The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 2, 1952, Page 1

Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST 15 e Ken West Citi THE ~~ eee “tt THE VOL. LXXIII. No. 2 High School J SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1952 > Severely Injured By Motorist Yesterday * | Driver Must Fac Eight Charges In Municipal Court Eugene Bath, junior at the Key West li high school, was struck by| a car yesterday und severe- ly injured. He is still in Monroe General hospital under observation, suffer- ing from a cracked collar bone, a possible broken arm and other injuries. The car was driven by Joseph T. Allsman, a sailor, listed as navy commissary, who now has eight charges brought against him. He took the 1948 DeSoto without the consent of the owner, Fred L. Clark, Jr., and drove it off while un- der the influence of liquor. | Near Fire Station No. 3 at Grinnell and Virginia streets. Allsman struck Bath who was; riding on a bicvele, dragging him about 75 feet before stopping. Police officer L. Soriano was on way home at 12:20 p. m., when he noticed a crowd of peo- ple near the fire station. He ap- | proached the man behind the wheelfand asked if he had been driving when the accident hap pened. The driver said yes, but when Soriano identified himself as a member of the police de- partment anc placed him under arrest, Allsman stepped on the gas and dragged Soriano about 100 feet. Soriano stopped a_ passing truck and gave chase down Vir- ginia street to White street, then to Eaton, There he found Alls- man involved in another accident where he had hit a truck be- longing to the Columbia laundry, and driven by Thomas N. Mesa. Clark’s car had a demolished front end. The laundry truck sus- tained a damaged bumper, ex- haust svstem and damaged gas tank. This time, no one was in jured. Estimated cost of the damage to Clark's car is approximately $800. Young Bath was taken to the hospital immediately. His bicycle, a new one, was completely de- stroyed by the impact. Skid marks and broken glass marked the scene of the first accident. Chief of Police Joseph Kemp said that no bond could be named for, Allsman pending the release of the injured lad from the hos- pital. Bath is the son of Mrs. Maggie Bath of Blitzton, Georgia. He lives with his brother and sister- in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bath at 1217 Royal street. The eight charges placed against Allsman are taking the property of another, driving un- der the influence of intoxicating «Continued Gn Page Six) Local Aliens Have Begun To Register Key West's resident aliens start «d registering shortly after 8 0° | clock this the Post Office This yeat a record registration is expected. The city’s large Cuban population will be in the majority among nationalities living here. All aliens are required by law to register with the Immigration Department between the first and eleventh of January each year Purpose of the regis facilitate the moving of immigrat ion papers ete. to the immigration bureau nearest to where the alien resides. Special forms to be filled out became available at the Post Of fice this morning. morning at Opening Thursday Jan 3rd at 4 P.M. Cifelli’s Italian Restaurant Specializing in Home Cooked Italian Food Breakfast Free Parking 920 TRUMAN AVE. a NNT SRT | i { ‘ i } | | | | ration is to | | | jcent average hourly pay boost and }a score of other improvements. | and, member of a cult that broke i Luey Wilson, who was bombed out | decided that with record steel out- | On Its Own pa nares ese SPECIALIST OF THE 808ist Ea: Air Force Combat Cargo groups, U.S. Air Force Photo via Wirephoto | ARMY UNIT, working with Far have designed special parachute harness and allied equipment to handle such items as this 105mm howitzer, shown somewhere over Korea leaving a C-119 Flying Boxcar Three 100-foot parachutes will gently lower the 5,000-pound weapon to U.N. ground forces in a tight Gunfight Over Wounded; No CIO Expected To Cancel Steel Strike Murray And Board May Recom That The Convention Call Off The Strike end Girl Leaves ‘One Dead; Other Seriously Charges Filed * GUNFIGHT OVER GIRL GIRL SAYS SUITOR OPENED FIRE AFTER | RETURNING FROM | NEW YEAR’S PARTY | BALTIMORE (®—A ! youth lay seriously wounded and ‘a 33-year-old man was dead today {after a gunfight over a 17-year- old girl | The dead man, Landis Hoffman jan aircraft worker, had been re- j jected by the girl, Patricia Ferns. !The youth was her fiance, Car 19-year-old ' JayCee Christmas Lighting Contest |Winners Told The Junior Chamber of Commerce announced the winners of the 1951 Christ- mas Lighting contest: Yard and Residence— Ist prize, $150, Fred Scho- neck, 1314 Whalton street. 2nd prize, Flovd G. Jones. $125, 717 White street. 3rd prize, E. V. Kinsman, $100, 2903 Staples avenue. 4th prize, Thom. $50. 1014 Johnson str | Sth prize, Mario Vie $25, Mastic Trailer Camp. Ite | Window Lighting and Small Displays— Ist prize, Eddie Pent, James and Grinnell, ($50). | 2nd prize, John J. Romero, 1422 Leon street, ($25). Commercial Displays— | Ist—Dick’s Tire Service. | 929 Truman, (Plaque). | 2nd—Pierce Brothers, Flem- ing street. (Honorable Men- tion). { | 3rd—The Buttons, Pins and Bows, 625 Caroline street. (Honorable Mention). ‘Gold Star Mother { . ‘For Induction ' CHICAGO (M—Mrs. Joe Willie Riley, a Gold Star mother who i Was classified 1-A by a draft board ) Monda Mrs. ribes her- self as middle-aged, he will |report. But she doubts that she Vi ng enough to be a very good | soldier. “I don't believe I'M IN DANGER BEING DRAFTED,” SHE SAID. “I'm ready if they want me!” Mrs. Riley said she had received | frequent notices from a South Side draft board but she returned all jexcept the latest ordering her to report at an induction station. She said she had called the draft board ‘and said it was all a mistake after she received her first notice from the draft board more than a year ago. Mrs. Riley said one of her two s, Staff Sgt. William Douglas 20, a B-17 waist gunner, ley, who de was killed Nov. 26, 1943, over Bre- | men, Germany. Her other son, Ro-' ‘bert, 16, is a Civil Air Patrol mem- ber: Charles W. Tripp, chairman of the draft board which sent the induction notiice, said he was in vestigating Mrs. Riley's case Boy's Eyesight Ordered To Report jlast spring, has been ordered to, report at an induction station next | Truman Plans ‘Clean Sweep ‘Of Bureau Seandal-Ridden Internal Revenue In For Thorough House Cleaning WASHINGTON — \?—President Truman today announced plans for a sweeping shakeup of the scandal-ridden Internal Revenue | Bureau. | | He said the move is one of a ‘series of steps he plans to take ;to protect the government “from the insidious influence peddlers and favor seekers, and to expose | , and punish any wrongdoers.” | 1 The Revenue Bureau shakeup | will be in the form of a reorgani- jzation plan to be submitted to ; Congress. It calls for abolishing | the 64 offices of district collectors | of internal revenue. Most of these districts include | | a single state, but some of the j large states have more than one | district. | In place of the regional district | collectors, the reorganization plan | will put all operating functions of | | the bureau under 25 district of- | |fices, each headed by a district | commissioner. ! Field activities in each district | will be under jurisdiction of the | district. commissioner. ' The plan also calls for | All offices of the Internal Rev enue Bureau to be filled through ventinued Or Page Si.) | | ce | | cy | Kept Pace In 195] | WASHINGTON (?—The nation’s | building in 1951 kept pace with | the year before, according to the government, but the cost—nearly ! 30 billion dollars—was 7 per cent | higher and Volume is falling off. | | A year-end report, by the Labor | | Department's Bureau of Labor Sta- tisties and the Commerce Depart- ment’s Building Materials Division, was issued Tuesday. ;_ It said the year’s total of $29,- | | 813,000,000 for all new construction | marked a 7 per cent increase over ! 1950. The total included more than | a billion for new military facilities, | ‘nearly six times as much as 1950, | ‘and 880 millions for atomic energy | and defense plant construction, four | times more. | “Despite larger dollar outlays in! 1951,"" the joint report said, “the physical volume of new construc- tion put in place did not rise over | 1950 levels. The additional dollars | spent were absorbed by higher con- H struction costs.” | Total public outlays for new con- | Slammed into Armer Mountain, 65} prise and again reported by radio j struction, the report said, were up| miles northeast of Phoenix, and | that he wa (27 per cent to $9,013,000,000. Pri- |vate spending of $20,.800,009,900 | {spout equalled the 1950 total. Nation’s Building |. Two Key Wester Identi As Amo a —____ The Associated Press T: Features and Photo Services For 72 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRIC® FIVE CENTS s Definitely ng Dead In New York Airplane Crash Held In Baby-Sitting Death < % SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES booked on suspicion of murder at Los she used a sock to strangle Don baby sitting with the identified the girl as having Colorado, and quoted hers say Attempt To Reach Bodies | Atop Mountain | 19 West Point Cadets Were Aboard Air Force C-47 Transport PHOENIX, Ariz. (®—Airmen and cowboys struggled up the icy face of a rugged Central Arizona Moun- , tain today to reach the bodies of 28 military personnel killed in the crash of an Air Force C-47 trans port plane. Mounted on horses. the advance party of an evacuation team fol lowed a faint cattle trail leading to the place where the big plane Arnold | burned. Guiding the group was | Johnson, 50-year old cattle ranch | yy little girl. run ATLANTIC CITY (#—Delegates; _ jl imine Gianforte. He was hit in the representing the million-member ; heat CIO Stee! ers Union g og | ches teelworkers: Union gathered | “71.2 girl told).police that Hoff today to decide whether to cancel | industry-wide steel a threatened strike. Philip Murray, head of both the | Tuesd ‘man opened fire outside her home }when she and Gianforte returned from a New Year's party early y. She ran into the house in a steel union and the CIO. itself,;and Gianforte hurried mo ralled the Steelworkers’ Executive | ment later. Board together (2 p. m. EST) to| She said Gianforte told her map plans for an extraordinary | ‘Lock the doors. I'm afraid he union convention beginning Thurs-| might follow and kill then jay j added a moment later: “I've been Murray and the board are ex-, hit.” ‘ pected to recommend that the con-' The girl called police. They vention call off the strike threat un til the government's Wage Stabili found Hoffman's body lying partly jin a gutter, dead from several zation Board (WSB) can come up bullet wounds in the chest. One with a compromise solution in the | Pistol w steel labor dispute A walkout of workers in the stee mills had been set for New Year's Day. But Murray—at the personal request of President Truman who said the nation can not stand any stoppage of vital steel production— | called it off temporarily The upshot of the meetings here, ! while providing a forum for airing | the union’s wage and other de- mands, is expected to give Murray a free hand to call a strike some} time in the future if he thinks one necessary Murray has asked for an 18'%- as found in Hoffman's car, another on the Ferns’ sofa. Gian. } forte told police he was carrying a gun because Hoffman had threat May Be Impaired j " | foreman, who Tuesday went to the | Eight-year-old. Richard Falk| [, T. Jerash scene and found all of the | waS struck in the eye by a stick | ™ Turner,:56 ‘plane passengers, including 19 held by an unidentified boy on; Di I N A West Point cadets, dead es In Naval When the vanguard set out short Monday afternoon. He is ander- | going treatment in Miami by an} . ie after daybreak, they sed: i eye specialist. . Hi al H temperature at the top of the According to his grandmother, ospita ere [7,000-foot- mountain was 5 below Mrs. Tom Falk, young Richard} Forrest T. Turner. 56, executive 270 The Plane hit about 150 feet was riding a bicycle in the Poin- | secretary of the YMCA here, died Pelow the crest at ther tootore 2 rocky bluff. tciana district when an unknown} at 8:20 o'clock last night in the boy approached and wanted aU. S. Naval Hospital. He suffered | ride. Richard said the other boy {a cerebral hemorhage. The wreckage of the plane that vanished in a storm Sunday was |hit him with the stick.. He man-! Turner was stricken at the ya. | ‘Sighted Tuesday afternoon by aged to ride back to his home on|CA while on duty New Year's Eve, | #¢tial_ searchers | Johnson street |He was taken to his home and Pekan s wife, Ede, gaan Ae | Several splinters of wood re-!then to Monroe Genera ; Pisa bois ni anes cia eer av t ral Hospital. through field glasses and informed |mained in the injured eye. He | Yesterday he was taken to the U.S. {was rushed to. Monroe General | Naval hospital, where he died, | het husband. Johnson rode imme- ened him Police said no ¢ ‘filed in the case yet es had been ix Of Man's Kight Wives Are Arrested, MESA, Ariz *—Six women who claim to be the wives of a Mormon jcultist were arrested Tuesday and spent the night in jail pending their hearing today. Their hus- | hospital and then to the Nav hospital, but the doctor on du j advised the boy be taken t | Miami at once in case an opera- tion was ne His paren and Mrs arles Falk are in Miami with ir son, Although no operation was needed, reports are that the eyesight be impaired ‘Reaches 104 | BEXHILL, England (# — Miss The industry has said no pay or; With the Latter Day Saints (Mor-Jof her home three times in World ¢Continued On Page Six} other changes are justified at this time The ‘ i union seemingly choice but to cancel plans. Mr. Truman has emphasized | he will use every law on the books | to prevent a walkout. This ,would include the injunction provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act. i The administration has cleariy| has little its strike put insufficient to meet combined | military and civilian needs, it will not permit a production stoppage. The industry claims that present average worker earnings of nearly two doliars an hour already are (Continued On Page Six) | War Il was 104 years old today Audubon Screen Tour OLIN S. PETTINGILL, JR. Presents “IN THE HILLS OF GOLD” Colorful Film Story of “WILDLIFE IN ACTION’ 8:00 P. M. Friday KEY WEST HIGH SCHOOL Children’s Matinee, Friday 2:00 P. Adults 60 M. Truman School Children 20. | | | | visit LUIGI'S OPEN AIR PATIO FOR FINE ITALIAN FOODS Specializing in. . . VEAL CUTLET PARMIGIANA CHICKEN CACCIATORE VEAL SCALLOPPINI | ALSO PIZZA LUIGI'S 227 Duval, Corner Caroline The Turner home here is at 10- 20-B Varela street. He is survived by his wife, Mary: and his son, Philip, 17, a student at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., who is |home on vacation. Turner had been doing heavy jcarpentry work in preparation for jthe YMCA party on the afternoon of the day he became ill. He is a | ative of Carrolton, Ky., a graduate of Greensburg, Ind.. high school: | Butler University, Indiana; and re |ceived a Bachelor Degree in physi- cal education from the University of Chicago School of Education. He has been engaged in YMCA work for the past 36 years From 1917 to 1919 he served as 4 sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He first came to Key West in December, 1948 Funeral arrangements have not been made, pending word from Mr. Turner's brother in California. \araiae Ginn ee | POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION | Francis at Truman Phone 9134 Your PURE OIL Dealer diately up the mountain to give aid to any survivors, but found only | bodies Gracie Fields | Asks Permission \ py 1 ‘ . To Wed In Capri CAPRI, Italy P—Gracie Fields | and her Romanian-born fiance, | Abraham Boris Alberovich, today | applied for permission to marry | in the Roman Catholic Church. | The famed British comedienne and Alberovich; a radio repair- man, signed a formal request in the parish home of Father Luigi Lembo. Miss Fields gave her birth- | }date as Jan. 9, 1898, and Albero- vich as Oct. 9, 1903. The wedding | will take place sometime next | | month | Palace Theater | Jeff Chandler and Evelyn Keyes | “Smuggler’s Island” (In Color) Bulletin UP) Wirephote Delora Mae Campbell, 16 (left), Angeles after they related haw na Joyce Isbell, 6 (right), while Sheriff's Capt. J. M. Burns away from her home in ing she often felt like strangling Capt. Cache: Still Clings To Cracked Ship Radived That He Would Stay Aboard Until He Is Towed To Port Or Sinks LONDON (»—Still clinging to his storm-cracked and wallowing ship in the Atlantic. Capt. Kurt Carlsen radioed today that he would stay | aboard until he is towed to port or sinks. A new storm threatened. If he leaves, the ship and cargo become a free prize on the high for any takers. Carlsen stood his watch alone through the fifth night since he ordered all others to abandon the American freighter Flying Enter st in good spirits. The U. destroyer John W. Weeks early today reached the side of the 6,710-ton freighter to join the . S. Navy supply ship Golden Eagle, which has been standing by some 250 miles south of Ireland The British tug Turmoil, d cribed as the world’s fastest and one of the largest seagoing tugs, | was ready to put out from Falt mouth and take the Flying Enter- prise in tow. The Navy ships are not equipped for towing. It was expected to take the tug | at least a day to reach the dis- abled ship. She is keeled over with a 60-degree list. Another storm was reported brewing with winds reaching gale force in the area of last week's storm that disabled several ships. Shipping officials were still hope ful that the ship and cargo can} (Continued On Pade a1X+ | At 1:15 this afternoon it | was learned that Thomas Pat- terson, QMSN, of the USS Wilke, injured in the plane crash Saturday night in southwestern New York State, is on the critical list in a hospital at Salamanca, He is 22 years old and has been in the navy since No- vember, 1948. He has been stationed in Key West since September, 1949. Patterson. one of the 14 survivors is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Patterson. 2402 Highland avenue, New | Castle, Pa. Lt W. Setzer. of the USS Wilke, said that no de- tails had been received con- cerning the extent of Patter- son’s injuries, but that he wes listed as “critical.” ——h Miss Margaret Myers’ Body Identified By Her Father Of Penna. | of four Key ; West passengers the | €-46 which crashed in the rugged hill southwestern Two the co v of New York ate Saturday night have mage the the wreek- ied a aim age. Third grade Har ris sehool teacher, Miss Mar- | garet Bryson Myers is ¢ The other Korean vet- eran Cpl. Richard Joseph Martin of the U. S. Marine Corps who was stationed here. Both were ret here from Christmas leave when killed. Miss Irene Russell, Monroe County reading supervisor, tele vhoned Hickory, Pa.. where Mis Mvers had been visiting with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Myers. and was immediately jconnected with the teacher. home. She svoke to Miss Mvers ; father who had just eturne 'from the scene of the wreck 04 ‘Monday afternoon. She said that Mr. Myers had positively identified the bod: his daughter. She was seated in the front part of the plane which received the full impact of the crash. There was no fire. Miss Russell added that she knew no further details but it is presumed that funeral . arrangements will | take place at Hickory, Pa. | Miss Myers was born April 14, '1918 at Hickory. There is no street address listed for her Penn- Ivania home. but the mailirg is P. O. Box 283. Miss Mvers lived at 621 Eaton street in Kev West with her ‘room-mate Miss Ann Milliken. This was her fourth year as a teacher in Monroe County. She first taught here in 1948, She wa |elso part-time librarian at the ' Naval station library ! A member of the Sun anc Sand Beach club, she was well !liked by many friends here Cpl. Martin was 20 years ok , j unmarried, and had had five months service in Korea. He came to Key West August 17 and ‘had gone home to Buffalo, N. Y |for the holidays. He enlisted in | (Continued on Page Six) P. ychiatrist Is Ordered For Man ; *-HERNE BAY, England 1 Workmen investigating a sewer stoppage in front of Peter Addley house found the pipe blocked witi 181 pairs of women's panties In court today, Addley. 2: {| mitted stealing the panties, plus 17 slips and a number of bras siers; during ’a series of clothes j line raids which began 18 months ago. He said he had acted on an ‘uncontrollable urge.’ The judge put him on probation with orders to consult a psychia trist. FORD - FORDS NEW FORDS ANOTHER SHIPMENT Tudors - Fordors Club Coups. Victroies BUY NOW BEFORE PRICE - INCREASE we MAKE EXCELLENT TRADES RET, 7 5 a r a