News-Press from Fort Myers, Florida • Page 1

The Edison Estate rhe inventor's home, laboratory nd tropical gardens ara open to the public to 4 daily. Fort Myers Mew Thomas A. Edison Said "There I only one Fort Myers and 90 million people are going to find it out." SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR FORT MYERS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1956 5c DAILY, 10c SUNDAY Press Louisiana MACIP Air Force Plans Early Decision -n I r-s us Lines i Congress Opens Drive to Put Soil Bank Over Dispute Flares on Advance Payments To Farmers ontgomery egregation FOUR OF A KIND. Four Hunter aircraft of Royal Air Fore turn in close echelon during rehearsal for visiting Russian diplomats at RAF station in Norfolk, England, Planes are members of aerobatic team. Defended Businessman Accused of Theft Nixon Manager Linked To Army Graft Probe WASHINGTON, April 24 (P) The name of Murray Chotiner, a 1952 campaign manager for Vice President Nix Senate investigation of armed Negro Leaders Make No Move to End Boycott MONTGOMERY, April 24 (JF) An order to stop segregation on city buses brought angry threats of reprisal today from city and state officials who vowed to keep the races apart as long as possible, Despite the decision from Montgomery City Lines Inc.

to abandon its policy of separate seating of white and Negro pas sengers, there were no reports of actual mixed seating on the first day. A reporter who spot-checked the buses said all the Negro riders he saw were seated in the rear, the part reservd for members of that race under the, traditional segregation pattern. Neither was there any indication that the bus company' actionem refusing to continue enforcing city and state segregation laws would bring an immediate end to the five-month-old boycott by Negroes who have refused to patronize the segregated buses since Dec. 5. Boycott to Continue A leader of the bus boycott, the Rev.

Martin Luther King issued a statement saying "there will be no change in our position immediately" and that the protest would go on for the time being. King aid some action may be taken, however, at a mass meeting called for Thursday night. He said the Montgomery Im provement of which he is president, probably would make a recommendation or at least "dis cuss alternatives" to ending the boycott. The statement was issued following a meeting of the executive board of the improvement association which was formed to support the boycott. Negro Driver Urged King said the Negroes were still awaiting word from Bus Company Manager J.

11. Bagley on their original demand for employment of Negro drivers on predominantly Negro routes, and added: "If Mr. Bagley says that he will examine applications from Negroes with the same equanimity as he would an application from a white person, that might satisfy our people." Whether that meant the Negroes might continue the boycott indefinitely without some concession on the hiring of Negro drivers, the minister said he couldn't speculate. Bagley wasn't available for comment. In the past he ha said the company had received no ap- (Contlniirri On Pnge Two) Mrs.

Case Dies Of Heart Disease Mrs. Harold C. Case the former Vivian Hough, "died yesterday at her home on Melaleuca Lane. Mrs. Case, who was 40, had been ill of heart disease.

Surviving besides her husband are a son, Victor C. Case; a daughter, Carolyn Vivian Case; her mother, Mrs. Emma Hough, and a sister, Mrs. Pauline Campbell, all of Fort Myers. Funeral arrangements are to be announced by the Engclhardt Funeral Home.

On Site for Base Officials Reaffirm Desire to Locate In Lee County WASHINGTON, April 24 The Air Force today reaffirmed a desire to locate a jet gunnery training base in Lee County and said a decision on the location will be made as rapidly as possible. James H. Douglas, undersecretary of the Air Force, and Maj. Gen. Lee B.

Washbourne conferred with Mayor Heard Edwards of Fort Myers and Lee County Commissioner Dawson McDaniel. Edwards and McDaniel presented the Air Force resolutions from the city and county assuring once again the full cooperation of the governing bodies in problems relative to the airbase. Air Force Pleased Douglas stated that the Air Force is particularly pleased to receive the expressions of cooperation from the city and county. He advised Edwards, McDaniel, Sens. Smathers and Holland and Rep.

Rogers that a decision has not been made regarding the final site selection for the weapons center and that the Air Force is fully aware of the commitments made to the city and county by the United States governments. Douglas said the decision on the location will be made by the Air Force "after careful consideration of all information bearing on the construction problems." He said the Air Force is now studying the results of the investigations and studies conducted by the Corps of Engineers and the recommendations by a board of engineering consultants. Soil Report Presented Merrill Winslet, Holland's executive secretary, reported that the board of soil consultants which visited three proposed sites for relocating Buckingham Weapons Center last week, had presented its report to the Air Force, late Friday afternoon. Winslet said the Air Force had conferred with the congressional delegation Feb. 21, March 15 and April 18 and each time had expressed a desire to locate the base in Lee County.

It is expected that the Air Force will abandon the Buckingham site for the base and select a site eight to ten miles east of Estero where the engineers found an underlay of limerock. Titles Scorned By Kelly Family ROME, April 24 (JF) One of the Philadelphia Kelly girls disclosed today that Prince Rain-ier III of Monaco had offered titles to his inlaws. And she scoffed at any idea that they might accept. Mrs. George "Davis, Jsister of the new princess of Monaco, laughingly, told a crowd of reporters here: "I want to go home just a plain American citizen.

Imagine our friends in Philadelphia would say if we came back as dukes or counts. Or fancy one of father's friends calling him 'milord or 'your Her father is the Jack Kelly who once was barred from a gentlemen's sculling race in England because he had worked with his hands. U.S. Rolling Pins Make Hit in Paris rARIS, April 24 U. S.

goods invaded two of the biggest Paris department stores today and the result looks like a success. At the Galerie LaFayette French housewives were lined up three deep by 10:30 a.m. at a counter called, in English, the "gadget shop," inspecting and buying such Yankee specialties as side-wheeler eggbeaters, free-wheeling rolling pins and other boons to the tired home-maker. A window display informed them "the American woman has no maid but silent servants." The Store au Printemps entitled its show "Fifth Avenue on the Fifth Floor." Posters tried to drum up the interest of the younger French males in what it called "Davy Crockett fur toques" 794 francs ($2.27) in rabbit and 1,500 francs ($1.28) in 'possum, News-Press Index State Judge Ends Activity Under Old Klan Law BATON ROUGE, April 24 A state judge today ordered a permanent halt to activity of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People in Louisiana.

The permanent injunction came under a 1024 law that wiped out the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana. District Judge Coleman Lindsey took the action in a default hear-ing. State attorney had entered the default April 10 after the deadline passed for an NAACP reply to a temporary injunction granted March 29. No NAACP attorney attended the brief hearing, held without advance press announcement or notice to the NAACP. Attorneys explained no notice was required in such a hearing.

Only a reporter and the assistant secretary of gtate were called a witnesses. Appeal Planned The NAACP sjiij if wnnM ap peal the injunction euit. The law says the attorney general i directed to take action "by injunction or otherwise to dissolve" organizations which fail to file yearly membership lists, until they comply with the law. In this case, State Attorney W. M.

Shaw and Sargent Pitcher said the NAACP would have to file with the secretary of state certified membership lists dating back to the organization's start in Louisiana. NAACP activity in recent years first won Negro admission to the Louisiana State University graduate school, then as undergraduates at three state colleges. An NAACP suit knocked out Louisiana' 1954 school segregation laws early this year and a federal judsre has ordered integration in New Orleans public schools a oon as it is feasible. A uit seeking integration of Baton Rouge schools i pending. State File Suit The state filed uit last month, claiming the NAACP had failed to file the membership list required by the old law.

Judge Lindsey brushed aside an NAACP effort to put the case into federal court and issued the temporary restraining order. On April 4, Federal District Judge J. Skelly Wright said Lindsey shouldn't have nroceeded with the ease after the NAACP action, but since the injunction had been issued, he could take no filed appeals to hither state court. On April 9. the Louisiana Su preme court refused to review the temporary injunction "when it ia Mnntlnurd On Pace Tto The Weather THE WEATHER Wednesday, April 25 FORECAST Partly cloudy with scattered showers, little change in tem-terature, high 80 85, mostly southeasterly winds gentl to moderate.

TIDES Fort Myers Beach: high 1:42 a.m. and 12:55 p.m.; low 7:07 a.m. and 7:48 p.m. Funta Rassa: 20 minutes earlier. Marco: 10 minutes earlier.

Naples: 1 hour 10 minute earlier. Sanibel; 40 minute earlier. Edison Bridge: high 5:33 a.m. and 3:55 p.m.; low 9:46 a.m. and 11:24 p.m., Boca Grande: 4 hour 10 minutes earlier.

Punta Gordas 2 hour 15 minutes earlier. LOCAL SKIES Sunrise 5:55 a.m. Sunset (1:58 p.m. Moonrise 7:48 p.m. Last Quarter May 2.

Prominent Star: Capella, low in northwest 9:58 p.m. Visible Tlanets: Venus, seta 10:11 p.m. Jupiter, in the west 11:37 p.m. Saturn, due south 2:09 a.m.' Mara, rise 1:5.1 a.m. YESTERDAY Fort Myers temperature: high 88, low 64.

Humidity (per cent) 91 at 6:30 a.m.; 55 at 1:30 p.m. Rain: none. Temperature elsewhere: Medfly Spraying Campaign to Open In Miami Today Inquiry Launched On Laxity in Customs Inspection MIAMI, April 24 (JF) Crews of bug fighters sent by the state to stamp out the Mediterranean fruit fly beachhead in Dade County will begin destroying fruit and spraying trees in Miami Shores tomorrow. While men and equipment were being gathered here for the attack on the dreaded pest, there were these other developments: 1. Ralph Kelly, U.

S. customs commissioner, announced in Washington that he was investigating the possibility that laxity in the Miami customs office permitted the flies to get into this country. 2. Ed L. Ayers, Florida plant board commissioner, met with other state and federal authorities in Miami to discuss the ex tent of the menace and decide how to combat it.

3. William Wooten, president of the Florida Mango Forum, invited members of the Florida Lime and Avocado Growers Assn. to an emergency meeting here tomorrow. 4. Governor Collins warned in Tallahassee against "hysteria or undue excitement in meetinir this problem." Unless caution is used he said, other states may impose quarantines on Florida citrus fruit which are "not justified." Complaint Filed Kelly said Deputy Comn.

David Strubinger would arrive in Miami Friday to investigate a complaint by Ayers that the customs service was responsible for the fruit fly threat to Florida's billion dollar citrus and vegetable industries. "If there are any loopholes in our inspection practices, orders will be issued to plug them," Kelly said. "We believe we have a close inspection in Miami, and through the years it has proved successful, but it's a miracle more pests don't come through." Ayers said "we won't spare men, time or expense in this fight. "So far as we ran tell now, the fly hasn't reached the large commercial growing areas. I think we have caught it in time to stamp it out while it still is in just the backyards." In Miami Shores, where the fly was discovered last week in back yard trees, the crews will spray all vegetation over an area of several miles.

All fruit will be picked and destroyed. Boys Are Nabbed For Slashing Tires BELLE, April 24 Eight high school boys haled into juven-ilo court today for slashing 13 tires on cars parked near the La-110116 Theater were ordered to earn the money to pay for them. Judge R. M. Harris placed the boys on probation when their parents agreed to pay for the damage and ordered the boys to reimburse their parents.

The boys are to report to the judge monthly, presenting statements of the amounts repaid. 'Pure Meanness' Blamed Screaming Woman Disturbs Justices WASHINGTON, April 24 (JF) A screaming, waving woman upset the solemnity of the Supreme Court this afternoon, just at quitting time. Shouting in Spanish, the woman seemed to be trying to tell Chief Justice Warren something. He and the other eight black robed justice paused for a moment, wide-eyed at the disturbance, then stepped down and behind the red velvet curtain behind the bench. Supreme Court police were able to get little information out of her after lengthy questioning, and she was allowed to go free.

She and the two children she brought to court with her, a boy aged 11 and a girl, 12 vanished up a side atreet. Chief Justice Warren sent word he wanted no charge brought against the woman. Negroes Continue To Walk to Back Of Florida Buses Greyhound Plans To Obey Orders of Supreme Court MIAMI, April 24 (.11 Despite the U. S. Supreme Court deci sion outlawing segregation in travel within the border of a state, Negro passengers still walked to the back of Florida buses today, John Dishong, district passen-srer aeent for the Trnilway bus system, said that in intrastate travel the line will operate first under Florida law," which calls for separation of the races.

Dishong said "it's a ticklish situa-tion but we don't anticipate any trouble." Florida firevhound Linea will obey the new court order as soon as interpretation and procedure have been worked out, Traffic Manager J. B. Osteen said. Tlnth Trnilwnvs and Grevhound havn been ohevincr the court's or der of November ending segrega tion oi interstate buses. In Miami and Tampa, city bus lines continued to operate as in the past.

C. J. Helbinir. manaeer of the Tampa transit lines, said Negro passengers would be asked to sit in (Via rpiir as alwavs. Officials of the Miami Transit Co.

said they planned no change in policy, feeling they should operate under city regulation rainer than the Supreme Court decision. Florida leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Poonle said in Tampa they anticipated no "immediate or revolutionary changes' as a result of the court ruling. "It merely established a principle which gives us a new perspective in tho fjeld of human relations," said a statment by W. A. Fordham, state NAACP presi-dent, and Francisco Rodriquez, legal counsel.

"Segregation as a matter of practice is still with (Cnnllnard On In Two) KI) BALL Gen. Lowry? A This support i active. I intend to work and vote for Gen. On Page Tml rtimft tup iinjh.l WASHINGTON, April 24 (JF) A band-wagon movement for a comprehensive soil bank program started in Congress 'today, but Republicans and Democrats sjtill disagreed about making advance payments to farmers this year. GOP leaders announced after a White House conference they would try to ram a soil bank through the House in the next 24 hours, with authority to advance farmers up to 500 million on it this year.

Rep. Cooley of North Carolin Democratic chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, countered with a bill to giva the Eisenhower administration extensive powers to launch a soil bank program. The Cooley legislation, however, make no provision for prepayments. This would apparently mean that if it were adopted there would be no soil bank checks for the farmers before they go to the polls this fall. An aide to Cooley said, "the bill was drawn to meet all the requirements of the President's soil bank as it was originally presented to Congress.

The pre-payment idea is relatively new." It looked as though Eisenhower's proposal for advance payments would have to be fought out on the floors of Congress amid a fresh welter of political speeches. Dead Duck Revives Only last Wednesday, Cooley said the President's separate soil bank legislation was "a dead duck" for this year. Still smarting from Eisenhower's veto of the omnibus farm bill, Cooley told reporters the soil bank didn't have "a Chinaman'a chance" of passing. But political pressures for additional help to the farmers have been building up steadily and may well have caused Cooley and other influential Democrats in Congress to have a change of heart. The Agriculture' department added fuel to the fire today with a report that net farm income, on the decline since 1951, may be expected to drop about 5 per cent this year, from 1955 levels.

Under the soil bank idea, farmers would receive government benefits for withdrawing some of their cropland from production and devoting it to conservation purposes. The administration estr mates farmers could get up to $1,200,000,000 from the plan dur ing its first full year of operation, at the same time helping to reduce the mountainous farm surpluses. The soil bank was included in the general farm bill which the President vetoed because of its rigid price supports. Sarasota Bond Bid Rejected TALLAHASSEE, April 24 (JF) The State Development Commission today rejected the only bid it received on a $5,500,000 issue of Sarasota County bridge bonds because the interest rate was too high. The 4.59 per cent rate, offered by P.

J. Van Ingen and Associates, was blamed on a poor bond market and the fact the project would be financed entirely from tolls without any backing from gas tax collections. The development commission never has accepted any rate as high as 4 per cent. The Issue, which probably will be re-advertised in June, would finance the Ringling Causeway and Big Pass bridges. The state road board already has called for bids on the causeway bridges and soon will ask them on tho Big Pass span.

Girl, 5, Brutally Beaten by Father TAMPA. Anril 24 A five-year-old girl was beaten from head to feet with a stick by her father because she was playing in water, Detective Derrell Brown reported today. Margaret Adella McKlssick is covered with bruises over most of her body and a Tampa Municipal Hospital attendant says she may have a fractured skull. Detective Brown said the father, Lawrence McKissirk, 52, is a steelworker and is working on a job at West Palm Beach. Brown said McKissirk would be charged with aggravated assault.

The beating occurred Sunday morning, but the girl was not taken to a hospital until Monday when the irirl was crying and bleeding from the nose and mouth. JOHNSON APPOINTED TALLAHASSEE, April 24 (.11 Lelioy Collin today appointed Kingsmore Johnson of Bnra Grande constable in Lee County district No. 1 to succeed John Knight who resigned. on, was brought today into a services clothing contracts. The investieators brought out testi mony that Chotiner, a West Coast lawyer, was paid $5,000 to defend a clothing maker accused in Brooklyn, N.

of stealing government materials. The testimony came from Murray M. Kimmel, a New York accountant, at a public hearing before the Senate investigations subcommittee. The Senate group is looking for evidence of graft and corruption in connection with military uniform contracts. Chotiner was named in a document placed in evidence which reported he received the $5,000 on July 31, 1953 a year after the Nixon campaign a defense counsel in a case alleging theft of government materials furnished a manufacturer of Army uniforms.

The document was inserted in the hearing record in connection with testimony by Kimmel that the fee was paid by the now-defunct A. C. Clothing Co. of Atlantic City. This firm was owned by Samuel and Herman Kravitz whose names have figured prominently in the current Subcommittee Counsel Robert F.

Kennedy said the Chotiner" referred to in the document a bookkeeper's ledger sheet is "the same Murray Chotiner" who had a major hand in running Nixon's campaign. Chairman McCIellan (D-Ark) said Chotiner will be given a chance to testify if he requests it. Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis), a subcommittee member, later told the Senate he knows of "nothing improper about the fee it was a legal fee." Ike Far Ahead In Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA, April 24 (JF) President Eisenhower surged to a comfortable lead over AdJai Stevenson tonight in the presidential "popularity contest" feature of Pennsylvania's primary election with better than one-third of the vote counted. With all of Democratic-controlled Philadelphia accounted for, the President's margin mounted over the 150,000 mark.

At midnight, four hours after the state's 8730 voting places closed, the count was: Eisenhower 371,417 in 3578 precincts. Stevenson 217,943 In 3499 pre-etnets. $75,000 Charity Fund Embezzled SAN FRANCISCO, April 24 (P) The Community Chest of San Francisco disclosed today the loss of $75,000 through embezzlement of charity funds. Exneeutive Director Harold E. Winey said a woman who formerly worked as bookkeeper for the organization has been questioned.

No charges have been filed. Winey said the loss la covered by insurance. in Jax Arson Axton, a 210-pound tackle at Lee high school, ha been signed to a football scholarship at Oklahoma A college. His father is John Axton, coach and athletic director at Paxon high school. Ilia mother has written several songs including the currently popular "Heartbreak Hotel." Fire Marshal J.

E. Bailey Identified three of the others arrested yesterday as Mitchell L. Fried-1 i ti, 17; Robert Abraham, 18; and Edward Elian 17. Police said Abraham Bud Fried-lin had started to leave town but were picked up by Motorcycle ratrolman L. Dixon who said GM Should Cut Consumer Prices, Report Declares 'Extremely High' Profits Cited by Senate Inquiry WASHINGTON, April 24 (JF) The Senate's "big business" sub committee made public today a staff report saying General Mot ors' "extremely high profits call for price cuts to consumers.

The report, prepared under the direction of Sen. O'Mahoney (D-Wyo), said also the time may have come to consider limiting the 6-billion-dollar corporation's expansion into any few fields. A further suggestion in the report, issued by a judiciary subcommittee on antitrust and mon opoly, was that it might be healthy for competition if G.M. cut its connection with its financing subsidiary, General Motors Acceptance Corp. O'Mahoney subcommittee held public hearings late last year on General Motors as a "case study" in an inquiry into business size and concentration In the light of antitrust laws.

Today's staff report was critical of a similar study undertaken recently by the Justice Department, saying it "inadequately" treated the question of big business concentration. The Senate report noted that G. M. made a 1955 profit of 31 per cent on capital investment, after taxes, and this compared with 12 per cent for the average American manufacturing firm. Targets Exceeded While asserting the corporation needs large sums for such purposes as expansion and retooling, the report said G.M.

has exceeded its profits target for the past eight years and: "In view of the extremely high level of profits sustained over such a long period the interest of the consumer should receive ((nnllnnrd On Pna; Two) Muckland Smoke Cuts Visibility A smoke haze reduced visibility in the Fort Myers area yesterday and extended over most of the state as a result of fires in murkland deep in the Everglades, according to the Florida Forest Service. The forestry unit halted a grass fire in Palmona Tark in North Fort Myers and a woods blaze near the road junction on Tine Island. A small grass fire in Tice was extinguished by the Fort Myers fire department In the forenoon. Forestry Dispatcher Joe Slowik said the most serious fire in this area was in the Helle Meade section east of Naples along the Tamiaml Trail. "they had their clothes in their car and were going to Atlanta." Axton and Elian were arretted at arhool.

Gene Griffin, Duval County's chief criminal deputy, said two others William Springer, 18; and James W. Black, 18 were traced to Tallahassee and caught there. Bailey said the four arrested yesterday said they used Abraham' father's car. Harry Martin, Duval County solicitor, said he would charge the six with second degree arson which carries a penalty up to 10 yean. Believes In 'American Way of Life Ed Ball, duPont Chief, Actively Backs Lowry 6 Teen Agers Start $86,000 Fire TALLAHASSEE, April 24 (JF) Ed Ball, head of the Florida DuPont Industrial and financial empire, today confirmed that ha is actively supporting Sumter L.

Lowry for governor. Ball, who retired several years go from active management of the DuPont interests, now identifies himself as a Leon County farmer. Farri Bryant, a candidate for the governorship, in a recent speech at Jacksonville said that Ball was supporting Lowry. The Tampa business man and retired National Guard lieutenant general then said he had the backing of tho industrialist and banker. Contacted today, Ball agreed to make known his views on the governorship race.

He asked that any questions be dictated to a secretary that he would have an opportunity to think out his answers. He later returned the call with hi nnswers. Here are the question and Balls' nnswers: Are you supporting Gen. Ijowry for governor? A Yes. I this support active or do you merely intend to vol for Alpena 31 23 Lou AtikoIm Anmrillfi 71 87 1 l.oulvlll an Ahfvlll A(lnl 71 DtM.ndiiin 1 At'nlic fiir 44 Muml 1 tliiminiham i id Mllwmik 45 1 4 St au nj 2i Huffuln 44 Montitomdry 71 ChaUanncia 4 i) hiriun 44 N.hvl-I 4 Cincinnati ai Npw Origan tli 1 nvland 4S 3) New York C.

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Detective Sgt, M. R. Shank said "it was a case of pure damn meanness. They wanted to hear gla.HH crash." Shank said Hoyt Axton, 18, admitted taking a flaming oil pot set as warning at some street construction and throwing it through the store window, "then they went to a restaurant, talked it over and went home." Amusements 10 Bridge 9 Classified 11-15 Comics 12 Crossword 4 Deaths m- 2 Editorial 4 Financial 11 Hollywood 10 lindio-TV Society 9-1 Sports 6-7 1 Tl a privilege to Mr In Southwest Florida..