The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 21, 1952, Page 2

2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Ohe Key West Cittgen (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- tisher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene And Ann Streets. ‘Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter ‘TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use tor reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news publishea here. 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 “WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE!” (Provincetown, Mass. Advocate) It may be that the day will come when the strenuous efforts of our special Provincetown water supply com- mittee in finding new sources of water for human con- sumption will seem to those of that era as having been highly unnecessary. Why, they may ask, did they go looking for water when it was the one commodity they had the most of, in an inexhaustable supply, and right at their front and back doorsteps? That day may come along much sooner than we now anticipate, judging from the rapid progress by scientists in desalting sea water. It can now be done at a cost as low as six cents a thousand gallons by the Ionics, Inc., of Cambridge. This company staged a demonstration recent- ly and more than 200 industrialists and stockholders sam- pled the desalted water and pronounced it perfectly fresh. A type of synthetic. membranes, made by Ionics, makes possible the production of fresh water from the sea at a very low cost and it is expected that the new method may be able to provide relief in important areas in New York, Texas, California and many states of the Far West now in serious need of new fresh-water sup- plies. The development may also hold out the long-range promise of opening arid lands in the United States, Aus- tralia, Israel and the rest of the Middle East to settlement and cultivation. Some many years ago Provincetown people derived welcome revenue from the sale of salt made by the separa- tion by evaporation of the fresh water in sea water. It will be interesting, when the day comes, to see them re- taining the fresh water from their sea water. And by that time scientists will probably be able to break down the sea salts into many valuable elements. That’s usually the way it goes. Each spring is the most beautiful of all. Too much flattery is like too much sugar. Both are artificial. Now that spring has arrived you can expect to feel lazier than you did last month. The old days when editors wore pistols and became targets for avengers are happily over. SLICE OF HAM USS.MISSouRI NON-COMS { i Niondey, April 21, 1982| Nosy | Army Might By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON #—Britain held veto power over American use of the atomic bomb for several years during and after World War II, but lost it with the ending of the atomic partnership of the Unit- ed States, Britain and Canada. seciets with Britain and Canada. Reruolican leaders strongly ob- deciea. This information bearing on a major phase of American atoinic policy developmert has been brought to light vith the release of “The Private Papers of Sen. Vandenberg,” a volume of per- sonal and official records from the files of the late Republican foreign affairs leader in the Senate. The 599-page spective is that of a man who first wene through a personal rev- olution from “‘isolationism” to “i ternaticnalism” and then, begin- ning abcut the time of the San Francisco U.N. Conference, played a vital role in the shaping of mary great decisions. ‘support foreign policy—Vandenberg ad- vised the Truman administration on foreign affairs repeatedly and even shared in some of its secrets at election campaign time. In 1948, a critical period for the President at home and abroad, Vandenberg and Sen. Tom Con- nally (D.-Tex.) were summoned secretly to the White House one evening to learn that President ‘Truman was greatly disturbed about the Russian blockade of Berlin and was thinking about tele- phoning directly to Premier Stalin “to see what he could do with him.” Vandenberg noted in his diary that the President appeared ‘‘anx- ious to do something” for peace and also seemed to be aware that bis election campaign (which at the time most people thought was a lost cause) “sadly needed a shot in the arm.” Tt was not until later that Van- denberg learned, from the news- papers, that Mr. Truman had con- templated sending Chief Justice Fred Vinson on a peace mission | to Moscow and had given up the idea when Gen. George C. Mar- shall, then secretary of state, op- posed it. The idea of a telephone call, which actually never came off as far as the record shows, then was judged by Vandenberg to have been a substitute for the discarded Vinson mission. The Vandenberg disclosures on atomic energy policy and propos- | 9 als were checked by this reporter with administration officials in position to know the facts and to have a viewpoint different from that of the late senator. The in- The essence of the information respecting the veto is that the late President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill entered into secret arrangements at Quebec and at Hyde Park, N. Y., in the midyears of the war for the joint development and control of atomic parently become known to Republican lead- ers in Congress, and perhaps to Democrats as well, until some time in the first part of 1947 when Vandenberg, then chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Sen. Hickenlooper (R. » Iowa) learned about them. They learned that along with providing for the sharing of facts on atomic development, the joint sharing of uranium ore from the Belgian Congo and the joint pro- motion of the atomic program, pe us poe ae that neither the U.S, nor Britain use the A-bomb ‘dhlcas both pia At the time the information be- came known to the ans the United States was in fact al- ready going it alone in this field, the partnership between America and Britain, shared also by C: ada, having practically broken up. Vandenberg and Hickenlooper were therefore shocked to learn that while Congress had been working on the assumption that the President had final decision on the use of atomic weapons the United States was technically bound to consult the British be- fore making the decision. The two Republicans brought considerable pressure on the ad- ministration to change this, the book shows, and in January, 1948, the veto agreement was finally ended in a new among the three wartime partners which had the effect of placing ultimate decision on using the A- bomb with the President. Under the 188 arrangement, Britain could obtain little informa- tion about U. S. atomic projects and undertook to develop its own | ‘weapons. In September, 1949, the Russians pulled off their first atomic explo- sicn and Vandenberg and other in- tercsted congressional authorities were told about it in advance of | public announcement. Vandenberg |senan in his diary as to its significance: “We had a meeting of the Atomic Exergy Committee in secret this morning (and a very solemn one) | regarding the Russian develop-| ment—it's far from certain pre- leisely what the Russians have | jother than man-made means of | | exploding tuclear fission with vast | | resultant radio reaction } | (a fairly short time), in our own | case, after our original experi- | mental explosion before we tried | | any actual bomb. Then it’s many j ; months before there can be real! jbomb production in minimum | | quantities. “But the Russiang have had | (many thousands of) men at work | on the job and the benefit of many top-notch German scientists whom | they vietually_Bideapped. In any | Announcements DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY. MAY 6, 1952 For State Representative BERNIE C. PAPY “For Re-Election” For State Representative J. Y. PORTER For State Attorney HELIO (MONI) GOMEZ For State Attorney J. LANCELOT LESTER For Clerk of Circuit Court EARL R. ADAMS For County Judge HILARY U. ALBURY Foe County Judge RAYMOND R. LORD (@) Wirephoto For County Tax Assessor AN M-47 MEDIUM TANK, fresh from the production line, emerges like a deep-sea monster from four-foot water hazard during a test run in Schenectady, N. Y. The Army unveiled the new weapon to newsmen and said the 48% ton monsters were being sent to troubled spots abroad. | CLAUDE A. GANDOLFO More M-47s are in the background. The Private Papers Of Late Senator Arthur Vandenberg Qualifies Official U.S. Navy Photo LT. WM, S. D'ESPANGNIER, USNR, has qualified for Carrier All Weather Squadrons by vir- tue of the, All Weather Flight course which he recently com- pleted at the Fleet All Weather Training. Unit, Atlantic, NAS, Key West. He will report to the Commander, Air Force, At- lantic Fleet, Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Virginia, for further assignmént to duty involving flying. He entered naval service in 1942 and was designated a na- val aviator in August, 1944. During World War Il, he flew in torpedo bomber missions with squadrons VC-3 and CASU-5. He was a commercial artist in Springfield, Massachusetts before entering the Navy. Lt. D’Epangnier is married to the former Miss Jane Pryor of | Greenville, Alabama. They re- sided at the Southwind Motel in Key West with their son, William S. Jr., age 1. Groendyke To Leave Key West Robert L. Groendyke, seaman, | was transferred today from the U. S. Navy Commissary Store, where he bas been serving since March 1951. Groendyke will report to Com- mander, Service Forces, Atlantic Fieet. ° His Naval career started from Grand Rapids, Michigan, in Sep- tember 1950. His mother, Alma | Cochran, still resides there. Non-Radio Areas To Be Considered WASHINGTON — Areas with- out radio stations will get first consideration trom now on in Fed- | | | | FRED J. DION For County Tax Assessor For Re-Election For County Tax Collector GEORGE G. GOMEZ For County Tax Collector HOWARD E. WILSON {For Re-Election) For Sheriff LOUIS M. J. EISNER For Sheriff JOHN M. SPOTTSWOOD For Clerk of the Criminal Court ~ C. SAM B. CURRY For Clerk of Criminal Court HARRY DONGO For County Commissioner JOE ALLEN First District For County Commissioner J. M. FERNANDEZ, JR. “JOE” First District For County Commissioner CLARENCE S. HIGGS Third District For County Commissioner Third District CHARLES W. WELLS For County Commissioner Fifth District HARRY HARRIS For County Commssioner Fifth District MILTON O. PEACOCK For Juvenile Judge EVA WARNER GIBSON For Member School Board GERALD H. ADAMS Second District For Member of School Board WM. BILLY FREEMAN Second District For Member School Board JULIO CABANAS, JR. For Re-Election Fourth District For School Board H. EARL DUNCAN Fourth District For Justice ui the Peace IRA F, ALBURY For Justice of the Peace JAMES LIGHTBOURN FORT Second District For Justice of the Pease Second District ROY HAMLIN For Re-Election For Justice of the Peace R. D. “Zew” Zetterower | BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK — Are you a SESPAG? Would you like to be a SESPAG? Oh, come on, now. Be a SESPAG. | Please. You'll really stand out from the erowd, once you're a SESPAG. What is a SESPAG? Well—don't Jaugh—a SESPAG is a member of the Society for the Extension of Sympathy .to People Afflicted with Gout. Civilization has needed an or- ganization of this kind for a long time. Every other disease in the medical textbooks has its true blue friends today—from halitosis tc hernia, from acidosis to acute al- coholism. But gout? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha, ha, ha, ha! Nobody takes gout seriously today except those who suffer from it. Madness and meas- les are respectavie. But gout? “Oh no, not really—gout? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!” It is high time we had a national Gout Week so the buddies of this ailment can band together and get more public understanding. I feel this way beeause I have just spent five days flat on my back with a throbbing foot propped on a pillow. When I returned to work, lean- ing with quiet Grama on a new $5 cane, I naturally expected to | be rewarded with a little milk of human. kindness. When an office pal asked what was wrong with my foot, I mumbled bravely: “Oh, nothing much. The doctor calls it rheumatoid arthritis.” “That’s just a fancy word for | gout,” he said. “So you got the gout, eh? Ha, ha, ha. Boy, you must have been doing some high living. Ha, Ha, ha.” So the office became a den of laugh- ing’ hyenas—‘‘Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha! He's got the gout. Wish I could afford it.” Well, there you are. Tell some- body you got the gout, and right away he jumps to the conclusion | you've been swimming in port wine and pork roasts. That is the trouble. People don’t understand there are two kinds of gout—rich man’s gout and poor man’s gout. Rich man’s gout is the old-fashioned kind, caused by | Iuxurious living and enjoyed (1 should use such a word!) by ®Brit- WANTED RAGS, LEAD, BRASS, COPPER Old Batteries and Scrap Metal Call Mr. Feinstein Phone 826-W 800 VIRGINIA | passed the word along, and Jish lords and 19th Century Amer& can industrial ‘tycoons. This Kind of gout is dyin out. Poor man’s gout is best described by the Encyclopedia Britannica as follows: “Gout may also affect persons who otserve the strictest temper- ance in living, and whose only excesses are in the direction of over-work, either physical or in- tellectual.”” Naturally, you understand. that | what I had was the poor man’s | gout. Gout also hits plumbers and | painters, as a result of lead poison- ing. What puzzles me is why it struck me. Too much temperance? Over- | work? Or could it have been the | aftermath of chewing too many lead pencils in grammar school? Gout strikes chiefly in the big | toe, the heel and instep, or the ; thumb. I'm a heel and instep man myself. Personally, I have never met a thumb -gout sufferer. It's Probably a tough occupational problem with hitchhikers. Many people don’t realize how gout feels. It feels as if an invisi- ble madman were trying to stuff a* white hot anvil into your foot. You have an urgent desire to bite to death anybody that comes with- in three yards of you. If anybody in the same room even breathes heavily, you can feel it. A fly landing on your foot is like a kth thrust. Never laugh at a man with the | Sout, podner, unless you want te | make a lifelong enemy. But pat ‘him on the back—gently, gently— jand tell him you understand, He | won't believe you, but he'll re | member, and if ever you have te borrow money—well, you won't | have to go to any bank to get it. | | Your Grocer SELLS that Good STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE | and CUBAN -—TRY A POUND TODAY—— Last Times Today TEMBO with HOWARD HILL AND WED ANIMALS (in Technicolor) Coming: THIS WOMAN 1S DANGEROUS Dennia M. ee and Joss AIR COOLED Last Times Today My Forbidden Past ROBERT MITOHUM Coming: FORBIDDEN JUNGLE Forest Taylor and Dan Harvey ROUND TRIPS DAILY! CALL 1780 == or ua your travel ogent TICKET OFFICES Meacham Alrpor®, Attention TO ALL CANDIDATES Sample Ballots eral Communication Commission | (FCC) processing of station ap | plications | The FCC said it was departing | OVER = Te cacu 2c EACH NOW AVAILABLE At The ARTMAN PRESS CITIZEN BLDG. jquiries showed that the informa- | Tacetbad nda tale seagreghuanag HEA Waers a: oo | | officia to i ‘ from here |Tcaton and therefore may béTtax-| 22d what do we do about tt" | Murphy WASHINGT from its old system of considering | all applications together because | some applications from areas with- | out radio stations have been pend- | ing a long time. j Approved | cc "scmet Syaittens “er| UNDER cd Por Constable JOE A. JOHNSON Second District There was some speculation that there might be repercussi sin from the disc } tele hi 2 - use of the A-bomb. However, it D. Murphy to be the | jwas pointed out that the British tates’ first postwar am-/in c i have long since accustomed them- | bassador to Japan ap jselves to basic changes in Angio-/| to | American relationships which have diver cam be! b occurred in this field since the re t ‘war, D. M. ANDREWS a} tb ‘ body. HE REACTIVATED AN OVERAGE-DESTROYER / ~