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The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 28

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The Miami Heraldi
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Miami, Florida
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Sea How Hot Tartly cloudy and scattered mostly day time showers High Friday 87 to 92 Miami Beach temperatures at 3 pm Thursday Air 86 Ocean 88 PALM BEACH EDITION Friday August 19 1955 No 260 Most Complete Newspaper 45th Year 64 Pages 5 Cents A Latin American Edition la Published Daily Goldman Others Left Dizzy 30 Hurt As Train ppy Draw ro Truce Chief Ik Vi i 4 Ant- A 4 i maneuverability The 85-ton carries four 50 caliber spotting one 30 caliber machine Fress Wlrephoto THE THING you see here is Thing" a new armored anti-tank vehicles to be used by the Marine Corps It carries six 106mm recoilless rifles instead of one artillery piece and lightly armored for For Christian US Plane Attack Wanton Barbarism PANMUNJOMKorea GP The United Nations Command Thursday accused the Communists of in shooting down an unarmed trainer plane with two United States Service men aboard still know whether they a 5th Air Force spokesman said crashed on the Communist side of the (neutral zone) The United Nations Command said the plane was fired on while over the neutral zone between South and North Korea Names of the two were withheld until relatives are notified Maj Gen Harlan Parks senior United Nations member of the military armistice commission sent the Communists a blistering letter accusing them of pouring murderous and devastating ground the plane until it crashed An Air Force transport plane searching for the missing trainer was fired on in an area which the Far East Air Force located as about 50 miles north- east of Seoul near the neutral zone but over South Korea The shot could have come from either side of the 2-mile wide neutral zone but it was assumed they came from the Communist side Red patrols in that area have been quick to fire The transport pilot Ingraham sayl he saw tracers from small arms fire and one small slug hit the left wing Parks told the Communists the training plane was on a routine mission was unarmed over the demilitarized zone hat never was over North Korea trigger-happy gunmen opened fire without he said Parks was expected to demand a meeting of the armistice commission to make a personal protest Parks said Red planes had intruded over United Nations territory on 53 occasions but never were fired upon He reported the Reds had fired on 10 unarmed Allied aircraft in the past 10 months In a separate statement Parks said the incident was another dastardly act in the long series of Communist violations of the armistice that continued to shock the is he added reconcile the hostile and inhumane actions with the oft-repeated expressions of peaceful The Air Force said that South Korean soldiers south of the line saw the trainer shot down by intense anti-aircraft fire US Reopens Loyalty Case WASHINGTON GB A government loyalty board which announced two months ago it found reasonable of the loyalty of William Taylor has agreed to reopen the case The new hearing was announced by attorney Byron Scott and confirmed by the International Organizations Employes Loyalty Board Taylor a former Treasury official is now with the International Monetary Fund Scott informed the hoard he had new evidence and requested a new hearing Taylor a naturalized citizen who was born a Canadian has never been indicted or called on to testify in public congressional hearings The charges against principally from testimony by ex-Communist Elizabeth ley She has testified to 5 Miamians Lose Las Vegas Hotel aybe Shirts Too By LA WHENCE THOMPSON Herald Staff Writer A group of Miami men wno invested heavily in a new Las Vegas Nev hotel and casino may have lost their shirts and they have lost control of the enterprise Most of them still are so dizzy from the fast merry-go-round they mounted that they quite sure what happened to them They hope that eventually the new operators will reimburse them for their investments and that they may make a profit but they too sure A good example of the local investors who tried to strike Nevada gold and found it was (a rock that has a glitter but no valuable metal) is Jack Goldman well known Miami and New York night club and restaurant operator Only four months ago Goldman owned a luxurious home In Miami Beach had several maids in that house a governess for his daughter a big car and a chauffeur to drive it for him Now Goldman is living alone in a hotel room his home sold his Clover Club in Miami up for sale he has no more actual connection with the fabulous Las Vegas hotel venture and he has gone back to managing his Hickory House restaurant in Miami Beach lost friends say thinks that everybody has thrown him over now that in Not so says Goldman He puts up a brave front for publication lost he says get it all That is possible too Technically the Miami investors have lost nothing except control of the multi-million-dollar Riviera Hotel one of Las Vegas fanciest They may get their money back when the new operators have satisfied the creditors and they may even make a profit But even Goldman in his most optimistic mood can't disguise the fact that he and the other Miami investors got taken quick and good when they looked for easy money in Nevada What happened? says Goldman Poor management say others When the Riviera opened on April 20 with Goldman as director of entertainment and catering Liberace was the star performer at a reported $50000 a week There were other acts also getting good money Big Name Prices Run High Even in money-mad Las Vegas the prices paid at the Riveria for big names set new tops The hotel and casino did good business everyone agrees but the money went out faster than it came in Most Las Vegas hotels figure on an operating budget of $14000 to $16000 a day it is reported while the Riviera was spending $30000 to $32000 a day In almost no time at all the Miami operators saw they were getting nowhere What they actually owned was a lease on the hotel This now is being solL to another group of home town Las Vegas men headed by Gus Greenbaum who is supposed to know more than a little abont gambling operations The building itself according to Goldman is owned by Mason head of Taylor Constructon Co 2875 NW LeJeune rd and a man named Dave Ginsberg The Taylor Construction Co built the Riviera and according to Goldman Mason ended up as biggest shareholder and chairman of the Mason told The Herald from New York that although he is chairman of the board am not the major Says Nobody Lost Anything He said that he is of the owners of the land and the and that what happened was that original group had no management and new operators took was no loss to said Mason original group has re-leased it and they will end up -with a profit next year operations were one of the things that caused them to lose money He and the others just know what they were doing all be paid when the new operators pay off the $1000000 the other gronp ran into debt original stockholders were not pushed out The new tenants simply want Goldman and some others to stay in charge because they capable of operating Goldman who sold his house and moved his family to Las Vegas when the hotel was opened was eased out of his job at the hotel about two months ago His wife and daugh- Turn To Page 2A Col 6 YM Seeks to Make Peace With Vatican PARIS W5 New efforts to bridge the historic gap between the Roman Catholic Church and the Young Christian Association were urged Thursday at the world conference The delicate question has long been a concern of the YMCA which is deeply rooted in Protestantism Sir Frank Willis general secretary of the British YMCA Thursday told the 6000 conference delegates seek Christian But he cautioned that Intricate and baffling problems confronting us in our work with Roman Catholics call for both the best of our feeling and the best of our i He said he was deeply con-viuced that is beckoning ns across the main confessional Realty Loan Bill Signed By President WASHINGTON President Eisenhower has signed bill permitting national banks make 20-year conventional real estate loans instead of the years to which they formerly erails Cars Plunge Down Bank RUSSELL Mass Three cars and the locomotive of a Chicago-to-Boston passenger train were derailed at a section of track undermined by the rain-swollen Westfield river Thursday Thirty persons were injured No fatalities were reported in the derailment which occurred in the Woronoco section of his western Massachusetts town of 1200 The two-unit diesel locomotive a baggage an express and a mail car slid down the embankment toward the river which had undercut the Boston Albany Railroad main line north of the rushing stream Hospitalized were Mrs Clara Khauer 52 of Brandenburg Ky Mrs Deborah Herbert 7D of Walerville Me Fred Drew 6S of Presque Isle Me and Railway Express agent Thomas Keefe of Pittsfield They were taken to a hospital in Westfield The 4S remaining passengers who escaped injury were transferred by bus to Springfield the next scheduled stop by the Boston-bouiyl train Mrs Herbert found unconscious by rescuers in a washroom of one of the passenger cars said she was thrown against a wall when the train lurched from the track heard people screaming The train shook and then fell to one side I must have struck my head because I blacked out The last thing I remember was the she said The train was a section of the New York Lake Shore Limited eastbound from Chicago to New York The Boston section is separated from the main New York train at Albany NY The is a NYC subsidiary line Guatemalan Asks Union Of States ANTIGUA Guatemala GB President Carlos Castillo Armas of Guatemala called on Central American republics Thursday to develop a for economic development and their own protection against communism Addressing the opening 'of the first formal meeting of the Or ganization of Central American States he pledged Guatemala to w-ork for such a union The gathering in this former colonial capital 28 miles from Guatemala City brings togeth-er the foreign ministers of Guatemala Honduras El Sava-dor Nicaragua and Costa Rica They are to complete the or ganization by electing a secretary general and launch its operations Castillo Armas did not call for immediate political union of the five states but said it would have to evolve gradually from settlement of the economic social and cultural lems by co-operative means The Guatemalan government also has placed before the meeting a proposal to repudiate political tendency of toll-tarian type which preaches or proposes to infringe on the democratic system the dignity and the rights of Painter Mixes Milk Making SPRINGFIELD 111 UP) A mixed-up sign painter created quite a stir at the Illinois State Fair His sign over a milking machine exhibit explained that the machine transferred the milk can to An embarrassed exhibitor withdrew the sign and had it changed ville denied taking part in the affray wasn't even in the fight' he said fellow Ray Hornbeck and I were walking up ahead 1 didn't see how it got Charged along with Simpson Hornbeck and Gunn were Frank Merlino 20 of 681 40th st Hialeah and Charles Gibson 23 of 687 NW 31sC ter Merlino played football at Tech High in 1953 Gunn gave his address as 427 Torn To Page 2A Col 5 Installation and Adv 2 I -V- 3 4 yfliiriMinni i f-itfifrft if fori rWf a to 10 were limited The President had asked for the legislation contending in his economic report last January that present limitation of 10 years for conventional mortgages unnecessarily restricts the availability of home financing in some The hill allows the hanks to make first mortgage loans up to two thirds of the appraised value of city homes and also of improved farm property The loans would have to be amortized at an average rate of 5 per cent a year so that they would be completely liquidated in the 20 years X-Rays Planned For Son FT LEWIS Wash Ma digan Army Hospital doctors are planning more X-rays on Pvt Philip Crosby 21-year-old son of Bing Crosby to get a picture of his back injuries The young car wrent off a highway at Raymond in southwestern Washington into a riverbed Sunday and he suffered a fracture of one or more vertebrae Emilie Dionne Estate $171035 TORONTO The late Emilie estate has been valued at $171035 This was disclosed after Oliva Dionne father of the famous quintuplets filed letters of administration in district court Emilie died at Ste Agathe Que Aug 6 1954 Girl Swallows Pennies Dies WALTHAM Mass Several pennies she swallowed two weeks ago contributed to the death of 7-year-old Judith Hamilton Medical Examiner Morton Gallagher said Thursday the child died of inflammation of the stomach and throat Jane Manners now appearing Las Olas Ft Laud-Adv peace and vehicle also rifles and gun Virginia Flooded as Diane Dies RICHMOND Va Dying Diane blew her last gasps toward central Pennsylvania Thursday night leaving in her wake a costly trail of flood and crop damage in Virginia and North Carolina The once-f i hurricane amounted to no more than a low pressure area on the weather map as it left northern Virginia early Thursday afternoon brushed the western tip of West Virginia and moved north across central Maryland But rains of four inches and more it added to last deluge from hurricane Connie caused widespread floods in i broad sector of Virginia A dozen or more primary roads in Virginia were blocked by high water from storm swollen streams and rivers and the highway department 6aid several hundred secondary routes were impassable In North Carolina where the storm struck Wednesday there was also flooding in several eastern towms But biggest damage was to crops Gov Luther Hodges of North Carolina received reports that losses from Diane along with those of last Connie would run to between $22000000 and $27000000 mainly in tobacco and corn Virginia' too expected a heavy loss to the southside tobacco crop with Halifax and Pittsylvania on the Carolina border reporting damage to the bright cigaret leaf might run as high as $3500000 There were no total Virginia loss estimates available In lakeside section 17 families flooded out by Connie saw hopes for an early return wrashed away with new high water High tide four feet above normal in the Potomac flooded two blocks of the Alexandria waterfront area Easterly Wave Is Only That That easterly wave 1500 miles east of Puerto Rico was behaving like a good easterly wave should Thursday and showing no signs of developing into a new tropical storm Forecasters at the Miami weather bureau resting up after bouts with hurricanes Connie and Diane reported happily that "very definitely nothing has developed or shows any particular signs of No 'reconnaissance planes have been sent out to the area of suspicion but forecasters said sufficient ship reports have been received to keep them informed Chuckle Taylor-arose congressional committees concerning Soviet espionage in Washington during World War II have never taken the Fifth amendment (against self incrimination) nor refused to testify or give information to any investigator committee grand jury or loyalty board nor have I ever given government documents to unauthorized Taylor said US Is in Red WASHINGTON GB The government slid $2617000000 in the red during July the first month of the new fiscal year the Treasury disclosed Thursday is carrying old country discipline too Miss Fleming said objected to his playing with other boys in the The Meskoutises and their five children are refugees from Lithuania They came to this country four years ago Miss Fleming said the mother pressed a pillow over face so his screams would not be heard as his father lashed him with an IS-inch switch The other children have not been mistreated the policewoman said Custom upholstering refinishing call ABC 811 1st Ave 3-5571 Homestead Ph 398 Ft Lauderdale Ph JA 3-5920 Pair Hunts Noise Bullets Hit Wife JACKSONVILLE James Williams 40-year-old heard a noise out front at 1:30 am went into the hall with his pistol and fired twice at a figure in the front door Both bullets hit his wife Susie figure in the front door Both bullets hit his wrife Susie 42 in the back She also had heard the noise and had gone to investigate police said She was reported in condition at a hospital Chained in Room The World Conference of YMCA young men held in conjunction with the main YMCA sessions recommended that the YMCA shotild at all levels the possibility of achieving a more effective relationship between this body and the Roman Catholic In 1920 the Vatican discouraged Catholics from joining the YMCA although it did not forbid them from doing so Several efforts by the YMCA to bring about more cordial relationships with the church have met with no success The latest attempt was in April 1953 when Willis and two other YMCA leaders held conversations in Borne with Vatican officials The YMCA claims that in some countries as many as 95 per cent of its membership is Roman Catholic In the United States a quarter of the nearly 3500000- YMCA members are Catholic a YMCA spokesman said Trasli Pile Fire Hits Warehouse JACKSONVILLE A fire that apparently spread from a burning trash pile swept through a warehouse here Thursday doing an estimated $200000 damage Spokesmen from the fire department said all 22 persons working in the National Grocery Tobacco Co building escaped safely and there were no reported injuries or loss of life Where To Find It Amuse 6-SB Jumble 21C Bourke 6B Kofoed 23C Burns ID Lippmann 6A Classified 9-20C Lawrence 23C Comics 21 23C McBride 4B Corson 4D 6A Crane 21C Movie Table SB Crossword 12A Pegler 23C Editorial 6A Pennekamp 6A Financial 7 SC Radio-TV 22C Goren 12A Sports 1-7D Harris 6A Weather 2A Horoscope 23C Winchell 21C Horse 23C Womens 2-5B GOURMET GAB gives guide to the Fontainebleau Pg 4-B Adv Parents Dislike Pals Refugee Child Beaten Police said Thursday the refugee parents of a 9-year-old boy chained their son in a bedroom and beat him to stop him from playing with neighborhood Jackie Simpson Denies He Was Involved Beach Fray May Cost Halfback Athletic Scholarship at UF 8:30 this morning in Beach Municipal court By WHITEY KELLEY Hertld SUff Writer Possible loss of his athletic scholarship faces Jackie Simpson University of Florida halfback who with four other young pien were charged with assault and battery and resisting arrest following an early morning bumping episode Thursday on Miami Beach Florida athletic director Bob Woodruff said Simpson will be dropped from his athletic If he is found of any That will be determined at Miami Charles Smith 26 a Miami 'fireman said it all started at 2 am in front of the Singapore Bar 23rd st and Collins ave when he accidentally bumped shoulders with James Gunn 24 one of companions An argument resulted and Smith said he was struck several blows on the face and chest Simpson who only recently was cleared of another assault and battery charge at Gaines- The boy George Meskoutis was treated Thursday at Detroit Receiving Hospital Hospital officials said his condition was not serious Policewoman Marjorie Fleming said she would seek a warrant charging Anthony Meskoutis 56 and his wife Stella 45 with cruelty to children Miss Fleming said police took the boy from his home after they learned he had been beaten and tied with a rope Wednesday Miss Fleming said George often had been chained in his bedroom ASK about home repair loans at low bank rates Mercantile Natl Bank of Miami Adv confided Nell be surprised how many men will be wretched when I replied her friend you going to Tjb Co-Ordlmtor Potter Oldsmobile-Annual Clear ence Sale 55 Models Adv 1 In Miami Fargo-Mayf lower Moving-Storage Ph 84-1634 -AdvEqutp HI 8-5492 Barbecue.

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