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Sports Comics And Classified MIAMI DAILY NEWS Second Section Local News PHONE 3-1 191 MIAMI 30. WEDNESDAY EVENING. JAN. 15. 1947 PHONE 3-1 191 with GRACE WING OTC ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS DUE HERE FOR VET HOUSING PROBE Executives To Investigate Charges Of Fraud Brought By Servicemen Top executives of the veterans housing enforcement unit of the OTC in Atlanta 'were on the way to Miami today after -expressing "alarm" over the situation here.

T. P. Gore, chief of the division, and his assistant, N. T. McEIroy, 1 j' 3..

-J ill 5 1 1 v-rr-zr Jrl I 1 rfj '-ill lit fl il 1 i Uta. City Drafting Sport 'Fix Ban Hosea Asks Fine Of $500, Jail Term SHELTER: Mention Government rut to a newcomer in thee part and he'll think you're talk-in jr about income tax. Or point out proudly that the Miami harbor i a bar pilot's delight and hell expect to find the waterfront peppered with saloons. Actually, old timers are likely to regard Government cut our private gateway to the sea as one time that Dade countians got a fair share of their paid-up premiums back from Uncle Sam. Construction of the cut, which stretched over a period of 35 years counting the latest improvements, has cost the federal government a total of $7,000,000.

That ain't seaweed! To some landlubbers a jetty may sound like some term left over from the air maneuvers. But to many of us green-faced passengers aboard the inbound KS Florida the other morning the jetties that bound Government cut looked like outstretched sheltering arms for whose embrace we yearned intensely. We had been bucking a head-on wind in the Gulf Stream since midnight, and those two stone portals were among the most beautiful sights I had ever seen. Why has not some poet, I wondered, written an ode extolling the beauties of those jetties, their clean true lines breaking through the swirling confusion of the tides (o-o-o-h In a minute well he inside I hope.) will look into the veterans housing program to determine if additional investigators are needed, the Atlanta office reported. Only five Investigators have been employed in the local" office since OTC took over enforcement of the veterans housing program last month.

A spokesman In the Atlanta office also said that John G. Simms, Miami area rent director, had been asked to. furnish figures on complaints and violations to date. The sudden move by the OTC was apparently inspired by the United Veterans Council of Dade county, which-last week asked the Department of Justice for a probe of the veterans housing program it described as "scandalous." The council also sharply rapped hf- (- Commissioner Fred W. Hpsca, today requested City Attorney John W.

Watson, jr, to prepare an ordinance -providing a maximum fine of $500 and 60 days in jail for anyone convicted of fixing, or otherwise tampering; with sports events here. STILL ANSWERING QUESTIONS Billie O'Day, WIOD woman's commentator, left, quizzes former Quiz Kids Inez Fox, center, and Emily Anne Israel on "To The Women" show. Now freshmen at the University of Miami, the Chicago girls were contestants on the Quiz Kid program when they were kids. The ordinance will be presented enforcement tactica of the OTC, at that. rime at next week's meeting of the city commission, and Hosea said he It 1 -wam disclosed todav that the! 30,000 Expected To See would press for its immediate council had asked for an "outside assistant United States district at adoption as an emergency measure.

Such procedure would elim torney. "free from local Famed Quiz Kid Broadcast to assist U. S. DisL Atty. Herbert inate the 30-day delay ordinarily S.

Phillips in the probe. Allen Simmon, secretary of the council, said Hollis V. Knight, as Participants Due To Arrive Here Next Tuesday For Program sistant U. S. district attorney at Gainesville, had been asked to take COURT ORDER KEEPS LANDLORD FROM EVICTING WOMAN Mrs.

Susie Reinberg was to have been evicted today by the sheriff from her home at 342 SW, 19th road, but a temporary restraining order was issued i almost at the last minute by Federal Judge John W. Holland which stayed execution of the eviction. The order was issued by Judge Holland on application of the office of temporary controls, which argued that the landlord had failed to get required OPA consent for eviction proceedings. the job because of his "intense in by the U. S.

army engineers and the man to ask about it is CoL George Brown (retired), who was senior superintendent of the engineers from May 1925 until November, 1945. Ills territory included the coastline from Melbourne to Key West, and he personally knows every ripple in the tide and many of the fish. The colonel's father was a Union terest in veterans' affairs." Knight couldn't accept since his By LOUISE LEYDEN (Miami Dally News Staff Writer) An estimated 30,000 persons will attend the NBC coast- resignation takes effect Feb. 1, but attendant upon adoption of city ordinances. An informed poll of the commission members today indicated that Mayor Perrine Palmer, and Commissioner R.

Gardner would join with Hosea in the adoption of the anti-sports fix measure. Commissioner Leonard K. Thomson intimated his attitude was favorable. Meanwhile, a move was under way today- for the introduction before the April session of the legislature of a bill to make tampering with sports events in Florida a criminal offense. The projected measure will be sponsored by Reps.

he recommended the appointment of Jack Simpson, who currently is to-coast Quiz Kid broadcast in the Orange Bowl stadium Jan. 26, when the famed youngsters appear under auspices of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. working in the Jacksonville dis soldier who took his family to trict, in a letter to Sen. Pepper. Knight also told Pepper he un This wilt top the all-time high derstood that "Congressman George of 25,000 on the west coast some Smathers is taking an active in time ago, according to Judge 1 George E.

Holt, Dade county terest in pressing this probe and any assistance you can be to the veterans council in securing an I chairman of March of Dimes. The program will be opened by R. B. Gautier and William Lan-taff, and Gautier expressed confidence that it would meet with prayer by Dr. Roy Angell, pas energetic prosecution will be great ly appreciated." the support of the entire Dade tor of Central Baptist church, and president of Greater Miami Mm-'isterial association.

1 The progTam will then be started DIMES TO FIGHT TOLIO Scenes like this on the steps of the central postoffice were familiar throughout Metropolitan Miami today as the March of Dimes cam-paign got under Asst. District Attorney, Ernest Du-haime contributed a dime to the coin card held by Barbara Robson, 8, of 1827 SW 11th ave. Barbara is a third grade student at the Riverside elementary school. (Story On Page 1-A.) Miami Daily Kews photo by Lbcm delegation. 700 Employes Funds Allot fed For Dade Roads District Will Get 10 Million Total The state measure, Gautier explained, will be patterned after the New York law, as well as a when four high school bands pa End Strike At statute introduced into the lower rade across the field.

Taking part 1 will be bands house of congress this week by Richter Hotel irom Miami n-di- Rep. F. Edward Hebert The national legislation would Miami Gives Aid To Vet impose a maximum fine of $10,000 Robert Richter hotel was free of Approval of a 510,000,000 road and 10 years in jail for violators 'I I V- picket lines today and some 100 convicted in interstate sports building budget for the nine-county events. employes who had engaged in an eight-hour walkout were back on fourth district area including Dade, was reported by Herman the job. son high school, di Fred.

McCall f'" Andrew Jackson, Stefan Jones; Ponce de Leon, Paul Cre maschl, and Miami Beach, John Coleman. 100 children who have been cured of po-. The workers had left their posts Brenden Bracken Fultz, state road board representa tive here. at -the Miami Beach hotel about 4 p. m.

yesterday and placed pickets around the establishment in pro Highlighting the 1947 highway program is the planned widening Due In Miami test, they said, against the violation Holt and paving of NW 27th ave. from of a contractural agreement under Who Wanted To Sell Eye Six Jobs, Two Trailers Offered Young Father Worried Over Family By S. W. MATTHEWS (Miami Daily Maf( Urttr Life looked brighter today for one Miami family fcr which the sun wasn't shining yesterday. There was in prospect for thei 27-year-oid veteran father a placc for grocenes and none for the me to live and half a dozen offers "n0 hl jobs.

Yesterday he was desperate baby rluire- enough to walk into The Miami The job offers, telephoned to Tl-Daily News classified department Daily News, were given him todrv which they had been. employed in 36th st. to Opa-locka and extension of the avenue northward to the lio will romp across the field demonstrating what proper care and Brendon Bracken. Britain's war the North. QUIZ KID INJURED time minister of information, was Broward county line.

attention can do for victims of A former employer, Joseph A. due here late thia afternoon for an Richter, had promised them room IN CHICAGO MISHAP Also included in the projects for this year is the widening to 24 an ad overnight stay on his way to Nas- iuu( nuu Will II1BKC dress on behalf of March of Dimes, sau. The former if feet of U. S. Highway One from South Miami to Homestead and and Robert L.

Fidlar, of WIOD, and board free, a committee for the employes said. When Richter leased the hotel to its present manager, Harry Lanski, the latter refused to honor the contract, they said. British official is will make announcements over the widening of U. S. One to a four i JT public address system.

lane drive from Fort Lauderdale Quiz Kid Naomi Brooks, 8, suffered a broken collar bone when she was struck by an automobile in Chicago last night. Quiz Kid headquarters in Miami was informed today. But she will appear in Miami Jan. 26 on schedule, her doctor said. 1 1 irom fr 'i New York, but I Col.

Frank Vi JLjx When the Quiz Kids take to the northward for 14 miles. Lanski reported today that the air at 4 p. m. they will be heard seeking to run an advertisement he is going to check on me Clarke, at whose "1 JT workers had returned to their jobs on their own accord "and at ray over 139 stations across the Unit Other Dade projects include $350,000 for improvements on the Beach drive from Baker's haulover Miami Beach ed States. Included on the pro home Bracken terms," about midnight, but refused to divulge the nature of the to sell an eye as the final way he could figure to get money needed by his wife and three children.

He thought someone might buy the eye for a cornea transplanting. will be a guest agreement. gram will be the Miami Quiz Kids now being selected by The Miami Daily News and radio station WIOD through a series of contests Cash Lacking However, Charles N. Smolikoff, during his brief visit, said he was still awaiting information as to conducted in the WIOD studios. an operation he had read about in the newspapers.

Instead, he was brought to the news room and the state director of the CIO, who intervened in the dispute said that the employes had received adjustments, which included room and to just north of Sunny Isles; replacing of two wooden bridges on 79th st. causeway with concrete and metal spans; widening and paving NE 79th st. from Biscayne blvd. to the west end of the causeway; replapingr wooden bridges on Tamlami trail with concrete bridges, and improvement of Mow-ry drive from Homestead to Alla- Bracken Special guests at the broadcast will be patients of Jackson Memo the time of ar right away as soon as he can his wife about the trailers. Ju how he's going to do that had hi puzzled, for he has been hidir from his wife his offer to sell eye.

"Maybe it sounded like I wr crazy," he said. "But I still don want charity, and I don't want pec pie remarking to my wife aboi the matter. I just want a chanc to make a living." That was the chance, Mr. an! Mrs. Miami, which you opened fo him today.

A better job, a place live that won't require nearly twe thirds of his wages, and a ner For Removal Of Rail Bumps story of his plight was printed. rival. board for some and a daily living Today he had the offer of two rial hospital, polio ward, their nurses, and convalescants of Pratt In Nassau, Bracken will be trailers, one from the Greater Mi guest of Lord Beaverbrook, pub General hospital. Coral Gables, and expense allowance for others. Christian Science ami Trailer Coach Dealers associa lisher of the London Daily Express.

Nautilus Veterans' hospital, Miami Spine-jarring bumps at 11th st. pattah drive. tion in co-operation with the frontier Kansas during the Indian fighting. And from the driest state in the Union, young George found his way to the one with the longest coastline Florida in 18S6 across the Gulf of Mexico. The colonel's first visit to Miami was 10 years later as a civilian instrument man with the army engineers to survey a proposed 12-foot channel project from the mouth of the Miami river south to Cape Florida.

Nothing came of that, and he was back three years later to survey the route of the present cut Something did come of that and the project was adopted in 1902. the Florida East Coast' railway, undertaking, to cut what Is now the fisherman's than net south of Fisher's island. The engineers share, which turned out to be Government cut as we know it, was an 18-foot channel only 100 feet wide inside the bay. The connecting link from bay sea was cut through dry land and from the spoil banks thrown up by the dredging evolved the base of MacArthur causeway, the colonel pointed out. The FEC threw up its end of the bargain eventually, with court sanction, and in 1917 the city of Miami adopted the project and passed a bond issue for its completion, the inside channel this time on the north side of Fisher's island.

Between 1928 and 1930 the channel was deepened to 30 feet throughout its whole length. The jetties, Col. Brown told me, are 1,000 feet apart at their tips, and the channel between them, in which the cross-currents swirl menacingly when the tide is moving, is 500 feet wide. In 1938 the north jetty was extended to a length of 3.000 feet and the south one to 2,750 feet. The northernmost one is longer, the colonel explained, to keep sand, which drifts from north to south along our shoreline, from washing in and clogging the channel.

Constructing jetties is CoL Brown's specialty. In extending ours, he said, he resorted to a "rule of thumb" and managed to hit it just right since 1939 there has been virtually no maintenance cost at all for dredging. So sturdily built are they that only after the 1928 hurricane were there even minor damages to be repaired. Building a jetty, the way he explains it, sounds so simple you just run a guideline between the points you want and dump your material off a barge, like precision bombing. There's no underwater placing of rocks, no mortar, no nothing much.

A 50-foot-wide base of native coral rock tapering upward like a pyramid is capped with a meringue of heavy granite boulders weighing from 300 pounds to 10 tons each, and swung In place with a steam derrick. The granite capping rises seven feet above mean low water, that being the anticipated maximum from any hurricane. STONE: Granite holds the lighter coral in place against buffeting by wind and wave, and is the heaviest material available in practical quantities. It's costly, though. The granite used in the Government cut jetties eame from the Georgia-South Carolina border counties and was shipped in by train.

Earlier granite shipments to this area all came by schooner from New England except those in the Key West batteries which came from Stone Mountain, Boss! Leaving the granite placed as Is without mortar to fill the ciacks is the colonel's idea and it has been adopted generally. Instead of a solid surface which in Beach. He will leave for his destination aboard a Pan American Airways and Biscayne blvd. railroad cross The four-lane US 1 project from Lecture To Be Given The east section of the stadium Fort Lauderdale is expected to gain United Trailerites association, the other from Olin's 2830 NE Second ave. ing must be endured by motorists plane at 8:40 a.

m. tomorrow. will be reserved for negroes. Ralph Wagers, C.B.S., of Chi final okay at a highway commis a while longer, it appeared today. The Quiz Kids, who will be put cago, will deliver lecture on the sion meeting scheduled Feb.

28 in A trailer, he figured, was his Louis Lemont Recovers Sanford, Fultz said. greatest need, for of his $36 weekly start in life for a rather bitte The city doesn't have the money to fix it right now, officials topic, "A Prophetical Religion," at 8 p. m. Friday at the First Church Total $53,602,261 road budget for Baritone Louis Lemont is back through their paces by Joe Kelly, will arrive in Miami next Tuesday by train and will be met at the station by Mayor Perrine Palmer, young man and proper food for wages, $22 was going out for room rent. That, left very little money 1947 was set Monday in a Pinellas at Bill Jordan's Bar of Music fol mother and her children.

county meeting, from which Fultz lowing a bout with laryngitis. For Resurfacing of Biscayne blvd. by of Christ, Scientist, Biscayne blvd. at 19th. st.

and Mayors Herbert Frink, of returned today. Of the total, he several days Lemont was unable the state road department left the ALLOCATIONS TO BE CUT He is a member of the board of to use his voice. Neil Fontaine, said, $33,061,287 is in new funds, with the remainder being a carryover from 1946. Miami Beach, and Thomas C. Mayes, of Coral Gables.

They will be escorted through the downtown district to their hotel on a fire en lectureship of the First Church of city spur track rails two and a half inches below the street level. handsome young singer, took his Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass. place in the Bar of Music show. Elevation of the tracks flush Bonded Bourbons, Scotch gine. All will be accompanied by their mothers.

with the street is the responsibility of the city but "there is not enough Semifinals of the contest being left in the port fund to make the repairs," said R. T. Spangler, Mi ami port director. conducted by The Miami Daily News and WIOD to select a local Quiz Kid for the show, will be held 2 to 3 p. m.

Saturday, with the To Become Scarce Items By ERWIN" I- BELOW (Miami Daily Nf Maff Writer) End of the tourist season is going Distilleries are once again mak- "Anyway, it would be poor econ omy to block traffic to raise the present tracks," he said. "The ties and rails have been there for 20 finals taking place 7 to 7:30 p. m. Both contests will be broadcast. -Judges for the semifinals will be years and snouid be replaced.

Cost of the job is estimated at $8,000. to spell bad news for whisky drink- whisky. But it will be several ers-at least those partial to bond- veara bcfore wnat hy are ling out can age sufficiently to be ed bourbons and scotch-whisky I hiSky. Chamberlain Dr. H.

Franklin Williams, of University of Miami; Eustace Adams, author, and Chester M. Wright, moderator of Miami Civic Forum. Spangler said he had been asked by City Manager Danner to hold men said today. said. Judges for the finals will be Dr.

Although there now is a fair off until the end of the fiscal year, June 30, so that the job might be James S. Thomas of the expansion supply of four and five-year-old program. University of Miami; included in next year's budget. James T. Wilson, Superintendent, The spur track owned by FEC Dade County Board of Instruc bourbon on hand to "take care of tippling tourists, a jfacturcrs have warned of "terrific" decreases near Sixth st.

on the boulevard was raised by the railroad to line up tion, and James I. Keller, presi dent of Miami Chamber of Com evenly with the street surface dur Meanwhile, prices in Miami have ben fairly steady for months in contrast to other sections of the country, where news dispatches say they have been dropping. The difference is, a customer sees a bottle of bourbon on a pack age store shelf that formerly sold for $5.05 OPA ceiling, which now sells for $6.98. He doesn't bother it because he knows it will be there tomorrow. in allocations in months to come.

merce. ing the recent repaying job. Bonded whisky is whisky that has ben aged four years in a gov ernment warehouse. The present supply was made during 1942 and Herbert Hoover Appeals 43. These were war years when distilleries were only allowed to make whisky several days a month.

For Miami Boys' Club When it is gone, wholesalers say. the supply picture will be uncer A plea for support of the Boys' -M LX. v- JLn 1 1 1 1 SkX i Ammm-mJm V.i..i.,n n-nf tain. The same goes for scotch. is largely imported from Scot club of Miami was made today by former President Herbert Hoover.

In the days when it was sold under the counter he would grab it on general principles and all others like it he could get. Many customers, however, are resisting the price, dealers report. Instead of buying a fifth, they now buy a pint or a half-pint which have recently become available. The days of buying whisky the case are over for awhlie, it land, where conditions have ben Arriving at the docks of the Fla described as worse than here. mingo hotel, Miami Beach, this Wholesalers close to the supply picture like W.

R. Chamberlain, general manager of Austin Nich morning after a keys fishing trip, Hoover a short time later left on another fishing expedition but paused long enough to make a chairman of the Boys club of Miami, and a dozen members of the club. Hoover said boys clubs were the best means of combating juvenile delinquency and urged residents and visitors of Greater Miami to support the present drive for funds for a clubhouse. He said throughout the nation $30,000,000 already has been raised for similar clubhouses, and that the clubs have a membership of 400,000. Following completion of the tran seems.

People are giving fewer ols point out that "big operators" are reluctant to empty parties or serving blends. There warehouses of bonded bourbon still are tie-in sales on bonded transcription for broadcast which is scheduled for 10:45 p. m. today right now. This is because good bonded whisky is being widely used in the creases the impact of the waves that dash against it, cracks between the huge stones would serve as flood gates and break the the life expectancy of the jetty, the colonel reasoned, and practice has proved that he was right.

on station WGBS. Present at the docks for the broadcast, in addition to the former president, were Col. Roscoe Turner, the flier; Byron Newkirk, a friend SUPPORTS BOYS' CLUB Former President Herbert Hoover, right, with Col. Roscoe Turner, famed flier, and three members of the Boys' club of Miami, in behalf manufacture of the cheaper blend bourbon and scotch in many places. The market seems' to have cracked on blended whiskies.

Certain types are being widely undersold. It was mostly stuff that retailers had to buy during the shortage to get anything good to sell. scription some of the boys put on a boxing match for the former of which Hoover made a radio transcription today. The boys are, left to right, Glen ed products. One case of bonded whisky will make three cases of blended whisky, jfor instance.

of Hoover; Joseph A. BeaginJresident on the dock uioson, wimam Jonnsn and Fred Hamilton..