Aed’s and Island
stronghold in
artillery duel
TAIPEI, Formosa {IP) Rod
China’s mainland ‘guns today
heavily bombarded Quemoy
and pounded an island in the
Matsu group, where a sea skir
mish also was reported, offic
ial accounts said.
The defense ministry said
687 shells rained down this a£
fternoon on Quemoy and Little
Quemoy, across Formosa strait,
in one of the heaviest red bar
rages of the year. It was the
third straight, day that Red
guns had pounded the Quemoy
area.
The Red artillery from the
mainland and from the adjac
ent port of Amoy lapsed into
silence under heavy counter
fire from the Nationalist is
land stronghold, the communi
que said.
The minister said Red guns
on the mainland fired seven
shells at tiny Kaoteng, most ex
posed island of i he Matsu group
’00 miles northwest of Formosa
It was asserted no damage was
caused.
The official Central News
agency reported Nationalist
patrol craft clashed last nigh:
with Red guniboats off Kaateng
and routed them in an hour
long battle.
Egyptians cross
armistice line to
joccupy hill
JERUSALEM (JP) Israeli tro
ops drove off a band of Egypt
ian soldiers who crossed the
armistice line and occupied a
hill on the Israel side of the
Gaza Strip yesterday, a mili
t ary spokesman announced to
day.
During the gun fight the
Egyptians used rifles, machine
guns and a heavy mortar, the
spokesman said. There were no
Israeli casualties.
The border situation was dis
cussed at a meeting in the Is
raeli foreign ministry of Gen.
Edson L. M. Burns, head of the
United Nations truce team,
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SOPHOMORE CANS 43
POINTS LAST NIGHT
by The Associated Press
When a sophomore can sink
43 points in fast college com
petition, what will be he doing
when he becomes a senior?
Southwest Conference coach
es must have nightmares
when they think of Rice's 6-10
Temple Tucker, a sophomore
center, who, it appears, is
just beginning ltd find his way
around a basketball court.
The towering youngster scorj
ed 43 points to set a tourna
ment record last night while
his mates were running up a
110-81 victory over Texas A &
M in a first-round game of the
Southwest Conference event.
That was the highest -score
rolled up during the night —
a night in which basketballs
flew ail over the United States
Some 25 tournaments got un
der way, reached the halfway
point or concluded during the
nitght.
Rice, which now shows a
record of 9-0, oif course, was
installed as the favorite to
win the event. In a.her first
round games, visiting South
ern California polished off
Baylor 72-59; Texas turned
I back Texas Christian 66-60
and Southern Methodist whip
ped Arkansas 67-62.
Only one major tournament
was decided. Thai was the Mo
tor City in Detroit, in which
Brigham Young, deprived of
its three tallest players, at the
stan: of the second half thru
fouls, defeated Detroit 99-77
in the final.
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and Dr. Walter Eytan, director
general of the Israel foreign
ministry.
The Palestine itruce group
earlier blamed both Egypt and
Israel for delay on U. N sec
retary general Dag Harnmar
skjold’s frontier peace propos
als but indicated there may be
some progress soon.
Atop Donner summit in the
Sierra Nevadas the snowpack
reached 98 inches, compared
with 35 a year ago.
Ellsworth Bunker, president
of the American "Red Cross,
flew by helicopter today to
Stockton and to Santa Cruz. He
will fly tomorrow to Yuba City
and then to Sacramento to con
fer with Gov. Goodwin Knight
With 161 disaster workers
mobilized from all over the Un
ited States, the Red Cross esti
mates it will spend five million
dollars providing prompt aid
vo families in immediate need
in northern California and in
southern Oregon.
Gov. Knight, after viewing
in Santa Cruz “the worst bus
iness (property damage” in all
the flooded sectors, signed an
agreement to supply one mil
lion dollars in federal funds for
immediate rehabilitation aid
there.
Tons of food was being air
lifted there to Humboldt coun
ty .Baeklogieed Christmas mail
also was being flown to the Eu
reka area.
The federal civil defense ad
ministration. which will co-or
dinal e the “blank ichedk” fed
eral rehabilitation aid assured
bv President Eisenhower, onen
ed centers at Eurek^. Santa
Rosa Santa Cruz. Stockton.
Yiba City and Reno.
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Sports Trail —
by Whitney Martin
MEW YORK f/P) Inasmuch
as the compiler of the Martin
Little Giant Sports Almanac
will be taking a well-earned
vacation on the usual publi-j
cation date, the 1956 edition!
is coming out a little early, thus j
giving its avid readers more
time to marvel at ills inaccur
acies.
No effort has been spared in
trying to make its as incom
plete and unreliable as possi
ble. and any predictions which
(continued on page two)
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ROSE BOWL TEAMS
REACH PEAK FITNESS
PASADENA (lP) There has-j
n’t been a (pessimistic note’
from either the Michigan!
State or UCLA camp this;
week as the Rose Bowl con-:
test ants approached peak fit- ]
ness for their New Year’s foot:
ball (game.
Both coaches, Dutffy Daugh
erty of the Spartans and Red
Saunders of the Bruins, are
iwell satisfied with the pro
gress their squads have made
since prana ke started.
Daugherty said today there’s
a little sharpening to be done
physically, “But we know we
won't have trouble getting
them worked out emotionally
by Jan. 2.”
Sanders was informed by Dr
Walter Scott that star passer
Ronnie Knox, who suffered a
broken ankle bone in the
Washington game Nov. 12, was
available Ifor service. X-rays
showed yesterday that dhe
break has healed properly.
(But Sanders isn’t planning
to start Knox, regardless. He
said: “Just because the doc
tors say he’s available doesn’t
mean he’ll play. If he doesn’t
move around well he won’t
be playing much. He can’t
pass flatfooted.”
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