The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 29, 1951, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahreuheit SOUTHERNMOS 5, Se oe: LX XU. No. 155 EIGHT DI INP WSPAPER IN KEY WEST. FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1951 oo ater Hauled To Dr ought Town Pearlman Is Bulletin | 2, Ft. Tayl W. Curry Harris Thanks Members For Their Fine me c Next « have n jname is bein Pilot: Ler. eph 31, 1810 Harris avenue, Key West Son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. - net, 1102 Cloud, Cooperation loesl_ merehant | and head of the Retail Merchant's z$sociation |. re, was ¢nstalled Thursday as president of the Key West Rotary Club at the regular luncheon meeting in St. Paul's t Joe Pearlra Ebnet 7th Avenue; St Parish Hall seat LT. (jg) ‘Pereival He succeeds W. Curry Harris ae ge ARG Aina eceeds W.. Curry Harris as Fenton, 24, 736 South strect, Key president of the gr al is i st of the group and was and'Mrs. Perei presented with a Rotary pin and West. Son of Mt. | . been hit by the’ late’ spring “au the official gavel during the ses- | val Fenton, 2196. 30th) Street.) cory. summer” storms,” includi sion ' Washington, D. C. Oklahome, Nebraska, IMlinois, doe In accepting his new office { Observer: Ledr Osear Warden, Wa Minnesota and Ohio Pearlman said, “I feel that this ' Myers, 43, 9-1 Poincitina Place While floods were a major prt is a distinct honor. No matter what Key West. Nearest of kin, Mfs.|hlem in Kansas and Missouri it part of the world in which youf (Continued On Pa, it) ack of water that caused serve as a Rotarian, Key West or a foreign country, it is an honor and I will endeavor to merit it.} ™ | COLLIER EDITOR WILL 1 am encouraged by the enthusl- | (®) Wirephotc)| WRITE ABOUT CITY paa Hoda pdty easly a RESIDENTS OF HAHNVILLE, LOUISIANA. get drinking water | _ Bill Fay, Mid Western ee f . p : from a tank operated by the Louisiana National Guard to re- | Collier's, is in Key West to do a past president's Rotary. emblem, | “ 5 lfeature on the Island City and a blue and gold wheel, to retir- lieve an acute water shortage caused by prolonged drought. Cis- | He oe worida. He is ac ing president W. Curry Harris| terms in this section of southern Louisiana are running dry. (0c isnied by his wife and two saying “You have done a splendid, ‘Three parishes have sent out emergency calls for water in an [14 half year old son job, I only hope my administration area that normally has a rainfall of 60 inches a year. Hahnville They are staying at the Ilotel can follow the pace set by you.” is 25 miles up the Mississippi river from New Orleans. . La Concha In turning over the office to| Pearlman, W. Curry Harris said | “As I go out, I want to thank} each and every member of th club for their really fine coopera twn auring the year. I am deeply grateful and I want to thank you} for allowing me to-complete twel- ve months as. president. I consider | it fone of the richest periods. of my life, The “mevting..opencd with a song fest immediately following the luncheon. Preceeding the in- stallation of Pearlman, regular | business meeting was ‘ebhducted, | AJl_ members .who, wish, to at- tend the district assembly of Rot- ary Clubs to be held in, Minmitthe' crash in two months first of thisi¢oming week, are -ask- | By SUSAN McAVOY anchored near the byintgal yan ithe grave of «the. 45 I have just covered the; ‘wreckage of th «i y, dead on second death-dealing plane MBE. “a Here was T Cote’ comnianding | covery of bodies. itnesses to othe jist als Hie’ ¢ Fash suid: ed jo: get in fouchsat-once with} Today. at 8140 .a. mm.’ ‘i , : Joe Pearlman who will arrange’ ¢ icc dinisake Gabe} et on April 25 when they "y, happened in nothing for transportation to Miami Et Saks! $9 passenger Cubana plane} “typ,” Representatives, in reply to a\ ford, Navy Public infdt:|roshed aff Santh Be % : : a wv ontinued On Pace Eight) ‘mation officer, hung up Stic all aboard. ‘Th Li oe a pee cou ’ A pe N R . abruptly on our phone con were the silent Navy photo-| 5 - ‘ Hy tl bs i ons . - ~. - RR; idee: : ) swerve yews s ewspapers ASE | versation. He said: \graphers, the divers, the} : t + es he - “a fr eS \ Bel “Sorry . Susan —.2. big) oxygen. tubes, the sweating a . he water from I rices In State ; 46) 100. fovt,altitude, story has just come in.” | erew ital 4 Nor ee Navy i MIAMI, June’29,—UP-=Miny|~ “One hour later Safford, The reek: fren pawn rety One i x wreckage of the! expl k he 1 thousands of subseribers will} he Seaplane plam how the sole jtook us to the Seaplane , ‘ a =i. begin paying a nickel more per ; wo-engined PBM was in| vivor was thrown free of week for their Florida newspap- | Base. We went out on the yo poor of water, the same|the - plane and suffered ors: tonrentow 100 aan | Navy picket boat to the all) en | sory Dae ! surterec Newspaper publishers in Jack- | § ili urquoise bhhe water that] ly a broken leg and Gainesville, Daytona | 90 familiar scene. ee d Tampa have announced There was the “Maria ; 4 ses. ci x stes , eS ; . if 2 sy that es, citing steadily mount- ine” Yard Salvag Derrick SPECTATS FOR tha ‘ang of production, especially Palace Theater | Donala Woods: Trudy.Marshall: iri| |“BARBARY PIRATE"! f DRIVi Waterfront Cafe |; 24 Hours Service our TO TOMORROW ONLY! 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ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHB Ferenc Vecer, a monk, siend in CRAS —____—__———__—# ison, Monk To Death UP) Wirephoto OP Joszef Groesz (left) and court at Budapest during their tricl on charges ot plotting to overthrow Hungary’s Red govern- ment. The erchibishop was sentenced Thursday to serve 15 years in pris . Vecer was sentenced io death. He was accused of or- ganizing a group of peasants who killed 30 Russian soldiers. we thought back on the, pther crash of, Apr aj. 2° Be | Eben, the action of abou out to the Se terviewing the Seaplane Base in- eyo witless: es brought us up to the present disaster, The nine men who took off this before 8:40 wer e training flight, accord- morning shortly on a row- ng to the Navy. Chief S. Kitching, ADC, VX-1 said he was standing at the Seaplane boathouse watching the take-off of the -woengined PBM. He and other eyewitnesses agreed ‘that the plane got ee ror en ere ae ATTENTION LEGIONNAIRES BIG BAR-B-QUE SUNDAY, JULY IST American Legion Home STOCK ISLAND Honoring the Returned Veterans of Korean War From Key Wett Members and 6s Are Invited | FREE! FREE! FREE! June 30 A.M: riends and patrons and look you on Saturday. J.D, Me ANDREWS, Manage at almost 180 degrees, Citizen: Reporter Covers Second: Death-Dealing Plane _ Crash In Two Months; eas = Plane In 12 Of Water senses. ye io an, altitude of 100. fee tn the air all ofa sudden,” Kitching. “Then he spiraled and hit the water It happened in nothing flat.” The rescue picket boat and flat rearming boat ae nee the sole survivor . He was floating in the his head barely) the surface. Chief| t@iing rescued him, and} as rushed to the boat heuse from where he was ken to the hospital. Eidie: ‘hender saw the dying’ man (c vater, above Ki; ~ntinned On Poee Eieht) x sates ——— = geting OAR OMRON, Fine Fishing Tackle Thomneon Enterprises, Inc, HARDWARE DIVISION Phone a6 Phone 886 Avy i i” teft wing went up, The Associated Press Te): Features and Photo For 71 Years Devoted to Best Interests of Key W ‘PRICE FIVE C One Survivor Ii: Take-Off Crash: All Bodies W er« Found By 1 P.) Eight out of nine of and crew were killed \ their Navy PBM cra mile and one-half off: Drs ger’s Key this morning : 8:40 o'clock. Eight~bod and one survivor had bs recovered by 1:05 p The huge two-eng plane took off from the | Plane Base, rose to a h< | of 100: feet;, made a ti bank, side slipped and w crashing into 12 feet of jer. Withi. three minutes Na val picket boats and rear: BULLETIN The Navy announced at 1:30 p.m. the’ apnointment of 2 four man board to invesigate the cause of today’s . PBM crash which killed eight men. Capt. 5. J. Lawrence will serve as senior member of the board. He will be assisted by Dr. Robert H. Bradshaw. Comdr., M.C., Lt. Comdr. Rob ert R, Rodgers, and Lt. Will iam C. Hall, recorder for the Board. | ing boats were at the scene and had recovered two men. one of whom is suffering j only minor shock and broken leg. He is now at t he The, other to the alive when . Spotted, died upon atrival at the aval hospit- | Maat of kin are being not- ifted ‘before the Navy will release the names of the three officers and six enlist- ed men. Even the name.of the lone, lucky © survivor (Continued oe Page hg |Man Locked In: ‘Rescued By Pelice An unidentified man was res cued by the Fire Denattment Kress store at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon after being locked™in } for two hours. Kress, like most Duval street stores closes at Ip, m,’Thurs tars This customer evidently , dicn’t | heed the warning signats and fai!- i out the second story window. Ur hurt but suffering fromhis er- forced solitude, the man went home, FROM 1 IK! 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