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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-24
New Orders
On Segregation
Issued Today

WASHINGTON R-The Supreme
Court today followed up its anti
segregation ruling of last week
with orders designed to admit Ne.
groes to publicly supported col
leges, universities, theaters, golf
courses and housing projects.
Today's action was final in the
case Of low-rent housing and a
municipal golf course at Houston,
Tex, which had been ordered
opened to Negroes on segregated
basis.
But the high tribunal left to lower
courts-reconsidering in the light
of last Mondays historic opinion
striking down separate elementary
and high schools for Negroes-to
make the next positive ruling in
the field of education and enter
tainment.
Specifically, it told the Florida
Supreme Court to reconsider its
refusal to order four Negroes ad-
mitted to the University of Florida
and the U. S. Circuit Court at New
Orleans to restudy a case involving
a Negro seeking admittance to Lou
isiana State University.
The lower courts were told to
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DUVAL COUNTY GETS

Continued from PAGE One)
coed with our 100000, 900 road
program as we have heretofore
outlined"
Williams Letter
Williams said in a letter to for
mer road Chairman Alfred Nc
Kethan that "there will be little
or no primary state funds avail
able for matching primary federal
funds during the remainder of this
year."
Later, he issued a statement
emphasizing that federal funds I'M
matched this year will not be lost
but may be used next year if the
state can match them then.
Johns said in his Orlando state.
ment, 81 want all the people of
Florida to know that the peril to
their homestead exemption is real
and terrible under the Collins tax
commission plan.
"A Tallahassee tax commission
would be as. far away from the
people as the Russian secret po-
lice. I do not believe in putting
such gigantic taxing powers in the
hands of a central Tallahassee bu-
reau. Charley Johns will fight this
attempt to take over home rule
with all his strength and power. /"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-24
|ParOlee Wants
ToKnow "Who's
This McCarthy?"

CHICAGO R- The burning cues.
ton today for S1-year-old Lyman
William Hall was "who the Sam
Hill is Ais fellow Mccarthy"
Hall WIS paroled from the Illinois
State Paitentiary last week after
serving 5 years of a life term for
murder.
He said he has "heard a great
number Of people talking about"
Sen. Mccarthy (R-Wis) and "read
something" about him, but he has
yet to learn why the senator is dis.
cussed so much.
Hall, who has taken a job with
the Salvation Army, said he hasn't
concentrated on Mccarthy because
he has been busy absorbing other
developments outside prison life.
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Authorities
Seek Slayers
Who Fled Wed.

CHATTAHOOCHEE IN - Supt.
Paul J. Eubanks of the Apalachee
Correctional Institution said today
that Charles Bashlor, convicted in
1851 of the staying of a Jackson
vile banker Aug. rs, 1851, escaped
last Wednesday and is Still at lib
erty.
Eubanks said the 19-year-old
Bashlor fled while accompanying
an officer from the Correctional
institution ON a delivery trip to
the boys industrial school at Mari.
anna.
The superintendent said officer
Charles Lanier and Bashlor drove
to Mariana in a truck. After max.
ing the delivery to the industrial
school, they stopped at a Mariana
store to pick up supplies.
Bashlor got out of the truck with
Lanier. AS they started into, the
store, Bashlor suddenly took to his
heels and vanished around the
corner of a nearby building.
The last report on him was that
ne was seen in the north end O;
Mariana at 2 pm. Wednesday
some four hours after his ESCAPE
Eubanks said the youth had No
money on his person when he ee.
capped and was dressed in prison
dungarees.
A report to the Florida HIGHWAY
Patrol said Bashlor was armed
There was no immediate explana.
ton how he obtained a pistol.
Bashlor was transferred TO Ana
lachee from the state prison at
Raiford Jan. Il, Eubana1s said
Prisoners sent to Apalachee usual.
ly are first offenders for whom
prison officials believe there is
hope of rehabilitation.
All inmates at Apalachee are un-
der an honor system, Eubanks
said.
He said Bashlor had been a "fair
prisoner" since being transferred
to Apalachee.
Bashlor was convicted for the
Staying Of John E. Stephenson
Jacksonville bank vice president
at DIS Southside home during a
burglary attempt. The jury recon.
mended mercy, automatically car,
ryng a life sentence.
He vas arrested several week,
after tie Staying in Detroit while
on s-aate with a taxi dancer. Ex.
tra@ted by Florida authorities
Bash!or confessed shooting Ste.
p,-.son.
On the stand, Bashlor said Ste
phenson wanted to search him bu,
he didn't want to be searched be
cause Of the gun in his pocket.
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sentee ballots for the secondary
primary. In those four days, 264
person received applications.
Ballots mailed back to Finders
office will be accepted up to 5
p. m. today.
Sam Goldsmith, the weatherman,
promised good weather for .tomor.
rows voting. He said the day will
be slightly warmer and not quite
so windy.
There's a chance of some iso.
lated showers, he added, but if
these materialize, they would COW
er only very small area.
The polls will open at Z a. m.
and close at p. m.
The bars will be closed during
the hours the polls are open.
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set aside their findings and recon-
slider Sin the. light of last Mon
days decision striking down the
doctrine of separate but equal in
public schools.
Another order today told the US.
Circuit Court in Cincinnati to re-
consider its refusal to order James
W. Muir, Negro, admitted to
shows presented in. an amphi-
theater owned by the city of Louis
vile.
The louisiana State case involves
the admission of Alexander P. Tu-
reaud il.
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POLICE COURTESY
CONTINUED frotn Page Onel

witnesses against the offenders.
The fee is only paid once for each
court session regardless of how
may cases the officer is called
to testify en-.
ca Ger words" Lang said,
we wcc-t tee police to be the
wee CT the law, ard not the law
it :"
Raise Is Discussed
Both Lang and Perez said that
an overall raise for the Police De-
partnent was discussed. Perez
said that a lvable wage should
make being a good policeman a
competitive business. The discus
sed pay raise was in addition to
the suggestion of replacing the
court fee with an equivalent raise.
City Commissioner Jack Delaney
said that he was behind Perez also.
When queried about the replace
ment of the court fee with an equi-
valent rasie, Delaney expressed
favor of the plan.
He also said that he wanted the
police department to be paid a
base" salary comparable to any
city in Florida of Key Vests size.
Delaney said that he has recently
noticed an increase in respect
being shown toward citizens by the
Police Department.
Commissioner Paul (Blondie)
Roberts previously stated that he
would bcc. Perez.
Comm ss,oner Louis Carbonen in.
dicased that he would like to see
Dave King as police chief. How.
ever ne said that he thought Perez
was a fire police patrolmau.
Mayor Harvey sid, in comment
l-3 cn TIE Police courtesty order,
tat r. rs o-e fu-dred per cent
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Non-Voters Can't Blame The Weather
ev THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Voters who don't turn out to cast
ballots in tomorrow's runoff be.
tween state Sen. Leroy Collins
and Acting Gov. Charley Johns
for the governorship of Florida
won't be able to use the weather
as an excuse.
The Miami Weather Bureau said
today 'It looks like generally fair
weather over the state" There
could be "a few little light and
brief showers" on the lower east
folks indoors too long.
Polls will open at Z am. and
close at 2 pm. and in most places
the ballot is so short it shouldn't
take a voter more than a minute
to make a check mark or pull a
voting machine lever.
The contest for Democratic nom.
ination to serve the two-year un.
expired term of the late Gov. Dan
McCarty is the only statewide is.
sue. Eighteen counties have con-
tests for state House Of Represent.
atives seats and others have local
races on the ballot.
There were predictions that no
more than half the 1,197, 900 regis.
tered Democrats will vote, but both
governorship candidates are work
ing to get out more than that
particularly in areas where thew
are strongest.
There were 666, 900 Democratic
votes cast in the May 4 first pri.
mary. Johns got 1874 per cent of
them, Collins 1913 per cent and
Bradley Oldham, who was eliminat.
ed, got the rest.
It is Odham's 1871, 900 votes that
will be decisive tomorrow and the
politicians are asking each other:
''Will they follow Odham's lead
and swing to Collins? Will they
break away and 60 to Johns? Or
will they just stay home and pass
up the election?
There were some signs that vot.
ing might not fall so far below the
abnormally low $50 per cent cast
in the first primary.
Dade County, which has a fifth
of all the states registered Dem.
ocrats, already had 800 more abb
sentee votes cast several hours
before the S pm. deadline than
were counted in the first primary.
In Hillsborough, another key
county, registration supervisor
John C. Dekle said absentee ballot
ing was ahead Of May 4 and inter.
est in the governorship contest
has picked up to the extent that
there could be a heavier vote
there this time.
Absentee voting was up, too. in
st. Lucie and Leon. It was about
the same as before in Marion and
down little in Duval.
The registration supervisor in
Manatee County estimated the
ttnuruou
turnout there will be about 60 Der
cent OF the qualified voters, down
from 66 per cent who voted Nav 4.
In Broward, where "a per cent
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a-5es l-.e &s::sd t 2l they ere
"rsa3y az will @ TO I.es.,i.y waca
Army Witnesses have firisied.
Mundt said the hearings will con
tinue without interruption until all
available information is obtained"
The weeks recess resulted from
an executive order banning wit
nesses from testifying about a
high-level administration confer
ence last Jan. q.
Invoking the historic doctrine Of
separation of powers, President
Eisenhower directed there be 10
discussion as to what went on at
the conference in Atty. Gen.
Brownell's office, attended by
White House aides.
Mccarthy, contending it APP
peared the charges against him
were "instigated". at this confer
ence, had insisted it was necessary
to get all details of the meeting to
dvelop the full truth about his con-
troversy with the Army.
\ Giving his view of the situation
resulting from the Presidents Sc
crecy ordei, Chairman Mundt
ruled today that senators may ask
any questions they choose about
the Jan. 81 meeting.
But he said witnesses will have
the right to deny answers because
Of the Presidents directive.
Elm the view of the chair"
Mundt said, "the executive order
does not prevent the asking of any
questions that interrogators might
care to ask, but it will be up TO
each witness and his counsel to
make the plea Of the projections
set up by the executive order
when 1t is considered essential to
60 SO.
"In the interests of providing us
all WITH the maximum access to
the facts involved in this dispute,
it is the hope Of the chair that
witnesses and counsel will take
recourse in the. executive order as
infrequently as they consider per-
Missile and possible under the
ORDER"
Mundt's announcement that Nc
Canthy and his associates were
ready and willing" to testify was
b:sed on a 15-minute conference
Mundt had with Mccarthy just be-
fore toiay's resumption of the
hearings.
Mundt told reporters later that
Mccarthy had, advised him then
that he and his. aides would testify
before the hearings are concluded.
II would expect them on the
! witness sand early this week"
Mundt said,' predicting that taking
the rest of the testimony for the
Army side of the bitter dispute
will be ended within a matter OF
days.
But whatever 7th graf tall, 9Th
graf IS.
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~-kel 20 ere EOk4.L tl"t ~t@-~,
/ III a lo~ r,st ID sho'H
w be able "to tell tie truth."
Stevens, his voice risin". leaned
inward in the witness chair and
lid: 81 resent that ramcr l
III the truth. I don't think the
hartman ought to allow that kind
# statement to be made"
Mccarthy asserted that Stevens
lad given completely contradic-
,ry" testimony about the incep-
ion Of the charges against the SEN
ator and his aides.
He asked that the official re-
,orter type up this mornings te:ti-
uony 20 he could point out dif-
..rences from statements Stevens
had made earlier in the hearings.
Mccarthy was still pounding
away at Stevens when the hearing
was recessed for lunch.
The secretary acknowledged ne
rad consulted with high admins
tration figures about the Army's
difficulties with McCarthy's In
vestisations subcommittee but in
sisted the Army alone was re-
sponsible for bringing the charges.
"You can't cover up for anyone
by accepting the responsibility"
Mccarthy stormed. :.
s.I'm not trying to cover up"
Stevens retorted. "There isn't any.
body to cover ar"
Stevens objected each time Me.
Carthy referred to the Army
charges as ''smear charges" The
secretary said he didn't make
"smear charges" and insisted he
always tells the truth.
81 stand squarely. on that"
,tevers told Mccarthy when asked
ether he stood On. his S.. =:
day that decisions and acts" in
McCartliy-Armv controversy
ere the Army's alone.
l..ccarthy said he was ''getting
illly weary trying to 'get an
3 to some simple questions"
was, Mccarthy said, like pull
: tcati."
At one point, Stevens told Nc
.2art:ly everybody in the Penta-
on" agreed the Army should file
IS charges against the senator.
Mccarthy said Stevens knew "a
.oag time ago" that the charges
were prepared with the assistance
and advice CT Waite Hc-se aides.
'.No, ! don't know it." replied
Stevens.
Were they prepared on his own
orders? Mccarthy asked.
EYES," said Stevens, saying he
gave the order some time after
he arrived back from the Far East
early In February. The charges
were sent to members Of Congress
March 10.
Stevens. In reply to questions as
% his consultations, said he had
kept, Secretary Of Defense Wilson
informed.
Mccarthy demanded if Stevens
took the advice of anyone in the
executive department other than
Assistant Secretary of Defense H.
Strive Hensel and 4 Defense De-
partment official, Francis K.
Brown. Brown is an assistant gen.
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TEMPORARY HALT

Continued From Page One)
buying the bay bottom land in front
of his motel. He added that when
he acquires the bay bottom from
the state he will fill it and build
another motel on it.
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Mrs. Lopez was the widow of the
late Benjamin Lopez who founded
the Lopez Funeral Home here in
Key West.
Survivors are two daughters.
Miss Rosetta Knowles, Key West
and Mrs. George H. Harris, Tam
pa; oneSister, Mrs. Benjamin Rus
sell, and nmue rounseceitR
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-24

LOS ANGELES ga man who
police said admitted sending Gov.
Goodwin J. Knight an extortion
note was found hanged in his Jail
cell early today.
Jailer Donald Aboe said william
B. Barrows, AZ, had ripped his
shirt in two and fashioned a Moose
which he attached to the bars in
ventilator. >G
Barrows was arrested Friday.
Police said he blamed his trouble
on ''too much drinking" and adj
mitted he had written and signed
his name to a note threatening
the governor with bodily harm.
HAVANA, Cuba R-President
Fulgencio Batista says his govern
ment plans an immediate crack:
down "to prevent the resurgence
of Communist maneuvers" in
Cuba. !, =. +
Speaking to newsmen at his farm
outside Havana last night, the chief
executive also said Cuba may take
precautions" when the Swedish.
ship Alfhelm arrives. The us. De-
partment announced May II the
Alfhelm had carried an important
shipment of arms from Commu.
nist-controlled Poland to leftist
Guatemala. It is due here today
or tomorrow to pick up a sugar
cargo. ~ : -
50.
QUEBEC REMarie Dionne, 10,
one of the quintuplets from CAL
landau, Ont, was given the name
Sister Marie Rachel today as she
became a novice in the Roman
Catholic order Of the Servants of
the Blessed Sacrament.
Marie and two other postulants
will remain novices in the order for
two years, after which they will
take vows of poverty, chastity and
obedience if they decide to con-
tinue their religious life. ~
SANDHURST, England R-A
bronze bust of President Eisen-
hover was unveiled today at the
Royal Military Academy here by
Mrs. Winthrop Aldrich, wiferof the
American ambassador. -
The bust shows the President in
his uniform as supreme command.
er of Allied Forces in Europe.
LISBON, Portugal Up "A jet
fighter from the US. aircraft car
ricr Hornet caught fire in the air
today. The pilot, 1t. E. B. Wood
berr,.. crash-landed the plane in
field outside Lisbon and was
able to walk away from it:
DALLAS, Tex. R-An Air Force
CAS- flying from Ell Paso to San
Antonio disappeared la stn ithg
Antonio disappeared last night
with five persons and is presumed
to have crashed, Civil Air Patrol
Headquarters here announced. 80
Col. George A. Brewer. Jr., COM
es:icc- cf the Texas wing
g.-> -.f - c>~-eI 5000
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voted three weeks ago, the super
visor predicted it will fall to about
so per cent tomorrow.
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are determihe1. to put an end to
it On. election Mv.
Tcc::Is OF Gains
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r..,.' ii sout'. Florida has
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Zig coal each year in the United
States than was moved in the con-
Struction of the Panama Canal.
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ss'Who?" demanded Mccarthy.
Stevens sat silently for a moment.
"Who?" repeated Mccarthy.
Finally Stevens said that in ad-
dition to Brown and Hensel, he
talked with Fred M. Seaton,, and
there may have been others, /
can't recall any at the moment."
Seat0n is. assistant secretary of
defense for legislative and public
aft -. A f?rmcr Republic2n sen.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-24

R-:TiEAj FROM ARMY-Lt. Col. Alvin (right)
ceives congratulations achievement at
ter Reed ARMY Medical Center. Washington D. Co. Maj
Gen. Leonard D. Heaton. commanding general
Colonel Moore commended for outstanding service post
at Fort Jackson c. He has just completed
Of active service The Moores making their Key
West with Mrs. Moore's mother Mrs. William Demert-U.S
Army Photo. ..
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Observations Taken At City Office
Key West, Fla, May "a, 1854
at J AM, EST
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"passed up -. this year in haste
to make-a big showing for politi-
cal purposes"
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Stevens Says Army Decided Its Actions
In Boiling Dispute with Nc e5'y

WASHINGTON IN - .retary
tsvers ASSUMED fin re. toa-i-
ityte' a. rs
AIT e :. H. 5.rs.ly a,.-.., il q
aarp exchange with the senator,
denied this was q ''cover up" for
higher officials in the Eisenhower
administration.
The Army secretary was back
I'M. the witness chair Of the re.
Imed McCarthy-Army hearings
I'd tussled with the senator re-
teddy.
T-C.r,',y hammered hard to de-
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CITY ASKS PATIENCE

(COntinued from Page Une)
He said that a little utility roller
lad to be used.
Eddie Valdez, 1917 United Street,
So "I've been calling about this
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CHICAGO R-Firemenl and po-
licemen were assigned to stand
guard at the Provident Hospital
on the city's south side today after
fire officials said an :. arsonist
started four fires last night. II
Smc':c Sc 81 through The seven
s, ~ big AL dis.ur32a many
Z - 80. ./2a
III c::aplc. cS ra23sureaste; Pc
fJcs.7 t1a f. WAS a v2t,.et &c.
TIE first three fires occurred
;c...l, II il The basement
While the fourth blaze was dis
covered in a laundry chute off the
second floor. =.
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MRS. EVELINA L.
LOPEZ

M. Evel:-a L. Lc~eZ, g., died
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-29
$50 Million Insurance
In GIN Fire Sets Record
By the Asseeiated Press

LONDON. June 29.-Insurance
companies paid out $50 million
the largest single property
claim in hiStory-as the result
of the fire that destroyed the
General Motors plant at Livonia,
Mich, Aug. IL, 1853, the British
Insurance Association said to-
day.
A spokesman said American
and British firms split the pay
ment covering the complete loss
of the 34-acre plant which
turned out automatic transmits
sions for almost the entire
American auto industry.
The spokesman added that
larger insurance payments have
been made in the past but these
covered disasters in which there
was more than one claim.
About $40 million was paid out
in the 1914 Texas City explosion.
80 million in the 1914 Bombay
fire and about $500 million in
the 1906 San Francisco earth
quake and fire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-29
Anti-Red Resolution
Passes House, 371-O

The House. without a dissent
ing vote, today adopted a reSo-
luton urging the Organization
of American States to prevent
Communist interference in
Guatemala or other Western
Hemisphere nations.
The vote of 371 to 0 completed
action on the Joint resolution
passed by the Senate last Friday.
The resolution was intro
duced in the Senate as a direct
result of the Soviet veto OF a
proposed move in the United
Nations Security Council to refer
the Guatemalan problem to the
GAS.
/ The resolution adopted today
declared:
1T is the sense of Congress
that the United States should
reaffirm its support of the
Caracas Declaration of Solidarity
of March %. 1854. designed to
prevent interference in Western
Hemisphere affairs by the inter-
national Communist movement.
and take all necessary and
proper steps to support the Or
ganization of American States in
taking appropriate steps to pre-
vent such interference"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-29
u. S. Cleared
By Grand Jury
hRiskCuses

NEW YORK, June ga Spe-
cial Federal Grand Jury today
cleared the United States State
Department of charges made by
a previous grand jury that it had
given a clean bill of health to
many of the worst security risks
among American employees at the
United Nations.
The grand jury, which inves-
tigated alleged Communist in
filtration into the United Ma
tons. convened January 6, 1853.
It succeeded another grand jury
which, in a report made in De-
cember. 1852, charged there had
been shortcomings in the State
Department in the handling of
inquiries from the U. N. secre-
tariat regarding the suitability
of United States citizens en-
ployed by the U. N.
Today's report was handed
UP to Judge Edward A. Conger,
who praised the jury highly.