LEO THE LION STILL
KING OF BEASTS
LYNCHBURG, Va. (/P) — Leo
the lion retained his title as king
of beasts in an impromptu bout
just north of there Saturday.
But the title cost the King
Brothers circus one full-grown
leopard valued at about $450, a
gaily painted circus truck and the
services of one of its truck driv
ers.
The large, compartmented truck
housing the two circus beasts
overturned on a steep incline
when brakes apparently failed.
As wreckers attempted to right
the truck, the door between Leo’s
cage and that of the leopard
swung open.
Leo pounced on his smaller ad
versary and won with a sharp
clamp of the teeth on the leopard’s
windpipe.
When last seen, the truck driver
was hitchhiking northward.
MIDDLETOWN, O. (^ — Air
planes are going down—in price.
John A. Lawler, president of
the Aeronca Aircraft corp., an
nounced price cuts ranging from 1
$100 to $400 on his company’s
planes. The Aeronca Champion
now is $2,475 at the factory, he
6aid.
Army Engineers
Get Large Funds
WASHINGTON UP)—'The army
gave its engineers $3,525,100 Sat
urday for special military con
struction at the secret guided mis
sile center at White Sands.
It also allotted $40,907,085 to
bolster the nation’s ramparts in
Alaska, where a lack of housing
has forced a delay in plans to in
crease ground force strength.
Funds for the New Mexico and
Alaska projects werf among top
items in a $612,700,000 expansion
program announced by secretary
of the army Royall. Of this total,
$151,000,000 was earmarked for
army and air force construction
in 27 states and 10 overseas areas.
The army engineers also will
spend $429,000,000 during the fis
cal year ending next June 30 for
such things as equipment, maps,
research and maintenance opera
tions. In addition, Congress gave
them $32,700,000 extra to con
tinue work underway in Guam,
Okinawa and Alaska — mostly
housing.
The Philippines contain more
than 7,000 islands and islets, of
which only 466 cover a square
mile or more.
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FCC Clamps Down
On Radio Lotteries
^Continued from Pajre One*
a set of proposed new regulations
aimed at curbing, if not eliminat
ing, many of the programs cur
rently offering fabulous cash,
travel and merchandise gifts to
lucky listeners.
In essence, the rules say there
must be no more such give-aways
based in any way “upon lot or
chance.” Nor can the winners be
required to <a) furnish any money
or other things of value <b> pos
sess the sponsored product or (c>
be or have been listening—or
viewing—the program in ques
tion.
The commission didn’t say
when the new clampdown will
become effective.
NEW YORK (/P)—The National
Broadcasting company says it
won’t start any new give-away
shows until it is sure they’re le
gal. The company made the an
nouncement a day after the fed
eral communications committee
disclosed it was studying the le
gality of such shows under fed
eral lottery acts.
NBC said it will “accept no ad
ditional programs of the type
questioned” pending outcome of
the commission’s study.
The network said legal uncer
tainties arising from the federal
communication ac.’s ban on lot
teries “have troubled the industry
since its enactment,” and that
clarification would be welcome.
An American Broadcasting Co.,
spokesman said all of its prize
j contests “have been examined by
counsel and are in full accord
with provisions of the communi
cations act.”
I Mutual Broadcasting system
said it believed that “very little
of our programming would be af
fected in any respect” by the new
rules being considered by the
FCC.
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6 Losr Mountain
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Climbers Turn l ![>
Safe And Sound
JASPER. Alta.. i/P) — Three
United States tourists with a pas
sion for mountain climbing turn
ed up Friday night from a 10-day
absence on 12,294-foot Mount Co
lumbia in the Canadian Rockies.
A rescue party scheduled to as
cend the mountain in search for
them disbanded when the three—
two women and a man—returned
to their automobile. The car’s Vir
ginia license plate, 591-388, was
the sole clue here to their iden
tity.
I Reports from the Columbia ice
field chalet indicated the travel
ers were none the worse for the
experience.
They left the chalet July 27
with but four days’ sunnlies and
it still is not known whether they
had alpine equipment.
But last night, after exchanging
greeting with Swiss guide Ernie
Neidered, they drove off and
nothing has been heard of them
since.
<The Virginia division of motor
vehicles sa!d the car plates wero
issued to Edmund Kenneth Kar
cher. Arlington. Va. In Arlington,
neighbors said Karcher, his wife
and a friend were away on a trip
to the Canadian Rockies and had
in’ended to do some climbing. All
three were said to be members of
a local mountain climbing club.)
Sue Ship Owners
For $50,000
SEATTLE, (A3)—Federal judge
John C. Bowen has summoned all
the parties involved in a $50,000
suit over one of the, eight deaths
in the sinking of the cannery ten
der Cougar near Kodiak two years
ago.
The suit was filed last month
by Amund Taylor for the death
of his wife, Louise. It was filed
against Frank McConaghy, the
Whiz Fish Products Co., and
Charles D. Alhadeff, liquidating
trustee of Frank McConaghy Co.,
Inc.
No answer has yet been filed
by the defendants.
The complaint alleges that the
65-foot Cougar, operated by the
McConaghy company, was unsea
worthy and overloaded on its ill
fated trip. It charges that the
ship leaked excessively and had
inadequate pumps and that the
crew refused to turn back in the
face of a bad storm.
Mrs. Taylor, an expectant
COOKS, STEWARDS
WIN COURT DELAY
I
SEATTLE. </P)—The CIO Ma
rine cooks and stewards union
Friday secured a delay in the en
forcement of a court order re
quiring it to reinstate a union
member aboard the S. S. Alaska.
The member, Charles Birdsall,
contended he was ousted from his
job by the union because he op
posed its endorsement of Henry
A. Wallace for president. Superi
or judge James B. Kinne ordered
he be reinstated in his job Tues
day. However, Friday the union
succeeded in obtaining a supreme
Court writ delaying enforcement
of the order pending a high court
hearing.
mother, was traveling from
Northwest Bay to Kodiak.
The Whiz corripany was named
as a co-defendant on the ground
that Alhadeff transferred all as
sets of the McConaghy company
to it last March.
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