News-Press from Fort Myers, Florida • Page 1

Published Every Morning Mwnbar fejd SurMM of CircufatiOA AP Niwi antf Wirwpiwtos rtoo EDtKM MM Thomas A. Edison Said "TlMr to anty Myara Mtf aiilliM opl ar Cng An u(. 80th Year Fort Myers, Fla, Friday Morning, September 25, 1964 5c Daily, 13c Sunday 4. I Firm to Tell UuL About Felda Test Oil Well ME1S NEWS-PRESS Crews Expected To Finish Probe Within Few Days By PETE PACKETT Liberal Democrats Win Victory By Passing Nonbinding Substitute To Dirksen's Foreign Aid Rider WASHINGTON The Senate adopted yester day a nonbinding request to federal courts to go slow-ly in reapportioning state legislatures on a population basis. Doing so, it removed a major obstacle to adjournment of Congress perhaps next week.

The 44-38 roll call was a victory for liberal senators who since Aug. 12 have been con Quints' Pcrerrfs Have Bahy Girl ABERDEEN, S. D. 1 A baby girl was bora last Bight to Mrs. Andrew Fischer, mother of the famed' South Dakota quintuplets; A spokesman at St.

Luke's Hospital said the child was bora at 9:15 p.m. There was no further word immediately about condition of the mother and baby. However, no complications were reported. Mrs. Fischer, 31, was admitted to the hospital at 8 p.m.

Fischer, 39, said he wanted a boy, and so the couple didn't have a girl's name picked out right away. It was the. 11th chUd for the famous couple, who saw their children double in number on Sept 14, 1963, when Mrs. Fischer gave birth to four girls and a boy. ducting an on-and-off filibuster against a proposal to impose a mandatory delay in district courts' application of the Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote ruling.

that both houses of state This decision requires legislatures be apportioned Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, Democratic vice presidential candidate, holds up woman's shoe tossed Into his car during campaign tour through midtown Manhattan yesterday. He never did find owner. At left shaking hands Is Robert F.

Kennedy, Democratic candidate for senator. (AP Wirephoto) der it, district courts can redistrict states when legislatures fail to do so. Widow Saves Child's Life Aid. Bill Passed Yesterday's vote was on a rider to the Ambulance Baby Bom as spital Wrecks Going to Ho By CLIFF HEAD Mrs. Richard Knowles of Clewist.on yesterday gave birth to a 7 pound, 9 ounce daughter in an ambulance speeding her to Lee Memorial Hospital.

Moments rater Kennedy Given Campaign Boost Dy Administration Humphrey Tours New York With Senate Candidate NEW YORK WThe adminis-; tration threw its arm around Robert F. Kennedy yesterday as Sen. Hubert Humphrey, President Johnson's running mate, took the former attorney general campaigning through the busy streets of New York. They stopped noontime traffic tmm fiimhel's oast Macy's on 34th Street, and on isophisticated Fifth Avenue ran into a solid wall of bodies, cheers and applause. The Democratic nominees for vice president and senator from New York rode on the rear deck of an open convertible which surging, enthusiastic crowds twice.

Noisy Crowds The crowds of noisy, thousands a sort seen on Fifth Avenue only when New York's Irish celebrate St. Patrick's Day slowed Sun Oil Co. will tell the world about its wildcat test well on the Red Cattle Co. range at Felda sometime next month after land title problems are solved and testing of the well is finished. Walter Erwin, geologist, said yes terday.

Erwin has set up a Sun Oil of fice at Lehigh Acres. He said. "We hope in the next few days to have a crew in to complete testing to show what our well will or won't do." Surveyors for the company are checking out vast areas under lease by the company, which has a potential producer at Felda, to finish the paperwork before the company puts a pump on the hole in the ground. Press Briefing Erwin said an informal press briefing will be held by company officials next month the date can't be set yet to disclose as much information about it as prudence dictates in a highly competitive business. The brief ing will be in Fort Myers.

Meanwhile, he said, he is awaiting a decision from the management in Dallas, be fore any further work is done on Red Cattle No. 2, the well which has ignited oil fever over Southwest Florida and around the state. Erwin has set up an office at Lehigh Acres Country Club Motel and plans to have space in an addition at the Lehigh Acres Shopping Center ready In about six weeks. The well is three miles north of State Road 82's intersection with State Road 29 at Felda. Leased Rights The company, which leased oil rights from the state on 2,640 acres of Hendry and Collier Coun ty lands Tuesday, has over acres now under oil leases, Erwin said.

"We are still getting our leases straightened out," Erwin said. "There will be a management decision out of DaHas on when we will start developing the He added, "I hope it is soon." Erwin said nothing has been done at the Felda site since the end of July when a drilling rig moved off to Sunniland. He laughed at published reports that a $100,000 pump had been placed on the test well and said, "In the first place, there 'ain't naj such "The only thing we have there is the 'Christmas tree' and the (Continued mi fa M) Typhoon Tosses Freighter About TOKYO UB An Indonesian freighter rammed aground in Kobe Port and heeled over yesterday as Typhoon Wilda with 80-miles-per-hour winds slammed into the heavily populated Kobe- Osaka District. Initial reports said 23 of the In donesians were able to swim ashore with life jackets in heavy seas. The other 35 crew members were still clinging to the ship, and awaiting rescue, reports said.

The typhoon raced at a swift 36-mile-per-hour clip through the Japan inland sea and was expected to cross Honshu Island, move out to the Japan Sea and curve again to hit northern Hon shu. Hoods Adopt Medieval theiOlympic Games' Avery Brund- the ambulance collided with a car on Palm Beach Boulevard, veered off and knocked down a royal palm. Mother and baby are doing fine, Lee Memorial reported last night. Patrolman Robert Cason credited Mrs. Bertha Reese, a widow who lives at 3349 Highland with saving the, life of the unnamed baby.

It was Mrs. Reese who started the child breathing in the.wrecked Pattison Funeral Home ambulance right after the crash i The baby had given a couple of cries, said ambulance driver James Mervin Edens of Clew- iston. "Then everything was he said, until, the am bulance and a car driven by Ralph 71, of 3644 Ma rion collided at Palm Beach Boulevard and Palmetto Ave nue. Ambulance Cason said the ambulance carrying" Mr. and Mrs.

Knowles had slowed to 30 or 35miles per hour, entering 'the intersec tion with its red light flashing and the siren going full blast, Edens proceeded through the intersection when it appeared safe to do' so, he said. When the ambulance was about 20 feet past the traffic signal, it was struck on the left by Philo's car. The ve hicles sandwiched, causing Edens to lose control, Cason re ported. The ambulance veered to the right, jumped a curb and broke off the palm in the Col lins Motor Sales lot. Philo's car came to rest against the curb.

A witness to the accident, (Conttnutd on Pogt J-A) IKE AND LINCOLN TRENTON, N.J. (ff-Miss Sarah F. Chambers, who celebrated her birthday yesterday, was asked who were her favorite presidents during her lifetime. "I think Eisenhower was a wonderful president," she said. "And Lincoln, of course." Miss Chambers was 104 yesterday.

Brace for Devil Wind California Blaze. Injures Fighters, Homes Destroyed SANTA BARBARA, Calif. tfV- A massive, uncontrolled brush fire yesterday killed one firefighter, burned 34 others and leff scores of homes destroyed, includ ing the mansions of educator Rob ert Maynard Hutchins and the age. Some 1,800 firefighters braced for the predicted return last night of hot wind from the interior the so-called Santa Ana or "devil wind" of California lore. Wednesday night it whipped the fire to i spreading fury and caused mass evacuations of more than 5,000 persons from their homes.

The forest service, after heli copter surveys yesterday, reported 78 homes destroyed. They ranged in value from about to the resi dential palaces in the exclusive suburb of Montecito. Grant Morse, asst. regional U.S. forester, placed the bumed over acreage at some 30,000 acres and the property damage at $3' mil lion.

No estimate could be placed on the loss of valuable watershed. In Montecito, long a favorite home site of the rich, one of the homes destroyed was that of Dr. Hutchins, president of "the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions here and former pres ident of the University of Chicago. Another lavish dwelling leveled was the 20-room, Spanish-style mansion of Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee. The wall-surrounded home reportedly was valued at about $200,000.

Brundage drove here from San (Continued Pogt J-A) on a population basis. Un bill, which then was passed. Court Is Asked To Discard Plan For Apportioning Attorney Argues State Proposal Unconstitutional TALLAHASSEE iff) The Flor ida Supreme Court was asked yesterday to throw the 43-senator, 112-representative legislative apportionment plan off the Nov. 3 ballot on grounds it already has Deen neld unconstitutional. The court took the case under' study but is expected to' rule quickly.

The Nov. 3. election is only 39 days away. Reece Smith, Tampa attorney arguing a big-city lawsuit challenging the proposal, said that the U. S.

Supreme Court, in effect," has turned thumbs down on the plan this summer. The court then held that the same plan written as a law under which the Legislature is now organized discriminated against 5 big-city voters. Though the ruling didn't involve the proposed constitutional 'amendment. the plan ruled out was almost the same, Smith said. Question Attorney Almost every justice ort the state's highest court questioned Smith about his Several got into a discussion with Smith of whether rulings of' the U.

S. Supreme Court are the law of the land, as Smith said they were, ---a Justice Millard Caldwell in-: quired whether anything in the'. fprfarnl PnncfitiitinM nA V. wv. wuauuiuuu uu Uiak UC-i v-iaiiiia uuill U1C CUUll WKITS Uie law of the land.

Retired Justice Harold Sebring, sitting in for Justice Richard Ervin who repre-'i sented the state in lower court action before he went on the Supreme Court earlier this year said he didn't regard decisions as the law themselves, but as guideposts to help determine what the law is'. No Reference' I U. S. Constitution contained no reference to prove court decisions were the law. i Smith said rulings had been In terpreted 'to be so and Roberts "not by this court, so far." Chief Justice E.

Harris Drew ended the discussion by saying: "Let's get back to the basic question." The suit, brought by Mayor Herman Goldner of St. Petersburg, asked the court to enjoin Secretary of State Tom Adams from placing the proposed reapportionment on the Nov. 3 ballot. It said that since an almost identical plan was thrown out by the federal courts, there was no point in going to the expense of voting on the amendment proposal. Circuit Judge Hugh Taylor of Leon County refused to throw the plan off the ballot and his decision was appealed.

ROAD TOMATO PASTED SAN FRANCISCO W-It wasn't just complexions that turned rosy red when the two trucks collided on a San Francisco freeway. Thirty tons of ripe tomatoes splattered all directions, snarling two of three lanes for two hours. Partly cloudy. A shower likely in the afternoon. Low 70-75, high 88-92.

Variable mostly east winds 5-15 miles per hoar. East Gulf marine forecast: Variable winds 513 knots with showers extreme south mmt likely. (Full weather details TJ13 Weather foreign aid authorization The amendment adopted yes- terday was offered by Sen. Mike Mansfield, the Democratic leader from Montana, as a substitute for one proposed by Sen. Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader from Illinois.

(Florida Sen. Spessard Holland voted against the Mansfield amendment and Sen. George Smathers also was recorded against on a paired vote.) The aim of the Dirksen propo sal for a time cosponsored by Mansfield was to stall court redistricting orders for one to two years to allow time for adoption of a constitutional amendment upsetting the Supreme Court ruling, at least to the extent of permitting states to have one branch of the legis lature apportioned on a geographical basis. Goes To House The foreign aid authorization bill now goes to conference with, the Hosue. The House must ac cept the Senate's reapportion ment amendment if it is to become officially the "sense of Congress." The House has passed a mea sure which would deprive fed eral courts of any jurisdiction over state legislative apportionment but there is no prospect the senate will adopt that bill.

The Mansfield amendment would make it the sense of Con- (Continued an Pas J-A) Man Who Fled 31 Years Ago Freed From Jail Again MIAMI Samuel Steve Jack son, wno escaped irom a road gang 31 years ago and remained free until a traffic accident trip ped him up, was released from jail again yesterday. He was placed under custody of his former employer and the lawyer the employer hired for Jackson. State Attorney. Richard Ger- stein said investigators would check Jackson's record. If the facts show that Jackson has led an honorable life, as he claims, then the state will attempt to se cure a parole.

Jackson walked away from a road gang in Mims in 1932 where he was serving a five-year term for burglary. A fingerprint check after an auto accident recently turned up Jackson old record. not been in the area lately since several of the 20 merchants listed as potential ransom contributors recently have gone bankrupt. Police released excerpts from a letter addressed to Hubert Guillon, father of two of the children, and posted from Paris. It said: "Mr.

Guillon, here are the instructions and remember that these must be followed strictly (underlined twice). If you don't it will be finished (underlined twice) for little Christine, Joel and Patrick: "Don't count on fooling us. You would waste your time. We insist that this, whole affair be broadcast by Radio Station Europe No. 1 immediately (underlined twice).

We want one minion tuty thousand new francs in bills of one hundred and fifty new francs. As for you, Mr. Guillon, you must come to bring the4 sum to a place that will be communicat ed to you within 24 hours. It is up to you to follow instruc tions to the letter." Johnson Given Bulky Kennedy Slaying Report Warren Findings To Be Released Sunday Night WASHINGTON W-Soberly and almost wordlessly the Warren Commission presented to Presi dent Johnson yesterday "the truth as far as it can be discov ered" about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

That was what Johnson asked for last Nov. 29-one week after tragedy struck in Dallas in creat ing the seven-member investigat ing body headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren. Warren handed the reoort. bound in a blue-covered, 4-inch- thick volume, to the President in the Cabinet Room of the White House. "It's pretty heavy," said John son.

The 73-year-old chief justice nodded. There were a few more murmured words that reporters didn't catch, and that was all there was to the long awaited windup of the undertaking. The report will be released Sunday night. Careful Study In a letter to Warren made pub lic after the presentation, John son said he would give the report most careful study and added: I commend it to the attention of all Americans and all our friends everywhere." The President said he knew the, commission "has been guided throughout by a determination to find and to tell the whole truth of these terrible events." "This is our obligation," John son said, "To the good name of the United States of America and to all men everywhere who respect our nation and above all to the memory of President Kennedy." When the commission left the White House it passed out of ex istence, legally speaking. Glad Job Over Asked whether he was glad the job was over.

Warren replied with emphasis, "yes," and strode on. He has taken the position that, although federal agents will con- (CmtimiM pom J-A) Custom with death and the first set a time limit for payment 1 p. m. today The first note, posted in Par-thenay, in the Deux Sevres Department, about 30 miles west of Marnay, called for cash 105 million in old francs to be paid by the merchants and citizens of Poitiers. The second, posted in Paris, called for the same amount in new francs 1,050,000 of them.

France's money was officially converted at the rate of 100 1 Jan. 1, 1960. Many old francs are still in circulation, especially in country districts, and presumably would be harder to trace. Why there was this discrep ancy was not explained. Police declined to comment on the possibility that either or both the notes might be a hoax, although this angle 1 has been considered.

However, with practically no clues, police were overlooking no bets. They said the letters used local expressions, but appeared to come from someone who had Senate Probers May Ask Baker More Questions Committee Wants Ex-Ambassador's Tax Statements WASHINGTON Iff! Chairman B. Everett Jordan, said yesterday the Senate Rules Committee may make another effort to question' Bobby Baker when it reopens hearings into the former Democratic aide affairs. Baker, who resigned as Secretary of the Senate Democratic majority last October when his outside activities were questioned, invoked 'the fifth amendment and' refused to when ailed before the committee last February. Jordan also announced that his committee voted at a closed meeting to ask President Johnson for an executive order permitting it to examine the federal income tax returns of former Ambassador Matthew Mc- Closkey.

'Political Payoff' McCloskey, a Philadelphia contractor, was accused by Sen. John J. Williams, of making a $35,000 "political pay off" in 1960 after he received the contract to build the $17-mil-lion District of Columbia Sta dium. This charge, coupled with Re publican campaign demands for a further airing of the case, led to a Senate decision two weeks ago to reopen the Baker investi gation. Williams told the Senate on Sept.

1 that McCloskey made an extra $35,000 pay-off or kickback on the performance bond for the stadium contract. Williams said $25,000 of the money was channeled through Baker to the Ken nedy-Johnson I960 campaign fund in an illegal conspiracy. and the remaining $10,000 went to Don B. Reynolds, a Washing ton insurance man and former Baker associate-. Resigned Post McCloskey, a former finance chairman of the Democratic Na tional Committee, was appointed ambassador to Ireland by the late President John F.

Ken nedy but resigned several months ago to resume fund-rais ing activities for the Democrats. Library Given Funds An allocation of $22,954 from federal funds was made for the Lee County library system yesterday by the State Library and Historical Commission for the countywide service approved Wednesday by the County Commission. The Charlotte County system was allocated a grant of $20,000 from federal funds. Both were development grants to start or improve countywide library pro grams. The money will be spent for bookmobiles to bring library service to outlying areas.

The state board also allocated a grant of $1,575 to the Collier County library system to buy books. I State and local funds will be Used -in addition to the federal funds to establish or improve the county library, facilities. camDaieners to a crawl The calvacade inched along, taking 50 minutes to travel the 17 blocks from 34th to 50th Streets. At one point police quit trying to clear the human sea. In the rush to shake the candi dates' hands Kennedy was almost pulled from the deck of the con vertible.

Someone in the crowd threw a girl's slipper to Kennedy who caught it neatly in the air, signed his autograph to it and flipped it back. The idea caught on. Another Tossed Soon another shoe was tossed to Humphrey. The day was sprinkled with ironies. Four years ago Kennedy was in the driver's seat.

As campaign manager for his brother, John F. Kennedy, he had crushed the bids of both Humphrey and Johnson (ContHiutd mi Pogt 3-A) Mississippi Can't Try U.S. Official OXFORD, Miss. ffl A federal judge has ruled Chief U. S.

Mar shall James P. McShane is not answerable to Mississippi on an indictment returned following the 1962 University of Mississippi riot. U. S. District Judge Claude F.

Clayton referred to an 1833 statute which laid down the principle "that the state has no jurisdiction over a person when he is acting under the authority ot the United States." McShane, burly former New York City policeman, was indicted by the LaFayette County Grand Jury which said his conduct the night of Sept, 30, 1962, led to "a breach of the peace and did incite a riot." The indictment referred to Mo-Shane's orders to fire tear gas at Ole Miss students encircling the lyceum building the night before James H. Meredith became the first Negro to enroll at the university. The tear gas set off a riot in which two men were killed, hundreds injured and heavy property damaged inflicted on university and town property. i News-Press Indax Rio Grande Swirling Torrent 4000 Persons Flee Texas Floods Ransom Deman cfecf from City For Kidnaped French Children DEL RIO, Tex. (I) Rains ofjing the already water logged over two feet in eight days turned the sleepy Rio' Grande and its tributaries into swirling mud-1 dy torrents that chased some high water.

POITIERS, France MP) Po lice yesterday intercepted two ransom notes demanding that the merchants and citizens of Poitiers pay $210,000 for a safe return of three chil dren from families of modest means. The notes threatened that if the money wasn't paid, the children would be killed. It was the first time in the annals of modern French crime that kidnapers returned to Medieval custom of assessing a whole city for ransom. A new form of gangster ism," French police called it as they searched for more clues and sent 700 riot police scouring city, village and countryside for the missing children. The three, Patrick Guillon, 5, his sister, Christine, 6, and a friend, Joel Biet, were last seen walking home from school Mon day in the village of Marnay, 10 miles away.

Special investigators found. the two ransom demands in the Poitiers post office today. Both threatened the children 'areas around Waco and Ft. Hood. highways throughout the state were closed The weather forecast, more rain for Texas later yesterday.

Noon time showers were re ported at Del Rio and in. west (central Texas. High water crept into some business places at Belton in central Texas. Interstate Highway 35 was closed by water over a bridge. Acuna lies on the banks of the Rio Grande but Del Rio is three miles from the river.

Flooding on the Texas side was in the area of San Felipe Creek, a tributary. The international bridge' at Del Rio was closed yesterday. High water stood on approach ramps. Ima Jo Fleetwood of the News Herald flew over the area in a small She said the river usually about two City blocks wide at Del Rio appeared to be at least two miles wide at please. persons from their homes yester- day here and across the border in Ciudad -Acuna, Mexico.

The river crested at 27.9 feet at Del Rio at 5:30 a. m. and had receded to 24.1 feet by noon. Eagle Pass, 56 miles down river, braced for the wan ol water expected to peak at 34 feet Del Rio has had over 14 in ches of rain since Monday. It got 6.1 inches early yesterday.

The Del Rio News Herald said 3,500 persons in low lying areas at Ciudad Acuna fled their homes in early morning darkness and sought refuge on surrounding hills. They began returning to their homes at mid morning. Some 500 persons in Del Rio were evacuated to a high school before dawn. Other heavy thunderstorms hit areas of central Texas, soak- Amusements 9B Bridge 4B Classified 5C-7C Comics 8B Crossword 8B Deaths 2A Editorial 4A Financial 4C Hollywood 9B Society 2B-6B Sports 1C-3C TV 9B.