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Page? “" THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, June 13, 1953 California Epic Opens Sunday At Drive-in Movie The epic story of California’s fight for freedom, waged from the | Rockies to the sea, is told in Co- lumbia Pictures’ “California Con- @est,” co-starring Cornel Wilde and Teresa Wrigat. All the viol- @fice, romance and grandeur California's sweep to statehood has been captured in color by Techni- color in the spectacular new ad- venture drama that open Sunday, | d June 14, at the Islander Driv Theatre. A large supporting ig headed by Alfonso Bedoya, Werraday and Eugene Ig Wilde, who has made his @s one of the sereen’s oittstanding @®Washbucklers, reinforces Standing with a rugged perform- @nce as the Spanish.Cavalier who | Bot only wins a continent but a lovely Yankee lady, too. Teresa Wright departs f: her usual Sweet type of role to play the little wildcat who holds her own with the meanest desperado, living and loving dangerously in America’s last godless frontier. Bedoya mak- @s a spectacular villain; Miss Fer- | faday makes a glittering villainess and Iglesias plays one of Wilde’s Most dangerous opponents. “California Conquest” chalked up as one of those movies with magnificent sweep, colorful | Yomance and spectacular scenery, | all shown off in beautiful Techni- color. Written for the screen by | Robert E. Kent, the Columbia ad- | venture drama was directed by Lew Landers for producer Katzman. ANTI-ARMISTICE {Continued From Psge One) sembly met secretly Saturday morning and informed sources said the legislators cess for 10 days starting Monday } of j ark | his | can, be| tecided to re-| | VICTORIOUS CONCHS (Continued From Page One) They will tangle with the Georgia State Champions in the first tilt. Reason given for not-making the jtrip was the fact that the high chool athletic department did not e sufficient funds but scores of | | Key Westers have indicated that | they will pitch in and foot the bill. }Coach Jones is in Delray. Beach and could not be reached for com- (ment to . The Conchs are slated to be feted at a round of banquets upon their return, but with the possibility that they will be Alabama bound, Mon- the schedule must necessarily ntative at this writing. City, of Key West will fete the baseballers at an official din- |ner with the exact date to be an- nounced, | The Key West Quarterback Club | was the first organization to an- nounce plans to honor the team | with a dinner Monday night. The | Lions Club has also indicated that they will join in honoring the team jat one of their meetings. ! The Conchs captured their stir-| |ring win last night in spite of the fact that the squad has been plagu- ed by illness from eating too much | watermelon, Harold Solomon, © in particular, had a temperature of | 104 degrees last night and Don Cruz | had to be hospitalized Thursday, it | was reported, More than a hundred Key West- |ers witnessed the battle in Fort | Pierce last night including the fam- ily of George Lastres, who appear- ed on the mound in every one of the four tilts and compiled a mag- nificent record. | Lastres’ mother said this morn. | Sam | ing that she is ‘‘proud of the whole team - not just George, they work- ed hard.” LAST-MINUTE TRY (Continued from Page One) to go to the electric chair next} | Thursday for conspiring to slip $1,585 REPAID (Continued from Page One) menth. | won,” he said. But his man said today. He began to lose and the. more he lost the more he took at the Post Office, he said, and the more in debt he was to | his original creditors and the loan companies. | Keeping his secret to himself, he! ‘felt the sword of Damocles over| his head, but still did not turn for | | help to his family or friends, Anx-| | iously he awaited the three months |check*up of the receipts made by} the Superintendent of Mails. The blow fell on June 2 when his shortage ‘was discovered. | Then and then only did he ¢on- | fess to his family the events of the last six months. They and | friends rallied around him, made | up the shortage and he turned it in within 24 hours to the Post | Office. Yesterday‘in Miami after plead- j ing guilty in Federal Court he was allowed to go free on recognizance bond, while the case’ is ‘being in- vestigated by a Federal probation officer. His parents drove up to {Miami to bring him back to Key | West arriving at 4 this morning. At 9 this morning Bill and his former wife Betty, Bill’s mother, and his youngest son, Bobby, were anxiously waiting the outcome of his self-confessed misdeed. | “1 still haven't paid off the | loans. | know | am suspended from the Post Office. Now | | have to wait and see what the Federal Court does to me.” Calm and unwavering in her sup- port of her boy, Mrs. Ladd said: “If only he had told us.” And that was Bill’s mistake, 1 she | felt — that he did not confide his rouble to the family and friends who loved him. Though no recon-| ciliation is in sight between Bill | and Betty, she was at his mother’ s| {house this morning, offering what | | help she could, | SCHOLARSHIP FUND | “tuck” was shortlived, the young ; Houghby Ohio ig ko eyes Florida nt Back / / {Long Distance Bicycle Rider Makes Key West JOSEPH FELICE, 19, pedalled from his home town in Ohio to Key West with the 40 pounds of equip- ment shown in this picture, ineluding a sleeping bag.—Citizen Staff Photo. BICYCLE RIDER (Continued from Page One) |perience, he encountered no ma- jor adv entures en route. He found | | and people will make interesting reading in the long middle west- ern winters, Joseph feels, No de- sire to write impeiled him to make STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE! Triumph Coffee 9:30 AM. — Classified — — Display — — Page 1 — Advertising PHONES: 2.5661 and 2-5662 Key West Citizen STRAND CLIFTON —_ BARBARA WEBB - STANWYCK temces CHARLES BRACKETT | HESTER BATTERY MT aah ie She 12 MONT! ee 8 poe ae oe |"3 YEARS WAS exch. |LOU SMITH, 1116 White POOR OLD CRAIG Mat. 2 & 4:06 Night 6:12 & 8:18 Mat. 3:30 Night 6:30 & 8:30 AIR COOLED le about 50 per cent helpful,!tne trip, simply a wish to see a little more of the world than Wil- loughby, Ohio offers, Joseph is the to direct demonstrations.« ame sone to Russia, (Continued From Page One) | Those who offered to help, Meanwhile, at Panmunjom, two], eir latest appeal was prompt-| individuals have recently’ made | fon it was a glass of water teams of Allied and Communist |!¥ opposed by the Justice Depart- |contributions, and checks of any| jon a hot day or a free meal, will at ALL GROCERS stfaf officers whittled at remain-|™ent. In a memorandum to the| ing details blocking an armistice. Observers indicated full delegations would assemble Sun- day or Monday and a truce would | barring unexpected | follow shortly, developments. Top-leyel negotia- tors are in recess awaiting a call to assemble when the staff officers finish. Staff officers reportedly charting a cease fire line met Saturday morning and twice during the aft- ernoon, The other group worked for two hours and three minutes, report- edly on detailed arrangements for exchanging prisoners, Both groups meet again at 11 a. m. Sunday (7 p, m. Saturday | EST). Acting Prime Minister Pyun) Yung Tai, the most violently out-| truce } Supreme Court, Acting - Solicitor | presented nothing new upon which jthe court could act. From this country and abroad, | | meanwhile, there are new appeals |to President Eisenhower for ‘clem- jency. Eisenhower refused to grant} clemency last Feb. 11 when he| said the Rosenbergs had been fair- ; ly tried for a crime which involved betrayal and thousands of citizens’ lives, The new clemency pleas includ. ed those from Dr, Harold C, Ur jnoted American atomic scientist; Maurice Cardinal Feltin, archbis- |hop of Paris; the French League of Human Rights, and Britain’s | Transport and General ——— la- dor union U: ina telegram to ‘Hisenhow- denomination made out to “Student |). thanked by note when he gets | son of Mr, and Mrs, T. Felice of General Robert L, Stern said it} |Scholarship Fund’? may be mailed | |to Key West High School and will | jbe added to this carefully super- | vised loan fund. Checks made out * | to “Student Scholarship Fund” may | also be given to Mary Trevor, 1311) |Truman, Mrs. Arthur Mulberg at /900 Johnson, or Mrs. Lorene Thompson at her home on Semi- nary Street. | OBSERVANCE OF | (Continued From Page One) ys} of Elks, the services will be open- | led to the public. All military or- ganizations in the city have been) | invited to participate in the mass- ing of the colors. | . Students from Pinder’s School of | Dance will give a military drill. | | The Elks ritual for Flag Day will} spoken South Korean leader in the | er made public by the Rosenberg’s | be presented by. the lodge officers. | anti-tfuee campaign, declared in| Counsel, asked permission to pre-| a statement: “Foreign forces can .. . if they | 80 wish, agree to any armistice. and disengage themselves from | Korea. “We Koreans cannot disengage ourselves from Korea j sent his understanding of the case to the President. ; An organization called “The Committee to Secure Justice in the | Rosenberg Case” is planning a} demonstration in front of the White House’ Sunday Members of the committee on | arrangements are Vance Stirrdp, | | |chairman, Robert M. Daniels, Lo- as luis Carbonell, Frank Romaguera | fand Charles S. Kraegar. | } The gestation period for rabbiis is about ene month. e CONGRATULATIONS to the COACHES AND PLAYERS of the ‘KEY WEST HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL TEAM |seldom moi home again. He carried about 40 pounds of equipment including his sleeping |bag on his English bike. When | that gave out he wired home for} money to buy another. a Hercules | Windsor. Mounted on this wheel | that he pedalied into Key West. From Willoughby, Ohio to Fort Pierce Joseph s} of his saving hé brought with him. | Family funds helped him out at Fort Pierce and he has enough to make it back home barring some | misadventure. The main thing Joseph noticed on his trip from Ohio to Florida was the changing accents of the laesele: “Even across the river from New ‘York City, the Jersey City folks talk different from the New Yorkers. And of coursé dgwn her@ you her everything.” His day to day diaries of the trip KEY W (Continue: the cost of r which is| than a couple of dol-| lars. If not, the ipent is in- structed to ma article back to the comp: at will be the ead of the ma | But, here is the rub: Most | folks do not want the stuff, but wn We join with the entire population of. 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