The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 24, 1951, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT Robert Metz Bound Over To Thief Breaks Into Minsicaingt River On meiner In Mid-West Grand Jury By J.P. Hamlin DIDN’T REF TE MIMONY YESTERDAY Apartment Here A thief broke into the ment of Mrs. Margaret Johnson apart- at 621 Southard street about 4 OF RAPE CHARGED AGAINST HIM a. m, Tuesday. He entered by’ prying off a Robert W. Metz, USN, 26 years old, did not say a -ingle word] screen over her kitchen window, to defend him:elf against the charge of the capital crime of rape at a preliminary hearing held yesterday before Peace Hamlin of the Second District. Hamlin. bound him over to ag’ jury that will meet in several weeks. Metz did not reiute the testimony of the housewife, who alleg on Janu acts. Yesterday a technician from Galey Memorial hospital backed up the allegations of the housc- wife and mother by testifying that the car showed concrete evi- dence of the unnatural acts com- mitted. The defendant's case goes to} the Grand Jury of Circuit Court now. It ean either bring out a true bill of indictment against Metz or release him. If he is in- dicted and convicted Metz faces]" the electric chair, should the jury not recommend mercy. Rape is. @ capital crime in the state of Feorida. The housewife-mother story at the hearing y: Hamlin’s office on street. She said that at 3:15 p. January 31, she left the main gate of the Noval’ base. As she! came to the traffic light at the corner of Whitehead and South- ard streets, the light was red. As she stopped the sailor opened the door “and jumped inside of the car with a knife in his hand. “He told me to keep on driv- ing,” the housewife said. “He made me drive him at the point of.a knife to Boca Chica Beach. There he made me take off all of my. clothes and proceeded to rape me. At the time my baby was in the back of the car, After he raped me he then made me commit a crime against nature.” The housewife’s sworn state- ment continues: “tHe then let me drive him back to town. On the way I tried to gain his confidence. He told me tnat he would be at the ‘Brown Derby’ bar at the corner. of Whitehead. and Southard streets After he got out of the cai went, home to get my husband. He was not at home at‘the time. A: neighbor brought me down to Ue Police station.” Lt. Ray Atwell of the city po- lice said: “I was at the police station when the woman arrived. She was very hysterical. That was about 5:15 .p. m. She gave me the description of the man and also where,he might be at. I let her} drive me te the Briwn Derby bar and a.mar fitting the description was sitting on a stool, I asked her if that was the man and she told me. that it was. I placed him un- der arrest and searched him for the knife, but he did not have it on him. I brought him down to the station and locked him up and took, the woman over to Galey’s Memorial hospital for examina- tion. I then notified State At torney Lancelot Lester <Métz who will remain in jail without bond until the Grand y 31 and raped her and forced her to commit unnatural Russell To Head Far East Inquiry told her erday at Whitehead m. on ‘Wirephofo SENATOR RICHARD B. RUS- SELL (above), Democrat of Georgia, will be in charge of the inquiry when Gen. Douglas MacArthur takes the stand to tell about the Far Eastern policy that led to his ouster. Russell is chairman of the Sen-’ ate Armed Services Committee. He will alse direct the question- ing of President Truman's top military and diplomatic ad- visers on the Far East, KEY WEST TENN (Continued from Page Three} down Peter :Varela. The match went to thre sets, 6-3, 5+7, 6-3. In the number «three singles, Sellers put down. Tony Tony. was. playing game gf, his’ Jife; sand Harvey had to push haid to‘ win. Jack Sellers, in the number four ‘singles, was just ‘too much for ‘a game Frank Hernandez, as he won 6-1, 6-0, Earl Yates, in. the number ‘five !singles postion, defeated Terry Doughtry in a hard fought 7-5, 6-2 match. Some indication of the battle can be had from the fact that it took two hours to play. The second high school victory of the day came in the first doub- les, in which Don and John Cruz revenged themselves for the de- feat they took in the Casa Mari- na tournament and defeated Rob- Jury mects, was stationed aboard] at. s : niga Jet Battle the USN submarine Medregal.. | § "1° Smith and Earl Yates, 6-4,)" A new jet battle has been Attorneys Enrique Esquinaldo| __ fought in the skies over northeast and William V. Albury acted for} tho sack hue ,| sorea: Twenty-four American the defendant attributes ofthe «Wreck butial Sabre jets tangled with at least pelt—which he aequ : gedaan Ihe -ning-propwntions via @ pot 20 Red jets. One Red plane was rag, END. 6 IS + V. J e y air- “MY SISTER, EILEEN”? |of Lepages giug.and a. dispairded sane mslaape a wohl aaa (Continued From Page One) | ™altress—does "a vety fanny: Spall tk ipeciiecaansenbiaan night through Saturday. Curtain ntele Nel i ey pon dae: r. Select, tne. servie2: that selects | time—8:30 o'clock. ; fest ages here BARET.| 4 Ten U.S. Marines. Thesscene, among other things, eh cores ant editor af a/New-| '# is laid. in a Greenwich village| ¥p "Gry yee Oe Jose his apartment, and the story con- ob_ through, championing Ruth's literary efforts. A navy man sta- cerns two girls from Columbus, Ju tice Roy id After 2omng through the ‘Kitchén found her doorknob in and bathroom, he purse hang ret! ok her bedrooM age was: leaving but wa: desc¢ription. Mrs. Johnsort, whic "works: the (‘Cabana »Club,- was * ‘quite sh nandez .,arrived... The. , officer searched aboyt, the house and found the.screen. underneath, the house. Near the window were a window and a hammer which Johnson identified as be- longing to a Mr, Baker, who lives in the next apartment. Mr. Baker agreed that the tools belonged to’ him. He explained that he had left them behind his back porch. The abet of the breaking and enteri ‘was released by Police Chief cect Kemp. Sealed Bids dl Asked By Navy. Sealed bids have. been invited for an addition to, Building No. 28 at the Naval’ Ordnance Unit, Key West, Commander Conrad E. Grohs, Naval Station public works officer, announced today. The work. includes earthwork, concrete work, masonry work, stucco work, carpentry and join- ery, glazing and caulking, roof- ing, electrical work and painting. Drawings and specifications will be ready for transmittal to prospective bidders on April 23. Specification No. 28252 and other Bidding information may be ob- tained on application to the dis- trict public works officer, Sixth Naval District, Naval Base, P.O. Box 365, South Carolina, or the resident officer-in-charge of con. struction, U.S. Naval Station, Key West. Bids will be received until 11 am, May 17, 495], when they will be publicly .opened at the office .af the public works offi- cer, U.S: Naval Station, Key West. ARTILLERY, AIR (Cortinues From Page Ones ready, and he ls gojng to take some more.” The.Far Eastern Commander, Lieutenant General Matthew Ridgway, visited the front lines today. Later, he said the Red of- fensive looks like the real thing— the big try to drive the allies in- to the sea. General Ridgway said the pre- sent battles may decide the war in Korea, and he warned the heaviest Red blows are yet to come. Ridgway also said: “We are fully confident in the ability and determination of UN Forces.” Ohio who find themselves cata-| {jON4 here. Ted, is the smoothest SS etc tov eee ce | thing we: have’ scen oulsidieanf’a y their occupancy thereof 2 Ch Seats . Ipis. Skidmore, as the beauti-} Chic Clark, @ campletely - re- Metalisiy sexy cider wis ck pulsive newspaper reporter who pines 10 tke stece, ater Who 25-1 fancies Eileen (as who docsn’t); for the girl to be marooned in al Vinee Yea bY Vince Guercio. Greenwhich Village apartment] i, not Tite une eid like to knpw, with. Helen Berezovsky plays her] hin isn ne jee at all. Tt, bothers long suffering literary sister with|2, Says he: “But Tm ‘not’ ve-lt The Whole World just the right mixture of dry wit Joe Lazarovici plays a Russian who enters brieflygin a and wearied tolerance Harry Price is convincing} : 3 ' & me. If all Russians enough, as Mr. Appopolous, the and that ferocious, Greck ._ landlord-painter-philoso j We are sending our private white pher-epic poct. to convince us} flag ight to the Kremlin to- that he is not English or a new morrow. His wife, Maida, as a paperman, as he has asserted up} prospective tenar the very to now, but in reality is a Greek| cpiton landlord-painter-philosopher - epic| loathe poct Cuban admirals, AT YOUR CORNER! The neat rows on rows of drugs in our Rexall Prescription Department represent. the choice of the World's yield in drugs to meet every need. landlords} | i Our Rexall Drug Store is always completely stocked with fresh, potent woke as he unable to that “sw drove dher toBoca Chica beach’ at the point/ofcaikaite| Se mee Well Chough* ‘ty Rive all at ken up when: officer. E. Her- |) THE KEY WEST CITIZEN divergent items as a penny pam- phlet to a $250,000 research grant —and both might save lives.’ She cxplained that there are cases on record of a person read- ing about cancer's danger signals in a pamphiet-that was produced by ACS at a cost of than a half cent. The reader had one of that his or her gift is worthwhi {the chairman explained. “A sin, dollar will buy ten test tubes that tool in cancer re- ame night feed one used for experi- mental work the laboratory, for more than cight months | are a necessary |search or that dollar mouse in the ptoms, rushed to his doc here the little things that tor and was’ treated in time ta iw dollar buys directly. But it spare: his life. liakes 65 thousand of: those ame | “Annually the Zancvican Car+}dollars to buy a one millidn voit ser Society prints and gives awuy| x-ray machine used to cure some millions of pieces.¢{ literature to} cases of car i teach the public how to guard s. Daniels said that the cru against ‘he diseas:,” Mrs. Danicis| sade quota of $5,000 here is an aid. “This is a wort. hile project estir vated amount of this com but it costs money, the same asjmunity’s share in) the nationa!) he many other’ activities aimed} goal of $14,565,000. “I am sure; at cancer control.” that when the total is counted! “We ‘hope e » will realize here, we will exceed our quota.” If your budget's on your mind—get the story on Mercury now! It's @ money-saver in th Ye one way that counts—mile-after- mile: economy. For proof, look at the record. Mercury with overdrive was first in its class in the Mobilgas Economy Run for the second straight year. This record confirms what every Mergury owner's pocketbook tells him every mile he drives— Mercury costs less to run! See this great value car today! Looks that last Barbara Sc ith great verve by Al{! Svgs and chemicals for compound- girl of ill but nor Santana, Arturo}, 16 your pllysician’s ‘prescription. spread fame, is Juanito Sanchez.|) _* | the lot. Her brief down with their | segond one in a ance of a ———| | all the laws of r nature j 1} left-us with the distinct feeli Robert Kershaw takes the a - - that we nceded thirteen stitche: f Frank Lippincott, an intens: se, in cither side to repair the rav-]awkward young man who man. G ages of our laughter. If it weren't] ages a Liggett’s Drugstore and ARD ae the fact that we »w Bar-| vers Eileen with the fruits of para to be a lo and a one-cent sales. His hesitan devoted wife and mother to boot,| conversion to Bohetaneat't | > PHARMACY — we would bet our next salary| very telling and, what is more check (small enough sacrifice)| important, very funny The Store eae ae type-casting. | On the whole, we feel that you Which brings us to the Wreck,} can't miss with “My _ Sis an alcoholic professional footbal "We just wish it sae Ue REE UE player who irons a mean pleat! going to be here for a couple Corner Varela Street nd moves into the sisters’ apa weeks so that all o ey ent midway in tk first act.| West could see the most sage PHONE 177 Jimmy. Murphy,.having all of the} toc producti n year ae p in Mercury's styling, too, That on- the-move look that stands out in every line of the 1951 Mercury means this car stays modern-looking far longer. Inside, a blend of spaciousness and cushioned comfort. Throughout, ind-proofed construction. 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