The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 10, 1953, Page 1

Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST THE VOL. LXXIV No. 293 Military Personnel To Be Off The Streets B;) 2 AM. Amended Curfew pale Is Announced; Off-Limits Areas | ° Listed By Navy An amended Navy curfew was in effect today, giving military personnel until 2:30/ a. m. to be off the streets in the Key West area. The 2 a. m. curfew for mili- tary personnel to be out of saloons, restaurants and oth : public establishments still stands, | ‘The 2:30 a. m. announcement gives personnel time to return fo their quarters or station. In the new instructions, the Na-} vy defines the Key West area as that area of the Florida Keys lying) within Monroe Counfy. ‘The instruction also lists the es-) | [Hite Day In Court tablishments in the area that are) off limits to military personel.| That part of the instruction reads: | “Mom's Place, bar and grill, Stock Island, Monroe County, | Florida. | “Wy'ks Ber and Restaurant, Steck Island, Monroe County, | Florida. | “Pepe's Cafe, 202 Duval St, Key West, Florida. “116 Club, 116 Fitzpatrick St., | Key West, Florida. “Roomina house, 118 Duval St., Key West, Florida.” ‘The instruction then defines the| places and areas in Key West that! are off limits to white persons “The following described area in, Key West, Fla., is off limits to all) white pergonnel on foot; the area} (Continued On Page Two) DALLAS, Texas.—Mrs. Higginbottom, a drake despite his fem- inine name, appeared in Corporation Court to answer charges of trespassing. With him in the picture are his owners, Tommy, 7, and Linda Pisillo, 8, their mother, Mrs. Margo Pisillo, and Fluffy Sue, a golden-hued cat they say Mrs. Higginbottom adopted. After listening to testimony, interrupted by several excited quacks from Mrs. Higginbottom in his own defense, Judge Frank O’Brien ruled the charges dropped and Mrs. Higginbottom must stay in wire enclosed section of his own yard and out of @ neighbor's pansies and asparagus —(P) Wirepheto , N. J. News Writer |—-— " Spends Winter Soviet Spokesmen Indicate Vacation Here Kremlin Wants No Part Of emacs wc“ Proposed Atomic Energy Pool wat. sina ere ea ad, | LONDON W—Soviet spokesmen jgave strong indications last night Miss Wingert who is a member! 1 yg engage 1) THE TRUE STORY that the Kremlin wants no part of President Eisenhower's proposal oldest families has been a i . newspaper woman since her QF SANTA CLAUS late teens, having worked on The lata: : 'y of that jolly the Newark Ledger and Newark aid Galaidn iy: 6 sad ecck: Jebel a who makes us all young again, ih » at least once in every year! Following a very short 2-day * : vit here by a car two years ago. oe sor today - vire a : i ie Win- e Citizen, a series of six in- big saggy i — aaa staliments by Oliver Bennett vi eci Server. Succeedi control plan the Russians have Ww rt decided a that Key West was. about the Will appear in the pages of The always rejected, Leontyev added warmest and most relaxing spot Citizen between now and |that the U. S. President had for a much needed winter vaca. Christmas, with the last one (“threatened atomic war.” atigy | on Christmas eve. In the United Nations Assembly, peaceful uses, There was no “official reply from the Soviet government, but a top propaganda commentator on iMoscow radio, Boris Leontyev, jdescribed the American proposal as a rehash of the Baruch atomic SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER for an atomiq energy pool for) Che Key West Citis THE U.S. A. aga ! You'll Father Of Slain Family Sobs IN KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1953 City WorkersTo FQur Persons Wi Make Switch Soon | “Let's get out of here,” was e e the general feeling today | among employees in the office | of City Tax Collector Archie y Roberts. They have been “living dan- gerously” in their office — jimi which lies below the city hall tower. Engineers have said | that the tower is in grave dan- ger of toppling because of structural defects. Workers in Roberts’ office, who said that they never gave the situation a thought until this week when the report of the engineers was given, said today that they are a collective bundie of nerves. They’ll feel better next week when they move to their new office down the street in the old City Electric System build- ing at Greene and Duval St: City Manager Victor Lang o: dered the switch “just in case. No Progress Made Toward Peace Parley Reds Will Answer Dean’s Question On Their Readiness To Talk Tomorrow By GEORGE MCARTHUR PANMUNJOM — Allied and Communist diplomats made no Progress today toward setting up a Korean peace conference and U. S. envoy Arthur H. Dean asked the Reds if they were ready to break off the preliminary talks, The Reds retorted with a long tirade, then acknowledged that the, negotiations are at a sta and said they would answer tomorrow. A few miles from the scene of the deadlocked talks, Allied ex- plainers failed for the eighth straight day to win back a single South Korean war prisoner who chose to stay with the Commu- nists. Indian paratrooper guards broke up sitdown strikes staged by most of the 30 ROK captives in an ap- parent effort to tie up the inter- | Views. Explainers have talked with 250 |South Koreans to date and have )78 more to see. | Then the U. N. Command is ex- pected to call for 22 Americans and 1 Briton who stayed with the| eds, Dean told Communist diplomats he would do everything possible CHICAGO.—Accused of slaying his wife and three children, Vincent Ciucci, the father, sobs at altar rail of chapel in county jail Wednesday—as funeral services are being held for the family elsewhere. He was not permitted to attend. Ciucci clutches a crucifix, denying he was responsible for the slay- ing—(#) Wirephoto, obless Miner Kills Children “To Save Them From Torment” Three Of Family Are Dead, Two Near Death After Father’s Attack STEUBENVILLE, Ohio ® — A jobless, hymn-singing miner killed three of his five little children yes- terday with a crowbar and his feet and critically injured the other Peace Prize Is Given To Marshall Today By HALVARD ROSSELAND Ban OSLO, Norway —The 1953 No- ,,’ jbel Peace Prize was presented to- God as me to kill Be children j@ay to America’s top commander to save them from the tortures pia oa pea ia World War II, Gen. George C.'and torment of the devil,” Frank Ney. |Marshall, for the 17-billion-dollar Holt, 34, was quoted as telling Jef- But he said there would be) joc i no retreat from his insistence that he Porgpenn art mem whlcly Russia attend the conference as} The $33,840 in prize money, a a full participant. cation 5 hei scroll and gold medal were “e ‘ cove ule epee) ae new, handed to Marshall in ceremonies nen Deputy Sheriff Huseell Wile here. when Deputy Sheriff Russell Wil-- (Continuea On Page Two) | zi sac arr‘ved at the home, 17 miles French. Ambassador Louis de northwest of here in the village of | | | ferson County Prosecutor Bernard T. McCann last nighi. Holt was walking around his | Telephone Com-| |peaceful purposes without uncon- ditional prohibition and strict in- ternational control (of jWeapons).”” U.N. deliberations on atomic| energy control have been dead-| jlocked for several years by Rus- |sia’s insistence on an immediate| |ban and the West’s counterdemand for a workable control and in- Spection system first. The initial Soviet reaction came} as the Western world generally} {applauded the plan, outlined by Eisenhower Tuesday in a speech} before the U.N, Assembly. News-| Pipers in India also welcomed it) as a “rent, however small’, in the jatomic curtain.” atomic/ ) Brutal Crime Is Probed In South Carolina Battered Head Of- Schoolgirl Is Found In Abandoned Well By LATHAN MIMS PAMPLICO, S. C. \#—The bat- tered head of a pretty 15-year-old Monicault also accepted the 1952 Peace prize on behalf of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, famed African jungle doctor, humanitarian, philosopher and musical authority. The other four 1953 prizes from the fortune left by Alfred Nobel,, linventor of dynamite, were to be {presented later today in similar jceremonies in Stockholm, Sweden. jThey go to Britain’s Prime Min- ister, Sir Winston Churchill, for literature; Dr. Franz Albert Lip-- mann of Harvard University and \Dr. Hans Adolph Krebs of Eng- land's Sheffield University, both German-born, for medicine; Hol- land’s Dr. Frits Zernike, for phys- ies; and West Germany's Dr. Her- East Springfield. The deputy said Holt kept humming hymns and seemed calm during a half-hour auto ride to jail, Three of Holt’s small sons were dead when Wilsac got there — Tracy, 1; Sidney, 2; and Sanford 6, The other two children—Susan, 4, and Doren, 5—were unconscious at Ohio Valley Hospital today, their skulls fractured, Hospital at- tend aid they doubted the “would make it.” ac said Holt had beaten the ’s heads with a 30-inch and then stomped on childr crowbar them. In another room of the hospital re two of her children were Although some Western sources |Pamplico schoolgirl! and the body Man Staudinger, for chemistry. el to life was Holt's wife Be Called Before Committee Friday May Hire Out-of-Town Private Eye To Prabe Police And Prostitution By JIM COBB The “decency committee” is shopping around for a private investigator to aid them in their probe of the city vice problem. They decided yesterday at their initial meeting to investigate hiring an out-of-town detective agency to con- duct an undercover check of the police department and the city’s prostitution operations, but they'll also con- tinue their own probe starting Friday at 5 p. m. when they will question four persons in connection with alleged payoff demands from the police department. = It was Father John Arm- field, rector of St. Paul's is ° \Episcopal Church, who sug- Pre-Christmas igested that the city hire an Hours Announced -soveprapesod ttn _ : jinto the situation rather than By Post Office Ihaving the committee do all Stamp and parcel post win- the work. dows only will be open Satur- “The objective way to go into day, December 12 from m |this matter is to get a criminal to 6:00 p. m. Acting Postmas- jinvestigator, who is not a Key ter L. H. Goddard announced (Wester. I'm rather dubious about fedai |the answers this committee will Saturday, December 19th, all get from witnesses, All we'll get windows at the post office will [is charges and counter charges — be open from 8:00 a. m. to [one man’s word against another | 6:00 p.m. man's — a vicious circle of poll- | tics and more politics,” Father Armfield said. But the five city commissioners |who also sit on the committee pro- jmised to keep politics out of their jinvestigation. | “As far as | am concerned, this is not going to be a white- wash — even it it means going to the Grand dury. I’m in this thing to the finish,” seid Com. missioner Jack Delaney. «,Comiuittee ‘member Alan. fiimp- jton asked for an impartial probe, “We don’t want any pressure from city commissioners who may have a grievance against anyone in the Fs city’s employ,” he said, Jaycee Session sds C. B. Harvey commented: : 3 ce we get digging into thi: The Junior Chamber of Com- thing, there is noretieie where t merce discussed their annual fish-' wit end. Any Jeads should be fol jing tournament and Christmas lowed. For example — some peo- lighting contest at their regular ple say that the police department |meeting last night. is underpaid, you may want to | apptsiashen obi the tiouse: Coat ee a recommendation along this ” mittee, nad several of the fishing Harvey said that it was A tournament trophies on display. thought that the vice probe should This year, there will be a total of be carried out by the citizen mem- 75 trophies given to the winners of patty Se ee ro it was later ious events. The fishing eight members will bestbeteti will get underway ear- heim to ask questions of wit. i ary, Ue breed reported on the con- ieee ae will call four persons cession stand at Wicker’s Stadium, bbe re em tomorrow afternoon and stated that it had been a suc- ts < first step in their probe of cessful operation. Final report of nee mp Payoff” demand. earnings will be made after final ey'll query Miss Dolores Bax- accounting. |ter, who is now in the city jail Garcia also made a report on S¢*Ving a 90 day term on'a vag. Christmas lighting program. All Vad conviction, Police Officer the lights should be up by the end ~ ward Ramirez, whom she named of this week, and the 40-foot tree 2% the man who once approached Jaycees Plan Fishing Meet In January Report Given On Christmas Lighting At | to be placed on Duval Street in her for a payoff, Officer Frank front oe Kress should be up soon.| (Continued On Page Ten) The Jaycees are captive ron appeal for donations for this worth- H (ante project, and anyone worth. Woman Is urt to donate any amount should call one ‘Elio Garcia at the Coca Cola Bot- In Collision tling Plant? and arrangements will) be made to collect the donations.| One person was injured at 5:35 Jim Keen reported that the fish |p. m. yesterday in an auto collision fry planned for this Friday hasjat U. S. 1 and the Old County been postponed, and Jim also stat- Road on Stock Island, ed that almost $2000.60 has been) According to sheriff's deputies raised by the various clubs of Key who investigated, a Ford pickup West. for the Community Chest. truck belonging to the Navy and Louis Ovide reported on the driven by Donald E. Fredericks ‘parking Lot Committee and suc-'was stopped for the traffic light ceeded in getting his motion pass- when a 1951 Ford sedan driven by ed to have $100.00 set aside to have Jose Gonzalez, 505 Louisa, struck the Club House renovated and to the rear of the truck. W. L. Gale, local manager, said <tij) expressed a faint hope that jof her boy friend were dug out of Churchill's wife will accept the B an abandoned well near here last 2Tize for her husband, who leaves six to ninety-six. Don’t miss a Sure the use of atomic energy for C. D. Barrett the death on November 27 of Mrs. Calls Added Here former commanding officer of the and was buried in Arlington Na- expand long distance telephone Busband, two daughters, Mercer the long distance switchboard 8. Brewster; and a brother, Major David L. S. Brewster, ‘USMC. December 15, 1953 in time to take Lt. Col. Barrett was stationed here. “Long distance facilities have gett was detached from duty here Year ago. At that time there were im Korea. long distance calls, we will now service. The cost of just these $ tion, a Christmas treat for {Russian Delegate Andrei Y. Vish- Of M rs of The Citizen, from jinsky declared: “You cannot in- Death s leat rs. single installment! N ili . Is Reported New Facilities | e Word has been received here of For Long Distance Austin Brewster (Mimi) Barrett, wife of Lt. Col, Charles D. Barrett, . Southern Bell wot as early neta ee pany’s activities to improve and service in Key West have resulted ser eet is survived by her in the addition of 3 more positions ° ; " d additions to the capacity of T. (Tony). 10, and Katherine Wal- se . ler, 3; her mother, Mrs, David L. toll circuits to Miami. Toe he work of installing this new David Brewster, USMC. Her father 4 ie ‘ was the late Brigadier General ¢auipment will be completed by The Barretts were well known in ©4re of the Christmas rush and the Key West curing the term when Winter season. Ther made their home a‘ Quart-jbeen increased greatly since we ers M-1, Nava! Station, Col. Bar.\Changed over to daily service a in August, 1952, to report for duty only 7 positions that could handle have 21 positions and added per- Sh D. sonnel exclusively devoted to this ce Oni jnew positions will be $11,500. An ‘additional $6.500 is being spent to jincrease the capacity of the Key | West-Miami toll line to meet the in- creased load.” Gale said, “Requirements for |more and more telephone service ‘sontinue at a siea jobjective to keep sion and improvement pro- t fully meet the require Ss of our growing community.” the official Soviet answer might; be more favorable, the first Rus-! sian comment obviously had been/p, cleared with Kremlin propaganda! and foreign affairs authorities be- fore it was made public. Outlining his plan for a U. commission to which atomic pow- ers, including Russia, would con- (Continued On Page Two) TONIGHT SENIOR CLASS PLAY “The Curse Of An Aching Heart” High School Auditorium 8:15 P.M. ADULTS 75¢ STUDENTS 50¢ night. Bermuda tonight after the Big Sheriff John Hanna said both/Three conference. ad been shot. The decapitated Marshall, who will be 73 Dec. body of Betty Clair Cain was found 31, was the 12th American to win looking the Pee Dee River. Her| Norway's 81-year-old King Haa- companion was Harvey Allen, 22,|kon VII headed the glittering audi- of Latta. lience which packed Oslo Uni- | A medical report said the girl/versity’s Festival Hall to applaud jhad been raped. as the soldier-statesman mounted |; Police announced that severaj -he rostrum. men were being ne.c The presentation was made by ing. Police Chief Harvey Cross|Gunnar Jahn, president of the No- said two young white men were'bel committee named by the Nor- taken to an undisclosed jail for|wegian Parliament to make the questioning. jaward. Sheriff Hanna said he was hold-| Just before, Carl Joachim Ham- ing three men, including twojbro, who often has represented Negroes, in the Florence County|Norway in the League of Nations |Jail. But he emphasized nojand the United Nations, explained them. Hanna said a wallet and watch|in- the war.” were missing from Allen's person.| “What he has done after the wer “ne boy's relatives said he had|to prepare for peace is the cc¢ol- (Continued On Page Twor (Continued On Page Two) |Monday in a shallow gtave over-|the peace prize, first given in 1901. k charges had been placed against|the prize was “not given to Mar-| shall for all he accomplished dur-| eatrice, 32, She was recovering finish building the barbecue pit. Mrs. Jove Gonzalez was treated from the shock of returning to her home after a few minutes at a neighbor’s and finding three of the children lying on the dining room floor and the other two in the itchen, Holt, dark-haired and of small, wiry build, told McCann he tricked his wife into leaving their house by telling her he wanted to go to a church service last night. The prosecutor said Holt told him he sent her to the home of a neigh- bor, Mrs. Sophie Baker, about 200 yards away, to ask the Bakers for| an automobile ride to church. She (Continued On Page Ten) REMODELING MATERIALS | —at— Strunk Lumber 120 SIMONTON, near Coca-Cola Bob Youmans nominated Stan for a cut head and bruises at Mon- Hodes for new membership and roe General Hospital. Mervin’ Thompson came in for » ——_——____—- few minutes with a swelled chest and box of cigars celebrating the birth of a daughter. The Club wel- comed back Ed Irwin who has (Continued on Page Two) Judge Caro Hears 4 Guilty Pleas Four persons today pleaded guil- ty before Judge Thomas S, Caro in Criminal Court. They were: Antonio Nauez, selling alcoholic beverages after hours, dismissed. | Roscoe M. Brown, drunkenness, '$50 or 60 days. | Kenneth W. Dedman, reckless driving, $25 or 30 days. | Trenchard G. Price, no license tag, sentence deferred Floor Show Saturday, Dec. 12 9 P.M. to “?” Tickets, $2.50 AVAILABLE AT Broadway Cigar Store; Paul Sher, Jewelers; Lou’s Radio & Appliance Reservations may be made by holders of tickets