Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1959, Tokyo, Japan                                Friday february 20, 1959 the stars and stripes Page 7 Glass in boy s lungs3/2 years is removed new York up a 12-year-old boy went Home with the four pieces of a Glass Dagger he carried in his lungs for More than three  existence of the five Inch shard of Glass was not discovered until the youngster. Cyrus Tibbals in heard it break in his Chest when he fell at  pieces were surgically removed at Roosevelt Hospital a week ago by incredulous surgeons and Cyrus went Home As Gooda new carrying the souvenir. How the Glass got there was easy to explain. Three and a half Yean ago eight year old Cyrus crashed into a Glass storm door in his Home while chasing a playmate and was severely gashed under the Arm. Surgeons removed Small Glass splinters but apparently missed the larger piece about Inch wide and five inches  at the Hospital said it was almost unbelievable that he had not been killed by the original injury. They said a skilled surgeon would not attempt to insert an instrument by the route the Glass travelled for fear of causing instant death. . To Bill Moscow $3 million for shot Down of transport Washington up the . Will Send Russia a Bill of about$3 million for the air Force trans port plane destroyed in soviet Armenia last sept. 2, state department officials said. But these officials conceded chances of collecting were virtually nil. Since world War ii damage claims totalling nearly $8 million have been filed with Russia for five american planes shot Down by soviet fighters. Russia has paid Only $724,947half of one claim. The . Took two of the claims to the world court but Russia re fused to submit to the court s jurisdiction. A claim for the transport plane which this country charges was shot Down by soviet fighters has t been figured yet. The plane Les sits extensive communications equip ment originally Cost about $2, 450,000. State department officials declined to speculate on damages that would be asked for the 17airmen aboard the plane. Russia has returned six bodies but maintains i has no information on theother 11. The state department mean Ike tells Story of sick but Active general Washington a president Eisenhower paid High tribute to a arthritis plagued general who served under him in world War ii. Or. Eisenhower said he insisted the Man be. Assigned Tractive duty even if he had to be carried into Battle in a litter. Ithe president did not name the general at his news conference but he later was identified As Troy. Middleton. Now a retired lieu tenant general he is president of Louisiana state University. Or. Eisenhower brought up the Story in saying Secretary of state John Foster Dulles would stay in office despite his illnesses As Long As he is ready to carry on. Or. Eisenhower said he had asked Gen George c. Marshall then army chief of staff for a certain corps commander in the United states that i wanted to get Over into Europe immediately. And i got a Telegram saying Well sure he is a very Fine Man but he is so crippled out in Walter Reed that the doctors won assure you that he can move around or. Eisenhower related. And i said you Send the Manana i will Send him to Battle in a utter because he can do Bette that Way than  people i  / Bradley version. V the Story about Mississippi born Middleton was told in a somewhat different form by another world War ii commander Gen Omar Bradley in his Book a Soldier s  Bradley said it was suggested during the Campaign in Europe that Middleton who had Long suffered from arthritis be sent Home rather than command in the Field. Bradley then quoted a reply from Marshall which said i would rather have a Man with arthritis in the knee than one with arthritis in the head. Keep Middleton  Middleton an outstanding Young officer in world War i retire from the army As a colonel in 1937. That year he became Dean of admissions at Louisiana state University where he had been commandant of cadets for Many years. In 1939 he became comp troller of the University. Middleton was recalled to Active duty in january 1942, promoted and Given command of the 45thinf div in Sicily and Italy. The question of arthritis apparently came up for discussion just before Middleton was to take com Mand of the x corps. Obviously or. Eisenhower an Marshall had their Way Over the recommendation of the doctors. Middleton commanded the corp with distinction in France Bel Gium and Germany playing a Lead ing role in the Battle of the bulge. Fish from the boss1 hand while challenged soviet authorities again to listen to a tape recording which the  says is a Conversa Tion among soviet pilots while they were shooting Down the unarmed Lane. The soviet news Agency Tass charged monday that the tape re cording was a Gross forgery de signed for naive  Russia contends the plane crashed accidentally in soviet territory an was not shot Down. Door remains open Lincoln White state department press officer said that the door remains open to any authorized soviet representative to listen to the tape and satisfy himself of  russian ambassador Mikhail  refused to listen to it last november. State department officials also were considering taking to the in  telecommunications Union charges that Russia is violating International regulations by the types of radio transmitter sit has along the soviet turkish Border. President Eisenhower last week expressed suspicion that false radio signals sometimes lured . Pilots off course and into red territory. Moby Dick a sea elephant at the st. Louis zoo rises to take his ration of fish from the Boss him self George a Vierheller director of the zoo. Vier Heller and 10 other supervisory personnel had to feed 1,600 animals when 55 zoo workers walked out in a labor dispute. Associated press photo 3-Day zoo strike ends restless animals glad st. Louis Cap a three Day old strike at the st. Louis zoo has been settled and the 55 striking employees have gone Back to work. Pickets walked at zoo entrances wednesday for the first time in the strike for Union recognition but were withdrawn immediately when agreement was  of food to the animals were not affected by the  l. Ames Secretary treasurer of local 410, institutional and Public employees Union which rep resents the men described the settlement As a Compromise agree ment. It does not provide for checking off Union dues from zoo employees pay which was one. Of the dispute matters. But Ames said the policy Decla action spells out with sufficient clarity the right of employees to organize free from supervisory in reference and the right to take up grievances through their Union  during the strike few visitor were permitted inside the zoo and apparently because of the Lack of them the animals became bored and restless. Director George p. Ivies Helleran his 10-Man supervisory staff cared for and fed the 1,600 animal during the walkout. Bride 86, Groom 34, honeymoon in okla. Hugo okla. A eighty six year old mrs. Lottie l. Houle and her 34-year-old husband of two Days Are honeymooning in okla homa City after being married Here by a Justice of the peace. Mrs. Houle whose first husband died in 1934, owns a Rooming House in Oklahoma City. Her new Hus band Edward runs a cafe next door when asked about her Romance mrs. Houle quipped Why everybody gets married Don i they Margaret Truman expecting new York a Margaret Truman and her husband Clifton Daniel Are expecting their secon child in june Daniel confirmed Here. Miss Truman is the daughter of former president Truman Ane Daniel is a new York times executive. They have one child a son born june 5, 1957. Most wanted con posed As member of football giants Burlington it. Up one of the nation s 10 most wanted criminals posed for a time As a new York giants football player authorities said. Frank l. Sprenz 29, who escaped last april from an Arkon Ohio jail flew into Burlington Las weekend in a stolen air plane and left in a stolen car. A wide Hun for him is being directed by the Fri which described Sprenz As vicious and probably armed. The car taken out on approval from a used car lot turned up in Salem . Police said Sprenz had been Liv ing Here for some time before his whirlwind return saturday. Deposed alternately As a College Stu Dent at the University of Vermont or st. Michael s College in nearby win of ski and As a new York giants player. The giants hold summer training in Winooski. He even wore a jacket with the new York giants name on it. . To rent new building Washington a the government has contracted to pay $6.5 million in rent Over the next 10years for the top five floors of a new 10-Story office building Here valued by its owner at $10  space will House the civil aeronautics Board. Morris Cafritz owner of the new Universal building and husband of one of the City s Best know hostesses said he does not know yet just what the building will Cost but added the value of the building is $10 million. Located at Connecticut an Florida avenues the building includes parking space on each floor for the occupants. Cafritz said it is one of the finest Ever built i Washington. Bent reasonable a spokesman for the Genera services administration which Nakes rental arrangements for the government said the Agency Hinks the Price of $650,000 an rally for 10 years is reasonable he spokesman said there is no Ommon denominator for figuring whether rent is reasonable As thee vices provided by building owners vary under different con facts but he added the Cost of 15.50 per Square foot for space Inge Universal building compares Raith $6 per Square foot being paid or space for the labor depart ment in another recently completed building Here. Gary Grant Liz Taylor voted most popular by film journal new York a Box office a motion picture Industry Trad publication chose Gary Grant and Vizabeth Taylor As the most Popula film stars of 1958. It was the 22d annual poll by the , who gained top rating for the first time was followed by William Holden Yul Brynner Rock Hudson last year s Winner Marion Brando and Gary Cooper. Finishing after miss Taylor were Deborah Kerr Doris Day Debbie Reynolds Kim Novak Winner in 1956 am1957 and Ingrid Bergman. 2 firemen killed on Way to Blaze Evansville ind. Up two City firemen were killed when a pumper truck speeding to answer fire alarm collided with a truck at a City intersection. Fred Bernard 30, was hurled this death off the pumper truck he was driving. Charles Hoffman 35,who was Riding on the rear of the pumper died later in deaconess Hospital. Fireman Francis t i t v e r was treated and released. The Accident occurred while the fire equipment was speeding to answer an alarm at a manufacturing Plant. Driver of the commercial truck Rayburn Rawlins. Was not injured