The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 4, 1954, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, March 4, 1954) Navy Works To Make Saipan, putting up a fight against the in World War II, are holding their) signaled for a start of debate toda A small Navy force mans Saipan of the territories subcommittee of ing islands in running their own; As the bill came up in the Sen- project which is keeping | The Hawaii group, including Re- Page 2 Tinian More Habitable Spots By WILLIAM J. WAUGH SAIPAN (®—The roads and run- D b. 0: ways of the once-mighty island, e. ate n bases of Saipan and Tinian are relentless jungle, corrosion Statehood For decay. | eo t So far these great concrete S strips, which launched America’s awall € deadly bomber raids against Japan| WASHINGTON (# — The Senate own, But the wes biases and) on statehood for Hawaii, with) pecs aoe he telements,| Democrats seeking to tie in Alaska They are gradually crumbling to Statehood. ; nothing. Sen. Cordon (R-Ore), chairman today. Their job is to keep open the Senate Interior Committee, ar-| certain airfields for transient air-/ranged to lead off for Eisenhower | craft flying through to the Far|afministration forces on the meas- East and to supervise the native|ure, passed by the House last year, Population of Saipan and neighbor-'to make Hawaii the 49th state. affairs. jate, a delegation from Hawaii con- For the men stationed on Saipan tinued its rounds of senatorial of- and Tinian, boredom is a constant/fices seeking to persuade senators) problem, But the Navy has come;to let the Hawaii statehood bill! up with a surprising peacetime) come to a vote on its own merits. some) | : 1 b in-a new line, It’s/Publican and Democratic leaders Pera belt cate: jin the Territorial Legislature, dis- On Tinian are about 120 head of cussed the bill at a meeting yes- cattle under Navy care, mostly|terday in the office of Delegate Floridian Hurt As Guests Flee Fire In Boston Hotel BOSTON (#—Approximately 500 guests fled from the Parker House, | three of them down ladders, when fire swept the fifth floor of the 14-story hotel in the heart of down-/ town Boston early today. | Joseph C. Fitzgerald, 47, of Cor- al Gables, Fla., was reported to be the only casualty. He was taken to City Hospital) suffering minor burns and smoke) inhalation after firefighters assist-! ed him down a ladder from the fith loor. His condition was re- ported as ‘“‘not serious.” Bennett A. Hartley, 39, Balti- more, Md., and Gordon Shillinglaw, 27, Yonkers, N. Y., were also helped down ladders. Hartley, an engineerjng consult- ant with Bethlehem Steel, said he climbed onto a ledge outside his window. Police in a passing cruiser, ap- parently unaware there was a fire! in the hotel, took him into tem-| porary custody after firefighters brought him down and questioned | him in the mistaken belief he had) been trying to commit suicide, he said. | Chief Edward | I Deputy Fire | Gaughan estimated damage at} $4,500. He said the fire started among decorative jewelry stacked in boxes on the fifth floor corridor in preparation for a sales show. The Weatherman SE —_ Key West and Vicinity : Mostly! 'partly cloudy today; clear tonight jand Friday. Colder tonight, slow- ly rising temperature Friday. War- mer Friday night and Saturday. Low tonight about 54 - 56 degrees; | northerly winds diminishing and becoming northeast. Florida: Fair, colder this after-|if he spent five years actual sail- This is about 8 noon, slightly colder tonight with; lowest ranging from 28 - 34 ex- jtreme north to 40 in the interior rise of a Red government of extreme south portion except 50 - 55 near lower east coast. Scat- tered frost in north portion, in- creasing cloudiness and not quite| so cold Friday. Jacksonville thru The Florida thwest to north winds becoming [moderate to fresh north to north-| least tonight and Friday. Clear to partly cloudy except partly cloudy tion. Western Caribbean: Moderate to fresh northeasterly winds thru Fri- day. Partly cloudy weather with few local. showers. Observations Taken At City Office Key West, Fla., March 4, 1954 at 7 AM., EST TEMPERATURES SEAMAN LOSES OUT (Continued from Page One) olution. He ended up in Vladivos- tok. In 1920, he returned to his home- land, as a minor government of- ficial for a time and two years later shipped to America as a merchant seaman. He returned to the sea in 1942, when mercliant seamen were need- ed in the World War II effort be- cause, “it was sort of a patriotic thing,” he said. With a passport renewable each jhigh Friday about 65 - 68. Fresh year from the Czech consulaté in New York, Slanina said he was told he could get his citizenship ing time on American ships. All went well until the postwar in Czechoslovakia. The consulate jwhich issued his papers was closed and the passport became invalid. American immigration officials jtold Slanina he still had seven months sailing time to go before |Straits and East Gulf: Fresh nor-'he could become a candidate for citizenship. He got a temporary document, “in lieu of passport’? and in early December 1952 shipped out with to cloudy over extreme south por-|the Trojan Seaman. Then the McCarran immigra- jtion laws became effective, and )Slasiaa, without a valid visa or. \passport, was refused re-entry. He’s been aboard the Trojan Sea- he said. He tried in vain to get a visa from U.S. consuls in Pakistan and India last December man ever since, ‘14 long months,” | |DISTRICT ORATORICAL' (Continued from Page One) contest and it is the duty of ci- | tizens to attend and give them | public support in this great un- dominant! dertaking. There are indications at a great number of persons Japan Okays Budget Slash TOKYO (#—Japan’s lower house tod passed Prime) |. aieae Minister Shigeru satis “aus-| Will ios fram atamiese Key terity” budget, which boosts de-, West to witness this contest and fense spending while slashing) it is only right for Key West to many other government expenses., b&¢k up its own, | The vote showed 303 conserva-. The 10th District Americanism tives of three parties lining up Chairman, Mr. Billy Anderson of against 143 Socialists and splinter |Coral Gables, will be in attendance party members to give the bill at the contest as well as other dis- an easy victory. jtinguished personages. The budget calls for almost; Judson Sephens, 2nd Vice Com- $2,800,000,000 for fiscal 1954-55. |mander of Arthur Sawyer Post No. 2 million less than}28 is the chairman for the local 4 |American Legion Post, SERVICE DIAL 29193 4 Your PURE OIL Dealer \ Tires . . Tubes . . Batteries ACCESSORIES { Something New Has Been Added Key West Radio and TV Service 1001 Simonton Stree? TV House Calls Answered Promptly TEL, 2-8511 last year. Fourteen per cent will go for defense, up 2 per cent from last year, FURNITURE SPECIALS Aluminum Deck Chairs ........ $10.95 Metal Porch Chairs (Assorted Colors) Wn... $ 6.50 Metal Yacht Chairs .. $ 6.50 EISNER FURNITURE CO. |Poinciana Center Tel. 2-6951 | DEATH JEREMIAH BETHEL | Jeremiah Bethel died yesterday morning at the Monroe General Hospital ater a brief illness. Mr. Bethel was born in Key Vest. He was a resident of Key West for his entire 82 years, He was a life-time employe of the E. H. Gato Cigar Company, Funeral services will be held to- | morrow afternoon at 5 o’clock from the Chapel of Pritchard Funeral Home with the Rev. Eldon Sim- Cifelli's Italian Restaurant SERVING THE FINEST IN ITALIAN FOOD Non-Fattening Spaghetti as Open 4 to 9 P.M. Daily, Except Monday ALSO ADDED LENTEN SPECIALS brahmas or crosses of brahmas ¥@!Tington (R-Hawail), with angus, hereford and short-! horns. On Saipan are 40 or 50 more. There also are four horses, but} two of them haven’t been broken | |Hawaii bill would pass the Senate handily if it came to a vote alone, Their consensus was that the Billy Martin Mean Normal Highest yesterday . Lowest last night but that a move to tie in Alaska sot jhas a 50-50 chance for success and et. hw A pair of tars from Texas. are in charge of that project: Yeoman), ould cloud the future. Faces Draft PRECIPITATION Total last 24 hours .. T. ins but was mons of Ley Memorial Church of- - nt _. ficiating. Burial will be in the ‘So, here I am,” he said with family plot in City Cemetery. a shrug. | $20 TRUMAN AVENUE turned down. “T got no place to go. I don’t| know where to go. Any country I BRICKER SAYS (Continued from Page One) go to they are going to take me LITTLE TORCH TAVERN Oren E. Long, former Democrat- governor of Hawaii, told report- Total this month .. Deficiency this month 7 ” jng.|to the station house.” -15 ins. Ralph Lee of Booker and M. D./ers that in his calls on Senate Matteson, construction worker) Democrats he found little hope third class from New Boston. Asithey would vote against a move Call Soon By ED CORRIGAN soon as they break the horses, the two steeds will be sent to Saipan, where Matteson is normally sta- tioned. “Shore be glad to get them,” he confessed. ‘These brahmas are) skittish, They’re rough to handle, especially afoot. They’ve worked me over a couple of times. For- tunately I wasn’t hurt bad.” Most of the cattle were imported by Sen, Anderson (D-NM) to add the Alaska bill. He said Democratic senators view the effort to achieve state- hood for Alaska as well as Hawaii as ‘“‘a partisan issue” on grounds that statehood for both territories is dvocated in the Democratic party platform, Traditionally, Hawaii has been |Republican and Alaska Democrat- by the United States to improve! !¢- the native stock, An experimental farm has been set up on Saipan} under the Cisne ey ipan’ ap Pr isoner Is ervice worker Fra: rown. “Brown is Refused Leave Brown is sold on the brahmas} as the best cattle for the islands. } “They resist ticks and prosper, LOS ANGELES (® — Tomoya much better than other stock,” he Kawakita will not be allowed to} says. leave Aleatraz Prison, where he is| Once they have produced a/Serving a life term for treason,! strain that does well on the is-/t0 attend his father’s funeral here lands, calves branded “U.S. Navy” tomorrow. will be distributed among native| Morris Lavine, attorney for the farmers where they're a ready|JaPanese - American during his! market for meat. In 10 years,|ttial, said he asked the permis-| Brown thinks, the islands may Sion but that James V. Bennett, have herds big enough for export, |director of federal prisons, denied} Between Navy jobs, farming and|the request. work with metal. salvage com-| Kawakita’s conviction was based Panies, Saipan natives manage to," his activities as overseer of a| maintain a fairly strong economy. J@Panese prisoner of war camp} The pay for a common laborer | and his treatment of United States on Saipan is 37 cents an hour.|Prisoners. Semiskilled workers make as much! as $2,500 a year. ' \Climb Is Success The islands are policed by a BROUGH, England ®—The cor-| native constabulary which works’ one; i y that! under the Navy command. pres ae ingatate er |45-ye In contrast to Guam and Kwa-|peocer ol Ro jreclassified him 1-A nonetheless. jalein, none of the Navy structures| on Saipan or neighboring islands| are permanent. | From the air Tinian and little, Rota look like solid jungle. But standing out on the north end of} Tinian is the huge B29 field where} the first atom bomb was assem-) bled. The building where the bomb was put together still stands. Service stations, movies and stores have sprung up in Saipan’s| biggest town, Chalan Kanoa, There are three elementary and one intermediate school. Children of naval personnel on the island go to separate schools. About 40 per cent of the Navy men here have their families with them. It’s not the most pleasant Spot in the world, but if the Navy has its way, it some day may be one! of the most pastoral. Double Deal On Prison Menu Is Disclosed READING, Pa. (#—The 18 mem- bers of the March Berks County grand jury issued a complaint aft- er paying a quarterly inspection visit to county institutions that the bill-of-fare at the old folks home was just so-so. The menu: fried liver and onions. They recommend dismissal of the home’s dietician, Edna Mc-} Gee of Philadelphia. But at the county jail, the grand jury reported, the kitchen staff Teally put on a feed—steak with all the trimmings, What the grand jury report failed to mention, however, was that the prison had one menu for the jurors and another for the in- mates, At the old folks home, jur- ors and patients had the same meal, This disclosure yesterday result-| ed in the County Commission post- ommendation, heart failure while climbing a tree. | Evidence at the inquest brought| out Lacey was climbing the tree to hang himself. MAGNETIC “TILT”? NASHVILLE, Tenn, 2 — Three men were fined $50 each in City Court yesterday for disorderly and} offensive conduct after they were| caught outwitting a pinball ma- chine with a powerful magnet. | otheccieeetensees \McCarthy Sets Hearing | WASHINGTON «#—Sen. McCar-! jthy (R-Wis) called a public hear-| ing today in his search for evi-| dence of Communist spying at the U. S. Telecommunications Labora-| tories at Nutley, N. J. Puerto Ricans Give Blood CHICAGO (Thirty-six Puerto Associated Press Sports Writer Call it the luck of the Yankees if you like, but somehow, some- where, the five-time world cham- pions always manage to come up with a replacement for their de- parted stars. Billy Martin, the hero of the 1953 World Series, was Army bound today after working out for exactly two days, but his departure was causing no furrows in the brows of the Yank brass. Sitting quietly on the sidelines was Gerry Coleman, the same fellow who left the second-base job to Martin when he was called into the Ma- rine Corps in 1952, Now the situation is reversed. Martin had the’ position, and it) was Coleman who was the sub-} stitute. Billy the kid, who all but pulverized the Brooklyn Dodgers last fall, was to report to the Army in San Francisco next Monday for his second hitch. He served 5% months starting in November 1950 and was short just two weeks of the six-month mark, which would have made him ineligible for recall. He was dis- charged because he claimed four dependents. Now he has five, but the Army His mother called him from his home in Berkeley, Calif., yester- day with the news. She admitted later that she knew he had been called before spring training ‘but | { just didn’t have the heart to tell) him about it.” Elsewhere along the grapefruit circuit: Wally Westlake faces a tough battle for the Cleveland Indians right field post from Dave Philley, a newcomer, but he thinks he will) hold the post after hitting .330 last year .. .St. Louis Manager Eddie tanky will start Niles Jordan, a) 27-year-old left-hander, against the| Yanks in the first exhibition game| Saturday. Manager Lou Boudreau of the} :/ TIDES Total this year .. 4.62 ins. Excess this year 1.30 ins, Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. 65% Barometer (Sea Level), 7:00 A.M. 30.19 ins.—1022.0 mbs. Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise « 6:46 a.m. Sunset 6:31 p.m. New Moon .. March 4th TOMORROW'S (Naval Base) High Tide Low Tide 9:58 a.m. 3:41 a.m, 10:27 p.. 3:52 p.m, ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Time of Height of Station— Tide high water Bahia Honda (bridge) .....—oh 10m 9.0 ft. No Name Key (east end) ....+-2h 20m Boca Chic Sandy Pt. Caldes Channel (north end) i —oh 40m +2h 10m +14 ft. (—)—Minus sign: Corrections: to be subtracted. (+)—Plus sign: Corrections to be added. Temperatures \the wrong connection.” and executive powers, the actual “I don’t want to go to Czecho-/breach of that line occurred: in slovakia. No place else will take the button-holing of senators by me.” jhigh officials of the White House The owners of the Trojan Sea- sat ,and of. the State Depart-| man, already fined $1,000 for dock- : i ing here with Slanina aboard, have ate ennog (DNC), packs . tried to pay him off and let him! ‘"¢ George proposal who was ab- go. They are subject to an addi. 8° when the vote was taken, tional $1,000 fine tate ae the slzendyshas/ filed -aomotionstojre: ship docks in America with Slanina eoprider ot Serato mayecact aboard. - ...| Bricker expressed confidence in Slanina admits he probably will/his speech, as he had done pre-| have to leave the vessel when it viously, that the George substitute arrives in Spanish Morocco in a| few weeks. From there he will probably go to. Tangier, an inter-|have voiced doubt that it will, national Port, ‘‘and hope I get a Then, Bricker said, he and his }} visa to somewhere—Nassua, where backers could work for “a more | my wife is, Yugoslavia, anywhere.!adequate amendment” in the “I guess it doesn’t matter,” he House, which also must pass any |] sighed. “It seems I always travel constitutional amendment by aif| two-thirds vote before it goes to]! |the states for ratification, The population of the United! 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Worth Galveston Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Key West Ai Boston Red Sox is high on out-| fielder Jackie Jensen, observing} that Jackie doesn’t look as heavy | as last year . . . “For the first| time since 1949 I haven’t got an ache or a pain,” said Phil Rizzuto Yanks’ veteran shortstop .. . Man-| ager Eddie Joost said the A’s! haven't played any intrasquad | games yet because “I’ve seen a thousand of those games where Los Angeles Louisville Meridian .. Miami .. Minneapolis Memphis New Orleans New York Norfolk Oklahoma City ‘Omaha ‘Ricans last night donated blooa|the Pitcher couldn't get the ball /Pensaci to the Hines Veterans Administra-| tion Hospital “to show the People of Chicago that we, too, were hor- |tified” by Monday’s House of Rep- \Tesentatives shooting in Washing- | ton. | NEWS BRIEFS | North Carolina produced 873,000) bushels of apples in 1953. Oregon harvested 9,802,471,000 board feet of logs in 1952. The average American used a- |bout 14 pounds of coffee in 1953. In the Middle Ages, many peo- ple believed that all birds mated on Feb. 14, British railroads are using} freight cars with rubber buffers and springs to carry fragile car- goes, | In India, the Granges is a holy river and its water is carried all over the country for ceremonial uses, | stood around bored and disgusted.” ‘All Bets Off over the plate and everybody else EAST ST, Louis, I. ww — Th horse players who telephoned | their wagers to a certain East St.| Louis handbook about 2:30 p.m, Tuesday were just wasting their! time. All bets are off. The fellow who answered the telephone and took the bets was Richard T. Carter, state’s attor- ney for St. Clair County. Carter chanced by the handbook while a police raid was in prog- ress. He found the telephones “ringing like mad,” so he an- swered them, None of the bettors seemed suspicious, he said, TAX RETURN IS | | \NOT ACCEPTED ALBUQUERQUE (®—The inter- nal revenue office has sent back the calendar a northern New Mex- jican sent in instead of an income tax report. On the 1953 calendar,| The metric system of measure-! |ments—meter, ‘a century qf a half ago. n gram, litre—was | poning action on the dismissal rec-|first set up hy France mor> eam | Obriclats ur, rte day by day, were notations like! these: “hauled wood—$5, feed for! horse—$5, fishing today—no work.” ged the man of good ent to file an ordinary return. | ! Pittsburgh Roanoke St. Louis San Antonio San Francisco Seattle Tallahassee Tampa .. Washington LAUBSCHER GOES TO (Continued from Page One) tions. Laubscher is prexy of the, Florida state association. The conference is scheduled to discuss with staff members of the 'U. S, chamber issues and econo- mic problems confronting com- munities. 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