The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 9, 1952, Page 6

Page 6 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, August 9, 1952 McGranery Moves To Continue Clean-Up Of Gov't Corruption By JACK ADAMS *. @ASHINGTON ( — Flanked by an array @f new top assistants, Atty. Gen. James P. McGranery moved forward on a number of fronts today in his battle to clean up any corruption in the federal government. McGranery assembled a news conference to disclose a number of shifts in his chief assistants and to announce that: 1. His department is investigat- ing alleged job sales in the Chicago * Pestoffice—second largest in the country—reputedly at $500 per throw. McGranery said “‘it is only a question of who ny how many we are going to ict 2. He has ordered a grand jury investigation into the 1946 public auction of the government’s 19% million dollar St. John’s River shipyard at Jacksonville, Fla., sold as surplus to the Tampa Shipbuild- ing Co. for $1,928,500. A House committee investigating the Justice Department said alle- Ensign T. Y. Bowen | of Califo gations of bribery and collusion in |: é the shipyard case were referred | to the department six years ago— when Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark was attorney general— but that no action resulted. McGranery told his news con- ference that “the matter should have been investigated more thor- oughly and should have been pre- sented to a grand jury then.” The attorney general also said he has just signed a $39,000 con- tract with the private New York auditing firm of Arthur Young and Co. to check the books of the alien property custodian, Jong under fire by Republican senators. The attorney general called his news conference immediately after President Truman announced three gwew major appoigtments.in the Justice Department, on McGran- ery’s recommendations. They are: Ross L. Malone, 42, Roswell, N. M., attorney never before associ- ated with government, as deputy attorney general, No. 2 post in the. department. He succeeds A. Devitt Vanech, who resigned last week to seek a U. S. Senate seat in Connecticut, his home state. Rowland F, Kirks, 37, former dean of the National University School of Law here, as assistant attorney general for alien prope ty, succeeding Harold I. Baynton, whose resignation was accepted in June. Charles B. Murray, 52, assistant district attorney for the District of Columbia for 25 years, as assistant attorney general for the-eriminal division. McGranery said he had asked James M. Mclnerney, assistant at- torney general in charge of crimi- tl prosecutions since 1950, to shift over to the top post in the lands division. Until recently, this divis- ion was headed by William Amory * Underhill, resigned. Still to be filled are vacancies in the solicitor generalship, and the offices of assistant attorneys gen- eral for tax matters and for anti- trust prosecutions. Seomereiniesrennesiionen, Spitsbergen has been governed by Norway since 1925. fivilized man scorns insects as food but Hottentots consider a lo- cust plague as manna from heaven. HAL ~ BOYLE SAYS By RELMAN MORIN NEW YORK @—As everybody knows, New York is a big, flinty city, cold a cash register, with tekornrve instead of human feel- gs. Everybody knows that. On the way to the office—pk of time to walk down today band come to the first corner, and the street today’ Lexington, and the little shops devoted to “interiors?” of Fifth Avenue and Central Park, the toy sailboats and the lovers, strolling? How about Third Avenue so you can see what's new in the foreign- food stores and the pawn shop beneth the elevated? Each one beckons, smiling and promising, like fruit vendors in a Chinese bazaar. Well, let the traffic lights decide. When they turn red against you, go along with the traffic, cross- town, to the next street. That way, you get something of each one. Plenty of time, this morning. In front of a garage, the chauf- feurs are flicking dust from gleam- ing, black limousines. They are all black livery, with starched white collars. And they have the monu- mental dignity of a conclave of bishops. “How's the old lady this morn- ing, Shamus?” “Better ... She's reading the pa- per in bed before I left. and we sister,” he says, “Or you'll never | get into an argument about flying saucers. I says, ‘Well, okay, if you want to believe in ‘em, that’s up to you,’ I says, ‘But I don't. Down the street a few doors lives | Official U.S. Navy Photo Ensign Thomas Y. Bowen, USNR, son of Mrs. & Mrs. C. S. Bowen, Sciotoville, Ohio, has re- cently completed a four months course in All Weather Flight at the Fleet All Weather Training Unit, Atlantic, Key West, Florida. The course consists of advanced flight training in instruments and night tactics designed to qualify the pilot for Carrier All Weather Squadrons. He enlisted in the Navy in October 1949 and was subsequent- ly selected for flight training in the Navy V—5 program. In Dec- ember 1951, he was designated a naval aviator upon completion of the flight training course at Pen- sacola, Fla. : Ensign Bowen will report to Compoitse Squadron Thirty-three, Naval Air Station, Atlantic City, N. J., for assignment to duty volving flying. He is a graduate of Wheelers- Ka High School, Wheelersburg, io. Peninsular Tel. Hopes To Sell Stock Securities TAMPA (® — Peninsular Tele- phone Company is seeking Securi- ties Exchange Commission approv- al to issue four million dollars worth of preferred stock. Money from the stock sale will be used to retire 2% million dol- lars in short term loans, pay for expansion projects and for cable already ordered. in- The Mississippi River surface between dikes at New Orleans is normally about 3 feet above sea level and above the average level of the city’s streets. an old man and a cat. The cat is under-sized. She looks like a kitten, and knows it. She is totally happy with strangers. She stands in front of them, mewing, and when they stop, she arches her back and purrs, rubbing against their ankles, The cat cadges any number of drinks that way, because most peo- ple. fall for her act. “How's your cat,” you ask the old man. “Gone,” he says, yawning and scratching his chest. “Went off with the fellow drives the special delivery...She’ll be back, though.” A bus is stopped at the corner, and the door is open. You can hear the driver explaining directions to a woman. “Lady, you want to be going up-town — that way. You're going the wrong way.” He glances at the traffic light, which is green and guns his motor, just a little. She hands him a piece of paper and says something in a thick, foreign accent, “Yes, ma'am,” he said, “I got the address all right.” He looks at the light again. Still green. “But it’s back that way where you want to go. You get the other bus.” She hesitates for an instant be- fore she steps down. The light turns red. “Well ‘id the bus driver, with sigh. “I guess it's tough stranger in the city.” There’s a wedding at St. Pat- rick’s this morning, and a crowd has gathered. (New Yorkers are always in such a hurry they never | have time for anything.) A little girl, pursuing one of the pigeons, darts into the street. A taxi veers, crowding out an- other. Skidding tires growl. The driver stops, hard. ‘Look out there, be walkin’ down these steps hang- in’ on some guy's arm.” As everybody knows, New York is a good place to visit, but you woulda’t want to live there. i iceal | ; By The Associated Press Democratic Nominee Adlai Ste- venson held closer rein today in his race for the presidency while Republican leaders, including GOP Nominee Dwight D. Eisenhower, | tagged foreign policy as the prime issue. Stevenson picked a close friend, Stephen A. Mitchell, Chicago, as chairman of the Democratic Na- tional Committee. The Illinois gov- | ernor’s choice was approved Fri day by the committee’s executive | committee and full ratification is expected shortly. Thus, Stevenson put another lieutenant in a key position. The first was Wilson Wyatt, Louisville, Ky., named by the governor to he Stevenson campaign head- quarters. At Denver, John Foster Dulles announced Friday that he, Eisen- hower and the GOP vice presiden- tial nominee, Sen. Richard Nixon i agree foreign policy is the major issue of the campaign. “The trend of our present foreign | Policies,” Dulles said, ‘tis to pul out nation in the greatest peril it has ever been in (during) the en- tire course of our national history.” Dulles, one-time adviser to Sec- retary of State Dean Acheson, ex- ) pressed strong doubt that Steven- son was experienced enough “in making grave decisions.” F “Gen. Eisenhower, through his experience, has developed and | demonstrated that capacity,” Dul- les: said. He declared that only Eisenhower's election could block Soviet domination and avert a third world war. A Democrat, meanwhile, pre- licted a change in America’s for- rign policy. Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas, chairman of the Senate ?reparedness Committee, told a fexas American Legion convention at Dallas Friday: “Someday, somewhere, the American people will insist upon a new policy. It will be a daring policy, a courageous policy that strips aside the defensive posture in which we have stoodi too long.’ Johnson spoke after Donald Wi son, Clarksburg, W. Va., Legion national commander, called U. S. foreign policy ‘“‘weak-kneed”. and urged Secretary Acheson’s ouster. Friday night in Chicago, about 100 persons—dissatisfied with the Democrats and the Republicans— voted to form a third party. The vote came at a rump session after the main group, assembled to look into the third-party idea, decided to give it further thought. Kirby Walker, a Chicago engi- neer, said many at the conference “are gravely concerned with socia- lism in both major parties.” Harmony apparently reigned in Tennessee after the upset defeat of Sen. Kenneth D. McKellar and Gov. Gordon Browning. McKellar, dean of the Senate, lost his bid for a seventh six-year , term to Rep. Albert Gore. Brown- , ing, seeking a third straight term, was beaten by Frank G. Clement, a former FBI agent. McKellar and Browning conceded defeat in Wednesday’s primary— equal to election in strongly-Demo- cratic Tennessee — and promised cooperation to the winners. Back on the presidential race- course; schedules in both camps ran to conferences, Eisenhower had a date in Denver | Monday with supporters from nine southern states—Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Mis. sissippi, South Carolina, Florida and Virginia, Members of the delegation scheduled to meet with Eisenhower Monday include: Florida — C. C. Spades, St. Au- gustine, GOP national committee- man, James Gmuilmartin, Mi ami, and Paul E. Helliwell, also {of Miami, both active in Eisen- hower Citizens’ Committees. Also Monday, the general will confer with Republican members of the Senate and House Agricul- ture Committees. Stevenson is scheduled to receive. new Democratic Chairman Mitch ell at Springfield, Ill., today. On | Sunday, those two huddle at | Springfield with the retiring chair man, Frank E. McKinney, India napolis, Stevenson goes to Washington on Tuesday, along with the Democrat ie vice presidential nominee, Sen John Sparkman, for a conference with President Truman’ and his Cabinet. Sanford Clerk Found Guilty SANFORD @ — Mrs, Lillian Clark’s attorneys are expected to appeal her conviction of embezzi- ing $9,671.85 from the Seminole | County tax collector's office where she was chief clerk. A jury deliberated 55 minutes Friday night, then found the church woman and mother of two guilty of the charge. Sentence was de- ferred Mrs. Clark toek the stand in her | defense Friday and denied she took } the money. She said the day she didn’t show up for work—May 9, 1951—she tried to commit suicide by eating Tat poison because she was worried over her husband’s anger about (her daughter's wedding plans. -. the way The Key West Citizen gets around in the best family circles! One second it’s under Dad's arm, the very next .. WHOOSHI! it’s gone! Junior has the comics on the living room floor. Then Daughter swoops down to get the fashion news. After the dishes are done Mother gathers the paper together care- fully to start tomorrow's shopping. Poor Dad! But lucky you, for this is the kind of magic that puts a song in your cash register. An interested audience in every home! What a place for your selling message! Where else can you meet so many people who have so many things to buy .. . in one fell swoop! Grab a piece of this merchandising magic for yourself by using the newspaper more consistently. Call one of our representatives and let him show you how you can build more business with consistent advertising. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN