The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 4, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- lisher, trom The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P, ARTMAN Publisher NORMAN D. ARTMAN Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 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 ‘he local news published here, Wednesday, February 4, 1953 Business Manager Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Bubscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 A GRE TEI a EE ea i DL a ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION 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. 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, THE NAZIS ACT UP AGAIN The British recently moved to head off a serious plot for the restoration of Nazi power in Germany and arrest- ed seven confirmed Nazis who are charged with having plotted for the return of National Socialism. In typical British fashion, the seven were taken very casually by public safety officers, who carried no weapons other than warrants. The arrests are interesting in view of the fact that the Federal German Government is now a seml-independent government, which is supposedly handling its own affairs. However, the revised Occupation Statute allows the occu- pying powers the right to protect the security of occupa- tional. troops, and other powers, and the British utilized this“authority to put an end to the alleged plotting. The attempted Nazi restoration shows the strength of anti-Western sentiment, which still abounds in Free Ger- many. Though it has been suspected that the Russians have been financing the extreme Right-Wing elements in Western Germany, it has never been proved, Whether or not this is the case, the Germans are not yet safely on their way to democracy, just as they were not Securely on that road in 1932 and 1933, when the Constitutional Wei- mar Republic came to an end under the impact of the dictatorial ambitions of Adolph Hitler. The Germans—or at least some of them—learn hard, it seems. The world is watching the Bonn Government to see if the German population will at last embrace demo- cracy as the ideal form of government. If the Germans once again refuse to support this form of government, the “next war might mean a permanent dismemberment of the country. Drive carefully and enjoy 19 You might as well laugh at yourself at times; every- one else does. Can it be that eating in pubiic places stems from poor food, poorly prepared at home? The earth is still possessed of those who walk in the market places to receive the greetings of men. Parents can often prevent accidents in the home and save their children by thinking ahead and removing at- tractive, dangerous gadgets. j MWRR/ So» By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (@®—President Ei- senhower is going to try some old fashioned methods to make the dollar stable and able to buy more in the market place. A change in United States fiscal Policy is outlined in his state of the union message. The upcoming switch will be from cheap money to dear, from easy borrowing to tight money, from low interest rates to a reward for thrift. Prices are to be established in the market place rather than in a Washington office. Wages are to be settled by negotiation between worker and boss. Inflation—or too sudden deflation —will be combatted “‘by relying largely on the effective use of sound fiscal and monetary policy, and upon the natural workings of economic law,” the President says. He promises the changes will be gradual—no jars to the economy. But the change from the fiscal and economic policies of the last 20 years would be great. Its effect on everyday life could, in time, be very wide. H The change in fiscal policies will be centered in the related fields of the public debt and the regulation of credit. The President expects his treas- ury department and the federal reserve banks to work together— and not against each other as they have at times in the past. They are to stabilize the dollar and “bring an end to planned inflation”—in the President's words. The policies they are going to follow are already indicated. The federal reserve has been slowly raising interest rates and putting the commercial banks on notice that the federal reserve won't sup- ply them with all the money they want, as in the past, to expand credit and increase the money sup- ply. The treasury also is raising the interest rates: it will pay when it borrows—signally the end of the cheap money era. Critics of past administrations have called the cheap money policy the foundation from which inflation sprung. The huge floating federal debt— the short-term government securi- | ties sometimes used in the past by | banks to increase the supply of | money, to finance business expan- | sion and the speculative carrying | of inventories—is to be curtailed. | The financial district thinks that | jthe treasury will offer before the | end of this year marketable bonds maturing beyond 1972—when the jlast of, the existing marketable bonds will have come due. It e: pects the treasury to offer intere: rates in the 3 to 3% per cent range. } Previously the treasury has held | to 2%2 per cent as its upper limit. There is agitation for the raising of interest charges on home mort-| | Sages. Commercial bankers say they | } don’t plan now to raise the interest | | they charge their business borrow- | jers with the best- credit rating! jabove the present prime rate of 3 bonkers may be hard | at you are a prime seasonal rise in de- ss loans comes } So businessmen | may harder to borrow mon- | jer. and may pay a litte more for it, A tight fiscal policy, in time, has on prices of goods. Bank- that if interest rates | into new | RED HANDED Eisenhower Will Try To Stabilize Dollar NEWS VIENNA #—Vienna Communist newspapers reported Tues. that Walter Lauber, Vienna-born natu- ralized American released after questioning. in connection with the smashng of an alleged international Soviet spy ring, has fled to Aus- tria’s Russian zone. The Communist “Volksstimme” said Lauter, a U. S. Army veteran from New York, had fled with his wife and two children, “Lauber had fled,” the news- Paper said, “because attempts were made to force him to appear as a prosecution witness” against Otto Verber and Kurt Ponger, ar- ger, arrested Americans who will appear March 2 before a Wash- ington, D. C., court on espionage charges. TEL AVIV, Israel (®—An Israel military spokesman announced that an electric mine had blasted a railroad bridge, derailed a train and halted traffic on the Haifa- Lydda rail line. Israeli military authorities blamed the blast Mon. night on troops from neighboring Jordan. Israel had been technically at war with her Arab neighbors since the 1948 Arab-Jewish fighting in‘ pales- tine. The military spokesman reported that attackers opened fire on the train crew when the mine went off but no one was injured. LONDON (®#—Skyways, Ltd., said that it had given up hope for its transport plane missing in the icy Atlantic off the Newfoundland coast since Monday with 39 persons aboard, including 10 British sol- diers, their wives and 13 children. The plane carried a crew of six The big York aircraft was en- Toute to Gander from London, fer- rying the strvice families to the West Indies, VIENNA, Austria @ — Commu- nist-led Czechoslovakia has set up & t ae EISENHOWE: de before a BRIEFS a Russian-type presidium to “di- rect and control” the nation’s ministries. Announcement of the drastic gov- ernment shakeup was made Mon. night by Prague radio. The re- organiZation followed repeated ad- missions by Czech leaders that there was ‘discontent and rebel- lion” in the country. The broadcast also disclosed that the Soviet satellite government in- creased the number of its deputy premiers from four to nine, split two ministries into four separate departments and set up two new ministries and two state commit- tees. BONN, Germany ‘#—The Krem- lin’s five - year plan to convert Communist - ruled East Germany into a valuable industrial ally and HAL | BOYLE | SAYS NEW YORK @—A woman is}; able at any age to snatch from disaster some morsel of feminine jwictory. They know life too thoroughly. ever to let it keep them. behind the 8-ball very long. For example: Over the week ond Frances and I visited at the suburban home of our two godchildren -- Nina, half- past five, and Zona, going on four. It was so cold Sunday that the little sisters had to stay indoors and by nightfall they were some- what bored. Nina wandered into the. kitchen and picked up Jet, the family cat. ‘ “Let me hold her,” said Zona, tugging at the cat. persisted, Nina reached out and bopped her on the: head. Zona im- mediately began to wail. The mother, Helen, had seen the entire incident. Punishment was in order. The sisters are allowed to fuss, but Nina had shattered the first law of the household: “No hitting!” Helen called her | George, and explained the cris “All right, Nina,” he said. “Go up to your room and you and I will have a talk.” Nina, embarrassed and guilty, trudged with averted face past her grandma and Frances and me. We were silent, too. Nina is usually such a perfect lady it hits like a thunderclap when she does any- thing wrong. After talking with her George came down and announced: “I told her to change into her {pajamas and stay upstairs until 30 and think about what she had done.” | ‘The clock on the mantel said 6:28. Tick, tock ... at 6:32 a small sound of weeping filtered down- stairs. Tick, tock ... at 6:33 Helen went upstairs, and returned saying: “Nina has decided she'll clean grandma’s room.” Silence ... tick, tock ... Zona suddenly found she had to go to the bathroom. Up the stairs she went. The weeping overhead ceased. When Zona came down, George asked: “What did you say to Nina?” “Nothing, daddy,’ fibbed Zona gallantly. He let it pass. Nobody felt like saying any- thing tick, tock at 6:40 Frances had to go upstairs, and came back with the word, “She's lying on the bed, looking real serious.” ‘ Silence again | ws. tick, tock ... at “No,” said Nina. And when she | husband, } There was complete silence as | -}buried remains of an unknown, civ- Percy Curry. Jr., is over in, . I received a letter from him the other day and he says about the only thing he would feally like from home is some Florida sunshine” since the tem- perature often drops as low as 14 degrees below’ zero. Although “Junior” has been on. the front lines, one would assume that he considers the weather a greater enemy than the Reds. It isn’t hard to see the reason for this when you remember that most Key West boys think of ice as something that has to be manu- factured artificially. Generally speaking, “Junior's” letter is cheerful in content. If you wish to write him, his address is H and S Co., Ist. Amph. Tractor Bn., 1st Marine Division, care of FPO, San Francisco, Calif. Now that Truman is out of of- fice, the term “cold war” or “police action” seems to have been dropped. I admired Truman for many of his qualities that were essentially American. The fact jthat he attempted to blind both himself and the public into think- jing that an action which was cost- ing thousands of American lives should not be called a “war” did - !not help our country however. It is too early to tell what Eisen- |hower’s program in Korea will lead to. There is consolation in the fact that he considers the war » THIS ROCK OF OURS By BILL GIBB important enough to-be called by its proper name and his” military experience is somewhat fresher than that of a World War'I arti lery captain. 4 . First Street d Month after month last. year this column wrote about hazardous conditions along First Street and its intersection at. Flagler Ave. Now that two deaths-have occurt- ed in that vicinity, perhaps action will be taken to clean up the blind corners that are over grown with weeds. Sidewalks. are needed -- whether they are made of dirt or concrete. T've written about the terrible conditions on that street, so much that is seems hopeless to go inte detail again. One complaint that I've heard all over town is that the police are strict with privately-owned automobile drivers who ‘break the speed limit.- Trucks, busses, and taxis appear to be exempt from this traffic ordinance though. It is a legitimate complaint. Our taxi drivers claim that they seldom have accidents. It is pos- sible to weave in and out of traffie however so as. to cause other cars to collide in an effort to avoid the recklessly driven taxi. Of course, hére again I’m wasting~my time writing since the ‘City Commission has refused to even’ protect ‘the passengers of taxis by requiting that liability insurance be carried, Nationalists Glad SINGAPORE \ — Jubilant ‘at President Eisenhower's new policy toward Formosa, pro-Chiang Kai- shek Chinese leaders in this Brit- ish colony announced that they would seek government permission to send Malayan volunteer groups for any invasion of the China mainland. These leaders, members of one of the largest colonies of overseas Chinese, said they planned Malaya- 'wide celebrations keynoted to the slogan, “A return to Shanghai in three months.” BURIED CIVILIZATION Florida Schools Get First Money From Tag Funds’ TALLAHASSEE @ — "s counties have been Rane why first allotment of school construc- tion funds from auto tag receipts which were earmarked for school building programs by a constitu- tional amendment adopted last No- vember. The Cabinet Budget Commission released $4,335,655 to be distributed to the counties from Feb. 1 to Jdhe 30. i SOUGHT BY BRITISH LONDON \#—A British expedi- tion has left for the 1,000-year-old West Africa, to search for the | ilization. } The British museum said the archeologists will dig beneath Tle- Ife’s mud-built palaces and homes | to trace the origin of the fine; bronze heads and terra cotta re- liefs first discovered there in 1910 sacred city of Ile-Ife in Nigeria, | 1 State School Supt. Thomas D, Bailey explained this-is not new money going into the construction program but merely takes og cessity of using $29,850 of the mon- ey for salaries and expenses, ask- ing if it were necessary to estab- lish a new administrative set-ap to handle the school building trust. Bailey said there was _a@ certain. amount of administrative work major supply base for the Soviet |g:44 Grandma said, “George, don't war machine is threatened by a lyou think--?” Zona said, “Daddy, general economic ctisis, Western | ¢an't Nina come down now?” And intelligence officials reported. | George, who was getting fidgety, Resistance to service in the new too, said, “All right.” “Red wehrmacht” pledged to fight | To me fell the honor of summon- for Stalin also is posing a serious | ing the little culprit from exile. I problem ‘for the Russians, these |found her staring thoughtfully at authorities said. |the ceiling. When I told her to Reports filtering through the Iron | put on her robe and come down- Curtain show that the critical eco- | by the German explorer Leo Fro- benius. Other art objects were found near a palace in 1938. FRITZ KUHN IS DEAD MUNICH, Germany # — The | Money. death of Fritz Kuhn, once the noisy U. S. leader of the Nazi German- American Bund, was disclosed Sun- nomic situation in East Germany has worsened during the last few weeks. Strikes Curb Shipping NEW YORK (#—Strikes of tug- | boat men Tues. curbed shipping in| the ports of New York, Philadel- phia and Norfolk, Va. Official start of the strike was) Saturday midnight after a break- down of contract negotiations be- tween the boat owners and three | locals of the United Marine Divi- sion of the AFL International Long- |stairs, she wanted to be sure the reprieve had gone through channels “Did Daddy and Mommy say I could?” she asked. ‘The first thing she did was to | go up to Grandma and Zona and jsay with complete dignity, “I’m sorry.”” “Oh, that’s all right,” said Zona with the regal ch: of a queen. {And the second th Nina did as Grand swooped aer to her heart was to look at the cle 6:45. For the next 45 minutes we all sat lauc! the fireplace. Nina then pointed at day more than a year after he died here in obscurity. Otto Gritschneder, Kuhn's for- mer lawyer, said in answer to in- quiries that Kuhn died Dec. 14, 1951, at the age of 55. Gritseneder did .not know the cause of his death, | although she had been desperately lonely without us, she knew very well that we hadn't been able to ‘| do without her very long either, | Nationalist China when the neéc- essary formalities are cleared. Rankin came to Taipeh as U. 8. | minister and charge d'affsires im the summer of 1950. J R BEFORE CONGRESS.—President Eisenhower stand shoremen’s Association. the clock. Oil barge crews in the port of} e, Daddy, it’s 7:30 now,” New York also walked out, and said, a note of feminine triumph jthe metropolis girded for possible in her voice. shortages of coal and fuel oil. It was her way of showing that, she wer his 2 “ atdre t session of Congress. Behind him are Vie Preside Speaker Macin—P) Wirephota. 28. Remnants of fire Chum Masculine name 1. Ran away 5. Contemptible person 8. Swabs 12. Fine openwork fabric |. Ingredient of soap Money exchange 31. 2. . Age Flower Make believe 39. Before . Positive . Consider . 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