The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 31, 1954, Page 5

Jaycee Fishing Tournament _ [Lost Trousseau Slated To Start On Saturday Prizes Given In 16 Classes In Tournament The seventh annual Island City Fishing Tournament, Sponsored by the Key West Junior Chamber of Com- merce, officially opens 12:01 Saturday, followed by for-| mal ceremonies ten o’clock, Sunday, at the Charter Boat Docks on Roosevelt Boule- vard, when Mayor C. B. Harvey will attempt to land the first fish of the tourna- ment. “Fito” Lastres, chairman of the fishing committee, said today in addition to the unusual catch to be | made by Mayor Harvey, a balloon | containing a certificate would be} released during the ceremonies and | that a rod and reel would be award- ed the person finding thc certifi- cate, by the Jaycees, The tournament which runs un-| til March 31 is open to persons of | either, sex, landing a fish, with a rod and reel, within the boundaries of the tournament area, from the waters surrounding Key West, to} the northern end of Marathon. In the seven years the Jaycees have sponsored the tournament thousands of dollars worth of tro- Phies have been awarded to people in the United States and foreign countires. According to reports, this year will be no exception. Each month of the tournament, trophies will be awarded for the largest catch in each of 16 cate- gories. At the close of the tourna- ment trophies will be awarded to the overall winners. In addition to the regular awards, this year the Jaycees will give a “catch of the Week” trophy to the person aboard a selected charter boat, making the largest catch of the week. Two official weighing stations have been selected, one at the Gar- For Home or Commercial Use . We Are Prepared Friday, December 31, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 5 Gov't Officials Keep Close Watch On Mounting Market By FRANK O'BRIEN .WASHINGTON (#—Federal offi- cials in Washington are keeping an ever closer watch on the stock market, as it continues tq touch new highs. Their vigil is concentrated on the use of credit. If borrowing to buy stocks grows to proportions that vesponsible of- ficials here teel makes the market subject to a price collapse, credit controls enforced by the Federal Reserve Board would be stiffened. There is as yet no indication that the situation has gone that far. But it could change swiftly. That is the consensus of. talks with highly placed officials who asked that they not be quoted by name. The Federal Reserve Board has authority to raise the margin re- City Federal Reserve member banks stood at $1,915,000,000 on Dec. 29. That was an increase of 97 million dollars during the week, and was 219 million higher than a year earlier. Further sharp in- creases of that size could be a strong factor in the thinking of the Federal Reserve Board. Some factors appeared to indi- cate that for the present, at least, the stock market rise is largely based upon nonspeculative ele- ments. Officials said these factors in- cluded: credit buying of stocks has not increased alarmingly; buying has been concentrated on industrial stocks, and has been further con- centrated on shares of firms with good earnings and growth records; pension and mutual investment funds, which favor such stocks, have ,been. large buyers; for tax quirements on stock”market oper-| reasons, many persons may be ations from the present 50 per cent cash requirements. The board in February 1953 reduced the cash requirement to 50 per cent from the 75 per cent imposed early in 1951 as an anti-inflationary meas- ure. waiting for the new year to sell and take a profit. Officials emphasized that it is not the mission of the government to control stock prices. The law requires the reserve board to use its powers “to prevent excessive The board could also act less} yse of credit.” directly by tightening up on the supply of money and credit in gen- eral. This would have the effect of raising interest rates, and of making loans harder and more ex- pensive to get. Loans to brokers in New York rison Bight, where fish will be weighed in each afternoon from 4:00 to 6:00 p. m. and at the Fish- in Hole‘ at Marathon, the northern! boundary of the tournament ‘area. Catches may be entered at either of these locations. Trophies for the tournament are on order and when received will be put on display in the window of Paul J. Sher, on Duval Street. Guaranteed To Furnish You With Clean, Pure Ccbe »» Crushed ICE Thompson Enterprises, Inc. (Ice Division) Dial 2.6831 Key West, Florida Englishman Gives His Beard For Benefit Drive LEICESTER, England — One hundred and sixty “barbers” snipped off Alan Grimsley’s beard Wednesday to benefit a fund for blind veterans. Grimsley, a 28-year-old engineer, started the beard to win a pound ($2.80) wager from a fellow work- man who bet he couldn’t go a year without shaving. When he collected the pound, Grimsley sent it off to the fund. Then Grimsley had his great idea. He walked into his local pub and invited customers to help clip his beard at sixpence (7 cents) a snip. Three hours later the beard was gone and Grimsley was richer by 160 sixpences ($11.20). He sent that off to the fund, too, Will he grow another? ‘Not bleody likely,” said Grimsley, “It lost me all my girl friends.” TODAY'S STOCK MARKET NEW YORK (® — The stock market started its final day of the year with a rush of buying. Prices were up just about all around the list. Some gains went to between 1 and 3 points. Most, however, were moderate. Steels were an. outstanding fea- ture with the smaller steel com- | pany stocks strong. Oils also were in heavy demand. Aircrafts were higher. Motors edged ahead. Utilities were up. | Motion pictures were firm. Many | individual . issues were heavily traded at higher prices. Loew's, most active issue of the past two days with a total gain of 2%, started today on 3,500 shares up % at 21%. Among higher stocks were In- land Steel, National Steel, General Motors, Boeing, Radio Corp., American Woolen. Among declining stocks were Pennsylvania Railroad, Santa Fe, American Cyanamid, and Youngs- town Sheet & Tube. Citizen Ads Bring Results Stewart Coach industries, tnc., Builder of Is Replaced OXFORD, N.C. —Pretty Edith Evans, 19 - year - old orphan, marries her childhood sweetheart | at Mount Carmel Methodist church | today after a hectic week trying, to locate her lost trousseau. The trouble started Christmas Eve when she left ner suitcase | containing part of her trousseau, | including her wedding gown, on a) Philadelphia street corner. She had paid for the clothes from her wages while working in Gimbel’s department store in Philadelphia. But by wedding time today she| apparently had the choice of at least three wedding gowns. : The Philadelphia Inquirer noti- fied her yesterday that her bag had been recovered by a Phila- delphian, Michael DeSanto, and was on its way to the Raleigh- Durham (N.C.) Airport. Meanwhile, a Philadelphia department store— | Lit Brothers—wired .that it was| shipping a second gown to her. The Ellis-Stone department store at Durham said if the gowns failed | to arrive in time, it would make a wedding gown available. And the | store said it will give Edith a, dress, suit and other items to re- Place those in the lost suitcase. The suitcase was lost when Edith’s brother Garland came to) Philadelphia to drive his sister to| Baltimore to meet her fiance Fran | Coley, who worked at an aircraft | plant there. Edith, orphaned at an early. age, | was brought up by relatives. Cyclists Disturb Beach Motel Men Some Key West motorcyclists ap- paently didn’t get the word Thurs- day and as a result a group of beach motels owners are up in arms. According to a Chamber of Com- merce release, local cyclists had promised that they would cooper- ate in a noise - abatement cam- paign to aid the city’s tourist bus- iness in the motel area. Motel men have complained that their busi- ness has suffered because winter visitors are being annoyed by mo- torcycles and scooters. But, at about 10 p. m. Thursday, a group of motorcyclists roared in- to the area and proceeded to make like racing drivers. The result was considerable ir- ritation to the motel men and their guests, The Weatherman Says: Key West and Vicinity: Fair weather thru Saturday, with little change in temperatures. Gentle to moderate northeast and_ east winds, Low tonight near 67, high tomorrow about 80. Florida: Clear to partly cloudy thru Saturday. Slight chance for brief showers along the east coast. Little change in temperatures, ex- cept not quite so cold extreme north tonight. Jacksonville thru. the Florida Straits and East Gulf: Gentle to moderate wind, mostly north to northeast over extreme north por- tion today; otherwise mostly north- east to east winds thru Saturday. Partly cloudy weather except a slight chance for brief showers near east coast. Western Caribbean: Moderate east and northeast winds thru Sat- urday. Partly cloudy weather with widely scattered showers. Observation Taken at Post Office Building, 7:00 A.M., EST, Key West, Fla., Dec. 31, 1954 Temperatures Highest yesterday Lowest last night Mean Normal Precipitation Total last 24 hours Total this month .. Deficiency this month Total this year Excess this yea! 94% Barometer (Sea Level), 7 A.M. 30.15 mbs.—1021.0 mbs. Tomorrow’s Almanac | | Sunrise .. 7:12 a.m. | | Sunset 5:49 p.m. | TOMORROW'S | TIDES | (Naval Base) | Time ef Height of | Tide high water | Low Tides Station— High Tides |the two told him of being beaten | Death was attributed to burns and Children Tell Of Mother’s Cruel Acts INDIANAPOLIS (2®—Two chil- dren kept silent by fear for five| years spoke out yesterday with a| grim story that caused the indict- ment of their mother for second- | degree murder in the scalding Geath of their 4-year-old brother. The county grand jury returned | the indictment against Mrs. Lucy Hawkins, 37, after her two older | ii i 7 sesitd | tes West German troops with children, Russell L. Hawkins, 20, |{orne Wes ee and Mrs. Patricia Gary, 19, ap- peared before it. Sheriff's Capt. Morris Settles said |for years and also of being forced! to beat the younger children. He said they told him they decided to tell their story after their mother broke their 8-year-old sister’s arm because she brought home a bad report card. At the time of 4-year-old David’s death in 1949, Mrs. Hawkins testi- fied the boy jumped into a tub of scalding water because he wanted | | to be first to take a bath. His death was ruled an accident. The children told Capt. Settles that their mother was boiling water for baths and that David sciled his pants. They said she suddenly thrust David into the tub, holding him there despite his strug- ie David died several days later. malnutrition. The woman’s husband, Harold C. Hawkins, 41-year-old machinist, described her as tic and vicious knew.” Settles said younger children cor- roborated the story told by the older ones. Mrs. Hawkins and her husband have had 11 children, 9 of whom are living. “It’s all a pack of lies that Rus- sell told,” Mrs. Hawkins said an- grily after her arrest. “I just spanked them when they needed it.” Missing Girl Found Working In New York NEW YORK (® — Jacqueline Berg, 16, who eloped last Oct. 4 with a neighborhood boy, was found yesterday as a result of an anonymous telephone call to her woman I ever mother. The mother, Mrs. Rose Berg of the Bronx, told police the call came one day after she received a note demanding $25,000 in return for the girl’s life. The note was made public by newspapers. The girl was found working un- der an assumed name in a Man- hattan office. She denied her iden- tity to detectives but burst into tears when she saw her mother. She then gave the mother the address of the rooming house where she and 17-year-old Daniel Bracciodetta had been living. The boy was found shortly afterward and both youngsters returned to their respective homes. Both said they were married about two weeks before the elope- ment, using assumed names and ‘the most sadis-} By WARREN ROGERS JR. | WASHINGTON wW—American of-| ficials tempered a’ sigh of relief | with a cautious look to the future | today after the French Assembly’s | belated approval of West German) rearmament. | President Eisenhower, vacation-| ing at Augusta, Ga., expressed} “great gratification” at the As-| sembly’s 287-260 vote yesterday re- versing its decision last week to reject the rearmament plan. But! he said further steps must yet be \taken before Allied plans for in- |free world defenses can become ja reality. Secretary of State Dulles took much the same tack, calling the French vote ‘‘a good augury” but reminding that further parliamen- tary steps lie ahead. The French Council of the Republic, its upper | house, still must act, but little dif- f.culty was expected there. ' On Capitol Hill Chairman Wiley | (R-Wis) of the Senate Foreign Re- jlations committee mentioned “the narrow margin of victory,” but ex- {pressed hope all will be well from now on. Temperatures AT 7:30 A.M., EST Atlanta Augusta Billings Birmingham .. Bismark .. Boston . Buffalo Charleston .. Chicago ... Corpus Chris Denver Detroit El Paso Ft. Worth Galveston Jacksonville . Kansas City .. KEY WEST Key West Airport Los Angeles .. Louisville Meridian French Vote Gives Hope ToU.S. Officials Sen. Mansfield (D-Mont) told prospect for a general and lasting newsmen “the victory is another| peace will be definitely improved, link” in traditional U.S.-French| and a measure of encouragement friendship. Sen. Sparkman (D-Ala) | may therefore even now be felt by said the French action ‘must be} all who are earnestly striving to pleasing to all the free world.”| maintain and improve the unity Both Mansfield and Sparkatan| and harmony of the free world.” serve on the Foreign Relations | a Committee. In his statement yesterday, Dul- les referred indirectly to the nag-| ging French fear of putting guns} into the hands of Germans who} three times in a century had in-| vaded France. Dulles said: | “A special tribute is due to those | in France who saw that patrio-| tism required the burying of age-| old hostilities. That this could hap- pen is a good augury for the years | ahead.” Eisenhower, too, vein when he said: “As decisive cooperation sup- plants age-old antagorism, so th | Act Fast When Cough From Common Cold Hangs On Chronic bronchitis may develop if your cough, chest cold, or acute bron- chitis is not treated and you cannot afford to take a chance with any medi- cine less potent than Creomulsion. It goes into thé bronchial system to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, inflamed bronchialmembranes. For children you can now get milder, tastier Creomulsion for Chil- dren in a pink and blue package. 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