The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 29, 1952, Page 9

MARATHON NEWS NOTES — By THELMA PARKHURST Friday night our church was the setting for a very beautiful wedding. Miss Osa Ann Branthoover was mar- fied to Babby Johnson of Jack- sonville. The bride wore a white gown and veil and carried a white} Bible. Her maid of honor was Miss Rosario Dolores Lopey, and the best man was Richard Duave| Altman. i The double ring ceremony was performed at 8 p. m. by the Rev- erend G. W. Marker. The wed-} ding march was played by trans- | scription. The reception was held} immediately afterward at the! home of the bride’s parents at) Big Pine Key. 000 | Alma Cagle Bishop and Mrs. | community | | {Frank and Lorraine Phil Flink have spent a few days| in Cuba. They planed,over Friday noon and stayed through Sunday. 000 s. Chuck. Pi Lodge had ry Friday night. Jim Cartwright, Edwards, Patty and Bolo Aldacosta, Dick and Lucile Aldacosta, Mr. and} Mrs. Pat Patterson. 000 Your Marathon Columnist will write a bigger and better column tomorrow — toooo much turkey and southern corn bread dressing | with a generous smattering of egg nog has all of us a little tired out, By JOHN SCALI WASHINGTON ® — Britain’s Prime Minister Churchill undoubt- edly will demand recognition as a full participant in any Eisenhower- Stalin meeting aimed at easing world tension. American officials who forecast this have made it plain, however, Mr. and M the Hurriecan Christmas p: Attending w such top-level East-West confer- vance a genuine desire to end the cold war. John Foster Dulles, President- elect Eise state-desigrfate, Show Business Dead hi Bast -* Germany, Carni By TOM REEDY BERLIN # — Gustave Loeck has cracked the Iron Curtain, in search of joy—uncontrolled. The 4i1-year-old carnival man slipped from the Soviet zone into | West Berlin with his wife, two children, two wagons full of equip- ment, a comfortably furnished trailer and a merry-go-round. “Show business, for the pri- vate enterprise, is finished in the Russian zone,” Loeck commented from his trailer step, parked on a West Berlin lot while he awaits sthe chance to move to West Ger- Many and set up shop again. “Even joy is controlled over there,” he said acidly. A sort of a Mr. Five-by-Five, Loeck says he ate well in the East but things wure getting tough- er and tougher, Step by step he said, the Communist state squeezed his roadside operations until he faced the choice of eventually do- ing too little business to survive or getting out. The old-fashioned German carni- val which has. excited Hans and Fritz for generations is looked on with disfavor ‘in the Soviet area. “They want what they call ‘peo- ple’s art’ now,” Loeck said with @ wry grin. “The kids aren’t supposed to scratch around for a few pfennigs they. can manage that wonder- ful joy of buying their way onto @ merry-go-round. Now the state must see to it that the children’s fun is nicely controlled and ar- ranged, with Stalin’s picture at the end of it.” The steady trend to nationalizing everything in the East was creep- ing up on Loeck's carnival when he decided he had a belly full. “Show people are often refused permission even to set up their merry-go-rounds and other amuse- ment equipment,” Loeck declared, “Often we were without the chance to work for months, but we had to pay taxes anyhow.” Now and then carnivals were allowed to establish themselves as part of a “‘people’s art perform- ance.” “They had to do it once in a while,” he said, “to give the peo- ple some fun.” oe . . The Communist bosses are pret- ty callous about ordering earni- val men around to this or that party celebration. Loeck and others were compelled to put on per- formances for the blue-shirted | “Young Pioneers” at such reduced : Prices that it was a waste of time | and often cost them money. To | turn down such an “offer” would | be to invite disaster. The state sometimes would jump in and declare the carnival a “peo. ple’s owned enterprise.” The dis Possessed owner would be lucky | to avoid prison. So many of these | Toad shows were seized in the last two years that the East zone or- Sanized a “United People’s Owned Show Enterprises” corporation to m. Two other factors threaten to @ny private show outfits, Loeck said, One is the police ban at Pvagdee visiting a carni al early evening hours Any kids time are supposed to be enroute eek eee neem hae ——— STRONG arm BRAND COFFES h Coffee at ALL GROCERS on the streets at this | * val Man Says Arab And Asian Nations Warn French On Plan CAIRO, Egypt #—Thirteen Arab and Asian nations warned France here cooperation would be im- possible unless she changes policies toward her independence-seeking North African protectorates of Tunisia and Morocco. Envoys of the bloc, which pressed for debate of the explosive Tunisian and Moroccan questions in the United Nations, ‘held their second meeting here to draft an urgent appeal te France to grant self-rule to the people of thos two territories. The Arab-Asian group was dis- appointed when the U. N. General Assembly recently by - passed resolutions they sponsored on Tunisia and Morocco in favor of #& more mildly worded Western - backed appeal to France to settle her dispute with the two protec- torates. France boycotted the U. N. de- bate, claiming the 60-nation organ- ization had no right to interfere in what she considers a domestic affair, The Arab-Asian group--made up of an Egyptian representative and envoys to Cairo from India, Pakis- tan, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Iran, Ethiopia, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen-- said in a communique: The bloc hopes France urgently will find a solution for Tunisia, Morocco and the other hanging North African problems in accord- ance with prevosions of the. United Nations charter, “The governments of this, bloc, however, will find it impossible to cooperate with France in the fu- ture if the French government pur- sues its current policy in Tunisia and Morocco. to Communist youth meetings. The second blow is the shortage of electric power, which has plagued the economically wobbly Russian zone for years. Even the annual spurt that Christmas provides is being de- nied this year. The state banned the yearly Christmas fair and or- dered holiday activity centered in the state-owned stores and ven- | tures. Loeck, busy now with paintbrush and tool giving his wagons brand new faces, exp over a period of months to s' each part to} West Germany. There he hopes to p le joy again, uncontrolled. BEQUICK | 0 Treat BRONCHITIS | ee AN THREE HOT™LS IN MIAMI at POPULAR PRICES Located in the Heart of the City REASONABLE RATES Ber, Seu Hotel 132 &. Flagier St. Pooms Elevator Solarium ied ns ne OovS FROM U with BATH end Br WRITE or WIRE ior RESERVATIONS TELEPHONE Hotel 22? NE. ist Ave. Rooms Elewater US STATION ence unless Russia shows in ad-| jower’s secretary of | n emphasized this)remote, the 78-year-old Churchill Churchill Will Want Spot In Any Ike-Stalin Peace Parley last week in calling for “concrete proposals” from Russia before any meeting between Eisenhower and the Soviet Premier. Responsible American diplomats said they believe any such “‘con- crete proposals,” in order to be worth following up, would have to indicate plainly that Moscow is that they see little chance of any | prepared to make some concession. A hint that Russia might be willing to end the Korean War on terms acceptable to the West would fall into this category, they said. Even though an Eisenhowér- Stalin meeting .at present seems nevertheless can be expected to discuss it with Eisenhower when he visits New York early next month. British Embassy officials said Churchill’s talks will be “informal” with no set agenda to be followed. The Prime Minister’s main aim, they said, will be to try to restore the close British-American partner- ship that existed during World War IL Churchill’s conference with Eisen- hower undoubtedly will cover Ei- senhower’s recent trip to Korea and secret talk afterward with Gen. Douglas MacArthur about means of ending the Korean War. The impending Eisenhower- Churchill talk is viewed by British officials as a prelude to a full- dress formal meeting between Churchill and key American Cab- inet officers, probably sometime in May. Churchill is to be accompanied only by his wife and daughter dur- ing the New York stopover. After two or three days of talks.at the home of his friend, financier Ber- nard Baruch, he is to come to the capital for what:is described by | British officials as a farewell call on President Truman, who goes out of office Jan. 20. After two days here, Churchill is scheduled to fly to Jamaica for a two week’s vaca- tion. In any later meeting with isen- hower, Churchill can be expected to bring up (1) Britain’s desire for “trade not aid’ from the United States to help solve its financial problems, (2) British plans for resuming the flow of top-secret atomie energy information now barred by American law; (3) North Monday, December 29, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Far Eastern problems including the continued differences in Amer- ican-British policy toward Red China and (5) Britain’s oft-repeat- ed request to be represented by at | least an observer in the American- New Zealand-Austrafian defense setup in the Pacific. The possibility of a Stalin- Eisenhower meeting broke into the news Christmas Day. when the Russian leader answered four writ- ten questions put to him by a New York Times reporter. Stalin said he regarded “favor- ably” the possibility of diplomatic talks with Eisenhower represen- tatives “looking toward the possi- bility” of a later conference be- tween Eisenhower and himself. 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