The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 3, 1950, Page 2

' oe eemeae “——~J;000 submarines but Jane’s ; 4 \) an motten dae ot thenkias : ‘cee eke oe a ¢ ‘Be or fe rate 0! bs i . deot . communications, “+ Gorner Greene and o> soy Site NPE se at Key West, Florida, as second class matter “3 meueer oF 1 PRESS wee raprotustion o jt or not otherwii also the local news ‘ASSOCIATED ls ‘exclusiv TES Not! for entertainment by ¢ m which a revenue is to bé derived are 6 cents a line. ) The Citizen is an open forum and invites dis- eussion fi hg issues and subjects of local or general in t, but it will not publish anonymous MONOGRAPH Dear Automobile Drivers: Judging by past records, automo- piles will kill about eighty people every | day.in 1950 in the United States, and that is too high a price to pay for fast “driving. Drive slowly and reduce the qumber of unneccessary deaths. THE ORACLE “SOVIET BATTLESHIPS AND CUBS atentiemite _The Russians, according to Jane’s Fighting Ships, authoritative naval an- ual, ‘may be building three 35,000-ton battleships, equipped to fire radio-con- trolled aerial torpedoes: The Russians, apparently, haven't heard of the demise of the batleship or the futility of attempting to use them -in war.. Perhaps, they do not know that one or two aerial bombs, dropped from the skies, will end the battle-wagons. “In addition, according to the same source, the Russians have an_ extensive submarine program underway, aimed at doubts the technical capacity to build such an un- derwater fleet although its information ndicates the Soviet navy expects to have “3150 stibs in service at the end of 1951. . There ‘is no. way for us to check this inforfiation but, from its source, there must be something. to it. The battleships may ‘serve as offensive weapons if the aerial torpedoes can be successfully han- dled. More dangeroqus, however, would be a large fleet of modern submarines. Past wars have shown us the difficulty of.meeting the U-boat threat without waiting for a sufficient time to build ‘the necessary defensive weapons, including destroyers. AIR TRAVEL CONTINUES SAFE “<= Overly impressed by the publicity giveh’ a few serious crashes, the average American has the idea that traveling by air has been a risky proposition in 1949. __The fact that the nation’s scheduled airlines are expected to hang up a safety record may sound surprising but it is vouched for by Joseph A. O’Connell, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. The regular carriers have flown 6,000,- 000,000 passenger miles, with 91 .. fatali- ties to the middle of December, or about “T-2 deaths for each 100,000,000 passenger miles, This is better than the..1948_ rate of 1.3 and the 1947 rate of 3.2ve« -——- Military preparedness is a food peace poliey. for the United States. ~~ =wKhere are successful business men who take no exercise, physical or mental. _ - Women, as a rule, do not think very ‘highly of other women—if you know what-we mean. —-—Historical Quiz: Can you name the last President of the United States elected ~ “by a minority vote? to ferret out all the facts about payroll to jail for, pocketing money ostensibly go- «ditk ,(R-N. D.) happened to be in“ his tered ‘the clink and was shocked to find that, folks out there were wondering just 4 been too high in ‘‘smal} business.” .| number of new business ventures—just be- + If Congressional committees ever try padding on Capitol Hill they’ won't have an easy time. Most of the information ab- OF THE out salaries there is readily available. But the really hot stuff is buried. _ Interest im the subject was aroused when. former Rep, J: Parnell Thomas went ing 6 émployes of his.office. Rep. Bur- home district about the time Thomas en- how many other members of the national legislature were dishonest. He demanded that Congress make a thorough investigation to weed out any other payroll manipulators and clear Con- gress’ name. “The overwhelming majority of the members are honest,” said Burdick. “But the crooks have done more damage than Communists could have done in 20 years.” (Thomas was once chairman of the House Committee on Unamerican Activities.) At first glance it would appear simple to find out who is getting away: with pay- {oll padding. On the House side of the Capitol a photostatic copy of the entire ] payroll is publicly available each month. The name of each clerk, secretary, ad- ministrative assistant or other employe ap- pears along with his salary. The record shows in which committee or congress- man’s office he or she works. If you smell something fishy about some of the entries, you can go to the of- fice in question and ask if so-and-so works there. If he isn’t there, other employes or the congressman might explain that he is doing some research at the Congressional Library, is ill at home, is on vacation or works in the congressman’s office in his home town. All of which might be quite true. If you find so-and-so actually, working there, you have no assurance that he and the rest of the employes there are not kick- ing back part of their salaries to the con- gressman. The correct answers might be obtain- ed by an ivestigating committee. Committee witnesses must testify under oath, But old timers on the Hill say’ an investigation would be a painful proceeding to many members, and they’!! bet 10 to one that the matter will never reach the investigating stage. The Senate is not quite so frank about publishing its payroll as the House. It is made public only once a year, and there is an important omission. The Senate does not publish names and salaries of employ- es of particular senators. There is a break- down by committee, but not by senators’ offices. No one from all those questioned was able to explain why this was done. But one soned official of the Senate said he believed it was just a matter of personnel policy in the offices. The senators didn’t want their employes to know that other employes were making. In the matter of their own expense allowances, the sena- tors, incidentally, are somewhat more gen- erous to themselves than the representa- tives are, Members of both bodies have voted themselves substantial allowances in addi- tion to. $2,500-a-year tax-free expense al- lowances. On the House side every member is given a flat sum of $500 each fis¢al year for stationery and another $500 for telegrams and long distance telephone calls. The senators get $500 a year for stationery, can send any number of official telegrams, and may make 50 free long distance telephone calls a month. Both senators and congress- men get a mileage allowance to and from Washington. Their expenses are paid official trips abroad. on BUSINESS TROUBLES The U. S. Department of Commerce reports that the National “slump” has in- creased this year. Business failures have There has been an increase in the cause our people haven’t been sure which way to turn, During the past two years the num- ber of men and women engaging in busi- ness in which they have had no previous experience has been exceptionally large. Their venturing has sharpened competition by established businesses, and from one another. Well, 913,000 new business in- | stitutions are reported by the government | States Board of Fire Underwrit-: ets is momentarily expected here to rT «ding the fire that e ‘last night at the home of H. O.' Penick, at Emma and Southard streets. An ma and Robert Frost, poet laurete of New England, a noted man of letters will soon become a visitor in Key West. Miss lleen Williams, an old friend received word from him today. A business census of Monroe County Myrtland Cates, former city pa-; trolman, will be in charge of the, work in this county under John! N. O'Bannon, supervisor for eight | counties. Cates was selected after | ‘a competitive examination con- ducted yesterday by Mr. O’Ban- non. Scouts térium, and o! have been Enjoying a_ great fishing yesterday on the charter “Martin,” were Philadel-/ phians Dr. J. D. Brown and Sun; Oil Company engineer, T. G. Rab- bitt, and government publicity man Oliver Griswold. launich, ‘ Mrs. S. E. Silver her third visit to Key West re-; wood, N. J. cently and will weeks longer at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M.-E. Berkowitz. Mrs: Silver expressed herself as being much pleased with the way the Island City is being “miraculous- ly improved” prevailing here on past visits, scuttles. department. At 10 a. m. tomorrow the Coast Guard Pandora will start on a good will tour of several thous- ands of miles to the countriés of Central America. j | interested spectator, at times a volunteer for the work at hand, at the fire which spread through the Penick home at Em- night was Battalion Chief Thomas -him. too. J. Cannovan of the Chicago fire © department here on vacation. Monroe County will awarding first ever night at the High School scouts, all scouters of the district | i ged vecsiits Valse gave no indication ‘ob bie He sat around jrsilinan ge: while the dusk stars made of thin gold When they prepared fights went out. he di the sana his ears assured oe that they were all asleep, he slipped from his bunk. crossed to the door. and let himself out, a ee Valse: saddled a horse and rode way. heading for the Gun. He a the way. Hed wi ite See and give him fe fair: But he would ial ary tonight. that feetly certain. Evidently he had been: taking. it easy, traveling slowly after leaving the ranch. In his relief, Valse was about to spur to join him, and he was already, « 3 his mouth for a hallo}: when @ his throat. 4 From another. point, . halfway- around the meadow, close to the |‘ little creek. a blasted sav- agely. Even while the echoes ram sivel vulsively at hock heavy bullet, feet kicking. ‘or a moment Valse was shocked with surprise and the horror of it. Here was the danger that he had sensed, and he knew it his first instinct had not been fault. Here was murder, cold- blooded murder, and he had a swift suspicion that it had been i against - himself; that the ¢i y sur- developed aatlin provincial panies. His latest picture is “Cop yon,” play: wi Hed; i it hunts, fishes and sails. i ‘Your Horoscope TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1950 —Today gives a well. balanced untry beyond, and realized that it would be al- most. impossible to, overtake the fugitive in the night. He hesitated. ~ then swung his horse. about. to where Fortescue lay sprawled. One look, once Trib was out of the saddle, and even before he had quite reached Fortescue. was enough to assure Valse thet the quested. old cowpuncher was past aay | heading (ue for, the Gun, hel . which lay beyond in the same di- its hoofs soundless on aero rection. And Fortescue had been carpet of pine needles. . @lthe innocent victim of. error. couple of hundred yards across,| Someone, seeing his thatch of was an open meadow. white hair, had probably sup- Something moved in the shad-|posed that that Hair identified | treacherous and c ows beyond him, and Valse pulled | Valse. ion. ag - could his horse to a stop with an in-| Valse’s eyes shifted to where the fact that'th voluntary gesture. It stood, not/the gun-shot had come from, and cbeens intended even shaking its head, as though as he watched, he saw the brush as well aware as himself that|stir. Then a man rode out from something alien was abroad here|among the trees into the open tonight. He was about to go on,| meadow. Incredulity flooded end then he waited, knowing that | Valse for a moment. For this man, there was danger somewhere|bareback upon a spotted cayuse, close at hand. was an Indian. A young brave, holding a revolver in his hand from which Valse fancied that he eould still see a thin curl of smoke, That had been good shooting, for an Indian: few of them were much good with a gun, more par- ticularly a six-gun. Not that the shot had been too difficult, at that range, upon an unsuspecting tar- get, and fired as it was from am- bush, The unbelievable thing was that it should have been an In- Southard streets last hi = he excellent elp. : > Valse stood. not touching him,’{ nature, and the native will show shaken with grief and rage, For- ' much in caryii out. his tescue had been one of his best” — shige friends, as he had proven tonight. plans. Now he was dead, killed in as ” got under way today. je thet oct- [STRONG haps Fortescue had really been TRIUMPH Bo sheathed owes, Vala. ¥4, hee absor'| was, ise mm e puzzle. so torn by the conflicting COFFEE emotions which wracked him. that he did not hear the first sound of Gi we who approached. Then he lool up to see men all around him: men on horse half a dozen. of them. Rudd was at their head. and they were all of the Gun crew. “You damned coward!v killer.” Rudd said. betwen his. teeth, “You'll swing for this!” (Te be continued) { AMO then he saw what it was, end felt like chuckling in his | | relief. Fifty yards to the side, a | men had ridden out of the trees Bor = 4 headed now across the moon- ” | bright meadow, going in the same feature a public) general direction that Valse was court ceremony, the! taking. At that distance there was held here, tomorrow po mistaking Fortescue. His bat- audi-| tered o hat. long since shape- of! ind colorless, was pushed far back on his head, so that the snow District to which parents nd committeemen j ee f ecially invited. : ° ° ° T M h curity problem comes from the ‘Top US. Scientists Believe Too Much. irecor'ct the Nationa "Bureau ;of Standards, Doctor Edward S M Hi ¢ >. S = ; Condon: ecrecy May Hart Country's Security | “ir we adopt poticies that are < {too restrietive about scientific that most of America’s top scien- knowledge, other countries will tists are worried over secrecy.' also do the same. This result ‘Many fear that too much secrecy could be especially weakening to hampers the security of the America, for we have not thus country it is trying to protect. {far been very productive in truly | One atomic scientist says that | fundamental seience.” Those are = one phase of the atomic project , Dr. Condon’s own words. Today The Citizen says in an|is going rather slowly. 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