The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 20, 1954, Page 1

VOL. LXXV No. 44 Keen Receives J.C - For Distinguished Service Navy Man Is Named For Outstanding Civic Work Jim Keen last night was + given the fifth annual Jay- cees’ Distinguished Service Award, Keen, who lives at 1507 United St., is a gunner’s mate, first class, in the Navy. The award was presented at a) dinner at the La Concha Hotel. It) is given annually to a young man for outstanding community service.’ When he was handed the certi- | ficate by Earl Adams, first pres- | ident ‘of the Jaycees when that | group was chartered 16 years | age, Keen broke down. | He wiped his eyes with his | kerchief, said, “I thank you all,” in a throaty voice, and hurried! back to his seat at the banquet table, Sam Collins, president of the Jaycees, introduced various mem- bers of the organization and then Adams, the principal speaker. Adams told how the annual award began five years ago—to in- terest young men jn civic affairs. He named the first four win- ners—Joe Pinder, Mike Jacobs, Tony Martinez and the late Ber- @ard Frank. Adams spoke feelingly of Frank, @aying that he had served with Frank on the Boy Scout council and that even when Frank was on his death bed he prepared the pro- gram for the recent annual Boy Kidnaping Case Anard Wins Jaycee Award > JIM KEEN, gunner’s mate, first class, last night was given the Junior Chamber of Commerce annual Distinguished Service Award. Earl Adams, Jaycee charter president, (left) presents award.—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. In Cuba Is Solved By Fast Army Action foot distinct Jo: ¥ was 8 5s to our tity/“Adams _ 8-Year-Old Heir Adams then bye how the award _ ‘ToRun Fortune i 4 lected. . fe The epee do not select the Memorial Slated Is Found Safe Sade: Beieaid, “The Jayeees as Memorial services for the By BEN F. MEYER It organizations to nominate some- Ne : one jah to tell what he has done| '#te Bernard Frank will be held SANTIAGO, Cuba uw—Swift! at 3 p, m. tomorrow in the Elks’ auditorium. All organi- zations with which Frank was affiliated will take part in the services. Wisconsin Man Has Ideas For Improvements Here's a tourist who visits the town, likes the town and takes the trouble to make a few constructive suggestions, We hope someone listens. G, J. Mulva, of Milwaukee, Wis., of the Mil-Wis Construction Co., called at The Citizen office today with these suggestions: That the streets should be better marked for tourists, especially the in civic affairs.” The Jaycees, he said, select the judges and the judges select the winner, The judges this year were Isadore Weintraub, ‘Victor Lang’ and Father Joseph Maring. There were two nominees this year, Adams said, Bob Youmans and Keen. “1 wish there were two awards,” Adams said, Of Keen’s contribution to com- munity welfare, Adams said: i “He served with distinction for two years as chairman of the Jay- cees March of Dimes ball which raised tidy sums of money for the city’s polio fund. “He served as a colonel in the! Community Chest drive in the Clubs and Organizations Division. He also was active in the house- to-house solicitation. “This young man,” Adams con- (Continued On Page Three) army- action—tescue, arrests and the Killing of a servant deemed faithless—broke the Facundo Ba- cardi kidnaping case last night little more than 11 hours after the 8-year-old heir to a rum fortune was seized for $50,000 ransom. The servant was chauffeur Guil- lermo Rodriguez, 23, a dishonor- ably discharged Navy veteran who was at the wheel of the station wagon in which the tousle-haired boy vanished on his way to a fashionable private school at 8 a.m. yesterday, Accused of conspiracy in the frustrated plot, Rodriguez was shot to death “while attempting to es-' cape’ soon after Facundo was re-' stored to his parents, hungry but safe and sound. A jobless youth nabbed while walking the boy along a suburban road was jailed in a barracks, Army officials sald Rodriguez, tossed out of the Navy as a mari- | I { * labors KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATUR City To Call For Bids On Road Machine Money Back Guarantee Offered By Miami Firm The ,city commission voted yes-| terday to call for bids on a road- making machine which they hope will effect a considerable saving on the city’s street program which earlier estimates saic will cost some $750,000, A representative of a Miami firm appeafed before the commis- sion to explain the working of the machine. He told the commission | that it will prepare first class streets and offered to guarantee its operation on a money back basis. City Manager Victor Lang and Public Service Director Ivan Rob- erts recently journeyed to Or- lando to observe the machine in use but earlier, when Lang ask- ed the city to buy the machine, they refused. Instead they voted to embark on a full scale pro- gram, using if possible, the city’s future cigarette tax revenue to finance the contract. But. yesterday the commission re- versed their earlier decision and voted to give the machine a trial although they stipulated Ghab if it} doesn’t do the job they will return/ it. It has’ been Sthe city} can save ee x percent by using the machine and ‘city ? \ In other action yesterday, the| city ‘turned down a proposal from| Clifford and Cooper Assetates for| a plan for a survey oi” e city’s! street. and storm sewer program which would have cost the city a thousand dollars plus five per cent of any contract given in the next three years. 2 But they commented favorably on a plan advanced by Jack Coop-| er of the engineering firm in which e offered to. give a complete “topographic survey’ of the city’s Paving and storm drainage setup for a flat fee of $4,500. | The city attorney wag directed todraw up a contract for consider- ation by the commission. Union Officials Finally Yield ST. LOUIS “®—Two AFL Team- ster Union officials, jailed for con- {bi ai Legion Annual Oratorical Contest Here February 24 Plaintiff In Damage Suit Dies Today Dies Before |ern Area contest and the winner of Settlement Of this will go to the Department of Florida finals. $135,000 Case aoe finalists are usually award- | ed substantial moneta ize: Mrs. Moise Mansfield, who ane at her home, 1514 Dennis St. tempt of court, were freed yester-| seriously injured in a fall on a day.after Submitting the union’s sidewalk here. The suit ended The Key West Citisen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. DAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1954 Lions Club Will Sponsor Drive To Provide Sight For Little Delores The Lions Club has voted unanimously to sponsor the drive to raise funds for medical care for little Delores Disgdiertt, Key West's five-mionth-old glaucoma victim. The action was taken at the meeting held Thursday night. The Club also voted to pay a $50.00 doctor bill for Delores that the family has been unable to take care of, and to give another $50.00 to the fund being raised to send the little girl to New York. The Civil Guards. at the Naval Ordinance Uni,t Na- val Station Annex, have contributed $15.00 to help the chubby baby, and the men gt the Public Works’ Depart- ment Shop 02 collected $23.38 as their contribution. Any contributions brought to The Key West Citizen office, 603 Greene Street, will be given directly to the Lions Club. : i i High School Pupils Throughout County Will Participate Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, American Legion announced today that the Seventeenth National High School Oratorical Contest, County vel, will bo held at the Ameri- can Legion Post Home on Stock’ Island, Wednesday, February 24, 1954 at 8 p. m. The public is in- vited to attend this event. Judson Stephens, Chairman of the contest committee, indicated) that all high schools in the county will be represented at this event. Only students actually enrolled in their respective schools for the scholastic year are eligible to par- ticipate. The Monroe County winner will compete on March 6, 1954 in the 0th District contest which will also be held in Key West for the first time in three years. The winner of this district con- | test will then compete in the South- BULLETIN {TALLAHASSEE (P)—Act- ing Gov. Charley E. Johns today extended the deadline for buying 1954 automdbile license tags for 15 days. The deadline had been set for today. Mrs. Mansfield will go to the regional contests and| finally to the National eliminations |which’is held at some point of na- tional interest and will be announ- ced at a later date. The grand prizes awarded for the National finals for rought a $135,000 damage suit gainst the city, died last night Mrs. Mansfield alleged she was Two Midget Subs Arrive Today For Duty Here target) and they will operate with 9:30 a. m. and tied up alongide! jthe larger subs, the target boats| displace 250 tons. For Quick Communication, Use CLASSIFIED You'll \PRICE FIVE gat Se ee A NY Castiglia Is Indicted For First Degree Murder By Grand Jury Miamian To Be Arraigned Early In March In The Circuit Court A first degree murder indictment was returned | yesterday by the Monroe County grand jury against Ignazio Castiglia, 54-year-old Miamian who has admitted to the slaying of Bruno James Colosimo, also known lo- cally as Jimmy Brown, in a Duval Street bar January 8. Four bullets were pumped into the victim resulting in almost instant death. EE——— Ss ‘The grand jury _indict- Boxing Program ment was returned in open Planned For KW court shortly after 4 p. m. Friday. Circuit Court Judge Boxing is being revived in Key West. Aquilino Lopez said that Castiglia will be arraigned City Commissioner Louis jon the murder charge early Carbonell said that a program in March. peut o Might | Castiglia had been bound over ers from the South Florida t ; for grand jury action following a Golden Gloves tourney which Preliminary hearing before Peace took place recently in Miami, will be staged at the Wick- Justice Roy Hamlin on Janyary 20. At that time his attorneys, Tom ers Field Stadium, Probably on March 10, Watkins, Key West, and Fred Pine, of Miami, had unsuccessfully plea- The boxers are currently in New York for the Eastern ded for a reduction of the first degree murder charge to man- Golden Gloves Tourney, map eee ee _ there was sufficient evidence of pre- peas phaser meditation to bind Castiglia over Dick Lee, of the Miami R. for grand jury action on the first we #C- ldegree charge. reation Department, who con- At least three persons witness- ferred with Carbonell today. | eq the slaying which took place Carbonell hailed it as the | in a back room at the Starlight forerunner of a revival of the | Club, 713 Duvai Street. Colosimo, spért which enjoyed tremen- | 40, dous popularity in past years, Several top-notch ‘préfession- his accused slayer had been partners in an amusement al boxers have been--devel- * oped in Key West. tide enterprise and had been in- volved in a month long quarrel ever money matters. According to John Nebo, owner ‘of the-night club, the pair. had started an argument on the night of the shooting and he had asked them to retire to a back room so they would not annoy the custom- ers. Nebo testified at the hearing that he and @losimo and Castiglia |were “sitting in the back room when they started an argument about a trip to Miami and the next thing I knew, they were on their feet shouting.” “Suddenly, Castiglia pulled a gun and started shooting—! plea. Submarine Squadron 12 as a per- rr porto ica ar manent assignment, The victim was pronounced dead- The little jobs will work with|on-arrival at Galey Memorial Hos anti-submarine force in a game of Pital a short time later, i 4 After the shooting, Castiglia calm hide-and-seek with T-1 and T-2 al- (Continued on Page Three) ways being sought. The T-1 and T-2 arrived eae [, A, Vice Squad Seizes Marilyn the USS Bushnell, submarine ten-! Monroe Calendars The Navy’s two smallest subma- rines arrived here this morning. They are the T-1 and T-2 (T for] der that towers above the little! sub. Only small fry in comparison to’ Conventional | subs displace 1,500-tons or more. The T-1 and T-2 are 131 feet in! LOS ANGELES (#—Marilyn Mon- thousa: : roe calendars were among the |one-way streets, |juana peddigr and gambler some/financial records to a federal! Dec. 15 in a mistrial. length. Standard subs run 300 or | ' TONIGHT i That the Chamber of Commerce and Every Night at [map for tourists should point out Ul more photogenic spots. , | And that the photogenic spots |should be kept clear of parked cars . He sited two examples of the jlatter—the oldest house in Key (Continued On Page Three) months before the Bacardi family hired him, died under a hail of soldiers’ bullets when he made a break for liberty in the country while reenacting his part in the crime, Echevarria, 20, faces prosecution under a law providing a maximum of 12 years for kidnaping. To Facundo, the day was one The surviving prisoner, Manuel| grand jury. } |bons, secretary-treasurer /688 and director of the warehouse le jand Louis Berra, his assistant. | Gibbons spent two nights in jail. both had defied an order by Fed- eral Judge George H. Moore to turn over the records to the grand |. Released were Harold J. Gib- her husband, BE. R. Mansfield: two of Logal sisters, Mrs. Mary Hilton, of Char- division of the International Union, of Savi pen will |Berra was jailed Thursday after for be in the family plot in Bonaven-| ture Cemetery there. from all over the nation will com- Pete are scholarships of $4,000, $2,500, $1,000 and $500. Five impartial judges chosen from the professional and business field of the community will decide the ‘winners of the local contest. Names of the judges are neces- sarily withheld until after the con- test is over to conform with the strict contest rules. Contestants are Mrs. Mansfield is survived by ston, S. C.; and Mrs. Anita. Bell,! annah, Ga, The Pritchard Funeral Home send the body to Savannah, funeral services. Burial will more feet in length. J |Md., and Lt. Edward Holt of Per-| |rysburg, Ohio, is skipper of the) T-2. Ciblin Dismisses pictures, books and magazines seized when police vice squad of- ficers toured downtown newsstands and book shops. Ten persons were arrested in the raids yesterday, among them the operators of a newsstand display- ing Monroe calendars. Complaints from individuals led to the raids, said Capt. Charles The skipper of the T-1 is Lt.| loseph M. Snyder of Hyattsville, . ° in her suit, she charged the |judged on the basis of vecursey Divorce Suit city with neglect in failing to re- | and effectiveness, oratory and tim- meee ss pair the sidewalk on Francis St. ing, and poise and personality. MIAMI Circuit Judge Vin- where she said she fell Feb. 27,/ The American Legion is eager|cent Giblin ruled yesterday that 951. The trial lasted three da’ | 1951. trial la ree days to impress upon the community the| Vi Pont, member of } * and when the jury could not \coincidental part its Americanism) rnc See Ga oe too intimately, | agree, Judge Aquiline Lopez, Jr., program is assuming in teaching|* “°*‘2Y Delawa ¥, had} In ‘other words, the officer ex- | of circuit court, declared a mis- [the youth of the community the|0t conclusively proved he was a Plained, at home it's legal; in | trial. | trial { of hiking and hunger. “There was lots and lots of walk- ing and I got real tired and hun- gry,” he said. “The men did not ‘Come Here, Girlie, Says Peeping Tom harm me in any way, but they An Ecuadorian Navy Lieutenant Fave me nothing to eat, I am just. was jailed last night as a Peeping, ine now. Marathon Paper, They identified him as Sergiojdi, vice president of the family’s! The city engaged three attorneys,worth following, “Americanism.” his divorce sult, Nesdioen and anid Hkiacehad they Hatuey mae in Santiago, had| The Florida Keys Keynoter, |to assist the city attorney in de-/At a time of world crisis when| DuPont filed the sult last July. investigated a complaint at 529|a0xiously assembled the $50,000 in| Weekly newspaper published at fending the suit. _, other disastrous isms threaten the|He contended his wife, the former Elizabeth Street shortly after mid-(Peso notes and made one attempt!Marathon, will be honored tonight, M. Ignatius Lester, who was city liberties of our great Democracy,'Dorothy Elizabeth Barton, married night, they found him loitering|through Rodriguez to deliver it as{With an editorial Oscar, ‘attorney when the suit was filed, the Legion feels that the Americanjhim for money. : aahity. jindicated in a ransom note the; The Florida Press Association's was on hand for the trial. Also on|public should attend and support) Judge Giblin said that although ceding factnausise act rag (Continued on Page Three) jaward will go to the paper and the city’s side were William V. Al-|this Program conducted through-|DePont claimed a residence in’ aoe who live in. the house, Vas-| its editor, Ed Seney, former Chi-\bury, Enrique Esquinaido and ajout the nation. Fort Lauderdale, where he has an Outstanding Calypso Songstress Direct from the Hilton Hotel in Puerto Rico PLUS MATA ROY SCINTILLATING STYLIST of PIANO and SONG jury. H The grand jury is investigating (Continued On Page Three) —_—_ Stanley. He added that the Monroe calendar is not officially obscene ‘but violates technically the munic- ‘ipal statute against exhibiting the, basic principles of the only “ism” |resident of Florida, and dismissed, PUblic, it isn’t, f I ELKS CLUB Benefit Dance and : i ; jCag0 Newspaperman, for what was Miami attorney, Samuel C. Car- architect’s office, evidence indi-| (7 - Continuous the Seg inmate ad ATTENTION, PARENTS! [adjudged the best editorial in Flot-|son. ss ! pated :beskad sno icertomerarand 7 “i y West 1954 Entccics t pam page | Ride Your Children Safely #42 last year in weekly papers. | Mrs. Mansfield had engaged a actually conducted his business} Bathing Beauty cainmen ougatitien (otha cesping chara: oad eee More than 300 persons are eX-|former circuit court judge, J. Fritz ryouls ‘or |from a Wilmington, Del., office. Contest TONIGHT Pected to attend the presentation Gordon, and Philip Medvin, both at the Caribbean Club on Kev }7'-\of Miami, to press her suit. go. The winning editorial was €0- The trial was precedéd by two titled, “Censored Press.” \hearings on a change of venue that Vasquez faces another of trespas- sing on private property, police} said, The action was in line with the judge’s campaign against what he has described as transients who bring divorcee actions in Florida Cheerful Charley's Mobile Carousel NEVER A COVER or MINIMUM ‘MR. ROBERTS’ 9:00 *til “2” a OCEAN Free Candy or Toys with jwas sought by Mrs, Mansfield. junder the state’s 90-day residence Bi LOGUN PATIO Duffy's R. Every Ride! Gal a pet The first hearing, last June 19, Sunday Night law. | ELKS CLUB ANNEX pei rst a al a ys Restaurant | puis ao, ius 5 CENTS WILL ‘vanized Round |was before eee George a Holt FEBRUARY 21 The duPonts were married in Music by DINNER SERVED 5 - 10 p, * ! ADMIT ONE CHILD “4 of Miami, was sitting here in New York City, Nov. 20, 1948, and x PM, Grand Opening Baca. eee | Iron, all sizes at place of the vacationing Judge] BARN THEATRE | separated in July, 1950. A separate Gerry Pinder Entertainment Free Shrimp Cocktail for Advertising, Publicity, Political,| bY Lopez. 8:00 P.M. maintenance arrangement was| Public Invited pen ae With Each Meal | Charitable, Private oe ae. fron Lu The second hearing was Nov. 17 Navy Personnel Welcome reached at Wilmington in which ADMISSION $1.00 P pigs 218 DUVAL STREET WRITE c/o CITIZEN, BOX C.M.D. 120 Simonton St. before Judge Lopez. The motion Needed DuPont agreed to give his wife a SRE Deas ear Fish Docks 25 denied at both hearings. , SS $300 month allowance. x 8 “4 4