The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 1

Could Rain Partly cloudy with few showers and thunder- s'orms lir afternoon Itter Reward Cheering crowds of 300000 welcomed an old man to New York Friday It was tribute to S6-year-old Connie Mack of the Athletics See story in sport section MIAMI FRIDAY Ay 3 9 tli Tear 32 Paget 5 Cents Saturday August 20 1949 No 260 Most Complete Newspaper 4 'ax On Hotel Rooms i Discussed as Part of FCC Bans Give-Away Radio Shows Broadcasters Plan Action In Courts To Retain Programs With Huge Prizes General State Levy sh Lewis Promises Fight VFW Leader Hits Anti-Vet Tendency By JAMES lA'OXS Herald Staff Writer War was unofficially declared on the Friday by Clyde A Lewis senior vice commander-in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars CUBA'S NAVY BAND arrived aboard the Frigate "Jose Marti" Friday morning to be greeted by Miami and Miami Beach officals The band will play both tor Cuba Day and Veterans of Foreign Wars convention festivities In the inset are Lt Comdr Antonio Cuadras Garrotl commanding officer of the vessel and RamOn Morales representing the Cuban Defense Minister stair photo Utopia On the No 3 The 36-year-old Plattsburgh attorney arrived in Miami for the Golden Jubilee convention of the VFW which opens Sunday Lewis probably will become top man of the group next week and thus the first World War 11 vet to head either of the organizations Lewis said in an interview at the McAllister hotel there a growing trend all over the nation and especially in Washington to disregard the rights of the He insisted there is very string anti-veteran conspiracy operating on Capitol Hill and we intend to fight its members with every means at our' Lewis specifically named the Civil Service Reform League the Federal Career Employes Association and the Brookings Institute as parties to the He accused Rep A Carroll Colorado Democrat of "leading the anti-vet forces in the He charged that those who advocate a program of "citizens first veterans are only laying a smokescreen behind which -to do away with all organizations This was an indirect slap at the American Veterans Committee which uses as its slogan -1 maintain and so does our entire membership to be a veteran in itself represents the highest type of Lewis asserted Sales Plan Focal Point Of Hearing Stockdale Reveals Details of Proposal For Special Session By HENNING-HELDT Herald rlitieal Writer State Rep Grant Stockdale disclosed at a legislative committee tax hearing in Miami Friday that a tax plan being discussed among members includes hotel room rentals in it3 coverage It was 'the first intimation that the special joint committee now holding a series of public hearings throughout the state already was considering a specific tax plan comment came after Charles Helraly Miami merchant who declared he owned a small hotel said while opposing a sales tax that he felt a hotel tax would not hurt that industry There was no other mention at the day-long hearing on state tax problems of what plan the committee will recommend when the legislature convenes Sept 7 in Tallahassee While the Dade reference to a tax plan was vague it indicated that the committee was considering a broad general tax Numerous suggested sales tax plans would apply the tax not only to retail sales but also to hotel robms theater admissions and professional services Most of the tax talk before 'the joint committee was for or against a sales tax to meet the state's need for new revenue with legalized bookies getting scondary mention as a tax source During the early phase of the hearing a score of representatives of school and 'parent-teacher associations mental health and welfare agecies outlined restrictions on those fields of service because of the failure to vote new taxes at the regular session Those speakers and two women who said they spoke just as private citizens declared their willingness to pay whatever tax the legislature decided on to carry out in full state welfare education and health programs County Commissioner I MacVicar lead the gronp speaking in behalf of a sales tax He said it should be divided with cities and counties who should use their share to reduce the tax burden on real estate ad valorem tax burden of Dade he declared just about reached the breaking MacVicar reported that the Dade county commission school board and county budget commission had all endorsed such a sales tax Paul Turner and Julian Ross chairman and attorney respectively of the Broward school board also favored a sales tax Miami merchants opposing the tax were supported by Dave Liebman a television engineer and Kenneth Sherouse a University of Miami instructor Both denounced a sales tax as an tax hitting hardest the low income groups Advocates of legalized off-traclc betting included Abe Aronovitz Miami attorney Phil Rodger a radio announcer and Mrs Chafes Lundstrum who listed herself as president of the Federal Government Club of Greater Miami Asserting legalized bookies would be a boon to the state Aronovitz declared that man cannot be elected to anv law enforcement office in Dade county unless he has had some connection with Rep William Lantaff and Ju- Turn to Page 8-A CoL 6 By The Associated Frees The Federal Communications Commission Friday moved to throw most of prize give-away programs off the air and broadcasting interests promptly announced a fight The commission announced adoption of 7 new rules to be effective Oct 1 designed to end most of the big money and merchandise offers currently running to more than $3500000 a year It acted under the anti-lottery statutes forbidding use of radio to promote games of chance The American Broadcasting Co whose Sunday night the Music" broadcast runs into important dough weekly retorted that it will take the matter to court challenging right to act against Ahe programs changes will be made in the ABC programs as a result of the FCC the network asserted ABC plans to ask an' injunction against the rules presumably in the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia which reviews appeals orders of government agencies Justin Miller' president of the National Assocjation of Broadcasters said the NAB feels the commission overstepped its authority in view of the law prohibiting the commission from censoring program content He said programs which FCC seeks to classify as lotteries not in fact Similar comment came from other sources in the industry Miss Frridn Hennoek only woman member of the commission announced a dissent to the rules She said the jackpot situation is one with which Congress or the Justice department not the FCC should deal The FCC said it would refuse renewal of license to stations if they follow a policy of broadcasting programs which it regards as violating the lottery prohibition A radio lottery the FCC announcement said is generally one involving a prize awarded as a result of lot or chance where the contestant contributes som- Turn to Page 8-A Col 4 Peru Ousts Cuban Envoy Ends Relations By Herald Wire Services LIMA Peru Peru Friday broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba Peru and Cuba have exchanged a series of notes in connection with the recent of 'two members of the outlawed Peruvian Aprista party from the Cuban embassy here where they took refuge several months ago The two party members Fernando Leon de Vivero and Pedro Muniz arrived in Havana Thursday Early Friday night an official from the Peruvian foreign office called at the Cuban embassy and handed Alberto Espinoza Cuban charge his passport At the same time the foreign office directed the Peruvian charge in Havana to ask for his passport and return to Lima The decision to break off relations with Havana apparently was made at session of the foreign affairs consultative commission In Havana Muniz and de Vivero showing signs of prolonged exposure to the sun refused to reveal details of their escape Dies In Flames SAN ANTONIO Tex Jep-tha Allen 50 saturated himself with gasoline touched a match to his clothing and died a flaming torch Justice of the Peace John Ogden returned an inquest verdict of suicide Friday $308000 ra te? Uncle Sam United States each year The demand for the earliest of the early potatoes guarantees local farmers pretty good prices The government last 'winter had to buy none of the ii st grade potatoes Growers were able to sell their crop for considerably more than the 320 per 100 pounds offered by the government What the government did do was buy 300 cars of potatoes which graded out as No -s Previously these purchased potatoes had been dumped and rendered inedible by pouring kerosene on them Recent purchases have been used for food purposes either for schools and institutions or to feed animals Edward A Little in charge of the Production Marketing Administration office here believes the government' pur- Found In Baltimore Cuba Fiesta Observance Opens Today Beach Arranges Two-Day Program By MARSCHAL ROTHE Herald Staff Writer Miami second annual Cuba Day will burst with fiesta gaiety upon the resort city today when more than 50 notables help start the week-end celebration At 11 this morning at Collins park the two-day festival will be opened with unveiling of a bust of Dr Carlos Finlay famous Cuban scientist and pioneer in public health The ceremony will attract Cuban and Miami Beach dignitaries Among honor guests will be Frank Finlay son of the famed scientist Among the first arrivals Friday was the Cuban frigate Jose Marti which tied up at Pier 3 with the Naval Band and Ramon Morales representative of the defense minister aboard minister to the United States Dr Oscar Gans arrived at Miami Beach Friday evening lie will set up headquarters atthe ony hotel Manpel Antonio de Varona prime minister and personal representative of President Carlos Trio Socarras and his "wife arrived Friday at International airport They and most of the other visiting honorees will be on hand at Lummus park today at 3:30 hear the Cuban band concert Tonight the visitors will be at a pageant in Flamingo bandshell preceding a baseball game between Miami Beach and Havana After the game the outdoor basketball courts will be turrfed into a dance floor for a professional rumba exhibition and amateur contest winding up the festivities Sunday's program includes an exhibit by Cuban artists at the Saxony hotel 3 to 5 a cocktail party at the Versailles hotel from 5 to 7 and a banquet at the Sorrento hotel in the evening At least 83 hotel rooms on Miami Beach have been avail-' able at no cost to the visitors Among the guests are federal city and province officials from Cuba and representatives of the Havana Rotary and Lions clubs chamber of commerce and Havana carnival Of the journalists visiting the Beach from the Cuban capital are representatives from Diario de la Marina Informacion Manana lAlerta Prensa Libre Radio Salas Avance and Desfile Chuckle The kiddie party was just over and mama was bringing in the dessert a heaping platter of gelatine As she placed it on the table it quivered and shook Most of the youngsters shouted with delight but one pudgy tow-headed boy got up and started to leave the table of that stuff for me" he said "It dead yet" Southwestern US Factor Blamed i In British Disasters By LEECH (Copyright 1949 by The Miami Herald and Scripps-Howard Newspapers) LONDON Socialist Britain like capitalist America Nothing personal but as a matter of principle Socialism and Communism whatever their other differences agree on one point They hate and distrust free enterprise They want to overthrow it British government heads are careful not to stress this at a time when they are asking a half-billion-dollar boost in this year's Marshall aid But in their domestic politics and their appeals for home consumptioii they make no bones about it American high prices were blamed for swallowing up the United States loan to Britain three years ago and when American prices fell America again got blamed for causing In either case it was that Uncle Sam The Labor party recently issued its official statement for the 1950 general election as a booklet called "Labor Believes in Britain" Socialism says the preamble "will create a new age of peace and plenty opportunity and justice" Would Cut Bond of Capitalism "To this it continues "we seek freedoni from the enslaving material bonds of capitalism" These same have provided Socialist government with about six and a half billion American dollars since the war Canada has furnished around a billion more It is gone and more is needed The 30-page Labor party platform makes only three brief passing references to this help The only one which is more than a phrase says: after we took office lend-lease ended abruptly and world prices have risen steadily against ns Help has been honestly earned and thankfully received front our friends in the United States and the Commonwealth -But we have had to fight our way forward every When the booklet was issued high prices in America were the official excuse for most of problems It was the reason given why the $375 billion loan lasted only about 18 months instead of the expected five years Just after the platform came out American prices fell That fall is now blamed for present financial crisis Britain sell export goods goes the excuse because she has been undercut in competitive markets -Therefore she earn by around a billion and a quarter dollars a year what she needs to pay for the raw materials which she must buy with dollars Claims Fight for Assistance The United States not only helps fill treasury but provides handy excuses for most of her troubles So far as the British public is concerned those who cast most of the votes little is known about Marshall aid This is understandable for it is on a high financial level where few individuals move The average citizen never sees or receives any object which he can directly connect with Marshall aid as was the case with lend-lease supplies The government issued a popular pamphlet explaining fairly how the Marshall Plan works but probably few British saw it Inquiry among various children brought replies that the topic was never mentioned in school You hear almost no mention of it outside business and political circles The extent of American help is unknown to large masses of the British people Those who get it are far less aware of its existence than are the American taxpayers who provide it Which is probably natural Yet it means food and jobs to England A government memo estimates that without Marshall aid British food Turn to Page 8-A Col 4 Holt Sets Beach Case For Tuesday Councilmen Must Answer Citation On Hotel Permit Circuit Judge George Holt vacated his contempt of court order against the Miami Beach city council Friday and ordered the councilmen to show cause at a hearing Tuesday noon why they be cited for contempt Tuesday noon previously was the deadline under the court contempt order for the council to issue permits for building of Bel-mar Hotel swimming pool and bulkhead on ocean frontage claimed by the city as public property City Attorney Ben Shepard told Judge Holt at a hearing Friday that the order which grows out of the previous failure to grant the permits was issued without notice to the two new councilmen Melvin Richard and Burnett Roth Attorne3s Luther Mershon and Arthur Courshon for the hotel interests contended that the two new councilmen Inherited the places of Former Councilmen Louis Snedigar and Herbert Frink Judge Hoit said that he was merely following the mandate of the state Supreme court which he said held the refusal to revoke a resolution against the permits was a disobedience of that order Richard said that some of the beach high water mark was under public ownership and that if this fact had been presented to the court the decree would not have been entered against the city Holt said that his rule to show cause directs all present councilmen to either grant the Belmar permits or show reason Tuesday why they should not be held in contempt of the state Supreme court Meanwhile complications piled up when Circuit Judge Charles A Carroll signed an order making Harry Plissner conducting a one man campaign against oceanfront hotels usurping public beaches a party to the Belmar hotel case suit against the Sor( rento hotel and Harry and Jennie Si berg bas been pending several months It attacks a series of bulkhead ordinances adopted by the city of Miami Beach and would affect 'control of private beaches by most ocean side hotels The Simbergs also hold the leas on the Belmar Bell attorney for Plissner said he will apply Monday for a temporary injunction against the Simbergs preventing them from building the Belmar bulkheads and swimming pool even if the Miami Beach city council carries out Judge order and grants the permits Trains Collide 44 Are Injured CANAAN (If) Two crack Boston Maine railroad trains hit head-on Friday at a siding injuring 44 persons and authorities began checking a report that a confused brakeman threw a switch in error and brought the trains together Authorities said no one was critically hurt The injuries were mostly bruises and some fractures An- eyewitness said the slip-up opened the switch and brought the Montreal-bound Ambassador into a the southbound Ambassador was waiting 'to pass on the single track lleraid Reporter WQAM 560 On Your Dial Monday Through Friday 7:00 8:00 1 2:30 6:00 6:30 Amuse 2-3B Goren 13B Ask Herald 13B Horoscope 13B Babson 14B Horse Sense 13B Bell IB Kofoed 15B Bourke 2B Manners Brady 15B 6 A Burns 13A Movie Table 2B Classified 5-12B Othman 14B Comics 1315B Pennekamp 6A Corson 15A Radio 14B Crane 15B Ruark 14B Crossword 15B Society 10A 12A Sports 13-15A 6A Weather 11A 4B Wiggam 13B Churches Editorial Financial Air Force Examines i i 6 Flying Saucer 9 Craft i See picture on Page 8-A United Free WASHINGTON The United States Air Force in cooperation with Maryland state police has found two weird-looking type aircraft in an abandoned tool shed at Marley Park Md The contraptions which an Air Force spokesman said give the appearance of discs" and one of which is reported to have flown were discovered by the Air Force Office of Special Investigation which for years has been probing into the "flying mystery Capt Claudius Belk head of the Baltimore detachment ef the Fourth Office of Special Investigation district and Special Agent A Von Maucher found the craft Jacksonville Home Bombed By The Aiseeiate Trrtt JACKSONVILLE Violence in the strike at the Wootton Fiber Co plant on the outskirts of the city continued Friday with CLYDE A LEWIS sees anti-vet trend He alleged that movements under way to eliminate the Veterans Administration altogether and include its functions under social security agencies are say the least ill-advised perhaps even Echoing the stand announced by National Commander Lvall Beggs Lewis said he is in of upping all benefits bonuses and pensions to veterans He stressed however that the VFW does not want pensions for able-bodied veterans only disabled ones Lewis called for a spirit of Tnrn to Page 8i CoL 3 bombing of a home police reported Detectives Corley and Hurlbert said someone threw a home-made bomb at the home of James Donner and that the explosion broke glass in a window and blew a hole in the porch Boor The strike began June 25 when the brush company refused to recognize the United Mine Workers of America as collective bargaining agent because it said the employes did not vote for it After that a number of nonstriking employes have been beaten or shot Lucius Wootton company president posted a $250 reward for conviction of the persons responsible for the shooting of Lewis Range on Julv 31 Range's leg was shattered shortly after he went on duty at the plant Done Up Royal Blue 17 lirower Received Chech The Air Force said the contraptions were built before the war by a Jonathan Caldwell who has since disappeared But the investigators locatedxa mechanic as yet unidentified who said he helped Caldwell build the craft and that one was flown 'The Air Force conceded that one of them may have but qualified that by saying neither craft could possibly have made a "successful flight" But officials said they are interested in finding Caldwell to learn what he has been doing a-nd for whom since he built theunique machines They hinted that perhaps he might be turning out an improved model now and on a larger scale One of the craft looks something like a helicopter It has two which sire set together with the rims touching The have a diameter of about 16 feet and about on a shaft comipg out of the fuselage The mechanic said this craft was flown nine years ago officials said The second machine is a large round plywood tub 14 feet in diameter Around both the top and bottom edges of the tub are four seven-foot blades which rotate in opposite directions apparent that both ships would give the appearance of flying an Air Force spokesman said could well be the prototype of what have been reported as flying saucers Surplus Cost The names are on file in the state PMA office in Gainesville) Uncle Sam spent $67000000 in Maine last year to hold up potato prices In fact many individual growers in Maine received larger checks from the government i than all the farmers in Dade county put together Dade farmers planted 6670 acres of potatoes last December for late winter and early spring harvest It was one of the best potato growing years the area had ever seen A few growers harvested up to 500 bushels to the acre in the best sections of their fields Few growers harvested under 250 to the acre I The Dade potato crop is the first to he harvested in the Dade Potato By NIXON SMILEY Herald Farm Editor HOMESTEAD Dade county farmers got $308000 for about 300 carloads of potatoes they sold the government last winter under the price support program Although the local Production Marketing Administration office was unable to release names because of a against it it was learned that 17 growers received checks for potatoes they sold the government That means that the checks averaged about $18000 although it is reasonable to suppose that some growers got more than others (The PMA office in Washington has been aked to release the names of the Dade county growers who received benefits chase of second grade potatoes last winter made it possible for farmers to get top prices for their No 1 grades the inferior potatoes taken off the market the growers had a better chance to'seU first grade potatoes at a profit he said For the winter of 1948 the government's purchases included only first grade potatoes The result was that the farmers sold their best potatoes to the government when demands sagged and unloaded second-grade potatoes on the public the present system of offering to buy 2 grade or forces farmers this year to unload their second grade potatoes onto Uncle Torn to Page 8-A Col- 1 WHAT OUR WELCOME issue for the Golden Jubilee VFW Convention will be on Sunday PICTURES STORIES special articles officers all of this will be found In the special VFW section of Sunday's Herald Also a story about the founding of the VFW Why was it founded? What were its purposes? All of these are told In a special illustrated feature that all Veterans and their friends will enjoy reading BE SURE TO GET at least one extra copy of this special Issue all wrapped up in rich blue trimmings Wanted Any or all persons who witnessed accident at NW 54th Street and 17th Avenue Miami on Friday evening August 12 1949 See Spook Hill at Lake Wales at about 9 15 PM Please phone 27 North Adv ton Kelner Attorney 5-0329 Adv if- i a 9r.