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Miami Herald Shinin' Through Clear to parllv cloud and milrl Highest this afternoon in the middle 70s Ufhl to moderate northeast io ca-t winds Mi-ami Reach ipmperatiires at 3 Saturday: 7' ocean IX Eight Great Services Associated Press United Pres International News (P) Wirephoto International Photo Acme Telephoto Chicago Daily News Foreign Service Science Service Florida's Most Complete Newspaper Sunday February 25 1951 No 84 4ht Year 164 Pages 15 Cents Mullis Admits Slaying Hardison Sorrento Cash Also Under Scrutiny Full Public Airing Of $1500000 Loan To Saxony By RFC Ordered Yanks Seize Strategic Road Center Pangnim 38 Miles From Parallel Taken In Mud And Slush Nine GIs Rescued Gun Traps Fugitive In New York Suspect Caught In Pawnshop Three Detectives Prevent His Using Weapon Schools Hit As 'Political' 'Appalling' Research Group Flays Dade Setup Indignant Board Fires Counter-Blast bbblV bbss Ibsibw Bpg rnMim'' Bsd ML HeL' sssflf IEiTH HEP rHmWtf jfl 1 -B Bj JjynRD aHI jtmL i mm Hliffl Mm mmW By The AssoeUted Press WASHINGTON Senate investigators Saturday ordered a public airing of the story behind a SI 500000 RFC loan to help provide a splendid recreation spot for the wealthy the famed Saxony hotel at Miami Beach Fla The inquiry conceivably could bring testimony about politcal figures in influential places who if you believe reports current in Washington often stay 'for free" at the hotel which has a minimum rate of $35 a day per room t'nder inquiry at the same time an official announcement said will he a $1000000 over Mr Truman's action in collecting a file of 700 to 900 letters most of them written to the RFC by members of Congress The investigators charged 'intimidation" although Mr Truman later explained he merely wanted the letters for a study of RFC reorganization As for the hotel loans the RFC granted them in the face of recommendations by its Jacksonville Fla branch of-fice that the applications should be rejected Fulbright has indicated he is Turn To Page 10-A Col 7 government loan to the Sorrento hotel of Miami Beach and an authorized $1000000 loan to the Maxwell Co of that city dealers in hotel and restaurant fixtures and equipment of which the firm has drawn $500000 The investigating Senate subcommittee headed by Sen William Fulbright Arkansas Democrat gave every evidence of intention to push ahead with its general inquirty into RFC operations despite President Truman statement that he himself had found no evidence of 'illegal influence" by anybody in government The senators were still angry Maj Gen Bryant Moore By WILSON McGEE Herald Staff Writer A nationwide search for Har ris Mullis Jr ended in New York City Saturday when he was arrested as he attempted to pawn the revolver with which he is accused of killing Luther Hardison Coral Gables constable Lt Thomas Riggs of New York's 47th st police station said that Mullis had confessed killing Hardison Feb 16 rfear Mobile Ala as Hardison was returning Mullis from California to face theft charges here Riggs said Mullis a 22-year-old Jacksonville Fla construction worker said he killed Hardison "because I had a change of heart" and didn't want to return to Florida Mullis told Riggs that he had been "sent out on a chain gang when I was 14 and I don't want to go back to that again" Riggs said Mullis had agreed to waive extradition to Alabama to stand trial for murder but would not return to Florida "under any conditions" In Miami Hardison's widow who By JACK AMIRRSON Herald Staff Writer Charges that the Dade county school system is "poorly organized and permeated with politics" are contained in a red-hot memorandum issued by the Dade County Research Foundation and released Saturday for publication Recommendations arc -made in the report that County School Superintendent James Wilson's job be abolished as an elective office and a commissioner of education appointed instead Confronted with the firecracker tossed into their laps by the pungently worded foundation which was marked "Not for indignant board members finally turned loose the report Saturday But despite the confidential nature of the document It already had herome so widely circularized that it contents had become back fence gossip Along with the release board members fired counter blasts at the calling the memorandum everything from a "blunderbuss type of mud-slinglng" to "insincere" and "back-handed" Publication of the report was delayed both school and foundation representatives said to give the recipients time to digest its 9th Corps Commander Killed In Korea Crash Br United Press NINTH CORPS HEADQUARTERS Maj Gen Bryant Moore commander of 9th Corps forces spearheading the Allied central front offensive died Saturday after his helicopter crashed Associated Press Wirephoto SUSPECT IN SLAYING of Luther Hardison Coral Gables constable Harris Mullis Jr 22 lights a cigaret as he sits handcufted to a chair in a New York City police station after police said he admitted killing Hardison near Mobile Ala Mullis was captured when a pawnbroker became suspicious and called police when the man offered to sell him a revolver ai I SBJp- Bg FRED ZEDER nl fl Bk Br The Associated Press TOKYO American troops captured the road junction of Pang-nim Saturday as the United Nations offensive ground slowly ahead through the mud and thawing snows of central Korea Pangnim 38 miles south of the nsth parallel is the junction point of a lateral highway from Hoeng-song and a main road that winds 42 miles northeast to the coast Hoengsong 25 road miles west of Pangnim is the key to the Communist central defense line Flre-g 1 1 Hoengsong remained a No Man's Land in a valley American troops were dug in on hills commanding it from the south while Chinese Iteds were entrenched in hills to the north American tanks Saturday crashed through Hoengsong to slug toe to toe with the enemy to the north The patrol pulled back after a three-hour fight but its action was typical of the new 8th Army tactics "Strike and kill" was the command not advance- The Americans rescued two wounded Yanks who had been hiding in Hoengsong since the Chinese Reds seized the town Feb 13 Seven other Americans were rescued in the vicinity Little activity was reported from other sectors of the 60-mile front on a day that marked the end of eight month of fighting in Korea It was last June 25 that the North Korean Red army swarmed 80Uth across the 38th parallel the invisible and arbitrary boundary of the United Nations-sponsored republic of Korea and the Russian-spontored North Korean Communist regime The first general thaw of the year coming on top of the worst rain since the campaign began eight months ago was causing the United Nations troops more trouble than the fighting rearguards of the retreating enemy Huge C-119 flying boxcars of the 314th Troop Carrier Group delivered ammunition and food to front line troops advancing over terrain where trucks could not follow Front dispatches said the Reds were meeting their transport problems with pack animals is seeking gubernatorial appoint Cfirroll Risks Contempt Citation ment to the District 3 constable'! post took the news of Mullis' capture gratefully TV -Shy Bookie Walks Out On Kefauver Probe By I'nlted Fress ST LOUIS Tames Carroll called one of the nation biggest bookies risked a contempt citation Saturday wen he re "You have given me wonderful news" she told The Herald "I can't express how glad I am He (Mullis) was so dangerous with a gun" It was Hardison's own revolver that caught the fugitive Mullis walked into a Manhattan pawnshop and laid Hardison's 38 caliber weapon before Proprietor Harry Weisenberger offering to sell it for $15 Zeder Car Designer Dies At Beach fused to testify before the Senate crime committee because tele vision cameras were operating in the room Carroll who flW here from Mi-- ftnrn ami Saturday after unatrman! i Fred Zeder pioneer designer of motor ear engines and vice president of the Chrysler Corp died at Miami Beach early Saturday of a heart attack The 64-year-old executive was stricken Friday night as he and his wife attended a party in the Surf Club at which his old friend truara units Get Overseas Alert Notice Associated Press Wirephoto MAJ GEN BRYANT MOORE touring front live Charles Kettering General Mo on a front-line inspection tour A slight hustling "front line general" Moore was on the air tour when he signaled nis pilot to go down for a closer look it something which caught his interest beside the Han river north of Yoju The Helicopter's rotor blade struck a cable and it flipped over and crashed beside the river The general climbed out and appeared uninjured as he walked to the van of an artillery commander nearby A doctor was railed to examine Moore's knee but the general was unconscious by the time the medical officer arrived He was placed aboard another helicopter and flowr to a field hospital but was dead before he arrived No official diagnosis was announced The helicopter pilot was injured slightly and was hospitalized His name was withheld pending notification of kin The 56-year-old general was former commandant of the military academy at West Point and a veteran of both the Pacific and European campaigns of World War II He had assumed command of the 9th Corps less than three weeks ago He was the third American general to be lost in the Korean war Lt Gen Walton Walker 8th Army commander was killed in a jeep accident last Decern bei and Maj Gen William Dean commander of the 24th Division has been missing and presumed dead since the battle of Taejon last July- Maj Gen Oliver Smith commander of the 1st Marine Division has been named temporary commander of the 9th Corps Moore leaves a wife now visiting her sister at 701 Alcazar ave Coral Gables Fla and two Barbara Kuby of Chicago and Mrs Margaret Wood wife of Air Force Maj James Wood of Kirtland Air Force Base Albuquerque details and to decide on the feasibility of Its recommendations Headed "Proposed Reorganiza tion of the Dade County Public School System" the memorandum No 59 makes these salient recommendations: THAT the board seek passage of a special act by the legislature in April creating the appointive Job bf commissioner of education THAT in the interim the board seek a constitutional amendment that would pave the way for abolishing the elective superintendent's job entirely (The foundation doe not suggest Wilson for the proposed commissioner's Job but recommends the board "should tart combing the country for a top-notch school administrator" and be prepared to pay him as much as 925000 a year) THAT the jobs of the three chool trustees Allsworth McDonald and Bird be abolished and their duties be vested in the school board and its commissioner of education (The trustees who draw no pay nominate Instructional personnel recommend the county-wide school tax levy approve budgets for school district funds and have general supervision of buildings grounds and equipment) THAT the board appoint an "administrative auditor" who the foundation suggests should be "some clear-minded trustworthy person to whom you can turn for reliable information and on whom you can call to conduct investigations into situations which are confused or otherwise at loose ends" The proposals got a cold reception from Wilson and the school board which met last week with Spare German Steel Cartels -Patterson Estes Kefauver Tennessee Democrat threatened to cite him for contempt for ignoring a subpoena said the prospect of testifying before television cameras "outrages my sense of propriety" After Kefauver refused to order the cameras to stop Carroll stalked out of the courtroom He returned a few minutes later and sat in one of the spectators' benches The walkout came as the committee was trying to wind up its two-day hearing here seeking to prove close ties between gangsters and the distribution of race news information Carroll was accompanied to the witness chair by his attorney Morris Shenker who has acted in a similar capacity for all the witnesses appearing before the committee here Shenker challenged the authority of the committee on the grounds a quorum was not present and that questioning of Carroll would violate his rights Carroll took a slightly different view He said: "This whole proceeding out-races my sene of property I'm willing to testify but not before television It violates my constitutional rights" Kefauvers aid "with all due def- Turn To Page 10-A Col 6 Weisenberger noticed MrtTidg in the gun The pawnbroker told Mullis to "wait a minute" went into the back of the shop and called police Weisenberger then "stalled" Mullis with conversation until three detectives arrived Mullis clawed to get at a fountain pen-type tear gas gun when the detectives pounced on him The gas gun had belonged to Hardison In Mullis' pockets officers also found other cartridges for the revolver Mullis cried at the precinct station as he told how he killed Hardison He had been driving he told Lt Riggs when he decided to make his break for freedom He said that he pretended to be tired of driving stopped the car and prepared to exchange seats Hardison got ont of the right hand side walked around and prepared to get into the driver's seat Riggs said that Mullis told him he grabbed the gun from under the seat and shot Hardt son "Mullis said that Hardison hit him over the head with something he thinks it was a blackjack and that he shot the constable again Mullis says be thinks he only shot him twice" Lt Riggs said Alabama police said Hardison had been shot five times Mullis said he took $200 from Hardison's pocket left the body Turn To Page 10-A Col 5 By United Press WASHINGTON The Army announced Saturday that two National Guard infantry divisions are being alerted for movement to Japan late next month They are the California 40th and the Oklahoma 45th The rmy said they are being sent to provide more security for Japan and that it intends to keep the divisions intact in Japan for further training They are the first National Guard divisions assigned to overseas duty since World War II Although the Army said only that they would be sent to Japan for farther training they could be pressed Into service in the Korean war if the situation makes it necessary They are intended to replace occupation troops transferred to Korea The 40th and 41th are two ot six National Guard divisions which have been called into federal service since the Korean war started The 40th is stationed at Camp Cooke Cal and the 45th at Camp Polk La The Army said there will be time to permit many officers and men to take short leaves and furloughs before they leave for Japan 2 Explorers Reported Slain Near Bogota By Thr AuocUted Press BOGOTA Colombia An unconfirmed dispatch Saturday to El Tiempo said two members of a Texas Petroleum Co exploration party were killed by bandits near Puerto Nino about 85 miles northeast of Bogota The geologic survey party was attacked at dawn Friday by more than 30 masked bandits who shouted to create confusion as they fired their guns the dispatch said It was said the leader of the survey party identified only as an American dived into a river to escape and his fate is not known Luis A I'rdaoeta a Colombian engineer was the only victim identified The dispatch said the survey group consisted of technicians and pack-bearers and that all apparently were stripped of their clothing and robbed of their equipment El Tiempo said the bandits pos-sibily were the "pirates" who have been attacking shipping on the Magdalena river recently tors official was the host Mr Zeder died at 5 am in St Francis Hospital Born in Bay City Mich he had been living in Grosse Point Mich Mr Zeder came to Florida to attend a session of the National Inventors' Council which had been scheduled by Kettering and other industrial leaders at Eglin Air Force Base Mr Zeder had been an engineer with the Studebaker Corp from 1913 to 1920 A year later he joined two other motor pioneers to form the Zeder-Skelton-Breer Engineering Co He was asked by Walter Chrysler to join the latter's organization when it was founded in 1924 Mr Zeder served with Chrysler since that time and was vice-chairman of the board of directors as well as vice president of the corporation in charge of engineering Chrysler himself paid high tribute to Zeder's genius at designing high compression motor car engines His influence also was acknowledged in the deveb opment of aluminum pistons hydraulic brakes modern body and transmission designs Mr Zeder was a member of the American Civil Engineering Society the Engineering Society of Detroit the Franklin Institute and the American Society for Testing Materials He married the former Lucille Monroe in 1919 She was with him as they vacationed briefly in the Golden Strand Hotel at Sunny Isles and was at his side at the time of death There are four children: Fred Dorothy June Priscilla Ann and Margaret Lucille A nephew John Zeder is president of Munroe-Zeder Inc 2101 Eighth St and chairman of the current Miami automobile show the foundation's directors to protest not only what it said but the wav it was said By The Associated Press FRANKFURT Former United States War Secretary Robert Patterson in the role of a lawyer representing Ruhr shareholders urged the occupation powers Saturday to spare big German steel and coal combines from dismemberment so they can "contribute to Europe's protection" Patterson and four other New York lawyers laid the appeal directly before United States High Commissioner John McCloy who once was an assistant secretary under Patterson in the War Department The Allied high commission has declared the big combines are monopolies and cartels and has ordered them broken np into smaller units But Ruhr industrialists fortified by a business boom in rearmament opened an 11th hour drive to forestall or modify the amputations The German "Association for the Protection of Shareholders" announced that it had obtained the aid of "eminent American lawyers (including Patterson) with knowledge of American anti-trust legislation" to assist in the campaign The shareholders said they were seeking reorganization of the industry "in conformity with principles of constitutional law" Patterson and the other lawyers conferred with McCloy for two hours Saturday and presented arguments in the form of a long legal brief Acheson Vacations Gov Warren Goes On Air Tuesday TALLAHASSEE (UP) Gov Fuller Warren will make his monthly "Report to the People" Tuesday over a state-wide radio hookup from 10 to 10:30 pm At least 11 stations including WQAM Miami will carry the governor's talk Warren did not announce his subject Truman To Lead Red Cross Drive WASHINGTON (UP) President Truman will kick off the 1-951 Red Cross funds drive with a special message over major radio and television networks at 10:55 Tuesday the Red Cross Today's Chuckle "She thinks no man is good enough for her" "She may be right" "Yes and she may be left" Expsndlnt Ctrcle Tax A Brave Man SHELBURNE FALLS Mass (p) a taxpayer's dream came true for Harvey A Chandler but he was under $1000 bail Saturday because of it He is accused of chasing deputy tax collector Oren Gilbert off his property with shotgun 1 NEW YORK -Secretary of i State Dean Acheson and Mrs Ache- son loft Saturday for a two-week vacation In Bermuda (announced Saturdav Quads Born In Baltimore BALTIMORE Mrs Edward Pappas looking forward to twins next month gave birth to quadruplets Saturday And all she could sav was "Ooooh! Three rooms and a hath!" Papp Pappas a slight but rugged-looking pipe fitter was obviously a bit unsettled hut he was trying to take it in stride "So what? We wanted some kids So now we got They were their first The hospital said both the mother and the babies two boys and two girls were "fine" They were placed in incubators immediately after delivery more as precaution than necessitv 5 Wounded fit Wake Of Looting And Arson 'Really llear We Musi Live Run Again Peron Is Urged By (Guess Who) -Little Wiiey Br t'nlted Press RUENOS President Juan Peron Saturday pondered a request by his wife Eva to run for re-election next Troops Police Combat Riots In Grenada Mrs Nelson To Sue For False Arrest UT1CA Mich (UP) Mrs Karen Nelson said Saturdav she year to "save the country Senora Peron accompanied bv Wholesale Price Where To Find It their government to save their country "And following the San Martin (Argentine liberator) we are disobeying to save the country because in Index Tapers Off WASHINGTON The gov-j einment's wholesale price index remained unchanged in the week censed the mobs to further violence A state of emergency was declared Wednesday when the wave of terrorism flared after the arrest of Labor Leaders Eric Gairy and Gascoignc Blaize They uere held after a strike of agricultural and unskilled workers threatened to get out of control Police wounded two persons in firing on a stone-throwing mob and shot and wounded three others who attacked a planter A government school a nursing home and several houses have been burned Rt United Press PORT OF SPAIN The British cruiser Superb steamed to the Windward island of Grenada Saturday and police units were flown in to combat a wave of riots looting and arson in which five persons already have been wounded by gunfire American tourist- were granted top prioritv to flee the strife-torn island in outgoing planes The local airport was patrolled by steel-helnieted Trinidad police armed with rifles and tear gas grenades Marines from th 9850-ton British training ship Devonshire landed two days ago but their presence only in Two prominent women were seized Friday night and were held as hostages by the rioters They are the manager of the Hotel Santa Maria and her companion Their motor car was overturned by the mob and the chauffeur was stripped and forced to walk back four miles to the hotel American tourists were concentrated at the airport's building now being used as barracks by forces flown from Trinidad Thirty British marines under a captain and a lieutenant con trol the approaches to the airport with machineguns is- we are coins to wire it Horoscope Kofoed Lippman Merry -Go-Rd Movie Table 4F RF 2F 2F 9G Amu-e Art Bell Book Bourke Burns 8-1 1G 'IE SF 4F 11G ID will return to Cuba to sue the 'man who caused her to be tried on charges of slaying her hug-i band The attractive 26-year-old widow returned here Friday to bit her parent- Mr and Mrs Hjalmar Olson She Aas acquitted last week of the murder charges at Santiago i Cuba She said she will sue Enrique Bringerzu for false arret She said Tie poetised her of killing her husband Alvar several Peronist women partv leaders called on the president to present him with a watch and reaffirm the partv faith In htm and hi regime Smora Peron is head of the party Addressing her husband the First Lady said: "My general: We are hp first ones to eonie oni to speak for you and to raie your flag "We have perhaps disobeyed the intentions of our great pres- ident But many times in the past many great men disobeyed ending Feb 20 thus breaking a steady climb that carried through IS consecutive weeks 14 of which 21 5G Classified 9B-19C with just one map: Peron!" in ftnawerlng his wUfa't re-inark Peron pra'oed her and the party nhe heads as an organization "so perfect and complete that there nevr was a more disciplined ethical or patriotic force in the Argentine political field" Crosby Corson Editorial Financial Goren Griffith 5G 5D 2F fiTB 8E 2F Real Estate 1-4G Sports 1-9D Travel 22-24E Weathc 4B Winchell 8G Women? 1-20E registered a new high over previously established peaks The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the latest index for all commodities stood at 183 4 per cent of the 1926 average 19 per cent over Jan 23 1951 and 169 per cent above the May 24- June 24 1950 level $65000 Monthly Income from weJl-secured first mortgage on downtown business property Owner wants $50000 quick cash Eric Fowler Broker Ph 9-1170 Inspect new 32 ft Deckhouse Cruiser on display Matthews Cruisers Inc Phone 2-2709 U-Driva-It weex-enus Save money! 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