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mod i ijunHt climate in tht
country, with as aveiug*
way o i only 14* fohrcnhcit
County Officials At Stag
Show Here To Be Named
Navy Man Sayt
He Will Insist
On Making
Guest List Public
| Ky Wester are speculat
ing today on 4he identity of
Cyaty officials who may
Have attended two “stag
show*” which were labelled
"lewd and lascivious” by a
Navy Chaplain here in Feb
ruary- A Navy official told
taft Citizen Wednesday that
"he will insist that identity
of alt civilians who attended
the affairs” be revealed at
the trial of a high ranking
Naval officer Monday in
Charleston.
The shows, which featur
ed spicy movies, convention
but, to date, only one county
rtharatro^
jmllffitnr ot the ghmr* LL Coot*
wander Gerry McDaniel foes en
trial, be will be ftsbUnc for the
traits of e Naval career wbteb has
Ipaansd N years.
McDbniel , who rose from the
nok* 1* scheduled to retire in
ft three years sad eae month,
but if he Is convicted, be face* dis
charge and Me* of his retirement
fWamsnilrr McDaniel, who
Is turreetiy to d*y Preparing
right the charge which have
flreught widespread publicity to the
Shy and reached the floor of coo
friSbanM. who witt face a gener
al court martial board consisting of
from five to twelve officers, will
fe represented hr two attorneys.
| Mato charged with conspiracy,
willful disobedience of a lawful or
He Is also expected to claim that
hla clvi rights were violated by be
fem confined to Ws quarters illegal
ly upder guard and net bring per
milled mailing privileges.
Police Officer
Quits Wednesday
Patrolman Irvtag C. Ran has re
gtf —* from the Key West Police
Hspartment II was anaoanced to
| by Chief Joseph C. Ktmp,
■att, an officer tor B month* had
served as desk rierk at the station
|j)yrerised to potest when he
wan.; sent nut on a heat.
■I also eperetee a restaurant on
rinse Street
Our Office Will Be
All Day
Friday. Inly 3rd
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Convention Slated
For City In July
More Sua • hundred mem
hers ef die Orris CeheWeres
ee rtt, sriH
tffoOf for Bigly ditfHiri I ddlriwl^ri
AAmnni# Lumlfiif of ffto Imcm§
Miami wW lain lacil tmootibon
of fro
named for Joes Marti, Cube's
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A dhwmr of CtMirti *.
on Twatday, My 1, wHI ho *
laatima ad fkg mSSmIw
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Probe Begins
Into Hospital
Flash Blast
Prenatare Hsfcy’s
Dentil Cgwed By
Mol ten Metal
CORAL GARLES Ofi—An inves
tigation began today Into a
n me nursery at Dots*;
tors’ Hospital Bsc., which tone#
to death i premature baby and
splattered molten metal on five
other infants.
The five-day-rid daughter of
James sad Margaret Penrod died
half an hour after toe
Wednesday right. Mrs. Penrod had
been discharged Warn th* hoarital
Tuesday,
er baweswasthe son of Mr. and
Mrs. Geozgt K Blsir, which had
second degree hum* en eras,
chest, abdomen and head. Mrs.
Mary J. Rosier hospital director,
said the child’s condition was good.
Slightly burned when metal from
the oxygen tank valve splattered
were the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Brace Mclntosh, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Don DeConna, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas mis.
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lae
Wieder. r
Dr. James K. McShane. mem
ber of the board ef directors of
the hospital, said an attendant had
just changed oxygen tanks to toe
nursery and turned around when
there was a sudden flash.
The attendant, D. P. Carunchio,
lifted the Penrod baby from the
flaming incubator, wrapped her
to a blanket and handed her to a
nurse standing outside toe glass
partition. Then he went back and
beat out too blase with Ida bare
hand*.
The nursery was tuD with M
babies at the time ef the explosion.
Dr. McShane said the Incubator
was the latest type avaflnfeii had
he could not expiate what caused
the fire. An investigation was
ffptnfd by hospital authorities and
the Coral Gabies die department
The hospital was opened since
World War II and Is modorriy
equipped throughout.
New Skipper For
Destroyer Escort
USS Greenwood
On Juno I lieutenant Com
mander Kendall W. Simmons, USN
will assume command of the des
troyer escort USS Greenwood (DE
CT), presently operating In the
Key West area.
Simmons will fetters Ledr. E.
Ischiager, Jr., USN, who wffl take
over Simmons’ old billet as Gun
nery and Seamanship Training Of.
fleer on the Staff of Saar Admiral
K. H. voa Heimburg. USN,, Com
mander of the Atlantic Fleet Train
faig Command. The Command
headquarters are locates In Nor
folk. Va.
l*dr. Simmons, a native of
Woonsocket, R. L, received his
commission as Eniign apon gra
duation from the U. S, Naval
Academy in IMS. Be taw action
during World War U aboard the
cruiser USS Minneapolis where he
•erred for Urn duration of the war.
Tours of duty at Naval Schools
and the University of CatiCanria at
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107 Employes
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mwsi " jtf timrgw fc
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WASHINGTON m - A Hons*
committee learned today that 187
State Denartment cmrioves have
w—
been fired trie year as a result ef
Investigations concerning homo
sexuality or questionable security.
The taioraidtitei came from R.W.
Scott McLeod, State Department
security officer, to a letter to the
Committee.
It was nude public by Rep.
Brownaou (1-tod), who sought ths
report roggrtly.
McLeod aleo said—to reply to a
direct tofriry—that the depart
ment does net have any records
idontifytef the S persons who were
referred to fty Sen. McCarthy (1-
Wls) as Comma tl if to a Fehru
rVSESLim-
sr-T-UWra;
a starch sf aB Ges has “failed
to dteriem such a list"
*T aright print eat that Sen. Me
Carthjr did not identify toe tori
viduate except by number fa Ms
speech,** McLeod added.
McLeod laid the committee he
was “retoetomr to come up with
"a categorical answer" to the
question: “Are there any Commu
nists now employed to the State
Department?"
"I must always presume." he
wrote, "thst tee Soviets are at
tempting to penetrate an agency
** eenaitive as the State Depart
ment. wad... I may never con
efforts have been
*T believe that It goes without
saying that as Communists, known
to the security officer as such, are
en toe roßs ef the deportment at
th* time."
Of Mf dismissals tote year, 74
toDowod toveetigathma ef homo
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Chief Frilly
The Florida K*jt
Office
m SOUTHARD (TtllT
WUlBa CLOSED All
Day Friday, July 3rd
KiY WRIT. FLORIDA. THURSDAY, JULY 2, HO
Holiday For P.O.
Postmaster Lee H. Goddard
today awweimcad tost too Pest
On Saturday, Juty Peurth, hut
ro a a *-
MIPN mwwm pwrcvt pwit win sv
West Germans
Refuse To Pay
Debt To France
. n>im Cheating
Of Germans During
Postwar Occupation
BONN, Germany ÜB—The West
German Parliament today refused
to approve repayment of German
debts to Prance, declaring the
French had “cheated” the Ger
mans during the postwar occupa
tion.
In a bitter burst ef anti-French
sentiment, the Bundestag (Lower
House) rejected a MU providing
repayment to Prance ef $11,540,000
under the lt-nation London debts
agreement signed last February.
The vote was 14S to 135, with IB
deputies abstaining.
It was the sharpest anti-French
action ever taken by the four-year
rid parliament
It followed by a few hours bitter
attacks against the French ever the
disputed Saar territory. Numerous
speakers accused too French of
tearing away this coal-rich terri
tory from Gernay and virtually
annexing it to violation of inter
national agreements.
The Bundestag declared ft con
siders the Sasr territory an in
separable pert of Germany and
that It wants the Sear’s “de facto
separation” by France abolished.
The Bundestag made these points
to adopting anew set of instruc
tions for Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer’s government to any new
negotiations with tip
JJpdi?’ the London agreement.
P3B in debts piled up from]
to* end ef World War L Brttakft
and France have ratified the
agreement but the U. S. Congress
Ins not yet acted,
k* The Bundestag had approved the
kOte to repay-tht U. S„ Britain
and other countries But when it
came to the draft law on France
toaro waa a sudden revolt after
Gw powerful Socialists had ac
cused French occupation agencies
ef plundering the German economy
"The French did not help us.
Tlmy exploited us,’ one legislator
Mm Bundestag’s action was ex
pected to raise a storm In Paris.
Some observers feared it would
smash the whole facade of postwar
Gqcnun - French relations, which
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has
pecked laboriously to build up. It
could deal a serious blow to the
European army treaty.
lions Will Hold
Meeting Tonight
The regular meeting of the Key
W*ri Lions Club win be held this
eroring at <:3O p. m. in their den
on Seminary Street The Club wfll
have a# its guests the Lions Little
League Baseball Team, who have
under the leedcrslkip ef Paul G.
ABtery and Martha Arango, won
throe consecutive championship*.
Boys composing the Lions Team
ant Mario Martinet, Bobby Paso,
Robert Dias, Johnny Garcia, Ntto
Ganria, Michael Hnyh— Roland
Valdwtigui. William Key, Robert
Fond, Butch Johnson, Armando
Mire Jr., Loris Villareal, Jimmy
Tayisr, and Jimmy Deland. Jr.
Another honored guest witt be
Robert Sender who waa sponsored
by tie dub to Boys State to Talla
hassee. He will give a report on
Us vqififftfft
LL Commander John Morse will
he Mducted to membership to the
cteb. Yellow riee and chicken will
be served.
Vote Registration
Continuing Slowly
Only 2575 voter* have appeared
at tht office of registrations in the
city tinß, it was announced today
hy Deputy Supervisor of Registra
tions Agues Lowe.
She ceatimmd her plea that vot
w appear early to register to
avoid a teat minute nuh.
AB naturalized American citizens
should bring their papers, she said.
Concentration
Of Red Tanks
Hit From Air
Fight-Bombers
Blast Group Of
30 To 40 Tanka
SEOUL <*-U. S Sabre jet
fighter-bombers surprised to to 41
Communist tanks in a camouflaged
valley just behind toe Western
Front today and saturated toe ores
with 1,000 pound bombs.
Black smoke filled toe valley,
making an accurate count ef
wrecked tanks impossible, the
Fifth Air Fuce said.
Not since early to the war has
a comparable concentration of Red
armor been spotted so near the
front to Korea.
The Eighth Army, meanwhile,
reported that heavy fighting cost
the Reds 38,000 kitted and wounded
test month—the equivalent of about
three Red divisions.
The Communists answered with
the heaviest artillery and mortar
fire of the war. Almost itt million
rounds hit Allied lines during June,
monthly record, the Eighth Army
safal.
The front was relatively quiet
Thursday. South Korean troops
drove Chinese elf a dominant knob
on Finger Ridge during the right,
the Eighth Army said.
There was little fighting en Look
out Mountain and Virginia Hitt on
the Eastern Front, the scene of
vicious see-saw battles to recent
days.
Cloudy skies curtailed aerial
activity, but the pilot* ef to Sabre
fighter-bombers had no complaints
about the weather *as they re
turned from their tank-busting
mission to which they dropped 44
bombs.
“The tanks were to a vary steep
valley with a lot ef little valleys
running off to the side,” said LL
Thomas I. Lacy of Long Beech,
Miss. “There were tank abetters to
the mate valley and most ef the
little valleys.”
Air Force officiate sold the
Valley was covered with camou*
fiegc pets and appavmtiy waa a
bivouac area for nComnmriet teak
MM The vaMty Is four mite*
wftikwtit of Chor*
Lacfi said he wx to' the feurth
flight frer the valley “and by the
lime I Rot there toe target was
111 covered with imoke from the
bombs (jf toe preceding flights. The
topir shelters looked Mko rs man
flage nariteg strung ever poles. The
flak waa Intense, so we dropped our
bombs iad got out ef there.
There #as no immediate reaction
from Army officials as to why ths
Reds had concentrated so much
armor less than IS —tiro fcAtwi
the flrooL
Navy LL Guy Bordelon of Sunny
vale, Calif., and Rn&tou, La., shot
down two Common Ist propeller
driven planes beaded tor Seoul
Wednesday right
They were the third-and fourth
Red gfanes Bordelon has shot down
in three day*. *
Bordelon, flying a Navy Corsair,
is on |oan to the Air Force to help
intercept slow-moving Red planes
I which have base raiding Seoul.
Jayteen Crater
Slates Square
Dance For 4th
Tho Jayteen Center in Pstnciana
is a thriving organization, it car
ries o* an active well-supervised
program for tho entertainment of
young |wople several nights a week
Higtjght of the Center's piano
for thUjhoiiday weekend is a square
dance session Saturday night be
ginning at • p. a. The Bov. Eldon
Simmons will act as instructor.
Every Thursday night the group
at Jayteen Center enjoys movies
at p. . and every Friday night
there $ dancing tnm t m 11.
The Coral Isle Serenaders play lor
this edpnL
All ywong people eUgtta for the
Center's activities are urged te at
tend a£l get acquainted with the
Tn&ie Signal
At Eaton, Duval
A traffic light has been teateHad
it the Eaton jad^Deval
>< Tbe a 3^£tira^wMyiam t af
les Roberts during Me tenure as
acting city manager. Many tom
plaints had been received became
of the stiastion.
Arms, Not Words, Needed
To Unify Korea, Syngman
Rhee Maintains In Talks
NEW AND RETIRING AIR CHIEFS
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MN. HOTIIVAMMNMM, 14, wha retired as Air Force Chief of Staff
atallnrmal military Eeromnuy atßoUlngField, Washington,congrmtu
latss hk suoeassor. Gem Nathan F. Twining (left), after toe new Chief
ef Marik oath-taking saemnaay. Some 2,000 marrhlng airmen joined
wRh l fitot at jet aircraft to salute the retiring officer. (International)
State Welfare Department To
Take Secrecy Off Its Rolls
TALLAHASSEE llMtsd yef
eaa find out for (he first tiri* jdi
who |n your comity if drawing
Florida public Writer* tends and
lmw much. *' ; . •
The State JPaltere Department
to compttsMe with s how law tak
ing the secroqy off its rolls has
ihrot the Circuit Court elerit to
every county the cmnplete list of
recipients to that county.
All you have to do to check up
on those stories that too father of
seme wealthy man Is getting eld
age assistance is go to the coort
house, ask for toe list and read
it It’s public record, available to
anyone who inquires.
But you can’t take the informa
tion and use it for any commercial
or political purpose—a matting list
to solicit vote* or a campaign to
(ft customers for * rest home, for
oatense.
Audi use of the rolls b specif
ically prohibited by law. It would
constitute a misdemeanor and sub
ject you to a fide of SSOO or three
months in jatt or both.
There were 58,150 names on the
lists mailed out to the 67 county
clerks.
Altogether, they drew payments
during June of 8t,020,617—an av
erage of $43.96 for each person re
ceiving old age assistance, $42.22
for aid to the blind end $26.61 per
child in the aid U) dependent chil
dren program.
Duval County hat the longest
Hat, 6,35$ names. Hillsborough is
next with 7,2*6 and Dade third with
The tone counties with the
fewest recipients are Glades with
only IS, Flagler with 127 and Coi
lkr, '154.
The lists wffl be mailed to the
clerks every throe months, the
next one about Oct 1.
Opening the rolls culminates s
fas* camps km by various news
papers and groups which believed
that it waa best for toe taxpayers
to be allowed to know who was
receiving help team the pnbik wel
fare tends.
Then one* was a federal social
security rale provteteg that fed
eral partidpattag tends about 60
per cunt ef the total—would he cut
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Extremists Bomb
Railroad Bridge,
Cat Powev Supply
BELFAST, Northern Intend UR
Irish extremists time-bombed g
railroad bridge and Belfast’s pow
er supply went dead today, ap-.
parently in protest against Queen
Elizabeth’s state visit to the Brit-
Ish-beld northern part of ifivided
Ireland.
A bomb oo a rail bridge near
the southern border blocked nil
traffic between Dublin and Belfast
for several hours. It was an ap
parent attempt to atop special
1 trains bringing Southern Irish to
see the Queen, out the excursions
went through on time.
Hours later trouble at Belfast’s
main powerhouse brought street
ears and tgdleys to a halt. Thous
ands werelMayed coming into the
city to watch Queen Elizabeth II
and the Duke of Edinburgh in a
royal procession.
The royal pair arrived yesterday
for a three-day visit as part of
toe Queen’s coronation celebra
tions.
A minority ef the Northern Irish
ate antiroyalist. They oppose con
tinned partition of the six North
Irish counties—a pert of the Uni
ted Kingdom—from the Irish Re
public.
A municipal corporation official
said the power failure “is serious
and may take seme time to repair.
Engineers are working feverishly
to put things right.’
Be refuted to say just stoat toe
eause was and wooid not comment
when a reporter suggested sabo
tage.
The bombed rail bridge was near
Newry. to miles from Belfast. Ex
cept for shifted tracks, there was
ao daaiage, railway officials said.
Though police reinforced their
guard on the 90-mile route the
royal train takes tomorrow from
Belfast to Londonderry, the bomb
ers apparently mead no personal
barm to the Queen. At the closest
print, her route b 46 mSes from
the Masted bridge.
OAK FLOORING
QUARTERED or PLAIN
Struk Lmnber
m SIMONTON, Nam CRy Hef
s Qe AndMle/Proen Trietypw
Photo Scevioom
Devoted to ton
fit* totems of Key Worn.
Sixth Secret
Meeting With
Ike?* Envoy
Is Stalled
By SAM SUMMIRLIN
SEOUL ÜB—President Syngman
Rhea’s price for as armistice—
U. S. assurance of a unified Korea
—temporarily stalled the U. S.-
South Korea “little truce talks’*
today.
Neither Rhee nor President Ei
senhower’s envoy, Walter S. Rob
ertson, would comment after their
sixth secret meeting this morning,
buts reliable source said the talks
are stalled while both sides con
sider their stands.
No time was set for the next
meeting.
Rhee apparently la demanding
unification or more war, and the
U. S. is holding out for unification
by negotiation.
The aging South Korean leader
maintains that it will take arms,
not words, to unify Korea.
South Korea’s foreign minister,
Pyun Yung Tai, declared his coun
try has no faith m political con
ferences and will agree to take
part in talks aimed at peaceful
unification only if a time limit 1*
imposed. y
Pyun said Rlne “does not re
ject” Eisenhower's pledge tori the
U. S. will work to unify North and
South Korea to talks with the Com
munists.
But, Pyun stressed, Rhee wants
to limit the time these talks can
drag on. Rhee often has catted for
a 60-day deadline with the war to
resume If there is no solution.
iHin, MB* BuutQ, ' JIUOI Wir fill
experience we hne* no such uni
fication can be achieved. That la
our conviction.”
However, Pyun expressed hep*
the Rhoe-Robertson ■ may yri
succeed.
Rt Stitt groping for com
mon ground,” he said. “There Is
ao need io be pessimistic.”
Meanwhile, Washington officials
predicted a climax to the truce
crisis within hours, with a dear
answer whether Rhee will accept
the armistice terms agreed upon
by the Allies and Reds or flaunt
them and try to fight on akae.
There were strong indications
the U. S. would go ahead with a
truce even if Rhee doesn’t agree,
and a well-informed source said
he believes toe Reds would accept
on that baste.
The Rhee-Robertson talks a pat
ently have lasted longer than was
anticipated and a solution is not
yet to sight.
A competent source revealed
Wednesday that President Rhee
last Saturday bad told Robertson
all his demands had been met by
President Eisenhower. But the
next day, Rhee produced new de
mands which Robertses quickly
turned down. The source said one
of these demands sms a 6e-day
limit on a post-truce political con
ference.
Faced with Robertson’s rejection
Rhee said he would write “in hla
own hand” another version ef Ms
stand. This was relayad to Robert
son Wednesday right
Robertson undoubtedly ittinnsej
the message when he went to ft#
presidential mansion for til* latart
meeting, which tasted an hour and
45 minutes.
The envoy waved fa bovmmb
waiting to see him outside ft*
mansion gates. But Ms sedan fltf
not stop and Robertson yetted that
he had nothing to say.
After most ef Ms cooversatiaw
with Rhee, Robertson has stoppad
and chatted briefly with reporters.
la Washington, President Elan*
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