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Duly LTV ITl Mews Mmmi THE WEATHER Mostly cloudy. Occasional showers and thundershowers. High today, 82 to 85; low tonight, 74. Gentle to moderate winds. Extremes Past 24 Hours: 78-84.

Weather Report and Map en 11B FINAL HOME 59TH YEAR, NO, 110 PHONE 2-6211 MIAMI 30, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1954 At Th Posteffie. Miami Florida Enured As Second Claaa Mauer FIVE CENTS I "7 LI Jbs ft' EDULED if if YOUTH A GING i 1 vZ. Sen. Maybanlc Dies, Inquest Ordered In Death BOATS SUNK AND SMASHED AT BIARTIIA'S VINEYARD Buildings Also Suffered When Hurricane Carol Raked New England AP Wirephoto Carolina Democrat 55-Year-Old Congress Veteran Is Stricken With Heart Attack Associated Presa Flat Rock, N. Sept.

1 Sen. Burnet Rhett May- i.i.ili...ii HWV i i i imiiii fT -dfld" "lp mil bank, 55, 'a lifelong South his summer home here early Carolina Democrat, died at today of a heart attack. Members of his household said he was "feeling fine yesterday" and that death came in his sleep about 12:15 "i 4 iW -m .1.... AftMtrt JAMES T. ROBERTS Sees No Red Plot SAND PILED HIGH AROUND AUTO Big Shoveling Job Ahead For Watch Hill, AP Wirephoto MRS.

DORA ROSENBERG 'Judith Walked In Sleep' Red Plot In Death By MILT Miami Dally State Attorney George Hurricane Leaves 49 Dead in East Property Damage Is Placed At 300 To 500 Million Dollars tempted to link the kidnap-slaying Atsortate4 Boston, Sept 1' The northeast states surveyed devastation and havoc of Hurricane Carol today as the death list mounted to 49 and unofficial estimates placed property damage at from 300 to 500 million dollars. Ann Roberts to a uommunist The slain child's father, James T. Roberts. Baltimore attorney and former United Auto Workers union official, scoffed at the idea and said: "I don't think there is anything to that. If I had been a direct threat to them they would have taken care of me at the time not through my family years later." The interchange came during Roberts' testimony at an inquest before Peace Justice Ruth Sutton into the murder of the little girl just eight weeks ago today.

At the conclusion of the in quest, Mrs. Sutton gave a verdict of "death by strangulation." No one was charged with the crime in the verdict by the peace justice, but there was a strong undercurrent of rumor permeating the commission chamber at Coral Gables city hall where the inquest was held that the Dade County grand jury would issue a pre By DON PETIT Miami Dally Kews Staff Writer A suspect in the strange death of Kenneth Grimm will be given a lie detector test, The Miami Daily News learned today, and an in quest will be held next week. Peace Justice Ruth Sutton of Coral Gables said sho would set the inquest date definitely after she receives reports from police who are working on the case. The suspect is an adult who was questioned by a Coral Gables detective" and a deputy sheriff Wednesday about the strangulation of the 17-year-old boy in a rope trap near his home. A law enforcement officer who requested that he not be identified said the lie detector test would be made in several days, after the man calms down from the strain of the prolonged questioning.

Reply To Statement The statement of Coral Gables Detective Capt. A. M. Bishop that the Grimm boy was murdered brought qualified replies from other officers after it was printed in The Daily News yesterday. Sheriff Thomas J.

Kelly, whose deputies had said the death was accidental, told reporters: "To list the cause of death in any case as accidentia! would indicate that an investigation had been concluded. Obviously, we can't call this an accident if we have an investigation under way." Kelly pointed out that Deputy T. A. Buchanan was working on the case and joined Coral Gables Detective Dell Edwards in questioning the suspect. The sheriff said his men did believe originally that the youth was killed accidentally, but he said no possibilities were being ruled out.

Trussed To Stick State Attorney George Brautigam also denied making the statement to a Daily News reporter after the discovery of the Grimm boy's body Aug. 20 that he was satisfied the death was accidental. Brautigam refused to say what, if anything, he was doing about the case, but he denied he ever said it was closed. The body was found trussed to a stick which was wedged between two trees near the home of the boy and his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Clarence O. Grimm, of 5028 Maggiore St. Flagler Span To Be Closed Flagler Street bridge over the Miami River will be closed to traffic from 11 p.m. today until 6 a.m. tomorrow, it was announced by Sgt.

O. E. Caudell of the Miami Police Department The ancient bridge, although still capable of being operated, needs adjustments and repairs, Caudell said. a.m. His death reduced the number of Democrats in the Senate to 46.

There are 48 Republicans and one Independent. In traditionally Democratic South Carolina there wait no doubt a Democrat would be named to succeed him. A successor probably will be named in the general election Nov. 2." Meanwhile, Gov. James F.

Byrnes, whom Maybank was elected to succeed when Bvrnes left the Senate in 1941 to become a Supreme Court justice, may name a senator to serve until the election. Maybank was reelected in 1942 and in 1948 and had been reassured of reelection to another six-year term as he was unop posed in the Democratic prim ary. The senator's office announced in Washington that funeral services will be held at St Michael's Church, Charleston, S. on Friday at 11 a.m. (EST).

Burial will Continued on Pago 6A, Cot. 1 SEN. MAYBANK DO IT YOURSELF New Section Helps Home Craftsmen The Miami Daily News offers a new service to Do It Yourself enthusiasts today. To overcome the most common stumbling block of "where to find it," The News features an exclusive Do It Yourself Section in the classified pages. Materials and supplies are listed according to geographic locations.

If you want to paint a house, build a porch, paper the playroom, tile the patio, expand the tool make electrical improvements, fix a drain, cover a couch, upholster a chair, work with bamboo, rattan, foam rubber, metal or lumber, or even rent a trailer to cart it all home, you'll find supplies listed for your convenience on the Classified pages of The News in the new Do It Yourself Section. I li i-'jaJth imnniYlilihfnii BY BIG BLOW R. Motorist Hurricane Dolly Now Far East Of Jacksonville By GLENN ALTER Miami Dally Staff Writer Hurricane Dolly, fourth of the season, was located 725 miles east of Jacksonville at noon to day, heading northward at 20 miles an hour. In its 11 a.m. advisory, the Mi ami Weather Bureau said winds in the center wer ejtimated at 65 to 75 miles an hour, with gales extending outward 100 to 150 miles in an eastern semicircle and 50 miles to the west.

"Indications are for a continued rather rapid movement toward the north, with a slow curve to north northeast during the next 12 hours, with some intensification and spreading out of the area of strong winds," the adi-sory, second of the day, said. Shipping Warned At that time the exact location was given as latitude 30.1 north longitude 69.8 west. All shipping in the area was warned to use caution. The hurricane, spawned from an easterly wave which the Weather Bureau had been watch ing for two days, suddenly began picking up speed early today, and at 7 a.m. had been located at a point 650 miles east-north east of Miami.

Two hours later, in the first ad visory on Dolly, the bureau re ported it had moved to a point 675 mues off Daytona Beach, and had increased in movement from 15 to 20 miles an hour. Should it continue in its present course and pick up in strength, the hurricane could strike New England as a folio wup to Hurricane Carol, which ravaged that area yesterday. The bureau, close in touch with the bureaus of northern points and planes which went out from San Juan and Bermuda this morning plans to issue Advisory No. 3 at 5 p.m. From the start the forecasters had been suspicious of the disturbance.

It came at the close of one of the hottest Augusts in the history of the Weather Bureau here, during which the thermometer topped 90 degrees on 11 days. Last Friday a 20-year record was set, with a temperature of 94.1 degrees. The all-time high for the local bureau was 95 degrees in July, 1942. The month finished two inches short of normal rainfall, with a total of 2.90 inches, 1.05 of which fell Sunday. Polio Epidemic In Jamaica Eases, Kingston, Jamaica, Sept.

1 ilb This British island's elementary schools were ordered today to remain closed another week as polio cases in a month-long epidemic rose to 159. Four victims have died. Dr. Melville Mackenzie, a specialist the government sent from London after the epidemic struck, said the number of cases being reported is now on the decline. Secondary colleges and practical training centers will be allowed to reopen at their convenience.

Is Hinted Of Judith SOSIN Staff Writer A. Brautigam today at of 7-year-old Judith labor plot. sentment tomorrow concerning the case. Little Judith, visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Rosenberg, at 1234 SW 13th was kidnaped from there during the night of July 6. Her body was found early the next day in a clump of bushes in a wooded lot on S. Bayshore Drive near Kirk Street, Coconut Grove. Only six witnesses testified at the inquest, although many more were reported to have been summoned. Failure of Brautigam to call Mrs.

Dorothy Lawrence, a friend of Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, caused some surprise. Mrs. Lawrence had accompanied Roberts, according to statements given police, on a tour of Greater Miami night spots during the night and early morning of the kidnap-slaying.

Those who testified were Dr. Continued on Page 6A, Col. 4 was booked on a charge of disorderly conduct. "I did not know it was against the law to take a swim in Miami Beach," Patrona told Judge Lawrence Hoffman in a voice which mingled innocence with a heavy Latin accent Blanket Provided She still wore her scant bathing suit, and a pair of earrings, but gallant policemen provided a blanket which she wore for a court appearance. "When you feel like a swim again," Judge Hoffman said, "take your dip in the ocean and not along the MacArthur Causeway." The judge sentenced Patrona to 10 days in jail, but suspended enforcement on condition of her future good behavior.

SPECTATORS GET EYEFUL New England was hardest hit by the season's third, hurricane which spent itself in Canada aft- er its fierce whirl up the Atlantic Coast. Carol's greatest fury was borne by the Rhode Island and Massachusetts coist lirjp. Cape Cod beach areas werl a rubble of splintered cotUgfs. It was believed the damage might be greater than that of the 1938 hurricane. National Guardsmen patrolled Cape Cod towns to prevent looting.

A major problem for householders and food handlers was lack of refrigeration. Scores of cities and towns were without power. Ice and dry ice were at a premium. One utility said it might be "three days before electric power is restored to some communities and owners of freezers, domestic and commercial, faced heavy loss of stored goods. Throughout Continued on Pagt 6A, Col.

2 IKE TELLS CDA TO SPEED AID Fraser, Sept. 1 Hi-President Eisenhower today ordered the Federal Civil Defense Administration to "cut through any red tape" to provide aid for victims of the hurricane which hit the Northeastern section of the United States. Dancer In A 'Bikini1 Frolics Off Causeway PROBE CHIEF PAYS TRIBUTE TO MAYBANK Washington, Sept. 1 UP) Sen. Watkins (R-Utah) delayed the start of the McCarthy censure hearings today to pay high tribute to the late Sen.

MaybankD-SC)' and call for a moment of silence in his memory. The chairman of the special Senate committee probing charges against Sen. McCarthy told the hearing: "It is with extreme regret and great sorrow that we received the notice, of the death of Sen. Burnet Maybank. He Senate.

His state has lost a was greatly beloved in the great man, his nation a great public servant" McCarthy Hearing, Page 9 80 ON BOARD SS YARMOUTH LAND HERE ILL More than 80 of the 185 passengers aboard the SS Yarmouth Castle were suffering in one de gree or another from food poi soning hen the Caribbean cruise ship put into Miami today, those aboard the ship reported. Although officials of the East era Shipping Co. gave no imme diate details of the sickness aboard ship, the vessel was un der quarantine by the U. Health Department for more than two hours. Passenger's Story Dr.

James Vaughn, the ship doctor, declined to give any de tails of the food poisoning epi sode, but passengers said that at least 80 persons reported to the doctor. Passengers on board re ported that the wholesale illness es started around midnight. The ship returned today after a nine-day cruise to Nassau, Hai ti and Jamaica. The ship left Ja maica Monday. Capt.

Martin Bermeosolo also refused to discuss the illness of his passengers. Eclairs Blamed One passenger told a Miami Daily News reporter that some of the sick people did not report to the doctor for treatment. The passenger said it was the consensus aboard ship that the Continued on Pago 6A, Cel. 5 Muiwns Trrt CITY GREETS THOUSANDS OF SHRINERS By JACK W. ROBERTS Miami Dally Staff Writ The president of the Southeast era Shrine Association and sev eral thousand of his illustrious brothers arrived in Miami today for the start of a rollicking con vention which is expected to at track some 15,000 nobles.

President Grady Gillon, of Ma con, arrived in Miami on a Pictures, Page 9-A special Seaboard train bearing some 600 members of Yaarab Temple in Atlanta. Gillon is ac tually from El Sihah Temple in Macon, but his hometown nobles will not arrive until late today, Miami reuresents a sort of be ginning and end for Gillon. He became the seventh and last vice-president of the association in Miami seven vears a so when the group held its last convention nere. ne step down as presi dent during the current convex tion. Second Train Hero A second special train from Ko-sair Temple, Louisville, ar rived in Miami at noon.

Mahi Shrine of Miami, official host, had a big delegation al Continued on Page 6A, Col. 4 Page 14-A Page 16-B Sports 10-13A Thompson ISA Uncle Ray 15B Weather 11 Whirligig 13A Wilson ISA Wish. Well 8A W'd Game 14B Your Mind 15 McGill 14A McLemore 10A Mergen 14A Portraits 14 Radio, TV 8A Rau 5B Riesel Salty Smith Society ISA 13A 11A 1-4 INSIDE THE NEWS IT IS DEATH TO LIBERTY To combat disease scientists must discover what causes it. Walter Locke suggests a method of attacking the serious plague of communism on Page 14-A LATE BULLETINS Sarge Pulls Crumby Trick Army Kneeds New Baker A REAL DINNER On The Grounds McGill HOW TO GET ALONG With Your Neighbors By FRANK FOX Miami Daily News Staff Writer Patrona Bugg, who packs 101 curvy peJunds in a five-foot frame, and comes from San Salvador, finished, work as strip-tease dancer in a South Miami Beach night club early today and, after a few drinks, decided she'd like to take a swim. A taxicab dropped her off on MacArthur Causeway near Palm Island.

As hundreds of workers drove past shortly after 7 a.m., Patrona calmly disrobed and waded into the water. Wears a Bikini She put on a leopard-cloth Bikini bathing suit, obviously made from a very small leopard. The SS Florida drifted past, heading for port. Patrona waved gaily and the ship listed slightly as passengers rushed to the starboard rail to stare. Traffic began to pile up on the Causeway.

"It stretched for a mile," declared Patrolman George Zoller, of Miami Beach, as he and Patrolmen Sherwyn Finch-ell, Abe Ziskind and Billy Myers, stood at the water's edge and entreated Patrona to come ashore. Traffic Freezes But Patrona wanted to play. She climbed a cable support to a utility pole and waved again. Traffic froze. Finally, lifeguard Al Marshall appeared in a pair of swim trunks, dived into the water and pulled the protesting Patrona to shore.

Sharp coral rocks cut the dancer's foot and after treatment at Mt Sinai Hospital she Jo EmssvJOB Allen 13A Alvarez 15A Amuse. 5-6B Bridge 16A Cantor 5B Classif'd 10-13B Comics 14-15B Crossword 13 Deaths 8B Din a SB Dorothy Dix IB Editorials 14A Emily Post IB Film Clock 5B Forbes 9B Hopper 8B Horoscope 15 Kain IB Locke 14A Markets 93 Ike 'Black Reactionary'-Morse Indianapolis. Sept. 1 (INS) Sen. Wayne Morse, (I-Ore) denounced President Eisenhower today as a "black reactionary" in a speech before the Indiana Federation of Labor.

The former Republican lawmaker charged the President with being a "political and economic" reactionary and said his failure to take action has brought the labor situation to a serious condition. Morse said the greatest hope for the country would be the election of overwhelming majorities for the Democrats in both Senate and House. Substitutes Found For 'TV, Fight Philadelphia, Sept 1 UD Nine hours before fight time, promoters came up today with a substitute bout for the Wednesday night national television network to replace the scheduled welterweight title fight that was kayoed last night when champion Kid Gavilan puffed up with the mumps. Promoter Herman Taylor announced he has arranged a 10-rounder featuring featherweights Ike Chestnut, of New York, and Bobby Bell, of Youngstown, Ohio. The telecast at 9 p.m.

(EST) will be carried by the CBS network. Associated Press Kaiserlaiitern, Germany, Sept. 1 A U. S. Army baker has been convicted here of adding nails, bolts, bottles and a light bulb to bread dough.

Sgt. Leslie C. Keith of Dal-'ton, was sentenced to six months in jail and reduced to the rank of private by a general court-martial. Two loaves containing glass got as far as the GI consumers and were submitted as evidence. Defense counsel contended that Keith acted to spite his superior, M.

Sgt. J. G. Spicer of Hopewell, and never intended that the bread leave the bakery. For Prompt Result-Producing Classified Ad Service Dial 82-3533 Quotes That Live An optimist Is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

RING humorut and MMmahl LARDNER, 15-1933, abort-itory writer. American 'd Puzzle Ne. 13 Is The Bsadlme For 4 1 A.

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