The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 26, 1952, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen Published daily (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. Pp. ARTMAN Publisher NCRMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 Member of The Asgociated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it @r not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news publishea ‘here. Member Florida Press Association and Associatec Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12.00, single copy 5c ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION PE ENCES» TS ‘The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue Rage 2 Monday, May 26, 1952 Governor's Race Today By MALCOLM B. JOHNSON MIAMI (®—Dan McCarty and Brailey Odham swapped new blows today and both said they were confident of victory as they closed their hot campaign for the governorship of Florida. Both were putting on intensive! last-day drives for votes in the populous Southeast Florida area which could well be decisive in the Democratic runoff primary Tues- day. The winner almost certainly will be the next governor, because Democrats outnumber Republicans 14 to 1 in Florida. As the campaign drew to a close, Odham told reporters at a news conference that McCarty’s cam- paign headquarters had violated the new election expense law by ordering $3,500 worth of posters IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. f AtportesLand andi Sea i a. 4. Consolidation of County and City Governments. 5. Couwmunity Auditorium L VOTE TOMORROW TO DEMONSTRATE YOUR‘GOOD CITIZENSHIP determined to do their duty ‘but for those who may not have sufficient urge to perform a duty because they think it is of no consequence, so far as results are concerned, Let us talk directly to Mr., Mrs., or Miss You who whether or not they perform it. Harping on the same subject is not for those who are don’t fully realize the great importance of the privilege accorded You to vote in an election. That privilege is out- standing in our democratic form of government. If you are lax in exercising your privilege, which is on a par with every other privilege which, in the aggregate, total millions of votes, your laxness may be caused by one of a dozen different things. But the chief reason, as a rule, boil&down #0 of two reactions: your support of a candidate is not strong énough to impel you to vote, or you may think the man you favor does not need your vote to win, or, conversely, he has not a chance to win, regard- less of whether or not you vote. That reasoning is fallacious. The easiest way to prove its fallacy is that if every other voter entertained the same attitude, no votes would be cast. It is the piling up of your and every other single vote that counts in establishing a majority. If you don’t vote tomorrow, it is easy enough to ask you a question you can’t answer satisfactorily, assuming you are not ill or an emergency does not keep you from the polls — Why did you register? In the Primary tomorrow a man will be nominated who will become your governor, beginning next January. As The Citizen remarked a few days ago, the candidates are different temperamentally, so much so it should be an easy matter for you to choose between them. If you ex- press your choice, you have performed your duty, whether you win or lose. If you don’t vote, it indicates you under- estimate the importance of your American citizenship. Even if you feel you will lose in voting for a man, still you keep your conscience clear in knowing you ex- pressed your choice. For instance, .topflight politicos | north of the Mason and Dixie line, and many politicos and | others south of the line, think Senators Kefauver or Rus-| sell has little chance — many assert no chance — of be- ing nominated for President by the Democratic party. Despite that seeming fact, thousands of Key Westers, who treasure their privilege to vote, will register their choice at the polls for one or the other of sound American citizen Do you want to promote the interests of Key West, | the interests of Monroe county? That q That is a manifestation | stion evokes a resounding “Yes.” Then you can } and coun- ty tomorrow by gc to the pol the larger vote the gre. r will r city and county among Tal Vote tomorrow your good ens Optimism is more important cash to buyers. | to business than hip. Ith printed before the first primary and delaying payment until after the election. He said an Orlando printer had refused to accept cash for the| poster job, and stands ready to verify the transaction under a, court subpoena. McCarty replied “my campaign treasurer, Mr. Wesley Fly, a cer- tified public accountant, assures me there has been no violation of the law and will not be any viola- tion, “It is strictly a last - minute effort on the part of Odham to mislead the people of Florida, He has had ample opportunity to prove it. I haye met him three timés in joint public appearances and he has failed to prove any of his charges.” Odham said he could have Mc- Carty disqualified “in any court” but he would not defeat him that! way. The state election law pro- vides for vacating the nomination or election of any candidate wi wins after a violation of the law. McCarty was making no predic- jtions about how he might fare in any coynty in the election, except to express a feeling that he will again carry every county on the Florida East Coast. Odham, who led in only seven of the counties and trailed Me- Carty by 128,000 votes in the first |primary, told his supporters the | contest is “even up to right now,” and that “we're in good shape” north of Palm Beach County. He predicted he will carry Du- val, Marion, Lake and Pinellas, where McCarty led before; in- crease his lead if Polk, Hillsbor- ough and Orange; and ‘“‘carry West Florida or hold our own — all the way from Jacksonville west.” Odham told his campaign workers he would “lower the boom’ on McCarty during a state- wide radio broadcast tonight. McCarty replied ‘that is typical ,of all the brash buildup he has | been giving his campaign. It will fall flat, just as all his other build-| up has fallen flat.” “For some time, in radio broad- casts and in statements, he prom- ised he would link me with gam- bling and the race tracks, prove I have violated the election laws, }and name some ‘Mr. Big’ in my} campaign. “But when I have confronted him face to face, in Miami, in Orlando and Jacksonville, he has admitted he has no evidence link- jing me to any gambler or race tracks. He has not produced one single piece of evidence I have violated the election laws. He has not named any Mr. Big in my| campaign, -because there never |has been and never will be any such Mr. Big. . . ” Ava Recovering HOLLYWOOD (#— Actress Ava Gardner is recovering at home | {from minor surgery she underwent | Saturday at Cedars of Lebanon | Hospital | Her physician, Dr. Leon Krohn, the operation was minor. The ac- | NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (®—You'd never guess the only actor who has ever thanked me profusely for inter- viewing him. It’s Bela Lugosi, the boogeyman, Many stars figure they’re giving you a break to allow themselves to be interviewed. Others merely put up with it as an evil necessary to their profession. Many others are nice enough about it, but none has seemed as pleased about be- ing interviewed as Lugosi, who soared to fame as the vampire, Dracula. Like his fellow horror expert, Boris Karloff, Lugosi is a ¢ourte- ous, soft-spoken fellow who takes his craft seriously. He fell into the horror line quite by accident. He was a romantic star of the Royal Theater in Hungary, play- ing the original roles in such Ferenc Molnar plays as “Liliom” and “The Guardsman.” But he came to New York in the chiller-diller, “Dracula.” When he re-created the role in films, he was destined to a career of scaring people. Since he had played everything from Shake- speare to Byron, I asked if he objected to being typed. “No, not at all,” he replied. “The main thing for an actor is to keep working. And I have man- aged to do so for a good many years. It is a kind of security, this being a horror man. I have just returned from playing ‘Drac- ula’ in England for eight months. I also made a picture over there. “I have appeared on television with Milton Berle and a dozen ather shows. Now I am filming ‘Bela Lugosi Meets the Gorilla Man,’ which is not bad publicity. I am to return to England for an- othér picture, and I am talking about a television series. So you can see I have been busy.” Far from regretting his horror tag, he is even sorry he didn’t sew up the field. He had the chance after he made his hit in “Dracula.” “They wanted me to play the part of Frankenstein’s monster,” he recalled. “‘I even did a test for | ¥, it. The makeup was terrible, with the rubber mask and putty and the padding choking my body. Then I saw the script. I didn’t have a line in the whole picture! “Didn't want to do it. I figured they could get any truck driver to put on all that stuff and grunt through the part. So I told them I wouldn't do it. At first they were angry, an dthen I told them my doctor advised against such a strenuous part, “They said they would let me out of the part if I would dig up someone to do it. So I looked aroun’ and found Boris Karloff. He did tue role, and of course it was a hit. I erested my own rankenstein monster by turning | down the part.” Lugosi stayed at Universal for several years, playing in other horror films and co-starring with Kaeoff in many of them. He said that several years ago the studios weren't making horror films so he | went to the East to live. He per- formed in plays and in vaudeville. | | Now horror seems to be blossom- ing forth in Hollywood again, and he is again a California resident. He may build a home for him self, his wife and their 14-year-old | son. I asked him if people expect him to scare them in private life. “Sometimes,” he answered. “But they are generally good-natured about it. For instance, children will come up and say to me, | ‘Hello, boogeyman.” But they are not really frightened. Children know when someone is gentle, no matter what he is made out to be.” used to give details but said/tress entered the hospital Friday | and was released Sunday _—_— SLICE OF HAM |HOLLYWOOD|PEACE. CONTRACT SIGNED U. S., Britain, France Sign Unique Pact With West Germany Making Former Enemies’ Allies BONN, Germany (#—The Allied- West German Peace Contract to ally West Germany. with the free world was ceremoniously signed here today by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the foreign minis- ters of the United States, Britain and France. As a silent crowd of several hun- dred Germans stood roped off in the rain outside the West German Parliament building, the four men {put their pens to the historic pact in the Bundesratsaal, the chamber of the upper house. About 500 spec- tators watched inside the room. The peace contract, which faces high parliamentary hurdles before ratification can make it effective, eignty in exchange for German troops in the projected European army Before the signing, Adenauer spoke briefly and France's Iobert Schuman replied for himself and the other two Allied signers— Dean Acheson of the United States and Anthony Eden of Britain. The chancellor hailed the peace contract as a work which will “help preserve the peace and free- dom of the wole world’ but ‘‘only a part of a work which will be completed tomorrow in Paris when we sign the European Defense Community Treaty.” “The completed work will se- cure peace and freedom for Ger- many,” he continued. “And here today we Germans also think of our brothers in the East (Soviet Zone). We send them our greet- ings and our deepest assurances that this work is the first step to- ward the reunification of all Ger- many in peace and freedom.’ Across the Iron Curtain Pravda, ie Moscow mouthpiece of East Germany’s Russian Communist gives West Germany near sover. | HAL | BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK \#—You probably: never heard of Joseph Kolodny. | Joe probably never heard of you | either. But, if you are the average |consumer, he knows a lot about your buying habits. { Kolodny came here from Poland , at the age of 17 unable to speak a word of English and with $7.50) in his pockets. He got a $2.50 a week job as an errand boy and} also attended two high schools | simultaneously. After breezing through college, | he took a job with a tobacco firm and six years later bought out the | place. | | Today Kolodny, now 49, is known j |as “Mr. Tobarco” in America’s | jfourth largest industry. He spends | his mornings running his own mul- |ti - million dollar concern. He spends his afternoons acting as | managing director of the National | ssociation of Tobacco Distribu- | tors, whose members gross five bilion dollars annually _ selling |some 5,000 items from snuff to! cigars and pocket combs to 1,300,- 000 retail outlets. | Joe also has organized some two million American tobacco growers | (naturally he’s president), makes 150 speeches a year, and spends |his spare time horseback riding and trying to get the government io cut down the cigarette tax. | His busy brain is crowded with odd statistics about consumers. | | “The average man,” he said, “buys 25 razor blades a year, 180 {s of chewing gum and 18 | pounds of candy. He strikes 3,280 matches. | “There is at least one smoker | jin 85 per cent of American homes today. A man smokes 7% packs |of cigarettes a week, a woman| | five / “Women smokers in New York | \use more cigarettes per capita | |than women in any other city. | They also go for cork-tipped and | king-size cigarettes more than men | and undivided Republic Of Thought: | Eight More Die | Memorial Day | WASHINGTON (®—The Defense |Isn't death to fall for Freedom |Department today identified 59 sight? more battle casualties in Korea, He's dead alone who lacks her | A new list (No. 572) reported eight light. —Thomas Campbell. | killed, 41 wounded, two missing and two injured. \Gems Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time testify ten, as a people, the cost of a free —EeE————— ae The White Uniforms WE CLEAN —John A. Logan. | Blessed are the dead which die | in the Lord from hen h: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest “ from their labours; and their works pies tboscatciz acon aamp do follow them, Revelation 14:13 ‘4 cally cleaned and mechanically The sweet and sacred sense of | processed by experienced and skill- the permanence of man’s unity | ed workmen. with his Maker can illumine our | present being with a continual pre- | POINCIANA Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave No ban of endless night exiles the | brave. —James Russell Lowell. Farewell, high-hearted friends, for God is dead If such as you can die and fare not well. —John Le Gay Brereton SLOPPY JOE’S BAR * Burlesque * Continuous Floor Shows & Dancing | Featuring The Antics Of | Palmer Cote’s And His Follies ReVue | With “RAZZ-MA-TAZZ” — | Dancing To | | Thurs. Nite Talent Nite | bdesap rs op AND Do You Sing, Dance or Entertain) Big Prizes Fun For Everyone|| Coming THE BREAKING Never An Admission or i POINT Minimum Charge |] John Garfield and Patricia Neal Air STRAND ....ion0: Last Times Today NEW MEXICO with LEW AYRES AND MARILYN MAXWELL (Western) Coming: THE GIRL IN WHITE Arthur Kennedy and June Allyson MONRGE ..c.:. Last Times Today SUBMARINE lo. } SEPIA: to the present or to the coming|, Food spoilage is caused by f generations, that we have forgot. | bacteria i sence and power of good, opening | CLEANERS a A wide the portal from death into y Life. —Mary Baker Eddy. | 218 Simonton St. Phone 1086 4 controllers, saluted the pact with| ‘Contrary to popular belief, | another blast at the fatal, anti-| More pipes are smoked in dam- | national policy of the Bonn govern- |yankee territory than below the iment of Adenauer which-is ttying Mason-Dixon Line. The South does, to transform the Germansintd ¢an-| lead in snuff. The U.S. Senate non fodder for the American im- | *€¢Ps two well-filled snuff boxes— perialists.”” : jone for Democrats, one fore Re-| Eden was the first to sign the ee 1i Git contract, followed by Schumati and! ee ara ae eka ie ree] Acheson. Last came Adenauer, the | 0. “¢ Smokes about a pack o} 16-year-old chancellor-foreign’ min- | “iarettes a day, but usually bor- ister who through eight months of "WS them. His favorite brand is negotiations nas fought to fegain| 0 P-—other peoples’. his vanquished country’s place in Europe and to align it with the | Western world. The four ministers completed the contract Sunday after long hours of negotiations to overcome Lith |hour French objections. In doing so they ignored a new | Russian demand Sunday — the |third in three months — for a | four-power conference to write a peace treaty for a united and “completely sovereign” Germany. But observers here thought the new Russian note would strength- en the hand of powerful opponents of the peace contract in Germany, rance and Britain. Before it takes effect, the West's contract must be ratified by the U. S. Congress and the Pariia- | ments of the otier three Ratification will mean bitter debate, especially 8 and long in Bonn and Paris, where there is strong opposition The contract re pation controls 1 West Ger many and gives to the Germans west of the Iron as much soverei ern Allies feel t It opens the way ves most occu i} not be pe acfiny but the project e dem vent a ar ing the proposed Eu min 1 48 million | One of Kolodny’s biggest inno. vations in the industry is “rescue | squads” of experts he dispatches to help any member distributing | firm which meets hard sledding. They analze the problem, recom- ; mend a solution. ! “Most business failures are caused by one of three things— | lack of capital ck of know-how | or family trou! he said, “Most often we find it is family trouble— personality conflicts. “Women often are the cause One of our member firms, owned | by two brothers, almost went on the rocks because the wife of one brother showed up at a family | New Year's Eve party wearing a new mink coat | “The only way we could solve | that one was to get her husband out of the firm.” | This one-time poverty-stricken migrant boy has had a Horatio rise to wealth, tat he doesn't like to be compared to a Horatio} Alger hero. | “The margin between failure and |* iccess is very narrow,’’ Kolodny aid. ‘This is a great country ybody with a little energy, tive and henesty of purpose can make money in this land. ‘But the only thing I have ever We Service Ali Males of Cars, Speciatizin CHRYSLER Bill’s Southernmost Garage ROOUCTS t, Owner Corner Angels 107 Whitehead St., WHATEVER YOUR NEEDS IN THE LINE OF Children’s TOYS COME TO THE TROPICAL TRADER 718 Duval St Phone 100 IF YOU CAN'T STOP, SMILE! 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