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i oh mm Toe Certificate Story Uith Tomorrow's News EOT Vimt Tax Payers Neglect In Views Of The News MlMMl Daily THE WEATHER Cooler weather today and tonight. Fair weather through tomorrow. Moderate, occasionally fresh northwest winds today. Extremes Past 24 Hours: 88-69. Weather Report, Map, Page 3-A HOME EDITION PHONE 2-6211 MIAMI 30, FLORIDA, SATURDAY EVENING, OCT.

16, 1954 B9TH YEAR, NO. 155 Entered At Second Cm Matter TT! TM At Tb Poatoffica. Miami Florida IU IsiEjIXXO rui 17 UVJ HITCHHIKERS BEAT ONE VICTIM 2 Rivers Threaten Pittsburgh Rob Youth Two ''It? i 1 -v itX. Atlanta staying at the McAllister Hotel. Glass said he was on his way to Miami Beach around 2 a.m: when he stopped at Biscayne Boulevard and NE 2nd Street to pick up a youth hitch-hiking.

The boy asked him to take him to his aunt's home at 21st Street and the Bay and Glass complied. When he arrived at the scene three other youths jumped into the car and the hitch-hiker grabbed Glass around the neck. The boys took $183 from Glass wallet and then pulled the wiring from his car in the same fashion used in the Kilwine robbery and beating. He was not beaten. Avenue, the youths informed Kilwine they planned to rob him and forced him' to turn right on 119th Street.

Guiding him to a deserted spot in back of the Westview Country Club, the youths searched Kilwine's pockets. They became enraged when they discovered he had only 30 cents and proceeded to beat him unmercifully, cutting and bruising his face and breaking his false teeth. Then they ripped out the wiring on his car and left to join an accomplice in a waiting car. The same youths were believed responsible for the robbery of Odell Glass, visitor from By JACK W. ROBERTS AND CHARLES O.

KRUEGER Miami Daily Newt Staff Writer A Miami chef and a visitor from Atlanta learned the hard way here today that it doesn't pay to pick up hitchhikers. The Atlanta visitor lost $183 to marauding youngsters while the chef received a baating because he had only 30 cents in change to give his attackers. Joe Kilwine, 47, the chef, told patrolmen he was on his way to his 12120 N. Miami Ave. home around 1 a.m.

and stopped at NW 27th Avenue and 36th Street to pick up three youths hitchhiking. As he drove north on 27th i 11 4 vw Associated Prrsa New York, Oct. 16 Hurricane Hazel, exacting a death toll of at least 46 while ravaging an eight-state area and the District of Columbia, whipped up a backlash of torrential rains in the Pittsburgh area today which sent two big rivers above the flood stage. Hundreds of families fled their homes as the Allegheny and Mo-nongahela. Rivers, two giants which form the Ohio River at the steel city, rose swiftly.

The U. S. Weather Bureau predicted a 30-foot crest for the streams. That crest would be five feet above flood stage. Like the rest of the areas hit by the hurricane, the Pittsburgh section reported untold millions of dollars in property damage.

No deaths or injuries were known immediately. 1j' rf, '15 A I H.v'.' JOE KILWINE Chef Beaten Washington, Oct. 16 Government workers, released from duty at midafternoon, fight high winds as they try to cross Pennsylvania Avenue Sprfts woods M) PmU (Up MB at 11th Street, N. en route home ahead of the expected arrival of Hurricane Hazel. National Airport recorded 82-mile-an-hour winds in the na-tion's capital.

AP Wirephoto. Termed one of the worst con EMILY POST FORGOTTEN tinental storms of the century. By HAINES COLBERT Miami Daily Staff Writer James T. Roberts had his freedom again today after a hearing in which the state failed to produce any solid evidence to support the charge that the Baltimore lawyer GOP Victory To Aid Farmers, President Says Shirt Tails Worn At Gridiron Soiree killed his daughter. and spawned 11 days ago in the Windward Islands about 1,600 miles east-southeast of Miami, Hazel's 130-mile-an-hour center devastated the island of Haiti last Tuesday, leaving reportedly more than 100 dead on that tropic isle.

Hits Upstate New York She smashed north northwest to bash the-Ur-S. mainland caVly yesterday. Her hurricane winds were "calmed" to gale force by 1 I optional. And thezplayers evident ly neglected to tell several of their number the correet attire. By BELLA KELLY: Miami Dally News Staff Writer A' raft "of "songs about Dixie filled the Orange Bowl last night while the Hurricanes marooned Mississippi 27-13.

The uninformed, gents showed Pennsylvania's Allegheny and Po- up in white knickers, striped icono Mountains but she picked club at the hour, when medical authorities have determined Judith Ann died. State Attorney George Brauti-gam. said, he Kould appeal Judge. Cannon's ruling admitting Roberts to bond. But appeal would cover only the judge's refusal to hear testimony from two Washington private detectives who gave Roberts a lie detector test.

The judge held that testimony about the test, even though it was made at the request of Rob shirts and red handkerchiefs hanging gayly from their right where was pants pockets. where oh Southern chivalry? These poor fellows, who kept dropping their handkerchiefs all night, were also left out in the If you'll pardon the pass, was very apparent the game Stories and Pictures Pages 1,3, 4, 12rB cold while the players went off into corners, obviously to. plan erts, was not legally up enough punch to disrupt upper New York State and take five lives in the area. Not counting those reported missing, known fatalities by states are: New York 8, Virginia 7, Pennsylvania 7, Maryland 6, North Carolina 6, Delaware 4. New Jersey 4, District of Columbia 3 and Massachusetts 1.

Hazel isn't "dead," the New York Weather Bureau said early today. The big blow was merging with a Hudson Bay storm. bits of mischief against the other team. Bond of $10,000 was posted for Roberts late yesterday, a few hours after. Circuit Judge Pat Cannon ruled in a habeas corpus hearing that the evidence was insufficient to justify keeping him in jail.

Roberts had been held in the Dade County jail since 1. lie was arrested in Baltimore Sept. 27 and brought to Miami after he waived extradition. The pudgy, 43-year-old lawyer, a former organizer for the ClO-United Auto Workers union in Baltimore, was charged with kidnaping and killing his 7-year-old daughter Judith Ann in Miami July 6. One Link In Testimony Testimony of 11 witnesses in the hearing before Judge Cannon produced only one possible link between Roberts and the crime.

Clark Wood, a private detective, said he saw a h.eavy-set man standing beside an automobile near the spot where the body of the child was found. Wood said he decided, after seeing newspaper pictures of Roberts, that the man he saw was the father of the murdered girl. But Mrs. Dorothy Ann Lawrence, 21 year old Baltimore woman who came to Miami with Neglected By Waiters Neither were they included A'ftoflatrd Prrss Indianapolis, Oct, 16'. President "Eisenhower-1 bid for the nation's, farm vote last night, saying election of a Republican Congress will help assure American farmers "a foundation of enduring Speaking to a wildly cheering, capacity crowd of 15.000 at Butler University, the President jabbed at the Truman administration for what he termed the farmers' "serious loss in buying power" in 19-52.

And in a separate speech at a smaller rally of GOP colleagues he sounded a challenge to Republicans to spur "our horses and to get to going" in the party's drive to maintain control of Congress in the Nov. 2 elections. Eisenhower stopped over in the Indiana capital in the midst of the Farm Belt on his way back to hurricane lashed Washington from Denver, where he ended an eight-week work- and play, vacation yesterday. His private plane landed at Washington National Airport early today, several hours after the hurricane had swept north. when the teams' waiters served Factor In Indictment The test, which was said to have indicated that Roberts had some knowledge of the crime, was a factor in the father's indictment by the Dade County grand jury Sept.

24. Brautigam, after the hearing, requested the immediate arraignment of Roberts on the murder refreshments during the evening. It looked as if this might have been downright intentional. listed several The program From Toronto, at least half-backs and quarterbacks. Honth: Cro ronnrinH -iri charge, but defense attorney SauL They all seemed to have as much today and damage was estimated back as the full ones as seen in the millions as some districts played according to National Collegiate Association rules.

Certainly not by the rules of Emily Post. In the first down oops, first place, with 40,000 people watching, two of the players came into the center of the field with their shirt-tails hanging out the back of their trousers. That Was No Mistake Now with all the fumbling that must go to string a football team together, it seemed possible the boys could have gotten their signals mixed. After all, there are right ends and wrong ends. But it was apparent later this reasoning was way out of bounds when members of both teams started using the shirt tails as towels to clean their dirty hands.

Dress on the field was quite irom ine sianas. mere was no doubt, that the man of came under the heaviest rainfall of the century. High Tides Threaten Although her outer winds mere- the hour was a fullback Don Bosseler of the UM. Running a T. Von Zamft protested that he was not ready.

Judge Cannon said he would be ready for the arraignment and for the trial at any time. It was indicated by Brautigam that the state would seek to bring Roberts to trial around the first of the year. close second was a fellow named Dooley, who might have been ly "brushed'' the New England from Mississippi but certainly was far from being a gentleman. area, Hazel sprawling might still was making itself felt early today, with the coastal regions girding against the threat of sb- James T. Roberts, accused murderer of his daughter Judith Ann, scratches his nose and looks happy as he steps from jail elevator to freedom after posting $10,000 bond.

The Baltimore lawyer, ordered released by Circuit Judge Pat Cannon, is accompanied by Gerald D. Yanks, center, investigator employed by the defense, and attorney Saul T. Von Zamft, who obtained his release. Miami Daily News Photo by Pelham. I can tell you without hesitation inai aimosi me enure lime oi me hioh tiHoc game, Dooley deliberately upset 6 Die As Train His major address last night- the Roberts family, told a story which if correct meant that Roberts could not have had a part in the crime.

other players, knocking the ball! As a result of the storm-fo- right from their hands imented driving rains, a Spring- broadcast nationwide by radio and telecast in 15 farm statesmarked another stepup in his personal Of course, he and Bosseler did field, man was injured Continued on Page 2-A, Col. 6 Continued on Page 2-A, Col. Toured Night Clubs She testified that and Ro Smashes Auto campaign to swing voters into the Republican column Jhis fall. berts spent the entire day of the murder together and were making a tour of Miami night During, the first 21 months of Associated Press St. Cloud, Oct.

16 Six Continued on rage z-a. ioi a high school sophomores return Brisk Spell ing from a homecoming football game were killed last night when a passenger train smashed into their car, crumbling it "like an accordion." E. H. Crump Is In Coma Associated Prrsi) Memphis. Oct.

16 Is A Present From Hazel Florida received its first chilly BAD WEATHER STRANDS 77 ON 7 NAVY PLANES A ssmiatrd Fres Corpqs Christi, Oct. 16 A Texas norther stranded seven Navy seaplanes in the rough waters of Coipus Christi Bay yetserday after they flew from Norfolk, to escape Hurricane Hazel. The 77 crewmen aboard the planes had breakfast, however lowered to them late in the morning by a Navy helicopter. Rough water and gusty winds made it unsafe for the planes to approach the Naval Air Station seaplane ramps or take the men off. They just stayed aboard until the winds subsided.

E. H. Crump, desperately ill Truck Strike Hits N. Y. City Associated Prrsa New York, Oct.

16 A truck striked idling more than 23,000 drivers, hit New York City and a wide surrounding area today and threatens to choke off the region's commerce. The AFL Teamsters Union called the strike of a general freight drivers at one minute after midnight to back up wage increase demands. Emergency mediation sessions failed to avert the scheduled walkout. Mayor Robert F. Wagner, of New York, who viewed the strike as "disastrous" for the city's trade, sought vainly for a last-minute delay to permit further negotiations.

Teamsters leaders turned down his appeal, saying the strike had already been postponed twice for a total of 45 MemDhis political leader, re mained in a coma today and his weather of the fall season today condition was reported as stead and believe it or not7 Hurri ily worsening. Bodies were strewn for a block along the tracks. The victims were identified as. Sharon Roder, Shirley Hinken-meyer, Janice Johnson and Nancy Minars, all. students at St.

Cloud Cathedral High School: William Ehli, Duluth, and Stoltman, Ardoch, N. D. The two boys were students at St. John's High School in nearby Collegeville. Hospitalized here were James Johnson, brother of Janice, and Ralph Mahowald, Grand Forks, N.

D. cane Hazel was partly The 80-year-old Crump lapsed into a coma 24 hours ago. The crisis was described by his doc tor as a "terminal Miami had a low of 69 degrees around daybreak. But that was warm compared to the 41 re He was running a temperature of 102 degrees and in an oxygen corded in Tallahassee; 48 in tent all of the time. IN SUNDAY'S NEWS Sports, Homes, Taxes And Color Pictures WITH EXCLUSIVE PICTURES On the scene reporting of the Florida-Kentucky football clash with exclusive picture coverage appears in The Sports Section C.

ON COURT HOUSE STEPS In order not to lose your property to a tax shark operating on the court house steps, read the feature on tax certificates in Viewt of the News, Section A. ALL EIGHT HUNDRED Brand new homes in a development in Hialeah in the price range are pictured in The Real Estate Pages of Section B. SCENE IN COLOR A colorful picture of some of the cast in a recent movie plus some interesting 'cinemistakes' in Herb Rau's column highlight the Amusement Pages of Section D. SOME IMPORTANT WOMEN Presidents of several local women's clubs adorn the full color cover of The Woman's World Section and an amusing story on Grandma Moses appears inside. BACK TO NORMAL Last week's Crossword Contest produced a winner.

Puzzle No. 20 with a prize of $25 is found in Section D. GREAT SUNDAY MAGAZINES NEW CLASS OF AMERICANS Alimony paupers, created by the alarming number of divorces, are a financial result of a tragic emotional experience described in This Week Magazine. EXPANSION WITHOUT EXPENSE More room for fun without the added expense of building is possible by planning an outdoor room as featured in Florida Living Magazine. RECOGNIZED AS OFFICIAL For years sports fans eagerly awaited Grantland Rice's annual all-American team selections.

His all-time all-American football team appears in This Week Magazine. Jacksonville: 56 in Tampa and 58 in West Palm Beach. INSIDE THE NEWS Dogs Do Go To Heaven, days with no agreement in sight. The strike affects all metropolitan New York and Long Island, reaches deep into New Jersey and British Jurist Believes The weather was expected to remain coool throughout today and tonight, warming up again tomorrow. Allen Marshall at the Miami Weather Bureau explained that a cold front which moved down over Florida was pushed along by two things.

Hurricane Hazel, moving up in Amuse. 6, 7A Crossword 11B Hopper 6A Rau 7A Bridee 11B Deaths 2A Horoscope 11B Salty 4B Dine 6A McGill 2A Society 8A cam Jts Dr Jordan 5A McLemore IB Sports 1-4B Churches 4, 5A Editorials 2A Mergen 2A Weather 3A Classifd 4-9B Emily Post 8A Portraits 5A Whirligig 2A Comics 10, 11B Film Clock 7A Radio, TV 10B Word Game 3A to Canada, has a counter-clock For Prompt Result-Producing Classified Ad Service Dial 82-3535 wise motion. A high pressure area over the Great Basin states Associated Pr London, Oct. 11 Do dogs go to heaven? A British judge says he thinks they do but if they don't he won't want to stay there. Judge Tudor Rees gave the opinion yesterday in hearing a claim for damage against Mrs.

Lucy Prosser, former tenant of a house in suburban Banstead. Mrs. Prosser said she bred dogs, but after complaints from her neighbors she agreed not to let them in her house. up to Poughkeepsie in New York state. New Jersey is affected as far south as Trenton.

The truck strike is expected to have little influence during the weekend business lull. It's main impact will come Monday or later. Freight blocked by the strike includes food for major chain stores, supplies for defense factories, newsprint and exports and imports. Without trucks to carry cargos from railroad and steamship terminals, shipping will eventually be jammed behind huge piles of un- has a clockwise motion. Conflict of the two pushed the cold air from the northwest down into member of the family," said Judge Rees.

"What is the use of having such a faithful friend If you cannot have him in the house?" "If unswerving fidelity and unfailing affection are passports lo paradise all dogs will have honored places there," he added. "And if I do not find dogs in paradise, it will not be paradise for me and I shall probably apply for a transfer to the other place." The judge found Mrs. Prosser responsible for the damage to the house but added: "1 do not blame fie dogs." Florida. Winds today will be from the northwest, moderate to occasion Quotes That Live There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are, going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs. JOHN BAT.

1535-1905, American atalesmaa ally fresh in force. Gentle to moderate northwest to north winds are expected to prevail tomor- and writer. ved freight. "But that is like shutting out a 7.

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