The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 8, 1952, Page 8

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Almost Billion Dollars Added To Expanded Atomic Weapons Program By 82nd Congress ‘WASHINGTON (# — The 82nd *- Congress added almost a billion dollars to an expanded atomic wea- | pons program Monday and then | voted to quit for good. Unless President Truman calls | a special session, the lawmaking | days of this Congress are over. | The next—or 83rd—Congress with | a lot of new faces convenes Jan. 5, 1953. Daylong negotiations on two | money bills which had blocked ad- journment plans Saturday paid off | when a compromise was reached and the Senate and then the House | OF, the measures just before | down. | ‘The bills would provide: | 1, $11,793,776,339 to finance atomic expansion, foreign aid and | military construction throughout the world. | 2. More than half a billion dol- lars for river, barbor and flood | eontrol projects. : With most Republicans attending the GOP National Convention in Chicago and many Democrats out of town, only a handful of legisla- tors was on hand when Congress adjourned. The House quit at 5:28 p. m. EST, the Senate at 5:41 p. m. During the final day Democrats did not take advantage of their gumerical superiority. Leaders said all actions were fully agreed on by absent GOP leaders either fm advance or by long distance telephone calls. In the House were about 60 Dem- | @erats, seven Republicans; in the | Senate 11 Democrats and two Re- publicans, The House has a total of 435 members (233 Democrats, | 901 Republicans, one independent) | and the Senate 96 (50 Democrats | and 46 Republicans). j Major controversy centered | @round the $11,793,776,339 supple- | mental money bill, which carries | $2,898,800,000 for the atomic proj- ects, $6,032,947,750 for foreign aid, | and $2,140,000,000 for globe-circling | military construction projects. | When the Senate and House first | deadlocked over the measure, arguing into the early hours Sun- | day morning, the bill provided only | $1,450,000,000 in atomic funds. This | was later boosted to two billions | by the House as a compromise | move but administration leaders | in the Senate insisted on more. The original bill also contained a rider that many—including the President—interpreted as barring the Atomic Energy Commission | (AEC) from starting any projects | it didn’t have the money to com- | plete. As finally passed, the spending curb was retained in the bill. But opponents of the rider said its ef fect was offset by the additional $98,000,000 voted for the Atomic Commission. AEC Chairman Gordon Dean agreed. He wrote Democratic Leader McFarland of Arizona that “we could proceed (with our pro- gram) under a bill which appropri- ated such a sum ($2,898,800,000).” Cost Of Living | Budget Hearing At County Meet Tonight At 8 The 1952-53 budget of the Coun- ty will be taken up at a meeting of the Commissioners tonight at their chambers in the Court. house. Based on the largest tax roll in the budget will be tonight, following the closed Tuesday, July 8, 1952 Commander Jj. H. Turner, USN. 5 Commander Submarine Division 122 meeting of the Commission at 1 - p.m. yesterday. With the county on its best-ever financial condition, there is @ possibility that 1952-53 taxes may go down, according to Circuit Coutt Clerk Earl Adams, The current millage is 10.5. Adams has been at work on @ tent: budget for weeks. He has met with Financial Chair- man of the Commission Frank Bentley, following receipt of bud- get requests from various depart- ments of the county. Democrats Pledge Equality For All By The Associated Press A pledge that ‘the Democratic Party will not inject racial prej- udice or religious bigotry” into this year’s political campaigns was made today by Chairman Frank E. McKinney of the Democratic National Committee. McKinney said in a letter to six Protestant, Catholic and Jewish leaders that the Democratic Party will condemn and disavow any such activity should it develop in behalf of any of its candidates. The party, he added, wants the 1952 election to be decided on the vital issues before the electorate. Two candidates for the Demo cratic presidential nomination dis- agreed as to whether corruption in government will be one of the 1952 campaign issues. Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennes- see, campaigning in Minnesota, said Monday it will not be an issue, because corruption is “bi - parti- san,” Vice President Barkley told uews- men in Washington that it undoubt- edly will be an issue, but he com- mented: ‘‘No party has a monop- oly on either virtue or vice.” Barkley said he will go to Chi- cago a day or two before the Dem- ocratic National Convention opens July 21 to meet delegates in his active campaign for the nomina- tion. He said he will not make any speeches in the interim. Kefauver’s campaign manager, Gael Sullivan, announced that a Kefauver campaign headquarters will open in Chicago July 13, eight days before the convention. Sen. Richard B. Russell of Geor- At Alltime High | ots told reporters in Montgomery, WASHINGTON (#— The cost of Niving probably is at an alltime high today. And it could go higher. "This was indicated by a series of government reports Monday which said: 1. Food prices went up three- | tenths of 1 per cent in June — to ; @ point 14 per cent higher than just before the Korean War — mainly because of grocery and meat price increases. 2. The next overall cost-of living index due in about three weeks is expected to show another climb because rents are rising. The last index on May 15 was only one tenth of a point below the record 3. Wholesale prices were un changed for the week ended July 1 indicating the decline during the past few weeks js levelling off A staff report to the Senate House Economic Committee the day before said prices may climb to an all - time péak in the next six to 12 months — up 1 to 3 per cent — due to increases in rents and services, a recovery in cloth ing prices, and a slight upturn in consumer durable goods. The re port said food prices would pot change much unless crop prospects were altered. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), affer making a special food survey of eight key cities-on June 15, said Monday food prices are climbing already Since food represents about a third of the total spending of the average city family, the rise is believed to have helped push cost of living to or beyond jast winter's record. Tt said increases in eg. fruit vegetable, meat and fish prices were mainly responsible for the food rise between May 2 and June 15, Egg prices jumped mosi— | 41 per cent. ‘The special survey was made in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cotum- | Ala., that he has about 300 dele- ' gate votes for the Democratic pres- idential nomination assured. side the South, Russell stumps in Arkansas today and in Indiana Wednesday Averell Harriman, the mutual se- curity administrator, ‘Indiana delegates at a dinner in Indianapolis Monday night. He de clined to estimate any progress i soliciting votes for his nomination. Harriman was reported to be re- turning to Washington today on government business, before ca: paigning m Michigan Thursday and Friday Sen. Robert Kerr of Oklahoma, meeting delegates in Pittsburgh, | Pa., said in an interview Monday that he would not trade my chances for the nomination with anybody bus, New York, Richmond, San Francisco and Washington. The 15 was 231.6, using the 1935-39 av- erage as 100. The cost - of - living index on May 15 stood at 189, one - tenth of @ point below the 189.1 reached in December and January. The BLS said the next index is due in about three weeks, and is expected to climb because rents, a big item, are msing The BLS wholesale index for all | commodities stood at 110.7, using | the 1947-49 average as 100. Gener- | ally higher wholesale prices were | reported for livestock, textiles and fibers. Grains and patural rubber | were down. He | claimed 50 to 60 votes from out- | entertained | NEWS TOKYO —The Maritime Safety Board said today the Russians still held 11 Japanese fishing ships with 111 crew members, seized this year in waters off Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island. ‘The board said the Russians had released 18 other vessels with a total of 150 crew members. The Russians contended the Jap- anese fishing ships entered Soviet waters, HONG KONG — About 200 Chinese drowned Saturday when a sudden squall capsized 20 fishing gsampans, according to reports from the Portuguese of Macau, * TOKYO wm — Japanese police clashed with 1,000 rioting Com- munists Monday night in a 3%- hour pitched battle in Nagoya, Japan's third largest city. Kyodo News Agency reported one person was killed and at least 63 injured, including 56 policemen. The riots started after a 3-hour demonstration at Osu Baseball | Stadium where 7,000 turned out to welcome two Japanese who recent- jly returned from a visit to Red China, After the meeting approximately 1,000 poured out of the stadium and set fire to two automobiles with fire bombs. A melee took place when the mob ran headlong into about 1,000 police, ROME, Italy # — It’s so hot in sunny Italy that even the trains are slowing down, With the cercury climbing to 106 at some points, trainmen found | the unusual temperatures had ex- panded the rails. At Fissa, traffic | had to stop until firemen shrank the steel back to size with tons of cooling water. Fearing similar conditions else- FORT WORTH, Tex. — Fred | Lumely went fishing Monday for | the first time im five years and }eame up with a catch of stolen | papers worth more than $100,000 to a West Texas rancher, Lumely fished a 25-pound mesh | sack filled with several hundred | documents from the Trinity River near here. The documents included $400 fn | federal savings bonds and about | food price index on June | NATIONAL Airlines 4 4 Official U. S. Navy Photo BRIEFS $100,000 in notes and warranty | deeds stolen June 28 when thieves carted off a 600 pound safe from the ranch home of Henry Compton, near Breckenridge. Compton iden- tified the papers, HOLLYWOOD — A reconcilia- tion between Lex Barker, 33, the current movie Tarzan, and Arlene Dahl, 26, red-haired actress, was announced Monday by the couple. The couple, married a little more than a year ago, parted in May but had been seen frequently to- gether, NEW YORK -— Twenty thou- sand long distance telephone op- erators and maintenance employes have won wage increases ranging from $3 to $6 a week. The increases are provided in an agreement between the Long Lines Department of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. and the CIO Communications Workers of America, which was ammunced Monday. The new one-year contract cov- ers long distance telephone work- ers in 350 communities in 40 states and the District of Columbia. LOS ANGELES ® — A Superior Court jury ruled Monday that Thrill Killer Evans Charles Thom- as, 29, the phantom sniper, must die for the murder of Mrs. Nina Marie Bice, 25, mother of two. The verdict, which did not re- commend nercy. makes the death | penalty automatic. | The court set July 11 for sen- tence. At the same time, 12 other charges of attmpted murder and assault with a deadly weapon will be ruled upon. | Thomas admitted he fired a rifle | at six women and a young girl to satisfy an abnormal sex urge. pa was tried on the Bice murder | y. BERLIN # — The French an- | mounced today that the Russians | had nabbed one of their high of. ficials as he strolled along the | Soviet Zone border and held him | im captivity for 24 hours. The French High Commissio disclosed that Jean Benoir, persor nel chief for Berlin Commande: Pierre Carolet, was arrested Sun day on the Frohnau border in an area where the line is obscure. Two Russian sentries took Be- noir to Red Army headquarters at Leisen Shows Paintings At Guadalajara ‘Theodore Leisen, Jr., formerly | of Key West now at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, is exhibit- versity of Guadalajara last July. Before coming to Key West he had been a commercial artist in New York City, 16 Witnesses In 16 witnesses for the inquest inte the death of Mrs. Catherine Johnson of Marathon to be held Friday at 5 p. m., at his office on Whitehead street. Hamlin conferred with State Attorney J. Lancelot Lester yes- terday on the death of the woman which came after her common- law husband, Henry, shot her twice. The six man jury will de- termine what caused Mrs. John- son’s death. It viewed her body Sunday before releasing the re- mains for burial in North Caro- lina. The shooting took place on July 4th in the colored section of Marathon, according to Capt. | Andy, Deputy sheriff who in- ' vestigated the case, arrested Henry Johnson, the common-law husband and brought him to Monroe County jail. Johnson is being held without bail pending the outcome of the coroners’ in- quest Friday. In language clearness is every- thing. —Confucius Karlhorst. He was returned to the border Monday and released. A French spokesman said Benoir was not mistreated, just inconveni- enced by the 24-hour wait while tthe Russians satisfied themselves of his identity. MILAN, Italy w — Arturo Tosca- nini leaves tonight by airliner for New York on a business trip. Friends said the noted conductor | would spend about two weeks in New York taking care of ‘“‘con- tractual engagements.” HANOI, Indochina — French | | army headquarters announced to- | | day that 294 Communist-led Viet- minh soldiers were killed and 275 captured in clashes in the Red | River Delta from June 30 through | July 6. { The headquarters said the fig- | ures do not include hard-to-deter- | nine casualties from air bombing | ind artillery fire. i PRESCRIPTION DEPARTMENT allegedly || aft, Eisenhower Forees Head For Another Battle Today CHICAGO Wi; of Gen. Dwight D. nal eigen Herbert Hoover tonight in a party unity appeal. MacArthur—a civilian keynoter for a night—won his mightiest ova- tion when he asserted with refer- ence to Korea that “it is fatal to enter any war without the will te win it.” At no time did MacArthur men- tion the name of either Eisenhower or Taft. 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