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Page 2, Saturday, July 20,1957, The Daily Reporter Ex-Miss U. S. Gets Loot-Offers SMILES AND TEARS. Charlotte Sheffield (left) of Utah is the new "Miss U.S.A.," ascending to the throne when Leona Gage of Maryland was disqualified because she is married. She is shown crying after admitting her deception.

At right below is Kathryn Gabriel of Cleveland, who won the "Miss Ohio" title in a contest at Dover High and was moved into fifth place in the "Miss U.S.A." event after the Maryland mother's disqualification. Miss Gabriel was presented a trophy, $200 in cash and other rewards. She was ac- LONG BEACH, Calif. A beauty queen toppled from her Miss United States throne. by her own deception, flew back to Maryland today with the prospect of cashing in on the sensation she created in the Miss Universe contest.

The girl who won the American title over 43 other contestants, only to be disqualified because she is married, wasn't even present Friday night at the finish of the 10-day pageant. Mrs. Mary Leona Gage Ennis, 18, was boarding her plane at Los Angeles International Airpo.rt when the judges selected Miss Peru, 18-year-old Gladys Zender of Lima, as Miss Universe, the first Latin American to win the title. Mrs. Ennis entered the contest and won the Miss United States title as 21-year-old Leona Gage, because married girls are not eligible for the event.

When she left for home she took along a contract for a engagement at the Tropicana Hotel, Las Vegas; She said she plans to accept it. A spokesman for American International Pictures said the studio is offering Leona a featured role in a film called "Motorcycle Gang" to start shooting in Hollywood Aug. 12. Entertainer Spike Jones sent an offer for her to appear on his television show. She was deluged in her hotel room Friday, in fact, by offers from TV shows and night clubs.

She said that among the offers was one to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show. But what Leona had wrought was not without its heartaches. She fainted once, simply from tension, a doctor said; and she faint corhpanied to Long Beach 'by Francis Morgan of Uhrichsville, the "Miss Ohio" contest promoter, and Mrs. Morgan. i ted again-Friday night when a reporter told her her father is alive.

She had said he was dead, It developed that her father, F. D. Gage, 56, is a palsied patient in a Wichita Falls, hospital. When she revived from the fainting spell, she explained that her father had been injured in two different accidents in Texas, and paralyzed. After she left Texas for Maryland with her husband two years ago she said she couldn't find out definitely from her family so "I resigned myself to the thought that he was dead." Her mother, divorced from her father, now is Mrs.

Walter Biggs of Dallas. Leona's husband, Air Force Sgt. Gene Norris Ennis, 28, stationed at Maryland's Friendship International Airport, said he will have a leave to go to Las Vegas with her for a vacation before her hotel show starts Leona said their two boys, Gene, David, 2, will go with them. Ennis said in a Baltimore TV interview: "She feels great about it and I'm as proud of her as I can be." But her mother-in-law Mrs, Clarence Long of Crisfield, told a reporter: "That's an awful way to have to live, by lying. Anything you get by cheating is not worth having." Leona's mother, Mrs.

Biggs said in Dallas: "I can't figure out why she did this to tell these stories." The probable answer was supplied by Leona's friend, Mrs, Barbara Mewshaw, 24, Glen Burnie who posed as Leona's cousin but isn't. Barbara said she talked Leona into entering the contest for Miss Maryland in the first place. 'I realized she was a beautiful girl and could become a very good but she just get jobs without experience and without becoming known, getting some publicity," said Mrs. Mewshaw, vhose husband, Alvah," runs a in Glen Burnie. She and Leona said they told the Maryland sponsor, after she won there, that Leona was married and would withdraw if he wanted her However, William J.

Adams, the Miss Maryland sponsor, asserted: "I-did not know she was At any rate, Leona and Barbara came to Long Beach, with spectacular results. "Our only plan was to get here, to Hollywood, where beautiful girls can make some good money," Barbara said. "We had no hope of winning. Our plans didn't go that far." It was while. Leona, as Miss United States, was winning her place among the 15 semifinalists Thursday night that rumors that she was married began.

She denied them, sobbingly, that night, and again Friday morning. But facts snowballed'from Mary- yland and Texas. Finally her mar- Land and Texas. Finally her mar- 3," 1954, was confirmed by records. Then she capitulated, admitting her deception in a dramat- ic'press conference.

Contest offi- promptly disqualified her, leaving the finals without a U.S. entrant. Leona surrendered her title to the runnerup, Miss Utah, Charlotte Sheffield, 20, Salt Lake City. But she. couldn't compete in Friday night's finals because she had not been in the preliminaries against the 32 foreign beauties.

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