The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 23, 1951, Page 1

Key West, Florida, bas the most equuple climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Ken West Cilisen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER [N FHE U.S.A. —— No. 279 . VOL. LXXII. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1951 * Refreshe * * | | | ry per io Constellation flights at high speed over a thousand miles are fexactly prescribed by Boston doc. tors for 75 year old ladies, part- icularly if they have weak hear , My Aunt Nell, Mrs. E. H. Suther {land guessed this. So she didn’t ‘tell her Boston doctors on Monday {that she planned a little junekt {of 1500 air miles to visit her neice {down here at the Southernmost !City. She knew they would say “No.” Determination is one of Aunt Nell’s qualities, however, so I was not too surprised when | received a wire Monday saying Citizen Staff Photo “Arriving Boston-Miami Constell- i ye is ation Flight, 1:25 Tuesday. Don’t BASHFUL AMPHIBIAN worry about me. Love Aunt Nell “PETE.” Key West's only crocodile, is back to normal and | prantically 1 tried to reach as camera shy as usual following the end of the cool snap. Two-and-a-half-year-old Pete was kept in the kitchen of Bill Kroll, Municipal Aquarium manager, when the mercury dipped slightly. Now that the back to normal Pete is back in his eage. Incidentally, Monroe County is the only spot the flight on her health in the USA where artifically I finally reached them and they heated cages. jsaid they would be delighted to | meet her. Everything was settled until the 4 o’clock White House press con ference Monday. { Skip Selinger, Eastern Airlines 'represetnative and Dewey Long, {White House communications and transportation official said | “We have been trying to reach friends to ask them to meet her |the plane since I thought my as signments would keep me in Key weather is West, and I feared the effect of crocodiles can live—except in Pool Will Be Korean Truce | Situation : Here In Brief |you. You must come on the 2 Buili Here hour EAL trip to Miami. We leave | MUNSAN, Korea, Nov. 23.— by plane tomorrow at 11 and re- ; M ®).—Here is the Korean truce | turn the next morning.” New Luxurious Motel, situstion in brief: “But I can’t go—I have to be here for the arrival of my 75 year old aunt. She gets in at Eastern in Miami at 1:25.” Key Ambassador, Has Taken Out The Permit 1, Allied and Communist sub- committees agreed today on a buffer zone clause. g ‘ ig ice "5 “We invite her too—it will be From Beall 5p ities hg ae ts began chart. ‘much better for her to spend the The Key Ambassador, luxurious! {99 ¢ tenting line on a map. — night in Miami after her flight y This will be the proposed mili- re Rok ane’ ed motel on Roosev: down from Boston—then she can 0 t. Boulevard ‘will build a $6,000 swimming pool for! Hts dost,” Beosediny..to a permit! taken out at the affice of Building! Inspeetor Ralph Russell } The new motel is being built} by A. E: Golan one of the officers! of the Key West Improvement | Inc. The Key Ambassador is right} tary demarcation line and the . ae i j fly back with the press Wednesday center of a. planned 2% mile | “yhey finally sold me—but | had visions of an ambulance being needed more than an overnight stay in Miami. I didn’t know what effect flying would have on Aunt | Nell. After the flight to Miami on the | White House special on Tuesday, : waited around nervously for the 3. The “map drawing is éx- pected to be finished Saturday afternoon, The subcommittee must then approve it. | 4, The full five-man delega- tions must OK both the clause and the map. This is expected quickly. | ‘ ‘Boston - Key West a teaser alae T not | | next to Raul’s and to the, Key) ‘ | Boston plane to arrive. I tentative Wester, erected by Charles Hel xaapibind mike tins cae foi Ny ordered a wheel chair for her berg, head of the company, and raises maining | and stood with Peter Kossodo who i 4 y aristice clauses: (A) ‘super. | 4nd § 4 Benjamin Kilpatric isi was going to drive us to the Sea Other permits issued by the, Gping, the truce. (B) exchange | i.1¢ hotel, Miami Beach, where we ary " a re \- { . ~ Building Inspector this week are p habe yy. were guests of E as follows Joe Gandolfo, 1019 Eaton street, $200 for repairing a tin roof Harry Pritchard $100 for painting tions to governments on with- drawal of foreign troops. 6. If the whole job is done within 30 days, the line which staff officers are drawing: will | Anxiously 1 the dis embarking passengers. Finally | Aunt Nell hove into sight—looking fresh as a daisy, smiling with plea | Oww www err errr rr TUT wr rrr errr errr es ‘ukes To Planes. And KW Year-Old Lady ington. Aunt Nell could not get over the courtesy of not only the EAL re- presentatives but the White House press. Many of the men had been investiging Miami's night life. Their late hour of retiring and early ris- ing hour however only made them better plane compansions for a 75 yard old woman, Their ebullient ‘spirits had been muted somewhat jby the Beach night life. | The “White House special” a {Martin 404 charted by EAL for the return flight sped smoothly through the air at 4,000 feet. Aunt Nell thoroughly enjoyed the sight of the blue water oi the Keys, and {was thrilled at the first glimpse of Key West. H Three of the White House cor- j}respondents, Bill Lawrence, New York Times Merriman Smith, {United Press, and Tony Vaccaro, | Associated Press drove us from | Boca Chica to the Hibiscus Motel |where Aunt Nell went to rest | I assured her that even though ‘that fas next to the motel where mo: of the correspondents are staying, they would be quiet. The ason for their quiet I explained: neir wives arriving one by jone in Key W | Yesterday I though Aunt Ne! ‘would be resting all day long in the Hibiscus. So I didn’t call until noon. | ‘She's been at the beach since much earlier,” Mr. Mitchell said: And sure enough when I arrived | at the beach later in the afternoon, Aunt Nell had already become a Key Wester Gone were the Boston gloves, the hat was still on but a trifle wind- blown. She was sitting happily at the beach club watching with equal inteerst the stretch of Atlantic. the golden sand, and the cavortigs of the White House correspondents, Today I expect to find Aunt Net jin one-of the Key “West ‘palm thatcher hats with a bird instead of her conservative navy blue. She is already eyeing Key West denim coats with the apprasing air of a future customer. “It isn’t like Boston but it has a charm all it’s own, dear,” she said happily as 1 tucked her in the motel last night. for visits to Jamaica, it is Aunt Nell’s firs visit to the tropics since her our: g duty with General Gorgas in the building of the Panama Canal at the turn of the centu Save “Tells OF War Army Officer In Korea ij |. LETTER TELLS OF | HARDSHIPS BEING | | | The following letter was received: _ }from an American Army Infantry {Officer to his best friend, who is {now stationed in Key West. The }letter was written aboard the USS ‘Consolation, an American hospital tship in mid-November and_por- trays the Korean action of early } November. i | It is so vivid in description that | the letter itself is sufficient to un- ‘derstand the, hardships our Ameri- | can and fellow patriots are under- | Soing in Korea. | ‘Dear Pete, | Am now enjoying Navy life {aboard this Hospital Ship here in Pusan Harbor. And it is enjoyable |—clean quarters, beds, sheets, |nurses, movies, etc. I can’t say much for Navy chow, though — {most unimaginative cooking and |menus. The reason I’m here, ob-; is that I'm wounded. I led {Able Company, that wonderful | bunch of dead-end kids I called my |own, up hill 642, just to the west of Heartbreak Ridge. The com- | pany fixed bayonets and sailed up that hill a mile a minute. ' When we hit the second row of enemy trenches up about half {way to our final dbjective, all hell! broke loose. There the trenches were about eight feet deep, and the men bayoneted and grenaded their wav through them. Then the company pushed on. About 4/5 of the way to the final ‘objective we ran into fanatical j resistance. A heavy fire fight de-| veloped, and I committed every man I had to the fight. There was a blinding crash, and next thing I knew I was about twenty feet away, sitting on the ground, and staring hard at the grass. | My pearl-handled pistol, with ithe Japanese dragons on it, lay “about four feet away. 1 couldn't} get it. People were putting a dregs, r | sing on my head — the back of my Key West builders. helmet had been torn to shreds, | driving snakes from th BELIEVES PARTICU By AL’ All hell was breaking loose. Over one hundred 120mm mortar shells| jlanded on us in an area concen-| long ‘tration. We were being blown to} bits. | reptile hunt “Time was, Curator Philadelphia Boo Is Searching For Species Of Lizards That Live In “Aiea | sid induste Bau of Deve Authority for the fact is Roger Conant, curator of reptiles at the Philadelphia Zoo, who. with Mrs. Conant, spent » week- in Key West gathering specimens for the North and material for a forthcoming book. ~ Cuba For Appoint e gamma Goer” ~~ Discuss KW-Havana Ferr y c uman on his return fror as KOREAN BATTLES Citizen Staff Photo LAR TYPE CAME HERE DURING SLAVE Tepmine DAYS PALS armed with bulldozers and ‘draglines are island just as surely as St. Patrick drove I sent for my Executive Officer.j;them from Ireland with a staff. Services For 71 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of i News Of Resumption Of. Service Was Released Yesterday By Fred J. Dion Mayor C. B, Harvey has cabled the President of Cuba asking for an early appointment. with him to j discuss the Key West-Hav- jana ferry which will start service next.May, it_was an- nounced today at City Hall. Harvey asked President Carlos Prio Seearras to re- ceive representative ‘viti- zens of Key West who will make the.journey to dis- cuss the. proposed ferry with him. News of the resumption of ferry service after 16 years was releas- ed in The Citizen yesterday by Fred Dion, vice-president of Gulf-Atlantic transportation company which. will operate fhe ferry. It will carry’230 truck-trailers, autos and.900 passen- gers between here and Havana at | least three times a week, Dion Said. | Harvey had not yet received-a re- j ply to his cable to the Cuban Pr |dent as The Citizen went to press. | | ; i | He cabled Prio because he has been most active in the negotiations on the ferry service, along.with-Dr. Jose Vidana y Valdes, president of the Cuban Tourist:commission and i] lopment, which is purchasing the |Carib Queen a.4% | <eraft, | The C bank u ~The . cities is not only important for com- mercial ‘transport, but for tourist business expansion, Dion pointed ; out. «~ Since the abandonment ‘of ‘the Florida East Coast railroad in 1935 | following the hurricane, ferry. ser- vice stopped. This menat that mo- relatives in| said Conant, “when Key West was a happy hunt-) toring tourists could not get overdo : “ were rain: ‘pelos ing ground for black snakes and raf snakes. But extensive build-| the Cuban island with their cars. an8 ee “| ing programs have driven them away.” He added that future build- Havana became the sole tourist RR Ga Wlneise AE ined Witt ing prografns will eventually rid the entire island of the reptiles. | center of the Island republic, with a deafening roar. 1 sat there and| “There are very few left as it is.” pricy variants country a closed |watehed my men through a red haze. Then the order came from Bat- Conant has been curator at thea The advent of the car-truck-pas for 16 ‘senger ferry means that tourists can drive on the boat here and off Philadelphia institution years. He has been interested in Jet Planes want OARS cha g o| as: | tali to di age the enemy,! < ae the ane o| i of te bebe ates} grb Stops. If it takes more than 30 [Ni jerful flight—now 1 roop | Bo y Scout third of the company was hit and 12, when; as @ Ne, ” ‘ se a at ney S, 418 Olivia street $200 for) days, the line will be changed It was a wonderful [ig ‘ 7 i ‘A taachine gun had opened; Went om @ camping trip. as n will have to come through Key ones sepiee? porch; Paul) to the battle line existing when | 1” a, mil ane rate sad Reunion Expected po oe flank sbont 500 acd “Some of the pe chagee Cc . vibe, one thor ee ae ba cue ighti i i z 4 . “79989 . anid: 3 ql versity. T re I listen- i returning. oy BP Maseerh: nti Verelal sist Weare ae | After a night’s rest at the Sea To Draw Over 100 | spraying a murderous cross-fire. pees itunes on various Korean Skies | Sous wae eve had to Street for breaking a curb. | & Truce negotiators first met | Isle, we took off in bs seri | From alll sections of the coun- \ oes ae ben oui species of reptiles: the more in- : : j leave their cars at home when they Plumbing Inspector Harry Al-| July 10th. The buffer zone is | Ousine for the White baage Soeeck | {t¥ former members of Troop |)0rmC) i ttre up in a month} terested I became. Hence the, . First Air Battle visited Key West, will now be able sing issued permits to the follow-, the only armistice clause , Which was carrying the press 0 1 Boy Scouts are planning en | have been writ p in a month’ eventual post at the zoo In Five ‘Daye: T to drive on the ferry in Havana, ing: | they've negotiated Bes Key West to meet President coming to Key West Seturdad, of Sundays. I left with the last; Mrs. Conant, official ohotogra- n Five Days; lwo drive off at Key West, and motor J. B. Webb, 1821 Harris Avenue;| : December 1 for the reunion of |Sduad — my Artillery Forward] 1).4, of the zoo and illustrator; Russian-Made Planes | UP the Overseas Highway, a plea- Arthur B. Lujan, 2425. Patterso =—— = | the troop. |Observer and his Radio Operator! (¢ her husband's books, explained | sure few have had, one- official Avedied Lick tlk Gee OL) ——— Bicclcnt ile Bid | It is expected that close to |had me by each arm. and I Turch- | that she photographs all catches Were Hit Te acs ck ns Street; C.B.S. Construction comp-| H ye W ] | President Bids | 100 men, who were members (°¢ along betwee » Feeling) in color. TOKYO, Nov. 23, —i#.—Allied jet je -Feaurmption . of: fersy: service any, 24902434, and 2438 Fogarty| MACOS Welcome P of Troop One a quarter of a | drunk as a lord. | "This is done.” she explained.| anos aad Russian-made mign lon this large scale will mean that I called down our artillery pro-' 4. 4 sort of insurance. against tective fire and then a curtain of | 4),. reptiles failing to make the artillery fire descended between us} +i, pack north. I film them. then and the enemy. | make the plates from the photos I was met at the bottom of the thereby picturing them in their hill, which area was now under} so4nal color—if you follow me.” century ago will be here for the celebration. Former members who reside in Key West and have not been contacted are requested to call Neil Knowles at 92 in order Vinsons Goodbye avenue; Fred Johnston, 1501 White) > 3 Street; Dr. “A.M Morgan, corner! ( pet. l Dm a of Waddell and Reynolds Street; | sreets remuer Mrs. Carola Nettles, 1207 South! TEHRAN, Noy. 23—9—A hero's; the beach this morning after he Key Wester, Roosevelt| welcome has greeted the return] pidding goodbye to Chief Jus- and Jane Dewey, 630, home of Iran’s Premier Mohamm-] tice and Mrs. Fred Vinson. President Truman went to that price for the hill and started} carry six camer to chew me. I said O.K. I was| count of the amount of pictures | ordered to take an objective, and;] have taken,” she smiled: She | I — ee phaser otherwise,| handles the movie projector at her | and woul ake any blame, etc.,’ husband’s countless lectures, and | also started to lapse into the un-| js also president of a camera club | printable. I prio realized that; in the Citv of Brotherly Love. | no one‘ was ing me up any) Conant’s search for lizards ;more. Everyone was looking at} brought him to Kev West for a ;me in amazement, and the C. 0,| definite species which live on- scout headquarters in St. Paul’s Parish Hail in Bahama street. There will be a dinner served by the ladies of that church Following the dinner the visit- ing “scouts’’ and their wives es | ; hat reservations can be made. | ¢nemy mortar fire, by the Battal-) She waived a well-manicured j Mossadegh The Vinsons arrived here | ° vs * d F | je waive ell-mai Se | Tehran police estimate that 25¢ ; Sietident There will be a “regular | lon Commander — in a rage hand about their comfortal penis 000 Ir Ried theierase nlorcarergirina oe aah scout meeting” at the former | Said that he hadn’t intended to pay partment at Hilton Haven. “T Train May Have a to cheer Mossadegh on his arrival. Other thousands lined his route {of travel through the Iranian cap-/ j ital, | NEW YORK, Noy, 23.i%—Anj Trucks with loud speakers had! eapital. official spokesman has expressed| Moved through the streets of Te- Presidential Press Secretary the opinion that yesterday's under-| ran for hours urging the populace; Joe Short meets with White ground train wreck in New York! t0 march to the airport to greet House correspondents and local City was caused by one train pass-} Mossadegh press at 4 p, m. today. ington. They were guests at the Little White House for Thanksgiving. The Chief Justice and his wife flew back to the Passed Red Light will be guests of the Elks club at a dance in the Elks club auditorium. tae’ a cad tint | As the frail premier emerged! | Conti i Manager Ernest Moorhouse of{from the Egyptian plane whieh pareontiseneRe EO are Font circuses wee the Grand Central terminal cx-| flew him frem Cairo, Mossadegh | er Key West; and Key West | pressed that view today | Swayed and almost fainted. only. as home, is one of the four He said it was believed one} He appeared tired and weak from| species of Geckoes. Thank You Key West For Making Our Reopening: Such A Great Success train involved in the side-swiping| bis nearly seven-weeks mission to accident had a yellow or “proceed | Washington which -produced no’ with caution” light’. while — the| ntinued Gn Page Six) (Coi,tinued On Page Six) | = ~ | “POOR OLD CRAIG ARSENE LNT ERE IN ° - . | 1 Fine Fishing Tackle |... SERVICE STATION. 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During the night, ten of our big superforts roared through heavy anti-aircraft fire to blast a new Communist jet base only two miles from Red China's Manchurian frontier. | The B-29’s dropped 100-pound ,; bombs on the airport's runway tand spilled quarter-ton air-burst- ,ing: bombs which hurled jagged ;chunks of steel at Red planes hid- ;den in the airport. During the attack, the sky was ablaze from searchlights, and Red jJet_ planes swarmed around the superforts, but all of our planes returned safely to their bases. On the ground, there was a lull PERKY LODGE “COME OUT To MY HOUSE ‘ eke DINNER” ocktail Lounge - Hotel | Cottages - Swimming - uid WE HAVE ONE OF THE SOUTH'S FINEST BODY AND FENDER SHOPS!! COME IN FOR A FREE ESTIMATE -REMEMEBER Also PAINT TERMS CAN BE ARRANGED ON A MONTHLY BASIS NAVA 601 DUVAL ST. Key West once more becomes a leading port of entry. - Take Physical ~ Monroe county young men, 28 of them, have been ordered to report Monday for pre-induction physical examinations, Selective Service Board 48 announced today. The young men will leave Key West on the 7 a.m. bus Monday. They will go directly to the USA Recruiting Main station in Miarhi. TOMORROW ONLY! SOMETHING THE FAMILY WANTS FOR THOSE PICNI OAYS AHEAD Lee ' i