The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 10, 1953, Page 2

Pege 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, December 10, 1952 Re Many Ap ly BRIEFS (®—Gor- Age a Broward Key West and Vicinity: Cloudy don Crelg, 2, ‘ with showers and thunderstorms County Boy Scout commissioner, |.4.y clearing tonight and Friday. died at his home here yesterday.'Continued warm and humid today He came here 18 years ago from becoming cooler tonight and Fri- Philadelphia and is survived by day. Low tonight about 64 degrees; his widow and two sons, Gordon|high tomorrow about 74 degrees Jr. of Coral Gables and Joseph of Gentle to moderate variable winds Fort Lauderdale. jexcept fresh in thundersqualls to- sercinieinneee day and tonight becoming fresh TALLAHASSEE #—Mrs. Dan northwest early tonight and dimin- McCarty has chosen Ivan Stoppe, ishing Friday. Russian-born artist living in Jack-| Florida: Partly cloudy and cold- sonville, to paint the official por-ier north portion this afternoon and trait of her late husband to be tonight, continued rather cold Fri- displayed in the governor's office gay, Partly cloudy to cloudy and here along with his predecessors occasionally light rain in south and in office. central portions, cooler central por. Stoppe, who was acquainted tion Not quite so warm in south with MeCarty, will do the work at portion tonight apd Friday. Fort Pierce, the McCarty home, Jacksonville Thru The Florida using photographs as a guide, straits: Small craft warning dis ase aae played Daytona Beach northward. MELBOURNE «Charles R- Fresh northwest winds extreme Stickel, city manager here for 25 north and moderate south and years, resigned yesterday because southwest winds elsewhere becom- of il) health. ling moderate north and northeast % . ‘during this afternoon and tonight. MIAMI Two disabled fishing yi ogerate northeasterly winds Fri- vessels were headed for Tampa to-'4,, Partly cloudy to cloudy wea- day in tow of the Coast Guard ther Occasional light rain in south cutter Nemesis. ‘and central portions. Says The Captain Fred radioed it, broke down and needed assistance after it began towing the Helen Ray which became disabled about 300 miles southwest of Tampa in the Gulf of Mexico. Love Overcome: East Gulf: Small craft warnings jdisplayed Tampa Bay northward. Fresh northerly winds in display Radio Amateurs | To Hear Expert For Job A national authority on radie frequency allocation matters, Arthur L. Budiong, General Manager of the American Ra- dio Relay League, national as- sociation of amateur radio op- erators, will address members and guests of the Key West Radio Amateur Club in Key West on Tuesday evening, Dec- | Executioner RAIFORD The job of official, Florida state executioner is filled, | jbut the applications are still roll-/ ing in from men—and a few wom- en——all over the nation. Prison Supt. L. F. Chapman said) ember 29. lhe has hired a man from some! 450 applicants to replace the old| SS (9 srlicants 10 replace dlectstel ” switch for 12 years before he re-| “Trader Horn” Is | ical attack. Chapman would say) tory as one of the most daring and, He will get $50 an ‘execution, | tired recently because of ill health. | Hall Of Fame jonly that he is a Floridian who spectacular ever filmed, will be plus travel expenses to and from The identity of the executioner) is kept secret to protect him from embarrassment and perhaps phys-| . y Film At Strand : . ., doesn’t live at Raiford, has seen “Trader Horn,” a picture which two executions and h. “some has gone down in Hollywood his- knowledge of electricity To Be Stressed Air Power Is Continued ftom Page One lary of this achievement, is this great work for PEACE PRIZE IS GIVEN MISPLACED WELCOME SALT LAKE GIT¥ WA door. @ and it mat at the entrance of the medical e estab- center bere—in Salt Lake County— lishment of peace the Nobel com-(is labeled in foot-high letters “‘Web- PARIS @~Allied military ex-/ mittge has wanted to honor,” Ham- er County.” Nobody seems to perts, meeting here in prepara- bro declared tion for the 12th conference of NATO ministers next Monday, re-'for European recovery Portedly are stressing air power first proposal of the- aid plan in in their goals for the Atlantic an address at Harvard University Alliance’s 1954 buildup in Europe. June 5, 1947, until Congress’ adop- Informed sources said the top tion of the program from his jofficers will ask for 1,200 more, Time, he continued, has proved planes during the year. Apparently “the constructive character of the they think NATO’s most dangerous plan.” He adi weakness is shortage of aircraft.) “And the organ * The increase would raise NATO's grown from Marshall air strength in Europe to 5,600 than anything else in t planes. Russia is estimated to have cult years, have been a contribu. 20,000. tion to what Nobel termed the A 10 per cent boost—from 98 ‘idea of general peace in Europe’ to 108 divisions—will be asked and the realistic materialization of for NATO ground forces, the|tne idea Nobel in his testament source said. Most of the increase‘called brotherhood among na- would be reserve troops tions.” Tonight the prize committee was ° to honor the American general at Dice Upheld jits traditional dinner and tomorrow he will deliver the Nobel lecture j ri on a subject of his own choice. meebgelie Fabris th pastas aR PSR TSO Schweit: match coins or throw dice in a 2° 78, had cabled that his mis- which have shown Sunday and Monday at the/his home. Florida normally has|tavern to see who pays for oe sionary-medical work at Lamba- Strand Theatre as an M-G-M Hall/six to eight electrocutions a year.| of Fame release. The new executioner will act for One of the first motion pictures the first time Monday in carrying to be filmed in the tradition of the out the death sentence of Orion recent “King Solomon’s Mines,”|Nathaniel Johnson, Negro youth this gripping drama of adventure| Who stabbed Marion County Sher- amid the perils of the Dark Con.|iff Edward Porter with an ice tinent was filmed on location in|Pick, then shot him with the of- Africa in a remarkable undertak-/ficer’s own gun. id ing requiring more than two years; The superintendent said three| to complete, |women were among those who ap- It is based on the novel, “Trad-|Plied for the job of executioner jdrinks. rene, French Equatorial Africa, The ruli 9: prevented his attending the pre- strate Mee ne sentation ceremony. His cash from the arrest last October of 24", due to fluctuations in the tavern owner Charles Kaelin on Nobel fund's earnings, came to gambling charges. Four customers a irene at Kaelin’s Falstaff Restaurant jakn eliver the eulogy for the had been shooting dice for drinks. Deace winner, whose 40 years Bushel, dismissing the case. of work with African natives have jknow why. Hambro recalled Marshall’: itt — said: “Patrons of a restaurant, bar or grill not infrequently, by toss- been companioned by continuous study and writings in Christian philosophy and theology. jarea and moderate winds elsewhere, er Horn,” by Ethelreda Lewis, and! becoming moderate north and was directed by W. S. Van Dyke, northeast this afternoon and to-|with a cast featuring Harry Care night. Moderate northeasterly Fri- Edwina Booth, Duncan Renaldo, day. Partly cloudy to cloudy with Mutia Omoolu and Olive Golde occasional light rain south and together with thousands of African central portions. natives and an “‘unrehearsed” cast Western Caribbean: Moderate of wild animals ranging from ele- after newspapers reported ther was a vacancy, | “They e every reason on arth,’ Chapman replied. “Some id they wanted the work, some needed the money, some wanted \it as a sort of adventure, a few | wanted to hold the job for a while, Age Difference KNOXVILLE, Tenn. #—A husky | 1?-year-old and the 45-year-old) grandmother who “fought against | northeast to east winds. Partly cloudy weather with widely scat- tered showers, ul _ |then write a book about it.” phants, lions, rhinoceri, apes, cro-; The new executioner will carry codiles, zebras, giraffes, and hyen-| out his duties in a new death) jas to giant reptiles. : |house with a rebuilt electric ch. | Dramatic highlights of this re- i ‘ “By his acts he has given life ing or matching coins, or through : some similar means of invoking be eee ot eee a the laws of chance, will determine ie in ra . ‘spe i eigpaa ia who shall pick up the check or 2&¥e taken roo! e o malnds of |pay for the drinks.” jaar: Jahn said. In Pidgin English “grass” may | mean grass, beard, feathers, fur or N. J. ®—Mrs. ‘hair. Violet King id in Superior Court yesterday her husband Frank told’ The first International Postal er what he wanted for Christmas Congress was held in Switzerland as Piece of paper saying I/in 1874, Wants Divorce For Gift PATERSON loving him” settled down to mar- ried life in the bride’s home today. Mrs. Ann Statum, divorced moth er of six children, became Mrs. Clarence Wilson Houk here yester- day at a courthouse ceremony. The bridegroom's father, McKinley Houk, signed the marriage license for his son. “We know we're going against public opinion,” Mrs. Houk said. “But we want people to under- stand that it took courage to fi- nally make this step.” Houk said his chief concern was for the children, the oldest of whom is 19-year-old Billy Sta- tum, a Marine private two yea Key West, Fla., Dec. 10, 1953 |markable picture include the chase at 8 A.M. EST PRECIPITATION |Highest yesterday .......... Lowest last night . 70 traders; Trader Horn’s daughter Mean ... 77,and the missionary’s dramatic Normal . ‘ sre se death; Horn’s sacrifice to save the TEMP! \lives of his protege, Peru, and the Total last 24 eo T. ins, ‘White Goddess”; and his terrific |Tota} this month . i .29 ins, feat of swinging through the snap- ‘Deficiency this month .. 25 ins, |Ping jaws of huge crocodiles in the \Total this year . . 46.15 ins, Story’s final escape sequence. Excess this year . 7.87 ins,| Such other sequences as the Observations Taken At City Office of the dread “juju” priests of the! |deadly Isorgi tribe; the barbaric! {dance of the bloodthirsty tribes. . 84:men to spell the doom of white) Six condemned men were move: this week from death row in the jold “flat top’ building to the smaller new structure nearby. Johnson is the only one for whom a death warrant has been issued. The new death house has 10 cells besides the death chamber. |No Prisoners except those await- |fined in it. The “flat top’—named by the Prisoners because of its low roof— was built primarily for a segrega- jtion and punishment building, It ling death sentences will be con-' am divorced.” She has obligingly | Seems filed suit, charging cruelty, XMAS SUGGESTIONS Just Arrived! JAYCEES PLAN A Large Selection of (Continued trom Pare Une) | apie |been on an extended trip with the; Unfinished FURNITURE |Navy to the Mediterranean, | EISNER FURNITURE CO. The club is looking forward to, Peinciana Center Tel. 2-6951 a busy year in 'S4 and President = 'Sam Collins made an appeal to} jhave more of the members be-| come active and participate in} the coming events. HESTER BATTERY For Most Cars | |12 Mos— 90 Amp. ...$ 8.95 Exch. Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. | 1% arometer (Sea Level), 7:00 A.M. jclose-ups of wild animals battles to|has 48 cells. the death, the narrow escape of| Chapman said the new building, the heroine from being choked to/¢rected by prison labor at a cost Ideath by a giant reptile and num-|0f about $15,000 worth of material MILITARY PERSONNEL (Continued From Page One) ‘| bounded by Southard St. on the| 8 (24 Mos.—190 Amp. .. 11.95 Exch. Mos.—110 Amp. ... 14.45 Exch. | Mos.—110 Amp. ..... 18.85 Exch. LOU SMITH—1115 WHITE ST, POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Francis at Truman DIAL 29193 | Your PURE OIL Dealer | e diffi-' Tires .. Tubes . . Batteries,423 Simonton St. ACCESSORIES It's Here NOW? NEW, TUBELESS (Le "Reyel-T” 3-TRANSISTOR HEARING AID @ moath on ane 184 “A” Bantary! No “B™ dameenp Coeneer slate! 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Statum| himself is father of a 2-year-old| irl,’ ar want them to be hurt a$ little as possible,” Houk said, ‘,‘but we're going to be a family, and! whatever happens, we'll face it together.” North and Whitehead St. on the East, extending to the Military Re Servation on the South and West, | except that access may be had to} 709-711 Emma St. and 120 Angela’ St., along the Military Reservation via Thomas and Angela Streets. | All places of business catering to colored trade along Whitehead St. ANTONIO MORENO) NOAH BERRY, JR 29.99 ins.—1015,6 mbs, Tomorrow's Almauac Sunrise . - Sunset Moonrise . Moonset . es TOMORROW'S : fIDES |berous other breath-taking episod-|W@S designed to separate the con les make “Trader Horn” an ad-|demned men from others and get| venture drama impossible to for-/them away from the constant! lget. “coming and going” in the flat | top. NO PROGRESS MADE. (Continued From Page One) BILL'S LICENSED PAWN SHOP 703 Duval Street p.m.- SOVIET SPOKESMEN (Continued From Page One) tribute fissionable material and} between Whitehead St. and Duval TODAY'S STOCK MARKET NEW YORK #—Tobacco shares attempted a comeback in early dealings in the stock market today while the rest of the list turned) in a mixed appearance. Shares of most of the cigarette; companies were up fractionally * during the morning session, Some} were pounded down several points! yesterday following new reports linking smoking with lung cancer. No definite trend developed in the rest of the market. i Stocks showing small progress in- cluded Bethlehem Steel, Goodrich, | Boeing, General Motors, Common-| wealth Edison, American Cyana-} mid, General Electric and South-| ern Pacific. ara Fractionally lower were U.S./ Steel, U.S. Rubber, Dow Chemical, Sinclair, and Anaconda. (Naval Base) High Tide Low Tide 12:15 a.m. 7:22 a.m, 1:33 p.m. 6:48 p.m. Boca Chica Sandy Pt.) Caldes Channel north end) —oh 40m +2h 16m be added. ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Time of Height of Station - Tide high water Bahia Honda (bridge) oh 10m 8.8 ft No Name Key east end) —+2h 20m Temperatures At 7:30 A.M., EST | Atlanat nae a \Augusta \Birmingham — Bismark \Boston - | Buffalo \Charleston - % . 43 . 33 . 3% ~. 61 38 et - 25 . 46 35 Last Performance Of Senior Play Given Tonight Chicago Corpus Christi __ Last night the Senior Class of Denver 1954 gave their biggest perform- Detroit ance of -the pla: “The Curse of El Paso An Aching Heart,” in the Key West BK. Worth High School auditorium. Galveston pa? During intermission, root beer Potewacth ne x ind pretzels were sold in the pa- ensas City tio, Foor bartenders who also KEY WEST treated the audience with acts, and Key West Airport led the community singing. At the Los Angeles ~ last intermission a driftwood lamp) Louisville was given away as a door prize, Meridian ~ 36 . 31 2 Bernard Baruch. 3 spection leading to outlawing of} skill for peaceful purposes that'tT@l observer have stalemated the would benefit the whole world, Ei-|Preliminary talks. senhower warned that man must! . The spokesman for 17 Allied na-| control atomic power or it wil]|tions which fought in Korea said destroy him, Tuesday he would wait only a rea He declared the growing U. sonable time for the Communists| stockpile of atomic weapons “ex.|to come to terms. He set no time ceeds by many times the ex-|!imit, but a high Allied source] plosive equivalent of all bombs|S#id the American delegation and shells dropped or fired an would noes rages by Dec. | over the worl ve jar|*9_ to ome for itmas, l world during World War Boece Korean delegate Ki Sok Seizing on this accused the United States of] speech Danie Said. “There se attempting to dominate the United a spate of phrases on an alleged |Nations and the nations represent- desire for peace on the part of/¢4 by Dean. es the United States . . , But if you| Dean called Ki's statement “a analyze his speech, Eisenhower|"¥de and insolent tirade.” threatened atomic war and made| After a Communist attack on the St. are off limits to white person-|—— RADIO and, nel.” ® CIFELLY'S 30 seice Factory Methods Used— All Work Guaranteed Marine Radios & Asst. Equipment | FOR PROMPT AND RELIABLE i SERVICE -»SEE... iI Our Usual Christmas Offer $10.00 TRADE IN On Your Old Bike J. R. Stowers Co. $33 Duval St. Tel. 2-6611 DAVID CIFELLI 920 Truman Ave. (Rear) TELEPHONE 2-7637 a eulogy of this policy of tora voting Procedures he outlined for “It is clear that the United States the political conference, Dean told | does not want to bring about an|the Communists they “forget that international detetne (relaxing of US Side is composed of free na- strained relations),” he continued.|“9MS. It is not similar to the sit-| “The warmongering speech of uation on your side where all na- {President Eisenhower and the at-\!0ns are compelled to speak with) titude adopted in the United Na-|the Same voice—to echo the voice tions by the U.S. delegation Proves of the Communisty Party line as) this sufficiently.” jdictated from the Kremlin.” | In his talk, broadcast first in| | French and then in English, BRUTAL CRIME Eyes : seems ste Eeeseats| (Continued From Page One) ely another dressed-up version of the atomic control sys- aes apes rete ety okay, tem presented to the United N: The sheriff said the girl's maa tions June 14, 1946, by America’s and Allen’s body were badly beat. | en. Officers said Allen’s face was | ‘so badly beaten that it was hardly recognizable.” | A six-man coroner's jury was mpaneled and viewed the body and head last night. No date was | 7 set for the inquest. i) run into a Russian veto. | \ In a later English-language|g,y" rae sora igre broadcast beamed to North Amer-ithe girl's home on a date. ee j ica, another Moscow radio com-| ° a This plan, calling for an inter- national system of control and in- atomic weapons, has been aD- Proved by the majority of U. N. “member nations but has repeatedly Starts Today thru Saturday another like it will be given away tonight. These beautiful lamps were donated to the Senior Class to be used as door prizes, by the Sylvia Appliance Company on Roosevelt Blvd. In keeping with melodrama, dur ing the play whenever the villian would appear on the stage the au- @ience would boo and hiss; when the hero appeared, he was cheer- ed. Don’t stay home and miss all the fun and laughs. Come to the Key West High School auditorium to- night and see the great perform- ance of “Curse of An Aching Heart.” Tonight {s your last Miami Minneapolis . Memphis New Orleans — New York - Norfolk Oklahoma City — Omaha Pensaci ~. 70 mentator, Konstantine Orlov, said - 18 the striking thing about Eisen- . 30 hower’s speech was “the utter! . 45\lack of concrete proposals on how 59 to make those general desires and . 66 wishes” for peace into reality, “Yet even Edgar Bergen's + Mortimer Snerd ought to know,” 3 Orlov continued, “that the ban- 35 ning of atomic and hydrogen 44 bombs is a cardinal point about 27 the whole atomic problem which Eisenhower spoke of.” | Moscow's Communist party 38 newspaper Pravda also raised the 46\same point after an 800-word sum- 69 mary of the main points of the! fee 54 | President's speech. j Roanoke St. Louis m Antonio San Francisco — Seattle Tallahassee Tampa Washington Monday Allen’s bloodstained car was found behind a Negro school- | house some three miles from the | river. The headless body of the | girl was found in the grave by the river that night. The search turned to the area of the abandoned well Tuesday after gro woman reported she was kened by lights from a car which drove up to the well before dawn Monday. She said early Tuesday she saw a car drive up to the well, turn around and| drive away. i The well is about half a mile| from “the bluffs” where the girl’s body was found. A layer of gravel was on top sno feriy DGHT TILDE sane ox tos nae Fox News Cartoon BOX OFFICE OPENS 4 P.M. TODAY CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE PHONE 2-3419 FOR TIME SCHEDULE UP IN ARMS THEY GOT ME COVERED Saturday \ TECHNICOLO! \ woe 7:00 and 11:06 9:27 ONLY Only || __ Tuesday and Wednesday Cat ab oe chance, Tickets are still available. the well. But fresh earth BOX OFFICE OPEN TILL 9:00 P.M. \prompted officers to dig into it. They came upon the girl’s coat At the end of its summary, | of BAD HEART LASTS |Pravda commented only: “How- Gorillas often live to be 35 years ST, LOUIS wW—George Q. Thorn-|¢Ye" the President in his speech od did not express his attitude to- At Its widest point, the main island of Bermuda is less than two miles across. ton, who was turned down as a poor risk by insurance csmpanies vent the question of outlawing! iuse be had a 2%0mic. weapons observes hig 29th ( Rast.” birthday todey zen Ads Bring Results first. Beneath a pile of corn- shucks was her head. Buried below i was Allen's body, stuffed head down. The well is about 10 feet San Carlos Theatre Air Coaditioned