The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 4, 1952, Page 2

& aead ¥ Tid Te3Ww YM 7 Page 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen, Published daily (except sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- lisher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 Member 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 published here. Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Thursday, December 4, The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications. LOSS OF ONE MILLION LIVES HAS MADE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS COMMONPLACE Key West, Monroe county and the state of Florida have had more automobile accidents this year than during any similar period, so that we should welcome any fur- ther action designed to promote safety driving. It has been a common thing on the Overseas Higgh- way for drivers to speed by other cars, running the risk of sideswiping them or running head-on into cars approach- ing from the opposite direction. There is a law against that sort of driving, and State Highway Patrolmen, as- signed to'duty on the Overseas, are now more active than ever before in enforcing that law. If the no-passing law on the highway, wherever there is a continuous center line, is strictly enforced, it will re- duce materially the number of accidents. What is true of the highway is true also of two-way streets in Key West. The Citizen, many a time, has published stories of local accidents caused by drivers, usually in a hurry to go no- where, in attempts to pass a car in-front of them. Not on- ly have moving cars been sideswiped, but parked cars al- so have had their fenders damaged. Some months ago, a car parked on Caroline Street, along the post office side- walk, had its rear fender torn off and front fender dam- aged by a driver who “stepped on the gas” to pass an- other car. Driving in Key West has become far safer since the . City Commissioners passed an ordinance creating several other one-way streets. This safety feature applies even more to night driving than it does to driving in the day. Before the recent ordinance went into effect, a driver sensed a feeling of relief when he was riding down Duval Street, knowing he would not be blinded by headlights of cars coming in the opposite direction, He senses a similar feeling now when driving down Southarde-Street or, u Fleming Street. 5 — " The ordinance prohibits parking on one side of some of the two-way streets, but that provision of the law has not been strictly enforced, except in one instance. Readers of The Citizen may recall that, as a result of many com- plaints, parking was prohibited on the easterly side of White Street, between Eaton Street and Truman Avenue. Ever since the law has been in effect it has been observed with few exceptions. At the turn of the century, an automobile accident that resulted in a fatality, was worth a column in news- papers, but now it is given a few lines, or goes unnoticed. The reason for that editorial attitude is because more than one million Americans have been killed in traffic acci- dents since the automobile was invented, and such stories are now commonplace. All over the country, concerted efforts are being made to reduce the death toll in automobile accidents. The Citizen is pleased to note that the City Commission- ers are doing their part in Key West and State Highway Patrolmen are alert on the Overseas Highway to make driving safer. Sometimes you can look out for yourself by looking out for the other fellow. We know several individuals who can tell you what is wrong with the world. “FOR ALL WE KNOW THE WAR MAY BE OVER” THEY LOOK TOUGHER Former Nazis In Political Jobs In West G By GEORGE BOULTWOOD HANNOVER, Germany ™ — About 800 former Nazis have got back their old political jobs in the West German state of Lower Saxony. They include the last chief of staff of Hitler’s bullying storm troopers, Wilhelm Schepmann; the former lord mayor of Goettingen, Albert Gnade, who is back on the City Council; and several founder- members of the outlawed Socialist Reich party. They were swept into office as mayors and councilors by a tide of rightist votes in the recent municipal elections. Neo-nazism is officially dead, killed by the West German Con- stitutional Court’s ban on the Socialist Reich party (SRP), but it is, an mely lively corpse. Nazism is hydra-headed, as state police here have found. Just be- fore the elections they raided 61 new political groups—which~tad sprung up as self-appointed heirs to the SRP. As fast as the: chopped of. one growth—another took its place. dias The Interior Ministries.of both Lower Saxony and the hboring industrial state of =.Nokth-Rhine Westphalia are investi ig a number of groups Pile esnak dates were successful. Some elec- tions may be declared invalid. It is in the lonely rural sreas of Lower Saxony—the ‘forests of the Harz Mountains, the storm- swept Lueneburg _Heath--where nazism still flow J Some people there’ still! in witches, Farmhousesyeven new- ly built, bear pagan symbols to ward off evil spirits. Many people there still believe Hitler was right. Isolated inns echo nightly with the. notes of old Nazi anti-Semitic and street fighting songs. Hitler’s favorite march is played by village bands, The market town of Verden gave ermany Now an enthusiastic welcome fo a rally of 5,000 veterans of the SS Elite Corps, branded as a criminal or- ganization by the Nuernberg trib- unal, The mayor said the town was “honored” by their presence. It is here that the Hitler gen- erals, Bernhard Ramcke and Otto Ernst Remer, find the audiences that wildly cheer their anti-allied rabble-rousing speeches. The ban on the SRP made some 367,000 voters, or 11 per cent of the state electorate, homeless. Political observers watched the municipal elections carefully to see where they found haven. The trend was obscured by the complexity of the voting system and the multiplicity of “voting blocs,” but it was evident that many of the Nazis, like Schep- mann, owed their success to the support of the radically: inclined Refugee party (BHE)—a power in an area where 30 per cent of the population are dispossessed: refu- gees. There was also a trend for es. tablished right-wing parties to take a couple of paces further right to appeal to the old Nazis anu dis- gruntled refugees. This was par- ticularly noticeable in the Deutsche partei (German party), which elec- ted a notable nationalist, Dr. Hans Seebohm, as its chairman. He de- clared at the party convention that the German Reich must be re- born and parts of Czechoslovakia “rewon.”” An old stormtrooper, Dr. Hel- mut Krueger, is trying to create “an anti-Marxist national opposi- tion” of the odd groups on the lunatic fringe. Now in his 40s he was once in the Goebbels Propa- ganda Ministry. He claims that if the SRP had not been banned it would have obtained 50 seats in the Federal Parliament in next year’s national elections. He is confident ihat his “national. opposition” will get at least 30 seats. Suggestion To Limit Newspaper Support Of Candidates Scored By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST | WASHINGTON # — A sugges- | tion that Congress seek by law to | limit the editorial space a news- Paper may devote to a political candidate was emphatically op- posed by a congressional commit- tee. The suggestion was made by Rep. Clare E. Hoffman (R-Mich) to a special House committee studying federal election laws with ‘a view to recommending changes to the new Congress. Hoffman will head the important House Govern- ment Operations Committee start- ing next year. “Tt’s just unconstitutional,” said Chairman Boggs (D-La) man’s proposal. “Impractical,” commented Rep. Keating of New York, top Repub- ican on the committee. “It's unworkable and unconstitu- | tional,” was the reaction of Rep. | Karsten (D-Mo). “You can't do anything about it if a paper wants to favor one candidate editorially,” said Rep. when | asked what he thought about Hoff- | the aid date?” Hoffman asked, | present law limiting financial to a candidate. Hoffman admitted that there might be some complications in- volved, and later told a reporter he knew he had“‘put his foot in it” by making such a suggestion, but still contended he thought it a good idea. stricted as to the amount of money jthey may contribute to a cam- |paign, a newspaper should be limited to the space it gives can- | didates because, he said, “some jot these editorials are nothing | more than ads, anyhow.” gestion did not run counter to the |press: “You're limiting a man's | freedom of speech when you limit his purely financial contributions, aren't you? The same principle’s Editor John Knight of the De- troit Free Press disagreed. “As usual, Rep. Hoffman is talk- } | should re-read the Constitution.” Hoffman testified after Arthur | McCulloch (R-Ohio). “The Consti- | Summerfield, chairman of the Re tution guarantees the freedom of] the publican National Committee and Press to print what it wants.” President + elect Eisenhower's |Communist China He said if individuals are re-| He argued, too, that his sug- | constitutional guarantee of a free | ing through his hat,” he said. “He | UP CLOSE 1001... Say Air Force Gets Biggest Appropriation AP Military Affairs Reporter WASHINGTON (®# — The Air Force was reported Wed. to be/ getting a 17% billion dollar slice of a total $40,700,000,000 appropri- ation budget requested for the De- fense Department in the next fis- eal year. That estimate came from a well qualified but unidentifiable official source. It represents the money which the Defense Department is asking the White House and Con- gress to appropriate or authorize for contracts in the year beginning July 1, 1953. The actual spending budget-- money paid for new projects or deliveries on mi ready outstanding. probably something over 47 billion dollars for the Defense Depart- ment. The Air Force, as in the case of the appropriation budget, will have the largest expenditure budget of the three services. Word en the size of the new military budget, which now is awaiting: preliminary approval by the White House and “udgei Bu- reau and final action hy the next Congress, followed by a day a news conference of Defense Sec- retary Robert A. Lovett which produced: 1. Disclosure that he has ap- proved inclusion in the budget re- quest of some funds to start work on a third supercarrier, a sister ship of the 60,000-ton USS For- restal, now building, and the USS Saratoga, the keel of which will be laid this month. 2. A flat assertion by Lovett that he differed with a top Air Force official, Under Secretary Roswell Gilpatric, that the United States has instead of one Air Force a total of four—the USAF, the Navy’s air arm, the Marine's force and the Army’s aviation units has contended the Navy is eroaching, with its carrier air fleet, on the USAF’s strategic bombing field, didn’t like the pro- posal for even the first supercar- rier. It feels the same way about the second and third—and the rest that Navy Secretary Dan Kimball wants built. That was one thing which ap- | peared to be implicit in Gilpatric's recent speech. $ | Gilpatric speech and about possible duplication of effort by the USAF ! and Navy in the air, Lovett said: 1. He happened to differ with | Gilpatric’s views. 2. Yes, there probably is some point at which some’ duplication is reached but the more methods there are of delivering explosives ton a target the better off we are 3. The thing to do is to give the services what they reasonably }meed for a reasonable function. CAR PARTS SHIPMENT |TO RED CHINA SEIZED SINGAPORE # — Sixty-seven cases of motor car spare parts. mostly American, were seized by customs here from the 8,073-ton {British freignter Benavon bound for Hong Kon The spares were worth 409,00 Straits dollars, the equivalent of about 132,000 U. S. dollars. The | shipment was believed beaded for Tt contained “Why shouldn't there be some | choice as postmaster general, cau- | spark plugs. electrical equipment, Rewspape: may give to a candi the law, ait on the editorial space” a tioned against hasty changes in brakeshoes and maintenance spares, mostly sew, The Air Force, which in the past | en- of the seven other huge flattops | Prodded by questions about the : > A Letter From Bill Lantaff Dear Neighbor: A South Flerida kigh school student inquired if I though Pre- sident-Elect Eisenhower should go to Korea. Yes, I do. For one thing, he promised the American people that if elected he would do just that and, unquestionably, many people voted for the General believing that, with his ability and experi- ence, he could find some solution to the Korea War. Even though this is a dangerous trip for a Pre- sident-Elect to make, it would be a breach of faith with the Ameri- can people for the General not to carry out his promise. Just what decision will General Eisenhower have to make with re- ference to Korea? He has stated we had no alternative other than to go into Korea to stop the Com- munists. A few days ago, he said he supported the American princi- pal of non-forcible repatriation of Communist prisoners-of-war. This is the issue which has stalemated Armistice talks for months. the American position will not be changed by Eisenhower. The General will find we have been training South Korean divi- sions since the war started and that Republic of Korea divisions are now holding about 50 per cent of the front. General Mark Clark estimates it will take two years more to double the size of the South Korean force, but that, even when this is done, American divi- sions will have to be maintained | in force. You just can’t take al Korean farmer and trai.. him over night in the use of trigonometry and higher mathematics so that he can cope with complicated and complex artillery-fire-control pro- blems today. ; Should the General go to For- | mosa, he might be able to make a decision as to whether or not the forces of Chiang Kai-Chek are ready and capable of maintaining an offensive against the Chinese Communitsts without direct Amer- ican aid in manpower and equip- ment. The real decision facing the new | President will be the same that confronted President Truman 18 months ago. Limit the war to Ko- | rea at the risk of seeing it drag on indefinitely or carry the air- war to Communist China and start an all-out offensive in Korea. In recent months, we have bombed every target in sight in North Korea. North Korean railroads are operating at only 2 per cent of} normal capacity, industry is prac- | tically at a standstill and all vital | power installations have been des- troyed. While the civilian economy is almost at the point of c-llapse, there is no prospect of an imme- diate collapse of the enemies’ | armed forces. | Carrying the air-war directly to} Communist China and starting an} all-out offensive in Korea will,, of course, require large ground, air and naval reinforcements. It will produce heavy casualties. It will involve the risk of general war; but, undoubtedly, the military lead- ers in the field will urge this course on the General as the only | | | Whether or not President-Elect the policies pursued by Mr. Tru- man, I think it is imperative for him to go to Korea and report to can have confidence in the course we are pursuing. Sincerely yours, BILL LANTAFF Hot Criticism So, | solution to the Korean dilemma. || Eisenhower makes any changes in |! the American people so that we |} _—— = ees ' People’s Forum Q és rorum The Citizen welcomes sions of the views of its ers, but the editor reserves the right to delete any ftems which are considered libelous or unwar- | ranted. The writers should be j fair and confine the letters to 200 words and write on one side of the paper only. ture of the writer must accompany the letters and will be ished un less requested otherwise. expres- vead- “LIKES THE CITIZEN” Editor, The Citizen: We want to congratulate you on | the interesting paper you print. We spend a part of the winters of | *50-’51 in your fair city. We have found several articles of historic type very interesting to the people up north and have passed your papers around to several of our friends wbo also enjoy such. Wishing your paper and southern-, most City of U.S.A. success in the future. MRS. WM. H. DAVIS Mt. Victory, Ohio When coal and oil are burned, | the carbon combines with oxygen | of the air to form carbon dioxide | while the hydrogen in oil combines | with oxygen to form water. 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