The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 7, 1950, Page 1

Key West, Florida, hos the Most equable climate in the Country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit F. Nosg' Smathers | Speaks Here. 2 3 VOL. Lx _ Wednesday Congressman George Smathers, | candidate for the post of U. S.| Senator for Florida, will make| his first campaign visit to the} Florida Keys and Key. West next! Wednesday, Joe Allen, campaign manager in Monroe County, an- nounced today Allen will Tuesday to Miami on Congressman go to meet ner Mrs. Truman expressed her ap-, told ne i EL GEORGE SMATHERS Smathers. and will) be with him! as he makes his appearances in Tavernier, Marathon ana other! points along Florida Keys Wed-! nesday afternoon { Smather scheduled to arrive at Boca Chica Key at 2 p. m, where he will be met by a motor- cade for the remainder of the trip to Key West. Charles Ward- low, Jr., is in charge of arrange- ments for the motorcade. At 7:30. p.m. a torchlight ~ocgerpde wil be... farmed. at e | tlantic’ Osean. end of Duval) streets’ The parade will go down Duval street and thence in White ; ‘ street to Bayview Park. In charge of making atfrange- ments for the terchlight parade will be Al Mills. Smathers is scheduled to talk for about half an hour, telling his views and giving his plat-, form to the voters of the county. Afterward other local (Continued On Page Six) | | Mayor Says He Is Not Endorsing Any Insurance Plan Mayor ! ouis M. J. Eisner stat- ed today that he has not indorsed | any insurance company plan rela- tive to hospitalization. Eisner said that the letter peo- ple are receiving. with his’ signa- ture on it is not. an endorse- ment of that company; or: any: other insurance company. The mayor feels: that -hospitali- | zation policies’ are good for ‘the | residents of the city, but does ‘not | endorse any. particular company | — VICTOR FUENTE \ day services at St. Paul’s Episco- | “ley Woodward, one of the Pr ‘‘tracted the attention of th |Rosillo’: j his strong-arm aide, ‘ed until arrangements are made jfor Che Key West C SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST FLORIDA, FRIDAY, THE IN THE U.S.A. APRIL 7, 1950 Mes. Truman Leaves Little | White House Miss Margaret, Mrs. Vrvuman Today Attended Episcopal Church Services Mrs. Harry Truman ieit the L CHViNg to Miami, where she will board a train at 4:35 p.m ‘eshington. She was accompanied by Before leaving. Presiden‘: ‘iru man at the Little White House, preciation of the hospitality| shown her by women and of- ficers at Key West Naval Sta- tion. | Mrs. Truman and her daughter | \\Margaret came into the city this Morning and attended Good Fri-, }pal. Church. They ‘were attended by Stan-| i-| y at-} wor- shippers at St. Paul's, they were} not approached by anyone. | Charles Ross, Preside ntial | peed in charge of the pr dent's secretaries. While tt | Latin American No Arrests Yet In Binaggio Killing At Kansas City, | 3 “aig GITY, Mo, Aprit'? 2? Hop of” thday ).—There are few clues and no atrests yet; only theory, about the Kansas City murder of poli- tical leader Charles Binaggio and ex-convict Charlie Garotta. Forty-one - year-old Binaggio! was slain while sitting at his lesk in the first district Demo- Kansas City. Garotta’s body was found sprawled on the floor. Both victims had been shot four times in the head at close range. In Washington, Representative Dewey Shart of Missouri has (Continued On Page Four) Opening Of Bids | ‘For Wickers Field | Fence Delayed, The opening of bids for the construction of a fence at Wick- ers Field and for sodding the ing field will be delayed, it as reported today by City fanager Ralph D. Spalding. , The fence bids will be delay- pl: alternate bids on a poured EXPERIENCED MECHANIC Now at the B. & B. CYCLE SHOP | 822 Fleming Sireet Phone 1013' concrete structure, the manager said Then the bids for the sodding of the field will be postponed un- til the fence construction is well} ‘under way. i CHARLIE BOLERO Presents Terry Shand Appearing Nightly at PERKY LODGE Florida’s Hard-Working Senior . Senator CLAUDE PEPPER HAS EARNED ANOTHER TERM IN THE United States Senate He Gets Things Done for Florida! WEAVER’S Stock Island Inn | AIR CONDITIONED BAR and RESTAURANT OPEN ALL NIGHT Brigadier General Vaughan, going all the way back to Washington with the nation’s First Lady. | jleave ‘in Havana at a date ittle White who is wspapermen. this morning that Mrs. Truman hi a number 'of engagements to keep in Wash- ington “That is the reasor why she didn’t wait for the President, | who is returning to Washington on Monday,” said Ross. Mrs. Truman is also going to get things ready at Washington | for an official reception for Pres- ident Gabriel Gonzalez Videla of Chile, who will arrive in Key West Tuesday night and who will Washington the follow- ing day. The visiting government chief will be entertained by the Tr (Continued On Fage 51x) Y iaier Of ciemerec To Celebrate Famous Flight Latin,American Chamber of Commerce officials will he gala celebration next the 37tp toric flight from da month on miversary of the his- Key West to lo, pioneer flyer. The twenty-minute® “passenger was’ thirty-seven years ago, of the most dar- ing of ments. one all aerial accompilish- Many a Key Wester re- members the confident airman who was the first to conavier the trans-oceanie flight. It was elso the first right ever made between the Americas. The Institute of Aireraft Pilots candi-!cratie Club on Truman Road, in of Havana have accepted the in-| vitation and will arrive here in a body next month. Among those attending will be a man who w, the hero of the first Key We: Havana flight on May 18, 1913, Domingo Rosillo Though plans a now in the | formative stage, hoped to} j have the United Stz ates Navy and Coast Guard patrol the flight area. City of Key West is expected to go all-out to make air caravan a | The aerial from the fleet will depart Rancho Boyero airport to be an- nounced later Jose Paul Ponte the institute Havana, Cuba s president of | REE A iE iS Nabe Pl Have your car checked at our New Service Department where the modern equipment is uned. brakes se wh you jam them on to get out of a jam. NAVARRO'S New Service Department WL Duval Street Fhone 600 WEEK-END SPECIALS Decorated Easter Cakes . . 50c Cocoanut Cream Pie . . . 49c (With Meringue) Hot Cress Buns FRIDAY Headquarters for BIRTHDAY and WEDDING CAKES MATCHETT'S BAKERY 901 Duval Street PHONE 301 LIONS’ CARNIVAL Extended For One Week Thru Saturday. April 8 Gomez Park DUVAL STREET the stay of the] of aircraft pilots of} House at noon today, | for ; | | |Wants Milk Sula |In Key West Now Havana, Cuba by Domingo Rosil-} HAROLD MO The Associated Press Teletype, Features and Photo Services | For 70 Years Devoted to the| Best Interests of Key West | CENTS GUILTY! *% ALLENTOWN. Lf PRICE BIW Ao Pa., April LATTIMORE HURLS “LIE” AT McCARTHY IN SPY CHARGES HEARING IN WASHINGTON OWEN LATTIMORE SITS AT THE TABLE (lower right) and fa ces his accuser, Wisconsin's Senatcr Joseph R. McCarthy (second from left in second row at left), at hearing in Washington Thurs day. Appearing before the senate sub-committee on foreign rela- to McCarthy's charges that he is a Russian spy. He swore he is not and never has been a Com- Sitting at the table facing him, left to right, are Senators Hickenlooper of lowa. Tydings of Maryland, chairman of the At right is a close-up of Lattimore as he tions, Lattimore gave the “lie” munist. sub-committee; Green of Rhode Island, McMahon of Connecticut, testifies. Today Was Coldest | April Day Of Past Thirty-Five Years Temperature miinimum of 56 degrees this morning was the lowest April temperature { since 1915 when 56. also was | At 25c Quart Commissioner Louis Carbonell said today hat he would offer a: resolution at the ‘next meeting ‘6t} city conimivsion requesting milk} 7 ootaed on the ged. | companies to sell milk at twenty- However, the temperature five cents a quari in the Island| this morning was slightly City lower, being 55.8 degrees, as The commissioner said that the against 56.4 degrees in 1915. Therefore, today was the next lowest on record. companies would make a fair profit at that figure. According to Carbonell, milk is being de- The record low for April is livered to the U. S. Naval 54 degrees, which occurred | tion at 20 cent a quart. on the 7th in 1891. would allow 5 cents a quart profit | for the handters of the product charade adaliniatial Spectacular Fire pias apne . | 250 Shrimp Boais Sweeps 60-Story Woolworth Bldg. Stay InPortDue | je. | Carbonell said that he has t statistics to back up, a_ selling (Continued On Page Four) 5 | * Rene ees Stave. vasaacke NEW YORK, April 7.—(®).— ehSeas | 0 ous seas |A spectacular fire in what was } 7 once the world’s largest sky-} Every boat of the shrimp heel : 5 | Sehiekl cHenbe pout 250 ves. Scraper, the Woolworth building, els, is tied up at the various| could be seen for miles around docks from which they operate| the New York area early today. | tuday because of rough seas and| 7 flames swept part of the high winds. | 23 d floor of the 60-story build-+ However, some of the boats, | "8 i which caught rather heavy loads} About 100 employes had to} of the shrimp off Key West earl-| flee the Woolworth building | when the blaze was discovered in} | the executive offices of the FW. | Woolworth company, owner of (Continued On Page Six) (Continued Or Page Six) BINGO Every Friday Night, 8:30 o’Clock Fleet Reserve Association FRONT STREET CURRO'S | Package Store Announces Its Fine Fishing Tackle Thompson Enterprises, Inc. Hardware Division—Phone 886 STEAKS - STEAKS Featuring CHARCOAL BROILED STEAKS Served from & P.M.-1 A.M. PALM CLUB STOCK ISLAND Gigantic Easter Special | aOeeeeeaas: ‘6 SALE Friday, Saturday Every Saturday Night 8:00 P.M. JACKPOT, $40.00 FREE EATS AMERICAN LEGION HOME STOCK ISLAND Thursday. Call Us At 14l—or See Us At 801 Duval St. All Orders Promptly Delivered || i 2 | (P).—Thirty | Mohr was found guilty t voluntary manslaug year oid and Lucas of Mlinois. Milk Can Sel Per Quart In Monroe County.” , ‘Says State Milk Commissioner Claims This Area Not Control; jof the Florida Milk Commi:sion, told The. Citizen. yesterday. that | the Milk Commission doesn’t operate in Monroe county. Mrs. Elliott said that “they a quart, if they ant to.” The Milk Cc ission | The Citizen got its infc ion Price Law.” Said the Commissioner: “Who * gave you the information for the editorial?” itizen reporter mation can’t be divul “We'll subpoena you!” “That can be done, but Th we still won't give out the informa- tion, If there is anything wrong |in the editorial, we will be glad to make a correction Is there thing incorrect in the edito: “No, except that we have no ntrol over prices in Monroe ‘ounty (The srial question-! jed in t nterests the need for i in Ke | West at 3 cents a quart, hile milk is z ealline retail at 26¢ in Miami. “You say you don't have jurisdiction to operate in Mon- roe County. why not?” asked the reporter. “Because we have not been invited.” “By whem?” “The producers. And as you (Continued On Page Six) a att TONIGHT Simonton and Greene Streets Arena Lions’ Carnival KIDDIES MATINEE THURS.. FRI. and SAT. Adm. To All Rides 9c Tickets Given Each Day Good px Bicycle To Be Given Away On Saturday. Gomez Park DUVAL STREET As No Producers Operate Here Mrs. Bertha M. Elliott of Jacksonville, consumer representative mber was very anxious to know where rey killing of his older brot r. Walter The jury recomme | The state charged tha ; Mohr stepped “into the she God” when he fatally brother Walter, who was ai and suffering with cancer. The jury got the case y day, but was locked up {c | night when it failed to | verdict. Resuming its deliberations this morning, the jury quickly rived at its verdict of volunta manslaughter with a recomm dation for mercy The brother, Walter Mohr, was shot to death as he lay blind, and ill with cancer. The jury of eight men and four women recommended mercy for the defendant, although they had been instructed. that such a recommendation is not . binding on. the court, The maximum s tence on the voluntary... man- 12 years in rea slaughter charge is prison. The defense attorney said he would make a motion for a new trial. Sentencing was delayed pending the appeal. The verdict was returned after the jury had deliberated pout six hours end a half. They liberated five hours yesterd before bemg locked up for t night, and an hour and minutes tnis morning. { They had their choice of four verdicts: first or second degree murder, voluntary manslaughter or acquittal Mohr heard the verdict out emotion. He stared dully at the floor, just as he had done much of the time since he went on trial Tues- day charged with murder and , Voluntary manslaughter. ‘The . convicti ks of Now Under Commisiit BP ths low tines hat so-talled mercy killer has. teens found gui'ty. But the finding was on the least serious of three pos- sible guilty counts, which could have included convictions for first or second degree murder. After the wind-up of the Mohr trial, one of the jurors, declining use of his name, told newsmen that the panel took’its line of de- (Continued On Page Six) (\®) Wirephotos | At $10 with- (wholesalers) can sell milk at $10 for the editorial, “Florida's Milk. “Two Night Watchmen Found Bound And Stabbed To Death WASHINGTON, April -7.—(?). —The bodies of two night watch- men were found early today in one of this city’s biggest depart- ment stores, Lansburgh and Brothers. Police said both men had been bound and __ stabbed to; death. motive. But store emplo; = Store officials identified the.. pressed .a::belief the ns, dead men as John 'C. Carpenter, may have been: bound - and 'gag- '45, and Oliver R. Hess, whdse, ged by /burglars who later killed family lives in Baltimore. \\them in. fear of being identified. Police said Carpenter's body , Police |. beliewe-a large butcher ‘was found in a first-floor wash- | knife found at the: scene is the ——_——_——| murder. weapon. room of the department. store. Hess’ body was found:--on the fifth floor. The double. ‘slaying was discovered when ~Catpenter failed to signal a routine. check of the first floor. Detectives declined to discuss a pcpirotbatbecctieay SSBB B E72 BEES | Palace Theater | JIMMY WAKELY and | CANNONBALL TAYLOR in | “Across The Rio Grande” it a@en ee eeeeeen - Poor Old Craig SERVICE STATION Francis at Division Phone 9134 Your PURE OIL Dealer Grease, Spray or Change Your Oil Benefit Dance CUBAN CLUB Uncle Harve and His Ragtime Sponsored by VFW Auxiliary ADMISSION, $1.00. rimming ean tani