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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-15
.Canisiius Gives
Dayton Scare

BUFFALO. N. Y, Jan. IA (P.-
The Dayton Flyers, second
ranked in this weeks Associated
Press poll. had the escape of their
lives tonight, coming from II
points down to beat Canisius
.32-73.
The win preserved the Flyers
.undefeated record at 1910. The
loss was the fifth for Canisius
in IL starts.
1t looked like a closing cause
for Dayton from the start. CAM
.sius rolled to a quick 1873 lead
and 7-foot Bill Uhl retired with
an injured ankle. He returned
to action minutes later. But
Canisius. playing a full-court
press and zone from the opening
whistle, rolled on to q 1881 lead
lat the half.
A drive by Dave Marley and
a tap by Hank Nowak gave Can't
sius its biggest markin at $3.50.
Then Dayton got started.
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Dusty Rhodes Okoy
After Auto Crash

MONTGOMERY, Ala. Jan. IA
| (P).-Outfielder Dusty Rhodes
Iof the New York Giants was re-
ported doing fine today at hos
Ipital where he was brought last
might for treatment of auto &C.
Icident injuries.
Rhodes. a key man in the
Giants 1854 World Series VIC
tory over Cleveland, was treated
for a cut on his forehead ano
kept in the hospital overnight
for observation.
Hospital aides said he was
slightly groggy several hours aft
er the accident.
Police said the baseball stat
apparently lost control of hi
car when he swerved to avoie
hitting another vehicle thai
pulled out on an intersection II
front of him. Rhodes automobile
turned over several times.
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Lone Upset Marks
Opening Of Eastern
able Tennis Event

John Somael Of New York,
national runnerup last year, led
the eight mems singles quarter
flnalists out Of the preliminary
rounds yesterday in the Eastern
Open table tennis tournament at
Eastern Branch of the Boys Club
of Washington.
The tournament will be
completed with sessions at 2 pm
and 8 pm. today.
Only one major upset marked
yesterdays preliminaries. Nor.
man Richter, 20-year-old student
at the University of Pennsyl-
vania, upset veteran Sol Schif1
of New York, twice former
national champion. 21-9, 1922
1921, 21-16, .21-17.
Also in the quarter-fina today
are Thor Hazi Of Washington
Marland Cutler of Albany, NY;
Harry Hirschkowitz Of New York,
Bernard Bukiet of Cleveland,
Barry Michelman. l6, of New
York and Dick Dwelly Of Walt
ham, Mass.
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Guest
At Howard Dinner

Don Newcombe will be among
the prominent guests Friday
night at the Howard University
football banquet at Baldwin Hall,
Fourth and College streets, NV.
The Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher
will be joined by Lowell Perry
and Billy Reynolds of the Boiling
Air Force Base football team.
Main speaker will be DR.. Harold
Amos. professor Of bacteriology
at Harvard University.
Awards will be distributed TO
81 members Of Towards 1855
team and the captain Of the 1856
team will be announced. Special
awards will 60 to the outstand-
ing player and most valuable
freshman last fall.
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IWertz Set for Baseball
After Whipping Polio

DETROIT, Jan. IA (R.-Slug-
geer Vic Wertz. who was stricken
by polio last August, said today
Ihe feels better than ever" and
lis eagerly looking forward to the
1855 baseball season.
"I feel great" Wertz said.
MY only trouble is that I'm a
little overweight-seven or eight
pounds. But I'm not complain
ling, not after losing all that
weight last summer"
The Cleveland indians out
Ifielder-first baseman, who'll be
81 next month, was felled by the
disease last August 81.
Wertz spent almost a month in
"a hospital and, during the first
dark week, could only move his
head.
81 had no strength to move
the rest of my body" he re-
called. But despite this, I al
ways told myself that I'd play
ball again."
Wertz left the hospital Sep
TENDER % and returned to his
Detroit home weighing 1872. a
loss of Is pounds in less than a
month. He weighs 215 now and
says he will get down to 208-"my
best playing weight" the
baseball season rolls around.
IT saw my doctor in Cleve-
land last week and he said / was
physically fit," Wertz said. II
haven't touched a BASEBALL all
winter-except to sign a couple
of them-but I feel ready to go
right now" a.. b.
Wertz said some Of the best
medicine he received during his
|convalescence were thousands of
letters which poured into the
hospital from all parts OF the
world.
II got them from Japan and
Germany, the Philippines and
Amsterdam" he said. They
used to bring my mail by the
sacks.' I guess ! must have gotten
more than two or three hundred
pounds of mail.
Let me tell you. those letters
did as much as the other treat
ments I was given. Many of the
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By MERRELL WHITTLEsEY

eco
A week has elapsed since
Jim Tatum announced his re-
signation at Maryland, and
while there is no news as to his
successor, several members of his
football staff apparently are
about ready to announce their
moves.
Tatum said before leaving Col
lege Park Friday for Chapel Hill,
N. c., that his North Carolina
staff probably would be an
nounced on Monday. The As
ISOLATED Press reported from
Chapel Hill yesterday that Ed
Kensler and his wife were there
apartment-hunting.
Mrs. Tatum accompanied Jim
to Chapel Hill. making one of her
rare plane trips to get in a week.
end of house-hunting. That dis
pels the story that a home for the
Tatums was included in his con-
tract.
Bill Cooley, business manager
Of athletics for eight years under
Tatum, and prior to that cashier
Of the University of Maryland
for II years, said he had been
approached by two schools which
are seeking athletic directors
Cobey asked both for more time
Talks on Future Schedules
Cobey attended the NCAA
meeting last week in Los An
genles, primarily for the meeting
Of the business managers OF
athletics, but he also discussed
1889 and 1860 scheduling. The
Maryland schedule is filled
through 1858. Cobey was under
instructions from DR.. Wilson
Elkins, the Maryland president,
in his talks with future oppo-
nents.
Warren Giese, Tatum's closest
aide for nine years and now the
head coach at South Carolina,
also left Friday for a visit with
his new team and a banquet in
his honor last night.
Giese hopes to stay a week,
but his trip probably will be
shortened since Mrs. Giese ex-
poets the birth of their third
child momentarily. Giese also
will go house hunting, although
it will be a month or more before
he is able to move his growing
family.
Meanwhile, the thinking at
College Park is that if DR.. Elkins
planned to name a member of
the staff as Tatum's successor
he would have done so by this
time. He concluded the inter-
views with the assistants on
Friday, having talked to Tommy
Mont, Bob Ward. Eddie league,
Emmett Cheek, Kensler, Whitley
Dovell and Fred Layman.
The favorite slate of many
and the one recommended by
Tatum. is Mont as coach and
Cobey as director of athletics
but there is no certainty that
the jobs will be split. DR.. Elkins
told a reporter he has not de-
cided whether a division will be
made. He said that If Maryland
Is able to get the type of man
who can handle both jobs, it
will do 50.
The meeting Of the past presi-
dents and directors Of the Ter
rapin Club. Maryland's booster
organization, was postponed I'M
til tomorrow because Of the ILL.,
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champion in 1852 who is round
ing into shape slowly, was third
Sydnor got of to a quick start
in the 50-yard test and that's
where he gained his margin. He
had forced one recall with a false
start. but his anticipation paid
of.
Ancient Harrison billiard won
the 45-yard hurdles for the
ninth time in this meet. His
clocking was ST seconds and it
was mighty close. Just as he went
over the final barrier, billiard, the
Olympic hurdles champion,
stumbled and had to make a wild
lunge at the tape to beat Lou
Knight of Manhattan College.
For the f1gger filberts, it
marked billiards. saith straight
heat or final victory in Boston.
Courtney Takes 1000
Tom Courtney. another pros
pective Olympian who is pri-
vate in the Army, made his bid
in the final lap. and won the
1000 in 2:14.6. hitting home five
yards ahead Of Gene Maynard,
lieutenant at Fort Monmouth,
N. j. Courtney hung back in Sec
ond place behind Al Schoenig Of
Notre Dame until the time came
10 show who was boss. Maynard
made his try along with Court
ney. but couldn't keep up with
the former Fordham flier.
The promoters could have
called in "Villanova Night" with
out much of an argument. In
addition to Delaney, Jenkins
Sydnor and Revis. the Wildcat
mile relay team won its spe-
cialty in 800 with jenkins run
ming a 49.2 seconds ahcnor leg
Horace Ashenfelter. the gal
Looping FBI agent from New
York Athletic Club. captured the
two-mile in 9:03.6 and -four
men-Bob Richards. Jerry Wei
bourne. Don Lac and Dor
Bragg-were tied for first in the
pole vault. All went up IA feet
6 inches.
The Pitt two-mile relay team
.of Jim Moore. Wendell Hartford
Perry Jones and Arnie Sowell
broke the only meet record, 60
ing the Is furlongs in 1895
The former mark was 7:4l.9 sci
last year by Syracuse.
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BOSTON, Jan. IA PD.-Sum-
maries Of events at the 30th
Knights of Columbus games to-
night at Boston Garden included :
:. b00-yard run: Robert skerritt
Richard GavoOr, Tufts. 500 seconds
v,i sC.yard dash: w lmGe %,. ssdpor;
LLOYD Bell. Boston .. 81 seconds.
45-yard high hurdles: Harrison
billiard. Cleveland: Lou knight, Man
haitian; 3--Joel Cohen, harvard: A.
David settele. unattached. 81 seconds
vs ESysFd ren ssTnsr. M Ssnens
3-Lou Jones. Port George Meade; f.
Joe Gafiney. shanahan Catholic Club.
.ooo-yard run: Pvt. Tom Court
Fort Monmouth; 3-Pvt. William Smith,
Por. Knox Al shoenis. Notre Dame
L. a E:op ,Ri qa. ps's AZ Y Ee4ss 80;
LaPierre, Baltimore olympic Club. a.
Joe Deadly, GEORGETOWN IA. 4:1l.2..
Intercollegiate varsity mile relay: l.
lane. Edward zeman:. William KrebD;
High Jump: Phil Reavis. yiIlanova.
9 feet ~. inches; 2--Wilfred Lee. New
Ferrara, Rhode Island, 9 feet . inches.
Pole vault Fogr-way tie for first
among the Rev, Robert Richards. Los
Angeles &C; Don Lag. Urbana, H.; Don
Columbus. Ohio. "A feet q. inches.
Two mile: l--Horace Ashenfelter, Nev
York AC; 2-0eorEe King, NYU; Bob
sbarrs. Manhattan; 4---Lewis stieglitz
Connecticut. g:03.6.
Varsity two-mile relay: i--Pittsbureh
DANES Moore. Wendell Hartford, Perry
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may have saved Shea's life and
certainly saved, his sight.
"I couldn't see for five days"
Spec recalled. Maybe there
have been happier guys, but I
know I set a personal record for
happiness when I finally could
distinguish light and realized,
like the doctors had told me,
that I'd see again."
If Shea needs reminder to
enjoy life, he merely has to flick
open his wallet. There IS a pic
ture Of the hospitalized Shea,
with no hair on his head, no eye
lashes, no eyebrows and his head
pulled virtually to twice its nor
NAL size.
This could be the end Of his
baseball career. Spec was I'm.
decided yesterday when con-
Itacted at his Naugatuck, Conn.
home. If this is it-well, it's a
crime that a balky arm pre-
vented him from compiling a
Ifiossier record. But the man had
his moments.
The one he preferred to re-
member yesterday above all
Iothers materialized in the fifth
game of the 1947 World Series
against the Dodgers. II guess
striking out Cookie Lavagetto
for the final out would have to
be my big thrill" Spec said.
Spec pitched magnificently
that day to win a 81 decision.
He had won an earlier game but
had been lifted for a pinch
hitter. On this occasion he went
the distance. singled across the
Yankees first run, but was under
extreme pressure all the way.
Shea entered the ninth inning
with a 3-hitter. protecting a one
run margin but Bruce Edwards
opened with a single to left.
Specs game was jeopardized
when Carl Furillo sacrificed, but
Spec got Spider Jorgensen on a
fly to Tommy Heinrich, then
famed the dangerous Lavagetto.
If the 33-year-old Shea de-
Icides to call it quits, this is a
plea for some sensible radio or
Itelevision executive to grab him.
With his baseball background.
wit an enthusiasm, Spec couldn't
miss as a top sportscaSter.
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The Senators sense OF humol
was punctured beyond repair
yesterday with the release of roly-
poly Spec Shea. who lived every
minute as if laughs suddenly
would be declared illegal. A Ali
record over the past two season:
is rather convincing evidence
that the merry Irishman is 6
pitching risk, but the man is go:
ing to be missed around here.
Into a sometimes too grin
game, Shea injected some fur
with his polished mimicry Of
prominent figures and team
mates, his clever but never bit
ing yelps at the opposition. His
loud, Infectious laughter some.
how made the Senators plight
more tolerable the last four years
This isn't to suggest that Shea
regarded his pitching chores
lightly. He was an intense stu
dent of his art. He was all bust
ness on the mound, but he had
a chronic sore arm which Offset
his fighting heart, His surgine
spirit couldn't command suitable
responses from aching muscles.
*&*
So Spec. after one brilliant IA
S rookie of -the-year season with
the Yankees In 1947. enjoyed
glory briefly. Under Bucky Har-
ris, who steered him to freshman
fame in New York. Shea re-
bounded with the Senators. He
became a winner again in 1857
with an lit record. The fol-
lowing season it was 1877, but
the labor of those years was
wasted on a second-division CLUB
Shea made an immediate i'm
pact on the Yankees, first with
his eating habits and then with
his pitching.
Spec and his roommate. an
other uninhibited rookie. Dor
johnson, decided to test the
Yankees proud boast that the
club travels first class. The
claim probably never was SUBJ
Ijected to more severe strain.
In the coy confines of theil
room and reluctant to stir, Shea
and johnson ordered dinner
Into an unbelieving ear Shea
planted a demand for double
shrimp cocktails, with a heaping
bowl of shrimp on the side. dou-
BILE steaks. two dozen ears OF
corn. two quarts of ice cream
and other assorted groceries in
equally stable portions.
The bill came to $33. give or
take a dime. Shea still gets a
wallop when recalling the look
on the waters face as johnson
handed him a 50-cent tip with
a flourish. Spec came to the
rescue with a more handsome
reward for carting the calories.
Don Just hadn't learned how
we big leaguers operate" Rookie
Shea said later.
Shea could be excused for
living 1t up. Two weeks after
the invasion Of Normandy, Sergt.
Shea was an agonized. scream
ing. blinded soldier. A nearby
gasoline drum exploded, bathing
him in flames.
A bright buddy beat out the
flames, showed the crazed Spec
into a jeep and rushed him to a
first aid unit. That quick action
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Maryland F Football Staff
About Ready to Move Out

ness of Bill Chafinch, the club
president from Easton.
However. leaders of the Terra
pin Club say the organization has
no intention of making any de-
mands upon DR.. Elkins. although
it is expected to make a recon-
mendation.
Tatum May Take Several
Tatum hoped to wait until
Maryland had a new coach be-
fore naming his staff, but he
wants to get going and Is ex-
pected to name league, Cheek,
Kensler and either Mont OF
Ward, or both, as assistants
plus one or two others. Mont is
believed to have several offers
and may not announce his de-
Icision for several days.
Tatum's staff will not include
Charley Justice, who said he
had been offered a job at North
Carolina which entailed some
coaching and talent hunting, but
for the most part would have
been a public relations job re-
curing considerable travel.
Justice plans to enter the oil
distributing business at Hender-
.sonville. 20 miles south of Ashe-
vile. with Joe Wright, a former
Iteammate at Carolina. If that
materializes he will not be back
on his broadcasting job during
Redskin games.
DR.. Elkins has said he will
announce the new coach by
February /, but it may be sooner
Decision Possible Tuesday
DR.. Elkins and Tatum will
meet with the Maryland squad
Tuesday afternoon. An official
close to the situation said yes
terday there was an outside pos
sibility Elkins might name the
coach at that time.
Tatum will meet his new Tar
Heel squad Monday night. He
heard from one coaching source
that he would inherit; a great
backfield but no line, and from
another that the Tar Heels had
a great line but no backs up
coming. Jim will have to see
for himself.
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.Mize to Coach Hitters
For Giants in SPRING

NEW YORK, Jan. IA (P.-
Johnny Mize was signed by the
Giants today as a special coach
of hitters during the spring
training season. Mize was q ra-
dio commentator on a Giants
broadcast the last two seasons
and was a part-time batting
coach.
The Giants also announced the
signing of Second Baseman
Wayne Terwilliger, Pitcher Ernie
Broglio and Catcher Bob
Schmidt.
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Cords Siqn Three

ST. LOUIS. Jan. II (P.-Ths
Cardinals tonight reported Solly
Hemus. utility inflelder, and
Pitchers Bob Mabe, Frank Smith
and Paul LaPalme have accepted
terms for 1856. Only 10 players
are still out of the fold.
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BOSTON TRACK RESULTS

Jones. Arnold SowelD; Manhattan:
York University: 4--Fordham
2 1896 tnew meet record: old mark by
Syracuse. 1865. 7:4l9l.
Varsity mile relay. 1--Villanova fGene
MaliN. Roland Simpson. AL Peterson.
Charhe JenkinSD; 2-Manhattan. 5000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-01-15
B ASE BALL
BE A 7
BY BURTON HAWKINS

The Senators Sheas life and
was punctured beyond repair certainly saved his sight
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-03
9th Amendment
 Pleaded 600 Times In Hawaii Hearings

HONOLULU, R-Rebuffed for two days by longshore officials, us. Senate investigators meet again today in a hearing on Com munism in Hawaii.
 The Internal Security Subcom- mittee heard six witnesses plead the 5th Amendment nearly 200 times since the hearings opened Friday.
 All six reluctant witnesses are officers or former officers of liar ry Bridges International Long shoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Thomas Yagi, Maui divi- sion director, refused 64 times to answer on grounds that he might incriminate himself.
 The subcommittee is headed by Sen. James O. Eastland, D-Miss).
 Former Gov. Ingram M. Stain back told the senators the long shore union was Communist controlled" and active in Hawaii an politics.
 Stainback testified the Pacific Army commander in l947, Gen. John E. Hull, had shown him a Communist plan to infiltrate Ha- waii. Stainback said persons list ed as Communists by Hull still have influence in the ILWU.
 The longshore union has about 24,000 members in Hawaii dock, sugar and pineapple industries. Less than half of these walked off their jobs Friday in protest demonstration against the sub committee hearings.
 Bridges has accused the East land investigators of being tout to wreck the union."
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-03
Car Out of Control Speeds Down Hill to Crowds; Girl, IT, Wins Praise for Her Action at Wheel

WINDSOR, Conn, R-Down the hill it came, hitting 70 or 75 miles an hour-a car gone crazy.
 At the wheel, Cynthia Moran, IT, pounded furiously with her foot on the brake. Her 14-year- old brother David sat frozen *o the front seat.
 They were on their way to church. It was 10 am. and the crowds just a few blocks ahead were crossing Broad Street head ing for church. Traffic Patrolman Robert Christensen was directing them across.
 Something had happened to the car at the top of the hill. Sudden ly the engine had roared up and the car spurted ahead.
 Cynthia couldn't stop it. The
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-03
Canada Flies Relief To Hungarian Refugees Will Take in 400

VANCOUVER, R-A Canadian Pacific Airlines polar flight, laden with relief supplies for Hungarian refugees, left Vancouver Airport Saturday night bound for Vienna.
 It is scheduled to return here tomorrow with 50 refugees, the first of 400 to be brought here on airlift arranged by the federal government. Four more similar flights are scheduled.
 The relief supplies include food and clothing donated to the Elmer gency Council for Hungarian aid.
 Accommodations for the refu- gees are being arranged. So far, 300 offers of temporary accommo- dation have been received.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-03

geon, 67, jumped out of his.
 The cars, hooked bumper to bumper, began to move again-in a slow, crazy circle. But Patrol man Christensen hopped onto the car Cynthia had been driving, flung open the hood and pulled the wires from the coil in the engine.
 The crazy car stopped and Gym thia and her brother stood trem- bling among the crowd.
 She told police the car, 1856 sedan, had recently been repaired. Police said they believed the link age between the gas pedal and the carburetor stuck.
 The police didn't arrest Gym thia. "She did remarkable job of handling the car," they said.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-03

brakes didn't hold. She couldn't get the gears into neutral. Moth ing happened when she turned off the ignition.
 She leaned on the horn and turned the car into the Espanade "a grassy strip dividing north south lanes on Broad Street.
 Patrolman Christensen spotted the car coming toward the crowds. He shouted for them to get back out of the way.
 Cynthia came to the intersec- ton and by then managed to jam the gears into reverse. The car jolted and spun around, then slammed into Albert Turgeon's car, coming the other way.
 The cars stopped and Cynthia and her brother jumped out. Fur
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-03
Councilmen Personally Interviewing Taxpayers On New Water Utility

Members of the Nome City Council have taken on the job of personally interviewing all the taxpayers of the community on their views of the proposed sew craze and water system.
 They are giving their time to answer questions of taxpayers in the part of town assigned to them and educating them, when neces- sary, on the improvement this project will give to the communi- ty economically and for health protection.
 Council members will report their finding at the next council meeting.
The Nome nugget., 1956-12-03
BRITAIN AND FRANCE AGREE TO WITHDRAW FROM EGYPT SOON

LONDON R-Britain and France bowed today to the will of the United Nations and agreed to pull their troops out of the Suez Canal zone without delay.
 Further, the British told Israel it should get out of the captured Gaza strip as well as Egypt's Si- mai Peninsula and permit the strip to be made responsibility of the United Nations.
 In New York, JUN. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold expressed his hope the British and French fore es will be out and the emergency JUN. police force will have taken command in Port Said by mid December.
 Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd notified the House of Commons that the commander of the Brit ish-French invasion forces. Sir Charles Keightley, has been in structed to meet with U.N off cials to work out a time table for withdrawal.
 "Given good faith on all sides, it can be carried out in short time" Lloyd said.
 In Paris, Foreign Minister Chris tian Pineau delivered a similar statement to the French National Assembly.
 Lloyd's announcement made it clear that the invasion failed to achieve what many members of Britain's ruling Conservative Par ty had considered prime obiec- tive: to restore the Suez Canal to international control.
 He said JUN. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold would soon promote negotiations on the ca nal's control among representa- tives of Britain, France and Egypt.