Key West. Florida, has the
most equable climate in the
country, with an average
range of only 14* Fahrenheit
VOL. LXXV No. 27#
State Says
Sheppard Did
Not Cooperate
Police Officer Is
Cronn-Examtned
By Defense Ally.
By RALEIGH ALLSBROOK
CLEVELAND, (JV-How well did
lundsome Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard
cooperate with police in their in
vestigation oI his wile’s slaying
July 4?
The state contends that he gave
them very little help, that his
brothers hurried him away to hos
pital seclusion, that he refused to
take a lie detector test and that
he later clammed up under police
questioning.
Through one of the state’s own
witnesses, the defense made s
strong effort at Dr. Sheppard's
murder trial yesterday to knock
down that contention.
The witness was Fred Drenkhan.
a good-looking police officer from
suburban Bay Village, where the
murder occurred.
Drenkhan, who appeared to have
• mental filing cabinet, had been a
good witness for the state. The
chief defense attorney, William J.
Corrigan, took over on cross-ex
amination.
Hospital Visit
Bs Asked the patrolman if he
and two sheriff’s deputies hadn’t
gone to the Bay View Hospital,
where Dr. Sheppard was confined,
and questioned the osteopath Thurs
day, four days after the slaying.
•‘Yes,** Drenkhan answered.
“Did anyone interfere in any
way?” .
••No.”
“How long did you question
him?”
“Three and a half hours.”
“Did be object?”
“No*
“Was he willing to answer all
questions?”
“Yes.”
“Did he make any objections?”
“No.”
“Did you reduce whet be said to
Writing?”
“Yes.”
Wanted To Help
Corrigan also asked the witness
if Dr. Sheppard hadn’t told him
be “wanted to help as much as
possible because he was interested
in the apprehension of the murder
er more than anything else in the|
world.”
The patrolman acknowledged
that this was so; also that Dr.
Sheppard talked with officers the
next day and re-enacted his ver
sion of the murder night.
The 30-year-old defendant is ac
cused of bludgeoning his wife Mar
ilyn. 31, to death in the bedroom of
their lakefront home. Dr. Sheppard
claims an unknown intruder com
mitted the crime.
Under Turther questioning by
Corrigan, Drenkhan said he went
to Dr. Sheppard's hospital room
Jul 4, shortly after the osteopath
was taken there and took a photo
graph of the defendant m bed.
The picture, introduced in evi
dence by Corrigan, showed Dr.
Sheppard with his head thrown
back, eyes closed and face putted.
Injuries Questioned
Dr. Sheppard claims he was in
jured badly fighting with his wife’s
slayer. But the state says the in
juries consisted of nothing more
serious than a black eye and how
be got that they don’t know.
“You went freely into the room,
without interference’” Corrigan
asked.
“Yes," Drenkhan replied.
The attorney asked who “wel
comed him” and the patrolman
said Dr. 'Stephen Sheppard and Dr.
Richard Sheppard, the accused os
teopath's brothers
Corrigan questioned the witness
for almost four hours and said he
had still further questions to ask
Monday when the trial resumes
Untier direct examination. Dreak
han testified that there was no evi
dence of forced entry to the Shep
pard home and there was no sign
of a struggle on the beach. Dr
Sheppard says he fought with the
slayer in the bouse and on tfc*
beach.
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STARS RELAX—Burt Lancaster (left) and Anna Magnani relax on the set of the filming ot
"The Rose Tattoo." They still face two more weeks on the film, which is adapted from Ten
neesee Williams* play. Shooting will continue over the weekend.—Staff Photo. Don Pinder.
Shipping Men To
Survey Key West
Attorneys for a Now York
shipping firm will arrive in
Key West Sunday to conduct
facilities, it was announced to
day by City Commissioner
Louis Cerbonell.
The attorneys, led by Ben
iamin Whitestone, represent
shipping interests who ere con
• sidering the establishment of
pessengor end freight service
between New York, Key West
and New Orleans. They con
tacted Cerbonell several weeks
eg# end he was authorised by
the city commission to nego
tiate with the shipping men.
Carboneff’ said today that tho
attorneys "have shown reel in
terest In the proposal.” He add
ed that Captain C. H. Nichol
son, en executive of the Water
men Steamship Company will
be in the city shortly to con
duct a survey.
Fire Destroys
Winter Haven
News Building
WINTER HAVEN, Fla vP-Fire
early today destroyed the plant oi
the Winter Haven Daily News
Chief with a loss estimated at
8200,000, but the newspaper will
not miss any editions.
The Lakeland Lodger and a Win
ter Haven weekly, The Herald,
published by George Burr, quickly
offered their facilities to W E.
Rynerson. publisher of the Daily*
News Chief.
Rynerson said his newspaper
plant was destroyed along with i*
equipment, but his job printing
plant four doors away was not
damaged.
The fire for a time threatened
the entire city block, but hard
fighting firemen confined it to the
Daily News Chief building with
smoke and water damage to an
adjGimng children's wear shop.
Firemen Injured
Three firemen were slightly in
jured. One. John Henry- Cox, was
knocked 12 feet from a ladder by
water from a high pressure hose.
Another Donnie Mcßrayer. a vol
unteer. fell through the roof but
was caught by other firemen and
dragged back. The third man, Ed
Wiles, also a volunteer, was burned
on the shou’-der.
“The plant was manned until 11
p. m., when the last employe went
home. At midnight passersby then
noticed smoke and called the fire
department,” said Rynerson. “By
the time firefighters got there it
was going strong.
“It apparently started in the pa
per zoom, where newspnat was
kept, and spread from there.
“Firemen are still pouring w ater
on it this morning. We haven't been
able to get inside yet but there
isn't a chance of using the building
again. The presses and linotypes
will have to be dismantled, cleaned
and damaged parts replaced and
reassembled.
“We won't miss any edition*,
thanks to offers for use of their
facilities by the Lakeland Ledger
and the Weekly Herald.”
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RISING STAR—Ben Cooper, rising young Hollywood afar who
gained renown for his part in “Johnny Guitar.” will give local
theater aspirants a boost today when he'll be a guest at the Key
West Drama Festival in the High School. He's shown studying
his lines on the set of 'The Rose Tattoo" now being filmed in
Key West.—Citizen Staff Photo. Don Pinder.
i'ree-Lovin® Hermit Lives Simple
Life In Lonely Hideaway In Japan
TOKYO Back in 1912—50 the
f story goes—Yoshio Suda was false
;ly accused of illegally cutting
i trees. He was 26 and a great lover
of the woods.
In the anguish of his deep hurt,
he retreated to a lonely hideaway
in a northern Honshu mountain
valley.
The newspaper Asalu told the
rest of Soda’s story today.
There he lavished his love of
I vegetation on a bleak mountain
| side. Every day he set out see-1
1 lings and cultivated them carefully
.until they were strong enough to
make their own way.
“Cedars can be trusted much
i more than human beings.” he
ionre confided to a friend on one
lof his infrequent visits to the
j village at the base of the moun
i tain.
| He lived simply on nee obta.ned
through barter
Over the years his tiny trtvs
| grew into a towering forest of 13,-
j 000 trees, and the idory of hi* life
became a legend.
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Then one day. 12 years ago, love
came into his life. A geisha girl
came to live with him. She stayed
a year and left. Three years later
she returned and stayed two more
years.
lr 1949 she died, the villagers
say, and Suda resumed his solitary
existence.
He now is 68 and still professes
to hate the outside world. He
would rather live with hw trees.
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Counterclaim By County
Governors Hear Of South’s
Chance For Industrial Growth
BOCA RATON, Fla. UW-An in
dustrial research organization re
; ported to the Southern Governors
Conference today the South has
an opportunity for even greater
industrial expansion in the next
!20 years provided it gets alert
and aggressive leadership.
The report came from the South
ern Association of Science and
Industry, Inc., Atlanta, which was
charged by the conference last
year to make estimates of oppor
tunities for future industrial de
velopment.
The association said increased
purchasing power of the South had
attracted more new plants and
industrial facilities than any other
one factor, and that the South’s
indusrial and consumer markets
would undoubtedly be a vital factor
in industrial expansion through
1975.
Some fields for which the or
ganization saw prospects for sub
stantial increase were textile pro
ducts, farm products, steel plants,
forestry products and industrial
chemicals.
Recreational Needs
The report also noted there
would be a sharp increase in the
need for recreational facilities and
services in the South.
“It has been estimated that the
average factory work week will be
37 hours or less by 1975. and the
worker will have much more lei
sure time,” the report said.
“Moreover, there will be a larg
er number of retired people in the
oorelation since the average life
spi’ris now increasing at the av
erage of six months each year. The
increased use of pension systems
in industry will also contribute to
the influx of retired people in the
southern states."
A round table on industrial de
velopment led by Gov. William C.
Marland of West Virginia, was a
highlight of the final session ef
the three-day conference.
Gov. Lawrence W. Wetherby of
Kentucky appeared to be in line
for election as conference chair
man, replacing Gov. Johnston
Murray of Oklahoma.
The new chairman was to be
elected and resolutions adopted at
an executive session this afternoon.
Johns’ Resolution
The resolutions committee has
been at work on about a dozen
resolutions for possible conference
consideration. The one holding the
greatest public interest is by Act
ing Gov. Charley E. Johns of
Florida proposing a constitutional
amendment to provide separate’
but equal public school facilities
for the races.
The resolution, if adopted, would
urge President Eisenhower to call
a special session of Congress to
propose the amendment. In the
event the President failed to act.
the governors would be asked to
MARILYN GETS HOME
HOLLYWOOD iH—Actress Mari
lyn Monroe, unusually pale and a
bit unsteady of foot, left Cedars of
Lebanon hospital yesterday for her
home in Beverly Hills. She under
went minor surgery lest Monday.
LIONS CLUB MEETS
The Lions Club dispensed with
business during the regular weekly *
meeting held Thursday night to en
able the members to attend the
Veterans Day parade.
! submit the matter to their legis
latures.
Most of the governors attending
the conference declined to com
ment for publication on the reso
lution relating to the segregation
issue. Gov. James F. Byrnes of
South Carolina told a news con
ference he favored the objective
and was sympathetic to it as a
“vehicle of protest” but didn’t be
lieve it was practical.
Most of the governors made it
plain at the outset that they
thought each state should decide
for itself what course it should
pursue in meeting the Supreme
Court order knocking out segre
gation in the public schools.
Local Rotary
Club To See
Special Film
Oub President
Reports Action
At District Meet
Key West Rotarians heard
their president, Paul J. Sher,
give his report on the re
cent district conference held
in Ft Lauderdale at the
club’s regular luncheon
meeting at the La Concha
Hotel on Thursday.
Sher announced that the Key
West Rotary Oub, the oldest dub
in the district, had been selected
to be the first club in the district
to see the film produced especial
ly for Rotary’s Golden Anniversary
celebration.
The film will be shown at the
February 23 meeting of the local
club.
I Key Westers
Sher said he was proud of the
representation the local club had
at the conference with eight mem
bers in attendance. Many of the
clubs closer to Ft. Lauderdale had
only two or three members in
their delegations.
Some of the principal speakers
during the conference were presi
dent of the West Palm Beach club,
Phil O’Connell, Dr. Roger Turner,
Miami Rotary Club president. Hal
sey B. Knapp, a director of Ro
tary Intemation. and James Kel
ler, past district governor.
O'Connell was the speaker at the
Fellowship dinner and Turner, a
Miami dentist, told of the work the
Dade County Dental Society was
doing for indigent dental cases.
Club Fundamentals
Knapp spoke on the fundamen
tals and principles of Rotary as
exemplified In the “Four-Way
Test.”
He recommended that other clubs
follow the lead of the Daytona
Beach club and supply the local
schools with framed copies of the
Rotary’s “yardstick”.
The Hollywood Rotary present
ed a play “China Doll” stresaing
the international service aspects of
Rotary’s fiftieth anniversary.
Keller gave the history of the
Rotary Clubs in District 243 and
stressed that Rotary is not a civic
club, but a service club and that
Rotanans are the leaders in pro
jects for the good of their com
munities. *
Visitors Introduced
Eight visiting Rotarians at the
local meeting were introduced by
Art Hunt, fellowship chairman.
Guy Booney of Springfield, Illi
nois. the first "snowbird'’ to re
turn this year waa greeted with a
loud chorus of catcalls and boos.
The greeting is reserved (or visit
ing Rotanans who are really “part
time” members of the Key West
Oub
Other visiting Rotanans were H
G. Braxton, Kinston. N C.; Don
C. Merryman. Dearborn. Michigan:
Jean Hecbt, Toms River, N.
Harry Arneson, Waukesha. Wiscon
sin; Dr. G. W. Tinsler. Ft Worth.
Texas; Bob Whitten, Knoxville.
Tenn.; and Charles D. Ruler, Red
Lion, Pennsylvania.
NAL Charges Failure To
State A Cause Of Action
By DENIS SNEIGR
J. Lancelot Lester, National Airlines attorney, yester*
da> afternoon filed an answer to the county’s counter
claim in the NAL-Monroe County Circuit Court suit
The reply was the latest round in the legal battle which
began last month when the county moved to evict NAL
from Meacham Airport for non-payment of rent.
NAL countered with a
Circuit Court suit to stop
the county from evicting
the airline and from collect
ing 50-cents for every pass
enger using the field.
Circuit Court Judge Aquilino
Lopez. Jr., granted the tempor
ary injuction October 18.
County* Answer
On November 6. Paul Sawyer,
county legal adviser, filed the coun
ty’s answer and counterclaim.
NAL’a reply yesterday to the
counterclaim says the “counter
claim tails to state a cause of ac
tion.”
In the second defense in the
reply, NAL “alleges that the acta
of the defendant in assessing the
charges” 5O-cents per person
“were improper and unauthor
ized, were arbitrary, capricious,
discriminatory and unreasonable,
constituted an attempt by defen
dant (Monroe County) to deprive
plaintiff (NAL) of its property and
liberty without due process of law
in contravention to tile guarantee*
of the State and Federal Constitu
tions and constituted an attempt
by defendant to impose an unrea-!
sonable burden upon Interstate
commerce.”
Fae Schedule “Void”
The reply further says that NAL
“denies that the alleged schedule
of fees ever went Into effect and
says that the schedule of fees)
is and has always been void and •
of no effect."
The county put the new rate
schedule for Meacham Airport in
to effect last January 1. Hie ac
tion was taken at a previous meet
ing of the board of county com
missioners.
NAL’S reply also says on “in
formation and belief that no com
mercial operator at Meacham
Airport has paid defendant in ac
cordance with the alleged schedule
of fees.”
County commissioners have said
at their regular meetings that
Aerovias Q has paid according to
the new rate structure ever since
it went into effect.
Aeravias Q Fays
Aerovias Q collects 50 cents from
each Q passenger landing or tak
| ing off at the field and turns the
1 money over to the county.
NAL’s reply yesterday also de
nies that NAL owes the county
$6,641 in rent from January 1,
j 1954, through October 31. 1954, and
adds that NAL “is in doubt as to
j whether there is any sum of money
now due and payable to defendant
by plaintiff.”
NAL’* reply concludes by ask
! ing the court to “dismiss defen
dants counterclaim with prejudice
and at the cost of defendant.”
NAL’s reply was signed by Don
G. Nicholson of the Miami law
firm of Anderson, Scott, McCar
thy, and Preston.
In its County Court suit to evict
NAL from Meacham Airport, the
county said NAL owed 85.144 in
rent from January 1 to August 31,
1954.
Bill Now U. 441
In his reply for the county on
November 6. Sawyer said the rent I
due now had risen to 86.661.
The NAL-County squabble dates
to last January 1 when the new
rate structure at the airport went
into effect
NAL balked at paying the 50-
cents per passenger fee and
promptly cancelled two of its
three daily flights between here j
and Miami.
This curtailment of air service i
came at the height of the tourut'
season, causing groans from tome
businessmen here.
The dropped flights were restored
a few months later
NAL executives sod the county
’ commissioners met several time*
|in an effort to get together on •
rate schedule for Meacham that
would suit both sides
Each meeting resulted in fail.
ur and the court action followed.
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State Journal
Lauds Local
Police Dept.
Steve Atkina Get*
Special Mention
For Courtesy
The local police depart*
ment’g courtesy campaign,
sparked by Chief B. G. Per
ez, was the subject of a f.
lure article in the Septem
ber-October issue of the
Florida Police Journal.
Accompanying the article is
picture of the force and its motor
ized equipment.
The article briefly discusses tho
traffic pmb'ems brought on by the
great influx of tourists in the win
ter and the large number of per
sonnel necessary to man the num
eroua naval stations in this ares.
Fares Frsited
“(hief B G. Perez, highly re
garded in the community, contm
ually stresses the importance of
courtesy to the public and be ar.d
his officers have won the respect
of the entire area became of the
gentlemanly manner in which they
carry out their duties of law en
forcement." the article says.
In “Round the State,” a regular
feature of the magazine with newg
of police departments all over Flo
rida, Officer Steve Atkina gets a
pat on the back for "apparently
Uking the lead in the Key West
Police Department's courtesy cam
paign. Twice within 10 days • de
fendant in city court pointed out
that Atkins was well mannered and
courteous even though he bad ar
rested them.”
SURPRISE MEETING
OIDDINGS, Tex. Ji—Hr. and
Mrs. Tom Thames met at the hos
pital here the other day.
Thames had caught two fingers
of his right hand in a jointer
planer while working on a car
penter job. His wife had broken
her right arm in a faD at home.
Neither knew of the other’s ac
cident until they arrived at tfan
hospital at the same time. Both
*re left handed.
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