The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 31, 1953, Page 1

The Key West Citisen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A Hit-And-Run Victim Identified As Wife Of Construction Worker eee tae |General Marshall Is Awarded Barmaid Here, Coroner Hamlin |The 1953 Nobel Peace Prize Repo: rts Today ene. Last Previous U.S. Rotary Hears Recipient Was Lewin Speak Positive indentification Bunche Ini 1950 About Radio the young woman who was killed by a hit-and-run driv- EL Pe shall, symbol of American gener- Tape-Recorded Speech Is Heard KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1953 Yonjeuctae Candidates Level Big Campaign Guns As Election Nears; Small Vote Seen Peeping Tom A local youth is in city jeil ~ Rally Slated Tonight, Monday With Hot Vote Races Predicted facing Peeping Tem charges after he was captured by police in the yard of a Reynolds St. heme shortly after midnight, it was reported today. Eighteen candidates for the City Commission are | levelling their big guns in a last minute vote drive they | hope will carry at least five of them into office next | Tuesday when Key Westers go to the polls to exercise | their right of franchise. Police identified the man as Francis L. Baer, 20, 600 Tru- man Avenue. He was arrested by officer Steve Atkins whe The current campaign, which started off in a lacka- | daisacal manner, is rapidly gaining momentum with the | the office seekers unlimbering their best electioneering oratory in an effort to gain the votes they need to put said that he observed him as he was looking in a window | them in office for the next two years, They'll have a chance to speak at the home of Circuit Court Judge Aquilineo Lopez, Jr., 1426 Reynolds Street. Atkins said the accused prowler was dressed in white and when he spotted him he fled to a nearby parked car. He was captured at gunpoint. |before Colored voters in the city gets a majority of the votes cast in tonight in Ocean View Park dur- any one group. ling a rally set for 7:30 p. m. The Indications are that the vote will Welter’s Cornet Band will fur-/be somewhat lighter than in the nish background music for the ora-/1951 elections. Only 5,777 of an ‘tory. \anticipated 10,000 voters have reg- Monday will be the candidates’ |istered for the balloting. More than last chance to get before the 2 hundred names have been re- Fire Sweeps Dairy Garage thon ursda; oie Mars = Y josity to a war-torn world, has night was made late yester- day by the woman’s husband, been awarded the 1953 Nobel peace John MM. Spotts 4 prize. The 1952 prize—not given Sheriff John M. Spottswoo: out last year—went to Albert Schweitzer, world-famous _philoso- ipher, musician and missionary. The awards were announced last! night by the Norwegian Nobel In- |stitute. The five-member selection In an address to Rotary Club's board, following tradition, assigned luncheon meeting Thursday, Ker-|no reason for its choices. mit Lewin, manager of WKWF,| The prizes were set up under Key West's radio station, used athe will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish junique methood of presentation. |inventor of dynamite. He specified (He tape-recorded his speech, and,|that the peace award should go to| upon being introduced to fellowithe candidate “who has worked Police said that a Flagler Avenue resident also identified Baer as the man she had seen near her home earlier. She also gave the license number of his car, Baer is being held un- der $250 bond, ened Fantastic Tale \the most or the best for promoting |brotherhood among people, and for) the abolition or reduction of the! standing armies, and for the es- Of Fake Medic to listen to my own speech,” was greeted with laughter. NEW YORK—Firemen wet d lown burned empty paraffined people wher the Jaycees sponsor | their annual election-eve rally in | Bayview Park. Each vote seek- er will be alloted time in which moved from the rolls because of ineligibility. Hottest race thus far is for Mayor with four candidates vy- Is Uncovered Ex-Army Private Fooled Hospitals, Doctors With Pose CINCINNATI # — A 30-year-old ex-Army ‘private who duped doc- tors and. hospitals in eight states He switched on the recorder, and jthe audience applauded when his voice began a concise ten-minute ‘speech which traced the beginnings of radio in Key West up to its/ “present standards. tablishment and spread of peace congresses.” Fame Gained In WWII Marshall, now 72, sprang into’ world fame as army chief of staff, during World War II. As secre- Lewin stressed that he did not itary of state he later was instru- go into mechanical details of radio|mental in organizing a 17 billion) development as he was not an en-/dollar aid campaign to restore the gineer. Instead, he emphasized the|economies of Europe. merits of radio as a community) In a statement issued at his “|service as it served the many func-|winter home in Pinehurst, N. C., tions of government and society. |where he is convalescing from a | He outlined its value to the police flu attack, Marshall said “This award is a great distinction and -|honor for which I am deeply|, grateful.” of At the White House, President) Eisenhower was described as de- to outline his platform. The meeting will be preceded by the traditional noisy motorcade bearing the candidates through the city. ing for that post. Incumbent C, B. Harvey has based his cam- Paign 01 opposition to a 14-million milk containers in the garage of Gold Medal milk company in the Bronx here Friday. The fire resulted in $50,000 damage. Loss included 300,000 empty milk containers. Destruction of the the containers resulted in delay in dispensing 50,000 quarts of milk to persons who flocked to the plant as a result of teh Tough races are predicted in“all| milk strike which was ended today after negotiations. Dur- groups for Tuesday's Primary: ing the six-day strike, milk was rationed at four quarts per election. The top two candidates} customer.—(?) Wirephoto. : in each ofthe :five groups will Anti-Communist POWs Hold vr Paul R. (Blondie To Refusal To Return Home as aga opponents have hit away in an or- thedex political manner. Former city Finance Director Charles Roberts; Milton “Mickey” Pare oberts Issues t of the POWs were) . Oat. sBaentall bd . lement Today As many as four Indian guards on jwere assigned to each prisoner,! Pay] R. (Blondie) Roberts today oners marched from their com- ‘but frequently this wasn't enough. |issued the following statement in pounds today and with shouts,! One enraged prisoner broke free behalf of his candidacy for City kicks and screaming curses Oh Pes eta a folding vite os se) Commissioner, Group 4° whelmingly told Communist ,ex- faces of three smarily-uniformed| «prior to my qualification for the plainers they will not go back tolexplainers. All were slightly iD-leangidacy tc the city Commission ; pred I gave it much thought and con- By late afternoon only 20 of 430; In at least two instances prison-|_. “ Jj North Koreans had elected to goers kicked over ficld tables used|*4¢T@tion to the duties 1 must per- back to the Communists, an Indian|by the Communists. spokesman - said. Almost all of them screamed,| The Koreans came out peace- shouted and spat at the Commu- fully to meet ‘Red persuaders | brn Rees fy tieascyat Ee Gen. 8. Thimayye, Indian dian soldiers. chairman of the Neutral Nations} “You sons of dogs,” the prison-|§ Repatriation Commission, ers screamed. before the explainers,) ‘You traitors!” “You want to make us dogs of | the Russians.” (Continued On Page Two) couse” H ie * Lewin answered the major ques-|a United Nations mediator in the tion of his audience when he stated| Palestine war, declared both that the development of television|Marshall and Schweitzer were “ex- this area is underway, and that|cellent choices and highly merit completion of surveys and re-' search, Key West‘may expect to (Continuea On Page Two) z Rain said he went to the Uni- versity of Chicago as a pre-medi- cal student. He attended lectures, too, at the University of Ilinois | School of Medicine and Cook Coun-| ty Hospital. His claims could not be verified. After his “training,” a medical Placement agency referred him to the Inland Lime & Stone Co. of (Continued on Page ‘fwo) 1 1° New York Milk lait Strike Is Ended ‘ ° .e By Negotiations NEW YORK (#—Marathon nego- tiations today settled a six-day milk strike in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area, bringing ems ployes higher wages and the re- gion’s 12 millions the prospect of = |higher prices. Dealers said huge tank trucks already were heading from farms toward the milk-starved area with (Continued On Page Two) z be served in this field. Abbott Is Minus Costello HOLLYWOOD (H—For the first | time in 18 years, Bud Abbott will] appear in a network show tomor- row night without his Partner, | Lou Costello, | Costello collapsed from nervou: exhaustion end fatigue Thursday. | | |His place on the Colgate TV show. Sunday night will ‘be filled by| Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, 708 WHITE STREET SATURDA’ 40 and & | Hallowe’en. Masquerade and Costume DANCE!! TONIGHT AMERICAN LEGION HOME Stock Island Costume and Door Prizes | ADMISSION $1.00 PER PERSON | MAC'S PLACE BOCA CHICA BEACH Under New’ Management OPEN NIGHTS Boats and Motors for Rent MOY’S FIN st Chinese-Americ DINNERS from Nightly Entertainment pe HAP HAPPY JOHNIE DUFFY’S 218 DUVAL STREET |Hallowe’en Costume Dance)! KEY WEST GOLF CLUB TONIGHT | |All Golfers and Guests Welcome : ADMISSION $1.00 g Phone 2-9202 For Reservations | a SECEDE T DG aie ik A change in Key West can only be had when P. A. McMasters is Mayor—(Pd, Pol. Adv.) STRAND Opening Sunday Through Tues. @Common Sense (Pd. Pol. Adv.) Yellow Pine KILN DRIED Framing Lumber COSTS NO MORE at STRUNK LUMBER 120 Simonton St., near Coca-Cola Hallowe’en Masquerade DANCE and FLOOR SHOW Elks Club Annex TONIGHT & Jig: | Ae od ADMISSION $1.00 PER PERSON | Public Invited Music by John Pritchard’s Orchestra —FOR MAYOR— CHARLES R. ROBERTS “Courage and Outsianding Accomplishment in the Field of Good Government for 16 Years” HIS LONG AND HONORABLE RECORD AS CITY FINANCE DIRECTOR MERITS YOUR SUPPORT Give Him the Vote That Faithful Service Deserves Let’s Elect Him Mayor Friends of Charles R. Roberts (aid Political Advertisement) PAUL R. ROBERTS (Blondie) form, if elected, for all the citi- zens of Key West. “First: I must protect their tax monies. By this I mean that every dollar you pay for services, you receive dollar for dollar value. J will close the door to the city trea- |sury to all free loaders and special interests. “Second: Inasmuch as part of my duties will be to assist in mak- | ing up the annual budget, there are some changes in the system of budgeting that should reflect eco- nomy as well as better service to} PROTECT YOUR FUTURE! Hear P. A. MCMASTERS DISCUSS THE REAL CITY ELECTION ISSUES | WKWF at 7:15 Tonight (Pd. Pol, Adv.) i] Come to. .« - MOODY'S ON STOCK ISLAND Featuring Curb Service —————— NEIL SAUNDERS SAYS; “Compare Key West's For Commissioner | Group City and ELECT NEIL SAUNDERS A PROVEN ADMINISTRATOR IN GROUP 4 (Pa. Pol. Advt) you. “Third: I believe my responsibi-| lity as a city commissioner will be. to see that the citizens of our city! }have the minimum of decent shel-' |ter, especially in the blighted area! lwhere our colored citizens live. | This area should be given careful’ | consideration. I believe that mon- Fey can be made i rod these/tures of the year.” worthy citizens a1 un-| Ider the new plan of home and MATINEE OPENS 1:48 housing finance administration. Continuous Performance “4 will try to give you citizens a) REGULAR PRICES (Continued on Page Two) a, «6 KWE AT 12:20 P.M. (Pd. Pol. Advt.) Neil Saunders Says Employ a man who is qualified to do the job—not an appren- tice. A BLACKSMITH CANNOT REPAIR YOUR WATCH! Pull Lever 15-A and Elect NEIL SAUNDERS 4 Qualified Man for City Commissioner, Group 4 (Paid Political Advertisement) nee ae a ree: movie, rated one of the best pic- AND VOTE FOR | Louis M. J. Eisner (Pd. Pol. Adv.) ve Spanish Speaking Residents Please Listen To — Atencion Los De Habla Espanol =: PAUL R. (BLONDIE) ROBERTS :--: