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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-24
Fire Breaks Out
Here Early Today

A fire which broke oBi n q ma.
treas IN The home Of Miss Grace
Tsmblsr On Day Street early this
morning caused extenslvs a.
mage. Fire Chef Charles Crsmsia
said today.
Firemen from he Main anl
Number Three stations answered
she alarm and fought for an han
hoar 70 extinguiah he blaze. n
bone oEner vas cut ~ TIE time
Tie blaza bricks ous.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-24
Mayo Clinic
Trip Set For
Baby Jasper
BY DOROTHY RAYMER

Baby Jasper Walker, Jr., Is
going to get his chance to live.
He's going to take a nice smooth
ride in a plane all the way from
Key West to the famed Mayo
Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, for
treatment.
The happy news came today
from the Shrine Club which is
purchasing rovndfrip ticket for
Mrs. Walker and her son this
afterpoon. II all goes according
TO schedule. Baby Jasper will be
on his way for treatment of .
brain fvmor by tomorrow after.
noon.
President of the Shrine Club,
Charles E. Blundell, said that after
being in contact with the Memoir
ial Hospital in New York, they
were advised that six months old
Jasper could receive the best care
at the Mayo Clinic, most famous
in the world for diagnosis and
treatment of cases like little Jas
per'S.
Capt. A. e. Buckley. chairman
Of the Navy Charity Carnival
was called at his home in refer.
ence to giving . lift" to- The
collectors trying to get funds for
the baby's medical care and The
trip. Capt. Buckley said This
morning that he certainly
thought fhe case warranted help
from the Navy Charity fund and
that q check for $500 was ready
and waiting. "A;l they have 10
do is come and pick II up" he
said. THE Navy Charity carni.
val was put on to get money for
Just such emergencies 40 this
and to contribute to other chart.
table organizations in Key
West" Buckley assured.
In addition to Navy help, Shrine
Club members who read the story
about Baby Jasper's condition in
the Saturday edition of The Citi-
zen, are grateful to several other
civic groups who, as Blundell
said, reached doxn into their
limited resources and came up
with contributions" Unnamed in
dividuals also donated aid.
Mrs. Walker could not be reatH.
ed this morning because she vas
downtown buying those necessary
little garments young babies have
to wear in preparation for the
journey. 1t was learned that she
has never been any further north
than Miami and naturally does not
have any winter clothing which
she'll need for the sojourn in Min
Continued On Page Two)
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Locals Take End
Place In Parade
Competition

A tired but happy group
of high schoolers, over a
hudred strong, members Of
the Key West High School
Band returned yesterday
rom Havana where they
captured the hearts of all of
Cuba in an appearance in a
gigantic parade which in
augurated the annual Carni-
val season there. The bands
nen and women locked at
the Naval Station late yes
serday afternoon aboard the
Cuban Navy Frigate, Jose
Marti.
Reason for their fatigue was the
let that they arose yesterday
Morning at 500 am. to make the
tip.
Also aboard were a group Of Of
fetal Key West representatives in
Guiding Mayor and Mrs. c. B. Har-
", Fire Chief Charles Cremata,
lilo Cabanas, president of the
an Carlos Institute, Juan Lopez,
odoIfo Boza and Benny Fernan-
taz Of the board of directors Of
re San Carlos.
The band captured second
prize II the. parade composition.
against same Of The top high
school bands IN the state ineiud-
ina the Miami and Tampa az
rsgafions. Trey okevpisd . %.
siiion 81 honor IN HE parsds.
They performed exeellenily
and proved 10 be wonderful am.
!,assadors Of good will. Mayer
Harvey ssid this morning.
On hand to meet the high school.
ars on the dock was a large group
& parents and 6andmaster Har-
old Casterton, who was encased
in plaster cast due to spinal
injury was there to greet his band.
The group proved to be good
sailOrs--on the way back, that Is.
Just about all of them were slight
" sea-sick on the way over to Ha-
vana.
The band was quartered at two
Ugh schools while In Havana and
faey were feted with round Of
i ghtseeing. I'VE had a fine time
steak dinner every night" one
Of the band members said.
Also on the ship were "A men,
hers of the Miami Police Depart
aient's motorcycle drill squad,
under the command Of Ii. NJ. A.
Clark. The crack team performed
in the parade. One of the top
cycle groups in the nation, they
we're fresh from the Inauguration
parade for President Dwight D.
Eisenhower in Washington.
The band members were com.
mended by all concerned on their
performances in Havana which
marked their second in a. many
years.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-24
Hioh School Band Returns From
Triumphant Havana Appearance
4 X
Gulf Blasts Spare 5alable Fish
Conservation
Agent Stearns
Accompanies All
Dynan,iting Trips

State Conservation agent How
ard Stearns who accompanies all
Gulf Oil testing seismic operations
in the Florida Bay near here said
today:
ITO date ! have noticed no
kills Of commercially valuable
species"
The young biologist who is en-
ployed by the State Board of Con-
seryation said that he occasion
ally picks up fish for dissection.
So far he has seen only grunts,
catfish, small blue runners, yellow
jacks, after the dynamiting ex-
plosions in which formations are
tested, by seismograph.
Stearns and j. S. DeMaret, Land
Leasing department of Gulf Oil,
stationed at Fort Myers told The
Citizen today that every effort is
made to protect the fishes of the
huge area in which the tests are
being conducted.
In order to blast at all in the
Gulf-leased bay bottom which runs
from Marco, Fla. to the Marque-
sas, the company obtained permits
from the State Board of Conserva-
ton for a "geophysical survey in
the coastal waters of glorida :"
The company has under lease
this vast bay bottom acreage from
the Florida Internal Improvement
Board for oil, gas and mineral
rights.
Permit was also obtained from
the u. S. Army Corps off Engineers
for temporary castings, buoys and
stages, and grid lines, for the
shooting operations. In addition
the Navy granted Gulf a permit
to explode dynamite in its warn
ing areas.
Before any of the operation start
ed Gulf asked for a summary of
the effects of dynamiting on Flor
ida fisheries. The Marine Labora-
tory of the University of Miami,
Coral Gables has completed such
a study. C. p. Idyll, Research as
sociate, quotes various authorities
in the report:
e. there Is no evidence, fol-
lowing years of experience with
oil exploration in shrimp fishing
areas, that shrimping is poorer
after seismic operations. On the
day following experimental blasts
of 800 pounds, twelve shrimp boats
fished successfully in the area of
the blasting"
This experience was in Louisiana
where shrimpers are as articulate
as in Key West.
Though some fish are killed in
blasting, the dead ones found are
not commercially valuable ones,
Stearns said.
DeMaret stressed that Stearns is
hired and appointed to the task Of
observing the blasting for the State
Board Of Conservation. not Gulf
Oil. After Gulf crews fire a blast
of dynamite, he has to take the
boat back to the area to see how
many fish are killed.
Gulf is blasting at present in
an area in Florida IS to 20 miles
away from Key West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-24
U.S.-Russiian War
Called Inevitable

WASHINGTON R-If Russia de-
cides on about war, "she is GO
ing to jump right on the United
States" says South Korean Kor-
eign Minister Y. T. Pyun.
But he added, in a copyrighted
interview published yesterday in
U. S. News and World Report,
that he thought United Nations
forces could bomb Manchurian
bases without touching off a gen.
eral war. He said he thought a
U. S.-Russian war eventually was
inevitable.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-24
Says That Local City Manager
Will Haze To Reside liz City Limits

City Manager Dave King said today that he "wi re-
port to the city commission at their meeting tonight fol-
lowing the receipt of ruling from State Attorney General
Richard Erwin that he holding office illegally by virtue
OF the fact that he is not resident of Key West
In two page letter. addressed to city attorney M.
lgnatus Lester Erwin cited chapter in the Florida
Statutes which states that any office deemed vacant
when the holder to reside within the city, town
for which he has been appointed"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-24
Flight Record Try
To Be Made Soon

LOS ANGELES R--Actor Jimmy
Stewards sleek Fs1 Mustang. the
Thunderbird. and his pilot. Joe de
Bona. are poised today for new
weSt.east transcontinental flight
record attempt.
When he gets word that the
winds are favorable, De Bona viii
take off from Los Angeles Inter
national Airport for LaGuardia
Field. New York.
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Organ Recitals
AT St. Paul's
Start Friday

The first in . series Of Lenten
organ recitals win be performed
BY Charles Roberts At 81. Paul's
Episcopal church Friday evening
1T T:3o.
The recitals this year win be
even more enjoyable than last
year becsuse u the recent work
done On the organ. Visitors ard
servieement ara welcome ct the
Church.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-24
Attorney General Rules That Kinq
Holds His City Office Illegally
Williams Goes On Trial TODAY
accused Man In Attempted Rape
Case Acts As His O,Un Attorney

confessed Philadelphia puole vioutor begm his fight
for freedom today Criminal Court against attempted rope
chuge which could send him to jui for ten Yeors
Acting his attorney. jones L. Wiloms. a. ll9
Duvo Street fought the chge today before Judge Thomus
tendont heoId indictment charging that he beat and
tempted ciminully attack l9Yeoold Navy wife read
him by County Solicitor Anm Cleore IT, who prosecuting
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-24
Masonic Notice

Special cemmuaisssiee 81 osds
Ledge No. u. 2. q An. wsdnss'
day evening. FEB. 1ssh. ~ T:1o
PA. p. {. Degree.
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ssg Masens ere invited - sstsad-
PAUL c. HEFIlN.
W. "A.
p. o, wsseh.
Sse'Y.
Evening star., 1953-08-21
Dick Haynes Facing
More Legal Troubles
BY the Assoeiofod Press

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21.-
Legal troubles proceeded accord
ing to pattern for Dick Haynes
today: The crooner settled one
problem and acquired another.
Mr.. Haynes, who faces de-
portation proceedings, signed a
property settlement yesterday
with his present wife, Nora Ed
dington. But a previous wife,
Actress jeanne Dru Ireland
had him cited to answer her
charge that he is $2,538 behind
in his payments for support Of
their three children Richard, 10;
Helen, 8, and Barbara, 4.
Miss Eddington will sue Mr..
Haynes for divorce today, on
incompatibility grounds, her at
torney said. Under California
law this would mean at least a
years delay before Mr.. Haynes
could marry Rita Hayworth, his
most recent romantic interest.
Mr.. Haynes difficulties with
the immigration authorities stem
from his recent trip to Hawaii,
where Miss Hayworth was visit
ing. The law says an alien, hav-
ing left territorial United States,
cannot return without a permit.
Mr.. Haynes was born in Argen-
tina and never became an Ameri-
can citizen.
Evening star., 1953-08-21
GIN Rents Willow Run
For Transmission Work
BY the Assoeicfsd Press

DETROIT, Aug. 21.-General
Motors Corp, announced today
it has signed q lease for the use
of is million square feet Of the
Kaiser Motors Willow Run
plant to produce Hydromatic
tranSmiSSionS.
A $50 million fire DESTROYED
the G. M. transmission plant
August IL.
Harlow E. Curtice; G. M. pres
ident, said equipment necessary
for production of the transmits
Sions will be moved. to the Will
low Run plant as soon as pos
Sible.
Mr.. Curtice said the Air Force
had assured him Of its co-opera-
ton in clearing the leased door
space Of machinery used former
ly by Kaiser to produce C119
planes under o Defense Depart
nent contract.
This was the contract which
the Government Cancelled after
an investigation Of costs in the
planes production. p
Evening star., 1953-08-21
Fishing Rodeo Planned
For Children Tomorrow

Youngsters II years Of age
and under, supervised by en-
adult, will participate in a fish,
ing rodeo tomorrow from Q am.
until noon on Ohio drive S.W..
Potomac River side. near the
railroad bridge.
Prizes will be awarded for the
heaviest. longest, hghteSt, pref
tieSt and ugliest 1lSh caught and
for the longest and shortest eels
brought in.
Evening star., 1953-08-21
ID. {. Heads Kill Plan
For Parking Meter
Enforcement Corps

The District Commissioners
have killed the idea Of hiring a
semi-civilian corps to police the
streets for parking meter viola
tionS.
The city heads have con-
cluded that rather than hire
seven ersatz policemen au-
thorized to perform the sole duty
Of checking meters, every one
would be better of if more bona
f1de policemen were provided to
do the job.
Brig. Gen. Louis w. Prentiss,
Engineer Commissioner, origi-
mated the idea several weeks ago.
Gen. PrentiSs felt at the outset
that $4,000 would be a good
investment in special personnel
and motor scooters for checking
meter beaters.
But his aides. including Police
Chief Robert v. Murray, recon-
mended against the idea. They
figured that the special force
would just add another law en-
forcement arm to the Districts
forces, which already include
Metropolitan Police, Park Po-
lice, White House Police, Capt.
tol Police-and the Junior Po-
lice and Citizens Corps.
"It would have meant a fur
tner complexity to an already
complex law enforcement setup."
Gen. PrentiSs said.
Instead, he added, the Com
missionerS probably will ask Con-
gress to appropriate perhaps
$50, 900 in the fiscal 1855 budget
to hire extra policemen to check
the meters, as well aS perform
other police duties.
The Engineer Commissioner
said he recommended dropping
his own special enforcement plan
after receiving the reports from
his aides.
Evening star., 1953-08-21
Boy, 4, Dies Of Burns
Suffered In Quantico Fire

The 4-year-old son of q Ma
rine Corps ofi1cer at Quantico,
Va, died Wednesday afternoon
at the posts hospital from Sec
ond and third degree burns re-
ceived in a f1re in his home Sat-
urday night.
Lance Manning Turner, son
Of Maj. and Mrs. Byron Turner,
was sleeping in his room at the
time Of the fire. Although
flames did not reach his room,
it is believed he was burned
when he awakened and ran into
q flaming hall. The boy was
carried out through the bedroom
window by his father and neigh
borS.
The fire was thought to have
started when Q cigarette con-
tinued to burn after Mai. Turner
fell asleep on q screened porch.
Damage to the building was eSti-
mated at $1,700.
Arrangements for the boys
burial. to be held in Faulkton
Is. Dak.) Cemetery, are not
complete.
Evening star., 1953-08-21
Sergeant Stands by Wife Held
In HoIdups, Arronges Bond

partly my responsibility because
I should have made her go live
with her family while I was
overseas"
The sergeant has been overseas
for seven months.
He said he was anxious that
Mrs. Humphrey be free on bond
while awaiting grand jury action
on her case because she needs
an operation"
Linked With Convict.
Mrs. Humphrey. who lived in
the 1900 block of North Engle-
wood street, Arlington, at the
time of her arrest, was linked
up with Thomas E. Dickerson.
80, an ex-convict who was
charged with armed robbery in
connection with the Chevy Chase
holdup.
Dickerson now is at Spring
Grove State Hospital, Cations
vile. Md, undergoing a mental
examination after he tried to
cut his wrists and hang himself
last week in Montgomery County
jail at Rockville. He also had
been on a To-day hunger strike.
District police said the couple
also has been identified as the
pair who held up two liquor
stores on Rhode Island avenue
NE. earlier this summer.
Sergt. Humphrey has to be
back in California to re-embark
for Japan by September 8. He
said he hopes to get his wife
back with their children, now
staying with her sister at Buck
roe Beach, Va, "and to get her
life Strengthened out as much as
possible" before he has to leave
again.
Evening star., 1953-08-21
5 Buildings Burned, ,
Convict Dies in Riot
In West Coast Prison
BY the Associated Press

MONROE, Wash, Aug. IL
Three hundred angry inmates Of
the Washington State Reforma-
tory last night went on a destruc-
tive spree that ended hours later
with one man dead, three injured
and five Of the institutions
sprawling buildings destroyed by
fire.
Half Of the rioters were in a
cell block, the others on the
grounds in the center Of the
buildings they had burned in a
sudden outbreak of viciouness.
Guards patrolled the walls keep
ing inmates on the grounds
under surveillance throughout
the night.
The rioters struck without
warning during the evening
recreation period. One group took
over one of the reformatory'S two
large cell blocks and the other
ran through the grounds setting
fire to the buildings surrounding
the recreation area.
Tried BreakOut.
Several hours after the first
outbreak a group Of the men on
the grounds tried to break
through the gate. Guards atop
the 30-foot-high walls, armed
with everything from riot guns
to tommyguns, opened fire.
Four men fell. One was NOR
tally wounded. Another, struck
by a ricocheting bullet which
passed through his head right
behind his eyes, lay on the
ground screaming:
>"Oh God. Knock me out!
Knock me out!"
Doctors said later he would
be blind.
The other two men were not
wounded seriously.
Herded on Ball Field.
On the grounds officers moved
in slowly but steadily, herding
the Sullen group before them
until the rioters were congre-
gated on the institutions base
ball diamond.
Behind them glowed the brick
plants wooden building and the
still hot steel in the burned-out
concrete laundry, cannery. ma
chine shop and carpenter and
auto repair shop.
Evening star., 1953-08-21
ScottsViIIe Bond

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, Aug.
81 (SpeciaD. The Albemarle
Board Of Supervisors has author
lied expenditure of $1,000 for
band instruments for Scottsville
High School.
Evening star., 1953-08-21

"She just got mixed up with
the wrong crowd"
That's the way Technical
Sergt. Robert A. Humphrey
sizes up the predicament his
attractive wife finds herself in
as the result of being charged
as an accessory in a series of
District, Prince Georges and
Montgomery holdups.
Sergt. Humphrey was in
Bethesda MD Police Court
today, when Mrs. Hilda Gray
Humphrey. 80, of Arlington. Va,
was ordered held for the Mont
gomery County grand jury on a
charge of being an accessory in
the $500 holdup last month of
the Regional Finance Co. in
Chevy Chase.
FurlOugh From Japan.
He was in Japan with the
T53-d anti-aircraft artillery unit
when Montgomery police booked
his wife and District and Prince
Georges authorities lodged de-
tainers against her. He arranged
an emergency furlough through
his chaplain, he said, after a
friend sent him newspaper clip
pings describing his wife's arrest.
Sergt. Humphrey, who ar
ranged his wife'S release on
$4,000 bond after today's hear
ing, said he intends to stick
by her
"She'S always been a wonder
full mother to our two kids" he
said.
"She's never been in any
trouble before" he added. This
is the first time we've been
separated in the seven years
we've been married. I feel it's
Evening star., 1953-08-21
BETHESDA
Servings from our Huge Sleep Shop :.

Awonde opportunity yourself the refreshing comfort you
prices any budget sleep NAL
colin Scotes Choose from notono
box sepers and duopupo But do during
August Sole. Prices, an Iower
Evening star., 1953-09-12

from the standpoint Of tax
revenues" Mr.. Andrews said.
Consequently, the canvassing
programs will be continued, and
begun where none have already
been started, as has been previ-
ously announced.
Far from being halted, the
canvassing program will be
stepped up and intensified on the
basis of the techniques that have
proved to be most effective"
Door Calls Still On.
Mr.. Andrews statement was
prompted by reports that the
door-knocking programs were
being dropped. Mr.. Andrews
said this impression arose from
instructions which had been
given to Internal Revenue Off
cials.
They were told that programs
which had not already been
started should not be started un-
til the various types of canvassing
had been tested in other areas
and the most efficient system de-
termined. After that. Mr.. An
drews said, the canvassing sys-
TEN would be used in new areas.
So far, none has been used in
the District.
Evening star., 1953-09-12
Revenue Agents Plan
More Efficient Job
Of DoorbeII Ringing

Internal Revenue Commits
eioner T. Coleman Andrews said
yesterday that tax collectors
eventually will start new pro-
grams of canvassing for delin-
quent taxpayers.
In recent weeks, Internal Reve-
hue agents have tried door-to-
door visits, have checked classi-
fed telephone directories and
conducted other types of sur
veys intended to turn up citizens
who have not filed income tax
returns.
Highly Productive.
"The results already obtained
and the experience and knowl-
edge gained from different types
OF canvaSSing have shown con-
clusively that well-organized and
well-directed canvasSing is nee
esSary and highly productive
Evening star., 1953-09-12
Communist Propaganda Keeps Flooding U. 5.

In addition to individuals and
Communist groups. the matter
also has been directed to pri-
vate, non-C Communist organiza-
tions and even to governmental
agencies. A careful record Of all
addresses is maintained.
Material deemed inflanatory,
false or fraudulent goes into the
discard,
Evening star., 1953-09-12
BY the Associoied Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 12.-Cus-
toms officials say Communist
propaganda from abroad keeps
pouring in. even though most of,
it ends up in the discard.
The Red literature often ar
rives in the form of packages,
registered mail or bulk parcels,
authorities said yesterday.
Evening star., 1953-11-27
Captain Killing Native
TO End Pain Acquitted
By the Assoeioted Press

NAIROBI. Kenya. Nov. 81
British Army. Capt. Gerald Grit
fiths was found innocent today
by a court-martial on a charge
of numbering an African forestry
worker.
Capt. Grifiths. 43. admitted
shooting two Africans in the
back with stem gun on June
10 after examining their passes
during an operation against the
Mau Mau society, terrorist group
battling the whites in this Brit
ish East African colony.
Capt. GrifhthS said that hall
an hour after the shooting one
of the men was moaning ano
obviously in great pain. Capt
Griffiths added he was very up
set" so he shot the man to put
him out of his misery.
Yesterday Capt. Grifhths TOLD
the court he gave African SOL
diers under his command five
shillings GO cents, United
States) for every Mau Mau mem
Der they killed. He kept COM
pany scoreboard in the officers
mess recording prisoners, wound
ed and killed, he testified.
A Kikuyu chief had testified
the two men shot by Capt. Grif-
fiths had taken the Mau Mau
oath to wage terrorism on
whites.
Evening star., 1953-11-27
Troops Join in Search
For Missing Baby Girl
BY the Associoted Press

MARIANNA, Ark, Nov. 81
Searchers including a battery of
National Guardsmen are comb
ing an isolated area near here
today for 22-month-old Barbara
Sue Jones, who has been missing
from her home since Wednes-
day.
Lee County Sheriff c. S.
Langston said he was checking
all angles" but added he had
no reason to believe there had
been any foul play.
The sheriff said he was told
that the little girl apparently
wandered away from the yard
of her parents home in the
marShy. wooded warrior bottoms
area about 10 miles southwest
of Mariana.
The parents. Mr.. and Mrs
Jimmy Jones, have six other
children, including twins young
er than Barbara Sue. The old
est is around 7 or 8, Langston
said.
A search-halted only by
darkness-has been under way
since the girls disappearance
was reported to officers.