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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-04-02
Bentley Opposes
Paynenf Of
Engineers Fee
Commissioner
Declares AMOUNT
Is 80 OF Total
City. Road Budgel

A motion to hold up payment Of
County Engineer John Goggin,.
81 ,6a5 bill for services in the montf
OF March lost by a four to one yot.
at the County Commission lasl
night after Commissioner Frank
Bentley, Finance chairman had OBJ
jcctcd to the almost 81 900 paid oul
TO the new engineer since he wa.
hired In December.
Bentley asked for the complete
reading Of bills rendered the coun.
|ty.
When County Clerk Earl
Adams finally reached HE Coo.
Gin bin Of SLABS for services
from March ] through March ~,
Bentley said:
That's what I waited TO hear
That plus the $500 we have al.
ready paid him comprises eight
percent Of the total budget for
county roads planned for this year
And you haven't built road yet
] think you are going to pay Cog.
gin $1,000 or $4,000 before the
year Is out. =
Commissioners Joe Allen and
Clarence Higgs rose 10 the defense
OF Goggin stressing that the county
pays fer Goggin's crew not lust his
own professional engineering ser
vices.
Bentley objected saying:
i wish you'd compare his fees
with those OF the former county
surveyor Bailey. /"
Allen flashed. Bailey does not
cornpsre with co1ain. ~ w.s
net On sUeinser. Lesss eel Coe1ln
here next wesk - spssk or him
self. /" Isl
Bentley moved thai Goggin's lat
Continued On Page Four
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-04-02
Gomez Says
Project Will
Be Privately
Financed

An all out push to get a
privately financed ferry.
started across the "a mile
stretch from Big Pine KEY
to Cape Sable and nine
miles of highway from East
Cape to Flaming connecting
with the road to Homestead
and US. IL was approved
by County Commissioners at
their meeting last night.
Rogclio Gomez. initiator Of the
Cape Sable highway plan. spoke
for the Lower Keys Property
Owners Association of whom
eight were present. They pressed
Tor the interim ferry. until i
road can be built connecting the
Lower Keys with the Floridu
mainland at Cape Sable.
The Commissioners agreed np-
on motion Of Joe Allen that
they viii! send Representatives 10
the next State Road Department
meeting to request the imlne.
diatc extension of State road ~
from Flamingo 10 East Cape i
4 s.&4~x n
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-04-02
Judge Lopez
Issues Writs
|Habeas Corpus
WHITs APPLY TO
cAHMIcHAELs:
BOTH INDICTED ON
MURDER CHARGE

Circuit Court Judge Aquilino
Lopez, Jr. today issued writs OF
habeas corpus for Carl Car
michael, Sr. and Jr., indicted on
first degree murder charges in
the death of Allen Harris.
The writs are returnablc for d
hearing in Judge Lopez cham
bers Saturday morning at 10
am. he said.
The Carmichaels' attorneys,
VIII Albury and Enrique Es-
quinaldo, Jr. must show the.
Judge that their clients, accused
of first degree murder, are en-
titled to release on bond.
Each man was lree on $4,000
bond before their arrest last Fri
day at the direction of the Mon
roe County Grand Jury which
indicted them after charges is
suing from preliminary hear
ing.
The father and son were in
Idictetl on the charge Of killing
Harris by drowning him, accord
ing To the Grand Jury report
last week. The nude body of the
allegedly murdered man was
found off Stock Island on De-
cember IA. A sailor, chief state
witness, has repeatedly testified
to the threats against Harris
made by the father and son on
the night of December ID in his
presence.
On a first degree murder in
dictment prisoners are only re-
leased on bond if they can show
that they are entitled to it, Lo-
pcz said. On any lesser charge
Of murder or manslaughtcr.
prisoners are eligible for bond
immediately.
State Attorney j. LanccIotl
Lester who presented the states
Investigation before the Grand
Jury, will be served with copy
of the writ Of habcas corpus, Lo-
pcz said.
The Carmichaels arc contract-
prs from Marathon
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-04-02
$1o2 900 Loaned LoeolIy
BY Federal Sovinus Assn.
Loan Requests
Far Exceeded
Sum AUaiIabIe
Dion announce,

Fred j. Dion, president OF
the First Federal Savings
and Loan Association, 51A
Southland street, today an
nounced the lending OF
100000 in loans locally.
All the money will be
used for improvements in
Key West, except one ap.
plication for Stock Island
1t is hoped to lend money
for improvements, etc, as
far north as Marathon as
more funds become avail.
able.
Loan applications far
exceeded the available
amount Of $1O2, 900. More
money will be approved
for loans IS deposits in
create.
Tho board Of directors Of
the new concern feel GER
tain that they can make 4
yearly dividend payment of
2 per cent on all deposited
funds.
It will easily be done as
We have anly ono paid en-
i,soSec, and 4 10 l,as other
cmpIpymcnt, sid Dion.
CQtitinued tie business
man. NWithin ono year. we
expect To have deposits Of
900. 900"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-04-02
II. Earl Duncan
Announces For
School Board

II. Earl Duncan today formally
announced his candidacy for the
Monroe County School Board,
Fourth District. subject to the
May Democratic Primary: In
offering himself to the electorate,
Duncan stated: Although con-
sidered by some a Minor Office
! sincerely believe that member
ship on the School Board invosses
one Of the gravest responsible
ties within the power of the
citizenry to confer since upon
the ability, the devotion to duty
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-04-02
Bulletin
EISENHOWER
TO RETURN
81 LANES e. LAWsoN

Rv LANES e. LAWSON
ABILENE, kas. Ms-Gcn. Dwigh,
ID. Eisenhower mcssagcd homo,
town friends today il is his pro
found hope to return TO the United
States well in advance Of the Re
publican National Convention July
Y.
The 5-star general who spent his
boyhocd here gave no hint, how
ever, on whether he plans 10 lay
aside his duties as supreme Allied
commander in Europe and cam.
paign actively for the presidential
nomination.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-04-02

night frcm Taft 10 Eisenhower TO
Taft and back again In q dizzy
series Of changes that have shown
nc. the slightest sign Of developing
IA steady trend.
Close behind Taft and Eisenhow.
cr--both write-in candidates-camc
Continued On Page Three
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-04-02
KefauUer
DriUes la From
or Kerr
BY DON WHITEHEAD

OMAHA A1--The furious Ne
braska presidential popularity cen
test was a knockdown battle today
between Sen. Taft OF Ohio and
Gen. Dwight p. Eiscnhower-wiih
Taft holding an uncertain lead.
The lead had shifted during the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-04-02
Md,geII0 4 0spe,:s ]
Property Sold
For $25,OOO

Mr.. and Mrs. John Maynard
have sold thcir property in Mar
se'Ic Towers for $4,000 accord.
ing 70 ; deed filed today. s.
The MsyIsrds sold 10 Mr. and
Mrs. leonard Hendrix, Lot u Of
6loek 5 Of HE MsrteIlo Towers
division.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Norviel
sold for $4,000 five salt pond lots
and part Of Lot six adjoining
Seidenbere avenue and First
street. Buyers were Mr.. and Mrs.
Frsnk Shepherd.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-04-02
.Jcnssifer Jones
In Island City

Jennifer Jones. movie star, and
her s,Se children arrived yes
terdsy afterroon On fire 2:H
National Airiines plane from
Nismi.
She Is said 70 be staying at
The Case Marina hotel.
Evening star., 1952-04-16
Leonardo do Vinci

Thousands this week are celebrating the 500th
anniversary of the birth Of Leonardo da Vinci.
italian painter, sculptor, architect musician,
mechanician, engineer and natural philosopher,
one of the very few men to whom the phrase
universal genius" may be applied without exag-
geration. He was native of CASTILLO in Floren-
tine territory near Empoli, the illegitimate son
of a notary and a peasant girl From early
childhood his mind was quick to learn, his heart
quick to feel profoundly. While still youth he
considered himself qualified to execute monu-
mental works. In his prime he was in the
service of the Sforza family in Milan. There he
attempted the most impressive equestrian group
ever visioned up to that period. The same city
also was the place in which he painted his
famous Last Supper" and the ever-popular
portrait Mona Lisa" or LA Gioconda."
Mystery surrounds much of the life Of 'the
greatest of Italy's sons" Da Vinci was a pioneer
in many different fields of inquiry and not
always was comprehended by his contemporaries.
For example, when he dissected the bodies of
men and horses to add to his knowledge of
anatomy, he was regarded as crazy. His antici-
patton of the modern airplane likewise was
considered sign of madness.
The literature concerning Leonardo runs to
f1ctional. book that really is wanted is a
biography embracing only proven facts about
Da Vinci. Perhaps the current revival of popular
interest in him may promote the production Of
such tribute.
Evening star., 1952-04-16
Modern Art
Thomas E. Mattingly, M. ID.

Recently one Of your correspondents,
in defending the modern art exhibition
at the Smithsonian, asked another
writer what he meant by high Standards
of art.
am writing to say that if this gentle
man wants to know what constitutes
high art standards, he should visit the
National Art Gallery, also the perma-
nent collections at the Corcoran and
Smithsonian Galleries. He will then
learn what real art is. All of this So
called modern" art is nothing but the
expressions of child minds, kindergarten
pupils. inmates Of mental hospitals. and
also those who should know better but
who like to be queer" because it is
stylish to be that way.
And this exaltation Of ugliness, de-
formity. and distortion is unfortunately
not confined to our painting and sculp-
ture, but is manifest also in our cloth
ing. Our fashion dictators have decreed
that women must look mannish, lacking
in charm, and very often repulsive, by
wearing mems long pants: and even
little children do not escape inasmuch
as those who dictate what the rest of
us must wear have decreed that little
boys. and sometimes little girls, must
no longer dress like children but like
midgets in hideous long pants.
trust that your correspondent will
get out of his ivory tower and look
around him.
Wilton Johnson.
Evening star., 1952-04-16
By Charles E. TroceWeN
Wilton Johnson.

Most friends of the birds wonder where
they sleep.
They do sleep in vines, and evergreens,
every one knows, but that they do this
in ones very own vines and shrubs is
always astonishing, usually because one
seldom sees them go in.
While going along the street, one spots
them flying into old Mrs. Bonneman's S
big evergreen, but even then it does not
always occur to the paSserby to think
they are actually going to bed, just as
much SO as if they pulled up blankets
and put up the window.
The trouble mostly comes because the
birds slip in so quietly and easily that
they are unnoticed.
Templeton Jones had been watching
his big locust for months. without seeing
one bird fly in, since his famous pair
of sleeping blue jays year ago.
Since then he had kept an eye on it.
mainly to see If his jays came back
again, but even in the coolest weather
he had seen nothing of them.
Now he had been at the window at
the precise time the juncos flew in and
settled down to rest. They were more
excitable about it than the jays had
been. and this tipped off Templeton
Jones to what was going on.
That kindly man felt very kindly, in
deed, as he contemplated his great tree.
with its precious burden of IL pairs of
juncos and three of sparrows. 1t is one
thing to know, theoretically, that birds
nest in evergreens and vines, and quite
another-and better thing-to know they
sleep In ones very own.
Evening star., 1952-04-16

out by laughter from the floor.
A great admirer of Woodrow Wilson.
Senator Connally took former Senator
Nye of North Dakota apart for an at
tack on the late President. when the
history Of this Republic shall be writ
ten" he Grated, Woodrow Wilson's
titanic figure will tower above the puny
pygmies who now bark at his memory
as Pixies Peak towers above the fog of
an Arkansas swamp"
More general in its application, but
equally withering, was the scorn he
once expressed for the Senate as a
whole: "Draco wrote his laws in blood;
the Senate writes its laws in wind"
Senator Connally, to be completely
truthful about it, has contributed no
little wind himself. But there is a diff
ference. Much of the wordage dumped
into the Congressional Record in busy
day is just -wordage-and much
nally, however, often gives tongue to
words worth listening to.
His oratory, like that of any fervent
speaker, often takes him down paths he
really never meant to travel. One in
stance occurred in 1946, when he called
on the Senate to ratify the United Ma
tions Charter. Pointing out that the
eyes of the world, not just Texas
would be on the Senate. Senator Con-
nally shouted:
They know that the League of Nations
was slaughtered here in this chamber.
Can't you see the blood-there it is on
the WALL" pointing to the rear of the
room.
Carried away, q number of Senators
Evening star., 1952-04-16
This and That

leaves. than a sparrow would try to
drive him out.
Fluttering his pretty wings, the snow
bird would pop out again, much like
the famous cuckoo in the clock.
At last night begins to settle, and so
do the birds in the vine.
Jones, at the window, fails to see
any sign of a bird. although he knows
they are all there.
A late arrival on the observer stand
would swear no birds at all were there.
There is no sign of life, and will not
be until dawn. If the porch light is put
on, there is not rustic in the leaves.
You can't fool the birds that way.
Jones wondered what would happen
if he took long pole and started to
stir up. the juncos.
Can ordinary songbirds fly at night?
It is a question he had never seen
answered in any of the books he con-
suited. Books can be very exaSperating.
at times The very question the reader
hopes will be answered is not even con-
sidered. Perhaps the thing is so COM
monplace that the writer never even
gave it a thought. All books, according
to Jones, ought to be read over before
publication. so that this may be attended
to; the readers thereafter then might
find some of their natural questions an
swered.
Jones found 1t beautiful sight, this
going to sleep every evening. Of his
juncoS and sparrows.
Evening star., 1952-04-16

Templeton Jones, bird authority. was
watching the juncos, or snowbirds, go
to bed.
These charming feathered friends. to
the number of about "a, chose Jones big
locust for bed chamber.
They could have done far worse, Jones
thought.
The locust tree is not good FOR much
else, except to make fence posts, and
even at this it is overrated, Jones swears.
But when it comes to housing two
dozen snowbirds for the night, the locust
is very good, not to be excelled, espe-
cially if it is covered with dense
growth Of ivy.
No doubt it is the vine that attracts
them.
They begin to fly in about $50 o'clock,
and for half an hour jockey for posi-
ton.
Half dozen common sparrows dispute
possession of the tree with them.
This seems rather absurd, according
to Jones (whose ornithological observa'-
tions have little standing with any one
except Mrs. Jones, who is by nature a
kindly person..
The SparrowS resent the snowbirds,
the snowbirds resent the sparrows.
This seems so human that an observer
might think they all wore trousers and
in some absurd way were little men,
lacking only pipes to smoke.
No sooner had one junco popped into
hiding. beneath the 4-inch deep layer Of
Evening star., 1952-04-16

cation. Male mastery of science so far
has failed to produce test-tube mother
won't dwell on that too long because
Mr.. Leigh may be working on it. But in
less than two decades woman has
achieved distinguished moral leadership
in politics. What Republican can equal
Senator Margaret Chase Smiths decla-
ration. Of conscience? What Democrat
symbolizes incorruptible championship
Of human rights like Eleanor Roosevelt?
Until less than two score years ago
woman had no domain but to serve
male caprioe. Male dominance and
mastery since time began has left us
a heritage Of endless wars, crushing
bankruptcy and triumphant atheism.
Somehow. have faith they will do a
better job than we have done. Chide
them though we may, we still are their
children. And they will continue to
love the arrogant male by indulging his
conceit that he is the stronger SEX They
know we are only strong because they
made us that way.
Thomas E. Mattingly, M. d.
Evening star., 1952-04-16
Opposes FIuoridution

In reply to "Willing Guinea Pig"
would like to say that 1t Is not Stupid
ity or plain cussedness" that makes me
write against fluoridation. I take some
of my precious little spare time to write
against it because I am very much
aroused about having my health expert
mented with against my will.
I believe have the right to object to
this in the United States. In country
under dictatorship, Of course, I
wouldn't be able to object. Thousands of
American lives were lost in World War II
while our country was fighting to pre-
serve our freedom against enemies who
were noted for using human beings as
guinea pigs in experiments Of many
kinds in order to learn how the human
body reacted. Now handful Of people
in this country is forcing thousands, even
millions. of people to be guinea pigs in
order to find out how artificial huorida-
ton of water affects them.
The amount Of sodium silicofiuoride
added to publicly-used water may not
poison person and cause him to drop
dead after drinking glass Of it; but.
scientists have not established as yet how
much huorine person can consume
safely. They have not proved as yet that
use of such artificially f1uoridated water
over long period of time will not cause
serious illnesses or early deaths.
They say that artif1cially fuoridated
water is safe because naturally f1uor-
idated water is safe. Still, scientists ad-
NIT they do not yet know what effects
artificial fluorides will have on other
parts of the human body than the teeth.
There are too many of these don't know
yets." and they are trying to find out
by experimenting on the entire popula-
tions of cities!
In Grand Rapids, Mich, the only
city of any size that has had artificial
fluoridation for more than four years,
tooth decay for children dropped from
IL to 81 per cent-depending on age
after fluorides were added to the water.
Also in Grand Rapids, the death rate
from heart disease jumped from 585 in
1914 to 1859 four years later. after fluor-
idation had started; also, there was an
increase Of so per cent in deaths from
nephritis (kidney disease). and an in
crease of so per cent over period of
four years in the deaths from intra-
cranial LESSONS. These records prove
that health is not better when fluorides
are in the water.
The dividing line between mass medi-
cation and reasonable protection of pub
lie health is that mass medication must
not be allowed as long as it is on an
Evening star., 1952-04-16

turned around to look. Inexplicably.
there was no spot on the wall.
Senator Connally is not only an orator
and the posSeSSor Of a sarcastic tongue.
He can be downright rough when he
wants to. as he proved last month in
working over Senator Taft. The Ohio
Senator had charged that the admins
tration had invited the Communists
into Korea with an assist" from Senator
Connally.
Roaring that Senator Tafts remarks
were Outrageous prepostelous and un-
true" Senator Connally charged that
the Republican was "cravenly going
around begging a few dirty, filthy
votes" Mr.. Taft, he added. speaks with
1.-The mouth of demagogue"
Mr.. Republican, absent from the Sem
ate floor on a campaign trip, had no
comment on Senator Cornally's wither-
ing blast.
Although he has lately confined his
love OF conflict to the verbal arena of
politics, he fancied himself in his earlier
days to be fightin' man in the old
Texas tradition. In the SpaniSh-Ameri-
can war, he joined the Army and got
as far on the road to battle as Jackson
vile, Fla. In World War I, he quit Con-
gress to become an infantry captain He
never got to France. Later, Senator Con-
nally remarked that he had been in more
wars and done less fighting than any
other American.
The fact that others take him more
seriously than he occasionally takes
himself may be the real proof of Tom
Connally'S worth as q statesman.
Evening star., 1952-04-16
Unreturning Wings

oh, to hold fast the feetino hour
OF Springtin,e's too-briet loneliness.
To keep unchanged one simple foDer
Whose Sweetness words cannot cypress!
And 1ohere are syllables to stay
The ,UiSp OF cloud that passes By.
Casting no shado,D on its ,Day
Across the ApriI-tinted sky?
II, Udi1l one seeks Uith heart or hand
To capture fragrance in q rhyme
or beGuty's flight across the land
or nnretuYning tDinos OF time.
lnez Boreloy Kirby
Evening star., 1952-04-16
Defends Weaker Sex

Mere males will read Randolph LeighS
Philippe on petticoat pettifogging in
politics and pray for his perfidious pre-
sumption. Undoubtedly spring house
cleaning hath made him mad. At this
dread season Of total tumult breathes
there q man with soul so dead, who
never to himself hath said: Woman,
you are crazy!
Audacious Randolph claims womans
only original contribution to political
thinking is trivia. inconsistency and in
ordinate vanity He seemingly yearns
for the good old days when woman's
domain was cooking, church and chill
dren.. Having had the franchise less
than two score years they still can't
beat a man running Qeap year ex-
cepted) and they are still outliving the
stronger sex. Yep. and as Mr.. Leigh
so sagely observes, they are inheriting
the earth. And not because they are
meek, either.
But as superior male who had a
woman for mother and another for
a wife, I must confess they are not
as unnecessary as Mr.. Leigh implies.
They are sort Of an indispensable provo