The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 17, 1954, Page 1

Key West, Floride,. has. the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXV Ne. 117. THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER ‘KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MAY 117, 1954 IN THE U.S.A. PRICE Five CENTS Supreme Court Bans School Segregation Doctrine Of “Separate But Equal” Denounced As Unconstitutional WASHINGTON.—(AP).—The Supreme Court today unanimously struck down segregation in the nation’s pub- lic schools. The tribanal said that to separate Negro and white pupils,violates the constitutional guarantee of equal Robert Sacker, representing the Key West High School Band, vilian float: Mrs. Eula Sawyer, president of the Gold Star a Ohad Menal dhs pecnde 7 Lt. A. Robertson, representing ZX-11, for the best mili- tery floats C. E. White, repcetenting the US, Fleet Sonar School, for the best marching unit; Casterson, director of the band—Citizen Staff Photo, Karns. Armed Forces Day Parade Is Biggest Yet With 91 Units Tourists and Key Wake alike jammed, the Navy. Base by thousands Saturday afternoon to help celebrate, Aimed Forces Day. It was open house at the ‘ Navy’s big base and the civil- ians came to watch rescue _and diving operations and to visit ships and subs, ‘The Navy estimated that 5,000 persons Visited the base. Later, thousands lined the curbs along Duval Street and Truman Avenue: to see the big parade, As floats, decorated cars, march- ing units and bands passed, Your- teen jets roared overhead. To climax the day, there was the Armed Forces Day Ball at the American. Legion Home on Stock Island. ‘Trophies for the winning parade units were award- ed at the ball. ‘Theme Cartied Out Power for Peace was the theme of this year’s Armed Forces Day and the public saw it aboard sub- marines and other ships of war at the Navy Station. At Bayview ‘k, the Na mounted a powerful jet engi Every half hour the engine was started and operated for about five minutes. In nearby Garrison Bight, spec- ‘tators saw a demonstration of air- sea rescue operations. A helicop- ter picked a man from a life raft in a precision drill that took less than two minutes to complete. Meanwhile, crowds at the Naval Station tramped aboard the USS Gilmore, submarine tender, the USS Darby, destroyer escort, the USS Medregal, a submarine. “Others took advantage of the free boat rides that were run all afternoon from in front of Build- ing 124. For the kiddies, there was a special treat — a ride on a fire truck. The kids got a 10-minute — the dimes go- Reliet Society. Approxim witnessed bie * where they twirled their rifles while marching. Following the Marines, the Grand Parade Marshal car, a sleek Buick Skylark, by .Mulberg Chevrolet Company, came rolling down the street with Norman Whitesides at the wheel and the Grand Parade Marshal tiding in the re: 33 Four Divisions “There were four divisions in parade with a band in’ each divi- sion. The third division was for- tunate in having two bands. The Key West High School Band marched in the first division wear- pirate uniforms. The U. S. Fleet Sonar School Band—was in the second, ‘Welter’s Cornet and . | Cushman truckster. for ‘the best band; and Dr. Harold Printed last Friday. They includ- 'éd: U; 8, Naval Air Station March- Hing Unit, U. S. Naval. Air’Statidit: || Float, Duffy’s Tavern decorated car, Texaco decorated car, Harris P.T.A. Cub Pack, B.S.A. March- ing Unit, and Voiture Locale 728, 40 and’8 (the fun-and honor group of the American Legion) in a This latter group passed out gum and candy during the parade to the children watching. A breakdown of the icipat- d | ing units indicate that mir 22 floats, 22 marching units, 38 d | decorated cars and five miscel- laneous entries made up this vast Armed Forces Day Parade. Espec- ially note-worthy were the Jarge number of Cub and Boy Scout units participating. Winners Announced Upon the conclusion of the Par- ade the representatives of the participating units attended the Armed Forces Day Ball, which was also sponsored by the Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, at their Am- erican Legion Home on Stock Is- land. This was the climax to a week- long celebration, headed by co- chairmen Lt. (jg.) W. W. McCue, USN, and Lou Carbonell. During the Ball the winners and judges for the contest were an- nounced. The judges for the con- test were: Major C. L. West, Com- manding Officer, U. S, Marine Bar- racks, Mr. Jose Planas, Post Com- | mander, William Weech Post 168, Gilmore (AS 16) Band in the fourth. The stirring music provid- ed by these units added zip to the ‘entire parade. For the ‘irst time in the history of Key West the local American Legion Post, Arthur Sawyer. Post No, 28, the group that sponsored the parade, secured the presence of Department Commander Joseph A. Boyd, Department of Florida, nd | American Legion who rode in his official blue car at the rear of the Key West Guard of Honor. The Department Commander, who lives in Hialeah, was accompanied to Key West by his wife. Additions To Parade The parade formation had several additions after it was RE-ELECT JAMES FRANKLIN James Fi 7} Iways voted for lation deal the bey pberpbrei bs Ag Florida. we Lah as es a fri of ‘he Public School system and the teachers. Educators for James Franklin because know that an him in't tha sete Senate they have a tried thay knew VOTE FOR James A. Franklin for State Senator LEVER NO. 3-A (Paid Political Advertisement) American Legion, Mr. Wilbur Franklin, Principal, Truman Ele- mentary School, Mrs. Isabel Flem- ing, Monroe County Probation Of- ficer and Mrs. Florence G. Rabon, President, Mother’s Auxiliary Club of St. Joseph School and Convent of Mary Immaculate. The group of guests on the re- viewing stand included Captain W. H. Truesdell, Commanding Officer of the U. S. Fleet Sonar School, and Mrs. Truesdell; Captain C. L. Murphy, Jr., Chief of Staff, U. S. Naval Base; Sheriff and Mrs. John M. Spotswood; Mayor pro tem and Mrs, Paul R. Roberts; City Manager and Mrs. Victor Lang; Charles Machin, Post Commander, V. F. W. Post ‘8911; Lang Milian, Post Commander, Vv. F. W. Post 6021; a Mrs. Mary Moreno, president, American Legion Aux- iliary Unit 28. ji Trophies Presented Units receiving trophies were: Best civilian float, won by the Chamber of Commerce, Retail Di- (Continued on Page Two) Heavy Boat Timbers Strunk Lumber 120 Simonton St., near Coca Cola protection of the laws. opinion which declared: Justice Warren read the court’s “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of separate but equal has no place. Separate ed- ucational facilities are inherently unequal. “Therefore, we hold that Sa SSS | the plaintiff's. Negro par- Four Are Nabbed On Gambling Charge Saturday In a series of twe lightning- like raids 10 minutes apart, Pe- lice Chief B. G. Perez and Pat treiman B. H. Waite arrested four men on gambling charges. The gambling equipment in- volved was punch beards de- signed for betting en baseball games, - At 11:20 a, m. Saturday, chetiee Riggs, of 1105 Margaret was arrested at 610 Duval Ps ind_ charged with gambling 26th Polio Victim Is. | Listed Here 8,605 Persons Are Inoculated With GG Here A seven-year-old white boy who did not receive gamma globulin shots was Key West’s 26th polio victim this year, the County Health reported today. - ‘The boy has a non-paralytic form of the disease. Within the past 10 days, 8,605 Key West children under 15 years of age and expectant mothers were given gamma globulin. shots as a temporary polio preventative. Mass Shots Complete No more gamma gobulin shots |! will be given here except to con- tacts with known polio cases, the seal Health Department said. The inoculations were given May 6, 7, and 8, with maggere being taken care of last In last year’s mass sen inocu- lations, 8,550 persons in the county were given shots. This year’s pro- gram was confined to Key West because no oe cases have been outside of Of the 26 cases this year, 23 were Navy personnel or Navy de- pendents.. The others w2re civil- ians. Up to this time last year, only two cases had been reported. Here is a breakdown of the num- ber of inoculated at schools, the Naval Hospital and the County Health Cline: Harris School 650; Truman School, 960; the Convent, 345; Na- val Hospital, 4,615; high school, Russell Arnold of Naval Air Station. Transportation Pool, is the Winner of the . $100 War Bond Awarded by the Cooties & Cootieties Saturday, a = ents and others similarly sit- uated for whom the action has been brought are, reason of the segregation complained of deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. “This disposition makes unnecessary any discussion whether such segregation al- so violates the due process clause of the 14th Amend- ment. The court announced, however, that it will hear further arguments this fall on how and when to end the practice. : Thus many months—per- haps more time will elapse before the historic ruling actually wipes out the sep- “Tron Curtain” Blast Leveled By McCarthy by | arate schools now in exist- ence in many states, The 14th percep was adopt- of slaves by. Pre! Lincoln. It says no state may deny ‘any person oy process and equal protection of the law, nor abridge their privileges or im- munities, States Involved The cases. decided today—with the court’s findng that segrega- tion is unconstitutional — involved five states: South Carolina, Virginia, Kansas, Delaware and the District of Co- lumbia But lawyens said a ruling against segregation would affect a‘ total of 17 states which have laws re- quiring separation of the races in schools, plus three other states having laws which permit—but do not ation The court was told the 17 states and the District of Columbia had 70 per cent of the nation’s Negro population, or 10,522,495 Negroes out of a 15,042,692 total States with permissive segregation had an ad- ditional one per cent. “ Florida Requirement States whose laws require seg- Tegation were listed for the court as Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Lou- , Maryland, Mississippi, Mis- souri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, tion were listed as New Mexco, Wyoming and Kansas In an apparent effort to pre- clude any advance leak of today’s us ae it today before it could be determined how the court had decided the cases. Long Review After reviewing a long line of decisions bearing on the “‘separate but equal” doctrine, Chief Justice Warren wrote: “We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other ‘tan- gible’ factors may be equal, de- prive the children of the minority group of equal education opportu- nities? We believe that it does.” Warren said the court’s decision read. by GRATP MARSHAL-—Mrs. w ‘Armed Forces Day patade, is ‘seen above a& she reviewed. the marchers af Truman and White Sireets—Citizen Staff Photo, Karns. C. B. Harveys Are Worth Two Cents To Sailor Mayor and Mrs. C. 8. Har- vey were worth two cents Sat- urday. . Ledr. Jackson L. Morton, skip- per of the USS Darby (De 218) and a sailor aboard the Darby made a bet. The skipper was to pay the sailor five cents for every person under 3,000 who visited the Darby. Or, the sail- er was to pay the skipper one cent for every person over 1 000 who visited the ship. The mayor and his wife were numbers 1,001 and 1,002 to board the Darby. As Ledr. Mor- ton showed the couple around the ship, they passed the sailor with whom the skipper had the bet. “ “Here’s two cents worth,” the skipper said to the sailor. Later, the situation was ex- plained to the mayor. Delegation To Cuban Fiesta To Leave Wed. A large delegation of prominent Key Westers will take part in the two-day celebration of Cuban In- dependence as special guests of the Cuban Government. They will leave for Cuba aboard a special plane at 8:20 Wednesday orning. Cuban officials will meet the Key West dignitaries at the airport. From there, party will go to the End-Of-Week Accidents Are Listed Show Variety Of Accident Causes Key West motorists were involv- ed in a variety of arcidents dur- ing the last half of last week. On Friday at 5:18 p. m., Charles J. August, a Navy man, from Clearfield, Pennsylvania was charged with causing an accident and driving while intoxicated when he failted to grant the right of way at the intersection of Duval and United Streets. He hit the car driv- en by Orfilio Pazo, 1229 Grinnell Street broadside causing $500 da- mage to his car and $75 damage to Pazos’ vehicle. Child Injured A two-and-a-half-year-old boy, Charles E. Blair received a cut on the forehead when a car driven by Richard Lydon Carpenter 1515 17th Terrace pulled out of 5th Street and hit the right front fender of the car driven by Marion E. Clair, a Navy man living at Shady Rest Trailer Park. Blair was driving west on Flagler Street when the accident occurred. The baby was treated at the US Naval Hospital. The accident occurred at 5:45 p. m. Wednesday. There was one freak accident at 5:43 p. m. Wednesday. Mrs. Thel- ma F. Power, 65 Rest Beach, lost control of her car when it hit a hole in the road and caused her to run into an electric pole. Damage (Continued on Page Two) ;; Hearings Recess For Decision On Course To Follow WASHINGTON @® — A presi- dential order clamping secrecy on executive branch actions in the McCarthy - Army row brought a denunciation from Sen. McCarthy as a “cover up” today He: pro- Posed suspending Senate hearings while the issue is threshed out. Sen. Symington (D-Mo) objected to halting the hearings, even for the day. The Senate Investigations sub- committee fell into argument over what course it would take. In the upshot, the group recessed at 11:55 am. (EDT) to decide. behind closed doors their course in view of what McCarthy de- nounced as the “Iron Curtain” im- Posed by the President. Public sessions were scheduled to be re newed at 3 p.m. EDT. Calm Reception The President’s order was lai 4 |before the subcommittee when i convened, and received a, ealm reception at the timc. But later, Sen. Jackson (D- Wash), McClellan (D-Ark) and Symington fired a few critical volleys at it. McCarthy asked for a five- minute recess to confer with his aides, Roy M. Cohn and Francis P. Carr, about their course in the light of what he. termed this “al- most unbelievable situation.” Returning, he told the subcom- mittee: “I must admit I’m at somewhat of a loss as to what to do at this moment.” “For some fantastically strange reason,” he said, “the Iron Cur- tain is pulled down” forbidding testimony concerning what was said or done’ at a meeting last January attended by Atty. Gen. Brownell, top White House Aide Sherman Adams, and others. McCarthy’s Statement McCarthy said: “The American people will not stand for a cover - up half way through these hearings.” McCarthy described the Jan. 21 meeting as one at which the charges the Army has fired at him of “improper” pressures to get favored treatment for Pvt. G. David Schine, “were instigated and conceived.” He said he didn’t believe Ei- senhower was really respcasible for the order cutting off possible testimony from government of- ficials about this meeting. “I don’t think his judgment is that bad,” McCarthy declared. He feels sure, McCarthy added, that Eisenhower would not have issued it “if he knew what it was all about.” McCarthy said the- questions raised by the White House direc- tive “‘go far beyond” what was said and done at the Jan. 21 meet, They deal not only with “this occupant of the White House” but whether future occupants ‘‘can by an executive order keep the facts from the American people,” Me- Carthy said. In addition to the President’s or- der, there was a ruling from Atty. Gen. Brownell today that no parts of a document produeed by Me- Carthy earlier ir tie hearings, pur- porting to summarize an FBI re- port on security risks at Ft. Mon- mouth, N. J.. should be made public. RE-ELECT FRANK BENTLEY County Commissioner . and District Present Chairman of Important Finance Committee A Man of Experience and Mature Judgment is required to Properly Prepare Your County Budget and see that Every Tax Dollar is Properly Spent and Accounted For. 35 YEARS ACCOUNTING EXPERIENCE (Paid Political Advertisement)