Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 11, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press thursday september 11, 1952 Page 9 hovering death waited Only just so Long for Beautiful countess Skarbek London special nearly All her 37 years of life countess Christine Granville courted death with Brazen passion. Born As countess Kristyna Skarbek the pampered daughter of a polish Noble Man she was acclaimed by countless newspapers and magazines As a Superb horse woman fearlessly galloping the wild blooded horses on her father s estate at Piotr Kow a skilled skier unafraid of the steepest Carpathian Mountain slope and a Beautiful woman White skinned dark haired and thrived As spy her secret service life be Gan at 24, Only two years after her marriage to a Young posh writer and for six years she thrived on it said her superiors. When Hitler invaded Poland in 1939 she immediately volunteered and was accepted by British intelligence who sent her to Budapest Hungary As a journalist. There she met her childhood Friend Andrew Kowarski now Andrew Kennedy the Brit ish underground and together they began the first of dozens dashes in and out of Poland smuggling Allied airman through carefully planned escape routes Over the Tara mountains. Highlights of her under cover career that British in letters to the editor Tell gence officials said would have stopped most agents after one or two missions were capture by the Gestapo. She coolly fabricated the right answers to win release for her self and Kennedy. Lined up to be shot by Bor Der guards when their escape car broke Down while trying to smuggle five czech pilots in Yugoslavia she convinced her captors they had made a mis take. Then the guards even pushed the car Over the Border for her. Locating a top secret anti tank gun used by the nazis in the invasion of Poland and then buried on a polish estate she and Kennedy smuggled it out to the allies in a Brown paper wrapping. Trapped in. A Thicket by a nazi bloodhound she made friends with the dog and escaped to rejoin the Maquis with whom she worked after parachuting into Southeastern France. Stopped by a patrol in Italy she raised her hand to show them two live grenades she carried then backed away slowly daring them to open fire. She escaped. Wanted dead or alive wanted dead or alive by the nazis she walked hours ahead of advancing Allied troops into a German prison and told a sergeant major he would be shot by the allies unless he released three Allied officers under sentence of death. He obeyed her. When the War ended she had won a medal from Poland the French Croix de Guerre the order the British Empire and Britain s George me dal for special services. Then began another Battle find work in peace time Britain. Too proud to mention her War service she was repeatedly rejected As a foreigner. She worked As a s14-a-week sales girl in a department store a hotel hat Check girl and Fin ally a stewardess on an liner. When told she would also have to clean the lavatories she quit and went Back to London. There she stayed alone in a hotel Long since separated from her husband her family All dead her jewish Mother murdered by the nazis. There on the quiet saturday night of june 15, she preparations to Fly that night to Brus Sels to visit her life Long Friend Andrew Kennedy. But her Boss on the boat Dennis George Muldowney had followed her to London and pestered her so much she had to complain to police. He came to the hotel again that saturday night. Christine had dared me to kill her on three separate of Muldowney Toft a British court. And that night on the stairs of a respectable Kensington hotel she dared death for the last time. Hectic time at new York suicide Riv new York Nyht on a single Block one. 23rd St. Wednes Day Between fourth and fifth avenues a woman plunged to her death a Painter fell from a scaffold immersing a passerby in Green paint and a Young woman was prevented from leaping through an open win in the space of 23 min utes. At 2.20 . A woman jumped or fell from a hotel sundeck to the pavement in front of the mad Ison Square Post office and was killed. Ten minutes later Joseph Siegal 3s, of the Bronx put the finishing Brush strokes on the still of a Sec Ond floor window at 108 e. 23rd , Learned Back to look at his Handi work and toppled to the Street. His paint can struck the knee of Naa Man Click 50, of Stamford conn., Appling his Brand new suit with dark Green paint. Or. Siegal was not injured seriously. At . Police pulled Mau Reen Connelly 18, of Brooklyn Back from the Sill of an open second floor window of the offices of Wilson and Jones at 122 e. 23rd St. Crop estimates sir Farmers in general Are sometimes amused but More often disgusted Reading in the papers year after year the exaggerated re ports of the millions of bushels of Grain that is to be harvested. For some reason the estimate is never lower than the actual amount of Grain harvested but is always higher. Do those responsible not realize that the Grain importing countries use these estimates As a base As to what they will pay for the Grain they need and if they can make a fire Sale they will do so. How in All the world can an estimate be made until All the Grain is harvested and in the granaries or elevators the estimates Are Mere figure Heads. As an illustration while working in fort Churchill last january in temperatures 35 and 40 below i had the misfortune to freeze my big toe in the course of my work. Or. R. C. Elliott -m.o.r.c.m.c. Treated me in the Hospital there for six weeks after which i was re turned to Winnipeg. My application for compensation was turned Down by or. Fraser on the basis that i could t have Frozen my toe in the course of my work. On appealing that decision he came up with another of his favorite formulas it was an old at this Appeal hearing there were two men who May have been Doc tors if they were they showed no Mnemonic wizard he is modest charming witty and lovable. Or. Lochner s introduction states Fritz Kreisler at 75 is still a great voice a Sage elder statesman of scouts Sandringham England cup scouts from Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridgeshire have been invited by the Queen to take part in a Coronation Jamboree on the music a wonderful and next year. Corn personality above All he is countries will be asked Choice spirit. Were i an Indian i to Send Pil trois the big meet. Would Call him the average Width of a human a. K. Gee hair is of an Inch. Winnipeg published before cutting has even desire to examine my toe being started. To accept or. Eraser s ver Farmers know Only too Well what can happen from the time the crop he that members of the is seeded until it is harvested. Medical association Are Farmed for a number of years and a rail or. Fraser and the Power never attempted to make an Esti he wields a lot of Light could be mate of the number of bushels a thrown on this question by finding was expecting until i had it Safe How Many decisions of the in the elevators or granaries. Board Are appealed 2. How Many i am not saying there Are Noti Apica Are successful some Good crops in some parts of Winnipeg a m. Adams the country but i think i am Safe in saying when the final total is Fritz Katl sir known the estimates Given by the papers and other agencies will be greatly exaggerated As usual thank you or. Editor for the space in your paper Miami Man., e. Willimett a compensation sir reports on the recent hear ing of the committee on Amend ments to the Manitoba compensation act indicate that or. Fraser sir the Page one Story on sept. 5 about or. Fritz Kreisler s in come tax troubles disturbed this subscriber for its tone indicated that or. Kreisler was some sort of an idiot apart from the fact it recognizes the Maestro s violin Genius. Louis p. Lochner s Book Fritz Kreisler attests to the fact thai or. Kreisler is one of the world s great men he is a composer Par medical advisor of the Board a connoisseur of Art in for some very Sharp criticism and of incunabula a philanthropy. Judging from personal exper 1st and a humanitarian he was a hence or. 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