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PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1949 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES FIVE CENTS Ji lit mlmm YmnM Dachshund 0)(o Wsos a Still -Chases. (Gathered by AP, UP and INS. Interpreted by The Times.) Although his rear section rides in a small chariot, Dutch, six-year-old black dachshund still takes pleasure in shagging: dlinrDD, 1 WORLD GEN. HOVLEY TO GIVE UP BERLIN POST By The Associated Press Brig. Gen.
Frank L. How-ley, the square-jawed Phila-delphian who jousted with the Russians for four years as American Military Commandant of Berlin, is quitting to go back to civilian life. The U. S. Military Government for Germany announced it has acceded to his request to be relieved so he can go back home with his family next month.
Sources in the military government predicted his successor IP. co ir ft off Sirnbe E2esirdl ft Jyiry TALLAHASSEE () Lawyers for John A. (Deacon) Scruggs sought yesterday to convince a jury he was sucked into a bribery deal in a backhanded attempt to pass an anti-bookie bill through the Florida Senate. State Attorney W. D.
Hopkins hammered equally hard at a contention that the white-haired Democratic Party leader took the initiative in offering and paying $2,000 to i. fifth' II! hf 1 1 1 II" y'h I Tf rr SI i 7 I i I 'f V-" 4 La li A I I rats in his neighborhood. Dutch's a car two months ago, but his Robinson of Artesia, came wheel chair. GREAT SNAKES! Everybody scampered In Na- goya, Japan, when 70 poisonous adders broke out of their bamboo cages in a baggage car at the railroad station. Trainmen killed a dozen of the reptiles with sticks after locking off the baggage car from a passenger i.mti tlm iiui- i mm iinn.nwi nTiKii innmiTir rn iiifi r-nn iinriiJ coach.
Professional snake catchers bagged the rest of the BUT A C0313ION old foot-long black snake decided a baseball championship at Salem, when it popped out of the Salem shortstop's glove as he reached lor an important grounder. The shortstop muffed the ball and the opposing team, St. Michaels, won the game, 6-4. ANOTHER SNAKE down in Dyer, Temw made a horrible mistake. -It -died when it swallowed two wooden chicken eggs a farmer had planted as a trap.
"The eggs now are back on the jiest, ready for another sucker. BEAUTY CROP "SECRETARY OF DEFENSE" The pipe, spectacles, paper and desk belong to Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson (right) who laughed as Charles S. Brown Jr 17, of War, W. sat in for him at the Pentagon office yesterday. Brown was elected Secretary of Defense by the Boys Forum of National Government, meeting in Washington.
The forum is sponsored by the American Legion. Larry Ogle, 17, Miami, was elected by the forum Navy Secretary. (AP WTREPHOTO) in Berlin would be Maj. Gen: Maxwell D. a 1 Chief of Staff for American Army Forces in Europe and ex-S I n-tendent of U.
S. Military Academy at Howley West Point. Howley won praise from John J. McCloy, the new U. S.
Military Governor for Germany. The tough decisions he had to make in long dealings with the Rus sians earned him some respect from them as well. MEANWHILE, in Frankfurt. Germany, the U. S.
joint chief of staff conferred with Army of ficers of Italy and Luxembourg. This was the first of a series of talks with European military leaders. Military Governor McCloy said the new West German state will have an eight-member cab inet when it is formed to re place military government. Walter Ulbricht, an eastern German Communist leader, of fered public jobs to former Nazis if they can prove they are anti-American, a Russian li censed newspaper reported. Catholic Welfare Banned in Romania Romania's Communist led government yesterday told all Roman Catholic welfare orders in the country they must wind up their affairs by Aug.
15. Some 15 organizations devoted to charity, hospital and other social work were dissolved immediately. The government de cree said their obligations "aris ing from teaching, health and public insurance fall "entirely and exclusively upon the state. THE UNITED States and Britain announced they have called on Romania, Hungary and Bulgaria to set up three-power commissions in their countries to determine whether these three Balkan states have violated their peace treaties. The de mands were an outgrowth of British and American charges the three former enemy coun tries, by prosecuting church men, have broken the peace treaty requirements to guaran tee basic human rights.
The three nations are expected to follow Russia's lead in refusing to discuss the question. ICELAND OKEHS PACT WASHINGTON (UP) Iceland yesterday became the seventh nation to deposit its ratification of the North Atlantic Pact with the State Department. Icelandic Minister Thor Thors handed in his country's docu ment. hind quarters were injured by owners, Mr. and Mrs.
E. P. to his aid with this special their mother died? Well, one little kitty is still alive, and the woman, Mrs. Nettie Smith, thinks she'll be able to save it with the aid of a ready and will ing mother cat one of 25 that were offered. Of the other kit tens, one died in a fall out of its box and three apparently couldn't keep going on the milk formula from doll-sized nursing bottles, MEDICAL SCIENCE A St.
Louis doctor reports that the common ground mole may have something to do with spreading infantile paralysis. The Washington University anatomist said moles have shown unusual susceptibility to the polio virus in laboratory innocu-lations. IN WASHINGTON the Public Health Service said a new study group has been appointed to hunt ways of fighting rheumatic diseases. One of its functions "will be to explore the recently discovered possibilities of Cortisone, popularly known as Compound and ACTH (adreno- corticotrophic hormone) which have displayed, remarkable, though temporary, power to al leviate the symptoms of rheu matoid arthritis." GAR WOOD'S BOAT i if 1 This is a stern view of Gar Wood's twin hulled craft which he claims won't roll, pitch or yaw in the roughest weather or at high speeds. Air rushing through the tunnellike boat helps to lift it out of the water.
FALL Doctors called it a "miracu lous escape" when 10-year-old Walter Knight of Sanford, N. fell 40 feet down an open well and lived despite a fractured skull, broken leg and fractured ribs. The boy managed to keep his head above water by clinging to the well rope until rescued by neighbors. nP '7y BYRD TO FACE TEST TODAY IN ELECTION RICHMOND, Va. (UP) The power of the political machine piloted by Sen.
Harry F. Byrd, Democrat of Virginia, was at stake last night as Virginia's blistering four-way race for Governor roared to a close on election eve. The fiery, 13-months-long campaign reached an explosive climax yesterday with the charge by one campaign manager that he was offered $10,000 to switch his support to the machine candidate. The "Byrd machine," one of the nation's last rock-ribbed state political organizations, openly backed Candidate John S. Battle.
The toughest opponent of the dominant or ganization was I Col. Francis Pickens Miller, 53, balding Rhodes scholar county country gentleman. Around him gathered anti- organization factions, liberal Democrats and labor organizations. But the explosion that rocked the closing minutes of the campaign came from the campaign manager for Petersburg pen manufacturer Remmie L. Ar nold.
ROBERT M. IIAZELWOOD charged that he was offered $10,000 last Friday by a prominent Richmond contractor to switch his support to Battle by the time morning newspapers went to press yesterday. Hazelwood said he agreed not to reveal the name of the man but said he pledged himself to secrecy before he knew the nature of the offer. The announcement drew a prompt telegram from Byrd, demanding that Hazelwood name the man and remove any suspicion that the Senator knew of the offer. Hazelwood answered Byrd that "your name was not mentioned by me in connection with this matter either directly or indirectly." Battle headquarters refused comment on the charge.
ARNOLD claimed earlier in the campaign that he had been urged to withdraw from the race and was offered "the lieu tenant-governorship on a silver platter" by Gov. William Tuck and State Sen. Charles Fenwick. The presence of Arnold and former Richmond Mayor Forrest II. Edwards in the race seemed to be the most dangerous threat to the Byrd-backed Battle and the top hope for Miller, who alone could not rally enough votes to surpass the usual organization count of 100,000, observers said.
A forecast of cool weather to day brought predictions of a total vote of more than 300,000. Miller, who called Byrd "the absentee landlord of the Governor's office" and Battle, "the puppet of the Byrd machine," called on Tuck to "see that only Democrats vote in the Demo cratic primary." IT'S A PLEASURE It is always a pleasure to get the news from home while you are away. Take The TIMES with you on vacation. Just phone 7-1111 and ask for the Circulation Dept- Your TIMES subscription will be transferred to your vacation address for any dates you There is no charge for this service. Adv.
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Wilkie. It's easy to place your ad. Dial 7-7861 for an experienced Times ad-writer. ADV. I 1 Byrd to cry weakly for help through the eush of blood from his slashed throat.
Mrs. Pharr called police, who entered the house and found Mrs. Anderson's body on a sleeoine porch upstairs. murder gun, a 410-gauge shotgun, was abandoned by the slayer on the first floor in his flight, Anderson, recalled from his of fice by the police alarm, ar rived a few minutes uater. Littlejohn said the popular matron probably was murdered shortly after her husband left for his Charlotte of-fice.
He quoted Anderson as saying they had breakfast before he left, about 8:30 a. m. At Good Samaritan Hospital, officers who questioned the badly injured butler said he could not tell them much of what happened. i "Somebody hit me and I don't remember anything," they quoted him as saying. ing between Washington and Baltimore.
As his car approached the tracks, Sivils had to apply his brakes. The motor went deatl. A wooden crossing gate came down on the car. The three passengers jumped out and tried to push the car to safety. But it was in first gear.
Sivils couldn't get it out. Unable to budge the car, the three men raced to safety. Sivils said later he could see and hear the train, but was glued in his seat. "I was never so scared in my life," he said. The speeding train struck the car and was gone.
Two miles down the line it ground to a halt. the bill. Defense lawyers made no apparent move to deny Scruggs had some part in the alleged bribery deal. At the outset of the trial. Defense Counsel Clyde W.
Atkinson toia prospective jurors he would rely mainly on a contention that Scruggs was unlawfully lured into making the alleged bribe offer. Cpl. James Dickens of the State Highway Patrol identified Scruggs as the man he saw in Alford's bedroom during the al-ledged bribery payoff but said he did not see the transaction. PATROL Lt. Jay L.
Hall and sound technician Hugh Moore testified they heard the conversation over a sound system from an adjoining room and made a wire recording of the talk. Defense counsel objected to all references to the recording-Howe ver" SW. May Walker recessed court for the night after ruling, parts of the record may' be played for the jury today' but 'Other portions may not be disclosed. There was no hint of what is on the record or what is in the parts the judge allow to be played. In a heated cross examination exchange with Senator Alfred, Atkinson and Associate Defense Counsel Harry Wells asked question after question obviously pointed at an effort to show the transaction had been staged in an effort to pass the bill.
Alford denied any such intent. He insisted the trap was laid for Scruggs with the help of Governor Warren only after Scruggs had offered him a bribe. IN ANSWER to one defense U. S. TEMPERATURES ON Don't Go East.
"For th' second straight day," said J. T. drip, "a torrid sun in a cloudless sky sent the thermometer into the high 90s while an oppressive humi" "Wait up!" cried the pelican. "Yer poppin yer barometer, Chief. We didn't have no 90 yes terday.
Our high was only 87 degrees we hadda Icy cool low of 72 an a swell rain, 0.32 inches worth. What's this torrid sun stuff, anyways?" "I speak," the prophet said solemnly, "of heat wave W-f TdgVyJ eta wont thrnntrh rCf Itsr? An' I'm quotin the very words w2r -f of th Lowell" (Mass.) Sun, thanks to Mrs. L. H. Butterfield, 3010 Eighth Street North.
Here's how it was on July 28, just last Thursday: an oppressive humidity CHARLOTTE, N. C. (UP) A wealthy, aging society matron was shot to death yesterday by a attacker who knifed and bludgeoned her Negro but ler before fleeing unseen from the murdered woman's swank suburban home. Charlotte Police Chief Frank Littlejohn immediately question, Alford testified Scruggs had told him he was representing the "International Publishing Company" in seeking defeat of the bill to ban telephone and telegraph service to race bet bookmakers. The company was not iden tified.
He said Scruggs told him he was being paid "a nice salary; ana a big expense account." Atkinson asked Alford on cross examination whether he hadn't said to a group of Senators a few days after he accused Scruggs that: "I'm sorry we had to suck John Scruggs Into this matter." Senator Alford denied saying that but he recalled telling Sen. Olin Shivers of Chipley was sorry he was sucked into Shivers has been subpoenaed as a witness. Defense lawyers using a tactic that proved successful in getting acquittal of Rep. Papy here on similar charges two years ago asked Alford if, he didn't know The Miami Herald and Miami News were using him and Sen. Henry S.
Baynard of St. Petersburg in an effort to pass the bill. They said the two Miami papers were "powerfully interested" in passage of the bill because it exempted them from the ban on use of private wires for distribution, of racing re sults. Senator Alford said he did not know about the newspapers' in terest in the bill. Wells asked the Senator: "Did you and Senator Baynard not agree something like this was necessary to assure passage of the-bill in the Senate?" Alford denied any such agreement.
The $2,000 bribe money was put in as evidence over defense objections. PAGE 14 Young Man rate which approached the mark "of the mercury continued through the night and brought great discomfort to a practically sleepless city populace thermometers climbed to 99 degrees long established heat records were toppling as fast as the mercury was soaring "Dog tired urban dwellers and most of the rural population, except those who occupied lakeside homes, tossed and rolled in an attempt at sleep last night as the humidity rate persisted and the mercury failed to drop lower than 74 degrees Drip shook his head slowly, tears as large as raindrops welling up in his pale blue eyes. "It's murder up there, ain't it?" he sighed. "An th' worst of it all is poor Mrs. Butterfield husband is up there in th' mid dle of all that Eastern heat!" "Good luck to YOU, L.
H. Butterfield," choked Pete. "You'll need it!" to overcast today and tomorrow, thunderstorms. Variable winds Relative humidity, 1 per cent at p. m.
Other weather details on threw his whole plainclothes force onto the slaying and began rounding up ex servants of the murdered woman, 68-year old Mrs. Essley Anderson. Among the wanted persons was a former butler who, Littlejohn said, was an ex convict who served time for draft evasion. The gray haired society leader, wife of a prominent North Carolina auto dealer, was found blasted to death by a shotgun charge in an upstairs room of her rambling, red brick Colonial home. Powder burns on her body indicated that she was lying on the floor when the fatal blast ripped Into he chest at point-blank range, Littlejohn said.
The butler, 48-year-old Wil liam Randleman, was slumped in a widening pool of his own blood in his quarters behind the house. A neighbor, Mrs. Neil Pharr. discovered him almost unconscious after he managed i i Laurens County, S. seems nn the wav to a corner on boutn heautv.
Eiehteen year old Barrie Jean Wineard of Clinton was chosen yesterday as "Miss South Carolina ol I94y just a few months aeo. another Laur ens County girl. Evelyn Hazel, was named queen Charles ton's Azalea Festival. A LITTLE FURTHER north in Greensboro. N.
C. three beauty queens of different sizes and shapes were picked yesterday. Titles of "Miss "Miss Greensboro Jun ior" and "Miss Small Fry of Greensboro" went respectively to Sue Baxter. Juliana Clark and Gloria Collins, who gave her age as somewhere between 7 and 8. LIBRARY NEWS Publication of from 40 to 50 Vmhprto unknown volumes by James Boswell, who died 150 vpars aeo.
is scheduled by Yale University. The vast store of manuscripts in old trunks were forrotori nnf in a 25-vear search. Columbia University Professor Wood Krutch cans 'nerhans the ereatest literary find ever made." The books in advance of Dublication are al ready classics. Boswell's "Life of Samuel Johnson Is ac knowledged the greatest of all biographies. IN LEOMINSTER, a book borrowed half a century a eto "from the public library was returned during the "free week on overdue books" proclaimed by the librarian.
Borrowed in 1892, the missing book is a time-yellowed volume on German lit erature. HOCUS-POCUS Magician Prince Marko amazed a Decatur. 111., amusem*nt park audience Sunday night by making a man's watch and billfold disappear and reappear, then returned to his dressing room to discover some thief had maae nis own uuuum with $40 disappear from his clothes. ONE LEFT Remember those five kittens a woman in San Diego delivered with a butcher knife when Train Slices Off Par Of Auio; Driver Unhurf The Editorial Page: DREW PEARSON Tells of Sen. Mundt's idea for a bureau to aid In government contracts.
MARQUIS CIIILDS Reports dismay in some quarters on appointment of Tom Clark to Supreme Court. TRIS COFFIN Writes plan to unite Asiatic nations against communism is gaining In favor. U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast for August 2, 1 949 BAY AREA: Sky broken with occasional showers and mostly under 15 m.p.h.
Yesterday's Temperatures HYATTSVTLLE. Md. UP) Paralyzed with fear, an auto mobile driver froze at the wheel of his stalled car yesterday as high speed passenger train roared toward him. Seconds later. Truie V.
Sivils, 54. a building foreman, crawled from his auto on trembling legs unharmed. The train had sliced off the car's bumper, radiator, hood and front fenders but didn't hurt him. Police gave this account of the mishap: Afternoon traffic was heavy as Sivils. with three men in his car.
approached a Baltimore and Ohio main line grade cross The County Budget Who Would Recede From What and How? There will be a public hearing on the big county budget today at 2 p. m. at the Courthouse at Clearwater. In an editorial on Page 6 we discuss the items that call for a stiff increase in your tax bill. You'll want to read this before you attend the meeting.
In a news story on Page 13 we tell about the meeting and about the plans for a St. Petersburg delegation to attend. loo I 1 I I 1 $3 zzz It 53 i Precipitation, 0.32 inches. 2 p. 76 per cent at 4:30 Page 14..
