The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 17, 1953, Page 2

Page2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, Decembet 17, Young Man Admits Stove Overheats Slaying Of Aunt se The city's eaid }aap was biam- [ed today for a fire which caused | | jonly slight damagé.to 4 home at On Drunken Spree“: eee sekleis there| Key West and Vicinity: Fair and|with trading turning quiet. 4 stove continued cold today. Partly cloudy) ‘The start was fast with a lot of became overheated in a home own-|and colder tonight; Friday partly| blocks on the tape. When that oyer- fed by Mrs. Walter Curry at that\cioudy and warmer. Low tonight| Firefighters werey, PHOENIX, Ariz. # — “I justjearly this morning choked her, That's all I can re- member.” This was the statement given police by Bruce Bennett Hancock, 23, Phoenix plasterer, when he con- address. Criticizes Reds The - Weatherman Says | labout 55 degrees; high Friday labout 70 degrees. Moderate to \fresh northerly winds with highest! velocity offshore about 22 mph. TODAY'S MARKET NEW YORK, @ — The stock! market shot ahead today at the; opening and then stabilized its best night demand was cleared, the) trading pace returned to normal. The improvement in prices went jto around a point with Texas Pa- ficif railway up 2 points. Losses were small and scattered. } PLANE CRASH IN SOVIET ANNOUNCES (Continued From Page One) | (Continued From Page One? and — — Po it ripped steady improvement of the well through 4 ‘orce housin; . ra - being of the Soviet people. | area. The Air ae estimated The former police chief “se- —— fae! aa aie of lected as his basic method,” the calif. wh ca baa: statement charged, “slander, in- agrnatres oh ae te ae “ trigues and various provocations) was eating breakfast when I saw | *#i0st roo a gare el the crippled plane a half mile out. naneregar sp ekg yaaa Ps " path of his intents . . . an obstacle agg alla ory ocaag a ball Oto him in his efforts to gain power.| Beria and his accomplices dealt “Decency Committee” arbitrarily with people who did not {suit them, not shrinking from acts (Continued From Page One) of . lawlessness.” peared to be the arrest and indict- ment of Merkulov, for years Be- ria’s chief deputy in Soviet police and intelligence affairs. It had not previously been known that he had been removed from his high post of minister of state control, Merkulov became first deputy commissar of internal affairs shortly after Stalin made Beria commissar in 1938. In this position be aided Beria in the great purge of 1937-38. Beria had stepped into the job when the Kremlin decided it was time to put an end to the reign of tia Se Moscow anno~=-smest ap-; Beria served Stalin with blind loyalty and wrote the official bi- ography of the late Russian chief. As the man responsible for~Sov- viet security, he directed spying and counterespionage activities, watched Red army morale, direet- ed forced labor camps and sup- plied slave labor to build Russia's atomic power. He also had a key part in veloping the Russian atomic b. As police chief he was respon- sible for the deaths of thousands ef “enemies of the people.” Once tabbed by many as the man most likly to succeed Stalin, and enjoyed them,"*he comment- The announcement was the first ; Among the better acting divi-ied. official word on Beria since August!Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov. Beria the internal Kremlin struggle with sions were railroads, oils, steels,| Commissioner Louis Carbonell when the Supreme Soviet (Parlia-'and Merkulov liquidated both Yez-'Premier Malenkov, who charged coppers, chemicals, aircrafts, elec-|laid the blame for lack of police|ment) confirmed his ouster from|hov and the previous purge boss,|him with being an “enemy of the tronics shares, and some tobaccos. department training at the feet of the government. Meantime many |Henrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda. {party and the Soviet people.” Stocks showing firmness incladed |the city commission. rumors as to his alleged where- a ij terror waged by his predecessor,'he fell from power as a result of ee ee ieee aunt Mrs. NEW YORK The New York! Florida: Fair, slightly colder to-| ,; Times says the noted Soviet com- night and in north and central poser Aram Khatchaturian has|portions this afternoon. Lowest! - \ublicly eriticized Soviet policy on tonight 25-28 interior of extreme music. jnorth and about 50 near lower East |_ The Times quoted an article by coast with frost in north and cen-| New York Central, Sinclair Oil,! Khatchaturian in last month’s is- sue of the publication Soviet Music urging that Soviet composers be freed “from the petty tutelage of The article attacked muc! Pred anne podg ‘old by He, music which has been produced oon. jin Russia in recent years, saying “1 just went berserk,” Deputy it was “written without creative Sheriff Vernon LaMore said Han- cock told him. Two hunters, Paul Billingsly and Stanley Mikulski, found the body of the woman in Hicks Wash about 14 miles north of Miami. There were indications she had been criminally assaulted and some of her clothing had been removed, officers said. Hancock was back on his job here when apprehended. He later Officers claim Mrs. Allen was} beaten over the head with a rock, and then strangled. Hancock says all he remembers is the choking. A first degree murder charge has been filed against Hancock. Flour made from roast barley and mixed with butter is the food staple of Tibet, here he had been y-long drinking spree. He it had motored from} er, expressing the fear that some- thing untoward might happen.” [Replacement Set ATTLEBORO, Mass, —Santa Claus began taking up a collection today to help ward off a future Christmas tree shortage. It all started when City Forester Warren Hofman reported balsam, spruce and pine trees are not being replaced. When the Christmas trees are cut, he said, valuable leys. He suggested the city start he replanting in its own backyard— the 25-acre city farm. So now there’s a box at Santa’s hut on the Common inviting con- tributions for new plantings. FLORIDA POULTRY, EGG and FISH COMPANY, Ine. 819 SIMONTON STREET PHONE 2.6385 Special for Friday and Saturday 49¢ Fresh Killed, Dressed and Drawn KING FISH. .... Ih. 4% STEWING HENS ..... per lb. We Will Be Closed All Day Christmas KIWANIS tral and scattered frost to Ever-|Kennecott Copper, Du Pont, West- elan, with a glance over the should. |ing soil is washed off into river val-| ing temperatures, Jacksonville Thru The Florida becoming north and northeast dur- Friday. thru Friday. Partly cloudy to oc- casionally cloudy weather with |widely scattered showers. | Key West, Fla., Dec. 17, 1953 at 8 A.M, EST TEMPERATURES \Highest yesterday Lowest last night Mean Normal PRECIPITATION ‘Total last 24 hours ___ 0.00 ins. Total this month ____.. 0.37 ins. Deficiency this month _-0.43 ins. Total this year ______46.23 ins. Excess htis year _____ 7.59 ins. Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. 3% Barometer (Sea Level), 7:00 A.M. 30.30 ins —1026.4 mbs, Tomorrow's Almanac 7:06 a.m. §:42 p.m. 4:00 p.m. _ _ 5:12 a.m. TOMORROW'S TIDES (Naval Base) High Tide Low Tide 8:56 a.m. 2:09 a.m. 7:50 p.m. 1:02 p.m. Rev. Jedidiah Morse, whose school geographies were import- ant in early-day U. S. education, was the father of Samuel F. B. | Morse, inventor of the telegraph. nana RE eneeepeneeneeeneneee ee ey AQUACADE Friday Night 8 P.M. - Overture 7:45 Key West Kennel Club, Stock Island wreceeeene A MISSION --eeeeeee ADULTS, $1.50 CHILDREN, *NATIONAL DIVING CHAMPION - +. Featuring KATHERINE RAWLS *FOUR WATER BALLETS - - - Featuring KEY WEST‘S OWN MERMAIDS *AQUATIC CLOWNS |glades farming sections. Friday in- creasing cloudiness with slowly ris-| Straits and. East Gulf: Moderate| to fresh northwest to north winds! } tonight and fresh northeast on \Friday. Fair this afternoon and to- \night with increasing cloudiness Western Caribbean: Moderate to, fresh north and northeast winds Observations Taken At City Office inghouse Eelectric, American To- bacco, U.S. Steel, U.S, Rubber, Douglas Aircraft and Radio Corp. CAP To Meet Here The Key West Civil Air Patrol will hold their final. meeting of the jyear tonight at 7 p. m. in the |Poinciana Jayteen Center. be the main order of business. SOUTH KOREAN (Continued From Page One) was made by a 22-year-old Korean who runs the compound. * Kim said U. S. Sgt. Richard G. and British marine Andrew Con- dron are leaders of the non-Ko- reans. i | The leaders maintain contact bgp Communist headquarters at esong through the camp hospi- tal, he said. Knives and spears have been hammered from scraps of iron, and the i cig leaders use the weapons to keep the prisoners in| line, Kim said. He said the POWs were divided! into eight groups. The first six were made up of in- doctrinated Communists and al- ready have appeared for inter- views, Kim said. The last two groups were considered “weak.” The Americans were in the eighth | group, he said. Kim emphasized that none of the Americans told him flatly that they want to return home. But he Said they “‘indicated” that they wanted to hear explanations and | he felt they might ask for re triation, He said the fourth Amer- ican refused to sign the petition stalling the explanations and might | also return. The Indian command said the POW who refused to sign has changed his mind and now stands firmly against explanations. Initiation of new members will, Corden of East Providence, R. I.,! } CIFELLI'S ||| Factory Methods Used— | |; Marine Radios & Asst, Equipment jut Commissioner Jack Delaney bouts have been heard outside’ |pointed out tha the had made an the Soviet Union. is eek a hue a el In Washington, American offici- als expressed surprise that the of ausmal ‘ut for some reasoa the Fremiin had Gecided to being the i: Beria case back into prominence at a time when a Big Four foreign ministers’ meeting appears immi- |nent. The timing seemed particu- heads and 100 embossed envelopes larly unusual, they said, since Be- for parents, The Key West Citizen. | ria is charged with plotting to con- Orange juice, one quart a day/vert Russia into a capitalist state | Chamber Of Commerce (Continued trom Pare One) Baby kit, Key West Drug. |lies. Milk, one quart a day for 30 days, Key West Milk. Milk, one quart a day for 30 days, | Adams Dairy, Milk, one quart a day for 30 days, Home Milk Co-Op. The gift project for the first Key Wester of 1954 originated in the city room of The Key West Citizen. It was handed to Harold Laubscher, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, who put | it before the Chamber. The chamber took up the project and turned it over to the Cham- ber’s retail division which appoint- ed a committee to handle it. Those on the committee are Hannah Ba- er, chairman, Rae Carmitchell and|7~ Willie Mae Simmons. 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