The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 13, 1954, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, With an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXV No. 38 THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER The Key West Citisen IN THE U.S. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1954 For Quick Communication, Use CLASSIFIED Ads! You'll reach buyers and sellers— tenants or workers _ . . Just DIAL 2-5661 or 2-S662. PRICE FIVE CENTS Unpaid Rent Adds To Woes Of Haymes Landlord Charges Rita Hayworth And Mate With Heavy Damages NEW YORK #—Crooner Dick} Haymes—who already has ex-wife, allmony trouble, back-income tax headaches, and faces a govern-| ment threat to deport him to his| ative Argentina—has added an-| other “blue” note in the form of a landlord complaint over allegedly, unpaid rent. The owner of a furnished house | in Greenwich, Conn, claims Haymes and his actress wife, Rita! Hayworth, owe him $675 back rent, | Plus $5,000 damage he says was done to the luxurious, 14-room house. He did not specify the| “damage.” On Hand | The landlord, Joseph Kraeler,| | installed deputy sheriffs in the, k house to watch over the personal effects of Rita and Dick, who are! not there but staying somewhere in Manhattan. | But Miss Hayworth’s two chil-! dren by previous marriages still) live in the house with a governess | and a pet dog. The children are Yasmin, 3, whose father is Aly Khan, and Rebecca, 8, daughter of Rita and! Orson Welles. And that’s another story which involves the FBI and taking photos of the children. Eviction Orders But to get back to the Greenwich rent. Recently Kraeler got an evic- tion order against Rita, who signed the lease, for non-payment of rent. This was withdrawn when the couple paid up for December and agreed to pay $675 for the six weeks’ period ending Monday, Feb. 15, About 10 days ago Rita and Dick were besieged in a New York hotel room for 24 hours by deputies out- WHILE YOU ARE SLAVING, Big Four Troop Unemployment Is Mounting, Labor Department Says - WASHINGTON (® — Unemploy-| at the foot of Simonton Street. Rejected Today By Austrians trying to make one of those 59- —Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. Proposal Is By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER BERLIN —Austria formally re- jected today Soviet Foreign Mini-| ster V. M. Molotov’s proposal that, the Big Four powers keep troops! in the country even after conclu-' sion of a treaty giving Austria its) independence. cent dollars, this is the way tour- ists pass their time. They loll about on the beach, soaking up sunshine and cooling drinks, This photo, made yesterday afternoon, shows one end of the beach at the Sun and Sand Club ee Carbonell To Be At FIL Meeting Key West’s chances of gain- ing a franchise in the Florida International Baseball League appeared bright today, accord- ing to Louis Carbonell, presi- dent of the Key West Baseball Club. Carbonell said this morning that he has been invited by Aerovias Q Denie Humanitarian Cause To Provide Sight For Baby Delores Begins Little Delores Disgdiertt’s grandfather, Orlando Rodriguez, jcame to The Citizen office this morning and, with tears in his eyes, jthanked the paper for the story which appeared yesterday. Even before he came in, Frank Bentley had called to say that |he was sending a personal check to help little Delores because, “I think it is up to the people of Key West to help this little baby see.” The family needs help. Expensive medical care isn’t included in their budget. Anyone who wishes to make a contribution may either send or bring it to the Key West Citizen, corner of Ann and Greene Streets, and it will be turned over to the baby Delores fund. The baby’s case has been referred to the Lions Club Blind Committee, and the club is waiting for their report. Split In Western Policy On Red China May Result Soon Russia Presses % ; For Conference Italian Cops Chisel Name Off Church To A Climax By RELMAN MORIN SEOUL Informed sources in Action Against American-Backed Church Of Christ Korea, who have negotiated with the Communists, said today Russia Flares Up Again ROME | — Italian police de- |stands a to achieve one of its |. ..jecuves—expos- scended today upon Rome’s Church of Christ, chiseled its name off a jing a split in Western policy .o- wards Red Chiha—if a major power conference on the Far East is held. The question of convening a Far Eastern conference is under dis- s Report Of Deal With Royal For N.Y.-Havana Flight No Tie-up With Any Other Airline, Q Manager Says Reports that Aerovias Q and Royal Airlines had a package deal to fly passengers from New York to Hav- ana via Key West are “completely erroneous.” Walter Reimer, manager of the Q office here, today said his line has no tie-up with Royal Airlines, a non- scheduled line, or with any other airline, “T talked with Co. Manuel Quevedo (president of Aerovias Q) last night and he said that there is no working agreement between any airline to further pas- |sengers to Key West to Ha- vana,” Reimer said. Last Thursday, Gerald Saunders, \chairman of the board of county commissioners, said Royal and Q jhad arranged to fly passengers Program For Annual Maine Service Told Memorial Rites Will Be Held Monday At 5:15 \from New York to Key West to 5 |Havana. \ In City (Comctexy) Saunders said his information The public today was invited tocame in a letter from Harold attend the annual Maine memorial Wilde, county airport consultant, jServices Monday at 5:15 p. m. in. Saunders was in Miami today to \the City Cemetery. |attend an insurance meeting. Bethel P. Johnson, commander, However, Commissioner Joe /Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, Amer- Allen that the commission. lican Legion, sponsors of the ser- ers w pecting Royal to be- jvices, extended the invitation and, gin service between here and also outlined the program. New York next week, The battleship Maine went | Workmen today were painting, down ih Havana harbor 56 years (repairing and wiring a building at ago. Many of the Maine dead are Meacham Field that will serve as buried in the Maine plot in the (a terminal for Royal. City Cemetery. | Meanwhile, Paul Sawyer, coun- The program will open with in- ty attorney, was set to leave here troductory remarks by Johnson. tomorrow for Washington where A musical selection by the quar-|he will meet with the Civil Aer- tet of the Key West high school onautics Board Monday afternoon, band will follow. | The CAB placed Sawyer’s pe- side their door trying: to.-collect $33,000. Haymes” former Wife, actress Joanne Dru, says he owes. her in back alimony. After a lawyers’ conference, and & part-payment of-about $4,000, the siege was lifted. Lawyer Replies In New York yesterday Bartley Crum, the Haymes’ attorney, said he plans to file a $100,000 damage suit next week against Kraeler, Crum said the Haymes posses- sions in the Connecticut house are worth “at least $60,000”—including some valuable paintings, clothing and other personal effects, and a record collection, Crum said Kraeler was acting “contrary to an understanding reached by Iacovo (Louis Iacovo, ment, still was rising last week, according to Labor Department figures, but the increase was the smallest in a month, The department’s Bureau of Em-' Ployment Security said yesterday - |364,400 workers filed new applica- tions ‘for unemployment compen- sation in the week ended Feb. 6. This was 13,500 fewer than the pre- vious week and well below the win- ter peak—468,878 in the week end- ed Jan. 9. The new national ‘total of jobless workers under unemployment compensation stood at 2,128,100 last week—higher than any correspond- ing week since World War Il, ex- cept in the 1950 recession period when it rose to nearly 2,400,000. of Stamford, Kraeler’s attorney)) and me at Greenwich”, adding: | “The couple agreed to be out of} the house by Feb. 15 and to meet! financial obligations at that time.| That was our understanding and} they’ve breached it.” | Protest Wired | Crum also released the text of! The total of workers drawing job- less pay has risen for 10 straight weeks. Weather conditions and produc: tion cutbacks contributed to the continuing volume of claims. Former Red mean there would be no liberation} of his country. V. M. Molotov will propose an assembly including representatives of Asian nations came as no sur- prise here. A top authority, who declined |to be identified, said such a move jas anticipated when efforts to jarrange a political settlement on Korea failed. | “We long ago advised Washing- jton that the Communists have no intention of concluding a political jagreement on Korea,” he said. “What they really want is a Far Eastern conference in which those countries with ideas of neutralism will be represented.” Both India and Indonesia are jconsidered to be in that category, Burma also would lean toward the |“neutral” side. Observers see these three main Russian objectives in such a con- ference, 1. To bring into the open known differences among the Western democracies, especially on a joint policy toward Red China. Phil O'Connell, president of cussion among the Big Four for-|wall and took a news cameramai Nee”: a hs r in Foreign Minister Leopold Fig league, to attend a a y¥ p migisters cow..meeting im/gc the Associated Prees ido.ous- {said such an arrangement woald! Night at 8 p. m. in the Miami’ TBerim, The news” that Russia’s| today for photographing them. They vainly ordered an AP cor- jTespondent away from the scene. | The word “Christ” in six-inch- {high letters, was the first word removed in this action against the Protestant religious organization, jwhich has American financial j backing. The Roman police struck quick- ly after worshippers were forced ito leave a Church of Christ in Leghorn late last night. | AP Photographer Remo Nassi, an Italian citizen, was seized with {his camera and hustled off in Police car despite protests. AP Correspondent Allan Jacks, a U.S. jcitizen, was ordered to leave, but refused. ! name had been entirely removed {from the wall. | The sign was removed on direct orders of the Rome Questura, or) police headquarters, which is un- der the Italian ministry of interior. The new premier of Predo: The police left as soon as the. The invocation will be. by Mrs. Gloriana Bayly, chaplain, Arthur Sawyer Unit No. 28, American Le- gion Auxiliary. Mrs, Ethel A. Godfrey, of Wash- ington, D. C., president of the Na- \tional Gold Star Mothers, Inc., of America, will give a reading. Then there will be another selec- tion by the quartet. | The memorial address will be by |Capt. C. L. Murphy, USN, chief of ‘staff at the Naval Base here. His talk will be followed by an- ‘other selection by the quartet. | Then the various veterans’ groups will give memorials to the dead. The firing squad of the Key West Guard of Honor will fire a salute jto the dead and Frank Bervaldi will blow Taps. The benediction will be by Wil- liam D, Evans, past commander, ‘B. H. MeCalla Camp No. 5, USWV. Coffee’s High; South Americans tition charging. National Airlines violation of a post office depart- ment regulation on its docket for review. The petition says NAL violated the regulation by not giving the required 10-days notice of a change jin airmail schedules, NAL says the line gave the neces- {sary notice. Sawyer’s petition also charges | that NAL‘s one daily flight be- tween here and Miami is not meeting the public’s need and | convenience for air service. NAL dropped three of its four daily flights Jan. 1 when a new rate structure went into effect at Meacham Field. NAL's main beef was a 50-cent charge for each passenger landing or taking off at the field. The airline refused to pay the jcharge and also cancelled three flights. Aerovias Q has gone along with the charge. doses of canter ata Devil Dyas In New York Of Stab Wounds “Respectfully protest unlawful participation Deputy Sheriffs Joseph Hunt, Patrick Morucke and Franchini (no first name) of Fair- Haymes pursuant unlawful entry|tas been identified as a former photographers. Communist who trained in Moscow “Request immediate investiga- but later turned against the party. tion by you. As you know, Fed-| The victim, Charles White, 51 ja Negro, had appeared as a wit- (Continast) On Page: two) Iness in deportation hearings . against Communists and was Frank Memorial scheduled for new testimony. | White was found in a Harlem |doorway Thursday {was taken to Harlem hospital, Service Planned | (Continued On Page Two) fee ements service for the late -—_eoooooOo be held Sunday, Feb, 2a tne Murder-Suicide Victims Found Tn Love Nest Elks Club auditorium. HAWTHORNE, Calif. w — The Joe Allen, chairman of the com- valentine in the apartment read: mittee on arrangements, said the full program will be announced “The things we share together al- ways make me happiest.” mext week. Serving on the com- On the floor lay the bodies of mittee with Allen are Gonzalo Bez. anilla and Milton Appel. The Lions Club is sponsoring the Mrs. Ruth McMillan, 42, of Port- Jand, Ore., shot seven times, and Rocco-James Christiano, 43, shot memorial service and is inviting all the organizations and clubs four times. Near Christiano’s body with which Frank was connected. Louis’ Columbia Restaurant days ago. NEW YORK W—A man found) morning and| was a new revolver, bought four} cluding a demand that Big Four troops remain in Austria even aft- er the conclusion of an independ- ence treaty. The Austrian govern- ment also branded the program unacceptable, Meanwhile, Molotov was be-| jlieved to be in touch with Moscow; and probably the Chinese Com-) munist government at Peiping on} the Western proposal for calling f a Korean peace conference pril 15 at Geneva, Switzerland. | Under the Western plan, the, United States, Russia, Britain and |France would send invitations to |the conference, but Red China i | ) jwould not be one of the sponsor- ing powers. Molotov has insisted that China be accepted as a great power and that what is needed is a five-pow- er meeting on the Far East. The argument which has been going on yhere, therefore, is over acceptance fof Red China as a big power and on this point Western officials say jthere will be absolutely no com- promise. Today’s session was pegged to the Austrian question and while it) jwas still to be formally approved, |the first Sunday meeting of the Big Four in Berlin was set for, |midafternoon tomorrow, again on ' Austria. | Some Western diplomats said) jthey expected another secret meet-| ing on the Far Eastern situation! |to be held Monday and it may be} 2. To delay restoration of Ja-/2tely Roman Catholic Italy, Ma- Pan’s strength so it will be a weak)" Scelba, is the minister of the point in the pattern of power in {interior as well as government! the Far East. oust 3. To revive charges that the| 1” 1950, when the cult's troubles Western nations maintain their! iss alas authorities first began alleged desire to restore the ‘‘co-|‘h€ Italian interior ministry w: lonial system” in the Far East, |Be@ded by Scelba, He then criti- Of the three, the first is believed ized the Church of Christ and to hold the best chance of success |e? Protestant evangelical cults for the ‘uasians. jas “aiding communism in Italy.” The United States does not see’ Just two days ago, the Vatican eye to eye with Britain or France ie the Italian aesinent cele-| on policy toward Red China. Bri- iris the 25th anniversary of the tain originally recognized the Com.|#*eTan pacts. The pacts establish munist government in Peiping. | (Continued on Page Two) British official opinion as ex-! pressed to ths correspondent in| London recently favors acknow- Sirugo Asks ledging “the fact that the present government is in power and ir Lease Action | likely to stay in power. Therefore i the best thing to do is to admit) Joe Sirugo, local contractor, who! blish an auto ferry the fact and deal with it accord- Proposes to esta ingly.” between Key West and Cardenas,| Also, trade considerations inter- Cuba, told the city commission yes- (Continued On Page Two) terday that they must act quickly ve “the whole thing will be called off.”” Sirugo appeared before a speical commission meeting asking that a lease agreement drawn up by his attorney and city attorney J. Y.| | Porter be discussed by the co: | mission declined to air the mat-| ter. | Sirugo is asking for a lease at the north end of Simonton Street NOTICE! NOTICE! Third Audubon SCREEN TOUR Key West High School Auditorium Mon., Feb. 15, 8 P.M. ALLAN D. CRUICKSHANK jrecent development, either, says Dim View Taken (Of Rhee’s Offer For Indochina | By WARREN ROGERS Jr. | WASHINGTON ™ — Little hope was held by American diplomats today that anything would come of Syngman Rhee’s offer of troops jto help France in the Indochina Are Drinking Tea DETROIT ‘#—The price of cof- fee is too high for millions of South Americans, too. And that isn’t a Dr. Marion T. Hall, Cranbrook Institute botanist. So, what do they drink? Tea, of course. It is a special type called “Yerba mate,” and it} has been a beverage some 2,000|¥". years, Although the offer of a South Botanist Hall says cow-punching| Korean division has yet to reach Gauchos carry a gourd of dried the French officially, a French mate and mix a batch of tea'Embassy spokesman gave advance whenever they're thirsty, drinking notice of _& turndown yesterday: through a metal straw with a He said his government would re- sieve-like strainer attachment. |Ject it for fear South Korean in- Mate is made of leaves from a Yolvement would bring on open Red plant that grows wild over southern | Chinese intervention in the eight- Brazil, Paraguay and northern Ar-|Y¢4t-old war. gentina. It contains caffein and the State Department officials also leaves are toasted to reduce mois-|¥¢Te Understood to view the South ture. jeotean President's threat to march jagainst North Korea as a bluff— jexactly what he said it was not intended to be. Without /U. S. aid, they sald, # was hard to see how Rhee could Engineers Make |figure on winning any big armed Offer To City jattack against giant Communist The firm of Clifford and Coop. China. er Associates, the city’s engineers Stock Car Races for the current sewer project have offered to engineer a Key West’s street and storm sewer program. 97ce-Special Lunch-97¢ FREE CUP OF COFFEE For the Best Italian Food, See Chef Louis! Pizza Served from 12:00 Noon ORDERS TO TAKE OUT 117 Duval - Tel. 2-4158 Parking for Patrons While police were investigating their deaths last night, the wom- (Continued On Page Two) OPENING 3 P.M. SUNDAY Amusement Park FLAGLER AVENUE AT WICKERS FIELD Benefit, New Juvenile Home Sponsose@ by Mon. Juvenile Council )|Big Four should be turned into al Stadium. At that time, the league of- | ficers are expected to make a He told Molotov, Secretary of! definite decision as to the sta- State John Foster Dulles and For-' tuys of Key West. Earlier, when eign Ministers Anthony Eden and, Key West left the league, it was vere poe net it was im-) gtipulated that they would be possible for the Austrian govern-, |; ; ise. ment to accept the Molotov pro- given the first vacant franchis: posal, He. asked which.of the Big Four would be willing een! such al eve sition regarding his own ahi FE. Il enim to his oma Parliament. Ce ng a S Figl made his direct approach 9 . jinside the chamber of the Big Four) conference, to which the Austrian On Ja an S Bi delegation had been invited, | The Western soreian sennisters| already have written o! ope o! M S h concluding an Austrian state treaty| oney c eme at this conference, although the de- bate on it will run into an extra-| By JIM BECKER ordinary Sunday session. |. TOKYO (The ceiling has fall- Western sources said it was hard/en in on postwar Japan’s biggest to imagine anything more “brutal'tinancial scheme and Japanese and cynical” than the Austrian 'from politicians to Buddhist priests treaty demands which Molotov has are picking the plaster out of their Put before the parley here, in-|pai- Three top political parties, in- cluding the Liberal party of Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, are scurrying out from under the wreckage of the 12-million-dollar investment company, Hoazen Kei- zai Kai. Government investigators said the company’s wizard, Matsutomi Ito, 47, spread contributions lav- ishly among the three top parties so he could use big names as “advisers.” Collapse of the company, due largely to misfired speculations in the stock market, caught hundreds of thousands of housewives and laborers. Their smal] investments, baited by promises of 15 per cent interest, had helped build the company. Also among those caught in the collapse was the abbot of a large Buddhist denomination. Company records show he collected contri- butions from his flock and gave them to Ito to invest. Ito is in jail, charged with swin- dling. Newspapers call him Japan's alignment of Far Eastern nations, “Ponzi”, a reference to the Boston swindler who once collected mil- lions from gullible Americans. Investors knew he was specu- lating in stocks and real estate but looked upon him as a wizard. For a time, he had an amazing run of luck. He paid the promised 15 oa co eet ai a orean who became a natur- that the ministers will have an-| alized Japanese, Ito had struggled other go round on the problems (Continued on Page Two) of Germany and European secur-j ei lity. Western delegations now are’ ressing for conclusion of the work bese late next week. | OAK LUMBER The debate over Far Eastern problems, on which three secret| and FLOORING at session have now been held, be- gan with Molotov’s insistence the! Strunk Lumber | 120 Simonton, near Citizen Bldg. | (Continuea On Page Two) Narrating His Color Film “BELOW THE BIG BEND” SINGLE ADMISSIONS (Fed. Tax Included) Adults _ — Servicemen (through 1/¢) ives ..... . We and Wi . We pace School Students .... MONROE COUNTY AUDUBON SOCIETY National Audubon Society on waterfront property for a ferry dock. At a special meeting of the city Se j/Mallory Docks, which they pur-|the engineering firm. But Commissioner Delio Cobo le held yesterday, the dicated that he will oppose grant- city fathers instructed City Attor- ing of the lease, holding that the ney J. Y. Porter to draw up an city should make use of the Clyde agreement between the city and chased for that use. | The contract would give the firm Mayor C. B. Harvey asked that exclusive supervision over the con- he be given time to study the struction during the next three lease agreement before discussing/years. A fee of $1,000 for plans it, The matter will be aired Mon-and specifications and five per \Gay night at the reguisr commis- cent of the contract price, was sti- sion meeting. ‘pulated. L « Sponsored by KEY WEST STOCK CAR ASSOC.. INC. Tomorrow, 2:00 P.M. BOCA CHICA ROAD TRACK ADMISSION ___ $1.25 Buses Leave Cor. Southard and Duval, 12:30 & 1:30 P.M.