The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 14, 1950, Page 7

- yO FRIDAY APRIL ‘14, 1¢ WHAT IS BEHIND Russian! OTEST ABOUT AMERICAN! Behind The World News | By WALTER BREEDE, Jn. Associated, Press Writer Obviously there’s more than meets the eye in the Russian pro- test that an American bomber has violated Soviet territory. The Privateer is q four-en- gined flying boat, designed for use by the Navy but bearing a marked resemblance to the B-24 Liberator bombing plane of the United States Air Force. The Privateer is essentially a Patrol plane. Its major function is scouting submarines. And there are strong hints that the Navy plane which disappeared may have been doing just that on its flight over the Baltic. The Privateer took off from an American air force base in Ger- many Saturday morning. Its destination was . Copenhagen, capital oF Dpyinate. But it was under: no compulsion to fly di- rectly to Cope) n. This was a training fligh®*:and as” such‘ it| allowed of considerable roaming. It is quite possible. thatthe plane veered east over the Baltic, the pilot intending to head back for | Copenhagen later on. American } aircraft, and aircraft of all na- tions, for that’ matter, have every right to fly ovet the Baltic as long a8 they stay outside the territorial limits of other coun- tries. They have every right to observe the antics of Russian submarines. The Russians are known to have been using the Baltic for extensive submarine maneuvers. It is also rumored that Ameri- can observation planes, equipped with the latest radar submarine- detection . devices, Have been scouting Baltic waters of late. All these factors are cited by those whe contend that the plane fired at by the Russians was the missing Navy Privateer— and thet when the Russians opened fire it was not over Latvia, as Moscow has charged, but oversthe open: water. And here’s another puzzler: Thetélleged dogfight is said to have ight. Why @id the Russians wait until the. followi Tuesday to report it? —% At the present . juncture of world affairs, the situation in the Baltic is one* which is literally begging for trouble. You have the Russiafs with their sub- marineés;-and the Americans with their electronic ‘and radar equip- ped scouting planes. All have a perfect tight to be there, no question about that. The Baltic is nobody's private lake. But it is clear that the Russians aren’t happy at the idea of foreign planes at that, scouting their submarine ‘maneuvers. What this latest incident will lead to, no.one can tell. Much depends on the search now being conducted for the Navy Priva- teer .The Russians, in their pro- test, told of chasing the Ameri- can aircraft out to sea. And, say the Russians, from there on they doen't have the slightest idea what ed, to it. As fi crewmen, it has long ay ptt rule in the tough’ Zaine” of international diploméey’ that ‘dead men tell no tales. Bhey,may have carried the secret ofjyhat actually did take bottom of the Bal- So in the Baltic incident we) have a baffling array of uncer- tainties and contradictions. Who shot first? Where was the Ameri- can plane? Was it really the un- * BUDENZ NAMED “MYSTERY WITNESS” FORMER COMMUNIST LOUIS BUDENZ reads a news dispatch that he has been called as the “mystery witness” to testify against Owen Lattimore in the Washington investigation of Communism, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy says Budenz will swear he knew Lattimore to be a member denz learns the news in Midland, Mich. He is visiting thete on a lecture tour. He renounced Co: the Communist party for 10 years. He rejoined the Catholic church and is riow a member of sity in New York. Satisfactorily rebuildin, $j Brabressittg , nicely, Se fact, it att) le The job *fahead of than, buildifiy &. new. paldee ip, beeduse the architects an tkmen have to! preserve the ou shell while they jconstruct a new building from within. But the Chief Architect, Lorenzo Winslow, now says it! may be ready for living in again; by Christmas of 1951. i Winslow says one of his chie! worries is the puttering pres dent. For about 150 years, Presi- dents have been altering the White House. And he believes ‘that has had much to do with its decline into dangerous disre- pair. Winslow is designing the new layout with the hove that ut will fit in with most Presi- dential tastes. He is trying to foresee alterations which might be. needed in the future, and to allow for them. Mr. Winslow doesn’t mind people dreaming ‘about getting into the White (®) Wirephoto House, but he wishes they would- n't try to make the White House their dream house. BIG GAME SPECIES FACE EXTINCTION WASHINGTON.—(#).—A num- ber of species of big game are near extinction, says the Nation- al Geographic Society. In North America, the moose, caribou and grizzly bear are rare. The bison and sea otter grow in number, of the Communist party. Bu- mmunism in 1945 after serving the faculty at Fordham Univer- SAN CARLOS INSTITUTE HOLDS ANNUAL PAN. AMERICAN PROGRAM The Adults Department of San Carlos Institute held its annual Pan-American Program Tuesday, in which students in good stand-} ing received Spanish certificates. The program was as follows. My Country. Opening and introduction ‘of studénts by Spanish’ insttuctor, | Miss Benildes Remond. Importance of the Spanish Language in the Western Hemis- phere, by third year student, Mrs. Ruth Lawrence. Ay, Ay, Ay—Spanish song. Our Spanish by first year stu- dents, Wilda Lind and Rowena Curry. The Shepherd and His poem by Helen Berezovsky. Words in Spanish concerning Echo, armed Privateer? And what hap- pened to it? All we have to go on is the Russian story, which is being taken with an oversized grain of salt. There was little of this , un- certainty in the shooting down of an American C-47 transport on August 19, 1946, in Yugoslavia. The wreckage was found, two miles inside the Yugoslav-Aus- trian border, not far from Mar- shal Tito’s summer palace at Bled. The victims were found, the bodies of five American air- men. And there was a first-hand account of an earlier incident, from the pilot of another Ameri- can transport plane forced down on August 9, 1946, by Marshal Tito’s fighters. The Yugoslav shooting affair was considered closed after Tito delivered the bodies of the five Americans to the United States and paid $150,000 to their fam- ilies. For be St! » SAMPLE ps Minimum: 5 Ballots The Artman Press Sale BALLOTS EACH but there are few of them. The trumpeter swan, the whooping ‘Work On White {Census Taker House Proceeding |Is Fired; Put Wrong Questions Question WASHINGTON.—(#).—We are} ATLANTA, April happy to report that the work of }One Sanbotn copper the White House ig}hauled inte court on the of 4 woman who says his census- jg ltaking methods were a perhaps a little more coimplitats|tugged. According to the com-j question is whether this law also eg F plaint, Cnoper became when Mrs L. H. Barnett was unable to answer questions. Finally she ended his shouting by chasing him out of by one Harry Anderson, of Chap4 PAGE SEVEN Sa meen St a ae, party has the kittens. Th€y fe == an A-S-P-C-A shelter, and no - f who may get them out, or {in and cared for it, didn’t steal {it at all. Mrs. Carpenter says the | kittens were born in her house! jand belong to her. All this prom ised to make a very interes ———_—_———_ {courtroom seehe. But Anderson} James Bianch Cabell, of Rich- | has dtepped the whole case, with-| mond, Ve., famous author, born out explanation. And neither! there, 71 years ago. | Who Owns Cats Is Great Legal 14—().—| CHAPPAQUA, N. Y—UP).— = has been, There’s an ancient law that if charge | stolen corn is made into whiskey, the dwner of the corn owns the trifle; whiskey. But now the great legal Lecated in the Heart of the City RA’ WRITE or WIRE «=~. enpfged' applies to cats. If a stolen cat ee ROOMS for RESERVATIONS REASONABLE with BATH and TELEPHONE “7 Ford Pershing Miller ‘ has kittens, the kit- tens? The case was brought to court who owns some -of his umbrella. paqua. He claimed that his neigh- the house with an Hotel KR r Cooper was charged with dis- bor, Mrs.. Rodney Carpenter ote! 0 ordetly conduct, but the judge stole his cat, Boots. Boots haa 60 NE. 3rd St. 226 NE. Ist Ave. 22s NE. Ist aie Py suspehded a fine when he was ,_ informed that Cooper had recent- ; {ly suffered a hervous breakdown. He has been relieved of sponsibility of census-taking. crane and the California Condor are rare birds. The Alaskan brown _ bear is j being killed off rapidly. Whales, making their last stand in Antarctic, are declining in num- bers. The orang-outang of Borneo and Sumatra, India’s one-horned rhinoceros, the Asiatic lion, the the Monroe County Health De- partment by Mrs. L. Virginia Col-' Arabian ostrich and the bush lier. jelephant also show deelining Poem to Jose Marti, recited by , numbers. San Carles pupil, Miguel Maris- on eal. Carl R, Gray, Jr., Administra- Words of Appreciation by Mrs,!tor of Veterans / s, born in Rebah Hilburn. ; Wichita, Kans., 61 years ago. Presentation of Certificates to students by Pablo Fernand president of San Carlos Ins’ tute. Pan American . Ideal, by Raul Alpizar Poyo, repre: Second Year—L. Virginia, Col- tative of the city of Havana lier and Marie H. Frakes. Tourist Commission. |i. Third Year—Ruth Lawrence, Closing Address by Dr. Jose Rebah Hilburn. Clara Kranich, C. Sanchez, secretary of San Helen Betezovsky and Guido P. Carlos. | Lawrence. American and Cuban National; The San Carlos Institute an- Anthems by the general assem- nounces additional Spanish les- bly. 'sons will be resumed next week Those to whom certificates on Monday, Thursday and Fri- were awarded include: day at 8». m. and Tuesday’ at First Year—Leota Waller, Ro- 3:30 p. m. . 'wena Curvy, Wilda Lind, Helen Christie, Kitty Elias, Lt.. William Christie, Paul Reiman and James address , Senter. = for t WE PHILCO PRUE Te © Self-Ctosing Door” Letch : © Phileo Super Power System © 5-Year Warranty — + PIERCE BRO Corner Fleming and Elizabeth Sts., Phone 270 the! 100 Rooms 80 Elevator Elevator Rooms ’ Solarium Heated Elevator 3 BLOCKS FROM UNION BUS STATION since had kittens, and Anderson 80 Rooms claims the kittens belong to him. Mrs. Carpenter, for her part, the re- claims that Boots was near star- vation, and that she took the cat 3 ouror 4 aif Telephone Employees — WILL GETARAISE in pay in the next 12 months under the present contract wVoor They won't have to ask for it-nor strike to get itt Southern Bell non-supervisory employees are getting these raises right now—this week, this month, this year—under our present contract with the Union. Yes, during the next 12 months, even without the general wage increase demanded by Union leaders, 3 out of 4 employees will get at least one such automatic pay increase—many will get two and three increases. As a matter of fact, over the length of our present eonttact with the Union, which runs until Jute, 1951, the total of the automatic increases alone will be 8¢ an hour— ($3.20 a week) per employee, or about $8,000.000 a year. | . These progression raises make good telephone ; wages even better. A survey of 3,800 businesses!’ in the South shows that present telephone wages compare very favorably with wages paid by ethers!’ ./°' concerns for similar skills and experieice. _ The Union’s demand of a 15¢ an hour inereagse .. is not a matter of cents. It would cost Southern Bell salt oak telephone users an additional $15,500,000 a yeete eben This extra expense would come at a tithe. ain when telephone earnings are da ow and telephone rate increases are i the cost of the eight general wage | already granted. auld oe ae Telephone wages are already good. Southern Bell employees have had 8 general wage increases in the last 10 years! How Do They Look To You? AVERAGE EARNINGS OF TELEPHONE PEOPLE IN CITIES LIKE KEY WEST (Includnig Overtime and Extra Payments) OPERATORS A Week AMonth A Year , Qperators at the Top Rate $43.06 $187.31 $2239.15 Increases in Southern Bell Wage Rates and in Living Costs Since 1939 ree cont (NCmEASE. 120 Years-of Service 99.70 ‘172.70 2064.40 AN CRAFTSMEN : wit Sane” AWeek AMonth A Year “Craftsmen at the-Top Rate’ ee ed {Such as ‘central office « repairmen) $98.10 $981.75 $4581.05 Craftsmen with 2 or More Years of Service =e , (Sweh as central office YAOI répairmen) 78.13 «985.53 3906.40 ob 88.5 Operators with no experience start at $90.00 2 weeks Be Plant Craftsmen with no experience start at $32.00 « week ‘ sBatem0i~> uy ou u- ne nese ~~ se i od