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Cool Windsday Clearing and coldwr Wednesday High about 70 Increasing southerly winds becoming fresh to moderately strong 25 to hofr- shifting to northwest a bnt diminishing during Mlami Bch temperatures at pm Tuesday: Air 75 Ocean 71 3F Nine Great Services Press United Press News CB Wirephoto Photo Science Service Press Telephoto Dow Jones ChicagjjJJaily News Foreign Service etjfj Wednesday January 19 1955 mmt 51 ZV No 48 Florida's Most Complete Neicspaper 45th Year 60 Pages 5 Cents A Latin American Edition Is Published Daily i Will Not Defend Jury Defied By Gambler About Bribes Formosa Questions and Answers Page 8-A Dulles Says Tacliens Not Important Opens Door to China Port Unit Dismisses A Curry Thomson Is Named In Surprise Move By BERNIXG and BERT COLLIER Herald Staff Writer A Curry director of the Dade County Port Authority since Jan 6 1948 was discharged Tuesday and his assistant Thomson was named in his place Thomson acting director since Curry was granted a sick leave in September will receive $25000-a-year salary The action' came as a eomplete surprise just as the new Dade grand jury was launching a full-scale Investigation of port authority affairs There was no explanation from the port authority for the sud den decision 1 MacVicar chairman said: have terminated Mr Curry's leave of- absence' because we thought it was in the public Curry who is recovering from a serious illness at his home at 1000 Hardee rd Coral Gables said he was by the action He has no plans for the future to get Curry declared when told of the news The port resolution apparently was drawn up and discussed in advance in a secret closed-door meeting in Mac office The chairman himself turned over 1 the gavel to Hugh Peters authority myjiber to offer the resolution It was seconded by Jesse Yarborough authority vice chairman and passed unanimously There was no public discussion or comment The resolution pointed out that WASHINGTON UP) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles indicated Tuesday the United States would -not intervene with military force if the Communists should attack the Tachen islands north of Formosa He likewise attached no particular importance to the apparent fall of Yikiangshan island to the Chinese Reds At the same time he said the By DAVID KRASLOW Herald SUff Writer Refusal of Raymond McLendon one of Dade better known gamblers to tell a federal grand jury if he ever money to a city judge a police chief county or state JprdSecutors or to policemen put him in danger Tuesday of a contempt of court citation Claiming protection of the Fifth Amendment he said he feared self incrimination if he told whether he had made such payments In an unusual move his testimony last week before the grand jury was made public record by United State? 'District Judge Emett Choate as the government moved to have McLendon cited for contempt Choate ordered McLendon to appear before him at 9:15 am Jan 28 to show cause why he be held in contempt for refusing to answer certain questions McLendon answered many questions about his background and tire business but refused to answer queries about: WHETHER he ever paid any money to Miami Police Chief Walter Headley or to any Miami police department official give you immunity in any of your gambling WHETHER he ever paid City Judge Cecil Curry any money in connection with his gambling activities WHETHER he ever gave any police officer a gift in connection With his gambling activities WHETHER he ever gave any gifts to Police Officers Hardy Bryan and Kindred who have been witnesses before the jury- WHETHER he has had any business dealings with Rainwater or Bill Broome who have records as gamblers WHETHER he knew Frank Miller another known gambler WHETHERJie knows Raymond Craig one-time Mr Big of Greater Miami gambling WHETHER he knew Benjamin Abrams not further identified or Ricardo Artegas former director of the Cuban national lottery WHETHER he personally engaged in any gambling activities WHETHER he had occasion to pay any prosecutor of either the county or state in Dade county any money in connection with any of your gambling All of these and others McLen don refused to answer "on the grounds that it might lead to a link in a chain of evidence which might tend to incriminate or degrade i By JACK ANDERSON Herald Radio-TV Editor A Federal Communications examiner recommended in Washington Tuesday that the Biscayne Television Corp be authorized to construct and operate a new VHF television station for Miami on Channel 7 Examiner James Cunningham recommended denial of competing applications for the same channel by East Coast Television Corp South Florida Television Corp and Sunbeam Television Corp The recommendation requires the approval of the commission A period of 40 days is allowed for the filing of objections to the recommendation Biscayne Corp is an association of the Knight (Herald) and Cox (Daily News) Newspaper groups Niles Trammell former president of the National Broadcasting Co is president of Biscayne Trammell said: deeply gratified that the chief examiner of the FCC Mr Cunningham has seen fit Ux decide in favor of Biscayne after a Press Wirephoto CHAPLAIN COMFORTS WIFE OF PRISON HOSTAGE Mrs Martin Mulkern and Father Ed Hartigan Rioting Cons Voiv 6 Battle to Finish 9 BOSTON A revolt by four desperate armed convicts holding five guards and six other prisoners as hostages in Massachusetts state prison was described Tuesday night by a chaplain as apparently battle to the prisoners have made one demand the Rev Ed- United States would be willing for the United Nations to arrange a cease-fire to halt the spreading war in the Formosa strait The secretary said the Tachen group appeared to be of no great strategic significance to defense of the Formosa stronghold a defense to which the United States 7th Fleet is committed Or at least he said the group was of only marginal significance He spoke out at a news conference after President Eisenhower briefed Republican congression al leaders on the latest battle off the China coast the Chinese Red assault on Yikiangshan Island 200 miles north of Formosa The Defense Department said it received official word that the island has fallen In talking with reporters Dulles said for the first time that a cease-fire in the Formosa area generally would be in line with American and United Nations policy The United States does not intend to negotiate for 6nch a cease-fire he said but would offer no objections if the United Nations moved into the picture A memorandum circulated recently among Democrats on the Senate foreign relations committee suggested a United Nations cease-fire saying there probably would be wide support for such a move in the United Nations and throughout the free world The principal author of the memo is Benjamin Cohen who once was counselor of the State Department under President Truman Dulles stressed that wbrking out such an end to the fighting is extremely difficult and that in any case the United States would not get involved in the problem without closest consultations with Generalissimo Chiang Nationalist government on Formosa Defense Department strategists cautioned that the 'fall Yikiangshan increases the threat to the more important Tachen Islands which now will be more difficult for the Na-tionlists to supply Dulles said In discussing the Tachen group that he could not say they are essential to the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores discussion of the Tachen group appeared to rule out any move by the American 7th Fleet to intervene on the Nationalist side in event Chinese Red forces launch an amphibious attack against the Tachens a move which some strategists expect shortly very competitive hearing with three other applicants from Miami "Biscayne anticipates carrying a full network schedule from the NBC network both day and eve ning it would be improper to anticipate when the commission will confirm Mr Cun report Biscayne hopes to be in operation as shortly thereafter as Under Biscayne's proposed organization it would dispose of radio station WQAM and WQAM-FM now operated by the Knight Newspapers and continue to operate WIOD and WIOD-FM now operated by Cox Newspapers An Pike Route Objections Overcome TALLAHASSEE W) The Florida Turnpike Authority announced Tuesday night that Broward and Palm Beach county taxpayers had withdrawn objections to validation of bonds for building the 110-mile South Florida turnpike -Thomas Manuel Fort Lauderdale chairman of the authority said an amended petition would be filed in Leon county Circuit court Wednesday morning to validate the $74000000 bond issue and that the authority could see no obstacle now to construction of the toll expressway- The route of the turnpike in Broward and Palm Beach counties is changed only slightly from the location announced at a meeting of the authority here Jan 6 The new Collins authority on Jan 6 abandoned use of state road 9 as a part of the bob-tailed turnpike and moved it west of State Road 7 in Broward county It also moved the turnpike slightly west in Palm Beach county The changes were made to meet objections of the Broward and Palm Beach county taxpay ers In the final route agreed upon at Tuesday meeting the route in Broward county was moved a little further west from a point beginning three miles north of State Road 80 to a point 13 miles north of SR 80 Manuel said this change was made to straighten the route Bing To Go Under Knife HOLLYWOOD Cal Bing Crosby will undergo major surgery Wednesday for removal of a kidney stone His surgeon said Crosby is in good condition and although the surgery is considered major Is no reason to call it seri- ous The singer will remain in the hospital from seven to 10 days and then must recuperate for 30 days at the doctor 6aid Ike to Honor Haiti Leader President and Mrs Eisenhower will give a state dinner at the White House on Jan 26 for the president of Haiti Paul Magliore and his wife For Barbecues equipment and Installation Phone 43-5492 Adv Costa Rica Says Rebels On the Run Broadcast Claims Of New Invasion Near Limon Denied SAN JOSE Costa Rica W) Costa seven-day-old war crackled into renewed action Tuesday The general staff announced advanced government units made contact with the rebels north of Santa Rosa in the northwest and declared got them on the run A broadcast by the secret rebel radio heard at Managua Nicaragua claimed 200 rebels landed in an amphibious operation near Limon Costa Rican port on the Caribbean 70 miles east of San Jose The general staff said it had no report on any landings at Limon and a telephone call directly from that port said the situation was normal A The rebel radio claimed the rebels have army to end the arfti-Communist revolution It said 300 men had reinforced the rebel forces in the La Cruz region of the northwestern section hitherto the only front in the war The broadcast added will the forces of President Jose Figueres in a second battle for Santa Rosa The government forces routed rebels from the Santa Rosa area in two big actions over the weekend The rebels declared in another broadcast heard at San Salvador El Salvador they would bomb San Jose because the radio station here had been declared a military objective The government said Tuesday it had evidence that Col Anastasio Somoza Jr son of Nicaragua's president and chief of staff for that armed forces is personally commanding rebel military tions in Costa Rica It did not state the nature of its evidence Young Somoza was in Managua Monday to greet the Organization of American States peace commission on its arrival at the airport A general staff Spokesman said details were lacking on the patrol contacts with the rebels around Santa Rosa Earlier reports from the sector said government units made deep penetrations without encountering the enemy The general staff declared West Point-educated Teodoro Picado Jr 27-year-old son of a former president and rebel field commander had been killed with 34 of his men on the Santa Rosa front The staff said it had of his death The announcement did not say how young death had been confirmed At the time the staff made its announcement the rebel radio was broadcasting a manifesto in name protesting the shipment of arms and planes from abroad to the Costa Rican government The radio denied young Picado had been killed Costa Rican pilots worked at skull practice on how to operate the four F-51 fighter planes bought from the United States and delivered Monday by United States Air Force ferry pilots Nicaragua which the Organization of American States (OAS) has called the source for the Costa Rican rebels has received 25 American-made F-51 fighters purchased in Sweden for $600-000 This apparently gives Nicaragua the higgest air force in Central America -The planes arrived Monday political progress and to any progressive program which Gov Collins may outline is the Florida Brailey states quite flatly just one factor that can break that bottleneck the people believe that if right at the start LeRoy outlines a good legislative program and then gets in there and really slugs for it this factor can put it over for him do the people get in on it? Just this way Put every effort into getting those bills out of committees and on the senate floor where those senators will have to stand np Turn to Page 2-A Col 4 Red China Invaders Grab Island Move Imperils Tachens Chain TAIPEK Formosa Chinese Red forces invaded Yikiangshan Island Tuesday behind a curtain of bombs and naval and artillery fire placing the Tachens Islands eight miles to the south in great peril Fears rose that the Tachens 200 miles north of Formosa are next on the Red timetable as the Peiping radio trumpeted that tiny Yikiangshan was In less than two hours of fighting The defense ministry however insisted that the garrison still was putting up resistance late Tuesday night and claimed the invaders suffered heavy losses The ministry said the thin line of guerrilla defenders of Yikiangshan a rocky island of little more than three square miles sank six motorized junks and one gunboat of invasion fleet and damaged another gunboat It added that gronnd fire shot down two Russian-made planes Throughout the day Nationalist warplanes from Formosa flew over the area harassing the invasion fleet The air force claimed two Red warships were damaged in dive bombing attacks The Red Chinese air force swarming down from a network of bases little more than 100 miles north of the Tachens opened the battle for Yikiangshan Tuesday morning In the covering force of warships were two destroyers recently turned over by Russia five torpedo boats four other types of warships and more than 20 gunboats the defense ministry reported The Communists will find the Tachens much harder to crack if they decide to invade Unlike Yikiangshan the Nationalists have made clear they Intend to fight for the Tachens The Tachens are garrisoned by more than 20000 regulars and guerrillas The islands are rocky have few landing beaches and the defenders are dug in deeply Mercantile Natl Bank Miami Beach pay interest quarterly on savings at 2V per annum Adv ward Hartigan told newsmen after his third visit to the isolated cellblock of the 150-year-old bas-tile where the convicts hold the hostages Earlier the 35-year-old Catholic priest who has been at the prison since 19-19 said the hardened long-term prisoners described as potential killers wene too much afraid of in their desperate bid to break out The four sent out an ultimatum that they be allowed to walk out of the prison and Gov Christian A Kerter furnish them a car to carry them away be Prison officials who said earlier there would be disregarded the demand and indicated they were ready to wait out the convicts Floodlights were turned on the cellblock at dark some 13 hours after the revolt broke out State troopers and Boston police armed with riot guns and machine-guns were ready for instant action Massachusetts Atty Gen George Fingold told the revolting convicts over a loudspeaker system in the prison yard one of you kills all of you will die in the electric Apparently fearful for their safety the hostages who are Catholics asked Father Hartigan to hear their confessions The priest said he heard the confessions of four guards and or of the prisoners held against their will Father Hartigan said he was treated by the re belling prisoners and they also were of one of the guards who is ill The priest declined to say how many of the four attempting the break are armed but it is known they have at least two small guns possibly five The ill guard Eugene Wills 40 was treated in late afternoon by Dr Samuel Merlin who first obtained permission over the prison telephone from the rioting convicts Otis Whitney state commissioner of public safety said there might be a small quantity of food in the block not much" He said the men caused some damage and add- Turn to Page 2-A CoL 7 Where to -Find It Amuse 6-9B Harris 6A Beil 2A Horoscope 19C Bourke 6B Jumble 17C Brady 2B Kofoed 19C Burns ID 6A Classified 3-16C Movie Table 8B Comics 1719C Pennekamp 6A Corson 6D Porter 19C Crossword 17C Radio-TV 18C Drummond 6A Sports 1-8D Editorial 6A Weather 2A FinancT 17-19A Winched 17C Goren 19C Womens 1-oB Trammell is 15 per cent stock holder in the corporation The Knight and Cox groups each hold 425 per cent of stock Vice presidents and directors of the corporation are John Knight president of Knight Newspapers Inc and James Cox president of the Evening News' Publishing Co 0 Knight group publishes The-' Herald the Detroit Free Press the Akron Beacon Jour nal The Chicago Daily News and the Charlotte (NC) Observer The Cox group publishes The Turn Sfe Page 2-A Col 6 Chuckle If Uncle Sam is in poor fiscal shape because he getting enough excise Yeah Judge Curry veteran xni'nicl-pal judge was quick to deny any association with McLendon or transactions with him know the he 6aid when informed of refusal to say if he knew Curry and ever paid him any money in connection with gambling activities -walk in my office I know who he was stated Curry certainly have no independent recollection of ever having seen him I have heard of someone like that but I just know Police Chief Headley said know him (McLendon) if I saw Officer Bryan stated have never received' a bribe from State Attorney George Brauti-Turn to Page 2-A Col 3 Rain Snow Wreak Havoc In California LOS ANGELES The heaviest storm swept down on Southern California Tuesday with motje than an inch of rain highways and closing schools in the San Fernando valley Officials set up flood precaution measures as the steady pelting promised to reach three inches in most areas The weather bureau said that new snow in higher mountains would total three feet by Wednesday night Blizzard conditions closed UVS 99 to southbound traffic most of Tuesday morning although northbound vehicles were permitted through with chains Heavy snow fell on the Mojave desert closing desert highways marooning homes and interrupting phone service Meanwhile a large storm area In the lower Mississippi river valley caused widespread rain and snow The snow area covered east ern portions of Nebraska Kan eas and Oklahoma and extended eastward across northern Mis sourl southern Iowa and into parts of central and southern 11 Jinois Further southward rain fell from Arkansas and extreme eastern Texas eastward along the gylt coast states to northern Florida Loft Office and Show-room Space Fashion Mart Bldg 127 2nd Street A CURRY he's clear and out Curry was granted a leave of absence on Sept 7 without pay for six months It terminated this leave and canceled original appointment Two other clauses named Thomson and fixed his salary As acting director Thomson had received $17500 Curry only last week w-as finally cleared of a series of petty theft charges brought by County Solicitor John Marsh Titty accused the veteran official of stealing a floorless shack condemned to make way for airport expansion of using county property in installing shutters at 6is Turn to Page 2-A Col 1 Small Craft Warnings Up Small craft -warnings were hoisted along both Florida coastlines Tuesday and the federal-state warning service predicted the state will have much colder weather Wednesday night Weathermen say there are indications of frost in the northern and central districts of the state and possibly in the Everglades Thursday morning The Miami weather bureau said winds would reach 25 to 35 miles an hour here Tuesday night but said they would diminish Wednesday Forecast for Miami Wednesday is clearing and colder with a high of about 70 tively no more Brailey the can-' didate He say it bitterly but the old fire back to his eyes and the vehemence to his voice as he discusses the problems ahead for Gov LeRoy Collins who beat him in the first primary and to whom he then threw hIS whole-hearted --support now made it quite cle-ar even to the most doubting that he doesn't want any state job or state favors but if Gov Collins can use any of the Odham blueprints for the job ahead he's welcome to them The Odham blueprints are completely unflattering to the Florida senate greatest bottleneck to Collins Needs Help on't Run Again Odham Avoirs By STEPHEN TRUMBULL Herald Staft Writer This most illustrious citizen the fellow who made two campaigns for governor highly interesting says Back home and trying to reorganize his private affairs around a new 44-home building program at the edge of town Brai-ley Odham says that from here on in going to be Brailey the builder and the oil distributor and posi FORMOSA DEFENSE LINE is shown on this map locating tiny Yikiangshan upper left whch has been captured by the Chinese Communists It is only eight miles north of the vital Tachen Islands (A) Other key spots near the Chinese mainland are Matsu CB) Quemoy (Q and the Pescadores bases the Nationalists say they will defend to the hilt Terrace Patio Ft Lauderdale Serving Lunch-Dinner Free private parking lot Adv.