The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 8, 1954, Page 1

Key West, Florido, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average sange of only 14° Fahrenheit THE VOL. LXXV No, 110 ye 7 a 4 ¥ # 3454 “A DREAM COME TRUE”—Mrs. Theodore Sackler. of Philadelphia, pictured with her son, Mar- ‘vin Chapman, and Mrs. Chapman, a few minutes after she arrived at Meacham Field. Mrs. Sack- Jer will be honored as “The Mother of the Key West Naval Base” as the result of her son’s let- ‘ter submitted in the USO-YMCA annual Mother's Day, letter contest.—Citizen Staff Photo, Karns. /eleomed For Visit In: ‘Key Wes “Dream Come True,” Says Mrs. Sackler By SUE JONES “T's: like a dteam, comé “true” were, the first words Syren by Mrs: ‘Th 4 Sackler, as she stepped from the National Airlines plane Program For Sunday Event The public is. invited to attend the annual Mother’s Day exercises to hecheld 3p. my Sunfey.in the | air conditionéd ‘annex of Key West Lodge of Elks No. 551. Mrs. Theodore Sackler of Phila- delphia, Pa., whose son, Marvin Chapman, was the winner of the Letter to Mother Contest sponsored “ by the USO, will be the guest of honor, ‘With her son, who is stationed aboard the USS Howard Gilmore, the Philadelphia mother will oc- cupy a seat’on the rostrum. The Program has been arranged by a committee headed by Ernest Betancourt: Opening by the Exalted Ruler, Jack Baker; solo, “Mother,” by John Cederberg, accompanied by Kingman Curry; A tribute to ee ee only son, Marvin Chapman, his attractive brunette wife and a wel- coming committee headed Mary Lee Graham, president of the Key West Chamber of Com-| Might fall. c. B. .| 1a Saigon, Gen. Henri: ‘Navarre; “Mother of the Key West Naval ‘ Base for 1954” because her son,|1i% &) saying ‘‘the fight con Marvin, entered a letter to her] “ines te ere these setback. : which was adjudged the best in leaders of the Vietminh the USO-YMCA’s annual Mother’s Day Letter Contest. Welcomed Here Mrs. Sackler is a sweet, moth- erly woman and as she came down the landing ramp, opened her/a arms to her son and his wife. Her pretty daughter-in-law had id while waiting for the plane, “I’m so glad she could come. She’s a wonderful person, and we haven't geen her for nearly a year.” 4 It is Mrs. Sackler’s first trip to Florida, and she said she had been “wanting to come for a long time.” It was forty in Philadelphia when she left yesterday morning, and one of her first remarks after hug- ging her ‘children’ was, “It’s so sunny and. beautiful here.” She said too, “From up in the plane it looks like you live in the water.” She was most gracious to all the members of the group that met her, and to each one she said a word of thanks for helping make this visit possible, It was hard to tell whether “Mom” or the Chapmans were ‘the most excited over the prospects of a gala weekend and a visit with ach other. Wonderful Mother of Mine,” Larry Cederberg, accompanied by King- man Curry; solo, “O Blessed Day of Mother” by Joan Mullins and “Ava Maria” by Miss Lourdes . | Diaz. Miss Millicent Taylor will accompany Misses Mullins and Diaz. The Mother’s Day Elks Lodge Ritual will be presented by Exalt- ed Ruler Baker; Esteemed Lead- ing Knight, Hatry Knight; Esteem- ed Loyal Knight, Bill Neblett; Es- teemed Lecturing Knight, Harold Ruud; Ernest Betancourt and Cha- g | plain Sonny Harden. Leo B. Warren is in charge of decorations. an outpost three mile: (Continued on Page Two) 5 i Injured In Accident A woman identified by police as Islaina Jones, of 325 Catherine Street, suffered a fractured right arm when the bicycle she was riding struck an opened door on a truck on South Street Friday. Patrolman Fernando Stirrup, who investigated the accident, said that the truck door was opened into the traffic by William Bat- well, 1211 Packer Street. He added that Batwell helped the injured wo- man to her feet and asked her if she was injured. When she re- plied that she “didn’t know,” Stir- rup said that Batwell apologized and left the scene. When examination by a physician revealed Mrs. Smith’s injury, Bat- Eager Wait ‘The young torpedoman, stationed aboard the USS Gilmore, kept watching the sky as the time of his mother’s arrival drew near, As soon as the wheels touched the ground, he and his wife ran to- ward the plane. But as Mrs, Sackler paused for just a moment at the door, he made a typical (Continued on Page Two) More than 8,000 persons received gamma globulin shots here in the Past two days, Dr. C. W. Morrison, county health officer, said today. The total was 8,388. Here’s the breakdown by schools, the. Naval Hospital and the health clinic — the stations where the shots were given to expectant, mothers and children through 14 years of age. Naval Hospital — 4,615, Harris School — 650. * Truman School — 960. Convent — 345. High School — 346. Eye Specialist, M.D., inci: well picked by nd Will Be Hore For |} finite Siea'— ro [alt ately Pt Consultation and leaving the scene of an ac- The Naval hospital today cident. Saturday, May 15 giving GG to Persons who missed For Appointments, ' Call CLASSIC BALLET Languages PRINCESS NINA Children and Adults TEL. 2-3161 mother, Melvin Levitt; solo, “That! SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER USS Penguin || Goes To . | Nassau Salvage Downed Bomber Was Not A K.W.-Based Plane, Navy Says The USS Penguin (ASR) sailed at 8 a.m, Nassau to conduct salvage operations on a Navy Nep- tune bomber that crashed there yesterday, killing all 10 men of the crew. The Penguin, attached to Sub- Ron 12, was expected to arrive there tonight or tomorrow morn- ,ing, according to a Navy spokes- man. The two-engined bomber first was reported to have been a Key West based. plane. However, the Navy here said the plane was not from Key West but was believed to Pane been ag pagent ville. reque: salvage opera- tions came from Jacksonville. _ Crash Reported The plane crashed in tropic dark- ness yesterday during anti-submar- ine exercises in the Bahamas, the Asgoctanes Press SS Scaibiie The wite service said’the fell shortly after taking <a tom from Windsor Field, Nassau. It went into the water about 200 feet off shore (Continued on Page Two) Kiwanis Club Members Go To Miami Meet 39th International Fifteen members of the Key West Kiwanis Club left today for Miami and the 39th International conven- tion. The convention runs through Thursday. Those from Key West. are, Ralph Faraldo, president, Father John Armfield, first vice president, Bill Neblett, second vice president, Ira Albury, secretary, and Glynn Arch- er, Norton Harris, Joe Boza, Jim Staples, C. R. Reagan, Pat Kelly, Gene Anhier, Gleason Snow, pent Ketchings, Colonel .Holbrook, and Harry J. Mitchell. Most of the members are being accompanied by their wives. 10,000 Te Attend More than 10,000 delegates and visitors are expected at the meet- ing onDinner Key. The International Council meets tomorrow afternoon with greetings from the International president, Donald T. Forsythe, Carthage, Ill., newspaper publisher. The council also will hear re- ports on the convention program, Kiwanis election procedure, con- vention resolutions, Kid’s Day, Permanent home office and 40th anniversary plans, Kiwanis was established in 1915 at Detroit and today numbers more than 3,800 individual clubs with membership over 227,000; Neblett Polled 53 Per Cent Of Vote In County William Neblett, candidate for the state senate, polled 53 per cent of the Monroe County vote, according to figures he released today. In last Tuesday’s primary, Neb- lett got 3,407 votes (53 per cent) in this county, compared with in- cumbent Jim Franklin’s. 1,846 (28 per cent); Travis A. Gresham, Jr., 261 (.04 per cent); and Milton A. Parrott, 923 (15 per cent). In Lee County the vote went this way: Neblett. 997 (15 per cent); Frank- lin, 2850 (44 per cent); Gresham, 2554 (40 per cent); Parrott, 82 (.01 per cent), In Hendry County it was: Nebelett, 219 (13 per cent); Franklin, 680 (40 per cent); Gres- ham, 761 (44 per cent); Parrott, 49 (.03 per cent). In Collier County: Neblett, 380 (17 per cent); Frank- lin, 621 (28 per cent); Gresham, 1172 (52 per cent); Parrott, 61 (.03 per cent). The totals were: Neblett, 5003 (30 per cent); Franklin, 5997 (.356 Per cent); Gresham, 4748 (28 per cent); Parrott, 1115 (.07 per cent). Nobe today for Staff Photo, Kerns, - Cireuit Court Jury ‘Venire Drawn Friday A 6 name Circuit Court Jury | venire was drawn yesterday by | sudge Aquilino Lopez, Jr. The ‘list, returnable on Monday, May 11, is for civil cases to be tried in the Circuit Court. jawyer, Armando’ A- - Knight, John W. Parrish, Jack E. Dillon, Melvin E Russell, A. E. Martinez, Albert Al- bury, Kinsey L. Plummer. George Key, Robert F. Morrison, | Claude D. Valdez, Sr., Arthur L. Stewart, Jr., Edward W. Cabanas, Burton Richardson, Robert J. Whitehead, Stanley J. Barrett, N. B. Shanahan and John Joseph Stack. Ernest J. Avila, Evelio J. Rueda, Mario Alverez, Frank Key, Charles H. Thornburgh, Paul B. Richard- son, Posey T, Rutrough, Cecil T. Curry, Malcolm M. Watler, Clyde W. Montgomery, Milton O. Pea- cock, Thomas J. Cooper, Gerald Santana, William O. Wickers and J. O. Kemp. Eugene 0. Roberts, Julius A. (Continued on Fage Two) Poinciana School Is Ransacked Police are searching today for the owner of a pair of shoes and glasses found in the Poinciana School during a breaking and en- tering investigation. According to the police report, they were called to the school by. Principal Albert Carey. They found that thieves had entered the school through an open window and left through a back door in the school cafeteria. Nothing was found to be missing although refrigerators were open, ed and the principle’s office and desk were ransacked. Four mahogany trees were up- rooted and thrown on the steps of the school by the vandals, police said. Strunk Lumber Salesmen Understand Needs Of This Community At 120 Simonton, near Coca-Cola a is IN THE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1954 *, [Bateman Is Larceny Charge Friday Misappropriation Of $70 In State Funds Charged By JIM COBB Key West’s grand jury yesterday brought in a lar- ceny indictment charging that Brooks Bateman, former general manager of the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District misappropriated $70 in state funds, "GRAND MARSHAL—Mrs. Eula Clarice Sawyer, president of The National Gold Star Mothers, has been named Grand Parade aa ee Gold Star Mother Vill Head Key West Citis U.S. A. Mrs. Eula Sawyer ; Will Lead, Review May 15 Procession Mrs. Eula Clarice Sawyer of 518 Frances Street, president of The National Gold Star Mothers, Inc., Key West Chapter, has been select- ed by Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, American Legion, to he the'Grand Parade Marshal for this year’s Armed Forces Day Parade. Mrs. Sawyer is the wife of Ed- mund H. Sawyer, engineman ¢hief of the United States Coast Guard: She is the mother of five chil- dren, four of whom are living. She became a Gold Star Mother upon the death of her son, the late Cor- poral Clyde Reed Sawyer, of the igs States Army, on October 18, Died In Training Corporal Sawyer, who would have been 25 this May. 14, died while in Basic Training at Camp Stewart, Georgia. Mrs. Sawyer’s surviving chil- dren are: Lavonda Sawyer, 22, Glendora, 19, Edmund Sawyer II, 17, and Tom Sawyer, 6. Mrs. Sawyer is a native Key Wester and has lived the greatest part of her life in the city. Chief Sawyer. is at present serving a- board the Coast Guard , Cutter, White Sumac. Civic Activities Among her other civic club ac- tivities, Mrs. Sawyer is. the chap- lain of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary Unit 3911 for the year 1954-55; historian of Arthur Sawyer Unit No. 28, American Le- gion Auxiliary for the year 1954-55; Parliamentarian of the B. P. 0. DOES Drove No. 89 and assistant scoutmistress of the Brownies at the Wesley Community Center. This is also her second year as president of the Gold Star Mothers. Mrs. Sawyer will lead the Arm- ed Forces Day Parade on Satur- day, May 15, at 6:30 p. m. riding in a convertible. Upon reaching the intersection of White Street and Truman Avenue, the convertible will stpp and she will review the parade as it passes. Full honors will be paid to her by the units in the Parade. In selecting Mrs. Sawyer as the Grand parade Marshal, it’ was done from: the viewpoint of respect, honor and the supreme’ sacrifice paid by her late son, Corporal Clyde Reed Sawyer. The Parade committee consists of Judson Stephens, Chairman, An- tonio Arango, Jr., Frank Roma- guera, Vance C. Stirrup, M. E. Lewis, and Lt. S. P. Douglas, USN Navy” Liaison, Officer for the pa- rade. * * Fortress Loss Editor’s Note: The following dis- reach DIAL Indictment Is Expensive Deal Monroe County’s busy grand : fury worked 11 days before re- turning one indictment. During that time the jurors’ pay amounted to $900 at $5 per day per man. . The bailiff, who gets $8.a day, collected $88. To the $988 you can add the expenses of James McEwen and John Marsh, special inves- tigators appointed by the gov- ernor to probe the toll district. Of the 18-man grand jury, at least seven work in the Navy Yard. These members get their full pay, from the Federal gov- ernment but they must turn in their jury pay to the govern- ment. Direct Report tenants or workers For Quick Comm: Use CLASSIFIED Ads! You'll buyers and sellers— 25661 942-5662, The indictment, only crim- inal action taken by the grand jury since they were impaneled April 19, was returned yesterday at 4:40 p. m. — only minutes before special prosecutor James McEwen left for Tampa for a month’s stay. It charges that Bateman unlaw- fully appropriated for his own use, the services of one P. F. Sanchez, having a value of $70, with intent to deprive or defraud the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District. Used Painter Bateman, allegedly vsed the ser- vices of Sanchez, a painter employ- ed by the district, to do painting in his Marathon home. Sanchez was reportedly paid out of district funds. After the indictment was read in open court and certified by grand jury foreman Newell Pinder, Cir- cuit Judge Aquilino Lopez, Jr., or- dered it filed and referred to the Criminal Court. Criminal Court Judge Thomas S. Caro said that he would not set bond in the case until he has been Officially notified of the indictment. Bateman, aldng with Alonzo Co- thron, Islamorada ‘contractor, is BULLETIN Patch, filed at 9 a.m. Hanoi time— 8 p.m. EST Friday—is the first dispatch Associated Press corres- pondent Larry Allen has been able to get through French censorship with direct word of the fall of Dien Bien Phu. By LARRY ALLEN HANOI, Indochina (}—The French Union fortress of Dien Bien Phu fell last night under overwhelming tidal waves of attacking Vietminh Tebels after 56 days of heroic resistance. The Communist: Jed enemy le- gions, outnumbering the defenders six to one, crushed the heart of the trench and barbed wire bastion in northwest Indochina: in savage hand-to-hand fighting. The defenders—Frenchmen, For- eign Legionaires, Moors and loyal Vietnamese—fought on even after they had run out of ammunition, until they were completely over- run The fate of the 12,000-man gar- rison and the lone woman air force nursé, Miss Genevieve de Galard Terraube, was not learned. The nurse had been trapped in- side the fortress for weeks after the encircling rebels made it im- possible for planes to land at Dien Bien Phu. The French high command re- leased the first news of the fall of the fortress at 9 a.m. today, Hanoi time (8 p.m. EST yesterday). The high command deliberately suppressed all news of one of the biggest stories of the year for many hours after it had been known throughout the rest of the world. Not a single line of news about Dien Bien Phu and its fall was al- lowed to be sent from Hanoi all through Friday. Nothing had been sent up to 9 a.m. Saturday. When newsmen finally were per- lowed to be sent from Hanoi all through Friday. Nothing had been sent up to 9 a.m. Saturday. When newsmen finally were per- mitted to send out their stories, they found the Vietnamese com- munications hopelessly jam med with tens of thousands of words to be moved by Morse telegraph op- erators. Some of the copy may be several days in clearing. The latest report the command gave out here was the isolated strongpoint Isabelle, three miles to (Continued on Page Twr) FREE SHRIMP COCKTAIL ~ With Each Meal DUFFY’S TAVERN—218 Duval St. American & Italian Kitchen Entertainment ELINOR WILLIAMS at the Piano PIZZA PIES 75¢ UP Former Governor Fuller War- ren today said he would be glad to offer his “fullest co- operation” to the grand jury in its investigation of the toll district, the Associated Press reported. free on $5,000 bond after he was charged with grand larceny in con- nection with the alleged misuse of $49,000 in district funds. Probe To Resume Meanwhile, McEwen said yester- day that he will return to Key West on June 14 to continue his investigation into the affairs of the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District. He said that he will be Prepared to spend at least a week on the investigation at that time. The balance of the probe will apparently be in his hands since the “order” authorizing Dade Coun- ty Solicitor John Marsh to aid him expires Monday. Marsh said that he does not expect it to be renew- ed. Both he and McEwen were as- signed to the task by Acting Goy- ernor Charley E. Johns. McEwen added that he hopes to have the final grand jury report ready by the week of June 14 and that he expects an auditor’s report of the operation to be finished by that time. State Officials McEwen also said that he hopes to have a representative of the (Continued on Page Two) PRE-SCHOOL PHYSICAL EXAMS ARE SCHEDULED The interrupted schedule of phy- sical exams for children entering school next fall will be resume? next Tuesday. Horace O’Bryant, superintendent of public instruction, today re- leased the following schedule: Truman School, May 11 and 14; Douglass School, May 17 and 21; Poinciana School, May 25; Harris School, May 28. The schedule was interrupted by the mass gamma globulin’ injec- tions. OPEN SUNDAY for FirstCommunion Photos NATIONAL STUDIOS 925 WHITE STREET