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The Nome nugget., 1953-07-15
US. Destroyer Hits School Of Whales In The Pacific

TOKYO, R- The Navy today said the U. s. Destroyer Blue bumped into two or three whales while enroute to a Pacific island.
 we were going along nice and smooth" said Merle Fisher, sea- man from Cook, Neb., when all of a sudden we felt a couple of bumps"
 Chief Yeoman Andrew Falei, Perth Amboy, N.J., said 'tIn the ten years I've been in the Navy, I've only heard of this happening once or twice"
 George Wagner, of Memphis, Mo-, added:
 When we got back to the spot where we hit the whale we found a large red stain in the ocean with two whales thrashing around. We must have hit a whole school of whales"
 The destroyer was not damaged.
The Nome nugget., 1953-07-15
Jabara Bags 18th MIG On 95th Mission Over Korea

SEOUL, R-Maj. James Jabara, Americas first jet ace, bagged his 18th Communist MIG today to be- come the worlds second-ranking jet ace.
 Jabara scored his victory on the 95th combat mission of his second Korean tour. It also made him the second triple jet ace in history.
 Today's victory puts Jabara within one MIG of the all-time record held by Capt. Joseph Mo Cornell of Apple Valley, Calif., who bagged 16 MICS.
 Jabara is within five missions of returning to the United States at the end of his present 10O- mission tour.
The Nome nugget., 1953-07-15
Big Three Present Notes To Russia Proposing Big Four Meeting In Autumn

WASHINGTON, R - T h e United States, Britain and France today presented notes to Russia formally proposing a Big Four foreign ministers meeting on Ger man unification.
 State Department press officer Lincoln White said the United States note had been delivered to the Soviet embassy here this morning and similar steps had been taken by the Allied govern ments of London and Paris.
 This was in accord with agree ments worked out by the Big Three western foreign ministers at a five-day conference ending last night. The Big Three decided to take the initiative in demand ing action on reuniting East and West Germany and on completing an Austrian peace treaty. Their communique called for the session in the autumn.
The Nome nugget., 1953-07-15
MARCIANO TO FIGHT LA STARZA SEPT. ON 24

NEW YORK, R-Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano today signed to defend his title against Roland La Starza of New York at the Polo Grounds, New York, on Sept. 24 It will be Marciano's sec7 ond defense of the title he won from Jersey Joe Walcott last September.
 Marciano will receive 4212 per cent of the gate receipts and La Starza 1712 per cent. The contract has a six month return bout clause.
The Nome nugget., 1953-07-15
Bodies Recovered As Hope Fades for Crash Survivors

HONOLULU, lR = Rescuers Tuesday pulled burned and mutt lated bodies from shark infested waters $50 miles east of Wake Island where a Transocean Air lines passenger plane crashed Sat urday night with 58 abroad.
 Fifty passengers-nine of them children-and eight crewmen pre- sumably perished in the crash.
 The Navy transport Barrett re- covered II bodies, two of them children, before dark Monday night and had sighted three others.
 The bodies recovered included a boy, a girl, four women and two men. The sex and age of the others had not been deter mined.
 Hope for survivors faded rapid ly as the Barrett reported sight ing the fifth and last raft carried by the ill-fated DC-6B plane. The raft was empty.
 The Barrett's medical officer aboard the Navy transport said after viewing the scorched and mutilated bodies:
 "There is little hope of any sur vivors."
 Dispatches from the Barrett in- dicated the. water was churning with sharks. The rescuers re- ported they could not retrieve the last three bodies sighted be cause of sharks"
 The airlines, bound from Guam to Oakland, Calif., was last heard from at 10:20 pm. Honolulu time Saturday, when it reported it's position as 325 miles east of Wake. It apparently plunged into the sea minutes later without a chance to send out a distress sig nal.
The Nome nugget., 1953-07-15
Tourists Cancel Travel
 To Valley 10000 Smokes Fearing Volcanic Eruption

ANCHORAGE, R-Alaska tour ists have been cancelling travel reservations to the Katmai camps in the Valley of 10000 Smokes be- cause of the fear of volcanic erup- tion, Ray Petersen, airlines off cial, said yesterday.
 Peterson, president of Northern Consolidated Airlines, flew to Se- attle last night. He said he wanted to publicize the fact that there is no such danger. The recent Mount Spur eruptions were some 300 miles to the northwest of the Kat mai area.
The Nome nugget., 1953-07-15
JUNE REVOLT IN EAST
 GERMANY COST 5s7 LIVES

BERLIN, R-A Hamburg news paper said Wednesday that the June IT East German revolt claim ed 587 lives, including Al exc cuted by Soviet firing squads.
 The paper, Die Welt, said 1870 other persons were wounded dur ing the uprising.
 These figures, far exceeding any previous estimates, have been con- firmed by Gen. Wilhelm Zaisser, East German minister for state security, Die Welt said.
The Nome nugget., 1953-07-15
Glenn l.. Emmons, New Mexico Banker, Named Indian Commissioner

WASHINGTON, LR - President Eisenhower today nominated Glenn L. Emmons, Gallup, NM, banker, to be Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
 Emmons would succeed Dillon s. Myer, resigned.
 Emmons, 57, is president and board chairman of the First State Bank of Gallup.
 He is veteran of World War I and a former member of the board of regents of the University of New Mexico.
 Eisenhower told a news confer ence a week ago he was trying to find the best man available for the job of Indian Commissioner, and that as he promised during his campaign, he would consult with various Indian tribes before making his choice.
The Nome nugget., 1953-07-15
Sex-Strangler of Noting Hill, London, Is Hanged

LONDON, R John Reginald Halliday Christie, the Noting Hill sex strangler who confessed he killed seven women but might have murdered more, was hanged today in Pentonville Prison.
 Even as he died, a controversy ragged over whether the mild-ap- bearing transport worker and wartime auxiliary cop was guilty of baby's murder for which an- other man was hanged three years ago.
 The case of the insanity-plead- ing wholesaler in killing, who walled up his victims bodies in his apartment or buried them in his garden, had shocked Britain as no other murder spree since Jack the Ripper's.
 The sentence was carried out by Albert Pierrepont, England's chief hangman, who keeps a York shire pub called Help the Poor Struggler" when not at his off cial duties.
The Nome nugget., 1953-07-15
Is CASES POLIO REPORTED IN ALASKA SINCE JAN. l

JUNEAU, R-Alaska has had total of 16 polio cases since January 1. Two new cases were reported yesterday to the Terri torial Health Department. One was a mild attack, suffered July 10 by 10-year-old boy who lives on the Glacier Highway near Juneau. The other was an H. year-old boy at Moose Pass. He was stricken July with paralytic polio.
The Nome nugget., 1953-07-15
Put "A Head On The Water? NEW HARTFORD. Conn. R-

NEW HARTFORD, OOnn., Rl- Water company officials were wondering what they would have done if the trailer truck that crashed through a retaining wall yesterday had rolled few feet more and plunged into the area reservoir.
 The truck was loaded with 800 cases of beer.
The Nome nugget., 1953-07-15
TUESDAY SCORES
All-Star Game

National League 5, American League 1
 Coast League Hollywood 2-2, Portland 0-1 San Francisco 8-3, Seattle Al Oakland 2-12, Sacramento 10 Los Angeles 6, San Diego
Evening star., 1953-05-04
Leaders 10 Tang|e
In Montgomery Loop

The tie for first place between
Colesville and Germantown in
the Upper Montgomery County
Baseball League will be broken
next Sunday when the two lead
ers tangle at Germantown.
Both have 80 records. Coles
vile kept its slate clean by top
ping Redlands, 81, yesterday,
while Germantown defeated Day.
ton, 5-1. The other game went
to Gaithersburg over Burtons-
vile. 11-6.
The Prince Georges County
League opened yesterday with
Kenny McMullin tossing a no.
hitter for Lees Tavern as it
defeated Accokeek, 100. He
famed 10 and helped himself at
the plate with a double and
single. Silver Hill beat Phillips,
81, in the other league game.
The fanciest score yesterday
was 24-10 for Atchison and Kel-
ler Plumbers over Virginia White
Sox in the Old Dominion League.
Other results were Vienna over
Colonial Restaurant. 14-4, and
Mclean over Forestville, 3D..
In other games. Snug Harbor
topped Herald Harbor. TO and
Al, in the Anne Arundel League,
and Kentland nosed out st.
Mary's, 6-5. and Stonewall won
by the same score over Lincoln
in independent games.
Evening star., 1953-05-04
By Bruce FoIes, Jr.

Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick West
enberger's six-year-old Night
Wings, making her second show
ring appearance since last Aug
uSt when she was hurt at the
Altoona, Pa, show was a double
winner in the Balleys Cross
Roads Horse and Pony Show
which closed yesterday on the
Barn Theater show grounds near
Baileys Cross Roads, Va.
Under the handling of Mr..
and Mrs. Gardner Hallman, the
S m h performing chestnut
mare won the working hunter
championship and the reserve
conformation hunter tricolor.
Night Wings put in winning
rounds to win the. open working
hunter and working hunter hacks
and placed second in the ladies
conformation hunter, third in
the open conformation and hun
ter hack and fourth in the ham
dy working hunter for her score
of 812 points in the working di-
vision and 6 points in the con-
formation.
Evening star., 1953-05-04
By Rod Thomas

But for Ann Habercom, who
cracked two all-time tournament
records. Washington would have
emerged from the National duck
pin championships. concluded last
night at Colonial Village, with
Scant hOnorS.
In spite of the largest entry in
the record field of 1,109 teams
t202 over the previous high, 726
doubles and 1,434 singles, the
host area captured only one title.
Marion Hamilton and Larkin
Weldon won the mixed doubles
with a score of 802.
Mrs. Habercom, rolling with
the Powell Radio team of the
Washington Women'S League,
shot set Of 469 and game of
1877 for the highest tallies in the
23-year history of the tourna-
ment.
For this spectacular bowling
she will receive only a minor re-
ward. a share of third-place
money in women's teams. A tech
nicality deprived her of a bit of
championship laurel when Powell
Radio was reduced from first to
third place through the inadvert-
ent use of an ineligible bowler.
Maxine Allen Too Good.
The bowler was Maxine Allen
OF Durham, N. c., nationally
ranked No. /. A National Duck
pin Congress rule provides that
team using a bowler from any
other territory must select one
with an average not exceeding
that of the bowler replaced. In
this instance, the Durham ace,
who averages l25, took the place
of Olga Kazemersky, whose
average is 1O5.
The substitution was okayed
by the Congress, which was
quick to absolve the Powell team.
The rule was thought obsolete,
stricken out several years ago
when the eligibility code was re-
viSed.
The Powells were forced to ac-
cept a dummy score of 300 in
place of the 366 rolled by Miss
Allen. This cut the Powells'
score from 1902 to 1876 and
first place went to the Franklin
Generator Franklin team of Bal
timore. which rolled 1888.
Washington did best in wom-
ems doubles, where it gathered
five of the first 10 places, in this
wise: Dorothy Nickels- Marie
Frawley CAD. second; Alice
Beall-Ronnie Knoblett T40,
third: Lyn Kuczek-Olga Kaze-
mersky (722), sixth; Bobbie
JoneS-Toni Rowe 715), ninth.
and Ellen Norris-Loretta Mills
(713), 10th.
Others from this area to make
the first 10 in the championship
division were:
second; Petworth Bowling Alleys G,ssD.
Mems doubles-Don Cutsail-Bill King
(s23l' nth: Bill Mischou-Julie Singer
Mems singles-Bob Hynek t445).
third.
- Mems Men, all all events Pat Crescent
Womens teams-Powen Radio u.736).
Evening star., 1953-05-04
Double Sailing Victory Tops
Honeymoon for Seogoing GI

Harry Sindle. the seagoing CT
from Fort Belvoir, wound up his
honeymoon leave yesterday by
winning both races in the Thistle
class in the second weekly double
header of the Potomac River
Sailing Association. A feet Of
38 boats competed in nine classes
of the event.
Growing for Sindle in his boat,
Vim. was his bride of the week.
Runnerup honors in the ThiStles
were split between DR.. Warren
Hedman and Jack Fordyce.
Double victories were the Or
der of the day as the fleet raced
in a 15-mile southwesterly breeze.
Col. Francis Shearer, commo-
dore of the National Yacht Club,
led Six-boat Lightning division
both times in his Ca-Va. Leo
Bielecki'S Damflno, also of Ma
tional. took two seconds.
Columbia Yacht Club shippers
scored in three classes. Harvey
Lekson was two-time winner in
the Comets with his Sleipnir II
Evening star., 1953-05-04
Browning Ross Wins
Atlantic City Mile
By the A.soeioted Press

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., May
4.-Browning Ross of the Penn
Athletic Club won the sixth run
ming of the Boardwalk Mile in
Abs, far off the record, yester-
day.
He came in about Is yards
ahead of his closest rival, Horace
Ashenfelter, Newark FBI man.
Both were members of the 1852
United States Olympic team.
- Ashenfelter's brother William
was third and Gus Ormrod of
Atlantic City finished last in the
four-man race.
Ross started slowly and didn't
take over the lead from Horace
until the three-quarter mark.
He wasn't headed after that.
The Boardwalk Mile is run on
a straightaway course. It was
started six years ago and Ross
has been in it every time. This
was his first victory.
Horace was timed at 4:17.7:
his brother at 4:24.9, and Orm-
rod at 4:48.8.
Last years winner was Don
Gehrmann of Wisconsin, who
made it in record 1858.
Evening star., 1953-05-04
Might Wings Nets Double Win
In BoiIeys Cross Roads Show

The conformation hunter title
was popular win for Laura
Lee Shreve's chestnut mare
Cheesecake. With her owner
riding, Cheesecake, who was the
reserve Junior winner on Satur-
day, won the ladies' class and
placed second in the open for a
score of eight points.
For the first time in this area,
a green working hunter division
was offered. Dean Rathbun,
aboard his bay gelding, Shammy.
won the green working hunters
under saddle and then came back
in the open green working hunt
ers for another win and a score
of seven and one-half points for
the champion.
The highlight of the show was
the ever-popular high jump class.
where the winner was awarded
the w. c. War Memorial Tro-
ply. After five jumpoffs and the
fence finally at 6 feet 5 inches.
Ellen Scott aboard New Hope
Farms 4-year-old Apache Moon
was declared the winner.
Evening star., 1953-05-04
GaI|ardo, Riley Finish
Fight Training Today

Dave Gallardo of Los Angeles
and Charlie Riley of st. Louis,
the two opponents for Wednes-
day nights 10-round feather
weight fight at Turner's Arena.
finish their training with public
workouts this afternoon at the
Arena Gymnasium.
Riley had a schedule starting
at 1::30 pm. that included six
rounds of sparring, while Gal
lardo had a similar program
planned for 3 pm.
Their Wednesday night tele-
vision match is a return bout.
Riley stopped Gallardo in seven
rounds in 1851. Since then, Gal
lardo has won II straight bouts,
including an upset over Percy
BaSsett, interim featherweight
champion, here last month.
Evening star., 1953-05-04
Lopez Vows 10 Ban
GoIdstein as Referee
OF GaviIan's S Bouts
By the Associated Press

SYRACUSE, N. Y, May A.
Ruby Goldstein never again will
referee a Kid Gavilan fight. An
gel Lopez. Gavilan's manager.
said today in the wake of his
upset defeat at the hands OF
Danny Bang Bang) Womber.
"Goldstein has voted against
us in seven fights" Lopez fumed.
adding he would insist that
Goldstein not be permitted to
officiate at any of the welter-
weight kings bouts in the future.
All the fuss came about as a
result of the 1O-round non-title
scrap here Saturday night in
which Womber gained a unani-
nous decision over Gavilan, who
had piled up a record Of q fights
without a defeat since losing on
a split decision to Eugene Hair
ston on October 80, 1850, in
Scranton, Pa.
Judges Agree With Referee.
Goldstein voted for Womber
6-3-1. The two judges pretty
much agreed. Dick Albino also
had it 6-3-1, while Jack Kim
ball saw it 5-3-2.
Womber, a 26-year-old Chi
cago Negro. who has done most
of his campaigning in Europe
recently-and with little sue
cess-said he'd like to have a
title shot at Gavilan.
I'D like to fight him for tie
title" he said. I'D try awfully
hard to take him"
But neither Gavilan nor the
furious Lopez was having any
part of such a deal.
Gavilan Says Decision Unfair.
"When consider myself de-
feated, I'll give a man a chance
at the title" Gavilan said.
When I don't consider he de-
feated me, he has no right to it.
Womber is good. He gives a good
show. But I don't think the
decision was fair enough"
I'VE have no idea of fighting
Womber again." Lopez said
"Gavilan won the fight. He won
six rounds easily"
The result was amazing to the
coast-to-coast television audi
ence. In his last five fights in
Europe, Womber lost four Of
them on decisions and gained a
draw in the other.
Gavilan, who weighed ISL,
fought only in spurts, while
Womber. at 1922, pressed the
battle all the way.
Womber learned his boxing
the hard way, acting as a SPAR
ring partner for Sugar Ray
Robinson, the ex-middleweight
king, who retired recently. He
is managed by George Gainford,
who handled Robinson.
Evening star., 1953-05-04

and Karl Gerhard's White Magic
earned two seconds.
Bill Rushlow's Pursuit showed
the way for three other Snipes
each time and runnerup was
Don Graham's Phantasy.
Len Penso in Trinket turned
in a similar performance in the
Penguins, followed by Writ Gill
in Flirt.
George McKenzie's Yankee led
a three-poat field of Chesapeake
20s, although there was a pro-
test pending against him in the
second race.
Two Hampton One-designs
came out for the first time this
season. D. H. Patterson-Knight
in Shonuff won the first time,
and Joseph Browns Diana, the
second time.
Two handicap division boats
showed up for one race and
drst to finish was Fred Mac
Kinnon in one of the new Swed-
lsh tWln-wings.-M. L., jr.
Evening star., 1953-05-04
Pigeon Defies Rule
Racing to Victory
Despite New Loft

A homing pigeon that defied
basic rule. calling for lifelong
attachment to one home, was
pecking away today in the loft
of Maynard Durity. 1416 Young
street Sc, after a victory in
the regular 250-mile race of the
Washington Racing Pigeon Con-
course yesterday from Pulaski,
Va.
Jerry D had won two races for
his old home loft on c street
Sc. before being resettled by
Durity.
Jerry D was home first among
963 birds from 81 lofts, making
the 250-mile trip in 5la hours.
His 1,291.73 yards-a minute
average (slightly better than A
miles an hour was less than
2 yards a minute faster than
the average of his closest rival,
Blue Boy, flown by H. r. Kaske
and Bruce SnoWden, 4004 Mich
olson street. Hyattsville.
Evening star., 1953-05-04
73 Turn Out 10 Launch
Rifle League Season

The Maryland Rifle League
seems set for a very successful
season.
The league opened it's summer
series yesterday at Greenbelt and
73 contestants, a record number,
turned out. ...
Maj. Wilson Magruder of the
Army, who lives in Washington,
and Donald Kern of Greenbelt
each fired 399x40O to tie for in
dividual honors among the men,
while Mrs. Ruth Morgan of Ia
koma Park led the women with
399 and Linn Savage of Wash
ington, who is 18, topped the
juniors with 396. The Greenbelt
Wolves took team honors with
1,592x1, 800.
In a special event with an ex-
perimental international target.
Freeman Morgan. jr.. was best
with 397, while his wife, Ruth,
was runnerup with 394.
Evening star., 1953-05-04

Georgetown, 148; Haverford, los,
and Drexel, 95.
Leading scorer for yesterdays
10 events was Lorenz Schrenk of
CIV with 66 points, followed by
John Dodge, also CIV, with 62.
For the two days, Tim Walsh
of Navy was best, winning nine
of the 13 races Navy entered.
FORT SCHUYLER, N. Y, May
4. (P)-Ed Rogers of Catholic
University was high point man
with 38 points in the dinghy
races yesterday. Rutgers scored
"a points for first place, fol-
lowed by GU with 81.
Evening star., 1953-05-04
GW-MarYIand Fight
For Baseball Lead
Might Go 10 Wire

The baseball race in the North
ern Division of the Southern
Conference has turned into a
two-way battle between George
Washington and Maryland, and
it may not be settled until CIV
plays its final conference game
against William and Mary
week from tomorrow.
Richmond is right behind the
co-leaders with a 4-3 record, but
the defending champion Spiders
have to keep on winning to stay
in the running. The Spiders
meet VMI at Lexington today.
CIV has four conference games
remaining. The Colonials play
at William and Mary Wednesday
and at Griffith Stadium against
Washington and Lee Friday and
VPI Saturday before closing
against the Indians next week.
Maryland has five games re-
manning. including a home dou-
ble-header against VPI Friday.
The Terps play host to W&L
Saturday and to William and
Mary in a double header next
Monday.
The conference tournament
will be held Thursday through
Saturday of next week at Raj
eigh. N. c.
Georgetown, which has a 7-6
record and is not in any con-
ference, plays host to Temple
Wednesday, meets st. JoSeph'S
in Philadelphia Friday and
plays at LaSalle Saturday.
American and Catholic meet
in a double header at Gu to-
day. These two teams and Will
son Teachers are having rough
time of it. Together they have
won only three games while los
ing 81. Winless Wilson is play
ing a rough schedule and will
be satisfied with just one victory
in it's remaining seven games.
Catholic and American hope to
get some consolation at the ex-
pense of each other.
Evening star., 1953-05-04
DeMurco-GonsuIves Bout

BOSTON, May 4 (P1.-Signing
of LightWeights Paddy DeMarco
of Brooklyn and Johnny Con-
salves of Oakland, Calf, for
10-round feature boxing bout
here May 16 has been announced
by the Callahan AC. 1t will be
televised nationally over the ABC
network, with New England
blacked out.
Evening star., 1953-05-04
Armstrong High Cogers
Get Awards Wednesday

Players on Armstrong Highs
basketball team, champion of
Division II, will be presented gold
basketballs when they are hon
ored at a luncheon Wednesday
by the Pigskin Club.
The affair will be held at the
Rhode Island Plaza. Those to
receive awards are Ben Dixon,
Frank Hart, Gary Mays, Eddie
Gilliard, Wexford Rice, Charles
Allen, Ted Boderick. George Dill,
Leon Glover, William Burton,
Carl Jackson, Walter Jones. Oil
yer CoWan and James Bradby.