000-degree heal that blazed about the Cone As i plunged Back through the Atmos phere from a height of 300 Miles. The Cone was sent by train tothe general electric laboratories in Philadelphia for study. Two weeks later technicians found the letters jammed Amon the Many instruments in the front of the Cone. They were in Good shape. Finally delivered the mail was flown to the missile test Center and delivered to it col Thomas w. Morgan Tho project officer who sent the letters in the first place. Morgan found them on his desk nearly two months later when he returned from temporary duty at another  took them to Yates and Warden who were within 15 Miles of the Cape at the time the missile was launched. The letters noted that this waste first mail Ever delivered inter Continental distance by a missile. Cooling off period sex showgirl takes life new York up Muriel Miles 59, former showgirl. Beauty who was the Center of attention in Paris in 1922, committed suicide with an overdose of pills to keep from becoming old and  miss Miles still trim and pretty and looking much younger than her age left a letter in which she said i am too lonely and in secure to fight on in a losing game. I can t look Forward to dragging myself around As an old forlorn Bat she wrote. I see them round and it is too  free air is supplied for passengers As Well As tires by a service station in fac Taville ., where attendants place flexible Hose extensions at car windows to provide air conditioned waiting. Up rags to riches via monopoly sex peddle played game and won Doylestown a. A when a depression slaps a Man Down taking away his living and leaving him to Pinch through on pennies made at peddling the Only was to go is up. That was the Way things stood with Charles Darrow Back in the 1930s.Darrow had been an Engineer Selling heating equipment doing Well in Philadelphia making a Good Home for his wife and Oneson with another on the Way. The great depression spiked All  of a Job and Flat broke Dar Row did what he could to pick Upa pittance. He tried Selling stuff from House to House. People weren t buying. Started playing games h e n Burrow s Daylight dwindled to a peephole he sat Down with his wife Esther and started playing parlor games in genious games of his own devising. They had to do it to keep fro going Balmy he said. Darrow did t know it taut that gasoline fumes fatal to new York boy 6 Greenfield Center . Awilliam Jones a collapsed and died Here while blowing into gasoline tank to help his father prime a Sawmill  said he apparently was asphyxiated by fumes he inhaled. Maryland cow to have calf pay off old debt to Ike Walkersville my. A Pearl is expecting next month and if it s a Heifer Shell help a far girl Settle an old score with presi Dent Eisenhower. Pearl is the Holstein cow that was just a calf when she was the Center of a. Big fuss two years ago. Sharon Kay stauffer 9 years old at the time exhibited her calf at the Maryland state fair and won & $1,000 prize. Fair officials planned to give the animal to the president for his farm at Gettysburg a. I that brought tears to the eyes of the Little girl who d give Pearl Loving care since the Day it was born. She did t want to Par with her calf not even for the president. Touched by her loyalty  insisted she keep Pearl and the prize Money. He said i would be All right if Sharon gave him Pearl s first Heifer girl calf that is. I Hope it will be a Heifer Sharon  did t do so Well the first time she was pregnant. She had4 miscarriage of twin Bull calves last year. Was the beginning of the Way up. For out of these efforts to amuse themselves 6am e the game of monopoly which has sold More than20 million sets in dozens of coun tries and has made Darrow millionaire. Today he is a Bucks county Squire with 800 acres flush land and a huge House filled with souvenirs and trophies gathered in More than 50,000 Miles of travel around the  Darrow had a mind to he could loll Back and merely collect royalties from the firm which for years has marketed his game. But Crowley 49, freed in Tokyo trial Dies at Home Hamden Conn. A Josephp. Crowley who recently returned to the . After an languishing year in Tokyo As defendant in manslaughter trial has been found dead in his Hamden Home. Authorities said cause of death was Uncertain. Is the 49-year-old businessman was acquitted june 22 by the three judge Tokyo District court of charge that he had drunkenly pummelled his 45-year-old brother inlaw  a. Jones jr., to death in their Tokyo hotel  s body was found by his son Joseph jr., fully clothed and stretched across a bed in the Crow Leys palatial Home Here. A Hamden detective Captain said there was no indication of foul play. Coroner James Corrigan after an external examination of the body said he had found nothing significant. He ordered an autopsy. Gluttonous pig rescued from Buttermilk feast Benson  A Farmer Jack Mclamb May never have been a lifeguard but he used All the approved methods in saving life. Seeing two stubby legs sticking out of a bucket of Buttermilk my Lamb investigated and found a half drowned 30-Pound pig. He pulled the animal out gave it artificial respiration and revived it. That s not for the onetime Salesman who now nearly 70, says retire ment is for the fogies. I m like Herbert Hoover said Darrow except he s 85 whereas i m a youngster of 70. He s full of projects and so am i farming studying the history of All places we be been from Tahiti to Alaska Thailand to Chile and looking for Ward to More travels. When you Stop working think ing planning Friend you be had it. The depression might have go Hoover Clown forevermore. Heaven knows he was blamed enough Forit. And so much of the blame was unjust. The depression was in the cards that s  Moscow exhibit monopoly was introduced behind the Iron curtain at the american National exhibition in Moscow. Samples of it were in the games and toys display. How will the russians take to a game which is based on the old capitalistic principle of trading i Don t suppose there will be much of a Sale for it there Dar Row said. Their political philosophy in t right for it. Somehow ican t see it becoming a hit in the Kremlin. But i d be delighted Togo Over and have a crack at Popularising the  deportation ordered for crime figure Chicago a s Gaetono Thomas Morgano reputed headman in the state of Indiana of the Chicago crime Syndicate was ordered deported to his native Sicily. Otto Eck a special inquiry officer for the � immigration and naturalization service ordered Morgano s deportation on ground that the underworld figure has been convicted of two crimes of moral turpitude. The decision was announced Yalva l. Pilliod District director of the immigration service. He said Morgano s lawyers have until aug. 20 to Appeal. Bribe charge Morgano 59, figured in recent testimony before the Senate rack ets committee in Washington. Heis free on $25,000 bail on a charge he tried to bribe an Indian sheriff s Deputy to gain exclusive rights to gambling and vice importer county ind. During the deportation bearings concluded july 35, Morgano re fused to answer any questions concerning Bis activities. In two appearances before Eck Morgan took the fifth amendment More than 100 times. The government contended that Morgano was convicted twice on charges of failure to pay liquor . Witnesses testified Morgano once served a six Mont sentence in Milan mich., in 1938 and a two year sentence at the Federal Penitentiary at Torre haute beginning in 1941. I i Xii restaurateur Morgano is operator of the col lege inn pizza restaurant at Val Paraiso ind., in Porter county. In testimony before the Senate rack ets committee the chief Deputy sheriff of Porter county testified Morgano offered him $150,000 for exclusive gambling and vice rights in tie  investigators identified Morgano As an associate of gangsters Tony Pinelli Tony Accardo Sam Giancana and John Formosa. Accardo and Giancana reportedly Are the chiefs of the Syndicate in Chicago. C the committee testimony was aimed at showing that the crime Syndicate was attempting to mus Cle in on Porter county. Pharmacist sentenced for mailing bomb san Diego Calif. Up a 42-year-old pharmacist was sentenced to 20 years in prison Here for mailing a bomb wrapped As Christmas present to a former girl  Silver was convicted of at tempted murder july 14 for mail ing the camouflaged bomb to mrs. Kathryn Morris 33, last Christmas. Postal authorities discovered the bomb before it was delivered. Dentist sues tie s parents for ruining his honeymoon Chicago a a dentist who said his in Laws even went along on his honeymoon name them and a real estate broker in a $1,2 million alienation of affections suit. Or. Hymond j. Van dam 49,named his sex wife s Mother and father Henry and Nellie Yonker and a Chicago real estate brokers defendants. His suit described Fin allege Campaign to woo his wife Juel out of his Home and into a More suitable marriage. It started with the wedding in february 1945, Van dam charged and did t let up until Juel won a divorce 13 years later the i it  in Laws tagged along on Hie honeymoon. They advised t h c i i daughter a former Beauty Queen not to ruin her figure with a preg Nancy. And they hunted in else where selecting furniture for tin House and dictating whom he should hire in his , the dentist complained they pursue used Juel the estate broker would make a Perior  dam asked $1 million the alienation of affections$200,000 for property he claimed was obtained from him under duress and  for  
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