The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 12, 1952, Page 2

‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, June 12, 1952 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 LP. ARTMAN ‘Publisher NCRMAN D. ARTMAN Business 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 of not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news publishea here. Pave? a Bubscription (by carrier) 25 per week, year $12.00, single copy 5c ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Deane rec rccc e _cempmrrntSaiGtty-SENGaNGRS Nae Peay eT ST a The Citizen is ‘an open forum and invites discussion of public issue end subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications. same a Ess TION FLORIDA ass : MANY KEY-WESTERS THINK TRUMAN WILL BE OUT THERE PITCHING AGAIN Probably the wish is fathering the thought when a good many Key Westers assert that Truman will be re- nominated for the presidency at the Democraatic national convention to be held in Chicago next month. During the campaign, preceding the first primary on May 6, one Key Wester was heard to say he was not going to vote either for Kefauver or Russell in the popularity contest because he thought his vote would be wasted. Asked to explain, he added that the Democrats would turn to Truman again because he was the only outstanding man in his party. The fact that he had said he would not run again was of no consequence to the Key Wester. Now comes Senator George Smathers, in an Associ- ated Press interview, giving his reasons for believing that Truman will be the Democratic party’s standard | 017; | bearer in this year’s presidential race. Smathers’ chief reason was that Truman was smarting under_ the U. S. Supreme Court’s decision that he had no power under the * constitution and had not been given power by congress ' to seize the steel plants. Nobody knows whom the Democrats will nominate, and naming a probable candidate now is merely express- ing an opinion,.but we do know Truman has declared he will be “out there” campaigning for the Democratic ticket this year, much in the same way as he campaigned four years ago, and nobody can say definitely he won't be campaigning for himself. It is not surprising that many Key Westers are also interested in the fight for the Republican nomination. Even though The Citizen, in its daily political column on Tuesday, gave Taft’s total number of delegates as 462 and Eisenhower's as 390, many Key Westers still think that Eisenhower will be nominated. It is hard how they can justify that conclusion in the face of the further fact that Taft’s supporters control every ccommit- tee that will function at the GOP convention. One commit- tee named General MacArthur as the Republicans’ key- to determine! Today’s Business Mirrex By RICHARD FISKE (For Sam Dawson) NEW YORK (#—Dwindling ex- Ports to far corners of the world mean fewer jobs in the cotton mills of New England and the South. Exports in American cotton cloth have been hoiding up fairly well. But the competition is getting keener. International markets are All around the world cotton tex- | tiles are being overproduced. One textile man says it’s getting to the point where there just aren’t enough people to buy the output of so many modern mills. Some of the smaller underde- veloped countries have established textile industries, many of them uneconomic. They chose textiles, with the help of American foreign-aid-funds, because traditionally it is an in- dustry that supplies lots of jobs. There is a scarcity of dollars in many of the once - lucrative mar- kets for American cloth. Exchange restrictions and impoft quotas are cropping up again in textile - im- porting countries. American cotton manufacturers, many of whom believe the darkest | days of their domestic recession are over, now see these interna- tional complication as their great- est worry. Translating exports into terms of jobs leaves this picture. The American cotton textile in- dustry provides about 500,000 jobs when operating at capacity. Textile men say a normal break- down to support this capacity op- eration would be sale of 90 per cent of the production in this coun- try and 10 per cent abroad. This 10 per cent that is exported, they added, accounts for about 50,- 000 of the total jobs. Right now, the cotton textile in- dustry is employing about 391,000 workers and is exporting about 8 per cent of its output. The world overproduction that is worrying American manufacturers has become critical for other na- tions as well. It has caused cur- tailment and unemployment in England, India, Japdn, France and ium. Charles C. Hertwig, president of Bibb Manufacturing Co. at Macon, Ga., said recently this overproduc- tion that extends from Osaka to the Carolinas, threatens the home market of American manufactur- | ers as well as the export markets. | F. Sadler Love, secretary-treas- urer of the American Cotton Man- ufacturers Institute, spoke recent- ly of the danger of deluging the American market with foreign goods made by poorly paid labor. But, he added, that solution of | the protiem isn’t as easy as just | saying “protective tariff.” | “We know,” he said, “that if Communism is to be stopped in| the East both countries (Japan and India) must be free, self - support- ing democracies. We know that | America cannot continue to pour tax money into the Orient. “But we feel that Japanese and | Indian textile mills can and should | {sell to Orient markets which are | |historically theirs.” The textile industry's Committee | on Foriegn Trade decided recently to join delegates from Great Brit- | noter, despite the solid opposition of Eisenhower's SUP- | ain, Japan, india and some West | porters, These attitudes among Key Westers take us back to European countries at the Interna- Non-Profit TV Station Sought TAMPA (®—School leaders in this area are considering estab- | lishing a non-profit oeeaeal television station. After meeting this week they decided to place the project before their school boards and citizens’ Dr. I. Keith Tyler of Ohio State H University advised them to get started soon, because channels set aside by the Federal Communica- tions Commission for educational purposes may be transferred to commercial applicants if educa- tors don’t move to use them within a year. Dr. Tyler is a member of the Joint Committee on Educational Television, which represents seven major education associations. “A valuable thing has been dumped in your laps,” he said. “Take advantage of it for the gen- eral education of the several com- munities in the area.” He recommended a station cost- ing $250,000 but said one costing as little as $100,000 could be used. Present at the meeting were representatives of the Sarasota, Pinellas and Hillsborough County school systems, the University of Florida, Florida Southern College and Florida Christian College. The possibility of bringing the Manatee, Polk and Pasco County schools into the project also was discussed. * Gone With The Wind ATLANTA.—(#).—Only a few of the many thousands of pages that made up the manuscript for the record-breaking novel “Gone With the Wind” remain in ex- istence. Stephens Mitchell, broth- er of the author, Margaret Mit- chell, disclosed recently that after Miss Mitchell's death her hus- band, John R. Marsh, burned most of the manuscript in ac- cordance with her wishes. The few remaining pages were stored in a vault to be used in the event of any legal questions arising as to the authenticity of authorship. The original manu- script had been sought by many libraries but Miss Mitchell didn’t want to leave any personal be- longings in existence after her death. Mitchell said this feeling of his sister's about personal possessions even applied to the family home on Peachtree Street, now occqu- pied by himself. She had request- ed that it never pass outside the family so after Mitchell moves in the near future it is to be torn down. Marsh’s death this year left Stephens Mitchell as his sister's heir. Plan Opposed MOBILE, Ala. ‘#—The Mobile County Board of Revenue was on record today as opposing a plan to reroute U. S. Highway 31 from Montgomery direct to Panama City, Fla., instead of to Mobile. The board adopted a motion by Chairman A. B. Jeffries opposing any change in the present route. | Their action will be related to the State Highway Department at Montgomery. A group meeting last week in Birmingham said it favored the change in order to provide a direct | HAL BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (#— Millions of American husbands are going forth now to ply the nation’s streams | | with rod and reel. And guess who’s going along, too? Mama. | The lady fisherman is a rising | figure in the world’s oldest sport. | Just why is beyond me. I have | become reconciled to the fact that | baseball no longer could get by without the financial benefit of lady rooters. Lady wrestlers I can understand, as they get paid for their hair-pulling mayhem. But the why and the wherefore | of the énormous increase in the | number of lady anglers escape me | altogether. “Women are highly practical creatures, and if there is anything more impr@etical thin | dangling a line in a stream and | waiting around for a fish to bite on it, please name it. I can’t. Men know that fishing is an il- logical business, of course, and jthat is why it has appealed to! them for centuries. They enjoy ro- mantic nonsense, and always have. The more senseless a thing is the greater appeal it has for many men. Fishing is a perfect escape from jto an evening among the plaster | ‘HOLLYWOOD NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (#®— One of the most famous and storied night clubs in the world is celebrating | its 30th anniversary, and the citi- ens of Hollywood and Los Angeles are waxing sentimental about it. Thirty years ago, the cperators of the Cocoanut Grove put a panty on the first lamb chop, and served up the first glass of ginger ale (that was during prohibition, you know). The Grove, now one of the of lamb chops and thousands of glasses of ginger ale, and stronger | beverages. It has also witnessed a seg- ment of Hollywood history and watched the growing up of a city. ' Many a Holiywood star got the first toost to fame at the Grove, and many an Angeleno (including myself) treated high school dates palms. | It started as a bare ballroom in the Ambassador Hotel back in 1922. Someone got the idea of dec- orating the place with four potted palms. The idea grew until the place became a grove of imitation cocoanut trees with toy monkeys among the leaves. Moorish archi- | tecture was added to complete the iHusion. . reality for them, a chance to day- dream under a summer sun, away | from the cares of husbandhood and | parenthood.- And a fishing party | made up of the right kind of fel- | lows never even bothers to drop | a hook into the water at all. They: get out the jug and the cards and settle down happily to the real purpose of the trip. This, of course, is perfect fish- ing. Everybody has a swell time, including the fish, who pick up a few sandwich crumbs. Nobody gets hurt. | Who really wants to catch a fish anyway? You have to take it home, | clean it — a messy job — and | stow it in the refrigerator, where. it smells up the rest of the food. If you hook a record size fish, the taxidermist charges you $42.50 to stuff it. You hang it on the wall then, where it catches dust until the day it falls off and conks one of your children on the head. The entrance of women into fish- ing has changed it from an in- dividual manly sport into a family industry. Papa may not care a hang whether he catches what is called a piscatorial prize, but ma- ma does. She didn’t go all that distance for nothing. She wants to bring something home. | She goes about the task as grim- | jly as if her husband was a bache- jlor again, hidden beneath the sur- jface and trying to evade her lure. “That is why 1 believe more and more wives like to go fishing,” fone veteran told me. ‘Every time they haul up a wet, dripping fish it gives them the Same thrill they got when they first snared their man. It’s eerie, I tell you.” This same old rascal has a the- ory also why women often turn out to be better anglers than their husbands. “A woman drops in her line and | the fish swims up, looks at it and sneers,” he said. “Then he looks up through the water and sees Staring down at him some frile- haired monster overflowing a pair, of blue jeans. She is wearing dark | goggles and her nose is covered with lumps of sunburn cream “The fish breaks out laughing. {tional Textile Conference at Bux-|link between the Great Lakes re-| ‘Ho, ho, ho.’ This is something jton, England, in September. | the war. . Art Hickman’s band opened the Grove. Since then nearly every sweet band and every top night club act has played the room. The accent is on sweet music, and Ben- ny Goodman is the only swingster to appear there. Guy Lombardo holds the money fecord, and Fred- die Martin is the long-run king. He was there for 3 % years-during The fame of the Cocoanut Grove soon spread. There was a 1938 pic- ture with tha’ title, starring Fred MacMurray and Harriet Hilliard. Many another city has hada co- oldest of U. S. dine and dance | ners. Attention became furor when spots, has since served thousands | the enthusiastic Martha’s neckline | | event. It happened while the jand 500 persons were killed in a | fire there Nov. 28. 1942 Rouben Aryanoff, maitre d’ of | the Ambassador, has memories of | the Los Angeles Grove | who took part in the Charleston |contests. Their names were Jane | Peters and Lucille le Sueur. They jwent into the movies as Carole } |Lombard and Joan Crawford, he | | said. | The maitre d’ recalled how Dor- orhy Lamour used to come nightly to the Grove to see her then hus- |band, Bandleader Herbie Kaye | One night she brought Martha | Raye with her and tne pair created attention by doing the big apple on the dance floor with their part- slipped, with disastrous results. Oldtimers recall another notable srove was having “‘star nights,” at which rising ‘movie talent was honored for the evening. A hotshot press agent got the idea of bringing one starlet befor the audience in a/ cake of ice. The starlet unwillingly agreed to! it, When the cake was wheeled in, the heat of the room sealea it shut. Waiters worked feverishly with ice picks to free her from the icy tomb. My own special memories go | back to the days when I was buy- | ing fruit punch for a high school } girl and shuffling her around the | dance floor to Freddie Martin’s | music. Ah, those were the days. | I also recall a special banquet | SaaS Sterilization, Sanitation and Moth Proojing | Ready to be put away for the Summer at NO EXTRA CHARGE Special a POINCIANA DRY CLEANERS 218 Simonton St. Tel. 1086 BLANKETS CLEANED | MONROE «2. coanut Grove. 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