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

Page? THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘Tuesday, September 9, 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 & P. ARTMAN NCRMAN D. ARTMAN Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively aputied to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it nr aot otherwise credited in this paper, and also the iocal news wolishea here, ——_—_—_—_——— ember Florida Press Association apd Associatec Dailies of Florida Publishez Business Manager Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12.00; By Mail $15.60 Cpe alin emcee teen ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION fhe Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of toca! or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications. ———— SSS IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Paviiion. Airports—Land and Sea. ee Consolidation of County and City Governments. Coumunity Auditorium. THE NEW FIVE YEAR PLAN The calling of a Russian Congress in Moscow, the | announcement of a new five-year plan, and the visit of Chinese communist leaders, in Moscow, all point to a new phase in the cold war between the United States and Rus- sia. These developments can also be taken as an indication that one phase of the cold war has now ended, That’ phase was the one in which communist military power was practically unchallenged in Europe, or by the United States. In the last two years western Europe and the United States have made steady, although slow progress towards rearmament. Today the United States and western Eu- rope possess the military strength to make Soviet aggres- sion costly, and thus that short-term danger has ended. The new Russian five-year plan and the calling of the | Russian Congress indicates the Russians are looking to the future, and planning over a long-range period, in their effort to gain world domination. . It is believed the Russians want to bring their indus- trial production up to a point more nearly equalling that of the United States before engaging in a war with this country. If the newest Soviet five-year plan succeeds, 1955 production of steel in Russia will total about 45 million tons. That is still less than half current U. S. production, though it is many millions of tons more than the Russians are producing at present. Many experts expect t of expansion in the Soviet industrial field to exceed that in the United States. The Communists believe they continue to increase their production totals and avoid a depression. They also believe that a depression will soon- er or later occur in the United States and that this may offer them their best chance to match U. S. production totals. While one might find some satisfaction because the short-termed danger of Russian aggression seems to have eased, should Russian plans succeed ‘the United States will one day be faced with a far more serious R an threat. This country will eventually be faced with a huge country, outnumbering us in population, and equalling us in industrial production. When this day comes the United States will face its greatest the will not be one of immediate preparedness but one of the possibility of defeating Russia in a sustained conflict — likely between two countries separated by such distances. The best insurance against such an eventuality fs steadily increasing industrial production totals in the United States, which can only be if serious economic depressions. The Communists believe that we cannot, and their threat is a direct challenge to our democracy and our leaders in gove rate can danger, since question large achieved we avoid iment. The first presidential preference polls. giving Eisen- hower an edge over Stevenson, are cate a hot race this year. se enough to indi- SLICE OF HAM = HOLLYWOOD NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (P— “You ain't |heard nothin’ yet, folks; listen to this.” Those words rank with ‘What Hath God Wrought” in their im- portance to the entertainment in- dustry. They were spoken almost 25 years ago by a blackfaced min- strel named Al Jolson in the first The picture premiered on Oct 6 1927, at the Warner Theater in New York. It revolutionized an in- dustry. 3 “The Jazz Singer” is again be- ing made by Warner Brothers. By a turn of fate, a number of men ture are today helping to make the new version. I asked some of them for their memories of the Jolson film. | “The picture almost wasn’t | made,” remarked Harold McCord, | who cut “The Jazz Singer” and is now head of the Warner's cut- ting department. ost people do | not know that D. W. Griffith once tried to make a picture with Jol- son. After Jolson saw the first couple of days’ work on film, he was so disappointed that he took | off for Europe and never returned to the picture. “After watching the first few \ days of film for ‘The Jazz Singer,’ Jolson was again disappointed. He |didn’t realize that all of the film |he saw of himself wouldn’t be |used. He was ready to quit. But we urged him to wait until he could see some of the film as it would appear in theaters. “The Warner Brothers were des- perate, because they had sunk all their money into the sound experi- ment. So I stayed up all night to jecut enough of the picture for Jol- | Son to see. He looked at it the next | morning and agreed to stay. If he hadn’t, sound might have been set {back for years.” Electrician Ralph Owen recalled that the sound sequences, which lasted only six minutes in the pic- ture, were shot in a tin - covered stage. “‘We had trouble lighting | the scenes, because the old lamps |made too much noise,” he said | “Noise was a big problem. The | director (Alan Crosland) would run around wavin~ a handkerchief for | silence. The camera was in a big booth that looked like an icebox. The sound was recorded on a thick |dise of wax. If one take was iTuined, a iayer of wax was shaved {off and we tried again.” | Herbert (Limey) Plews, prop }man for the original film per- | | forms the same duties on the pres- ent one. He recalled that George Jessel, who qreated “The Jazz Singer” on t stage, almost played it on the screen. “But Cras and and J. L. Warner wanted Jol- ‘son, who was the biggest thing in show business then,” Limey said. The biggest problem I had was hiding the microphone. In those days, the mike had to te right in the set, so we had to hide it behind |curtains or flowers or something. “All of us on the picftre knew how important it was, but a lot of jother people didn’t. They said ;sound pictures were just a fad.” Louie Ruben, who started as a stage hand 45 years ago, has worked on both versions of ‘The Jazz Singer.’ He also worked on a Jolson stage show, ‘Honeymoon Express.”” “Al was a regular guy,” he re membered. “All the crew liked him. He'd get right down on his knees, but not to sing a mammy song. He'd shoot craps with the rest of us.” talking picture, “‘The Jazz Singer.’ | who worked on the original Pic- | Teoday’s Business Mirror By SAM DAWSON | NEW YORK The debt Amer- icans owe on the things they are buying on time continues to climb. It is at a record high and ap- proaching 15 billion dollars, the Federal Reserve Board reports. Instalment credit jumped 464 million dollars in May after the | board removed curbs on it. June | | saw another jump of 558 «million dollars, and July added 327 mil- lion. Americans now owe nearly two billion dollars more for their on-the-cuff purchases than they did a year ago. | The recent sharp increase in time buying shows up in other | | ways than in Federal Reserve sta- tistics. It accounts for some of | the improvement in retail sales of furniture, appliances, and au- | tos—to the delight of the retailers , involved. And the better retail sales vol- ume is now working back to the manufacturers of furniture and ap- } pliances, who are more optimistic | now and predicting better days ahead. | But the growth of Instalment credit worries some in the business | | world who think 15 billion dollars | is a lot of debt for American con- | sumers to be shouldéring. The | monthly payments drain pocket- | books of cash for current pur- | chases. And installment debt would | become an acute problem if times turned bad and workers were laid off, and thus be unable to keep | up payments, | Installment eredit firms, how- ever, stress the argument that such credit is the only way to pro- vide a market for the mass produc- tion of American goods. | The argument is based on hu- | man nature. Many people wouldn’t save the money needed to pay cash and therefore wouldn’t buy | the goods. The Northern Trust Company | of Chicago points out in its Sep- tember business comment that the | need to keep up payments may | actually make people work harder. | Time - buying also ‘channels spending into the article where | mass production is so essential for | lower prices.” The Chicago bank quotes Fed- eral Reserve figures to show that nearly one fourth of all Americar | | families bought something or other on time during 1951. More than | half of car purchases are made on installment or other borrowing. | And around half of the furniture and major household appliances old are paid for little by little. On - the - cuff buying appeals | most to families with :noney in- | come of $3,000 to $5,000 a year, | the reserve board figures indicate. Thé 15 billion dollar total of in- | stallment gebt is actually ‘below | normal”, when total national in- | come is taken into account — ac- ording to the American Finance Conference, a national association | |of 360 independent automobile sales credit companies While the amount of money owed is much higher now than before | World War II, the AFC says that the ratio of installment credit to | national income is lower than that reached in 1939 through 1941. Therefore, AFC says, installment |debt increases should cause no alarm. According to the current Geneva Convention, signed in 1949, it is forbidden to insult or humiliate | prisoners of war, or to take from j them their personal property, their | decorations or the insignia of rank In Britain an automobile muffler is called a silencer | Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1, Build 6. g 31 32. Toper Ww Solution of Saturday's Puzzie DOWN an mag Official U.S. Navy Photo SUBMARINE DIVISION 42 received its permanent commander in ceremonies held aboard the USS Odax at the Naval Base last week. Cmdr. R. P. Nicholson, USN, succeeded Cmdr. A. L. Becker, USN, present submarine division 41 commander, who was pinch hitting for Cmdr. F. D. Walker, Jr., USN, former division 42 commander and now assistant officer in charge of the New London, Conn. Submarine School. Cmdr. Nicholson comes to Key West from duty in San Diego, Calif., where he was executive officer of the submarine tender Nereus. He was a graduate of the submarine school in 1940. He served. aboard the wartime submarines S-28, Bowfin, Tuna and commanded the Quillback, completing a total of six war patrols. He is married to the former Miss Dorothy Keane of Compton, Calif. They presently reside with their ten year old daughter at the Key Wester Motel. 4 A oa U.S Official Navy Photo LT. (JG) ALFRED B. HURT, Prisoner Str il e THIS ROCK OF OURS By BILL GiBB Kermit Lewin, executive director of the KW Housing Authority, cor- rected me on a column that ran last Friday regarding a proposed trailer camp. Says Lewin, “The trailers are being placed in Key West through the Public Housing Administration which is located in Washington. It will buy and install the trailers on Navy ground. The Key West Housing Authority has nothing to do with the deal.” My thanks to Mr. Lewin for his ‘ correction as well as for an added explanation of the difference be- gencies — Housing Authority and Housing Administration. If Lewin is right in his explana tion— and he certainly ought to | know what he is talking about since he is an executive director | — the proposed trailer camp will be on out-and-out Navy project. | Such being the case, pressure to! j block the camp will have to be put on Washington and I doubt if} it could be applied successfully. | If the Navy hasn’t learned by this | time that trailer camps are expen- sive, inadequate, and undesirable methods of quartering their serice- | men’s families, then they will just have to waste more taxpayers’ Money until it does learn its les- | son. | Navy recruiting stories tell of | how the Navy can be depended offers them good pay, homes, etc. | Mybe these trailers are the Navy’s | idea of a home — they’re not mine. | The proposed project is going to | cost thousands of dollars to in- | stall. More thousands to maintain. | Principal beneficiary will be the salesmen and companies who pro- provide the trailers to the govern- | ment. | Roosevelt Blvd. | The roadside around the boule- vard looks nice now that the Pub- lic Service Dept. has cleaned it up. Keeping it looking that way is a job for you and I | Incidently, the modern way of | selling ice cream or soft drinks in | | disposable containers is convenient. |Such paper cups hardly make a | pretty sight when they are thrown out in -he streets, however | Since the City lacks sufficient | | street-cleaning equipment, every- | one should try to cooperate by not needlessly throwing trash into the | streets. Places that sell such dis posable containers might find it good public relations to emphasize | this fact to the people by providing more trash receptacles aound their | business. KILLS SELF | SAN FRANCISCO #—Police to | day listed as the 140th suicide leap | from Golden Gate Bridge the death of Mrs. Gabrielie Jeanne Leibbers, 43. Her husband Herman said she | had been despondent. SNR RRR ET SIPS RUGS CLEANED | j AND Stored Free of Charge IF DESIRED UNTIL NOV. 30 | All Formal Garments chemically | processed. All work guaranteed and fully insured. POINCIANA DRY CLEANERS |218 Simonton St. Tel. 1086 upon to watch out for its men. It | ; | MONROE . Chief Gunner’s Mate Completes A.UW. Course | Joseph F. O’Brien, chief gunner’s mate, USN, husband of Mrs. Mar- garet R. O'Brien of 77-1 Poinciana, Key West. recently completed a technical course of instruction in | electric torpedoes at the U. S. Na- val Advanced Undersea Weapons School here. O’Brien entered the Naval ser- vice in July, 1936. He is holder of the following decorations and a- | wards for military service: Ameri- can Defense; American Area; A- siatic-Pacifie and World War II | Victory | O’Brien now returns to his per- manent duty station, the submarine USS Medregal. | Former Resident Now On Greenland Duty With Task Force 118 Off Green- | land—Resupplying advance bases and weather stations near North Pole on board the amphibious force flagship USS Taconic as a member of the staff of Amphibious Group 4 is Joseph H. Russell, boatswin’s mate first class, USN formerly of 906 Southard St.. Key West, Fla., and husband of Mrs. Herta E. Russell of 1312 W. Little Bend Rd., Norfolk, Va. Icebreakers had to be used to lead the convoy single file through pack ice and past ice floes and bergs. Icebreaker-based helicopters spotted for the formation, search- ing for open areas. The convoy is scheduled to re- turn to the U.S. in September. —<—<—<—_—_______ Your Grocer SELLS that Good STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE and CUBAN -—TRY A POUND TODAY——— - SLOPPY JOE'S BAR * Burlesque * Continuous Floor Shows & Dancing Starring The Fabulous MARCELLA LYNN AND JEANIE CHRISTIAN, CATHY CARROL, IN THE SENSATIONAL MARI JUANA DANCE AND SANDRA LANE AND A HOST OF OTHERS: Dancing To MARK STANLEY’S TRIO Never An Admission or Minimum Charge STRAND Tuesday and Wednesday OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS with TREVOR HOWARD AND ROBERT MORLEY Coming: THE MERRY WIDOW Fernando Lamas and Lana Turner Air Conditioned AIR COOLED Tuesday - Wednesday Chicago Calling with DAN DURYEA Coming THE RIVER Radha and Esmond Knight Cer CONTINUOUS P SAN CARLOS THEATRE TODAY — WEDNESDAY BOX OFFICE OPENS 1:45 Pm. COMPLETELY AIR CONDITIONED CLASA-MOHME. inc ERFORMANCE