The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 12, 1954, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXV No. 191 Cothron Cited With $256.00 Overch Gala F Slugging Victim Still In KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1954 Miami Auditor Take Legal Action To Recover Asks Johns To Che Ken West C Sa THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN TH ees 3.5. XQ For Quick Communication, Use CLASSIFIED Ads! You'l: teach buyers and sellers— tenants or workers . . . Just DIAL iesta 2-5661 or 2-5662. arge Will TALLAHASSEE (AP)—Legal action to recover more than a quarter of a million dollars allegedly mis- spent by the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District Commission was recommended to Acting Gov. Johns today by a special auditor. Robert Morgan of the Miami accountancy firm of Abess, Morgan, Altemus and Weinberg recommended that the State Road Department file lawsuits “against all persons or organizations” who shared in proceeds of a, fill contract with Islamorado contractor Alonzo Hospital 19 Days Later Head Of Navy Hospital Tells Mark Ferry Start Officials Seek Acting Governor, Florida Mayors Of Condition By DENIS SNEIGR A Navy chief who was slugged by a night watch- man 19 days ago is still suffering from amnesia, the commanding officer of the Navy hospital said today. " Capt. Robert 'S. Simpson, Medical Corps, USN, said four days after the slugging on July 24, the 33-year-old chief, Arthur F. Gouche, was still not oriented—that he didn’t know where he was as to time and place. “Gouche thought he was 12 years ‘old and that he was going to his twelfth birthday party,” Dr. Simp- hile, Capt. C. L. Murphy, chet of atl oe Public Informa- said the FBI and the ice in Miami Treated At Hospital Cdr, R. W. Reid, Medical Corps, USN, the doctor who treated Gou- che, said the chief was suffering from contusions and cuts of the left. sealp and contusions around the throat. 3 He added that the contusions could have been made by a blunt instrument or, in the case of the contusions of the throat, by a hand. Dr. Reid said Gouche was brought to the Naval Hospital from the city jail, and that he first saw Gouche at 8:30 a. m. July 24. Gouche’s condition was describ- ed as good today, although he (Continued on Page Two) KEY WEST'S TRAFFIC BOX SCORE August Accidents Traffic Injuries Traffic Deaths — 6 Prop. Damage _. $1,732 $80,260 “Pass dem hvor de skrider, eller, de skrider in ubehaglihe- ter.” In case you don happen to speak Swedish, that means “Watch where you step, or you'll step into trouble.” It’s as true in Key West as i is in Stockholm. And it’s especially important for children at this time of the year when they. are heading back to school. Look both ways when you cross the street. And make sure you are on a cross walk Key West had a perfect re- cord in 1953 — not a_ single pedestrian died in a traffic ac- cident. Let’s do it again this year. COAST GUARD TOWS SMALL BOAT TO PORT The Coast Guard yesterday af- ternoon towed a small boat to Key West after the boat broke down about four miles off South Beach. The occupants of the small craft, Fred Stephenson, 905 Angela St., and Sam Caliborne, former Air Force pilot, ired a red distress flare which was seen by a Navy helicopter pilot. The pilot notified Qe Coast Guard. NAVAL HOSPITAL HEAD — nigCitinen Staff Captain R. S. Simpson talks to Photo, Sybil. Radio Amateurs And Red Cross Set Hurricane Disaster Drill Radio amateurs from the Key West area will par- ‘| ticipate Sunday with the American Red Cross in a four- county hurricane disaster drill, it was announced today. 2 Key Westers To Enter U-M Medical School Two Key Westers will be among the largest freshman class admit- ted to date in the University of Miami School of Medicine, accord- ing to Dean Homer F. Marsh. They are: Hubert G. Martinez, son of Mr. and Mrs. Maximo Mar- tinez, 218 Duval St., and Jose ‘7. | Sanchez, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jose T. Sanchez, 414 Eaton St. Martinez is'a graduate of the Key West High School and took his In addition to home stations, the amateurs will hit the highways with radio equipped cars and ex- tend their communications lines to out-of-the-way spots with portable, | emergency-powered equipment. About 175 members of the Ama- teur Radio Emergency Corps in Monroe, Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties will take part in the drill which begins at 1:15 p. m. Sunday. Coast Guard Aid In addition to the American Ra- dio Relay League participation the |U. S. Coast Guard, through its Coast Guard Auxiliary (radio} membership, will assist the Red | Cross in Sunday’s drill. Dispatching a fully equipped communications truck to Palm |Beach County, the auxiliary will |net-control the exercise in West | Palm Beach. Spars training at the Univer-|" The auxiliary is now statewide, mie jami, Sanchez received a meeting on regular schedule each legree from the University o' | Friday evening at 6:15 p. m. on City Begins Moving To e e Poinciana More Space, Parking ‘Are Listed As Reasons For Move City workmen began to- day the task of moving several offices from the city hall to the new city hall an- nex in Poinciana. The move, recommended by City Manager Victory Lang, will result in a more convenient arrangement, he says. Included in the move are the of- fices of the city manager, the fin- ance directory, the tax assessor and the public service department, The office of the city clerk, the tax collector and police and fire headquarters will remain in the old city hall. ’ = en i Saméav@ing . ‘The city commission will con- (Continued on Page Two) Little Delores Is Home After 2nd Treatment Sight In Right Eye Okay; Left eeds More Care Little Delores Disgdiertt, the baby whom Key West- ers helped save from blind- ness is back home again after her second trip to New York for treatment by an eye specialists. Today Mrs. Abelardo Disgdiertt, Delores’ mother, and Orlando Rod- riguez, the grandather, brought (Continued on Page Two) Cothron. The auditor said Cothron apparently had overcharg- ed the commission $256,800 on the fill protection con- tract. Morgan was hired by Johns to investigate the toll district commission’s fin- ancial affairs after road ;Chairman Cecil Webb charged the commission and Gun-Wielding Rapist Today Alert On In Five Florida Counties After Molestations ORLANDO W—A_ gun-wielding rapist was hunted by police and sheriff's officers in five central its general manager, Brooks | M. Bateman, with misman- agement. “Proper Claims’ He also recommended that “proper claims” be filed against the bonding company which holds: Bateman’s bo'd and ‘on any and all other bonds of employes who might have been involved in the apparent misuse of these public funds:” Johns suspended ,the Overseas Highway commission and turned over operations of the toll road and bridges linking Miami and} Key West to the State Road De- partment after receiving a pre- Sigma #,port frost ot P Vp fired Bateman immediately. The State Board of Administra- tion lifted tolls and voted to pay off $1,255,000 in outstanding bonds for which funds are available Oct. 1. Johns recently reinstated the; commission to facilitate transfer | of its business and accounts to| the road department. a Cothron and Bateman were ‘in-| dicted on criminal charges by a special Monroe County grand jury} but were acquitted by a circuit court jury. The auditor’s final report said Cothron was awarded a contract | April 7, 1951, for the rental of equipment to be used on fill pro- !tection work on Long Key, Conch | Key and Grassy Key. Disbursements Told Disbursements under this con- tract totaled $536,386, the auditor | said. However, a check of the rec- ords showed on the basis of equip- ment actually used and hours ac- tually worked, Cothron should have been paid only $279,586 and that there was an overcharge of $256,- [" Morgan reported when the com- (Continued on Page Two) Florida counties today after a man bearing his description molested two women in places at least 100 miles apart. Polk County Sheriff Pat Gordon and Orlando police said the de- scription given by the latest vic- tims tallied with that of the man who raped a 19-year-old Titusville office worker Aug. 4 and molested two young girls on &n Orlando street corner Aug. 3. The man’s activities today took place near Cocoa Beach in Bre- vard County and néar Davenport in Polk County. Det. Sgt. H. L. Baker said the Brevard County sheriff’s office re- |: ed the man walked into a »°6n Mefriti. Ialend, found a housewife alone and at the point of a gun attacked her about 2 p.m. Whether the woman actually was raped was not determined, Baker said, adding she was hysterical from the ordeal and unable to tell exactly what happened. Car Described H. T. Williams, Brevard County sheriff, could not be reached. He was out looking for the man who reportedly drives a dirty cream- colored Buick. At Davenport, a pretty 19-year- old Orlando girl visiting relatives reported she was stopped by a man in a Buick car and asked for directions. When she walked toward the automobile the man drew a gun and said ‘‘This is a stickup.” Sheriff Gordon said the man tried to force her into his car but drove away when she screamed. The Aug. 4 attack at Titusville was made by a man who drove by in a Buick asking directions, then forced two young women into his car. He held a gun on one woman while he raped the other. Officers from Brevard, Orange, Polk, Osceola and Lake counties | participated in the search. Treason Case, Unrest Worry West Germany By DANIEL DE LUCE | startling defection to the East. \ | Are Invited For Oct. 1 Events By JIM COBB Invitations have been issued to Acting Governor Charley H. Johns and Mayors of all Florida cities to take part in a gala celebration marking the first run of “The City Of Key West” between here and Cardenas, Cuba. First sailing of the vessel is set for October 1. It will mark the end of several years of negotiaions with shipping companies in an effort to start auto ferry ser- vice between Key West and the Island Republic. The ferry will be operated by the Caribbean Ferry System, President Says Future Looks Bright In US. Halt Claimed In Recent Economic Decline In Nation WASHINGTON #—President Ei- senhower declared today that the over-all performance of the Amer- ie¢an economy since his adminis- tration took over “has been better than during any earlier time.” “The paramount fact ... is that the recent decline in economic activity has come to a halt,” the President said at another point in a report on the state of the nation’s economic health at mid- year. And he listed signs which he said point out bright prospects for the future. Eisenhower’s survey in this con- gressional election year amounted to a reply to Democratic critics who have contended that the Re- publican administration is breed- ing unemployment and leading the nation into a depression. There appears no doubt that both sides will draw heavily on the report for ammunition in the up- coming vote battles. Eisenhower noted the criticism in general terms and went on to say that “the recent economic decline, on an over-all basis, has been very small.” Price Inc He also declared: 1. Price increases during the first six months of this year were “tiny” and—if developments such as bargain sales are taken into account—“‘we can surely say, with- out the slightest fear of contradic- tion, that the value of the people’s money has remained entirely in- what will be the French National tact.” Alabama. He was a member of the Class of 1950 at the Key West High School. Other County Residents Two other Monroe County resi- dents will enter the U-M Medical School this year, They are Albert G. Goldenberg and Colbert H. Browne, of Key Largo. The medicalischool will start its third year of operation Sept. 13. The class, numbering 65, is made up of 63 men and two women, all residents of Florida of seven years | standing. They come from 23 coun- ties ranging from Monroe Dade on the south to Escambia on the northwest, The class admitted in 1952 when the school fitst began operation | will be receiving all its instruction at the bedside of patients in the Jackson Memorial Hospital. In- structors for the class will be al- most entirely local practicing phy- sicians who are contributing their | time to this work. From its béginning, when the school opened with 28 students and (Continued on Page Two) GOOD HOUSES SHOULD BE PAINTED WITH BEST PAINT SOLD — from Strunk Lumber 120 Simonton St., near Bank and | 3855 kilocycles radi/Aelephone. The 3855 ke circuit will be activated | for the drill Sunday. G. Brock Angle, Fort Lauderdaie, | section emergency coordinator for | ARRL, EasterneFlorida, announc- \ed that this will bé the final drill for the 1954 hurricane season and stated that the corps is in readiness for any eventuality, being better prepared than ever before for dis- aster communications. 125 Units The corps now has 400 members | ‘in eastern Florida, owning and op- | erating 125 mobile units in the ter- | ritory extending from Key West ito the Georgia line and westward | to the Suwannee River. Angle estimates that there are |2,000 FCC licensed amateurs in | Florida, owning the largest stock- | (Continued on Page Two) | NOTICE ‘To All Scottish Rite | Masons |] REGULAR MEETING WILL BE HELD TODAY AT 8:00 P.M. Movies and Refreshments Your attendance is most welcome. BRING THE FAMILY | i FRANKFURT, Germany ® — A| For West Germany’s enemies rank case of treason and wide-| throughout the world, John is now spread unrest tortured West Ger-/Supplying fresh propaganda many’s nerves today. |charges that the Bonn government | For the first time in its five-|'5 Nazified and a menace to peace. year history, the Bonn republic has| For Soviet spy chiefs, John is a shown signs of wavering in its | Potential gold mine of information | vaunted discipline, industriousness | #bout Western security agents. and unity. He is the man who went to din- A million low-paid workers in| ner in Washington just two months Assembly’s verdict — scheduled to come this month — but on it hangs the fulfillment or repudiation of the Allies’ joint promise to grant the Germans sovereignty and wel- come them as comrades in arms in Western Europe’s defense. The United States and Britain say they will go ahead with their plan for Germany, even without France, but that would mean still more industry, agriculture and even gov-| ago with Allen Dulles, director of ernment are massing behind union | the U.S. Central Intelligence Agen- | leaders to get more money orjcy, and who conferred with FBI| walk out. |Chief J. Edgar Hoover and high Strikes this week by 15,000 Ham-/| American military officers at the | burg public utility employes and a! Pentagon. U.S. officials insist he| majority of the 220,000 metal work-| was told nothing of great impor- | ers in Bavaria are a warmup for tance but have not minimized the | worse to come unless management | seriousness of his defection. and labor jointly begin talking! John has imperiled public con-| reason. fidence in the wisdom and honesty | Many old political wounds among of Bonn cabinet ministers who the Germans have been reopened by the desertion to the Soviet zone of Dr. Otto John, the West Ger-|day that he was the victim of a man security chief. ‘Red plot. Defection Of John | Bad For Adenaver A wartime anti-Nazi and post-| John’s defection and the out- war British agent, John strained break of labor strife couldn’t have Allied-German relations by hi sational press conference yester- | ment for West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s regime. The nation already was edgy, | waiting for France to make up its mind after two years and three {months of vacillation whether to | ratify or junk the European Army Tel. 2-5355 | Treaty signed on May 27, 1952. No Western statesman is sure| WILL REOPEN Friday: August 13 MUSIC SHOPPE 726 Duval St. delay. The John case has done the Eu- ropean army no good. Charges Hurt His charges that former Nazi politicians are back in office at Bonn and former Nazi generals |are wielding public influence are | what the French parliamentary foes of EDC want to hear. His additional remarks that EDC claimed up to the hour of his sen-' would doom Germany to remain | divided and would put the Ger- mans into the front line in an American war on Russia stress what West German opponents of EDC fear too. So tired, 78-year-old Adenauer, he returns to Bonn. Evidence is growing in West Germany that Russia has begun to play a new and stronger hand in the long contest with the West for control of all of Germany and (Continued on Page Two) | | | 2. “The increase in wages—which is one of the principal expressions of the progressiveness of the American economy has continued.” 3. Unemployment is greater now than during the Korean War, but “in recent months has not been larger than during comparable months in 1949 and 1950.” The President added that the rate of unemployment “has shown some tendency to diminish of late” and said “this is one of the numerous signs’’ ‘of. economic improvement. 4. One reason for the criticism of the recent record is that “this rather minor decline has better advertised than many ma- jor declines in our past.” Activity High The Eisenhower report said economic activity in the first half of this year, even though behind that of the year before, “‘has been higher than at any time before this administration assumed re- sponsibil Then the President declared: “And since 1953 was a still-better year than 1954 is turning out to his | come at a worse psychological mo-| now trying to get a few days of|be, it follows that over-all per- | rest in the Black Forest. will face | formance of the American econo-| more worries than before when} my thus far during this adminis- tration has been better than during any earlier time.” Eisenhower said 1952 was the best year before his regime took office, Last winter some Democrats (Continued on Page Two) been | of Miami. The ship, a 225-foot con- verted LSM, will be offici- ally christened “The City of Key West” in Miami on September 15, according to N. C. Hines, executive vice president of the ferry comp- any. Mrs. C. B. Harvey, wife of Key West’s Mayor will be invited to smash the ‘traditional bottle of Suman on the bow of the ves- Two-Day Fiesta Meanwhile, Hines has “solicited the aid of all the city and-ail local civic organizations in planning a gala two-day fiesta to mark the inauguration of the ferry service, A national advertising agency has been employed to supervise the overall planning for the affair. Mayor C. B. Harvey said today that the city will do all in their power to make the celebration a success. He pointed out that the Business and Professional Wom- en’s Club has already indicated their support. Both Gerald Saunders and Joe (Continued on Page Two) Sally Swaps Fan For Frock Before Wedding Today LAS VEGAS, Nev. 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