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The Washington times., 1937-12-30

MOSCOW, Dec. 30 G.N.S0,
japanese terms for peace with
China have been conveyed to
Generalissimo Chang Kai-Shek's
regime, Moscow newspapers stated
today.
The papers published a SiX-point
resume of the alleged peace terms,
and said they had been communi
Gated to China by the German
ambassador there.
TERMS OF PEACE
AS reported In the Moscow
newspapers, the peace terms are
as follows:
/. An economic agreement to
be concluded at Japan's dicta-
ton.
2. Remuneration of China's
struggle against Japan and con-
clusion Of a Sino-Japanese anti
Communist agreement.
3. Establishment of perma-
nent japanese military garri-
sons in important Chinese areas
4. establishment Of denili-
tarized zones.
5. Creation Of independent
Inner Mongolian and North
China government.
6. Payment of war indemni-
ties by China. p
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One of Passengers Is
Unidentified On
Schooner
International News ~SOundDhotO

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 80 I.N.S0
With the yacht Aafje being towed
to Los Angeles harbor, the owner
reported slain, mystery deepened
today over the identity and where.
abouts of "Jack Morgan" one OF
the eight persons who sailed away
with the ship of strange drama
when it disappeared December 20,
last.
Coast Guard reports failed to
list Morgan as a passenger on
the ill-fated Aafje at the present
time. Yet, 48 hours ago, a Navy
sea plane pilot, who brought his
plane down alongside the help
lessly drifting yacht. was reported
to have radioed his base at San
Diego that he had conversed with
a Jack Morgan aboard the yacht.
REPORTS OWNER DEAD
It was the Navy pilot who first
flashed word that Dwight L.
Faulding, wealthy Santa Barbara,
CAL, hotel proprietor, and owner
of the Aafje, was lying dead on
the foredeck of the mystery
schooner yacht. The pilot, whose
name was withheld by Navy
authorities at San Diego, was said
to have reported "there is trouble
aboard-Faulding has been shot" +"
Discovery of Faulding's violent
death, reported in Secrecy-veiled
dispatches as murder, was coin
cidental with the rescue Of three
women, one Of them an expectant
mother, two men and a boy, who
had been on the distressed vessel
without food or water for three or
more days.
THOSE RESCUED
The rescued are:
Mrs. Gertrude Turner, and her
son, Robert, 8, of Goleta, Cal.
Mrs. Jack Morgan, Los Angeles.
Miss Elsie Berdan, Los Angeles.
George Spernak, Los Angeles.
Robert Horne, Los Angeles.
Rescue of the passengers from
the stricken craft, who were trans
ferred to the patrol boat Perseus,
was made after secret report that
Faulding had been slain.
The race to the Aafje began
Tuesday night with w. H. Os-
burne, a Department of Justice
agent, following the Perseus in
another cutter.
The Department of Justice has
taken full charge of the investiga.
ton.
1t was reported that Faulding
had been shot to death. Omen
have indicated they bad been
given the name of a suspect.
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TREASURY CONDITION

U.N.S) Treasury balance De
cember %: $2,988, TOT ,8O4.48 in.
ternaI revenue, $3,655,621.21; Gus
toms receipts, $26,258,97
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BUSINESS LEVY
HELD FAILURE,
REPEAL URGED
$7,5OO,OOO Is Asked
AS Lump Sum
BY PAUL A. CONLIN

The District Tax Advisory Com
mittee recommended to the Com.
missioners today a / per cent sales
tax, / per cent income tax and
an increase from $1,000, 900 to ST..
5000 in the Federal lump sum
payment as solution to an esti-
mated deficit of $4,90O,000 in Dis
trict revenues for the fiscal year
1899. The taxes would begin July
l next.
The committee advised aban.
donment of the business privilege
tax on gross receipts and based
it's estimates on the assumption
the SITS per 500 valuation tax
on real estate will expire June 80,
1888, restoring the former rate Of
$1.50.
NO EXEMPTIONS
It recommended the sales tax
be levied without exemptions. It
explained the matter of exemp-
tions is "a question Of policy" and
said it felt "the low rate" with
the proposed income tax war.
ranted this proviso.
The sales tax recommendation
was qualified with the clause the
rate should be increased mot to
exceed 2 per centun" If the
Commissioners believed the estt-
mated $2,500,00 from this source
should fall short Of its mark.
In this connection, the commit
tee cited the experience garnered
here and in other jurisdictions
with the collection of the business
privilege tax.
FAVOR EXTENSION
The committee also recon-
mended an extension of the revG
nue. act of 1887 which permits this
District to borrow money from
the Treasury Department to meet
general expenses in the event locG
revenues should fail to reach ex
pected proportions.
It went on record against the
Budget Bureaus transfer of the
street lighting charge of $765.00C
from the general fund to the Spe
cial fund for highways and traffic.
the committee told the Commits
Grafton this transfer in estimating
the deficit of $4,9OO,0O0. If its
recommendations are followed,
the cimmittee told the MommiS-
CONTINUED ON Page 2, Col. 81
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Japan OFFERS
PEACE TERMS
TO GEN. CHANG
Conditions Severe,
Says Moscow

More dramatic pictures
of the sinking of the
Panay will be found on
Page 4.
The Washington times., 1937-12-30
Slump Hits CIOAuto Union;
Organizers Face LdyOff

DETROIT, Dec. 80 INS. 1.-THE business recession hit
the CLOS United Automobile Workers Union today
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WIRES EXCHANGED

Knudsen's plan was made known
in an exchange of kilograms with
Senator James F. Byrnes CD
chairman of the committee in the
Senate assigned to probe the busi
ness collapse.
Senator Byrnes' telegram in part
to Knudsen follows:
"My committee considers 1t
exceedingly important to hear
from you at the opening of our
investigation next week, particu-
larly in view of reported unem-
ployment in the automobile in
dustry. ...
Twill you not kindly make
your arrangements to appear be-
fore the committee forenoon,
Thursday, January 6, to give the
committee the latest informa-
ton regarding production and
employment prospects in your
industry"
To which Knudsen replied by
wire:
IT will make arrangements to
rearrange my business trip in
the field to permit me to accept
your invitation to appear on
January g."
SPEEDED BY LAYOFF
Meanwhile, it was learned that
the GIN president had been asked
once before by committee mem.
bers to testify. He had tentatively
agreed to appear at Washington
on January 20. However, the GIN
announcement concerning layoffs
was believed to have led the Sen
ate investigators to request Knud.
sen to appear at the earlier date.
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KNUDSEN DUE
TO TESTIFY
ON RECESSION
C. NJ. Head to Talk
To Senate Jan. 6

DETROIT, Dec. 80 Q.N.S0. d.
William S. Knudsen, General Mo-
tors Corporation president, today
announced that he would testify
at a U. s. Senate hearing next
Thursday to give his views on the
causes of the business recession.
The General Motors Corporation
earlier this week announced layoff
of 10000 men and placed its 205,-
900 other workers in the United
States on a 24-hour week.
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HOMER MARTIN

pay roll. Martin was unable to say how many would be
laid off,
The Washington times., 1937-12-30
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday; not
much change in temperature; lowest tenn
perature tonight about 36. (See Page A.
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Mae West GiUen
10 Days to Tell
OF Marriage

LOS ANGELES, June rs CU.SD.
Frank Wallace, New York actor,
can't demand an accounting Of
Mae Vests assets until he proves
that he is her husband, Superior
Judge Robert w. Kenny ruled
yesterday.
The judge held, however, that
the buxom star would have to de-
fend herself in the suit brought
by Wallace to have her declared
his wife. He overruled Miss VESTS
demurrer to the suit and gave her
ten days in which to answer the
allegation that they were married
April IL, 1911.
Next Wednesday Miss West is
scheduled to make a personal
court appearance to show cause
why she shouldn't answer ques-
tons of Wallace's attorneys.
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FIRE AUXILIARY
PICKS HEADS

EASTON, Md, June 25.-Mrs.
Mary E. Walker, of Berwyn
Heights, was elected president of
the Maryland State Firemen's AS
ISOLATION Auxiliary at the organi-
zation's convention last night.
Mrs. Virgie Mulligan, of Gath
ersburg, was elected junior vice
president, while Mrs. Marjorie
Tayman, of Cottage City, was
chosen. recording secretary. Mrs.
Annie Burnette, of Branchville,
was elected chaplain.
Other officers include Mrs.
Bessie Marshall, of Reisterstown,
senior vice president; Mrs. Mil
bred Ann Brust, of Ellicott City,
treasurer; Mrs. Bessie Stricken,
of Brunswick, corresponding Sec
rotary, and Mrs. Violet Uric, of
Rock Hall, historian.
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REP. O'DAY IS SECOND WOMAN
T0HEAD HOUSE COMMITTEE

her committee together this year.
One of the most inactive commit
tees in the House, it nevertheless
has handled far-reaching legisla-
ton on several occasions, notably
the Norris Lame Duck" amend.
ment to the Constitution.
Of the other three women in
the House, Representatives Vir-
GINA Jenckes Cd of Indiana,
Nan Honeyman CD Of washing
ton and Edith Nourse Rogers
CRJ of Massachusetts, only one,
Mrs. Rogers, has any immediate
prospect of succeeding to a chair
and that is dependent
upon return of the G. o. P. to
power. Should the Republicans
regain control of the House, Mrs.
Rogers would become chairman Of
the Committee on World War
Veterans legislation.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-06-25

Women's march toward power
in Congress advanced another
step today with the appointment
of Representative Caroline O'Day
Cd of New York as chairman
of the House committee on cleo
-, of President and Vice Presi'
dent.
re became the second woman
ever to head a congressional com.
mittee, preceded only by Repre-.
sentative Mary Norton CD Of
New Jersey, who was chosen chair.
man of the House Labor Commit.
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tee earlier this week after the
death of Representative Connery
CD of Massachusetts,.
While Mrs. Norton will direct
the activities of one of the busiest
committees in Congress, Mrs.
O'Day may find no need to call
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there's nothing quite like
our personal recipe!

Maybe it's the special mildness Our
Family's Whiskey has got to it
maybe that's why nice long drink
oft with chunks Office tinkling in the
glass seems to be so extra cool when
you're feeling the heat pouring down.
You'd go long ways to find any,
thing so tasty and welcome on
warm June afternoon or evening. It's
The Washington times., 1937-02-09

about pushing me into a snow.
bank at the turn? I'm the one
who should complain"
Officials stepped between them
to prevent any hair-pulling.
Both girls were selected as mem
bers Of the U. S. team which will
skate at Saranac, Ontario, in the
North American championships
next week.
Wait until / get Franey at
Saranac next week." said Miss
Horn. "I'll show her some real
skating"
In the mems events here, Marvin
Swanson, of Minneapolis, success
fully defended his national anna
teur crown. He scored 80 points.
Second was Alex Hurd, of St. Louis,
1885 Canadian Olympic skater,
who had TO- Hurd was tied up
to the last event, but dropped out
of the smile, saying he had not
had time to train for it. Leo
Freisinger and Eddie Schroeder, of
Chicago, members of the U. S.
Olympic team last year, each had
so points.
Pat Maloney, 15.year-old Mime.
apoliS skater, won the junior boy's
title. Bunney LaWler, 13, of Chi
cago, won the junior girls crown,
and Buddey Solem, Of Chicago
won the midget boys title.
The Washington times., 1937-02-09

and regular practice sessions again
the rule.
No changes are contemplated in
the starting lineup. Jourdet' be-
lieves that with Roger Hanger and
Bob Dougherty, forwards; Roy
Mcneil, center, and Franny Muir
ray and Frank Barrett, guards,
he has the best combination Penn
sylvania has had since 1885. All
five are letter men and all have
had at least two years experience
in varsity competition.
In addition to the five starters,
Jourdet has capable reserves in
the veteran Jim Hauze and the
outstanding sophomore, Tony Mis-
cho. Holger Engblom, sparkplug
forward; Ray Stanley, light but
fast; William Kozloff, brother of
Henry, star of the 1884 and 1885
teams, and Payson Brickley, a
sophomore, who has seen little &C
ton, but is regarded highly by the
coach, are capable substitutes.
The Washington times., 1937-02-09
Brooks Sets Cue
Run Record

NEW YORK, Feb. e.-Twenty-
one-year-old Lewis Brooks, Of Phila-
delphia, today was putting up
spirited defense Of his title as ma
tional amateur pocket billiards
champion. Playing against James
Parks of Detroit. Brooks ran 10
for a new American amateur high
run record. The former record of
So was held by j. H. Shoemaker.
Results of the opening matches
were:
Brooks, 1875; Parks, SO.
J. H. Shoemaker, Douglaston,
N. w.. 1875; Charles Olivia, Chi
cago, 80.
Arthur Cranfield, jr., Syracuse,
N. Y, 1875; Herbert Courtney,
Brooklyn, N. Y, 81.
Jed Snyder, Brooklyn, N. Y.
1875; Edward c. Rogers, Glen Cove,
N, Y, 90,
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Golf Medal Won
By Merrill

ORMOND BEACH, Fla, Feb.
9-Despite his three-over-par IA,
Isaac Lincoln Merrill, Of Camden,
Maine and Daytona Beach, today
had captured medaliSt honors in
the Ormond Beach golf tourna-
ment.
Merrill was seven strokes ahead
of the field, his closest opponent
being Talbot T. Speer, Baltimore,
VINO shot an 80. Next in line
was the defending champion,
Henry w. Haynes, Lake Placid,
N. Y, with an 81.
Other scores were: Dana Steele,
Boston; A. L. Painter, Pittsburgh.
and Charles Bangs, Chicago, "a;
L. j. Noah, Greenwich, Conn.,, SO;
Leo Durocher, st. Louis, 81; Joe
Medwick, st. Louis, and John j
Quinlan, Lake Bomoseen, VT, SO;
E. R. McCay, Kingsville, Ont, and
Walter F. Earle, Cambridge, Mass,
80, and P. E. Mead, Scarsdale, N
Y. 81.
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Sports World
Passing Show

It was reported in New York
that a compromise may be
worked out in the heavyweight
situation providing for a Max
Schmeling-James ]. BraddOck
fight at COmiskey Park, in june
with the winner to meet Joe
Louis at Chicago's Soldier Field
in September.
Tony LaZzeri Srgned new con-
tract with New York Yankees
understood for salary Of $4,000.
Light Heavyweight Champion
John Henry Lewis won 15-rOund
decision over AL EttOre at Phila-
delphia.
Freddy Steele. middIeweight
champion, was installed az
2-tO-1 favOrite to defeat Babe
Risko at Madison Square Gar.
den on February 10.
EnricO Ventura chalked up
thirteenth straight American
victory, in defeating Jimmy Mo.
Leod, of Tacoma, in his cam.
paign for worlds lightweight
championship.
Lewis Brooks, Philadelphia,
with a 10, established a new
American amateur high-run
billiards record during national
tournament.
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Italian Wins 18th

NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-Enrico
Ventura, Italian contender for the
world lightweight championship,
today had 13 straight American
victories to his credit. His latest
victim was Jimmy Mcleod, of Ia
coma, over whom he won an eight
round decision last night. Ventura
weighed 139 and Mcleod, 1857.
The Washington times., 1937-02-09

@AU"@4 NA4@AS NS4ANN9G'
Miss Horn, lanky, 25-year-old
daughter of a Beaver Dam, Wis,
cheese merchant, won the senior
women'S event in the national
speed skating championships held
here Saturday and Sunday as the
feature of Michigan's annual, TO-
day winter carnival. She piled
up 1875 points in five races in
the two days against Miss Franey,
the red-headed st. Paul defending
champ, who had lis points.
Finishes of the last three races
Sunday found both girls Sprawled
headlong on the ice, with Miss
Horn protesting the first time:
"What have / got to do to
win: Franey grabbed my right
foot when she spilled, that's
why 1 went down"
A little later in the mile final,
both girls went down again but
Miss Horn slid across the finish
line ahead. At the end of the
final race, a three-quarters mile,
the two collided at the finish.
Miss Horn won but she turned
on Miss Franey and screamed:
That's the third time today.
Why don't you skate right,
Franey?"
"Skate right yourself" the st.
Paul girl screamed back. How
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Record. Entry
Seen For Meet

CHAPEL HILL, N. c., Feb. 9.
University of North Carolina ath-
letic officials are expecting a
record-breaking number of team
entries in the Conference for the
eighth annual Southern Confer
ence indoor games to be held at
Chapel Hill on Saturday afternoon
and night of February 81.
Particularly is the increase IN
number of competitors looked for
in the Southern Conference divl-
sion, now composed of Is universe
ties and colleges.
New Additions
A year ago there were only 20
conference members. New addi-
tions to the loop are William and
Mary, Richmond, Wake Forest,
Davidson, the Citadel and Furman.
There will be competition in
four different divisions: Confer
ence varsity; nonconference
varsity only, freshmen Gall col
lege freshmen), and scholastic
(open to high and prep schools.
Accommodations will be made
to handle a capacity crowd. Bleach
ers will be erected on both sides
of the big Tin Can, spacious ath-
letic plant Of the university, where
the events will be held.
Space 110x3OO
The Tin Can has a floor space
10 by 300 feet. The track has a
152-foot straight-away on each side,
with a 42-foot radius for the semi
circular ends, and is nine laps plus
108 feet to mile; that is, II feet
on each lap.
The afternoon events will get
under way at 1:30 with the night
program to start at 7 o'clock.
The winners of the 1886 games
were as follows: Southern Confer
ence - Duke; nonconference -
Navy; freshmen-North Carolina,
and scholastic-McKinley.
Over the seven-year period Caro-
lima won the conference team title
four times.
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quest Tor the league title.
Next Friday night in the tight
gymn aSium at MorningSide
Heights. the Red and Blue will
meet the defending champions,
Columbia, for the first time this
season. Sixteen and a half hours
after the conclusion Of the game
with the Blue and White, Penn
sylvania will meet Cornell at
Ithaca in the annual Junior Week
game.
The overnight trip to the shores
of Lake Cayuga and the afternoon
game, coupled with the fact that
the game with Columbia should
prove one of the most difficult OF
the campaign, makes this, the sec
ond trip for Franny Murray and
his teammates, their most arduous
since becoming varsity players.
Hardly Successful
Pennsylvania'S visits to Colum-
bia during the past ten seasons
have been anything but successful.
Only three times has the Red and
Blue left the Gotham gymnasium
with victories while seven games
have resulted in reverses. Three
championship combinations, 1928,
1929 and 1884 succeeded in WIN
ming in New York.
Cornell has not been as difficult
on its home court as Columbia,
the Ithacans losing six out of the
last ten games played there. In
1885, when Pennsylvania won the
championship in a playoff with
Columbia, Cornell won at Ithaca
to cause the tie in the final league
standings.
Columbia, with only the brilliant
Bill Nash missing from last years
ensemble, that won all twelve
league games, is regarded as Penn
Sylvania's main obstacle to the
title. Despite the twenty-point de-
feat by Yale and the extra period
victory over Cornell only after the
bitterest kind of a struggle, Lon
Jourdet regards the champions as
the best team in the league.
Should Pennsylvania win both
games it's path to the title would
be a comparatively easy one. With
the bulge of eight straight victories
and only one away from home
game with Princeton on the
schedule, the Red and Blue should
be an odds on favorite for the
title.
Team Well Fortified
The team will be well fortified
for the trip. Every player on the
squad will be in excellent physical
and mental condition with the
midyear examinations concluded
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.r(dro Eligible
ToRideAgdin

BALTIMORE, Md, Feb. 9.-The
Maryland Racing Commission TO-
day notified Jockey Eddie Arcaro
that his suspension had been lifted
and that he would be permitted
to ride in the $4,000 Widener
Challenge Cup on February 27, at
Hialeah Park.
Arcaro was suspended at PIN
lico last fall when his mount,
Privileged, was disqualified after
winning the Pimlico Futurity. The
race awarded to Matey. He was
then suspended until March 81, by
the Maryland Racing Commission.
The veteran jockey has been gal
loping horses for the Greentree
Stable who has his contract this
wear.
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Oonagh is Pompoon's dam;
Oonagh is Irish for Agnes. Sold
before the racing world knew any
thing of Pompoon, Oonagh brought
only $1,O00-and she was in foal,
at that, to Twink. Offered at auc-
ton right after Pompoon won
the Futurity, Oonagh might have
fetched several times grand note.
Minneapolis outstanding horse
fan, c. C. Champine, asks if any
of the produce Of Artful filly
champ of 1904 and turf queen in
any era) ever did any good on the
race course. Paintbrush and
Adroit were close to fair, but Sam
Slick was one Of the worlds most
terrible horses. Even HirSch Jacobs
would have had a tough time max
ing him win more than once in
any season.
Mack Garner, sitting still for
100 yards with Cavalcade, letting
him regain his stride after being
pinched out of contention in the
Detroit Derby as they rounded the
last turn, and finally turning the
brown fellow loose to fly past 10
colts and win going away :. and
timing his run to perfection in
winning the Latonia Champion
ship with Rockminster.
Decreased crowds at Santa
Anita during the cold spell did
not surprise those who know
their Southern California; folks
there just won't turn out in bad
weather-eXcept for something
out of the ordinary, like a Rose
Bowl game.
ClevelandS Norman Telzrow,
pari-mutuel expert, writes his
wonderment if there really was a
race horse in England called
Potoooooooo, count those "o's,"
please, Mr.. Printerman; there
should be eight of them in sue
cession). CThere are-PrinterD
There was such horse, and his
name may have been spelled that
way at first, but later it became
Pot-8-os. I imagine some printer
of almost 200 years ago, with a
limited font of type objected to
using nearly all his o's for one
word, and devised the simpler
spelling.
Harry Hastings, one of New
York's old-time layers of odds, will
The Washington times., 1937-02-09
Hole Pin League
SEASON RECORDS

SEASON RECORDS
High team games: Executives, $50 F.;
COmptrOIIers, 587; Loans. 585; Auditors,
578. High team sets: Loans, 1889; Traf.
fic, 1881; COmptrOllers, 1921; Execu-
tives. 1,6l9. High individual games:
Sheckles, 1871; Fling, ISL; Roberts, l51 j.;
MCGOwan, 151. High individual sets:
Booker, AIS: Hummer, 1892; Kelley, 1856 !;
NJ. Wood, 373. High individual averages :
Booker, 114-O; Sheckles. 1921; Fling,
111-42; Mears, 1O9-S. High flat games:
Croft. 95; Nash, "a; DemOtt, 90; Nc.
GOwan. 90: ID. Mears, 80; H. S. Wood, 90.
High strikes: Mcmahon. 80; Fl. P. Evans,
30: Connolly, 81; NJ. Wood, 26. High
spares: Sheckles. 149; Booker, 1873; Fling,
1870; A. c. Elzins, 1913.
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Last Nights Fights

AT NEW YORK--EnPicO Ventura, 139,
Italy. deCisioned Jimmy Mcleod, 1S5.
Tacoma, Wash (Sl. VincenZo Dell
'nrtO. fs4. Italy, knocked out Lou
Sierra, I24. Puerto Rice az.
Lewis. worlds IiGht-heavywelRht cham
piOn, won decision over Al EttOre, Phil
adelphia 15). Johnny Lucas, 14S Cam
den, y. j.. OUtpOinted Holman Williams
l4O. Chicago (8).
AT CHICAGO-Maurice Strickland
New Zealand heavyweight. Outpointed
Art oliver. Chicago (Sl. Bernie Bow
man. Chicago heavyweight. stopped stan
Savoldi, St. Paul (SG