The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-08

last year.
II Nearly 1,5OO members of the
AL Carmen's Union won IS cents
an hour pay boosts to their SIG
and $1.96 scales.
NEW YORK, IA 17-year-old
boy. fearing he had killed his
father In an alteration, stood on
= subway track yesterday and let
"a train grind him to death.
His father LATE was found I'M
hurt from . punch thrown by the
boy.
Police said Gerald RosenthaI,
Brooklyn high school senior, had
in pocket a note which read:
"I just killed my father. I leave
all my worldly goods to my
mother"
The motorman Of the train, who
could not stop 1t In time, said the
boy covered his eyes with his
hand and waited"
The boy had punched his father,
Jack Rosenthal, a, during an ar
gument and saw him stagger back
ward and appear to fall.
NEW YORK, R-The Metrop0li-
tan Museum of Art says it will
close down If It's guards 60 on
strike Saturday.
The ITO armed guards and other
attendants threaten to walk out
over their union demand for
$500 increase in annual wages.
Museum director Francis Henry
Taylor said yesterday the Metro
politan's main building in Central
Park and the Cloisters in Upper
Manhattan would be forced to
close in order 10 protect the fam
Gus collections.
/ BERLIN 1 Angry crowds
FLASHED with Communist police in
at least two Russian zone cities
on the state holiday marking the
fourth anniversary of the East
German republic yesterday, ac-
cording to the West Berlin news
paper Der Tag.
The paper said the clashes &C.
cured at Erfurt, Thuringia, and
Dresden, Saxony, wien Peoples
Police squads were sent to remove
anti Communist slogans on govern
ment and Communist party build
ings. The slogans demanded the
holding Of free elections.
SAN FRANCISCO B--one San
Francisco police inspector was
wounded fatally and another was
shot last night in a gun battle with
an ex-conyict they sought to ques-
ton about a market holdup.
Police identified the suspect, who
escaped, as Harold Miller, q.
Inspector Dennis Bradley, 80,
was shot u the head. He died
Inspector Max sirard. 80, was
wounded in the foot.
ST. LOUIS R-Former President
Harry S. Truman speaks here to-
night and has announced he will
have something to say about the
domestic policies Of the Eisenho-
wer administration.
The occasion is a dinner inI
Humans honor at which he will
receive the $1,000 annual award
from the Sidney Hillman Founda-
ton for meritorious public service. |
The award was established in
memory of the late Sidney Hill
man, who was president of the i
Clio Amalgamated Clothing Work.
ers of America.
\ CHICAGO B-A 24-year-old sub
urban Northlake mother claims the |
worlds child-bearing speed record
seven sons, all single births, who
were born within years, 10I
months and 5 days.
Il think ! hold the worlds speed
record for children born singly. /"
said Mrs. Corinne Mock. She said
three of her sons we're born in
slightly more than q months. Her
eldest son is six, the youngest six
weeks. Her husband, Rudolph, is /
Is.
DETROIT R-Henry A. johnson. |
director of the Belle Isle Conserva. |!
tory. worriedly Lit up smudge pots
yesterday. hoping to save his TO-
600 prize dahlias from q frost.
But he'll never know whether
he efforts succeeded. He was
stricken with a heart attack as
he completed his work. Twenty
minutes later he was dead on ar.
rival at q hospital.
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