Marquess Denies
Marriage Plans '
With Eva Bartok
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KINGSTON, England, WV-The
Marquess of Milford Haven spent
10 hours yesterday at a cottage
with Hungarian-born film actress
Eva Bartok and her baby.
The marquess, who was best
man at the wedding of Queen
Elizabeth II, told newsmen who
had spent the 10 hours waiting
outside:
“Romance? Marriage? What are
you talking about? I was a guest
for dinner, that’s all.”
Miss Bartok’s baby, Deana Gra
zia, was born in a London clinic
last October. She refuses to name
the father. She separated from
her fourth husband, Austrian
actor Curd Jurgens, in September
1956, and is here on a brief holi
day from film-making in Ger
many.
Milford Haven’s name was
linked to Miss Bartok’s before she
married Jurgens in 1955. The 37
year-old nobleman was divorced
by his wife the year before.
Life Sentence Decreed
For Man Convicted of
Killing Wealthy Wife
LOS ANGELES MV-The rest of
his life in prison, instead of death
in the gas chamber has been de
creed for L. Ewing Scott.
The penalty verdict was re
turned last night by the same jury
which convicted him last Satur
day of murdering his wealthy
wife, Evelyn, 63. She disappeared
from their fashionable Bel-Aair
home two years and seven months
ago and hasn’t been seen since.
The 61-year-pld stockbroker took
the verdict calmly. At the words
“imprisonment for life,” he pursed
his lips and raised his hand to
smother a cough.
“Mr. Scott is pleased, obvious- 1
j ly,” his chief counsel said later. J
One-Day Holiday
Accidents Take
Toll of 262 Lives
(By The Associated Press)
Christmas traffic deaths climb
ed to the second highest total for
a one-day Yuletide holiday since
World War II.
The final tabulation, including
late reports of casualties caused
by accidents that occurred be
tween 6 pan. Tuesday and mid
night Wednesday, showed 210
traffic deaths, 27 in fires and 25
in the miscellaneous class for a
total of 262.
The traffic toll more than
doubled the toll for a non-holiday
period of the same 30-hour dur
ation, and exceeded the National
Safety Council prediction of 180.
There have been two other one
day celebrations of the Christmas
holiday since World War II. Dur
ing one of them, 1947, the traffic
toll was 179. During the other
one, 1946, the toll was 263, a
record for a one-day 30-hour per
iod.
“There must be a better way
to celebrate Christmas on the
highway than by piling up a
death toll two and a half times as;
great as the toll for a non-holiday I
Wednesday at this time of the
year,” commented Ned H. Dear
horn, president of the National
Safety Council.
MAN BORN ON CHRISTMAS
DIED WEDNESDAY AT M
AUBURN, N.Y., MV-Shoework
er Richard Smith died Wednes
day, Christmas Day, the day he
was bom in 1868. It was his 89th
birthday.
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Everest Conqueror
Making Overland
Dash to South Pole
AUCKLAND, N.Z., UR — Sir
Edmund Hillary was reported
racing toward the South Pole
Thursday. If he reaches the bot
tom of the world, he will be the
first explorer to make it over
land since 1912.
Hillary radioed he is “hell bent
for the South Pole—God willing
and crevasses perWtting.” The
conqueror of Mt. Everest and his
small party have about 325 miles
to go.
A message received here indi
cated Hillary had abandoned
earlier plans to link up with' Dr.
Vivian Fuchs at Depot 700, but is
leaving supplies there for him.
Fuchs is leading a British party
from the South American side of
the continent in the first attempt
to trek across the Antarctic./
Fuchs and Hillary are expected to
return together to Hillary’s base
camp near McMurdo Sound on
the New Zealand side of Ant
arctica.
Fuchs is depending on the sup
plies to help hjm complete his
transantarctic trek, but his party
apparently has been slowed down ,
700 miles from the pole by cre
vasses and mechanical trouble
with his tractors.
Russian Press Says
Soviet Plane Flew At
Altitude of 63,335 Feet
MOSCOW W)—The Soviet press
continued today to make high
claims for Russian warplanes
without giving enough details for
comparison in the West.
The military newspaper Red
Star said a standard jet fighter
went above 19,000 meters (62,335
feet) recently apd was the first
such plane to attain this height.
The plane was not identified.
The official world’s altitude
record for a jet plane is 20,083
meters set in 1955 by a British
plane. U.S. rocket test planes
have been higher.
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