The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 10, 1952, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXIII, No. 216 The Kry West Citiz Caroline Street Attack Victim Defends Story, * Answers Letter Accusing Her Of “Dreaming Up” Rape Incident By Jim Cobb A young Caroline Street Matron ‘who was allegedly the victim of a criminal attack as she slept early Jast Thursday’ morning, stormed in- to The Citizen office this morning, in protest against a letter which appeared in Monday’s “People’s Forum”, “I don’t know who wrote that letter”, she said, “but whoever said that I am interested in publicity is guilty of a malicious falsehood.” The woman was speaking of the bizarre incident in which William R. Redus, a nineteen-year-old sail- or was found in her bed as she slept with her husband. The Navy man is being held in the Monroe County jail on breaking and enter- ing and attempted rape charges. Redus is accused of attacking the woman and then, when discovered by the husband, to have peacefully fallen asleep. The irate husband then administered a brutal beating When Redus was taken into custody by police officer Edward Ramirez, he made a desperate attempt to gain his freedom which ended when he was captured after a chase through the neighborhood with the young sailor ‘“‘au natural.” In a letter on which the signa- ture was illegible, although the ini- tials are know to be F. B., a Stock Island resident summed up the whole incident as a “pure and sim- ple case of a drunk hunting a place to sleep—any place would do.” The letter writer the went on to say, “if three grown people are go- ing to get into a bed—one of them is going to have to move over and nobody sleeps that soundly.’? “What some folks won't dream up to get their name in the paper”, the letter continued. In an angry protest against the letter, the outraged Caroline Street housewife said this morning, “I am a respectable married woman with a smelt. child avtyd, think 1 am good, to giy husband, I wonder if “the person who wrote that letter is a man. Would he like his wife, mother or sister to be harmed like I was?” In answer to the charge that Such a happening would be impos- sible the attack victim said that the reason she was sleeping so soundly was the fact that she had returned the day before from a | 600 mile trip with her child. “I | also had a busy day caring for | my child and keeping house” she | added “If the man just wanted a place to sleep”, she continued, “‘He pass- | ed right by a couch on his way to | our room, And there were plenty of | unoccupied beds in the house.” “It is true that the man must have been drunk” the woman said, \ | No Quorum; County Could Not Meet Next Meeting To Be Held On Tuesday At Monroe General Hospital County Commission Chairman Gerald Saunders and Commission- er Joe Allen showed up at the Courthouse last night for the reg- ular meeting of the commission but they failed to make up the neces- sary quorum of three and did not convene the meeting. Allen and Saunders as well as County Legal Advisor Paul Sawyer, abided by the state law which re- quires Commissioners to meet whether or not they know a quo- rum ‘is lacking. Allen and Sawyer sat in the air- conditioned Commission chambers from 7:55 until 8:15 waiting until they were sure no other member would show. Chairman Saunders meanwhile seeing a darkened courthouse waited out in front of the building with Sam Lowe, Stock Island property owner who had ar- rived expecting a continuation on the zoning hearfng. Chief Deputy Tommy Dixon came in but had no crowds to call to order. After chatting for 15 min- utes Commissioner Allen said: “I guess we might as well go now.” A Commission meeting will be held when Harry Harris returns from Tallahassee where he has been conferring on state roads. Commissioner Clarence Higgs is still confined to his home with ill- ness. Commissioner Frank Bentley is on vacation. Legally Commissioners do not have to ask the Governor's permis- sion to leave the State. They must, however, obtain approval for leav- ing-the ‘yaAllen pointed out. «bp to Havana, for” example, even though it is for just a day must have gubernatorial sanction. Next Tuesday night the hospital | committee of the Commission will meet at Monroe General hospital if a quorum is available. Ramos Robbery Defendants To Be Tried In Court Victor Key, Negro, is being held on $500 bond in county jail on the charge of receiving and concealing stolen goods, namely 30 cartons of cigarettes, following a preliminary hearing yesterday, held by Peace Justice Roy Hamlin. “because of the way he continued to sleep even after I pulled his | hair and my husband began to beat | him up, but I don’t feel sorry for | him. I do feel sorry for his par- | ents, though. What he did was wrong and he should go to jail | for a long time to protect other wo- | men. He had no business in our house.” Meanwhile, Redus is being held in the Monroe County Jail await- ing a preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace Ira Albury who said that he will set a date for the hearing as soon as he (Continued On Page Six) | | Key is charged with receiving part of a cache of 178 cartons al- legedly stolen from H. Ramos com- pany on Front street, August 23. Two teenage Negro boys have dmitted stealing 99 cartons of cig arettes. One of them testified yes- terday that they had a deal on with key to dispose of the cigar- ettes following their theft of them The boys were turned over to Juve nile Court Judge Eva Warner Gib- son. The Sheriff's department recov ered most of the stolen cgiarettes Key was bound over to criminal court for trial. RAUL’S SERVING HOURS ARE NOW DINNERS --- 6 to 10 P.M. Tuesday through Saturday Sunday Serving 9 A.M. till 10 P.} CLOSED MONDAYS + «+ BAR OPEN AS USUAL Dancing Saturday Night to Gus Ayala and His ¢ Irchestra | “THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, © Microwave Testing Station On Bertha Street | ments to ascertain the effects of wave Citizen Staff Photo BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORIES are conducting experi- semi-tropical weather on micro- radio transmission. Here is one stage of the trial. All in- formation on the experiments comes from Bell in New York, according to Chet Cold who obtained the data for The Citizen. Bell Telephone seen strange looking n- tennae on Bertha street near the Boulevard or out on Stock Island near the Le- gion Home, now have the official explanation of them from the Bell Telephone laboratories, Chet Cold, lo- cal manager of Southern Bell released the informa- tion wired by Bell. Scientists are studying the effect of the semi-tropical climate on Microwave radio transmission which is al- | ready known to be suscep- | tible to atmospheric condi- | tions. , Cold, are also investigating the ad vantages of using very large an tennae in radio relay communcia | tion systems and will attempt to | determine any possible interference | from Microwave systems located beyond the horizon. Results of the tests in Key West and other southern Florida loca tions will eventually be combined with other information obtained through the continuous research ac | tivities of the laboratories to make | possible the engineering and im proved quality of long distane com munication for the Bell system in all parts of the nation. At present one can see a small parabolic antenna on a 50 foot to wer on Stock Island or Bertha Street. Other locations will be test ed in the next week or two prior to the erection of a much larger antenna for more extensive experi ments. Bell is conducting experiments in | cooperation with the American tele | phone company. EQUIPMENT FOR Under Water Fishing Thompson Enterprises, Inc.| HARDWARE DIVISION Careline St. | increased to a point where a large | Laboratories Explain Reason For Strange Looking Antennae In City Key Westers who have x. Many Tailors ‘Must Learn New Tricks | NEW YORK (®—Many a tailor is having to learn new tricks in his old trade. Man may make | these miracle fibers but he is still | having to learn how to use them Blending synthetic fibers with wool or cotton for winter or sum mer clothing is a growing trend But the resulting fabric often does not respond at the cutting table and the sewing machine as natural fibers did. Take dacron. All-dacron suits were introduced three years ago} The Bell people, according to | by Witty Brothers. A dacron wool | | blend fabric was made by Deer. | ing Milliken, and suits from it by | Hart, Schaffner & Marx. All cluding dacron’s daddy, Du Pont report many difficulties in learn ing to use it The supply of dacron has now number of clothing be using it either straight or in blends with wool or rayon—and teaching tailors how to handle it. makers will Finding workable dyes was one ! of the first headaches. They are still making progress and promise more shades next year Then Witty Brothers found that the patterns by which they cut their all-wool suits would work with all-dacron. You can't shrink the extra fullness out of a dacron seam with an irom as with woo! (Continued On Page Six) CALL YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD | DEALER —The man who lives in tewn— KEY WEST SALVAGE CO. Highest Prices For Junk Batteries, Scrap Metal, Rags, iron — Old Cars — Trucks CALL — 166 — xk &® Operators Move | North To Escape Hurricanes | Shrimping activities in Key West are undergoing their regular sea- son slump, a survey of the water- front showed today. While in the peak months of the year there! have been as many as 500 boats | here in search of the “pink gold” | which abound in surrounding waters, it was reported that there are now considerably less than 100. The hurricane season is the chief reason for the exodus of the boats, | according to most spokesmen. Key, West, with its unprotected harbor offers little protection against the dangerous storms which blow up IN THE U.S.A. RIDA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1952 ‘ity Electric System Places More And Brighter Lights In Prowler’ Areas tee. te We * Runaway Papas Picked Up By Deputy Dixon Two Georgia fathers were pick- ed up on desertion charges by Chief Deputy Sheriff Tommy Dix- on in Islamorada yesterday and will be held for disposition in the county jail. Henry Fluellen is charged with the felony of deserting two minor children and his wife; Louis Clay- ton deserted, it is charged, one minor child and a wife. The warrants were issued in Ca- milla, Ga., Dixon said. The two | from tropical waters south of here. z During the hurricane months, it| men were found by the Chief Dep- ' has been the custom for shrimpers| UtY working on construction jobs to move north to Fort Myers, St. it Islamorada. They must await ex- Augustine, Georgia and the Caro- | tradition orders by the Governor One spokesman said that many of | Walve extradition. the boat operators have families in| a ee prefer to fish up there during the | Divorces Rise hurricane season. 97-foot shrimper the “Spot Pack’ Z which is in Key West picking up| The number of divorces granted | ed shrimping run to Campeche.| 161 in the first eight months of Sailing out of Miami, the “Spot| 1950 to 245 granted through August linas to escape the tropical storms. | of Florida, or they can voluntarily north Florida cities and that they | i An exception at this time, is the In Last 2 Years supplies preparatory to an extend-| in Monroe county has risen from | (Continued On Page Six) | (Continued On Page Six) } | a criminal | those charges in California,’ x kek Billy Rose Stops Fight With Eleanor Separation; Drops His Divorce Action; Leaves ! NEW YORK (P—Billy Rose to. day bowed out of the furious, year- long mud-slinging battle with his | wife, Eleanor Holm, He gave her a separation and left it up to a State Supreme Court judge to set the alimony. After withdrawing his divorce | action, in which he charged the | 38-year-old former swimming star wife with adultery, the little show- man said with a wry grin: “A man has no chance of win ning in a fight with a girl.” At first he attributed the re mark to Justice James B. M. Mc Nally, the dapper judge who grant ed Eleanor her separation. Later he admitted he was still writing his own script but that was the | substance of what the judge had said in a fatherly talk in cham- bers. “1 think Eleanor is the luckiest girl in New York and Judge Me- Nally interceded in the interests of reasonableness and decency,” Rose said. ‘I apologize for noth- ing 1 have done and ! withdraw nothing I have said.” Then he concluded: “Our mar- riage has never been a one-way street.” Eleanor’s attorney, Louis Nizer, said in her behalf: “I consider Mr. Rose's with drawal and abandonment of all! charges with an apology a com plete surrender by him and a com plete vindication of me and of a! those who were unjustly charged by him.” Rose was asked if he would face libel action brought against him in California by the widow of band leader Ben Bernie “I most certainly expect to face he snapped. “And when I do, a lot of people had better start running.” The California action was just one more chapter in the squabble between the Roses. It grew out of an affidavit Rose obtained from a former maid of Mrs. Bernie to Gives Former Swimmer Alimony To N. Y. Judge | Gasque had told the court -he did not know he was shot until he discharged only recently. Seleta Mae Wright, 41, was ac- home Aug. 20. Sheriff Leslie Bes- woke up in a hospital. He was | in- | three bullets into the 48-year-old Gasque after she found him drink- ing and ordered him to leave Pitcher. took correspond | Steals Money; Returns It Later Gasque is the father of Eddie | Gasque, Daytona Beach baseball | NEW YORK # — An “honest \ Last July a young Negro beld | ° ‘ ’ t Advance Their Education 41 OTHERS TAKE Man Feels ers are improving their educational Board of Public Instruction reveals; DADE CITY (®—When Edwin last year and are still on this liminary hearing on an assault 1951. Of these, three acquired their | initely Tuesday. | Listed below are the teachers summer: Mrs. Linton Cooper, | Elna A. March, Truman School Key West High School and Mrs The following Key West High School, Joseph and Mrs. Loretta Pratt Logan, Mrs. Elma A. March, Mrs. | Poinciana Elementary School M. Watkins, Mrs. Bess Muckler Mrs Ethea K. Stricker, Miss Gladys Monroe County Teachers... } ( Through § Studies FIVE OBTAIN * BA’s AND MA’s: SUMMER COURSE F ° Ch e Almost 50 Monroe county teach aint; arges 3 ! status through graduate study, an ¢ d incomplete survey released by the ontinue today. Gasque said he felt faint and un Teachers who were on the staff| able to continue testimony, a pre- year, earned 285 semester hours of charge against his landlady for college credit since September shooting him was continued indef- Bachelor degrees and two obtained | their Master's degrees. | who studied: Bachelor's Degrees received this | Poinciana School; Mrs. Catherine} | Logan, Truman School; and Mrs. | | Master's Degrees received this 'summer: Mrs. Rebecca Martin, Mizpah Crutchfield, Douglass School ence courses, extension courses or attended summer school Hurka, Walther Lazie Mrs. Re becca Martin, Robert McQuaine Truman Elementary School, Ken-' thief” paid off yesterday. neth R. Simpson, Mrs. Catherine} Ruth Wright, Mrs. Mittle Gladys Russell. Mrs. Linton Cooper, Miss Edith Al len, Mrs. Doris Carey, Mrs. Jennie | and Mrs. Donna Saund Harms Ek tary Schoo! Hul! Mrs. Charlotte Haskins, (Continued On Page Seven) | POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Francis st Truman Phone 9134! Your PURE OIL Dealer Tires .. Tubes . . Batteries .- Accessories Phone S66 FOR PROMPT SERVICE CASH | eR ONECART CE up a 42nd Street candy store, took $20 from the saleslady, her name and address, and promised te re- turn the money in 30 days. “This is the first time I ever did anything like this, but I need the money bad.” he said A letter came to the salesiady, | Mrs. Bertha Romano, yesterday. There was $30 and a note, signed “Your friend.” “Sorry I couldn't retura # soen- | er,” the note said | “The Flying Saucer”, 1214 WHITE ST. (Next door te White Laundry) back up his divorce action. When Rose and his attorneys emerged from the judge's cham (Continued On Page Six) cused of shooting Gasque at her | singer said she adzsitted firing | AND HIS The Associated Press Teletype Features and Photo Services. For 72 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS K ek ok ~ Shrimping Down In Key West As Result Of Regular Seasonal Exodus Of Boats kok * New Electric Plant Will Be Finished In November Brighter street lights and additional lights to discour= | age prowlers from lurking the 600 block of Elizabeth street, and other | favorite locales were asked for by Utility Board mem- ber Louis M. J. at yesterday’s board meeting, and installed by City Electric System. Eisner had promised the City Commission meeting | Monday night that he would ask the governing board of | the electric system to bright- | around Eisner immediately | en the areas where prowlers | have been reported by Key West women, He requested at the board meet- ing held at 5 p.m, at City Electric, that lights be brightened or install- ed in the key 600 block of E of Sous j thard and Elizabeth streets and on caton between Francis_and White | streets, {| C, A. Van Deursen, | City Electric system immediately | called R. C. Virgin, superintender beth, also at the corner manager of | who came into the and f reeting conferred with placin ner on the ex Van De brighter t night en ligt | prese fon the 3.000 I Thomy at the transfo inciu ir Sealed bids the board until Octobe Board member Ei jother members that | receiving complaint | the out-of-town workmen p | the $3,000,000 steam electric plz | They have told Ex that they are not allowed to work overtime (Continued On Page Seven) then e had been nt. EVERY FRIDAY & SATURDAY LES ROHDE 12 PIECE OLYMPIA ORCHESTRA REFRES. AMPLE PAR AIR CONDITIONED COCKTAIL LOUNGE AND BAR HMENTS KING SPACE OPENING FRIDAY FOR THE 9 P.M, | Open daily from 6 a.m. te 11 p.m. Sandwiches of ali kinds R. GARCIA, Owner FIRST TIME — 2 AM, Rumba Jam Session THE CROSSWINDS MARATHON, FLA.