The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 30, 1953, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the fost equable climate in the ountry, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXIV. Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. No. 76 No Trial Date Is Set For Ten Accused Bar Violators Ten Local People Arrested By State Liquor Board Men No date has been set for preliminary hearing or trial for,10 Key Westers who were arrested in an early morning shakedown Sunday in the city’s bars by State Beverage Dept. agents on Dies In D.C. Fishing Film For Television | ‘Shot By Field & Stream Here | Joseph Elwood Will Be Shown Throughoyt USA In Series Of 26 BY SUSAN MCAVOY Field and Stream, the largest been shooting a 15 minute film on KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1953 | | sports magazine in the world has | © The Associated Press Teletype Features and Photo Services. For 72 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West. PRICE FIVE CENTS BOY SUFFERS _ FATAL MISHAP Eleven-year-old P as the result of an acc! ‘from the rear of a station Explains f hi praia. Water Cutoff Yesterday. | newspapers. Fishing in the Florida Keys for a) Young Dopp was pronounced dead in the Monroe charges ranging from. serv- ing liquor to minors to| operating a gambling | house. Both Peace Justices, Ira Albury ‘of the First District! and Roy Hamlin, Second | District, said today that no complaints had been filed with them _ following the | large scale raid in which 14) State agents checked nearly | \After Tilness Second Brother To Die Within Year; Son Of Mrs. Robert Saunders Joseph M. Elwood, 42, one of Key West’s most popular and suc- cessful native sons, died Sunday afternoon in Sibley Memorial Hos- pital in Washington, D: C. after a short illness. Son of Mrs. Robert Saunders, 2385 Flagler Ave., Mr. Elwood was the second of the Elwood brothers to die within a year. Another bro- thirty local bars for viola-|ther, Bernard, age 40, died here tions. The score. now stands at 10 ar- rests including that of the secre- tary and business agent of the local bartenders’ union. The raid was the second in two weeks although the earlier check resulted in just one arrest of local bartender in the Sand Bar on Du, last May 7. After leaving High. school, Mr. Elwood worked for six years in the First National Bank here. He played the saxaphone in one: of the city’s most popular orchestra dur- ing the early 8. He married Miss Mary Johnson, native Key Wester and a graduate of the Convent of Mary Immacu- a et He is still awaiting @| late, and 21 years ago they left wareag: for W: , D.C, % Led by John H, Safford, assistant | tweed hog’ cocopted” Cit director of the State Beverage De-| with the United States Civil Ser- partment, the raids were conduct- ed by a force of agents recruited from the Miami area in coopera- tion with Sheriff's Deputies and lo- “The closed in’ on the Celebrity| Club 124 Duval Street where they arrested Mona DelMonte, manager, who gave her age as 31, along with the bartender, Joseph Gild who is an. official in the Hotel and Re- taurant Employees and Bartenders Local 156. The pair was later re- eased on $500 bond on charges of selling liquor to minors, Cecil’s Bar of Music, 623 Duval Street also, was hit by, the agents and Ida Kaplan, 44 was taken into custody on the same’ charge, as na Leon Strauss, 28, of the Jungle ar. Largest haul however, was made at Petronia and Thomas Streets, fm the Blue Heaven Billiar Parlor | where the manager, Wheeler Gan- dolfo, 50, was jailed on five sepa- rate ‘charges including that of op- erating a gambling establishment, | selling whiskey without a license, possession of gambling devices and possession of lottery tickets. Bond of $500, totalling $2500 was set on each count. Four patrons of the poolroom, Alfonso Bailey, 27; Henry W. Scott, 25; Gilbert Curry, 24 and Joseph Portier, 25, were also taken into} custody on gambling charges. j Another man Oscar Melntosh | On Two | MONROE THEATRE | COMING SOON Play Date Te Se Announced vice commission. One promotion followed another for the Key Wester and at the time of his death he h top flight with the” Commission ‘with~ headquarters. in the Pentagon building in Washin; ton. For many years his job car- Tied him'on inspections trips throughout the United States and its possessions. He was last in Key West for the funeral of his brother, Bernard, Spring for his annual vacation. Beside his mother ant wife, he leaves two sons, Joseph, Jr., 21; (Continued On Page Two) pases sake 2d Elks’ Installation Thursday Night Installation of new Elks of- ficers will take place at the Ledge, Thursday night at 8 pm, Past District Deputy P. J. Ross. will officiate at the inatattation, a Service | television series to be put on throughout the country. er of Field and Stream, circula tion 900,000, brought down his ace photographer Stewart Ludlum from New York to make the movie. | Rigg relaxed comfortably and {happily at The Key Wester Sat- urday efter five days of roughing it at the Marquesas, 26 miles west of Key West, in Capt. Johnny West’s “Mae West.” “1 feel now as though I never want to catch another fish. But by Monday when Bahamas | know | lisher said. Rigg and Ludlum as well as Don Carter, director of Field. and Steam found Marquesas loaded with every kind of Florida fish.. Rigg and fellow actor George Sum- ers, Jr. of Texas, had magnificent luck in catching jewfish, barracu- da, grouper and other native den- ns. “It’s largely a matter of luck when you shoot these films. Our luck was good-weather running, and we shot 5,000 feet of film. The actual film will contain only 420 feet of film which will {run 13 and one half ites on + Purpose of the decumentary en Florida fishing is twofold. “First,” said Rigg, “we want to show sportsmen how to catch | the various fish, and second we | stress conservation.” we get to the will,” the pub- “in every instance,” stressed : and planned on returning here this| the publisher, “we release the | adjacent to his fish, except for eating or mount- “ While the film was in the mak- ing Rigg and Sumers stayed right on West's boat at the Marquesas. Carter and Sumer, Sr. flew down in Col. Pen Edgar’s Sea Bee every day to carry messages, food and good cheer to the filmmakers. er could not forego the plea- | in some tarpon | st of getting fishing while here. So he charter- ed the immaculate cruiser of Dr. J. A. Valdez, and sought the silver king with Sumer’s daughter ‘“‘Hic- ke: y. Their catch was the sisht of the waterfront for a day. Carter land- ed a 90 pound beauty in one hour and 35 minutes. Hickey landed a | child (Continued On Page Two) "| Edgar T. Rigg, president of Hen- | ry Holt and Company and publish- | } { ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD PETER DOPP, 514 Francis Street, was the victim this morning of a fatal automobile mishap. Services for the youth, who was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert. Dopp, prom- inent Key Westers, will be held 5:00 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the First Methodist Church.—National Studios Photo. General Hospital this morning at 7:10 o'clock from in- juries which were diagnosed as a skull fracture and cas Crowds View His brother, Tony, 15, was driv- ‘ng the station wagon, which was travelling at a moderate speed on Georgia Street when the vehicle struck a bump and Peter was i H t after admittance. Th i transferred to the Lopez Funeral Home. : PW Officer Says Pressure Was Stopped For Work On SI And Keys In reply to the many queries ae ment from Navy Public Works ficer Comdr. J. C, Luppens: “The Navy was faced problem of correcting : See Tiny Child Drowns At Sigsbee Park Two-Year-old Fleming Tot Into Home Filial & as Wi Sea Ni Tiny 1 |Lt. and Mrs. Dean #fething, |." | 86-Sigsbee Road, ‘Sigsbee! Park, perished when he| | wandered into the water § 3 for the home. Lt. | a : Fleming is attached to He-) ,smymers,, “ise. jlicopter Squadron One at/ u and oppose ation the Seaplane Base, me's bo expected Coroner Roy Hamlin satd te | workers affected day that the child perished yes- | in. other jobs terday afternoon at about 5 | Station. o'clock. He was found by his father in just 18 inches of water. He had apparently wandered in- to the sea while playing with a pet Boxer puppy. It is estimated that the baby was immersed in the water about 15 minutes. He was pronounced dead at the Naval Hospital by physicians who worked for over an hour in a futile attempt at reviving the Hil peeiagh i 28 372 2 Se 237 7 z 2 < 2 Into Drowning He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Street, FEEE on Sunday afternoon to show off its new face-lifting. Many guests were shown through and John Yates, Yates, Bay St. and Sheldon Yates, M F 2 ? i aunt, Mrs. Clara Marlar, | Califor nia. Shay . Spending Planned WASHINGTON @—A constitu- {tional amendment, designed to ;foree government economies by a | fixed limitation on spending. was proposed in the Eenate Friday by Republican Leader Taft of Ohio and Sen. Ferguson (R-Mich). | Under the proposal the expenses ‘of operating the regular govern- He of & : [ = F BFe g i i i E i a | 4 | Fy ; a f os Ft 4 2 4 Auxiliary; . Roger Watson, Gold Star Mothers; Mrs, Ida Gell- {rich, Beta Sigma Phi; Mrs. Ralph | Faraldo, Sinawiks;+ Mrs. Edward | Bestern Sars" Miss rr; Hilda Cunniff, Garden Club. ‘Phe Saturday night program, held as house celebration In ‘addition to the parents, Tit- Of Shrimper tle Dean is survived by two sis- | ters and a brother. | Services will be held tomorrow afternoon in the Chapel of the Pritchard Funeral Navy Chaplain W, B. Lauden- slager officiating. Burial will be in the City Cemetery. Woods’ Hearing Today At 4:30 Robert Woods, accused of as- sault with attempt to commit murder on his brother-inlaw Ro- bert Curry, contractor will have a preliminary hearing before Peace Justice Roy Hamlin today shoot his brother-inlaw at Bozo’s outdoor theater on Stock Island. | The gun failed to go off. FIELD AND STREAM PUBLISHER, photographer, and friends with some of their catch. Edgar T. Rigg, president of Henry Holt and Company which publishes Field and Stream, left. Robert Stev- ens, mate, next. Center is George Sumers, Jr. who was one of the actors in the documentary film shot at the Marquesas; seated. right front, Dom Carter, board of directors of the magazine: and behind the camera is Stewart Ludlum whe shot the TV film. Right rear, is Skipper Johnny West, whose boat was chartered by the film makers for the five-day expedition —Key West Phote Service. Home with | AT YOUR FAVORITE GROCERS Bottled in Florida's NEWEST. 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