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216 i Tl TTTT 6D ictatdirship 11 WMe At City i Will Get $300 A Month For Life Imprisoned 19 Years, Innocent Man Freed Ross Also Lambasts Wolfer A S. Walkout Troubles Piling Up 'X- 1 il -i (Daily News pfaets fcy Roa DstU) ST. PAUL, Minn. CP a man who went through 19 years of hurt and humiliation in Minnesota prisons will within a few weeks earn the final reward of a plodding justice. Slender Leonard Hankins of Dawson Springs.

will accept the first of $300 monthly pension checks, Minnesota's payment for the years of suffering it inflicted on an innocent man. Hankins will accept it with gratitude, some disappointment and no bitterness. "It's enough to live on," the 59-year-old southerner said in a resonant drawl that carried no anger. "But Pm kind of dis South Faces New Woes As Strikes Spread ATLANTA. UP) A general strike loomed in Bir SAFE FROM POLIO Constance Thomas, 3Vi, courageously takes her first shot of the improved Salk polio vaccine as brother Edmund, 8, knowing he'll be next, watches closely.

The children of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Thomas were vaccinated this morning by Dr.

Burns A. Dobbins, left. At right is Joe Horrell, a representative of Parke, Davis ond one of the serum manufacturers. (See story Page 12-A.) Bitter Exchanges Mark Charter Hearing By AL ROCKEFELLER And HARVEY CALL Daily News Staff Reporters Charges of "demagog-uery," "dictatorship" and "falsehood" were hurled between City Manager Donald P. Wolfer and City Attorney LEONARD HANKINS Wrongly Convicted DELIA LOWER? Aided Brother mingham, today while troubled southern governors and mayors called meetings 2 File Petition 'Up lino us llesV in an effort to settle regional oscow'sMotie Onens FCC Gets Plea telephone and railroad strikes costing the South millions of dollars and causing ever spreading violence.

Julian E. Ross today as the City Commission, meeting on charter appointed that they couldn't have done more for me." A bill providing Hankins with $300 a month for the rest of his life has been passed by both Houses of the Minnesota Legislature. When a number of other unrelated claims are settled by a conference committee, the bill goes to the governor. Hankins' payments would be retroactive to Jan. 1.

THANKS GOD thank God that the Legislature did as much for me as it did," Hankins said. "The only thing for me to do now is to put all of those terrible years behind me. I don't want to think of them. "But I don't blame the people who sent me to prison. You forget all about that because it's so good to be a free man." Pickets appeared suddenly last night around the giant Fairfield George Backs Ike's Silence On Isle Plans changes, dipped to the deptha of bitterness to reveal publicly the' long smoldering feuding which has been going on behind Way To Big-4 Talks steel mill of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Division of the U.

S. To Make Area TV All IMF A petition was filed today with Steel at Birmingham. It is the scenes at City Hall. the largest steel mill in the South While Wolfer and Ross held and 'employs about 20,000 WASHINGTON. UP) Russia's evident about-face on independence for Austria fanned prospects of a new big four meeting higher today than at any time since the last one deadlocked on that issue 14 months aso.

Hankins was pardoned in 1951, after members of the Barker-Karpis gang which held up the Third Northwestern persons. the center of the bitter exchange. Commissioner Edmund R. Burry threw up his hands R. E.

Farr, district director the Federal Communications Ga. Back and declared he would vot ing President Eisenhower, Sen Word from Moscow early today was that Russia has of the United Steel Workers of America CIO, reported that all operations of the Fair Commission to standardize the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale region as against the charter revisions and George tD-Gal said last night I accepted a proposed Aus- Bank in Minneapolis and killed two policemen in 1932 had confessed Hankins had no part in the bank robbery. Hankins, because shaky circumstances pointed to him. was convicted Feb.

6. 1933 and sentenced to life imprisonment. MOBSTER CLEARS HANKINS In 1935 Mobster Jesse Doyle, a member of the Barker gang, cleared Hankins of any connection with the crime. A long chain field mill were halted in sym that he did not "want to hear any more bickering." an all-ultra high frequency television area. the cause of peace would not trian treaty which Britain, pathy with striking telephone be advanced by any public an- workers, members of the If the plea filed by Storer Broadcasting Co.

and Gerico In nf mouncement on whether the France and the United States already have agreed to. That would mean the end of 10 Communications Workers U. S. would defend Quemoy and of hearings followed for Hankins. Several times he was promised vestment Co.

on behalf of WGBS-TV Ichannel 231 and WITV Matsu. Reds To Sign Pact Freeing All Austria years of Red stalling and of the America CIO. i Farr said he expected every business in the city hiring CIO workers would feel the effects his freedom. Hankins won his release largely through the efforts of his And George, chairman of lour-power occupation. channel 171 is granted, all existing and future commercial tele sister, Mrs.

Delia Lowery, Jack Mackay. St. Paul correspondent for the Senate Foreign Relations It would mean also that the of the sympathy strike. vision stations In this area would Committee, suggested the issue: the Associated Press, and Sig Couch, a former Minneapolis of whether those Chinese detective. Russians will have met a key prerequisite to a big four meet operate in the UHF band, elim-nating the double-standard sys ing laid down by President The possibility of a general strike In Birmingham came only a few hours after Lawrence Wetherby of Kentucky scheduled an unprecedented meeting tem with some stations on UHF Nationalist off shore islands should be defended has become a "football of politics." The Democratic congressional and some on VHP very high Eisenhower: that Moscow give some evidence of good faith which would promise that a big four session might be fruitful.

Cabot Proposes Bill Commissioner Charles M. White said the shameful display showed "who is boss around here," and that "could not serve under such a dictator Wolfer" and that was the reason he did not run for Ross asserted Wolfer had attempted to gain charter revision! which would have given his office, more power and when that had not succeeded, the city manager had gone over the heads of city officials in taking the issues to the public. The city attorney asserted Wolfer was behind all objections to proposed charter revisions. EIGHT HEAR IT The meeting, called as a public hearing on charter proposals, was attended by only eight spec frequency. of southern governors for Tuesday.

Wetherby called the session as leader's stand amounted to indirect criticism of such Republican senators as Knowland of MOSCOW. W) The Soviet government called today for the speedy conclusion of an Austrian independence treaty and withdrawal of all occupation troops not later than next Dec. 31. A joint Soviet Austrian communique issued this after chairman of the Southern Gov For School Buildiiiff ernors Conference "for the pur He has mentioned an Austrian treaty in that connection. Another key requirement.

Integration of West German military power within the Western European Union California and Bridges of New Hampshire. Both GOP leaders The only existing VHP television station In the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area is WTVJ. South Florida's first TV outlet Under the Storer-Gerico proposal, WTVJ be compelled to convert to UHF. In a Joint statement, George B.

pose of discussing a plan of have called for a declaration of action for the governors as a group to take to bring about a By DOUGLAS McQUARRIE Daily News Political Reporter the administration's intentions IVYEU, already is in a fair settlement of these controver noon said Austrian Chancellor way toward Den sies." It will be held in the regarding Quemoy and Matsu. KNOWS WELL Julius Raab had assured Soviet TALLAHASSEE Broward County would benefit mark and the Netherlands, the office of Gov. Frank Clement at Foreign Minister V. M. Molo-tov that Austria will not join Storer.

president of the firm bearing his name, and Russell E. Lowell, president of Gerico, said: only countries yet to act, are Nashville, Tenn. Continued on Page 12-A to the tune of 51,071,000 in matching state funds for new school construction under terms of a proposal discussed today by the Senate Committee on Education. A expected to do so by month's any military alliances or per George said he knows quite well what Eisenhower will do if and when he Is faced with a decision whether to defend the tators, two of whom are nominees for the new City Commis end or soon after, mit the establishment of any foreign military bases in its This would clear the way for sion which will take office rough draft calling for a state-wide $15,000,000 appro BETTER SERVICE "Our proposal will mean more and better television service for everyone. There are presently a meeting of the North Atlantic territory.

off-shore islands. May 3. Treaty Organization NATO! The Soviet, government also Porter O. Reynolds urged a charter amendment requiring all' ministerial council, tentatively set for May 9. Chief business of Tivo Suits Hit FEC Railway Station Shift "He will do what good men always do," George declared, his voice breaking with emotion.

"He priation to carry out the building program was introduced by Sen. Ted Cabot of Ft. Lauderdale. It will later be introduced in a similar candidates for the commission to present itemized accounts ol campaign expenditures. that session will be welcoming West Germany as the 15th NATO will go into his closet and.

face 'assigned four UHF channels in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area land a number of other channels can be added, while there can jonly be a maximum of three 'commercial VHF channels. "Petitions similar to this are to face with his God. make his pledged: 1 To settle its reparations bill against Austria for the equivalent of 150 million dollars in Austrian goods: 121 to return to Austria all former German property in the Soviet zone including the Danube Shipping and 131 to return the commitee of the House by Rep. member.

Overshadowing this perfunctory affair is the ready- decision. Two suits attacking the pro "And I for one don't want to Sam Gibbons of Hillsboro I County. posed relocation of the Florida made opportunity for a meeting of the big three foreign minis East Coast Railway station at SW force his hand in making that decision," ters. Austrian oil fields and refineries 17th were filed in Circuit Court late this afternoon in be Aides of Secretary of State pending for a number of areas, but South Florida is uniquely ideal for UHF television because of its flat terrain and con Ross said some provision in state laws require such reports, but Mayor C. Malcolm Carlisle asked how effective the election law is.

The city attorney pointed out that candidates could be disqualified for promising anything of value to obtain votes. That brought from the mayor Jesse James tory Slated What was Jesse James really like? "The real Jesse Uames will always remain part man, part myth," says novelist vYill Henry. "He lived that way; he died that way. It was the way he himself planned it and wanted it. "But it is time for a long, hard look at Dr.

Samuel's pale-eyed stepson a look which peers beyond the half of J. Arthur Test, a tax Dulles, British Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillan and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay Senate Committee payer. stant green foliage of its trees, a condition which tends to eliminate shadows and Interference on the receiving screen Under the Cabot the money would come from the state's general fund for i the next biennial. The' plan follows the thinking of Gov. LeRoy Collins in that! the money would be distributed jf on the basis of need for new ill schools.

jl LARGEST RISE Broward County had a school, i population increase last year of 38.88, the largest of any county 1 0 in the state. Munroe County I I i i i Begins Hearings The first suit is for a declaratory decree charging the expenditures made thus far in parking surveys are illegal and in violation of the City Charter. The second is a general ob have been meeting for weeks to settle details. A French spokesman said at Paris yesterday this group has agreed on methods to be used in preparing for a foreign ministers' meeting with criticism of candidates who make rash promises and "paid single shot votes." which the Russians have been operating during their 10-year occupation. The joint communique summed up the results of negotiations between Molotov, Raab and their aides which began here Tuesday.

It was issued two hours after the Austrian government chief. Deputy Chancellor Adolf Schaerf and their party left in a Soviet military plane for Vienna. The Russian-Austrian agreement now must be approved by due to seasonal changes. Continued on Page 12-A In Corsi Wrangle REFERS TO CHARGE Those things end up like the jection to the validation of a Russia. $1,200,000 revenue bond issue to finance construction of street alleged bribery charge only the "WASHINGTON.

(JP) R. W. Scott McLeod told Senate inves 10 1-YEAR-OLD TV FAN STILL ENJOYING LIFE tigators today he had set out to parking facilities and to purchase present holdings of the railway in this city. second, 32.23, while Dade was seventh with 24.98. Palm Beach I was 10th with 22 08.

PHOENTXvTLLE, Pa. VP) Mrs. Freda Byerly is 104 years A spokesman for Test said On the basis of school pop-; that amounts paid out of gen old today. the three Western occupation powers the United States, Britain and France before it can be incorporated in the inde prove, after passage of the 1953 Refugee Relief Act, that its critics were wrong in saying it wouldn't work. He said he looked on that as a "challenge" to make it work.

McLeod. State Department Last night, as usual, she sat eral funds for the parking survey conducted by Ramp Build ulation the $15 000,000 appro-; Driation would mean $1,071,000 for Broward," Cabot popular fictions and stares flatly, at the unpalatable facts. Jesse James was, in all truth, an incredibly man." Beginning Sunday in The News, Will Henry will give readers "a long, hard look" at the West's most notorious desperado in "Death of a Legend." Don't forget to buy your copy Sunday and start this thrilling novel. The Sunday News is available at all newsstands In Brow-rd word of two people," Carlisle said. White reported that the Ft.

Lauderdale Symphony Orchestra had asked candidates to give serious consideration, if elected, to city financial support for the orchestra. A letter was presented In which the orchestra group said that six candidates nominated for the commission had pledged such consideration. George C. Petersen sug up to watch her favorite tele pendence treaty and the treaty can be signed. ings and for a parking consultant, violate City Charter vision programs and hear the latest sportscasts which told of security chief who administers provisions which prohibit the paying of any sums out of gen The Broward senator said that "before we could get the money we would have to match the state money from local tax sources." state money, coming ss the results of her favorite baseball team, the Philadelphia Phillies.

She sleeps daily until noon eral funds in connection with a the emergency Immigration program, testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommit-tee. to catch up on her rest. Mrs. Tax Deadline Near Hurry Parking Meters "Eat Kevs. Too aV Parking meters can gobble up keys, James A.

Seuss discovered to his dismay early today. Seuss, of 713 SW 19th was standing in front of 440 Las Olas Blvd. at 2:45 a.m., talking with a friend and fiddling with his car key. Absent mindedly, he poked the key in the coin slot of a parking meter and the contraption gulped the key down. Seuss reported the incident to police, left car on the street and ot a ride home with his friend.

Today, George Foust. in charge of the meters, retrieved the key from the hungry coin-collector and returned it to Seuss. Bverly says with tongue in it would from general I revenue bond issue. The suit also seeks recoverv of those funds. RECOVERY OF FUNDS A companion suit seeks the recovery of those funds already expended by the city, and to re cheek "no one should live to be 100 but it's fun!" He was the first witness as the subcommittee began public hearings on the wrangle set off Continued on Page 12-A Have you filed your federal! by the ouster of Edward Corsi as a special adviser to Secretary strain the validation proceedings 40-Voiee Choir Begins Program 0:30 P.

31. gested a $500 limit on spending for election to the commission. Burry asserted, "It's shocking to see the money being spent by candidates to get one of these jobs." Following the suggestions for added election provisions, tha meeting turned to its discussion of the charter as proposed by Ross and his revision of State Dulles on refugee problems. CHARGES SABOTAGE Tonialtfs The Nirfit For A and Concert and the. sale of the proposed bonds.

"This is not fundamentally a revenue bond issue at all." a spokesman for Test said, "because the actual rerenue to be received from the proposed park Corsi charged after his dismis income tax return yet? The minutes are ticking away. The deadline is midnight. All returns must be at Internal Revenue Service offices or in the mails by midnight. To accommodate late filers, the Internal Revenue Service office at 301 Las Olas Blvd. will remain open until mid sal that the act was being sa botaged by "an intolerant minor The 40-voice concert choir of ity" in Congress and the State 'Florida A and University, one ing lots is not even sufficient Department.

He named McLeod outstanding groups of its ito pay for the interest costs. muus vmcia. jn th( gtate wm present White said there was no in tention to 'reduce the power of a concert at 8:30 pjn. today in War Memorial Auditorium. The local appearance of the A riew YoiK KepuDncan, uie i Italian-born Corsi was Commis-' sioner of Immigration under Tl n-r- the city manager or increase the power of the City Commis- ssion.

The people have been years was a statp official Ft. Lauderdale Daily News. under former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York.

THE WEATHER The Public Wants To Know: Why the Ft. Lauderdale police department doesn't maintain a 24- hour-a-day crackdown and issue citations to drivers of automobiles with noisy cutouts, so-called "Hollywood" mufflers, defective mufflers or no mufflers at all. night tonight. Returns that are being mailed to the Internal Revenue Service office at Jacksonville should be postmarked before midnight. To accommodate late filers, the Post Office annex, across the street from the Florida East Coast Railroad station, will promptly postmark all returns mailed before midnight, according to Postmaster Dale Dunifon.

But taxpayers are urged to note that to assure proper stamping, the envelopes snould be delivered to that annex, not at the main Post Ofrice or deposited in letter boxes where they may not be collected until tomorrow. given a mistaken impression, he said. "Statements in the papers have come from the city manager." Ross retorted. That's a falsehood," Wolfet asserted. "Four-fifths of the objections to the new charter were raised by Donald P.

Wolfer to "get more power for Donald P. Wolfer," Ross said. I With that the city manager Continued on Page 12-Al Mrs. Rebecca Walker Steele, director of the choir, said that excerpts of the Bach Easter Cantata will lead off tonight's program. On the early part of the program will be the presentation of "Rondo Caprioccicso," by pianist Joanne W.

Felder; "Vesta L. Guibba," with Herman Green as tenor; "Miserere Prison Scene," with soprano Darnella Continued on Page 12-A i i Complete teather Report Page 13-A Partly cloudy through tomorrow with a few very widely scattered showers. High this after- noon "8 to 81. Low tonight about "0. Moderate southcast-stiieriy winds.

CHOIR DIRECTOR WITH FEATURED MUSICIANS C. S. Davis, Rebecca. Steele, Eruce Hayden.