The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 14, 1954, Page 2

Pege2 THE KEY WEST CiTizEN Committee Tackles Drafting Of Its Report On McCarthy Maine Goes Democrat lilivecnn Election ¥ Red Party Wins|=i22"%i2"* 3. |Bxciting Story Its Bid For Of Magician Is Plot Against Eisenhower Is Described Holdup Man Loses Freedom Fast CINCINNATI ~The wouli-be holdup man got panicky whm a customer entered behind him, and asked for a quick way out. | “That way,” said George Drei-| | dame, | Savings into a storage room. Dreidame ‘then locked the only door. Police who arrested him a few minutes later identified the man y g as Thomas Harold McDonald, 29, President of a Cincintati| an unemployed insurance company two decades, elected a Demo- cratic governor yesterday to steal the political limelight from nine other states holding primaries to- By JACK BELL day. WASHINGTON (@®—A six-mem- ber committee tackles today the task of drafting a report on the official conduct of Sen. McCarthy with every sign it will ignore his attack on fairness of its legal staff. The report, whien may be criti- cal of some of the Wisconsin sen- ator’s activities, is to act as a guide to the Senate when it re- turns later this year to consider whether or mot McCarthy’s conduct merits censure, ; Whether the committee will with factual findings, has not been determined. As the public ensure hearings wound up late yesterday, Chair- man Watkins (B-Utah) said that E. Wallace Chadwick, the com- mitteé counsel and Guy G. de Fy- n five main categories of charges leveled at McCarthy. But. McCarthy and his lawyer, Edward Bennett Williams, And MeCarthy said he was “‘still disturbed by a statement of Sen.’ Watkins that the juty doesn’t have to be impartial.” was a reference to Watkins’ statement thet i i | = ii gE Stg§ § 2 iff i iit f : i rt i | f ll : fil aR i | i at : I . . Nashville Must x Put Prisoners id Back In Jail | MN, Tenn. ‘ F that Mayor Ben West’s order to | empty the old city jail was a viola- | tiom ef the Nashville charter, City | Judge Andrew. J. Doyle has or- dered the 31 prisoners re-arrested. The order now probably will be bounced to the city legal depart- ment for an opinion. John ‘Milliron, Police chief, said he would ask the department what he can do legally after he is presented with the re- arrest orders. Judge Doyle, ruling on a peti- tion by a Nashville housewife, Mrs. E. J. Saverio, said yesterday he would issue the orders as soon 4s the necessary information on the prisoners is obtained from court records. Mayor West ordered the prison- ers released last Wednesdzy after the Davidson County Health De- “|partment ruled that the city jail and workhouse building were unfit for human habitation. “If I arrest them, I'll have to said Milliron and he added if he put them in the county jail several the housing expense. The 31 were committed to the workhouse after failure to pay fines imposed by eity court. The jail section of the ‘building was used as a holdover for. prisoners prior to sentencing. Divorce Follows Slaying In Love Triangle DETROIT (®%—A suppressed di- vorce suit has been filed on behalf of Mrs. Edith S. Small against Dr. Kenneth B. Small, the acquit- ted slayer of bis wife's suitor. Mrs. Small filed the suit last Thursday, the day. after the Detroit dentist was freed from Tonia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Details of the suit will not be-made . | Public until proceedings reach open Dr. Small shot and killed Jules Laek of New York last May 29 at s».|@ Lake Michigan summer home “U tivink they made a mistake in whet their task was. ‘They should have brought out the facts on both weitins said the committee ‘this complaint, but practically foreclased action on indicated they wouldn't wote get new attorneys. where Lack and Mrs. Small were weekending with other ‘house guests. { The 31-year-old dentist was found innocent of the slaying by reason of insanity. Last week he was found sane and released. Woodard Returns For Duty Here son, N. C., retwnns to serve his sec- ond tour of duty at the Key West Naval Station Dispensary. After having served two years and eight months with the Medi- cal. Department at the Dispensary here, he was transferred to the U 8. Naval Hospital at Guam, M. I., in February 1953. He spent one and a half years at Guam before re- ceiving orders to report back to the Naval Station Dispensary. Woodard entered the service in 1927. ‘He is married to the former Miss Elizabeth Bauchanan of Ro- chester, N. Y. and they will re- their two children Susan, age 15, and Judson, age 10. in its entirety! see London Crusade Mieuer-to-beforgotion scenes. Frioved entirely an England. THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 7:30 P.M. DOORS OPEN 7 P.M. No Admission First Come Basis Auspices Youth For Christ have some place to put them,” |i problems would: occur, including |t Officer Hospital Corpsman, of Wil- | iside at 2503 Flagler Avenue with | New Arguments * WASHINGTON. ~The Commn- nist party has wen its bid for new arguments, im the light of a 1954 act of Comgress direeted at it, on a government order that it register as being controlled in Moscow. That order was issued by the subversive activities control board under the 1950 Internal Seeurity jAci. which provides that Commu- nist aetion groups shall register with the Justice Department. They are required to list officers and members and disclose their financ- ing. The Communist ‘party has chal- constitutionality of _ Police Chief B. G. Perez is to he instructed by City Mamager Viec- tor Lang to attend the mext negu- lar meeting of the city commission in order to thresh out the matter |of wrecker service The problem has arisen from complaints of Mrs. Frank Carahal- lo, garage owner, that police had been calling the garage which was assigned the city towing contract, even when the owners of cars in- volved in accidents on the city streets requested another service. Mrs. Carabaillo suggested adoption of a plan whereby towing business be rotated between three local gar- ages. At the meeting of the city com- mission last Tuesday night, which was recessed until last’ night, the city manager and police chief were given instructions to make it clear that car owners hed a choice as to which garage their cars would be taken to. At last night’s meeting, City Ma- nager Victor Lang reported that he had taken this matter up with the chief, who assured him the instruc- tion was being followed. Mrs. Caraballo appeared at the meeting to inquire whether any- thing had been decided on her re- quest for the rotation of the towing work. Diseussion of this suggestion will be carried on at the next meeting, with Chief Perez in atten- dance to answer questions. Montreal Ousts Old Streetears MONTREAL (# —The streetcar —hone-shaking old faithful of Mon- treal’s transportation system—is The trams on which thousands |of commuters have depended for ja half century are being eased out by efficiency-minded city offi- s | At the present rate of retire- ment, the last of the streetears will plan is to replace them by motor buses. There are also plans to build a metropolitan subway. | Office workers and housewives, \have relied on the streetear as a |fundamental method of getting around since 1892. In that year “The Rocke r”—12-mile-an-hour speedster — made its appearance. Wheelchair Rites Unite Couple LOS ANGELES @—A _ wheel- chair wedding has united a para- {lyzed insuramce broker and his sweetheart, who lost both legs as the result of a blood ailment. When James L. Madigan and Socorro Gomez were wed Satur- | day at the Church of the Immacu- | late Heart of Mary, both rolled to the alter in wheelchairs. Both are 27. Madigan’s brother, Joseph, 24, | the best man, was also in a wheel- | chair, as was the maid of hono-, Miss Rita Vigil, 30. Joseph was | paralyzed by the same nerve dis- jease as James, and Miss Vigil has been paralyzed since birth. | Voters in the nine states are picking party nominees for 5 Sen- ate and 2 House seats and for 6 governorships. This will just about wind up selection of eandi- dates to run in the Nov. 2 elections for control of the next Congress. ‘New York State conventions and Bhode Island primaries later this month will conclude the prelimin- aries. But it was the Maine election— traditionally held two months ‘be- fore those in the other 47 states— that attracted most of the political attention. Edmund |S. Muskie, 39-year-old vance as “the first statewide test Eisent deniniotroti 35 Ht ite Fe F E fF SE 1 ef FTE gi i [ E : : Hi i! Heyl i i fight among four senators seeking renomination. Unopposed were Sens. Styles Bridges (R-NH) and Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass). Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn) had opposition, but he was regard- ed_an easy winner. The seat of the fifth semator in- volved im today’s biggest-of-the- year pre-election voting is that of the veteran Democratic senator from Colorado, Edwin C. Jobn- son, leaving the Senate voluntarily after 18 years. He is unopposed to- day for the gubernatorial nomina- tion in Colorado. Candidates for the Senate were being chosen in Colorado, Masse- ebusetts, Minnesota, and New Hampshire (two seats). These states also. picked governor ean- didates along with Vermont and Wisconsin. House candidates only were be- ing chosen in New York, Utah, and Washington. There were com- paratively few House contests in the nine states as 46 Republican and 24 - Demoeratic incumbents were unopposed. Highlights ef today’s voting: New Hampshire—Political writ- ers called it a tossup between Sen. Upton, 70, who has been serving a year by appointment, Rep: Nor- ris Cotton, 54, amd Wesley Powell, 37, Hampton Falls attorney, for the GOP nomination for the two years remaiping of the term of the late Sen. Charles W. Tobey. The state also nominates for gov- ernor and for two House seats. Colorado—it’s been a hot and noisy race for the Demoeratic Senate nomination between former Rep. John A. Carroll of Denver, and the 42-year-old mayor of Den- ver, Quigg Newton. Carroll got the top vote im a state convention to mary ballot. Jap Undertakers Request Stumps TOKYO (®—~The undertaking bus- iness is dead in Thailand so seven Japanese technicians are going there to breathe a little life into it. The Japan News said that the seven will supervise the assembly of a Japanese-made crematorium which Thailand uedertakers have by @ tequest for a “mobile cre- vg ems an enterprisi i up- | dertaker wanted “ lines | omens & suitable furnace so he could tour the country and rrange funerals on the spot. . r Citizen Ads Bring Results PES a SE DOR OHS } But the Japanese are stumped | | | i Due At Monroe ‘The lifre story of Harry Houdini, the greatest daredevil of all time and certainly the most fabulous Personality of his era, has intri-| gued: motion pieture producers for | two decades. Now George Pal has | made this famtastic man’s life | story into a dazzling, amazing Technicolor film. Entitled ‘Houdi- ni,” and released by Paramouni, it ig due to open Thursday at the | Monroe Theatre. | Starring Tony Curtis as Harry | Houdini amd Janet Leigh as his| wife Bess, with Torin Thatcher as | the famous escape artist’s loyal as- | sistant, the film picks up young Houdini doing a double act as a magician and a wild man in a New York street sideshow. In walks Bess and Houdini promptly falls in love with her. After a brief, tender garding zoning laws, etc., which have been pending. Infidelities Told In Divorce Suit LOS ANGELES —Actor John Carradine asks a divorce from Sonia Sorel, charging, among oth- er things, that she broke up his first marriage. “Numerous infidelities,” neglect of their children and appearances before guests in her underclothing were among other accusations lev- elled by the gaunt Shakespearean in the suit he filed in Superior Court yesterday. . ter the 1944 breakup of Carradine’s marriage to Ardanelle MeCool. He alleges Miss Sorel caused the split. Miss Sore) is the daughter of socially promiment Henry R. He- nius of Burlingame, Calif. EXPENSE ALLOWANCE FOR CITY OFFICIALS A minimum per diem allowance of $10 per day for citycommis- sioners and the eity manager when they make out-of-town trips as of- fieal representatives of the city was okayed last night by the com- mission. Although no formal resolution was passed, the city manager was authorized to pay such allowances. High schools in the United States spend an average of $90 to $120 each year on protective clothing for a football player. eee FREE! — FREE! — FREE) 3-Day Tour To Havana inquire At EL PASAJE SPANISH ‘ADRANT REST. 1005 Truman Phone 2-6136 | —_— Your Grocer SELLS Tiet Good STAR: * BRAND sdcusan COFFEE ——TRY A POUND ToDAY — SWRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE Triumph Coffee Mill at ALL GROcers SALE | Monroe Specialty Co. . guilty to the charge of seditious | position of the party members in " . NEW YORK i—A Puerto Rican | man — loan association. The | salesman from Baton Rouge, La, spirators who masterminded the shooting in Congress last March 1) also planned an attack on Presi-| dent Eisenhower. | The testimony was given by | Gonzales Lebron Sotomayor yes-| terday at the trial of 13 Puerto | Ricans charged with seditious con- spiracy to overthrow the U.S. gov- ernment by force and violenee. The witness is a brother of Do- lores Lolita Lebron, who was: seized along with three men after they spattered bullets into the House of Representatives, wound- ing. five congressmen. The four already have been sentenced to terms of 16 to 50 years in prison | for the shooting. 1 Miss Lebron is one of the 13 now on trial for conspiracy be-/| fore Federal Judge Lawrence E. | Walsh and a jury. The sessions | continue today. | ‘Another defendant is Julio Pinto | Gandia who Lebron Sotomayor | said had told him of plans for attacks on Congress, “the Presi-| dency” and on Fernos Isern, resi- dent commissioner for Puerto! Rieo. The witness said this was in| November, 1953, when Gandia was | Nationalist has testified that “te | *|a Nationalist party leader in New| York. | The Nationalist party seeks) complete independence for Puerto Rico. This aim is opposed by the | majority of Puerto Ricans who! turned down an offer of independ- ence and voted to become a com- monwealth of the United States. Lebron Sotomayor has pleaded conspiracy and testified as a gov- ernment witness while being held in $25,000 bail pending sentencing. He described himself as a former chief of the Chicago junta of the Nationalist party. He testified that several months after his talk with Gandia, his sis- ter came to Chieago and told him she had been given a “special mis- sion” which apparently involved th March 1 shooting. She told him to “‘tell her the Chicago because there was to be instant use of various members in Chicago and New York for at- tacks in various places in the United States and said that 85 was stupid but that orders had ar- rived.” His sister returned to New York, the witness added, and two weeks later the shooting occurred in Con- gress. Acting on orders, the Chicago bine and two radio sets for the attack, Lebron Sotomayor said. He added that he himself opposed any attack within the continental United States. Eisner Furniture Co. Poinciana Center — ‘Tel. 2-695) DIAL 2-9193 Your PURE OIL Dealer Tires . . Tubes . . Batteries ACCESSORIES PURE OIL STATION STOCK ISLAND TEL. 2-3167 Open 7AM. “HI PM. |) Automotive Repairs Wheel Balancing Front End Alignment Factory Methods Used— All Work Guaranteed FOR PROMPT AND SERVICE—SEE DAVID 928 Truman Avenue TELEPHONE 2-6008 lowed his directions—right |He was held for questioning. 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