The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 24, 1952, Page 6

Paces =~. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, January 24, 1952 Bone-Chilling Cold Hits Midwest Today ‘Several Days Of Rain Were Forecast For Northern Six Convicts Eat Seventh Companion Had Planned To Eat Another When They Stumbled Into California By The Associated Press Bone-chilling cold hit the Mid- West today as icy blasts from Can- {a A and the arctic region spread the Eastern half of the na- i North Central region was in A deep freeze. Temperatures plum- to more than 30 degrees zero in some areas. There a promise of some retief—not told Friday. e cold air extended south to rn Florida and eastward to Atlantic Seaboard. Readings fife about 20 degrees lower com- red to Wednesday. It was 44 fe. in Jacksonville and 39 in bile, Ala. ‘The bitter cold covered Minne- Sta, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois. tt was —32 in Alexandria, Minn., And near that mark in many other ih Central cities. In Rockford, .,.the early morning low was 2: It was zero in Chicago and @1 below in Minneapolis. Temperatures remained below all day Wednesday over most Fe Daas. — — and, Northwestern Iowa’ and} Wisconsin. Snow flurries were reported ovér’ jas: westward through Northern Maho. Rain and snow mixed was feported in Southern Idaho, Wash- bm Oregon and Northern Cali- | ~ ia. veral days of rain were fore- @Ast for Northern California. How- @Ver, melting isn’t expected ‘to te, much of a flood hazard the downpours are not ex- to melt much of the heavy | pack in the Sierras. “The blizzard which hit Western New York State Inesday was foliowed by coldér weather. Temperatures dropped to jw zero in some areas during} night. Two deaths were at- ttibuted to the storm. The blizzard which hammered} » Att ‘main highways in Minnesota Were open but crews sti were Of the job clearing the main roads othe Daketas of: the ‘troy’ aaa) Windpacked drifts. In Southwestern Idaho, 25 per-| who were marooned’ y at Grasmere were freed snowplows. ‘Twelve-foot waves from Lake, jigan splashed onto a stretch ‘Chieago’s South Shore ive. jay, trapping’ hundreds of “A stretch of the drive was. until late at night. The Veterans “Here are authoritative answers from the Veterans Administra- tion to three questions of interest to former servicemen: @ Teget a $120-a-month pension from VA because of a nonservice- @onnected disability that has left te so helpless that I need the Yegular aid of another person. T'm supposed to enter a VA hos- “soon for treatment. Will payments of $120 a month go oman ile I am hospitalized? A.No. While you are receiving VA hospital care, you will be paid-only the basic rate of pen- ion, , and not the additional | amount paid to those in need of onstant aid and attendance. Basic. rates are $60 a month,! Ing up to $72 after the veteran| been on the rolls for 10 years @r-when he reaches age 65. i Will I have to take a physi- tal examination in order to apply; for the new form of non-converti- | ble -term insurance available to| Korean veterans? A.-No physical examination is { fieeded for that insurance. But! You must apply in writing to VA, ~ it Washington, D. C., within 120 days after your release or separa tion’from service, and pay the required first premium. Q. T have just been discharged from service, and have applied forthe new form of Government term insurance for non-disabled Veterans. At some later time, tay I convert this to a perman- ent plan? . A.°No. This insurance is not} convertible to any other plan of Government life insurance. How- @ver it may be renewed every; five years—as term insurance—} at the premium rate for your} then-attained age. (Veterans living in Monroe County who wish further infor-! tation . about their benefits| should contact the VA Office at} Room 218, Post Office Bidg., Key! | West). In 1946-49 American business Spent neariy $67 billion on new plants and equipment. /P. Patterson, a victim of the ny | 4 Friday in Arlington National Ceme- | Take Back Hotel A Settlement BOGOTA, Columbia (#—Six wiid | and bearded convicts who escaped | tropical jungle prison camp said today they killed, broiled and ate a seventh companion—the fat- test one—and were planning to eat ; another when they stumbled into; a settlement and surrendered. by Horacio Rosero Caicedo, direc- tor of the National Territories De- partment of the Interior Ministry. The men wandered 38 days through treacherous swamps and jungle inhabited almost solely by snakes, beasts and wild natives. Eating their plumpest companion, they said, was the only way they could get strength to escape the jungle. The Araracuara Prison Colony they ‘fled is on the Caqueta River, an Amazon tributary which rises in the Andes and flows eastward into the wilds of Brazil, “At Araracuara, there are no, walls or fences. Authorities rely | on its almost impenetrable sur- reundings, its long distance from all civilization and the prospect of tofturous hardships to prevent escapes. ‘But the hopeless existence in the june prison leads many to try Authorities said 18 had fled in Small’ groups during the last two} ionths. To prepare for it, inmates ard their rations for a meager food supply in the jungle. They almost always are totally un- armed and have little chance to succeed, Some are never seen again after | they slip into the jungle. Those who are recaptured face longer sentences under closer con- finement — in the same jungle camp, Patterson’s Body Will Lie In State NEW YORK (# — The body of formér Secretary of War Robert zabeth, N. J., plane crash Tuesday. will lie in state today at the 107th Regiment Armory here with a mili- | tary honor guard. Tonight, the body will be taken by train to Washington: for burial Japanese Will Their confession was reported} with Mayor C. B. Harvey as Girl Graduates ‘In TB Ward SAN FRANCISCO # — Lois; Preston, 17, couldn’t make her high school commencement exercises, so the ceremony came to her—in the tuberculosis ward of San Fran- cisco Hospital. Proudly wearing white cap and ‘gown, she received her diploma | from Assistant Principal Ruth Ad- ams. during four months as a patient. Opposes Prostitution Houses Near Army Camps WASHINGTON (#—Rep. O‘Hara (R.-Minn.) today asked the Defense Department for an immediate in- vestigation of a report of mass Japan. In a letter to Secretary of De- fense Lovett, O‘Hara said he had received a complaint from a con- stituent who enclosed a letter from a boy in the armed forces in Japan recounting conditions there. “I respectfully request that an investigation be made immediatély and that I be advised whether or not those in authority in are permitting vice conditions an? .| racketeering to exist, as alleged TOKYO (# — The swank Imperi- al Hotel in downtown Tokyo will ‘be given back to its Japanese owners in about two months, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway’s headquar- ters announced today. The luxurious hotel has housed senior Allied officers and visiting dignitaries since the end of World War Il. 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Shriners And Their Ladies At Casa Marina Fete Her classmates sent an orchid. | Lois maintained an “‘A’’ average | She’s looking toward college, after | she recovers, prostitution near Army camps in} Japar | Tel, 152-J} the guest of honor are shown on the patio. dell, Ist Vice ‘President; Mrs. Charles E. Blundell; Mrs. E. J. Blundell; Mrs. C. B. Harvey; gomery; Mrs. Willard Cook, and Mrs. Everett Kinsman. Back row, from the left: Jesse Montgomery, Treasurer; Willard Cook, 2nd Vice President; and Everett Kinsman, President. Production Climbs) Senator Says OFFICERS OF THE KEY WEST SHRINE CONTINGENT who held their Ladies Night Dinner at the He said he believed such items jas federal aid to education, Citizen Staff Photo Casa Marina on Jan. 18th In the front row, from left to right: Charles E. Bln- Mrs. Paul Ladd; Mrs. Jesse Mont- Mayor C. B. 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