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America's Fastest Growing Dally Xcwspapcr THE WEATHER Gale warnings displayed. Windy and cool with rain and cloudiness slowly breaking up during today. High about 65. Low tonight about 55. Slightly higher temperatures tomorrow.

For complete weather report see Page 6-A. 0KT LADDEKM Bailt "News HOME FIXAL AMD SEXTIXEL MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, UNITED PRESS FILL NEA SERVICE AND AP WIREPHOTO 4Stli Year, No. 116 Three Sections FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1933 32 Pages PRICE: FIVE CENTS ri oman ro lies Miiraer Adm 1TV FT Re-enacts Slaying At Glades Scene Me- rrr --)((' ,1, i'6 it JOHN HOPKINS Daily News Staff Reporter Mary Lavone Wilburn, a dope addict for seven of her 22 years confessed early today to the rifle slaying Dec. 26 on a lonely Everglades road of a young Miami engineer enroute home after a Christmas visit with his fiancee. Miss Wilburn gave a signed confession to investigators at 3:30 a.m.

today after taking them to the murder scene and reenacting the crime. County Solicitor Emerson Allsworth said the woman will be charged either with second degree murder or manslaughter since there was no premeditation involved in the killing. Big Storm Due To Die Late Today By JOE KUKEXBROD Daily News Staff Reporter One of the worst winter storms to hit this area in a quarter century or more is expected to begin breaking up gradually late this afternoon or tonight. The gale force winds and unseasonally heavy rain have caused considerable damage but all streets and roads have been kept open to traffic through round-the-clock clean-up work. The cold front that swept across Florida as 195S made its bow has already passed this area, the Weather Bureau reported, and the outlook for the weekend is a little brighter.

Meanwhile, area farmers counted a terrific toll in crop losses caused by standing water and subsequent disease. "Right now it's a pretty black. i I'll rr-I During an hour and one-half questioning session last night, the tragic story of the death of Robert Winston Lee. 24, unfolded from the lips of the slightly built young-woman who developed the dope habit while serving time in an Aubuqerque, X. juvenile home.

After leaving Miami early Christmas Day rather than serve a 30-day sentence for vagrancy. Miss Wilburn said she hitchhiked to West Palm Beach. After arriving there, she got a load of heroin from an undisclosed source. 'Riding high' on the dope. Daily Nrwi yaot by Bill Bates) GALE SWEPT SAND BURIES BEACH CHAIRS, PILES UP AROUND CAR beautiful city beach resembles debris-strewn path of retreating army j- HSIEZZZZIi each Gets Brunt the girl said she was given a ride that night by two men to Belle Glade where she was let out of the car.

She told officers that at about 11:30 p.m. Christinas night she was picked up by a young man driving a green Chevrolet. WEARING EARRINGS Miss Wilburn said she was wearing a red dress, a pair Of Storm Damage il X. I I 111 if I. i( nr.

jv (AP Wlrephoto) MIAII AVEATHERMEN HAUL GALE FLAG DOWN to save it from screaming nor'easter winds of high-heeled shoes and a pair of Christmas earrings. She related that she rode along the road with the man for about 30 minutes when he stopped the car. The man got out of the car and went to the back of it. and "I thought he was going to the bathroom." While Lee was out of the vehicle Miss Wilburn explained that she looked into the back seat of the car and saw a .22 caliber automatic rifle laying on the seat. She said she got the rifle and was examining it when Lee returned to the driver's seat.

The young woman told investigators that she and Lee both, looked at the rifle and then she got out of the right front door, leaving the door open. She said she had the gun pointed at Lee. "He told me not to pull the trigger. But I refused and we were scuffling over the gun because he wanted to take it away from me and I didn't want him to. I can recall grabbing him by the shirt and then I hit him two times with the gun.

Each time there was a loud bang. And I got very frightened. He fell down. I kneeled down to shake him. Then I got frightened and ran away.

I ran up the highway and while I was running I lost the heel of my shoe. I was crying also. I then took off my shoes and threw them away," she recounted. The Wilburn girl said that while she was running along the highway "I was picked up Continued On Page 6-A picture for the farmers," said Harry Yates, district observer for the Federal State Frost Warning Service. Rainfall measurements along the Lower East Coast ranged from 2.50 to six Inches, and weathermen said the actual amounts must have been higher because of the high winds.

These figures covered the period from 10 pjn. Wednesday to 6 a on. today and it was still coming down. Recorded rainfall figures included 2.56 inches at Radio Station WFTL, 3.10 inches in downtown Ft. Lauderdale and 3.32 inches in Pompano Beach.

Winds reached as high as 70 miles per hour In gusts, uprooting trees, blowing down signs and causing other damage. Walter Davis, hurricane forecaster for the Miami Continued On Page 6-A A7eitf Federal Rights Board Takes Office WASHINGTON. The new six-man Civil Rights Commission was sworn into office today in the presence of President Eisenhower. The President greeted the members in his office and stood by while his chief assistant, Sherman Adams, administered the oath of office. "Give them the diplomas for the honorary doctorates," Eisenhower proposed with a grin.

And he began handing out signed commissions tied up in blue ribbons. Directing new members to chairs around his desk, and even hauling one up for somebody else to use, the President sat down and began conferring (See Related Story on Page 5-A) with the members about the difficult task they have ahead. Taking the oath of office launched the commission members on a 20 months study of the nation's touchy racial problems. But they still are subject to confirmation by the Senate. The six members, who still are subject to confirmation by the Senate, were invited to the White House to take the oath of office and confer with the chief executive.

On the commission are three southerners and three northerners one of the latter a Negro. British Hail Queen CommitteeDemands Traffic Plan Review it Big Cleanup Task Faces City Crews Ft. Lauderdale's popular beach was a' shambles today as a result of the wind and rain storm and cleanup and repair work was hampered by continuing bad weather. Chairs, cabanas, pieces of canvas and other debris littered the sand and surf. Practically every hotel and apartment house along the oceanfront reported some sort of storm damage some minor, some extensive.

The two-mile stretch of Atlantic Blvd. from Granada St. to NE 17th center of the resort hotel district, was covered with, hundreds of tons of sand and water from the rain and high tides. Dozens of cars owned by hotel guests vacationing htre were bogged down and most of them required wreckers to be rescued. TREMENDOUS TASK Gurr B.

Bennett, city operations director, said the cleanup work there was "the most tremendous task facing the city" as a result of the storm. He said emergency crews will work around the clock throughout the weekend to keep the boulevard open to traffic. The hotels faced a huge task in cleaning up the sand blown around by the gale force winds. But that was only one aspect of the storm damage. Water seeped through or was Continued On Page 6-A1 Storm Costs City Publicity The worst wind and rainstorm to hit Ft.

Lauderdale in a quarter century may have washed the city out of a feature article in a February issue of Sports Illustrated. Buck Kinnaird, publicity di-rector of the Bahia-Mar Yachting Center, said Fred Smith, the magazine's fashion editor, was returning to New York this afternoo' with a photographer. "Whether they come back to do it in a week or two is up to their bosses In New York," Kinnaird said. He said the feature was to highlight yachting fashions at Bahia-Mar and that about 15 people had been lined up for modeling. Kinnaird said Smith and his photographer nad Deen in town since Tuesday and the photographic phase was scheduled to begin yesterday when the storm hit.

1 commissioner, says the plan "gives us greater traffic re lief for only half the outlay required under the present city plan." ine commmees parucuiarihas established there. LINER LOSES PASSENGER MIAMI. UP The Coast Guard reported today that the Dutch liner S.S. Nieuw Amsterdam, plowing through hlsh seas near Havana, had lost a passenger and life raft. Coast Guard search and rescue units also were searching the Gulf for possible survivors of a fishing vessel believed to be the Captain Rex.

A Navy helicopter rescued three Charlotte, N. fishermen who abandoned the sinking boat off Key West and also helped eight other boats in the stormy keys. Icy Blasts Chill Large Area Of U.S. By THE ASSOCIATED PEESS The season's coldest weather enveloped most of the country today from the Rockies to the Atlantic Coast and little immediate relief was in sight for the major sections of the icy belt. Freezing weather dipped deep into the southland.

Northern sections of Florida reported readings in the 30s. with a freezing mark of 32 at Pensa-cola. It was 35 at Tallahassee, and in Georgia, Atlanta shivered in a below freezing mark of 28. The Midwest, where the se vere cold has continued for nearly a week, was stung by-zero and below readings. The freezing weather extended north of a line from the Carolina coast to southern sections of Alabama and Mississippi northward and westward into Arkansas, southern Kansas and the northern Texas Panhandle.

EMBRACES MIDWEST The below zero Midwest zone embraced areas in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and the Da-kotas and the northern third of Illinois," Including northwestern suburbs of Chicago. It was 3 below at O'Are International Airport, northwest of Chicago. Temperatures were 10 to 18 degrees lower in New England and other eastern areas compared to yesterday morning. Zero readings were indicated in mountain regions as far south as West Virginia. MARK TIMET POLICY WASHINGTON, tf A top official said today the Justice Department plns to continue its "mark time" policy as to possible federal prosecutions for violence at Little Rock's Central High School last Sir Edmund, Party Reach South Pole AUCKLAND.

UH Sir Edmund Hillary, first man to conquer Mt. Everest, the highest point on earth, today reached the South Pole, at the bottom of the world. He radioed the dramatic news to Scott Base, the Ross Sea point he and his party set out from Oct. 15. After ploughing more than 1,200 miles across, the wide.

white Antarctic continent, Hillary radioed base that he and his tractor party of four other New Zealanders had arrived at the pole with only one drum of gasoline to spare. "We were cutting it rather fine due to the very soft snow," he reported. At the pole the five New Zealanders joined 17 Americans stationed at the International Qeophysical Year fTfiV has thA TTnltArt Rtata Hillary's companions are Murray Ellis. Peter Mulgrew, Jim Bates, and Derek Wright. Hillary's a r't followed much of the route of Capt.

Robert F. Scott of the British navy, who raced Roald Amundsen of Norway for the pole in the Antarctic summer of 1911-12. Amundsen won by a month, becoming the discoverer of the South Pole. Scott's five- 'McMurdo Sound. Gov Faulms Integration Move Awaited LITTLE ROCK, Ark.

tf) Gov. Orval Faubus said yesterday he is waiting to see if the federal government changes its attitude on school integration I before he decides whether to I call a special legislative session I to deal with the issue. The governor said there would be no reason for a special session if the government takes a new look at the problem and slows down -school integration. Nine Negro students are enrolled at Little Rock Central High School, focal point of the integration crisis here. They attend classes under the protection of federalized Arkansas National Guardsmen.

The Little Rock school board was ordered by U. District Court to start integration last Tall. Faubus said recently that he thought the board ought to consider going back Into federal court to seek a delay in integration. concern is me proposed reo- era! Hwy. tunnel under New River, now in the planning stage and due to be under contract in a matter of weeks.

The Modjeski and Masters plan, prepared by the engineering firm of that name, suggests the erection of two bridges, each with four lanes or traffic, two sidewalks and u-ioot clearance one in Federal Hwy. and the other The Broward County City Affairs Committee has again asked city, state and federal officials to make a "complete study" of what is known as the Modjeski and Masters traffic plan for Ft. Lauderdale. Edmund R. Burry, committee chairman and city TODAY'S DIRECTORY Amusements 6, 7-B Bedtime Story 5-B Broward County News 1-B.

3-A Classified thru 13.r Comics 14, 15-C Crossword Puzzle 15c Editorial 4-4 1 Business, Finance 4-C Horoscope 15-C Community News 5-C Radio-TV 8-B Women's Pages 2, 3, 4-B Sports 1, 2, 3-C Temperatures 6-A Weather Map 6-A THE DAILY NEWS Phones: JA 2-3711 Classified Ad. JA 3-5425 in SE Third both Party Perished on the New River. i way back to the coast at DmiIjr Newt phot bj Bill Bate) Out Of The Rain Vpo llf5 llf i 7 irOlCO Ron Smith, Southern Bell box collector, doesn't know how busy the telephone lines were yesterday, but he reported area phone booths jammed as pedestrians squeezed in out of the rain. Jud Be a re. Martha Johnson and Pat Luscombe I top to bottom in photo above scan skies for a break in the downfall.

Smith waited until the booth was cleared to get his coins from the fountain er phone boxes. 1 Meg 'Poor' Dresser: Pointing to tentative estimates that the tunnel will cost around six million dollars, Burry says "these two bridges can be built for less than three million dollars and traffic engineers state these two bridges will carry at least SO per cent Continued On Page 6-A that Margaret was wearing castoffs from her mother, Queen Mother Elizabeth. "Look at that jacket." the paper said. "Could it be surely not? a cut-down from one of her mother's? If so, Margaret needs a better cutter. The sleeves are much too short.

"This picture might have been taken five or 10 years ago. Margaret looks as if she's going to a little boy's birthday party and as little girls do has forgotten her gloves." Papers gave special credit for the queen's selection to her designers. Normal Hartnell and Hardy Amies. Iggpbl 'b LONDON. The British press today hailed the listing of Queen Elizabeth II among the world's 12 best dressed women, but at the same time some expressed surprise or took cracks at Princess Margaret for her failure to make the grade.

While the Conservative News Chronicle lauded the queen's fifth -place selection as "a triumph for British dress designing so long in the doldrums," the, Laborite Herald accused Princess Margaret of not even trying to dress smartly. Several papers expressed surprise that Princess Margaret had been dropped from the top 12 selected by the New York Dress Institute poll. Style expert Irish Ashley said the only reason must be that Margaret appeared at fewer "dressy occasions" during 1957. June Hulbert, a Herald columnist, admonished "For shame, you can do better than this." The Herald published a picture of the queen's sister at a ballet performance last night and then proceeded to tear her outfit to shreds, criticizing everything from her diamond hair ornaments to open shoes. Miss Hulbert even suggested In i IH II Daily Kevt poU fcy Jua Daly) BOAT LEFT HIGH 'N DRY BY HIGHWAY? n.

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