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FLYING DUTCHMEN
(Continued From Page One)
tnd thee started the last lap of the
journey.
Reaching the capital of Brit-
Ml Guiana, Georgetown, they
leek on gas, but broke a float
Wire on their take off in the
rough sea. They also bent their
feselage. The mechanically gift*
ed Dutchmen fixed the floats and
fvselange and again took off, for
Rm long run to their home city.
On this last lap the boys were
naturally looking forward to the
Welcomes of Dutch officials. Be
bre they reached home, however,
I last obstacle loomed in the form
M a nasty rain squall which sent
them out to sea 30 miles. They
flew then at that distance into
Dutch Guiana, and buzzed their
family.
They landed right in the river in
front of their parents’ estate, ex
pecting a royal welcome from the
officials as well.
They were disappointed.
*Why didn't you land in Para*
maribo? Why didn't you notify
•s two hours a head of time of
your arrival?" the angry offic
iate asked.
Toni and Henni explained that
they bad thrown their radio over
the side to lighten the plane. Also
they hadn’t wanted to land in the
eepital, five miles from their home.
The officials brushed aside their
excuses and grounded the home
coming aviators for three months.
They bad to pay, when they could
fly. five dollars every time they
took the plane up.
This year Toni, wlsfer and per
haps a little less enthusiastic about
flying a tiny craft 2500 miles over
the Caribbean and Atlantic, flew
back to Key West in a huge Pan
American plane. He stopped at
Curacao, Jamaica, Havana and fin
ally Miami,
The little plane? It’s hack in the
river at Paramaribo.
This year Toni Is travelling by
train to New York, and by the big
■Olid ship New Amsterdam to his
native Holland, where he will look
into the family contracting busi
ness.
Toni and Henni had neve? flown
a plane until they came to Key
West more than a year ago and
took instruction under COL Pen
Edgar. They checked out and got
their licenses lor private seaplane
flying oh May 28, 1852.
Ten days later they decided to
fly their seaplane the “Col; Ed
far’’ home to Paramaribo, Dutch
Guiana, to save the cost of S4OO
commercial flight, and S6OO to get
everything but
ground the Dutch brothers to
prevent them from their mod
flight In the tiny little plane. He
cabled their parents urging them
, , t.a is <Mm Htwip
99 Wlfltw* perm tiiion Trwn hwii;
tttvfflftiiitfltwv for tufi Barents.
ffithutrs n£
concentration camns are ever 21.
Blithely they skimmed for their
take off from Garrison Bight on
June!.
The little plane carried only 24
gallons of gas. The route they
Sizmarstisa
There was no assurance that they
couto gi! extra gas any place for
refueling along the way.
**We chose to avoid Cuba.*’ To
it was practically impossible for
a foreign plane to get cleared
through that Island. Our route was
first Miami, then Nassau. That
was easy. From Miami to Nassau
was 200 miles. Our plane goes 80
miles per hour, and we had a nice
easy flight. From Nassau we flew
to Great Exhuma to the Bahamas.
There we slept to our sleeping
bags. There were no people but a
lew natives there."-.V--,:,'*
The flight from Great Exhuma
to Great Inagua, also in the Ba
hamas was also pleasant, but
what was to prove a near disaster
occurred. Tool, who can hardy see
Urn feet withouf glasses," leaned
Ml the plane window - ami room •
Trouble began at Port-au-Prince,
"W 4 had ne clearance fee cu*-
tom*. The police guarded our
plono. Thoy askod why wo did
not kind in Ibo airport tostood
Of tho harbor.
"Wo aaid wo hod no roUor
skates foe tho piano to land on
al. - - * > M
#irFWTi
After three days oi explaining
| Haiti officials who .they wore
tad why they bad not obtained
clearance papers, Tool and Hen
ni were all tel to take off for their
next top- Suddenly the policeman
Hoarding the plane said; a- :
"Rlvo mo $2 or oito you can't
hove dm ntoiw.** ' .
Toni end Howd sold no, Ihoy
sow no reason to give him $2.
nftor having paid fata alt around
Ihe etooranco. Tho policeman
flnlw rnimtimf w rarj RA^un
?lßww'- IfTHTvI * V W*w TRIMB *•*”
nl drew thoir*.
“Wo are two end you oro one.
N you oNHd to shoot it out," tho
hoy* said.
Tho guard let them take off.
fbetr eext problem was- how to
make the frlshtcfttogiy lung hop
from Furi-su-Franco to San Joan.
The Trenms had heard that M
ra week to get clearance into
Bond dean R Igathlto. M they
knew they would have t stop
plm* oftohoto teem teg .tw
pupiie to pet their mm extra gai
m* of gas a the plane before they
set out over the open sea to Puer
to Rico.
To make way for the nine ex
tra gallons Toni and Henni had al
ready thrown their shoes over the
side and taken off all extras in
cluding food and water. They had
only some crackers in a tin.
To avoid Dominican Republic of
ficials the boys landed their plane
at an island southeast of the capi
tal, Ciudad Trujillo, called Cata
lina. There they put the extra nine
gallons in the plane, in the one
protected spot they could find in
the lee of the island.
"The sea was rough waves
six toot high. Wo shouldn't hovo
triod to toko off In It • but we
hod no oltomotivo. Whon wo dM
try," said Tent, "we broke all
the wires that held the floats to
tho plena."
The Dutchmen disembarked,
took some old rope and tied the
floats back on the plane. They
then taxied her to La Rommana, a
village east of the capital. A pilot
boat came out. The skipper did
not speak English, Dutch or
French, the Tromm’s languages,
and they did not speak Spanish. By
sign language they indicated their
plight, the near-loss of their floats.
The pilot boat towed the seaplane
into land up a river. Toni and Hen
ni had to sit on the pontoons to
keep her from nose diving like a
submarine. The floats filled with
water. The pilot then radioed the
capital that a plane at Catalina
had made a forced landing.
Red tape got the message mixed,
so that officials thought it was s
huge PBY Catalina plane that
had made a landing. Immediately
planes with four mechanics arriv
ed to right things. They were Am
erican mechanics connected with
the Dominican sir force.
When they spotted the tiny Tay
lorcraft, they wouldn’t touch it
They only advised whet to do. To
ni end Henni went to a nearby
sugar factory where they got
steel and tools, while police guard*
ed the plane. The boys fixed the
wires connecting floats to the
plane and slept the night at the
police station in La Romana.
Next day the problem presented
itself, how to take off in the river.
Almost es choppy as the sea Into
which it poured, it had the added
hazard of. being so narrow that
Ihe wings had only three feet
clearance on each side. Not only
that but in order to take off on
the river, the plane had to go at
full flying speed under a bridge
only 40 feet above the water.
"Henni set at the centrals, be
cause I couldn't see well enough
without my glosses far such an
operation," Ten! said.
Infant Found
In Incinerator
NEW YORK (B—“I opened the
incinerator door, and saw what
appeared to be a kewpie doll
wrapped In a blanket and resting
on the smouldering coals.
“Then I heard faint wafling
sounds which soon became the dis
tinct cries of a baby.
“I pulled the blanket-wrapped
form out of the incinerator.”
This was bow Canaeto Chfllemi,
porter in a big Brooklyn bousing
■lenlenf <lne*lkn<t smSlaa
project, Qtscnwu it police
terday bis finding of a baby girl
in a basement incinerator. He had
been preparing to burn some gar
bage.
Doctors at a hospital where the
baby was token said she was less
then a day old and In Very good
Police started searchingtheproj
ect for the person who left the
baby in the incinerator.
DEATHS
*■' i in ni i. j
littotin PmrSee ft#
Newton Porter Randall Sr., .
died Monday night after a brief
illness. , 5 f- ■ I
Mr. Randall came to Key West
two years ago. He was employed
with the Navy Department
He is survived by the widow and
two children. The body was sent
yesterday to Brooksvflle. Fla., for!
funeral services and burial. Ar
rangements in Key West were
handled by the Pritchard Funeral
Home.
> Mrs. Orotic Caste#
Mrs. Omßs Cuter, If, died teat
night at her residence mi Aro E.
Survivors ere two daughters, Mrs.
V. A. Shiver. Key West end Mrs.
P. S. Guerry, Gainesville; two
; sons, Clarence E. of Key West,
‘ end Chester B. Carter el Mart
i tboa; end two sisters.
The body is befog eaat today by
1 Pritchard Funeral Boas# in Mia
mi where services wB be bald
from the Bees Funeral Sense and
burial witi be in the faaAy plat to
i"*- frr C " M^-
| Sweden h nearly twice u large
;to area as Groat Britain. * '
Sweden’s population sf TjMJto
is about tiie same as that sf Nor
way and Denmark together.
In the mhUte af 1882. CaUfor
•to had added SSSJSI people to Ito
papulation to too previous two
years.
.Read Thm Citizen
Wednesday. May V. MSI
1887 Was The Year To Boy
Lots For Only §2.50 Each
Low Value Of
Real Estate Shows
In *97 Directory
By SUSAN MdAVOY
Part VI of a Series
Real estate in Key West
and Florida could be had for
a subscription to a newspa
per in 1887.
The “Equator” a week
ly KW newspaper adver
tised in the 1887 City Dir
ectory that the Proprietors
made the following “un
paralleled offer” i
Every new subscriber to
the paper for the coming
year, or old subscriber re
newing, who pays 82.50 in
advance, will, in addition to
the paper, receive a war
rantee deed to a town lot in
our new addition Macedonia
City, size 30 by 100 feet.
“This new and booming little
town is located pear Burnt Store,
on Charlotte Harbor Bay. ’Burnt
Store’ takes its name from the
historical capture- and burning of
a large store at that point by In
dians during the noted Seminole
War of 1856-67. Its situation is the
most delightful, end beautiful on
this picturesque and attractive bey,
so broad and beautiful that the
proud Indian to his musical lan
guage called R the Weva Osham
pee, which means ‘broad waters!
“This new town is in Monroe
county; and hundreds of lots there
to have already been sold to cit
izens of Key West at prices rang
ing from $5 to $25, and their deeds
on record in the office of the Clerk
of Court lure.
“Since we present only every al
ternate lot, we are enabled to
make our subscribers this unheard
of otter, knowing that the conse
quent increase in value of those
are retain will amply repay us the
loss of sli we deed to Equator
patrpns.”
The big deal to real estate to
I*B7 according to the directory
seemed to be Naples, now a flour
ishing West Coast resort.
Naples took four full pages of
advertising to the Key West direc
tory that year offering 20,600 city
tote of ten dollars each.
BANKS
la 1817 Key West had two banks,
the Bank of Key West, of which
George Lewis was president, and
the John White Bank. The Bank of
Key West had capital of $50,000;
surplus $3,000. E. H. Gate was
vice president, George W. Allen,
cashier. Gate. Lewis, Allen, Far
nando Valdes* ftites W. Locke,
E. Canals, and R. Alfred Monsal
vstge were directors.
The John White Bank was estab
lished to 1184. It had a capital of
$106,066 and surplus of $150,000.
White eras president, James A.
Waddell cashier.
The Board of Trade of the City
listed the following business lead
ers, President, John J. Delaney,
vice-presidents, W. D. Cash, G. W.
Allen, S. Canals; Secretary G. B.
Patterson; Treasurer f, J. Moreno.
There were 42 members.
The Beard of Health was headed
by Dr. Joseph Y. Porter. C. B.
Sweeting waa health officer end
port inspector. There ares an an
te* to November Ist of each year.
In IMS 317 vessels were bbarded
and inspected; to I*M. 80. More
than 8,000 inspections were made
from August MBS to. January 1887.
“The number of nuisances abated
from August Ist, 1888 to January
Ist, 1867 was 2.000.
Barit to tori estate, the firm
Wicker Mid Cohen advertising to
Ihe CBy Dtoedecy said:
"We central the eaat half af
Key Wait, Florida, end nearly
att ti*a adfaoant Mauds, many
JUnMle anl uwlßlto
wf WVffCft ifu Ns Wfffi CwCVfHwtl
•m# wt fnsstta *
maenbem*
This firm was located near the
New Busaett house on Duval Street.
HOTBLS
The Russell house, of which C.
T. Merrill was psoprietar, was on
Duval between Frjst and Greene.
Sweeny’s hotel, was at Duval and
the corner of Greene. The Monroe
DM# was at Division (now Tru
man) and Whitehead. The Cocoa
nut Grope hotel waa at Front near
Greene.
Thwe went 36 MtMMb to the
C*y. many of them Cutout to MR,
and (hero were 81 antenna which
entered to the thirst of CUhae and
Anglo - Saxon Key Wort. listed to
tho dheotory- There wore also
these wtoe and ttqnor storm, retail
tad twe whslwalls of aUts.
There were more doctor* to Key
West to WB when the Population
was 17,442 than today when the
eiviltoa popaUtioa it arore thro
double that Thwe were 12 then
and only eight today.
Item ****• y
Maud had am at TUT* wharf;
Kseden aad Norway had riro can
THE KIY WEST CITIZEN
suit at Front Street between Du
val and Simonton.
Today the Cuban Consul, Oscar
Morales, is on Duval to the San
Carlos building.
TO BE CONTINUED
Steel Boom
Is Believed
To Have Ended
NEW YORK UR—Steelmen are
asking how much longer their
headlong production rate will con
tinue as the mainstay at the long
business boom.
Some see to the weakness of
scrap prices the first signs that
the mad scramble for steel may
be in its final months, if not weeks.
Scrap has a traditional role as
barometer for the industry.
But while scrap prices have been
dropping, the price of steel finished
to customers’ specifications has
been going up. And almost to a
man, steel executives are insisting
that further price rises in steel
are due.
Most steel mills have their order
books filled through September.
And most expect production to stay
high till the end of the year. There
is a considerable time between
booking an order and delivering
the steel to a customer.
Scrap prices are now down
around $6 a ton below the price
charged under government con
trols. A top grade of scrap is now
quoted st S3B a ton in some places.
Scrap dealers report that demand
by the mills is slack, and inven
tories high.
The pressure to raise steel prices
is being watched closely by many
manufacturers. Some have been
paying premium prices for steel
they had converted to their own
particular need nr for foreign steel.
Slackening in steel demand will
begin to show when manufacturers
stop paying these premium prices,
and some are already reported
dropping the practice.
Most steel companies have now
raised prices on the products they
finish to a customer’s specifica
tions.
“Almost all products have been
touched” by these price hikes, the
Iran Age, national metalworking
weekly, points out It adds that
“sotate weeks may pass before
major steel consumers Work up
estimates cf bow much their costs
have been raised by steel industry
extra and base price increases.”
Tito price hikes mean increased
costs in producing a wide range
of consumer goods. Some manu
facturers wifl absorb the costs.
Others may pass tnem along to
you in higher prices.
Steel company leaders, however,
insist that these recent price hikes
haven’t been large enough to re
turn them adequate profits on in
vestments end sales. T
They contend that base steel
prices must be raised again. Aad
they add that if current negotias
tions with the steel workers Wtiol
end in another wage boost, this
additional cost must be passed
along in still higher steel print*.
They continue, meanwhile, to rim
their mills at capacity, keepiag sc
eye on .such major users aftt*
auto and appliance makers tor any
slackening in orders that could
mean the ead of $e steel scramble
and perhaps mean the current busi
ness boom will have passed its
peak.
Election, Ends 15-Year Reign
Of Los Angeles* Mayor Bowron
LOS ANGELES Uh -• Congress
mao Norri* Poulsou,
as Oregon
tarts boy who came here to trv
his lack is the big city, has coded
the 13-year reign of Mayor Fletch
er Bowroa.
A staunch advocate of economy
ta government, the 57-year o!d re
publican now in bu fifth term is
the House of Representatives,
eeeeed a decisive victory Jo yarn
today's aoo-partiun election.
H'U assume the *ii.o9-a veer
Mh as leader of the nation's
losrth largest city on July 1.
also a Republican,
trailed by M.7W voter ia the aamh
official coot today. Returns from
Mteaf MCI proetecta gave Fooiaeo
m.m ami Bom 19C 3SB.
The 3-year-atd mayor waged s
heated campaign to relate tea Jab
he’s ImM since IS3B. He rmnrsitfig
defeat shortly before mbteifT
wishing Fanises “every sweets is
tim opportunity be has to cany
toward the tradition, of hanasty,
integrity* and dean gorerumte*
so richly deserve. ~
wa**v* .na. she lad to**
ran Igr seme JR4N votes hi to
Ail* primary, tod Is • victory
toteteto: "Is ls moment of **•
toy, there is so rams to to
Nscor and fcttemc's which mate
toted itself daring to tetter part
Page 11
“Bwana Devil”
First 3-D Movie
By 808 THOMAS
HOLLYWOOD (J!—-The star of
Hollywood’s first 3D epic drita
that the picture was ted.
But it did wonders for the movie
business, himself included, says
dashing Robert Stack, the glamor
boy of toe society aad cmem*
circuit
& was the leading actor in Arch
Oboler’s “Bwana Devil,” the inde
pendent film that caused a revela
tion to the film industry.
“The picture was bad," Stack
admitted. “But Oboler is now a
millionaire. How can you argue
with that?”
The actor added that ha is blade
and blue from kicking himself, He
could. If I had taken the 10 par
of the picture, instead of taking
his salary.
“But I couldn’t see it.” he sighed.
“I had no notion whether the pic
ture would work out or not. We
were pioneering all the way. So I
decided to take my money while 1
could. If i had taken the 10 per
cent instead, I would now he ahead
$150,000.”
Stack told me these facts be
tween the blasts of jet airplanes.
He was working at San Fernando
Valley Airport on “Sabre Jet,” the
first air epic aoout fighter pilots
over Korea.
“The basic story of ’Bwana
Devil’ sounded okay, so I signed
to do the picture,” he remarked.
“The script turned out to be ted.
We could only do the best we could
and hope that the process would
work out all right. It was incred
ibly difficult
“The technicians had no prece
dent to go by. They had no idea
of how to take advantage of the
depth illusion. The color was off.
The two prints were different
colors, producing a strange kind
of brown when viewed with both
eyes.
“But you’ve got to tend the
credit to Oboler. He stuck it
through end did the experimenting
that the major studios have prof
ited from. It makes me sore to see
them advertise their pictures as
’foe first 3D from a major studio.”
The only reason they are making
SD pictures is because Oboler did
Ihe pioneering.;
Big things have been happening
to Stack since “Bwana.” By tee
end of summer, he will have com
pleted five pictures to a raw. That’s
what amazes him.
“I did a picture called *Tbe Bull
fighter and the Lady” three years
ago,” he remarked. “The film was
acclaimed by critics of til the
newspapers and magazines. T
didn’t work for a year and two
months! But after ’Bwana Devil,’
which w panned by everyone,
I’ve had all the part. I an handle.
The picture gave me a saturation
of the film market
CAPSULE REVIEW: “The 5,000
Fingers of Dr. T.” is e rare treat
for movie goers of afi ages, Jt jto* ;
an the delight aad imagination of]
a Disney cartoon, but it feature*
live actors. The story is about a
boy who rebels against taking
piano lessons. In his revbries at tee
piano he dreams up all tomb of
delightful fantasies. These are con
ceived with beauty and humor by
Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy and
Tommy Rettig. Ah movie must,
I Willing To Negotiate 4 |
BELGRADE. Yugoslavia, W
Marshal Tito’s foreign secretary
says Yugoslavia is ready to nege-
Fete with Russia on issue, divid
lag the lira Communist countries,
but tost the Soviets ro far have
given only “small signs” they want
to deal with their former ally.
Tito himself said last Thursday
that Yugoslavia's relations with
Russia wen as bad aa ever.
of to campaign. I extend my good
wishes to Mayo; Bohtoo to his
contribution to public lift.*'
I Two bond issues totaling IP mil
lion dollars failed to get to neces
sary two-thirds vote to pasasto
proposed were a S7 million deDar
auditorium aid 33 mflUtei to alr>
port improvements.
The dam hang campaign to
mayor drew a turnout of appear!
matciy nae’iatf million voters.
During to final week*, to mss*
trover sial iasna af pohlic a——*g
and heated axchangaa between
torn* and to teftemtial Las
Angdte Titans highlightad to
tows contended to etty was
obligated to live ap to contract
for a federally adbaldtwd Mi *>fl
to dollar torment paAteHteaeteg
a powerful cihgan were out te can*
troi city govern meat through a
-puppet" te to mayor's chair.
The Thaos rigaramiy denied to
chargee. . • _ ■■..
tempt krtn afltee te MM an a ta
tom ticket loOowted awal el
tow Frank
tenon.
Enterprising Draftsmen
m
BECAUSE A GROUP OF DRAFTSMEN were cost conscious, the Navy now has six excellent drafting
signed and built their own tables from scrap lumber are R. Conner* DM3;W.
V. L. Fletcher, DM3; R. F. Thompson. DMSN; W. C. Jurgens, DMSN; and K. F. Brandon, DMSN -SSS
dal Navy Photo. , s . ' *; ;
New Security
Program Goes
Into Effect Today
By JAMBS MARLOW
WASHINGTON (II - President
Elsenhower’s new security pro
gram goes Into effect Today end
Atty. Gen, Brownell, who draw ft
up, is so confident about it he has
predicted all security risks will be
out flf government by autumn.
In his April IT order setting up
thin program Elsenhower explained
its purpose: to we that all govern
ment employes shall te *reliabie,
trustworthy, of good conduct and
character, and of complete , . ,
loyalty to tee United States.”
This ground. Aad
fish the program to his own
broad " authority to decide-I'THF
stendarfe by which employes will
may be • Utile'tougher on todM
ideal TruMkFrom the way R*s
set up it should work faster than
tee Truman ‘
Eisenhower *y instructed the
Civil Service commission to seep
* ""‘‘‘tittlw •SmSi'S
I the same time is frjgr, . ; ;
jtJrpregramSrmm 1 covered em*
| ployes of questionable loyalty; tee
other handled security risks—era
—trtjL kl
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loyal but might jeopardize notional
security because, for instance, they
held n sensitive job jut drank or
too much or bad pome other
shortcoming, ’*■* ?>• .
; Eisenhower has lumped: both
programs under one. He has also
widened it. Whereas employes
Sri *%£*£* ** to “ idered
ployeeto afi UpeST** * ***
Under the Truman loyalty pro
gram aa accused man got a tear
tog before a board made up of
officials within Hz own agency. If
it decided his loyalty was question
able, tee agency head then upheld
the board and fired him or over
ruled foe board and kept him.
If fired by tee agency head, tee
accused employe had one further
appeal; to the loyalty review
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zghs enosen oy ms t wiiucni, sno
jwuinaafmi nUk awanav
” ,P port*.*. ■**
hsndlfi no ww cases). Hscsaftec
the will be the final
accused mafi fißts a hearing
fcefcw a lljart *ithin his *ra
made up ef the accused mans
Jfumomm imuu st. - IrouroWNl ■ auawlwiw
goes. ■ *\
Under the Truman security risk
program a man accused ridrtok
tog too much or talking too modi
while he worked to a sensitive jab,
eTWMYh Ibid
AA Vgß Haro WWW tmgflw ■
Under sew wnentn as
the only real change hero la tea
lea. :{
ally grounds got no otter
moat fob. Under the new program,
4nk mb K. i, „
whether the security risk to
InEil HhAIII Fwll
birth certificates, tea,”
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beat its wtons about 78 times a
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