The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 11, 1950, Page 2

nn i i t pei e 3 CRIME NEWS AND THE COURTS The freedom of the press has been challenged by the effort of some states to “gag” newspapers as to the publication of news about criminal activities. any PaEhe Recently, the U. S. Supreme Caurt re- | Sehr smog 1 ues fused to hear arguments on a case from it oth ited in Sabine the local ‘news publlahed here, a at PP Only Dal jews} im reat and Monroe County dntered at-Key West, Florida, ai secoM class matter LLL LLL —— MEMBER OF ” See The ng. Press ctherwise. i punish | This Daper, and Maryland, where an attempt to sade SUBSCRIPTION RATE! i three Baltimore radio stations for “con- ata : a $88 tempt” was held unconstitutional. It Seems ed that the stations reported the capture and confession of a murder suspect and the judge came to the conclusion that such publicity interfered with the functions of ‘ By CIA ck Treading ecinee: po Ben thank: ° lutions ‘ at reapest. Se emollece poome, ete, will be | the court: pr foticen. arialapes i by Srcans from The Yale University Law Journal re- subleh ech de an ve derived oats & live! cently conducted a survey, coming to the 3 issues and. gubjecta of locai or conclusion that “contempt of court” by newspapers and radio stations through publication of items that might affect a court case shguld not be.a punishable of- fense. The conclusion was that those who purvey news “like other persons” should be ‘guaranteed a jury trail for out-of- court activities alleged to be illegal.’ It concluded that “suppression of news re- porting during a trial cannot aliminate pre- judice or even substantially reduce it.’’ A similar review of the question! in the Harvard Law Review suggests that: the court should be more liberal in grant-; ing ‘a change of venue where there is rea-' son to suspect that prejudicial publicity. has interfered with the functioning of a just. court. Moreover, impartial verdicts should be possible through the examina- tion of jurors, instructions of the judge and, as a last resort, the judicial power to declare a mistrial. While it is quite possible that some reporters, both for newspapers and radio stations, have exercsed rather inferior judgment in the publication of criminal ‘news, there are not many cases in which such publication makes a fair trial impos- sible. The prevailing public sentiment, in any community, after a particularly atrocious crime, is apt to influence the verdict of juries. This cannot be ameliorated by sup- p> a ubil interest, nications. ut it will not publish anonymous : MONOGRAPH Dear Readers: Recently the New York Daily News, other newspapers and even some com- “mentators painted Key West as a city .of sin, as anotfer Sin-gapore. It is up to the constituted authorities to correct that deplorable situation. However, this 4 is election time and for the moment the ; ‘ matter remains in statu quo. ' | pressing the news and, in the long run, THE ORACLE society probably has more to gain from a as free press than it would get from a judi- sain esa aes | cial policy designed to prevent the pub- lication of news about crime. SILLY CONGRESSMEN! Mr. Truman and Mr. Johnson, it seems, are satisfied with the state of the national defense. Ninety-nine members of the House of Representatives in Washington voted to attach an amendment to the bill to pro- =~ vide funds for economic assistance to Eu- “rope, which would deny further economic ‘aid to Great Britain until she ends the partition of Ireland. Practically everybody in the United States understands that the six Northern countries of Ireland have preferred not to be incorporated into the Republic of Fire, which, it should be noted, did nothing to assist the United States in preventing Hit- ler and his Nazis from conquering “the | acts of espionage and treachery in the in- world. terest of a foreign power but have escaped The Irish question has io proper place | punishment because our present laws give in the consideration of an appropiation | them immunity after three years. bill for B. C..A. Nevertheless, there are The committee takes note of the fact those who hope to win the “Irish vote’ | that some tightening up of the law igmeces- and are willing to do anything, regardless | sary in application to “cold war™«situa-: of its effect upon this nation’s foreign pol- | tions. “The nature of modern war,” decla _»,i¢y, that will get them the votes. es the committee, in its report, confronts | =). =~-Phe only reason a similar amendment | nations with undeclared but actual war-} ‘was omitted, requiring the. Government | fare. It stresses that “‘insidiousness and of India to give up its efforts to incorpor- | vastness of ramifications of the Communist ate Kashmir, is that there are practically movement” and reports that Communist no former citizens of Kashmir living n| espionage apparatus existed in the United the United States and able to cast votes in} States as early as 1928. Congressional elections. The same ninety- Inasmuch as the Constitution defines nine Cogressmen who voted this amend- | what constitutes treason against the Unit- ment would just have readily supported an | ed States, there should be little objection amendment about Kashmir if votes could | to extending the Statute of Limitations so be obtained thereby. as to prevent traitors from securing im- The fact that nearly one hundred re- | munity to prosecution and trial by the sponsible members of Congréss ate unable | lapse of time. It would be a mistake, how- to resist the temptation to play politics } ever, for Congress to make any law which with a major issue in connection with our | would imperil the liberty of an individual foreign policy, illustrates the wisdom of | or the expression of opinion, even if the the framers of the Constitution in putting | views espoused run counter to those of the handling of foreign affairs_in the | other Americans. hands of the Chief Executive. Se Yee Every time that some Congressmen Plans are essential in the accomplish- " see a chance to champion some pressure | ment of any program, whether national group, in the expectation of yotes,. the | or individual. people-of this country and the world can be prepared to witnéss a spectacle that reflects no credit upon the legislative oody involved. Every day we meet people who can solve the most complex problems without knowing anything about either side of the argument. OPINIONS. NOT TREASON A new treason law is recommended by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which reports that ‘‘a long list of Communist operatives” have committed WHAT IS ENOUGH? The Defense Department of the Gov- ernment has $13,811,127,000 in.cash and The reputation of lawyers often de- | contract authority and the omnibus bill be- pends upon the clients with whom they | fore Congress. That’s a whale of a lot of associate. money. aay a : General Dwight D, Bisenhower ex- “No matter what station a maf otcup- | presses doubts as to whether all these bil- ‘es in life, he has several plausible excuses | lions of United States money are enough waaWyexplain his failure to rise higher. to go around. 5 Yesterday morning I dogtrot- ted up to Mike’s to get a morn- ing paper to see if anybody had been, whipping up any more stor- ies about what a sin-ridden town we have here. There was quite a crowd on the corner at Duval and Caroline and policemen all over the place. I saw Conly getting out of his car, carrying instruments and gauze. I dashed up to him and Mike wanted to know who had been hurt. Mike said, “nobody, yet. But you will get killed if you do not wake up before you start rushing along Duval street.” I looked at my watch. It wa’ near- ly nine thirty and I had no busi- n being abroad that early, but it was almost time to watch the President drive by on his way to Washington. The President was punctual. Right on the. dot. He was tanned and looking fit, but, it is my guess that he would mych rather just stick around Key ‘West than get tahgled. up with a lot.of those Jackagses “up. in Washington again. Ofcourse, wher you aie the President you do not have much choice and that is why I figure myself a heap better off than Mr. Truman. I co not have to leave Key West unless the spirit, moves me. Anytime the spirit might move me I will most certainly not go ®® to Washington. Every time I have ever been there the weather has been foul. Once I slipped in some slush up there and like to broke my knee-cap. The only appéal Washington has ever held for me is that there is an appalling amount of eligible women and few eligible men. Through the years I have noticed that any number of the least eligible men are Congress- men and Senators. About the only thing some of them seem eligible for is oblivion. Now that, Mr. Truman’ is in Washington, I suppose the ‘ama- teur crime busters across the na- tion will begin exposing the pitol as a racket-ridden _ city. néy certainly used his presence here to play up the fact that we are a pretty desperate bunch of hoodlums. It smacks of Republican sour grapes and perhaps our critics are peeved because our police didi not descend upon the Little White House and pinch Harry for playing poker. Robert Montgomery used to be a fine movie actor and he is a radio commentator, there is no whicher.~ He is at present trying for some sort of academy award by blasting gamblers and gambling from coast to coast over the airlanes. He was much more convincing on the screen. A few days back he got in his licks against Key West, and it sounded like he is still using lines whomped up by his Holly- wood screen writers, who get paid for their brilliant imagina- tions. All his broadcast lacked to make Orson Welles look like an amateur was having the Presi- dent blackmailed, or kidnapped, as local gendarmes shot it out ,p with racketeers while-Guy Carle- ton‘ stuck up the bank ‘and Vic- tor Lang won two hundred fhousand- dollars at one of the folrteen dice tables at. Sloppy Joe’s. Robert had the President walk- ing the entire length of © Duval street every morning, past a pretty sordid series of shuttered gambling joints that are open 21 hours a day! I guess they just closed so the President could walk down Duval street every morning. It is a wonder to me that the President, or any other citizen, would have the courage to walk along Duval street under such vicious circumstances as any minute Joe Lazarovichi, or some- body, is liable to rush out and open up with a machine gun, ing target practice. I would not know about it, as I was bury robbing the Post Of- fice, at the time, while the Lady- with-the-flower-in-Her,ear and “Puddy” were acting as look- outs...Cyril_ Marshall was. driving my get-away -car. It is only rumor that he is in the Virgin Islands. Of course, we had to rub out a few guys from Marathon who tried to muscle in. Carleton and the rest of us all met later ir. our secret hide- out on top of Duke's Drive-In to split the swag and invest it in a few more roulette rooms. As a ae gesture Land and Dorothy ught Mayor Sisner “a new home and two new Cadillacs and Guy gave every member of the police force a new Buick and a ew radio so they could be sure and hear what Mr. THE REY WEST CITIZEN Doctor than which} just to get in a little early morn-; Southernmost _Corner Persona'ly, I do not believe Mr: Montgomery should say such nasty things into a microphone until he has made a personal in- vestigation of things. If he gets too tough we will fix him with our fiendish shrimp boycott. He will be very unhappy if we crack down. Imagine him trying VAINLY te get a fine shrimp cocktail and getting turned down eve place he goes! It will probably drive him back to the west coast where there is no sin, no crime, no gambling, no liquor, no reefers, no horse rac- ing, no bookies, no President, no Gulf of Mexico . . . nothing but a lot of Republicans and some mighty bad movies and some nice, law-abiding Communists! Well, if you will pardon me, I ;must get to work rigging up a few of mv that I must install at the Cham- ber of Conimerce and in the cor- tidors down #t- the Court House. By that time ,Pi> have the track results oVer by supe sonic-frequency: modulation, fly: ing saucers (that’s what those things really are. We send them out from here, they skim over! the tracks, and bring back the results) and see that the lads in my four horse rooms have plenty of counterfeit bills on hand. ‘ | People’s Forum | The Citizen welcomes expre.- sions of the of Ite rend- ers, but the edi | eight to delete | are considered Li | ranted, The writ i fair and confine 200 words, and write oo of the paper only. | BERNSTEIN EXPLAINS Editor, The Citizen: one-armed bandits} = APRIL 11, 1950 (P) Wirephotes ONLY THE TOP OF A NAVY PV-2 TWIN-ENGINE PLANE APPEARS above the waters of Lake Michigan after crash-landing off Benton Harbor, Mich. in a heavy fogr All eight members of the crew were rescued. Bottom: Two of the naval reservists in the crew are rowed to shore in a rescue boat by Rescuer Malcolm Ross (right). The plane was returning io Minneapolis from a ‘week-end flight to Bermuda via Norfolk, Va. Your Horoscope “TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1950— This day produces a sincere and steadfast person, who makes many friends snd holds them by force, of worth. It gives a gener- ous nature, active, fully alive to the world about, and, in a way, conscious of its own merits and desirous of recognition. If travel is undertaken, many adventures are probable. Motor transport, armorrers’ quartermaster, raaio telephone, electricians’ and field telephone schools are among those main- tained by the U. S. Marine Corps for advanced training of Leather- neck specialists. AAAA4444444444444/ Political +. l want to thank you very much Announcements for ‘your help in publicizing the |State Democratic Primary, whole matter of the rezoning at- May 2. 1950 tempt that is being made in the] spwwwwwwwvwwvvvwwv" apartment house. ‘ I just received the April 3 copy of The Citizen and would like to answer “the high city officials:” 1. 1, I never had a chance to ap- pear at the preliminary hearings j to raise any objection to the pro- posed rezoning. The first that I knew about this is when I read the notice in The Citizen of March 9, that the final hearing would be on April 3. I immedi- ' ately flew down to find out what it was all about. | 2.1 prepared sketches and floor plans to show all interested parties that what I had in mind was a beautiful structure and not a “honkey-tonk.” | I had the land surveyed and ‘ordered a set of regular building j plans to submit to the State Ho- {tel Commission for their permit which is a pre-requisite to get- ting the building permit from the City of Key West. These were al- , Most finished before the hearing was held. This was rather an arbitrary decision, because I understand that legally, I am within my rights the way things Stand now, to apply and get the permit. 1 did approach several. at- torneys and was advised that while they ali felt that I was very much entitled to a permit, they did not want to go out ‘against the group that wanted to push the rezoning through. 3. I am veady, immediately, to have the plans finished and to submit them for approval and to japea that I want to pug. up the |. For U..S. Congressman 4th Congressional District PAT CANNON For U. S. Gengressman 4th Congressional District BILL LANTAFF For State Senator JAMES A, FRANKLIN Re-Election For State Senaior NORWOOD R. STRAYHORN For State Representative BERNIE ¢. PAPY Re-Election For State Representative J. Y. PORTER, IV For County Commissioner Second District FRANK BENTLEY For County Commissioner Second District RODMAN J. BETHEL For County Commissioner Second District LOUIS CARBONELL ~- For County Commissioner : id District FRED J. DION For County Commissioner Fourth District BEN N. ‘ADAMS For County Commissioner ‘start building, if I am assured ; that I will get the building per- }mit. There is a considerable ex- pense attached to having plans made; this should assure them of my sincerity, but if they want me to put up a_ bond that I will ‘start buliding within six months, I will go to that expense and give them that assurance. If they don’t delay me any further, I hope. to have»the: building. com- ‘pleted in six months. In reference to the big fuss they are making about the “For Sale” signs on the property, they j will be there, even after the | building is up. I am _ not using al of-the-lots-and they--know it. |There are and will be ‘several lots for sale. This also answers Mr. Harvey’s {question about parking accomo- |dations for the occupants of the {apartments Parking accomoda- tions will be provided for on the adjacent property. All I want now is the “go ahead” sign from whoever is holding me up. Thank you again for your co- operation. Very truly yours, | BEN BERNSTEIN. Montgomery | Brooklyn, N. ¥., says next week about Key West.| April 7, 1950. Fourth District. PAUL E. MESA For County Commissioner Fourth District GERALD SAUNDERS For Member School Board Third District JOHN V. ARCHER For Member of School Board Third District EUGENE L. RObERTS For Member of School Board Third District J. 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