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v. Published Every Mornlnj Member Audit Bureau of Circulation AP Newa and Wirephotoa Phone EDiaoa S-114S Thomas A. Edisyi There is only one Fort Myera and 90 million people art going to find it out." I I 1 I IV ax SEVENTY-SIXTH YEAR FORT MYERS, FLA, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 14, 1959 5c DAILY, 10c SUNDAY Myers est 4 fif IV Homesteads on New Highway Mil E1SFS1ISI U.N. Assembly Session Closes Retains Standing Raul Declares Anti-Red War 'Dirly Business' Younger Castro Denies He Is A Communist Bio lie! rail Well-lended Nurseries Indicate What Ail Can Do for High Standards President Paid Farewell Homage By Over Million NEW DELHI, Monday, Dec. 14 President Eisenhower obviously elated by his Indian visit departed for Iran today leav- ng Indians with the messaga that true peace will never be achieved until all mankind is free.

Despite a pre-dawn departure. Eisenhower was in the gayest of mood3. He called his visit here the most interesting visit I've ever made to another country." Gigantic crowds turned out to greet Eisenhower on arrival Wednesday and he was welcomed warmly everywhere he went. More than a million Indians massed to pay homage to him last night. There was no formal 3endof with bands and ceremonies because of the early hour.

Few See Takeoff Indian President Rejendra Prasad accompanied Eisenhower to Palam airport outside New Delhi. Prime Minister Nehru arrived five minutes earlier to be on hand for the farewell. In contrast bo his triumphal entry into New Delhi last Wednesday during which the U.S. President was cheered by possibly as many as two million Indians Eisenhower's trip back to the airport in the chill predawn was witnessed by few. Only peasants driving bullock carts were along the nine-mile route.

Takes 'Piece of Heart Thirteen minutes after arrival, following a round of handshakes, Eisenhower boarded his big orange-nosed plane for the trip to Tehran, capital of Iran, scheduled to take about four hours. In the windup of his public appearances last night, another huge throng heard Eisenhower's message on peace and freedom for mankind. At the giant gathering Nehra told Eisenhower he was leaving" with "a piece of our heart." Sixty acres of solidly packed humanity, stretching ag far as the eye could see, paid the final mass tribute to the President. Nehru said it was greatest civic reception he has even seen at th sprawling Ram Lila park between Old and New Delhi. It was the largest crowd Eisenhower has ever faced.

Freedom Will Be WTon "We believe that freedom will be won everywhere," Eisenhower told the crowd. "The hunger for it is far too deep-seated to be put off by a contrived definition or a man-made philosophy." After his speech, Eisenhower and Nehru met for a last talk over the dinner table, then issued a communique expressing deep satisfaction at friendly U.S.Indian relations. This said Nehru reviewed Asia problems for Eisenhower. The communique did not mention Red China's pressure at the Indian border but James C. Hagerty, Eisenhower's press secretary, said the matter of Communist China was discussed.

U. S. military support in the event of a Chinese attack was not discussed, Hagerty said, but the President expressed hope the dispute could be settled by negotiation. No guarantee of U. S.

support was either asked or given, Hagerty declared. Pakistan Talks Eisenhower also expressed belief that Indian and Pakistan negotiations on their long quarrel, including the Kashmir issue, would (Continued on Paga Z-A) Two Out of Seven Checked Reflect Good Child Care (Editor! Note: Ttiij the second ftf three daily irticlej reporting on randltlnns in the day ntirNerie of Fort Myers where children off working mothers am rami tor and where DO letai regulation are Imposed.) By DOROTHY FLYXN Mothers investigating the unregulated day nurseries here with an eye to leaving their children in their care will find vast differences among them. In contrast to some nurseries where sanitation, safety, loving care and general responsibility seem sadly lacking, there were two among the seven investigated vMch maintained high standards. Their practices indicate what could be done by day nurseries. Instead of accepting 20 to 30 children, these two nurseries take only 15 to 20.

Instead of accepting an age range of six-week-old infants to school age children, these two take only children 2 to 6. Both owners feel that in order to give infants the special care and close observation they should have, too much of their time with older youngsters would have to be sac rificed to do a responsible job with either group. Responsibility Apparent This feeling of responsibility for other people's children is appar ent in the attitudes and actions of both these nursery owners. One, a day nursery and playschool in its 14th year of operation here, takes children by the week only. It will not release a child at the end of the day to anyone but a parent, unless requested to do so by the parent.

(Continued Fu S-A) Teamsters Picket President Hoffa At Tampa Arrival Dec. 13 (. Teamsters Union President James R. Hoffa encountered pickets from a teamsters local tonight when he arrived for a union conference. Half a dozen placard-carrying pickets of Local 388 met Hoffa outside the conference The pickets said they were protesting a Nov.

30 announcement by Hoffa that "it is necessary to impose a trusteeship" on the local. The teamsters president blam ed newspapers for "misinterpret ing" his trusteeship statement, which Hoffa said was intended only to put the local on notice that action might follow. No trusteeship has been created, he said. "Things are just like they have been. There has been no change at all and there won't be until I can meet with both Sehlitz and Budweiser woi'kers Jan.

1," Hoffa told the pickets. Hoffa was here to appeal for votes in balloting, next Tuesday to choose between his teamsters union and the AFL-CIO Brewery Workers Union as barg-aining agent for several hundred Tampa employes of Anheuser Busch (Budweiser). Buying on Time Cuts Reds' Pay MOSCOW, Dec. 13 Store clerks in Rostov protested today that their take-home pay has dropped because of installment buying, legalized in the Soviet Union last month. Clerks are paid a flat salary plug a bonus on the sales they make.

But under installment buying, they are credited only with the down payment about 25 per cent in calculating the bonus. "It is necessary for shop assistants to have a material incentive in the expansion of the new form of 88168, the secretary of the Rostov trade union workers wrote the Soviet trade delegation here. Boat Accident Drowns Father, Five Children Capsizing Dumps Group on Outing, In Georgia River BAINBRIDGE, Dec. 13 A pleasure ride in a small boat ended in the drownings of a young father, four of his five children and a neighbor youth today. One mother survived the tragedy through the frantic directions of her son before he perished.

The dead: Curtis Spruiell, 30, of Bain- bridge; his children, Mildred, Diane, Faye, and Jimmy, and the neighbor, Jerry Pearson, 13. Mrs. Pearson, about 40, mother of the drowned youth, also was in the boat when it swamped in the deep, swift currents of the Flint River. She survived by clinging to the overturned craft at the shouted urgingg of her son, she said and was rescued by another neighbor, Fred Faircloth. Makes Fast Turns The Spruiells and Pearsons had gone to the water's edge while Spruiell, a mechanic, checked minnow baskets.

Mrs. Spruiell, who was taken to a hospital in deep shock following the drownings, stood on the shore holding their 1-year-old daughter, Mary Elaine, while Spruiell took their other four children, Mrs. Pearson and Jerry for a ride in the 10-foot, flat-bot tomed, wooden fishing boat. It was powered by a heavy outboard motor. Mrs.

Pearson, also suffering from "shock, said Spruiell was making rather fast turns in the (Continued on Fate 3-A) Tke Weatherman Says: Fair and a little warmer this afternoon, with high near 70. Northerly winds 7 to 12 miles per hour becoming northeasterly. (Full weather details P2A). it easy in his Jeep. By RITE DAUGHTREY, NAPLES, Dec.

13 The first settler on the new Naples-Immoka-lee highway is Old Chiz, determined to keep his record as Naples' leading pioneer although now he shaves once a week and wears shoes on Sunday. Chiz, whose full name is Chis-holm Rivers, has moved out of the home where he pioneered the settling of North Naples onto a six-acre tract on the south side of the Naples-Immokalee highway two miles east of the Tamiami Trail. Still making a business of drill ing water wells since he sold his "Old Chiz" bar on the Trail in North Naples, Chij plans a business operation as well as a home at his new location. He has nearly completed a con crete block building for a sandwich shop the first structure fronting directly on the new highway between Immokalee and Naples Park and plans to build a machine shop garage on adjoining frontage. Last Pioneering There is a cypress swamp between the front and rear of the property and Chiz and his wife and 18-year-old son live in a temporary home in the rear.

"I am going to build me a nice home and live out my days here," said Chiz, adding that this may be his last pioneering although he is only 52. He plans to lease the sandwich shop and will clear and beautify the cypress swamp with walkways for tourists. "I could see this was a coming area and bought this proprty before the new highway was opened two years ago," he said. "The Corkscrew Swamp Audubon sanctuary will attract a lot of visitors and the area will settle up fast." Lhiz said no bootlegging or gambling will be permitted at his new sandwich shop. "I got out of the bar business because paychecks needed by families were being spent on liquor and gambling," he said.

"I couldn't feel right about it." He said the machine shop garage would be for maintaining his well drilling machines and equipment he now has two (Continued no Tn t-A) Last Civil War Vet, Williams, Improving HOUSTON, Dec. 13 (JP) Civil War. veteran Walter Wil liams, 117, was reported slightly improved today. Family members said he appeared to have shown a little improvement since doctors began giving him nourishment through the vein last Friday. Doctors said his condition remained critical.

Williams, last surviving veteran of the Civil War, contacted pneumonia for the fourth time this year about a week ago. Year Old Car 01' Chiz Pioneer 01 Chix Rivers takes Pre-Dawn Blast Rips Apartment, 26 Feared Dead Two Buildings Torn Asunder, Cars Tumbled DORTMUND. Germany, Dec. 13 A predawn explosion destroyed two apartment houses here today and police said 26 per sons are believed to have perish' ed. There were only eight surviv-ors of the disaster, which re duced two four-story buildings to rubble and made the suburb of Aplerbeck look as if it had been hit by a bombing raid.

Seven badly burned persons were in hospitals and one woman suffering from shock was with relatives. Three persons who escaped the burning buildings died later. 17 Buried Alive Late tonight hundreds of rescue workers were digging under the glare of searchlights in the still smoldering wreckage for bodies of 17 persons believed still buried. Police said there was no hope of finding anyone alive. They first estimated there were about 50 persons in the building, but after checking and questioning neighbors they said there were 35 residents registered and one known visitor.

Two children now orphaned were known bo be away visiting relatives. Six bodies had been recovered by 7:30 p.m. Police blamed the 3:12 a.m. explosion on a leaking gas pipe but a director of the local gas works denied there were any defective pipes in the area. Cars Overturned Parked cars were overturned, telephone lines were broken, shop windows were smashed and ceilings of apartments fell within a 400-yard circle of the disaster scene.

About 200 persons in the neighborhood were made homeless. Firemen, police and red cross volunteers swarmed to the disaster scene. They were joined by 250 soldiers of a British Army guided missile unit stationed in suburban Doi-tmund. But for eight hours, searing flames prevented a search for the dead. Hours after the disaster the buildings were still smoldering and billowing smoke clouds hung over the scene.

Rescue workers wore gas masks as they dug into the wreckage under the glare of searchlights. Yule Tree Untouched A lone Christmas tree, miraculously untouched by the flames, protruded from the wreckage. (Continued on Page 2-A) Employes Replace Six Man Gave Finds Rolls SAN CARLOS, Dec. 13 (JP) Kurt G. Appert always wanted to do something for the men who helped build his electronic shop into a 30 million dollar a year industry.

So what Appert did was this. After General Telephone Electronics Co. bought but his firm and he retired at 48, Appert gave 350 associates and employes a million and a half dollars worth of the stock General Telephone paid him in the deal. Giving away that much turned out to be quite a problem, Appert said "How is it possible to deal 100 per cent fairly with people you respect and like?" he asked. "I took several weeks just On Compromise Poland, Turkey To Split Term In Top Council UNITED NATIONS, N.

Y. Dec. 13 (JP) East-West compro mises marked the session of the 1959 U. N. General Assembly which ended today.

Victor Andres Belaunde of Peru, president of the three-month-long 14th annual session, called it "the assembly of peace" just before he declared it closed at 4:11 a.m. The Soviet Union and the United States, during the session, drafted joint resolutions on disarmament talks outside and outer space talks inside the United Nations. They agreed that a disputed two-year term on the Security Council "should be split between their respective candidates, Poland and Turkey. Cold-War Language They used cold-war language in debates on Tibet and Hungary issues first put before the session by third parties. But their relations generally reflected the conciliatory "spirit of Camp David," generated at September meetings of Soviet Premier Ni- kita Khrushchev and President Eisenhower in that Maryland mountain retreat.

The 80 other nations in the assembly generally went along with this trend in unanimous votes on issues they had split on in previous sessions. Khrushchev told the assembly Sept. 18 three days after it opened that "relations between states are becoming warmer." He proposed a plan for general and complete disarmament within four years. Session Behind Loaded down with work, the assembly ran a week and a day beyond its originally -scheduled closing date. In its last hectic hours it: 1.

Killed a Pakistani resolution, brain-child of the 29-nation Asian-African group, that would have urged talks to settle the Al gerian rebellion against France on the basis of self-determination. 2. Unanimously adopted a resolution of American-Soviet authorship setting up a permanent 24-nation U. N. Outer space committee that the Russians will not boycott as they did this year's temporary committee.

3, Ratified a East- West agreement by electing Po land to the Security Council on the understanding she would resign after a year and let Turkey be elected for the second and last year of the term. The final secret (Continued on Face J-A) Colorado Democrat Leader Is Robbed, Slain in Denver DENVER, Dec. 13 F. Rock, 52, Democratic national committeeman from Colorado and prominent Denver banker, was robbed and apparently beaten to death early today. His body was found in a small park in a residential section of northeast Denver.

He has been beaten, about the face. Pockets of Rock's clothing were turned inside out. His empty wallet was found nearby. Detective Chief Walter Nelson took charge of the investigation and assigned 10 teams of detectives to the case. They began a chk of about two dozen known police characters with a method of operation similar to that used in Rock's death.

Exact cause of death was not determined pending outcome of an autopsy. Medical examiners said they were not able to determine how long the body had been in the small park because the early morning temperature was near freezing Rock was last seen alive about 2 a.m. by two close friends. They were among 80 to 90 men attending a stag party of The Jesters, an organization of Shriners, at downtown hotel last night. Well, Appert's stock gifts to his former workers generated quite a problem for them.

How would they say thank you? "We wanted to do something," said a spokesman, ''but what do you give a person who has the means to buy anything he wants? "WTe knew he drove around in a six-year-old car and we figured giving him a new car would be something useful." In four days, the employe group gathered $18,000. the money, they bought the. $17,000 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud limousine Appert and his wife, Violet, found behind a giant Christmas card in their Atherton driveway last night. "I'm stunned," said Appert Four Astronauts Reported Killed In Red Attempts 3 Russian Men, Woman Perish, Informants Say NUERNBERG, Germany, Dec. 13 (if) German space scientist Prof.

Hermann berth said today he believes published reports that four Soviet astronauts have per ished in attempts to put man into space. "I know from American intelli gence reports that one attempt at the end of 1957 or beginning of 1958 failed," Oberth said. "I believe the Russians made several other attempts." He was commenting on reports published by the Italian news agency Continentale, that reliable informants in Prague said the Soviets have made four vain attempts to get man in one case a woman into space. NASA Declines Comment In Washington, the National Aeronautics and Space Administra tion had no comment on the re port. A spokesman referred to statements by the Soviet space chief, Leonid I.

Sedov, when he was here recently that Russia has no man-in-space program under way now. State Department officials also declined comment. Oberth, 66, a former member of the U.S. Army's missile program at Huntsville, said he knew from other American intelligence reports that the' Russians use a missile base near the Elbrus Mountains close to the Iranian border as the launching site for human space rockets. The Russians have experimented for two years with manned rockets but have not used first-line test pilots in space ships yet, said Oberth.

Have the Rockets He was vague on details of Soviet space flight attempts, but said he was convinced the Russians had rockets with sufficient thrust to hurtle manned space vehicles into orbit. British newspapers carried the Continentale story today. The agency said it got its information from, "most reliable sources" in Prague, but added there was no confirmation by official sources. A soviet embassy spokesman in Vienna said he knew nothing about the reports, but added: "In any case I am sure they are pure fabrication. I am sure such things never happened." Continentale said the Russians made four separate attempts to achieve manned space flight from a Soviet missile base north of the Iranian-Soviet border.

It said each failed and the astronauts vanished in space. The astronauts were (Continued on Paffi t-h) Freedom Offered For One Resolution CHICAGO, Dec. 13 (-Fifty-six men in Cook County Jail are eligible for a Chirstmas present if they make just one New Year's resolution. The present: freedom. The resolution: a vow to pay their alimony.

Playing Santa for the prisoners of Alimonv Row will be Judges John A. Sbarbaro and Thaddeus V. Adesko of Superior Court and Frank R. Leonard of Circuit Court. Reviving an old custom, the judges will make a Christmas cases and those who show the proper attitude that is, a willingness to ante up can win re- i lease.

The 56 violators, sentenced on charges of contempt of court for refusing to pay alimony even though they had sufficient funds, owe back payments ranging from $280 to a whopping $13,819. A few have been in jail for several months. Some of the prisoners may not think the judges' are offering a gift at all. While in jail, they don't have to pay their wives a cent. CHASE BULL Patrolman Elvin Washburn and Dick Hensley got their running exercise yesterday.

They sought to help Ben Waters, 3029 Broadway, catch a 300-pound bull which was reported to police when running loose in the Fort Myers Junior High School area. Waters and the officers chased the animal through yards on Evans, Maple, Powell and Hanson Streets. Exhausted they quit and watched the calf head across a vacant field south of Hanson at the end of Crawford Street. HAVANA, Dec. 13 Raul Castro told a military court today he is not a Communist but he declared he will not lend himself "to the dirty business of anti-Communism." Raul, Cuba's minister of armed forces and younger brother of Prime Minister Fidel Castro, testified at the treason trial of Maj.

Hubert Matos. He challenged Mates to a court debate on "the whole issue of Communism and said Matos raised the "phantom of Communism" to divide the Cuban people. Neither Raul nor Fidel was in court earlier in the session when called to testify, but Raul later showed up. Infiltration Charged Matos, former army commander in Camaguey Province, was arrested after he tried to quit his military post and charged there was Communist infiltration in the revolutionary forces. Raul called on Matos to join him on the stage of the theater, where the trial was in its third day, to have a face-to-face discussion "of the Communist problem and all the reasons why he (Matos) was branded a traitor." "I am not a Communist," Raul told the court, "but I am not an anti-Communist.

I will not lend my-eelf to the dirty business of anti-Communism which is the same argument expressed by the Trujillo Batista supporters and the great monopoly of foreign imperialists. Win Fight Them "At any time tiie Communists place themselves against the revolution, we will fight the Communists." His reference to Trujillo and Batista were to Generalissimo Ra fael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic and ousted Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista. A long list of witnesses called prior to today's session testified that: Matos had discussed with other officers what he called the dangerous Communist infiltration of the armed forces and requested that they join him in raising the matter with Fidel Castro. That Matos, while commanding a group of rebels against the forces of Batista, had refused to share arms and funds with some of his subordinates; That he had tried to move his friends into official civilian and military positions in Camaguey, and that Matos had dragged his feet on Castro's agrarian reform program. Matos testified earlier that he had resigned as Camaguey commander because he disagreed with what he called Raul Castro's radical ideology.

Barbara Eisenhower Startled When Ike Has Mark on Face NEW DELHI, Dec. 13 (JP) Barbara Eisenhower had two scares on a trip to the Indian countryside today: one funny and the other not so funny. At the village of Laromda, Barbara was startled when her father-in-law, President Eisenhower, appeared with a two-inch, bright red line down the center of his forehead. Barbara gasped. "It looked like he had been wounded," she said after being assured it was a dye mark, known as a tilak, made by an old Indian woman as a sign of wishes for good luck.

The President smilingly wore the mark all the way to Agra airport, where some newsmen had the same first reaction as Barbara. Earlier in the day, en route to New Delhi airport to catch a plane to Agra and the village, Barbara had a more serious fright. The car in which she and her husband, Maj. John Eisenhower, were riding skidded briefly out of control on a rain-slick highway. The car, driven by an Indian chauffeur, spun around in a semicircle but the couple, was uninjured.

The Eisenhowers were en route to the airport to join the President in a quick visit to the Taj Mahal. Newsmen asked Barbara afterward if she was frightened by the mishap. "It happened so fast I didn't have time to be frightened but later I was," she replied. News-Press Index Amusements Bridge Classified Comics 9 A. ,8 A 7B-9B 6B 4A 2A 4A 7A 8A-9A 1B-2B Crossword Deaths -Editorial Radio-TV Society Sports Associates ,500,000, Royce Gift Under Tree If 'i rV- A I I 1 -IT st si thinking about it.

In the end I had to rely on how well I knew the people and their contributions to the company." From his experience Appert philosophized: "I suspect the reason that more is not given is: people who would like to give find it is impossible to do a 100 per cent equitable job." Appert said the secret of success in the Lenkurt Electric Co. partnership of himself and Len-nert G. Erickson had been: "Get good people around you and attempt to treat them right; hear them out when they have problems and sweat it out with them." Tresidont Kisenhower, forehead marked with vermilion, waves to people at village of Laromda during visit. Vermilion was applied to both Ike and Prime Minister Nehru, right, by elderly illager who said It would ward off evil spirits. (AP Wirephoto) II lHWs.