The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 25, 1951, Page 1

j i | i i { “ 4 ~ i Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average Tange of only 14° Fahrenheit } BERS EGS, a THE VOL. LXXII. No. 99 KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1951. 41 FEARED DEAD IN P Shrimp Boat Captain Drowns Last Night In Fall From Trawler <—_—_—— 98 Die In Japanese Train Fire Shrimp Boats Notified By Radio To Be On Lookout For Body Will Wright, 300 Virginia street, captain of the shrimp boat Cracker Boy, drowned about 6:45 o'clock last night when he fell overboard in an area 13 miles west north- west of: the Northwest Channel. Roscoe Kelps, 39, mate of the boat for only one day, circled the spot for thirty minutes befere it became too dark to sce anything’ and he returned to Key West. Shrimp boats have been notified to be on the look- out for the body and the Coast Guard Cutter Ari- adne is scheduled to make a search today. According to. Kelps and persons who were at the Gulf Dock when the Crack- er Boy left, Wright had been drinking heavily. He was repeatedly warned not to take the boat out but re- plied, “I am captain and Tl] go out if I want to.” As hé was leaving the dock secording to W. R. Register. can. tain of the shrimp trawler Willie James, he hit the Willie James He’ was again warned that it would be dangerous to go out and again refused to change his course. Kelps told Lt. Clem Pearson commanding officer of the Coa Guard ‘Base, that they went into (Continued On Page Seven) (®) Wivephoto via Radio from ‘Tokyo RESCUE WORKERS REMOVE BODIES of some of the 98. per-. sons who died Tuesday inva boaing wtestele TaN OMge atthe: railway station in Yokahéma, Japan. Seven of the dead were American soldiers. -Fifty*mifie other persons were injuréd. A dangling power line touched the roof of the old fashioned Wooden coach and turned ‘it into'a blazing funeral pyre. $14,000 In Permits aed By Building Inspector Russell Largest Permit Is For $7,000 Remodeling) = Of Building On Fogarty Street Patton Arrested On Perjury Charge Papy Introduces | Three Bills Today Building Inspector Ralr’s Rus- sell issued ten permits yesterday é ; TALLAHASSEE, April 25. MIAMI, Fla., April 2: for moving houses, repairs and| _(@,—-§tate Representative George Patton, former Dade] ;emodeiling Rertig Gibane tis meraind county deputy | sheriff, was at-| Largest permit was issued to] introduced bills: rested on a charge of perjury /yy and Mrs. J. Brown for # HBS64 empowering the last night. $7,000 remodelling job on a build- Monroe County Commis- He was picked up by sheriff's | iz’ moved from the Atmy Bar-| sion to establish a building apsseada eh nities eee eh racks to Fogarty street Bermit system: | faa. had been called to ap: {Harty Pinder for remé a} County Commission candi- par’ before the gédnd jury this | baildi 517 Baha-| ates to have resided in their oles at oe ~~ | ma beth street. ere cae tet six eaony eet A months lore qualifying; i ! 5 i Jr., is mak- cling ty Solicitor Vivion > is ri ee eoenty Pelthe informe, {ing $1500 repairs. and adding a} -HBS72 authorizing the i Patton and ordered |"°0m, eight by 23 fect to his _Monree County Commis- he ha eee eae house at 727 Windsor lane. et sa operate the public ee # i i ospital. Rutherford said the perjury} | Four saving pemalls were P! charge was based on Patton’ issued by Russell, One went to site Benjamin Kilpatrick for mov- | =~ aman gontticting testimony In two court | ing «building trom the Army! appearances. They were in con-| i#g @ buildi i D | 5 T. nection with a charge by Charles | Bere ks to the site of the ci¢gales Lo ; | $200,000 de luxe apartments be) Robertson, who all gcing up out next to ‘s on ton and R. S. Mck Rocwver bontevard te | Meeting Arrive | dollars from him = when tt brs | raided an alleged bookmaking | build’ng will be used as a | joint sed during the consiruc- | Delcgates to the 22nd Annual pis | tion of the 53 units. Reel dine atr eee Ag Ue —ao | Mitche!! Zimmer obtained a quito Association which opens permit to move a gara ‘ a ¥ i i Poor Old Craig | the Army barracks to 3 the Casa Marina Hotel, Key West, SERVICE STATION {iis avenue. Raymond Delgado is at 3 p.m. bel Francis at Division Phone 9134) = (Continucd On Page Foun | Key West this Your PURE O11, Deater : ‘T US Grease, Spray or They are. Lestat W. &mith,| LE J Change Your Oil! THE Superintendent ef the Middlessex «Continued On Page Se saat | | during the past six months and Se Rogelio Gomes’s Prediction Has Been Confirmed Businessman Rogelio Go- | m™ez’s prediction at a city com- mission session this month has | come true with the announce- ment of an Aerovias Q air- route between Havana and West Palm Beach, Gomez told the city then that negotiations were pro- gressing for the installation of this Havana- West Palm Beach service. The airways official brought out this statement to show that other cities were anxious to acquire airlines and not drive them out. He_ also predicted that Aecrovias Q would fly out of Marathon if forced to ‘leave: Key West, Gomez tieclared today that the new operation ‘between Havana and West Palm Beach would have no effect on the passenger traffic be- tween Key West and Havana. Marathon Asks For Referendum On Incorporation The board of directors of the Marathon Chamber of Com-| merce is petitioning. the state legislature fora referendum to} be held on‘a charter for the town} of Marathon. Judge William .V. Albury Key. West was called into consul- tation on» various aspects of the proposed legislation. It was‘the opinion of this board that the matter should be brought to.a head after the .con- siderable . discussions throughout the past two years. A commitice appointed by the Chamber of Commerce has been assembling ‘data “pro on the subject of incorporation of gave a report of their findings ata recent town mecting in Marathon. Miami Wants 1952 Dem. Convention TALLAHASSEE, April ().—The House agreed invite the 25.— today to national national 1952. Floyd of Dade } city has Democratic hold its convention in Miami in Repr county committee to sentative said the good faciliti for such a convention. The resolution now goes te the senate for its concurrence. Floyd said Florida’s invitation must be m the hands of the De- mocratic convention site commit- tee by April 28th. The conven- tion site will be selected — this winter. La Concha Hotel Summer Rates FROM $10.50 Week, Single $17.50 Week, Double ot Citi The Associated Press Telety; ing lot as Fad since the are: sippi river last week. H, P. “BUCKY” MILLER of the American Leg.on 100d patrol ties up his boat to a parking meter in the LeCiaire Park parking | Jot at Lavenpoit. lowa. Tne boat is the fizst “customer” the park- {sea one mile off South See Crash Off South Beach Before Noon BULLETIN Bodies of the 41 victims of the Pan ..merican plane crash are all being taken to the Naval Hospital for identi- fication, it was learned as The Citizen went to press. Nine bodies had been re- covered by 2 p.m. Three of the bodies, un- identified, meanwhile had been taken to Pritchard Fun- eral Home. Lopez and Prit- chard as well as Navy am- bulances waited outside the Administration bwilding at the Neval base as the bodies were brought io shore by Navy and Coast Guard res- cue boats. A Pan-American Air- ways plane carrying 34 pas- | sengers and five crew mem- ibers plummeted into the a was flooded by the rising Missis- Beach here at 11:45 o'clock this noon. A few minutes Sisters, o’clovk in. Coroner’ Roy Hamli Office. Dr. Fred Carbonell, tify the teeth found in‘the ‘ske weeks ago as ‘those ‘of Lelane of his. Coroner ‘Hamlin Key while they golf shots. ter a JayCee convention dance the Elks Club on August 7, 19: RC Expects To. Reach Goal Sat. Saturday i On that day the Kev Chapter.of the American Rf “ross expects tu reach its goal 39,000. 7 Jeff Knight, Jr. chairman the fund drive, annopneed tod: $979 more.is, neede We expert to re tha m Saturday,” Knight said, The Rev. John tor of the St. Paul's Episcoy clean up day.” hat only amou. Armfield, pi church, out the day Volunteer workers: any home or busir rick up donetions One will not have to wait Saturday, If you de (Continued On Pa, will call ss house Summer Rates In Effect ~ ‘Casa Marina Hotel | . and Beach Club | Is Now Operating | EXPERIENCED OFFICE HELP FEMALE | on the Good Working Conditions— European Plan General Routine—Apply j BEST | RATES In Person to | Double $8 up | ; |: gate ss | Mr. Vinal, Gen. 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Lelanette Roberts Will Be Identified By Her The siste of Lelanette Rob-, Her family never heard from her bathers on Key West's erts, 29-year-vld Key West beau-|#fter that date. | ty, will identify the: school: ring] I8vestigations were made at! beaches. . ¥ % “| the time of the disa rance of . oftheir dead sister at the coro- jthe pretie Meghe ean who | Ehret bodies, one: ners’ inquest this afternoon at 2 will iden- ton on Saddle Bunch Key three Roberts, who had been a patient has also sub- poened the couple who discover- ed the skeleton on Saddle Bunch were practicing Lelanette Roberts vanished af- We: will give a ‘talk over RATS RE 3 i eae tf OHS ak SaBe an operations. , -American plane crashed in i $ »| an- ine senate c dropped houncements will follow, through- a new beens aun sa = . Overseas Hotel Weekly Rates from 510 Dining Room . .. Bar... earlier, a Navy trainer air- craft exploded alongside it in midair. As The Citizen went to press it was not known if * Eye-Witnesses *——— == SS Navy Plane Makes Emergency 'Landing Near Sub An AB type Navy air craft this afternoon made an emergency landing at sea near the U.S. Subma- rine Petrel. The occupants were Lt. J. G. Lucas, VX-1, and Lt. J. G. Knopp, of SubRon 4. They sufferod only minor scratches and were on a project flight. They were picked up by the submarine. A helic- copter with a doctor on board was rushed to the scene. This plane accident had no connection what- soever with the Navy Beechcraft-PAA Cubana crash earlier, there were any survivors of Dr. Carbonell sex mcs vm = ‘as last’seen in’ a black dinner; and two Navy men, have s early Sunday morning . of | been recovered. ust 7, 1949, No clue of her disappearance} The P.-A. Cubana trans- Je-,| was uncovered until her skeleton ; port, stated as overdue on was found almost 20 month¢ '® | the flight from. Miami. ‘to Coroner Hamlin’ said that the Havana, by Pan-American coroners’ jury can do little er headquarters in Miami, , than establish the identity of. tl | skeleton. He said that the inves- peg digg wwind eye-witnesses tigation into the causes of her |t® ying alongside a death will continue. | Navy SNB trainer plane di- Yesterday a coroner's ‘jury de- rectly over the beach. The clared that the death of John 1 rted. Th “4 Francis Taylor, shrimper, wa3}P!anes pai e@ trainer due to natural causes. |plane exploded in mid-air. ‘one of its wings dropping to the sea. The body of the plane. with one wing still attached, then lunged into Has Been Extended the sea. | “WASHINGTON, April 25—vp.| The huge silver four-en- t] The Senate Cian Committee ained-plane seemed. to be an olan more investigations no wit has a new lease on life, and @ll right, flew level for a more money, $100,000 more. The few minutes, then took a ag pee RAE yen aad nose-dive into the sea. tue he comm > ay tember 1, instead of letting it ex- Eight Coast Guard. and ‘hire the ed of this month, Navy rescue boats rushed t t alco voted it the extra moncy. immediately to the scene. ney After ) George’: Faraidd. ‘tee records will be turned oves , ‘ptember 1, the commit é “ cers Meacham airport was one of the to the Senate Commerte ~' fire on sive eonine. «settle la oare! n’ tte at 49. ‘Senate Crime Com. ae of; pd. ,al| mittee, which will have author- smal plane. He dropped. dye ity to keep watch on underworld jyarks to mark the spot where the .. Preservers and took aerial pic- x has agreed to remain tures. committee, but bas in- “this reporter saw an oil slick isted that the chairmanship be forming about a mile off the sanded over to Senator Herbert peach, The Navy and Coast Guard to | O’Conor of Maryland. boats operated at the scene mark- It looks as if a prime target of eq py Faraldo. the crime investigators will be “49 waval or Coast guard of- the illegal narcotics traffic. (Continued on Tage Three) at jon the to Come See the Thrifty One for ‘51 STUDEBAKER | TWINS GARAGE a Baie Street Phone 1870 Palace Theater Pobert Mitchum - Jane Greer in “BIG STEAL” oR usiness Men” “AU REVOIR! Special Luncheon | With Tonight's Dinner) (rnese DAILY We Close For the Season! 90c La CONCHA COFFEE SHOP LEAN AOE WELCOME Until Next Fall PABLO'S The Restaurant of Gourmets a visitor at the Convent Mdnday night and. also a Emergency Defense Budget Gets:Approval “WASHINGTON, April 25.1. +The House Appropriations Co: mittee has’ approved and sent to the House defense budget calling for nearly six and one half billion dollars. This emergency request is in addition to 48-billion dollars al- ready voted by Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30th. The added amount is for emer. gency purposes growing out of th> Korean war, and most of,..the money will be spent during the next two months. Now that the House appropria- tions committee has the ‘emerg- ency budget out of the way, it will start work on another mili- tary request which may: exceed 70-billion dollars. ; This.is the regular military budget for the fiscal year start July first, and is ten billion dol- lars more than the Presidentesti= mated in his January budgef Gunman Gives Up. To Police Today JEMEZ SPRIN' 25.—(#).—State pol N. M,, April reported a gunman whe terrorized a convent gave himself up .cxhausted and ‘ungry early today. Their first reports ¢ identified himself as mall town about 50 miles noyth- west of Jemenez Springs The slate police office in Atbu- querque give this accotnt:’ The man, accused: of shootin: of. wounding a ourist the night before in Albu- queique, told” the physician he wanted to give up. The dictor, whose’ namit tas (Continued On Page Seven) - ee pe Bh cso Only gies s By RCULY Champion floor an emergency « 3 ewes