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The Key West citizen., 1954-12-04
Vancouver
Bank Holdups
Give Jitters

VANCOUVER, BIC. R-Bank
bandits who have given this city of
3S5, 900 the jitters with a series of
six holdups in recent weeks struck
twice more yesterday to garner
$4,000 in robberies staged while
the city was an armed camp of
machine-gun toting cops.
The bandits struck in quick IL
order, much the same as Wednes-
day when $41, 500 was obtained in
two quick forays.
Lens Cunman
A lone ssbabyfaced" gunman
first hit the Bank of Toronto in
suburban New Westminster and
galioped out the door with between
5000 and $4,000. Two girls chased
him several blocks but lost him
In the pre-C Christmas crowds.
While police were converging or
the scene and setting up check
points, three gunmen hit the Royal
Bank of Canada in West Vancou-
yer, cody picking up from 81, 500 to
$40. 900 and driving away unchal-
lenged.
The robberies brought to eight
the number of bank holdups in six
weeks for a total loot of approx
mately 100000. The frequency
with which the bandits have struck
have given citizens and bank en-
ployes full-scale case of filters.
Two false alarms were turned in
by jittery clerks Wednesday, add
ing to the confusion of cops racing
about the city. The scene was du-
plicated yesterday. Two genuine
holdups, two phonys.
The bandits showed small regard
for general police snakeup which
took place only a few hours before
yesterdays jobs. In the shakeup,
Continued on Page Two)
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-04
Two Injured
When Truck
Hits Parked
Auto Today

A car parked in The midi
die of U. S. l caused a trail-
er truck to overturn about
2 a. m. today, injuring two
Key West men in the truck.
L. C. Gidden, 40, of Home+
stead, driver of the parked
car, is in the county jail un-
der 81, 900 bond.
He is charged with driv-
ing while intoxicated and
causing an accident.
Houston G. Pent, S14 Pearl Street
driver of the truck, and his help
er, Gilbert C. Gates, 712 William
Street, were released from Archer
Smith Hospital, Homestead, after
treatment for cuts and bruises.
Police Report
Florida Highway Patrolman Rob-
ert Young gave this account of the
weird accident:
Gidden stopped his southbound
1919 Oldsmobile in the millde Of
U. S. / near the north end Of Key
Largo.
The emergency brake of the Olds-
mobile was set. It had no lights
on.
Pent, driving the southbound Hol-
sum Bakery tIx2k ran out on the
right hand shouidef OF the road
in an attempt to avoid the park
ed car.
But the left front of the trailer
hit the oldsmobile.
Truck overfvrns
Pent cut back onto the highway
and when he did so the truck and
trailer upset onto its right side.
Pent was treated for q bruised
hip.
Gates was treated for cuts on the
right leg and bruised right knee.
Gidden was uninjured.
When word of the accident reach
ed here early today, the Key West
Holsum Bakery agency dispatched
five trucks used for the city de-
liveries to the accident scene.
Merchandise SaIvssed
They were able to salvage some
of the $500 worth of pies, cakes
and bread that the trailer truck
was hauling to Key West.
Ralph Faraldo, Holsum agent
here, owns the truck.
Young said the damage to the
truck would amount to about s., 900
with about $500 damage done to the
Oldsmobile.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-04
Charles PARA
Tangles With
Ronefisll Here
sy JlM coss

4t+
Sportsmen spend thou
sands Of dollars on expen-
sive tackle and travelling to,
out Of the way places to
catch bonefish. generally
held to be one of the gamest
fighting fish in the sea -
but Key Westers, amazingly,
can catch them without ev-
On leaving the city limits
and with the simplest of
equipment.
That fact was discovered this
week by Charles PARA, 5l1 Ange-
Ii St., while he was fishing for
shrimp with his son, Charles, Jr.,
IN 4 virtually landlocked salt-pond
ON Flagler Ave.
PARA, fishing with hand seine.
caught four Of the coveted fight
inc fish Wednesday night and
went back shortly after midnight
Friday to catch six more.
Look What Found
Understandably, PARA was sur
prised 10 catch the fish, in the
pond. The spirited fish darted into
the net and tore it badly in their
desperate effort to escape.
The pond is . popular place for
amateur shrimp fishermen, who
tran the crustaceans with q scoop
net after confusing them with dash
lights.
Extremely Unusual
But nobody ever dreamed there
was any such thing as bonefish in
the waters.
Charles Thompson, local fishing
expert, said that finding bonefish
In such q habitat is extremely un.
usual.
And they're good to eat. too -
if you know how to clean them.
It seems that they get their
name from the fact that they have
hundreds of tiny bones.
Only one local man is reputed to
have the knack of cleaning them.
He is Howard Sanchez, proprietor
of a bait house on Roosevelt Blvd.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-04

any food by mouth since Sunday.
His frail body has been wracked
by sporadic attacks of hiccuping
and nausea.
The condition includes an inflam-
nation of the per:toneum, The
membrane lining the abdominal
cavity.
"If his heart had been weaker"
DR.. De Stefano said, there would
have been a chance that Thurs
days collapse would have been
fatal"
Shortly before the five specialists
issued their brief bulletin, an Of
ficial Vatican spokesman said the
pontiff was suffering intermittent
fevers and his temperature was
Continuously huctuating."
DIR. De Stefanc, a leading sur
geon in Rome's Savior of the World
Hospital, said the consultation at
the Pope's bedside lasted two
hours.
"We found him in the lest of
spiritual condition" he added.
81 cannot say the same for his
physical condition, at least for
now. However. I am glad to an
nounce that the Pope is recovering
very rapidly. | believe that he IS
no rnoye II imminent dshger u
death. /"
In his report, DR.. Paolucci said
he found the Pope mot at all in
esperat e condition, certainly
much different and better than
what / could have imagined. !
do not believe he suffered an in
ternal injury; in such a case, the
pontiff could not have resisted the
attack which hit him Thursday.
81 have hopes that through the
appropriate treatment, which Pope
Plus XII now is receiving, he will
be able to recover in good time
and gradually reacquire his forces
until recovery is complete" DR..
Paolucci added.
The doctors reference to an in
ternal injury was a result of re-
ports that the Pope had suffered
a perforated ulcer.
DR.. De Stefano said he had first
been called into consultations
Thursday when, he said, the pom
tiff's condition appeared desperate.
The diagnoses then was Of per-
forated abdomen, he said, but x
rays and a clinical examination
proved this untrue.
AS physicians stood by at the
Vatican palace, Catholics around
the world prayed for his recovery.
Word of these prayers repeatedly
greatly comforted him yesterday.
Romans and tourists from many
countries gathered in vast St.
Peters Square seeking the latest
word on his condition. Many lmelt
on the cold cobblestones to pray.
Police diverted wheeled traffic
from the square to keep it quiet.
Embassies and Legations of the
more than 40 nations accredited to
the Vatican maintained close con-
tact for the latest report. Their
personnel will attend q special
mass at Rome's Basilica of st.
Mary Major tomorrow to pray for
the Pope's recovery.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-04
Hy RELMAN MoRlN

CLEVELAND I Prosecution
lawyers were poring over testi-
mony in the murder trial Of DR..
Samuel Sheppard today, searching
for new points to attack the story
his witnesses are unfolding.
They already have struck at the
defense in several vital areas.
Cross-examination forced Shep-
pard's older brother, Dr., Stephen
Sheppard, to admit he gave differ
ent versions Of the same episode,
and that one Of these versions was
untrue.
State Probes
States attorneys also hammered
hard at his report he found his
brother seriously injured the morn
ing of the murder of Mrs. Marilyn
Sheppard.
The trial goes into its eighth
week Monday.
The state charges that s'Dr.
SAM Sheppard, Cleveland osteo-
path, killed his pregnant wife as
she lay in bed early last July A.
His love affairs with other women
prompted the crime, the prosecu-
ton claims.
Sheppard says an intruder killed
her. and then struck him down, in
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-04
Mercy Killer
.0llizzed On lst
|Wife's Death

MILWAUKEE, R-A butchers
gruesome story Of killing his wife
with a meat cleaver and burning
her remains in the furnace because
"she was such a burden" led au-
thorities today to investigate the
death of his first wife.
Dist. Atty. William McCauley
said puffy faced, bald-headed Ray
mond Wilson, 64, dictated for him
yesterday the story of how he had
killed his wheelchair-ridden wife,
Ethel, 81, last Monday night. Viii
son said he had his wife's consent
to get her out of her pain.
Arraisned Friday
Wilson was taken before Civil
Judge John Coffey in District
Court on a charge of first degree
murder. The case was continued to
Dec. 16 with bond set at SIS, 900.
Joseph LaMonte said the death of
Wilson's first wife, Bertha, IS, Aug.
rs, 1858, was listed as a heart at
tack. But LaMonte said an investi-
cation of the death would be made
and the doctor who signed the death
certificate would be questioned.
Wilson remarked Dec. % 1858.
His second wife was a widow, he
said, whom he had known only
about a month.
McCauley said Wilson in his
statement told how his wife was
nearly blind with cataracts and
how she had been crippled by a
fall. He was quoted as saying that
for month, as doctor and hospital
bills mounted, he considered doing
away with her, but couldn't think
of method.
"Sveh A Burden"
"She was such a burden" the
district attorney said Wilson told
him. ''Her eyes were no good and
she had that side where she had
been paralyzed. =. i told her:
You should 90 to sleep and not
wake up any more She was per-
fectly willing"
McCauley said Wilson then told
how he struck her fatal blow in
the back of the head with a meat
cleaver as she sat in the bathtub.
That night West Allis Police cal.
ed on Wilson to warn him sparks
were coming from his chimney.
They said they found him with
blood on his apron, but he told
them he had been making sau-
sageS.
McCauley said Wilson yesterday
told of burning part of the body
that night. Officers found burned
remains in the furnace.
Police began an investigation OF
the case when relatives called al
West Allis headquarters Thursday
night and expressed their suspi.
cions.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-04
Veteran Newspaperman
Is Still On The Job

CHICAGO R-George E. Nelis
spent his sOth birthday yesterday
at the same job he has had at the
Chicago Tribune for 81 years and
expressed the hope he can work
another Is years.
Nelis, the Tribune's oldest en-
ploye, has scanned millions of
words as proofreader since he
started his job in August 1892.
After all his years of intent read
ing he still does not use glasses.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-04
JAP PREMIER is
ION THE CARPET"

TOKYO R-Japan's opposition
parties agreed today to vote Tues
day on motion of nonconfidence
in Prime Minister Shigeru Yo-
shida's government.
Yoshida served notice that If the
motion passes he viii dissolve the
Diet and plunge the nation into
new elections rather than resign.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-04
Rumor Pope Has
Cancer Dispelled

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Plus XII got little
better again today and specialists dispeed fears that
the seriously aing pontiff has cancer.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-04
Drunk Driver Blamed
ForUpperKeysCrash
KURFEW FOR KOREA?

The next post for Rear Adm.
9. c. Towner. COMMANDER Of
fhe Naval 6sss here will be-
in koresM ~ cjsizen learned
today. -
Rear Hairy. H. Hend-
srs9h, - sender Of fhe Ma.
vy&s Mfdd 81 Forces. will
rs5& eS Tc|n1
tnMns @ Key West
about fh Ss>ef janusry. Mrs.
Towner wiz 10 Arlington,
Va, where HE Ibwrers have >
home. : ',
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-04

For Quick Communicates.
Use CLASSIFIED Adsl You'll
reach buyers und sellers
tenunts or workers =. Just
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The Key West citizen., 1954-12-04
Key Wester Nets Game Fish
In Flagler Ave. Salt Pond
Dr.. Sans Brother Changes
His Story Several Times

flicting serious injuries, when be
raY, IA har aid
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Pear
Merinque

/ No. 21a can Pacific Coast pears.
! pint bulk pack chocolate ice
cream.
3 egg whites.
70 teaspoon salt.
] cup sugar.
l teaspoon vinegar.
II teaspoon lemon extract.
u teaspoon vanilla extract.
Beat egg whites and salt until
stiff. Add the sugar one table
spoon at a time, beating thor
oughly after eac;l addition. Add
the vinegar and extracts when
about half of the sugar has been
used. Line a cookie sheet with
4 thicknesses of heavy brown
paper. Grease the top layer.
Make 8 mounds with a table
spoon indenting the centers.
Bake in a 275-degree F. oven for
40 minutes. Run a spatula under
each meringe as soon as they
are out of the oven, but leave
them on the paper to cool. To
fill: Place a scoop of chocolate
ice cream in the center of each
meringue. A glistening pear half
goes on top to serve 8 delighted
people Immediately.
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Our Children
Learning for the Future

I 1t seems almost incredible
that a young person of fine in.
telligence can say, Il never read
the Bible" for another one to
say, II know nothing about his
tory, really, ma jored in another
subject" Incredible, but true,
that young man should say. Il
never read any poetry. In school
we learned a few lines of one
or two poems. wasn't interested,
you See." Somewhere, someone
failed these children, so in their
early maturity they felt empty.
empty Of something they vague
ly felt they needed.
The time to teach children
the spiritual values they are 60
ing to need and need acutely in
time to come, is when they are
in the elementary schools. 1t is
there that they should hear the
stories of the Bible, of the pa
triots. of their founding fathers.
The high school students should
know the literature of this coun-
try. Of England, and as much of
their forebears works as they
can master, by virtue of their
parents knowledge.
Schoo! children should be
taught to memorize and to use
in their talk and in their writing,
the poetry and prose of the
masters. They should be able to
recall verses of the Bible at will
and need. The proverbs that are
the distilled wisdom of the race
should be familiar to them. The
ethical. moral values cherished
down the years should, through
the schools. become part of their
speech and thought to become
the springs of action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-17

An international dinner featur-
ing colorful costumes and native
dishes of many lands was given
last night by IS Montgomery
County Camp Fire Girls in OBJ
servance Of Camp Fires 44th
birthday anniversary.
The affair was held in the
Grace Episcopal Church in Silver
Spring.
Included on the Feast of Five
Continents" menu were such
items as Mexican appetizer
Scottish meat pies, Hawaiian sal
ad. Holland .rusks and a Spanish
dessert.
Camp Fire Girls wearing grass
skirts and flower lels served the
salad from a "kaukau" table set
before "coconut palms."
Climax of the observance came
with the cutting of a birthday
cake by Mrs. Mabel Ford, execu-
tive director of the Potomac
Area Council Of Camp Fire Girls.
The cake cutting followed a
flag ceremonial honoring the
United States and Camp Fire.
Later the girls presented dance
demonstrations of the Highland
Fling, Hawaiian hulas and others,
as well as folk songs typical of
the nations represented.
The dinner was under the di-
rection Of the following: Mrs.
Richard S. Green of Silver
Spring. group leader and vice
president of the Montgomery
County Camp Fire Leaders AS
ISOLATION: Mrs e. E. Merkel of
Silver Spring. president of the
leaders association: Mrs. Paul
Varautsos and Mrs. Lawrence
Nathan, both Of Chevy Chase.
and Mrs. Daniel Schmidt and
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|CiviI Defense
Aide Speaks
AT Dinner

Civil defense is rapidly becom-
Ing the most pressing civic re-
sponsibility Of women, the Dis
trict League of Republican
Women was told at . dinner
meeting last night in the Bur-
lington Hotel.
Guest speaker for the occasion
was Mrs. Katherine q. Howard,
deputy administrator. Federal
Civil Defense Administration.
Mrs. Howard told the group
civil defense is a civic responsible
ity that Is ready-made for
Emphasis in civil defense to-
day. Mrs. Howard continued. is
being placed on home, family and
neighborhood defense problems.
These problems are fixed and
fairly permanent and can be
mastered by any woman with Q
normal interest In the welfare
OF her family and friends. she
added.
MY first and foremost request
Of all Of you, In outlining re-
sponsibilities toward civil de-
Tense" Mrs. Howard said, would
be that you continue to be COM
munity minded. women - for
Woman's first duty to her family
and friends lis to give and save
life in her home community, and
that also is the first duty of our
local civil defense organiza-
tionS."
Mrs. Howard stressed today's
modern women simply haven't
the time for empty busy-work"
or for pointless activities of no
real concern to themselves or
families.
We want to feel that our per-
sonal time and effort is going
into truly great cause badly in
need OF our personal and active
support" she said.
She cited civil defense as such
cause, adding that there is a
desperate and proven need for
individual and home protection
IN these troubled times.
Mrs. Howard said women.
sometimes avoid an unpleasant
civic problem merely because
we don't want to think about
it,"
Other reasons for avoiding
such a problem. she said, are
because it is believed to be too
big to be affected by individual
thoughts or efforts, or because
it is thought the responsibilities
involved are so technical that
only hired experts can solve
them for US.
None Of those excuses APP
plies to the problem of civil
defense" she said.
Mrs. Walter Williams, pro-
gram chairman. introduced the
guest speaker. The monthly
event was under the auspices of
the leagues Business and Pro-
fessional Group.
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By Angel Potri

In selecting the matter that
We hope will educate children
We have a thought toward the
use they will make Of it in time
to come Usually we limit the
subjects to what we term "prac-
teal" The girl learns to sew.
cook. manage a household. rear
children, and the boy learns a
trade or a profession and his
lessons are pointed toward these
ends. Consciously or otherwise
We teach children the material
values to be found in their lives
and give the spiritual ones less
attention.
Now. when the crisis comes in
a persons life, as come it must.
in illness. in doubt. in grief, or
loss. the material things fail
and If no spiritual values have
been born within him, he is be-
reft indeed. Given the sustain
ing strength Of the spirit he
rises above disaster and triumphs
over the worst life can do to
him.
The adults who have the flu
ture strength and happiness of
children in their hands have a
pressing duty here. To instill in
children the idea that they can
not live by dread alone, but
must have. always. along with
the bread, the overtones of the
power that makes bread" pos
Sihle. a reverence for the unseen.
faith in what they hope for.
They must have. too, the under
standing that enables them to
make correctly the inevitable
choice between right and wrong.
For this and for much more, they
require sound instruction.
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ARChupter

Our National Defense" will be
the topic of discussion at a
luncheon meeting of the Army
and Navy Chapter of the OAR to
be held at 1890 pm. Thursday
in the Kennedy Warren dining
room.
Guest speaker will be Admiral
Walter S. Delany. Deputy Di-
rector for Mutual Defense
Assistance Controls, Foreign
Operations Administration.
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County Camp Fire Girls
Give Anniversary Dinner

Mrs. Samuel Dickman Of Silver
Spring.
The 10000 Camp Fire Girls
throughout the United States are
taking part this week in similar
observances Of the groups birth
day anniversary.
Camp Fire Girls. Inc, an inter-
denominational, interracial or
gaization, is a member Of the
Community Chest.
About 1000 members are To-
Gated in the Washington area.
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Washington Club
I'm Lands of the Bible" will /

In Lands of the Bible" will be
the topic Of discussion at q din
ner meeting of the Washington
Club to be held at 7 pm. to-
morrow in the club.
Guest speaker will be Richard
H. Sanger, acting public affairs
advisor for Near Eastern, South
Asian and African Affairs, of the
State Department.
A reception honoring Mr..
Sanger will take place prior to
the dinner.
Evening star., 1954-12-12
Why Grow Old?
Women Add to | otoI
Of Beauty in World

subtle reaching up toward light
and happiness which Is every
mans and woman's heritage.
All through history man has
expressed his desire for beauty
by building inspiringly lovely
buildings as well as by paying
homage to charming women.
Each year multitudes spend
hard-earned cash just to hear
beauty pouring from the
strings Of q violin or yelling
forth from q fun orchestra.
Perhaps wonlan's most Inn
portant role is that Of creator
of beauty. Is 1t any wonder
that she longs for perfection
Of body. mind. personality. and
spirit? Is this q vain or selfish
wish?
Total Beouty
OF course It isn'tl Every
time q woman adds to the
charm Of living with q smile.
q beautifully pitched voice.
with understanding and ten
derness, with humor, with q
graceful carriage Of her head
or a clear complexion, she has
added Just so much to the sum
total Of beauty In the work
aday world. and has brought
Just so much happiness into
the lives OF those about her.
All women wish to be charm
ing! Thousands OF them write
to me each year for personality
direction and for help In over
coming self-consciousness.
II you. too, would like such
aid. my leafiet. Grace and
Charm" will bring you many
psychological suggestions. Send
a stamped, self addressed en-
velope with your request for
leafiet No. 81 to Josephine
Lowman In care Of The Eve
ming Star.
Evening star., 1954-12-12
By Josephine Lowmon

Open your hearts and your
minds to the beauty which lies
about you. And when you do.
look for beauty In people as
Well as III landscapes. It can
be found everywhere.
It lies In the hands Of q
skillful surgeon, In d baby's
song, In the sound Of motors
as man builds his empire, in
carefree laughter, in an en-
couraging word and In the
flowers that bloom around the
door OF o humble cabin.
Each day let us focus our
eyes on the beauty it offers us!
II we would see it, feel it. hear
II and smell Ii. every DAY, we
would live SO richly that our
personalities would take care
OF themselves and we wouldn't
need rules for charm.
Toll Dreams
The human soul flungerS for
beatty. Within each indiyid-
ual lie those deep longings.
those tall dreams. and that
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WHEN AND WHERE 70 SHOP At WooDIEs
WASHINGTON: losh. tn. snd Stress NV, DIsss $500
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Evening star., 1954-05-26
Loyalty Board Quiz Of Bunche
Described as Routine Check

cials at the q. N. reported the
board had judged l.733 Amer
ican employees as mot disloyal. .
while l62 cases were still. pend
ing.
DR.. Bunche. q 49-year-old
Negro from Detroit. told news
men as he left the meeting: II
have no statement to make. ANY
inquiries should be directed to
the board"
He and Mrs. Bunche we're to
go to Washington tomorrow
friends said. for q formal dinner
at the White House given by
President Eisenhower in honor
Of the visiting Emperor Halle
SelaSsie Of Ethiopia.