The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 23, 1952, Page 1

Creme ot ie oe or nnn ene Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST 72° aed VOL. LXXilII. No. » City Laws Commissioners Says Delaney New Flag Of ‘ Florida 4 | Waved At Night Club In tak fice an el or rather, me with the realization of his obligation to first. mighty God, and secondly his obli ple, sic De ie said City er Jack Delaney — y continued: oath of office I signed, among other things stated that I would uphold the laws of the United | States. the State of Florida, } and the city of Kev West.| “This I have done up to the | present time. this I shall con- | tinue to do for the four years ‘| remain in office. | “There can be no compromise | with principle. We have seeny Jaw enforcement in the recall States sink to the lowest level the country has seen. since its inception. Crooks, gangsters. | shills. gamblers and others of like ilk flaunt the laws in a ma- jority of cases with the whole- hearted approval of the duly elected law enforcement officials. “Only recently in one of the night clubs in our city, the mas- ter of ceremonies stood before an | aucience and waving a piece of green felt from a crap table, told | them ‘This is the new flag of | Florida.’ Naturally the people! laughed. Who wouldn't when vou feel nothing but contempt! for the persons who | represent | this great state of ours and allow * = Al- grams urging support of increased ; ¢ bi P pay for servicemen from Repre-; a met ost THE SUUTHERNMOS £ NE WSPAPER IN he Ken West Citi THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1952 PRICK FIVE CENT; Close Town, Not Five Killed Lopez Cigar Plant Site In Plane Purchased; , (Crash Tuesday Frank, Edward Toppino. Believe Pilot Sacrificed Benjamin Bernstein Will Put Up Houses Lives Of Passengers iMoney 1 n The Bank ania sesame e . After Demolition Transport Planes a The site of the old Lonez cigar MIAMI — A privately owned factory at Ashby, Thompson, Bockhaedi Lodestancrashedieand| minary and Washington streets 2 today The plane belonged to Aerodex ! The large tract of land com- Inc.. a p’ane overhaul and main- |orising twe coy ocks and 28 tenance firm with headquarters at {ots was purchased from Judge é ier cd ne | Aquilino Lopez, Jr. | the airport. All the victims workec The buvers. all of the firm Chas. | fer the company | Toppino and Sons, wil develop the; The plane. piloted by Benjamin land for new housing. They have Terry, 52-year old vice president already made considerable head of the firm, took off from the 20th Street side of the sprawling air- field and lost altitude when its right engine failed. Terry attempt- vay in demolition of the old fae- ory. 7 Bernstein said this morning that Saengy we ee ceed “ed to bring the ship in and crashed isis ‘selid eonstruction near the taxi runway on. the 36th Citizen Staff Photo { Poured conceret and steel con- Street side. Port Director A. B. Curry said struction made the demolition job evidence. indicated that Terry. may BRENDA ADAMS, 51 Poinciana Place, believes in investing her . i a difficult Bernstein said | money in a sure thing. She is shown above at the Poinciana cae have sacrified his ‘ife and those of Elementary School as she purchases Postal Savings Stamps | Bulldozers went to work, how. hi, passengers in a desperate with the prize money won for selling over $65.00 worth of rages have almost completed) yambie to avoui nitting two big Christmas cards, from Mrs. Peggy Horner, Stamp Program Di- The buildin penning tueane transport planes that were loading | tor. Looking on is Risty Horner. souLGe Waa: CCETaly so waeteeW IO a 0 of Sieieealianima cecal: acini: minke ————— j John Wardlow. It was used a3 a that" he added) | cigar factory for years. ‘Congressmen Answer ee (ee populations of Key West vill live. Toppino is setting to Wires Urging Pay Jump " For U.S. Enlisted Men | work immediately to fill the land SENATORS AND sl |} and then sell it off for sone ‘DiSalle May In addition to Tei those aboard were Fred Hal Bazley, ex- ecutive assistant to the president: Ross Baird, in charge of the radio shop: Fred Eberle, chief inspector develop-| for the radio shop, Fritzsche, chief clerk _ Allied Jets Shoot Down Two ‘Communist Planes Over Korea ment in residences. PL. rAND LEGISLATION B attered Fighting * Commissioner Louis M.J. Eisner; P9@ Given , | RIES ER anes ae Broke Out All Along has received answers to his tele- | The Peozef, 1400s Sub-Zero Cold Ground Frou Meanie Sp reads Over conditions such as fgrmd by. the|Sentative Bill Lantaff, Senators Pesan Che | By GEORGE Kefauver Committee to continue George Smathers and Spessard L. | te a SEOUL, Korea Pi—Allied jets without molestation. | Holland, he told The Citizen today. ! ve No Inkli * | “Wi ; 2 ‘ yn two Communist MIG ‘With this thought in d, | > P| 4 y, stot OM oe? t J vata ie own mind |"the te tom Rep. tanita’) Of What New Job oer honmvea kore ots, MdWwest Toda Pi re |od January 14, states t hat though | roba pstroye ther a story in vesterday’s paper ‘may nth Dine tan ah May Be Offered probably destroyed another and Dakotas And Western after all: be correc! he agrees with Commissioner Eis _. | diaeuaad ter all be correct. I did nc | WASHINGTON (p—Michae! Vv. | ¢amaged a fourth. close the town neither did Doc-| ner that the “serviceman is entitle) eee a aha The U. Si Fifth Air Force said Minnesota Dug Out from tor Cobo. The laws of the city | ed to an increase in his pay, I can- | DiSalle hinted today that pros sit Bane eins Tl Weacll of Key West state there shall be Not conscientiously support the pre-| pects of a bigger job—possibly at ; Su" films showed that one “4 A Blizzard That Nearly no gambling. The laws of the | Sent pay bill."” | Cabinet level—might cause him to plane ae oie $ : probable Paralaed’ I state say the same thing. To! The legislation passed by the | drop any plans for seeking a Sen- | “efinitely was destroyed 1e Associ knowingly ‘permit otherwise. in House, anuary 15, Lantaff Deane | The Russian-type MIGs were Pda eerie HectGite my opinion is a violation of my | “Calls for an increase in the pay ‘Salle ;out in force atl day, but there was | ~ ; ? DiSalle would give no inkling of | : *” | area s ay as win- oath of office. of all personnel in the Armed For- | : Sa’ would give ol {ont y one aerial battle. Allied pilots areas of the Midwest today as win “Certainly a return to decency ' Cef, fram every general ee what new job might be offered | cyia the MIGs fled across the Yalu | try weather of snow, ice and is in order. Certainly the state he othe coat recruit, inclu ae him. He indicated to reporters it| when the U. S. F-86 jets headed | strong winds hit areas from the ment made by U.S. Senator ‘he cadets and midshipmen at the | 45 4 post he would accept. _| toward them. Rockies to New England. Tobey “that the downtaill of na tions is caused not by attack from without, but from within,” should cause all a us to pause and ask ourselves what direction are we headed?" Governor A ppoints Vance Stirrup To | Social Welfare Bd. | corruption | Vance C. ‘Stirrup, Post Com- mander, AtthuY ‘Sawyer Post No 28, American: Legion has been | advised by Governor Fuller War | ren, relative to his appointment to the Board of Social Welfare District Number 9, which com prises Dade and Monroe Coun ties. Stirrup will serve with Rev Ralph Rogers in this area Wells Qualifies For Commission Charles Wells becomes the first man to cualifv for elec tion to the Monroe county commission yesterday efter- noon, ‘t was learned today. Wells, of the Southernmost Texaco aas station will run in the Mav primary against incumbent Clarence Higgs who will probably seek re- election. Two other incum- bents are in terms that will expire this vear. Thev are Commissioners Joe Allen and Harry Harris. Mothers Will March on POLIO THURSDAY, JANUARY 3! 7:00 to 8:00 P. M. LEAVE YOUR PORCH LIGHT BURNING VOLUNTEERS NEEDED CALL 1736-J OR 2390 AFTER 5:00 P. M. ‘“NEVADA BADMAN” academies, Since this calls for a All this promptly set capital) Scattered fighting broke out all flat increase, it means that enlisted Spe ihe : The Dakotas and Western Min- | men will receive only a fraction of tongues‘ wagging. DiSalle is a law. | 10n8 the frozen 145-mile ground | nesota dug out from a blizzard what an admiral will receive. yer by fession, as well n \front. The heaviest engagement that nearly paralyzed transporta- x Feed adtvitizteater, {was on the central front where | : tion. Snowplow crews worked over- “Passage of this bill Lantaff’s experienced administrator. ‘an ambushed Allied patro! fougnt | letter states,’ “will increase the! The price chief called a news }. i night in the biting cold to open | if . a brief engagement with an un ads 2 | cost of government over $832,000,- conference today to announce his knowr, Be a: ab Rede lithh-narly the wind-drifted roads of packed 000 a year. My pol t this ses- plans. . sie © ear'y | snow in the blizzard belt Sig decir tos oe at a morning darkness. | dt was 30 degrees below zerc sion is not to vote for any legisla The former Toledo mayor said! jospite the lull in ground fight was 30 degrees » lin Grand Forks, N. D., early to- day. Minnesota reported readings |of -20 and it was j immediate relief from ‘the icy Jeep calling for additional appro- |priations, unless I ean be shown ‘where the money is coming. from, as T have promised I shall not vote Tuesday night his basic choice was | ing the U. S. Eighta Army said to decide whether to run for the | ine Allies killed, wounded or cap- Senate in Ohio or continue as head | tyreq 3.483 Reds in the last v cok , of the Office of Price Stabilization. jy 44..; Communist casu Saas for another increase in taxes this! DiSalle had arranged to an-}¢hé fivst of the FEE oe ct Slats was in prospect. | year. I sincerely believe that Con- | nounce his futhre plans ‘Tuesday. } 13°) | ie arctic air from » Western gress has scraped the bottom of the But at the last moment he agreed | ‘rhe swirling jet battle over Sin- j Canada _ that hit the errr tax barrel and we shall destroy to a request by Roger L. Putnam, ‘anju pitted 19 Sabre jets against Rockies and bug re cee America unless we put a stop, now, | chief of the Economic Stabitiza- pushed across the Mid-Continen' ee _ lage Fi to getting our country into deeper ontinued On carne |It was cold southward to the Gulf tion Agency, to postpone the de- debt cision 24 hours. ‘of Mexico and eastward to the Ap- “lL am extremely sympathetic Late Tuesday night, DiSalle told ‘Five Key W detain say rise : ‘ : ; A. rane ine train travel over with the problems of the servi reporters he still could not make} men,”’ Lantaff wrote, “particularly | up his mind whether to seek the J the Dakotas and Western Minne- those with families, and I would Democratic nomination in’ Ohio Pay Gambling iy @€ seta was cancelled. Main line pas- like to see legislation passed May 6 for the U. S. Senate seat Ry ¢ senger trains were running severa to grant a subsistence and quarters | now held by Republican John W Federal occupational ‘gambling hours late, The eastbound Olym- increase to our enlisted men and | Bricker, He said there had been, “t@™mps were issued to five appli- | pian Hiawatha, due in Minneapolis company grade officers. It is my, pressure from Democratic leaders | C@0ts from Key West yesterday. at 6:20 a.m. Tuesday was more in Ohio to make the race and from | @cording to the AP than 20 hours late after being hope to amend the proposed bill so as to provide servicemen with a | administration leaders in Washing-; Men receiving the $50 occupa. stranded 12 hours in drifts in Mo- needed inc e and at the same ‘ton to stay on the job as price | tional stamps fr the Bureau of | bridge, in Central South Dakota. time, to effect every possible sav- | chief, temporsrd y at I Internal Reve Jacksonville Winds, which reached velocities ing for the taxpayer: ——__————_—__—_ were as fc iows of more than 50 miles an hour in the three states, diminished today as the blast of subzero cold struck. Schools were closed in hundreds of communities as highway travel Senator Smathers said that he would give the bill his most care- ful attention when it came before Parked Car Hit By [Ramet ag Oh dez, 908 wi itehead street; Raul the Senate. Senator Holand said U k 7 D ay Garcia, 1206 Duval street; Oscar he too would consider Eisner’s let NKNOWN Driver Molina, 1016 Truman avenue and | Halted. Eight of the nine persons ter. . einai : i Becnanas Wa 923 Tr Sate reported missing in the Mitchell- John G. Orneallas, \Jr.. of the Bernarc idal, 926 uman ave-! pierre-Murdo areas of South Da- z i Havana Madrid club reported to- Due eis 2 . . : es Sate SME ‘ kota were found by snowplow linor Permi day that his 1949 Buick convertible) The Fede al stamps we S- | crews. ine farmbouse whic ae was damaged in the left rear fen. sued at the same time to one no telephone. The missing persons der at 3:10 this morning Miami applicant and three im’ had started out on highway trips. Orneallas told police that a car| Wildwood. This brings applicants parked in front of the Madri Gras|to a total of 424, the AP said night club backed up on Duval ee — — street into Front street and hit his car, then speeded off on Front street toward Simonton. A witness had spoken to the dri ver of the car that did the dam age and learned he was from Macon, Georgia j POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION | Francis at Truman Phone 9134 Your PURE OIL Dealer . . Accessories TCA TT “TNE eee pera seme rt Issued Today Permits were issued yesterday and today to Car! Russell and Vic- tor Roberts, by Building Inspector Ralph Russell Russell will snow flurries and age Fiver There were _— tupuea Ur FEATURING Jackie Price — Famous Baseball Trickster Band Concert by High School Band FIREWORKS SHOW Wickers Field Friday, Jan 25th 7:30 P.M. ADMISSION: ADULTS $1.00 CHILDREN 50c paint the exterior of a building a. 1106 Olivia street for about $200. Roberts is making minor repairs to his home at 823 Georgia street a cost of $200. Palace Theater Whip Wilson and Furry Knight i ALL PROCEEDS TO MARCH OF DIMES Rather Than Hit Loaded ; burned at Miami International Air- | lwas sold to Frank and Edwar ey : | | Toppino and Benjamin Bernstein port late Tuesday and killed all | or a estimated $13,000 it was tive men aboard. and Herbert | -12 in Iowa. No | Traffic Control Would Make Lot Of 1-Way Streets In Order To kase Traffic Problems The Committee for Traf- fie Study, headed by W. ¢ Sweetir made ree- for traffic control in hey West, hing today ommendations City Manager Dave nounced, hing sent the Comm *s proposals to ¢ dy un ] te ty Commnissione’ today so j that they. can study the changes, The proposals suggest new parking and one-way street) regulations — which | the Commitice — believes would improve co} traffie conditions in th: Island City. Below the recom. | : mendations of the © | Citizen Staff Photo mittee: AFTER 70 YEARS, W. J. McCorkindale, who is 82 years old, re- calls Key West in the days when cigar factories were the chief industry and the town’s population was not ante 31009 Kighty- Tw o Year Old ow Recalls Of Key West Of Seven Decades Ago Change parking on ‘ man avenue from So North side. Convenient for incoming visitors. city, Enforce one-way traf! | on Olivia street) running | Back in 1882 when W. J. Mc-¥ | East with parking on South | Corkindale of Roanoke, was side, from Whitehead to \12 years old, he lived in Key vs Di N 4 West. Now, 70 years later, he is e€ ew Whi te streets, J i visiting the city for the second , Rote Anigulacsiwebt Gace jreturn trip. A tall, handsome ‘way running West between | Pass Over lane and Simon- ton, or prohibit parking on either side. - jman with Gulf-blue eyes, Me- | Corkindale attended a Rotary lelub luncheon last week and told jabout the days when the town |had a porulation of about 25,000. Jersey Plane Accident * hie au ith“ : : Route Southard street “That is,” he said with a smile Ex-Seeretary Of War | rf W. “until my mother and*1 arrived is one-way, running est " 2 >, oe i ras Thee \That boosted the count two Patterson Is Among \from White to Whitehead | more. > vs . | | McCorkindale’s father, Wil-| Victims As |streets, parking on both { |liam, was chief engineer of a Smashes Buildings | sides. | Seenane mand me Knight") ELIZABETH, N. J. (P—A fog Route Fleming — street vhich t to Ke: Vest reg- Prica ssen- > Mi ee put into Key We €8-| bound American Airlines passen- | one.way, running East, ularly |ger plane, groping its way into oR, 4 | “My mother and I lived ati Newark Airport on instruments, | parking on both sides, ex- Capt. Williams’, a bar pilot's | nosedived into a residential area | County Clinic en- {house about the center of town,; Tuesday and brought flaming a. % but I don’t remember the name | death to its 23 occupants and five nial of the — street,” McCorkindale | other persons Eaton street to have said. Sam Harris, editorial writer) Robert P . 60-year-old | parking on North — side jfor The Citizen, when asked! former sec war under only. about this, said the home was on | President Truman, was one of the | #4 . | Whiteheaa near Greene street victims aroline street to have The octagenarian also recalled) ‘The silver. twin-engined Convair, parking on South side ithat there were no street lights] inbound from Buffalo, hurtled into | yy} | only, {and no paved streets although at/a three-story frame apartment | ‘4 h the time, Key West was one of} building and exploded in a mass | Front street, petween the richest cities per capita in! of leaping, orange flame that en- | Duval and ton, park- i the entire country, veloped two nearby dwebhings. ! “There certainly have been a{ A mother and her two children ;¥& 0" lot of changes,” the 82-year-old|were killed as their home col Thomas street. on }man Said, “but one thing has: lapsed about them in a hurricane- running N never changed the fishing is'like blast. A third child, trapped still good! I've been looking for|in another building, and an un the old beaches where all the! identified person also died in the flames. Screaming residents ran for safe ty. Eleven persons were injured, including nine occupants of nearby | children used to swim. There was one called Geiger’s Beach, but I haven't been able to locate it.” On this score. n Harris, vet jepatee Whitehead street eran Key Wester, contributed in- homes. A:so hurt were a fireman running South formation that Geiger’s Beach|4"¢ 2 rescue worker, who joine . and United was a strip of sand at Geiger’s|dsester units at the scene, just suis Front a nites beaeadag hci’ 2 ab yeee’* 28 miles from Newark Airport. ‘Continved Cm Page Sevens Creek on Boca Chica McCorkindale, who was born in New Orleans, remembered seeing “pretty Cuban women in fancy bright dresses with man- tillas and fans promenading in er Qualifies For Sheriff Po For 90 minutes, no one could get near the raging inferno, where the 18 passengers, three crew members and two company per. sonnel aboard the plane were burned beyond recognition. For a the evenings at a place called time the roaring blaze threatened Comunienicne Rens M Pablo's Beach.” to engulf the entire block. ly ip sner th ornin aaagtitii ; Harris added that Pablo's Clouds of steam and gmoke blan- | 9 7 anef tua MmOWine ate i Beach was located on what is keted the area, which is less than |‘ Tum for the office o or now James street and extended a'a mile from the spot where a }°! Monroe County, according t little further out on Caroline Miami Airline non-scheduled plane | '?”, County Clerk street to Trumbo Island crashed in the shaliow Blizabeth | Eisner will be med in the McCorkindale named eral | River 38 days ago, killing 56 per-|May primary by John Spotts docks: Tift’s, Philbert’s. and the; sons in the nation's second worst | W900 who qualified for candida Mallory Line where ships came ; commercial plane disaster. 1ey earlier this month. Th in in bearing passengers and, Positive identification of Patter- cumbent Sheriff, Berlin Sawye freight. There was no railroad son—the first of the dead named had retiring this year into Key West until 1912, “We|here—was made through dental snommennteres charts. President Truman in a statement from Washington described him as FOR THOSE WHO APPRECIATE |“a great American and a great | GOOD ITALIAN FOOD publie servant.” a “Whenever his country called, — s he answered with unreserved serv RESTAURANT ice and he brought to every post ry ued On Page Five’ PSs Ae So So CIFELLI’'S ITALIAN AMERICAN REST. | Specializing in Home Cooked Food Orders to take out. TORE rare judgment, understanding and asinninisiiectainennilscemnaeey * SS - sie energy.” the President said Free Parking in Rear © Spaghetti Patterson, undersecretary of war NEW HOURS @ Veal Scallopini throughout World War II and sec 11:30 A. M. To 12 MIDNIGHT @ Raviole j retary from September. 1945, until eLaSagna July, 1947, had been in Buffalo 920 TRUMAN AVE. ORDERS TO TAKE OUT for a Federal C ourt case. 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