The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 14, 1952, Page 6

Page 6 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN = Wednesday, May 14, 1952 Police Lieutenant Fired From Force As Commissioner Upholds Gross Testimony NEW YORK ® — Boss Bookie ¥- Harry Gross’ testimony of graft payments had the support today of Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan, who fired a lieutenant hours before retirement. The commissioner said he was “convinced that the testimony of Gross is not a recent fabrication” as he ousted Lt. Thomas J. Evans, @ 2i-year veteran on the force. Evans, who sought to retire at midnight Tuesday, was accused of sharing in million dollars a year bribes Gross says he paid police to protect his reputed 20 million dollars a year bookie business. Monaghan fired the 44-year old Evans Tuesday just eight hours before the retirement would have | been effective. As a result, Evans Joses a $2,575-a-year pension. Daniel Jacobson, attorney for | Evans, said he planned to ask the Appellate Division of the State Su- preme Court to review the case. * The lieutenant was the first po- ce officer found guilty on the | direct evidence of tne 36-yeav-old Gross, who last year twice refused to testify against accused police- Key Books By A. de T. Gingras (THE BAHAMAS MURDER CASE by Leslie Ford, murder mys- tery published by Charles Scrib- ner’s Sons, New York City, 188 pp.) | Murder stalks the plush world of ; Nassau where women loll on bam- bo chaise longues, and golden co- coanut palms lean over terrace pools. For six years the woman in one house refuses to know the one next door. Then suddenly the pink paint- ed fence boards are down. The wo- man on the other sid looks in with mocking and malicious triumph from between the grapefruit and orange trees that have concealed the entrance. And from that mo- man on the other side looks in with houses are as warm with evil and mystery. At the same time a pretty girl men. | comes to live in the guest house Action against Evans came on | the recommendation of James A. Delehanty, special deputy commis- sioner, who presided at the de- partmental trial of Evans and four other suspended policemen. Delehanty and Monaghan are ex- pected to rule Thursday on the other four defendants whose ap- plications for retirement would be- come effective later this month. Gross was the sole witness called by the city last week against the five. Each of the defendants denied receiving money from Gross or shielding his gambling racket. It was Gross’ word against theirs. “Both Delehanty and Monaghan, in a statement supporting the trial commissioner, said the record shows that gambling went on in the Brooklyn area where Evans was charged with its suppression. Delehanty added that he was satis- fied Gross “had police connivance in his unlawful business.’ a Governor's (‘ace Today By The Asociated Press New charges were hurled today in the race between Dan McCarty and Brailey Odham to win the | Democratic nomination for gover- nor in the May 27 primary. McCarty allenged Odham to explain why his campaign is being “masterminded” by a man once linked with a bookie wire service operator. McCarty said Bob Venn, who is handling Odham’s radio talkathons worked for radio station WMIE | at Miami when it was owned by Mickey McBride at the time Mc- Bride was operating Contnental Wire Service which distributed racing information of one of the gardens. With a back- ground of decayed gentility she comes from a current secretary’s world where her mother’s slips and stockings are ‘always tangling with hers in their small urban apartment. She thinks she is com- ing to a warm sunny world where a mocking bird thills in the salmon bougainvillea, humming birds dart into coral trumpet flowers and all is peace. But like a dank poison liquid, the past of the people in the two hou- ses moves slowly and intrepidly into her two weeks vacation. The figure of her own dead father looms out of her yesterdays. Mys- terious voices prowl the gardens when the dark comes. Into the sun- soaked world of blue skies come warnings of death and murder. Leslie Ford, with an unerring se- |lection of characters, incident and | detail lines up the forces of death. The reader curls up into a tighter and tighter ball of suspense until the last horrible chase and the last |hand to hand tussle with evil. The author is a master of this genre. (AMERICAN LITERARY CRI- TICISM - 1900-1950 by Charles I. Glicksberg, collection of essays on literary criticism, published by Hendricks House, Inc., New York City, 574 pp.) One of the most interesting of the twenty seven critical essays in this volume is the one by Lionei Trill ing entitled “Art and Neurosis.” A connection between art and mental illness has been formulated | during recent years, and Mr. Trill jing dissects this popular belief. | Bourgeois philistinism of the nine- teenth century is usually blamed |for the beginnings of this theory. Mr. Trilling admits that this is par- tially true and the Victorian era did stablish the basic virtue of “get- Odham said it month he had a high regard for Venn and knew nothing bad about him. The San-/} ford man credited Venn with originating the radio question and answer sessions which have fea tured his campaign Odham added a new point to his | program when he said if elected he will seek legislation to ban| political contributions by road con. tractors and dealers in road build- ing materials and equipment Odham campaigned for the first time in Fort Pierce, home town of McCarty. He planned stops at Vero Beach, Fort Pierce, Stuart Belle Glade and West Palm Beac McCarty showed S$ greatest strength in that area and received 63 per cent of the votes in his home coi Most of the rest went to a Fort Pierce resic eliminated in the May 6. Odham said with nected w h y day, Brailey, because M M de’s t r gy said “It t } at a8 t progressive McCarty N 3 Starke | ting up at eight, shaving close at a@ quarter-past, breakfasting at nine, going to the City at ten, com- jing home at half-past-five, and din- ing at seven.” Mr. Trilling points out, however, that not only people hostile to art jhave backed this theory, but many intensely partisan to it accept the idea that the artist is mentally ill, and go ‘on to make his illness a |condition of his power to tell the truth { Mr Trilling examines the opin- ions of Edmund Wilson and Dr. | Saul Roser and then goes on to st e preval ent ide } here ed by s © per system ere he gives some on bh self > secure some the owe other lea pee nee eile A YOUNG KEY WESTER who here Sunday to lead a week's e by the Youth for Christ. He is His Sunday subjects will be Lost.” Art the Man,” “America’s Peril denominational campaign. in one respect, in the respect of his relation to his neurosis. He is what he is by virtue of his successful objectification of his neurosis, by his shaping it and making it avail- able to others in a way which has its effect upon their own egos in struggle...” Another of the essays which de- serves special attention is the one entitled “The Function of Criti- cism” by Joseph Wood Krutch. The two outstanding character- istics of all of Mr. Krutchs writing are his briliant wit and scholarly judgment. Channeled to a great extent into literary and dramatic criticism his genius has expressed itself in some of the most penetrat- ing and careful judgments of everything from Restoration come- dy to reviews of contemporary no- vels and plays in the New York Times and the Nation. This particular essay states clearly Mr. Krutch’s position on the function of criticism. Like a wise man at a racetrack he didn’t de- | Vise a system of judging after | reading his first ten books and | plays and permit it to curdle into | set rules for the game. His mind | remains receptive and liquid to the Moment,” “Charge It to My Account,” Willard Michael will lead the song service during the inter- is a Navy veteran will return vangelistic campaign, sponsored Harold P. Wells, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel G. Wells, 427 Francis street, and now the pastor of the Springvale Baptist Church in Lugoff, S. C. Rev. Wells will speak at both the morning and evening ser- vices at the First Baptist Church, Eaton and Bahama streets, on Sunday and then conduct the Youth for Christ rallies beginning at 7:30 p. m. each night next week at that church. “Idle Gazing” and “Opportunity Those for the youth rallies will be “The True Religion,” “Thou 1,” “Life’s Most Embarrassing and “That Could Be You.” through Tolstoy’s literary baromet- er of moral usefulness; Flaubert’s of style and continual employment of the right word; Verlaine theory which calls for the “nebulous, the vague and the ambiguously evoca- tive.” Then he says “. . .criticism does for the world of art what art does for the world of phenomena. It sets up those same imaginary bounda- ries and establishes those same quasi-absolutes which literature finds itself obliged to create when it undertakes the task of providing us with a thinkable and feelable schematication of the material with which it deals. Nor is this all, for just as literature serves to suggest and direct experiments in living, so too criticism serves to suggest and direct experiments in writing. . . At the end of the essay he gives his very liquid statement of the functions of literary criticism: fact that anything might happen. This reviewer had an interesting | experience in relation to Mr. | Krutch. In one of the courses which he teaches at Columbia University | he expressed the interesting theory that tragedy in the Greek sense was impossible today because of the lack of nobility in most figures | because of the penetration of Freud and various offshoots of economic |determinism in our thinking. The result is an over emphasis on pity | |which degrades rather than eno- | bles the figure on which it broods Several years later Death of 2 Salesman came to Broadway and shot a few holes in this theory. I }personally remember walking out | of the theatre with no feeling « \bet Mr. Krutch’s critical fa are blushing. My on , | how interested he must be i thing that had happened in th that had happened in An ps tragic theatre. 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Extend rent control and au- thority to allocate scarce civilian materials through June 30, 1953. The current controls law expires June 30. The 7 to 3 vote to reorganize the Wage Board was an outgrowth of bitter criticism of the board’s handling of the steel dispute. Pro- tests have been voiced iz. Congress over the amount of pay raises the WSB recommended for the CIO Steelworkers and for its endorse- ment of a union shop in the in- dustry. The reorganization proposal, pre- sented by Sen. Dirksen (R.-Ill.), does not say how many members the board should have. Their ap- Pointment would be subject to Sen- ate confirmation. Present board appointments are not. The committee instructed its staff to draw up an amendment to specify that the Capehart Amendment to the controls law applies only to manufacturers and not to retailers. The Capehart provision says price ceilings must allow for in- creased costs from the start of the Korean War to last July 26. The proposed amendment was requested by the Office of Price Stabilization. It said ‘otherwise prices would have to be raised on a long list of foods as result of an emergency Court of Appeals ruling last week that Capehart ap- plies to retailers as well as to manufacturers, ‘Want Money To ‘Arm Germans BONN, Germany (® — West Ger- ma: is expected to ask the United | States for at least a billion dollars | aid to start arming German sol-| diers for Western defense after the Allied-German “peace contract” j and the European army treaty are | finally approved. Authoritative sources said today | that the Germans probably will need this amount of foreign aid during the-first year alone of their mete oe to continue | ‘AND STRIP ITS POWERS ibuster against the Allies proposed | armistice package unless the U.N. Command breaks off Korean truce | talks. the threat after injecting into the Island Prison Camp. treating prisoners inhumanely. He sions which Brig. Gen. Charles F. very wording which Nar II quoted was previously labeled by the U.S. military command in Washington as misleading. Colson was replaced Tuesday as Koje commandant Vice .Adm. C. Turner Joy said Nam II brought up the newest in- cident on turbulent Koje solel; “to propagandize from this tent rather than act seriously in interest of an armistice.” Nam, “that the major reason for }such obstruction tactics is your fear of open joint screening of Screening of prisoners, and whet they said during the process, is the basis of the Allied armistice pack- are deadlocked, and a motivating factor of Red POWs in kidnaping Dodd, then Koje prison command er, last Wednesday. The U. N. Command said only 70,00 of 170,000 POWs and civilian internees want to go to Red China | or North Korea after an armistice. | It won't turn anyone over to the | Communists against his wishes, it | added. The Reds insist they should get at least 132,000 back. prisoners of war, conducted under | fair and equitable circumstances.” | age, the issue over which talks | MUNSAN, Korea ‘?—Communist | accordance with negotiators threatened today to fil- | international law. | violence and bloodshed.” | treated North Korean Gen. Nam I made , ;camp has been open to inspection negotiations the kidnaping of Brig. | by the International Red Cross. All Gen. Francis T. Dodd at the Koje | violence and bloodshed was Nam Il charged the Allies were | oner: said this was proved by conces-| screening.” (There never has been Colson granted Red prisoners last | screening was ordered stopped two week to effect Dodd's release. The | | | | | | | | “It is equally apparent,” Joy told | commanders have said was (1) written under duress, (2) twice re. {written and the second time by |Pain Banished Nam Il charged the Alles were trying to delay truce talks by their “outrageous attitude.’ He said un- |less the U. N. Command “‘explicit- | \ly declares” it wants to break off | the conference the Communists will insist on daily meetings and con- tinue to refuse to accept the final | Allied package offer. He said Colson, while Koje com- mander, “openly admitted treat- | ment of war prisoners inconsistent with international law and in viola- tion of the Geneva Convention; ad- mitted forcible screening, and con- clusively testified before the whole | world to the iron-clad fact that your so-called voluntary repatria- tion is solely the result of violence and forcible screening.” | | He then quoted from the Colson | Statement which various Allied ATTENTION PLEASE | DON’T THROW AWAY | YOUR OLD JUNK | RAGS, LEAD, BRASS, COPPER Old batteries and Scrap Metal Call Mr. Feinstein Phone 160 800 VIRGINIA si ew ORS: te Avnaw the |the Red POWs themselves, (3) ra ae ae w local misleading and (4) granted the} his sa ve ; 4 plaice prisoners nothing they did not al- P for at lea ‘ ia : ane nough so. tha’ ready enjoy. rg Wg The quoted phrases, ve never even and previ- ad an operation.” ous Allied comment 1 geek de wchat the New York “Many prisoners of war have | Medical Society was told Tuesd been killed or wounded by United | by Drs. Alfred H. lason and Her- Nations forces.” (Ninety were | bert E. Sh who demonstrated killed in two riots instigated by the Communist prisoners them- | selv es.) ne prisoners ane treatment the new dr name Ef ne In some cases, the Ne doctors added, it pain for injected at or into nerve tru the site as the trade York ened “ean expect hu- in the future in the principles of T will do all with- eliminate further has dea in my power to Five Killed BARCELONA, Sp; engine coming down a (The prisoners always have been humanely, in acco international law, and with the south of here broke loose insti- | and plunged into a military column gated by a hard core of Red pris- | Kijling five soldiers and injuring ) seven others. 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