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Tampa Bay Timesi
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St. Petersburg, Florida
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Thursday, Dec. 2, 1954 Sr. Petersburg Times 3 Woman Cleared In Plot To Take Money, Jewels i Road Chairman Approves Start Of Projects TALLAHASSEE, fLT) Road Gjairman CecJ M. Webb has signed contracts authorizing a start of construction on $804,000 worth of unlawfully transporting In interstate commerce a $300,000 for tune belonging to Mrs. Dyoll P.

Havens, a Palm Beach. woman IS years his senior whom he married last March after a whirlwind courtship. He ditched her the day after their edding at a Fredericksburg, moteL Mrs. Nagler faced the same as Herman. Judge Hutcheson ruled the government'! evidence was insufficient to show she was involved in any complicity.

RICHMOND. Va. U1 Federal Judge Sterling Hutchesoa yesterday threw out charges against Mrs. Kathleen M. Nagler in the Percy Herman love-profiteering case and directed a serdict 1 acquittal for the pretty SS-year-old brunette.

Hutcheson dismissed the case after the government had rested its evidence, which it contended showed Mrs. Nagler had joined in a plot to taka money and jewels belonging to Herman elderly bride. Herman was convicted la July or projects on which fcids were received in October and early November, a report showed yester day. The projects include the Manlan-tas inlet bridge in St Johns County, state road 10 through Live Oak. paving on state road 710 east of Okeechobee, surfacing from the in Group Of Eastern Air Lines Employes Threafen Strike Top Democrafs Meet To Name Hew Chairman NHW OHIXANS, in Top remrxra! begin arriving yeter-djy for a to-day meeting of the Democratic National Committee tomorrow and Saturday which is scheduled to rume a successor to National Chairman Stephen M.trhrll.

Mitchell has resigned, effective when the new chairman sclect- i. Approximately IJO party leaders are expected ta attend the 100-a plaf banquet Saturday niht. hlghlirhted by a nationallv-broadcast CiiS. p.m. EST) addrrM by A41.il Stevenson.

1K2 Democratic presidential candidate Among Uio. who have teen Mentioned suttuwr to Mitchell, who wa puked for the Job hy Mcvenon in are: Jame A. I'mnzn, preiicnt t'. Philadelphia City Council; Committeeman Paul M. r.utlrr rf Indiana; Oscar Oi.ip-rrun.

former secretary of the interior; Michael former mayor rt Toledo and price control chief In the Truman adminis-tratfon, Thomas K. Finlotter, former ecret.iry fif the Air Force; former Gov, Elbert N. Carvel tA Drtaware; Archibald S. Alexander. New Jrey state treasurer; Sen.

li.irie C. Clements and Lawrence Withcrby, both of Ken-tu ky. Wctherhy said in Frankfort. yesterday that be not a candidate for the post but would attend the committee meeting "Just a newspaper reporter who trying to find out what Li going rn." Itep. Hale Hogr.

of New Or- leans also has been mentioned. tersection of state road 46 and Orange Boulevard north of Paola east to state road 13 in Seminole County, and roads at the farmers market at Kissimmee. Webb served notice he intends 1 United already pay $400. He said there is a similar disparity in other pay classifications. Red Agents Arrested SEOUL Tolica here yesterday said they had arrested four Communist agents who smuggled narcotics into South Korea to finance their espionage activities.

WASHINGTON. -A group of Eastern Air Lines radio and teletype employes yesterday threatened a strike just as the airlines are entering a holiday season rush. Eastern's planes serve Miami and other Southern resort areas and are heavily booked. President Mil Senior of the Air Line Communications Employes Association Ind. specified no CAF Wirvpfcato) FRAGMENT IHTS HOME Mrs.

Hewlett Hodges. 31, Sylacauga, housewife, is shown holding the 8 pound meteoriie fragment which bruised her when it fell through the rof of her borne Tuesday. Mrs. Hodges was asleep on a sofa at the time. AIR FORCE EXAMINES METEORITE CAP irephoto) FATHER WEEPS FOR HERO SOV Leon C.

Gilliland of Vellville. wipes tears from his eyes as he holds the Medal of Honor awarded his 18-year-old son. CpL Charles L. Gilliland, for heroism in Korea which cost him his life. The father received the medal in a Pentagon ceremony yesterday.

The son was killed defending his position during an attack by Chinese Communists in April. 1951. jfsws l-s us. tat is tat i-ss. i.

i-a strike date, but indicated there THE PERFECT GIFT may be a walkout ithout notice CHRISTMAS 9 FOR Hewlett Hodges, who said he SYLACAUGA, IT The Air to continue approving road and bridge projects until he leaves office in January, despite repeated warnings that Gov. elect LeRoy Collins will take steps to cancel any which put the department in the red. Collins statement that road contractors are taking jobs "at their own peril" and may not be paid for the work apparently has not caused a dropoff in bidd.ng. Bids on five million dollars worth of projects were received Tuesday and Webb said he plans two more lettings Dec. 7 and Dec.

21. The projects bid on in December, according to chief engineer Robert T. Gupton, probably cannot be started before January, indicating that Collins may have an opportunity Senior met here ith officials of had received high offers for the Reds Would Use A-Wecpcns, Churchill Declares Force yesterday examined a me other labor unions representing meteorite from institutions and in teonte which smashed through the Eastern's workers. He said his Cormm dividuals over the country, re istence of the human group has been negotiating since Churchill told the House of Com tained a lawyer at Talladega, last February seeking wage rates roof of a home rear here Tuesday and the husband of a woman injured by the nine-pound black a comparable with what the union has regotiated for similar workers to recover it The attorney said, however, that the Air Force is expected to return the fragment after Tuesday, the meteorite hurtled into stone set out to Jain possession of at United and American Air Lines LONDON, ifi Prime Minister Churchill said yesterday if the Russians decided to make a treacherous surprise attack "which I do not think they will" they would make it with atomic weapons. The world as a whole is faced with problems which affect the ex mons.

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