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CORAL GABLES Riviera

PUBLISHED MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOONS VOL. 21—No. 78 (D) U.P. LEASED WIRE CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1947 8 PAGES FIVE CENTS

Satira Gets For Slaying

HAVANA, Dec. 22. (UP)—Patricia (Satira) Schmidt today was sentenced to 15 years in prison and ordered to pay a $5,000 indemnity for killing John Lester Mee of Chicago. Miss Schmidt also was ordered to pay all court costs. She was convicted of homicide in the slaying which occurred last April aboard the yacht Satira which Mee had named for her. The sentencing was announced today after the court had deliberated for 72 hours.

ITU Defies NLRB Order To Produce Union Records

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. (UP)—The International Typographical Union (AFL) today defied a National Labor Relations Board order to produce certain records. A board attorney promptly announced that Robert N. Denham, general counsel for the board, would seek a federal court order to force compliance. The defiance and threatened court action climaxed a brief hearing on procedural or technicality complaint against the union. Earlier the charges of unfair labor practice against the union were amended to include alleged slowdowns and exaction of payment for services not rendered. Arthur Leff, trial examiner for the National Labor Relations Board, granted a request by Robert N. Denham, general counsel of the board. Denham asked to include the new charges with others filed against the union by the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association and the Inland Daily Press Association. The request was made by Allen Sinsheimer Jr., attorney representing Denham, to further hearings on a complaint issued by Denham against the union on basis of the publishers' charges. Sinsheimer said both practices are violations of the Taft-Hartley law. He said the new charges cover continuous chapel meetings sometimes held by union locals on employer property during working hours. The men are paid for this time but perform no services for the employer, he said.

Yeggs Get $47,000 Loot In W. Palm Gulf Office

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Dec. 22. (UP)—Knob-knockers blew the lock off the safe in the Gulf Oil Corp. office here early today and escaped with some $47,000 in cash and checks. Sheriff John Kirk said the yeggs drilled a hole in the combination dial and inserted a small explosive charge, muffled by a typewriter cover filled with sand. Entrance to the office was gained by removing a pane of glass from a large window. The pair close in the "clean job" were a screw driver and a sledge hammer, Kirk said. The robbery evidently was performed by "expert safe crackers," who left no fingerprints, he said.

List of 220 `Big Shot' Traders Is Made Public

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. (UP)—Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson today released a list of 220 large-scale commodity traders who were in the market on Oct. 31, 1946, and Oct. 31, 1947. It showed that Edwin W. Pauley, now special assistant to Secretary of Army Kenneth C. Royall, held 300,000 bushels of oat futures on Oct. 31 this year and 300,000 pounds of cottonseed oil futres on that same date. Pauley also held 240,000 bushels of oats on Oct. 31, 1946.

Meyers Posts $2,000 Bail On 3 Charges Of Perjury

NEW YORK, Dec. 22. (UP)—Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers, retired, was released on $2,000 bail today and ordered to appear in Washington on Jan. 7 when arraigned on three counts of perjury in a federal grand jury growing out of the recent senate investigation of his awarding wartime aviation contracts. Meyers, indicted by a District of Columbia grand jury for alleged perjury in his testimony before the senate war investigating committee and for allegedly inducing Bleriot H. Lamarre of Dayton, O., to give false testimony, was arraigned before a U. S. commisioner in Brooklyn. Lamarre, who first testified that Meyers had nothing to do with the Aviation Electric Corp., which handled air force subcontracts, later changed his testimony before the senate committee and said Meyers was the real owner of the firm.

U.S. Holds Greek Newsman As Unwanted Red Alien

NEW YORK, Dec. 22. (UP)—A Greek newspaperman accredited to the United Nations has been arrested by the U. S. government as an undesrible communist alien, it was learned today, and will be given a deportation hearing tomorrow. He is Nicolas Kyriazidis, 26, who entered this country on a visitor's visa last June 9, and since has been accredited by the UN as a correspondent for several Greek newspapers, two of which have been suppressed by the Greek government. It was not known whether UN officials will be present at Kyriazidis' deportation hearing tomorrow, but the UN was known to be interested in the case as is the State Department in Washington.

15 Wounded In Flareups As Italy Ends Food Strike

ROME, Dec. 22. (UP)—A nationwide strike of 300,000 food workers ended today and the biggest of scattered general strikes was settled in Sicily, where 15 persons were wounded in a gun battle last night. The new flareup of violence occurred near Palermo at the village of Canicatti, where about 1,000 strikers tried to close a cafe. Police guarding the cafe fired on the demonstrators, who returned the fire.

3 Arabs Killed In New Street Fighting With Jews

JERUSALEM, Dec. 22. (UP)—At least three Arabs were killed during a clash with Jews outside Jaffa today in a renewal of violence which left 17 dead over the weekend. The battle flared outside the Arab village of Yagour, where two Jews were stabbed to death and their truck burned yesterday. Jews retaliated by firing into Yagour, killing one Arab and wounding two others. Arab snipers returned to the attack this morning, firing on Jewish trucks from irrigation ditches in orange groves. An armed escort accompanying the truck convoy returned the fire, killing at least three Arabs.

LEGION HERE JOINS FOES OF ZONE CHANGE

No Relief for Housing Shortage Seen in Proposal The hotly debated issue of lowering of zoning restrictions in the Riviera section is slated for an open discussion tonight, with opponents of the idea predicting a packed room when the Zoning Board of Appeals begins its meeting at 7:30 in the city commission chamber. Latest protest against any lowering of restrictions in the area south of Bird road came today from Post 98, American Legion in a letter to the zoning board chairman. Paul Greenaway, post adjutant, stated that the 700 members of the post had voted to oppose any lowering of building requirements in the area, adding that the veteran organization does not feel that the move would alleviate the housing shortage in this area. The zoning board has proposed to change zoning on approximately 50 blocks in the Riviera section. Areas affected include the strip west of the University of Miami main campus; Block 33, bounded by Biltmore Drive and Riviera Drive; the lots fronting on the main canal between Hardee Road and Cocoplum Plaza and a five block area west of LeJeune Road and north of Miller Road. Announcement of the plan brought immediate opposition from a group of residents headed by Arthur Brigham, who has been mustering his forces for a concentrated attack on the plan at tonight's meeting.

Negro Is Held On 9 Counts After Hit-Run Crash

Coral Gables police held Charles Boatwright, Negro, of 222 Freeman Street, on a string of nine charges today after a hit and run accident with another Negro last weekend at Grand Avenue and Jefferson Street. Frank Seay, 39, of 1451⁄2 South Dixie Highway, told police his auto had been hit by a 1946 Chevrolet sedan, driven by a colored girl. Seay said he knew the girl driver by sight but not my name. According to Seay, the Chevrolet was driven off but then halted at Grand Avenue and Douglas Doaa while the girl slipped out of the car and a Negro man drove it away. Gables police found the Chevrolet, with the license number supplied by Seay, at Boatwright's home. The Negro told police he didn't know whose car it was and added that he was just straightening the fenders. The nine charges on which Boatwright is held today are reckless driving, causing an accident, leaving the scene of an accident, failing to report an accident, driving without a license, failing to have his car inspected, disorderly conduct by interfering with a police officer, resisting arrest and possession of a stolen auto.