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Ex-Convict Admits Pa9 6 THE PALM BEACH P0ST' M0NDAY- Ford Foundation Reports On Grants NEW YORK, May 31 (UP) Escaped Pilot Granted Asylum COPENHAGEN, May 31 (UP) A young Polish air force officer today enjoyed the freedom of the West for which he gambled his life in a daring wave-high flight over the Baltic Sea from bis Communist-dominated homeland to The Ford Foundation made grants Robbing Bank Of $50,000 On Friday SEATTLE, May 31 (fP) A short, tubercular ex-convict, arrested late Saturday In a Seattle hotel, has confessed robbing a suburban bank totaling $37,865,235 In 1952 for edu- cational projects, programs aimed at world peace and other philanthropic undertakings, according to a report released today. last Friday of S50.OOO, the FBI said The biggest part of the total- Denmark. $22,065,232 went to projects to ad Lt. Zdislaw Jazwinskv. 22.

flew wit SUP sou ttoj pej po tr tio cO ha lit today. Federal agents nabbed Warren David Smith, 38, of Walia Walla, Wash, within 30 hours of the time a pistol-waving bandit held up the Lynnwood branch of the First Na vance education in America. his MIG-15 throueh the Iron Cur tain on May 20 after eluding other Other grants included: $11,537,361 for efforts directed chiefly at im tional Bank of Everett at noon proving conditions of world peace; Friday. pianes ot nis squadron while on a training flight. He was granted political asylum in Denmark Saturday after intensive investigation.

At a press conference. Jazwinskv $1,289,000 for projects undertaken The bank robbery was among the primarily to strengthen free insti tutions; $2,094,800 to advance know. largest ever staged in the Seattle area. ledge of human behavior. Richard Auerbach.

special agent In the field of education, the foundation granted $12,596,580 to the fund for the advancement of told of his flight to the Danish island of Bornholm at the entrance of the Baltic. He flew at an altitude of about 60 feet to avoid detection by the Russian radar screen on the southern Baltic coast, he said. In charge of the Seattle FBI office, withheld announcement of Smith's arrest until today. He said the Washington State Prison parolee education for projects in institu tional education and $8,600,000 to the fund for adult education, in Jazwinsky refused to reveal his cluding facilities for education beyond formal schooling. WHOOPEE! Up in the air go reams of notes as Mr.

and Mrs. J. Albert Southern celebrate the completion of their graduate studies at Duke University in Durham, N. C. They hard for a combined total of five years on graduate research while holding down full-time jobs at the university.

Their rewards will be master's degrees in education psychology. In its work toward world peace past or future plans, and for security reasons refused to he photographed. The Danish government said the Soviet-built jet would be returned to Poland. iTHEY WEEP NO MORE Part of the estimated 30,000 Vietnamese refugees, who fled across the border when the Communists invaded Laos, stage a "weeping" strike in Nong Khai, Thailand to back up their demand! for refuge in a "suitable" place. Hearing they would be sent to Ph'et-chabun, a city they duln't like, the refugees wept en masse until the Thai government decided to send them to city in the south.

the foundation said it "assisted the efforts of several nations to develop economic stability and better living conditions," largely in south ern Asia and the Near East. Grants in India totaled in Pakistan $1,600,000 and in the Near Crop Insurance Corporation Most Come to Florida admitted the robbery. Auerbach said "a considerable portion of the loot was recovered from a fishing tackle box in the rear of Smith's car. The special agent declined to give the exact amount found, but said an intensive search is on for the rest of the money which Smith said he hid near Lynnwood. The holdup man forced the bank manager at gunpoint to empty all currency on hand into a plastic shopping bag.

Then he herded seven other employes and eight customers into a back room and escaped. Auerbach said Smith would be arraigned Monday on a bank robbery charge. Smith was paroled last January to a Walla Walla sanitarium for treatment of tuberculosis acquired East $1,692,607. McCarthy Thought In Old Mexico The foundation granted $2,900,000 Writes Off Length Headache to help more than 10,000,000 refu Southeast Lures 1,700,000 Settlers In Decade gees in western Europe. WASHINGTON, May 31 (UP) BROWNSVILLE.

Mav 31 ATLANTA. (UP) The South- This is a report to my fellow tax-l payers, "stockholders" in our government's Federal Crop Insurance Tnnv Torre Amnntafprl (UP) An operator at the Browns Princess Has Warm Interest Corp ville CAA control tower said today he "understood very definitely" that Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) was aboard a Drivate Diane After nearly 12 weary years we have compromised with H. Ruppert of Fremont, Neb. We took In prison.

He was transferred May 26 to a Seattle sanitarium, but that landed here Saturday enroute to Mexico. his $4 and closed his file May 6. never reported there. Ever since 1941 our employes LONDON, Monday, June 1 London Daily Mirror said to Two planes, a Lockheed and a operating the crop insurance cor east has lured more than 1,700,000 outsiders to settle within its borders within the past decade, the Commerce Department said Saturday. Most of these went to Florida, according to figures compiled by the Census Bureau and released by the regional commerce office here.

The state of New York contributed most to the migration into the Southeast. Of the 1,734,715 who moved into the region, 747,665 went to Florida. Tennessee received the second highest number with 310,350 WEST ORANGE, NJ, May 31 (JP) Someone amputated the legs of all 20 horses on the merry-go-round at Crystal Lake amusement park early today. Park owner Anthony Fiducia of Cedar Grove said the horses were worth about $500 each. The park will open in a few days but Fiducia said the merry-go-round will not be in operation.

day Princess Margaret has formed a "very deep friendship" with DC-3, owned by Clint Murchison, a wealthy Dallas, oil man, landed here Saturday. At least one poration have been claiming that Ruppert owes us $20.79, premium Robin McEwen, 26-year-old socia of the planes earlier left Dallas, lite attorney and a devout Roman Three Accidental Deaths Recorded where McCarthy visited Murchison. payment on an insurance policy covering 24.6 acres of wheat. Farmer Ruppert said we were wrong. Nobody knows exactly how Catholic.

Noel Whitcomb, a top columnist for the Mirror, said McEwen has The senator was understood to be enroute to Murchison's ranch in the Sierra Madre Mountains near Tan.pico. much money we spent trying to been one of the 22-year-old prin change his mind, but it may have cess closest friends for many run into thousands of dollars. Last week, it was revealed In years. He added that an engagement between the royal princess, MONTGOMERY, May 31 (UP) Alabama today recorded three accidental deaths during the Memorial Day weekend. One per Washington that McCarthy was planning to leave the United States Other states and the number of outsiders moving there are: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Caro Department of Agriculture attorneys long ago decided it would be silly to sue Ruppert for the $20.79.

$Mt a tyUXh, in the line of succession (to the throne) and a Catholic would be f'AJ I Kerr Charges Move Is Costly on a trip of unannounced purpose. They said his case fell into a "con lina, 223,760, and South Carolina, almost out of the question. troversial class and figured court Whitcomb said the princess has 69,030. New York sent 184,215 persons been a frequent visitor for several action would only waste more government time and money. William Farnum into the region to live.

Next was years at McEwen's home at Ber- May 31 (UP) So when Ruppert's offer of a $4 Virginia with 174,195 lost to the Southeast, and Pennsylvania gave wich on the Scottish border. Now, it is said, McEwen will be the princess's guest, having one of the eight Sen. Robert S. Kerr charged today the Eisenhower administration's hike in government bond interest compromise reached Washington last month, the crop insurance corporation decided to accept. up Slightly Better There was considerable shiftine seats allocated to the princess for son died in a traftic accident and two drowned.

Arthur Entin. 25, drowned in the Gulf of Mexico at Gulf Shores, Sunday while in swimming with a brother who almost drowned but was pulled to safety and revived. Billy Joe Cooper, 13, drowned between Sumiton and Empire, today in a water-filled pit while swimming with playmates. His father, who was enroute to Chicago on business, was stopped by the Highway Patrol and informed of the tragedy. "Clear profit as far as I con rates will cost taxpayers an additional $2,500,000,000 a year.

about within the region itself, the cerned," one official said. Tuesday Westminster Abbey coronation ceremony, Whitcomb reported. commerce Department said. HOLLYWOOD, May 31 (UP) The Oklahoma Democrat, backed Ruppert's troubles with the gov A total of 2,054,815 residents by Sen. Hubert H.

Humphrey Veteran stage and screen actor William Farnum, 76, was reported ernment began after he seeded his (D-Minn), debated the administra moved from one state to another Alabama received Florida, winter wheat crop in September, "siigmiy improved" today by attendants at Cedars of Lebanon 1941. Two months later the Army Georgia, Mississip tion's fiscal policies with Sens. Homer Capehart (R-Ind) and Wallace F. Bennett (R-Utah) on a Tiring' Proposal took his farm house, barn and pi, North Carolina, wheat because it was on the site bouth Carolina, 166,960, and Ten of a proposed new ammunition nessee, 326,375. me iirst reported death was Bonzell Gadison, 25, Oakhill Negro plant.

hospital, where he recently underwent an emergency operation. His physician said Farnum had suffered "great pain and loss of blood'' since the operation Wednesday, his third within the past year. Farnum, who reached stardom on Opposed by Legion BEEPER'S A HONKER Two-year-old Patricia Kittle of Hutchinson, has a custom-made "honker" to clear the road when she goes for a ride on her tricycle. Pat wanted a puppy, but the city requires all dogs to be penned up. She settled for "Beeper," and now she has "honker." With all this shifting going on, the seven southeastern states were able to retain a total of 16,736,450 "So if I had, where would the government have been any better radio-television show.

Kerr said the new 3 1-4 per cent interest rate on government bonds will increase the cost of federal obligations from $6,000,000,000 to $8,500,000,000 a year. He said the Republicans are putting a "premium" on the dollar which will off? Ruppert wrote crop insurance persons born within their own WASHINGTON, May 31 (UP)- The American Legion today re DIDN'T MISS THE BOAT Still wearing her bridal gown, Mrs. Frank Kandora is carried aboard the U. S. liner America in New York by her husband just after their wedding.

The Kandoras are on their way to Germany where they'll visit the bride's parents. authorities last April. "They pay me and I turn around and give them back their own money for newed its drive against proposals to give government departments the stage and in the days of silent films, launched his career with a Shakespearean acting troupe while in his teens. His film debut was in the silent film "The Spoilers." reduce the value of farm and man Killed Saturday when a truck in which he was riding plunged off a curve and overturned. A grade crossing accident at Bessemer Saturday injured three persons.

Jimmie Sue Dement, 15, of Bessemer, was hospitalized with a fractured arm and cuts about the face. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Jack Williams were hospitalized at Birmingham. Their condition was described as good.

the insurance. ufactured products. The crop insurance corporation's FORMER OPERA STAR DIES Godfrey To Stay Several Weeks "When you make the value of Nebraska state office took an offi GLYNDEBOURNE, England, May cial interest in the case in 1948, His most recent appearance was in "Lone Star" last year with Clark Gable. the dollar more, you make labor and farm products worth less," Kerr said. "That's the difference seven years after the Army had 31 (JP) John Christie, former opera star who helped her husband taken Ruppert farm.

Premier Designate complete authority to fire any employe. The criticism was directed at the State-Justice-Commerce Department appropriation bill now ready for Senate consideration. The bill carries "riders" giving each of the three departments authority to dismiss any employee, including veterans, without the right of hearing or appeal, the Legion said. It said the apparent intent of between the Republican and the Ruppert still said he wouldn't found the famed Glyndebourne BOSTON, May 31 (AP) Enter Democratic policies." pay for crop insurance because the Strike Idleness Rises Opera, died after a long illness Capehart denied the interest rate government had taken the crop tainer Arthur Godfrey will remain in the Massachusetts General Hospital several more weeks, the hos boost would have this effect. He Will Demand Truce WASHINGTON, May 31 (UP) today.

As Audrey MUdmay before Later he moved and the office at her marriage in 1931, Mrs. Chris Lincoln, couldn't find him Radio Broadcasts End On Washington's Buses WASHINGTON, May 31 (JP) The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that strikes in April cost the nation 2,500,000 man-days Officials there wanted to forget pital reported tonight. Dr. Dean A. Clark, general di said the new Treasury policy is designed to "put an end to inflationary trends." "In other words, we want to PARIS, May 31 (UP) Premier- tie starred with Britain's Carl Rosa Opera Co.

the whole thing, but their superiors at a branch office in Chicago stood of idleness more than double the the riders is to rid the government of employes whose conduct is not in the best interest of the country. Radio broadcasts are a thing of the past on Washington's street cars March figure. firm. The $20.79 remained on the rector, said that much time is necessary before Godfrey's hip will be mobilized sufficiently to allow him to walk with crutches. establish a sound dollar that will buy more things," Capehart said.

The bureau said 700 strikes In and buses. designate Pierre Mendes France hinted tonight he would demand that France negotiate a truce in Indochina, but he denied press re books until several months ago, RAIL EXPERT DIES volving 350,000 workers were in ROMSEY, May 31 (JP) Sir The TV-radio star "had another The farmer still was not willing to "pay for, something that I did not get." But he offered to pay effect during April. This compared with 650 work stoppages in March (Continued from Pate One) cut, it added, tney go too far. Such a provision, the Legion statement said, would "destroy" veterans' preference in the three departments and "demoralize" the civil service system. The Capital Transit Co.

discontinued the broadcasts Saturday night. Robert E. Harvey, company vice president, said the broadcasts had brought the company $31,000 ports he had already contacted Sam Fay, 96, British railroad expert, died Saturday, relatives dis- good day," the report said. He spent the day reading, listening to for 57 days of insurance, and which caused a loss of 1,100,000 man-days of work. Vietminh Rebel leader Ho Chi Minh Queen Celebrates losed today.

the radio and watching television. wrote: Mendes-France will appear be Godfrey leg Is in balanced sus "I am figuring this on the basis fore the National Assembly Wed a year revenue. Many of the company's vehicles were equipped with FM sets which received musical programs, news pension traction with a five-pound weight following a hip operation unfavorable occasional rain or showers, rather cool. Some "bright periods' flashes of sunshine of from Oct. 1, 1941, to Nov.

27, 1941. Total $4.00. Check inclosed. "Resp. yrs, S.

Ruppert." on May 15 to correct injuries reports and advertising from sta Film Director Dies in His Car were probable. which he suffered in an auto accident 22 years ago. tion WWJLMJ-FM. The Nebraska office hopefully The honors list was far longer ContlniiPd from Page One) than usual because it combined the list for the queen's "official birthday" June 11 with coronation recommended accepting the offer "if at all possible." The Chicago office was still doubtful and asked Washington to "advise us what nesday to ask that it approve him as the 19th French premier since the end of the war. Political observers doubted he could win approval.

The 46-year-old economic expert, a Radical Socialist, was asked Friday by President Vincent Auriol to try to form a government. He broke tradition today to tell a press conference of his advance plans. Mendes-France said his talks with Jean LeTourneau, outgoing minis 'STORM Reds May distinctions. One of the surprises was the further action should be taken." In Washington, the crop insur presence on it of wizened little Gordon Richards, champion jockey Thief Disappointed MIAMI BEACH, May 31 (UP) Harry Gingold, shoe salesman, from Birmingham, reported to police that someone stole three sample cases containing about 300 shoes from his auto here today. The shoes were all for the left foot, Gingold said.

at the truce meeting last Monday. Through the official Peiping Radio the Reds said "serious attention" must be paid to the "disclosure of ance corporation committee on waiver of interest and premium adjustments huddled and decided awn in for 24 seasons, rider of more winners than any man in history. The first jockey ever so honored, Rich to take the $4. LOS ANGELES, May 31, (JP) Film Director Richard Rosson, 60, was found dead today in his auto, and police said he had committed suicide. His wife, Vera, found his body in the garage at the rear of the couple's home in Pacific Palisades after she awoke and discovered he had not been to bed.

A vacuum hose led from the exhaust through a window of Rosson's expensive car. The widow told detectives that the director had been in ill health the contents of the- new American proposal." C. B. Funderburk, then serving ards at 49 becomes Sir Gordon. ter for Indochina, had given him "additional arguments" that the seven-year-old war was too heavy a burden for the country.

as acting manager of the corpora Another of the 54 new knights The complaint appeared to con 1 A. tion, added his fervent approval and closed the case. stitute Communist agreement with a South Korean report that the Reds had turned down an Allied proposal to leave to the United P. S. That leaves us taxpayers was Jack Hobbs, 70, regarded as one of the greatest batsmen ever produced by cricket.

Still others from the realm of sport were 25-year-old Jeanette Altweeg. Olympic New Power Project out $16.79. Crop insurance officials think that technically they could Nations the fate of prisoners refus weDOOD figure skating champion who be claim it from Army Ordnance offi Is Opened in Sicily ing repatriation. cials, 10 minutes away at the comes a commander of the British Referring to Sen. Robert A.

Taft Pentagon. empire, and Arthur Drewry, presi for about a year after contracting a mysterious tropical disease while on location In South Africa. She said he left her a note saying he recent comment on the truce talks. "But that would just be moving dent of the Football (soccer) AGAIN Peiping said "irreconcilable forces are hampering settlement of dis PALERMO, Sicily, May 31 (JP) Giant turbines began to turn today in the newest and biggest American-backed power project in Sicily. Elbridge Durbrow, minister from money from one government pock League, who was given the same honor.

et to another, and it would prob was so 111 ne "couldn't go on." He and his wife were interned putes between nations through ne Other new knights include T.O.M. ably cost $500. We'll just forget the by the Nazis in 1939 on charges of whole thing," a spokesman said. gotiations and were "personified in those bellicose elements within the U. S.

ruling circles such as Sopwlth, aviation pioneer; Edward Crisp Bullard. director of -scien pnoiograpninc military obiects In the US embassy in Rome, was among American officials attending dedication of the project. The US supplied $6,300,000 of the total cost of $11,050,000. Italian govern tific and industrial research for the government, and Sydney Camm. Tart." When Allied and Communist liaison officers met briefly at Pan- Austria, rney were held in solitary confinement for 34 days.

IN THE CITY designer of jet planes. Wertheimer Memorial 'Benefit' Totals $831 A total of $831.10, representing ment officials told the people Norman Hartnell. designer of munjs-m yesterday, the Reds re quested the new delay for "admin Monthly meetinr of West Palm the queen's coronation dress, became a member of the Victorian Order, fourth class. istrative reasons," a meaningless Saturday's receipts of Wert's Res technical phrase. Beach Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans will be held at 8 Sir John Cockcroft.

director of Allied authorities promptly con Sicily's power production had now been raised to five times that of pre-World War II output, largely fhrough American aid. The Kuljian Corporation of Philadelphia were the mechanical and electrical engineers in this newest Dlant. Purified sea water will be ThaFaiaow Storm Stop fhot it wtad on thowondt of hoimt1 can now be hod wMh Iromlucant fibaralaM oiuminwn from the courthouse at 8 tonight, accord cluded that after a week of study ing to wilmer Dame, adjutant. the atomic energy research establishment at Harwell, became a knight commander of the Bath. ing the still unannounced United Nations blueprint for ending the ALL ACOUSTICAL TILE INSTALLED NEW LEGION HOME J.

C. PRIDHAM GEN. CONTR. JOHN STETSON A-l-A iyj and is better than, vwr before' Routine business only is sched The order of commander of the war, the Reds needed more time taurant, Palm Beach, was turned over to the Heart Assn. of Palm Beach County to be used for the annual Wetheimer Family Memorial, according to Miss Margaret F.

Bodenstein of the Assn. The memorial funds, raised in nonor of the late L. A. Wertheimer, Palm Beach, are used solely for the Heart Association's county educational program, Miss Boden to draft a counter-proposal. used because of Palermo's critical water shortage.

The first installa both in vafcw ma sorvico. British empire went to actor Ala-stair Sim. plavwrieht Clemence uled for the regular monthly meeting of the parks and recreation commission, at 7 tonieht in the i The South Korean delegate on servas many pvrpotM tor nwi tion will supply 60,000 kilowatts protection of homo and fumit the Allied truce team said two days ago that the Reds were rejecting the Allied proposal to turn over Dane, cartoonist Osbert Lancaster, film director David Lean, and test pilot Joseph Summers. Another West Palm Beach Fishing Club according to Chairman Or- mgi and wiH mok ma vllie Lamason. actor, John Gieleud.

was mari to the United Nations those prison mora volwobi In om of ers finally refusing to go home stein said. Last year the money juugni. West Palm Beach Lodge 181, after an armistice. The Duke of Edinburgh was an- Deaths and Funerals FREDERICK C. SCHMID.

Services for Mr. Schmidt, 82, retired Lantana accountant, who died Thursday in a local nursing home, will be conducted at 9 pm today in the E. Earl Smith and Son Fu pointed captain general of the Knights of Pythias, will meet at 8 tonight at the IOOF Hall on Datura was used for purchase of a motion picture projector and screen and heart educational films which were viewed by 15,000 persons in the Royal Marines, the trm Marinp 4 0 The delegate, Maj. Gen. Choi Duk Son, who boycotted the meeting a week ago to spearhead ROK opposition to the plan, quoted the Communists as saying they could position in line with his repent elevation to the highest ranks of county.

according to club spokesmen. "Indians of the Southwest" will be the theme of an illustrated talk to be given at 8 tonieht at Norton neral Chapel, Lahe Worth, by the not possibly accept such a scheme Bricker Amendment since the U. N. "is itself a army, navy and air force. He also was named to senior ranks in three Canadian cadet forces.

The queen herself assumed regimental appointments in the services of Canada, Australia and New Gallery by Charles J. Clarke before Is To Be Endorsed Rev. H. A. Stude baker, of the Lake Worth Congregational Church, and Gulf Stream 245, Cremation will be at Miami.

the Artists Guild of the Palm Some quarters suggested the NEW YORK. May 31 (JP) Sen. Beach Art League. John M. Butler (R-Md) predicted today that the full Senate Judi Communists might be marking time to capitalize on the dispute between the South Korean government and the Allied truce negotia DOGS WATCH DETECTIVES Sawyer Speaks On Ethics CINCINNATI.

May 31 (JP) ciary Committee would endorse Monday the. Bricker resolution to GREENWICH, Conn. WI Three tors. Charles Sawyer declared at the limit the president's treaty-making powers. University of Cincinnati tonight, police dogs slumbered undisturbed here the other day when a burglar past them and swiped their mistress's handbag and $90.

When The giraffe is the only one of all Butler said the measure, which the mammals known to man that "any man who must look up his code of ethics to find out what is proper or improper for him to do calls for a constitutional amendment, has been reported out to does not have the power of making a sound with its vocal cords three detectives arrived, thev barked their heads off. is too Innocent to be around Wash eaiana. ueen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret were given Australian appointments, as well as colonelcies of British regiments. The channel ports reported huge throngs passing through from the continent for the coronation. The government gave a garden party tonight at Hatfield House, historic home of the Marquess of Salisbury, to start the official functions of coronation week.

Queen Mother Elizabeth attended. Among the guests were Queen Salote of the Tonga Islands, princes and princesses of royal blood, ambassadors, sheiks, prime ministers and chieftains. ington." Vary your vesetable routine Sawyer, a 1911 graduate of UC Easy To Pay on F.H.A. No Monty Dowm Payments as low as $10 a month. CLEARVIEW LOUVER WINDOW CORP.

3915 SO. DIXIE tel 3-2561 and secretary of Commerce under the full committee by a Judiciary subcommittee of which he is a member. The resolution was sponsored by Sen. John W. Bricker (R-O).

It would write into the Constitution language declaring invalid any treaty or treaty provisions "which Cook thinly sliced celery and coarsely shredded cabage together Floor Covering Co. former President Truman, spoke at his alma mater's traditional campus baccalaureate services. 14 Tun And Still The Lndar and serve with butter or white sauce. Baked hubbard squash, cut in half and filled with green peas also makes a delicious He expressed the opinion that Sunn- t-fifcj 801 N. Dixie Tel.

2-171 1 ''the adoption of a code of ethics. denies or abridges any right" guaranteed by the Constitution. while harmless, will do little good." 1.

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