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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
rAE noYs FROM SYRACUSE

SYRACUSE, N. Y.-(AP) =
You can never figure the tastes
Of basketball fans. Last year with
a winning professional basketball
club, Syracuse drew q total of
121, 1922 patrons. The team had
won % games and lost only one
game. at home. This season for
their first % home games, in
which they show Is victories and
8 defeats, they have drawn 1872
814 fans. SIX
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
REFEREE voss NEEDS
A HOSS

MONTREAL. - (AP) = Carl
Voss, referee-in-ch of the Ma
tional Hockey League, might lie
aptly called the Bobo NewSom
of hockey. He played for. eight
National League teams during
his six years as an MIL player.
Voss was the first player signed
by the Toronto Maple Leafs The
other clubs he played for were
New York (Rangers and Amcri-
cans), Detroit, Ottawa, St. Louis,
Montreal and Chicago. lie finish
ed his playing career as a mem
Der of the 1898 Stanley Cup
champion Chicago Black Hawks
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
SPORTS
INDICTMENTS SEEN IN NATIONS
BIGGEST BASKETBALL SCANDAL

NEW YORK, Feb. 22-(AP)-
Indictments are predicted soon
n the nations biggest college
basketball fixing scandal.
A New York County tManhat-
tam grand jury is delving into
the mess involving some of
Americas best players.
Students at Long Island Uni
versity one of the schools hit
by the latest bribery arrests
are protesting a ban on intercol-
legiate sports imposed by theLIU
trustees.
Al its opening session yester-
day, the jury heard one witness,
Acting Police Capt. William j.
Grafenecker.
He headed the special detective
squad that uncovered evidence of
fixed games involving crack
players of City College of New
York and New York University
as well as LIU.
District Attorney Frank S.
Hogan said the grand jury's first
session disposed of preliminary
groundwork" in the case, and he
predicted indictments within a
week or 10 days.
Hogan indicated the possibility
OF. a general conspiracy indict-
ment against eight accused ath-
letes and the alleged money
man" as well as indictments
charging individuals with the
giving and taking OF bribes.
The District Attorney said he
had no present information that
other colleges were involved in
the latest basketball expose.
Hogan followed his blasts at
Madison Square Garden college
games with q mention that some
colleges 60 all-ont to get their
teams into tho garden.
Describing the garden as IAN
unwholCsone atmosphere fer col
iege basketball. Hogan added:
How do you get into the gar
den2 Only if you're top-notch
team. In order to get there they
(the collegesl make scholastic ex-
ceptions for athletes. A great
many other concessions are made
to achieve that desired goal"
Students at Long Island Uni
versity. stirred by banning of all
intercollegiate sports after the
scandal broke last weekend, and
a subsequent hint that the school
might continue a minor sports
program, began clamoring for
complete sports reinstatement.
by late yesterday, 1000 of LIU's
400 student body had signed a
petition urging that intercollegi-
ate sports including basketball
be reinstated.
A university spokesman said
yesterday there was some dis
ruption of classes" although no
major demonstration was staged.
Informed that big protest
rally had been scheduled for to-
morrow, LIU President Tristram
Walker Metcalfe indicated it
would not be permitted.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
Jungle Law In
Sawdust Ring

DETROIT, Feb. 20-(AP) -
The savage law of the jungle as
serted itself in the sawdust ring
of a circus yesterday.
1t was quick, it was cruel, and
Sheba, a royal bengal tiger of
Clyde Beatty'S animal act, was
slain.
Prince, a big African lion, was
the killer.
The scene was the Shrine Cir
Gus at the fair grounds coliseum.
Three thousand school children
were the audience to Princes
lustful fury.
He leaped on Sheba and sank
his jaws into her back i'll the
course of an act accompanied by
barking guns and swapping whips
of trainers.
There was perhaps a merciful
element to it, however. Few if
any of the wide-eyed youngsters
were aware of Princes vicious
accomplishment.
1t happened that fast. Grown
ups on hand understood, but they
said the children were spared.
My kid" said one, was more
interested in when he was going
to get his balloon"
1t didn't seem like a fair fight
Prince leaped without warning
from his pedestal. And Prince
was much bigger than Sheba.
In the instant of the attack
Beatty couldn't do anything to
halt it.
He held back other animals in
his lions and tigers act. A rousta-
bout fired a blank gun through
the cage bars against Princes
ear.
The lion let go. Sheba dragged
herself away. About on hour later
she was. dead.
Beatty mourned her loss.
tShe was the whole act" he
said. Il wouldn't have taken $1O,-
COO for her"
The show. of course, went on,
Prince stayed in the act.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
Qhio's Last GAR
Veteran Is Dead

Wauseon, 0. Feb. (AP)-
Daniel Clingaman, 104, Ohio's last
surviving GAR veteran of the war
between the States, died here yes
terday. He suffered a cerebral
hemorrhage three weeks ago.
Thus ended an era in Ohio his
tory, for Clingaman was the last of
some 10000 Boys in Blue" who
went from Ohio to fight in the
Civil War.
Born Sept. %, 1876, near Mel
more in Seneca County, he and
his parents moved six years lat
er in a covered wagon to a home
stead in Fulton County. Tn 1865,
when he was 18 years old, he en-
listed in the last call for volun-
teers in the Union Army.
Clinganan and a brother served
rs buck privates in Company p,
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
GRID CLINIC SET

HOUSTON, TEX.-(AP) -
The fourth annual spring foot
ball coaches clinic at Rice In
stitute will be held March 8, 9, 10.
The grid clinic is held in conjunc-
ton with the final weekend of
spring practice for the Rice Owls
under the direction of Jess Nee
ly, athletic director and head
football coach. No fee is charged
and all football coaches can at
tend.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
Kentucky Still
Leads Tea ans

NEW YORK, Feb. 20-(AP)-
For the fifth straight week, Ken
lucky is the leading basketball
team in the country. The Wild
cats, sporting 16-game winning
streak, again edged out Oklahoma
A & NJ in the weekly Associated
Press poll.
Columbia, the only major un-
beaten team left, moved up to
third place, replacing Kansas
State, which slipped to fifth.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
A SLIGHT SWITCH

NEW YORK - lAP) = Goebel
Ritter of the Nevy York Kuicker-
bockers in the MIA went to East
ern Kentucky State on a football
scholarship but ncvcr. played the
gridiron sport there. His pre-
ficiency in basketball was such
that the athletic moguls gave him
the green light for the court. spot
instead. In high school Ritter
won letters in basketball, base
bail, track and golf.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
cAlLlNo MR. TRoueLE

MIAMI - (AP)-There's an
Interesting story behind the NAM
ing of c. V. Whitney's Mr..
Trouble, leading candidate for
HiaIeah's $4,000 Widener horse
race. After having more than 100
ramcs turned down by The
Jockey Club for the colt, Whitney
vas flying to a meeting which
vas going to prove troublesome.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
GRAIN MARKET

CHICAGO, FEB. 20 = zap
Grain prices continued yesterdays
decline at The. opening of stoday's
Board of Trade session. Wheat
was off as much as three cents
a bushel at the start. Traders
said the influences were better
war news and continued moisture
in the winter wheat sections of
the southwest.
Wheat opened .11I8 to three
cents lower than yesterdays close,
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
First Mission
AT Prison Farm

Father James Mcneil O.M.I.
former army chaplain, and
member of the Oblate Fathers
Mission Band is conducting a mis-
sion for the catholic men at the
London Prison Farm. Father
Eugene Sweeney O.M.L. catholic
Chaplain at the prison is assist
ing Father Mcneil.
This is the first catholic mis-
sion conducted in the history of
the prison.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23

105th Volunteer Infantry. He
marched with General Philip
Sheridan's Army through the
Shenandoah Valley to Richmond,
Va, when the war ended.
After he was mustered out,
Clingaman opened a blacksmith
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23

May S2.54 l3-2.53; Corn was 1875
BIZ lower March S1.s4 and Oats
were 1853 lower, March S1.C3
a-h. goybcans were unchanged
to Ia lower, 1JovcE1sya $329 "a.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23

shop at Tedrow, near Wauseon.
Fifteen years later he bought q
farm near here and had lived
there ever since. More recently,
his daughter, Mrs. Jessie Fauver,
her husband. Carl, and their son,
Stanley, lived there also.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
STANDING RooM ONLY

STATE COLLEGE. Pa. zap
Penn State hung an SRO sign
even before its indoor sports sea-
son began. The reason: its Recrea-
tion Building seats only $500; its.
student body is twice that num-
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23

He picked up a magazine and the
first article he spotted was titled
MIR. Trouble" The rest of the
story needs no explanation.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1951-02-23
In the United States,

YES, we sure ARE the lucky in this world! For
instance, you'd have look farAand wide to find an
American who puts electric service in the luxury class!
There's nothing either expensive about cleo
tricity in this country. Quite the contrary. electrical
power is so plentiful and cheap that we all take it
for granted!
YOU have helped make electricity low in price BY
using it for more and more jobs And the men and
women Of the blsiness-managed companies always
working bring you better service at loVer cost The
result of this combination? Electricity is just about
the biggest bargain in the family budget today
Kodiak mirror., 1951-03-10
mes Travers .e s in Portland

James H. Jim" Travers, former warehouseman for the w. J. Erskine Company, died February 23. at St. Vincent Hospital in Portland.
 Edward Travers, a brother, notified Postmaster Maurice Brig9s of his brothers death and ask ed that his friends in Kodiak be notified.
 A requiem high mass at the Holy Rosary Church in Port land was held on February 26.
 Travers spent considerable time in the territory and lived in Kodiak for several years. He is widely-known through out the territory.
 He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Bertha J. Baum of Se- attle and by his brother, Ed ward and sister-in-law, Mrs. Edward Travers of Portland.
 He was born in Mendota, Minn. He was buried in Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Portland.
Kodiak mirror., 1951-03-10
Sentenced lH
 Two Courts Mere

Malchi Shaw. base employe, pied guilty in two courts last weekend to driving while under the influence of in- toxicating liquor.
 On Saturday, City Magi- strate Myrna Perkins fined him $20 and refused to issue him an Alaska drivers license for 30 days, to replace the ex- pired State of Washington permit he was using.
Kodiak mirror., 1951-03-10

Sunday, Shaw had a slignt car accident, ano Monday al. peared before Commissions i Anna May Vokacel where he pied guilty to driving under the influence, and to driving without a license.
 The commissioner fined him $50 on the liquor charge, and gave him 15 days in jail for driving after having been re- fused a license.
Kodiak mirror., 1951-03-10
NOTICE

Any bills due or owing to Tony's Bar should be pre- sented or paid before the 18th of March 1851. We have sold our business to Harry and Elinor Gottschalk. We wish the new owners success and wish to take this opportunity to thank our many friends and customers for their patronage.
 MT. and Mrs. Dick Butler.
 R11v in Kndiok
Kodiak mirror., 1951-03-10
A~s es.rc. p. :sofhai

q Gssrc~ es. sTofhai
 "a He t.sf gel
 Announcement Of the en- qagement of Miss Flora Hirsch of New York City to Herbert Spiegel, base employe and American Legion Post commander, have been re- ceived here. Spiegel recently returned from a trip to his home in Albany.
Kodiak mirror., 1951-03-10
R0DdAKsAss RRoh /.
Jessie Hoit Wed

Mrs. Jessie Holt, who B. turned last week from spenff- ing the winter outside, d Theodore Pestrikoff wt S married last Friday by Com missioner A. M. Vokacek.
 Mrs. Verna Panamaroff and Emil Anderson were witr neSSeS.
Kodiak mirror., 1951-03-10

Emmet Jennings flew to Naknek this week by PNA.
Kodiak mirror., 1951-03-10

Osky Weeda, Anchol s% salesman, was an incoming PIMA passenger Wednesday.
Kodiak mirror., 1951-03-10

Read the FOR SALE ads
Evening star., 1951-02-02
FondahI 10 Be Named
As Permanent Head
OF D. {. Civil Defense
Only Details Of Release
From Police Force
Remain to Be Settled
By Crosby S. Moves

Inc commissioners today an
nounced that Police Inspector
John E. Fondahl will be named
permanent civil defense director
for the District if details of his
separation from the Police De-
partment can be worked out.
The directors job. which pays
salary of $4,000 a year, is set
up as a permanent post, under
the Districts present civil defense
law. Some means Is being sought.
possibly through special legisla-
ton. to allow Inspector Fondahl
to accept the appointment with
out forfeiting his seniority and
retirement benefits in the Police
Department.
His Work Praised.
In announcing the decision of
the city heads. Engineer Commits
sioner Gordon r. Young praised
the work that Inspector Fondahl
has done in developing the city's
civil defense organization since
he became acting director.
Il believe that he had shown
himself very we'll qualified to take
over the job." Gen. Young said.
Along with outstanding ability,
he has his feet on the ground and
the knack of inspiring the con-
fldence of the public in what is
being DONE"
Inspector Fondahl has been in
on civil defense planning here
from its earliest stages. While
still on duty with the police force,
he served part-time as chairman
of temporary committee which
drew up a preliminary disaster
plan for the city.
Started Career In 1923.
Inspector Dondahl, So, started
his police career in 1923 as a
patrolman in No. / Precinct. His
service included tours of duty on
horseback and motorcycles, as
we'll as command of the eleventh
and eighth precincts.
During World War II he served
as a soldier. sailor and Marine
(see CIVIL DEFENSE, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1951-02-02

in the desolate desert northwest
of here.
The Acc, as customary. con-
fined itself to confirming that a
test had taken place.
Most witnesses agreed that to-
days conclusion came in three
Waves-a small one, then two with
stiff. jolting punches.
Brown Clouds Visible.
AS dawn broke, darkish brown
clouds were visible in the clear
morning air in the direction Of
the range. They were stretched
widely across the horizon in a
sort Of cirrus pattern.
Both the flash and the con-
cussion today seemed to last long
er than in either of the three
previous tests.
Harry Matoslan, Associated
Press photographer. who was near
Indian Springs. hamlet on the
edge Of the big range some 40
miles from here, described the
flash:
Everything went light like day
light. When it was orange and
like a ball of fire, something like
(See ATOMIC, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1951-02-02
Ground Hog Cold as Prophet,
Refuses to Leave Warm Gaze
Forecast Up in Air
AS He Rejects Chance
To See His Shadow

A lot of humans saw their
shadows today. but the ground
hog, snug in a steam heated cage
at the Zoo, was too smart to go
out in the cold.
Consequently no one knows for
sure now whether there will be
six more weeks of bitter winter
or whether there will be an early
Spring.
In the days before steam heat,
when men were men and ground
hogs were ground hogs, February
2 was a mighty important day
1t was-and still is, for that
matter-Candlemas, or Ground
Hog day.
The Humans for centuries have
sought out a ground hog burrow
on Candlemas day and watched
If the ground hog popped out of
his burrow and saw his shadow
the old folks shivered and knew
that spring was far away. The
ground hog, according to folklore,
is so timid he's afraid of his
shadow.
If the ground hog didn't see
his shadow he stayed out of his
burroW and the humans knew that
spring was not far behind.
Today. cautious zoo keepers
Evening star., 1951-02-02
New Atom Blast
Like Earthquake
JarsLas Vegas
Conclusion Smushes
Windows; Flash Seen
In San Francisco
BY the Associated Press

LAS VEGAS. New. Feb. O.
Conclusion from an atomic blast
about rs miles away hit this
southern Nevada City today with,
the force of an earthquake.
1t shattered a glass window in
a downtown department store and
brought flood of calls from
alarmed citizens to police.
One observer on a downtown
street said:
Windows in the big stores
bulged in and out like balloons. I
thought they were all going to
go"
1t was the first damage reported
here IN the series of explosions.
Fourth Flash in Week.
The fourth atomic flash in less
than a week lit up the pre-dawn
sky with noon-time brilliance and
was visible in a radius of more
than 400 miles throughout the
West. 1t was reported seen as far
away as the San Francisco Bay
area.
Brilliance of the light and the
force of the explosion. which
rocked downtown buildings
touched off new speculation about
what the Atomic Energy Commits
sion is testing at its big new range
Evening star., 1951-02-02
Fire in McCIoy's Train
Causes Attack Rumor
BY The Associated Press

FRANKFURT. Germany, Feb. 2.
United States High Commits
sioner John J. McCloy's private
diesel train was severely dam
aged by fire early today at the
Bad sHomburg railroad station,
causing an unfounded rumor
which swept Germany that an at
tempt had been made on his life.
Mr.. McCloy was at his nearby
home when the fire broke out in
the ceiling of the trains combina-
ton engine-kitchen, apparently
as result of a short circuit,
American officials reported later.
The German engineer of Mr..
McCloy's train, discovering the
fire. awakened four German crew.
men and an American Army SER
geant who were aboard.
They saved valuable furnishings
from the cars. The Bad Homburg
fire department, arriving in Is
put out the blaze, but
the interiors. of all three cars were
scorched.
Evening star., 1951-02-02
Agreement Reached
In Jersey Bus Strike
BY The Associated Press

NEWARK, N. j., Feb. of
ficials of the State-Seized Public
Service Transportation System
and union leaders reached a con-
tract agreement today and paved
the way for an early settlement of
one-day-old strike that has
crippled service to 1.6 million New
Jersey riders.
If the striking bus and trolley
drivers and maintenance men vote
to accept the new pact, it is eX-
pected to take at least "a hours
for normal service to resume on
lines of the giant transportation
company.
Terms of the which
includes an 11-cent-an-hour wage
increase-Will be submitted to the
$500 workers for their approval at
II a m. today at local meeting halls
throughout the State.
The new contract announcement
came at 5 am, three hours after
Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll ordered the
State to take over control of the
strikebound transit system under
the public utility anti-strike law.
State Treasurer Walter T. Mar
getts, jr,, administrator of the
company under the seizure order,
said, in addition to the 11-cent in
crease, the new contract will run
for one year and allow minimum
pension of $720 a year.
Mr.. Margetts said the State will
continue to run the plants, Offices
and facilities" of Public Service
Co-ordinated Transport and Pub
lie Service Interstate Transport
until all issues are resolved"
Evening star., 1951-02-02
Featured Reading
Inside Todoy's Star

SPIRITUAL BENEDlcTIoN-suryey-
ing the spiritual ectivities Of Americans,
George Cornell reports q remo-..:;o5ls
upsurse in religious interest on Poss
A-30.
WARTIME PILFERAGE-With O re-
ported increase in theft Of Army sup
plies in Koreo, Stor Stoff Writer
Fletcher F. IsbeII recalls some of tie
reoIIy big houIs Of World Wor II on
Poee A-l0.
HERE AND ABRoAD-News Of &C.
tivities Of District oreo servicemen is
contained in O regular Stor feature on
Pose All.
WHAT IS PARlTY?-Undcr price.
freeze regulations, "por;ty" - zen
on increased Impotence TO -l5lie.
An Interpretation OF t. ,coted
subject oppeors on Pose h..
Evening star., 1951-02-02
Hughes Reported Planning
Biq Guided Missiles Plant
BY the Associoted Press

TUCSON. Ariz., Feb. "A null
timillion-dollar guided missiles
plant will be constructed near
Tucson by Howard Hughes, the
Arizona Daily Star reported to-
day.
The Star said that according
to an informed WASHINGTON
source the plant will cost between
Sc and 50 million and will employ
between 1,400 and 5000 workers.
The payroll may reach $35 mil
lion annually.
Formal announcement was ex-
pected from Washington today.
The Hughes firm has optioned
or leased about so square miles,
embracing about 10000 acres. The
site will be screened by a vast
semicircular security belt of thou
sands of acres of desert land.
Evening star., 1951-02-02

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companies of Chinese Communists
(possibly 400 mem counterat-
tackled at 10 pm. and still were
fighting at midnight.
No details were available on this
relatively small Red effort to
check the United Nations drive,
which has gained about 20 miles
since it began January 25. Enemy
opposition has been slackening
daily.
Advance patrols of the Allies
have been reported only 7 miles
from Seoul.
Heavier Forces Move Up.
Heavier forces are moving up
cautiously, wary against flank at
tacks which are the favorite Red
tactics.
An 9th Army spokesman esti-
mated that $3.50 Chinese and
North Korean Communists had
been killed by ground action be-
tween January IS and 81. Air
reports listed casualties for that
period at 1,442, but some may be
publications.
Even so, there was difference
of military opinion as to whether
the Allies have cracked the main
enemy defenses, despite notable
losses in manpower and shrinking
morale among the Reds.
Chopped up are the Chinese 5Oth
and 38th Armies. Resistance has
(See KOREA. Page A-4)
Evening star., 1951-02-02
BY Mortin ). Hoyden
North American Newspaper Alliance

Far from losing heart over the
Korean war. the Army, it was re-
vealed here yesterday. is sending
Gen. Douglas Macarthur 10000
new troops.
Coming at a time when Amer
lean casualties have dropped to
the lowest rate since heavy Ko-
rean fighting began, the added
troops will, within the next so
days, and for the first time in this
war. give Gen. Macarthur and his
field commanders combat units of
the full strength conceived in the
Armys tables of organization.
When Gen. Macarthur last
June 27 got the surprise presi-
dental order to intervene in
Korea, his Japanese occupation
command was built around divi-
sions consisting of regiments with
two rather than the prescribed
three battalions. Although quick
reinforcements provided men to
form the extra battalions, it was
explained here, the units of 1t.