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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-02-25
Five Shot AS
Gunner Invade


NEW YORK, Feb. IS pl
Several gunner tried to hold up
New York nightclub. the Mo-
roccan Village, in Greenwich
Village, early this morning
There were more than 100 pa
irons in the place. The leader of
the gunner showed a singer away
from the microphone. Patrons re-
port that the leader said, over
the microph6ne: i've got six
others with me"
Panic and confusion followed,
and then the shooting started.
Five persons were injured, IN
Guiding a police detective.
Two men were seized in d taxi
shortly after the attempted rob
berry. One Of the injured IS being
held a prisoner in the hospital.
Here are the names Of the five
persons injured, including the
detective and the hospitalized
~ @-Att4--<-
Detective John O'NeiII, shot ii
the right leg.
James Ford 81 Philadelphia,
shot ii the stomach he's the In
jued prisoner. And his condition
is critical.
Paul Knips Of Ford's N. j., shot
In the right arm and left chest
Jean Evol, an entertainer. shot
in the right leg.
Bobby Dell, patron Of the
nightclub, shot in the left arm
and left hip.
The two men seized in the taxi
are John Shelb Of New York and
George WarrelI Of Philadelphia.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-02-25
Two Firemell
Take Exams
For Advancing

Two city firemen appeared at
City Hall today to take exami-
nations for the position of leu
tenant and of captain in the Fire
Department.
They were Lieutenant Douglas
Papy who took the examination
for captain, and Fireman Berlin
Al. Sawyer, Jr., who took the
examination for lieutenant.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-02-25

Police Department today an
nounced the arrest of two U. S.
sailors and the implication OF
others in connection with numer-
Gus thefts recently reported by
owners of automobiles.
Arrested were John NJ. Roark,
10. and Lem o. Tranum. 10, both
members OF the crew of the USS
Howard W. Gilmore, who were
fakens by PatroIman Marios SAM
lana near the Casa Marina. Hotel.
sapkphsl h Civilian Clothes
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-02-25

Roark and Tranum, as belonging
TO him.
Eugene j. Hasemiller, of Mono
nonee Falls. Wis, a visitor at the
Casa Marina. reported that sew
eral items had been stripped from
his car by thieves. He has not
come in yet to identity the arti-
cles found IN the car.
Implicaie Others s,,
Roark and Tranum are said to
have implicated several other
sailors in the recent thefts Of the
contents Of cars. The Navy Shore
Patrol is cooperating with the
Police in their investigation OF
the thefts 6
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-02-25

Ramsey Van Duersen For Steam
Ernest Ramsey was outspolen
for steam, Steam is the recom-
mendation Of consulting engi-
nocrs. r. w. Beck, Of Columbus,
Nebraska.
General Manager c. A. Van
Duersen is likewise for steam. He
also stated that either steam on
additional diesel engines would
cost approximately $2,30O,000. He
maintained that there would be
little difference in cost of either
installation.
Eisner Likes Diesel
Board Chairman Louis NJ. j.
Eisner was satisfied that diesel
was the answer.
Al the next meeting, the Board
may vote conversion to steam,
bat yesterday the picture looked
like diesel was the winner.
Board mcmber c. B. Harvey.
brought out the statement that
when demand drops to below
3.500 HIP. that economy of steam
operation Is hampered This
seemingly IS not 50 when the de-
mand remains above the $500
HIP.
General Manager C. A. Van
Dutgsen reminded the Commits
ion fhal b his opinion, the con-
suItlna engineer firm Of R. w.
Beck was never wrong in their
recommendations. Van Duersen
asked the board to view steam
plants N operation at Tallahassee,
Gainesville or Fremont, Nebras-
ka
something New
The General Manager main
tanned that the diesel engines Of
the size in operation in Mexico
City were something new, and
that Il was not a proven piece of
equipment They are expert
menting. while steam has been
used for years" concluded Van
Duersen.
Board member Ernest Ramsey
inquired OF Utility Board At
lorney J. Lancelot Lester if it
were not o fact that the City
Commission would have the final
say on both the issuance Of the
bonds and the steam or diesel de-
cision.
Gives Legal Opinion
Lester replied that reServing
the right to change his decision
and purely in an off-hand opinion
that he believed The city could
accomplish defeat by refusing to
give the money, but that ethey
could not reverse the boards de-
cision as to whether Steam or
diesel should be used.
Lester maintained that the city
could not be forced TO issue the
bonds, but that the law gave the
Continued On Page Severn
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Garcia
Appointed
AS P trOllnan

Ismael Garcia, Jr., was given a
probationary appointment as a
city patrolman, it was announced
today by City Manager Ralph p.
Spalding.
Garcia's name was taken from
the eligible list as certified by
the Civil Service Board.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-02-25
NoDeciisiion Made
On DieseI, Steam
BY Utility Board
Vote Postponed Until March 10
Meeting On HarUey's Request

Hssars UhiY the City Electric System
tr neaY discussed the momenious
asedna purchase addi-
Neasl atss1l eagne uniiE
board ready cast their ballots.
1.l G. n. Harvey, asked for time.
kalH until two weeks from yesterday
4aI Mal1t la a. make Is decision in the matter
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-02-25
Customs Officials Stop Seizure
OF Slot Machines Off SIS. Florida

MIAMI Feb. 25VF9.-The gambling almost to
last night The SIS Florida delayed sailing about an hour and
twenty minutes 70 allow state officers customs
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Retail Milk Prices
Rise ; Times Faster
Than | Year Ago

Retail milk prices are rising at
a rate three times that of year
ago, the Agriculture Department
discloses.
The Bureau Of Agricultural
Economics said yesterday it had
reports of retail price increases
early this month from IS cities.
1t added:
about one in every three cities
reporting indicated higher retail
prices than in September. In Oc-
tober last year about one in every
10 markets reporting indicated
higher retail milk prices than in
the previous month
Increases, the agency continued,
were reported from all parts of
the country.
The survey showed that the re-
tail price for standard. home
delivered milk in "a major cities
averaged 20.7 cents a quart. In
the Washington area, however,
the price is % cents quart.
This is the highest on record
for Washington and results from
action of the Virginia Milk Com
mission last month in granting a
request of the Maryland and Vir-
ginia Milk Producers Association
for a half-cent a quart rise be-
cause of higher production costs.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Cashier Accused Of Theft
OF $4,000 by Credit Union

A former cashier of the Navy
Yard Credit Union of Washing
ton yesterday was held on a charge
of embezzling $4,000.
Daniel j. limbs. "a, of the 34OO
block of Tenth place Sc. father
of two children, was held on $4,000
bond by United States Commis-
sioner Cyril S. Lawrence, who con-
tinued the case until october 25
limbs, who disappeared August
Is, surrendered to the Federal
Bureau of Investigation at his
home early today.
An FBI spokesman said they
were notified of the shortage by
the president of the credit union
Immediately after limbs disap-
peared. The FBI said limbs had
told friends he was going to visit
a sister in Wyoming. They later
learned he had gone to Cuba, how
ever. A complaint charging en-
bezzlement was filed August 81.
The spokesman said limbs visited
the United States counsul at Ha-
vana. Cuba, Saturday and said he
understood he was wanted in
Washington and was returning.
The FBI said limbs few back
and telephoned the bureau today
He has refused to make any state
ment, they said.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Gov. Warren Gusts
Dade County Sheriff
By the Associated Press

MIAMI, Fla, Oct. 17.-Populous
Dade County was without a sheriff
today after the suspension OF
Jimmy Sullivan.
Dade County Commissioner Jesse
H Marlborough refused to accept
appointment offered him by Gov
Fuller Warren, who suspended Mr.
Sullivan yesterday.
Mr.. Sullivan was removed after
his indictment on six counts by
a special Dade County grand jury.
The indictment charged incom-
petence and neglect of duty.
Under the wording of the six
count indictment, Mr.. Sullivan
cannot be prosecuted in court.
Robert H. Givens, special coun-
sci for the grand jury. said the
offenses charged are punishable
only by removal or suspension
from Office.
Mr.. Sullivan was charged with
permitting widespread gambling
to operate unmolested in Dade
County-which includes the cities
of Miami and Miami Beach
using his power of Office to permit
Harry Russell of Chicago to
muscle into the S & G syndicate,
allowing his deputies to coerce
gambling houses. keeping money
seized in gambling raids and ac-
cepting bribes from gamblers to
assure unmolested operation.
The Crime Commission of
Greater Miami led a demand for
Mr.. Sullivan'S removal,
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Israeli Cabinet Crisis
Debated byPa arIiament
BY the Associoted Press

JERUSALEM, oct. 17.-Israels
Parliament meets again today to
debate ways of getting the young
republic out of its first cabinet
crisis. The crisis followed the
resignation of Premier David Ben
Gurion.
Mr.. Ben-Gurion told the Knes-
set (Parliament) yesterday he had
been unable to form new cabinet
in the past "a hours. He asked
the lawmakers to set new elec-
tions without delay and authorize
a caretaker minority government
to carry on in the meantime.
The last proposal found little
support in yesterdays debate.
Mr.. Ben-Gurion, who headed a
four-party coalition, proposed that
the caretaker government be COM
posed of eight members, seven
from his own Mapai Uabor) Party
plus one Sefardi Party minister.
Mr.. Ben-Gurion resigned Sum-
day night after three religious
bloc members left his government
in opposition to a recent cabinet
shift proposed to tackle Israels
financial problem. The religious
bloc members. representing
coalition of the devout and ortho-
dox members of the Knesset, held
the portfolios of religion, social
welfare and interior.
President Chain Weizmann
asked Mr.. Ben-Gurion to try to
form a new cabinet.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
'Shoofingest Policeman
Kills Man in Baltimore
BY The Assoeioied Press

BALTIMORE, Oct. 17.-Patrol-
man Jerome Glass, known along
Pennsylvania avenue here as Bal
timore's "shootingest policeman, !"
killed another man today.
Answering a call obout dis
turbance at a card-playing hang
out, Patrolman Glass reported to
investigators that he chased four
colored men out back door OF
the place into an alley.
The patrolman said four or five
shots were fired at him before he
opened up. James Hargroye, 81,
dropped with a bullet in the stom-
ach and died at a hospital a few
hours later. The other three men
fed. The policeman was sus-
pended from duty and charged
with assaulting and shooting Har-
grove.
He was absolved of a similar
charge last January after the
death of a man he had chased in
stolen car. He has been in
volved in three other shooting
cases since February, 1949.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Senator S Assistant Pleads
Not Guilty in Morals Case

Earl r. Howsam, "a, administra-
tive assistant to Senator Johnson,
Democrat, of Colorado pleaded
not guilty in Municipal Court
today to a charge of committing
an indecent act.
Howsam's attorney, Edward
Bennett Williams. asked for a jury
trial, which was set for December
20 by Judge George D. Nelson.
Howsam, the father of two chill
dren. was arrested early Sunday
in the mems room Of Lafayette
Park by two vice squad detectives.
He lives at 159 South Virginia
avenue, Falls Church.
After the brief hearing, Howsam
again refused to make any state
ment to reporters. He refused to
make any statement yesterday,
after he and Senator johnson had
conferred for about an hour with
Assistant United States Attorney
j. Warren Wilson, chief Govern
ment prosecutor at Municipal
Court.
Evening star., 1950-10-17

mond jubilee of worldwide mis-
SionS to leproSy victims.
They will be welcomed tomor-
row by DR.. Clarence w. Crawford,
pastor of Calvary Baptist Church
and president of the Washington
Federation of Churches, and DR..
Edward B. Willingham. pastor of
National Baptist Memorial Church
and president of the Washington
Ministerial Union.
Greetings will also be brought
by Mrs. Wallace Streeter, presi-
dent Of the Washington Council
of Church Women, and Mrs. Will
liam M. Danner, president of the
Washington Auxiliary, American
Leprosy Missions.
DR.. Eugene r. Kellersberger,
general secretary Of the American
Leprosy Missions, and DR.. A. D.
Helser of Nigeria, will speak at a
meeting at 7:30 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Bids Opened on New
Sewage Project

Bids were opened yesterday on
d sewage project, which, when
completed, will put the District
Government solidly into the fer
tilizer business.
The project, calling for con-
struction of sludge- drying and
incarceration plant at Blue Plains.
will eliminate the present waste of
treated sewage and will supply
fertilizer to farmers within a 300
mile radius, District officials say.
Harold Kemp, District direc-
tor OF sanitary engineering, an
nounced the receipt of three bids
Tor drying and incinerating equip
ment. He emphasized that deter
mination of the low bid must
await a complicated evaluation by
his office and that the contract
award might be delayed a week
or SO.
The bids were as follows:
The Morse Boulger Destruc-
ton. Inc, $711,446; Combustion
Engineering Superheater, Inc,
$731 1853, and the Nichols En-
gineering & Research Corp,
1894, ,7S0. All the firms are located
In New York City.
Mr.. Kemp said yesterdays bids
cover only the equipment for the
project around which the build
ing will be designed. The total
cost, he said, will be in the neigh
borhood of $1,870, 900.
The plant is expected to be in
operation within two years. 1t is
expected to provide 10000 tons
OF fertilizer the first year, and the
output may be raised later to
$4,000 tons a year.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Court Decisions Pose
Task for Colleges,
Neqrc Educators Told

DR.. Will w. Alexander, former
vice president of the Julius Rosen-
wald Fund. told the presidents of
Negro land grant colleges today
that recent Supreme Court de-
cisions make it necessary for them
to "rethink their positions.
The big job now of these COL
leges. he said. is to prepare STU
dents for the graduate profess
sional opportunities the courts de-
cisions have opened to them.
DR.. Alexander spoke at the 28th
annual session of the conference
of presidents of Negro land grant
colleges at the Federal Security
Agency.
walls Tumbling Down."
THE Supreme Court decisions y
DR.. Alexander said, "have so COM
pletely upset the premise on which
these colleges are based that they
have got to rethink their position
The big job at the moment is to
prepare large numbers of compe-
tent candidates for these new pro-
fesSional training opportunities
which have now been made pos
sible by the decisions.
Suddenly the walls are tum-
bling down This is just the be-
ginning. We are not going to
have any more extension of seq
gregation."
Field Open for Engineers.
Julius A. Thomas, director of
industrial relations for the Urban
League, told the educators there
is big field open for engineers.
He said the league has placed 40
Negro engineers in the last two
years in large industries.
Not one has fallen down on
the job" he said, "and I don't
think any one of them feel they
have Is million people on their
backs"
He told of young Negro type
writer salesman who is making
$4,000 in his first year on the job
in New York.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Gas Station Attendant
Robbed at District Heiohfs

A District Heights (Md.) gaso-
hne station attendant was slugged
by an armed bandit last night
after being robbed Of sl10 at
gunpoint.
Ralph Hussey. 26. of 313 c
street Sc, told police a man
about % came to the station
about 7::30 pm. asking to use the
washroom. He emerged holding
pistol and ordered Mr.. Hussey
to give him the money from the
cash register.
The bandit then ordered the at
tendant into the washroom, DO
lice reported. telling him every
thing will be all rightly but the
man struck Mr.. Hussey twice with
the pistol butt and fed.
Mr.. Hussey managed to reach
the home of a cousin, Mrs. Viola
Bonkowski, two blocks away. He
notified police and was taken to
Providence Hospital by the Dis
trict Heights ambulance. He was
treated and told to return today
Tor observation.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Jopon Crash Costs Leg
OF New York Times Man
BY the Associated Press

TOKYO, Oct. 17.-Harold Fa-
ber of the New York Times, who
was injured in a plane crash Oc-
tober IL at a Southern Japan air.
base, lost his right leg four inches
above the knee by amputation
today.
Three crewmen were killed and
four other persons, including two
more war correspondents, were in
jured when the Clio cargo plane
crashed while trying to make an
instrument landing in murky
weather.
The other correspondents are
John Jefferson of the Columbia
Broadcasting System and John M.
Colless of Reuters British news
agency. Both were badly shaken.
Evening star., 1950-10-17

He was sent to Fort Knox, KY.
for his basic training and passed
examinations for which he re-
ceived a high school diploma and
credit for one year of college, his
mother said. After being sent to
the Automobile Mechanics School
at Atlanta, Ga, he was ordered to
Seattle, Wash. last summer, and
to Korea in July.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
U. 5. Budget Figures
Are Back in the Red
By the Associated Press

The Governments budget books
have slipped back into the red
after being in the black nearly a
month.
The Treasury said today the
deficit for the fiscal year begun
last July /. totaled $50, 400 1888 on
October 13. In mid-September,
heavy quarterly income tax pay
ments had brought a surplus that
went as high as $918,878,900 on
September %.
The October 13 deficit, however,
was small compared with $2,295,-
487 ,508 at the same point a year
ago. The 1850 fiscal year wound
up last June 80 in $3,122, 2,1O2,357
deficit.
Prospects are that this year will
produce a smaller deficit, and even
possibly a balanced budget, Off
cialS said.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
ChristoffeI Asks More Time
TO File Perjury Appeal

Harold Christoffel. former Mil
Waukee labor leader convicted of
perjury before a House commit
tee in 1947. today awaited the
outcome of his latest legal move
to avoid going to prison for a two
to six-year term.
The United States Court of Ap-
peals has taken under advise
ment his request for additional
time to file an appeal from the
District Court verdict last Febru-
ary %.
That was the second such YER
dict a jury returned against him
on charges of falsely telling the
House Labor Committee that he
never was Communist. The Su-
preme Court last year reversed
the 1948 conviction and held that
the Government had not proved a
committee quorum was present
when Christoffel testified.
At the second trial the Gov
ernment produced testimony that
at least 13 of the Is members Of
the committee heard him testify.
Christoffel failed to get his appeal
to the Court Of Appeals by the
May 20 deadline. The appeals
court on July "a denied his mo-
ton for an extension of time. Yes
terday o. John Rogge, chief coun-
sci for Christoffel. urged the ap-
peals court to grand a new mo-
ton for extension.
Mr.. Rogge said that if the ap-
peals court denies that motion he
will carry the matter to the Su-
preme Court and also ask that
commitment of Christoffel to
prison meanwhile be stayed.
Christoffel is free on $4,000 bail.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Russian Rubber Buying
Worries SeiberIinq
BY the Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S. c., Oct. IT,
Rubber Manufacture j. P. Seiber-
ling said yesterday he is worried
about Russia's playing the rub
ber market" heavily.
THE fact that Russia is buying
more crude rubber than the
United States looks aWfully sus-
picious," he told the Columbia
Rotary Club.
Mr.. Seiberling. president of the
Seiberling Tire & Rubber Co., re-
ported that the price of raw rub
ber has increased 200 per cent in
the last year.
Evening star., 1950-10-17

43rd a n n u a |
American Lep-
rosy Missions
convention at
2 pm. tomor-
row in Calvary
Baptist Church,
Eighth and H
streets NV.
More t h a n
1000 delegates
and visitors are
expected to at
tend the three
d a Y meeting,
W hich W i'll
mark the dia-
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Leaves Isl Descendants

ERWIN, Tenn, Oct. II (P.-
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Phillips, 95,
who died yesterday. leaves 157 di-
rect descendants. She was married
at the age of IA. Surviving are
4 daughters, 2 sons, A grandchil-
dren, 80 great-grandchildren and
18 Observation-Disclosures.
Evening star., 1950-10-17

whose parents,
Mr.. and Mrs.
j a m es Philip
Schneider, live
at 4937 Mac
Arthur boule-
ward, was with
the 9th Infan-
try Regiment OF
the oath Divi-
sion.
Pvt. Schneid-
er a t tie n d e 6
Western High
S c h ool an ID
j in ed tn {
Army a year
QOn
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Rockefeller Aids YWCA

NEW YORK, Oct. II (P.-The
YWCA of New York City received
q gift of $4,000 from John D.
Rockefeller, jr.. yesterday as it
started a drive to raise Sc million
for a building program.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
D. {. Soldier, 10, Missing
In Korea Since Sept. |

A 19-year-old District man has
been reported missing in Korea
since September /, his family said
today.
Pfc. John Edmund Schneider
Evening star., 1950-10-17

No food shortages. The Presi-
dent has stated that neither food
shortages or rationing are in
prospect, despite the fighting in
Korea. Don't hoard.
Evening star., 1950-10-17
Leprosy Missions Session
To Hear Dr.. Farmhouse

DR.. Donald Gray Farmhouse,
pastor of Tenth Presbyterian
Church. Philadelphia. will speak
at the opening session of the
Evening star., 1950-10-17

Finland has subsidized sugar
consumption by reducing the price
of sugar.
Evening star., 1950-10-17

rich patches, not warehouse lots.
3 Then it's rushed by truck to
As your store and placed fresh and
fragrant on the shelves. No long
storage sleep" No lost motion.
No roundabout handling. Result:
rich, fragrant coffee, FREsHER BY
DAYS. AND ALWAYS PENNIES LESS
THAN OTHER ToP-QUALITY CoFFEESl
Evening star., 1950-10-17

No need TO pay more for highest
quality coffee! Edwards brings you
richer coffee for less money every
pound, every day at SAFEWAY! All
because Edwards straight-line
roasting and delivery cuts COSTS.
passes the savings on to you.
Edwards is roasted fresh onlyto
1syour grocer's ORDER. in small,
Evening star., 1950-10-17

Edwards DRECTOSAEW coffee service guarantees you richer
eher coffee for less money your finest b" quality coffee tody
Dirva = Field. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1915-current, 1950-02-16

gall sugalvoti, kad ir jis kan
nors atiduotu savo mama su vi
sais graziais irengimais, atiduo-
tu savo masina, kuri tokia puiki
ir prie kurios jis taip prisirises...
O vakarui atslinkus tukstan-
ciai automobiliu lavinomis uz-
tvenkia aplinkines gatves. Tai
streikuotojai grizta namo po
pikietavimo.
Nera moro kalbeti apie 81.
metini streika. Neidomus, ne.
spalvingas streikas -.
Bet zvilgterekim j pamusala.
Buvo streiku ir su slviais, su
aukomis, SUI krauju. Bnvo strei
ku SUI pikietais -.
Dabar naujove - eksperimen
tas. Dabar pakanka tik atstovr
pasitarimu.
Reutheris pasake: kultureja
me, einame pirmyn.
Bombarduojame fabrika nuo
stolingumo bombomis. ziauriu.
darbo ir kapitalo santykius ri
kiuojame ne kuokas pasigriebe
Ibet muvedami baltas pirStines. ;.