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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-31
HIS. Choral Dept.
To Present Easter
Vespers Thursday

Thursday night st Old Stone
Methodist Church At sis the Key
West High School Choral Depart
ment presents is annual Easter
Vespers, under Che direction Of
Thomas Whitley.
This Is a community affair and
Is open 10 all denominations.
The program VII consist Of
Gloria patrl" ky Paletirina.
choir.
Organ Prelude.
Schubert's Ave Maria Peter
Simpson.
Rossini's "Inilamatus.' e Miss
Elaine Eskew.
canssta presented BY choir.
The cantata l. Rise. Glorious
Conqueror, text end music BY 9.
X. Heyser. II consists 81 eleven te.
leeiions BY the choir which IN.
clufe many solo passages which
win be done by Miss jeanne Mui.
Inns. soprano, aud Robert Lastres,
baritone.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-31
Plumber Sues
Joe Snugo
For $4,000
Claims Sirugo
Did Not Finish
Contracted Units
Agreed Upon

A. S. Goehring, plumbing con-
tractor is suing Joe Sirugo for
$4,000 in a breach of contract
suit filed yesterday in Circuit
Court.
The plumber claims that Sirv.
40 agreed with him that he
should install ell plumbing In ~
dUplex units being built by Sun.
shine Construction Co., between
First and Fourth Streets, Patser.
son Avenue and Roosevelt Bovls.
ward. He was 10 be paid 500 per
d.'nIex unit or 81, $3.50.
Now, says the complaining
plumber, Sirugo has built only 81
duplex units. Goehring did his part
Of the job. he said, by installing
the plumbing and connecting with
the sewer and water lines BY Nov.
ember, 1852.
"Since then the defendant, (Sir.
tCentiraed e. page Ten)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-31
One OF Duo Bound
Over To Criminal
Court On Theft.

Zackyrise Middleton, n, was
bound over 10 Criminal Court on
charge of grand larceny Of s1i7
from Hazel Saunders. after alb
solving from al guilt. his com
panion who had also been charg-
cd with the crime, hy Peace JUS
tice Roy Hamlin-
Middleton said that It was he,
not Richard Shaw who stole the
money from Shaw's landlady
Mrs. Saunders. 3o7 Julia Street.
on March n. He denied under
repeated questioning by County
Solicitor Allan 3. Cieare that
shaw had any knowledge q the
theft. Deputy sheriff jeff Brod.
head who had Questioned each Of
the young Negroes. said that
Shaw's story stuck under five dA-
ferent interrpgafions. Middleton
tContinued On Page TenI
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-31
Exiled Group
Questioned
By Authorities
immigration And
Naturalization
Branches Check
On Citizenship

MIAMI B-Eleven people de-
ported from Cuba Monday night
after a government breakdown on
gambling were questioned for
hours early today by the FBI and
Immigration and naturalization au-
thorities.
At the end OF individual inter-
rogations at Miami international
Airport, one man was taken to
Dade County jail as a federal pris.
oner on an immigration charge
and another was in technical Gus.
tody because Of doubtful citizen.
ship"
The remaining eight men and
one woman, most Of them from
the Greater Miami area. we're ad.
mitted. They were identified By
the Military Intelligence Service
of Cuba as "small fry.
Inc CUBAN government deporteo
them for one of two reasons: be
cause their stay and employment
in Cuba was considered Illegal OF
because they entered on tourist
cards without obtaining working
permits.
Cuban Military Intelligence and
passenger manifests listed then
as Georgina Marsh, IS. James Da
Wis. Morris Weinberg. Thoma,
Craven, Michael Bliss. JOSEPH
Tamburro, Robert Ayoub, Charles
White, Patrick Srlith. Charles
Click and Vernon Windham.
Miss Marsh Identified herself q
newsmen as Miss Regina Marsh
Miami. and said she "didn't know
what II was all about" when sh'
was arrested Friday night Will.
watching the floor show IT tn
Tropicana, one Of the night club
CONTINUED on Page Ten1
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-31
Charge Against
Robert Woods
lis Dismissed
Family Feuding
Brought Out AT
Hamlin's Hearing

The charge of assault with at
tempt to commit murder against
Robert Lee Woods, was dismissed
at a preliminary hearing yesterday
by Peace Justice Roy Hamlin.
Hamlin said that the evidence
was totally lacking that Woods
fired a gun or that one was even
at the scene when a family battle
took place between Mrs. Curry,
her brother, and Robert Curry al
Boza's outdoor theater on Stock
Island.
Robert Curry who signed fhs
complaint against his brother-in-
law Woods was ihe only person
to testify that Woods fired at
him, but that the gun didn't 90
off.
All other state witnesses denied
seeing any gun in Woods hands.
Curry and his estranged wife,
who is starting divorce proceed.
ings against Curry today for the
second time, both appeared at the
hearing. Mrs. Curry, however, sal
with her brother Woods. She said
that she and her brother and some
boys were out coon hunting. 81
have the cuts here to prove that, "
she said.
On their way back to town they
stopped at the outdoor theater to
see a film about "Sheriffs and
police"
When she and her brother STOP
ped at the theater. Mrs. Curry
spotted her eStranged husband sit
ting with her niece.
''If it had been anybody else
but her, l wouldn't of minded,
| the tall, nervous woman said.
MRS. Curry admitted going
over TO the car, and rs Curry
| testified she grabbed the Girl by
| the hair, and hif her. Curry, she
said, took one Of ihe niscs's high
heeled slippers, which she had
knocked eff during tle eheM. and
eonked her oil TIE back ~ the
head. she showos . hawsaped
patch on her head 10 Justice
HanIin and County Solicitor Az
Ian B. clesre, Jr. After that Mrs.
Curry said she was 50 mad. she
took . rock and smashed HE car
windows.
my brother didn't have a gun,
she replied to insistent questioning
by Hamlin to bring her back 4
the case in point.
State witnesses Adolfo Boza
John Lorette, and Gilbert Races
Continued on Page Ten)
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Cantatas Mark
Holy Week At
Two XIV Churches

Holy Week in Key West Is being
observed by two cantatas at local
churches. at st. Paul's and at the
First Methodist.
The candelight Holy Communion
at the First Methodist Told Stone
Church win take place tomorrow
not Thursday night. the Rev. j.
Paul Touchton announced today so
tina, the Key West High school
chorus cantata can be heard on
Thursday night at Sis.
At st. Paul's tomorrow night,
Comdr. S. H. Pierce has organized
the Easter Cantata q 40 voices at
Is p. m. Tom Whitley vii direct
the choral section Of "The Cruel
fixion." Comdr. Pierce viii play
the organ. Singers FINN many de-
nominations are participating IN
the St. Paul's cantata.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-31
Woman Is Injured
In Accident Mon.

Miss opheline Actor. Is. T7T Oil.
via Street was taken % the Mon.
roe General Hospital yesterday
after she was injured In an acci-
dent on Truman Avenue, police
said today.
According to the police report.
Miss Actor was rllink a bicycle
IAnghorne, Pennsylvania.
Hospital officials today did not
release the extent of her injuries.
but they said that Miss Actors
condition was "aot critical. She
Is being held Tor observation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-31
Bdrtenders Union
Pockets A and B

A long and stormy disa.
sreement between the man
agement Of the A and B
Lobster House. Front Street.
and the Hotel and Rsstaur.
ant Employees and Bartend.
ers Local lss erupted once
more at noon today when q
four man picket line was
thrown around the restaur-
ant by the Union member
ship.
The barienders contend
that Berlin FELTON,. proprie.
tor Of the restaurant has
given them the runaround"
with persistent refnsaIs TO
negotiate q new contract.
Joseph Gid. Secretary and
Business Manager for the
union said today the picket
line win remain until the
question Is settled. In the
past. they have picksted
the establishment but then
withdrew when FELTON, had
agreed 10 negotiate. But.
nothing ever came Of his
promises" Gild ayers.
The trouble started almost
two years ago with the dis-
nissal al two mattresses at
the restaurant
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-31
Rep Rapy Releases Text
Of Bills A6act'ng CRY
Power OF City
Manager To Be
Cut DrasticaHy

The government of the
City of Key West is almost
certain to be drastically
altered next month when
Representative Bernie c.
Papy makes his biennial
iaunt to the State Capitol
with a briefcase stuffed
with local bills. The CON-
plete text of the bills have
now been made public.
For the past two months,
since the veteran legisla-
tor began to announce his
plans for the revamping of
the city charter, the issues
at stake have been debated
pro and con, including their
airing at a three-hour hear
ing on Friday night before
the public and whether or
not they are good bills, will
be determined apparently,
ON how they work out in
use.
Biggest beef s'neng the opposi.
iien seems 10 be The general re-
dUcsion in ihe powers Of the city
manager under The terms o.
mary Of fhe bills. Besides losing
his voice In making appointments
10 fine pollce and fire depart.
Inenfs, re CITY mareaer Is being
cucisd nssasks 81 ahe faIs.
ming Board thereby and losing
his voice m The eisy planning pic.
tvFe under the terms Of bill
which will abolish the Board
and spiit It's powers between
HE Planning Commission and
ihe city commission.
And members Of the Utility
l'nard face a shakeup in that acti.
witty.
Probably the act with the most
far reaching implications is one
which win make it the DUTY Of
tne city commission to submit the
following question 20 the qualified
electors Of the city Of Key West
in the November General election:
shall the present form Of govern
ment Of the city of Key West. Flo
rida known as the Commission
Manager Plan" be changed to the
Mayor-and.Council form Of govern
fnent?"
This very important and much
debated query will appear on the
ballot twice once followed BY the
word Yes and once followed b,
the word NO Il win be for th,
voters 10 decide.
ELECTIONS
The bill which seems TO be eaus
ING the most comment around tn,
city halls these days seems to b
Continued on Page Tenl
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-31
S.,nlmerland Science Winner
Back At School After Holiday
David Mnmford
Won 500 Prize
For Scientific
Inventive Talent

David B. Mumford Of Summer,
land Key. one Of the 40 winners
Of the National Science Talent
Search. has just returned Il
Phillips Exeter School in New
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-31
Social Security
Representative
II, XIV. April Z

A representative Of me Nj.
ami Social Security office will
be In Key West Tuesday.
April TIN.
Ne meY be contacted st the
Florida State Employment Of
flee, al4 Simcnson Street
from eco am. 10 i7:0o noon,
and from l;oo pm. 10 800
pm.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-31

Reason for the suspension,
King said in a letter to the Civil
Service Board, is q violation IN
the Civil Service Regulations that
call for suspension or discharge
''for conduct \unbecomlng an off,
Ger and if hA has been found
guilty Of acts (which amount to
insubordinationl or disgraceful
conduct whether such acts were
committed while on or off duty"
Kings letter said: II have 70.
day, March 81. 1853. suspended
Robert 6. GarFison Ter . perled
Of Is days with . recommends
ton that he be separated from
the police department and dls-
charged as IN employees Of HE
city Of Key West"
Garrison win he given q hear.
ing before the Civil Service Board.
which Is scheduled 10 meet on
Thursday night.
He said that 81 am going 20
fight this thing 100 per cent.
Mrs. Garrison said that she had
CONTINUED on Page Ten)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-31

The Associated Press Tslssyps
Features and Photo Services.
For 72 Years Devoted to the
Best Interests of Key West
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-31
King Suspends Police Officer Who
Was Center Of Peeping Tom Row
Robert Garrison Handed 15-Dny
Layout; Firing Is Recommended

A fifteen-day suspension along with recommends
ton for discharge from the Key West Police Department
was handed out today to Police Officer Robert E. Gar
rson for conduct unbecoming officer" City Manager
Dave King announced TODAY.
The action car pst - month after Garrison's
wife, who is m1ked>at the Vhica Naval Air Sta
ton under the kapk of AMI Ben\n, at meeting of
the city commi hugsS S6arsM King that he
"peepng toni eharges stsqkd from incident
in which King the GarDsaS IOme'1sOs Patterson
Avenue to check % afdE0f police officers claim
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-31
NOTICE!

All County Real and Per-
sonal Property Taxea must
be paid NOT later than close
Of business on April /,
1858. Penalties and In
leresi aerrues after the
above date.
HOWARD z. WILSON,
Tax Cell Menros ceuniY.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-31

Hampshire following two weeks
spring vacation al Summeriand.
David. who viii enter Harvard
In the Fan II the age Of IL, CON.
peted with 1850 boys and girls
ali over the nation for S1I.ooo In
Continued on Page Tenl
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Key West. Florida. hos the
most equuble climate in the
country. with ON 0veroge
rcnge of only lac Fahrenheit
Evening star., 1953-04-28
Common Sense on Time, at Last

Congratulations to Congress on its decision
to end, once and for all, the annual nonsense
over daylight saving for Washington! It is to
the credit of majority of House members of
both parties that the action finally taken went
all the way. There is to be no more of this one
summer-only business involving boresome and
time wasting debate year after year in the lower
chamber-where opposition to "fast time" in
variably centers. Nor is there to be any equally
absurd proviso that Washington must wait to
see what New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore
do about daylight saving each year. The Senate
wisely backed down on this restriction
From now on District citizens may have the
sort of summer time schedule they prefer. They
merely have to make their wishes known to the
Commissioners. Since the sentiment here has
been shown to be overwhelmingly in favor of
joining with most other cities in daylight saving
the city is assured of quick end to the time
confusion which developed when Congress failed
to act before last Sundays deadline. And high
time, too.
Evening star., 1953-04-28
BY Charles E. TroceWeN
Lawyer.

today the inner secrets Of the old plants
are being discovered again.
Some of the plants are being found
to have hormones, etc.
In the old days they did not know
why they worked; now it Is realized
that they worked because they had
to work, according to natures plan.
Growing old medical plants in the
home garden is an extremely interesting
hobby.
There Is no danger whatever. since
often the medical part Is in the
root, and even the dogs and cats can
not get down that far.
Most of these old botanicals are not
pretty, it must be admitted.
One Of the most famous, the Golden
Seal, can be planted alongside the ga
rage, on the side seldom visited, to keep
it safe from trampling feet.
It is so inconspicuous that no wan
dering child will pick it, though the
handy man may crop it as q weed.
Medical botany Is fascinating sub
ject. The person who, for one reason
or another, has plenty Of time on his
hands, and o little spare money, will
find it's study rewarding. It is best to
begin with the reading Of several books
on the subject. This is hobby
which, like that Of collecting phono-
graph records, demands Q reader.
Evening star., 1953-04-28
This and That .

"Just weeds" some one says in July,
looking at a Queen Anne's lace plant.
He does not look close enough.
If he had, instead of sneering, gone
on to examine the flower heads closely,
he would have noted something to make
the botanist say his prayers.
1t is the way the flower head is made.
The thing to do is to turn the flower
(really an aggregation of small flowers)
over and look at it from the back.
Then one sees the slender stems,
scores Of them, radiating from the
center.
There is a geometric pattern here, Of
the type nature shows in snow crystals.
The common burdock is another
weed, in common talk.
Look at it from the standpoint of
travel however and at once the bur-
dock clicks.
It is one of the great world travellers.
The Romans, in their movements
across Europe, took the burdock with
them.
Probably it is more accurate to say
that the burdock went along.
It had no difficulty In hopping the
Atlantic. either.
Now it is found in every State Of the
Union. almost. and finds few conditions
II any. too difficult for It.
Evening star., 1953-04-28

pledged to support and defend. Editors,
like doctors, know the future is no bet
ter than the facts. Your editorial has
courageous conclusion: Compromise,
after all, can be honorable and wise: in
the course Of history it has often served
the best interests of mankind.
Does our President use the soothing
relaxation Of golf to make key COM
mand decisions? The furore over prag-
matte compromise came from those
pushing the Bricker amendment. The
same politicians who distrust executive
power as possible conspiracy to cir
cumvent our Constitution now bitterly
complain such usurpation is not con-
templated, in respect to Korea. They
want unconditional surrender in Korea
but they insist the President be the
usurper responsible for the blood and
treasure an enlarged war must cost
Our President has promised to observe
every mandate of our Constitution. He
promises to consult Congress on vital
policy. If the war in Korea is to be
enlarged, then let it be done by act of
Congress. Those who would curtail ex-
ecutive initiative and power must as
sumo full responsibility for any alter
native to protested compromise.
Thomas E. Mattingly, MD.
Evening star., 1953-04-28
Awakening

He tDdlkS the fields this cloU6ed. Ussdy
day
Early IN spring. The moist GNd hedpy
SnOtDS
Haze disappeared: the creek u running
tul.
He checks the 0rotOip0 crops: the iotn-
ter tDheGt,
The stand of oats netO-plGnted. ana
the lodnS
Reddied for corn. There Is q certain Gtr
OF glad expectancy about the soil
This time of briet transition. Nth It's
first
Visible oro,rth of the strong. dormant
OF meadow grasses. Slender toilloto trees
Are stirring along the rocky watershed.
He looks around him, feels Girdkeni10
OF MELLON earth. Small pools OF trater
stand
In every dip OF Oreenin0 pasture land.
Billy B. Cooper
Neodesha, KanS.
Evening star., 1953-04-28
Setting Record Straight

AS a Eisenhower about-to-be-
released employe of the State Depart
ment, would like to comment on
Constantine Browns column April %.
This article creates the impression that
all those who are soon to lose their jobs
in the State Department through nor
NAL reduction-in-force procedures are
either Communists, homosexuals, or in
some other way are unfit to hold their
positions. I think it should be made
clear that the heavy personnel cuts
now being made for economy reasons
will force out of the Government many
people who have no other fault than
that they lack sufficient Civil Service or
veterans status to keep from being
bumped" by those who have more
status.
think that the press on the whole,
and particularly The Star, is not at all
partisan but tries sincerely to bring out
the truth for all to see, and that is a
very important mission to perform
Therefore, would like to see something
soon on your editorial page which will
"set the record straight" by pointing
out that not all those who will soon be
looking for new jobs outside of their
chosen field of foreign affairs are neces-
sarily "undesirables" or "rotten apples"
as Mr.. Browns article seems to imply.
John F. Barnard.
Evening star., 1953-04-28

The burrs are nuisance. and many
persons do not like the entire plant,
but at times it can be very decorative.
A plant Of it, let grow in a corner of
a garden, makes q rather pretty pic
ture.
If any one doubts this, he should
try it for himself. The garden picture,
as set forth in the garden magazines,
has become rather stereotyped thing;
a pretty thing. it is true, but too often
bordering on the pretty" type, utterly
lacking individuality.
That is exactly where nice burdock
plant comes it. None Of your neigh
bors will have one-if they can help 1t.
And how wrong they will be!
Joe Pye weed-named after some
Indian Of long ago-is better known
today as Eupatorium.
It has a long history of medical use
by Indians, and early colonistS, but
today crashes some gardens as an orna-
mental.
Many a garden plant once functioned
as medicine.
There was. in fact. . whole school Of
medicine based on botanicals.
Then came period in which ortho-
dox dectcrH tended to sneeE at the.
herb doctors" and their infusions, but
Evening star., 1953-04-28
Why Crime Increased Here

Police Chief Murray has suggested plausible
reasons for the startling increase in crime in
Washington last year. He has noted that the
greatest rise in the crime rate occurred in
types of lawlessness which tend to thrive on
inadequate patrolling of beats and on lenient
punishment policies. Both Of these crime
encouraging factors have been painfully evil
dent in local law enforcement.
Robbery and housebreaking increased here
to an extraordinary degree in 1852, according
to Uniform Crime Reports compiled and pub
lished by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
While the number of robberies nationally rose
11.6 per cent last year, the increase in the
District was 40 per cent HouSebreakingS in
creased in number throughout the Nation by
8.8 per cent, but in Washington they scared to
a figure 342 per cent above that of 1851.
After study of the statistics Chief Murray
commented that robbery and houSebreaking are
crimes that have tendency to rise and fall
in inverse proportion to the effectiveness of
police patrol operations. He found that such
offenseS rose sharply last year after patrols
were reduced because of curtailed appropra-
tions. When Congress cut off fund which was
being used to pay for extra beat patrols on an
overtime basis, Chief Murray was forced to
spread his force too thin for comfort He ex-
pressed fears at the time that yokings, assaults
to be the case.
Chief Murray also concurS in The Stars
belief that some of the judges have been too
easy on robbers, burglars and other confirmed
hoodlums. He points out that many of the
cases cited by The Star in its recent series of
articles on soft prosecution and sentencing
procedures involved holdup men and house
breakers with long records. The Star found
that in too many instances such offenders were
indicted only on a selected few of numerous
known cases against them, and that frequently
judges imposed concurrent instead Of conSecu-
tive sentences. That even the police at times
have been disposed to send only partial picture
of an offenders depredations To- the grand jury
is indicated by the case of Elmer Ray Drew,
who confessed many burglarieS but was formally
charged with only one. Small wonder that
Washington has earned the unenviable reputa-
ton of an "easy spot" for hardened criminals.
Among the factors cited in the FBI report
as influencing trends of crime in community
were "the number of police employees per unit
of population" and "the policies of the prose-
cutting officials and the courts" Washington'S
police force today consists of 2,064 men-226
below authorized strength and 436 below the
total recommended by the Washington Crimi-
nal Justice Association. Since appropriations
are involved in any move to strengthen the
Police Department, Congress cannot escape
share of responsibility for the inadequacy of
law enforcement here. And, as the FBI report
states, prosecuting officials and judges have
definite responsibilities, too. They are not living
up to those responsibilities when, through neg
ligence or mSdirected SoftheartedneSS, they
enable repeaters to beat the rap on many Of
their crimes.