The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 16, 1951, Page 1

| H i | penn tweaker tenn: oan genre Bt re mn nn th one nave H Ee PRIA ar mao { Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the ceuntry, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit } oes Che Ken West Citi THE SOUTHERNMOS NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. The Associated Press Teletype | | Features and Photo Services For 71 Years Devoted to the | Best Interests of Key West | ww Ae Vou. LXXII. No. 91. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MO Ne AP R . 16, 1951. PRICE FIVE C EN’ \MacArthurs Leave For America Three Mysterious: Deaths = ae Will Be Lelanette Roberts’ Case Is Coming Up Thursday; Nichols, Taylor Other Two Three mysterious deaths will be probed by three coroners’ juries empanell- ed by Cornor Roy Hamlin,| Pa Ist district, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week, Hamlin said to- day. The death of Lelanette Roberts, Key West beauty, whose skeleton was found two weeks ago on Saddle Bunches key, is coming up Thursday, said Hamlin. Hamlin will . bring the case before the jury when he receives a report from Chief Deputy Sheriff, Frank Webber, on the lat- ters investigations in Or- lando, Fla., last weekend. Webber, is expected, said Hamlin to*provide him with the names of witnesses, persons who last saw the pretty Key West girl on August 7, 1949, the night she disappeared. Miss Rob- erts had been at a JayCee convention dance wt they Elks club, Her mother and other relatives never.saw. her after that date: They heard ‘nothing of her un- til her skeleton was found: ‘by a Navy couple practicing golf shots in the deserted .dunes of Saddte Bunches Key. At, the. time she disappeared, Miss Roberts’ family hired a private investigator. This investigator, Robert Garrison, of the city police force will testify before the jury, of which he is also a member. State Attorney J. Lancelot Les- ter is being consulted by Hamlin today as to exact dates for the First to come up will be that of a shrimper John Taylor, found dead in his apartment, 311 Petr- onia street, on March. 29. His body said Hamlin “was badly de- composed,” leading authorities to believe t he had been dead three or four days when found. The cohtroversial “dase,of Sta ley Nichols, retiréd U.S. Mat Reeth from Alaska will, be put; before} the corner’s jury just as boop! bd the FBI furné in its reports. Nichols was discovered ‘by. pol ice in a critical condition.on Feb- ruary 12 at the Floridian Motel. He died on Feb. 16, His travelling companion Tommy Moffat had deserted him with Nichols car wwontinued On Page Eight) NEW FORDS AND MERCURYS Just Received Another Shipment DELIVERY TODAY Also Reconditioned A-1 Used Cars ALL MAKES AND MODELS Low Down Payment and Terms Best Values in Town MONROE MOTORS INC. SALES E> SERV 1119 WHITE: ST. P x City May Install More Meters Pro By Local Coroner s Jury This Week On Southwest * ~~ New Banking Fund Side Of Duval ed SSeS | To Be Establ y Introduces State Road Bill TALLAHASSEE, April .16. —(/).—Representative : Bern- ie C. Papy today introduced HB 312 designating as state road a road running from Road 940 on Big Pine Key and running westerly to west- ern tip of Big Pine Key. 2 eS pe MacArthur Acclaimed By Japanese Come From :Manty Distant Parts To Say Goodbye To Their Ruler (By The Asnociates: Presst General. Douglas MacArthur has started his” long “journey homeward, but not before .being ‘Biven a “hero s farewell”. in Ja- Pan's: capital, Tokyo, just» before he took off for Bataan 7:21 a.m. Japanese ‘time. i “So Sorry To See You Go” * The people of: Japan’ came in family groups—from © Tokyo— from many distant parts of the country—and waited for hours to acclaim the conqueror who had ruled their nation for nearly six years. Onc 69-year-old woman told how she had made a 36-hour train ride from her home just to see the general off. Another woman said: “We know we might not be able to catch sight of the general, but we want to say goodbye, even to} his car.” Here and. ihiere,? groups in ‘tile crowd held up white banners Qne of t] ea rapes tyde to eae od vith e| hope he come bach goong” Mrs. MacArthaki.$f, (9b fle /3To friends who gaye her. a fare; well reception, Mrs.’ ‘MaeArthur said'she was planning a visit to her home ‘town—Murfreesboro, Tennessce—as soon as it could be arranged. Mrs. MacArthur also said she was looking to going shopping in the United States. Arthur MacArthur The general's 13-year-old son, Arthur, appeared bewildered and uneasy at the take-off ceremon- ies—but eager to make his first visit to the United States. Born in Manila, young Arthur MacAr- thur has never been to Amcrica. Postpone Giant Welcome San Francico’s giant welcome (Continued On Page Seven) Summer Rates In Effect Overseas Hotel 917 FLEMING, STREET. Weekly Rates from 1g) Bi = Dining Room PROVINCETOWN, ‘FT. Introducing; Fuesday: JOHN TRAVERS Exceptional Pianist and Juilliard Graduate of Music POPULAR APPEARANCES IN NEW YORK, BALTIMORE, =AUDERDALE and MIAMI The Trade Winds Club COCKTAIL LOUNGE P.S.—Why not enjoy Dinner first in the Patio Restaurant? *} new resolutions and ,to give sec- By. Utility Board City Commissioners will meet tonight at City Hall to discuss} ond readings on half a dozen ordinances. One resolution to come up will be that of the Utility Board to establish a special fund in The Flordia National Bank at Key West tor the purchase of new equipment, distribution system expansion, alterations to power, plant and pension plan for offi- cers and employees. City Clerk Victor Lowe wih read for the second time the fol- lowing ordinances for commis- sion approval: Beer and wine license for the| new Margaret Ann_ store on} a Flagler avenue; Beer and wine license for the Casa Corral on Duval street; Installation of parking meters} Noises InR taymer Apartment seat sige oie, wt,,| Annoy My Sister, Eileen’ Author’. tronia and southwest Greene and Front streets, and ap | proval of an $800 fee to Eric Uses Some Curry who will make the inde-} (®) Wirephoto via Radio from Tokyo GEN. DOUGLAS MacARTHUR and his wife wave farewell at Tokyo's Haneda airfield before entering their plane for flight to the United States. Standing at the foot of the ramp is Lt. Col. Tony Story, the general’s personal pilo Of These * dent audit of the city’s fi-| Imeidents Al al Me — a. ‘ancer Crusade Court In Cue ; : Nearly ~ seven™* single-spaced] ‘or 1951 Starts » In City Teday 1 an| The 1951 Cancer Crusade begins a,today in Key West. Every resi- nt of the community will have the opportuntiy to rike back” cancer during this fund-raising j pages of rate charges in the S j Of Her Stories tment © will be read} oer eae |} By DOROTHY RAYMER I lived ir ; | Back in my salad 94 , [Ohio State Uni Jackson Arrives he .ce%.0" F apartment house called Indianc For Food Handlers Court. It was an ordinary bui ing, dull to look at on the out But the exterior Training Program tis aays ai a a FS Hi Me |and educational campaign to be Bao: HORE: Cie? | onducted here by the Monroe E. Russell Jackson, supervisor | Kenny, playwri stl G fee of ihe Ameren of the Food Handlers Trainin; She lived direct Society. Program for the Florida State; With her sister and “tive drive will commence Board of Health, arrived in Key|mother. We exch ams of volunteer canvass- West today for the joint food|borrowing and a few c tarting their rounds. At every handlers training program which |0n the colored janitor who hi aj home visited whether a contribu. starts tomorrow at the Elks Club]|Problem goldfish, Once _ not and ACS Auditorium, 313 Duval street. cussed the odd noises Rut > Bight, Mr. Jackson will be one’ of the aves her head in my ees ra vhicl Her grandmother was speakers on the program which is 8 a nal My Sonvored jointly. by the Navy, feutious to know what /cenera yers end state, county and city health |tion of the ceiling by da, c the thumpin, und at night + partments. Sessions will be a x | NER e Id daily at am., and re-|Pened to be <6 compl al ‘oat To Jai {2 p.m. Tuesday; Wed- | about the loud cra which vA ee " , and Othe Ail per=}eurred at odd | s he carly eae ee M sae ae fons connected with the handliag Morn : \ cashiered high Air Force offi- of food and beverages are invit- r imple; ¢ ennett Meyers, has been ed to attend. ) a year and a day in of guilty to rome taxes. $5,000 10 Addition plain her ee tees on he noise. re ccused of evading more For Appelrouth’s fCenbaued Wn, sight) 1,030 in taxi Mrs, Isadore Appelrouth ob a = tained a $5,000 permit for addi PROCLAMATION tions to her store at 511 Duva street, Building Inspector Ralpt Russell announced toda: Lucilo Gonzalez, 530 Catherin« street, will build a concrete porcl at ‘a cost of $150 and Mitchel" Zimmer, 2117 Harris avenue, is repairing his garage at a cost of $100, Plumbing permits were issued WHEREAS, last year some 210,009 families lost a fath mother, or a chiid to cer. Of these, more than 100.000 we: the prime of life. between the ages of 30 and 65. They were strick- en when their families, their work, and their communities needed them most. WHER S, those wko have lost a dear one, know cancer as a terrible threat. They know that the disease reaches beyond the patient to family and loved ones, all of whom must share a serious burden, and by. Plumbing “Inspector Harry WHEREAS, happily. there is a brighter side. Physicians can Alsing 10-L. Levesque, 1015 -Si-|} cow cure half of those who develop cancer if the disease is diag- monton °street; Berlin Sawyer.|| sosed early and treated promptly. Today, however, only about 1515 Josephine street, and two} one in four, who have the disease, are being saved, and WHEREAS. we as individuals have a great responsibility: we can strike back at cancer through spreading life-saving facts and ugh contributing to the Cancer Crusade. Lives will be saved our country, our state, our community, and perhaps in our separate permits; were issucd te E. Gomez at 723 herire| street. eosee || own families. é 1 | NOW. THEREFORE. by virtue of the power vested in me as Palace eater || “‘ayor of the City of Key West, Florida, I, Louis M. J. Eisner, do 1 by and he: th proclaim thi th of April, 1951, as Canc Glenn Ford and Valli in sontel rewith proclaim the mon ? oe “WHITE TOWER" IN rol Month, and I call on all citizens to join in the Cancer Trusade of the American Cancer Society and heartily subscribe to he Crusade’s Theme—GUARD YOUR FAMILY, STRIKE BACK, GIVE TO CONTROL CANCER. | WITNESS my hand and the seal of The City of Key West, Florida this 16th day of April, A. D. 1951. with OVERLOAD SPRINGS ADAMS DAIRY VICTOR LOWE, City Clerk. prgneate EGR BALE!| (sd) LOUIS M. J. EISNER. Late 1947 Ford |! Mayor of The City of %-Ton Canopy Truck || attest: | | J Seer Fight For Airport | House Approves Amendment To Gue Monroe County A State Senator Of Its Own Vote Was 65-21; Cireuit Court Jury For py ct ° . sore 0 Amendment Try Retrial Of Louis Caraballo | ¢ coats. May Be Chosen May 7 4 16. — (AP), — A proposed | constitutional amendment to give Monroe County in airs ees Civil Case Will Be the Florida Keys a state M 2 Fi : Tried On May 14; senator of its own. was ap- ayor ASNHCY ) Jurrors Couln’t Agree iproved by the Florida ‘On Carabiallo: Case, | House today. The vote was 65-21, a ma- Names AF'W Committee ‘A Circuit Court. jury or thef ious . nq retrial: of Louis Carabatlo, charg- jority of 14 more than ne- ed with first-degree murder, whey CoSsaty under the _three- had! a mistrial’ last October ap, fitths rule. for ‘submitting Judge} Constitutional amendments SI on For may ‘be choseh ‘on* May 7, C ae ion 1 Agiilino Lopex, Circuit judge an-/'t0-a general election. “The - ebration Is {nounced today. Senate still’ must » approve “Defnders A jury for civil cases will be} the: measure. definitely chosen’ on’ ‘that date, with civil cases to begin trial on way 14. *\ Phe condition of Stace Actorney J. Lancelot . Lester; injured * a “month ago, will determine, wheth= ror not the retrial ei Cayaballos Of Freedom” Representative Papy of Mon- roe county steered the measure to-adoption, and succeeded in getting the House to defeat a move to couple with the Mon- toe county... district a new. one for Bay county in. west. Florida. An amendment to give Monroe A ‘committee: to” promote the celebration of | Armed Forces, _ Weck was appointed today. by4 Mayor Louis M. J, Eisner. The mayor assumed. chairmanship. o' the committee “and designated} yi)). hogin, it was’ said. jcounty and Bay county cach a cleven other. prominent members} » Last October the jury foreman] district. was tejected in the 1943 of the Key West community ‘to in the Caraballo. case said that} general cleetion, Papy blamicd in aaiie: the jurors had failed. to. H nial clusion: of the.,west Florida dis- decision. an¢ i-} trict. proposal for the defeat.- Armed. Forces: Week: »will Te vations were that they ne Representative \ Courtney — of the third week ‘of’ May.’ Most of! would.” The case-nad~ been, with) Bay, who, thind -to. -write--Bey * obs i S county. in fora new. district, op- posed, the. Monroe tounty district | bration ke dom,” :and the: week ‘has’ been set. aSide Forces : wi ee defense and. Security ofthe 1 ftnust have. ahot: *¥gldsia’**" ut me ded that he had ng memory prea aaa an of: the. (shooting ’y because - of his we. chee yo aiheren pagopleed. mental condition at the ist Clul Roy Hamlin—Island. City, Base-}-. epetenie. begged Ieniency for ball League. Caraballo: on. grounds that he} Jack Murray--Junior hiimbért killed Yglesia- during: a temporary of Commerce, ° mental: blackout, * a Gamat At “and: Hist A state “oonitendéd: rn the time torie: sociation. t farabalo was guilty: of pre- Mrs, .Marion, ‘Starke—Business| thoditated homicide andl asked for| 1iycc'on the Keys. Senator Frank- and Professional Women's ‘Club.| 4 verdicl of ‘murder in the first } i550 ertocnta the alee Frank Romaguera—A merical gree without a cogomifendetion fives tn Fort Myers. Legion. for mercy. John. Spottswood—Radio Sta:| ‘ win oe 2 ait Rtn tion WKWF. 4 . ‘i Norman D,,Artman—Key “West Florida wh bit ; Citizen.» haat y BAS. Harold Laubscher. — Manager, 'Kef “ CG : Key West Chamber of Com-}: auver roup merce. CBs ‘Harvey—American, gion. Harris ris Accepts City’s Offer To Monyoe county now sain abe 2ith district with Lec, Glades and Hendry counties. The. ei part, of Montoe--touches: the-dis- iets but most of the population «| Soon To Start: | Killed In Crash (?),—The Haley, . committee to}... Lt. (ig) Franklin -C. Paschal, estigate corruption, in. Florida|Jr., who was formerly stationed } } government, may sct up_its staff here, was killed: instantly. #riday “*} today and go to work. Represen-| when a jet plane he’ was "piloting tative Haley of ‘Safasdta, the|dived into the Hudson river at chairman of the group, said he| New York. contacted a lawyer who’ has no| Licutcnant and Mrs. ‘Paschal official connections ahd: the com-| are both | known in Key West. mittee hopes to interview him to-| Lieutenant Paschal. “reported at day with an eye to engaging him| FAWT@lant- at Boca Chica last to help direct the inquiry, Aug. 27 and after, successfully Haley would not name’the law-| completing the all weather, flying yer. He said previously. the com-| course, he was to At- the cuit. mittee needs an attorney whose) lantie City, N, J., on January, 28. Meanwhile, City Manager Dave}integrity, and ability is unques He received his promotion from King and City Comptroller Chas.}tiohed and who has the confi-/Ensign to — Licutenanf, © junior Roberts, on instruction of the}dence of the people ef Florida. | grade, shor oe leaving: Key city commission, are conferring] In an indepchdence move to} West, The f 3 lived at of, with banks here and .in Miami| take all the covers off all public’ (Continued On Page Fight; — records, Haley... prepared - for jn if troduction a i q he has notified city officials -o' his agreement to work with Ig Harris told The Citizen. that attorney sl natius Lester, city “Both ‘Lieutenant and Mrs. Pas. e ‘members of: eanor, Haley has been one of the lead- ers in pre-legiflativn demands for have @ unified Florida vag ae ‘it, that vas : Washington, Gulf and Cal- |Former Pilot Here | } } | ae ae opera peN NNN cs ness