The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 11, 1954, Page 1

For Quick Communication, City In Warmest City In Nation Use CLASSIFIED Ads! You'll Today Was reach buyers and sellers— tenants or workers .. . Just DIAL 2-S661 or 2-S662. KEY WEST 68° The Ken West Citisen IN SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER THE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1954 iNon- Scheduled Airline Wil Between New York-Key W: ' . THE J. S. Ae VOL. LXXV No. 36 PRICE FIVE CENTS | Police Promotions To Be Considered Tonight Civil Service ; i Board Slates 8P.M. Meeting American Citizenship Today The city’s thorny police} romotion problem may be|gy, revolved to Dishwasher Oona O’Neill Chaplin Gives Up Commissioners Meet To Arrange r Quarters For New Air Service - Royal Airlines will begin flying from New York to Key West next week. Gerald Saunders, chairman of the board of county commissioners, today said Harold Wilde, county airport consultant, has informed him by letter that Royal has a deal with Aerovias Q for a package flight between New York-Key West-Havana. Wife Of Charlie Chaplin Attended School In Key | {|resolved tonight when the Civil Service Board meets in; the city hall at 8 p. m. Weat One Vear at that tine, Cay avor- LOMfesses To | , | LONDON (#—Britain counted, ney J. Y. Porter, has been} ° Asaerieac-bornons(O'Nell Chap-| invited to meet with he 0 e aying lin among its newest citizens to- board and give his opinion day. She renounced her allegiance! Jan advertising campaign i 4 ; : | “ os P| | s ign in a on the section of the city Weinh |to the United States, which ve Catwalk Plans INew York City ee s : einberg Tells jreadmit her aging film comedian | 3 8, charter dealing with the role GoasGlicting eStacies {husband until he satisfactorily | |Saunders added. He said the of the city commission in re- zs | answers accusations of Communist Civil Aeronautics Board has commending promotions in [Pemneatblen sp andi “eraser moral re omp ete okayed a rate of three cents the Police Department. Before Signing i i charges. Isn% it just a mile. The controversy arose last week) | | | Royal Airlines has started KEY WEST JAYCEES last night turned over a check for $1,385 to March of Dimes Mirman Paul Sher. This was the net profit from the January 30 annual President’s Birthday Ball sponsored by this organization. Committee members responsible for the success of the affair are: (seated) Merville Rosam, left; Paul Sher, center, and Harry Knight, right; (standing) Man- uel Lopez, Jaycee president; Sam Collins, and L. Castro, Bob Youmans (not pictured) was also.a member of the committee.—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. Scouts Take Over Bayview Park For Annual Campfire Wednesday Indian Garb Is S WornBpBoys Who Crowd Park By DENIS SNEIGR Small fry — plus a few larger fry — took over Bayview Park last night. \Vietminh Invaders Advance To Point Near Capital Of Laos French Reinforce Garrison Against Final Confession | ‘tee th demas? NEW YORK \#—Defiantly shout- cute?” the 29-year-old Oona asked, | County Commissioner Joe Allen when the board was asked to ap-|:.° 1 killed two Communists, 1/88 she waved her new dark blue ep. apy ays and Clarence Higgs today met with prove the promotion of Bienvenido bt i ish jand gold British passport at re- « Saunders at Meacham Field to ar- Perez to the rank of police cap-!0U8 to get ba medal,” ex-dish- porters last night when she andj jrange quarters for the new air ae The pene bon re- washer Harry Weinberg was taken her 64-year-old husband Charles) 'TWO-THOUSAND |service. u: to put their stamp of ap-'to police headquarters yesterday. \flew into London from Switzerland. | as Saund i peoval oa the appointment, holding’ He was allowed to halt for news.| Later the British-born Chaplin.) FEET OF FISHING Fees ipsa pepe pias ee eee at the promotion was irregular.'paper photographs, and posed|who despite 40 years in Hollywood} 7 c ‘a \buildi are member of the Levee freely. ' |mever surrendered his original] CATWALKS OK'd Lie ea wii eiaie rca ert Valdez and Mrs. Isal lem-| Then as he was led off, the 25-|citizenship, told a news conference| ‘Another i ws indent 7 ing, today declined to comment on year-old Weinberg turned suddenly at their hotel: |e shee Sistem Road Denar ec Casein oe tonight's meeting. They did not in-| ard shcuted at spectators: | “I'm very proud to announce ment has completed a pre-| vice between Key West and Mii dicate whether or not the question) “I killed two Communists. ... my wife is now a British citizen.” |]iminary survey for two-! mi, Saui sate as of Perez’ promotion would be dis-/I ought to get a medal from! “I'm very glad to be taking my thoweaiid feet of fishi t spece is ready, at the fi “pete wid cussed tonight, but last week, they/Washington, D.C, Don’t forget to'husband’s nationality,” chimed in| Ousand feet of fishing cat- Saunders said Geor. ee id turned over to City Atlorney Port-|get that in the paper.” Oona, whose teen-age marriage walks along the keys, it was) import manager, had offered. to er..a copy yof Police Chief Ra;-) “Tuivs far. pollee have remained estranged her from her late father,'announced today by’~State ‘give up his office space sie mond Cabrera’s letter to the city,silent on whether any motive for American playwright, Eugeneln, resentative Berni C. |arily for Peninsula commission notifiying them that he|the murders was uncovered during O'Neill. _ : gi “| Walter Reimer, n A had promoted Perez and asked for|the long question session yester-| “This is one of my proudest! Papy. ovias Q here, peg rap ne of a a ruling on its legality. jday. Weinberg at first told con- moments,” echoed Chaplin. He| Rep, Papy reported the re- ing of an arrangem my td ce At last week’s meeting, a sec- /flicting stories: announced last April he would | a6 tof a letter from. Kivby.linesand Roane - N ween his tion of the city charter which | He admitted, police said, shoot-'never return to America, where, C©IPt Of a ‘etl su Rey WaLaeaea AE says that city commissioners may |ing 58-year-old Max Bodenheim, but he charged, he had been the(Storter, assistant district)" hig a, rena ae not interfere with the ing, fir- |said the derelict ex-writer killing|‘‘object of lies and vicious reac:|road department engineer, | other paphsgaer ta rela The occasion was the annual Brown Leaves To Boy Scout campfire. Remember, . (Continue Voyage this is Boy Scout Week. Even before the 7 p, m. start- ing time, the park began fo fill dimm wn, 35, bound with boys disguised as Indians, | om" Caruthersville, Mow to Many of them had their faces | gan Frantisco, in an 18-foot streaked and blotched with paint. | canin cruiser, left here today for Havana. Brown, from Quincy, lil, Many headbands with one or two feathers in the bands, A started his trip last Sept. 22 aboard the Kathryn Ann, nam- few were decked in elaborate headresses of feathers. Expected Assault nye ipergerron epvelseity employ- By OLEN CLEMENTS SAIGON, Indochina — Ten} “and today, Patrolman Harry Lee thousand Vietminh invaders of Baker, who claimed last week that Laos advanced today to a point|he is the only member of the police, on the Hou River only 37 jungle (Continued om Page Two) miles northeast of Luang Prabang, the royal capital that the Fret) ——————— and ailing old King Sisavong Vong Art Show Termed brought fo the city attorney‘s at- tention. have vowed to defend. als of Q in the past es was cited by the board and |Then he denied everything, subse- his wife, the former Ruth Fagan, 35.|tionary groups.” | | Oona told the news conference} quently asserted the shooting re-|‘‘no particular incident” had sulted from a drunken row. The prompted her to become a Briton. next version was he tried to make; Chaplin said their five children | love to the woman and Bodenheimjwould be British too “because fought him. Several times he de-| children always take the national- clared: ‘Maybe there was some-|ity of their parents.” Their young- body under the bed.” est, named Eugene after Oona’s| Finally, police said, he signed a!father, was born in Switzerland statement confessing both crimes.!last August. He was smiling and unconcerned| Chaplin said his wife’s new pass- when booked. \port “does not necessarily” mean confirming the placement of | Habe days and that none of them ‘ S idg-| had mentioned anything about catwalks on the keys bridg: about the Royal-Q tei es. _Since Jan. 1, the county commis- Storter was in the city last week sioners have been working toward at which time he conducted the better air service for Key West. survey. According to his plan, the) On that date National Airlines bridges will stretch from Boca dropped three of its four daily Chica north to Whale Harbor /flights between Miami and Key Bridge. West. The Road Department 1s con-/ On that same date the county cerned only with the catwalk con-,Commissioners put a new rate I By the time the hands of the, clock moved around to 7:10 p. m.,| ihe area around the bandstand was) loaded with boys, There was much, screaming and scurrying about.) Two basketball games were in pro- ed his six-year-old ter, He plans to el the coast of Central A through the Panama Canal and then to ‘Frisco. He already had covered 2,500 The bodies of the couple were they will settle down in England. |struction south of the Big Pine structure into effect at the. field — found Sunday in a dingy lower|They now live on an estate near|Key toll gate and north of thea structure designed to increase |East Side room rented by Wein-\Lausanne. The film actor said/other toll gate at Lower Matecum- the field’s revenues for improve- berg. Bodenheim, a literary figure they were here on a business trip.'be Key. The highway between those ments of the field. jof the 1920s and early ’30s, was| The Chaplins were married in points is under the jurisdiction of NAL objected to one phase of |shot to death. His wife’s body bore | June, 1943, Oona is his fourth wife, |the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge the new rate set-up — a 50-cent A vanguard of 1,500 regional troops was within nine miles or|A ‘Huge Success’ less of the town, screening the advance of the rebel regulars of Vietminh Division 308, but so far had not opened an attack. "Officials of the Key West Art- ists’ Group have pronounced their current Street Fair in gress. miles of his journey by the The main force of the division,| Clinton Pl. the “most suc- [numerous stab wounds. The couple|They left America with their chil-|\Commission. They will spend more Per person charge for each pas- A couple of little girls, convoyed| time he reached this port. diverted last week from the siege| cessful e lapparently had been dead for 24/dren-Sept. 19, 1952, the day the|than $80,000 in the next year on senger landing or taking off at the | to the park by parents, stood silent of Dien Bien Phu for the thrust Scores of Key Westers have hours. |U. S. Justice Department an-|fishing catwalks. field, { and wide-eyed as they watched the S===—=—_——— I ty Laos from north Viet Nam,| flocked there daily to view the | Weinberg was quoted last night/nounced its bar to his return.| Rep. Papy appeared before the In a move to leave Meacham * boys. had advanced 19 miles in 24 hours.! art exhibition. as saying he killed Bodenheim After enthusiastic public recep-|State Road Board last month and Field entirely, NAL asked the Na- The little girls seemed to be At that pace, it was only two days’ A feature of the show on (Continued On Page Two) | (Continued or Page Two) (Continuea On Page Two) vy for Permission to land at Bo- wondering: Local Landmarks march from Luang Prabang. Saturday will be their annual ca Chica Naval Air Station, “Are they gonna act like this when they grow up and become | Nocbencst Featured In The answer, ladies, is yes, But} e ° they won't be Scouts then. Proba- bly Shriners, Rotarians or even April Ford Times politicians. | 2 a jtain pressure, when the rebels In the nick of time, Tony Mar-) Two Key West landmarks — the/found that stronghold heavily for- tinez, scoutmaster of Troop 253, ar-lighthouse and the southernmost tified by the French. rived. house — will be featured in the ' 5 ; The garrison of Luang P I say in the nick of time be. APril issue of Ford Times, Ford)nas hee reinforced i fh eause some of the junior Indians Motor Co. publication, __.. few days. Military observers were asking *me when the camp- The article tells that the light-| fire was going to start. house was built in 1846, that it was Maybe I sort of look like the € of a chain built by the federal), Grand Central information booth] (Continued On Page Two) but I don’t know the answers. velice: fenratiers ais Of Film Talent | NAL’s request was sent to the NAS at Boca Chica and forwarded through channels to the Chief of Naval Operations at Washington, | To date, no word has been re- | ceived Washington decision | on the request. If Navy permission ts forthcom- (Continued On Page Two) KW. Publicity Will Appear In Cuban Magazine An advertisement pain’ {delights of Key Went repre \Placed in a Cuban Magazine, the |Chamber of Commerce announced |today, The Monroe County Advertising Commission is paying for the ad. _ The ad will appear in an early jissue of Guia del Turista a la Flo |rida. The ad says Key West is the fastest growing city in Florida; |that 10 national stores have open- jed branches here; and that there jare increased recreational facilj- li available, including dog rae. ing, swimming, fishing and a bottom boat, o | The ad also says there are 2,000 modern motel and hotel rooms a- French Union briefing officers said the objective of the Commu- nist-led forces had not been ascer- tained. The division was withdrawn from the mountains around Dien Bien Phu, leaving others to main- picture auction. Mr. George Mills White wil) serve as auc- tior and the public will select the pictures to be sold in that manner. Each picture will be designated with a minimum Price by the artist and the bid- ding will start at that point. The auction will get under- way at 3 p. m. and continue until 5 p. m. | \The Beginning And The End (Continued On Page Two) S AL We Have 8 New 1953 Fords That Must Go! We Have 4 New 1953 Ford Trucks That Must Go! We Have 3 New 1953 Mercurys That Must Go! We Have 18 Late Model Used Cars That Must Go! COME IN, NAME YOUR PRICE, WE MAY TAKE IT, NO MATTER HOW LOW YOUR OFFER — TRY US NOW! MONROE MOTORS, Inc. This got him exactly nowhere. yell After several more blasts on the whistle, M the boys lined up by troops, g: sizes or something. He then put them on their Scout honor to keep their little traps shut while they marched (Continued On Page Two) “1 Scout Is Found LOS ANGELES (®—The body of a handsome young movie talent scout, bound hand and foot, was discovered last night in the bed- room of his suburban Sherman Oaks home where he lived alone. Police said the victtm, identi- fied as David L. Johnston, about 30, had been bludgeoned with a piece of fire wood. Police Lt. E. W. Smith said the house was “a shambles,” with trails of blood (Continued On Page Two) .RAUL’S— Eye Specialist Will Be Here For Consultation, Saturday, Feb. 13 FOR APPOINTMENT, CALL FROM THE SUN-DRENCHED southernmost island of Key West to the gently-rolling hills of Fort Kent, Maine, U.S. Route No. 1 winds its way across the American countryside. And Mrs. | Eunice Utterback is among those who have had the unique experience of traversing its length. _—— Se A Successful commercial artist for many years in New York, she has painted two charming watercolors of the northernmost and southernmost (above, left) points the road reaches to prove F : aa it. A native of Indiana, Mrs. Utterback attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and now Foundation Vents at eatures 117 WHITE STR! PHONE 2-5631 lives and paints in Bangor, Maine. Currently visiting in Key West, she extended her stay DR. J. A. VALDES PIERRE DUVAL A-1 USED CAR LOT zo that she could exhibit at the Key West Artist's Group Street Fair now in progress on Clin- | Sirumie Lumber PHONE 2-782] Nightly 235 SIMONTON STREET PHONE 2-588! ton Place. The two pictures shown above will be auctioned off at the Fair at 3 p.m. Saturday | } —if they are not sold beforehand.—Photo by Larry Karns. 120 Simonton St., near Post Office ES ) 4 , : : ‘