The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 29, 1953, Page 1

The Ken West Citisen THE lehase the Poinciana and West g \Pears “bright.” SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1953 Hope Voiced That City May Get Housing City Dickers With Owners For Poinciana Land Purchase City officals said today that the Possibility that the city may pur- Poinciana Housing projects ap- They confirmed the fact that “‘in-! 5 'formal” offers have met with fav- orable reception from the owners ‘of the land. The city is endeavor- Eisner May Be Invited To T s For Quick Communication, Use CLASSIFIED Ads! You'll reach buyers and sellers— tenants or workers . . Just DIAL 2.5661 or 25662. PRICE FIVE CENTS estify Before “Decency Committee Today ] | Investigative Panel Sets Fifth Meeting In The City Hall Today By JIM COBB The curtain will rise this afternoon on act five of the city’s drive against sin when the “decency commit- tee” meets at 5 p. m. in the city hall. And the commission chambers are expected to be | packed since the meeting is apparently going to be ~ thrown open to the public, R.C.A. PRESIDENT FRANK FOLSOM told The Citizen last night that color TV would be avail- able to everyone within the year, perhaps in six or eight months. . The Folsoms spent their first Christmas in Key West this year at the Casa Marina. Mrs. Folsom says that this definitely will not be their last Christmas here—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. ing to purchase the projects to pre- vent them from being returned to the owners of the land on which they stand and subsequently razed. City Attorney J. Y. Porter and City Attorney Victor Lang were in- structed more than a month ago to negotiate with nearly a score of property owners on whose land the 800 housing units stand. They lease the land to the government and) the projects are operated by the Key West Housing Authority. City Attorney Porter said te- day that he has contacted the largest land owner involved and that they “have taken the mat- ter under advisement.” Fears had been voiced in the cr. Rapped Authorities Probe Reported Rape rape or a rape attempt involving a For Backing Blame Report South Korean Minister Says India Sides With The Reds PANMUNJOM «South Korea’s © foreign minister today assailed: In- dia for backing a report blaming South Korea for sabotaging the ex- planations to balky war prisoners. “We are not surprised,” Foreign Allies To Halt Minister Pyun Yung Tai declared, “F utile” Talks “because we know India will side with the Communists on all im-| By WILLIAM BARNARD portant issues.” | SEOUL W~South Korean Presi- Pyun’s attack was the opening|qent Syngman Rhee today called Hospital for medical had attempted te rape her. According to the officers, the c today on William Street, Rhee Calls On blow of an expected South Korean) thundefclap against India’s neutral- ity in the touchy prisoner situa- tion. India, the chairman of the five- nation repatriation commission, sided .with Poland and Czechoslo- vakia in a majority report that aceused South Korea of control- ling compounds housing more than 22000 anti-Communist North Ko- rean and Chinese war prisoners. Only a small number of the anti- Red prisoners ever met Commu- nist persuasion teams in the 90- day explanation period. Those that on the Allies to halt “futile dis- jcussions with the Communists” Sheriff's deputies and city police today were investigating a six-year-old girl. rime was committed at 3:30 a. m. MIAMIAN J. AT-ROCK A Miami commercial fisher- man was jailed yesterday for possession of undersized craw- fish. State Conservation Agenty Joe Knight, who made the ar- | rest, identified the fisherman | as Jack Hill, 3511 North West l6th Street, Miami, Knight said | that he apprehended Hill at Rock Harbor with a number of crawfish and tails in his pos- session. Hill was freed on $250 bond and will be arraigned before Criminal Court Judge Thomas S. Caro Jan. 7. State Conservation Agent John Castell aided Knight in making the arrests. and join his nation in “the last) jgreat battle to annihilate the Red: forces that seek destruction of the \free world.” | | The fiery Korean patriot in a| new year’s message to his people! that echoed his previous threats to unify Korea by force asserted a decisive war with communism is “eventual and inevitable.” A few hours earlier the aged leader pledged to North Koreans | | EE in a new year’s greeting “We will did rejected return to their home-| lands by an overwhelming major-} ity. | A minority report by Sweden) and Switzerland blamed Commu-/ nist explanation teams for dragging} out the interviews sometimes as) Jong as five hours. } come to your rescue just as soon svn Keys Story Told He told’ the people of the comin Current “Look” munist-ruled North “never do we! forget even in the mutarel Ke: . y West and the Florida Keys “in «ecw egy teen thelnave received a bit of valuable terrible plight:in which you are} caught.” Pyun told a news conference in} Seoul he did not know what went) qn behind the prison compounds in the neutral zone but added, “I do} Rot think the Communist charges! are fully founded.” The strong statement . appeared to give new life to his repeated war last spring that South Korea jwould gers if necessary—- He said Communists were back-|t0 the Yalu River boundary. ing away frm a Korean political) Rhee reminded Koreans he had €onference because it would then|@greed to a temporary halt in his make the release of unrepatriated|#im to unify Korea and had prom- prisoners on Jan. 22 “‘look like a|ised the Allies to refrain from uni- faulty procedure.” Hateral action for 90 days after -The Communist high command/the start of the Korean peace con- . Maintains that aft full 90 days| ference. Tctaiations oxy ocle ee But the recent breakoff of nego- threats in the last stages of the) [Publicity in the 1954 Travel edition! of Look Magazine, newsstands, Featuring a four page picture along the Overseas Highway and ;Spread with photographs of scenes lin Key West, the article points up the attraction of the keys from jboth a historical and recreational [viewpoint | An underwater photo of a skin \diver, fishing scenes and views of now on the past that the tenants in Poinciana would be made homeless because the Public Housing Authority was| § preparing to raze the housing units preparatory to returning the land ito its owners. Under the Lanham Act, the bill The girl, the sheriff's department said, was in Monroe General |Which authorized such housing, all examination. The result of the examination is expected to determine if the child was raped or if her assailant They gave the city until November of the units would have to be razed before the land could be returned. 30 to complete negotiations for its purchase but that date was later extended. And the land owners also lost a the land of upwards of 200 thou- sand dollars. The city is believed ito have countered with an offer| considerably less. One of the chief reasons why the land owners are believed to be somewhat anxious to sell is that jthey receive an annual rental of jonly five thousand dollars from the government for use of the huge tract of land. Commission Sets Special Meeting The City Commission will meet; this afternoon in special session at! 4:45 p. m. to consider bids for the removal of the city hall tower. The bids were submitted at a commission session Dec. 21 and |referred to the city manager for! jstudy and recommendation. The Drudge Construction Com- pany, Key West, was low bidder at {34,325 | The commissioners are expected to vote on whether or not they will award the contract to that company today. The contract calls for the remov- al of the tower and the erection of a facade over the stairway. “It will look pretty awful but it is a jmecessary project,” City Manager Vietor Lang commented today. Ticket Refund Set ded Police Officer Freed And Fighting Charges, l SHORE PATROL HAS OUTSIDE PHONE The Navy Shore Patrol has an outside telephone that can be reached from any dial LOS ANGELES.—Roaring flames sweep toward a road in the mountains just above Monrovie, near Los Angeles, as a huge brush fire swept out of control yesterday. cabins have been burned, 2500 persons evacuated from their homes, and the towns of Sierra Madre and upper Monrovia are threatened. The fire is about 20 miles northeast of down- town Los Angeles—(#) Wirephoto. | Still Safe From. | Forest Fire Cable To Top Of Mt. Wilson Is Endangered LOS ANGELES #—Mt. Wilson's valuable observatory and television equipment were still safe today as more than 1000 men battled two forest fires in the San Gabriel Mountains. High winds which fanned the flames yesterday had abated but the fire creeping up Mt. Wilson was reported near the top and in places was estimated variously as Many mountain | Is Observatory from observatory structures. Some 8000 acres had been swept in this area and another 3000 in the second fire 20 miles eastward below Mt. Baldy, forecasters said. Approximately 2,500 persons have been evacuated from both regions, but a recheck last night showed the number of unoccupied cabins to be less than was first estimated. Gibb Jailed By Fellow Officer After Xmas Eve Brawl Charges of being. drunk} Eartier, cabins were reported de- stroyed in Santa Anita Canyon. The fire. tow menacing+.Mt, Wilson led. there and spread to ad- joining canyons. Lower edges of this fire have from time to time threatened out- skirts o f Monrovia and Sierra Madre foothill communities east of Pasadena. Fire equipment from many towns —as far north as Bakersfield and from 200 yards to one-quarter mile| si Sng to San Diego—has been and disorderly and fighting) moved in to aid federal state and held against suspended Do-| omen soreness. eo aaacee : . : = e fire ow jaldy lice officer Bill Gibb Were) north of Claremont and 700 to dismissed Monday in City |1000 residents in that vicinity were Court by Judge Enrique Es- evacuated. quinaldo, Jr. The Pacifie Telephone & Tele- graph Co. reported its coaxial cable phone without going through the Navy switchboard. The number js 2-3030. The phone was recently in- stalled and is not yet listed in the directory. ber 24 as the result of a fight/TV peppy are yang was me Na lie ae q | Still intact although in danger. Net- with Carlisle Fabal seo work officials have pointed out that Truman Avenue Bar. Gibb joss of Mt. Wilson facilities would went free but Fabal was fin-| Invasion Of Laos knock out Los Angeles area recep- Gibb was arrested Decem-|to the top of Mt. Wilson where! ed ten dollars for fighting.) Gibb, who has been involved in a storm of controversy since he said) in city court that a local prostitute Is Discounted By French Ministry PARIS W—A French Foreign jhad reported being approached by) Ministry spokesman discounted to-'4 member of the police department route and joined the fire crews.| day the military importance of the for a payoff and later tht two city, tion but would not affect network operations which are piped East by another coaxial cable. Late last night observatory per- sonnel sent their wives down the mountain by one remaining safe Valuable scientific instruments Vietminh invasion of Laos, He also Officials had protected vice opera- household effects from six dwell- af explanations any prisoners re-| maining should be turned over to the political conference for disposi tion. Negotiations toward setting/al. @p a political conference are at a standstill, ‘the Key West waterfront are in- |etuded. At High School Persons who persuaded season) jtickets for the Key West High! School football season can obtain, |refunds at the high school for the! tiations to set up the conference, y said, “can be regarded as fi-| The picture story traces the va- = jeation trip of a pair of New York “I€ the United States continues models through the keys. {to maintain its present strong threw cold water on a suggestion in the Paris newspaper Le Monde that France should ask the United States to send troops to Indochina, now cut in half by the Communist- led move. - Dispatches from Saigon said there had been no ground contact between Vietminh and French Union forces in the past 24 hours. The French speculated that the Vietminh division involved in the push was regrouping, perhaps for an attack southward on Seno, the only French strong point in Laos It is the site of the only airfield large enough to handle transport Planes and bombers. Donald Heath, U. S. ambassador (Continued On Page Two) tions here, is serving a 15 day sus-) pension handed him by City Ma- nager Victor Lang for conduct un-| becoming an officer, That suspen- sion came as a result of an earlier incident and has no connection with yesterday's trial. Under questioning at a “De- cency Committee’ meeting, Gibb told City Commissioner” Louis Carbonell that he thought the meeting was held to exert pres- sure to have him moved from the Duval Street beat which was named by the Navy as a “hot- bed” for prostitution operations. “The cab drivers there had no use for me — s teo strict,” he said at that tim | ings and five automobiles were moved inside the double-walled steel dome that houses the 100- inch telescope. One astronomer said the 100- inch and 60-inch telescopes in steel (Continued on Page Iwo) Radio Amateurs’ Meet Postponed Former City Commissioner Louis M. J. Eisner is expect- ed to be a star witness be- fore the group, although he said this morning that he “hasn't been invited.” Eisner requested that he be given an open hearing before the panel after suspended Key West police officer Bill Gibb said that he was one of two commissioners who attended jan early morning meeting in }a Duval Street restaurant with a group of local cab drivers, Net result of that meeting, Gibb said, is that he was transferred from his Duval Street beat, to one in |Poinciana. Eisner said earlier that he would answer any question asked by. the jdecency panel and that “he had ‘a few questions he'd like to ask of them.” Asked today what line his questioning would take — if he is invited to appear, he said simply: “We'll see when we get there.” Dr, Delio Cobo, who was also named by Gibb as attending a meeting with the cab drivers about two hours later, has not indicated whether or not he will mike a statement today, He is a member of the committee along with the Mayor, three er city commis- sioners and citizens, He sta- ‘ted earlier that-he would issue a statement at the next regular meet- jing of the city commission, which is set for next Monday. He was at the bedside of a seriously jill niece when Gibb made his statement dur- ing testimony before the group. The eight man panel, with their goal set as the investiga- tion misfeasance, malfeasance and non-feasance in the city gov- érnment and the elimination of “‘taxi-prostitution” here, has com- piled a mass of evidence, but just what they will do with it remains to be seen, City Commissioner Jack Delaney, has repeatedly advanced the opin- jon that the data should be turned Over to the grand jury now in ses- sion, but others have said that they favor the idea of the city handling any disciplinary action internally. And Commissioner Louis Car- bonell, an outspoken critic of local vice operations, promised today that there will be no-letup in the city’s investigation. “I’m not going to let this thing drop — it's going to bust wide open,” he said. Car- bonell has sparked questioning at four previous decency committee sessions, Other members of the committee, in addition to he city commission, are Father John Armfield, attor- ney Bob Youmans, and Alan Hamp- ton, local business executive. The group was formed after 9 Prostitute leveled charges that she A meeting of the Key West Ra-|was approached by a police officer dio Amateur’s Club set for tonight, |for a payoff. The panel investigat- has been postponed due to the ill-led that charge and since, they ness of the guest speaker, Mr. A./hve uncovered a mass of new da- L. Budlong. \ta which has steamrollered into @ s / The U. N. Command maintains|stand, we shall never have to wait| the armistice provides that all un-|2Mether three or four months in} Man Is Held On fepatriated POWs be released as/an attempt to prepare for a po-). elvitians Jan, 22-30 days after the/litical conference that is tore-/Morals Charge explanation period ended Dec. 23,.;deomed to be fruitless,” he de-| Pyun said he doubted the sin-|clared. (Continued on Page Two) New Year's Eve DANCE American Legion Home STOCK ISLAND Norman Kranich and Orchestra Call 2-7912 for Reservations “More than ever we are con- Eugene Machin, 78, of 526 Louisa junused portion, it has been an-| nounced by Dr. Harold Campbell, ‘principal. Reason for the refund, he said, is that the Constance game sche- City Attorney J. Y. Porter tes tified on Gibb’s behalf at yester- day’s trail, saying tha: he saw Fa. bal strike Gibb twice. Post Office Sets Porter said that he was having a conversation with Gibb when he _ Club officials have announced /full-seale investigation of different _ that the meeting has been re-sche-\phases of the city administration, _ duled ior next Monday night at; The committee was tormed Dee, 7:30 p. m.-in their headquarters,|2 when the commission passed ag Southard and White Streets, at\emergency ordinance setting it up. which time Budlong will deliver‘his It will be disbanded in 90 days or duled for Key West was not played. A pro-rata share of the value of |vinced that as long as the Chinese St, today was being held in the ‘Communists are on Korean soil County jail in $1,000 bond for in-| Ithere can be no successful confer- vestigation on a morals charge. Patrolman Lionel Soriano, who ing country.” jarrested Machin near the Navy Rhee said it was his biggest wish 'Commissry on Simonton Street that “our allies come to realize this morning, signed a complaint fully that the war in Korea” has before Justice of the Peace Roy a close link with their future safety Hamlin from communism. he added. Tickets Now On Sale at ELKS CLUB, 551 3213 DUVAL STREET New Year's Eve Holiday Schedule Acting Postmaster L. H. Goddard announced today that the money order and postal savings windows Iwill close at 12:00 o'clock noon on Thursday. All other windows address. He is the genera) mana-\upon the submission of a report noticed that he was “bruised.” He the season ticket will be refunded, December 31, having been des- added that he told Gibb to get into jinated by the President as a half his tholiday for government employees, car and he would take him to a doctor, but before he could do so, Fabal approached him and siugged him twice. Asked by the court if Gibb was intoxicated, Porter sai@ that al- though “he was foggy he spoke will remain open until 6:00 p. m. lucidly.” The usual carrier and parce! post “Tt would not say that he was ger of the American Radio Relay League. — giving it just 76 more days te jfunetion. ARE YOU TIRED of Holiday Desserts? Try A Delicious STRAWBERRY “Now to make certain that these sacrifices shall not have been in} vain, we call upon them to con-| clude futile discussions with the Communists, and to rise with us) in courage and valor for the last) great battle to annihilate thy Red! (Continuea On Page Two) WEATHER S FOR DOORS STRUNK LUMBER 120 SIMONTON STREET Near Weather Bureau DANCE and Floor Show ‘deliveries will be made that day. drunk,” Porter testified. On New Years day, all windows Dr. Leonard Conley also testified at the post office will be closed and in court saying that he examined thete will be no carrier delivery. Gibb Christmas Eve in the City [Parcel post, however, will be de- Jail and that he was “apparently livered and collections from the sober” time — ahont 8 city mail boxes will be made asp. m., nearly eight hours after he usual. (Continued On Page.Two) at that i SHORTCARE at Your DAIRY QUEEN CORNER OF WHITE and UNITED STREETS