The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 7, 1952, Page 1

1d eS Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST SEE ns THE No. 6 VOL. LXXIH. SOT THERNMOST NE WSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, “JANUARY 7. ="| Ghe Kew West Cilisen IN 1952 U.S.A. THE Rents On All Residential Units in County Are Toda All Must File Forms By February 21 Harvey Wires W /ashington For Emergency Aid In Critical Water Shortage Ernest Ramsey Offers Little Hope For Alleviation Of Water Shortage __— * By SUSAN McAVOY Mayor C, B. awailing a phone call from | Eisenhower Declares He Is Republican Emphasizes He Would Not Ask To Be Relieved From Command Of Allied Fe PARIS — General Eisenhower or Representative Bill Lan-! taff from the nation’s'eapi- critical water Key West's shortage, he said today. The | Congressmen Mayor wired appropriation declared today “under no circum- | ency stances will I ask for relief” from! pumping stations to ins| his job supreme Allied Com- nunagenthe capacity of the | mander” to seek the U. S.. presi- ° | pipeline. He will ask , Commission to dency. He confirmed Sen. ment Sunday by saying the an- nouncement “gi an accurate ac- count of the general tenor of my up his request tonight at political convictions and of my Re- | i,— Cit Hall meeting. publican voting record.” | Meanwhile Ernest Ramsey He added “I shail not participate | manager of the Florida Kevs Aque- in the pre-convention activities” of | duct Commission offered little “hope any Eisenhower-for-President or-|for alleviation of the shortage ne | which reached its worst stage on penaetion ‘Thursday when pressure was at its The text of his statement | ' lowest. Senator Lodge's the City pass Lodge’s state- annguagement of | Water Outieok Dim yesterday as reported ti the press | Unless booster pumps are in- uives an accurate account of the ' Stalled immediaitely, Key West will we it _|face a continued shortage of the el yey a my ‘political: con | precious fluid for months to come. and 0! victions my Republican “attributing the shortage to de- iky Harvey is’ |Sengtor George” Smathers tal in reply to his wire on| the | requesting | that they sponsor an emerg: | for: formal resolution backing | The inane On Stock Island + sleeping-pills. Only the hand, thing about her death oncous Report | ~ Murder Had i | Spread Threughout | The ¢ | By Doro*hy Beymer The body : woman, about Rogers, was on ing in the Pritchard Home, dead of an overdose of barbiturates All that could be her identity, officially, was she gave her address a City kn AN as 1 this view yorn neral earned cK voting record. He was correct also | creased supply and increased de- {sland and ha been reporting in stating that I would not seek! mand; Ramsey said that the |imto the County Heaith Clini nomination to political office amount of water delivered to Key (imtervals for a routin ocku I have frequently and publicly | west has decliried in the last six through the month of Decei ber expressed my refusal to do’ 80. months from 1,803,000 gallons a day {29d once in Jenuary. It also My convictions in this regard jn July to 1, have been reinforced by the char- | ember. acter and importance of the duty! The amount delivered to the which I was charged more than a Keys was risen from 279,000 per year ago by our country and the day to 355,000 in the same period. tions of the North Atlantic Overall amount delivered to the ty Organization, America’s en- | Keys and Key West over the Navy lightened self-interest and the fu- | pipeline has declined frpm_ 1:582,- ture of Western civilization alike (090 a day in July to 1,476,000 in demand success in our collective | December etfort to produce security against Desperate owners of motels with Communistic threat and to pre-) two stories are installing pumps to serve peace bring the water up to tourist $$ tennants on second floors. One lux Six Fires Put Out ury motel is having to install an By Engine No. 3 000 gallons in Dec elevated tank to meet the pro- blem. Rationing May Start The Aqueduct Commission mana- Fire Stati ion Number Three (Continued on Page Turee | had a busy Saturday answering : . stx a ms from 9 in > morning until 740 at night, Five Chief Julius Stone Hurt | Leroy es announced toda All except one of the fires. a [72 Motor Accident | burning automobile, were brush . ee blazes. The automobile fire In Miami Saturday sulted on!y in damaged cushions.|” yun. stone. suffered pane a gral sa Ai the | broken collar bone in an acci- | igase ein ei * | dent in Miami Saturday white | her ig tiene re aon on") driving his daughter Julie to peerage ota lia Ay rans | the train fer her schooling back in Ohio. G of an hour later the engine went of an hour later the engine wen Stone is resting at the Ala- and | ¢ that ident of the as Mom's for ne A report of a mu: ess rushing o: land early this vplishment tered. A scou restaurant on | brought first known Stock Island, confir death of a wor aken : Sur Mickey Rodri jsaid that he didn't know the woman but that tae whole neigh borhood knew (Continued that a girl known From Page Three) |March 15 Is Last * Deadiine For Local Candidates County Clerk Earl Adams announced today that March 1S is the deadline for regis- tration of persons who wish to qualify as candidates for all Monroe county offices ex- cert the ones held by Cir- out to extingt a blaze on . cuit Judge Aquilino Lopez, Ruth street, At 2:40 p.m. the picnic iecte pueuaba ators Je. :end) County Guentalseton- busy engine went out to Grinnell! Qgyghter Julie delayed her re. | ¢°fS Gerald Saunders and street to douse an automobile turn to school until today to | Frank Bentley. ; At 4:20 ¢.m., 6:40 p.m. and final-| make sure her father is all | The primary election will ly at 7:40 p.m., Engine No. 3 put } be held May 6, the first Mon- out the last brush fires of the e driving in day in May. day their Oldsmobile convertib’e with the top down. Both Mr, 8s Nis. Stone were thrown out of the car. Mrs. Stone was unhurt as was Julie. The car was hit by an express truck according to cloine Gato, Stone’s secretary. Stene will probably return to Key West after his appoint. ment with doctors in Miami PINDER SCHOOL OF DANCE Ballet—Tap j Spanish - Ballroom Registration for classes Starting January 4 Mon. Thru Fridays—3:30 P. M. and seeing his daughter off on the train. Special classes for Adults in Tap Ballet perfection Ballroom Dancing Studio: 629\2 Ouval Si. Tires . . Tubes . . Batteries ileaade sd . . Accessories CRB AE TI A I OE TT SERVICE STATION Francis at Truman Your PURE OIL Dealer mn | STIL POOR OLD CRAIG | Phone 9134) Fords ... New Fords Fordors Victorias . . Tudors . . . Club Coupes A FEW MORE STILL AVAIL- ABLE BEFORE POSSIBILITY OF | PRICE INCREASE iN POSITION TO TRADES IN TOWN MAKE | MOTORS INC G> SERVICE | ¢ KiTA ROGERS DIED HERE Sunday night nan was a yi $ 450 Walon From Blackout Cofe Owner Vallereal In Apt. Finds On Return From Cafe: Search Continues For Beautiful Mrs. George LeMay; Picture Circulated The Associated Press Tele Features A tf ‘Frozen; * Seasonal Rentals Will Be Given Consideration ton F. Su ith, ¢ man of Monroe County i Rent bre Kent D Board, and Ave Advisory boL. Kaght, rector, Loe an P. Baillod Assisted In Interpreting itl rh Police Seal don Mk nounced the rent sta Police Seareh For Man LeMay’s Story To States Attorney Lester WI I K, Ww = ‘4 thom of ait rental units im seg Re The search by oe ; Monroe County Bernard J. Collette, proprietor of % the Blackout Restaurant, Simos | ver the Keys for the beaus a foeoy ities Don Pe Ge ton street was robbed of $450 hid- | tiful Mrs. George’ LeMay : residential units may not widen under the mattress in his who disappeared Jade Rhos Caught j ene th se rentals ¢ ppartment last 4 he reported | Jiohy while. fishing frou j z jed vaember 1, L950, to police immediately after the | i eee: ini Tam R bb ithe officials announced. ‘Police im stasbeichovayaistiaeeelsan eel pa Robbery Aheft last night “a highway bridge “nek ' ee | All landlords will be Police are looking for Floyd arathon, is continuing Bo md t i “Gabby” Vallereal, Key Wester. z who have been feguatll fon six quired to s whom Collette found standing ir| today, the Monroe County’ weeks by a wave ot safe crack-| Statements on all types of available to tell any Woman Dies Ai Mom's From Os erdose Of Sleeping Tablets | Overdue Fishermen Three navy due frem gan ly and are bac! turday noowre/ Return Safely men who were over. a fishing trip. which be. have returned safe on duty The men, Louis E. Perez, HM-1 USNR. B M. Lawton HN USN and Hamil W. Hany M2. USNR, wer from Capt on Cudjoe by man who s. to be motic At along the Sometim a.m. today reported {¢ pital callec (Contnuec or nt out in their own boat in Eddie's fishing camp Key vesterday and had Monday morn Sunday, they r an unidentified ber aid that the boat seemed mnless but not in trouble a.m. this morning their reported still parked highway e between 4 with. the or duty, the 4 Boca Chie Page and 8 trio still un Naval hos Field and am Three) For Driver Maur der MIAMI ily a Beach tax over $20 day Det. G identified Thomas, 31 tective Ch o men who read ted they killed a Daytona icab driver for “a little were arrested here to. Mitte of Miami one as Edgar ), Daytona Beach identifieid by Mi ief H. G ach Louis The ni De: Howard as Douglas Alvin Gibson, 17, E fon Va rought the arrest of Thomas. He led officers to a rooming house eized as Sailor in a mat DIR Gibson 1 bartender was Det arrested said Miller he boasted to a British bar that he killed a a pistol, and the slipped into a called officers OPENING TONIGHT | CELEBRATED YOUNG ORGANEST || Miss Lynn Lawrence ECT FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA CEI Di bedroom sheriff's office vorts. his the middle of a Rast nieht va | The tearful and hysteri- is apartment at rie 4 after work cal LeMay, husband of the arched ‘ame horne sarettes and drinks no ! Collette had thorough the apartment when he because he smelled ¢ whiskey. He neither 21-year-old Cana- lian beauty. was questi ~d here Saturday by States Attorney Lancelot Les- and released following ba two-nd-a-half hour ses missing smoky “TI looke every place but under the bed. Then I went out to take my usual nightly walk. Suddenly it occurred to me to look under the bed. I returned and there was Flo- yd standing in the middle of the bedroom. I asked him what he was doing. I had known him because his wife worked for me up until tree weeks ago. He said that he | Yi) wife” came to see me. I became i} Raven? Drv cious that he had the money and) Mrs, LeMov, the forme tried to grab him. But he pushed Deoust of Montre ar me aside and ran out the door. 1) rived in Miomi ot midnieht Sat stopped to lock the door, instead of » urdav and h eward running after him up Simonton, of $500 for anv clue leading to street.” his Daoust be- Collette called the pclice as soon jtiev Both, ter, Rov Ham- ed LeMay truth about tice.of the P in w was telling th > CONNIE sa Hugette offered a sister's discovers she was kidnanne® he could arrived im-|Neoust and LeMav report she is mediz an their search extremely s! and that she for which continues to- | speeks only French fluently day he possibilitv that Mrs. Le The money was in one roll of | May mav have drowned or bio singles amounting to $50 and tens ; pssaulted thrown in and fives later have pat been ruled out, Collette has banked his restau-) and the search continues rant money under his mattrees| Mrs. Le vy. whgq is described for some time. He is not going to five-feet, one-inch tall. weigh from now on, however. He is look-; ing 105 noun vith lone blonde ing into local night deposit facil-j hair and | » brown eves, wx ities at the bank 2 semi-finalist in a “Miss Cin Valler he said. is about 32 to a” * beauty contest condneted 35 years of age, tall, dark. Coll-;}hy The Montreal La Petite Jette said he had seen him a month | Journal ago on Duval street. The man had | LeMew is 26 end Montrea (Continved On >. Six, al estate dealer. The counle an D in Morcresl. Thev came to ‘Three Car Crash irene a vaea was nothir marringe Three men crashed into eact Fiv es criss-crossed the other on White street Saturday | ?t° Saturtav and Sundav at en lat 7:40 n. cagsineg damage to} “'titude of 299 to 300 feet, and all Beach. He re-| LEBRATED TICK - TOCK CLUB Joseph | thie’ Polite _ Chief fivhing vessels were ed to Kemp announced today search the wetere for any. trace Ignacio Bode hed signal | of the missing girl. stopped. Clement Charles | _ Reports have beep comin from all aver thes Alahama ar Mississippi j peovle who h son also signalled to stop be fhind | Bode’s car. James Hix frorr Grady © spem an came up behind and skidded 154 : tified woman they believe fit feet after ap} g his bre ose apply ete the deceription of the missing and hit Peterson's knocking | Mee Teme, him against Bode's car. Hix's car} Ghiet aoont sei Pern was damaged in the front feners,] yronber of Monroe Count : grill, lights; bumper and: hood: |i... sancite, ace cueing: cheokes Estimated dar was $200. Pe. ‘MEP Nees seintiree is See terson’s car incurred d tol iter eincilateds the rea te te bumpe nd Both Daoust an LeM body, right front fend ead Spee eset We Bode'’s car s hit] = LeMa t 8:30 damage about $25. | tioning bv Attorney J Since the men could nc sme) Lancelot Le l and sub to an agreement. Police Officer} dued he sat ailing olm Archer issued all th: at the atte ce aiting nmons to appear in court t e Li on WANTED | Young Man as apprentice Painter land Body worker. May qualify | under G. |. bill if qualified. Apply, | NAVARRO, inc. ing ont Dancing Music = sass From 7 P. M. Complete Dinners from $1.75 Casa Cayo Hueso Supper Club Palace Theater Mel Ferrer and Miroslava “BRAVE BULL” sion. Both Lester and Tus: iniden- + breathed a little easier today after police reported they had nabbed the gang of yeggmen be- ounodations 2st, 1952. In housing by February Hieved responsible for the robber-, other words. forty-five ies a City and county police Sunday from the effective arrested five men, two women and | January 7, 1952, is allow- wounded an ear-old youth in | a gun battle. The wounded man’s , name was given as Don Roberts by Sheriff Hugh Culbreath who de. i Office clined to identify the otehrs. . Twenty safés either have been tion, le removed or cracked in a six-week Buildin period ao aE loot has risen i West, Fla. Chairman more than $25,000, . ‘and the Director Officers surprised Roberts and ; another man—who got away—in a, that;'endlords should start swamp north of here. Culbreath . is said they were seeking to get some | {registering immediately Jar tools they had hidden when | iorder to avoid the last few surprised, days h ending February Aiter Roberts was shot, the oth- { g . ici, ers were arrested at their homes. 121, AME ottitiele Blow torches, chisels, rope and |emphasized the fact that, eure seg’ {ound when they | after the effective date, [San 2, no land- Nord may change i re than \the rental prevailing on the Maximum Reut Date, 1 for the filing of Re. tration Statements with the 216 Key stated Injuries Result » From Two-Car ‘September 1, 1950. { " C h S: d ' Bona fide hotels and = ay 5 ash Saturday ‘motels accustomed to emen in cars collided charging different rates at in injuries to Mrs. Isa-| different ; ming's little girl and * . Mrs. Chalo Skages Saturday year will be required to morning at 10:30 o'clock, Police! supplement the Registra- said today Hy Statements with a The accident occurred when : Mrs. Fleming was going north on of their own station. Tropical which is a stop street rarly showing such driven by Mrs. Skaggs was South street for the ¢ the M east on Skaggs was tuken to Mon- roe Generel hospital for observ- Septent ation N s. Fle ming and her eg 1950. it wre soenssneed be tle girl were also taken to the . . hos’ ital’ The child hit her head "he Rent Stabilization of- on the windshield and cut it, but) fiefals, was taken home afterwards | The offic v Damage to Mrs. Skaggs’ Chev- Pasictretion forms Wo ter relet station wagon was left front | of beveine earmomadat fendé: id left front door. Dam- in Ne at the Kine of the % xe to the Buick “was right and) ers! Rni'ting The nffi ne state and from fee trogy {4rlere,gng\ Hood, front. will be elad to clerife an jumper, front lights and grill tions thet mew ar in proper! was charged revivtering all unit Mrs. . Fleraimg, t with causing an accident end Director Knight that reckless |-driving. M's. Skaggs, , “Inclucine the K De who says she was going about 20! fence Rental Area. th har ntiles per hour, was charged with , been fiftv-two Critical Are ing an accident and reckless | designations since Septer 2n ving yest thirty-four states anc Mrs, Fleming lis Alavka rson avenue, Mrs PF Since Monroe County, inelod € 19 Flagler avenue jing the Kev West Area, alread Sennen [has a limited form of rent «t bilization. the Maximum Rent Citrus Business br to? wi et oe 1950, will effect only type a 5 nits: by nt under control Leader Is Dead the new Critical designation. This LAKELAND (Carroll E. Lind. | cludes new construction, hote! motels conversion: r sey. 69, one of the leaders in Flor- | idas citrus canning industry is dead. He died in his sleep Satur- | day night He was one ibe w industr: the L paces, motor courts, an of the pioneers in; Jing young citrus canning ; in the twenties. His firm, ; and Hignlands Canning ; ny at nearpy Highlands City Hotel La Concha INVITES YOU TO VISIT THE QUARTERDECK COCKTAIL LOUNGE & SUN SOLARIUM FINEST VIEW OF KEY WEST is one of the largest independent | ants in the state. THOSE WHO APPRECIATE GOOD ITALIAN FOOD LUIGI'S RESTAURANT CHICKEN CACCIATORE * Pizte SUN BATHING FACILITIES * Spaghetti Light Lunch: Seat acc haeidd ‘9! uncheons Served Daily © Reviele i OPEN FROM 10 A. IA elLaSagne ENTERTAINMENT NITELY ORDERS TO TAKE OUT 727 DUVAL TEL. 1998 ™ ‘“o8t)