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a Edison Said: There valy one Myers and 00 million peuple are going to find VOL. LXIV- 185 64th Big Arab Guns Rake Jerusalem; Jews Weakening Egyptian Plane Bombs Tel Aviv Bus Station With Score Killed BY DANIEL DE LUCE Jerusalem, May 18 (P)-King Abdullah's desert legion, entrenched in the shrine-dotted old city of Jerusalem, today let go a roaring mortar fire which appeared to be loosening the grip on the rest of the heity.ew tie (Tel Aniler, dispatches identified by said its a green markings as Egyptian, divebombed a crowded bus station in Tel Aviv, capital of Israel, and the alone were expected to reach at least 20. It was the third raid of the day and the fourth consecutive day that Tel Aviv Has been bombed. The plane circled Tel Aviv at high altitudes between bombing runs, challenged only by light anti-aircraft fire. The bus station was smashed and the open area in front was strewn with dead.

Buses burst flames. The bodies of some persons killed by the blast caught fire before they could be extricated from the ruins. Acre Surrenders (Haganah sources reported from Haifa the unconditional surrender of Acre, Arab port city just north of Haifa. (Moshe Shertok, foreign secretary of Israel, protested to the United Nations security council at dan Arab Legion violated a Lake Success that the Trans cease-fire agreement by entering the old walled sector of Jerusalem. He said the legion entered the old city Sunday.) Haganah positions in the Jewish quarter.

of the old city and on the slopes of Montefiore were put under heavy fire from Arab Legion howitzers about 4 today. The shelling only ceased pm. dusk, and was almost certain to resume morrow. Arabs, who had been under heavy Jewish mortar fire, were greatly relieved that the legion had come to their aid. Two Arab children were killed when a Jewish mortar shell exploded in David's Street in the old city at noon.

A dozen Arab civilians were wounded. Briton in Command British Brig. John Glubb Pasha, commander of the legion, personally toured the front today. The legionnaires had artillery in position to shell the Jewish apPr proaches to Jerusalem. Arab Legion artillery and infantry closely encircled all of Jerusalem and the strategic outlook for the Jews appear hopeless.

Determined Arab infantrymen marched swiftly into the old city in the afternoon and took up positions almost adjoining Jewish machinegun nests. The legionnaires marched over the cobblestones of the Way of Sorrows, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the towers of Damascus gate. The alleways were pockmarked by the blasts of Haganah mortar shells. Arab civilians cheered the legionnaires from doorways of their stone houses and their shuttered shops. Four New Directors Elected by Chamber A canvass of Lee County Chamof Commerce member votes yesterday revealed the election of four new directors and the tion of two.

Secretary A. J. Dwyer announced that the 70 per cent vote of members, a new record, re-elected Harold Alexander and Harry Fagan and elected Walter Turner and Walter Moody from within the city limits. Elected from the county were Harold Crant of Bonita Springs and Milton Thompson of Fort Myers Beach. Alexander received 111 votes and Fagan 106 of the 197 sent in.

Turner got 88 and Moody 78. They replaced Sidney Davis and Gilmer Heitman Jr. Grant received 107 votes and Thompson 93. They fill the positions of Leonard Santini and Fred Wesemeyer. Executives to Hear Ex-Austrian Chancellor Dr.

Kurt Von Schuschnigg, former chancellor of Austria, was announced yesterday as the first lecturer for the new Executives Club here. He will address the club at 8 pm Monday at the Lions Den. Dr. Schuschnigg became head of the Austrian government when Chancellor Engelbert Dolfuss was assassinated in 1934. The Nazis took him prisoner in 1938 and he remained in concentration camps until 1945.

Since then he has lectured and testiSed at the Nuernberg trials. FORT MYERS Year FORT MYERS. FIA. WEDNESDAY Swing Hands in Resignation As High School submitted his resignation as Fort George, (Red) Swing yesterday Myers high school athletic director and head football and baseball coach to County Supt. Ellis P.

Greene. Swing, who is just completing his first full term here, said he plans to "go north and enter business for myself" to retire from coaching "for the time being, at least." At the same time Mrs. Swing handed in her resignation as English teacher. Greene said the school board will take up the matter at it regular meeting June 8 and that Swing's resignation no doubt will be accepted. He said the board immediately will begin studying applications: for the position.

Aplications in superintendent said he has about 50 applications on file, plainng that many coaches submit their qualifications in anticipation of vacancies. Greene expressed regret at Swing's decision, saying, "we are losing a good man." Swing, who is winding up his 20th year as a high school coach, came here from Shelbyville, last fall replacing Charlie Bevis. Nineteen of his coaching years were in Ohio and Tennessee. In the years before coming to Fort Myers, he teams produced in the four Central championship Tennessee Conference. His 1947 Green Wave eleven, Red Cross Names Turner Chairman, Lambe Secretary Zubrod Gives Report On Water Safety, Florida Accidents Walter S.

Turner was unanimously reelected chairman and Dwight W. Lambe treasurer at the annual meeting of the Lee County Red Cross Chapter last night in the Civic Center. Named secretary was Mrs. Sidney Davis replacing Miss Gertrude Herron. Harold Alexander was selected as vice chairman in place of James B.

Kelley. Summing up the chapter's work during the past year, Turner paid tribute to those who worked with Smoot of the disaster committee during the hurricane. "There is much intangible to be done in Red Cross work," he said. "It 1 is not like building a Beach pier or a yacht basin. Our work often gives only personal satisfaction which makes it hard to keep up interest but there is no one here who could not profitably put time into the Red Citation For Stevens He presented to Ernest Stevens, chairman of the fund committee, a citation from the national organization for exceeding the fund quota in the 1948 campaign.

A similar citation was given also to the chapter. Speaking on life saving and water safety, Robert Zubrod, field representative of safety services in the Red Cross southeastern area, declared only 10 per cent of the 80,000,000 people who went swimming last year could swim well. "Of the people who took part in swimming activities," he said, "another 40 per cent were mediocre or novice swimmers and one half could not swim at all. As a result people drowned last year and many thousand others were frightened by swimming accidents and lost interest in water sports. Untrained Swimmers "Most drowning victims were novice or untrained swimmers, the novices who went out too deep or the amateur lifesavers who tried to make rescues without knowing how.

Thirty-nine per cent of the drownings were due to boat and canoe accidents. In Florida, one third of the drownings are due to boats, mostly outboards. "Fort Myers is potentially one of the greatest swimming areas in the country and we should be able to have a good program here in swimming and lifesaving. The greatest problem is to interest those 19 and over in taking lifesaving and instructor courses. You may think that your children can swim but remember that last year a survey showed that in five Florida schools with swimming facilities only 29 to 37 per cent could pass the 100-foot swimming test." Zubrod, introduced by Wesl.

Knott, chairman of the water safety committee, concluded his talk with the showing of 8 Red Cross film on lifesaving techniques. Directors Chosen For the first time the group chose directors for one, two and three-year terms instead of the previous one-year periods In addition to officers, automatically named directors, the group named as directors for one year Mrs. Clarence Zimmerman, Mrs. Ralph Kurtz, Mrs. W.

H. Dowling, Mrs. Frank Alderman Kelley and the Rev. Thomas Craigie Smart. Chosen for the two-year term were, Mrs.

Lewis Conant. Ernest Stevens, Wesley Knott, Mrs. Carl Roberts, Mrs. Paul Geisenhof, Mrs. Bryant Pearce, Ray Tipton, Mrs.

Gilbert Hamilton. Mrs. G. D. Isom and Tom Smoot.

Those for three years were George named Sam Kosiner, Mrs. Peter D'Alessandro, Mrs. E. B. Nichols, Chesley F.

Perry, Carrollin Clarkson, Mrs. George Whitehurst David Bull, Miss Charlotte Matthews and Jefferson Gaines. 6 KILLED IN WRECK Leeds, England, May 18 (P)- A train wreck killed six passengers and injured 41 others, 22 critically, today near Yorkvillage of Wath-in-Dearne. Official said "distortion of track" caused by the hot sun may have been the cause. NEWS -PRESS In Vort the The and eity Myers is the 3 as Edison now has anhile.

open been memorial Home to given to MORNING, MAY 19, 1948. FIVE CENTS A COPY U.S. Rules Out Direct Meeting With Stalin and lost four SFC and was defeated by Bartow in the first game of the conference tournament last week at Plant City. In all his ball team won five and lost eight. Announcing his decision, Swing said, "I have enjoyed working in Fort Myers very much.

The people have always been very nice and the fans considerate. "I hate very much to leave my new friends and particularly the boys with whom I have worked. They are a great bunch, fine sportsmen and good competitors. You should have a great football team this fall with the number of good athletes returning. "I plan to go into business myself possibly as a salesman for some sporting goods company, and retire from coaching, for the time being at least.

This summer I hope to umpire in a professional league." Since the opening of the City Softball League three weeks ago, Swing has been one of the two regular umpires. Before he came here he umpired in the South Atlantic League. said he and his family plan Fort MySwine, ers early this summer. school chores are handled The remainder, of the high by Mike Long and E. J.

(Lefty) Barker. is physical education instructor, track and basketball coach. Barker was an assistant to Swing. U.S. Experts Hint Vast Improvement In Atom Weapons Task Force Leader Declares We Got 'The Right Answers' Honolulu, May 18-(P)-The recent atomic tests at Eniwetok proved "how bombs now under development by the United States would work' and their efficiency.

Lifting the curtain of secrecy ever so slightly, Lt. Gen. John E. Hull, commander of the joint task force, said today: "We got our answers. We liked the answers." It was implied strongly ans that the new weapons are a vast improvement over the Hiroshima bomb and those tested at Bikini.

Hull and his staff returned by plane from the remote, dosely guarded atoll where three improved atomic weapons were tested. Hull told a news conference none of the tests were under water. Maj. Gen. William E.

Kepner, air force deputy with the task ferce. added that nothing was dropped from the air. These were the two types of tests conducted at Bikini in 1946. Evades Guided Missile Asked whether a guided missile was used, General Hull said that was a technical question which he could not answer under security restrictions. Dr.

Karol F. Froman, scientific director of the Eniwetok proving grounds, said the operations- dates of which were not disclosed--could be described this way: "The program just completed at the Eniwetok proving grounds involved a series of nuclear explosions carried out under conditions as close to laboratory control as we could make them, and with very extensive instrumentation." Five key leaders of the new tests -known as "operation sandstone" -took part in the press conference soon after arriving by plane from Eniwetok. They are Hull, Keyner, Froman, Capt. James S. Russell, of the navy, who is deputy director of the Atomic Energy Commission's division of military application, and Rear Adm.

William S. Parsons, deputy task force commander. New Efficient Capt. the KuWeapono, ed hint of the efficiency of the weapons. Said he: "The first Alamogordo (New Mexico) test bomb, the Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Bikini bombs were about on par.

They were a wartime weapon- designed under extreme pressure and without regard (Continued On Page Three) Truman Names Board to Check Phone Walkout John Lewis Threatens To End Discussions With Coal Industry Washington, May 18, (P) President Truman acted today to stave off one of two major strikes threatening the nation. Asserting a wage dispute between the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and certain long lines workers threatens the nation's health and safety, Mr. Truman appointed an emergency board to investigate. The dispute involves some 25,000 long distance operators in 42 states. The second major strike threat came from the CIO United Automobile Workers.

The union notified the Michigan state labor mediation board, 225,000 that a General strike "is Motors pending" employes. The union already has some 75,000 Chrysler workers out in a wage dispute. Judge T. Alan Goldsborough dismissed a federal civil contempt conviction against John L. Lewis as new contract negotiations got under way between the United Mine Workers and the soft coal industry.

Lewis Threatens Bolt However, Lewis threatened to end the contract talks if the operators insist on including Joseph E. Moody, president of the Southern Coal Producers Association. The showdown may come tomorrow. Lewis said that Moody isn't eligible to participate as his group die not sign the present contract which expires June 30. The nationwide strike of 100,00 packinghouse workers continued as federal mediators strove desperately effect a settlement.

They spent the day in talks with Armour Cudahy Packing and Wilson Co. representatives. Assisting the mediators Gov. Luther Youngdahl of Minnesota. Meat Mediation Progress The mediators met with the union separately and later with the union and some packer representa-ives.

The meetings without comment from either side. However, there were reports that the CIO union was ready to accept the nine-cent hourly wage hike previously accepted by a rival AFL union, but was balking at possible discharges. The union had rejected a Swift and Co. proposal Monday to end the two-months-old strike. Union officials said a part of the Swift plan would let the company discharge any striking employe.

In the Lewis case, Judge Goldsborough dissolved the the contempt conviction against union leader at the government's request. He declined, however, to dissolve his 80-day anti injunction against Lewis and the United Mine Workers. The judge said he would consider that motion for a while. Other labor developments include: While the government continued in control of the railroads, management and labor representatives resumed wage negotiations in Washington in an effort to reach an agreement. Government seizure of the nation's carriers prevented the strike set for May 11.

Judge Goldsborough extended until May 29 the restraining order which blocked a threatened railroad strike last week. He also postponed until May 28 a hearing on the government's request for an injunction to replace the order. The order was to expire Wednesday night. The extension was made at the request the justice department because of the renewal of the wage talks. Cardiff Giant, 19th Century Hoax, Finds Resting Place in N.Y.

Museum Cooperstown, N. May 18-(P) -The Cardiff Giant, once accepted by thousands as a "petrified human" before it was revealed as a gigantic hoax, found a final resting place here today after 79 years of wandering. The stone goliath, one of America's most sensational practical, jokes, goes on exhibition tomorrow in the Farmers Museum of the New York State Historical Association. Nearby memorials to the giants of baseball history are housed in that sports hall of fame. The Cardiff Giant, measuring 10 feet, 4 1-2 inches and weighing 990 pounds, is on view in approximately the same position in which it was uncovered in 1869 on the farm of "Stubb" Newell, near Cardiff, in central New York.

Workmen digging a well there unearthed a giant slightly contorted as thought the man had died in pain. Crowds swept into Cardiff 1 to view the "giant in the earth." They paid 50 cents to look. The cake soon reached $100 an hour. Scientists, ministers and educators acclaimed the "find" as the greatest marvel ever discovered. A Yale graduate said it was of Phoenician origin.

The New York state geologist said it was a statue, probably made before Indians inhabited America. Others held it substantiated an age-old Indian tale of an Onondaga stone giant. Gator Captured Near City Limits D. Q. Simmons, C.

C. Curry, Norman Sessions and R. T. Collins (left to right) help eight-foot alligator pose for picture after Collins caught it yesterday afternoon in ditch on Tamiami Trail just south of city limits when it tried to cross road. He threw a loop about its neck and tied it to orange tree while he went for help.

It is on display at City Ice Co. Others helping in capture were Ray Smith, George Brantley, Roy Giles and K. C. ACL Plans to Seek Injunction To Block City Safety Ordinance Railway Will Take Crossing Issue to Federal Court Attorneys for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad plan to ask Federal Judge Alexander Akerman in Orlando today for a temporary injunction against enforcement of the Fort Myers ordinance requiring installation of safety devices of flagmen at 14 local grade crossings. The city will not be represented at the 10 am hearing today on the order but will fight a permanent, ordinance, injunction officials sought said.

Both Mayor Ralph Kurtz and City Attorney Norwood Strayhorn, who is ill at home, said that regardless of objections, a temporary restraining order is usually issued in such cases. Kurtz, said, however, that the city would fight any move for a permanent injunction. The mayor added that even if the present ordinance were held too severe or illegal, the council could still pass another safety, ordinance. Responsibility "This move by ACL attorneys fixes the responsibility if any accidents occur before settlement," said Kurtz. G.

L. Reeves, ACL attorney in Tampa, said, papers in the case not drawn and that he could not state details of the grounds for asking the injunction. Parker Holt, local ACL attorney, was also reported to be in Tampa yesterday. A. W.

D. Harris, president of the Lee County Chamber of Commerce and the Round Table, said he was "sure the Round Table will fight this through with the city." Harris said he would recommend to the Round Table that George Allen, local attorney, be hired to assist Strayhorn in defending the city's position. Allen took a prominent part Monday night in urging passage of the ordinance. The ordinance requires both the ACL and Seaboard Air Line to install automatic warning devices at the crossings or to employ flagmen to precede each train. Adoption of the ordinance followed the death May 6 of Miss Beverly Lanier whose car collided with a ACL passenger train.

on Michigan Avenue. Winter Haven Man Held as Wife Killer Bartow, May 18-(P)-Sheriff Dewitt Sinclair of Polk County today charged Dewitt F. Rollins, Winter Haven, former city judge, with the killing of his wife, Thelma Wilkinson Rollins. Sheriff Sinclair said Rollins was jailed because of "the chain of evidence" which officers had discovered. He said Rollins had denied guilt.

Mrs. Rollins, Winter Haven high school teacher, was shot and killed about midnight Sunday while sitting in their automobile with her husband at Lake Alfred. Rolling was quoted by officers as saying his wife was killed by a hitchhiker whom they had picked up about midnight as they were returning from a trip. Shortly after the man entered the car, officers quoted Rollins 85 saying, a shot was fired and Rollins was hit on the head. When Rollins recovered conseiousness, the officers reported, he said he made his way to a nearby farmhouse and asked that authorities be notified that Mrs.

Rollins had been shot. Rollins was hospitalized but his wounds were found not to be serious, officers added. SOLOMONS SECRET Honolulu, May 18 -(P)-A U. S. army tank landing ship has run aground on Guadalcanal but army authorities today declined for "security" reasons to say what the craft was doing in the Solomons.

Peace Statement Encouraging, Says State Department Washington, May 18-(P)-The United States tabbed Premier Stalin's latest peace statement as "encouraging" today, but put the blame COACH GEORGE SWING consisting of only three veterans, all in the line, won four games and lost six. Within the South Florida Conference his Greenies won three and lost four and finished sixth in the conference standings. One of his backfield stars, Dick Hendry, now in the navy, was elected to the all-conference team. In baseball the Wave won six Snook Run Lures Anglers to Beach A huge school of snook milled around in Matanzas Pass last night and fishermen packed the Fort Beach bridge to haul Joe Fridenthal of Myers, Snug Harbor heard that one man caught at least 20. Others caught them from piers and boats.

Arthur Tiner of Fort Myers Beach landed a pair of 13-pound snook and a 14-pound jackfish, believed to be a record here. Nick Briuglia caught four snook weighing 23 pounds and Archie Wooten took a 7 1-2 pounder. The snook run started Monday. Trout also were plentiful. Fridenthal caught 20 weighing one to five pounds.

Ralph Sunman of the Beach landed 17 and his brother Glenn had a total catch of 72 pounds of trout. Mary Hayes Davis Dies at Home Here Was Former Editor of Hendry County News, Owned Theater Chain Mrs. Mary Hayes Davis, 64, former editor of the Hendry County News and operator of a theater chain in Southwest Florida, died yesterday home on Mcgregor Mrs. Boulevardame to Florida around 1920 after she had worked as an advertising agent for Marshall Field in Chicago and had done newspaper work in St. Louis and with the Associated Press.

Although Mrs. Davis originally planned to buy an orange grove in Fort Myers, she was persuaded to take the post of chamber of commerce secretary at LaBelle. There she aided in the development of Hendry County, published the Hendry County News and operated the LaBelle Theater. At one time she owned a chain of seven theaters in LaBelle, Naples, Venice, Moore Haven, Pompano, Clewiston and Fort Myers Beach. She sold the Hendry County News 15 years ago to Keathley Bowden who operated it with the Clewiston News.

Mrs. Davis was the author of several books and many articles. She was one of the leading contributors to an orphanage in Tampa. She bought her McGregor Boulevard home several years ago with the idea that she would take in three or four orphans but this plan failed materialize. Funeral arrangements, in charge of Leo W.

Engelhardt, await arrival of relatives. Mrs. Davis a widow, was a communicant of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. Jacksonville Annoyed As Courthouse Shakes Jacksonville, May 18.

(AP) County commissioners asked County Engineer Arthur N. Solee today to determine the cause of a series of quake-like tremblings which have been felt in the county courthouse recently. The board took action after one of the disturbances interrupted the commission's meeting. Blount County said Attorney several circuit J. judges Henry reported heavy bookcases in their offices and the law library had almost toppled during the more severe tremblings.

Solee said the disturbances may be the results of dynamite charges set off in the St. Johns River where U. S. engineers are dredging the channel. Stock Market Spilled Due to Profit Taking New York, May 18-(P)--The stock market took its spill since May 5 today when heavy profit taking sales poured into the exchange in the last few minutes of trading.

Closing prices were down a few cents to as much as $3 a share. Selling expanded so rapidly near the finish of the day that the highspeed ticker tape was unable to keep up with floor transactions. Total volume of 2.480,000 shares compared with 3,050,000 shares Monday. for world tension on Soviet holdouts at international council tables. It again ruled out, as it had done last week, any idea that great world problems can be settled by the United States and Russia alone.

In a formal statement, the state department declared that these issues are matters in which many other countries have an "intimate and compelling interest." Officials noted that the latest move in Stalin's "peace offensive" took the form of comments on a peace program put forward by Henry A. Wallace, third party presidential candidate. They said they suspected the Stalin statement was a propaganda stroke designed, among other things, to depict Russia as a foremost lover of peace, and to build up Wallace politically. On capitol hill, Rep. Judd (R- Minn.) told newsmen that President Truman "ought to call Stalin" on the Soviet leader's offer to talk peace.

Stalin's Jokers But Judd cautioned that Stalin's overtures, based on what the legislator called the "bogus proposals of Henry A. Wallace," is loaded Utility to Install 26 New Overhead Lights for City More Will Be Put In When Materials Become Available Carrying out commitments made some two years ago, the Florida Power and Light Company has started installation of overhead street lights in widespread sections of the city. Other lights will be installed as materials become available. The new or rheld lamps are being installed on: East First Street -between Harney, at Van Buren, Pine and Marsh. Marsh--at Armeda, Greenwood, Scott and Woodside.

Pine halfway between First and. Oleander- Woodside. Cherokee, Iroquois Woodside -at Van Buren and and. Woodside. Alderman.

Fowler--halfway between Market, and Edison. Lafayette, at Lafayette, Broadway--at Stella, Jeffcott and South. Heitman- -at Franklin. Velasco- halfway between Anderson Lillie and halfway Blount. between son, and Howard- Blount.

Blount. The company also announced that its new 18,000 kilowatt generating station near Sanford, on which work was started in 1946, will be dedicated May 28. The generating is interrelated with East Coast plants but Ed Smith, manager here, said it company would help relieve the power shortage here to some extent. He added however, that cold weather next winter might still cause some difficulties until the three additional plant in the company's postwar expansion program can be completed. "We have three down and three to he said.

"We've completed new plants at Sarasota, Riviera and Sanford. The 'three to go' are our additional generator at Miami and our new plant at Cutler, both under way, and a new plant to be built at a location not yet Floating Pump Aids Hidden Oil Wells Tulsa, May 18-(P)-Oil wells with all their machinery underground--and minus the familiar derrick--are the newest thing in the petroleum industry. These hidden oil wells, with nothing but green grass over the top, are useful in cities with oil underground, for military secrerecy and protection against bombing. he entire works of the well, a model at the International Petroleum Exposition shows, can be housed in an underground chamber no larger than an ordinary bathroom. The hidden wells were developed by Kobe one of the Dresser Industries.

They are made possible new pump that floats. It floats in the well, sinking to the bottom at the operator's wish, to pump up production oil. It may be floated to the surface also for inspection or repairs, It is only two inches in diameter and eight feet long. The floating pump makes it possible to drill wells not more than two feet apart, on pilings or platforms built offshore over the sea. Such wells are slanted in different directions after they reach sea bottom.

The floating principle was developed to save expense. Previous pumps of this type had to be hauled to the surface on a line by a fourman crew. It was an all-day job. Now one man gives a crank a quarter turn. to adjust oil pressure in the well, and the pump comes up by itself.

with "jokers." "For example," Judd said, "Stalin demands the evacuation of American and Russian troops from Korea. "That sounds all right, doesn't it. We take our troops out of southern Korea and the Russians take theirs out of northern Korea. Everything 50-50. "The joker is that the Russians have only a bare handful of red army troops in Korea, but they have 200,000 Russian-trained Koreans who are actually divisions of the Soviet On another point, Judd said, "Stalin calls for prohibition of atomic weapons which he knows we've got--but says nothing about inspection of atomic weapons which he might be building." Just What Russia Wanted In senate debate, Senator McMahon (D-Conn) said that the peace program Wallace proposed in an "open to Stalin amounted to an "implementation of the Russian foreign policy." Senator Brewster (R-Me) inquired whether Wallace and Stalin had actually exchanged notes.

If so, he said, there is "ample law" to deal with a private citizen who enters into correspondence of such nature with a foreign government. (An old law, called the "Logan act," forbids a private citizen to great, with as is a known foreign government. however, there was no actual correspondence between Wallace and Stalin.) The newest round of exchanges in the conflict between Moscow and Washington over how the cold war might be brought to an end began last night when Moscow broadcast the text of Stalin's comments on Wallace's open letter. Wallace, one-time secretary of commerce who was ousted from President Truman's cabinet in 1946 because he split with Secretary of State Byrnes over foreign poliey, called for settlement of the whole range of major world issues. He named, among other questions: Armaments and atomic control, German and Japanese peace treaties, withdrawal of troops from occupied countries and international reconstruction of war devastated lands.

Praises the Wallace Wallace letter as setting forth concrete program for peaceful settlement of the differences between the U. S. S. R. and the United States." It was exactly a week ago that the Russians began what American officials now consider a "peace offensive." At that time Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov gave American Ambassador W.

B. Smith 8 note, responding to an earlier note from Smith, declaring Russia's willingness to negotiate a settlement of outstanding differences. At the state department today Stalin's statement was regarded as a new move in this peace offensive but not one which in any sense constituted an offer or proposal on which the American gov(Continued on Page Two) However, many cried "humbug," including Andrew D. White, first president of Cornell University, and Prof. 0.

C. Marsh of Yale, an authority on fossils and sculpture. P. T. Barnum's offer of $150,000 for the giant was refused.

The circus impressario made his own replica. In the midst of the furore, George Hull, Binghamton tobacco dealer, confessed the Cardiff Giant was his brain child. For a barrel beer, he had obtained a block gypsum at Fort of Dodge, la. The stone's blue streaks later were "identified" as petrified veins. A Chicago sculptor fashioned the giant recumbent figure.

Hull rubbed the statue with sulphuric acid to give a mellow, aged-in-earth look. Hull smuggled the form to the farm of Neaell, his brother-in-law, and interred it. About a year later, Hull directed workmen to dig a well on the spot. Hull said he intended to ridicule religious extremists who accepted literally Biblical references to "giants in the earth" in ancient times. The giant was exhibited in several eastern cities, later was purchased by a Fort Dodge resident and placed on view there.

Gardner Cowles newspaper and magazine publisher, bought the giant in 1936 and set it up in his basement playroom in Des Moines, Ia. The New York State Historical Association acquired it from Cowles. THE WEATHER In Fort Myers yesterday (Mon) High 92, low 72. Forecast: Continued warm with afternoon showers. Winds: Gentle to moderate varible.

Tides at Fort Myers Beach: High Low A.M. P.M. A.M. P.M. Tues.

10:08 10:13 3:33 4:16 Wed. 10:24 5:09 Sun 5:13, sets 7:10, Moon rises sets TEMPERATURES ELSEWHERE High Low Atlanta 76 54 Boston 68 51 Chicago 58 52 Cleveland 61 51 Denver 83 54 Detroit 64 51 Duluth 47 39 Los Angeles 67 52 New Orleans 87 70 New York 68 Philadelphia 67 Phoenix 94 Portland. Me. 67 Tampa 90 67 Washington 54.