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1 2 A THE MIAMI HtRALD Saturday January 31 19S Wl IBdP 1 4 A si v1'' IIoll Off For NC Vacation Ills Trial Still Set Monday 2nd Tour Mapped Board Rejects Bid for Airport 4 'V i J- V'q-K XV Lv rCJsS? v4 Lf -m 1 S' i 5 JT 1 rwj- -o -v 1 The pastor paid high tribute to Mrs Van Poyck as good neighbor who was performing a Christian service" when she stayed with the Krohnes and inhaled a fatal amount of the fumes that had been slowly poisoning them for days As the public services ended SHE THREW AN AIRLINER INTO REVERSE Sgt and Mrs Henderson at hospital Girl Born on Airliner Racing Over Pacific BURIAL SERVICES ARE HELD FOR THE KROHNE FAMILY VICTIMS OF MIAMI'S COLD WAVE Last Chapter of Tragedy Written As Five Gas Victims Are Buried SAN FRANCISCO (UP) A young mother gave birth to a girl high over the Pacific Friday as a Honolulu-bound plane reversed its course and tried to beat the stork to a California hospital The mother Mrs Robert Henderson 23 of Nashville and her two-months premature daughter were taken to Tenlnsula Hospital at nearby Burlingame Both were reported doing fine The father Marine Sgt Robert Henderson wa taking his wife and another daughter 2H-month-old Elizabeth Ann to Hawaii where he was to be assigned to the 4th Marine Division The bahv was born at 304 i hU' fV Vr Frrn jjs- a-V 9 tr' 1V A -r 4 4 Staff Photo by Hay Piabor order they rode to the ceme-tery in that order they were lowered to the grave The comparatively long time between the deaths and the funerals was caused by the fact that a brother of Mr Krohne Waiter had to be called from Los Angeles and Mrs mother Mrs Louise A Gower came here from Bird Island Minn The family inhaled the fatal fumes when the father in the belief he would increase the effectiveness of a gas plugged the flue with steel wool Bulletproof Glass Foils Bank Robber INVERNESS Miss (UP) young Negro bandt attempted to rob the Bank of Inverness Frl dav hut had to settle for about Sl'JO from a customer after bank employes stood behind bulletproof and ignored his demand for money Officials said the south who was not identified immediately was captured a few minutes la ter and taken into custody by Sunflower County authorities Taylor McDowell a former employe of the bank said the bandit came in carrying a pistol toed a sack on the counter and commanded two bookkeepers to me some mon-ey" When they merely stood look-ing at him McDowell said the Negro turned to Dave Wood a customer and demanded his mon-ey Wood tossed him his billfold and tiie boy fled on foot A posse was organized and ran him down within a few mlnutea Bootle" Auto Sales Attacked by runthltaislnf Dinner I am shortly after the Pan American airliner captain Henry Kristofferson decided to turn back to San Francisco Kristofferson had been told earlier by the purser Sue Morehouse Sargent that "a woman passenger is about to have a baby" "Oh the captain replied The crew quickly prepared a sleeping berth for Mrs Henderson and another woman passenger Mrs Frances Norton of Honolulu took charge of the delivery At the hospital the parents said they were thinking of naming the baby "Pamela" after Pan American relentlessly by Americans of ail parties and ail creeds at last success shall crown our efforts and reward our faith" Elsenhower gave this of what the Republican Party must be to continue to warrant the confidence of Americans: "For every good citizen his party Is or he wants It to be an instrument for genuine service united in its devotion to a program that preserves intact the vital principles of the American creed: that attacks every problem in the light of those principles that recognizes Inescapable change and meets it that believes in the dignity of every individual in his equal right to Justice and fair play in his equal opportunity for the exercise of his talents in his right to proper sharing in the nation's Extortionist Asks $500 Of Bob Hope TUCSON Ariz An attempt to extort money from comedian Bob Hop was admitted Friday by Lawrence Thompson 54 police reported He was released from federal prison only last November after serving a sentence for extortion Booked in citv jail on a drunk charge early Friday Thompson asked to see the man in charge He told Capt Joe Rice he was drinking Thursday night de cided to write a threatening post card to Hope asking for He told Rice the card was sent to Hope's Hollywood address He aaid the card threatened bodily harm I' the money was not forwarded to Thompson care of general delivery Tucson In his previous attempt he used the name Fred Tramel Postal authorities were notified An attempt to intercept the card at the mailing point in the South' ern Pacific depot failed Los An geies postal inspectors were noti- Pledge to GOP: Work in Election Circuit Judge George Holt scheduled to appear Monday night to face reckless driving charges in City court left Miami Wednesday for North Carolina His physician Dr Tracy Haverfield said Friday night that he had ordered Judge Hoit to leave town for the next two months to recover from injuries he received in an accident Dec 20 Dr Haverfield declined to disclose where Jndge Holt had gone but attorney William Gaither said Holt was in North Carolina Records at Jackson Memorial show that Holt was signed out at 11 am Wednesday a rou-tine manner" a hospital spokesman said Friday night His condition Wednesday wa shown as according to the hospital records He previously had been listed as in condition The hospital superintendent Dr Kermit Gates said that Holt was discharged as a private patient of Dr Haverfield Another victim in the accident involving Judge Holt Leonard Feitelson 21 of 321 NY 28th St was discharged from the hospital Friday Feitelson was transferred to a rest home and is under a care with injuries suffered in the accident said Feitelson' attorney Bernard Mandier Mandler also represents Miss Mary Martin 23 of 352 NE 6 1st St injured when Feitelson's motorcycle and Holt's sports car collided Gaither 6aid he will seek a postponement of the trial of Judge Holt Monday night to ai-low- Holt to recuperate from his injuries Sland Firm Against Reds -Knowland Continued trots Page 1 the Kremlin that despite their provocations or pressures against sovereign countries they will know in advance that we will take no risks to support human freedom against a godless tyranny? is that the Knowland warned that by following such a policy Russia would quickly learn that our treaties and obligations were mere scraps of paper that if the Communist wolf should huff and puff then having marched up the hill we were going to march down That would mean he said that we were abandoning our friends in Europe and Asia Knowland the Republican leader in the Senate warned that such a weak-kneed policy "would be fatal to our own survival and the preservation of a free A firm positive stand on both the domestic and foreign fronts would insure the fiee world victory in the cold war and thereby prevent a hot war he said Top GOP leaders including state chairman Harold Alexander and national committeeman Spade gave Knowland a standipg ovation The cream of Palm Beach society turned out in force for what vas undoubtedly the biggest Republican dinner ever staged here Earl Smith GOP finance chairman for Florida served as toastmaster for the dinner which was highlighted by address and a closed circuit television speech by President Eb senhower from 'Washington Boys Confess Grave Offens BARTOW Five Lake Wales high school boys who admitted digging up the bones from a 35-vear-old grave yere ordered Friday to spend two hours a week for the rest of the year working in the cemetery Judge Bowdon Hunt said the work of maintaining and restoring graves must be performed under responsible supervision He also revoked driver licenses for the culprits all 16 and directed that their families pay for proper reinterment of the bones They said they got the idea from reading about grave rob- Two Cities They kept tbe bones at one home about 10 days until word leaked out they were re- WASHINGTON Sen A Mike Monroney Oklahoma Democrat announced Friday he will Introduce a "truth In bill for auto selling which he said would "strike at the of car sales Monroney charman of a Senate subcommittee Investigating allegations of abuses In car selling made the announcement as a representative of auto dealers urged Congress to set to meet what he said was an situation Frederick Bell eveentire vi-e president of the Nrtionai Automobile Dealers Assn nd a retired admiral told the subcommittee Congress mast pass legislation to end In auto marketing Monroney said he would disclose details of his new bill later In general the measure would require a windshle'd sticker to be placed on each car until It reaches the hands of an owner who intends to keep it and drive it The sticker would show each change of ownership until that TALLAHASSEE (UP) The State Development Commission Friday announced detailed plans for Gov LeRoy second "promotion of Florida" tour next month In which he will meet with industrial and financial leaders of the Midwest The commission anxious to draw high-paying industries to the state rejected a request from a Miami outfit seeking a 25-ear lease on a 1200-acre airport site near Clewiston The firm of Moody Associates proposed a "flv-in dude at the site but commission members said they feared it might bar a big firm from locating there Collins who recently Inured the northeast to advertise Florida's Industrial rlimate and flew to California to talk over an industrial project with millionaire Howard Hughes will start from Jacksonville Feb 23 on a tour of the midwest He will be accompanied by some 33 persons including newsmen office staff members of the Advisory Committee for Interstate commerce snd the development commission On Feb 27 the group will be guests In Pittsburgh at a luncheon sponsored by the Mellon Bank Trust Co Feb 2S at a luncheon given by the Central National Bank of Cleveland: keb 23 at a luncheon sponsored by The Detroit Free Press of which Lee Hills executive editor of The Miami Herald is sice president and March 1 In Chicago at a luncheon sponsored by eight different financial and industrial firms The party will travel by train In special car Films of the trip will be slr-expreed back to Florida for local television newscast The commission at a daylong meeting rejected the Moody request for the Clewiston airport lease after Chairman faxton Llovd said he would he to lease auch an important bit of state property for a pittance and for such an unimportant Moody offered $3600a-year rental upkeep of building and 5 per cent of the gross receipts of the proposed dude ranch Commissioner Clapp St Petersburg said he feared such a lease m'ght preclude a big industry needing an airport "for such thing a experimental from moving into the area Orlando Man Charged With Lewd Assault ORLANDO Sheriffs deputies Friday arrested a 30-year-old plumber and accused him of examining Negro females while posing as a doctor from the State Board of Health Sheriff Dave Starr said the man Roger Leedy father of two children would be charged with lewd assault The when Temperatures Huh 13 ours and low 18 hours toes) rainfall 24 pours end in 730 pm EST Muml Fla Jan 30 1956 GREATER MIAMI Hlib lew Rain MIAMI 76 63 Mismi Airport 77 61 0J xMiami Bayfront Park 77 61 00 xMiami Beach 78 64 00 xSout-h Miami 76 61 00 x-Readine lor 34 hre ending 6 pm FLORIDA 1 I h4 38 6ft 47 77 n9 Pensacola 47 9 55 36 Sarasota 68 57 63 48 Tal hassea 46 36 73 39 Tampa 63 48 66 40 vero Beach 70 68 71 65 Palm 79 61 3 46 BOVTR NC 11 29 Louisville Atlanta 38 34 Autusta Btrm sham 30 31 35 35 41 33 49 33 38 29 48 41 Ch'ston 6C 49 40 Orlean Charlotte 41 33 Norfolk Jkn Mist 47 34 Paleixh Knoxville 36 30 Richmond Little Rock 33 37 Savannah AFT Albany NY 18 14 Bsltlmora 28 Pittsburgh 30 23 Providence 25 17 Toronto 32 24 Weshgton MtnWFAT 31 25 Ind'iDOlla 31 74 27 Kan Cltv 29 29 24 Milwaukee 29 37 24 Mpls-6t -5 6 -3 Omaha 8 39 33 St Louis 33 WEST 46 3J Okla City 43 37 74 4 3 Phoenix 65 38 38 33 Reno 64 33 37 33 San 59 28 41 San Fran 67 5 29 25 14 29 28 12 17 18 ti Boston Buffalo New York Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus De Moines Detroit AlbuQ'oue Brow nsv'le Denver Ft Worth Galveston nivtiavun CO fi cnn i Havre Mt 4 Seattle Laredo Tex 73 38 XnX's -arTV i-- lU5t'V -3 thoe In attendance where ushered from the mortuary and the doors were closed while members of the family spent a few moments alone with their dead The casket containing the father came out first then the mother then young Kurt and then the two daughters In that Senator po-nt and s'so the method of transportation by which the car was moved from the factory down through various hards In the case of bootlegged cars Mnnrnuey said the sticker would make clear the purchaser aitually was getting a used car that had hern towed about the country or perhaps taken a long distance by an Inexperienced driver to the bootleg seller pell in his testimony advocated legislation: To eliminate charges He estimated they cost the buyirg public 200 mitlion dollars a year In excess of the actual cost of shipping cars from factories to dealers 2 To allow manufacturers to put anti-bootlegging clauses into franchises so they can cancel the contract of any dealer who sells to bootleggers To allow manufacturers to put into the franchise a prescribed geographical sales area for the dealer QMoeirUe Jitirfiy Moestel SltirHj is mi ai" la Hf liae Tpjliuii mi Mr ret ter By STTTHEV TKOrBCIX BtraM Staff Wrttti Three small -white caskets and two full sized ones of somber gray -were lowered into the ground 6ide by side in Flagler Memorial Park Friday the last chapter in one of worst tragedies in recent years The caskets contained the bodies of Kurt Krohxte and his entire family wife son and two daughters poisoned by deadly carbon monoxide fumes in their home at 5S66 SV lOSth St last Sunday nleht last night of the recent cold wave FIt hearso brought the bodies into the cemetery after serrices at the Lithgow Funeral home The serrires were conducted by the Her Walter Rnth of St James Lutheran Church ef Coral Gables Last Jure he baptized the three children Kurt Jr Kathy 3 and Kar'ene 2 He had praved at the bedside of the mother and the son when they were fiehting for their lives in Doctors Hospital Coral Gables The father and the two daughters were dead hen neighbors broke Into the house Mrs Walter Van Poyck 34 a neighbor staying with the Krohnes in the belief that their growing illnesses were the results of a virus attack also died in the hospital She was buried Wednesday The funeral home saw almost a complete absence of the morbidly curious that friends and relatives feared might be attracted Those attending were for the most part neighbors of the family and 24 members of the West Miami Liens Club who served as pallbearers Mr Krohnef operator of a roofing business was a member of that organization Shortly before the services started Mrs Nancy Cox vid'e teacher at Pinecrest School brought the Bible and placed it under his bands Friends said the child was devoutly religious and often carried the Bible to school with him His closest friend and piay-Z mate David Lee was one of the last to file past his casket doubt many of you are shocked at the sight of five caskets here" the Rev Mr Ruth said in the course of the services a chaplain In the last war I stood beside rows of hundreds of our dead would call this a great tragedy If there were nothing to look forward to but so many years months and days In this life "But Christian people know that life goes on forever" Issris Iitirfif Siitel jtirfif miili I as 6 ers KOt Ml IM Ft Women Iturnintj Up Phone Lines A SMALL shopping column on the pages of Thursday's Miami Herald had the women burning up our switchboard OUR operators were calling for help when more than 100 calls were received in two hours By early afternoon upwards of 600 women had called the shopping service about a new waving preparation MANY more were unable to get the shopping number because of the flood of calls For this we are deeply sorry How were we to know you were going to literally tear the phone off the wall? YOU can still learn about the new hair waving lotion by calling our shopping service 9-5831 Channel 7 Award Made The Federal Communications Commission Friday awarded TV channel 7 at Miami to Biscayne Television Corp The award involved denial of competing applications for the same channel by East Coast Television Corp South Florida Television Corp and Sunbeam Television Corp The principal Individual stockholders in Bisravne are John Knight president of Knight LIMA Peru The news Newspapers Inc which publishes 'paper El Comercio of Cuzco re-The Miami Heraid and James Mj ported eight persons were killed Cox Jr who heads the Cox news-When a truck in which 17 per- paper interests which include g0ns were riding overturned into The Miami Daily News la canyon case came to light one of the women complained to the Orlando branch of the health board The sheriff said Leedy who moved here a year ago from Lima Ohio had admitted examining more than 20 women and children during the past three weeks "He told me he wanted to be a the sheriff said The women lived in Orlando Sanford and Clermont Continued from Tags 1 not indicate what role he expected to play in the completion of his program The President expressed grst-l'ude to the millions of "Re-publleians Independents and who worked for good government in 1S52 He said the administration is striving with all its strength to "convert the uneasy peace in which we live to one which is genuine based on the great moral principles of justice snd He added: "knowing well that true peace cannot be achieved by retreat from reality and responsibility or by desertion of friends we make certain that our defenses are alert and strong that our partnerships with others are based on deep friendships and common great purposes that gradually the truth of oar peaceful goals and onr respect for the rights of others is brought to ail peoples of the earth "Let no one be In doubt this struggle for peace will be waged tElj i a nt I a I Ph PR 3-4411 Clualfled Ad t-3711 Subscription Ratt (By Carrier Dally and Daily Sunday Sunday Par War I 30 I 15 14 Prr Month 1 30 1 Thrro Montha 3 90 1 9s 6 Six Montha i 90 3 90 1170 Ont Year 1560 1S0 33 40 Subscription rates (By Mall Daily and Daily Sunday Sunday Per Month 1 53 as S3 17 Three Months 3 90 1 94 5 5 Six Montha 9 10 3 90 13 00 Ona Year 18 30 7 80 36 00 Mail subscriptions are payabi tn ad-ranca by poat otfiet or express money order bank draft or peraonal check Fend to Tha Miami Herald Miami Fla Fnterd at second claaa matter Nov 30 1910 at tha ooat office et Miami Fla Titles Miami Harber Entrance (Between Jetties) HIGH LOW a om 1 47 1 64 2 54 3 59 4 01 4 06 am pm 7 53 8 24 9 00 9 30 10 08 10 34 Today Sunday Monday NOTE: For tides at other points add or subtract these corrections In hours and minutes to the Miami time Fort Pierce tcity docks add 700: (inlet) subtract 015 St uucie Inlet (tettiesl subtract 0 30: Palm Beach (ocean) subtract 0 30: Hillsboro inlet add 0 35 Port Everalades entranca (lefties) no change: County Causeway east end add 115 Cltv Yacht Basin Blseavne Bay add 1 40: Cape Florida (west side) Key Blseavne add 0 55: Soldier Key add 105 Raxaed Keys Blseavne Bay add 3 00: Angelfish Key add 0 35: Pumpkin Key: Card Sound add 3 00: Garden Cove Key Largo add 0 55: Largo Sound Key Largo add 3 20: Tavernier add 0 35 Ia the eastern part of Florida Bay tha perlodto tide la neallaibla Solunar Tables And the North Laughed At Us ficd to be on the lookout for thelbing in Charles Tale of postcard Thompson told police just can't adjust to life outside prison If I am allowed to run loose I'llisonsible then hastily put the get mixed up in more I bones back in the grave Forecasts Ml 4Mf AND VICINITY Parti cloudy and tniid today and Sunday Hixh today near 75 Gentle variable amdi IfORiDl Partly cloudy today and Sunday A few showers in the keva early today and occasional rain like-lv in the extreme north portion Sunday A little warmer In the north Sunday continued mild In the south portion H1h today 55 to 66 in the north 63 to 76 in the eouth MBINF Jacksonville throush the Forlda straits Mostly centle variable winds today Partly cloudy with a few showers In tha straits early today Eat Oentle variable winds sraduatly becomtnc centle to moderate mostly east and southeast today Partly cloudy with a few showers in the extreme south early today WFPTFRH CMtTWHFAW Gentle moderate easterly minds today partly cloudy with a few widely scattered showers Statistics Jan to 1956 780 a 38 96 100 780 am 39 89 80 76 63 70 68 Barometer (Inches) Relative humidity Highest past 13 hours Lowest past 24 hours Mean Temperature Normal Temperature THE WEATHER TODAY iue metio uui wutmm mwi haul hmioa tj Pm fndij jmzo mb IiiijiliijiXjililjillijini rs jyg im 9 24 pt Find the Answers lit Suit day Herald Are you eligible to enter the 21st Metropolitan Fishing Tournament? If you fish at all the answer is an emphatic YES The answers to every questions about the big tournament which will start Monday and run through April 22 are in the Sunday Herald's Sports Section CAN YOU grow a beautiful and productive lychee tree in jour yard? The answer also is yes And Garden Editor Nixon Smiley tells you exactly how in a thorough report in the Sunday Heraid Magazine GAUDY Las Vegas doing? It's having its troubles A first-hand report starts in Herald HOW IS MIAMI Living? It's living really living aaya Janet Lucal She'll convince you if j-ou need any convincing in the For and About Women Section Sunday Accumulated deficiency In temp this month degrees 173 Highest and lowest this data since 1911 81 and 40 Local rainfall for 34 hours ending at 730 ra Rainfall this month Inches 0 Deficiency this month Inches 131 Wind at Upper Keys lighthouses 730 pm Carygfort 8 The ichedul of Solunr period printed below hve been taken from John Airien Knmht'e Solunr Tblo Plan xour dar to that tou will fiehjng In cood terrltor or hunttn In good cover during theaa tlmea If tou wlith to find beat aport that neb dag haa to offer Th Major Period ara ahown ha hold face type Than begin at tha time ahown and laat for an hour and a half or two houra thereafter Tha Minor Period hown In regular tjp are of aome hat aborttr duration FI FAN AMTRTC 61 71 Nassau 61 67 a 6 16 0 Trujillo olon CZ inns Xansa I.