The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 7, 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, 212 THE \ LIONS ARE VANQUISHED—The Lions Club, which was evidenfly the only civic club able to rally sufficient strength to participate in the ‘tug-of-war in the Bayview Park Labor Day festivities yesterday, went down in defeat when they were out-tugged by a group of volunteers from the -audience—Photo by Spillman. and | Ttffic Injuries _ (Continued on Page Five) GILMORE IS DUE HERE THURSDAY Submarine tender’ Howard W. Gilmore will return here Thurs- day morning at 7:30 o’clock com- pleting six-weeks of northern oper- tional procedure: Ss. The Gilmore, mothership of Sub- ™mafine Squadron 4, will be berth- ed at pier Baker on her arrival. PRINCESS NINA Ballet Classes Grinnell, both ‘by Spillman. oo So ip a a :| vices the said nin® years old, shake a fast three legs.—Photo f é Sh rR NR RNR ECE KEY WEST TRAFFIC BOX SCORE. Sept. To Date 1 357 0 61) Traffic Deaths __ 0 1 Property Dame $465 $98,811 Key Westers have good rea- son to be proud of their acci- dent record over the Labor Day weekend. Only three accidents occurred —one on Friday and the other two on Saturday—and they re- sulted in only $65 in property damage. That makes the city’s record, for September considerably bet- ter than that for the same per- jod in August—less than one accident per day. Let’s work hard to make the) record even better. Horse Ordinance To Be Aired Here Key West horse owners will be assessed a one dollar registration fee if an ordinance to be consid- ered tonight by the city commis- sion is passed. The measure, introduced in the wake of complaints from the Key | West Humane Society that horses , are being mistreated here, also! states that horses may not be} “staked out” on public or private property or allowed to run loose. Tt also says that horses found to be in violation of the ordinance may be impounded at the owner’s expense. Accidents ____ Autopsy Set To Check Into Death Of Warden’s Wife | WINTER PARK (®—A physician will perform an autopsy today on Mrs. Mary Ragans to learn how the attractive 35-year-old woman died and why there were two purictures in her head. The wife of James 0. Ragans, 52, warden of State Prison Camp 8534, was found in her bed shot to death and holding a sleeping child in her arms early Sunday. State Atty. Murray Overstreet ordered today’s autopsy after George Huff of Milledgeville, Ga., brother of dead woman blocked @ postmortem yesterday. Huff de- manded tnat a doctor of his choos- ing be called in aa appeal to Sheriff Dave Starr. A pathologist on the staff of Orange Memorial Hospital here was assigned. Chief of Police Carl Buchanan said Ragans requested the post- mortem “‘to clear him of every- thing.” Buchanan said “barring results of the autopsy and the second Puncture wound it looks like suicide | to me.” The head was punctured twice, he said, once by the bullet and “maybe by concussion” the | second time. FLAME RESTAURANT Will Be Closed UNTIL OCTOBER 1ST SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1954 Ferry Co. Mogul Says Porter Storm Gains Force Nearing Bahama Islands Winds Of Gale Force Expected In Islands Today MIAMI (#—Hurricane warnings | were hoisted over the Bahama Islands today and South Florida was placed on the alert as tropical storm Edna gained a force of 80-90 miles an hour about 500 miles southeast of Bahamas, Heeding U. S. weather bureau advices, the colonial meterological office in the tourist capital at Nas- sau ordered the ominous twin red flags with black centers hoisted throughout the island chain which stretches to within 60 miles of the Florida coast. ll A.M, Advisory Winds of gale force should begin to buffet the eastern Bahamas dur- ing the afternoon, rising to hurri- cane force as the center pushes eastward. The heaviest winds were expected to pass into the central Bahamas tonight and approach the Nassau and Andros Island area to- morrow morning. “Hurricane precautions are ad- vised immediately for the Bahamas next 36 hours,” Norton, chief stornmi fore- Y here, in an 11 a. m, (EST) visory. “The hurricane, named Edna for the fifth letter of the alphabet, was centered at that time near latitude 23.3 north, longitude 73.3 west, or about 100 miles southwest of San Salvador. It was moving toward the west-northwest at 10-12 miles an hour. Guided Missile Station San Salvador, also known as Watling Island, was Columbus’ landfall on his first voyage of dis- covery. It is a tropical coral island inhabited by native fishermen and is the site of a tracking station on the U. S. Air Force guided mis- sile range extending eastward from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The area of hurricane winds ex- tended only a short distance from the center, but gale force winds stnetched 150 miles to east and 50 miles to the west of the center. “Further increase in intensity is indicated . with continued west- northwestward movement at about the same or slightly faster speed. “It will pass into the central Bahamas and approach the Nassau -Andros Island area by Wednesday morning,” said the advisory, GI Sought In London Strangling LONDON (#—An unidentified American soldier was sought for questioning today in the silk-stock- ing strangling of a pretty 28-year- old Irish girl. The girl, Ellen Carlen, was found yesterday on e bed in a Pimlico rooming house with a stocking |taut around her neck. Beer bottles and American cigarettes littered the room, IN THE Man Slays Self On Boulevard Mon. :3 Hospitalized In Auto-Scooter Crash Sunday One sailor was in critical condition today and two others were still hospitalized as a re- sult of an automobile - scooter crash Sunday night. Sheriff John Spottswood said the accident occurred just forth of Boca Chica bridge when. a tire blew out on the car and it went out of control, striking the scooter and then overturning. Both car and scooter were headed north. Wesley H. Sorenson, 30, a chief sonarman of VX-1, was riding the scooter. He is in critical condition in the Naval Hospital. Paul H, Travino, 20, teleman second class, and Sammie L. Needham, 27, torpedoman sec- ond class, both of the AUW school, were in. the car, & use, of condition of goglgeg The three men were admitted te the Naval Hospital at 10:15 Pp. m. Sunday, Jax Service Station Man Is Held In Murder JACKSONVILLE (#-—Walter Lee McDaniel, a married, 27-year-old service station operator, was ar- rested here last night and accused of strangling Cenia Juanita Edison, a 19-year-old divorcee. : The body of Miss Edison, who disappeared a week ago, was found Sunday in a palmetto thicket west of here. Police said she was last seen Aug. 30 in a car with a man of dark complexion. Gene Griffin, chief criminal dep- uty, said McDaniel was jailed with- | out bail on a murder charge. He declined to say whether McDaniel had made a statement. Miss Edison, wno recently was named beauty queen at a Jackson- ville insurance group meeting, was a clerk in the office of the Fidelity She was divorced from Samuel Alexander, a Navy man stationed here. Her body was found by a boy walking through the woods on his way home from Sunday school. A woman’s blue belt was knotted around her neck. Griffin said McDaniel’s car was seized at the time of his arrest. He said it answered the description of the car in which Miss Edison was last seen. NOT Sealed bids will be received Sweeting’s Garage and Service on Greene Street. ICE! by the undersigned Guardian on one 1948 Buick CP 34825873 D7247919 1203714. Owner Lewis Ware at his office in the County Sheriff's Office, Key West, Florida, up until 12 P.M. noon, September 10th, 1954. Guardian reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Automobile may be seen at Station, opposite the City Hall DARIO Q. GARCIA, As Guardian of the Estate of Lewis Ware, Last Cigarette Is Burning When Body Is Found A 33-year-old Key Wester died Monday afternoon of a self-inflicted shotgun wound on a lonely stretch of South Roosevelt Boulevard. The man, Anthony Frank Rosendo, of 1415 Catherine Street, was found lying by the seawall, his last cigar- ette clutched burning in his fingers, by a Navy man out for a walk. He had placed the muzzle of a 16 gauge shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger with a device fashioned out of a length of fish- line. Despondency Reported Rosendo, a taxi driver, was re- portedly despondent over domestic trouble and was said by his fel- _| low Workers to have hestideinie fing heavily. According to the report of Police Lt. W. L. James, the victim was discovered by a sailor identified as Edward F. Donnelly, of the Naval Station, shortly before 4 p.m., Monday. He went to the county airport and called police. Meanwhile, two other Navy men, Jack Schrock and William Severn, of the USS Sea Chopper, arrived on the scene. Shot Not Heard None of the Navy men reported hearing a shot, although the fact that a cigarette Rosendo held be- tween his fingers was still burn- ing, indicated that only a few minutes, at most, had elapsed since the act. Lt. James said that when he ar- rived on the scene, he detected a slight pulse, but when Rosendo arrived at Monroe General Hos- pital in a Lopez Ambulance, he was pronounced dead. Rosendo is survived by his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rosendo; one son, Anthony Frank, Jr., of Kingsville, Texas; three aunts, Mrs. Rose Thompson and Mrs. Bessie Frejomie, of Tam- pa, and Mrs. Jennie Pito, of Key West; and two uncles, Thomas and George Ortiz, of Tampa. Funeral Plans Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., in the Chapel of the Lopez Funeral Home with the Rev. J. Paul Touchton, of the First Methodist Church, offi- ciating. Burial will be in the fam- ily plot, City Cemetery. A veteran of World War Il, Rosendo will be accorded full mili- tary honors at the graveside by Arthur Sawyer Post 28, American Legion. Pallbearers will be chosen from among his school friends. QUARTERBACK DINNER SPEAKER ANNOUNCED Jack Magher, former Auburn coach, will speak at the kickoff dinner of the Quarterback Club Sept. 13 at the Casa Marina Ho- tel. Earl Adams said today. Magh- er also coached the famed Sea- hawks, a service team, during World War II. We Can Take A Few More at the Goodspeed School Ist thru 4th Grades 728 Fleming’ Street Where Children Are Treated Mentally Incompetent. "IN PERSON—GRAND OL! As Individuals For Quick Comm Use CLASSIFIED Ads! You'll reach buyers and sellers— tenants or workers . . . Just DIAL 2-5661 or 2.5662 Today Pointed Out Dock Pact Change Hines Won’t Be At Meeting: Sends Letter Giving His Side By JIM COBB N. C. Hines, executive vice president of Caribbean Ferry Systems, Inc., of Miami issued a sharp denial today that his firm took advantage of the city commission in negotiating a lease of city-owned property at the foot of Simonton Street for a terminal for their Key West-Cuba ferry operation. Holiday Peat | wants sn beeen Toll Lowest In Six Years said that the clause that Gives them the option of building their terminal eith- er on the city property or on adjacent land owned by the 357 Lose Lives Gulf Oil Corporation was In Motor Mishaps During Weekend By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Accidents during the long Labor Day weekend killed more than 500 pointed out specifically to Mayor C. B. Harvey on July 28, the day that the lease Americans“Wut the traffic toll was the smallest in six years. New ‘tabulations today showed was signed, The, city commission has been that traffic deaths numbered 357, drownings 91 and miscellaneous critical of the fact that the ferry company has started construction fatalities 79. The total was 527. The traffic toll was lowest for on the Gulf Oil property, instead of the city land. Hines was asked to attend to- night’s city commission session by Commissioner Louis Carbonell, but ay Ah the Labor Day holiday since 1948, | 3!¢ to er ns when 293 deaths rted. It duled to enter a Miami hospital under the predicted total i Letter.Written . - ‘although: jt >wat bey Sm Instead, Hines said, he has writ- ; ten a letter to the\commission ask- fing that it be read at tonight’s mi ‘ for a medical checkup. The over-all total was the lowest for the Labor Day period since 1948, when 407 accidental deaths of various causes were counted, The holiday period this year be- gan at 6 p.m. Friday and ended at midnight Monday. It was preceded by a plea from President Eisenhower. He urged the nation’s motorists to be care- ful and challenged them to “fool the experts” who had predicted 390 motor vehicle fatalities. National Guardsmen reinforced state police in patroling highways in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ten- nessee, Mayor asked City’ At if the document was a duplic: rn hehe “eee Porter sa! was, one exception, Sec- tion Three which says that we could Dissiieced i! on city Gulf Oil pro- Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council, termed the national toll “tragically high” but found it “encouraging” that because it reflected a downward| ment should pall a — firm is go- “We feel that w, contract,” Hines said, trend in traffic deaths. Hines added that his “For the second straight holiday | ing ahead with the plans to start the traffic toll was not only well] ferry service as scheduled. “I feel below our preholiday estimates but| certain we ean get this situation was the lowest for any three-day | cleared up,” he said. period of that holiday since 1949.) Mayor Harvey said earlier to« “The Labor Day traffic toll was|day that he had “no comment” the lowest since 1948. The Fourth |on the situation. He could not be of July traffic toll (348) was the|Treached to comment on Hines lat- lowest for any three-day period of | €r statement. that holiday since 1949. Meanwhile, reports that City At- “Add to this the’fact that the|torney J. Y. Porter, may be call- day-to-day traffic toll has come /|¢d on the carpet tonight, could not down steadily all this year and |e confirmed. there seems to be reason for be-|_ Porter announced Saturday that lieving that the efforts of so many | he will make a statement in ans- people for suv many years are be-| Wer to criticism from some city ginning to pay off.” commissioners that he represent ed both sides in negotiations with ces | the ferry company. Porter To Cla NOTICE wa’ repociedly” told. to tional “clear up the situation All ewners of occupa’ sia Penne Ber or resign censes for the sale of alcoholic . beverages must file, with the City|.. Porter said that “he did not know Clerk, applications for renewal of resign.” said licenses for the Year 1954-|. Cause of the debacle is a clause 1955, in the lease agreement signed by These applications must be acted | Mayor C. B. Harvey on July 28. It on by the City Commissioners of| £295: ‘Lessee specifically agrees the City of Key West, Florida. | gin work on all necessary ications are now being re- Stee. buildings, ramps and ceived, Pd mop ee in the hands | Tice peer tipleeos 4 oe of the on or before ‘mises Property Monday, September 20, 1954, as| "red from the Gul Olt Corpora- the law requires new licenses to| — on Page Five) be on display at places of business Application blanks may be se- All STORM on the first day of October. cured in the City Clerk’s Office, | SHUTTERING Materials at City Hall, Key West, Florida. VICTOR LOWE, City Clerk. 120 SIMONTON, near City Hall ——ESE——_—_—_ EEE EE — ~