The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 15, 1954, Page 1

Wermest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST 69° VOL. LXXV_ No. 63 . INJURED BY SAVAGE DOG—Wearing a “new Easter hat,” a covering of bandages put on her injuries by the doctor, little Donna Howard chatted and played happily this morning, not realizing that she had been close to death Saturday afterncon when attacked by a dog. Donna started to the store for her aunt, Mrs, George Lowe, of 1119 Olivia Street, when the savage dog grabbed her just above the Photo, Finch, base of her neck.—Citizen Staff Showdown On Army-McCarthy Troubles Appears As Necessary By G. MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON (#—Republican leaders faced critical decisions today on strategy for ending the war between Sen,. McCarthy and the Army and avoiding an outright break between the Wisconsin Re- publican and the Eisenhower ad- ministration, McCarthy and GOP leaders seemed agreed that a showdown at which he and. top Army officials would testify under oath is in order to get at the truth in the welter of charges and counter- charges. But where and when to stage it—and whether publicly or be- hind closed doors—remained un- decided. 7 One major question was: Should the investigation be entrusted to McCarthy’s own subcommittee? After Vice President Nixon’s speech Saturday night, with its passages obvidusly directed at Mc- Carthy, the feeling spread on Capitol Hill that a show down must come soon, Proper Procedure Nixon said “reckless talk and questionable methods” in fighting | communism played into the hands of opponents of the administration | and that the administration insists procedures used both in the execu- (Continued on Page Two) Girl Bitten By Dog Here A five year old girl suffered a wound on the back of her head that required eight stitches when she was bitten by a dog Sunday, police reported today. They identified the girl as Donna | Howard, 1119 Olivia Street. They said that the girl passed | through a yard owned by Pedro} Santana, Caroline Street and Pea-| con Lane on the way to the store} when the dog attacked her. Santana, hearing the cries of the child, rushed to her aid and pulled the dog from her. She was rushed | to Galey Hospital where she was given emergency treatment and Gent home. The dog was taken to the Hu- baat Society Shelter for observa- ion, Movement Afoot To Increase Cub Scout Dens Here The Cub Scout movement is on the march in Key West. With each passing day more or- ganizations and adults are becom- ing interested in the movement. At a recent meeting of the Jun- ior Chamber of Commerce Cub Scout Pack committee, Sam Col- lins, president of the Jaycees, an; nounced that the Pack will begin at once with two dens and that there are openings for more boys. The meeting was attended by Jim Keen, Institutional representa- tive, James Hooks, Cubmaster and a large delegation of Cub mothers. A meeting of the American Le- gion Cub Scout Pack committee will be held at 8 o’clock tomorrow night at the American Legion Home on Stock Island, according to an announcement by Bethel Johnson, Post commander. _ All parents who are interested in having their boys join the Cub Scouts are invited to attend. Boys over eight years and under eleven years are eligible to join. Cub scout officials are planning to entertain between 200 and 300 boys at the Cub Scout Rally to be held in Bayview Park from 3 to 4p. m. Saturday, April 24, King Tells Of N.J. Turnpike Payoff Dave King, who attended last week’s turnpike meeting in Miami, today said he was especially im- pressed to learn of the early date at which the New Jersey pike will pay for itself. King said he talked with engi- neers from both the New Jersey and Pennsylvania turnpikes at the Miami banquet. When the New Jersey pike was built, it was estimated that 30 years would be required to payoff the bonded debt. However, the debt will be clear in 12 years. The money the Federal govern- (Continued on Page Two) NOT ICE! Tangible and Intangible Personal Property We are calling to the attention of every person, firm or corporation in this county that custody of tangible or intangible has control, management or personal property that April 1, 1954 is absolutely the deadline for filing these returns. Also if these returns are not filed they bear a 10% penalty and the Tax Assessor will set the valuation. CLAUDE A. GANDOLFO, Tax Assessor. THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER ¥S6L ‘SL HDUVW ‘AVGNOW ‘VGINO1d ‘LsaM Aa» IN THE it U.S. A. it S or workers . . . Just 2-5661 or 2-5662. PRICE FIVE CENTS Scholarship Parents Rejoice As Little Delores Shows Signs Of Improved Sight After Operation Exams Are Announced Competitive Tests For $400 General Scholarships Set Competitive examinations for $400 general scholarships will be held here April 13, it was an- nouneed today by Horace O’Bry- ant, supervisor of public instruc- tion, The State Department of Educa- tion announced that there are three vacancies for white males or females in Monroe County and one place for Negro male or female, The scholarship for the Negro is for a freshman or for a junior or senior if no freshman qualifies. Eligibility Rules To be eligible for the examina- tion, which begins at 8:30 a. m. an applicant must have lived in Florida for at least a year. He must be a high school senior or a graduate who plans to enroll in the school of education next fall or he must already be enrolled in the schoo] of education of an approved college or university. White applicants are advised to consider elementary teaching as their first choice since the need for such teachers is more acute than for secondary teachers, Other Regulations Students who have taken the scholarship examination since 1947 need not repeat the test. But they must submit another com- pleted application to the examiner on April 13 and they should in- dicate on the application the pre- vious test date. O’Bryant said his office would like to know by the end of this week how many persons will take the examination, The test will be given at the board ot education administration building. Commendation On School Progress Received Here Six parts of the county school system have received special com- mendation from Dr. Sam H. Moorer, director, Division of In- structional Field Services of the State Department of Education, it was announced today. In a letter to Horace O’Bryant, supervisor of public instruction, Moorer wrote: “We have just completed study of the county general instructional plan for the current school year submitted by your supe! staff.” “We feel that the following are especially commendable: 1, “Additions to the staff pro- viding more services to teachers.” 2. “Continuation of efforts to make the school lunch program an integral part of the educational system.” 3. “Use of community resources in the educational program.” 4. “Extension of the adult edu- cation program.” 5. “Use of tests only when and if needed in order to improve the in- structional program or the teach- er’s understanding of the pro. blem.” 6. “The use of a number of techniques to evaluate the accom- plishments of the program.” Charter Boatmen Ask Night Lease ‘The Key West Charter Boatmen’s Association will present a formal petition bearing about 300 names to the city commission tonight re- questing that they be given a lease on property at the foot of Eaton Street fronting on Garrison Bight. The chartermen requested the lease of the city two weeks ago and the matter was tabled for further study, The boatmen propose to construct a dry-dock for boat re- pairs, They say that the only docks available for their use at the pre- sent are overcrowded due to the huge number of shrimp boats op- erating here. Nearest dock available, they say, is at Marathon, CLASSIC BALLET Languages PRINCESS NINA Children and Adults TEL. 2-3161 Third-Day Fight Rages Around French Union Fortress Today French High Command Claims Forces Have Situation In Hand By LARRY ALLEN HANOI, Indochina — A futi- ously savage battle raged into its third day today around the big French Union fortress of Dien Bien Phu. The Vietminh rebels hurled thousands of their best troops into a do-or-die effort to drive the French out of northwest Indochina before the Geneva conference. The French high command in Saigon said the French Union forces had the “situation well in hand” and were holding solidly against the “very violent’ rebel attack. A French spokesmar. predicted the fighting would last several days. A three-hour cease-fire interrupt- | ed the fighting yesterday moming while both rebels and French car- ried their dead and wounded from the battlefield. The French claimed at least 1,000 rebels killed in the initial assault Saturday nigh and early yesterday, and admitted their own losses were “appreci- able.” Heavy Bombardment The fighting resumed at noon yesterday with a heavy rebel bom- bardment of the strongly fortified, French-held plain in the heart of the Thai tribal country. Then, as they had on Saturday _! wave on wave of screaming, plowing rebel troops surged for- ward against the bristling barbed wire barricades ringing the French positions, . French mobile artillery, tanks mortars and heavy machine gun and rifle fire cut down the Viet- minh by the scores. Fighters and bombers roared overhead, mowing a wide swath in the ranks of the wildly charging rebels. The legions of Communist lead- er Ho Chi Minh appeared making an all-out effort to give the French a major setback before the Big Four and Communist China meet in Geneva, Switzerland, April 26 to seek a path to peace in Indo- china, The French for their part hoped to decimate the ranks of the best rebel divisions and perhaps thus break the back of the Vietminh forces, Savage Fighting The fighting was described as (Continued on Page Two) Hannah Sentenced Marcus Hannah today was con- victed of assault and battery by a six-man jury in criminal court be- fore Judge Thomas S. Caro. He was sentenced to six months in jail. Hannah was charged with as- saulting Major Atkins. On the jury were Hector D. Pita, Charles J. Papy, Jr., Mario Hernandez, Jam- es W. Murphy, Maynard V. Lowe, and Jerome B. Sawyer. SCHAEFERS ACHIEVE INS. COMPANY HONOR LeRoy E. W. Schaefer and his wife, Wilma, of 1434 Reynolds Street, Key West, both have quali- fied as members of the 1953 Top Club Council of the New York Life Insurance Company, Dudley Dowell, executive vice president of the company, announced today. Mr. Dowell said that the Schae-| fers, who are the company’s lead- ing husband and wife team, clso have qualified to attend an edu- cational conference in Coronado, | California, April 6-9, C. B. Harvey Will Speak Over WKWF 1.45 PM. Tomorrow (Pd. Pol. Adv.) | Loaf Key will be sold by the Bur- |light supper for the bandsmen | Goddard Is Named K.W. Postmaster Leland H. Goddard today was nominated by President Eisenhower to be postmaster here. Goddard has been acting postmaster here since March 1, 1953. Prior to that he was in investment and commercial banking in New York state. Goddard was a Navy com- mander when he first came to Key West in 1942. After his military service, he remained here. He is a commander in the Navy reserve. Government To) Sell Land On Sugarloaf Key Public Sale May 12 is Announced By Dept. Of Interior About 4% acres of land on Sugar ea of Land Management, U. S. Departmeut of the Interior, it was announced today. The 4.45 acres will be offered to the highest bidder at a public sale on May 12 at 10 a, m. No bids less than $50 will be considered. The land is described as Lot 9, Section 26, Township 66 south, Range 27 east, Swampland According to maps in the office of Claude Gandolfo, county tax as- sessor, the land is mangrove and mud swamp and is from one-half to three-quarters of a mile north of U. S. 1. The maps show no road leading to the lot. Bids on the land can be sent by mail and must be accompanied by certified checks or post-office money orders made payable to the Treasurer of the United States. Unusual Step Gandolfo said in his 13 years as county tax assessor it was the first time he had heard of the Gov- ernment selling land to the highest bidder. He recalled that the last time the Government offered land for sale it was to veterans only and the lots were sold on a first-come, first-served basis, Crowds Jam Park To Hear Concert Sunday Afternoon More than a thousand Key West- ers were in attendance at Payview Park on Sunday afternoon, to hear the concert of the 5ist Infantary Division Band of the Florida Na- tional Guard under the direction of Chief Warrant Officer Murray Austrian, The concert, acclaimed by ail in attendance as very excellent mu- sic, consisted of popular, classical and military numbers. Post Com- mander Bethel Johnson of Arthur Sayer Post 28, American Legion, sponsors of the concert, stated to- day. The band was transported to Boca Chica from Miami by the Air Force; transportation from the airport to the Park by the! U. S. Navy; and the American | Legion Auxiliary Unit provided al following the concert, Norman C. Kranich, Adjutant of the local Legion Post, gave a short address on recruiting and its value | (Continued on Page Two) CYPRESS LUMBER | |and MOULDINGS, at Strunk Lumber 120 Simonton St., near City Hall | “FLIGHT TO SIGHT” SUCCEEDS—The big brown eyes of little Delores Disgdiertt were sightless \ a) when this picture was taken, but reports of the operation performed last week in New York indicate that when the baby is brought ba: ck to Key West, she will be able to see.—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. B’nai Zion To Celebrate Purim Festival B‘nai Zion Congregation — will celebrate the festival of Purim this week, beginning with the read- ing of the Magilah (book of Es- ter) on Thursday evening at 7 p. m. in the synagogue. Rabbi Abraham Schwartz will conduct the service. Rabbi Schwartz says that the ob- servance of the reading of the Ma- gilah is a duty of all men, women and children and is a command of the Jewish code of law. It is con- sidered to be so important that even those who are sick in bed| must hear the Magilah read at this time. The Rabbi or someone else who knows how to read the scroll must go to the homes of shut-ins to read to them, in order that no one will miss hearing the reading. In response to the question, “What is Purim?” Rabbi Schwartz said: The literal meaning of Purim is “lots” and it is one of the historic festivals in the Jewish Calendar. It occurs on the fourteenth day of the month Ador, Its observance is based on the narrative record in one of the Biblical scrolls or Magi- lah, known as the Book of Esther. “The festival commemorates the deliverance of the Persian Jews from the machinations of Haman. | “In Persia during the reign of | King Ahasuerus (Xerxes, 486-465 | B. C.) Haman, the haughty prime | minister and arch-antisemitic, plot- ted the destruction of all the Jew- | ish people because one Jew, Mor- decai, did not bow to him. “Proving the truth of the state-| ment of the psalmist, King David, when he said that the man who (Continued on Page Two) FOURTH AUDUBON SCREEN TOUR Key West High School Auditorium TONIGHT, 8 o’CLOCK WALTER H. SHACKLETON Narrating His Color Film “Oddities In Nature” SINGLE ADMISSIONS (Fed. Tax Included) Adults... Servicemen (through 1/c) and Wives High School Students Juniors g Se ‘J. Tom Watson Qualifies As COP Cubernatorial Candidate TALLAHASSEE — Former Atty. Gen. J. Tom Watson, who has twice failed to win the Demo- cratic nomination for governor of Florida, qualified today as a can- didate for the Republican nomi- nation, Another last-hour qualifier for the Republican nomination was Charles E. Compton of Miami, for- mer jockey who two years ago ran against Sen. Estes Kefauver and Sen. Richard B. Russell in Florida’s Democratic presidential preference primary. Up to then, the Republicans had no candidates to pit against the Democratic nominee in the No- vember general election for the unexpired term of the late Gov. Dan McCarty, a Democrat. Flori- da hasn’t had a Republican gover- nor since 1876. Watson, a stormy figure in Flor- ida politics for many years, an- nounced two years ago that he was giving up his Democratic affilia- ton and becoming a Republican. Just last week he turned down a commission as honorary lieu- tenant colonel on the staff of Act- ing Gov. Charley Johns with a statement that he couldn’t accept it because he was a Republican and was interested only in devel- oping a two-party system in Flor- ida. Watson ran for governor in 1932 and was defeated. In 1938 he ran for the Florida Supreme Coyrt and lost to Justice Elwyn Thomas. In 1940 he was elected attorney gen- eral and served eight years in which he was almost constantly (Continued on Page Two) Monroe County Being Used In And Toll Bridge District Now we hear that the State Road Board Chairman with the findings of tremendous revenues DISTRICT the bridges have not require some $2,000,000 for repaii necessary to R Follow-up Exam Is Scheduled To Take Place Today By JACK M. LEVINE (Special To The Citizen) NEW YORK Cl “Oh God ....She can see.. ” Twenty-three year old |Mrs. Alba Disgdiertt shut {her eyes. Her lips moved in | silent, grateful prayer. Tears of joy seemed to well in the eyes of her 26-year-old hus- band, Abelardo. The young mother passed six-month-old Delores to the outstretched arms of the jubilant father. They stood before the hospital room dresser mirror. Little Del- ores was gurgling happly, smiling at her vision in the mirror. Only moments before had the bandages been removed from the infant’s eyes. Instinctively the pa- rents moved in the direction of the dresser. Immediate Sign Mrs. Disgdiertt held her baby daughter at mirror height. There was an almost instantaneous re- action by the child. There were in- dications of recognition that the infant never before had manifest- ed. Infant Delores’ responses at the mirror caused her mother’s rev- erent exclamation. “She can see! She can see,” Alba shouted to her Abelardo. Standing with his wife and dau- ghter, Abelardo Disgidertt nodded his head..He too had recognized jthe difference. He saw something else. Little Delores had started to !ery. He saw tears in the infant’s eyes. That, too, had never happen- |ed before. Normal Response During the previous trying mom (Continued on Page Two) Voting Office To Be Open For Noon Hours Jim Keen, chairman of the Jum ior Chamber of Commerce spone sored “Get Out The Vote” cams paign, today emphasized that the Office of Registrations in the Mon- roe County Court House will be open through the noon hour daily until the deadline for registering on April 3. Keen also said that he has been informed by Supervisor of Regis- trations Sam Pinder that the office will be open all day Saturday, April 3. Pinder added that persons who have received re-registration cards and have neglected to return them to his office are not stricken from the voting list. Pinder suggested that voters phone his office and check their status. Keen said that the list of qualf- fied voters now stands at 13,000. “The Jaycees say, don’t delay — register today,” he added. Gasoline Taxes Oveaseas Road greed the MIAMI DAILY NEWS that in spi of the OVERSEAS ROAD AND TOLL BRIDGE been adequately maintained, but irs. He also states that it may be EINSTATE A TOLL ON THE HIGHWAY. IF SUCH A TOLL IS REINSTATED IT WILL BE BECAUSE F SENTATIVE IN CLOSI THESE CONDITIONS. ERSHIP SHOWN BY OUR STATE REPRE- AE IVECIN CLOS NG HIS EYES TO THE EXISTANCE OF The citizens of ores cveely want bed kooeaeey ors merres GASOLINE TA: in the amount al Bortars which have been spent in the District HAVE NOT BEEN SUFFICIENT TO MAINTAIN IT. WE ARE PAYING TAXES TO MAINTAIN THE BRIDGES— WHY SHOULD WE PAY A TOLL? Cc. B. HARVEY CANDIDATE FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE (Pd. Pol. Advt.)