Coral Gables Riviera-Times

EVENTS MEETINGS RIVIERA TIME TABLE

Organizations are invited to list scheduled activities in the daily Riviera Time Table. Listings for this calendar of activities must reach the Riviera-Times editorial offices by 3 p.m. the day preceding publication. This Evening MUNICIPAL COURT—Convenes at police station, 5 p.m. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS—Coral Gables Lodge to be installed at Biscayne Lodge Hall, Miami, 8 p.m. COUNTRY CLUB—Fashion Show dress rehearsal, 8 p.m. GABLES THEATER—"Cross Fire," Robert Young. CORAL THEATER—"High Barbaree," Van Johnson. PARKWAY THEATER—"Last of the Mohicans," Randolph Scott. GROVE THEATER—"Red Stallion," Robert Paige. BOX THEATER—"The Christmas Carol," Fred Koch. Tomorrow KIWANIS CLUB—Meets at Country Club of Coral Gables, 12:15 p.m. CITY COMMISSION—Meets at City Hall, 7:30 p.m. GABLES THEATER—"Repeat Performance," Louis Hayward. CORAL THEATER—"Honeymoon," Shirley Temple. PARKWAY THEATER—"Last of the Mohicans," Randolph Scott. GROVE THEATER—"Two Mrs. Carrolls," Barbara Stanwyck. BOX THEATER—"The Christmas Carol," Fred Koch.

George Henry Joins Peninsular Staff

George H. Henry has joined the faculty of Peninsular Institute as a law instructor. Henry, a resident of Coral Gables, lives at 43 Avenue Madeira. He is a graduate of the University of Miami where he received his B.B.A. and L.L.B. Received his L.L.M. in Taxation at New York University and is now engaged in the general practice of law in Miami. He is a member of the Florida State Bar Association and Dade County Bar Association, Sigma Chi Fraternity, Coral Gables Junior Chamber of Commerce and University of Miami Alumni Association.

Orr Receives Orders To Electronics School

William G. Orr III, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Orr of 23 Alhambra Plaza, has reported for training at the Electronics Materiel School, Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois.

Other People's Troubles Are Business Of Deputy Constable William Shields

(Continued from Page One) if he promises not to try any tricks on the way down he is a prisoner during the trip. Tactics Work These tactics have evidently worked, for Shields has never lost a prisoner and in nine years as a deputy constable, he's handled 500 or 600 of them. Sometimes he'll return three or four prisoners at a time. Two years ago he brought four young men from Atlanta to Miami to face a charge of armed robbery. Shields drove all the way, with two of the prisoners in the back seat, and didn't even use handcuffs. One Altercation Shields has had only one serious altercation with a man, he sought to arrest. In 1940, when he was a deputy working out of the office of Justice Thomas S. Ferguson in the second district, he was sent out with a warrant for a chap called David Hill. Hill was wanted for aggravated assault, when in a frenzy. He had broken the arm of a woman named Ethel Hood with a baseball bat. Shields first went to see the Hood woman, who consented to take him to the house where Hill lived. But she was none too happy about it, as her arm was still in a cast from her last encounter with Hill. "He'll kill me," she said. "He's In There" They drove to a house, where Shields' guide pointed to a lighted window. "He's in there," she said fearfully. Shields went in, knocked and a woman's voice said Hill was not there. Shields went in to take a look for himself and saw a pair of feet standing behind the curtain which marked off a closet. The deputy called for Hill to come out and Hill left the clothes and shuffled out. He was six foot two and very muscular, Shields recalls. He refused to go to the car and Shields put an arm behind him. Hill pushed the deputy on a bed, where they both grappled for the revolver in Shields belt. "We both had a piece of that gun," Shields says. Shields had the trigger, while Hill had the barrel. Shields managed to fire one shot, which passed under Hill's arm. Empty Chamber He tried to fire again, but heard the firing pin click on an empty chamber. His antagonist had held the revolver so tight the chamber didn't turn. Finally, after an intense struggle, Hill wrenched himself free and fled out to the yard. Shields had six police cars combing the area within five minutes, but they never turned him up. But the deputy returned to Hill's house and, in the course of a search, came upon the registration card of a Postal Savings account. Shields called a Postal Inspector and enlisted his cooperation. Shields didn't hear from the inspector for 10 months. Then, he got a call that his quarry was in Detroit. He'd tried to cash the coupons he held, but they were no good without the registration card which was in the deputy's hands. A phone call to Michigan and Detroit detectives arrested Hill as he stood at a postoffice window. Shields didn't get the assignment to bring Hill back from Detroit, however. That job went to Deputy Sheriff Earl Sox, once a Gables police chief. Sox brought Hill back to face two charges, the original one of aggravated assault and a second count of armed attack on a police officer. Judge Ben C. Willard sent Hill to prison for a year on each charge. Started with State Shields began his career as a law enforcement officer in the Florida State Highway Patrol in February of 1936. In those days, a state patrolman got $125 a month and paid for his own uniforms. A year later, Governor Fred S. Cone abolished the state patrol and Shields moved to the office of Sheriff Walter Clark in Broward County. He served there as a deputy for seven months, then came to Dade. He became a deputy constable of the second district under Tom Wood on March 18, 1938 and stayed there until he was appointed a deputy to Constable George B. Hardie in Justice Sutton's office here last May. Likes Gables Shields likes working in the Coral Gables area. "It's a nice clean city, the people are gentlemen and the police are very cooperative." A deputy constable, contrary to general opinion, doesn't get paid for every warrant or summons he serves. The constable does, however, get a fee for each service, but he pays his deputy a salary. It costs $2.00 to serve a civil summons, with 35 cents charged for the copy and a quarter for the return. In addition, there's a 12 cents a mile mileage charge. Shields encounters some odd characters in his rounds. Once he confronted a man with a warrant for his arrest. The man looked at Shields with some disdain and said "I refuse to accept it." Shields explained that there is no such thing as refusing to accept a warrant, but the man held to his principles. Shields carried him to jail. Many citizens have odd notions about what a deputy constable is empowered to do. He gets a lot of calls from roomers whose clothes have been held in escrow by landladies. He always tells these complainants that the landlady has a legal right to hold the baggage of tenants whose rent hasn't been paid. And he gets his quota of calls from wives who want him to find their husbands in bars. "Swear out a warrant," Shields tells them. His family isn't too keen on Shields' sort of life, he says. They have to answer the phone too much. His daughters Janet and Joyce never jump when the phone rings; they know the call is always some lawyer or something wanting to talk to their father. But one member of the family who likes the way his father makes a living is William C. Shields, aged eight. Every afternoon, as soon as he leaves the Coral Gables Elementary School, he heads for his father's office on Ponce de Leon Boulevard. If he sees his dad's Mercury sedan there, he just gets in and waits for his father to come out with a summons to serve, a warrant to be executed or a prisoner to take to Dade county jail. He never has to wait very long.

The National Fire Protection Association estimates that last year in the United States there were 608,000 fires, causing damage of about $580,000,000.

The Florida Everglades is the most tropical portion of the mainland of the U. S. The highest of this land is only a few feet above sea level and most of it is partially under water.

A new technicolor film on Florida, "Florida: Wealth or Waste?" will be shown soon to Florida school children as part of a course in the use of natural and human resources.

What's in the Bottle?

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