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SHOWERS TODAY Continued partly cloudy with scattered afternoon showers. High today 93, low tonight 72. High tomorrow 92. (Complete weather report on Page 1, Section 2.) Senrtar THE BIG BEND of FLORIDA More Than 50 Years Vol. XLII, No.

177 TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 26, 1956 PRICE: DAILY, 5c; SUNDAY, 15c ri Vfe Late News tkl i 5t Quarles Says U.S. Bombers Most Powerful Adds Nation To Hold Edge After 3 Years Road WASHINGTON (AP) Whit. House aide Max-wall Rabb declined today to testify before the Senate Inrestigations subcommittee. Sen. McCarthy (R-Wls) called his refusal "inexcusably arrogant" conduct that the Senate should punish as contempt.

Rabb, secretary to the Cabinet, sent word "there is nothing I can add" to his denial of yesterday that he or any of his staff "leaked" official documents to author Robert J. Donovan. Guatemala Riots; 4 Students Slain GUATEMALA (AP) President Carlos Castillo Ar SALINA, Kan. (AP) A B47 bomber crashed and burned in a wheat field near Salina today, killing a three-man crew. CHITOSE.

Japan (AP) A U. S. Air Force jet fighter la missing off northern Japan, in same area where Russian Migs shot down an American B29 19 months ago. There was no suggestion so far that the fighter had run into trouble with Soviet aircraft. mas put the army in control demonstrations in which four The president declared a state of siege modified form of martial law.

The army, assuming control, asked the cooperation of the people to avoid further clashes. The deaths came last night during student demonstrations on the capital's main street against a government crackdown on Communist agitation. In addition to the dead there were 17 wounded. The police fired submachineguns and pistols into the ranks of several hundred students who were marching toward the government palace. About half the marchers were girls.

The students were protesting curtailment of civil liberties under a "state of alarm" imposed ATLANTIC CITY (AP) Nineteen of the 21 Republican governors signed a petition today formally urging and pledging full support to the renomina-tion and re-election of President Eisenhower. INSIDE THE DEMOCRAT County To Paint Name On Equipment 1. Sec. 2 Can Lake Iamonia Be Filled By Canal? 1, Sec. 2 Governor's Dog Found After 3 Days 1, Sec.

2 Milwaukee Wins 11th Straight 8 Anti-U S. Bloc Lacking 2 Seats REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Two parties that campaigned on a joint plattorm to get U. S. troops out of Iceland won 25 seats in Sunday's parliamentary elections two short of the number required to form a government. Official returns were issued today.

These parties the Progressives JULY 1 SUSPENSION DEADLINE STANDS Glimmer Of Hope Dawns In Negro Bus Boycott By DON MEIKLEJOHN Democrat Staff Writer White and Negro leaders talked over the Tallahassee dus situation for hours yesterday in the first public inter-racial conference on the month-old boycott and left with a slight glimmer of hope for a compromise. Some Negro leaders held firmly to demands for complete integration of bus seating, which City officials termed an "impossible request," but other Negroes joined white leaders in urging compromise. The Commission left the door open for a compromise short of full integration. i jew x-C Adm. Ernest King War II Leader Admiral King Dead At 77; Rites Friday PORTSMOUTH, N.H.

Wl Funeral services for Fleet Adm. Ernest J. King, who died yes er-day at the age of 77. will be held Friday at Washington National Cathedral with burial at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. The body will be taken by air to Washington today and will lie in state at the cathedral.

The World War II commander of the U.S. Navy died at Ports- mouth Naval Hospital of acute heart failure induced by high blood pressure, from which he suf- fered for many years. 1 President Eisenhower noted the 1 (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2) Negro View Dean M. S.

Thomas of Florida A. ard M. University urged everything possible be done to keep the bus company from go- i ing out of business. He said he was not making a plea for reto-giession of his race's progress because he believes all Negroes envision a time when they can discard their "second class citizenship." He said the situation is divided into three groups extremists for, extremists against, and moderates of both races, and he urged the moderates to find a solution. John Swilley, a Negro who said he almost felt like he was on both sides, told the group "down deep inside every colored person has the hope he can eventually be removed from sec- (Contintied on Page 2, Col.

3) Honor Davis he spent most of his life here. He was graduated from Leon High School in 1914. Other members of the committee which raised funds for the Davis memorial are J. Edwin White, Circuit Judge A. O.

Kanner of Stuart, the late Atty. Gen. Cary A. Landis, Rivers H. Buford, retired Supreme Court Justice, and Clyde W.

Atkinson, local attorney. Members of the Davis family who will be present will be his widow, Mrs. Frances Davis Gordon of Miami; three sisters, Mrs. Norman Harper and Mrs. Fred Burns of Tallahassee and Mrs.

Kenneth Kimsey of De-Land, and his two daughters, Mrs. Robert Childers of Arkansas City, and Mrs. Edward Bohnsack of Davison, Mich. During the ceremony, retired Justice Buford will sit with the Court. B.

A. Meginniss, dean of the Tallahassee Bar, and Secretary of State Gray will participate in the ceremony. 4. Higher Taxes Voted BULLETIN: WASHINGTON CP! Congrest sent to President Eisenhower today the 33-billion-doilar highway construction bill calling for th biggest public works program in the nation's history. Senate passage completed congressional action on the huga measure.

WASHINGTON (JV-The biggest road building program in tha nation's historv 33 hillion rinllar for broad, straight hiehw rri. crossing the country-was passed 11 tt u) me nuuse ioaay. With it goes a higher 000,000 tax bill for the next 16 years for motored America to make the 13-year program pay-as-you-ride. The House passed the confer ence report on the program by voice vote in a few minutes and with no debate. The measure now has to be ap proved by the Senate.

Keystone of the program is a system of interstate and defease highways to cost soma 27'4 billion dollars. The federal government would pay ooo or 9C per cent of its cost; th states would pay the rest. CONNECTS CAPITALS The system would connect 42 state capitals and 90 per cent of all cities of over 50,000 population. The. new and taxej are: 1.

A 1-cent gallon Increase on the present 2 cents federal tax on gasoline and motor fuels. 2. An increase of 3 cents a pound in the tax on tires, now 5 cents. and a new tax of 3 cents a pound on retread rubber. 3.

A 2 per cent increase in ths present 8 per cent manufacturers' tax on trucks, buses and truck trailers. 4. A new annual tax of $1.50 per 1.000 pounds of taxable gross weight for trucks and buses weighing over 26,000 pounds if regis tered for use on the highways. The new taxes would ba effec tive July 1 if the bill is finally acted on by Congress and eigned by the President by then. Legislators Are Advised To Get Set By The Associated Press Members of the Legislature have been advised formally to get them selves set for a special session call for July 23.

Letters informing the legislator! that a special session is in prospect were sent out from the governor's office yesterday. Gov. Collins said before leaving the capital Saturday for the Na tional Governors Conference at At lantic City. N. that he wanted to give members of the House and Senate advance notice so they could arrange their personal and business affairs for the 20-day special session.

CALL DIE LATER The formal call won't be issued until after he returns the end of next week. Collins had indicated to new. men earlier that he was considering bringing the Legislature back next month to appropriate money to fight the threat to the citrus and vegetable Industries imposed by the Mediterranean fruit fly, ta enact legislation aimed at preserving segregation and to consider other matters. Sen. Edwin G.

Fraser of Mae-clenny said yesterday he had asked Collins to include in the special session call consideration of an appropriation of $1,800,000 for the University of Florida Medical School. Fraser said the money would permit immediate restoration ia the construction plans of sections of the teaching hospital which were eliminated when the building contract was awarded last week to keep costs within the $3,100,000 appropriated by the 1935 regular session of the Legislature, DR. LEAKE DIES GAINESVILLE W-Dr. James Miller Leake, 77. who retired from the Unlvers.ty of Florida in 190 as head of the department of history and political science, died ia a hospital today.

He wis in ill health for leveril years. Bits Of Life Never-' ST. LOUIS W) Franklin W. West, 17, has to write "I will never use a Hollywood muffler again" 3,000 times. The youth, accused of using an illegal muffler on his car, was first sentenced by Magistrate Raymond I.

Harris to write the sentence 1,000 times. West came back with 20 sheets of notepaper but the magistrate discovered it was not all filled In the same handwriting. He tripled the sentence and told West to do the writing in the courtroom. West admitted two girls helped him the first time because they "felt sorry for me." 'Ike's. Dike' MASSENA, N.

Y. (JP After a massive lock of the St. Lawrence Seaway project was officially named for President Eisenhower, construction workers came up with their own name for an adjoining earth dam. They call it "Ike's Dike." Submerged Land Test Seen B- The Associated Press Atty. Gen.

Ervin told trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund today a test lawsuit probably will be required to determine powers of the trustees to sell certain submerged lands in Dade and Palm Beach counties. His remark was prompted by a memorandum from Richard H. Hunt, former Dade County circuit judge, opposing the proposed sale of bottoms adjacent to Ragged Keys, south of Miami. The trustees tentatively had agreed to sell the bottoms to a group of five persons who own adjacent uplands. Hunt represents a group which opposes sale of any submerged lands in Dade County.

He advised the Cabinet board that in his opinion the trustees are prohibited by a 1955 law from selling submerged lands in either Palm Beach or Dade where the adjacent uplands are not separated by a channel at least five feet deep at high tide. DOES NOT APPLY Hunt said the Butler Act. which grants upland owners the sole right to buy adjacent bottoms, does not apply to lands facing the open sea. Ervin said he agreed with Hunt on the Butler Act but said the state acted under another act in selling bottoms to upland owners whose property fronts on the open sea. Ervin said it was his present thinking the trustees should issue a deed for sale of the Ragged Keys bottoms but delay formal execution for 30 days to give Hunt an opportunity to bring a test case in the courts.

Sen. W. R. Neblett of Key West asked the trustees to check into derivation of titles to property holdings in the salt marsh areas of Key West Island. Neblett said although the prop erty has been traded privately since 1820, a question has been raised recently whether the state does not hold some ancient claim (Continued on Page 2, Col.

1) Collins Says He Has No Ambition To Become Veep ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. W-Gov. Collins of Florida said today he has "no ambition to vice presi' dent." Collins said in an Interview he has had no discussions with Adlai Stevenson concerning the vice presidential nomination. Here for the 43th annual gov ernors' conference, Collins said he knows of no movement within the Stevenson camp or at the governors' conference to put him forward as the vice presidential WASHINGTON 00 Secretary! of the Air Force Quarles said to-day this nation's fleet of more than a thousand medium jet B47 bombers "constitutes the most 1 powerful striking force on earth." And three years from now In 1959.

Quarles said, this fleet "with tanker support will remain the largest force of intercontinental! bombers in the active inventory of any country." Quarles stoutly defended the Air Force budget of the Eisenhower administration in an unusual public appearance before a Senate subcommittee a few hours before the Senate was expected to reach showdown votes on this' heated political Issue. PROPOSAL PENDING Pending are a Democratic proposal to add to the Eisenhower Air Force requests and a Republican compromise to make the increase 500 million dollars. Quarles appeared before a special armed services subcommittee that has been investigating rel-tive U. S. Soviet air power and urging more Air Force funds immediately to offset Soviet Russia's expanding air power.

Earlier, Senate Republican Leader Knowland of California; told reporters the Eisenhower ad-: ministration is sticking to its de-; fense budget. He added, however, that the half-billion dollar Repub-lican compromise would be "more acceptable" than the larger; amount proposed by the Democrats. Knowland spoke with newsmen after Republican congressional leaders held their regular Tues- day legislative conference at the White House. With President Eisenhower to the hospital the GOP lawmakers met with Sherman Adams, the President's top aide, and ether White House staff members. TOTALS ADEQUATE Knowland said the administration's position is that budget recommendations of the White House and the Joint Chiefs of Staff are adequate for the country's defense nesds.

"However," said, "the administration recognizes that Congress is a coordinate, coequal branch of the government. "The President recognizes its right and responsibility to make its own decisions, to use its own independent judgement." Big Channel Contract Let APALACHICOLA-A $1,025,450 contract to dredge a channel in the Apalachicola River from the intracoastal waterway to Jim Woodruff Dam was awarded the McCullough Dredging Company of Birm'ngham today. Col. Harold E. Bisbort.

District Army Engineer, said the work will provide a tine-foot channel 100 feet wide with additional width in sharp bends through the entire length of the innrovements aboi't 100 miles. The channel dredging is psrt of the development program under way on the Aoalachicola, Chatt-ihoochee and Flint River system to provide a water route from the Gu1' to Bainbridge, on the Flint River and to Columbus. on the Chattahoochee River. The system also provides food control in the ud-per Chattahoochee Valley, increased stream flow In dry seasons in the Chattahoochee and Aoachicola rivers and eower. said lf.

is expected wi'l begin operations about July 5. The wovk Includes removing about 2.R,50,0OO cubi vards of earth und fbo'it ya-d o- rock, Dlac'ns about 3V 000 cubic of material in levees aM clearing about 30 acres of land. Lighter Side Pres. John A. Perkins of the University of Delaware tells a story from the classroom which illustrates what the small fry knows about economics.

A fifth-grade teacher was preparing her pupils for a unit in history which involved a discussion of "The Puritans in America." She opened the class discussion this question: "Does anyone know what people were punished in stocks?" A precocious voice trilled: "Small investors." and the Social Democrats now face the task of shopping for other partners in an effort to put together a coalition commanding a majority in the 52-seat Althing Parliament. Both gained seats in the elections, and so did the Communists, while the pro-American independence Conservative party of Premier Olafur Thors lost ground. The returns showed the Progressives won 17 seats, a gain of one over their membership in the last Althing. The Social Democrats won 8 seats, compared with their previous total of 6. The Independence Conservative a y's representation dropped from 21 seats to 19.

The Communists moved up from 7 to 8. The National Defense party virtually went out of existence. It was opposed to both the United States and the Soviet Union. The party got no seats at all. Thors had held power with an uneasy coalition of Conservatives and Progressives.

Elections were forced w-hen the Progressives pushed a resolution through the Althing calling for the removal cf U. S. troops from the big NATO base at Keflavik. A battalion of 4,000 U. S.

Army Navy and Air Force men is sta tioned at the base, manning a list ening post for the early warning radar system fronting the Soviet Union's northern borders. Sources here reported Progres sive leader Herman joanasson was ready to try to form a coal! tion government on the basis that of Guatemala today after students were killed. by the president Sunday. The gov ernment charged the students with spreading Communist propaganda. Under the state of siege all constitutional guarantees were suspended 30 days and military censorship was imposed.

This was more severe than the state of alarm. A curfew was imposed from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. and military patrols took over police activities. All radio stations were seized by the government which said its apfintic n'0ra "nopocearv mam.

actions were necessary to mam tain order because of Communist agitation." Soon after last night's shooting, the government ordered censorship of news dispatches sent (Continued on Page 2, Col. 5) he had not intended to have the Americans completely ousted. These informants said a compro mise was in the works to amend the defense treaty. This would call for a reduction in the eize of the U. S.

force and an elimination of a source of domestic friction by payment of an Iceland duty on all goods imported for use of base personnel, including alcohol and cigarettes. New Armory Plans Okayed By Democrat Capitol Staff The State Board of Commissioners today approved a contract with Henry T. Hey of Mari-anna for plans and specifications for a new armory building being planned for Jackson County. Hey will get as his architect's fee 6 per cent of the total cost of the building. Terry Lee, coordinator of State institutions, said he was not certain what the total cost of the building would be.

The State's share will be and Lee said the federal government ordinarily matches State money on a 3-1 basis and sometimes cities and counties also contribute. The expected meeting with city Commission on a plan to rezone property on South Mon- roe street aia not materialize City Manager Arvah Hopkins reported the City is working with State officials on the right-of-way problem and hopes to reach a solution. He said the City suggested the meeting with the County Commission be delayed until further conferences are held with the State on the problem The situation involves secur- ing rights-of-way needed for the widening of South Monroe Street from the Capitol to the railroad underpass. The County planned to ask the City to rezone several sections of the area to allow construction of business if the State Is unable to buy the property. However, Stetson Coleman, owner of the bus company, said he "can see no change in the situation" and declined with thanks a Junior Chamber of Commerce resolution asking him to postpone suspension of all service until July 9 while a plan Is worked out to bolster white patronage of the buses.

"It Is our Intention to discontinue service on July 1 for an Indefinite period with the consent of the City Commission." Coleman said. "It is our feeling that there is an economic demand for this service and it is only on that basis that service should be furnished." He called the boycott "un-American." The intet-racial meeting was called by the City Commission as a possibility of settling the boycott and preventing the Cities Transit Bus Co. from suspending all operations next Saturday as It has announced it will do. Commissioner V. T.

(Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) Dedication On Wednesday For Use In Mosquito Fight Flagpole To Justice Fred White View State Sen. Wilson Carraway aid he has worked for ad-vancement of the Negro throughout the years, but warned: "You are not going to breakdown overnight customs of 200 years by a Supreme Court decision." He traced some of the local advancements and added "I hate to see radicals on both sides taking over, and I'm afraid that is what is happening." Senator Carraway said an illustration of the attitudes of the State Legislature on the ln- Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) U.S. H-bombing Is Indicated TOKYO UP) The United States may have set off another big nuclear blast today at the Bikini testing grounds.

Japan's weather bureau reported. The Central Meteorological Observatory said Its instruments from Hokkaido In the north to Kyushu In the south picked up marked atmospheric pressure changes similar to those recorded after the May 21 test and again en May 28. First indications of a possible blast were earth tremors recorded on the seismographs at Matsu-shiro, in central Honshu, at 3:20 a.m. Just three hours later gauges began to pick up the slower-moving atmospheric pressure waves, ar.d these continued for about 5C minutes, the observatory said. As they had on May 21 and 28, the waves reportedly came from the direction of the Bikini Atoll, about 2.200 miles southeast of Tokyo.

Child Passes Out $36 In Bills To His Friends JACKSONVILLE (PW Four-year-old Michael Lowas took his mother's purse out In the yard and passed out $36 in bills to playmates. Lorry Lowas, the child's father, said there are a lot of children In the neighborhood. "I'm afraid the Ice cream man got most of It," he added. The flagpole in front of the Florida Supreme Court will be formally dedicated in honor of the late Supreme Court Justice Fred Davis in a public ceremony at Indian Head Acres Lake To Be Created County Commission this morning agreed to create a nine-acre lake in Indian Head Acres instead of digging a ditch as previously planned as a measure to fight mosquitoes. noon Wednesday.

The Justices will formally convene to accept the memorial and to place on the minutes a resolution honoring Justice Davis. Shortly after his death in 1937, friends of Justice Davis, led by the late John Kllgore, managing editor of The Democrat, organized the Fred H. Davis Memorial Fund and invited contributions to provide a memorial for him. The committee, headed by Secretary of State R. A.

Gray, raised $3,548. The flagpole waa purchased, a plaque near it was erected and the rest of the money waa used for beautifi-cation of the grounds around the building. SERVED AS SPEAKER Although only 43 at the time of his death. Justice Davis had served as speaker of the Attorney General and Justice of the Supreme Court. Davis was born in Greenville, S.C., but his family moved here when he waa a small boy and To be located between W.

In- dian Head Acre Dr. and E. In- dian Head the lakJ idea was presented by Georga Koucky. He pointed out flooding the low area with surface drainage ltd he much cheaper than going to the trouble of cutting a ditch to carry the water away. He estimated the lake would cost the county about $300.

Koucky will work with the Leon County Road Dept. in making plans for the lake. A creek already runs in the area to be flooded. Commissioner Christie Hall said when finished the lake would give "kids something to do." The Commission indicated it would ask the State Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission to stock the lake..