The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 12, 1952, Page 3

Marine Wonderland At Dry Tortugas Provides Underwater Excitement FROM TARPON TO SHARKS : pans Democrats Want FT. JEFFERSON Neutrals To By SUSAN McAVOY 5 . Nextt the human beings vio| Investigate Koje inhabit Fort Jefferson and the Qoggerhead Key Coast Guard sta-} WASHINGTON (@—A proposal tion in the Dry Tortugas the fish| advanced by Sen. Richard B. Rus- and the birds are of most interest.|sell (D.-Ga.) and endorsed by Whether you are a member of| President Truman to invite neutral the Audubon Society or of the| military leaders to observe the smaller and newer group of under-| treatment of Communist prisoners water “skin divers” you will find|of war on strife-torn Koje Island g g areas in the world. Tortugas one of the most|g0t a mixed reaction in Congress today. from all over the| Some Democratic senators said Bird , nation come to the Tortugas to see|it would help offset Communist the colony of noddy and sooty Bush Key in April bor Day, terns| Propaganda about the “mistreat- ment” of Red prisoners. But Re- then| Publicans, if not hostile to the idea, Lal disappear to parts unknown for the| €xPressed skepticism that it would . The National] Prove effective. Park Service considers the birds| President Truman suggested so important that it annually sends| Wednesday in a letter to Secretary one of its birds make a difference to humans who live at Tortugas tie up there in their yachts— gate Be fH a i e : & i ; ; can see group- mberjack, and take a boat ride out Key on which Fort fefferson is located you can see the moat that sur- ou a re men to count the; °f Defense Lovett that military men from five neutral nations be asked to visit Korea to see at first hand how Communist prisoners are treated by United Nations forces. oa Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a candidate for the Democratic pres- idential nomination, advanced the idea in a call at the White House two days ago. A visit to Koje Island by high- ranking neutral military observers Russell suggested, would be a means of refuting “the mass of falsehoods which are being broad- cast to the world by the Commu- nist propaganda machine.” Sen. Robert Kerr of Oklahoma, one of Russell's rivals for the i glass mask anything rays to anciert ship- i ih we spent two days ex- ater. Boat Captain the National Park host, showed us where the most beautiful and the most abund- been a fisherman, little about fish as » but two days under water at Dry Tortugas has given me this feeling. Formerly I was satisfied merely to look at the surface of the beau- water of the Keys and Tortugas. Now Lam only happy I can see into the water and iat Ee fh | ae 3 ! i the various fish as they cruise, , Toll, or streak through the ' It took the trip to Tortugas to get me over to the Key West Aquarium study more calmly the fish that darted around me at 1 studied particularly the three barracuda in the open tank at the not far from me last? Friday and Saturday at Tortugas. Through assured by spear-fisher- man that the barracuda will not snap at human beings larger than he unless you are bleeding or un- Jess water is murky, I have a healthy respect for the creatures and keep my distance. When I saw'them in Tortugas waters, I was so close to them on two different occasions that I could see their jaws working in that hun- gry fashion inimitable to barracu- da. Yesterday at the Aquarium I could even see their saw-like teeth. ‘The nurse shark I have also been assured is harmless. Yet last week at Tortugas when one of the men said “Shark here!" I didn’t wait to find out if he was a man-eater or not. I headed back for the boat. Now I learn that the Nurse shark is perforce harmless because he has no teeth. My first sight of a stingaree was not at Tortugas but on my swim off the beach of Key West. This creature too is harm- Jess, they say unless you step on | Ilinois, Walter E. Buschkopf Jr.| Joined forc him and the little dart in his long tail whips you. The men spotted ‘one at Tortugas Friday and asked Democratic presidential nomina- tion, promptly called it ‘an ex- cellent suggestion.’ He told a re- porter it would give representa- tives of other nations an opportu- nity to find out “the falseness of Communist propaganda and to brand it as such.” Similar comments were made by Sens. Fulbright (D.-Ark.) and Moody (D.-Mich.), But Sen. Bridges (R.-N.H.) took the view that “we don’t need rep- resentatives of other nations to go there and tell us if we are con- reas the prison camps proper- y.” “The only trouble with American and U. N. supervision there is that they have been too lenient and have compromised their position,” he said. Rep. Sikes (D.-Fla.), chairman of a House appropriations subcom: mittee which expects to release a special report on Koje, told a reporter that “we're not trying to hide anything on Koje.” He said as long as an inspecting ‘neutral and impartial, are how many of them” visit the island. “I think it’s a very good idea,” he added. NAVY ARRIVALS Lt. Irvin C. Wilhelm USNR has reported to Air Ship Devron E e- called to active duty in May 1952. His home is in Lakewood, New Jersey. Lt. Wilhelm entered the Navy in August 1942 and was designated Naval Aviator (airship) on Janu- ary 1, 1944. He was released to in. active duty in September i947. Lt. Wilhelm has been assigned to the Operations Department of Air Ship Devron Eleven and will be Ass’t. Training Officer. A recent graduate of Dentalman Technical School in Great Lakes, has reported to the Key West Na val Base as his next duty station. | He will be assigned to duty in the me if I wanted to swim over and{ Dental Department at the Naval gee him as he lay on the bottom. 1| Dispensary. Said no and contented myself in- Graduating in 1949 from Juneau stead by standing in my flippers} High School in Juneau, Wisconsin, on tiptoe on the coral rock. j his home town, he attended Saint I am particularly happy I did not | Norbert’s College for a short time meet up with a moray eel in my | and then enlisted in the Navy. Dur. underwater expeditions last week. They are most often fo their ugly reptilian beads looking} out from ledges of coral At the Aquarium yesterday I was shown the moray as the one | to stay away from water. | When you see him wh a are apt to if you swim down under the} ledges to look at jewfish or cr | fish, you should just swim in other direction, the exper mon, around here, is a treuse color. But there ends. He is thick and snake-like with ugly w es. His bite saw not only ng | fish, but right under our bow two big porpoises swam as swift as we traveled. These play f are harmless, except they & Ow their own strength. if you ing his High School days Busch und with) Kopf succeeded in winning three Varsity letters for football, three ~~ basketball and ove for base. all, His mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buschkopf reside at M44 S. Main Street in Juneau, Wis i. consin, they are apt to buffet you about in a friendly but overwhelming fashion. I have not enco ered them yet when in the wate re now entering the season underwater exploration and ’ ishing are at their best. The spring winds have gone, the water a3 getting calmer daily, and the next three months around Key West and Tortugas will provide our own » wonderland for those uid who don the mask and the flippers. | ven for duty. Lt. Wilhelm was re- | 500 Anti-Reds Break Away During Transfe KOJE ISLAND, Korea (®—Amer- X- ican troops hunted today for the bodies of missing comrades of 500 terrified anti-Communist prisoners of war who broke away from 4,800 marching Reds. The 500 said the disappeared prisoners were hailed before Com- munist kangaroo courts prior to the emptying of the fourth seeth- ing POW enclosure on Koje Is- land Wednesday. The remains of 16 savagely) killed prisoners were dug up in} the third emptied compound, No. | 77. But so far soldiers found no | bodies in the fourth, No. 95. Un- like 77, there were no homemade weapons or escape tunnels. Transfer of POWs from No. 95 brought Operation Breakup to the 30 per cent mark. Brig. Gen. Hay- don L. Boatner, Koje commander, intends to wrest control of the! 80,000 internees from their Red | leaders by moving them to new, smaller compounds and splitting them into groups of about 500. Some 24,400 have been moved. Thirteen compounds remain to be emptied and there is a chance of violence in at least two of them. The transfer from Compound No, 95 was orderly, in contrast to the one hour fight that left 38 prisoners killed and 150 wounded when the | first compound—No, 76—was emp- tied Tuesday. Many of the 500 POWs who broke away plainly feared death at the hands of their Red leaders. Others who tried to escape were dragged by the Communists into Compound 91, their new, temporary enclos- ure. “Now we will live,” one grateful North Korean soldier sighed after he had safely fled the marching Reds. The anti-Red POWs broke away in groups of up to 100 men. They tore off their red star-decorated | and awaited the arrival of guards. The evacuation started with ex- change of salutes and handshakes between the leader of the com- Allied camp commander said no one would be hurt if orders were obeyed. He rejected Allied lead- er’s request for an hour’s delay. | Intelligence officers found the Reds’ documents burned. ‘They | surmised word of the transfer had come through the prison ‘“grape- vine.” Leaders of Compound 91 surrendered the bodies of eight | prisoners killed in an April 10 clash with Allied guards. The 4,800 Reds were herded tem- porarily into Compound 91, where unarmed guards moved freely among them. The 500 who broke away were taken for questioning to Compound 61. Guards put with them two anti- Communists who scaled the barbed wire fence of 91. Engineers Form Guidance Comm. For Youths The American defense Industry is in dire need of 60,000 engineers None are available. Unless some thing is done. and soon, our coun try may be placed in its most pre- | carious position in history Within the next four years, even at our present, subdued, rate of} Preparedness production, industry | will need a yearly minimum of { 35,000 new engineers. Our present Progress may give us 18.0%! In an effort to combat this jeal shortaze, the Florida criti Engi | Reering Society, Florida | for Professional pers. Florida Se gether with the N tee of the Engin | Professional | People with Local guida Posed of experienced ing engineers, have ey are pr hats, trampled them in the dust 6 {From 4,800 Communist POWs r At Koje Carter Asks Whites To Aid Negroes SANFORD — Whites should help Negroes learn to vote ‘on the merits of issues and the merits of men, not as a bloc vote,’ State Railroad Commissioner Jerry, Car- ter told the Florida Sheriffs As- sociation Wednesday. Carter said the sheriffs would have to “make a pilgrimage to Philadelphia to make your peace with gangsters’ if “agitators” achieve their goal of 150,000 reg- istered Negro voters by the No- vember election and 200,000 by the 1954 election. He pointed out that | 108,000 Negroes registered for the primary this spring. Carter, who did not identify the Philadelphia group or the “agita- tors,” said Florida whites should not ignore Negroes but try to teach them the standards of good citi- zenship. He said Negres are not so much interested in “whether they sit at the front or the back of the bus” as they are in schools and hospitals. He suggested town meetings to let Negroes express themselves and said that 95 per cent of the state’s Negroes would respond to kind treatment, advice and interest taken in them. He also advised the law enforcement officials to meet with their county officials and leading citizens to urge them to meet with and advise Negroes. The association elected H. J. Youngblood, Nassau County sheriff as president; B, D. Pearson, Sara- sota, vice president; and J. P. Hall, Green Cove Springs, treasur- State Rep. C, Farris Bryant, Ocala, told the sheriffs their ef- forts were of prime importance in the battle for morality and littl government against immorality and big government. He said “You set the stage on which the scene is played.’ He urged a more ef- fective public relations. program to restore public confidence in local law enforcement, Ostrich farms were first de- veloped as a commercial source of ostrich plumes about 1857, 1ERE are all sorts of “drives” and i “shifts” on the market. Some still operate entirely by hand. Some depend on shifting gears, but do Recent Graduates Offered Chance To Enlist Recent graduates of Key West High School will have an opportu-) nity to learn of the opportunities) afforded them.in the Army, the Air Force, the WAC and the WAF on June 17 when Master Sergeant Ira C. Hunter and Corporal Mary W. Sharp of the Air Foree and the WAC arrive at the Navy Recruit- ing station for a one-day informa- tional visit. “High School graduates can se- lect the specific Army training} they wish,” “gt. Hunter has ex- Plained, ‘‘and although being se- lected required some little time, many mainlanders feel that the de- lay is time well spent.” He urges those high school graduates who are interested in applying for technical training, to bring their birth certificates and high school diplomas with them to the recruit- ing office in order that applications may be completed on that date. USS Clamagore Returns To KW The USS Clamagore (SS343) after an absence of four months returned home to Key West on Saturday, May 31st. From all re- ports and by her appearance she received an excellent overhaul from the Charleston Naval Ship- yard. * Commander T. B. Denegre, Jr., Commanding Officer will be re- lieved by Lieutenant Commander G. F. Morin, and Lieutenant Com- | mander J. A. Naylor, Executive Officer will be relieved by Lieu- tenant Commander A. J. Miller. Change of command will occur in late summer. The Clamagore will commence scheduled operations immediately and will be in peak condition by the time the Captain and the Exec. are relieved. The officers and men are happy to be back in Key West with their families and friends, Seek Prisoners FORT MYERS (#®~Three pris- oners who fled a road camp four miles west of Labelle were being sought in this area today. Capt. W. T. Shealey of the Citrus Center Camp identified them as Leonard Gargan, 25, serving three years from Dade County; John T. Edge, 2, serving two years from Orange County, and Samuel C. Linebariu, 23, doing four years from Volusia County. All were con- Comdr. Carroll Assumes Duties As Exee. Officer Commander John Blake Car roll, assumed the duties of Execu- tive Officer, U.S. Fleet Sonar School, Key West, under the Command of Captain William H Truesdell, Commander Fleet Training Group, Key West, and Commanding Officer of the! School. | Commander Carroll comes to the Fleet Sonar School from the} Hunter-Killer Destroyer, U.S.S.| Robert A. Owens. He commanded U.S.S. Robert A. Owens, the Op-| erational Flagship of Destroyer} Flotilla 4, for the last fifteen, months. Commander Carroll also com-| manded U.S.S. McCall (DD-400); and U.S.S. Preston (DD-792) in} 1944 and 1945. While in com-} mand of U.S.S. McCall he res-} cued the “Ghost of Guam,” Chief Radioman George T eed, ten) days before the assault on’ Guam | in June, 1944. He was awarded the Bronze Star for this, and later that year was awarded a second Bronze Star for his part in the} First Battle of the Philippine Sea. In 1945 he received the Commen- dation Ribbon for his perform- ance in command of U.S.S. Mc- Call in the Battle for Leyte Gulf. He also wears nine battle stars, six of which were for actions in which U.S.S. McCall participated while operating with Admiral Halsey’s Fast Carrier Task Force. After the war he took the Command at the Naval War Col- lege and then served three years as Aide and Flag Secrteary to the Commander-in-Chief, U.S.» At- lantic Fleet. Commander Carroll is the son of Mr. and Mrs, A. M. Carroll, 4522 North Albany Ave., Chicago, Iu. His wife and immediate family now reside in their Nor- folk home at 1504 North Shore Road, Pass Examination TALLAHASSEE (# — A newly created $6,500-a-year state merit system job will go to one of three top candidates, One is from Or- lando, one from Jacksonville, the other from St. Petersburg. The new job, assistant director of the State Employment Service, comes under the jurisdiction of the Industrial Commission which presently employs the three men. They are Thomas W. Lawton, Orlando; W. D. 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