The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 23, 1954, Page 1

4 A variety show for the penefit of the Emergencey drive will *AYA—Earl Mantonya, janitor for the Monroe Coun- i ilding, is shown holding fruit from a male papaya ‘Mantonya reports that only one male tree in about 10,000 ‘fruit. The stem of the fruit is about ten times as long as en Die In Crash Of DC3 wa After Severe Storm MASON CITY, Iowa, @ — A‘ Braniff International Airways DC3, warned not to land here because of a wild storm, crashed into a pasturé yesterday, killing 11 of the 19 persons aboard. Eight were in i 5 kes jured, two critically, tat ee = Wet Ge ‘An earlier report had given a 4 id Gossedlior Konrad Ade-| Power failure: at the airport as a 4 arse ocratic par-| ctor in the crash, but airport of- ficials said the Memphis, Tenn., to Minneapolis, ras only about 10 minutes out: m. the field, Braniff officials off landing bedause of the storm, The field never received an an- swer, airline officials: reported. The plane crashed on a farm 4% miles south of Swaledale. Power Line Broken Highway patrolmen reported a wire of a new high-voltage power line between Fort Dodge and Ma- son City had been snapped and they said they believed the plane had hit it. 5 Debris from the crash’ was spread along a line of more than 500 feet. Police said the plane ap- parently struck the ground, then bounced for some distance. The plane was demolished, only the tail section remaining relatively intact. The. plane’s pilot, Capt. W. A. Pickering, 40, of Parkville, Mo., died at the scene of the crash. Minneapolis, jJater at the Hampton, Iowa, hos- pital. : The hostess, Miss Betty Ann Truly, 23, of Kansas City and Shreveport, La., was reported in “fair” condition at Mercy Hospi- tal in Mason City. ‘ Critical Injuries Among the other injured in the Mason ‘City hospital. was Mrs. Milton Schoenberg, 54, of Denver, one of two crash victims reported in critical condition. The other, hospitalized at Hampton, was Mrs. Lee Nichols of Minneapolis. Mrs. (Continued on Page Two) Weather Hinders Completion Of Week-End Cruise Because of bad weather, only one of the 10 Key West Outboard Club boats that started the 200- mile week-end.cruise to Tavernier. finished the run That was the boat owned by Cri- minal Court Judge Thomas S. Ca- ro. Ridiag with Caro -was Gene Skaggs. s Ten boats left Key West about 9 a, m. Saturday morning. Two of the boats dropped out at Mara- thon. and the other eight reached Tavernier around.6 p. m. Two Ma- the cruise to made the re- y_ in about seven . boats were re- to Key West on trailers, Warned As Storm Area Approaches ‘MIAMI @®—Small craft. warn- were continued today from Palm Beach to Key West while the Miami storm warning service om an approaching \ _ listed by the airline as New ‘Work ~ Amsterdam passengers were: Mr, and Mrs, Abraham (Continued on Page Two) CAPTAIN A. 0, SMITH IS NAMED TO MIAMI HOSPITAL POSITION Capt. O. A. Smith, Medical | easterly wave. Soh ete Cited fer | ee ena | of ices at Jackson Memorial Hospi-| extended across the Domiuican Te-| in Miami, it was announced to-| public with its northern end in the day, Ailantic and its southern extremity ‘The appointment is effective Oct.|in the Caribbean Sea. “Tt doesn’t look bad at this time Capt. Smith, who was command-|but of course in this season we : Naval Hospital (Continued on Page Two) Big Stocks Plyw for Shutters at : t Citisen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1954 ee Ship Is Safe In Port Here The USS Bobolink, subject of ‘an eight-hour air-sea search Saturday night, arrived here at. 5:30 p. m. yesterday. The Bobolink, en route from Charleston to Key West, was out of communication with shore bases because of a break- down of its radio transmitter. When ‘the ship did not report, the destroyer escort Robinson and three planes from here ‘were sent to search. The ship was located near its last re- ported position. State Health Dept. Okays School Opening Polio Situation Raises Question In Two Counties JACKSONVILLE (#— The State Board of Health approved a rec- ommendation yesterday that all Florida schools go ahead with plans for opening in spite of wide- spread polio. Dr. L. L.. Parks, head. of the Bureau. of Preventable Diseases, told the board, ‘meeting here that two counties had asked, whether opening should be delayed. The counties were not named. Dr. Parks said his recommen- dation was that: present conditions do not justify delay in opening any of the state’s schools and he asked the board to back him up. Situation Could Change ‘The situation, however, is fluid, Dr. Parks said, and could change at any moment, In another action, the board sus- pended Dr. Vernon Fox, an asso- ciate professor at Florida State University, from a part-time job ith ah : which bias sed biked frm sus] . Je “eight hours, demanding a crew hen they radioed it to hold | rox? were not habit-forming; that narcotics. law of the State of Florida should be repealed and that drug adiiction was largely a myth.” Denial By Professor E Fox said he told the group mar- juana is habit-forming but not ad- dicting. He denied he made any reference to the Florida narcotics tement. that was largely a 1. Created a new division of Vet- erinary Public Health to meet a demand for diagnostic services in diseases transmitted from animals to humans, such a_ rabie, _ psit- tacosis, anthrax and bovine ‘tuber- culosis. Dr. James E. Scatterday, The. co-ilot, W. B. Wilde, 31, of | public health veterinarian, will di- died a short time)rect the new division under D: Parks. Creation of the division en- tails no additional expenses, Dr, Wilson T. Sowder, state health of- ficer, said. 2. Approved salary increases of $10 to $25 monthly, on basis of merit, for some 400 central office (Continued on Page Two) KEY WEST'S . TRAFFIC BOX SCORE August To Date x» 38 5 59 o 1 $5,705 $24,238 The city is within $6,000 of equalling total property dani- - age caused by automobile ac- cidents in 1953. And six weekend accidents swelled the total for the month to 30, an average of more Accidents Traffic Injuries Traffic Deaths Prop. Damage than one per day. Injuries in traffic accidents have mounted to five for the month — and 59 for’ the year. While it appears that the city’s intensive campaign to cut accidents is showing some Progress — we still have a long way to reach our goal. It is no longer a matter of equalling last year’s record — it is a question of by how much we are going to exceed it. The answer will be decided by the city’s motorists. AMS2," | Woman B By Johnson St. Prowler 30 Airmen Are Arrested As Members Of Terrorist. Gang Gov't Efforts Fail To Halt Copper Strike Negotiations Are Resumed To Settle Rubber Disputes By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Government efforts pointed to a return to work in the American Airlines strike Monday but afield to halt a walkout of 3,500 workers in the copper industry: Negotiations resumed, mean- while, in the drawn-out rubber dispute in which 45,000 employes have been idle, half of them for 47 days. An arrangement worked out with the ‘help of federal mediators brought at least partial settlement in the airline dispute, and Ameri- can, the nation’s biggest air car- rier, began warming up its en- gines. The company made plans to re- sume operations Wednesday, after a 25-day shutdown, but,the AFL Airline Pilots Assn., representing American's. 1,200 pilots arrangement not mi eoast-to-coast runs of more than change. stopover, f C. R. Smith, American’s presi- dent, said the agreement. called for resumption of the disputed and appointment of a neutral to recommend .a perma- nent solution. Plants of the American Brass Co., subsidiary of Anaconda Copper, remained. closed in Ansonia and Torrington, Conn., and Buffalo, N.Y., this ‘morning after the nor- mal weekend shut down. The employes, members of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union (Ind.) struck for a 25-cent hourly ‘Taise and other benefits. A union spokesman said the strike affects Anaconda’s Montana operations. Request Fails +4 The Federal Mediation Service ! said it had asked the union to huld off, but the request apparently fell through. Negotiations broke off Aug. 10. Straight time pay at the plants averaged $1.91 to $1.93 an hour, according to the union. In Cleveland, Cincinnati and New York the CIO Rubber Workers ‘went into new sessions today with negotiators for the nation’s big in rubber: Goodyear, Fire- stone, B. F. Goodrich and U. S. Rubber. In an outgrowth of last month’s atomic energy strike, top level Tepresentatives of hoth the CIO (Continued on Page Two) 4 Die In Fla. ‘Highway Crashes Four persons were killed in high- way accidents yesterday. Two Sebring residents were killed and six. other persons in- jured in @ headon collision between an automobile and a pickup truck on State Road 25 near Avon Park. | Dedd were Dr. Charles C. Tuck-| wood, 72, a retired dentist, and Mrs. Bama Counter, 64. Three other Sebring residents riding in Dr. Tuckwood’s car were injured and three Fort Meade Ne- groes in the truck were slightly hurt, Sheriff Broward Coker said he would charge George 25, CHANUTE AIR FORCE ‘BASE, Il. @ — Air Force officials an- nounced yesterday that 30 young airmen had been seized as suspect» ed members of a secret youth ter- rorist society called ‘“Pachuco.” Col. Grover Wilson, technical training group commander at. the base, said the men are in the guardhouse being held for ques: tioning. He said the questioning con- cerned “acts of violence and law- lessness ranging from AWOL, of- fenses and marijuana addiction to knife assaults on those who had informed on the gang after signing a pledge in blood to obey ‘the laws of Pachuco.’” L. A. Cop Aids The Air Force revealed that Lt. Robert D. Whitley, chief of the juvenile division of the Los Angeles Police Department, flew to Cha- nute Friday to aid in the roundup. Wilson said Whitley briefed air police on how the Pachuco organi- zation operates since he has had experience with similar gangs on the West Coast. Saturday morning, segments of the base’s complement of 15,000. airmen were assembled and or- dered to strip to the waist. Some 175 were found with “unexplained marks or tattoes.” Many carried switch-blade knives. were “surly and arrogant and liv- ing up to the eode of Pachuco.” He said all had a “sign of Pa- chuco” carved into their palms or chest. This sign, he said, resem- bles a cross, with slashes added to honor acts of violence committed by the member.” He said he had a Pachuco “code” in his possession under which no information must be giv- en law enforcement officials and requiring that knives be carried at all. times. Lt. Whitley said Pachuco gangs are common the West Coast and usually are made up of “young hoodlums of. Mexican extraction.” However, Col. Wilson said the men at Chanute are “young toughs of all nationalities and seem to follow no pattern of race or back- ground.” He said he expects court-martial charges to be made against the gang members. Heroic Mountain Climber Is Found « Dead In Crevasse PORT ANGELES, Wash. (® — A mountain climber trapped in @ cre- vasse by_his own heroism was found dead late last night on tow- ering Mt. Olympus. Doctors said Dr. Anthony Levy, 30, a University of California re- search biochemist from Berkeley, had been dead about nine hours before his hody ‘was reached. He had been trapped deep in a creyasse at the top of the 7,954-foot pedk which stands in the center cf Olympic National Pkar. Twenty-three National Park Ser- vice employes fought their way up the mountain in an attempt to res- cue him. Levy, with four others, were climbing the mountain Saturday when one of the party, Dick Neal (Continued on Page Two) ROUNDUP SET FOR ILLEGAL ENTRANTS. IN PHILIPPINES MANILA ® — President Ramon Magsaysay, reported concerned drunken driving. : i George Barbe ané Jack two woe commie and Zipperer, 3 hurt near Jacksonville car went off the road into av tree. a ‘¢ For Quick Communication, Use CLASSIFIED Ads! You'll reach buyers and sellers— tenants or workers . . « Just “particularly outstanding | i DIAL 2-5661 or 2-5662. PRICE FIVE CENTS Brutally Dragnet Out For Marauder After Convalescent Is Slugged Sunday By JIM A set of blood-stained beat a Johnson St. woman morning. Victim of the beating w ‘Johnson St. —— ——__________, 4 City Commission Meeting Postponed A ‘special city commission meeting set for tonight has been postponed to allow the city fathers to take part in a special March ef Dimes fund drive: broadcast over WKWF. The meeting will be held Tuesday at & p. m. Purpose of the meeting will be to consider bids for the removal of mari from Garrison Bight and the confirmation of. the appeint- ment of John L. Day as city finance officer. Navy Legal Officer Dies Cdr. Earle C, Gordon, Jr., Navy Base legal officer, died at 7:25 p. m. yesterday Naval Hos- pital of a heart Lebanon, N. H., until 1942. From 1938 to 1946 he was Justice of the Municipal Court at Hanover, N. H. In December, 1942, he accepted a lieutenant’s. commission in the Navy Reserve and a commission in the regular Navy in May, 1947. During his Navy career, among other assignments, he had been at- tached to the Judge Advocate Gen- eral’s office. Cdr. Gordon is survived by his widow, Charlotte Evans Gordon, and three children: William, 13, Sally, 11, and George, 2. A memorial service has been set tentatively for 3 p. m., Aug. 3, in the Naval Station Chapel with Cdr. C. Robinson, Navy Base Chaplain, officiating. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery, date to be announced later. Senate Paymaster Wounds Wife, Slays Himself WASHINGTON (#—The Senate’s 45-year-old paymaster, Joseph C. Ellis, shot and wounded his wife yesterday, then killed himself, po- lice reported. A son, Joseph 17, said he be- lieved his father had overworked | during the long Senate sessions be- fore adjournment. As financial clerk, he handled Senate expenses and a payroll for about 2,000 persons. Ellis and his wife Elizabeth were taken to Emergency Hospital aft- er the shooting in their Northwest (Continued on Page Two) NAVY FIRE SUNDAY coBB fingerprints is apparently the only. clue to the identity of a prowler who brutally as she slept early Sunday as Mrs. Julia Gato, 48, 1012 Wounds, inflicted by a blunt instrument, required 32 stitches. Hard-bitten police offi- cers, incensed by the vicious assault are scouring the city today for suspects. Mrs. Gato, who returned - to her home only last Wednesday after major surgery in'a Miami hospital, gave this report of the in- cident: She was sleeping on the sun porch on the first floor of her entered She ‘first became aware of the marauder when she was awakened by footsteps at her j ‘ As she started to rise, Mrs. Ga- to said that the prowler gave her a vicious smash on the rear of the Meanwhile, Mrs. Gato’s daugh- ter and son-in-law, Mr. ened by her screams. They rushed to her aid. But by that time the man, ap- parently already tigating the prints. Meanwhile, Dr. Herman K. Moore, who lives across the street from Mrs. Gato, was called in to aid her. He administered emergeny first aid and then rushed her to (Continued on Page Two) Crackdown Set (On Law Violation By Motorcyclists The police department has ini- tiated a full-scale drive against motorcyclists who are violaging city law by not providing their vehicles with mufflers. First step in their drive resulted in eight cyclists being picked up for investigation Sunday night by police Sergeant Frank Carballo and Patrolman Steve Atkins. Only one of the cyclists was charged. He is Emil F. Phillips, of the Boca Chica’ Naval Air Sta- tion. Phillips was charged with having an improper muffler and creating a public nuisance. Police Chief Beienvenido Perez has ordered all police officers to be on the watch for violators of the city’s motor vehicle code by ‘ motorcyclists. Many complaints have been re- ceived of é¢yclists roaming the city streets at high speeds with ex- hausts roaring. The bulk of the complaints have come from the Whitehead Street and Truman Ave. sections, police said. ——— WANTED TO BUY Good