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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-12

Joseph Russell. husband Of Mrs.
Lydia Roberts Russell Is q patient
al the Naval Hospital.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-12

Miss Allorsine Laurie, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfonso Laurie. Il
q patient At Variety chlldren's Hos.
pllal In Coral Gables, Florida.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-12

Mr.. mnd Mrs. Robert Sawyer,
n Fort Village made q short TRIP
b Miami, Tuesday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-12
SICK

Miss Vera Faleo. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Falco and
q Senior az Douglass High School,
underwent an appendectomy AZ Ca
ley's Memorial Hospital Wednes-
day.
Mrs. Martha Wnkerson. mother
0i Mrs.. Annie Iawery. fI23 Thomas
Street, continues 10 be a..
Showing slight Improvement Is
Arnold Smith who suffered stroke
recently.
John Gates Of whitehead Street
continues 10 be N.
Evening star., 1953-05-12
ESQ Transit Men Gather
For 3-DaY Sessions Here

More than $50 transit men
from across the country are in
Washington today preaching the
doctrine of less automobiles and
more buses"
The American Transit Associa-
ton. holding its regional con-
ference in the Statler Hotel. will
meet today through Thursday
for talks and discussions on
topics dear to the hearts of bus
operators. These include cost
trimming, public relations, higher
fares. cannibalizing old buses to
repair newer buses and wage
scales.
But the underlying murmur at
the convention is about traffic
jam problems. Officials threaten
American cities with creeping
paralysis" drastic slumps in
downtown real estate values, I"
loss of life and limb and flatten-
ing of the citizens pocketbook.
All these, the transit men say,
will come from streets jammed
with automobiles. The only way
out, they say. is more efficient
use Of street space-that is, of
their buses and StreetcarS.
Evening star., 1953-05-12
Public Hearings SET
For Next Week on
D. Area Transit Bill

Chairman Wolverton of the
House Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee today an
nounced public hearings will be
held at 10 am. May 81 and %
on legislation to establish a
new Metropolitan Area transit
commission.
The New Jersey Republican
said the committee will consider
two bills for this purpose. One
of them passed the Senate last
week and a House bill has been
pending before the committee
for some time. g,
Hearings will be conducted by
the full committee. it was an
nounced.
There are only slight differ
ences between the Senate and
House bills. Representative
Hyde, Republican. of Maryland
said the House measure which
he sponsors contains only a few
technical changes from the Sen
ate measure which was offered
by Senator johnson. Democrat,
of Colorado.
Both measures call for a
three-member commission ap-
pointed by the President and
confirmed by the Senate. The
agency would regulate all public
transportation by bus, streetcar
and taxi in the District and in
terstate lines operating between
the District and nearby States,
Evening star., 1953-05-12
Chicago Judge Criticizes
Court Here for Dismissal

Federal Judge J. Sam Perry
of Chicago yesterday criticized
Chief Judge Bolitha j. Laws Of
the U. S. District Court for the
District of Columbia for refusal
to surrender a defendant.
Judge Perry's bench warrant
for Harrison Parker, rs, self
styled chancellor of the Puritan
Church" of Lagrange, ILL.,,
wanted on a mail fraud charge.
was dismissed here. Chief Judge
Laws advised the defendant
already has appeared in Chicago
II times. with no trial date set.
Yesterday the Chicago jurist
putting the case on trial call.
said: "It's strange to me that
the District Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia would hinder
the administration of justice. Of
this court. It's time we get
Parker to trial"
On April 2 Chief Judge Laws
dismissed Judge Perry's warrant
calling for Mr.. Parker to return
to Chicago for a psychiatric ex-
animation. Mr.. Parker and five
other persons were indicted in
Chicago in 1949 on charges OF
mail fraud and conspiracy to
defraud in connection with a
puzzle contest promotion. His
Washington address was given
as 800 Connecticut avenue NV.
Evening star., 1953-05-12
Man Dies After Blast
HurIs Him Out Of Home

A 26-year-old Navy Depart.
ment employe died this morning
at Gallinger Hospital after being
seriously burned yesterday after
noon in an explosion and fire
at his home, 6O8 Twenty-firs
street NE.
The victim. Claude johnson.
colored. had been painting his
basement apartment. according
to Fire Marshal Raymond Rob-
erts. Fumes from the paint, Mr..
Roberts said. apparently ex-
ploded when they were touched
off by n match or an electric
spark.
The blast hurled Mr.. johnson
from the basement.
Evening star., 1953-05-12
District Man Gets Term
On Illegal Still Charges

A Washington man was given
q six-month suspended prison
term and was fined $500 yester-
day on charges Of operating an
illegal still in Prince Georges
County.
Trial Magistrate Nita 8. Hin
man Crane imposed the penalty
on Samuel Pinckney, So. after
convicting him in Upper Marl-
boro Police Court. The defend
ant appealed and was released
under $1,000 bond.
Pinckney, who Is colored, was
arrested on March 80 at a still
near Glenarden in a raid en-
gineered by Detective Sergt. VIII
son j. Purdy. He gave his adj
dress as the HOO block Of Tenth
street NV.
Evening star., 1953-05-12

The dizzy chase on which Jere-
miah Cicero Myers led police at
2 am. today was nothing COM
pared to the legal merry-go-
round he found himself on after
1t was over.
Myers, who lives at 708 North
Hampton drive, Silver Spring,
Md, and will celebrate his 21St
birthday next Sunday. was
charged with a total Of "a traf-
fic violations.
Sharing the thrills were an
unidentified man and woman
riding with Myers when a 9Th
precinct patrol wagon spotted
his faSt-moving car near Ftf-
teenth and II streets NE.
Quickly outdistanced, the
wagon then radioed for help.
It came in the form Of scout cars
from the ninth, second and first
precincts.
AS the speeding autd neared
Evening star., 1953-05-12
Police Bullets Chase Driver
Into Legal Maze of "a Charges

Thomas Circle with the police
closing in. Myers elected to take
the underpass. Finding his scout
car being ,jammed against the
wall, Pvt. Thomas r. Russell fired
three shots at the cars rear.
striking the left rear fender
twice.
Coming out Of the underpass.
Myers halted. At the precinct
police charged him with three
counts Of unreasonable speed. 20
counts of failing to slow at an in
tersection. and the rest divided
among failing to heed a stop
sign, passing blinking red lights
and driving with improper lights.
The frightened passengers in
the Myers car were glad to be
out Of It alive.
II even offered to pay him il
he would stop and let me out, |"
police said the male passenger
told them. T.
Evening star., 1953-05-12

President Eisenhower today
greeted practically the entire
town of Funkley. Mimi. in the
White House rose garden.
In what probably was the first
instance that a whole village
was flown to Washington, the
Funkley-ites arrived on a tour
in the interests of the cancer
crusade.
All the women of Funkley par
ticipated in the volunteer max
ings are made from old bed
can Cancer Society. The dress
ings are made fro mold bed
sheets. and cut down the $40
or $50 a month cost of bandages
for the average cancer patient.
The Presidents first question
to the Funkley-ites was why two
of the Is residents were left
behind.
Mayor in Hospital.
Also missing the White House
visit was Mayor E. j. Wooden,
78, who is in Emergency Hos
pital with possible fractured ribs
suffered when he slipped in the
bathtub last night at the New
Colonial Hotel.
The two residents left at hime,
it was explained to the President,
are Henry Huffstutler. who is "a
and has heart trouble. and an
other Funkley-ite in i'll health,
Richard Smith.
President Eisenhower re-
marked that he understood there
was some good fishing to be had
in the North woods setting Of
Funkley.
He especially greeted the eight
children from Funkley, youngest
of whom is year-old Nancy
Nagel.
Paul BunyOn Gifts.
He signed a few autographs
and received two gifts from resi-
dents of the heart of the Paul
Bunyon country. They were
statuettes of Paul Bunyon and
the Blue OK.
They were presented by Rich
ard Stransky, 8. and Charles
Nagel, 3.
There were five Nagel children
with the group, up to IS years
of age. An older child was not
eligible for the trip since he has
moved out of Funkley.
Stepping in for the absent Mr..
Wooden, Mayor since 1918, as
head of the delegation was Muir
den Fisher. postmaster and gen.
eral storekeeper.
Lunch With Lawmakers.
The group proceeded from the
White House to the Capitol for
lunch. With them were Repre-
sentatives Hagen and Judd, Min
neSota Republicans, and Sena-
tor Thye, Republican, Of Mime
sofa.
Previously. the group had Wis
tied Mount Vernon, Alexandria.
and the Lincoln Memorial. Ex-
cept for Mayor Wooden. they
plan to leave Washington at 6
pm. for home.
Besides the Funkleyites them
Evening star., 1953-05-12
President Greets Entire Town
In White House Rose Garden

selves. there were eight neigh
bors belonging to the Ladies Mis-
sionary Society; Mrs. Madeline
Rossen, president of the Beltrami
County Missionary Society, and
Miss Ivy Budd. county nurse.
Also on the trip is a dog named
"Blackie."
Yesterday, the people of Funk
ley received a citation for the
American Cancer Society, honor
ing them as a Symbol of the
DEVOTION of the 4,371 cancer
dressing units in the Nation.
Word of 100 per cent participa-
tion in the project by the women
of the village appeared recently
in a Cancer Society newsletter.
An advertising agency suggested
the New York trip to Pacific
Mills, a textile firm. which is
cooperating with the society in
it's drive for old sheets. Pacific
Mills agreed to pay for the trip.
Funkley is 125 air miles north
west Of Duluth and is the second
smallest incorporated municipal
ity in Minnesota.
Evening star., 1953-05-12
Senate Group Backs
Capper-Cramton Act
For Park Site Funds

The Senate Appropriations
Committee has approved the
move to keep alive the Capper-
Cramton program for purchase
of sites for parks and Fairgrounds
in the National Capital area.
In sending the 1854 Inde-
pendent Offices supply bill to the
Senate today, it is recommend
ing an outlay of $520,000 for the
National Capital Planning Com
mission.
This would be an increase of
$422.085 over funds. granted
earlier by the House. which had
denied any money for sites and
had made drastic cuts in funds
for commission staff.
SaltOnstall Unit Backed.
The committee supported rec
concentrations by it's Saltonstall
subcommittee and upheld pleas
by Senator Beall. Republican. of
Maryland, and other MEMBERS
The total recommended still is
$005 900 below the commissions
original request as forwarded to
Congress by former President
Truman.
The bill now carries 1865 900
for land purchases. OF this, $685.
900 is for acquisition of stream
valley park sites in nearby Mary
land-three parcels in Mont
gomery County totaling 439
acres and three parcels in Prince
Georges County totaling zoos
acres.
Involved are park sites along
Little Falls Branch, the North
west Branch and Oxon Run.
Extension Of Highway.
The other 100000 site money
is for land in Fairfax County,
Va, to extend the George Wash
ington Memorial highway to Old
GeorgetoWn-LeeSburg pike.
Originally the commission had
asked for $1.250,000 for site
purchase.
For the stating of the plan
ming commission, the Senate
committee approved the Eisen-
hover Budget Bureau request for
$155, 900. It said this would be
in line with the restoration Of
funds for site acquisition.
This is $40. 900 below the orig
inal or Truman budget. The
House had allowed only $97, ,915
and the Senate added an extra
SSH -
Evening star., 1953-05-12
House Hearings 10 End
Today on District Budget

House hearings on the Dis
trict's $148-million 1854 budget
were to be concluded today, and
q write-up Of the bill is scheduled
for next Tuesday.
The fourth and final open
public hearing for citizens is to
be held at 8 o'clock tonight in
the caucus room of the old
House Office Building.
During the day, the District
Subcommittee Of the House Ap-
preparations Committee hoped to
complete its executive hearings
for District officials.
Representative Wilson Repub-
lican. Of Indiana. subcommittee
chairman. said he thinks ths
District submitted a good bill.
He withheld any predictions on
how much it would be GSt.
Evening star., 1953-05-12
Epiphany Church Rector
To Be Bishop Of Newark

The Rev. Leland Stark. rector
Of downtown Epiphany Episcopal
Church. will be consecrated as
bishop Of Newark, N. j., at 1880
am, June 8, in Trinity Cathe-
dral. Newark.
Presiding Bishop Henry Knox,
Sheriff. Of the Episcopal Church
will be chief consecrator. The
Right Rev. Benjamin Washburn,
bishop Of the Newark diocese,
will assist.
In the event Of Bishop Wash
burns death or retirement. Mr.,
Stark will succeed to the bish-
opric. The Newark diocese COM
priSes the northern third OF the
State and is the sixth largest in
the Episcopal Church. Mr.. Stark
will assume his duties in New
Jersey July /. He will make his
home in Upper Montclair.
Mr.. Stark has been at Epiph-
any Church since October 1913.
Before that, he served as dean
Of Calvary Cathedral, Sioux
Falls. s. D.. and as rector Of As
cension Church. saltwater. MINI
Evening star., 1953-05-12
Prentiss Cites Rise
In 18th 81. Business
Under 1-Way Traffic

Business in the downtown
section of Twelfth street NV,
apparently has picked up since
the street was made one-way
for motor traffic. according to
Engineer Commissioner Louis w.
PrentiSs.
Gen. Prentiss revealed pre-
liminary findings Of study
being made on the effect Of the
one-way traffic as he appeared
on the regular television pro-
gram, "Your Commissioners Re-
port" on WMAL-TV, The Star
station.
He pointed out that Twelfth
street was made one-way for
northbound traffic in February
while Tenth street was made one
way for Southbound vehicles.
Merchants on Twelfth street
particularly have been critical
of the move.
Gen. Prentiss said the study
showed that business over the
city was down 1.58 per cent
during March as compared to
March, 1852.
In contrast. during March
business on the east side Of
Tuelfth street was I'm 8.12 per
cent and on the west side, up
1.O3 per cent, he said. March
was the first full month Of op-
Grafton for the merchants under
the new traffic regulation.
Gen. Prentiss said city officials
had plans to create more one
way streets downtown If the re-
suits of the Twelfth street ex-
pertinent showed the merchants
were not hurt.
Evening star., 1953-05-12
? Material Witnesses Jailed:
Argument on Legality Ensues

said he would seek a writ of
habeas corpus to free the men
late today.
The confusion began after
Municipal Court Judge Thomas
C. Scalley held Charles E.
Hunter, colored, of the 900 block
of Twelfth street Sc, and
Christine M. Evans of Jackson
vile, Fla. under 81 900 bond last
Saturday for action of the grand
jury on pandering charges.
Held as Witness.
At the same time. Judge Seal
ley ordered Leslie P. Burnett,
AZ. of Lanham, Md. and Ray
mond Al Aolta. "a, of Denton,
Mass, held as material wit
nesSes.
The defendants and the wit
nesses appeared before the
grand jury yesterday. After
ward, Judge James r. Kirkland
of the U. S. District Court for
the District of Columbia re-
turned Burnett and Aolta to
the custody of the marshal
pending another appearance be-
fore the jury today.
Two years ago Federal Judge
Alexander Holtzof severely rep
rimanded the United States mar
shal in a similar case. At the
time he threatened to order the
marshal to keep material wit
nesses in hotel il the same sit
uation came before his court
again.
Meanwhile, Aolta, who has a
job waiting for him in Denton,
Mass. and Burnett have no way
of knowing how long they are to
be imprisoned. They may have
to stay in Jail until the pander-
ing case reaches a trial
Evening star., 1953-05-12

Tenant nursery, police said, by
his mother, who gave her adj
dress as the HOO block of Morse
street NE.
Information available to pol
ice in the Walters death and the
deaths Of two other infants, who
died In 1914 and 1945 while in
Mrs. Tenants care, will be
placed before the county grand
jury. authorities said.
Grand Jury Foreman Ernest
L. Hines said yesterday the panel
will reconvene on June Is.
Child Taken to Hospital.
The Henderson child was TAX
en- to Prince Georges Hospital by
Mrs. Tenant from her nursery
at 407 Sixth-f1fth avenue, Mary
land Park and was pronounced
dead shortly after admittance,
April "a.
Z DR.. James I. Boyd, County
Medical Examiner, reported that
the infant died of a cerebral
hemorrhage, caused by blows on
the head. DR.. Boyd, who ex-
amined all four infants whose
deaths occurred while in Mrs.
Tenants care, said two of the
others also suffered blows on
their heads.
He added that does not nee
essarily mean they were struck
by persons.
Mrs. Tenant has denied she
mistreated any Of the children.
She told police three of the
babies pounded their heads
against a crib or bassinet, or
fell head first on the floor. She
told police she found the WAL
tiers baby lying fat on its face
and stomach.
Police said the first death was
that Of Billie Coppage. 3 months
old. He died February "a. 1914
lin the Tenant home in Mount
Rainier. The second was Dor
othy Hamilton, 6 weeks old. Her
death occurred on May Z, 1945.
after the Tenants moved to
Dodge Park.
Mrs. Tenant voluntarily sur
rendered her license early this
month at the suggestion Of
county authorities.
Evening star., 1953-05-12
Seckinger Calls Plan
For Area B Essential
In Statement 10 Court
By George Beveridee

SSOSSS OS'S'NSS
District Health Officer Daniel
L. Seckinger has told a Federal
court that the public health
may be fully protected" only
If no buildings are excluded from
the Area B redevelopment pro-
gram in Southwest Washington.
DR.. Seckinger's statement was
made in an affidavit filed with
a special tlree-judge tribunal
yesterday. It supported Gov
ernment motion asking dismis-
sal Of a suit challenging con-
stitutionality of the slum clear
ance program.
The three-judge court. set up
to rule on the constitutional
question, set May 26 for a hear
ing on the dismissal motion.
Call Action Illegal.
A suit to enjoin the Redevel-
opment Land Agency from car.
rying out its plan has been FLED
by two Southwest business prop:
erty owners. They contend it
is illegal for the Government
to seize their land under guise
of public use" and sell it to
private investors for redevelop-
ment.
Key issues in the case are ex-
pected to be determination of
whether the land will be for a
public use" and whether it is
legal to condemn all properties
in the redevelopment area.
DR.. Seckinger said it was nee
essary to "redevelop and rebuild
completely the area in question"
specifically the failure to in
clude all structures could null
ify the community plan to the
extent that the greatest bene-
fits to the most people might
not be achieved" he said.
Few, if any buildings in slum
areas have necessary requisites
of light, air and sanitary fa-
cilities to make them compara-
BILE to new structures. In the
years ahead, such old buildings,
if left in redevoloped areas,
would become obsolete .
thereby providing the foci of
new slums and the health dan
gers to be associated with them" +"
Cites Skirmishes.
The city health director fur
niShed some statistics showing
the ratio of disease rates be-
tween Area B and the city as a
whole. For the year 1851, for
example he said:
Area B had a death rate of
15.5 per 100000 population. as
against District rate Of 10.1.
Area B had a Tuberculosis
death rate per 100000 Of 1877
against a city-wide rate of 35.5.
Area B had a syphilis death
rate of 41.8 against a city-wide
rate of I'll.
The affidavit said the statistics
resulted from a special study of
the B Area, which the health
director described as being "a
slum area characterized parti-
cularly by the lack of those
things which make for a good
community"
Evening star., 1953-05-12
County Probes
Death Of ..4th
Nursery Baby
Operator Charged
With MonsIoughter
In Prince Georges

The death Of fourth infant
in a Prince Georges County
nursery home was under investi-
cation today as county authors
ties pressed manslaughter
charge against the operator, Mrs.
Arleen Daisy Tenant.
Investigators looking into the
reported deaths Of three babies
learned of the fourth yesterday
during an eight-hour quiz Of
Mrs. Tenant and her husband
Flonnie.
The examination by States
Attorney Carlyle j. Lancaster
and others resulted in the At
year -old woman being accused
in the previously reported death
of James Cecil Henderson, jr.,
son Of an estranged District
couple.
Released Under Bond.
Mrs. Tenant was released
under $1,000 bond for a hear
ing on May 90 in Upper
Marlboro Police Court. Her
husband was not charged.
Detective Pearson said yester-
day police have learned that a
2-month-old boy died on Sep
tember 10, 1945. in a nursery
operated by Mrs. Tenant on
Landover road, Dodge Park. Md.
: Mrs. Tenant, the detective
said, reported she found the
baby, Joseph Walters, lying face
down in his crib, apparently suf-
focated. Police records show the
cause of death as asphyxiation.
The child had been left at the
Evening star., 1953-05-12
Fort BeIvoir Prisoner
FIees From Work DetuiI

A Fort Belvoir prisoner escaped
from a work detail in a wooded
area on the military reservation
today.
Military police identified him
as Pvt. Sidney G. Pollard, 18, who
was serving time for being absent
without leave. Police said Pollard
apparently slipped into the
bushes unnoticed by a guard. =
Evening star., 1953-05-12
By ChorIes 6. Brooks

Two persons held in Jail since
Saturday as material witnesses
in a pandering case unknowing-
ly created an uproar in the Dis
trict government, Gallinger Hos
pital and the United States
Marshal's Office today.
After news leaked out that the
witnesses had been committed
by court order to the custody of
the United States marshal and
then jailed, a croSs-f1re of con-
fusion resulted from reporters
questions regarding the legality
of the Imprisonment.
Nobody seems to know exactly
what to do with such witnesses.
The District code provides that
material witnesses shall have
suitable accommodations set up
by the Board of Commissioners
and that the accommodations
shall not be in penal institutions.
d. C. Code Specifies Gallinger.
The current appropriations act
for the District provides that ma
terial witnesses shall be con-
fined at Gallinger Hospital. The
provision comes under a section
relating to the Board of Pub
lie Welfare, but the boards ad-
ministrative officer, Frank Gray,
said today that it really applies
to the Department of Correc-
tions.
DR.. Phillip A. E. Stebbing,
superintendent of Gallinger
Hospital. declared such witnesses
have never been kept at CAL
linger and that he would pro-
test strongly" if they were sent
there.
Attorney Edward T. Kenoe