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ARMED FORCES DAY
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lConFlnueo Irom rage One)
Street from Duval to Simonton
Street.
Participating in this group are
Troop 81, Boy Scouts of America,
Marching Unit; Key West Kiwan-
is Club Decorated Car; Advanced
Weapons School Float; Troop 256
Boys Scouts of America, Marching
Unit; Cub Pack pit, Boy Scouts Of
America Decorated Cars; Key
West Chamber Of Commerce, Re-
tail Division, Float; U. S. S. How
ard w. Gilmore (AS16) Marching
Unit and U. S. S. Howard w. Gil
more (AS16) Band.
Monroe County Salon SAB, 8 ct
40 decorated truck; Disabled Am
erican Veterans Chapter 80 Mar
ching Unit; Cayo HueSo Grotto De-
corated Motorcade; Fleet Air De-
tachment Rifle Platoon; st. Joseph
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Absentee Voting /.
For End Primary
Is Underway

Absentee balloting for the second
primary, May Is, began at 2 p. m.
today.
Sam Pinder, supervisor Of reg
istration, said the absentee voting
in person in his office will end at
5 p. m. Wednesday, May 10.
Absentee voting by mail, how
ever, will continue until p. m.
May "a. Mailed ballots, he said,
will be accepted up until that time.
Six names will appear on the
ballot for the second primary.
They are Leroy Collins and
Charley E. Johns for governor;
James A. Franklin and william
r. Neblett for the seat in the oath
senatorial district; and Frank Ben
tley and William A. Freeman, Jr.,
for county commissioner in the
second district.
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|Bidault Will
Elaboration
French Plan
BY MAX HARRISON

/ GENEVA LR - French Foreign
Minister Georges Bidault planned
to elaborate Frances proposals fol
an Indochina armistice today after
his governments tight squeeze past
its second crisis since the Geneva
conference began.
Bidault was slated to lead off
debate before today's. closed ses.
sion of the nine-delegation Indo.
china conference.
Informed sources said he would
reply to a series of questions put
before the conference Wednesday
by British Foreign Secretary An.
thony Eden in an attempt to have
the various proposals clarified.
Eden particularly sought the op-
posing views on Frances propo,
sails for regrouping of all troops in
areas of Indochina to be agreed
on, withdrawal of Vietminh forces
from Laos and Cambodia, and dis
arming of irregulars.
Eden's key question was care
we in favor of international super
vision?"
A source close to Bidault said
he was happy about the French
confidence vote but realized the
slim two-vote margin of victory
did not do much to strengthen his
hand in trying to resist Commu-
mist peace terms.
Observers in Paris, however, felt
Bidault's position at Geneva had
been weakened because it was now
a question whether he represents
a majority of the French Parlia-
ment. Many deputies who voted
confidence in the government the
day before Diem Bien Phu fell cast
negative ballots yesterday.
There is increasing belief in
French circles here that the Com
munists may stall. the Geneva
talks until the Vietminh forces
launch a major offensive against
Hanoi, the center of Frances hold
ing in north Indochina.
French sources in Indochina
have said the Vietminh could not
mount an attack against Hanoi for
six or eight weeks. But reports
from Hanoi said between 1000 and
5000 rebel troops launched a
heavy attack yesterday morning
only 30 miles from the city. The
French repulsed the attack but adj
mittedly suffered "serious losses"
Informed sources said there
would be no meetings here Satur-
day on either Indochina or Korea.
This will give Bidault time to con-
fer in Paris and other delegates
the opportunity to consult here.
The Vests strategy on Korea
appeared to be to seek an endot
the round of formal statements be-
fore the 19-nation parley and in
stead continue with discussions in
restricted sessions of the seven
nation working group. This group
is composed of the Big Four pow
ers, Red China, and North and
South Korea.
Western leaders feel no solution
Of Korean problems is possible
now, but that the talks should not
be broken off.
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Relatives OF Man
Found Dead Are
Located Today

Relatives Of Bernard William
Kelly, whose badly decomposed
body was found on Crawl Keys,
were located today by the sheriff's
department.
Meanwhile, Justice of the Peace
r. D. Zetterower at Marathon an.
nounced that an inquest had been
set for 2 P. m. tomorrow.
A brother, George Kelly, was 10.
Gated in Florala, Ala, the sheriffs
department reported. The dead
mans father lives at Crestview.
Fla, the department said, but his
name had not yet been learned.
The Lawrence Mclaughlin Fun.
eral Home. in Crestview will han
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Johns Invites Leroy Collins To Debate
ACTING GOVERNOR
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port he said he received from w A..
Williams, chief auditor of the State
Road Department, which showed
103 million dollars available for
road and bridge building this year.
The figures included more than q
million dollars in federal aid money
which the state must match. Johns
said he intended to take full ad-
vantage of the federal funds.
Collins has charged that Johns
in pledging a one hundred million
road program is promising more
than the State Road Department
can pay.
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The
Weatherman
Says


Key West and Vicinity: Partly
cloudy to cloudy with brief scat
tered showers today becoming
partly cloudy to clear late tonight
and Saturday. Slightly cooler to.
night. Low about u degrees; high
Saturday about "a degrees. Moder.
ate to fresh southwest winds be-
coming northerly late this after
noon or tonight and moderate
northeast Saturday night.
Florida: Clear to partly cloudy
thru Saturday. Not quite so warm
in north portion tonight, otherwise
little change in temperature.
Jacksonville Thru The Florida
Straits: Moderate, occasionally
fresh southwest winds gradually
shifting to west and northwest this
afternoon and to northerly tonight
and Saturday. Few showers this
afternoon and early tonight, other
wise clear to partly cloudy wealth
er.
East Gulf: Moderate northwest
to north winds becoming north to
northeast Saturday. Clear to partly
cloudy weather.
Western Caribbean: Moderate
easterly winds thru Saturday ex-
cept moderate variable over ex-
treme north portion and becoming
north and northeast. Mostly cloudy
and scattered showers in extreme
north portion, partly cloudy with
widely scattered showers else
where.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-14
Labor Party Gains
In Elections For
British Councils

LONDON Up - Britain's Labor
party surged forward today with
a net gain of 512 seats in returns
from borough council elections in
England and Wales. The Conserv-
atives suffered sharp setback,
showing net loss of 1888.
Results of yesterdays balloting
showed the Laborites had wrested
control Of Is borough councils, In
GLIDING York, Northampton,
Reading, Colchester and Ipswich.
All 10 had previously been DOM
mated by Conservatives or inde-
pendents.
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VIETMINH PLANS
NEW OFFENSIVE

TAIPEH, Formosa Up - The In
terror Ministry's Ia Tao news
agency said today Red China is
pouring artillery, antiaircraft guns,
ammunition and trucks into Indo-
china for, a Vietminh offensive in
the Red River delta region.
The Chinese Nationalist news
agency claims extensive under
ground contacts on the Red-held
mainland.
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COLLIN SSPEAKS THIS

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before the newspaper would publish
it, he added.
Collins said the Post and Times
erred when it said he favors a
super agency in Tallahassee to
raise tax assessments, that he is
for Everglades Park expansion,
that he was not opposed to new
taxes; that all the attacks made
on Johns were acts before the 1858
legislative session.
He also said the paper was wrong
when it said he had not substan-
tiated charges made against Johns.
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die funeral arrangements. The Lo-
peg Funeral Home will ship the
body to Crestview.
The brother was located thrugh
employment records, the sheriff's
department said.
Kelly's body was found late We'd
nesday afternoon by a fisherman.
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LaniielFaces
MajorPolicy
Question Now
BY HARVEY HUDSON


PARIS RAPremier Josenh Ian.
lei and his top military advisers
faced up to major questions on
Indochina policy today. supported
only by a two-vote majority in the
National Assembly which indicated
prompt ousting of the government
as soon as the Geneva conference
ends.
The 289-287 margin by which
Laniel won an Assembly vote of
confidence last night showed clear
ly the deputies would have booted
the Cabinet out had they not feared
government crisis would suspend
the Geneva talks with the Commu-
nists on Indochina and Korea.
It appeared that only a major
victory over the Communicated
Vietminh rebels-at the conference
table in Switzerland or on the
vbattlefield in Indochina - could
save Laniel once the Geneva talks
were over. Neither victory was ex-
pected.
The major item on the govern
ment's schedule today was a meet
ing of the Committee on National
Defense, made up of top military
and civilian officials. Laniel
warned the Assembly the commit
tee would have to consider the
making of important decisions.
Laniel gave the Assembly no
hint of the nature of these, but
informed sources said later they
involved proposals to send draftees
10 Indochina and possibly to ex-
tend the 1S-month CONSUMPTION per-
iod for certain categories.
Up to now, no conscripts have
been sent to Indochina in the
seven-year war against the Com
munist-led rebels. Any decision to
send them there would certainly
raise howl throughout war-weary
France.
In theory the government has
the right to send conscripts to any
noncombat area-to Saigon, for ex-
ample, but not to Hanoi. Draftees
sent to noncombat zones could free
professional troops for the fighting
fronts.
But in reality no government
could risk such a move without
consulting Parliament, where
many deputies are more interested
in peace than in continuation of
the unpopular Indochina war.
Laniel told the Assembly that
more troops, parachutists, bomb
ers and tanks were being sent to
Indochina and that two cruisers
have been dispatched to the Gulf
of Tonkin. SCI
Observers in Paris considered
that the thinness of the Assembly's
vote of confidence also was sure
to lessen Foreign Minister Georges
Bidault's authority at Geneva.
There have been rumblings in
the Assembly corridors that Bid
ault is not willing to press hard
enough for peace in Indochina and
therefore is not the right man to
head the French negotiatorS.
Last nights vote, though it sus-
tanned Laniel's refusal to hold a
debate now on Indochina and the
fall of Diem Bien Phu, was more
a humiliation than victory for
the government.
Laniel insisted that a govern
ment crisis now might end the
peace negotiations. The Assembly
only a week before had upheld
the government on the same issue
and the same argument-by a
vote Of 311-262. The drop in the
governments support probably
was due almost entirely to the fall
in the interim of Diem Bien Phu.
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KEY WEST FIRE LOSS

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OOO damage to buildings and
contents and $16O,OOO,OO0
loss in aircraft. motor vehic-
les, forest and other fires
not involving buildings.
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School Float; Veterans of Foreign
Wars Auxiliary Unit 3911 Decorat-
ed Car; Key West Electrical Re-
pair Co., Decorated Truck; Key
West Fire Department and Key
West Float and Horses.
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Ship Loan Signed

TOKYO Up = Japan and the
United States today signed an
agreement transferring two us.
destroyers and two destroyer es-
corts to Japan on a loan basis.
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New Division Head

SEOUL R-Maj. Gen. Edmund
B. Sebree today was named com.
mander of the us. 7th Division,
replacing Maj. Gen. Lionel G. Nc.
Carr, who leaves Tuesday to take
charge Of the US. Army Caribbean
Command.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-14

Observations Taken Al City Office
Key West, Fla, May IA, 1854
ut AM, EST
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keiefive 1vmloifys ] Am.
1870
Barometer (Sea levsll, 700 AM.
1886 ins.-1011.2 mbS.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-28

NEW YORK R-Business enters
the hot weather showdown season
with a show of confidence.
Stock prices rise as traders as
sess the chances of initiation to out
weight deflation in the months
ahead.
Leading businessmen express
faith in the future of their own
companies and industries.
New plants are being opened, and
still others planned, in spite Of
a year. of slackening in general
business activity.
More new businesses are being
incorporated than at any time since
1947.
Businessmen are setting their
sights on fall. For many of them
July will be slow month. Whole
plants will close for vacations. Peo-
pie will stick close to the fans at
home and make fewer trips to
the stores.
But there is an impressive list
today of predictions of more pros
perity on the way and of indus
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-28
BY HAROLD K. MILKS

NEW DELHI, India Up - Red
China's Chou En-lai flew to Bur-
ma today for the second phase of
his campaign to enlist south Asian
neutrals into Peiping-organized
alliance for peace"
The Chinese Premier plans to
spend two days in Rangoon for
talks with Prime Minister U. M
before pushing on to Peiping.
His three-day visit to India left
stern-faced Chou well entrenched
with Prime Minister Nehru's gov
eminent.
Chou climaxed his stay here by
suggesting that Asian chiefs of
state get together periodically to
work for peace and to evolve ''mu-
tual respect" pacts similar to the
one India had signed with China
April 20 to govern relations with
Communist-occupied Tibet.
Chou's proposal for an Asian
get-together drew no distinctions
between Communist and mont Com
munist nations. He said it applied
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-28
Truman Passes
Critical

KANSAS CITY On u Former
President Harry S. Truman was
reported somewhat better today
after passing through a critical
phsse In his post-operation con-
valescence.
His condition, however, remained
serious.
A hospital spokesman said the
T-year-old former President went
through the critical stage Satur-
day night but showed improvement
yesterday and chad a satisfactory
day."
He underwent surgery eight days
lago for removal of his gall blad-
der and appendix.
Robert Adams, acting admins
traitor 1t Research Hospital, said
|Truman's complications over the
weekend were secondary and not
the direct result of the emergency
Operation.
Adams said his recovery had
been hampered by secondary in
fections and hypersensitivity to
drugs needed in the treatment.
Several specialists were called
into the case to assist Truman's
personal physician, DR.. Wallace
Graham, and two other doctors.
Adams said that Truman con-
tinued to show remarkable spirit.
Mrs. Truman visited her husband
again last night after spending
much of the day at the hospital.
Their daughter Margaret is acting
In a play at Binghamton, NY, and
there are no plans at present for
her to return home.
The hospital said that after going
through the critical phase, Tru-
mans temperature <'greatly re-
leeded" from about 1O2 degrees.
Yesterday morning, the bulletin
said, the former President was
more alert and most cooperative"
and that he was receiving medi-
cation by mouth and taking tea and
liquid foods by mouth"
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Today's
Business
Mirror
By San, Dawson

try's plans to grow so it can meet
new demands. :
General Electric's chairman,
Philip D. Reed, says his company
expects to sell more in the next
10 years than it did in all the
past IS.
Ford's vice president, Benson
Ford, says his motor company is
considering the longest range
plan for expansion and moderni-
cation we have ever undertaken"
Both of these companies are in
the business of making and selling
consumer goods. And in express
ing optimism both men are acting
in their role of statesmen. But both
the appliance and the motors in
dustry have been putting much of
this optimistic talk into concrete
form in the way of expansion of
plant and equipment.
There are many signs of indus
trial health right at the moment.
Electric power production has
been rising since the end of
hot weather helping to boost power
consumption for air conditioning
systems and refrigeration. Power
use is now six per cent higher
than this time last year.
Some $4,000 new businesses were
formed in the first five months of
the year, Dun & Bradstreet re-
ports. This topped the 1853 figure
by six per cent. Business failures
have been higher this year than
last, too. The general slump has
taken its toll of marginal firms.
But faith in the future burns bright
in at least $4,000 corporate breasts.
The food industry is listed among
the optimists. Grocery store sales
are topping even last years rec
ord volume. Food professors say
their sales should continue to grow
"a rising population and fairly
prosperous one cheers the hand
lers of vittleS.
The farm outlook seems better,
too. The department of agriculture
says the demand for farm pro-
ducts is holding high. And makers
of farm machinery say sales vol.
ume is healthier now and helping
them to work out of the slump
that bothered them in former
months.
So confidence in the days ahead
is strong. Everyone seems to ex
pect an upturn - the question
lbeinS when?
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Red China Premier Goes To Rangoon

to the principal Asian countries"
He told newsmen in q press con-
ference statement: 1T is my view
that, in order to seek common
measures for the maintenance Of
peace and security in Asia, 1t is
desirable for the appropriate per.
sons of the principal Asian coun-
tries to meet occasionally and 10
consult with one another"
Both Chou and Nehru intim ated
that their declarations Of mutual
friendship and cooperation were
only a beginning in closer rela-
tons.
Sources close to Chou's tight
mouthed delegation arrived at this
estimate Of the Chinese leaders
plan:
Chou hopes with midas active
assistance to build q stout Asian
wall both politically and economi.
cally and thus Gust Western in
terestS.
The keystone Of his program 10
"Asia for the Asians" and its aim
is to combat so-cailed colonialism.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-28
By Bob Thomas

fourth? She complained bitterly in
her memoirs that the press made
mockery OF the affair, turning
it into a carnival. They recall the
dozen strolling fiddlers who played
Lana's favorite tunes and the
sumptuous spread, which included
a glazed ham on which ST love
you" was spelled in pimientoes.
1t would have been very simple
for Lana and her husband-I think
it was Bob Topping to have had
a quiet wedding. ALI they had to
do was leave town.
1t was the same with Marilyn
Monroe and Joe DiMaggio. If thew
really wanted privacy, they could
have wed in some hamlet, not in
the heart of San Francisco.
All of which brings us to this
issue: do movie stars really want
to be alone?
Or, as it has been observed. why
do actors strive most of their liyes
for recognition, then wear dark
glasses so they won't be recoz-
nized?
Or, if they don't want to be
stared at by the public, why do
they drive red convertibles?
l think it is safe to say that
those stars who really cherish their
privacy can achieve it. The others
may complain about the glare of
public scrutiny, but you'd hear
them squawk if it were turned off.
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What The Real History Behind The A1ana Caves On oa Hill
BY WILLIAM MEYERS
Hotel La coneha

Who dug them and for what
purpose, these caves "a feet below
the streets of Key West? Com
plete mystery surrounds their ORR
gin. Whose ghosts Turk in the
shadows? Were they freebooters
or brigands? How many Key West
ers know of the caves existence?
Certainly very few have visited it.
Sugar (W. Co. Sweeting and the
writer cautiously walked across 30
feet of rotted timber in the back
yard of the home of Mrs. Carmen
Cuesta, GIT Angela Street, to reach
the only entrance, an opening 4
: feet square. Carefully we descend
ed a ladder to the first level, 10
feet.
There we discovered two rooms,
hewn from the solid coral lime
stone. Each room was approx
mately 10 by IA feet. We looked up
and saw that huge mahogany
beams, fully 6 x 6, supported the
roof above us. We walked to the
end of the furthest room and
found IL steps, each about 10
inches deep, hewn from the lime
stone. Not a piece of wood was in
any room.
Caves Are Dry
We descended the steps another
IA feet, where we were "a feet be-
low the sidewalk. Here we found
a room 40 feet long, IL feet wide.
We walked to the far end and
found an arch. Many spots showed
indications of corrosion. The caves
were bone dry, not the slightest
moisture anywhere.
Key West is on sea level and
this cave is below the city's high
est point, about IL feet above that
level. With flashlights we peered
into room at the arches entrance,
S by feet in length and width. In
the very center of this room was
. well opening, ten feet in cir
conference. We entered and dis
covered three bottles and what
looked like a crow bar with one
end resembling a chisel, the lat
ter of solid iron. Who dug this
cavern, when, and why?
Mr.. Howard Wilson, our tax col
1ector who was brough up in the
vicinity of the cave distinctly re-
members hearing his grandfather,
Mr.. Jacinto Solares, speak of it on
numerous occasions.
Solares Hill
Mr.. Solares was a merchant who
originally came from Oviedo, Spain
in the very early 1905. The sec
ton of land he purchased has al
ways been known as Solares Hill
and still is. Key West at that time
was a veritable wilderness. Mr..
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porcelain bottles. It was sold 10
the soldiers for 10 cents a quart.
Think of it, a quart of real good
beer made from medicinal waters
for 10 cents-so potent a quart
could put a man to sleep. Today
we're lucky if we pay 50 cents for
a quart of a connection called
beer made without healing waters.
Army Work Here
The Army eventually had five
bases on the island and stayed for
102 years. (1846 to 1s4S). They have
gone but the splendid Forts they
built in 1886 and 1861 still remain.
Osceola Fort in Fort Taylor brings
thought of that great Seminole In
dian Chief. and Zachary Taylor,
President in 1S49. The East and
West Martello Towers speak elo-
quehtly for the Army's handiwork,
and though they are crumbling
from age, the Key West Historical
Society has opened Art Galleries in
each of them.
Once there was house above the
caves, but time and the elements
destroyed it. AL that remains is
the flooring which now acts as a
roof and entrance. Counting the 90
foot well. the bottom of it is 104
feet below the city streets, almost
100 feet below sea level. The ORR
ginal grocery store owned by Mr..
Jacinto Solares still caters to the
wants of neighbors. What q fasci-
mating mystery these caves are!