The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 14, 1953, Page 12

ROTARY CLUB OFFICIALS accept a new charter for the boy John Kerr, Neighborhood Scout Commissioner (left), at their regular meeting Thursday. x“ . Red Leader Died Just Five Days | After Protector, Joseph Stalin By RICHARD O’REGAN VIENNA, Austraia ®—Klement ', Gottwald, 56, the Communist dic- ‘ tator-president of Czechoslovakia, _| died in Prague today just five days j\after the funeral of his protector, i: Joseph Stalin. The heavy-set peasant-born Mor- ‘| avian, who even looked like Stalin except for the mustache, was taken |ill Thursday morning and died of _jwhat the Prague radio said was pneumonia and pleurisy, compli- cated by a chest hemorrhage. He "\had been in oor health for nearly f/a year. The broadcast hinted that > the icy winds in Moscow, where scout troop they sponsor from From the left, Kerr, Rotary President Neil Knowles, Scoutmaster Arthur Boza and Claude Speer, chair- man of the Rotary Scout committee—Citizen Staff Photo. AAA To Judge | City Safety Campaign Here Key West Will Vie With Other Cities SHERIFF MOVES (Continued trom Page One) as necessary. ‘The gates around \the jail which Spottswood has or- jdered will not be finished in time for the transfer, nor will the iron |grilled doors which he hopes for jthe first floor be installed. | The Sheriff had hoped to have jthe jail in final condition before the transfer was made. He said that it was not completely es- 2 cape-proof when the contractors Its Size In Nat'l finished it last spring. * Gas mains connections delayed Pedestrian Contest the move, it was said. The trans- The Safet: ij . {fer of inmates will be led by ducted by the Cie ot Ker Wet |2#med deputies ard the Sheriff during 1952 on behalf of the ped-|#5 Well as Jailer G estrian will be judged by ‘the; 99 =~ American Automobile’ Association | SEIZED BOAT RETURNS Solan i niet Joseph Kemp an-| (Continued from Page One) pounced today. |sel for the Key West Shrimp com- A contest report form, consist-|pany, has been fishing for eight!ments will be served from the | so his first brush | snack bar, an important part of | ing of questions and answers con- jyears but this was ceffiing accident records, legista- | ‘ |with Mexican authorities, He es- tion and enforcement, engineer-|timates that there are from 250 ir. _c-ranisasion, school safety|to 400 boats fishing on the Cam- and public information, all direct-|peche area but activities there are toward the pedestrian, has| almost certain to be curtailed. heen completed and mailed, he; Last year, three Key West “see. | boats were seized. “20 ¢/ty will be judged with} Meanwhile almost all of the ‘ses cities of like size all over jowners of the American boats * *orntry: Winners will be an-|taken by the Mexican Navy, have av"heed by a naticnal Loard of |posted bonds of $1,700 each to y 3 composed of some of the jfree the craft. prom nent men in the field; Complaints have been filed with the Mexican authorities by the contest representa-} Untied ‘Sate Department. the following safe} Currentl there is an Ameri- ng’rules which he said were|can Coast Guard plane and a cut- perticular!y applicable at this ‘ter patrolling the fishing grounds thae. of year. They. included the|to warn American vessels when familiar “Wear White at Night’ |they get too close inshore. admonition, “Cross Only At Cross; The Mexican sovernment re- Walks,” “Walk on the left side of \cognizes nine miles as their ter- the road facing traffic,’ and/triorial limit but this country “Stop At the curb and look both | maintains that three miles is the wars before crossing the street.” correct distance. “Observance of these safe walk- ing rules,’ Kemp said, “Will in- Sure our city of not only of get- ting a good score in the safety contest, but will make all of us a sure winner -- with the prize being our life and limb.” USO Open House March 28 And 29 Open House for the USO club on Jackson Square will be held nounced at the USO Committee on Management meeting yester- ‘day. Mrs. Julius Kovash, chairman tof the program committee for ;the event called a meeting to end open house for this Wednes- | day. \equipment and new furniture will |be showed. off to the public by the various rooms of the newly® done over clubhouse. Refresh- {the renovations. Detailed plans jfor the Open House will be an- jnounced next week. | PAPY TO ASK MORE | (Continued from Page One) ing the city manager’s approval jon same. | The use of cigarette tax funds will be limited according to an- lother measure whch calls for the | setting up a special fund for such | money and entailing penalties for |the misuse of the fund | Papy has already proposed sweeping changes in the city’s jelection lawas reducing the terms lof the commissioners to a flat two years. He will hold a public hearing on all ‘egislation in the Monroe County Court House on March 27th. It is believed that the Greek alphabet from which most modern alphabets were derived, is a bor | rowing from a Semitic alphabet. CLEARVIEW TTERS STORM STOP io i ‘GURRICARES FOR absolute PROTECTION — | ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED PHONE 2-993] |March 28-and 29, for the com-| munity of ‘Key West, it was an-| plan the schedule of the week-' {hostesses who will lead them to} Gottwald attended Stalin’s funeral Monday, brought on his fatal ill- ness. | But the sudden demise of the dictator who succeeded the late Eduard Benes as president in 1948 struck Western observers as. a queer coincidence. There were some here who hinted that. he might have been “purged” by the new regime in the Kremlin because it feared he might become a Tito. Perhaps significantly the Prague jradio followed up the announce- ment of the death by declaring, “Those attempting to destroy the unity of Czechoslovakia will be mercilessly wiped out.” This was after the pattern of Moscow’s radio appeals for unity around the new Soviet prime min- ister, Georgi Malenkov, after Sta- lin’s death. | There was no hint as to who will succeed Gottwald, There is a pos- sibility that the post of president may be abolished and ruling power placed in the hands of a group of likely contenders for the No. 1 | spot. erry LaBrada. | The building renovations, new| The four likeliest contenders for the throne are Antonin Zapotocky, the prime minister; Vilem Siroky, deputy prime minist Ba- |cilek, national security minister, and Alexei Cepicka, Gottwald’s in-law and defense minister. sottwald wielded broad powers |in Prague. He was not only presi- |dent, but boss of the Communist Party and commander-in-chief of both the army and the secret po- lice. No other functionary in a Communist satellite had as much | Power, at least in name, Gottwald’s illness did not be- }come known to the world until |late yesterday when the Prague jradio announced it. Like the Mos- | cow radio in Stalin's illness, it ac- |companied the announcement with }solemn musie and frequent broad- |ecasts of medical bulletins signed by many doctors. Some of the doctors were Rus- slans. This morning It was announced that Gottwald had, fallen into a coma. The regular 1 p. m. news broadcast was delayed for an hour and 11 minutes, with the an- nouncers apparently standing by for the death bulletin, Then the announcement that Gottwald had died at 11 a, m. (5 a. m, EST) was; read to the listeners, There fol- | lowed a long | complishments. Speculation that Gottwald might have been purged by “wrong med- ical treatments” was heightened | by reports here that be had been in {a poor political position for more ; than a year because of a fall-down | in Czech industrial production for | Soviet war needs, | Last December, a staged trial of |14 high Czechoslovak Communists jwas held. Among them were 11 | jews. Rudolf Slansky, former hatchet man of the Gottwald re- gime and a collaborator in the |1948 Communist coup, was the | chief defendant and was convicted | and hanged with 10 others. ; It was assumed at the time that Gottwald had won out in a struggle for power with Slansky, largely because of his support from Stalin, and had sacrificed the hatchet man_as a scapegoat to make his own. position more secure. But Czech industrial production is reported no better. If Gottwald were of a mind to become a “Tito” be was im a good position to do so, and the rulers of the Kremlin might heve feared him for that reason. There are no Ressian occupation troops in Czechoslovakia, and Czech territory buddies up close to the American zone of Germany. Gottwald was given a position of prominence on the Leain tomb at Stalin's funeral in Moscow Monday, however. He returned to Prague Wednesday. mysteries have de- Meanwhile, ped over the health of two account of his ac-| EVERGLADES PARK (Continued from Page One) month ago and asked the County Commissioners to pass..2 resolu- tion opposing Park Service “Ex- pansion.” The Commissioners did so and forwarded copies of the resolution to Senators Spessard Holland, George Smathers and Representative Bill Lantaff. The latter two lawmakers re- plied to the County that they did not care to comment: on the re- solution until they conferred with Senator Holland who has had-last experience with Everglades Park Service matters, It was said that Senator Holland had already dic- tated a long letter on the subject of the resolution andthe Ever- glades Park plans for perusal by Commissioners. ~ County . Clerk Earl Adams asked. Commission- ters last Tuesday night for autho- rity to write Holland and ask if they can expect the letter in the Rear future. Superintendent Vinton was linterviewed as he boarded the “Fort Jefferson” for an inspec- tion of the Natiorig] park of ‘that name in the Dry Tortugas. Mrs. Vinton accompanied him. | Also making the trip were Chief Mas- ter of Arms of the Naval Station D. L. and Mrs. Varrellman. Boat Capt. Joe Santini and Boat Engi- pene Harry Moore manned the at. WILL R. PORTER» (Continued trom’ Page One). - noon when it will be placed in the Church. Burial will be im the family plot of the City Cemetery. Mr. Porter’s widow Mrs. Amelia Hart- well Porter. arrived .in. Key West today for the funeral. Mrs. Jessie Porter Newton, Mr. Porter’s only daughter returned to the city to- day after journeying: to Miami yesterday upon news of her fa- ther’s death. z Pallbearers for the late pioneer were announced today by Lepez Funeral Home which is making funeral arrangements: STATE IIB WILL (Continued from Page One) vate business interests which they seid was ruining the water- Mayor C. B, Harvey and Com- missioner Jack Delaney — had sparked the earlier fight to get the land for the city. SOUTHERNMOST (Continued from Page One) fered. duplicate: prizes ofthe ones in the earlier parade and winners will be chosen on the "same basis. There has never been any. or- ganized plan for parading in Key West on Easter, and finery has been laid aside after church in previous years. While retail merchants do not want to lay tacted, but all donations or help in putting this. over will be en- tirely voluntary. Anyone wish- Charles E. Roberts, Karl 0. Laghecher Thompson, J. B. Sullivan, Char- les S, Taylor, C: Larry Gardner, William A. Freeman, Ross C. Sawyer, Sr., and J. Otto Kirchein- r. er. The body of the one-time finan- cial leader was brought over the Overseas Highway, today, the road, which his. efforts. had help- ed build following the devastation of the Florida East Coast rail-' road in the 1935 hurricane. He will be buried in the city, he always considered ho even | though he had lived sway. from it for the past several years. The British Parliament has been called “Mother of Parlia- ments” because many parlia- ments in other parts of the world have been Hed “upon it. PEERS. 1607. warp EnnGL RE tae died .mysterious.y He either jumped or was pushed out of a | window. | Gottwald patterned bis‘life after his idol, sia lied the ; purge as i | vakia lin did: ip. Russia. He: t in carrying ia’s dictates to the Czech people. He was a bitter foe of the | Roman Catholic. church, whose ad- | heren i country’s 13 miillion people. It was Gottwald’s government that brought William Oatis, the 19st" has ne he came of }in Vienna was draft army. He was sian front after forma [lic he joined | Communist Party. | During World War TI be was Moscow—getting the cratic goverumient of Eecbeloy cratic government ot lia, originally patterned after United States, to the puppet ' gime demanded by Gottwaid's M in é s | Communists in On July 3, 1948 he tit other Red satellite leaders. Matyas | | No 1 Commanist of Hun- jew, has not returned Germae repeblic, bas ed seriously i since week. He did not go te alin funeral ah come just 5 ¢ ft aneiversary of hat of Foreign an Mesaryt. the pre von of the founder of the ovak repeblic, Masaryk eva \ Beaters Creches. id j nos MONT eo AUTO REPAIRS © AUTO PAINTING © BODY & FENDER WORK , _ At The Right Price... | Take Your Cer Te Klement Gottwald, Communist Dictator Of Czechoslovakia, Died Today CITY TO RAISE SEWER (Continued from Page: One) Axelson came. to Key West -a| vent the enereachment of pri- |for the bonds could be found un- less the situation more attractive* by the city could: handle. ls t z ze Hf a Hj i Fa E i E i i i Cy tet see i [ é ee "5 PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, March 1Sth to 37th is the S4th anniversary of the founding of the Amerigan Legion, and ‘WHEREAS, this organisation has contributed to the local relief activities, and further to the propagation of Americaniam in America, end WHEREAS, the majority of Key West has shown its enthusiasm toward the ‘Veterans’ group in Amer- ica today, and a large portion ef the veterans of this com- NOW, THEREFORE, |, €. 8. HARVEY, Mayor of The City of Key West, Florida,\do hereby proclaim March 15- 41, 1953, as ‘qnd urge ail within our City te co-operate in making this Given under my hond and seal this Mth day of March, A. D. 1983. : C.B. HARVEY, Mayor, City of Key West, Florida. ® FREEMAN CHAS. ARONOVITZ “mer Key West's Larges Store