The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 27, 1954, Page 1

is Warmest City In Nation For Quick Communication, Use CLASSIFIED Ads! You'll Today Was KEY WEST Ss VOL, LXXV No. 74 KEY WEST-CUBA FERRY—Pictured sities is in vessel “Patricia,” the ship wiih which oe lew West-Cuba tioiate i cana has indi- cated they will start thrice-weekly ferry service between Key West and Cardenas, Cuba. The ship is presently in Miami undergoing conversion as a car ferry. Future plans call for a sea-link between Key West, Cuba and Mexico, company officials say. Congressional Candidate Makes Fla. Education |100-Year-Old Diary Tells Of Key West Campaign Appearance|Leader Will Be |Early Key West Wreckers Fred Routh Outlines His Platform In-Congress Race By JIM COBB “McCarthyism represents just as big a threat to American demo- eracy as the Communist Party.” That was the statement today of Frederick B. Routh, Coral Gables, candidate for the Congressional seat being vacated by Representa- tive Bill Lantaff. Routh was in Key West today lining up his: campaign forees in preparation for the drive for be hopes will put him on op in the May # primary election. The current campaign marks his’ first appearance in the political ar- ena. Routh clarified his stand on Mc- Certhyism, stating: “We must seek out subversion in government, but we must do it by due process of Jaw — which way.” “I do not believe in trial by tele- vision,” he added, The 31-year old Floridian (al- though he was born in his parent’s summer home in Wyandotte, Mich- igan) lists himself as an educa- tor. After graduating from the Co- ral Gables Public Schools, receiv- ed AB and MA degrees from the University of Miami. He is cur- rently working on his Doctorate of (Continued on Page Two) is the American | 4 THE Daniels Names Assistants In Cancer Drive The names of the volunteer chairmen who will direct the work of the key committees in the Am- erican Cancer Society’s 1954 cru- sades here were announced today by campaign chairman Bob Dan- els. The drive will open April 1, Daniels said that he had tunate in enlisting the pag of competent community’ leaders whose identification with the joint fund-raising and educational cam- paign should go far to ensure its success. The committee chairmen Dr. Henry Suarez and Mrs. Ida Sands have been named jointly to conduct the drive among the col- ored residents. Publicity chairman is Mrs. Irma Wagner and Radio chairman Mrs. Joan Mardis. They will be respon- sible for directing the promotional and educational phase of the cru- sade. 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Only $695 Full Price _ $299 Full Price Others From $50 Up We Also Have Some 1954 Demonstrators That Will Go For $500 Off List! In Most Cases, Your Car the Down Payment—Easy Terms— 2 Full Years To Pay—at YOUR MONROE COUNTY AUTHORIZED FORD DEALER Monroe Motors, Inc. SHOWROOMS at 1117 WHITE ST. AND COR. SIMONTON AND GREENE Phone 2-5631 or 2-5881 Until 8:00 P.M. | LOST! SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1954 Here Next Wk. Dr. Moorer Will Evaluate County School Program Dr. Sam Moorer, director of the division of instructional field ser- vices of the State Department of Education, will be here next Tues- day and Wednesday. Horace O'’Bryant, county super- intendent of public instruction, to day said Dr. Moorer will evaluate the school program here and plan for expansion of the present school service for children. Accompanying Dr. Moorer will for. De % Rebert Gates, consultant is education for exceptional children; Victor B. Johnson, consultant of guidance and pupil personnel; and Dr. R. W. McComas, director of the division. of mental health of the State Board of Health. Guidance Work Dr. Gates and Johnson will work with Miss Eugenia Nicola, county school system guidance director. Dr. McComas will help set up a (Continued on Page Two) Three Key West Workers Are Due Back Wages More than $7,500 is due Florida workers — including three from Key West — if they can be located by their former employers. Henry A. Huettner, field office supervisor of the U. S. Depart- ment of Labor’s Wage and Hour Office, said in Jacksonville today that sums ranging from $10 to more than $288 may be paid to 148 Florida workers. The total is $7,687.04, he said. The money represented under- Payments under the Wage Law which these business firms have been trying to correct by making reimbursement ‘o their employees. Those from Key West were listed as Patrick Joyce, Edward H. Swarthout and M. Thomas Wood- bury. They should write to the Resti- ! tution Unit, Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Division, U. S. Department of Labor, 1007 Comer Building, Birmingham, Ala., giving current address and listing the names of employers they have worked for in the last year. Arrangements will be made to see that they are paid what is due them. LOST! _ LOST! BILLFOLD, IN DIANA SHOP Please Return, Very Important Papers, to SHIRLEY CRISCU- OLO, 824 White, or Diana Shop. Stock Car Races Sponsored by Key West Stock Car Association, Inc. MID - SEASON CHAMPIONSHIP RACE Tomorrow, 2 P.M. BOCA CHICA ROAD TRACK ADMISSION IN THE Che Key West Cilisen U.S. A. reach tenants or workers DIAL 2-5661 or 2.5662, buyers and sellers— - Just PRICE FIVE CENTS Key West-Cuba-Mexico Ferry Plans Outlined By Sirugo; Early Service Is Promised Stores Close Half Day Thursdays, Starting May 13 Retail stores here will close for a half day every Thursda beginning May 13, it was a nounced today. J. E. Tucker, chairman of the Retail Division.of the Cham- ber of Commerce, said the di- vision had voted on the sum- mer hours at a recent meet- ing. Winter hours wiltcbe resem . ed Sept. 2, when the stores will be open all day on Thursdays. A committee of the division has been appointed to poll re- tailers on the feasibility of closing at 7 p. m. on Satur- days. Some stores now ri it open until 9 p. m. en Satur- days. Those on the committee are Mrs, Kathleen Lucas, Jack Mc- Neil, Louis Frank, and Flor- ence Curtis. Gambling Raid Nets 9 Inmates A gambling raid conducted by two members of the Key West Po- lice Department resulted in the ar- rest of nine persons in a Petronia Street bar last night, Police Lt. W. L. James and Extracts from the diary of a wrecker lawyer who lived here from 1828 to 1857 today were presented to the Florida Histor- ical Society. Dr. Robert Lee Goulding, pro- fessor of education at Florida State University, presented the ex- tracts from the diary of his ma- ternal grandfather, William Ran-| dolph Hackley. The Society ended its annual meeting in Tallahassee today. | Brigs and schooners carrying valuable cargo frequently were | wrecked along the keys a century and more ago,but few authentic records exist to tell the story, Dr Goulding said. 4, Dr. Goulding said that many ro- mantic tales have been written a- bout wreckers luring ships to their doom on Florida keys in the pre- Civil-War era, but he found noth- ing in the Hackley diary to subs- tantiate such stories. Since his grandfather does not} even intimate that such practices were carried on, and “in view of his strong pronouncements against | foul play, injustice, intemperance and other forms of wrong doing,” Dr Goulding discounts their exis- ; tence. The Hackley dairy, however, giv- es detailed instances of how mal- practice, such as embezzling wrecked goods, was frowned upon by those in authority and suitably punished. It tells how one of the conditions | imposed upon wreckers by the | court which licensed them was that they would use every means avail- (Continued on Page Two) Ship Now Undergoing Repairs In Miami In Preparation For Run Officials of the Key West-Cuba Transit Company said yesterday that ferry service between this city and Car as, Cuba, “should be a reality in the near futur, million dollar operation which will previ scheduled sea link between Key West < t public in many years. clude future service Denpeen Key West, Cuba In a conference with the press, Joe Sirugo, local busi- nessman, and Joseph H. Church, president of the Die- sel Power Corporation, of Miami, owner of the convert- ed 203-foot LSM with which the company proposes to start thrice-weekly service, it was pointed out that plan; ning is advancing rapidly. And Sirugo revealed that N. C. Hines, millionaire Washington real estate developer is also a principal of the company. Financial Statement At yesterday’s conference, Siru- go released financial statements of his principals and sketches of the boat, the ‘Patricia,’ currently docked in Miami. They also exhi- bited a lease agreement they have negotiated with a Cuban concern in Cardenas for a dock there. ._ The company proposes to begin service with the single vessel,, op- erating from a terminal they have leased from the city at the north end of Simonton Street. Then, they | later propose to add another boat as the need arises. They asked for a lease on the Clyde Mallory Docks Thursday, but action was deferred by the city commission. And the Key West ferry opera- tion will also figure in the U. S. government’s “Caribbean Project” involving the Yucatan Highway which will enable tourists to drive | through Cuba and Mexico and back to the United States. Route Described As described by officials, the route would begin in Key West where tourists would drive their cars onto the ferry, and sail the 90-odd miles to Cardenas. Then, after a suitable pause, they would drive westward down the island to (Continued on Page Two) Death — Set For Slayer Of Little Girl Sergeant Confesses “Sexual” Motive In Child’s Strangling By FORREST EDWARDS TOKYO (P—A Pennsylvania ser- geant who confessed he got “‘com- plete sexual satisfaction’ out of strangling to death a pretty little American girl was convicted to- day of premeditated murder and sentenced to die. M. Sgt. Maurice L. Schick, 29, World War II Purple Heart veter- an from Cannomburg, Pa., stood stiff and erect, his face impassive; | as he heard the verdict and sen- tence of a court-martial panel of three generals and four colonels. He saluted the court, made a snappy military about-face, and marched back to his seat in the small, bare, whitewashed court- room. His jaw muscles contorted his face into a grimace for a mo- .|ment. Then he set his face into a fixed half-smile which he held as he was led out in handcuffs. Insanity Claimed His Army-appointed defense at- torneys based their entire case on the contention Schick was insane when he strangled chubby, auburn haired Susan Rothschild, 9-year- old daughter of an American Army colonel, at the huge Army housing area south of here last Nov. 21. Supporting their contention that Schick was insane, the defense put (Continued on Page Two) Capt. Bienvenido Perez, said that| ! they conducted the two man raid in the K. Y, Club, Petronia Street. Jailed on charges of operating a gambling hous: and conducting a lottery, were Samuel Hudson, 8-| D Fort Village and Steven Pla, 904 Terry Lane. Both were later freed i on $500 bond each. The following persons were ar- | rested and charged with vagrancy: P. B. King, 305 Petronia St.; Wil- son Rice, 6 Baptist Lane; Norman Garber, E-10, Fort Village; Cora Lee, 416 Truman Avenue; Robert Skinner, 827 Emma Street; James Williams, E-4, Fort Village and Lawrence Garcia, 827 Emma St. All were later freed on $250 bonds. The raid also netted cards, a black jack table and bolita tickets. A total of $100.80 was confiscated by the officers from a table. CLASSIC BALLET Languages PRINCESS NINA Children and Adults TEL. 2-3161 Passover Orders NOW BEING TAKEN at Einhorn’s Variety Store |629 Duval St. Phone 2-3321 See Inside Ad Regarding First Federal Savings ne SEIZED IN GAMBLING RAiD—Police Capt. Bienvenido Perez and Lt. Jimmy James look over a part of the gambling equipment seized in a raid on the K Y Club on Petronia Street last night. Over $100 in cash and large amounts of bolita tickets-were taken as well as other gaming gear. Eight persons, seven men and a woman, were jailed after having been found at the tables. Less than 30 minutes after the prisoners .zere charged. Whitney Papy showed up at city hall and put up $500 in cash as bond for Steven Pla, the chap who, police say, was in charge. Police were under the direction of the two officers shown here-—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. Better Register: Only Six Days ntil Deadline six more days are left to register to vote. adline is April 3 at 5 t's next Saturday. i in, chairman of the Jaycees blic® affairs com- pees: today said his organi- is’urging that everyone ““tigibte fegister or verify their status on the registration list with’Sam Pinder, supervisor of registration. “We know that lots of people have not returned the cards that were mailed by Pinder,’ Keen said. Everyone must return the cards, telephone Pinder, or call ice before next Saturday‘s 5 p. m. deadline. Otherwise, their names will be stricken from the_registra- tion lists and they will not be able to vote. NewFactsOn H-Bomb Test Are Revealed By GEORGE MCARTHUR ‘ TOKYO (#—Japanese reaction to American hydrogen bomb tests mounted anew today after two more fishing boats returned from the Marshall Island area showing radiation effects. The Japanese government offi- cially informed the U.S. that the first boat to be affected, the Fuk- uryu Maru (Lucky Dragon)—was 40 miles outside the prescribed test danger zone when it was show- ered with atomic ash March 1. The two latest fishing boats showing radiation were quaran- tined. However, they apparently escaped serious harm and no fears for the crew have been expressed by Japanese officials. One had been operating some 78 miles from the Bikini test site and the other was about 200 miles away. No “Conclusions” The Japanese government’s note handed U.S. Ambassador John M. Allison reached no ‘‘conclusions”. It outlined a report on a govern- | ment investigation. The note said ‘there is no evi- |dence that the Fukuryu M ‘ ceived warnings, by radio me or any other means, while be’ in the area before the acci occurred.” The new developments came as | government officials began to com- pile the cost of the incident in order to give the . a bill. The 23 crewmen of the “Lucky | Dragon” were reported improving “on the surface.” An Air Force | plane was sent to Yaizu to bring | 21 of the men to Tokyo for further medical care. The two most ser- (Continued on Page Two) 4 ent Jalousie Doors STRUNK LUMBER 120 SIMONTON STREET Near Citizen Building NOTICE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION This office is calling to the attention of any- one who is entitled to Homestead Exemption that April Ist is abso- lutely the deadline for filing. CLAUDE A. GANDOLFO, Tax Assessor.