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2 to 3ngclt Onus pTTT? Gl Reported Port I-MON, SEPT. 28, 1 953 CiTYSIDE with GENE SHERMAN iRuss Captive Wm 1 A 1 c. it. I It' l.v jr in Siberia ,7... rr d- iA 4 Sergeant Serving Espionage Sentence, Says Freed German GOETT1NGEN, Germany, Sept! 27 (U.R) A German lit J- V-' 1 -W Miss' Lynne Nichols, ee 3, was taken by her parents to a drive-in movie the other evening as a special treat- Naturally, she knows her way around a television set.

But movies are something novel. Don't know what the picture as. In the middle of it. however. Miss Nichols got bored.

"Tune in another the demanded. COMEBACK Three years ago in a house a block away from Hygeia Sanatorium. 2531 Beverly a famous composer and conductor started what turned out to be a three-year drinking hinge. His wife had died and his daughter had been killed accidentally within a week. He became a penniless drunk.

Last month he showed up in Holly-wood, announced he had quit drinking and promptly disappeared again. Earl Holbrook, whose promising musical career disappeared in alcohol many years atjo, traced the composer on hie TV show, "The Alcoholic Can Come Back." The composer consented to go into the sanatorium. A few days later he axed for paints and canvas and they were provided. His father was a well-known artist whose works have been shown in many galleries. The composer has completed 30 pictures and WEDDING TOAST Actor the former Alexandra John Payne ond his bride, CrOwell Curtis, drink, toast offer their marrioge in bride Actor John Payne Weds Ex-Wife of Alan Curtis Film Colony Figures Married in Rites at Bel-Air Residence of Bride Actor John Payne and Mrs.

Alexandra Crowell Curtis DADDY SERVES SUPPER Edgar Pippin, 42, dishes up supper for three of his children in the absence of his wife Helen, 31, ond daughter Shori, 11 tomorrow, who are in General Hospitol with 'polio. Children are Annette, 5, left; Judy, 9, and Tommy, 2. Pippin has been unable to find a father's helper. TlmM phmo LA. ARRIVAL ENDS were married yesterday at Canyon Road, Bel-Air Dr.

Frank Dyer, Santa Mon ica Congregational minister, of ficiated. Matron of honor was the bride's aunt, Mrs. Donald Koartv. and the best man was Charles Spangler, a friend of Pavne, A reception for about 75 fol 18 YEARS IN RUSSIA U.S. Embassy Ex-Clerk Who Was Wed to Soviet Citizen Reaches Home of Mother Kighteen years of life in So-New York 11 with her viet Russia ended yesterday for it wo daughters, F.lena, 13, and Mrs, Ethel R'alashova and her Alicia, almost 12.

Wrong-Way Freeway Crash Injures Four' Illustrated on Pag 3. Part I A grinding two-car crash resulted in injury to rour persons yesterday when a motorist mistakenly drove outbound on the inbound portion of Arroyo Seco Freeway and collided head on two daughters when she arrived at the home of her mother here. The 3t-ypar-old American citi- zen was permitted to leave Rus, sia only after -the Kremlin, in a move heralded by the west: NAVY BLIMP STILL VITAL TO DEFENSE Santa Ana Base Reserves Prove K-Ships Are Indispensable in Anti-Submarine Action BY MARVIN MILES The K-ship is an anomaly in this day of flashing jets. She rides the sky like a lazy whale while her massive tag-along shadow slides smoothly beneath her across fields and house tops and the rippled surface of the sea. as a peace bid.

eased exit regu-'the V.S. Embassy Clerk Yesterday she stepped from a transcontinental train in Los Angeles. She now is staying Fot. the last sevp vears Mrs. Balashova had been a clerk at U.S.

Embassy in Moscow (Before that she had been em- Cross in the L.S S.R. It started in when the Rabin family returned to Russia from San Francisco. The family was unable to return to the United States until 1016. But in the meantime Ethel lations last June. Balashova arrived infpioyeo- Dy tne American tiea Rahin had met and married an coming, leaving another ve-Russian engineer.

Thev were chicle driven by Lloyd Johnson. prisoner of war returning from eight years of captivity in Russia said today he met an American Army sergeant from Chicago in a Siberian prison camp for criminals. Former Wehrmacht Sgt. Karl Manns, 35t of Esspn, Germany, said the American's name was Peter Ververs or Verfers and Lihat he was serving a sentence for espionage. Manns said he himself wai serving a 25-year sentence imposed in 1945 because he was a member of the German 32nd Infantry Division which the Russians accused of extreme cruelty.

Meet In IflW Sometime in the middle of 1349, Manns said, he met the American Ververs at Camp 30,1 located at Bratsk in the Irkutsk area of Central Siberia. He said Ververs had been in the prison since 1946 or 1947. Manns said Very erg was about 30 years old and from Chicago. In 1916 or 1917, he said. Ververs was driving three American officers in Eastern Berlin when they were arrested by the Russians.

The highest ranking American officer was a major. Ververs was separated from the officers and later sentenced for espionage, Manns said. He was sent to the criminal prison camp at. Rratsk, Siberia, to serve his sentence. Speaks German Manns said Ververs spoke German well and that he told him his parents had emigrated to the United States from Vier-sen in the Rhineland and later settled in Chicago.

In Heidelberg, a U.S.' Army headquarters spokesman said incident was alleged to have. occurred in 194fi or 1947 a full search of the six-year-old records will be made. KTTV TO SHOW FILM OF POW'S HOME-COMING The film story of Gerald Brown Day in Lakewoorl will he shown over Station KTTV. 11, tonight at 11 p.m. it was announced yesterday.

Lt. Col. Brown, a veteran of World War II and a recently released Korean prisoner, was honored in Lakewood Saturday. KTTV news section recorded the ceremony on film. This is the picture that will be shown.

Col. Brown, was captured Nov. HO, and was among the last 11 prisoners released by the Communists. of Soviet Union. divorced later.

Visa Refused Marriage to a Russian how- ever, meant that Mrs. Ralasho- va had to remain in the Reriion tne jnhound section for ap-capital when her father and i proximately one-half hour. Bel-Air home yeste rday. UP) photo the bride's home at 111 Stone lowed at the residence. Tha couple planned a honeymoon trip to Carmel, San Francisco and Sun Valley, Ida.

The new Mrs. Payne formerly was married to Actor Alan Curtis. Payne formerly was married to' Actresses Anne Shirley and Gloria de Haven. Illustrated on Pag 3. Part I any other units in the evaluation maneuver.

The K-ship today js not ton different from the World- War 11 type in appearance, but. she does have a great deal more radar and other electronics and she row has an automatic 1 1 to ease the strain on elevator and rudder-men during long tedious patrols. K-ships such as the two used by squadrons (ZP-951 and 052) in the Naval Air Reserve Training Unit at the Marine Air Facility, Santa Ana only lighler-than-air unit on the West Coastare mammoth when you walk near them, 2fifi feet long, 82 feet, high and 62 feet in diameter. Xn Internal Structure The rubberized cotton bag or "envelope" itself weighs nearly five tons and contains approximately 527,000 cubic feet of gas, mostly non-inflammable helium, but up to 27 air contained in two inside fore-and-aft sections called ballonets. Scooped in through outng-; Turn to Page 10.

Column was hanged for war crimes in Nuernberg in 1946. Another was a member of the family of the former German armament king. Alfred Krupp, the freed POWs said. The generals included several infantry division commanders and tank experts. Once Hindenhui'g Aide One of them, Lt.

Gen. Bodo von Huelsen, once was adjutant of the late German President Paul von Hindenburg. The prisoners said conditions in the Soviet prison camps improved considerably after the death of Stalin last March but worsened again after the June 17 anti-Communist rebellion in East Germany. These were reports from some of the 4B8 prisoners, jn. eluding IS women and eight children, who arrived at this West German transit camp last, night.

The group was the fi rt. to be released from Russian camps since Stalin died. Officials said 30 were former officers, among them 30 colo nels. mother returned this coun-j try. Her father, Louis Babin, ciiefl last year.

Despite her efforts to leave Russia, Red authorities would not issue an exit visa for the, slender Embassy- clerk and her tWo Russian children. It was only in June that the Reds relented. For the two children, Mrs. Balashova related, seeing the L'nited States for the first time has been quite an experience. She's a Navy blimp, a mon- ster of a craft, and her disposition is as changeable as the wind in direct ratio.

In calm air she's as placid as a sleeping child. But in gusty weather her temper flares and until she's sheltered, or set free she writhes in ponderous anger against the mooring mast and the handling lines that shackle her to earth. For some years after World War II it appeared that her day was done, that new, longer-ranging patrol bombers would eliminate her from the submarine hunt and fleet air patro duties. 1 Advantages Given But she's still the most stable platform for electronic search operations. She has slow, deliberate speed and ability to hang low over the water.

She has long range, great -weight lifting power. And her accuracy with depth bombs and torpedoes keeps her indispensable for certain types of duty. In fact on a sea exercise not long ago, I'm told, she and her bulging sisterships racked up a better score in theoretical enemy submarine kills than Polio Hits Two tin Family But Dad Carries On Some men can take just so many blows from fate, men cave in. Edgar (Ed) Tippin, -12, aircraft worker, just hunches his and goes along; the best he. can.

That's the way it was last nisht as he, fixed supper in their apartment at' 1025 Olympic Blvd. for An nette, 5, and Tommy 2, his children. Two in Hospital His other daughter, Shari. 11 tomorrow, went, to General Hospital last Friday diagnosis, polio. His wife Ifplen, 31.

went yesterday afternoon again. polio. Kd did not know whether he could go to work today at 3 p.m. "I guess if I don get jinv; iplp by then, I'll just have to tay and take care of the kids," he said. He was matter of fact about it.

He loves his ife. He loves his daughter. His way of saying it: "At least they aren't in iron lungs. They haven't any paraly sis at. least not vet." Neighbor TeM Story He doesn't talk about his problems, except with reluctance.

A neighbor told about the Pippin family situation. the neighbor had said, is a real citizen. He doesn't make too much money, but he brings it. all home. And he makes a buck or two here help ing fix a car or a couple of bucks there doing a painting job for somebody.

He's always! working to cot a buck." Having one of the family the hospital isn't anything new to Pippin, whose take-home pay is ahout a week. "Tommy jut got out. last Monday," he said. Hernia." And Shan was in a month ago. Pneumonia.

Expenses Seen I expect our new troubles1 will cost a lot, but he said. The 'put' meant' he expected to shoulder thnt burden, too, and eventually to get rid of it. It was news to him that the. National Foundation for Infantile Paralvsis pays for the icare of polio. He was about to serve supper and called Tommy to get, him ready.

He turned away for a moment, and Tommy was out the door. Half a minute later Annette. came running into the! room. "Tommy ran across the street," she screamed, "fie ran out between some cars." Pippin stopped dead still, awaiting the wot-t. "Rut he's back," Annette; shouted.

Hp didnt cet Pippin shrugged. It was though he said, "At least, that's one that missed." Traffic Memorial Day Proclaimed in Nevada CARSON CITY, Sept. 27 (U.R) his show will open now win optri are great. His next Friday and Oct. 11.

Clitics them say they "gallery" will be the Hygeia Sanatorium one block from the start of oblivion three years ago. Good luck. QUIPPING TOST Friend of Mr. Herb Herbelin has a job that keeps him on the road. As usual with traveling men, he patronizes the same hotels time after time.

At one in San Diego he struck up an acquaintance with a waitress who always remembered he liked honey rather tharj. syrup on his hotcakes. Until one morning he was served by a strange waitress who didn't kno his preference. "Where's my honey?" he inquired. "Oh," replied the new girl, "she's working in a laundry now." Mrs.

Benjamin Watkins Leigh, now of West wood, remembers with glee the sign on a mortuary at Lexington and How ard Sts. in Baltimore. It read: 'What's the use of walking 'around half dead when von can pet a first-class funeral for $75?" TIME BREAK Now that we are hack on Standard Time, Mr. Bob King of Southern Pacific points out that the railroads are responsible for putting the country on a reliable time basis. Before 1883, when the railroads adopted a time system, nobody cared too much about, exactly what time it was.

Clocks and watchps were set by the sun or the word of the local jeweler. Things were very approximate. There could be wide variances of time between L.A. and Pasadena, fojjg-stance. And, says Mr.

King, people resented being put nn time. They didn't accept the system fufly until they missed 8 few trains. Personally, I still resent it when the alarm clock goes off. CITY SIDELIGHTS Stranger in Indio asked an employee of a furniture store there how the natives stood the heat in summer. "Well," said the resident, sped the summer in Fresno" It was quite a neighborhood event when a fire engine, siren screaming, cruised up narrow, hilly Pano-tama Terrace near Silver Lake the other day looking for a fire that had been reported.

Dozens of kids and does trailed it on Its tortuous route. And Mrs. Cecilia Quigley Pierce looked out the window waved in a neighborly fashion at. the firemen. Who thought she was motioning them to the blaze.

And almost rlrencbed her house until she explained with some embarrassment she was just trying to be friendly. And wasn't on fire. VI SQUARED You can have someone call you at the County Law Library at 1st St. and Broadway it isn't nearly finished. There's a pay phone built right into the construction fence.

MUtual fS14 Traveling Citysider reports unequivocally: Detroit has the best-dressed women Miss Thelma Royce won-t'era about the Sherman Oaks couple who had to get rid of their pedigreed boxer they loved so much. He drooled on their Cadillac. (With a vehicle traveling toward Los Angeles. Driver of the wrong-way car, Selma, told officers he turned onto the freeway at Riverside Xnrth of Inlet The crash occurred approximately 500 feet north of the Riverside Drive inlet. Motorists told Officer K.

I. Roardman that other cars swerved when they saw Aqui- manager of a metal products company, a target for the oncoming Aquino car. Both cars were harlly dam-aeed and caused a traffic tie-un Chests Crushed Aquino suffered a crushed chest and cuts and abrasions. Johnson, Cornet Pasadena, also received a crushed chest arid rib fractures. Two passengers in Aquino's car also were injured.

Fernando Regez. 37, of 1008 Chestnut St. suffered possible rib fractures, and Felix Aquino, brother of the driver, received abrasions. ond later divorced from citizen Woman Dies, Three Hurt in Ridge Crash TRAFFIC TOLL Yesterday's deaths 2. lD.ri3 county jot a 1623.

A Santa Ana woman was killed and three other persons in the same car were injured critically yesterday in an acci- dent on the Ridge Route six miles north of Castaic, the California Highway i'atro) re-, ported. Killed was Mrs. Ava Ridce-way, 60, of 2:149 Riverside Drive, Santa Ana. Collision With Truck Injured and taken to' New- hall Community Hospital wore her husband. Walter Ridgewa.

his sister. Miss Ana Ridge way, fit), of fill Rroadway Ae, Rpflon(i nnJ lmri Baldwin, 80, of 408 Orange Drive, Monterey Park, the Highway Patrol reported. Investigating officers said the car driven by Ridgeway strut the rear and side of a trui tractor driven by Elmer VV. Rricker of 15513 El Ca.jon St San Fernando. The preliminary report of the Highway Patrol said the exact circumstances of the accident were still under investigation.

Robert Mondier, of 1,170 Regent Pomona, was injured fatally early yesterday when his automobile hit a soft shoulder and overturned on the Old Baldy Road one mile south 01 Glendora Mountain Road. Investigating officers said the vehicle rolled over several tunes within a space of feet. $17,000 Fire Snarls Traffic A fire of undetermined origin yesterday afternoon caused damage of more than $17,000 at a home appliance concern at Mfi7 Whiuier East Los Angeles. Seven companies of (he Los Angeles County Fire Depart- 'ment controlled the flames after Hitler's Servants Held by Russ, Ex-POWs Say ysi i CAMP FRIEDLAND, Germany, Sept, 27 (Repatriated German prisoners of war "reported today three former servants of Adolf Hitler and 14 former German army generals are still in a Soviet camp in the Ural Mountains. The three Hitler aides, long believed in the west, to be dead, include Hitler's valet H.

Linge who, the freed prisoners said, helped burn the Fuehrer's body after his suicide in the air raid bunker of Berlin's Reich Chancellory. The others were described as Flight, Capt, Hansl Baur, Hitler's personal pilot, and a personal adjutant, Guentsche. German Generals Held The prisoners said that the Hitler aides and German generals were being held In camp Pevo-Uralsk in the Ural Mountains. Among other prominent, prisoners reportedly held there was the son of Arthur Seyss-In-quart, ihe Nazi leader and former Austrian Chancellor who Gov. Charles Russell today pro-' nearly an hour, hut Sunday claimed Wednesday as traffic was badly Memorial Day in Nevada.

Rus-' snarled during that time, sell said persons died in Asst. Chief R. A. Williams, traffic accidents in the State I who directed Hie fire lighters, in 1D.V2 and that na have per-1 said the hlne apparenily start-ished in similar fashion duringied in a rear storeroom and re-the first eight months of thlslpair shop and spread toward year. hhe front of the building.

ARRIVALS Mrs. Ethel Boloshovo, 34, flanked by daughters, Eleno, 13, left, ond Alicia, 11. Trjo left Moscow offer Kremlin eased visa regulations in June. Mrs. Balashova was morried to.