European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 17, 1958 the stars and stripes livers of dogs replace Man s for surgery Tokyo a japanese surgeons replaced a human patient s liver with the livers of four living dogs a Tokyo doctor reported Sun Day. Or. Mitsuo Sugiura  from the four dogs were hooked up by a tube system to function for a 20-year-old patient while doctors operated on his liver. The dogs livers were used for 55 minutes during a two hour opera Tion on Susumu Miyazawa in a coma from cirrhosis of the liver. Sugiura told a medical con Ference the operation was a Suc Cess. However the patient died a week later from peritonitis unconnected with the original ail ment. No blood mixture an autopsy showed the patient s liver had regenerated and there was no mixture of the patient s and the dogs blood. A mixture would have been fatal Sugiura said. Three of the dogs were still Liv ing he  operation was performed oct. 21 by a team of Tokyo univer sity doctors directed by prof. Seijos Kimoto. The patient regained conscious Ness 30 minutes after the operation Sugiura said. The next Day he took fruit juices and Light food. The patient had been Given Upas hopeless one doctor said. He could not have been cured by Reg ular  Kimoto began experimenting with the method in August 1956,but had used it Only on animals prior to the october operation. Kennedy Symington Lead in demo 1960 poll Washington a sen. John f. Kennedy of Massachusetts i s leading the race for the 1960 democratic presidential nomination with sen. Stuart Symington o f Missouri running a Strong second. Behind Kennedy and Symington Are a half dozen others with gov. Robert b. Moyner of new Jersey ahead of such possibilities As Adlai e. Stevenson and Senate d e m o cratic Leader Lyndon b. Johnson of  is the Way the scramble for the party s top prize two years from now looks to state demo cratic chairmen who replied to a query asking them to name in order the men they regard As the three leading candidates. Kennedy and Symington who won whopping re election victories in the nov. 4 democratic sweep demonstrated nationwide strength far above others who were mentioned by the state chairmen whore in a position to influence the Choice of 1960 convention Dele  Edmund g. Brown of California gov. G. Mennen Wil Liams of Michigan sen. Hubert h. Humphrey of Minnesota and  Harriman of new York who was Defeated for re election got first place mention in some states. Sen. Albert Gore of ten Nessee and gov. George m. Leader of Pennsylvania the latter Defeated in a try for the Senate received one third place vote each. The canvass was significant in the disappearance of sen. Este Kefauver a Tenn from among those the party chairmen Are thinking about for the 1960 Nomi nation. Kefauver won several presidential primaries and the Russ spy Soble off to Hospital defense fund use urged to Advance Highway network Cleveland up the pres ident of the american automobile Assn. Aaa has urged that National defense funds be used in Stead of increased gasoline taxes to keep construction of the nation s freeway system on schedule. Frederick t. Mcguire jr., made the statement of policy adopted bythe aaa after reports that presi Dent Eisenhower might ask for a 1.5-cent increase in Federal Gaso line taxes to avoid use of general funds to make up a shortage of Highway Money. These roads form a defense department s strategic network and there Are Strong reasons for urging defense funds be used to help build them Mcguire said. Convicted russian spy Jack Soble 55, is helped into an ambulance for a trip to Bellevue Hospital after suffering an apparent hear attack while testifying in new York perjury trial. Soble was reported in Good condition. He is serving a seven year prison term for his admitted espionage activities. Up photo Griffin hits Atlanta mayor on vote to close schools move to score Nagy slaying starts in in United nations. . A a move is under Way to have the United nations general Assembly deplore communist Hungary s execution of its former Premier. Imre  sources said Western delegations were talking of introducing a Resolution to do this and Alsi to condemn the disregard by Hungary and the soviet Union of the Assembly s past resolutions on the hungarian situation. Those resolutions Call for with Drav Al of soviet troops and an end to repressive measures against the hungarian people. Soviet troops suppressed an uprising in that country in 1956. And deposed Nagy in favor of puppet Janoska Dar. Leaders slain Hungary announced last june 16 that Nagy his defense minister maj Gen pal Maleter and two other men had been executed for forming an organization to Over throw the hungarian people s democratic state  delegates anticipate that the As Sembly will take up the matter after the political committee finishes with its current subject outer space or its next one expected to be  would be at the earliest about thursday and at the latest week after  informants said the Western Resolution probably would have the Assembly replace the in special committee on Hungary with an individual instructed to keep watch on the situation there from afar. Vice presidential nomination in 195g but was not listed among the to three for 1960 by any chairman. In varying answers the chair men indicated the belief that Kenned is ahead at this time in12 states. These included connect Cut Massachusetts. Vermont new Hampshire Alabama Mississippi North and South Carolina Iowa Wisconsin Oklahoma and Montana. Kennedy was looked upon a second runner in 11 states Maine Michigan. Indiana South Dakota Ohio Kansas Nebraska Missouri Colorado new Mexico and Oregon. He was listed third in Florida Louisiana. Washington and North Dakota. The Choice Between Kennedy and Symington and some others was regarded As a tossup in some states. Chairman James a Ronan said Symington is Strong downstate in Illinois and Kennedy is Strong i Chicago. He would t place them in one two  governor in Michigan chairman Nei Staebler picked Williams Kennedy and Humphrey in Kennedy really is that order the leading candidate of the moment but 111have to stick with Williams naturally he  was listed first among the choices in eight states Dela Ware. Florida Georgia Indiana Missouri Nebraska and North and South  Missouri senator was pegged As second runner in Nort Carolina Iowa and California. He was third in Ohio Kansas Wisconsin and new . Who managed the elec Tion of a democratic senator front his state this year got first men Tion in his Home grounds in new Jersey and in Ohio Colorado an Washington. He came in second in new York and Mississippi third in Alabama and Maine. Stevenson twice the democratic presidential nominee apparently has a residue of strength. He was listed first in three widely Sepa rated states Louisiana Maine and Oregon. Montana and Wisconsin chairmen listed him second and begot third mention in Georgia and Iowa. Dirty dig Van Ormy Tex. A Farmer a. J. Vogt lost All his savings in the financial crash of 1929. Vogt who had t trusted Banks for 29 years is now broke again. Some body dug up the $3,500 in savings he had buried for safety. Atlanta a mayor Wil Liam b. Hartsfield s proposal that at Antans be allowed to vote on whether to close their Public schools in an Effort to preserve segregation has drawn a Rebuff from gov. Marvin Griffin. The governor at a special new conference issued a statement de Claring that georgians have spoken at the ballot Box for segregation and the. Mayor of Atlanta cannot throw in the Towel for me or any other  briton stows away crosses Atlantic twice by ship for Liverpool England up a 28-year-old e ectrial Engineer said it Cost him $1 to Cross the Atlantic Ocean twice aboard the Cunard liner Britannic. Billy Mcateer said he smuggled himself aboard the ship by paying a 50-cent fee for visitors and remaining aboard. He lived on after noon and morning teas and Sand Wiches he said. Mcateer said his wife took their 2-year-old son and returned to London after they had been in new York for a year and a half. He said he missed his family and stowed away aboard the Bra panic munching sandwiches and sleeping in the men s room at night during the trip. The ship docked in Liverpool for five Days and he sneaked ashore and visited his wife and son. Then he went aboard the Bri tannic again As a visitor and re turned to the ., he said. When he returned to new York he found the Fri waiting for him he said and he was deported. Mcateer said his trip Back to England this time was made in the Crew s quarters which was not quite so  Hartsfield made his proposal on he heels of a warning by sen. Herman e. Talmadge that Georgia by next year wll be face to face with an integration crisis. Griffin s Stateler t said i firmly believe that the people of Georgia Are More Resolute to Day that Ever before to protect the sovereignty of this  am convinced that an attempt to integrate any school in an county of Georgia will be met with unprecedented resistance. On the whole subject of school integration the people of Georgia have already spoken at the ballot Box in approving a constitutional amendment preserving segregated  mayor of Atlanta cannot throw in the Towel for me or for any other  Gas fumes fell 40 at Georgia meeting Fayetteville a. A leaking Gas fumes felled at least40 persons Here turning a ladies night meeting of the kiwanis club into a Nightmare. Police estimated that Between 25 and 30 men and women required treatment at a Fayetteville clinic and at hospitals in Atlanta 30 Miles away. Most of those affected said they first Felt numb and then were unable to Rise from their chairs. Some became violently nauseated. . Far behind As meat consumer Washington up despite the huge volume of meat produced in the ., the per capita  Citizen Falls far Short of being the world s biggest meat eater. The per capita consumption of red meat in the  In 1957 was159 pounds. This was Good enough for Only fifth place in the list of per capita Consumers in 43 countries for which the agriculture department has statistics. Number one meat eating country in 1957 was Argentina with 242 pounds per capita. Other countries which ranked ahead of the  Were new zealand 229 pounds Australia 221 pounds and uru Guay. 168 pounds. Low an urges halting Road death predictions Des Moines Iowa up an Amateur safety expert has urged a positive attitude toward Highway safety through an end to predictions of How Many people will die during various Holiday  c. Rupp who works for a photographic distributor Here said such predictions May unwittingly Plant a death thought in the minds of motorists. Vet 83, gets military funeral after jurisdictional squabble Baltimore a Henry w. Neils was buried with military honors and Charles k. Grantz was t  served his country in three wars before he died at 83 at the veterans administration Hospital in nearby it. Howard. He was a Navy combat Veteran of the Spanish american War went Back into uniform for world War i and at 69 entered the merchant Marine in 1942. He re tired three yearns later with the rank of commander. Grantz commander of a local Post of the veterans of foreign wars tried to see that Neils got his last wish a military funeral. I m really going to be incensed he said at one Point if this Man is buried without a firing  and Marine officials turned him Down because Neils belonged to neither service. Grantz said. The coast guard does t even have a burial detail. Finally the Navy ordered its Baltimore Reserve unit to furnish the burial detail. Grantz was satisfied. But i think it s a terrible Situa Tion when one service won t stand at the burial of a member of an other Branch he said