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PHILABELPHI Mar MWS FlltUr. JAKUAIT 191 PEOPLE Snthc I NEWS Mom Wenf to Grocery i Fire Wis oy, 4, left in Bedy tast By JIM SMITH and GLORIA CAMPISI Her little boy was in a body cast because he had been in an auto accident, the distraught mother told firemen. She left him asleep at the apartment of a friend while she and his sister went more than naif an hour to bring the blaze under control. Assistant Fire Marshal Thomas Meehan said the fire started in the first-floor front of 3937. The cause is under investigation.

LEASE! NO A turkey Lreeder in Santa Rosa. has pleaded with the persons who took finir torn? from the fjrra to return the birds and not kill them. lyle Duncan the birds were part of a disease prevention pro-pram. PANTS WEATHER Schoolgirls in Carlin. won 1heir point when they demanded to wear pants to school.

Miniskirt, they told Jud'e Jack were too draf-ty in 16 below temperatures. srr. STOP! All siuns in 111., are 20. at k-ast until spring. Mayor James I mils said vandals tore down the 21 existing barriers and they rnubln't he replaced until the ground thawed.

LOT A Till? A team of fire inspectors made a surprise to Chicago's Playboy Rmlding. They found fire rode violations, said Inspector Harry Nelson, including a door in the Playroom bar clearly marked with an xit" sin. It led into the I lay boy bunnies' dressing room. 1 I 1 czf rtt f'fe 1 "iiK id to the corner grocery yester day afternoon. When they came out of the store, flames were pouring from the apartment house, at 3937 Fairmount ave.

Four-year-old Kevin Smith was killed before anyone could get to him. MRS. LILLIAN SMITH, 37, of 772 X. DeKalb smashed the glass in the front door in a vain attempt to reach the first-floor apartment where her son was trapped. She was turned back by the flames and smoke.

When firemen got there, the whole building was ablaze and the flames were spreading to adjacent homes. The two-alarm blaze damaged five other buildings on the block, leaving 30 persons to search for shelter on the coldest day this winter. They were aided by the Red Cross. Three of the buildings, all apartment houses, were gutted. The others were heavily damaged by fire, smoke and water.

There w'as one other person inside 3937 Fairmount when the fire broke out. Willie Davis, 54, who lived on the second floor, escaped through a back door. MRS. SMITH, who cut her hand in the rescue attempt, told firemen she and her son and daughter, Renee, 5, were staying at the apartment of Charles White. 43, while he was at work.

WTiite told firemen he had asked her to keep an eye on the apartment because it had been burglarized. A passerby pulled a box alarm while Mrs. Smith was tryin? to reach the boy. He was dead on arrival at Pres-byterian-Cniversity of Pennsylvania Medical Center with burns over his entire body. It took firemen a little Area Gl, Sailor Killed in Vietnam Two Delaware Valley servicemen, one a member of the Green Berets, have died in the Vietnam war, the Defense Department reported.

Army Sp4 Frank M. Duns-more 21, of 75 Smeffield Willingboro, N.J., died in tombat Jan. 2. Navy Aviation Ordinance Officer 3c James F. Brennan 20, of 19 Pensive lane, Levittcwn, was fatally injured in an accident aboard the aircraft carrier Ranger last Saturday off, the coast of South Vietnam and died tw days later SP.

DUNSMORE was a member of the Green Berets. He was killed when a night defensive patrol came under hostile fire in the area of Due Pbo. A 1967 graduate of Wheaton (Md.) High School, he was drafted in April 1968 and joined the Green Berets'. He went to Vietnam last September. He worked as a plant technician for Western Union before entering the service.

BRENNAN WAS a 1967 graduate of Bishop Egan High School and enlisted in the Navy in March 1968. His father said the sailor-was killed in an accident apparently while loading armaments aboard a jet plane on deck. He was an only child. SCIENTIST WINS GI.MBEL AWARD Dr. Ruth Patrick, leading researcher battle against pollution of rivers and streams, receives Gimbel Award, one oi nation's highest tributes to women, from Bernard R.

Kant, president of Gim-bels' Philadelphia Division. Award is given annually in recognition of outstanding service to humanity. Dr. Patrick, head of Limnology Department at Academy of Natural Sciences here, also received $1000 check. Limnology is study of biological, physical and chemical characteristics of fresh water.

Iaibr News Photo by Charles Myer Twice-Convicted Doc Held in New Abortion The investigation was continuing. DR. HIGGS was convicted at a jury trial in January 1965 and given 5 years' probation. At the trial a divorcee, mother of two children, testified about an abortion March 8. 12, at the Somerset st.

offices and said she was charged $400. In November 1964 Dr. Higgs had been convicted of a March 12, 1962. abortion and given a probationary said she was running away from home because her mother had beaten her several times. The girl later admitted to police she had an abortion-performed Sept.

23 and said her mother forced her into it. When the girl reported the case to police, she said she didn't remember where the operation was performed but could recall a nameplate that read Higgs" outside the physician's office. The Buck County district attorney's office turned the case over to Philadelphia police. The physician turned himself in last night, police said, because he was aware they were looking for him. Careless Smoking Blamed in Death Of TV Newsman WASHINGTON (CP I).

Paul Ntven. a veteran TV reporter whose assignments rallied from the coronation of tueen Elizabeth ti school lesegration in Little Rock. died yesterday in a fire that officials blamed vn careless smoking. Niven. 4.1.

was a broadcaster for the National Ediication-al Television network, which he jMned in after IS years with the Columbia Broadcasting System. His death was caused by-intense heat ami head injuries sustained in a fall from the seciwid story of his home in eorsetow n. The fire marshal's office lit-ted the cause of the blaze as "careless smoking." It began in a living room sofa ami spread throuuhout the first floor of the house. Niven. a bai-helcr.

started his career at the London bureau of the Manchester tluaril-ian after dom postgraduate work in international relations at the London School of Economic. In he joined CHS in London and later worked in CBS bureaus in Washington, Uust'vw Paris and Salmon. fa iff 7 4k By JIM SMITH and LES EILLER A Philadelphia osteopathic physician twice convicted on abortion charges has been accused of performing an illesal abortion on a lK-year-old Bucks County high school girl. Dr. Robert B.

Hips. 52. of Somerset st. near 26th, surrendered to police at 9 last night and was charged with abortion. A warrant had been issued fur his arrest by Municipal Jmfce George J.

Woods following an investigation. THE whose name is being withheld by the Daily News, went to Falls Township police last Nov. 7 and Motorist, 52, Dies An autopsy is scheduled today for a 52 year-old motorist who died five days after being shot by another driver following a minor collision in West Philadelphia. George Johnson, of SO X. naries Borromeo i nary.

Overbrook. and attorney Joseph Brandschain were 1 named trustees of the Free Library. Attorney Natale F. Cara-bello defeated Democratic candidate for City Council in the last Councilmanic District in last November's election, was appointed to the Fair Housing Commission. Arthur E.

Glenn, manager of Kay Electric 4109 Lancaster was named to the Commission on Human Rela- 'J lions. Four Appointed To Loca! Agencies After Gun Wounds 61st died at 9:50 last night in Misericordia Hospital, where he wa-s admitted in fair condition last Saturday. He had been shot three times in the right arm and once in the left shoulder. POLICE SAID Johnson's car was struck from behind at Redfield and Callow-hill sts. bv an auto driven bv Sylvest- er Eubanks.

23. of Markoe st. near Fairmount ave. Police said that when Johnson requested Eubanks' driver's license, he was shot. Eubanks also shot himself in the right hand as he fired 5 shots from a revolver.

Eubanks was subsequently charged with assault with intent to kill and released ia $3000 bail. Police said no further charges would be made 'pending r-iltsi the utopy. I- tour persons nave heen ap pointed by Mayor James II. J. Tate to quasi public city agencies.

The Rt. Rev. Msar. Vincent Burns, vice rector of St. 82 Million Pieces Mailed WASHINGTON Post Office estimates that the volume of mail in the V.

which reached JC billion pieces last year, will more than hnible in the next 20 years. It prtdicted higher postal iate unless Am; rMstrihutioit cold be further mechanized, I ROCKY ROAD Workman stoops to shovel up rocks that spilled from over-" turned truck on Srhuylkill Expressway south of Montgomery dr. Accident "oh' lahfei tfif off all but one' lane, causing hourfong traffic tieiifp. 4 Daily News Photo by Lou ZacfcariS'.