The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 6, 1953, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXIV Che Kev West Citi THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A FERRY NEGOTIATIONS SHOW GOOD PROGRESS Cuban Bankers Inspect Ship Set For Havana- Key West Service The complicated nego-| tiations between American| and Cuban interescs for the| establishment of a Havana-' Key West Ferry Line ap-| pear to be progressing sat- isfactorily, according to a report from H. G. Williams, | president of the Gulf At- jJantic Transportation Com- pany, to the board of di- rectors of that concern. The shipping company is one of the major stockholders in the Marine Bridge Trans-| portation Company, the firm that will operate the} thrice weekly service. Williams, in his report, told of conferences with officials of the} Banco Agricola y Industria, who are participating in the financing of the operation in Jacksonville. ' The Cuban officials made an in-| spection of the vessel to be used in the enterprise, the Caribe Queen, which is currently in dry- dock undergoing repairs and con- version for car ferry service there. The Cuban officials expressed “gomplete satisfaction” with the progress of planning thus f. * Williams added, The men, D Carlos Du-Quesne, vice president ‘of the bank, Senior Eugenio C: tile and a Senor Fillippi, are now in New York for further seohremes regarding the ferry , wg the Jaxsou ville ‘parleys, the Cubans also were furnished with | further information concerning the establishment of motel service in , Cuba, presumably for the benefit | ot American motorists touring the | | country. The Cuban government has already announced their in- | tention of making vast improve- ments in the island’s highway fgeilities to accemodate tourists. The ferey project is reportedly number one on the list of public! improvements of President Ful- gencio Batista, | All that stands in the way of} the final documents for the start; of services are the arrangements | of a satisfactory labor contract with various Cuban unions who will be associated with the opera- tion of the proposed service and) the final completion of the nego- Uations of the dock in Havana. | The City of Key West has al-j ready purchased a dock on this | end of the line for. their use in fulfillment of a deal made by) members of the city commission | in Havana nearly a year ago. The Cuban labor interests are said to be asking that the ferry line carry. just passengers and} automobiles and not cargo or! trucks. It is expected that a a (Continued On Page Two} Addresses Of Fla. Legislators Now Available ‘The complete tist of Senators and Representatives in the 1953) | Muniz Is Regul \Patent On New Bottle Holder WASHINGTON, D. C. (WNS) — A patent has been granted to James Muniz of Key West, , on a bottle holder for was filed in the Patent Of- fice November 29, 1950. It is different in five respects from anything patented or known, patent examiners found. {It is a bottle holder made up of a sheet metal receptacle portion including a back, having an inverted channel at its upper edge adapted to hooking over edge of a wire support structure, bendable tongues at the side edges of the receptacle portion locked behind the back and bendable tongues also at the side edges of the receptacle portion locked behind the reticulations of the supporting structure. Marines Battle Reds Near Scene Of Truce Talks by WILLIAM C. BARNARD SEOUL #~—U. S. Marines slug- ged it out with 175 Chinese Reds today just east of Panmunjom, ! | where United Nations and Allied | liaison officers opened talks on an exchange of sttk and wounded} prisoners of war. The bdlootly skirmish apse a seant half-mile from the neutral) corridar—the route which , Allied armistice officers took to Panmun- jom a few hours later. The Marine patrof which encoun- tered the Red company called im- | mediately for Marine tank, rocket | and artillery fire. The blazing 1%- hour battle left 19 Chinese counted | dead, 16 estimated killed and 28 estimated wounded. The Reds pulled pack after. fresh | Marines rushed forward to the original patrol. Fiery patrol aetions flared aise: | where. Bad weather Fifth Air Force warplanes, (Con'inued On Page Two) grounded most but CORRECTION The Audubon Screen Tour ad- vertisement appearing in Sat- | urday’s paper should have read Tuesday, April 7, Monday, April 6. Or. Fran William Hall will present “The Four Corners” at Key West High School at 8 p.m. | | Tuesday. “Monster In Mania- ture” will be shewn at Truman School at 2 o'clock. Tuesday afternoon! ' ieeeone i ameimeemes meneame } calling for tenders instead of | City Fathers Meet Tonight In City Hall Refrigeration Bill Will Be Aired At Regular Session Set For 8 o’Clock Tonight jing strict controls on refrigera- tion and air conditioning installa- ed tonight at the regular meeting of the city commission. The measures, worked out by City Manager Dave King in cooperation with local dealers and contractors, will be introduced as emergency bills so that they can be passed on first reading because of their importance. In the past, local contractors | have complained of the lack of controls which have allowed out of town “fly by night” concerns to come to this city and make installations without the ment of license fees. The ordinances will call for the establishment of a board of engi- neers. The board will be made up of five members including the city electrical inspector. The city commission will appoint the other four and at least two of them | must be qualified Master Install- ‘ers. The city building inspector | will serve as secretary of the | board. The bill also set standards of fees for installation and for the oc- | cupational licenses of the installers | and engineers. In er business, the commis- \ sioners will act-on- a resolution on some of the City’s. Florida Refunding Bonds, dated 1938. The bonds will be redeemed out of surplus funds in the city’s Interest and Sinking ‘Hall Backers ‘Increase Numbers Pay- «In GOP Job Race | WASHINGTON w—Two more members of Congress, both ‘of }them regarded as political friends of Sen. Tait (R-Ohio), came out {publicly over the weekend for ‘Leonard W. Hall for |ship of the Republican | Committee. They were Sen, Ferguson (R- Mich) and Rep. Reece (R-Tenn). The committee is scheduled to } meet here Friday to name a suc | cessor to C. Wesley Roberts, who | Tesigned. Hall, a former member of the House and now a surrog judge of wills and estates, in Nas. | sau County, indicated after a call on President Eisenhower Saturday (Continued On Page Two) National Two separate ordinances plac-| tiens in the city will be consider- | which were | chairman- | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1953 | Beverage Agents | Check Local Bars State Beverage Department officials swooped into town Saturday night for the second Straight week bit they ap- parently found no violations of the State laws governing the sale of alcoholic beverages in Key West. However, their tour of the city’s bars resulted in the rest of one man on the chai of interfering with an officer. in connection with an incident involving the state agents. The man, Mario Narcissa, 801 Emma Street was jailed shortly after midnight Sunday on Petronia Street. He will be | arraigned in City Court today. Meanwhile, no announcement has been made concerning. the trial dates of ten Key West- | ers who were taken into custody last week on charges ranging from selling liquor to minors to gambling. County Solicitor Allan B. Cleare, Jr., had been conferring with the State men last week. | j cal Watkins Dies Suddenly Of Heart Attack Key’ West Native Stricken While Av Little Torch Key Yesterday Joseph Nilson Watkins, Com-| | mander, USNR, ret., 54, of 1433) Reynolds Street, died suddenly yesterday at 12:14 noon at Mon-/ | fee General hospital following a | heart attack. < Watkins, who was a consulting | engineer with M./&. Bennett Con- | struction, cornea rag abe! fot Torcawood, "Little -Té | was at Little ‘Torch “whea he was stricken. James Gillespie, drove | Watkins the 30 miles into the hos-} pital where he died shortly after | arrival Watkins, a native Key Wester, | served in the Navy for 10 year. | He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Jennie Mae Watkins, four daugh- ters, Joanne, Martha, (now Mrs; | E. M, Bennett), Nancy and Alice; } two brothers, Paul and Bent} Watkins, and two sisters, Mrs.| Ruie Roberts and Mrs. Alice} MecArus. Watkins was a Senior member | of the American Society of Civil} Engineers, of the Florida Society | |of Engineers, and a Mason. He! | received a presidential citation | for vice in World War I, and} had‘ served in World War II. | During his naval service he was | | officer in charge of construction | @t the 12th Naval district, San| Franvisco. He was also Pulilic| Works Officer at Parris Island, | ral services will be wee-| on at 5 o'clock: at} Church. The; 1 Touchton will off services. Mr. Wi wed On Page Shed nes the Rev, ciate a (Cont, _ Plorida State Legislature which} @ontinved Tuesday telbuted to newspaper and radio! stations by the National Federal @ Business and Professional Wo- | men’s Clubs, according to State President Mrs. © The home address of the 38) eenators and more numerous low @e House members are «gives. Ghould anyone desire to check the golons’ whereabouts, a copy of available at The Citizen affice. Decorate Your Kitchen With Satinlite. Tileboard STRUNK LUMBER YARD DIAL 2700 W20 Simenten Street > Our Ci PLEASE! BY Sy eon Key West Junk Dealers DIAL 24555 er 1.576 We Buy Ail Kinds of Juek ... All Kinds of Scrap Metal Ul SIMONTON ST. is being dis-| B. Harvey. } POLICE ARE STILL SEARCHING {c | m damage mm the y i i | | jail | looks like Guerrero ; no sign of the ear or of Guerrero | quarters are w: | given by Criminal Court Judge ».| Trooper Jack Walden. The Associated Press Teletype Features and Photo ‘Services. For 78 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Navy Lt. Jailed On Manslaughter Charge In Traffic Death Sunday x * kee Guerrero May Be, In Stolen Ford, Not Stolen Boat, In New Escapade | The statewide manhunt for Charles Guerrero, Albert Davis, 23, and four other convicts who ¢scaped Dade County’s skyscraper Saturday night, con- tinues today on the 120 miles of waterfront of the} Keys. puties have searched every side- | road off the Keys to find the 1949 Ford License 38-2729 stolen from Andrew B. Richardson from the Mexican tavern, Stock Island, by @ man he claims | As The Citizen’ went to press | or Albert Davis or Gilberto Cer- vantes was found. Immigration of- ficials and Coast Guard head- ing all plane and boat d from Key West. The local docks are keep- ing an eye on their shrimp boats, since Guerrero has a predilection- for making away with them. He was in the ‘Ss and county for him in the allegedly stolen.car. Richardson who lives at 313 Truman Avenue, said he was in the Mexican tavern early this morning drinking beer. He had left his Ford outside. A man answering Guerrero’s descrip- tion was also in the bar just be- fore the car disappeared. Davis, who was released from jail by the escaaped convicts, was awaiting trial by Dade coun- ty officials on a breaking and entering charge before going to Raiford for a ten year sentence Thomas Caro on his attempted jail break here on January 16. He had originally been placed in Monroe county jsil on a charge of drunken driving, des- truction of state property and other offenses involved in a wild ride down the Keys, where he | was apprehended by State Guerrero made Key West history ; in February and March when he| |its dock in Key West, recruited | jtwo men, one Ralph Maribona, | Jr. ex-city policeman and Manuel | Perez as crew and set sail for | Cuba. ‘The law caught up with Guer. | |fero in Cuba. He was flown back ; here for a preliminary hearing be- i fore Peace Justice Ira Albury on ithe grand lareeny charge to which | he pleaded guilty. He also plead. / ‘ed guilty to the Federal charge of | transporting a stolen vessel be-: tween nations. In Miami, Guer-/ at was sentenced ten days ago. (Continued On Page Two} ‘Admiral Duke ‘Speaks Tonight ‘ Rear Admiral trving T. Duke | will address members and friends | jof the Monroe County Jovenile Council at the Key West High) Sehool auditorium, tonight at 8 pm . President Leland March will introduce the speaker, who is! | part of a series on various groups’ | responsibility to the youth of the commanity ISLAND RUYING ALL JUNK and METALS 24,| © Monroe county shariff’s de- | ‘ kx * Keys Manhunt For Six Convicts: xe Lt. C. E. Roach Held On $5,000 Bond After Death Clifford Brown Lt. (j.g.) C. E. Roach fs being held on $5,000 bond jon charges of manslaughter of Clifford Edward Brown, 41, Marathon, who died at : |3 a.m. Sunday after Roach’s car smashed into him on U. S. 1 near Boca Chica. Lt. Roach is charged with |fatally hitting Brown who >was trying to fix his dis. aS WHERE'S CHARLIE?—That's what Border Patrol, “Dade Coun- oft ani. Manip Comnty ee and seeking. Charles Guerrero, 24, SOifieers are asiringes.s ‘Minmi yay. Bstufday and may‘be somewhere gn the)Florida Keys with convicted jail- breaker’ Albert D, Davis—Citizen Statt-Photo.” Dulles Is To. Define Stand On Pact Power By JOHN CHADWICK WASHINGTON W—Secretary of | State Dulles was called by a Senate judiciary: subcommittee today to define the administration's position on @ proposed constitutional amendment to curb treaty-making powers, [Adenauer Arrives Today For Talks With Eisenhower By ED CURTIS NEW YORK (#--West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer ar- rives today for taiks with Presi dent Eisenhower which may cen- ter on the Soviet “peace” drive's | impact on European unity. James B. Conant, U. S. high; commissioner for Germany, flew | here yesterday from Bonn. He will abled car off the highway, 'Roach was driving a 1949 Chrysler coupe. Brown's mangled body’ was viewed by a corner’s jury .m- mediately empanneled by Coro- | per Roy Hamlin yesterday grorn- “ing. Brown and his wife Mildred, colored, wexe on their way back to Marathon where he worked for the Floyd Lamb construction company, when their car broke down, north of Boca Chica bridge. Brown get out of the 1946 Cidé- | mobile movecibte to check the trouble, He wide of tie car, ing Brown 150 te 200-8 :t, killing him instantly. Roach wi ;omter test to be drunk. | _ He did not stop after hitting | Brown, it was said. The latter's | wife who hed been in the rear of the car when the smashing occurred, raced afters, Roach’s car, screaming for him te step. Roach, who it is said was in | sech s condition that he did not know what he was doing, brought Mrs. Roach back te the | death scene, let her out, and then raced down the highway heading for Key West. Mean- | while Mrs. Brown's screams stepped « truck which brought her to the Navel hespite! where | she summoned an ambulance President Eisenhower recently | attend Adenauer’s conferences with| and sheriff's department sides. said he felt the proposal would deny him the flexibility he requires | for conducting foreign affairs, and| Adenauer, like the President, is | Cline. Trooper jthe President and. Secretary of State Dulles in Washington. Roach was picked up on Stock Island by State Trooper Frank Cline — brought Dulles is expected to go into more| a strong supporter of Western Eu-| Roach to the police station for detail in his testimony. First scheduled witness at the | j hearing was Clarence Mannion, a | 500,000 Germans back into uniform | lin, was standing by the cer Topean unity His ‘support of plans to put | j tests despite his struggle to get away. Roach. accordieg to Ham- |former dean of the Notre Bame jas part of a Eurepean army has drunk, when Trooper Cline pick- University Law School The subcommittee plans to con- (Continued On Page Two) | powerful opposition in bis own ‘country and in a nervous France | stole the shrimp boat Ramos from | | clude its hearings this week after Of the six nationa! legislatures | of the erime. Hi | (Continued On Page Two} ed him up. 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