The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 5, 1954, Page 1

Key West, Florido, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXV Ne. 107 . } KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1954 IN THE U.S. The Key West Citisen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER PRICE FIVE CENTS Rep. Papy Re-Elected By Record Margin Franklin, Neblett To Compete In Run-Off For State Senate By JIM COBB How Monroe County Voted Unofficial Returns ‘For Other Returns, See Page 4) Lil “ ty 196 63 3 Bt A 218 7 1468 47 327 1233 a0 183 County Commission, 2nd District— BENTLEY BETHEL FREEMAN ——_—____ _ County Commission, 4th District— CATES SAUNDERS School Board, ‘Third District— ROBERTS ‘WATSON 32 35 40 138 116 108 14 ass a3 140 «110 14% «13 1” se eae 163 123 EEEEET ~ 3 122 33 1 17 272 77 170 198 219 108 130 3400160 167 81 83 204 1480 2440 «267148 214 256 122 226 33 184 2421 159-2883 Johns, Collins Face Second Campaig Top Candidates hem ll ae Day Parade. - Entries Lag Marching Un- pi Vie For am’s Votes... By ASSOCIATED PRESS : Gov,” Charley E. Johns and state Sen. LeRoy Collins set out today in a three-week runoff campaignto capture the 177,000 date Brailey Odham in Tuesday's first Democretic primary for the Eateries of. Floats, Fi i aL i i | SEEEE a Hine| itil ti Hs in! i i ft i zh FF. i ; i FF it fi i id ie off ui Re ign nn ult 1a o » a ok is s 5 E 3 & z i é i 2 a5 PT gee bee ry Li i 2 parade time at 6:10 p. m. a fly-over of jet planes will through the courtesy United States Navy. The } fly up Duval in low formation ing at Truman and proceed Bayview Park. After passing view Park the planes will over the same route in si per i : s36 z i Le ES cy # il (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Four) THANK YOU To those who supported me in yes- terday's election ... thank you from the bottom of my heart. C.B. HARVEY. Grand Jury Meets fury met at 10 2. m. tedey with 4. Lancelot Lester, state's at forney. “ Seventeen members ef the wry shewed up fer today’s session. Physical Checks For Harris First Graders Put Off Physical examinations for chil- dren who will enter the first grade Ike Says U.S. Over Hassle Loss Of Prestige WASHINGTON «— President Eisenhower said today the United States has suffered a loss of in- ternational prestige as a result of at Harris School next fall have | been postponed, it was announced today by Horace O’Bryant, super- intendent of public instruction. ‘The examinations will be given sometime after May 28 — the date to be announced. The gamma globulin inoculations to be given at the schools tomor- row and Friday caused the post- ponement, Physical examinations for pros- pective first graders will be given Trumaa, May 10 and 14; Dou- glass, May 17 and 21; Poinciana May 24 and 28. Name Change Asked AMES, Iowa (#—The City Coun- cil has receiyed a petition signed by 30 Ames citizens asking that the name of McCarthy Road here be changed “to some other, whole- some name.” The road, a residential street, was named after an old Ames family and not for Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis). To the Voters of Monroe County Words cannot ex- press my deepest appreciation of the vote given me in yesterday's election — Your faith in me will never be forgot- ten. Keller Waison On that basis, Eisenhower said emphatically, he backs Stevens to the limit. A reporter reminded Eisenhower that he had expressed the hope at his news conference last week that the Senate inquiry would be ended quickly. The newsman added that only yesterday the Army counsel at the hearing objected to a-Republican Proposal to cut the hearings short. The President was asked, wheth- (Continued on Page Four) ee THE CHAMP—Bernie C. Papy. decisive winner in yesterday's race for State Representative, is shown here as he greeted ad- mirers after his victory over Mayor C. B. Harvey and Dave King, former city manager—Citizen Staff Photo, Karns. Army Counsel Derides Letter To FBI As “Perfect Phony” _ WASHINGTON (®—Army counsel day” McCarthy in- jected into: hearings on his row. with Army officials and identified by McCarthy .as a ¢ommunication from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoov- er to the Army on Jan. 26, 1951. McCagthy scrapped back that the substance was essentially the same as warnings the FBI had sent the Army about security risks and radar secrets. This was not disputed by the one man in the hearing room with the most knowledge about the matter— USS Bushnell Will See Duty In Norfolk Area NORFOLK, Va. — During the month of May, the submarine ten- der Orion, mothership of Submar- ine Squadron Six, is scheduled for local operations, a change of com- mand, being relieved of duties and going into the yard for an over- haul. : Monday, May 3 the Orion got under way with her future skipper, Capt. W. T. Kinsella, USN, for a week’s operations on emergency stations and battle drills. The change of command of the Orion is Saturday, May 8. Capt. W. R. Laughon will be relieved and depart later in the month for Key West, Fla, to assume command of Submarine Squadron Twelve. Preparations for the tender’s de- (Continued on Page Four) i WEGE —of— 227 DUVAL STREET KEY WEST PIANO Luigi's Italian Restaurants 435 WASHINGTON AVENUE MIAMI BEACH Announces He Is Now Owner and Operator of THE SAND BAR 224 DUVAL STREET Featuring VOCALS Playing All Your Requests Also for Your Entertainment, Phil Milo FORMERLY OF THE TRADE WINDS \ Robert A. Collier, a member of special counsel for the Senate In- vestigations subcommittee. ss - Collier” “wag “given the: fob" Of ehecking up on the document after McCarthy produced it late yester- day. i The committee attorney went to the witness chair to give his report. He testified he had taken tHe docu- ment to Hoover and that the FBI director had told him: “This letter produced yesterday is not a carbon copy or copy of any. communication prepared or sént by the FBI to Gen. Bolling Jan. 2y, 1951 or any other date.” McCarthy and Roy M. Cohn, McCarthy’s counsel, had described the three-page document yesterday as a copy of a letter from Hoover to Maj. Gen. A. R. Bolling, dated Jan. 26, "1951, when Bolling was intelligence chief for the Army. Collier testified that Hoover told him there is in the FBI files a 15-page interdepartmental, memo- randum, written in a different form and with no signature at all. McCarthy put in that the docu- ment he and Cohn sought to intro- duce contained verbatim quotes from the 15-page memo. He said the document itself included the notation that certain security infor mation had been omitted. Joseph N. Welch, Army counsel, moved in with obvious enthusiasm to question Collier. It was in his queries that he termed the Mc- Carthy document “a perfect phony” and ‘“‘a carbon: copy of pre- cisely nothing.” Even while this was going on, President Eisenhower told his news conference the McCarthy - Army row has lost international prestige for the United States. He said he hoped the country could derive ad- vantages from it to offset this loss. Eisenhower said; too, he has jevery confidence in Secretary of (Continued on Page Four) Shrimp Fleet Headquarters for Boat Timbers and Planks Strunk Lumber 120 SIMONTON, near City Hall Thank You My sincere thanks to all Monroe County vot- ers for their loyal sup- port. DANTE FASCELL. It was the greatest victory of his political career for State Representative Bernie C. Papy when he was swept into office for the 11th time in yesterday’s first primary election. Papy polled 4,222 votes—exactly 60 per cent of. the ballots cast in his race—to defeat Mayor C. B. Harvey and former city manager Dave King. Harvey conceded the election after only three pre- cincts had reported. Papy went on to pile up a plurality of 1,294 votes over his op- ponents—the biggest mar- gin he has received in 10 elections since 1934. Harvey drew 2,157 votes and King received 771 votes. — In 1952, Papy defeated J. Y. Porter, IV, by a margin of 1,277 votes, but yester- day’s vote eclipsed that rec- ord. Senate Race Runoff Meanwhile, in the race for the Senate, Monroe County’s William R. Neblett was forced into a run- off with incumbent James A. Franklin of Ft. Myers. Neblett won a majority of the votes in Monroe County but fell off in the three mainland counties. He gained 3,264 votes here while Franklin received 1,588. Two other candidates in that race, Travis A. Gresham and Milton A. Parrott re- ceived 236 and 869 votes respective- ly. Franklin gained the edge in Lee County, his home grounds. But Gresham gained victories in| 4 Collier and Hendry Counties. Franklin, 2,850 ; Neblett, 997 :and Parrott, 61/° tn : . Hendry County: Gresham, 766; Franklin, 680;,, Neblett, 219... and Parrott, 49. Edge To Franklin Franklin piled up an edge in that race with a total of 5,739 votes. Neblett gained. a.spot in the sec- ond primary with 4,860 ballots and Gresham. was barely eliminated with 4,728 votes. Gerald A. Saunders, chairman of the county commission, was vir- tually assured of re-election when he received 3,261 votes as com- pared with 2,864 for William E. Cates — a margin of 397 votes. However, 583 absentee ballots have yet to be tabulated. . The county commission tackled that task this morning but are not expected to finish until late today or tomorrow. Keller Watson apparently ‘was elected to the Monroe County School Board from the third dis- trict. He polled 2,883 votes as com- pared with incumbent J. Carlyle Roberts’ 2,421. The final outcome of that race also depends on the tabulation of the absentee ballots. Commission Runoff In the race for a seat on the county commission from the sec- ond district, William A. Freeman, Jr., led the field and will compete in a runoff election May 25 with the second place candidate, incum- bent Frank Bentley. Freeman re- ceived 2,575 votes and Bentley, 1,- 879. Rodman J. Bethel was eli- minated from the race when he received 972 votes. Veteran political observers hail- ed the fact that acting governor Charley E. Johns carried Monroe County as something of an upset. Johns received 2,314 votes while Brailey Odham polled 2,235 ballots. Leroy Collins trailed with 1,890 votes. Givens Takes Monroe In the race for the Congressional seat being vacated by William Lantaff, Key West born Robert H. Givens piled up a lead. He receiv- ed 1,966 votes — followed closely (Continued on Page Four) Who Did What At Tavernier? Rumors Abound As To What Did Or Did Not Happen On Keys By DENIS SNEIGH Who did what — if anything — to who at Tavernier last night? That question was’ being kicked around here today as the city slowed down from yesterday’s high- speed election tempo. The rumors about the Tavernier business were all over the place, The Associated Press effice in Miami told The Citizen that a Miami newspaper had reported that the home of Harlow Belding at Tavernier had been invaded by a mob led by Harry Harris, county commissioner. : Denial Made Both Mrs. Belding and Harris So have another rumor: The Miami newspaper, accord- ing to the AP, said Belding pulled @ gun on Harris. ~ Belding said her husband have a gun in his hand. fe asked both Harris and Mrs. Belding for their story about what happened last night at Tavernier. Mr. Belding was not available when we phoned. Here is what Harris said: dust A Serenade “We just serenaded the Beld- ings. I was in one of the 15 or 20 cars that drove by the Beldings’ home last night. We were blow- ing the horns,” Harris said. The Beldings, it was learned, had supported Mayor C. B. Har- vey in his unsuccessful bid for Bernie C. Papy’s seat’in the state house of representatives. “We were kidding and razzing the Beldings about supporting the loser,” Harris added. “It was all good natured kidding. We even quoted a campaign slogan that was used in Tavernier.” Harris said the slogan went like this: Be Happy with Papy; Starve with Harvey. Harris Explains “No one,” Harris continued, did any damage to the Belding home or to their place of business or to them personally.” When asked if Belding pulled a gun on him, Harris said: “No.” “Did you see anyone with a gun?” Harris was asked. “No,” he repeated. “I saw no one with a gun.” Mrs. Belding, who operates a frozen custard stand on U. S. 1 at Tavernier, had this to say: “We were at home last night about 10:50 o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Cohen were visiting us. They also live in Tavernier, Anonymous Cail “An anonymous phone caller said that a cavalcade of cars was wrecking the Cohen home. “The Cohens,” Mrs. Belding continued, “left our house and got in their car. Harry Harris, in a car, and some other cars, drove up.” Mrs. Belding added that Harris (Continued on Page Four) The word seems so small and inade- quate, but I know of no other way to put it, than to say to all of you, For Your Vote and Support in Tuesday's Election BERNIE C. PAPY ’