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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-23
Petition Filed
ByLawyers In
Larceny Case
Bills Of Particulars
Sought By Attorneys
For Cothron, Bateman

Attorneys for Alonzo Cothron
Keys contractor. and Brooks Bate,
man, former general manager Of
the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge
District, today sought IA bills Of
particulars in connection with
grand larceny charges against tn,
two men.
The petition for the bills was
filed this morning with Harry
Dongo, clerk of the Criminal Court,
by william v. Albury and Enrique
Esquinaldo. Jr., attorneys for the
accused men.
Charged April 70
The charges were filed April %,
by John Marsh, Dade County So
icitor and special investigator APP
pointed by the governor to probe
toll district affairs.
The charges allege that Cothron
took $49, TIT 90 in toll district funds
and that Bateman aided and alb
betted him.
Later, on June IL, Marsh filed
an amended information which
broke the charge down into IA
counts.
The petition today asks for a
bill of particulars or, each of the
IA counts.
Charges Are General"
The petition says "that the charg-
es in the information are so gen.
eral in their nature that they do
not fully advise the accused of the
crime with which they are charged
so that they could not properly
prepare a defense"
The petition also asks that the
bills of particulars state how the
accused men allegedly obtained
the money under false pretenses
and the basis for obtaining the
money between Sept. 8, 1858 and
March IL, 1854.
The trial of Bateman and Goth
ron, free in 5000 bond each, has
been set for next Tuesday in Grim
inal Court before Judge Thomas
S. Caro-.
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Rebels Are Ready
For Any Length
Fight For Power
BY SAM SUMMERLIN

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras n
Col. Carlos Castillo Armas said to.
day his anti Communist forces In
Guatemala "are prepared for a
long or short battle" in efforts to
take over the government.
The rebel leader was inter.
viewed by this reporter and other
correspondents at his headquarters
in Esquipulas, Guatemala. Asked
how long he thought would be re.
quired to unseat the government
of President Jacobo Arbenz Guz.
man, he responded:
ut depends on how long Arbenz
keeps thinking he can win"
Esquipulas, a town of 1900, is
six miles inside Guatemala. Col.
Castillo Armas was dressed in
khaki, with black boots and a
leather jacket. He appeared very
weary.
Castillo Armas said he will an
nounce soon the composition of the
cabinet in his provisional govern
ment.
The rebel forces appear well
armed, largely with machine guns
of German manufacture which
seemed brand new, and an older
type of German rifle. But they
were begged down by a lack OF
transportation and have had to
rent cars and jeeps from civilians
in Esquipulas in order even to
move around the town.
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Bombing OF Honduras Town
Sparks Rumors Of Reprisal
By Neighboring Guatemala
Key Road Junction
Reported Bombed
BY Mystery Planes
BY SAM SUMMERLIN

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras R-
The Honduran government said
last night mystery planes had
bombed town in Honduras. The
report touched off speculation that
invaded Guatemala may be strik.
ing back at the neighbor from
whose soil Guatemalan rebels
launched their drive against Pres.
ident Jacobo Arbenz Guzman's re.
CINE.
The Foreign Ministry said the
planes bombed the town of Santa
Rosa de Copan, key road junction
Il miles from the Guatemalan from.
tier. The terse announcement made
no mention of casualties nor OF
how many planes made the raid.
Guatemala has. accused Hondu-
ras and Nicaragua of being the
bases for land and air "aggres-
fluenced government. Both coun:
tries have challenged Guatemala
to prove the charges.
UN Action Urged
Guatemala pressed demands in
New York early today for a Sec
ond urgent session Of the u. N.
Secur-ity CouEeE charging Hondu-
ras and Nicaragua were continu-
ing to aid the invaders. Council
President Henry Cabot Lodge jr. of
the United States said the Organ
ization of American States, not the
U.N., Guatemala could appear
a "cat's-paw" for q Soviet con-
spiracy to NEEDLE in the Western
Hemisphere.
Col. Carlos Castillo Armas, lead
er of the anti Communist Guate-
malan forces, moved his headquar-
ters last night from Honduras to
Esquipulas, about six miles inside
the homeland.
The insurgent leader said his
rebel army was mot fighting the
Guatemalan army or the Guate-
malan people, only the Commu-
mist government" of leftist Presi-
dency Arbenz.
No Heavy Battles
He said he was not pushing the
fight faster because he does not
want unnecessary bloodshed." He
said there had been no heavy bat
ties with federal troops so far, but
that there have been several mi
nor skirmishes and some casual
ties.
Reports from various points last
Continued on Page Eight
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President Tags
Foreign Aid
Cuts "Unsafe"

WASHINGTON R-Presiient Eli
senhower said today any cuts in
the administrators proposed S.
447 700, 900 foreign aid program
would be "unjustified and unsafe
in the light of ''the continued ruth
less drive of Communist imperial
lists for world domination
In special message to Congress,
Eisenhower said in an allusion to
the Indochina war:
Recent events in Southeast Asia
have created grave uncertainty.
The security Of that region and the
interests Of the United States and
its Allies there are clearly endan-
gered.
"It is, therefore, critically i'm
portant that the Congress author
ize the appropriation of funds
needed to provide military and 9TH
er assistance to this area and that
authority be granted to adjust he
use of these funds to rapidly chang.
ing conditions"
To Decide Soon
Eisenhower's message came as
the House Foreign Affairs Commit.
tee moved toward a possible final
decision on how much should be
recommended for foreign aid in the
fiscal year beginning July 1.
Murray Snyder, assistant White
House press secretary, was asked
by newsmen whether the President
sent today's special message ia
Congress in move to try to head
off possible cuts.
81 think that is a fair interpre.
tation," Snyder replied.
In urging approval of the full
amount requested, Eisenhower
said the amount he asked in his
January budget message repre-.
sents approximately a 40 per cent
reduction over the course of the
last two fiscal years. Then he de.
clared:
Further reductions in the au.
thorized program at this time. in
view of the continuing threat to our
Continued on Page Eight
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NAVY HERE KNOWS
NOTHING OF PLAN
FOR MINE BLASTS

A Navy spokesman here today
said the Navy knew nothing about
a reported plan to explode mines
six to eight miles off Key Largo
in the Atlantic Ocean.
A Miami newspaper report quot
ed r. o. Riddle, of Jacksonville,
executive vice president Of the
State Hotel Association, as having
protested to Sen. Spessard Holland
(D.-Fla.) that such explosions
would destroy fish.
The Navy spokesman here said
that when loose mines are found
they are disarmed, not exploded.
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Russian Paper
|Denounces us.
Segregation Move

MOSCOW B-Izvestia today de.
nounced the US. Supreme Court
decision against segregation in
public schools as just a demagogic
gesture that would leave race re.
lations in the United States I'm.
changed.
This was the first public men.
ton in the Soviet Union of the
courts historic May II decision.
The Soviet government newspa-
per said the decision was "of a
purely masking character and it
has been undertaken with propa.
ganda aims Alone
1.-The peoples Of Asia and Africa
form their ideas of U. S. policy as
regards the so-called colored peo-
pie by the deeds of American ra.
cists," it said. American ruling
circles from time to time make
demagogic gestures designed for
export as well as to lull the Amer.
lean public and conceal the strug-
gle of American officials with (the
problem of Negro discrimination
Touching in one of his press
conferences on the decision of the
Supreme Court, United States Pres
ident Eisenhower gave a negative
reply to the question of whether
he could advise the southern states
how they are supposed to react.
THUS behind a formal position
of noninterference, which is by il.
self sufficiently revealing, official
support of race discrimination is
being concealed"
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Demo Candidates Sit In On
Turnpike Authority Meeting
Comparison Sought
With Financing OF
Such Roads Elsewhere

TALLAHASSEE u All three
candidates in the recent Demo-
cratic governorship campaign sat
in on the turnpike authority meet
ing today but none had much to
say.
Leroy Collins, victor in the cam
paign, attended with his advisors
who questioned engineers and fl
nancial consultants for the pro-
posed Miami-Fort Pierce toll high
way.
Acting Gov. Johns, who was alb
sent yesterday when the authority
began its two-day session, also
was present but said little. Bradley
Oldham, who was defeated in the
first primary and threw his sup
port to Collins in the second pri-
mary, sat almost unnoticed alone
in the audience.
He said he was in Tallahassee on
business and attended the turnpike
meeting just to see what was 60
ing on.
McRas Asks Questions
william A. McRae Jr., Barlow
attorney who is advising Collins,
did most of the questioning. Most
of his inquiries were directed to-
wards bringing out comparison
between turnpike financing and
planning in other states and in
Florida.
He was particularly curious as
to why sectional engineers already
have begun drawing. turnpike plans
when the matter is in 4 state Of
flux."
He said other states had not be-
gun section-by-section engineering
work until after turnpike bonds had
been sold.
Consultants said early planning
would make it possible to reduce
the sum needed for a contingency
fund, would cut interest payments
on bonds by permitting their sale
after planning instead of before,
would allow earlier opening of the
turnpike and would make it pos
sible for it to start bringing in
revenue sooner.
Savings Told
Authority Chairman Marvin Ad-
ans told McRae "You call it a
state of flux and others call it a
state of progress. We have saved
interest of SO million dollars from
March (when sectional engineers
began work. to September"
A protest against location of the
turnpike came from Shelby Dale,
Fort Lauderdale attorney who said
he spoke for group of citizens.
He said his clients object to pay
! ing toll to drive from Pompano to
Hollywood and are opposed to use
of the State Road 8 route as part
of the turnpike.
cit would serve the turnpike pur-
pose if you moved the turnpike
west of State Road T." he said.
eve feel traffic relief viii be best
served by getting it out of the
-.
He Iolu .-.- uthority the pres
Continued on Page Eight
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Us. Opposes
MeetingOf
Lodge Warns OF
Reds Making Cat's.paw
Out OF Guatemala
BY FRANCIS w. CARPENTER

UNITED NATIONS, NY. @ -
The United States today firmly op-
poser Guatemala's request that the
U.N. Security Council meet at once
to act again ON the Central Ameri.
can fighting.
us. Delegate Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr., the council president
for June, last might warned Guate-
mala against becoming seats
paw of the Soviet conspiracy to
NEEDLE In the Western Hemis-
pierre"
Lodge said the council by a 10-1
vote Sunday had showed lit en-
phatically believed that the Organ
ization of American States was the
place to try to settle the Guate-
malan problem" The Soviet Union
cast the negative vote, a veto, kill
ing the move to refer the issue
to the regional organization. ,
Letter To Secretary
Despite the Lodge statement,
do Castillo Arriola delivered a let.
ter shortly after midnight to U.N.
Secretary General Dag Hammar-
skiold formally asking for a coun.
Gil meeting.
Castillo Arriola wrote that In de-
fiance of the councils cease-fire
call voted last Sunday, "the ag-
gressive acts have continued
against my country, in the air,
on sea and on the ground from
airfields and centers of operation
situated outside Guatemalan ter.
ritory."
The letter renewed Guatemala q
charges that neighboring Honduras
and Nicaragua were aiding the
Guatemala, and asked the council
to compel the two countries to
cease all aid or consent for such
aggressive acts"
Charges Considered
The same charges against Hon
duras and Nicaragua will be dis.
cussed late today by the five-nation
Inter-American Peace Commission
in Washington.
Hammarskjold was expected to
deliver the Guatemalan request fol
a council meeting to Lodge some
time today for action.
Should Lodge refuse to call q
meeting, any of the other 10 coun.
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W oman Dies As Car
Oyerturns On us. !
Miami Beach
Girls, Too
Sailors Hurt


A woman was killed and
four other persons injured
at 4:S0 a. m. today when an
auto turned over eight times
and rolled 500 feet on u. S.
/ at Cudjoe Key.
All five persons were
thrown from the car.
Patrolman George r. Bennett Of
the Florida State Highway Patrol
and sheriff's deputies identified
the dead woman as Debbie Mortel,
in her early twenties, a model
who lived at the Boulevard Hotel,
Miami Beach.
The Pritchard Funeral Home,
which sent two amh..lances to
the scene, has the body.
Sailors Injured
Two sailors, crew members Of
the submarine Sea Dog, were in
iured.
Bennett said Edward Peter
Quick, %, of Ellenville, N. Y. one
of the sailors, was driving the 1851
Ford coach which was headed to-
ward Miami when it went out OF
control on curve and overturned.
The other sailor is Richard A.
Sinclair, of Brockton, Mass, who
sustained a possible fracture Of
the right wrist and cuts about the
face. Quick also sustained cuts
and bruises.
Half Sisters Hurt
The two injured women are half
sisters, Barbara Carroll Fields,
q. and Geraldine Ann Richardson,
~ both Of the Boulevard Hotel,
Miami Beach.
Miss Fields is waitress in the
hotels coffee shop and Miss Rich
ardson works in a Miami Beach
gift shop, Bennett said.
Miss Mortel was dead on arrival
at the Naval Hospital. All the in
iured were taken to that hospital.
Later, the two women were trans
ferred to Monroe General Hospital.
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While this corner has been
concerned solely with the
KY West traffic situation, the
mounting accident toll on
tie Overseas Highway war
rsnts serious consideration
finn safety-minded citizens.
Perhaps the only way the
red for caution on the high
yay can be impressed on mo-
trists would be for them to
vsit the scene of one of the
bprrible accidents occurring
gently. For example, the
cash which snuffed out the
lie of a young woman on
Cudjoe Key last night did
pt present a very pretty pic
IRE. Bodies were repeatedly
hewn along the highway for
nore than a hundred feet.
AS in Key West, excessive
thinking is listed as the cause
Il many Keys accidents. Don't
10 it. Don't even get into a car
Fith a drunken driver.
If your better judgement
cells you not to fly with a
drinking pilot, or ride behind
! drunken railroad engineer
then why wouldn't the
same judgement keep you
rom riding with a drunken
driver?
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Lang.
Work on the 1954-55 bud
get has been in progress for
several weeks. The city
commission has held several
caucuses to iron out details
OF the document and the fin
al budget is expected to be
submitted to the commission
shortly, Lang said today.
The tentative budget, at this
writing, is $27, 142.73 out of bal
ance with proposed expenditures
amounting to $1,188, 425.64.
The city's street program will
eat up the largest share of revenue
coming to the city in the next
year with $283,936 in cigarette
tax funds ear-marked for that
purpose.
Police Dept.
Police protection will REQUIRE
an expenditure of $l42.585 and
the operation of the frs depart.
ment will cost $137,228.64, accord
ing to the tentative budget.
The city-operated garbage and
trash removal service will have
$l28,870 to finance their opera
ton.
An itemized analysis of pro-
jected cigarette tax expenditures
for streets shows that the CITY
proposes to contract for $85, 1000
worth of services and to make an
outlay of $4,000 for the construc-
ton of storm sewers. Salaries in
the street division of the Depart
ment of Public Service will total
$56, 436, according to the budget
and materials and supplies will
eat up another $4,000. Capital
outlay, including the purchase of
new equipment, will amount TO
only $4,000.
Raises Given
substantial raises have been
given to members of the police
department with second grade pa.
trolmen now slated to receive n
starting salary of $3.50 per month.
Total wages for police as outlined
In the tentative budget, are $l12.-
355. Capital outlay for the police
department, including summer
uniforms, purchase of two new
police cars, patrol wagon and a
motorcycle amounts to $500.
The fire department has received
pay raises identical to the police
department. Their payroll will
total $115,2O0. Capital outlay for
the fire department, which in
cludes the purchase of office
equipment, amounts to $5,27s.64.
Seayenser Dept.
A total of $97 $40 of the scayen-
ger departments appropriation will
go for the payment of salaries.
The city will also spend S24, 900 on
a dump site, according to the
budget.
The city apparently intends to
spend $4,000 on the much-herald.
ed Garrison Blight improvements.
The city commission has indicated
that they will take steps to con-
struct a yacht marina and other
facilities to attract pleasure craft
to Key West.
A total of SIS, sos has been ear
marked for the Clyde-Mallory
Dock administration and improve.
ments, including $1,000 for the city
pier.
Other Costs
Other expenditures include: Ex-
ecutiye and Administrative De-
Continued On Page. Eight
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BLOOD TO DADE BANK

A quantity of blood collected by
a mobile unit from Dade County
yesterday was taken to the blood
bank there from Marathon by a
deputy sheriff, the sheriff's de-
partment announced today.
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Inspection Today

Monres covnsy's grand Jury
today inspected the county jail
and met with me building and
grounds committee Of The covn.
ty Commission.
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New Action
I'm Stalenate
On Sailor
Navy Sends Legal
Eagle From DC.
To Probe Matter

To Probe Matter
The stalemate between
the Navy and the sheriff's
office over a sailor wanted
by civil authorities on a man.
slaughter charge took a new
turn today with the word
that the Navy Is flying a
commander here fro m
Washington 70 look into the
matter.
He is Cdr. John Maloney, of the
Judge Advocate Generals office.
Cdr. Maloney is expected here next
week.
The sailor wanted by the sheriff
10 Ray Emil Drake, ~, attached
to the Seaplane Base.
Manslavghter Charge
He was charged with manslaugh-
ter following a June auto crash
in which Mrs. Sheila Perren, 20
year-old Navy wife, was killed.
The sheriff's department says
Drake was driving her late model
convertible when it overturned on
a section Of U. S. / that was under
construction.
Before surrendering Drake to
the sheriff, the Navy here says it
must have written agreement
that the man will be returned to
the Navy sS.er his srisi 81 SEN
tence at no expense to the gov
eminent.
The sheriff's office says it has
no authority to sign such an agree
ment.
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city's(@t4y)nne To Show
Increase, Budget Says
Tentative Spending Program
Outlines Financial Plans

Anticipated revenue for the City of Key West for
the next fiscal year has been set at 82 accord
ing to tentative budget prepared by City Manager Victor
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KEY VESTS
TRAFFIC BOX SCORE

Properly Damage $3.50 SsS.73e
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For Quick Communication.
Use CLASSIFIED Adsl You'll
reach buyers and sellers
tenants or workers lust
DIAL 2-S66l or 2-S662.
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Other Costs

Other expenditures include: Elk
ecutiye and Administrative De
Continued On Page Eight
Evening star., 1954-10-01

Il won't be long before everybody in town
will be heading for the McNeil reservation
becouse we're reody to prove thot for q
bette, deol, you'd better see Mekeil. Right
now our selections Of new and used cars ore
exceptional Hurry out and take odvontooe
Of our opening celebration.
Evening star., 1954-10-01
Police Chiefs Favor
Crime Wire-Tapping

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 1.-The
International Association of
Chiefs of Police went over the
head of its Resolutions Commit
tee and favored legislation to ex-
empt peace officers from restric-
tions against "wire-tapping."
During the final meeting of
the 61st annual convention here
yesterday, the association de-
clared such legislation "is vital
to the efficient investigation of
crime and the protection of po-
lice officers in pursuit of their
sworn duty"
The legislation proposed would
lift the restrictions when officers
are engaged in criminal investi-
cation.
The association elected Police
Chief I. B. Bruce of Colorado
Springs. Colo. president.
Others elected include j. M.
Broughton, Portsmouth, Va,
honorary president; State Su-
perintendent of Police Charles
w. Woodson, jr., Richmond. Va,
fifth vice president; Police Chief
Robert v. Murray, Washington,
D. c., sixth vice president, and
Leroy E. Wike, Washington. ex-
ecutive secretary.
Evening star., 1954-10-01
Five viii Be Honored
As Engrayers Mark
5Oth Anniyersay

Five men who nurtlared i local
into one Of the strongest units
of its type In the Nation. win be-
honored tomorrow when the
washing ton Photoengravers
Union. Local II. celebrates its
golden anniversary.
Seated at the head table for
the banquet to be held at the
Shoreham Hotel will be:
Samuel II. Wood. co-owner Of
Service Engraving Co.: Newton
T. Hammer. employed at The
Evening Star: Ernest J. Lay, in
semiretirement but working part
time at The Star: William II.
Archer. q Government Printing
Office employe for 80 years and
Erdmann T. Stulz. Of Lanman
Engraving Co.
Two Charter Members.
Mr.. Hammer and MIR. Wood
are the only living charter menu
bers of Local II. MIR. Wood, In
addition, has served several
terms as president, his first in
1918.
The others have been with the
organization for so years. How
ever, they did not attend the
charter meeting. They trans
ferred here from other cities
shortly after it was founded.
When Mr.. Hammer, Mr.. Wood
and q few others decided to or
ganize. Washington boasted only
20 journeymen engravers and
five apprentices.
They were employed by three
firms: The Maurice Joyce Co.,
founded by a pioneer In the en-
craving field who did The Stars
work; the Lanman company,
servicing the Old Washington
Post and an independent COM
mercial firm, the National En-
craving Co.
Represents Craftsmen.
Today, Local II has 223 en-
gravers and "a apprentices. rep
resenting all such craftsmen en-
ployed in the District.
The quintet has watched the
switch from wood cuts brought
about by a process developed by
Evening star., 1954-10-01

Frederick E. Ives and Max Levy
at the turn Of the century that
has fostered a multi-million dol
lar industry.
They are keeping an even
warier eye upon a new process,
that some day in the not-too-dis-
tant future, may cause another
upheaval in the industry.
In charge of arrangements for
the golden anniversary celebra-
ton scheduled to get under way
at $3.50 pm. are: Earle H. Hard
ing, George w. Warren, Erdmann
Evening star., 1954-10-01

farm. foreign did and labor pro-
grams.
About 5000 persons III this
agricultural center also heard the
76-year-oId former vice president
shallenge his opponent. Senator
John Sherman Cooper. Republi-
can, Of Kentucky. 53. on the
authorship Of tobacco price SUPP
ports.
Noting that Senator Cooper
has taken ssole credit for the
1948 act setting price supports
1T 90 per cent Of parity. Mr.. Bark
ley said he took the amendment