The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 5, 1952, Page 7

‘Try To _ WASHINGTON ® — The govern- ‘mént means to make it easier for ‘its tax collectors to convict gam- ‘blers who*evade -paying the $50-a- year occupational tax Congress imposed on them last fall. To do it, the Internal Revenue Bureau started steps today to re- quire numbers operators, book- makers and other bet-takers to pay the tax,before they start operating. Now, they’re required only to has convicted al i 7f i i iff FREE; 3 Fe as } Be? i Fe ai = 3 ee & 28 fe 5 2 i i : = E z i zt ag E u 8 Ma Fae 8 23 £8 i i ates wien ming from race riot- in the. all-white icials were tried before a Federal. Court jury on charges of violating or conspiring to violate the federal civil rights statute. The indictments were returned in con- nection with the rioting which oc- curred when a Negro attempted to move his family into a 20-apart- ment building in-the community of 70,000. ‘Three days of rioting, with erowds of 5,000 milling around the apartment building, ended on July 12 when five companies of national guardsmen were sent to the scene. Nearly a score of persons were hurt and more than 100 there were arrested during the disturb- ances. The Negro’s apartment was set afire and some of his furniture destroyed. ” | the me On Gamblers Who [DENOUNCE | Will Not Dissolve Assembly Evade Federal Tax | \Laurel Urged To For President By FRANK L. WHITE MANILA—Jose P. Laurel, prob- ably the most controversial ‘poli- tical figure in the Philippines, is being urged by friends to campaign for the presidency again in 1953. He made an unsuccessful bid in 1949, as head of the opposition Nacionalista Party, but asserted he was beaten by fraudulent votes. Last Fall, Laurel was elected Senate -by the largest ma- ever given a candidate for the island republic. his 61st birthday recently he said his future plans de} on : Powerful Support Among those Laurel to try ‘again for it is Senate President Quintin Paredes of the dominant Party. Paredes was elected head of the senate when a Nacionalista senator, Verano, crossed party to break a 12-12 deadlock which had prevented organiza- of the senate for 35 days. storm of controversy swirled around Laurel since the U.S. liberated the from the Japanese in 1945. Laurel had remained L behind—as chief justice of the supreme court Ss a late commonwealth Manuel Quezon and Vice President Sergio Osmena fled from Corregidor with General MacArthur in 1942. Laurel said Quezon had- asked! him to stay ‘‘and do what you can for the Filipino people.” During the occupation, the invaders set up ‘a puppet government and placed Laurel at its head. In-the meantime Quezon died in the United States. Trip To Japan After MacArthur's age ch turned to the gt Sg ur went to Japan. He was. charged with trea: after Japan’s sur- render and brought back to Manila. However, in F , 1048 congressional approval of am- nesty for more than 1,000 Fili- pinos freed him of the charges. A month later he announced his candidacy for president. Laurel's friends insist that his charge of being counted out in 1949 pI ential race is justified by the recount of votes in the contest of ex-justice Claro M. Recto in the senate race of that year. The electoral tribune a recount running on the ticket, received 250,000 more votes than were credited to him. Vote Dispute | Laurel's friends say he received as many votes as did Recto and jthat the 500,000-vote margin given Quidino over Laurel and an independent candidate, Jose | Avelino, would be wiped out by | @ recount. However, Philippine law makes no provision for a contest lof the official vote for president land vice president. | Laurel is represented as be- }lieving that the collaboration issue, which Quirino raised | agaMst him*in 1949, has died out reported) showed Recto, also! Nacionalista ; “Police Chief Erwin Konovsky | completely. He and his adherents was convicted on two counts, vio- | Point out that Quirino’s cabinet Ysting the federal rights statute | and advisory staff contain ae and conspiracy. He faces a possible | Who participated in the Japantse | puppet government. ALLIES COMMIES By GEORGE A. MCARTHUR Rhee Assures Truman He marched into the compound shortly before Boatner issued a statement acknowledging that rations have jbeen withheld from three coin pounds on separate days. There have been reports ‘that food rations were reduced to e PUSAN, Korea @ — President {Nations representatives in Korea | force discipline among unruly pris Syngman Rhee today told Presi- dent Truman the South Korean and the Assembly. 3. Arrest of 12 assemblymen, one on a murder charge, and 11 for MUNSAN, Korea — U. N. | Political situation had been exa8-| questioning in connection with re- truce negotiators today accused the Communists of insisting that of Allied-held war pris- ners be chained or handcuffed and shipped back to the Reds like cattle. Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison told the Communists their demand for forced repatrition of all Allied held prisoners “falls on deaf ears. U. N. wMfl not forribly and violently drive to your side anyone who resists returning to you.” He reiterated that the U. N. Screening program showed that 100,000 prisoners would rather die than return to Communism. The chief U.'N. negotiator’s ad- dress came after North Korean Gen. Nam Il charged that recent outbreaks of violence on Koje Is- land have proved the Allied prin- ciple of voluntary repatriation “ut- terly bankrupt.” Nam declared the U. N. plan violates’ the Geneva Convention and added: “Our proposal which assures that all prisoners will return hme and lead a peaceful life is in com- plete accord with the Geneva Con- vention.” “Ts it your desire that the United Nations Command force these peo- ple, against their will and at the! point of a bayonet, to return to you?’ Harrison asked. “Are you insisting that our side handcuff, chair, or otherwise bind these people and ship them to you like cattle? Are you suggesting that their human rights be dis- regarded, that the United Nations Command force them to jeopardize their lives? Is this the humani- tarianism you speak of in these negotiations? § “If this is what you mean by your strident demands for uncon- ditional repatriation of all, then say so, unmistakably and clearly so that the entire world will hear the barbarous and niedieval price you are attempting to exact for an armistice.” Methodists Gain ' 17,775 In Year LAKELAND (® — Membership gains of 17,775 in the past year have created the need of,a mylti- million dollar church building pro- gram, Florida Methodists ‘were told at their 108th annual confer- ence here Wednesday. Nine superintendents said the idistrict gains’ in round numbers jwere: Gainesyille -1,400; Miami’ 3,250; Tampa 3,400; Sarasota 800; West Palm Beach 1,100; Jackson- ville 2,700; Lakeland 1,700; Orlan- do 2,250, and Tallahassee 1,200. Dr. Don A. Cooke was re-elected superintendent of the Miami Dis- trict and M. E. Myer, Lakeland, was re-elected conference statisti- ‘cian for the next four years. Mrs. Walter Beckman, Miami, President of the Women’s Socie- ty of Christian Service, said in her } annual report that there are now |885 societies with 25,582 members | active in Florida. Yemen, a country in the south-| ern part of the Arabian penin- sula, is about the size of Nebraska | ae has four'times as many pec- ple. | erated and that he would dissolve the National Assembly only as a last resort, a reliabe source said. Mr. Truman had written Rhee that he was “shocked” at the turn of political eyents in this provision- al South Korean capital. He cau- tioned Rhee not to take any “ir- revocable steps,”” such as dissoly- ing the Assem! Britain and similar messages to the a rean political leader. The’ source said Rhee told Mr. Prime the situation here was not as serious as the U. S. chief ex- ecutive thought: The head of the embassy, U.S. Ambassador John J. Muccio, reached Tokyo today en route back te Pusan from a shortened vacation in the U. 8S. Australia also it sent He told newsmen he believed ; opposing factions in rean government “wi and straighten this thing out.” These recent developments, in a flareup of the long feud involving Rhee and his suppo on one hand and a majority of assembly- men, have aroused the concern of South Korea’s allies: 1. Rhee’s declaration of martial law in three southern provinces, including Pusan. 2. His refusal to lift army rule even though requested by Uiited ¢ South Ko- get together | Poried Communist tribes. 4. A collapse of the Assembly | for lack of a quorum. 5. Reports that Rhee was plan- Ring to dissolve the Assembly. Rhee has demanded direct popu- lar election of the President and a 2-house legislature. The one- house Assembly now elects the! President. An election is due soon. | Troops Break Up Large | Red Compounds KOJE ISLAND, Korea (® — Tank j led Allied infantrymen and engi- | neers split one of Koje Island’s, ‘big prisoner compounds in half with a tough barbed wire fence today as 3,340 jeering Communist | civilian internees stood by chant- ing Red hymns. There was np | violence. Erection of the fence within Com- ‘pound 607 was ordered by Brig. Gen. Haydon Boatner, the Koje commander, as the first step in| splitting 17 big compounds : into smaller camps for the island’s 80,- | 000 POWs. The heavily. armed troops! joners. Boatner said this was not the case. j “At no time have we withheld rations as a wespon to obtain obedience to amy order, nor have we threatened to do so,” the gener al said. “We were taking offensive action against them because of their de. fiance and illegal actions,” Boat ner said. “In view of this and) knowing they had stocks of food hoarded it would have been mani festly absurd for us to provide them with more food ...” Boatner emphasized that the Geneva Convention: provides for withholding rations under certain conditions. Observers said some semblance | of order seems to be emerging from the near-chaos which existed when Boatner took over. Wednes- day the general personally directed three raids into prison compounds to destroy flags and insulting ban- ners raised by the Reds. Eventually Boatner plans to split the 80,000 inmates into groups of {500 or less. More trouble is ex | pected when troops start moving prisoners from the big compounds where Boatner says they have been hoarding food, gasoline, oil and weapons. Hendrikus A. Eykholt, 28-year-old veteran of the Dutch underground | from 1943 until the liberation of the Netherlands, was recently sworn in | as a memter of the 202nd medical | battalion of the Florida National | Guard. VICTORY | CASH MARKET | (028 Truman Ave We Deliver SMALL WESTERN Beef Chops + 79c MAR-GOLD QLEO FIRST CUT ae Pork LONG GRAIN RICE 2 29 DRESSED Tel. 108u & DRAWN 2Zic|FRYERS » 49% Cho | s°39c! Hearts Delight—Peach or Pear i) Nectar 2 om Ble ARMOUR'’S EVAPORATED maximum sentence of two years in prison’ and a $2,000 fine. ‘The two pédlicemen, Sgt. Roland Brami and Frank A. Lange, were convicted of Violating the statute and face ‘a possible maximum punishment of one year in prison and $1,000 fine each Village Attorney Nicholas Berkos faces a similar punishment on his conviction of conspiracy. He was acquitted ov an indictment charg ing violation of the statute. The defendants had been accused of depriving Harvey E. Clark Jr. 29-year-old Negro bus driver, of his civil rights by feiling to keep crowds from interfering with bis efforts to move into the apartment he had rented Bryant Elected Chairman Delegation OCALA @ — C. Farris Bryant, Ocala attorney, Wednesday was elected chairman of the Florida delegation to the Democratic Na tional Convention and of delegates pledged to Georgia's Sen. Richard Russell Only Russell delegates attended the election caucus, arranged by Russel! headquarters here. They were invited bet none of the showed up. All i9 of the Russell delegates were pre: senied by alternates nt or repre ‘Mer. Job Offered | MIAMI &—Brig. Gen. Edward Arthur Evans, 58-year-old soldier. engineer, is expected to accept the position of city manager of Miami today The City Commission voted unan j imously Wednesday to offer the | $25,000 a year job to Evans and/ the latter sald he would telephone | his decision to mayor Chelsie J | Senerchia today. There appeared little doubt that he will accept. / He will succeed City Manager J. W. Watson Jr. who plans to retire. | Besides Bryant, speaker-desig nate of the 1353 Florida House ef Representatives, Russell delegates elected Mrs. Marjerie D. Smith, Sixth Congressional District dele gate from Fort Lauderdale, as their vice chairman and Mrs. C. 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