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Page 2 Man Is Charged The_ . In Violent Death | Weatherman . ° Of Third Wife Says PORTLAND, Ore. ?—A white- | : : | haired, mild-appearing man, whose’| Key West and Vicinity: Fair wea-| first two wives aed violently in ther through Friday with light to, Chicago in the early 1920s, was moderate northerly winds becom-; accused late last night of killing ing yariable tonight, Low tonight his third wife here. | , hich tom about $0.| George F. Sack, who was com-|#out ns C er tae wih mitted to a mental hospital seven|_ Florida: Generally | years after being accused of shoot. | showy rising temperatures prgroa ing his second wife to death, was y except chance ght: charged here with asphyxiating ister north Friday aft- Gent etek eh tacks 6, elise Jacksonville Thru The Florida! For six days medical experts /Straits and East Gulf: Moderate had sought to determine the cause |Bortherly winds becoming variabie of death of the woman, whose body ver south and moderate westerly was found in a vacant lot across | Winds over north portion becoming town from the apartment house |fresh southwest Friday. Generally, which Sack owned and where the fair weather. i couple lived. Western Caribbean: Moderate The medical experts reported northeast and east winds and part- Just before midnight that the cause |; cloudy weather through Friday) THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, February 25, 1954! SS Se “It’s A Small World,” Says ittsburgher It’s a small world. Just ask John C. McCarthy, Prominent Pittsburgh insurance man, if you don’t think so. A winter visitor to Key West, McCarthy was walking down Truman Avenue, near Margaret Street, when he bumped into an oid friend of his—Thomas J. Gallagher, president of Pitts- burgh’s city council. McCarthy, who is making his fifth to the Island City recently visited in Kansas City with another enthusastic Key West booster—Harry §. Truman. TODAY'S NAL DENIES ITS | (Continued trom Page One) late xtensve schedules aig aie ce tome 1, 1954,” Bars Constitution of the United States. wrote. “Being fully aware of its duty.” | he continued, “as a certified air | | | carrier, National continued to op erate one schedule a day so as | te provide service to Key West | despite the illegal and exorbitant | charges to which it would be sub- | jected.” Hardy said that National is hope-/¢xtemporaneous 5 ful “that this entire matter may be resolved without further inci-)Or more than six jdent and assures the board that every effort will be made to do fticles of the Constitution were 80. National, he said, has instituted Regotiations with the Navy Depart- jment for the use of its airport fa-| clities at the Key West Naval Air Station, The use of the Naval facilities, Hardy said, “will be at fees less | than the original $300 per month | fee at the Key West Airport and will permit National to use Con- vairs as well as larger equipment on such schedules, so as to pro- Biol , “ vide night service as well as was “asphyxiation in a manner as with a few local showers in central! OCK e yet unknown.” Police at once took and south portions. ST MARKET coach service to the area,” he out a warrant charging Sack with Observations Tal gat ce fhe A al He ha en free on $10,000) at 7 A.M., EST bond, after being booked as a Soc oavie material witness because a resi- TEMPERATURES dent of the area near the vacant Highest yesterday lot reported he had seen Sack’s Lowest last night automobile parked beside the lot Mean the night Mrs. Sack disappeared. Norma Signor X Y Is Identified By re. Young Italian | Relative saaiany, 7 AM. |Sarometer (Sea Level), 7:00 A. 30.01 ins.—1016.3 mbs. Tomorrow's Almanac Key West, Fla., Feb. 25, 1954 PRECIPITATION | Total last 24 hours {Total this month |Deficiency this m MODENA, Italy WW—In 1945 po- lice found a forlorn elderly man sitting on a park bench. He didn’t know who he was or where he came from, Sunset Tn a hospital for nine years he| Moonrise was known as Signor X Y. Now a man nanied res was | TOMORROW enough of an oddity to news when his designation turned up on C{IDES the census rolls, so his picture was (Naval Base) circulated in the Associated Press| High Tide newsphoto service to Italian news-| 5:03 a.m. 8:20 a.m. Papers. 3:09 p. 11:24 p.m. Yesterday 29-year-old Mario Mer-| Boca Chica curi dashed into the hospital wav-| Sandy Pt. —oh 40m ing a Rome newspaper with the cgides Channel Picture and shouted: | (north end) +2h 10m “He's my uncle. His name is} +14 Giuseppe Rizzi. Where is he?” Signor X Y was brought out and his dull eyes lit up sudderly. He rushed into his nephew’s arms. A doctor said the shock of the meet- ing started him back on the road |(—)—Minus sign: | to be subtracted. \(+-)—Plus sign: Corrections be added. ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Corrections) Ai City Offices) NEW YORK w — The stock! * market advanced today, reversing a three-day declining trend in early dealings. | 73, ‘The turn ahead was not very 65 vigorous, and plus signs were most-| 72\\y in the smaller fractions with a 73 one-point top. Losses were scat. tered. Getting ahead were such groups s the railroads, steels, motors, | chemicals, radio - televisions, the -jelectronics, and motion pictures. .|A somewhat backward air was .|found in the coppers. Climax Molybdenum produced a} trading diversion when it raised M. its dividend to 75 cents from 50 cents previously paid. The stock opened on a block of 1,700 shares up % at 41 and then it pushed its .|}gain almost immediately to 1%)! .| points. Bullard was another outside the | .|usual area of change. It opened on 3,500 shares up 1% at 33 and, continued trading at that level. “GREETERS” HONORED, GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (®—Ho-| tel manager Paul P. Morris is! throwing a supper party tonight for Grand Rapids’ 75 taxicab driv. ers in recognition of their status as “the city’s No. 1 greeters.” ft. STEVENS -DENIES (Continued From Page One) lother members” of the White House), fe) staff. He declined to name the other) members and would not shed any! | “The Key West Airport is not ade- quate to handle any of National's aircraft other than Lodestars, nor does it have the necessary lighting to conduct aight operations.” “National anticipates that the op- erating authority for the use of U. S. Nawal Air Station facilities at |Key West will be granted in the Neale, of Miami. The winner from very near future.” _ Hardy said that the fees “levied in an arbitrary manner by the com- |mission are absolutely impossible Winner of the Ninth District. This \@ cope with and have no basis Contest will be in fact or in law.” It is significant, Hardy contin- ued, “that the landing fees of $300 per month which National voluntarily has paid ever the years to Key West in most cases are 100 per cent or more than National pays to other comparable cities for similar service.” Hardy said the allegation in the commission complaint that Nation- al unlawfully changed its schedules is not true. “National duly served the re- |quined ten days’ notice before the changes in schedules referred to did, in fact, take place,” he said. Tequired notice was filed on January 7, 1954, and the schedule changes became effective on Jan- wary 17, 1954, “Accordingly, it is respectfully submitted that the claim that Na- tional was in violation of Secton 405 (E) of the Cvil Aeronautics Act is without merit.” However, Hardy said, “from i”) ene. » MercuM said the German army im 1944 put his uncle to work and Station— Reference Station: Key Time of Height of sations. Tide high water, a tree feli on him. He was sent to| Bahia Honda a hospital and vanished—until he! turned up recently as Signor X Y. (bridge) No Name Key oh 10m Jan. 1, 1954, to January 17, 1954, | ezexective date of the above 'schedule changes, National was un-| onesie that Berens tle to operate three of the four 9.0 ft.) “There is no resignation here—of Schedules then existing from Mi- Saeieevnok jami to Key West due to conditions| West light on the nature of the conver- | HILARIO RAMOS, JR. (Continued From Page One) prepared speech based on the NAGUIB IS OUSTED From F C This speech is given without notes and can run from a 10-minute minimum to a 12-minute maxi- - mum. 2 the contestant test. Ramos v talk in the di. | Also a part o could ru’ less than | A dozen topics based on the selected by the National Ameri- canism Commission of the Am- erican Legion. These topics were placed in seal ed envelopes. A member of the au- jdience drew one envelope and the Ca jcontestants had six minutes in! which to prepare a talk on th topic. The contestants did not hear ea other in the extemporan ‘speech Judges decided the winner on a |point system. Points were awarded © on poise, knowledge of the subject “ land delivery, ¢ is conce: . That foreign | Penalties in the Legion-sponsored Policy has been defined as nonco- icontest are given as follows: Operation witb the West _the Two points for each minute or British withdraw from the Suez fraction of a minute over the time “424! zon imit. The big question was the internal The prize in the district contest|"¢2¢Uon. js a cup to be awarded by the here is bound to be concern 9 over whether the young military District Commander, William J clique will adopt more radical Agee measures in the future. Naguib, |this district — Monroe and Dade me | 3 a prayerful moderate of a Counties — will compete in the «,Praver bape aurea career family, has been re; Southern Area contest against the as the council's balance wheel. Nasser is rated the most fiery 1) exponent of Egypt’s current bid March. : for British withdrawal from the That winner will go to the De-\Suez Canal zone. Since he was a partment of Florida finals. Next is youth of 17, he has been an under- j@ regional contest and then the ground leader of forces fighting national eliminations, corruption in government, The big prizes for the national) Like Naguib, he is a wounded finals are scholarships of $4,000, veteran of Egyptian campaign in $2,500, $1,000, and $500. the Palestine war of 1948 and has Se eee —_ shared in the public appearances POSTAL RATE BOOST jat which Naguib was acclaimed | (Continued from Page One: [as a popular idol. class mail when it is already pay-| President since the monarchy \ing its own way, and declared: was formally ended with the proc- “This is an unconscionable bur- lamation of a republic Jast June ‘den, in the nature of a tax, which 18, Naguib has been the main-link ‘should not be approved.” between the young officers’ clique | The minority also declared that and the masses, His warm human 'Congress must decide whether the kindness made him the first Egyp- Post office is to be a business or tian leader in decades who touched \a public service. jthe hearts of a people so long Of the first class increase rec-| ruled by wealthy autocrats and jommended by the majority, the corrupt politicians. ;Mminority said: | In discarding Naguib, the offi- | “By increasing first class non-! cers apparently feel they are local rates to 4 cents, this legis-|strong enough to risk any tempor- |lation will set us back more than a ary unpopularity until the country jeentury, Not since 1851 have we begins to feel the effects of long- sometime jhad a general rate on regular first term agricultural and economic ——————$ class letters in excess of 3 cents. As a matter of fact, the selection! of non-local mail for this rate » CIFELLI S RADIO ano Pears to be opposed to one of the) T.V. Service vital national policies — which! formed a cornerstone of the eco-, Factory Methods Used— h 20m Asked th yhether Steve: a beyond National’s control. , .due to/nomic and cultural development of sie ey eee Pesehe eg eee parent nae circumstances such as bad weather | ur nation.” All Work Guaranteed Teen-A ers Are T. he should resign, Hagerty said Conditions, mechanical difficulties,| |Marine Radios & Asst. Equipment $ emperatures “thers has been no mention of reli icons omer FURNITURE SPECIALS | FOR PROMPT AND RELIABLE : -M., EST _|resignation’’ so far as he knew, —_tons situatons, and other vald rea-| aiyminum Deck Chairs ....... $10.95 SERVICE — SEE... Nabbed In Prank Att ae 7:30 4.M., 40| Hagerty repeated three or four Sons which a carrier could not rea-|Metal Porch Chairs | DAVID CIFELLI ececaeag —__. 40|times what he said yesterday—that Sonably be expected to foresee or! (Assorted Colors) .......... $ 6.50, CHICAGO M—Six teen-age boys Augusta — “~ goithe President had no advance control . Metal Yacht Chairs . $ 6.50} 920 Truman Ave. (Rear) were seized by police last night/Billings - ~ 30 knowledge of the Stevens-McCarthy | and admitted spraying green paint Birmingham in a South Side home and on be- tween 60 and 70 parked automo- biles. Police estimated damage at! $10,000, Bismark — Boston ~—. | Buffalo Police said the boys had broken|Charleston into a South Side home and found|Chicago ~ the paint cans in the basement.|Denver — They sprayed the paint in the base-| Detroit ment and kitchen before they|~ paso _ turned their pressurized paint cans Ft. Worth on the parked cars, police said.| Each of the cans was equipped |Galveston with a nozzle which sprayed the Jacksonville paint when finger pressure was ap-|Kansas City — i ed one. plied. \KEY WEST __. 66 wings—yesterday when the arrest- hesring Chea aa The boys, one 13, two 14, and ing gear failed to engage the tail Francis at Truman fal ear liao three 16, were held in the juvenile ed ‘ae Aire ae his Grumman FOF Hellat DIAL 2.9193 eC home. Police said they also had/Los Angeles ——_. The plane bounce: fo the air, admitted burglarizing 13 homes | Louisville 37itore off part of its right wing Your PURE OIL Dealer AMY OPTICAL since last Saturday Meridian — 39 against the “island” superstructure | Tires . . Tubes . . Batteries DISPENSARY ce Miami ____ 56 midway along the deck, and then ACCESSORIES 2 Si Aa o on! CASES DISMISSED | Minneapolis 26 Plunged overboard. ie it es: imenton St. hone 2. (Continued From Page One) {Memphis _. 4g caped some moments after the said that the lumber was given to New Orleans the youths and that they would be New York Permitted to continue to use the | Norfolk shack, | Judge Gibson and city police de-| scending on the shack and made! the arrests after what they termed) tebareh — ar aged. a “wild party” had taken poeriine one recently. wad De lnoancke Es 43 Citizen Want Ads Pay Off Judge Gibson also said that the St. Louis _ 41 { shack was a haven for truants. {San Antonio ae BLACK HILLS MY THANKS TO THE VOTERS OF MONROE COUNTY for Your Support in Tuesday's Special Election... Your votes |) are deeply appreciated. Alonzo Cothron (Pd. Pol. 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