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VOL. LXXV Ns. 187
Rep. Papy Re-Elected By Record Margin
How Monroe County Voted
Unofficial Returns
(For Other Returns, See Page 4)
CANDIDATES w w * * m m i • • 5 5 5 2 S 5 3* in
State Bmti i
FRANKLIN 144 111 if 11S 84 68 S3 78 53 73 78 45 12S 102 122 124 120 1588
orisham 10 * t ‘ y t 1 12 ao 2 10 io is 33 ss 22 13 • 236
NEBLETT IM lit 171 218 108 88 183 18f 181 182 271 Iff 4tl 213 238 if 83 3284
PAMtOTT 33 70 10 91 03 27 38 04 40 32 30 20 117 77 20 13 18 889
Hipminti ti t>
HARVEY * 147 M 00 140 123 32 110 143 84 Of 131 fl 272 Iff Iff 79 183 2137
KINO • 14 0 32 47 40 U 47 29 24 28 80 S7 132 107 45 21 36 771
PART 034 400 130 387 183 143 171 221 202 210 280 148 414 374 340 100 134 4222
Count? Gommkeion,
2nd District—
BENTLEY 100 100 98 00 02 31 100 17 91 109 127 91 213 191 lf7 199* 90 1379
BETHEL 35 42 40 71 71 19 33 Of 35 80 77 42 125 97 81 22 30 972
FREEMAN _ 139 153 110 239 187 97 134 143 138 123 218 122 349 180 S3 01 135 2575
Count? Commission* ~
4th District— ?)•
CATES ' 153 130 100 229 204 00 133 177 189 148 204 l 384 204 148 80 114 2884
SAUNDERS 293 290 134 209 199 114 149 170 118 155 190 144 344 244 297 148 129 3201
School Board.
Third District—
ROBERTS 133 140 110 193 174 03 147 182 99 133 195 109 203 214 122 53 99 2421
WATSON * 103 134 113 202 149 90 123 137 149 .180 219 130 423 258 228 154 159 2883
Johns, Collins Face Second Campaign
Top Candidates
Will Vie For
dham’t Votes
B? THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Acting Gw, Charley E. John*
and abate Sen. Leßoy Cofline set
out today in a three-week runoff
ffiwpiga 8a capture the 17?,000
votes that went to defeated candi
date Brailey Odham in Tuesday’s
tint Democratic primary for (he
Florida governorship.
The runoff is necessary because
none of the three got the neces
sary majority to win the nomina
tion that mean* almost certain
election in Florida. Johns led with
37.6 per cent of the vote, Collin#
sot 33.7 and Odham 26.7.
o£m quickly threw his full
support to Collins, who ran ®*cood
to Johns. Collins promptly replied
he’d be happy to have it.
But Johns said Odham couldnt
“deliver the votes” of his support
ers to Collins and he felt he would
get a majority of them because
“the people who voted for Odham
are the same kind of little people
who supported me.”
Unofficial returns from 1,645 of
the state’s 1,724 precincts gave
Collins 210,114, Johns 232,537, Od
ham 178,427.
Both Collins and Johns wall be
faced with a problem of getting the
voters out for the second primary
May 25 for selection of a Demo
crat for the two remaining years
of (he late Gov. Dan McCarty’s
term
They’ll be running by themselves
in most counties because nearly
all the local and district contests
that help stir up political interest
were settled yesterday.
J. Tom Watson, former Demo
cratic state attorney general, ap
parently won the Republican gov
ernorship nomination with ease.
Returns from 803 of the 1,724 pre
cincts—many of which have no
Republicans—gave Watson 19,929
to 9,673 for Charles E. Compton
of Miami, a television repairman
and former jockey.
Incumbent Democratic utilities
Commissioners Jerry W. Carter
and Wilbur C. King swamped
their opponents. All the primary
contests for Congress—both Dem
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THANK YOU
To those who supported me in yes
terday's election • •.thank you irom the
bottom of my heart.
C.B. HARVEY.
Um VMt Cififcn
Armed Forces
Day Parade
Entries Lag
Entries of Floats, Marching Un
its and other units to participate
in this year’s Armed Forces Day
Parade to be held on Saturday,
May 15, at 6:30 p. m. ire being
received very slowly by the Arm
ed Forces Day parade committee
of Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, Am
erican Legion it was announced to
day.
Judsjgon Stephens, Chairman of
the Parade Committee said (hat
the response to th year’s cele
bration seems to be slacking off
for some unknown reason.
Four beautiful trophies are being
offered by the Legion as follows
for participants in the parade:
Best Military Float, Best Civilian
Float, Best Marching Unit and
Best Band. The theme of the floats
will follow the Armed Forces Day
Theme, “Power For Peace.” This
theme will be carried out through
out the entire celebration.
Route Given
The* parade will be along Duval
Street, starting from the corner of
Duval and Front Street, along Tru
man Avenue, to Bayview Park,
where R will disband. The parade
wil move promptly at 6:30 p. m.
with units assembling at 5:45
p. m.
At approximately twenty minutes
before parade time at 6:10 p. m.
a fly-over of jet planes will take
place through the courtesy of the
United States Navy. The jets will
fly up Duval in low formation turn
ing at Truman and proceed to
Bayview Park. After passing Bay
view Park the {fanes will return
over the same route in single for
mation.
The reviewing stand will be lo
cated at the interesectiou of Duval
and Southard Streets. Letters of in
vitation have been mailed to guests
and judges that are to be on the
reviewing stand.
A United States Military Band
has been requested to participate
in the parade this year. The con
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THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A.
Grand Jury Meets
County's busy grand
hiry met at If e. m. today with
J. Lencelet Lester, state's ah
tarnay.
Seventeen asambars ef
Jury shewed up far today's
session.
Physical Checks
For Harris First
Graders Put Off
Physical examinations for chil
dren who wiU enter the first grade
at Harris School next fall have
been postponed, it was announced
today by Horace O’Bryant, super
intendent of public instruction.
The examinations will be given
sometime after May 28 the date
to be announced.
The gamma globulin inoculations
to be given at the schools tomor
row and Friday caused the post
ponement.
Physical examinations for pros
pective first graders will be given
at the following schools on the dat
es indicated:
Truman, May 10 and 14; Dou
glass, May 17 and 21; Poinciana
May 24 and 28.
Name Change Asked
AMES, lowa (A—The City Coun
cil has received a petition signed
by 30 Ames citizens asking that
the name of McCarthy Road here
be changed “to some other, whole
some name.”
The road, a residential street,
was named after an old Ames
family and not for Sen. McCarthy
(R-Wis).
To the Tolers of
Monroe County
Words cannot ex
press my deepest
appreciation of the
vote given me in
yesterday's election
—Your faith in me
will never be forgot
ten.
Keller Watson
KSY WIST. FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY. MAY 5. 1954
Ike Says UJ§.
Has Lost Fajce
Over Hassle
McCarthy-Army
Row Blamed For
Lots Of Prestige
WASHINGTON (M) — President
Eisenhower said today the United
States has suffered a loss of in
ternational prestige as a result of
the row between Sen. McCarthy
and the Army.
His assertion was made at
news conference at which Eisen
hower also issued a formal state
ment declaring his unqualified sup
port for Secretary of State Dulles
and for Dulles’ efforts to form a
united front against Communism
in Southeast Asia.
On these two main subjects, the
President told newsmen:
McCarthy-Army: He knows of
nothing which would cause him
to lose confidence in Secretary of
the Army Stevens so far as ad
ministration of the Army Depart
ment’s business is concerned.
On that basis, Eisenhower said
emphatically, he backs Stevens to
the limit.
A reporter reminded Eisenhower
that be had expressed the hope at
his news conference last week that
the Senate inquiry would be ended
quickly.
The newsman added that only
yesterday the Army counsel at the
hearing objected to a Republican
proposal to cut the hearings short.
The President was asked, wheth
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THE CHAMP—Bernie C. Papy, decisive winner in yesterday's
race for Slate Representative, is shown here as he greeted ad
mirers after his victory over Mayor C. B. Harvey and Dave
King, former city manager.—Citizen Staff Photo, Kami.
Army Counsel Derides Letter
To FBI As “Perfect Phony”
WASHINGTON ÜB—Army counsel
.derided £S “a perfect phony” to
day ke u tter Sen. McCarthy in
jected into hearings on his row
with Army officials and identified
by McCarthy as a communication
from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoov
er to the Army on Jan. 26, 1951.
McCarthy scrapped back that the
substance was essentially the same
as warnings the FBI had sent the
Army about security risks and
radar secrets.
This was not disputed by the one
man in the hearing room with the
most knowledge about the matter—
USS Bushnell
Will See Duty
In Norfolk Area
NORFOLK, Va. During the
month of May, the submarine ten
der Orion, mothership of Submar
ine Squadron Six, is scheduled for
local operations, a change of com
mand, being relieved of duties and
going into the yard for an over
haul.
Monday, May 3 the Orion got
under way with her future skipper,
Capt. W. T. Kinsella, USN, for a
week’s operations on emergency
stations and battle drills.
The change of command of the
Orion is Saturday, May 8. Capt.
W. R. will be relieved and
depart later in the month for Key
West, Fla, to assume command of
Submarine Squadron Twelve.
Preparations for the tender’s de
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Robert A. Collier, a member of
special counsel for the Senate In
vestigations subcommittee.
Collier wai given the* 6f
checking up on the document after
McCarthy produced it late yester
day.
The committee attorney went to
the witness chair to give his report.
He testified he had taken the docu
ment to Hoover and that the FBI
director had told him:
“This letter produced yesterday
is not a carbon copy or copy of
any communication prepared or
sent by the FBI to Gen. Bolling
Jan. 2y, 1951 or any other date.”
McCarthy and Roy M. Cohn.
McCarthy’s counsel, had described
the three-page document yesterday
as a copy of a letter from Hoover
to Maj. Gen. A. R. Bolling, dated
Jan. 26, '1951, when Bolling was
intelligence chief for the Army.
Collier testified that Hoover told
him there is in the FBI files a
15-page interdepartmental memo
randum, written in a different
form and with no signature at all.
McCarthy put in that the docu
ment he and Cohn sought to intro
duce contained verbatim quotes
from the 15-page memo. He said
the document itself included the
notation that certain security mfor
mation had been omitted.
Joseph N. Welch, Army counsel,
moved in with obvious enthusiasm
to question Collier. It was in his
queries that he termed the Mc-
Carthy document “a perfect
phony” and “a carbon copy of pre
cisely nothing.”
Even while this was going on,
President Eisenhower told his news
conference the McCarthy - Army
row has lost international prestige
for the United States. He said he
hoped the country could derive ad
vantages from it to offset this loss.
Eisenhower said,- too, he has
every confidence in Secretary of
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Thank You
My sincere thanks to
all Monroe County vot
ers for their loyal sup
port.
DANTE
FASCELL.
Franklin, Neblett To Compete
In Run-Off For State Senate
By JIM COBB
It was the greatest victory of his political career for
State Representative Bernie C. Papy when he was swept
into office for the 11th time in yesterday’s first primary
election.
Papy polled 4,222 votes—exactly 60 per cent of the
ballots cast in his race—to defeat Mayor C. B. Harvey
and former city manager Dave King.
Harvey conceded the election after only three pre
cincts had reported. Papy went on to pile up a plurality
of 1,294 votes over his op-"
ponents—the biggest mar
gin he has received in 10
elections since 1934. Harvey
drew 2,157 votes and King
received 771 votes.
In 1952, Papy defeated J.
Y. Porter, IV, by a margin
of 1,277 votes, but yester
day’s vote eclipsed that rec
ord.
Sonata Raco Runoff
Meanwhile, in the race for the
Senate, Monroe County’s William
R. Neblett was forced into a run
off with incumbent James A.
Franklin of Ft. Myers.
Neblett won a majority of the
votes in Monroe County but fell off
in the three mainland counties. He
gained 3,264 votes here while
Franklin received 1,588. Two other
candidates in that race, Travis A.
Gresham and Milton A. Parrott re
ceived 236 and 869 votes respective
ly.
Franklin gained the edge in Lee
County, his home grounds.
But Gresham gained victories in
Collier and Hendry Counties.
The totals:
Lee County: Franklin, 2,850,
Gresham, 2,554; Neblett, 997 . and
Parrott, 82.
Collier County: Gresham, 1,173;
Franklin, 021; Netifrtt, 390 and
Parrott, 81.
Hendry County: Gresham, 766;
Franklin, 680; Neblett, 219 and
Parrott, 49.
Edge To Franklin
Franklin piled up an edge in that
race with a total of 5,739 votes.
Neblett gained a spot in the sec
ond primary with 4,860 ballots and
Gresham was barely eliminated
with 4,728 votes.
Gerald A. Saunders, chairman of
the county commission, was vir
tually assured of re-election when
he received 3,261 votes as com
pared with 2,864 for William E.
Cates —a margin of 397 votes.
However, 583 absentee ballots have
yet to be tabulated.
The county commission tackled
that task this morning but are not
expected to finish until late today
or tomorrow.
Keller Watson apparently was
elected to the Monroe County
School Board from the third dis
trict. He polled 2,883 votes as com
| pared with incumbent J. Carlyle
Roberts’ 2,421. The final outcome
of that race also depends on the
tabulation of the absentee ballots.
Commission Runoff
In the race for a seat on the
county commission from the sec
ond district, William A. Freeman,
Jr., led the field and will compete
in a runoff election May 25 with
the second place candidate, incum
bent Frank Bentley. Freeman re
ceived 2,575 votes and Bentley, 1,-
879. Rodman J. Bethel was eli
minated from the race when he
received 972 votes.
Veteran political observers hail
ed the fact that acting governor
Charley E. Johns carried Monroe
County as something of an upset.
Johns received 2,314 votes while
Brailey Odham polled 2,235 ballots.
Leroy Collins trailed with 1,890
votes.
Givens Takes Monroe
In the race for the Congressional
seat being vacated by William
Lantaff, Key West bom Robert H.
Givens piled up a lead. He receiv
ed 1,966 votes followed closely
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The word seems so small and inade
quate, but I know of no other way to put
it, than to say to all of you,
THANKS
For Your Vote and Support in
Tuesday's Election
BERNIE C. PAPY
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Who Did What
At Tavernier?
Rumors Abound As
To What Did Or Did
Not Happen On Keys
By DENIS SNEIGN
Who did what if anything to
who at Tavernier last night?
That question was being kicked
around here today as the city
slowed down from yesterday’s high
speed election tempo.
The rumors about the Tavernier
business were all over the place.
The Associated Press office in
Miami told The Citizen that a
Miami newspaper had reported
that the home of Harlow Belding
at Tavernier had been invaded by
a mob led by Harry Harris, county
commissioner.
Denial Made
Both Mrs. Belding and Harris
denied this.
So have another rumor:
The Miami newspaper, accord
ing to the AP, said Belding pulled
a gun on Harris.
Harris said he didn’t see anyone
with a gun.
Mr*. Belding said her husband
dM hate a gun in his hand.
We asked both Harris and Mrs.
Belding for their story about what
happened last night at Tavernier.
Mr. Belding was not available
when we phoned.
Here is what Harris said:
Just A Serenade
“We just serenaded the Beld
ings. I was in one of the 15 or 20
cars that drove by the Beldings’
home last night. We were blow
ing the horns,” Harris said.
The Beldings, it was learned,
had supported Mayor C. B. Har
vey in his unsuccessful bid for
Bernie C. Papy’s seat in the state
house of representatives.
“We were kidding and razzing
the Beldings about supporting the
loser,” Harris added. ‘‘lt was all
good natured kidding. We even
quoted a campaign slogan that
was used in Tavernier.”
Harris said the slogan went like
this:
Be Happy with Papy; Starve
with Harvey.
Harris Explains
“No one,” Harris continued,
did any damage to the Belding
home or to their place of business
or to them personally.”
When asked if Belding pulled a
gun on him, Harris said:
“No.”
“Did you see anyone with a
gun?” Harris was asked.
“No,” he repeated. ‘‘l saw no
one with a gun.”
Mrs. Belding, who operates a
frozen custard stand on U. S. 1
at Tavernier, had this to say:
“We were at home last night
about 10:50 o’clock. Mr. and Mrs.
Abraham Cohen were visiting us.
They also live in Tavernier.
Anonymous Call
“An anonymous phone caller
said that a cavalcade of cars was
wrecking the Cohen home.
“The Cohens,” Mrs. Belding
continued, “left our house and
got in their car. Harry Harris, in
a car, and some other cars, drove
up.”
Mrs. Belding added that Harris
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