European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1952, Darmstadt, Hesse                                December 1952 the stars and stripes Page 7 the american scene of souvenir Shell i Forte 4 v 28 of a souvenir 45mm tank Buster Shell transformed a Gay neighbourhood Christmas get together into a scene of tragedy which four persons were in As a result of the 16 year old Mildred Childers both and Verbilee Mccrory had to have her right leg amputate two others suffered Burns and they were Joe 14 year old son of and Kenneth police chief Mcwhirter said the Shell had been brought Home by pfc James a Marine Home on Christmas leave from Camp he want around when the tragedy Mcwhirter said Mccrory younger was showing the Shell to another person Oil the Mccrory front porch he dropped the exploding Shell blew a gaping Hole in the front porch floor and the living room several other persons talking with neighbors in the front Yarc escaped Mcwhirter said the Young Marine told him he had not realized the danger of an an ordnance expert at Brooklyn air Force base in Mobile was in Eisenhower will receive successor to Nixon As senator 5 flags at inauguration 28 the army has announced that its skilled Needle women have whipped up five handsome presidential flags to be presented to president elect Dwight Eisenhower at his inauguration the bearing the presidents coat of arms embroidered in full color on a solid Blue will be presented to Eisenhower by Mem Bers of the electoral vice president elect Richard Nixon will receive a set bearing the Emblem of his the flags were made by women in the manufacturing division of the Philadelphia army quartermaster sewing presidential flags has been a traditional army chore since when president Theodore Roosevelt received a set nobody seems to re member Why the army was picked for the Martin and Lewis Lead 1952 boo fake poll 28 can and Jerry have made after six years together and three years in the the mad team of Martin and Lewis has hit the top of the entertainment they were chosen the 1 Box office winners in the annual poll of theater men by the motion Pic Ture the Young zanies re placed John Winner last year but 3 in another Veteran of Gary slipped into the second following in this order Bing Bob James Doris Gregory Susan Hay Ward and Randolph Oakes Case witness slain in Florida by son 28 a James what As a police identification expert was called Fay the Duke of Windsor to assist with the Oakes murder Case in was to death his James Barker John chief of the county criminal Bureau of Young Barker admitted the Early morning shooting and was weeping uncontrollably in jail he is being held for in there had been family feuding Between Barker and his son for some said Young Barker Thomas Kuchl California state has been named by Earl Warren Center to the Senate seat vacated by Richard the vice California assemblyman Robert Kirkwood right Lias been named o succeed Kun Cfall gave his father a beating some months and both the elder and younger Barker were involved in divorce Barker was his son As Captain in charge of the Miami police identification flew to Nassau in 1943 in response to a summons from the Duke of Windsor to investigate the Oakes Barker testified that he found a fingerprint of Alfred de Soninlaw of sir Harry on a screen beside the bed of the slain defense experts Tore the Testi Mony and Barker was tried by the International for identification on charges of falsifying fingerprint the charge later was de Marigny was acquitted of the charge of slaying sir Mother of year Dies in at 78 28 Emma Clarissa negro Ever named american Mother of the died she was despite illness and the loss of her right leg by amputation last Clement remained Active in religious affairs which brought her National she was the Mother of seven All College graduates one is Rufus president Atlanta while the others Are prominent in Church and rain making test slated in wettest part of 28 the weather Bureau announced yesterday it will make a new and different attempt to see whether Man can make rain fall on a big instead of trying to make apparently dry skies drop the Moreau will go to the wettest place n the Pacific and see How if Wetter can make experiments will be conducted rom the naval air station at Sand near from late january to May and again during he fall and Early Winter of Ferguson weather Bureau Spe palist in rain making will be in charge at at the a weather Bureau spokesman the Cloud seeding vill take place Over the Southwest Orner of the state of tit the area May be extended or the idea is to carry out something like medical in which one group of patients is Given treat ment and another group is not the untreated group is used As a con permitting scientific judgment of the like the the weather Bureau wants to know not Only what happens under but what would have happened had there been no that is Why the Rainy Pacific Northwest was chosen for the drummer would sacrifice career for Pearl Bailey 28 drummer Louis said yesterday he would give up and even such Steps were necessary to make his marriage to negro blues Singer Pearl Al would quit the i would quit this i would quit anything that Ever dared to threaten my White musician a drummer in Duke Ellington explained that he was talking about the problem among entertainers of making a go of separate careers and their marriages at the some so the newly wed Bellson have had no the couples interracial marriage in London last month Drew front Page headlines in Europe and five of family killed in Texas rail crash 28 five members i a family were killed when a Santa be freight train slammed into car at a Grade crossing near killed were Charles Bishop Wil his 72yearold and their three Young gun Moll queried on brinks robbery 28 attractive Blond gun Moll has been singing to the Federal grand jury investigating the brinks an informed source the Short but was the girl Friend of two Boston racketeers who were among the first persons questioned after the nations largest Cash both have since one in a gang land the other of a the Blond spent two Days before the grand jury before it recessed for the Long Holiday the source said she talked freely but not confirm that she had named any member of the brinks of Gambler married and the woman once was the Friend of Gambler George and later of Louis the pig May four months after the brinks Killeen was shot to death outside a Boston reputedly because of his attentions to the six months while still sought for the Uva died of a heart seizure in the source also said the woman knew Joseph specs 44 year old Boston who has been named Fri affidavits As a definite suspect in the brinks it was disclosed also that okeefe tried to bribe his Way to Freedom when arrested on gun carrying charges in Pennsylvania six months after the Law enforcement sources said he offered to police for the release of himself and Stanley a hoodlum arrested with bribe offer withdrawn negotiations to obtain the Money a Contact in a Boston office were begun with Federal agents following the the bribe offer was with drawn when okeefe apparently be came okeefe and Gusciora subsequently Given Long prison terms in Pennsylvania and were brought Here separately to testify before the grand okeefe has been cited for contempt for refusing to answer Gusciora Testi fied and was returned to Pennsyl dozing cab Bandit awakened by cops 28 sleepy cab Bandit was to Star in a he can be kept Marvin Cremeans fell asleep while trying to Rob cab Driver Arthur the amazed cab catching a glimpse of his would be robber snoozing in the Back drove to a police there officers took a revolver ram Cremeans then woke Liim questioning had to be delayed because Cremeans fell asleep again in his police said they didst think he had been stolen on ship 28 police were today seeking a thief reported to stolen rom the captains Cabin of Creek freighter the aft Fol install ejection seats in new b47s 28 the air Force said it will install automatic ejection seats in b47 Strat Jet bombers starting next february to improve a Crews chances of parachuting to safety in Case of a the present version of the speedy now being manufactured at the rate of one a has an escape Chute which is satisfactory if the plane is under control but might not do the Job if it were spinning to Earth out of the automatic seat is a powered cockpit capsule which shoots the airmen Clear of the plane before they to their it is already in use in nearly All types of Jet fighter an of spokesman denied published reports that the present b47 is considered a death and said he does not know of any Case where the Pilot had been killed because no ejection seats were in he also did not know whether the several Hundred planes produced so far will be modified to include the fir e feared As Barge spills Gas into Ohio 28 fire threatened residents along a 14mile stretch of the Ohio River above Cincinnati As a grounded Barge leaked thousands of Gallons of gasoline into the the coast guard sent warnings out to nearby boat House boat residents and docks of the immediate danger of the Barge was sighted shortly after Dawn aground on a Sand bar with both ends caved the Ohio River division of the Engi neers office said it belonged to the Ashland Oil and refining and contained Gallons of Ethyl an Engineer spokesman said the Barge was one of five which broke Loose from ant inflation proposal put movie Queen on Lake 28 up a chamber of Commerce official proposed yesterday that a famous preferably a Hollywood movie replace one of the presidential likeness appearing on paper Willaim chamber presi said the idea would help fight much More value would be attached to Money if it carried such a he threats reported in Dock probe 28 Yorks waterfront priest was told longshoremen have been warned that there will be bodies floating in the River after the state crime commissions investigation of the Hudson River a Catholic publication reported the official Organ of the Newark roman Catholic Arch said the John Corriden said there is talk of reprisals against Dock workers who testified before the commissions investigation of waterfront racketeering and Corriden is associate director the Francis Xavier labor school in new York and is Active in water front spider web of crime the newspaper said Corriden called the waterfront a spiderweb or crime and corruption and said Many of those who testified before the commission risked their jobs and the labor priest withheld an opinion on the work of the com missions noting Simi Lar investigations had proved fruit he said the Defiance of Joseph president of the inter National longshoremen is a reminder to the rank and file that Well still be around when All this blows in the priest some longshoremen already have been told wait till this things therell be bodies floating to the