The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 27, 1952, Page 2

Rage 2 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, August 27,1952 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 t. P. ARTMAN Publisher NCRMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 5] and 1935 —_— ‘Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use tor reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the Jocal news gublishea here. ‘ Sa EE ore’ Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12.00, By Mail $15.60 QDVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen Is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue ‘gnd subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish FOR BY THE CITIZEN and Apartments. ‘Land Sea. of County and City Governments. LAND REFORMS IN EGYPT It is vitally important to both the United States and Great Britain that economic stability and law and order are achieved in Egypt. The sea route between East and ‘West, the Suez Canal, cuts through Egypt, making it par- ticularly important from a military standpoint, A month or two ago, Gen. Mohammed Naguib forced Egypt’s King Farouk to abdicate, Naguib’s main idea seems to be to clean up political corruption which he blames for the army’s reverses in the war with Israel in 948, : Now the General is making a bid for popular. sup- port in the form of land reforms. Land holdings are to be limited to 200 acres of farm land, and surplus acreage is to be distributed among peasants owning less than two acres, as a means of raising the standard of living of the people. . If the land reform program is carried out, it will mean turhing-over 1,600 square miles of farm land to the podrest pegsants, The government would pay -compensa- tion to the expropriated holders, and thé peasants: who received land would eventually repay the government. The Egyptian government has been controlled by the big landowners for years, and nothing much has been done about agricultural poverty. About 13,000 families own more than 200 acres of land apiece in the Nile Val- ley, while 1,500,000 families own less than an acre of land apiece. The proposed land reforms have caused optimism among observers that Gen. Naguib may be able to achieve stability in Egypt. ‘ Automobile traveling is getting to be a calculated risk. ; No one can be as sure of his opinions as the thorough- ly ignorant. Religion and tolerance go hand in hand, but some of us evidently miss the connection, Regard!ess of what the teenager thinks, even if Pine- ville loses its football opener, the world will continue to turn. Friends of gambler Frank Costello, who was supPpos- edly untouchable, were writing him in care of a New York jail, last we heard, HAL BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK @—‘“Do you re- member in Paris when—” That is a phrase that crops up often among veterans attending the American Legion “convention here, , Gay Paree? The very mention of her name brings a gliat to the eyes of every man that knew her in wartime. For Paris was the silver foxhole of two World Wars —the greatest leave city in history. She had»a bit of happiness for every visitor in uniform. “I was there ona pass in 1918,” says the gray-haired veteran with a paunch. “I sat down at a table at a sidewalk cafe, and this girl came over to talk to me, and— honest to God—her name really was Cha¥maine, and—” “You think Charmaine was some- thing,” breaks in the younger vet. “You oughta seen her daughter in It must have been her daugh- ter, because I met her at a side walk cafe, too, She was like a double martini in skirts, and —” And others pitch in, and the lie- swapping goes on for hours. Every soldier is sure he saw Paris at her peak, and the things that happened to him never happen to anybody else in quite the same way. I feel that way, too. But the first time I saw Paris she was no lovely lady in a summer frock, She was a fierce fighting lass, with her gown torn from one shoulder, a gun slung over the other, and her hair streaming defiantly in the wind. z It was the day the Allied liber- ators marched into Paris... eight years ago this week. For days the underground French patriots had been building street barricades at night and fighting running gun battles in the streets with the panicky German garri- son, The Nazis began to fire indis- criminately . .. They pulled a half dozen Frenchmen into a_court- yard, tried them and shot them on the spot . . . The rioting only spread... A home-made bomb— a bottle of gasoline—was tossed in a passing Nazi troop truck, and the enemy soldiers rolled off on the pavement and died in flaming, screaming agony. French cheers echoed from nearby windows. A great Allied task force was dispatched by Gen. Omar N, Brad- ley. -It. was spearheaded by a French:.armored division so that Frenchmen could have the honor of liberating their own capital. But the Gallic tanks lumbered slowly. Every few hundred yards they stopped to be garlanded with flowers, and the tankmen crawled out to get a kiss and a bottle of wine from the suburban Char- maines. Finally, the French general was bluntly told to fight his way on into the city or the American Fourth Infantry- Division would march in ahead of him. That got him moving. On the morning of Aug. 25 ‘the French tanks and American doughboys engulfed Par- is like a resistless tide. German resistance crumbled quickly, but the city was loud with singing bullets. Every Frenchman seemed to have seized his grand- father’s horse pistol or rifle and begun firing it wildly at everyone he suspected, including probably his landlord. Mortar chip¢ fell throughout the city, and no place was safe. A line of-sweating German pris- oners was marched through a taunting mob, and one Frenchman stepped up and smashed a Ger- ACROSS 29, Highway 1. Rubbish 31, Seesaw 5. Asterisk 33. Surgical in~ a : Ingeaient ot 9. Pile eT People’s Forum peececccsesoucveseesoes the right to delete any items which red the writer must accompany letters and will be published less request “Urges Nation-Wide Presidential Primary” cae Editor, The Citizen: S The recent Conventions, with the emphasis placed on this delegate or that Key delegation, has caused me to believe even more firmly that a nation-wide primary for the selection of Presidential candidates is essential for the future develop- ment of democracy in the United States. At the present time in Florida, the individual citizen has no ef- fective means of directly regis- tering his choice for the nominee of the political party which he sup- ports. While I realize that Florida has a preferential primary and also provides for the selection of dele- gates who are pledged to a partic- ular candidate, even then it is not possible for a citizen to vote direct- ly for the nominee of his choice as his party’s candidate for. the Presidency of the United States. In order to correct this short- coming I have introduced into the Congress, during the last session, Senate Joint Resolution 145, which would provide for an amendment to the Constitution to enable each citizen to register by secret ballot his preference for the nominee of his particular political party. This Resolution provides for a nation- wide primary for the selection of both candidates for President and Vice-President with the same me- thod for determining the nominee being used as is then used in the selection of a President and Vice- President in the November Gen- eral Elections, In an attempt to bring this mat- ter to the attention of the voters in our State, I have taken the lib- erty of writing Secretary of State Gray in asking assistance in ar- Tanging for a referendum or other appropriate expression of the will of the people of your State on the national Presidential primary ques- tion. Your help in accomplishing this would certainly be a step in the direction of better government for all of our people. Newspaper expressions on this subject have been legion, but I feel that the all- out support of the press is essential for the achievement of this end and I would appreciate your as- sistance. With best regards, Sincerely yours, George Smathers, U.'S. S. the = Bali, where Hindu gods still reign, is a place of temples and spectacular rice terraces, glitter- ing dances and ancient music. “Mac,” a prefix on many Scot- tish and Irish names, is a Gaelic word which means son, Se man in the mouth and called him “Pig!”. The blood ran from the German’s mouth, and I will never forget the hate and fear in his eyes. A disciplined soldier always hates and fears a mob. Oh, but then all Paris erupted with joy, The patriots and sus- pected collaborationists still fired at each oher from the rooftops, but on the streets the crowds danced, , , and there was cham- pagne, . , and flowers. , , and kisses everywhere. “Any guy that didn’t get kissed today,” said one soldier, “is an exhibit ist” Ah, Paris, Paris! No one who missed her on the day she drank the wine of freedom ever knew Paris at her peak, 0/8] [Tr] OU AISIE| SIPIAl MS wo Soa Aiwa SW OES SaG0 bGu eeu ee fs A : ony Paua # PERE i z ir ie HOLLYWOOD | NOTES ~ By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD @ — The film studios are supposed to be betting only on sure things these days. It’s a current Hollywood maxim to take no chances. Only the sure- fire money makers are being filmed today. There is one excep- tion to this movement to satisfy | the known public demands for or- thodox film entertainment. Oddly enough, the picture is being made | at MGM, home of glossy musicals and star-packed spectacles. The film is called ‘See How They Run,” and it is the first non-musi- cal made by a major studio with’ an all-Negro cast. Its producer, Sol Fielding, admits that the ven- ture is a financial gamble. “The Negro audience will just about pay for the cost of the pic- ture,” he estimated. “If it has enough quality to attract a seg- ment of the white audience, it might make a profit.” The whole project began in the mind of a young Negro school- teacher, Mary Elizabeth Vroman, Montgomery, Ala. She tried her hand at writing a short story con- cerning the experiences of a teach- er in a Negro school. She sent it, along with a pleading letter, to the Ladies Home Journal. The maga- zine printed both. Teday’s Business tAirror By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (#—Whether by car- tel or not, the United States and its allies have—as of today—an ef- fective corner on the oil supply which would be needed to wage a major war. They will continue to have that corner as long as the Middle East and Venezuela look to them rather than to Russia. And that adds spice to the re- port that WM. Alton Jones, presi- e : : FVVCVIC VCC ISSCC COSI LISS CCC CCS SS SCC CUCU ; THIS ROCK OF OURS BILL GIBB = 024244 64444444444444444444444444444446 Perhaps this is divulging secrets of the trade but I’m going to let you in on a little trick that every reporter uses — namely, he studies the classified advertising page each ‘day for news. If you want to get advance information and enjoy your newspaper more, I'd suggest that you do the same. ‘ For instance, did you know that a local club was being formed for over-weight people based on the principles of Alcoholics Anony- mous? Elsewhere in the U. S., the phe- dent of Cities Service Co., an |-nomenal success of AA has result- American firm with oil properties, ; ed in the formation of many un- is in Iran looking over its oil mess. ; usual groups such as Dope Apony- Last year, the story was cited for a Christopher award and brought to the attention of MGM. | The. studio bought the story and assigned Emmet Lavery, author | of “The Magnificent Yankee,” to | turn out a script. Signed for lead- ing roles were night club singers Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Bel- | afonte, plus Philip Hepburn, an li-year-old veteran of Broadway shows, including ‘Finian’s rain- bow.” But unlike the other two all-Ne- gro films of recent years—‘“Cabin in the Sky” and “Stormy Weath- er’—‘See How They Run” is not a musical. Nor is it a story. of Ne- gro-white relations, as were “home of ‘the Brave,” “Pinky,” ‘Lost Boundaries” and “Intruder in the Dusty.” “ ‘See How They Run’ is the story of a boy in the third grade,” said Producer Fielding, a former news- | paper artist and foreign corre- | spondent. ‘It could take place any place and to a boy of any: race. But some of the events have more significance because they happen | in a Negro community. There will be only one white actor in the cast, a doctor. “We are taking a chance, not only because it has a Negro cast, but also because it does not have the climaxes of most film dramas. It is a tender story about a kind. of Huckleberry Finn. “It is being made economically, so there is not too much risk. The cast is inexpensive, and so is the story, and it is all being shot on the lot without locations. Our only large expense would be if we went | © overtime in the shooting schedule. It is 15 days.” (Average for a big picture: 40). HOLLYWOOD (#—What is hap- pening to the star system? I put this question to Don Hart- man, production head at Para- mount Studios, which has pared its list of stars down to a bare minimum in the past few years. Hartman’s reply was that noth- ing has happened to the star sys- tem; big names still help sell pic- tures. But a big change has come over the movie business, and that has meant a dwindling number of stars under contract to studios. “We don’t make as many pic- tures as we used to,” he explained. “Supposing our studio makes 15 pictures a year. You start with a couple of Bing Crosby pictures, a couple of Bob Hopes, the same number of Alan Ladds and Bill Holdens. By the time you add | those commitments up, you don’t have many more pictures to make. “That doesn’t mean we aren't adding any newcomers; we just signed three the other day. But we have cut down the number of | stars, and it has worked out very well. For one thing, it is cheaper. ‘We don't have to pay out four and five thousand a week to stars who | aren’t working. “And it results in better pic- tures. We don’t have to rush pic- tures through merely because we have commitments with talent. We | can cast pictures better, by bring- | li ul Ladd wanted a percentage | the profits, which we were tive said. “‘He had two more pic- tures to do for us. Instead of ing him do two pictures in a i m &F m7 2 z zi ‘ll E < Cy » The cartel angle grows out of this: The U. S. government charges that seven American, British and Dutch owned oil companies (Jones’ company is not one of them) con- trol to their own profit most of the world’s production and distri- bution (outside Russia. and : the ' United States) with emphasis on their holdings in the Middle East The government charges the seven use this control over produc- | and Venezuela. | tion to keep crude oil prices up, and competition down. The American companies deny they are part of such a cartel. They assert that their every move outside the United States has been ‘taken with full knowledge of the State Department. The courts are asked to decide which is right. Whether the government is cor- rect or the companies right, the world oil picture shapes up like this today: : Russia is building up her oil in- dustry as fast as she can. Latest word is that it’s progressing even faster than first ex] i If Russia steps up production by 1955 to the goal she has set — 65 per cent above last year’s output— she would produce only around one-fourth as much as U. S. out- put last year. Russia’s figures can only be es- timated since she doesn’t tell. But an American trade publication, the Oif and Gas Journal, puts known oil reserves for the world as a whole at 102,321,000,000 barrels. The Middle East reserves are set at 51,320,000,000 barrels. The Unit- ed States reserves are carried at 26,121,000,000 barrels. Counting in Mexico and Canada, North America has about 30 per cent of the world’s totat oil re- serves. South America has about cent of the world’s reserves, in- sufficient for any but a minor war. The Middle East, then, with about half of the reserves, be- comes a key point in any attempt to control the war-vital supply of il. In oil production and in refining capacity, the United States shows to even greater advantage. The American Petroleum Institute puts U. S. refining capacity at 7,233,004 barrels a day. This is around 56 per cent of total estimated world capacity. In June, the Oil and Gas Journal says, world production of oil was running around 12,341,600 barrels a day, with the United States aver- aging 6,149,000 barrels a day. The Middle East was producing at a rate of 2,209,000 barrels a day. The total for the non-Communist world was 11,281,800 barrels a day—one of the strongest guarantees of peace. The Loire is the longest river in France, is, John Wayne. Hartman observed that the mov- ie business has. changed radically in recent years. It is now either age H | Ra i E 3 EF & ji. ? Hl f ; Ef ry § i E g i a ; ? f ? F | mous, Fatty jous — yes even Lonesome Angnymous.~ You’ve probably read in the na- ' tional magazines about the suc- , cess of these various ‘outfits who ‘use the mental, ever, ii ified their enough Small- town newspapers gener- ally shun divorce news unless it is ' exceptionally unusual. Most of the | divorces though are carried on the classified page as legal advertising required by law wo bo advertised, by law to advertised. If you own waterfront property and desire to keep your marine view, you should watch the legals. Other- wise, you might wake up some morning and discover that the state has sold your waterfront and it is being filled-in, leaving you with nothing but an inside lot. Did you know that a recording studio was coming to town? today’s classified page will tell you that “Radio Frank” out of Miami plans to move here and needs a $500 pardner. Believe me when I say that I'm not trying to help the advertising department but honestly think you'll find The Citizen’s “want-ads worth reading for their news value as well as for what they offer to sell, buy, trade, or rent. Traffic Lights Dave King’s idea of putting traf- fic lights at First, Fifth, and Thirteenth Streets on Roosevelt Boulevard doesn’t sound very good. “Caution” lights might help but “Stop” lights will pile up the traf- fic and make it practically impos- sible for cars to make a left turn into the side-streets. Last winter at around four to five o'clock in the afternoon, I've Your Grocer SELLS that Good STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE end CUBAN -—TRY A POUND TODAY—— Pe ss LS ee See RUGS CLEANED AND Stored Free of Charge IF DESIRED UNTIL NOV. 30 All Formal Garments chemically processed. All work gusranteed and fully insured. POINCIANA - DRY CLEANERS 218 Simonton St. Tel. 1086 aa Usually if a car driver wished to make a left-hand turn it meant that he must pull halfway out inte the street and wait for the light to change before completing the turn. In the meantime, no car be- hind him could go ahead. Thus other cars were lucky to be able to move three or four spaces on each light change. It seems to me that it might be practical not to allow left-hand turns on important street intersec- tonne use ae Avenue’ as an example, a ‘iver approaching White St. towards town would know that he must turn on Palm Ave., Georgia or Varela streets and enter White at a less crowded inter- section if he wanted to go out in that direction. Before the City puts up any new lights, it should attempt to coordi- nate the present ones. They are not adjusted to the average speed of the traffic. And it might not be a bad to consider a light at Francis Truman. This is a rough intér- section for school children going home. Gambler Takes Out License JACKSONVILLE (#—The Bureag of Internal Revenue issued an oc- cupational gambling stamp Tues- day to Bessie Taylor, Gainesville. The office said it was for June, and could give no reason for the belated purchase. Officials said the application had just been received. Coal was first mined from the rcgeny round 96 SPEC SLOPPY JOE'S BAR * Burlesque °* Continuous Floor 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 or Minimum Charge i STRAND «on: Conditioned Last Times Today FL* MING FEATHER STERLING HAYDEN AND ARLENE WHALEN Coming: SHE’S WORKING HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE Ronald Reagan and Virginia Mayo ‘ MOARGE Last Times Teday BOY FROM A the LON McALLISTER AND LOIS Coming: ROOM FOR ONE MORE Cary Grant and Betsy Drake air COOLED SAN CARLOS Thursday - Friday - Saturday BOX OFFICE OPENS 1:45 P.M, COMPLETELY AIR CONDITIONED