Soviets Turn East Germany Into
Armed Camp As German Puppets
Reverse “Soft Approach” Policy
Duke of Westminster, One
Of World’s Wealthiest Men
Dies Without Male Heir
LOCH MORE, Scotland, UP) —
The Duke of Westminster — sol
dier, sportsman and art connois
seur—died here last night at the
age of 74.
He was one of the world’s rich
est men and landlord of the U.S.
embassy in London.
He also was one of the last of
Britain’s aristocrats to live in the
grand style. Once he took 200
dogs and 20 horsemen to France
for a boar hunt. He was a hunts
man, a horse racer, a fisherman,
a yachtsman and a polo player.
He was married four times and
divorced thrice. But he left no
male heir and his title passes to
a cousin.
* There have been various esti
mates as to how much the Duke
was worth ranging from 56 to
168 million dollars. His real es
tate holdings in London alone —
600 acres in fashionable Gros
venor and Belgrade Squares and
Pimlico—were valued at 20 mil
lion pounds <then 80 million dol
lars) before World War II and
land values have increased since
then.
He once was the owner of the
famous Gainsborough painting,
“The Blue Boy.” In addition to' his
London holdings, he had vast es
tates in Scotland, Wales and other
parts of England. Only two years
ago he bought an island in the
Fraser River in British Columbia
and launched an industrial devel
opment project estimated to cost
176 million dollars.
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Child Crushed by Car
At Family Gathering
For Golden Anniversary
SEATTLE, UP1—Mr. and Mrs.
James Jolliffe bought a new pair
of shoes and suit for their grand
son, James Hughes, 2V£, to wear
at their golden wedding anniver
sary yesterday.
But they were never worn. The
child, son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor
Hughes, Anchorage, was killed
Friday night in their yard. A car
in the driveway in which he was
playing rolled backward up a
bank, and then forward over him
after he had fallen out.
Twenty-two members of the
family, including six sons, three
daughters and their grandchil
dren, had gathered for the Sunday
observance.
The child either released the
brakes or they slipped, C. L. An
keny, an uncle, said.
The Hughes family have two
other children, Judy, 10, and Bar
bara, 11.
BERLIN, W>—East Berlin was
an armed camp of Soviet tanks
and troops Saturday as the Rus
sians and their German puppets
shelved their “soft approach” and
went over to a terror offensive
against the threat of new East
German revolts.
Less than a week after martial
law was lifted, the elements of
two armored divisions clanked
back into East Berlin Friday. They
were dug in for an apparently
long stay.
Communist propagandists, who
had been trilling promises of re
form and clemency, suddenly
changed their tune. They barked
warnings that the “Fascist under
ground” which they blamed for
the June 17 workers revolt, is
still active. They called for “in
creased watchfulness,” which in
Communist jargon means a witch
hunt for scapegoats.
A purge was under way in the
Communist heirarchy of East Ger
many. Two menacing develop
ments caused the Communist
alarm:
1. Scattered strikes and slow
downs throughout the Soviet zone.
2. Hungry East Germans boiled
with resentment against their
Communist masters who turned
down an American offer of $15
million worth of food relief.
The- get-tough policy was de
signed to frighten the population
before they work themselves up
to, a new open revolt.
Official Western sources con
firmed that more than 200 tanks
•and about 14,000 Russian soldiers
have occupied East Berlin, poised
to pounce upon the first stirring
of rebellion.
Unlike the troops who moved
in June 17 to put down the work
ers revolt, these new invaders
came equipped to stay. They set
up tidy bivouacs in the half-rural
outlying boroughs of the Soviet
sector, laid telephone and electric
lines.
Experts in such matters said the
entire 7th Armored Division and
a regimental combat team from
another division were installed in
East Berlin. At the height of the
June rioting, there were elements
of three divisions there. The last
of those divisions pulled out last
Sunday.
Since then, obviously, the situ
ation has taken such a turn for
the worse, that the Russians de
cided they could no longer leave
East Berlin to the doubtful pro
tection of the East German army
and police force.
Since 1927 in the United States
there have been 321,000 pedes
trians killed in traffic, says the
National Geographic Society.
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41 R.O.T.C. Men
In Flaming Crash
After Takeoff
MILTON, Fla., W)—A Marine
cargo plane carried 41 Naval Re
serve Officers Training Corps men
from numerous colleges and crew
men to fiery death when it crashed
on a farm and burst into flames
after taking off from Whiting
Field Friday midnight.
Charred bodies of the victims
were recovered by Navy teams
which worked at the grim task
throughout the night.
Five other occupants of the two
engine plane were rushed to Pen
sacola Naval Air Station Hospital,
where two were reported in criti
cal condition and three in serious
condition.
The plane, transformed into a
massive “ball of flames” after
plunging into a clump of trees a
mile north of the runway, smashed
three parked automobilies and
plowed into a barn.
Harold Stokes, city editor of the
Pensacola News-Journal, said that
when he arrived on the scene
shortly after the crash he found
“scrambled, scorched bodies scat
tered all over. “They looked as
if their clothes were skin tight,
stuck to their swollen bodies.”
The plane was part of a flight
of five transports which had made
a refueling stop at Whiting. They
were ferrying 200 reservists from
Corpus Christi, Texas, to Norfolk,
Virginia, for another phase of
their six-week summer training
program.
HOMING HORSES
MILROY, Minn., UP) — Farmer
Astor Lovald thinks there may
be some homing pigeon blood in
his team of black horses.
The animals wandered off re
cently, and a search disclosed
nary a trace. Days later, Lovald
traveled to a farm 13 miles away,
where he had formerly lived.
There, wandering around the
deserted yard, were Lovald’s
horses.
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the office of the Director of Avia
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Room 202 Glover Bldg., Anchor
age, Alaska, for the following
work to be performed:
Transportation to include neces
sary longshoring of the following
equipment:
Two D-8 Tractors with Dozer
One Carryall (LeTourneau) 12
c.y. capacity
One No. 12 Cat Grader
The above listed equipment is
to be transported from Cape Ro
manzof to Hooper Bay on or be
fore August 15, 1953.
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Director of Aviation,
Dept, of Aviation,
91 Box 2215, Anchorage
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