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Italian Parents Reunited With
Baby Injured in Marine Disaster
Senate Votes to Remove
Tax'- on Movie Tickets
Costing 90 <* or Less
WASHINGTON (#►—•'The Senate
passed by voice vote Thursday a
bill to relieve moviegoers of the
federal tax on admission tickets
costing 90 cents or less.
The measure went back to the
House, which has voted to raise
the exemption to theater tickets
costing up to a dollar.
The present law provides ex
emptions if the tickets cost 50
cents or less.
The Senate Finance Committee,
in a report, said information
available indicates motion picture
industry conditions “are now
worse than in 1953” when Con
gress enacted the 50-cent condi
tion.
Unusual Fog Conditions
Might Have Deflected
Ships’ Radar Beams
MILTON, Mass., UP)—An Air
Force radar expert said today an
unusual fog condition might have
deflected the radar beams of the
ships Stockholm and Andrea Dor
ia so that they could not detect
one another before their collision
off Nantucket.
Dr. David Atlas, director of the
Blue Hills Radar Post, said:
"It is inconceivable that sets
aboard both vessels broke down
at the same time.
“In normal atmospheric condi- j
tion, the radar would penetrate j
directily to the surface of the,
water. But if there is a blanket I
of cold, moist air below warm,
dry air, like the reported fog
bank, the radar beams would
bounce off it as though it were a
mirror.
“They (the beams) would be
literally trapped in the upper
layers of air.
“It is reasonable and logical to
feel this was the case when the
two ships collided.”
Mexican Nailed To Cross
Detaches His Hands For
An Occasional Cigaret
REYNOSA, Mexico, (^—Ta
gore, the 25-year-old ventrilo
quist who was nailed to a cross
in Reynosas bull ring Sunday be
fore a paid crowd of 5,000 per
sons, still has the nails in his
hands and feet but he detaches
himself from the cross for an oc
casional cigaret.
Lucio Medina, the promoter
who acts as Tagore’s manager,
\ explained that it was necessary
to free his hands from the wood
of the cross because they had be
come pinched.
“Sunday, when the doctor—he
said he was a doctor—drove the
nails into Tagore’s hands, the
doctor did not do a good job,”
Medina said thru. an interpreter.
“Part of the back of the hands
and the feet were pinched on the
wood.”
BOSTON, —A dazed Italian
mother who was rescued from the
ill-fated liner Andrea Doria iden
tified a seriously injured victim
of the marine tragedy as her four
year-old daughter early today—
and then collapsed.
Mrs. Filomena Di Sandro, 29,
mumbled in her native tongue
what sounded like "That’s my
baby,” and then fainted in the
arms of her husband, Tullio, 35,
after he restrained her from tak
ing the child in her arms.
The little girl, Norma, had lain
unidentified since she was taken
by helicopter from the scene of
the disaster.
She did not see her parents on
their arrival early today after a
fast automobile trip from New
York. The child has been uncon
scious since she suffered a frac
tured skull during her rescue
after the Andrea Doria collided
with the Swedish vessel Stock
holm 45 miles south of Nantucket
Wednesday night.
The child’s father told of the
tragic events that followed the
collision.
“The child was asleep and my
wife and I were about to retire
for the night when the crash
happened.” he related sadly.
“We heard the cry to abandon
ship while the three of us were
rushing to the deck.
“Quickly J looked over the rail
and saw a lifeboat in the water
15 feet below. I shouted to one of
the men and threw Norma into
the boat. I saw her land inside.”
. Di Sandro continued: “Then I
helped my wife jump into the
water and followed her myself.
It was not until I was picked up
and taken aboard the lie de
France that I saw my wife again.
We searched everywhere for the
child, but could not find her.”
Meanwhile, the child had been
taken aboard the Stockholm,
transferred by helicopter to Nan
tucket and then to the U.S. Public
Health Service hospital in Boston.
She was unconscious and could
not be identified. A doctor aboard
the Stockholm had pinned a note
on the child’s night clothing that
she was an Italian child and was
to be treated for a head injury.
On the child’s wrist was a
bracelet with a ram’s horn chain.
It was that bracelet that led the
Di Sandros to their child.
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IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE
CAPE NOME PRECINCT, SECOND
DIVISION. TERRITORY OF ALASKA
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
M R KENNEDY, deceased.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 1069
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by
Order of the Judge of the above-named
Court. James A. von der Heydt, of
Nome. Alaska, has been duly appointed
the Executor of the estate of M. R.
Kennedy, deceased.
All persons having claims against the
said estate shall present them, with pro
per vouchers attached, to the said Ex
ecutor at Nome. Alaska, within a period
of six <6i months from the date of this
Notice.
Dated this 27th day of July. 1956.
JAMES A. von der HEYDT.
Executor
Publish July 27. Aug. 5. 12, 19, 1956
Army May Have
To Cut Overseas
Manpower
Alaska and Hawaii
Divisions Are
Already Understrength
WASHINGTON —'The Army,
faced with the prospect of more
manpower cuts, has suggested to
Congress further reductions must
mean trimming forces overseas.
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Army
chief of staff, in testimony which
the Senate airpower investigating
subcommittee made public yes
terday, said that the system of ro
tating troops on overseas duty is
involved.
“We have found out from ex
perience and simple mathemat
ics,” he told the committee, “that
we can maintain about 40 percent
of our army overseas as against
60 percent at home. We are about
that ratio now.
“Hence, if we reduce the Army
strength, and we are just about
at that point now, inevitably that
would mean reduction of overseas
deployments."
Although no defense official
has denied persistent reports that
further reductions in armed forc
es manpower are coming, primar
ily as a result of the increased
firepower and range of the new
weapons, the Pentagon insists
specific figures are not yet decid
ed. Thus, Adm. Arthur Radford
recently discounted a published
report an 800,000 overall reduc
tion in armed forces, with the
Army the chief target, would be
made within the nex four years.
Present strength of the Army is
about 1,039,000 men, including
those deployed overseas. The bulk
of this overseas deployment is in
Europe, over 200,000 men.
Five divisions, plus the support
and service elements, are based
in western Europe.
Three Army divisions, plus a
portion of a marine division is
deployed in the Far East—Japan
and Okinawa.
One under-strength division is
in Alaska and another in Hawaii.
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Senate Post Office Group
Kills Administration's
Postal Rate Increase Bill
WASHINGTON, Iff*—A Senate
Post Office subcommittee Thurs
day killed the administration’s
postal rate increase bill for this
Congress.
Chairman Olin D. Johnson (D
SC> announced the five-member
group had decided unanimously
it could not complete hearings on
the bill and act on it before ad
journment.
The bill proposed an increase
from 3 to 4 cents for letter mail,
from 6 to 7 cents for airmail. It
would also boost rates on other
classes of mail.
The House had passed the bill.
CATHOLIC MISSIONARY DIES
SANTA MONICA, Calif.,
Death has claimed the Rev. Ori
son Joseph McMullen, 77, Catho
lic missionary for almost 40 years.
He served from Alaska to Mex
ico, as a member of the Paulist
Fathers, starting with the San
Francisco earthquake and fire of
1906.
Father McMullen died Sunday
night in St. John’s Hospital after
a lingering illness.
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