The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 16, 1953, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXIV No, 298 Two Witnesses At Meet Today Committee Has Just 76 Days To Complete Probe The city’s decency commit- tee will go back into action this afternoon at 5 p. m. when they will interview two persons in an effort to throw some light on the local pros- titution problem and at the same time air charges that the police department may| Down Proposal be ridden with corruption. By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH It will be the third meeting of| WASHINGTON —President Ei- the group since it was appointed) senhower said today he will keep by Mayor C, B. Harvey December’ right on working for international 2. Under the terms of an ordin-|control of atomic energy even if ance establishing the panel, the the Russians turn down his recent committee will be disbanded nine-| share-the-atom proposal. ty days from the date of their ap-| The President made the state- pointment — which gives them) ment at a news conference at just 76 days to complete their which he also said he does not Probe, A meeting set for Monday intend to ask any change in the was postponed “because they could) atomic Energy Act which would ot obtain a stenographer.” lead to this country’s sharing Police Officers William Gibb | -ientitic processes or techniques and Frank Carballo will be the | |for building atomic weapons. witnes: today when the group : convenes. Eisenhower said he is by no it was Gibb whe touched off | means giving up hope the Russians the present situation when he ‘will decide to accept the proposal appeared ir behalf of Miss Do- ine recently made in a speech to | President Will ‘Continue To Work For Pool Won't Give Up Hope Even If Russians Turn lores Baxter, who says that she fs @ prostitute and that she was approachea for a payoff by a | Key West police officer. She claimed that Caraballo had) badgered here when she refused to make payment of a “suggested” $80 per month. The group has stated that they are interested simply in “finding facts” although at least one mem- ber of the group bas maintained) steadily that the grand jury ought to be alerted and called to consi- der the evidence they have father- ed. Although the press had been ad- mitted-to the meetings, they have been asked to keep much of the information “‘off the tecord.” An informed source said today that startling developments may be forthcoming shortly as a result of the questioning. The group has already queried Miss Baxter and Officer Edward Ramirez, the man she accused of asking for a pay- off. What the next move will be in their investigation remains to be teen, CG Patrol Boat jthe United Nations—that all the atomic powers join in a limited program of atomic research, with emphasis on. peacetime power development - But even a rejection of this offer by the Soviets, Eisenhower said, would not stop him from trying to meet the problem of international control in another way. A reporter asked the Presidnt about Secretary of Defense Wil- son’s statement to the North At- lantic Council in Paris yesterday that Congress would be asked soon | to permit the sbaring of informa- tion. on atomic weapons with its \NATO allies, Eisenhower replied that some changes in the law will be nec- essary before this country can realize the fullest advantages of atomic progress. But no changes are contem- plated, he went on, which have anything to do with the scientific processes involved in developing! atomic energy or with the build-| ing of atomic weapons. | This appeared to mean that what) the administration does contem- plate, if Congress approves, is} sharing information about the use| of atomic weapons and perhaps sharing the weapons themselves with America’s allies, Along that line Eisenhower said it would depend on circumstances, | Has A Busy Day In Tortugas Area whether this country turned over . jatomie weapons to its allies. joast Guard “killed three!” ie ssid if war comes America| The C THE MRS. RICHARD N. NIXON (right), wife of the patrick (left), wife of the Commanding Officer of Tokyo Army Hospital, look over some of the clothing and toys sent from the States to be distributed to the Garden of Bethlehem Orphanage SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1953 Deceney Committee” To Query “Oneration Orphans” which the hospital has been sponsoring. The program, called “Operation Orphans,” was started by military personnel at the hos- pital to raise clothing and funds for the children. Pfc. Tony Raminez, son of Mr, and Mrs. Ramirez, of 506 Bahama Street, was one of the military personnel assigned to the hospital who cooperated in the appeal to newspapers and civic clubs in his community to help the orphans, Elimination Of Kennel Club Has Schooling Races Schooling races are being conducted daily at the Key West Kennel Ciub in prepara- tion for their second race meet- ing which will get underway Christmas night. Max Carey, Kennel Club gen- eral manager said that Key West racing fans are flocking to the track enthusiastically for the schooling races which get underway daily at 4:30 p. m. Reason for the early start is that the Kiwanis Club is prac- ticing for their aquacade in the Kennel Club lagoon during the levening. Starting Saturday evening, the schooling races will be held each evening starting at 7 p. m. At least 20 races are held nightly. There is mo charge. for the schooling races. birds with one stone yesterday. {should use its atomic weapons in Condemned Cisterns Is Now Under Way City And Mosquito District Cooperate In Needed Project William W, Warner, Director’ County An Medel ie ‘County Anti-M “te jday told of a project now way to eliminate permanently many abandoned and condemned cis| terns and wells, on the island of Key West. This work is a joint project between the City of Key West and the Anti-Mosquito District, War- ner said. It is the cooperation of City of Key West as well as the assistance of Public Works Director Ivan Roberts and the city employees that has made this work possible, he added. The city is furnishing labor and equip- ment and the District is furnish- ing mari-fil! and supervision. Based on a mosquito breeding ‘area survey made by the District file card on some 1200 cisterns and 350 wells, Warner said. Each card levaluates the condition of the re- ‘four categories: passable, faulty, Vice President and Mrs. Charles L. Kirk- jearlier this year, There is now a} IN THE U.S. A. Judge Declares For Use BAT =~, a Q C ET CLASSIFIED Ads! You'll buyers and sellers— or workers . . Just 661 or 2-S662. PRICE FIVE CENTS istrial In Mansfield Damage Suit After Jury Fails To Agree Jury Ponders Verdict In $135,000 Suit Against City For 242 Hours (Cold Threatens Heavy Damage To Fla. Crops High School Student Admits Brutal Beating Youth Confesses, Says “Something Came Over Me” | SAN FRANCISCO ;) — A nigh! school. honor student yesterday brutally beat a 14-year-old neigh- bor girl with an iron pipe as she| ran screaming through her fash- ionable home. \ | Mercy Hospital attendants said | today the victim, redhaired Linda Frey, suffered these injuries: Four front teeth knocked out... lips cut and swollen . . . head badly gashed . . . three fingers on her) left hand broken . . . index finger} almost severed at the first joint. Homicide Inspectors Al Nelder and Ralph McDonald said Cristano (Rocky) Castro Jr. confessed to} the beating and was held on a Key West Is Warmest In State With Low Of 57 MIAMI #— Heavy damage to} crops in the Everglades winter) vegetable growing region was feared today after a frosty night| in which temperatures dipped as} low as 27 degrees. “We expect severe damage tol tender crops in some areas,” said| Jack D. Cox, Federal-State Frost) Warning Service representative at} Belle Glade, “ana some damage is likely to the hardier crops like cabbage and celery.” Moderate to heavy frost was ex- tensive around Lake Okeechobee as well as in the back mucklands. | There ‘were long periods of calm during the night and some farm- ers used planes to stir up the sur- face air so frost would not form so readily. Others raised the wa-| ter tables in their fields. The lowest temperature of 27 was reported in the Pahokee area. | | } |Lake Harbor reported 32, Clewis- ton, Bean City and South Bay 32 to 34, Moore Haven 34, and Belle Glade..33. to..25,..Amythe- Rabakee- Canal P Grea, reaaings ¢.i5,4 from 27 to “It's too early to tell the exact extent of the damage,” Cox said. (Continued on Page Two) "-~Jed Baby Makes Progress INDIANAPOLIS #—A two-head- ed, four-armed baby has been giv- ern two aames and doctors report he is making the progress of a normal newborn. , The 3-day-old boy was taken off the “critical” list yesterday and} his chances of survival were re-; |ceptacle and places it into one of} jcharge of assault to commit mur-|ported as good. Doctors at the In- er. diana University Medical Center “Something just came over me,” said he is taking nourishment in |the youth said. “I knew I shouldn’t/both mouths and the intestinal When the CG-83403, an 83-f00t| whatever way would be to the best! patrol boat, was dispatched from|advantage of the United States. very poor and deplorable. Those falling in the latter do it but something kept pushing me. When I realized what I had done it was too late. I wasn’t mad at her.” tract is responding normally. | The 44-year-old father said he gave the name Donald Ray to “the best one” and the name Daniel After two and a half days of testimony, the ed at 1:30 p.m. today in )$135,000 Mansfield damage suit against the city end- a mistrial, when the jury was unable to reach a verdict. The jury was out one Gls Plan To Cive Germans A Good Xmas Soldiers Will: Give Parties, Gifts To Needy By TOM STONE FRANKFURT, Germany ® — ‘It’s going to be a whale of a! jChristmas for Germany’s needy if | Gls stationed here have their way. For more than a month, U, S. soldiers have been buying new toys, repairing old ones, organiz- ing Christmas parties, orderin; turkeys, candy, nuts and fruits, and collecting tons of clothing and shoes. On Christmas, they'll give their annual yule parties at orphanages, on Army posts and elsewhere for their German friends. American soldiers have been staging Christmas parties in Ger- |many ever since 1945. Every year jthe parties get bigger and better. ;Phis year promises-to be the best yyet.. \tioned in Germany, plans are und- er way. Here are a few: At Plieningen the U. S. 7th Army’s flight detachment, which has “adopted” 100 orphans there, will fly Santa Claus in for a per- sonal visit with the children. There will be a Christmas dinner and gifts. | U.S, ordnance men at Ludwigs- jburg are arranging a big Christ- mas party, including turkey dinner and gifts, for the children in St. Kinderheim (childrens | Joseph’s {the year round. At Waiblingen, near Suttgart, U. S. troops will stage a Christmas (Continued On Page Two) Schooner Back In Port Today Almost every place Gls are sta-| home), which they help support: hour and 50 minntes. This morning, the third day of the trial, the circuit court jury heard attorneys for both sides in closing ar- g¢ments and also were charged by Judge Aquilino Lopez, Jr. At 1p. m, the jury asked to see the judge. They were brought back into the courtroom but when the judge asked whether they had ar- rived at a verdict, they replied that they had not. The Judge asked, |“From your discussions, is there \any chance of a verdict?” The jury replied that they didn’t think so, The Judge then called all at- torneys to the bench for a con- sultation after which the jury was sent back to the jury room with instructions to come back to the courtroom at 1:30. The suit, brought by Mrs. Moise Mansield and her husband, Ern- est R. Mansfield, charged the city jwith negligence. Mrs, Mansfield claims she was injured in a fall on a broken sidewalk on Feb. 27, 1951. The fall was alleged to have oceurred in the 600 block of Fran- cis St. In his closing argument to the \jury, one of the Mansfield attorn- ers, 45, Fritz Gordon of Miami, Said: “it has been 1,022 days since | Mrs. Mansfield fell and every | one of those 1,022 days she has | suffered. | “God knows how much longer | she will suffer,” he continued. \“t imagine it will only be death | that takes that pain away. “Only death,” he repeated in a lower voice, “And,” Gordon said, “because that sidewalk was left in disrepair, ja husband is losing his wife of 31 years.” é At this point, Mansfield, sitting in the front row ‘of the courtroom benches reserved for Spectators, began to sob audibly. He buried his face in a handkerchief. 4 Gordon, in his argument, told the \jury that the city was responsible for the fall, which he said, ruptured i | | Policemen Show the Coast Guard station here for|Quite possibly, he said, it would | group are for the most part aba Bird Key in the Dry Tortugas, her|be best to let an ally use Ameri-| ithe bladder of Mrs. Mansfield and doned and would, in all probabil- Nelder and McDonald said Cas- Kaye to the other head and arms.! eventually led to a cancer, KEY WEST ~The fishing tro told them: schooner C. S. Anderson was back only mission was to refloat the} Sea Robin, a shrimper that was aground. The patrol craft refloated the shrimper, moored her to the dock at Ft. Jefferson then performed! two other missions in the area. ‘The shrimper Rose Marion had re- ceived a radio message that the) mother of one of the crew mem-! bers had died. | The erew member, Ernest Wil-) Tiams, of Jacksonville, was taken} aboard the Coast Guard craft and|the courtroom. He said the wallet with 234. ME. Santana scored 233/forced to treat these chemically| returned to Key West. | While ‘still in the Dry Tortugas area, the patrol craft learned that Egil Knudsen, of Greenport, Long Island, N, Y., had injured his left} thoulder. He, too, was taken aboard and returned to Key West for medi- tal treatment. The CG 83403 returned to Key) West at 9:10 p. m. yesterday. Weighty Police Work | DETROIT w—When a railroad trossing- barrier—waterlogged by tain and snow—on one of the city’s main thoroughfares failed to go up, | .@ Police precinct dispatched its four biggest officers. They raised the barrier—by sitting on the coun. | terweighted end of the crossbars, Shopping Days ede Christmas an Weapons under certain cir-| cumstances. | The President said the adminis- tration has received no official So-| viet reaction to the plan he out-! lined to the United Nations General | Assembly. Pistol Proficiency sive program of pistol training with the start of a competition for a handsome trophy. Officer R. L. James, is leading Wallet Stolen In Court SAN. JUAN, Puerto Rico ™ —| Lawyer Felix Ortiz complained in|the competition for the trophy with|er has ample time to correct the! a score of 239 out of a possible|condition and is favorable to filling. District Court that his wallet con-| ea : taining $480 was stolen right in/300. H. L. Baker is right behind disappeared while he was present-|and F, A. Caso, 201. ing a motion in behalf of a client charged with being a pickpocket./by R A. Forsythe, USN. NOTICE! UE TO COOL WEATHE the CONCERT is changed -from WICKERS STADIUM to CONVENT AUDITORIUM ON TRUMAN AVENUE There's Plenty Of Space! Come and See . . . Hear FAYE ADAMS - THE ORIOLES - JOE MORRIS AL SAVAGE and OTHERS in The Biggest Concert of 1953 Tonight at 8 P.M. — Convent Auditorium Children 50c - Students 75c - Reserved $2.00 - Gen. Adm. $1.50 Sponsored by Coral City Temple No. 400, L.B.P.O.E. of W. FAYE ADAMS The Key West Police Department} has shown the results of an inten- ity, never be used again. Many of them are filled with garbage, trash, refuse of all sorts and an occasional dead animal, and ai very prolific breeders of the cor mon domestic mosquito “Culex Quinqvefasciatus.” It is this | sige which has been condemn- In every case, however the own- |The Anti-Mosquito District has been| for some time and their perman- The pistol course was conductedjent elimination will give much/ |meeded time for other projects. The remaining 1500 cisterns and |wells, ete. are stocked with larvae- eating fish and are checked at least every six weeks. At the pre- sent pace, the project should be finished in January and the total items filled should reach 150 cis- terns, and wells. PRISONERS ESCAPE BUENA VISTA, Ga. ®—Three | Negro prisoners, including one 75 years old, overpowered Sheriff W. | E. Henson last night, locked him in a celi, took his gun and keys,| and fled on foot. C. C. Henson, the sheriff's son, | | had to use a blow torch and a chisel to free his father from the cell. The sheriff was uninjured. The jail break occurred as Hen-! son was taking supper to his pris- onrs. Picture Frame Moulding He went to the girl’s St. Francis Wood district home in the late | Christmas shopping. Rocky asked to borrow some (Continuea On Page Two) There was no explanation of the| reference to “the best one.” There are two spinal cords all seven men aboard reported in| afernoon while her father, Walter joined at about the waistline. As|good condition. Frey, an oil company distributor,|far as doctors have been able to| The 65-foot schooner had been was at work and her mother was determine, there are no duplica-|overdue three days. tions of internal organs. Dr. John D. Van Nuys, dean of, gery is contemplated now. in port at Panama City today with The Coast Guard said she re- turned under her own power late Paper, then suddenly attacked Lin- the medical center, said no sur-jlast night and apparently had ex- \perienced no trouble. Wirephoto. Car Brings Roof Down NEW YORK.—Roof of 40-foot section of a one-story building in Brooklyn’s Flatbush section is Spilled into the street today after an out-of-control automobile slammed into a window of a radio store. There were no.sales people or customers in the section of the store that collapsed. Before hitting the store, the automobile struck another car, injuring a 14-month-old girl. woman driver of the runaway car and her woman companion suffered minor The injuries.—(?) He showed photos to the jury and pointed out the hole that ale pg caused Mrs. Mansfieid to | fall. He concluded by saying that | the Mansfields should be recom. | Gordon spoke for 26 minutes,. Sam 0. Carson, Miami attorney who was called in by the city to help defend the case, addressed the jury for 39 minutes, He agreed with Gordon that it was a pitiful case and added “but we are not here to try the case m sympathy.” He contended the city does not ave a duty to provide a perfectly mooth place for ii te walk but only a duty to provide a reasonably safe place, “The ether two women whe were walking with Mrs. Mans field when she fell had no dif ficulty,”” he added, “and one of them was pregnant.” He told the jury that of every loctor who had testified, not one { them haa said that Mrs. Mang- old’s cancer was due to a blow er WW William V Albury, Key West at tney who algo is helping the city (Continued On Page Two "EY WEST '.ODGE 551 B..O.E. 313 DUVAL STREET IMPORTANT MEETING Thursday, Dec. 17 8 P.M. VOTING ON AMENDMENTS