The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 5, 1954, Page 2

Page 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, March 5, 1954 Intervention In Guatemala By U.S. Charged CARACAS, Venezuela (}—Guate-} mala accused the United States | today of seeking to intervene in} its domestic affairs by asking the Inter-American Conference here to discuss Communist penetration in the Western hemisphere. Guatemala’s foreign minister, Guillermo Toriello, singled out the} United States in a stinging speech at the conference’s third plenary session as the leader of forces which want to attack the political and ‘economic freedom of Latin America. Toriello said he considered the placing of the Communist issue on| the agenda as “a maneuver against) Guatemala which has been ma- liciously and unjustly accused of} being Communist. ...” “We're of the opinion,” he con- tinued, ‘‘that the topic was only a pretext for intervention in our in-| ternal affairs. If accepted (by the conference) it- would make Pan-| Americanism an instrument for the} exclusive service of monopolistic interests.” United States officials have ac- cused Guatemala of following the Communist line and have charged | that Reds occupy many positions of power in that Central American country. Asserting that Guatemala would defend ‘democratic principles,” Toriello said his nation was being attacked by those who shout “communism whenever a Latin| Ameriean republic seeks to assert! its nationalism and economic in- dependence and attempts to put into effect liberal social reforms.” U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told reporters that if the Guatemalan foreign minister meant what he said about defend- ing democratic principles, “they should support our resolution.” The Teference was to an anti-Commu- nist resolution not yet introduced. Delegates from Argentina and Ecuador also were scheduled to speak at the plenary session, Toriello’s attack came as dele- gates buckled down to the grind of committee work in an atmos- phere of optimism and unity fol- lowing Dulles’ statement of U.S. hemisphere policy. The committees are studying polito-juridical mat- ters, economic affairs, social prob- lems and cultural topics. Creen-Haired Girl Goes Back To Plain Tresses LONG BEACH, Calif. @— A pretty young miss whose hair was green for a day returned to work at Douglas Aircraft Co. today as a brown-haired girl and plane po- duction resumed a steady pace. Mrs. Lucille Ballinger of Fuller- ton, a tool crib clerk, told a friend one day at work, “When you cut your waist-long hair, I'll color) mine green.” The friend cut her} hair. So yesterday Mrs. Ballinger ap- peared on the job wearing a bright red blouse—and green tresses. The lacquer she applied had made her hair grassy green. “T suppose 200 or 30) workers came by to stare,” said Mrs. Bal- linger. “I didn’t think it would cause such a commotion. I must admit it stopped production.” A foreman ordered her to cover) her hair with a bandana, but that! didn’t help much. Finally he or- dered her to go home, Saying: | “Please be brown-baired again by tomorrow morning.” She was driv- en home in a company car. Mrs. Ballinger said that when The Weatherman Baa Key West and Vicinity: Increas-| ing cloudiness today thru Saturday; some likelihood of light rain or! showers tonight about 75-78. Gentle to moderate northeast winds veer- ing to east and southeast, fresh at times in and near showers. Florida: Increasing cloudiness and cool this afternoon. _ Mostly! cloudy and slightly warmer to-! night and Saturday with occasional rain in north portion and widely scattered showers in south and central portions. Jacksonville Thru The Florida! Straits and East Gulf: Moderate! north to east winds over north por-| tion and moderate mostly northeast, to southeast winds elsewhere thru| Saturday. Increasing cloudiness With occasional light rain over ex- treme north portion and a few showers elsewhere tonight and Sat- urday, Western Caribbean: Moderate northeast to east winds and partly cloudy weather thru Saturday. Widely scattered showers. Observations Taken At City Office March 5, 1954 TEMPERATURES Highest yesterday .. Lowest last night Mean .. Normal 70) 61 66) 73 PRECIPITATION Total last 24 hours 0 ins. Total this month . T. ins, Deficiency this month .20 ins. Total this year .. 4,62 ins. Excess this year . wreennoe 1.25 ins, Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. 69% Barometer (Sea Level), 7:00 A.M. 30.12 ins.—1020.0 mbs, Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise .... womens 6:45 &.m. Sunset wees 6:32 P.M. Moonrise 7:31 a.m. Moonset .. » 8:28 p.m. TOMORRO! tIDES (Naval Base) High Tide Low Tide 10:30 a.m. 4:14 a.m, 11:15 p.m. 4:43 p.m. ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Time of Height of Station— Tide high water Bahia Honda (bridge) ....—oh 10m No Name Key (east end) ....+2h 20m Boca Chica Sandy Pt. Caldes Channel (north end) = +2h 10m +1.4 ft.) (—)—Minus sign: Corrections | to be subtracted. (+)—Plus sign: Corrections to| be added. 9.0 ft.) —oh 40m Temperatures At 7:30 A.M., EST Atlanta Augusta Billings Birmingham Bismark Boston Buffalo Corpus Christi Denver Detroit El Paso 3 Ft. Worth 3 Galveston 40} Jacksonville. 36 21) 36| 21 Kansas City .. Jacksonville .. |Kansas City .. KEY WEST Key West Airport Los Angeles .. |Former Police Chief Joe Kemp jtimes when they dumped \divers from Tarpon Springs operat-| ing up the keys. He said that he TODAY'S STOCK MARKET NEW YORK —The stock mar- ket maintained a steady position today in early dealings. Prices moved narrowly with only occasional issues trading as much as a major fraction higher or low-, er. Many leaders held unchanged. Westinghouse Electric, which, gained 7% points this week, was off nearly 2 points today in the| first hour, Overnight the company | disclosed a sharp drop in operating Profits in the last quarter of last year. Railroads and oils, leaders in yesterday’s higher market, were out in ‘front today. There were no} depressed major groups. Others included New York Central, Stan- were steady. Stocks in the advancing column dard Oil (NJ), Texas Co., Ameri-| Cyanamid, and American Woolen. Lower were General Electric, In- ternational Paper, General Motors,| and Douglas Aircraft, DEATHS JOHN E. McCOMBS John E. McCombs, 44, died at! ‘Tavernier. Funeral services were} held yesterday afternoon at 2 p. m. The Rev J, Paul Touchton officiat- ed at the services. Burial was in City Cemetery, MRS. CHARLOTTE KORAB Mrs. Charlotte Korab, 50, died Thursday morning at Monroe Gen- eral Hospital after a short illness. The body was sent today to New- ark, N. J., for funeral services and burial in the family plot. Survivors the husband; Henry’ Korab and three sons, _ #12 MILE REEF* (Continued from Page One) when Wagner tangled with an octo- pus. The Conchs were rooting for the octopus. And when Wagner was clobber-| ed by a Conch, the cheers rose to a crescendo, But local residents point to the fact that there are very few Greeks} in Key West today — and no Greek! spongers — as evidence that the! Conehs were the victors in the strife which took place 20 to 30/ years ago. | William Spencer, who operates) his’ sponge house at 707 Caroline! Street, and has been in the sponge business for 33 years, (his family} have been spongers for over a cen-| tury) was vehement in his denial| that the Conchs came out on the short end of the battle, Violated Law He points to the’ fact that there was actually a Florida law, which} is still on the books, which pro-| hibits diving for sponge in most) Florida waters, that really drove | the Greeks out, The Greeks violated the law and) a lot of them ended up in jail or paying thousands of dollars in} fines for violating the: law, he said.| said today that he served on a jury which convicted several Greeks, Spencer did admit “that the Conchs played a little rough at the Greeks over-board.” And it wasn’t the law that burn-' ed their boats, he added. As late as 15 years ago, Spencer’ said, there have been reports of| and several other spongers took off! to check one report at that time. They chartered a boat out of Mat- ecumbe Key and soon sighted sey- eral boats on the horizon. They could not overtake them however, since they had both sail and power. jexcept when they are officially} meeting and the meeting, accord- ing to law, must be in the county | court house here, COUNTY BOARD (Continued from Page One) Bentley was delegated to commun- icate with the governor’s office. Equipment Described Peninsular has three types of equipment it will fly here, depend-) ing on the amount of business. The line uses 32-passenger DC-) 3’s; 50-passenger C-46’s; and 80- passenger DC-4’s. NAL flies a 14-passenger Lock- {which is increasingly interferin MOLOTOV GIVES (Continued from Page One) parley—‘‘of definite international significance’—on Korea and Indo- china. Chances of settling the seven- year-old Indochina war at Geneva, ihe said, depend on “‘the position also on the position of the U. in the affairs of Indochina.” “The main thing, however,” he The question of the 50-cent charge for each passenger landing or tak- ing off at Meacham Field came up. NAL balked at paying the charge |which became effective Jan. 1. On that date NAL also dropped three of its four daily flights between here and Key West. 50-Cent Charge Robinson told the commissioners cent per passenger charge at Mi- ami, He said at Miami the line pays $18.50 to land a DC-3 and also! Pays 50-cents for each passenger. In New York City, he added, Peninsular pays $50 per plane, ‘That charge, he continued, in- cludes baggage handling. Key West has been without ade-' quate air service—in the opinion of many businessmen here—for the! past 64 days. NAL‘s Stand At a meeting here Dec. 20, a NAL executive, R. P. Foreman, secretary of NAL, told the com- missioners that if the 50-cent charge became effective Jan, 1, his line would cut out three daily flights here, The charge went into effect as advertised and so did the schedule cut. The county formally filed a com: Plaint with the CAB in Washington, eging that NAL unlawfully changed its schedules by not giv- ing the required 10-day notice, Reply To Charge NAL replied to the charge by denying they had unlawfully chang- ed the schedule, NAL said the line gave formal notice Jan. 7 of the change, mak- ing the effective date Jan. 17, Between Jan. 1 and 17, NAL said, mechanical and other difficulties prevented NAL from flying four flights a day here. The CAB indicated that NAL and the county should get together and (settle their differences. Two Courses Open Otherwise the CAB has two cour- ses to take: 1, Reject the county’s complaint. 2, Institute formal action which means a hearing before the CAB— usually a long-winded affair at best. NAL made the next move, in- viting the commissioners to come vitation was in a telephone call from George Baker, to Paul Sawyer, county legal ad- viser. Gerald Saunders, chairman of the board of the county commis- sloners, then wrote Baker and Pointed out the inconvenience of! jthe five commissioners travelling to Miami for the meeting. Saunders told Baker the commis- sioners would meet here with any| NAL representative at any time, that NAL wanted, | Besides, the county commission- ers can not take any formal action BILL'S LICENSED PAWN SHOP 703 Duval Street FURNITURE SPECIALS that Peninsular pays such a 50-) | militarism” to Miami for a meeting. The in-| NAL prexy,! added, “will depend on recognition by all the conference participants of the need to settle the question of peace there, not through contin- ‘uing a hopeless (French Union- Vietminh) war, but through an agreement conforming to the principles of freedom and the {national independence of the peo- ples.”” The other big issue is a Korean Peace treaty. On this first anniversary of \Joseph Stalin’s death, the Soviet [foreign minister also took occasion to say in his statement: 1. U.S. claims to world leader- |ship “are naturally groundless,” American bases abroad are di- jrected against the Soviet Union jand the American position-of- strength policy means preparing for another war. 2. The fate of the 14-nation North Atlantic Treaty will be no better than the fate of “the well known Anti-Comintern pact con- \cluded in 1937 by Hitler Germany, |militarist Japan and Fascist Italy.” 3. The projected European De- fense Community, which would line up West German troops with thse of five other West European jnations, blocks German unity harbors “the revival of Germ and “to follow this path means to embark on prepara- jtion of another war in Europe, ; which leads to a third world war.” Molotov took a crack at the views of what he called “some senators” in Washington toward ‘Communist China, which the \United States does not recgnize diplomacy. “They are inexorably drawn to the past and would like the great |Chinese people to remain in their jold status of a semicolonial na- tion, ruthlessly exploited by for- eign’ capital,” he charged. “These times are gone forever. |AIRPORT CONSULTAN (Continued from Page One) 'NAL pays $600 per month for its ;first three landings at Miami In- ternational Airport rather than |$75.00 as quoted. The majority of jthe schéduled air lines and the 20 jindependent carriers operating in- ito Miami each pay $1,151.50 for the first three Lodestar schedules per {month with a load factor equal to| jthat of Key West. “Panama City, which is the only city of comparable size in the State of Florida which did not receive a surplus airport from the Govern- lment, is forced to charge a rate jequal to $172.22 per enplaned pas- senger per departure which is about four times the comparable figure for Key West on the 1953) basis.” The Little Theatre 922 TRUMAN AVENUE SHOWING FRIDAY IN THE NAVY Bud Abbott - Lou Costello ae SHOWING SATURDAY THE CITY STEPHEN McNALLY BARBARA WHITING SHOWING SUNDAY The Michigan Kid IN TECHNICOLOR Jon Hall - Victor McLaglen of the French government and ‘S‘civilians engaged in wrecking 0n|pade County included what ACROSS THE RIVER: LOPEZ TELLS ROTARY (= ae vac: Hee andjnow Palm Beach and Broward - os 3 orida, and south to Bahia Counties. s Cone une team Page: )ne) {Honda, were urging the abolish-. Judge Lopez closed by quoting Spain, and on March 25, 1822, the| ment of Dade County on the grounds early census figures in which the American Flag-was raised over the|that all power both executive and population of Monree County far Island, |judicial was exercised by one man, outnumbered that of Dade County, The territory was at that time)amely, the proprietor of Indian; There were twenty six iran ne ; a i _|Key. Rotarians at the meeting, and Jim Giyages into voacounses) VCR Dt) 1, see¢aall the islands fram) Old Carteret (cuter South’, Dakine bia and St. Johns. Roads Key to Bahia Honda were was presented with the customary Key West began to grow when) given back to Monroe County and two cans of Key West turtle soup ress passed an act declaring|in 1887, Lee County was formed.|for having come the longest dis- are’ tance. the Florida coast liable to seizure condemnation if they took property salvaged under American jurisdic- tion to a foreign country. The establishment.of a. Federal Court at Key West in 1828 was bitterly opposed by the people of the northern part of the state. John Simonton found it necessary to write a memorial to Congress pointing out that Key West was 400 miles from Pensacola the near- est point to which a judicial re- ference could be had, that if a “poor and humble man were in- volved, he couldn’t get justice” while the affluent and wealthy could always pay the expenses of representation. ~ Lawyers Come Here The first term of the court was commenced on November 3, 1828 which led to the migration to Key West of a number of lawyers.! Judge Lopez said that “the busi- ness of the Court not proving very extensive, the stay of most of them was of short duration.” He quoted an announcement in the newspaper of that day stating that “ a vessel had arrived from Middle Florida with an assorted cargo and seven lawyers.” Two years later, Key West had its first serious crime when Nor- man Sherwood killed a man nam-| ed Jones. Sherwood proved to be a most cooperative prisoner. The jail in which he was confined was insecure and he had _ several op- portunities to escape, but on being asked why he didn’t try, he said, “The people of Key West want to hang someone for a pattern, and guess I'll gratify them.” | i State Courts Set Up | Judge Lopez traced the establish- ment of the State Courts in Flori- jda, and told of the establishment of Dade County. John Hausman was the proprie- tor of Indian Key and instigated the move. | Three years later the citizens of |Dade County, which then includ- ‘POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE 9(utam@ STATION SaVilaag Francis at Truman DIAL 2-9193 | Your PURE OIL Dealer Tires . . Tubes . . Batteries |; ACCESSORIES Cifelli’s Italian Restaurant SERVING THE FINEST IN ITALIAN FOOD Non-Fattening Spaghetti ALSO ADDED LENTEN SPECIALS Open 4 to 9 P.M. 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S Pp "Mrs. Ballinger applied soap ana{Ne™, Y%K 3eiPlayed bits in the film, HE PLUNDERED THE LAST SAVAGE Cc MADVWEO a ite oh feck “4 Soap and|Norfolk .. ~ 28)" For example, the scene inside a TAKES YOU BENEATH THE SEA! ‘cS Sid ebENUn And MRT e| Oklahoma City 33 Dutty’s Tavern, Duval Street bis- CIFELLI Tes ane CORNER OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC! . ‘ z , ; Omaha |tro, brought forth delighted chuck- ileinciiirian:| <8 2, ane aie sald eras Bane Sewell any.| Pensacola 4Ujes’ when Aquilino Lopez, Sr., fa- Factory Methods Used—| pc Beneath the [2-Ml : way, I kept my promise oy? 989") Pittsburgh 13\ ther of the circuit court judge, JEFF CHANDLER : Roanoke 45/Showed up as a bartender, as did} All Work Guaranteed WEEKLY SKATING AT St. Louis |Guy Carleton. Marine Radios & Asst. Equipment FOR PROMPT AND RELIABLE | MARILYN MAXWELL ANTHONY QuINN San Antonio San Francisco 48| High point of. that scene was \when Police Lt. Buster Cerezo, (a BAYVIEW TONIGHT i Sea Seattle ... jreal-life cop) charges in with a SERVICE — SEE... Mat. 3:30 Night 6:30 & 8:30 { The regular Friday night weekly 41) rl * AON skating, at Bayview Pork, will be| peer 4i/Properly grim expression to break DAVID CIFELLI AIR COOLED jup a brawl brewing between the Conchs and the Greeks. First Lady‘s Smile And even the city’s first lady got into the act. Mrs, Wilhelmina Har. vey’s well-knowa smile shows up among the spectators at the dock- side. held tonight, beginning at 7:30 p. m Tonight is party night for al! the skating club. Refreshments will be| served to al its members, Super Porter Rites To Be Tuesday Washington 920 Truman Ave. (Rear) TELEPHONE 2-7637 Fri, and Sat. SUN. - MON. of Mrs. Doris Thompson assisted] by Paul G. Albury, Recreation Di rector, Le ai EAST OF SUMATRA’ Others appearing include Red! ‘MYSTERY BLAZE’ (Continued from Page One) Funeral services for Madison B. (Pete) Porter, one of the six Navy men killed in Tuesday’s crash of! Murphy, and fisherman Ben Lo- pez, who presides over the inhala- tor when Gilbert Roland cashes in x Uy ‘ws JOHN SUTTON JAY C.FLIPPEN SCAT MAN CROTHERS: r ‘ i i eld next|); A a « ” lENITH. ‘opped open with the heat from the two helicopters, will be h |his chips with the “bends. ; sun through the window. It sounded Tuesday in Washington, D. C. | (Movie-goers were pretty well e Fox News Cartoon ust like flames crackling. or a hot| Porter, a chief aviation pilot, will) agreed that it was a mistake to kill HEARING AIDS Box Office Open: 1:45 - 9:00 P.M. Daily electrical connection shorting out,/be buried a ae Baleessen off that actor in the middle of the _ LEAS a 3:45 - 9:00 P.M., Wednesdays - Harris declared. Cemetery. Services m | film.) Brighten ti 2 1 5, . It even had the fire department/the S. H. Hines Funeral Home,| By far, the high point of the) Yanigue frend ot loved one renee PERFORMANCE Story Behind The fooled. 2901 14th Avenue, NW, Washington, | movie were the wondrous under-| plate tion. It’s 90 easy pep TELEPHONE 2-3419 FOR TIMESCHEDULE —ayps Worlds Most The final pop Harris heard last|D. C. water scenes and those made up| »+- #0 thoughtful! night was apparently a “delayed| Porter, who lived here at 2120\the keys in a secluded lagoon action pop.” Seidenberg Avenue, is survived by|where Terry Moore and young The incident proved one thing—|his wife, Mary Rita; two daugh-/ Wagner play footsie with a sting- it was hot enough to pop coconutsjters, Jerry, 16, and Joelene 4; asdjray while dodging a frustrated sui- in Key West yesterday. a son, ¥4.& Porter Ill, 9. |tor. Startling Racket! San Carlos Theatn Air - Conditioned AMY OPTICAL DISPENSARY 4%3 Simonton St. Phone 2-7522 i } ‘ &