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Barney Ross Loses Bout To Cancer; Dies at 57 CHICAGO (AP) Ross, Golden Boy of the ring ini the depression 1930s who never was knocked out in an professional career, lost his fight with cancer of the throat Wednesday. Ross, a graduate of the slums of New York and Chicago who' climbed to championships in the lightweight, junior welterweightj and welterweight divisions, died in his Lake Shore Drive apartment after a long battie with cancer. He was 57. He was bom in New York Dec, 23, 1909, Ross, a hero in the ring, became a greater hero after his boxing career ended in 1938 rs a fighting Marine of World War H. He won the Silver Star.

Beat Dope But the little gamecock always said that his greatest fight lasted four months when hej heat the habit which had on him during the painful aftermath of a wartime bout with malaria. Ira Colitz, a close friend and boyhood chum of Ross, bom Barnet David Rasofsky, said Ross died in his apartment shortly after 10 a.m. Ross had been in and out of Vet-j erans Administration Research! Hospital in Chicago for treatment recently. Colitz said Ross once had been a relatively heavy smoker. in recent years," Colitz said, was not particularly heavy smoker.

An occasional cigarette once in a while, all," Wife Survives Ross is survived by his widow, Catherine; four brothers. Ben, Sam and George of Chicago, and Morrie, of Los Angeles and one sister, Mrs. Ida Kaplan of Chicago. In 1942, the game little fighting man who lost two world boxing championships and never cried wuz robbed," was labeled hell of a good by his then captain, O. K.i Leblanc of Abbeville, La.

The comment came after Ross won an overweight match Japanese snipers on Guadalcanal, Ross and two other Marines stood guard all night over wounded comrades in of the snipers. Ross was 32 years old wlier. he enlisted in the Marines In April 1942. He received the Silver Star and a presidential citation for his heroic deeds on Guadalcanal, It was there he contracted malaria. Father Was Shot falher was shot to death in his little store in Chicago by two gun-happy kids, Barney, just a youngster, turned to fighting for money to get his two brothers out of an orphanage and reunite the family under their mother's wing.

Ross, a clever boxer with power in either hand, won thef Golden Gloves title in Chicago! and the Inter-City crown in 1929. He turned professional under the management of Art Winch 1 and Sam Pian. Ross made a swift rise in the ring. He won the world lightweight and junior welterweight titles from Tony Canzoneri on June 23, 1933. lie defeated Canzoneri in a rematch three months later in the Polo Grounds in New York.

3 Routs Ross gave up the championship and went after Jimmy welterweight title. He won, then lost! TRANSPORT NEXT Interest in Nuelear Aircraft Das Revived BARNEY ROSS As Chomp in '33 Dr. Smith To Address Meet (lam Dr. Howard O. Smith of Marlin, past president of the Texas Medical Association, will speak to the hoard of the McLennan County American Cancer Society at 7:30 p.

m. today in the auditorium of the School Administration Building. The topic of Smith's discussion will be Time is The program will be illustrated by slides on lung cancer and its connection with cigarette smoking. Smith has been associated with the American Cancer Society for 20 years. The topic of discussion will he Time Is This program will be illustrated! by slides on lung cancer and its connection with cigarette smoking.

Smith received his M.D. degree in 1922 from the University of Texas Medical Branch. He is currently chief surgeon and superintendent of Torbctt Clinic of Marlin. Smith Is past president of the Texas Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Texas State Board of Medical Examiners. Ihning World War II he was surgeon-eommanrier with the U.S.

Navy Reserve Medical Corps' aboard hospital ships in the Pacific Ocean, receiving five battle stars and personal commendation medal and ribbon from Adm. Chester A. Nimitz. He received the first Andy Anderson Award in 1957 for service to Disabled American Veterans of Texas. In 1922 Smith was first president of the Students Self-Government Association at the Medical Branch He has also served as president of the University of Texas Medical Branch Alumni Association.

Jews Enter Canada In Greater Numbers TORONTO (AP) Of the 197 Jewish immigrants who entered Canada in the first six months of last year 508 were from Israel. Dr. Joseph Klinghofer, education director of the Canadian Jewish Con-! gress told an interviewer. The comparable figures for 1964: 965 immigrants, of whom 292 came from Israel. He attributed the upsurge in 1966 to better economic prospects outside Israel.

three memorable bouts with the California Irishman in 1934 and 1935. Ross wast he first lightweight champion to win the weight crown. He lost the welter title in a bloody fight with Henry Armstrong in New York in 1938. McLamin. in California said: "Barney was one of the nicest men ever met.

He had kind of a rough time. I'm sorry that gone. He was out here a couple of years ago and we had a nice visit. He was hale and hearty. always remember him as a warm fellow and game as a bulldog.

I really feel terrible about Ross retired from the ring in 1938. Since then he had been dogged by bad breaks. But, before his retirement he chalked up a ring record of 74 victories, 3 draws and only 4 defeats. He was elected to Hall of lame in 1956. Entered Hospital In his battle against the narcotics habit, Ross voluntarily entered the U.S.

Public Health Service Hospital in Lexington in 1946 and remained until January 1947. With his health restored, the former champion campaigned in civic affairs and made public appearances in which he warned about the effects of the narcot ics habit. body was removed to the Original Weinstein Sons funeral home at 3019 W. Peterson Road on Northwest Side. Hers hey Weinstein, president of the company, said there would be no visitation but that the funeral would be held Fri day at 2 p.m.

(EST) with burial in Rosemont Park Cemetery Ross lost his ring earnings but not his friends in the sports world. But he was too ill to attend recent benefits held for him in Sunnyside Garden in New York and a downtown the ater in Chicago, He had at times spent his money even faster than he made it. Recently, his constant companions on visits to the Veterans Hospital had been his attractive wife, Kathy, and Colitz. a Bad Not long ago when a photog rapher and former middleweight champion Tony Zale showed up at apartment building for a possible picture Kathy, with tear-strained eyes greeted them in the lobby. had a bad night and his face is said Kathy "As much as he wants to set you boys, better not this Zale was a former stable mate of Ross.

Ross often recalled that the most unforgettable night of his career in the ring or on the bat tlefield was Nov. 19, 1942, on Guadalcanal when he killed 22 Japanese soldiers while standing guard over his three wound ed buddies in a foxhole. He fired 200 rounds of ammunition and tossed 20 grenades, standing has ground although wounded and suffering his first bout with malaria. Ross returned home on Feb. 25, 1943, a national hero and winner of the Edward J.

Neil Memorial Trophy as Man of the Year. Neil was a former Associated Press spoils writer. BARNEY ROSS 30 Years Later Claude Hooper, who rode his first winner in 1924, at 60 ranks as oldest jockey. WASHINGTON (UPD Development of a mammoth Air Force transport plane has revived technical interest In the idea of a nuclear-powered aircraft capable of staying aloft for neariy a year without refueling, a government aeronautics official said Wednesday In 1961, after 11 years of effort, the United States canceled work on an atom-powered plane project on which it had spent billions. One reason was that airplanes of that period were not big enough to handle nuclear systems made heavy and bulky by radiation shielding required for crew safety.

Another was that there was no demand for an airplane capable of crusing around for months on end. The Air Force bad no missions for such a craft and still Rut the plane size problem Is disappearing, according to Charles W. Harper of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Harper is aeronautics director of NASA's office of advanced research and technology. The new Air Force transport, slated for testing in about a year, is the C54, a monster with a wingspread of 223 feet and a length of 246 54 feet short of the length of a football field. It will be able to transport 345 troops.

Harper said engineers a Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, are studying the kind of equipment and materials it would take to put i nuclear energy to work driving a plane like the (34. This Including design studies, is costing about $250,000 As pianes get bigger and propulsion systems get lighler, the time will come, when atomic power plants could be installed aboard aircraft. Harper said. The C54 is big enough to remove many of the problems posed in the canceled project. Small Kutlio Can Kit In Eyeball BERKELEY, Calif.

(UPI)-A student here has produced a transmitter the size of a large pinhead which can be surgically implanted in the eye of a rabbit. is without a doubt the smaller complete radio transmitter in existence." says Dr. R. Stuart MacKay of the Space Sciences Laboratory and Medical Physics Division of the University of California, One of his graduate students, Carter Collins, invented the device. only is it an electronic MacKay says, it is enabling the researcher to obtain previously unavailable measurements of eye pressure, Among other things, the results may contribute to our knowledge of the glaucoma Sniper Shot May Force AF Cadet to Quit TEXARKANA, Tex.

(UPD medical review board ill determine whether Michael J. Ga- ijour's childhood dream will he reality or whether a bullet has changed his life, Gabour was one of those injured last Aug. 1 by Charles Whitman, the sniper of the University of Texas tower in Austin. The shot deadened his arm and leg, Whitman killed Ga- brother, Mark, and an aunt, and injured his mother so severely she is not expected to be able to walk again. Young Gabour, who is 19, MAKING SPACE BUYERS AT MARKET NOW.

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