News-Press from Fort Myers, Florida • Page 1

A. Edison Said: "Thee 90 is only million one people Fort are Myers going to find it out." VOL. LXI. NO. 263.

61st Year. News About Service Men Frank D. Hibble, son of Mrs. Frank Hibble of the Park hotel, yesterday received his pilot's wings and flight officer's rating at Douglas, Ariz. Marine Pfc.

A. L. Pope, serving overseas, writes friends in Fort Myers that he is o.k. but would like to be home again. His wife is now making her home in Bradenton.

Fm Lt. Carroll E. Cobb, formerly of Iona, arrived last week at the Ft. Lewis, army service forces training center for duty. Capt.

Shelby Shanklin, left Wednesday night for Washington, D. from where he was sent to Germany after a short stop. He spent the past two weeks in Port Myers with his bride, the former Miss Harriet McWhorter. Jimmy Sciple will leave today for Alameda, where he will attend an officer's training school of engineering. He has spent the past several weeks with his wife here.

James McMahone, has returned to the naval training station, Great Lakes, after a visit of a week with his mother, Mrs. Evelyn Fensler, and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. N. L.

Wine. Jimmy has, completed his boot training is now awaiting reassignment. Steve Taminosian, GM now stationed in the Pacific, writes his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.

G. Taminosian, of a recent visit in Manila, P. I. "The city, of course, is badly torn up," he says. "The buildings which were beautiful modern structures are nothing but shambles now.

It's a shame that the onetime 'Pearl of the East' is a crippled, broken-down city. It will take years to rebuild it to its old beauty." Curtis A. Wert, who has been on overseas duty in England, is spending 30 days with his mother, Mrs. W. S.

Wert, and other relatives. When his leave is up, he will report to ship at New Orleans, La. German People Told Of Potsdam Decisions BERLIN, Aug. 4 (AP) -The Berlin press and radio told the people for the first time today of the Big Three's Potsdam communique and Berliners generally expressed satisfaction that Germany is to remain an entity. The fact that Berlin itself had been divided into four occupation zones had seemed to indicate to residents that Germany as a whole would be partitioned.

They also took comfort in the fact that a national government is envisaged. They feel now that they have something to work for that will be obtainable by good behavior. That many functions of the government are to be decentralized also pleases those Berliners who felt the centralization of power would thwart hopes for a democracy. Curious though it may sound, Berliners interviewed at random today do not mind a reduction in their living standards, which before the war were high in comparison with those of many other European countries. They had feared that the Germans might be punished to the extent of becoming mere peons or coolies.

Many said they were disappointed because the Potsdam statement was not more explicit regarding the size of Germany's reparations payments, but all took comfort in the Big Three statement that reparations must not lower German living standards below those of the average European. Loss of Silesia, East and West Prussia and Pomerania looms as the war's heaviest penalty in the minds of Germans here. As one eidtor put it, "it is the worst that has happened to use since the 30 years war." Cramer Gives up Little Red Hen CHICAGO, Aug. -The mystery of Comiskey park's little red hen was solved today. Roger Cramer, veteran Detroit Center fielder who pursued and caught the hen that suddenly appeared in center field beside him during the fourth inning of last night's game with the White Sox, said that after the game he discovered a tag on the bird's leg reading: "This is intended a gift for the winner." Cramer thereupon turned it over to Earl Caldwell, White Sox righthander who shut out the Tigers with seven hits, 5-0.

Caldwell's plans? Well, what do you think DOGS GET STEAKS DECATUR, Aug. 4--(P)- Informed a man was butchering mules and storing the meat in a refrigerator plant, police looked into the matter. Someone had reported they believed the meat was for sale to unwary citizens, Investigation disclosed the mule steaks were prepared, for veterinarians, to be used as dog food. MYERS NEWS- FORT MYERS, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 5, 1945 Laval Testifies ye Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, testifies in court at the trial of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, in Paris. The marshal listens to the testimony at the right.

Former Royal Navy Stoker Named to British Admiralty Oregon Ranchers Munch Crackers CANYON CITY, Aug 4 -(A)-Hungry ranchers and hands sat on the curbstones munching crackers and milk today while restaurants here and in nearby John Dayin the heart of Oregon's cattle country--stayed closed. Three cafes have their doors locked indefinitely and one temporarily. One irate traveler complained he'd been held up for half an hour on his way to town while cattle crossed the road. Eager for a juicy steak, he'd been able to buy--nothing. Yet, herds of plump cattle and sheep cover nearby hillsides.

Community leaders, at a publie meeting, heard Portland District OPA Director McDannell Brown advise restaurateurs 10 cut servings and offer stews, fish and poultry instead of beef. "But where." compained cafe owners, "are we going 10 obtain fish?" The restaurateurs said trade had been increased during the war, but that no increase in red points had been forthcoming from OPA. Brown replied that the alleged increase had not been proven conclusively to OPA. Rep. Lowell Stockman (R- Ore) of Pendleton told Brown he did not blame local boards.

"The National OPA's authority has gone to its head." he declared. He blamed blanket OPA orders which, he said, affects all parts of the country alike, while actual conditions vary greatly in different sections. President Rests On Return Trip USS AUGUSTA, Aug. President Truman went over state papers and signed a mass of documents today before beginning a week-end holiday aboard this homeward- bound warship. Working with advisers on A report he will make to the people of the United States, the president reviewed terms of the protocol he signed at Berlin with Generalissimo Stalin and Prime Minister Attlee.

Arising about 5:30 a. m. for a stroll around the ship and an early breakfast, the president, to use the words of Press Secretary Charles G. Ross "did practically a full day's work by 9 a. He conferred with Secretary of State James Byrnes, Judge Samuel Rosenman, White House counsel.

and Fleet Admiral in William D. Leahy. He checked reports from the Pacific battlefronts with Capt. James K. Vardaman and Brig.

Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, his naval and military aides. Donning a seaman's cap, Mr. Truman went out on deck several times during the day, looking in top health.

The Augusta rolled along on waters as calm 88 they were when he crossed the Atlantic en route to the Berlin conference. The seas were a little choppy yesterday, but not for long. CIO Backs Negro For U. S. Court WASHINGTON, Aug.

4-(P)- The CIO recommended to President Truman today appointment of William H. Hastie, a negro, as a judge of the United States court of appeals for the District of Columbia. Now dean of the Howard university law school here. Hastie formerly was judge of the U. S.

district court for the Virgin islands. In a letter to the chief executive, CIO President Philip Murray said: "Judge Hastie is a negro and one of the outstanding leaders of his people in the United States. His learning, experience and broad sympathies combine amply to equip him for a News-Press 'Phones News Department Advertising, Circulation Job Printing 200 FIVE CENTS A COPY Netty, But Nice Something new in bathing suit fashion was exhibited by comely Tee Matthews of St. Petersburg recently when appeared on the beach in a swim suit fashioned of fish net material lined with white jersey. Enemy Hospital Ship Captured Carrying Arms 'Patients' Found Without Wounds on Vessel, U.

S. Reports MANILA, Sunday, Aug. 5-(P) -A Japanese hospital ship which used its "free conduct" under Red Cross insignia to move contraband war supplies through the allied blockade of the East Indies is being taken into port by a U. S. seventh fleet patrol vessel.

General MacArthur's headquarters yesterday announced interception of the hospital ship, which also carried apparently faked soldier patients. The report of the boarding of the hospital ship, in the Banda sea north of Timor and roughly 400 miles north of Australia, said approximately 1,500 Japanese aboard were listed as patients. When the boarding party removed bandages from some of the patients, no wounds were found. Machine guns, 75 millimeter shells and other ammuniton were found packed in cases marked "medical supplies," headquarters said. In the announcement, neither the course of the vessel nor the port to (Continued on Page Two) Mrs.

Bertha Lauth Dies at Home Here Mrs. Bertha C. Lauth, 71, died at her home at 2025 Royal Palm avenue late last night after a long illness. She leaves a daughter, Miss Charlotte M. Lauth, and two sons, William C.

Lauth of Fort Myers and Edward J. Lauth of Washington. Mrs. Lauth has made her home in Fort Myers since 1921. Funeral arrangements are in charge of Lawrence A.

Powell, and will be announced later. Pierre Laval Claims Vichy Saved France Says 'Asphyxiation' Was Prevented; Declares He Saved Former Premiers' Lives PARIS, Aug. Laval, Picturing himself as an unwilling tool of the nazis, claimed at the treason trial of his Vichy chieftain, Marshal Henri Petain, today that he had prevented the gestapo murder of two former French premiers. The arch collaborator, who has sentenced to death by Marseille court, asserted he saved Leon Blum and Paul Reynaud from nazi firing squads and professed ignorance of the murder of Georges Mandel, celebrated martyr of anti-German resistance. Though acknowledging in effect that he was the "most hated man in France," the swarthy, whitetied ex-fugitive contended he and Petain saved France from "asphyxiation" and asserted he twice refused to enter a military alliance with Germany, once at the time of the Anglo- American landings in North Africa.

Digging into the secrets of the Vichy regime, Laval maintained that French forces in Africa resisted the allies "to prevent a German attack" and revealed that two American diplomats--one of them former ambassador to Vichy, Adm. William D. Leahy-had demanded an explanation for Laval's notorioug "I desire a German victory" speech. Saved Blum, Reynaud Laval, who wound up his two days of testimony only a few minutes before the 12th day of Petain's trial ended, declared he saved Blum and Reynaud from German firing squads by protesting to the Germans. He said that, chief of the Vichy government, "he learned the two former premiers of the third republic "were going to be shot by the Germans in reprisal for the condemnation in Algiers of Pierre Pucheu (Vichy minister of the interior)." Laval asserted he approached the Germans and demanded an investigation when he learned that Mandel had been murdered.

He said he heard about the murder from Joseph Darnand, chief of the Vichy gestapo, who Laval asserted WAS "imposed upon us" by. the Germans. "Mandel was my friend," Laval cried. "I regretted his murder and I suffered when I learned of it." Laval also denied any connection with the mysterious death of former minister of education, Jean Zay. "Jean Zay also was my friend," he said.

Laval also claimed he tried to get former Premier Edouard Herriot released from a German prison, carrying the case to Adolf Hitler himself, who, however, "gave me a negative response." Acted on Nazi Orders Laval, asserting that the Vichy government made the best of a bad situation after the Franco-German armistice, declared the worst actions of Vichy resulted from direct orders of the Germans. Since France was prostrate, the Germans could have "asphyxiated" her. Hence, he claimed, he and Petain could only negotiate, trying wherever possible to dull the edge demands. Referring to the sending of 000 French workers to Germanyfor French public opinion holds him mainly responsible--Laval said that in return he obtained the liberation of 50,000 French prisoners of war. "I realize those who were sent to Germany feeling nothing but hatred for me," he said.

"Many more who stayed behind also hate me for this. But is it the aim of a chief of government to seek on Page Potsdam Stand on Spain Franco Declares -Generalissimo Franco's government declared today that it "rejects as arbitrary and unjust" the Big Three's Potsdam declaration excluding Spain from membership in the United Nations. A government statement issued by the Falange press directorate added that Spain does not "beg a secondary place in international ences" and said "similar reasons led Spain under the monarchic regime to quit the League of Nations." Earlier Franco summoned Spanish Foreign Minister Alberto Martin Artajo and Cortes (parliament), President Esteban Bilbao to his summer home and it was learned that they were preparing a questionnaire the Potsdam communique submission Monregarding, day to the American and British ambassadors. Text of the statement: "In the face of the unusual allusion to Spain contained in the communique issued at the Potsdam conference, the Spanish state rejeets as arbitrary and unjust the expressions concerning Spain and considers them a result of the false atmosphere created by the defamatory campaign of the red exiles and through associates abroad. Senator Raps Stimson Plan For Big Army Johnson Challenges War Chief to Prove More Than 3 Million Are Needed for Japs WASHINGTON, Aug.

4-(A) Senator Johnson (D-Colo) challenged Secretary of War Stimson today to refute a calculation that no more than 3,000,000 American soldiers can be deployed in the Pacific by the end of the next year. Carrying on a fight begun Wednesday in the closing session of the senate, Johnson urged that the army be "scaled down to a sensible figure based on logistics and not on the military fortunes of high officers who do not relish the idea of being Johnson made public a letter to Stimson saying "your Aug. 2 statement that you must have an overall army of 7,000,000 men is most dis- heartening." Bitter Men Milling Around "Your decision," Johnson wrote, "means millions of bitter, discontented men milling around the United States in uniform during the next 18 months. It means a transportation crisis. It means a serious manpower shortage in vital industries.

It means that reconversion is stymied. It means are to have mass a demobilization at the very moment when unemployment in the United States is at its peak." Independently, Senator Taft (R- Ohio) in the course of a proposed program for congress declared that "the stupid, stubborn policy of the war department in maintaining an army as big as it was on V-E day should be overruled. It is impossible to see how even 7,000.000 men can be used in the war against Japan, and we still have about 8,300,000." Supply Line Is Problem Johnson declared that General Douglas MacArthur must have every man he possibly can use, but told Stimson: "With a 7,000 mile supply line to buck, the bottleneck is not our desires, but it is the shipping facilities available. Nothing can be done to increase them now. Under your revolving plan, fully 50 per cent inf the men now in the South Pacific are overdue for replacement.

Many of them have over three years of foreign service. "If we transport an average of 4,000 men per day until Jan. 1, 1947, we will have transported 2.000.000 new soldiers to the Japanese front. But attrition from all sources on an average of 40.000 per month will withdraw 700.000 men from that front and will leave 118 on January 1, 1947, on Page James Roosevelt Bumped off Plane KANSAS CITY, Aug. 4-(P) Col.

James Roosevelt was "bumped off" a westbound airliner today, but he flashed a grin when a civilian with priority rating wisecracked. "But the dog went through." Colonel Roosevelt had no comment. The unidentified civilian was referring to the recent incident involving Blaze, a dog owned by the colonel's brother, Brig. Elliott Roosevelt. Because of Lien, priority assigned to the dog, which was being shipped from Washington to California, three servicemen were "bumped" from an army transport at Memphis.

Colonel Roosevelt, 37-year-old son of the late President Roosevelt, is back in the United States after seven months in the Philippines, He is on the staff of a commander of an amphibious group. Home on sick leave, the marine colonel had reported to a navy hospital at San Diego, then had gone on to Hyde Park and New York. After losing his seat on the plane, he went to A hotel. He hopes to obtain a reservation on a train tonight. MacArthur Takes Over For Invasion 12 More Japanese Cities to Perish GUAM, Sunday, Aug.

-The destruction-dealing U.S. 20th army air force served notice today on 12 more Japanese industrial cities and their combined population of 1.400,000 that they were earmarked for devastation by Superfortresses. Plastering the cities with 000 pamphlets warning the Nipponese people to surrender, evacuate or die, a fleet of flew over the marked areas early today and brought to a total of 31 the vital, war -making targets forewarned in the Superfort command's deadly campaign of psychology plus explosives. Chief forewarned city was Yawata, a densely populated metropolis of 650.000 on the southern island of Kyushu, the Pittsburgh of Japan. It is the largest single iron and steel center in Japan.

Another on the list of doom was Akita, population 110,000. With Tsuchizaki, its port, on the northwest coast of Honshu, it is the center of Japan's largest oil producing fields. Other cities were Hachinohe, Urawa, Fukushima, Takayama, Tottori, Iwakuni, all on Honshu: Saga, Miyakonojo, on Kyushu: Otaru, largest port of Hokkaido, and Imabari, on Shikoku. It was the third time a group of cities had been warned of approaching raids in the campaigner announced July 28 by Maj. Gen.

Curtis Lemay of the 20th air force. Promised destruction subsequently followed to 10 of the forewarned cities. Japanese Admit Heavy Invasion Would Succeed Say Attempt Doomed if Not on Large Scale With Great Skill SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4-(P) -Tokyo conceded today that an allied invasion of the homeland would be a success if staged on a proper scale, but waxed confidenet that Nippon's hoarded airpower would smash invaders and lead the sons of Mikado to ultithe mate victory. Speculation on the anticipated invasion was contained in broadcasts by two unidentified commentators, one of whom again dismissed talk of unconditonal surrender with the statement: "Japan will not give in because it does not know the word defeat, and the quicker the enemy realizes it, the better it will be for them." The other broadcaster, attempting to convey the thought that Japan was anxiously awaiting the invasion, gave a lefthanded admission of the possibilities by saying the big attack "will be doomed to failure unless the operation is done under the utmost skill and on a large scale." Oriental Russians The broadcasts described Japan as playing a waiting game, "gritting its teeth," and insisted there was "no need to counterattack enemy at this stage--not until the enemy operatons actually begin." One commentator was contemptuous of Germany and its crackup under allied air weight.

"Orientals are made of sterner stuff," he said, mentioning the Chinese and their eight-year defense against on Page Dr. A. P. Hunter, Pioneer Here, Dies in Birmingham Word was received here day by Virgil C. Robb of the death in Birmingham Friday night of Dr.

A. P. Hunter, 69, pioneer Fort Myers physician. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 4 p. m.

at the Powell funeral home with Cy Stewart, John Cameron, Mr. Robb, D. W. Ireland, Paul Franklin and Sam Johnston acting 85 pallbearers, The Rev. Douglas Aldrich of the First Baptist church will conduct are service.

Dr. Hunter was a general practitioner, later specializing in pediatrics for 35 years in Fort Myers. He retired from active practice in 1930. He came here in May, 1905, from Georgia where he was grad. uated from the University of Georgia.

His wife was the former Miss Ellen Timmons. Their son, Frank, is now head bacteriologist of United Laboratories of Birmingham, in effect head of the combined public health laboratories of Birmingham and the state of Alabama. General Given Task Of Forging Great Force to Crush The Japanese MADRID, Sunday, Aug. 5-(AP) Attlee Continues to Comb Labor Ranks For Ministers LONDON, Aug. 4-AP)-Prime Minister Attlee appointed a former royal navy stoker, Walter James Edwards, as civil lord of the admiralty board, puttng the 44-year-old veteran of two wars on the admiralty board beside Britain's senior admirals.

Edwards, ofter described as the "member of parliament for the lower deck." was one of 33 junior ministers named by Attlee. The prime minister also selected nine ministers, virtually completing the administration which will direct the labor party's far reaching program of econome change for Britain. Veteran of Dunkerque Known affectionately as "Wally" to his fellow East Enders in London, Edwards, wat elected to parliament In 1942. believed to be the first civil lord with wartime fleet service. The post usually is filled by a civilian.

After serving in the first world war, Edwards rejoined the navy in 1939 as a leading stoker and saw action off Dunkerque, in the Lofoten raid and with the Arctic convoys to Murmansk. In his new post he will be paid $6,000 a year. No. 10 Downing street, the official residence of the prime minister, announced that Attlee's formal cabinet would be made up of 20 of the 25 ministers already in possesson of their seals of office. The newly named ministers are: George Tomlinson, 55, works; Lewis Silkin, 56, town and country planning; James Griffiths, 55, national insurance: Lord Winster, 60.

civil aviation; Edward John (Ted) Williams, 55, information: the Earl of Listowel, 39, postmaster general; John Burns Hynd, 43, chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster; Hartley William Shawcross, 43, attorney general, and Maj. Frank Soskice, solicitor beneral. Attlee now is surrounded with 34 senior ministers, all with experience. Tomlinson and Silkin were expected to have a full share in solving Britain's most pressing domestic problem -housing. It was reliably reported that their ministries, together with on Page Twol Cuba Reports Radius Of Storm Extended HAVANA, Aug.

4-(A) The tropical storm moving across the Caribbean sea south of Haiti has extended its radius, the national observatory said in a special bulletin tonight. The storm, which the observatory continued to describe as of "small intensity" extends from Cape Haitian to an area 100 miles south of Port-auPrince, The bulletin added that reports from the storm area tomorrow, particularly from Jamaica, will "serve to indcate the intensity of the storm." MIAMI REPORT MIAMI, Aug. 4-(P)-A tropical storm sweeping out of the Lesser Antilles was reported breaking up over the mountains of the Dominican republie today and the Miami weather bureau announced at 2 p. 111. that no further advisories would be issued.

The latest advisory said: "The tropical disturbance moved into the Dominican Republic in the Ocoa bay area about 50 to 60 miles west of Ciudad Trujillo and is being broken up and dissipated by the mountains of the interior. Squally weather will continue over the Dominican Republic, Haiti and surrounding waters this afternoon but will gradually diminish. No further advisory will be issued." MANILA, Sunday, Aug. 5-(AP) -General MacArthur announced extension of his Pacific army command to the Ryukyu islands Saturday, thus for the first time assuming control of conquered Japanese soil in his drive "on to Tokyo." The announcement declared that the Ryukyus, with the Philippines, "form a great semicircular base from which a mighty invasion force is being forged under the primary responsibility of General MacArthur for the final conquest of Japan." General Doolittle's eighth air force, to be based on Okinawa, will be under General Spaatz' U. S.

army strategic air forces, which remain separate from the MacArthur command. MacArthur's Forces Unites under MacArthur already in the area or moving up from the Philippines include General Stilwell's tenth army and Gen. George C. Kinney's Far East air forces, which include the fifth, seventh and 13th air forces. The extension of command, which became effective Tuesday midnight, was not a sudden shift.

MacArthur previously had announced the appointment of General Stilwell to succeed the late Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, as commandof the Okinawa -conquering tenth army. Admiral Nimitz, under whose overall command Okinawa and a dozen smaller islands were occupied, presumably remained in command of naval forces in the Ryukyus. As the command extension was announced.

Senators Johnson (D- Colo) and Stewart (D-Tenn) declared in that they favored MacArthur to overall command in the Pacific. They were commenting on an Okinawa statement by General Doolittle that, an overall chief of all armed forces would be advantage- ous. National Invasion Bridge The Ryukyus, extending from Formosa to the Japanese mainland, from the natural invasion bridge which MacArthur would follow In the "on to Tokyo" declaration he issued Feb. 6 in proclaiming the fall of Manila. Japan still holds the by-passed Sakishima group, between the Okinawas and Formosa, and the northern Amami, Tokara and Osumi groups.

Okinawa is about 600 miles from the Philippines and only 325 miles from Japan's mainland. The Ryukyus change apparently was made under the U. S. joint chiefs of staff assignments of April 5, dividing Pacific commands, MacArthur was then named commander of "all army forces and resources in the Pacific theater" and Nimitz was given command of all naval forces and resources. Chiefs of Staff Act Spaatz has since been named to command the U.

S. strategic air forces, including Doolittle's eighth air force and Lt. Gen. Nathan F. (Twining's Marianas-based 20th air force.

This command is directly under General Arnold and the joint chiefs of staff. Orders for MacArthur's Ryukyu command came from the joint. chiefs of staff, it was announced in Washington. Members of this high command include Adm. William D.

Leahy, chief of staff to the president; Gen. George C. Marshall, army chief of staff; Adm. Ernest J. King, commander in chief.

of the fleet, and Gen. H. H. Arnold, commander of army air forces. Bee-keeper Objects To DDT Spraying "Spain, following a course of discretion and good will while confronted with singular misstatements which did not involve her directly, refrained from formulating her reservations to the agreements of the San Francisco conference which in any case were reached in the absence of practically all European countries.

"But on being now so unjustly referred to, she sees herself obliged to declare that she does not beg admittance to international conferences and would not accept anyinconsistent with her history, her people or the services which Spain rendered to peace and culher once, still a monarchy, ture. Similar, reasons prompted to withdraw from the old League of Nations. "Spain proclaims once more her peace loving spirit, her good will towards all peoples and trusts that, once the passions exacerbated by war and propaganda are allayed, the present judgment will be reconsidered. Spain will continue at home and abroad to collaborate in the work of peace in which she made a signal contribution by remaining neutral, free and inde. pendent in the two most terrible wars known to history." For 21 years Dr.

Hunter was chairman of the school board, taking over when there was one little wooden school building. He pushed a building program which included the erection of Gwynne Institute, interested other prominent citizens in school problems, and upon his retirement from the board was awarded the first American Legion medal for outstanding community service. Also a vigorous advocate of city sanitary laws, Dr. Hunter drafted the first sanitary ordinance ever passed in Fort Myers. In addition to his medical practice and school work, Dr.

Hunter Was associated with his brother, the late Dr. Nat H. Hunter, in Hunter's drug store. Survivors include his son and two sisters, Mrs. Jonathan Bryan and Mrs.

Sarah Cole, three brothers, C. Howard and flans Hunter, all of Georgia, the family of Dr. Nat Hunter and the children of the late Hunter Brown, all of Fort Myers. TAMPA, Aug. 4 -Plans to spray MacDill field army air base with DDT from a B-29 Superfort met with some civilian opposition today.

John H. Street, owner of 29 hives near the field, said the DDT would ruin him and his been. "If they spray it will kill the bees when we need the honey so badly since our sugar is short and it will ruin our citrus crop as the bees innoculate the citrus bloom with pollen. So without the bees the citrus crop too will be ruined." Army officers said if close range spraying is necessary a specially rigged jeep would be used instead of the plane. THE WEATHER In Fort Myers yesterday (Aug.

4): High 93, low 75. Forecast: Partly cloudy, scattered showers. Tides at Fort Myers Beach: High Low A.M. P.M. A.M.

P.M. Sun. 11:12 7:15 Mon. 2:51 12:07 5:39 7:56 Sun rises 6:55, sets 8:17. Moon rises 4:26 a.

m. sets 6:41 p. m..