The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 18, 1953, Page 2

Lf 2°“ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILLIAM ‘Thursday, June 18, 1953 HOWARD ISLE OF PINES LEADER DESCRIBES BOOM THERE BILL HOWARD EAGER TO GET BACK TO HIS MINE AND POOL By SUSAN McAVOY More and more Floridians are turning their eyes southward to the Isle of Pines, 180 miles south of here, the island the size of Rho- de Island which boasts marble Mountains, as well as the Carib- bean sea and some of the best fishing in the West Indies. Bill Howard, pioneer citrus grow- er, gold mine executive and a bus- iness leader of the Cuban island arrived in Key West yesterday with his bride of a month Edith Howard. Checking in at La Concha, Bill’s long time favorite, the Island lead- er is enjoying nis brief visit but eager to get back to the Isla de Pinos, where he built himself the showplace of the Island. “] miss that daily swim in my thermal spring pool,” said the hale, white haired Lancastershire- man. “That's what keeps me fit and I'll sure be glad to get back to it’? Former part owner of the fa- mous black sand beach on the north coast of the Isle of Pines, Howard has been turning over. more of his holdings to the young- er generation so that he can en- joy life on his royal-palm studded estate, His grapefruit interests are ma- naged by his nephew Tom Howard, who operates the busy packing house at Santa Barbara, 16 miles from Neuva Gerona, capital of the Island. The Isle of Pines gold mine however js still’ a major in- terest of Howard's. “Now that we have a new power plant we expect to get going agin,” he said enthusiasm showing in his sharp blue eyes, - The Cuban Government has in- stalled the power plant as part of its rural electrification program, Howard said. It has also built a hard surfaced road from Neuva | Gerona almost to the mine. Mine engineers and empioves live at the gold mine which is at Los Indos, beyond Santa Barbara While Howard, a Britisher, has been letting go some of his holt. ings, Key Westers and Key resi- dents have been catching on. The fabulous old Santa Rita ho- tel has been recently purchased by a Cuban: magnate for whom Al Mills has been doing the renovat- ing and reconstruction. Mills, just returned from the Is- land, said that the hotel is now ready for the coming season. He and his backer have: called it “Santa Fe,” the original name of the hotel. Vie Barothy, Keys fishing guide had a booming season at his Hu caro fishing.lodge on the Island, Howard said _ The Isle of Pines Hotel, right in the boomed, . ,Sylvio Gargulio, largest fruit ex Porter on the Isiana and ‘friend of New York's Mayor Vin cent Impellitterri, has recently bought 200,000 acres of the virgin South Coast of the Island. To over come the barrier of swamps which make Coast inacces: land, Ga io ha ita la Strip on the Sai an & fram pn It is ¢ world fan the best 1 d he flies | Ones OF Cruises} heart of Neuva Gerona also | close | , WEDNESDAY, Jt last winter. More accustont€éd to the brisk winters and short sum- mers of her native Connecticut she said today: “Tl get acclimated to the. Is- land, It may take time, but I know I'll like it.” The couple plan to fly back to} their Island tomorrow via Havana. Flights to the Isle of Pines leave the Columbia airport every Mon- day, Wednesday, and Friday. Coming Events THURSDAY, JUNE 18— Navy Wives’ Bowling League, at 1 p.m. N. S. Also open bowling Key West Lions, meeting, 6:30 p.m. at Lions Den, Seminary St. Monroe County Hospital Wom- an’s Auxiliary Sewing group. at hospital, 2 p.m. Ceramic Classes and hand weav- ing, 1 to 4 p.m., West Martello Art School, County Beach. Alcoholics Anonymous, closed meeting for members only, 515% Duval Street. Rotary Club luncheon, St. Paul’s Parish Hall, 12:15 p.m. C.A.P, Cadets, at National Guard Armory, 7:30 p.m. Poinciana Jayteen Youth Cen- ter, movies at 8 p.m. Elks Lodge, at clubhouse, p. m. Vv. F. W. Post No. 3911, VFW, Post Home, 8 p. m. VX-1 Officers’ Wives “Club lun- cheon, Sun and Sand Beach Club with swimming and bridge. Cocktails at 12:30 p.m. Martha Linda Franks circle of WMU, First Baptist Church, 10 a. m. FRIDAY, JUNE 19— Old Fashioned hymn sing and fellowship program, Poinciana Baptist Church, 8.30 p.m, Navy Thrift Shop, 1 to 5 p.m. Jayteen Youth Center dance, Poinciana, 8 to 11 p, m. Triangle Club, Pythian Sisters, 7:30 pn. Shrine Club, Jaycee’s club house, 7:30 p.m. | SATURDAY, JUNE 20— Youth for Christ Rally, Fleming Street Methodist Church, 722 Fleming Street, 7:30 p:m. | MONDAY, JUNE 22— | Gym classes for ‘O.W.C., Sea Piane Base, 10 a.m, Alcoholics Anonymous open meeting, 515% Duval Street, 8 p.m. Jayteen Youth Center, Poinciana movies, 8 p. m. | Beta Sigma Phi sorority, San} Carlos School, $ p.m. Anchor Lodge No, 182, Scottish | Rite Temple, 3 p. m. Methodist Men, Wesley House, ; ' jlaw gripped the city’s $p. m TUESDAY, JUNE 23~ Bowling for Officers Wives, 1 to| 3:30 p.m., at Naval Station bowling alleys. | Ft. Taylor Duplicate Bridge Club, | at Ft. Taylor, 8 p.m. Youth for Christ Bible Study, at Service Men's Christian Center, at 323 Whitehead St. Combined social and handicraft hours at K. W. Youth Center} every Tues. «vening. Open) house party, 8 p.m. Lodies Golf Tournament. K. W Golf course, 9 a.m $ | interest Sewing agar 23am. to 1:Wa m 2pm. to 4 m., home of Mrs hard s 7c Arthur Sawyer NE 2 clas: or OW, ye Base, 1@ a.m ft Shop, 10 am te Pp Sea Navy Wives’ Bowling League tion Alleys, I p.m. « Ch. Commerce at clubhouse, 8 pm. ty Navy Wires Club No. @ ot White Hat Clad | division into the sector. jlast elements bivouacking in East BERLIN AWAITS DEVELOPMENTS Red Troops Surround Sector Of Divided City By TOM REEDY BERLIN ( — An uneasy quiet settled over embattled East Berlin todey as the halfcity nursed its wounds in the wake of anti-Com- munist riots that took at least 16 lives. German truck drivers crossing the 100 miles of aighway between West Germany and Berlin relayed BULLETIN BERLIN — A Russian firing | squad today executed a German} accused by the Soviet army com- | mand of organizing arti-communist riots in East Berlin. Major General P. T. Dibrova, now ruling East Berlin under a! state of siege, announced the exe- | cution. The Soviet general described the dead man, Willi Goettling, as “a resident of West Berlin, who worked on order of a foreign in- telligence service, was one of the active organizers of provocations and disturbances in the Soviet sec- | tor of Berlin, and participated in the violent banditry against the organs of power and the popula- tion.” to West Berlin police rumors — entirely unconfirmed—that Red po- lice also had shot and killed 22 | rioters in Magdeburg yesterday, and that similar riot - strikes against the Communist govern- ment erupted in Dresden, Chemnitz Dessau and Brandenburg. Ten thousand Soviet armored} troops encircled. Berlin’s Russian- occupied sector, sume pointing | their guns westward, others direct- ing their ominous attention toward the East Germans. The Communists’ Radio Berlin repeated over and over that the cyclonic outburst yesterday of 50,- 000 workers against the Red re- gime—put down only by Soviet in- tervention—was steamed up by “Western agents.” The same charge was hurled by Moscew’s Communist party news- paper Pravda and Red organs elsewhere. Western anti-Communist reaction to the riots also was generally uni- form. In Washington, Bonn and other Western capitals the outbreak was viewed generally as a damag- ing blow to Soviet claims of creat- | ing a workers’ paradise, a monkey wrench in the new Red »peace offensive, and a powerful spur to pressure for unification of Ger- many. Washington sources, citing re- ports of similar recent unrest in Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria, said | it looked like Russia’s hold on East | Europe may be slipping even more than the West had hoped. The Red Berlin radio announced the names of 18 youngsters under 20 who’ it said had been arrested in connection with the wild dem- onstrations. The broadcast identi- ; fied the youths as Western agents —and listed all but two as Soviet zone residents. The Reds also contended that the general strike which paralyzed the Eastern sector of the city yes- terday had ended. “‘All patriotic workers are back on their jobs,” it declared. Gunfire that ripped along the East-West zonal frontier in the heart of the city from yesterday noon into last night died down early today. Apparently Russian riflemen shot down several hundred Germans, but the exact casualty toll was impossible to pin down. The Ger- man Red Cross identified 16 bodies in West Berlin hospitals as riot gun- | shot victims. There, also, were 119 | wounded, some in serious condi- tion. How many lay deat or wounded in the Soviet zone could not be} determined. j The heavy hand of Soviet martial | Eastern } sector. Uncompromising Russian | sentries blocked every main fron- | tier point. Behind them stood tanks, j armored cars and mobile guns The Russians rushed a full tank with the Berlin about 4 a. m. today. Soviet officials clamped a biockade on the highway linking West Berlin with West Germany to keep the roads | clear for the fast-moving Soviet |am division. The blockade was lifted; at 5 a. m. and all transit traffic | on the West Berlin lifeline again! olied normally The Russians booted into ob East Berlin Comm In the Western city, American, § troaps were held background, ready to jump | any emergency too big for the Beriia police to maintained their cx jfrom Ft. from the potentially dangerous Soviet boundary, The Russians resorted to a sym- bol to declare themselves on top of their bubbling cauldron. In the | early daylight, a crew clambered on top the Brandenburg Gate, on the border, and hoisted a Red flag. The banner’s predecessor. had |been ripped down and burned by rioters yesterday afternoon. Bobby Soxers’ ‘Hero Seeks To Improve Acting By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD ® — Bobby-sox | idol Farley Granger has left his} | thriving Hollywood career behind | to learn how to be a better actor. It may sound like sheer folly, \}but the handsome young actor has wiggled out of his contract with Sam Goldwyn, closed his home here and departed for more stim- ulating climates. That doesn’t mean he won’t be back. He ex-} plained his plan before he left. “A couple of years ago, I was making a picture,” recalled Grang- er, the typical Hollywood hero in slacks and tennis sweater. “I called myself in the middle of it and. realized I was sliding by on |my previous reputation and the tricks — had learned in pictures, That wasn’t good. “I decided I should do some- thing about it. After ‘all, I want to be an actor as long as I ean. I know that I can’t always get by because of a bobby-sox following. Some day a new guy like Tab Hunter will come along.and they’ll flock to him. If I haven’t grown as an actor, I'll have nothing left to go on but personality. Personality | is a good quality for an actor, but he has to have ability too.’ Granger decided he would have to return to the stage in order to! gain more maturity as an actor. Except for a three-year hitch in the Navy, he had been in the mov- les 10 years. He finally got his freedom. Eighteen months of it, anyway. | Granger is able to direct his own | destiny for that period, then Gold- wyn has the option of signing him up to another contract. His first try at the footlights will | be a four-week summer theater tour in ‘John Loves Mary” in New England. Then he leaves for Italy | where he'll make “‘Senso,”’ a color epic with Alida Valli and George Sanders. “After that, I want to tackle Broadway,” he remarked. “I’ve got a play in mind that I’d like to do. If they can wait until I get back from Italy—about December —I'll do it.” If he gets ‘into a hit play in New York, that would mean he wouldn’t be able to do a’ picture until summer of 1954 and perhaps later. “That’s one of the gambles I have to take,” he replied. “I may flop on my face when I try the stage. But the important thing is that I tried. It’s more important to have tried the thing and failed than never to try. I would always bear the regret for not having taken the chance.” NEW NAME FT. WALTON BEACH (#—This Northwest Florida resort town had a new name and a new form 0 government today, By an act of the Legislature | which became name of the town was changed Walton to Ft. Walton Beach. A new charter gives it a city manager form of government. The mayor and city council are being retained but the mayor will serve without pay. Bill’s Licensed PAWN SHOP 716 DUVAL ST. 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This uni- versal theme is successfully con- j veyed through the account of the experiences of a squad of combat infantrymen on a battlefront of World War II. And what a squad! It includes |Sergeant Mooney, who always could spare a couple of stripes to save a buddy; Collucci, with his tall tales of the big girls that didn’t get away; Coke, the hothead, and; Sapiros the clown; Small, the lit- ter, who'd bat 1.000 in any man’s; jleague; Ferguson, too lazy to’ dream his own dreams, and Mul- ler, whose sister kept them all in fruitcake. Add to these a gorge- ‘ous dreamboat of a girl who walks lin their sleep, and you have a gal- llery of enjoyable screen charac- ters second to none. Featured in “Eight Iron Men” are Bonar Colleano, Arthur Franz, Dennis, James’ Griffith, Dick Moore, Barney Phillips and Mary Castle. The real star of the film, | however, is the loyalty to one’s | buddy which is one of the great- jest weapons of the American sol-, dier. The locale of ‘Eight Iron Men” is never indentified in the picture, but the settings, muddy master- pieces of rain-swept realism, are so successful that they create the atmosphere of any battleground. The screen play of “Eight Iron Men” was written by Harry Brown | whose own stage play “A Sound of Hunting,” was inspiration for the film. Edward Dmytryk _ directed for associate producers Edna and | Edward Anhalt. “Eight Iron Men” belongs in the forefront of this year’s pictures! | very “must-see” | Big gain forecast this year in |home air conditioning. ————— STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE Triumph Coffee Mill at ALL GROCERS POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Francis at Truman DIAL 2.9193 YOUR PURE OIL DEALER Tires .. Tubes . . Batteries « - Accessories EXPERT SERVICE are mnnemmeneaeanenenntn nate ra Factory Methods Used — All Work Guaranteed FOR FROMPT AND RELIABLE SERVICE — SEB... DAVID CIFELLI 920 Truman Ave. (Rear) Dial 2-7637 tle man who wasn’t all there; Car-! Lee Marvin, Richard Kiley, Nick! 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It also gives the 3-D works to the Test of the film, with hand-to-hand | fights, police chases, crossfires of gun encounters and fond embraces | in all of which the patron is put on the receiving end of the action | Iby the magic of the 3-D cameras, | the new process which makes | \every seat in the theatre more} ;than a front seat by placing every | one virtually in the middle of the | stage. | Edmond O’Brien in “Man in the | Dark” portrays a gangster who is , freed of his criminal tendencies by | ; @ frontal lobotomy brain operatior he loses his memory in the pro-| cess. His ex-pals, who want the’ $130,000 stolen payroll he cached before going to jail, think the oper- | ation is a gag and try to beat the information out of him while his girl friend, Audrey Totter, uses RAY MILLAND ARLENE DAHL WENDELL COREY, PATRIC KNOWLES LARA BLY. ene te to vn LSB. FOSTER ‘Pram 0 navel by Mine Herre 4 Charen Prodetion 8 PARAMOUET FACTOR FOX NEWS CARTOON Box Office Opens 1:45 P.M. 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Another fight sequence made first use of the vast roofs of Columbia Studio’s sound stages. “Man in the Dark” was directed by Lew Landers and produced by Wallace MacDonald from a screen play by George Bricker and Jack Leonard. The silver anniversary conven- tion closes Friday... Verena Fogel, i7, brunette from Gainesville, was named FFA sweetheart from a field of six con- testants. FOUND GUILTY TAMPA #—M. D. Lee, Lake- land Negro, was found guilty in Federal Court of not registering as a lottery operator and not buy- ing a federal gambling tax stamp. STRAND _Last Times Today Mat. 2& 4:06 Night 6:12 & 8:18 AIR CONDITIONED Mat. 3:30 Night 6:30 & 8:38 AIR COOLED Sun. - Mon. - Tues. and Wed. POIMCIAMA BUS STOPS AT DRIVE-IN Children Under 12 Admitted Free