The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 12, 1953, Page 1

Key West, Flerida, has the most equable climate in the country, with am average (wange of only 14° Fahrenheit The Associated Press Teletype Features and Photo Services. For 73 Years Devoted to the Che Ken West Ci ited M4 % Communist MIG’s, at when twovfliers. team + shoot down a plane it is cus- _ tom: Capt. Pete Fernandez Given Senate Takes | KW Postal Employee VOL. LXXIV THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. No. 140 Ovation At Lions Club Meet; Recounts War Experiences ‘ Jet Ace Feels He Is Needed In Korea To ‘Help Comrades Captain Manuel “Pete”| Fernandez told a packed dinner meeting of the Key West Lions Club last night that the reason he wants to return to Korea, is the fact he feels responsible for nine younger and less experienc- ed comrades. He pointed out | that the other men in his flight have an average of but $50 hours of flying time as compared with his 3200 hours in the air. “J felt that I could help frain and guide those fel- lows,” he said simply. “I was having a good time, too,” he pdded with a grin. A standing ovation and a lifetime Membership in the Lions Club was given to the 28-year old flier who tompleted 125 fighter missions in Korea and then asked for 25 more. In an off the cuff talk before the Lions, Captain Fernandez told them of his experiences in Korea- s much as he could without vio- iting security regulations. He ecard out that those in Korea bitually have ignored the leng- truce talks because there has a lot of talking and nothing pens, He expressed hope that 1g may come of the pre- Bent talks, however. Prenandez told of why he is cred- ary to split the credit. He re- ported that the plane in question hit by his guns and started to but that he broke off the en- ed the MIG off. to flip a coin with the full credit, but he buy that,” Fernandez Pointed out that, actually, American fliers have shot down a more MIG’s than they have iphie record of the action, the camera fails to record the action, it is necessary to have at Teast one witness, Fernandez point- it. added that the American Sa-| Jet, with its speed of up to 900! per hour, is in. general su- to the Russion MIG’s they ve come up against. Most of his | nm has taken place at heights! 40,000 feet, he revealed, was very cold in Korea. “I | to sit on the ready line with temperature at zero and won- | what this Key West boy was | doing in Korea,” Fernandez de- | elared, | He had high praise for the search | and rescue units in Korea. When-/ ever a pilot is shot down, helicopt- | ers and flying boats are right there | to pick Rim up, whenever possible, he. said: Fernandez left Key West a hap- PY man last night, "It sure felt good to get back among my peo- Ble,” he declared, He was whisked up to Tavenier by Deputy Sheriff Jack Baker and met there by Deptuty Ernest Sis- (Continued On Page Two) Deadline Is 9:30 A.M. FOR — Classified — @ — Display — — Page 1 — Advertising Key West Citizen PHONES: 2.5661 and 28862 Bibi; is: 8? | Proved payment of expenses of the |‘Little Tiger’ Of Korea Addresses Lions CAPTAIN MANUEL “PETE” FERNANDEZ is shown above as 4 day for the fourth time in two he delivered an “off-the-cuff” talk to a jammed dinner meeting of the Key West Lions’Club. Dressed in civilian clothing for the first time in many months, the Captain told Lions of his ex- perience in Korea~—and why he wants to go back there.—Citizen Staff Photo. Fernandez Was Citizen Carrier Captain Manvel ‘Pete’ Fer- nandez earned the money to buy his first model airplane as a Ci- tizen carrier boy, it learned during the jet ac visit here Thursday. Friends of the 28-year old “Lit- tle Tiger” say that from the time he was a very small boy, air- planes have held a fascination Fernandez. In addition, his father, Col. Manvel Fernandez, Sr. often re- warded his good marks in school with model airplanes. Ewing’s Expenses On World Trip Paid By Gov't WASHINGTON # — Comptroller General Lindsay Warren has ap- round - the - world trip Osear R. Ewing took last year toward the end of his term as federal security administrator, Warren rejected charges by Rep. Gross (R-Ia) that Ewing’s trip was a “lush travel orgy” abroad at! taxpayers’ expense, Gross had de-| manded that the cost of the trip} be recovered for the government, | In a letter to Gross, which the} congressman made public today, Warren said “no basis has been! found upon which this office may | question the legality of the pay-! ment of otherwise proper expenses incurred." Ewing and Wilbur J. Cohen, an aide, attended the international study conference on child welfare at Bombay, India, and the inter- ational conference of social work at Madras, India, The two also visited London, Istanbul, Karachi, New Delhi, Cal- eutta, Rangoon, Bangkok, Manila and Tokyo. Warren's office said it did not (Continued on Page Two) 120 SIMONTON STREET | STRUNK LUMBER | Lumber | {the first primary road bid call 'Baseball Team State Road Dept. Hopes To Keep Records In Black TALLAHASSEE (®—The State Road Department is back on a eash basis and hopes to be able to write its financial records in black ink from here on, Chairman Richard H. Simpson said today. The department wiped out the last of an 8 million dollar cash deficit in May, Simpson said, and now is in a position to start build- ing primary roads. To give effect to his announce- ment, the department Thursday called for contractors’ bids on 26 primary projects in 24 counties to be opened here Jure 30. It was issued by the McCarty administra- tion’s road board. The Road Department normally operates on a pay-as-you-go basis. Contractors are paid every month | for the work they have completed | on contracts during the previous | 30 days. | However, during the dying days of the Warren administration the department found itself lacking cash and contractors waited 90 days or more for payment. When the new board took office Jan. 6, economies designed to save | about 3 million a year were ef-| fected through elimination of du- | Plicating functions and unneces sary employes. All available fou | cent gasoline tax money was ap-/| plied to overdue accounts. | In April and May, only secondary | (Continued on Page Two) To Be Banqueted | The Key West Quarterback Club | will hold a banquet Monday at the Fleming Street Methodist Church for the Key West High School Base ball team, it was announced today. The team will be honored at the Danquet at 7:30 p. m. EDITOR FREE ON BAIL NEW YORK Cedric Belfrage British-born editor of a political weekly, the New York “National Guardian.” has been freed in $5,000 bail from Ellis Island pend- ing deportation proceedings. The 48-year-old Belfrage was arrested May 15 and ordered de- Ported. He is charged with being 2 alien Commanist, taking part & party activities, i 5 KEY WEST, FLORIDA, Day Off; No : Major Work Measures Are Being Readied In Committee For Action Soon WASHINGTON (# — The Senate took a normal working day off to- weeks for lack of any major busi- ness on its calendar. The recess from Thursday to Monday was ordered: despite a drive by Republican leaders to ad- journ Congress by Aug. 1—seven weeks off. Customarily, the Senate meets Monday through Friday each week. The House, which also is off to- day, has fewer sessions. For one thing, it does not have the un- limited debate rule of the Senate and so normally acts faster on legislation, Acting Senate Leader Knowland (R-Calif), who moved for today’s recess, expressed a fervent hope Senate committees would report to the floor soon some of the bills the administration wants this ses- sion, Knowland has predicted the 1953 session will enact a good percen- tage of President Eisenhower's Program and still meet the Aug. 1 adjournment target. But so far only two major leg- islative measures. have been sent to the President—one extending his Power to reorganize the govern- ment and the other the controver- sial measure giving the states con- trol of offshore lands within their historic boundaries. These measures should be ready for Senate floor debate soon: A continental shelf bill—a com- Panion to the submerged lands measure — providing for federal leasing of the iter oil and Loe Tights beyond the state bound- S. These measures should be reauy for Senate floor debate soon: | A continental shelf bill~a com- Panion to the submerged lands measure — providing for federal leasing of the underwater oil and gas rights beyond the state bound- aries. It won Senate committee approval yesterday and already has passed the House. A $5,312,000,000 foreign aid au- thorization bill. The Senate For- eign Relations Committee has ap- Proved it but the armed services committee also wants to examine it. A ‘House version, somewhat smaller, was approved yesterday by the foreign affairs committee. A $716,729,000 bill carrying funds | for the Agriculture Department. FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1953 | Taking $1,585 In Federal Funds Here | | oP ee xxerk x * ek * k& Embezzler Returns City Funds Total Amount Taken Is Set At $1,250 By City Auditors Mrs. Neta Mansfield, who admitted to embezzling city funds while an employee in the Tax Collector’s Office, has made full restitution of the missing money, it was re- ported today by City Mana- ger Dave King. Total amount paid back to the city was $1,210.50, King added. Earlier, the figure had been set variously at from $1,193 to $1,600, but the city’s auditors in their final report to the city, said that some of the money thought to have been taken by the woman was not missing but could not be readily account- 2d for due to clerical errors in the books, Mrs. Mansfield, who is current- ly free on $1500 bord, still faces grand larceny charges in connec- tion with the case although the City Commission indicated on May 22 when they first confronted the woman, that they would not press charges if she made restitution of Mrs. Mansfield, at that time, had already paid back $300 in cash to the city and a paycheck amounting to $57 had been with- held. Recently, she paid off the balance but the charges are still against her. Justice of the Peace Ira Albury has twice postponed preliminary hearings inte the case Mrs. Mansfield admitted to tak- ing the money by the simple stra- tegem of pocketing scavenger ser- vice collections and making altera- tions on the receipt stubs. The thefts allegedly took place over a period of several months. She said that she took the money “to buy clothing for her daugh- ter.” The House already has passed it, and it is ready for Senate debate. Let The Voters Decide, Papy Says On The Form Of City Government Prefers Commiss The affair precipitated a spirited (Continued on Page Two) | Grisly Facts Gleaned From | State Records Aged Documents From Comptroller’s Office Reveal Early Happenings TALLAHASSEE ® — They’re ironing out old records at the State Library and learning somg grisly little details about Florida’s past in the process. The records are documents irom | the state comptroller’s office which have lain folded in dusty stacks for 100 years or mwre. They’re so old and brittle thec they’re in danger of crumbling under any but the most gentle handling. So they’re being pressed with a steam iron to straighten out their ancient creases and moisten them enough to lessen their brittleness. Most of the records deal with reimbursements to the counties for expenses in prosecuting and pun- ishing law breakers. State Archi- vist. and Librarian Dorothy Dodd says that was one of the -state’s biggest items of expense. in Mg old days, a, One yellowed bill sent to the Capitel for payment from : County in 1846 shows. stedling, No slaves had the legro slaves ha experience of riding to the s in a cart which also carried their coffins. There was a charge of two dol- lars for carrying the men and their coffins to the place of execution. The coffins cost six dollars each. The gallows, complete with trap, cost $25. Burial clothes ran to $6.50 a man. Sheriffs were permitted to charge a separate fee for almost every- thing they did, Dr. Dodd said. They got 50 cents every time they put a man in irons or took him out. The same man might be in and out of irons a dozen times before he was executed. If a prisoner was sentenced to (Continued On Page Two) ion Type But Can Live Under Either, Declares State R Though Cc Government, State Rep. B. C. t cision is strictly up to the city v in his opinion Key West can operate better under the ‘ity Commission compared to the City Council and Mayor form of epresentative old Rotarians yesterday that de- oters. “If I hadn't believed that the Commission form of Government | ten years ago,” Papy said. “1 can live under either form,” - Rep. Papy deciared, “t like the | commission form better. Now | you hawe had it ten years and the people have asked me to put | it en the ballet, You will have a | chance te vote on it.” i Rotarian Knight Johnson asked | if the commission form that No’ ember voters would vote on would be the form before Rep. Papr's recent measures to “str the City Manager of power, or aiter they were enacted. Rep. Papy replied thet Key | West would vote on the Commis- sion-City Manager form as it is new, since the legisiature enact- ed his proposals te modify the government. Should the voters decide to go back to the city councilman-May- or form, it will not be on the basis / af the 1919 charter, said Rep. Papy A two year period will be required for drafting the new councilmanic charter, he said. Rep. Papy scored these whe few complain ebovt his action oa « a | even if he had come te that meet- | ing he wouldn't have hed « asked him to introduce, a bill per-) mitting Horobin to buy i baybottom for $100,000. He later | withdrew the bill but was assured | that Horobin can buy it without) legislative permission. Dade Coun- |ty members of the legislature told | | Papy, he said, that they want tos near-revolution in Pilsen June “™?tY beer cans at his house, build a public highway along the | designated area. x * * xe k William Ladd Out On $1,000 Recognizance Bond Pending Sentence By Federal Court William K. Ladd, 25, K ey West postal employee was charged in Federal court this morning with using and con- verting to his own use $1,58 5 while working as a_ postal service employee on June 2 at the Key West post office, the AP told The Citizen at noon today. Ladd was freed on $1,000 recognizance bond pending his sentence in Federal Court. : ody Of Seaman Brought Ashore The body of a merchant sea- man who died last night aboard a ship near Key West, was brought ashore this morning by a harbor pilot boat, it was re- ported by Coroner tra Albury. The man, Herbert W. Hopkins, 54, of Wilmington, Delaware, was the chief engineer aboard the Southern District, a dae Czechoslovakia Czech Workers Clash With Police Throughout Country , VIENNA (® — Unconfirmed re- ports reaching Vienna today said riots; demonstrations and strikes are still sweeping Communist Czechoslovakia and that similar disturbances haye broken out in Bulgaria. The reports, lacking authorite- land and | tive confirmation, claim that Cz ch | workers at Moravska Ostrava ~! capital of the nation’s “Ruhr Val- ley”’~-and in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, have rioted and clashed with police since troops suppressed 1 to 5. He appeared this morning before Federal Judge George W. White- hurst in Miami, where he was ar- raigned and his case referred for pre-sentencing investigation to a probation officer. No date was set for the sentencing, the AP said, Key West Postmaster Leland Goddard confirmed the facts of the charge against Ledd. He said that the 25 year old claims clerk had allegedly taken the money while substituting at the stamp window. He had been em- ployed by the Post Office for six years and had a good record until June 2 when the shortage | of funds was discovered God- dard said. The U. S$, Postal. In- spector was immediately called to check the shortage and take official action. Ladd lives at 933 F:eming Street, He has been in an upset according to Godaard,”sifice his divorce a year. “ak Bem, woe ci aad be gl he “He's a nice boy and did’ good work here," Goddard said, “Then he seemed to start ches- Ing the dogs at the track and this occurred.” The shortage of funds is the first incident of this nature in more jthan 20 years, according to God- | dard, Ladd is free to return te Key West and do what he pleases un- til he is called to Miami for sentencing, according to the AP. The alleged use and conversion of Post Office monies began about last January, Goddard said. The Post Office incident is the | second case of a Government em- ployee being accused of taking public funds in the last two months, The City of Key West has been rocked in the last month by the disclosure that a woman employee im the City Tax Collector's office has been allegedly taking publie funds. The alleged behavior of Ladd, a Federal offense, will come up for sentencing in the near future, Police Nab Three Teenage Vandals Three teenage boys were taken into custody lgst night by police on the complaint of a Washington Street resident that they threw The trio, who ranged in age from | Overworked, undernourished min- | 14 to 16 years, admitied to polices Rep. Papy told Rotarians that he (ers, angered by the loss of their that they had committed the vand. was better than the old councilman form I would not have put it in | had fought every step of the way | savings and reduction of their buy-| slism after they were caught is |} to win the Miami - Georgia Line | ing power through a drastic cur-| the area in their automobile. turnpike. Only 110 miles of the! rency reform on May 30, were They were later released to the city manager form of govern. highway were finally approved by | reported to have torn down pictures custody of their parents by Juvem but whe lacked “the moral intestinal fortitude” te come te the legislature. j “The East Coast fought us j of Stalin and Lenin in the mines They allegedly pasted up photo. March tegisietive hes every step ef the way,” Papy (graphs of Thomas G. Masaryk and where prep: wes Prana said, “fearing that business would Eduard Benes, Czech republican Knight Johnsen replied that | i chance to affect the city mea- sures. Other Rotarians questioned Rep. } Papy following hit brief report on the legisiature. He answered them that the Everglades National Park will not be expanded any more. Federal law now precludes such expansion he said. He said that Monroe County bas already given the Park 225,000 acres and hk will not give any more. President Neil Knowles asked about the proposed filing in of land from Key Large. up to Biscayne Key near Crandall Park for a pri- vate real estate development. Rep. Papy reported that Dade ‘Promoter Horebin bad Conant y | learned that in Pennsylvania the be adversely affected. Yet we | turnpike has actually helped | business in the towns it crosses.” When asked about the cigarette tax money being used for side- (Continued On Page Two) | OPPORTUNITY! Get Your Dietetic Custard at the Dairy Freeze ey heroes now discredited by Commanist regime. These incidents were reported to have occurred after rioters in Pil- sen stormed the city hal] June 1 tore down the Soviet flag. and (Continued On Page Two) NOTICE SHRIMP HEADERS WANTED! MALE OR FEMALE No Experience Necessary Champion Seafood Company OLD CLYDE MALLORY DOCK Mert Te The Aquarium the ile Court aide, Mrs. Isabel Fiem- (Continued On Page Two) Exciting Rhythm and Comedy by DOUG WILSON TRIO — PLUS DOE DARLING (Gist with Thevsend Songs) CONTINUOUS TO § Am. bor Coméctiened