The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 18, 1952, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. EXXIIT, No. 349 Housing Problem Solved, But How About Food? NO COMMENT, to speak of, was the reply of the turtle fcund this morn’: Che Posey at 917 Watson street, over a mile from the Marine barrack ‘The shellback js a land turtle, non-soup specimen, On his. top deck were white letters “Key West Marines” and the initials MFT, evidently for “mighty fine turtle,” or perhaps for “much food trouble.” Interview With Turtle Peeves Te Be Futile Key . KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1952 Mother Jailed For Daughter's Truancy Fridsy Sheriff Arrests Woman On Florida Statute Friday _| The first mother to be arrested || for keeping her child out of school ; was placed in Monroe county jail last night on the order of Juvenile | Court Judge Eva Warner Gibson. She will spen d 90 days there unless her child is in school Monday morn- ing. The accused mother is a Mrs. Naomi Lee who has, it is charged kept her eight year old daughter out of school ‘“‘delixberately and re- | peatedly” so that she can serve as sitter to. two younger children. The child has had very little if any schooling, Judge Gibson’s of- fice said. Penalty for depriving a child of | the right to attend school is 90 days in jail or $100 fine, according to Florida State law 232.19, See. 6., 5 Mrs. Isabel Fleming, probation of- Citizen Staff Pci: | ag for the Juvenile court said to- ; day, The mother was arrested by De- | puty Sheriff Serge Hernandez yes- terday. She spent over night in jai was released this morning, but will | be sent back to jail Monday morn- ing if her eight year old is not in school, ‘The case of the child was report- ed by Truant Officer John Marzyck to Judge Gibson. Mrs. Fleming in- vestigated and found that the char- | ges were true. The mother cannot by small fry Junius where was turned loose. work but no one can seem to ascer- tain her occupation. A neat’ clean Task As Salty Shellback Refuses To Comment sssr*.ionc."St"Suies & Federal Suit Is Brought Against Gomez In Miami Maurice J,-Tabin, U. §,Secretary of Labor, has filed 9 suit in United | States District Court here against ~ Aerovias ‘Q,)S. A., a corporation, and Rogelio Gomez, an individual doing business at Key West as the Key West-Havana Overseas Tours, for $2744.25 in unpaid wages alleged to be due Henry Seifert, an em- ployee cf the iefendants. The suit, brought under Section 16 (c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (Federal Wage and Hour Law), seeks to recover $1907.75 in unpaid minimum wages from the two de- fendants, jointly, and $841.50 in un- paid overtime compensation from Rogelio Gomez, individually, to- gether with interest and costs of bringing the suit. Filing of the suit resulted from a written request to the Secretaryoof | Labor by Seifert, the employee. ¥ Cyelist Is Badly Injured In Keys Accident Friday Motoreyclist K Elvoy Mil- ler, 28, of Sweétwater, Tenn., is in the Monroe-General hospital with compound fracture of the right leg, bruises and abrasions after slam- | ming into a car on the north end of the Seven Mile Bridge, Overseas | Highway.. : The accident happened last night at 9:30 p, m. when a ’47 Plymouth sedan driven by Clarence Reid Smith, 59, a mechanic and boatman of Marathon, Fla., halted about one mile south of the end of the Seven | Mile Bridge when a light fuse blew out. Smith’s wife got out of the au- tomobile and tried to flag down the | approaching motorcycle which was | coming at a fast clip between 45) and 50 miles an hour. Miller did | not see Mrs. Smith and since there were no lights on the halted car, | MARINE MASCOT GOES ASTRAY AND ENDS UP ON WATSON STREET By DOROTHY RAYMER woman she tried despafately’ to raise bond when she was arrested yesterday. She was released on condition that she send her child to sehool, Judge Gibson's crackdown comees as a lesson, she hopes, to. other Interviewing a turtle is a some- motheredn the community, who'she Hon..was nat “only « palnera-shy | tie right'to am-education: This first. but confined “His” (or het?) ‘com-| case of an ‘actual attest of ‘the of the turtle heard inthe tand” is*strictly for the birds, ~ turtle; she we saw this morning had been ° E able to talk it probably would Sail pes have muttered, “Look, sister ... or sca Not only when, but what? Injury In This morning, The Citizen got Navy gunner’s mate who reported | Phillip C. Sears, Seaplane Base, that a turtle had been found in| turned over twice in his Buick 8 se- held at 917 Watson street be-| ing control of his car and careen- cause it was evidently a Marine} ing at least 600 feet. turtle crawl rules and sped to} Sears, going east on Roosevelt bivd. the scene where’ we found the/| at an excessive rate of speed, fail- bushel, a bushel basket. Releas- | vard and U. S. Highway No. 1. He ed, the turtle which is about!drove up over the sidewalk, ments to silent gulps. The “voice doves, that is. But if the turtle when do I,eat?” a call from Francis Hamilton, a| Miraculously escaping injury, his neighborhood and was being} dan last night at 5 p. m. after los- Corps mascot. We disobeyed all} The accident happened when turtle hiding his light under ajed to make a curve at the boule- seven inches long and has a high- | through the grass border, across Eisner And Cobo To eat Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER 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 Spark Drive For Improved Negro HousingInKey West. Man For Molesting ‘Minor Child 4 Hearing Set Before Albury Monday For Navy Yard Worker _Arthur Geesey, Navy Yard work- | er, will have a hearing on charges molesting a minor child before | ace Justice Ira Albury Monday |” at4 p. m. it was announced today. |’ * The middle aged man is charged ; on two counts of the felony which is.a penitentiary offense. He is the | fourth man hailed before Juvenile | rt Judge Eva Warner Gibson | in the last three months on such a | eharge. ‘ “| Geesey, according to Mrs. Isabel | Fleming, Juvenile court probation { worker, molested a ten, year old | school girl twice in her home while | parents were away. first offense took place when the parents were fishing on Septem- | ber 20. Geesey, who lived in the neighborhood, is charged with com- ing in to the sleeping girl’s room and molesting her. The frightened child did not tell her parents im- mediately, fearing that the man “would beat up her father,” Mrs. Fleming said. ' Three days after the first offence # on September 23,’ it is alleged that ~ told the victim’s parents. The irate father reported the alleged crime to the Sheriff's department ani Juvenile court. Deputy Sheriff Ser- dents through prayer in her terror of a recurrence. She will appear at | the hearing Monday with Mrs. | Fjeming who is in charge of the of- fice of Juvenile Court while Judge | Gibson is out of town. | Last offender in child molesting, | Edward Moriarty of Marathon was _ sentenced to ten years in the state | penitentiary. Indo Chinese Reds Score Large Gains By LARRY ALLEN HANOI, Indochina w&—Commu- nist-led Vietminh today smashed their way into the strategic town Arrested | Adios After Over 31 Years Service % CITY COMMISSIONERS TO URGE IMMEDIATE ACTION FROM K. W. to correct the slum conditions in which some of the colored people live, Last month, Cobo said that as a medical man he was fearful that Present unsanitary conditions in certain crowded areas might re- “sult in an outbreak of disease. tf gis? eS Za LT. R. M. SCOTT, heads for the gahgway and final retirement ~ as he leaves the USS Bushnell on the Key West Naval Station. His division manned the rail in his honor. Scott is a veteran of World War Il with a long action record. of Nghia Lo, 100 miles southwest Asks Explanation he crashed into the left rear fender | humped back, blinked and wrig-| the triangle, rolled over twice and " and bumper of Smith’s vehicle. | gled his flippers but kept craw!- crashed into the fence at the.U. §, | o% Hanoi, and drove on toward the z ‘ bd Pritchard’s smbulance was cal- | ing out of camera range. On his | Naval Hospital, pushing over a sec- prac hang tb oh & After Thirty-One Years Of s 7 led to the scene and the injured | shell were white letters “Key | tion of the fence and breaking two French Army headquarters said 0 s *. i man taken to.the hospital where he | West Marines” and the initials } posts. ; Ad WASHINGTON (—The head of | Was admitted at 1p. m. | MFT. Damage to the car is estimated pred g vastbop Foo ye tag pea Service At Worldwide Posts the Democratic No» Commit- tate Highway Patrolman “Slim” | Keeping tabs on the turtle, | at $1,500, an almost total loss. The ‘ ‘ tee naid today if Gen. Dwight D. | Walker investigated the mishap. aviaannty of landed gentry, was | hospital property damage is $200. sistance di 600 defenders in Nghia < Risenhower be: me” to end | The motoreycle sustained damage | four year old Junius Posey, son| - Police officer Will Archer who There Was os Dedication of how LT. R. M. SCOTT the Kores war tell Pres- | to tthe right front of the machine. | .¢ yy and Mrs. J. O. Posey of | W8S Called to the scene charged far the ‘Vietmiah pat pc HAS SEEN DUTY eae ae e will tour of the Allied Netions. FROM EUROPE TO In the early days of 1921 the ORIENT SINCE 20's | Olympia was.in London and ; ; 7 ports on the Olympia’s good ident Tromyn about it, “then he | ge? vig eS Se Watson street who found it|Sears with driving under the influ- before the Reds ran into a major should expjain to the American | _“ ad peng rtment there. (c'@ling across the lane near | nce of intoxicating beverage, reck- | bettie with the French. le why he feels he must with. | S€8s Road | lepa *{his home. His mother said that | less driving at excessive speed and} Tye French threw in waves of | id a plan which could save Amer- it looked like a trunkback turtle | having an accident. bombers and fighter planes in al Seaman Second Class Scott was a member ‘of the Guard of Honor detailed from that ship for the burial of Eng- i ‘seeealercne eset fean lives.” ew to her. She's originally from to beat off the Red Chairman Stephen A. Mitchell, Sixty-Year Old Srey babs cineca SRB ates vain effort de land’s Unknown Soldier. Later, North Carolina and knows at | Me 4 hock troops. @ statement isstesl by ae “tee eal aca boot I dtime Cop Dies — in the same year. the Olympia mittee. ¥ th iW, Robs B k land turtles. Nghia Lo, a town of 3,000, is the , urged i m, 8 | ‘ } the it Thai Mentiat cand to | oman an Most turtles when handled gateway to mountainous Thai returned the body of the Ameri- con Unknown Soldier from Sen ; | SANTA MONICA, Calif. uw = |eountry that stretches up to the Democretie ¢ nt,| LOS ANGELES w — A gray-|§ inte their tank armor: | ae oe y with Red China. 7 France to Washington. D. C. By WILLIAM FRAZER USS Bushnell hauntin strains i 3 is one! re eT Te Ree i % pe wit ny d his eyes in the nlig e he had soaked | up some Marine esprit a ti him. Wé don’t want (Continued On Page Five) i Attention Elks Local and visiting Elke and Guest dancing every Satutday ATTEN\ION PLEASE KEEP OUR CITY wha CLEAN DR. POSNER’S a: cabin | REPRESENTATIVE Mr. FEINSTEIN, Phone 378) | DULL BE AT IDEAL TOCS PHONE §07-R j > 77 We BVY eli Kinds of JUNK | ALL Da TODAY! LOCATED aT SIMONTON AND DEY STS. EE SON ee otv onl Special © Po Ledge Me. 12. 2 AM Monday | October 2h at 7 P.M. j Conterring Maver Meron degree. | AS Master Mesons invited to be! osesent, RESTAURANT ae Opportuntty MR. BLACK OVERSEAS HOTEL ‘7 Fleming St. his | William Anson (Bill) Loomis, per- | border with Red China. The town | £0 on | haired womap in her 60¢ is sought | | who dealt with the bandits of the jat the upper end of the vast Red Mitchel. said Stevenson has made} Marguerite Everet, a teller at a | old West, died yesterday. | River delta rice Tields Again Seaman Scott was s fwo sch. talks. “without benefit of | branch of. the California Bank, | Ss, batoons | with such figures as Jesse James, |had to dislodge Preneh and Thai | this time headed by General away r when the grandmotherly woman | Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp. He | troops from two posts in the moun- | ~ ho J. “Bleck Jack” Persh- al bubbeb of campaign r shoved a bag at her yesterday and - E ‘ hangings. j valley where Nohia Lo lies. a ae » til? tater in 1921 Seaman First | aoe ‘ T can’t hear you,” Miss Evere | ts : i His first ship wes the USS tt went to the USS South —" m. Elsenhower discuss | “This.gun does my talking for |‘ pciagetg , oe oh . 1 be «known her te the China station, In Kores a me and I can uss it,” spoke up Sanaa oa pose wes transferred. back to fee) that he « is sugges-| The teller filled the bag with |# tt a be t him mirel Dewey's flegrhip. On % ‘ H telphia 2 ra. Ts wae tions te the then he roximatel 000. and “grand Ar ° % ia Navy Ya agen yg peony New Location --- Stock Island = host thet he fist quali: people why he s he must with. | a red into a crowd. yo hold a plan uid save Amer i Back in general service Third (Continued On Page Seven} CORNER 28D AVE. AND FIRST ST. 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