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The Edison Estat In Fort My en has been given to 1 the City a memorial 1 and ia now open to the public. S1XTY-S1XTI1 YEAR FORT MYERS, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1950 6c DAILY, 10c SUNDAY! Thomas A. Edison Said 'There only one Fort Myers and 00 million people re going to find Uout." Mews MYE1S Ell Sam Collier, 38, Killed in Racing Accident in N. Y. 'Veto; Allied feaclutadls fee for UdiM 4 5J-1) Diiafi Activity Spurts In Real Estate; Sales $135r368 Gulf Leases Oil Rights on Tract Near Hendry Creek County real estate activity last week hit the highest peak since spring with four sales of $10,000 Or higher.

The largest was the $20,000 transfer of Councilman Elmo Ballard's McGregor Boulevard home. The week's total was $135,308. Additionally, Gulf Oil showed interest in the area from the Fort Myers Beach Head to Hendry Creek by leasing oil rights there for a year. In the city $55,300 in building permits were issued including one for an $18,000 home and two for $11,000 houses. Ballard sold his home and nine and a Palm Garden lots, Phantom Whistler Story Called Hoax Paradls, Sept.

23 W) Ths story of a phantom whistler who has terrorized young bride-to-be with nocturnal-whistled funeral dirge and telephoned threats of death was branded myth tonight by Sheriff Ieon Vial. The St. Charles Parish (county) sheriff said he knew the slory of the whistler to be a hoax and said, "it's an inside Job." He would not explain what he meant by an inside job nor would he divulge the motive behind the story. The story of the whistler has had this bayou hamlet of 200 persons 25 miles went of New Orleans agog with excitement since last February when Mrs. Clifford Cadow first reported that a man had been skulking around her house at night, whistling wolf calls beneath the window of the room of her daughter, pretty 8-year-old Jacquelyn Cadow.

The excitement increased when she reported that after Jackie's engagement to wed 26-year-old Louisiana State Trooper Herbert Uelsom of New Orleans on Oct, 1 was announced, the whistler changed his tune to a funeral dirge and began to telephone threats against Jackie's life. Psychological War Pays Off in Korea Tokyo, Sept. 2.1 MJ) Psycho-logicul warfare is beginning to pay off for the allies. The millions of surrender leaf-Ids showered by air on north Korean communist linen are bringing in Increasing number of surrendering reds. The communists Ignored them when the invasion was running smoothly.

Now that they are reeling backward, are recalling the message, reiterated over and over by leaflet and radio, Red Resistance Falls Apart on Southern Front Tokyo, Sunday, Sept. 24 Speeding spearhead from the two allied beachheads in Korea rolled toward a link-up today with less than 80 miles to go to pocket the routed main body of the North Korean red army in the southwestern corner of the Korean peninsula. Some communist elements had escaped the closing trap and reached Seoul, however. They bolstered the red house-to-house defense of that old Korean capital against allied marines inching steadily through its flaming outskirts. U.

S. First Cavalry Division patrols rammed through Sangju late Saturday after a breakthrough Yanks Beat Boston to Increase Lead; Florida Gators lige Ovi Citadels 7-3 New York, Sept. 23 WP) The New York Yankees pushed out ahead of their arch rivals in the close American League baseball today with an exhibition of oldtime batting power, crushing Boston 8 to 0. Cleveland, known as a spoiler of pennant hopes, aided the Yankee cause by knocking down Detroit 10 to 2 making the Yankee lead lVa games over the Tigers with only a week of play left. Boston's defeat put the Red Sox three full games behind New York and almost out of the contention.

In the National League Brooklyn defeated Philadelphia 3-2, but only a miracle now could upset the Phillies. They are six full games ahead of the second-place Dodgers. The baseball season ends next Sunday. As the American League race reached the home stretch here is how the contenders stood: I'ct. (lames Behind Games Left New York 82 53 .634 9 Detroit 91 65 .623 1 8 Boston 89 56 .614 3 9 And here are some of the day's football scores: Florida 7, Citadel 3 N.

Carolina 13, N. C. State 7 S. Methodist 33, Ga. Tech 13 Mich.

State 38, Oregon State 13 Duke 14, S. Carolina 0 California 27, Santa Clara 9 Georgia 27, Maryland 7 Fordham 20, Lafayette ,19, rs jr write, tiw docket of unfinished business with committees di- rerteH tn nuijsare bills retroactive to Oct. 1, or Jut? 1. 1950. Congress hiked personal arhj corporate in- com' levies in a "firt install-1 merit" tax bill requesteby presi- dent Iruman to beein VHt for' jtheWra war Unfinished Bills Coi.gress also left on the unfin- ished calendar bills to admit Hawaii and Alaska to statehood, to ban interstate shipment of slot smash from the old southeastern defense line that carried 85 miles toward Seoul in as many hours.

From the Seoul-Inchon beachhead, the U. S. Seventh Division drove eight miles beyond captured Ci Suwon along the major highway to the southeast. Suwon and its air-itrin. 20 miles south of Seoul, were Pentagon Pleased By Swift Of Army in Korea Officials, However, Decline to Forecast Sudden End of War Washington, Sent.

23 (Pi The Pentagon command Uked the look of the Korean war picture as the They thought, too, that they dis cerned more evidence that Russia will refrain from intervention in the Far Eastern clash between communism and the free world members of the United Nations. One general summed it up this way! Adjourning Congress Gave Truman Free Hand on Arms, World Affairs But Curtailed Domestic Program Sept. 23 (JPj The adjorning congress, keyed up by the Korean and the approaching elections, gave President Truman just what asked on international and defense matters but a somewhat skimpy poVtjon of his domestic program. Under the stress of struggle against communist aggression, it tossed away a proposed bilbo.5 dollar excise tax cut and voted instead 0 130 New Voters Register in City Before Deadline Plans Announced For 2 Political Rallies This Week As interest mounted in the coming city election, 130 persons registered at the city hall before the noon deadline yesterday to bring the total eligible voters to 4,680. At the same time plans were an nounced for political rallies this week for both white and negro citizens.

"All the city candidates have accepted our invitation to attend the town meeting at Civic Center at 8 pm Thursday," said Mrs, William M. Warden, chairman of the League of Women Vot ers committee sponsoring the meet ing. Mis. B. Kavanaugh will In troduce tiie candidates and Lloyd Hendry, attorney, will act as mod erator.

An invitation to all candidates to speak at Dunbar High School was presented by Arto Felker, negro leader. The meeting will be held Tuesday at 7:30 pm. Candidates for the primary total six. Competing for mayor are William R. Anderson, who resigned as fire chief to make the race; Let's wait another week or 10 by t-rin today to hia home in Del-days before we make any prognos- ry Beach for burial, ticatioti.

It looks good, but you can't In Advertising Business tell how much resistance desperate Sam Collier was a son of the men will put up. ikte Barron G. Collier, New York Congress Adjourns; To Return Nov. 27 For Tax Measure Washington, Sept. 23 M1)- Tha senate today overrode President Truman's veto of a hard-boiled set of communist controls.

A smashing 67 to 10 vote made them tha law of the land. Then congress hurried home for the election campaign, The senate quit at 4:23 pm. The house had recessed at 3:17, Members will re. turn Nov, 27 to act on excess prof its tax legislation and make way for the new congress in January. Enactment of the anti-subver.

sives bill was delayed 20 hours and 48 minute by a lost-cause filibuster carried out by a handful of senators. They finally stepped aside after debating futilely against the bill which Mr. Truman contendedwould actually help tha communists and "weaken our liber ties." The determined hand, conceding they had no chance, insisted nevertheless that the vote be delayed until the senators thought over tha veto message and heard from home. Holland Vote to Override Backers of the bill, speaking briefly as the debate finally wound up, rejected the president's arguments entirely. Twenty-six democrats including Senator Holland of Florida and 31 republicans voted to make the bill law aaapite the veto.

Ten demo-amU voted to uphold the president. This morning telegrams began pouring into the senate by the thousands. Their proportions for or against the bill were not known. Tension and excitement marked the all-night session. Senator Lang, er (R-ND), slumped gray-face-tn the floor after a five-hour PtWrh against the bill and was kfuen to a inpiw from exflatif Hon.

Doug1. (11-111) sobbed fyoud a moment after the strain of 'l to i the v. i A.Kt benator Lik-b fn-fll), Mr. Iruman a own lieutenant in the senate, told a hushed chamber that he would oppose the pjesident with 286-48 vote for overriding the veto and tossed the issue to the senate. It was the last major business.

Members were packing. Both chambers had voted to quit today and return Nov. 27. The filibuster appeared to pose no serious threat to those plans. Opponents of the bill said they would not try to block a vote altogether.

As they drew near the end of their arguments in the afternoon only brief rebuttal was anticipated before the roll call. Defeat of the veto appeared assured by the senate's 51-7 approval of the bill in passing it earlier this week, Mr. Truman bounced the measure back to congress with a veto message in which he said the bill would help, not hurt the communists. He contended it would weaken existing security and seriously hamper the FBI. He talked of "hysteria." Mr, Truman and others had urged new control measures which he said would effectively deal with the situation.

The disputed bill included these proposals and went far beyond. The author of the bill, Senator McCarran (D-Nev), denied in a statement that it would aid tha reds, and said he wholeheartedly disagreed with the president's analysis. Two major provisions would require communists and red front, groups to register, and provide for interning dangerous subversives in wartime. Other sections seek to tighten laws dealing with aliens, spies and saboteurs. THi WEATHER In Fort Myers yesterdav, Sept.

23: high 90, low 70; humidity, 94 per cent at 6:30 am, 52 per cent at 1:30 pm. Forecast: Clear and warm. Winds: Light variable. Tides at Fort Myers beach today: high 12:26 am and 1 1 :2 am; low 5:38 am and pm; tomorrow: high 12:35 am nr.d 12:40 pm, low 6:21 am and pm. Sun rises sets 6:25.

Moon rise 5:41 pm, sets 4:48 am. a plot 206 by 140 at the southwest corner of McGregor and Coconut Drive, to Mr. and Mrs. W. Frank Upchurch of Marietta, Ga.

Up-church is a retired meat packer and farmer. The sale was made by Mrs. Maude McClure of Jeffcott Realty Investments. The $11,000 sale of the unfurnished Sunset Place home of Stanley Knight to Mr. and Mrs.

Ernest Waldee was also handled by Mrs. McClure. $10,800 for 5 Lots Five Vivas Court lots north of First Street on Lee were bought for $10,800 by Robert H. Johnstone of Chicago from John Anderson, Tulsa, Okla. Roger Ford sold his Edison Park home on the north side of Montevista at Cortes to White and Cramer Co.

for $10,000. The one-year oil lease coven 5,457 acres, including parts of nine and all of three sections, between the Beach road and Hendry Creek running down to Estero Bay. It was made by the heirs of Anna W. Berry to the Gulf Oil Co. for $2,568 and may be extended up to 10 years more at the rate of 50 cents an acre a year.

The lease guarantees the landowners one-eighth of any oil and gas and $200 1 1 jr, iu, vxuu eastern part of the county. The lead giviiv by Humble Oil when it obtained rights in the section it. i. L. norm ui vne oeacii cuwu ruau ue- tween McGregor and the TamiaimM Trail.

$18,000 Home Planned The largest building permit was given Dr. Harvey J. Stipe for an $18,000 two story seven room frame and brick home at 2103 Canterbury Drive. Permits for $11,000 were given Charlie Gibson for a six-room house at 1906 Ardmore and Wilbur S. Smith for a six-room house at 1813 Ard Chambers and Jim Linton, agents Robert J.

Rendleman to Albert W. Kauffman, Palmlee Park house, Bayside Development Co. to Miss Juanita Johnson, Bayside Court house, George F. Burton Jr. to Ivan M.

Merritt, Alabama Grove Terrace house, $6,900, Darwin White, (Continued nn fnite Two! $500 Bonds Posted In Drunken Driving John McCray of Punta Gorda was released on $500 bond yesterday on a city court charge of driving while intoxicated. McCray was arrested by Sgt, Andy Boyette and Patrolman James Gallagher, He is expected to face trial next Friday along with Hugh W. Hammer of Tampa who was released Thursday on $500 bond on a drunken driving charge. Hammer was arrested by Patrolmen Gallagher and Barney Daniels late Thursday night. Fort Myers in on Show I machines, and possibly to extend regret, and vote to defeat the veto, the federal rent control program The speaking marathon began a expiring generally on Dec.

31 ex- short time after the house at mid-cept in areas electing to keep con- 1 afternoon Friday cast a one-sided Collier Corporation Director Will Be Buried in Florida Sam Collier, 88, who headed the operations of the Collier Corporation at Everglades, was killed yesterday in an automobile racing accident at Watkins Glen, New York. Ho died after being thrown out of a Ferrari.100 eports car in the third international Watkins Glen grand prix road race. Collier's accident happened at an isolated spot near a railroad underpass the first leg of the 6.6 milo circular course. He was setting a fast pace before the crash, when the wheels of his racer left the roadway and hit a soft shoulder. Confronted by the choice of hitting a telephone pole or going over an embankment, he chose the embankment.

The car turned end over end several times. He was picked up unconscious and taken to the hospital at nearby Montour Falls, where he died without regaining consciousness. The car he was driving was entered by Kriggs S. Cunningham of Green Farms, C.n. Miles Also in Raea His brother, Miles, who was also in the race, was flagged down and hurried to the hospital.

The Collier brothers were a noted team in sports car racing. They competed in the 24-hour road race at Le Mans, France, this summer. Miles won the Watkins Glen giand prix last year, Sam Collier's wife, with their oldest (ton, Dickie, accompanied him to New York. His mother, who was out of town, was hurrying back to New York last night. Collier is also survived by another small son, and another brother, Barron G.

Collier Jr. The body, accompanied by Miles and Barron will be returned streetcar advertising magnate who later turned to the development of Southwest Honda. After graduating from Yale, Collier entered his father's advertising business and took a band in his other enterprises. In the second world war, Collier was a veteran navy flier, gaining the rank of lieutenant commander. Afterwards he moved to Florida to take general charge of the extensive Collier properties.

The Collier enterprises include holding's and development in timber, real estate, and the Sunniland oil area. Most recently, the Collier Corporation had announced plans for road building and real estate development in the fast growing Immokalee area. Day light Time Ends In Northeast Area New York, Sent. 24 -(Sunday) Time stood still for an hour at am. today, as areas using daylight saving time switched back to standard time.

Most citizens set their clocks back an hour last night. The pushed-ahead summer time, designed to give workers more daylight for leisure after work and to save electric power, began last April. It was used, a in past years, largely in the industrial northeast and most of the nation's large cities. With the change back to standard time, transportation lines are issuing new time tables, and radio networks are readjusting their schedules to keep programs at their regular hours. WARREN TO REPORT Tallahassee, Sept.

23 (Governor W'arren will make his monthly "Report to the People" Tuesday night. wire cag-e with a pointed roof which years ago housed some Florida wildlife that formed a small menagerie in the park. Another cage nearby contained a big black bear. This magnificent specimen of the mighty hunters was brought to the gardens in full vigor of life after it had been trapped on Estero Island while robbing the Kore-shan apiary there. A special trap was made of heavy timbers, with a suspended door controlled by a trigger.

Af portion of honey was placed in the far end of the trap and when "Sweet Tooth" sniffed his way into hia unsuspected captivity and began feasting on his favorite dish as before wham! the heavy door fell securely in place and put brui.i behind prison burs. The trap and its occupant were loaded onto a host and taken to Estero where Teddy became an outstanding attraction. Knresh unafraid ret pratedly visited this four-footed black hcnvyweiRhter which by nt. means had become a tamed pet. Barl Bobbitt, member of the pre- more, sent city council from the second Other real estate sales were: ward; and Miss Florence Fritz, Richard R.

Arlt to Gordies W. former editor of the magazine i Weil-, Allen Court house, $9,700, "Hello Stranger." Jim Linton, agent; Mrs. Blanche The only council contc-t comes E. Martin to Ernest Kuhn, Coro-in the fourth ward where the nado house, $9,500, Douglass- He explained that it would take some time several days, a week to see how much "of the North Korean communist army which has been operating" 1n the southeastern part of the peninsula could be shuttled to the aid of the communist defenders of threatened Seoul. The enemy now is attempting to disengage troops from the southern front and get them north, by any routes and means available.

Swarms of Allied Plane Because swarms of allied planes roam the air by day, the red forces are compelled to move mainly at night or whenever bad weather provides a screen. This is time-consuming, and each delay gives American marine, naval and army forces in the Seoul attack more opportunity to build up strength and take steps to cut off possible advancing columns from the south. One such move was described to-dny by a navy briefing officer. He told of a battering naval gunfire attack by two American cruisers nn what started out to be a com-munist counterattack on the southern flank of the allied beachhead near Inchon. The guns of the cruis- an I'mre Two I Funeral Services Set Today fcr John Bain Funeral services for John Bain.

pioneer Iona settler, will be held Ht 2 today at the Leo W. Kngelhardt hnm was killed Friday when a truck sirucK nis car on the lamiam Trail at the Fort Myers Beach cutoff road. The services will he conducted I the Rev. Thomas Smart and burial will be in the family plot at Fort Myers Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Bob King, Carl Hans-then, Leonard and Godfrey San-tini, Lyman Frank and J.

Du-prec. Invasion at Estero Recalled I 1 lost early in July to the reus tuv without a struggle Friday, regamei Thus, the leading elements of the FirstCavTlrV and the Seventh Di visions were just under 80 air miles apart. Bridge Repair Work The First Cavalry had to slow down its spectacular advance while Its engineers worked feverishly to bridge the Naktong Kiver 10 miles south of Sangju to bring up heavy equipment for the push to the north. First Cavalry infantrymen fret-led at the delay. They figured the bridge-building cost them a full day during which they had expected to buck through to Chungju, CO miles southeast of Suwon.

Ten miles south of Sangju, the U. S. 24th Divisidn spearheaded through Kumcjion with 40 miles to go to reach Taojon, 70 miles south of Suwon, on the more direct road route to Seoul. The First Cavalry and the 24th were racing for the'Tionor of being the first to make the link-up with the Seoul-Inchon forces. They had about equal chances from their present positions.

Many field officers believed the link-un would immobilize most of the reds' effective forces. "If it is accomplished within the next two or three days," Correspondent Hal Boyle telephoned to Tokyo, "they see a strong possibility of the end to major fis-hlimr in the Korean war during the first week in October." Other officers were most conservative in their optimism. Reds On the Run A staff officer of the First Cav-alrv Division told Boyle; "Main enemy reitanre In the area appears broken. The red- seem to have lost the ability to reinforce or do anything else but run. Our main difficulty now is with (Continued on I'riK Two) Draft Board Lists Delinquents Here -i a E.glUeen men who faded to tell uie urWl 0.u ui U.

S. district attorney as delin quents. They face prosecution or immediate induction in the armed forces. Ten are negroes and eight white. Announcement of the delinquent group was made by Mrs.

Charles Roberts, new draft board clerk. Mrs, Roberts replaces Charlie His-ler, who resigned last week to attend the University of Florida. Mrs. Roberts ia the former Miss Christine Magaha. Whites named as delinquent are Jesse James Stevens Joseph Demyrah Mercer, Horace Whitman Clanton, Wyman Scoggins and John Wesley Lowe, Fort Myers; Robert Gray Burnett, Funta Gorda; Tommy Nola Williams, Everglades; and Wayne Douglas McKinney, Chokoloskee Negroes listed were George Jen-j kins, Henry C.

Clayton, Hezekah Darlington Rogers-Jivans and Tony Smith, Fort Myers; James Willie' Shaw and James Anthony 1 Tl, uvula and Hubert Lawrence Clark, Ever glades; and Johnnie Ford, Jerome. Every registrant ia required to comply with all draft rules and notify his board of his whereabouts, CHOP SUBY BROOKLYNKSE While most people think chop suey is of Chinese origin, it is actually Brnoklynese. It was invented in Brooklyn not by a Chinaman hut by an Italian. But regardless how you chop it, News-Press classified ads tire a popular "dish" smoug all types of Fort Myers citizens. Whether you want to sell a Chinese rug or an Italian painting, some person may be looking in the classified "for rhIc" columns for it ritrhf now.

To place nn ad, dial 4-4211. i 1 i i of by an to levy an extra taxes on Americans and their busb nesses. For the current fiscal year alone, congress voted more than of rpogeS( gnd gave the president broad control over the nations economy. Domestic Itema Ignored It ignored, bo ir, such key itetfs in the T. ir: u.

oi.l tr meuc tho Knnnan TnrTKl fln. compulsory health insurance, and Taft-Hartley repeal. Nevertheless, the president told newsmen at the height of the pre-adjoummnt drive that he was well pleased with the lawmakers' work that congress had accomplished the purposes for which it met. The legislators are due back Nov. 27, after the congressional elections.

The closing hours of the session were highlighted by a tense struggle in the senate over the president's veto of a controversial bill designed to curb subversives. The house had voted to make it law despite the president's protests, and his hackers in the senate conceded in advance that they were waging a hopeless fight against its enactment. In midafternoon the debate ended and the senate overrode the veto 57 to 10, making the measure law, Lame Duck Session The same lawmakers will come back in November to legislate some more, although some of them will be "lame ducks" as a result of the elections. All 435 house seats and 36 of the 96 senate posts will be filled in that election, but the new members won't take seats until the 82nd congress meets in January. Like so many of its predecessors, the 81st congress may be remembered as well for the things it did not do as for its accomplishments.

It made few campaign issues unless ita failure to pass a tax on excess business profits is turned into an issue by candidates seek ing to oust incumbent members. However, enactment of a war profits tax is the main item on luminate the edges of the earth slightly, so that they are pink lather than black. The first stages of the eclipse begin at 8:20 pin. This is the moon's entry into the penumbra of the earth's shadow. That part of the show merely darkens the moon's face slightly.

Usually only experts can detect the darkening. At 9:31 pm the umbra begins. This is the earth's total black shadow. It will appear as a black curving disc, cutting the moon's glowing edge, and moving slowly across its face. The edge of this shadow has the sharpness of a knife.

At 10:54 pin totality begins. The moon then is completely cov-ered by the earth's shadow. The moon begins to emerge at 11:40 pm. This sight is a glowing Lit of the curving edge of the moon moving out from the black or copper face. The moon leaves the umbra of black shadow, at 1:02 am.

At 2:13 am, the moon leaves the penumbra, ending th spectacle even for astronomers. 1 is trols longer. The 81st congress convened in January, 1949, with growing hopes for domestic prosperity and world peace. The Korean outbreak startled members into swift action to rebuild the nation's military strength. They quickly opened the way to big expansion of military manpower extended and toughened the draft law, gave President Truman broad powers to cope with war-born inflation and to control the domestic economy, and poured billions of new dollars into the national defense program and into the program for helping anti-communist nations militarily and economically, On the International requests, congress gave the president just about everything he pressed for.

Loses on Civil Rights It was a different story, though, on domestic affairs, despite the fact that his own party held a majority in both chambers. He got nowhere, for example, on his civil rights program. On another of the president's projects, the house approved statehood for Hawaii and Alaska but the senate did not go along. It scheduled, however, to make up the bills at the "lame duck session. Neither house gave the president's compulsory health insurance plan consideration.

The president didn't fate too well, either, on a number of his nominations for major executive positions. The senate refused to approve appointment of Mon Wall-green as head of the National Security Resources Board and Le-land Olds as head of the Federal Power Commission. But he got through, of his major domestic program, bills raising minimum wages in interstate industry, adding about 10,000,000 people to the social security rolls, and financing a big slum clearance program. Reorganization Score He didn't do badly on governmental reorganization plans. Of 27 were allowed to become opera-the 35 he submitted to congress, tive.

The other eight were vetoed by congress. The president did quite a bit of vetoing, too. He rejected, in the mm I'nss Two) Pensacola Opposes Popcorn in Movies Pensacola, Sept. 23 (P Pop-corn crunching at Pensacola movies apparently iat on the way out. The city council last night passed, on first reading, a proposed ordinance which forbids theaters to sell candy and popcorn.

The measure drew one dissenting vote. It will com up for second reading Oct, 7. i present councilman, John Shultz, oil distributor, is opposed by Leonard Sims, manager of the Fort Myers Shipbuilding Co. In the second ward William H. Carmine, young attorney, is running without opposition for the seat vacated by Bobbitt.

The two meetings will give all the candidates their first chance to present their views to the voters in public. Both meetings are open to the public without charge. The city primary is a week from Tuesday, 'Old Sunshine' To Be Retired Washington, Sept. 23 (A') About the only member of the late President Roosevelt's official fam ily which doesn't plan to write a batch of memoirs retires todav. The old "sunshine special," fam ed hite House convertible, quits a soft career for one even softer.

It's going to a Dearborn, museum. Few cars ever have had it so good as Old Sunshine. In 1939, when it was spanking new, the Lincoln division of Ford Motor Co. leased it to the White House. Mr.

a great one for riding with the top down, cottoned to the car at once. Remember all those pictures of him waving jauntily from the rear seat? When war came, the Sunshine special was shipped back to Detroit and given a coat of armor on the inside. Windows and windshields were made bulletproof, with glass an inch thick. Old Sunshine not only could take it. She also could dish it out.

Inside was a compartment for submachine guns and other firearms. Actually, however, the car led a rather placid life. Its job was to carry dignitaries about. And so either it or a black limousine went to Yalta, Casablanca and lots of places over the United States. After some 55,000 miles, Old Sunshine is in good shape yet.

But the Lincoln people think it has an old fashioned look, so a new job ill take its place. Sunshine may look old fashioned at that. It weighs 9,300 pounds twice as much as a regular Lincoln convertible, and it's 21 and a- half feet long three feet longer than the modern car. I Nation to See Total Eclipse Monday Night Bon ita Bears Make $200 Bee Hive Raid New York, Sept. 23 (P) Monday right the harvest moon will be totally eclipsed.

The spectacle will be visible all over North America. Wherever the sky is clear, the moon will not be black, but a cupper color. That color will come from the earth. The next total eclipse visible in the United States won't be seen until Jan. 29, 1953.

As seen from the moon during an eclipse, the earth is a huge, perfectly round black disc, surrounded by one of the most beautiful halos in creation. The halo is red, and is due to the same cause as the red of sunsets. The sun's rays, during this period of the eclipse, will be shining directly behind the earth (as seen from the moon) and will shine through the ring of air all around the earth's edges. This air is more than 200 miles deep, although above the first 10 miles it is very rarified. The ring thus seen is a brilliant red near the earth, shading off to lighter red in the outward direction.

The red glow is enough to Il A bear or bears caused $200 jamaKe to bee hives south of Eonita Beach road last week, A. L. Syfrett reported yesterday. Eight hives were destroyed, a toot uencn nad mm lilted irom the foundation and twisted around and the brood destroyed. There were five distinct bear tracks.

On his first trip inspecting colonies, which belong to C. C. Cook, he found the hives torn up and the bees in nearby trees, he said, and tried to restore order. The next day he went back and found they had been destroyed. The remaining hives were moved immediately and traps set up to try to catch the culprit.

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