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

Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST 72° For Quick Communication,” Use CLASSIFIED Ads! You'll reach buyers and sellers— tenants or workers . . . Just DIAL 2.5661 or 2-5662 Today VOL. LXXV No. 278 Red China Co City To Entertain Austrian Chancellor Ike's Visitor Will Be Guest Here Friday ° Key West, long a vaca- tion spot for American presi- dénts, will play host Friday to the ranking executive of another country — Austria. ‘This time, the red carpet ‘will be rolled out and a typi- cal Conch welcome extend- ed to Chancellor Julius Raab, of Austria’ when he arrives by automobile via the Overseas Highway. The city, the Navy and top-rank- ing county and state offickals wil join in p‘aying host to Raab, who holds a post valent to that of He is visiting the United States as the guest of President Eisen- hower and is fulfilling a life-long desire to visit Florida before re-| to his home. Mayor C. B. Harvey will head the official welcoming com- for Chancellor Raab, whose mobile will be met at Boca 1a by city police and sheriff’s artment cars at 11:30 a. m. t official event on the sche-; is a luncheon being sponsor- by the city and the Navy at ft ‘Taylor Officer's Club.’ : Rep. Bernie €.-Papy. and Sen.-elect William R. Neblett will be’ guests at that affair. Rear Ad- miral George C, Towner will also attend, Tour of City Then, Chancellor Raab will be escorted on tours of the city and the Navy base. A party of ten will accompany the Austrian’ official on his Key West visit, along with American state department officials. Austrian officials include: Dr. Karl Gruber, Ambassador to. the United States from Austria; Dr. Josepf Schoener, head of the poli- tical division of the Austrian for- eign office; Dr, Frank Karasek, secretary of the Austrian legation and private secretary to Chancel- lor Raab; Consul ahd Mrs. Otto Furth, Austrian consul in Havana and Consul and Mrs. Hugo White: house, Austrian Consul for Florida, Police Search For Purse Thief Police are searching today for a thief who stole a purse from a lo- eal woman while she was swim- ming at the Casa Marina beach. Ann Celluci, 28, of 227 Duval St. told police that the purse contain- ed $90 in cash, her car keys, a brown alligator wallet and a pla- tinum wristwatch inscribed ‘Nick to, Ann, Dec, 14, 1952.” She added that she saw two small Dboys in the area while she was swimming, Patrolman Steve Atkins made the investigation. POST FOR MORALES Edelmiro Morales, 901 White St. has been. named as the county’s member of the Everglades Fire Control Board by Acting Gov, Charlie. Johns. Morales owns the Sunny Isle Luncheonette, YOUR ~ Thanksgiving. Dinner “at RAUL'S Moderately Priced WATCH FOR OUR AD IN TOMORROW'S PAPER Two-Day Holiday: The public schools and the School administrative offices will be closed Thursday and Friday in observance of Thanksgiving Day, it was an- Mounced today. Malik Sent. To Replace Vishinsky N. Y. Headquarters 3 NEW YORK (#—The body of the Old Communist, Andrei Vishjpsky, encased ‘in a coffin fit for a mil- lionaire, goes back to Moscow tonight. Meantime Jacob Malik will be crossing the Atlantic :n the opposite direction to take up temporarily the- duties of repre- senting the Soviet Union at the United Nations. After Vishinsky died yesterday a spokesman for the Russian delegation ‘announced the body would lie in state today so the public could view it at the dele- gation’s Park Avenue headquar- ters. But today police announced the public had been barred, and only members of other U.N. dele- such would be permitted to enter the building. The tarttongued deputy foreign minister of the Soviet Union died yesterday of a heart attack, He was 70, Funeral Planned / Moscow. radio announced early today that the Soviet government and Communist party had ap- pointed a commission to take charge of the funeral. Among its members are Deputy Premier M. 0. Pervukhin «ind Andrei Gro- yko, another deputy foreign ,min- ister who once held Vishinsky’s job as chief Soviet delegate to the UN. The Soviet Embassy in London announced that Malik, russian am- bassador to Britain, will take over temporarily as head of the Soviet U.N. delegation. Malik, who has previously served at the inter- national organization headquarters leaves London by plane tonight. Speculation as to Vishinsky’s permanent successor centered on Gromyko, Malik, Georgi Zarubin, | Soviet ambassador to the United States, and Arkady Sobolev, No. 2 man in the Russian delegation. Debate Suspended e Vishinsky died while preparing a statement to the U.N. outlining Russia’s position on President Eisenhower's plan for a peaceful international atomic energy pool. The debate was immediately sus- pended until today. Representatives of 59 of the 60 nations represented in the U.N. paid tribute to their dead col- league’s skill at a special meeting yesterday, even though many of them had bitterly opposed the ideas for which he fought. Nation- alist China, whose U.N. seat the Soviets had long sought for the Chinese Communists, was the only U.N, member not represented. There was no comment from the White House, but Secretary of |State Dulles offered his condolen- | ces to Vishinsky’s family and said the Soviet delegate was “an able {and yigorous advocate of his country’s policies.” | Neo Policy Change Washington officials said Vishin- | Sky's death would not mean any }change in relations between the | United States and the Soviet Union. They cited the general conviction | that Soviet policy is determined :n | the Kremlin and not by its mouth- | piece at the U.N. Long a sufferer from heart | trouble, Vishinsky collapsed yes- |terday morning and was treated {by his Russian personal physician, | identified only as a Dr. Kosoff. |The fact that Kosoff had no New |York state medical license and foe not sign a legal death certifi- (Continued On Page Eight) gatiohs, government officials and | The Key THE. at 8:15 p. m. yesterday. The scene of the picture was a stretch of sandy bot- | tom in 40 feet of wat- ler about 2,000 yards south | southwest of Sand Key Light. Lt. R. J. Fay, officer in tactical charge of the operation and the officer conducting the exercise, said it would be Monday or Tues- day before the films would be pro- cessed in New York City. Third Try | It was the Navy’s third attempt |at photographing if color a sub- merged sub at night. The other two tries, at Norfolk and New London failed, because of poor underwater visibility. The underwater visibility for last night’s photo was good. Almost the entire length of the T-2 — a 131- foot long sub — was visible. The sea was glassy smooth with only a slight ground swell. | Before sundown, the six craft taking part in the operation were in position. Besides the submarine, three boats and a mobile barge from the Navy's Underwater School, and a submarine rescue PICTURE FRAME . MOULDING — at Strunk Lumber 120 SIMONTON, near Aquarium oe reer ten SURE ERENE EEE Swimmers’ | SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER i ees tee The sub, the T-2 of Submarine Squadron 12, sat on | the bottom in 40 feet of water while it was ringed with 75 flash bulbs, When the bulbs were flashed simultan- eously, four cameras made four color shots. vessel, the USS Penguin, took part in the operation. Other Boats Aid The three boats and the barge from the Underwater Swimmers’ School carried men and instructors |of the school to the scene as well as the equipment. Long strings of reflectors and flash bubbs were laid out on.the deck of the barge. One of the swim school boats also carried bulbs and reflectors. Cdr. James M. Hingson, Com- |mander Submarine Division 122, |wWas aboard the. T-2 when it sub- merged at 4:53 p, m. A short time later Capt. Willard S. Laughon, commanding officer of Submarine Refit* Training Group, | Key West, was transfered from the |USS Amberjack to the Penguin. |Capt. Laughon had been aboard jthe Amberjack, a fleet Guppy sub, for exercises at sea yesterday. } Cameras Readied With the T-2 bottomed, the un- |derwater swimmers set up the |flash bulbs and eameras. |. Eight instructors of the Under- | water. Swimmers’. School posed with the submerged submarine for the photos. < The instructors simulated the ac- tivities of an underwater combat team. One man was seen emerg- ing from the torpedo tube while others unloaded gear from the deck of the sub. With the men, flash bulbs and it MOBILE BARGE—Equipment used in last night's operation to photograph a submerged sub -wa! carried to the scene off Sand Key in this mobile barge. In background is the T-2 submarine and two boats of the Underwaters Swimmers’ School.—Official U.S: Navy Photo. UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHERS—Some of the personnel who participated in last night's color photo of a submarine underwater are shown, aboard one of the Underwater Swimmers’ School boats. At right is Peter Stackpole, Life Magazine photographer.—Official U.S. Navy Photo. Color Photos Are Made Of Submerged Sub Last Night By DENIS SNEIGR 1 A submerged submarine was photographed in color cameras in position, the bulbs were set off to make the exposure, Preliminary Work Last August and September, Ledr. Charles A, Hooper, officer in charge of the Navy’s Underwater Photo Team, was here to super- wise the preliminary work, His photo team made seyeral dry runs to determine where the cam- eras and lights should be position- ed. By mid September, squalls and storms had stirred up the ocean in this area, making it too murky for successful underwater photo- graphy, The operation was temporarily suspended and Ledr. Hooper was recalled to Washington, where he is stationed. The Sylvania Electric Corp, pro- vided the flash bulbs for the pho- tos. Stripper’s Trial Postponed Mon. Trial of two women jailed in con- nection with the staging of a strip- tease act which Police Chief Bien- venido Perez termed “filthy and in- decent” was postponed Monday in city court until Wednesday. The women, Lorraine Fontaine, of the Surf Motel, and Genevieve Allard, 1224 4th St., asked for the Postponement to allow them time to obtain legal counsel. Mrs. Al- lard said that her attorney, Tom Watkins, was out of town. Miss Fontaine is charged with dancing in the show and Mrs, Al- lard of the Preview where the show took place, is charged with atlowing the performance. They were arrested Saturday in a | Zaid conducted personally: by Chie 'erez. Both are free on $250 bond, , | beached IN THE: US Citf’s Oldest Boat, Beached 1902, Owner Says By JIM COBB colorful era in the his- tery of Key West has come o an end. The occasion was the beaching and abandonment of the “Ella Collins,” the last of the island’s once-busy sponging fleet which at one time nymbered over 100 ves- sels, The tim, 26-foot boat, » which had been in continuous service for well over, 50 years was finally by Nel: Spemcer, 306 Peacon Lane, dean of the city’s fast-van- ishing group of sponge fishermen. ‘ Sad Scene The passing of the “Ella Col- lins” has generated an air of sad- ness and depression among the habitues of “the beach” as the Caroline St. waterfront has come to be known. They say it won't seem the same without the “Eila Collins” riding at anchor in the Key West harbor. The boat had been a familiar sight to Key West-| ers who make their living from the sea. Probably the\hardest hit by the Passing of the\“Ella Collins’ is Spencer. , : “I 'thought a lot of that boaty| She was theQueen ‘of the’ fleet “Vandalism ‘The decision to beach the craft came while Spencer was in a Mi- ami hospital for surgery. Boat developed a leak and vandals went aboard and stole most of her gear. “It would cost too much to get her back in shape,” Spencer com- mented. “Besides, I’m getting a little old for sponging.” The boat was run aground on a sand-spit in the Northwest Channel, just a couple of hundred yards from the docks where tons of sponges have been unloaded from - her decks over the years. , Bought in 1902 Spencer harkened back yester- day to the day in March, 1902, when he bought the “Ella Collins)’ for $400 from its builder, William Henry Sands of Big Pine Key, The vessel had been named for the wife of a clerk in the Key West baak at that time. Sands, one of the best-known shipwrights in the keys, had built the boat of native dogwood and yellow pine. “It was a dandy boat, not big but plenty comfortable and relia- ble,” says Spencer, who was born in the Bahamas and came to Key West an an early age. The “Ella Collins” was a sail- boat when it was built and Spen- cer ranged up and down the Flo- rida coast from St. Mark’s light to Biscayne Bay in search of sponge until 18 years ago when he install- ed a motor. Annual Trips He made annual trips, sometimes lasting up to. two months, up until years ago when he stepped down as captain and hired a crew to man the vessel. He’s had his share of trouble with the weather — the big blows in 1909, 1910 and 1919 caused severe damage to the “Ella Collins.” But it was a good life, accord- ing Spencer. He raised 11 children from sponging. One of them, Wil- liam Spencer, is carrying on the family tradition by operating the last of the city’s sponge warehous- es on Caroline St. Spencer recalls the influx of Greek fishermen from Tarpon (Continued on Page Eight) i | = LONDON 2A P) the condemnatig cluded 13 American Red Def en PRICE FIVE CENTS may announced today Cfay/spies,” including a Force, to death or aid the defendants in- : The broadcast said the defendants were involved. in two espionage cases “jeopardizing the security of ~]]—SSS—_———_——— P.O. To Close Thanksgiving Acting Postmaster Clyde P, Stickney said ‘oday that all windows at the post office will be closed Thursday, Thanks- giving Day, and there will be no carrier delivery. Collections will be made from the street letter boxes as usual. nd abandoned last week |’ Priest Locked | Up In Murder Of 11-Yr.-Old By ALLAN MERRITT LEBANON, - Mo. (®—Thurman | Priest, avowedly as baffled as everyone else over the reason, was locked up today with months ahead of him to figure out why he killed the niece he says he worshipped. The strange little man with a convincing way of talking was transferred to the Webster.County Jail on the third floor of the court- house in nearby Marshfield. last night. There he will await trial next year in Circuit Court at Lebanon on a charge of first-degree murder in the pistol killing of 11-year-old Jeannette Earnest last Wednesday. The 48-year-old Grand Prairie, Tex., auditor led searchers Sunday night to the body of the child he abducted last Tuesday near her home in Fort Worth, Tex. Again he insisted that his love for the child, who could pass for much older than her years, was similar to that of a father for a daughter. There was no sex factor, he said. Eager To Talk He seemed eager to talk to news- men after his arraignment yester- day at Lebanaon. With his brow creased in evident puzzlement, he said: “I loved her better than any- thing, anybody, I don’t know what they call loving something so much that you kill it. Just blame it on being crazy, I guess.” . He said he had been drinking heavily for days and was in a mental fog that developed into al- most a total blackout when he led Jeannette to the heavily wooded spot where searchers were to stumble upon her bruised body four days later. Prosecutor Edgar Mayfield re- ported the FBI agents questioned Priest yesterday but got little if any new information from Priest. In Kansas City. U.S. Dist. Atty. Edward L. Scheufler said the in- vestigation would determine wheth- | er the man would be prosecuted under the federal Lindbergh kid- naping law. New Columbine WASHINGTON (#—Using a bot- tle of Colorado water, Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower will christen the President's new, faster and bigger private plane, the Columbine III, tomorrow. Thew new Columbine’s first job will, be to ferry the Eisenhowers and their guest, British Field Mar- shal Viscount Bernard Montgom- ery of Alamein, toa Thanksgiving holiday a Augusta, Ga. Takeoff is scheduled for soon after the-chris- tening. FOR SALE TO BE MOVED: SEVERAL OLD KEY WEST HOUSES 1% Story—Easy to Remodel PHONE 2-2022 China.” It said one group’ was led by Col, John Knox Arnold, Jr., of Washington who was captured by the Chinese af- ter his B29 was reported shot down in North Korea January 13, 1953. Arnold was presumably the colonel referred to in the report. Major Described Under him, the broadcast said, was Maj. William H. Baumer, 32, of Lewisburg, Pa., described as the opera- tions officer of the 91st Stra- tegic Reconnaissance Squad- ron of the U. S. Far East Air Force. He was aboard the downed bomber. They were sentenced by the military tribunal of the Supreme People’s Court, the Peiping radio said. Others Listed The other group, Peiping said included John Thomas Downey aliasJack Donovan, 24, of Connecticut and Rich- ard George Fecteau, 27, of Massachusetts. It described both as “special agents of the Central Intelligence Ag- ency.” Details of the sentences and the location of the court were not given in the broad- cast, which was monitored in London, Kidnap Motive Sought In L.A. LOS ANGELES #—Police’ said that an attractive’ young widow was returned to her home a few hours after being abducted early today. : Apparently she was all right. Officers were questioning her in an attempt to learn the motive for the reported kidnaping by what her escort described as two rough- ly dressed. men, The abduction, police said, took place in ‘the hilly Palos Verdes area, a wealthy residential area, Virgil Robertson, 33, of Redondo Beach, told police that he and Mrs. Marilyn Hitchcock, 27, of Lomita, were driving in the hills when a red and black car pulled up in front of them, blocking the narrow, winding road. Robertson gave this account: One of the men said he was an officer, then tried to pull Robert son from the car. A fight ensued. The intruder’s companion joined in and Robertson was badly beat- en. One of. the attackers ripped loose the ignition wires of Robert- son’s car and both men seized the terrified Mrs. Hitchcock. They dragged her to their car, despite her screams, and drove away. SUPPORT ASKED MIAMI @—Mrs. John Jacob As- tor UI yesterday asked Circuit Court to award her support money from her socially prominent hus- | band. DRIVE OUT TO CORAL ISLE Trailer Park Patio STOCK ISLAND For Your Home-Cooked THANKSGIVING DINNER, $1.75 Includes Everything from Cocktail to Home-Mede Pie and Coffee 1 to 9 P.M., Thursday