The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 30, 1952, Page 3

LASTRES STOPS VX-1 FLIERS 8 TO 2 IN BASEBALL OPENER Despite Defeat, Navy Team Will The RUSSIANS Be Strong Outfit ‘WEATHERMAN REMOVE By OSCAR MILIAN The Island City baseball league opened its 1952 season last night at Wicker’s Stadium as the VX-1 Naval Air Station fiers fell victims to the stellar pite of 16 year old George Lastres, ace rookie of the Island- ers who were victorious by the tune of 8 to 2. Mastering the first three in- nings with the coolness and calmness of a veteran pitcher, the lanky youth retired in order the first nine men to face him, while his teammates froze the game in their first and third innings, Rob- ert Lastres flied to left, Alvio Acevedo went out short to first, John Anderson lined a double to left center and scored when John Cruz's smash to right was good for a single. In the third, Clayton Sterling's Islanders put over 2 more mark- ers. Robert Lastres outran a hot roller to short for a hit, Acevedo dropped a looper to short left and Lastres had crossed the plate before Hoelzel could recover the ball in time to make a play at home. John Cruz’s | sizzling grounder bounced off Steffen’s glove at third and Acevedo raced for the platter with the second run of the inning. Pitcher Stein- hour tightened up and _ whiffed three fast throws to Don Cruz who struck out to end the in- ning. The fliers’ best innings were the fourth and sixth when they scored one run in each. Malone beat out a slow grounder be- tween home and third, after Steffen had looped out to sec- ond, then scored all the way from first on Wallace’s short sin- gle to right center, Wallace was trapped between second. and third on Hoelzel’s slow grounder to the pitcher as Bienemn.struck out. In the sixth frame, Malone scored after slamming’ a sliding two bagger to left, followed by Wallace’s standing triple to deep left center field; Kiek and Stef- fen went out in order. Hoelzel’s we grounder to the pitcher ended the inning. In the fifth inning, the Island- ers netted five extra runs for good measure on four hits in- cluding doubles by John and Don Cruz, single by Acevedo and Gabriel Lastres and two free passes. The fliers were unable to make any more scores under the masterful pitching of “Blondy” Lastres. On the field, shortstop man Billy Kiek played a good game although he had one error chalk- ed up against him in 8 tries. Forecast Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy with some likelihood of widely scattered showers or thundershowers today through Saturday. Continued warm and humid. Gentle to moderate vari- able winds freshening near show- ers. Florida: Partly cloudy to cloudy with scattered thundershowers today. Saturday, partly cloudy with widely scattered afternoon thundershowers mostly in south and central portions, Continued warm. Jacksonville through the Flor- ida Straits and East Gulf of Mexico: Light to moderate vari- able winds. Partly cloudy to cloudy and scattered thunder- showers today becoming partly {cloudy and widely scattered thundershowers Saturday, Tides Naval Base TOMORROW Low 3:40 a.m. 8:58 a.m. 2:51 p.m. 9:43 p.m. ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Time of Height @ Bahia Honda (bridge) ———oh lm 8.08 Mo Name Key {east end) —-+2h 20m Boca ‘Favorite Dem. BOISE, Idaho (» — E. Roland triman, a staunch Republican, in’t let.his party affiliation stand ‘tn the way Wednesday of admira- tion for a candidate for the Demo- cratic presidential nomination— his brother, W. Averell Harriman. “He's my favorite Democrat,” said E. Roland, chairman of the board of directors of Union Pacific Railroad. Harriman, here to address a Boise Chamber of Commerce ban- quet, declined to comment on Averell’s chances for the nomina- tion, adding “I've never been right on political predictions.” R.! Riis eineeaneanepanend Malone and Paul Wallace were} JACKSONVILLE SAILOR responsible for four of the six| (Continued From Page One) hits earned by the VX-1 while; gunfight ending a wild chase start- Malone scored the only 2 runs/|ed by an attempted airplane theft. for the fliers. | Agent Estus Durden of the Geor- Right fielder John Cruz was 8a Bureau of Investigation, iden- the big gunner for the Islanders tified the youth as J. W. Dowdy, connecting safely three times of|19, @ sailor from Jacksonville. four tries. Robert Lastres and Al-|Shot once in the stomach, he was vio Acevedo each got 2 hits reported in fair condition at City apiece with Acevedo handling | Hospital today where he is under nine chances with one miscue at | Suard pending filing of charges. shortstop. | Durden said the wounded sailor It was a good exh al | told him today is his 19th birthday. the way oi fi c Two 15-year-old Brunswick lads, < W Baker and Joe Taylor, time, sportsma a displayed by both cl ce |t 1 off the nocturnal chase breeze kept the fans ¢ table Thursday night when they paid a and the performers in good play- | C@Sual visit to the Brunswick Air ing mood. Park, a small, private airport managed by Winn's father, Sam B. r hey found a four-place, single- ed plane outside its hangar R.H.E n 000 6 6 eng 02 050 Olx—8 10 3 nd R St with a man beside it. He fled in i Bee ee poker ae “* a heavy automobile and they George Lasires d V. Catala, called police. MUNIZ HEADS | (Continued From Page One) coming year are H Hudgir Summerland Key; Frank Forrest WELFARE BOARD (Continued From Page One) Pointed for this distriet. In fact there seems to be a shortage of s al, Sugar Loaf Key; Mildred I State Welfare Board Supervisors at} Sunday, June Big Coppitt Key; Cliff Schur + | the present time. The Post has end Stock Island; Myrtle Mrs. Miller does advise however,| Commander Frank Pine Key; that Key West is soon to have its! ey — wn special Child Welfare Worker/ eil Sa ned to officers. P. W. Keif ned to the State Board Wel- e office here. The appointment and appropriation for this much president, gave an acc past year under h which has been one for the group. Respor made by the newly elected presi. dent, Mr. Muniz Following the instal! Prise fireworks displa from the beach, s at the s@ was should arrive some time in June. Mrs. Miller who has enjoyed her ation, a sur! Pa business session ade for an outing on July held at Myrtle and Wesley Big P Key plants to be located there, with boat project house on Punt Rig Pine Key Plans f af b a new Bris: next year After the m ever had by and the deed, a gift from Mr. and thday cake was pre h| needed special worker have al! ready been made and such worker| stay bere in Key West goes on to) ¢! eah, Kentucky where her hus-| to teac an Engineer has been as-| signed to one af the new H.bomb/ and how much ¢ t the meeting and about the/ participation in Idi club} gram, the boy subdivision, | ur c the new building have] fi een presented wo the Association | Say:| PUPPET VIENNA (#—Ana Pauker, friend of Stalin and possibly the most powerful woman in the Communist world, was reported here today to | have been purged from her posi- tion as Romania’s foreign minis- ter. The mannish-looking 59-year-old woman, life-long Communis{ and daughter of a Jewish kosher butch- er, was reported also to have been relieved of her positions as deputy | prime minister and as No, 2 Com- munist on the Romanian Politburo. These reports were carried by Vienna newspapers. The newspa- pers said the Bucharest Radio and the Romanian news agency Ager- press had carried a new Politburo list, on which Ana Pauker’s name | failed to appear. She previously had been listed as number two in the Politburo—or political bu- reau of the Communist Party in Romania. The Politburo is the ex- ecutive body of the Communist Party in any state. Associated Press monitors in Vienna did not hear the announce- ment but it was possible they missed the broadcast which re- portedly carried it. Neither was the reported announcement car- ried by Tass or the Prague or Budapest radio stations. Two other top Communists were removed from their government posts in Romania Wednesday. They were the former finance minister, Vasile Luca—a close friend and collaborator of Ana Pauker—and the nation’s interior minister, Te- chari Georgescu. They were purged for “right- | wing opportunistic thoughts.” Ap- parently, they did not go along with Russia’s iron control over Romania’s political and economic life. The reports Ana Pauker may have fallen from Russian favor co- incided with the recent arrival in Vienna of Western sources, re- turning from Bucharest, who re- ported rumors in the Romanian | capital that she no longer. ap-| peared at public functions in com- pany with other high Communist dignitaries. They said she rode alone in her big car, without guards and without an escort Some Western diplomats in Vi- enna regarded the reports of Ana Pauker’s ouster as further proof of growing anti-semitism in the Soviet world. She is a Jew, and had influence among Ro- mania’s Jewish population — the largest behind the Iron Curtain. AMERICAN LEGION (Continued From Page One) The presentation is made an- nually by the Post. Previous re- cipients have been Edwin F. Trevor, Mrs. Wilhelmina Harvey, and Major Earl Dillor. Awards were presented a group of Legionnaires for out- standing membership - getting ability. Those honored by Na- tional Headquarters were Le- gionnaires James F. Sinclair, Antonio Arango, Jr.. Anthony A. Meigel, Norman C. Kranich, and Bethel P. Johnson. Commander S' ta the present 1952 mer stands at 714. The Post the quota as assigned b: partment of Florida and ceeded the previously highe tained membership wh 639 during Legion year 1 First nominations for the coming year wi!! be at the regular meeting, Jur with second and fina tions scheduled for J The annual election will t July 9th The 10th District Constituti Conference was for the office of Dist tive Committeeman. Frank Romaguera. America ism Chairman. i ated tha plans are now rs @ group of High Sch American Legion Bovs T assee, June 22-28th. Roma ® s Stat young men how to ¢ ern themselves f 4 direct u citizen's depends dividual They en Tt was ann t “d to the Mrs. Fd Barry, owners of the new ort Shirt Dance st P <M hich he! subdivision, was received |Home on Saturday, M * f ann 5, 6 people attended the meeung a y chee ~ nes Several new members were adms-| any long shreds er Everybody sent s happy. ted to the Association llengths ‘ —— [Political] Notes ; | ation of officers, BY The Associated Press Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, sur- rendering his defense command in Paris today, said he will refuse |to enage in an active campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. A spokesman for Eisenhower's {campaign headquarters in Wash- lington said, however, that what {the general meant by that state- {ment was that “he won't go on ‘any transcontinental train trips or go around shaking hands.” “He will,” the spokesman added, “talk to anybody who comes to see him. And that includes party lead- ers as well as delegates.” The spokesman said the head of every delegation to the July 7 Re- publican National Convention has been invited to call on Eisenhower before the convention to learn his views on the major issues of the day. He said the talks, to be held at Abilene, Kas., New York and Denver, will be “give-and-take ses- sions. The delegates can ask the general anything they want.” Eisenhower turned over his North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion (NATO) command to Gen. Matthew Ridgway in Paris and let | it be known he'll shed his uniform on Tuesday. Eisenhower is one of the two leading contenders for the GOP nomination. His chief foe, Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, repeatedly has challenged the general to throw himself into a full-fledged cam- paign and make his views known on the issues. On that score, Eisenhower told his final news conference in Paris he would welcome “healthy argu- ments over honest differences.” But, he said, “bitter quarrels for quarrels’ sake are bad for the | country and I deplore them.” Some Republican senators have expressed the view that intra-party |feuding may burt the Republicans’ chances for the presidency in No- | vember. Asked if he would comment on whether the election of Taft would | bave a discouraging effect on Eu- | Tope, Eisenhower chuckled and re- plied: “I most certainly would not |—I am still in uniform.” | Meanwhile, a frontal attack on | Eisenhower's record, launched by Taft supporters in South Dakota, heightened the political clangor at- tending the general's imminent re- turn, |Combat Pay Raised Again Today In Senate | WASHINGTON (#—The Political- jly-touchy issue of extra combat |pay for men fighting in Korea was jTaised again today. Sens. Monroney (D.-Okla.), | Sparkman (D.-Ala.) and Moody (D.-Mich.) served notice they ish for congressional ap- of $45 a month extra haz- yr before the present ses- int letter to Chairman (D.-Ga.) of Services tors said “We give this matter urgent con s der The men in the foxholes can't J | Barracuda Joins the Senate | Committee the | | hope your committee will | Americans Mourn Their War Dead WASHINGTON (# — Americans mourned their war dead this trou- bled Memorial Day. And while the folks at home observed the day with solemm ceremonies, across the seas, U. S. troops fought in Korea and Communists demon- strated in Tokyo. * The rioting was part of a mar- |tyr’s day ceremony. Police broke up the demonstration after a brief flurry during which flaming torches of fuel oil were hurled. Trvelve persons were arrested. Twe policemen and three news- Papsrmen were injured. From American headquarters in Tokyo came this Memorial Day message: “We best honor our fallen com- tades by our devotion to the great causes for which they died and for which we continue to battle.” Such was the Memorial Day statement in Tokyo by Gen. Ma: Clark, the mew supreme Allied commander in the Far East. His thoughts turned to Korea, where United States and other United Nations troops are engaged with Communist forces, he added: “Tt is here that we meet the test of America’s determination to protect a defenseless people from the brutality and terrorism by which the forces of Communism have degraded and enslaved mil- lions of human beings.’ At home, shops and offices were empty. The workers and their fam- ilies paid tribute to their war dead and then relaxed for the holiday. The national pastime, baseball, claimed hordes. All 16 major league teams scheduled afternoon double-headers and the minor leagues followed suit. And there was the 500-mile auto race held each year at the Indian- apolis Speedway. At Arlington, Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, D. c., memorial and wreath-laying services are expected to set at- tendance records. President Truman sends a wreath to the Tomb of the Un- known Soldier in Arlington Nation- al Cemetery. Wreaths on his behalf are also being placed at three other monuments—the Unknown Civil War Soldier, Confederate Memorial and Spanish War Memorial. Since the first American fell in the Revolutionary War, about a million men have died of battle- field wounds or disease. They died at many places—at Saratoga, Cha- pultepec, Chancellorville, Manila, Chateau Thierry, the Bulge, the Chosin Reservoir. Some of them—and many who lived through the wars to die in peace—are buried in the 85 na- tional cemeteries. Those so inter- red now total 560,000 and the Army beginning to worry about a time when it can care for no more. There are 76,448 graves at Ar- lington. Officials say that, at the current rate, no space will be left in its 420 acres by 1969. Navy In Flying Leap Aboard Boat | Everyone knows that the Navy treats its personnel very well, and the news has evidently penetrated even to Davy Jones locker. On Wed- nesday afternoon, one of the finny denizens —a 32 pound and 53-inch lcng Barracuda— tried to join the Navy in a flying leap. The U.S.S. PCS 1368 was known to support the e|combat pay proposal for frontline | fighters and has named an armed services subcommittee to examine the whole system of hazard or in-| cent f ve pay. Busy Democratic ca inally the Senate Korean c t pay p est to all 3% million per armed services. spokesmen refused to in the Senate-House t was dropped | under promise to consider it sep. arately. The cost-of-living pay crease bill wae passed and has uve. “| Read the Classified Ads ine steaming along at 12 knots to home port when this huge barracuda leaped out of the water and landed on the awn- ing covering the quarterdeck. The awning is 13 feet above | the waterline and at 12 knots the boat was making about 18 miles per hour. so that barracuda made what looks like a well planned and de- termined leap. Some of the men finally grabbed the fish with » boat hook and after weighing and measuring him. took several Pictures. So the barracuda did get to join the Navy—in Several photographs at least. rt is SERVICEMEN WELCOME At Key West's YOUTH FOR CHRIST 7 FLEMING ST. 7:30 P. M. . SATURDAY .. Speaker: REV. TOUCHTON "F - Methodist Church which maintains the cemeteries, is | Third Polio Case Reported In Key West Dr. R. J. Delton, Monroe | County Health Director teday received confirmation by letter from the Dade County Health Department, that the patient sent to Variety Children’s Hes- pital in Miami is a case of fi questionable will remain in Variety Chil- dren’s Hospital for the present. This makes the third polio case from the Monroe County Area this year—and according to Dr. Dalton, the picture has not changed. These cases are well within the limits of the usual late Spring and Summer upsurge of this type of case. Your Grocer SELLS that Good STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE end CUBAN -—TRY A POUND TODAY—— Friday, May 30, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 3 VISIT OUR Record Department UNDER THE PERSONAL SUPERVISION OF JOHNNY PRITCHARD @ VICTOR @ COLUMBIA @ MERCURY @ DECCA @ CAPITAL LP.’s 45's 78's POP. 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