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

Poge 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, July 15, 1954 Violence FearedAgainst Man Charged In RapeOfInfant Ex-Conviet Is Taken To Jail In Texas Town LUBBOCK, Tex. » — A tall, strapping 195-pounder charged with the rape of a 5-month-old infant was held in, the Lubbock County Jail today because officers feared mob violence at Seminole, Tex., the baby’s home. William Thomas, Hughes, a 34- year-old ex-convict, was spirited out of Seminole by three Gaines County officers last night and brought here for ‘‘safekeeping.” The police said the jail at Seminole was “not of the maximum secy- rity type.” Earlier, officers had deniéd a} newspaper report that “ominous little groups of men” gathered around the Seminole jail. | Seized Yesterday Hughes, who stands 6 feet 2, was arrested yesterday about two| miles from his abandoned auto-| mobile after the father of Jackie | Jo Davis took the tot from the| ex-convict and rushed her to a Seminole hospital. Officers said Hughes took the child from her: bed while the pa-| rents, a former GI and his Japa- | nese wife, were at a Hobbs, N.M., | bar where the father is a bar- tender, i The mother, Mrs. Jack Davis, | 26, left Hughes with the infant and a 5-year-old son while she visited her husband at the bar. The Davis’ two-room cabin is about 20 or 30 feet inside Texas across the line from Hobbs. The boy was still asleep and unharmed when the mother re- turned to the cabin, but Hughes and Jackie Jo were missing. Found By Father Deputy Sheriff J. C. Forf of Lea County, N.M.. Davis found Hughes and the baby about 4 a.m. took the child from the ex-convict and rushed her to Seminole, where officers were notified. Fort said Texas officers reported the incident to him and he tracked Hughes two miles from the spot where the Texans had recovered his ear. Hughes and the three Gaines County officers were met last night at Brownfield by two Texas Rangers and Lubbock County Sher- iff Grady Harrist, who escorted the group into Lubbock, Harrist said Hughes talked free- ly about the case but maintained he eould not remember what hap- pened. The sheriff said the man appeared deeply concerned about his involvement. “Student Prince” To Open Saturday At San Carlos The millions of patrons who rilled to the glorious melodies of Sigmund Romberg in the many stage productions and MGM’s earlier film version of “The Student Prince,” will be equally enthralled by the immortal music, as well as by the panoramic sweep of the plot on the Cinema Scope screen, when the operetta opens Saturday at the San Carlos Theatre. The tunes will win many new admirers, most of them being sung by Ann Blyth and the screen new- comer, Edmund Purdom, who en- acts the title role while employ- ing the singing voice of Mario Lanza. Purdom, as Prince Karl, young grandson of the King of Karlsburg, is heir to the throne of the im- provished country and his mar- riage has been arranged with the Princess of a neighboring country, Betta St. John. When the princess finds that Karl is too still and reserved she refuses to marry him until he be- comes more human. When the king sends him to Heidelberg University, where he poses as an| ordinary student, the plot of the| story is woven, centering around | the love of Karl for Kathie, a bar-| maid, played by Ann Blyth. The unfolding of the story with | songs by the stars and the ex-/ cellent supporting cast, makes this | a musical to be long remembered. POLICE LT. TO HAVE | (Continued from Page One) Worker, and Mrs. Sybil Dexter, a Navy civil service employee. Hes Appeal Right Under the law, Hernandez has the right to appeal to the circuit court, in the event the board up- holds the police chief’s suspension order, 2 Hernandez, :jcording to city Personnel records, has a spotless record, He joined the police force March 25, 1942 when he was ap- Pointed a patrolman and received a temporary appointment as ser- Seant early in 1951. He was named a lieutenant January 1, 1952. The Weatherman Says ee Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy to cloudy with local show- ers or thundershowers thru Friday. Not much change in the tempera- ture. Low tonight near 78 degrees hight Friday near 90 degrees. Light to gentle variable winds mostly from easterly quadrant but freshening in and near showers. Florida: Mostly cloudy with oc- casional showers and local thunder- storms thru Friday. Jacksonville Thru the Florida |Straits and East Gulf: Light to moderate variable winds mostly southeast to south. Weather Part- ly cloudy with scattered showers tonight and Friday. Western Caribbean: Moderate to occasionally fresh easterly winds and partly cloudy weather thru |Friday. A few widely scattered showers. Weather Summary for the Trop- icaal Atlantic, Caribbean Sea area and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico: Remnants of the weak easterly wave remains stationary thru the Florida Straits and over Cuba and the western Caribbean. It is at- tended by showers in western Bahama Islands and central and southern Florida but conditions are Senerally settled today with no Observation Taken at Post Office Building, 7:00 A.M., EST, Key West, Fla., July 15, 1954 Temperatures Highest yesterday Lowest last night Mean __. Normal ee <a 85 Pracipitation Total last 24 hours Total this month Deficiency this month Total this year --21.65 ins, Excess this year 5.75 ins. Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. 91% Barometer (Sea Level), 7 A.M. 30.02 ins.—1016.6 mbs. Tomorrow’s Almanac Sunrise Sunset Moonrise - .- 0.03 - 0.28 1.64 ins. ins. ins, (Naval Base) Time of Height of Tide high water Low Tides 9:37 a.m. 7:56 a.m. 11:06 p.m. 4:32 p.m. ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Bahia Honda (bridge) —oh 10m * No Name Key (east end) ....+2h 20m Boca Chica Sandy Pt. Caldes Channel High Tides —oh 40m signs of a developing disturbance. | 9.0 tt. | Cruelty To Troops Brings Court Martial | FT. DIX, N.J. @®—Court-martial | Proceedings have been ordered | against an Army lieutenant and a | sergeant charged with having their | company stand at attention for an | hour in 90-degree heat. ‘ | An investigation into the June | 21 incident led to the court-martial order yesterday by ‘Col. Earl R. | Ringler, commanding officer of the |272nd Infantry Regiment. | Ringler ordered a July 22 trial jfor Lt. Robert S. Morgan, 28, of | Wilkes Barre, Pa., and Sgt. 1.C. | Richard J. Witbeck of Wellington, |Ohio, on charges of taking mass disciplinary action against Com- peny L. Both men—Morgan was company ;commander and Witbeck his ad- | ministrative first sergeant—have been relieved of their duties. | Several soldiers reportedly |fainted during the disciplinary ac- tion, which was imposed for a reason not explained by the Army. In his order yesterday, Ringler said Morgan would be charged with dereliction of duty under Article | 92 of the Uniform Code of Military | Justice “in that he negligently \failed to take appropriate correc- |tive action to prevent the unau- |thorized treatment of personnel in his command.” As for Witbeck, he will be tried junder Article 93 for alleged mal- treatment of company personnel | “by keeping them in formation and | attention for an excessive period of | time,” | Ringler’s name cropped up in the recent Army-MeCarthy hearings in Washington in connection with Pvt. |G. David Schine, who had been an | aide to Sen. Joseph R. MeCarthy | (R-Wis). He was Schine’s com- manding officer when the former jconsultant to McCarthy’s subcom- | mittee took his basic training here. /Mechanic’s Value To Industry Is Told In Court PASADENA, Calif. (®—A brilliant “|young mechanic who wounded a boy with a “paper bullet” was granted probation, because, . wit- nesses testified, if he went to jail two aircraft firms would have to curtail operations. Thomas Dunning, 24, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault with |a deadly weapon. He was accused | of firing a paper wad from a blank .| cartridge in an antique rifle as a . | gag. It struck Warren Wiltrout, 15, . | over the heart, seriously wounding . | him. A witness, George M. Bryant, representing Utility Metals Corp. of Pasadena, told the court yester- day that Dunning is ‘‘one of the |outstanding young mechanics of the nation” and that the Convair Aircraft Crop. is one of two firms which would have to shut down manufacturing in certain depart- ments if Dunning were jailed. Dunning’s work is so classified it couldn’t be disclosed in court, Bryant added. Dunning was put on three years’ | probation and must spend 20 week- ends in jail, get rid of his gun collection and pay $425 medical expenses incurred by Warren, | .|amendment that would allow the (nerth end) = +2h 10m +14 ft, | ° {—)—Minus sign: corto Cross-Complaint Aten: corrections © Filed By Actor (+)—Plus sign: Cerrections te | be added. | SANTA MONICA, Calif. «§—Cow- |boy actor Guy Madison has filed |@ cross-complaint for divorce \against actress Gail Russell, al- Western Union Interstate Rate Boost Okayed WASHINGTON (® — Western Union's interstate rates went up an average 11 per cent at mid- night last night, a boost the Feder- al Communications Commission figures will bring the telegraph company another nine million dol- lars a year. FCC okayed the firm’s proposed rate hike yesterday, saying it is designed to restore Western Uni- ons’s earnings to the 5 per cent level recorded in the first half of 1953. If state regulatory bodies al- low similar incre ‘or business within the state, FCC said, the company would pick up another nine million annually. The interstate increases range from 3 to 20 per cent, with about a 16 per cent rise for general tele- graph message service. The press rate stays unchanged. Bodies Found FAIRMONT, W.Va. (®—The bod- ies of a 27-year-old Marion County man and his young son, s' elasped in his father’s arms, were pulled from the Monongahela Riv- er yesterday. Chief Deputy Sheriff Lohr Yea- ger said the victims, William Her- son Wilber, had been missing since Sunday, soon after they went out in a homemade boat. The 4,192 cars produced in the United States in 1900 were, valued & nearly five million dollars. » The boat, with side paddle wheels that Herron had constructed him- \self, was found Sunday night. ron of Catawba and his 6-year-old | lleging cruelty. Madison’s lawyer, Harvey L. |Silvert, indicated yesterday that |the actor will be permitted to ob- | tain a default judgment inasmuch jas his wife in recent months has | been too ill to appear in court. | Miss Russell has been under a |physician’s care since her arrest last fall on charges of intoxication and drunk driving. She subsequent- ly pleaded guilty to the intoxication |charge but the drunk driving case |has been continued several times because of her health. Manslaughter Charge Filed Against Actress LOS ANGELES — Actress Lynn Baggett faces preliminary hearing today on charges of hit- run and manslaughter ia the death | of a 9-year-old boy. Joel Watnick was killed on July 6 and Miss Baggett was arrested three days later. The 3l-year-old actress was named yesterday in a $50,700 civil |damage suit brought | mother of the victim. TRIXIE COMES HOME PHOENIX, Ariz. (—When 12- year-old Jimmy Eaton and his parents left last week for a new| home at Findlay Lake, N.Y., room| |Was made in the car for Jimmy’s collie dog, Trixie, Somewhere in Oklahoma, Trixie got separated from the Eatons. This week, dusty and tired from 1,000 miles of travel, Trixie limped back to his old home here. | Read The Citizen Daily by the| By RUSSELL BRINES WASHINGTON « — Sen. Gore (D-Tenn) predicted today some Republican senators will join many Democrats in supporting a propos- al to block President Eisenhower's plan to place a new private power plant in the Tennessee Valley. The Sehate approached a vote on the proposal, an amendment to a lengthy bill to revise the Atomic Energy Act in line with the Pres- ident’s program to exchange more nuclear information with foreign allies and to permit private in- dustry entry into peacetime atomic activities. The Senate was called into ses- sion two hours early to resume debate on the bill, with major} skirmishing continuing on the pow- | er plant issue. Eisenhower has di- rected the Atomic Energy Com- mission (AEC) to conclude # 25- year contract with a private utili- ty group for a new steam power plant to service the Memphis, Tenn., area over Tennessee Val- ley Authority lines. ‘The power would replace TVA power being shifted to the AEC’s plant at Pa- ducah, Ky. The President, who has de- scribed the order as one which will provide time for apother gov- ernment look at TVA operations, met at the White House yesterday with Sen. Anderson of New Mex- ico, senior Democratic senator on the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee. Anderson later introduced an AEC to contract only for power supplied directly to atomic instal- laions. The amendment would also require proposed contracts to be submitted for 30 days to the con- gressional atomic committee. Anderson told the Senate the pro- posed contract would supply pow- er for general consumer service. He and others dispute an adminis- tration contention the plan to build a new 107-million-dollar plant is the cheapest way of replacing the TVA electricity now supplied to the Paducah atomic plant. It would supplant any immediate new TVA facilities. Gore said in an interview that three or four Republican senators are expected to support the amend- ment, but he declined to predict the outcome. Sen. Fulbright (D- Ark) opposed the amendment yes- terday. The amendment, if approved by both houses, would block the pro- posed contract with the Middle South Utilities, Inc., and thé South. ern Co., GUESTS ARRIVE A BIT TOO LATE LINCOLN, Neb. (#—When the mother and wife of prisoner Lloyd Leonard of Omaha arrived at the penitentiary here to visit him, Warden Herbert Hahn drove over | to the prison farm to fetch Leon- ard. Leonard wasn't there. He had walked away from a threshing crew and his absence had gone unnoted until the warden arrived. FIREHOUSE POLE AIDS BURGLAR COLUMBUS, Ohio W—A burglar found that shiny brass pole in a Columbus firehouse the means for a quick exit. Fire Lt. Thomas Curran said he awakened and saw a man at the foot of his bed. He shouted at him and the man slid quickly down the pole and fled. The intruder had stolen about $76) from the pockets of sleeping fire-! men. JAIL FOR SPEEDERS ARTESIA, N.M. () — The Eddy County Safety Council has recom- mended jail sentences of two to five hours as punishment for Speeders. A council spokesman says a $15 fine may mean nothing to one driver but really hurts another. “Everyone has just 24 hours a day, and a two-hour sentence would penalize the rich and poor equal- ly,” he said. | | Men Want Housework LOS ANGELES (#—Mrs. Lulu B. Bryden, director of the Volunteers of America’s free employment jbureau, observed yesterday that |men are applying for househol | jobs hereabouts. “Men are much more willing | than women to hire out for house- | |cleaning, floor waxing and odd | | jobs about the house,” said Mrs. Bryden. | eee sees |COLLECTOR LOSES BUFFALO, N.Y. @—‘I wa chasing a man who owed me $15, said Nolan Holloway, pleading guilty in Traffic Court to a speed- ing charge. | “That’s a foolish way to get your | ” Judge Madge Taggert re-| . “You’re going to lose it} now. | He did — plus $10. The fine was | $25. TOO BUSY, MAYBE LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (w—One | case of heat prostration was re- ported yesterday. The victim was | |L. M. Duckworth, an ice cre: salesman. Gore Predicts GOP Senators Will Aid In Power Plant Bar Young Farmer Tells Troubles SEATTLE (»—“I wanted to go to Africa and live in the jungles,” explained the muscular young farmer. He had just been arrested yes- terday after trying to take over a Trans-Canada airliner and firing a couple of pistol shots that sent a terrified stewardess scurrying from the plane parked at Seattle- Tacoma Inernational Airport. Eddie Marmur, 21, who makes a hobby of weight lifting, told report- ers he planned to force the plane crew to fly him to Africa because he didn’t like the “lousy draft.” There was no one aboard the plane, however, except the stew- ardess, Isabel Abraham, 24. She turned from inspecting the forward part of the plane to find the ycuth seated in a front seat. He pulled a pistol, she said, and “told me to sit down. Instead, 1| ran down the aisle. Don’t ask me how I did it. Just as 1 rounded the last seat he fired the first shot. “T think I felt the bullet whistle | by. I though he had me.’ The bullet pierced a rear bag- gage compartment door. Then as the stewardess ran down the steps from the cabin, another shot was fired, tearing a hole in the plane’s fuselage. Police soon arrived and at their command Marmur tossed his weapon through the door and came out with his hands up. “I thought she’d stop if she heard the shot,” he said, “but she just went faster. I didn’t shoot at her. I shot by her.” No charges have been filed. DEADLY HASTE GLENDALE, Calif. (B—Late to a funeral, insurance man D. G. Kenning ran from his auto to the chapel yesterday, made it through the door and then collapsed and died of a heart attack. —_—s_____ ROPER MAKES (Continued From Page One) the high school student body, and a plan to put stickers on bar mir- rors that say “‘Aré you looking at the next traffic victi~?” Plans were made during the meeting to paint a white cross on accident sites where a traffic fatalities have occured. es DENTIST TAKES {Continued from Page One) asked her husband for a separation and divorce. “Blinded By Anger’ Defense Atty. Leo Hoffman said | Dr. Small was blinded by anger because he felt Lack was “just making a toy” of Mrs. Small. Dr. Small, held at the Allegan County Jail pending trial, told re- | Porters he once warned Lack by telephone to stay away from Mrs. Small but Lack just laughed at him. Dr. Small’s father Jacob, a re- tired bricklayer, collapsed with a heart attack while waiting to take the stand yesterday. Taken to a| hospital, his condition improved. DEATH REGINALD J. GRIFFIN | Reginald J. Griffin, 55, who re-| sided at 614 White Street, died| Wednesday afternoon at the Mon- | roe General Hospital after an ex-| |tended illness. | Mr. Griffin is survived by three | |sisters, Miss Lillian Griffin, Mrs. |Frank Thompson and Mrs. J. J. |Montgomery and one nephew, Robert Montgomery, all of Key West. Funeral Services will be held |Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock in |the Chapel of Pritchard Funeral {home with Father George M. Ray of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church officiating. Burial will be in the jfamily piot in City Cemetery. TODAY'S STOCK MARKET NEW YORK (#—The aircrafts | and rails led the stock market high- jer in early trading today. | {| Communications issues were | |firm and there was considerable | | activity in radio-television shares. | Also higher were the steels, mail |orders, and some of the rubbers. 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