St. Lucie News Tribune from Fort Pierce, Florida • 1

rr 'V ort Pierce News-Tribune -PubUhd Pally In Ik Br I ik Ftmou Indtn Hit Scllon" CXL NO 178 tr'juTm iKim FORT TIERCE FLORIDA WEDNESDAY JULY 19X4 mmimitn Sinaia Con he 1 PRCKMav-n Ik IM enli Sunday li NBWJ-TRIIUNB Obscttva Far tha Indian River Sectien Port Rehabilitation Agricultural Development New Indiutriri Beach and Touriim Development Railroad Overpaura Primary and Secondary Roada local data 14 heur ported ending 11 TUISDAT I Vg uwniHhnnmwwiiHinNWWM Mm Mlll Ram nJOiU Kidnaped Raped Eisenhower In Is Opposed to Russia Denunciation City's Departmetal Of Red China Reported to Have Been Poised to Attack Japan if Had Intervened in Indochina Snatched From Home Of Grandmother In Miami Nude and Battered Body Found in Gump Of Bushes Off Bayshore Drive 5 Hours After She Had Been Reported as Missing MIAMI la (AP) Judith Ann Roberta blue-eyed 7-year-old daughter of a Baltimore attorney and labor lender waa kidnaped from the home of her grandparents here today raped and beaten to death Tolke found the nude and brutally battered body in a clump of bushes off fashionable Bayshore Drive five hours after her mother Mra Shirley Roberta reported her minding FROM OUT OF THE PAST apparently comes this awesome Stegosauria-or it is a Ceratopsin? Actually it Isn't even related to Ally Oop's dinosaur a sweet potato Bernard Gibbon of Indno picked up west of Vero Beach The eyes are Phillips screws his legs copper tubing nnd teeth bits of scrap aU combining to give Mr Gibbon's 20-inch creation the appearanceof a pre-historic prowler (News-Tribune Staff Phirto by Lcn McNulty) City Tax Roll Shows Gain Of $2000000 Over '53 Fort Ux assessment roll for the new fiscal year as submitted to the City Commission Tuesday night by City Clerk Warren Blackmon totala 328566991 an Increase over last year of mora than two million dullara Payroll for Month Of June $5586161 The departmental payroll for the City of Fort Pierce for the month of was 35596161 according to figures presented at the Tuesday night meeting of the City Commission Breakdowp by departments as follows: City hall 31067834 light plant 3899439 garbage an trash 3514680 police department 3633770 St Lucie-Fort Pierce Fire Board 33629 garage 3115078 water plant 34' 53627 line department 3524557 streets sewers and drainage 311! 82862 miscellaneous 313348 Jaycee field 311066 6and the municipal pier 37200 46 Workers in Motor Vehicle Dept Lose Jobs TALLAHASSEE (J9Forth six State Motor Vehicle Department workers were fired yesterday In a "job consolidation" move which statement from Acting Gov Johna' office indicated is only the beginning The statement said the first study of departments under Johns showed the motor vehicle could drop 50 employes without losing efficiency Fisher motor vehicle com missioner later said he had sent notices of dismissal to 46 persons on a list sent to him from the governor's office He said nearly all of them were clerks in the Tallahassee headquarters The office press release said "it is estimated that this initial economy move will result in a saving of 3120000 a year in this one department alone In addition consolidation of regional tag agencies will be made" It said surveys are being conducted in all departments under the jurisdiction and where economy can be effected without losing efficiency of operation other positions will bte consolidated "These consolidations will be made after careful study of varl ous jobs the duties of each and the manpower required to perform them" Fisher said he thought his department could get along without the dismissed workers the present because work will be slack until new auto license tags go on sale in December The department issues sells and keeps records on auto license tags and maintains a statewide staff of inspectors to see that all motor vehicles are properly tagged It also issues title certificates and records liens against all motor vehicles sold in the state Denies Johns Asked Switch Of Insurance JACKSONVILLE Miller Joiner chairman of the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission said yesterday Acting Gov Johns never asked him to switch the commission's insurance contract to a Johns supporter He commented on an Associated Press dispatch that quoted the Tampa Tribune as saying Johns had "threatened to fire at least one of three members" of the commission over the insurance which was awarded to Midyetle-Moor agency of Tallahassee The newspaper said Joiner and another member were willing to change the award but that three other members were opposed Joiner said: "This statement is untrue and without basis id fact Gov Johns has never asked me to enter into any agreement of this nature with Johns has not been available for comment on the report A Sterling Hall commission member from Bradenton said Saturday that Johns told him over the telephone "be wanted us to change that Johns want ed the 340000-a-year contract given to A Cobb of Marianna Hall continued and said "he would con- if the deci- of director truss Chspter Je FndaF- minced today TOKYO Informed military quarters said today there has been a very real threat of World War III exploding in the Pacific in recent weeks but the danger has subsided These sources who are extremely well informed said that up to a week ago patrol planca anxiously scanned the skies north of Japan while warships on the alert sped through the South seas The tension has eased considerably in the past three weeks these sources said but the Ruasians still have 35 army divisions and 700 jet bombers poised for a possible attack on Japan The tension was said to have resulted from the possibility that US forces would intervene in Indochina' Sources here said such intervention might well have reopened the shooting war in Korea And Russia was poised for a possible attack on Japan rated by both East and West as the corner stone to control of the Pacific Russian forces still are poised for attack but the tension has eased and military authoriUes say late spring thaws in Siberia probably have softened the ground too much for quick movement of men and supplies Mrs Coals Resigns After Long Servke Mrs Cents a teacher in St Lucie county schools for the past 27 years has resigned it was revealed at the school board meeting Tuesday night Mrs Coats taught at Fairlawn Elementary last year but for many years previous was an instructor at Fort Pierce Elementary on Delaware avenue The board accepted her resignation with regret and passed a 4 resolution thanking and commend ing her for her many years of service Two teachers in Negro schools also resigned They are Mrs Jewel McGhee and Irene Bernard Although a number of appointments were made SupL Hus key reported that the school system is behind last year in the hiring of replacements for the large turnover of teachers The schools are faced every year with the problem of replacing teachers who go elsewhere in quest of higher pay Those appointed are: Fred Calhoun Jr assistant principal at Lincoln Parkk Academy elementary school Ralph Wentz and James Garrett teachers at St Lucie Junior High bliss Mary Edna Penn Miss Mary Theresa Frans and Mrs Pierce Brown at Fort Pierce Elementary Mrs Kathryn Ashworth at Fair-lawn Elementary Miss Mary Stamper Mrs Naomi Strather Todd Ossie Lee Paige Mrs Che-quiU Rose Matthews Mrs Ethel Edwards and Miss Sylvia Yvonne Reynolds all it jnenln Park Academy schools Family Blackmail Fails SWANSEA Wales IB-Iri Chappell it was sentenced yesterday to a year in Jail for trying to blackmail her own fattier Police witnesses said she she ae-! Admission to United Nations But' Declares Proposal For to Pull Out Needs Study WASHINGTON (AP) President Eisenhower deliver ed a scorching denunciation of Red China today and said he is unalterably opposed to admitting the Peiping regime to the United Nations However he told his news conference that propoials to pull the United States out of the UN if the Reds ahould get in need very careful study He said he is not ready to say that course should be taken Eisenhower expressed doubt that Congress would give serious consideration to the passige of legislation for an automatic US withdrawal Commenting that the Chinese Communists are even now at war With the UN the President asked: How could the United States as a self-respecting nation say that the Reds should be admitted to the world organization? A few hours ahead of the meeting with newsmen Sen Knowland (R -Calif) had expressed hope that Eisenhower would promise to recall Congress to deal with the situation that would arise if the UN should admit the Chinese Communists Knowland hinted that such a pledge might forestall a move in Congress for automatic withdrawal legislation Eisenhower was not sked about Knowland'a latest View The Californian headed a group Df GOP congressional leaders who called on the President for their weekly conference just before the news session Participants said however that the touchy situation on China and the UN did not come up The President told newsmen he believes 95 per cent of the American people share his unalterable Opposition to the admittance of Red China under present conditions At the Geneva conference he recalled the Communist Chinese excoriated the UJJ and demanded a repudiation of the UN position The Communist rulers in Red China are today at war with the UN he added having been labeled aggressors by the UN General Assembly in a declaration Which has never been modified Obviously choosing his words Carefully the President said this Country joined the United Nations knder a solemn treaty and that Abandoning treaty obligations is a Step to be taken only after a most Careful study of the consequences There is a question he went on whether more good would be ac eomplished by pulling out of the United Nations than by staying in Eisenhower reaffirmed hia administration's determination to fight to the end against admitting Red China and declared he is a man who never gives up a battle until he is thoroughly and finally defeated Eisenhower said he and Know-land are for the most part in conformity on the Red China issue But he said while Knowland is ready to begin fighting for United States withdrawal the President himself has not reached any such decision Eisenhower said he would not wish to prejudge the issue of a foreign aid bill amendment but doubted if any such amendment is being seriously considered At a news conference the President also said a strike at the Oak Ridge Tenn and Paducah Ky atomic plants would be a serious thing and would put the United States in a most embarrassing and difficult position here! a job in the News-Tribune Want Ads that catches my fancy they want to hire a traveling Redeployment of Allied grouiu forces in the Pcific Is under con sidcration now that the threat o' war has lessened it was sail there was speculation that the six US divisions now in Korea would be pulled out leaving 20 South Korean divisions to guard the demilitarized zone The ROK divisions are ratec capable of holding off an attack by the estimated half-million North Korean and Chinese soldiers in Korea Plans also are under consider tion to shift the US 1st Cavalry Redeployment of Allied ground forces in the Pacific is under pon sideration no that the threat of war has lessened it was reported There was speculation that the six US divisions now in Korea would be pulled out leaving 20 South Korean divisions to guard the demilitarized zone The ROK divisions are rated capable of holding off an attack by the estimated half-million North Korean and Chinese soldiers in Korea Plans also are under consideration to ahift the US 1st Cavalry Division from Japan's northern island of Hokkaido leaving Japanese units to defend it Harden Crossing Proposal Given City Commission City Commissioner Courtney Harden's proposal that a ground crossing from Boston to Citrus avenue across the railroad tracks and thence into 2nd street was met with something less than enthusiasm by other commissioners Tuesday night However the commission voted to instruct Attorney Errol Willes and City Manager Howard Stanton to check into the situation -Harden distributed photostatic copies of the proposed crossing which he said he believed would alleviate traffic Jams in the downtown area According to Harden 40-foot street connecting Boston and Citrus would cost approximately 35437 but he said that by cutting the width to 30-feet the cost could be lowered 25 per cent Commissioner Gray pointed out that because of the proximity of the crossing to the railroad station the crossing would be blocked every time a train eame in Harden countered that trains will stop traffic at any crossing and this was followed by Mayor Wallace Sample's remark that he deem the proposal Commissioner George Russos said he estimated that a crossing at that location would be blocked approximately four hours a day by trains The mayor brought up the problem of a Shell Oil Co tank located in the path of the proposed crossing and Stanton said the crossing would run very close to building in that area It was (Continued on Page 2) French Draftees Face Indochina PARIS Premier Pierre Men-des-France said today he will ask the National Assembly to approve the sending of draftees to reinforce French forces in Indochina if the Geneva negotiations end in failure The Premier also told the lawmakers he would be leaving soon to take personal charge of the French delegation at Geneva "I have already said that the reasons to hope for a favorable and honorable outcome are present" he declared "That is still my opinion The Premier told the Assembly there would be no means of assuring the safety of French soldiers already in Indochina if conscripts were not sent Since the war started in 1947 all the fighting in Indochina has been done by French volunteers North African troops and Foreign deputies he has promised to re unless he can bring an end to Jul ngnung by July 20 i She had been beaten on the head with a heavy Instrument and a piece of gauze was knotted about her throat Her flimsy seersucker nightgown while with red polka dots lay eight feet from the body Judith body was caked with blood and dirt indicating she put up a fight for her life Police said the killer sneaked info the home of the grandparents Mr and Mrs Harry Rosenbsrg about 1 am stole the keys to Rosenberg's car and took the child from the atudio couch in the living room where she was sleeping Mrs Rosenberg was awakened by the sound of the csr roaring out of the driveway She discovered the child was gone and the front door standing open Police were called at 1:10 am Four hours and 10 minutes later they found the Rosenberg car abandoned in the atrip of sandy land between Bayshore Drive and the shore of Biacayna Bay Its whccia were mired in the land and tire marki showed the driver tried frantically to get it out Judith's body waa found a block from the car The father Jamee Roberta waa away from home conferring with a woman client seeking a Florida Divorce when the child's disappsaranee was reported He returned home a few minutes after police arrived Roberta is member of the Baltimore law firm of Roberts Gilbert and Rocklin Before joining the partnership he waa president of a Baltimore local of the United Auto Workers and was at one time an international representative of that union Homicide Detectives I Whitman nnd Charles Sapp said there was no indication that any attempt had been made to collect a ransom Mrs Roberts fold police she and her husband were in moderate cir-circumstances and not likely targets for a ransom kidnaping An examination by Dr Ben Sheppard medical expert in the sher-iff'z office disclosed that Judith Ann had been raped Bloodhounds were taken to the spot where the ear was found gien the scent of Judith Ann's bloody nightgown and fanned out in search of the killer The Roberta family left Baltimore last Saturday for Miami on their annual summer visit with the Rosenberg Other members of the family are ton Jimmy by a former marriage and another daughter Betty 4 Richard Gilbert one of Roberts' law partners said it waa a cobination business and pleasure trip He said Roberts planned to obtain some depositions in Florida in a ease on which he was working Roberts a Democrat made an unsuccessful race for a seat in the Maryland House of Delegates in the June 28 primary A Democrat in polities the Baltimore lawyer hai lived in Maryland most of his life except for about a year around 1949 when according to a law partner he was in Pittsburgh associated with "one of the labor unions" Before establishing a law practice with his partners Roberts was president of a Baltimore local of the United Auto Workers and was at one time an international representative of that union Judith Ann had been a frequent patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore because she was born with a growth on her throat and! underwent several operations designed to correct the condition i Richard Gilbert one of the fa- ther'i law partners said in Baltimore the entire Roberts family Slate of Siege Is Lifted by Guatemala GUATEMALA Ut-Guatemala's new military government lait night lifted the state of siege proclaimed by ousted President Ja co bo Arbenz Guzman Pushing ahead with Its anti-Communist back-to-normal program the ruling five-man junta also: 1 Barred aU illiterates an estimated 85 per cent of the country's three million population from voting 2 Froze the aneta of Arbenz ex-Foreign Minister GuiUermo To-rielio and other persona prominent under the former Commdnlst-back-ed government I Continued the roundup of suspected Reds 4 Announced restrictions on civil rights would continue In effect until Aug 8 However the junta has already ended the Arbenz-imposed strict censorship of the local and foreign pren Arbenz had proclaimed the state of siege jriit before the outbreak of the revolt which forced hia resignation on June 27 Cancellation of the order waa expected to end permanently the all-night curfew and other military controls The ban on voting by illiterates struck at wide support which the Communists have whipped up among te uneducated peasantry Under the 1945 Constitution which cx-President Juan Jose Arevalo and Arbenz sponsored all men literates and illiterates over 18 and all literate women of that age could vote The new Junta decree limited balloting to those able to read and write 4 Reported Dead In Jel (rash KANSAS CITY Kan UP-An Air Force jet plane crashed today just outside the downtown district and an unofficial report said four persons were killed including the pilot Two persona were alio taken to Providence Hospital suffering burns and shock Searching partiei were probing the debris of homes in the crash area for other bodies Search waa being made for three children who were reported to have been playing near the first home that waa hit by the F84F plane which had juit com off the assembly line One of the three home set afire was occupied by Eural Redwine 54 an invalid It waa not known whether he was in the house at the time It waa not known whether any residents of the homes wert inured The plane one of five in the air at the time made a banking turn struck a tree and then sheared off the top of a two-story concrete block and frame house at 850 Nebraska Ave It then plowed into house across the street First reports were that several moving cars were hit Bert Kinney Jr 43 was asleep in the first house struck hut he escaped without injury He said he woke up covered with dust He crawled out of the debris un- aided Breakwater TMee I Havre Bartier totals 326073846 The City Commission will meet as the Equalization Board during the remainder of the July meetings Persons desiring to register complaints or queitions may do ao at any time during the month in the city office Blackmon said Appeals will be disposed of the last meeting of the Equalization Board Guy Nourse is Taken by Death Rifes Thursday Guy Oliver Nnurse 56 a weH known resident of Fort Pierce since 1928 died suddenly Tuesday sftemoon sfter being stricken with a heart attack in a downtown restaurant He waa pronounced dead on arrival at the local hospital Mr Nourse made his home at 1024 Beach court and moved to Fort Pierce from Vero Beach He was born in San Antonio Texai A lawyer he graduated from Western Reserve university in 1922 and waa the founder of the St Lucie Abstract company Nourse was a director of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association and during the second world war served as a member of the rationing board and for time was director of the defense council ne was a veteran of the first world wsr and waa past commander of the local American Legion post He was a member of the First Methodist church Survivors include son Phillip two grandaughters LeVan and Jimmie Ann a brother Major Ronald Nourse USMC Imperial Calif and three sisters Mrs Lulu Roth of Stuart Mrs Audrey Townsiey of Lebanon Ohio and Mrs William White of Jacksonville Services will he held at 4 o'clock Thursday in the Yates Funeral chapel with the Rev McKinley pastor of the First Methodist church officiating Burial will take place in the local cemetery Bearers will be Clifford Scott Walter Peterson Goodwin Harry Center and ilallstrom all official of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association and Thomas Barr 3 Permits Totaling $19000 Are Issued Three permits totaling 319 000 have been issued by the building office in eity hall The largest in the amount of 310000 is for a residence to be built by Tokes on Sunrise Boulevard The other two set at 34500 apiece were filed by Elizabeth Scott for a residence on Canal Terrace and Leroy Singleton 'for a dwelling on North 33rd street The 1953 total wna 328459928 A breakdown shows: Total real eatate and improve-menta 325561355 personal property 31935815 homestead exempt 39828920 railroad and utilities based on last assessment the current not yet having been received 31069821 The amount subject to debt service end the general fund taxation City Backs Up Request for Survey of Port The Fort Pierce City Commis sion Tuesday night unanimously voted to support the Port Authority in attempts to have the Maritime Administration make a complete economic survey of the port here as the first atep in a proposed expansion program Action foUowed the reading of letter from the Port Authority requesting that the City Commission join with the County and Port Authority in contacting Florida statesmen serving in Washington As the result of a visit by Arnold to the meeting Commissioners Rex Nelson and George Russos will join Arnold sometime next week in a trip to Fort Lauderdale to obtain details of that building code Arnold said the Southern Building code now in use here is composed of "generalities and is not good for our locality" He also laid in the course of hia remarks to commissioners that "We need our own building code to protect people from some of the stuff been going Arnold said he felt the Fort -auderdale code is best suited to the needs of Fort Pierce and that it had been selected after careful study of codes employed by several other cities Launching Ramp Commissioner Courtney Harden said that as he had been appointed to do he had looked into possible sites for the construction of a launching ramp ac requeated for small boats by the Fort Pierce Boating-club He said the ideal site located at the Binney proper-( Continued on Page 2) 'roper ty Owners Urged To Gear Corners )f Plants and Weeds City Manager Howard Stanton iaa reported that his office has received several calls asking that grass shrubbery plants and hibiscus be removed from corners in various sections of the city where such growth prevaiL Stanton aaid much of the growth that is the subject of complaints is on private property and that it would help considerably if property owners would do their own trimming Jap Judge Accused TOKYO Jt Impeachment proceedings opened today against a judge accused of opening his court rommunitt songs and allow defendants to pray for a Communist vjetory in 1 WEATHER FLORIDA: Continued warm and humid and mostly fair through Thursday except for widely scattered thundershowers in afternoons MARINE FORECAST JACKSONVILLE through FLORIDA STRAITS and EAST GULF: Light to moderate aouthwesterly winds except mostly easterly in extreme south generally fair weather except for few widely Roberta was born at Newton scattered afternoon thunderabow-t nd 43 on Aug 10 en through Thursday a ed radu'ted from layette County Thursday Smith Bridie Tidsa originating the idea of painting a 'high school at Fayette Ala in High 3:32 am 418 9:18 am 9:32 pm bite bne down the center of high-j ay dd went to Miami Saturday on a combination vacation and business trip Roberta planned to obtain In Florida some pre-trial depositions in a case on which he was working Roberta is one of the founders and had served as commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wan post in Dundalk After a preliminary investigation FBI agents reported the case did not foil within their jurisdic- 1929 and attended Livingston State: Low Legionnaires The dispatch of draftees tohs combat zone was i00 Bot reversed S3 tSSZi too years ago and threatened to be expose him unless he paid her i Mendes-France reminded the sider suspending us" 6D CROSS MEETING Meeting of the board money She admitted in court her aation false ine yesterday 6 Teachers at Livingston A14 ilni JV.