The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 26, 1952, Page 6

Page é THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, March 26, 1952 Truman Leaves Boca Chica Airport At 2:20 - - Tomorrow Afternoon For Washington, D. C. President Hopes To Be Back In “City Next Nov. By SUSAN McAVOY . «President Harry Tru- man will end his 11th| working vacation at the Little White House tomor- tow when he leaves Boca ‘Chica field at 2:30 p.m. for Washington, D. C., it ‘was learned today. The . Chief Executive told this reporter at his * Grand Jury Investigating Le May Mystery | press conference ee week that he hopes to eome-back to Key West in r. The President .had a glorious sunny Key West day with morn- ing temperature of 82, for a swim and sunbathing on Truman Beach at the Naval Station. i He will probably get in his last wim tomorrow morning before Independence, his personal flies him back to the na- tion’s capital. ..When the President returns to Washington tomorrow, he and Mrs. Truman boy ne oe first. night in louse since November, 1948. The Tru- mans have been living at Blair House, across the street on Pennsylvania avenue while the 18th century White House has been undergoing extensive re- pairs and renovations. "Saturday night the President || make his major _ political pedis at the Jefferson-Jackson $100 a plate dinner before lead- ing. Democratic party members. || Meanwhile the White House staff, and White House corres- ean are making prepara- for their departure tomor- mh Star, which brought the press down from Washingto! eave One minute after the Presi- minutes before the The National DC-6 is identical with ‘The lence, except that it is a commercial version of the--President’s executive plane, fer Asal faces will greet the President at the W: ewhich saw him off in Key N iret four hours earlier. its will be ready to leap from the DC-6 for their pictures and stories of the chief’s return to the nation’s i “were agog that their Com- |. mander-in-chief was lunching with’ ‘them. More on the outside still inthe chow line did not to know that the Chief was with them, ~The President had decided on listed the" en men’s mess on his way’ from the beach where hey his morning swim. Looking magnificently tanned he wore a navy blue sport shirt monogrammed in white, and light blue slacks. Gen. Vaughan had on a brighter, yellow pat- terned’ shirt. He had on a fishing cap. throughout lunch. ’ The menu that was obviously enjoyed by the President, con- sisted of potato soup, meat loaf, corn on the cob, lettuce and tomato salad, orange juice and cherry cobbler. As. Iwas itemizing the dishes on‘the ordinary aluminum = serv- ice tray from which the Presi- dent was eating, I pointed to the vegetable and said: ~My, President—spinach?” “No indeed”, laughed the Pres- ident, “Turnip greens, not spin- The President was enjoying the turnip greens along with the corn on the cob which he held in -his hand during some of the six© or seven minutes that we chatted. Officer in charge of the enlisted men’s mess is Lt. (jg) Robert L. Ghormiey, Jr. Generally I would have tried to-shake the President's hand. But good manners forbade ask- ing him to interrupt his lunch further. Ellis and I thanked him for his graciousness in permitting us tobarge in on his lunch. The President smiled onee more and gave his familiar wave. We rush- ed out among the gaping sailors. We called the Associated Press y Miami, the only reporters in! the world to have chatted with the President of the United plane. “Tt will arrive at ‘Washington || National airport three or four] tf} Topel, assistant Girector of publicity for National |} Airlines. q National Airlines DC-6|| m will | Canadian beauty on January 4. Citizen Staff Photo “STATE ATTORNEY J. LANCELOT LESTER, lower right, and the Monroe County Grand Jury, - ‘just before their 8:40 a, m. departure fora motorcade up the Keys to the Toms Harbor bridge, 58 miles north of Key West, to visit the scene of the ‘disappearance of Huguette Le May, 21 year old CAP Meets ’A special staff officers’ meeting of the CAP will te held Thursday, March 27 at 8 p.m, in Logun’s Ocean Patio, Simonton street and ocean. ' NAVY CHARITY (Continued From Page One) separately contributed by Navy components in the area. Amounts of $1,600.00, $1,500.00, and $1,200.00 were received by the | Boy Scouts of America; the Mon- | roe County Hospital, Women’s Aux- | iliary; and the Monroe County Council of Parents and Teachers Association respectively. One thousand dollar contribution went out to the National Catholic Community Service (USO) and the Douglass High School, Key West. Allotted to the Girl Scout Lea- ders Association, Key West was $800.00, while the Key West Youth Center, Wesley House, received $750.00. Contributions of $500.00 each were donated to: the American Heart Association; the American Cancer Society; the Monroe County Cerebral Palsy Association; the Children’s Home Society of Flori- da; the Monroe County Juvenile Council; Key West; the Monroe ‘County Welfare Fund, Home for the Aged (White;) the Monroe County Welfare Fund, Home for the Age (Colored:) and the Community Playground Fund, c-o Beta Sigma Phi Sorority. Four, three, and two hundred dol- lars were distributed to the-Police Athletic League, Key West; the Child Welfare, State Department of Putlic Welfare, District No. 9; and the Key West chapter of the National Gold Star Mothers. The Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts of — Key West, also received As of this entire proceeds from the Navy Charity Carnival, 1952, have been distributed, Captain A- dell announced. _ States while he partook of the enlisted men’s mess. | Normal | AS Post Meets At8 Tonight A regular meeting of Arthur Sai Post No. 28, American Le- gion/ig scheduled for tonight at the | Post'Home at 8 p.m. Adjutant Be- thel Johnson announced The WEATHER a Forecast Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy today through Thursday with some possibility of scattered sh@wers. Continued warm and humid. Moderate to fresh south- east to southwest winds, oc- casionally moderately strong off- shore. SMALL CRAFT WARN- ING displayed. | Florida: Mostly cloudy, occa- sional rain in north and central portions, partly cloudy with few widely scattered showers in south portion today and Thurs- day. Rather cool in north and central; portions today, slightly warmer Thursday. Continued warm in south portion. Jacksonville thru the Florida Straits and East Guif of Mexico: Moderate to fresh winds, north- east to east over north portion and southerly over south portion | today and Thursday. Cloudy with Occasional rain over north por. tion, partly cloudy with few local showers in south portion. | Report Temperatures Highest yesterday Lowest last night 86 7 82 73) Mean _ Tides Thanks to Frank Flanagan, Civilian Navy Yard worker, and his speedy le, we had a.na- tional sex Naval Base | TOMORROV Low i 10:30 am 4:06 a.m. 11:38 p.m. 5:05 p.m. « * SULLIVAN ENDS FOOTBALL CAREER LAKELAND (®—Haywood Sulli- van, star quarterback for the Uni- versity of Florida, said today he will play professional baseball this summer. This will make him_ ineligible for football at the university where he has starred for three years and was named one of three co-cap- tains for next fall’s grid team. Jim Dance, sports editor of the Lakeland Ledger, said Sullivan told newsmen he planned to sign a contract after the end of the collegiate baseball season at Flor- ida. A catcher, he said he was dick- ering with about five baseball clubs. Sullivan talked here with Charley Gehringer, general manager of the Detroit Tigers, and other club of: ficials. He said he intends to play minor league taseball then return te the university for a continuance of his studies and advanced ROTC. PHILLIPS’ TO (Continued krom Page One) for construction of a frame dwell- ing, $7,500. Pedro building Florida National Bank, breaking curb at Front and Duval streets. Plumbing permits were taken out by Mike Padron, Standard Oil Co., 500 White street; Cleveland Niles, 1903 Fogarty; Colton Park, 1039 Catherine; Caesar Catala, 1253 South; W. Hanson, 3832 Eagle. Valdez, 2521 ‘Fogarty, of a framp residehce, STRONG ARM BRAND COFFES Triumph Coffee Mill at ALL GROCERS YTHING CONCERNIDN 1OBILES Sete E TWINS 4. 1870-1 EASLEY TELLS SENATE (Continued From Page One) asked Easley whether he was “a close friend” of the President. “I've known the President for | job of channeling all news dur-| of | a long time,” he replied. He insisted he never discussed | With Mr. Truman the deal in which | he and four others leased buildings ; at Camp Crowder, Mo., and then | rented them back to the Agricul- ture Department for grain storage | Purposes at a protit. A tall, pallid man, Easley ap- peared completely relaxed as he | was subiected to intensive ques- ticning about financial figures. He said he and his five asso- ; Clates made about $89,600 in sal- aries and bonuses on the Camp Crowder venture. It was not clear, | WORLD’S GREATEST start their long road to sonnet: (Continued From Page One) | Pigpncrcakbchbiss yarns er | words I know he will call me to} those days to pn in ect {yeu are within sight of the pink and _ blue-tiled stucco palaces swimming pools of Cocoanut Grove you have come back from \task for them. | Facts are iacts, however, as {his lifelong devotion to truth has | | Proven, no matter whether you} jare in the Southernmost city of | called th the USA, Elmer Davis’ |ington, or in New — York, | Francisco, | Davis has | with compiete authority in tional and international news. San the voices of ‘Elmer become synonymous na-q Harper’ The man who headed up the ing World War II, ithe Office of War Information, began as a working newspaper. man on The New York Times, back in 1914. Ten years later to Key West, Director try full time fiction |to pay for an over priced suburb- an house. | The Davis infatuation feelings do, by accident. He came his first trip | coincided with his | decision to leave The Times and} writing, | which he had taken up originally | yoja, with | |Key West began as many such{ | that he sat down and wrote an | article that was to.make Key the fourth dimension; and pres- lently you find yourself in a Mi- West's struggle known | 214) hotel, surrounded by people throughout the literate world. (who look as if they could never “New World Symphony” he} appreciate Key West, old or new; e story ofeKey West's and you buy an evening paper favorite | ¢, | iaireace mergence from the lowest eco- 2e Ww sixth race jof all cities, or whether you are, to see who won the in the great news capital, Wash- | nomic botioin in ihe nation to| at Hialeah, and whether the Ad- its beginnings as a-center for ministration is holding the Sen- artists, writers, and winter visit- | ate in line at Washington . . - or “But when memory of coral That article in the May, 1938| sands and tropic seas has faded, is as good today as it/anq the surcharged centripetal jwas in 1935 when Davis wrote | excitement of Key West already it. The New Yorker magazine |<cems a little incredible in re- cently paid it the high tribute | trospect, one thing remains—the jof drawing liberally from it for | picture of a group of intelligent its December 15 piece on the! inen and women applying their Island City. intelligence (under whatever | Davis wrote the story out of handicaps, with however limited love for the city and its people. success) to the problems of .a S he told me yesterday, the|ommunity which could not save only money he ever made out itself—people who get not much of Key West was writing about] move than a maintenance wage, it. He did not speculate on the most of whom can hope for no ind's land, half of which personal glory from success; could have been pought for taxes | whose only incentive is a disin- back in 1934. 'terested desire to do as well as Writing about Key West, he possible a job that needs doing. earned about five percent of i intments and what he would have made had For all the disappo’ fr down »to Key Wesi only to take | the ferry to Havana whence he intended to go. however, whether that figure rep- | sented their total profits. | His share, as vice president of | he speculated on its lands. “There is no place like it in the world. I don’t think the half-successes at Key West, you cannot help finding hope for the future in that spectacle.” the Midwest Storage and Realty Co., Kansas City, Mo., was about $35,000, he said. When Kem trcught up Mr. Tru- man’s name, Sen. La.), committee chairman, ob- had in mind “some kind of polit- ical favor.” “On my word of honor,” Easley said, “there was none whatever. And I’m under oath.” Sen. Williams (R.-Del.) who made the original charges that and profits made by executives of the Midwest Storage. and Realty Co., Kansas City, Mo., amounted te $90,000. Secretary of Agriculture Bran- nan, who has been feuding with Williams for some months about grain storage, said .the profits were about $40,000. Williams said E: y and his partners leased facilities at Camp Crowder, Mo., and then rented them back to the government at a profit of at least 1,400 per cent. The company was formed in Septemter, 1949, to set up a grain storage operation at Camp Crow; der. It moved out of the camp in May of last year when the Army asked return of the build- ings. Easley from Webb City, Mc., about 20 miles from Camp Crow- der, said there were no salaries or profits until June, 1950, although the first shipment of grain moved | in October, 1949. He said he was the most active of officers cf the storage firm and collected $28,866 in salary and bo- nuses and another eight or nine thousand for insurance commis- sions. Easley told a revorter before the hearings began “I hope I never See ancther kernel of corn as long as I live.” He learned about the grain stor- age business the hard way, he said, when the floor of one of his buildings collapsed under the weight of corn that arrived by the carload. OVER 4,000 (Continued From Page One) House lawn ceremonies and in the leading cities of the nation, num- bering 900. Last night's concert ranged from classic through modern songs. Mili- tary marches were magnificently performed. Key West City Police, six of them, maintained perfect order in the huge crowd. Praise was heard on all sides for their handling of the oversized audience. Want to use a few leftover frank- furters? Slice and add to creamed dish. Ellender (D.- | served that the Missouri senator | potatoes for a lunchecn or supper |FERA administrator, Key West smote him |heart, however. Davis said: “Why should we go to Ha- | vana, when here is Key West?” Again in 1926 came the writer, {to look into the Island City as a place to work. But it was in 1928 that Davis came down to College, Pa. was expected on the on that morning of 1928. “It was a dull grey morning— unlike Key West,” said Davis as we sat yesterday in the bright | March sunshine in the Casa Ma- | rina patio. |it. When I greeted him I told jhim so. He said fine, he would take a nap until I could join him and show him my favorite town.” At noon when Davis came up lfor air from his writing labors, he met Kieffer in the lobby, feeling slightly guilty that he had left his friend all alone in the strange town. Kieffer, far from looking woe- begone, walked up to Davis greeting “him with a Grover Whalen “Make yourself at home, ; Elmer” air. He told his supposed host: “Well Elmer, I’ve just had champagne cocktails at the Flor- clubs. Better get a move on, we have a date for the cockfight at 4—” and he consulted his mental date book for the list of invita- tions he had already received. Kieffer was in. From that time on Davis and Kieffer have tried not to miss a vacation at the Casa Marina each year. Though \the war and the world have kept, them away some years, Davis is now on his 14th winter visit to the Island City. Davis’ original infatuation with Key West became grounded in the more stable elements of marriage to the city. He has shared its gloom along with its sunshine. In 1934 Davis saw the people he loved in the town he loved, stooped with depression, thin with hunger, walk to the county courthouse to get their ‘relief checks. He suffered with them. In 1935, the greatest year in Davis’ memory of Key West, he saw those same people pick themselves up under the dynam- ic leadership of Julius Stone, clean up their streets, their beaches, _ and ——— THREE HOTELS IN MIAMI Located in the Heart of the City neasowaste ROOMS sr'nesenvations with BATH and TELEPHONE Pershing Hotel Hotel Hotel 132 E Flagler St. 226 NE. Ist Ave, ° 229 NE. Ist Ave, | 102 Rooms 100 Rooms 80 j Elevator Elevator Rooms | Solarium Heated Elevator 3 BLOCKS FROM UNION BUS STATION at POPULAR PRICES | Miller ence Club, and two other private. in the! finish a novel. He checked in at | \his favorite Casa Marina andj} |dug in on his work. | His best friend — fellow | Rhodes scholar Paul Kieffer, lawyer and chairman of the resulted in the probe, said salaries | Board of Franklin and Marshall | Havana special due in at 8 a.m. | was in the midst} the Elmer Davis jof a chapter and wanted to finish } Symphony” | | ; news business of the world | will let me settle down here as I would like to. I'd like to buy one of the old Key West | houses and stay here forever,” said the striking commentator in’ his measured tones. But the call of the world and its events were audible even as we sat in the peaceful patio at jthe Casa Marina. “I don’t write any, more. No- body can write anything as in- resting as what is happening today in real life.” Radio’s gain is loss. e Deeply moved, I left the great news commentator, When I re- turned to the bustle of my own news room at The Citizen, I | turned to the last paragraphs of literature’s ‘The steady increasing demand for CLEARVIEW Gloss Louver Windows Is “New World, ‘evidence that home owners generally article written in ‘appreciate their increased Visibility, 1935, which evokes for all time Ventilation and Protection. But don't overlook our dual purpete doors! ‘With louvers closed, they serve os beautiful glass pone! doors: touvers ‘open, and they function es streen the past, present, and future of Key West. “The more the FERA succeeds in putting Key West over as a doors. Whether building or remodel tourist town, the more surely it} ing, don’t foil v0 consider : will lose some of the quality that % originally attracted tourists. You cannot’ ask people to starve for the sake of‘being quaint; but an - old devotee of Key West cannot | Gifedaouvet WINDOWS & DOORS help shuddering at the prospect that a few years from now the surviving cigar-makers may be hired by some tourist agency to sit in the Duval street cafes, be- ing quaint at so’ much a week, This whole enterprise began be- cause Julius Stone fell in love with Key West—the- old Key West, as it was; and it may prove that Oscar Wilde was right When he said that each man kills the thing he loves.” “To come back from Key West’ to Miami, especially by air, is. like returning to the earth from Mars,” the Davis article con- tinues. “In Key West you have stopped reading the newspapers because they deal with happen- ings on another planet; but once KEY WEST Venetain Blind Co. 123 DUVAL STREET Call 1042 For Esti:nates nn, Your Grocer SELLS that Good STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE and CUBAN ——TRY A POUND TODAY—— ATTENTION RETAILERS and MANUFACTURERS S. 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