WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1953
Queert-...Mary . Dies
At'Hoti.in.-LondlOn
LONDON, March P,4 (IP)—Queen Mary, the grand old lady of -British royalty, died
tonight at the,r London residence.
The 85-year-old grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II succumbed after a prolonged bat
tle with a gastric ailment. The official announcement of her death was made by Prime
Minister Churchill to a hushed House of Commons.
Queen Mary, often called
George V, who died- in 1936. Hell
ldng life spanned the period from
the imperial 19th Century days I
of Queen Victoria, through two;
world wars, to the tense times of
the atom bomb and the cold war.
WASHINGTON, March 24 (EP)
—President Eisenhower tonight
sent his "deep personal sym
paihy" to' Queen Elizatieth" II
on the death of 85-year-old
Queen Mary.
His message (in part) read:
"Please extend to Her Maj
esty and to all the members
and people of the British
Commonwealth my deep per
sonal sympathy on the passing
of Queen Mary."
The immediate cause of death
was not stated officially in the
first announcements of her, pass
ing. A royal medical bulletin
hours earlier disclosed that her
heart Was weakening.
The end came peacefully.
Churchill sobbed as he an
nounced in Commons that the
revered .widow of one King and
mother of two other monarchs
had died at 10:20 p.m. (5:20 p.m.,
EST).
Queen Elizabeth was notified
immediately at Buckingham Pal
ace 'of her grandmother's death.
The young Queen had paid a bed
side visit to her aged grand
mother only a few hours before.
Queen Mary's oldest son, the
Duke of Windsor, who once sat on
the throne as Edward VIII, had
rushed from Florida when his
mother was first stricken.' He was
the first member of the royal
family to arrive at his mother's
residence,' Marlborough• House, af
ter her death.
The lord charnberlin,•the Earl of
Scarborough, will announce the
length of the - court mourning as
soon' as Queen Elizabeth II de
cides the question. • •
FBI Report Probed
By Tait, Sparkman
WASHINGTON, March 24 (4 3 ) Sen. Taft (R-Ohio) and Sen.
Sparkman. (D-Ala.) examined a secret 25-page FBI summary of an
investigation of Charles E. (Chip) Bohlen today and said they found
nothing beyond what Secretary of State Dulles had already reported.
Taft said he and Sparkman were
in general agreement. The Ohio
senator said, - however, he pre
ferred not to make any, statement
. .
until after reporting to the Sen
ate foreign relations committee.
He has been-supporting Bohlen
since the outset of the Senate,
controversy over the nomination,
Taft • and Sparkman both de
clared they found nothing in the
FBI summary that had not been,
given to the committee in a recent
"evaluation" by Dulles.
Taft told newsmen he had
,re
ceived assurances from FBI Direc
tor J. Edgar Hoover that Hoover
was taking "full responsibility"
that nothing of any , consequence
was left out of the summary.
The two senators had been as
signed by the committee to scrut
inize the FBI reporta summary
of multiple field investigation re
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Dies at 85
French Police Raid
Red Labor Headquarters
PARIS, March 24 (2(P)—A thous
and helmeted French police raid
ed. Communist-dominated Labor
headquarters today and arrested
three leaders a few•_.hours before
Premier Rene Mayer was due to
take .a plane for Washington on
a prestige-building, help-seeking
mission.
The Communists pr ompt ly
charged the raids were timed to
impress American officials. Non-
Communist newspapers scoffed at
the idea the government would
use this means to bolster the
French delegation's position in ne
gotiations for more U.S. political
and cash support.
Last-minute complications arose
for Mayer when the French Treas
ury ran short of ready cash and
he postponed his departure.
ports—after some senators chal
lenged Dulles' assertion that the
FBI files contained nothing to dis
qualify Bohlen -for the key diplo
matic post at Moscow.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE,' PENNSYLVANIA
Steelworkers
Will Remain
In the CIO
ATLANTIC CITY,
,N.J., March
24 (PP)—The United Steelworkers
of America pledged today to re
main -in the CIO and promptly
touched off speculation it might
race with Walter Reuther's auto
workers union to win a guaranteed
annual wage.
Steelworkers president David
J. McDonald took to the United
Auto Workers (UAW) convention
platform to deny vehemently pub
lished reports that he was con
sidering swinging his million
member union into the AFL or
John L. Lewis' United Mine
Workers..
McDonald, a known opponent
of some Reuther policies, backed
the late Allan S. Haywood for
CIO president at the December
CIO convention.
Since Reuther, rather than Hay
wood, was elected to fill the late
Philip Murray's shoes, there have
been rumors that McDonald was
dissatisfied •in the CIO.
But McDonald, who succeeded
Murray as Steelworkers presi
dent, emphatically told the 3000
auto workers delegates:
"The United Steelworkers will
not destroy the CIO. It will be
our firmest endeavor to make it
bigger, better and stronger,"
The steelworker membership is
second in the CIO only to the
1,350,000-member auto- workers
union and a bolt by such a big un
ion would have serious effects on
the parent organization.
UN to Meet Again
To Nome Lie Successor
UNITED NA T I O'N S, N.Y.,
March 24 (W)—The UN Security
Council failed again today to elect
a successor to Secretary General
Trygve Lie.
It decided to meet once more
Friday and see whether Soviet
Delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky has
brought new orders from Moscow
permitting an agreement.
Vishinsky, former foreign min
ister who was named permanent
delegate by the new Malenkov ad
ministration, is expected here
Thursday after consultations with
his new Kremlin bosses.
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U.S., Reds Continue
Battle for Old Baldy
SEOUL, Wednesday, March 25 (JP)—A mighty battle for Old
Baldy still raged - at dawn Wednesday as Chinese Communists and
U.S. Seventh Division troops fought in a shroud of fog and clouds
for the crest of the strategic bastion guarding the main invasion
route into South Korea.
Both sides poured fresh troops
into the massive struggle and
both sides were taking tremen
dous casualties.
Crashing artillery barrages and
the flow of battle across the shell
stripped crest of Old Baldy , made
it impossible to estimate the toll
there in the first 36 hours of fight
ing. But officers at the front es
timated the Chinese had suffered
more than 1000 casualties in the
early fighting on the wings—at
T-Bone and Pork Chop Hills to
the west of Old Baldy and at
White Horse Mountain and Upper
and Lower Alligator Jaw to the
northeast.
AP Correspondent Stan Carter
reported . from the front that
AM - ericans and Colombians of the
Seventh Division had taken heart
breaking losses.
Latest reports from the front
said Chinese troops held one-third
of the muddy, shell-ripped slopes
which command the vital Allied
supply highway 45 miles north of
Seoul.
An American counterattack dur
ing the day bogged down under
furious Red mortar and artillery
fire.
U.S. tanks pushed up for direct
fire attacks against Reds embed
ded behind the hill.
Some 15,000 rounds of Red ar
tillery and mortar shells were
poured into Allied positions Mon
day night alone. U.S. big guns
fired back at the rate of 700 shells
per minute.
Seventh. Division officers said
the battle might last for several
days. But these officers doubted
that the Chinese would unleash a
general offensive now during the
height of the rainy season.
12 Alm :iomb Crews View
Heart of udear Blast
LAS VEGAS, Nev., March 24
(4P)—A dozen picked crews—trail
blazers in a stepped-up Air Force
program of A-bomb training—
flew their huge 836 bombers near
the heart of a brilliant nuclear
blast today. .
The sky over Nevada Proving
Ground was filled with 53 planes
as Atomic Energy Commission
scientists unleashed their second
pre-dawn detonation another
tower shot—of the spring series.
the 836 s and said they came from
bases in all parts of the country.
All are attached to the Strategic
Air Command, with headquarters
at Offutt AFB, Omaha, Neb.
"We want the lead crews of
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4 Anti-Reds
Make. Flight
To Freedom
FRANKFURT, Germany, March
24 (JP)—Four anti-Communist
Czechs seized a flying airliner at
gunpoint over Red Czechoslovakia
last night and flew it across the
Iron Curtain to freedom in West
Germany. ,
Three passengers and the pilot,
Miroslav Slovak, 24, were in on
the plot to divert the plane from
its scheduled Prague-Brno run.
The co-pilot, radio operator and
the other 23 passengers were not.
Two of the latter seized their
chance and joined the plotters in
asking asylum as political refu
gees after the C-47 landed at the
U.S. Air Force's Rhine-Main base
near Frankfurt.
The remainder elected to return
home. They probably will be
handed back soon, along with the
plane.
This was the ninth time in four
years the Czechs have taken to
the air to escape the ring of death
the Communists have thrown
around Czechoslovakia's borders
on the ground.
The fugitives hedge-hopped low
across the border to escape detec
tion by Czech air patrols which
shot down an American thunder
jet fighter two weeks ago.
bombers which might some day
be involved in a real atomic op
eration to know at first hand what
a blast is like," an Air Force
spokesman said. "We want to
make sure that they don't suffer
from buck fever, or that they get
so fascinated . with the flash that
they are blinded. We plan the
same sort of training for crews
of other planes at later dates."
The explosion simulated atomic
artillery for 1300 Army troops in
foxholes 4000 yards from Ground
Zero. Under Brig. Gen. William
C. Bullock, the troops moved for
ward in another maneuver in the
Army's continuing indoctrination
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