The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 21, 1953, Page 1

Che Ken West Citisen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER VOL. LXXIV Ne, 74 Attorney General's Office Reports lt Will Rule On Vote Issue Soon City Attorney Lauded On His tant to Attorney General Richard Ervin told The Citi- zen today that he had receiv- ed all the facts from City Attorney M. Ignatius Lester i i i | | it Hf } i E ‘ E i ; Reds Disclaim Capture Of Most Missing Allied Troops . | : ij i file Hj I if Es £ i 3 t 3 aftr Smithsonian Gets Ancient Cannon Found Off Keys A more than 40 year old cannon barrel Florida. t i seh 8 th i 5 i i ! ' 7 i 3 i é 5 Z i 4 if ef [ hy | i i i f z z a > f i ; i . i iy fil i f f i i iif ef ii fi 533 | cannon,” con- iron bars $2 f i i | AT #8 | | type, tg i z i FE i residents of the! project in Fort! pd y ~ Trevor Attends ‘Annual Bankers’ , city officials point out (Continued On Page Five) . Conclave (Special to the Citizen) Lhieves Get $160 ‘Thieves who entered a variety WASHINGTON, (TNS) — Jerry 218 Olivia Street some- J, Trevor, President Florida are $160 richer to- National Bank at Key West, Fla to a police depart- is among bankers from every state in the Union who are expected to entrance hear discussions centering around the rear of the “sound dollar” during the 79th iles, an em- Annual Convention of the Ameri money wascan Bankers Association which jar box under the opened here Sunday 20, and continues through Wednes who day made the investigation said that Leading Administration figures sometime including Secretary of the Treas. the hours of 6:30 p. m. ury George M. Humphrey and fe fi 2 = Fg ig 2 3 i | y, when Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. '" of the store Benson will address the convention Olivia Street on ihe government's fiseal, mone. oe tary and farm support aims. In ‘dustrialists, educators and bani ers will also address the delegates Meeting in nation's capital for the fourth time ization was founded. are expected to jem pack every hotel in Washington and surround jing suburbs. Joseph Groom, MD Eye Specialist Will Be Here For | Consultation On Saturday, Cabinet Hardware September 26 MODERN OR ANTIQUE ror aprowmmment | STRUNK LUMBER Call Or. J. A. Veides, 120 SIMONTON STREET Telephone 2-782! Near Bank | | jothers were September rs ince their organ- © the bankers ‘ Crown Prince Lands Fish WOODS HOLE, MASS.—The Crown Prince Akihito of Japan smiles holding a 1¢-inch pickere! he caught while fishing on Naushon Island, off Woods Hole here Sunday. The 19 year-old Prince proved himself an expert fisherman during the short rowboat trip catch ing pickerel, a bass, a perch and three turtles two-day Massachusetts trip ends today after a visit to Harvard University and a sightseeing tour of Boston. —# Wirephoto. The Crown Prince's Demand Accounting For 98,742 North Koreans And Chinese By ROBERT TUCKMAN PANMUNJOM W#—The Commu- nists said today most of the 3,404 Allied troops for whom the U.N “ommand demanded an accounting @ never been captured at all.” At the same time, the Commu- A. Link [Mists demanded an eccounting for 98,742 North Koreans and Chinese they said were captured by the the (Allies and are missing The Reds’ gave their long-await demand that the Communists pro- duce the men or disciose what hap. of ebout = pened to them at a meeting of the mission The missing troops—more than commonty used 90 Americans, 2,400 South Koreans and nearly SO from the British Commonwealth and other Allied nations—were once believed cap- tured but neither released in the Prisoner exchange nor reported dead The Reds called the Allied list “erudely manufactured without having been carefully checked,” but reserved the right “to make further concrete comment.” e s said 519 of the 3,404 d as missing already turned. They said 380 released at the front” during the war, had escaped, or are dead They said part of the remainder refused re ition but “most of (the total ve never been cap tured at all.” The Recis are expected to deliver to the demilitarized zone Thursday hes have beer more than 300 South Korean and put 20 son-Koreen prisoners not otherwise identified who they say refused repatriation. The following day U.N. Command interview teams are expected to start trying to persuade them to return home, accordance with the armistice terms About 23,000 North Korean and Chinese POWs have refused repa- k triation The Allies by pected to Monday night ex have transferred but t 2.300 anti-red N. Koreans a handful of Chinese into cu tody of Incian troops in the demili tarized zone The deliveries were to end Wednesday Communist teams will try to per- the 23,000 to return home g at the same time as the suade s a noteieable break in rrounding Allied de liveries + Indians Sunday when a croup of N (Continued On Page the IN T KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1953 Penn ann ha Ma hd | Injured Miamian Fights For Life At Monroe Hospital Herman Devender?, 35, Hi- siesh, is fighting for his life today os 2 result of severe head injuries suffered in a car smash | lovsness since the acci- . In addition te his head injury, he has @ bad scalp lac- eration and gouges in his neck. Dr. Lester operated im. mediately in an effort to save the man’s life. He saic thet Devendort’s loss of conscious. mess and shock was se deep that he did not require anes- thesia. He is at Monroe Gen- eral hespitel. aes rasr oe cna Schlintz And Garcia Face Jury Trials Child Molester, Gunman To Hear Criminal Court Verdict This Week The trials of Paul “Curley” Sehlintz, accused child m and Robert “Nature Boy” Garcia held on assault and armed robbery charges, will hold the spotlight this week during the Criminal Court jury trial session. The trial of Sehlintz is set for ‘Tuesday morning at 10 a. m., while Garcia will face a Criminal Court Jury Wednesday morning. Both have pleaded not guilty to the charges held against them at preliminary hearings before Peace. Justice Rey Hamlin. Sehlints Sehlintz allegedly lured the small children to his apartment with money and candy and as saulted them. Originally, he faced » dine |e answer to the Gapt. 9 Allied six separate counts but later two parents declined to press charges. He is now in the Monroe County Jail after his $8,000 bend, posted by the Pan American Surety Company, was cancelled. Schlints faces possible added woe es the result of reports that he embertied funds from his em- ployers te pay the fee for his bond. He was authorized by the Roosevelt Bovieverd Holding Cor- poration te sign checks and he reportedly made use of their funds to pay the ten per cent fee. Garcia is charged with at tempted armed robbery and as sault with a di the result of an incic agust 22 in which he held an Atlantic Boulevard resident at gunpoint for 45 minutes in a robbery at- tempt Max Cohen, 1501 Atlantic Bou levard, and Key West Police Of ficer Raymond Qu will be the ‘Continued On Page Five) SE Wheelchair Pusher Arrested On Hiway A new kind of alleged of. fender is in the County Jail today on investigation for push. ing his wheelchair on Boca Chica bridge, according te the Sheriff's department. Deputy Sheriff Sidney Curry arrested Robert Burton Satur. day evening while the wheel. air traveler was taking this leisurely way to ge up the Keys. Teday Burton is in a cell at in the storage room of the jail. The Sheriff's de- partment is investigating the why's and wherefore’s of Mr. Burton and ris wheelchair HE USA, PRICE Five CENTS Successful All-Keys C hamber Meet __ Points To Permanent Association Keys C. Of C. Leadene l J nite For Action AT THE INVITATION of F. P. Sadowski, Marathon developer, second from right, officials from the three Keys Char operation on prom at left; President bers of C the Ma { n of | Ship Is Due From Korea Unrestrained Joy Yas Been Keynote Of POW Return By G. K. HODENFIELD SAN FRANCISCO #—The Gen R. L, Bowze, ninth and last of the freedom ships returning liberated American POWs to their home land, docks at Ft. Mason Wednes day, concluding ‘he greatest erm tional binge the San Francisco wa terfrent has seen in years It started when the transport Gen. Nelson M. Walker sailed through the Golden Gate with 328 repatriates Aug. 24 It continued with the hospital ship Haven. the Gen, W. F. Hase, the Marine Adder, the John Pope. the Marine Phoenix, the Gen. William Black and—yesterday—the Gen. A W. Brewster Delirious been the keynote jgiven up for de the rail, yelling, .aughing and cry ing at the sight their loved ones on the dock. Mothers have fainted and fathers have sobbe But, maybe it's like ¢ C. Williams i when Brewster yesterday “Happy? I'm ne happiness. I was a I haven't seen my wif three years. I'll see them te row, I'm s¢ L.L.1 just know what But I hope and all these happy they for mis in the u've heard I was the 1 men die for lack of any medics y nose? A € with his rifle bu' tured me “I saw nades at open the doors fire inside with their r “We walked day. Some of the We gotr four days. You've heard all these stories They've been told betore. It mean much t anyone Gen unrestrained joy Soldiers i have stood at has penly t. James left the ar crazy p il these famil water doesn F im any of men. At ed through ¢ to think everybody all that American s They won't be this The captain only 32 s Lt nued Ke n Chamber Fred Center, sec Last Freedom Close Check To Be Made ‘Man Who Claims To Be Beria Conainion Te Rule On Powe Rate Reduction An ordinance granting electric rate reductions to customers of the City Eleetrie System will be voted on by the City Commission tonight at their regular meeting, The reductions, which were ap— proved unanimousiy by the Utility Board last week, wil give Key Westers who make use of the ser viee, savings ranging from seven 0 27 per cent depending on the type of service they suscribe to. Biggest saver will be the City of Key West which will find a re- duction of 27 per cent on their bills starting in October if the measure is passed. Domestic users will seve seven per cent. Commercial electric users will receive @ reduction of about 15 per cent, The reductions will save City Electric System tomers more than $104,000 annually if they use (Continued On Page Five) Smathers Slates Key West Visit Senator George Smathers has trip which rtly and will mn December 4th nual Lions Club he told Louis elephone Sunday athers has been in t arranging for the Lejeune Marines and the sacola Navy teams to appear h December 4 la luncheon is being arrang r the Senator by the Lions » and his friends here on that ate an 27th Polio Case Reported Here The 27th case of polio was re the Monroe County according to rector able only or that of a white She incurred the Both ety Hos ilance yes « sa De cases tal mn met at the Key Motel over the weekend t President of the Key West Chamber Earl Adams is shown nd from left, and L. vice-president of the Upper Keys Chamber, extreme right.—Photo by Jack Browne 60 Officials, Wives Gather At Sadowski’s For Discussion By SUSAN McAVOY The birth of the Florida Keys Association, consisting of five members of each of | the three Keys Chambers of Commerce, was forecast at an enthusiastic meeting of 60 officials and their wives called together by F. P. Sa- dowski at his Key Motel Saturday night The presidents of the Key West and Marathon Cham- bers, and a vice president of the Upper Keys group said they would take the message back to their respective boards for discussion and a tion The propose! for « Fleride Keys Association was made by Sedowski whe hed invited the Chamber leaders together os his Quests for the weekend te plans unification of advertising the Florida Keys. After his proposals each of the Chamber heads commented on the Association plan, as well as mem- bers of Boards of Directors. | ert Adams, President of the Key West Chamber of Commerce, and Cirevit Court Clerk of Mon- ree County made the practical | Suagestion thet each of the three Chambers should appoint standing committee of five serve in the Association os Monroe County Advertising Com- mittee. discuss co- L. Bucklew, On *. McCarthy Sends : Aid To Europe County Commissioner Jee Allen, To Give Opinion ecvertising! head of the Key West ‘Chamber carried the suggestion a WASHINGTON Sen, McCar- step further, He said thy's investigations gubcommittee “This 15 member hopes to know within a few days, an informed source said today, whether a mysterious figure who claims to be Lavrenty Beria really is the deposed Kremlin police boss. The Wisconsin Republican has refused to be quoted on the matter at all, A person familiar with the Sen- ate group's operations said, how- dowski said ever, that investigators are con-| “After you have all presented vinced Beria has escaped from this plan for a 15 member Associa- Russia and is hiding, in terror of tion of Chambers to your local his life, in a neutral European groups I'd like to invite the new country Association to a meeting here. We Other government sources, also can draw up plans for a united ad- asking not to be quoted by name, vertising campaign Yor the entire were skeptical, saying the chances Florida Keys and then submit plans of Beria's having escaped from to the Advertising Commission.” behind the Iron Curtain were “one Chamber leaders and their wives in a million.” had earlier been entertained The Senate source said today|Sadowski at a cocktail party at the “a new man has gone over who\Cabana Club of the Key Motel, and will know him if it is Beria,” anda turkey dinner in the Key Motel that a report from this person can Restaurant. Sadowski led off the be expected within a few 5. jevening's discussion with a presen- This source said the man who) tation of his plan for a concerted calls himself Beria had been co dvertising campaign to double the tacted by agents of McCarthy's tourist dollar spent on the Florida subcommittee and had soughtiKeys. political asylum ‘nm the United) As part of the advertising cam- States in exchange for disclosurelpsign he presented samples of 50 of Russian secrets proposed billboards which would Officials in the executive branch|weicome tourists from Jewfish of the government said they knewlcreek down to Key West nothing which would lead them to] The motif in all the billboards believe Beria, former head of the! is a pelican who tells the tourist Russian eret police, has M&D-lexactly what he is going to find aged to get out of Russia, At thelon each Key. The amusing and in- same time, it was made clear this formative samples drew enthusias- government would be glad to re \tie comments from the leaders ceive any man who knows 8$ MANY|present which were backed up by of the Kremlin's secrets as Berial concrete offers to buy advertising \space on the So far as is known in the West, | vcedewd said Beria was last seen in publie in| sp. Moscow on May 1 Soviet’ Premier| ae Malenkov denounced him as a traitor July 9 and ousted him from! his posts as me minister and first deputy chairman of the Coun. cil of Ministers } His name has not been men- (Continued On Page Five) Re-Opening Land 0’ Sun Luncheonette 1001 TRUMAN AVENUE Tues., Sept. 22 Breakfast at 6:00 AM. ; Store Hours — 6 A.M. - 11 P.M., Tuesday through Sunday CLOSED ON MONDAYS difficulties in organizing such ap (Continued On Page Five) inet -— eee HAP PAPPY JOHNNIE ENTERTAINING NIGHTLY Free Shrimp Thurs. Nights, 9-12 Amateur Friday Nights 28 OUVAL STREET