The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 23, 1953, Page 1

Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST Ss SHRIMP VESSEL COMES HOME from misadventure in Cuba, The 50-foot Ramos, owned by Frank Frantz, was brought back to port by her crew of two early this morning. The three men who allegedly stole her last Tuesday are still in custody in Cuba—Citizen Staff Photo. |Rear Admiral’s Summerland Key Prize Lot. ‘itolen Boat SackIn KW fe AS 4 ua : He: ‘The stolen shrimp vessel Ramos i “ived in Key West .at 1. this arning flying the yellow flag nt shows she has been in a { veign port and is in quarantine, ‘il entered by the U. S. Customs ‘cer, here. i Owner Frenk Frantz flew back sv Matanzas whore the vessel 1 been taken by “Capt.” Char- Guerrero, Ralph Maribona, Jr., ‘ Manuel Perez Brabt on a: mid- “t voyage last Monday. ‘he men ere being held in Cuba, ‘is writirs. Guerrero“and Mari- wa, U. S. citizens, will be cught back to the States to iwer questions by the Federal vernment. Brabt, a Cuban citi- 1 will probably be held there, was said, ‘ The vessel with its crew of two roard, Was anchored. out from ‘démpson’s dicks this morning, It * mnot come into the docks and | {> up until U. «tered her, Owner Frantz preferred not to > port On the boat's condition until S. Customs has ‘stoms has officially examined | her, he crew will have to remain voard until Customs officials vere permit them tc dock. ' Yast Groun To See Atom Tests WASHINGTON “Twenty thou- svnd members of the armed forees end hundreds of key civilians will “ike lessons in atomic age war- ‘re in the 1953 series of nucleai fests. From the services, the Pentagon s nounced last night, will come of- “cers and enlisted men — 12,000 from the Army, 3.800 from the “avy and Marines and 4,500 from the Air Force. ‘The civilians invited to witness tte first “shot,” presently sched- ‘.od for Merch 17, included gov- *-nors, mayors, other officials and ate and metropolitan civil de- fense workers. Although there was no official word, it is generally expected that tests will include the first firing #° nuclear charged shells from one of the Army's new 280-millimeter, S3-ton mobile guns Here For -% Che Key Wrest & THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. ] KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1953 VOL. LXXIV. ivsining Louis Carbonell, president of the now inactive Key West. Baseball Club leaped into the breach today to offer a solution to a: problem | which’ confronts the Pittsburgh Piraté Baseball Ciub which was scheduled to start spring training today in Havana. It seems that the. Bucs, who were slated to use | Tropical Park just outside Havana, are without a place to train. Manager Fred Haney said the team was barred from that field for no ‘Apparent reason, He sai that he had thought the use of the park was ‘assured, 3 Carbonell, this morning dispatch- ed the following cablegram to {manager Haney -in Havana: “In Key West, w2 have the finest ball park in the state. If you can- not find another place to train, we would be happy to have you in Key West.” | Carbonell was speaking of the | Wickers Field Stadium, which will be vacant this summer following the inability of the City to come to terms with the Miami Beach Fla- mingoes who had desired to move to this city, Sheriffs Vote To Abolish Fee System In State The Florida Sheriff's Associa- | tion has endorsed a proposal to eliminate the fee system among all the sheriffs of the state, Sher- iff Spottswood announced today. Just returned from the meet- ing of the Board of Directors of the Association, Spottswood said for fee systems, a budget to be j Submitted each year to County ; Comissioners. Among other important items covered at the meeting were | legislative proposals for the com- fing session of the Florida law- |makers. The legal advisor of the | Associa‘ion is preparing bills at | the present time that will be sub- | mitted to the state legislators. | The Couny Clerks and County jJudges were also meeting in that the board voted to substitute / Ne. 46 Wife Wins Navy Charity Winner Inspects New Property Lucky, Mrg. Duke, wife of-Rear Admirat Irving T. Duke! She bought one lone ticket on | the much coveted Summerland Key lot offered by Henry Hudgins to’ the Navy Charity Carnival. She bought it at the last minute Saturday night. And she won the lot in the drawing! The Admiral’s lady was driven up to Summerland Key yesterday | ‘afternoon to survey her new prop- erty. Lt. C. L. Chapman and. his wife and dachshund brought her to the Key which is 22 miles from Key West so that she could view her new land. On deep, navigable Niles Chan- nel, the lot.is located near the new State Road which will be put through at a of $80,000 in the t Motels, Hotels Not So Cronded_As So Says C. Of C. Head Earl Adams In Round-Up Of Current Peak Business in Key West is still booming, according to figures re- leased by the Key West Chamber of Commerce today. Despite the tourist season being a few per cent off last year, other barometers indicate that things are good. Just as elsewhere in South Florida, local hotels and motel operators along with other businessmen engaged in the tour- ist industry here, report that al- though they have no “kicks” com- ing, this current season has lag- ged just a little, according to the Chamber. Passenger cars southbound on is Mighway during January totaled -29,258 includes all passenger c: ists and Monroe County residents Although the same count is used 'y year, it is proba- ble that a few more residents used the -highway in January this year because of the lifting Last Year Shrine Club Works To Held Sick Child In response to the story in Saturday’s Citizen about fittle Jasper Walker, Jr., six-month- old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jas- per Walker, Sr., 4-D Porter Place, who is deomed unless treatment by specialists can help him, the Key West Shrine Club has undertaken to raise funds to send the baby and his mother to New York. Any civic organizations or individuals who wish to help in this worthwhile proect may send contributions te the Shrine Club, Post Office Box 843, or phone 2.6136 to have - the donations pickéd up. = Drowned Man’s Body Flown To The body of Marvin Marks, 27, of tolls on January Ist. Chamber President, Earl R. Adams, stated, “February 22nd is Washington’s Birthday which has always been considered the peak of the Florida tourist sea> son. It is obvious that Key West hotels motels ere not as crowded @& they ‘were enithis same date : the Florida Keys is expanding each year. At present, it is es- timated that there are a few more than 2,000 transient units in Key West. Between Stoek Isiand. and the mainland there is an equiva- lent number. This mimer of units added to several thousand trailer courts spaces in the Keys makes it possible to accomodate close te 15,000 visitors a day, added to the number that winter in apartments and rooms in private homes. Even if there are as many vacationists in the area, they ure spread a little thinner. A year ago a number of Navy and defense workers, now living in Navy housing occupied some of Key West transient accomodations. This plus the fact that the North has experienced a comparatively } mild Winter is considered to be who drowned after he dived from a laboratory ship at the U. S. Naval Station on Friday, was ship- ped Saturday for burial in New York City, it was learned today. After discussions between Coro- ner Roy Hamlin and Naval offi- cials, the body was released from the U.S). it had following death. Hamlin said that the Navy has assumiéd responsibility for further inquiries. into Mlirks’ drowning, hospital, whenee| i. ‘The Associated Press Features and Photo Services. For 73 Years Devoted to the Best. Interests of Key West. “Sure Glad | Spent The Two Bucks, Says Young Marine 53 Auto Winner 18-Year-Old Marine PFC Is Given New Car Ai Carnival Eugene Harris, 18-year-old Marine stationed at the Key West Naval Station, says that he didn’t want to buy any tickets on a spanking new 1953 Mercury Monterey given away at the Navy Charity Carnival Saturday night but now that he is the winner, he is “sure glad:he spent that two bucks.” He held just eight tickets. 5 Harris, a native of Pensacola, Florida, was on guard Marathon Night Set At Kennel Club Wed. Marathon Chamber Of Commerce Will . Cooperate In Event Hundreds of Marathon residents will ‘flock to Key West on Wed- nesday evening which has been designated “Marathon Night” at the Key West Kennel Club. Abe Aronovitz, Kennel Club president announced the fea‘ure due to the intense interest being displayed ‘Key West Kennel Ciub layout. The Marathon Chamber of NY For Burial [esta ics oe an official-of the Marathon Chamb- er of Commerce. The efitries for the ra Navy property. No ‘fou! play was heen suspected or indicatéd by the ac- cident which happened when Marks dived into murky water to try to recover a temperature gauge lost over the side. Marks had been part of the re- search team on the Physalia, Uni- (Contfhued On Page Two) Pope Appeals To Catholic Children WASHINGTON (@ — Pope Pius XII, in his annual’ message being ‘next months. It is located in the | one of the reasons why individual Tead to Catholic school children gumbo limbo forests of the Beach estates. The mystery di who won the Summerland Key lot was not solv-; ed until Lt. Cdr. Chapman ap- peared at the Hudgins door yes- terday at about 1 p.m. Nattily dressed, with waxed mustachio, the Naval officer an- nounced to Mrs. Henry Hudgins: oe Duke is here to see. her Mrs. Hudgins went ot to the car, followed by her large Dober- man pincher Rod, who immediate- ly welcomed Mrs. Duke by climb- ing up on the open car window sensing and scenting a Dachshund, which was part of the entourage. Mrs. Duke, in a wide-brimmed hat. was then taken over to sur- ey her new land. She strolled | to water’s edge not far! from the Lucky Seven lot which | jshe had won the night before. | The 50 by 187 lot was one of the choice prizes at the Carnival, particularly in view of the boom- jing real estate values on the |Lower Keys brought about by | electrification. Though $500 was! offered by the Navy as an alter- {nate to the lot, its value is Yar , Sreater than that in the constant- jly rising real estate market of Summerland Key and the other lower Keys. Whether or not Mrs. Duke plans to build on her newly won lot is The: tests are conducted in Ne- |Jacksonville last week, Spotts-| not known at this writing. Other vada, about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, ITALIAN MOTOR SHIP 1S TOWED TO PORT MESSINA, Sicily (R—The leak- ing. waterdogged Italian motorship Tripolitania finally was towed into this Sicilian port today. Her 121 | wood said. j , Choice FLA. A | BUILDING in Beautiful Coral Reef Estate owners oh Summerland Beach, residential. and motel, are going ahead with piahs for full develop- |ment of the area in the next few lyears. The advent of the road which will be bid on in the next [State Road Department bid let. ting will further enhance valves jon the Key. tourist court operators have notic- ed a difference in business this year, Post Office receipts were up over $1,000 over January last year. Mail inquiries received at the; Chamber office this past month ! were considerably up over last | January, by almost 700. Building | permits issued last month were down $10,000 from the same per- SIAMESE TWINS DIE LAFAYETTE, Ind. —Siamese twin girls born two months pre- maturely to a Chicago woman at | Home Hospital bere yesterday | died early this morning. The babies, born to Mrs. Jessica Stickney at 4 p.m. Sunday died | at 12:45 >. m. They wenn joined at the side near the waist. this week, voices an urgent plea to help the “hungry and cold and homeless.” “You children of America,” reads the Pontiff’s message, “have been so good and generous these past few years in giving your gifts to help your brothers and sisters in the lands across the sea. “We know that cur dear Lord has blessed you for this many times over, because He acts just as if you gave your gifts of clothes or food or money to him.” The message, made public yes- terday by National Catholic | Welfare Conference, is being read in parochial schools instead of “dio broadcast from the Vatican. * reason: The Pope is recov- ering from influenza and was ad- vised by his doctors not to speak over the radio this year. force to put the evening across. CIVIL AIR TREATY OSLO, Norway W—Norway and Japan signed an agreement today covering civil air traffic between the two nations. The treaty was signed by Norway's Premier :Os- car Torp, acting as foreign minis- ter, and the Japanese minister here, Mr. Yuki. ———— Jury Trials Open Tomorrow At 10 ‘The triel of Joseph Jackson and Albert D. Davis charged with the unarmed robbery Jailer Jerry Labrade last month will take place before a court tomorrow. men keys a i i Fy zi i sf ry ? i $3 sf Ht H &s = i eg BF i fi | i i be | 3 “f Fs? te i I .| duty at the Naval Station Annex when he got the word and he didn’t believe it was true. He said that when Pfc, Ralph Coates, a fellow Marine sentry said, “You've won yourself an automobile,” he thought “his leg was being pulled.” “1 was all shook up,” the ‘youthful Marine said today. But when Major George Law- rence, Marine Commandant here sentry around, and Naval Seaplane Base hangar to officially accept the prize, he realized that it was “his for The car is a beautiful two tone, yellow and black four door sedan. The only the new own. er will have is the purchase of insurance for the vehicle, “I wouldn't drive without it,” averred. ii fil kk jt | i H rf fi il Rape Attempt Trial Set For if at i Lad i a se ¢ § ¥ ghite? if aul a é z s = := § ui i i f : | f . : i tl : i reFs ! i fa ie [fH it SEVERAL WATERFRONT LOTS! Woodlife Dipped Lumber) Lote Resists Termites and Rot — ‘The 2,766-ton Tripolitania sprang Along 10th St. Prem Flagler j a Wak te her engine room eight | Strunk Lumber Yard | Through Harris Ave. DIAL 2.5606 days ago 20 miles southeast of | CHARLEY TOPPINO & SONS DIAL 2.7081 i Sicily. passengers and crewmen were /| landed six days ago at another | Sicilian port. Augusta, by the U.S. | Troopship Gea. ¢, H. Muir THE SUN IS SHININ'—OH HAPPY DAY! Marine Pie \Bugene Harris, 18-year-old winner of the 1953 Mercury Monterey sedan at the Navy Charity Carmival Saturday night, poses beside the sleek new aute today. Harris, whe doesn't own @ car now, daid that he couldn't believe his luck when he was told the news while on sentry duty Saturday night.—Citizen Staff Phota,