The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 17, 1952, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Vhursdey, Jemvacy 17. 152% NEW ~~: rad Cae Pe | EET Citi owner and pub- ene And Ann Streets. ionroe County ept Sunday) by L. P. Art The Citizen Building, corner of Gr Danis West an Newspaper in Key L. PUARTMAN Editor NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter °. TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 h.eriber of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. : Member Florida Fress Association and Associated Dailies of Florida | Subscription (by carrier) 25e per week, year $12.00, single copy 5c ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION | Phe Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue | b nd-subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish | anonymous communications. ESS TION IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED | BY THE CITIZEN 12. More @iotels and Apartments. 2. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. 3. Airports—Land and Sea. 4. Consolidation of County and City Governments. 5. Community Auditorium. gatas 2 coisa | Commander Bettinger ha MIAMIPs ‘STOCK IN TRADE’ ! IS KEY WEST’S ‘CHIEF ASSET’ ? The Citiz tha} climate is Key West’s chief asset Commander Bettinger en Naval Academy, Annapolis, n does not recall exactly when it first said . Probably it was 25 | ENGCOTIVE COMMANDER JOE LEE BETTINGER, JR.., has recently relieved Commander Fieet All Weather Training Unit, fornia, where he will report for instruction in the General Line cessor had been attached to FAWTU since In the last thirteen years, VB-4 aboard the USS Ranger,and as air officer aboard the USS Sable and the USS Roose “ICER Official U. S. executive Monterrey, Cali Navy Photo Spencer Downs Wri Commander Wright has c based at Boca Chica Field School October as Atlantic, fi for s been stationed at FAWTU since a student in All Weather Flight course. His prede August, 1949 listed in the Navy in 1932 and two Years later was appointed from the fleet to the United States Maryland. He graduated from Annapolis in 1938 with a Bachelor of Science degree the USS Pennsylva aboare ia, as executive officer of Squadron elt. He has also served he has served as deck officer or 30 years ago and, since then, The Citizen, recurrently, war plans officer on the statt of the Commander, Air Force, Pacific Fleet and as assistant personnel officer in the has} stressed that fact. Now comes The Miami Herald, | of Aeronautics. Risnchwined eaunue Florid é i yn city a vhe itiz iS 2 ettinger was designated a naval aviator in March, P42, at Miami, &lorica speiking about its own city, te back up what The Citizen Commandeeguel i apes ss seaee Ant of Bromide, Oklahoma, ‘They have a daughter, Jerilyn, age 9, and ained g ley W P arte , on. P is 1 aie 5 ES aa ee pees *maintained about Key W est for a quarter of a cen a son, Joe Lee, Ill, age 3. The Bettingers will make their home at 4 Eagle avenue in Key We t ; tur or longer, The Herald said in an editorial yesterday: | Commander Wright was born and raised in Newberry, Sout ¢ celina He attended primary and secondary schools in * “Metropolitan Miami’s basic stock in. trade is cli- | Newberry and also attended Newberry College where he receiv neers a laine Here cater art i { He launched his naval career as an aviation cadet in 19838 ifteen months later, he was designated a naval aviator at maje i : ; , _ Penszeola, Florida. Saas : { The Herald reached that conclusion as a result of a attached to Squadron 71 aboard the USS Wasp from the time it was commissioned until the time Commander Wright was * : . os : . s doc at > hands > Japanese. fe surivived the sinking survey Gouduatec by Miami Business, official publication iSepiember 15, 1942) that the gallant aircraft carrier met its une neh unde of thes tp Me aie i ivived the in Ef { While overseas, Conimander Wright skippered Bomber Fighting Squi 95 7, the latter bi n Saipan ane e itizen nips at no other city. in trying to boost its He was assigned to the Joint Air Intelligence Division in Wash ington, D. C. upon returning to the waited eae 1 ne ; owg stock in trade.” Miami has a good climate, and The His decorations include: the Navy Cross, the Air Medal, the As atic-Pacific bs ? aD EODy with yee vat 4 state the , 2 tars, > PI 4 4 se yon, the mericar rea ribbon Herald is right in ranking it as that city’s chief asset. European-African-Middle genern. Are arsgral ones pe os a Euilippi efense ribbon, th 7 i iami fey ost in | the American Defense Service ribbon and the World War ictory Med: Sha Nogmedy, me mmperatiye Je peseenaniey NS e Commander Wright is married to the former Miss Mamie Newton of Richmond, Virginia ey inter Mesineeespet hen Jack Frost, usually born. in He is well-known locally for his prowess as an amateur golfer Cc amaday) s down the state, Key West is from 12 to 20 degrees mer than Miami. Naturally, the farther south Camada’sicy air extends the warmer it gets, and as K U. N. Says s Reds West is farther south than Miami, naturally also, it is} vafmer here than in that city. ! It is not wise to talk in superlatives about one’s city or bout one’s self. In 1924, William Jennings Bryan, then re ms in Coconut Grove, asserted in The Herald: “Miami has the most equable climate in the United | Stakes, Md \ + L. P..Artman, publisher of The Citizen, wrote to Mr. Bryan and proved to him, by submitting U. S. Weather | Bufeau figures, that Key West’s climate is more equable tha Miami’s. Mr. Bryan, goodnaturedly, admitted what | Mr} Artman said was true, and added; “It is not unpleas- ant{to have a cold spell cecasionally; it breaks the monot- ong of continued warmth.” ! That is true as applied to the attitude of some peo- ple; We know a good many Key Westers who like our ce Ig nips, and undoubtedly many Miamians feel similar- ly ghout their weather, but the big majority of Key West- | quarters in Tokyo in comment on nd: Miamians prefer to have the mercury drowse be-|@ Red report that U. “76 and 80 degrees in the winter. As for tourists, Ly ea a POy cen tS pedttically dll of thei’ prefer that type of wegthen at this time of the year. Key West's No. 1. “tourist”, Pre: ident | Trdman prefers it, and so also do newsmen who come to ee When he does. ; It is that circumstance that led The Herald to saying Ignored POW Safety Rules North Koreans Release New Casualty Figures On Monday’s U. Bombing By OLEN CLEMENTS MUNSAN. Korea (# — The Unit- ed Nations Command charged yes terday that Communists in Korea “violate every pro: .sion’’ of the Geneva Convention protecting pris oner of war camps from the haz- ‘ards of war. | The charge came from head up during Wednesday's truce talk ! at Panmunjom. Negotiators are |deadlocked on iow to exchange | clifhate is Miami basic stock in trade” and to The Citi- | prisoners and what will be done ’s maintaining “climate is Key West's chief asset.” bel Red airfields during an armi- | stice. The Communists denied two In- |ternational Red Cross representa- tives permission to enter North Korea. Dr. Otto Lehner, chief Far East delegate of the International The courts lose their reputation when litigants seek void justice. SCE OF HAM : ‘ : : . : : : : flown to Panmunjom with Albert de Cocatrix seeking permission ? North Korean Maj. Gen. Lee 3 Sang Cho, Communist delegate on ; the prisoner subcommittee, ignored 2 the two Swiss. A minor officer gave them the same reply the | Reds have made to previous re. guests to let Red Cross representa ‘tives visit POW camps: ‘No.’ The Reds revised the casualty figure from Monday night’s re ported bambing of Kangdong to 20 captured U. N. troops killed, 15 serious.y injured and 40 slightly hurt. The original report was more than 10 killed and 60 injured. The Reds have said they held 1,591 South Koreans and one American at Kangdong. The U. N. Command in Tokyo said Allied military aircraft were in the Kangdong area at the time of the reported bombing, But, the report said, the Allies can’t tell whether the camp was hit because they don't know where it is The statement said 1. The Reds never have disclosed exactly where any of their 11 POW camps is situated. This is required by the Geneva Convention. 2. The Allies have not been able to locate them by repeated photo- graphic reconnaissance of areas where the camps are reported to be. 3. The “THEY DON'T HAVE TO HAVE PASSPORTS ! POW camps are not N. planes | the as ston would be pained why ¥. Ya S 4 | ebiere’ wai Ro Shinte wad BroMENee y“ranming across’ Korea from Committee of the Red Cross, had | | N ‘ ~ aC Two Raline U.S. Pennies Ethiopia Has s ‘Officers lailed | Are Scare Serap Iro: Officers Jaile re Scarce Serap Tron | KUALA LUMPUR, Malaya NEW NOMS: (P) There es ADDIS ee ease UP). | {oP " ae ers ave/2 scarcity of pennies in n Ethiopia could provice 10US: (P).—Two police officers have) fica Meier isst despite! ely ioe aipcragtcabtg ots eestincenrencen £2) brief prison’ aouble shift in onerations by the| American blast furnaces. Trans terms for applying third degree | Bureau of the Mint to meet de-| portation is one of the difficul methods to obtain information! mand. This caused rationing of! ties in getting it out of the coun from a suspecting bandit sympa- | pennies, as well as nickels and} ¢,y thizer quarters, by the Federal Reserve | ‘pijes of rusting scrap _ litter i : Bank of New York many places w Addis Abeba oak The assistant superintendent of I s i aie , (many plac { n contrast, Great Britain’s| other areas in the country—de police received one month rigor-| Royal Mint was trying to get rid, bris from the 1941 se be ous imprisonment and $17 fine, |of some of their oversize pennies; tween the Italians and British while a detective sergeant was|by buying up and re _ sentenced to a day in prison | million dollars worth. There are) ‘New York City is consice:ing 7 Victim of the alleged beatings | about two billion British pennies; scheme to use its street Ay by the police is a 19-year-old , outstanding gratings as advertising billboards |youth who told the court that | police took him to a quarry in Pahang. They then struck him) several times and fired several, shots from a revolver to intimi-; date him, he id marked. The Geneva Convention {requires them be marked by the letters “P or “PG” large hieh air MEN Sereno) {PO itt Kangdong is on a main high- Pyongyang, the Red capital, to the , beseiged port of Wonsan. Lots of Red trucks travel the highway pro- viding a “lucrative military tar. get The Geneva Convention pro: jvides POWs shall be kept out of combat zones and away from mili tary targets Two POW c gyang which military AND THEIR EGGS COMPLETELY ERADICATED BY FUMIGATION WITH NYLON TENTS PRICES RIGHT EVERY JOB GUARANTEED mps near Pyon milar lucrative including three airfields . . . effectively hampers U.N. air operations in a center ; of enemy operations.’ The Atlied statement emphasiz ed It is clear the Communists have violated and are continuing to vio. i... 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