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Rpt. 5 '77s a Pri-jileze to Be in Central Florida The World's Most Beautiful Place for Abundant Living VOL. LXIU NO. 321 ORLANDO, FLORIDA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1952 Telephone 3-441 1 Classified 3-8511 Price: Fire Cents SIXTEEN PAGES 200 Planes Shatter Huge Troop Center mmmmmum A1x CT9 I 1 (3rGi Look Who's Besfln' Sabres Down Iwo MIGs Mrs. Fuller, Noted Civic Leader, Dies Texas Rancher Crashes Plane In Suicide Dive SWEETWATER, Tex.

UP! A wealthy young Texas ranchman who kept repeating over his radio that "everything is all messed up" dived his private plane to his CHAMPION GASSES UP Shown gassing up for the seventh annual Tangerine International Model Airplane Meet here is Jerry Stone, nine, of Jacksonville. The model plane enthusiast won six trophies during 1951 out of seven matches entered, but did much better this year, winning 37 trophies with his speedy gas-powered models. The youngster was runner-up for the junior class international championship at Detroit, in 1951 and has come in second for thp Half free flight for three years in a row. He has competed in the Detroit Internationals for three years. He won the championship in all classes at the Albany, meet in 1951.

ISentincl-Star Foto ir tt Model Plane Tournament Draws 5,500 Spectators By SID PORTER Staff Writtr An estimated crowd of 5,500 persons braved chill winds yesterday at Tinccastle Air Force Base to view the Tangerine International Model Airplane Meet. Smiling Jack character, had to (Drawn Exclusively for The Sentinel by Lynn Brudon) Mrs. Edna Giles Fuller, one of Florida's outstanding women, died I early Sunday at Orange Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. She was 78. Mrs.

Fuller, who first came to Orlando in 1883 at the age of 14, entered many fields of activity during her long and useful life and gained prominence in all. In her honor Orlando last Aug. 5 celebrated Edna Giles Fuller Day especially proclaimed by Mayor Beardall "for the purpose of recognizing and honoring this distinguished citizen." Her renown spread beyond the confines of her native state and the program she developed as assistant food administrator for Florida during World War I was later used as a model by Herbert Hoover for food relief in Europe. She was born 78 years ago on a farm 20 miles out from Tampa in Hillsborough County near Plant City. Her father and mother, Enoch and Melville Wells Giles, were pioneer Florida settlers and her father was a Methodist minister.

For a time they lived in Gainesville, where she attended a private school operated by Miss Nannie B. Gaines. At 14 Mrs. Fuller came to Orlando to live with her uncle, the late James L. Giles.

Here she attended high school when classes were held in what is now Orlando's city hall. After graduation she attended Rollins College for one year and then Wesleyan MRS. EDNA GILES FULLER Death ends career College at Macon, completing her formal education at Centenary in Cleveland, Ohio. Returning to Starke, where her father had been sent by the church, Mrs. Fuller got her first taste of teaching young people, a task to which she devoted her life in between her many other activities.

She was asked to assume the principatship of the high school there due to illness of the regular principal. She taught at Starke one year and then returned to Orlando to Continued on it vs I 4s I i Jtt i Page 31 i death in a gravel pit yesterday. For three hours Ollie William Cox, 23, had circled the West Texas skies, arguing by radio with two friends who sped to the Abilene, airport control tower to talk him out of suicide. "Check on the Pioneer flight pattern I don't want anybody else to get hurt," young Cox was heard to say once over the radio in his plane. He spoke of a West Texas airline.

Earl Critz, Sweet water, one of the friends who tried to stop tne oeatn, refused to say what they talked about. Attendants at the Abilene control tower refused also. A few words were heard by straining listeners at the Sweetwater control tower, 40 miles away. Cox dived into a gravel pit near Sweetwater. Why if anyone knew, no one would say.

Justice of the Peace M. C. Manroe said he did not know when he would is.sue a verdict. Cox's young wife, who is expecting a child in about one month, was put to bed under a doctor's care. The couple have a three-year-old daughter, Kay.

Cox owned and operated the Double Heart Hereford cattle and sheep ranch near Sweetwater. Over the two-way radio he told the Abilene airport control tower over and over that "everything is all messed up." He told them he was going to crash his plane in a gravel pit near here as soon as the fuel ran out. He did just that. At 9:55 a.m. CST as ambulance drivers and officers peered into the brilliant sky, Cox's five passenger Cessna 170 came hurtling down in a steep dive.

Kay McKinney, a pilot and friend of Cox, said there was no pull out. powerful plane went straight into the gravel pit area scattering wreckage for 50 yards as it broke up on the edge of a shallow pit. Al Echols of the Sweetwater Daily Reporter reached the scene a few minutes later as ambulance men pulled Cox's broken body from the crushed wreckage. The big Double Heart Ranch insignia still was visible on the side of the demolished yellow plane. Cox owned one of the largest ranches in this area.

He was partner with his father in a second and larger ranch of 22,400 acres near Fort Stockton, west of the Pecos River. His Continued en 3 Cox Page m. In Air Battle SEOUL Allied air power dealt the Communists a pulveriz ing blow yesterday. A 200-plane raid shattered a huge troop center and protecting Sabres knocked at least two MIG jets from the sky. Bomber and fighter-bomber pilots reported at least 70 buildings were destroyed and many others heavily damaged at the troop center near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

Dense smoke clouds rising from the burning ruins of troop billets, barracks and supply buildings made complete assessment of the damage impossible immediately. Pilots said their bombs touched off numerous secondary explosions, indicating that valuable ammunition stores also had gone up in smoke. The planes hit In waves. B-26 light bombers were first over the target, at 11 a. m.

Behind them came waves of Shooting Stars, Thunderjets and navy Panther Jets, each hitting a carefully plotted section of the target. Sabre Jets, flying protective cover for the bombers, besides downing two MIGs, probably got another and damaged a fourth, the air force said. A Sabre crashed in the Yellow Sea but its pilot bailed out at 7,000 feet; and was rescued by an air force amphibious plane. On the ground, Eighth Army fenders hurled back three Red probing attacks on the central and east central front in short, sharp exchanges of rifle fire across the snowy no-man's-land. Two small Red groups, proba bly 30 men or less, hit advanced positions in the Mundung Valley, dividing line between the central and eastern fronts, in pre-dawn Sunday attacks.

Allied rifle fir drove them back at dawn. An enemy squad jabbed at Sniper Ridge on the central front in another pre-dawn fight and was driven back by rifle fire. An Allied patrol on the western front killed or wounded half of a Chinese Red group of 20 in a short fight. North Korea's skies were clear yesterday. There was no snow nor rain but the thermometer dropped to one degree below zero on the western battlefront.

A Quick Smile Personnel Manager: Your application says you worked for your previous employer 60 years, yet you are only 50 years old. How do you account for that? Applicant: Overtime. Cracker Jim Sez: That rain yestiddy, an that moon last nite, shore were a cold one an no matter what happens them chillish winds is going to be blowin for a spell. Jest as shore as them Prod yunguns is beggin for them shoes hits boun to come a cold spell by the time that New Year gits here. I done talked to Jim Weatherbee over at Christmas an that rascal allowed as how hits boun to come one of them Jack Frost dodgers fore hit gits to be 1953.

Jest as sartin as them cattle critters are huddlin in a corner a body had better git ready for them frost bittin winds plum quick like. THE WEATHER Clear to partly cloudy through tomorrow. Not much change in temperature. LOCAL TEMPERATURES Recorded by U. S.

Weather Bureau at municipal nirpori, un. im, Max. ss Mm 42 55 83 1 am 581 9 am 44 am 44 5 pm 6 pm am am 55 11 am 45 7 pm 8 pm 9 pm 10 pm 81 48 45 44 43 42 14) am 51 52 49 46 45 12 4 a am am 1 pm 80 1 nm 51 am 1 nm 54 ill Tim an) 4 pm M. (Mora Weather Pg. 3 Map Pg.

NUMBERS TO REMEMBER Fire Dept. 4121 Police 2-5121 Medical Emergency Dial 2-2377 PRESCRIPTIONS Prescriptions receive prompt attention, fast delivery. San ua.n Pharmacy 'an! Don Evan Holiday Deaths Pass 600 Mark By The Associated Press The nation's Christmas holiday death toll passed the 600 mark yesterday. With only a few hours of the extended weekend left, the overall accident death toll reached 649. Of this number, 481 were traffic victims.

Fires were fatal to 72 persons, and 96 died in miscellaneous accidents. The traffic death mark edged close to the 555 all-time record of a holiday set during the four-day Christmas weekend of 1936. The highest total accident toll for a holiday was 789 last Christmas, with traffic accounting for 535. The National Safety Council predicted before the 102-hour count began at 6 p. m.

Wednesday that 590 persons would be killed in traffic mishaps. "This is as avoidable as it is tragic," said Ned H. Dearborn, president of the council. "Most, if not all of these lives could have been saved by a simple formula: Continued on Page 3 Philippines To Get Blow MANILA A Tropical storm with winds of 50 miles an hour headed toward the south central Philippines yesterday. It was expected to hit the islands today if it proceeds at its present speed on the course it is following now.

"Flannel-Mouth Don Stremmel, stop announcing several times to lng miniature planes. Public ad dress trouble, prevalent on open lng nay, was remedied oy an! emergency run for cable. The air force, Florida Tower Co. and Stremmel made a team that had 1,000 feet of wire installed with a scant few inches to spare. No injuria wr reported again in spit of sovtral crashes by pianos travtling ovor 140 milts por hour.

Th Civil Air Patrol rt-covorad numerous lost planas, including on that had bean given up th previous day. The loss of a new model on its first flight was reported by contestant Bill Schlarb of South Bend, Ind. Appearing at the field bedraggled and muddy, Schlarb reported spotting his lost plane around Taft only to see it picked up by three unidentified persons who had given him a lift to the scene. He said he gave chase through several swamps and a reek, then lost sight of them when they ran back to their car and drove off. Radio controlled flights attracted considerable attention throughout the afternoon.

A contestant's transmitter jammed the receiver of Jim Walker's comical lawnmower while it was going around him under radio control, but he stopped it without mishap. His lawn mower act and stunt flying drew enthusiastic applause from the crowd. In order to provide a contest for fre flight contestants who were unable to enter th first day, Walker donated several prizes for an extra event today. At 3:30 p.m. tomorrow, an added class of fighters will perform for prizes given by Walker.

Fighter classes were described as a variety of aerial free-for-all, Continued on Pago 3 20-Inch Tail Found On Turk Army Draftee ANKARA, Turkey Hasan Yildirim, 21-ycar-old Turkish army draftee, was under observation yesterday by doctors who said they discovered a 20-inch tail growing from the base of his spine. Yildirim, a native of Anatolia's Yozgat province, said he has had the tail since birth. Doctors are considering surgery. Two pictures of Yildirim, displaying his 20-inch tail, were published yesterday on the front page of the newspaper Vatan in Istanbul. Goodfellows Present Friday, Jan.

2 at Municipal Auditorium Full GAMELAH Orchestra ANAK AOUna GO! MANOIIA. Director by JOHN COAST Tickets $2 to $4 Tickets now on Sole ot Sentinel-Star and Ticket Booth on -Wall-Street get 10 i I my 18 12 of p.m The spectators back from the zoom Farm Advisory Body Appointed NEW YORK LVh- Eisenhower yesterday named a 14-man agricultural advisory committee to help draft the new administration's farm program. The group will work with Ezra Taft Benson, secretary of aericul- ture designate, and apparently is the forerunner of a bi-partisan fed eral agricultural commission. Ei senhower pledged during the cam paign he would create such a com mission if elected. Th advisory group of farm specialists was described as an interim committee in yesterday announcement.

An Eisenhower aide said th committee would function between now and inau guration day, Jan. 20, and prob ably for a while thereafter. The chairman of the committee Is W. I. Myers, dean of the agri culture college at Cornell Univer sity.

ine announcement said mem bers of the committee were se lected to represent a cross section of the agricultural industry and would "serve as individuals and not as representatives of their respective enterprises." In Salt Lake City, Benson said a meeting of the committee would be called as soon as possible but that a definite date has not been set. "It will be held sometime before the inauguration," he said. The secretary-designate said the group will study matters of national farm policy and organization and review existing programs. "The committee represents a Continued on Page 3 Tonight's Movies: BEACH AM: Abov and Beyond, 11:17. 141.

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CIXUD JiMt For You TAVARES: Springfield Rifle. WINTER GARDEN WINTER OARDEN: Caribbean. STARLITE: To Have and Have Hot. W1U3WOOO; Hortiooe West. Truman Quote Irks MacArthur NEW YORK Gen.

Douglas MacArthur yesterday described as "inaccurate and misleading a re ported statement by Pres. Truman Saturday that he had relieved Mac Arthur as Far East commander because the general "wanted to involve us in an all-out war in the Far East." The United Press quoted Truman as making the statement in an terview the president gave to its White House corresponde t. It was one of a series of year-end inter-views with White House correspondents. Mac Arthur's comment, i s- sued by i aide, Maj. Gen.

Courtney Whitney, follows: "Pres. Tru MacArthur man's statement yesterday, as re ported in the press, that I 'wanted to involve us in an all-out war in the Far East' is inaccurate and misleading. "My purpose and desire was not to extend the war but only to end it. At that time, this could have been accomplished with only a fraction of the approximately 000 American battle casualties which have since resulted. Actually, the longer it lasts the greater the chance of its spreading.

How anyone could use such a bloody drama as a means of self-glorification is quite beyond by comprehension." In Washington, Roger Tubby, Whit Houso press secretary, said Truman would have no comment, adding: "The president made his statement and is sticking by it." Truman fired MacArthur on April 11, 1951, on the announced grounds he did not support and publicly sought to change the grand strategy of the United Nations war against Red aggression in Korea. The president said la a formal statement at the time: "With deep regret I nave concluded that General of the Army Douglas MacArthur is unable to give his wholehearted support to the policies of the United States government and of the United Nations in matters pertaining to his official duties. TANGERINE BOWL TICKETS Tangerine Bowl tickets are on sole ot the sight-seeing booth in the San Juan Hotel Lobby. Prices: $4.75 and $2.50, tax included. Telephone 3-8422 and 5-1812 Blast Strikes Baptist Church DAYTONA BEACH (in An explosion which police said had the "flat boom of dynamite" last night smashed the two front windows of the First Baptist Church in suburban Holly Hill.

H. C. Nicely, chief of Holly Hill police, said the blast, heard in Daytona Beach a mile away, left a small hole in the sidewalk about 15 feet from the building. No one was hurt. People began arriving an hour later for evening services.

Nicely said it was not known what type of explosive was used. Apparently it was tossed from a passing car, he added. Equally jt a loss to explain the incident was the pastor, the Rev. Guy A. Stoner Jr.

He commented ruefully, however, on the subject of his sermon this morning, Let us Rise up and Build. His congregation of 350 is building another church next door to the present one-story wood frame structure. The Rev. Mr. Stoner's sermon topic last night was Yearning, Learning, Burning.

Colder Weather Seen For Central Florida LAKELAND UP) The Federal-State Frost Warning Service last night issued this special frost warn ing bulletin: "Forecast for Sunday night and Monday morning: Clear and colder north and central districts. Partly cloudy to cloudy southern districts. Lowest temperatures 30-36 degrees with frost in northern districts; 35-40 degrees central districts and 40 degrees and higher southern districts. "Forecast for Monday: Fair and continued cold." Youth Sleeps Through Wreck Killing Driver SILVER HILL, Md.W) Young Joseph H. Long was asleep in the back seat of a car Friday night when it went out of control and turned over.

The driver was fataliy injured. Two other friends were hurt. But Long, 16, told a reporter yesterday he slept through the whole thing. He said he awoke about nine hours later in a patch of weeds. 1952 December 1952 Sun Mm 1U Tfcu Tri Sat 2930 31 I953 January 1953 Sun J4on 7le "Wtd Thu Fri fid 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 -X- i 1 '-yJftwe END OF SUICIDE DIVE Ollie William Cox, 23, wealthy rancher and father of a daughter.

3, killed himself at Sweetwater, in this Cessna 170 private plane yesterday after arguing for three hours by radio with friends who tried to stop his suicide. He- told an airport control tower at nearby Abilene, he was going to crash because "everything is all messed up." Witnesses saw the plane go into a steep dive. It tfid not pull out. The Double Heart insignia of Cox's cattle and sheep ranch is on the side of the crumpled fuselage. AP.

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