The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 26, 1954, Page 1

Warmes! City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST 68° For Quick . Communteation, Use CLASSIFIED Ads! You'll reach buyers and sellers— tenants or workers . . . Just DIAL 25661 or 2.5662 Today VOL. LXXV No. 281 Chancellor Raab Of Austria Ar ‘City Of Key West” Will Sail Saturday As Slated Disgruntled ** Crew’ Blamed For Sabotage Reports The “City of Key West” will sail on schedule Satur- ‘day from Key West to Car- denas, Cuba, according to N. C. Hines, executive vice president of the Caribbean Ferry System, Inc. ae The Citizen in Miami ontes aie of the entire erew of the vessel as a result of dissen- sion would not interrupt the sche- ale of the ship which has been rnishing auto ferry service be- Key West and Cuba since Oct. 2. scl e Arrives ‘The ship, now in a Miami, dry- dock for improvements, is due to arrive in Key West tonight and, will'sail for Cardenas at 8:30\a. m., Saturday, Hines said. y said reports published in a Miami newspaper that the ship was in danger of being sabotaged were the result of ‘malicious lies told by # dise) employee.” ‘At the timé, Hines said that Capt, Robert Creighton, a vet- eran of 20 years in the merchant service, has been appointed as mas- ter of the 1,000 ton ship. He re- places Capt. George H. Reid, who was : along with his eight-man crew. A Re For Firing Chief reason for the decision of the company board of directors to fire the crew was the failure of Reid to maintain schedules, result- ing in thotsands of dollars in over- time pay to the crew. Hines said that the company had been “having trouble with the crew” since the ship made its first trip Oct. 2. “Capt, Reid didn’t seem to have very good control over them,” said Hines. Hines also revealed that Joseph H. Church was remoyed from his post as general manager of ferry operatons as a result of the dis- sension. Church, a major stockholder in the firm, will continue as treasurer of the firm and will serve on its board of directors “until we vote to remove him,” Hines added. Church was replaced Wednesday by Alex Balfe, Miami marine in- dustrialist. Reservations Pour In Meanwhile, ferry company offi- cials have reported that reserva- tions for the winter season crogs- ings have been pouring. into their Miami office at a brisk rate from all over the nation. “It looks like we will be operat- ing at capacity starting in Dec- ember,” said Hines. He added that the company presently has options on three larger ships. They are negotiating, in parti- cular for purchase of a 450-foot lux- ury vessel which would accommo- date 175 cars and more than a thousand passengers. The “City of. Key West” would then operate be- tween Cuba and the Isle of Pines The ship is being improved in Miami by the addition of two five bladed propllors and 80-tons of ballast to make it more comfort- able.” Passengers making the trip in recent weeks have reported “smooth crossings.” Earlier, dur- ing the hurricane season, consid- erable difficlty from rough wea- ther had been experienced. BEAUTY CONTESTANT JUST CAN’T APPEAR BROMSGROVE, England, — Mrs. Gladys Bryan, a lovely bru- nette picked as a semifinalist in a beauty contest a month ago, notified the organizers she can’t appear for the final judging to- | Toddler Is Killed In Holiday Tragedy Funeral services for Kathryn Aileen Barnett, 20 months old, who died yesterday beneath the wheels of her father’s car, will be held at 7 p. m. today. The little girl was injured at 1:15 p. m. yesterday, ac- cording to the Navy Shore Patrol, shortly after the fam- ily’s Thanksgiving Day dinner. Whitey Dahl Says He Won At Roulette “Soldier Of Fortune” . Is Accused Of : Theft Of $35,000 | GENEVA, Switzerland +-Har- old: (Whitey) Dahl told a Swiss ¢eriminal court today large win- nings at the Monte Carlo ‘casino financed four days of high living with his girl fr at He. Beet gambling resort in Novem! y . Conk, an“Ameri¢an pilot and soldier’ of fortuie originally from Iinois, .is being tried on charges of stealing gold valued at about $35,000 from a Swissair plane under his eommand during a | Paris-Geneva flight on Oct. 6, 1953. Dahl was arrested two months | later after a Geneva taxi driver testified that Dahl carried “a heavy package” when he drove him from Geneva airport to his | apartment on the day of the theft. Dahl claimed that the package contained two bottles of cognac, which he had smuggled hrough the Swiss customs. On this ad- mission, he was summarily dis- missed by the airline. He was released on bail early this year while awaiting trial. Hostess Released Ella Eppenberger, a former Swissair hostess, was taken into custody with Dahl. Later she was released and no charges were filed against her. She told the court today that she spent four days in Monte Carlo with Dahl in November 1953, and that he won “a large sum” at roulette. Dahl claimed to have won about $10,000 at that time. The Prosecution claimed that jewelry and other gifts he bought for Miss Eppenberger, and luxury hotel suites he occupied with her, were paid for with the proceeds of the missing gold, A Monte Carlo police inspector told the jury of five women and one man that Dahl could not have won such a large sum without being ‘hoticed. Dahl was a volunteer pilot with the Republican forces in the Span- ish Civil War. He was shot down and taken prisoner by the Nation- alists and later released after his wife appealed to Gen. Franco. He thas flown for airlines in many Parts of the world, particularly in Latin America, Navy Recruiter Sets Dates Here Young men interested in joining the U. S. Navy can now discuss enlistment with a U. S. Navy Re- cruiting Service representative in Key West the first and third Thurs- days of each month. The Navy announced today a re- cruiting officer will be at U. S. Sel- ective Service board headquarters The Shore Patrol, said the father, B. M. Barnett, sonar- man first class, started his car near their home, 62 Rest Beach, and that Kathryn was under thé-car. Taken To Hospital The child was rushed to the Na- vy Hospital where she was Pro- nounced dead at 2 p. m. yesterday. A hospital spokesman said the child died of a severe skull frac- ture, Funeral services will be at the Pritchard Funeral Home chapel. Funeral Home chapel. Burial will be at Camden, N. J, the funeral home said, The Navy said Barnett, who is attached to Z2X-11 at Boca Chica Naval Air Station, listed his home address as Louise, Miss. The Barnetts have one other child, a boy born Nov. 5. The child’s death was Monroe County’s 18th traffic fatality this year. 4 Stepfather Slays One Lad, Wounds Second FORT WAYNE, Ind. ® — A father of seven small children was in jail today charged with the fa- tal shooting of his teen-age stepson and seriously wounding the youth’s brother. The shooting occurred at the suburban home of Mr. and Mrs, Everett H. King as their seven children and Mrs. King’s three sons by her first marriage pre- pared to eat their Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. Sheriff Harold Zeis said King, 45-year-old factory worker, admit- ted the shotgun slaying of Gerald Landis, 16, and wounding his broth- er Glen, 17. He was held on a charge of homicide. _ “Made Trouble” Zeis said King told him the step- sons were “trouble makers” and “didn’t treat the other children right.” The Kings’ children range in age from 8 years to 18 months. The Landis boys, with their brother Jack, 15, came to tisit their mother for the holiday from nearby Logansport, where they have been living with an uncle for several months. Zeis said Mrs. King told him the Landis boys had quarreled with ied since their arrival Wednes- ay. The sheriff said Mrs. King lated that after she summoned feos family to dinner, her husband said: “Feed the hogs first and I'll eat the leavings.” She said she told her sons to leave and her husband also ordered them out of the house. When they refused to leave, the sheriff said Mrs. King told him, her husband got-a 12-gauge shot- KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1954 Blood Trail Pictures Seen In Courtroom Chemist Identifies Photos As Made In Sheppard House CLEVELAND (# — Photographs showing a trail of blood spots through the Sheppard house of murder were introduced by the state today. There were 15 pictures. The de- fense objected unsuccessfully to four of them. Henry Dombrowski, a chemist with 12 years experience in the police laboratory, identified’ the Photos from the ‘witness stand. He was a prosecution witness at the first degree murder trial of Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard, the Bay Village osteopath who is accused of the July 4 fatal bludgeoning of his wife Marilyn,.31. Chalk marks and pointing pen- cils were used to call’attention to the blood spots, many of which were quite small. Trail Of Spots The specks — from basement to |4 bedroom and from door to door. inside and out — were detected by a substance called luminol. This is a liquid which Dombrow- ski said produces a bluish green fluorescence if the spot is blood, but does not indicate whether the blood is human or animal. The jurors passed the photo- graphs around from hand to hand, looking them over. Pictures to which defense attor- ney Fred Garmone objected were, he said, either duplicates of other pictures — closeups taken from a different angle — or there. other. things in, the pictures ‘he ‘apparently felt did not belong ‘there. Continuance Asked . At the beginning of the session Judge Edward Blythin excused the jury while defense counsel William J. Corrigan renewed his motion for a continuance of the trial, now ending its sixth week. Corrigan produced two copies of the Cleveland Press of Wednesday and yesterday. He said they con- tained “prejudicial statements” and that the material covered was “striking at the very foundations of jurisprudence.” The stories dealt with reporters’ interviews — one with friends and relatives of the slain Marilyn Shep- pard, the other a feature about a woman juror’s family struggling along without her while she was on duty. The juror, Mrs. Lois Mancini, was not at the home when her family was interviewed and pic. tures were taken, a fact Judge Blythin noted in overruling the motion. The state contends Dr. Sheppard killed his wife after an affair with a pretty nurse, Susan Hayes. Dr. Walsh Is Due Here By Jan. 1 Dr. Francis X, Walsh, new coun- ty health officer, will report here Jan. 1, if not sooner, if was learn- ed today. County Commissioner Joe Allen said he had received a,letter from Dr. Walsh saying he was selling his home in Boston and would buy or build a home here. e Dr. Walsh is director of a medi- cal unit in the Boston Health De- partment. 3 He will fill the top county medi- cal post vacated by Dr. C. W. Mor- rison who resigned to enter private practice. LOCAL LEGIONNAIRES TO ATTEND CONCLAVE ‘The American Legion’s mid-win- ter conference will be held in Day- tona Beach this week. The head- quarters hotel for the conference will be the Princess Issena. Delegates from Arthut Sawyer Post No. 28 will be Levan C. Re- ber, Post Adjutant - Finance Offi- | The Key West Citi THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. fe CHANCELLOR HERE—Julius Raab, chancellor of Austria, is greeted by Mayor C. B. Harvey as he arrives at Ft. Taylor Offi- cers Club at 1:10 p.m. today. A host of city, county and navy officials met Raab and other Austrian dignitaries.—Citizen Staff Photo, Don Pinder. Peiping Radio Says Americans Admitted Espionage Training LONDON (#— Peiping radio said today the 13 Americans sentenced to prison terms as spies were given a public trial “at which they ad- mitted having received specialist training in espionage and guerrilla warfare.” The Red Chinese radig was keep- ing up its drumfire of propaganda in the case of the 11 airmen and two civilians whose séntences by a military court to terms ranging from four years, to’ life was dis- Third Inmate Charged In Pen Slaying LEWISBURG, Pa. @—The FBI today charged a third inmate at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary with the murder of William W, Remington, former government economist convicted of perjury, and in so doing provided the first clue to the motive for the slaying. Norman H. McCabe, special agent in charge of the Philadelphia FBI office, announced that Lew:s Cagle Jr., 17, of Chattanooga, Tenn., has been. charged with the murder of Remington on Monday. McCabe said Cagle admitted in a statement “that he, along with McCoy and Parker, planned to ransack Remington’s room on Nov. 22 and the assault took place while they were in his (Remington’s) room.” Others Charged The other two prisoners referred to-were George Junior McCoy, 34, of Grundy, Va., and Robert Carl Parker, 21, of Washington D.C., who were charged with participa‘ ing in the beating administered to Remington wth a part of a brck wrapped in a sock. Remington, who was serving:a three-year sentence for perjury after denying he gave government secrets to Communists, died of a skull injury in the prison hospital Wednesday. The clue as to the motive for the closed by the/Peiping regime on Tuesday, “ / All were /captured during the Korean Wer. Both the American and British governments have de- nounced the charges as false and a violation-of the Geneva conven: tion on’ prisoners of war. The Uni- ted States is trying to arrange a face-to-face meeting at Geneva with diplomatic representatives to take up the case. Arnold’s “Confession” The Peiping radio said Col. John Knox Arnold Jr, of Silver Spring, Md., commander of a B29 shot down Jan, 12, 1953, over North Korea, confessed in court he was engaged in. intelligence work. He was sentenced to 10 years. “Arnold, Colonel of the U.S. 58ist Air Resupply and Communi. cations Wing, stated in court that his wing had not been committed in the Korean theater and was at- tached to the U.S. secret intelli- gence agency,” the broadcast said. It gave no explanation of the long delay between the capture of the men and their. trial. The trial date was not specified but appar- ently it was only recently held. Sentenced Tuesday Peiping radio said the men were sentenced on Tuesday. The radio gave this question and answer exchange. which allegedly passed between the tribunal’s chief judge—it did not name him—and John Thomas Downey, 34, of New Britain, Conn. Downey, a civilian employe of the U.S. Army, was sentenced to life. The judge asked Downey his profession before his “‘arrest.” “I was in the Central Intelli- gence Agency of the United States,” was the reply. Chief judge: “What training did you undergo?“ warfare, weapons, small unit tac- tics, sabotage, the use of explo- sives, intelligence surveying, radio ~~ rives PRICE FIVE CENTS Here Official Greeting Is Given By City, County And Navy By DENIS SNEIGR AND JIM COBB Withdrawal of occupation troops from Austria should be the number one topic at the next meeting of the Big Four, Austrian Chancellor Julias Raab said here today. The chancellor and his party arrived by automobile at the Fort Taylor Officers Club at-1:10 p.m. for an in- formal reception and cocktail party. Raab added that he igs-————________m_. asking President Eisenhow- er to call a meeting of the Big Four as soon as possible to discuss withdrawal of oc- cupation troops. Asked when such a meet- ing might be held, the port- ly chancellor said: “We must-be patient in politics,” Reporters weren’t the only ones asking questiqns at the reception. Secretary’s Question Hugo Portisch, press secretary to Raab, had a question for Citi- zen Reporter Jim Cobb. “Wher’s a good place to Portische asked Cobb. Cobb ‘named’ several Key West restaurants where the chancellor. might dine. Portische said he would decide later. The chancellor praised Key West enthusiastically and called it “tru- ly a winter wonderland.” He added that in Austria now the temperature was below zero. ‘ Florida Highway Patrol cars es- corted the party on the drive down the Keys that saw a stop at the Saat of The Sea near Islamora- eat?” Cars of the city police and sher- ifs department met the cavalcade oe Pees Chica and joined. the: es- ““S Splashed By Porpoise At the stop at the Theater of The Sea, Raab took a good splash- ing from one of the leaping por- Poises with which he was parti- cularly intrigued. Raab left Miami about 9 a. m. today and planned to-return this afternoon. 9 In Raab’s party, which . drove down the Keys were Dr. Karl Gru- ber, Austrian Ambassador to- the United States; Dr. Josepf Schoen- er, head of the Political division of the Austrian foreign office; Dr. Frank Karasek, ‘Secretary of the Auxtran Legation and private sec- retary to Raab; Otto Furth, Aus- trian consul in Havana and Mrs. Furth; and Hugo Whitehouse, Aus- trian consul for Florida, and Mrs, Whitehouse. é Reception Scene The scene of the reception and cocktail party was Fort Taylor, of- ficers club on the Navy Base here, and only a short distance from the beach where Harry Truman relax- sheriff's deputies not to accom« pany him. “This is an informal visit,” re- marked his press secretary, Hugo Portische. Meanwhile, an Associated Press dispatch from Washington said President Eisenhower ‘and Raab’ have agreed to continue their ef- forts to obtain a treaty Providing for withdrawal of all occupation treops from Austria “at an early, and fixed date.” Russia has blocked such efforts in the past. A communique was issued at State Department today on which Raab held during a” visi that lasted from Sunday through’ Thursday. He conferred with Eie senhower and also with Secrétary of State Dulles. Soldier Billeting The communique reported that plans to release requisitioned housing, held by U.S. occupation troops in Austria, are under cone sideration in the Defense Depart- ment. These plans were reviewed during the Raab visit. American leaders, ‘it was an- announced, expressed great inter- . est in Raab’s “plans and’ hopes’*” for development of Austria's po- tential hydro-electric’ power “for the mutual benefit of Austria and neighboring states.” » Raab and American offic: on another matter, agreed*1 “a, Prompt and just settlement” be sought for-claims m: by American citizens against the Aus- trian government as a result of losses suffered during the Nazi oc- cupation of Austria. ‘ Yoshida Is Set To Call - Jap Election By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO @—Embattled Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida was re- Ported ready today to throw Japan into a general election unless he can either hold office or name his successor as premier, With the nation’s special Diet session only four days away, lines were hardening for an all-out ed on his visits-here as President | Suséle for power among three of the United States, . The club is in a lush tropical setting dotted with palm trees and within view of the Atlantic Ocean, The sun shone brightly-in a sky flecked with small fluffy, fair-wea- ther clouds. Among those at the Fort Taylor cocktail party were Circuit Court Judge Aquilino Lopez, Jr., Mayor C. B. Harvey and Mrs, Harvey, City Commissioner Jack Delaney and Mrs. Delaney, Citizen publish- er Norman Artman and Mfs. Art. man, County Commissioner Harry Harris, County Commissioner Joe Allen, J. J. Trevor, president of the Florida Nationel Bank here; Rear Adm. G. C. Towner and Mrs, Towner, and Capt. C. L. Murphy and Mrs. Murphy. Wants Privacy _ When Raab left the officers club, he asked city police and ‘the factions—two conservative and one made up of Socialists. Beginning the seventh year of an unbroken and unprecedented ad- ministration, Yoshida faees the fight of his political life. For the first fime in his long Tule” his opposition has enough certain votes to topple him with a non-confidence motion in the House. Yoshida, a fighter, was said by the newspaper Asahi, Japan’s big- gest, to be ready ‘with House dis- solution that will hurl Japan's 467 representatives into a bitter and expensive election campaign. Yoshida today said-he would down as president of ‘the Liberal party in favor of Deputy Premier Taketora Ogata. The Liberals are still the country’s biggest party with 185 members, despite the con- | servative bolt. Instituto Docente Patriotico “SAN CARLOS” Convocatoria Diciembre 26, 1954 Se convoca e invita, a los residentes de la co- lonia Cubana y decendiente, del pueblo de Key West, Fla., para que todos con derechos formen aquellos que se crean Para aspirar night. She’s in the hospital awaiting the del birth of her first baby. ROOFING PAPER and FELTS — at Strunk Lumber nia, for the eight - weeks recruit 120 SIMONTON near Western Union iadaiag. steree. in Key West’s U. S. Post Office|gun and a .22-caliber « . those two days to talk to prospec-| Mrs. King said she ran-to tive candidates. The Navy now has an unlimited | but enlistment quota. Young men who|ed home. sign up can leave for training as| husband in the soon as their applications are com-| ened to pleted. New Navy recruits are now| mess of you.” .fbeing sent to San Diego, Califor-| saying: “Tsn’t this a great way to spend a Thanksgiving!” slaying ended speculation that the slaying might have been an act in The acd came less than |! previa elecciones al gobierno Instituto “San Carlos.” Dicha candidatura tendra que ser hasta el dia 11 de Diciembre del 1954. Las elec- eiones se cerebraran el 26 de Diciembre del pre- sente ano de 10, A.M., hasta las 4, P.M. LA DIRECTIVA. cer; Robert M. Deer, mice Historian, 40 - 8; and Vance C. Stirrup, past Commander. REARMING OK OSLO, Norway #—The Norweg- ian Parliament last night approved. German rearmament and member- ship in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. nine Chinese sentenced