The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 21, 1952, Page 3

Question Of Margaret’s Gun ~ Toting Bodyguard Pingpongs Deny Story Across Atlantic; By WARREN ROGERS JR. WASHINGTON @#—The question @ whether Margaret Truman’s gun-toting bodyguard roughhoused Swedish citizens ping - ponged across the Atlantic today, trailing Official denial, comment—and si- lence, Swedish newspapers had first serve Tuesday. They reported what _ they called “tough guy” tactics used by three Secret Service agents accompanying the President’s daughter on her European tour. The Swedish newspaper Ex- said the bodyguards flung aside a photographer who tried to snap Miss Truman’s picture at Stockholm’s Central Station, blocked a theater entrance until . her arrival there and kept news- Men “and photographers outside Stockholm’s town hall while she visited it. Aftonbladet, Sweden’s. biggest @ewspaper, called the agents ‘‘go- fillas.” It said they were uncouth and intercepted Swedes who want- ed to pass “any place where it pleases Miss ‘Truman to be at a moment.” Aftonbladet flung a barb: “Miss Truman is not in danger of her life in Stockholm. .. We understand that she is not going to sing here.” Another press item described the Secret Service men as ‘three tough guys with their left armpits bulg- dng with artillery.” The. White House bounced back an unequivocal denial. Joseph Short, the President’s press sec- retary, said: _ “Our. preliminary reports _indi- cate there is not one word of truth in of the stories alleged to have- published. in. the .Swe- dish newspapers.” ' Short said he had not seen the ‘Swedish newspapers, only wire sservice reports, and the investi- The WEATHERMAN Say: Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy, scattered showers or thundershowers through Friday Continued hot and humid. Gentle variable winds becoming mod- erate to fresh in vicinity of thundershowers. Florida: Partly cloudy with little change in. temperature to- day through Friday. Scattered mostly afternoon and early eve- ning thundershowers. is Jacksonville through, the Flor- ida Straits and East Gulf of Mexico: Gentle variable’ winds through Friday. Partly cloudy weather. Widely scattered show- ers or thundershowers, mostly nar the shore in the afternoons. Western Caribbean Sea: Gentle to moderate east to northeast winds, through « Friday’ . except winds variable over extreme south portion. Partly cloudy weather. Scattered showers and thundershowers. ‘Weather conditions remain nor- mal over the nearby tropics witn no signs of any disturbance. Observations taken at City Office 9:00 AM. EST ‘Key West, Fla., Aug. 21, 1952 Temperatures Highest yesterday —. 91 Lowest last night 83 ‘gation was continuing. The State ;Department, Short said, was ex- .pecting reports from the Swedish ipolice. | The « Swedish foreign office, jpestigatide had begun its own in- ivestiga ‘Stockholm dispatches jsaid it wanted to know by what right Miss Truman’s bodyguard was armed in Sweden, where even ‘the police are traditionally un- ‘armed. The U. S. Secret Service, also traditionally, arms its agents when- jever they are on duty—whether The Swedish” fOreign office . backed up Short. It said in a state- ‘ment that the agent who reported- ly, stopped. a t had _ simply said: BOR «Soe he og ,.. U. S$. Ambassador Walton But- terworth said virtually the same thing. He cabled the State Depart- ment, quoting the special agent in peharge of Miss Truman’s body- guard as saying about the city :hall incident: “There was no discussion, no ar- ,gument and no weapon was dis- played at any time.” There was some comment from Republicans in Congress. ; Sen, Bourke Hickenlooper of Io- wa expressed curiosity as to “why Miss Truman should be traveling with bodyguards at government ex- pense on a private trip abroad.” » Short emphasized to reporters ‘that the Secret Service is required by law to guard members of the President’s immediate family as well as the President himself. Rep. Albert M. Cole of Kansas said he feared the hubbub could _be “quite damaging to our friend- ship with Sweden.” Sen. Wallace F. Bennett of Utah suggested Communists might have sengineered the whole thing. He added that he considered Afton- bladet’s crack—about Miss Tru- man’s life not being endangered ‘because she was not going to sing to be “in pretty bad taste.” ‘That might draw a blast directly from the President. Truman's af- fection for his only child—he calls her “Baby” — is as well known as the incident in which he fired a ‘hot letter at a Washington music ‘eritic who panned Miss Truman's . The 28-year-old Miss Truman meantime has left Sweden for Hel- sinki, Finland. She is due back in ‘the United States Sept. 2 after a six-week visit to nearly a dozen ‘countries, where she met the lead- ‘ers of most of Europe. By WILLIAM C. BARNARD Supertorts, Bots and fighter boar, bomb- ers left Communist factories, stock- — and ‘troop installations in mes today in two massive raids over Northwest Korea. Thirty-eight Okinawa-based B.29s Wednesday. night and early today hurled 350 tans of bombs on Pyong- } Yang, the North Korean capital, after civilians were waraed to get | Mean 87 Normal 83 Precipitation Total last 24 hours... .0 ins. Total this month + 1.80 ins. Deficiency this month _ 1.15 ins. Total this year ____.. 19.40 ins, Deficiency this year __ 63 ins- Relative Humidity at $00 A.M. 65% Barometer (Sea Level) 00 A.M. 29.98 ins.—1015.2mbs. Tomorrow's Almanse Prem UNSC ne, 6:56 Moonrise’ Sa 7:48 om Moonset 8:01 p.m. of:duty in Key awest as a sub- marine officer also deplored, what was extremely light Wednesday snd early today. fighting reported by the U. 3. Army wes on the central front SCHOOL POPULATION (Continued From Pege. One) motel units planned a} Key Largo, Summerland Key, and others, there. are permanent dwellings in Subdivisions be- ing discussed right now. “The motels offer no problems to us school people,” O’Bryant said. “There no -school children are involved. What we are con- cerned with are the reports of home ‘building which means many more school children which in turn means more services from us in the central office.” SAUNDERS TELLS {Continued From Page One) ders said, is divided into commit- tees with each commissioner serv- ing on one or more, covering a Particular phase of the county gov- ernment’s function. They are ap- pointed. by the chairman of the commission. Clarence Higgs is in charge of the airport, hospital and buildings and grounds committees while Joe Allen leads the welfare and beach panels. ‘ Commissioner Frank Bentley {s in charge of the finance commit- tee while Harry Harris supervises the Monroe County road system. Monroe County, besides oper: ing a hospital, now has two coun- ty homes, Saunders said. And the high cost of the county's welfare program ‘was indicated when he told of how one citizen of the county has been in a Miami hos- pital for several months, the cost of which is being born by the county. The for the man al- ready is upwards of 25-hundred dollars. This, however, for hu- manitarian reasons, is a neces- sary expense, Saunders said. “Of the record Monroe County budget, the largest single item is for education,” the chairman ex- plained, “with 60 cents of every tax dollar going for the school sys- tem.” Of the $593,487 budget, only about $160,000, comes from Monroe County taxpayers, he said, with the _ tee is composed of Clem C. Price balance coming from the state in the form of race track and gaso- line tax funds. Every nickel spent by the county is audited twice, he continued. County Clerk Earl Adams checks each expenditure and then it is sent to the state auditor in Talla- hassee. In addition, once a year the state sends an auditor to this city to go over the books, . LANTAFF INVITES (Continued From Page One) of his fellow members in the House. He introduced and suc- ceeded in getting enacted Public Law 213. The measure bans ex- port of military items to- Russia Four Generation oe Citizen dtatr rnoto ON HER 84TH BIRTHDAY, Mrs. Susan Sawyer poses with some of her family at her cottage, rear of 809 Eaton street. Left to right are Mrs. Morell Bradley, her daughter, one of Mrs. Sawyer’s nine children; Mrs. Susan Sawyer; her grandson, Daily Sawyer, age 8, who is a son of Mrs. Frank L. Aritas, a granddaughter of the 84 year old Key Wester who is shown right; and 12 year old Nellie Bradley, a grandchild and daughter of Mrs, Bradley, in the background. : Mrs. Susan Sawyer Celebrates 84th Birthday Today; Recalls Big Fire Of 1886 As Most HAS 24 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; 21 GRANDCHILDREN By Dorothy Raymer Blue eyes, bright as her cordial smile, Mrs. Susan Sawyer, greeted titizen staffers today, on her 84th oirthday, with a firm handclasp. In a clear and steady voice she said, “We had my birthday party early last week so that my great grandson who is with the army out in Wyoming could help cele- brate with me. He had to go back to duty, you see. But I am 84 years old today.” Then she spied the camera and asked, “Do you want to take the picture out in the yard or in the house? There are four generations of my family here.” She introduced her daughter, and Satellites, as well as cuts off aid to other countries making such exports. Lantaff/ also introduced the resolution calling for an investi- gation into the critical shortage of steel, and as a résult, the Sub- Committee of the Expenditures Committee was created. “Economy in Government” has been Rep. Lantaff's theme. He believes the best way to stop in- flation and the only way to cut down taxes is to stop spending. “If America’s economic struc- ture collapses, the democratic world will collapse. Therefore we must eliminate the non-es- sential activities of government and stop deficit spending. Con- gress has scraped the bottom of the tax barrel and I for one will not ‘vote for any new. taxes in 1952.” Congressman Lantaff has said on many occasions, C. OF C. SPENDS (Continued From Page One) cost of $5,00; 25,000 summer adver- tising folders were bought at a cost of $250, ten 2 column, 5 inch ads in Miami newspapers, $600; con- vention promotion for the BPW and Navy Wives annual meetings, $250, the purchase of 25,000 envelope stickers publicizing Key West as a ragweed-free haven for Hayfever | sufferers and numerous photo- graphs for distribution to newspa- pers were purchased, In addition to Earl Adams, the organization's advertising commit- and Charles Kreilek. | A year ago the Chamber adopted | a policy of concentrating its adver-| tising efforts toward summer cam- paigns instead of during the winter months. This came at the sugges- tion of firms engaged in the tourist | industry, who stated that the winter months pretty well take care of| themselves but that during the! summer, tourist travel requires a_ stimulant. SWITZ FACES (Continued From Page One) Jersey. One associate of Switz, Al Bonner has been apprehended while another, Jimmy Singleton, is still at large. ! Local law enforcement agencies came in for a bit of praise said that they had spent thousands | of dollars in a vain attempt at | i i also praised rendering his decision in wor of the state of Pennsylvania. | Doarnceoit? | | Cpl. Frank Sawyer, visited with , of my getting around these days.” Mrs. Morrell Bradley, her grand- daughter, Mrs. Frank L. Aritas who lives with her in the cottage at the rear of 809 Eaton St. “And these,” she said pointing proudly to a boy and girl who stood shyly ih the background, “are two of my great-grandchildren, I haves»24 great-grandchildren and 21 grand- children.” Mrs. Sawyer is the widow of Joseph Sawyer who died in 1947, Accurately she recalled the dates. “He was 84, just the age I am now on December 20, 1946 and he died July 17 just five years ago. We were married 65 years. And we had nine children. I raised all of them right here mm this little house where I’ve lived. for 56 years.” Mrs. Sawyer was born in Key West in 1868. “My maiden name was Adams, and I am related to Earl Adams who is up at the court- house. He’s a second cousin. We have some fine people in my fam- ily,” she said proudly, Asked what was her most vivid memory of the old days in Key West she replied, “I remember the big fire. I forget the exact year, but I was married and had one child.” (The fire was in 1886.) Asked if she remembered the days when horse streetcars instead of busses were used for transpor- tation, she alertly corrected the question. “Yes, I remember well. But the cars were pulled by mules, not horses. This town ‘shore’ has | built up some since the days when | I was a girl. We had busy years | of course when the ships came in, | but there are a lot more buildings | now.” | Mrs. Sawyer’s great-grandson | his bride from Wyoming, and his | wife’s family, last week. “My! We | had a great time celebrating my birthday early so that Frank could be here for it. He took me for a get out much anymore and it was | a treat to look at the new places | in town. Then when we came back from the ride, there was the big | crowd here for the surprise party! |! They said they were going to take |, me to some of those nightclubs, |; but I would rather have parties at home. My doctor comes to the || house when I don’t go to the office |/ and now and then I go to the beauty parlor, but that’s the extent “My hair is| naturally curly. I just go to the | beauty parlor to have it arranged.” | Mrs. Sawyer said she had no | special formula for long life except | | “Just be happy as you gan. In 65 | years of marriage, vg ups and downs, but we never part- | ed. Having a big family is a lot | of trouble sometimes, but « large family is one way to happiness.” She laughed and said, “If my * TRUMAN TELLS PRESS (Continued from Page One) at Truman what the Democratic candidates have been saying, he was asked whether “you have any feeling of being a target.” He said he can’t possibly be. a target on the Democratic side because he is the key of the campaign. Of course he will be a target of. Eisenhower and his cohorts, Truman said. |» As to how he is a campaign key, | he said the Democratic Party must Vivid Memory Of The Old Days In Key West run:on the record of Truman and Roosevelt administrations. He said he couldn’t comment on conference Wednesday thet corrup- | tion has been “proven” to exist in Washington because he hadn't Stevenson’s statement to a news seen an article on it. Stevenson said Wednesday at Boise, Ida., that the administration is applying “the philosophy of the left,””. Truman said he hadn’t read that either, or the Republican nom- loss wil4.. ‘Size 6.50/16 (ie price $228), BOW Su7s. ple tex exchonge Sreaping Peer mee | sed te Thursday, August 21, 1952 Margaret Calls Incident Simple | Misunderstanding HELSINKI, Finland #—“I be- ‘| lieve it must all have been a sim- ‘| ple misunderstanding.” That was Margaret Truman’s statement at a news conference -|today over the ruckus kicked up by Swedish newspapers over al- leged “tough guy” tactics used in *| Stockholm by her bodyguards. The President’s daughter had ‘|other descriptions, too, such as “Much ado about nothing,” and “It was really silly” about accounts in Stockholm newspapers such as the one published by Expressen, which said the bodyguards—mem- bers of the U. S. Secret Service— | flung aside a photographer who tried to take Miss Truman's pic- -|ture at Stockholm’s Central Sta- tion. As for that account, Miss Tru- 3 man suggested that perhaps the .| photographer involved did not un- derstand English. Miss Truman stressed that she had been supplied with a. body- guard not on her own wish but because a U. S. law stipulates that members of the President’s family must always be protected by such guard. She said that no member of her entourage had ever forbidden pic- tures being taken of her. Miss Truman arrived here today on her European tour. Photogra- phers snapped as many. pictures as they wanted while her three- man bodyguard: remained discreet- ly in the background. She plans a two-day stay in Finland. inee’s statement that the govern- ment does everything but come in and wash the housewife’s dishes. That, Truman said, will be gone into rather carefully a little later on, but it will be on the stump, not at a news conference. Asked how he keeps up with gen- eral matters such as these if he doesn’t read about them, Truman said he knows more about govern- ment than any man in the United States. And he said he knows ex- actly what the opposition is going to say. Read Wendell L. Willkie, he suggested. Read Thomas E. Dewey. He said you get a repeat— it’s all been said before. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 9 Texas Colonel Guest Of Col. (Ret.) Rogers Col. Edward A. Howe, U. S&S. Army Engineers Corps, retired, came to visit another retired Col., Key. West’s Rey. Ralph Rogers to- day. Rev. Rogers showed Col. Howe, who comes from Texas, around the Island City. Like all Texans, Col. Howe refused to praise a “foreign” state, For publication he would say only: “Texas is an independent state surrounded by nuisance taxes.” Rev. Rogers took his guest with him to the Rotary luncheon at noon. Col. Howe will leave the Is- land City for a journey back to Texas, via St. Petersburg. 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