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Six Women Give
Up In Eviction
Protest Action
NEW YORK WV-Six women who
bad chained themselves inside an
insurance company’s skyscraper
office gave up early today their
protest action against the eviction
of a Negro family from one of the
firm’s housing projects.
After spending nine hours in
Chains in an anteroom of the 28th
floor office of a vice president of
the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company, one of the women told
“It is physically impossible to
atay any longer.”
The women earlier had said they
had thrown away the keys to the
padlocks holding the chains that
linked all of them and their chairs
However, they finally admitted
that a seventh woman who had
been with them earlier had keys.
At "that same moment, a tele
phone call was made to the office
by a reporter who said he was out
side the building with the woman
with the keys.
The women departed about 2:30
a. m. without obtaining any com
pany commitment on their de
mands. They indicated no plan to
teddy of the first Negro tenants
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DEATHS
MRS. CLARA KOCH
Mrs. Clara Koch, 80, Jewett City,
Illinois, died Tuesday after a short
illness, it was learned today.
Mrs. Jewett is the mother of
George R. Koch, Sr. owner of the
island City Hotel, 411 William
Street.
BENJAMIN STIRRUP ‘
Benjamin Stirrup, 44, died this
morning at his residence, 1014
Elgin Street, after a lingering
illness.
Funeral services will be held
tomorrow afternoon at 5:30
o'clock in the chapel of the Lopez
Funeral Home. The Rev. J. Paul
Touchton will officiate at the
services.
Burial will be in the family
plot at City Cemetery.
Survivors are his mother and
father, Mr .and Mrs. James Stir
rup; a brother, Raymond G. Stir
rup; a son, Robert B. Stirrup, San
Diego, Calif.; a grandchild and
several nieces.
New Danger In
Flood Areas
In Louisiana
By JAMES MCLEAN
BATON ROUGE, La. Uft—Louisi
ana's coastal lowlands faced anew
flood crisis from the Gulf of Mexi
co today as rising streams to the
north forced 15,000 persons from
their homes in a 100 million dollar
flood.
While swollen bayous and rivers
poured tons of water toward the
Gulf, the coastal residents braced
against the possibility of inunda
tion from wind-whipped tides. •
Streams were higher at some
fl£dMl Mo
tions and covered several coastal
communities with six feet of water.
Observers believed the crisis
would come today. If tides remain
moderate another 84 hours, they
think there is a chance that
streams and backwater areas can
handle tidewater. M
The threat centers around Crow
flowing bayous nave forced evacu
ations at Mermentau, Evangeline,
The Weather Bureau predicted
winds from the south witting the
extreme dangeTFtide.
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become discouraged at the frust
rated attempts to get her ehtHag.
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and flippers to expfef* to* sea bot
tom off the Sub and Sand beach.
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Today’s Action In Tallahassee
TALLAHASSEE UR- A state
purchasing council which will su
pervise buying of state supplies
appears to be almost round the
corner for Florida.
The Senate gave unanimous en
dorsement Tuesday to the House
bill which calls for a council to
decide on specifications, standards
and maximum prices.
The measure goes back to the
House for concurrence in a pair
of minor, non-controversial amend
ments. Gov. McCarty, who asked
tiie Legislature to pass an act reg
ulating state purchases, is certain
to sign the bill.
When the Legislature finally
passes it and tne governor signs
the bill into law a movement for
years to get a purchasing plan
will have ended.
Sen. Carlton, Wauchula, de
scribed the plan as having “all
the virtues of central purchasing
with none of its evils.” The state
once had a central purchasing pro
gram back in the twenties but it
was abolished.
Here’s what the bill will do:
A council, made up of represent
atives from the offices of state
cabinet officials and the larger
state agencies such as the Road
Department, Industrial Commis
sion and Highway Patrol will set
regulations and maximum prices
for purchase of supplies.
A paid executive secretary will
be on the purchasing group which
will distribute informa
tion to all agencies. The idea will
be to have the state and its agen
cies bay wherever possible at
mass buying prices.
The agencies and departments
still will do their individual buy
ing but under the standards laid
down by the council. The state
comptroller will be directed by
law to refuse to pay the bills for
any purchases which do not meet
the council's price or standard re
quirements.
A feature of the bill is that it
will apply to cities and counties.
They too will be able to buy at
prices arranged by the State.
The Senate did not deal so kind
ly with another McCarty-endorsed
measure. It knocked down a
House-passed bill to create a con
stitutional advisory commission to
study the state constitntipa with
the idea of retfsiag it
The Senate passed, a House bill
providing the death penalty for
persons twice convicted of selling
narcotics to minora. It added a
proviso, though, 'hat a trial jury
may recommend mercy. That
means the bill must be returned
to the House for concurrence.
Passed by the Senate was a bill
to raise the tax on each box of
grapefruit from tour to six cents.
Purpose is to provide about $700,-
000 to be held by the Florida Cit
rus Commission for advertising
grapefruit which has not sold too
■ctall Biel-* eneeAft
WWI UIIS BCBSOQ.
The House and Senate passed
identical bills to lower the matu
rity standards tor grapefruit
Senators also approved a House
bili to take the soil conservation
duties from the State Board of
Control and give them to a board
appointed by thfe governor. The
hall waa amended and will be re
turned to the House for approval.
The House Public Roads Com
mittee will hold a public hearing
calling for a turnpike from Miami
lo Duvn county^
TALLAHASSEE <*-Reps. Shaf
fer end McLaren of Pinellas Coun
ty, who have failed in attempts to
peas bills setting a statewide tui
tion charge for out of state school
children, today offered a measure
which would authorize such a fee
for,their own county.
The charge for tourists* children
attending Pinellas schools would
be between SO and |5 per cent of
the actual cost of educating them.
Children of servicemen would be
exempt.
The Pinellas lawmakers have
long contended visitors Who place
their children in Florida schools
should bear part of the coat of
supporting the schools. Opponents
have declared it would damage
the tourist industry, f
TALLAHASSEE Üb—The House
today overrode IM Gov. McCar
ty's veto of a bill repealing a local
law closing part of the Homosassa
River hi Citrus County to com
mercial fishing.
Rep. (Heaton of Citrus County,
who Introduced the toll, said he
sew no reason tor'the veto ' un
less • little pressure was brought
on bun by seme hotel owners.”
He explained later hotel oper
ators want the fcur and a half
auto stretch of rim—from the
town of Homosassa to the GH of
Mexico dosed to commercial fish
ing so tourists can have it to
themselves. The water in yntimi
is hpfh considered salt, he said.
McCarty said a repealer of a
local law should either he adver
tised ahead ef tims or carry a
referendum to comply with con
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(toe f*Febci/t stories
appears in the new Whit Burnett
"SlMy** hook recently published
It is about Florida, hut a Florida
with which Key West tot not ton
enatoty have mock to eaasmoo.
Key Wait, she says, is a writer's
paswdtoe with it* wwattib of mater-
M and its beauty ef locale.
stitutional requirements governing
introduction of legislation affect
ing one county.
Members rising to support Glea
ton said the courts, not the gov
ernor, should decide whether or
not a bili is constitutional.
Gleaton told the House he had
received no protests against the
bill and had ben asked by 113
residents to pass it— though Mc-
Carty said in his veto message
residents of the areas had pro
tested to him against getting no
advance notice of plans to intro
duce the measure.
• Rep. Boyd of Lake County, one
of the*two representatives who
voted against the bill, said he had
seen a “stack” of protests, includ
ing one from the mayor of Inver
ness, the seat of Citrus County.
The other vote against the bill was
cast by Rep.' Land of Orange
County.
TALLAHASSEE i*> —A proposed
state income tax for Florida re
ceived a chilly welcome even be
fore it was introduced in the Leg
islature today.
When Rep. Pruitt, Jefferson
County, told the House Commit
tee on Constitutional Amendments
he was introducing a proposal to
have an income lax for Florida,
committee members told him
“you’re wasting your time.”
Pruitt's plan would exempt pay
ment of the tax op all net in
comes up to $7,500. The Constitu
tion now prohibits any state in
come tax.
He explained *b e Legislature is
knocking off such tax sources as
the chain store tax, and home
stead exemption is keeping so
much tax money from the public
treasury, that some method fa
neded to provide other tax sourc
es and at the same time equalize
taxes.
TALLAHASSEE Committee
approval was given today to a
proposed constitutional amend
ment which would abolish all con
stables and justices of the peace
in Florida.
The House Committee on Con
stitutional Amendments also ap
proved-a proposal, already passed
by the Senate, which would give
the governor 20 days after a leg
islative session in which to veto
a legislative act The governor now
has 10 days.
,
TALLAHASSEE <*-The Legis
lature today was asked to appro
priate $45,000 for the purchase of
the historic White House of the
Republic of East Florida on Ft
George Island at the mouth of the
St. Johns River near Jacksonville.
A bill introduced by. Sen. Rip
ley, Jacksonville, would turn the
land on which stands the structure,
rcfftitcdly f|(y> oldest rero&ininc
plantation home in Florida.
The bill said the plot also la
the site of the mission of San Juan
Del Puerto, located in 1587, and
is hear the place where Jean
Jacques Ribaut and bis French
Huguenots landed in 1582.
A group of Americans who held
property in the Jacksonville-Fer
nandina area set up what they
called the Republic of East Florida
in 1812 in attempt to take over
the state from Spanish, but their
move was unsuccessful. Within 10
years the United States acquired
the territory from the Spanish by
negotiation.
TALLAHASSEE UP-The Senate
today passed as-a local toll for
Sen. Gautier, New Smyrna Beach,
a measure which would allow Vo
lusia to four-lane about S miles
of ,U. S, 1 within the county on
borrowed money that might be re
paid with State Road Department
toads. * - -
The bill would set up as a spe
cial road district the east coast
ov Volusia County, empowered to
issue 10 million dollars worth of
bonds to finance the four-laning
of those portions of U. S. 1 in the
county not already four-laned.
TALLAHASSEE Uv-A bill which
would give the attorney general’s
office authority to aid the coonties
it the enforcing of gambUng and
narcotic laws Was rntroduesd to
day by three representatives.
Earlier in the session, the House
killed a watered -dowir version of
Atty. Geo. Richard Ervin'* so
called ' racket squad** bill. It
would have set op a cabinet law
enforcement hoard and allowed its
agents to go into counties to eid
in crime fighting at the wviutwo
of local authorities.
Today's measure, by Reps. Wil
liams of Seminole, Ayres ef Mari
os and Murray at, Falk, would
show the attorney general's aides
to help state and local officials
. €Bfw€SM won PR wmm.-
net give them power to arrest or
march cad seizure authority un
less deputised If tha |pff of
the ecunty to which they m
working.
DELEGATES CO TO
(Ontuwd Pmn pV
AowwiTi n Sim mH| a._. 1 Jjjgk mßtoranwA-.
Wl imam* ffr mm■
Commander Stirrup stated
that during the asestona, a site far
the permanent headquarter* for
"the Depwrtmewt wdt he ostarisrt,-
, Numerous change* to tin Depart
Churches Of
Christ Watch
Congress Moves
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CHICAGO UR The National
Council of Churches of Christ
in the U. S. A. today named a 15-
member committee to watch de
velopments in Congress and else
where which “threaten the free
dom of the people and institutions
ol the United States.”
Appointment of the ’’Committee
on the Maintenance of American
Freedom” was announced at the
bimonthly meeting of the council’s
General Board, the organization’s
interim policy-making body, by
President William C. Martin of
Dallas, Tex.
Bishop Martin, in a statement,
expressed his personal hope that
the committee “will help the
churches to recognize any threat
of Communist infiltration into
American life.”
“No body of people is more con
cerned to combat communism than
the church groups of our country,”
Bishop Martin said. “If any Com
munists are carrying on their sub
versive work under the guise of
serving the church, all who have
a responsibility' for leadership in
the church should insist that such
deception shall be exposed.”
Bishop Martin’s appointments
were authorized by the council’s
General Board at a meeting in
New York City in March. Heading
the committee is the Rt Rev. Hen
ry Knox Sherrill, presiding bishop
of the Episcopal church. Bishop
Sherrill was the first president of
the council, a federation of 30
Christian churches which claims
more than 35 million members.
The council’s president, who also
is the newly elected president <rf
the Council of Bishops of the Meth
odist churto, contended there is a
“right way and a wrong way to
combat communism.”
“The right way,” Bishop. Martin
said, “is to stand without compro
mise for Christian truth and action
and to point out dearly and con
cretely every area of conflict
“The wrong way is to pin a Com
munist lqbel on social liberals and
advocates of reform-a procedure
widely resorted to today. Such
methods create confusion of mind
in which many people no longer
distinguish between communism
and honest social criticism In the
old-fashioned American way. Such
confusion plays into the hands of
the Communists and aids the ene
mies of the American way of life.
“Some people are so frightened
about Communist infiltration that
they pa^^attentioi^ toe danger
the danger of itself. 1
am sure that the committee wfll
effectively with both aspects
News Briefs
DE FUNIAK SPRINGS Uh-A. R.
Temple was drilling today on a
new oil test to Walton County
about 10 miles northwest of here
near the Liberty community.
A farm-out from Gulf Refining
Cos., tho test is going down on
land owned by Howard A. Jones
and Harbeson Lumber Cos.
TAMPA (F—Several schools to
Southwest Tampa were using hast
ily set up suction pomps today to
get enough water for drinking and
toilet needs.
Water pressure was low to many
homes, too, but was not generally
serious.
Water Supt. John S. Long ex
plained there is no actual water
shortage but tha city does not have
enough main lines to get water to
outlying sections to sufficient vol
ume because of heavy use daring
the current tod, dry weather.
An main line la hi
the planning stage but is still a
year away from bring built
GAINESVILLE ufi- The right
week summer session at the Uni
versity of Florida will open on
June to.
; In toe pari, summer schools
have been as long as twelve weeks
: with mml of toe schools
brief special sesstxu. This year Is
toe first time ail toe colleges and
schools have been on an sight
week basis.
AVON PARK Plneess
tle Air Force Base Jet Pilot who
! crashed at toe Avon Park Bomb
wag Range Tuesday and was ifßsd
was identified hr sir force officers
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write Timriris (ltd tow atari prison
canto Tuesday.
The Broward County sheriffs of
fice toeorifiod them as Antoanp<
Writer Cappriri, to. Miami: and
Lotto* Brisk, to. tram Alabama.
Cappriri was sentenced March
•p-'Rtta. to to years tor burglary.
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NERO AND ROME
(Continued From Pegs One)
stolen sponges are being trans
ferred by Peter Graves and Harry
Carey, Jr. who toss them to Chief
Eugene Haipin, Jack Burke and
Ski Skewis, local Navy men in the
Conch outfit, draws alongside but
makes a fast get-away when the
fire develops.
Then the Coast Guard rescue
craft pulls in rapidly. Bud Maher,
also of the Navy, wearing the uni
form of a Coast Guard officer, and
his skipper, played by Jonathan
Jackson, veteran stock actin’ and
Key West Player, are in charge of
putting out the conflagration, (to
the dock, water was continually
sprayed to keep the Maze in proper
confines. The extras, including a
group of women were told to freeze
in attitudes of fright as the roaring
fire began. It wasn’t a simulated
fright. Above the crackle of flames,
Director Webb would shout “High
er! Get that fire up.” “A man
with a torch kindled toe flames at
specific spots. Then, if the shot
wasn’t satisfactory,. Webb ordered
toe fire doused.
Each time this was repeated, the
boat bad to be re-located and
scorched sponges re-arranged.
Charles Wagonheim, playing
the role of the old Greek who
tries to stop the invading Conchs,
had his gray wig scorched. He
wasn’t fooling when he tried to
beat out the tongues of wild fire
licking at the liras of strung-out
sponges. He used his coat to beat
at the advancing wall of fire. It
was a wild scene and one of the
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most difficult to make in the en
tire production. - 1
At first, I had to view the ac
tion from a distance at the end
of the dock or from a window in
the glass bottom sightseeing boat
some hundred feet away. Jack
Sontag, one of the assistant di
rectors, saw the look of dismay
on my face. I’d been hoping for
a break for hours. It was get
ting on toward 2 a.m., still no
dore up view. He came down,
grabbed my arm and said: “Come j
on, we need you inf this scene.” j
If he had said they were going
to make, me leap into the fire it
self I don’t think I would have
hesitated at that stage of the
game. Something in the air be
sides smoke told me this was go
ing to be a terrific shot. It was.
I scrambled over the gunwale
of toe “80-Peep" and did an
eager-heaver squeeze in under
cables to stand on a hatch cov
er. Gusts of wind whipped a
shrimp net and a 'float socked my
head. It could have been a mal
let for all I cared.
Webß’s voice roared, “Get
ready!” Somebody ordered, “Don’t
brush at your -hair! Don't smoke
cigarettes! Don’t even twitch an
eyebrow!” Jack Sontag placed
the extras in position for the dock
mob scene. They stood like stat
ues. The only creature to move
was a black and white dog that
nonchalantly scratched himself on
the deck of the “80-Peep," and
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
was quieted by Costumer Hon
Claude M. Collie’s chum. *
The director’s shout came again.
“All right. Light the fires!”
Sheets, of aromatic orange-red
roared Up. “Higher,*’ yelled Webb,
Through some miraculous process,
the wall of fire responded as If it
were alive. The action matched it,
fast and furious. The Conch sponge
boat took off like a bullet. A feel
ing of genuine terror mounted
with the searing flash.
And then, suddenly, the fire
j fighters took over, the soectacuiax
j blaze died down. Only tiny wfrot
of fire crept along the mast,
smouldered, died, leaving a silvery
crust over charred black wood.
This was the real moment and
suspense. This was the time when
everyone wailed with breathless
expectation for Director Webb’s
verdict. i ?
He said simply. “AD right!"
A murmur ran through the
crowd, shaded into words, grew to
cheers.
Nero may have fiddled some
outer edges of toe night
DIVORCE FOR SINGER
ST. LOUIS Uh—Roberta Quinlan,
31. television and night club singer,
was granted a divorce yesterday
from John J. Quinlan Jr., Will
Street broker of Farmingdale, N.Y.
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