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TIDES AT ST. MARKS LIGHT High im 4:01 am 10:27 pm Low 1:00 pm 11:48 om 2:39 pm WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST Flit and warm through Wcdnei-lay. High today and Wednesday 90 iegreei. Low tonight 65 degrees. to arm Today Wedniiday 14 Page Today VOL.

XXXIX, No. 233 TALLAHASSEE, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPf. 29. 1953 -fcPRICE: DAILY, 5c; SUNDAY. 15 mm 1 i 'V Gallant Fight For Life Ends With McCarty ii Insurance Man To Take Oath As Acting Chief After 6 Tonight Abandons His Original Plan Lies inSfate Until 6 Tonight; Rites Tomorrow ft Ft.

Pierce Whole Cabinet Will Attend Supreme Court Pays Tribute To McCarty The Florida Supreme Court today adopted a resolution deploring the death of Gov. Dan McCarty. The resolution said: it resolved the Supreme Court of Florida deplores the passing of the Honorable lari T. McCarty, Governor of Florida, able lawmaker, constructive administrator, gallant soldier, loyal Death at 41 my Heart Trouble And Pneumonia Bv The Assoclatrd Press Gov. Dan McCarty last night lost By Tb AocUtcd Prut Sen.

President Charley E. John plans to take an oath us Florida's acting governor shortly after p.m. (EST). Secretary of State R. A.

Grar said Johns had advised him ln a his gallant fight against heart trouble and pneumonia. Death came to Florida's 41-year- 4 phone call from Starke that ha American, devoted tiuslmnd and father, and just and fearless chief executive, and that a copy of this resolution be sent to his widow and to the secretary of state of the state of Florida." Chief Justice B. K. Roberts said the court went Into recess until after McCarty's funeral tomorrow. old governor shortly before 10 p.m.

in Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. McCarty was conscious al had abandoned his original plan to drive to Tallahassee this morning to take his oath from Su- most to the end and spoke to his wife and his doctor a few moments 4 preme Court Justice John E. before he died. Mathews. Johns became acting governor with the death of Governor Mc His duties passed to Senate President Charley E.

Johns, 48-year-old insurance executive, who Carty last night. JOHNS CHARLEY E. By The Associated Prr Funeral services for Gov. Dan McCarty have been set tentatively for 4 p.m. (EST) Wednesday for the St.

Andrews Episcopal Church at Fort Pierce. Secretary of State R. A. Gray tnnounced the funeral time today at a special memorial meeting of the state cabinet. A special funeral train bearing the governor's body and a large delegation of state officials and other friends will leave Tallahassee for Fort Pierce tonight at 10, arriving there at 7 a.m.

Wednesday and returning to the capital after the funeral. ALL CAN GO The governor's staff announced reservations on the all-Pullman train will be available to anyone through the Seaboard Air Line Railway ticket office In Tallahassee The governor's body will lie in state in the Rotunda of the Capitol from 1 to 6 p.m. today. The Tallahassee company of Florida National Guard will post a 60-man honor guard over the flag-draped casket. "Senator Johns said he did not want to take the oath while tha DAN McCARTY WHITNEY ON RUSSIA (2) body of Governor McCarty was came to Tallahassee from nis; home at Starke to take over until! a new governor is elected in 1954, to serve the last two years of Mccarty's four-year term.

McCarty, a Fort Pierce cattle-j lying ln state ln the Capitol ro A TRAGIC LOSS Soviet Accepts Big Four Meet Russians Propose China Parley Also man and citrus grower, became governor in January and served less than nine months. He was the third Florida governor to die In office. High Officials Praise McCarty PARIS lPl The Soviet Union has Lucky Russians Fence Selves In Fed American who have lived In Russia hav? learned as much about It as Tom Whitney He went to Moscow In 1944 as an economics analyst for the U. S. State Department, and entered journalism In 1947 as staff writer for the Associated Press.

Now in London he has written a series of articles Ing with the high cost of living in Russia, as measured In both monetary and hums nterms. This Is his second article. By TOM WHITNEY PNEUMONIA DEVELOPS McCarty was taken to the has tunda. He Invited the Cabinet to meet with him after the governor's body has been removed and probably will take the oath then that will be shortly after 6 o'clock," Gray said. Johns told the Associated Press by telephone he was leaving Starke shortly before noon for Tallahassee, accompanied by his wife, son, daughter and mother.

A few close friends. Including several of the senators with whom he has served for many also were to In th unconditionally accepted the Western 'proposal for a Big Four meet- i7.v.:", to discuss German problems Rv Thr Asnriatrd PrGfi an American suuivc sniu today Gov. Dan McCarty's death was called a tragic loss of SePl- 12 developed into FWiria hvhio-h ctnfnffinialau.hrtlanH0rltl10nT1ff0rrtvf,rJPneUrn0nla- He hfld Suffered 8 At the same time, the Russians T- 6 iheart attack Feb. 25 which put nor nign principles in private ana puDiic me. Chief Justice B.

K. Roberts said, an end to nearly all his activities and from which he never recov- proposed the Big Four and Communist China also meet to consider ways of easing world ten slons. "the untimely death of Gov. Dan'nf Florida state TTnivprsitv -t ered LONDON AP) A fortunate Russian, after long efforts, may get a small plot of land on which to build a McCarty Is a tragic loss to, the A heart specialist was flown consider his death a very great. The Russians did not set a date Memorial Here Memorial services will be held in the St.

John's Episcopal Church here at 4 p.m. Wednesday while the funeral service Is going on In Ft. The Rev. Jeffery Alfriend. rector," aid the general public is Invited to attend the last rites for Gov.

McCarty. wnole state or Honda. A pi-eat ivim.o niiuntoo Mom nrionn. Johns party. Johns said he would visit tha executive mansion to pay his respects to Mrs.

McCarty and leader who never compromised his'loss to the state of Flovida and a.n deBperate altempt to save his or name a place for the Big nign principles, Gov. McCarty was great personal loss to me. mfe. foreign ministers meeting on Ger- whafc js thg firgt thing he doeg then? jTe erecta a fine( many. The United States.

T. other members of the McCarty laiso a splendid and patriotic citi-1 Dr. George Gore, president McCarty's 12-year-old son, Dan; Mnrl tiitriin Vinrl eiuinoeloH til at itrutc ail luc nay aiuuuu liic mi, uuw i-v, family, then visit the Capitol, ttt -1 i i nilU J' iinvs auKHvov-vs mv zen and a devoted husband and of Florida A. and M. University: certain his property, such as it is, is just as private as he where the governor's body was in, was mum iioin Aciioui ui oe, kocih- such a conference be held In Lu latner.

lying in state, to pay his last can make it. OUTSTANDING GOVERNOR' civ sjwliisv4 jr oi' vc 4 vtir er children, Mike. 7. and Sw'i rland, Oct. 5.

TVi Cniilat nnla aKaiiI "Even though his life ended-all A 1 rt tinnal ti I 1 I 1 respects to Gov. McCarty's rrh. fia nn th ranitnl dnme't we regaia nis as an outsiana- too soon, he has left a high stand if 5. also survive with their "w''v iniriy-nve years oi ooviev social Lei a rn-m fiv half staff for 10 days.la,-rt nf nnhiir uiii ing 8vernor of the state who had Beria 'Escape' 'mother, the former Olie Brown seem to nave succeeaca oniy ripririid to i i started a great program. We con- ui.

tn v.tv.v. 'J nr-oinii in- ln snai pening ine insunci oi me 'haftRix In Mnnrnw and rlavpd tn r. nAnni A nuut! iViuneral en masse. Treasurer am sure speak aU the Citi-'s der his pa.ssi"g Unct loM to Hi- an hnth nr Ft Ppit. nri.

--Mwwfnjii uu la sister Mrs William D- lj0ndon "nd Washington, property. Many Muscovites dream J. Edwin Larson and School of Florida when I say that all, SlHt 01 rlona- Thomas D. Bailey, both in Share the erief nf his widow Former Gov. Fuller Warren: Seen as Hoax Tapirsnnuiii im nrvtv The Russian communication ap- of owing their own homes outside; lngton, are expected to fly back and tne other niernbers of his fam- "His untinielv death has taken McCarty's brief administration 'peared to reject the Western in-jth- city.

Thousands of them live He will fly to Fort Pierce ta attend the funeral tomorrow, he said. Johns expects to return ta Tallahassee Thursday mornlnj to actively take over the governor's office. The acting governor brings to the office a legislative background that extends back to 1935 when to attend tne services. my." swung u-auer ai a crucial siage in the of a program whichi vitation lor tne Big r'our ioreign in crowded communal apartments Atty. Gen.

Richard Ervln said 'he affairs- He nad included plans for Institutional to.talk abut the only one room to onll their Senator Declares Fake Belief Grows his mettale (sic) warren dibumhuh, tlve assistant to Governor Mc-(Continued on Page Col. 4) 'He was a fine man and a great in iwo poiuicai gtruction unparalleled in Florida's 10CKeo Austrian innepennence irea-own incy snare Kiienen, oain, ioi- fhp Ha iolrc tv at Ka lama riniA thnv onl nrtrvitlrkrm n.lth Aiiapal ntVi the battlefields t.v he same time they and corridors with several oth it i i.nc. tv. campaigns and on SVK(pm nf governor and a Mii(nrivkt i mm ft reparable loss to the ar. riouaa pUrchasing and a study lead- cussea Germany insieaa me er lamines.

iney long lor privacy, him for the difficult years which uniform emnlmment and said thpy had not received. They want a piece of land they thry (R-Wis says the i story that $entaUvf8 from Bradford County Commissioner of Agriculture Na- anead It "A (Continued on Page 8, Col. S) a Western answer to their note can call their own. of Aug. 28 proposing that discus-! IT IS NOT F.ASY was I nrl tamiils! n'ttlnnma nanrlitm In' slons on the Austrian treaty con- This is not easy to in.

to tne Senat fron the timie through diplomatic channels A postwar decree guaranteed every ataies orgins ap- 15Ih embraclng Bradford pear like a hoax land Union Counties. The Russians also did not specify, citizen the right to own his greater calamity hat could have thfl Unlvwsity of Florlda. happened to Florida-certainly has lost a reat alumn(ls none has during my 29 years as a and (riend. We must now close member of the Cabinet I think he ranks witn good of had the makings of going down in; (Continued on Page 8. Col 7) nistory as one of our greatest gov- "I am not convinced one 1 nl COnVinCPQ One n-hera n-hon thai nun WByi Jnlin.

In fh DOCTOR QUOTED Friends Told Of Campaign Strain by Dan By The Aorlta Pr Gov. McCarty won the Demo Charter Plane Crash Kills 22 proposed five-power conference' for most Moscow dwellers the ing the 1937 and 1939 sessions. Ha should meet. dream of having their own house ywrday. but it looks ran unsucceiUifulIv for tne The bulk of the Soviet note was bound to remain a dream.

It more 11 nol.Hwse of RepresenUtives in 1940. a review of past diplomatic ex-(cosl lotJI of money, and govern-) SI VII) CONTIXI changes between the East and the loans to home builders, the Rus-i c- ernors and I think perhaps his very conscientiousness In wanting to do a Job for Florida brought ItlSSHIrHtS LOUISVILLE. Ky. A char- tered airliner rearing the end of West over the German problem though they -exist, are few. flan Ppnce and one of the on cieain Comptroller Clarence Gay: "Nat cratic nomination for governor Of Dan III us wiin loan ni i-uriio flnf umin om nm tv.

tnm, rtor ii pbsv tn off a mat nr from J. Brsiley Odham of San- Js nnunr-H tr.un, K. s.w men. unaer nor- urally this is a great shock and rt ran sn pi rras pn vrsirr. fn.

i.M -1 nnn rpn nr mvnn iini an wj hiuhwh "ir nr toiuMimu, icia icg.siative practice, he was to the people of Florida." Secretary of State R. A. Gray: Plan Memorial v.iy hi jjjuisviiic oiHiiuiiuiu inn jn tW0 trse paragraphs, killmg 22 of the 41 persons aboard. I "It is a tragedy that a young man The survivors were reported in cr.tical condition at three hospl- who is Just entering on the ful- Classmates of Dan McCarty III. be at Elizabeth Cobb Junior Hlnh I inment or nis nrrams should Giving Allies oigaaizauon wnicn win contract to, designated In 19M as president of erect the house.

A Russian often PROllK RFTORTI the 19.13 session by a majoriT of has to build his own home, or Word got out 10 days ago that the 19 senators who would hold gradually put It up over a period McCarthy's Investigations subcom- over for the '53 session, of years as he Is able to find aitttee was looking Into reports! This designation two years ago money, materials and labor. (that Beria had managed to flee before it was assured that Johns' For four summers another cor- to a neutral country and would vould have a seat In the 19.13 respondent and I shared a sum-', welcome protection In this country. 'session, resulted ln Johns being imr home in a Moscow suburb. Subsequently, a Madrid news-acting governor today. He won We ren'ed at a hinh price from paier published unconfirmed re- re-election to the Senate ln 19.12 taken so untimely.

While I've been School today took up a lne twin-engine C4G, one of fiv carrying on in his place at cabinet soiiip of them pitching in their chartered by the Army to transfer: meetings I've always felt he was lunch money, to erect a memorial'!" soldiers from Camp Kilmer, available for decisions." Un the school to Gov. Dan J- to Ft. Knox, nearly Dr. Doak Campbell, president Cat ty. touched ground when undetermined.

ford by 48.000 votes last May after a vigorous runoff primary campaign. He traveled all over the state, often workina from dawn to far Into the night, repeating the strain of the first primary campaign which he opened with an organizational" trip begun ln January. McCarty almost cinched the governorship ln the first primary when he came within heartbreaking closeness to a majority over the four other candidates. DOCTOR VIKWTOINT Atom Data Hit Mis. w.

L. Marshall student trouble developed. r. Ulr uiK.iiii.nwi.ii omul pi o- puns uiai me rui was cnecamg a and nis fellow senators went council representative; said the' After pulling up to about 4M) J. 7'B'.

housing for foreian dlolomats storv that nerln nr riaimJ.u the lin-r nosed down and "'J cones.x.nilents. Irs be Beria. had nnrarh.itert i Drought Hits voluntary. She said at first she with a tejrifie impact. Bodies f0f COLON FL RI'ILDS uiuauiBiii loony ior lurnisrung atomic I thouuht they were taking ua a col- scattered as far as 100 feet.

Some Texas Cattle "uhi weapons information to 'nd 'M tne U. S. allies; I Acrm lh ay There are no Indications as to There have been strong Imlira-'lf1 bV of McCarthy said yesterday, for the hat Johns' policies will be a tions the Eisenhower adminlstra- "lH nfVPr nlm' rt Ume- 011,1 the hls governor. He supported Mc leetion fur enough money to buy w'' decapitated. flowers for the funeral but when STF.WRIFXS SI'RVIVF rr T.

Dozler McCartV'a it was added uo the students had Only the stewardess among the crew of three survived. Resort Air-l'0" "sk Co.n"'M "rxl in ii. mi nun nis nnn wen rnecKing on was ai-CHrty's candidacy In 19.12. house over the four-year period, legi-dly in Spain." but he declined, Slwrtlv after McCartv's heart at. contributed $.10.

personal physician, would not lay I the blame for the heart attack acJ I lUd AALdlll flatly on the campaign, but; txiinted out heart ailments SAN ANGF.IZ), Tex. uie council, acting en- lines Miami, operator oi he lived In a shed. Finally to eliiunraf lie said he expects tack Fi b. 25. Johns said In rs- 'i on uis were rtumn inr iiiriv on own lilt in ve.

then iukiii. ineniiiiea ner as iir- li simirnrr li )mH ilm urmimi n. i.nih -m hH 11,. r- (t'ontlnued on Page Col. ii lisuslly fasten on the man under is "mng some west lex- oecuied to erect a permanent othy Bush.

32. of Miami. far riM.iiKh along so he could lease a staiement on the matter n. mil Kiiirn u'nrtn i i .1.. i.

11 lu umiu uu ni-niri r.uiiiiif. (C'untinued on Page 8, Col, 7) shortly iuess aim ilium. "i i.i iuhh mnin i.w in inr iutoi, a special I ne pnoi. i-api wnorion nionrr, "He was a sensitive person." before widespread la'ns In An- meeting of the student council and his assistant. Co Cant John "baring of some the doctor said.

"He was intense "'''m-d up some rangeland has been scheduled for 8:45 a. m. DcWltt Pickel. 31. both of Sun An- Pn ln'0'mUon which under desire to do the Unlit n.

mere was nope rains would Wefiiu-Mlnv to decide on the type tonlo. Tex ere dead when am- In his thing. II. hn thm0 come in lime to make nter ms- of memoria hulinres arrived io iiiiu UM.O- lent Secretary of Defense Wilson oing rUH." i rm slacked off Mrs. Marshall said Danny, as Tlie status of the soldiers was were not IL ui, New Hoover Committee Now Official WASHINOTON Jf-K new Hony.

er government reorganization coin. Quoted McCartv as No- -ring heat ave he w.is known to his classmates, not clarified Immediately Since mm vil li I uniiif lll Fi lends their cords enl with them on ys.rrnsy u.ai miss a asyini shortly before he was records under Isoi.eof the mnv' popular young is msKing -lots oi progress" In i on tinned on Tage 8. Col. II steis in the school. the transfer.

usurated as governor: don't know whether or nt the atomie field. --s. w- It ass aoith It. These cam' io a man. I 7 v.

r-uuiis do sonietliiria They tear him apart (mission, patterned af.er tha earlier ione but with wider powers, be. Jroines an official entity today In 'onth taking ceiemonleg at tha Fiscal Prohlem DeveloDS Here A rl I r-- i Talhhasscc: S9-63 fiiiiic jiuunr, Tlie 3 member group headed by former President Herbert Hoover Th mkIii frs Hith I t'rrt has seven Republicans and fiva Imocrstle members and half a million doilrs to kvik for further (economies in a government now Si SI cos'irg about TO billions a yesr. The nw commission has a (lilts' not hetd by the earlier one, which Tlie death of tlov, McCarty last night nested an Immediate fiscal problem for the s'ate office The s'ate psvs Its bills and meets Its payroll on the first of ihe month Warren's ate nincess-d teversl days in advance and Uie romp'rnller had 2.1 'n dfts on the siste ttessuiy signed the late ovetmir ready for distnbu i t'on CompUnller Oaf ssid the sr- s. "Srr sw tw- Ob, tf I. WIM iAIi- fit Mtifltftl.ttl ltlllf.1,1 I tin alt ilnr.

tWIrnil Minftrrmti. a I'l-il Nm- a i "ii S1 oNltta Ai.ua- i i. Jtt, ill KV r.l Miil fitim.clii tui AHra i wound up Us wots nearly four years ago IVmdes inquiring Imo efficiently a government ae- 'llfltw 1. rtfnrmilft II III! nfhnr. si IW tt ts Ml 1 SI STATIONS HI I 4 10 bether tha artiviti tfr should be pet formed by ha rants probnbly aould void since ithey are dated ftr tin dra'h of, jerai govrinntrnt at an.

CRI.ATIA 91 i 1.1 1 Hi V) It th governor. C'mv asid he did Vnow hfli i III ll I I'M I i s-'Sj er re astishts hsve Io he The Uw crral.ng th new com mission (l.trctrd II to submit Ha final irpntl not later than Msy Jt, I0W Presumably p'rUminary ra poiU null submitted befntt thai inian or trie i as b'-itterl and the of A.T.ni C.iverpnr (lisrlev t. ai rl rs 10 I it It spw I i T-M Efl If II tifi-rw. a ......1 tim. rhspirsl k.i .1 ik.

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