15th Century Sailors
Termed Much Better
NEW YORK M — Bob Marx,
29, the only American among the
nine-member crew that sailed the
Nina II — a close copy of the
smallest of Christopher Columbus’
discovery ships — across the At
lantic, says maybe sailors were
better in the 15th Century. The
original Nina completed the jour
ney in 70 days. The 40-foot Nina
II took 117 days.
However, Marx said here the
crew of the Nina II had bad luck,
encountering severe storms and
losing its fresh vegetables and
fruits and even its fresh water
supply. “Probably the greatest
edge Columbus had on us,” Marx
said, was that he really didn’t
know where he was going so . . .
he had no reason to worry he was
off course.”
"Holdup Nothing" . . .
PHILADELPHIA UP — Mrs.
Anna Hunt, 82, foiled a robbery
in a gift shop Friday when she
attacked the armed intruder and
sent him fleeing.
Mrs. Hunt was talking with a
woman sales clerk when the gun
man appeared and announced:
“This is a holdup.”
“Holdup nothing,” replied Mrs.
Hunt, as she began striking the
would-be bandit. He fled to a
waiting taxi.
San Diego Zoo Keeper
Killed By Black Leopard
SAN DIEGO Cal f. M - A zoo
keeper was killed Saturday when
a leopard attacked him in the
feeding compound. He was James
Tuttle, 35.
Zoo officials said the 125-pound
black leopard swiped Tuttle’s face
with its paw — ripping into the
jugular vein.
Several visitors to the world
famed San Diego zoo witnessed the
attack.
Zoo officials said the leopard
apparently escaped its cage and got
into the feeding compound after
someone pulled a wrong lever.
Attendants at the zoo managed
to force the 8-year-old leopard back
into its cage with a bamboo pole.
City Leaguers See
Action Tomorrow Night
After a weekend of high school
games the City League will resume
play tomorrow evening.
In the prelim the Nanooks will
tangle with the Jaycees. The Jay
cees occupy the runner-up spot
in the standingts, but have had
trouble beating the Nanooks this
season. So far this season the NHS
has taken both games from the
Jaycees.
Top-ranked Polar will take on
the cellar-dwelling Merchants in
the second game tomorrow even
ing. The first game will start at
7:15.
Thread of Evidence ...
GLASHOW, Scotland M — A
mere thread of evidence has land
ed a young burglar in jail.
The youthful thief broke into a
neighbor’s house. A thread protrud
ing from a drawer he opened
caught on a button of his jacket.
As he went from room to room the
thread unwound from a spool.
Detectives called to investigate
the theft followed the thread
through a window of the house,
out into the street, around a cor
ner and into the boy’s home.
Security Fencing Project
An $84,450 contract has been
awarded to Pacific Construction
Co. and Associates of Fairbanks,
for a security fencing project at
Galena Airport.
The firm submitted the lowest
bid among five opened publicly by
the U.S. Army Engineer District,
Alaska, on Nov. 1.
Red f '*,*s
Buying Pri'annia Airliners
LONDON M — Communist
China is ~ rin buying a fleet
of 14 Britannia airliners offered
for sale by British Overseas Air
ways Cor n spokesman said Sat
urday.
A group of experts from China’s
Aviation Ministry, the Chinese Re
oublic Airlines and the Chinese
government machinery purchasing
corporation are in Britain.
BO AC put Britannia 102 into
service in 1957. They were with
drawn last October.
The Britannia 102 is powered
by four turbo-prop engines.
Discover Oil and Gas Deposits
MOSCOW — Soviet geologists
have discovered large oil and gas
deposits in the Caspian Sea area
of Kazakhastan, Tass news agency
reported Saturday.
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Army Finally
Catches Up With
“Pop”; He Retires
FT. Bragg, N.C. M — M/Sgt.
Charles (Pop) Burt, who was over
age when he made his only para
chute jump, is retiring from the
Army. He is 74 years old.
The jaunty native of Rockford,
111.* spent the past two decades
as a cook with the famed 82nd
Airborne Division. He made his
only parachute jump in North
Africa in 1943.
When Burt made his jump he
was attached to the 50th Parachute
Infantry Regiment commanded by
Col. James Gavin, who later be
came commander of the 82nd and
U.S. Ambassador to France.
The 505th arrived in Casablanca
in early 1943 and had a month to
get ready before jumping in Sicily.
“We needed every man we could
get,” Gavin recalled. “I asked Sgt.
Burt about coming and he said
he was glad to . . . but it turned
out he had surpassed the age au
thorized for jumpers.”
Burt was then 54 years old.
Gavin said, “I explained to him
that I had no authority to give him
jump training but if he wanted to
go with us we would be glad to
have him along.”
Burt, who got his parachute
wings and combat star for the
July 10, 1943, jump, said “I landed
on a rock smaller than a half a loaf
of bread and my ankle snapped. I
was back in the states in a month.”
Burt’s military career began in
1906 as a horse-riding corporal in
an ammunition train. He served in
France during World War I and
left the service in 1920.
For the next 22 years he was
a welder in a Rockford machine
shop. “Then, I got the urge to re
enlist” in 1942, he said.
And how he managed to stay
in the Army until he was 74?
Burt says he never applied for
retirement, and the Army is just
now catching up with him.
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