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Fort Pierce News-Tribune Publlahed Dally In th a II art of tho am out Indian Rlvtr NIWI-TRIIUNI ObtMtfVM iMdlaM River leetlea Fwl Rehabilitate AgncuRuraj Davslopminl New Industries Bneb tad Tourism Development Railroad Overpasses Primary ud Seeuodaiy Inda IOCAL DATA hour period ending II WEDNESDAY Mai Mm i- Ram 23 Bar 2911 BIACM TEMPERATURE (10 am Today) Air 70 Or nn TO VOL 82-NO 162 FORT HERCI FLORIDA THURSDAY JUNE 1ft 196ft glnfk Copy Duv Mif Ma State Of War' Declared 'Fiend1 Blamed As A-Bombs 'Ravage' Nation Operation Alert Declared to be Very Successful Compromise Tails Is Heard In Tallahassee But Nothing Definite Government Officials Functioning in I Tallahassee urt-Compromis Scattered Hideouts talk cropped up today among leg PMPlfPVYPV glixlators remaining in town during 8 8 I the 72-hour apecial session recess HhADQUARTERS 0 PER- but there waa nothing concrete on ATION ALERT (AP) I which to tie hopea for an earlylenre and to try 'to work out some President Eisenhower todnv the iIe-(new approach to breaking the I deadlock With both houses in recess untill sen Carraway of Tallahassee a member of a Senate majority 11 am tomorrow about half of the senators and representatives went home to attend to regular business The others remained behind to catch up with correspond declared a mock state of mar tial law to mobilize Authorities Lean Toward Kidnap-Murder Theory 1ST PALM BEACII Not one substantial clue had been uncovered 24 hours after the mysterious disap Ijearance of wealthy prominent Circuit Judge Chil-lingworth and his wife causing a fellow jurist to theorize: I think it was the work of a fiend possibly the fiend involved in the Ferri abduction" The comment waa made today authority and resources of the federal government" in coiling with the massive problems of a nation theoret ically ravaged by hydrogen and atomic bombs The action following late-into-the-night session with top was announced by a spokesman who said it was Eisenhower's view such a step was nee-essary to the national interest until Congress supposedly scattered by the mock attack could reconvene and until normal channels of government action were re-established The theoretical martial law declaration was taken after the imagined damage from yesterday's great sham attack on 61 major population and industrial centers had been assessed the spokesman said The President fame out with his martial law declaration on the second day of Operation Alert 1955 the hydrogen age preparedness exercise which started yesterday when enemy bombers supposedly rained death and ruin on the capital and 60 other key cities This was the Job to which the II agencies working i group said he looked for some sort of a settlement within two weeks as a result of a conference between opposing groups in the Senate and Gov Collins Carraway said the meeting on Tuesday in the office had paved the way for a further conference that should aid in developing a equitable aolu-lion acceptable to all concerned" Collins said only have had talks and discussions and 1 era hopeful" Sen Morrow of Lake Worth member of the Senate minority group and an administration leader said he had heard talk of the Carraway-Barber bill being re-vived and revised is a possible compromise Early last week Carraway and Sen Barber of Vcro Beach announced details of a proposal to present aa a package a reapportionment bill and a proposed con stitutional amendment The bill would have given Bay Monroe Seminole and Brevard UP I countie senators of their own The proposed constitutional amendment would have upped Senate membership from 38 to 41 and in addition would have made Okaloosa Sarasota and Brevard counties separate senatorial districts Carraway and Barber never in- withdrew she dress High I it auu oiiult never in VJi HIGH TONED BULL ARRIVES BY Bau" 1764-pound prize bull takes a snooty look at New Idlewild Airport on his arrival by air from London The bull soothed by a handler waa shipped by the Anglo Scottish Cattle Co of London Fd Lucaa of Nashville Tenn The animal ia valued at 6000 (AP Wirrphoto) sand what appeared to be blood stains on a beach walk and a smashed spotlight outside the con Crete and frama beach house in dieating violence are working on tho thaory that they were attacked and car rlrd away either by boat or by car" aaid John Hiatt Palm Beach County investigator Xirk and hia men spent moat yeste rday and last night checking reports One was that a boat waa seen offshore from the Chilling worth home at 12:30 am yesterday Another was that lights which customarily burned at the house overnight were not on at 4:30 am Kirk also waa trying to trace the ownership of two spools of one-inch adhesive tape One was found on the beach In front of tha house and the other waa lying on tho floor of the porch appeared about yard of tape had been torn off each spool" Kirk told reporters The veteran Jurist wort eyt glasses but none were found although no clothes were missing and tha wallet with about $40 In it was on a bedside table in the house where they slept Tues-day night Tho beds were unmade Officers from Palm Beach Lake Worth Boynton Beach Manalapan and Lantana scoured the area for dues while Coast Guard and Air Force planes searched the beach and ocean adjoining A blood-hound was brought In but found no footsteps to follow 15 Feared Dead In Brazilian Air Liner Crash Government Ready to Arrange Return of Any of 21 POWs Who Chose to Remain Behind REVOLT BREAKS OUT AGAINST PERON REGIME Pitched Battle in Buenos Aires Follows Excommunication BUENOS AIRES I Revolt broke out today against the government of President Juan Peron shortly after the Vatican excommunicated him and othpr government leaden There waa a pitched battle In the renter of Buenoa Aires and planea bombed Government House the aeat of government Revolu-tionista fired mortars machine guns and rifles against the presidential guard The revolt waa reported to have spread to Rosario Argentina second city although the government claimed the country was quiet outside Buenoa Aires "There have been some distur bances due to uprisings of units of the air force and the navy" the state radio said In a statement attributed to President Peron troops are righting to restore order airplane has been shot down Three others have taen obliged to land" Later the radio said only naval aviation waa Involved not the air force This correspondent aaw casual tic being removed from the Plaza de Mayo in front of Government House Nearby is the national cathedra center of last disturbances involving supporters of the Roman Catholic Church and supporters of President Peron in his campaign to curb the church in this country The center of the city was virtually alive with troops and bands of -workers could be seen running in the direction of Government House shouting This came few hours after news reached here of the action The Roman Catholic Church announced its penalty of cutting off the sacraments of the church was applied because of Argentine events culminating In the expulsion yesterday of Msgr Manuel Tato Legal sources here declared the excommunication does not mean Peron ceases to be a Catholic Therefore they said he can continue to serve under the Argentine constitution making Roman Catholicism the official religion Msgr Tato and an associate expelled with him meantime were being flown to Rome on a special Argentine airliner At least two bombs apparently fell directly on Government House and another toll in the street nearby Government House is the seat of government the office of President Juan Peron He docs not live there however It was not known immediately where the President was at the lime the trouble started Moat every day he leaves government house about noon or shortly a Per The attack started about a half hour later than his usual time for leaving Hugo di Pietro the assistant secretary of the government-controlled General Federation of Labor fCGT) issued a call for all workers to gather immediately at the CGT headquarters Workers principally broke up an attempted revolution against Peron Sept 28 1951 GROWING Onetime child film star Margaret who from film acting while grew displays the she will wear when she graduates from Hollywood a in borrowed college classrooms "ow eari troduced the proposal however remote resort hotels and one back-1 rfceived her formal educa- because Atty Gen Ervin ruled S' P1 tutor the constitutional amendment pro-she get her diploma at the posal could not legally be adopted regular high school commence- during a special reapportionment ment exercises (NEA Tele- session P100) I Morrow ssid the compromise talk proposed substituting the leil a IShands bill passed by the Senate MJDmamft Friday toir Carraway-Barber MUmtlllllVbill nd mending to provide woods tent city applied themselves to today which repre sented the atari of the second week of the mock mobilization Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson told reporters Operation Alert haa been successful" and the government operating effectively" by Judge Joseph White who hared an office auita with the missing Judge Chillingworth Mr and Mrs Charles Ferri vanished May and no clue haa been found concerning their fate Bloodstains indicated they had been murdered Ferri was to have been a witness in a Newark J- income tax case against Albert Anastasia reputed head of Murder Inc Judge White aaid he didn't be-Irive hia colleague waa kidnaped and poasibly slain because of a grudge a person or persona had a grudge against Judge Chilling-worth they would have gone up to the dour and shot him It is my personal belief we have a fiend in our midst" Authorities leaned toward a kid-nap-murder theory and intensive checks were being made on a report that a small boat approached tha Judge's sand dune cottage at neighboring Manalapan It was discovered they were missing from the cottage yesterday morning The FBI offered the use of its laboratories and crime-detection equipment to local authorities but a spokesman aaid there appeared to be no federal violation and no agents had been assigned to the ease No ransom notes have been found Money in the house was untouched Bulldozers were being used today to aearch the heavy growth of sea grape end other tropical oceanside undergrowth for evidence If the motive was revenge officers could find no clue to it The Judge was strict but fair and for many years had handled no criminal easel He waa a member of a pioneer family in this area and waa wealthy Besides the seaside cottage he owned a home in West Palm Beach and other property Gov Collins ordered the state patrol to enter the case and report directly to him The sheriff'i office had Jurisdiction assisted by police from a number of surrounding towns hope this ia only a kidnaping" aaid Sheriff John Kirk are still at a low as to what happened and as to what motive they might have had" The tall thin 58-year-old Jurist and hia wife Marjorie 57 were last scon by friends in Palm Beach Tuesday night and were reported missing from their ocetnside summer home at nearby Manalapan yesterday morning Slender clues baffled itate county and city police investi gators Judge Chillingworth a native of West Palm Beach had been county judge for two year and circuit judge for 32 State Atty Phil discounted a theory that a prisoner recently released may have been responsible but said he bad no other possible clues There were footprints in the wet The success in some cases he acknowledged was of a negative sort Many cities perhaps most of them found they lacked the resourcei to do the civil defense job right he said The test assumed that New York EMERGENCY PRESS HEAD-QUARTERS Operation Alert-The government announced today it will arrange the return home of anyof the -21 American war prisoners who chose to stay in Communist China after the Korean War but who now have changed their minds However the White House and the State Defense and Justice departments warned in a Joint statement that any who do come back to the United States will be held accountable any wrongful act" they may have committed The government announcement aid military departments will instrurt their field commands that if any of the 21 presents himself to military authorities as an American desiring return to the Jurisdiction of the United States he will be turned over to the custody of the nearest United States consular representative" The State Department it went on will instrurt its representative that upon making contact with any of these persons they would Inform him that in event of return to tho United States he of course would be subject to the laws of the United States Including the US Code of Military Justice for any wrongful act which he may have committed" The State Department then will arrange for the return to the continental United States of any of these men who they want to come home the announcement said the return to the United States of any of these individuals" it added appropriate federal authority will determine whether further action will be taken" Recently relatives reported receiving letter! indicating that Cpl Olho Bell of Olympia Wash and Cpl lwie Griggs of Jacksonville Tenn now want to return And six other former POWs are listed by their relatives as writing that they hope to leave Red China for home some time in the future Monroe County with senator of its own As it passed the Shandi bill I gave Bay Manatee and Seminola counties their own senators but Blows Up Sinks 13 Feared Lost kept Monroe tied with Lee Hen- PORTLAND England on A I dlZ nd i th deitructiv Mrintat at X' Motto HlilMtA out pato 20 miles wide was large- hip the of Portland! the apPortionmcnt bill ad- I wind-driven to sea harbor with 13 men tranned in if urn' lhen ask CoMm to call it Los Angeles was by Mattered hull immcfliale1y into special session three bombs equivalent to a mil- 1 to deal with tha proposed amend- lion tons each but San Francisco explosion ment Sen bmandiLaf? Whcn Senle recessed Tues-fic JnHdm i16 hree fcn- Shand of Ganiesville The wSt would propose some end of thB amendments tomorrow to the pres rionesiS th 21 WaSTr? nl M1 t0 make If vMd- palatable to the House He the s'irtrn before announced details however An tZi the harb0r House on Monday added 10 th ZnSSSZ ty amendment to the Senate bill but the Senate promptly rejected them compartment went into W-hour recess and Philadelphia presented worse theoretical fall-out problems A 200-mile streak of "contaminated" atmosphere reached southeastward from Philadelphia across southern New Jersey San Francisco's sham radioactive plume smothered Berkeley across the bay 3 Ministers Scamens Union Calls Stoppage: EAST COAST GULF PORTS TIEUP SEEN NEW YORK A contract were not available for comment no work stoppage called by union after the pattern-making NMU seamen along the Atlantic and Gulf sent out its call but it waa likely M'i that they also would stand by their traditional contract no work" policy Work stoppages by the 33000 members of the tour unions would affect approximately 1000 about half the American merchant fleet Disagreement over union demands on an unemployment insurance fund led to the work stoppage recommendations Contract negotiations between the four unions and two employer groups had been going on for lcricQ nn iu-nj wcek nd federal mediators men stayed on 30 ships tied up itepPd in st night No further The CIO National Maritime Union wired its contract no work" recommendations to union locals in 18 ports after negotiations for a new contract were broken off Reaction came first from Philadelphia where an NMU spokesman said the union was withdrawing its members from all ships in the Pennsylvania Delaware and New Jersey docks The union reported some 2000 The Sidon rested on the surface tor about a half an hour after the explosion then sank under 36 feet of water Seven other crewmen escaped with only slight injuries the admiralty said regret to say that three officers and 10 ratings are definitely known to be missing and must be presumed dead" Thomas first lord of the admiralty told 01 the House of Commons in London addition one officer and seven D8ft ratings were injured and are in hospital" I by the New York police commis- Asked whether the men died in Perimenl consisted the blast or because they 1 Yh escape Thomas replied: I pa ro men nd then observing Chief (assens Addresses Lions Police Chief Cassens was guest speaker at the Lions club luncheon Thursday at Flamingo restaurant Cassens used as the basis of the ASUNCION Paraguay LSI A Brazilian airliner bearing 24 per soni crashed in a heavy fog fiva miles from Asuncion early today and 15 were reported killed or unaccounted for Officers of the line Panair do Brasil said there wrere known survivors John Dowling chief of Time Magazines bureau in Buenoa Aires was among the 24 passengers He was en route back to the Argentine capital from Sao Paulo Brazil -Rescue workers hauled the bodies of six passenger and three of the 10-member crew from the fire-scarred wreckage near the village of Cuatro Mo-Jones but identifications were slow Th in the final stages of a long flight to Buenoa Aires from London via Paris Lisbon Dakar Recife Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo apparently waa letting down for a landing at this Paraguayan eapital when the end came Among the survivors was Ves-silio Bartoli coach of Torino Soccer Club He suffered serious burns Bartoli who presumably boarded the plane in Lisbon was headed to Asuncion to sign up a Parauayan soccer star Jose Parodi At least three other passengers bound for this city also lived through the crash Most of those aboard were en route to Buenos Aires Panair is an associate and former affiliate of Pan American Air ways It is a Brazilian company operating in Europe and Latin America Paraguayan security police surrounded the scene of the crash and barred reporters and the public The Paraguayan Air Ministry sent in officers to investigate WEATWF? FLORIDA: Partly cloudy with local showers this afternoon and tonight and except in extreme northeast portion Friday High this afternoon 86 to 92 low tonight 65 to 70 north and 70 to 75 south MARINE FORECAST JACKSONVILLE through FLOR-IDA STRAITS: Gentle to modern ate northeast to east winds froii'h Friday except gentle variab'e south pcr'ioo this afternoon locil show- Big Unify Strategy NEW YORK Wi The Western Big Three foreign ministers gathered here today to unify secret strategy for Big Four parleys with the Russians in San Francisco and Geneva The two day get-toether atari-ed on an optimistic note Antoine Pinay French foreign minister arriving at Idlewild air-' port said "we can tor relaxation of international tension if the Atlantic community continues as living Harold Macmillan the British foreign minister arriving at the airport less than an hour later expressed hopes for security and freedom" John Foster Dulles secretary of state came here from Washington last night with 25 staff members The British and French foreign ministers each brought eight staff members from overseas As far infa-m I change in the crime rate I think that th loss of Me Is 1 rf tihot 0 hV b0 Jg-- -J -S to the explosion The explosion rocked this south coast naval base and sent columns of dense yellow smoke billowing skyward Junior Conservation Camp Opens June 19 TALLAHASSEE 'W The Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish junior conservation camp in the Ocala National Forest will estimated but that information isi'op June 19 to run through Aug '6 in one week periods The commission expects 100 youngsters to attend each of the essions to receive instruction in conservation and use of talks were scheduled When NMU negotiations with the two employer groups broke down national Organization of Masters Mates and Pilots said the effect would be that ships will sail" The other unions involved are the CIO Marine Engineers Beneficial Assn and the CIO American Radio Assn uNo From Oil Men No answer yet" waa the reply from Harry Kiclitcr chairman of the Fort Pierce Port Authority when asked this morning if officials of Frontier Oil Co have replied to the telegram opening the door to negotiations on the proposed oil refinery Kiditor said the board expects an answer from Robineau president of the oil company or his assistant Gardnar Mulloy in the near future The port authority sent a wire to Robineau and Mulloy in London England last Tuesday afternoon opening the door for nego Uations The company previously in New York harbor but were not working Work stopped on 12 ships in Baltimore and one tanker was tied up in New Orleans Boston had only one tanker in port and the union said it will not sail The stoppage affected passenger ships including transatlantic liners cargo vessels and tankers The first large passenger ship likely to be effected is the American Export Lines Independence due to sail for the Mediterranean Saturday The largest to be af fected if the stoppage continues i the US Lines United States accessible through the "beat man not available to the radio patrolman He also laid that he feels Fort Pierce should put on one or two foot patrolmen in the Picket lines about Negro district and will recom-MaDul Air force Bate today halt-1 mend such a move ed deliveries of supplies to tfce big He also stated that Fort Pierce jet bomber base needs more radio patrol cars at The picketing bc1 gan last night to cover the large area natural resources Train-Truck Collision Kills Truck Driver TAIPEI Formoa Chinese Communists on Amoy fired 58 with- shells at nearby Little Quemov Is night by the AFL Team-ters Union in the city The chief compared land today but caused no damage 01 strike I St Urns which ha an average the Chinese XationLrt oXe egamst Redwmg Carriers Inc a of two patrolmen per thousand Ministry reported trucking concern which transports population to Boston which hasj It was the first announced ac- fourptr He said tion in the area since June 8 Major Gerald Hirty p-tiic in- that Boston crime rate is only CENTERVILLE Calif A train and truck collided near here due to arrive from Europe Tues-: last night killing the truck driver day- strewing candy bars over a quar- NMU members are seamen and ter-mile area and setting off a other unlicensed personnel bank burglar alarm three other union When the Southern Pacific refinery and an 'ocean unloading and other li- freight and the truck met the teiminal in a straw ballot con had asked for right of ways for pipelines and dockside space for loading and unloading oil The board okayed negotiations after the people of St Lucie county overwhelmingly okayed the oil formation wer said the picket- one quarter as large as that of! SOUTHAMPTON England -je uT Mtotadumlud mutbrifect St lotus although the two cities Britain's wildcat seamen's strike1 on we esse comparable in population (forced the wfl-ten Lner Qieen wria serial The program was arranged by Mary l0 cancel fcer New York Gulf coats ak an o-e program Jatic Alm-nd today and vpi-ered Brit-' contract at th tatse Lit pre--er: Ch-rUs BiiLt Pe- ar'x pa-enger iires into tion Member of embracing officer i foreed t- t-e wfl ton finer Queen mg from port also the the ship sail- wreckage hire down poles on which on the East and the alarm wires were carried were left without midnight expira- ducted by the county commission ers TOKYO Japanese scientists Friday South Bridge Tides have detected a sun spot which 'High 6:56 am 7:49 pra You ad sM kinds in nur News-Tribune Want Ad me own tricks to fcrirg wnt war Major Uaity explained I ued The driver wa identified aa Leo they said today could produce (Low 1:20 pm 1:55 am spokesmen for these three unions i Muiphy of Fa-iikca magnetic storms Breakwater tides 2 hours earlier i a uni corner 4.

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