The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 20, 1952, Page 3

| mates after receiving the traditional dunking upon being advai Official U.S. Navy Photo FRANCIS L. FORE, Quartermaster, from Woonsocket, R. 1., is being helped ashore by his ship- inced to the “ate of Chief Quarter- | master. Fore is stationed aboard the U.S.S. Jack W. Wilke (EDE-800) where he has been serving for the last 29 months. He makes his present home in Key West. Bill Boosting Size And Influence Of Marine Corps On President Truman’s Desk WASHINGTON (#—A bill raising the size of the Marine Corps, and giving the leather necks more in- SWEDISH CABINET dependence ce in the (Continued From Page One) military sae iar gi on | minesweepers have been combing President Truman's desk today. | the Baltic north of Gotland Island There was nothing to indicate /for three days without sighting whether Mr... Truman—who came | either the plane or its wreckage. off second-best im one famed row| ‘The search would continue until with the Marines—would sign the | some trace of the plane was found, measure into law or risk another |the nayy declared. controversy by rejecting it. The Swedish defense staff also ‘The President and the Marine | announced pointedly that its navy Corps tangled last over a 1950 let-| and air force operations would con- ter in which Mr. Truman said | tinue in Swedish and international the Marines had a propaganda waters “withtout restrictions.” machine equal to Stalin’s. Some ex-marines happened to be holding} Air Force and Army members. @ convention at the time, and | The Joint Chiefs opposed this. raised the roof. ; A compromise, fashioned to Mr. Truman apologized to them | meet all objections, was worked in in. | out. adterabte enthusiasm — No-| The compromise, now past Con- body.used the word propaganda | gress and resting on Mr. Truman's this time—on the part of ex-|desk would do these things for | marines in Congress put steam |the Marines: behind the new bill which whipped} 1. Put their commandant on the through both houses Thursday by | Joint Chiefs with a voice in policy unanimous voice votes. lor strategy matters that “directly Thereupon, Sen. Douglas (D.-Ill.) | concern the Marine Corps.” a@ wounded and decorated Marine officer in World War II, congratu- lated Congress. Douglas said the bill, of which he was a sponsor, would keep the Joint Chiefs of Staff from scuttling the Marine Corps as a combat organization. That, he said, had been urged by some Army and Air Force generals. As originally introduced, the bill would have given the Marine com 2. Assure them independence Ordered Killed DELAND ® — Edgar Louis Thomas, 30, former soldier and seaman from Baltimore, is under sentence to die in the electric chair for the Jan. 5 slaying of a Daytona Beach taxi driver. A Circuit Court jury that in- cluded two women convicted Thomas of first-degree murder Thursday. Judge Herbert Fred- derick~ imposed the mandatory penalty, but defense attorneys asked a new trial. MRS. HARVEY TO (Continued From Page One) various banquets in New York and Boston will be sent by the Califor- nia Federation. Not to be outdone by our competitive state, however, she appointed a chairman within her own state of Florida to make arrangements for an Orange Juice Dispensing Bar to be set up in the lobby of the Hotel Statler at Boston with the compliments of the Flori- da Citrus Fruit Commission. It appears that the Florida BPW members are going after another convention as plans have been per- fected for Mrs. Harvey and Mr. James Parrish of the Miami Tour- jist and Convention Bureau to ex- | tend an invitation for the National | Federation to hold its 1954 conven- tion at Miami, Florida. Local BPW members are pre- " sThe WEATHERMAN eciuay’s Stee" | Boca Chica jfrom the Navy, of which they are dicting that if their past Key West Say: Forecast Key West and Vicinity: Partiy cloudy and continued hot and humid with isolated showers or thundershowers. Gentle to mod- erate variable winds, fresh near} vancing tendencies. shone Many leading railroads sold at pe ag ray he bead small losses, and this was enough day aa for afternoon thunder-|to turn that major division into an irregular pattern, showers at scattered places. Throughout the list prices ranged | NEW YORK (# — Railroads pro- vided a ragged drag on the stock | market today and dampened ad-| Jacksonville through the Flor- ida Straits and East Gulf of Mexico: Light to moderate vari- able winds, mostly southeasterly over south portion and south- westerly over north portion. Weather clear to partly cloudy through Saturday. Few local showers in south portion. Western Caribbean Sea: Mod- erate easterly winds and partly cloudy weather through Satur- day. Showers at widely scattered places, Weather Summary for the Tropical Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Eastern Gulf of Mexico: Continued settled weather un- der the influence of high pressure : continues over the tropical At-|L0wer stocks included Santa Fe, lantic, the Caribbean sea and the {Southern Pacific, American Tele- Gulf of Mexico. There are no|Phone and Radio Corp. So Stocks in the curb market were any disturbance at A eee of atl a bit higher. Among those moving time. up were Molybdenum, Producers lower with a few outstanding ex- ceptions either way, Barber Oil was up around five points on top of its gain of 7% Thursday. Other oils were steady. Emerson Radio dropped around } two points to a new low’ for the | year after directors deciared a dividend of 10 cents as compared with 25 cents previously paid quarterly. All other radio-television issues suffered in the decline. Among higher stocks were Chrys- Jer, Boeing, American Car & Foun- dry and Standard Oil of California. Observations taken at City Office 9:00 AM. EST LAWRENCE STONE’S Key West, Fla., June 20, 1952 (Continued From Page One) _— particular place?” asked the Temperatures Highest yesterday Lowest last night Mean Judge. “No particular place — just 81|N-rth Florida,” replied Walters. asked the Judge: Precipitation “I don’t suppose any of you Total last 24 hours __.__ .07 ins. gentlemen here at this table Total this month 1.93 ins, | would be interested in buying my Deficiency this month . 1.25 ins.|car so I can get out of the county Total this year _______ 9.36 _ins.| up to Gainesville?” Deficiency this year __ 3.38 ins.| The Judge told him no, that it peat would be better if he sold the Relative Humidity at $00 A.M, | car away from the courthouse. 81% Truckdriver Fined: passes Marlin Skeeter who called Pa- Barometer (Sea Level) 9:00 A.M, |trolman Wilder from the Over-| 30.02 ins—1016.6 mbs, seas Garage to come get him out| of a ditch, was fined $25 and Tomorrow's Almanac costs for driving under the in- Sunrise —__.____. 5:38 a.m.| fluence of liquor, Like the other | Sunset 7:19 p.m.| accused charged with drunken! Moonrise 4:46 a.m.| driving, Skeeter claimed that he! Moonset ___________ 7:05 p.m.| had only two beers, the limit set} Summer Solstice (Summer be-|by these accused drivers, it| gins), 6:00 a.m., June 21, seems. New moon, June 22, Wilder explained to the Court the three drunk tests he adminis- | ters on the highway. All involve| balance, such as stooping over) from a point higher to a —_ Atter his sentencing Walters | “avy Has No Surplus Ships WASHINGTON (7 — The Navy now doesn’t have a surplus right PRiarkeil:: it could donate for the annual winter events, has been featured jover the years by the arrival of}kept in good conditic a gaily decorated ship piled high with pirates. ship which has been used Th and last February Krewe of Gasparilla” had to use two small schooners, Apply To Wed | Francis Blaine Herron, 39, USS Barb and Marjorie Josephine Moo- ney, 30, 167 Lennox Road, have ap- plied for a marriage license at the! office of County Judge Raymond R. Lord. | Robert Eugene Goodnight, 21, Boca Chica and Mary Ann Parson, 18, Bridgeport, Ind. have also ap- plied to wed. | | Se Corp., Raytheon, Unexcelled Chem- | ical and Barium Steel, | Corporate bonds were down with | foreign dollar loans quietly mixed. | U. S. governments in the over the counter market sagged with the new 2%s lower. ——__—_ Japalac Enamel (Colors) Glidden Gloss (Colors) Glidden Flat (Colors) : White Paint 211 SIMONTON STREET to pick up acoin from the nic ae pam ground, and pointing to one’s| nose with eyes closed and feet HIGH LOW ra é : together. Skeeter, he said, failed 8:39 a.m, 1:65 a.m, all three tests. 10:23 p.m. 3:50 p.m, , 000 ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Time of Height of Bahia Honda (bridge) ———oh lm 8.0 8 No Name Key (east end) ——+2h 20m Station— Tide high wate (Sandy Pt.) —ob 40m Caldes Channel (morth end) -+2b 10m +14 ® (—)—Minus sign: to be subtracted. (+)—Plus sign: Corrections & De added. MORE ja part, as far as size and or-|BPW president has anything to do |ganization are concerned. | with the bid that the state of Flo- | | 3. Allow them permanently in | Tida will get the convention in 19- | Peacetime to build up to 400,000 | 54. | men and officers of three divisions Fresh-water clams are para- sites of fish in the early part of their lives. }and three air wings, with no man. power ceiling at all in war or | | emergency. | The corps is now limited to one- fifth the peacetime power of the mandant status on the Joint Chiefs | Navy and has a strength of about of Staff equal to that of the Navy, ' 214,000. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER REFRIGERATORS WITH THE EXCLUSIVE NEW Trimatic Defrosting SIMPLE AS ABC LIBERAL TRADE IN ALLOWANCE Overseas Radio & Appliance 617 Duval Street Telephone 79 ELIJAH SANDS, Proprieter FOR HOME or TELEPHONE NO. § E REAL ICE A.—Automatic COMMERCIAL USE... B.—By Manual Control a ee C.—Conventional With Clear, Pure @ 8 Models @ 8 Sizes @ 8 Prices 10°. 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