The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 12, 1952, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, August 12, 1952 The Key West Citizen —— eee 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 Ll. P. ARTMAN Publishez NCRMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 FF ‘ember 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. ‘ember Florida Press Association and Associatec Dailies of Florida ——— Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12.00; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION | er le i ea eS EE ‘The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue ‘and subjects of local or general interest, out it will not publish anonymous communications. - Page 2 IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED a BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Auditorium. PROGRESSIVE PARTY FARCE Progressive Party campaign manager E. B. Baldwin, hag written 439 radio stations, 94 television stations and the Federal Communications Commission, demanding that equal facilities and time be allowed Progressive Party candidates as that allowed Republican and Democratic Party candidates. The letters called upon the stations to say whether they had carried acceptance speeches of Progressive Par- ty candidates for President and Vice-President, whom most Americans have never heard of, as. were acceptance speeches of Democratic and Republican nominees. The Federal Communications Commission has in the past is- sued an order that requires stations to provide equal fa- cilities to the opposing political party to offset time al- lowed the others. Now, Mr. Baldwin seeks to turn this democratic pro- cess into a farce. His Progressive Party is not a national party, and there is no basis for 439 stations and 94 tele- vision stations to carry the speeches of Progressive Party candidates. Nor is there any reason why similar speeches by candidates of the Liberal Party or any other party, similarly localized, should be carried. It seems to us that Mr. Baldwin is not seeking equal- fty but special favor — and the F. C. C. should exercise mature judgment and turn down his ridiculous proposal. The F. C. C. should set some sort of standard, as to what constitutes a national party, and base their decision on this formula. It is a delicate issue, but opportunists cannot be allowed to destroy democracy. Q 4 5. COPTERS HOP THE ATLANTIC Two helicopters, named Hopalong and Whirlaway, recently flew from the United States to an Air Force base in Germany. The flight was staged to determine whether it was cheaper to disassemble the copters and ship them by boat or fly them intact across the Atlantic. The two helicopters which crossed from the United States to Germany were the first to fly the ocean. They went from Westover Air Force Base, Massachusetts, on July 15 and landed in Germany the first week in August. Thus the flight took approximately the same amount of time as a boat crossing would have required. Major Alvin T. Sawyer, of Washington, D. C., public information officer, who flew in a transpart beside the copters all the way across the ocean, announced in Ger- many that it had cost more to deliver the helicopters by flight than it would have cost to crate them and transport | them by ship. It seems that the helicopter, unlike the con- ventional-type airplane, flies too slowly to make Atlantic crossings practical from an economical standpoint. When one considers that the helicopters made their flight during the period of the year when weather is at its best, he must conclude that the test disproved the feasi- bility of ocean hops for helicopters. Yen BOUT THAT PROMOTION, SiR!... FRANKLY. NEED THe EXTRA DOUGH HAL BOYLE HOLLYWOOD NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (#—In the movie business, a star isn’t pudged by the size of his roles or salary. It’s SAYS WILL GIVES FARM | it is a matter of financial securty. | By RELMAN MORIN (For Hal Boyle) NEW YORK # — Katherine Towle is one of those women who make you look twice, even when the bride is hanging on your arm. She is tall, slim, grey-haired and handsome. Her eyes are a cool blue, cool and appraising. Being feminine to her finger tips she sel- dom mentions her several univer- sity degrees, nor what she has been doing the past seven or eight years. In large part, this has been to act as a walking advertisement for the Marines. She is a colonel in the corps, director of the women Marines. They announced the other day that she will retire next year to become the dean of women at the Uniwer- sity of California. That’s her alma mater. She comes from Towle, Calif., a town founded by her grandfather. “Kay,” as they call her out there, was up to her eyebrows in literature 10 years ago when our share of the war.was getting under way. The Marines needed women, and she went in. Five years later, they put eagles on her shoulders. The new colonel was feeling pretty good about those chicken wings until a certain day in an elevator. A dear little old lady peered at the emblems and said: “IT suppose that means you’re a member of one of the bird-watch- ers societies. How nice! I just love birds, myself.” Well, the colonel doesn’t take herself very seriously, but even though she is returning to her own chosen field, she is still sold on the armed services as a career for women. There are 2,600 women Marines now. Their equivalent of “boot camp” lasts six weeks, and then they go on to greener fields. It’s amazing what those six weeks do for a girl. Their day starts at 5 a.m., and brother, for the next 14 hours, they labor! They get discipline and they learn manners. Y@1 may have no- ticed that the average woman in uniform is at home in almost any company. They learn how to walk, and talk, and how to be as com- pletely self-reliant as any of us ever can be. The Marines lay before them a| future, in terms of education, and | even a career if that’s what they | want. As you probably know, there are four general reasons why women | enlist. For some, it is purely aj} question of patriotism. For many, Others, who have not been able | to afford a college education, go) into uniform in order to get it. Still others, frankly, are looking for a husband. And why not? A great many girls, even work- ing girls, complain they don’t meet any men. Or the kind they want. That problem, generally speak- ing, doesn’t exist for the women in the services. They are in a position to look over the boys, and throw the inedible types back in the sea. Does a tour in the services de- feminize a girl? Nothing makes ’em more angry than that question. Definitely not, any officer in any branch—WACs, WAFs, Waves or Marines—will tell you They say that if you put 1,000/ women in a factory, or any place | where they work with men, the} percentage of personal disasters | | how big and elaborate the dressing room is. When unknown players are signed at a studio, they have vir- tually no place to hang their hats. If they succeed in becoming fea- tured players, they are assigned rooms in a building with their col- leagues. If they make the dizzy climb to stardom, they are moved into a swank building with other stars and given fancy suites. Dressing rooms at the MGM star factory are the particular head- ache of Miss Eli Benneche. She has been decorating interiors at the studio for over two decades. “I have to take care of 750 dres- sing rooms and offices,’ she re- ported. “Most of them have to be designed and decorated individual- ly, The actors aren’t the only ones who have certain desires in color and decoration; the directors and producers can be just as particu- lar, or more so. I suppose that’s true of all people in show business, in which color and design play such an important part.” Times have changed, she added, remarking that the economy wave in Hollywood has cut down the lavishness of stars’ dressing rooms. “In the old days, we might re-do a star’s room every two or three years,” she said. “That doesn’t happen any more.” She looked back rather wistfully to the days when the MGM queens vied for supremacy. Top gal was Norma Shearer, who had a suite in expensive modern design. Joan Crawford had an’elaborate English 18th Century affair. Marion Davies held court in her own building, a two-story Spanish house. When she got mad at the studio and left, she moved the building off the lot. “At first Garbo wouldn’t talk to anyone but Adrain, who desgned her rooms,” Miss Benneche said. “But in her last years here, she came down to earth a little. She let me design her dressing room, but it was a great problem. I could not get a decision from her on anything. When she did decide, she would contradict herself later. Hedy Lamarr was another head- ache, Miss Benneche added. Hedy was overly particular and also wanted to change things. The de- signer almost gave up on Judy Garland, who wanted black and white decor. “Katharine Hepburn’s room was terrible,” the decorator exclaimed. “Why, she wouldn’t allow anything but striped mattress ticking on the bed. She had some ratty curtains on the window and droopy cartoons hung on the walls. She didn’t want anything fancier.” Dressing rooms for present MGM ! stars are elegant but restrained. Greer Garson leans to turquoise with dark green and white. Lana Turner’s room is mostly white with pale pink and blue. Elizabeth Tay- lor’s is peach and white. Esther Williams has early American de- sign with blue and red predominat- ing. Some men, like Red Skelton and Fred Astaire, never make requests, Miss Benneche remarked, but most actors are just as particular as the women. Most of the men prefer | red_and blue. “But th@men aren’t so quick to change,” she said. ‘I designed an early American room for Clark} Gable back in 1937, and he hasn’t allowed it to be changed since.” would be larger than it is in the services, Do the professional officers treat them as equals? “Most of them,” says Col. Towle. “There are still a few old-timers around who don’t. But they’re learning.” across 32. Gem |. Olden times 34 One of the . Oust ‘Apostles 9. Wing 36. Foot covering 2. Manner 39. Pasteboard ae . Mark dimed at 2 Flat-bottomed in curling boat ‘oe 17. Urchin i8. More rational Goddess of 43. 45. Grown boy 48. Paddle 49. Blundered 50. Greek letter Loum deposit 51. Compass point 5 52. Thick 33. Light blow Light brown DOWN Malt liquor Al VIEI2)S!1 ONIMG/R] 1 |P) O33 3088 Oana B00 DEG6u O0a0 Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle 6 One who frosts cakes 1. Eccentric rotating piece Endeavoring Chan, Roman bronze eB PBBSRr a at AND EVERYTHING ON IT TO NEIGHBOR SOMERSET, Pa. ®—The search of an isolated home occupied by a wealthy man — who even in death was armed with a gun and a fierce pack of dogs — is almost completed today but unsolved are the questions: Why did Samuel Jackson King live in such conditions while worth at least $68,0000 And how did he save so much? Treasure hunters who have probed the debris - littered moun- tain farmhouse where King lived | have come up with nearly $18,000 in negotiable bonds, old currency, gold and silver coins in addition to bank books, safe deposit vault | keys and.real estate déeds indi- | cating an estate worth approxi- mately $50,000. These were tucked away in places like a sofa, cookie jar and a woman’s corset. The whole thing started 10 days ago when King, 73, was found dead | in a field, on his farm about 20 miles from the Southwestern Penn- sylvania community. Death was | apparently caused by a heart at- ' tack. The Sheriff Karl I. Hare and his deputies went to the house. “I thought there might be some money there,” the sheriff ex- | plained. What they found proved ; that utterance to be an understate- ent. Inside the house was an old sofa where King’s dog “Israel” appar- ently slept. When it was moved out dropped a false bottom reveal- | ing a sheaf of $1,000 bonds, with | not a coupon clipped since 1934. Some $430 in $20 and $10 gold coins were found in a canvas sack. A rumpled roll of old large-sized cur- rency contained hundreds of dol- lars in bills ranging up to $50. Throughout the house officers found tin cans and glass jars filled with coins, some molding with age. One man found a woman's cor- set and was about to throw it away when a wallet dropped from a se- eret pocket stitched in the lining. | It contained $130 in large - sized , j bills. The corset is believed to have been the property of King’s sister, Amanda, who lived with him until her death 18 years ago. Kin nly brother, who lived nearby, visited | frequently. Other visitors paid heed to the signs along the lane leading to his house which warned ‘Keep Out,” “Beware,” and “This Means You.” Two wills, the most recent of | which gives the farm and every- thing on it to a neighbor, Earl Gray, were discovered. Gray worked for years as a part-time hired hand for King. Lions Club Campaigns For Mrs. Scott The Lions club drive headed by Joe Allen to raise money and do- nations for Mrs. Inez Scott whose home was totally destroyed by fire several weeks ago is suc- ceeding, Allen said today. Mrs. Scott was living at No. 4 Barrota Lane, in the rear of 615 Olivia street, when fire demolished her house. She now plans with the |help of the Lions to build a room on to her father’s home, on land he owns, Negro carpenters will perform the labor voluntarily, Allen said. The Lions have been publicizing the campaign for the mother and! her child with excellent results, but still need more help in pro- viding housing and household { equipment, and furniture for Mrs. | ; Scott. | Contributors so far to the house- | hold which was utterly destroyed, linclude the following, said Allen |and his co-workers on the Lions | committee, Conzalo Benzanilia and |Paul G. Albury. | St. Vincent De Paul society, ! through Joe Torano, ten doll: | Ulric Henson, South Street, one| chair; Mrs. Eli&t, 1911 Seiden- burg avenue, a bed; Jack Pepples, | 33-1 Poinciana, table; Mrs. Kenneth | | Bates, 2931 Harris avenue, chair; | Mrs. Archer, 744 Windsor Lane, | | gas stove and children’s clothes; | | Mrs. Walker, 2112 Fogarty avenue, clothes; Bonnie Swan, 2314 Patter- son avenue, di chairs; Mrs. Bi Sigsbee Park, cloth ry Haskins, five Watson, 917 S$ lounge; John England, ard street, ice box; Mrs 804 Caroline street, mattress | | } | } toad, | “Hen- ‘ Kellar eet, | t. e gollars, Isle court, one dol- | | Mrs. A. Parra, | furniture; M. E. s | Mr. Harris, Sea }lar. | Almost 200 tons of coal are re- quired to make the aluminum that goes into a B-36 bomber. j Some electric power plants can generate one kilowatt-hour with less than a pound of coal, while W years ago it took three pounds. Searchers Sift Debris Of Littered Mountain Farm For Treasure Over $50,000 * Today’s Business Mirror By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK ®—Mountains of merchandise will have to be moved by businessmen on their own hook —once the twin levers of defense spending and new plant construc- tion are withdrawn. That day of reckoning has been postponed by the steel strike’s slowdown of industry and by the stretch-out of the rearmament pro- | gram. But now it’s expected to come sometime after mid-1953. And gov- ernment and businessmen are wor- rying about it. And both are study- ing what to do to keep a greatly expanded industry set-up busy and to stave off a sharp slump. The National Sales Executives, Inc. — a group of some 20,000 executives directing the efforts of two million salesmen — offers one set of solutions today. The government, Commerce Sec- retary Sawyer says, has under way a study of business and employ- ment prospects. Department econ- omists have been told to come up with ways and means of keeping things going once the defense build- {up ends, and when industry, with | greatly increased industrial pro- duction facilities, has to look to consumer demand alone to keep it busy. The National Sales Executives admit the danger and have done some planning of their own. To help businessmen move the moun- tains of merchandise when “we find ourselves once more in a pe- ‘riod of competition,” the NSE is issuing a ‘“‘guide for competitive markets.”” Faustin Johnson Solon, chairman of NSE’s advisory planning com- mittee and vice president of Owens - Illinois Glass Co., says | the manual’s aim is to help point out ways “to keep the distribution stream flowing — free from stag- nant polls of inventories, shut- downs and other obstructions.” Increase the consuming power of the consumer, sell him, and plan for still more sales — that’s the way to beat the slump that could follow the let-down in defense spending, the NSE guide preaches. The volume of capital outlays for plant and new equipment will have to be tied in with product sales, and company profits are also keyed to sales, NSE holds. So, within a year or so, the salesman. is going to be the key man in our whole economy. Nation’s Death Rate Drops 45% WASHINGTON (#— A _ health study shows the nation’s death rate dropped nearly 45 per cent during the first half of this century while life expectancy increased, “All ages have shared in the im- provement in health,” said a book published Sunday by the Brook- ings Institution, a private research organization. The 1900 death rate of 17.2 per 1,000 persons was compared with 9.6 per 1,000 in 1950. A decline was noted in diseases like pneumonia and similar respiratory maladies, but increases were recorded for disorders like cancer and other ma- lignant tumors. Coal-carrying seif-unloading lake vessels can discharge their cargoes | at the rate of 2,100 tons per hour. ' The watermelon grower faces crop danger from fungus diseases | as well as insect pests such as cucumber bettles, melon aphids, cutworms and wireworms, says the National Geographic Society. SLOPPY JOE'S BAR * Burlesque * Continuous Fleer Shows & Dancing Starring The Fabulous SALLY MARCELLA LYNN AND GOGO GABE, CATHY CARROL, SANDRA LANE AND A HOST OF OTHERS Dancing To MARK STANLEY’S TRIO Never An Admission of Minimum Charge Stored Free of Charge IF DESIRED UNTIL NOV. 30 | All Formal Garments chemically j | THIS ROCK OF OURS | BILL GIBB 00444 464444444444444444444444444444448 Would you like to come behind; been watching us get ready for the scenes of your front-page stories and see things from a re- porter’s angle? First of all, you had _ better don some armour. Not such stuff as bullet-proof vests, etc., but 2 protective coating of determina- tion that you're going to draw with words an impartial picture of events. You’re temporarily going to be the eyes and ears of thousands of citizens. Let’s go to an actual meeting of public officials that has al- ready been written up in past issues of The Key West Citizen. We won't identify the people or the place because The Citizen accomplished its job and there is no need in causing hard feel- ings. Events depicted, however, are not unusual. You and the photographer are waiting outside the building for the meeting to start. A spokes- man of the officials walks up and says: “Who invited you people tonight?” The question is perfectly legiti- mate. After all, the meeting was supposed to have been a secret and though the officials are serv- ing the public’s interest, they prefer to not allow this same public to know what they are doing. You counter the question with another one: “Isn't the press invited to pub- lic meetings?” It looks like it is going to be a night of questions because the spokesman answers: “How did you find out about tonight?” You decide if it is a marathon of questions they want, you cap play the game. “Are you trying to say you don’t want the public to know what goes on?” you ask. The spokesman by this time isn’t happy. He grunts a “We'll see,” and returns to his waiting compatriots. They talk earnestly for a few minutes and it gives you a change to warn the photographer —“Get ready for a quick shot if they block us at the door.” When everyone begins to file in for the meeting, you and the photographer tag along. Sud- denly, one of the officials swings around and stops you at the door. “You're not wanted at this meeting tonight,” he says. The flash of the photographer's bulb startles you as badly as the officials momentarily, but you ask him to have the chairman of the meeting come to the door and inform you of your undesirability. The photographer gets ready for enother close-up of this denial of public information. Secretly your heart trips an extra beat. You know that as soon as the chairman refuses you admission, even for such a minor meeting, you've got a national rather than a local story. Every newspaper in thé U.S. will de- vote a couple of lines to the story and several paragraphs to an editorial. Your photographer’s eyes shine with excitement. He knows that the picture he takes, as well as y ur story, will be flashed over the entire nation in a matter of hours. the picture.” At any rate, a minute later, the original man who blocked your entzance comes back with a smile and says: “You all come on in and make yourselves com- fortable.” For the next two hours, you're a pretty busy little boy and you regret the days when you re- fused to learn shorthand. Your photographer is just as busy. He watches the meeting and he watclies your signals for “shots.” You two people are probably the only impartial observers on the scene. Everyone else at the meeting has definite feelings one way or the other. Since you quote all of their opinions, they are going to say that you're a bad reporter. After all, they only want to see or hear their side of the argument. Finally, the meeting draws to a close. You shake yourself After five minutes of waiting, shadows move in a darkened room off to your right. “Heck,” wearily. Your photographer goes home to develop his pictures. You yourself proceed to your house to write. You'll both be lucky to get to bed by 2 o'clock in the morning. The job can’t be put off though because the next morning at 7 o'clock you and the photographer will be on the job faced with dozens of other news stories that are just as important to readers—whether the items concern children, sports, or so- ciety. Tomorrow night there wiil be another meeting of some other similar group of officials. It is a mad, round-the-clock whirl that divorces you from friends, home, and entertain- ment. The one consolation is the satisfaction of having done a job to the best of your ability. P.S.—The pictures are kept for future use if necessary. They represent undeniable facts. Hee Rodriguez, Cuban third base- man for the Chicago White Sox, is a chip off the old block. His father used to play baseball in the Cuban League. Golconda is a fortress near Hyderabad city in the Deccan which gained the implication of fabulous wealth associated with the name because diamonds found in the area were cut there. mee) STRAND conten Tuesday and Wednesday MEET DANNY WILSON FRANK SINATRA AND SHELLEY WINTERS Coming: THE WINNING TEAM Ronald Reng: 4 Doris Day MONRGE . Tuesday and Wednesday CAVE OF THE OUTLAWS “ with MacDONALD CAREY ANS ALEXIS SMITH Coming: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN Howard Keel and Betty Hatten AiR COOLED you say to yourself, “they've | Sissi ssn POX NEWS processed. All work guaranteed and fully insured. POINCIANA DRY CLEANERS 118 Simonton St. CT a SAN CARLOS LAST TIMES TODAY David~Bathsheba STARRING GREGORY PECK and SUSAN HAYWARD with Raymond Massey, and Kiron Moore A DARRYL F. 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