The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 9, 1953, Page 1

F i " i ESTE li it Hi a true. 3 in their homes and. in gsi 26 gy | £8 3 Eg pet ref rid _#: i 82s i < The Key West Citisen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. NEW OFFICERS of the local Chamber of Commeroe get together for their first meeting min- KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1953 - |City Accepts - a |Low Bids On a utes after election ballots were counted yesterday afternoon, For the first time in history of Key West’s Chamber, a woman, Mrs. Mary Graham, became president. On her left is Ralph Faraldo, 1st vice president; Treasurer Aquilino Lopez stands behind her, and Paul Sher, 2nd vice president, is on her right—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. Kiwanis Will Honor Key Clubs g Week Of October 11th Program Will Feature Key Club Activity Glynn Archer, President, Kiwan- 'is Club of Key West, stated today ‘that his club would join others in honoring Key Clubs during — the! coming week. Key Club Week. Oc- tober 11-17, is being celebrated by. hokey clubs throughout the Uni- the Be ealAch's ot Minn Becch 's of Miami’ Beach as developed by the 23,000 bers in their 1000-odd clubs serve recognition, he 7 This week’s Kiwanis Club gram will feature the Kes activity. Plans are ed for continued Key Clab: pation now. that school has this fall, OE is Kiwanis Key Club committee ‘composed of Bill Chapman,’ “Doe”! Casterton, and Dr. Campbell, * ithe Key West High School, These Kiwanians are scheduled to speak about Key Club activities, and their! value to the school and community, At the next regular dinner eeting, Tuesday, October 13, Kiwanis officers will turn over to Key Club officers the conducting of the Kiwanis meeting, as an object lesson to the sponsors of the smoothness and skill with which Key Clubbers handie their own parliamentary procedures at meetings. Officers of bog! a a on Other new officers |Key West High presently Faraldo, first vice sil hdl gn Glynn Archer, Jr., president; J. Sher, second vice president; (St@2ley Among, vice-president; Or- jand Judge Aquilino Loper, ery ‘lando Lopez, secretary; C. B. Har- |treasurer. . “ivey, Jr., treasurer. siebeng tet Mrs. Graham has bee: Joe Pineda, senior class; ry civic affairs and is tee oun Delgado, Junior class; Norman Al- Lee’s Orient Restaurant as well as|!©"» Sophomore class. Sponsor is Several apartment buildings here,|Swanian Professor Bill Chapman. | Earl R. Adams, retiring presi.) Kiwanis Club will also hear a dent, spoke at yesterday’s meet. (7ePot made by Joe Pineda, past ing, thanking the members for|K¢Y, Club president, and last sum- their cooperation and extending his|™*!’S delegate to the Key Club In- congratulations to Mrs. Graham, ternational Convention, } Ban ; ; jacabags er Ch “teskage apps i i 2 planning; Key Clu jal al gow play jtheir activities over a local radio| obligingty stepped to ae — station during the week of October| dow after a bank clerk told him she was busy escaped with $721) ae from a Bank of America —_—_——_—_——_ ibranch, | Teller Marjorie von Gaertner Accused Red Released was busy recording papers, The| SAN FRANCISCO w—Carl Ross, bandit then handed teller Joe/alias Carl Edwain Rasi, 40, one Kurchner a note reading, “This is/of five accused Communists ar- a holdup. I've got a gun pointed|rested in August on charges of hid- at your heart. Give me all the 5,!ing fugitive Red leader George 10, 20 and larger bills you have.”;Robert Thompson in a Sierra Ne- vada tabin hideout, yesterday was Oak Flooring Teleased on $10,200 bail. QUARTERED OR PLAIN Elected To Head Local C. Of C. Phe bing time, a woman is sident e Key West Cham- ber .of Commerce, Mrs. Mary L. Graham was elect- ed to that office late yesterday at & special meeting of = cham- Glynn Archer, Jr., Joe Pineda, and Paul Avery, of Meridel LeSueur, of Minneapo- lis, Minn., whom Ross described {11, Speakers will be Bill Chapman, | ci Rotarians See Oil Company's Florida Movie Entire State By JO ELLEN KELLER movie titled Key West luneheon: or B eis F e streets, the sequence on i i ¥ : é i i four flags, Confederate, Florida’s Gateway Jacksonville, * “Gateway to Florida’ picture story of a and lumbering center, Daytona Beach with its hard Packed white sands and the shell rimmed islands off Fort Myers| unfolds on this colored documen-' tary film. St. Petersburg and Tampa round out the West Coast as “an gid friend” and an author. (The FBI said he formerly was aj} The bond was posted in the name STRUNK LUMBER the Minnesota arca. ‘Communist party functionary + crawls, the old li; (Continuee On ‘Tito Protests Transfer Of | a Sons, Miami, was ac- cepted on a new garbage truck by Storm Hazel Mis West, Moves Inland On W. Florida Coast Today Trieste To Italian Control Demonstrations Break Out In Belgrade Against Ttaly, Britain, U.S. By ALEX SINGLETON BELGRADE, Yugoslavia ww — |New demonstrations breke out here today against the United ,|States, Great Britain and Italy as President Tito and his Cabinet met to formulate new protests against Italian occupation of the major jy|Part of the bitterly-disputed Tri- este territory. Rifle-carrying troops ‘on horse- * back held back turongs which swarmed in front of the three em- bassies in angry protest against the British-American announce- ment yesterday they would with- draw their troops from Trieste port and the surrounding territory and turn it over to the Italians. The mobs had pelted property the occupied by the three foreign na- Other action taken by the com- mission included an agreement to retain the Jaw firm of Albury and (Continued On Page Two) a resoltuion which will be d to the Trustees of the Improvement Fund in Tal- putting forth the city’s ob- to the’ sale. and Hilda Mazur, owners Atlantic Shores Motel are the prospective buyers of The sale is slated to take a F 4 ich M, Ignatius Lester Monday to dispatch m to the IIB board in pro- test of the action. Advisory On Storm Hazel MIAMI @®—The Miam! Weather| tions with stones until early today, smashing windows and damaging automobiles, No major casualties had been reported. Tito hastily summoned his Cab- inet into emergency session. The government was expected to de- liver a strong note of protest to the two Western powers later to- day. The government radio said a lYugoslav note already delivered ito British and American authori- ties in Trieste hao warned Tito’s government would “take all meas- ‘ures at its disposal te protest ‘interests and in of Tri- Reports from Trieste Cityj. the strategic Adriatic port and center of the terriory, said the Yugo- slavs already had closed the bor- der between the scuthern half of the territory which they occupy and the northern British - Ameri- can zone, There was speculation here that Tito might rush troop reinforce- ments to the border in an effort jto delay the British - American jwithdrawal, Vice President Edvard |Kardelj already had indicated a Yugoslav appeal to the United Na- tions. A dispatch from the Allied half of Trieste said scattered shooting was heard today from the Yugo- slav zone. The semi-official Yugoslav news agency, Yugopress, reported that {demonstrations against the ‘Allied jainouncement were widespread in the Yugoslav zone of the contested jarea. The Foreign Office, meanwhile, apologized to the three Western governments for the violence to -\their property, A government com- munique-and press organs urged the people to remain calm. Announcement of the Anglo - American decision, which would leave Yugoslavia in possession of the territory’s southern half brought some 200,000 angry Yugo- slavs into Belgrade’s streets. Marshal Tito’s last public sug- gestion was that Trieste City be internationalized and the rest of the territory be given to his coun- try. Italy called for a plebiscite of the area’s inhabitants to de- termine their future. Trieste, Austrian before World ‘War I and Italian efter that con- g\flict, has been divided and occu- |pied since the end of World War Inspector Quits Edward Goehring has resigned his post as inspector for the Key; by City Manager Lang said that he will ndme —RENT— Power Lawn Mowers |West sewer project it was an-) —EEEEEE—_—_—___= Cuban Cruiser Arrives Today The Cuban Navy Cruiser “Cuba” rived here this afternoon at 1:00 p.m. to take part in the celebration of El Grito de Yara, Cuban national holiday, tomorrow. The vessel exchanged a 21 gun salute with Neyal Station cannoneers. The ship is carrying the 80- piece Cuban Navy Band which will take part in the festival. Two other bands, the Key West High School and the USS Bush- nell bands will take part in the celebration. The Board of Directors of the San Carlos Institute announced today that the greup will play for a dance to be held at the Cuban Ciub Saturday night at 11 p.m, The public is invited to the affair which will be free of charge. 3 Kiwanians Will Attend tate Meet 106 Kiwanis-€l Will Attend Daytona Conclave The Kiwanis Club of Key West) will be represented at the 1953 con- vention of the Flcrida Kiwanis Dis- trict at Daytona Beach, Fla., Oc- tober 10-3, Club President Glynn Archer announced today. - The local representatives to the convention will be Glynn Archer, Ralph Faraldo and Joe Boza. Albert J, Tully, trustee of Kiw- anis International and a prominent; attorney-at-law of Mobile, Ala., will be a featured speaker during the four-day meeting at the Sheraton Beach Hotel. Delegates from 106 clubs, repre-' |senting a membership of over 6,750 jbusiness and professional leaders, will participate in the various ses- sions. Committee conferences, a discussion of plans for the coming year, and election of officers will highlight the convention program, Archer said, Mr. Tully, who will serve as. the ‘official cepresentative of Kiwanis |International at the meeting, is a past governor of the Alabama Kiw- lanis District, In civic affairs, Mr. \Tully is a past president of the 'Mobile County Conservation Asso- | ithe Alabama Wildlife Federation. He is a member of the Mobile, Ala. and the American Bar Asso- (Continued On Page Two) Mitchell In As Labor Secretary WASHINGTON # — James P. ‘Mitchell was sworn in today as secretary of labor and attended ‘his first Cabinet meeting. | Mitchell, 52-year cid former New Poinciana Service Station) “ 17th Street and Duck Avenue ciation and a past vice-president of Winds Up To 45 MPH Are Reported Here By DENIS SNEIGR Key West’s weather luck still held today as Storm Hazel swirled up the Gulf coast and moved inland at noon near Punta Gorda, north of Fort Myers. The early morning hours here saw squally gusts of rain but the main part of the storm passed far out at sea in the Gulf. The U.S. Weather Bureau at the * Federal Building here reported the highest winds at 28 mph. Boca Chica Field was swept by winds in gusts up to 39 knots, or almost 45 mph. Rainfall measured at the Fed- eral Building was .42 of an inch since noon yesterday and up to noon today. From last midnight to noon today, Boca Chica Field re- corded .05 inch of rain. The telephone company here re- ported no damage from the wind and rain, while the City Electric ing & beating from the weather. Rains and squalls covered most of the Florida Peninsula and floods threatened the Lake Okee- chobee area. ‘The Miami Weather Bureau pre- dicted, that Storm Hazel, with a wide drea‘of Florida, the than of the blustery squalls sweeping over the lend. Army engineers around Lake Okeecho- bee went on a hurricane alert but made it clear that their concern was of floods. The Miami area felt the lash of 50 mile gales through the morning and storm flags flew over the en- An advisory on the storm, named Hazel for the eighth letter of the alphabet, said that at 11 a.m. its center was 25 miles northwest of Fort Myers, An unexpected stepup in {ts for- ward speed during the night prob- ably prevented the storm from reaching full hurricane force of 75 miles an hour. Grady Norton, chiet storm forecaster in the Mi- ami Weather Bureau, said its 19 jmile forward pace probably kept (Continued On Page Two) Blaze Quelled Early Today A short circuit in a power fine sent the Key West Fire Depart- {ment to the scene on Amelia Street early today. Chief Charles Cremata said that 1igh winds which ceused damage to a line running from a pole to home there resulted in a fire, Fire fighters stood by until City Electric System crew repair- ed the line, Elks Club Annex PUBLIC INVITED _.. $1.00