The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 15, 1952, Page 2

Page 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, March 15, 1952 Se Che Kes Beat Citizen ee Soo “Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub-| ‘eaisher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene And Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County o ‘IOP. ARTMAN Editor “NCRMAN D. ARTMAN __..______________ Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter reais TELEPHONES §1 and 1935 Se ee ee ee . «Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively ‘ _ vemtitled to use for reproduction of allsnews dispatches eredited to it © not otherwise eredited in this paper, and also. the local news _ published here. Member Florida Press Astociation and Associated Dailies of Florida : | Subscription (by carrier) 25 per week, year $12.00, single copy 5c : ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and-invites discussion of public issue and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish ymous communications. si TO KEEP NAM ‘ORE qualify for the May primaries, a few aspirants, assured -of no opposition, are breat! ‘down to the fight for vote: The Citizen is stating what every candidate knows i i "°°" true, and is not blowing its ownn horn when it declares : man in a race to strive |<... that it is to. the advantage of ' > to keep his name before the persons in Monroe county read The Citizen. Bp: ~ »him, because abuse, in or out of politics, has never created’ any fellow feeling for a man who has done the abusing. iss he poorest sort of candidate is he, who fails to stress his »vadwn qualifications for office and depends on backstab- hing his opponent to win, pe wae governor. ‘ stepped-up and will coutinue to gather force for the first : primary on May 6. : § ‘The best way to eliminate opponents in most debates ; is to let them do the talking; sooner or later, they will hang themselves with the rope you give them. ; _ SLICE OF HAM BOYLE i By HAL BOYLE sNEW. YORK (®—Every cace in g.while something comes out of Hollywood that looks and acts nat- This is the case with Aldo Ray. “le is a 25-year-old former Navy “frogman.” The film people are ‘ot quite sure whether in Aldo they have another Gary Cooper or just aiidther brief-twinkling male star- ay isn’t too worried either way. He likes acting and the prospect of a dife spent in. fretting about income tax in the higher brack- . On the other hand, ‘ot destroy his belief in himself | had to return to his old job as’ecastable in his home town— Crotkett, Calif. 1 I have a lot of said. “It won't brea rt Wo go back to the people I know. y is a blond 6. - ind, easy-going guy with a re- er that films well and sky voice that people ike. the foo as wie got into th ‘ by aeciden brothers saw @ “illing for football if’ “Saturday’s Hero.” dyowed'his brother's ‘car, Hollywood and ‘got a jo’. ¥s no actor,” the exec- agteed after seeing she pic- . Then’ they gave him a couple bit roles in two other pictures ‘and weren't so sure. Ray acted sc: natural he confused them. They gambled on him by assign- ing bim in a co-starring role with Judy Holliday in “The Marrying Kind,” and gave him the sees set in forthcoming “‘From Here to : he He is now about the hottest prospect in the industry, but his career still awaits the ver- dict of. fandam. ‘His bosses sent him here to go through the hoopla customary in building up a new film figure— interviews, personal appearances, endorsements of dog foods and so. forth. Threagh it all he has kept his balance extremely well, and ‘hasn’t had to call for a larger hat } a consta' ie, and iends there,” he |° pos ” Now that the-deadline ‘is passed for candidates to r easily, while other candi- eB “@ates, now they are sure of what the line-up is, will buckle amie as much as possible. The best way to attain that end is through The Citizen, whose circulation now tops 4,500. Figuring, as advertis- | ing experts do, four readers to each paper, almost 20,000 ...°° But in this eampaign, as has been the case in all other campaigns since The Citizen has been under its ne PPesent ownership, no advertisement will be accepted that reflects on the character of any candidate. That rule L not only keeps The Citizen fair and square but also helps ns the candidates. Any candidate, who knows human nature, f is aware that attacking the other fellow makes votes for | “But they've kept me so busy, I atch’ mysélf shaking my own hand in revolving doors,” he remarked, grinning. “One iiecnain he sneaked a little ‘time out from his pre-arranged } the to do something he him-| dropped inte a, store’ and bought a copy « Elizabeth Browning's from the Portuguese,” a volume e“I’ve always wanted to read be said. “I never got to finish jege, but I don’t see why ¥ should keep me from going o Ray is a normal, healthy-minded ‘guy and dislikes: studio putlicity | tofcre of what should not be kept tub-thumping about his wartime | secret. Services An expert swimmer, he was one of the Navy frogmen cleat-the beaches at Okin- wa of underwater obstacles be-|the practical effect of these reg- the infantry landed, When’ a S$ agent brought this up,.Alde ‘oye, it was real rugged — there ‘Waah't’ a+ shot fired. while I was | but I don’t. believe I ever want ‘the water. The Japs had alreatly |{¢ live in New York any more. I like the outdoors too much. I’m ‘anxious to getckack home. M. ‘tb fees ‘are about 16 poor; ‘and rh to miss that. I wai tfor it every year.” 2 The Citizen knows of hundreds of instances that cor- roborate this fact, but will cite only one of them. Dave -*=*Sholtz, when he ran for governor of Florida in 1982, made hundreds of speeches throughout the state, but not a sin- ..gle time did he mention the name of an opponent. If you heard him speak and knew nothing about the campaign, | you would have thought he was the only candidate for .. Conversely, in the second primary, John W. Martin, who led in the first primary, began in Bayview park in Key West to abuse Sholtz and kept up the abuse in every ens peech from here to Pensacola. The result was*that Mar- ~*~ tindéefeated himself, Sholtz, despite Martin's 62,000 lead in thé first primary, came out on top, in the second prim- ‘ , ,000 votes. Le dg Bday ei result of the outcome ,of the Demo- | na ' _ckatie wind Republican primaries in. New Hampshire, the ~~ {politica por Ts sizzlhg ‘over, arid Wentlyy berause ‘of the fy “passing of the qualifying deadline; the campaign has been Ned “hhc from ‘that beach.” ist biggest victory in Holl: War Inia flat“refusal.to. change his #Pheywanited:.ta call’ me ‘The net result is that he is now known as Aldo Ray on the scree! and all his old friends call him by a new nickname—‘Harrison."’ NEW YORK (®—Once upon a time a little girl named Edythe Marrener lived on a_ street ’| Brooklyn where no tree grew. ‘The pavements were her play- ground. One day when she was 7 years old she darted into the street after a floating paper parachute. A ear struck her. She spent the in bed, wore next six months erutches for another year. “It wasn’t so bad,’ she remem- bers. “I got a lot of presents.” Later she went to a Broollyn high school. A chum from those days recalls Edythe as ‘a quiet, friendly girl — but kind of on the , Edythe came back: for a to her old home streets ‘this week, and there wasn’t the least thing mousey about her. She looked eves soe name the eye ion -haired Brooklyn girl has down coins in appreciati 31 films in Hcilywood. Her latest = por is “With a Song in My Heart,” | meanie would throw down heated the life story of Singer Jane Fro-| pennies,” she said, “and when we! not exciting to interview. 4. don't -have-any boy | times 1 5 Fight News Censorship eerie V. M. NEWTON, JR. (left), managing editor of the Tampa, Fla., Tribune and James S. Pope (right), executive ex (®) Wirephot Louisville, Ky., Courier Journal and Times, are among the newspapermen leading the fight activities of public officials. Of | Information | By JAMES DEVLIN t NEW YORK (®—Five months | have elapsed now since Pesident Truman issued his controversial order authorizing all non-defense as well as defense agencies to la- bel information as secret, in vary- ring degrees. Hew is it working out in actual practice? The Washington Post surveyed the situation in each of 86 non- defense agencies and found that few utilize their new authority. It found that those which have, used it “do not know how many documents have been buried from public scrutiny ty the imposition of classified labels.” Mr. Truman’s order, issued Sept. 21, 1951, touched cif anew the per- ennial press campaign for freedom | But they against news blackouts on the ulations will be to make m rather than less, information ay able to the people.” ‘The President defined the order | as intended to protect information from ‘potential enemies.” | But the Ameri¢an:, Society of } exander F. Jones, executive editor of the Herald-Journal and Herald- American of Syracuse, N. Y., pro tested that the net effect would be American public is entitled. sued his direetive, reporters learned that the Office of Price Stabilization, in an action unrelat- ed to the President’s order, had information that “might cause em- barrassment to the OPS.” The President himself demanded that the OPS withdraw that one. The editors, in a letter to Jo- that. genuine security informatic. should be withheld | Announcements | to suppress news to which the | Two days after ine President is- | instructed its staff to withhold any | seph Short, the President’s press ! secretary, said they understood | asked what guarartee there was that those carrying out of information. That means infor- mation for the people, not just | freedom for.the press. | ‘The Post found that ‘many agen- | cies exhibit a sharp awareness c: the public’s right to. information.” But- others, including some that | hardly: would be considered teft: ters of secret actviity, were reluc- tant éven to tell how they applied 35 & = ig d to disclose any- applica’ of ‘the > irtments or ‘release of news beeause ¢learer idea than here- This was the view taken by Pres- ident Truman. “It is my hope,” he said, “that we live on a small place in San Fernando Valley. i “I had a happy childhood here, She talked about her.pigtail days in Flatbush. .“The thing I remember most is ars,” she said. “There was the “There was pitch penny season, steal the ice from the ice wagon son, bottle top season, when ev- erybody collected and traded bot- tle tops. “Oh, and there was baseball card season, when we collected the pictures of baseball Players, and chase the paper parachute season, and kite flying season. My father— he worked in a subway statica— loved to build all kinds of kites. | Once we had four kites up at the same time.” But Miss Hayward’s favorite was selling old newspapers to the junk- man season. ee “You slipped as many flat rocks as you could in between the layers of papers to make them weigh more,” she laughed. “And ifn rozk slipped out, the junkman got mad and chased you out yard.” Another golden event Thanksgiving singing season. The children dressed in old clothes and sang beneath tenement windows. The grownups were supposed to “Eyery once in a while some old the order would confine it to that | They’ declared: “We strongly oppose an execu- ive order which formally desig. security without defigition of what breaches national security, and without appeal or review.” gerous instrument of news sup- pression” and called on Mr. Tru- man to rescind it. jat a news conference on Oct. 4. He said a Yale University survey, made for the Central Intelligence | Agency, indicated that 95 per cent of the government’s secrets had been disclosed b:; {slick magazines.”” That was what he wahted to stop, he said. Secretary of Cummerce Sawyer in a Philadelphia speech Oct. 9 attributed some protests to ‘‘emo- tional outbursts about censorship.”’ tion was getting out. Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalistic fraternity, said the or- der ‘duplicates in the name of national security the practices of totalitarian states which, as among jfpete first \step§,\ seized control of jthe channels of cc-mmunication and information to the people which they iater enslaved.’ Short retorted that this was a \“detestatle slander” and that ; “even a cub reporter would know that we didn’t tell time by calens | petter.” Short said last month the White cae fy ae ben porare tt! | Hease had received only two com- mies.” | plaints of withheld news and that |both involved suppressian cases | that oecurred before the order was | issued. Season, singing on the stoop sea-| ‘phe White House took a step toward meeting one complaint— | that there was no appeals tribunal |that would hear protests concern- | ing agencies which suppressed non- | security news. | A‘subcommittee of the Interde- | partmental Commitete on Internal Security (ICIS), the agency which + drafted the original order, was set | up to keep tabs on potential abuses ‘and to hear appeals. | J. Russell Wiggins of the Wash- ington Post, chairman of the AP | Managing Editc’s’ Committee on | Freedom of the Press, said he did inot believe the subcommittee, {headed ty Edward R. Trapnell of | | the: Atomic Energy Commission, | would ‘answer the objections. | He noted that the Trapnell com of his | mittee was made up of agencies particularly concerned with secur- was | ity—the Defense, State, Justice anc | Treasury Departments—and said jan independent reviewing agency |should be set up. | Interesting Notes Fan to pick them up they'd burn | good to eat. had lunch with Miss Hayward. | our fingers. Ab she searched for oysters in a| Miss Hayward looked pensive. It is believed that the first “These are games my kids will| Christmas trees were used in she said. “They play| America about 1840. sehool games, they swim and dive. that is better. But some-| Three towns in Berkshire, same fun I a — t Middle Wall nd Nether . E i le Wa ; e OC! — twins — and Brooklyn.” growing up in lop, Mi ‘allop a SLL GROCERS are named. Upper. Wal Wallop. nates each head of a government | ageficy an authority to clasify in- | formation as injurious to national | The Associated Press Managing | Editors Association, meeti gnin | ———_ -—————_-———_ _|San Francisco last Sept. 29, de- | seribed the directive as a “dan- Mr. Truman defended his order newspapers and | He said too much military informa- Tree-ripened bananas are not Today’s Birthday , i GEORGE, BRENT. born March: i804, in Dublin. Motion pic- e actor since rent sta: in small parts in the Abbey Theater. He was dispatch carrier in the Irish Civil War. In World War II he vas a civilian instructor with the U. S, Army Air Corps. latest picture . “FBI Giri” n ‘Man_ Bait.” Brent formerly was a husband of Ruth Chatterton and of Ann Sheridan. His Political DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY, MAY 6, 1952 For State Representative BERNIE C. PAPY “For Re-Election”: J. Y. PORTER For State Attorney HELIO (MONI) GOMEZ ‘or State Attorney ‘ J. LANCELOT LESTER. ~ ———— {° ees eae | Newspaper. Editors, headed Ly Al- | _..For County Judge. HILARY U. ALBURY For County Judge er RAYMOND R. LO For x County Tax Assesscr : ty Tax Assessor. CLAUDE A. GANDOLEO “For County Tax Collectot GEORGE G. GOMEZ For, County Tax C = HOWARD E. WITSON ss {For Re- ‘or Sheriff LOUIS M. J. EISNER — Fur Sheriff | JOHN M. SPOTTSWOOD For Clerk of the Criminal Court Cc, SAM B. CURRY For Clerk of Criminal “Court HARRY DONGO For County Commissioner | J. M. FERNANDEZ, JR. First District For County Commissioner CLARENCE S. HIGGS Third District he silent filta}, . By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (®—The Fede-al Re- | sérve, the Treasury and the Co: gress are in a hot debate ov money. Monetary policies are com don’t get the idea this set-to sheuds remote: from your life. mittee is looking into the Federal Reserve bank: ‘country’s money, credit, and g \ernment debt — are such question: directly touching your life as these i it’s your money. So Se An ides cetto is {of the Public Affairs Committee of “eing fought up in the financial e issue a congressional com- : y whether | using a copper plumbing systera should | have been reduced slightly, but, gn be independent of the U. S. Treas- a ury, or be made more amenable | self-certify more carbon steel than to executive backseat driving. But | inyolved in that fight — which en- ‘Strunk Says Building Picture Much Brighier | | The threat of a further sharp cut- back in home building and other | light construction in Key West. and Monroe County has disappeared as a result of decisicas just announced in Washington, according to.E. A. ruak, Jr., local lumt er and byild. ing materials dealer and member the National Retail Lumber Deal- ers Associaton. ‘Allotments of copper for hemes |the other hand, contractors can permitted in recent months for ores, schocis, farm structures, compasses the entire setup of this land other non-residential ‘build- gs,"’ Mr. Sirunk said. Structural steel and aluminum still cannot be used for home build- ‘Will prices and the cost of living | ins. except where the metals. come | start up again because of the meth- | in manufactured building products — | ods ot flatecing the upcoming big ‘for which the government makes Treasury deficit? Or can inflation | special allotments. ‘be held down by Federal Reserve | 2 manipulation of money and credit Should interest rates go higher 2 | builders ‘, the quantities of non- steel and ecpper which n acquire through the “Howev ructural ‘This would be a boon to savers, | self-ceriification plan are sufficient | who have been getting it in the | to permit the construction of quali- be neck, years, tut a pain to bor- | ty homes containing as many as fuse gd who have been profiting |three bedrooms and two complete |tathrooms if the scarce metals im a vy. y is the ques-| are used oniy where necessary. tion: Should taxes gc higher to hold| “Lumber and cxher non-controll- ‘oun the ideficit? Should the in-|ed materials are in ample supply ; sates on the federal debt be | for use in any type of building. daly agora hae say this) ~‘‘Nationally, it is expectedthat would kill chances of taxes coming | #8 many as 900,000 new homes down : ; many plans. For County Commissioner Third District CHARLES W. WELLS For County Commissioner Fifth District HARRY HARRIS Fifth District | MILTON O. PEACOCK For Member School Board GERALD H. ADAMS Second District Second District eR one 8 chanteur ana For Member of School Board WM. BILLY FREEMAN as a vote-getter. accord (or uneasy truce)’ for year now. For Member School Board JULIO CABANAS, JR. Fourth District For. School Board H. EARL DUNCAN * Fourth District For Justice ui the Peace IRA F, ALBURY First District For Re-Election For Constable HARRY LEE BAKER First District . For Constable HARRY H. JOHNSON First District “ For Juvenile Judge CHARLES G. PAPY For Constable JOSE ESPINOSA “SMOKY JOE” For Re-Election For Justice of the Peace JAMES LIGHTBOURN FORT Second District For Justice of the Pesce Second District ROY HAMLIN For Re-Election STRONG ARM BRAND COFF! EVA WARNER GIBSON voleanic islands. “ Priday and Saturday THE INVITATION MeG (Comedy Drama) Coming: MUNITY Mark Stevens nad Anuela ‘amsbuey Friday and Saturday On Moon-:ight Bay with DORIS DAY A > GORDON Me! (19 Teehalealor) Coming: FORCE OF ARMS William Holden ana Nancy Olnon But .if the party in power can |attend the Remedial run the Federal Reserve system, | breakfast in Miami at through a closer tiein to Congress | of the FEA Convention the’. or to the executive, bankers say a | of April. She also suggested. free economic system would be en- | a Reading Group dangered. Cheap money — infla- | formed for teachers and tion — could be turned on at will | Your saving bonds also are in- volved in the det ate. The Treasury is being urged to make them more | !anc Farm Camp near C! attractive — some suggest higher | ville, Virginia told the interest rates; some would restore | teachers about her summer the tax exemption such interest | nd the remedial | reading ¥ once had. The Treasury badly | gram there. The reading wants to sell more bonds to you. | gram is under the guidance All of these issues — inflation, | Dr. Ullin Leavell, head of cheap money, taxes, interest on McDuffey Readin; linie. at” the federal debt, credit curbs, sav- | University of Virginia. She’ ings bonds — are being constantly | enthusiastic discussed by officials of the Feder- accomplished in an eight al Reserve and the U. S. Treasury. | period and — the Often they disagree, but these | changes in the children's agencies have teen in a publicized | alities through the results of ——___,___ The Azores consist of nine Conditioned VAN JOHNSON AND noRnoTHY TIRE seepeeriantestilt veetimne cs MONRGE ..:\.. soon, “because the cost of | will be built this year, or about-75 ing the mounting federal debt | to 80 percent as many as in 1951, drain the Treasury still more Locally, the percentage should gun likeep the need for taxes great. |!n about the same p % ‘At issue, too, is the Federal Re-| “‘The more liberal allowance o Serve’s power to tighten or ease | Steel for commercial construction credit, curbs. If tightened, bankers | Will make it possible to undertake the threat of future inflation |Somewhat larger buildings “than —meaning even higher cost of liv- | could be started in the last six ing and even cheaper dollars — | ™onths.” would be less. If eased, storekeep- | _ CTS GERSeT: ers, auto dealers, home builders ‘ = ‘say they cc.ild do more business i eachers Hear with small-income people wanting : ‘to buy on time. And businessmen ‘Mrs Shepherd wanting to expand their plants, | 4 Re earry inventories, or engage in| Miss Irene Russell, Monroe normal business pursuits requiring | County Reading Supervisor, call- edit would find life easier, since | i cheap money favors those in de't. | Annex for Backers of the Federal Reserve's | teachers last Tnesdav — and ake independence say the banking sys- tem must be kept free of politics. | nesday to discuss tne \If it is, some in Ccagress hold, | jthe system’ will be in a position | of word analysis. it was agreed to throw stumbling bloeks in any government economic planning bankers don’t like — by easing or | tightening the supply of money |The banking system could ball up ed a meeting at the High School Intermediate Grade for Primary Grade teachers Weds ment of reading skills by means to teach some. phonics for it! j creasing vocabulary, but not to overemphasize it to hinder com- prehension or speed. _ es s Russell recommended that any teacher who” desired who are particularly in! the Reading Improv gram. 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