The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 1, 1954, Page 9

Thoredey, July 1 THE ‘By FORREST EDWARDS HANOI, Indochina “® — The French announced today they are the southern i i 7 i Hi ls ie EE i z 3 5 3 i i : i i i Hi F & KEY WEST CITIZEN Navy Lifts Ban , On Friedin’s Perky Lodge Friedin’s Perky Lodge, on Sugar Loaf Key, is no longer off limits to Naval personnel, the Navy said today. The restaurant had been off limits for sanitary reasons. How- ever, it came out at the last meet- ing of the Armed Forces Discipli- nary Control Board that Friedin had complied with the sanitary requirements, Cornelius Friedin, operator of the lodge, is free in $250 bond on charges of selling whiskey without a license, possession of whiskey in violation of his beer license, pos- session of cigarettes on which a tax had not been paid, and sell- ing cigarettes on which a tax had not been paid. - His case is expected to come up in the July term of Criminal Court. The Weatherman Says Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy today thru Friday with passing showers. Not much change in the temperature. Low tonight near 76-78 degrees; high Friday about 89-90 degrees. Moderate to fresh easterly winds, occasionally moderately strong offshore. Small Craft Warning displayed. Florida: Clear to partly cloudy and continued warm thru Friday with only a chance of a few local showers. Jacksonville Thru the Florida Straits and East Gulf: Small craft warnings displayed from Miami southward thru the Keys for fresh, occasionally moderate strong 20-30 mph easterly winds with increas- ingly rough seas. Elsewhere in dis- trict fresh easterly winds over the south portion and light to moder- ate easterly over the north por- tion, Weather partly cloudy thru Friday. Scattered showers south Western Caribbean: Moderate to fresh easterly winds and partly cloudy weather thru Friday with a few local showers. Weather Summary for the Tropi- cal Atlantic, Caribbean Sea Area and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico: There are no important waves or other signs of disturbange in the tropics today. A very weak wave .|is noted near Mona passage and Dai, the ex-Emperor of Annam. Viet Nam’s new Premier, Ngo . | Moonrise i : E3 i i i i i i i Fi 5 ag 3 Ks apeety i ee EF i 28 fli i a F I i another has faded out in the south- eastern Gulf but only a few light showers attend therm. Observation Taken at Post Office Building, 7:00 A.M., EST, Key West, Fla., July 1, 1954 Temperatures Highest yesterday Lowest last night . 983 . 80 aaT . 4 Pracipita Total last 24 hours Total this month Deficiency this year Total this year 21.38 ins. Excess this year +7.26 ins. Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. , 19% Barometer (Sea Level), 7 30.04in: 1017.6 mbs. Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise Sunset .01 ins. -01 ins. -.13 ins. (Naval Base) High Tides Low Tides 10:45 a.m. 3:54 a.m. 11:58 p.m. 5:34 p.m. ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Time of Height of Station— Tide high water Bahia Honde (bridge) .....—eh 10m No Name Key (east end) ....-2h 20m Beca Chica Sandy Pt. Caldes Channel (north end) 9.0 tt. —oh 40m +2h 10m 4-14 ft. (—)—Minus sign: Corrections Corrections to added. WOULD-BE SUICIDE IN CRITICAL STATE A 30-year-old man last night at- tempted suicide by shooting him- self once in the right temple with a .32 caliber revolver, according to the sheriff's department. The attempt took place in the back- yard of his home. He is in the Naval Hospital in a critical con- dition. Smuggling Operation VIENNA (The Vienna news- paper Arbeiter Zeitung says doz- ens of suspected international Com- munist agents are being smuggled Page 9 .| limits, ‘including Boca Chica’ and .| Stock Island. 2. Poinciana School .| area. .| Douglass School area. Civic Minded Key Westers Form Company Seven civic minded Key West re- sidents have banded together to form a non-profit corporation to furnish a “Bookmobile” which will bring good reading right to the doorsteps of local children. The project came to light yester- day when attorney Enrique Esquin- aldo, Jr. filed the papers of in- corporation in the Circuit Court. President of tlfe - corporation, which does not intend to make any money, but rather proposes to en- jtich the minds of children ‘of el- ementary school age, is Navy Commander Walter F. Toy, 3644 Duck Ave. Mrs. Edward F. Bay- ly, 2104 Fogarty Ave., is vice presi- dent and Mrs. R. E. Lilly, 2516 Harris Ave. is secretary-treasurer. Members of the board of directors include Edwin F. Trevor, 3637 Ave, E, the Rev. John Reese, 800 Center St., Lt..Cmdr. Charles Robinson, and Mrs. George V. Rogers, 45 Maine Road, Sigsbee Park. ‘ Idea Conceived Commander Toy explained today that the project was conceived at a meeting of the Poinciana School Parent and Teachers Association meeting in May, A discussion brought out the fact that the reading, ability of many children of Navy families is not up to standard because they are often transferred in the middle of the school year. It was decided that the ideal time to remedy the situation would be during the sum- mer vacation by encouraging child- ren to read good books. Problem: How to get the books to the children since school librar- ies are open only one hour a day during the vacation period. About a half dozen parents held several meetings and the result was a proposal to start a book- mobile. The results will be evidenced when the Bookmobile starts mak- ing its rounds, probably next week. It wasn’t that easy, however, many hours of work and planning have been necessary to make the project a reality. Community Chest Helps To¥ declared that the city’s ser- vice clubs have come through with gifts of money for initial costs. The Community Chest has offered to pay the first month’s cost of operation with the possibility ad- vanced that they may turn over funds set aside for the operation of the now-defunct Jayteen to the Bookmobile project. Edwin Trevor, owner of the Columbia Laundry donated a used laundry truck and the Mulberg | Chevrolet Co., helped with a paint,| job for the vehicle. Volunteer | workers are installing moveable | shelves in the truck. The school | children themselves have donated about 1000 books for the travel- | ing library. Mrs. Edith Russell, a teacher at | Poinciana School will be the li- brarian. Bayly emphasized today that every child in the the city will be | welcome to use the Bookmobile. “And there is no intention of cares for the service, “he add- Five Zones The city has been divided into! five zones with the Bookmobile | visiting a different one daily. The | zones: 1. Areas outside the city | 3. Traman School area. 4. 5. Harris School area'and all civilian and Navy housing projects and the Naval Base. “We want to create within the child the urge to read for himself,” said Toy, “Teachers have endorsed the idea enthusiastically.” He added the books the corpora- tion may purchase will be selected for children from the first through | the sixth grade. As soon as pos- sible, the Bookmobile plan will be extended to include junior high and high school ages, he added. | Commander Toy pointed out that | | the Bookmobile is -still accepting | contributions of suitable children’s | books. Naval personnel may leave | | books at the Naval Station library | | while a civilian “depot” will be | announced later. | TWO. PLEAD GUILTY IN CRIMINAL COURT Children’s Bookmobile To Start Operations Here Soon Jaycees Hear Of Requests For “Florida Guide” Cy Knoop, state publications chairman, told the JayCees at their regular Wednesday night meeting that 350,000 people from other states had requested the JayCee’s “Florida Guide” in the last few months. Key West is publicized to a large degree in the publication and in the next issue, the city will have a larger advertisement which will be more noticeable and therefore more enticing to the general public in visiting Key West. Another special guest was the) former district vice president, John Buckley, who praised the local club for their outstanding work in civic affairs during the last year and voiced his opinion that it would be an even more successful new year. Z The movie, ‘Whistling Wings” was acclaimed by all. With vacation time coming up here, the JayCees are oiling their guns and fishing gear in prepara- tion for their well deserved holi- day. Oppenheimer May Appeal Dismissal To Eisenhower PRINCETON, N. J. (#—Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer said yester- day “I don’t dismiss’’ the possibil- ity of appealing to President Ei- senhower the Atomic Energy Com- mission’s decision barring him ac- cess to secret atomic data. The atomic pioneer said he was surprised by the President’s state- ment that he would be listened to if he decided to appeal, and added that the idea “never occurred to me.” In a telephone interview, Oppen- heimer said his present plans are to continue research in fundament- al physics although it will be “a nuisance” not having clearance to many laboratories. There are many private institu- tions, Oppenheimer said, at which experiments are being conducted for the government and where he is “not welcome” any longer. The AEC declared that Oppen- heimer, once one of its most trust- ed advisers, is unfit to handle America’s atomic secrets because of “defects of character . . . and dangerous associations.” Its .ma- jority report said the question of his loyalty was not at issue. Two Are Injured In DC6 Mishap NEW YORK (#—The nose wheel of a National Airlines DC6 plane collapsed during a landing at Idle- wild Airport today dropping the big plane’s nose to the ground and tilting its tail high. Two of the 48 Passengers were injured slightly. A.small fire developed in the nose wheel housing. It was put out quickly by the plane’s engineer, while the captain and other crew members assisted passengers out through emergency exits. The plane had left Tampa, Fla., at 10:45 p.m. last night and made a stop at Jacksonville just after midnight. It arrived here early this morning. Capt. Ralph Farish of Jackson- ville said the passengers remained “quite cool.” The two passengers said to have received slight injuries refused medical air. They were listed as Lucian F. Thomas, 43, of Fort Myers, Fla., and Lucille Serville, 29, of Jacksonville. LARCENY TRIAL (Continued from Page One) ing out that he once had a law partner who once lived in Key | West. His talk might well have been written for the Key West Art and Historical Society since he traced the history of Key West from the days when it was an Indian burial ground to the point where Henry Flagler laid the foun- dation for the Overseas Highway. Two persons pleaded guilty to-| day in Criminal Court before) Judge Thomas S. Caro. | Mrs. George R. Koch, charged | with operating a hotel without a license, was fined court costs or | 30 days in jail. | The $250 bond of Charles Chick- | jering, charged with carrying a | concealed weapon, was forfeited. | LIFE UNDERWRITERS INSTALLATION SET Winston Wynne, immediate past | president of the Florida State As-| | sociation of Life Underwriters, | | will install the new officers of the Looks Like Dewey The argument advanced by Mr. Marsh, who had a striking resem- |blance to New York’s Tom Dew- ey, only set the stage for Dress- ler’s inspired oratory. The audience’ perked up some- | what when _ soft-spoken Judge | Thomas S. Caro took the prosecu- tion to task for being indefinite and vague. His statement only bore out the opinion of most observers | that it was a pretty weak case. Everybody apparently felt the | same way, for on Duval Street yesterday, you couldn't even get a bet on the outcome. Defense Attorney William V. Al- bury summed up what seemed to TODAY'S STOCK MARKET NEW YORK i7/— The stock market was mostly lower in early trading today. Turnover slowed ;abruptly after a moderately active opening. On the offside were the aircrafts, motors, chemicals, rails, oils and coppers. Rubbers showed some firmness. Mail orders were mixed. Some brokers had predicted an uneasy market today because of uncertainty over the fate of tax relief on dividends. In addition, some continuation of yesterday’s profit-taking in the market leaders was looked for. Fractionally lower were U.S. Steel, Chrysler, General Motors, Boeing, American Telephone, Al- lied Chemical,, DuPont, American Tobacto Baltimore & Ohio, Stan- dard Oil (New Jersey) and Johns- Manville. Gains were posted by United Fruit, Celanese, Vanadium, Sears atid American Can. CHIEFTAINS DIFFER (Continued from Page One) will find a formula. At least that is my desire.” Later the conferees dined to- gether at Loma Linda, palatial home of Rafael Meza Ayau, Sal- vadorean economics minister and a beer baron. | After dinner they reconvened at | Osorio’s presidential mansion. Shortly after midnight Ek Salva- dor’s presidential press officer said Castillo Armas and Monzon had gotten down to terms which prom- ised to lead to a definite settlement. As the parley continued, word came out of the conference that terms of the settlement would be broadcast by the Guatemalan gov- ernment and rebel radios. El Salvador offered its good of- fices to settle the Guatemalan con-| flict after a cease-fire Tuesday end- ed the shooting—in theory at least. Mediator Sought Osorio said the junta government | had asked him to mediate, but| that the United States was taking no part in the talks since it had not asked to mediate. However, U. S. Ambassador Michael Me- Dermott met the two Guatemalan | leaders when they arrived in their | separate planes at the airport here yesterday. During last night’s conference the papal nuncio to Guatemala, Msgr. Gennaro Verolino stood by | outside the closed chamber. The Pope’s representative said he had been asked by Monzon to ‘do what I can and“help if asked.” U. S. and Salvadorean officials expressed hope the talks would lead to an anti-Red coalition of Castillo Armas and Monzon which would wipe out the Communists who became entrenched in the Caribbean land during the regime of ousted President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Leaders Arrive Monzon, clad in a neat business suit, arrived in a plane piloted by Col. Vernon E. Martin of San Fran- cisco, air attache to the U. S. Em- bassy at Guatemala. Castillo Armas, still wearing his field khaki, arrived in a plane piloted by Col. Rodolfo Mendoza, whose brother Miguel is chief of the rebel air force. Mendoza said the rebel air force —four P47s and two C47 trans- ports—had been grounded in ob- servance of the armistice. He pre- dicted the hardest job would be to get the strife-wracked country back on a normal basis. | WALKOUT MAY (Continued from Page One) ing’s marathon meeting, Dunne said negotiations broke down over ‘the issue of wages and what he termed a desire by Western Elec- tric to establish new operations bases which would entail transfers of workers. Wage Dispute However, G. F. Raymond, WE’s personnel director, said that wages’| appeared to be the prime stumbl- | ing block in the dispute. Negotiations have been in prog- ress since April 6. Dunne said all arrangements for | picketing were to be made by A. T. Jones, a CWA vice president and | national. strike director. and would | come from the union’s headquar- ters in Washington, D. C. . The union has charged that pre-| vious company offers were condi-| tioned on what it termed “weak-| ening clauses” in previous senior-| ity, travel pay and. holiday con- tract provisions. Agreement Sought The settlement was taking time, however. At 3:30 a.m. the negoia- | ors announced they had agreed to extend the cease-fire on the fight- ing until 9 a.m. today, an indiea- tion that they hoped for final agree- ment by then but had not yet achieved it. Raymond said the company had offered “better” holidays treat- ment, including the granting of Dec. 24 as an additional paid holi- day. Should the telephone operators | across the country observe fhe in- stallers’ picket lines, long-distance service would suffer greatly. Dial phones, however, could continue to operate within dial areas until the equipment broke down. MAINTENANCE IS (Continued From Page One) local housing authority’ merely acts as rental agent for the fed- eral government and that he acts on instructions from the ‘Atlanta office of that agency. Further in- structions are expected today. berg and other former police offi- | cials within hours. Guatemala City was jubilant) after the cease-fire. For the first | time in weeks radio stations played | American jazz. More than 100 members of the | former government, including Ar-}| benz himself, were reported refu- gees in the Mexican Embassy. | COTHRON AND (Continued from Page One) ment of overtime was a general practice. The not guilty verdict that clear- ed Bateman and Cothron also | wrote finis to The Big Expose. \ erally credited with firing the op- jening gun in The Big Expose. | The Miami Herald recognizing what that paper apparently thought was a good thing at the time, wasn’t long in jumping on the band wagon. Before The Primary This, remember, was before the first primary election, May 4. On April 28, the grand larceny information was filed against Bate- man and Cothron. The Miami papers whooped it up while Marsh and McEwen were busy digging into the affairs of the toll district. Marsh was interveiwing witness- es, mostly at Pigeon Key. McEwen was working with Mon- roe County’s grand jury. The Miami papers sent special writers here. The two papers hit the toll dis- trict hard. All this, remember, was before the May 4 election. That election seems to have been important in The Big Expose. After the election, The Big Ex- pose dropped off sharply. $70 Added To Charge It perked up again on May 7 when the grand jury indicted Bateman for the theft of $70 in toll district funds. Bateman, at that time was al- The Miami Daily News is gen- | =e Cobo’s Vacation Is Cut Short: City Commissioner Delio Co- bo has cyt short his vacation to return to Key West and help administer the affairs of the city. Dr. Cobo who was in Atlanta where his wife is ill, said that he read in The Citizen (his brother-in-law is a subscriber) that the city commission has been having trouble getting a quorum. “| decided to cut my vaca- tion short and come back to Key West,” said Cobo. He will be on tap tonight when the city commission meets. ready charged in an information with aiding and abetting Cothron in the theft of more than $49,000 in district funds. But the grand jury returned the $70 indictment. The Big Expose simmered along after that with only an, occasional story hitting the papers. Then came the Bateman-Coth- ron trial and interest zoomed again. Special writers came from Miami to cover the trial. Today, the court house was back to normal. The special writers and the special investigators had gone home. The Big Expose was ended. Ho hum, Stewing Hens . . . . tb. 39 Dressed and Drawn Local Eggs . . . . . doz. 3% Medium Size FRESH SEAFOOD DAILY Florida Poultry, 819 Simonton St. He disclosed that Zacapa, key | Guatemalan rail junction between | the capital and the major Carib-| bean port of Puerto Barrios, sur- rendered to the insurgents Tues- day night. | New Violence Meanwhile, new violence was re- | ported from Guatemala. Govern-| ment troops were rushed to Be cuintla, Communist stronghold 30 miles south of Guatemala City, | where Red chieftain Carlos Man-| uel Pellecer was reported plotting | a peasant uprising. | Red-indoctrinated farm workers | |were also reported sparking up- risings at Concepcion, near Esc-| cuintla, and nearby Pinula, where | a police chief was stoned to death | Tuesday. The Reds were reported | telling the peasants that the new regime would take away the lands which Arbenz had distributed | among them. i Guatemala’s police chief, Col. Ruben Gonzales Segui, said Pelle-| cer could probably foment strife | for a long time by inciting guer- rilla warfare in Guatemala’s hill; forests. Gonzales said the rebel air | force might be put back into action | against the guerrillas. | Refuge Sought \ | Pellecer took refuge in the Ar-| gentine Embassy after Arbenz’s| downfall. Later he was ousted | along with former secret police chief Jaime Rosenberg and other | former leaders because embassy | officials feared their Presence | would provoke violence from anti-| Communist crowds outside. Pellecer then fled to Escuintla and the reports of uprisings began coming in. climbing poles or digging holes ...to give you good electric service To be sure you have good electric service, night and day, we must stay at work on two fronts. First, keeping electricity on the lines, in all kinds of weather. That's where our line crews come in... the men who climb the poles, rain or shine, The second job, constantly expanding this power system, to be sure there’s always enough electricity for you. That's when we dig holes ... set new power poles... string big wire ... put shiny new power lines into service. To do our job right, we must work hard on both these fronts—to maintain our present lines; and to expand the system by building new lines or rebuilding existing lines. All this with one purpose: to be sure you have electric- ity where you want it, when you want it! City Electric Egg & Fish Co. Tel, 2-6385 System Fi |Key West Life Underwriters this|be the general opinion of most | back and forth across the Iron | evening. | Key Westers — the whole Overseas | Curtain, over Austria’s cea | The installation will take place | Highway scandal “was a lot of with Hungary and Czechoslovakia. | at @ dinner meeting which will be hullabaloo — about nothing.” held at the La Concha Hotel at! “The campaign is over,” he‘com- Read The Citizen Daily 7:30. | mented. From Antigua, however, came word that anti-Communists had besieged the Reds there and were trying to hang their leaders. | A top Guatemalan official said | \ he expected the roundup of Rosen- i TODAY'S ‘BIGGEST BARGAIN Eig BE