The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 9, 1952, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 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 L. Pp, 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 iocal news eublishea here. — Member Florida Press Association and Associate. Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12.00; By Mail $15.60 pol at Se ae il le id cel a Aa ae ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Mis Se i a The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue @d subjects of local or general interest, out it will not publish anonymous communications. eS IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN L More Hotels and Apartments. 2 Beach and ae ga Airports—! a. 4 Consolidation of County and City Gévernments. 5. Community Auditorium. FORGET ABOUT HURRICANE MONTHS AND YOU’LL KEEP PEACE OF MIND While The Citizen is appreciative and deeply sensible of the many advantages that accrue to man through the medium of great inventions, yet it thinks that in the mat- ter of potential disasters the less said about them the bet- ter it is for the public in maintaining its peace of mind. We are passing through what is called the “hurricane geason” in this area, yet we had not heard Key Westers say a word about hurricanes this year till a story from Florida’s east coast told about the organization of a Lea- gue of Prayer, members of which pray daily that we won’t have a hurricane this year. Key Westers join in the hope | that the prayers will be answered, but The Citizen recalls | that, without publicly announced prayer, no hurricane was reported in this area in 1925, a year memorable to many Floridians who were caught in the realty boom crash. Let us hope that 1952 will be like 1925, so far as hurricanes are concerned, but, after having hoped, let us forget about hutricanes. Why should we forget? Because the Navy in Key West and civic leaders have been prepared since June 15 to act promptly in the event a hurricane comes this way. Hurricanes are not like tornados that give little warning before they strike a community. Sometimes three or four days elapse’ between the spotting of a hurricane and its striking at some point along the Florida coasts. Hurricanes give one time to avoid them or stand firmly and fight them. A member of The Citizen’s editorial staff has the right attitude about hurricanes. She intends to visit Jama- ica next month. When she was told that September is one of the worst months in the “hurricane season,” she said simply, “If a hurricane is reported, I won’t make the trip; if one is reported approaching Jamaica while I’m there, I'll board a plane to come back to Key West.” Radar, radio and hurricane riders play wonder roles (an oldtimer would have said they were impossible) in keeping us informed about the course of a hurricane. But, if a hurricane is headed our way, the information also keeps our nerves on edge. Even at that, our modern way of tracking hurricanes is immeasurably preferable to de- pending solely on the barometer for information, as old- time Key Westers did. But their peace of mind, during “hurricane months,” was far greater than ours, Hurricanes in the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea developed and pass- ed on without Key West hearing anything about them till a cablegram or a telegram was received here about their having struck this or that community. The scare here in those days stemmed solely from a fast-falling barometer. Then one could hear the sound of | in a different light. I told them I! second leads or juvenile roles, | the regular Na hammering all over the city while oldtimers were batten- ing up. The best way to keep our peace of mind is not to talk about hurricanes until our capable Weather Bureau re- Ports that one has developed. SLICE OF HAM Saturday, August 9, 1952 THIS ROCK The bus tragedy in Texas shocked the nation. It provided a | good illustration of the close rela- | tion between all communities of the | United States. Here at The Citizen | we received inquiries as to the identity of passengers. Fear was expressed that: some loved one might have been on one of the bus- es. The same type of inquiries were made in newspaper offices all over the country. The burden of trying to supply a casuality list fell on The Waco Times-Herald. Unfortunately, the Army chose to ‘step in and bar newsmen from the funeral home morgue. Naturally, such censor- ship created bad feelings. Sam Wood, editor of The Times-Herald said: “This is no longer a matter of military courtesy. Too many ci- vilians are involved. We'll play ball with them on their military posts but not in this situation.” | The Times-Herald is a small newspaper with a circulation of 25, 663. In this particular case how- ever, it was representing every newspaper reader in the world. Time and time again, the Armed Services have overstepped their bounds with regard to censorship. Military authorities have no right to deny the public information con- cerning a civilian accident that happens on a public highway. Or HOLLYWOOD NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD w-— Johnny | Downs, who was a has-been at the lage of 13, is starting his third ! movie career at the age. of 38. “I got into pictures when I as 9,” he recalled. “it was back in | 1923 and I played a kid in a series of pictures Jack Dempsey was do- ing on the old Universal lot. I did some other films and then got into the Our Gang comedies. I Was in them for a couple of years and then found myself washed up at the age of 13.” Rather than retire, Johnny went ‘into vaudeville with another Our Gang graduate, Mary Kornman. Inj the %0s, he returned to pictures and was the. enthusiastic sopho- ! more in countless college pictures. He played many other roles, but his youthful appearance and en- thusiasm tabbed him as a rah-rah | kid. i Eight years ago, the parts started getting scarce, so Downs pulled up his family and went east. “I had one hit show on Broad- | way, ‘Are You With It?’” he re- called. “but although it was a suc- | cess, it didn’t do much for my career, except to establish me on | the stage. I stayed in the East and} did another show, this time a flop, | and summer theaters and tele- | vision.”” Two years ago, he returned to home base in Hollywood with his wife and four children. He did a! daily TV show, performing new dance numbers every day. But his film career didn’t ignite until al few weeks ago. He played a sailor | in “Pleasure Island.” Now he’s | "back on the lot where he got start- | ed; he’s playing a cavai afficer | in UI’s. “Column South,” and ad other film parts are loom- | in | “it has all happened because | some of my friends got on the; phone and started calling people,” he said. “Also, my agent and 1| offered my services to the studios | no longer had to play leads or | ACROSS . Fastener Potato . Light bed Medicinal plant . Present Repent . Plunge into water . Otherwise . Period of tume Happening 0 ery played 5 Tateoae dislike 36. Scent . Dilutes . Pertaining to punishment . Employ Donkey Velocity |. Squander Australian . Icelandic saga Telegram 54. Rail 55. European herb 56. First man 57. Secondary 58. Short distance Tennis aj:- purtenance 23. Poem . Devil 28. Move suddenly FV VV VOC IOV ISIC CCI ICSC S STIS TGCS SFOS SIC OF OURS BILL GIBB 624244 64444444444444444444444444444444 a military plane crash that in- volves civilians. The Army and The Air Force seem to be guilty of unnecessary | censorship much more often than the Navy. Here in Key West the press has | been able to work on a congenial bases with the local navy estab- lishment most of the time. There have been one or two occasions when news was held back. In these instances, the items sur- pressed were strictly an \ntra-ser- vice, family,” affair and did not concern the general public. For that reason the press ignored the subject though they might already have gained all the pertinent facts from outside sources. Generally speaking, censorship is becoming a more and more vital issue on the homefront. Where it isn’t practiced openly, the same effect is reached by creating dif- ficulties for the newsgatherer. For instance, our city police do not keep a regular blotter open to public inspection. Their records are kept on loose leaf pages filed in drawers. If an interested person wanted to check on people in jail, he would have to know ‘ahead of time what person to ask about. Under these conditions a citizen could land in jail and be forgotten — no one would be the wiser. Such cases have shown up recently in both Tampa and Miami. == | the steel price rise need not spread Prospect For AA? DETROIT » — Lawrence Pit- cherella today got back ‘on the wagon” the hard way—30 days in the Detroit House of Correc- tion. eicerele of no peananent mos 's Judge Paul E. Police said the vagabond saw a@ police patrol wagon cruising the downtown area and chased it on foot, screa “Take me! Take me!” He said he wanted to be re- moved from temptation. Liability Rates Can Be Lowered TAMPA (# — Cut down on auto accidents and reduce your car li- ability insurance rates, says the top man among Florida insurance agents. Glen Evins, Tampa, president of the Florida Association of Insur- ance Agents, says that’s the only way lower rates can come about. He referred to Thursday’s an- nouncement by State Insurance Commissioner Ed Larson that car liability insurance premiums will be increased after Aug. 25. The increases apply to the so-called “5 and 10” policies. Hé reported traffic accidents killed or injured 16,657 persons in Florida last year. That was a 25 per cent increase above 1951. Tint tapioca cream a pale pink, flavor it with peppermint, and serve it with chocolate sauce for a scrumptious dessert. Want a tasty relish to serve with hamburgers? Mix finely shredded cabbage with finely ‘diced pickled beets, chopped j celery, salt, freshly-ground pep- per, and French dressing. can do character parts now. Coceword Puzzle Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie DOWN 1. Burdened 2 Fatty fruit Sharp That woman One who way Today’s |TroubleLoomsOnGreek Border By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (®— Drouth and the steel strike — and, some say, poli- tics — have a lot of people debating today: Will the cost of living sky- rocket again? The President says he is thinking | about calling Congress to try to | empty the powder out of that sky- | rocket. At issue: Whether the drouth in some areas threatens such a price | Tise in food, and the wage - price | hike in steel foreshadows such a price rise in other goods, that a| revised controls law is needed to} save the consumer’s pocketbook. Most businessmen doubt it. They look for only a continuing mild up- turn in some prices, as weather or consumer buying habits dictate. And they think this upturn will | be held well in check by the ex- panded ability of industry to pro- duce goods, should demand once more outrun supply. Official opinions differ widely— and confdsingly. Price Stabilizer Arnall says the drouth in the Southeast and New England could mean ‘“‘disaster to your pocketbooks” in higher food prices. ‘ Agriculture Secretary Brannan says the drouth is “not serious enough” to raise food prices gen- erally. Economic Stabilizer Putnam says through other industries. He believes steel fabricators and distributors should each absorb a little of the steel price hike so that the ultimate buyer of things made of steel need not pay more. Businessmen tend to doubt this. They question whether prices can be held down unless consumers simply won’t buy a metal gadget if it costs more than at present. This could force price absorption by makers of products out of steel all right. It might also force some of them out of business, if higher material costs make them lose | money. Some, both in industry and gov- ernment, have been warning of the | increasing pressure of inflation. In business, some have been say- ing the steel strike will mean short- ages of some consumer goods lat- er— the pitch in this could be | tentialities. | prices would be even more un- to try to get customers to buy now. In government, some say the | Steel settlement terms could send all wages and prices higher later on — and some of these officials could be interested in getting con- trol laws strengthened. Acting Defense Mobilizer Steel- man, however, says there has been only a mild upturn in prices since ceilings were removed from many items. o He stresses that no decontrolled NAVY | RRRIVATS . Casteel, Quartermaster, Strtion. fer dv comes to the Key West area after a transfer in duty at Char!eston, &..C. ! Casteel enlisted in the Navy soon after the outbreak of World War Il, and received boot training in Norfolk, Virginia. From there he reported aboard the cargo ship, USS Electra (AKA-4) whose num- ber was charged to (AKA-21) after being damaged in action. In Octo ber of 1945 he was discharged from and enlisted in (Editors note: Russell former chief of the AP Bureau in Tokyo, talked to leading of- ficials in Greece and Turkey last November during a first hand survey of Western European countries, and has kept in close touch with the situation since) By RUSSELL BRINES WASHINGTON — The spear- heads of nearly 300,000 well-armed troops face each other across the | Greek-Bulgarian border, where a | skirmish was fought Thursday for an outpost. Greek and Bulgarian soldiers | have been mobilized along the bor- der for years. Both sides are ready to fight. The skirmish was over tiny Brines, *- , to total between 11 and 15 divi- of the first battles against Com- munist expansion. The United States since 1947 has supplied arms and training to build a modern Greek army. This force totals around 10 di- visions, nearly 150,000 men — with! supporting air and naval units. The Greeks generally are well equipped, but they are short of heavy guns and aircraft. Picked army units are stationed along or near the Bulgarian border in Thrace, from where any land as- sault would come. The Bulgarian Army is estimated sions of approximately 10,000 each. Gamma Island if the Evros River which forms the border. The, Greeks, who claim the island, said | Bulgarians had invaded it, and} opened a mortar attack to drive! them back. Any clash between these hostile | neighbors could have serious po- They form one part); of an uneasy line stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea. Behind them are the massed | forces of the West and East. But most American officials in Europe believe that a border inci- dent would mushroom into major conflict only when the Kremlin de- | cides on a bigger gamble than it} has taken so far. Nevertheless, the incident high- lights the status of the explosive | | } Balkans where the first shots of | * World War I were fired almost 40} years ago. Greece, one of the newest mem- bers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), is one of Russia’s veteran opponents in the global hot - cold war. The Greeks fought and won a bloody campaign against Commu-! nist guerillas, ending in 1949, in one | PSs a ER eit Ah SIC commodities have climbed back to these ceilings. He says this justifies the government’s decontrol policy. The policy likely will continue, and may gather speed this fall.} Controls over the use of steel and other metals needed for de- fense output probably will continue for awhile. But otherwise there are few real shortages any more. Controls are unpopular in many | quarters now. Sharply higher | popular. They are armed with modern So- vi equipment, and at least two divisions are believed to be ar- mored. The Bulgars also face border | forces of the modernized and tough Turkish Army in Thrace where the | boundaries of Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey join. Bulgaria is one main invasion route from Central Europe for any thrust toward the vital Mediter- MONEY FOUND You can save $200 @ year by call- ing 826-W to your junk, rags, old batteries, iron and metal con- verted into cash. Call Harry or Howard. Your Grocer SELLS that Good STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE and CUBAN -—TRY A POUND TODAY— RUGS CLEANED AND Stored Free of Charge 1F DESIRED UNTIL NOV. 30 All Formal Garments chemically processed. All work guaranteed and fully insured. POINCIANA DRY CLEANERS 218 Simonton St. Tel. 1 ranean, believed to be a prime Greece and Turkey form the Southern anchor of Allied defenses in Europe. Even if Russia has no intention of risking major warfare now in this vital region, the long and tense Balkan borders provide another op- portunity to heighten pressure in the cold war. STRONG ARM BRAND ok. 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Aft- | er his discharge in December of this year, he plans to return to his business, a partner in the A-1| Driving School in Jacksonville. | His wife and two children, Paul. ette Elizabeth. age 6 and J Elliot, age 3 reside on Rou’ Box 840, Jacksonville. His par Mr. and Mrs. James L. Casteel al- | so reside in Jacksonville, on Route No. 4, Box 430-B Atomic Test Set LONDON Britain has warned world shipping and air- | | craft to keep out of about 30,000 | square miles of ocean off North- | west Australia because this nation is about ready to set off her first atomic weapon there The admiralty said the hu land - sprinkled area of the Ocean now is dangerous and will remain so until ther notice, owing to “the test ie weapons.” ‘Berlin Lads Jailed BERLIN — Two West Berlin youths were arrested yesterday for ed » is of at id they caught the pair shootng holes in a jewe store window with powerfi j and then hooking the wat ‘ fishing poles. 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