The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 30, 1954, Page 1

VOL. LXXV Ne. 26 1953 Was Florida's Second Wettest Year In Recorded Histo CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS WASHINGTON WA tangle of words springs up in the path of hotly disputed Bricker the Plan to curb treaty powers, Backers of President Eisenhower and of Sen. Bricker (R-Ohio) sponsor of the proposed constitu- tional amendment, skirmish on the Senate floor during the issue's first week of formal debate. More words come from offstage huddles, where Senate leaders seek a for- mula that'll win a nod from both sid es. Democratic Sens. George of Georgia and McCarran of Nevada come up with differing proposals reportedly submits a new set of words to Eisenhower. A comprom- ise isn’t ruled out, nor is it reached, The debate rolls on, Economic—Eisenhower’s yearly economic message to Congress sees bright prospects for still high- er standards of living, but cau- tions against complacency and promises government use of anti- Tecession weapons if needed. GOP legislators call it a good program, Democrats charge it falls short of | Year Of Alternate Drouth, Floods Is Reported On By Weatherman Last year was Florida’s second wettest since 1891 when tabulations of rainfall began. Still in first place for wet- ness is 1947 with a statewide average of 172.70 inches. Last year 68.66inches of rain fell. every month in 1953 except March and May. March averaged only slightly below normal while May was un- usually dry with some stations receiving no rainfall during the month. This. drought condition persisted over portions of north- east Florida through June but was effectively relieved by rains over the remainder of the State. July, while unusually wet at a few stations across the ceatral Pen-| insula, averaged only _ slightly above normal, but was followed by the wettest August on record in ithe upper east coast sections. Continued rains in September THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN 2 KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1954 Not An Earthquake EE DUST-FILLED AIR, the rumble of falling brick. plus various Pal HE U.S.A. Navy Man Charged Formally With Rape On Complaint Of Baby Sitter A rape charge was lodged today against Frank E. Senk, 1-2 and sundry odd noises are a commonplace thing at The Citizen office these days as the demolition of a part of City Hall across the street goes on. Piles of debris and trash give the appearance of a bombed-out town. City Court is almost an open-air affair since the front of the building is gone.—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. and through the first 10 days of effective action against a current business dip. 35,000 public housing units a year, billion dollar slum clearance October resulted in serious flood condition in the area between Lake Okeechobee and the lower east coast and’ damaging high water levels in the river basins of the Peninsula, » especially the mee and St. Johns Rivers, Temperatures averaged above normal for the year, but except’ for an-abnormally hot (and dry) May, température excesses oc- cutred at the most welcome Officer Snatches Girl To Safety A local resident took time out H time — February and March. = ri Poinciana, 20-year-old Navy man who allegedly forced a 17-year-old baby sitter to submit to his advances. Senk, whe is attached to Airship Development Squadron 11 at the Boca Chica Naval Air Station, was jailed Wednesday night by city police on the complaint of another young girl who said that he made indecent advances to her. This morning, Peace Justice Roy Hamlin issued a warrant for- mally charging Senk with the crime. The complaint was signed by the 17-year-old girl. Hamlin said that he will set a hearing soon, probably next week. Senk also faces the possibility that he will be charged with attempted rape in connection with the incident involving the 14-year-old girl. Married, and the father of a young boy, Senk’s home address was listed by the Navy as 534 Merchant Street, Ambridge Beaver, Pennsylvania. He has been in the Key West area for about 16 months according to police. He admitted during grilling at relations with the girl, police headquarters that he had |Big Four Is Deadlocked On New All-German Government By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER BERLIN (#—Russia and the West- | ern powers deadlocked beyond any, apparent hope of compromise in the Big Four conference today West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, but officials said they would not yield to any pressure to bring in the East Germans. / For Quick Communication, Use CLASSIFIED Ads! You'll teach buyers and sellers— tenants or workers . . . Just ) DIAL 25661 of 2-5662. PRICE FIVE CENTS Use Of Boca Chica Field By NAL Is Favorable To Navy Authorities Here Extension Of Night Coach Flight To K.W. Considered By Airline By DENIS SNEIGR The best air service this town ever had today was one step closer. The commanding officer of the Naval Air Station has no objections to National Airlines using Boca Chica Field. NAL wants to extend its New York-Miami DC-6 night coach service to Key West if the Navy okays NAL use of Boca Chica, a spokesman for the line said today, iz | NAL filed the request for permission to use Boca Chica CAB To Weigh Field with Naval authorities e Complaints In Godfrey Case here. The request is being for- warded to Washington through channels. Possible Suspension Of Entertainer’s Private License Is Considered Capt. C. L. Murphy, chief of staff to Rear Adm. George C. Towner, WASHINGTON —It’s now up to a Civil Aeronautics Board ex- “The commanding officer of the Naval Air Station has inter- posed no objections. The request is being forwarded, through chan- nels, to the Chief of Naval Oper- ations for action.” = The NAL spokesman said: commander of the Naval Base here, today said: aminer to weigh a complaint that Arthur Godfrey was careless in a While Molotov had still to be|plane takeoff against the enter-. over plans for creation of a new heard from on the Eden plan in the|tainer’s contention that he was try- “If we can move from Meacham Field to Boca Chica, we will use a Convair for daylight flights.” The Convair is a new 44-passen- Shortage Of Reserve Forces Duty Said To all-German government. Officials said the United States, Britain and France were unified in iron determination not to yeld in the slightest on their,demand for’ free elections throughout East and Us. “Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was drafting a state- ment designed to impress this *}East Germans’ conference, the official Soviet news agency Tass assailed it in a dis- patch from Moscow as a devicé by the Western powers to take over Germany. Am, anti-Communist underground scattered leaflets in Soviet oc- cupied Thuringia. today . telling tie Eden. plan for uniting the nation. The type- written leaflets, put into mailboxes in Erfurt and other cities, said: “We give you information that our ing to avoid a collision. Possible suspension of his license as a private pilot is involved. The case went to an examiner yesterday when Godfrey waived a ring on a complaint filed [ncaint him by var gy regiong] attozaey Whatever recommendation the CAB examiner makes is subject ‘to approval by the full board. ger ship. i “Mr, B. " he added, “alse wants to DC-6 night coach inte Key West. This would simply mean extending the already ex- isting New York-Miami night coach service.” G T. Baker is presi eee Baker is president of NAL's DC-6 planes can carry 72 Passengers, the spokesman sai. upon Soviet Foreign Minister V.M. The complaint grew out of God- “Meacham Field,” the spokes- HH ee (Ce junist) a refuse , jr-;Man continued, “is inadequate, It Temperatures averaged abeut Cause Deficiency Molotov. But there was no pros-\for Jack of Peet ined frey’s takeoff Jan. 7 from the air-| leq Coffee—The soaring price of a cup of java triggers investigations by the Federal Trade Commission and the Senate Banking Commit- tee. New ‘York Banker Chester! Dewey tells the senators Ameri- cans taught their Latin neighbors how to raise prices, “‘and they are very apt pupils,” Normal during .the remaining months of the year, and, in gen- eral, cloudiness and showers pre- vented any sustained hot periodé of consequence during the sum- mer months. The highest temperature record- ed was, 104 degrees at Live Oak, ‘Ocala, and LaBelle during May and ‘the lowest was 23 degrees at Com-' g Be of pass Lake in January. The latest} Beeson—The nomination of Al- bert C. Beeson to the National Labor Relations Board squeaks by the Senate Labor Committee on a straight party vote, 7 to 6, but faces new trouble on the Senate floor, The. reason: a developing row over whether he has any arrangement to go back with his former private employer after serving a while on the board, Condon—Rep. Condon (D-Calif), |™P2 getting a self-requested hearing before the Joint Atomic Energy Committee to answer charges of Communist affiliations, swears. neither he nor his wife were ever: Communists or that he attended any meetings he knew to be Com- m Communist files—A Senate In- ternal Security subcommittee’ probe gets underway on Chairman Jenner’s (R-Ind) charge that a 1944) White House order directed the Navy to destroy some of its files on Communist activities. Also like- ly to come under serutiny: a re- port by Sen. Bridges (R-NH) of a wartime order for the destruction of “all records of a subversive nature about individuals in the Army.” — Tanks—Sen. Kefauver tells the Senate Armed Services (Continued On Page Two) BOAT LUMBER —at— Strunk Lumber 120 SIMONTON, near Gulf Dock RAUL'S Serving... Sunday Dinner 12 Noon Till 2 P.M, WONDERFUL Foop AT REASONABLE PRICES (D-Tenn)! freezing temperature in the spring occurred at Niceville on April 21, and the earliest in the fall was re- corded at Chipley on November 10. Three tropical storms reached the state during the year, two of which failed to reach hurricane force winds. The first moved in lover extreme northwest Florida in| ithe vicinity of Panama City on June 6 with highest winds 40-45 The second reached the coast in the same vicinity though a short distance further west on Septem-| ber 6. This storm was of hurri- cane intensity but crossed a spar-| isely settled area with relatively' small damage. The third crossed the South por- ition of the State from the Ft. My- ers-Punta Gorda area to the Vero) Beach area on October 9 with slightly less than hurricane force} winds, Nineteen tornadoes and eight wa- terspouts were reported during the’ (Continued On Page Two) Papy Announces Road Contract State Representative Bernie C. Paoy announced today that work will start immediately on the surfacing of the “old Stock Island Road.” Papy said that the State Road Department has awarded a con- tract amounting to $79,161 to the Ronlee Construction Company, of; Miami, for the work. Papy returned yesterday from a meeting of the State Road Depart- ment in Tallahassee. \ t Featured Nightly JOSE TORANO Versatile Instrumentalist GOULD CURRY PIANIST JOHNNY NEBO'S Starlight Club 8:00 til “2” Te Cocktail Hour 7 to 8 “It's the only thing | could do,” said Camere today. “It all happened too fast for the driv- er to stop.’ Camero also urged motorists to be careful in school zones. He pointed out that the driver in. the car in question was ex- ercising normal caution, but that che accident almost hap- pened anyhow. =e Rash Of False Alarms Reported A self-styled comedian faces a lot of trouble if local police catch ‘up with him. He’s been phoning in false fire They reported today that they Ihave received four such false al- arms in the last 10 days. The latest occurred this morning when an anonymous call was received at 3 a. m, telling them that there was a fire at 3522 Duck Avenue. They sent two trucks out, only to find that it was false. Previously, they have been call- ed at about the same time to a Roosevelt Boulevard drive-in res- taurant and to Poinciana. Fire Chief Charles Cremata said ‘today that whoever is turning 1 the alarms may not know it, but, he can be given a 90 day jail term and $250 fine, if he is caught. | And it’s a good bet that the jok- will the limit, | LOGUN'S Food and Entertainment until 4 A.M. By EDWIN B, HAAKINSON. WASHINGTON #® — A Senate committee said today the na- tion’s military reserves are badly undermanned, It blamed the shortage in large part on the calling of inactive re- servists—many of them World War II veterans—to duty in the Korean! pect of any yielding either in the Soviet position for merger of the East German Communist and the West German regimes as the prop- er first step. Today’s sixth session of the Ber- lin conferences opened a new round on the German issues which finally came into focus with these two developments: Though the German question had moved up to priority attention for the Big Four, the U.S. and Russian ministers also decided to go into their preliminary talks on atomic energy control tonight. Over cocktails and caviar last! night Russia’s V. M. Molotov and America’s John Foster Dulles ar- jis. just too small for operations of Poports at the time that Gedfren |loaded Convairs’ and DC's.” flying his twin-engine DC3, buzzed| The spokesman also said that the control tower because he| NAL is in the process of selling wasn’t allowed to use the runway| the Lockheed Lodesters (14-pas- he preferred. senger planes) which the line now After an investigation, Bobskill| flies between Miami and Key formally told the CAB that the) West. x TV-radio star flew so close to other} He said the Lodestars make ideal planes and the air traffic as to'executive-type planes after the in- War. 1, British Foreign Secretary An- ranged to come to grips with the/create a collision hazard.” teriors are remodeled. After chan- The Senate Armed Services Com- mittee issued a repor stressing the importance to national defense of “‘a strong ready reserve force”, but it said its study showed that the reserves of all the services are “suffering from a serious shortage ‘of manpower,” _ The National Guard, the report indicated, is in better shape, but in need of at least a year’s train- ing to be ready for combat. The committee recalled that nearly a million reservists were summoned to active duty in the Korean War and that most of these were World War II veterans. Tt noted that thousands of these; veterans were inactive reservists, undergoing no training and receiv- ing no Pay, while thousands of ac- tive reservists remained at home, (Continued On Page Two) thony Eden formally proposed a ifive-stage plan backed by all three western powers for creating a uni- \fied free Germany able to line up \with the West. i 2. Molotov began a fight to win |Western recognition of the East German regime by demanding that ‘both West and East German re- \presentatives be admitted to the conference while Germany is being discussed. Molotov was imme@ately turned down by all. three Western mini- sters but he ihsisted that the issues carry ovef until today. His im- mediate tactical purpose is to try to embarrass the western powers problem of how to make nuclear energy an aid to better living in- stead of a horrible device for sud- den death, Molotov and Dulles will meet again tonight after the regular ses- sion of the Big Four foreign minis- ters. They will have with them (Continued On Page Two) March Of Dimes Collects if Bobskill recommended that God-|ging the interiors, NAL plans to frey’s pilot license be suspended /sell the Lodestars for use of busi- “for such period as the board may |ness executives. deem necessary in the public in-} Meanwhile, three top Key ‘West iterest’”” and until Godfrey gets ajhotel men who asked NAL to re- medical certificate. store three cancelled flights were In his formal reply to the com-jtold by NAL the flights would im- Plaint, Godfrey said he did not|mediately be restored here if the (Continued On Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) Merry-Go-Round Adds Fun, Funds To Drive “Anybody wanna go slow?” Char-, box at the merry-go-round. Char- before the German people by ar-) |guing that they are deciding the fate of Germany without German! lie Person shouted. “Faster,” the kids screamed, lie asked him if he wanted to ride. The man said no. The band fom the Cabana Bar) his accordian, As the merry-go- round whirled and the kids yelled, Charlie played “Take Me Out To The Ball Game,” representation. Actually the western countries \are working hand in glove with Final Notice To COUNTY Regi Cards which were mailed beginning the first of December, 1953, and’ thereafter, must be signed and in office not later than the Sth of Feb- ruary, 1954, at 5 P.M. stered Voters Persons who fail to sign these cards and return same MUST BE REMOVED from the Registration Chapter 25293, House Bi Records, according to ill No. 1105 of the 1949 Session of the Legislature. Many cards have been returned unclaimed since voters have moved and did not notify the office. If any registered ‘voter has not received a card since the date mentioned above, please contact Mr. Samuel B. Registrar, AT ONCE. Pinder’s office, County “taster.” | Charlie obliged. He fed the en-; gine a little gas and the merry- | go-round on the back of the truck whirled faster. Almost every night Charlie parks his merry-go-round truck at the March of Dimes street show and gives the kids rides. If a kid has a penny, a nickel o? a dime to drop in the March of Dimes box, that’s okay, It’s okay, too, if they don’t have any money. They ride anyway. Every penny he collects goes to the March of Dimes, Last night at Southard and Du- val Streets, while the Douglass High School band played and the majorettes strutted, Charlie’s mer- ry-go-round spun. Volunteers circulated through the crowd, picking up contribu- }tions to the March of Dimes, A man stuffed a dollar bill and some change inte the collection |started the show last night. The {Douglass High School band and |majorettes followed. It was an all- Negro show on the band stand, And the crowd was a mixture of| Negroes and whites. Kids’ of all) \kinds—black, white, big, little, boys and girls—were lined up waiting) {their turns to ride on the merry-| | go-round. | Once a little white boy tried to! move in at the head of the line.| “Go to the end of the line,”| \Charlie told him. | Charlie has a record player and | The kid started for the end of/a radio built into the cab of the \the line. About mt beltesy tate, a truck, Negro girl gr: is hand and) “The kids want music whe! pulled him into line ahead of roles, he said, _— Some of the northern He stopped the merry-go-round, ers who talk about the bad re- unlocked the gate and helped the lations between the blacks and /kids to the sidewalk. ' the whites in the Ther li peste at Deve! Kigeor'g was another line waiting Streets last night. Almost kid said | “When the Douglass High aged |band took a break, Charlie got out) In the middle of his number, the {band started again, _ Charlie grinned and quit play- ing. “The competition is too tough,” he laughed, Charlie drove his merry-go- round truck to Key West from New York. Such merry-go-rounds are @ common sight in New York City during the summer. They work the crosstown streets and the kids mob them. i “thank 9 P.M. ’til “2?” GERALD PINDER’S ORCHESTRA PUBLIC INVITED Admission ___. . $1.00 TOMORROW 2:00 P.M. BOCA CHICA ROAD TRACK Admission _____ $1.25 10 P.M. till 2 A.M. Pierre Duval and His Orchestra RAUL'S