The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 28, 1951, Page 1

; Key West, Florida, has the fost equable climate in the country, with an average tange of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXII. No. 102 | THE SO UTHERNMOST Che Ken West Cilisen NEWSPAPER IN TH E U.S KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1951. Lantaff Announces Navy Yard Will Be Assigned More Work: Additional Work Will Require Thousands Of Man Hours Work Granted Key * West Will Last Until August, 1953 Representative Bill Lan- taff has been successful in his efforts to obtain more} work for the Key West Na- val Base. Starting next month, ad-} ditional projects will be as-! signed to the local base that will provide work for 81 more men until August 1953. This huge addition to the local civilian payroll will be received royally in the city. It has long been a ‘bone of contention’ here of | the need to have naval work done in private yards, while local labor remained unused. Though eighty-one more men will be needed to handle the ad- ditional work, it does not folloy that many extra men will be hir- ed. At present, many workmen are not’ putting in a regular work week. One of the leaders of the local movement to bring more work and hence more prosperity to the community is David E. McCurdy of 3635 Avenue E. Text of Lantaff’s letter to Mc- dy follows: “I conferred at length this morn- ing with Admiral Wallin and Admiral Kline bf the Burgau of | Yards and Doéks with ‘reference to obtaining mere work for the Key West Navy Base. “In addition to the regular over- haul work of district craft which has been performed by the Base in the past, Iam pleased to report that one PC boat or a cony able craft from the Atlantic Flect will be continuously ‘scheduled for} (Co minuets Ps Page Eight) Truman’s Life Thr Is Threatened COLUMBUS, O., April 28.—(4) Seeret Service agents have ar rested a 22-year-old student at} Ohio state university on charges of threateni the life of Pre dent Truman. The student is iden tified as Robert Gaudlitz, i dent of Columbus, and a research fellow in chemical enzinceri Guadlitz also is charged \ mailing a letter aining ob scene matter. He was atrested} after post office employes here spotted two letters because of the way they were addressed ‘and turned them over to the secret service Agents said Gaudlitz signed onc of the letters, in which he crit cized the President's firing of General MacArthur. The letter also threatened the Pr dent's life if Mr. Truman visited Colum bus: Both letters were addressed in obscene language to Mr. Truman at the White Hou: 30nd was set at $2,000 for Guad- | '! litz by a U.S. commissioner. A student acquantance described Gaudlitz as a quiet type, not ordinarily given to profanity meerpeagene MRCS uli AeA CAR NOTICE The Lubinsky family from their Waldorf-Astoria trip. Many thinks again and the tele- phone is still 1478. ALEX LUBINSKY. is back] | The “Thinking Typewriter’ (P) Wirephoto THIS TYPEWRITER, demonstrated to the American Newspaper | Publishers Association in New York, types the same kind and size of letters as your portable or office machine. But—electric impulses change these letters into any size, any style of news- paper type. And it comes out on photographic film ready for the engraved plate that will print your newspaper. It eliminates all type, all typesetters, ail linotype machines and all casting of iype. Doctor jays AND San Motors i Commereial Airliner Were Going all Blast In Plunge | WERE ON THEIR SECOND TRIP TO ISLAND CITY . 30 Students Are Injured In Dormitory Bl: | | | | { MARYVILL A (ey gas sto! today an bl dormitory i | | | ed ¢ which 180 thwe tuden 30 of the s were on their i West. 71 > ia industrial come to the concentrated e ident J injured cau ec pape to be and he hea furth burning ¢ nich qui and by a break in t h had been shat- Low Cost Air Coach via SCHEDULED AIRLINES PRICE TOURS | 411 Fleming St. Phone 124) bla: big gas tank d On tie Four) of wa (Continu and Friends ADMISSI STOCK Farewell Dance for Key West National Guard Tonight, April 28, From 9 Tiil ? All Members of the Guard, Their Families American Legion Home La Concha etal Summer Rates FROM $10.50 Week, Single $17.50 Week, Double Complete Hotel Service Are Invited ON FREE ISLAND | official weather Navy Siti l Of Inquiry Hears ‘Weather Data Flying Conditions Almost Perfect At Time Of Crash Last Wednesday The Navy Court of Inquiry re- cessed until Monday morning at 10 o'clock after hearing testimony today that flying conditions were almost perfect at the time of the collision Wednesday between a Cubana ai.iiner and a Navy train. ing plane. Jack Brown, weather employee, who was in charge of observation at the time the planes crashed, esti- mated that the visibility at 3,000 feet wa: about 15 miles. He said that there were a few banks of cumulus clouds to the north and extreme south of the Key West! area, with bases at about 2,000.; how- ! Directly over the island, ever, there were only a few clouds, he said. Testimony yesterday morning. had indicated that the transport might have flown through a cloud just before the collision, Elwood Hoi A who} was on duty in the co a1 tower ; at Boca Chica at the time of the] fatal flight, also testified that? there were very coluds in the are here the two craft hit. Ie said he saw the transport out- lined briefly mt a small| e clouc testimony nerally agreed that weathet’ conditions we good Jame Ha Civil Aero-— nautics Authority official in Key (Continued On Page Three Summer Holidays Will Be Observed By Merchants Here, > ob- en vill close of busine: at 1 p.m. ummer un- n September 27 of the president Retail Merchant's associa- d today holida to emplo but and any staff e-off permits re- reat of summer also allows shop per- pend the iilic nn is a only hop owr not in and to all mer- ing them to coperate in permitting the brief lod once a week: by} siness establishments idea of fair play in hav-| cooperate, there can psychological and th ppe sti ll holds good, play, work and no | Jack a dul) Soy. makes WARNING On and after May 1, 1951, all amusement, vending, machines or otherwise not specified, shall! lisplay a deéal evidencing vay- ment of occupational license for the current year. | | | Machines not displaying such decal will be subject to seizure and owner to arrest. ARCHIE ROBERTS City Tax Collector- Treasurer, Key West, Florida. | t | bureau ngs will con-| Icisure time j holidays. | 34 Air Victims * Gexwdbii ng C bs nese Capture Ui Reds Have Lost 41,000 Dead And Wounded I: Past Five Days TOKYO, 3.—( AP). 2 Apr. The onrushing Chinese Communists have captured Uijongbu 11 miles north of Seoul. The Chunchon - Seoul teds have cut the Bast-to+ West highway, but too late. 9 to trap any Allied troops: The Allies have given up Kapyong on the west cen- | tral front. Thousands of civilians are streaming out of Seoul BULLETIN TOKYO. April 28,—().— Allied troops have withdrawn to a new defense perimeter about four miles north of | Seoul. ,but—Allied forces continue ‘ing to fall back are retreat- jing everywhere in good or- ‘der with their units intact. The big Red drive costing the Reds terrific _ loss The sEighth Army estimates the Com- at munist dead and wounded | |more than 41,000 in five rays. | | The pressure is stilt on—there 300,000 Chinese in the ma Red forces driving on Scoul 100,000 are coming south down the| sed And} j are | above Kayyong, more| Reds mountain spine of the peninsula. | They are expected to hit next at the at} Chunchon, other end of the 45-mile | Seoul. Latest ficld dispatches say the| Red pressure is mounting against | highway running to} | H | H | Allied units falling back from the Hwachon reservoir area north | of Chunchon Just when and where th Eighth Army commander, Licu | } tenant Gencral James Van Fleet, intends to make a stand has not} indicated, although he ha he might wheel and} been revealed «Continued Un Page Five: | Fire Sweeps Gasoline 1 (®) Wirephotc AN EXPLOSION HAS JUST SET FIRE to five huge gasoline storage tanks of the Sinclair Oil Company. at Troy, Ohio, and the flames threaten to ravage a three-block area. The blaze was ex- tinguished aiter destroying the five.tanks, a storage building, a garage and a residence. The explosion jarred the city of Troy and awakened many of its 19,600 residents, Sbiiate Tedder Defends Policy In Korea; Says No One Has ‘Ever Advocated Appeasement | “We Wouldi’t Be ff Appeasement Had Been Our Aim,” fighting In Korea Now ys Ernest MeFarland, Senate Democratic Leader: MacArthur In New York Parade | By The Associated Press Reppblican chorg idministration policies can ead only to appeasement or a n Korea brought 4 reply today from he Senate Democrat , Erne-t: McFarland Said McFarlend: “Regardless of what we think of the involved, nobody has ever advocated either appease- ment or stalemate in Korea. We wouldn't be fighting in Korca now if appeasement had beer cur aim,” onbu j Nine pied iia Sent To Havana; Two Jwowes Remain ‘Thirty-four vietims of he ill-fated airliner hay been positively ideniified for and will be releasan their shipment to communities shortiy, pend- proper cert Gcation of death, Of the identified, were dents of Cuba and {sent to Havana late yester- jday. Two of the total of IL Cuban dead remain io de identified. Roy Hamlin, coroner in.charge of examination of possessions hy which identification is possible, said that 25 certificates of death jare being prepared and will b | completed today. | The grand jury zoom at Monro> |County courthouse, where | process of certification | way. is still filled with p Irveminders of the tragedy Wednesday which took 43 lives in all. Small heaps of tattered. cloth ing, battered hats. and shoe watersoaked. purses,..wallets and address books bear mute mony of the disaster. These. articles “and flat. brown envelopes _ contai jewelr. fountain. pens, checkers ke papers and*the personal belo: ings’ like combs and powder ex total number nine resi- were by relatives of the deceased. The envelopes © are. numberéd and checked with the probable name. and description of the per- sons who catried the possessions at the time of the plane crash. ‘Dynamite, Guns Used In North ‘Carolina Strike WAKE FOREST, N. C.,, April | 28.—(#).—Violence flared iny the |erackle of firearms and the roar of a dynamite. blast last night at the strike-crippled Royal Cotton Mill. here. Three persons were slight'y injured when gunfire was ex.” changed after a charge of dyn- amite was exploded. Men of tha picket lines said the dynamite. was thrown from a mill win? a 1 | Senator Kenneth Wherry of Nebraska came | dow, Others, however, said that ° la de erat r at the GOP has been trying | @ ™an near the picket line had | Jap Soldier th of the ouster of Gencral MacArthur. Wherry | thrown the’ explosive across a Body Reported referred to a Democratic party 2 eases fone in. tha, dinection.--06.~the LR A I K. “9, a perene ae t pa ia closed session has not yet been Witnesses said between 200 | Founc n orea be aa ets 08 the Mac. | decided and 600 rifle, shotgun and pistol | TOKYO, April 28.—)— Arthui firing dd Wherry:| MacArthur Parade Today (Conound Sit, Rage Seine A correspondent for a South ept for General MacArthur,| Meanwhile, MacArthur was to) _ Korean newspaper has re- [the military leaders have been!‘ vie ee sae SR ia fe a Summer Rates In Effect ported finding the body of'a | forced to rubber-stamp policies; “OV@ly Day parace today in} it Japanese soldier on the east- | which have been > by the! Which some half a million march Overseas Hoiel ern battlefront. The paper said the Japan- ese had been fighting with the Chinese Red 29th Brig- ade, and that his body was found Sunday among those cf 80 Chinese killed by South Korean troops. If confirmed, this would be the first known case of a Japanese fighting alongside the Communists. = gat — is t THE Casa Marina Hotel and Beach Club Is Now Operating on the European Plan RATES | | | Double $8 up Single __. $6 up Wonderful Food - Eofertaitiner: | Cocktail Lounge Closing Date—May 2nd PHONE 308 SS RN I i ATEN NEPA AOL ONE NMRA mand. Whether the be open to the public or held in Broderick Crawford-Joanne Dru in ers were to take part. About 200 persons were on hani last night at the inistra politicians within the ai ion.” city’s Intesna- ig 917 FLEMING STREET Week, Double from $10 &@ COCTAIL LOUNGE "BAR MacArthur is scheduled to ap: ¥ before e Senate Arm : | tional Airport to see the general) Se es 4nd Forcign Relations #24 his family return from Comets: Thursday i,’ (Continued On Puge wight. testify on his removal from com arings will Dancing By To'The Music of Herb Rose and His. Orchestra Palace Theater All The King’s Men” COME OUT AND HAVE A GOOD TIME AT imine acer rT “ . M au Business Men Special Luncheon DAILY La CONCHA COFFEE SHOP Complete Dinners From $1.65 Loren Long at the Hammond Organ Drinks Reasonably Priced NO COVER—NO MINIMUM RAUL’S Candie Lig RAUL’'S ON THE ~