The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 22, 1952, Page 13

Sonar Staff Man To Be Civilian Lieutenant Milton J. Schnebelen, USNR, will return to civilian life this week after serving on the staff of the Fleet Sonar School since his reeall to active duty in 1950. Lt. Schnebelen enlisted in the Naval service as a radio techni- cian, second class, in 1942 and in 1944 received a commission as en- sign after attending numerous Na- val service schools. A course in the Line Officer's © Indoctrination School at Hollywood, Fla. followed his commission and then a brief tenure as an officer student at the West Coast Sound School in San Diego, Calif. | In 1945 he was assigned duty at the Mare Island Naval Ship- © yard and served there as an electronics supervisor until his re- % lease to inactive duty in 1946. During the period between his , velease and recall, Lt. Schnebelen LT, MILTON J. SCHNEBELE * For The Family % Radios CLOCK RADIOS, CONSOLE RADIO-PHONO COMBINATIONS TELEVISION SETS .E.-RCA = Motorola- Zenith % For The House AMANA FREEZERS, the Upright F er For Casy Access TAPPAN and GRAND STOVES TO MAKE LIFE EASIER SOR MOM Thor Washers Clothes Dryers Vacuum Cleaners, Mixers, Toasters, Coffee Makers. All Smali Appliances ea, PoP RRR RU RR RR RRR ER Eee ee eee ef | sngaged in general law practice ind organized and operated a tele- ‘ision service company at ¥arm- agton, Mo. He and his wife, Phillis, reside t 1508 Johnson St. with their iree children Renee, age 7; Cara, ge 2 and Craig, age 2 weeks. Normal Crop Of ‘Brazil Nuts Is Seen This Year By STANFORD BRADSHAW RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil 7— Your English walnuts probably come from California and your Jordan almonds from the candy store — but those brazil nuts are strictly from Brazil. The nuts are gathered in Janu ary and February deep in the state of Amazonas, the heart of the Amazon region. The tree from which they come, a variety of chestnut, abounds there. But experts estimate that the total annual output comes from perhaps 100,000 trees, a fraction of the total number. These trees are closest to the innumerable water courses in the region. The nuts grow in shells about the size of a coconut, and each shell weighs from twé to four pounds. They are called “‘ouricos,” and contain‘'15 to 20 separate n The Indians who work in the har- vest are therefore very careful about being under the trees during a wind. An ourico dropping 75 or 100 feet can easily smash a skull. As the nuts fall, the native takes a heavy knife, called a. tercado, and cuts through the tough outer covering to free the individual nuts. These are transported to his near- by canoe. The canoes, in turn, gather at collection points, where motor boats carry the nuts on down to the Amazon. There, ocean-going vessels that can travel 2,000 miles up the river may take them on down to the port of Belem. Belem, itself 60 miles from the sea, is the center of the Brazil nut industry. Eight of the 15 shell- ing plants in the nation are lo- cated there. In recent years, these shelling plants have come to play a larger and larger part in the exportation of the nuts. About half of the exports now leave com- pletely shelled. This,is a hard process because of the Brazil nuts’ resiliency. First the nuts are soaked for 24 hours in cold water. Then they are dipped suddenly, for two or three minutes, in boiling water. The final step is to run them through a machine much like a home bottle capper. Pressure is applied and the meat Pops out, ready to be stacked in 66-pound boxes. Only 17,000 tons of Brazil nuts have been exported this year — about a normal crop. Last year’s 31,000 represented a bumper crop. Wesley Roberts To GOP Top Spot WASHINGTON (#—Wesley Rob- erts reportedly has the okay of President-elect Eisenhower to suc- ceed Arthur E. Summerfield as chairman of the Republican Na- tional Committee. paperman, has been the commit- tee’s director of organization since Eisenhower’s nomination in July. hower. Party officials from Eisenhower Roberts" said approval would clinch appointment next month | Postmaster general. } STILL HAVE A FEW OUTDOOR $29.95 SWINGS, BAR and GLIDER CHAPPELL'S ARIETY STORE 1100 White St. OPEN ‘TIL 9 PM . Jother stevedoring company as the Roberts, a former Kansas news- | |when the general becomes presi- | dent and Summerfield becomes his | |PLAYGROUND SETS! RINGS, TRAPEZE | Monday, December 22, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 13 Further Action Is Promised In NYC Waterfront Probe By EUGENE LEVIN NEW YORK # — A prosecutor’s | talk of further criminal action in the state waterfront probe echoed along the city docks today follow- ing the arrest of the AFL long- shoremen’s boss in Lower Man- hattan. Dist. Atty. Frank S. Hogan using New York State Crime Commis- sion testimony to help chart his way through the maze of rackets which cost the seven billion dol- lar shipping industry here an es- timated 350 millions annually. Hogan sailed into the waterfront rackets tempest yesterday with his announcement of the arrest on extortion charges of Michael Clem- ente, a 44-year-old ex-convict offi- cial of the AFL International Long- shoremen’s Association and often described as the “lord” of Down- town Manhattan’s docks. Arrested with Clemente was one of his union associates, Alexander Cosmos, 43, of Rutherford, N. J. The arrests were the second and third related to the current in- quiry by the State Crime Commis- sion, and the fifth and sixth in the past few months as a result of action by a New York county (Manhattan) Grand Jury. Clemente’s arrest yesterday stirred the most interest of all, for it was the first move against a man escribed as a power over a large section of piers in the Port of New York, the world’s greatest harbor. Hogan said Clemente ran a “‘do- main” covering miles of docks on the East River, around the tip of Manhattan, and a short distance up the| Hudson River. The prose- cutor also said Clemente’s friends include “the biggest and the littlest people in the underworld.” A grand jury indictment accused Clemente and Cosmos of extorting $2,500 from the John W. Mc Grath Crop., a stevedoring firm, between July 1 and Dec. 15, by threaten- ing “trouble” if Mc Grath did not employ a hiring boss of their choosing. Both were charged with extortion, coercion and conspiracy. During the State Crime Com- mission’s public hearings on the waterfront, Clemente was nemed in testimony by an official of an- recipient of $11,000 to help pay the coosts of a. Biltmore Hotel wedding party for Clemente’s daughter in September, 1951. Tes- timony showed repayment of the money was neither asked nor made. The State Crime Commission re- cessed its waterfront hearings last Friday until next month. Hogan, announcing the Clemente and Cosmos arrests yesterday, said | the grand jury has been extended to March, 1953, and that his of- fice is reviewing public and pri- vate testimony before the Crime Commission. The prosecutor said a search also was being made for | as much additional information “as | we can get our hands on.” Clemente and Cosmos, who are | officials in ILA Local 856, were | held in bail of $10,000 each for | arraignment today in General | Sessions. Conviction on the charges | { could mean prison sentences of 712 i to 15 years. Next week Cle:nente is’ sched- uled to face trial in Federal Court | on a charge of making false and | fraudulent statements in an offer to compromise on an income tax suit. 1,000 EVACUEES FLEE | THREATENING FLOOD BORDEAUX, France — Some | 1,000 Bordeaux residents were | housed today in garages and other temporary shelters after a hurried move from the flood- -threatened | northern section of the city Trucks, supplied by the city and | military, hauled the people and their farm animals out of the dan CONTEST MIDNIGHT |— WIN Before that he headed the Wash- | ington headquarters for Eisen. | | { | NOTHING TO BL PRIZE CONTR iS. ¢., Cuban Ex-Navy Officers Still Under Arrest HAVANA, Cuba (® — The Cuban Navy announced today that nine retired officers accused of plotting an armed revolt against President Fulgencio Batista have been re- leased from military prison but still are under house arrest. The announcement gave no rea- son for their release but presum- ably it was to let the men spend Christmas with their families. They are to be tried later by a Navy court. The Navy men, including three top commanders, had been dis- missed from service soon after Batista overthrew the government of Carlos Prio Socarras last March. They were arrested Saturday night a few hours after police in Mam- aroneck, N. Y., seized a store of arms there that they said were to have been used in a “Christmas revolt” in Cuba. Cuban officials did not indicate whether there was any connection between the two incidents. x An official spokesman said the government was aot surprised by the discovery of the arms cache in New York because it had known for several months that “bad Cu- bans” had been buying up arms in the United States. The spokes- man said four million dollars were being used for this purpose. He added that the New York in- cident was without This was interpreted by some here as meaning that it was not con- nected with the arrest of the Navy men and that the latter plot was considered the more serious threat. The Westchester County sheriff said one of four men arrested at Mamaroneck had confessed the arms were bought for the ousted government chief, Prio Socarras, now living in Miami, Fla. Prio Socarras denied knowledge of a revolutionary plot and said he knew none of the men arrested in the New York case. Federal Life Termer R. Best Dies In Prison SPRINGFIELD, Mo. ® — The death of Robert Henry Best, serv- ing a life sentence for treason by broadcasting Nazi propaganda dur- ing World War Il, was reported here. Officials of the U. S. Medical Center for federal prisoners here disclosed Best died last Tuesday after what a spokesman described as an “‘illness of some time.” The body was shipped Friday to Spartanburg, S. C. Prison records gave his address as Vienna, Austria, and his only next-of-kin as his wife, Erna. No address was listed for Mrs. Best. Best, an American newspaper man, was convicted of treason in ‘federal court at Boston, April 16, 1948. He later was sentenced to life imprisonment and fined $10,- 000. Three years later the U. S. Supreme Court refused a review of the case, Best had been at the medical center here since August, 1951. The 56-year-old former Sumter, newsman, was accused of giving aid and comfort to the ene- my and that he intended to betray the United States. Best admitted he had made 300 broadcasts from Germany between 1942 and 1945. lger area vesieniny after flood | waters surged through two breaks | in a dike CLOSES TONIGHT $100 — NAME THE NEW DRIVE-IN THEATRE! Y — JUST USE YOUR IMAGINATION SEND ENTRIES to — “DRIVEIN THENTT, - THE CITIZEN | | IBUTED BY JOE SIRUEO - BUILDER along the Garonne River. importance. |} WE WISH YOU THE BEST OF —~ ie . 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