The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 2, 1953, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equabie climate in the country, with on average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXIV. Ne. 286 THE Commussioners May Form Panel To Air Corruption Ordinance Calls For Jail Terms For City Workers, Refusing To Talk By JIM COBB An emergency ordinance, establishing a “Committee To Investigate Misfeasance, Malfeasance and Nonfeas- ance, If Any, Of All Officers: And Employees of the City Of Key West,” will be con- sidered this afternoon at a special meeting of the City Commission at 5 p, m. The committee will appar- ently replace a so-called “de- cency committee” which was formed two-weeks ago —but which has never held a formal meeting. That com- mittee, consisting of Mayor C. B. Harvey and Commis- sioners Jack Delaney and Louis Carbonell, was formed with the announced intention of investigating prostitution operations in the city. However, if the ordinance to be; considered today is passed, the number of persons sitting on the committee will be increased to the five members of the commission as well as three citizen members and will apparently confine its ef- forts to investigating corruption in city hail. The action comes on the heels of charges leveled by a self- confessed streetwalker, who testi- fied im City Court that she had been a hed for payoffs from. 1 Key Went police office. ‘The new committee. which wilt be appointed by the Mayor under the ferms of the ordinance, also will be given special funds and the power to appoint special in- vestigators to aid them in their detective work. The measure al- so calls for a report on their findings to be submitted “not later than 90 days from the ap- | pointment of the third member Finch. Truman Calls At AP Office Pity The Poor Motorist MRS. MARJORIE SJURSEN, head of the tax collector’s audit- ing department, holds one of the first of 1954 auto license plates to reach the office. Over $500,000 worth of these tags will be dispersed in Monroe county alone.—Citizen Staff Photo, te Spy Hunters Consider 9 E&. What To Do About Gouzenko Ex-Red Is Said To Have Refused Meeting With U.S, Interviewers SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER ‘Strikes Darken Che Ken West Citisen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1953 Labor Picture US. Today Longshoremen Return To Work IN. THE ¢ For Quick Communication. Use CLASSIFIED Ads! You'll tenants a freyei Y . ong DIAL 2.56 Sor- 25662. As U.S.A. Ohne vet ~~ ag Aqueduct District Victorious Group Will Have No Authority Whatsoevcr After Day’s Layoff By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The CIO United Steel Workers union called a strike today against two of the nation’s largest can makers, but longshoremen in New York and New Jersey returned to! work after a one day work stop- Page. A third major labor dispute, in- volving photo engravers, tied up) six of the seven major New York City newspapers. The waterfront work stoppage) ended with a steady return of| workers to piers after a one day rebellion against rules of a newly created commission which now controls the harbor area. The latest strike was called at midnight by the CIO United Steel- workers against the American Can Co. and the Continental Can Co. They employ some 33,000 USW members in 68 plants in 30 states and five plants in Canada. Wages were the chief issue in the dis- pute. Picket lines were set up at several plants at the midnight strike deadline. In New York, longshoremen by the hundreds started the work stoppage yesterday as the New York-New Jersey Waterfront Com- mission, organized to rid the docks of rackteeering, became fully ef- fective. Picket lines were set up outside piers by many longshoremen who were refused employment registra- tion cards by the commission be- cause of criminal backgrounds. Many registered longshoremen joined the picketing men in sym- pathy ‘and others with cards re- fused to cross the picket lines. The stoppage, which started on Hudson River piers in midtown Manhattan, spread quickly to other docks in Manhattan and Brooklyn, Bowl Queen over a four-day morrow. Program will start itizen Staff Photo, Finch, ae * a Taftl Hail The Conch Bowl Queen MISS ERME VALDEZ was chosen yesterday to reign as Conch nual Lions Club Charity football classic. Street parade, The football game is set for Friday evening. March of Dimes Polio Fund will receive proceeds. Erme is ly daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J, A. Zerbe, 16 Roberts Lane. — Present Commissioners To Remain In Control Of Local Water System The Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission election scheduled for February has turned out to be an election | in name only, so prospective candidates Anthony Ulchar, | Billy Freeman and Isadore Rodriguez have found out. | The election will be held in February but those elect- | ed will have no say in operating the Florida Keys Aque- | duct system, and will draw no salary. County Legal Ad- viser Paul Sawyer stated that the present commissioners | will remain in control, and will draw the usual $50 month- ly salary. Ulehar, 614 Grinnell Street, last night had asked the Coun- |ty Commission to set the date for the February election, but when he was informed of the local bill passed by the last State Leg- islature, he said that there would be no need for an election. County Legal Adviser Sawyer informed Ulichar that the County Commissioners did not prepare the local bill and had no know- ledge of the bill whatsoever, that their only function is to set the date for the February election. The present bill introduced by State Representative Bernie C. Pa- py came about when the late Gov- ernor Dan McCarty vetoed a local jaqueduct bill that would have al- lowed the present commissioners to vote in their successors when | ‘Man Held For “Embezzlement Alvin A. Merritt, 45, of the Cactus Terrace Motor Court, 725 Truman Ave., today was in the county jail, charged with embezzlement. Sheriff's deputies said that Merritt embezzled $300 that was | left with him by his employer, Glenn Kirkpetrick, @ sub con- tractor at Boca Chica Field, with which to pay employees. Merritt, took the 5 p. m. bus to Miami. A radio message from the sheriff's office to the highway patrol led to Merritt's capture at Tavernier. their terms of office expired. Sr ere tice erie (Siva. seam, ace Progr am Set | have passed to the District mem- For Visit OF Cuba Newsmen | bers to be elected in February, Sightseeing festival in connection with an- Festival begins to- in the evening with a Duval That. any Monroe County re. sidents will “run” for the Aque- ‘Hartley antistrike injunction was started, The New York Shipping Assn. harged the stoppage violated a Taft-Hartley law injunction issued Oct. 5 which ended a strike on the waterfront involving 60,000 East Coast longshoremen, The fed- Town Rallies To Aid Lad Threatened With Death | Reason for the non-transfer is And Parties | that obligations are still present | on the Aqueduct Commission and must be liquidated before the duct District is not very likely Slated For te thority-to 0 the Aqueduct Cuban Press Commission. ly the District A program for the entertainment 8T°up would dr no salary until since the victérjous group of can- diates would without any au- eral court restrained any strike during an 80-day period expiring Dec. 24. District members could ascume jof more than a score of Ha they took ‘over responsibility. |radio, television and newspaper commentators was released today be | of the Aque- duct system, and that could only done when a bond issue was From Rare Type Of Cancer by City Manager Victor Lang. The floated to remov@ present indebt- of the group,” at which time the committee will be considered to be dissolved. The City Attorney will act as leg- al advisor to the group. ‘Teeth were placed in the power of (Continued On Page Five) Two Are Hurt In Car Crah Two accidents which occurred yesterday within five minutes a- part caused injuries to two per- sons and damage to three auto- mobiles, police reported today. | A car owned by Police Lt, Gene Hernandez figured in both crashes, | Police said. H By JOHN CHADWICK hunters meet today to decide what to do about questioning Igor Gou- zenko. They disclosed yesterday that the FBI reported information from the former Russian code clerk had enabled it to identify a Cut Off Publication U.S. scientist as a Soviet agent. Chairman Jenner (R-Ind) of the Of N. Y. Papers Senate internal security subcom- NEW YORK #~Former Presi-|Mittee, indicated the group was not For Day’s News Couldn’t Keep Up Since Strike’ Has dent Harry Truman curtailed his likely to press the issue in view! of Gouzenko’s reported objection to being questioned. Jenner said in an interview in Louisville, Ky., usual morning stroll today to get his news first hand in the head- jquarters of The Assuciated Press.|“I don’t want him to testify if he He also pitened in briefly on feels it, will endang Photo desk operations where he/ anes who once expressed got on the nationwide Wirephoto willingness ‘to talk to the investi- network to announce a picture)gators, said in a copyrighted ar- er him and his WASHINGTON (# — Senate Spy}, The shipping association, which represents 170 shipping and steve- doring companies, said the walk- out has tied up “practically the entire port.” The commission, how- ever, said less than 35 per cent of the piers were affected. In the New York newspaper strike, the 400 striking photoen- gravers were to vote today on whether to arbitrate four dead- locked issues. The chief issues in jthe strike, which started last Sat- urday, were wages and welfare benefits, hours, the number of an- nual holidays and the duration of a new contract. Members of other newspaper junions honored the photoengray- ers’ picket lines, forcing the six; newspapers to halt publication. (Continued On Page Five) Eisenhower Voices Doubts Of Tax Raise Support Of Dulles Criticism Of Sen. MeCarthy Is Given Today By ED CREAGH WASHINGTON (®—President Eisenhower said today he doubts‘ newsmen will arrive here Sunday|@dness of the System, Only a short time ago, Louie'for a two-day visit as the guest of, Under the bill, the county com- |“Bunky” Russell was a happy 17- the City. |missioners will set the date for the \year-old Marathon lad helping) Lang said that they will be met ¢lection — any time in February, \atound the filling station owned at Meacham Airport at 10 a. m.,/1954. It is possible that the da’ by W. A. Parrish, Jr., where his|Sunday and will be carried through Will be set at the next meeting, |father, Louie Russell, Sr., is night the city in a motoreade to the Dec. 8. 4 jattendant. He had finished his city hall where they will be formal-| It Js up to the state's attorney junior year at Key West High ly welcomea by Mayor C. B. Har-,8eneral to set the date for pros- School and looked forward to being vey and the City Commission. Keys Pective candidates to qualify. That a senior at Coral Shores School|to the City will be presented to date had not been set as of today. this year, the visitors at this time. | pe EME coor , ate mo memncen eter, ORC; Tinie See Good Winter Tourist Season @ cruel blow. He bzcame ill, | Maine Monument and shrine to and the sickness was diagnosed the Key “/est heroes in the Cuban as a rapidly developing rare | revolution in the City Cemetery form of cancer, which was pro- | are next on the program. | Mounced incurable by prominent | pide be poe ystemec eg doctors who examined him. ja luncheon at Lee’s Orient Rest-| ‘ The people in Marathon, how- aurant and during the yan Mlebbeype teil Reiter ever, unwilling to let he case rest will be taken on a sightseeing tour peosetrptee yx hin cdot there, ralliéd ‘round and collected of the city including the Navy Yard level, enough money to send Bunky to and the aquarium. Eisenhower made the statement Dallas Texas, for an examination! They will leave at 3 p. m. for a in reply to questions at a news 2t the Hoxsey Clinic, which special- trip up the keys as far as Pigeon conference at which he also sup- izes in the treatment of cancer Key and will return to the city in) ported Secretary of State Dulles in Patients. There was no charge for time for a cocktail party at 6 statements Dulles issued yesterday the examination, and the doctors Pp. m. in Benny's Cafeteria. An in- in criticism of. Sen. McCarthy there, after a thorough-going check, formal dinner is also set there for (R-Wis) in the field of foreign gave Bunky and his parents a caut. 7:30 p. m. 3g i ious word of hope. Monday morning will be left free They did not, of course, guar- for shopping and the group will antee a cure, but they said that | (Continued On Page Five) with further treatment they might | PEP the ‘ease and give Boray '« Ineligible Voters Will Be Removed From County Rolls 7277. iis es eat chance to live. Very few families are able to He said his officials are takng bear the expenses involved in such \volume will be greater. Steps to purge the rolls of per-- In November this year the num- sons no longer eligible to vote in ber of visitors seeking information |@ number of steps toward this end a serious illness, and Bunky’s jand added he is prepared to take family with two younger children Monroe County are under way/at the Chamber desk picked up here. \considerably. During the past 30 u teh uy z ind Mortellaro attempted to break! credit in advance for them. jis no exception. The Hoxsey Clinie| Street. Linehan’s report on this barat so at eine the pritish Scientist who confessed in|into the Gulfstream Food Depart-| Eisenhower also: will not charge for its further ser-| mishap said that Hernandez was) Feehan explain was on 1946 to passing atomic secrets to|ment Store, 1105 White St. 1. Declined to speculate on the vices, but there is still the problem Sam 8. Pinder, supervisor of}days 751 tourists registered ag registration, said that forms willjcompared with only 544 for the be mailed out to every voter on)same period last year. the Chamber of Commerce office today. Withqut desiring to “stick their necks out," Chamber officials agree that Indications point to an- other good year, Actual inquiries received at the Chamber office from prospective visitors were down only a fraction over the month of November last year. During the past 30 days 1011 Piece of mail were received as compared with 1017 letters during November last year. Records show however that December is the big month for prospective tourists te \write Florida resorts about vaca- tion possibilities. Last December the Chamber of- fice received 1800 inquires from The first occurred at 6:10 p. m. i ititicle written f it : at the corner of White Street and in oe sales eau Dispatch and tae Tee ak Flagler when the car collided with) of ad-libbing. 5 jiaeet: Dot $0 allow the ictervtey an auto driven by Harry G. Higgs, Truman dropped in at the AP for reasons of personal and aly 31, 2007 Flagler Avenue, Police|headquarters in Rockefeller Cen-'safety, He has been living in an said Higgs suffered cuts and bruis-jter after commenting curing his! undisclosed place ‘usier ah as: es and was taken to Monroe Gen-|stroll that he hadn't been able to|sumed name, with Canadian gov- o. = Criminal Court eral Hospital. His. daughter, four-| keep up on the news because of ernment protection. . Trial Today year-old Harriet Higgs, the report/the current photo-engravers strike! The internal security subcommit- gaid, was also hurt although the which has stopped publication of|tee, in releasing excerpts from the| Selection of a jury for the trial’ extend of her injuries was not giv-|New York City’s seven daily news-|/November 1945 FBI report, deleted of Gabriel Hernandez and Paul en. |papers, ithe name of the ienti: |Mortellaro today begea in Crimin- The identity of the driver of) “I didn't expect to see you this scribed by the FBI pay ientist, de- 'y beg ‘Hernandez’ car at this time, is not)morning,” he greeted Associated consultant to Fleet A known, according to the police re-/Press staffer Richard Feehan as'J. Kin, port of Officer John Linehan, who|he stepped from an elevator in |of Jury Chosen For ~On the big domestic problem of | taxes and government finances a wartimejal Court before Judge Thomas S.! generally, Eisenhower said that dm. Ernest/Caro. what the administration can do to ig, then commander in chief The two men are charged with bring the budget near to balance . the U.S. fleet, \attempted breaking and entering|is to eliminate duplication and im- investigated the crash. jthe Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to go on! The FBI said, as quoted by the|with intent to commit a felony.|prove efficiency generally. Five minutes later, at 6:15 p, m.,/his morning walk. Ouly one other| subcommittee, that its information| They also are charged with posses-| Hernandez’ car was involved in|teporter, a magazine correspond: indicated the’ scientist may have|sion of burglary tools. | in another accident, this time at,ent, and photographer were on |furnished data on the Navy's prox-| The state alleges that Hernandez Roosevelt Boulevard and — 13th/hand to jein him in contrast to the!imity fuse to Dr. Alian Nunn May, I the driver and that he struck a car|Job because AP activities aren’t/the Russians, | The defendants are represented prospects for a meeting of West- of air transportation back to Dal- operated by J. W. Cartee, 73 Main [limited = New York and Truman) This portion of the FBI report/by Judge J. Bowers Campbell andjern Powers with representatives jas soon payed he can be given Road, Sigsbee Park as it was pass- ar ‘Oh, yes. Sadi was revealed by the subcommittee his son, James B, Campbell, Jr.,/of the Soviet Union. Asked about his chance at life. ing through the light. s the group, including Tru-|as one of the reasons it wants to|both of Jacksonville, and Tom Wat-|such prospects on the basis of the) The Marathon people, therefore, No charges were brought as a/™@n’s biographer, William Hill- question Gouzenko, who fled from'kins, of Key West. | (Continued On Page Five} mettle. esult of either accident. man, headed crosstown, Truman the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa in nes : — Rei oon September 1945 and tipped Canadi- an authorities to a Russian spy (Continued On Page Five) it wasn’t enough. “Why don’t you come up to the joffice and get up to date,” the reporter suggested. “Fine,” Truman replied as Hill- an nodded agreement. Minutes jater he was carefully ‘scrutinizing stories 2s they came jin on teletypes of various news jeircuits. He paused briefly in his) Teading to have his shoes shined.| Then as he went back to the |teletypes he asked: “Do you Save | (Caatinued On Page Five) ing in of the county. Marathon to make money for Bun- os x! ky. They hope, from the proceeds of the affair, not only to be able to supply funds fer transporta- tion to the Clinic, but also to | have enough to furnish the youth | with some of the things that will | make his life happier while he | | awaits the final outcome. | How is Bunky himself taking all! STRUNK LUMBER this? Well, he hasn’t given up, not 120 SIMONTON, near Gulf Docks: (Continved on Page Five) WANTED! WANTED! 2 EXPERIENCED WAITRESSES CALL IN PERSON Shorty’s Diner 116 DUVAL STREET paid no taxes in the County you tax receipt at the Tax Collector's office. accepting Homestead Exemption applica- St te an eee | such forms every five years. m, ——EEe —— > fi (sd) JOSEPH ©. KEMP, Chief of Police. CLAUDE A. GANDOLFO, Monroe County Tax Assessor.