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Three OimdimiinsifeGDS Killed! Biro Traffic Accidlemite Ltrtrsl CircilaMM 01 ssy Cincinnati Rtwsiliw April l'aid Circulation DAILY 217,795 SUHDAY 287,572 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER TODAYS WEATHER CIS CIS ATI AREA: Some Cleadiaeta. Ounce Of Srattrrrd Aftcrnooa Or Evening Thundrrihomrm. 1-ow S6, High M. Lew Tonight, S6. PfTAItS.

MAP CK PACE IS TiltplSM Parkway I-2T00 Clisiilitf tit UJ)J 1 Single ropira, Or beyond 'v retail trading sone. FINAL EDITION 117th YEAR M). 31 DAILY MONDAY MORMNG, MAY 13, 1937 NEWS SERVICES: Act4 Vm4 tots lattmttional Ntwi N. T. Tim.t AP Wit.pKot nn" -r' -I A Reds Win Two Games From Bruins, 7-5, 7-1 I lr VIU i i 1939 Mark Tied As Streak Soars To 12 Straight Falls From Car Trucker Dies When Rig Overturns By Lou Smith Enquirer Sports Editor CHICAGO, May 12 Manager Birdie Tebbetts' rampaging Reds still are hotter than a six-alarm fire.

They completed an all-conquering road trip today wiih their 11th and 12th straight victories, much to the chagrin of the slumping Chicago Cubs who still are looking forward to their first win of the season at Wrigley Field. i lMnM -Associated Frn Wirephot The hit-happy Reds hung on VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY IS UNDER THE Gl'N He Tour Civil War's Gettysburg With Ike Generals Second Guessed '( Jit Ike, Monty Hit Leadership On Both Sides Of Civil War landing, Montgomery was asked by newsmen if he still would have "sacked" both Lee and Meade. i The Field Marshal replied: "I would not have fought the battle that way myself. The President was asked what he would have done. "Look, I live here," he replied.

I represent both the North and South." "Did any of these generals look good?" newsmen insisted. The President replied: "There were some of the finest troop movements la military history here but everything seemed to break to pieces on coordination unfortunately for the Southern aide." "But who on the whole did the worse job?" Monty was asked. He said: "Lee did the worse job of command." The President at one point stoutly defended Lee. He told Montgomery: "I think Lee was let down by (Confederate Gen. i.

E. Stuart Stuart let him down by his love of drama." Montgomery was critical of Meade for his failure to use his cavalry properly. Montgomery will return to Washington Monday morning. The President expects to stay at his farm until Monday evening. GETTYSBURG, May 12 (INS) President Eisenhower and British Field Marshal Viscount Bernard Montgomery toured the Gettysburg battlefield today and the two World War II commanders openly deplored and condemned the generalship of both sides in the historic Civil War.

At one point, the President shook his head in disbelief as he viewed the scene where Gen. Robert E. Lee sent 13,000 Confederate troops in a final, vain attempt to win the battle. Ha exclaimed la dismay to his British companion: "I will never understand why Lee drove across those fields. He must have gotten so darn mad he wanted to bit that man Union Gen, George Meade) with brick." Montgomery merely set his lips in a tight, thin line and said: "This is monstrous, simply monstrous." The two men who commanded the Allied forces in Europe that crushed Hitler Germany 12 years ago agreed they would have fought the decisive battle of the American Civil War with different tactics.

They had tew kind words to say for either opposing commanding geenrals. At an abservation tower, where the President climbed 60 steps to the fourth Cincinnatian Is Fatally Injured In Accident In North Carolina Three more Greater Cincin-natians were dead last night as the result of weekend traflic accidents. The toll: MRS. ROSE CALLAHAN, 36, 6948 Mar Bev North College Hill, who died at Good Samaritan Hospital of injuries received when she was thrown Jrom an automobile Saturday night. JACK WADDELL, 33, 132 Parker killed yesterday when his trailer rig crashed into a utility pole and rolled down a embankment eight miles south of Beckley, W.

Va. LARRY1 LAXGFO'RD, 39, North College Hill, was reported by friends here to have been killed when he swerved his car off the highway to avoid hitting a stalled bus near N. C. The victim in another Saturday night accident, on U. S.

52 near Coney Island, was identified yesterday as John Harvey Clark, 72, Chestnut Newport, a car passenger. A fellow passenger, Herman Hager, 31, 407 Elm Newport, was in critical condition at Bethcsda Hospital with a skull fracture. Police last night were attempting to determine hnw Mrs. Callahan fell from the automobile driven by her husband, Vester, 37, in front of 7809 Anthony Wayne Ave. She suffered body and head cuts and a severe brain injury.

The Homicide Squad joined the investigation last night. Circumstances of the accident were "vague" said Detective Sgt. Russell Jackson. Mrs. Callahan's death brought Hamilton County's traffic fa-talaties to 36 this year.

Waddell, a driver for Anchor Motor Freight, Norwood, was en route to Union, W. with a load of two new trucks and two new automobiles, the Associated Press reported. In the accident near Coney Island, the car crashed on a curve 1.6 miles east of the Hamilton County line in Clermont County. It went out of control, hit a utility pole and rolled over several times. The driver, Nicholas' Shirley Miller, 37, 620 Patterson Newport, was charged by State Highway patrolmen with manslaughter In the court of Mayor Verne Stock of Loveland.

Leonard R. King, 30, 2817 Woodburn was cited on charges of reckless and drunken driving last night after the automobile he was driving struck a bicycle at 1542 Elm injuring a boy and a girl. In good condition at General Hospital were Ewen Akers, 14, 1521 Race whose right thigh was fractured, and Elizabeth Baker, 16, 125 W. Liberty whose injuries were not immediately determined. to a first-place tie with Milwaukee by combining power with high-class pitching, topped off by Don Gross's four-hit pcr-fromance in sweeping the twin bill.

7-3 and 7-1, before a crowd of 12,129. Gross, working his second straight complete game In eight days, allowed four hits, two of them flukes, in handing the Cuba their sixth straight defeat at home In the finale. Victory in the opener went to the cagey Raul Sanchez, who reeled off three rounds of shutout pitching. It was the slender Cuban's second triumph, both coming In relief jobs. REDLF.GS BATS HOT The Reds, who have treated every pitcher they faced in the past two weeks like batting practice hurlers, clubbed nine Bruin pitchers for 21 assorted hits.

Frank Robinson, with six for 10, led the attack. Four of these came In the opener. In the finale he drove In two runs with his fourth homer and a ingle. Sharing the offensive spotlight with the brilliant sophomore, was Wally Post. The St.

Henry, Ohio, strongman indicated that he Is out of his batting slump by driving in three runs with a single and a two-run homer in the opener. Don Hoak knocked in the tie-breaking run in the eighth round of the opener with a ingle. Their current winning streak Is the longest in the National League since 1953, when the Dodgers reeled off 13 in a row. That same year the Yankees won 18 in succession. FIRST GAME! The Reds made short work of Don Kaiser as they scored three runs on four singles in the opening round.

Johnny Temple, Wally Poit and fius Bell singled in succession for the firsi run. Wally sped home with the second as Bell was forced at second on Frankie Robinson's grounder to third. Frank reached second safely on Eddie Winceniak's v.lld peg past first and rode home on uieorge Crowe's single to center. Dick Littlefield replaced the 21 -year -old bonus beauty at this and prevented further scoring. After being halted by double plays in the first and second and bowin0 out in order in the third, the Cubs ripped into Hal Jeffcoat for three runs before a man was retired in the fourth.

F.rnle Banks opened with his first Wrigley Field hit of the a a k'o a high hopper that Temple was able to knock down near second. Lee Walls doubled to and Walt Moryn jump'd on Jeffcoat's hext pitch, driving It deep Into the left-renterfield bleachers to make it S-S. Jeff regained his bearings long enough to prevent further scoring in the fourth. But the THREE KINGS Fnouinr (Cochrwl Phttt SKIN DIVERS BRING VP DROWNING VICTIM Members -of the Cincinnati Diving Club recovered the body of Ronnie Crail, 17, of 333 E. 13th Covington, from tha Licking River beneath the Chesapeake Ohio Railroad bridge near 15th Street, Covington, yesterday.

Robert Laughlin, foreground, and Cummings, divers, searched as a team in 18 to 20 feet of water. Other rescue workers aid as the body is brought from the water. The youth failed to come up after ht dived into the river in search of a lost baseball Saturday. My Daughter Screamed Body Falls Into House 4 As Plane Disintegrates Ills Opened Careers For Frank Tilton Sr. By William Collins Enquirer Reporter Heart attacks were springboards for Frank M.

Tilton Sr. They propelled him into two new careers after the age of 60. Aim At Accord BRAVES HANG ON! Elsewhere in the National league, the Milwaukee Braves remained deadlocked with the Reds for first place, taking two games from the 'St. Louis Cardinals, 4-2 and 10-4. The Phillies and Pittsburgh Pirates split a double-header.

The Phils won the opener, 6-2 and the Pirates took the nightcap, 6-1. In a single game, the Brooklyn Dodgers, with Southpaw Johnny Podres on the mound, shut out the New York Giants, 5-0. (For complete details, ee Sports section.) Cubs took a 4-3 in the fifth on three singles, before Muryn lined into a double play. But Manager Tebbetts ran out of patience and replaced the converted outfielder with Art Fowler after Wineenlak made It S-3 with his first major league homer, a long smash over the 1-ftfieUI screen and t'al Neeman tripled nlf the cen-tcrijcld wnll. Fowler fanned Klrner Singleton for the third out.

Meanwhile, the Reds got only three men to base and one as far as-second off Littlefield from the second through the But they KO'ed the Cub lof tie in wasting two hits in the sixth. Robinson singled and Crowe doubled with one down. Littlefield fanned Ed Bailey and then was replaced by Singleton, who retired Don Hoak. But this move backfired on the Cubs in the seventh. Singleton retired the first two men then Temple looped a single over short and Post followed with his third homer, a long poke over the left field bleachers.

REDS TAKE COMMAND Singles by Robinson and Hoak, with a pass sandwiched between, enabled the Reds to take a 6-5 lead in the eighth before Turk replaced Singleton. At this point the streaking Reds were playing no favorites. They made it 7-5 in the ninth. Bell singled with two down and Robinson's fourth trai; hit, a 400-foot double Lie centerfield fence scored Gus. SECOND GAME Robinson Initited scoring In the finale, opening the second with his fourth homer, a slashing drive (eep into the left-field bleachers.

It was Frank's fifth straight hit of the afternoon. The Reds made it 2-0 in the fifth. Roy McMillan opened with a dimbie over short. He moved to third on a sacrifice and scored on Temple's hoist to Jim Bolger. Meanwhile, the Cubs could do nothing with Don Gross.

Only two en reached base during the first three, one on an error and the other on a pass. But Don lost his bid for a no-hitter when Jerry Lynch lost Walt Moryn's towering fly in the sun. It dropped in fronfc of Jerry for a fluke double. The sun also cost Don a shutout. Post, who replaced Lynch in right field in the fifth, lost I.ee Walls' seventh-inning liner In the glaflng sun.

It sped over Wally's head for a fluke triple and when Temple threw past third. Walls scored. With two down in the same round, Winceniak got the Cubs' first legitimate hit, a line single to, left. Moe Drabowsky held the Reds in check in the sixth and seventh. But they broke loose again in the eighth, scoring twice on a pass and two singles, one of them Robinson's sixth of the day.

The Reds scored three insurance runs off Jackie Collum and Vito Valentinetti in the ninth. IN THE ENQUIRER Page Page Birthdays 32 Radio-TV 21 Bridge IS Riescl It 1 Classified Schot'lkotte Considine 5 Smiles Comics 47 Society 18 Crossword 12 Sports 25-80 Deaths 38 Star Gazer 1 Editorials 4 Theater 4a Farm 32 Van Dellen 35 Foreign 3 Washington Horse Sense 22 Weather 15 Markets St Winchell 85 Miller IS Women's IS Mirror 32 Word Game 6 The first came in 1946 and ended 40 years of selling paint for the Boston Varnish Co. in the Ohio Valley. "You'll have to cancel everything and take life easy from now on," doctors told Tilton, who made his home at 6637 Murray Marie-mont. Tilton and his wife, Drusilla, returned to their native New England.

Retirement proved a bore and Tilton began making toys. He opened a toyshop at his country home at North Thetford, Vermont. The shop prospered. Tilton got out a 1 A. there was the body on the floor, only five feet from us.

There was a hole In the roof about four feet by 10. But It was so sudden we couldn't figure out what had happened. UGH! WILLIAMSBURG, Va, May 12 VP) "You're dead," a member of the cast of the Jamestowu Festival play, "The Founders," told Opecan-canough, as he stabbed him during an opening dress re-hearsnl for Williamsburg residents. Ihe Indian chief played his role to the hilt. As other members of the east dragged him offstage tho chiefs loin cloth became untied and slid off.

Being officially "dead" Insofar as the drama was concerned, the distraught chief couldn't help his own cause. No one else was aware of the mishap except the audience. PORTLAND, May 12 VP) A light airplane disintegrated over a Portland residential district today and the body of the pilot crashed into a living room below, narrowly missing two persons. The dead pilot was identified from papers on the body as Allen Wood, 21, Salem, a senior at Oregon State College. He had taken off from Salem about an hour before.

The plane came apart at a low altitude and the body crashed through the roof of the Fred G. Thomson residence in Southeast Portland. Thomson and a 10-year-old daughter, Connie, were in the room at the time, but both were unhurt. "We were sitting there working a crossword puzzle, when suddenly it sounded like the house was blowing up," said Thomson. "My daughter screamed and we looked around behind us and TILTON Was His Heart It catalogue and went into the mail order business.

The second attack came in 1953. Tilton and his wife sold their business and bought a home ill' Orange Lake Village, near Restlessness settled in again. Last September, Tilton started a monthly community newspaper. He took the pictures, rewrote the news stories and composed the editorials. When Frank Tilton died Saturday at the age of 70, the Orange Lake Village News was in fine shupe.

It had doubled in size and was showing a profit. Friends here received news of Tilton's death yesterday. "It was his heart trouble," one of them reported. Frank Tilton will be buried Wednesday in North Thetford. Besides his wife, he leaves a son, Frank 6722 Chestnut Mariemont: a daughter, Mrs.

Robert Bell, Valley Stream, N. and three grandchildren. COME TO THINK OF IT: Nobleman, Five Children Die Rulers Of Iraq, Jordan And Saudi Arabia Join Against Commies BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 12 (UP) King Hussein of Jordan will join the kings of Iraq and Saudi Arabia within "two or three days for talks aimed at bolstering his nation's defenses against internal or external threats, a diplomatic source said today. Both King Feisal of Iraq and King Sand of Saudi Arabia are pledged to uphold the independence and Integrity of Jordan. Both of them sped to Hussein's aid during the recent crisis touched off by his ouster of the pro-Egyptian Premier Suleiman el NabulsL, Reliable sources in Damascus said Saud would invite Hussein, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Syrian President Shukriel Kuwatly to a four-power meeting after his visit to Baghdad.

The sources said. the meeting would be designed to hammer out a united stand on recent Middle East developments. Jordan has accused the Soviet Union, Egypt and ria of plotting to dethrone King Hussein and 'three, other Mideast monarchs, a story on Page relates. The meeting of the kings of Jordan, Saudi and Iraq, if not suddenly called off because of diplomatic and propagandist pressure by Egypt and Syria, would so cement in the eyes of the world what already had been made obvious by Saud's state visit here: The gradual realignment of the Arabs states into a more natural pattern dictated by each country's real interests. It would also mean the end ef the Egyptian-led isolation of Iraq In the Arab world because ef Feisal's frankly pro-Western and antl Communist policies and adherence to the Baghdad pact.

Saud arrived here yesterday on an offic'ai four-day visit, the first by a Saudi monarch to Iraq. The visit symbolized the end of the years -long blood feud between the Saudi and Hashemite dynasties. Feisal and his cousin, Hussein, are Hashemites. Contact between the three monarchs has been constant since the Jordan crisis erupted. 13 Killed As Racer Catapults Into Crowd At Italian Classic City Gets "Alert" As Funnel Clouds Pass Over Area The Weather Bureau put Cincinnati on a "tornado alert" last night because funnel-shaped clouds were moving through the area.

But nothing came of it. The warning was sent to east-central Illinois, central Indiana and west -central Ohio. The danger zone was defined as an area 60 miles on either side of a line from Dayton, Ohio, to a point just east of Vandalia, Illinois. Several tornado funnels were righted aloft over parts of west-central Illinois but apparently failed to touch ground. Ther were not reports of damage or in.iury.

Funnel shaped clouds, the kind that produce tornadoes, were sighted last night moving in an easterly direction from West Central Illinois. No damage or injuries were reported. A twister ripped through the small north-central Texas town of Crawford yesterday after noon, leaving a path cf heavy property damage. A flash flood swept Dallas, again last night and r. continual driving rain at Lampasas in Central Texas was reported to have put the town square under six to eight feet of water.

At Dallas, police evacuated an undertimed number of residents from lowlying areas. Widely scattered showers fell in the Cincinnati area late road," lost control about a mile outside the of Guidizzolo on the circular course. A front tire blew on the Ferrari. It flattened a milestone and a telegraph on the left side of the road end then somersaulted 20 feet into the crowd lining the pavement. Police on the scene said it was a "massacre." "The smash was so bad it proved very difficult to Identify the victims," a member of the Carabinieri (federal police) said.

The marquis was the son of a Spanish nobleman and an American mother who Is believed te operate a chain of pawn shops In the Lai ted States. Today's disaster was, the worst in toe Mille Miglia since 1938 when 10 persons were killed in a smashup. And it was the worst racing accident since the tragedy at Le Mans. BRESCIA, Italy, May 12 (UP) Marquis Alfonso de Portago, Spanish nobleman-sportsman, and 12 other persons were killod today when his flame-red racing car blew a tire and catapulted at 90 miles an hour into a crowd watching the classic Italian Mille Miglia (thousand mile) roadrace. Five of the victims were children.

Police reported a number of other persons were Injured by the somersaulting Ferrari sporta ear and in the stampede that followed the disaster. Scores were treated on the scene. Police said the dead included the 27-year-old De Portago, Eddy Nelson, his co-driver, and 11 spectators. The tragedy occurred in bright sunshine only 25 miles from the finish line of the gruelling race, won by Italy's Piero Taruffi. De Portago, who only this week wrote in the current issue of the American magazine.

Sports Illustrated, that "I am 1 -Aisocitttd PrtM Wirphot MARQl'IS DE PORTAGO "Expert On Leaving Road'' considered quite an expert on the subject of going off the "Like I always say half the fun of a vacation is getting the clothes to wear.".

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