The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 18, 1952, Page 8

Red THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Headache For English Town By PHILIP CLARKE OXFORD, England — British Reds and red light ladies are cash- ing in on one of the biggest booms to hit Oxford in centuries—8,000 American airmen. Scores of prostitutes have trooped into this ancient cultural city to grab easy money from free-spend- ing Yanks on leave from the three big U. S. air bases nearby. And a few unpleasant incidents | involving Americans and Britons have provided big headlines for the sensational press and fresh | Propaganda for the Communists’ “Yank go home” campaign. Both U. S. Air Force officials and Oxford city authorities do not believe the situation has reached the serious stage yet. But both - anxious to do something about Maj. Gen. Francis H. Griswold, commanding general of the Third Air Force in Britain, this week began a-series of flying visits to all nine major American bases in England to lecture the 45,000 air- men on good behavior. The three bases in the Oxford area—Upper Heyford, Prize Norton and Fairford—are on the general’s itinerary. The Air Force also has begun “re - indoctrination” ‘courses on friendly Anglo-American relations. The Air Force action followed a report by a private British-Amer- ican group which said there is “bad feeling” between American airmen | in Britain and the British public. Loth the Air Force and Oxford city authorities insist tha’ the 8,000 American airmen in this area have behaved as well as can ‘be expected, They agree the real prob- lem. is prostitution, A. week-end visitor to Oxford finds Amerjean airmen by the hundreds crowding the city’s main streets, cinemas, restaurants, bars and dancehalls, So'do the girls—many hardened prostitutes from out of town, others local girls oft for a good time. Scores of the girls are in their early teens. To Americans out for ps time, it’s easy to get a girl. Often, there’s a bit of free and | easy necking-under a street lamp | or in a doorway. This shocks some of Oxford’s older citizens. Gangs of young toughs, or “spivs,” many dressed in Ameri- can-style ‘‘zoot” suits, sometimes roam the streets looking for trouble. {>rasionally, there’s a barroom fight, a quarrel over a girl or a drunken . argument involving Americans and Britons, but most of these are of minor nature. To Oxford's small but, active Communist cell, it’s open season for stirring up anti-American feel- int among local British inhabi- tants. Frnie , veteran Commu- nist’ party organizer for the outh Midland district of England, har- angues workers at Oxford’s big motor’ works and steel plant. He sys, “Phe Yanks have turned Ox- ford into’ a city of shame.” Some of the’ workers listen. But the majority of Oxford citizens - don’t. blame the Americans so much. They know that Oxford has al- ways had its seamy side, even in Edwardian. days. And the Americans are not blamed directly for the fact that oxford’s rate of illegitimate births last year was seven out of every | 100 babies, nearly double the na- tional average. The rate has grown since 1950. City Alderman E. W. B. Gill, bursar of Oxford's Merton College, told a reporter: ‘It's no use saying —as some people do—that Amer- ican servicemen are to blame.) Half the trouble is these confound- | ed girls.” A woman welfare officer said: | “I think the girls are mostly to, blame, and in some cases their | mothers encourage them. The Mothers can’t forget that during the war many English girls got good American husbands.”” But she thinks part of the'trouble is that “so many of these young American visitors are mothers’ | darlings. Americans spoil their boys, and when they are left on their own in a strange country, they | take naturally to ‘womanizing.’ ” Most authorities believe a better sohition to the problem can be found in organizing more and bet- | ter recreation facilities for the air. | men off duty, FALL ON REGISTER IS NEARLY FATAL STOCKTON, Calif. — An 83- year-old woman, literally roasted | alive as she lay unconscious on a | roaring floor furnace register all night, was near death here at! St. Joseph's hospital } Mrs. Margaret Paxton's clothes had been burned off when she was found Sunday by a telephone re- pairman. Police said Mrs. Paxton, who lived alone, apparently suffered a stroke or fainted just as she turned up the furnace. As she fell onto the register, she knocked the telephone off its stand U. S. milk production has in- crensed very little in the past 10 years. | structor-pilot, Hialeah Capt. Ed- | News Briefs DEERFIELD BEACH ® —Cecil Mears, 42, was electrocuted Sun- day when the truck he was driving became entangled in power lines at a rock pit. Mears was employed by L. W. Rozzo and Son, Ft. Lauderdale, and is survived by his widow and | nee children, all of Ft. Lauder- dale. MIAMI @—Jackie Willie, 22, a Seminole Indian who wrestles alli- gator and crocodiles for a living, was bitten on the leg by a saurian Sunday and will be out of action | for two weeks. Willie was putting on the last | show of the day at Tropical Hobby- | land when the 11-foot crocodile | lunged out of semi-darkness and | cut a gash in his left leg an inch and a half deep. DEERFIELD BEACH (#—Ru- | dolph Perez Gutierrez, a Mexican | farm laborer, was rushing his wife, | a Trine, to a hospital Sunday but didn’t quite make it. if Police assisted at the birth of a | boy and Gutierrez said the child | would be christened “Highway” because that’s where he was born. Mother and son were reported doing nicely at a clinic. MIAMI #—The Air Force has identified four Florida men miss- ing aboard a C-119 flying boxcar in Alaska which’ disappeared on a | flight from Elméndorf Air Force | Base ta Kodiak Saturday. The plane belonged to the 435th | Troop Carrier Wing at Miami and | was in Alaska on training maneu- vers. A C-119 of the same wing disappeared on Nov. 7 with 19 men | aboard and later its wreckage was found on Mount Silverthorne. Floridians aboard the latest plane reported missing were: Capt. Russell G, Peck Jr., in- | win S. Boyd, pilot, Hialeah Air-. man 2C John T. Landis, radio op- erator, Miami, and Airman 1C | Jimmie Robertson, flight engineer, Perry. DAYTONA BEACH (#—The Blue Cross of Florida Inc. Sunday re- | elected C. Dewitt Miller, Orlando, president. Other officers elected are Dr. Edward Jelks, Jacksonville, first vice :president Frank Kelly, Mi- | ami, second vice president H. A. Schroder, Jacksonville, secretary | and James B. Waters, Jacksonville treasurer. LAKELAND (#—Plans are for this pretty city to become a hus- tling Air Force center. Best guess is that engineering | crews will come in next spring to start work reactivating Drane Field, a World War II flying base. The Air Force should move in by December, 1954. Some 4,000 persons are expected to be assigned to the base which | will support two jet fighter wings. At first, nearly six million dollars will be spent on the base with more later. | TAMPA (®—W. Paul Shelley Jr.,° is to give up his post as adminis- trative assistant to Sen. Spessard L. Holland to practice law in Tal- | lahassee. He has been connected with Hol- | land for many years. When Holland | became governor in 1941 he named Shelley secretary of the State Rac- ing Commission. After Holland was elected to the Senate, Shelley went to Washington as his executive sec- retary. Shelley will be associated in his Tallahassee law practice with his brother - in - law, County Judge James G. Gwyn TAMPA (®—A pretty Tampa waitress will be buried today where she killed herself Saturday night—at her fiance’s grave. Antoinette A. Fountaine, 26, is to be buried beside Robert Horne who drowned in August two weeks be- fore they were to be married. Miss Fouptaine shot herself with a small caliber pistol. Beside her at the grave when she was found was a copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. A note written on the flyleaf said: “May God have mercy on my soul. Now I will be with my Bobby.” SAD HOMECOMING FOR NEW MOTHER UKIAH, Cailf. —Mrs. Robert Parke started home from the hos pital with her newborn son, Dennis, anticipating happy cries from her three other children Her husband couldn't withhold the bad news any longer so on the drive home yesterday he told he: All thr Michael, 5, Ca Ann, 4, and Peggy Jo, 2--and ir grandfather were found frozen to death Saturday. | Grandfather 60, started to to his home Friday turn in a road in The bodies were found en ina ditch near the wrecked jeep. Reginald Parker. take the He deso | hospital Tuesday, November 18, 19521 DiJo¢ Dies In Crash Lights And Reds Cause Associated Press Wirephoto WOODSIDE, Calif.—A Navy Corsair fighter plane, one of a flight enroute from San Diego to Mof- fett Field, struck the home of Dr. Dwight E, Shappardson near here Sunday night, killing the pilot. An unidentified man points to the plane’s engine which crashed through ‘the roof (upper left) of a bedroom, Neither the doctor or his wife were injured, Sen. Smathers Still Urging’ VA Hospital At Gainesville WASHINGTON: Here we Ff SST ART BURT FF 55 RRS again in our fight for. that VA |Sers which might result if a hur- | hospital at Gainesville. Most Flo- ridians by this time are aware that for the past several years, | the congressional delegation push- ed vigorously to bring to reality the long-envisioned thousand bed for neuro-psychiatric | patients. Victory has been achiev- | ed, with even appropriations avail- ‘able for construction, until the | President by Executive Order di- rected a reduction in such facili- ties. Last wee, the VA took steps to | sell the land acquired for this hospital. Senator Holland, Congress man Bennett and I have urged General Carl Gray, Veterans Af- fairs Administrator, to withdraw this site from the surplus list.. It should be retained, we believe, be- cause we are convinced the new administration as well as Congress will reeognize the need for this | institution. VA medical men have told me that this’ location, near the state university which is soon to have a medical. school is most desirable and that, politics aside, it should be built, jrieane struck and freed some of |the subtropical snakes on exhibit in tourist-attracting snake farms. I asked for. this study but I as- | sured the press that in my opin- ion “not all thourist attractions in | Florida are as beneficial as the health-giving sunchine but none of | them are dangerous”, . , .I hear that Congressman Walter Judd, of Minnesota, may be General Eisen- hower’s choice for Secretary of jState. I served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee with Dr, Judd and have a great res- pect for him. A former medical missionary to Chiria, he is one of | the best-informéd men in the gov- ernment on the Far East and the world picture, . .I have been mov- | ing so fast the past week in north jand west Florida that I have not jhad time to record my impres- | sions. Everyone has been fine to me and I feel grateful to them for many kindnesses, , I expect to || | report in detail on my travels. This matter has statewide in- | terest for two principal reasons’ | Most of our citizens believe that | our veterans, particularly those suffering what used to be called “shellshock”’, best available treatment. Many of them, in all parts of the state, are deserving of the | have been put into jail to restrain | them for lack of hospital facilities. NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE: Fish and Wildlife Service, quickly on the job of studying the new outbreak of “red tide” in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida shores, believe they may be near a solu- tion to the problem of slaughter of millions of Gulf fish. We stayed so close behind this problem sever- al years ago that the experts of the wildlife service needed no Prompting when the recent out break came, . .Thousands in the Jacksonville and Miami trading areas will be benefitted by the inauguration last week of the Post Office Department's new fast bus service between Jacksonville and M Even in residential areas jit will mean 24 hour quicker de llivery of mail With Senotor Hol land, Congressmen Lantaff and Bennett, my office had been work ing for sometime on complaints of molasses, like mail service be tween the two cities. For a Californian, Vice President-eleco Dick Nixon shows remarkable taste; he, too, chose South Florida ation spot to recover from fatigue. 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