The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 3, 1954, Page 1

tenants or workers . . . Just DIAL 2-5661 or 2-5662 Today are busily at THE work ‘at their annual Chrisimas Shown today, from the left: Joseph Farto, Torres, and Frank Curry. Standing is Danny Goodrich— Wctary Hears Of Puerto Rican Progress In Address Thursday Trio Reports uéation and in its economy according to reports given yesterday by local delegates to ,the . Rotary Caribbean Concentration held in San Juan recently. Claude Spear, Aquilino Lopez, Jr. and Paul Sher spoke, on the conclave at the local club’s lunch- eon meeting at the La Concha Ho- iy. - They, ‘about the fine univer- sity een Rico with 11,000 stu- dents jin. vA and — the publi¢ schools they visited during. their yin San Juan. ee Puerto Rico all public school students wear uniforms and the clothing is provided for need chil- be ive slum clear- xtensive r fe ee Denti financed by the Uni- ted States severest ages bot ts have nm ps Bh and other diseases Puerto , they reported, are et thelr, ‘American demo- y” and grateful for the help have received from the Unit- es, but not particularly anx- for . three local Rotarians stress- the Concentration was one ‘the best organized that they had attended and that every ef- f made to make the visi- at home. said that their convention es were an “open sesame” all over the island and that the host clubs went all out to entertain them. Other highlights of the concen- tration included dining in the homes of members of the San Juan Ro- tary Club, and an official party given at the San Juan city hall (Coritinued on Page Two) felltitiety Stations Here Post Office Sigshee Park, Stock Island To Be Served For the purpose of render- ing improved service to the public the local post office will provide additional facil- ities during this Christmas season. Acting Postmaster Clyde P. Stickney is establishing stamp and parcel post units at Stock Island and Sigsbee Park to make it more con- venient for residents of those areas to do their Christmas mailing. The following is a list of the sta- tions which will be operating begin- ning December 6 and continuing during the Christmas period. 1, Christmas Stamp and Parcel Post Unit located at Cliff's Marine Supply on Stock Island. Hours — }1 p. m. to 5:30 p. m., Monday thru Saturday, ps will be sold and parcel post be accepted. 2. Christmas Stamp and Parcel Post Unit: located in the Sigsbee Launderette building at 16 Sigsbee Road in Sigsbee Park. Hours — 9 a. m. to 12 noon and 1 p. m. to 5 p. m, Monday thru Saturday. Stamps will be sold and parcel post accepted. 3. Poinciana Contract Station lo- cated in the Poinciana Television and Radio building at 3422 Duck Avenue in Poinciana. Hours — 8 a. m. to 11:30 a. m. and 12:30 p. m. to 4:30 p. m., Monday thru Friday, On Saturday from 8 a. m. to .12 noon. Stamps, parcel post, money order ang registry services are available. 4, Naval Station located within the U. §. Naval Station. Hours 8:30 a. m. to 4:30 p. m., Monday thru Friday. On Saturday, 8:30 a. m. to 12 noon. Stamps, parcel post, money order and registry ser- vices will be rendered. 5, Unit 2 located at the Naval Air Station at Boca Chica. Hours — 9 a. m. to 4:30 p. m., Monday ‘jthru Friday. Saturday service, 9 > ja. m. to 12 noop. Stamps, parcel | post, money order and registry ser- Vices will be available. 6. Unit 3 located at the Naval Hours — 9 a. m. to 12 noon, Monday thru Friday. Stamps, Parcel post, money order and re- gistry services. At the main office on Simonton Saunders Sets S-D Day Dee. 15, Godald’Saunders, . chateyhan of the board of county com- missioners, today designated Dec. 15 as S-D Day — Safe Driving Day. He took this action in coop- eration with the national $-D Day Program which was pro- claimed last- month by Presi- dent Eisenhower. The plan, Saunders added, is to have no accidents during the «24-hour period Dec. 15. He called on all civic groups and the people of Monroe Coun- ty to drive extremely carefully that day so the county ean re- me 2 100 per cent no-accident jay.. SS ee Pair Clash Near Judge’s Office Criminal Court Judge Tho- mas S, Caro won't have to go far to view the scene of this crime. All he has to do is look out of his office window to see the spot where two sailors were fighting last night alongside the county court house. Deputy sheriff's jailed the sailors. They are Walter M. . Kreyssig, 20, charged with drunkenness and assault and battery, and Richard Martin, 17, charged with assault. and battery. Street there will be in addition to the regular window services a Christmas booth which will be lo- cated in the lobby. An employee will be.on duty at the booth from 9 a. m. to 12 noon and from 1 p. m. to 5 p. m., Monday thru Fri- day, and from 9 a. m. to 12 noon on Saturday.. This employee will furnish information to the public and sell stamps and stamped enve- lopes. Mail chutes for the deposit of lo- cal and out of town. letter mail will be located on the front of the booth. “Local and Out of Town labels to be ised on separated bun- dies of Christmas cards will be kept on hand here to be supplied upon request. Patrons wishing to purchase stamps only will find this a convenient place to get their stamps without the good of wait- ing in a el ¥ te is Boned taal cons additional facilities will help to make. the mailing of Christmas greetings and packages more enjoyable this year for the residents of this city. SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER Key West CAA Tower Hears Wierd Stories By DENIS SNEIGR A flying saucer from out- er space landed at Caracas, Venezuela, last night, injur- ed a number of persons, and took off again. ~ That information was re- ceived by The Citizen to- day. The Associated Press was attempting to get the story from Caracas but up to The Citizen’s press time no word had been received. A story of what may be a flying saucer’s first confirmed contact with the earth reached Key West shortly after sunrise today. CAA Reports ‘ The Interstate Communications Station of the Civil Aeronautics Au- thority. at Boca Chica Naval Air Station overheard two pilots talk- ing by radio about the flying sau- cer landing at Caracas. H. V. Blackman, airways specia- list at the communications station, told The Citizen that the two pilots talked’ back and forth in Spanish about the saucer landing. Then one of the pilots called the communications station by radio and reported to the station in Eng- lish that a flying saucer had land- ed at Caracas, FP Bem ) said one of ‘the* pilots a Caba i vicger The other pilot, Blackman said, was aboard flight 503 of Transpor- tes. Aereas Nacionalis. The pilot of flight TAN $03, ac- cording to Blackman, told the other pilot about the saucer. The TAN 503 pilot, Blackman added, said the flying saucer land- ed at Caracas, that a number of people were injured, and that the saucer then took off again, Many Injured Blackman‘ said it wasn’t quite clear whether the injured were hurt in the landing of the saucer or whe- ther they were wounded in a skir- mish with the riders of the saucer. No estimate of the number of injured were given. The pilot did not say whether the flying saucer landed in the city of Caracas pro- per or on the outskirts. However, Blackman did say that the TAN 503 pilot said motion pic- tures and still photos &ad been made of the scene. “The TAN 503° pilot, Blackman ent on, said that the pictures would be shown on TV today. Blackman added that it was his understanding that the films would be televised over a Havana sta- tion. The Associated Press office in Miami told The Citizen that every effort was being made to get word from Caracas. Blackman’s story was relayed by The Citizen to the Associated Press in Miami. From there the story was wired to the AP office in New York City where it was moved through the foreign desk to Cara- cas. At The Citizen's deadline today no word had been received from Caracas. DRAFT BOARD WON’T SEND OUT ‘GREETINGS’ DALLAS, Tex. (#—Dallas County selective service officials have an- nounced that no “greetings from the President” would be sent out from Dec. 21 through New Year’s Day. LICENSED - ‘INSURED ANGELO LETO PAINTING CO. Installment Plan. HOUSE PAINTING NO JOB TOO LARGE —OR TOO SMALL Convenient Monthly Terms Call 2-8854 IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1954 ey West-Havana-Tampa Pope Pius Shows Some Improvement VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican ¢alled the Pope’s condition satisfactory today, but renewed anxiety for his life was emphasized in reports on the severity and range of his ailments. Roman Catholics throughout the world were joined in prayers for recovery of Pope Pius XII. His closest associate, Msgr. Giovanni Batista Montini, went to his bed- side in the Vatican Palace. The Vatican disclosed officially that the 78-year-old pontiff had re- ceived treatment for ‘peritoneal irritation attended by abdominal tension.” This condition is an irri- tation of the lining to the abdomi- nal cavity. It reflected the Pope’s long struggle against a gastric dis- order accompanied by spells of vhiecuping and nausea. The bulletin of the Pope’s phy- sician, Dr. Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi, said X-ray and clinical examina- tion made yesterday showed noth- ing alarming. Vatican sources said privately that an ulcer was a complicating factor. There. were conflicting reports about the condition of the Pope’s heart, but it was emphasized that he came through the night “rela- tively tranquilly.” Early last night, soon after the Pope took a turn for the worse, a Vatican press an said the pontiff had. a heart collapse. Later the Vatican omitted references to the heart. However, unconfirmed reports were heard that he had suffered a lighter, second heart attack during the night. After issuance of the physician’s bulletin at noon the Vatican press office said a further bulletin could not be expected for several hours. Clemente Cardinal Micara, the Pope’s vicar’ general for the city of Rome, called on the more than 400 million Catholics everywhere to pray for the pontiff’s recovery. Special prayers were said in all Rome churches, The Pope has been unable to take food by mouth for several days, His physician yesterday de- scribed him as conscious and com- pletely lucid. But apparently he was unconscious for a time after his collapse. One .Rome newspaper reported the Pope had requested extreme unction—the sacrament given Cath- olics on danger of death — but a Vatian spokesman denied it. Newspapers throughout the world reflected their readers’ concern by giving front page space to reports on the pontiff’s condition. Democratic Nat'l Committee Sets Free-For-All Battle Movie Co. Will Film Subs Here Twentieth Century-Fox will begin filming submarine opera-. tions here Monday, the Navy announced today. The film will be a 10 - min- ute documentary in Technico- lor and Cinemascope. The New London, Conn., phase ef the film has been completed. Anthony Muto, film company representatives, a crew of four and_a ‘Navy technical adviser © will be here for the filming. One day of shooting will be at dockside. The other two days will be spent at sea. Sen. Neblett Endorses JC Headquarters Favors Miami Beach Site For Building State Senator William R. Neblett today endorsed a proposal to establish an in- ternational headquarters for the Junior Chamber of Com- merce in Miami Beach, but remained non-committal on the question of whether or not he approves of the possi- bility of Acting Gov. Char- ley E. Johns calling a spec- ial session of the state legis- lature. - Md Sen. Neblett reported the receipt of a query from the state cabinet asking for his opinion on the ques- tin of granting the Jaycees’ request for a $25,000 appropriation for the Miami Beach headquarters. The cabinet approved of tne pzoposal but is polling members of the leg- islature before granting ine money. California and New York are in ¢ ‘on Page Two) | “By JACK BELL NEW ORLEANS, (®—Democrat- ic National Committee members turned up in record numbers to- day for a free-for-all battle over the choice of a successor to Chair- man Stephen A. Mitchell. As party members huddled in caucuses reminiscent of a presi- dentia: nominating convention, the unsettled question of how many votes. are needed to elect a new chairman arose to plague them, With 71 of the 105 committee members having indicated their in- tention to attend, Mitchell said that Rep, Clarence Cannon f Missouri, parliamentarian, would be asked to -rule on the issue. of whether a majority vote, or only a plurality, is needed to elect. The issue was somewhat similar to the old two-thirds rule which the Democrats abolished in 1936— whether a majority of those voting can name the new chairman or whether the successfu: candidate must receive, in the present case, 55 votes. The committee has 108 member- ships, but there are individual va- cancies from Texas, West Virginia and Puerto Rico, A vacancy from Nevada was scheduled to be filled later in the day. The numbers controversy took en deep significance because of the apparently tight race being run for the chairmanship by three candi- dates—Committeeman Paul Butler of Indiana, James Finnegan, for- mer president of the Philadelphia City Council, and Michael V. Di- Salle of Ohio, former price admin- istrator. Not since 1912 has the committee had a wide-open contest for the chairmanship and its rules are slightly rusty. Butler is regarded as the choice of Mitchell, who told a news con- ference yesterday that if some suc- cessor isn’t picked, the committee wili have to go without a chairman after Jan. 1, He said he is de- termined to retire private law practice, which he left to head the committee in 1952 at the re- quest of Adlai E. Stevenson, then varty’s presidential nominee. un Starts PRICE FIVE CENTS In January P. & O. Announces They'll Haul Passengers, Freight _ By JIM COBB The P. & O. Steamship Co. will resume their Key West-Havana-Tampa run early in January, it was nounced today by K. A. Osborne, firm. an- genera] manager of the The announcement came as the first official eon- firmation of rumors which have been flooding the city BULLETIN BODY RECOVERED Charlotte G o rd on Coleman, 31-year-old Miami bookkeeper, drowned early today when her car plunged into the water off the norjh end of Big Pine Key bridge, the Florida Highway Pa- trol reported. Cpl. S. R. Walker, of the high- way patrol, said the womans watch was stopped at 3:40 a.m. The car, completely submerg- ed, was Spotted this morning by Mable Knowles, 421 Simon- ton Street, who reported it to the sheriff's department. The woman's death was Mon- roe County’s twentieth traffic fatality this year. Dr. Sam Cried When Accused, Brother Says .CLEVELAND , (®—Dr.. Samuel Sheppard’s defense began taking shape rapidly today, emphasized by testimony that he broke into tears when a detective first ac- | cusedhim of murdering his wife. The incident was related by his brother, Dr. Stephen Sheppard, first witness for the defense, He quoted the- accused man as saying incredulously, ‘Those licemen think I killed Marilyn.” This was the first time the de- tectives interviewed Dr. Sam , and the witness went on to say of his brother— “He wes crying. He was ex- tremely agitated and upset. The change in him was tremendous.” The three Sheppard brothers, all osteopaths, refer to each other as “Dr. Sam,” “Dr. Steve” -nd “Dr. Richard.” It was ‘Dr. Steve” who took the accused man to. the hospital operated by the family on the morning of last July 4, when Marilyn Sheppard was bat- tered to death as she lay in bed. ‘Dr, Sam,” his brother said, had been injured. Sheppard’s story is that he was knocked out in a fight with a powerful assailant, pre- sumably the murderer of his wife. The state charges “Dr. Sam” killed his wife for motives arising from his affairs with other women. “Dr. Steve” said he rushed his brother to the hospital, early July 4, examined him, ordered X-rays made of his neck, and adminis- tered sedatives. Later, he said, detectives ar- rived from Cleveland, along with the chief of police of Bay Village, where the family lives. He said he permitted them to question his brother—and himself left the room, when the officers requested it. But when he came back into the room, “Dr. Steve” said, his brother was in tears. The “tre- mendous change” had taken place he testified. The witness said his brother told him a detective, *ean- ing over the bed, and pointing his finger, had made the statement: “I don’t know what my partner thinks. I don’t know what the chief, here, thinks. But I think you killed Marilyn,” Through his testimony, the de- fense began developing the first of its main points: 1, That “Dr. Sam’s” injuries were genuine, and severe. 2. That the. police and coroner | jeading from U. S. 1 to the dog carried out a sketchy, hit-or-miss investigation of the house where Mrs, Sheppard was killed. 3. That the dottor sent by the coroner to-make an independent | examination of “Dr. Sam” did not ‘ook at the hospital chart, nor ac- cept an offer to look at the X-ray Pictures of “Dr. Sam’s” neck. UNDERWATER CLASS GRADUATED BY NAVY The first graduating class of the Navy’s Underwater Swimmers’ Sehool received diplomas Wednes- . Truman, whose supportiday, the Navy announced today. backers.There were 12 men in the class. for several weeks. Three weeks ago, The Citizen re- ported that P. & O, officials. . were considering the? re- | sumption of the tri-city%ser- ;? vice. The shipping firm, at ‘ that time, confirmed ‘the |; fact that they were inter ; ested, hut were -non-com- mittal about details of the proposed operation. — Both freight and passenger traf- . fic will be included in their ser- vice, Osborne said. He ‘added that | negotiations have been completed for purchase of a ship, the SS’ De- nali, now in Seattle. ene 450 foot ship can accomo- -ate 200 passengers, Osborne said, The vessel is capable ‘of carrying » 1600 tons of freight, ‘including auto- mobiles. Two Trips Weekly Tentative plans call for the ship to make twice weekly stops in Key West. No rate schedules have been released by the company. + The ship will leave Seattle within the next two days, bound for Key West, via the Panama Canal, ac- cording to P and 0 officials. When | service, is started, i ; directly to Havana mee? An bg Service. Ended The P ‘and O company ¢ the tri-city service outed hay wast for several ‘years prior to World War Il, They ended service when the 1935 hurricane washed out the Po-| keys extension of the Florida East Coast Railroad, and the govern. ment began to requisition ships for war service, The company operated SS Florida me alae pet, ony 4 Key West. That ship is now im: vice bteween Miami and several Sarge Ports. egotiations are expected : start shortly between the shipping firm and the city for use of the city-owned Clyde-Mallory docks, The docks are badly in need of re- | { Pi Guard Of Honor ° © e.6 Gives Activities The- activides for the Key West Guard of Honor for this week-end | were released today by Captain U. J. Delgado as follows: Tonight the Honor Guard will participate in the flag - raising ceremonies at the Lions Football Classic at the High = School Stadium, and on the Honor Guard will leave from the American Legion Home on Stock Island at 10 a. m. for Moacathon where the Guard will participate in colorful flag presentation cere- monies at 12 noon. At 3p. m. the Honor Guard will participate in the annual Memorial Services at Indian Key Fill. The firing squad will give the volleys followed by taps. Captain Delgado also stated that the regular meeting f the Honor Guard will be held on Monday evee ning at 8 o’clock at the American Legion Home. Nominations of offi- cers will be received during this meeting, as well as other impor-{ tant matters will be transacted. STOCK ISLAND STREET CONTRACT IS AWARDED Contracts to pave the streets track and to the drive-in theater on Stock Island were awarded at a special meeting of the county com- missioners yesterday at 4 p. m., Charlie Toppino and Sons were the only bidder. The price for pav- ing and raising the streets is $28,- 376.10. Outrigger Poles For Charter Boats At Strunk Lumber 120 SIMONTON, NEAR BANK