11 Children and 17 Adults Killed in
Fires and Traffic Accidents Saturday
—■————,
Reduce-or-Else
Army Campaign
Called Off
FT. CARSON, Colo., W*—The
commandant of this post “made
a mistake” in insisting that Over
fat soldiers trim down to specified
weights, Army Secretary Wilbur
M. Brucker said Friday night.
He told newsmen, however, that
“there’s nothing wrong with try
ing to get troops into shape.”
Brucker referred to a reduce
or-else program instituted at this
Army post by Gen. Thomas M.
Washington, who ordered courts
martials for officers and men con
sidered too fat to fight. Post auth
orities have said only a “handful’’
were affected, giving no figures.
At a press conference after an
inspection, Brucker explained
that Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor,
Army chief of staff, instituted the
reducing program “after he ob
served several officers, non-coms
and enlisted men who gave the
impression of flabbiness.”
In response to a question, how
ever, Brucker said a Washington
directive providing that soldiers
who fail or refuse to lose weight
should be court-martialed, “has
been rescinded.”
SEX RESEARCHER
DR. KINSEY DIES
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., (An— Dr.
Alfred C. Kinsey, 62-year-old bi
ologist who won fame for his
books on human sexual behavior,
died here Saturday after a brief
illness. He had been in a coma
from a heart ailment and pneu
monia.
Ailing for the last six months,
he had been in and out of hospi
tals in Indianapolis and Bloom
ington, and his research work had
been sharply curtailed.
The Institute for Sex Research,
set up by Kinsey, had recently
moved its headquarters to a new
Life Science Building on the In
diana University campus.
Kinsey was virtually unknown
outside restricted zoological cir
cles until his book, “Sexual Be
havior in the Human Male,’’ be
came a surprise best seller in 1948.
It was followed by a book on fe
male sex behavior in 1953.
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* Deadly fires and spectacular
traffic accidents in various parts
of the country Saturday claimed
28 lives. Eleven of the dead were
children.
In Wall, S.D., two cars crashed
head-on as they sped along the
straight-away of a new highway,
killing nine persons—four adults
in one car and a couple and their
three children in the other.
It was the worst automobile
wreck in the state’s history. “The
most violent carnage I’ve ever
witnessed,” a doctor said of the
scene.
• • *
In Houston, Tex., six persons
perished in an apartment house
blaze, including a mother and her
four young daughters trapped on
the second floor.
A downstairs resident—a Bible
salesman—was found dead of suf
fication lying on his bed. Two
women escaped the flames by
slipping out on a high, five inch
ledge and being carried down
ladders.
• * •
In Jersey City, N.J., a savage
fire tore through four tenement
houses. Two women and two little
boys died on upper floors. More
than 120 persons fled the build
ings—and were left homeless.
* * *
Both fire and traffic deaths
struck in Baltimore, killing eight.
Four were victims of a flash
fire in a three-story house. Two
men and a young boy died in the
burning building. A woman was
fatally injured in leaping from a
third-floor window.
The car wreck occurred on a
Baltimore boulevard, deserted in
early morning, as two late-model
cars sideswiped each other, ap
parently while racing. Two young
men and two teen-age girls were
killed.
One car skidded 400 feet after
the impact, the other 200 feet be
fore crashing into a utility pole.
All of those who died were in the
back seat of the car that hit the
pole.
Another young couple, both in
jured, occupied the other car.
* * •
Near Florida, N.Y., fire de
stroyed a two-story farm house
for migrant workers. One child
! died inside and a woman and two
! other children were seriously
burned.
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Man Shot to Death
In Fight With -Hawk
MANILA, Iffl—Antonio Ferrer
shot a hawk that had been prey
ing on his chickens. When he
picked up the wounded bird it
revived and clawed him in the
face. Ferrer struck back, using
his rifle as a club. The weapon
discharged. Ferrer died of a bullet
wound.
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