The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 8, 1954, Page 8

Page 8 Cops Today TAMPA W#—Muttering “Thank God it’s over,” a Tampa physician fell dead after being hit by two bullets fired by a policeman whom he had held at pistol point for nearly, half an hour. Officers are trying to find an- swers to these questions about the shooting of Dr. Raul Roque, 47: Why did he pull two pistols on Patrolman Leonard E. Young last night? What made him enter a drug store after sipping a cup of coffee at a restaurant and threaten all inside? Patrolman Young gave this -ac- count of the shooting: He was walking his beat when someone told him a robbery was in progress at a drug store. He walked into the store and asked an acquaintance, Jimmy Scagli- one, how he was feeling. Scaglione replied: ‘‘All right, but this man over there is causing me trouble” and pointed to Dr. Roque who was standing with his hands in coat pockets. At that Dr. Roque whipped out two pistols and warned: “Don’t move or I’ll kill you.” Young tried to reason with him but the physician said: “I’m tired of talking. I just don’t want to talk about it any more.” Minutes ticked by and fellow of- ficers could see Young’s predica- ment. Policemen slipped inside the drug store and when Detective Bill Keenan, edging near Dr. Roque slipped on a bottle the doc- tor turned. * . At that instant, Patrolman Young pulled a revolver from his holster and fired three times. Two of the bullets struck the doctor. Patrolman Robert Briggs who had crawled near Dr. Roque by this time said the physician said “Thank God it’s over” as he slumped to the floor. Earlier, Dr. Roque had threat- ened relatives who ran the drug store and ordered from the store a friend who first thought the phy- sician was kidding. Dr. Roque had a general medi- cal practice here for about 20 years. The only reference to him in newspaper files is that when a brother, Daniel Roque, was arrest- ed on a bolita charge in 1941 and $870 taken from Daniel, Dr. Roque said the money belonged to him and should not have been seized. A court fight developed and the State Supreme Court finally ruled the money should be returned to Dr. Roque. LOCAL CONTESTANT (Continued from Page One) the contest that there was stiff competition against Ed, Ladacer| who last year was the Speaker of the House in the Annual Boys State, also sponsored by the Amer- ican Legion.” “I will do my best in the Area contest, hoping to compete in the Department Finals,” he continued. Tampa Doctor NEWS Is Shot THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, March &, 1954 The Weatherman Says Key West and Vicinity: Cloudy By LARRY ALLEN with occasional sunshine this after- HAIPHONG, Indochina 1 —/500n; mostly partly cloudy to clou- French military authorities en-/4y tonight and Tuesday; a chance} forced a state of emergency in for scattered showers Tuesday. this vital seaport today after a|Warmer tonight and Tuesday, Low Vietminh commando raid on ajtonight about 66 degrees; high jnearby landing field where Amer-| Tuesday 75 - 78. Gentle to moder-. ican air technicians service U.S,-/ate northeast winds becoming east supplied transport planes for the|and southeast, occasionally fresh \French war against the Commu- offshore. jnist-led ' rebels. | Florida: Considerable cloudiness Emergency Is Declared In BRIEFS Indochina Port YOKOHAMA, Japan (®—An 18- year-old American soldier was stabbed 24 times and left dead on} the floor of an Army mess hall last | night, | The Army today said the sus- pected slayer, another serviceman, was being hunted by military and Japanese police. Names were with- held. The Army said the slayer was seen by a Japanese boilerman holding the victim by the shirt and waving a knife, minh had declared they planned| and chance for scattered showers to attack every area where Amer- South Lappy er Pee ISTANBI cma ican personnel work. The Viet- Warmer this rnoon and tonigl 1,222-ton alae panies ane | minh radio recently accused the|becoming colder north portion late guidak sank off the Black Sea|United States of intervening in the Tuesday or Tuesday night. coast early today after a collision Indochinese war. eeep senile: Ghee cathe). Wlocits with the 3,489-ton cargo ship Yolac,|_ None of the 44 U.S. Air Force a ae atte a ee iti i i m™ east wi is port authorities said here. Personnel stationed at the field, this afternoon and tonight. Tues. Reports circulated that the Viet- thur Tuesday. Few showers north| The Yolac also is Turkish owned. |Catbi, three miles from Haiphong, The collision was thought to be, Was on the airfield when the com- due to dense fog. jmandos attacked before dawn yes- All the Zonguldak’s crew were 'terday. rescued by the Yolac. Another 105 American techni- cians work at Doson airstrip, 12) VATICAN CITY #—Pope Pius’ )miles southeast of Haiphong. The slow but steady recovery from a/French set up prohibited zones dangerous gastric ailment was re-|around both fields, barring from day gentle to moderate east to southeast winds shifting to north- erly over extreme north portion by night. Mostly cloudy weather. Showers north portion and chance/Many retailers hesitate to lower} for scattered showers in south por- tion Tuesday. Western Caribbean: Moderate easterly winds thru Tuesday. Part- Ported continuing today. ithe areas all civilians except those The sources said the ‘78-year-|with special authorization. old pontiff is able to retain an in-; The rest of the 252 Americans creasing: enaet of aol eae ‘aiding the French in maintaining le has been confined to his quar-|the planes are stationed at Tour-' ters for six weeks, most of thejane, on the central Indochinese| at 7 AM., EST time in bed. jcoast. i TEMPERATURES a 3)|_ The French announced the sei- Highest yesterday SEOUL —The 8h Army willl ure of 74 men suspected of aiding | Lowest last night .. lend a hand in cleaning up towns the Vietminh in th bi raid, |Mean of South Korea when a national] ay ne scat eral | a js The military said five of the raid-| Normal Pais campaign begins Wednes- |... wore killed, “several” taken) ly cloudy weather. Widely scatter. ed light showers. Observations Taken At City Office) Key West, Fla., March 8, 1954 PRECIPITATION eighth wArinylsc nder Gen, |Prisoner and three high explosive Total last.24 hours 0 ins. eae D. davkeier ii Home |“h2rees had been seized. |Total this month .... T., ins, Minister Paik Han Sung that units! The JF Trench said “several| Deficiency this month . -35 ins. raniari his deosimiand will partici- |Planes had been destroyed but Total this year .... 4.62 ins. pate in this “worthy civic enter-|that these were light aircraft Excess this year 1.10 ins. prse.” ‘ Parked along the rim of the air- Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. pone A ay }port. A spokesman said airport) SYDNEY, Australia (#—Reports | of 22 new cases of infantile pa-, ralysis in Perth, capital of West- ern Australia, sparked suggestions today that Queen Elizabeth cancel | her visit to that state. | The Queen and the Duke of Ed-' inburgh, now in Victoria state on| their tour of Australia, are sched-| uled to reach Western Australia later this month. The state is suf- fering its worst polio epidemic, | with 120 cases reported since! 10% troop patrols dro ff i a Po P P ve off the raiders Barometer (Sea Level), 7:00 A.M. before they could reach American-| ; made Flying Boxcars and bomb-| 30.06 ins.—1018.0 mbs. ers lined up in the center of the! Tomorrow's Almanac field, |Sunrise Another 105 American technic.|Sunset ians work on the planes at Doson.|Moonrise Before the arrival of the Ameri-|Moonset ... cans, Vietminh commandos raided! TOMORROW: the Doson field about a month ago, TIDES damaging planes and blowing up gasoline storage depots. (Naval Base) Last Thursday morning rebels| High Tide Lew Tide Feb, 1. wrecked 12 transport planes at| 12:59 a.m. 5:55 a.m. HELSINKI, Finland Finnish Ci#lam civil airport, five miles; 12:29 p.m. 7:35 p.m. from Hanoi. The attack at Catbi was made| by khaki - uniformed Vietminh | troops who got on the airfield by convincing the sentinels they were} Vietnamese soldiers, |, Their leader was described as| |“speaking perfect French.” Then the rebels rushed to put) pombs, timed to go off in a few) minutes, in the planes lined wy on} the Tunway. As explosions tard Sree fires swept the planes, the rebels! +1.4 ft opened fire on the airport guards |(—)—Minus sign: orrec! | (ane ign: Ci tiens| (Continued from Page One) The French Union patrols report- to be subtracted. voters trekked by ski, sleigh and) ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA on foot through heavy snowdrifts today to elect a Parliament they hope can pull the country out of its worsening economic situation. Political observers forecast a \Slight swing to the left but ex- jpected the results to have no ef- fect on Finland’s careful foreign policy of good relations with both the West and her big Communist neighbor, Russia. ROOSEVELT WINS Tide Station— Bahia Honda (bridge) .....—oh 10m No Name Key (east end) ....+2h 20m Boca Chica Sandy Pt. high water 9.0 ff. —eh 4m +2h 10m cratic processes were being de. /ed they had no losses but said,! nied through the preprimary con-| Several of the Vietminh raiders vention. |Were killed, wounded or captured.”| Paul Ziffren, Democratic nation-/ ‘The daring night raids on the, ‘al committeeman, who served as Strips are designed to smash as) chairman, read the telegram and ™4ny as possible of the planes Young Ramos was coached by|denied the council sought to by-USed in the vital airlifts taking Mrs. Marion Stark head of the/pass the primary ballot. The Cali-/foops and was supplies to the big speech department at Key West|fornia primary election will be!Vietminh-encircled French outpost High School. If he wins the area, he June 8. ifortress at Dien Bien Phu, 180 will then go to Gainesville, Florida) On Feb. 24 the court ordered/Miles west of Hanoi in northwest! for the state finals. All expenses|Roosevelt to pay $1,625 monthly | Indochina. incurred going to the area and/to support his wife and their three; state finals are borne by Arthur small children pending trial of the) Accidents cause about Sawyer Post, |separate maintenance suits. 100,000' [deaths a year in the United States. | (+)—Plus sign: Corrections te be added. Belgian Firm Wants Rights On Weapon FRANKFURT, Germany (#—A U.S. Army ordnance officer who) says he resigned because the Army “calmly brushed aside” a light submachinegun and rifle he invent- ed, says a Belgian firm has of- fered to manufacture the weapon. Loren C. Cook of Vallejo, Calif., is en route home from Germany| NEW YORK #—People are still: baying—when they think the price! is right. There are few signs of a con- certed ‘buyers’ strike’’—even on coffee, But there are increasing signs that when consumers think prices are too high they are either waiting, haggling for discounts, or ‘seeking out “‘bootleg” cars and other goods. Some businessmen are begin- \ at pricing practices rather than cutting later. Many manufacturers ean make out a good case for the prices on their goods, citing higher produc- tion costs and operating expenses. their traditional mark-ups—their costs are up, too. But if March doesn’t bring the: business pick-up that they and Washington hope for, other ways of stimulating consumer buying may be in order. And just cutting taxes may not be all that’s needed. Signs of consumer restlessness are growing. The big auto makers ‘complain that “‘bootleggers’” are selling new cars at less than the! Prices set by the auto dealers. There are also complaints that while new car sales rose in Febru- ary over January, they were still 8 per cent lower than a year ago. \But, expecting good’ business in a few weeks, both Chrysler and Hud- son are calling back laid-off work- ers this week. Television set makers report aj marked pickup in their sales—aft- er there had been considerable price shaving and offering of new models in lower price ranges. Merchants are still talking about “the good business the January ,|¢clearance sales brought out. Food stores report that con “lsumer buying is still high. But housewives will switch quickly from one kind of meat to another when the price gets out of line, with their budget. Coffee sales slid when prices soared. And the Tea Council of the U. S. A. Inc. reports that tea sales hit an all-time high in Janu- lary, up 22 per cent over the corre- {sponding month in 1953. All of this consumer baking or Ring Roundup # Punchers are featured in the Saturday night television (ABC) fight. Joe Miceli, left-hooking New York welterweight who has flattened his last three opponents, meets Johnny Lombard of Mt. Carmel, Pa., at the Cincinnati Music Hall. The bout starts at 10 p.m., EST. Earl Walls, No. 7 heavyweight’ contender from Toronto, and Har- ry (Kid) Matthews, ninth-ranking heavy from Seattle, could fatten their records this week. Walls meets Freddie Beshore at Edmon- ton, Monday. Matthews tiffs with Murray Burnett of Chicago at Spokane Tuesday. Light heavyweight ehampion Archie Moore also shows his stuff this week. He goes after his 17th straight victory against bulky Bob Baker of Pittsburgh in a nontitle 10 at the Miami Beach Auditorium Tuesday night. Jake LaMotta, the old Bronx Bull now a Miami resident, starts a comeback Thursray in Miami. Today's \ning to wonder ¥ a stitch in time/ lisn’t in order—a fresh look now) HARRIS EXPLAINS 4 (Continued from Page One) truth; he was concerned in telling incorrect stories as he has beem telling them since he began te swim in scum. Investigation Of Batchelor Case Begins In Texas “The proof that he is not a truthe seeker is that he deliberately left SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (®—Col./out Mrs. Malone’s name as being Cywil D. Hill, judge advocate at one of the sellers, the main seller, Ft.Bliss, Tex., made a preliminary|because she owned two-thirds of | visit here yesterday in his probe |the tract. jto decide whether Army Cpl.| “Now let me tell this fly-by-nighte Claude Batchelor should be court-er something that nobody had martialed. |known up to now, except Mrs, Ma= Batchelor, 23, of Kermit, Tex.,|lone, Judge Lord, Mrs. Harris and is the former prisoner of war who|I. I have not said anything about first refused to leave his Commu-jit, because I have never blared to |nist captors in North Korea, then|the world the good deeds I have i e high. The/changed his mind and returned|done, and get my contentment ia Beene will fdaeicions pes to the U.N. side last New Year's a cles deoneclences a jucing neighbor, but he do \Eve. lid not know she own is pros buy—unless the price asked is at-| The 4th Army Saturday named|Perty. Her husband and I had itractive to him. Hill to conduct the investigation|been friends since our boyhood That consumers, by and large, |to determine whether Batchelor|/days, and when-we bought the pro- \have the money to buy is shown}must face a court-martial on/perty he put it in my name. She tol@ |by all the figures on personal in-jcharges of misconduct and aid-|me it was a ‘great relief’ to her, come totals, savings and the like.|ing the enemy. ‘while grieving over the passing of The total of savings in the na-| Batchelor, im custody of the 4th him. Incidentally, when Mr. Ma tion was never higher, as pointed| Army at Ft. Sam Houston, is un-|lone and I sold a part of the pre ‘out at the American Bankers|dergoing a medical checkup at/perty, I alone signed the deed, Business Mirror By Sam Dawson switching points up the fact that in times of abundance of consumer goods, the consumer can afford to be choosy, and usually is. Producers can point out that \their operating costs are high. The Assn, meeting here this week. | Brooks Army Hospital. John W. Kress, head of ABA’s lsavings & mortgages division, and} Temperatures jexecutive vice president of the| Howard Savings Institution of At 7:30 A.M., EST {Newark, N.J., says savings injAtlanta _ = omer banks went up by 4% billion dol-| Augusta <0) lars last year, in insurance com-| Billings — — —___ panies by 9 per cent, in savings|Birmingham because the property was in my name, and the mortgage given us by the buyers was made to me alone. “Mr, Malone wes a resident of Miami at the time, and he nego tiated the deal. He sent me the check for the down payment, and I sent him back a check for twoe | 26 thirds of the amount, When the 35 Mortgage was paid off, the check 29 Was given to him, he sent it te 32 me, and I sent him two-thirds af g7zithe payment. 3), “This slush that has been ap- gg pearing in the Miami sheet has 27 been written by ginks who have 4g not been concerned in finding . 43 truths, but in dodging truths, as & loan associations by 3% billion.|Bismark --—____ The nation’s savers also have,Boston -_—__—— large sums in U. S. savings bonds|Buffalo oe jand in credit unions. \Charleston _ |. Offsetting this, to be sure, is the|Chicago ___ large consumer debt totals — The Corpus Christi record instalment and mortgage See = Payments that come around regu- a a ay Ft, Worth But personal income is still Tun-icsiveston —____ 56(they did in leaving out Mrs. Ma- ning at an annual rate of 282%| Fy. -Kconville — 39 lone’s name, to wallow in slime." Dillion dollars a year. eee Cine a ge 4 een ttt moves they REY s WEST 80 GOV. JOHNS ORDERS mscaeasiie earn gee pepe aii Fe " eel spicier lean just. because the cost of producing! Louisville Which veracta adlavoneatantces it is high. Meridian 32 cost of $50,000, the officials said pe = - Hey a oe actually, the pool cost only E about $2,500. Portable Atomic itemsnis’* 42 “they explained that the public fa INew York % 3@ 00t encouraged to use the pool be- Power Plants Norfolk _ ap|cause it would be necessary © to \ Ch hire a lifeguard, install a first-aid ‘Oklahoma City ae i i : So ht B U. S {Omaha 25 Station and spend considerable ue ny! Je | Pensacola 45 money for insurance coverage. Pittsburgh 27 Actually, they said, the pool ig WASHINGTON (—The Defense Roanoke _ Department is shopping for small/St. Louis _ self-contained atomic power plants|San Antonio that can be transported by air San Francisco to U.S. air bases in the arctic. Seattle The power package would in-, Tallahassee clude a reactor to provide heat to Tampa —_. 42 not closed to the public many peo 36)Ple use the pool at their own risk, 41! Charge Explained 51| They admitted that reports that 41 two State Highway Patrol dispatch. 36ers at Marathon were on the Dis. ~ 40 trict payroll as painters are true, Tun a steam plant which would|Washington —— 38 But they said that the whole story produce up to 1,500 kilowatts of eee {has not been told—the district electricity. The fuel would be en-| PUERTO RICO furnishes the dispatchers as a pub- |riched uranium and would have! (Continued from Page One) lic service and that if the district to be replaced only once a year— 1950 Nationalist revolt in which 50 did not do so police protection on a big advantage in places where! persons were killed. the road would suffer. The dispatch- arctic ice bars tankers for 10) Communist leaders have denied ers are paid by the district and months out of every 12. arms aid to the rebels. They also not the state. They said that the The Atomic Energy Commission) issued a newspaper statement Jast|highway patrol station was built by said yesterday that, at Defense|week disclaiming any connection the district and loaned to the high- Department request, it was invit-/With the Washington shooting. way patrol. ing bids from private companies,| The extreme Nationalists have’ Bateman also denied a series of to be submitted by March 20, on eta aire eee Hal in real estate deals which a Miamf building i uerto -Rico. ‘ower house re-\newspaper has hinted were irregue ep heterimentalsalant cently rejected 42-14 a resolution Jar, eae that he has made ex- calling for complete independence instead of the present common- wealth status. The Senate voted {27-5 against a similar resolution.’ Naguib’s Power Is Cut Again Albizu Campos, in a Prison hospital, was said by officials to tensive investments but that they were all open and above board, “I’m an honest man— I’ve never been arrested or even fingerprint- ed and now they are trying to smear me— it isn’t fair,” he added, CAIRO, Egypt ’s Rey-have recovered from the effects olutionary eee aan the tear gas that was used in| Powers away from President Mi ei ae fiery 62-year-old! f es radical Saturday. hamed Naguib and given them to He still was claiming, however, the man who supplanted him as Tt . : 5 Lt. Col. G: 1 Abdel that the United States is attacking aaa » Gama him with cosmic rays. This has Witteceansctate iad the aeeere ._,_,|been a chronic complaint. Because Pr fa esp id i agar ex ee cnahed ag sag of such hallucinations, medical aa cs perpen ne soe 4S! authorities declared him mentally “-»- 4 5 Egypt's military governor, admin- jj} in 1951. In prison at the time W@S 50 per cent higher than im istering the martial law in force for leading the 1950 revolt, he was 1952, and he recalled that the unit- in Egypt since the Cairo fire riots transferred to a hospital. Later he €d States had made available 385 of 1952. The post since then has|was pardoned from his 54-year million dollars for Indochina aid been held by the Premier in office. sentence because of his condition,|in addition to 400 million previ+ IKE DISCLOSES (Continued from Page One) ‘by grants and loans, but in 1053 only about 15 per cent was fi- nanced by such aid. The new decree added that Nas- ser also was ‘“‘authorized to take| | The meter is 39.7 inches long. any other measures considered) ously appropriated by Congress for the present fiscal year, Military shipments in 1958 to aff necessary for maintenance of or-! The word “pistol” derives from der and security in all or any parts| Pistoia, Italy, where early pistols of the republic of Egypt.” were manufactured, on a troopship after duty in Ger- many as a warrant officer. He told his story to a reporter before he left. Cook declined to name the Bel- gian company he said had offered him a “fat contract” for the guns, saying he wanted to wait until he could close the deal as a civilian. He added, however, that “‘both/| # guns are still available to the Army—free for the asking.” be {n Washington, ordnance officers who could be reached for com- ment said Cook’s light submachine- gun was found to be good in tests but had not been developed be- cause the Army had no need for} such a weapon at present, The officers added that the le-} gality of selling the weapon to a Belgian firm would depend on such factors as patent rights and| , whether it had been developed on government time. Cook said his light submachine. gun would shoot faster, farther, and straighter than the Army’s| ; counterpart. And his gun was so| simple, he claimed, it could be! mass produced for $10 each. The rifle “will do anything the FN will do, and it is lighter and cheaper to manufacture,” Cook . jSaid. The FN is the Belgian rifle) which is being pushed for ad | }as a standard gun for Atlantic! Pact nations. | | Cook charged that the Army had) 4 not given his guns a fair trial,| This, he said, is why he had de- cided to quit and perfect them on | ed, more qnoqya,, TAO spy The former middleweight cham- pion meets Johnny Pretzie ef Boston in a light heavyweight 10. countries amounted to $3,800,000,- |o00, an increase of more than 60 [per cent over 1952 shipments, ... the world’s funniest mules are heading for Hootin’ Holler and SNUFFY SMITH’S “race of the century,” the HOOTIN’ HOLLER MULE RACE! 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