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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-29
|Chessman Seeks
ToDelay Death

SAN QUENTIN. Calf. Up -
CONFEDERATION Caryl Chessman
has only one day left to outsmart
the executioner. He has done it
before and hopes to do it again.
The 32-year-old convicted rapist
and kidnaper said he would appeal
to the US. Supreme Court today.
Tomorrow he is scheduled to die
in the San Quentin Prison gas
chamber at 10 am.
For six years Cheeseman's legal
maneuvers have saved him from
execution.
On May q, 1913 he was convict.
ed in Los Angeles of eight counts
Of robbery, four Of kidnapping, two
counts of sex perversion on VIC
Tins, one count of attempted rob-
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Key West. Florida. hos the
most equuble climate in the
country, with On Gveroge
Tonge Of only Ia Fahrenheit
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-29
Map
Next Step In
Murder Probe
Police Learn OF -
DIR. Sheppard's
Calf. Romance

CLEVELAND @ - Cuyahogs
County law officers today planned
a meeting to decide their next steE
in the case of the brutal Staying
of a Bay Village socialite.
Since July 4, when 31-year-olG
Marilyn Sheppard was found dead
in her blood-soaked bed, police
have been unable to come up with
enough evidence to charge anyone
with the crime. But today, the
chief law enforcement officials Of
Cleveland and the Swank suburb
have a meeting scheduled with
County Prosecutor Frank T.
Cullitan.
Were going to decide whether
present findings justify an arrest, u
Cleveland Police Chief Frank w.
Story said yesterday. He said il
was his personal opinion they
don't. However, final decision on
the filing of charges rests with
the prosecutor.
Husband Questioned
The victims husband. DR.. Sam
uel Sheppard, prominent 30-year'
old osteopath, has been undergoing
most of the police questioning -
much of it bearing on his relation
ship with a pretty laboratory tech.
nician who used to work with him
in Bay View Hospital.
The girl, Miss Susan Hayes, "a,
who came here voluntarily from
California to testify, yesterday
was quoted by officials as saying
she and the doctor carried on a
romance earlier this year, and for
some time past.
StoIy Sdlu a session on what
was done, what was not done and
what can be DONE" in the case
was held in central police station.
1--WE consolidated our thinking, "
Consolidated Thinking"
Story said, but no new information
was brought out.
Cleveland police didn't take part
in the original investigation be-
cause the Staying was not in the
city proper. They entered the case
recently on invitation from the
suburbs city council.
So far, officers have failed to
find the weapon with which Mrs.
Sheppard was hacked to death in
her beautiful lakefront home. Her
husband testified at an inquest last
week that he was awakened by her
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Youth Confesses Staying In
Attempt At Perfect Crime

BROOKLINE, Mass. R-Police
said an 1S-year-old schoolboy con-
fesSed today he killed Mrs. Ora
Schonarth, 52-year-old dressmaker,
with a rolling pin in an attempt to
commit what he called the per-
feet crime"
Mrs. Schonarth was found dead
yesterday on her living room floor.
In addition to having been bludg-
eoned, she had been stabbed
through the chest.
Police identified the youth in
custody as Roland S. Rlumenthal,
Is, of Brookline, a husky, 6-foot
prep school student. He was taken
into custody early today at his
home.
Officers said young Blumenthal,
son of a Boston liquor store pro.
prietor, had boosted he would one
day commit 1.-The perfect crime. 3"
They said he told a Schoolmate
who was not identified, that he
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-29
Chicago Cops
Work ToAverf
Further Riots

CHICAGO R-Seven squad cars
and 60 policemen patrolled a West
Side neighborhood today to prevent
renewal Of 4 disturbance in which
three persons were injured last
night.
Police estimated $500 took part
In the disturbance at TAYLOR ST.
and Racine Ave. in which Larry
sampson, 10, was shot in the right
calf; Garcia Cruz, 10, received
head injuries including a possible
skull fracture, and Michael Ven.
ezla, so, received minor head cuts.
1t. Harry o'Donnell of Maxwell
st. police said 1t apparently was
an outbreak Of racial feeling that
has been brewing since two Pue. o
Rican families moved into the pre-.
dominantly Italian neighborhood.
Four members Of the two families
newcomers to the Jane Adams
housing project, were held for
questioning.
o'Donnell identified them as
Guillero Roman, 36; and three
Cruz brothers, Francisco, 26; Sam
tos, is, and Florencio, n. No
charges were filed Immediately,
but the lieutenant said he learned
Francisco Cruz fired the shot
which struck Sampson.
1t. O'Donnell said the crowd
gathered and became menacing
after the shot, and when police ar.
rived the Cruz brothers had taken
refuge In an automobile which the
mob was attempting TO overtun.
The police officer said polieemen
pushed the automobile to the sta
ton with one Of the Puerto Ricans
In it to prevent his seizure By
angry members Of the mob
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-29
OF Ferry
Is One Step Closer
Lease Is Signed
On Property At
Foot Of Sirnontor

The actual start of Key
West Cuba automobile ferry
service moved a step closer
Wednesday when a lease for
city-owned property at the
fact of Simonton Street was
signed.
The waterfront land will
be used as the local termin-
us of a ferry line between
Key West and Cardenas, Gu
ba. The line will be operat-
ed by the Caribbean Ferry
System, Inc. of Miami.
N. C. Hines, executive vice pre-
sident of that company signed the
lease yesterday, affixing his sigma
ture beneath that of c. B. Harvey,
Key Vests mayor. Hines was &C
companied to Key West for the
lease signing by several other ex-
ecutives of his firm.
At the same time, Hines releas-
ed to the press, further details of
their operation which he said will
start October /.
Veradero Terminus
He revealed that the ferry will
run into Cardenas until January
when it is planned to start opera
tons between here and Veradero
Beach, Cuba's most popular resort.
The ship to be used in the thrice
weekly service, the converted Ism
Patricia, is currently undergoing
final changeover for ferry service
in Miami. According to Alex Bal
fe, president of the Dade Drydock
Company and an official of the
ferry line, the renovations will
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: of GIG White Street.
He was pronounced dead
on-arrival at Monroe Gener-
al Hospital by DR.. Edward
Gonzales. His injuries were
listed as a fractured skull
and a crushed chest.
According to two eye-witnesses
to the fatal crash interviewed BY
the Sherih's Department, Glisch
was proceeding into Key West
shortly after Z p. m. Wednesday
when his car began to weave back
and forth.
blew-ovt Suggested
One witness said that he thought
ne heard the sound Of a tire blow
ing out only an instant before
Giisch's automobile, a late model
convertible, jumped the curb.
smashed into a coconut palm tree
and went over the 1S.inch sea wall.
The impact of the crash complete
ly severed the palm tree.
Giisch, according to the witness.
es, was thrown from the car at
this point and crushed between the
automobile and the seawall.
Investigators were unable TO es
taoiish the speed Of the vehicle a
though the car travelled more tn
" feet from the point where =
jumped the seawall, coming to rest
about Is feet out In the water
leading them to believe he was
travelling at a high rate Of speed.
cheex ~ Scene
Patrolman Ralph Maribona. who
arrived on the scene shortly after
the crash, said that he could de-
tect a slight pulse but GIisch was
pronounced dead on arrival at the
hospital.
The accident broke a record of
zoe days In 1854 without a traffic
fatality within the city limits.
Glisch iS survived by his wife,
Charlotte; . son Harry. and two
brothers, Joseph and Theodore
Glisch, Of Romero, Michigan.
He was 4 member Of Anchor
Lodge. F and AM, the Disabled
American Veterans, the American
Legion and the 70 and 8. GIisch
was employed as q fireman at the
Boca Chica Naval Air Station.
Funeral services, under the d.
rection Of the Pritchard Funeral
Home viii be announced later.
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Trucker Dies
Trapped
Burning Cab

SNELLVILLE, Ca. u A North
Carolina truck driver burned To
death just before dawn today in ,
series of truck-trailer wrecks and
fires that destroyed cargo esti.
mated at $4,000.
The State Patrol listed the dead
man as Herbert Madison, IS. Of
Bladenboro, the father of three.
He was trapped when his truck.
trailer left us. Is about AIS am.
and Surged on down a steep EN-.
bankment to the bank of Yellow
River.
His heavy load rumbled forward
and crushed him in the cab. He
screamed for help as flames en-.
quilted him but passersby and resi-.
dents were helpless to aid him,
Avoided Wreck
Madison had swerved to the left
state troopers said, to avoid a
truck that had hit the Yellow Riy-
er bridge. This vehicles whirled
over the bridge rail and spilled the
driver to the water 40 feet below
while the cab dangled grotesquely
from the river span.
1t famed up also but the driver.
Ed Barnes, "a, also of Bladenboro.
escaped by being thrown out. He
was treated at Emory University
Hospital, Atlanta, as was J. r.
Wilson, IS, of Dublin, NC, driver
of a third wrecked truck.
Second Trucker Ssfs
Wilson, trailing Madison, also
turned off the highway to avoid
the wreckage of the first truck.
His vehicle struck a tree and the
heavy load also moved forward
smashing the cab and trapping him
for about 30 minutes. II did not
catch fire.
Each of the three trucks was
hauling 27,700 pounds of equipment
from Camp Lejeune, NC, to the
Marine Depot at Albany, Ga. ALI
were identical fiat body tandem
trailer rigs under lease to Mclean
Trucking Co., Winston-Salem, NC.
Investigators said there might
have been five rigs and cargoes
in the pileup if two drivers had
not stopped at Athens, Ca, for
coffee and were several miles be.
hind.
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School Budget Is approved
For 12541255 Operations
Plans ALLOW For
Continued Growth
OfCounty Schools

The Monroe c ou n t y
School Board approved a
$1,688,149 operating budget
for the 1954-55 school year
Wednesday
The budget shows that
for the first time, the amount
of money the state is pour
ing into the school system
exceeds that being appro-
priated by Monroe County
taxpayers.
While the budget is down
slightly from 1853, it con-
tains provision for the con-
tinued expansion of the
county's educational pro-
gram.
Horace C. 0'Bryant, superinten-
dent of public instruction, in COM
menting on the fact that the school
tax millage viii remain at only
l4.5 mills this year, revealed bat
there are only IL counties In HAe
state with lower millage and that
none Of them have - extensive q
school system As Monroe County.
1--WE feel that we are giving Mon
roe County residents remarkably
good educational service without
raising the millage," said O'Bry-
ant.
O'Bryant also commenced on the
"unexcened quality of instruction
here"
Cash Surplus On Hand
Monroe County'S id valorem tax
alton and other income sources
will produce just $685. 49 of this
years school income. The balance
viii come from the federal govern
ment the states minimum founda-
ton aid and from cash SURPRISES
now on hand.
Federal funds will amount to
$24 800 while the state will kick in
with 1856, O51, including $500, 2Ss for
the payment of teachers salaries,
$10,411 towards the purchase Of
three new school buses, $S1, 11s
for capital outlay (new building,
purchase of school sites, etc) and
$14,4 for the purchase of text
books.
The school system has earmark-
ed $43, $50 for administration in the
coming fiscal year.
Tsaehsrs' Salaries Up
Cost of instruction. including
teachers salaries, textbooks, and
classroom supplies will require an.
other 1857 ,573. O'Bryant comment
ed that this year Monroe County
teachers will receive a total of
$7S9,14 in salaries while ten years
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KEY VESTS
TRAFFIC BOX SCORE

After 200 days of safe driving
1854, Key West had its first
traffic fatality Wednesday.
Nobody will ever know lust
what caused it. Was the driver
exceeding the speed limit? Did
he have 4 blowout? Or was the
accident caused by factors be-
yond his control?
Wen never know.
All we can do is sympathize
with his family - and continue
to do everything in our power
to prevent other such accidents.
Traffic studies have shown
that an overwhelming majority
OF Key Vests fatal accidents
occur on Roosevelt Boulevard.
Let's be especially careful
there.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Cole Denies Atomic Arms
'OfU. S. Are Copies of Russia S

the United States developed q
deliverable H-bonb before the
first Soviet test.
Mr.. Hosmer said the first
American H-explosion, in No
vember, 1852, was merely a bulky
device too large for a weapon.
He added that, by studying
radioactive debris from the Rus
sian test, American scientists
discovered that the Soviets had
successfully used a principle
previously discredited by the
Americans. This. he said, led
to changes that made construc-
ton of a deliverable American
H-bomb possible.
II believe the public should be
more fully informed concerning
atomic matters" Mr. Cole said,
"but in all honesty I cannot see
this objective being forwarded
by statements which are at var
lance with the facts. Particu-
larly when such statements came
from Government officials, in
cluding Congressman, whose
present positions or previous
connections, lend their words
special-although unwarranted
credence."
Evening star., 1954-04-25
French Study Methods
OF U. ). Plane Production
By the Assoeioted Press

BAYSHORE. N. Y, April "a
A Seven-man French technical
mission Monday will begin a six
week tour Of American aircraft
equipment companies with a visit
to a plant here.
The purpose Of the tour is to
study American production tech
niques with the objective of i'm
proving the efficiency of French
production methods.
First call will be made at the
Stratos division of the Fairchild
Engine and Airplane Corp. here.
On Tuesday, the visitors will go
to New Jersey to inspect Walter
Kidde & Co., Belleville. They
will visit Washington, D. C..
May 80,
Evening star., 1954-04-25
BY the Assoeia.ed Press

Representative Cole. Republi-
can. of New York. said yesterday
the United States developed a
deliverable hydrogen bomb be-
fore the first Russian H-test last
August and denied that weapons
now being exploded in the Pacific
were copied from Soviet tech
niques.
Mr.. Cole, chairman of the
Senate House Atomic Energy
Committee. said there is no truth
to recent statements that. with
information from the Russian
test, I'VE Immediately proceeded
to build or design our hydrogen
devices along Russian lines"
The chairman mentioned no
names In referring to recent
statements by persons, who by
their position are generally pre-
sumed to be authoritative" He
added:
"In this critical area of ma
tional security it is highly i'm
portant that statements by re-
sponsible government officials
should be founded on fact"
Disputes Hosmer Talk.
Representative Hosmer, Re-
publican Of California, former
counsel for the Atomic Energy
Commission, told Long Beach
audience last Sunday that Amer
ican H-bombs now being tested
in the Pacific were copied from
techniques proved feasible by
Russian scientists. He said the
Soviets developed the-first deliv-
cradle H-bomb.
1T is simply not correct" Mr..
Cole said. ito imply that follow
ing the Soviet test we proceeded
to change our plans and copy So
called new principles"
He added: "As any knowledge
able observer would realize,
United States weapons tests are
planned long in advance.
Insofar as the present Sc
rieS OF shots Gin the Paciflc) is
concerned. the devices being
tested were designed long before
the Soviet thermonuclear explo-
sion Of last August IL, which was
the first Red thermometer test"
Says U. S. Preceded Reds.
Mr.. Cole replied affirmatively
when asked if this meant that
Evening star., 1954-04-25
lndonesia Bars Japan
Trade Representatives
By the Assoeioted Press

TOKYO, Sunday, April 25.-
The Indonesian government has
decided against permitting the
entry. or extension of stay in
Indonesia, of any Japanese resi-
dent commercial representatives
as Of April /.
The japanese consul general
at Jakarta, in making this report
to the Foreign Office, did not say
why the Indonesian government
took the step.
Since the maximum period of
stay in the country so far
allowed such Japanese business
men was three months, about 30
representatives now in Indonesia
will have to leave by June.
1t was reported the Foreign
ONCE may request the Indo-
neSian government to cancel the
new measures.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Old Charlottesville Bank Building 10 Be Razed

building is expected to begin
Monday.
The old bank building and its
annex were sold to Miller &
Rhoads by Huntington Dry
Goods Co., the West Virginia
corporation that bought it last
summer.
The tax paid on the sale indi-
Gates the price was about S94 900.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Marine Moneuvers
Use Mock A-Bomb

ONSLOW BEACH, N. c., April
"a P.-Both sides used simu-
lated atomic bombs today as
thousands of Marines stormed
ashore here in the first phase
Of Langtaglex-54, amphibious
war game.
About $4,000 Marine and Navy
personnel and a 100-ship task
force are in the battle. The in
vaders. principally the I'd Marine
Division, are the United States
force sent to establish a beach,
head on an alien shore. Troops
of the Fleet Marine Force, At
lantic, are dug in on the beach.
Just before H-hour the in
vaders let go with mock
A-bomb that theoretically wiped
out defenses along a big stretch
Of the beach. Then the first as
sault waves hit the battle area,
extending about 20 miles.
The invaders will move on
Camp Lejeune, home base of the
I'd Division, and the surround
ing area through the week end.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
Gos Bug Found

COLUMBIA, Md. R.--Gaso-
line and mothballs, mixed. is a
splendid way to get rid of bed
bugs the man told Magistrate
Temple H. Morgett before the
magistrate sentenced him to 80
days in Jail. He siphoned the
gasoline from another fellows
truck.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
sp.siol oi.po.eh 10 The s,or

CHARIOT TESVILLE, Va,
April PA deed transferring
ownership of the old bank build
ing at the northwest corner of
East Main and Fourth streets to
Miller & Rhoads. Inc, Richmond
department store. was recorded
Thursday. Demolition of the
Evening star., 1954-04-25
500 Flying Boxcars,
1900 Paratroopers
In Carolina Games
By The Assoeioied Press

FIT. BRAGG. N. c., April "a
The Air Force assembled 500
Clio flying boxcars today to
move 5000 paratroopers into
atomic defense war games here
Monday.
The huge feet Of flying box
cars was being prepared at three
Air Force bases in the Carolinas
at Seymour Johnson near
Goldsboro, at Charleston and at
Pope near here. Units of the
02d Airborne Division, which will
make the mass drop at dawn
Monday, already had moved to
the three bases.
The airborne operation will be
o high spot of Operation Flash
Burn, the Army's atomic defense
maneuver, and Of exercise Tacair
SAT, q separate Air Force opera
ton. The operations are being
conducted simultaneously for
Joint training.
Waves of C-119s from the 18th
Air Force, escorted by 9th Air
Force Sabrejets, will begin arriv-
ing over the five drop zones in
the Camp Mackall area on this
reservation at dawn. While the
flying boxcars are pouring the
paratroopers on the drop zones,
the protecting F-86s of the 21st
Fighter Bomber Wing will be
fighting practice aerial combat
with "aggressor" jets of the 366th
Fighter Bomber Wing. Other
jets will be making ground at
tacks against aggressor installa-
tions.
The 82d Airborne has a mission
Of securing an airhead for land
ing two regimental combat teams
of the 37th Infantry Division
from Camp Polk, La. ~
The atomic phase Of the ma
neuvers will come next week.
Casualties will be assessed on
the basis of simulated atomic
explosions. The Army will wheel
out its latest atomic cannon,
rockets and guided missiles to
fire simulated atomic bursts.
Evening star., 1954-04-25
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Evening star., 1954-04-25

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Evening star., 1954-05-06
135 Pros Start Play
Al Ardmore, Aiming
For Par and Bundle
BY the Assoeiased Press

ARDMORE, Okla, May g.
Par, the bugaboo to every golfer,
presented the same problem for
some of the Nations best players
as they teed off today in the
third annual $4,000 Ardmore
Open.
A starting field of 165 players,
including 135 professionals and
80 amateurs, tackled the tough
6. 6.483-yard, par 70 Dornick Hills
Country Club course in the first
round of the 72-hole event which
ends Sunday.
Although par was the main
point of contention, the chief
item of conversation was money.
The sponsoring Waco Turner's
haven't revealed yet how much
prize money they will give away,
but it's a sure bet but the total
pot will be around $4,000.
This amount will include bonus
prizes from SIS brides up to
$4,000 for hole in one, plus ad-
ditional cash awards to be Of
fered as the tourney progresses.
Most of the pros, including
Byron Nelson, Cary Middlecoff,
Lloyd Mangrum and Julius
Boros, former National Open
champions, said they figure that
par golf should win a substan-
tial sum.
Earl Stewart of Dallas won last
years top prize of $1,000 with
282. two over par. Dave Douglas
picked up $5,400 for his 279 in
the 1852 inaugural.
The finger points to Dutch
Harrison, host pro, as the logical
man to beat. He has 68.O3
average for his efforts on the
winter tour and leads the race
for the Vardon Trophy. He will
be playing his home links but,
as Harrison puts it, this course
gets harder the more you play
it,"