The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 1, 1952, Page 8

Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, April 1, 1952 Barkley’s Friends Expect Him To Enter Race; Age Issue Discounted Charter Member Citizen Staff Photo MRS. HARRY ESCHEN in whose home the first meeting of Grace Lutheran Chureh was. held 10 years ago. Mr. and Mrs, Eschen were then living at 110 White street. % Say: Forecast Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy and continued mild today thru Wednesday. Gentle to mod- erate easterly winds, fresh at times offshore, ~ Florida: Mostly cloudy with scattered showerg over north portion and partly cloudy over south portion today and Wednes- day. Continued mild. Jacksonville Thru the Florida Straits: Moderate, occasionally fresh, southeasterly winds over north..portion and east to south- east over south portion today. Wednesday, moderate occasion- ally fresh southeast to south winds. Partly cloudy weather. Scattered showers over extreme north portion. East Guif of Mexico: Moderate eccasionally fresh southeast to south winds today and Wednes- day. Partly cloudy weather ex- cept cloudy and occasional show- ers extreme north portion. Tides Sake © ©4493 a.m. 8:07 am. 3{07 p.m, 11:10 a.m. 00 » ADRITIONAL TIDE DATA “Reference Station: Key West ‘ Low (—}--Minus sign: ‘to be sul (+)--Plus sign: Corrections w be added. i i i gE i i f f Z} F 8 ° EEE z li i & & SE +4 lu the B | i : i i i it # = ! j : ‘3 8 ie i g F E gifs 2 ld ih it ' = E 1 i z ! it fa ( z & : 5 Na fre floor Monday. , The Kentuckian said Barkley had “electrified the audience’’ with his speech at Saturday night’s Demo- cratic dinner, at which President . nati wise leadership, Underwood said, Kentucky offers the seasoned Bark- ley. Off the floor, Underwood said the decision to announce for the presidency was up to Barkley and added: denarii tt Gillette’ told a reporter Barkley’s the | ( “is his liability, if it is one, among | He | thy, > Vigor MBS : RY is my personal choice,” Gillette added. Edna Carey inted Mrs. Edna Carey, President, V- FW Auxiliary Unit No. 6021, has been appointed Chairman for the ‘11952 Cancer Crusade among the nego citizens of the community, Mrs. Dorothy Daniels, Campaign Chairman, announced today. ‘The 1952 drive officially begins om April ist and will continue. dur- ng the entrie month. Mrs. Carey announced aloday a motion picture, “Breast * Self-E: amination,’ produced by the Ame- rican Cancer Society and the Na-/| tional Cancer Institute, will be | showh at the Am. Legion-VFW | Home, 711 Whitehead Street, on Wednesday, April 2nd, at 8. p.m. Chairman Carey urges all negro | adult females to attend this show- ing of this educational film. Dr. Daulton, County Health Offi- cer, will be present at the showing | and will answer questions pretain- ing to the film . Witnesses Expected To Testify Today On Authenticity Of St. Augustine’s JACKSONVILLE about the age of several St Augustine landmarks was expected to start today in former State Sen. Walter B. Fraser's $750,000 libel suit against the Saturday Evening Post. Fraser says he was libelled in a -Mareh 5, 1949, Post article whieh doubted the authenticity of some af the oldest American city’s land- marks and tourist attractions of which Fraser is curator. The article, by Leigh White, said St. Augustine's Historical Society “denies the authenticity of the Old- est Wooden Schoolhouse.” which Fraser owns, and that “Fraser's talent is such that he can make anything, however new, look oid.’ White the article “the way he does it. he told me with ming candor is te blacken his cement with mud; and paint coquina building blocks with mud. A typical result is an old grist mill with a rustic smithy alongside, which he now calls the Inter-American Center Ten years ago there was nothing there but a vacant Fraser af Youtt said it Fraser his new lot wns the st Org #*&—Testimony & ——-——— Landmarks City Hall Auction West real estate in the smallest tax For Tax Certificates Voters March — To Polls In Neb., Wise. 88 Nominating Votes Riding On Outcome By The Associated Press g like 1,300,000 voters were trooping to the polls today in Nebraska and Wisconsin, with 48 Republican and 40 Democratic | presidential nominating votes rid-| ing on the outcome. “Despite forecasts of showers in Wisconsin, olwervers looked for a record one million votes, Interest, spurred by a hot 3-way Republican | trace and President Truman's bow- | out on the Demoeratic side, was | at fever pitch. { Clear, crisp Nebraska weather | was expected to draw perhaps | 300,000 voters to a big, unwieldy ballot. Write-in drives by Republi- | cans and a Kerr-Kefauver duel | among Democrats were the fea-4 tures, plus nominations for gov- | ernor, two senatros and four rep- resentatives. Contending for Wisconsin’s 30} GOP presidential nominating deie- | gates are Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, Gov. Earl Warren of California and fermer Gov. Harold Stassen | of Minnesota. Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee seemed a shoo-in for the 28 Democratic delegates—two pro-Truman slates opposing him were left stranded when the Presi- dent withdrew. Passion Play |To Be Staged LAKE WALES ® — This Polk |} County citrus belt town expects to, | ha¥e-another tourist attraction to the Bok Singing Tower next winter. It is the Passion Play which Josef Meier has made famous at | Bipek “Hills, S. D. Tirectors of a fund-raising cam- 'paign said they now have $55,000 $5,000 fore than needed to insure | Mefer’s staging his religious spec- tacle here | Construction of an amphitheater seating 3,000 is scheduled to begin jin May |Bob Garrison r . ‘On Vacation City Patrolman R. E. Garrison } 507 Whitehead St. starts a well learned 23 day vacation today. He states that he and his family are looking forward to visiting their old home in Washington D.C and points enroute as they motor northward and the Spanish Governor's Man- | sion, built in 1680 . Fraser claims the Saturday Evening Post article insinuated by tone and context that he is de frauding the public. Attorney Ches. ter Bedell, presenting Fraser's case to the jury, said the article accused Fraser of “doctoring his- tory.” ‘ Bedell also read a deposition by Post Editer Ben Hibbs in which | . Cop Retires TAMPA .» — A veteran Tampa | poli¢eman who has turned in his uniform thinks it is high time. for, more. uniformed policemen to pound pavements. Cc. 0. Davis, Tampa’s “No. 2” guess I'm just an old-fashioned beat man at beart. I think the city’s police protection would be jinereased 100 per cent if we had {mere men on the streets walking neighborhood patrols.” He claims to know 8,000 Tampa Negroes by name from the 9% years he svent patrolling the Negro section here. His parting word to 20 years service was “I'd do it all over again if I had a chance 33, whe wore badge, said “I Hibbs said he suspected Fraser} would be annoyed by the article | but that Hibbs was not concerned hecause it was essentially accurate | and told the truth about St. Augus- center aie dwith a contested campaign " for. write-in support. Dnly’ the names of Stassen Mary she is a ‘statin’ 4or Geh. Douglas MacArthar, are on the GOP tallot. Monday, Taft! backérs. touched off a row by tappealing to Mac- Arthur followers to cast write-ins for Taft, saying both men ‘‘are on the same ‘team.’ This brought a hot denial from Mrs. Kenny. Ei- senhower backers called it ‘‘a sign of weakness.”’ 2 Among Nebraska. Democrats, Sen. Robert Kerr of Oklahoma sought to start a bandwagon roll- ing with a victory over Kefauver. Kerr became a full, fledged. eandi- date when Mr. Truman stepped aside. ‘The big splash of the President's decision not to accept renomina- Kenny, :wio says | By STAN CARTER SEOUL, Korea ( — A slowdown in rotation’ went into effect today S.. Army soldiers It won't affect national guards- men. They must be discharged by August. wi Under the new system men in the front line can expect to go home after 10 or 11 months. Men in artillery tattalions and or 14 months. Those at rear headquarters of an infantry division, or in Seoul , Will be kept in Kerea “about 18 well done.” ’ the U. S. Eighth system has. built combat-tested vet- . S. “for our national Citizen Staff Photo in $1400/ataahisimorning's tax sale of Key ai eka Tot ae ohn tte i SASHA SS 5 e- He Yeclined yen ‘were } # e fete} to: commit - himself, eipmising to § ‘eo re’ his vin iter. Sens. G Hoey of} North Ci he would announce thi: a strongly worded recommendation in a Senate flcor speech. Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, reportedly Mr. Truman's favrite, went home from Washington amid a hubhub over his corny ap son insists he is running only for the Illinois governorship but has declined to say he would. reject , presidential nomination. A’ Steveneon-for-President .Club was formed by a group of Demo- cratic leaders Monday in St. Louis, but it. deferred formal: endorse- ment .The meeting was called; by Missouri National: Committeeman John J, Nangle. dn Chicago,'.a national head- quarters to promote Stevenson for President was .opened by Walter Johnson, Chicago University pro- fessor, and George Overton, Chica- tion was still rippling throughout } go lawy.er the Democratic Party. In Washington it started a boom for Vice President Alben Barkley. Gov. Dennis Roberts of. Rhode |Island announced :.in Providence he personally favors Stevenson. uTURE FEATURES TODAY STARRING MERC-O-MATIC DRIVE New Furerunner set squep” Hood * te “Space-planned” Lnteriors 125-hp High compressan V-8 te Suspension mounted Brake Pedal interceptor” Instrument Panel te 3-Way Transmission Choce— Mesc-0-Matsc*, Touch-0-Matec Overdrive*, or Sulent-ease Standard * * Transmssion. “Opdonal at extra cost 1119 WHITE ST, His Is ADDRESSED “months of Korean fighting, Fleet aid, “The strength of 11 divisions has approximately a and dispatched t the United cal to the United "| States. “In setting a modern military precedent, our rotation system has functioned in time of combat with- out impeding normal operations. The rotation machinery has moved sold. ., Roberts: is {American manpower in and. out of Korea whether the Eighth Army was in attack or braced in de- aod Eighth Army will continue to send about 20,000 soldiers home monthly under the new system. Many of these will be national hotly | Underwood of Kentucky gave him pe narag ed tape ne | California) and 45th (Oklahoma) | Divisons, ; | Eighth Army spokesmen said the new system was put into effect to make up for the loss of the guardsmen and because of the dif- ficulty of getting replacements. By STAN CARTER SEOUL, Korea uw — U. S. Sabre pilots today shot down 10 Commu- nist MIG-15: fighter planes, byron: to folks who love to stretch out. For this is news of the new “Space-planned” with Mercury—with room to spare from handsome “Inter- ceptor” panel-alf the way to huge rear window. It’s headroom, hiproom, leg room—it’s deep, deep comfort bility puts a picture pression horsepower. strut and bolt. What car on the American of wide divan-like seats. It's a lot more too. The visi- window to shame. Add “Fore- runner” styling that’s turning heads everywhere. Add prize-winning V-8 engine stepped up to 125 high-com- Add Future Features in every have you got? The newest new Road—the 1952 Mercury that's challenging all comers for 1952 and the years ahead! Headed Celebration | Citizen Staff Photo | THE REVEREND CARL SAM- METINGER was the inspiration for a celebration observing the 10th anniversary of the first meeting of the Lutheran Church | in ‘this area. an ambush. It raised his total for | the Korean fighting to 5% MIGs. | Five kills make an ace. H Tweaty-six Sabres ambushed 16 MIGs in the action about noon just south of the Yalu River, Manchu- rian-Korean boundary. ““The MIGs never saw us,” said Gabreski, a leading ace of World War II. “We had a perfect ‘bounce’ and we dived right down their tail pipes.”” Maj. William H. Wescott, Terre } Haute, Ind., and Capt. Iven C. Kincheloe, Cassopolis, Mich., each shot down two Red jets in the ambush. A total of 319 MIGs and at least two of the new, seldom-seen ‘‘Type 15” Russian-built jets were in- volved in the eight battles. The Allies had a little more than half that number in the air. Some of the fights lasted as long as 30 minutes, The action reached near- ly seven miles up in at least one battle. U.S. losses in the battles, if any, will be announced in a weekly summary. | destroyed 37 MIGs, probably de- stroyed eight and damaged 55 in March. It said four U. S. jets were shot down in air fights in the month. Thirty other Allied planes were lost in March to Communist ground fire, mechanical failures or un- known causes. - The Reds probed Allied lines in seven places Monday. and. early Tuesday. There were also a few Scattered patrol clashes. ; Allied warships pounded both coasts of North’ Korea Monday. Fifth Air force. said its pianes }. Big Pine Key Sale Of $10,000 Lot Luther Pinder has sold 60 acres on Big Pine Key for $10,000 to Edna and Nick Ofstad of Minne- sota and Mary J. McKnight of 1405 Newton street, Key West. The deed of sale was filed in the Office of County Clerk Earl | Adams today. The Biq Pine acreage consists of Lot three on the west side of the Overseas highway. Pinder is trustee for the heirs of Whitmore Pinder. $1400 TAX SALE (Continued From Page One) ahead of the old hands. The Miami bidders were the most active of thos@ present. The smail number of parcels de- dinquent on the 1951 tax-roll, how- ever, meant that there was little activity on City Hall steps, com- pared to former’ years when there were many delinquent real estate tax payers. Your Grocer SELLS that Good STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE and CUBAN -——TRY A POUND TODAY—— For vitamin? S \ sae PLEN IN \ GARDNER'S — PHARMACY — The Rexall Store M4 TRUMAN AVENDE: | Corner Varela Street Carrier-based Naval and Marine planes attacked Communist rail toad networks and supply in- stondard equipment, occensores, ond Wim diustrated ore mbyect to change wohowt notice. Wve ude wall hres, when avaiable, opticnal of esta cout. New (052 CURY The ost Challenging New Car of Our Tine MONRGE MOTORS, Inc.