The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 21, 1954, Page 1

Key West, Floridc, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXV No. 172 'TO HEAD COMMUNITY CHEST ACTIVITIES—Officers chosen last night to direct the affairs of Senk Faces In Court State Has An “Ace-In-Hole” In Rape Case By JIM <Ol The state has an ‘‘ace-in-the- hole” in their prosecution of rape charges against Frank E. Senk, Jr. Senk was freed on one rape charge last Monday when a 12- man criminal court jury failed to the local Community Chest are, left to right, J. J. Trevor, treasurer; William Neblett, president; Mrs. Mary Sinclair, second vice president; Admiral George C. Town Richard Evans, secretary—Photo by Spillman. Neblett And Towner Fill Top Posts For Community Chest Board Of Directors Names Officers, Discusses Campaign By BILL SPILLMAN William Neblett was elected pre- sident and Admiral George C.. Towner vice president of Key West Community Chest last night at a hoard of directors meeting in the private offices of Judge Aquilino Lopez, 423 Caroline Street. In a highly successful board meeting, preliminary: plans were discussed for the coming cam- paign. The members discussed the possibility of hiring professional getvices of fund raising engineers to ist and direct the coming campaign, Towner asked the group to de- cide whether professional services would be worth their expense in| J @ com ive. 4 ee enicy of the board, Richard E. Evans, read a form Jetter offer for fund raising ser- vices from a professional organi- zation where a tentative cost of services would be approximately ten per cent of the money received feom the drive. The measure of professional ser- vices was referred to the campaign committee for study and recom- mendations. National Membership A motion was passed to pay the necessary $159 required for the lo- cal Chest to retain membership in the National Community Chest Council. The money is used by the national council to pay expenses of processing public advertisement matter pertinent to the national campaign. Newly-elected treasurer Jerry ‘Trevor brought up the fact that the coming campaign would fall in the middle of the hurricane season. Towner voiced an opinion on the subject to the group that in spite of the hurricane season, the local organization should take advan- tage of all the national publicity that is given over the radio and in various magazines. “And The Key West Citizen,” Neblett added. Neblett in addressing the group told the members that a great deal of planning is necessary to insure the success of the coming cam- paign. Neblett also agreed to a sug- gestion by Towner that weekly meetings be held by the campaign department heads in the form of luncheon meetings to insure good eampaign liaison during the drive and preliminary planning. Chairman Discussed Joe Pinder made a motion, which was passed, that the executive committee appoint a campaign chairman. The motion was preced- ed by group discussion of possible eampaign chairman nominations. In discussing one of the fine points of the coming campaign Towner suggested that the Chief of Police be appointed chairman of the bar committee which would | solicit contributions from various bars im the city during the cam- paign. Another member suggested that his assistant be the Shore Patrol (Continued on Page Eight) DISTINCTIVE 2x4 Strunk Lumber 120 Simonton St., near Aquarium Duval Street Bar Robbed Early Today Liquor Valued At $1,500 Is Taken From Room A daring early morning robbery resulted in the loss of liquor valued at $1,500 and $56.90 in cash today from the Happy Hour Bar on Duval St.—only one block from city police headqua! ma Perez, the thieves forced open.a front door and carried loot out the e way. In sdaition, police said, the thieves smashed open a cash register, leaving it lying on the floor. Porter Discovered Theft | According to Ruth Davis, owner of the bar, the robbery took place | between the hours of 4:15 and 7; a.m. today. She explained that although she closed the establish- ment at 2 a.m., there was a domino | game going on next door until 4:15, and that none of the players no- ticed anything irregular. The theft was discovered by the porter at 7 a.m. today. The liquor was taken from a store room in the rear of the bar. A door leading ot it was also apparently forced. Listed as missing, were: 51% cases of whiskey, 12 “fifths” of whiskey, 42 quarts of whiskey, 12 pints of whiskey, four cases of scotch, seven “fifths” of scotch, 16 quarts of gin, eight “fifths” of brandy, six “fifths” of rum and four quarts of rum. The Sheriff's Department also conducted an investigation of the case. Troop 253 Is In Ft. Myers Today Scout Troop 253 will leave Bra-| denton today for Ft. Myers and expect to be home Sunday after-| noon. Tony Martinez, scoutmaster phoned The Citizen yesterday after- noon and said that the boys stayed at Flying Eagle Camp while they | were in Bradenton. | The Key West Scouts used the | facilities of the camp through the courtesy of Fred Treat of the Sunnyland Boy Scout .Council. | The troop also made a trip to| Sarasota during their stay in Bra- denton. | According to Martinez, the boys | who have been on an_ extended | tour of the state are all well and/ happy. |MOTHER FAINTS, DROWNS HER SON EAST HARTFORD, Conn. A pregnant mother, expecting anoth- er child within a few hours, put} her 2-year-old son in a tub to give! him a bath today. Then she fainted. The mother, Mrs. James W. Howard, a truck driver’s wife, re-| recovered in horror a few moments later to find she had fallen across | the tot and submerged him with | her body. The boy, Allen, was rononnced|| dead at a hospital. | , first-vice president; and Marine Hosp. Staff Member Visits Here Dr. Foraker Brings News Of Doctors Well Known Here Dr. A. G. Fotaker, a member of the Marine Hospital Staff here from 1940 to 1942, brought news of two other former staff members when he passed through town this week. Dr. Anthony P. Rubino, last Medical Officer in Charge of the Hospital here (from 1939 to 1942) is reported to have died recently in Naples, Italy. During his stay here Dr. Rubino treated many of the townspeople, and performed surgery for them. He was known not only for his “| medical skill but for his kindly Personality. During this period the Marine Hospital furnished a arrive at a verdict. State Attorney J. Lancelot Lester has indicated || Added Woe | City For Quick Communication, Use CLASSIFIED Ads! You'll reach tenant: buyers and sellers— is or workers .. just DIAL 2-566] or 25662, PRICE FIVE CENTS Budget May Be Cut By Slashing Pay Raises that he will be tried again next}) — October during the next term of circuit court. But Senk has another rape in. dictment pending against him in- volving a 17-year old baby sitter. According to the police depart- ment report issued at the time he was arrested last January 27, a girl said Senk forced her to submit to his advances and then wrote a note saying that she submitted vol- untarily. Then, according to the po- lice report, he forced the girl to sign the note, the youth said. That may be the state’s ‘‘ace- in-the hole.” Statutory Rape Since the girl was only 17-years- old, Senk could be tried either on the straight rape indictment re- turned by the Monroe County Grand Jury or he could face a charge of statutory rape. Under the law, carnal relations with a female under 18, with or without her permission, is statu- tory rape. If the state can establish the authenticity of the note, which ac- cording to police, was found in Senk’s billfold at the time of his arrest, things would look dark in- deed for him. He faces the possibility of death in the electric chair if he is con- victed for jury recomm: 4 The which he allegedly wrote and had the: girl sign, said: “I thee below named do h swear that I (name withheld) did have intercourse with Frank E. Senk with permission.” Said He Wouldn't Harm Her Senk had reportedly lured her in- | jto his home in Poinciana to act - DR. FORAKER large proportion of the hospital care for the population, being the only fully equipped and staffed hospital. From Key West, Dr. Rubino went to the Marine Hospital in| Memphis, and to other stations, most recently being at the U. S. Embassy in London. He is survived by his wife and daughter, Lois, who married re- cently. Dr. Paul D. Holloway, a staff member of the Hospital here for more than 10 years, is now in re- tirement at his home in Collins, Mississsippi. He also played a! major role in the medical care of | Key West citizens as well as ser- vice personnel. Dr. Foraker, who is now in cancer research at the Texas University Medical Center at Hous- ton, Texas, was in Key West en- (Continued On Page Eight) Estranged Mate Stages Lockout PROVIDENCE, R. I. (®—Mrs. William H. Lister complained yes- terday in Superior, Court that her husband, who has been living apart from her, went to their home July 2 and had all the locks changed. Mrs. Lister told the court she was forced to leave her mother! in the house when she went out sea she would be sure of getting hack in. | Judge Mortimer A. Sullivan} ruled that husband and wife, still | being legally married, both were | entitled to use of the home and | she should have keys to the locks | } as a baby sitter. While she was in (Continued On Page Eight) Former Mental Patient Held In Slaying Secret Dates With Pretty Brunette Are Revealed JOLIET, Ill. @ — A 43-year-old onetime mental patient was seized last night for the lover’s lane slay- ing of an 18-year-old schoolgirl he reportedly had been dating secret- ly for two years. The suspect, Anthony Stefanich, was charged with murdering pretty brunette Doris Bogart. He told po- lice she was shot to death Saturday night by three masked men who stopped his car on a country road. He said he drove her body around the countryside for two days without notifying the police “because they railroaded me once before,” when he was sent to a mental institution. Miss Bogart’s body was found early yesterday sprawling out of the door of Stefanich’s car parked in a lover’s lane near a Joliet area cemetery. She had been missing since Saturday night. shoulder and in the heart. Sex Motive body and the disarray of her blue (Continued On Page Zight) She had been shot twice, in the| March of Dimes drive, August .1| the appointment. Organizational Meeting Slated For Friday Night Rob Youmans, Key West ators mey, today was appointed county ;campaign chairman for ine emer- ereby | gency March of Dimes Aug. 16 through Aug. 31. Jeff Knight, county chairman for the National Foundation for Infan- tile Paralysis, made the appoint- ment. Youmans immediately announc- ed an organizational meeting for Friday at 8 p. m. in the County Health Department building. “T'd like a representative of every civic and fraternal organi- zation to attend that meeting,” Youmans said. “Those representatives can take the story of the emergency March of Dimes back to their organiza- tions,” he added. “Then each or- ganization can plan its own money raising stunt for the March of Dimes.” Navy Represented Youmans also said that Rear Adm. George C. Towner, com- mander of the Navy Base here, will have a Naval representative at the meeting. “The Navy,” Youmans said, Dimes campaign.” Youmans explained that the em- (Continued on Page Eight) Flu Epidemic Sweeps Prison GUATEMALA, (#—An influenza epidemic swept the central police prison today, threatening 2,000 jlike sardines. | Police authorities said scores of the prisoners already have the flu. About 100 others were said to be suffering from dysentery and 20 from malaria. The situation was described as serious. The Red suspects were rounded up this month. following the suc- cessful anti-Communist revolt by Scratches and bruises on her} Col. Carlos Castillo Armas, presi- | {dent of Guatemala’s present mili- {tary government. NOT e A public hearing will be held by the City Commission of the City of Key West, Florida, 2nd, 1954, in the Commission Ch at 8:00 P.M., Monday, August amber, City Hall for the purpose of hearing parties in interest on the proposed change in zoning of Lots 25, 26, 27 and 27, Square 5, from Residence A, to Busi- VICTOR LOWE, CITY CLERK. ness A. HEADS EMERGENCY DRIVE—Bob Youmans (right), Key West attorney, today was appointed chairman of the emergency Youmans Will Head Emergency March Of Dimes Drive In Aug. “will conduct its own March of, Communist suspects packed there | 6 to 31. Jeff Knight (left) made Knight is county chairman of the national polio organization.—Citizen Staff Photo, Sybil. Roper Speaks At Meeting Of Kiwanis Club Tells Of Methods Learned While In Service With FBI Watson Roper Jr., of the coun- ty’s law enforcement agency, dis- cussed the modern scientific ad- vancements of the latest crime de- tection methods, in a talk to mem- bers of the Kiwanis Club during their weekly meeting last night at the La Concha Hotel. Roper, a veteran of 14 years of FBI experience in criminal inves- tigation, told of a criminal who wanted to remove his finger prints. The man accomplished this by the i | | WATSON ROPER, JR. aid of a doctor who strapped the | man’s hands to his lower chest} }area and let the skin grow over ‘the prints of his fingers. “This process took about four months to complete,” Roper said. | Useless Try He explained that it had been a] useless experience for the man was (Continued on Page Eight) SEAMAN’S BODY IS BROUGHT TOK.W. The body of Frarcis P. O’Con- nor, 45-year-uld Merchant seaman, of Boston, was brought to. Key | West early today by a Coast Guard |boat after the man died at sea | aboard the SS Sea Tiger. | The body is in the morgue at the Naval Hospital. Lopez Funeral |Home will handle funeral arrange- iments after Dr. Ralph Herz per- ‘forms an autopsy. Girl Found | girl clad only in a brassiere was 15 Thousand Do Of Paring; New A $15,000 cut in the mi Uar Saving Resuli Playground Seen illion-dollar city budget was reportedly agreed on last night at a caucus of the city commission. According to information received by The Citizen, the saving was effected by removing from the budget, pay raises slated to be given several department heads Crawfishing Regulations Are Outlined Season Opens August 15; Licenses To Be Required An estimate 150 full-time Mon- roe County crawfishermen will be-! gin operations August 15 when the { season opens. And state conservation officials today wanted that because of a new regulation, it will be neces- sary for permit numbers to be ob- tained from their Tallahassee of- fices. The number must be painted or prominently displayed on each crawfish trap placed in the water. There is no charge for the per- mit. Officials have urged that fish- ermen make early application so that they will have the permits by the time the season-opens, Information may be obtained from Monroe County Conservation Agents Joe Knight, 1425 Eliza Street, and John:Castell, who may be reached by phoning 3111 in Ma- rathon. Asked By Fishermen The agents pointed out today that the permit regulation, which was passed with the approval of most fishermen, is designed to pro- tect those who make their living from crawfishing as well as to make it possible for the State Con- servation Department to compile important figures regarding the in- dustry. The agents added that any traps found without the proper identifi- cation number will be confiscated. They pointed out that they will be furnished a list of permits giv- en fishermen in this area. Anyone seen “pulling” a trip will be in- (Continued on Page Eight) After Assault In Hollywood HOLLYWOOD #—A 14-year-old found bound and unconscious in front of the Baptist Church last night, the victim of attempted rape. Sheriff Amos Hall of Broward County who. investigated said he did not think there was any con- nection between the attempted at- tack and the kidnap-slaying of Ju- dith Ann Roberts, 7, in Miami on July 7. “They aren’t the same type of| crime,” he said. “The man who tried to assault the girl here was not a sadist.” Hall said the 14-year-old girl was not raped and wasn’t harmed ex- cept for the gag in her mouth and around her throat. He quoted her as saying she was walking home from a girl friend’s house about 8:20 p.m. (EST) when she noticed a man in a black car following her. In front of the church, she said, the man got out of the car and threatened her with a gun. He forced her to the rear of the; church, ripped off her pedal push- ers and blouse, tied her hands and | feet and gagged her. Hall said that after the man left the girl said she crawled around the front of the church and then lost consciousness. Children playing nearby heard her groaning and notified authori- ties. Medical Examiner A. E. Cronkite examined the sirl at Hol- lywood Memorial Hospital. in the city administration. The city commission is scheduled to meet tonight to consider the budget in its final form — at which time they may make even great- er savings by cutting other expenditures from the bud- get. At least two commissioners had indicated that they would not vote for approval of the budget as it had been set up in earlier meet- ings. * The commission will also meet tonight as the Equalization Board at which time the 1954-55 tax roll expected to be OK'd. Under the law, no more complaints for chang: es in assessments can be heard. The law states that applications for hearings must have been sub- mitted prior to June 8. Dept. Heads Named Department heads who can ap- parently will not get raises set up in the original budget, include the city manager, the finance director, the city attorney and the city judge. They had been slated for raises up to $600 annually. In addition to the pay hikes, there are several other “questionable” provisiéfis in the budget that ‘may be removed — resulting in an even bigger saving in the city’s spending program for the coming fiseal year. New Playground It was learned today that at least $3,000 of the saving will be earmarked for purchase of a play- ground for the city’s recreation program. Indications were that the remain- ing ‘$12,000 will be set up in an emergency fund.” Some of it, however, may be used to finance a municipal swimming pool now in the advanced planning stage. Tonight’s meeting is set for 8 p. m. in the city hall. KEY WEST'S TRAFFIC BOX SCOR July To Date 20 297 3 33 Traffic Deaths __ 0 e Property Damage $6,820 $75,756 Four accidents reported by police today sent Key West's toll for this month far above the toll for the same period last month. A total of $1,115 in damage was caused in the mishaps— which also resulted in a subs- tantial increase in property damage for the month. The city is fast approaching the total for the entire year of 1953. What can be done about the situation? The only answer is for every motorist to adopt a resolution to ‘make it his personal res- ponsibility to make the city a safer place in which to live— and drive. Demo Campaign Opens In Indiana INDIANAPOLIS, #—The nation- al Democratic congressional came paign will open at Indianapclis Sept. 17 and 18 with a conference and dinner of party leaders from throughout the country. Adlai E. Stevenson, 1952 presi- dential nominee, will be the prin- cipal speaker at a $100-a-plate din- ner in the Murat Temple Sept. 18. Former President Harry S. Tru- man is expected to be present if his doctors permit. There will be a series of panel discussions on campaign issues led by national authorities in each ‘field, the announcement said.