The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 14, 1952, Page 4

DOROTHY RAYMER, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SOCIETY... PERSONALS... NEWS OF ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE Thursday, August 14, 1952 Society Editor In The Social Swim ‘ Cacizen was - .10t0 PARTY TICKET FOR HOT WEATHER !s a swim party, whctner it’s a birthday celebration like this one or just for cooling pastime. the Rosecrest Pool. Here a group of the younger social set enj.y a dip at Left to right are Edwin Elwood, Bily Sears, Adrienne G-mez, Joarne Machin, the hostess, Margaret Ardagh, Dan Na: arro, Jr, an? J hn Roberts. The guests also en- foyed birthday goodies. The event took place Saturday evering August 9. — MYSTERY STILL (Continued From Page One) so added that he thought the tele- phone call had come from an un- identified man who said he was from Sanford, Fla., and who had been looking through the newspa- per files in the Tampa office for material on a magazine article. When the aged scientist’s body was found Wednesday, August 13, it was near the front door of his house, with the entrance locked and all the lights on. There is spe- qulation now as to whether or not te had already been interviewed ly the unknown man very: shortly before his demise, or whether the mysterious caller found him dead. Von Cosel was last seen alive on July 22. His death was apparently fiom natural causes of advanced age, according to Coroner L. L. Joxns of Zephyrhills, *,AP is again making an all-out check of the mysterious phone call. It is also rumored that von Cosel had a second replica of his adored s-cetheart at the Zephyrhills piece, nurees contacted in Tampa an@ Zophyriills had investigated, thoroughly the tip given by ‘The Citizen, on August 1, von Cosel would have been found at that time. A neighbor reported yester- day that mail was piling up at t'e von Cosel cottage and Deputy S! -rilf-Gene Rossi investigated. r.” von Cosel, a German alien whose real name was plain Karl ‘Tanzi me to Key West in the 1930's. He claimed to have nine university degrees and that he was a titled count. He worked as an x-ray technician at the old Marine hospital on the Naval Sta- tion but evidently had some other small savings. He dressed in black alpaca for town wear and in shorts and white suits around his Readv For S Neg: \ tate,” a renovated garage bui! on Flagler avenuc. R brilliant, although a p: centric, he was a well-known fig- ure in Key West. Those who knew kim well, re- spected his knowledge of music and his considerable abitity as a pho- tographer. A gr2at many pic- tures, according :> Jo!n Pritchard at whose house he used to call fre- quently, were striking siudies of Elena Hoyos Mesa, who was then alive and in her late teens. The ravages of tuberculosis had not then advanced and she was known as a town beauty. She was married to Louis Mesa, February 18, 1926. A year and a half later, she lost a child in premature birth and was separated from her husband. She returned to her family. Eighteen months before her death, at 22, on October 25, 1931, she was admitted to the hospital with tuberculosis. She was born July 31, 1909, and at the time of her admittance to the hospital, on- ly 19. Von Cosel was a white beard- ed man 62 years old. He fell in love with her, declaring that she was an ideal, a dream girl of whom he had had visions since his boyhood. { : According to Dr. John’ Thorn, a consulting criminal psychoanalyst who examined von Cosel shortly af- ter he was arrested fot removing the body of his lost love from its mausoleum, the pseudo scientist's mind was active but he suffered illusions of grandeur due to his un- settled early life. Thorn was one of a. group of psychiatrists who were attending a convention in Jacksonyille, Fla. at the time of the strange crime. A number of them immediately came to Key West to examine him. It was learned that in Germany, Karl Tanzler was the son of poor Tig pecpl: and had only the beginnings an education. As a mechanie he werk:d his way around th world from G rmany t> Austria, to Italy, Egyst, England and Cuba tefore coming to Key West. Dr. Thorn’s article on voa Cosel which was published in “Let>.tive World,” in 1946, explains that von O-sel was completely frustrated in nis at- tempts to make a name for hin- self. He knew a little abcut paint- ing and how to play the cr ‘an; he had picked up scattered «nowluge during his stays in various coun- tries including the Egyptizn le- gends, He was evidently fascinated with the ability of the ancient) Egyptians to preserve their re- spected dead as mummies. An excerpt from Dr. Thorn’s study of vgn Cosel includes a verb- atim interview with the man whose hallucinations haunted him even in| childhood. Von Cosel told the court the following: “When I was a young lad I paint- ed a lot and I saw her (Elena) every day come to me. I was at Compos Santos looking at the stat- ues and I saw her come to me from behind a large statue... I stayed there talking to her for an hour . . . when I went home I found that she was there and we talked for a long time. In Austria. I was playing the organ and the spirit came to me from the door and the hair was long to her knees. In Key West, it was love at first sight. I knew at the minute that she was the spirit to whom I had’ talked and dreamed of in my young days. I had found her at last.” However, Elena, in life, refused his attentions as a suitor. When he found that she was dy- ing of tubergulosis, he at first treated her at hame with an elec- trical apparatus he rigged up and with witsh be hoped to cure her. Thea she was taken to the Magine hotpital where he was the x-ray jtecnicien. Ager her drath he ob- her first grave and pet in crypt. There he i tus and sat. ed gyre appara- bours in a chair -| Lefore the table op wiries be placed CASES OF BLOOD for consignment to the Blood Bank of D County, Miami, Fla. are ready to be flown up to that unidentified tec local Navy establis are standing in the foregro: ried to impress upon its ex; the {cotastic machine trying to re- vive tis dead love. He also install- ed a telephane and carried on con- versations with her, from his shack when the weather was stormy. He obtained Elena’s bed and took it to his ramshackle house. Even then he had the idea of enshrining the body in the intimacy of his home. Next he bought the wreck of an amphibian plane and equip- ped it with two wheels in place of pontoons. He fist kept the plane's fuselage ‘on the hospital grounds. An unidentified taxi driver, or a friend with a car, unknowingly helped the obsessed man to trans- port the inner coffin which von Cosel removed from the tomb. He placed the coffin in the aerbplane and when opportunity came, trans- ported it to his tumbledown ‘es- tate.” He later explained that he kept the plane because he expected to bring Elena back to life and then fly away with her to another world. In the interior of his “mansion”, he lavished attention on his “bride,” bathing the body, recon- structing parts which decempesed, and injecting a “serum” which he imagined would resurrect his be- loved. He told the psychiatrists that Ele- na had warned him to destrey her body but that he felt he could complete his work. When his rob- bery of the tomb was discovered, after over eight years he declared, “I took her home because she was my Wife. She had accepted my proposal of marrage. I have so in- formed the German government.” His titanic Teutonic ego would im admit that he had NEWS BRIEFS LONDON (® — Burglar James | O'Neill was trying on some clothes | he had taken when he heard the owners returning. He hurriedly grabbed what he thought was a pair of trousers and fled out the back door. A few mn utes later he returned sheepishly - wearing a woman’s skirt. He was sentenced to three porehe in jail on charges of steal 8g. SALT LAKE CITY # — Utah’s state property tax for 1952 was completely eliminated Wednesday. The elimination was made pos sible by record collections of per- sonal income taxes and corporatio: taxes. “1 Last year the state levy was 6.3 mills. The action euts more than half off the combined state and local property tax levy of 1951, which was 13 mills. The only property tax levy to pay for the state’s 22 million dol- lar minimum school fund this year will be the 8.4 mill local levy. The property tax is used only for the school program. FRONT ROYAL, Va. W—A suit narging a decter with wrongfully terilizing an electrician’s wife was cheduled to come before the W: en County Circuit Court toda: | A unique twist in the case, srought by James E. Williams, »6, was the fact that his wife gave airth to her fourth child two weeks ago. Williams asked $25,000 dam xges from Dr. Lyle J. Hansbrough, Sront Royal surgeon, claiming the loctor’s operation on Mrs. Wil- dams had rendered her ‘“‘perma- aently barren.” Williams said the operation was performed on Sept. 9, 1950 without his permission and thus was il- legal. Mrs. Williams delivered her third child on that date. KEY WEST’S SUMMER (Continued #'vom Page One) phasis on those wha have reached retirement age. These persons are searching for a pleasant place to live where expenses are moderate, free from the severity of Winter cold ye not subjected to extreme heat in Summer. MANY STREETS TO (Cuntinyed From Page One) soon. and fresh news should be forthcoming at that time. King, himself, would go with them but his present work schedule on local conditions keepsshim busy day and night. Any type of plan which in- volves federal aid or money is usually a drawn-out prccess that involves much so-called “red- tape.” Indications have always been favorable that the sewer- age plan will be accepted, how- ever, LOCAL MAN (Continued Frem Page One) destreyer USS Leary from Febru- ary 2, 1941 to June 1943. He was designated a submariner in Febru- ary 1943¢and has served on sub- marines ever since. in eommand cf the USS Cabezon from June 1250 to June 1952. He served on the following submarines, theUSS R-13 from Septmebr 1942 to 1944; he commanded the USS R46 from July 1944 to March 1945; serv- ed on the USS Shad from March until April 1946; the USS Becuna from May 1946, until December 19- 46 and the USS Caiman from Janu- ary 1949 until 1950. Comdr. Wheeler attended Annis- ton, Ala. high school and Marion Military Institute, Marion, Ala. The Wheeler's children are Gene- vieve, nine years, Joseph III, and two year old Richard. been spurned by her except as a friend. Some regarded him as a true romanticist. Many sympathizers sided with him even when he turned commercial and charged admission to the thousands of curiosity seekers who view the scene of the love affair. Von Cosel was “exiled” from Key West in the spring of 1941, six months after the body was taken from him. Elena was re- buried in an unknown spot. Four hours after his departure fo- Zephyr Hills, then the address ef his legal wifes Mrs. Doris Tanzler, new a nurse in Michi- gan, the City Cemetery rocked with an explosion. The tomb he had erected was blown up by dynamite, supposedly a time bomb planted there by the came to macabre CONCH CHOWDER Moving day for me brought a feee show to the neighborhood on Angela street. My recent landlords, Val and Oscar Fernandez and Val’s sister, Mrs. Blas Rodriquez, com- alete with family and bevy of cats, turned out to watch the riot. It all started when Shop Hopper Jaxson donned a lampshade in cloche style headgear as she helped carry stuff to the car. I jammed on my favorite rodeo hat, gave a relic called “facile printemps” to Bob Youmans, nice guy who is John Wooley’s Man Friday (and all the other days, too). and the promen- ade began. The “‘easy spring” hat belonged to my great-grandfather. It’s a silk topper of the old high opera style. It used to fold up when the spring was in working order, but even a hat can lose its spring after over 75 years. Bob folded up instead with laughter while the audience cheered. A couple of fea- thered frou-frou creations and an enormous straw sombrero from Nicaraugua added to the mad hat- ter scene. It was good psychology. The labor of trekking out with loads of belongings seemed easier. Lucky Pierre was not in ze middle, but he helped, too, sans chapeau. Final hat showing was a blue Un- ion Army cap also greatgrandpa’s . . .of 1861 vintage. It’s the real McCoy, not one of those revived | saps so popular in both Confeder- | ate and Union style. The reason I lon’t have any Confederate caps from the Southern Exposure side of the clan is because they claim the soldiers from that branch had them shot so full of holes in action that they all fell apart. I hated to leave Solares Heights, but I’m nearer the job.The SKi Skewis’ say I am shadowing them. They were my neighbors on the hill; and they are my neighbors on Charles Al ley. New occupants of the cottage are the former Pat Simpson and hubby. Well-liked singer, Pat, who is a niece of Adeline and P. J. Ross, is now adding lullabies to her repertoire. < : LAUGH MAKER of the week is eredited to Comdr. Joe (Doc) Da- chnahl of the Bushnell who ob. served John (Lover Boy) Speziali raising both arms.on high to shake up a cocktail and kept a pokerface as he asked, ‘‘Anybody for tennis?” Come to think of it, the “‘all shook up” gesture does look like a ‘“‘rac- quet invitation”. . for net game, not the net gain, that is! Have you seen the new membership cards distributed by a local lounge? They entitle you to stay up until dawn drinking in the sights, the sound and the fury, and whatnot. Think- ing of sounds in the night, there was a rapid flurry of greetings in French the other eve when Duval of rue Duval met Ensign André Schmitten and Lt. (j. g.) Robert Bussiere of the French Navy. I en- gineered the meeting after seeing Apply To Wed Matthew A. Zacal, 35, 229-F Poinciana Place and Grecia Del- gado Freyre, 36, 229-F Poinciana have applied for a marriage li- cense at the office of County Judge Raymond R. Lord. Other couples applying are Ho- ward Willard Sahle, 26, Section Base and Louise Pauline Jenkins, 40, 17-C Sigsbee Park and Albert INTEREST TO WO : . Coming Events THURSDAY, AUGUST 14— Busy Bee Club, 8 p.m. Ladies Aux. of Fleet Reserve As- sociation, meeting at.8:30 p.m. club rooms. Gray Ladies Corps, 10 a.m. cof- fee, home of Mrs. Joseph Ins- lee, 1511 Johnson St. Ladies Aid meeting, Grace Luth- eran Church, 8 p.m. Rotary Club luncheon, 12:15, St. Paul’s Parish Hall. Key West Lions, meeting at Lions’ Den, 1009 Seminary street, 6:30 p.m. ee Branch 56 Fleet Reserve Associa- tion, at clubhouse, 8:30 p.m. Navy Wives’ Bowling League, p.m. Also open bowling. American Legion Auxiliary meet- ing at Legion Post Home, 8 p.m. RIDAY, AUGUST 15— Key West Amateur Radio Club meeting, National Guard Arm ory, 7:30 p.m. friangle Club of Pythian Sisters 1 meeting at K. P. Temple, 7:30) &@ p.m. Key West Shrine Club meeting at 7:30 p.m. Xnights of Pythias meeting, Py- thian Hall, 728 Fleming St., 8 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous, meeting, First Presbyterian Church, 8 p.m. \TURDAY, AUGUST 16— Youth for Christ Rally, Fleming street Methoast Church, 729 Fleming street, 7:30 p.m Youth Center dance, Wesley house, 7:30 p.m. Dance at N. S. CPO Club, begin- ning 9 p.m. JNDAY, AUGUST 18— General meeting Women of the First Presbyterian Church, 8 p.m. at church. W. S.C. S. of Ley Memorial the fliers at the beach and betting Dick Ertzmen that the strangers vere Gallic. He investigated and ‘eported ‘Mais, oui!” At the get-to- tether the following night, Lt. (j.g.) Tacques Lamy was not in the as- sembly line, but the parlez-vousing was increased by fractured French insertions by Roger (Wilco, and Over) Des Rosiers and Vi Veidt singing chansons in her best crepe suzettes manner. Top fractured Spanish in the area is spoken by {arl Agricola who after listening to some Cuban friends in long dis- sertation added sagely, ‘‘Absolute- ly mucho!” ABOUT TOWN: John Me- Donough seen entertaining Mr. and Mrs. Walter Beatley of Harrow, England and Miami, Fla. Beatley is an official with Safe Way Air- lines. John’s Mildred and the chiJ- luns are due back home next week from Chicago and Bob McQuain ‘from Walkersville, W. Va. to re- sume teaching duty. From an 1862 | edition of a paper published in Key | West and called ‘The New Era,” copies of which are in the East Martello Museum is an excerpt which has a wryly prophetic tone. Writes the editor of those days, Richard Locke, “It is rumored that the Government intends building a Navy Yard here.” Thought for the nonce: An intelligent woman nat- urally DISLIKES an insult. What she really HATES is an insult to her intelligence. J. Kennedy, 21, U.S. Navy and Vel- | da Rosalee Beggs, 19, Overseas Trailer Park. oo Leon John Mense, 26, Fleet So- nar School and Emily Julia Keil, 30, 904 Simonton street, have ap- plied for a marriage license at the office of County Judge Raymond R. Lerd. Forest Brian Cooper, 25, USS Bushnell and Juanita Imogene Brown, 25, 1011 Truman avenue, have also applied for a license. VX-1 O.W.C. Set Luncheon For August 21 VX-1 Officers’ Wives club have planned a luncheon to be held at Raul’s Restaurant next Thursday, August 21 at 12:30 p. m, It has been announced that re- servations must be made not later than Saurday, August 16. Mrs. James H. Clare is chair- man. Hostesses are Mesdames H. M. Cocowitch, G. I. Dumas, A. D. Dunstane and C. C. Evans. JAY W. CHAMBERS OFF TO ACADEMY Jay W. Chambers, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Chambers, 2018 Harris avenue, left Twesday for Hargrove “Count” when he was evicted from his Key West property. But the dreams of the aged necrophiliac were not destroyed His parting words in court were, “I heve made arrangements to be with her in death.” After eleven lonely death came to him. years, Military Acader-y in Chatham, Va. He will spend a week in Peters- burg, Va., visiting friends and re- latives. Young Chambers will grad- | uate in May, 1953, and them attend Virginia Polytechnic Institute. The Chambers celebrated their 2rd wedding anniversary on Thurs. lday, August 14. BURT GARNETT LEAVES FOR VIRGINIA VISIT Burt Garnett of this city is leav- ing for a few feeks in Alexandria, Va. There he will join his wife, Betty now visiting there. His trip will be a combined busi- ness and vacation. Garnett, active in property renovation and house moving will return to Key West in about two weeks. Dessert Party Slated Friday At Ley Memorial A dessert party will be given Friday at 6 p. m. on the lawn of the Ley Memorial Church, corner ef Truman avenue and Georgia streets by the W. S. C. S. organiza- tion of the church. Cookies, cupcakes,, Key Lime pie, “Queen puddings”, a favorite Key West delicacy, cocanut candy, fudges and cold drinks will be serv- The public is cordially invited to attend. There will te games ar- ranged for the amusement of chil- dren. Church, ‘annex, 7:30 p.m. , Elizabeth Taylor circle of WMU, First Baptist Church, annex 3 p.m. Juvenile Council, meeting at 8 p.m. Key West Temple No. 20 Py- thian Sisters, K. P. Hall, 7:30 p.m. At Lion's Den, 6:30 p.m., Dis- triet Committee meeting and Scoutmaster’s Roundtable. UESDAY, AUGUST 19— Youth for Christ Bible Study Methodist Church, 729 Flem- ing street, 7:30 p. m. Minoca Council No. 13, Degree of Pocahontas, Redmen’s Hialil, 7:30 p.m. Civil Air Patrol, meeting, Legion Post Home, 8 p.m. Key West Chapter Disabled Vet- erans, Luz Temple, 8 p.m. Key West Assembly No. 13, Or- der of Rainbow Girls, meeting, Scottish Rite Temple, 7:30 p.m. /EDNESDAY, AUGUST 20— Dade Lodge No. 14, Masonic Group, 8 p.m., Scottish Rite Temple. Meeting, Junior Ch. Commerce, at clubhouse, 8 p.m. Island City Navy Wives’ Club No. 88, meeting at Bldg. 178, 10:30 Clinic Bldg., a.m. Ladies Golf Tournament, K. W. Golf course, 9 a.m. ' INES ADEL Interiors Custom Work Done In Our Own Decorating Workshop 904 FLEMING ST. KEY WEST ATHLETES FOOT GERM HOW TO KILL IT. IN ONE HOUR, If not pleased, your 40¢ back. This STRONG fungicide SLOLGHS OFF outer skin MEN PHONE: Citizen Office, 1935 Olympics Dance Highlight At “Y” For This Evening To keep up with the times and the current events, the USO-YMCA has an “Olympics Dance” slated for This evening at 9 p.m. There will be special contest in dances held during the festivities, and re- freshments served at intermission. Gus Ayala will play for the dan- cers, and prizes will be awarded to the winners of the contests. There will be a meeting Thurs. evening prior to the dance at 8 p.m. Program plans for the remainder of the month will be discussed. A cake dance will be held this Saturday night at nine o'clock. Music for the dance will be pro- vided by Ida Gelrich and her com. bo. Cakes will be awarded as priz es for the special elimination den- ces during the evening, Whiddens Have Son Mr. and Mrs. Robert Whidden of 2112 Harris Ave., are the parents of a fourth child, a son, born at the Naval Hospital, July 21. The new arrival weighed 6 lbs., 13 oz. and has been named Frank Pier- son Whidden. Mrs. Whidden was the former Miss Jane Hopkins and was associated with the City Recreation department here. She was affectionately known as “Miss Popcorn.” Mr. Whidden, who is with the USS Odex, returned to Key West in January with his fam- ily after two years shore duty at St. Petersburg. The Whiddens have three other children, Robert, who was born in Key West, and twins, Bedford and Alice who were bern in Tampa. ENGAGEMENT TOLD OF KEY WEST COUPLE Mrs. Otilia Barcelo of 1016 Varel la street, announces the engage ment of her daughter Miss Aligia Barcelo to William Diaz. 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