The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 16, 1954, Page 5

é ace 7 ‘Tuetday, November 16, 1954 Legionitems @ By NORMAN KRANICH: 5h THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Post Commander, Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, American Legion Apology: I wish to apologize to all of the Legionnaires and friends who read this column, Because I was called out of town by the illness of my mother, I was unable to get last week’s copy of The Citizen. kk & History: Well, another accomplishment by the veterans organizations of Key West, the big and successful Ve- terans Day Parade is now history. Last Thursday night’s extravagan- za was, in this writer’s opinion, the most outstanding parade ever staged in Key West, and will be long remembered by Key Westers. Vance C. Stirrup, over-all chair- man and representatives of the var- ious veterans organizations who served on his’ committee, together with ‘full. cooperation of The Unit- ed States Navy under the local Commander, Admiral Towner, are to be congratulated for a job well done. xk * Christmas: Yes, sir, folks, it’s rolling around again. And I mean Christmas. Christmas with all of its colorful gaiety has more than just that as its meaning. All of us have or should have learned the real meai- ing of Christmas. There are some folks among us who, though mis- fortune of their own making, do not enjoy to the fullest extend what their more fortunate neighbors en- joy. Some families have lost the bread-winner, and some heads of families are unable to provide pro- per food and shelter for their fam- ilies because of some illness or dis- ability. ‘ ‘3 During the past two Christmas seasons, Arthur Sawyer Post 28 has distributed Christmas baskets to the needy in Key West. This is an expensive proposition, and quite @ sum of money must be raised for the carrying out) of this. pro. ject. For these past two Christ. mas season, the Legionnaires have operated a Santa Claus picture tak- ing booth on downtown Duyal St, Anyone desiring a picture of their child with Santa Claus, can have one for a very nominal fee. The proceeds from this booth are used to filling these baksets. | Because of the vast amount of work in connection with his pro- ject, many Legionnaires are need- ed on this committee. Following are some of the Legionnaires who are serving: Walter Moffat, photo- grapher; Louis Ismay, E. A, Ed- wards, Pete Piodela, Melvin- J. Edwards, Robert Daniels, Charles Leaver, Carl Sawyer, Bethel John- son, Bud Gomia, Lewis Bays Wil- liam Uttermark, Norm Whitesides, Alfred Brost and Norman Kranich. The first meeting of this com- mittee will take place tonight at 8 p. m. Any other Legionnaire desir- ing to work on this all important committee, come out to the Post Home at this time. xk * Bowling: Judson Stephens, captain of the Arthur Sawyer Post American Le- gion bowling team, informed me that the team’s standings in the league is number one. ‘We are in first place,” said Stephens, ‘‘win- ning 18 points and losing 6 points in 19 games.” There is always an opening on come out and help keep us in first place. eck & Membership: Paul Mesa, membership chair- man, stated as of last meeting night that our 1955 membership stands at 280. We are trying for 100 per cent by December 31. As Post Commander, I would like for Arthur Sawyer Post to 3 Flights Daily! MIAMI Convenient Connection to the North and West soccer ae mse teach- an’ all: time’ high-in: mem-|. bership for 1955. s -please help us-reach that goal. Re- member that our entire program of the future, depends on the quan- tity and quality of membership. xk ke * Taps: The Key West: Guard of Honor attended the funeral of Legionnaire Robert. Golden’ on ‘Veterans Day, November 11. Golden transferred to Arthur Sawyer Post in 1954. Post Everlasting Services will be held for Legionnaire Golden at the next regular meeting, November 24. ; x * * Civil Defense: Legionnaire Cliff’ Schumacher, Post Chaplain, was appointed Ci- vil’ Defense Chairman for Arthur Sawyer Post, and will serve as one of the Executive Committee of the local unit. x k * Post Commander Night: Chairman Van Reber of the Past Commander Night program says that plans for that night are near- ing completion. .All Past Com- manders of Arthur Sawyer Post the team. If you bowl, Legionnaire, | ¢. who are in good standing are to be honored on this night. Pictures will be' taken at this time which will be'placed in the Legionnaires Club- room, All Legionnaires are invited to attend on this date, Wednesday night November 24 at 8 p. m., for an ‘evening of entertainment and good refreshments, ko we Club Room: The Legionnaire enjoyed their first snack prepared. by Legionna- ire Raul :Sibila, club. manager, in the Legionnaire’Clubroom at the Post Home on Sunday ‘afternoon November. 14, The .boys and their guests really whooped it up in their Clubroom. Funds for these snakcks are raised by “donations” from the members who break Clubroom rule “{k pool table has been purchased and will be set-up very soon for the use of the members. xx k Yours Fer God and Country Parents Of 5 Are Jailed For Murder EBENSBURG, Pa. —The young parents of. a family of five chil- dren were‘in jail today—the mother charged with murder in the rat poison death of a daughter and the father with assault and bat- tery with intent.to kill in the scald- ing and beating of.a son. Mrs. Eileen Bell, 28, is held with- out, bond pending Grand Jury ac- ‘tion. Also awaiting Grand Jury ac- tion; and unable to post $10,000 bonds, is her husband, William, 26, a Korean War veteran. Both plead- ed innocent. ‘The'five children range from five weeks to 6% years: — Stat Police Pvt.. Matthew O’Bri- Hal Boyle Says | By HAL BOYLE MALMEDY, Belgium (#—Nearly ten years after Adolf Hitler ripped the Allied western wall in the “Battle of the Bulge,” a -German war veteran now sells postcards at the site of the famous Malmedy massacre. The scene is a junction of five Toads about three miles south of here where on Dec. 17, 1944, break- through elements of the first SS. Panzer Division surprised and cap-. tured lightly armed troops of an American field artillery observa- tion battalion. The Americans were disarmed and herded into a pasture a few feet from the road: junction. As they stood ‘there, defenseless, hands overhead in. the accepted posture of- prisoners, the Nazi storm troopers opened fire on them. $ Scores fell. The Hitler elite tank- men, blood -thrilled, - drunk — with Der Fuehrer’s last impossible dream of victory against the West, strolled among the fallen. They kicked the bodies. Any that moved ‘Ven ‘said he-entered the case last |‘ Wedhesday night after a hospital |‘ Most ae Wes ECONOMICAL way te ge- . One Round Cincinnati, ©. _. $25.50 $45.90 Way Trip Detroit, Mich. 31.50 _ 56.70 New York, N. Y. 28.60 51.50 Nashville, Tenn. 21.05 37.90 Memphis, Tenn. 22.35 40.25 New Orleans, La. 20.80 $7.45 Phos 10% th $. tow GREYHOUND BUS STATION $11 Southard Street Ph. 2-5211 ‘reported the couple’s 2-year-old daughter, Ruth- Ann, had died of rat poison. | O’Brien. said 3-year-old Robert Bell was being treated for serious scald wounds on‘ his feet in the same hospital, reportedly suffered the day before ‘his sister died. The officer said Bell admitted holding the /boy’s feet in hoiling water to-chastise him for taking a piece of bread from the table and beating him while he hung from, a door in a duffel bag. Mrs. , Bell .was released after questioning but last night, O’Brien said, she broke down and admit- ted. putting. rat poison on bread, giving it to Robert and telling him to hand it to his little sister be- cause ‘‘she’s- hungry.” O’Brien added -hat Mrs. Bell told him “‘Ruth Ann cried all the time,” was crippled and that nei- ther she nor her husband believed the youngster would live very long. The officer said Mrs. Bell de- clared she acted on her own free will and her husband did not co- operate with her in planning: to poison the child. Two of the couple’s children are under hospital treatment for mal- nutrition. The fifth is in a chil- dren’s home, SECRETARIES HAVE & MULTIPLE DUTIES PHILADELPHIA & — Evelyn Fisher, executive director of the National Secretaries Assn., says today’s secretary must know, among other things, how to wrap the boss’ Christmas gifts. She told a meeting of the Phila- delphia chapter of the association recently that “it’s a simple thing to do, once you've had a little prac- tice. Just remember to have a supply of wrapping material on around.” or showed signs of life th a pistol en 7 Some escaped © b: layi dead. After the Nazi tanks Soe on south, they rose at a concerted whispered ‘signal and ran for the ttees. A single Nazi tank left to guard the crossroads machine ‘) gunned them as they fled. A few moments later the sur- vivors came into the outskirts of this town on an American patrol jeep, a town protected at that in- stant only by two. trees toppled across the road by a few brave stubborn, engineers, Jack Belden, then of Time Maga- zine, and I were the only news- men who happened to be on this particular scene of the spreading, frightening battle of the Belgian Bulge. We got there not through insight, but because we woke up late that morning. 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NAVARRO, Inc. 1955 is long and sinewy and | Panzers in attack, Belden and I jlooked at the map and drove from our headquarters in Spa to the nearest road network we figured the Germans would aim for—and they were there, We got there just as the jeep load of surviving artillerymen came back into our lines. They were half-frozen, dazed, weeping with anger. At the first aid station, one boy shook out of his boot a bullet that had clipped off his toes. “We didn’t have a chance,” he sobbed. “We didn’t have a chance.” They didn’t have a chance, and a revolted world soon knew the story. Weeks later when the Nazi putsch had failed, and the broken Panzer legions were being pushed back into the fatherland, we found at the crossroads still being blasted by enemy artillery fire, the frozen, snow-covered bodies that confirmed the full horror of the storm troopers’ needless cruel- ty. x What is there: left on that spot today? The snows are gone, the men are gone. 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