The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 11, 1952, Page 1

, has nate in jan the the average 4° Fahrenheit Che Key West Citiz No. 369 THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN Vhat Democracy Means To Me™ By FATHER JOHN S. ARMFIELD (Editor’s Note Junior Chamber of Commerce, vart of their Americanism Key West’s business and profes sional life to comment on Democracy Means To Me.” day’s article is by Father John S. Armfield, Rector of St, Paul's Church. “WHAT DEMOCRACY MEANS TO ME” If it were possible for a large seg ment of our population to be given a word association test, the close alliance of those two words would undoubtedly be brought out. We take a justifiable pride in these words which form such an integ ral part of our American heritage. Freedom to do what? For all too many it means the right to do as one darn pleases and to heck with anyone else who stands in the way. | interpreted it this ght, reedom means the right to cheat and cut corners in a business deal (as long | as one can get away with it), the right to get stinking drunk whén ever one feels so disposed, the right to live unethical and im- moral a life as one But why should Yreedom in the as chooses Season Opens Now Chamber Officials Say Arrival Of Veteran Visitor T. J. Francis Marks 1952-53 Start Of Winter’ The wint has officially ypened, Chamber o! Commerce Harold y with the Yr. J. Francis He greeted the retired business man who walked into manager Laubscher said arrival in town of Charaber of ixt KEY WEST SALVAGE CO. Corner 2nd Ave. and First St. STOCK ISLAND NK NT NOTIC EISNER FURNITURE 9e <0 The Key West, popular mind mean the right to do as evil? The Creator has endowed man | Pro-| m, has asked several leaders in| the right to choose between the | ‘What | way and the low. To- | ous gift, CIVIC AND TOURIST TRADE LEADERS OVER THE STATE EXPECT PEAK YEAR Despite the absence of President Harry Truman for the first season in five years, Key West leaders are expecting a record breaking | winter season. Inquiries on tourist facilities in Key West are up one per cent }/ over last year, the Key West Cham- ;| ber of Commerce reported today | “And since only about two per cent of the vacationers who come | here precede their visits by written nquiries, the season looks good,” | Harold Laubscher, Chamber mana {| ger said today. The Key West Chamber’s optim- .:| ism about the coming season is in | agreement with 99 per cent of the State’s chambers, civic leaders and tourist trade leaders quoted | in an AP release today. This group :/of men and women say that busi- “*4\ness will be better than ever this | year. | The only dissident from the gen- | eral optimistic answers is a very | important one. He is Beverly Griz | zard, chairman of the State Adver- | tising Commission who says: |, “I will be satisfied if we can hold our own in the winter busi ness.”” Gizzard said that competition for | the winter tourist trade is getting keener all the time, and Florida’s phenomenal rate of 15 per cent in- crease each year for the last three years will just have to level off. “Any increase this winter,’ he | said, “probably won't exceed four | | | with the power of moral choice— good life and the bad, the high | This is a tremend- awful in its potentialities, and upon the way we use it depends the destiny of our world. In Korea Gets | ers and patriotic music. Democracy means to me free- | dom to do the will of God, freedom | | to fill the highest role to which He | has called me. Democracy must ever be identified with the right to do that which is good. St. Paul must | have had something akin to this idea in mind when he wrote to the Philippians, ‘Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, what- | looking for a ten per cent boost, per cent.”” Despite Grizzard’s conservative | estimates, other leaders are pre- dicting the biggest influx of visi- tors ever. Officials in the Miami area are which will mean two million more |people in that gold coast region soever things are honest, whatso- | ever things are just, whatsoever | 15 to 20 per cent increase in | tions. things are pure, whatsoever things between now and May. | The AAA in Miami expects a motorists, who make up 80 per cent | are lovely and of good report— | of visitor, The airlines have upped | think on these things—to do them.” | advertising budgets and look for It {yigws that democracy places | record air travel. upon us mighty responsibilities. had for Not its slogan, Free”. It never is, It The executive secretary of the | |Last year Kiwanis International | Florida Chamber of Commerbe, “Freedom Is | Harold Colee said: was | “We feel confident that Florida | bought with a price, and today we | will enjoy a 1952-53 winter tourist are called upon to preserve it by | trade greater than that experienced educating our children not only in the ways of government but in the | ways of truth and righteousness. in any past winter season, based on reservations already made by (Continued On Page Three) ‘Men In Blimp Mishap Told Tourist Influx. squadron 12, Duck Sub Attached Here Rescues Crewmen Of Stricken Blimp Near Jacksonville By DOROTHY RAYMER USS Sea Dog, submarine skippered by Cmdr jott is back in Key West fter an adventure with a deflat ed blimp in which the submarine rescued the aircraft's crew of 11 Cmdr. Elliott expressed pride in the performance of his sub- marine and its crew, pointing out with special praise two crew members who jumped overboard from the Sea Dog and rescued a fatigued blimp man whe was too weak after a long swim to climb aboard a life raft. men who swam to the res el Ha » first class Klotz, an in e) The J. BL E e “HOOD TIRES AT WHOLESALE PRICES MADE BY HOOD RUBBER CO. A DIVISION OF B. F. GOODRICH CO. LOU SMITH 1116 WHITE CO. DUCK AVENUE frenue | little as Memorial Day—that other {national souvenir of an old war.” | sewer system renovations and hop- |ing that the present system holds | Siiaiite Action Of Sea Dog KEY WEST, REORIDE: TUE TH SDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1952 City Can Expect Top Wiser Season Say Local Leaders Armistice Day Little Notice WASHINGTON (#—America and some of her 1918 allies honor their | war dead today in solemn cere- monies observing the 34th annivers- | ary of the signing of the armistice that ended World War ——but did not bring world peace. It is Armistice Day in the United | States, in France, in Canada, with its wreath laying, speeches, pray- But it was hardly noticed at the Korean Front. American troops in peaceful posts | about the world observed the day. In France, American soldiers joined with the French in joint services in Orleans, Verdun and | Nancy. In Germany, troops there were urged by their commanding officer | to rededicate themselves to the | principles for which 126,000 Ameri- | cans died in that first world war. But armistice observances were subdued there because Germans did not like to be reminded of their 1918 defeat. In Korea the day was subdued for other reasons Not more than one fourth of the Americans fighting there were even born when the armistice was signed in 1918. Greying colonels and aging generals probably remembered, and stopped a moment to pray. But, writes Associated Press war correspondent John Randolph, ‘‘to the vast majority of Americans in Korea it meant as much, or as But at home the day was ob- served throughout the nation with ceremonies at churches, hospitals, | cemeteries and military installa- City’s Employees - Enjoy Holiday Grand Jury E U.S.A ‘Marine Combat Off Armistice Day Rites Here Today AGAINST A BACKDROP OF MASSED COLORS of the Key West Guard of Honor, West’s younger patriots (foregr this morning's Armistice Day ce! Korean war veteran was the principal speaker [Key West's Younger Set Observes Armistice Day a | a Citizen Staff Photo two of Key ound), gaze in awe as the Key West High School band plays at remonies in Bay view Park. Major G. E. Lawrence, a returned at the affair. The, Associated Press Teletype Features and Photo Services. For 72 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Huge Parade Tonight Will Wind Up Annual Observance Here “While the American | serviceman in Korea today | may question the manner in |which the war is being fought, there is no doubt in | their minds as to what they are fighting for,” Major G. E. Lawrence, Commanding officer of the United States Marine Detachment in Key West, said today in cere- monies held at Bayview Park to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I. “If you ask a Marine in | Korea what he is fighting for, he is likely to say ‘a | piece of Mom’s apple pie,’ ~| but that is only another way of saying that they are fighting for the right to live as they see fit and they would rather give up their lives than to lose that priv. To Report On Bay Bottom Citizen Series “War Of The Waterfront” Held +. Ractor Leading To Present Probe By Jury The only man at his desk in the | city hall today was City Manager | Dave King as city employees took advantage of the annual Armistice | Day respite from their chores. King spent the day working on the details of Key West's projected up until expected federal aid for the repairs is granted. Monroe County schools remained open but all County offices with the exception of the Sheriff's de- | | partment were closed. Salty Salty Sea Dogs TTE JAVA TASTES BE Key West reporters are sharp-| ening their pencils in anticipa- | tion of a morning packed with | fast note taking at the precedent- | |shattering open. session of the | | Monroe county grand jury tomor- jrow at 9 a. m. The press has been invited for the first time to attend a meet- ing of the usually secret 18 man! panel, when Key West bay bot- tom will be discussed | Five city commissioners and City Attorney M. Ignatius Lester | have been subpoenaed for ap-| pearance at the crucial session. | This will be the first business of the Grand Jury's present ses- | sion that is at all out of the| | | ordinary. R THAN SALT WATER as these two The two indictments last week against W. Henry Suet first degree murder, and Joseph Perez, sec ond degree, are the usual run-of- Monroe county jury acti e inspe: tion of p ¢ schools and the new nty wh have taken is also routine reported place Tt is unusual county grand questi: nature as bay i ject has been ‘ough going c in the last f or not the publication of (Continued On P>ze Three) — eect nine entene | Attention Please! KEEP OUR CITY CLEAN By Calling MR. FEINSTEIN The Man Who Lives In Town Phone $19-XM and 378 We BUY all kinds of JUNK Rags, Mattresses and All Kinds of Scrap Metal Located at Simonton & Dey Sts. Monroe Masonic Notice Special Communication of Dede Lodge No. 14, F. & A. M. Wednes day evening November }2th, at 7:00 P.M. E. A. Degree. All EA as well as Master Mesons are in- vited te attend, F. O. WEECH, Sec’y. WALTHER M. LAZIER, WM Navy Scours Sea For Pilot Missing Since Last Night All available Air-Sea rescue Units are participating in a search today for a Navy 1:55 p. m. last night, Naval authorities announced today. The name of the pilot of the plane which disappeared while on | a routine navigational training flight, has been withheld pending | large group of blimps and planes | the notifi¢ation of next of kin. According to officials of the | to locate the missing pilot. fighter|was attached the last report plane and it’s pilot missing since | ilege,” the Major continued. And Major Lawrence is well qualified to discuss the question | he spent over a year under enemy | fire in Korea as commanding offi- cer, of three separate combat units, In outlining the other privileges that Americans enjoy and which | we are defending, Major Lawrence continued: “When a small boy | asks us ‘What is God?’, we can answer honestly and tell him that | under the American Bill of Rights we have complete religious free- dom. Unlike those in totalitarian | states, wa are complage sters of our fate.” mm Impressive Ceremonies , Fleet }to which the plane, All-Weather Training Unit, an F6F5N, re- ceived from the plane placed it's | Position at about 70 miles south- west of the Boca Chica Naval Air | Station which would place it al- most due north of Havana. |. Three destroyers, as well as a ‘are scouring the sea in an effort | < ‘Circuit Court ‘Case Settled For Feldstein Only Civil Cases Slated For This Term Of Court Morris Feldstein won his boun dary dispute with William McClin. tock in Circuit Court yesterday, it was reported by his attorneys Wil liam Albury and Enrique Esquinal- do today, The civil case launched this term of Circuit Court. Attorneys William Neblett and Robert Youmans rep- resented the losing Mc' ack, Other civil trials will be resumed tomorrow. At present no criminal cases are scheduled for this term, since the Carmichael case has been postponed pend: Miami pathologist who did autopsy on the late ‘Mellow Moon’ found murdered off Stock Island last December. There is still a pos sibility that this case may come (Continued On Page Three) ES eee RATS Complete Stock of Mechanics HAND TOOLS Guaranteed for Life Roy's Key West Auto Parts Co, TELEPHONES 1877 - 1878 121 DUVAL STREE ‘Caribe Restaurant CURB SERVICE SPECIAL FOR TUES., WED. $1.25 SHRIMP IN THE BASKET 99e O: Offer Good On Curb ae g the return of the the The impressive ceremonies were held under sunny skies this morn- ing as warplanes from Boca Chica droned overhead, representatives of | America’s “mailed fist’, The Key | West Guard of Honor fired a three | volley salute as Ralph L. Atkins, Post Bugler of the Arthur Sawyer American Legion Unit sounded taps and the flag was raised from half mast. Fire Dept. Saves Sinking Shrimper The latest in a series of mi fortunes to plague Edward O. Tur- | ner, local shrimper and owner of | the “Cracker Boy", night when firemen were called to | Today's rites were opened by | Vance C. Stirrup, Commander of the foot of Di 1 Street when that | | a a ceaeh — | Arthur Sawyer Post. The Key West | High School Band performed at the | ceremonies. occurred last | vessel began to sink. Notified by an anonymous tele- | phone call, the fire fighters pump-| ‘The invocation was given by Mrs. ed for 45 minutes to prevent the | Vanessa Saunders, president of boat from sinking in 15 feet of | yw Unit Auxiliary Unit 3911, and water. Judson Stevens, Arthur Sawyer On Friday, a local Coast Guard j post Chaplain, gave the benedic- rescue ship saved the boat as it | tion, began to sink near Marquesas Is-| In Marathon this morning, the land 15 miles west of here in| Marathon Post, American Legion rough seas | heard Captain A. E. Buckley speak Mr. Turner is in a Miami hospi- | ay the representative of Rear Ad- tal following heart attack. | miral Irving T. Duke, command- Previously captain of the | ing officer of the Key West Naval “Cracker E had been lost at | pase, at their Armistice Day obser: sea in a storm and last Novem- | vance ber Turner sustained the loss of a suds Soe his only other boat the “Dayco” | _ Cavtaia Buckley told co b " ne: < gathering in that comunity that “if Negoeey nk en-route to the Cam-| 1. desire to avoid war, we must peche fishing grounds, be ready to repel it; if we desire | KOOL SEAL maintain peace, we must be | For Trailer Taps for war. Our strength in war depends on the loyalty and patriot- | Thompson Enterprises, Inc. i HARDWARE DIVISION ism of the civilian population, @ Caroline St. Phone 836 a the to ready example of which we have seen here today.” Captain Buckley's talk took on solemn note as he pointed out that (Continued On Page Three) FAREWELL TONIGHT ——- THREE CHAPS AND A CHICK Preview LouNnGeE