The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 8, 1953, Page 7

Dock Workers Protest’ Plan For N.Y, Change NEW YORK (#—About 5,000 ban- ner-waving dock workers marched five-abreast through city streets to- day protesting proposals for a state authority to direct operations of New York’s crime-ridden water- ips” and formed a column that tramped from downtown Man- hBattan to a midtown building where Gov. Thomas E. Dewey had called a hearing on the State Crime Com- mission report on pier conditions. Placards carried by the march- ers said: ‘This Is Not Russia, Mr. Dewey. We Oppose State Control ,of Any Labor Union.” And, “We Aré Still In America, Mr. Dewey, We Demand To Be Heard.” Dockers carried American flags and Veterans of Foreign Wars ban- ners, A 12-piece band joined the Procession at 44th St. but police forbade it to play. At the head of the column were William P. Lynch and Jay 0’Con- nor, secretary and business agent Pespectively, of Local 791 of the AFL International Longshoremen’s Association. This local has fought the ILA administration of Presi- hearing, to which Dewey has invit- ed some 21 government, business, Janor and civic figures to make recommendations on how to clean up the waterfront rackets. The demonstrators claim recom- FLORIDA BRIEFS JACKSONVILLE W—Tom Byrd Mora, 9, and Harry Wells, 8, drowned Sunday in Lake Marco after one of the boys tried to show his companion how deep the water was. Walter D. Shelly, whose motor- boat was 1,000 feet away on the opposite shore, sped across the lake when the first boy went down but the second one also disap- Peared when he was 200 feet away. Shelly brought one body out of the water and firemen recov the other, ee MIAMI ®—Some 40,000 persons toured the ‘new 5 million dollar Eastern Air Lines maintenance hangar Airport Sunday and heard a pre- diction by EAL President Eddie Rickenbacker of great commercial rae Progress in the next dec- ade. “Within the next 10 years,” Rickenbacker said, ‘we will make greater progress than we have ac- complished in the last 25.” Gen, John K, Cannon, command- er of the Air Force Tactical Air Command, told the crowd air pow- er is the only power capable of delivering the atom bomb to Rus- sia and our best bet to “discour- age the Kremlin from starting a war.” FT. PIERCE #—Carl Williams, 15, former member of the Federal Farm Board and the U. S. Board of Mediation, died Sunday at his home here. He served on the farm board 1929-1933 and the mediation board 1926-1927. He moved here follow- ing his retirement in 1933. Williams worked on newspapers in Grand Rapids, Mich., and Den- ver, Colo., and later was editor of the Scientific Farmer and the Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman. FT. WALTON W—Airman 2-¢ Glen R. Limback drowned Sunday when knocked down by a big wave while surf bathing in the Gulf of ~Saeaa His home was San Jose, DELEON SPRINGS (#— Jack Jesse, Daytona Beach News-Jour- nal, became temporary chairman of the Press Photographers Assn. of Florida at an organizational meeting Sunday. Bob East, Miami Herald, was named temporary secretary. Per- manent officers will be named aft- er a constitution is drafted. MIAMI —A pensioned Navy veteran tried three times to take his own life and finally succeeded. Detective Sgt. Neal Coston said | day, his head on a pillow in the carried terrified passengers a freinds rh Ang gg palsy sufferers, the A fean Broadcasting Ceupeky on nounces. It wi ! City, Okla. —— Joha M-yearold — youth, U-year-old bride of bow f H F i g H u E id of it. oven and the gas turned on. He’ said Carlsem tried to take his life by gas two yéars ago and Satur- day plunged into Biscayne Bay but was pulled out, in a canal north of Miami by two men flying low in a private plane. John Berdeaux, homicide inves- tigator, said the map was between 35 and 40, five feet nine, weighed about 175 and was clad only in shorts. By af lente ee | STUDENT'S THANKS indeed inspiring to the students. feel very privileged tr have won ard for this year. It has confidence and encour. to further pursue the tt was Konia's third marriage, the bride's first, His second @t was film actoass Merle Oberoy Stetson Graduates Hear Of Chances For Youth Today DELAND #—Because indiffer- ence, inefficiency, procrastination and irresponsibility are so preva- lent today, there is that much more opportunity for the young man or woman willing to start at the bottom, former U. S. Sen. Scott Loftin told Stetson Univer- sity’s graduating. class today. In the commencement address, the Jacksonville attorney and rail- Toad trustee said: “It has been my experience that now when there is so little un- employment, it is not always easy to find young men and women with the proper practical training who know what hard work is and who are willing to apply them- selves intelligently and diligently to the accomplishment of their at Miami International | task. “But education and effort alone will not insure success; you must have tact, common sense and the ability to get along with people. “An understanding of human na- ture is absolutely essential, for ex- Perience will demonstrate that you cannot change human nature, but must deal with it as you find it.” Loftin who was awarded a doc- tor of laws degree by Dr. J. Ollie Edmunds, university president, ad- vised the graduates to adhere to standards of honesty and ethical conduct and to accept civic duties as a way to make the world better for all. A degree of doctor of divinity was awarded the Rev. W. P. Ever- son, ‘pastor of the Jacksonville Beach First Baptist Church, Bach- elor’s degrees went to 151 gradu- ates and master’s degrees to 11 others. Kitten Declines Rescue From Storm Drain HOLLYWOOD — Residents of the Hollywood Hills heard a kitten erying in a storm drain Saturday, It was still crying yesterday. They called the humane society. Two men went into the drain and came out without the kitten. Next three men from the depart- ment of public works went in, They came out and said it was danger- ous to go farther because of storm- drain gases. The kitten was still crying. Bill Kierulff, 36, a landscape contractor, attached a 150-foot wire to himself. Neighbors held it, and he went in. It was steep, downhill going in several inches of muck and water, He spotted the kitten and reached for it. It backed away. His wire gave out. He unfastened ‘it and kept going. The kitten kept backing. This kept up from one drainto another until, finally, the kitten surrendered. Kierulff put it inside his shirt and climbed out the near- est manhole, It was more than half a mile from where he had started 3% hours earlier, He gave the kitten to 8-year-old Robin Way, who bathed it and re- Ported it was black, white, beauti- ful and green-eyed, with a freckle on its nose. It was a boy kitten but Robin named him Sue — “because he came from a sewer.” WIFE DIES BEFORE *. ACTOR IS HONORED LOS ANGELES u—Anna Levin, 68, character actress of the Jewish Theater, had awaited the day when the great of the theatrical and film |. The Air Force said that the ¢6th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, | composed of Air National Guard squadrons from Okiahoma, Ten- nessee and Alabama, will fly its | F-80 jets and B-26 reconnaissance bombers to Germay for duty with Te the middie of the 18h Cent ry Sweden produced stout a *Sord of the world’s iroa, Sports Roundup By GAYLE TALBOT. NEW YORK (#—The most amaz- ing basebk town in the country today, not excepting Milwaukee, is Crowley, La. (pop. 12,700), a mem- ber of the class C Evangeline League down in the Rice Belt. The citizens of Crowley seem not to have been informed that minor league ball is.going to hell. Last season the Crowley Millers, winning their league title by five games, drew 110,814 paid admis- sions. The year before, finishing fifth, they pulled in 100,595. In their first 21 home dates in the present sameelen they have drawn 36,820 fans, Last year’s attendance indicates that every inhabitant of Crowley, including infants and the infirm, watched the Millers perform bet- ter than eight times. Having been alerted to the fact that something extraordinary was going on in the Cajun country, we asked Dud Wilkins, sports editor of the Crowley Daily Signal, if he could explain the phenomenon of a community going crazy about class C baseball at a time when most higher minors are crying like stuck pigs. Dud has obliged, as follows: “Many attribute the Millers’ fine attendance records to the fact it is not a privately owned outfit, but one in which the fans themselves are the owners. Miller Baseball, Inc., is a corporation in which there are some 400 stockholders composed of fans from all over the Parish (county). The organization sold some $40,000 worth of stock at $25 per share. ‘ “After two seasons in the Gulf Coast League they entered the Evangeline in ’51 and finished fifth. They were in a fight for the top spot in the standing when their fine young center fielder, Andy Strong, was struck by lightning during a game at Alexandria and killed instantly. The Millers fal- tered after that. Last year they topped the league with an 81-59 record, “The board of directors is com- posed of 21 men—doetors, lawyers, farmers, millers, merchants—who make the policy of the club, Their committees handle all of the club’s business, including player deals, with advice from their player- manager, Tony York. The only hired help besides the players and manager is a bookkeeper to keep them on the right side of Uncle Sam. “Miller officials do a fine job of promotion with auto giveaway nights, clowns, ladies nights, kids nights. In the latter, businessmen Pay a cut-rate admission price for every school child who enters the park, Last time over 1,000 kids at- tended. With all this, the Crowley Millers roll along to another great season.” e- LAST RACE FORT WAYNE, Ind., — Bob Chilcote told his wife and friends who came to watch that the fea- ture stock car race at the Fort Wayne speedway Sunday would be his last. It was, Chilcote, 32-year-old Kendallville, Ind., railroad freight agent, died a few hours later of injuries received in a four-car pileup during the race. FAMILY OF 7 SLEEPS IN 2 CARS Chicago — The family of Wil- liam Loose has been sleeping in the family car and an old station wagon for the past several weeks because they have been unable to; find an apartment. The pai lot is near a drive-in restaurant where Mrs. Loose is employed. The family of five children range in age from 6 to 16 years. For Home or Miami Bottled Gas Plant Burns MIAMI (#—Fire swept through bottled gas plant in Northwest Mi- ami Sunday and routed scores of families from their homes when it threatened to spread to nearby gasoline storage tanks. Eight to 10 blasts ripped through the neighborhood when bottled gas cylinders in the Public Gas Co. plant exploded. Firemen brought the blaze un- der control before it could reach gasoline tanks of the Atlantic Re- fining Co. less than a block away. State Fire Marshal A. M. Willis, who estimated damage at $200,000, said the blaze started from a faulty neon sign on the wooden roof of the gas firm’s loading plat- form. Heat melted the escape valves on many bottled gas cylinders and turned them into blowtorches. Oth- er cylinders exploded when the in- tense heat caused the gas to ex- pand so quickly the valves couldn’t carry it off. Atomic Output Up WASHINGTON (#\—The output of new atomic weapons and raw ma- terials for them will increase more than 25 per cent next year under an “enlarged and vigorous’’ devel- opment program, Congress has been told. But Chairman Gordon Dean of the Atomic Energy Commission cautioned that 1954 is a year of “urgency” and said President Eisenhower’s atomic budget, cut down to $1,096,000,000, “contains risks.” He repeatedly asked a House ap- propria‘ions subcommittee, in testi- mony released yesterday, to avoid adding to reductions of $496,800,- 000, or 32 per cent, already made in former President Truman’s re- quests for the year beginning July 4 TAMPA POLICE (Continued From Page One) fered powder burns. Ferraro told Police he did not see the car and knew of no reason for an attempt on his life. Police questioned and released two customers in the bar, Joe Provenzano and Kenneth Montos, Provenzano was acquitted here several years ago after a trial for the killing of gambler Jimmy Ve- lasco. Montos is a brother of Nick Montos, one of the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives. FIGHT DWINDLES (Continued From Pzge One) tions and five outposts seattered across the 155-mile rain soaked battlefront, Elsewhere six Allied patrols skirmished briefly with small Red groups in no man’s land. An American F94 Starfire night fighter plane shot down a Commu- nist night-flying jet that tired to interfere with B29 bombers plaster- ing a Red supply and fuel storage area at Namsi in Northwest Korea. Fifth Air Force credited the kill to the team of Lt. Col. Robert Mc- Hale of West Palm Beach, Fila., the pilot, and Capt. Samuel Hester Jr., of Mobnton, Pa, radar observer. FAMILY ARGUMENT MIDDLEBURY, Vt. » — Har- ry Provencher of Vergennes was driving along a narrow dirt road when his auto collided with another king | car at the brow of a hill. Harry got out to argue with the other driver. It was his brother, Art, of Brid- port, Is Guaranteed Commercial Use... We Are Prepared To Furn With Clean, Pure Cube » Crushed ICE Thompson » Inc. (Ice Division) Dial 2-6831 Key West, Florida | officials who felt that he would be | plane, NO WOMAN SUFFRAGE GENEVA, Switzerland ™—Ge- neva’s voters — all males — have decided once more -that Swiss ladies can’t have the vote. Results of balloting yesterday on a constitutional amendment to let womea vote in jocal elections were 17,967 against, 13,419 in favor. Women do not have the vote any- where in Siwtzerland, the only country in Europe which still keeps the distaff side out of the voting booth. KEY WEST BORN (Continued from Page One) son Lane address, and an uncle, Capt. Will Demeritt, 17-H Porter Place will also be on hand to greet their illustrious relative. Fernandez, who racked up his amazing record during 125 mis- sions in Korean skies, repeatedly applied for permission to fly at least. 25 additional sorties but per- mission was refused by Air Force more valuable ay an instructor for fledgling pilots. AIR RAID ALERT (Continued from Page One) press building was still burning 10 minutes after it exploded. All lights in the city went out after th. first blast. Similar light planes--‘‘washing machine Charlies’’--have attacked Seoul at night in the past. | Associated Press correspondent ! Forrest Ed-vards, who heard the said it appeared three bombs were dropped. i He said he heard a third ex- |plosion near Rhee’s quarters --| quarters--either another bomb cr a secondary explosion caused by the first. | FEARS VOICED (Continued from Page One) jand sells when peace promises, | went down. Commodities, especial- | ly items wanted in China, jumped. | Singapore—Businessmen in this | British Crown Colony, anxious to | resume trade with Red China, were heartened by truce prospects. But throughout Southeast Asia there) was a fear the Communists may! move south if freed from fighting in the north. New Delhi — Pro-government | newspapers hailed the truce pros- | pects. The Independent Times of | India cautioned the U. N. against lowering its defense. N. R. Pillai, secretary-general cf the Indian! Foreign Ministry, said in London | “everyone welcomes” the agree- | ment on exchange of prisoners. | The Hague—A Netherlands For- | | eign Office official said his govern- | | ment supports fully the Allied ne- | gotiators in Korea and develop- ments justify the hope for an early | truce. Johannesburg—South African of- ficials ‘said they welcomed pros- pects of an early truce. Officials | estimated they had been spending |over a million dollars a year to ; support South Africa’s air squad- | jron.in Korea and hoped to elimi- | |nate this expense, | | { Monday, June 8, 1953 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page} QUINTS NINETEEN. DUCK DOESN'T LIKE WATER. North Bay, Ont. — Dionne quin-| Salt Lake City, Utah — The Al- tuplets celebrated their nineteenth | bert W. Hormans have a duck—a birthday on May 28th. It hardly |recent gift to the family — tha seems nineteen years since the|doesn’t like water. news of the birth of five baby girls | placed in the family to Mr. and Mrs. Oliva Dionne | dies out as fast as startled an amazed world. stays out. He’s a queer f NATIONAL sure DIAL 2-510 Airlines er your travel agent TICKET OFFICE: Meeshee Airport In Springtime, Children, Like Flowers, Come Out Just About Everywhere ACCORDING TO COMMANDER H. N. KIRKMAN OF THE STATE HIGHWAY PATROL And that gives us an extra good reason for being better and more careful drivers during the Spring and Summer months, if for = a Continuing his appeal new Spring effort of the ecehion Kirkman said: “Children, unlike flow- ers, don’t always stay put, so that is why the motorist can expect—and nearly always get—the unexpected from our children.” Pretty soon now school will be out for the Sum- anery cnd ria: precautions seals os Seeeees guard the children who darting: unexpectedly from behind “almost tight into the path of your auto, Kirkman declared. Here are a few tips the motorist can well and profitably heed: 1.—Be on the alert in zones where childrén are expected to be at play. 2.—Be — — and watch where own vehicle is wi a eat tee the kids pt corto ana” 3.—Give the kids a “brake” and the temptation to honk your horn. A sudden from an auto horn can throw a child already in danger into a near panic. 4.—Always expect the when driv- ing where children are at play, Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. Get Acquainted With Key West! » | Nens Read THE KEY WEST CITIZEN of the City, County, Nation and World