Panama City News-Herald (Newspaper) - April 17, 1952, Panama City, Florida TIDE TIMES High P A M High P A M Apalachicola river reading at 9.34 feet falling Panama Most Beautiful TELEPHONE 8585 590 me WEATHER Fair and a little warmer Friday iear to partly cloudy anil moderate mostly north winds on coast be- coming easterly Friday VOL 93 TWENTY PAGES ASSOCIATED PRESS FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE PANAMA CITY FLORIDA THURSDAY APRIL 17 1952 ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION COMPLETE SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS City Rejects Bid To Lease Dock Commission Votes to Retain Control of Municipal Wharf Kefauver Plans Another Visit To Gunshot Victim Was Wanted in Panama City Soon Confidence Case I J A The City Commission turned down the Association's bid lease the municipal dock at the j rant foot of Harrison avenue and voted to retain control through the office of the city manager For the past year the dock have been under lease to the Panama City Port Authority j which in turn rented space to party boat owners and other users The association told the j Commission that such an j inent has proved unsatisfactory In refusing an outright lease of j the dock to the i tion the Commission unanimously j agreed that such an arrangement would empower the group to ex- i elude other boatmen irom use of the facilities unless they agreed I to become members of the i tion Such action said j ers would effect a closed shop which is unconstitutional in the j State of Florida Mayor Carl Gray said the pier had been leased to the Association for five years it was put under control oi the Port Authority and that the ar- rangement always had been j and a source of constant i bickering between Association and independent BY BERNARD O'BRIEN j j A scheduled stop for a presidential candidate j was stretched to two hours Wednesday when United States Senator Estes Kefauver made a surprise tour of Panama City to the Kiwanis club and had luncheon in a local Orlando Authorities Had Warrant for Joseph Veresh Joseph Veresh pa resident who was found shot to For Duration death in a local hotel room day was wanted in at least one At the same time it was Florida city on charges of j ed that the candidate j ing a confidence racket it was Omaha Council Bluffs Gird For Full Weight of Flood 40 jl Persons Douglas Gives His Support To Tennessean is planning another swing through learned here today i Florida and is tentatively Orlando authorities uled to i April j ent for the S ator Richard Russell of Georgia is said that j Wednesday j they had a warrant for the arrest of the man and the Hillsborough l Tampa Sheriff's office said thai they had watched trailer j in suburban Tampa for about a The two-day whirlwind trip i year Deputy Sheriff L J Swann i The cock will come under con- trol of the city manager's office end of the Port Authority's lease which terminates in June year City ordinance 351 I City M -a n a p e r Grady i Courtney to rent space to the in- dividual boatmen a n d exercise other powers pertaining to the ad- i ministration oi the dock facilities 1 Police Chief George McCall was j ordered to strictly enforce all j visions of the ordinance larly those sections prohibiting party owners from j Paul H Douglas today threw his support behind Sen Estes Kefauver of Tennessee as the best available candidate of our party for the Democratic nomination Douglas announcement came i just 24 hours after Gov Adlai j Stevenson of Illinois declared he J could not accept top place on i the Democratic ticket Douglas j had been supporting Stevenson At a news conference also repeated what he has said he would not accept the party nomination for i dent I am in Kefauver's i Douglas said I am enlisted for the duration j through Florida virtually was a tour of airports to organize Plans Youth Group Sen Estes Kefauver yesterday named Jim Brandon Vanderbilt University sophomore from Little Rock Ark to head a National Youth Movement in his for the Democratic nomination Kefauver said Brandon is ping out of school until the fall quarter to assist in the campaign and will join Kefauver ters in Miami later this week The people hold the future of our nation in their hands Kefauver said It is en- that they are showing a great deal of interest in the important 1952 election Harriman Likely To Get Backing For Nomination Strong Support for Mutual Security Head Seen in New York By The Associated Press All the announced candidates Steel Workers Growing Restive Government Is Ready To Give Them Raise porters it was while the ing- senator was at the local airport a prominent Panama to assist the presidential i aspirant J E Churchwell said that the trailer had been for the Democratic presidential abandoned for months according nomination except one gather in to the Associated Press j New York tonight for a dinner that Veresh was found dead on a bed j may shove W Averell Harriman in a local hotel room about the tangled race p.m Tuesday He had apparently j The affair sponsored died as the result of a bullet would j by the New York State Democratic in the right temple A 25 caliber i Committee brought strong I pistol was found clutched tightly sions of support to give Harriman j in his right hand j the state's 94 National Convention An estimated in drafts delegates j drawn on an organization called i One Democratic spokesman said i the United Colonizers were Harriman if chosen would be aj found in a brief case and a i fledged candidate and not I case in the room Three firearms merely a favorite son The the 25 pistol a 22 caliber rifle j old Harriman now mutual and a German 9 MM Luger were j itv administrator has worked also found in the room Three closely with President Truman and boxes of ammunition were lne late President Roosevelt The organized campaign behind Employees at the hotel said that Harriman opened last Saturday Veresh had checked in on i but he has not announced as a day and had remained in his room j candidate He said he would con- almost constantly since that time j sider it an honor to be endorsed The body was discovered alter a j by the New York Democratic maid reported that she had been j unable to enter the room to clean Sen Richard B Russell of I An explosion heard about 30 Georgia is the announced REFUSES TO to accept the consequence of a martial Capt Jerome Schechter of Mather Air Force Calif is one of 12 Air Force men who refuses to accept a flying assignment Five other men at Mather and six at Randolph Field Texas have all ex- pressed an unwillingness to fly Schechter a veteran of World War II claims that flying is something that's developed into a poison for The captain who hails from Newark N J is shown with his wife Maralyn and their pup NEA Democratic Executive Committee I utes before the body was j Democratic candidate not expected ered was at first hv Chairman and well known ance and real estate dealer agreed Lo head Kefauver's Bay j campaign county ered was at first thought by hotel j to attend dinner personnel to be an automobile backfire Speakers at the affair include An effort is being made to re- I schedule the senator's second WASHINGTON here some day other than j ray's CIO Steelworkers were re- i 30 He is to return to Florida and pertaining to the cleanliness oi growing restive today ext Monday for a three-day the facilities The chief also was i pay scales put into effect 17 speaking tour to begin at Miami months ago and the government j come back the following week further speaking ordered to sweep the area clean of loafers and drunks was believed about ready to give i to Another meeting between the them a raise boatmen and the Commission How much and how soon the time he arrived at the scheduled for nigh- j questions Secretary of Commerce at and until he Sen Estes of Tennessee A local businessman whose name i Sen Brien McMahon 01 Connecticut and address were found scrawled Sen Robert S Kerr of on a slip of paper in the brief all announced candidates plus case said that Veresh had ed him purporting to represent an organization which purchased businesses which were then turned over to displaced Euro- peans and American Indians Pocks Wallop Tank on Which Army Gambled Can Do Just About Everything Menaced Sector Dikes end Auxiliary Levees Bolstered to Missouri I OMAHA mightiest Hood crest in the of the i River was cue to throw its lull weight the dikes or Omaha and Council j Bluffs la For a the twin cities have i been preparing for the worst i armies o men with fleets oi trucks heavy i moving equipment to raise dikes i and build auxiliary levees behind I them i From threatened arens oi the i two cities nearly 40.000 persons j have been evacuated Full-blown civilian defense organizations in the face of disaster Some 8.000 troops have the i fight The which has mounted day by day will reach its climax the arrival of the crest Still waters prompted watchful waiting in other areas of the flood ravaged Midwest As the floods surged southward sands turned from the levees to the great tasks of rehabilitation The Missouri the the Milk in Montana the Red River of the North in Minnesota and the Minnesota River all have hit with punishing blows and have a lot left to deal out At least two persons have died in the floods Wednesday night Mrs Rosemary tank the gambled on Hii pms i i i T i i to j Vice President Alben W Barkley has Proved lt can climb better than a man without slipping i Adlai Stevenson of Illinois run under water break most city speed limits stop on a TT T J J 1 1 i IS ti I Go and Sen Herbert H Lehman of i packs a terrific wallop I A Ri v t ermined More Spelling Champs Chosen of the had a tentative date j took for pensacola at p.m 1 t exhibited the same campaign method he has BULLETINS Murray and Benjamin Fairless used in other of i president of the U S Steel Corp ing hands wUh as many individual i Sawver met with the two men j The senator with I to lay the groundwork for a features was tired from Bee to Be Conducted Saturday at 1 P M Spelling champions of two more wage boost i There was every indication j i meanwhile that Murray would j lash the industry in a talk before j the National Press Club this after- I noon i Murray has done no more than j Bay elementary schools have been j issue a snort statement in chosen for Saturday's i to week's attack from j bee at Bay High school at ence Randall president of Inland I p m when the champions in Steel schools of five counties will pete Alice Barfield sixth grade dent represents Southport She is II years old Hiland Park has Raymond Taylor old fifth grade student as its He is the son of Mr and Mrs H K Taylor was Agnes Glenn who missed out on the precious 11 M IS An appeal to the Florida State Edward Davidson sixth grade Supreme Court is on file today in student in Mrs Ada Leiter's room j the grand larceny case of James represent school HP i Page The appeal was made after Turn to Page 2 Rally Tonight At Cedar Grove Churchwell to Talk For Kefauver A bid for votes in behalf of United Greenhut Low Bidder MOBILE Ala The Corps of Engineers reported today the Greenhut Construction Company Pensacola was apparent low bidder on a job of building new airmen quarters at Eglin Air Force Base auxiliary field No- 9 The offer was The project will provide quarters for 800 airmen The construction is part of a 37 million dollar sion program at the Northwest Florida facility New York Barkley is one of those who has f not announced but who has been i mentioned as a possible I standard bearer Stevenson clouded the j Wednesday by saying he could i not accept the nomination for any I office other than governor of Il- linois this summer He is a for re-election as governor but had been looked on as a candidate who might rally split Democratic camp when the boat capsized Neighbors Hazard Pay Is Under Attack Gen J Lawton Collins says the heard s cries and pulled medium tank now being him out but unable to find mass-produced is more than a match for its Soviet counterparts i The Army demonstrated the i to newsmen at Aberdeen i Turn to OMAHA Page 2 1 Pilots Assailed by Douglas Summary Judgment Is Sought by Plaintiff F C Edd Dies WEWAHITCHKA F C Ed Edd Gulf County tax States Senator Estes Kefauver will i died here today after a j be made at Bay County I brief He was 67 years old Democratic rally at Cedar Grove a native of Gulf County and j J E Churchwell chairman of long In civic and i affairs was serving his i ond term as tax collector He was unopposed for re-election this the County Executive Committee and Bay chairman of the movement will speak Officials did not say how j are built and ready for combat I but Col C G Wilhide commander of the Detroit Tank Arsenal told WASHINGTON Men Douglas tarL m Mr Truman has expressed no i let fly again today at the Korea combined preference for a successor but it Pentagon's pilots and The exhibition to is known he thinks highly of at extra hazard pay that is not men that M.4? was rid Q the enson and is lukewarm to j allowed to the infantry bugs that Judgment in the City Com- Turn to HARRIMAN Page 2 j The Senate preparedness tion models ordered built bv the expense money case committee gave him two hours to Army as a calculated has been set for 2 p m vent his feelings and he said he j the Korean War broke out 12 Circuit Judge E would need at least that long j Ordinarily tanks are not built Clay Lewis i Defense Department officials de- until pilot models are tested Petition for the hearing was nied vigorously at a public hearing bugs eliminated in here late Wednesday after- Wednesday that pi- out experiments But Korean noon by Attorney lots collect extra hazard pay War was serious the situation in who represents allowances for aerial Europe tense the plaintiff J B Turner missions as charged by Douglas The Army gambled on all-out The sun was brought by Turner i Gen Hoyt S Vandenberg top production the routine tests a St Andrew businessman and un- I Air Force general and Vice Adm were completed and the successful candidate for the J H Cassady deputy chief of i dium tank demonstrated Commission It questions the i val Air Operations both challenged day it had won Here are some of expense money for Mavor Douglas demands for a sharp cut the things reporters Carl R Gray Cay 1 The tank showed a speed of Frank M- Nelson Jr two lor- Adams Is Rapped oard Candidate Accused Of Cheap Trickery in behalf of his candidate at the i rally set for 7 p m Cedar Grove is located at 15th Street and East Avenue The was sentenced to serve is the son of Mr and Mrs T E i Judae E Cloy Lewis de- i county and district Davidson 417 Maine Avenue He j nied the young man a new trial dates will be present spelled the word medal missed by the and followed UP with scissors in the state prison at i last Friday's session of i Court here He was found guilty on the grand larceny charce by a cuit Court jury 26 was charged with removing a sun fishing rod and a costing rod from the home of C J hurst Wanda Branning sixth grade student won at Galloway school by spelling curiosity She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs H W Branning Sponges Planned for Cancer Jilted Marine Held for Stabbing Car Hop to Death Stocks Mixed NEW YORK i The stork market was mixed today at the opening with trading moderately active Three Rescued TAMPA VP Three crewmen were rescued from shrimp trawler Green Sea before it about 45 miles southwest of the mouth of Tampa Bay WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS Va is investigating the possibility of mopping up j to review the judgment elusive brain cancers with atomic i SAN DIEGO Calif Marine today was charged with In the appeal to the high court 17 bayonet his Guy A McPherson oi the blonde car hop who jilted him is asking the court and to wed his barracks mate Staff Set John S Finley 25 Seattle under guard in a energy sponges two Chicago j Meanwhile Page remains in the pital where he's recovering from surgeons reported today county jail here Killed One Wounded Four Phantom Gets Kick Out of Shooting at Women LOS ANGELES man into an alley with the rifle admits he is Los Angeles She had the cup to her face Phantom Gunman the I aimed at it I wanted to knock sniper who has killed one the cup out of hrr hand But I woman and wounded three others i hit her in the head a girl gave sheriff's deputies Thomas attributed the explanation for his to an unnatural uree but he three self-inflicted bayonet wounds Mrs Betty Brown Anderson 27 was stabbed to death Tuesday in view of several customers at a cafe She was married only Monday to Set Walter R Anderson Wash and Anderson were racks at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot here Wage Increase for Teachers Forecast j By The Press i Most of the heavy blows in the in extra pay to airmen and Florida governorship campaign in the submarine and other i were struck by folks outside the ices deemed extra hazardous i I rins Wednesday i I The candidates themselves marie a joint appearance at the Florida Federation of Women's Clubs con- vention in Jacksonville and deleted from their speeches nearly all the sharp personal accusations that j have become commonplace in the Bur the State Road Department board in Lakeland put into its official record i resolution Alto Adams of cheap political trickery in his attacks on the agency Brailey was of lying by State Sen W A Gainesville and Mayor Haydon Burns Jacksonville After women's ham and Adams resumed their free swinging campaigns with talks in the Jacksonville crease when they open the Florida I both centering their attacks on annual their major rival for the cratic nomination Dan MIAMI 5.000 Florida school teachers are expected to hear a prediction for a in- Education Association's convention here A L Tampa dent the FEA And McCarty kept counter- prospect of a announced the punching with his claims that the wage increase others are practicing deceit Before He Steals Mink From Fur Store NEW YORK robber who bei'ore he stole cost a fur store a pile of minks Tuesday a man shopped at the Reckler and Lamazor Fur Shop He said he wanted -a coat for his wife but couldn't make up his mind Wednesday he a pun and two confederates The trio bound models and n salesman and made off with a bundle of minks including a SI 500 pastel job and a wild mink the shopper admired the day before An estimate of the entire loot was not immediately available about 35 miles an hour on a rner commissioners Howard i way ker and Thorn as 2 It climbed a 50 per cent srade Turner brought his action several from a standing steep before the March 4 city a grade for a man to climb without Tile tje slipping case is the since in 3 It ran through water so deep March only the turret was visible According 4 It hit a moving target tank or h ui 500 yards away in dead center Officials said the tank can stop on a dime and turn in us it has an automatic et that once a suns reaims without help from the crew after each and heavily improved armor The 48 rash n J M i i i i i c J i i i i 1 cylinder air-cooled crew n T r o t v I 1 i I W J I Sought en Wednesday when he received a and things about him that from State Rep Roy aren't true I am convinced the Surles Lakeland leader of the people of are sick of their t successful fight for higher i iie said IN OCALA Manager W A SHINGTON Barking Committee toward possible price c pay in the Legislature last year i rue I am convinced the left here yesterday afternoon to The end n three-day short course for St managers in The course will open today and eloso sn Turn to ADAMS Kefauver's Visit Second in 14 Years tors co Senator visit Evan Charles Thomas 29 husky Deputies said the coffee stand Tennessean th railroad switchman victim was Mrs Nina Marie Bice en route to Mobile ti-as arrested Wednesday after a 25 mother of three said Shot in the night narrowly missed Thomas also implicated himself in e woman in the Los district the shootings last fall Mrs Mumbling and nervous Thomas Lois May Kreutzer Ellen father of two children and whose i Bryant Mrs Irma Megrdle wife Harriet is expecting a third 40 and Mrs told deputies this ugh here senator at the Airport G W who a fishing with his wife operate the Florida trip St Marks Panama City Motel on U S 98 went grown fast since then he re- to school with the presidential marked i Eight months ago he a phone booth Mrs Murdock in her Bay county Russell chair rifle which he kept under the j home the others in front of their man Kefauver said That's back seat of his car His i homes pin vou have on began one night when his Thomas was arrested after i have a good candidate wife and children were visiting ties noticed him hovering close as her mother and he felt at loose they investigated the firing of a i Senator Kefauver chose a dark -22 the home Mrs grey suit for his stop He also wore a patriotic tie of red While in the city the senator A G Gamble of Havn Murdock 42 spotted a pin of Tenn re- Mrs was shot in a tele- when he was introduced to Russell j his friendship with the sell ator a began one night when his Thomas was arrested after have I remember the first time I Joan Hiles 22 his neighbor pulled the trigger Thomas said He was booked on suspicion of white and blue I was driving past this little murder attempted murder fee stand on Atlantic I saw this I felonious assault A district r I I aide said formal charges will were numerous along the to j 500 yards away and went i be filed later meet the senator i to the telephone to comment on Mr and Mrs C J Doub of Haven remembered their ship with Senator The senator's wife will pany him here on his return later this month She remained in ington during the current trip X A bystander's comment that fauver had picked up 3.000 or more votes on his trip to Panama City was answered by the tor I hope so Kefauver at 1 u n c h eon that he would help arrange the show when the Tennessean Thomas R principal 01 St Andrew school who served as organization here is a for- mer resident of Tenn f Senator Kefauver shook at every turn and Goes to Prison Tn I U s V himself to would br child was years in pris Parker and visitors at the ah and at Daisy Lee's The Only three county candidates for raRt er in Madisonville and they ex- office were spotted in the crowd at changed remarks with the visitor the airport They were Harris J Today the McCormiek and John Davis in Boston A message to call candidates for sheriff and Forum where ed Senator Kefauver upon his ar- Wilfred C Varn a state Candidates have been Air Force hys example of my of the other sit-down i harses pe rli p s e B L i 1 Si A For m e r Tennessee residents rival here His secretary handled candidate Mayor Carl Gray told tO discuss pertinent Later Senator Kefauver goes io Turn to RETURN rage 2 Force who to v at Air Base T Antonio Tex and at Buse n in California her hu Culloni and court
