The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 1, 1952, Page 1

i coed erentennatmmmemmmeammannenmenmnnene’ Warmest City tn Nation Today Was KEY WEST ™ ener a THE SO VOL. LXXIH. No. 1 Peopl 1 Million Persons ! Jam N. Y. City’s ‘Times Square As ‘ New Year Rolls In By The Associated Press There were toasts and prayers greeted the new year at cheery parties or quiet church , 19- FERtE? SE ul : g i F ¢ Pi i a F dast year. Plate glass win- were boarded up while 1,500 patrolled the area and closed square to traffic. bediam of noise, augmented y event today was the annual ball “‘bow!l"’ games. Moscow also had its revels. The Russians made the holiday count for both New Year’s and a sort of Christmas. “Grandfather Frost” passed out toys to children, who are on a 10-day recess from school. Berlin celebrated all night in fl both the East and West sectors, | but .the champagne flowed most e Of All Nations. - Greet Infant 1952 Today End Is Seen [Hope For \Reduced Mil. Budget | Airmen Believe Guided Missiles Still Imperfect But Are Cheaper By ELTON C. FAY P Military Affairs Reporter ‘ASHINGTON #—The United may be starting to build flee Hil Cannon (D.-Mo.) of the House propriations Committee said “an easing of the tension” id Eigif bg several arguments ad- against keeping on bigger and bigger bombers, in- provided this year — $56,937,808,- these: i 030. 1. Heavy bombers are getting “In any event,” he said, “we | 00 costly in money, manpower and are going to more thoroughly seru-|" 2" Guided missiles, when im— tinize the requests for money for] provements are attained in guid- national defense. Last year it was yf Arnage ral do Ee aged ances vy, stra on ees iat oe cont ia manpower, ma ford to take a chance.” Claiming that “time sub; between the White The standard jets are growing House and a oe et progressively more powerful and ‘Truman is reported balking at fig-|‘@Ster. Of equal importance, de- ures ptesented by his Joint Chiefs | Si8hers are gradually cutting down lisa ; As Joseph Short, White House | Setting more, mileage out of them. press ny put it, there has |! 1946, jet engines were producing jbeen “considerable discussion” of | 2b0ut 4,000 pounds of thrust. the military budget. How much the} _ Recently, in a report to stock- military wants is a closely guarded holders, Frederick B. Rentschler, secret. chairman of United Aircraft Cor- poration, claimed that the Pratt & UTHERNMOST t WSPAPER Of Man-Flown:|By Vandal; eavy Bombers|Hit 3 Times . | very happy about the situation. of Staff and asking for economies. the fuel - thirst of the engines, | ° 4 IN THE U.S.A. The Associated Press Teletype, Features and Photo Services For 72 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1952 Pelican Shot Being Cared For By Peter Roberts; Other Pelicans Fight Injured One By AL PALMER Someone's been taking shots at our pelicans! And the shrimpers are not Said one hefty net hauler, “I ever catch the guy who's taking shots at the pelicans I ‘trun him off the dock.” And, brother, if you havtn't been ‘trun off the dock by « Key West shrimper, you haven't been ‘trun. The shot-at pelican, who has been christened “Target” by the | PRICK FIVE CENTS Disabled Vets | ‘Want Name Organization- Chapter Must Be Named After Seme Deceased Person George F. Norcisa, Commander, Key West Chapter No. 33, Dis- abled American Veterans invites the entire citizenship and popu- lation of the City of Key West, and Monroe County to assist the local Chapter No. 33, Disabled Americen Veterans, in selecting am appropriate name. The Nation- al Constitution of the Disabled American Veterans states that ‘No Chapter shall adgpt, use or retain, as the name of the Chap- ter, the name of any living per- son,’ therefore the Chapter must be named after some deceased person. boys around the A and B docks, flew into Peter Roberts’ fish and bait market the other day. | Peter, who is somewhat of a patron saint to the Island's péli-| can population, fed it and kept jthe other pelicans from taking unfair advantage of the bullet- scarred bird at meal times. — This is the second injured pelican to come to Roberts’ wharf within a week. Before “Target” zoomed in on a wing and.a pelican prayer, a one- legget. pelican made a one- ! point Ianaing on the wharf. | Immediately named “Peg Leg} Pete” by. the fishing gentry, Pete (Continued on Page Six) a USS. Steel Head } ‘ea|Turns Down Labor Invitation PITTSBURGH (#—The president of the United States Steel Corp. has turned down an invitation to address the CIO United Steel ers convention. when it Thursday to. future the’ cérrent dispute. ‘The invitation to speak had been extended to Benjamin F. Fairless ' by Philip Murray, president of the CIO and the Steelworkers. Reply- ing Monday, Fairless said he be- tieves the opinions of the delegates - already are fixed. , “It seems clear there is nothing | { could say to your delegates which could change these opinions,” Fai: jess said in a statement. In a telegram to Murray, the U. | _| tary plane carrying 28 pérsons to- Each and everyone desiring to submit a name for the Chapter should do so in writing, setting forth the name of person, or other mame desired, and in cases. of names of persons submitted should give a full history of per- son named, and if he was in the} ‘ military service, dates served and history of his service, and if killed in action then it is de- sired that full details as well ar are known be also sent in, in case someone should desire to submi‘ a name other than that of a per- son, then reason anc other dat: should be submitted. All persons desiring to helr the Disabled American Veterans Chapter No. 33, in selecting a name, should address their mai! to: Emilio C. Norcisa, Adjutant Key West Chapter No. 33, Dis. abled American Veterans, P. O Box 914, Key West, Fla. 68 Planes Press Search Clearing Weather Expected To Aid Search For Plaa es By The Associated \ Press Search parties checks! a new lead to the fate of « misjing mili- oe SS *“DEVILCATS’ CET eheck pilots’ harness straps in New Postal 4 Regula tions Start Today Local Postmaster Hollon | Ber- valdi said that new regulations. x Prin vis, the size and weight of | rarcel post packages being ‘dvbetween first-class “post figes will go into effect toda: Congress in October reduced che size and weight limitations or mailabie parcels. going more than 150 miles be- tween first-class post offices will ave a maximum weight of 20 pounds beginning on the new year, whereas before the max- mum was 70 pounds. To “take the post office out of ihe freight business” the new | iimitations were set as follows: day after another lost air ‘raft was found Monday with 14 of the 40 aboard alive. Marine “Devilcats” squadron operating off the USS vricr to takeoff against Red positions in North Korea. Packages} e United States Builds Up 7 e % Nationalists Belief That Someday Chiang’s Men Will Play Important Role In Asia WASHINGTON (—The United States is helping build up Chinese Nationalist forces on Formosa with the idea that some day they may Play an important role in Asia. Until. there is a break in the Korean crisis or a shift of present American policy, however, an ad- ministration roadblock stands in the way of any plan to use Chiang * Kai shek’s 600,000 - man. army > {im any: attack onthe Communist- -maintand, a ces U. S. poliey tic authorities Gen. out on. the possibility ‘S--Nationalist military in-action outside Formosa. has hed of the Atner- wanted to make sure that the ‘team’ is ready for whatever ac- tion is called for — whether it be | ‘comer Sens See ee ight ‘ Rendova, Chase said also that the two coun- tries are “equal partners inthe ba against. the evil of Commu m.”” -'Has Deserted By DOROTHY RAYMER Happy New Yeor, last nieht and in. the wee small hours of the r ne! *But-at nwontediy, the town had a léserted look “with all the RARIS \#—A_ big contitieatal | shops and dftices. closed. marihunt Was on today for tWo! The street cleaning crews were criminals who broke from their |0n deck early picking up diseard- 4, . ed Christmas trees, confetti, pa ‘death cells in an escape’ that had nec’ Eidarmete® GANA “Saree all the touches of a Hollywood ‘hats -and favors like bateved borg ee Leon Mewkai,.'2, horns and noise clackers. | * ., aR Bars were, open, but the at- one of Europe . mes war sticty ‘tendants were busy . sweeting criminals, ‘and: Mis a “the flours and cleaning up rem- a hired hand who: if Z ies: {nants of the gala celebration. On- ly a few restaurants on Duval Dangerous Flee Jail One Of Escapees S. Steel president said union lead- Meanwhile, hunts were contin- for delivery in the local, firs’ Complicating the whole picture is the fact that this is a presidential campaign year. ‘: Chairman Cannon said Appropri- ations Committee investigators ‘are | looking into the spending programs of the defense establishment : and every other agency of the govern- | ment with a view to holding Gown. He predicted that Mr. Truman's abundantly in the West. As the world celebrated, the men , of state prepared the politics of the new year. President Truman worked quietly in Washington. Soviet Premier Stalin took time out to send the Japanese a New Year's greeting expressing his sympathy for their “serious situa- tion under foreign occupation.” However, the Japanese are con- vinced the year will see the rati- fication of the peace treaty re— storing them to full sovereignty in Western eyes. * gress in mid - Boy Fires Rifle; Mother Drops Dead First Accident Of etek Asmey | WASHINGTON W—A 15 - year - New Year At 12:30 \old boy celebrated New Year's by First accident of the New Year | firing his rifle, Washington police reported in Key West happened | saig today, and a block away the ‘at 12:30 a.m. in front of the VFW | mother of three children fell dead tuilding, Elizabeth street, when W./ of a bullet wound. F. Hancock, driving a 1948 Kais-| Homicide Capt. Richard Felber ‘Concauc On Page Six, | identified the woman as Ollie Es- Il Fur Coats Are |, Capt. Felber said the youth was a 1 F being held pending a coroner's in- | Dini . ; Sto er rom boy as saying he fired his .22 cali- ber rifle, a Christmas gift a year LONDON — Thieves helped | his bedroom. themselves to 11 fur coats in the, The woman, dialing the radio in private secretary to Princess Eliz-| pled to the floor, Capt. Felber said. abeth, while their owners were 1 The bullet, he said, crashed a win- The coats,.valued at between 3,-! hogy Q00 and 4,000 pounds ($8,400 to $11,-) 0" ae . ‘ Charteris's guests. The furs were P ses left in an upstairs bedroom. Fire Causes Death The thieves apparently entered | Col, Charteris made the arrange- | ments for the recent Canadian tour _ ‘od ; of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke | Parents T ay CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — W— ‘lames apparently starting from January vill be } ; | Sine ae tep, 41, Negro. quest Wednesday. He quoted the Princess’s Sec. . ruicess § Sec, aes. gh the open windaw of home of Lt, Col. Martin Charteris, her living room a block away, top- toasting in the new year. dow pane and passed through her 200) were the property of Col. | 0 Y + Ve through a window Of Coach Ss Sister, ef Edinburgh. visit LUIGI'S OPEN AIR PATIO FOR FINE ITALIAN FOODS Specializing in . VEAL CUT! PARMIGIANA CHICKEN CACCIATORE VEAL SCALLOPPINI ALSO PIZZA LUIGI'S 227 Duval, Corner Caroline today of the parents and sister of | Mrs. A. C. (Scrappy) Moore, wife jof the University of Chattanooga football coach. i | Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Ferguson, the parents, died in the flames, and their daughter, Mrs. Jean Rog- ers, 39, succumbed several hours later to burns suffered in the res- jcue of her two children, Ricky, 7, and Diana, 5. } The flames spread |through the Moore home. | The fergusons were in their late Tes rapidly overall budget to be sent ta Con-| a Christmas tree caused the death | Whitney J-57 engine going into the B-52 had a thrust ‘comparable with or superior to any engine in pro- duction or ready for production.” He had mentioned among other en- gines the British Sapphire with a 7,200 - pound thrust rating. Despite the optimism about lon- gevity of the big bombers, no one, including the industry, disregards the ascendancy of the guided mis- | sile. Indeed, most of the big air- craft companies, Boeing among them, are working intensively in their own missile research labora- tories. One industry official, Robert E. Gross, president of Lockheed Air- fine start on the problem of guided missiles but hastens to point out the question of guiding the mis- siles is still a thorny one. He told that: “It’s not hard to build just a missile of any range, long or short; But it’s been awfully hard, if not impossible, to build a long - range guided missile. The long range guidance system, not the missile— that’s the key. And that’s the prize —what the race all over the world is for — and we must and we can win it. “In plain language, we must have a guidance system that can go beyond the horizon. How do you bend a beam (an electronic beam | around the curve of the earth's surface?” Movies Of City |Taken For TV. | | Tom Barton, Chicago tele- vision star. is in Key West for a short vacation. While here, the Chicagoan will take movies of the Island City for use over the Illinois station. _ His well-known program is called “Welcome Travel- pe Palace Theater deff Chandier and Evelyn Keyes aid 2 DER in “Smuggler‘s Island” {tn Coler) craft Corporation, says we have a | a group of bank officials recently | ers “ridiculed my suggestion that | in the best interest of everybody the union forego its attempt to in- crease Wages and we forego our attempt to intrease prices.” “Your organization has yet to; explain satisfactorily how this country can have round after round of large wage increases and result- ing price increases without more and more inflation which is cer-| tain to injure everyone.” | The union is demanding an 18 %—cent hourly pay boost and other contract gains which steel wificials say would amount to a total hourly advance of nearly 50! cents an hour. Workers now aver-! age about $1.96 an hour. The steel industry says it cannot! pay higher wages without getting higher prices. The union contends the increases can be paid out of} present earnings. |Key West’s First | 1952 Baby Born | 4t Naval Hospital James Edward Howell, 7- j pound. 6-ounce son of C. W. O. jand Mrs. George W. Howell, 32- A Seaplane base, is the first jbaby born in Key West in 1952, according to a check of local hos- pitals. The New Year's baby was born; ' along which the missile rides) |at 2:25 o'clock this morning in’ Their black and white male, Ch. the U. S. Naval Hospital According to Key West custom, | James Edward, will be the re-| cipient of various gifts from lo-| ical merchants. | | The baby’s father is stationed | jaboard the USS Howard W. Gil- } more, submarine tender. Mr. and! have three other orge, Jr. age 10%;) >, age 8%; and Mark, age | The second child born in Key West on this first day of 1952 | was an 8-pound, 3-ounce son} |born at 5:20 o'clock in the Mon-/ jroe General hospital to Mr. and | 802 Southard | treet —— | _ ESTATE TSAI AR, TO, Fine Fishing Tackle | Thompson Enterprises. Inc. HARDWARE DIVISION ; ees Phone baal | > | Dog Show Judge {1952 Greéter Miami Dog Club: all agricultural products, and of second zone, the maximum size s 72 inches in length and girth combined and a limit of 40 pounds in weight—a cut of 28 nches and 30 pounds. For zones three to eight (rough- ily more than 150 miles), the new liaw flaces a limit of 72 inches on length &nd girth combined, and a maximum weight of 20 | pounds. i The postmaster pointed out, | however, that these regulations ; are effective only between, first-} ued for three more planes which ; have vanished with 11 persons. {| Finding of the wreckage of al non-scheduled C-46 transport in Southwestern New York highlight- ed Monday’s mass land-water-air hunts for the five planes from ‘Conunued On Puge Six, Blair Named As Leon B. Blgir of Key Weit,| ‘lass post offices. Fla., has bera named as Cocker, Exception to the reg Spaniel jugge at the January |3,| tions include baby chicks, shru new regula: and Show, it was announced today, ! course, packages going | be ss post The show which will be held in trem second and taira Dinner Key Auditorium, is held ffices and rural and star’ routes, annually in January, and is one The parce! post system sien se of a series of dog shows held in| rar Florida each winter. ae al Aviawr staticeed”” sunt BY pt ‘Lhreatens Force On British Naval Aviator stationed with Air Development Squadron One, at Boca Chica Field, Naval Air Station, Key West. For many s egal years, he has been associated andj CAIRO, Egypt. —-Egypt st mw identified with the cause of the | ier Mustapha el Nah Eesha, sporting dog. In his native state, | threatened again Monday night ® Texas, he is a former title holder Use force to throw the _ her in the Texas Live Pigeon Shoot. | of the Suez Canal Zone, He po Since 1947, he and Mrs. Blair | Sis government would not even ‘ have been actively engaged in sider entering a Middle East Sed breeding Cockers, shown under fense pact until all the British are heir kennel frefix, Merry Lee.) "Ro the British were adamant about staying. Gen. Sir Brian Rob- | ertson, British Middle East com- mander in chief, said “Neither pas here in Miami last April sage of time nor murderous epi Mr. Blair has not previously} .odes” would force them out ‘ judged in any of the Florida ————————_— shows, although he has _ recently Confederate Vet Dies At 104 judged in Havana, Cuba, and in Savannah, Ga., and has been ap- proved to judge at the Eastern Dog Club, Boston, Mass., in Feb- | shecvtbe LINCOLN, Ala. #—P. R. Crump, Alabama's last Confederate veter- an, died at his home here Monday night. He was 104. Crump had celebrated his last fay Dec. 23. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. H. E. Hollis of Lincoln and Mrs. Riggs Darrah of Goal City.) | Comtunued Un Pane Gypsy Ladysman, finished the coveted Championship for title Opening Thursday Cifelli’s Italian Restaurant Low Cost Air Coach Z iali: in Home Cooked ine. | SCHEDULED AIRLINES Breakfast Free Farkas) PRICE TOURS 920 TRUMAN AVE. an Fleming St Phone 124) fon | fuel oil shortages are unlikely in er’s wife and her T2.yearol t or daughter in 1950. be oh as street were open to the public. Meurant, Belgian, Wat “fpr | Hotel lobbies: were deserted except for a few tourists of the | victed last year of murde! | mysterious Freaes Cae oe 4 more sedete class. Sight-seting jtours were being conducted but de Chalon, whose nude bpdy:,Wwas | nico! ry et eee ar i |the passengers were few. Most j prospects were evidently getting {frontier in 1945. 8 Meurant is the one.. the ‘pilice | want most, He promised to bring ;shut-eye rather than a view of back the real killer of the countess | the city. é in three months. Police were skep-| City and county offices were tical. They alerted authorities at |closed save for the police and the Belgian, Swiss, Italian, Ger- | fire departments. No arrests were man and Spanish borders. reported. Meurant has blamed the murder | Sweeting’s garage nevr the a mysterious Oriental spy, |City Hall reported that this wa “the Mongol,” He claimed to have, the first New Year's day in ; met the spy in Belgium. He said | which they had no wrecked auto he had merely given the; Mongol ; mobiles towed in for repairs and the Countess a lift in his fat |’ The bus. station was bustling, to France. tas usual, with incoming and out No trace of the Mongol was ever | gaing passengers nad is probably reported» but police did find one ' the busiest spot in town today of the dead countess’ jewels oni Except for The Citizen office the finger of one of Meurant’s, The entire staff was on duty mistresses. That led to his death! pright and early well at sentence last October. ‘Yeast just about on time. Meurant made his sensational} The YMCA was handing out eseape Monday from the prison; coffee, the drink of the day! at Amiens. | A quick survey of the beache After locking up half a dozen | showed sunbaskers had begun t prison guards he got civilian | jie up a little later thar clothes for himself and Courtin| And scores of people were wear and wrote a three-page letter to\ing dark glasses, not just t the chief judge of the region ex-' chield their eyes from the bright plaining he was innocenf, and that sunlight! he was goixg to Gefmahy and It looks like a quiet day, thank would be back in three months goodness! with the real killer of the coun- tess Grass Fire Put ‘Out On 7th Street No Gasoline ‘3, i Sade) . jag Shortages lm ’S2 |, mae tat ten” "ct PHILADELPHIA. @—Gadoline or | yesterday at 6 p.m. to extinguish {4 erass fire at Patterson and 7th 1952, says a top executive of the | streets. petroleum industry. | The fire crew reported that the Record - breaking production last | flames were put out by neighbor year has left the industry with | ‘Continued On Page Six) stocks sufficient to meet any nor- | —_. mal demands short of a total war, President Robert G. Dunlop of Sus | Audubon Screen Tour OLIN $. PETTINGILL, JR. Oil Co. said in a year-end state- ment. Presents Complete Stock of Mechanic HAND TOOLS ~ Guaranteed for Life Roy’s Key West Auto Parts Co, 121 DUVAL STREET TELEPHONES 1877 - 1878 | | | | | } Colorful. Film Story of “WILDLIFE IN ACTION” 8:00 P. M. Friday KEY WEST HIGH SCHOOL Children’s Matinee, Friday 2:00 P. M. Truman School | | Adults 60¢ Children 2®e