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Mews THE WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY CONTINUED WARM Extremes Past 24 Hours: 83-78. Weather Rtport and Map on J3A CITY EDITION New York Times Wire Service International News Service Associated Press United Press Wirephoto 57TH YEAR, NO. 352 PHONE 2-6211 MIAMI 30, FLORIDA FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1953 Entered As Second Class Matter ri -it r'TT'TSTTCJ The Postoflice, Miami. Florida TIVJCj HlXAo At It MM4HMHMWS KflDD Miami Daily News Combined Wire Services Warner Robins, May 1 Tornadoes which roared through the middle Georgia peach belt late yesterday left at least 14 persons dead and an estimated 350 other injured. The Red Cross counted 13 dead and a funeral home identified still another body.

The Red Cross estimated 'L Deiween ana persons were leit nomeiess in this Army base town Red Cross officials believed the death toll would go higher because of the critical condition of some 18 victims confined to the Robins Air Force Base hospital and at hospitals in nearby Macon, Ga. The Red Cross amended an earlier report that 18 deaths had been confirmed, but added to its list of identified dead Mrs. Joseph Loftin, I jl-r'K. FRESH FIGHT SHAPING ON TRACK DATES Senate To Get Bill Restoring Powers To Racing Board wife of an Army colonel. Martial Law Asked Mayor W.

T. Giles appealed to Gov. Herman Talmadge to proclaim a state of martial law for THS WS 1 LNf OF HO(7SfS BEFORE A SPRING TORNADO STRUCK WARNER ROBINS, GA. AP WIREPHOTOS this town of 16.000 population as four National Guard companies, troopers, soldiers and others prob-, ed through the wreckage for more dead and injured. The Red Cross set up shelters By CHARLES F.

HESSER Daily News Political Writer for 500 families whose homes, most Tallahassee, May 1 George Tapper of Port St Joe of them located on government pro said he will introduce a bill today perty, were shattered. Field work-to return to the State Racing ers said 365 homes, 25' of them Commission the authority to fix trailers, were destroyed and 135 racing dates. damaged. This is certain to mean a two-t Child Is Victim I ri front legislative war lor Hialeahj One victim was a four-year-; Kace course, may nave old child, killed in a highway acci-won only a temporary victory dent in flight from the storm. More yesterday when the Senate failed bodies may be buried under wide-to approve a bill to give Gulfstream I Spread rubble in the town itself Park 15 of HialealTs choice mid-and in wreckage littering the Rob-dle-of-the season racing dates.

Air Force base, which serves Fixed By '47 Law a supply and maintenance de- Racing dates are now fixed bv Pt and service headquarters for a law passed in 1947 which gives the 14th Air Force, the track producing the greatest! One hundred and one persons re-amount of revenue for the state 'mned in the base hospital early Hialeah-its choice of dates. i today. About 50 others were Ma-Tapper made his Hospitals, ment yesterday as the Senate' Only three members of the Air was debating the so-called Gulf-Force personnel on the base were stream, or "ghost" bill. He re- known to have been injured and SsO ut As Hope Break Months 3rd Dade In Three New Tax Cut For Balanced et Fades Budq Associated Press 'statement. George said: "I don't tions and Taft.

the Senate Repub- u-ocHinotnn Mau 1 ProciHont see how it leaves any leeway for lican leader significantlv withheld CHARLES O. KRUEGER And JACK W. ROBERTS By called that every session of the, they were dismissed after treat of'ment. Property damage to the in- rlc.ri.n,..' that a tax reduction." any predictions on this score. Legislature, including that 1947, which passed the Hialeah stallation was unofficially s.s nn wav to ha, Som.

lraders. however.1 But the Ohio senator said in an bill, had been in turmoil over rac- mated at more than a million ance the hudget for the next fiscal ciung to a hope thcy wiU pass interview he doubts that any firm; ing legislation. dollars. year appeared likely today to de- tax cut this year, although they estimates will be given Congress "I want to put date making1. Structures Flattened lay indefinitely any fresh tax cuts.1 agreed with the President that the present session on federal power back in the hands of thej Several large structures on the Eisenhower told a White House tax reductions should not be con-spending, which he said "will de-Racing and get this base were flattened.

news conference yesterday it will sidered until a balanced budget is'termine tax policy and whetherj continual agitation out of thej The swelling black funnel ap-be impossible to bring expendi-in sight. is a deficit." Legislature." Tapper said. Ipeared shortly after 6 p. m. when tures completely in line with reve-! Republican leader Halleck (Ind Many Republicans promised a There was an 18-18 tie vote on most 0f the 9,000 residents of nue.

Sen. Taft (R-Ohio) said Con-j said in an interview, "I stin balf need budget and reduced levies the "ghost" bill. In case of a Robins were preparing for gress may have to approve new, wouldn't rule out anv charge of 'V. ar pouwal campaign, a bill is defeated. But, Senate 'dinner.

appropriations without any final' a tax reduction. I don't think there but Eisenhower has said he made Miami Daily News Staff Writers Two Negro prisoners clambered down the sheer face of the escape-plagued Dade County jail early today on a series of ropes fashioned from bedsheets. One of the Negroes lost his grip on the rope and was crushed on the seventh floor ledge after falling five floors. His condition is, critical. The other Negro, held in the murder of County Patrolman Edward Fritz, made good his escape.

It was the third major breakl at the skyscraper jail in less than where two men got out a win-three months. Sheriff Thomas J. dow," said Kelly. "I can't blame Kelly had promised there would anybody here for a jailbreak." be no more breaks following the; Andarson Gets Away April 4 fiasco in which seven men; Making good his escape today including two convicted George "Limpy" Anderson, ers rode an elevator to freedom, member of a vicious gang of Ne- President cnarue Jonns oi, After smashing 30 two unit spending estimates for the fiscal will be any big fight with the rieup lo LUt ldxes Eisenhower announced he will WhO hfld VOlCCi If! l3VOrtQTortrvonfc in hriicin0 ru-Aioofr vpar hpainninff 1 fn-lroinieifof Vn tra mur mi( ffie bill, asked tnat nis vote De near the base, the storm entered Sees No Leeway appropriations even below UMl UllglCSS III VUIC 02 UI1I1UII dollars less than the $72,900,000,000 changed from yea to nay the base and whirled giddily over, To Sen. George (D-Ga.

an old administration requests. the area. Some structures were hand at fiscal matters, this spelled And House Speaker Joseph Mar-Prpsiripnf Truman had rJcom IoloIoH i.nru -inH nthorc j.i... xt. resiaeni i ruman naa recom- v-v, ut.ldy anu no lax reuuc- un in-iviassi saia: mpndpH fnr th rnmino vpar were left untouched tions at all beyond the already, "I'm still hopeful we can make Jiut Eispnhower dprlineri tn av Another Showdown This maneuver' means that Johns can ask the Senate to reconsider the vote on the "ghost" bill and thus bring it back up for consideration and another Brick rick Shenff Kelly looked haggard, gro desperadoes who climaxed a announced that today's break was series of daylight pistol-whipping buildings in the town and scheduled death of the excess prof-lthe appropriation cuts that will how nf fhat wnil1H renre the base were torn apart as if its leVy on July 1 and a 10 per! justify a tax reduction." savings at the on GEORGE 'LIMPY" ANDERSON not due to a manpower failure, holdups with the slaying of the 'Escapeproof" Jail "It's just one of those things county patrolman.

made of plywood. cent decline in individual income Refuses To Speculate Trpasnrv's nav-nnt window nl-i Flees Heavy damage was reported in taxes set for next Jan. 1. j.isciuiuci ucunicu though Kep. Short K-Mo) pre Screaming from his injuries.

Commenting on the President's on possible additional tax reduc viously had estimated the amount Johns left his place on the Sen- the industrial area of the military ate rostrum to take part in de- installation where supplies are 2,538 Captive Allies bate on the bill. He is a strons stored and maintenance worK is Dr. Alvarez Tells Of backer of Gulfstream. done, Maj. D.

de S. Trenholm Jr. The Senate president said that reported. The area was closely Teddy Wilson, a member of Anderson's gang, lay on the seventh floor ledge for more than two hours. In agony, he told how he and Anderson had planned their break since March and had been braiding ropes from bedsheets to Starved, Says POW at $4,400,000,000.

Truman's Prediction It is the Treasury's actual income and outgo not what Congress appropriates for this and future years that determines whether the budget is balanced. The government can spend more than is appropriated because more1 than 100 billions voted in previous 79 per cent of Hialeah's stock is owned by out-of-state residents. Declaring that Hialeah "doesn't care anything about Florida, but the choice racing dates," Johns Associated Press ords because he was helping care make tneir escape. Tokyo, May 1 A returned pri- for sick and wounded at Death; Wilson, believing he was dying, soner who said he had access to Valley and later at Pyoktong. jsaid he believed Anderson delib-Communist medical records inl Daniel, former member of the erately shook him off the rope as guarded and newsmen were not permitted to enter that section.

Likened To Blockbusters M. Sgt. H. F. Roth, reserve information officer of the 14th Air Force, said the storm hit like blockbusters that laid waste to London.

Roth said debris was tossed at least 200 feet into the air. Wind gusts in the. Warner Robins area were estimated at 100 miles DANGER SIGNALS Do you have constant headaches, or abdominal pains, or stiffness in the joints? These symptoms may be "danger signals" of diseases to come. Learn to heed them. Dr.

Alvarez, noted diagnostician and former consultant at Mayo Clinic explains and analyzes symptoms and what they mean in his new medical series, "Danger Signals." The first installment of "Danger Signals" starts MONDAY in THE MIAMI DAILY NEWS. years has not yet been paid out. Noting that Truman had Korea today said he hadU. S. 2nd Division, was captured! bait for pursuing officers shouted: "I want to show you to what depths they will stoop to keep the Hialeah empire from being invaded." He then read from a Miami Daily News article of April how dieted the nation will go into the wmive Awes-n wbu wc.

iau aner ne was; This hardly seemed likely, $9,900,000,000 in the new fiscal ueu arvailon ana wounaea in me leit snouiaer. iyear. Eisenhower said it just disease less than a year- wouldn't be possible to wipe this! Sgt. James F. Daniel, Alameda, -p.

out because of commitments al-icallf-. Sald 931 Allies died of ICeianGS VOte See HESSER: Page 13A, Col ever, since there was no pursuit. Break Made at 5 M. Wilson said the break began about 5 a.m. He and Anderson had hidden their rope and a crowbar beneath their bunks in their 23rd floor cell.

wee i wiiimuv aue ijh, uui. d. ready made largely for military! malnutrition and lack of medical pmiinmpnt icare in 2l months dt the now Set For Tuesday Although the President gave no infamous "Death Valley." figures on me over-au appropna.i inai was tne prisoner name ior Associated Press Their cell door was not looker! tions cut, members of Congress a sort of way station between 0 i 1 Isaid about five billion less would Kunu and the far North Korean Washington May 1-Senate de- and the two men simply went to be asked in new money for the prison camps in Pyoktong. bate on amendments to the state-a window on the northeast side military, $1,800,000,000 less for for-l The 931 deaths came between ownership submerged lands bd 0f the floor, pried loose the aid, $1,200,000,000 less foriDec. 26, 1950, and March 14, 1951, fu" and fastened their first rope, domestic affair and 200 or 3001 Daniel said.

reached to the 20th floor and imillion less for atomic develop-i Later 1,601 Allied captives died "Vj" th.e men slId down to a narrow, at Pyoktong's Camp No. 5 on inanguiar leage mere. Yalu River, Daniel said, of "just) Senate Republican leader Taft The second rope stretched 13 starvation and disease." of Ohio said he hoped all pro- floors to the big seventh floor ments. Despite the President's statement, Taft said figures supplied to That was during the first seven posed amendments can be acted setback on the courthouse. And- lawmakers at an earlier White House conference "certainly gives jus hope there might be a bal-janced budget." months of 1951.

jupon Monday. A final vote on the erson went down the rope first Daniel, a medic, said he had bill, before the Senate since and was followed by Wilson, access to Communist medical rec-'April 1, is set for Tuesday. Loses His Grip INSIDE THE NEWS Wilson said he went more than halfway down the rope before it started to waver and he lost his grip. Anderson paid no heed to his Bulganin Talk Asks Peace Page 8-A COCOA COUNCIL OKs Pay Hike Referendum CITY CHARTER REVISION Urged In Melbourne crushed companion. He crossed Page 8-A t0 tne northwest side of the sev- Associated Press 'Z Ir lErZ" 12 SEEN ENTERING Derby Run For Gold, Honors Page 11-A ent flor setback and fastened.

third rope. It didn't quite Page llrA 'reach the fourth floor ledge, so Ta ha he apparently jumped the 10 re-rage iza maining feet iNikolai Bulganin, called on lead- ARCARO'S CONFIDENT He'll Win Sixth Derby ops nf thp Wpstprn wnrlH tndav to back up their recent peaceful! SUN SOX, LIONS PLAY Charity Game Here Tonight SOUTHEASTERN FARMERS Lose $34,693,000 McGill Page 14-A He then kicked in the window of (Judge N. Vernon Hawthorne's ACHIEVEMENT DAY Blue Ribbon Winners Listed Page 1-B1 chambers and walked down the statements with peaceful actions, actions. The head of the nation's armed fnrpoc nhvinnclv hH 'ProQirfont senhower and Prime Minister' PETTICOAT FEVER Still Strikes Style Conscious Page 2-B sta'ay to freedom. I This action took place in about Page 2-B See BREAK: Page 13A, Col.

5 Churchill in mind. BEAUX ARTS Elects Ten Honorary Members 1- i -l il ItT i cui unui uie west acis on lis expressed desire for peace, Bulganin declared in a short May Day address in. Moscow's Red Square, Russia will continue to "show due Allen 15 A Dine 4B Alvarez 12B Editorials 14A Baggs 13A Fashions 2B McGill McLemore Mergen Portraits Radio, TV Rau Salty Shows Smith uSSR n'iS T-H Exemptions SiSSU Favored By Taft 10A Whirligig 13A Washington, May 1 -JH Sen. 3B Wilson CBaft today expressed "agree- 12A Wishing Well 6Bment jn principle" with a Word Game 10A ai to exempt the building trades 12A Your Mind 12B unions and iocal public utilities care for furthering the defense andlBj-ap security of our country." I Childs 13B Film Clock 3B 15A Forbes 6B Classified 7-11B Hopper 4B Comics 12-13B Horoscope 13B Crossword 13B Markets 5-6B Eden 'Stronger' After Operation London, May 1 The For eign Office announced today that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden "has gained some strength" following an operation Wednesday to remove fluid causing jaundice. from the Taft-Hartley labor act.

He said he could not see how the federal government had any right to settle a local street car strike in Milwaukee, for TODAY'S LEAD EDITORIAL Latest Breakout Should Convince Us We Can Afford A New Jail Page 14-A tim ir-nmroruMmm-nT n't' Wirt ifrt1iifi REMARKABLE PHOTO SHOWS TORNADO STRIKING GEORGIA TOWN.

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