The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 7, 1951, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average | Tange of only 14° Fahrenheit | _ THE VOL. LXXIL, No, Tonnies Skyscraper: Will Be Ready: For: 4 Occupancy November 1 GROUND HAS ALREADY BEEN PREPARED FOR SKYHOUSE Key West’s first skyscraper apartments “Sky House” will go up soon and be ready for occupancy by November 1 it was announced yesterday by Opal Van Deursen, real estate broker. The ten-story cooperatively owner apartment build- ing with one apartment on each floor wiil. be erected at the corner of Roosevelt boulevard and Bertha street on a lot 600 by 100 feet. “Sky House” over $100,000, has al- ready sold eight of its apartmenis, according to a statement made at County Commission meeting, March 14, by State Rep. Bernie C, Papy. Designed Rufus Nims Jameson of Miami, the re- inforeed concrete building will be a practical demon- stration of Nims’ theory on economic use of land. He pointed out that ten famil- ies will be able to share modern living in “Sky House” for the price of one lot. “The cost to each family of buy- ing a lot would be prohibitive,” he said. “Sky House” will sell only, it will not rent to dwellers there. Each family in buying his deluxe two room apartment will also be buying off-the-street parking facilities, one-tenth of*a swim- ming pool, one-tenth of an eleva- tor, one-tenth of-a- laundry;-enc- tenth of deep freeze,"one-tenth of a sport-equipment locker, and a corner of’ play space. The apartments adapted to trop- ical living have exterior walls on three sides of, the, large bedroom: and living room. The building will be placed to cateh the southeast breeze. Ventilation is provided by: floor to ceiling windows regulated by jalousies. . Ground has already been pre- pared for Sky House which wili go up about one mile west of Meacham airport. CAA has been asked for clearance on the erec- tion of the ten-story building. Nims ‘said that the skyscraper living idea is the product of his and Jameson's careful thinking over many by architects e feel it is the only way to utilize lanl economically,” he said. The first building, to be oc- cupied by November, Ist, will be followed by two others similar, to it, in the spring of 1952. Actual construction takes~only about four months, said Nims. He is building one, at Miami Beach, Naturalization exams Held Here U. S. Nat- of Miami, Charles A. Adams, alization ie ft Key West rday after holding preliminary naturaliza- for twenty-three women during the past held in the clerk of the Fed- Rodney Gwynn, be given under a iment to the nat- w ndment titioners for The exa of the eral Court, C. are the recent ar aminations, office tion provides ex- nat- NEW FORDS Tudors - Fordors - Convertibles JUST RECEIVED. NEW SHIP- MENT — DELIVERY TODAY Also—Reconditioned USED CARS All Makes and Models MONROE MOTORS INC “SALES ESD service 1119 WHITE ST. F to cost * and William} Tolls On Bridges May Be Freed, On:, January 1, 1953: State Representative Bernie C. Papy today informed The Citizen of his intention to have the Overseas Highway freed of tolls as of January 1, 1953. Papy will introduce the legislation as a local bill. The measure is being published in today’s Citizen. Plane-Taxi Crash At Airport Taxi-Cab Hits Plane’ Enroute To Paint Shop dacot : At Airport Here An Acrovias Q-plane and a ‘axi-cab diiven by Dwight Rus sell of this city crashed. today at 1:22 o’clock on Mcacham airport ‘icld. ‘ The Cuban pilot had landed his 2C-3 and was taxiing on the ground at about 20 milés an hour when struck by the taxi-cab. The plane’s under-carriage and propellor were damaged, putting the plane out of commission tem- porarily. The cab was badly damaged. (Continued On Page Two! L, P. Artman Is Returning Home L. P, Artman, editor and pub- lisher of The Key West Citizen, is returning to his residence at 1309 Whitehead street this after- noon from a three-week stay in Jackson’ Memorial Hospital, Miami. Artman will be accompanied in the Pritchard ambulance by his wife, Mrs, L. P. Artman m, L. P. Artman, Jr. and Registered Nurse Mrs. Ray B. Knopp. The newspaperman had been sent to Miami by his local plhysi- cian. Draft Deferring Has Opposition WASHINGTON, April 7.—(). —President Truman’s plan to de- fer drafting college students high grades or special aptitudes appears headed for rough going in the House. The Armed Servi teé-bas called a special meeting |Sor Monday to review the plan, The House group originally ap- the student deferments in Commit- vutline. But in the light of full ictails, some of the committee nembers, including Chairman arl ‘Vinson, have — reconsidered heir views on the proposal. Vinson, for one, says he'll back suggested amendment to kill the plan altogether. POLAR BEAR FROZEN CUSTARD “FRESH FROZEN DAMY TREAT.” Open ‘til 11 p.m.—50T Duval ith| lot 7. .. [Realty Sales InCounty Now $538,600 Largest Individual Sales Were Two For $30,000 Each Realty transfers in Monroe; County for the first three months of this year now total $538,600. The individual sales are listed below: Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Con- rad to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph S. Cerney lot 9, block 11, $10,500. Florida E. Wake. Mr. and Mrs Wendell Wm. Wake, Lorine A Wake, Faydette E. Wake to Mr and Mrs. George Willard, 720 } Windsor Lane, jor land on Wind- sor Lane, $400. Mr.'and Mrs. Joc Pearlman to » and. Mrs. Eltis A. Collins. Jr, 134-A) Poinciana, lots 1, 2 o* block five, $100. E. M. .Shrout to’ Charles H Sullivan, Northport, New York, the undivided one-third interest of Mattie M. Shrout of lot 1, square 6, tract 30, $300. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Piper, Mr. and Mrs. Ewell Shrout to Chas H. Sullivan, Northport, New York, the undivided two-thirds interests in lot 1 ,square 6, trac! 30, $500. Ruliec Pitcher Stowers and Amelia F. Pitcher to Harriett Stowers Wilson, 533 Duval street, land on Southard street, cighty- eight feet from the interesection of Duval and Southard. known as lot 4, square 50, $5,000. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold 'W. John- KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, Bodies Of son, Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm John- son, Mr. and Mrs, Amos Johnzon, Mr. and. Mrs. Bazile L. Johnson to Mr: and Mrs. Robert E. Weires, ' Cumberland, Maryland, land on south side of Truman avenue,’ $9,000. Mr. and Mrs. Laure} Withers ty Mr. and Mrs. Elmer White, 411 Harbor’ Road, Southport, Connec- ticut, land commencing at the corner of Washington and Wil-! liam streets, lot 1 and 2, square 12, tract 17, $5,500. Mr. ahd Mr:, John N. Thomp- son an? Mr. and Mrs. A. Mait- lend Adams to Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Brady and Mr. and Mrs. John J. Flannery, Jr., 1806 Ditmas avenue, Brooklyn 26, N. Y., beginning at the corner of Simonton and United streets, $30,000. Mr. and Mrs. Howard B. John- son to Helena Johnson, 825 John- son Lane, land on Johnson’s Alley, part of tract 5, $100. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Harris to Mr. and Mrs. G. Cleveland Saun- ders, -920 Eaton street, lot 4. square 4,. tract 20, $100. Betty W. Saunders to Jack A Saunders, 2702 Staples, lot 15, block 3, Lime Grove Subdivision, ; $2,500. Mr. and Mrs. Arbougust to Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Tyler, lot 7, block 21, ict 21, and_lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, $10,500. | Edith B. Craft to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Ander-on, lots 25, 26 of i block 5, $9,500. Mr. and Mr-. Ivy Lee Hackney to William C. Lowe, lot 6, tract 5, Johnson's Lane, $1,800. | Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thompson. to Ivy Lee Hackney, 826 John-! son's lane, $900. Alfred W. Johnson to Hamilton Martinez, lot 41, 6, $800. Mr. George Albert ! Oscar tract and Mrs. Herman Holts-| {berg to Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. | Fhilips, San Diego, California, lots 32, 33, 34, block 1, $7,000. Mr. and Mrs. Lykes O. Turnerj , tc Mr. and Mr:, Karl A. Jordan, square 2, tract 13, $7,000. Arlean Chipchase Knowles to George Chipchase and Mamie Damastorg, one-half interest in lend on Petronia strect, $100. | Mr. ‘and Mrs. Adelbert Bethel to City of Key West, lot 13, tract 5, $1,800. Mr. and’ Mrs. Adelbert Bethel to City of Key West, land on Pauline street, $1,800. Martin Gonzalez to Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Trudell, St. Louis, Mo., land on United street, $2,- 200. Mr. and Mrs. Moris C. Hodes to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lanasa, 2911 Seidgnberg avenue, lot 3,! block 11, $10,000. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Reece Larson to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Joseph Massey, 2011 Harris, lot 11, block 20, $10,200. Macros Corporation to Mr. and ! (Continued On Page Eight) {¢rete was so great that it forced : the engine of the 195] Plymouth | instantly. He was pronounced | Miami Beach in order to take a The father and son were in World War II until he was forced ; their fishing ‘clothes. _ ‘to sink it to prevent the enemy Coroner Hamlin said there from capturing it. He was then a SURF HOTEL, 521 UNITED ST. Eff. Apt. for 2 Adults, Furnished, Mrs. Cecil L. Ranew, 1406 Laird sypr HOTEL, 521 UNITED ST. fas LWSPAPER IN Tt he Kev West = SOUTHERNMOST ON fe ULS. A: The Associated Press Teletype ] Features and Phote Services For 71 Years Devoted tothe | Best Interests. of Key West APRIL 7, 1951. Crash Victims Flown To Ill. Father And Son Were = | Driving Down To Key West For Fishing Expedition The bodies of Bernard Brown, 42, prominent Chicago attorney. and his son Stanton Lee Brown, 13, who were killed yesterday when their car smashed into. the concrete post of Stock Island Bridge. were flown to Chicago today for immediate burial, Brown and his son were driv- ing to Key West for a fishing expedition. He had flown down from Chicago yesterday morning ot be with his wife, Ruth: his son, and his fether-in-law, Alec Goldblatt, a Chicago corporation executive. State Highway Patrolman Marvin J. Wilder was the. first officer to arrive at the scene of the crash at 1 p.m. yesterday. Deputy Sheriff Tommy Dixon, Police Officer Buster Cerezo and Coroner Roy Hamlin arrived hortly thereafter. The boy was killed instantly in the accident, for which offi- cials could give no explanation They said that Brown lost con trol of the car. One official said the position of the boy’s head suggested that he had been pointing out some view of the Atlantic to TWO SMALL BOYS ARE PERCHED ON A FARM WAGON waiting to be water from the Tombigbee river near. Demopolis, Ala. The flood spread over an area about.10 mil WiGe im «is section, inree hundred pcople were driven from their homes. Two hundred others | e- fused to leave and are being fed by rescue worl crs traveling in boats and planes, TOKYO, Apr. 7.—(AP). —The Reds are retreating in Korea, but the Allied forces are moving forward cautiously-through heavily mined fields and roads be- set by booby ‘traps “and anti-tank pits. All front-line Allied forc- -es: now are: fighting north of the 38th parallel—except for one. sector on. the cen- + | tral front: where: Stubborn \ Reds are holding-out wlong the Hanggye-Inje road. Almost all the way: across the front from east to west, the hills have been cleared of the Reds. The only hard fighting is just north of Yongyong and east of Chunchon, where heavy: artillery fire cleared the way for. slight Allied ?) Photo hauled out of flood his father. Brown may have looked to the left away from the highway and then crashed into the concrete bridge. Impact gf the car and the con convertible back seat, into the front breaking Brown’; legs. forced open by the smash-up of the car, which is a total wreck. The boy’s neck: was broken Party To Welcome | dead on arrival at Monroe County Hospital. Bernard Brown, the father, terday as executive officer cied at 2:30 p.m. from a bréken ‘neck, frdctured skull and other injuries. He never regained con sciousness after the accident. tion, will depart next Thursday f mand of the 7500-ton Navy Coroner’ Roy Hamlin called His*successor as execu-¥ Brown's widow at her winter, yesidence, 254 Palm avenue, Mi-| Ve officer is Commander, {Charles Mitchell Hender- son, who also has been on ami Beach. She immediate} flew to Key West with her fa- ther, Goldblatt. After identify- yng the bodies and making ar- duty in Key West since rangements for their transporta-| 1948, first on the USS tion back to Chicago, Mrs. and her father Howard W. Gilmore, then on the staff of Submarine Squadron Four and most recently as commander of | Submarine Division Forty- one, A party to, welcome executive officer and to bid bon Brown taxied back to plane immediately for Chicago. Their residence 2432 Deered Park Drive, Highland Park, Ill. Brown, who had enjoyed Ke: fishing on previous trips South, had promised his son that imme- diately upon his arrival from [Chicago yesterday they would YoYase to the Fitzgeralds will be} tun down to Key Wet. Mrs. ficers Sunday night at the Fort Brown, in preparation for her Taylor Officers’ Club, from 6 to 8! husband’s arrival, had rented o'clock. g i , the Plymouth convertible fro.¢ Captain Fitzgerald commanded a Miami Beach U-Drive-It firm. the submarine USS Grenadier in were no other cars in sight at Japanese prisoner for 38 months the time of the accident. |—“Guest of Hirohito.” his bio-| ee graphy form states. His wife, the {former Margaret Virginia Bel-! |knap, of Virginia, recently chris-| Miners Work To ; ni, . tened a new renadicr at the Help Trapped eS et loxnard High School, Oxnard. EVELETH, Minn., April 7.—- Calif, and from the Naval Acad- Two crews of 20 men each’ emy in the class of 1931. His par- sd throughout the night to|ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. two iron ore miners trap- ‘gerald, now reside in Modesto, | ped by a cave-in yesterday at the, Calif. Captain and Mrs. Fitzger- spruce underground mine. ald have two children, John A. Jr., The fate of Frank Putzel and, 15, who is attending school in Anton Korcha, both of Eveleth, is}Staunton, Va., and Nicholas B., till unknown 2 year old. W. J. Kaiser. company offi- Both officers have been decorat- cial, said Putzel and Korcha {ed with the Navy Cross and_the were imprisoned at the 564 foot | Silver Star, and both have recciv- level. They had been working |ed the Commendation Ribbon 4s in a tunnel eight feet high and | well as the usual area ribbons. eight feet wide when the cave- | Cdr. Henderson also has received Bronze Star with two gold Stars working from and combat “V”._ ypposite ends through the mass| Prior to_ entering the Naval if rock and ore were able to|Academy Cdr. Henderson attend- average only about a foot an hour}ed Byrd High School, Shrever- 16 hours of digging. At 9 a. m.,! port, La, and Louisiana State tie rescuers had about 15 feet toj University at Baton Rouge. He is (Continued On Page Fights {Married to the former Catherine 'Noreen O'Connor of Seattle, Wash., and they have two chil- dren, Charles Mitchell, Jr., 7 and Jane Farol, 3 years old. His par- {ents, Mr, and Mrs. R. C. Hender- son reside at 2623 Dillard Street, New Low Summer Rates One Block from Beach Daily Rates from $1.50 Person Will Be Held At Officers’ Club Sunday Night “Captain John Allison Fitzgerald was Ehewed yess St. Jos Ea) of the Key West Naval Sta-} a position he had held since September. 1948,..He | the new; Fitz-| $ Reins Mitchell Henderson Hite Ramos Relieves Vitzgerald As Naval at breaking, Brown's Tes “age Executive Officer Here Hh i County = New Ex » Offic or Norfolk, Va, to také ¢om- tanker, USS Pawcatuck.’ Heavy Fog Has Remmi Search | For Airplane PLANE SPOTTED SANTA BARBARA, Calif., | April 7.—(P)-—-A United Air- lines plane has spotted the wreckage of a plane believed to be an airliner: missing since last night. However ; Civil) Air’ Patrol Search;, heacquarters - here withheld official confirma- tion. Patrol officials pointed out thet the wreckage of a previous plane crash’ is known to be in ihe area east of Santa Barbara in the Los Coches mountains. The missing airliner is a Southwest Airways plane. There were 22 persons aboard the airliner when it disappeared in the Santa Barbara area last night. SANTA BARBARA, April 7. (@).—Heavy fog on the Southern California coast is hampering the arch for an airlin missing r here with 22 persons aboard. The Southwest Airways plane has not been heard from ‘since; last night when-it checked in by adio with the Santa: Maria Air- port. The plane: was carrying 19 pas* sengers and a erewoof three on‘ a “light from: San ‘Francisco ‘to’ Lo: Angeles. Eleven, Air Forte, ‘Coast Guard and sheriff's planes are conducting a wide, search over the rugged shore mountain area and the sea, while search parties comb the hills north of Santa Barbara. A sheriff's pa:ro: went into the (Continued On Page Eight, Low Cost Air Coach via SCHEDULED AIRLINES Shreveport, La. Upon graduation from the Aced (Continued On Page Eight) including Maid Service (411 Fleming St. PRICE TOURS Phone | ning wad Higéne B advances, The Chinese Reds ar Son «tok ele ong: im N, a. junction town | six: miles North Ko- ‘ae ef Siar Os Oph a | tA t Hilario Ramos, 13, son of Mr, W! and Mrs. Hilerie. Ramps.’ ‘520 Front ‘street, won. first 4 a prize of ten dollars in the atk: ami Herald spelling bee over ‘c’her contertants last night. at Key West High School. | Hilario, who is in the cighth | grade at St. Joseph school, elim- | inated runner-up Deonne, Parker, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs..A: | T. Parker, 2116 Fogarty” avenue, ion the word “architect.” She" is {in the eighth grade at. Key West Junior high school. 4 After spelling that on 3 | Hilario had fo pass the Sag} test on spejling; “ptrénugusly,’’ | He won. hahah aah Youngest co! pot the fourth grade, Sue M: ‘Moore, schoel in'.Marathon.’ He ‘missed, on, ‘the. yeord “isthmus!” ‘The, entire: spelling bee’ was ‘ autfanged)by \Leland Mareh, di- | Key W t % tric bills at tric af ste of the system moved~” ea any salen ae Ing, ‘the Masoni noe Tr Gi Bors ‘first floor of the air- itioned: concrete “building is being taken over-by nae, ra for its 15, office ‘wor' ral /Manager, C. A. Van Deursen and Comptroller: Merville Rosam. )The cight rooms at the Masonic | Horace O’Bryant; Superintendent’ service is of Public Instruction: on the. cornet. re the building. O’Biyant also made ‘the first]: City Electrie’s technical>crew annval presentation of an “O’Bry-| will remain at. the old hyilding. ant Trophy” which he has donated Meter men, 1 men and: distri- jto students of Monroe county. bution departmonts will operate last night he presented’ it to} out of the Greone. street - frame Alice Ai 12 years old, of. the ith grade, Tavernier School. She is the daughter of. Mr, and Ms. Robert Allen. Runner-up on the O'Bryant trophy was Barbara \t<aufman, 12 yeats, 7th grade at {the Matecumbe- school. She. is the daughter, of Mr. and Mrs, {Robert Kaufman. tr Each of ‘the’ ¢ight “school win- ners were presented with al terald ‘certifitates, “which, , te I it they y are school eg: i offien, on which City Blectric holds a lease until 1955, -@. 8. Pritehard company ‘will use it also while . Thomas Walk tarris Elementary’ Se ‘Mt. and “Mts. a L.’ Windsor Lane. © John Wayne Harper, BL 6th grade, 500 West Poinciana street, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Harper. Barbara Kaufman, - 12, 7th grade, Matecumbe school, Is wontinued On Page & ted hn wigan : ding f | rector. of: publie’ instruction for, ulin wa Te Monroe: county. s jing on , Awaids wee vresented oyna,