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m NEGRO ORCHESTRA LEADER DIES N 5 BALTIMORE, Md., June 17.— Chick Webb, j Negro orchestra leader, who helped make "A Tisket a Tasket," a national song hit, t. survived the ditty written and sung by his s chanteuse, Ella Fitzgerald, by only a few moments. Webb was dead today, after fail 1 ing to survive an operation at Johns Hopkins - Hospital, last night. He was 30 years s old, and rose from a newsboy on Baltimore e streets to claim high regard from swing g fans the country over. *
