The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 2

4 Qt Jto I dr r4 i 1 dtsfcl SW- rn tCfte (iHiamt JCeralh May 10 IS50 Section Jf if Florida To Step Up Highway Safety The driving state has no fixed speed limit but faster than 60 miles and hoar in Henry Balch was safety council after Balch stuck with with the governor The been handled by Lt at no extra pay Donald Hill southeastern field representative for the National Safety Council agreed to help set up a statewide citizens organization to promote a campaign to cut traffic accidents He told the cabinet frankly however that it must be a movement run by men with and must not be set up in such a way that the public will get the idea that it' is just another governmental agency the law says the daytime night is prima THROUGH MARCH 31 THIS YEAR 107 MORE PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN FLORIDA TRAFFIC THAN IN THE SAME PERIOD IN 1949 By The Aisochtei Pres TALLAHASSEE The Florida cabinet voted Tuesday to spend 520000 on a new effort to cut highway traffic deaths in the state This one the latest in a succession of safety moves in recent years which never got very far wiil be set up with the help of the National Safety Council and patterned after more successful plans in 25 other states As an Independent start the cabinet board of public safety authorized the state highway patrol to give out warning tickets to drivers who are running between 60 and 70 miles an hour in the day time and between 50 and 60 miles an hour at night For driving more than 75 miles an hour in the day time and more than 65 miles an hour at night motorists will be subject to arrests for speeding The $20000 released by the cabinet Tuesday will be spent by the new organization to be made up of representatives of various civic groups and state officials Interested in safety and faster char 50 miles an hoar at facie evidence of reckless driving Gov Fuller Warren who earlier this year set np an organization known as the safety council -suggested the new outfit be given another name that will it a clearer designation of a They will hire their own executive secretary director The $20000 fund will be supplemented by contributions of services and facilities of various state departments and agencies Director Kirkman of the state highway patrol told the cabinet "speed is our biggest in trying to prevent accidents Over Vote Helre afsom Information Asked University Funds Act Delayed Again By The Auoeiated Frees TALLAHASSEE Action on the Florida request for an extra $426147 was postponed again Tuesday until next Tuesday The cabinet put off discussion after Comptroller Gay said he and fellow committee members wanted to gather more information on the needs Gov Fuller Warren Treasurer Ed Larson and Gay were on a special cabinet committee to look into the request made two weeks ago The request totaled 5281794 for the University of Florida $36-453 for the agricultural experiment station 5179900 ior Florida State University and $33000 for Florida A and College for Negroes il Campus Scene Of Shooting TALLAHASSEE Sheriff Frank Stoutamire said Tuesday a 23-year-old White man was shot in the leg when Florida State University campus police found him at the window of a dormitory late Monday night He gave his name as David Oliver and listed a rural Tallahassee address Af ter treatment for hit wound at a local hospital was placed in jail on a charge of drunkenness and trespassing The campus policemen said they saw him either trying to look in the window or open it They ran up and grabbed him and he was shot during the scuffle Rare Orchids International News Photo FRUIT OF VICTORY (in thi3 case watermelon served to Rep George A Scathers of Florida (right) in celebration of his Democratic nomination for the United States Senate brought a big smile Rep Charles Bennett fellow Florida congressman shared the big slice of melon Ohioan Speaks Bank Policy Described As Unsound The Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH President five point banking program was termed and here Tuesday by Frank Farrington executive vice president of the Park National Bank of Newark He spoke before the third an TTlae Town CVIer By JACK BELL FIESTA under the Stars comes to the Orange Bowl tonight even If it Fains the big Xiwanis show of the week an extravaganza akin to the terrific Orange Bowl shows Ernie Seiler stages each winter In fact Ernie is staging this one for Kiwams All Kiwams delegates and visitors will be in the stands of course But in addition everybody in town is invited at 50 cents a head including tax The money all goes into Ki-wanis fund for underpnv-i 1 children so see a great show for free and have the fun of helping crippled kids Lend-a-Hand after a long and rocky pull since Christmas Is ready to move along smoothly again if we had a part-time volunteer truck driver a warehouse at 2049 Miami ave thanks to the A Transfer Co and a key next door at Bay State Paint Co picker-uppers in several sections of town and plenty of offers of clothing toys and shoes But I gotta get a truck driver an old truck (and I do mean old) a license donated by Art Green a tune-up job by Luby-Chevro-let and a paint job coming from Also a dozen impatient donors asking me when am I going to move this heavy stuff? help me a bit? Jimmy Pol vos of Weinkles has offered to drive the company truck on Sunday which is most generous and I like to ask a fellow to give up his Sunday Our faithful car picker-uppers are: Mrs Louis Roth Mrs Gertrude Bussart Miss Bea Kalstein Miss Pegge Nagle Mrs Gates Jerry Goof Paul Stetzel and Carl Walden Plus which Mrs Sue Richardson our transportation chairman last Christmas is ready to go to work again But these truck drivers Jazz Appreciation Comes something new something I never dreamed see: YMCA has booked a 4 even-week course in starting May 10 It doesn't sound kke YMCA but it sounds like a fine idea Jack Clark formeri officer in the British Royal Air Force is the instructor The first lesson is Jazz' gives the dents just about everything they did around 1927-30 re-introducing Pete Daily Fats Waller Red Nichols Duke Ellington and many more I dunno one lesson Music in I gotta hear Here's The Score Florine Jordan is Irked and how! On election day she walked fne whole blocks to the polls to vote She has lived here 14 years listed as a Republican But she got interested in the Smathers-Pepper senatorial race and wanted to vote Democratic The election judges refused and she vote at all She ants to know how come very simple Florine This a general election It was a primary at which both Democrats and Republicans selected the candidates they want to run on their respective tickets in the general election In the primary you vote for the Democrat candidates aid Democrats vote the Republican candidates Actually Smathers merely has won the Democratic primary election Florine can vote in the November general election either for Smathers or for the Republican candidate John Booth who was unopposed in the primary Pm An American Dace Epermanis a 12-year old Latvian girl will be guest of honor at Ses-quicentenmal observance of Am An day May 22 There's a reason Dace has lived the last five years in a Displaced Persons camp And to her fell the honor of being the 150000th displaced person to come to United States under the DP law Little Dace known much serenity In the early years of the war the Nazis took her father as a slate laborer in Poland and Czechoslovakia The family now comes to this country and will live in upper New York state The Sesquicentennial celebra-tion will include thousands of Washington children in a parade led by Hopalong Cassidy Ugo Carusi chairman of the United States Displaced Persons commission will take Dace from the dock in New York to Washington where she will meet President Truman and uul join with the thousands of other children In reciting the oath of allegiance to the American flag The International Refugee Organization has found new homes for 725000 persons displaced by World War II sending them to 51 nations About 190000 more probably will come to United States the $7200 a year director of the but Warren vacated position Griffin in his political break work since then has Keith of the highway patrol 1st District Runoff Spot To Collins Campaign Starts For May 23 Votes By The Associated Press If Tom Watson has any plans to keep fighting for a runoff spot in the first district congressional race keeping them to himself He declined to discuss his present status Tuesday when asked if he intended to appeal a decision by the Sarasota county canvassing board which gave state Rep Jerry Collins 100 disputed votes and the runnerup place in the congressional race The Sarasota county ruling put Collins in the runoff against State Attorney Chester McMullen of Clearwater by a scant 59 votes Watson fought the Sarasota action lound and round but finally got nowhere The secretary of office at Tallahassee said it received the Sarasota returns which put Collins ahead and recorded them Collins after arguing with Wgt-son since May 3 over the outcome of their neck-and-neck race resumed campaigning Tuesday He set out through the ridge section of the First District to reorganize his campaign workers for the May 23 runoff All the timp the Watson-Col line feud was going on McMullen was out looking for votes He led the field of four men and a woman by 20000 in the first primary A recheck of a voting machine in a Sarasota precinct showed Collins received 139 votes instead of the 39 reported by precinct work ers That 100 votes was what Watson attacked The canvassing board said it did not see why it should reverse its decision in approving the 100 votes especially since a two-judge Circuit court had ruled there was evidence of 2 Young Men Arrested In Assault Case Herald Bureau FORT PIERCE Two young men Willie Evans and Sherrill Jones were jailed here Monday on a charge of assault with intent to kill upon complaint of George Culverhouje operator of a string of vending machines The complaint was said to be an outgrowth of a cutting 6crape at a Kirby Loop hot-spot late Friday night Culverhouse was said to have been cut about the shoulder and an ear and Evans was given emergency treatment at the local hospital Judge Flem Dame who issued the warrant set bond for Evans and Jones at $500 each Man Indicted In Negro Assault BRONSON (JP) Enoch Hilliard 27-year-old White man has been indicted in the rape of a 16-year-old Negro girl near Otter creek last January The girl testified that Hilliard came to her house to get her to do some housecleaning for him Enroute to his hojne she charged he turned off the highway pulled a gun and attacked her A Circuit court grand jury returned the indictment after taking testimony from a White man and 10 Negroes Hilliard was released under $1000 bond and ordered to appear here next Monday for trial Slat Machines Banned In Club WASHINGTON (JP) Secretary Louis Johnson has banned slot machines from the Officers Club the Pentagon In anticipation of a law prohibiting their use in federal buildings A Defense Department spokesman said the order applies only to the Pentagon club but that legal studies are being made to determine what other steps might be necessary If the bill passed by the Senate should become law One question would be whether the buildings are federal property In a legal sense Slot machines are virtually standard equipment in Army Navy and Air Force clubs all over the world Profits from the machines help support the clubs operated by member officeis with their own funds FORT MYERS A new field with mi lions of rare orchids has been found in the Everglades within 30 miles of the Tamiami Trail a Fort Myers collector reports The unusually dry -weather allowed his party to go into a Section usually closed to collectors Robert Halgrim manager the Thomas A- Edison home said i find was mostly of earth-growing orchids but many beautiful tree-growing specimens also were collected ilemt Bar Given Realty Deal Preference Court Says Lawyer Needed For Papers The Florida Supreme court clamped a limit Tuesday on the functions of real estate dealers in selling or transferring real estate In a 5-2 decision the high court said attorneys and not realty brokers should prepare and execute deeds abstracts and other written instruments "if the parties decide they need expert advice and The decision was a softer version of a ruling by which Circuit Judge George Holt had the Keys Co of Miami from the practice of in a test case brought by the Dade County Bar Association The more-than-two-year-old-case which had aligned attorneys against realtors throughout Florida apparently opened the door ftfr the Dade to go after other professions which it considers are invading its domain John Wahl Jr president of the Dade bar said: have some other suits which we will bring shortly not In the field of real In the test case ruling handed down in March 1949 Judge Holt permanently enjoined tne Keyes Co from: Preparation of leases lease agreements rental contracts deeds mortgages contractors for for the sale of property and other legal instruments and Filling out and causing to be executed printed forms of such instruments by whomsoever prepared except in the transfer of its own property or lending of its own money The Keyes Co took an appeal to the Supreme court with the backing of all real estate boards In Greater Miami and of the State Association of Realtors Writing the majority opimon Justice Elwyn Thomas said It Is the hope of the court there will not be undue interference by the attorney In the activities of the qualified realtor encroachment by the realtor on the field of the 'attorney or oppressive rquiremnt that persons engaged in all real estate transactions employ members of the The Florida real estate license law normally defines the duties of a realtor as preliminary in nature the opinion observed and restricted to producing a purchaser or procuring from the purchaser a binding contract this point is Justice Thomas said field is the and he should do those things necessary to the consummation of the But the justice stopped short of nailing down unequivocably the scope of each This is how the court majority phrased it: examination of abstracts the quieting of titles the conduct of suits in ejectment and the like fall entirely within the sphere of the attorney the preparation and execution of the instruments effectuating the transfer should be under ths supervision if the parties decide that they need expert advice and Nobody in Miami was prepared Tuesday to ofer an interpretation the qualifying phrase the parties Coerper Rites Are Held Monday SOUTH BAY Funeral services for Edgar A Coerper 64 manager of the Blue Bell Store at South Bay for the last four years were conducted at West Palm Beach Monday at 2 at the Mizell-Simon Faville Chapel The Rev Robert Bennett pastor of White Temple Christian Church was in charge of the services Mr Coerper suffered a heart attack and died during Friday night He was a veteran of World War I coming to South Bay from West Palm Beach In 1946 Belle Glade Post Plans Installation BELLE GLADE The Belle Glade American Legion Post completed arrangements for the installation of officers at its session last week Louis Klrchman was 'eecte3 second vice-president Her-bert Beck director of American Legion Corps and Edward Allen to the executive committee The installation will be a joint affair in which the officers of the Legions and Auxiliaries of Belle Glade Pahckee Canal Point South Bay and Clewiston will participate It will be conducted at the Legion Hall in Clewiston with Fredham Ninth district commander acting as installing officer 7 ire Fishing Ban Jff In Hernandtf TALLAHASSEE The cabinet board of conservation Tuesday suspended enforcement of the law forbidding in Hepnando county George Vathis state conservation supervisor said gigging fish at night with a light is harmless recreation No county except Hernando has a law against it Held For $8000 Fleece Board Says Spanking OK SEBRING (P) The Highlands county school board Tuesday upheld a principal whose punishment of an 1 1-year-old boy caused the arrest Vaughan Driggers principal of Avon Park Elementary School is under $50 bond on a charge of cruelty to a minor Lawson Chapman who was hospitalized the day after Driggers paddled him Roy Gast chairman of the county welfare board preferred the charges The school board reported Tuesday the boy was paddled for continued disobedience teachers and the which with the approval of the school Its statement said two reputable physicians examined the boy and found only discoloration of the buttocks Reported Wife Beater Gets Six-Month Term London Pope of Seffner who pleaded guilty to beating his wife because she wanted to have a sterility operation was sentenced to six months In jail Tuesday Mrs Pope wanted to drop the charges against her husband but Criminal court Judge A Grayson refused to allow her to do so Florida Briefs By Herald Services TAMPA New census figures released Tuesday indicated St Petersburg will top the 100000-mark in the current check TALLAHASSEE The cabinet gave its approval Tuesday to a $50000 air conditioning system for the new Supreme court building TAMPA United States marshals have been ordered to destroy pounds of horsemeat seized here March 29 because of false labeling Lt Donald Lanning 28 was killed when his jet training plane crashed at Columbus Miss DAYTONA BEACH Paul Mor- taccio is being held by Montgomery Ala authorities on a holdup charge according to word received here GAINESVILLE Millard Caldwell spoke Tuesday night as the Florida Blue Key installed 21 students Race Driver Dies DETROIT JP) Race car Driver Louis Smith Jr 33 Detroit injured in a crash on the motor city speedway Sunday died in Holy Cross Hospital NAHANT Mass (JP) State and local police have arrested Lewis Langstaff 59 and Miss Inez Moore 69 on a fugitive from justice warrant from Florida authorities who want the pair to face charges of grand larceny Detective Sylvester Meade said Longstaff is wanted by St Peters burg Fla authorities on a charge of larceny of $8000 and bigamy Miss Moore also is wanted by St Petersburg authorities on a larceny charge Meade said The state police detective said Longstaff married a Mrs Muliford a widow under the name of Richard Hughes last winter in St Petersburg and fleeced her of $8000 Longstaff introduced Miss Moore to Mrs Muilfora as an aunt and the three of them lived together Mead3 said State Avoids Levy County School Policy By The Associated Press The 'state department of education said Tues-day it plans no action in the proposed conolidation of Levy county schools A delegation opposing the consolidation appeared before two officials of the department earlier in a closed session The delegation told the state officials the Levy county school board proposes to abolish the Gulf Hammock School and part of the' Otter Creek School Students would be transferred to the Bronson school Chapman administrative assistant tc state Supt Thomas Bailey told the delegation the state department of education has no control or supervision over consolidation He said such matters are strictly county affairs The closed session was requested by the delegation headed by Attorney Scruggs of Gainesville Scurggs said later the delegation may ask Gov i Fuller Warren to remove county Supt Henry A White from office Five Awaiting Sentencing By The Auocutei Pres JACKSONVILLE Five members of an alleged cattle theft ring awaited sentence by Criminal court Judge Edwin Jones Tuesday Three of the suspects Ray Richardson Jimmy Pritchard and Tom Adams admitted the theft of seven head of cattle ow-ned by Duval county dairyman George Johnson Two others Ollm Pomeroy and Aldine Joyner entered please of no defense Johnson testified he picked the hides of his seven missing cattle from among 400 at Gainesville identifying them by a brand mark A Gainesville cattleman testified earlier he bought the cattle from Pritchard for $813 Charge Doubled On Way To Court JACKSONVILLE When police arrested Mack Swain he was on his way to Municipal court td face charges of driving while drunk The new charge: driving while drunk In court Tuesday Swain paid fines totaling $250 Childhood 50 Years Later of the conversation Mrs Piper brought out that she was a native of Baltimore and the friend asked if she knew Foutz Foutz a widower and Mrs Piper a widow began correspond ertce and she visited Washington in April Plans were made then for the marriage The ceremony will take place in the patio of Mrs home on Isle They plan to live Washington Foutz has been an inventor scientist and consulting engineer for many years Among his inventions is an engine cooling system nual bank executives forum of the Florida Bankers Association and said the Truman program was an attempt expand the economy more rapidly than Farrington said that by providing risk capital to impatient and incompetent people the administration hopes to offset the natural readjustment in progress Resourceful men with big ideas have always been able to obtain capital and small businesses could expand today if they were not forced to shoulder the burden of high taxes to finance theoretical Duval Board Conducting Secret Quiz By United Press JACKSONVILLE Duval county board of public instruction resumed behind closed doors Tuesday its investigation of reported misuse of school maintenance equipment for personal and private benefit 1 The probe was begun a month ago on the old complaints of board member Francis ConrOy that a city detective had used a school-owned bulldozer over a 'weekend to level the front yard of his home property Board members said the executive session closed to newsmen was necessary to determine whether there was grounds for making charges If there is a basis for the charges of irregularities the board said the results of the investigation would be made public County Plans Parking Lot Herald Dureait WEST PALM Bids for making a parking-ground fill along the north side of the Riviera Beach causeway as part of the county park system will be received by the county commission May 22 it was announced at commission meeting The job is expected to cost about $12000 A proposition of -co-ordinating work of maintaining Jupiter South Lake Worth and Boca Raton inlets and preservation of beaches adjoining them will be discussed here at 4 pm May 15 Harris Drew official of the county league of municipalities asked the meeting with county commissioners Monday Officials and others in charge of maintaining the inlets are expected to be present Commissioners announced withdrawal of Bill Cook local lawyer as a candidate for state Democratic committeeman in the May 23 Patrol Denies Trucks Forced To Unload By United Pres RICHMOND The Virginia highway patrol denied Tuesday that officers were forcing Florida citrus truckers to uni 'd part of theircargoes to conform with state load limits but said firmly that are going to break Citrus truckers at Winter Haven Fla complained they were being halted near here at a weighing station and ere forced to unload part of their cargoes before continuing on 1o northern markets Mills Jr associate traffic manager in charge of the highway weighing project said some trucks unloaded part of their cargoes in the state to escape arrest but he said state troopers in the check party did not force the truckers to unload Those who were arrested said allowed to continue through the state with their over Mills said complaints started pouring in when a roving weighing party set up its scales north of here last Wednesday and began stopping ail trucks on Route 1 on a 24-hour basis More than 500 arrests were made he said Negro Found Stabbed Fatally Body Burned The body of a 50-year-old Negro his feet wrapped in charred cloth and paper w-as found Tuesday his home Police said Roosevelt Cason was stabbed to death apparently Sun day and that the killer attempted to destroy the body by setting it afire A shotgun the handle removed was lying on a bed beside the body failure to report to work Monday on a farm near here led officers to his home Sweethearts In Plan Wedding By The Associated Frets Clinton Root Foutz 74 Washington scientist and inventor and Mrs Florence Goddess Piper' 69 of St Petersburg Fla who were childhood sweethearts will be married May 10 in the Florida city Foutz told a reporter Tuesday that he and Mrs Piper when they were growing up in their native city 'of Baltimore Then each married another Foutz said he had lost touch with Mrs Piper until a friend of his met her In St Petersburg In February During the course ii jrss -'-i Florida Spots Given WASHINGTON (JP) The United States Board cn geographic names approved a dozen place names in the South Tuesday The town names on the list were approved to conform with post office department usage The variations listed have appeared on some maps etc but only the board-approved name hereafter will be recognized officially In Florida the new names are: Cantonment a village 16 miles northwest of Pensacola in Escambia county not Canton or North Pensacola Cedar Key a Levy county town in the southeastern part of Way key in the Cedar keys group of islands not Cedar keys Goose Island a third of a mile long the southwestern part of Saint George sound near the north shore of Saint George Island Franklin county not Gap Island Riviera Beach a tow on the western shore of Lake Worth Palm Beach county not Riviera Florida Deaths SALLY HARDY 58 at St Petersburg MILLIAM KERN 69 at St Petersburg ELIZABETH ANTRIM 82 at St Petersburg MERTIE TRAMMER 79 at St Petersburg AME LI OX S9 at St Petersburg STEPHEN PLUME 68 retired United States Arnv Colonel at Clearwater LEN 4 THIEMAN 74 at Tamn DANIEL COLSON 62 at Tampa JOHN SIMBLIV 57 at Winter Haven JAMES BLANTON 66 at Clearwater ROY HOPKINS 55 at Tampa PRISCILLA TILLETT at Vrauefaula A MING S8 at W'auchua HENRY GACSMAV at Lakeland JOSEPH GELLER 47 at i' -w 1 srrvs 5 4 -K.