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$ i Page 6 NEWS PANAMA CITY » — A hearté attack Wednesday was fatal for Will J. Cook Sr., Panama City sman. He died at a down- town club following the stroke. Cook, 66, was a bank director, official of an automobile firm, and THE KEY WEST CITIZEN BRIEFS didn’t get much sympathy from state police. Jesse Carter told the police he was making “flu medicine” in 5- gallon cans, copper tubing and 50- Thursday, March 6, 1952 SUMAN ASKS |. (Captinued trom Page One) larger; returns, in terms of our own ity, than if the same security program, together with |the much larger costs of our mili- jtary services and other defense measures are well within our eco- nomic capacity.” Despite Mr. Truman’s appeal, vice. president of a loan and sav-|#llon wooden drums they ‘confis-' s4ministration officials expected a ings company. He came to Pana- ns City in 1919 from Georgiana, a. | JACKSONVILLE « — The col-) lector of internal revenue issued four federal occupational gam- bling stamps Wednesday, bringing the total in Florida to 503. OCALA (® — James A. Duff, Summerville, Ga., exhibited the grand champion of the 12th an- nual Southeastern Fat Stock Show Wednesday, an 18-month-old 1,170- Pound black Angus steer. The reserve champion, also an Angus, was exhibited by H. F. Wiggins Jr., Future Farmer of America from Live Oak. A Here- ford steer owned by Hurley Roun- cated at his cabin Wednesday. Two gallons of the “medicine” owning a still. i TORONTO — Alvin Poser was| a dirty, ragged, ragpicker who | lived alone in squalor. He used to bring money into a; trust company for deposit and | some of the employes there tried/ to avoid waiting on him. So he kept coming to George| Ernest Buchanan, an. executive of} the company, who believed in “treating every customer as best} I know how.” | The old ragpicker, aged 70, died li days ago. He left $25,000— $15,000 of it to Buchanan, the will jrole of leadership of ht twee Jr., Safety Harbor, won the 4-H Club championship. Friday, 165 of the show animals will be sold at auction. disclosed Wednesday. Buchanan said Poser came to the trust company in 1918 with $5,000. Aided by Buchanan's in- vestment advice, it grew to $25,000. The banker said he hadn't seen} the old man for four years. “The shape of his hands told me he must have been a ‘cultured JACKSONVILLE (#}—A state rep- resentative says the proposed Inter -American Cultural and Trade Center at Miami is necessary to D help ward off Communism andj man,” Buchanon said. will mean many more millions of! ‘‘They were the hands of an dollars to Florida. artist, once he washed them.” Rep. Robert Floyd, former Mi- ami mayor and now attorney for} ROME ® — A bill to shut down the center, told a Meninak Club|Italian houses of prostitution — Juneheon the two Americas need| pending for three years — finally to be bound as closely as possible} was passed Wednesday night by together to stave off encroaching|the Senate without a single vote im. against it. Decision will be made Friday,| It won't become law, however, he said, whether to ask the Re-| until the Chamber of Deputies also ¢onstruction Finance Corp. for 35) approves it. The government, million dollars to begin the project| which has a large majority in the which has congressional approval.|Chamber, favors the law and ap- proval is expected. -MIAMI BEACH (® — A state- ma BONN, Germany (®» — maid and $25,000 in cash and other| German industrialists are suspect- missing items from the Miami|€d of peddling industrial secrets home of Dr. and Mrs.|0f the rich Ruhr basin to Com- -Hotehkiss. me Patt COPA Any Two counts of grand larceny ig their arrest Wednes- were filed by ‘Aetce County So-|@ay, the West German Interior ‘Mike Zarowny against the| Ministry said they were seized at , identified as Margaret Agnes| their hotel at Kettwig, near Essen. wok, 45, Cleveland, 0. Other suspects were reported to One count was for the cash and|have gone into hiding. the other for jewelry, clothing and| The industrialists were not iden- afhet, s valued at “more than| tified, and it was not indicated nS Mrs. Hotchkiss said| What secrets they may have given were missing. Mrs. Hotchkiss told Det. R. J. a tough, prolonged fight over the amount, especially over that part ithey also confiscated tested 80) which would be spent to aid the |proof. They charged Carter with) economies of Allied nations in con- possessing untaxed liquor and with/ trast to the billions which would tanks and planes. In his message the President re- peatedly emphasized an American world.’ He declared, “We must show the world that we can meet nay crisis, and that, temporary | frustration will not drive us to} panicky aggression or to ignomini- ous retreat.” Even before the reached the Capitol powerful op- | position was building up among the lawmakers. The congressional Jeaders who must quarterback the program predicted it will be whit- tled down. Civil Air Patrol Get New Ratings At the Civil Air Patrol Cadet meeting last Thursday three mo- vies were shown illustrating differ- ent phases of aviation including spins, stalls and navigation. Following the receipt of the new Manning Report from the Orlando CAP headquarters the new table of organization was drawn up. It includes Commanding Officer, 1st Lt. Whit Swain, Assistant Cadet Commander, 2nd. Lt. Ervin Higgs Adjutant, 2nd Lt. .George Gibson, Public Information er 2nd Lt. Sheila Swain, sonell Officer, 2nd Lt. Bernard |, Supply Officer 2nd Lt. Kenneth Kerr, Cadet Flight Leaders, 2nd Lt. Dora Garcia, Karl Kierstead, and Inez Villa. Assistant Flight Leaders are Sergeants Joanne Callahan, Mirta De Valle, Berle Knopp and Paul Avery. Sunday, drill and classes were held at the airport in the morning the new cadets were given their or- ientation flights. A bulle was posted giving the regulations on which merits and demerits are bas- ed. These were determined at the staff meeting Wednesday after- noon. A Cadet picnic was aiso dis- cussed at this time. The picnic will be held Thursday at the County Beach at 7:30 p.m. away. Shepherd she had been k MOSCOW (# — The Soviet press the $20,000 in a suitcase for aj today ridiculed assertions by the MIAMI i — The University of Florida had more than 10,000 stu- dents last year and is now the largest state university in the Sonth,, according to its president, Dr.- J: Hillis Miller. an address at the Miami Rotary Club Wednesday Dr. Miller said Florida had the el peril rollment of married in the country and reached 69,600 adults through its short course and extension work. he university is carrying on a six million dollar research pro- gram and will soon let a contract for a two million dollar student housing project, he added, JOPLIN, Mo, (® — Patrolman Olay Brown uncovered some en- terprizing guzzler's plot to syphon off beer from a Joplin bar room. Brown was called to the favern Wednesday to investigate a report of a prowler in the basement. He noted a small pipe inserted through a hole in the first floor— immediately beneath a beer keg. The beer bibber had plugged the pipe with cork, apparently intend- 4 to return at night and replen- All papers, including the Com-| munist Party organ Pravda and the government paper Izvestia, headlined the story "Failure of Anti-Soviet Fabrication” and noted the Dominician government's story was not supported by the United States. (The U. S. Navy first discounted the reports but later ordered Rear Adm. Marshall R. Grier, com- mander of the 10th Naval District | at San Juan, Puerto Rico, to in- vestigate. The Dominican defense | were identified as Russian by a type of light peculiar to Soviet} submarines.) ATHENS, Greece i — Bight die as spies have won a stay of execution until their cases can be} reviewed by a pardons board. { A military court convicted the | eight Saturday of leading a Red spy ring that radioed military se- erets to neighboring Iron Curtain countries. BONN, Germany (®—Chancellor Konrad Adenauer says West Ger- many will join with any nation a constitution for a United States CLARKDALE, Ariz. () — Searl M, Ward, 26-year-old Almo, Idaho, man who admitted killing his mother and then stuffing her body in- the trunk compartment of his | i#terview, because “no single Eu-} car, today will be returned to] ToPeao country can have the nec-) Idaho authorities. He waived ex- tradition. Ward was arrested here Wednes- day without offering resistance al- though he had a loaded .22 caliber rifle.and several hundred rounds of ammunition in the car. Ward said he killed his 62-year- old mother, Mrs. Alice Ward, dur- ing a fight Tuesday in Idaho. Ward said he quarreled with his mother CHICAGO ( — Cold weather Wednesday delayed a fur-coated suburban matron from paying her traffic fine by standing at an in- fersection and counting passing Mrs. Evelyn M , 39, - Greens jancou High Ss Speeding. She said she'd to jail than pay the fine, she was innocent. Police Chief Waber Yackel suburban decided was.too cold and traffic count until Monday. NOBLESVILLE, Ind, uy — A 39- year-old factory worker's efforts to*tombat the influenza epidemic of it the of Europe. essary even if there were no Soviet danger,” Adenauer said in a radio essary living standard just from her own strength.” WASHINGTON (# — Preliminary, figures indicate a record 3,833,000 births in the United States in 1951, the Public Health Service reported today. The previous high was 3,818,000 in 1947. CHICAGO —A former infan tryman is doing a lot of hiking in the snow and cold this week, cam- paigning by foot over Cook Coun- ty’s largest senatorial district. Seventh District by Friday. He started his walking campaign Mon- | day. minister said Tuesday the vessels | - Greek Communists sentenced to! | | | | that takes the initiative in drafting | “A united Europe would be nec- | Leroy E. Stevens, 29, hopes to | complete the 80-mile tour of the | | | | | 1 | i} good roads.” A sign which he carries reads: | “I'm running for state representa agreed to make| tive. I'm walking for your vote.” | survey in lieu of a $10) He also assures listeners “I’m for | ever had. A Surf wash smells sweet: ‘eave in. be spent to furnish them guns, | “free ;the Sea Comet. message | When he closed the shop at 7 The coupon in your mailbox is an invitation to try Surf—at a saving ~and prove to yourself that Surf gives you the sweetest wash you cause it is so clean. Surf not only gets out the dirt and grime you can see in clothes—it also reaches deep into the fabric and gets out the soap scum and odor that other products You can easily prove this to your- DYING SEAMAN say; | (Continued From aver the 38798 in their rescue mission. reached the Naval hospital, and was only saved by the speed with which he was brought in} and the emergency surgery per- | formed. His next of kin are being noti- fied of his critical condition. | Meanwhile the mystery of his jinjuries remains unsolved so Jong | las the Sea Comet remains out of touch. According to Coast Guards- men, Disbury was “very bitter” | about his condition when they jbrought him into shore. He! |would not reveal how the ac: | |cident had occurred | | First aid had been given on $2,000 STOLEN IN (Continued On Page Six) | ernment bonds, Capt. Andy said. | Murphy had left the safe open p.m. because he thought he was} returning to the Trading Post. Murphy called Capt. Andy, immediately upon discovering the theft. Capt. Andy and S. R.| Walker, Florida Highway Pa- |} trolman rushed to the scene and called Chief Deputy Sheriff} Tommy Dixon. Dixon is taking fingerprints from the safe and is also taking off an “excellent” heel print} found on a refrigerator case. in- side the store, Capt. Andy said. The officials have no other clues as to the identity of the thieving. pair. Investigation shows that noth- ing else was taken from the Trading Post. 3 The Murphys who have run The Trading Post for eight or nine years, were much distressed by their loss, Capt. Andy said. They have no idea who might have committed the robbery. Early last evening, the locked post office box of W. R. Thomp- sen was broken into, Capt. Andy said. Postal Inspection officials will come to Marathon to investigate this breaking which is a Federal offense. The Marathon post of- fice doors are open at all times. The person who broke Thomp- son’s locked box, pried it open and left it in damaged condition. It is not known what might have been the motive: or the contents of the box, Capt. Andy said. | Hopkins professor and Far Eastern | tures | more, dated April 26, 1940. It said: RUSSIAN TIES (Centinued From Page One) COMMUNIST ne ; | the invasio was “an outrageous | The ‘man wus dying when he | thing on the part of the Russians, but I also believed politics of Eu- OBTAIN rope had reached a pretty low / Bod Ferguson (R.-Mich.) ven USA DIARY hammering away on the theme | that Edward C. Carter, then sec- | reary general of the Institute of | Pacific Relations (IPR) , asked Lattimore about the: most convine- | ing statement as to Rusia’s.justi- fieation and that Lattimore replied By ELTO NC. FAY with his views on the matter. | WASHIN Correspondence between Crater ! said today « and Lattimore on the Russian in- vasion went into the record of the subcommittee as Lattimore, Johns Iron Curtain Sources Have Been Circulating Extracts From The Diary For Propaganda n individual believed to be a Soviet agent” sneaked into an American generals room in | Moscow last summer and took pic- t f his diary. The diar specialist, testified for the ninth | p, apes che pind % ion ae day. 5 2 ___ | War with Russia ‘rhe subcommittee is searching | The Army officer w for subversive influences on U. S. | as policies, partiqylarly in the Far ‘former military attache at Moscow. East. He has since been reassigned to The correspondence started off | the Pentagon. with a letter from Carter to Latti-| ‘phe Army announcement said ore, od April 2 ). xcerpts from the diary were Where in English or French or |Printed in an anti-American book Russian has there appeared the | which attempted “to ‘prove’ Gen. most convincing (I.mean convine-|Grow and the U. S. Army ‘tools ing to the bourgeois readers) state- ' of Wall Street’ and ‘warmongers,’ ment as to the U. S. S. R.’s justi- | and that Gen. Grow was a spy.” s identified yen. Robert W. Grow, 56, ¥ Ancther quoted passage said: “War! Now!” An Army spokesman said that |apparently a Soviet agent gained access to Grow’s quarters in Ber- lin during the general’s absence, {photographed the diary and then | turned the pictures over to the au- thor of the book. | The Army said the book was | published in the Communist zone |of Germany last month and was | entitled: “On the Path to War. | Notes by an English Officer.” The j author's name was given as Ricli- As soon as possibie! tin German. | The copy of Chapter 6 of the j book: which was made available here starts out by saying “I had practically completed my book, and was about to send it to the publisher, when unexpected events prompted me tc take my pen in land again.” “Squires’’ went on to say he had met an old frined—‘the Berlin cor- respondent of one of our London papers”—who gave him a package containing portions of the diary. The book presents what it des- cribes as other excerpts from the |diary showing surveys of possible | military targets in Moscow. The | excerpts include such notations as: “Took neve of many license num- ;TON — The Army |2Pd Squires. ‘The book (vas written | bers of military vehicles. Saw some | A. A. equipment (Anti-aircraft ar- tillery).” | “Only bridge is R. R. (apparent- ‘ly railroad) and good target.” You'll Find Courtesy at ARCHER S| fication of the Finnish campaign? | The Soviets clearly regard the ac- | tion as a necessary defense meas- | | ure. Three-fourths of the rest of the ! world still regards it as unprovok- | ed aggression. “Have you written or are you | writing anything on this line?” =| Lattimore testified that while he felt “the betrayal of Czechoslovak- ia by England and France’ had | reduced European politics to a! “pretty low level,” he didn’t feel { that the invasion of Finland was | justified. ' After some preliminary questions had teen disposed of, Lattimore’s reply to Carter, dated April 29, 1940, was read. j “Your question about where to | find the most convincing statement | to the Soviet justification for the} | | rinnish campaign is one that | fcombine hi the President will have been asking myself” Latti- more wrote. “It seems to me that everybody takes a too simple approach to sag} UO SUBISsNY JY} ‘Waqoid Siqy ue and es, else ron the wther side. “It seems to me that even if the Russians had more detailed, plausible evidence of ‘plots’ in or concerning Finland than I have yet seen, an and even if they had strong justification in ‘realistic’ terms, from the strategic stand- point, they nevertheless made a political blunder in attacking Fin- Industrial production in Britain in 1951 was 45 per cent above the level of 1938. land.” Subscribe to The Citizen | A sweeter wash is a cleaner wash Surf guarantees you a - gweeter wash than a soap, any other detergent so we've sent you a FREE COUPON to prove this to yourself! a wash self. 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