The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 18, 1951, Page 1

AO PORTA STABLE ASSN. Key West, Plerida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average Tange of only 14° Fahrenheit vou. LXXU. No. 145 THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER iN: THE: U.S.4 KEY WEST, FLORIDA, - MONDAY. ‘JUNE 18, ‘1951 Representative Lantaff Will Do Everything He Can To Alleviate Water Shortage | Sosa ERB SE aa tale SB Congressmen, Wives Invited To |COPS Battle Gunman In Fi; rench eer ter |‘ Key West And ey : Rest Of Florida See Representative Bill Lan- taff will do everything he West's water shortage when he is given more information on it by the authorities, he told The Citizen Saturday. “{ didn’t even know about the situation,” he said “‘until I read it in The Citizen on Friday, Vd Jike to know more about it so } can do something up in Washington to help.” Rep. Lantaff spoke . in| Key West Friday at the Key_| Deer meeting of the Lower | Keys Property Owners As- sociations. He also met with Capt. C. C. Adell, con manding officer of the Na-| val Station on the subject! of Poinciana playgrounds! and other matte: The smiling freshman Congress- man from the 4th District said he | can to alleviate Key brought out the gunman, identi: fear and nausea gas. (®) Wirephoto "| MEMBERS OF NEW ORLEANS POLICE DEPARTMENT fires round of shois into én apartment in the French Quarter in an effort to subdue a gunman who stabbed a night club dancer and wounded a policeman in an hour-long battle. The police finally fied as Donald Lee Weer, 22, with is very happy that Monroe coun- ty was left in the fourth District | in the recent reapportionment law | passed by the Florida legislature, “This makes our fourth Con- gressional district the largest in| « .* * the state and one of the largest | in the nation, numbering aga Me€ seers Predict 525,000 people. Thé Usual district is about 300,000.” Representative Lantaff-and oth- er members of the Florida House | delegation are inviting their Con-| gressional, colleagues for a 10 day | trip to Florida during the August | recess, “We want to show the | By SUSAN McAVOY rest of} The stars say that if war doesn’t Congress-——that Florida is not just} break out in these a bathing beauty resort;-that itl of ane on aut has farming, industry and of| : * course the shrimp industry in Key| indefinitely according to Ellen West.” . : ee , well known astrologer and scholar in the field | The diminuitive, red-haired star |student was interviewed at the home ‘of Dr. and Mrs. Aubrey Hamilton where she was a week- lend guest : Coins. | “T have done sritical months peace may go on The packaged trip will include dinner with the Governor in Tal- lahassee; a trip to Silver Springs and the cattle country; St. Peters- burg and the La ; Mi-; ami and of cou From Key reading for many Havana and then back to Miami, | "° She talk at ou Howe veh anc! Bill Lantaff said. His precedent|, She talk, however, about f -. {her predictions on world events or the Congressional’ junket is) o, predicted the Franco victory en } M the Franco yictor New York st |in Spain. She said that her study He had. no _précedent,: how-| 0s the stars told her thet there ever, for his novel plan of qunleh-| wuld be a oF std War tt ahorily ing the thirst of Congressmen] atterwards. She saw that it would with frozen Florida orange juice.) j..4 the ricah husk’ of the Today Congressmen in both the | .; a, until 1945 2 Democratic and Republican cloak- | “This is a dangerous period for roms are pouring down frozen] ine world right AoW," she Florida orange juice up to 2 eae g eee ae . j sitting on a Chinese couch sur gallons a day That peak the day the ing debated ‘rounded by the myr o_ Bel She would talk hoy wae De {art object Lantaff. House f drinking draft law aid Rep The speaker of the “If we can just get throug! June we'll be skittish when Bill Lantaff first|22¢ July : suggested the establishment of free frozen juice for Congressmen He thought that California and ye . 7 thevie would be nie and raise| Writer Phil Sirong a how! ‘But, “said Bill,” they are-a-| Being Paged Here mony t juice duinkeres-| | Phil Stong, novelist, is be- ing paged by the Key West Chamber of Commerce. Reason: A. P. Little, city becau they say they are try ing to get rid of Florida orange juice so there won't be any left.” | Rep. Lantaff is very pleased at the recent evidence of democratic] manager of Louisville, Ga., action on his proposed Key Deer| wants to give the writer bill | highlights for his forthcoming “Instead of opposing my con-| story about U.S. Highway No. servation bill in a negative wa 1 and has written to the cham- the Lower Keys Property Owners| ber of commerce here in an Association made constructive| attempt to reach Stong, suggestions for changes in the bill | Little has a series of letters, and have cooperated thoroughly.”} or articles, from the issues of Rep. Lantaff is redrafting his| the Louisville Gazette and Re- bill as a result of Friday’s meet-| publican Trumpet of the year (Continued On Page Two) 1802 which will give writer ee Stong extra information. Stong is a feature writer for Holiday magazine as well as being the author of several best sellers. According to Little. Stong left Augusta, Ga. about a week ago and headed down the famous highway for this city. Anyone (including Stong), who knows Stong’s where- abouts is asked to call the Chamber of Commerce or The Citizen. GAS IS BEST COSTS LESS | * * * s fran As Treuble Spot! Next Month Says Astrolover: ARAARAAARAASAMAAAAADAAADADRAR EREDAR AD in the field for} thir t she concen- | trated un symbolism of color. The study of the stars embraces al! symbalisms, however, so she mov ed on to that h “I don’t believe run his life horoscop' a person st ‘cording t she said. “] vuld | short run ,0ok at the ‘Five Commie Jets Downed In Battle Allied Troops Are Hammering At ‘ Threatening Enemy | Concentrations TOKYO, ninese Communists ed up their air warfare {fields just across the jfrontier in Manchuria After losing six jets in tw ixteen Red jets made a hit skis p attack on four American Sa r¢ lave step | lays, b jets today. But the s only fired from long range fore pulling back ontier Earlier today, | the Communist ed in a Swirling battle | Northern Korea Sian-made ‘jets The' big air he 83 late-model 40 Russian jets. Yesterday. €hemy plane was destroyed anc six others were damaged On the ground, allied |are hammering at thr |emy concentrations } lic d front, [taken in an Two other were damaged. tle was advance is on the assault on described as a “strat are | Meanwhile, jare probing across the Imiji western front. And in the of the line, powerful sistance has turned back lied patrols that were ing Red positions a ee Motor Boat | positiv on t cente: | ve wwe vy vey vevevery yy errr erererireTry Operators War jae To Be Critical In Are Warned Told Not To Endanger Bathers At Ctiy’s Beaches The Coast |down on Guerd will motor boat erack } stretch. Ivan is the dan-! city, ¢ounty and private beache |Lt. Clem Pearson, local Coa born astrologer | Guard commander. told The € ew York. She has| lizen today ator “It y arned boat oper- bathers it is ederal of- ation of a punishable by fines Negligent op notor boat is of $250.” Any bathers who are boats cutting bothered in and motor long stretch and don’t worry about | little details. At a turnin oint 1)0Ut of the swimming area can do study my horo ope but I don't | 8° to the nearest phone and call keep my nose in chart.” 16, the Coast Guard number, A Miss McCaffery said that events| Coast. Guard boat wlil be sent in themselves are not the crucia! |/mmediately to the spot, investi factors in life gate the report and make arrest status of | 1 the violation is observed. “What I like to eall the » exo is the important thing in dining how an eveht will turn out. It js the inr ‘asp of 4 person that whether an event will prove a tragedy or a triumph For example, the planet Ma can mean a war-l (or age Seven) City Commission Meets Tonight and) be fore| nsider the > manage. Baseball at Wick City Manager and a S ium Ad visory Board. Charges for use of thi stad. 1. ubject of versy at the last meeting, will be embod in the ee { Commissioners will also _ take ordinance f 7 whinds City eived authority > U. S. Supreme Court on Friday. This prohibits. house to up the Mana house pedaling, solic nd hawking by it merchants or transient ve Stiff fines will be recommended for viola- tors of this orc A resolution requesting 100 foot strip of land be reserved along the northerly right of way of Roosevelt boulevard will alsc be presented The 100-foot strip begins at the Municipal Swimming Pool on the northerly side of Roosevelt boul- evard and extends ina northeast- «Continued On Page Four) ee cd te rs Field. to the} ~ | large, “We cannot arrest unless we actually sce said Lt. Pearson The Coast Guard has ovet all navigable that it is their right 1 the opétations ot boats City Manager Dave King he has received complaints that ity Beach bathers have been annoyed by boats coming too violators them,” jurisdic waters to con said to shore. “These motor boats must keep e and clear of the a used by bathers,” said King. “Any yauon will be aandied accord- ing to Jay w." ‘Postpone Meeting Leland March, president of r. venile Council announced today that the meeting slated for to- night will be postponed until June 2 council will be held at 8 p. m at the Clinic building ro- paced Seen Edison Knowles Fund Has Reached $15.25 The fund being raised to send Edison Knowles to John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, Md. now totals $15.25. Knowles, badly in need of treatment and an operation for a shattered jawbone, left today for the hospital, but is still short of the amount needed to make the trip up and back. Any contribution, small or will be forwarded to him through the office of The Citizen. Donors may mail in checks or money orders, or bring cash to the newspaper office. June +8.—(#)-—The from Korean enemy across the however, five of jets were destroy- high over} Rus- berweon American jets ands in another fight, one troop$ atening ens} The only al- eastern} where several heights were{ what is| sgie assenibly; strong allied. turces| Next Monday’s meeting of the}| | the Windley Key land. ee The Associated Press Teletyp: Features and Photo Service: For 71 Years Devoted to Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE C $14, 000, 000 Will e Spent On Navai Expansion Here Cae a SE Family Portrait Of The Stewart ts reconnoit- JIMMY STEWART PROUDLY POSES FOR A FAMILY PORT two sons and the Stewerts’ new twin girls, Judy end Kelly, and Judy, are Stewart's by a former marriage, ‘$198, \Bonetiabiiag Off Key West To Be Televised Soon Some 60 million television view- “* $7,000,000 NAVY PROJECT \., ANXIOUSLY ' AWAITED Building permits first half of June amounted t 198,722 which is matched in the last half of June, will make it one of the biggest months on record red Buiicing inspector Ralph issell today. The June igi figure for half a pilot jmonth, is more than double the Pilot two ¢x-|entire month of 1950, according to cellent fishermen and two Navy | Russell If the permit for the $7,000,000 Navy project comes through this month, June will outrank all pre. onerators | | who come to closé to bathéts at! ers will soon see how rewarding off Key Wes Penn Edgar, bonefishing cording to incel sea- plane Edgar took out photographers yester in his sea plane to shallow water about 12 minutes by plane from Key|yious months in Key West build West ting history. After spotting the game fish A large part of the building ac- from an altitude of about 500 tivity isis pas; fortmght has open feet, Penn Edgar landed his plane| caused by the issued permits for in the water and the fishermen! buildings move’ irom the vid arid photographers went to work.; Army Barracks and renovated Earl Adams, County Clerk and | h i ' Dick Splaine, Boca‘Chica weather | suppoued to be i chief, plus the caught f photographers | ished + y June 23 there e of the bonefish with | uctivity in movin vd remode! le flies: and bait. The 3500 feet of i¢ Aesdline Hise HON: UF be ek film taken Saturday will show] tneded, ene official saia the art of bonefishing by some! . Clem Price obtaind a permit real exper laine and Adams, ! this morning to move one of the aid Penn Ke The seaplane taking bone the shallow $ West | for a year now. Not once has 3 party returned without catching some of the prize fi Marg: on aret Truman Heads For Paris PARIS, buildin pilot has been M. T. rties out to} Shipp. the demoliti« jeontractor became intrigued with ithe possibilities of the old houses fand bought and moved one him self last week Biggest permit released today | was for $12,000 issued to Mr. anc |Mrs. H. W. Condit, 805 Waddell | street for a new house |. Other permits were iss | the following: } Key West Provision Company June 18. —(A).— Mar-1 418 Front street, $1,000 for ger garet Truman has left Luxem- jal repairs; Peter Sanchez, 512 bourg for her first look at Paris. |Catherine street, $200, for repairs; She plans to spend nearly a week Cleveland Knowles, 1103 Virginia to in the French capital. And she | treet, $100 fer r iring a porch says she hopes she'll have. time for! and Emerson Beccaise, $100 for a some shopping car porte. From France, Margaret will. go) Plumbing Inspector Harry) Ai ) to Italy to conclude her BIR Ig ben issued permits to the follow- tour ing persons since Friday The President's davightet § ‘Spent | $ E. Peez, 800 Duval street; Wil- the weekend as the guest of Mgs.} iam ‘Little, 24-33 Harris avenue; Perle Mesta, U.\S.' niintéter "Yo | Jeff ‘Brodhead, 709 Catherine st.; Luxembourg |A. Miller, 527 and 529 United ETE poe: istreet and Edward Graham, 402 Windley Key Land: Eaton street. Sells For 565,000 ‘Fitzpatrick Property on Windley Island has| |New Hotel Post been sold for $65,000 according t a warranty deed issued in the of. James J. Fitzpatrick, former fice of Earl Adams, county clerk.} manager of the Casa Marina has The sale was made by Marie B.} | been appointed Resident Manager Parker of Monroe county to two! of the Chase Hotel in St. Louis, | Dade county men, Fred M. Faulk-! it was learned today. ner and C. B. Brooks. | Fitzpatrick began managing the! Seven tourist cottages, a hotel,) St. Louis hotel on May 15, accord- } restaurant and bar are located on| ing to a card ‘received by The | | Citizen. today. , Ago EEN! Hi Hh in Hollywoo3. The twins, photographed for the first time since their birth five weeks ago. age Ronald, 6, (left) and Michael. 4. | Ruildi ng Permits First! Half Of ane Total 12 More Than Pouble J une Of 30 ssued in the —* Air Station To Get Nine Million Dollars For Facilities The Navy more than $14,000,000 to expand its facilities in Key West if Navy public works |requests to Congress fo: jthe fiscal yerr 1952 are | passed this summer, it was ‘learned today. This is | most one-third of total | planned costs of $50,000, 1000 expansion throughou! | the state. | Largest estimated expan- | sion will be $9,000,000 for javiation facilities at K | West Naval Air Station, ac- | cording to information re- | ceived, A new sehool build | for the Fleet Sonar Scho (®) Wirephoto| will go up at an estimat: Gloria, her | cost of almost $3,000.04 ipl | Drodains and addition | berthing at Key West N» | Station will come to al two and one-half million | dollars, according to the information, Florida members of (« | gress were not able to con- eS ake. shage expan “| sion” program being pro- === {posed by Navy Public Works, The legislation must b- |passed hefore June 30, when the 1951 fiscal year ends, The Navy Public. Works ber of Coramerce officials here | aon cfast pd rag gis as they read a newspaper clip- naval ping from the New York | facility expansion, is part World Telegram dated May | of its $50,000,000 request But efter a second reading, | for the installations will spend RAIT with his wife, Spies Synchronize Watches, Please! REDS ALERT KEY WEST GER- MAN AIDES FOR ATTACK! | In bold capital letters, this headline startled the Cham- and smiles followed the first sense (stations th he of alarm. The word “Key” | 1 roughout Uh« can be interpreted as “Chief” | State. or “Top” and the headline would read “Reds Alert Top German Aides For*Attack,” Publicity conscious, fie chamber o; commerce points out” thet nevertheless the “KEY WEST” appeared in capital letters across the top of a paper with well over a million circulation as w as | being a summary of United | Grand Jury May ind Closed Door Sessions Long Three-Week Session Expected ° To Terminate This Afternoon The grand jury of Monrve Coun jty may end its closed door sess |ion sometime today, it was learned this morning. State Attorney J. Lancelot Lest jer would make no definite stat June} ment but the indication was that A‘woman was killed to-! the long three-week session may of non-striking | *tminate this afternoon. The two known -cases under consideration are concerned with Press and Associated Press news, eS Woman Killed As | Car [s Overturned By Strikers Today | SUMMERVILLE, Ga. 18.) lay when a car employees tried to enter a struck textile mill at Berryton, Georgia.| the death of Lelanette Roberts Solicitor General John Davis|and the charge of rape against said the Mrs, Nellie! Robert Metz, 26 year old sailor in- Buchs: hed to death |dsted for attacking a young moth- eaege whois ‘eather several months ago. when strikers overturned the car| Metz allegedly jumped inté the in which she was riding, woman's car and forced Her to He said Mrs. Tucker attempted| drive at knife point to Boca Chiva to jump from the vehicle and it] beach where he made her strip, turned over on her, then attacked her. Her young child Two other women in the car| W885 in the back seat ofthe car escaped serious injury. at the time, a circumstance which A sheriff's deputy, who dpélint- jcaused the mother to submit ed use of his name, said “seven of | ae he threatened to harm the cight” striking members of the be a ae €10-textile union of America had | ¢ prs ts_ disappeared been arrested and that other ar- cine, 2 about - two" years rests are expected. ago. Her skeleton was found on f Saddle Bunch Key this spring by | The union is striking for a new contract and wage increases. golfers. It is believed’ that the pretty blonde was murdered. POOR OLD CRAIG i woman, was