The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 9, 1954, Page 1

4 Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the eountry, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit ise CLASSIFIED Ads! You'll Bach buyers and sellers— tenants or workers . . . Just —_—_—_—__ VOL. LXXV No, 188 THE Navy Surrenders T Garrison Bight Plans. Advance Call For Bids On Improvements Seen BOATMEN PONDER QUESTION AS TO “WHAT IS BEST FOR GARRISON BIGHT?” City manager Victor Lang is hard at work drawing up the specifications for the first step in a long-range program of improving Garrison Bight for use aS a dock basin. That information comes as good mews to Key Westers who. have dong advocated that something be done to revive Key West’s reputa- tion as an attraction to the na- tion’s yachtsmen. Meanwhile, according to City At- torney J, Y. Porter, there is a pri- vate investor who is interested in leasing the Bight from the city and improving it to the tune of $350,- 000. Lang was instructed to draw up the specifications and issue a ca‘l for bids on a spit.to be constructed into the Bight at the foot of First Street. “The spit, according to plans drawn up by Mayor C. B. Harvey, has provision for the addition cf finger piers to accomodate 24 yachts, First Street Spit _ Tentative plans call for the re- ‘moval of a spit constructed by the eity three years ago at’the foot of Fifth Street and to use sdme of the material to build the new spit. A retaining wall built there. will. Rave to be blasted out, Lang sdid. The city has $33,000 in the budget this year for the Garrison Bight improvement program. Lang said that he has received no definite es- timates, but that he thought that whuld be enough for the spit and some of the finger piers. Meanwhile, the offer from the un-named private investor has complicated the situation. It has again raised the question which has plagued city officials for the past decade: What is best for Garrison Bight? The city has turned down other such offers and -gone ahead with (Continued on Page Two) Man Confesses Brutal Murder Of His Mother DETROIT (®#—A 33-year-old man who told police he beat and kicked his mother to death last night “be: | cause she was possessed of the| Devil” was held as a police ~ris- oner today in a hospital mental ward. Glenn Green told Detective David Harris that he assaulted his moth- er, Mrs. Alice Green, 70, of Vicco, Ky., as she lay in bed “because she was possessed of the Devil and the Bible says the only thing to do is to beat the Devil out of them.” Mrs. Green was visiting her son, his wife and two children. She died shortly after ad-| mittance to Receiving Hospital| with a fractured skull and internal injuries. Wife Describes Scene Green's wife Ollie Louis, 21, told police her husband pulled his mother from her bed, beat her, threw her to the floor and stamped | on her. Mrs. Green said her husband first showed signs of a mental} strain while training with the| Bids Asked For Colored Wing At Hospital The county commissioners will call for bids to build a colored wing at Monroe Gener- *al Hospital, Commissioner Cla- rence Higgs said today. The plans have been drawn, he added. The new wing will accommo- date 30 patients, Higgs said, and will have a colored old folks home built adjacent to it. Hi aid Gerald Saunders, chairman of the board of coun- ty commissioners, agreed that the new wing is a must for early action. Sam Collins To Head Annual Chest Drive Organizations Sign Up To Participate In‘Annual Campaign Sam L. Collins today was named campaign chairman of the 1954 community Chest drive which begins Oct. 15, according to Wil- liam Neblett, president of the Chest. Collins, who lives at 2919 Seiden- berg Ave., is a telegraph service- man with the American Telephone | and Telegraph Co. He has long | been active in civic affairs here, | Neblett added. | Neblett also said that a Mr. | Plunkert of’the United Defense | Fund will be here the week of Aug. | 16 to confer with chest heads. Friday Meeting | Nine local organizations have in- dicated their desires for member- ship in the Community Chest of Key West, Inc. for the coming year, | the Budget and Admissions Com- mittee reported at the meeting of | wo Wanted Men Release To Sheriff Marks End Of Dispute Two sailors wanted on manslaughter charges—one since June 3 and the other since June 23—today were surrendered by the Navy to the sheriff’s department. Both men are in the county jail in lieu of $5,000 bonds. No hearing date has been set. The surrender by the Navy marked the end of a hassle that began June 3, when Ray Emil Drake, 20, a seaman, was charged with manslaughter. Drake, the sheriff's department says, was the driver of a car that overturned on U. S. 1 about 15 miles north of here. In the crash, Mrs. Shelia Perren, 20-year-old Navy wife, died. The manslaughter warrant was issued the same day but the sher- iff’s department made no effort to serve it until Drake was released from the hospital. Agreement Asked Several days later, when Drake was discharged from the Naval Hospital, the’ Navy refused to re- lease him unless the sheriff's de- partment signed an agreement to return the prisoner to the Navy after the trial or completion of sen- tence and at no expense to the government. The sheriff's depatiment said it had .no authority to sign sueh an agreement. At that time the Navy here said the agreement was ordered in the Naval Supplement to the Manual for Courts Martial, U. S. 1951. The sheriff's department pointed out that if the prisoner was con-| victed and sentenced to the stave penitentiary, he would be out of the hands of the sheriff's depart- ment. It was also pointed out by the sheriff's department that if the man were found not guilty the sheriff's department had‘no right to hold him or forcibly return him to the Navy. Navy Disagrees The Navy brass said that made no difference. The agreement had to be signed before the prisoner (Continued on Page Two) Fiery Politician Dies In New York NEW YORK (#—Former Rep. Vito Marcantonio, fiery, left-wing New Yorker, fell dead on a rain- | swept street today. An ambulance doctor said death was due to a heart ailment. The diminutive, 5l-year-cld for- mer legislator was in the middle of a comeback effort. Defeated in 1950 by a Republican-Democrat- Liberal coalition, he was running again for Congress as candidate of | the Chest Executive Committee | Friday at the La Concha Hotel. | Consideration by both the Chest | and the local chapter of the Am- erican Red Cross is being given| to the repetition of United Fund Campaign in Key West this year. | Among the prospective member | agencies of the Chest are the Sal- vation Army, the NCCS Club, Mon- | roe County Juvenile Council, Com- | munity Servicemen’s Center, Key West Youth Center, local unit of the Boy Scouts of America, local ! Girl Scouts Councii, Bookmobile and the United Defense Fund, Inc. (USO). Tentative Budgets | Army reserves at Ft. Eustis, Va.,| Every member agency is re- last June. He is a veteran of the |quired by the Budget and Admis- | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. | sions Committee to submit sug- She said he had been admitted | gested budgets for 1955 not later to Valley Forge (Pa.) General | than August 31, 1954, so that they Hospital, where doctors said he |can be properly reviewed prior to was a violent mental case. She said |the determination of the Chest | she had checked him out of the | campaign goal for 1955. These bud- | hospital against the Army's wishes. | gets should be turned in to Joe Pin- | As Green was being locked up,|der or Paul J. Sher, co-chairmen. | he asked police, “Is my mother) Attending the meeting were Wil- | dead?” When told she wasn’t, liam R. Neblett, president; Mrs. (police had not yet learned of Mrs. | Mary Sinclair, 2nd vice president; Green’s death) he remarked: |J. J. Trevor, treasurer; R. E. Ev-| “That is too bad, because if she | ans, secretary; Burt Garnett and lives the Devil will leave her and|Mrs. Sue Jones of the Publicity | get into me.” ‘(Continued on Page Two) the independent ‘Good Neighbor Marcantonio represented an East Harlem district for 14 years. For many years until last November, he headed the American Labor party, which sponsored Henry Wal- lace’s presidential campaign in New York. NEW COMIC STRIP STARTS TOMORROW An exciting new comic strip, “Jeff Cobb,” begins tomorrow in The Citizen. This strip depicts a newspap- er reporter playing the leading role in documented _ stories which are actually taken from the files of newspapers all over the nation. Jeff Cobb, the main hero, is described as a typical news- paper reporter who puts his job ahead of everything else, the main thing being ‘getting the story.” The strip is drawn by Peter Hoffman a tireless young vet- eran artist who has had an amazingly successful career in newspaper art. SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER Che Ken West itis KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1954 Potinciana Sale Is Completed No Change Ih Rentals Planned By Realty Firm The title of 368 units in the Poinciana Housing Pro- |ject has officially passed from the federal government to the Key West Foundation Co., it was learned today. At the same time, Sam Hyman, president of the realty firm, an- nounced that the rentals on the project will remain at the same level as they were when the pro- jject was under government con- trol except for the fact that a three per cent state tax will be assessed. He also said that extensive im- provements are planned. Rents now range from $36 for an effi- ciency apartment to $60 for a three bedroom apartment. Manager Named Eddie Stickney, formerly gener- al maintenancé superintendent of the Key West Housing Authority, has been named manager of the project. The project is inhabited almost entirely by Navy personnel and ci- vilian workers at the Naval Sta- tion. The Key West Foundation Co. had leased the land on which the project was built to the government for the emergency housing. When the government announced they were relinquishing control, the city made an unsuccessful at- tempt to purchase the land and operate the project. Earlier Purchase Earlier, the Key West Realty Co. had bought 319 Poinciana units un- der the same conditions. The Key West Housing Authori- ty now has jurisdiction over on! 337 low cost housing units in the Porter Place, George Allen and Ft. Village projects. 2 They will be cut further on Octo- ber 1 when the Navy is scheduled to take over 74 units in Ft. Village Extension. The Housing Authority is hope- ful that they will be allocated funds for the construction of 53 units in| three different locations in the co- | lored section of the city shortly. Miami Youths Are Held For Murder Probe MIAMI (®—Two Miami youths | were held for investigation of mur- der today in the “lover’s lane” | slaying “ofan air lines steward) they planned to rob. Dade County Sheriff Thomas J. | Kelly identified them as Charles L. Lawrence, 19, and Lewis Rich- ard Killem, 20. | Kelly said Lawrence admitted he shot William T. Simpson, 26, an Eastern Air Lines steward, whose body was found on a de- serted North Dade road Tuesday. “After I shot him, I made him |get out of the car and give me his wallet,” the sheriff quoted Lawrence as. saying. “When we left, he. was staggering off down the road.” The sheriff said the youths | calmly re-enacted the shooting! iy} “Photo, Sybil. ” Emilie Dionne Is Buried Near Birthplace Of Famed Quints IN THE U.S. DIAL 2-5661 or 2-5662. PRICE FIVE CENTS Raid On Duval Street Bars Net 4 Sunday al CHIEF CRACKS DOWN — Police Chief Bienvenido Perez put the wheels in motion Sunday for a full-scale cleanup of Duval St. bars when he ordered a raid Sunday nigh’ # rest of. four persons. CALLANDER, Ont. (®#—Emilie Dionne was laid to rest today in a little burial ground not far from the frame home where she and her quintuplet sisters were born 20 years ago. She went to the grave in a party dress of light blue crepe, a white rosary in her hands. Hundreds watched as the grey metal casket was lowered into the earth of the small Roman Catholic cemetery at Corbeil. The surviving quintuplets— Yvonne, Annette, Cecile and Marie —sobbed bitterly during ‘the com- mittal service. And few eyes were dry when it ended. More than 500 mourners crowded Corbeil’s faded red brick church Accused Slayer Slated For Court Appearance CLEVELAND (#—Dr. Samuel He. issued warning first —Guen Staff. ay “J Want A Clean “T want a clean town.” Police Chief Bienvenido ment today in commenting full-scale clean-up campaign Police moved in last nig According to the police report, the following per- sons were placed under ar-}| | rest: Gordon Wolfson, own- er of the Preview Lounge and Leonard “Cookie” Key, | |manager of. the Cabana | Club; both charged with) disorderly conduct, to wit: | allowing the performance of | an indecent show; Miss Connie Parker, Preview Lounge stripper and Patricia Pagan, an entertainer at the Cabana Club. The girls were charged with indecent exposure and “performing in an indecent show by dancing in the nude.” Released On Bond The quartet was later released under bond of $250 each. It marked the third time in two weeks that Wolfson has been jail- ed for violation of the city’s bar laws. On July 26, he was fined $110 in, city court_on-a. charge of allow- mg an indecent show in his placé of business. Then, on August 1, he was again arrested on a charge of serving- alcholic beverages after the 4 a. m. closing deadline. His trial was set for today in city court. Chief's Orders Last night’s raids were carried | {out at Perez’ order, under the di rection of Lt. Gene Hernandez. | Four officers participated. | Perez said that he was invited | earlier by one of the bar owners | “to come inside and see how we | run our business.” But, instead of checking the bar personally, he said that he sent , the officers back and when they found indecent shows in progress, She left the church, assisted by fheyeniads une pe have oe i LO ‘sit - Beare pentane eee ling to pees real the cabans | Hundreds of mourners waited | Club, ee ahey) found Miss Ea: joutside beneath black and thteatel ar eciataaremitnen extremely eulng skies, thrusting black um- Ten minutes later, “they found a Deelas/up imtolscatiered| drops) of | siarisitiationsin : the Preview rain. There were more than 300 iaiae cars lining the roads leading to = the Corbeil church. Practically ev. | 6 Bars Wore Warned \ery resident of the area was there| Chief Perez said today that he —so were many Americans who | 0'dered the raids after he had per- had driven to the spot since the | Somally warned the bars to “run news of Emilie’s death Friday was | their business decently or not at flashed across the continent. ia Rf , Because the Corbeil parish has} 12 wane i clean sodas ne said. no official gravedigger, each fam-| ik ‘ sad reg ee cant ily must prepare its interment spot. | ¥# aie ‘i os street with their |Aime Marasse, a graying uncle of | W'V°S Without being exposed to | the quints, prepared the last rest- jing place for the shy and gentle 2. resulting in the for the funeral service, conducted |by the parish priest, the Rev. W./ |H. LaFrance. When he sprinkled holy water jon the casket and intoned the de- | parting prayers Marie Dionne, who has had to give up at least tem- |porarily her hope of becoming a nun, wept uncontrollably. Marie Breaks Down this rotten mess.” | He added that he has instructed jday to ask Town,” Says Police Chief After Raids On Strip Joints Perez made that state- on what appears to be a of Duval St. “strip joints.” ht with raids on two Duval St. bars which resulted in the arrest of two strip-danc- ers, the owner of one bar and the manager of another. Sanaa Cabbies Protest Chief’s Ruling Duval Street cab drivers are smarting today under an order issued by Police Chief Bienven- ido Perez that they must remain in their cabs when they are park- ed at their stands The order was given at about 10 p. m. Sunday, and brought i ble protest from the | intend to enforce it,” said Per- ez. Humane Group To Meet With Commission Discussion Set On Cruelty To Animal Reports Key West Humane Society officials will appear before the city commission at their regular meeting next Mon- that the city take steps to end a wave of reports of cruelty to horses here, Mrs. George Mills White, president of the or- ganization said today. The situation was brought to public notice last week when a horse was found abandoned in a vacant lot near Roosevelt Boulevard. The horse was i pounded by the Humane Society, who nursed it back to health and found a home for it with a mi animal lover. Unusual Respons: Humane Society officers reported an “unusual response from Key Westers to the story which ap- peared in The Citizen and many (Continued on Page Two) Mother Turns Thieving Mate girl who died last Friday at a |his lieutenants to maintain a close {Sheppard, accused of killing his | pregnant wife Marilyn, leaves his | Roman Catholic hostel in Ste. | check on bars, particularly regard- tiny’ jail cell today for at least one court appearance. yesterday. Story Of Killing | Kelly quoted them as telling this story: Lawrence went out to Biscayne | Boulevard late Monday night and hitched a ride with Simpson. They drove to a deserted road. Killem followed in his car. Lawrence said that after Simp- son stopped he “‘propositioned me” |and that he finally submitted to Ssmpson’s advances. “I stepped out of the car and drew my gun,” Lawrence said. |“I just meant to scare him with! \it by shooting through the window. {But I guess I turned too far on| jone foot because I shot him in- | stead. It was just a .22 short. I jdidn’t think it. would hurt him much.” Joined By Friend After the shot, Killem ran up! and joined Lawrence and the two rant against Sheppard, whose 31-| drove off in Killem’s car. | The handsome 30-year-old osteo- | path goes to the court of Common} Pleas Judge Frank J. Merrick for a hearing on an affidavit of pre- judice filed by his attorney against Bay Village’s acting mayor, Ger- shom M. M. Barber. The attorney, William J. Corrignan, declares that Barber is unfit because of prejudice to hold a_ preliminary hearing on a first-degree murder charge against Dr. Sheppard If Judge Merrick rules Barber is pejudiced, the preliminary hear- ing will be shifted to a municipal court in some other Cuyahoga County community. Barber, who is also the suburb’s Council president, has said if the affidavit is denied he will go ahead with a preliminary hearing, bring- ing the doctér into Bay Village court. Barber signed the arrest war- year-old wife was killed July 4. Agathe, Que., following an epilep-| ACORMn En Cu Esse? tic stroke. | BNNs < Reaction To Report | Meanwhile, U.S. experts on the neurological disorder reacted | sharply to a Quebec medico-legal expert’s report that an autopsy | showed her death was caused by| epileptic seizures brought on by | Date “glandular disorders’ creating | accidents 7 312 lung congestion. % — Fearful of the effect of the an-/ T#@ffic Injuries “ 54 nouncement of the estimated 1% | Traffic Deaths __ 9 1 million epileptics in the United | Prop. Damage $592 $79,120 States, Dr. H. Houston Merritt, di- rector of the Neurological Institute | KEY WESTS || TRAFFIC BOX SCORE | August To | Three accidents were re- at Columbia University’s Presby- | terian Medical Center, told a news conference in New York that the} mortality rate among epileptics is| no greater than among non-suffer- | ers. Epileptics, he said, usually die| of natural causes, from falls during seizures or suffocation from bury- ing their faces in pillows during or after an attack. Complete Report Asked Speaking with Dr. Merritt for Simpson’s body was found 500| Barber has been acting in the the Epilepsy Association of New yards from his convertible Tues-| absence of Bay Village Mayor J. | York and the Variety Club Found |day morning. An autopsy showed Spencer Houk, friend of the osteo- tion to combat Epilepsy. Dr. Wi |he had been shot in the right side | path and an expected material wit-|liam Amols of the Neurological i (Continued on Page Two) , ness in the case. e (Continued on Page Two? ported over the weekend, but the city’s traffic record con- tinues to better last month’s mark. But three distinct law infrac- tions were listed as the causes of the accidents. They are: 1. Following too closely. 2. -Reckless driving. 3. Disregarding a stop sign. Don’t think for a minute the police department hands out those tickets because they like to. They've got a job to do. Let's make it easier for. them. Over To Cops MIAMI #@—Two Miami detec- tives told today how a mother turned her “thieving husband” over to police so she could give her three children “an honest and decent life.’ Detectives W. J. Krajewski and | W. W. Watson identified the moth- er as Mrs. Lois Brown, 27, and her husband as Albert, 40. The father was booked on charges of burglarizing the Morrell Poultry Co. A typewriter, electric drill and electric razor recovered after his arrest were identified as having come from the poultry company, the detectives reported. The officers were called by Mrs Brown yesterday. “She said her husband arriv home about 3 a.m., and she w him not to bring those thir their rented apartment. He b (Continued on Page Tw: THEY UNDERSTAND BUILDING — at Strunk Lumber 120 Simonton near Western Union