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273 Tallahassee, Florida, Thursday Afternoon, October 1, 1959 Price: Daily, 5c; Sunday, 15c Stiri On 4 A v. fl In Gu On 4c Bits Of Life Some Evidence HUNTINGTON, N. Y. W) Sebastian Romeo says he didn't rob the but police have a few things to go on. A hidden camera took Romeo's picture as he left the Eastern National Bank at East Northport Wednesday with a bagful of currency.

Much of it in marked $2 bills. When authorities set up a roadblock and stopped his car, some of the "deuces" of the $8,935 in loot were flying around on the car scat. 1 Romeo, 30, was charged with armed robbery. Steel Strike Parleys Moved To Pittsburgh Some 700,000 Workers Idle In Situation PITTSBURGH (AP)-Steel negotiators, under White Jlouse pressure to end the 79-day-old steel strike before Oct. 8, opened a new round of contract talks today.

1 Both the United Steelworkers Union president, David J. McDonald, and industry negotiator, R. Conrad Cooper, appeared in good spirits as they arrived for the meeting. They joked briefly with newsmen but otherwise had no comment. The strike has Idled some 500,000 steelworkers and nearly 200,000 employes in allied industries, such as transportation and mining.

The negotiations, held in New York until now, were broken off last Friday by the United Steelworkers, which claimed the talks were getting nowhere. FIRE VIEWER One of the hundreds who flocked to the Esso Standard Oil Co. fire scene just north of Charlotte. S. C.

views blaze from a nearby filling station. A vapor dome tank of 2,000,000 gallons of gasoline exploded. (AP Wirephoto) STONEWALL JACKSON'S HEADQUARTERS DAMAGED The historic home above at Mechum River, onetime headquarters of Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson during the Civil War, is one of many sites hit hard by a tornado in the central Virginia area, leaving a death toll of ten, with three persons still missing. (AP Wirephoto) 700,000 In Parade At Charlottesville, Military Muscle Flexed By China TOKYO (AP) Mae Tze-tung flexed his military and civilian muscles today for Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev with a vast parade celebrating Red China's first decade.

More than 700,000 Chinese took part. Gracie Spawns Tornado, 11 Die CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) A tornado born of a dying hurricane dropped like a bomb on the little community of Ivy near here Wednesday, Eleven people died, ten of them members of the same family. The savage twister swooped down out of torrential rain produced by tropical storm Gracie about 4:30 p.m., two hours after a relatively minor tornado had struck not far away. Twelve of the 14 members of fought their way to the scene over IK 80,000 May Be Involved NEW YORK (AP) Dockwork-ers started walking off the job today in ports along the East and Gulf coasts, launching a strike tha government had appealed against in vain.

The walkout, expected to involvs more than 80,000 longshoremen from Maine to Texas, came unexpectedly after dockers in tha Port of New York agreed to a management request for a 15-day contract extension. But thousands of longshoremen refused to go along. The revolt started with a 900-member rebel local in Manhattan and erupted in ports to the south. Shortly after the first walkouts began with the contract expiration at midnight, the president of the International Longshoremen's Capt. William V.

Bradley, announced here that the union would bow to the popular will. 'ALL RIGHT IN N.Y. "We were all right in New York," he declared, "but we've got to support these other men to the hilt. We'll call everybody off the job today, in all the ports along the East Coast. There won't be any work." The walkout developed despite an appeal by Secretary of Labor James P.

Mitchell, who declared it would seriously affect the nation's welfare. Catching the nation in the midst of a record steel shutdown, the dockers strike was expected to hinder the flow of steel entering East and Gulf ports from abroad. Cargo ships will stand loaded at docks, unable to unload, and workers in related fields will be affected. Passenger liners will be hampered, but not halted. What touched off the walkout in Southern ports was disagreement between dockers and shippers over retroactive provisions covering any new agreements.

AGREEMENT WON Negotiators here won agreement from the New York Shipping Assn. that any gains by the union would be retroactive to the expiration date of the old contract. But similar agreements wera not reached elsewhere. Union spokesmen in Gulf ports refused to follow New York's lead without the retroactive agreement and called on workers in other ports to walk out in sympathy. More negotiations had been set here for Friday but the walkout put the bargaining schedule in doubt.

The ILA has asked for a three-year contract providing for a 50-cent-an-hour package increase, including benefits and wages. Tha 25,000 dockers in the Port of New York get an average of $107.76 a week. In other ports the longshoremen earn an average of $2.80 an hour. Flare Sighting Revives Search For 5 In Gulf ST. PETERSBURG (AP) A search for five men missing In the ulf of Mexico since Sept.

19 has been revived following the sighting of flares and requests from relatives. Coast Guard sent an amphibious rescue plane and the cutter Nemesis to patrol an area 65 miles northwest of Clearwater Wednesday after receiving the requests and a report from a ship in tht area that flares had been sighted. The cutter was ordered to remain on patrol overnight and the plane extended its search four hours after dark in hopes of spotting another flare. SLATED TO RESUME The plane, a P5M, was scheduled to resume its patrol early today. The first search was called off after four days of searching by Coast Guard, Navy and Air Force planes failed to turn up the men.

The men, Leo Barrlngton, Frank Connors, John Williams, Marshall Miller and Ronald Deese. left Fort Myers on a fishing trip in the 26-foot cabin cruiser Capa-doo. A Coast Guard officer said the general current pattern sweeps to the northwest, where the flares were signted, and if the men were in a disabled boat it could I northwest of Clearwater by now. the families of Ervin Morris about 48, and his son Ervin 21, were at home in the duplex they shared. Nine perished almost instantly, their bodies thrown with explosive force upon a wooded hillside.

The remaining three were injured. A hundred yards distant, the roof blew off the house of Raymond C. Bruce, 58, as he and his wife Lilly, 56, and their son sought refuge in the kitchen. A stone chimney toppled and Mrs. Bruce was killed.

'HEARD A ROARING "I heard a roaring up the back orchard it sounded like a train. I saw Ervin Morris running into his "house, and then the roof started coming off my house," said Bruce, who with his son suffered only minor injuries. "The roof went up about 50 yards. My wife and I ran back toward the kitchen. Then the chimney came down.

More of it hit my wife than me." Witnesses said the Morris duplex disintegrated. Rescuers who Game Of Skill ANNAPOLIS, Md. 0P The Workshop for the Blind, which runs a concession in the basement of the state office building here, got tired of replacing soft drink bottles in racks. A sign over the empty cartons now reads: "Test your skill. Place round bottle in square hole." Trouble Ahead ALBUQUERQUE.

N. M. (fP) Attorney Don Moses was asking prospective jurors their occupation. A woman was asked: "You're a housewife? You don't work?" When the laughter had died down Moses said: "I guess I better not go home tonight if my wife hears about that question. Disarmament Priority Seen At U.N.

Meet UNITED NATIONS, NY. (AP) Disarmament is slated for rior-ity when the U.N. Assembly's main Political Committee gets down to business. A storm is blowing up oer which arms proposal will get top billing. At least two groups with rival plans are reported maneuvering to head the list when the five disarmament items come up for debate in the 82-nation committee.

The committee starts work sometime next week. The Soviets reportedly are making a strong bid to head the agenda with Premier Nikita Khrushchev's proposal for total disarmament within four years. FACE OPPOSITION They are running into opposition from a large segment of the Asian-African block, which wants priority for Morocco's demand that France cancel plans for testing an atomic bomb in the Sahara desert. Also on the committee's agenda are an Irish appeal to restrict nu-! clear weapons to the nations that i now have them the United States and the Soviet Union; an Indian call for a per-j manent ban on all nuclear tests and Secretary General Dag Ham-marskjold's report on the current international efforts at disarmament, A J-STAGE PLAN Britain also has broached, a three-stage disarmament plan that will go before the 10-nation East-West committee slated to start i arms talks in Geneva early next year. The British have not asked that their proposal be put on the Assembly agenda.

They are understood to feel it should be part of the general disarmament report rather than a separate topic. fox, too, moved off to sit beside its friend and watch the proceedings. I Parker had decided that he had done all that was expected of him when another little gray fox peeked out at him. This time the lieutenant put added authority in his- voice and screamed like a Redstone missile guard. That did it.

All three foxes made strategic withdrawals, then sat down and watched from nearby. Parker gave up. When he left the three little foxes were still nosing about the parking lot. The missile command headquarters building is in the middle of Redstone's Red regime would take Formosa "by one means or another." In an obvious reference to the United States, he asserted that "no foreign country can Interfere in this." Khrushchev, leader of the world Communist bloc, went to Peiping (Continued on Page 8, Col. 6) Gas Storage Tank Blast Injures 9 CHARLES, S.C.

(AP) A storage tank containing two million gallons of gasoline exploded with a thunderous roar at the Ello Standard Oil Co. terminal here today. The blast demolished two small frame houses a block away, Injured at least nine persons and touched off a spectacular fire that threatened other tanks containing millions of gallons of fuel. Six of the injured were In one of the two small houses that were demolished. Only one of the Injured was believed seriously hurt.

THREE MILES AWAY The Esso plant is about Hire? miles from the downtown area of this port city that was badly battered Tuesday by Hurricane Gracie. Fire fighters could not get close to the huge blaze because of the fumes and intense heat. The heat melted asphalt paving several hundred feet away. In the immediate vicinity of the flaming tank was one containing one mUlion gallons of gasoline. Also nearby were two tanks containing -four million gallons of diesel fuel.

Firemen battled to wet down the other tanks- to keep them cool. Cause of the fire was not determined immediately. The decision to resume the talks was made in Washington Wednesday after the President talked with union and Industry leaders in separate meetings. He reportedly told both sides in firm language that he wanted collective bargaining to continue. CALLED INTOLERABLE The President, who has referred to the strike as an intolerable situation, reportedly did not discuss issues during the meetings.

He also avoided discussing the possibility of invoking emergency provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act which would put the mills back in operation for an 80-day "cooling off" period. But there was a strong implication that the President might take such action if nothing hopeful comes out of the negotiations before Oct. 8 when he is scheduled to return to Washington from a vacation at Palm Springs, Calif. Eisenhower's exact words were that he sincerely hopes "an agreement can be initiated before my return to Washington next week." After their talks with the Presi dent, industry leaders and union officials met for two hours in a downtown Washington hotel. It was.

the first time that top industry executives, headed by Chairman Roger M. Blough of U.S. Steel, had talked to union leaders since the strike began. Industry negotiations have been handled by a team of lower-echelon executives headed by R. Conrad Cooper, a U.S.

Steel executive vice president. After the session, Cooper and President David J. McDonald of the Steelworkers said in a statement: "We have had a frank and constructive exploration of viewpoints. The industry and union negotiating teams will, In the light of today's discussions, resume collective bargaining in Pittsburgh tomorrow morning at 10 a.m." MEETING IS HELD There was no elaboration on the statement, but one well-placed source said he was convinced that a basis has been reached for what he called a serious effort to reach a settlement. Joseph F.

Finnegan, director of the Federal Mediation and Con ciliation Service who took part in the New York talks, stayed away from the meeting in Washington. He said he asked the negotiators to call him into the negotiations if necessary and added: "If they can do it under their own steam, God bless them." Sherman Minron III NEW ALBANY, Ind. (AP) Sherman Minton, 68, former Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. senator from Indiana, was listed in critical condition at St.

Edward's Hospital today. Minton suffered a heart attack Wednesday. Tracy Bishop, a man of sound reasoning. Bishop strolled over to the parking lot. To his amazement, there was not one fox, but two.

Enough of this," said Bishop. He called the MPs. Now if anybody at Redstone Arsenal is of sound reasoning, its Lt. John Parker of the 201st Military Police Company. He hurried to the scene.

Peeking at him from behind a car was a little gray fox. Here, surely, was a situation not covered in the training manual. So, Parker waved his arms and made like a commando, and the little fox skittered. But then there was another one. Parker made like an angry Marine this time, and that little Tropical Storm Gracie Dying In Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA (APi Tropical storm Gracie, dying by the hour, headed northeastward through Pennsylvania to its grave today after giving birth to a tornado and taking 21 lives, possibly 24.

Gracie first struck the U.S. mainland in South Carolina Tuesday. Sweeping over Pennsylvania, it dumped up to three inches of rain in some isolated spots. Basements were flooded and several roads washed out in Erie. High waters in Meadville reportedly caused a power failure, darkening half the city.

TORNADO SPAWNED a 1 i the ex hurricane spawned a tornado in the com munity of Ivy near Charlottesville, killing nine members of a single family. Three children of the same family were missing and believed dead. The family shared a farm duplex shattered by the twister. A 10th victim, who lived near the family was burled by toppling stones from a chimney of her demolished home. In addition to the Ivy deaths, Gracie killed seven persons in South Carolina, two in Florida and one each in Georgia and North Carolina.

But Grade's death rampage apparently is all over. The Weather Bureau said its winds have continued to decrease. Gracie will be encountering rougher terrain in Its movement northeastward. Rough terrain causes friction and decays and slows down hurricanes and their remnants. Hurricanes thrive on water.

Hannah Could Be Blown Out To Sea Again MIAMI, Fla. (AP)-Within 24 hours, weathermen may know if Hurricane Hannah will strike the U.S. mainland. Today the storm was located about 800 miles east of Jacksonville. By Friday morning, Hannah should bury itself deep in a strong westerly wind current which can blow the severe hurricane back out to sea, leaving the mainland safe, forecaster Paul Moore said.

He added that it looked today as if it Would. F. R. Hoercher Dies Of Bullet ST. PETERSBURG (AP) Frank R.

Hoercher, 60-year-old former member of the Pinellas County Commission and Republican leader here, died Wednesday from a .22 caliber bullet wound in his chest. Police said the death was an apparent suicide. Hoercher was a former county park superintendent and was elect ed to the commission In 1954. Mrs. Hoercher said her husband suffered a heart attack last year and decided not to seek re-election.

Va. flooded and almost Impossible impassable roads said the largest piece of its furnishings they found was a twisted refrigerator. Over the foundations of the duplex lay a tangle of fallen trees. Bodies were found scattered over an area of 400 yards. The Morris family dead were Ervin his wife Frances, also in her late 40s; their children, Wilmer, 15, Ruby, 15, and James, 18; Mrs.

Ervin Morris 18, and her two children, Peggy, l'i, and Michael, 7 months; and George Morris, 40, a brother of Ervin Morris Sr. The body of Shirley Ann Morris, 3, was discovered today. The family relationship could not be immediately established. Ervin Morris 21, and two children of the elder couple, Mary, 12, and Georgia, 13, were waiting out the rain at the home of friends and escaped. They earlier had been reported missing.

A neighbor of the Morrises said (Continued on Page 8, Col. 3) Palm Springs airport in the late afternoon, then transferred with the sand swirling to a Marine Corps helicopter for the short hop in La Quinta. At the airport a crowd of about 2,000 persons cheered the smiling smiling President as he waved aloft a beribboned new putter presented to him on behalf of the community by Mayor Frank Bo-gart. A card tied to lt read: "Wel come, Ike, to the winter golf capital of the world." Eisenhower plans to remain in this desert country the plush playground of many Hollywood personalities until a week from today. White House press secretary James' C.

Hagerty announced the President's daily routine would be golf each morning, lunch and a nap, then sun basking In the afternoons at Allen's place at the edge of the Santa Rosa Mountains. The evenings will be devoted to bridge playing. Allen's desert residence of white-painted adobe a three-bedroom house is an expensive place with two swimming pools. There are 11 golf courses in the area. The 65-year-old.

Chinese Com munist leader put on Itis big show cf force in Peiping less than 24 hours after his guest of honor, in two important speeches, had in effect urged Mao to keep the peace of Asia. THEY TAKE SALUTE Standing on the high red walls of the Forbidden City's magnificent Gate of Heavenly Peace, Mao, Khrushchev and the big men of the Communist world took the salute as 144 big guns, 155 jet fighters and bombers and 99 tanks roared past. Peiping radio, which gave a i running account of the ceremonies, aid it was the biggest military display ever made by China's Communist rulers. Troops of the Red army, navy and air force marched by under the eye of their new chief, Defense Minister Lin Piao, the man whose Chinese "volunteers" drove en. Douglas MacArthur's forces back from the Yalu River in Korea.

TALKS TOUGH Lin talked tough about Nationalist-held Formosa. In an order of the day to his, troops, he said the Richardson, Oilman, Dies In Ft. Worth FORT WORTH, Tex. (AP) Funeral services for Sid Richardson, one of Texas' fabulously wealthy oil men, will be held here Friday at Broadway Baptist Church. Evangelist Billy Graham will assist Richardson's pastor, the Eev.

H. Guy Moore. Burial will be at Athens, where Rich ardson was born. A business associate said Rich ardson and Graham had been good friends for about 11 years. Richardson, a bachelor, died Wednesday of a heart attack on the 27-mile-long Island he owned off the Texas coast near Corpus Christi.

He was 68. HIS SURVIVORS He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. E. P. Bass of Fort Worth and Mrs.

Howell E. Smith of Dallas; nephew and, business Perry R. Bass of Fort Worth; and a niece, Mrs. James B. Kirksmith of Dallas.

Richardson, who shunned publicity, was ranked by some estimates as one of the richest men In the country. His wealth wa3 difficult to estimate because much of it was In underground oil with undetermined potential. He was a friend of Presidents Eisenhower and of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He broke a lifetime of loyalty to the Democratic party to support Eisenhower for the presidency.

McElroy Sees Chiang TAIPEI, Formosa -(AP) U.S. Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy, on a Far Eastern tour, conferred today President Chiang to Sand Greets Ike -Not Famed Sun Bv MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) A deeply embarrassed Chamber of Commerce promised President Eisenhower good golfing weather today the warm sun prescribed for Stay Just Out Of Reach Of MP 3 Foxy Foxes Park In Parking Lot At Redstone Missile Base his cold.

The President flew across the continent from Washington Wednesday, out of the fringe of tropical storm Gracie, only to arrive in this desert resort country in the midst of a gusty sand storm. There just wasn any sunshine. But Eisenhower, trying to 6hake a nagging cold he has had since Labor Day, obviously was pleased bv a heartv welcome and the prospect of plenty of golf during the next week. He arranged a match today at the El Dorado Country Club course, about four miles from the home of his host, old friend George E. Allen, at nearby La Quinta, Calif.

The pregame announcement was that he would play with Allen, Washington businessman who also has a farm near the fresiaeni i at Gettysburg, William E. Robinson of New York, board chairman of Coca Cola; and Freeman Gosden, the Amos of the famed Amos 'n Andy radio team. Allen and Robinson traveled from Washington with the Presi-; dent aboard his Air Force 707 jet plane. The party arrived at the By JACK STILLMAN HUNTSVTLLE, Ala. (AP) The Army Ordnance Missile Command says the three little foxes at Redstone Arsenal have absolutely nothing to do with any space ex periment.

The story of the three little foxes began Wednesday night, when Mrs. Carolyn Harper, a secretary, left the AOMC headquarters building about 8 p.m. Mrs. Harper had been working overtime. She was tired.

She thought that her eyes were playing tricks. But between Mrs. Harper and her automobile, there was a fox. No doubt about it. She ran back the building and told the guard,.