The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 18, 1954, Page 5

Man About Town... Lots of people in town nowadays—I ran into Kate Curran the other day. She is organizational brains behind the brains of the Sigsbee Community Council—very intelligent gal with beaucoup experience ag a clinical psychiatric worker. Even though she is in town on business, she says that she likes the place. Like most social workers, Miss Curran is a dedicated individual. She works for the Catholic Com- munity Defense Services. How- ever, she is on loan to United De- fense Services to use her organi- zational abilities in the formation of the Sigsbee Park Community. Miss Curran says that back in 1951 the United Defense Sedvices was organized after the need of its formation was expressed by top government officials. “It’s a citizens’ movement,” Miss Curran states. “It’s a volun- tary get-together for examining abilities and assets and to scrut- inize common problems of a com- munity.” Miss Curran started in this so- cial worker business about 20 years ago, way up in West Virginia. Early in her career, she was a case supervisor for West Virginia Department of Public Assistance. She has also had experience with the criminal mind. She served a one year internship in criminal psychology at the Federal Refor- matory for Women. Also during her work filled ea- MISS KATE CURRAN reer, Miss Curran has served as a medical social worker in a TB hos- pital for four years, After talking with her, it is pretty evident, this social worker busi- ness is one that takes a lot of training. Miss Curran is also a graduate in Social Science from a Catholic University School of So- cial Work. She is an expert on community planning and organization. “We are sent to defense areas where there is a definite need for our services,” she said. “‘The com- munity council takes a look at the community and lets the people take a look at the problems.” “My next assignment may be Alaska,” she said. Captain C. L. Murphy, chief of staff of the local Naval base com- mand, was the first to recognize the need for the community spirit development project of the Sigs- bee area. Miss Curran is here in Key West as a result of a request made by Murphy to the United Community Defense Agency. “The Community Service works for the betterment of society by examining all problems of a com- munity,” she says. From observ- ing the wonderful progress of the Sigsbee community council, it is evident that she is right. Even though Miss Curran is here on a temporary basis, lots of peo- ple think that there should be some one of her ealiber here all the time, octor Sheppard’s Freedom Is Cut Short CLEVELAND (®—His freedom cut short by a first-degree murder indictment, Dr. Samuel H. Shep- pard was back today in the dim, 4 x 8-foot jail cell he occupied from July 30 until Monday morning. The handsome, 30-year-old osteo- path was eating cherry pie in the kitchen of his father’s home when sheriff's deputies came.to rearrest him. They let him finish eating. He was there for supper after visiting with Chip, his 7-year-old son. The boy has been living with an uncle since the July 4 morning when his mother was clubbed to death in her bed. The deputies arrived at the senior Sheppard’s home an hour after six men and nine women grand jurors returned the indict- ment charging that the athletic osteopath “unlawfully, purposely and of deliberate and premeditated malice, killed Marilyn Sheppard,” his 31-year-old pregnant wife. Sheppard had been free on $50,- 000 bail for 29% hours, During Your Grocer SELLS That Good STAR * BRAND can COFFEE and CUBAN —TRY A POUND TODAY — WE have it! YOU can get it! - PHONE OR COME IN most of that time, the grand jury listened to a parade of 15 wit- nesses testifying on the case. They deliberated about 40 minutes. Common Pleas Judge Arthur H. Day set 9:15 a. m. Friday for the arraignment of Sheppard, who will then enter a plea. Since his first arrest July 30, Sheppard has main- tained his innocence and clung to his story that a prowler killed his wife and injured him in a fight. The osteopath and his parents displayed no emotion as handcuffs were slipped over his husky wrists last night. His mother rushed to fill a tan paper shopping bag with a red sweat shirt, blue hobby trousers and other clothing. She tucked in some oranges and bananas. Sheppard kissed his mother as they stood in the front hall. His father grasped his hand and said: “Take care of yourself, son.” At the county jai, Sheppard showered, changed clothing and was returned to his old cell on the fourth floor. Defense Atty. William J. Cor- rigan, waiting for him, complained that “it was unnecessary to’ pick’ him up now,” since he was out bond. . Corrigan, whose petition ‘for bail won Sheppard’s release’ Monday, said he would seek release of bail again at the arraignment. 12 “Taree worets in MIAMI at POPULAR PRICES | Sener aecunnaNetecnaneeeo Located in the Heart of the City REASONABLE RATES ROOMS WRITE or WIRE for RESERVATIONS with BATH and TELEPHONE Ritz HOTEL 182 E. Flagler St. 102 Rooms Blevator Solarium Pershing _ Miller HOTEL 226 N.E. Ist Ave. 229 NE. 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Rule, Com- manding Officer of the USS Sali- »nan, has received a mark of out- +{-6tanding as a result of the annual supply inspection conducted during fiscal year 1954, After a review of all annual in- spections of the Supply Depart- ments of similar type ships during the fiscal year 1954 it was indicat- ed that there was none superior to the Supply Department, USS Salinan. The Commander Service Force, U. S. Atlantic Fleet and the Com- mander Service Squadron Four, U. S. Atlantic Fleet took great plea- sure in commending the Com- mending Officer, Supply Officer and Supply Department personnel of the USS Salinan for their sup- erior performance of duty. A hearty well done to all of the personnel aboard the Salinan. Keep up the good work. Church Allows Use Of English MILWAUKEE (#—Archbishop Albert G. Meyer of Milwaukee told the National Catholic Liturgical Archbishop Meyer said he was authorized to announce English could henceforth be used in the sacraments of baptism, marriage and extreme unction and some 25 other ceremonies and blessings. The permission does not extend to the mass, he said. U. 8. milk output in June, 1954 was 12,700,000,000 pounds. Coffee = ALL GROCERS Fear Of Eventual Exposure Seen As Cause Of Flight Allied Powers Identify Dr. Otto John As Master German Spy For Russians By DANIEL DE LUCE BERLIN #—Dr. Otto John is identified now by rueful Allied powers as Russia’s master Ger- man spy. The man who dined cozily in Washington two months ago with Allen Dulles, Central Intelligence Agency director, and curried fa- vor with the British Secret Service for 10 years sits openly in the Communist camp teday. Until he motored into Berlin’s Soviet sector the night of July 20— as casually as driving around the block—Dr. John was security chief of the West German government. His Office’ for Protection of the Constitution (OPC) spent two mil- lion dollars a year from the feder- al treasury on espionage. His mis- sion: to ferret out and expose Communist and Nazi plotters in- side the Bonn republic. Security Duties This work was directly connected not only with the security of the West German state but of 400,000 allied troops. From his intelligence headquar- ters in Cologne, Dr. John main- tained continual contact with rep- resentatives inside Germany of Britain’s M15 intelligence network, the French Deuxieme Bureau and America’s CIA. Inevitably, he learned a great deal about what the Allies did on their own to fight Communist es- pionage, which is periodically re- inforced with new agents and additional money from the Soviet stronghold of East Germany. He cut quite a figure, this blue- eyed, blond, 6-foot lawyer, with a cloak-and-dagger bent. With the benefit of hindsight, Allied intelli- gence now assumes that he must have been a double agent in Soviet service for many years. Fear of eventual exposure is considered the primary motive for his switch. The British say now that they became uncertain about John about 10 months before his overt defection. They never told the Americans, French and West Germans of such doubts, however. _ Varied Associates This personable, talented de- serter, born 45 years ago in the historic university town of Mar- burg, has mixed with princes and Tevolutionaries, Gestapo brutes and Red stool pigeons, austere idealists and sex-mad libertines. A boy wonder with a legal de- Sree, he was appointed business trustee of Lufthansa, the Nazi government’s international airlipe, in 1936, when he was barely 27. It is known that he established contact with a German baron who deserted the Nazi diplomatic serv- ice for British asylum in 1939, then deserted the British for Commu- nist East Germany after the war. Allied intelligence can only spec- ulate now on the possible links that John forged with the Red Chapel (Rotekapelle) and Red Three, the Soviet spy rings that spring up within Hitler’s occupied Europe after 1941. Hitler Bomb Plet When the bomb plot against the Fuehrer was hatched in 1944, John was in on it along with hundreds of other officials. When the assassina- tion failed, John escaped on a Lufthansa plane to Madrid, and the story is that he turned over top secrets of the V-weapon rocket base at Peenemuende to British agents who spirited him on to Lon- don. He was soon welcomed into British counterintelligence. At last, resetiling in the Bonn republic, John was the British-fa- vored choice in 1950 to head the new federal security office. 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