The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 9, 1954, Page 1

‘THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1954 \“Safe” Skunk Is \Missing Today IN THE U.S. A. PRICE FIVE CENTS Murder Charge Filed Against Killer Of Amusement Man Here Miamian Pumps Four Slugs Into Victim In Duval St. Night Club By JIM COBB “I just shot a man and nobody can help me but. God,” a 54-year old Miamian told police last night when he surrendered after pumping four bullets into a local a- musement ride operator in the Starlight Club, 713 Duval Street. The slayer, identified by police as Ignazio Castiglia, 535 NW 98rd Street, Miami, is in the county jail facing a possible first degree murder charge after shooting the man, James Colosimo, 417 Duval Street, also known as Stinky’s absence was noticed yesterday morning by his ewn- ers, the John E. Holmans, 201-A_ Poinciana Place. WASHINGTON—President Eisenhower made his State of the Union report in a speech to a Joint session of Congress Thursday. On the rostrum at the back in the picture are Vice Président Nixon, left, and Speaker Martin, Part of the chief executive’s audience is in the * foreground.—() Wirphoto, Mid-Pacific Tes ill Be Moved ‘By FRED S, HOFFMAN’ ‘ WASHINGTON “W—The United States may be about to rock the peaceful mid-Pacific with the most thunderous manmade explosion in An Atomic Energy Commission _ announcement: last night roused ry tion that government scien- s be planning to detona' a en bomb with a blast pow- er mightier than the combined force of all the conventional bombs but a reference to “all ” of weapons touched : H-bomb speculation. Te'has been estimated that the American Air Force in World war II unloaded the bomb equivalent more than two million TNT, atomic bomb dropped Nevada desert last June Popgun by comparison. It! leved to contain a power of 50,000 tons of TNT flash could be seen 500 Ys mb, in turn, was about times as powerful as the one wiped out the Japanese shima, one othr significant the AEC announce- as regarded as additional evidence that the Marshall Islands is}Denmark—have a m Viting age of 25. of Nevada tests, which it said had @pened some “very profitabl (Continued on Page Three) NOTICE! NOTICE EL PASAJE Restaurant 1005 TRUMAN AVENU? Will Repoen SUNDAY, JAN. 10 at 6:00 A.M. ts May Set Off |Red Broadcast e ‘ARecord Man-Made Explosion [Denies Ever see an octopus eggs? You might if you the Municipal Aquarium. A small Twe other people who miss Stinky are the Holman Chil- dren—Vernie, 12 years, and Carol, 3% years. and brought him here a few days later. So if you see Stinky, let the NATO Sets Up By JOHN RODERICK. PARIS @®—Reliable ' informants octopus, which is in a cage sus- pended in @ glass-front tank, has been laying eggs from time to time. She attache. them to the wire of the cage. They look like pale, elongated grapes and way to reopen the fuptured talks|Said today that NATO, within sight atmed at starting a Korean peace|°f its goal of 160 jet airfields, will conference, concentrate end year =4 a communications network. to li Depart ih BU. 8. Stetela estes. and a web. of pipelises jancement came} amid these other developments on|‘® S¢Pply them fuel. : : The sources said the December ministerial meeting of the North ‘Atlantic Treaty Organization voted approximately 224 million dollars. yjland ‘and Finland insist on 24, lowered the voting age to 18, The it)argument advanced there is the warning and refused to retract threats this government armed force Amendment To | Korean prisoners who refuse to re- turn home turned themselves over ito Indian guards and asked to be sent to Communist Poland or ‘ |Czechoslovakia. The Neutral Na- oes Naan ese and Czechoslov. By ED CREAGH ‘ate member ae a WASHINGTON (If the United|anest Wl act om the re States lowers the voting age to 18,| 3. Gen, Maxwell D. Taylor, com- as President Eisenhower proposes, bap of the 8th soak r it will fall in liné with the practice forces are fully prep lof Mexico, Argentina, Turkey and|D22dle 22,000 Korean and Chinese the Soviet Union. [leave their neutral zone con: «ounds Those are the only major coun-|Jan. 23 with or without approval tries which permit their citizens|of the NNRC. to start casting ballots at 18, Mexi- co lets 18-year-olds vote only fi obved ne they’re married. Otherwise they must wait uptil they’re 21, Switzerland and Germany fix the minimum: voting. age at 20, Most other countries—including Great Britain, France, Italy and Canada —hew to the practice the United States has traditionally followed and set the voting age at 21. i Norway, however, makes its citizens wait until they’re 23, Hol- | Spain and In this country only Georgia has one Eisenhower invoked in last}«, Thursday’s State of the Union message: “For years our citizens between {the age of 18 and 21 have, in time’ }of peril, been summoned to fight ifor America., They should partici-| hPate in the political process that | produces this fateful summons.” Hark sumably India, Sweden or Switzer- =. Experiments With land—were striving to renew the) talks. for its 1954 intrastructure program the of permanent instal. needed to support NATO armed forces. The bulk of the sum will be used for the communica- tions and fuel supply systems. The airfields are almost all com- pleted, and 120 are in operation. The United States will chip in about 38 per cent of the total amount spent on NATO installa- tions, according to a U.S, Defense ‘Department report to Congress last May, Details of the building program for 1954 have not yet been pub- lished but it authoritatively re- ported to include two big 10-inch fuel lines in France. One would start at the Mediterranean port of Marseille and follow the Rhone} River valley about 350 miles north to the Dijo narea, where it would serve a group of NATO airfields. The other would start at the At- lantic coast port of Le Havre. Its terminus has not been revealed. NATO said last September that) it was starting then to build 1,875 miles of pipeline over nine Western Allied nations. The system would (Continued On Page Two) SMILING AND SHOWING NO APPARENT R: Castiglia, 54, Miami is led from the scene by Pi Hernandez after he surrendered and admitted ‘that four bullets into.a local amusement man in the Starlight Club, Daval St., last night “Make this a good one,” grapher. The victim, James Colosimo, 417 al Street, nounced dead on arrival.at Galey Memorial Hospital. later broke down and sobbed in his cell at county jail Staff Photo, Finch. .—Citizen NAL Officials Felt That They Were ‘Pushed Around’ At Meet C.G. Works To Free Grounded Cobra Venom For *'Polio Victims Set MIAMI, Fla. #@—Human victims soon may be treated with ‘cobra venom in controlled experi- ments, Dr. Jay F. W. Pearson, presi- dent of the University of Miami, said yesterday that controlled use of a toxoid made from cobra ven-| -,jom in human cases of polio may! be undertaken by competent clini- cians as a research project. His statement followed a report’ made in Birmingham, England, by | Russia, says the Encyclopedia | Britannica, lets 18-year-olds vote' on the theory they’re already in- dustrially productive and “the earlier the age at which one begins ito vote, within reason, the sooner is one politically educated.” The U.S. Constitution does not fix the age of first voters. At pres-! ent that’s up to the individual States. "Whet F's wee ac Dr. Murray Sanders of the univer-| sity staff that a toxoid made fro be a vaccine to immunize i pointed out that ‘Sanders’ work “lies in the field o! 'post-infection."* “As far as we.know,, there is ac other well advanced research in, ‘has been contracted,” he added: * WASHINGTON —A speech by Chief Justice Earl Warren next Thursday evening will be carried, nationally by all four major radio networks, Columbia University an- sity bicentennial Alexander Ham- ilton dinner, which is sponsored by Columbia alumni. The address will be Warren's first major speech since his ap- ointment to the high tribunal Columbia said he would speak about 25 minutes, starting at about 0:35 p.m. (EST). Public > SIMONTON. near Coca-Cola treatment of the disease after it]. ADMISSION C. Of C. Head Tells Of Talks Man In Miami That statement was made in connection with the chamber’s ; unsuccessful attempt to arbitrate the dispute between NAL and the county commissioners. Jimmy Brown. Truman Talks About Session Of Legislature Ex-President Can’t Understand Great Interest In Herrings NEW YORK (#—Former Presi- dent Truman today likened the Present Congress to what he called the “do nothing” 80th Congress and also expounded on the “great interest in herrings.” At least three persons wit- nessed the shooting which took place in a back room of the night club. The 40-year-old murder victim met his end as the result of a two month quarrel with Castiglia over money matters. They were partners in an amusement ride enterprise which was to begin operations at Wickers Field siortly, Colosimo’s wife said today that Castiglia had threatened him several times, ana on at legst two occasions tried to choke the victim, Peace Justice Roy Hamlin to- day issued @ murder warrant signed by John Nebo, ewner ef the Starlight Club, an eye wit- The latter was a reference to “T don’t know wi a interest in herrings. hy there is such an and Nebo asked them the back room so they ‘ corn belt has moved 500/disturb the customers. ‘miles. north, according to what “They were arguing and I tri T’ve read, and the herrings have|!© break it up when he pulled moved 200 miles north nas tare |Eun and started shoot eee now being cai in Se not ” sail 2 , 8 caught andinavian A Gai is fred nie a His comment was b victim. ‘0 strack Colosimo a reporter who Polediy oy rapes in the right wrist and two hit him orate on the “red herring” issue.|2 the back. The assailant then “The 80th Congress tried to cov-|Walked calmly from the place and er up its shortcomings by divert-|sUtrendered to Police Officer Ralph ing attention, just as the present|™@ beer iad is doing today,” Truman said. Present Congress is doing nothing and is also trying to cover jup their shortcomings with dema- goguery. Now, that’s good if it! works, but I don’t know if they can work it forever. The public wilh get wise.” cause he was not an economist. To questions about the chances for peace, he said he always had “\worked for it, adding: “I certainly hope there will be peace, but it will be some time before we can tell.” Truman’s walk began at 7 a.m. while it still was dark. He walked briskly for about a half hour in The dispute resultai from a rate|2 25-degree temperature. '|increase—effective Jan, 1—at Mea- cham Field. Main point on the dis-\Ford Foundation Truman, here to appear on a Pro- pute is a 50-cend charge for each|Stam tomorrow, was interrupted passenger landing or taking off. at times by autograph seekers. After i one for a cab driver, Truman remarked: ture ae ge no peg = fpr ‘aribona who was nearby. Colosimo was in a sitting pe- sition and bleeding badly when customers of the night club went to his sid. He was rushed te Galey Memorial Hospital where mae . Mario F. = a ir. Marie Fernandez, resi- dent physician, Dr, Fernandez said that one of the 32 caliber slugs probably en- tered the victim's heart, Castiglia was taken to the city Jail and later turned over to coun- ity authorities. He showed no ap- parent remorse immediately but when he was given his prayer book in bis cell at the county jail, he reportedly broke down and sobbed. “I lost my head and shot him,” he told police, it Paper is this going to be in?” he asked a newsman. “I’m going to the electric chair, but if I beat this I’m going to come back and thank you for treating me So well,” he told a police officer, Colosimo’s wife, Janette, this morning told a story of repeated arguments between the two meg about money matters. “I know it's |Strange, but I feel sorry for |glia — and even more poor wife,” she i also