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Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 11

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Tampa Bay Timesi
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PEOPLE St. Petersburg Times, Tuesday, May 21, 1943 CHESS CHAMP, THAT IS In Spring, Young Girls Thoughts Turn Winner And New Champion: Armenia's Tigran Petrosyan I St fat A1 MOSCOW (LTI I A 34-year-lntretchH his arm icrosi the Is old Armenian, Ticran Petrosyan, ble and congratulated hi fne, Ml 1 'f yesterday snatched the world giving Petrosyan the match 12 to 9' 2, chess championship from veter an Mikhail Botvinnik, 52, in a The gesture brought bedlam to i- the theatre. grueling 22-game match that HK HAD TIMK only to gap that he felt "wonderful" before his words were drnwwd in the din. To qualify to meet Botvinnik he defeated seven other grand masters in Curacao last year. Among his victims were the young American, Bobby Fischer, and Russian wizards Tahl and Paul Keres.

"Tigran, Tigran, Tigran," htarted two months a so. A crowd of 2.000, jammed into -1 shouted the fans, clapping in unison. They rushed to the stage. a Moscow variety weaire io watch the final same, cheered wildly and nearly mobbed the Some pressed flowers on him. Women crushed in trying to kiss P.

him. new champion. In the Soviet Union a world i chess champion is like a heavy mum Buddhist Ghost-Chasers Get Government Job weight boxing champion or a World Series hero in America. Millions had watched the match by television. PETKOSYA.VS victory could spell the end to the Rolden era of Russian chess dominated by Botvinnik for the past 30 years.

companied 56 priests in a iww I ft. Since 19411 he has been world 1 champion in all but two years. tour of the haunted building. Priests sprinkled holy water with willow twigs and planted burning joss sticks in every corner until the air was heavy with the smell of incense. Soviet chess experts believe he now may be too old to even try to regain the crown.

Under the new international chess rules, Petrosyan has the title for three Times Wire Services A senior government official in Hong Kong participated yesterday in a Buddhist ceremony aimed at exorcising spirits reportedly haunting offices of his department. The exorcism was authorized hy the Hong Kong government after employes of the rating and valuation department, which is housed in a century-old landmark called Murray House, complained ghosts were interfering with their work. The ghosts were said to mutter and chuckle in corridors and mark or modify new drawings and blueprints. years. mmm The match was for the best hops totaled 12 feet, 9 inches.

In renter photo, little Maria WinUff, 2, has to look up to I'atric of Cuchulainn, who is only months old. Maria was attend ing the Mississippi Valley Kennel Club fchovv in St. Iiuis. Patric, an Irish wolfhound, is still a pup hut stands over box out of 24 eames. To Imi Kiirc, these three younKladirs have animals on their minds.

In photo at left, Kn.vanne Campbell appears un-roncerned as her frog sails off toward a M'cond-plaee finish in the annual Jumping Frog Contest at the Calaveras County, fair. The frog's three seven feet tall on his hind legs. At right, 3-year-old Sylvia Crane of Houston, holds ono, of five young otters donated to the Houston zoo by Orange, naturalist Tracy Bland. Bland found the otters when he cut down their tree home. Yesterday, after Tetrosyan's loth move, Botvinnik, playing white, pondered for 15 minutes and saw he could not win.

He ine employe complaint was passed on to the secretary for Call 862-5943 Chinese affairs, who in turn sought advice from the Hong Kong Buddhist Association, The Here's Your Fee, Duke; Say 'Cheese' association arranged yesterday's ceremony, Murray House, a two story Victorian edifice, stands in a LUTHERAN Church School BONDS long shadow of the 26-story Hong-Kong Hilton, the colony's new $12-m i 1 1 i hotel. Fascinated guests watched as Commission Affiliated iih MISSOURI SYNOD LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH er F. Shanks, head of the rating and valuation department, ac r. Jg mi ---TpT-" wf fmmmm-t'immmmmmmim Cxi I 5V2 INTEREST FLORIDA ROOM 12x10" P. A ftr Week OTHER SIZES Ctimparobly Low Priced JOE HIRSCH 361-3971 Til 4 P.M.

"Custom Home Builder" LICENSED BONDED-INSURED Daniel T. Winter Co. 403 Florida Theatre Ivildinq St. Pete 1, Flo. Phone 862-0381 NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE 2928 CENTRAL FREE PARKING should do with an elephant weighing about two tons which the tide washed up at Wid-mouth Bay, near Bude, Cornwall.

Bcbe Daniels III Bebe Daniels, veteran movia and TV-star, suffered a stroke yesterday and was reported seriously ill in a London hospital. A spokesman at the national hospital for nervous diseases said: "She has a form of stroke and investigations are under way." He said the next bulletin will be given out this morning. Miss Daniels, wife of American actor Ben Lyon, was taken ill at her home in Imdon. Miss Daniels and her husband years ago made a brilliant comeback as entertainers in Britain after years as Hollywood stars. In World War II they gained wide popularity as American good will ambassadors in blitzed 'London with a radio variety show.

Miss Daniels was born in Dallas, and grew up in show business. Her Scottish fa-t was manager-producer of a touring theatrical company. Miss Daniels started in movies in light comedies and achieved stardom in such pictures as "Male and Female" and "Every Woman." One of her best known roles was in "Rio Rita." Great Performance The Hornchurch (England drum and trumpet corps went for a weekend rehearsal in Peter Read's pasture. Read's cows lifted their heads with interest as bandmaster Brian Kecler raised his baton for John Tliilip Snusa's "Semper Old Photo Of Bebe Daniels, Husband, Ben Lyons And Their Children f9 tt Times Wire Srrvtrri John Robert Russell, the I3th Duke of Bedford, is charging tourists 70 cents for the privilege of posing with him in a photograph. Over the weekend, the Duke erected this sign at his stately home, Woburn Abbey: "Have your picture take with his, grace the Duke of Bedford.

Special presentation folder. Price 5 shillings each." Dozens of tourists paid to have their photograph snapped with his grace. The duke inherited a vast estate and a $l4-mtllion debt in inheritance taxes. To pay off. he opened his historical home to the public at a 35-cent fee.

He installed juke boxes and a hot dog and refreshment stand. Such measures are helping him slowly pay off the debt. Monks On Trial Three bearded Capucin monks of Mazzarino went on trial with three Sicilian peasants yester day in an appeals court rehearing on charges of extortion and slaying. Behind the case were threats of dread Mafia vengeance and conflicting stories of whether the monks were the alleged brains who bossed the illiterate peasant terrorists, or were themselves frightened victims of the terror. Four monks were acquitted in the original trial last June 22 of charges of murder and extortion.

Churchill Appearance Sir Winston Churchill went to the House of Commons yester-'day for the fourth time since he announced he would retire as a member of Parliament at the next general election Stravinsky III Composer Igor Stravinsky, 80, was reported ailing yeferday in his Paris hotel room, where he has been ctayi.ns since tour- EYEGLASSES. HEARNC AIDS- NCO and oiiiiii. PH. 862-2721 ACME OPTICAL CO. Open six Dovt 9-S; 'Til 8 P.M.

Monday out of a woman's handbag and disrupted a meeting of about 500 persons in a Chicago loop hotel Sunday. Women jumped on chairs and screamed and men and police chased the mice around the room. The meeting of the National Committee Against Nazi Criminals and Nazism resumed after it was determined all the mice were dead. Opera Singer Dies Margarete Matzenauer, 81, 8 mezzo-soprano with the Metropolitan Opera Company from 1911 to 1930, died in Van Nuys, Sunday of a stroke. The senior Gardner starred as "Archie" on the old "Duffy's Tavern" radio show.

Geisha Dies Oyuki Morgan, Ft, the beautiful geisha who married a nephew of American multi-millionaire J. P. Morgan in 1905, died in Kyoto, Japan, Sunday of consumption. Her husband, George Dcnnison Morgan, died in Paris in 1915, leaving her $400,000. Most of the money, however, was spent paying debts.

Eek, Mice! Ten white mice scampered Fidelis." The drums crashed out and the horns blared. Five cows dropped dead. The' the rest stampeded. Keeler apologized profusely. "Brass hands may not he everybody's cup of tea," he said, "but I've never before heard of anyone dying after hearing us play." Two Arrested Sheriff's deputies arrested the sons of two show business personalities in a narcotics raid on a party at Malibu, Calif.

Patrick Joseph Farrow, 20, son of actress Maureen O'Sullivan, Dl'KK OF BEDFORD ing Scandinavia. Jf is condition is not serious, the report said. Tables Turned A panty raid at Cambridge, was staged in reverse by some 30 to 40 feirls from Radcliffe College. The girls marched to Win-throp House at neighboring Harvard College, stood outside its ivied walls and shouted; "B.V.D.s for me." Canadian Dies Ernest Morrison Warwick, 5H, who built tip a lucrative trade. with Communist nations, died Saturday in Blenheim, after a long illness.

Warwick, owner of several gram companies, sent the first shipment of Canadian seed corn to Russia early in 1050. He was mayor of Blenheim from 193fi to 1037, the youngest mayor in Ontario at the time. An Elephant Yet A London lifeboat crew, coast guards and police have been wondering what they and Marine Pvt. Edward H. Gardner, 19, son of actor Ed Gardner, were booked on suspicion of possession of narcotics yesterday.

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