The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 12, 1954, Page 2

=. Weatherman Says Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy Friday; local showers | or thundershowers. Not much change in temperature. Low _to- night near 78 - 80 degrees; high Friday about 92 - 93. Light to mod- erate variable winds. | Florida: Continued warm and clear to partly cloudy thru Friday. | Widgly seattered thundershowers mostly in afternoons. Jacksonville thru the . Florida Straits and East Gulf of Mexico: | Light to moderate variable winds | most southeast to south. Weather partly cloudy thru Friday with widely scattered showers, Western Caribbean; Moderate easterly winds and partly cloudy weather thru Friday. Widely scat- tered showers, Weather Summary for the Tropi- eal Atlantic, Caribbean Sea area and the eastern Gulf of Mexico: Conditions in the tropics are gen- erally stable today with no signs of a disturbance. A weak wave in the Florida Straits southward a- cross Cuba appears to be fading out. Observation Taken at Post Office | Building, 7:00 A.M., EST, Key West, Fla., Aug. 12, 1954 4 Temperatures Highest yesterday if Lowest last night - Mean _. Normal — Precipitation Total last 24 hours _ Total this month Deficiency this month Total this year Excess this year Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. 86% Barometer (Sea Level), 7 A.M. 29.94 ins—1013.9 mbs. Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise - 6:00 a.m. | Sunset 7:03’ p.m. Moonrise . 6:34 p.m. Moonset 5:03 a.m. TES ES (Naval Base) Time ef Height of Tide high water Low Tides 8:44 a.m. 2:00 a.m. 9:54 p.m. 3:27 p.m. ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Station— High Tides 9.0 H. ey == +2h 20m —ch 4m +th 10m (east end) Boca Chica Sandy Pt. Caldes Channel (nerth end) +14 ft. (—)—Minus sign: Corrections to be subtracted. (+)—Plvs sign: Corrections te be a Batista Plans To Resign Now, Run In November HAVANA, Cuba # — Fulgencio Batista, who vaulted back to power in a 1952 army revolt, says he will give up Cuba’s presidency Satur- day in order to run for the office in the November elections. He is prevented by the consti- tution from seeking election while president. An official announcement yester- day said Batista would name his successor at a cabinet meeting Saturday. Batista was elected president by the Council of Ministers in April, 1952, a month after he threw out the government of Carlos Prio Soearras. |Touhy Ordered Back To Prison Pending Hearing | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Accused Robber Says Gambling Provided Stake JACKSONVILLE # — George} Patrick McKinney, debonair, 27- year-old accused bank robber, told| the FBI yesterday $78,000 he won | in Las Vegas, Nev., casinos staked | him with funds to buy an agency Ae. premiuad automobiles here. e money, he declared, did not come from the $190,319 he is charged with getting in a holdup of the Franklin National Bank in Floral Park, N.Y., on Aug. 18,| 1953. He insisted he did not hold up) the bank. | McKinney, known here as Wade | Patrick Johnson until the FBI linked him by fingerprints with the New York bank robbery, re- mained under $200,000 temporary bond, awaiting a removal hearing before U.S. Commissioner T. V. Cashen. Cashen said the hearing will be held upon arrival of a process from | New York containing the official | charge of bank robbery as well as a process from Los Angeles, Calif, charging McKinney with fleeing California to avoid prosecu-| tion for burglary. | Witnesses who have identified | McKinney from his photograph as | the bank robber will be present | at the hearing. | CHICAGO \#—After two days of | freedom, Roger (the Terrible) | Touhy, was back in jail today and| faced the possibility of spending | the rest of his life in prison. | The 56-year-old prohibition era Sangster’s brief period of liberty, after more than 20 years in prison | was ended yesterday on order of the U.S. Court of Appeals. The Court ruled Touhy must be held in Stateville Prison pending a hearing of the state’s appeal of his re- lease. Touhy was freed on $10,000 bond | Monday by Federal Judge John P. Barnes. He ruled that the Capone | era gang leader’s 99-year-sentence | of 1934 for the kidnaping of John| (Jake The Barber) Factor was pro- | cured on perjured testimony. | A few hours after the appeals court ruling, Touhy surrendered in| the U.S. marshal’s office and was | taken to the Cook County jail and/ held overnight. / Touhy, who was fishing in the nearby Fox Lake region when news of the court action reached him, had little to say. “‘Not very long | out,” was his only comment. Robert S. Johnstone, Touhy’s at-! torney, said he will test in the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday's ruling by the appeals court. | Three Children Drown InN, J. CAMDEN, N.J. (W—An ll-year| old Camden hoy and his two sis- ters drowned while on a fishing | trip yesterday at Cooper River in| Camden County Park. The victims were Riley Drum- mond and his sisters, Terry, 7] and Mary, 8. A witness told police Mary stepped to a rock about a | and fell into the water. Terry and) Riley, he said, jumped into the! stream in an effort to save the girl | but sank from sight | Their mother, Mrs. Joseph ;Drummond, was driving nearby | jand was attracted to the scene by the crowd along the river bank. | The Drummonds are Negroes. | They have three other children. | His Daddy Can | Be a Capitalist | For $40 a Month | If you can set aside $40 a month or every three months, you com become a shareholder in Ameri- y cas "Blue Chip” com- pamies. More quickly than you think, you can build up @ nest-egg of dividend- peying common shares. OPPENHEIMER & CO. | Member New York Stock Exchange Branch ee Office |it occurred during an attempted | trol report signed by Jackson M. foot from shore to get her shoes | ™ cae) }| the head with his gun. As the gun | struck Gouche, a shot was fired. | Naval Hospital. sailor was slugged this past week- || ribona, a few years ago, broke the Hearing Set For Youths Held In Miami Murder MIAMI (®—Two Miami youths charged with first degree murder | in the “lover’s lane” slaying of an air lines steward will be given a preliminary hearing tomorrow atft- ernoon. The youths, Charles L. Law- rence, 19, and Lewis Richard Kil- len, 20, will appear before Peace Justice Edwin Lee Mason. They were arrested Saturday | night five days after the body of | William T. Simpson, 26-year-old Eastern Air Lines steward, wus discovered on a lonely north Dade road. An autopsy showed Simpson had been shot in the right side and that death was due to loss of blood. Dade County Sheriff Thomas J. Kelly said Lawrence had admitted the shooting in a statement to North Miami Police Chief Karl Engel. Lawrence was quoted as saying robbery in a scheme conceived by the pair to “roll” men for money. Both youths were born and brought up in Miami, Killen was married four months ago to an 18- year-old girl he had been going steady with in high school. Texan Admits Flying Under London Bridges LE HAVRE, France (#—A Texas pilot, safe from the clutches of British law, admitted today he flew a light plane through and under two Thames River bridges in Lon- don in an effort to win a bride. But Gene Thompson, 30, of Lub- bock, Tex., didn’t say whether Helen Brown, a hometown girl he met on a European tour, had agreed to marry him. Her reaction he said, was that he was a little crazy to have pulled the stunt. Thompson, a former World War Il and Korea flier, gave Londoners a thrill yesterday by zooming be- | tween the towers of famed Tower Bridge, then swooping beneath Lon- don Bridge. He was met by reporters here when he arrived aboard the liner Atlantic en route to the United States from Southampton. He first refused to see newsmen, believing they were police. Thompson declared he made the flight as a “last fling” on the Eu- ropean tour in order fo impress Miss Brown. He told newsmen he was now unemployed, broke and interested in getting a job in the United States. SLUGGING VICTIM (Continued from Page One) — doesn’t recall anything, Dr. Reid said. “He has retrograde the doctor added. Zi Dr. Reid said that the last thing Gouche remembers was being in the 900 Bar at 900 Simonton Street. Gouche, who is single, is a chief machinist mate aboard the A. T. Harris, a destroyer escort. His home is in West Springfield, Mass. Shore Patrol Report According to a Navy Shore Pa- amnesia,” Parr, who was on Shore Patrol du- ty the night of July 23 - 24, City Police Officer Leonard Conley was | driving the car in which Parr was ‘iding. A Shore Patrolman usually rides with a police officer on night duty. Parr said in the report that he and Conley heard a shot as they drove along Duval Street about 2:40 a. m. July 24. | He said they saw Gwynn holding | a gun and chasing a man down Duval Street. Gwynn fired a shot, | according to Parr. The man, Parr continued, ran in- to St. Paul’s Church, The church is being repaired and the doors were open. Inside the church, Parr said he and Conley found Gwynn searching for the man who was finally spot- ted hiding behind a curtain. Gwynn, according to Parr, tried put handcuffs on the man — la- identified as Gouche — but that struggling. Shot Fired It was then, according to Parr’s report, that Gwynn hit Gouche in to ter Gouche was About this time, according to Parr’s report, City Police Officer B. Lloyd appeared in the church. Gouche then was taken to the city jail and later removed to the Capt. Murphy said that another end — this time by City Patrol- man Ralph Maribona. Capt. Murphy recalled that Ma- arm of a Navy doctor. A civil suit is pending in that matter, Murphy added. : Sheriff John Spottswood said Gwynn is a special deputy and that he was a special deputy when Spottswood became sheriff in Jan. 1953. Spottswood added that Gwynn Thursday, August 12, 1954) COTHRON CITED WITH | (Continued from Page One) mission first invited bids on the fill protection rental equipment, Cothron and the Floyd Lamb con- struction Co., submitted identical bids. Due to a legal technicality, the bids were readvertised. Coth- ron repeated his first bid but the Lamb bid was higher than its first offer. However, records of.the Lamb company disclosed payments from Cothron after he received the con- tract amounting to $172,849. Lamb also received direct payments of $86,303 during the period from Feb- Truary 1950 to March 1953. Morgan said Cothron claimed he paid the $172,849 to Lamb as rental on equipment he leased from the other contracting firm. Commission Paid The auditor said the records of the Lamb company showed “‘pay- ment of $49,850 in commissions to Mr. Brooks Bateman during the time he was employed as: general manager of the Overseas Road and Toll District.” Commissions total- ing $36,500 were paid to Bateman after the claim that Lamb began furnishing his equipment for use on Cothron’s fill protection con- tract. The auditor sa * he was in- formed by Lambs accountants that Bateman was a silent partner in the Floyd Lamb Construction Co., but there was nothing in the records to indicate a ‘true part- nership” existed. Morgan said “it is our conclu- sion there is no basis for the claim ‘that Mr. Bateman was a silent partner’ and therefore these com- missions are a definite violation of the contract with Cothron. Morgan said he also was én- formed the Floyd Lamb Construc- tion Co. had worked privately for Bateman, clearing a Marathon subdivision in which Bateman was interested and building his new home. Morgan said Cothron’s records also showed payments of $24,975 to D. M. Andrews, a commission employe, for use of his trucks. 60 Hour Week The auditor said sworn testi- mony received by Dade County Solicitor John Marsh, assigned by Johns to the Overseas Highway case, said although the equipment worked only 50 hours a week, it was listed as working 60 hours a week ‘under instructions from Mr. Brooks Bateman.”’ Cothron’s pay- roll records substantiated the 50 hour working week, the auditor said. Other records and testimony showed the number of pieces of equipment on the job never equalled the number for which Cothron received payment, Mor- gan said. The auditor said Andrews r ceived $1,800 in 1953 and’ $1,800 i 1954 as rental payments “for trucks he had sold in October of 1952." He recommended “proper action” for reimbursement. Morgan also recommended fur- ther investigation “into the dis- appearance of almost 18,000 feet of pipe’ and ‘‘the transfers of dis- trict property to Claude A. Gan- dolfo and Paul E. Sawyer to as- certain the legality of that trans- fer.” HUNT CALLED OFF AFTER 31 YEARS SAN FRANCISCO (# — The gov- ernment has asked that an indict- ment against William M. Shuford, accused of embezzling $3,434 in postal funds, be dismissed. Shuford was postmaster at French Gulch when he disap- peared. 2 KEY WESTERS (Continued From Page One) four full-time faculty members, it has grown to have a faculty of 26 full-timie and between’ 80 and 100 part-time faculty members from among the’ 800 members of the Dade County Medical Society. | . TODAY'S STOCK MARKFT NEW YORK, (# — The stock \early dealings. with the tape late for a brief pe- riod. Most major divisions dis- lower. jat 70% on an opening block of half earnings equal to $4.24 a share |as compared with $3.29 a share a year ago. In later trading it |lost a good part of its gain. Steel, Studebaker, Douglas Air- |eraft, American Telephone, New York Central, and Sinclair Oil. United Aircraft, Bethlehem Steel, Southern Railway. CITY BEGINS MOVING (Continued From Page One) tinue to hold their meetings there and the city court will also remain in the old building. Tentative plans call for the utili- Office of registrations will also be given larger quarters. According to City Manager Lang, |all the phone numbers of city de- partments will remain the despite the move. the city by the Key West Realty Company when they purchased a portion of the Poinciana Housing project. It was formerly the Poin- ciana Community Center. The real- ty company also gave the city a | tract of land for park purposes. LITTLE DELORES (Continued from Page One) the 11-month-old tot into The Citi- zen office to report on their trip. The little girl, who a few months ago seemed doomed to blindness for life, is now a husky 24-pounder who takes a great delight in her surroundings. cialist performed a second opera- left eye, which still has clouded vision. The right eye, however he Pronounced in excellent condition. Sees Objects Now haired baby reached for her grand- father’s keys and held her hands out toward other objects, certainly an indication that she now is well able to see. Mrs. Disgdiertt said that further work on the left eye is needed, so she will take Delores back to New York for further treatment in Feb- Tuary. The little girl’s family has never ceased expressing gratitude to The Citizen for brining the story of the child’s need before the public, and to the people of Key West for open- ing their hearts and pocketbooks ‘to help provide the needed treat- ments. eo LL Enea ee eee ae ee Servicemen’s Special $1.00 Day PRINCE GEORGE HOTEL 1011 FIFTH STREET Miami Beach, Fla. POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Francis at Truman DIAL 2-9193 Your PURE OIL Dealer Tires . . Tubes . . Batteries ACCESSORIES crue SHOW TIMES: BAD FOR EACH OTHER 7:30 and 10:59 BEAUTIFUL BLOND 9:30 House On | market turned irregular today in} Trading got off to a fast start | |played a mixture of gains and| |losses, with the aircrafts leaning | General Dynamics rushed up 1% | |2,500 shares after its reported first | Among other gainers were U.S. | Lower were Boeing, Lockheed, | General Motors, Zenith Radio, and | zation of a portion of the old city | hall as quarters for firemen. The | same! The new city hall was given to| Mrs. Disgdiertt said that the spe- | tion three weeks ago on the child’s | In the office today, the curly- | | GALA FIESTA WILL (Conticved fro.a, Gaed Allen, members of the County Com- | mission endorsed the idea enthu- siastically. ’ The Key West Chamber of Com- merce will aid in the planning, ac- cording to Manager Harold Laub- scher. Maiden Voyage The maiden voyage of the ves- sel will carry dignitaries and | members of the press. They wiil| | be met in Cardenas by a group of Cuban officials and feted in Ha-! vana. The ship is currently undergoing | last minute renovations in Miami. After it is christened, it will make | several test runs prior to being | Placed into actual service. It will land in Key West at a dock to be} constructed at the foot of Simon- | ton St. | | Present plans call for it to sail between Key West and Cardenas | three times a week until Decem- ber 1. After that, the ship will run into Verdero Beach, Cuba’s most | popular resort. | RADIO AMATEURS (Continued From Page One) pile of emergency radio gear in the country. The equipment and the techni-4 cal skill of the operators is poten- tially available to the Red Cross, civil defense, local, county and state authorities in case of an em- ergency or disaster anywhere in the state. Many of the 46 counties in the section have appointed emergency | coordinators. PRESIDENT SAYS (Continuec From Page One) were contending that, with unem- ployment increasing, the adminis- tration was leading the nation into a depression. Eisenhower and other Republican leaders challenged this. The GOP said the over-all economic activity was on the upswing. TREASON CASE, (Continued from Page One) | for dominance over all of Europe. | The Soviets’ new offensive plain- | ly is underway — and its target is | West Germany, a nation gripped | by mental depression. | | | * We Deal In New and Used Furniture Eisner Furniture Co. Poinciana Center Tel. 2-6951 RADIO and CIFELLY'S tv scree Factory Methods Used— All Work Guarantged Marine Radios & Asst. Equipment | FOR PROMPT AND RELIABLE | SERVICE—SEE | DAVID CIFELLI 920 Truman Avenue (Rear) TELEPHONE 2-7637 HAND SIGNAL.IS ; COSTLY GESTURE | INGLEWOOD, Calif. v—rs. Peggy Huston complied with traf. fic laws Tuesday but she told| police it cost her a $2,500 diamond | ring. | The woman reported that as she gave the arm signal for a left turn 'the ring apparently fell off her finger. She discovered her loss | moments later, returned to the in- tersection but couldn’t find the: ring. | j | Key West Radio| and TV Service Calls Answered Promptly RADIO — TV REPAIRS INSTALLATIONS PHILCO DEALER RANGES — TV SETS REFRIGERATORS 826 Duval Street TELEPHONE 2.8511 DARLOW’S Pure Oil Station Stock Island Ph, 2-3167 PICKUP and DELIVERY Summer Specials Reg. Spec. $6.50 $ 5.75 150 1.25 1.25 1.00 Wash & Polish Oil Spray Lubrication Wash Job (WW Tires 50c extra). 1.50 Simonize (with wax and cleaner, inside and out, vacuum upholstery) -- 18.00 Wheel Balance (weights extra) . 3.50 Align Front Wheels Cadillac, Buick, Chev., Olds, Pontiac, Chrysler products, Ford, Mercury, Lincoln, 1949 extra), regular $6.50. 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