The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 16, 1952, Page 6

Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN “Saturday, August 16, 1952. East Martello Towers : Key West Art & Historical Society Uncergoing Program Of Expansion LYING ON THE EXTREME NORTHEASTERN TIP’ of the Island of Key West, the East Martello Towers are a familiar landmark to Key Westers, They house the museum of the Key West Art and Historical Society. USS Sennett Wins Fy Bs & = donated a total of 867 pints up LOVE ENDS IN POLICE ARREST DETROIT w — The reported Tomance between automobile heir Horace E. Dodge and showgirl Gregg Sherwood ended abruptly ‘Thursday after Dodge had police pick up the attractive Hollywood and television actress as she de- parted to visit her parents in Beloit | Wisconsin. Miss Sherwood, who has been rumored engaged to the S0-year- old Dodge ever since he staged a fabulous party for her in Cannes, bag said she was “‘all through” The 25-year-old actress admitted to police that she was keeping a $10,000 “friendship ring” Dodge gave her at the Cannes party. “But its all over,” Miss Sher- wood said to police, ‘‘and after all it was just one of those acquaint- ances.” Dodge called police from his | home Thursday night saying that | Pennant drive for until last Saturday. A REPTILE INSTITUTE a woman riding in a cab to the bus station had stolen his jewels. Police traced the cab and picked up Miss Sherwood as she. arrived at the station to board a bus for Willow Run Airport. She was taken to headquarters where police again called the au- tomobile heir. Dodge told police that no jewels had been taken but said Miss Sherwood had taken: one box of candy, two bottles of perfume, and five table cigarette lighters. “If she will surrender these, let her go,"" Dodge told police. The attractive showgilr produced the missing items from her lug- gage, claiming that all were gifts. “I have been in his house for several days as a guest,” Miss Sherwood said, “With two ladies as chaperones. The ladies left so I decided to leave, too. “Last week, he was my house- guest at my parents’ home in Be- loit, but my father did not approve of his drinking and ordered him out.” Official U.S, Navy Photo ~ ALLEN D. COOPER, HMC, and Walter C. Godfrey, S03, proudly display the 100% Blood Donor Participation flag their ship recently won in a bl Korean wounded. SubRon 12 (Round By The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea i — U. S. Marine | reinforcements today turned the tide in a bitter, three-hour grenade battle and smashed the Commu- } Mists’ seventh desperate attempt | in five days to recapture Bunker Hill on the Korea western front. | Four hundred Chinese charged to within 30 yards of Marine po- sitions on the blood-soaked ridge | before dawn, a U. S. Eighth Army | staff officer said. Red artillery and mortars raked Allied positions in support of the attack. Fresh Marines were rushed for- ward at the height of the battle. The Reds pulled back less than a half hour later. Later the Communists traded shots with the Marines for 10 min- utes from a distance, but made no charge. The seventh Communist assault on the hill seized early Tuesday by the leathernecks began with a Platoon charge shortly after mid- night. The First Marine Divison esti- mated 226 Reds killed or wounded by the time the attack was re- pulsed. The Marines estimated Elsewhere on the front it was relatively quiet. United Nations planes turned a Red supply center at Chunghwa into flaming ruin Friday night. Civilians had been warned by Ra- dio Seoul to leave the area, south ot Pyongyang, capital of North Korea. Other Allied bombers hit Red frontline positions, especially in the Bunker Hill sector. The U. S. Fifth Air Force said Sabre jet pilots shot down Museum Tells Of Key West's Colorful History Resting in massive maj- esty on the extreme north. eastern portion of. the Island of Key West, ad- _|ioining the Meacham. air- port, the East Martello towers and the museum which it houses, offers those interested in’. Key West and its colorful his- tory a veritable treasure. house of information. Maintained hy the Key West Art and ‘Historical Society, the museum ‘and Art Gallery is durrently undergoing a program of expansion, according to Joe Allen, president of the Society. ey For years the tower and its twin, the West Mar. tello Tower which is situ. The famous bionde is finishing ! up “The Farmer Takes a Wife” ated near the Monroe after a year ov ees salary. I County Beach, has been asked her if she’d ever take a ‘ encase: seats: taken for granted by Key “Never,” she replied positively. | Westers, who as children “I wanted a rest and I got ‘t. frolicked amid its slowly I’ve never been particular about the kind of pictures I've been in. crumbling ruins, Now I’m ready for anything. If Se Citizen Staff Photo HOLLYWOOD NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD # — After a year Grable says she won’t be taking any more studio suspensions. Flowers And Friendship By BILL MEYERS More precious than gold are true friends and lovely flowers. Both freely share their many blessings;- uplift the tired heart with sweet: est. songs; and never give thought to recompense. Rich indeed is he who possesses one or both; inspira- tion is. his that exalts. Hold a tiny seed in the palm of your hand, and you hold a mystery great men of science cannot fathom The wonderful, sacred Bo tree of Walter McFarland of the Army eers. Virtually all of the materials, in cluding ‘brick and steel were brought from the north. According to historians, the brick for the two structures as well as for Fort Jef- ferson on Dry Tortugas was ship- ped in from Pensacola. It was all Granite from New Hampshire was used in the window sills and door. The fact that Florida seceded from the Union during the war be- tween the states has caused some confusion leading many to believe that the fortresses were construct- ed by confederates. However, this is not true since the Union flag was never lowered in Key West. | At one time a confederate banner was raised but it was quickly hauled down by loyal troops. Key West’s Martello Towers follow the traditional architecture of their forerunners in other parts of the world. Circular in form, they consist of | massive walls eight feet thick to seqward and five feet thick other- wise. The interior of the buttresses | india with its ten’ advantages, described so -beautifully by Mrs. Gene Otto, was once a tiny seed. fhree thousand and more 1go the giant Redwoods of the ry were seeds. __ hat power gives each tiny the knowledge to take from earth the exact ingredients it to flourish? Have you ever into the heart of a flower glory, and pondered who gave form, and who placed the exquisite colors in eae; colors of every hue? What power induces. the many va- rieties. to blossom forth, each in its season?. ae Who gave you the wealth of the gift of sight, so that your eyes may : and .stars sky? Mother Nature the perfection- ist teaches the bees and butterflies to like honey; for she wishes to pollinate the plant. Who puts the golden heart men and women, that: others them from ‘the crowd, and ‘oundly say, ‘he or she is a ‘ess jewel; a faithful friend.” How splendidly Ralph Waldo Emerson -xpressed friendship:- He ona unlock her myster- If friendship on me smile, I walk in marble palaces, I talk with Kings the while.” One evening, I: remember it so well, dusk was falling:- Miss Vir- ginia Bryant of McNeil, Ar- ‘sansas engaged my cab; said she, to Mr. F. E. Williams of Birming- ham, ~Alabama within the hour.” years Pa- they want to shoot a remake of ‘Smoky,’ I’m the girl. I’ve been in the business too long to worry about parts.” The new blonde at 20th-Fox— Marilyn Monroe—has been cast in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” I asked Betty if she wanted the role. “A lot of people said I should be in it, but there was only ‘one rea- son—the title,” she replied. “As | far as the role is coneerned, | wasn’t enthused. I think Marilyn fits it perfectly, and it’s good box ag to team her with Jane Rus- oe 7 “The only reason I would have wanted to do the picture was that | the studio had put out a lot of money for it. They’ve never paid ; eight dollars for a story for me. | (Now, Betty, you know that’s not quite correct.) They’ve all been remakes or something. The only | story I ever was really eager to do was ‘Annie Get Your Gun.’ But the studio let MGM get it.” No picture has been announced for Betty, but she doesn’t expect much time with her children and horses. “I can’t believe they'll! keep paying me that big salary and not keep me — working. remarked... You can’t say that wives aren’t out of this world. Currently on the stages is “‘Abbott and Costello Go to Mars.” Now “Road to the Moon” has been announced for Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dotty But now, when the face. of Key West is changing se ‘rapidly, the landmark becomes ever. mote sig- nificant in preserving that which is important to the history wf Key est. | The Historical Society, récogniz- ing the need for the peeseryation in a tangible form’the ition and ry of a community that has captured the imagination of thou- ae of reap) pa s appealing ® people of Key West loan of anything of historical shad particularly locai, so that they may enlarge the scope of their museum displays. They emphasize that any mater- are filled with brick, broken stone ! soon learned that Navy duty had and debris designed to render in- prevented the young sailor from yifective shell fire from the = aes flowers before the stores “. The roofs were also bombproo! . A i bom-| We drove to my good friend, —" pas pasiacd rial pecs a 823 Fieguing Even today one may see the mas- | St. and explained situation. sive vaulted ceilings two’ stories | “I must hurry; I'm to be married tigh showing some of the finest |# few moments. the brides eyes grickwork on view anywhere. were aglow with intense gratitude One enters the fort through a|@8 Mr. Baker handed her sircular door, five feet wide and! three beautiful white Gardenias eleven feet high. A circular area- | from his prize bush; which, inci- way leads around the central tower ---bleoms, nearly every. or citadel which is 56 feet wide | month of the year. at its base and 36 feet high. It is the finest specimen I have Upon entering ‘the citadel the | ever seen. Its glossy waxed leaves massive cisterns for the storage of ‘blend perfectly with ——— lovely display of blooms, it uplifts _} their lives. People like you who lovingly labor so close to earth and. mother nature know the true. meaning of sublime peace. May your own path- way be strewn with roses; and may you live life, every golden minute of it with happiness. The writer could fill a book telling the many kindnesses innumerable Key fey hed been for sixty rr married for years; lived on a farm in Arkansas, This trip to Key West was their first journey from home. We spent a delightful two hours together, then we visited John Esperdy Catherine St. for my anxious to see John had some s| i FE &z gg i i i ; 4 : 5 F ; : HI ae Fee Fete Hi i Fe =F BH minh ete Ot Bul i | & | L wrote the following poem must vave had such pegple in. mind. Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.” At considerable expense Dewey Riggs started a picture gallery in his famous Broadway Cigar Store, 610 Duval St., about a year ago, Chicho does the framing, and many contributed. ‘The walls are now covered; and ial displayed oes not have to be fresh water and tiven to the Society, it may be storing provisions in time of siege merely loaned, They added that it! come into view. A circular stair- will be given, the best of care, way leads up into the tower The Martello Towers al- though they were not constructed where the gigantic siege guns were until the time. of the Civil War, has to have been installed. a background that goes back some | However, before the installation four-hundred years. of the artillery, in fact before the Originally planned for the de-| structures were “fully completed fense of Key West against possible they were found to be a failure enemy attack, they were placed strategically unable to stand up strategically as a link in the net- even under the pounding of the work of defenses built around Fort weapons of that day. Taylor which was built earlier on _In time the forts were partially the Southeastern promonotory of iismantled without ever having the island. The Martello towers een put to their intended use. were supposed to protect the rear | During World War II they were of Fort Taylor. taken over by the Navy who used The term Martello is one that them as searchlight towers when designates a type of fortification the Meacham airfield was in use e 5 ults for .beauty of the blossom, Laps glisten in the sun, cheering those who pause and see. and flowers shone like brilliant rts in the beautiful finally goes out onto the rampa: | navel: hath ex HE Hs rei 3 i ae 2 EE i i i Hi Cha: wish 3 § i : 32 Lu ef i : i E Fs HE es i i a5 d 4 £ i i AU 3 5 a 233 | on complaint of a cab driver who | driver left it briefly, Price said. ; ture. The concensus ai experts seems to be that the deriviation of Lamour. ll bet the A. and C. film makes Bing mad. ee 288 the Moon” was his idea, and he wanted to do it before anybody | of the word is from Martelle Point else got into the act... on the island of a where the Frank Lovejoy is c@ol wher first fortress of the type was con- asked about his reported feud with structed. the landing of a Ida Lupino, who directed his last force is said to have been picture. “Being directed by a wom- by this bastion and the design it an is nothing new to me,” he re- alleged to have been copied b; plied. “I was directed in my first them and several similar forts Broadway show by Antoinette Pet- structed along the Kentish ry.” But still no comment on Ida.. | Another theory holds.that New low in television advertising sign was named for fa; g ¢ 2 i i i a3 z 5 i : sit is if Hi § was reached this week on a politi- Military engineer who view with a vice presidential can-' Several forts of the didate (Sen. Sparkman) was in- | were erected in Canada cial. The interview was resumed | States followed suit. and then concluded in time for a Key West, according . Ugh. 1844 was to have had & cage four towers. Fort Taylor, the Convict H t eld the following year was the first, ava: but for various reasons, the build- convict who says he doesn’t want /teno Towers did not begin until to go back to Florida was being the first year of the war between Det. Capt. R. B. Price identified | The erection of the towers made him as William R. Davis, 28, and that escaped June 4 from a prison camp at DeLand, Fla. been mistreated as a prisoner in Florida and that he twice stuck jail cell in an effort to commit suicide by drowning. cal commentator’s show. An inter- | to have designed the terrupted for a laxative commer- ‘the Civil War in offing, hair remover ad to come on the | Department plans formula‘ struction of which was undertaken WICHITA, Kas. @ — Anescaped ling of the East and West Mar- held by Wichita police today. the states in 1861. said he was one of a group of men Price said Davis claimed he had his head in the toilet bow! of his Davis was arrested early Friday claimed that Davis, as a passen-— ger, had stolen the cab when the Hoyt Wilhelm, rookie knuckleball ‘ pitcher for the New York Giants, is a Purple Heart veteran of the. famed Battle of the Bulge. Then they were acquired Monroe County who turned the: over to the care of the Historical jociety, who began a program of ‘ehabilitation which is-only now ceaching its peak. At the present time, the Ea: tower houses what is undoubtedly the most valuable collection of Key West historical objects extant. Under the direction of Mrs. rather than any particular struc- as a blimp base. ie m a ‘Jeanne Taylor, the museum has | cendent Fi s i i i = : the foremost attractions for tour- fs iy reef se city. in the fascinating ex- museum are momen- West's romantic past account book used by and Sons, who were merchants g & a ba] | [ F id rf ry fa A Fa 23 +4 F F ! i of Key West ’: sill Ppitil ee > He eH | M3 i i RFAy LE FL ts i a°F i a a5 i +f) aE i : i ‘ s | iz £28! z g 5k ifr i nurture and minds, bea if iE & $ é : i i 3 i : i TT 3 g é i 3 EY i g i Fa g ; i f i dy 44 Hl I i i HI i Hf zt ij & % i i i 2 i : & E £ ; Wi uit ‘tt i & z i ul ~* k 4 is & eE3 ZRREZE 8 ofek a : Eg 3 i i MIAMI #—Two prisoners tried to commit suicide in Miami's sky- i if