The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 13, 1952, Page 1

Key West, Florida, most equitable climate country, with an range of only 14° VOL. LXXIII. No. 115 has the in the average Fahrenheit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1952 he Key West Citisen Payment To Mc€arthy Is Defended Says $10,000 Check For Magazine Article Was Well Worth Amount Paid WASHINGTON # — Carl G. Strandlund, testifying at hearings | on an oust-McCarthy resolution, | heatedly denied today that he ever bragged of having powerful friends | within the administration and in | Congress. Strandlund, former head of the now-defunct Lustron Corp., Senate elections subcommittee that there was nothing illegal about his payment of $10,000 to Sen. MeCar- thy (R.-Wis.) for housing written in 1948, The subcommittee opened hear ings Monday on a resolution in- troduced by Sen. Benton (D.-Conn) aimed at unseating the Wisconsin senator. told the | an article on | McCarthy has asked the | Heading For Dry Tortugas Citizen Staff Photo subcommittee to investigate Ben- | ton. In an angry-toned Strandlund denounced a document written in 1949 by Walter L. Dun- ham, construction Finance Corp. document said Strandiund had in timated he had powerful friends Strandlund told the senators he | has been involved in a bitter con- troversy with Dunham and that he believes Dunham wrote the mem- orandum “more or less to weaken | and ul ine me.’ Dunham had | led a E a ful fight to choke off | further > loans to Lustron. “This man is pretty loose with his talk,’’ Strandlund said of Dun- ham, adding that “I take extreme | exception” to the document as “something thrown at that time to try to prejudice other (RFC) directors. Speaking of the McCarthy arti ele, Strandlund told the subcom ap iitoe the pices Tow Vurhe* the $10,000 he ) paid. FSU Leaders To Address KW Banquet Deans Will Speak At rh Evaluation (¢ Banquet For s Group Held Here This Year Members of the Elementary Evaluation Class which has beer conducted by Dr. W. T. Edwards of Florida State University during the school year will hear FSU lead ers speak at a banqu Lee’s Orient restaurar Approximately 20 Instructional Sta members of the ¢ taken this teachers entary School ar Schools Russell panic 1 nstructi d by General Besides Also all r ( UR RS EE el SB Ce Special C unication of Dade Loed&e No 4.F. & ALM. Wednes day evening May 14, at 7.30 PM F.C. Degree all F.C. Mas as well as Master Masons are invited te attend WALTHER M. LAZIER wom F.O. WEE | outburst, | one-time director of the Re- | The | GREG ANN McCLUNG at the helm of the Fort Jefferson, hides her daddy, J. H. McClung, but not her mother from the camera as they embark for a visit to Fort Jefferson on the “Fort Jef- ferson” boat where Mrs. McClung’s father, Harry Moore, is Boat Engineer. Little Greg Ann celebrated her first birthday at the Fort with her parents and grandparents. The McClungs live in Orlando, Fla. ‘Knight Says Rent Regulations Have ‘Been Amended | Freeman L. Knight, Rent Direc- | tor for the Key West Area, an- | nounced’ today that the Rent Regu- | lations applicable te newly control- | led, seasonal accomodations have | been amended to permit the re- | gistration of sucif.seasonal units more iit keeping with the true sea- | sonal practice in the Area. He stated that the units to which the amendments apply are pri- JayCees Good Gov’t Award To Be Made Wed. The Junior Chamber of Commerce will make the an- nual “Good Government” award presentation Wednes- day night at 7 o'clock in the Clubhouse, Flagler avenue. “Winner of the award last year .was Charles Roberts, city comiptroller-finance offi- “SeyCeo Chef Jim Keen has | : tha announced that piccadillo | marily as follows: houses and : a 3 apartments newly constructed or baa will be “out of ‘this | newly created by structural change |on or after January 31, 1947, and | rental seasonally since they were Hank Leeds, astrologist, will present the evening's | entertainment. |first rented; rooms in rooming houses newly constructed since January 31, 1947, and rented sea- |sonally; rooms in tourist homes |that were rented heretofore © Ar R | transients exclusively; trailers and sua ecovers rooms in hotels heretofore regu- | larly rented on a seasonal basis. | Landlords of all such rental units From Sunday are urged to come to the Area Rent Office in Room 216 Federal Building in Key West, and register, Truck Crash regardless of whether they have | registered heretofore or not. They | Mrs. Braxter Also Better will be given expert assistance in properly preparing the Registra- | tion Statements. Following Mysterious Accident In Which She Person With Finny Sense Of Humor Ditches ’Cudas Fishing is excellent in Key West waters, but did you ever catch a barracuda in a ditch in the city limits? City employees caught four (none alive) in a ditch on Fleming street between Fran- cis and White yesterday morning. Some person with a “finny” sense of humor had placed them in the ditch. It wasn't funny to the workmen struggling to pro- tect the city’s health by re- pairing the sewer break as quickly as possible, \Youth Kills ¢ Four Persons Says That He Was Just Mad; Shot Cop Because He Was Going To Take Him Off Bus CLEVELAND ( — An unem- ployed youth who said he “was just mad,” grabbed a policeman’s revolver and blazed away in an evening rush hour bus here Mon- day, killing four persons. The youth, listed by police as Lawrence Goldsby, 20, killed the patrolman, two women passengers | plus a picture of her could be who complained he molested them, and a man passenger. Police quoted the killer as say- ing he burned the hair of a woman passenger “accidentally with the match while I was lighting a cig- | Try Maintenance.” arette.” That brought the patrol- man aboard the bus and the shoot- ing followed. When the weapon clicked empty, three men overpowered Goldsby and beat him sav A One of the three, Ted Connors, 24, gave this report: “I saw Goldsby grab the cop’s gun, whirl and shoot the girl whose hair had been singed. “She collapsed. . . I dived back of another seat and heard five shots. “A fellow had bragged Goldsby. « « » I went up and held him around the neck and slugged him with my fist.’ While the men pinned the slayer in the driver’s seat and beat him, the 60 to 80 terrified bus passen- | gers crouched behind seats, scram- | bled through windows or pushed | toward the closed dors. Dead were: Patrolman Eugene D. Stinch- comb, 55, called from traffic di- recting at the Euclid Avenue-East ! the enclosure 105th intersection. Miss Annabelle Frankie, 24, whose yell—‘My hair is burn- | ing’’—halted the bus. rds of such housing | & ee nts rented seasonally; Was Hit By Arsua Truck with them their re-| . (haces chareed | Manuel Arsua, candidate for | * anomth ok the fib j constable in the Third District is September August 31, 1950. and trailers of his tr Islam< Jack ed in the smash nday morning at Iman diords of re ¢ type above mentioned, rent should bring with es pa Office their re- | has a deep e rents charged eamed cone is of January way Fats tte Braxter wh Blood Donors SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Whe Names in the files of the Red ps It is impossib’ Cress regional bleed pregram in- ener thin canch ene everyone of you te thank you for _ the wonderful vote of confidence TT you gave me in last Tuesday's elec- Complete Stock of Mechanic HAND TOOLS | 1 will endeavor te give you an | henest, courteous and efficient ad | ministration for the next four years | | HOWARD E. WILSON Pd. Pol clude 23 Stanes as doners tion. My thanks to all ef you. Guaranteed for Life Roy's Key West Auto Parts Co. EPHONES 1877 121 DUVAL STREET Ady. ‘| Am Trying To Do An Honest Job” Says City Manager Dave King After Unanimous Vote Of Confidence Citizen Hers Wife Of Wounded Sailor Eugene Beadle’s Address Given, 108-D Poinciana, Proves To Be Dated; Mrs. Beadle Not Found | i Mrs. Eugene Beadle whose husband was yesterday reported wounded when his destroyer the | James C. Owens was shelled by Communists off Northeast Korea does not live here any more. Scavenger Salvage The AP report of the wounding | of Boilerman Third Class Beadle | gave Mrs,” Beadle’s address as 108 D Poinciana. The Gitizen photogtapher and reporter set | off at 8:30 this morning in search | of Mrs. Beadlg so that more de- | tails on her husband’s injury, | obtained, At 108 D Poinciana a young | housewife said: “Mrs. Beadle doesn’t live here. Maintenance is that part of! Poinciana that maintains Poin- ciana, it is supposed. There the | jamin charge sal that, the Beadle’s had lived at 108 D from February 14, 1950 until Septem- ber 1950, They had left giving their address as Arlington street, | Lynn Massachusetts. But, said | he, try the renting office. The renting office manager | said that following the Beadle's | departure in 1950, they had re- turned to Key West. This time | they moved to 166 I Poinciana | with their baby daughter, Linda Mildred. Beadle was on the Sars- field here. They stayed in Poin- ciana until July 2, 1951. Then they moved to the Mastic Trailer Park, the ng official said. At the Mastic™Trailer Park on United street, no manager could be roused, but plenty of monkeys and cats could be. The monkey} set up a loud chatter as the re porter and photographer jgntered | abandoned scavenger trucks and pounds of préssiire. “Assisting WSB STEPS INTO OIL DISPUTE Believe Dispute Still Unresolved Can Be Settled Through Collective Bargaining WASHINGTON (# — The Wage Stabilization Board (WSB) stepped into the two-week-old oil strike to- day by ordering a series of in- where they have | their cages. The cats merely meowed. 1 The Navy PIO here says that Helen Garrison, 50, friend | men when the men | record is either in Korea Mrs. and co-factory worker of Miss Frankie. | William J. Powers, about 60, former Chicago lawyer, head of the Federal Con. Stitutional Law Association, De troit, who had an office here but lived in Grand Rapids, Mich Goldsby told detectives he was a native of Pine Bluffs, Ark. came here two weeks ago from New York City. Pressed for his motive in the killings, he said and War wound as fast as pos | the Navy transfers all are Eugene Beadle’s where he has been wounded or Tokyo ferred. Hence and Washington | perhaps. feels In any case The Citi as if they knew the Bea after today’s search through housing past. Best of luck gene, and hope you get ové “T'was just mad. T'was mad at Rest Beach Suit that girl for saying I was burni . I shot the other wo: she was going to c hot the cop because b City Receiy es ‘| 3,679.17 f Key Wests share of the Hearing June 2 Final hearing on a suit for par- tition of Rest Beach wil be heard before Cirevit Court Judge Aqui- line Lopez, Jr. on June 2, he said today. Plaintif Sam Kay, former own. er of the Casa Marina has filed the suit against the Key West Development Company of which Kay is part owner The land in question includes all thet beech front property from White street and Atlantic boulevard up to Bertha street “THE ‘ELECTRIC REFRIGERATION & AIR CONDITIONING CO. 1212 VARELA STREET Announces the opening of a new service to Key West and the Keys. We have the facilities and know how to repsir service and install the smaliest to the lergest refrigeration and Air-Conditioning equipment made. Tel. 1043-R will take your message. formal board discussions on what to do. The WSB, which had called in representatives ot more than a score of oil companies and a coali held a formai session that lasted only five minutes WSB Chairman Nathan L singer read a statement saying the board would “explore ways and means of expediting settle ments of the remaining disputes and check into scattered agree ments in the national interest.” tion of striking unionists Fein- | He said the board is of the “unanimous opinion that disputes still unresolved can be settled through collective bargaining.’ The unions have refused to call off the strike has affected about one nation's oil prod J u ped to attend today's “WSB mee When Feinsi finished his statement, J.-J. McKenna, who represents a number cof ent untofig, said he d th way the board was going about ng back Low Cost Air Coach SCHEDULED AIRLINES PRICE TOURS $11 Fleming St Phone 124 Fine Fishing Tackle «= Thompson Enterprises. Inc. HARDWARE DIVISION Phone 836 Phone 836 CITY MECHANIC GEORGE HINDS selected a truck chasis from may be used to pump out sewer lines or as a booster pump in case of fire emergency. Cost of this salvaged pump will come to about $300. George tells us that his pump will generate.200 Thompson and Frank Rodriguez. * Action Taken To End Rumors Of Another Appointee City Commissioners last night unanimously gave City Manager Dave King a vote of confidence to quell ‘rumors’ of his replacement, Said Commissioner Eis- ner: “This has been quite a campaign. There have been a lot, of stories and rumors, Even some of people aspir- ing to be city manager, I move that City Manager Dave: King be given a vote of confidence.” Declared Commissioner Cobo: “I am very glad to give City Manager King a vote of confidence. He is doing a good job for the City of Key West.” Motion was seconded by Com- missioner John Carbonell and Citizen Staff Photo passed unanimously. built this 500 gallon pump that in the building were Clyde to them, but a person is only hu- man, and it does hurt when one’s efforts are not appre- ciated. This expression of con- fidence from the city commis- FSU Alumni Are Invited sion and Mayor is most wel- 4 come.” To Reunion Other action taken was as fol- Al graduates of the Flori- | lows: da State University, Talla Granted $100 to the Key West hhassee, who are in the are! High School band to help de- fray expenses of the Coral Ga- jbles High School band who will |perform in the Armed Forces Day Parade, The request was made by Joe Cornell and Harold Casterton. The Key West High School who will also perform in are asked to get in toue! with either C. B. Harvey or Mrs. Harvey (although he is a Tulane graduate) in con- nection with a reunion din- “wer of alumni who were in Florida State University up to and including the year the parade have appeared before 1950. 2,000,000 persons this year. 800,+ According to a letter re- 000 saw them in the Gasparilla Parade, 1,000,000 in the Havana paraue, and 200,000 on the occasions. ceived from Doak S. Camp- bell. president of FSU, there will be a reunion dinner at vther the university Thursday. Agreed to lend $3.000 af no June 5, at 6:30 p.m. in the interest to the Key West Golf Lafayette Room (upper club, The sum will be amortiz- North Room, West Dining ed at the rate of $150 to $175 monthly, This sum and the $7.- 500 now available will allow the Golf Club to renovate their clubhouse. Request for the funds was made by Golfer Hy Altman, Approved the subdividing Of 14 lots into 12 by Charles Top pino ard Sons in the area. of Thomgson, Eliza, Instructed City Manager Dave King to see that Angela street is widened to 30° at the Peary t (Old Army Barracks). Hall) and alumni are invited to make reservations imme- diately. Formal dress is optional. Price Ceilings To Be Boosted eee nheld cancellation of thé lizer s Arnall confir todap nt agreement pending that food price ‘ceilings will be m the Count, Com- boosted soon I 1 that the airport has been Arn. id that within the next p’ ed. A letter from the . ies ae advising the cormigsion sends ale bie they could take this action bilization (OPS 1 increase 1, assured that the sale of margins on some grocery items. | land progressing satisfactorily This, in turn, will hike prices to | wa d consumer lot for $1,000 at In a speech prepared { ‘ and Packer annual convention of the ery purpos 5. 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