The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 12, 1954, Page 2

Ex-Conviet To Be Quizzed In Rape Slaying MIAMI, Fla. # — Miami detec- tives returned Walter Lee Yow here from Georgia for further questioning today about his story that he saw 7-year-old Judith Ann Roberts raped and murdered last Tuesday. Detectives Charles Sapp and I. J.. Whitman said the 44-year-old former convict’s story was vague and full of discrepancies but con- sistent enough to warrant bringing him back, He was arrested in Marietta, Ga., Saturday for vag- ancy. : Yow told officers he was with the man who stole Judith Ann, daughter of a Baltimore lawyer and labor leader, from her bed in the home of her grandparents, Sapp said Yow related at first that he saw his companion rape the child, then smash her head | with a rock, but later insisted he waited in the car some distance away while the other man took the girl ino a wooded area off fashion- able Bayshore Drive. Then Yow declared he made up the story to get out of Georgia and back to Florida because he had been told that Georgia officers would ‘bash in his head” if he fell into their hands. 2 Georgia officers said the) paunchy Yow, who described him- self as a Cherokee Indian, had a long record of convictions, includ- ing assault on a female, and had | been in a North Carolina hospital | for criminally insane. ye. Weatherman Page 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, July 12, 1954 Saeatliend Tells | OfFightTo | Stop Red Tide _ What's being done to’ fight the Red Tide, that mysterious enemy of Marine life. | Sen. George Smathers, in his) Washington newsletter today, said planners of the U.S. Fish and Wild- life Service are drafting a broad- ened program to attack the Red | Tide. | However, Smathers wrote, Te-| ports reaching Washington indicate that there is some pronounced skepticism as to the support for the Red Tide fight available in the | $3-million dollar fund being turned | over to the Secretary of the Inter- | ior under terms of the Fisherie: Act signed last week by the Presi-| dent ' “This skepticism is unjustified,” | Smathers wrote “This bill origi- nated with the Senate Commerce Committee of which I am a member and the need for finding the cause and cure of ‘‘Red Titde” was a major factor in gaining sup-| port for the measure at a time when it was hanging in the balance. “It is true that there are a great Many other problems of the domestic fishing industry which | require attention. | “We in the Florida congression- | al delegation have been assured ‘ City Building Permits Show Drop For June City building permits dropped from $407,077 in June, 1953, to $273,677 in June of this year. These figures were released to-| day by Trends, monthly Chamber of Commerce publication. Post office receipts were up| slightly from $23,134 in June of last year to $23,215 this June. KWH of electricity used also in- creased from 3,358,989 last June to 3,875,358 last month. Incoming mail at the chamber office last month numbered 792 pieces—down from the 808 pieces | in June, 1953. Outgoing chamber mail was 1,475 up from the 1,192 in June of last ear. Chamber visitors also increased from 746 to 778 last month. TODAY’S STOCK MARKET NEW YORK (®—A burst of ac-| tivity in eary trading today accom- | panied a forward move by the| stock market. A number of large blocks dotted the early tape, and many low- priced issues were unusually ac- tive. Gains went to around a point i} (Communist Slayer Says Victim Was | BATTLE CREEK, Mich: (®—Po-. jlice said a man, found in the apart- ment building where a Battle | Creek mother was shot yesterday, | told them he killed her because | she was “the biggest Communist in the world.” Robert Roscoe, 28, an unemploy- ed door-to-door shoe salesman, was held by police. They said he told them “I’m an FBI agent and I’ve been after her for a long time.” Police said Roscoe was found in a hallway near the room waere the body of Mrs. Beulah. Pontius, 40, the mother of six children, was lying. | Roscoe, police. said, told of aisé |planning to kill the woman’s hus, band, Chester, 42, because “they were both Communists.” Only minutes before the shooting, the husband had left for work at a Battle Creek bakery. Roscoe, who lives in the same apartment building, was found by | police standing in the hall with a -22 caliber rifle in his hands. They said he surrendered meekly, say- ing: B: “It’s all right, I just killed the biggest Communist in the world.” Police said* the Pontius family had no connections with commu- nism. FBI area headquarters in De- troit said it knew of no agent by the name of Roscoe. Neighbors had complained re- cently of Roscoe’s “strange ac- tions” and nocturnal prowung of the building hallways, police added. Roscoe’s mother, Mrs. Pearl Roscoe, informed police her son Operations Are Back To Normal At Atomic Plant PADUCAH, Ky. (® — Operations have returned to normal at thé atomic energy plant near here to- day with striking workers back on the job. A strike threatening production of atomic and hydrogen bombs was called off Saturday when members of Local 550, CIO Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers, voted to return to work immediately, reversing a Previous decision to continue the | walkout. The Paducah employes followed the example of strikers at the Oak Ridge, Tenn., plant who voted Fri- day night to end their walkout. One thousand workers at Padu- cah and 3,500 at Oak Ridge were involved in the strike. A plan for settling the walkout was worked out in Washington by Secretary of Labor Mitchell and CIO President Walter Reuther. it calls for a government review of health, housing and community problems of all the nation’s atomic workers and a study to strengthen labor-management relations in the | atomic field. The peace plan did not mention the wage issue, over which the strike was cailed. DUMMY TROOPERS TO SCARE PUBLIC RALEIGH, N.C. —If you speed | by a highway patrol car here and the driver doesn’t give chase, it’s Probably because he’s dumb. The fact is the patrol has rigged up dummies complete with hel- mets and sun glasses to scare drivers into slower speeds. It will take a sharp motorist to DEATHS _ MRS. EMMA CLEARE ROBERTS Word was received by Mrs. Lyle | Lewin of the death of Mrs. Emma | Cleare Roberts, 66, in Miami. Mrs. | Roberts was born in Key West, | and went 28 years ago to make her home in Miami. She is survived by her husband Harry M. Roberts, two sons and one daughter. ; Mr. and Mrs. Lewin will attend |funeral services in Miami. Mrs. Roberts was Mrs. Lewin’s cousin. ALTON C. BOGGESS Alton C. Boggess, 56, died Sunday afternoon at the U. S. Naval Hos- pital. Mr. Boggess was a resident of Marathon and the owner and operator of Boggess Grocery. He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Dottie Horne, one son, Bud- dy Boggess, and three grandchild- ren, all of whom reside in Mara- thon. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Char- lie Boggess, two brothers, Clifton and Dinks, and one sister, Mrs. Elveda Goff, live in Everglades City. Three other sisters also sur- vive, Mrs. Idell Markley, Miami; Mrs. Norene Foss, Ft. Myers; and Mrs. Freda Hancock, Boca Grande. Friends may view the body at the Community Church in Mara- thon from 4 p. m. until 9 p. m. Tuesday, after which it will be tak- en to Ft. Myers for burial in the family plot. Pritchard Funeral Home is in charge of arrange- ments. Mr. Boggess was a veteran of World War I. DEFENDERS OF HANOI (Continued from Page One) Bac Ninh, 30 miles from the city. This restored communications be- tween the three towns, which form a protective triangle against Viet- minh regulars massing to the north. French officials, meanwhile sought to allay fears voiced by U.S. congressmen that American- supplied arms might fall into Com- munist hands should there be a last-minute pullback from Hanoi. _ A spokesman for the French Un- jon commander, Gen. Paul Ely, said only 10 per cent of the guns, tanks and planes still being poured into this war-torn land are being stored in northern Indochina. And those depots are located in the port of Haiphong on the China Sea so their removal by ship should be comparatively easy. It was also pointed out that new- ly arriving American supply ships are being diverted from Haiphong more than 700 miles south to Saigon. GOVERNORS TO (Continued From Page One) of taxes, for federal Property in the states. 5. Realignment of federal-state Powers, 6. A declaration by the gover- nors that they intend to maintain essential services to the people. |SAFE STREET CARS HIROSHIMA (P—Street car mo- tormen in this atom-bombed city have traveled the equivalent dis- tance to Mars — more than 45 million miles — without an ac- | cident. The motormen have not been in- volved in a mishap for 6% years. BRITAIN HOLDS TO (Continued from Page One) eral good will more strongly ought in upon me.” ge the talks took place, he said, other international problems arose, such as the Vietminh opera- tions in Indochina “which were being sustained by the Communist government of China.” ‘ His statement came at a time when the air on both sides of the Atlantic is full ‘of accounts ‘of American - British disagreements, largely stemming from divergent policies toward Communist China. Speaking of the conversations he and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had with President Eisen- hower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Churchill said: “We talked in perfect frankness and in full riendship with each other. We dispelled, I think, some misunderstandings, even some nightmares, from the minds of our American friends about the direc- tion of our policy. “I think we convinced them that we have changed none of our ulti- mate joint objectives and that there is, at any rate, some wisdom in the means by which we are proposing to reach them.” Read The Citizen Daily Tires . . Batteries . . Accessories DARLOW’S Pure Oil Station STOCK ISLAND TEL. 2-3167 Open 7 A.M. ‘til 10 P.M. Automotive Repairs Wheel Balancing Front End Alignment Says that substantia! funds for Red Tide | while losses were low. Union Pacif. tell the real thing. Kéy West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy, local showers or thunder- showets today through Tuesday; continued hot and humid. Low Sollee na 78 degrees; high | about 92 degrees. Light) to moderate variable winds, fresh in and near thundershowers. Florida: Fair in north Portion, | except for isolated afternoon thundershowers. Partly cloudy with scattered, mostly afternoon thun- dershowers in south and central! Portions. | Jacksonville through the Florida | Straits and East Gulf: Light to -occasionally - moderate variable winds through Tuesday. Partiy cloudy weather ‘with scattered showers and a few, thundershow- Western Caribbean: Gentle to asterly winds through jwaee artly cloudy weather with widely scattered showers. Weather Summary for the Tropi- cal Atlantic, Caribbean Sea Area and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico: A small low, not of tropical na- ture, is moving slowly northwest- ward past Hatteras and is causing frésh to strong winds. There are signs of any disturbance in the ‘aribbean or Gulf of Mexico. Observation Taken at Post Office Building. 7:00 A.M. EST, Key West, Fla., July 12, 1954 Temperatures Highest yesterday Lowest last night Mean Normal Precipitation Total Iast 24 hours Deficiency this month ...... Total this year Barometer (Sea Level). 7 A.M. 29.95 ins.—1014.6 mbs. ‘Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise . 245 a.m. ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Time of Height of Station— Tide high water Bahia Honda (bridge) ....—oh 1ém Ne Name Key (east end) ....-2h 20m Boca Chica Sandy Pt. —oh 40m . north end ( : 41.4 ft, 9.0 tt. +th 10m research will be available; in add-|ic was well outside the range. and ition, attention will be given to)Tan its gain to around 3 points problems relating to oysters, Shortly after the opening. shrimp, menhaden and other fish| Almost all major divisions were life found in our coastal waters. higher on steady. Emphasis seemed “Because of the importance of | '? be on individual stocks rather | this program to Florida, we in the | yee ee a ies ii i a were U. S. Congressional delegation are urg. Steel, Chrysler, Mack Track, Good. ing Secretary of the Interior Mckay 2 D ‘Ai ‘Ae; to place a Florida man on the Dustllsrs Cems Netienal commission whieh will advise him py pon} Calgisze Sane re as to the program which is need-| standard Oil (NJ) and 20th Century ed.” | ; _| delivery .| Mrs, Julia Seitz, 25, of Cederhurst, | | Long Island, Kozma said. About 16 | | was started. To Aid Children ‘|Has Tragic End Operation Fails To Save Siamese Twin In New York LONG BEACH, N. Y. 2 — A baby boy, separated from his un- developed Siamese twin in an_at- tempt to save his life, died today about 12 hours after the emergen- cy operation. A hospital spokesman said an autopsy was planned for later in the day to determine the cause of death. Efforts to save the life of the 8- pound, 15-ounce baby at Long | Beach Memorial Hospital were re- | ported by Hospital Administrator | William A. Kozma. The child was attached at the | breast bone to a withered, unde- veloped twin. Kozma said no vital | organ appeared fo link the two and only a small blood vessel joined their circulation systems. The undeveloped twin weighed less tkan a pound, he said. The twins were born in a normal late Saturday night to hours later the delicate operation Kozma said tne staff had been} able to find only one other similar case in medical history. Mother’s Desire ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. m — Mrs. Jean Mann, who wanted to die to “do one thing for my chil- dren,” planned it carefully. She tucked her two children: into bed, opened their bedroom window, | Placed a fan by their bédside, | close the doors leading into the Toom an sealed them with towels. | Then she turned on the gas burn- ers in the kitchen and while she | waited for death wrote an eight- page suicide note in which she de- clared “I was not meant to be a wife and mother.” The note spoke |of the need of a happy home for the children. Yesterday, officers broke into the home and found Mrs. Mann, a 26- Fox. Filter Dise To Help Counter Germ Warfare. By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON (# — The latest and most valuable gadget the mil- itary has for countering germ war- fare attack is a flimsy dise of Paperlike substance, slightly larg- er than a silver dollar. The chief of the Army’s chemical warfare service, Maj. Gen. William M. Creasy, calls it a significant step toward ‘‘development of a rev- olutionary detection device around whieh a workable defense” against stealthy bacteriological warfare is being built, | In a recent speech, Creasy men- | tioned “a very thin filter whieh | will trap bacteria, permitting them | to be identified within 15 hours, or | one sixth of the time previously | required.” The Defense Department, in re- sponse to inquiries, today displayed the gadget, an unimpressive disc | looking like it might have been cut | from a thin sheet of cross-ruled Paper. But its production took the brains |of some wartime German bacter- iological warfare experts and im- Provements for mass producing hy American experts who captured similar filters at the end of World | War Il. Like the membrane filters used | in all laboratories, this one is des- ignated as a “‘millipore” filter. Its extreme porosity allows water to run through it quickly and freely, trapping on its surface all mi- cro‘organism or their poisonous products which constitute one of the’ chief instruments of bacterio- kgical warfare. On the surface of the disc marked off in small squares, are deposited all germs or their prod- ucts in a liquid—water, milk or other drink. The squares provide | °eMts. a method for bacteria count. Under a microscope and other common testing apparatus of a lap- oratory, the presence of a dan- gerously high bacterial count, to- gether with the type of bacteria, can be spotted in a matter of hours Until development of this method had been obsessed the past year with a fear of the dangers of com- munism,. British Wives Pass By High Priced Meat By ALVIN STEINKOPF LONDON (#—British housewive¢ did a lot of shrewd window shop- ping, and at the end of the first week of ration-free meat they had emerged victorious in an unorgan- ized buyers’ strike. Women admired the beautiful steaks which dealers, freed on July 3 of government control for the first time in more than 14 years, displayed in their shops. But, with prices generally double what they were in rationing days, women were buying little meat. Hundreds of tons piled up in the shops, and by the weekend prices had tumbled to levels in some cases lower than those prevailing in the years of government regula- tion. Some merchants: who had counted on a rush for meat have lost_ money. “T made a tasty window display of lovelv meat with price tags at- tached,” said a butcher in London’s Paddington district. He was able to make a disvlay of fresh meat because London July temovera- tures have been like the inside of | a refrigerator. | “Well, I watched the first 14| women who took an interest,” the butcher said. “Thirteen turned up their noses and walked awav. One came in and bought a kidney. That's no wav to run a butcher |shop. and I guess the ladies have | won.” As a result, cuts of beef were settling down to a general price level somewhat higher than in ra- tioning davs. Lamb chops re- mained about the -same. Some | stewing meats and mutton were | cheaper. Most dealers expected prices would stabilize at just a little above the range of rationing davs. Prices against which British housewives rebelled are not com- Darable with meat costs in other lands because in Britain a retail Price does not reveal subsidies which may be as high as 50 per cent. But steaks they shunned at about 75 cents a pound. They were accustomed to paying about 47 Lamb chops remained steady at |42 cents. Stewing steak in the free |market was 37 cents. It is down to 32 cents. Lincoln Book EDEN RETURNS TO (Continued from Page One) back up the French by returning to Geneva himself unless he saw signs that the Communists were ready to negotiate in good faith. Reliable sources said this was the message given Mendes-France by Alexis Johnson, acting head of the U.S. delegation at the Geneva conference, and C. Douglas Dillon, U.S. ambassador to France, at their meeting here yesterday. The United States repeatedly has | made it clear it would stand aloof from any “‘sell-out’” to the Com- munists in Indochina. Despite Dulles’ firm message, however, there was a general feef ing in Western circles that either Bedell Smith would resume lead- ership of the American delegation €r some other high State Depart- ment -official would be sent for the fateful negotiations ahead. Read Citizen Daily TELEVISION! All Types Radio and TV Tubes, Radio jeries, Antenna Installations and Accessories Emerson TV Sets NO DOWN PAYMENT | Full Factory Guarantee | Calls Answered Promptly Free Pickup and Delivery Key West Radio and. TV Service Repair Work Guaranteed 826 Duval Street TELEPHONE 2-8511 Under Secretary of State Walter |- No Money Down Sale Now Going On Buy Now and Save! EISNER FURNITURE CO. 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