The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 15, 1952, Page 1

: Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average tange of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL, LXXIII, No. 195 COUNTY CANNOT Che Key West Citi THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER |Police Officer Bienvenido - Perez Only Living Person CONTRIBUTE | Who Knows Where Elena Buried “I am the only man mt Attorney General Ervin Rules That Ie Would Violate State Constitution Monroe County. is prohibited by the Florida constitution from ap- propriating money for the Business and Professional Women’s ..state board meeting here or the Nation- al Navy Wives’ convention to be held in Key West this fall, it was declared today by Florida Attorney General Richard W. Erwin. The Attorney General et to Key West now who knows the exact spot where Elena Hoyos is buried,” Police Of- ficer Bienvenido Perez said this morning. “I will not re- veal the grave itself, but she is buried in the City Cemetery in a grave which is not marked. No ‘tomb- stone was put there because = the family were afraid old von Cosel might come back Big Pine Key many times since moving to Zephryhills. It has been confirmed that a lo- cal hardware store was accustom- ed to cashing checks as high as $500 paid to v: - Cosel by the Ger- man government for services in the past. “I believe that Elena was never put_in that vault at all”, Perez + aha Aggie Miia rez said. “At the time of the bur- ial,” he said, “I was a con- stable. Elena was like one Pre: | of our own family and she -| was my brother Julio Perez, 1. | sweetheart for about three neither instance may the Board of County Commissione?s contribute funds to apply on convention costs. “This office has, on several occa- years, So I was chosen to rebury her after she was taken from the shack of of - | that maniac. We put her in i i ; bi te eh E i i 7 dk i i | il gipes a it fits | i F f af Hl rE f ti it it if ‘hie sf i ange fl ef tf fr 5 i tet ie HH aril ePies 1 i i fi FEY Ee 4 i i 8 i i 3 i BASE the unmarked tomb after cause of my promise, is she was really buried 1940 and that von Cosel ha only an image of her with him in Zephyrhills. That the one they found in the house with his body. I saw it myself about five years ago. He had put long black the corner of United Watson streets.” Perez said he had seen von BALL TONIGHT AND TOMORROW RELIABLE AUTOMOBILE face ‘He | wide was There arms under vageneeenal KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1952 IN THE U.S.A. The Associated Press Teletype Features and Photo Services. For 72 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS {City Will Buy Clyde-Mallory Docks From General Revenue Fund; Use Of Cigarette Funds Questioned ext x kk xxwk kkk x*k Philadelphia Attorney Promises All-Out Legal Battle To Have Switz Extradited To Pennsylvania Says He Will Stay Here Uniil He Gets His Man By JIM COBB A knock down, drag out legal battle shaped up to- day between attorneys for Michael Switz, alias W. W. Carr and Michael Serovitz, and the Philadelphia Dis- trict Attorney’s office fol- lowing a ruling by Gov- enor Fuller Warren He Knows The Secret against a request by Gov-| § ernor John Fine of Penn- sylvania to extradite Switz to face gambling charges, with the arrival in e| Key West of Vincent Pan- her black hair. iy Be ige5 FFE & gE zg i i $ i E e g E f FF if F go 33 A gERSEEe aul gz ES Eger nelk aeF FE $ H H i i i A E rE grhgeety? par beieas <8 sees Basie tds EF H A i AEE file weds is “pera SERVICE ati, an assistant ‘district at- m4 a tive. “This case is extremely . | important to the people of Philadelphia,” Panati said today, “and we are going to stay here until we get the man back there.” Panati-is preparing to file an answer to a writ of Habeas Cor- pus which will be heard on Tuesday before Judge N. Vernon Hawthorne ‘of Miami, sitting in thé absence of Circuit Court Judge Aquilino Lopez, Jr., who is on vacation. The date was set by Governor Warren in a letter year and a half as a fugi-; sexton of the cemetery re-buried the girl in a sécret and unmarked grave. kee City Comptroller Roberts, City Attorney Lester Outline Plan The City of Key West will purchase Clyde Mal. lory docks with a $25,000 down-payment from the General Revenue funds providing city commission- ers approve of a resolu. tion now being drawn up by city attorney, M. Igna- tius Lester. Plans for using the cig- arette tax funds to get the necessary money have been discarded since receipt of a letter from the Attorney General of Florida that such a procedure would be unorthodox, if not illegal. Only a court opinion could decide, he ‘wrote. Citizen Staff Photo | 34 BIENVENIDO PEREZ, Key West police officer, was one of three men who lowered the body of Elena Hoyos Mesa into its final resting place in the Key West City Cemetery, after it had been recovered from the house of Karl Tanzler von Cosel who kept it enshrined in a bed for over eight years. Perez actually found the body of the girl in the “Count’s” plane five months after her death in 1931 but her family refused to take action. In 1940, he and an undertaker and the Perez still stands by his promise not to reveal the exact spot, but it is somewhere among the old tombstones and monuments like those in the picture, perhaps near the dramatic image of a winged cupid like the one shown in inset. to Circuit Court Clerk Ear! Ad-| Police Officer ams, received this morning. Switz won the first round of Puncher Fined . his battle against returning to Philadelphia to face five sep- arate indictments charging him with lottery operations. Assistant Lt. Commander William A. Baker, 42, was fined a total of $185 Attorney General Reeves Bowen|in City Court yesterday when he turned down an extradition re- quest ited in Tallahassee On Page Four) pleaded guilty to five separate by two Philadelphia agents, say- | Charges placed against him follow- ¢ (Continued On Page Four) AL LOGUN IS PROUD TO Announce the Return by POPULAR DEMAND THE MELLO TONES BETTY, BUDDY AND STAN To the Beautiful Ocean Patio SATURDAY NIGHT — GUESS WHAT? FLYING SAUCER DANCE! AND WE HAVE THE SPOT FOR IT! DINING - DANCING - ENTERTAINMENT Always Something Doing! NEVER A COVER OR MINIMUM : Stricken Seaman Rushed From Ship To Shore By CG Clifton Cobb, B@’n mate off the S. S. Ha’ ri Retailer was stricken at sea with appendicitus and rushed in by Coast Guard vessel 38473 from the Key West the | on its voyage te Heuston, Tex. The 38473 was ig command of ONE OF THE SOUTH’S MOST NODERN PLANTS --BODY AND FENDER WORK -- PAINT JOB---WHEEL ALIGNMENT, ETC. Margarine Heir Seized In Vice Raid Jelke Denies Having Any Part With Vice Operations Pro- wasted — under cigarette tax fund. = it no ‘hitch’ occurs, the final arrangements for acquiring the real estate will be made next Monday night, Following is a text of the At NEW YORK — The 22-year- po old heir to a margarine fortune was seized today in what authori- ties called a compulsory prostitu- tion case. He was identified by Assistant |" District Attorney Anthony J. Lieb- ler as Minot F. (Mickey) Jelke, son of Mrs. Teal Jelke, Danbury, Current 'y receiving $200 a month (Continued In Page Four) We Buy And Sell USED CARS & Delicious Hamburgers * King Size Hot Dogs * Barbecued Ribe Navarro, i. PHONE 600601 DUVAL ST,