The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 4, 1952, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhen VOL. LXXIII, No. 211 Few British Sailors Shave Before Noon Loading Time For Six-Inch Gun Cut By 23 Percent BELFAST, Northern Yreland (®— Britannia’s scientists told here all sorts of interesting things today about the nation’s life, past and Present. Such as— ~—Only 15 per cent of the Navy's Sailors shave ‘before noon unless they happen to be on a flagship, —Britons are regularly swallow- ing mouse hairs and chalk, also chemicals that may cause diar- rhea. They're getting them in their | favorite cookies, bread and ice cream, —Women without husbands in +i future may give birth to itherless children, “These were among items told to various sections of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, holding its 114th annual meeting re, Returning In November? Prof. William ‘Wardlaw told the f ‘Chemistry group that flour from @ reasonably clean new crop of wheat contains up to 18 mouse hairs per pound. In good quality old crop wheat the count jumps to 180 per pound, The millers themselves add the halk to the four — 14 punces to every sack —to supply calcium meeded by the human body but refined out by modern milling methods, And such chemicals as poloxy- ethylene stearate and glyceryl monstrearate are going into a lot of eakes, ice cream and. other is. The first, said Wardlaw, in irge doeses “‘may give rise to diarrhea” and the latter “seems” non-poisonous but no one has made quite sure, Wardlaw warned the chemists not to go too far‘with their assault on home cooking, They should stop before “eating has lost much of its cong and nearly all of its ‘The psychological section heard about Miles’ habits, the findings ‘of civilian experts called in by the: for time and motion Jearned: that. at the ie 8 can Have a new ent. The said»-their studies over the pst five years also had helped to cut the loading time for a 6-inch gun by 23 per cent, And about those fatherless babies, Prof. A. D, Peacock told the section scientists have made big strides in bringing about artificial parthenogenesis—the de- pieced of offspring from un- fe females — in lower animals, Continuance of their work, he explained, might lead to such @ way of reproduction by the high- er type animals—even humans. « He foresow the possibility that such a thing one day might be used for the efficient breeding of dairy cattle, among whom parcel og matrimony is already quite And should the world wind up ‘with a lot more women than men, he continued, it might get around to approving artificial partheno- genesis to satisfy the ladies’ mater- nal instinct. County Officials Chéck Nov. Ballot For Overseas _ The ballot for servicemen fn the November election will be checked this afternoon before printing by Supervisor of Registration Sam B. Pinder, County Clerk Earl Adams ‘and County Legal advisor, Paul Sawyer. ‘The Secretary of State has ruled that the overseas’ serviceman’s ballot must be printed immediately and mailed out to the men 45 days before November 4. This means ors scale of in’ that the nominte-«for the State | Supreme Court Justice will be mis- sing on the ballot, since that pri- Mary does not take place until | October 14, CAYO HUESO GROTTO will hold Regular Meeting Friday, September 5th, at} 7:30 P.M., at 418 Amelia Street. Wm. LEON SANDS. W. F. Cook, Monarch. Serer enn crn Peak Enrollments Today In Key West Schools; Final Count Availabl EEE Dave King To. Leave On Three Week Vacation City Manager Dave King will leave next week on a three week “working vacation.” a The first Valed ln Shot To Death This Morning JACKSONVILLE A woman was found shot to death and her husband beaten about the head with a hammer in their Southside home today. Sheriff's. deputies identified the woman as Mrs. Vera M, Felder, about 50. She had a in her right temple 1 caliber pistol which had once was found between her feet where she lay on the . A hammer with blood spots was on a nearby bed. Her husband, Charles W. Felder, e Tomorrow TRUMAN GETS HEAVY LOAD OF STUDENTS It was back to school for thou- KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THUR: SDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1952 Key West Citizen : THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. : aioe For 72 Years Best Interests o! PRICE FIVE CENTS Senator Gautier Says Home Rule Amendment Will Bring Real Consolidation Between City And County xx«ek x*k kK kk * x kek Husband Beats Man Who Criminally Attacked His Wife Early Today “I Wonder How I Got Here” Says Prowler A nineteen year -old sailor, William R. Redus of the Naval Air Station, who has a penchant for disrob- ing in public, ended up in the clutches of the law last night following a bizarre adventure in which he was found in the bed of a young married couple on Caroline Street. Redus gas captured by Police Officer Edward Ra- mirez after he was beaten unmercifully by the hus- band of a woman who re- ported that the sailor crim- imally attacked her as she slept shortly after midnight, this morning. The incident, which terrorized | the neighborhood, was the latest in sands of youngsters of civilian and | a series of reports of prowlers that Navy. parents in Key West today. | haye kept Key Westers on edge for Truman Tells Nation To Broaden Plan Says Physically Disabled: Need More American Help WASHINGTON (# — President Truman called today for the na- | tion to broaden its programs in behalf of the physically disabled “until they are big enough to give the proper help to every one who needs it.” “We need lots of public partic’ pation and lots of private partici. pation in this work,” he added in a speech prepared for delivery to the President’s Committee on Em- ployment of the Physically Handi- capped, Truman announced that the committee’s first annual Physi- cian’s Award would go to Dr. Hen- ry H. Kessler, Newark, N. J., as the doctor who made the greatest contribution during the year to the welfare and employment of the physically handieapped. *% U.S. Army Photo ‘TAKING OVER as Red Cross field director for the ist Infantry Division in Germany, Isaac N. lives at 1311 Laird street, Key West, gets a briefing from pis predecessor, Sam S. Gilmore (right), Wheeling, W. Va. Brum- Brumfield (eft), whose wife field previously was with the Red Cross at the Key West Naval Air base. He is a son ofMr. and Mrs. Louis I. Brumfield of Tyler- town, Miss., and a graduate of Mississippi College. Gilmore, Though the final count on all | school’s enrollment was not in at noon, Superintendent Horace O’Bryant said that the enrollment at Truman elementary was so large’ that he had to transfer two class rooms to Harris, “Normal capacity at Truman is 720. Today 882 children showed up,” O’Bryant said. “While at Harris school there isa capacity ‘for-540 children, and. only 476”@h- rolled.” The Superintendent of the Board of Public Instruction said that a number of pupils still haven't shown up at school. The present count at Truman, however, minus the transferred pupils will mean that Truman will not have to go on double session classes, Key West High School enrolled more than 1,000 pupils yesterday. Unless a much greater influx oc- curs there will be no double ses- sions at the high school. There is a desparate need for more class rooms at the high school, however, O’Bryant said. Douglass school which is crowded at present will be more so if more Navy men and families are moved into new Fort Taylor more cl. rooms. Poinciana which expected the biggest increase and is definitely on a double session schedule re- ported record crowds of pupils as (Continued On Page Three) | Production Of © Helicopters Hurt 49, was reported in fair condition | at a hospital, He told a Jackson Journal reporter at the hospital “I don’t know what the hell happened.” He | said he woke up about dawn and | “somebody was ham me on | the head. , , I’m hammered all over.” | we get both fingerprints.” The couple was married about two months ee is district manager for tilities Engineer- | ing Institute, Chicago. He said he | formerly lived at Hendersonville, N. C. Felder said his wife spent ail day Wednesday in bed reading the | Bible. A Bible opened to the 23rd Psalm was on a bedside sheif. Complete Stock of Mechanie HAND TOOLS Guaranteed for Lije i ‘s West "Rito Parts Go | ‘TELEPHONES 1877 - eve | 1M DUVAL STREET ae . FORT WORTH, Tex. (#—Heli a month, A member of the President's It was the second time this year! committee, Dr. Kessler is a for- that the sailor has been arrested| mer president of the International for similar offenses. On April 17th, | Society for the Welfare of Cripples he was found to be sleeping in a}.and of the National: Rehabilitation parked car. His clothes were found| Association. He has written nu- son of Dr, and Mrs. John Gilmore, 529 Main street, Wheeling, W. Va., will return to the U.S. for a new assignment at Lock- borne Air Force Base, Columbus, Ohio. He was graduated from West Virginia University in 1934 and later took graduate courses at the University of Pittsburgh. The lst Infantry Divi- housing | O’Bryant predicted, The answer is | neatly rolled in a bundle on a neighbor’s. porch. At that time, he was fined ten dollars in City Court on an intecesthesdbibes goatee ‘This morning, the young attrac- tive matron, who was im a condi- tion bordering collapse after the harrowing experience, told The Citizen of how she was awakened | by the advances of a man whom “I knew instinctively was not my husband.” According to the police report, the call was received by patrolman Ramirez, who at the time was but! a block away. He rushed to the Caroline Street address where he| found the nude sailor held at bay by the irate husband as the woman looked on. Ramirez immediately took the man into custody and as he pre- pared to take him to the station, the Navy man made a desperate; | attempt to gain his freedom by} darting out of the door and into the} back yard. Ramirez followed the| sailor and captured him in the back yard, “au natural.” The victim of the attack told of how she had retired with her hus- band at about 10:00 p.m. “The} next thing I knew I was awakened! by this man who was in the bed between me and my husband. I called-out to my husband, who is a very heavy sleeper. He awakened and jumped out of bed and turned the light on.” | At this point the sailor was found| ‘copter production for the Korean |to be peacefully sleeping in the War will be “materially burt” by | bed. The enraged husband then be- Corp.'s plant here -Wednesday, company officials said today. ‘The warehouse blaze. which touched off a thunderous blast aft- @ water was sprayed on burning magnesium, damaged or destroyed | ap undetermined number of ‘tom- plicated, hand-tooled gears and | castings in storage there a spokes- | ately, and will slow down the com- | pany's turnout of helicopters, a |imee of which have been go- | ing to Korea. injured, none of whom was | putt seriously, were members of the Saginaw Volunteer Fire De- partment and Bell employes at the plant. Three were hospitalized. the fire and explosion which in- | gan a savage attack on the intrud-| | 20 persons at Bell Aircraft man explained. | They are irreplacable immedi- KEEP OUR CITY i By Calling | Ma, FEINSTEIN, Phone 56-W | we Buy all kinds of Jumk LOCATED aT | AND DEY STs. | jer. “I should have killed him,” he) told The Citizen this morning. After a prolonged beating, the) Navy man regained consciousness and was held at bay until the po- lice arrived. Witnesses said this morning that the prowler submitted peaceably to the beating and did ®merous books. and articles on the theme that physically handicapped persons can Jead useful, normal 24 given.the proper train- Ge* 2 Truman. awarded Nils S. Josef- son, Franklin Park, Ill., the Pres- ident’s Trophy for the “outstand- ing performance of the year” by a handicapped Person. Josefson, 31, president ef the Paraplegics Manufacturing Co., was crippled for life while serving on a carrier in the Pacific. With other wheelchair “graduates” of the Hines (IIl.) Veterans Hospital, he formed his company in Feb- Tuary, 1951, to make small elec- tronic parts. Truman said: “The going was tough. Orders were few. But the men persevered and today this en- terprise is a real success.” The President cancelled his usu- al Thursday morning news confer- ence to attend the committee meet- ing in the interdepartmental audi- torium. Recounting the commit- tee’s progress in the last five years, he said: “We surely have proved by now there is no job that can’t be han- died by some handicapped work- er. That used to be a theory; now we know it for a fact.” But, said the President, “we are still only working around the edges of the problem which we face here in America. The problem itself is still enormously greater than our efforts to meet it up to now, . . “We are providing for our vet erans, I am glad to say. But our work for non-veterans is not near- ly far enough advanced.” The continued operation of Aero- vias Q. which furnishes the single not make any attempt to escape) air link between Key West and until the police arrived. | Havana was assured today when Redus* clothing was found rolled! Cuban president Fulgencio Batista up on the porch of the small frame! affixed his signature to a decree house. He had entered through 8) which will permit them to continue sereen door which was unlocked.) to operate from the Havana's Co- The six foot sailor is said to have! iombia Airfield. exclaimed when he was awakened, ; “I wonder how I got here. | Earlier, Batista had told Colonel | Manuel Quevedo, president of the The woman said that she Was $0 airtine that he would delay ex stricken with terror that she just ecution of an order which would had the strength to reach Over) have forced them to move to other and pinch her husband. waconscious by the intruder. (Continued On Page Three) COMPLETE LINE OF GARDEN TOOLS HARDWARE DIVISION Caroline St. Fearing | fa¢i{ that he might have been knocked | offi by September 18th. The said that this move, would she) in effect, have forced them out of business because of excessive costs which would have been levied «- | gainst them at the only alternate field, Rancho Boyeros. : The decree states that the line may use Colombia, which is Internations! airport is Havana, sion is stationed at. Darmstadt, Germany, MIAMI (®#—Whether the Atlantic hurricane will strike the United | States mainland or whirl to a harmless death over open water | may be determined today by a high pressure area from the Mid- west, The tropical twister, with wal- loping winds of 110 miles an hour, was estimated to be 700 miles east | southeast of Jacksonville in a pre- dawn advisory, The Weather Bureau noted late Wednesday. night that the high pressure front, then over Mlinois | and Ohio, was moving at a rapid “pace toward the East Coast, “There's a chance it will reach the coast today and block off the hurricane,” said Meteorologist Al- len Marshall. “At any rate, we should have a good indication to- | day of what is going to happen.” In angpdvisory at 5 a.m. EST, the Weather Bureau said the storm was traveling toward the northwest about 12 to 14 miles an hour, on a curving course that appeared for the present to have | taken Florida out of range, Marshall said there was a good chance that a continuing curve | would swing it completely away from the coast Highest winds were estimated (Continued On Page Three) $5 Bonuses Are Paid Workers © A quartet of employees in the City Scavenger service were richer by five dollars each today when they were recipients of bonuses from City Manager Dave King as | the winners of the monthly contest | among employees of that depart- ment. The workers, Leno Cruz, Daniel for their record of having the least complaints on their route | which includes most of Key West's restaurants. ; | Responsible Party Buy Active Interest in Progres | | Thompson Enterprises, Inc.| Cuban Air Force installation. un- | ive Business in Key West or the | Russell. of Georgia for the presi jt an } Phone 886 | tither acquired or constructed in | | Keys. Replies Confidential. BOX KYC-16, c/o CITIZEN ve May Take Fla. Out Of Hurricane Range PAAR RARDD ADVISORY WVVV UV TTY VT Tr TV TTS MIAMI (#—The Weather Bureau issued the following advisory on the Ailantic hurricane at 11 a.m EST today: No reports were received this morning from the immediate vi- cinity of the Atlantic hurricane. However, it is estimated to be lo- cated near Latitude 29.5 north and Longitude 71.0 west, or 620 miles | east of Daytona Beach at 11 a.m. EST. It is moving northwestward at 12 to 14 miles per hour, Highest winds are estimated at 110 miles per hour. Hurricane foree winds extend outward 75 miles north and east of the center. Indications are for a turn to a more northerly course and possibly slowing in forward speed during the next 12 hours. Smathers Flies 1 2K ok 700 Cities In 18 States Have Home Rule Charters State Senator R. B. Gau- tier, Jr., author of the county home rule amend- ment which, would give counties jurisdiction over their own government de- fends and explains his proposal in a letter to The C@iizen today. The amendment, No. 3, of 11 to be voted upon November 4 was attacked last week in The Citizen. The Citizen wrote’ Sena- tor Gautier asking him to give his view of the amend- ment, His letter to The Citizen and a discussion of the Amendment by the Dade County Research Founda. tion follows: “Thank you for your letter of August 30th in regard to the home rule amendment,” The principal purpose of this amendment is to give a county a charter simil# > ee Mmunicioal charter, This Viould endow the COUDLY:. OME 2H Tt right to pass: ordinances, various offices that are now. con- stitutional innature, and thereby do away with local bills for county government and remove ‘county government from Tallahassee, This amendment should not be too con- troversial as it is only permissive in its nature and it cannot be im- Posed: upon any county unless the People. of that county approve it by their vote, My principal reason for being in- | terested in this particular legisla- j tion is the fact that ultimately you | can effect some real consolidation | between municipal and county gov- | ernment and do away with a great | deal of the overlapping and dupli- | cation and waste that exists be- tween municipal and county gov- ernment, it is not particularly new in other | Parts of the country, although it is | quite new in Florida, as we do not have in this State any real local | government at a county level. I am , Sending you a copy of some data recently compiled in this connec- tion. | Trusting that this letter and the | information enclosed herein wil! ve | of some help to you, I remain | Sincerely | R. B, GAUTIER, JR.* “The proposed County Mome Rule Amendment to the State Constitution paves the way for | attracting the largest political streamlining county government in Fiorids. It is Proposition No. 3 on your November ballot, For Conference With Stevenson | one mis means soning e WASHINGTON ‘#—A Southern | and amend their own charter and Democrat, Sen. George A. Smath- choose the kind of government they ers of Florida, said today the want, instead of aliowin ch mat- South gave Dwight D. Eisenhower, | ters to be dictated by the state le the Republican presidential nomi- | gisiature and constitution nee, “a tremendous recep'ion.” 706 cities in 18 states have Smathers flew to Springfield. | heme rule charters. 3,000 more I, for a conference with Gov. | cities in these stetes are em- Adiai Stevenson, the Democratic | powered to adopt home rule char- presidential candidate, this morn-| ters if their voters desire te do ing. He told a reporter he plans! s9. Floride cities have no con to taik to Stevenson about reports | sritutional heme rule, only @ he has been getting on Eisenhow-| tome rule statute which hes Mt- — air tour of Dixie = te practical effect. Miami's pres “Telephone calls from Florida} ‘Continued sid wath report that Eisenhower has been | — Keep Key West Kleent Highest Prices Paid fos JUNK BATTERIES We Pay Cash for All Kinds of SCRAP, IRON AND RAGS KEY WEST SALVAGE COMPANY Angela St. between Duval and Simonton Sts. Phone 168 crowds in history,” be said ' “I don't know whether people | are turning out from curiosity or, because they want to vote for) him.” | At Citicago, the 38 - year - old | Smathers backed Sen Richard B dentia! nomination. He has not an- nounced whom be will support in (Continued On Page Three) >