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

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with on average range of only 14° Fahrenheit The Ken West Citisen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER free. LXXIV No. 135 IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS Property Value In Key West Is UpFour Million 1953 Tax Book Reflects Huge Building Boom Phe value of property in Key | | | West has shown a tremen-| dous jump of $3,809,240.00 | fm one year, it has been re-! vealed by the 1953 Tax Book | prepared by City Tax As-! sessor Sam Pinder, Jr. The | roll reveals that the total) value of property in Key West is now a huge $23,946,-) 850.00, Pinder said. The Equalization Board will consider the 1953 tax roll Monday night when they will hold their second public hearing into this year’s assessments prepara- tory to the acceptance of the tax book. The jump in property valuation, is attributed by Pinder to the tremendous building program in progress here in past months, in- cluding the massive Dredgers Key and Peary Court Housing projects. Pinder also said that he has made no “wholesale increases” in assessments this year. ‘‘Occasion- | adjustments | ally, we have made in individual assessments where | Hopes For Korean Armistice Increase we thought they were inaccurate, | but generally, the increase in the (Continued on Page Two) Stolen Car Found Before Its Owner Even Misses It Robert Ey MillerUSN, had his stolen car returned to him before he even missed it yesterday. His comment was: “Fastest work I've ever seen.” Sheriff John Spottswood said he had a call yesterday afternoon that three boys were fooling around with a car, He ordered them followed, | but the kids disappeared. Next a call from the Capt. D. M. Andrew, constable, saying that Capt. Andy had picked up three! boys in a 1941 Blue Chevrolet, two door sedan on the Seven Mile Bridge. The Sheriff's department located the owner, Miller, and in- formed him that his car was re- covered. Miller, who had not even known it was stolen was a very happy man to have it restored. lives at 611 Truman Avenue, Large Crowd Of Elks Attend Initiation Here More than 140 Elks attended the Joint initiation of clas West Lodge of Elks and Florida Keys Lodge of Elks at the Thurs- day night meeting of the Key West Lodge. The lodge received an unexpect- ed visit from District Deputy Grand Exalter Ruler Johu Finn of Holly- ‘wood. Who made his second visit of the year to the Key West lodge Wo witness the initiation. Initiated into the order were 18 Elks from Monroe county. Despite inclement weather the turnout was one of the largest in the history of the Key West lodge. Past District Deputy P. J. Ross Gave the talk to the new members, District Deputy Finn compliment- ed the Key West officers on their first presentation of the ritualistic Miller | ses for Key | | NO NEW PROPOSAL ON POW ISSUE GIVEN IN TALKS By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN PANMUNJOM (#—Allied and Communist negotiators met in tight seerecy for 19 minutes today as mushrooming reports of near agreement on the key issue of pris- oner exchange bglstered hopes for an armistice in Kerea. There was no official hint of what went on inside the conference hut, but an authoritative South Korean source said “No new pro- posal was made by either side.” The Reds asked for and got a recess until 11 a. m. tomorrow (9 p. m, EST Saturday). The South Korean source indicated—without elaboration—that progress might be made then. He described the atmosphere in- side the conference hut today as businesslike—‘‘neither good nor bad.” Other observers said the U. N. Command probably asked for clar- ification of an hour-long statement read Thursday by North Korean Gen, Nam I. : This was reported to have been |a counter-proposal virtually para- phrasing the latest U. N. plan for breaking the long prisoners ex- change deadlock, last major bar- rier to a Korean truce. The Reds j were said to have suggested five | changes, none of them major, In Western and Communist cap- |{tals around the world hopes | mounted that the end of the bloody Korean War was in sight—perhaps before the conflict winds up its ; third year on June 25. | There was optimism even in | Moscow where the cfficial govern- ment newspaper Izvestia said it) “is clear that the sides participat- | ing in the talks are extremely close to signing an agreement .. ." Only in South Korea was there deep gloom. President Syngman Rhee voiced further violent objections Saturday to the reported® armistice terms j and unveiled a counter-proposal he sent to President Eisenhower, Only a few hours earlier, how- jever, Rhee, declared in a recorded work and urged that they enter |{oterview that “we would accept district competition next year, A sbrimp enchilaie supper, pre- pared by George “Bamby” Albury falmost any proposal the United |States asks of us because the United States is the only friendly Key West High School Graduate North Koreans ROK Defenders Are Held Back By Grenade Attack By FORREST EDWARDS SEOUL (# — A beefed.up North Korean battalion ripped through a main line Allied position on the Eastern Front today and held stub- bornly against counterattacking South Koreans, Some 750 to 1,000 Reds overran three ROK outposts ahcad of the main line, then slammed through the line itself in four spots east of )Luke’s Castle, where bloody fight- ing has raged for a week, the Eighth Army said. Another North Korean battalion tore into a South Korean outpost on Bloody Ridge on the East-Cen- tral Front. The ROKs met the at- tack ahead of the outpost but were hurled back in desperate hand-to- hand fighting, the Army said, Two prongs of the attack on Luke’s Castle area penetrated the main Allied line about 500 yards apart, caving in South Korean positions. The Reds drove 500 yards into Allied territory, an Eighth Army briefing officer reported. Counter-attacking ROK 12th Di- vision troops—in battle almost | steadily since last Monday — slammed the Reds back about }250 yards but were cut short as | the North Koreans hurled grenades | from higher slopes, At last report the battle—which | raged through the night—continued at close range. On Bloody Ridge, the furiously- | attacking Communists stormed the | | outpost slopes and, at last report, \the ROKS had withdrawn to the | Outpost Center and were stream- }ing mortar and artillery fire on the Reds. | Fighting has been almost con- | tinuous on the Eastern Front hill |mass since Monday night when }the North Koreans got their first | foothold on the tip of Luke's Castle | | terrain. | | and Bernard Waite, was served nation which has done so much for | Despite repeated South Korean | after the meeting. (Continued On Page Two) Monroe Theatre Sun., June 7 thru Wed., June 10 SEE THE FIGHT IN 3 DIMENSIONS! - ROCKY MARCIANO ] JERSEY JOE WALCOTT | counter-attacks, the Reds lashed | further ahead and now hold about | fone-half of the forward ridge of | the Castle. On the Western Front, other | South Korean troops killed an es-/ timated 100 of 300 Chinese who/ attacked an outpost southwest of Kelly Hill before midnight Friday. | shells in the 2% hour fight. | There was speculation the Com- munists stepped up the fighting | along the Eastern and East-Cen-/ tral Fronts—despite signs that aj truce may be imminent—for two! Teasons: ; 1. To gain ground for the time | when a buffer rome between the Oldest and Best In Town | spe. (Continued On Page Two) MISS FAYE LOWE, a member of the graduating class at the Key West High School receives the con- gratulations of Superintendent of Public Instruction Horace O’Bryant yesterday at impressive cere- monies in the high school auditorium. Hundreds of Key Westers attended affair, Rip Through Eastern Front Allied Position Fuel-Loaded. Tanker Hits Second Ship Crewmen Suffer Death, Injuries In Collision In Delaware Rver By BOB SUNDY WILMINGTON. Del. uw — Two large tankers, one loaded with gasoline and the other empty, col- lided, exploded and burst into flames today with at least two lives lost, six missing aad 77 sur- vivors, The 11,081 ton tanker Pan Mas- Sachusetts and the second largest tanker in the world, the Phoenix, both owned by National Bulk of New York, collided in the Delaware River opposite Elsinboro Point, N. J., 40 miles from Philadelphia. Members of the crews from the ships were hurled into the water. Seventy-two of the survivors were taken to Delaware Hospital here with five others being treated at Salem, N. J., Hospital on the New Jersey side of the river. The Pan Massachusetts, headed for Philadelphia with a full load of gasoline, hit the Phoenix amid-; ship, splitting her in two Capt. Reginald C. Gross, Houston, Tex., of the Pan Massa- chusetts, said both ships were a total loss. He said his ship was “on fire all over.” The Phoenix} was standing on end. The Phoenix, once the largest tanker in the world, had a capacity of 217,795} barrels of oi], more than nine- } million gallons. It was empty, hav- ing just unloaded a cargo at the Sinclair refinery, Marcus Hook, Pa., and was headed for Houston, Tex. Versions of what happened from members of both ships indicated there was a mixup in signals between the two huge tankers as to how they were going to pass each other. David D. Higbee, 53. Haddon- field, N. J., pilot of the out-bound version of the ceman William (Continued On Page Two) STRUNK LUMBER 120 SIMONTON STREET, Near Key West Citizen Building 53,4 In Friday ARNOLD ROBERTS RELEASED ON $100 BOND FOR GAMBLING CHARGE Sheriff John Spottswood and his deputies made a gambling raid on the 33 Club, 305 Petronia Street, arresting Arnold Roberts and confiscating $211.90 in alleged gambling money on Roberts was charged with last night. Roberts was charged with gambling and released on $100 bond. The Sheriff confiscated the alleg- ed gambling equipment which was on the table in front of Roberts when he and Deputics Jack Baker and Sidney Curry made the raid, It consisted of a punch board, a baseball tip pad, and the cash. The Sheriff continued hs search for gambling from then until 1:30 a.m, The word had evidently gotten around town, he said, that he and his deputies were on the way so that they found no fur- ther evidence or persons gambli- ing. Roberts could be seen from the street, Spottswood said, with the gambling equipment in front of (Continued On Page Two) Delay In T-H Change Protested WASHINGTON — President George Meany of the AFL, object- ing to reported postponement of attempts to amend the Taft-Hart- ley Act, says President Eisenhower is failing to keep a campaign promise, Meany, said in a statement yes- terday that ‘‘a mere recommenda- | tion to Congress that has not been followed up by specific legislative | proposals” does not carry out the | President's responsibility. | The statement was issued after |Chairman H. Alexander Smith | (R-NJ) of the Senate Labor Com- | mittee said leaders have agreed jto put off a vote on revision of }the law until next year. Meany said working people “have the right jto expect action on this issue this year.” Night Raid Visiting Band ‘Master Will ‘Lead Concert St. Lueie County Band Supervisor To Conduct KWHS Band In Program The final band concert of the season for the Key West High School band will be held Monday night in the school auditorium. Maj. J. B. O’Neal, supervisor of instrument music in the public school system of St. Lucie county E ee Commencement The graduating class of McCarty Gives Approval To Legislature Expresses Regret Over Failure Of Some Measures TALLAHASSEE (—Gov. Dan McCarty says the Legislature which came to a delayed and tu- multuous close Friday did a gener- | ally excellent job, | He was disappointed that some of his governmental reorganization proposals failed to find favor with that the session brought passage on dog track betting, “I'm awfully proud that particu. | jlar bill became a law,” he said in| Statewide radio sinterylew.. “It expressed, F think, the wishes end | desires of the people of the state MAJ, J. B. O'NEAL for the past 12 years, will be the guest conductor. An outstanding music educator, soloist and conductor, Maj. O'Neal makes his home in Fort Pierce. He is past president of the Florida Bandmasters Association and has done extensive study at the Conn National School of Music and the Vandercook School of Music in Chicago, The Key West band has been brought up to par by it’s director jand leader, “Doc” Casterton, for jits program Monday night under direction of Maj. O'Neal. | Realizing that they will be play- ing for a capable band judge and (Continued On Page Two) ‘Key West One Of Sunniest Gite In The | | Weatherman’s Facts Show Island Ranks | With The Fairest j { Refuting the rain-sodden picture the public may have of Key West after last week, Weather Chief |Sam Goldsmith said today that Key West has as much sunshine as any other East Coast city in the United States. The Island City which has been drenched for the past eight days with 6.74 inches of rain, the result Eastern USA year the sky can be considered | cloudy; however this does not mean that the sun does no shine *lat least part of the day. There | may be 12 to 15 days a year in | which the sun does not shin for at }least a few minutes,” | Goldsmith admitted that this | has been the rainest June period j |. April usually has been the rain- of Alice the contrary tropical | iest spring month with a high of storm, has sunshine on the aver-|10.7 inches falling in four days age of three-fourths of each year. This high proportion the gold in April 1941, In April 1948, 6.07 | inches of rain fell in four days. In as against a group that pretty well had their own way for a long, long tim The Legislature, which appeared headed for an uneventful windup until a few hours before the sched- uled time of adjournment, was thrown into a sudden uproar by a news story quoting State Beverage Director Sam Davis as charging the Senate was costrolled by a six-man clique. Angry senators issued a subpoe- na for Davis and Tampa Tribune reporter Leonard Brown who wrote the story about the beverage .di- rector’s remarks. However, they dropped their demand that Davis and Brown appear before them after the beverage director signed and Gov. McCarty issued a statement of regret over the whole affair. “Politics is no place for a bus!- nessman,” commented the out- spoken Davis after handing in his resignation, “I didn’t want the job in the first place but I tried to do the best I could.” He said in a télegram to the Senate that in the course of a address Thursday to the Tamp: Board of Realtors he made “a/ casual observation that it is gener- al gossip that a clique of six sena- tors have great influence over the Senate, one of which is Judge Clarke.” (Sen. $ D. Clarke, Monti- cello.) intention of discrediting Clarke or any other senator end regretted the “confusion” he caused. He didn’t name in his speech the other five members of the so-called “clique.” The ex-beverage director told the governor in another telegram the news report was an “over- emphasis on rather minor parts” jany reference in his off-the-cuff | Speech to bribery playing a part (Continued on Page Two) t that makes Florida the mecca of | 34D, 1936, 4.74 inches fell in five | | sunworshipers, is as Mia- mi, and a no city north of Florida on the East Coast has as much sunshine each year, Goldsmith said. Key West has sunshine 72 per cont of the time sccording te a learned study “Local Climatele- gical Date” published by the U. - $. Weather Bureay in 1952. it has this to say about our climate: “An abedance of sunshine throughout the year with an aver- age of 72 per cent of the possible iputs the city amongst the fair | Weather class of those cities east jof the Great Plains. An average | ot 300 clear or partly cloudy days occurs with the cloodiness being mg jess than half sky cor- *.. On an average of @ days a i days. | Though winds seemed very high | in the past week, actual speed was | only 28 miles per hour downtown | at the maximum. At Boca Chics | HELP WANTED To Eat Pure Key West SOURSOP Today and Sunday at the Dairy Freeze ROOSEVELT BOULEVARD the lawmakers but was delighted | of his hard-fought measure to in- | crease the state's stake from taxes | re-| Davis told the Senate he had no | of his address. He denied he made | World Brotherhood A Necessity, Not An Ideal Today, Dr. James Declares Sheriff Makes Arrest Speaker Addresses Graduates Of Key West High By SUSAN McAVOY Key West High School march- ed down the aisle into history last night following confer- ring of diplomas and an inspiring Commencement address “Make a Go of Life” delivered by Dr. Glenn pastor White Temple Methodist Church, Miami C. James, at the high school auditorium. | The young men and women, 103 j of them (three were away at col- lege) received their diplomas tied in red and grey ribbons from Sup- | erintendent of Public Instruction Horace O’Bryant who congratulat- jed each of them upon the attain. ment of their goal. | Dr. James’ thesis was that each | Student should dare to develop the ability to think, “They'll not make slaves of you if you develop this power,” | he said. le quoted Charles A. Lind- , whe on his lonely, historic flight struggled to keep going by repeating to himself: “Wake up and think, the al- ternative is death.” “World Brotherhood Is today | mo longer an ideal. It is a neces- sity,” Dr. James delcared, He cited men whose power to think had made a place for them in history, He told of the famous Houdini who performed one of his feats by diving into a hole in the jice while wrapped in a strait jac- | ket. Houdini realized when he got in the water that the current was \ Hear away fromt the hole from. wi ‘hates Fto Jnlike many people, Houdini instead of giving way-te panic, remembered ‘hat there is an air | Space between .water and ice, | He lay on his batk and got him- | self back to the ice hole and | emerged, four and one half minutes after immersion, Of course everyone thought he was | @ magical genivs, Actually he used the power of thought.” | The painter Millet, paid three francs for the canvas, and brush- es with which he painted one of the world’s masterpieces “The | Angelus.” Today it would bring | $150,000, The value of the canvas | was the thought, not the materials, he said, Dr. James said that the boys In the 1953 class face a conflict any- | where in the world today, but that |men and nations must learn that | there, shall not be a third World | War. “The world of today and te- morrow belongs to you. We in- vite you to teke it and do some- thing better with it than we have done. You are the hope of today, And you have the challenge te make « go of life.” Dr, James said it ls the uncom- |mon man, not the common mas jthat the world is waiting for, “One of you boys might be President. Why ne., you live next door to The Little White House.” Among the qualities necessary jfor successful living, Dr. James stressed humility and a firm rell- gious faith. The antitheses of be- | mility are the qualities gance, conceit, and pastor also said that use its imagination. | Wright brothers and [machine as the example of | power of demonstrated faith, “1 urge you to develop « vigew ous and vitel faith in Al God. Uniess we do develop (Continued On Page Twop i We Will Serve ARROZ CON POLLO 11:30 - - - - 9:30 A. & B. Lobster House 700 Front Street