Brawl In San Quentin
Death Row Involves
Killer Caryl Chessman
SAN QUETfHN, Calif., UP) —
Officials of this northern Cali
fornia penitentiary -were to de
cide over the weekend how to
punish six condemned men — in
cluding Caryl Chessman — for
a New Year’s Day brawl in
death row.
The fight /broke out after the
prison’s 24 death row inmates
were admitted to their recreation
room to watch holiday happenings
on television. They had just
tuned in the Rose Bowl parade.
James Merkouris, 44-year-old
Los Angeles killer, emerged from
his cell and began yelling and
swinging at other inmates.
Louis Nelson, prison disciplin
ary officer, said Manuel Chavez,
27, hit Merkouris with a woden
stool, whereupon Merkouris
dashed the television set to
pieces on the floor.
Chessman, death row author
sentenced to die February 19,
knocked Merkouris down and
straddled his chest. The four
others, Chavez, Clyde Bates, 19;
Marion Linden, 45, and Donald L.
Cash 32 pummeled Merkouris.
Guards restored order ,and put
the men back in their cells.
MENACE IN MODERN LIFE
DALLAS, Tex., UP) — The mov
ing sidewalks at Love Field
snared a small girl’s clothing Fri
day night and crushed her to
death.
Tina Marie Brandon, 3 Vi,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. C.
Branden, was dead on arrival at
a hospital after rescuers freed her
from the rubber and steel mech
anism. Police and firemen had to
fight through crowds to reach her.
The child ran ahead of her par
ents and they did not know she
was caught in the mechanism
until they heard the screams of
her five-year-old brother.
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S. Korean Denial of
Firing on Russian Ship
SEOUL, South Korea, UPi — The
top U. S. commander in South
Korea Saturday backed up South
Korea’s denial that one of its
warships attacked a Soviet sur
vey vessel December 28.
“Information available to the
U. N. command confirms the
statement of the Republic of Ko
rea government that no naval
craft of the republic was in
volved,” General Carter B. Ma
gruder said in a statement issued
by his U. IN. headquarters.
The Soviets said Thursday a
South Korean submarine chaser
attacked the survey ship Ungo
about 30 miles off the North Ko
rean coast.
Moscow said the warship made
three runs on the Ungo and killed
a helmsman and wounded four
sailors with a direct hit on the
bridge.
In denying the charge, the South
Korean government said its ships
do not operate as far north as the
area of the reported attack.
Three-Nation
Treaty Hailed
By Observers
from Christian Science Monitor
Decision of the International
North Pacific Fisheries Commis
sion to open Alaska herring fish
eries to the Japanese was hailed
here as proof that the 1952 fish
eries treaty between Canada,
Japan and the United States does
work, despite what some critics
say.
Successful operation of this
treaty is considered especially im
portant at a time when tensions
between nations are so acute, a
time when certain governments
would like to find areas of fric
tion between the United States
and Japan.
The treaty requires the com
mission annually to study salmon,
halibut and herring to determine
whether they no longer qualify
for abstention.
U. S. Stand Cited
The abstention principle, em
bodied in the treaty, provides that
when a nation is making full use
of a fishery resource, and when
that nation is scientifically study
ing and managing the resource to
achieve the highest level of pro
ductivity, then other nations
which have not historically ex
ploited the resource previously un
dertake to abstain from harvesting
the fruits of that management.
Evidence gathered during the
past year convinced the commis
sion that Alaskan herring stocks
were not being fully utilized by
Alaska’s commercial fishermen.
Therefore, they no longer quali
fied for abstention.
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Ohio Man Released,
Arrested Anew for Sniper
Slaying of Engineer
PAINESVILLE, Ohio, UR —
Authorities claimed Saturday new
evidence links truck driver Floyd
E. Hargrove with a Christmas
Eve sniper slaying which he both
admitted and denied.
- Only five days previous, Lake
County authorities said that a po
lygraph test had cleared Hargrove
of killing Charles R. Clark in
nearby Mentor. But Friday night
they re-arrested him at the home
of his mother in Toledo, charging
him with first-degree murder.
The nature of the new evidence
was not immediately disclosed.
Hargrove was originally fir
rested three hours after a bullet
crashed through a kitchen win
dow of the Clark home in nearby
Mentor. The target, framed by the
light of the window as he opened
a can of pumpkin, was Clark, 35,
an electrical engineer, Boy Scout
leader and Methodist Sunday
School superintendent.
Hargrove was picked up for
questioning when Clark’s beauti
ful wife, Lois, 30, mother of four,
told of an eight-month love affair
with him. Investigators said she
also admitted being intimate with
five other men during a six-year
period.
ACTRESS SUCCUMBS TO
SLEEPING PILL OVERDOSE
NEW HAVEN, Conn., UR —
Actress Margaret Sullivan died
Friday, a few hours before going
on stage as star of a new play,
authorities indicated she may
have unintentionally taken an
overdose of sleeping pills.
Miss Sullivan, 48, was found
unconscious in her hotel room.
She was dead on arrival at Grace
New Haven Community Hospital.
Crewmen Saved
From Wreck of
American Ship
By JOHN GRIFFIN
SINGAPORE, — The Amer
ican freighter Valley Forge broke
up Saturday on treacherous reefs
50 miles southeast of Singapore.
The ship’s agents said all 37
aboard were believed safe.
The British minesweeper Fis
kerton headed for Singapore with
22 crewmen picked up on an, un
inhabited island near the scene
of the wreck. They had put out
from the Valley Forge in a life
boat.
Eight other crewmen from the
7,202-ton ship were rescued by a
salvage tug that battled gales and
mountainous seas to reach the
scene.
In addition, the Indonesian gov
ernment sent >vord that Captain
Peter F. Petronc “and his crew”
were on. Binton Island, the larg
est in the group south of Singa
pore.
The 37 crew members of the
American freighter include Frank
L. Beierlyn Jr., a naturalized
U. S. citizen from the Philippines,
whose brother lives in Juneau.
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