The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 7, 1952, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- iisher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene And Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County LP. ARTMAN Publisher NCRMAN 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 for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it pr not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news publishea here. ‘Vlomber Florida Press Asrociation and Associatec 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 Page 2 Wednesday, May 7, 1952 STALIN'S COLONIES By WILIAM L. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst A special group of women—a very special group—is going to school in Czechoslovakia. The school is at Brno. The wom- en learn domestic work and house- keeping, English, French and oth- er languages. When they get out, they get jobs. These women, say underground reports, become agents of the se- eret police. Their special assign- ments: Domestic work in the homes of foreign diplomats. The information they pick up in such ~~ is channeled back to the po- ice. This is only one of many things and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications. - IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. 2 & Airports—Land and Sea. 4 Consolidation of County and City Governments. 5. Comunity Auditorium NAVAL LOSSES OFF KOREA The Navy recently revealed that forty-one United States ships had been hit by Communist shore batteries in the last eighteen months in the Korean theater. Thirty- one of the ships were hit off Wonsan, a railroad and highway junction on the East Coast, which has been un- der constant naval bombardment. Among the warships that were hit by the Commun- ist shore batteries were the battleship Wisconsin, the de- stroyer Ozbourn and the destroyer-mine-sweeper Brink- ley Bass. Casualties have been light, the Navy said, al- though ten ships which were reported to have been sunk or damaged by mines, have suffered heavier personnel losses. The Navy reports that the big Communist shore, guns are well hidden and that they are not used when U. N. planes are over the area or when their location would expose them to counter-battery fire from destroy- “ars. The Navy also believes that these guns are radar-di- rected, since they have been known to shell vessels re- cently as far as ten miles off-shore. The Navy report is an indication that the Commun- ists are using radar-directed shore artillery, as well as anti-aircraft guns. The Air Force reported sometime ago that the main rail and highway arteries leading to the front in North Korea were being increasingly equipped with radar-directed anti-aircraft guns. Since that time flyers have reported that the roads were virtually lined with excellent anti-aircraft guns. The latest Navy report ndicates that the Communists are doing the same thing along the shores of Korea and that equipment and weap- ons are being poured into North Korea in increasing quantities. In case of doubt, don’t borrow and don’t lend. One reason why women can’t keep secrets is because they tell them to their husbands, Even a newspaper man hesitates to solve the prob- lems of the universe on the eve of the usual commence- ment oratory, The idea that the trou if everybody practiced Christian living disappears when- ever the religious expert try to agree upon the applica- s of mankind would vanish tion of religious prin SLICE OF HAM TFix 17, SARGE F 1 HAVE TO PICK UP JHE COLO WN 20 AUINUTES 1 underlying the widespread atmos- Phere of fear and distrust which pervades Czechoslovakia after four years of chaotic rule by the Communists. A European businessman recent- ly out of the country says this atmosphere has deepened greatly since he visited there a year ago. Today no Czechoslovak official, whether of a state-run business or in any other line of endeavor, can see a foreigner unless a witness is present. Everybody is suspect. The deep river of suspiction en- gulfs the party, too, in the wake of the expulsion of its General Secretary Rudolf Slansky. There are many rumors, many “reliable’ reports about the party and the government. Sifting them all, one impression is inescapable. No matter what the current al- liances and the current pressures, President Klement Gottwald is in trouble. There are many varying views of his trouble. Some say he is engaged in a bitter struggle with Premier Antonin Zapotocky, try- ing to pin on the Premier the blame for economic failures. Oth- ers—there was a report like this from Yugoslavia—say Gottwald is struggling against the Moscow wing of the party. But other sourc- es, at least as well informed as the Yugoslavs, insist Gottwald has asked Mocow to remove from power some of his present lieuten- ants, possibly including Zapotocky. HAL BOYLE SAYS| By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (P—Seven years | ago this week the guns ceased | fire in Europe, and a way of life | they never wanted ended for mil- lions of Americans. It was the way of war. The news had been expected along the front for days. The link- up of the American and Russian forces along the Elbe River had | made a German surrender only | a formality, | But when word of the final sur- render did come it raced through the battle lines like a surf of joy. Yet in the hour of victory there was a strange lack of wild ela- tion among the combat troops. They had fought too long and too hard for this moment, and they were overtired. And in most soldiers’ there was this worry: “Hitler is down, but Hirohito is still to go. Will I have to go to Japan now?’ It is no criticism of the courage of these troops to say that most of them had no enthusiasm for a long journey to the Far East and more fighting there. They felt that Europe had been their war and they had won it. They had lost many friends along the march from Normandy to the Elbe. All they wanted was to go back home and pick up the life they had left behind—to be again as they had been before. It was this feeling—the doubt as to whether they would be ticketed to the U. S. A. or Japan—that accounted for the little general jubilation over the end of the Eu- ropean war. Some soldiers wiped their eyes at the news. Some fired their car- | bines into the air—and immedi- ately got bawled out for wasting ammo. Some went absent without leave. Some dug out hidden bot- tles of French brandy and got roaring tight. Some went off and sat by themselves and thought of buddies who hadn’t made it all the hearts Exiles in the United States in- sist there is only one boss in Com- munit-ruled Czechoslovakia: Stal- in. They insist—like many in Eu- rope—that Gottwald has been told what Moscow requires from Czech- oslovak industry, and that he is not bringing performance up to the schedule. There is speculation Gottwald, recently reported ailing, may even go to Moscow for the famed “Moscow cure.” In any event, the party ig in turmoil. A short time ago in {Prague, about 100 party men, mostly district party secretaries, were arrested in connection with the Slansky affair. It is another evidence of the sickness which strikes Communist Parties in power. The same sick- ness that caused the Com- munists to arrest Viadi- mir Clementis, former foreign minister, largely because he once had connections with the West. He, like Slansky, has not yet gone on trial. It was the same sickness which caused the Communists to way. But most of the men just gath- | ered in small groups and talked it over—and there really wasn’t too | much to say. | I remember that night . . . Trac- er bullets lofting lightly up through the darkness as someone growled “There’s another trigger happy fool celebrating” . . . Cigarette butts glowing and dying like fire- flies in the lips of men stretched flat on their backs and staring up at the sky and thinking long, long thoughts of those away. Already this mighty army, its task done, was beginning to dis- integrate. The men no longer were thinking of the common goal ahead—a river to be crossed, a ridge mass to be stormed and taken. They were being pulled apart by the tugs of peace, the possibility of going back to their own private lives. Once its goal js gone, an army is gone. The breakup of the vast American fighting machine began arrest the Associated Press cor- respondent, William N. Oatis, and sentence him to prison on a charge of spying. In the distorted view of a Communist, a newspaperman performing his job is a spy. While the party struggles, the people shuffle through life in an attitude of hopelessness. Now and then there are reports of some re- sistance from miners cutting down ! jon production or factory workers | | silently opposing the speedup of | “socialist competition.” | Communist bosses rant against | absenteeism and send the worse | offenders into forced labor. But in many places the Communists are obliged to move slowly, be cause of a threat that workers | will leave their jobs en masse | The Russians, as in the other | captive nations, are taking over | everywhere. In the schools Soviet | methods have been installed. All Soviet holidays are observed and school buildings post pictures of | Stalin. Only maps printed in the U. S. S. R. may be used. | A school teacher earns about 5,000 crowns a month. To get this Job she must be screened, parti- cularly for the higher classes, on knowledge of things Commun: jand Soviet and on the candid record of telling the children con- |stantly “about Stalin.” (Wednesday: The Sovietizing of Poland) SE The White Uniforms WE CLEAN average because they are scientifi- cally cleened and mechanically Processed by experienced and skill- ed workmen. | ae POI ANERS 218 Simonton St, Phone 1086 are distinguished and above the. re POINCIANA @ | STRONG ARM BRAND COFFES Triumph Coffee | Mill | at ALL GROCERS | Bayview Park Audience Citizen Staff Photo SEGMENT OF THE HUGE CROWD WHICH ATTENDED THE POLITICAL RALLY HELD AT BAYVIEW PARK LAST MON- DAY NIGHT. Old Pistol Found SANTA ANA, Calif. —(?).—A geology student returned here from a recent visit to Death Val- ley with a cap and ball pistol, lost on the desert about 90 years ago. Douglas Thamer says the gun, which bears the date, 1851, still operates and is in almost perfect condition. Checking the pistol’s history, Thamer says it was of a type is- sued to the U.S. calvary after 1852. Further research showed | a cavalry unit had passed through | the barren Death Valley region in 1860. that night of victory seven years ago in Europe. The army came home, disband- ed, and built more homes and fam- ilies and had more children than any army in history. “What did you do in the last war, daddy?” asks a small son of one of these combat veterans. And today—seven years later—/ daddy looks at the puzzling pic- ture in Europe, scratches his head, | and wonders himself. | “Well, I whipped Hitler,” he finally ventures. “Who's Hitler?” demands his, | small son. | SLOPPY JOE'S @ FLOOR SHOWS @ DANCING Featuring: PALMER COTE Burlesque Comic & Co. 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One project consists of re-| moval of all slate surface ro}! | roof covering and the installation | of new metal shingles on five buildings. | The other calls for construction of a wood frame partition, instal- | lation of an electric lighting tem, and the relocating of exist ing steel fire escape stairs on a building at the Naval Station. | In desert areas, especially those with very little vegetation, | Twenty-four the range of temperature in a single day is usually much great- er than in wetter areas, | | reservoir | doub: Dam Enlargement Planned HEIMBACH, Germany. —(4).— Europe's largest water reservoir with a storage capacity of seven billion cubie feet is planned by West Germany. The project, still subject to final state and federal approval, aims at supplying the big textile and steel industries on the left bank of the Rhine with water and power for decades to come, At an estimated cost of 10% million dollars the Ruhr valley} will be enlarged to| its present capacity. 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