The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 16, 1953, Page 2

Page 2 THE KEY west CITIZEN pas December 1é, Lad | The P Bandit Die In Gun Battle JACKSONVILLE, Fla. &—A pa- trolman and a bank bandit died in a moonlight gun battle early to- day outside a bar on the western edge of the city. A second bandit was captured after a wild 52-mile auto chase Two hostages the pair grabbed to shield them when they found they were cornered escaped during the exchange of bullets. The robber pair was identified by Gene Griffin, chief criminal inves- tigator for the Duval County sher- iff's office, as Myron Peter Gold- man, 32, and Samuel Joseph Horn- beck, 34, both of Louisville, Ky Both had fled a Savannah, Ga., Jail Sunday night by forcing jail- ers at gunpoint to free them. Goldman was the one slain. ‘The Duval County road patrol- man who was shot to death was T. A. Robinson Jr., 27. Goldman and Hornbeck faced 25- year prison terms for robbing a branch of the Citizens & Southern National Bank at Savannah of $83,- 8359 in April. They also were charged with Home Again WASHINGTON.—Pat Nixon, h to Asia with her Vice Presiden robbing a Birmingham bank of $52,900 in January.” ‘ Doyle Long, bartegder at the | Worth Club, was locking up the front door of his ‘bar ind ‘saying goodnight to bis fast customer, a | saor, at'2’a. m. when the robber ‘pair, drove up. sLong and the sailor Mere forced Thursday fair with slowly rising ,, sympathy, but on facts. bi imtg the elub and were being rol | Weatherman Says Key West and Vicinity: Fair and continued cool today and tonight; temperature. Low tonight about 52- JUDGE DECLARES (Continued trom Page One) wtih the case, next addressed the jury “Knowing you as I have known) you all my life,” he said, “I know you won't be swayed by arguments but that you will take the facts from the testimony. “We are not here to try the case “After all, gentlemen,” he con- been Otthe-lookout for the fugi- jy Le.recs. Ligat to moderate nor- people's money on sympathy.” tives—spotted their car. Police disabled the auto and were just surrounding the little building when the robbers saw the officers The two jammed guns in the backs of Long and the sailor, using them as shields, and came out. The battle resulted. Hornbeck eluded officers in the darkness, fled half a mile down the road, forced his way into a residence, took the keys of a car jfrom the householder and escaped. He was captured at Lake Butler, southwest of here. Not until dawn did searching lcounty, city and FBI officers find 'Goldman’s body, crumpled in a weedy ditch not far from the bar. Rebinson fell, shot through the head, in an overgrown lot just be- hind the bar. It is estimated that the popula- tion of the Roman Empire about 30 a. d. was about 55 million. X ome again after a 10-week trip t husband, shows her two small daughters some of the Christmas presents she. brought for them. Julie, 5, left, holds a gold-beaded mat from Pakistan and her seven-year-old sister, Afghanistan. After a reunion dent Nixon hurries to the Whi President Eisenhower.—(?) Wi Tricia, looks at a dress from with his daughters, Vice Presi- ite House for a eonference with irephoto. nce gesisipetthepteertimegpres JUST ARRIVED! CARLOAD OF CHRISTMAS TREES Selling Cheap HURRY! HURRY! OVERSEAS FRUIT MARKET 934 Truman Avenue | No Name Key [Read The Citizen therly winds Florida: Fair, slightly higher temperatures this afternoon and to- night. Lowest tonight about 33 in extreme north to 40-45 in the in- terior of south portion with scat- vered frost in north and central portions. Thursday fair, slightly colder in north and central por- Jacksonville through the Florida Straits and East Gulf: Gentle to moderate west to north winds be- ‘coming northerly tonight and north to northeast on Thursday. Western Caribbean: Moderate to fresh north and northeast winds thru Thursday. Partly cloudy to occasionally cloudy weather with widely scattered showers. Key West, Fla., Dee. 16, 1953 Observations Taken At City Office at 8 A.M., EST TEMPERATURES Highest yesterday . |Lowest last night . |Mean “= |Normal . ls HOPE PRECIPITATION } Total last 24 hours . Total this month . | Deficiency this month .. Total this year . 46.23 ins. Excess this year . . 7.85 ins. Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. 61% Barometer (Sea Level), 7:00 A.M. 30.26 ins.—1025.4 mbs. Tomorrow's Almanac | Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset TOMORROW'S fIDES (Naval Base) High Tide Low Tide 8:02 a.m. 1:13 a.m, 6:56 p.m. 12:13 p.m. Boca Chica Sandy Pt.) Caldes —— Stee (north ) + +14 i (—)}—Minas sign: Corrections to be subtracted. {4+}—Plus sign: Corrections te, be added. ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Time of Height of Station— Tide high water Bahia Honda (bridge) ———oh 10m 9.8 ft . 69 wee 5S - 62 eee 12 0 ins. 36 ins. 37 ins. —oh 40m (east end) —+2h 20m HALF BUSHEL INDIAN RIVER FRUIT. . . $3.95 Insured and Express Included Hobby Shop 1105 Truman Ave. PHONE 2-3961 Key West High School CHORAL DEPARTMENT . jury. “You couldn’t say that you .|would after you had lived together .|for 31 years.” Basketball Results | Rollins 63, Stetson 61 | Okeechobee 43, Avon Park 27 | Seacrest 52, Belle Glade 49 | Apopka 45, Clermont 25 Gis PLAN TO GIVE (Continued From Page One) celebration for more than 300 chil- dren in a Kinderheim they spon- sor there. Fifty children at an orphanage at Kornwestheim will have a GI Christmas arranged by engineer field maintenance troops station nearby. St. Petersburg Insurance Man Dies Suddenly | i i W. H. Holman, manager of the ed Peninsular Life Insurance Com- pany in St. Petersburg, Florida, At Bremerhaven, the American Passed away suddenly on Decem- a fund-raising Christmas project. whem officers—who had 54 degrees; high Thursday about tinued, “we can't give away the Forces Network is cooperating in'ber 14, 1953. Funeral services will be held at He asked the jury not to be |For a pledge of $1 a listener may 10:30 a. m. Thursday from the swayed by the iliness of Mrs, |hear gelected music played. Dol- Palms Funeral Home in St. Peters. Mansfield. He said he felt sorry |!ars are pouring in and needy Ger- burg, Florida. about her condition. He said tes timeny had showed that she was pain a month betore the fall and concluded by saying: “Forget the sympathy and try the case on fects alone.” Albury spoke for only four min- utes. Gordon, in rebuttal, showed the jury a plat of the area where the fall occurred and said that Mrs. Mansfield fell in the first hole she came to. He said there were no other holes in the sidewalk from Southard St. to that spot. “She had a right to assume that! there would be no hole there,” he |added. | Gordon brought a small black- \board into court to show the jury lin figures some of the expenses, he said, to which the Mansfields had been put. He said that figuring it at $5 a day for the 1,022 days Mrs. Mansfield had suffered, the total | would be $5,000. He said, based on mortality tables, she would | have had 19 more years to live. | She was 49 at the time of the | accident. He asked for $1 a day for the 19 years she would have lived, making $7,000, Gordon totalled medical bills at) $2,500 and future medical bills at “Would you give up your wife for less than $20,000?” he asked the| Mansfield again broke into sobs jand left the court room. “Put yourself in Mansfield’s position,” Gordon went on. “She was perfectly well for 49 years and then have this happen. No amount you can give them can compensate them. We ask in all fairness that you give a fair, hon- est and reasonable judgement.” Gordon spoke 22 minutes in re- buttal. Judge Lopez called a recess and lat 11:25 a. m. began his charge to the jury. He told the jury that Mrs. Mans- field was asking $100,000 and that her husband was asking $35,000. Judge Lopez outlined teh law in such cases to the jury and told them that Florida law requires the city to use reasonable diligence in maintaining sidewalks and that an injured person can not recover damages if he is negligent. He also told them that the mor- tality table had been admitted in evidence. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tampa 86, Howard (Ala.) 71 Chipola Junior College 79, Stet- son B 31 | Florida A & M 104 Florida Nor-| mal 78 High School Miami High 47, Key West 43 | Fort Pierce 51, Pahokee 43 Coral Gables 50, South Broward 46 Miami Beach 44, Constance 40 Lake Worth 46, Vero Beach 45 South Dade 56, St. Pat’s 35 Jefferson of Tampa 41, Orlando Edgewater 38 mans there will benefit at Christ- mas time. preciation by inviting American | and the trimmings with them in Army mess halls. COLD THREATENS | (Continued From #ace Une) | “It takes time for plants to react! The cold wave struck at the height of the growing season in| the glades. Leafy vegetables were hurt worst. Cox said beans and| potatoes also may have been af- fected. | No crop damage was reported} |along the east coast. } | There was a liberal covering of |frost in the Plant City area but little da ye was reported. Squash may have been nipped lightly. The Ruskin area, which calls — the tes pra jalad bowl,” ad scatte: frost but apparent no Por - er temperatures rted around the state included 31 at Tallahassee, 34 at Jacksonville and Daytona Beach, 36 at Orlando, 39 at Vero Beach, 40 at Fort Myers and Pensacola, Miami's low was 46. Key West was the warmest spot in the state with a low of 57. Paul Hannum, meteorologist at i BILL’S LICENSED PAWN SHOP 703 Duval Street CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS A Wide Selection Table Lamps ... $7.50 to $12.50 Floor Lamps $7.95 to $22.50 EISNER FURNITURE CO. Poinciana Center Tel. 2-6951 _ Sore arcane in simtroricrarm sine, RADIO and) CIFELLI'S 33°00: Factory Methods Used— All Work Guaranteed Marine Radios & Asst. Equipment fs : dent of the Flo German families show their ap- gerwriters Association and was as- sociated with his Company for 43. soldiers for Christmas dinner in) years. He was well known to many! their homes. Soldiers in turn in- Key Westers having been attached vite German friends to eat turkey |t9 the local office of the Peninsular Mr. Holman was a past presi- State Life Un- Life for several years as a field |supervisor during the time when Mr, O. S. Long was manager here. the Miami Weather Bureau, said it would warm up some this after- noon but a “little push of cold air” might bring the chill back Friday. Hannum said unofficial readings from Miami suburbs showed tem- peratures as low as 36, mine whether there had been any crop damage. Tampa reported 42 and West Palm Beach 45. ‘our Grocer SELLS That Good STAR * BRAND — TRY A POUND TODAY — STRONG ARM BRAND COFFE Triumph Coffee Mill at ALL GROCERS STATION Francis at Truman DIAL 2-9193 Your PURE OIL Dealer Tires . . Tubes . . Batteries. ACCESSORIES | GQIVE wu curt oF HEAR G TH e HEARING AIDS Ce et el FOR PROMPT AND RELIABLE SERVICE — SEE... 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Lastres - JoAnn Mullins Trio of Wise Men Glynn Archer Winter Park 65, Wildwood 51 Venice 49, Wimauma 41 Wauchula 64, Bartow 56 Tarpon Springs 49, Plant City 47) (overtime) Lakeview 56, St. Leo 52 Olph (Tampa) 59, Hernando 21 Fort Meade 45, Mulberry 44 Largo 60, St. Paul’s 36 Dunnellon 54, Anthony 36 Orlando Boone 52, Daytona Beach Mainland 38 | Leesburg 58, Seabreeze 52 (over- time) | New Smyrna Beach 44, DeLand 41 High Springs 63, Jasper 51 1 Jacksonvill Lee 53, Jacksonville | Du Pont 36 Jacksonville Beach Fletcher 44, St. Joseph %4 Starke 63, Palatka 29 Hilliard 29, Macclenny 27 Folkston (Ga.) 63, Callahan 37 Perry 40, Monti 33 Cross City 37, Reddick 30 Mount Dora 42, Eustis 38 Arcadia 57, Sebring 35 Oviedo 65, Pierson 38 Service Basketball i | Pinecastle AFB 73, Orlando AFB | 70 Tough Bull Conquered OKLAHOMA CITY #—Shot four | times at a slaughter house yester- | bull broke loose and ran | Fox News STARTS TOMORROW THROUGH SA TURDAY BOX OFFICE OPENS 4 PM. TODAY CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE AMERICAN COFFEE WIGH SCHOCL brother Kenneth arrived a8 (Contmued Prom Page Une) [Tushed the unconscious Linda to da with a l4inch piece of three-/bospital. quarter-inch pipe. Castro went home and changed He chased her through the house, his blood-spattered clothes then re- bashing repeatedly at her head turned to join the gathering crowd ‘and face. Her fingers were crushd jin front of the Frey home. and broken when she tried to ward) When Linda regained conscious- off th blows. lness she named Castro as her as- The inspectors said the girl 'sailant. made her way to the basement. Nelder and McDonald said the garage and clawed at the door in, youth confessed. an effort to escape before she lost| The inspectors said Rocky s consciousness. known to neighbors as always Her sereams attracted a neigh-|friendly and courteous. He is an bor, Don Jbian, who found Castro honor-roll eighth grader and soa hysterically running in circles injof a bank employe. the garage. He assumed the boy - - had just found the badly beaten In 1900 in Mexico, 2 per cent of girl. the people owned 70 per cent of Shortly after, Linda's 20-year old the land. STRAND Wed. - Thurs.. Fri. and Sat. Aworld of adventure! Mat. 2. & 4:06 Night 6:12 & 8:18 AIR CONDITIONED Sun. and Mon. Tt was still too early to deter- | or SIERRA MADR MONROE “4: cco” E 7:00 AND 11:11 — %38 Sunday, Monday and Tuesda cM “iN WORLDS COLLID cs ee So aS ——FOUR NIGHTS—— Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturda Joe Pineda Robt, Lastres Key West High School Auditorium D--, 17, 8:30 P.M. PHONE 2.3419 FOR TIME SCHEDULE BOX OFFICE OPEN TILL 9:00 P.M, San Carlos Theatre Air Conditioned yards into the street, Po- | iceman H. J, Tebrinke said the i tough animal dropped dead either | from exhaustion or loss of blood Four miles down in the ocean the pressure ja 4% tons to the square inch { —