The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 15, 1954, Page 7

STORM BREAKS SIZZLING HEAT ACROSS NATION By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Violent storms in the East and an expanding cool front in the mid- west partially cracked the season’s worst heat wave today as the death from more than a week of scorching temperatures neared the 100 ‘mark. The heat-relieving storms left a Multimillion-dollar trail of wind and lightning damage across New England, eastern New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio and southern Michigan. Winds of near-hurricane strength uprooted trees, peeled off roofs, snapped power and telephone lines and blocked highways. The mercury hit a sizzling 120 degrees at Fort Scott, Kan., before the cooler air began moving into that state. Temperatures of 100 degrees or higher were common from Kansas, Oklahoma and norh- ern Texas eastward to the Atlan tic. Thousands of baby chicks died from the heat in Arkansas. The Arkansas Poultry Federation said the state’s poultry industry may suffer its worst baby-chiek short- age in history. Volunteers responded to an ap- Peal to help save the lives of fee- ble-minded patients at the state training school in Winfield, Kan. Some Mongolian-type patients are “Forgotten” Convicts Win New Trial After Years In Prison By GEORGE SITTERLY JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. # — Two convicts, “forgotten men” for almost a decade, have won a new trial after spending more than 13 years in prison. They received the new chance on their claim that they did not have the benefit of legal advice in the original hearing back in 1941. For a while in 1945 and 1946 it looked as if they might get a new trial. Then confusion and a quar- rel between courts closed the state | penitentiary gates once again. Years went by until a sympa- thetic lawyer intervened to give them a new chance. Here’s the story: Joseph Montgomery, then 21, and Lawrence E. Young, 23, were charged 13 years ago with kidnap- ing, first-degree robbery and car theft in St. Francois County, Mo. They admitted in court they got drunk and took a man in his auto- mobile to St. Louis. On their pleas of guilty, the St. Francois County Circuit Court judge sentenced each to life im- prigonment on the robbery and kid- naping charges and five years for car theft. The judge, Frank Fen- wick, has been dead for many years now. After four years in the state Penitentiary here, Montgomery and Young hired a lawyer and filed a plea for release in the Cole Free and Open to the Public Ts Christian Science Reading Room in your com- munity is maintained in sim- ple gratitude by your Chris- tian Science neighbors. It stands as an outward sign of their appreciation of benefits received through Christian Science — benefits equally available for you. ” Release from disease, from fear and limitation, has come for multitudes as they have quietly pondered the Bible teachings in this great new light. You are welcome at the public Reading Room near you. Here the Bible and the Christian Science textbook SCIENCE AND HEALTH with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy may be read, borrowed, or purchased. You may here investigate for yourself its healing message. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Reading Room 327 Elizabeth Street Open Tuesday and Friday Evenings, 7:00 to 9:00 Information concerning church County Circuit Court. Circuit Judge S. C. Blair, upon being told the men did not have an attorney in their original hearing, ordered them returned to St. Frencois County ‘‘to be dealt with according to law.” But the St. Francois County judge, Norwin’ D. Houser at that |time, said one cireuit court couldn’t undo the action of another circuit court. He gaid the record of the St. Francois court stood un- blemished and ordered Mont- gomery and Young back to prison. At first, prison officials wouldn’t | take them because two contrary circuit court decisions hung over the men. There was no prison com- mitment order by which they could be held as convicts once again. Finally penitentiary officials put them in receiving cells — the sep- arate quarters for new prisoners. They stayed there six months with no action taken either for or against them. Then prison authori- ties classified them for work in Prison shops and for more than eight years they were forgotten men. A few months ago Sam Haley, Jefferson City lawyer, heard abput | the case from inside the prison. He appealed to the Federal District Court in Kansas City. Federal Judge Richard M. Dun- can upheld Circuit Judge Blair’s order that they be sent back to St. Francois County for a new trial. Said Haley: “They may come back to prison, but they have a right to a fair hearing in court first.” LINE OF DUTY RICHMOND, Va. —Two police cars moved into the 800 block of East Broad Street here last night | to investigate a “large white man wearing a T-shirt and a straw ht” and reported to have a pistol in, his pocket. It turned out to be another po- liceman—off duty but required to, carry his weapon at all times. a cS hee TO N. Y. JOB—Frank J. Rod- rigues, Jr. YN2, from VX-1, originator of the movie column which has run for over & year in the Navy publication, The Key Outpost, was discharged yesterday to return to civilian | life. “Rod” will go te New York City, where he will work with | 3 Flights Daily! MIAMI Convenient Connection to the North and West supersensitive to the heat because of deficiency in a gland that acts as a sort of thermostat in the body. They had to be packed in ice or otherwise externally cooled. Eleven patients have died in Kansas mental institutions this week. Even tropical plants at the Mis- souri Botanical Garden in St. Lou- is withered. An automatic sprinkler system went into action in a suburban St. wa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Pennsyl- van, Tennessee, Connecticut, Vir- ginia, West Virginia and Maryland, 1 each. These all-time high temperatures were recorded: St. Louis, 112; Springfield, l., 114; Columbia, Mo., 113; Springfield, Mo., 113; and | Tulsa, Okla., 112. Other high readings included Philadelphia, 101; Washington, D.C., 100; Huntington, W.Va., 105; Richmond, Va., 103; Baltimore, One of the gion, the mayor declared a state, of emergency and estimated daf,-| age at two million dollars. The heat also touched off severe | storms in the South and West. A heavy rainstorm with winds up to 62 miles an hour hit Denver. worst storms in years caused thousands jof dollars of damage in Atlanta. 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