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irORi Published Every Morning Mtmbr Audit Bureau of Circulations AP Nws and Wlraphotos Phorv EOiion I-U4C SOlh Year Thomas A Edison Said Thr la anly ana Fart Myara ntf million paofMa ara going to find aut" 5c Daily 13c Sunday Fort Myers, Fla, Tuesday Morning, May 26, 1964 NEWS-PRESS Justices Prod Here cior five iispe I erfnon Special To Eye ffliliiei Police Tussle Wilh Riotous Hobs in Lima City Seethes In Aftermath of Panic At Soccer Game rreplairiliies; Prince Edward To Integrate Quick, Effective Action Ordered In Virginia I 4 to Vote in $Me Today WASHINGTON (AP) The LIMA An angry mob marched on the home of a police commander yesterday but Supreme Court ordered yester Republicans Will Choose Between Delegate Slates was blocked by police reinfor day "quick and effective action to reopen the long closed pub Democrats Will Decide 4 Hot Local Contests By PETE PACKETT At the request of Mayor Rob cements struggling to keep or-j Two Large City Mayors Confident As Campaign Ends lic schools of Virginia's Prince der after rioting and panic at a Sunday soccer game killed Edward County, on an integrat ed basis. WASHINGTON The Re hundreds. The marchers accused Com publican convention arrange U. S. District Court in Rich ments committee yesterday nam ert King High, special Inspec mond was given broad power mander Jorge "de Asambuja of ed Sen.

Thruston B. Morton of to guarantee Negro children tors were assigned yesterday to having ordered tear gas fired Kentucky as permanent chairman Lee and the other 66 Florida there "an education equal to into the crowd. The demonstration under and Gov. Mark Hatfield of Ore Burns Expects to Carry All But Dade County that afforded" by Virginia's counties to watch for any vot gon as keynote speaker and tern other public schools which ing irregularities in today's run scored Peruvian government are integrated. off primary.

porary chairman of the 19M convention. The action came after the com The court was told it could John J. Holland of Braden- concern that led to a modified form of martial law following the tragedy at Lima's National JACKSONVILLE 1ft Hay- don Burns yesterday predicted bring state officials or others into the case and even require mittee voted 28 to 20 to combine the offices of temporary chair that the county supervisers levy ton checked in here "to observe and report back to Tallahassee any irregularities," he said. He plans to remain until the county canvassing board completes its man and keynoter for the first he will carry every county except Dade in today's runoff Democratic primary with Robert King High for the guber the necessary taxes The decision struck a blow at time since the 1948 convention. GOP National Chairman Wil natorial nomination.

He add certification. Chairman Julian Hudson of the County Commis a state-county system of grants schools, but did not specifically. liam Miller, announcing the re Stadium. Mounted police were kept busy breaking up groups of angry people around the stadium. Authorities still were counting bodies and no official death total was given.

Newspaper estimates ran from 260 to 315 dead in the sport world's worst disaster. Hundreds more were injured. FATAL ACCIDENT. Here's what was left of car when freight train lift it at crossing in Richmond, yesterday and dragged it 50 yards to bridge. Driver, Taul Gravil, 40, was killed.

(AP Wirephoto) ed: "Sixty -six out of 67 ain't sults of the closed meeting, said sion said the canvass will start at 9 a.m. Thursday. bad." outlaw such a system. It left unclear what would happen to the decision to combine the two The Jacksonville mayor made offices was made in order to cut K. C.

Walpole of Bradenton, this system after the reopening 1959 to block integration. the prediction first in a statement he read to newsmen in his office, and later to the down on some of the speech-making at the convention which begins July 13 in San Francisco. a retired rear admiral, reported for observer duty in Char, lotte County. Ron Davis will ob Thus, the U. S.

District Court Some eyewitnesses blamed Burns Blitzers, the dollar-a- Beth-El Rabbi Dies After Miami Rites serve the Collier County election Backers of Sen. Barry Gold- is left free to give its own interpretation of the fate of the system. High Will Quit His Law Firm If Elected MIAMI (Jl You can't serve two masters, Robert King High of Miami said yesterday of Hay-don Burns of Jacksonville on the eve of the election which will bring one of the two big-city mayors the Democratic nomination for governor of Florida. High said a governor cannot be impartial and objective in his duties serving the nearly six million people of Florida if he is being paid by a few select persons and corporations. This carried out the theme of High's second primary campaign effort to induce Burns to reveal his sources of income as a business consultant in addition to a yearly salary as mayor.

High, who gets about 54.900 in his position as mayor, said that if he is elected he will quit his law firm and rely solely on the $25,000 annual salary of the governor. Saying he read that Burns saw no conflict in continuing his private business if elected governor, High commented: "I consider this an incredible insult to the people of Florida. Serious Business and Frank J. Conrad will check locked exit gates for the deaths of many in the mass of human year group that earned tne Burns banner up and down the water of Arizona, a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, Prince Edward County and state in his double-primary the voting in Hendry County. Just OINerven Adams announced in Talla ity that piled up trying to get out of the stadium.

This view opposed the move to combine the Virginia state officials had no campaign. two jobs. And Goldwater support immediate comment on the ruling. hassee the request for observ ers offered Gov. Tim Babcock of Montana for the keynoter temporary chairman job.

ers in each of the 67 counties was made by High following reports of voting irregularities In Time Runs Out Justice Hugo L. Black, speaking for the court, noted that Prince Edward's schools were Officiated at Posner-Marsten Ceremony BY CLARE TAYTOR Rabbi Joseph Liberies of Beth-El, Fort Myers, died But after the election, F. Clif was shared by De Asambuja, who headed the police at he stadium. Goal Nullified There were 45,000 persons in the stands when, with Argentina leading 1-0, a goal for Peru was nullified by the referee who said a foul was committed be some counties In the first pri ton White, co-director of field He told the Blitzers, moments before rolling through Jacksonville in a long motorcade: "I predict we are going to carry every county in the state of Florida except Dade where we will lead the other candidate in the white vote, but when he puts the bloc vote on top of that, he will lead." He has repeatedly labeled operations for Goldwater, said he among those involved in the mary May 5. Adams said the deputies would be merely ob was pleased with the selection of high tribunal's historic 10-year- 1 Morton and said he had always servers, having no authority to do anything but report their observations to him and the coun old school integration degree and the 1955 implementing guide of a heart attack Sunday with felt Hatfield should be on the pro-! fore the goal.

gram. Morton was elected witn line of "all deliberate speed." ty officials. out opposition, Miller said, while Fighting broke out among In addition to voting on the "The time for more speed' has run out," Black Hatfield defeated Babcock by 28 some fans and police as the governors' race between High to 10. referee and players were escort said, "and that phrase can no ed from the field after the game and Mayor Haydon Bums of Jacksonville, Lee County Dem longer justify denying these High, the Miami mayor, as the "NAACP candidate." Burns invited the Blitzers to a party last night at the Jacksonville coliseum where he said he and his family will await Sen. Peter Dominick of Colorado, and Minnesota State Chair- Prince Edward County school was declared ended with Argentina the winner.

ocrats today decide four local constitulionarnian Robert A. Forsythe also had children their in minutes after officiating at the marriage in Miami Beach of Miss Susan Gail Posner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Posner, and Roy Earl Marsten-Dr. Liberies, who was 61, became ill and sat down several times in the course of the ceremony, at which he officiated with Rabbi Irving Lehrman in Temple Emanu-El at Miami Beach.

At its conclusion he told his wife he believed he was having a heart attack. He was taken into Rabbi Lehrman's study and contests. Republicans have a spirited intra party fight on Some witnesses said disaster been mentioned for the job of keynoter but they were removed rights." Justices Tom C. Clark and "I would devote my full came when police fired tear gas which they will mark paper bal from consideration after the vote into the stands, causing the to combine the offices. the returns.

Burns plans to vote about 9:30 a.m. at the fire station near his home. Adds to Flcdgea The mayor called newsmen together for "a news crowd to stampede to the exits De Asambuja denied this. John M. Harlan said they disagree with the holding that federal courts are impowered to order the county to reopen lots as a result of a lawsuit.

Local Contettta The Lee County Democrats, who registered a 60 per cent turnout in the first primary, will time to the duties of governor because this is a serious business. The welfare and needs of almost six million people are involved." He also reported that his campaign fund was swelled by $68,000 in the last week and the Asked whether the alignment represented a compromise between conservatives and liberal elements of the party, Miller re its schools. They added that RABBI JOSEPH LD3ERLES He said six grenades were fired in an effort to break up fighting on the field but none then announced at the begin they agree, however, with "the choose between Travis A. Gresham Jr. and M.

T. (Ted) ning: "There's not going to be plied reporters would have toi court's opinion," but they did -was fired into the stands. died there in the arms of George E. Allen, Fort Myers attorney MAllf rft fjet pAtTO who was a wedding guest. llCUIlllildl llll tC draw their own conclusions.

not ampnry. ine other seven A husky soccer fan was re Randcll for stale representative. justices joined in the whole de Miller proposed combining the Mack H. Jones and Bruce J. At the insistence of Mrs.

Lib-! cision. ported under arrest as the first spectator to leap onto the field in 'pursuit of the referee. Police keynoter and temporary chair any questions and answers. I will give you a statement and that's it." The statement was a reiteration of his campaign pledges, with a new one addod. Scott for commissioner of Dist.

1, Herman Hastings and Into Fights to Escape man assignments after withdraw erles, word of the death wasj withheld from the newly weds Georgia Case In another school integration ing himself from consideration as identified him as Matias "Bom-ba" (The Bomb) Rojas, about Svvoj for commissioner of Dist. 3 and Robert N. Kreager and and the other wedding guests keynoter. From Laos Trap until after the reception at the case, the tribunal unanimously directed U. S.

District Court in Atlanta to take a new look at 35. who has a reputation as a Doral Beach Hotel which fol referee baiter. Ray L. Williams for school superintendent. Some effort to stimulate a (CtntlniNd fo9 J-A) lowed the ceremony.

Mrs. Lib The referee, Eduardo Pazos of Burns said near the end, "I will provide leadership for the reestablishment of Bible study and prayer in the schools." Before brinnnine the re Prior to that time the New York congressman had been the front runner for keynoter while Hatfield was favored for temporary chairman and Morton for VIENTIANE About one-third of the battered neutralist what an unsigned court order called the city's "commendable Uruguay, said however, that surrounded by Commu- 1 eiieci eries said her husband would have desired this and that he would want nothing to mar the happiness of the young couple. army, when police removed the first spectator onto the field, there money came from almost 2,000 persons all over the stale. "This was an average contribution of approximately $35 each," High said. He has rejected any contribution over $250 throughout the campaign.

He says he made no promises or commitments to get funds. High appeared tired, reflecting the strain of hectic trips around the state and long hours of planning and speechmaking. He rarely got more than five hours of sleep. High said he would vote at 7:30 a.m., then spend the rest of election day going all over Dade County "shaking as many hands as I possibly can." The city set up a new policy permanent chairman. statement of his campaign plat- BrYOnt PrQIS6S des nist forces near the Plaine Mrs.

Liberies returned to her in April a month after the court had heard arguments on Atlanta's grade a year inte was no general crowd difficulty. Referee Explains On his arrival in Buenos Aires en route home, Pazos said the crowd did not react to his Florida Exhibit At World's Fair Hatfield generally is regarded as being in the liberal wing of the party while Morton is viewed as a moderate. Neither has openly supported any candidate for the presidential nomination which gration plan, which Negroes Jarres, was locked in yesterday in an all-out effort to break out of the trap. The defense ministry said neutralist troops and 23 tanks, routed from a stronghold at Muong Kheung on the northwes- "burning for Burns" campaign today in which his supporters are being asked to bum the headlights on their automobiles to remind people to vote and In an "effort to combat the bloc voting on behalf of the NAACP candidate." said was too slow. The new plan stepped up the system a bit to take in the high ruling that the shot kicked into home at Cape Coral yesterday with her son, Michael, of Coral Gables.

Another son, Max, of Chicago, and a brother, Thia, of Lynn, also survive. Funeral rites will be held at 4 p.m. today at Temple Beth-El. Officiating will be Rabbi Leon Kronish of Temple Beth will be decided at the San Fran cisco meeting. school grades through the eighth and to permit freer trans- the Peru net be disallowed.

"Only one person entered the field then," Pazos said. "The crowd was quiet. When I asked TALLAHASSEE (A Florida's pavilion at the New York World's Fair Is outdrawing that of any other state, Gov. Farris Bryant reported yesterday. Visitors are clocking in at the tern fringe of the strategic plaine, fm from one school tQ another policemen to expel the intruder had been trying in vain since Sunday night to make a break At present about 150 of the city's 12,000 Negro pupils are in inte Sholom, Miami Beach, and Rab Another Reports Seeing Serpent through.

Most Downtown Stores Will Be Closed Saturday Florida exhibit at the rate of 30.000 to 40,000 a day, he said. bi Sanford Saltzen of Miami, re grated high schools with none gional director of the United they did so. "But then another man with a bottle in his hand to attack me. As he was carried (Continued on Page 2-A) Bryant, a weekend 1sitor at Military sources said reports in elementary grades, from the battle zone, 110 miles I Another report on a sea ser the exhibit, said: "There is no Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Burial will be in the northeast of Vientiane, indicated pent seen last week in the upper spashed up on each shore." Mrs.

Wright said she and Bon question that we have by far the superior exhibit at the fair. It Most downtown stores will be it was the heaviest fighting rcMUIIHU Beth-El section of Fort Myers Caloosahatchee River came yes Cemetery. The Harvey Funeral the Pathet Lao Reds launched f- CaI Pathet nie watched it until it disappear sells Florida. It was designed to closed Saturday in observance of Memorial Day, President School Audit terday from Mrs. Doris Wright Home is in charge.

ed into the river. She 8ood- and I of Fort Myers Shores. The family asked that flowers think it does." i Kenneth Beery of the Beleaguered, town Merchants Association an- it to be 25 to .10 feet long. She be omitted. Donations may be Plan Held She said she and her daugh- Florida's main exhibit is a por- Legal their offensive from the plaine 10 days ago and threw the neutralists into retreat.

With the trapped neutralist armored units outnumbered about 2 to 1 by Communist forces, it James R. Hoffa confirmed yester-nounced yesterday. Spokesmen R.w,ni ln she has visited many poise show in which these sea made in his memory to Temple Beth-El Golden Book, a charity day that he is selling some of his; at the shopping centers indicat- about' 4 p.m. Friday whenUquariunw but never saw any-igoins: mamals perform tricks. Its leading role as a citrus-producing stocks, bonds and real estate to ed most stores there also will fund.

Friends may call at the suddenly the canal behind her thing like it. School funds may be used to pay for an independent audit of Liberies home in Cape Coral be closed. The American Legion will stale and its many tourist entertainment possibilities also are gone; help pay his mounting legal bills. Hoffa, president of the teamsters uion, recently instructed the house became turbulent andj -y children have "out of the waves rose a in canitl hold a memorial service at the was feared they would be wiped out unless they could break out and reach the positions of a neutralist battalion at Muong Soui, ntui ru. "but teamsters union, of which he is mnnnmont th rnui-ihmmei 'times, Mrs.

unht said. president, to stop paying his Saturday in which other It had no fins and had a they won't swim in it aain nose," she related. "It til that thinz is cautrht." Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Dr. Liberies became leader of the Temple Beth-El April 1, 1963.

Since then the growth of the group, organized in 1950 with I (Continued on Pose 2-A) nine miles west of Muong Khe-jfees until the question of as0 wju particl-jbi line fhp fallpn hpaHmiartprs nf Un io ntitlnt tn loamctor.nmiHHivl' i The governor said that he toured other state pavilions and didn't find any that compared to Florida's. General attendance at the fair has been below expectations. as dark in color, sort of aj Four fishermen rciwrted see- -b, -i cnuum in oe iunowea oy a ser rusty black. Our canal Is 150 ing a sea Bennt last Tuesday i legal support is ironed out. neutralist armor.

vice at Memorial uaraens Commander Harold lde th cr between Olga and but FIorHa-s has a. up t' of Post 38 said the Legion down 11 made waves Alva' an excellent 10 per cent of the Oregon Governor Keynote Speaker Pelt Workers With Clubs. Bricks present a flag to the Knights of Columbus in a ceremony at 7 p.m. Saturday. On Sunday a memorial service will be con Republicans Select Morton For Chairman of Convention ducted at the First Methodist' Church at 11 a.m.

by Chaplain Fred Durre. Union Forces Swoop On Housing Proecf the accounts of Fort Myers Junior High School, School Board Attorney Julian D. Clarkson said yesterday. The board Friday night voted to hire an outside auditor if the expenditure would be legal, after school auditors' findings were discussed with Principal Ray L. Williams.

Williams is opposing Supt. Robert N. Kreager for school superintendent. After hearing a partial explanation of reported irregularities in the school's internal accounts, the board decided to bring in a certified public accountant to go over the Fort Myers Junior High books. Clarkson conferred by telephone yesterday with the office of Atty.

Gen. James W. Kynes to find out if it was legal for the School Board (o spend its money for outside auditors. He said the statutes call for making an annual audit of the internal accounts of schools but do not spell out how it is to be made. Some school systems hire their own auditors, others hire outside auditors, he said.

The exhibit has not been bothered by race pickets since the opening day, the governor said. His tour of the fair, Bryant said, showed that prices at many exhibits were The 25 cents price for orange juice and 13 cents for coffee at Florida's exhibit are the lowest of the entire fair. "You can't gft anything for a ouarter. except at the Florida exhibit," Bryant said. MIAMI ID More than a mil-! be two slates of national con-i 14 candidates for national com- Chill Air Invades linn FtnriHianc nro rvnprted tnivpntinn delegates, one Dledzed mitteeman and four candidates vote today, most of them Dem PHILADELPHIA if A gang workers were employed by about 100 men burst into a 'ilm, to Sen.

Barry Goldwater, for national comnntteewoman. Ugt jQrthCQSt and the other mostly loyal and one slate of national ocrats drawn by a bitter fight rtnrAm hmim nmim-t Kninf Ie nc been warned of for the governor's chair waged the Arizona conservative. veniion delegates pledged to impending trouble by an atwny- Good voting weather was in-i President Johnson. a warm spell in the iwlhcm oy rum-union laoor yesiemay nni mainly on the civil rights issue. Secretary of State Tom Ad dicated.

The Weather Bureau The Republican ticket has two.p.in. anH brcan swinrinz i-Iufw. avi and m'xis WpHow call last Friday. 1 i .1 i 1 rr ,1 1 mam .1 I ROW 1)1 KH LONDON i.f Judges in 10 saw nothing worse than a few i candidates each for national I nnc Itmpi WIH'TI worn ams predicted that 950,000 Dem- touching off thunder-! sledgehammers, police said. yesterday.

began yesterday morning. ocrats would turn out to choose widely scattered showers for and committee- i i-. cities in England and Wales yes- showers. The cold between Mayor Robert King High entire state, mostly falling in; woman, and two slates of con- i oi. nit ii in mi- iii'ii-unnni i rjn a front that moved ioive carpenters, painters, i sentenced more than 120 northeast broke a a i- mn PlH wafted the gang; youths arrested for pan? nht of Miami and Mayor Haydon the afternoon.

vent ion delegates. through the Burns of Jacksonville in the Adams said a total of Predictions of victory came on wlay heat wave thore that of rushed in. jthat have plagued this governor's race. juOO voters probably would par-jelection eve from the camps of jproduced record breaking read- bricks and stones Ior ine iasi loiTmgni. jau sen- couldn't tell how thev left hp Burns was high man in the ticipate in the Democratic and both High and Bums ines for the date in the 80s and! All told, 12 houses were damaged first Democratic primary May Kepubucan primaries.

inis we are going io win, would be almost 200,000 less! said. "Tne state is going to re- Northwest winds and cloudy and smaSl: 1 "uinian said he recognised none pod on convicted boys and girls. ritt trirt'non rani no? an1 mn rails i CT 5 when six candidates compet- News-Press Index than the number who voted in ject boss politics. wiuit ed for the nomination. High was weather held midday mpn' ana ne naa instructed his workers to run, not 31 IV XT I jr WCaillfi UV1U WIVJ i the May 5 first primary.

A sec- Burns predicted that he would temperatures In the 60s and 70s.ilorn loose- showery The Weather ond primary normally draws win by a margin of 200,000 to a few isolated thundershowers ouuo' Koy unman, saia in case of trouble, fewer voters because votes. He led the first 'rumbled over the Central and.111 invasion lasted about five min- Taken to hospitals were Joseph I L. i l- a surprising second, getting into the runoff by 2.202 votes over State Sen. Scott Kelly of Lakeland. The winner must face the Republican nominee, Rep.

Charles Hollev of St. Petersburg, in Ko races are settled in tne nrsi, primary voung oy a margin oi Northern Rockies. Noon tempera-'lt ruiairu ai uc-iuwnue, icg injuries; nis son. hires in northwestern Montana 512.000 and 5U0OO. Charles, 27, bruises of the bac ranged down to the mid 40s.

The houses once belonged to Asie Dance, 54. leg bruises; Ed-j A watersDout was sighted In Jefferson Hospital. They now are ward Polillo. 35. nail wounds ini go-round.

1 100.000. The High Burns race is the) For the entire campaign, onlv one for a statewide office Burns reported he had received Amusements Bridge Classified 5C-7C Comics 8A Crossword Deaths 2A Editorial Financial lodety 6A-9A fports 2C-3C TV 9A Generally fair except for few scattered afternoon showers, low in 60, nigh 80-83. ariable winds J-13 miles per hour. Eat Gulf niarin forecast: Variable winds 5-13 knots few fchower. (Full Heather report P.

ZA.) vember but for all practical up for decision. Also on the in contnoutions a the gulf east of Corpus thnsti. oeing reiuroisneo as a pnvaie ieei: james Jones. nan wounus purposes the Democrats will lot are several Senate and House! spent $582,733. High, saying he, Two funnel clouds and a possible redevelopment project.

They are in feet: Elwood Pegram, 25; head name the new governor today.jof Representative races and would refuse any large dona-i waterspout were reported over, six blocks from historic Inde- cuts. Polillo and Jones said they GOP Ticket i countless county races. tkns, received $192,155 and spent the marshes near Beaumont along pendenee Hall. (stepped on nails as they were flee- On the Republican ticket will; On the Democratic ticket jthe Texas coast. Fuinwn said all the non-union ing.

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