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St. Ptttrtburg Ilmti, Saturday, Junt If 40 NATIONAL POLITICS NO RECOMMENDATION OF MERCY Dixie Governors Plan Meeting On Candidates Two Tampa Hospitals Show Loss Handyman Found Guilty In Slaying Of Do, 2 ATLANTA (UPI) Southern governors are planning a "se cret" breakfast fiet-tocewer Sun TALLAHASSEE (UPI) Slate day at Glacier National Park in What Candidates Did On Friday (By Tht Associated Press) This what tht presidential Montana which several nope to Glenn, to death with hammer during an argument April 13 in a wooded area near Chattahoochee. He testified that the actual Auditor Bryan Willis said yesterday Tampa's two hospitals operated at a loss totaling $167,131 turn into a pre-convenuon strategy meeting for Lyndon Johnson. QUINCY OH -A Jury yesterday found Sit Dawson, 49-year-old one-legged Negro handyman, guilty of first degree murder In tht slaying of year-old Roger Glenn Clayton. There was no recommendation I v.

i l' 1 hhy' -j --v -v w-. during the past fiscal year. candidates did ynlerdayt Vlre rrrtidrnt Richard M. Willis rclcsed a 133-nace gen Klxoa met with Renry Cabot for mercy, which makes the eral audit of the city, made under a 1959 legislative art call Ixidge, Ambaitidor to the death penalty mandatory. slayer was the woman husband Alva Clayton.

Dawson repeated from the wit ness stand yesterday his story that Clayton became enraged because his wifa was drinking and struck her with a hammer. Dawson, who claimed to have-witnessed the killing, said he fled but that Clayton later threatened to kill him If he "breathed a I'nitrd Nations, and conferred with ether Individuals and ing for audits of municipalities in Hillsborough County. Defense attorney Paul Gregory The breakfast will bt given by Govs. Buford Ellington of Tennessee and Price Daniel of Texas, staunch supporters of the Senate Majority Leader as the Democrat most acceptable to Dixie. Govs.

J. Lindsay Almond Jr. of Virginia and Luther Hodges of North Carolina are others who already have counted themselves in Johnson's camp at the Los An-celes convention. Georgia Gov. said ha would appeal the convic He said the financial condition tion, which was returned by the of the general municipal activi jury after minutes delibera tion.

ties, the Water Department and the Bureau of Sanitary Sewers Dawson also Is charged with word" of what he had teen. was "strong," but called the hospitals' condition "weak." Ernest Vandiver is leaning that killing the boy's mother, Mrs. Maggie Clayton, 36-year old white woman, but was not on trial In CHARGED THREAT Dawson dunned ho admitted way. Willis said tht Tampa General the woman's death, Almond left Richmond Thurs Hospital had a net loss of $90, the slaylngs because Deputy Sheriff Robert Martin threatened to graupi; presided at epenlnf of Senate. Sea.

John F. Kennedy (D-Man) presided at Senate Labor Subeommlitet hearing, spoke at luncheon for African diplomatic corps, flew ta Hot-ton to spend the weekend at home at llyannlsport. Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex) performed usual duties as Senate Majority Leader; plans to be In Washington to day. Sen.

Stuart Symington (D Mo) attended Senate set alon, riant today to fly ta Helena, for Montana State Democratic Convention. day for Montana. Yesterday for turn him over to a lynch mob. mer Virginia Gov. John Battle CHOICE OF FOUR Circuit Judge HuRh M.

Taylor 291 during the year, even taking into consideration a contribution of $130,290 by the city. The Clara Frye Memorial Hospital had a K. Tonder. owner of tho urged Virginians to back Massa AP Wlrephott chusetts Sen. John Kennedy at sawmill where Clayton was employed, look the stand as a rebuttal witness for the State and tes loss of $76,840, which would have the convention if Johnson drops gave the cast to the jury after telling it four verdicts could be brought in first degree murder, second degree murder, man been greater, Willis said, "ex THIS UGIITSinP WAS SUNK YESTERDAY at the entrance to New York harbor.

from contention. He endorsed Johnson as an "able leader" and tified the murdered woman's husband was on the job from 6 am, to p.m. the day of the slayings. one whom we could enthusias cept for revenue from general property taxes of $204,736 and a contribution of $42,651 from the City of Tampa." slaughter or innocent. In his charge, Judge Taylor told the all-male, all-white jurors tically support" but added that of Johnson should lose out "Ken PUBLISHER TESTIFIES they should disregard Dawson's nedy should have the most favor 1I.Y.

Lightship The audit recommended strong controls over patients' accounts. nated than you would find against the Democratic ticket if able consideration." Collins Visits Adlai purported statement if they had any reason to believe it was given under duress. Dawson had repudiated his ad Ponder said Clayton remained at tht mill throughout the 12 hours except for about 35 minutes when ht made a wood delivery. Another rebuttal witness, Ben Thomas, testified he helped Clayton unload the wood. It said delinquent accounts were he is denied the nomination and periodically written off and Hearing On Miami TV Channel Award Ends Rammed, Sunk comes into the convention with turned over to collections agen LIBERTYVILLE, 111.

(UPI) -Florida Gov. LeRoy Collins spent mission that ha beat Mrs. Maggie May Clayton and her son, Roger almost enough votes to win the cies. nomination." Thursday night at Adlai Steven son farm home here after show- That, Boggs said, "is an aston By Freighter closed this to the FCC we would ishing statement. It is a fright ing up unexpectedly to hear Stevenson speak in nearby Wauke.

have been subject to loss of our ening statement and it is a false licenses," he said. statement. As a Catholic. I deny can. NEW YORK Hi An Ambrose Cox said the sub-rosa rumors, A Stevenson aide said Collins "merely was passing through" on it totally and completely.

Lehman Is Delegate which had circulated off and on for years in Florida, were that his way to a governors confer ence in Montana and visited Ste the Herald and the News had NEW YORK un Democratic venson "just as a stop over." combined in a hidden arrangement. If this had been true, he State Chairman Michael H. Pren- Collins sat at the speaker's ta dergast yesterday resigned as said, it would have made state ble while Stevenson spoke to the PHILADELPHIA (UPI) A special Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearing into th circumstances the award of a Miami, television channel, ended yesterday with testimony by the publisher of the Miami Daily News. Special FCC examiner Horace Stern, former Pennsylvania State Supreme Court justice, said he probably would submit his recommendations to the FCC sometime next fall after studying a transcript of the case and briefs filed by opposing attorneys. James M.

Cox president of the News and 28 percent owner of WCKT, Miami, operated by Biscayne Television said delegate to the party's national ments of ownership of the Atlan Illinois Bar Association conven 0QMSS convention to enable former Sen, ta and Dayton stations false tion. Then the two Democrats left Herbert H. Lehman to take his since these statements did not in lightship, guarding the perilous entrance to New York harbor, was rammed and sunk in fog yesterday by a freighter three times its size. The Coast Guard pressed one of its cutters into emergency service as a makeshift beacon at the busiest maritime gateway in the world. All ships were warned to exercise caution in their passage through the tricky harbor approach, since the cutter lacked many of the navigational warnings of the sunken lightship.

All nine Coast Guard crew members of the lightship escaped the sinking vessel uninjured. They together for Stevenson's subur place. clude the Herald. ban home. Lehman, a former Governor as "I thought there were very se (SKBS0 Support For Kennedy rious implications to the untrue rumor," he said, "and I felt that well as Senator, is leader of an Insurgent movement seeking to WASHINGTON UP Sen.

John as a member of the FCC, Mack oust Prendergast and National Kennedy ran his unofficial should know the facts." Committeeman Carmine G. De lead for the Democratic presiden Sapio from their party posts on Cox said he had never met Mack before but that he went to grounds of "bossism. he called on former FCC Com tial nomination to 523-delegate votes yesterday with 761 neces him because he understood that The state committee had omit took to a life raft and were picked sary for a nomination. Mack, a Florida native, also had ted Lehman from the list of up by the freighter, the The Massachusetts Senator BY-THE-YARD TERRY CLOTH MAKE BEACH TOWELS, ROBES, CHAISE COVERS. MAHY OTHER ITEM.

Green Bay. gained 37 'i votes in an Associ missioner Richard A. Mack in December, 1955, but that his call had nothing to do with Bisr cayne's pending application. TALKED ABOUT RUMORS Instead, he said, it had to do with rumors current in Miami delegates at large it elected last week. That caused a storm of protest at the snub to the virtual dean of tht party in New ated Press poll of Michigan 51- SIGHTED LIGHT heard the rumors.

BISCAYNE WOX Cox said he never mentioned the pending Biscayne application to Mack since in his view the good name of his existing sta vole delegation hitherto bound to A wheelhouse sentinel on the York state. favorite son Menncn Williams. The Governor recently lightship saw the freighter's mast light an instant before the col SOLID COLORS OR BRIGHT WOVEN FRUITS. announced for Kennedy, releas which he felt might affect two Strong 'Rights' Asked Usion. He sounded a general tions was more important than ing the delegates from their other stations he had interests alarm that brought scrambling to pledges.

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (UPI) furthering the cause of a pend ng application. in, WHIO and WHIO-TV, Dayton, Ohio, and WSB and WSB-TV, At safety crewmen who might other National Democratic Chairman Kennedy also picked up a vote wise have been trapped in their REG. 98c $1.19 PER YARD Biscayne won the grant over In Utah and half a vote in Idaho lanta, Ga. bunks.

three competing applicants. The after rechecks of those delega The Florida publisher said he The freighter was not seriously current hearing was ordered af tions. net Mack by appointment in damaged. As the lightship settled ter Mack resigned following The unofficial standings stood Washington "to disabuse Mack chares of favoritism In connec in 90 feet of water, the Green this way last night: 1 I FOAW BED Uji tion with the allocation of Miami of a rumor circulating in Miami to the effect that there was a nay poKea searcmight rays Kennedy 523, Sen. Lyndon B.

Channel 10. through the fog to find the sur Johnson of Texas 204', Syming sub-rosa ant between vivors and pick them up. ton 73'4. Sen. Hubert H.

Hum Cox testified that he knew senators from Florida and Georgia but that he never met Ohio's the two Miami papers." Cox explained he was "exer It was the first time a light phrey of Minnesota 53V4, Stev ship had been sunk here since enson 33'j, favorite sons and Paul Butler said last night tht Democrats must adopt a "forthright and courageous" civil rights platform even if it means risking defeat in the presidential election. Butler, in Milwaukee to keynote the Wisconsin Democratic Convention, said a walkout by Southern delegates and consequent loss of Southern votes in November was a definite possibility if the party's national convention adopts a strong civil rights plank. But Butler added he was convinced a plank endorsing the 1954 Supreme Court decision on school integration and containing cised at that" rumor because it senators in 1955. He said he had others 205, uncommitted 357 "never discussed radio, or televi they were posted at the entrance to the lower bay in 1822. However, they have been rammed be total 1.450 out of convention total could involve the licenses in At lanta and Dayton.

of 1,521. sion problems" with any of them or any Congressmen from those "If I had been allied with the fore, the last time in 1950. (Miami) Herald and had not dis states. Butler Attacked The lightship takes its name from Ambrose Channel, one of WASHINGTON tfl Ren. Hale several that cross the bar at the Boggs (D-La) said yesterday Another Ocalan Wins entrance to the outer harbor, be statements made by Paul Butler, tween New Jersey and Lone Democratic National Chairman, island.

may start "a wave of hatred and misunderstanding in our beloved TRAFFIC ROLE Governorship Campaign country. The Ambrose lightship plays a Speaking as "an American, as role not unlike that of a traffic the American Legion sponsored policeman at a busy street inter- a lifelong Democrat ana as a lifelong member of the Roman experiment in government. several additional statements on human rights would be passed. Two Farmers File Suit Against Cuba section. With horn, beacon and Elected to office with Governor radio signal, it guides as many as 250 ships a day in and out of Catholic Church," Boggs criticized Butler for what he said was a suggestion that Catholics might Angel were; the channel.

L. Haslam, St. Petersburg CLOSE-OUT! vote Republican if Sen. John F. Its anchorage in the maritime secretary of etate; Bill Patton, Kennedy of Massachusetts does Jt crossroads, and the fact that Miami, attorney general; Joe' not win the Democratic presiden A ships aim at it through its signals Eaton, Coral Gables, comptroller, FORT MYERS Wv Two Flor makes it a sitting duck for any Bob Kerrigen, Port St.

Joe, treas tial nomination. Boggs read to the House an ex ida farmers who said Fidel Cas vessel that fails to change course urer; Wayne Jaeger, Haines OUDOIft SHADES 300 ASSORTED SHADES in time. City, school superintendent, and TALLAHASSEE (UPI) The Central Florida town of Ocala could lay claim to two Carven Angel, 17 year old Ocala High School honor student, was sworn in as governor of the I960 Boys State in Tallahassee. Next January, another Ocalan, Farris Bryant, will become the real governor of Florida, after facing token Republican opposition. Bryant, Democratic nominee for governor, appeared last night as a surprise speaker at Boys State graduation exercises.

He told 529 delegates they must believe in themselves, their fellow men and in God. tro's government has seized their property in Cuba have filed suit Jim Chaplin, Miami, commission. The regular Ambrose lightship had been taken into port several to recover its value. er of agriculture. They filed the garnishee action weeks ago for periodic overhaul Supreme Court: Fleet Joiner, against the Cuban Agrarian ing.

Serving in its place was Re Ocala, chief justice, and Associ Reform Institute which has lief Lightship 505. ate Justices Ted de Lavergne, funds on deposit in the First Na Tampa; Bill Lebo, Tampa; Jack cerpt from a National Press Club question and answer session Wednesday at which Butler was the speaker. He said Butler was asked if Catholics would vote Republican in the event Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, was not nominated. He quoted Butler as having described himself as "a Catholic American" and having replied: "I think that you would find much less of a Catholic bloc vote for Mr. Kennedy if he is nomi tional Bank here from sale of Mamscalco, Tampa; Jimmy C.

Cuban tomatoes in this country. Cash, Sarasota; Richard Rodri- WHILE THEY LAST! The tomato sales were handled Orlando, Tampa Mayoralty Race by the Immokalee tomato grow EA. ers which claims that the agrarian reform agency took Angel, president of the student body at Ocala High, won the top over its farming equipment in Cuba last July and did not keep Cost Compared office at Boys State in an eiec. quez. Key West, and Bob Gunn, Jensen Beach.

Lief Erickson, Coral Gables, served as speaker of the House, and Ronnie Reese, Orlando, president of the Senate. The boys end their session today making way for Girls State which opens Sunday. Some 260 high school girls wlil attend. Their mock government officials will be elected Tuesday. a promise to pay for it.

tion Thursday night, defeating CLOTH M. E. Brown and Thomas Mc Jerry Newcomer, 17, of Miami WINTER PARK (0-The cam- intosh of Immokalee filed their suit in April. Agrarian reform Petersen To Speak The Boys Staters also elected I Cabinet and Supreme Court, and the youths had a ball in their paign to elect Julian Larte mayor of Tampa last year cost more than the 1956 drive which made Robert S. Carr may was given until June 20 to an- ser but made no response.

The mmms make believe roles, a part of attorney for the farmers is ex or of Orlando. Hollins Center for Practical pected to ask for a judgment To Republicans in favor of his clients. ''f 1 ') i i i Politics, which analyzed the elec tions for the Florida Citizenship (Times Bureau) McEwen, House Demos Welfare Board Can Use Surplus To Get Matching Federal Funds TALLAHASSEE (UPI) Thelsurplus funds soon, to get the SARASOTA George C. Pe Clearing House, gave the figures. Dr.

Paul Douglass, Rollins professor of government, and tersen, Fort Lauderdale, Repub Confer On Campaign WASHINGTON MP) James lican candidate for governor, will Miss Alice McMahon, director of speak at a Republican dinner to the center, were reporters for State Welfare Board can use sur- Federal matching money, night in the Beefeater Room in the study. (Red) McEwen of Tampa met with House Democrats from Florida yesterday to. map plans Venice. The study also showed that in 36" widt, strong wood roller, cut to your mtosure. Eggshell white.

The dinner is a highlight of a Tampa the total election costs for his campaign against U.S Court Rules Sheriffs' Flat Salaries Yalid three-day legislative caucus in Rep. William C. Cramer of St. probably reached more than Sarasota County. It started last quarter of a million dollars.

The Petersburg. night and will continue through political battle of Lane against Cramer, the only Republican TALLAHASSEE Wl The State Supreme Court has made in Florida's congressional dele then Mayor Nick Nuccio cost gation, seeks a fourth term in $59,329. REG. $1.98 (IF PERFECT) the House. Mayor Carr, conducting an ef Sunday morning.

According to Ralph Erickson, state committeeman, the caucus is the first of a aeries to bo held throughout the statt before the November election. Their pur McEwen. state attorney at fective, low-cost campaign with Tampa, conferred with Sens, out serious competition from op Spessard L. Holland and George posing candidates, spent $4,700 it clear that flat salaries paid most sheriffs under tht 1959 law are valid. The court modified a recent opinion holding the 1957 law which abolished the fee system for sheriffs was invalid to make it clear that the 1959 law was not affected, The modification spells out tflat the decision on pose, he taid, "will be for all Smathers of Florida Thursday.

of his $5,200 contributions to get Repubican legislative candidates He chatted briefly with Speak elected in 1956. The remaining plus funds to get matching Federal money for providing hospital care for the needy, Attorney General Richard Ervin ruled Friday. In an opinion for welfare director Frank Craft, Ervin said welfare recipients were not restricted by law to money grants, and hospitalization could be considered a legal aid. He said the law gave the board authority1 "to take such action as it deems necessary to gain the advantages of Federal legislation relating to assistance to the needy. Such assistance would appear to include hospitalization." Welfare authorities have reported that money provided by the Legislature to match Federal dollars will be exhausted by October.

The Cabinet will probably be asked to release tht necessary er Sam Rayburn of Texas yes funds were used this year for his to discuss their ideas and attempt to formulate an overall terday morninff and then dis re-election. cussed campaign tactics with In the Lane-Nuccio run-off 71 comprehensive legislative program on a statewide basis." the 1957 case applied only to the ReDS. Robert Sikes. A. S.

Her- percent of the registered voters Most of the weekend sessions long Jr. and other Florida House turned out. Only 43.4 percent voted in the Carr election. will be held at the Azure Tides sheriff of Calhoun County, who had challenged the 1957 law. John Madigan, attorney for the members.

on Lido Beach. The dinner will start at 7 p.m. after a day of Florida Sheriffs Association, business sessions and recreation. asked the clarification. He said Today's Crossword On Page 8-A Radio-TV On Page 8-A some county commissions had The caucus will end Sunday morning with summary and been confused by the ruling in the Calhoun County cast.

report between 10 and 11 a.m. I.