The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 4, 1953, Page 1

Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST 16° VOL. LXXIV THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. No. 54 ““CAPTAIN" ‘CHARLES GUERRERO. charged with grand larceny of the shrimper “Ramos” belong- “ing to Frank Frantz, General Electric analyst, as he was picked up. by Sheriff John Spottswood and Deputy Jack Baker in the Federal building, Simonton Street. Guerrero flew over from Cuba yesterday afternoon, was picked up for questioning by U.S. Customs agents here’ who informed the Sheriff's cepartment of his arrival, His bond was set at $1,000 when he was taken to Monroe county jail. Guerrero came quietly when stopped by officials. A hearing will be held before Jus- tice Ira Albpry as-soon as Manuel Brabt Peréz, Cuban teenager who accompanied Guerrero, comes buck from Ctiba, Ralph Maribona, ex-policeman, was the third member of the crew that left Key West on the: stolen vessel, _ Oratory’ Contest To Be Held At CMI Auditorium March 5 Local Level Winner Will Go To District Contest In Miami Arthur Sawyer Post | American Legion, announced that | ‘Park Expansion xo. «(Letters From the County level of the Sixteenth | National} High School Oratorical Contest will be held at the Convent auditorium on Thursday, March 5, 1953, at eight p. m. Frank Roma- wa, chairman of the contest | mittee indicates that all high | jools in the County will be repre- j s@nted at this event. | 4Only students actually enrolled | im. their respective schools for the: cholastic year are eligible to par- | he ticipate. In the county level contest there will be representatives from the Convent of Mary Immaculate, the Key West High and the Doug- | lass High. The Monroe County win- her will compete with the Dade County winner in the 10th District | Contest to be held i: Miami the week of March 14. { ‘The 20th District winner will go | to the Area competition to be held | in the Palm Beach area the week of March 21. then go on to the De-} Partment (State) finals which this Year will be held. at Gainesville, Florida, the week of March 28. State finalists are usually award- ed substantia! monetary prizes and Will go to the Regional contests and finally to the National eliminations which will be held at some ‘point of National interest and will be an- Rounced at a later date. The grand Prizes awarded at the National fi fals and for which thousands of Students from all over the nation (Continued on Page Eight) { Fla. Delegation Opposition of Monroe County | Commissioners {o extension of j Everglades National Park into the upland county land has been noted but not approved by U. S. Sena- | tor George Smathers and U. S. Representative Bill Lantaff. | Senator Smathers wrote County | Clerk Earl Adams a note in which | acknowledged receipt of the County's resolution passed at its February meeting. He said: “My inclination is to be very | decidedly against any effort to disturb the Everglades National Park.” He said he hoped to xet | together with Senator Spessard | Holland and with Rep. Lantaff so | that a united front on the ques- tion of Park expansion could be agreed upon. | Rep. Lantaff said that he too; wants to discuss the matter with | Sen. Holland, who had informed | him that he had dictated a leng- thy letter to the Commission on | the matter. Sinclair Wells, Land | Agent of the State Department of | Agriculture acknowledged the! Commission resolution without | comment. i The resolution vigcrously op-/ posed the Park's authorized ex- pansion inte the upper reaches of the country. Its action stimulated by the appearance before it of | (Continued on Page Eight) Can you spare a dime’s worth | illness at a hospital in Roches- | ter, Minn, Mrs. Watker is a local Key West girl, the former Helen Nor- cisa, and she is standing vigil for word of ‘her child’s condition in @ strange town far from her | home and friends. She is not al- lowed to see the baby and can ‘only go to the hospital at 1! a. m. each day to ask how he is. Naturally, she is homesick. A word of encouragement can be worth a lot. Her address is Mrs. Walker, care cf Fiksdal, Second Street S. W., Rochester, Minn, Navy Starts ‘Big Mosquito Set For Bervaldi Control Job County Commissioners, acting lin their airport committee will |Columbia Restaur grant easements to the U. S Navy for an extensive mosquito control ditching and draining pro- ject that will include Meacham airport as well as other large areas of Key West Chica. The Commissioners heard a let ter read from the Navy that it is prepared to “proceed with an ex j tensive project for the control of mosquitoes in the Boca Chica and Key West*area. This project will consist for the most part, in the elimination of mosquito breeding areas by means of digging of ver Keeps Lonely Vigil Jasper | 127 | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS) Local Shrimp Boat Seized iCondition Of Stalin 'By Mexican .Gunboat Tues. ‘Georgiana’ Later Released As Mex. Authorities Crack Down OnUS Boats A Key West based shrimp ; boat, the Georgiana, owned iby the Key West Shrimp Company was among 21 | American vessels seized at |the Campeche fishing banks by the Mexican government | who claims that they violat- jed territorial rights here, it was learned today. Captain Alphonso Williams, 323 Olivia Street, of the Geor-} /giana radioed local head-| |quarters that his boat had been impounded and later jreleased by Mexican author- ities when it was found not to be carrying any shrimp. The seizure marked the first to be repérted this year although last spring, several such incidents oc- }eurred involving local boats. Bert Simmons, manager of the local company, said that the Geor- giana had just completed the transfer of 3800-pounds of shrimp to another craft when a Mexican Navy gunboat moved in to consifs- cate the boat, The controversy, long a sore spot with Florida and Texas shrimp fishermen stems from Mexican claims that territor- jal sea For Consultation A visiting party from Norfolk, Va., hea#ed by Rear Admiral F. I. Entwistle, USN, Commander Operational Development Force, | arrived in Key West yesterday for ' a four-day period of consultation ; on wperations with personnel of Surface Anti-Submarine. Develop- ment Detachment, Airship Deve- lopment Squadron Eleven, Air Development Squadron One, and for a demonstration of operations at sea on board the USS Saufley. | Members of the party accom- panying the Admiral include Ledr. | A. N. Volk, Capt. G, E. Williams, 'Capt. W. L, Tagg, Cdr. E. H. |Simpson, Ledr. J. W. Durborow, Cdr. S. N. Beachman, Cdr. J. M. McCornick, Cdr. B. W. Sarver, j Capt. R. 1. Olson, Cdr. C. R. Ste- phen, Cdr, E. S. Friedrick, Capt. Ir. W. Hopkins, Capt. F. N. Nues- sle, AFC. F. O. Garcia, ¥YNC. L. |D. Borden and UN1 T. Hamby. \Testimonial Fete | Key West's retiring Postmaster, {Hollon Bervaldi, will be feted to- tnight by members of his carrier staff at a testimonial dinner at the | ‘ant The affair to honor Bervaldi,| jwho has been associated with the | Jorchids have been stolen from the Called Grave After Stroke Last Sunday ‘County Road Money Runs Out a * After Next Contract Award —_| Further Reports Bids Let To : 3 + Copneaonety National Air mlb rcee pene Explains Its Cancellations Meeting Tuesday More than $35,000 in bids for Plane Delays From North And county roads were awarded to! three contractors practically clean- { No Lights Held Responsible ing out county budgeted funds for roads in 1953, Road Commission Chairman Harry Harris said. The final award of 1953 will be made on the already author- ized widening of Fifth Avenue Flight caneellations by National effective, Harris said. | Airlines into Key West, com-| Worse. Henry Hudgins of Hudgins: and | Plained of at last night's County Alfonso was low lump sum. bid-| Commission meeting are caused der on roads on Big Pine Key |5y “en route weather” and lack jand Stock, Island. On the first he |0f runway lights at Meacham on Stock Island. After that there will be no more money for budget is bid $9,857.25, and on the Second | Wield, R. E. Pence, local man- _ told The Citizen today. Thieves Steal Orchids Worth $1,000 Here Mrs. A. Mills, Mrs. W. Warren, And DeLand Boy Robbed So Far More than $1,000 in Key West gardens of Mrs. Albert J. Mills, Mrs. William Warren and from young Merle Deland whose heart has been in orchid growing for some time. The thieves started their ne- farious work Saturday night. They broke into the garden of Last night Merle Deland took} Toeds until the 1954 his orchids home from the Flower Show where he had been exhibit. | ing them. Sorne $50 worth of his. orchids were stolen. The orchid growers think that the precious flowers are being sale out of Key West. ‘son, however, that there from a Key West- er who knows where the most valuable orchids can be found, heart-broken orchid fanciers (Continued on Page Eight) . Special Patrol ‘County Beach Drunkenness at. Monroe County Beach is being vigilantly squelch- ed by a stiff policy of Monroe County Commissioners, it was agreed at their meeting last night. Commission Chairman’ Gerald Saunders said that en two Sundays he had observed abuse of “gy on the County Beach. Last - day a Pram es couple became so profane that he called city police to arrest them. Each was fined $25 in City Court. der at $6,357.55 on Oceania Ave- | plaints mue, Key Largo and roads in Tavernier, bid at $2,521.75. Allan | Hot Perez was low lump sum bidder a Sugarloaf Key road at $4,-|j 82 and one on Big Pine UTE i i ati bl E | z j B a fire equipment. at not been computed so award was Postponed untij next week. . Commissioner Joe Allen said (Continued on Page Eight) Moseow Radio Gives Details Of Stalin’s Grave Illness LONDON ~The text of the, hemorrhage in the brain which af-|the Soviet Union and the Soviet |state of J. V, Stalin’s health re- Commissioner Clarence Higgs (Continued On Page Eight) Moscow radio broadcast announc- lfected vital parts of the brain. ing the illness of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and quoting the of- ficial Soviet news agency Tass fol- lows: A government statement about the iliness of the chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers and secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist party of the So- viet Union, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin: i The Central Committee of the Communist party of the Soviet Comrade Stalin lost conscious- ‘A paralysis of the right arm and leg developed. A loss of speech occurred. . Serious disturbances de- Professor - Therapeutist P. E. Luknomsky of the Academy of Medical Science of the USSR. Professor - Neuropathologist V. Union and the Couneil of Minis-| ¢novalov. ters of the USSR announce the | great misfortune which has befal- len our party and our peoples—the grave illness of Comrade J. V. Stalin. During the night of March 1,/ }local office for 29-years, will get underway at 7:30 pm. and Boca/ YOU'LL SPLIT YOUR SIDES ROARING Professor - Therapeutist A. L. Myasnikov. Professor - Therapeutist E. M. Tareyev. Professor - Neuropathologist 1. Comrade Stalin, while he was in N. Filimomov. Moscow in his apartment, had a | i ly AT THE TALENT PACKED jis Lion's Club Minstrel | of A. FP. Tretyakov Professor-Neuropathologist R. A. __ | Tkachev. Professor - Glarunov. Docent (teacher) - Therapeutist | L Ivanhov. The treatment of Comrade Stalin minister of health of the USSR, and 1 Kuperin, chief of the Medical San- litary Board of the Kremlin. The treatment of Comrade Sta- at government, In view of the grave state of the | health of Comrade Stalin the Cen: | ym mm | mains grave. “Considerable disorders in breathing are being observed. The breathing is =* 36 per a f i = é Rg F UH Lite E] = = ‘ | lin is conducted under constant | supervision of the Central Com mittee of the Communist party of | Now On Display (Continued on Page Eight) “The New American Car with the European Look!” THE NEW 1953 TWINS GARAGE 1190 Duval St. Dial 2-2401 Strunk Lumber Yard Has Im Stock All Sizes of PLYWOOD fer Beat and Household Uses DIAL 2-709) 128 SIMONTON STREET Attention Please! KEEP OUR CITY CLEAN By Calling F AM DIAL 2.0806 We BUY oli kinds of JUNK All Kinds of Scrap Meta | Lecated af IT) Simonton Street Tomorrow - Friday - Saturday @ Variety @ Musicals @ Tricks @ Comedy @ Dances .@ Puns @ Songs @ Oleos @ Com Benefit Of The Blind Fund HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM 8:00 P.M. Admission -