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Page & THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Southernmost Youngest Conga Dancer| | Citizen Staff Photo PETITE 32-YEAR-OLD MARIE PEREZ shows off a neat Conga uring feature with her dad, Manuel Perez of 2328 Staples avenue Thursday night’s Comparsas on Duval street. Parade was of the current La Semana Alegre peeks! Gambling Fee Passes Test MIAMI » — The feder: Tequiring gamblers to bu. stamps passed its first test here} Friday. | Federal Judge Charles A. Dewey a4] Des Moines, Iowa, upheld constitu- tionality of the law in what As- sistant U. S. District Attorney Ernest L. Duhaime said was the first action of its kind in the coun- try. Attorneys attacking the law claimed their clients should not be prosecuted for noi buying the tax | stamps. They said the law exempts | certain classes of gamblers and| that those applying for the stamps are forced to give information which could incriminate them io state courts. Judge Dewey said he realized the arguments had much value but he would deny motions to dis- miss cases ainst 13 defendants on these grounds and let the Circuit Court of Appeals have a say in the matter. Attorneys said they would appeal. ‘/Mother And Son jAre Saved From Drowning In Canal were saved from drowning in the} North New River C: Conga Dancers law Citizen Staff Photo GYNTHIA PEREZ of 18A Por- fer Place and Danny Acosta, Ae tech ge Tania alierilay by aap Duval street, tented up |” Highway Patrolman Valton Shef- @with..some. authentic Cuban field and Deputy Sheriff Gibb Marte routines at the La Se- Cross gave this account: mana Alegre sponsored street Mrs. Grace Watz, 60, Mt. dance Thursday night at the | Clemens, Mich., and her son were Montoe County Beach, en route to Miami to visit a ae daughter, Fay McCall, when their automobile left’ the highway nine miles south of here and plunged into 25 feet of water The Tampa boys, en route to an AAU swimming meet in Miami, saw the accident and dived in, fully clothed. They brought out young Watz and dived to extricate Mrs. Watz through a window of t of Holly-| the submerged car story iS) Neither Mrs. Watz nor her son gion wer th bleh School | could swim. She was taken to the HOLLYWOOD NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD « Wood's latest. ¢ sind Siisan Ball ra er second pic- | ve coeas nt turec-She attributes her success to | Condition ‘was Teported as “fair.’ The e identifies | Tam Playing a bad. girl ; |as Bob Hess ck White, 17; | Susan was the pride of North | ames Stir 17; Nelson Cauda- | Hollywood High until last June. | ; Bill Bartlett, 16, and Bill| After graduation, the tall, shapely 16. With them was Mrs. | brunette thought she wanted to be Packars, mother of Jack @ Vocalist and s: But-then Univer Mschvered her ang with bands. 1 - International Even though she fauhers to take my too. | Saturday, March 8, 1952] Roundup | | —Chinese Nationalist troops who | | received from Bangkok by air and, jrail, as well as locally produced | |to Chiang Mai for forwarding to| | Britain. \ing readied in Southeast Asia. [Injured Skipper ome Gi eeted ee By JACK MACBETH NEAR THE BURMESE BoRr-! IN NORTHERN THAILAND | have taken refuge in Northeastern Burma are being supplied regular- | y through an opium-for-guns smug arrangement in Thailand. is correspondent spent five} s tooking around the area ex- ing from Chiang Mai 75 miles » north and within 10 to 20 1 of the Burmese border. in most cases cannot be } d tor publication, but they | teachers, missionaries, of- | ial foreign observers, leading chants, local new en, army} senior Thai civil servants | id police officials. | This is how the barter arrange- | it works: | Chinese posing as a merchant, reported to be a Nationalist! colonel, maintains headquar- ; s in Chiang Mai as the link} ween the Chinese embassy in} Thailand’s capital, and se Nationalists in Burma. i His job to funnel supplies} ood and clothing, der. . In exchange the Chinese Nation-' alists in Burma send raw opium | across the bor-} | Bangkok and onward. The opium | is grown in, Burma’s Shan States and the Yunnan epee ca | Since 1949 -the trade has. been stimulated b pri | 10,000 ill L| jnese Nationalist were “ ss os pushed over the Bi der b; E. H. Eldredge, USN, the Chinese ~ ‘Reds. t i aka their arrival at ‘These troops have been a source jof acute anxiety to the Burmese and Thai people and the govern- ments of the United States and ROTARY TO. ELECT OFFICERS’ Date For Aunual Ladies Night Party Is Set For March 20 Election of Rotary officers will| be held next Thursday, March 13, The Russian and Chinese Com- | munist governments have accused the United States of helping supply and reinforce them with troops flown from Formosa, and have charged that an act of aggression against Communist China was be- (In Washington the State Depart- | ment reiterated today its denial that the United States is assisting Chinese Nationalist forces in Bur- pMaed, ma in anyway. it was announced Thurs at the (A department spokesman said well-attended luncheon meeting of the denials were based on investi- pe organization at St. Paul’s Par- gations of reports that American | #8h Hall. ; military personnel were seen in The date for the annual Ladies the area. He also said no American | Night party was set for March 20 reporter claimed to have seen per- with dinner and dancing on ‘the sonally Americans or American | Prosran The affair will take place equipment in the area and the in- at the Gasa Marina with dinner at formation appears to come from|® P-m. Members were asked to ar- shadowy and unspecified sources.) rive at 7:30 p.m. so that the din- ner could begin promptly. Thursday’s pregram wa formal one with Joe president of the club, introducing all the visiting Rotarians with his usual humor. Each visitor stood up for a bow. F. E. Sensembrenner of Menas- ha, Wisc., received a gift of turtle soup for having traveled the long- est distance to attend the meeting. Guy Bonney of Springfield, Illinois was also given a of the soup for faithful attendance and as run- nerup in distance Sher made the presentations. Other out-of-town members were C. Lee Martin of Canton, Ill; H. Green of Chicago, Ill; Jerry Thompson, Elmira, N. Y.; LeRoy W. Schubert, Teaneck, N. Paul Brandt, Ft. Worth, Tex.; C. B. Van Alen, Patchogue, L. 1, N. Y.; Charles Gittner, Waukesha, W Harold J. Reilly, New York E. Ludwig, Ottawa, Ill.; Charles Bledsoe, Angola, Ind.; W. E. Lutz, Warren, Pa., Stuart Caves, Cana- daigua, N. Y.; Burton Starke and Guy Weaver from St. Joseph's, Mich.; Frank Willis, South Bend, Ind.; Glem Baker, Fort Ann, N.'Y., Upper Sandusky. nh. Carbondale, Hl and Charlie Feirich of Metropolis. (#) Wirephoto | Hl. CAPT. WILLIAM R. THOMAS, (above), 58-year-old Philadel- phia skipper of the storm-bat- tered freighter Rachel Jeckson, has been directing the limping ship to port from his bed. The captain was injured when high Range Of Owl Species Extended Mrs. Frances Hames, 1230 Vo Phister street, has received th mpc mae following communication from Sees prnativen coe ships bridge. | ihe Department-of Intettac Weas4 The ship is unescorted and y: and Wildlife Service, Washing: | headed for the port of New |ton, 25, D.C, relative to the| | York. Burrowing Owl found in Key! eee eeenenneemnenesains West Text of letter foll We ar City Commission jin receipt of the Florida Burrow ing Ow! transmitted to us under AIR COMMODORES ROSS AND BENNETT, (2nd and 3rd from left), RCAF, and C AS, Key West ,| Minneapolis, Minn. traveled. Paul! ricture, had_no. acting experience, she was I think she's wonde an a put into the second lead of “Un. | Mail bag: Mrs. Peter J. Baum tamed” with Shelley Winters, Jo st Chicago, Ind, sides with the seph Cotten and Seott Brady, }Italian actress who blasted. the Then she was tossed the lead in {kissing of Hollywood's old male “The Texas Man,” with Robert | stars, Ryan and Kock Hudson battlin: “A younger man doesn't have for het attentions. How does sh F and | wecount for her rapid success “Because I played a bad girl in| show his steam Baum to huff and puff when kissing “His age alone can stir a girl close ays Mrs. ‘Untamed."” she explained. “I | to his age. The oldtimers have to couldhave gone on for years play- | work doubly hard at it, and Ph ing good Is and J never would | pet they are plenty tired guys a have heen noticed, I had the role the end of their working ¢ of a Mistress with a fiery temper. | When. a gal like that enters the roam, all atiention is directed scene. “Also, a bad xirl has more range of-emotion. She can be sweet and Wovable and she be a spitfire. That kind of a role gives you mere to essons in how to sell her. She takes command of the | tossed a party las Universal - International consistently ives the other st pictures t week-end fo: its new film St Th studio took members through the Kaiser stee Fontana, Calif... where much of the picture was filmed. Then followed chance to show what you gan do.” a dinner and premiere at Susan has nothing but praise for | Arrowh Srpings Hotel, attende. Shelley Winters, which is a~nov- | by S stars, John Lund, elty these days. “She tried to help | Ann Sheridan ard Duf me-all she could on the picture,” ; Mrs. Duff but Susan declared. “We even ;went playing th noth fouble-dating to the night clubs, | er, instead of he Ida and Shei “t tne phot Lapino. Petia cate Wig nome Praised By Group your note of January 24. We were pleased to receive this mutilated | skin since it Board of Stewards of — the apparently repre- Fleming Street Methodist Church |S¢"'s an extension of the range have highly praised the City] f0r this species in Florida. Ag- Commissioners in a letter re-| "ding to Howell there are no ceived by that body. [records of this species as jfal| Text follows; “It is my pleas-| s Key West ant duty as secretary of — the appreciate your int Board of Stewards of the Flem- iding us this ow] as ing Street Methodist Chureh of | the several previc whieh Key West to write you in com. | Proved to be mte for the pliance with a motion passed by | St@t* of Florida, and hope unanimous vote at our last regu-| that you will continue to advise lar meeting as follows: that a|\' any future material whieh letter be writen to the members of the City Commission com- mending them most heartily for their efforts toward clean gov-| ernment and better moral con ditions in Key West, and assuring | ns your way.” ANYTHING AUTCMOBIL CONCERNING ES SEE THE them of our continued support) along these lines. | T W ! | Ss The letter was signed by "13 H. Buttram, Jr, secre- Saaiee Pe. S829-18 James at ___ ALL GROCERS Official U.S, Navy Photo E. Raymend, (3rd from right), Royal Canadian Navy are greetediby (2nd from right),,CO of USNAS, Key West, Wing Cor D. ©. Galloway (left) and W. P..Pleasance, (right), RCRAF, after andér =| Photo B y Harry » Truman Yocal Quintette Due Here Visitors At | Key West | } COrc | Mr. and Mrs, H. D. | Minneapolis, Minn. | Mr. and Mrs. | Larsen, Wisic. Joseph A. Martinez, Great Neck L, Ne ¥. Dr. Ralph E. Simpson, ‘Iowa ¥ | wee Quentin H. Reed, Zeigler, Tl. | | Miss I, Maude Love, lis, Minn: William F. Ford, Methuen, Mass F-O Philip G. Clack, West Van. couver, B. C. Canada Frank Arbogast, Parsons, W. Va. Mr. and Mrs. U. V. Gallagher, Stafford, | Roy Schwerin, APPEARING MARCH 15 at Southard street at #:30 p, m., tette of York, Pa., will sing a ment in Key West’ is pce = the, Key West Youth for Christ group. Boone, | Minneapo- | ted that the average produces more today (Of work than the far- “years ago produced ‘in Male domes are fertile contingpusly trast to many wild anima have special rutting | when they are fertile. Peter Kern, Washington, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Culham, Malton, Ont., Canada Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Barker, and John, Ontario, Canada Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Bow- man, Dedham, Mass. Dr. and Mrs. Walter F. Day, pel eatur, TIL. Mrs. L. M. George, Miami, Fla. | Don | i () Wirephoto WHY SHOULDN'T RAYMOND L, BAIRD SMILE? The photo- grapher he is posing for is the Richard C. Campbell, Chicago,; President of the United States, | a Harry S.-Truman, who made | Willian Beets Hastings-| this portrait with a borrowed | | on-Hudson. . " & y 4 | q si _| press camera in the White | ‘ loca Mrs. O..J. Morris, Ber-) House rose garden in Washing- Mr. and Mrs. W. F. 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