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TAMPA SUNDAY TRIBUNE 8-A Sunday, March 7, 1948 HOWELL NAMED SOLICITOR FOR COUPLE WITH 14 CHILDREN drunk and destroying private property at a Lake Ave. beer tavern, was fined $15 or 15 days on each charge. Owner of the tavern said Mrs. Stanford brke out a plate glass window and smashed an upholstered chair when he would not let her in another section of his tavern. WOMAN FINED FOR STRIKING 3 SMALL GIRLS Mrs.

Maude Sylvester, 28, 2802 KARELIANS FLEE AS FINNS PLAN RUSSIAN TALKS HELSINKI, Finland, March 6. Many Finnish-speaking Karelians today were reported trying to flee across Finland's far northern border into Sweden. These stateless people were alarmed by prospects of Finnish-Russian treaty negotiations. Press dispatches telling of the flights reached Helsinki as govern I 7 fob 1 I 11. DON'T WANT CHILDREN Detroit, March 6.

Sam Koke-nos, 23, and his wife, Marie, 23, were arraigned in recorder's court on cruelty charges after each had refused to care for their three small children. The father and mother, who are separated, were released on bond to await examination March 9. (AP Wirephoto). Gordy was fined $25 in police court yesterday when she was found guilty of striking three small girls. Mrs.

Sylvester testified one of the girls was in her home and insisted on holding her baby. She said she was afraid the girl would drop the baby and when the child still insisted she pushed her out of the house. The child testified Mrs. Sylvester struck her in the fact and she ran home and returned with her two sisters. The other girls said they were struck by the woman when they asked why she had hit their sister.

Fined $100 N. C. Hansen, 56, 2810 Clark was found guilty by Judge Potter of digging up 27 feet of heavy electrical cable owned by the city at Ybor Channel just off 19th St. Hansen was ordered to pay $100 or serve 50 days. Arresting Officer Pennington said he and other officers found Hansen at the spot where the cable was taken parked in a truck with his wife and son.

The officers said tne cable was in the rear of the truck. Hansen had used the truck to pull the cable from the ground and then cut it into sections, officers said, adding that the entire three-inch cable weighed more than 500 pounds. City electrical officers said the cable was not in use but had been used by the Tampa Shipyards during the war. Mrs. Alene Stanford, 38, 2013'i East Ida arrested by city patrol men who charged ner witn being COSTANTINO MONUMENT CO.

SINCE 1906 Martal and Granite Memorial Mausoleums 2216 4th Ave. Ph. 3118 Tampa, Fla. ORANGE HILL CEMETERY Beautiful Clean and Orderly Pricea within reach ml all Ph. 60102 207 Cass St.

Arcade Armenia Flora Ganizns Phone 32-5411500 Armenia Ave. Ws Election Of Supreme Court Justice Urged In May Vote pointment to fill the vacancy would Greenman Home Owned and Operated by the Walters Since 1942 Morticians Cremation Air Conditioned Chapel Oxygen-Equipped Ambulance Phone 1777 Opposite Tampa University E. Walters. Mgr. ACL RAILROAD ACL SOLICITOR Charles C.

Howell WILMINGTON, N. March 6. (Special) Charles Cook Howell has been appointed senior general solicitor for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad with headquarters in Wilmington, N. effective March 10, C. McD.

Davis, president, announced today. The new head or the railroad's law department has been for several years the senior partner in the law firm of Howell, McCarthy, Lane and Howell, Atlantic National Bank, In Jacksonville. The same firm is also division counsel for the Coast Line. A native of Charlton County, Howell received his B. A.

degree from Elon College in North Carolina and his LL.B from the University of Virginia. He has practiced law in Jacksonville since 1916 and from 1925 to 1929 served as city bond attorney. Howell has long been active in church work and is now a member of the board of sessions of the Riverside Presbyterian Church of Jacksonville. He is also a Mason and a member of the Jacksonville, the Florida and the American Bar Associations. SEARCH HALTED FOR2MISSING TAMPA FLIERS NEW YORK, March 6.

(VP) The Coast Guard said tonight air search for two Tampa men whose small sports plane disappeared a week ago was being discontinued because of adverse weather conditions. Six Army Air Force planes and two Coast Guard planes searched a wide east coast area today with no results, the Coast Guard said. The plane, piloted by Herbert I. Fink, of Tampa, and carrying Ellis Storr, of Tampa, as passenger, disappeared last Saturday after taking off from Richmond, Va. NEGRO EDUCATOR TO BE HONORED TALLAHASSEE, March 6.

(JP) Students of Florida A. and M. College for Negroes will honor D. E. Williams, state supervisor of Negro education, at a special assembly here Sunday.

Negro education supervisors from all Southern states have been invited to attend the meeting and participate in a public discussion of their work The event also will mark A. and 60th Founder's Day. DEATHS MRS. ELSIE AMALONG Mrs. Elsie Amalong, '64, 411 W.

Chelsea died Friday at her home. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Genevieve Sackett, Kansas City, a sister, Mrs. James G. Barbin, Tampa; a granddaughter, Mrs.

Yvonne Delisle, and two great-grandchildren, of Tampa. MRS. LEXIE OSTEEN DIXOX Mrs. Lexie Osteen Dixon, 54, died Fri day night at her residence, 206 West Alfred St. She had lived in Tampa for 15 years.

Survivors are her husband, C. Dixon; a daughter, Mrs. James Vause, of Tampa; two brothers, James W. Osteen and Ernes Osteen, of Bloomingdale, five sisters, Mrs. Scott Hendrix, of Beaufort, S.

Mrs. J. E. McSwain, of Daytona Beach; Mrs. L.

W. Davis, of Bloomingdale, Mrs. P. W. Schaibly and Mrs.

W. E. Fink, of Tampa. JOSEPH R. TUCKER Joseph Roland Tucker, 85, died yesterday at his home in Gibsonton.

Survivors are his widow, Mrs. T. Tucker; four sons, J. Elbert Tucker, W. Edgar Tucker, William Jasper Tucker and D.

R. Tucker; two daughters, Mrs. Annie Shuts and Mrs. Elizabeth N. Pritcherj grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

MRS. EMMA RUTHERFORD Mrs. Emma Rutherford, of 108V6 West Henderson died yesterday morning at her home. ANTONIO MENENDEZ Antonio Menendez, 66, of 2706 Owen died yesterday morning at a Tampa hospitaL He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Juana Menendez, two brothers, Feliciano and Gimeno Menendez, Tampa, and a sister, Mrs.

Rosauro Menendez, Spain. He was a resident of Tampa for 45 years, member of the Centro Espanol and La Fraternidad Clubs, and a clgarpacker for many years. i III I III II llfff ESTB.189BV DADE CHILD DROWNS MIAMI, March 6. (flV-John Wendell Schmitt, 3-year-old son of Mr, and Mrs. George J.

Schmitt, was drowned last night when he fell Into the Coral Gables canal near his home. Dade County Road Patrol Chief Barney said the child was playing with a companion when he fell into the water. nT FLOWERS FOR THE SICK ROOM Anull FLORAL CO. 306 W. Lafayette hone 185S ii1owers from tht Jerrace flower Shop 'hone 3022 To Best Offer ever $300 received by March 14th.

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H. (Jerry) Bates, general manager, said today that everything Is in readiness for the grand opening Tuesday, March 9, of Plant City's 13th annual Strawberry Festival. A war casualty, the festival was not held after 1941, was revived this year by the Plant City Post, American Leg-Ion, and work has been under way during the past three months getting the buildings and grounds in top ahape. The substantial building in which the fair is to be held is owned by the Festival Association, along with approximately 10 acres of land, some of which will be used for the big midway and other entertainment features. The main fair building is 400 feet in length, 65 feet wide, and will house 60 booths, carrying commercial and agricultural exhibits, as well as educational and entertainment features.

Cattle Exhibit Added This year, for the first time, the festival will give special attention to a large cattle exhibit, and a tent 6Qx 100 feet has been erected near the main entrance of the fair ljuilding for this livestock show. Most of the 60 booths in the main building have been decorated and are ready for the opening, while only a few remain to receive finishing touches before being ready. Fair buildings and grounds have been decorated with flags and bunting, and banners, flags and decorated store fronts in Plant City proper give the town a gala appearance. An attractive stage, with proper seating arrangement in front, has been constructed on the fair grunds, where free acts will oe staged each afternoon and night, where the many special social events in connection with the fair will be held, and where state and county candidates will ad dress fair attendants on the closing day afternoon, Saturday, March 13. with Mayor L.

E. -Morgan, as master of ceremonies. LETTERS SWAMP CHIEF ELLIOTT ON ODD TRACKS CLEARWATER, March 6 (Special) Nationwide publicity about the strange three-toed tracks found at Clearwater Beach Feb. 28 and 29 has resulted Jn a flood of inquiries from over the United States to Police Chief Jefferson J. Elliott, whose picture was taken Studying the imprints in the sand.

"The letters are coming from all parts of the country, and some are sensible questions about the tracks apparently from scientists, but others run from the sublime to the ridiculous," the chief aaitl Huge three-toed tracks were found on the beach sands leading from the water, then along a seawall, and fi nally returning to the water about 100 yards down the beach. Guesses as to what made the tracks have run from "sea monsters" to some prankster having a lot of fun. Although Chief Elliott is skeptical he says that the tracks could have been made by some sea creature. "From the letters I'm getting about the tracks, we are going to have a lot of curious people coming here about those tracks," Elliott said. "One man wrote asking me to build a fence around the tracks and preserve them until he could get down here and atudy them.

SPECIAL FLORIDA SESSION URGED TO FOIL TRUMAN MADISON, March 6. (flV-Governor Caldwell will be asked to call a special session of the legislative to free the state from a commitment to support the national Democratic tick et, State Rep. R. C. Home said here tonight.

He said the Madison County Demo cratic Executive Committee will meet In special session Wednesday to for mulate a resolution asking action by the Governor. The committee also will ask Florida delegates to the na tional convention not to vote for re nomination of President Truman, Home said. A number of state legislators desire a special session, he reported, but he has not talked to Governor Caldwell about It. "Present primary laws," Home said, "require every candidate for nomma tion to take an oath to support and vote for all national, state and county Democratic nominees, and every voter registering as a Democrat takes a similar pledge. "Because of President Truman's civil righta program, we want our state nartv to be relieved of the com mitment, which has become a serious statutory liability to us Florida Demo' crats and we want the law changed." H.

H. CHAPMAN, FORMER WINTER VISITOR, DIES Word has been received in Tampa cf the death Friday at Loudonville, N. of H. H. Chapman, well known Winter visitor here for mariy years.

Mr. Chapman died at the home of his son, Alger B. Chapman. He was an outstanding educator and served as superintendent of schools of Olenn Cove, N. Y.

He was a graduate of Cobly and Yale. He was born at Bethel, Maine. Survivors are his widow; a daugn- ter, MrsvFrank Gilkerson, of Vassar College faculty, and his son. Burial will be hi Maine. NO NEW TAX' MEET SET JACKSONVILLE, March 6 (TP) A "no new tax" conference will be held here April -1-3 by the Florida State Realtors Association in connection with its annual meeting.

The Minn candidates for governor have been invited to attend a legislative forum. To Those Whom We Serve Reassurance and satisfaction to those whom we serve ft the dominating factor we bear in' mind in our efforts toward perfection. All of our energies and experiences are devoted to that end. IN TAMPA ITS ALWAYS WULSON SAMMON CO. HAS TRIPLETS DULUTH March 6 (U.R) Mr.

and Mrs. Adolph Erickson, who have 14 other children, became the parents of triplets tonight. The triplets were all girls and the father said "111 leave it up to Edna (Mrs. Erickson) to name them." Erickson, a steelworker, lives with his family in a one-bedroom four room house at Nopeming, a few miles from here. Of the 14 other children, 11 are girls and three are boys.

They range in age from two to 22. Dr. A. O. Swenson, prominent Du-luth physician who delivered the triplets said he had known the 43-year-old mother was to have them.

The father agreed that the triple birth was no surprise but he said "still it's a lot to have at one time." The babies weighed 3 V6, 4 and 5 pounds at birth. They were placed in an incubator immediately. Mother and daughters were reported in good condition City Sewers Would Cost $1.50 a Month Under Proposed Plan (Continued from Page 1) that their sewer service charge would run around $2.50 a month. The remaining 7 per cent of city households and businesses are classi fied as heavy users of water, and as a result their sewer service charges would be higher In the Interbay area to be sewered, about 65 per cent of the residents, those paying minimum water bills, would be subject to the lower monthly sewer service charge, or the $3.08 figure. Thirty per cent of them, with higher than minimum water bills, would pay $5.08 a month for sewers.

These service charges, both inside the city and in the Interbay would be added to the water bills. Additional Charge But there would be an additional charge made households in areas inside the city and the Interbay section where new sewer, lines be laid. For a city resident now unserved by a sewer line, this additional charge will be $8 a year, or about 66 cents a month. Residents in the Interbay area for whom a new sewer line must be laid to provide sewer service, will be charged the additional amount of $1.60 per front foot of their prop erty, the amount to be paid either in a lump sum or over a 20-year period, the choice being theirs. This front-footage assessment figures down to around $90 for the owner of a 50-foot lot; or $4 50 a year, or about 37 cents a month, over a 20- year period.

The owner of a 100-foot lot would pay an assessment twice that amount, or some 74 cents a month. With these figures, it is comparatively easy for the householder inside the city and in the Interbay area to closely approximate his sewer bill. For the city resident, it would work out about like this: If his water bill is $2.50 a month, his sewer service charge would be equal to it, or $2.60, making his total water bill run to $5 a month. If he is presently unserved by a city sewer line, 66 cents more a month would be added to his water bill, making it total $5.66 a month. Interbay Charges In the Interbay area here is what the sewer service charges would mean to a resident: If his water bill is $5 a month, his sewer service charge would be $10 a month and added to it, making the total $15 a month.

Should his lot be a 50-foot one, and a sewer line is extended to serve him, or an existing sewer line now serving him has to be replaced, an additional assessment of about 37 cents a month charged him. This would bring his total sewer bill to $15.37 a month. As set up in the planning for the sewer system, the Interbay area to be affected is bounded' by Gandy Grady Memorial and the city limits at Howard but in eluding the present Maryland Manor Sanitary District. All households and establishments in the above area would be subject to the sewer service charges. It Is proposed to extend sewer inside the city' to all Its presently unsewered areas.

These consist for the most part of upper and eastern Seminole Heights, a strip along the Hillsborough River, and East Tampa. As pointed out by Greeley and Hansen, Chicago engineers planning the project, the existing sewer system within the city serves only 85 per cent of the population, and extensions of sewer lines is needed Households connected to the water system, but not served sewers depend on septic tanks for sewage disposal In many locations, particularly where the ground water level is high or where the land is flat and subject to flooding during the rainy season, this method of dlspostal is ineffective and often results in the discharge of sewage over the ground surface. Extensions Necessary Sewer extensions to provide service ice to such households and business establishments, and arranged for further extensions to other areas as they are built up, are necessary to remove the health hazard of the present ineffective disposal methods. In the Interbay area, there are some 16,000 people, and less than half, or 7000, now have sewer service. The remainder must rely on septic tanks, with similar conditions limiting their effectiveness as in unsewered areas of the city, with conditions worse in some spots.

Plans for the large main disposal plant to. be located on Hooker's Point to serve both the city and the Interbay area by purifying sewage through filtration and chlorination is made necessary, the engineers said, by reason of the fact raw sewage dumped in the river and bays has polluted them and likewise turned them into a health menace. Proposals are to finance tfce sewer improvements with the issuance of. revenue certificates to be paid off over a 20-year, period through col lection of the sewer service charges. $3000 RAISED IN DRIVE CLEARWATER, March 6.

(Special.) The 1948 campaign to raise $21,200 in Upper Pinellas County for the American Red Cross has passed the $3000 mark, John LaPice, executive secretary, announced today. The campaign is being conducted locally in Clearwater, Largo, Indian Rocks, Dunedin, Ozona, Anopa, Safety Harbor, Palm Harbor and Tarpon Springs. ment sources predicted that Finland would reach a decision Monday on the question of opening negotiations for a treaty of friendship and military alliance with Russia. The extent of the Karelians" exodus was not revealed. One account said a group of 30 Karelian men, women and children was stopped at the frontier last night.

Finnish coastal guards along the Gulf of Bothnia said the Karelians have made no effort thus far to escape to Sweden by sea. Fear Russians Formerly Russian citizens, the Karelians moved to Finland around 1920. Because these have not received Finnish citizenship they fear Finland may be forced to turn them over to Russia if a Finnish-Soviet friendship agreement is reached, informants said. President Juho Paasikivi conferred for two hours today with the Finnish government's six-man foreign affairs committee on Russia's request for a treaty. Government sources said the com mittee would meet again Monday morning to formulate its recommen dation.

Following that session, the 18 man cabinet will convene to give the issue final consideration. The cabinet has been advised to stand by for possible emergency session. Informants Indicated the govern ment probably would appoint a delegation to meet with the Russians but its powers would be strictly limited. DEATH CLAIMS FAMOUS HOME NUTRITIONIST BALTIMORE, March 6. (JP) Miss Ruth Van Deman, federal home economics expert who helped popularize scientific information in nutrition, food and home management, died today at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

She headed the information division of the bureau of home nutrition and home economics in the Department of Agriculture at Washington. Miss Van Deman was in charge of the division from its founding in 1923 until her recent resignation. She was co-author of many government food bulletins and pamphlets and during the past 14 years, made weekly broadcasts to homemakers on the national farm and home hour. FUNERAL NOTICES AMALONG, MR8. ELSIE Mrs.

Elsie Amaloni. 64. of 411 W. Chelsea died Friday at her home. 8he is survived by a daughter, Mrs.

Genevieve Sackett. Kansas City. a sister. Mrs. James G.

Barbin. of Tampa; a granddaughter. Mrs. Yvonne Delisle. and two greatgrandchildren, of Tampa.

Services will be held at the Greenman Home Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock with The Rev. Sam Kirchner of Monongahela. ofli-' elating. Cremation will follow. DIXON.

MRS. LEXTE OStEEN Funeral services for Mrs. Lexie Osteen Dixon, 54. who passed away at her residence, 206 W. Alfred, Friday night will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from Wilson 8 a Company Funeral Home.

Rev. E. L. Hollady. pastor of Tampa Heights Methodist Church to of ficiate with interment in Myrtle uu Cemetery.

MENENDEZ, ANTONIO Funeral services for Mr. Antonio Menennez. tb. win De held Monday at 4 P. M.

at the home of his brother in law. Mr. Jose L. Caldelro. 2321 Green St.

Interment in Woodlawn. The remains will lie at state at the A. P. Boza Chapel today until 11 P. M.

and at the residence, from 10 A. M. till 4 P. M. Monday.

Pall bearers: Manolo Fernandez. Ralph Lopez. Daniel Menendez. Roberto Menendez, Humberto Tamayo. and Adrian Eche- varrla.

He is survived by his wile. Mrs. Juana Menendez. two brothers. Feliciano and Gimeno Menendez.

Tampa, and a sister, Mrs. Rosauro Menendez. Spain. POLLARD, HIRAM LEON Funeral services for Hiram Lee Pollard will be held today at 2 P. M.

at Ott-Laughlin Chapel. Winter Haven, and committal services at Llthla Cemetery, Lithia. at 4 P. M. today.

R08S, JUDITH NCNNALLT Funeral services for Judith Nunnally Ross, age of 3121 El Frado. will be held Mon day morning at 10:30 o'clock from Joe L. Reed's. Bayshore and Plant with The Rev. William H.

Kadel of ficiating. Interment in Royal Palm Cemetery In 9t. Petersburg. Pallbearers William I. Dawson, Charles F.

Walker, Charles C. Dye, C. C. Parker. TUCKER, JOSEPH ROLAND Funeral services for Joseph Roland Tucker, 8o.

who passed away Saturday afternoon at his home in Gibsonton, will be held Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the Qibsonton Baptist Church Rev. Waller Lampp, pastor, to officiate with Interment in Plant City. Arrangement in charge of Wilson Sammon Com pany Funeral Home. tiM.is. ERNEST SR.

Funeral serv ices for Ernest W. Tillis, age 65, of 106 South Tampania, will be held Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock from Joe L. Reed's. Bayshore and Plant with The Rev. Harold Brown Hoag officiat ing.

Interment in Myrtle HiU Cemetery with the Port Tampa Masonic Lodge In charge. Pallbearers, H. Smith: R. E. Ballantine.

J. W. Harvey, H. E. Wright, F.

H. Crowe, C. C. Strickland. WATSON, EZEKIEL 8.

The remains Of Ezekiel S. Watson, 54, resident oi Fort Payne. who passed away at Tampa Hospital was sent by Wilson Sammon Company Funeral Home Saturday night to Fort Payne, wnere lunerai serv. ices and Interment will be held. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to our many friends who were so kind to us during our recent bereavement and also to thank them for the beautiful floral offerings.

JULIA D. 6IFONTES and Family. CARD OF THANKS We desire to thank our friends for their kindness, flowers and sincere words of sympathy In our -late bereavement. Signed MRS. LUCY BELL SLOMAN and Son.

TALLAHASSEE, March 6. (P) The State Democratic Executive Committee today was urged to designate the regular May primaries as special election dates to nominate a successor to Supreme Court Justice Rivers Bu- ord. Circuit Judge W. May Walker, of Tallahassee, who has announced he will be a candidate to fill the vacancy, wrote Joe Hill Williams, of Lake Butler, state committee chairman, that there is no reason or justification for waiting until the late month of July or August" to hold a special primary. Walker said a late primary "will promote great inconvenience to the public generally and will burden the people with an unnecessary cost load, aggregating thousands of dollars." The first regular primary election will be held May 4 and the second on May 25.

Resigned March 1 Justice Buford resigned from the court on March 1 and under Florida law a successor must be elected to fill his unexpired term which expires in January, 1941. A gubernatorial ap Man, 80, And Woman, 67, Wed, With Best Man, 89 CLEARWATER, March 6. (Special.) An 89-year-old New Port Richey man was best man today, as an 80-year-old bridegroom, took for his bride his former 67-year-old sister-in-law in ceremonies at the Pinellas County courthouse. It was a jovial affair as the two old men kept the young' secretaries in County Judge Jack White's office laughing at jokes. Chief License Clerk John Brown performed the ceremonies.

The bridegroom and bride were Walter Stubblefield, 80, and Mrs. Zora Stubblefield, 67, both of rural New Port Richey. The best man was L. L. Durand, a neighbor.

They will spend their honeymoon in Pasco County. The 89-year-old best man is an eligible widower, but declared to the county judge's secretaries that he planned to stay single even though this is Leap Year. PINELLAS AREA PAINTERS TRY ABSTRACT ART CLEARWATER, March 6. (Spe cial) Clearwater area -artists will enter several so-called abstract paint ings along with conventional works in the 14th annual Clearwater Art Mu seum's member show March 9 through 21, Director R. W.

McKelvey an nounced today. Abstract paintings kicked up a storm of protests and criticisms here last month at the exhibition of paint ings by ranking contemporary Ameri can artists. Art Museum officials said today that several Clearwater artists had been quietly trying their hands at painting abstract art, and that several will be hung at the 14th annual exhibition. VETERAN RAIL ENGINEER DIES Ernest Wesley Tlllls, of 106 S. Tampania veteran railroad engineer and resident of Tampa for 45 years, died yesterday at a Tampa hos pital.

Mr. Tillis, a native Floridian, was engineer on the Atlantic Coast Line Champion for a number of years. He was born In Fort Meade and moved to Tampa in 1903. He was a member of the Port Tampa Masonic Lodge and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Survivors are his wife, Mrs.

Edwlna Tillis; two sons, Ernest W. and Edwin both of Tampa, and two grandchildren. Masonic funeral services will be held tomorrow at 1 o'clock from the Joe Reed Funeral Home. The Rev. Harold Hoag will officiate.

BICYCLE RIDER HURT A 13-year-old Tampa boy was knocked from his bicycle, and suffered ankle injuries, yesterday by an unidentified taxi-driver. John Hodges, 213 S. the rider, told detectives the cab struck his bicycle handlebar, threw him off, ran over the rear wheel and continued down Cleveland although the driver slowed down and looked back. His injuries were not severe. expire in January, 1949.

Florida's election laws provide that special primaries must be called by party executive committees, and if a second primary is necessary, it must be held within 10 days after the first primary. However, in his letter to Williams, Walker said the 10-day limitation could be waived by all candidates in the special primary so that the dates could conform to the regular primary dates. Would Cost $200,000 Walker said he had been informed by the secretary of state's office that a special election, not held in conjunc tion with the regular May primaries, would cost "in excess of $200,000." Williams was ufged by Judge Walk er to call a special meeting of the state executive committee to "care fully consider the great desirability, public convenience and economy in having such primary with the regular May. primaries." Governor Caldwell has made no announcement on appointment of a successor to Justice Buford. STUDENT KILLED BY ACCIDENTAL REVOLVER SHOT ST.

PETERSBURG, March 6. (JP) Robert Reed, 12-year-old honor stu dent at the Admiral Farragut Academy here, was shot and instantly killed by a .45 caliber automatic pistol this afternoon at the home of his best friend, David Spragg, 13, authorities said tonight. Detective Cass Burgess, investigating the case, quoted the Spragg boy as saying "the gun just went off; I dqn't know how it happened." Spragg's parents took the hysterical boy away from home tonight to permit him to recover from shock, the authorities said. Detective Burgess said the boys had been hunting this afternoon with a shotgun. Returning to the Spragg home they went to a bedroom to clean the gun.

Young Reed asked to see some of the guns collected by the elder Spragg, a gun fancier. Shown a .35 revolver, Robert asked if there were any larger ones in the collection: David brought out .45 caliber gun. It went off, the bullet piercing Robert's chest, smashed a rung in the bed, riocheted and buried itself in the bedroom floor. The boys were alone in the house, Detective Burgess said. Magistrate John Fisher said there probably would be no inquest, as it was clearly an accident.

Mrs. Reed, who was not at home when the shooting occurred, became hysterical when she learned of her sort's death and medical aid was given her. DEATH CLAIMS GENERAL WHO LED OIL RAIDS DENVER, March 6. Wy Maj. Gen.

Uzal G. Ent, 47, leader of the TJ. S. bombing raid on the Ploesti oil fields and noted aviation planner, died last night at Fitzsimons General Hospital after a long illness. Ent was commander of the Second Air Force at Colorado Springs when he was retired in 1946 for disability.

He was commanding general of the Ninth Bomber Command of the Ninth Air Force which raided the Romanian oil fields in the Summer of 1943. He Is survived by his wife, Eleanor; a son, Girard, 13; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. W.

Ent, of Northumberland, and a brother, William A. Ent, of Mechanicsburg, Pa. THREE NOW IN TARPON SPRINGS CONSTABLE RACE TARPON SPRINGS, March (Special) The Democratic race for constable of this area, an office which netted Constable Walter Carey almost $5000 last year, became a heated three-way battle today. John Bilias, sponge producer who had a- small part in movie, 16 Fathoms Deep, recently filmed here, qualified at the Pinellas County Courthouse today as a candidate for constable. Constable Carey and "City' Policeman Clyde Lanier alread had qualified for the race.

Only one other constable's office in. Pinellas County paid a higher amount of fees last year. It was that of Constable L. M. Kersey in the thickly populated St.

Petersburg area, which netted $5738. TALK ON EAGLES SET' CLEARWATER, March 6. (Spe cial.) Members of the Clearwater Nature Club will hear Tuesday how 1000 eagles were banded, Roland Hart, vice president of the club, announced today. Charles Broley, of Tampa, famous for placing identification bands on hundreds of eagles, will relate his experiences to club members and visitors Tuesday at 10 A. M.

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'HONE J7 MORE BEAUTIFUL AS THE YEARS GO BY Myrtle Hill Memorial ParltV Inc. A Perpetually Endowed Cemetery Phone 1429 IN MEMORIAM In memory of Bertha Lucas, who passed way one year ago today: There's an open gate at the end of the road. Through which each must go alone; And there is a light we cannot see. Our Father claims his own; Beyond the gate our loved one finds happiness and rest. And there is comfort In the thought loving God knows best.

Signed: FRED LUCAS..