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RAUPII SECTION STATE NEWS MARKETS WANT ADS COMICS MIAMI DAILY NEWS MIAMI 30, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL II, 1951 CnvDlnaira i TinnrB(B WEST PALM BEACH, April Italy Needs Leader To Curb Commies, Worker Declares By BILL BAGGS Miami Dmiljr News Columnist Copyright 1951, The Miami Daily News NAPLES, Italy Seven years ago, Luige sat on the other side of a small cafe table and, between sips of cognac, told me how much he hated Mussolini. A few days ago, in similar surroundings, he told me how were told here yesterday that the industrial output, including steel, should be sufficient to meet civilian needs. "No matter how difficult the I tin. Miami Daily News a I much he would like to see Mussolini alive and back in power. VWe need a leader," the frail, gray-faced friend said.

"That is what is wrong in Italy. Mussolini was a symbol, a strong symbol, and he reminded us we were Italians. We were proud of being Italians and we had a national spirit. Today, there is no leader, no national symbol and therefore, we have little national spirit." Mussolini was a dictator who took away people's personal freedom, I reminded my i Vest- 1)4 Baggs WARREN OPENS OIL TERMINAL, Jacksonville, April 11 Gov. Fuller Warren (center), Mayor Haydon Burns (right) and P.

C. Spencer, president of Sinclair Refining turn the valve to start the flow of oil from a tanker to open the new $1,000,000 deep water terminal and storage plane here. IP Wirephoto. friend, who had said practically the same thing seven short years before. "That is true," Luige admitted.

"But he gave us order. I would submit some of my freedom for order today. How can New Tax Levy For Hospital Is Protested Miami Daily News Bareaa KEY WEST, April 11 the city commission has voted to donate $2,100 to the Monroe county hospital for purchase of surgical in struments, but refused to indorse legislation levying two mills on real and personal property for the support of the institution. lhe purchasing grant was made after hospital doctors had told the commission that they were unable to schedule two consecutive major operations be cause of the lack of instruments The city manager is to super vise the purchase and the instru ments are to be labeled as gifts from the city. Opponents to the levy of two mills for the support of the in stitution contended tnat sucn a levy would represent "taxation without representation" because the hospital is county-owned and operated and officials of the city would have no voice in the disbursement of the proceeds from the levy.

The city fathers also contend ed that the county as a whole should be taxed to support the hospital rather than our taxing residents of the city. Top Legion Officials To Be At Session KEY WEST, April 11 Amer- Miami Daily News Bureau ican Legion national vice com mander Joe H. Adams, Miami; Harlan Mangum, national field representative and 10th district commander Larry Hoffman, Miami Beach, will be guests at the regular meeting of Arthur Saw yer post No. 28, American Le gion tonight. Miss Connie Hudgins, runner up the state Legion oratorical finals, will deliver her prize-winning oration.

W. Curry Harris, chairman of the post's oratorical committee, will introduce Miss Hudgins, who will be accompanied by Mrs. Marian Starke, a high school speech and English teacher who coached her. The Key West guard of honor will induct a group of new members and conduct a memorial service in honor of departed members. The auxiliary unit of the post has been invited to attend.

Lake Worth Contract Set To Dr i 1 1 Th ree ew Wei Is Italy join otner tree countries and build up a strong army if there is not order and national spirit?" BMIX A Report On Europe's Man In The Middle Smith Gillespie, Jacksonville, with present resources, but civil-which is supervising the local ian use would have to be cur-program, tailed, he added. days, he told me, when there was not even any bread. Today, he works as a civil servant in the Italian government. He makes about $58 a month which permits him to buy enough food, but very little else, for the family. "While still very poor, all Italy is better today because of your aid of millions of dollars," he said.

(The total aid approximates about two billions of dollars.) s-. iiiLii Legislators Stir A Restless Ghost STUART. Fla. Old ghosts, one of them the fiery ectoplasm of a Seminole chief, walked out of news stories within the span of recent days. In Columbia, S.

the House ienored a Sen ate-adopted resolution to permit the dust of Chief Osceola to removed from the earth near old Fort Moultrie, for reburial in Florida, where he rose to authentic leadership, and emerged as the only Indian military leader undefeated by U. S. troops. Plea From New York state came a plea to South Carolina from a judge of the Supreme Court of that state, Justice Osceola Bryan Brtwster. His name was given him by a chain of events reaching back into the distant past.

One of his uncles served in the Civil Wa- and had as his closest friend a man whose first name was Osceola. It had been given him by his father who had been a soldier in the wars against the Seminole chief and resented the betrayal of a flag of truce, the device by which Osceola was captured by Gen. Thomas C. Jesup. That unhappy man, goaded by sandspurs, mosquitoes, swamps and an inability to defeat Osceola, offered a truce in October, 1837, and then held the chief when he came in for an interview at a point near St.

Augustine. Jesup feared him even there and sent him on to Fort Moultrie where he died, not of a broken heart as the romanticists say, but of malaria and malnuturtion. In St. Augustine itself, the other day, under early April skies, movie stars Gary Cooper and Mari Alden played their parts in a battle-siege scene at Old Fort San Marcos, its stones gray with centuries of suns and rains. Once again a motley crew of Seminoles and renegades, as working extras, fu-tilely stormed its walls as rifles cracked from the ramparts and the flags flew bravely in the sun.

History Osceola's story belongs to that unhappy period when the Creeks, a confederation of many nations, were being removed west of the Mississippi and, finally, to Oklahoma. They were long in the river valleys of south Georgia and southern Alabama (although at that time it was all Georgia), holding that vast area longer than any other eastern territory. A band of Creeks fled to Florida calling themselves Seminoles. The word means Seced-ers. Through the years they received runaway slaves in large numbers and also acquired the few remaining members of the Apalachi Tribe all but destroyed by the Spanish.

Osceola was born, according to the best evidence, in a vil-lage on the Chattahoochee river. For a time he called Powell, and some authorities say his father was a Scottish trader, William Powell. His mother was a Creek and was later taken into slavery. He rescued her, but subsequently, she was again put into slavery as were thousands of Indians of all tribes. Young Osceola fought against Andrew Jackson's troops in 1812 and again in 1818.

It was 1832 before he began to show powers of leadership. He bitterly opposed the treaties of that year in which lesser chiefs signed away the entire tribe to westward removal. War In 1835 the chiefs were called to a meeting by Indian agent Wiley Thompson, an arrogant man who played a bad hand too far. Insisting on the chiefs signing the removal treaty, he called upon Osceola to come forward and sign. Osceola did come forward but drove his hunting knife through the paper lying on the table before him.

Thompson had him jailed, but within a few days he was at liberty. He proceeded methodically about a plan. He first killed the luckless Wiley Thompson and one of he chiefs who had signed the paper. From that time on he led the Second Seminole War, which brought fire and terror to most of the east coast. He was the only Indian chief ever to use guerrilla tactics with continued success.

He hid his women and children in the glades swamps and operated jn small bands. He stood off the 8,000 troops sent against him across the years so well the army came in for great public criticism ana the goaded Jesup was willing, finally, in 1837, to violate the flag of truce and his. pledged word to capture Osceola. It is his dust they now want to remove to Florida, so that his ghost may have peace. MM I St.

Lucie School Board Stands Pat On Contract 11 Two hardware groups task, the steel to defend our freedom and to maintain a decent standard of living will be forthcoming in whatever quality and quantity may be neces sary," said Charles B. Hook, chairman of the board of Armco Steel Middletown Ohio. He told the Southern Whole sale Hardware assn. and the American Hardware Manufac turers assn. that "our increased capacity should enable us not only to maintain defense production but probably to meet nearly all non-defense needs." II.

B. McCoy, assistant admin istrator of the National, Produc tion Auinority, warned that we can not expect that all our needs for goods and services can be met; on the other hand we do not expect any severe shortage in most things we need for everyday use." "It is certainly our plan to maintain production of component parts and hardware lines at adequate levels that will fill our defense requirements," he added. "After these requirements are met, the balance of our production and distribution for non-defense purposes will be as free of controls as possible. It is not expected allocations will be made for consumer goods." a- -j street and utility lines along its west side. erected Another problem facing the commission is that of ownership of several of the street ends which terminate on Garrison bight.

Private ownership of these lands bars access to the bight to small boat owners who anchor their boats there. Proposals to purchase the property have been unsuccessful and motions to institute condemnation proceedings have either failed for want of a second or been voted down. Key West Speeds Plans For Housing Miami Dally News Bareaa KEY WEST, April 11 The city commission has cleared the way for construction of the housing authority's 117-unit project on irst st. The commission unanimously passed a resolution vacating Patterson ave. and Doris.

Jose phine, Warren and Truman lanes in the area upon which the tourist homes are to be erected. Streets and service entrances will be provided by the contract or. Plans for the $1,500,000 project are now in process of approval and it is expected that a call for bids will be issued shortly. Var College Men Visiting Key West Miami Daily News Bareaa KEY WEST, April 11 A group of, 36 faculty members and students of the National War College will arrive in Key West tomorrow to attend an anti-submarine warfare demonstration. Headed by the commandant of the college, Gen.

Harold R. Bull, the group will attend a briefing conference iate tomorrow and observe anti-submarjine warfare demonstration at sea on Friday and Saturday. Before their departure Sunday, the group will visit the fleet sonar school, advanced under-seas weapons school, naval ordnance unit, surface anti-submar ine development detachment, air development squadron one, and airship squadron 11. SPRING SNOW NOTHING NEW TO DENVER DENVER, April 11 Colorado's capital city, which at various times in the past has seen snow fall in 10 months of the year, has again been pelted by a wet, spring snow. This view of snow-mantled autos and heavily-burdened branches was made on Harrison st.

near 16th ave. in east Denver. The fall was eight inches and more than a foot in some high mountain sections. IP Wirephoto. "And while things are better now and we are eating with regularity, what happens when the aid stops?" he asked, and then proceeded to answer his own question.

"We will either go Communist or we will have a strong leader like Mussolini was." Luige has two brothers who work in a factory at Milano. Both are members of the huge Italian Communist party. "A strong leader would make my brothers leave the party," he said. "They are Communists now because the Communists control the workers in the factory and could throw them out of jobs if they were not party members. "A strong leader would not permit such circumstances to exist.

He would not let the Communists decide who can have a job. Mussolini would not permit such a thing to happen." He continued: "A strong leader would not allow black market prices. Ht would not allow merchants to charge high prices for their merchandise. Mussolini put people in jail for charging excessive prices." Later, another friend who has been in Italy since 1934 revealed to me that Mussolini indeed had jailed shop owners for charging excessive prices for goods. "We sit now so close to the countries Russia rules," continued Luige.

"We are a people of 50 million (official estimates are 46 million) and all the army and other military force we have is 250,000. What could this little force do if Russian-ruled countries decided to march into Italy. No wonder there are so many Communists in our country." The military treaty limits Italian military forces to 250,000 men, including police. Luige talked on: "We should have a strong army now, and a strong leader to run it, but we don't have a strong leader and therefore we don't have a strong army. "In America, you do not understand.

It is all right for you to talk democracy and the rights of men. You have order in your government, and the people have faith in it. Here, we have been run over by military conquerers so many times and our government has changed so many times. The people try'to get ty the best they can. People have no faith in anything but bread.

"We need a leader to shake us and pull us together and give us order and faith. Call it totalitarian if you wish, but it is what we need here in Italy. It is better, I think, than having Russians rule us." Sinclair Head See State As Oil Source JACKSONVILLE, April 11 UPi Oil in quantities will some day be found in Florida, says the president of one of the nation's largest refineries. "Oil is here," President P. C.

Spencer of the Sinclair Refining co. declared yesterday. "Geologic conditions were right to produce it. You just have to find it. We'll be finding oil in years to come where we don't suspect it now as we improve our detection methods." Spencer spoke at the formal opening of the company's new deep water terminal and storage plant, which has a capacity of 14,000,000 gallons.

Regarding oil reserves, he said he saw no shortages in the petroleum picture in the foreseeable future. The United States could fight an all-out war now WATER the intersecting streets show that the actual distance ranges from just a few feet more than 150 at Truman ave. to almost 40 feet more at Newton and Petro-nia streets, and that the road bears eastward from the parallel line of Pearl street. No one seems to remember just how the street got located where it is now. Old timers recall-that the relative smooth surface along the tide line was used many years ago as a road.

It seems most logical that, with increased use, this road became widened prior to receiving its first pavement and that city officials failed at that time to make a survey to properly locate the street. Old houses on the west side of the road are set far back of the present street line indicating that the owners at the time the houses were built had properly located their lot lines. As the years went by, the fences surrounding these houses were extended to the street line thus causing these property owners to occupy more land than called for by the original deeds. Re-location of the street at this time would entail considerable expense, even if the legal right to do so should be established. One of the main sewer lines leading to a disposal plant has been laid under the present Key West To Invite Delegates For Visit Miami Daily News Bareaa KEY WEST, April 11 Delegates to the State Planning and Development assn.

convention in Miami Beach next week will each receive a souvenir airplane along with an invitation to visit Key West before they return north. The souvenirs, attractively packaged in individual envelopes, are being provided by the Key West Chamber of Commerce. Spring Term Opens Special Tbe Miami Daily ews FORT PIERCE, April 11 SDrine term of circuit court opened here Tuesday, Judge A. O. Kanner presiding.

Approxi mately 50 cases were listed on the term docket. MANY LOTS ARE IN Road Problem Plagues Commission Special To Tbe LAKE WORTH, April 11 A contract for the drilling of three new wells, to augment the city's water supply has been let by the city commission, and work will start at once. The low bid of Libby Free man, of Orlando for $11,445, was accepted. Two other bids, each for more than $16,000 were en tered. One 12-inch well will be sunk on the municipal golf course and will supply the water used on the greens and fairways, thus saving millions of gallons of wa ter annually for residential and business section use.

One six-inch test well and one 10-inch gravel-type well will be drilled near the pumping station. A contract for piping water to the new electrical generators, now being installed in the city's $1,775,000 water and light expan sion program, was let to How ard Lee Cromer, Delray Beach, whose bid of $7,984.70 was low. Purchase of a large transform er was approved, and the bid of $2,018.48 by Westmghouse was recommended by Wiley Gules- pie, of the engineering lirm of Miami Daily News that it had no alternative other than to follow the procedure provided by law and award contract to the lowest bidder. Later, it was reported that aluminum sash would be available. The proposed new school building is to be located on N.

17th street site and have 16 classrooms. Missile Base Road Work Is Started Special To The Miami Daily News COCOA, April 11 The first phase of the long range proving ground road construction program has gotten underway here today on Florida state highway A1A between the Cocoa causeway intersection and the south bank of the new Canaveral port channel. The road construction is part of a $997,000 contract let by army engineers with the Duval Engineering and Construction co. of Jacksonville. Purpose of this construction is to provide a wider and greater load-bearing highway for access to the LRPG guided missile launching pads at Cape Canaveral and also will be a benefit to the port now under construction and the residents in this area.

The re-building of the three-mile stretch will provide a surfaced road 22 feet in width as compared with the former 16 foot width. The roadbase will be rebuilt with limerock. A temporary one-way by-pass will be built adjacent to those sections under construction to allow a minimum of inconvenience to the flow of traffic. VFW To Meet ORLANDO, April 11 The annual encampment of the Florida department of Veterans of Foreign Wars will be held at the Orange Court hotel here June 15-17. The Cooties, VFW fun and service group, will hold their annual "scratch" June 14.

Luige's economics are much better today than they were seven years ago. In 1943, he combined odd jobs with begging on the public streets in order to get enough money to feed his family of a wife and four children. There were days when the family ate nothing but bread, and there were Miami Dally News Wellbrock and M. O'Neal, prop erty owners, regarding the city's plans to bulkhead the street ends on NE 2 and 3rd is scheduled today. The owners have just com pleted a seawall between the two streets but the city's right- of-way is almost unprotected and serious erosion is taking place due to high tides.

lhe council may announce a policy to effect all such streets within the city which are now in need of sea wall protection and bulkheading. Oxford To Attend Rotary Parley Special To The Miami Daily News COCOA, April 11 James Oxford, county agent and member of the Cocoa Rotary club, has been named today to attend the Rotary district conference April 22-24 to be held at West Palm Beach. The club was honored at its weekly meeting today by Jim Murray, president of the Scranton Red Sox baseball team, farm club of the Boston Red Sox. The Scranton club is completing its fourth spring train ing season in Cocoa next wees. Red Cross Drive Special The Miami Daily News COCOA, April 11 Red Cross drive funds here are falling far short of what was expected from personnel at the Patrick AF Base, it was revealed by Miss Eileen Uncles, field director for the ARC at the base.

Civil Service Review Set For Municipal Branches To The FORT PIERCE, April 11 The St. Lucie county school board today showed no sign of changing its recent award of contract to a Pahokee contractor for the construction of a new Negro school here, despite protests made by one of the other bidders. The board recently awarded a contract to Don Hillier Sons, Pahokee, on a bid of $152,575, lowest of several submitted. W. W.

Arnold put in a bid of The question of alternate materials in this case steel window sash substitution for aluminum sash was involved, however, and Arnold claimed that aluminum sash were probably unobtainable and that on the alternate bid basis his bid was lowest. The school board, however, after hearing complaints, held Jewish Group Seats Officers Special To The Miami Daily News LAKE WORTH, April 11 Fol lowing a program and a smor gasbord dinner at the Pilgrim hall, recently elected officers of the Lake Worth Hebrew Benev olent assn. were installed Monday evening. This marked the beginning of the sixth administration of the association. Officers, installed by George B.

Mehlman, West Palm Beach attorney, were David Mandell, president; Leonard Weinberg, first vice president; Roger Jack-nin, second vice president; Mrs. Mollie Cohen, recording and financial secretary; Mrs. Lillian Winkler, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Ida Glick, treasurer; Frank Cohen, sergeant at arms; William Freeman and Harry Winkler, directors. The program was provided by Jacknin, Max Ganz, Frank V.

Bayer and Mrs. George B. Mehlman. Voters Warned On Registration Miami Daily News Bureau WEST PALM BEACH, April 11 Mrs. J.

R. Gardner, city clerk, issued another reminder today that registration books for city voters will close at the end of the day's business next Fri day. Books will not be reopened. she said, until after the April 24 municipal election when two city commission posts will be voted on. "We- urge all qualified resi dents wno nave not yet registered under the new, permanent registration system, to come in before the ner said.

Miami Daily News Bureau KEY WEST, April 11 The city commission is plagued with a mistake made many years ago when North Beach rd. was first improved as a city street. For the past year purchasers of property along the east side of the street have found that in measuring from the street they had purchased lots which apparently ran out into the water at Garrison bight. A rash of applications to fill out to the line thus indicated began to be pre sented to the city fathers. Since the city had acquired title to the whole area of the bight with the intention of estab lishing a yacht basm there, many citizens have bitterly op posed the allowing of these property owners to fill out into the body of water.

City plans show that Pearl the street next west of North Beach lies 150 feet west of that road and parallel to it. Actual measurements along 4 Florida Men Wounded In Korea WASHINGTON, April 1 1 (JPi Four Army men from Florida have been wounded in Korean fighting, the defense department announced today. They are Private First Class Otis O. Armbrister, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Samuel S. Armbrister, Fort Lau-derdlle. Corporal Noel D. Davis, son of Mrs. Neta Davis, Panama City.

First Lieutenant Robert B. Howard, husband of Mrs. Joan B. Howard, Sarasota. Private Joseph W.

C. Wheeler, son of James W. Wheeler, St. Petersburg. Miami Daily Stwi effective around May 1, it was said.

buch an anti-mosquito pro gram was followed with consid erable success two years ago. The board will send Board Member Lane Jennings, County Engineer C. F. Ordway, and Tom Carlile to a pest control meeting to be held in Lantana April 13, it was also decided. Special te Tbe DELRAY BEACH, April 11 The city council voted down a request to establish a trailer sales agency on the Federal highway at NE 4th and voted to allow the Boat club to hold two one day outboard racing meets, July 1 and 4, at a regular session Monday.

Disciplinary action will be invoked, however, by the city on those boat operators who violate the city-anti-nuisance ordinance in their daily use of the waterway within the city limits. Mufflers must be installed on all the craft, the council warned. James Nowlin, John Tallentire and Jack Kabler were named as committee to draft a civilian defense ordinance. A building permit refund, as requested by Dr. W.

C. Williams, was denied. The contemplated structure was never erected, the request for refund stated. John Breze was re-appointed to the civil service board. His term will be for a four-year period.

A civil service ordinance, which defines the various municipal departments and their wage classification, was passed on its first reading. An ordinance excepting grocery stores from selling beer and wine within 300 feet of a school, was passed on first reading as was an ordinance to regulate the height of hedges and other obstructions in the area of commercial set backs. A special meeting of -three councilmen together with J. C. St.

Lucie Plans Mosquito Conirol Special to Tbe FORT PIERCE, April 11 The St. Lucie County Sanitary district shortly will advertise for bids on aerial spraying for mosquito and sandfly control, it was indicated at Tuesday's session of the board. Bids will be opened April 24 and contracts will be awarded.