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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-10
Stock Island Man Kills
Rattlesnake On Sugarloaf

five foot diamond ratesnake killed Sugarloa
Key today by Walter Yates of Stock Island.
Yates operator of the Overseas Lunch Stock Island
fishing camp the old Sugaroa He walk
along old road about 1890 when he heard the snake
buzz warning.
The reptile coied ready to strike under small bush by
Yates picked length of oneby-six that
nearby and hit the snake the head three times The snake had
10 rattes and weighed and half pounds
Yates said he had hunters Sugar Loaf hoped that
they Of poisonous sna kes in the
Incidentally, didn't catch any fish this morning
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-10
Neil Saunders
Announces For
City Commissioner

Neil Saunders in announcing fol
the office Of City Commissioner u
Group Four had this to say:
Like any native son, who love-
his home and his home town,
want to help make Key West thu
City it could be with intelligen
planning. Ihave travelled and livet
In many places throughout tn,
south and City Government being
q hobby Of mine ! am, familiar
with many kinds aad methods O
running a municipality.
"0ur older residents know m,
and to them / need no introduction
To our newer citizens. / am fort,
nine. in the business Of Outdoor
Advertising and Signs. / am also
q member of Civic and Fraterna
Organizations whose names IL
omit as did not Join them fol
Political or Business reasons.
am 4 member of the Monroe Coun
ty Anti-Mosquito District, (no sal
ary). appointed by the Governor
In August, 1851 and subsequently
elected by a wonderful majority
for q four year term
II have served as Chairman o.
this Board since its inception anC
the harmonious working of thi.
group has made t. record o.
achievement that mas been com
mended by the State Board o.
Health, who is our Boss.
81 was a member of the Com
mittee who drafted our presen
City Charter and need no schoolinl
In what a Commissioners dutie.
and job entails. l have no plan!
for spending our Tax Money OF
Million Dollar Deals. but DC
have ideas that our Tax None,
could be better srent in takini
care of the things We already hav,
and using it to give the citizens o
Key West better service for theil
money. We still have about tn,
same number of Garbage Truck
and employees that serviced u
when the population here was IL,
600 people no wonder trash !,
dropped and left. The City Jail i
. deplorable place aad needs man,
things. criminals should be punish
ed, but not everyone who land.
there is q criminal.
"our City employees, and / meaI
the little fellow who goes out ana
does the work, are the lowest paiC
in this country. Most of them neeC
two jobs so that they may be abl,
to meet their expenses. The cit,
has no money, yet every week W,
read where something is bein,
handed out in the City's wonder
full Give Away program.
"our streets need paving and
can be done and while we are doin,
1t, let Us put in proper drainag,
Continued On Page Five)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-10
Secrecy Shrouds Transfer OF
Kidnapers To Kansas City
Authorities
Doubtful OF
Marsh's Part
In Abduction

KANSAS CITY U - Methodical
investigation Of all facets Of the
Greenlease kidnap Staying was
pushed today by authorities seek
ing to clear up discrepancies in
stories told by the boys admit
ted abductors.
Carl Austin Hall, "a, who planned
the kidnapping, and Bonnie Brown
Heady, 41-year-old Divorce who
took Bobby Greenlease, 8, from
his private school, were to be
brought here from st. Louis where
they were arrested Wednesday.
Time Of the trip and the method
of transportation were kept secret
by federal authorities. Officials in
st. Louis said details Of the trans
fer were being withheld for secur-
ity reasons.
FBI agents said last night they
would continue to question the
pair after their arrival in Kansas
City in an effort to fit together
the missing pieces IN the case.
Still unaccounted for is $500, 900,
half the ransom paid by Bobby's
II year old father, Robert C.
Greenlease, wealthy Kansas City
automibile dealer. Hall, who had
some 500. 900 in his possession
when arrested, has said he doesn't
know what happened to the re-
mainder Of the money.
Marsh StiIl MISSING
Still sought is Thomas Marsh.
37-year-old ex-convict, named by
Hall as his accomplce In the kid.
Continued On Page Five)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-10
$4,000 Fund Shortage
Laid To Encouragement
TOtcner Calls
Meeting To
Stem Flood
OF Run,ors

"Out and out mismanage-
ment" today was cited by
Rear Admiral George C.
Towner, commandart of the
naval base, as the reason for
q $4,000 shortage in the &C
counts Of the Chief Petty Of
ficers' club.
The admiral called q
meeting of 200 CPOs in the
base movie theater, he said,
to clear up falsehoods cir
culating about the CPO club
accounts.
He said he had found no
evidence of "culpability."
AS Of Aug. !, the admiral said,
the club had outstanding bills
amounting to $4,000. He blamed
the station command that pre-.
ceded him for the trouble. Ad.
miral Towner did not mention
names but he said that the pre-
vious command never had ade-
quately supervised the CPO
club.
As far as he could dsteRrn-
Inc. he said. no ono stole or
made any money in connection
with tho shortage. The mana
ger and the treasurer just
didn't operate according 10 M.
val regulations" he added.
He said all expenditures over
$50 are supposed to be cleared
with the CpO clubs advisory
board, which was not done.
Maybe they would and maybe
they wouldn't pay for merchan-
disc, : he said. ''They owed money
for bar equipment and they fin
ally held up payment on the liq-
uor bill to pay for the bar equip
ment."
Another reason for the loss, he
added, was that there were too
many bartenders. Everybody
(C0ntinued On Page Five)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-10
Macy Lieutenant
Dies OF Polio

Three new peIie cases. enc
o. which resulted In death.
were reported today by Or.
Rsymend J. Dslten. MenFes
County health effieer.
Navy Lieut.. jerome Edward
Larson. iu Sisshss Rd., Siss-
bee Park, died last night In HE
Naval Hospital Of psrslytie
form Of fhs disease. Lieut..
Larson was taken sick Oct. 8,
Or. Dalton said. end was I'd.
mitfsd 10 the hospital Oct. Q.
Another psrslysie ease is
that Of . 7S.yssr-eid white we-
man. The third case reported
today 10 . U-ysar.oId white
woman stricken with Q nen-
psrslytie form o. pelie.
These cases brought the Men.
roe County fetal 70 40 for HE
year. During ell Of last year,
only u cases were recorded.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-10
City Candidate Scores
BPW Town Meeting" For
Having Loaded Questions
Predicts No
Response To
Oct. Is Meet
BY jim coBB

A candidate for the City
Commission dashed out Fri
day with a bit of sharp criti-
cism aimed at a town meet
ing" program to be sponsor
ed by the Key West Business
and Professional Woman's
Club October 10.
The candidate. who asked
that he not be named, scor-
ed the meeting as a "rig-
ged" affair complete with
loaded questions designed
to make the present city adj
ministration look good"
The BPW has prepared a list Of
Is questions concerning municipal
affairs and they say they will al.
low each candidate who so desires
% speak for 10 minutes to answer
them.
| Mrs. Grace Crosby is chairman
of the affair. II is q function Of
the BPW National Business Wom-
ans Week which is headed by Mrs.
Wilhelmina Harvey, wife Of the
Mafpr. =
fhis affair has not the slightest
resemblance to i genuine town
meeting" said its critic. "They
ought to let the audience ask the
questions.
1.-THE questions they have are
like asking rs IL we still best
our wives. I'm NOT going 20 fall
for that kind Of stuff" he con.
finved.
He added that he did not be-
,,eve that more than one or two
candidates would speak at the
meeting unless they changed the
procedure to allow the candidates
20 expound their own ideas. "Ill
be glad to appear - but not TO
answer a bunch Of loaded ques-
ions. I'm not a jewish sitting out
ere In channel waiting to swim
nto a trap" he continued. "The
citizens Of Key West will be pre-.
sent why not tell them what
they want to know
Questionaires have been sent to
each of the II candidates for elec.
ton to the city commission. They
must discuss the 16 questions put
to them by the BpW but may use
any time left out of the 10 minutes
they are allowed TO discuss their
own platform.
The complete list Of questions:
1. Do you think bay bottom land
should be released Tor sold) to pri-
vate citizens?
2. Are you in favor of City Mana
ger or Mayor-Council form Of city
government? Why?
3. II you favor City Manager
form, do you prefer it as II was
prior to the last session Of the
state legislature or as it Is now?
Why? What is the difference?
(. Do you foresee any reduction
in taxes? II so, wnere? How?
S. Do you foresee any reduction
in utility rates? II so, where? How?
6. What major improvements do
you promise to work for, II elect
ed?
7. How do you plan TO finance
these improvements?
8. Do your plans include provid-
ing for the youth Of the communi-
ty? If 80, how?
9. Do you plan TO make no 1is.
elimination regardless of race,
color, or creed?
10. What, in your opinion, a Key
Vests chief industry or source of
revenue? What do you plan % do
to help retain or enhance Tim
prove) It?
IL. II elected, win you try TO I'm
<Ta1&sa,snS n. n~U~ Ef...AA
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-10
Cab Driver Tells OF Work
As Kidnaper's Chauffeur

4 ST. LOUIS TIT drSt thought
had 'good.time Charley then
i knew I had something worse -
1.-THE cab driver who tipped police
to Carl Austin Hall, said.
John Hager, 30, spent nearly
two days driving for and drink.
linz with the man charged With
the kidnap-slaying Of 6-year-old
Bobby Greenlease OF Kansas City.
When Hager did realize the man,
known only to him as Steve. was
"hot," he thought he had q bank
Irobber. He then tipped off Police
1t. Louis Shoulders who arrested
Hall Tuesday night.
Hager's identity was q closely
guarded secret until last night.
After Hager was questioned exten'
sively by FBI agents, Globe-Dem.
ocrat reporter Ted Schafers locat'
ed and interviewed him.
Reward To Be Paid
Hager win get $500 in rewards,
, q local official of the ALL Team
sters Union announced. Hager. q
driver for the Ace Cab Co. will
get $500 from his firm, $500 from
his Transfers Local 405, and an.
other $500 from Dave Beck, inter-
national president of the union.
The cab driver told of meeting
Hall in front of a downtown hotel
getting him q date, carrying two
heavy suitcases, in which about
half Of the $500, 900 Greenlease ran
som money was found, at least five
times, and finally getting scored
because Of Halls actions.
Monday afternoon another cab
driver drove up and asked me il
II could get his fare q GIRL" Hager
related. 1.-THE fare was q well
dressed man who appeared to have
been drinking. He looked like .
'good-time Charley to me.
1.-THE fare said his name was
Steve. I told him knew a friend
who might be able to get him q
date.
81 got two metal suitcases out
Of the trunk of the other cab and
put them In the trunk of my cab.
I had q hard time getting both
suitcases in the trunk and sug.
gested I put one up front. But
Steve said No.
Pick Up Girl
eve drove out to Sandy O'Day's
house (she now is held in Kansas
City as q material witness), picked
up Sandy, went to a bar and had
some drinks for which Steve paid
with q $40 bill. He showed the
change. $1s. across the table to me
and said, You take this / said to
myself, What q fare I've got
here"
Hager, an ex-conviet, said he be-
came suspicious that Hall might
be a policeman. When he asked
Hall about il Hail told him:
"John, il you knew the truth,
you'd really get kick out Of it"
Hager said he later got Hall q
place to stay at q motor court.
bought him shaving equipment
and arranged for delivery of a
note to Mrs. Bonnie Heady, also
charged with Hall in the case.
Hager said that at the tours,
court "Steve went to his coat,
Icame back and tossed . fistful OF
Sos on the bed. He said he was
half looped and asked me to count
lit. There was $3.50. He pulled
another $40 from his pocket. hand.
! Continued On Page Fivel
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-10

WHEREAS National Business Womens Week viii be
celebrated throughout the notion beginning
on OCTOBER IL ond ending OCTOBER II:
ond
WHEREAS the theme Of Noionol Business Women's
Week The Rompmts We Build" 10 vital
principle in greet. free. und democratic
country; and
WHEREAS the organization Of the Notiono Federation
OF Business and Professional Women's Clubs.
Incorporated is contributing much toward
the advancement OF business and industry:
AND WHEREAS the Key West BPW Club. cs ON oftiots
OF the Noionol Federation is likewise con-
hibuting much toword the Improvement and
progress OF business industry and civic needs
in our community.
NOW. THEREFORE. l. c. B. Horyey. MoYor of the City
OF Key West. Florida. do hereby proclaim the
week beginning October ii and ending Octo-
Der II. 1853. On
Business Women's Week
in Key West. and urge our lsodsrs Of bust
ness ond industry to join in this Observance
IN WITNESS WHEREOF have
hereunio set my hmd md cuus
ed the seol of The Cit Yof Key
West to be ofHxed this 10th day
Of October. 1852
c. B. HARVEY.
Mayor
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Concert Slated

San Carlos Institute announc-
cd today that the Cuban Military
Band. here in connection with the
eel Critic de Yara" celebration,
will give q concert in Bayview
Park Sunday from S to 7 pm.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-12
Adults Like Family
Living Studies

Interest in family living in this
generation would surprise our par
ents and grandparents.
Family life in adult education
has shown a sharp upward trend,
says Miss Louise r. WhitcOmb,
home management specialist of the
Delaware Agricultural Extension
Service.
Adult hOmemaking education is
helping this generation adjust to
the fact that families are not held
together by economic necessity as
in the past. Nowadays parents must
put emphasis on bonds of affection,
understanding and a knowledge of
the family's Importance in main
tanning our democratic way of liV-
ing.
Miss Whitcomb says that besides
special programs, family living is
worked into programs in housing,
clothing, and feeding the family
Delaware Home Demonstration
work is following this national in
terest trend. Clubs, and county and
state home demonstration councils
have family life chairmen. State
chairman is Mrs. Jonathan willis
of Milford.
Early this year. special instruc-
tiOn was given by Mrs. Lydia Ann
| Lynde, of the u. S. Department of
Agriculture. ,She spent three weeks
/ in Delaware working with Home
Demonstration, All Clubs and the
Agricultural Extension Service
! staff
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-12
Textile Exhibit Installed
At The DeLGWGre
State Museum
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proving to be fascinating to visit
ors.
In the area surrounding the loom
are displayed accessories used to
prepare wool and fax for spinning
and weaving, as we'll as early eX-
amples of fabrics woven from these
materials. Included among the lat
ter are linen towels, linen pillow
case, a sheet, a wool chair seat
/ cover and an OvershOt cOverlet. The
fine craftsmanship often achieved
by the hand weaver is readily indi-
Gated here.
One portion of the display devOt-
ed to the preparation of wool for
spinning includes wool "in the
brease," or unsecured wool, scOur-
ed wool and wool cards. Here also
is displayed one of the large wool
spinning wheels. The preparation
of flax for spinning, from the seed
through the processes of retting,
breaking, scutching, hacking, to
finally, the homespun linen yarn,
is portrayed in an adjoining sec
ton of the exhibit. A small flax
wheel, with quantity of fax on its
distaff ready to be spun into yarn
is shown here.
/ Accessories used in preparation
for weaving include a quaint mid
dy-nOddy" and an earlier reel used
to skein yarn, dye pot, a table
type yarn swift, a temple, used in
weaving to maintain an even selv-
edge, a shuttle and bobbin, and
spOOls.
Most of the objects exhibited
were received by the Museum as
gifts from interested persons. In
addition to the loom, Mrs. HOllo-
way, now of Bethany Beach, Della
ware, also presented the temple,
a reel and other weaving accessOr-
les. The "niddy-noddy" and yarn
swiftare from the Hon. II. w. T.
Purnell Collection. Mrs. j. Pilling
Wright, of Newark, Delaware, re-
Gently presented the small fax
spinning wheel and one of the linen
, towels exhibited The wool cards
were received as a gift from the
Chester County Historical Society
of West Chester, Pennsylvania The
wool chair seat cover is a gift OF
Mr.. ]. Kenneth Dandy, of Whining
: ton Mr. William Ferguson Oi
} Bridgeville, Delaware, lent the dye
J pot; and Mrs. Henry Ridgely, Oi
. Dover, the large wool spinning
, wheel. The fine cOverlet displayed
was lentsb Mr.. and Mrs. James F
Alice, Jr., of Dover. A tape loon
was lent anonymously. Other OBJ
iects in the exhibit are from the
: Museums collections.
The Museum, located at 316 SOutl
> Governors avenue in Dover Con al
teTnate U. S. Route 13), is OpeI
Tuesday through Saturday from
11:0O a. m. until 500 p. m, and ol
Sundays from 200 until $500 p. m
The Museum is closed Mondays.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-12
DoUer Fire Chief
Burned At Blaze
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a fishing trip. The car was parked
on South New Street, just south Cf
LoOckerman Street.
The blaze started outside the car
in gasoline, it was believed by fire.
men, which had overflown the cars
tank which only short time before
had been filled. 1t was held possible
that it was started by a cigarette
discarded by some passerby.
Dunlap got into the car and
drove it about 20 feet from it's
parking spot to save. other vehicles
parked nearby but by then the
flames had spread into the machine
and he had to desert it.
Firemen of the Robbins Hose
Company, Dover, were called and
Chief Boyer was burned while us
ing the extinguisheT He was about
10 feet from the blazing auto.
The mishap also caused two
other parked cars to be deluged
with foam from the extinguisher
when it was thrown from Chief
Boyer's hands by the blast.
Firemen estimated damage to the
Dunlap automobile, a 1852 model,
at $1,100. The temperature in the
open at the time was 101 degrees.
Chief Boyer was taken to the
Kent General Hospital by Police
Sgt. Jack T. Roe where his injuries
were treated. He is serving his fifth
year as chief of the Dover fire com
pany and is president of the Capt
tol Fire Equipment Company OF
| Dover.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-12
Odd Fellows, Ladies
To Entertain Colony
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will supply the vocals with Fore
man Bob Reed. Louie FOriesteTi, a
Juvenile accordion wizard, Marie
Tull and her trained Boxers, Fred
Zebley and his Painted Pony,
Whitley, the wonder dog, with
Mistress Bettyann Mckay, Ted
Sciarra, big Top Clown" and
the Raylin Acrobats from the Seal
test Big Top TV Show.
Clowns, balloons and candy
butchers giving away their wares
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-12
YUcoSLAV POPULATION
GROWS

BELGRADE-lP1-A new census
in YugOslavia shows a population
of 16,927,0 900 persons, seventh larg-
est on the European continent.
This compares toa 12,465,0 900 in
1921, to 14,45S,O0O in 1881 and to
15,770,OOO in 1948 and represents a
population growth of approximate
ly 36 per cent since the end of
+ World War I.
On the basis of official figures
from Yugoslav government sources,
approximately one person out Of
kevery 10 lost his life during the
last war as a result of bombings
lighting and lack Of disqualification
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-12

In return, the company gets an op-
ton to buy the trees when they ma
tuTe.
The project is part of program
sponsored by the American Forest
Products Industries. Reason for the
plan is that 81 per cent of U. S.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-12

forest land is in small plots on
farms. And few farmers know any
thing about tree management.
Lumber men expect to increase
their available timber supplies by
! cooperation with the owners.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-12
LUMBER CROP IMPROVES

ATLANTA, Ga.-(P)-Good man
agement can double production of
timber in a wOodlot, "a landowners
near here are learning. A lumber
company sends out an expert to
help them manage their tree crops.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-12

should provide a big event in the
lives of those 800 mentally retarded
or under-privileged children. Par
ents and other adults are also in
vited to participate in this big
Western Jamboree which, with
weather permitting, will be held
outdoors.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-09-11

were at a loss to supply the need
ed birth certificate, and they
were compelled to tell her the
truth that she was not actually
their daughter and, consequently,
was not even an American citi-
zen. Rocked to her very core by
this information, because she
loved her foster mother and IA
Their devotedly, Sylvia set about
to straighten out the matter of
her citizenship, for she had mar
ried and had two children by
now, and wanted to get the rec
ord straight.
Armed with the name of which
her foster parents knew her mo-
ther, Sylvia applied to the 1mmi-
grafton and Naturalization author
tiles, but to her establishment
there was no record of her arrl-
val in this country under that
name. This seemed like a dead
end. For woman who is imbued
with recognizable Jewish tradi-
tons, there was only one thing
to do, to come to HAS and ask
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-09-11
CHARLESTON, S. c.
whats My Name?"
ThiHy-Seven-Yeor Old Mystery Of Womon's
Identity Pierced by HAS Files

Recently the files OF HAS the Hebrew Immigrant So
cietY with the right woman came to
SocetYs office in New York with plea aid in unravelnq he,
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-09-11

the great global agency to dispel
the mystery Of her identity and
to straighten out the matter of
her citizenship.
This she did. Her foster parents
had told her the name of the ship
on which she had come, and the
date of its arrival. They had also
told her that they had heard from
the mother, before she died, that
HAS had been instrumental in
bringing her and little Sylvia
over.
HAS was equal to the chal-
lenge. The files yielded the card
index of the passengers on the
ship who had been brought over
by the Society. There was only
one widow with a nine-months-
old girl child named Sylvia. This
was obviously the right card, but
how to establish the fact that
this infant was Sylvia, whose
identity was yelled in the mists
of past decades? That, too, HAS
was able to accomplish, for there
was an uncle in America, whose
name was on the card as one to
whom the immigrants were to go,
and his name was the same as
that of Sylvia and her mother on
the card. An inquiry of this uncle,
whom HAS was able" to locate,
settled the fact that Sylvia's mo-
ther was indeed his sister-in-law,
but that after arrival she had
changed her name to the one
Sylvia's foster parents thought
was her original name, and natur-
ally, when a search of the records
of the immigration Department
was made, there was no record of
an arrival under the changed
name.
So Sylvia, thanks to the HAS
filing system, now knows just
who she is. She is applying for
citizenship now, and HAS will
guide her in filling out the neces-
sary forms for its acquisition. It's
only a matter of time-and the
HAS files.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1953-09-11

She was able to tell the HAS
expert that her first name was
Sylvia, and that she had immi-
grated to this country as nine
months-old infant in 1916, along
with her mother, under HAS au-
spices Sylvia's mother died a few
months after her arrival in this
country, and the infant was
adopted by a kindly Jewish cou-
pie who raised her as their own
child and never, until forced by
necessity, told her that she was
not actually their daughter.
However, when legal govern
rlent forms had to be filled out
lately, Sylvia's foster, parents