The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 15, 1954, Page 2

Page 2 Mother Saves |Your Child Children From Vicious Dog CLEVELAND (® — A pregnant mother clung with bloody hands to the lunging back of her crazed boxer dog to save her children from his fangs. Police arrived to help and accidentally shot her in the leg. Mrs. Agnes Stavnicky, 30, mother of three small children and ex- pecting a fourth next month, was doing laundry in her basement yes- terday when the 90-pound dog, Baron, began snapping and snarl- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, June 15, 1954! Today By Dorothy V. Whipple, M. D. (®) Newsfeatures Along with the pleasant things of} HOLLYWOOD (#—How do you good old summertime comes the fear of polio. Polio begins with vague symp- toms: fever, a generally tired and irritable feeling and headache. There may be vomiting and diar- rhea; there may be constipation. film the life story of a man who is scheduled to die July 30? That is the problem’ facing pro- ducer Wallace MacDonald and writer Jack DeWitt, who are charged with putting on the screen the life of Caryl Chessman. They are filming the criminal’s book, “Cell 2455, Death Row.” which Columbia bought for $15,000. These are the symptoms of lots of minor illnesses. Don’t jump to the conclusion your child has polio just because he has a headache and a fever. It’s much more likely to be a throat infection or flu or a stomach upset than polio, However, it’s a good idea to have your child seen by a doctor whenever he gets sick. Mild ill- nesses and serious ones often start the same way. If you can’t get to the doctor \right away, there are two simple tests that may may reassure you. If your child can bend his head so that his chin touches his chest, and with his nightstick, Moenich fired if he can put his head between his | three shots from his pistol. One| ‘nees, he probably doesn’t have bullet ricocheted and hit Mrs. ree iioee avevnclio. ie ens} sky. j eae dog ran up the Portant that he be under the care bt man, am - igen aH, anh and killed it a it leaped to prevent serious after-effects by for his throat. Pe taea d weakened muscles from Mrs. Stavnicky’s husband is a af ee ° foreman for the Lederer Iron &| The great majority of children ing at her. Grabbing it, she yelled upstairs to her sister-in-law, Miss Margaret Stavnicky, to phone police and put the children in a bedroom. The dog bit her hands, but she straddled its back and hung on to its neck. Bullet Ricohets Patrolman Albert Moenich found the beast racing around the base- ment with the mother bouncing on its back. Unable to hit the dog “Steel Co. Her children, ‘are Pa.|Who do get polio never have any tricia, 12, Kenneth; 11, and Bar- Paralysis at any time. Of those bara, 7. ; who do have some paralysis dur- ing the acute stage a goodly num- S ub T e par zwove: acon ae ew who ave considerable pa- way ram ralysis improve a good deal dur- Fire Ca a once. " { uses any weakness remains it is . very important that the child con- tinue to have whatever physical Panic Today therapy the doctor recommends. Many weakened muscles can be NEW YORK #—Panic developed brought back to fair function with today when fire broke out in a|0ng continued treatment. subway train near the 86th Street| During the polio season, and es- station of the Lexington Avenue | Pecially if a few cases of the dread- Sine: , ed seers occur in your com- Acrid smoke, apparently from a|™unity, you may be asking what short circuit, peter — the | You can do to protect ‘your child, ears and early reports said about|, Nobody knows exactly how polio 25 persons were injured or made|!8 Spread from person to person. ill 7 We do know, however, that the A group of about 20 persons| Vitus that causes it is present in pushed through the doors and the mouth secretions and also in climbed to an emergency exit,|e stool of people who have the only to find themselves momen-| disease. It is probably that the dis- tarily trapped by’a sidewalk grat! ease is caught by getting this virus ing. The group, including many|im the mouth. high school students, screamed| But everyone who gets a dose of and shouted. polio virus doesn’t come down with The shouts attracted a man in| the disease, a nearby church, He obtained a It has been discovered that when crowbar and pried open the grat-|#,¢ase of polio. occurs in a house- ing, releasing the trapped passen- hold almost everyone in the house gers. f will have the germ, even if not an- The fire broke out at 8:01 a.m,,|Other one becomes sick. These in a seven-car southbound local healthy people are just as likely enroute to Brooklyn Bridge. About| ‘0 spread the disease around the 150 yards north of the 86th Street|°mmunity as is the person with section, a contact shoe that takes | Polio — more so, in fact, because power from the'third rail became | the sick person is at home in bed. stuck and smoke ‘poured A great many people seem to the first two cars. resist catching polio. Maybe it’s be- Passengers became panicky|cause they have had small doses when the smoke spread to other | 9 the virus from time to time and cars. Car windows were broken as}ave built up an immunity. This riders sought to escape. may be the reason why: children are more ee than grown- i 9 ° ups, to polio — they haven’t had Toy Gun Gives time or opportunity to build up re- sistance. ing In any case, in time of a polio Fighters Nerve epidemic there are probably many healthy people walking around TOKYO wW—It was closing time | Who have polio virus in their bod- at the Heiwa Sogo Bank here. In|1€8. To protect your child, take a walked two desperadoes, one toting |{ittle extra care with cleanliness. a pistol. See to it that hands are well wash- They ordered five frightened |€4 before meals and, if you can, bank employes inside the vault, |before they go in the mouth. All five were proceeding meek-| Since anyone is more apt to| ly until one took a second glance |¢atch anything when he is tired or | at the threatening weapon. chilled, it’s a good idea to avoid! “Toy,” he shouted. All five grap- | fatigue. | pled with the gunmen. They heard} Probably it’s also a good idea the pistol click but fought on and |to keep children out of crowds dur- subdued the holdup men. ing a polio epidemic. Avoid crowd- Then they took a good look at|ed stores, amusements parks, mov- the “toy” and shuddered. ies. It wasn’t. At the same time don’t make a —_—__——— hermit of your child. Let him play FLORIDA OLDSTERS _ [with his friends and live as nor- (Continued from Page One) | Mal a life as possible. be enough to maintain benefits at| The time may soon be at hapd/ their present level until April, 1955, |When we will have a vaccination By then, the Legislature will be in against polio, but for this summer session and in position to pass a | You will have to protect your child deficiency appropriation to keep| With general measures. up pensions until the end of the HELICOPTER LANDS fiscal year on eee mr 1955. Special House a mate com+ mittees appointed to study the situ- NEAR CRASH SITE ation promised to recommend a National attention has been brought to Chessman via his book, in which he details his life in crime. He has confessed 15 felon- ies charged to him, but not two others which brought him the death sentence for kidnaping. He has personally waged a long legal battle to escape the gas chamber but now is slated to die July 30. A committee that includes many writing people has been trying to get his sentence commuted, argu- ing that he worth more to society alive than dead. MacDonald emphasized that the film would take no sides in Chess- man’s fight for life. “We will present the story in a documentary style, like a March of Time,” the producer remarked. “We will be coldly objective, build- ing no case for him or for society.” Ah yes, but doesn’t the audience tend to sympathize with the lead- Questionnaire On Red Influence Is Given To Guzman _ By SAM SUMMERLIN TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras @ — Eighty army officers have handed a questionnaire to Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman about Communist influences in thay country, and demanded a satisfac- tory answer by the end of the week. This was reported today in pri- vate advices from the Guate- malan capital. Official quarters in Washington received a report last night saying the army had given the President an ultimatum to quit sometime to- day, and that he had agreed pro- vided the army guaranteed not to molest any Guatemalans. But the later information from the Guate- malan capital received here said Arbenz had until the end of the week to answer. The questions were handed to him yesterday. If the army. should oust Arbenz, he presumably would try to go to Belize, British Honduras, where he was reported to have a large sea- going yacht at anchor. Two former Guatemalan defense officials who fled their Communist- tinged land say the army is on the verge of revolt. TODAY'S STOCK MARKET NEW YORK, «® — The stock market started a shade higher to- day and: then developed a lower trend in early dealings. The swing in either direction was small with price changes usually in the smaller fractions. Heading lower’ were the railroads oils, airlines, chemicals, steels, steels, motors and distillers. The aircrafts, building materials, and electrical equipments were slightly higher. The remainder of the market was mixed. Among lower stocks were Beth- |lehem Steel, Studebaker, Montgom- ery Ward, Schenley Industries, American Telephone, American Smelting, Allied Chemical, New York Central, and Standard Oil (NJ). Higher were Douglas Aircraft, Zenith, Consolidated Edison, Glenn Martin, Kennecott Copper, West- inghouse Electric, General Electric | and U.S. Gypsum. Radioactive Snow TOKYO (®—Japanese . mountain climbers were warned today not to quench thirst with snow. Chemists at Kanazawa University $1,057,078 deficiency appropriation. The board said that sum will be needed to maintain pensions to the end of the current biennium. After June, 1955, a new biennial welfare appropriation will be avail- able to the board. Acting Gov. Johns asked the board to undertake a study of the cost of liberalizing the old age assistance program to permit aid to pensioners having resources worth more than‘ $600. Present regulations permit only that value over and above any homestead which may be owned by a pen- sioner. The federal government permits a maximum of $1,500 in resource: under its program of matching welfare funds, Alabama has selected a wood- pecker, the yellowhammer, as its state bird. TOKYO ” — Clearing weather | in western Honshu said tests,show- late today permitted a helicopter|ed snow atop peaks in the area to land two men near ihe site of a| called Japan’s Alps was radioac- Navy plane crash on Yaku Island ;tive. in which 17 men are believed to| Recent U.S. hydrogen bomb have died. z | tests in the Pacific were presumed There was no immediate report | to be the cause. from the two men. | _ The plane crashed Wednesday. ] Stormy weather and the jungle had | REDS BLAME U.S. blocked all efforts to reach it until | FOR FRENCH TROUBLES today. TOKYO «—The Communist Pei- i i led th Bell To Aid Climbers Ping radio today ca e collapse of the Laniel Cabinet in France an TOKYO W—The Japanese gov-| inevitable result of the Geneva con- ernment is building a bell house ference. for lost mountain climbers in the} The Red radio blamed U.S. in- western Honshu area. |fluence for guiding the French Wandering mountain climbers | Course in the conference and added can follow the peal of the bell to | that French political cricles “came shelter in a house underneath the | to see finally that the Laniel Cab- bell tower. |inet had to be thrown out in the {SSSA eset | interests of the conference.” Read Citizen Daily| Read The Citizen Daily Hollywood Notes By Bob Thomas ing player, even in a crime pic- ture? . “Not necessarily in this case,” remarked MacDonald. “Not if we tell the story as it was written in the book, and we are required to do so. “There may be some sympathy evoked from his younger days. His family was very poor and he tells of how he was sick in bed and how his mother, who was para- lyzed, called to say something was wrong. The boy went in the kitchen and found his father lying on the floor with the gas on. “His first urge to steal came when he noticed other people’s groceries were not the same as his family’s, which came from re- lief. He began to steal food. “But then he began to steal more than he needed. It became a matter of bravado with him. When others in his gang would say, ‘Let’s steal a car,” he’d say, ‘Let’s steal three cars.’ Every time he got out of a reformatory he would return to crime.” . DeWitt called him ‘a precocious boy who became a precocious genius. You can tell from the book that he studied until he knew all the tricks of a professional writer.” PROPERTY VALUATION (Continued from Page One) cost of operation of Monroe Gen- eral Hospital and two and a half mills, for debt service. That task, which entails mak- ing 9,000 separate entries, norm- ally requires ten days of inten- sive work On the part of the county tax assessor’s staff. How- ever, since the city does not have the proper equipment, it has been estimated that unless the city hires a battery of clerks CARR DOESN’T THINK | (Continued From Page One) when the hearings are over, that some way be worked out with the administration so his subcommittee | can get the names of persons he | said were guilty of acts of treason | in fighting the war in Korea. Every “blackout order,” whether by the Truman~ administration or any other, must be cancelled, Mc- Carthy said. The American people, McCarthy to make the entries by typewriter ,said, are entitled to the informa- it will require an estimated 60 tion. days. : Sticks To Contention’ Hence, the city tax collector} Carr, in the witness chair for may be delayed in preparing his|the second day, stuck to his con- bills. tention that Stevens and Adams tried to stop MeCarthy’s investiga- U.S..CUBA FERRY LINE (Continued from Page One) corporation will be forced to ne- tion of Reds in the Army And he declared, in response to a question from Sen. McClellan (D-Ark), that he believes they gotiate for other properties in Family Cat Causes Cave-In BALTIMORE — Mrs. Irene Showalter saw the family cat scratching at a hole in the back yard yesterday. So the South Baltimore house- wife went out and chopped at the hole with a hoe, thinking it might be a rat hole. Then she decided to wait until her husband came home from work to investigate further. But by the time Showalter came back, the back yatd was minus a chunk of earth four feet in diam- eter and at least eight feet deep. Police said the cave-in might mark the site of an old well. DULLES TELLS OF (Continued from Page One) does not have any information from a clearly dependable source. There is no doubt, he continued, that a reign of terror is going on in Guatemala and there is no doubt either that the great majority de- sire to clean their own house. This is being made difficult, Dulles, declared, by Communist terrorism which he said is dramatically pointed up by a re- cent statement of a Guatemalan cabinet officer. He quoted the unidentified minis- ter as warning the Guatemalan people that any disturbance would mark the beginning of behead- ing of anti-Communists in Guate- mala. ‘ Talks May Be Asked Dulles said he was unable to confirm but would not deny reports that the United States is prepared to ask for a foreign ministers’ con- ference on the Guatemalan situa- tion at a meeting tomorrow of the Council of the Organization of American States. He recalled that an exchange of views is now going on among the American nations with respect to the possibility of holding a foreign ministers’ conference in the near future. But he said he has no knowledge that the matter might be brought up at the OAS countil meeting tomorrow. Chaplain Laudenslager (Continued from Page One) thers, Disabled Veterans, B. P. 0. Does Drove No. 89 and the Arthur Sawyer Post of the American Le- gion. Pledge To Flag After the pledge to the flag was made by the assembly, Lauden- slager advised the group that two words had been omitted. He said that the Congress of the United States during these times has seen fit to include the words “under God” in the pledge. ~ Miss Patricia Byrd gave a leng- thy, well-prepared talk on the com- plete history of the Stars and Stripes. She said that she learned a lot about the American Flag in doing the research for her talk. Miss Byrd will be attending the University of Southern” California shortly. An outstanding speech was de-| livered by Hilario Ramos, Jr. He said in his short talk that every- one could serve the flag well by being active in religious work. Mrs. Ralph Milner was pianist for two vocal soloists, Judge Eva Warner Gibson and Peter Simp- son. Mrs. Gibson sang ‘Columbia the Gem of the Ocean” and “God Bless America.” Simpson and Mrs. Gibson also sang a vocal duet. The invocation was given by Rab- bi Abraham Schwartz and the ben- ediction by Father John J. Capel-| le, SJ. Participating in the ceremonies were Jack Baker, Exalted Ruler, and Harry Knight, Bill Neblett, Key West or change its terminue to Marathon or even Miami,” Williams said in his letter. He also said that the city should get more revenue from the dock than the $12,500 offered by Caribbean Ferries. Ship Converted During last night’s discussion, Hines pointed out that the boat to be used in the ferry service, a war-surplus landing ship, is now being converted for passenger and ear ferry service at the Merrill- Stevens drydock in Miami. He added that their contract calls for the eompletion of the project by August 20 and they plan to start service from Key West —if they can get a dock — by September 1. When Commissioner Louis Car- bonell asked if the company would post a performance bond to guar- anteé that date, Hines said that he would have to take it up with his board of directors. And Commissioner Delio Cobo questioned whether or not the entire -dock should be leased to the company. Hines explained that they would require the entire facility to keep out concessionaires who might hurt their business by riee-gouging. ‘3 Cobo Speaks Cobo held that the city should be allowed to keep the use of some of the property to gain add- ed revenue. The company has agreed to make repairs to the dock so that they can operate and to pay the city a flat rental of $12,500 per year. They invited the city com- mission to go to Miami at their expense to inspect the boat at first hand. (i Later, City Manager Victor Lang and City Attorney J. Y. Por- ter were instructed to meet with representatives of the company and draw up a tentative lease agreement prior to further discus- sion,» - ht POST-MORTEM (Continued from Page One) tified to the state treasurer in 1951 ‘and 1952 that $300,000 in state dis- ability. fund money was on deposit at the South Amboy Trust Co., which Hoffman headed. A total of $1,200,000 in state funds was listed as deposited in the bank in Hoffman’s home town. Three top division employes were suspended as a result of the probe of the division, the governor announced. A fourth employe re- signed. Meyner, Richman and State Commissioner of Banking and in- surance Warren Gaffney said they have not yet determined how the 1949 deposit affects $300,000 Hoff- man confessed he embezzled prior to 1938. Public Hearing Richman said the three persons suspended would face a public hearing before Meyner or some- one designated by him Aug. 16. They are: William S. Lutz, chief fiscal and personnel officer of the Division of Employment Security. Jean A. Chianese, chief account- ant of the division. Thomas B. Faherty, supervisor of purchase and stores. The name of the man who re- signed was not disclosed. Richman said he was reported to be ill. Hoffm'an died of a heart attack in New York June 4 at the age of 58. His daughter, Mrs. Ada Hoffman Leonard of Madison, disclosed to state officials a letter Hoffman had written her revealing his embezzle- ment some 20 years ago to pay for his election to Congress in 1927 and for his successful 1934 guber- natorial campaign. Family To Repay Mrs. Leonard pledged the Hoff- man family would repay every cent of the money. Hoffman’s wi- dow last Monday was voted a/ $6,000-a-year pension by the state ( legislature and the bill awaits | Meyner’s signature. Hoffman, affable after-dinner speaker and president of the fun- loving Circus Saints and Sinners, | was suspended March 18 by Mey- | ner from the $13,500 post he held | since he left the governorship in 1938. At the time of the suspension, Meyner said he had evidence of “widespread irregularities” in the purchase of division supplies and equipment. The day after Hoffman’s death, Mrs. Leonard demanded that Mey- ner clear her father’s name imme- diately. In a letter to Meyner last night, she apologized to the gover- | nor because “for almost two weeks | you have appeared in a crucially unfair position.” Harold Rudd and Ernest Betan- court, Knights. used “quite improper” tactics. He declined, however, to express an opinion as to whether their conduct could be described as contrary “‘to the security of our country.” The Republican majority of the hearings subcommittee is aiming for a wind up of the hearings on Friday, but continued feuding be- tween Sen. McCarthy and Sen. 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