The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 29, 1954, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average tange of only 14° Fahrenheit For Quick ssa Pe re Ta a ews (8 THE FERRY PACT SIGNED—N. C. Hines (right), executive vice-president of Caribbean Ferry Sytems, Miami affixes his signature to a lease of city-owned property at the foot of Simonton Street for Use as a ferry terminal. His company proposes to start automobile and passenger ferry service between Key West and Cardenas, Cuba, on Oct. 1. @f the company, and Mayor C. B. Harvey.—Citizen Staff Photo, Sybil. Looking on are Joseph C. - Operation Of Ferry Is One Step Closer Lease Is Signed OnProperty At Final Plans For Big Bargain Foot Of Simonton'Nays Sale Made By Committee The actual start of Key West-Cuba automobile ferry service-moved a step closer Weditesday when a lease for ity-owned property at the, »faot of Simonton Street was The waterfront land will be used as the local termin- us of a ferry line between Key West and Cardenas, Cu- ba. The line will be operat- ed by the Caribbean Ferry System, Inc. of Miami. N.C. Hines, executive vice pre- sident of that company signed the *Jease yesterday, affixing his signa ture beneath that of C. B. Harvey, Key West’s mayor, Hines was ac- companied to Key West for the Tease signing by several other ex- ecutives of his firm. At the same time, Hines releas- ed to the press, further details of their operation which he said will start October 1. Veradero Terminus He revealed that the ferry will Yun into Cardenas until January 1 when it is planned to start opera- tions between here and Veradero Beach, Cuba’s most popular resort. The ship to be used in the thrice- ‘weekly service, the converted LSM Patricia, is currently undergoing final changeover for ferry service in Miami, According to Alex Bal- fe, president of the Dade Drydock Company and an official of the ferry line, the renovations will (Continued on Page Two) Horsewoman Slays Mount Before Suicide PHILADELPHIA @ — Trudy Tollin went horseback riding in scenic Fairmount Park yesterday. The 3l-year-old womap and her horse, “Bebe,” were a familiar sight on the park bridle paths for the past several years, . A short while later a mounted park policeman came across a bi- zarre scene in 2 secluded wooden glen’near the livery stable where Miss Tollin kept her horse. The young woman and her mount lay side by side. Both had ‘been shot through the head with a +22. calibre rifle which was rigged to a nearby tree branch. The horse’s head was covered with a biue denim skirt. Police said the woman appar- ently shot the horse and then took her own life. In her hand were five playing ards — a pair of aces and three eights, a full house in poker and a combination close to the tradi- (Continued on Page Two) Officials Map Next Step In Murder Probe Police Learn Of Dr. Sheppard’s Calif. Romance CLEVELAND «# — Cuyahoga County law officers today planned a meeting to decide their next step in the case of the brutal slaying of a Bay Village socialite. Since July 4, when 31-year-old Marilyn Sheppard was found dead jin her blood-soaked bed, police have been unable to come up with enough evidence to charge anyone with the crime. But today, the jchief law enforcement officials of Cleveland and the swank suburb |have a meeting scheduled with |County Prosecutor Frank T. Cullitan. “We're going to decide whether present findings justify an arrest,” Cleveland Police Chief Frank W. Story said yesterday. He said it was his personal opinion they don’t. However, final decision on the filing of charges rests with the prosecutor, Husband Questioned ‘The victim's husband, Dr. Sam- uel Sheppard, prominent 30-year- old osteopath, has been undergoing most of the police questioning — much of it bearing on his relation- ship with a pretty laboratory tech- nician who used to work with him in Bay View: Hospital. The girl, Miss Susan Bayes, 24, who came here voluntarily from California to testify, yesterday was quoted by officials as saying she and the doctor carried on a | some time past. | Story said.a session on “what jwas done, what was not done and |what can be done,” in the case was held in central police station. “We consolidated our thinking,” | “Consolidated Thinking” Story said, but no new information was brought out. Cleveland police didn’t take part jin the original investigation be- jcause the city proper. They entered the case recently on invitation from the | suburb’s city council. | So far, Officers have failed to \find the weapon with which Mrs. | Sheppard was hacked to death in her beautiful lakefront home. Her husband - (Continued on Page Two) slaying was not in the| ' { testified at an inquest last; quested to ake their luggage to week that he was awakened by her |the home of Mrs. Angela Vaughn | points in the city at 6 o’clock Fri- | nual course. The trip was financed | mainly through a series of dinners | August 2, 3 And 4 Are City-Wide Sales Days Set By C. Of C. The final meeting before the big Key West Bargain Days Sale was held by the Merchants’ Division of the Key West Chamber of Com- merce yesterday morning at the La Concha Hotel. At this meeting the Sale Com- mittee advised that banners ad- vertising the sale will be distribui- ed to participating stores within the next two days. These banners are a@ @ye-catch- ing red, white, and blue combina- tion, and all merchents are asked to place the banners in their dis- play windows to identify their stores as taking part in this Cham- ber of Commerce sponsored sale. Varied Participation The list of participating stores includes dealers in wearing ap- parel for men, women and: chil- dren; appliances; gifts, auto ac- cessories; furniture; fishing tac- Kle; photographs and cameras; floor coverings; office supplies; jewelry; sundries; toys and “dime” stores. Each of these stores has agreed to feature different articles of mer- chandise during this sale — Key West Bargain Days, Monday, Tues- day, and Wednesday, August 2, 3, (Continued on Page Zwo) County Cafeteria Workers To Take Course At FSU | Approximately twelve Monroe County supervisors and workers, including one from Coral Shores School, will attend the annual | school lunchroom course at Flori- romance earlier this year, and for | da State University in Tallahassee | next week. | The trip will be made in a Coun- | ty School bus which will pick up| the local personnel at designated | day morning. All but one of the schools in the city will be represented at the an- held at the school lunchrooms dur- ing the year. | While in Tallahassee, the “stu-| dents” have a choice of several | courses in various phases of lun-| chroom work. After completing all these cour- ses, they receive a certificate in lunchroom management. Those making the trip are re- early this evening. SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1954 IN THE USA. ~ bel PRICE FIVE CENTS ~|First Fatal Accident In 04 Occurs On Boulevar School Budget Is Approved Plans Allow For Continued Growth Church secretary | Of County Schools The Monroe County School Board approved a $1,688,149 operating budget| - for the 1954-55 school year | j Wednesday . The budget shows that for the first time, the amount of money the state is pour- ing into the school system exceeds that being appro- priated by Monroe County taxpayers, While the budget is down slightly from 1953, it con- tains provision for the con- tinued expansion of the county’s educational pro- gram. Horace C. O’Bryant, superinten- dent of public instruction, in com: menting on the fact that the school tax millage will remain at only em ee ee there are only 11 3 State with lower millage and that none of them have, as extensive 4 school system ‘as “Monroe County. “We feel that we are giving Mon- roe County residents remarkably good educational service without raising the millage,” said O’Bry- ant. O’Bryant also commented on the “unexcelled quality of instruction here.” Cash Surplus On Hand Monroe County’s ad valorem tax- ation and other income sources will produce just $538,149 of this year’s school income. The balance will come from the federal govern- ment. the state’s minimum founda- tion aid and from cash surpluses now on hand. Federal funds will amount to $24,500 while the state will kick in with $656,051, including $500,289 for the payment of teacher’s salaries, $10,411 towards the purchase of three new school busses, $81,118 for capital outlay (new building, purchase of school sites, etc) and $14,429 for the purchase of text- books. The school system has earmark- ed $43,290 for administration in the coming fiscal year, Teachers’ Salaries Up Cost of instruction, including teachers’ salaries, texthooks, and classroom supplies will require an- other $857,573. O’Bryant comment- ed that this year Monroe County teachers will receive a total of $789,144 in salaries while ten years (Continued on Page Two) igythe U.S. Army... F: * and ad Air Force Sarg # The first Army enlistee left, 19-year-old son of Mr. PF For 19541955. Operations in Key West by the Air Fores. the new setup is Charles N. Hott, and Mrs. Charles Hiort, 3491 Aveniu@ E, Charles, who graduated from the local high school last Was sworn inte the Army in Miami yesterday. He will basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C. Sgt. Reynaud is in Key West on the second gnd fourth Mondays of each month.—Citizen Staff Photo, Sybil. Youth Confesses Slaying In Attempt At Perfect Crime BROOKLINE, Mass. (#—Police said an 18-year-old schoolboy con- fessed today he killed Mrs. Ora Schonarth, 52-year-old dressmaker, with a rolling pin in an attempt to commit what he called “‘the per- fect crime.” Mrs. Schonarth was found dead yesterday on her living room floor. In addition to having been bludg- eoned, she had been stabbed through the chest. Police identified the youth in custody as Roland S. Blumenthal, 18, of Brookline, a husky, 6-foot prep school student. He was taken into custody early today at his home. Officers said young Blumenthal, son of a Boston liquor store pro- prietor, had boasted he would one day commit ‘the perfect crime.” They said he told a schoolmate, who was not identified, that he You Have Tried The Rest, Now Try The Best We Have Just Received 28 . . . 1954 FORDS 7 1954 FORD TRUCKS 8 . 1954 MERCURYS 3. . 1954 LINCOLNS A LIBERAL DISCOUNT ON ALL CARS SOLD FOR NEXT 10 DAYS.. . AN EXTRA DISCOUNT TO FIRST 10 CUSTOMERS Big Trade-In Allowance Monroe Motors, Inc. 1117 White Street — 2-5631 A-l Used Car Lot — 2.5881 CORNER GREENE AND SIMONTON STREETS would kill someone, that it would be a crime that would go un- solved, and that the schoolmate would read about it in the news- Papers, The schoolmate furnished the tip that led police to pick up Blu- menthai. Tip By Schoolmate Detectives said the boy had gone to the Schonarth home about 4 p.m. Tuesday with a raincoat which needed repair. They said Blumen- thal described for them what hap- pened in the four-family duplex house. Medical examiner Thomas Ken- drick said Mrs. Schonarth died under repeated blows of a rolling pin that fractured her skull in eight Places. He said a bread knife with a six-inch blade had been plunged into her left chest after she was dead. The divorcee’s ankles were bound with a pair of men’s shorts and a piece of cloth was tied around her neck. Police said she had not been raped. Chessman Seeks To Delay Death SAN QUENTIN, Calif. wm — ‘ Convict-author Caryl Chessman |has only one day left to outsmart |the executioner. He has done it| | before and hopes to do it again. | The 32-year-old convicted rapist | and kidnaper said he would appeal | to the U.S. Supreme Court today. | Tomorrow he is scheduled to die jin the San Quentin Prison gas chamber at 10 a.m. For six years Chessman’s legal | Maneuvers have saved him from ‘execution. | On May 22, 1948 he was convict- jed in Los Angeles of eight counts of robbery, four of kidnaping, two counts of sex perversion on vic- tims, one count of attempted rob- (Continued on Page Two) Navy Worker Perishes As His Car Huritles Seawall Key West’s first fatal traffic Near 13th Street accident of the year claimed the life of a 45-year-old Navy worker when his car went out of control last night and hurtled over the seawall on Roosevelt Boulevard, near 13th Street, The dead man was identified as William A. Glisch, KEY WEST'S TRAFFIC BOX SCORE July To Date 302 4 Accidents ___ 35 Traffic Injuries s Traffic Deaths 1 1 Prop. Damage $8,001 $77,137 After 209 days of safe driving 1954, Key West had its first traffic fatality Wednesday. Nobody will ever know just what caused it. Was the driver exceeding the speed limit? Did he have a blowout? Or was the accident caused by factors be- yond his control? We'll never know. All we can do is sympathize with his family — and continue to do everything in our power to prevent other such accidents. Traffic studies have shown that an overwhelming ma , of Key West's fatal accidents SNELLVILLE, Ga. — A North Carolina truck driver burned to death just before dawn today in a series of truck-trailer wrecks and fires that destroyed cargo esti- mated at’ $75,000. The State Patrol listed the dead man as Herbert Madison, 35, of Bladenboro, the father of three. He was trapped when his truck- trailer left U.S. 78 about 4:15 a.m. and surged on down a steep em- bankment to the bank of Yellow River. His heavy load rumbled: forward and crushed him in the cab. He screamed for help as flames en- gulfed him but passersby and resi- dents were helpless to aid him, Avoided Wreck Madison had swerved to the left, state troopers said, to avoid a truck that had hit the Yellow Riy- er bridge. This vehicles whirled over the bridge rail and spilled the driver to the water 40 feet below while the cab dangled grotesquely from the river span. It flamed up also but the driver, Ed Barnes, 24, also of Bladenboro, escaped by being thrown out. He was treated at Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, as was J. R. Wilson, 35, of Dublin, N.C., driver of a third wrecked truck. Second Trucker Safe Wilson, trailing Madison, also turned off the highway to avoid the wreckage of the first truck. His vehicle struck a tree and the heavy load also moved forward smashing the cab and trapping him for about 30 minutes. It did not jeatch fire. Each of the three trucks was hauling 27,700 pounds of equipment jfrom Camp Lejeune, N.C., to the | Marine Depot at Albany, Ga. All |were identical flat body tandem \trailer rigs under lease to McLean Trucking Co., Winston-Salem, N.C. | Investigators said there might have been five rigs and cargoes in the pileup if two drivers had |not stopped at Athens, Ga., for coffee and were several miles be- hind. | Storms By-Pass Buildings Shuttered With Materials from STRUNK LUMBER | 120 Simonton near Weather Bureau a aeanes of 916 White Street. He was pronounced dead- on-arrival at Monroe Gener- lal Hospital by Dr. Edward Gonzales. His injuries were listed as a fractured skull and a crushed chest. According to two eye-witnesses to the fatal crash interviewed by the Sheriff's Department, Glisch was proceeding into Key West shortly after 7 p. m. Wednesday when his car began to weave back and forth, . Blow-out Suggested One witness said that he thought he heard the sound of a tire blow- ing out only an instant before Glisch’s automobile, a late model convertible, jumped the curb, smashed into a coconut palm tree and went over the 18-inch sea wall, The impact of the crash complete- ly severed the palm tree. Glisch, according to the witness- es, was thrown from the car at this point and crushed between the automobile and the seawall. Investigators were unable to es tablish the speed of the veliicie a though the car travelled more th. Ps feet from the point where - the seawall, coming to rest about 15 feet-out in the water, leading them to believe he was travelling at a high rate of: Speed. _Chetie- At Sevite $ Patrolman Ralph Meribona, who arrived on the scene shortly after the crash, said that he could de- tect a slight pulse but Glisch was Pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. The accident broke a record of 209 days in 1954 without a traffic jfatality within the city limits. Glisch ig survived by his wife, Charlotte; a son Harry, and two brothers, Joseph and Theodore Glisch, of Romero, Michigan. He was a member of Anchor Lodge, F and AM, the Disabled American Veterans, the American Legion and the 40 and 8. Glisch was employed as a fireman at the Boca Chica Nayal Air Station. Funeral services, under the di- rection of the Pritchard Funeral Home will be announced later. Chicago Cops Work To Averi Further Riots CHICAGO ®—Seven squad cars and 60 policemen patrolled a West Side neighborhood today to prevent renewal of a disturbance in which three persons were injured last night. Police estimated 1,500 took part in the disturbance at Taylor St. and Racine Ave. in which Larry Sampson, 18, was shot in the right hee piped rs —— 19, received ea les including a possible skull fracture, and Michael Ven- ezia, 50, received minor head cuts. Lt. Harry O'Donnell of Maxwell St. police said it a arently was an outbreak of ra: feeling that has been brewing since two Puc. .o Rican families moved into the pre- dominantly Italian neighborhood, Four members of the two families, newcomers to the Jane Addams housing project, were held for questioning. O'Donnell identified them as Guillero Roman, 36; and three Cruz brothers, Francisco, 26; San- tos, 16, and Florencio, 27. No charges were filed immediately, but the lieutenant said he learned Francisco Cruz fired the shot which struck Sampson. Lt. O'Donnell said the crowd gathered and became menacing after the shot, and when police ar- rived the Cruz brothers had taken refuge in an automobile which the mob was attempting to overturn. The poliee officer said policemen pushed the automobile tu the sta- tion with one of the Puerto Ricans in it to prevent his seizure by angry members of the mob.