The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 14, 1952, Page 2

rent_voseeywprcrmi_tetr- 4" "91K aca Farm Boy To General. See a a|—Dwight David Eisenhower a Ea 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 Never Held A Combat pecan sarees Publisher} Command During His * $ . NCRMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager First Twenty-Seven Nixon s Choice Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter Years Of Service ee ee ——— <eLacee Sisan Bee By SAUL PETT PART tt deen ener een eee eee ee ns ee er pe EAT IIa Wember of The Associated Prese—The Associated Press is exclusively] Young Dwight D. Eisenhower entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it | waited a long time for advance- or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also ‘the local news |‘ment after his graduation from publishea here. West Point in 1915. i * He served five years before be- ‘Member Florida Press Association and Associatec Dailies of Florida ae nant majoe” And: Bubscription (by carrier) 2c per week, year $12.00, single copy Be ae el 16 years for his proi ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION tough be ad cried Into the The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public tssue y accidentally, was rest- less to get ahead. He worked hard. and subjects of local or general interest, out it will not publish He was eternally impatient to lead “troops.” But for most of the long years before 1941, through most of the dreary tours at various posts, he taught or received in- FLORIDA ss struction or did paper work. ?. For the first 27 years, he never ON hada single combat command. Never even led a platoon or squad into bettle, And then suddenly, in 1942, he was given command an entire theater, In the 23 months after 1940, Ei- senhower climbed, or was pulled, up over the heads of scores of others, from a lieutenant colonel to full general. The Army had rare- get ly seen anything like it. But before that, there was the long, dreary beginning. 5 After the academy, Ike was first UNITED STATES AND THE QUEEN MARY assigned to the 19th Infantry at American shipbuilding officials have been expressing | sionally, the tour was insignificant. eonfidence that the new passenger liner, United States, Personally, it was highly impor- ‘would break the crossing record established by the Queen |e net dry ses ace he Mary. These officials had said that the United States was |Geneva Doud, pretty oe fastest a prosperous retired se ship in operation. xs 5 cattle merchant. The Douds, That they were justified in this confidence was ProV-|lived in Denver, happened to be ed when, at 5:16 A. M., Greenwich time, on July 7th, the | visiting Texas at the time. 58,000-ton supership crossed the finish line, having travel- ed from Amrose Light, off New York harbor, in the un- paralleled time of three days, 10 hours, 40 minutes. Her | Doud, who average speed for the 2,942 nautical miles was 35.59 : knots. She beat the previous record, held by the Queen : ; : THEATRE Mary, over approximately the same course, by 10 hours, : : ‘ Now comes news from England that the Queen Mary 7 : has been “souped-up” by the Cunard Line's engineers, It . ; FULL Y AIR C ONDITIONED ded g : tT i, is SFoR Ad + i efit ? ette § H a patel cnn! : aé ge s . i Ll e it E F i E 3 g E E g ga 5 g ee aH i yi i : gl 8 1 ¥ Ef i] i ‘| Be geeks ridin i is said, in addition that the Queen Mary — of a recent chosing — reached the speed of 34 knots, as a result of ‘What looms is a i contest for Atlantic ; ; 4 " Noe time ¥ : ; # oe crossing records between the {Inited States and the Queen |eye isi ts H | d O b Dp oe | : Mary. . : : : Neither the Queen Mary nor the United States is the M 4 largest passenger liner afloat. The Queen Elizabeth, i | : ; : which displaces about 83,000 tons, is the largest of the A L three. The Queen Mary is second and the United States is ight. ea 4 third in size. Of the two Queens, however, the Queen . Col. D. D. ; i Mary has always been the fastest, even though the Queen . . WLY 14-35 Elizabeth was completed last. - : The Queen Elizabeth, it seems, will continue to hold BOX OFFICE OPENS 1:45 P iM the title of being the largest passenger liner afloat and , the United States and the Queen Mary will continue to the dire situation in Ha Performances fight it out for Atlantic speed honors. | If everybody agreed with everybody else, the world wit te American Battle Mon. |i 2 | ‘ ments Commission, ter was| Trying, as he la | : : : would stop going around. rade ‘beh Army War keep = Slits edt tas eanehces: (UE Non-essentials take up too much time in life, but why | In 1933, Ma}. Etsenhower was chy are gags he returned be different from everybody else? assigned to the office of the chief| with his recommendation: Al- ‘ of staff. Here began seven years | though it would be a long time ‘of service under Douglas MacAr-| before the Philippines could re- | There are those who deny the greatness of the Bible |thur, seven years -in which Ike | celve major falelnrenmpente: yp Cag | but have. e luce a greater book. worked, and some say, was hidden | thing possible had to be done for | they have yet to prod! s under the shadow of his dynamic, | them; “the people of China, of |i ‘STARRING colorful boss. the Philippines, of the Dutch East |} } The man who has never known what it was to be| Much has been said about the | Indies will be watching us"; Aus- | broke often boasts about honesty.in paying debts. somrrser 5 q ROBERT TAYLOR Better make up your mind to take that vacation this G Gao t ; : ond summer; next summer you may be in a far-off place. aT ‘ , fa . jul ; LEO GENN and PETER USTINOV all directed by MERVYN Le ROY COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR AN M.G.M. 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