The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 22, 1953, Page 4

Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN - Publisher NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 : Member of The Associated Prese—The Associated Press is exclusively @ntitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it er not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florid Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION IMPROVEMENTS FOR |KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea, Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Auditorium, SOVIET COMMANDER ON KOREAN. FRONT, Marshal Rodany Malinovsky, Supreme Commander of the Soviet Forces in the Far East, has reportedly com- pleted a recent inspection of the Korean battlefront. This report came from the Londén.Times, It was interesting to note that the Soviet Comman- der’s visit to the front followed by only a short time Gen- eral Dwight D. Eisenhower's visit. Evidently the Russians are sensitive about the Eisenhower visit and perhaps feel that it may indicate a U. N. offensive. In fact, there have been reports that Chinese forces both in Korea and in China were being heavily reinforced. The visit of the Soviet commander shows just how thor- oughly the Soviet Union is involved in the Korean conflict. The U. S. President-elect visited the Korean front as the President of the country which was bearing the brunt of the war there. The Soviet commander visits the front, shortly afterward, even though the Soviet Union is techni- cally not supposed to be involved. This incident serves to highlight the farce which is played out often in U. N. and other international circles, when it is assumed that the Soviet Union is a neutral. The Soviet Union is the force behind the Korean War, represents the prod that initiated the attack on South Ko- rea and represents the force which is continuing the war while talking peace. To refuse to admit these facts is noth ing less than a case of appeasement blindness. A professional gambler is a man who risks his money on a gure thing. Americanism: The greater the family income, the greater the family’s needs, If human beings knew half what they think they know, the world would be much better off today. Remember the man who used to rely implicitly upon the weather predictions contained in the almanacs? Funny Americans: Those who prefer to pick a row with the nation’s allies rather than denounce the nation’s enemies. It is our belief that the people, in the long run, will manage to improve the human race and its institutions without too much dictatorial leadership. OREO ALO ARIE IE NE'S ALL RIGHT, HE'S LEARNING TO PLAY BY EAR? CDG CV ICI GIVI C VEC VIC C SIC CIS SIGS CC CTS ... Ear To The Ground By JIM COBB | The World Today | By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (#—It’s when he delivers his State of the Union message to Congress, probably within a couple of weeks, that President Eisenhower may get down to details on what he intends to do. His inaugural address Tuesday simply outlined his position: he is now, as before election, an inter- nationalist. It was reassurance to this country’s allies if they had any doubt. Former President Truman, in al- most all his farewell messages, talks and interviews, gave very little space to domestic problems. 1 walked into the Naval Station|I later saw him in the hospital in} put the big emphasis on for- Public: Information office one day last week on my regular rounds. There was nothing unusual there ~-just a routine handout concern- ing the dedication of the newly ren- ovated baseball field on the base which will take place tonight, I glanced over the press release idly and wished that sométhing world-shaking would happen could fill up the paper. It was a slack day for news. The story said that the Navy had decided to name it Walker Field. What's in a name? There are a lot of people famed Walker. It didn’t ting any bells with me. Then, with a sickening rush, all of. the memories--good and ba two years of war in the Pacific came flooding back when I read one particular paragraph: “Sgt. Norris Walker, son of Mrs. J. D, Bearup, 822 Fleming Street, Key West and Mr. Roy B. Walker, Homestead, was a member of B Company, 1st Battalion, 25th Mar- ines, Fourth Marine Division when mortally wounded on Iwo Ji Both parents will attend the dedi. cation ceremony at the Naval Sta- tion in Key West.” I was a member of B Company in the 25th Marines and I didn’t know Walker was dead although it was not surprising -- too few of the fellows who sailed from San Diego on New Years day in 1944 are still around following the Mar- shall Islands, Siapan, Tinian and Iwo Jima campaigns. I never knew that Walker was from Key West. We used to shoot the breeze but we just never hap- pened to talk about it. I left the outfit on Saipan when I was wounded (Norrie was hurt too, and NEWS JACKSONVILLE ‘#— Nine Ne- gro truck drivers are under arrest | here charged with stealing 260,000 | concrete blocks, valued at $60,000, | from their employer. | Joseph M. Ripley of the Ripley | Concrete Block Co. said the blocks | had been taken a few at a time) from Jan, 1 to Dec. 31, 1952. | TAMPA w— Florida seafood | producers, dealers and processors | will gather here Jan. 26-27 for the/ annual meeting of the Florida jBranch of the Southeastern Fish- eries Association Discussions on regulation of com- mercial fishing will be given by Assistant Atty.-Gen. Mary Sbul- man and Charles Bevis, new state conservation supervisor. HOLLYWOOD — Gloria Swan! jen, screen star who is playing jtee jew tele in “Twentieth Ceatuty” af the Holiywood By-the- Sea Playhouse, went on with the show Tuesday night but had to tone down her activity in the fight of | been Hawaii) and you kind of lose track of an outfit once you leave it. He went back with the Company to Iwo, where, I understand, the 25th had a particulatly rough time of it. Tuesday morning 1 went over on Fleming Street and talked with Walker’s mother. She seemed hap- py to see someone who had been with her son during the time when the only contact she had with him was in brief hurried letters from far-off Pacific Island: She is a middle-aged motherly woman and she showed me snap- shots of Norris and his brothers, all of whom were in the service during the war. Some of the grief in los' her son seems to have by time and she told me how happy she was that her son is going to be honored by the Navy. As a matter of fact, she said, when Norris was a boy he used to swim where the Naval Station now on the very field which is going.to be dedicated in his memory to- night--at that time just a vacant lot near the beach. The final resting place of the hero in the land of “Pouowania” in Hawaii is a lot like the sun- drenched keys where he spent his youth. I can name a lot of other fellows from B Company that are still out there in the Pacific and the fact that they had to make the supreme sacrifice so that we could continue to enjoy the fruits of democracy seems to me to be a pretty good reason for not allowing ourselves to become embroiled in another war. I think we ought to try hard to keep it from happening. stands and he played and romped |... eign affairs. Eisenhower did the same thing Tuesday. And in general he ledged himself to follow Tru- man’s basic foreign program. He wants good world trade and continued foreign aid for, and’ co- operati with, American allies. He's willing to seek disarmament. The latter probably won’t happen. Russia has her own ideas on that. But Eisenhower indicated he may be thinking of plans that go beyond Truman’s. In the cam- ign he criticized the Truman ad- ministration for a lack of what he said he considered effective plan- ning against Russia. Buried in one of the paragraphs in Tuesday’s speech Eisenhower seemed to be repeating this criti- cism and hinting ke intended to raise his sights higher. This was when he said it is prop- er “we assure our friend ... that we ... know ... the differ- ence ... between a thoughtfully caleulated goal and spasmodic re- action to the stimulus of emer- gencies.”” Spasmodic the Truman plan cer- tainly was in the beginning of the cold war with Russia, although it could hardly be called a plan at all at that time. Truman said recently his suspi- cions of Russia began in earnest shortly after the war when Stalin wouldn’t pull his troops out of Iran. Truman decided on a showdown right there. He warned Stalin to get out. Stalin did. Truman's quick action, and reaction, paid off. He reacted again when the Communists be- gan to push against Greece and BOYLE NEW YORK w—There isn’t as much Dagmar as there used to be. She just decided she was “too much of a good thing.” So now she’s in a new economy - size package. S And if the Republican adminis- tration is looking for advice on how to trim down figures, Dagmar stands ready to help. Deciding her own blonde abundance was out- growing the nation’s television weight she shed a full 20 pounds. The new Dagmar, a canny lass who skyrocketed her income from $25 for her first video show to $7,500 a week for personal appear- ance tours, is positively slinky now instead of buxom. “Honey” -- she ‘calls everybody that--“‘too much weight stymies my mind,” she said. “The fat was getting around my brain. Now I can think faster. But I’m lucky. When I diet the weight comes off all over me. I feel so little.” She said, however, that whittling down her shape hadn’t hurt her celebrated chest expansion -- 42% inches normal, 45 expanded. Nor does she feel that her new svelte shape should stir any algrm_in two potential blonde rivals -- Zsa Za Gabor and Marilyn Monroe. “T never did feud with anybody,” she said mildly. “‘The country so big there is room for all three of us--even when I breathe deeply. “But Marilyn sure was smart to get her picture on that calendar. People have to look at a calendar to see what day it is. That way they get to see more of her.” Dagmar portrays a dumb blonde, but in real life she is about as dumb as an albino fox. She is a big, breezy, cheerful gal--as in- formal as a backyard clothesline hung with laundry. e “Honey, I'll tell you anything except my age and my weight-- they both fluctuate too much,” she said, as we sat sipping coffee in her penthouse apartment on Cen- tral Park South with her small slender husband, Danny Dayton, the comedian. “I don’t even know her weight,” said Danny. “If you ever tried to peek at those scales, I’d knock you right out of the bathroom,” replied Dag- mar cheerfully -- and she could. “Every woman has a right to one secret from her husband, And that’s. mine.” Everything about Dagmar is BILL GIBB THIS ROCK OF OURS Three cheers for Erma F. Wag- ner of Stock Isiand: Her letter in printed- word was only too true. Her outspoken support of Thomas Paine was amazing in this age of enlightenment which strives des- perately to hold the people in ig- norance. You're likely to be burned at the stake, Mrs. Wagner. for support- ing a man like Tom Paine. His contribution to the freedom of {America was as great as George | Washington's. We used him and then drove him from our country. England, his home, declared him guilty of treason because of his “Rights of Man” publication. Flee- ing to France, he was well re- ceived, only to be thrown in pri- son because he wanted Louis exiled instead of executed. It was while in a French prison that Paine completed his “Age of Reason,” a controversial book which branded him with the name ‘atheist” because then, as now, People prefer to skim the surface of a subject and avoid headaches caused by using their brains. A few years before Paine’s death when he returned to the U.S. since he had criticised ‘ Washing- ton, the wrath of a public which worships politicians was turned upon him. He died a povertystrick- en martyr’s death — denounced as is |a drunk, a radical, an atheist, and a criminal by the very people who were indebted to him for their free- dom. They even refused to bury his corpse in a decent manner. Today, much of this same feel- ing exists toward Paine and any- one who desires to enlighten the public. As said earlier, you're treading on dangerous territory when you support the guy, Mrs. Wagner. You. may. rest assured however, that if you’re placed on a chopping block, I'll try to find a cushioned basket for your head to fall into. Or, if you’re placed in jail, P'll bring you a steak if I have to kill the last horse in Key West to find it, Man’s freedom hasn't been lost but has found it safer to go under- ground while Communist fools stalk the earth and blockheaded politicians preach democracy with their lips alone. As a friend of mine said, the man who wrote “all men are created free and equal” in all probability first turned to a slave and commanded: “Bring me a quill and some ink,” In spite of our mouthings about democracy, we were the last great big--‘except Danny.” She has a 40-by-24-foot living room. On one wall is a large oil portrait of her, painted by a fan-a barber by trade. To it Danny pinned a state fair blue ribbon that says “cham- pion Bull.” Dagmar doesn’t believe any woman who wants to lose weight should follow her own Spartan diet. “Honey, I just made it up my- self,” she said. ‘‘For a combination breakfast and lunch I have coffee | and two hard boiled eggs. No salt | on the eggs--I just take the shells | off. “Then late in the evening I have either steak, roast beef or liver with some stewed tomatoes and coffee. It’s a stupid menu ... prob- ably kill most girls. But I’m strong enough to take it.” : For relaxation she likes water nation to abolish slavery. Today, we're entering a new cycle the People’s Forum regarding the | i 2 fife § Es - h 2 5 = F i z & i a i Auxiliary, numerous to nai job than their : - fs | i aie HE : f z 7 Morale Is Picking Up At™ Air Base Near Last Year Living oe Conditions Were Inadequate; Base Has 11,000 Strip By JOHN RODERICK CASABLANCA # — Morale is picking up at Nouasseur, the giant airbase being built by the U. S. Air Force 25 miles from here. sports ‘“‘or anything where you} Last winter 2,300 American air- don’t have to be exact. That's WhY | mon and several thousand Atlas I like reading and don’t like golf. pe fi It’s too exact, Imagine following | C°™struction Company workers of pla lar fi i is expected to hit the British fish ‘supply line hard. a little round ball all that distance |based here had a morale rating lpseaag around at the per- just to put it in a little round hoe in the ground.” Despite her profitable personal appearance tours Dagmar would like to have another television pro- gram to show off her new stream- lined figure. But a good TV for- ike a good man-is hard to If it’s cultural, I'll go for it,” she said, adding modestly: : “I have nothing but a brain really.”” FLU EPIDEMIC HITS U.S. ZONE IN GERMANY | about as low as a snake's hips There was mud everywhere. Liv- ing facilities were. inadequate. There were no movies, no officer's or noncom clubs. This winter things are different although the huge “mother base” of the five the Air Force is building in French Moroceo still is far from finished. Thousafids of dollars worth of equipment and supplies lie in their packing eases exposed to North African weather because there are still no warehouses in which to store them. Hundreds of trucks and motor vehicles are being dam- Turkey. That time he set up a new Mon- roe Doctrine by throwing this coun- try’s arm around Greece and Tur- key and giving them aid. The Com- | munists lost out. BRIEFS scene. She wrenched her back in! The Marshall Plan for helping | the scene Monday night. | Europe recover economically was Sascaneee ,;of a longer-range nature. It was MAYPORT w— Ferry service | Supposed to last at the outside four here, taking State Road AIA traf- | Years. Before it could end, the cold fie over the St. Johns River, has | War with Russia became hotter. been suspended from 7 p.m. to! Then this country entered into 7 a.m. for a week to 10 days while |the North Atlantic Pact, this coun- a slip undergoes repairs. The State | "y's first peacetime military alli- Road Department said service will| ance with Western Europe, and | be maintained during other hours | s4ve arms. At the same time the of the day. |U. S. urged its allies to set up a | European army. JACKSONVILLE w — Manager’ This looked much further into Gienn Marshal! Jr.. of WMBR said | the future than the Marshall Pian. Wed. the radio station expects to/In fact, then Secretary of State go on 100,000 watzs on TV Chan- | Acheson last year said strong ar. nel 4 in April—just as soon as maments might be necessary for equipment can be put in. It is now @ generation. on 14,800 watts. AM broadcasting) This policy worked ont by Tru will remain on 5,000. jman and Acheson — surrounding {Russia with armed strength to dis- JACKSON, Miss. @— Gov. Hugh courage any Russian military ad White wil address the Daytona | ventures without sterting war with Seach, Fla, Chamber of Com-|Russia—has become known 45 merce oo jad. % ob the Soulh’s | “contemment ‘ . Mis five - day, So at the end Truman abd Ache- trip by automobile will include @ son might argue there was nothing visit with Gov. Dan MeCarty spasmodic about their planning. FRANKFURT, Germany # —jaged by rain, sun and wind be- Alarmed by a flu epidemic in the | cause there are no garages yet American zone of Germany, U. S.| Nouasseur was started on Army authorities made plans rash basis” when ground was for widespread inoculations 4MONg | broken in April, 1951. The Depart- 250,000 American troops. iment of Defense was jittery about The Army’s European head-/the prospects of aggression in Eu- quarters at Heidelberg said it did | rope. So were a lot of Europeans not have figures yet on the number | jpvestigations later turned up of military personne! hospitalized the fact that haste makes waste but scores of soldiers and Army | winions of dollars were being civilian employes were reported On pent with no very striking results the sick list in Frankfurt. Under the crash program, the base An outbreak of fiu in Bavaria /chowld have been built and in this week has caused nine German } working condition by now. The deaths at Munich, filled the city’s |easing of the war threat, congres- |hospitals, and closed 27 schools. {sional criticism and the indignant |demands for grester economy For good nutrition, it's Wise 10 | slowed down the project. divide foods fairly evenly among | Now, Air Force plonning officers meals. Don't fill up on tosst and it be in good shape tea or cake and coffee between ] working order meals so that there is no appetite 4. In the event of for milk, vegetables, fruit, or other war, it could be pressed into serv needed foods when you do sit down ice at once, though on a limited to have lunch or dinner. scale Nouasseur is being built for the Mth Air Depot Wing of the Air Force. Its mission fe to overhaul, reoutfit and put back inte flying shape any of the Air Force’s chips Fs) fatege bombers $ is Tes in a sparsely settled region a half hour's auto- mobile drive from Casablanca. | What Eisenhower sas in mind be- | Yond this remains to be seen Wf Eisenhower dorsn't spell out bis ideas in ABC fashion im his State of the Union mestage, he Will haye tishe to do so when be later submits his specific programs to Congress. it} During wartime, it will be able to serve a dual purpese—bomber base for striking aircraft and re- pair station. It has an 11,900 foot long, 200 foot wide runway capable of handling any aircraft in the world. The base also has an 11,000 foot taxi strip 100 feet wide. It, like the big runway, is completed and be- ing used by the Military Air Trans- port Service, which has a small unit ». The heart and brain of the Nou- asseur base will be its “cannibal” }. This enormous building will con- i. four two-story platforms and a number of overhead traveling cranes. When it will handle four Bis and six BS0s, the biggest planes the Air Force pos- sesses, Nouasseur has its own railroad system, connecting it with the port of Casablanca, The base ultimate- ly will have 1,400,000 square feet of storage space. When the 80th Air Depot Wing moved in in Au- gust, 1953, there wasn't a single warehouse, | The French, in agreeing to per- jmit the United States to build jbases in her protectorate, stipu- jlated that there would be no more than 2,200 men based at jfeur. Similer ceilings were set the other four bases During 1953, rotetional wings move in and out of the big j addition to the transport | MATS, huge B20s will \ the big rusway | The airmen of the iWing now live ia jbuts. Showers sod jbrisk walk up the 4 base has j school for 30 jcers and and a post ex) f rity Ey ti : i | et i :