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Key West, Flerida, bas the must equuble climate in the counuy, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXII. No. 308 City Issues $10, 650, 607 In Bldg. Permi ‘Model Fok United Seis ‘Hydrogen Bomb Plant In Come Houston Jury To Reconvene After Jan. Official Report Of Autopsy Pertormed By Dr. HL. K. Moore Will Be Announced By AL PALMER Moore Meanwhile, pending an offi cial report, Coroner Roy Ham- lin stated that the man did not drown and that the wounds on the left side of the victim's face were probably caused by being washed against the rocks and broken masonry which dot the beach. J tre about trance t Beach Pir 300 curly mornin Coroner disclosed Hamlin that another sister of the dead man has been located. She is of 317 North Daytona Beach. Elsie Houston an avenue Toreet Beyelist Drives Into Rear Of Car the i sold In The ee ; jluncheon hel dat () Wirephotu A HIBERNATING ALLIGA- TOR at the Lincoln Park Z Ok gets We pc 1 the ice to causing the di Fel temperatures POW Mail Will Be Speeded To China WASHINGTON Mail intended for known or presumed U. S. pris oners of war in Korea will be sped to the Far st by military air craft efense Department (9 Said Thursday The department said mail for prisoners should carry themgrade name and service number of the individual; be addressed in care of the Chinese People’s Comimittee for World Peace, Peking, China; and carry t name and number} of prison camp, if those faets are known Albur y Resi signs aL rom Fi ire F ighters! « « Albert Al West fire de ap ervice RAUL’S. RESTAURANT and Cocktail Lounge {nno lis Gala Nei ( ‘vlebration : DINNE! Per Perso ) Parisien Peas THE Ml MAK ABLE — NO ew Y Ch Ss ¢ REGULAR DINN Served wu FOR RESERVAT NE Baked ed Green Salad Ice Cream ORCHESTRA aes v Year's Eve wIncluding: R WITH COCKTA n, Including Tax ne Roll "FRC f 10 ERS - MIDNIGHT BAI $5.00 BEVERAGE MINIMUM PER PERSON MINIMUM AT BAR ‘ear’s Eve Dinner Invite g at No Extra Cc )PTIONAL ERS FROM $1.85 ntil 9 P.M. IONS PHONE 1333 PLYMOU at 7} ‘'Rotar y Sine : E. E. Clements On Pay Boosts | Labor Department Man | Explains Rules On Pay Increase Sound business given to Rotary | yeste day during advice was | | 12 15 Paul's Parish ‘Clements, adjustment ex aminer with the Wage Hour divi sion of the Department of Labor, representative of Teh Wage Stabi- jlization Board, Miami office, was the guest speaker He explained briefly the main four regulations governing wage increase and answered questions! in an open forum for the Rotarians who found his talk extremely help: {ful Clement said that wages were | frozen last January and that the | board was set up to iron out in- | equities in wages due to the fact H that some businessmen had granted wage increases since January 15, 1951. The purpose of the board's work he stated, was to permit certain wage increases up to a total of 10 percent in order to meet the rise; Front street in the cost of living since the begin- | $20,000 acco anty ning of the Korean crisis. deed record ffice 0} The 19 regulations presented | County Cl my by the board explain the increas- | The tear f yester- es which are permissable to em- | day, is between Mr. and Mrs. H. ployees and increases which are | F. Roberts ar y. and Mrs. T. not inflationary. The two types | E. Pratt of this city, who sold | of increases, he said are: jthe property to Eileen Oretego. (1) Merit incre given for! 2 Harris Avenue Holl, jinereased effeciency and length of |Fia,, and Lawrence J. Imbrugia, service. 512 Fr (2) Increase for all workers in!” Pp, a unit ind Former Key West Rotarian, }o¢ Front s Harvey Sellers, Sr., was present] ajco + ib warrar as a visiting Rotarian. Abner Cox | goog on Upper = Bill Rheney of Homestead. } Matecumbe, valued at 6,000 | la., were among the guests. fsolel by Frank A. Sannebeck and mbar ais his wife Maxine to. Laura ‘A. My sterious Sniper's"! me" war Coa Wounds 6th Vi INR ounds 6th Vietim' U.N. Bugler er GARVEY, Calif. “»—Authorities searched today for an ancient two. L Ki ‘d y aS door sedan as a clue to the “phan ures Neds tom sniper’’ who critically wound r itcaiy - i E FIRST MARINE |ed another woman Thursday DIVISION IN KOREA - A | Mrs. Audrey Murdock is the ‘i bugler is luring Com- ae target of the mysterious bul trite: ¢ aps lets in the past five months. One a ofthe: vietins Sas. Onin. “All ‘be nip sess shootings occurred in the south ‘the “nem eastern section of Los Angeles to the’ tite: The bullet that struek Mrs, Mur ‘ dock is lodged in her liver. Phy notes far s said her condition was too eprinil| al to permit its immediate diers, and a Red removal, She was hit as she stood! at her ironing board in her kiteh a Faye Salcido, 15-vear old neigh bor child, told officers she saw an old two-door sedan pause before the Murdock home just she heard the sound of a shot NEN, she said, the sedan sped off. Palace Theater Chas. Starrett - Smiley Burnette in “TEXAS DYNAMO” Hurry! Hurry! SPECtAL TODAY and TOMORROW ONLY | ‘42 Studebaker Champ., Tu-Dor $195.00 DOWN PAYMENT $65 ‘49 Ford Station Wagon $1195.00 DOWN PAYMENT $399.06 BALANCE MONTHLY ‘Monroe Motors, 'n. | 9 Wh St. n | TH iwill be Che Key West SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER JIN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FSB: DRESEES 28, 1951 fo Lies Club Host Marathoners At Chicken Dinner | The Key West tertained as their bers of the Marathon Lions Club t the regular weekiy meeting last | night at teh Lions Den A fried chicken dinner was s ed, followed by group singin rogram was one of lowship and Lions Club guests the mem- en- Lion Oliver Hoover of Coral bles, who is Deputy District overnor for the Lions, gave a short talk on Lionism and some of the p ts that are being carried ¢ nis district A repd ade concer the Driver Education pro} which the local club will sponsor in the Key West schools ments have been made to get an automobile. At an automob a meeting with the Super intendent _ of hools and = the School Beard to make further ar | rangements = soot ‘Two Friends Bar ‘Sold For $20, 000 The Two F Koreans Release Prisoners’ Mail TOKYO W—A holding the first nine-pound bag batch of letters from Allied prisoners in North Ko-| | rean camps . started toward the} | United States by plane today The mail arrived from Korea speeded Th earlier in the day and w (Continued on Pi Look for Opening On or About Jan. Ist Cifelli’s Italian Restaurant Specializing in Home Cooked Italian Food akfast Free Parking 920 TRUMAN AVE. 10 P.M. KRANICH and ORCHESTRA ADMISSION: GENTS, RESERVED TABLES 25c PER PERSON Telephone 1337 * of the cowboys, New Year's Eve Dance AMERICAN LEGION HOME iGenoetiar’ Is ‘Chosen Best Film Of Year | John Wayne Is Top | Boxoffice Star | Fer Second Successive Year HOLLYWOOD (P—New York erie) tics have chosen “Streetcar ! Named Desire’’ as the bes! movie for 1951. And theater men have] selected rugged John Wayne as the top boxoffice star for the second| successive year. i In the opinion of the Gotham’ critics, 1 for the best direction, best ac- * performance and the second actor’s job. Wayne, currently the movies’ most manly hero, captured. the top spot in the Motion Picture Herald's 1951 poll of theater men. Two zanies who were voted “stars of tomorrow’ only a year ago wound up in second.place and in their television must rate an assist. Dean Martin and Jerry !Lewis were known only to night ielub audiences before the saw them on TV In third place was Betty Grable, unburt by an eight-month suspen- {sion by her studio. Abbott and Cos- tello were fourth, followed in order iby such old favorites as Cros-! |by. Bob Hope, Randolph Scott and Gary Cooper. In ninth spot was j another newcomer, Doris Day. | Roy Rogers was again voted king, followed by Gene, Autry. The New York critics adjudged Elia Kazan as the best director for work on “Streetcar,” and Vivie Leigh as the best aetress for her ith role in the film. Runnerup to her {| was Shelley Winters in “A Place jin the Sun.” The best acting job was. con ered done by Arthur Kennedy the blind veteran in “Bright | Vietory,’ jond his part in * A close second to was “The River,’’ the final ballot-} Jing on the two pietures going 8 Houneed last year it would build a|are designed to allow 7 for the former. { The selections were by 15 critics ting nine New York daily |ne ne’ . sani \Small Bulding | Permits lesued Building permits issued in the office of Ralph Russell, building | inspector, y erday, were minor, } Cheely “Lumber | 00 Catherine street general repairs to $500. Lou Roberts was permits, one for roof and porch} repairs at 802 Olivia street, for '$ and one for roofs repairs at} 830 Olivia street for $60. Cc. R. Filer was‘ granted per- mission to break a curb for a} driveway at 704 White street Plumbing permits were ssued | by Harry Alsing, plumbing _ in- i spector, to Annie Alonzo, ‘1511 South street and to Harry Lee} Carey of 1122 Angela street Corporation, will make | the building} issued two] visit } LUIGI'S OPEN AIR PATIO | FOR FINE ITALIAN FOODS Specializing in V AKL So rl vIZZA | | | LUIGI'S | 227 Duval, Corner Caroline | "TIL 2” $1.00; LADIES, FREE for Reservations ics --.- DeSOTO... THE BEST TRADE IN THE SOUTH... NA’ jin nation: ¢ ‘action in a pile of uranium. making possible the production + Canada’s project, officials at Ottawa, no Canadian intimated that the United States jnew American project | Scientists, | told me that plutonium—a material | make materials that could be used | Fr By FRANK CAREY Associated Press Science Reporter) CHALK RIVER, Ont. (®—There is circumstantial evidence that the model for the United States’ pro- posed hydrogen bomb plant is here Canada. try facing Quebec's Laurentian Hills across the Ottawa River is ‘anada's,own atomic project—de- scribed by Dominion scientists as | concerned only with peacetime ap- | plications of the atom. But the heart of this 100-building “Streetear’’ also rated No.! project is a reactor—or atomic | furnace—-which is unique among all known atomic furnaces in the world. <¢ Top American atomic officials have publicly stated that “the re- actor of most advanced design aes performance‘is in Canada.” Key difference between Canada’s “furnace™ and the principal ones so far announced by the United | States is this: The Canadian device employ: “heavy water" as a material for | staining controlled chain re of atomic energy bY the uranium fuel. In contrast, the principal known | | American reactors employ grapb-| ite. a form of carbon, for the same purpose. In a tour this reporter made of and in. supple- , ; mentary interviews with atomic will concentrate on “heavy water” reactors at the H-bomb. plant. But there is suggestive evidence | “heavy water” de- | that Canada's * viee may be the model for oe! L..The American appraisal a Canada’s reactor as being the most advanced in design and "with Marlon Brando see-'anee was given after the United sta States had had at least five bene) experience with graphite reactors. 2, When the United States an- } plant in South Carolina to make materials which could be used! either for the projected H-bomb, | | the established A-bomb, or for | tential atomic power purposes, Americans said devices for making such materials would be of eco | vanced design. One of Canada’s top atomic | Dr. W. Bennett Lewis, | for A-bombs—can be produced ‘fast ; ‘er. from a Biven amount of upan- ium in a “heavy water” reacter | than it can in one employing graph- The significance is this: In any atomic furnace, you car ‘continued on Page Three hone \~ Your ko! OIL Deaier Columbier Laundry Help Wanted WHITE OR COLORED Apply 607 Simonton Street INCLUDES: i, PULL COURSE FILET } Ne tor Dinner, will be $5.00 Per For Those os Ree congo ober? In rugged, forested Ontario Coun- |4 \Key West eng Publicity Boosts Key West has received consid- { jerable publicity as a tourist at he the |sort in a few current periodicals. The New Yorker magazine rent ja lengthy artiele in last week's is- ‘sue about the Island City Po fro ithere is mention of Key West in the current Ford Times. jally recent issue | | A clipping from a recent jof the Louisville Coanapgougal | gave the city a nice publicity ee and a forthcoming issue of Coronet will feature the Over: | o¢ 9) ‘seas Highwa: \ Motor News, the National pub- | est of | Weation of the American Automo- present bile Association featured the |" With ' southernmost city in this last issue | petit 3 and Sylvan_ ‘Con, travel editor of ph le the Miami Herald in his last Sun- \ le day's column described Key West | I auto production ly cut” daring the ‘three months of 1952. Government a allotibents of cal metals for the first of 1,800,000 passenger Fleischmann declined t (further cut e ithe April-June q jlion cars. te ‘ ee WASHING’ (w—Department store sales in the week ended Dec 22 were 2 per cent higher than (the same Christmas shopping jiod a year ago. This was reported by the Fi Reserve Board, which said th for the four weeks ended Dec. a