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Out Of Here, Long Asks ttltM Prt lniaififeJ EATON noK.K. La June 25 Gov. Karl Long appealed the people of In a smucitied 11 rooming lat night to pray him out o( tl.e mental hospital into whiih he said he was railroaded by hu "jealwis" and ambitious nephew. US. Sen.

RuisclJ B. Long. Politic! observers speculated the colorful meandering stump-type speech, broadcast on radio stations trtrouKriotjt the tin't, might draw thousands of supporters to the Covington Junior High School basketball rourt where Long will appear for a district eourt habeas eorpuj proceeding tomorrow. His if. Mn.

Blanch Long, whom he bitterly accused of conspiring with hi political enemies, fled the atate Tuesday indicating he would make no further effort to force mental treatment on her husband. Friends laid the believed he would be released at Friday1! hearing and feared his alleged "homicidal tendencies." Th court will not rul on Long tanity but on whether he wan properly committed to the rate hospital. New Orleam radio statioa WNOE to which Long attor ney, Jo Arthur Simi, took th original recording, quoted th attorney at Raying Long would prefer a tanity hearing "to enable him ta refute charges that suffers from mental instability." The station also quoted him as saying that IS doctor! were being flown to th hearing by chartered plane. Long said: "I feel certain that having i man like the Honorable Robert D. Jones ef this district deciding my case that I'll be a (re man Friday." Judge Jones had been asked earlier if he could described a "Long man" politically.

He replied: "I want to make it quite emphatic that whatever political affiliations I may have will never go over into my court." Long said he had never "tried to hurt" his political enemies. "I hav never believed in reprisals and I want to say Continued On Pag 4-A, CeL 1 IAMI NEWS Pray Me trilby S(iyu Hurt W'v got fWy! And kl atr tM a' through tomorrow. Metropolitan Edition Complete Weather Page 1 A Complete Baseball Five Ontt THE BEST KEWSrAPER Uft'DER THE 51W TVUTZER PRIZES 1938 AXD 1958 Established In 1806 Miami, Fla Thursday, Jung 25, 1959 Telephone FR 4-6211 Calm To The End, No Filial Words Chaos Grips Cuba; Fidel Faces Crisis Wlr Swrlrr of Th Mlsntf Vw LINCOLN, June 25 Mass killer Charles Starkweather, calm to the end, paid with hi life today for a brutal blood-letting 17 months ago. One hitch marked the electric chair execution Th prison physician who was to have pronounced Starkweather dead, suffered a heart attack and died. Dr.

B. A. Finkle, 75, was stricken just a half hour before the midnight execution. Alternates VS. 1 'i: carried on.

The finale to th story of the ex garbage hauler blamed for II knife and gun killings came at 1:05 a.m. (Miami timet in the 4 W'' 7 white painted basement execution chamber at the Nebraska state penitentiary. if NO LAST WORDS The 20-year-old killer had no last words. He walked unassisted Into the AiHoctRtta rttnt Vtlrtfiot chamber, glanced at some 35 as sembled witnesses, managed a kind of smile and ambled up to the bulky, wooden execution chair. Fashion Plates At Wimbledon Dress Alihe Normally four women would never be caught championships with identical dress, including boat- toRcthcr in public with similar outfit.

It could er hats Note the crossed tennis racquets motif on the hats of Mrs. Jean Carpenter of Oxford and cause a minor war. But this family turned spec- her daughter, Susan, 13, and twins, Wendy and tatorg' eye at the Wimbledon, England, tennis Jane, 12. His head was shaven of its red te 1 CHARLES STARKWEATHER Appointment With Death frantic effort by Starkweather' family and Washington attorney! to stave off the appointment with death. In the final nine hours, the Lancaster District Court reject hair to accommodate th electrical contacts.

A curtain was drawn in front of the witnesses as Starkweather was strapped in the chair. 19-DAY FIGHT Tired Heart Stops And Dr. Smith Dies Argentina On Brink Of Revolt 1 AsMtrUIrS I' ml Bl'KNOS AIRF.S, Arentina. June 25 Argentina seemed near th brink of revolution today, with President Arturo Frondizi beset by continuing rebelliousness in military circles and Ihe threat of Dr. Donald Smith.

oened his brother's chest to massage his stopped heart. Dr. Smith, the dentist, was in a private room at Jackson Memorial Hospital where he had been taken after a heart attack. By DENIS SNEK.R IVflth ended a 19-day fight at 4 4A a m. today when Dr.

Raymond Smith, Miami dentist, died. The battle began Jim I when the dentist's surgeon brother. The eurtain opened. A half mask covered the killer's face. "Is there anything you would like te say?" asked Deputy Warden John Greenholtz.

Starkweather shook his head negatively. An eye mask was affixed and th executioner, out of sight behind a partition, got the signal. At the 2.200-volt charge, Starkweather's body strained against its bonds. BODY STIFFENS Five times the unidentified executioner threw the switch. Five times the body stiffened.

Dr. P. E. Getscher, who had attended the stricken Dr. Finkel a half hour earlier, walked up.

An attendant opened the killer's shirt. Dr. Getscher listened for heart beats, then pronounced the killer dead. Tears rolled down the cheeks of Deputy Warden Greenholtz, one of the few who'v had daily contact with th killer. Th execution followed a day of ed two pleas for stays of execution, U.S.

Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black turned down a similar petition, and just 3'a hours before the execution, the Nebraska Supreme Court after a hurriedly called night session declined to intervene. FINAL CALL All hoe gone, Starkweather's-mother, Mrs. Guy Starkweather and other family members made a final call on the killer, then left by a side gale to escape some 25 newsmen and photographers milling about the main entrance. The body was claimed by tbe family immediately after the execution. Guy Starkweather, the father, who had handled the last ditch reprieve tries here, stayed away.

He said he had "work to do," but did not elaborate. Greenholtz said the youth spurned a final steak dinner and settled instead for some cold meat cuts. He did some painting, some reading and visited wilh prison Continued On Page 4-A, Col. 1 mass protests hy Communist and Peronist labor unions. ISy PHIL NEUSOM NEW YORK, Juno 25 Fidel Castro's rr-vo-ltitionary regime in Cuba is in serious trouble.

(Jovernmcnt forces have been alerted against attack either front within or without. The country' economic situation, which is going from bad to wome, is the main concprn right now. Some 300,000 sugar crop workers will be nut of jobs upon completion of the sugar harvrnt at the end of thin month. When that happens, Cuba'e unemployed will hit near the one million mark, or approximately half of the nation' working force. Six month after victorious Citatro force sue ceaafullv ousted I'reaidi nt Fulgcncio Hatinta from office, Cuban biiHineaa la almost at a standstill.

F.ach revolutionary law parsed has brought with il an almost complete piiialysn In its field. For example, rent reductions paralyzed the construction field. The agrarian relorm la has paralyzed cane, tobacco and rir plantings. lniM and exchange controls hav paralyzed lmK.ii. Restrictions on Installment soles hav almost halted retail trail.

The agrarian reform law has, In addition, fanned physical retrntmrnl to an unprecedented degree, even among many who were anient (autre supportrrs. Sum Inhacra farmers hav sowed thry will die ralhrr than surrender their These are native Cubans, not representatives of large autsUI business Interests which alto are affrrlrd. Government reorganization has created chaos. Some 2 tmo Batista soldier a ai out of jobs. So ai many ofber thousands of public servants.

Spark Is Kit For HVlxllioii The spark ol rebellion has been lit. In the last thie weeks, government forces have been put on three separai alerts against attack. Apparently feared is an air strike from without, possibly against Kanllago and mounted from the IKmilnlian Krpuhllr, whirh la turn has keen charging that attacks against Its in government have been mounted from uha. Also i'ii rd is an attack on the model prison at the Isle of finrs when ardi'nt llalistianos are cnufined. At the moment, any Wow ag.cmt Castro proWdy would wt be successful Tli opposition, ulihouli sizeable and growing, is not now ol I'djueups In tilth widrl) scatlcieil areas as llaxaua, I'limr Irl Kin.

Caiiuini'v. S.miuio and Manzanillii do not appear to be puit of a coMcrued plot. However, infui million In Cuba that orcanired opHMtion is being built up outside, principally in t'luiUd Trupllo in the lo-muiuun l(eiublic uhei Batista pieseiuly is in vile, and in Miami. Hatista is said to U' supply inK binds. lialisla lieuleuants aie actirl in on the planning.

Ihete al seemi rrasim te dmittt Ihr losalty at some nf rstrn's os irltrl IttMip. I.sainples air Ihe recent pmge of the air Imce and demmtsltadonfe ef irlsel snldirrs Incensed against the regime la Otirnlr I'rounce, In particular. leadeis hae suitihed limn ail out suiort of th Castro adiiunistifllmn to uie a gosliw Hiluy on some government plans, especially tbe reloim, Yields To Itital (roiips t'asiro hurtM'K o(eneil government ranks, hitherto reserved for loyal membeis of his "July movement, to such rival gtoups as frnmer President Cat bw Tno Sar-rss' Authen'ir ill Kannaiii. the Revolutionary and tli Second National bscainliiay Front, Tlirs plaved a sevondaiy Military role in th liht against Batista but apparently tlieir arms at Bow needed hv Castto. Ike I'rw grtiuB, silent unlil recently, aw is making sug-grtlltmi svhlrli might be termed counlrr rrvoliillimnry.

Time even hav Iseen au'ijestions thai Castro should set a time limit lor his tenui in ollic and call for general elections ran Iv im. It all adds up to Iroubir for Castro. Government officials continued tn claim that the threat to the government had Iwn averted hy Frondizi's reshuffle of his cabinet How Our Staff and particularly by the appointment of a leading advocate nf fie enterprise, Alvnro SJsr.caray, to head the economic and labor min Picks The Fight istries. Other sources said certain hich On Pag LI) military leaders wer far from satisfied and sentiment in favor When the heart stopped, there was no time for the sterile measures of an operating room. A nurse produced a scalpel and the brother operated.

MASSAGED I's HOCRS The heart was massaged intermittently for 24 hours before it picked up lis normal beat. Several hours after the operation and heart massage, the dentist made a grim joke. His brother and other physicians were standing at his bedside. The dentist looked up at his brother, grinned and said: "I bet you didn't even wash your hands." The unavoidable Infection, plus the weakened and damaged heart, finally took its toll this morning. "Jl'ST EXHAl'STED" His physician, who asked that his name withheld, said: "He was just exhausted from fighting the infection.

His heart was damaged and weakened. For the last 24 hours had been very precarious. This morning his heart stopped." The wound of the original operation still was open and Continued a Pag 4A, CoL 1 Continued en I'ag t.K, Col. 4 Salclimo Slips Octave Fiidilinc: To Finish Solo Daughter's Dilemma rr- Dear Abby solves a farmer's ilr4 era lM(rattnl SPOt.KTO, Italy, Jun 25 l.oius iSiitchmoi Armstrong tix'k turn for th worse List went in his bout with bronchial pneumonia complicated by heart trouble, doctors said today. A communique issued by doctors in Spoieto said th jars "encountered a crisis" although had been thought re daughter problem on Page 3-B.

abby A profile of some friendly fighters, the McGuire sisters, on Page 15-A. Second in a series on the Barrymore family. Page 8-B. Armstrong has been on an extended tour of Europe and Africa as on of the most successful goodwill ambassadors th Stat Department has sent abroad. WENT TOR FESTIVAL He cam her as the guest of composer Gian Caxlo Menotti to attend th "Festival of Two Worlds" but before be could unpack his famous trumpet the pneumonia struck him down.

Armstrong was fighting his battle for lit far from th noisy clubs and concert halls in which he is accustomed to play. This littl hill town two hours driv from Rom it a quiet spot, even jammed as it is now with music lovers. covering trom an attaca ot pneumonia suffered earlier this crk. HI (. I ,,1 IMPROVrS Sl.K.IITI Th diK'tivrs s.ud this morn ing that he showed only "slight Abby 3B Classified 8-11D Obituaries BD Alvarei HC Comics 14-I3C Pattern 9D Amusements 9B Crosswords 15C Teople In News 8A Astrology 15C Editoriali HA Picture Page 12D Baggs 14A Food 113C Radio 10B Bridge 14C Markets Rau 8B Business e-TD McLemore 121) Sports 1-5D By George! A Miami Pulse 8D Television loB Cerf 1JC Movie Clock 8B Women 1-43 improv ement." 101 IS ARMSTKONG Ills High ading horde of vlsiiurs to his bedroom.

"My breathin' sounded lik a symphony orchestra." be said. Th J9-vear-old musi cian as rrjHwted well on the road to recovery yesterday and DR. RAYMOND SMITH 'Just Exhausted' he laughed end joked with a 4.

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