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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—Deputies examine wreckage of an auto that leaped up the concrete
porch and smashed into the side of John Dewey’s home, shoving the house six inches off the
foundation. The car hit the aide of the living room which Dewey, his wife and two sons had
juat left to go Jo bed. Driver of the car is in fair condition.— (JP) Wirephoto
City's Cash Receipts Are Up Over
Last Year. Bowen Report Reveals
Percentage Of
Mon&y Spen t Is
Less Than 19§f
The difference between
the city’s cash income and
its expenses for the six
month period ending Decem
ber 31, 1953 who showed an
increase of $84,772.94 over
the same period in 1952,the
report of Finance Director;
Craig Bowen showed today.'
Bowen said that the city’s
income from revenue "re
ceipts amounted to $716,-
739.88 and its operating ex
penses were $531,702.65 for
the six month period.
Hence, the city spent $185,037.23
less than it received.
Largest single source of re
venue, the report states, is from
taxes, both real and personal,
which accounted for 56 per cent of
the city’s income.
Occupational licenses provided 11
per cent of city revenue while
Key West’s Hurt of cigarette tax
money accounted for 10 per cent
of the total. 1
Other sources and the percent*
age of revenue they provided In
cluded: Sever fees, eight per
cent; Fines end Forfeitures,
three per sent; Scavenger Ser*
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New Location Is
Sought For Local
Service Center
The Sen-icemen’s Christian Cos
ier of Key West will move from
|23 Whitvheoi Kt.
But just Bbqre the new location
Vid be was* known today by
Harry Greg#, the director.
Ht sasd iit the organization
bad Intended to buy the land and
building bn that the deal fell
•awglk.Jbwever, the organiza-
Hon taMteg for anew location.!
The eenhr originally was at 517
fleming SI On May 1, 1953 it
proved to its present location.
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Clothing Flees
Scene Of Mishap
A woman lest her pants on
the Seven Mile Bridge.
She was one of the many per
sons who loan over the bridge
railing to fish. This time, ap
parently, she loaned back too
for into the roadway.
The door handle of a passing
i car ripped Her sleeks complete
-1 ly off of her.
Cpl. $.. R. Walker, of the
: State Highway Patrol, said to
day he was told of the incident
but by the time he arrived at
the scene, the embarrassed
t woman had departed—presum
ably to try fishing elsewhere.
Key West May Get
Pro Baseball
I Key West’s chances of again bay
mg a taste of professional base
ball appeared bright today with
jthe arrival erf Joe Cambria, Wa&ta
iington Senator farm club official
from Havana.
Louis Carbonell, president of the
now defunct Key West Baseball
Club, said after a conference with
Cambria, that the American legue
team has agreed to a working
agreement with Key West.
In addition to players, the Sena
tors would put up a substantial
amount of cash, Carbonell said.
Local capital would also be raised
for the team, he added.
Key West is in the running for a
vacancy in the Florida Internation
al League. Reports that Taliahas
isee had been granted the sixth
franchise in that league are ap
iparently unfounded, Carbonell de
clared.
| The city's stadium committee
will meet tonight to discuss a pos
sible lease few Wickers Field.
March Of Dimes
Street Show Set
Joe Candullo’s Band and song
stress Naoc> Drew, currently ap
pearing at the plush Casa Marina
; Hotel here, will be featured to
night in the regular March of I
Dimes Street Show at Southard
and Duval Streets, it was announc
ed today by Louis Carbonell, chair
man of the event.
Carbonell added that Nick Ken
ny, well-known New York Daily
Mirror columnist has been invited
to appear tonight. He is a guest at
the Casa Marina.
The show, open to the the public,
will get underway at 8 p. m.
THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A.
Belated Report
Figfc
Between Sailors
A 23-year-old sailor was still un
conscious today, nine days after a
fight with another sailor.
The first fight took place at 2:28
a. m. Jan. 18. on Southard St. be
tween Whitehead and Duval
Streets, according to Shore Patrol
reports, copies of which were de
livered to the Sheriff’s Depart
ment yesterday.
Ervine E. Clay, 23, is the man
in the Naval Hospital. Today he
still was unconscious, suffering with
a fractured skull and a severe con
cusion, according to a Navy spokes
man, His other bodily functions,
the spokesman added, are unim
paired.
No charges have been placed
against the sailor said to be res
ponsible, William J. Shaw, 20. The
spokesman explains that the mat
ter still was subject to a formal
investigation and that the investi
gation could not be made until
(Clay was able to talk. Any charges
that may be filed will follow com
pletion of the investigation.
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Industrial Comm.
Deputy Here Fri.
Mrs. S. B. Teague, field deputy
of Florida Industrial Commission,
1 will be in the Florida' State Em
jployraent Service office, Sim onion
Street, on Friday between the
hours of 10 and 12 to assist any
employers in making unemploy
ment compensation reports or for
any other necessary help.
Hugh es Jailed
John M. Hughes today was in
the county jail in lieu of a SSOO
bond, charged with failure to reg
ister as a convicted felon, the
Sheriff’s Department said.
The warrant was issued by Ira !
Albury, Justice of the Peace. i
The Sheriff’s Department report
ed that Huge* told them he had
spent three years in Sing Sing.
MASONIC NOTICE
Special Communication of Dade
Lodge No. 14, F. & A.M.
Scottish Rile Temple. Wednes
day evening. Jan. 27, 1954. E.A.
examination at 7:00 PJ4. Con
ferring of F.C. Degree at 7:30
PJM.
All Master Masons and Fellow-1
crafts are cordially invited to
attend.
(sd) JAMES L. ATKINSON.
Attest: Acting W.M.
PAUL C. HEFLIN, Secretary.
KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1954
Players’ Presentation Of Ten
Little Indians’ Gains Applause
Agatha Christie
Melodrama Well
Received By Barn
Theater-Goers
By JIM COBB
The Key West Player s produc
tion of Agatha Christie's chiller
Ten Little Indians at their Barn
Theater last night kept alive a
14-year tradition of good theater
established by the local group
when it met with enthusiastic re
sponse from a packed house.
The play may be standard little
theater fare, and an old timer at
that, but it gains new life with a
zestful presentation by the local
players.
Staged competently and shew
ing superb direction by Gertrude
Ricketts Byms # the melodrama,
which is built around a demon
stration of several highly ingen
ious methods of committing hom
icide, completely charmed the
eudience.
We won’t talk about the plot—
suffice it to say that after a slow
start, the tension mounts higher
and higher unil it reaches a pin
nacle of dramatic suspense that is
made completely credible by sev
eral competent bits of acting by
the players. There are 10 separate
and engaging characterizations on
stage at one time.
The slow start is duo to the
number of actors on stage and
is hardly the fault of the players.
Miss Christie was faced with the
problem of identifying her char,
actors and the extensive and
sometime* pointless dialogue can
bo wearing.
But once that is accomplished,
the action moves along nicely and
the tension builds. , .to a chill
provoking surprise ending.
The setting is the dra wing room
of a summer house bigh
fdfet Cliff ,n a :n lanußjU.ky
bland ati .Britain's Devon coast.
Effective use of the small barn
stage is made with a magnificent
backdrop conceived and executed
by Key West’s Burrett Garnet.
Through a massive pair of French
doors, one looks out on a rocky
coastline, which gives a real feel
ing of depth and is responsible in
large measure for the illusion of
realism the playefs have manag
ed to convey.
Realistic sound effects create the?
mood of a raging storm through
out portions of the three-acter.
A cast of 11, led by veteran J.
Jonathan Jackson in the role of
Sir Lawrence Hargrove, “a magis
trate in His Majesty’s high court”
turn in an entertaining perfor
mance.
Commander Ray Byrn’s realis
tic portrayal of a doddering and
senile General MacKenzie, on the
brink of insanity, drew spontaneous
applause from the audience on one
occasion. Edward Giesbert’s char
acterization of a hard-drinking
soldier of fortune was pleasing and
Martin Ehrenreich, a newcomer to
the Players, turned in a finely
drawn job of acting as a speed
crazy, gay young blade that was
a pleasant relief from some of the
more somber characterizations on
stage.
Jack Clark, a favorite of local
playgoers, had ample opportunity'
to display Ms highly developed
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Final Notice To
COUNTY
Registered Voters
Cards which were mailed beginning the first
of December, 1953, and thereafter, must be
signed and in office not later than the sth of Feb
ruary, 1954, at 5 P.M. Persons who fail to sign
these cards and return
from the Registration Records, according to
Chapter 25293, House Bill No. 1105 of the 1949
Session of the Legislature.
Many cards have been returned unclaimed
since voters have moved and did not notify the
office. If any registered voter has not received
a card since the date mentioned above, please
contact Mr. Samuel B. Pinder’s office, County
Registrar, AT ONCE.
21 Americans
Plead For Reds
To Claim Them
Spokesman For
Group Says Some
Want To Become
Communists Now
By FORREST C. EDWARDS
PANMUNJOM OF—Twenty-one
self-assured Americans pleaded
publicly today for the Communists
to take them back as “free men”
from their only homeland now—
the barren Korean neutral zone.
The Reds have refused to ac
cept them as war prisoners and
the 21 have rejected the United
States—at least for the present.
A spokesman told a press con
ference they expect to return to
America ‘‘at some time in the
future when we can fight for world
peace without being persecuted.”
‘‘We are not Communists,” de
clared Sgt. Richard Corden of
East Providence, R. 1., “though
BULLETIN
TOKYO (jf) The Peiping radio
said today the Communists have
agreed to take back the 21 Ameri
cans, 1 Briton and 325* South Ko
reans who have decided to stay
with the Reds.
The broadcast said Gen. Lee
Sang Cho, Communist member of
the Military Armistice Commission,
made the announcement in a letter
to Lt Gen. K. S. Thimayya, chair
man of the Neutral Nations Re
patriation Commission.
some of us hope to he.’* He read
from a prepared statement which
he said was approved by every
man in the group. r
The Americans in later individ
ual interviews spouted Red prop
aganda catch-phrases and praise
for (he Communist command. They
looked newsmen squarely in the
eye as they answered questions.
Why choose communism?
Sgt. Larrance V. Sullivan,
Snaha: “The American people
ow how the Negro is treated in
the United States. Definitely this
is one of my reasons . . Of course,
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Neblett Will
Campaign In
Collier County
Bill Neblett, Key West attorney
and candidate for the state senate,
leaves tomorrow for a campaign
ing swing through Collier County.
He plans to visit Immokalee, La
Belle, Clewiston and perhaps Fort
Myers. Neblett will return Satur
day, in time for the March of
Dimes Ball.
Last week Neblett was in Collier
County completing organization of
his committees and getting ac
quainted with the residents.
| At that time he visited Immold
lee. Naples, Fort Myers Beach,
land Fort Myers.
Secretary Of State Dulles
Blasts Molotov's Attack
On U.S. At Berlin Parley
Papy To Meet With
State Road Board
State Representative Bernie
C. Papy announced today that
he will meet with the State
Road Dapartmant Wadnasday
and Thursday in Tallahassee
as the first step in obtaining a
strias of catwalks on bridges
along tho koys for use by fisher
man.
“Recant accidents involving
fisherman on the bridges have
pointed up the need for some
action. I've been trying to get
something done for years and
new it looks like we are going
to accomplish something," Pa- ‘
py said.
Papy was assured by Acting
Governor Charley Johns Satur
day that he would personally
intercede with the read depart,
merit on behalf ef keys resi
dents in obtaining the bridge
catwalks.
Monroe County's State Rep*
resentative added that ha was
not sure how many catwalks
ha can obtain on this trip, but
said that “I'll gat all I can
I'll be in there fighting."
Dishonorable
Discharges Set
For 21 POWs
Defense Dept.
WiU Wash Its
Hands Of Group
By C. YATIS MCDANIEL .
WASHINGTON ce —The Defense
Department has decided to wash
its hands of 21 American soldiers
who have turned their backs on
their homeland and have asked
the Communists in Korea to take
them as “free men.”
The, Army, on orders from Sec
retary of Defense Wilaon, has pre
pared dishonorable discharge pa
pers for the 21 prisoners of war
converted to communism.
The Americans, who have
spurned all opportunity to return,
now are stranded in the Korean
neutral zone. The Reds refused
to take them back when India gave
up its neutral custody last Friday.
In ordering dishonorable dis
charges. Wilson said the 21 have
the right to try to clear their
names, if they ever care to do so.
Meanwhile, their Army pay has
been halted and any veterans ben
efits canceled.
Wilson overruled Army
mendations that the 21 be given
“undesirable discharges,” a less
severe classification.
Army lawyers, urging this
course, cited regulations which say
an enlisted man can be dishonor
ably discharged only in accordance
with “an approved sentence of a
general court-martial” at which the
accused man is present to defend!
himself. An “undesirable dis-J
charge,” the lawyers contended,]
may be ordered by the head of
a service without trial.
But Wilson’s legal advisers cited
precedent going back to 1806 in
support of his action.
Meanwhile, Wilson took a hand
in the case of Cpl. Edward S.
Dickenson of Cracker’s Neck Va..j
who originally joined with the
Americans still in Korea in refus-'
ing to come home. He later
changed his mind.
Wilson’s office said in a terse
statement last night that the de
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The Manager.
Proposal For Big Potcer Meet
With Red China Is Rejected
BERLIN (AP) —Secretary of State Dulles today
blasted Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov’s attack on the
United States in the Berlin conference and rejected the
Russian’s proposal for a big power conference with
Red China on world peace problems.
At the same time Dulles announced acceptance of
Molotov’s proposed procedure for the conference in or
der to avoid “weeks in futile argument” about an agenda.
Reds Propose
Resumption Of
Peace Talks
Sealed Note la
Sent To U.S.
Envoy Today
PANMUNJOM <£)— I The Commu
nists sent a sealed letter to U.S.
envoy Arthur Dean today pro
posing that the stalled preliminary
Korean peace talks resume Mon
day—on Red terms, Peiping radio
said tonight.
The letter was delivered at a
meeting of liaison secretaries in
Panmunjom. The Reds then re
cessed indefinitely efforts of
liaison officers to get the talks
atarted again.
The Communists indicated they
would await the outcome of the
high-level letter to Dean, who is in
Washington.'
The Peiping broadcast heard In
Tokyo quoted the letter as saying
the two top Red delegates to con
ferences to plan the Korean peace
talks thought the question of re
suming the conference “should be
put to you directly for settlement.”
The Reds suggested that talks
broken off by Dean last December
resume Monday at Panmunjom.
The Reds said they would be
willing to consider an Allied pro
posal for another date to resume
the negotiations. But there was no
indication that the Communists
were ready to withdraw their
charges of perfidy which prompted
Dean to break off the talks.
In Washington, Dean was not
immediately available for com
ment. A State Department official
said Dean’s aide, Kenneth Young,
or liaison officer Edwin Martin
were authorized to act for Dean.
There was no official hint of the
letter’s contents, but the North Ko
rean Pyongyang radio said earlier
the Communists bad sent a mes
sage to Dean proposing that ne
gotiations to arrange a peace con
ference resume Monday.
The U. S. envoy broke off the
talks Dec. 12 after the Commu
nists had accused the United States
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New CAP Radio
Equipment Is
In Use Today
The new radio transmitter and
receaver of the Key Wett Squadron
of the Civil Air Patrol went into
operation today at 11:30 a. m.
The radio, on loan from the Air
Force, will be used in search and
rescue operations and to communi
cate with CAP stations on the main
land. according to Lt. Jim Brussow,
public information officer of the
squadron.
He said that the radio contacted
ithe CAP Florida Wing Headquart
ers at Orlando as weti as the radio
stations of several other CAP squa
jdrons in Florida.
! The equipment now is being used
for voice transmission Mid recep
tion but it can also be used for
code. The radio, with a 40-foot
high antenna, is located in the
Poinciana Community Center budd
ing.
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In perhaps the most stinging
speech he has made about Soviet
policy since he became secretary
of state, Dulles accused Molotov of
wanting “reversion to a sterile and
dangerous past” with his proposals
for a German settlement.
“It seems incredible.” be told
Molotov, British Foreign Secretary
Eden and French Foreign Minister
Bidault, “that Soviet leaders should
now be devoting themselves to re*
viving ... Franco-German hostility
and to obstructing a unification
which would realize the vision of
the wise European statesmen who
for generations have been preach
ing unity as the indispensable foun
dation for lasting peace.”
In a speech to the opening con
ference session yesterday, Molotov
denounced the proposed European
Defense Community which would
link France and Germany mili
tarily. He also generally assailed
American and Allied defense meas
ures throughout the World.
“There k Bo known substitute
for EDC,” . Dulles declared today.
“Certainly the Soviet Union has
proposed none except a return to
the obsolete, bankrupt system of
Versailles and other so • called
•peace’ treaties which have bred
war.”
Dulles continued:
“Surely statesmanship can do
better than to recreate the ’vorld’s
worst fire hazard.”
The American secretary assailed
Molotov’s opening address as a
“profound disappointment” in
bringing up familiar Russian
charges and failing to bold out any
new ideas.
But he said:
“I propose that we refuse to be
discouraged and get ahead with
our business.”
In the opening session of the
foreign ministers’ meeting yester
day Russia’s V. M. Molotov
blistered the United States. U. S.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles drafted his reply for deliv
ery at today's session.
When Molotov finished, Dulles
accused him of getting away from
the main purpose of the conference.
He said he would try to get the
parley “back on the track” today.
France’s Georges Bidault and
Britain’s Anthony Eden made it
clear in their opening speeches the
West consideres the main purpose
here is to unify Germany, begin
ning with free all-German elections,
and to complete an Austrian treaty
of independence.
Molotov spent little time en
either subject. But in the tough
game of power politics at the
heart of the Berlin meeting, Molo
tov appeared to Western diplomats
to be pursuing these deliberate
aims: '
1. To divert attention from what
American officials believe to be
Russia’s weak position in Germany
and therefore Russia’s inability to
negotiate to her advantage mi n
-ification.
2. To drive a wedge between
the United States and her allies,
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NOTICE
ANNUAL MEETING
•f
Naval Station Federal
Employees Credit Uniom
Will Be Held for the
Election of Officers
and the Declaration
of Dividends
Wednesday * January 27,
7:30 P.M. , at the
VFW Clubhouse
325 ELIZABETH STREET