Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 21

(Good! PULSE WEATHER Monday, Jan. 12, 1953 ST. PETERSBURG TIMES 21 LOCAL OBITUARIES THEY'D LIKE TO BE FESTIVAL QUEENS Police Quiz Fainter In Death Of Woman PAUL DAVIS CONDUCTOR Bridge Tourney Ends; Record Crowds Attend ton had visited him Saturday at his nursery and said, "I'm worried By JOHN GARDNER A 49 year old painter, sought Talk Of The Town Today Woman's death natural or violent? Chances for income tax cut look better. Blood Needed Badly about Marie maybe some in the Christmas Eve death of a scantily clad divorcee, was nabbed thing has happened to her Attendance records in the fifth yesterday as he left a gypsy trailer where he had his fortune told. annual All Southern States Championships bridge tournament Held on an open charge pending final report on an autopsy on the body of Mrs.

Marie Daeschler, ws, Mrs. Mary Miller, 3723 Sixth Street South, mother of a small daughter, is badly in need of blood for transfusions suf- fering from blood disease, now in Mound Park Hospital donations of blood may be made through the Community Blood Bank somebody should call police. Lockhart told police he had driven to the Daeschler home "a couple of times" with Singleton after Christmas Eve. He said Singleton had stopped and asked neighbors if they had seen Mrs. Daeschler.

Police Saturday said Mrs. Daeschler had signed an affidavit 48-year-old twice-divorced grand mother, is Edgar Jackson Singleton, slender and partially bald house painter, who gave his ad Like The Capistrano Swallows. Maybe held at the Coreno Hotel yesterday were falling faster than a thermometer on a New England farm house. Because of the crowds, the American Contract Bridge League, sponsor of the All Southern States tournament, announced that next year's matches will again be held in St. Petersburg.

The tournament ended yesterday. SATURDAY two attendance marks fell by the wayside as dress as 258 Ninth Street North. 1 i I I 1 -Z, fl l. I -3 MAGISTRATE EDWARD Sint0" 17 irginia irtnn called to retort th lt FrM a. -j i iiit; uiui wiui ui minimi, o.

last night said a preliminary au-, nnaeM tf1( nearly 1,000 robins in her neighborhood around 34th Street and Ait Avenue South branches of the trees sagged under them, so did phone and electric wires they remained over of having $700 saved in a small tobacco can and that about S300 of it was missing. Singleton was no head injuries, or other frac-tues and death apparently had not been violent. He withheld a com bridge enthusiasts flocked to the Soreno for the tea ms-of -four and plete report until police questioned Singleton. Mrs. Daeschler's decomposed released when Mrs.

Daeschler declined prosecution on the drunkenness charge. IN SINGLETON'S PROPERTY body was found in bed in her home at 4042 Dartmouth Avenue yesterday were receipts indicat- .5 ucyanea zaiuraay as skies cleared they seemed hungry and unafraid of humans alighted on the windowsills at the Irwin borne and looked in the windows, even flight blackened the skies. What's more, it was just about a year ago that a similar flock spent the night in the same neighborhood Virginia tbmks maybe they plan to come back each year like the famed swallows of Capistrano she's jotted down the dale and will check next year when they return. This wasn't the first report on migrating robins Mrs. ing he had rented a room at the North, Saturday, amgieton was the St.

Petersburg special game tournaments. The St. Petersburg Kennel Club Trophy was awarded to Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Glick, Mar Turk and William Root, all of Miami Beach, winners in the teams-of-four event with 38 points.

In second lace, with 32 12 points, were Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hart, St. Petersburg, Ninth Street North address, Dec. identified as a rootier in the house who had absented himself, according to neighbors, since 18, the day he was released from jail.

The receipts showed rent paid through Jan. 1. The house painter had $62 in cash in his -Ab--WJ -i4 shortly before Christmas. Singleton was arrested after he Charles btamm, 4260 55th Avenue North, reported a feathered billfold. Mrs.

George Jolly, Bradenton, and James Mullen, St. Peters visited an acquaintance at St. Petersburg Beach yesterday morning. The man, whom police de Kunvenuun of taem in Lealman last week about 200. The Helping Hand burg.

Twenty-seven teams participated, a 50 per cent increase The body of Mrs. Daeschler was found in bed, tightly covered with bed clothing and with a pillow over the head. She was clad clined to name, alerted officers over previous years. after the house painter left that Pretty girls of Southern Pinellas County are getting ready to put their best feet forward come Mar. 23-28, dates of the 1953 Festival of States.

Here, Charm School Director Kathleen Galvin gives four attractive candidates for state queen titles a briefing. From left, the girls are Amelia Ylinen, Beverly Bryan, Judy Bryant, and Pat Becker. Saturday, queen candidates will assemble at the Yacht Club at 9:30 a. m. where State Society committees will select the girls who'll represent them in the Festival.

Applications are still being received at the Chamber of Commerce, City Publicity Office. Candidates must be single, 16-25 years old as of Jan. 1, 1953. (Times Photo by Johnnie Evans) IN THE ST. Petersburg special in a halter and panties.

he was driving toward Corey game event, another new attend Windows in the frame two-bed Causewav. ance record was written on the Five radio cruisers rinzed home were tightly closed. Mrs. Sarah Hitt, 2709 Burlington phone 75-8512, an alumna of Oneonta, N. State Normal School, thinks there are a lot of graduates of that school books with 23 tables participat ing.

in these parts and wants to arrange a reunion, form an organization she asks all of them to call or write her. plans a tea after she gets the names. routes from the beach town andA turkev was in the ice box and two unmarked detective cruisers I preparations for a large dinner were apparently under way in the probed through the ring in search Phone Exchange kitchen. of the Singleton car. 'Life Same Every Day Says Youth Languishing In North Korean Prison Yes They Have No Grape Cuttings Changeover Planned Today First place North-South wmners were Marvin Park and Carrici Franck, both of West Palm Beach.

Other North-South winners were Laura Hardy, Ft. Lauderdale; Charles Daw, Daytona Beach; and Mr. and Mrs. C. R.

Had-ley, St. Petersburg. Alzan Kelly, New York City and N. W. White, Miami, were East-West first place winners.

Other top players in this division were Detectives Denis Quilligan and Walter Tipton spotted Singleton 22 minutes later as he stepped from a gypsy fortune teller's trailer at Coreytown. Singleton asked detectives, 'What's this all They re August Cabelli, 849 27 tb Avenue North, who Saturday Unwrapped Christmas gifts, piles of Yuletide cards and sprigs of Florida holly were spread in the living room. Puzzling police was the appearance of two buckets in the living room. One was filled with sudsy ater, the other empty. Detectives were attempting to learn if cleaning preparations offered in Good Morning to give away to 50 persons 100 cuttings A changeover to a "5" exchange from a "7" exchange today will "Life here is the same thing every day.

It sure gets tiresome." vj vsvncora grapes ue grows as a bobby, learned plenty people want to grow them. At least 500 persons converged on his home during the plied, "Haven't you read the papers?" The house painter answer affect 2,400 telephone subscribers' ed he hadn't, then voluntarily A letter from a son to his fa Mrs. Mervin Ray, St. Petersburg; Sid Lippman, OrlandO; and Jame day the first armed shortly after 9 a. m.

and the rush continued all day they could have used a traffic cop and wish ther. The post mark might be returned to City Jail, where he was booked on the open charge. in St. Petersburg's downtown business and southside residential districts and 400 subscribers on the Gulf Beaches. Onlv nublic service telenhone were under way, or "if something was cleaned up." A son by Mrs.

Daeschler's first Miami or Los Angeles or Paris. R. Nichols ana Mrs. Berniece Wilson, both of St. Petersburg.

It isn't. The postmark was DETECTIVES Results of the tournament's QUESTIONED marriage, Harry Jaye of Glen- stamped in China and the return tucy u. oau a cuiungs to nana out more excitement. Hope to have more cuttings next year, said Mrs. C.

Orange DIossoms To number to be changed will be that Singleton no further than the main event, the open pairs cham view, 111., was notified yesterday of his mother's death. He is the pionship held yesterday, will be of Police Headquarters. Its new aDoye conversation last night, awaiting details of the autopsyionly known survivor. announced in tomorrow Times. address reads, "Prisoner of War Camp No.

1, North Korea, co Chinese People's Committee For World Peace, Peking, China." ROY C. REESE, Bay Pines Veterans Hospital, has received six report. Mrs. Daeschler body is to be Writh Sineleton. and held as a returned tonight to Chicago for Sunset Beach Election number will be 5-4141, Orville K.

Cook, manager of the Peninsular Telephone Company, said last night. Cook said delivery of the January, 1953, telephone books began The unknown person who dropped the lost wallet into the mailbox, all valuable papers intact, despite the fact the wallet was lost several months ago Nomination made by Mrs. II. L. Girton who thinks the finder was very thoughtful.

material witness, was Sam Lock-'jburial. Baynard's is in charge of hart, 30-year-old truck driver arrangements. Sunset Beach Town Council has letters from his son, Pfc. Kenneth set Mar. 3 as election day for 258 Ninth Street North.

I VI hp three council posts. Lockhart told police he lived.TfvyMMff DriniA Saturday and will continue today. at the same Ninth Street address The terms of Mayor Iving Bu-chalter and council members Notes From Here And There with Singleton. He said Singleton L. Reese, since he was taken prisoner May 18, 1952.

"The first five," Reese says, "were short. Only a few lines saying he was fine and not to worry. In this last one, dated E. P. Bassett and 'Tom Harrell approached him yesterday morning with a newspaper story of Station Director Dies At Concert will expire then.

Buchalter last night said he would not run again. "I'm work Charles II. Goren won the mixed pair championship, Southern Bridge Tourney, and right away friends started kidding husband Paul, president of St. Remember Patty Lou Long, the little Pinellas Park girl with rheumatic fever heart, who wanted a parakeet for Christmas so she could have Corrections of the exchanges are in the new books, he said. "THE 'V exchange was greatly overloaded," Cook said, "and this gradual change-over to the '5 exchange, which was set up about a year ago on our fourth floor, will be completed by Tuesday.

Commotion reigned supreme last evening at the Sears, Roebuck ing outside the town now, and Aug. 6, he mentions folks from back home Kentucky and how he hopes to be home soon so 'I can get something good to Mrs. Daeschler death and said, "I'm the man in the story." (Singleton was unidentified in news accounts, pending questioning.) Lockhart said he told Singleton feel being Mayor is a full time PFC. REESE TAMPA MV- Frank Grasso, 58, musical director of Radio Station WFLA, died yesterday afternoon while directing an orchestra job for someone in He never says what he has to eat or what the boys do in the camp. The Unfinished CRASH BOAT BURNS to give himself up.

The truck in the selection, someone to talk with and who was del- used with of- I guess they aren't allowed to driver said they talked over the Symphony." He died in Plant Park while write anything like that. problem, drove to the beach, directing the Tampa Symphonette bought a half-pint of whisky, I and Company building on Ninth Street North as eight fire department vehicles and several police cruisers raced to the scene to answer burglar and fire department drank some and went to the St. Orchestra. Hundreds of persons fers and did keep five of the birds? te tl Petersburg Beach house. Lockhart were in the audience.

It was the said Singleton then drove to the. last number of a concert. alarms. A native of Naples. Italy, he well, Patty Lou is still the happiest child in fortune teller's trailer.

Firemen raised aerial ladders and police checked all doors as The letter written on Aug. 6 was received by Reese's father Oct. 21. "I write my son every week I wouldn't miss for the world but he's never mentioned getting one letter from me. He did say he got a letter from his mother." Pfc.

Reese, a communications linesman, was taken prisoner on his 20th birthday. He entered the Army in Dec. 1949 and went to Ft. Knox, Ky. for training.

Later, he was sent to Japan for six hundreds gathered in the area to watch an expected fire or arrest of a thief. Madame Mary, gypsy fortune teller, told police Singleton asked that his fortune be read. "I told him his lucky days were Thursday, Friday and Saturday," she said. The slender gypsy said she told studied music in Italy and came to this country as a flautist to play in Victor Herbert's orchestra. He later played with other orchestras and was a baritone singer with the Creatore Band and Opera Company.

Coming to Tampa in 1916 he be- P'g Bridge League him there'd probably be no living with Mrs. from now on not so, said Sirs. II Mrs. Alvard Johnson, who described herself as a dog lover, called to say the City ought not issue dog tags with sharp corners they could cut the canine wearers she filed the corners off tag sold her thinks others ought to also Ed Rammell, 4335 10th Avenue So. pens a note to correct GM's statement 160 retired Detroit policemen live in St.

Pete he's secretary of their club, and states there are 168 such in all Florida but half of them live within 75 miles of St, Pete when their snow bird friends come down, the number of Detroit police retired and otherwise is doubled if you want to meet all this law from Detroit, they meet the first Sunday each month at Limona over in Hillsborough County at Community Hall BUT ALL WAS IN vain. Tele phone company employes, red- Singleton, "You've got a question tn ask me what is it?" and that came a teacner ana lea several months and then to Korea for he replied, "No. There's nothing and bands in the area eight months. He was sent home He is credited with discovering I want to ask you Pinellas her laughter and the bird's PATTY LOU songs fill the Long household, and her parents ask GM to thank everyone who helped Patty Lou to have such a marvelous Christmas. A 12-year-old Lealman boy called Friday night and reported fine snow in the air near the Harris School could barely feel it on your hand, he said informed of this message, J.

T. Drip, The Times weather sage, said: "Poo hoo. The boy must be in the pay of the Californy Board of Mrs. Paul Hart, paired with noted bridge expert faced, called both fire and police departments to tell them Sears' American District Telephone Alarm System, connecting both departments, had been accidentally severed as telephone workers Frances Langford, a shy girl The St. Petersburg Beach man for four months had just started building a home when he was re inf.rmrl Hptprtivps Sineleton nearby Lakeland who be called in 1951.

come to him and said. "I'm in came a top radio and movie sing. i.Atikln CnmntVmrf line? fS rTft aA er Reese says the War Department contacted him and asked that all spliced cables to complete exchange changeovers. UUUU1C. OUUlCUUUg uovuvu to Marie." He was active in Masonic circles and was a past president of the Tampa Musicians Union.

Cook last night asked all subscribers to check all numbers in letters from his son be sent to them. "They keep each letter two or three weeks then send them the book before dialing to save the dialer and telephone operators back to me. I guess they want to make sure I'm still hearing from time. him." THE MAN told officers that Singleton asked him if he had read the papers and he had replied he hadn't. Detectives quoted the man as saying Singleton remarked, "Well, they found Marie with her head knocked in." Detectives checked another lead Reese's father came to St.

Pe His widow and three children, all of Tampa, are among the survivors. Other relatives live in Italy. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. The program was being broadcast and the orchestra, leaderless, finished the selection. Orchestra members assumed Grasso had a Something Borrowed tersburg about six years ago; his ininiimniMHini-nir --mf- i)iHiiiiriinrii mnnn-IT1 mother lives in Jamboree, Ky.

BAR MILLS, Me. HP) To pay off a bet on the outcome of the presidential election, Lindell Clubhouse Meeting Heads of tourist societies and retired employes groups will meet today at 3 p- Webb's Roof Garden to discuss plans for the clubhouse for the elderly. Mains pushed fellow employe Guy Money Underfoot EUDORA, Miss. (IP) Sil- heart attack but did not know he was dead. This 85-foot Air Force crash boat exploded and burned at Mac-Dill Air Force Base yesterday, injuring one Airman.

The $350,000 boat had 2,000 gallons of high octane gas aboard when three explosions ripped the vessel. MSgt. Cliff Helner suffered hand burns and singes on the head. He was hospitalized. Four other crewmen escaped injury.

Base firemen prevented the flames from spreading to other installations. Damage to the pier was slight. yesterday when they questioned Nurseryman George Gardner, who lives at 4050 Dartmouth Avenue North, next to the Daeschler home. Gardner told officers that Single- Smith five miles in a wheelbarrow from Bar Mills to West Buxton. It took two and a half hours.

Only 30 seconds remained before close of the broadcast and jver dollars, 1,012 of them, are inlaid -in the floor of the Silver Dollar Cafe. Announcer Milton Spencer, an old 'BLOODY BUT UNBOUND' Daring Drip At If Again friend, had no chance to report to the audience what had MAN WITH 70 THUMBS DECLARES WAR ON 'HANDY HOMERS' 'Housebreaker' Goes About Task Literally One of the more forceful types of housebreakers entered a Ninth Street North home recently, according to detectives. Detectives Ross Boyd and W. A. Til 6M 9am tz 3n gpm 33 11111 I 1 I LjJl Lackey said a burglar literally broke into the residence of Mrs.

State Schell at 734 Ninth Street by tossing a concrete block from forecastin on acct. you make more mistakes than th' U. "Folks," announced Pelican Pete "is sayin' yer yella. They sayin Drip Ain't Got It Anymore. Weather Bureau," said Pete help a wall through the glass of the front door.

Missing was a radio and other small items. fully. THERE'S ONE IN EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD- Tears of self-pity welled up In the lustrous, dishwater blue eyes of the fat man. "Sharper'n a un rest. Handy Homer is IT for my money.

He evidently doesn't ork for a living like us ordinary slobs. No, he just has light bulbs hit him with ideas. If he isn't painting his keyholes with luminous paint, he's bending his old license plate into a grotesque little desl lamp with a hub-cap base. (I'd like to see him try that with MY license plate and hub-caps!) JUST THE OTHFR day, his son was rocking happily on a barrel. Homer evidently was too cheap to buy the kid a rocking horse but you should have seen him put rockers and a horse's head on that crummy barrel! Homer is consistently obnoxious.

In a strip last week, his faithful dog brought him a hunk of wood. Any decent man would have patted the dog's head and thrown the stick for the pup to fetch again. Not Homer, bless his mechanical little mind. Homer runs home and makes the stick of wood into a tortured sort of wall lamp the kind that you used to make in 5th grade manual training. (So I flunked WHO'S bitter?) Handy Homer, it seems, could make a locomotive out of two tin cans and a strip of plywood.

His wife is just as bad. Why, the other day she was walking in the park with her little girl and they spot a squirrel. MOST mothers would have fed the nutster. Not Mrs. II.

Her light bulb flashes on she runs home and makes a wretched little felt bag shaped like a squirrel. Makes her daughter carry it around in public, even! Well, this mysterious "Mac" who draws the strip probably is like me, and can't even pound sand down a rat hole. 1 don't envy him his job, mind you. It's just that I want "Mac" to know that he can keep his plywood, luminous paint and old license plates to himsell. We artistic types may not be so handy but boy, are we PROUD! Handling Of Trusts By DICK BOTHWELL "Hmmmmmm.

Why couldn't YOU make something like this?" "My wife leaned across the breakfast table and thrust her half of The Times under my nose. She evidently referred to a repulsive little comic strip called "Handy Homers," drawn by a guy named Mac who hasn't the raw courage to sign his right name. I don't know if you've seen it or not. In the woman's section (of all places) you'll find the strip, all about a jug-headed young married man who is forever doing something clever, around the house. IN THIS particular strip, he sees an elephant on television.

Only two panels later Handy has assembled a plywood elephant, a lampshade, socket and cord into the most horrible little homemade lamp you ever saw. It sits on the television set and glows. Handy sits there and gloats, while his wife beams. grateful child is a serpent tooth," Topic Of Discussion The handling of trusts was the he said bitterly. T.

Barnum said that. Fickle is th' public, and a fool he who seeks th' cannon reputation in th bauble's mouth." topic of discussion Thursday night They sayin foor vi ui a Over Th' Hill." I Atop The Times roof, a pungent silence settled over the breakfast table, broiten only by the steady rattle of knife, fork and mullet bones. Having cast his thunderbolt, the bureau bird bent to his logbook entering Sunday's maxi-mvm of 60 degrees, minimum of 50 and 0.08 precipitation. "Yah," muttered J. T.

Drip at length, his jowls working. "They say, they say they said Mar-coni'd never invent th' Model Ford. They said Sherlock Holmes'd never isolate th Panama Canal mosquito "They said you're givin up "Mangled quotations J. T. Drip," said Pete.

I shoved the paper back at MY wife with a sullen grunt. "We haven't GOT a television set," I said, "and you know what I think of home made gewgaws." I went back to reading about Mrs. Myrtle Davis, 35, had her fifth set of twins last Sunday in Kingston, Jamaica, but I couldn't keep my mind on it. HANDY HOMER had made me look bad again. The more I think about it, the more I resent the sneaky way in which The Times Society sisterhood is stirring up trouble for us males who are not and never will be Handy Around The House.

Thousands of are following old Homer's clever little jobs daily, and probably saying to their husbands, "Why don't YOU do that?" I have been watching this Homer character narrowly some time now. In fact, the smug so-and-so is becoming an obsession with me. As Dagwood puts it, there's always one husband in every neighborhood to spoil it for the courtesy "You got weather, detrators any comment -a tn whereby to give yer at the regular monthly dinner meeting of the Estate Planning Council at the Detroit Hotel. Thomas T. Dunn spoke on the general procedure used by trust departments in handling trusts.

Robert W. Cohoe and Lang Harbin, headed a panel of six local trust officers who discussed some of the many problems confronting fiduciaries in the administration of trusts. th' lie?" Drip reared his majestic head with new pride. "I'm bloody, but I'm unbound, he said bravely. "Look for a total e-clipse of th' moon on Jan.

29, 1953!".