The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 23, 1954, Page 2

Page 2 THE KEY WEST CI TIZEN Friday, July 23, 1954 Man Camps Out On Ocean Floor The Weatherman y . Off Key Largo _ Miami Man Was | Key West and Vicnity: Partly | cloudy and hot today thru Satur- day with isolated thundershowers To Surface This Afternoon At 3 MIAMI #—Ed Fisher camped | avernight on the ocean floor off! Key Largo was well on his way today toward becoming the first man to spend 24 hours under water in a diving suit. Fisher, a Miamian, had fish for breakfast. He is due to come to the surface at 3 p. m (EST). He went 30 feet down to the floor of a coral canyon at that hour yesterday. A team of assist- ants took fresh tanks of air to him every hour. He wore a rubber suit to con- tain body heat during the night. The unit has no hose leading to the surface. Fisher walked around, lay down and at times squatted as big fish eyed him curiously. Two boats, the 55-foot Vagabond and the 38-foot Three Royals, an- chored about 100 feet from the “camp” on the ocean bed. Helpers aboard the craft watched him dur- ing the night by use of battery| lanterns just under the surface and on the ocean floor, Fisher carried a hammock for | sleeping to the canyon with im, a hot water bottle filled with ot soup and a spear gun. Sharks and barracuda are plentiful in the area. Fisher is wearing a face mask that covers eyes and nose but leaves mouth free. To eat he mere- ly takes air tube out of his mouth long enough to chew and swallow. He wrote occasional messages with a grease pencil on slate and sent them up to the surface by rope. The fish he ate he killed himself with a spear and sliced into strips to be eaten raw. “Stung severely by sea urchin,” he reported at 9:30 last night. “‘Do- ing fine now,” A sea urchin has the shape and appearance of a pin cushion. The ping are brittle spines containing an irritant which burn furiously when broken off in the flesh. At 2:30 a. m. he reported: “Getting extremely cold. Eating eandy and exploring reef.” Fish were plentiful around the ocean floor camper. Once gishark, described by surface watchers as “half as big as a submarine,” swam lazily over the camp site, eyed Fisher curiously, then went his way. Fisher is testing a newly de- signed underwater breathing ap- paratus, similar to” the famed French aqualung. He breathes through a hose leading to an air tank on his back. A regulator keeps the pressure in the hose proper for breathing at any depth. Beria’s Aide \ers. mostly in afternoons. Low tonight near 80; high Saturday near 93. Light to gentle variable winds. Florida: Continued warm and |partly cloudy thru Saturday with widely scattered thundershowers in afterncons or early evenings. Jacksonville thru the Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate southwesterly winds except vari- able over extreme south portion. Weather partly cloudy thru Satur- day with a few widely scattered showers. Western Caribbean: Moderate to fresh easterly winds. Weather partly cloudy thru Saturday with only a few widely scattered show- Weather summary for the Tro- | Pical Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico: Coa- ditions remain settled in the tro- Pics. No important waves or other signs of disturbance. Observation Taken at Post Office + Building, 7:00 .A.M., EST, Key West, Fla., July 23, 1954 Temperatures Highest yesterday Lowest last night oR ee See Normal ..... Pracipi ion Total last 24 hours ..... Total this month ..... Deficiency this month Total this year .... 21.87 ins. Excess this year .. 4.86 ins. Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. 19% Barometer (Sea Level), 7 A.M. 30.00 ins.—1015.9 mbs. Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise 51 a.m. Sunset . 16 p.m. Moonrise 32 a.m. Moonset 2:32 p.m. TOMORROW'S fIDES (Naval Base) Time of Height of Tide high water Low Tides 3:50 a.m. 11:27 a.m. 5:57 p.m. 9:56 p.m. ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Bahia Honda (bridge) .....—oh 19m No Name Key (east end) ....+-2h 20m Boca Chica Sandy Pt. Caldes Channel (north end) 0 ins. -58 ins. Station—, High Tides 9.0 tt —oh 4m +2h 10m 41.4 ft, (—)—Minus sign: Corrections to be subtracted. (+)—Plus sign: Corrections to be added. | TODAY'S | “her say my name loudly, scream- -2.41 ins, | Dr. To Testify |Again Today Probe Of Woman’s Slaying Continues In Ohio Town | CLEVELAND (®—Dr. Samuel | } Sheppard returns to the witness stand today at a coroner’s inquest | into the killing of his wife. Outwardly calm and_ speaking carefully, the 30-year-old Bay Vil- jlage osteopath spent an hour and 55 minutes on the stand as the inquest began yesterday. He told a story similar to one he gave authorities after his 31- year-old wife, Marilyn, was beaten to death July 4. : After dinner he fell asleep down- stairs, he said, and later heard ing my name. It wasn’t actually a scream, I really can’t explain it.” He said he ran upstairs, grappled | | with ‘‘a white form of an indivi-| |dual,” heard his wife moaning loudly and felt that he was struck | down from behind. | Wears Neck Brace | The doctor—wearing a_ brace | supporting his neck, which he said was injured in the scuffle—re- |counted seeing a “figure in the front door, or on the porch, or possibly beyond ...”” and pursuing “this form as best I could.” | He said he tried to tackle the} | fleeing figure and “felt twisted or | choked and that’s all I remember j at that time.” | Earlier he told of spending a| | week last March at Los Angeles jas the guest of Dr. Arthur Miller | while taking a post-graduate osteo- pathic course, Miss Susan Hayes, 23-year-old Downey, Calif., medical technician, | for whom he later bought a watch, j; Was a house guest theré at the ;same time, he said. The watch | was a replacement, he said, for {one she lost while they attended |a wedding at San Diego. Expectant Mother His wife—who was four months | pregnant at the time of her death— was with friends at a ranch near Monterey, Calif., while he was in Los Angeles, he told the coroner. Questioned by Dr. Gerber, the osteopath denied there had been difficulties over his being at the Miller home. Others who testified yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. Don J. Ahern, who had dinner with the Shep- pards the night of the murder. Mrs. Ahern said Mrs. Sheppard had told her about the watch and that, she had asked Mrs. Sheppard “did it upset you, is there nything to it.” She quoted Mrs. Sheppard as re-} plying, ‘‘no, I don’t think there is.” MourningIs OrderedFor | At Inquest |Cease-Fire In Indochina Set | For July 27 SAIGON, Indochina «® — The | French high command announced | tonight the Indochina cease-fire | will go into effect in North Viet Nam at 7 a.m. Tuesday, July 27 (7 p.m. EST Monday, July 26), and in other Vietnamese areas soon afterward. Sealed orders setting the hour for silencing of the guns in the North had already gone to the French headquarters in Hanoi, and presumably to the Communist-led Vietminh troops of Ho Chi Min in and around the Red River Delta. The high command said all of- fensive action by French Union and Vietnamese army forces has been ordered halted throughout Indochina. They are to fight only defensive actions, and air 0, ra- tions have been reduced to bom- bardments in support of | ‘ench | Posts the Vietminh are sti. at- tacking. Vietnamese government bvild- | ings in Saigon flew flags at half staff to mourn the loss to the Com- munists of the northern half of the country ater 7% years of fight ang and 2% months of arguing a we Geneva conference, SUSPICIOUS AREA (Continued From Page One) happened to be here on a red tide research project. The two teams planned to go by boat to the area of suspicion, take samples of water and marine life and study conditions there. “There is no justification for any alarm over a bad red tide outbreak at this time,” said Willlam P. Brownell, executive secretary of the Gulf Coast Coordinating Com- mittee which is trying to unify all efforts to fight the plague. “We are merely being cautious and not overlooking any opportuni- ty to aid our research on this subject,” Brownell added. The red tide is the name given to a mass of tiny marine organ- isms which poison fish and litter the beaches with smelly carcasses. There have been several attacks on the Lower West Coast in recent years. CITY TO ASK FOR (Continuea From Page One) imposing higher taxes on owners of real estate or increasing the rates for occupational licenses. Better Distribution Mayor C. B. Harvey said today that he thought “the law would en- able a better distribution of the state’s gasoline tax money.” “I think it would be more equit- able‘for the city to get a share of the tax money,” he added. ~Commissioner Delio Cobo com- mented: “I think it is a good and fair proposal — it means that mo- torists using the city’s streets would be paying a fair share of the | cost of maintaining them.” Breeding experiments looking toward development of the Rhode Island Red hen were begun as ear- ly as 1854 and the Rhode Island NEW HEAT IS MISS MARYLAND IS (Continued trom Page One) (Conusued from P. Que) mentary procedures permitting in-|sor of the state contest in Mary- dividual five-minute speeches. | land that his daughter was only 16 Knowland’s move to limit Senate and he was assured that was all debate must get the votes of 64| . ht. senators to be successful. ae : Sen. Gore (D-Tenn), a leader of | They Said So the opposition to the bill, predicted | He said a representative of the in the debate that Knowland’s| Miss Universe pageant told him | amendment by Sen. Johnson (D- Colo) was adopted. The Johnson amendment would authorize government construction of atomic plants to produce com- mercial electric power. GOP lea- ders said the administration did not want to put the government in the atomic power business. “\dle Threat’ Gore gibed that Knowland had carried the petition for cloture around in his pocket all day yester- day, threatening to file it, and he added: “He said he couldn’t get a vote. Well, we gave you a vote and we beat you on the amendment and we'll beat you on the cloture peti-| tion. “It's an idle threat.” The senators themselves were weary and drawn. One of the short- hand reporters who takes down the | debate for the Congressional Rec- ord collapsed at 8 a.m. He was Gregory MacPherson, 55, who had just come on. duty after a short | rest. MacPherson was taken to a| hospital. \ This is the 10th day of debate, with the Republican leaders bitter- ly accusing principal Democratic opponents of a filibuster attempt to “sabotage” both the bill and other important,items on the ad- ministration’s legislative program in these closing weeks of the 1954 Congress session. ONE DEAD AS PLANE (Continued From Page One) raft. The three presumably are in Communist hands. Americans Identified Cathay Pacific identified Amer- | icans aboard the Skymaster as | Capt. and Mrs. L. L. Parish and their three children of Los An- geles, and P. S. Thacker, address unavailable. | Three British citizens on the plane were listed as Mrs. P. M.) Thorburn, wife of a Hong Kong bank official; Mrs. H. M. Finlay, wife of the British consul at Medan, Sumatra, and Paul Yong Nam Ying, a student. The Skymaster was en route) from Singapore to Hong Kong via Bangkok when a port engine) caught fire and the pilot ditched | at 9 a.m. | The captain flashed an SOS be- | fore crash landing in the sea and rescue planes and ships converged on the scene from Hong Kong and the Philippines. For a time it was feared, that rescue operations would be com- | plicated by the proximity of Com- munist territory. There was no in- dication from the U. S. PBY that) it had encountered trouble in} landing and taking off. Citizen Want Ads Pay Off! KNIGHT TELLS (Co a from Taxe une) | emergency March of Dimes the| last two weeks in August,” Knight | said. He stressed that the local chap- | ter had not set a goal for the] August drive and “hopes that it will go over big.” | Knight reminded Rotarians that | move would fail. And he taunted | 3 . y t a factor. GOP leaders over the licking they thababeswaa near acer suffered late yesterday when an an organizational meeting to plan Beauties from 33 nations went for the August drive would be held | \through preliminary judging last |night for the sought-after title of |Miss Universe, the world’s most} | beautiful woman. | Favorites Miss Brazil, Miss Ger- | |many, Miss Thailand and Miss U.S.A. got much applatse. Miss | Sweden, a tall redhead also drew) loud bursts of spontaneous ap-| plause. + | The judges weeded out 18 but | their names will not be known tonight at the Clinic building and urged that a representative of the Rotary be present. He added that the Polio founda- tion had never been questioned a- bout its finances. He also said that the National Foundation does not | participate in any Community Chest drive and receives no fi- nancial aid from them. He told club members that in January, “the local chapter owed until the start of tonight’s final | Variety Hospital $9,000 for Monroe | judging. The girls went through | County patients. You can see our |nearly four hours of bathing suit | Chapter is in real financial dis- |and evening gown competition. | t | Knight closed by saying, “When | polio strikes, the Foundation takes | jover immediately and sees to it | GARDEN TIP Humid wather is beloved by in- Sey DAV MEETS TONIGHT There will be a regular meet- ing of the Disabled American Veterans tonight at 8:00 at the VEW hall, 325 Elizabeth Street, it was announced today by the newly -elected commander, An- thony L. Ulchar. Commander Ulchar urged all members to be present for the transaction of important busi- ness. Delegates will be selected to attend the DAV national con- vention August 15 to 21 at Mia- mi Beach. COMMUNITY SPIRIT (Continued from Page One) the community council include: Mrs. Barbara Mitchell, chairman; J. H. 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Pravda said the Military Collegium of the Soviet Supreme Court tried Ryum- in July 2-7 and ordered him shot on charges of forcing the doctors to “slander themselves and other people.” It also accused him of} treason. (There was no explanation why the courts took so long to deal with Ryumin, who was arrested in April, 1953, as the scapegoat} in the bizaare case.) The Internal Security Ministry first announced details of the doc- tor’s plot in January, 1953. It ac- cused nine physicians, several of them Jews, of plotting to kill So- viet leaders and charged they al- ready had done away with Polit- buro member Andrei Zhdanov with reverse therapy. Three months later the ministry, which had since been taken over by Beria, announced that the nine doctors and six others had been freed and that Ryumin had been arrested. Beria was jailed himself in June, 1953, on treason charges and his execution was announced | NEW YORK (#—Steels were a higher feature of a rising stock} market today in early dealings. The steels soared ahead yester- day and pulled the entire market | ¢ By JOHN RODERICK SAIGON, Indochina #% — The Vietnamese flag dropped at half staff today on Saigon’s government | ii 5 i idst | buildings. The gesture mourned | rae ee ceca the nosthern half of the country—| Throughout the list today gains|lost to the Communists in eight | went to around a point while losses | years of fighting and 22 months | were small. jof arguing at the Geneva confer- | Bethlehem Steel was up % at/|ence. | 74% on 1,500 shares at the start| Viet Nam Premier Ngo Dinh| and Youngstown Sheet & Tube|Diem ordered the official flags | started on 4,000 shares up % at|halfway down, backing up his de- 54%. Both then went still higher | nunciation yesterday of the parti- Those two companies were linked | tion ordered by the Geneva cease- in’ merger rumors. | fire. | Among other gainers were Arm-| Sources close to the militantly co Steel, U.S. Steel, General Mo- | Nationalist Premier said he would | tors, Boeing, American Telephone, | Western Union, Allied Chemical, Westinghouse Electric, American Tobacco and Southern Pacific. Lower were Union Carbide, Santa | Fe, and International Harvester. CARBONELL IS NAMED (Continued from Page One) March of Dimes polio fund drive and was county chairman of the Cancer Fund drive. He is a past president of the Lions Club. Carbonell said today that he would follow through with the Ken- {nel Club’s promise of hiring Key Westers, whenever possible, to work at the track. All but a hand- ful of the more than 100 track em- ployes will be local people, he com- ; mented. Thorough Facelifting A thorough “‘face-lifting’” is in the offing for the Kennel Club this season, Carbonell added. He point- ;ed out that the plant will be re- furbished and new conveniences | added. The plush Stock Island layout last December. |ranks with the best in the nation. Pravda said the death sentence! Carbonell also pointed out that was imposed on Ryumin because jn addition to dog racing, club of- the court “took into consideration |ficials are planning on bringing the special dangers of criminal ac-| other top-flight sporting attractions tivity . . the consequences of the crime per- petrated by him.’” | Globetrotter basketball team and ja roller-derby. The United Sates had 9.7 mar-| There will be several charity riages per 1,000 population in 1953. | racing programs this year, he add- ———_. ed. The cultivation and preparation Saal of flax are among the most ee of ancient of the textile industries. ‘Read Citizen Daily + and the heaviness of | to the kennel club, including an ap- | pearance of the famed Harlem! not resign his post despite his an- | |ger at the armistice terms which | jhis representatives at Geneva said were concluded without their con- | | sent. | Diem, these sources said, con-| | siders it his duty to lead Viet Nam \in the difficult days ahead. Under | the cease-fire terms, both North | and South Viet Nam are slated | for internationally supervised elec- \tions in two years to reunite them. | | So far there is little expectation | |that the forces opposed to Com- munist leader Ho Chi Minh will | |Win. The Viet Nam government’s immediate action was to arrange | for evacuation southward of thou- sands of anti-Reds in the North, desirous of escaping from the in- coming Vietminh But Associated Press Corres- pondent Forrest Edwards reported from Hanoi that various Vietnam- | ese professional men he interviev*- ed there said they intended to re- main in the north and that they know of “many others who also) expect to stay if we are given any kind of assurance we and our fam- | ilies will not be harmed.” Reliable sour es in Hanoi said French Union commanders in that city received cease-fire orders in sealed envelopes and were await- ing orders to open them. The date for the fighting to stop has not been announced, but most officers believe it will be either next Tues- day or Wednesday — July 27 or 28. 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