The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 28, 1952, Page 2

Morday, July 28, 1°52 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Cie Key Test Citizen ———S_$—$—$—$—$—— Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artmzn, owner and pub- tisher, from {he Citizen Building, corner of Greene And Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County, L. P. ARTMAN Publisher NCRMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Ciass 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 or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news publishea here. — ‘Member Florida Press Association and Associate. Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 2ic per week, year $12.00, single copy 5c ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue ‘and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications, BY THE CITI: More Hotels and Apartments. Aiport Land ect ben Consolidation of County and City Governments. Couumunity Auditorium. KEY WEST ADMIRER PLAYS MAJOR ROLE AT DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION Who was that “genius” that “wonder man” behind the screen, as he was characterized by radio commenta- tors, who played the major role at the National Demo- ; cratic Convention in Chicago, in restoring peace in those tense hours last Thursday when it seemed that Virginia, South Carolina and Louisiana delegates would be expell- ed from the convention? That man owns property in Key West, including a business place on Duval street; that man is a great ad- mirer of Key West and has many friends here, foremost among them Representative B. C. Papy; that man is Les (Leslie) Biffle, secretary of the United States senate. One commentator said of Biffle that he was “sweat- ing himself away to that well-known grease spot” as he flitted from delegation to delegation, in which he had friends among the leaders, pleading with them, almost tearfully, to cast their votes for the resolution to seat Vir- ginia, knowing that if he won that fight South Carolina and Louisiana would be seated by acclamation. His plea was to “present a solid front in the election next Novem- ber.” It would be foolish to maintain that he alone attain- ed that end. Scores of other Democratic leaders, prom- | inent among them James J. Farley, former Postmaster General and chairman of the National Democratic Com- mittee, worked diligently for the adoption of the resolu- tion, but Biffle was the outstanding figure in restoring concord in the Democratic “family.” The Citizen, many a time has referred to local Dem- ocratic contests as “‘strictly a family affair’, which the Democrats always succeed in ironing out when the ma, jority expresses its choice. So far as The Citizen knows, no local Democrat has been driven from the party because | {who died Saturday night after a ‘long illness. SLICE OF HAM PLOOK WHO'S OUR NEW THIS ROCK A mother whose two children are taking Red Cross swimming in- structions wants to know why the Navy is not permitting use of its pools this year for these courses. It seems that the children meet in the morning at Bayview Park and go out to Monroe County beach but that the muddy, shallow water isn't practical for the purpose. Insofar as the muddy, shallow water angle goes, I’m in full ac- cord with the lady. It is a shame to the community to boast that good, clean, swimming is possible any place on the island except in private pools. However, the Navy usually has excellent reasons for its rules and regulations. They might feel that! pool facilities are not adequate, for instance, to handle large groups of children. How about calling the Naval Re- creation Officer and talking with him directly, Mrs... 2” Argentina Mourns Eva Peron By STANFORD BRADSHAW BUENOS AIRES, Argentina #— Argentina’s humble thousands paid grieving homage today to Eva Pe- ron. They waited four abreast in| mile - long queues for a 20-second walk past the bier of their presi- dent’s wife ane political partner, Mrs. Peron’s death in her early 30's was generally attributed to; cancer although there had been no | official announcement of the na- ture of her illness. The blonde wife of President Juan D. Pyron lay in state in the | hall of the labor ministry, in a} glass - topped casket of mahogany | {draped in white orchids awaiting VVVVI VIII IVI VI TT. OF OURS BILL GIBB | amenensesesesseeas ee Torpedoes While we're speaking of the Navy, here is an announcement that you might have’ missed but which could bring you in a hundred bucks. “The Department of the Navy of the United States of America here- by offers a reward of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the recovery of lost torpedoes which are the pro- perty of the United States Navy or any information leading to the re- covery thereof. Lost torpedoes shall be returned or information communicated to the United States Naval Ordinance Unit, Naval Base, Key West, locat- ed at Craig Dock, phone Key West —Extension 8-257. This offer will expire June 30, 1953.” Notice that the reward is for U. S. Navy torpedoes. Russian, Cuban, or what have you, do not count. dered the restless crowds admit- ted. They had shouted to see the body, and once broke a police cor- don to get closer to the en- trance. The mournful viewing of the body was accompanied by an unexpect- ed death. Gen. Juan Esteban Vac- ca, director of the army's superior school, suffered a heart attack while visiting the bier Sunday night and died shortly after. Peron’s decision still was await- ed on his wife’s permanent burial place. Temporary interment, at her own request, will be in the hall of the 6,000,000 - member General La- bor Confederation (CGT). She was the unofficial head of the CGT, and her following among its mem- bers made her the nation’s most potent political force after Peron himself. At the age of 30 — according to (Radar Spots (LIFE OF ADLAI Flying Saucers: By JERRY T. BAULCH WASHINGTON (— Radar — which normally doesn’t show something that isn’t there — has picked up “flying saucers” near; the nation’s capital for the second time within a week. Jet fighter pilots searched the skies without directly contacting anything during the six hours that four to 12 unidentified objects in- termittently appeared on radar sereens at Washington National Airpot and nearby Andrews Air Force Base. One pilot said he saw four lights approximately 10 miles away and slightly above him but they dis- appeared before he could overtake them. Later, the same pilot said, he saw “a steady white light” five miles away that vanished in about a minute. So far as could be determined, this was the first time jets have been sent on the trail of such sky ghosts, Officials carefully avoided men- tioning “flying saucers,” just as they did when radar picked up seven or eight unidentified objects near Washington last Monday. But the Air Force was expected to add the report to its long list of saucer sightings, which officials say are coming in faster than at any time since the initial flurry in 1947. An Air Force spokesman said all necessary steps were being taken to evaluate the newest phenome- non. Later an Air Force spokesman said: “We have no evidence they are flying saucers; conversely we have no evidence they are not flying | saucers. We don’t know what they are.” There was no agreement whether | the recent reports are the first of such mystery objects appearing on radar. At least, officials agreed they are unusual, Radar normally does not regis- ter anything without substance — such as light. But it can pick up such things as a bird in flight or a cloud formation. And one expert said radar is not infallible. The Air Force reported that be- tween four and 12 unidentified ob- jects appeared at 8:08 p. m. East- ern Standard Time Saturday night on the radar screen at the Air Route Traffic Control Center op- erated by the Civil Aeronautics Ad- ministration. Their position was es- timated at 10 miles east of Mount Vernon, Va., which is near Wash- ington National Airport. Word went to the Air Force, which sent up two jet fighter in- terceptor planes from a base at Newcastle, Del., some 90 miles from Washington. When the planes appeared on the radarscope at approximately 10:25 p. m., the CAA tried without suc. cess to guide the planes into con-| tact with the mystery objects. It} was during this search that the pi-) lot made his two sightings of | E. ST Editor's note: This second of a 5S-part series on the life of Adlai E. Stevenson, Democratic nominee for President, covers his career from boyhood World War I.) By ROGER F. LANE SPRINGFIELD, Ill. —A tragic episode marred the boyhood of Adlai E. Stevenson in his 13th year. A rifle he held discharged un- expectedly, fatally wounding a cousin by marriage, Ruth Mary Merwin, on Dec. 30, 1912. The death was ruled accidental at a coroner's inquest the next day. This is what happened. A teen-age party was arranged for friends of Adlai’s older sister, Elizabeth. Adlai was given an early supper but permitted to join the guests afterward. Meantime, the parents left the house to call on neighbors. One of the guests was a student at a military academy home for the Christmas holidays. Adlai- was sent to get out a .22 caliber rifle, and the academy youth proceeded to entertain the others by demon- strating the manual of arms after examining the weapon to make sure the magazine and chamber were empty. The inspection proved faulty. When Adlai sought later to du- Plicate the manual of arms rou- tine, the rifle fired and the bullet pierced the Merwin’ girl's fore- head. Investigation afterward indicat- ed that a cartridge in the maga- zine, unobserved, had chambered perhaps when the but of the rifle banged the floor in handling. It fired when the weapon was jolted a second time. Last winter, Stevenson told a reporter the incident hadn’t been mentioned to him and that he had spoke of it to no one in the 39 years that had then elapsed. He was asked to relate the story, and did so. On finishing elementary school, Adlai attended high school in Nor- mal, Ill., twin city to Bloomington. ticularly impressive, and after Sraduation he was refused admit- tance to Princeton University. He enrolled at Choate School in Wallingford, Conn., to brush up on the university entrance re- quirements. There, he edited the Choate News, laying the ground- work for newspaper activity that was to occupy him before the law, and finally politics, superseded. Stevenson still owns a quarter interest in the Bloomington Panta- graph, a prosperous daily in his home town. He resigned as vice presient and a director of the paper after his election as gover- nor. lights. * 12:40 a. m. and the two other jets | took oyer and stayed in the area until 1:20 a. m. without making; contacts. | The pilot who spotted the lights | said they “were really moving” —| faster than 600 miles an hour. But radar operators at Andrews Air Force base said they moved at a “slow rate of speed” — 38 to 90 | miles per hour. This could mean He cracked Princeton on the sec- were appointment as managing editor of the Daily Princetonian, election to the Senior Council and placing third in a senior poll to pick the “biggest politician.’ The nickname ‘Rabbit’ was ap- plied to Adlai by roommates. It was inspired by his partiality for garden foods and his appearance while devouring thém, Friends say that even now when prominent daughter of an and big game hunter. Three sons were born of marriage, which broke later. They are Adlai TIL Borden, 19, and John The depression of the build Sa cer eaten leaky seams sm; that hit the rocks, that the government. will 21 years| dollars to purchase aff | § 1 g i Peek invited Adlai to join the AAA as a legal aide, and the at- His duties have been described ut ve as those of a nation-wide county gent. Stevenson toured the coun- try holding VAN HEFLIN, HELEN HAYES and ROBERT WALKER Coming: GLORY ALLEY created to grap- dtay_ problems. He spent eight months at this JOHNNY WEISSMULLER and BRENDA JOYCE Coming: CLOSE TO MY - HEART Ray Milland and Gene Tierney Howard. SLOPPY JOE'S BAR custiont te Shows & Dancing Starring The Fabulous SALLY & MARCELLA LYNN AND GOGO GABE, CATHY CARROL, SANDRA LANE AND A HOST OF OTHERS To MARK STANLEY’S TRIO Never An Admission or Minimum Charge The planes left for their base at | ond try, His chief distinctions here | ——_—_ As BLANKETS Sterilization, Sanitation and Moth Proofing Ready to be put away for the Summer at NO EXTRA CHARGE Special Rates to Commercial Firms. of internal strife, and the same thing is true on a national ecale. a full military funeral Tuesday af-| her official count — the slim/|the same pattern as last week’s| he tackles a salad Adlai’s jaws ternoon. Tons of lilies, roses and maauty wes cp geal” Pan i eh ~ heed moving objects work with unusual rapidity, his F te) carnations packed the hall and Powerful woman in cs in the | with bursts of speed. se twitches and his ears wi, As a result of the united front in ¢ hicago, the Dem- [piss tees cas tke streets out-| world. | One woman in Washington re pene: ase n ocratic party has nomination for the presidency one of | side. Sr BY aries Foxtel ld vay tata. He graduated from Princeton | —_—__ es 5 Ini ve ai Steve Peron spent much of Sunday be-| e adrenals are a pair of light” streak across the sky toward! and studied at Harvard Law 2 D: S - pent y ind st the foremost statesmen in the United States, Adlai Steven bats theetcher uaa cerscamtty ar-|ductieg glands located near the| Andrews Base at about 11:45’ School for two years His depar gon, {ranged the placement of the bier, | upper @hd of the kidneys. These | p. m. Later, she said, she saw an ture from Harvard was occasioned { . » Demo-/ After a private funeral mass, at-|gla.ds pour their secretions, one | object with a iail like a comet by the death of an uncle, Hibbord Ah, how Republican leaders hoped that the I tended only by government minis-| of which is adrenalin, directly | | ters and intimate friends, he or-| into the blood stream. ACROSS 98. Trick cratic party would be split wide open! Ah, how they wish- ed that the party would nominate a man other than Stev-! enson! They know that Stevenson, in his race for the gov- ernorship, carried the normally Republican state of Illi-} nois by more than half a million votes; they know he is a} man highly esteemed by all people who know him, from | capitalists to laborers, because he has been fair and just | to all of them. He is a man of the people, regardless of | what their callings in life may be. He did not seek the nomination — he instructed his alternate at the conven- | tion to vote for Harriman —; the nomination sought him, | and he accepted it in a stirring speech, threaded with humility, that brought the delegates to their toes, time and again, in bursts of soul-stirring applause. Modern miracle: The manner in which Santa Claus gets into some apartments. Go-getters are mainly responsible for the bus idea that the profits justify the means. 1. Provided with 30. American shoes 5. Completely 32 & Attempt 36. fi 13. Bar 14 Wreath: 18. Devoured enance Sclution of Saturday's Puzzie @ Prepare 4 thave 7. Caustic alka. line solution Not bard Company Singly é s 2. 1 = aan aa 4 ery: 19 20. whiz by and a few seconds later , in another direction. | Citrus Prices | LAKELAND wW— Florida Citrus Mutual figures this state’s orange growers received about 25 cents more per box on the tree than it cost to grow the fruit in the 1951 52. season. { Mutual puts the average on-tree | return at 75 cents. While growing costs vary, 50 cents is believed to be a fair production cost per box The 1951.52 orange crop of al most 79 million boxes outstripped the previous season's harvest by 11,600,000 boxes Sold in the fresh fruit markets were some 25 million boxes, an increase of about 5 % million. Use of oranges to make concentrate and canned juices was up 5 % boxes to 47 4% Mutual estimates from 100,000 tc 150,000 boxes of oranges remain unharvested. Scattered packing 0. Davis, who had managed the} Pantagraph | Adlai, who inherited a share of | the paper, returned to take a hand} in running it. | Stevenson spent a couple of years in various editorial capaci. | ties, but grew restless and decid- | ed to continue the study of law. | He entered Northwestern Univer- | sity Law School and earned his. degree. j With his schooling over, Steven- | son set out for another look at Europe before settling down. j Abroad, he was struck by the idea of getting an exclusive inter-| view with Foreign Minister Chi- cherin of Russia on the then con- troversial new economic policy. He obtained newspaper ereden- tials and made bis way to Mos-, cow, traveling through Batum, Tif- lis, Baku, Kiev and Rostov. For 3 month, he called almost daily at the Foreign Office but wever succeeded in reaching Chi- erm One of the first sights in Mos- SAN CARLOS Clash By Night STARRING Barbara Stanwyck @ Paul Douglas Robert Ryan @ Marilyn Monroe with J. Carrel Neish Keith Andes An 8.K.0. RADIO PICTURE CARTOON NEWS TIME SCHEDULE BOX OFFICE OPENS 1:45 P.m, ij ist COMING ATTRACTION 1:00 News 20 CARTOON FEATURE The way to have an honest government honest voters, as well as honest officials. houses and canning plants still are cow, he recalls. was the spectacle open in the citrus belt Average prices received by ship another to lick cobblestones where Pers on the Northern fruit auction some food had been markets declined sharply in the! Though Stevenson 1951.52 season. The average was primary mission, be $3.74, a drop of 6¢ cents. This was servations that were the lowest average figure since the 20 years later when, $3.25 return im 1947-48 mat. be sparred Things look a lot rosier in the resentatives in concentrate field than they did ¢ | Returning to year ago. Although the concentrate the young attorney production this season came to 44 Chicage’s milion gallons, sales ef the frozen the boom | juices are sooming ai such a fast son worked j pace there probsbiy will be little | curities, | carryover into ext season. * He the | sockety Shere and married g I z s fa : The people who talk most about the brotherhood of man might give a few thoughts to the sisterhood of wom- | en, 27 po] CHILDREN Ve TIL 6 Pm. STUDENTS Mc DAY OR NITE ADULTS 52¢ and Always A Good Show at San Carlos ve re e <<sereensrieisiemcntenanapenaoiereenenee Commencement oratory is an educat but from a scientific standpoint, the addr so hot. ty julli “| ge a8 -, s 2 r & aif ig eects And then there was the cynic who said an appro- priate wedding march would be~“The Batile the Republic.” Radio waves travel at iepeed of light, about 196000 mules per second. 33 Hyimn