Heart Specialist
Will Try Again for
Whale’s Heartbeat
SAN DIEGO, Calif., UP*—'The
Pacific gray whale’s heart secrets
are still their own today despite
three tries by Dr. Paul Dudley
White, President Eisenhower’s
heart consultant, to get a gray
whale electrocardiogram.
However, Dr. White said last
night that he got information on
methods that ipay insure success
next time.
The Boston specialist and his
expedition, sponsored by the Na
tional Geographic Society, invad
ed a favorite calving lagoon of
the whales on the coast of Lower
California, Mexico.
They hit one big whale with a
harpoon to which an electrode
was attached. It hardly got into
the blubber. Another harpoon
glanced off. The electrode would
have carried the heart record by
wire to a water-sled telemeter.
Dr. White’s previous attempts
were in 1953 and 1954. He said
before leaving by plane for San
Francisco and Washington that no
time has been set for the next try.
He says the slow heart action
of the big sea mammals, averag
ing 30 tons each, may reveal
information of value in studying
human hearts.
The gray whales were hunted al
most to extinction—for their ribs
for corset stays and for oil back
in the 1890s and early part of this
century. They are no\v under in
ternational protection. Observers
of their annual migration from
Alaskan waters to the calving la
goons believe they are coming
back. The 1955 count indicated
the California herd may number
more than 3,000. Another herd
migrates along the Korean coast.
FHA Accused of Failure
To Appreciate Need for
New7 Military Housing
WASHINGTON UP)—The Fed «r
al Housing Administration was
accused by a House subcommittee
last night of failure to appreciate
the need for new housing for mil
itary personnel.
There was no immediate com
ment from the FHA, whose ad
ministration of a 1955 military
housing law was said by a bank
ing subcommittee to be marked
by frequent needless quibbling
“over technicalities and niceties.”
The subcommittee headed by
Rep. Rains <D-Ala> said in a re
port to the House that the military
housing program, which contem
plated the erection of 100,000 new
housing units, is virtually stalled.
The group recommended a three
year extension beyond Sept. 30
and additional money.
Instead of taking the word of
military officials that housing is
needed, the subcommittee said,
FHA has acted in “somewhat ar
bitrary fashion” to overrule them
on a number of occasions.
JAPAN BLANKETED
BY HEAVY SNOW
TOKYO, <P—The heaviest snow
in 10 years blanketed northern
Japan Saturday. A four-year-old
child perished in a house crushed
by snow.
Thirteen feet of snow was re
corded in Fukishima prefecture,
northeast of Tokyo. In Gifu pre
fecture, a normally warm area
west of Tokyo, the snow col
lapsed a school building but no
body was hurt. More than 100
schools were forced to close on
Hokkaido.
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10 DIE IN B-47 CRASHES
I Stowaway Takes
Long Plane Ride
To See the U.S.
NEW YORK, (iP—A barefoot
Brazilian stowaway who hitched
a 5,182-mile ride in an airliner’s
freezing and cramped nosewheel
compartment today awaited a
more comfortable trip back home.
Wanderley de Cunha Camargo,
20-year-old airport baggage hand
ler, hid in the nosewheel com
partment of a Pan American
World Airways DC-6 at Sao Paulo,
Brazil, Friday night.
He leaped out of the plane at
Idlewild Airport Saturday night
and sprinted away into the dark
ness. He was found several hours
later rummaging through garbage
cans a few miles from the field.
Hungry and bewildered, he was
wearing only a jacket and trou
sers. .
“It’s a miracle he’s alive,” an
airline spokesman said.
The plane flew at 18,000 feet
on the trip north from Brazil. The
temperature in the unheated nose
wheel compartment was near to
zero degrees and the oxygen thin.
“I wanted to see the United
States,” the youth told police.
Camargo was held at immigra
tion headquarters pending hi.-, re
turn to Brazil.
Congregation Goes
Fishing on Sunday
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MUSKEGON. Mich. (jP)—Because
he believes ministers should “un
bend” sometimes to make religion
a “living” experience, a Muske
gon pastor took his congregation
fishing Sunday.
The Rev. Glenn Groth, pastor
of Bethlehem Lutheran Church,
calls the outing a “fisherama” and
says he may make it an annual
event.
About 60 parishioners, men,
women and children joined the
minister. Men of the parish had
volunteered to provide breakfast
for the group at 6:45 a.m. yester
day.
The Rev. Mr. Groth had for the
theme of his outing talk, “Come
Unto Me and I Will Make You
Fishers of Men,” stressing Christ’s
appeal to his disciples.
. Then the group went in a cara
van to nearby Muskegon Lake to
fish through the ice for perch.
A student pastor conducted a
regular service at the church for
those not going on the outing.
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KANSAS CITY, Feb. 7—
Two B-47 jet bombers based in
j Kansas crashed at widely separ
ated points while on training mis
sions Friday. Ten Air Force men
| were killed. Two more died in a
jet trainer crash today.
Six Air Force men were killed
in a crash of one of the planes at
Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rapid
City, S.D. The B-47 was based at
Forbes air base near Topeka, Kan.
Four men died in the crash of
the second B-47 near Westmore
land, Kan. The plane was based
at Smoky Hill Air Force Base,
Salina, Kan.
Killed in the Rapid City crash
were Capt. Robert E. Lambiaso,
38; Capt. William L. Youman, 29;
Capt. Floyd R. Shirk, 29; 1st Lt.
Joseph E. McHugh, 31; 2nd Lt.
Charles Gosney, 24; and 2nd Lt.
Joseph L. Petek, 23.
* Victims of the Kansas accident
were Capt. Hugh Wagner, 27;
1st Lt. John J. Platt, 26; A1C
Kenneth R. Patterson, 22; and Lt.
Col. Frederick G. Wheeler.
The jet trainer plane crash was
at Charlotte, N.C. A T-33 plane
reported to have been based at
the U.S. Air Force Academy at
Denver crashed while attempting
an instrument landing.
Names of the two dead were
withheld until relatives are noti
fied.
Fishermen in Distress
May Use Soviet Port
STOCKHOLM, OP—Russia has
told Sweden that the Soviet Baltic
■port of Klaipeda (Memel) “is open
to foreign fishermen” in distress.
In a communication to the Swe
dish Sea Rescue Assn., the Soviets
said foreign fishing vessels “will
only have to observe the usual
rules of the port” when seeking
protection from storms or diffi
cult conditions.
Capt. Hans Hanson, head of the
Swedish rescue group, termed the
Soviet communication “rather
revolutionary.” He said Swedish
fishermen had previously avoided
the Klaipeda coast, which is in
Soviet Lithuania.
I Swedish Audience Gives One Hour
Ovation to Premiere of O’Neill Play
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, UPV—A!
glittering first night audience
gave almost unprecedented ova
tions Friday night to Eugene
O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey
Into Night,” the play its author
once said should not be produced
until 25 years after his death.
Critics hailed the premiere as
one of the greatest evenings in
Sweden’s theater history but some
found flaws in the four-hour
length of O’Neill’s play and its
“agitating, self-exposing” autobi
ographical nature.
One Swedish drama critic hailed
the play as “one of the greatest
realistic dramas of our century.”
Another expressed doubt that
other theaters would produce the
play.
King Gustav and Queen Louise
were among the packed audience
in Stockholm’s Dramaten Theater,
where O’Neill wanted the pre
mier staged. The Dramaten prob
ably has presented more O’Neill
plays than any other theater.
The cast was cheered for nearly
an hour.
O’Neill, who died in 1953, wrote
the play in 1941. It tells of the
tortured lives of a famous actor
and his family in a small Ameri
can east coast town in 1912.
Actor James Tyrone abandons
his dramatic aspirations for the
monetary rewards of lesser, pop
ular plays. His wife, Mary, takes
to drugs to recapture her happy
childhood. The eldest son, James,
drinks and quarrels constantly.
The youngest son, Edmund, real
izes the futility of trying to re
>
store happiness, comes down with
tuberculosis and strikes out on
his own.
O’Neill, like his character, Ed
mund, was the son of a famous
actor, James O’Neill. Eugene con
tracted tuberculosis in 1912, went
to a sanitarium and there decided
to become a playwright.
O'Neill’s widow, Mrs. Carlotta
Montgomery O’Neill, decided not
to take any author’s fee for Fri
day night’s play.
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Mr. and Mrs. William Parcell
are the parents a son, bom yes
terday at the hospital. The Par
cells are teachers at Noatak.
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