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THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C.
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Lava Pops at Newsman
Flying Over Mt. Etna
By ANDREW NAHAS !
IN A U. S. NAVY PLANE
OVER MT. ETNA. Sicily, July 6
UP). —A little crater inside the
big one glows dark red. thenj
every 8 or Id minutes pops like
a chestnut on a hot fire.
Flames and chunks of molten
rock spout up 100 feet or more.
Those are the fireworks from
Mt. Etna, which for five nights
have been visible for 30 miles or
more along the east coast of
Sicily.
It is the most activity Europe’s
highest volcano has shown fori
four years. But looking into the
crates from only 500 feet away,
there is no sign that a major
eruption has begun.
A United States Navy R4-D
two-engine plane was piloted
over th ecjater by John Riggins,
Bluefleld, W. Va.. an aviation
chief machinists mate. The co
pilot was Lt. (j.g.) R. M. Big-:
genho, Verona, Pa.
Arms-Cut Plans Studied
At Pre-Geneva Parleys
LONDON, July 6
ern proposals for possible con
sideration at the Geneva summit
conference were being worked
out in several European centers
today. They included plans for
arms cuts, German reunification
and a European security system.
British, French and American
experts are scheduled to meet in
Paris Friday to begin putting
final touches on the proposals, in
preparation for their review at
a pre - conference parley of
the Western Foreign Ministers
July 15.
If approved by the Big Three
governments, the ideas will be
presented as a basis for discus-
Lifer May Share
In $500,000 Trust
CHESAPEAKE, Ohio, July 6
(jP>.—A convict serving a life
term in the West Virginia Peni
tentiary may be heir to a share,
of a *500,000 trust fund left by
his sister.
He is William Ellis, 49, whose
sister, Mrs. Helen E. Roy, for
merly from this area, died in
Victorville, Calif., in 1950, and
left her $500,000 estate in trust
to her husband, John. He died
last month.
Robert Ellis, 39, Union Town-:
ship clerk, and Carroll Ellis, 28,
a truck driver, nephews of the
Roys, are leaving their Chesa
peake home Friday for Califor
nia to claim a share in the trust
fund.
William Ellis won't be able
to make any direct overtures
like this.
Other apparent heirs to the
trust include Mrs. Roy’s sister,
Mrs. Tennessee Christian, Route
1, Chesapeake, and two other j
brothers, Roy Ellis, 55, of near,
Greasy Ridge. Ohio, and Pete
Ellis. 65, of near Ironton.
Chicago Policeman
Is Shot by Boy, 16
CHICAGO, July 6 (IP).—A 16-
yee.r-old boy escaped from a
North Side police station last
night after he shot and seriously
wounded Policeman- Albert H.
Brown. 60, the lockup keeper.
The shooting occurred in the
Shakespeare avenue station
lockup where Ronald Charles
Dean was held for tampering
with an auto and petty theft.
He was the only prisoner in the
lockup.
Mr Brown said he was shot:
with his own revolver when he
returned to the lockup and
found young Dean out of his'
cell. The policeman said Dean
had taken his gun from a desk
drawer and that when he lunged
at the youth, Dean fired two
shots at him and threw the gun
at him
Mr Brown said he picked up
the gun and followed the youth,
but collapsed from wounds in
the left arm, right hand and
abdomen He was reported in
critical condition in a hospital.
French Develop Plane
As Cheap as U. S. Car
Another new small plane, cost
ing about as much as the aver
age American car, has been suc
cessfully tested in France for use
in French overseas territories !
This aircraft is designed spe
cially for forest parasite and
malaria germ extermination and
the fertilization of larg/ areas.
It has a 33-foot wing spread
and 160-horsepower motor. It I
can fly 80 miles an hour but can
slow down to 24 miles. It is
claimed to be far less expensive
than any helicopter. i
Road-Hazards Game
Popular in Britain
LONDON.—A new game called!
"Highway Hazards" is enjoying
a wave of popularity in England.
Played on a special board, it has
pieces representing pedestrians,,
cyclists and motorists.
The object is to move one’s
pieces through city and country
highway hazards and arrive
home first safe and sound.
Electric Board Tells
What Rooms Are Open
DENVER. The municipal
airport here has set up an elec
tronic hotel-reservation board to
keep travelers informed on what
hotel rooms are available.
The board is linked by direct
wire to hotels listed on lt. Hotel
clerks use special telephone dials
to post on the airfield board the
number of rooms available.
! The new activity is inside a
crater 250 feet by 300 feet formed
*4 years ago. The huge main
crater now is quiet.
Inside the new crater is a
bed of black lava. The new vol
canic mouth is a red pimple in
the center, about 50 feet wide.
Smoke boils out in puffs. A
dark red glow brightens to
cherry red every 8 or 10 minutes.
That is when the flames lash up
and the chunks of molten rock
are hurled into the air, to fall
back into the crater.
Dr. Salvatore Cocuzza of the
Institute of Volcanology of the
University of Catania reported;
the activity ‘‘considerably in
creased” in the past 24 hours.
If the spoufs continue to go
higher, some lava will begin
spilling over the crater rim. But
villagers living in the path of a
| lava flow were reported showing
no signs of fright.
sions at the Geneva talks, sched
uled to begin July 18.
Diplomatic informants in
London said last night that the
allies were near agreement on
a limited disarmament plan.
This was described as the first
installment of a possible pack
age deal with the Soviets which 1
the West hopes eventually will;
include a German settlement'
and a continental security agree
ment. .
The plan calls for a census of
arms and armies maintained in
Europe by both East and West,
and an agreement to cut down
these forces in phases. It also,
provides for establishment of
zones in which there would be
either no troops at all or only
[troops of the nation ruling the
territory.
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SICK MARINER PREFERS DEATH
AT SEA, SAILS INTO ATLANTIC
COWES. Isle of Wight Asker Kure. a Danish
sea captain who prefers death on the briny deep to an
invalid’s life on land, .sailed slowly westward to the Atlantic
today on what he expects to be his last voyage.
The 55-year-old captain has a heart ailment His
doctors warned him he would not survive the rigors of a
long journey in his 45-foot ketch, while be might live many
years as a landsman. But he set out two months ago from
Svendborg, Denmark, to sail around the world. In activity
ashore was not for him, he said.
His only companions are Richard Newick, 29, of Eurake,
Calif., a boat builder serving as “crew” until the ketch
reaches a United States port, and a cocker spaniel named
Columbus.
Mr. Kure hopes to find another adventurer in the
United States willing to sail with a doomed captain.
He calculates that his round-the-world voyage—should
he live through it—will take about five years.
“If I have to die, I Want to do it on the sea which
I love,” he said here Monday.
His wife and four children in Denmark are well pro
vided for and sympathize with him, Mr. Kure said.
Talks Fruitless
i
In Copper Strike
DENVER, July 6 (A*).—A strike
by an estimated 30,000 workers
against three major copper pro
ducers continued today with na
, tional negotiations broken off for
[the present.
i Negotiations were in progress
at scattered points, but they
( dealt only with local issues like
. grievances and vacation qualifl
-11 cations.
Most of the strikers belong to
'jthe independent International
• | Mine, Mill Sc Shelter Workers
Union. Spokesmen at the union's
I j Denver headquarters indicated
[the next move would come from
■ the Federal Mediation and Con
ciliation Service.
“All negotiating committee
men in Kennecott, Phelps-Dodge
and American Smelting & Refin
ing Co. have now returned to
their home locals,” a -spokesman
said.
j The only major producer still
at work and negotiating is the
Anaconda Co., where the current
i contract has not expired. Six
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| teen smaller companies are still
operating.
In addition to members of the
Mine, Mill Sc Smelter Workers’
Union, 21 locals of 11 different
| unions also are on strike.
t Mine-Mill is demanding a 20-
cents-an-hour wage increase,
e : plus layoff pay assuring a work
s er of at least *6O weekly income.
J Industry offers of pay increases
’ have been from 2 to 12 cents
an hour. Average pay scales
r ;now are *14.87-15.77 for an 8-
hour shift for underground min
s ers and *13.64-14.40 for laborers.
| Mine-Mill was thrown out of
ithe CIO in 1950 on charges its
pleaders were Communist-domi
nated.
o Greece, Turkey Accept
s Bids to Cyprus Talks
s STRASBOURG, France, July
J 6 (IP). —Greece and Turkey have
. accepted Britain’s invitation to j
join in a London conference on;
- the future of Cyprus, the British
; crown colony island in the East
- [ern Mediterranean.
> The acceptance was an
i nounced last night after confer- j
ences between officials of the two j
1 countries and British Foreign!
: : Secretary Harold MacMillan.;
t j All are here for meetings of the:
■ Council of Europe.
Army Shifts
Press Chief
Maj. Gen/ Oilman C. Mdßgett,
Army information chief, today
was reassigned as commanding
general of Fort Ord, Calif, and
the 6th Infantry Division sta
tioned there.
No successor to Gen. Mudgett
was >named. However, Defense
Secretary Wilson has asked the
armed services to review their
whole public information setup
and consider- the possibility of
appointing civilians as directors.
The Army has completed its re
view and Mr. Wilson has ap
proved its proposed system.
It was learned that Lloyd
Lehrbas, former Associated Press
Staff writer and special assistant
to Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway,
former chief of staff, had been
suggested and was with Gen.
Ridgway when he was com
mander of NATO forces in
Europe.
! Gen. Mudgett will succeed Maj.
Gen. Edwin K. Wright in early
[September. He is a native of
Valley City, N. Dak., and a 1922
West Point graduate.
Sweet-Tooth Whetting
Stepped Up in India
Children of India are not
sweet-toothed enough. This is
“the most important problem of
the hour” to the Confectionery
Manufacturers’ Association which
has demanded "suitable assist
ance” from the government in
New Delhi.
Suitable aid includes the re
fund of the excise duty and
cane tax on sugar and the ban
ning of foreign candy.
U. S. to Support Boost
In South Korea Force
I SEOUL, July 6 UP). —A defense
[ministry spokesman said today
the United States has tentatively
agreed to support the creation
of three more South Korean
army reserve divisions.
This would increase the total
[South Korean ground force from
[3l to 34 divisions. South Korea
has one marine and 20 army
divisions on active duty. Ten
[army divisions are in reserve.
Girl Electrocuted
Opening Freezer
DETROIT. July 4 UP).—A 9-
y ear-old girt, wearing a wet
bathing suit, was electrocuted
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yesterday aa she opened a self
serve freeaer in a dairy store.
Sharon Kirn and a playmate
had been called from a back
yard swimming pool to run an
errand for Sharon's mother,
Grace.
-| Mrs. Gertruds Kirby, a dart,
said she taw the girl approach
the freeaer.
“The next thing I knew, die
‘.fell over backwards,” Mrs. Kirby
l'said.
. Police said the freeaer had a
short-circuit.