The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 12, 1953, Page 7

Kiwanians Hear Of Red Cross Need In Key West Area The regular, dinner ting of the Key West Kiwanis ub was held Tuesday, March 3, 1953 at 6:45 p. m. at the La Concha Ho- tel Joe the the Red Chairman of spoke on of the He stated Sirugo. Red Cross drive work and expenses Cross in Key West that in a five-year - period, the local. chapter at $33,000.00 more than w taken in. An ap- peal was made ito all Kiwanians to support the Red Cross. Mr. Sirugo also showed some motion pictures concerning the Red Cros Visitors included Edwin A. Co- E i. Mes Coral Gables, C. H. Baumgart, Bloom- Illinois, Ray Clements, Florida. ingto Bartow, N.S. Gardeners Commended Fof Flower Show Work Naval Station gardeners, whose entries in the y West Flower Show; walked off with many of the top awards, were commend- ed by Rear Admiral Irving T. Duke, USN, Commanding Officer of the Naval Station this week, The letter of commendation, ad- dressed to Geo W. Solomon, quarterman gardener for the Na- ‘val Station, noted **. . .with plea- sure the awards given the Naval Station entries in the Key West Flower Show.” Shecifically the letter men- tioned first prize for Combination Philedendron Totem (a tropical American climbing plant); sec- ond prize for Anthurium Cariber- ra (a rare household specimen plant);“third prize. for Syngynium Auritum (another household spe- ¢imen plant); third prize for Combination Philodendron To- tem ;, honorable mention for Pseudophenix Insignis (a rare Palm. plant); honorable mention Phatchia Silveratum (an un- Mien palm plant), and first, second and third prizes for the hot tural display of the Nav- a) Station rose efitries. ‘Credit for the rose entries was ‘by Mr. Solomon to Mrs. J. C. Toth, Mrs. J. C. Bettinger, Mrsi-trving T. William 3B. Wideman, ranged the display. Feb. Employment Topples Records th 60,994:000 WASHINGTON (Phe Depart- ment of Commerce estimated to- day that employment in February r* 6).924.000, wes higher than in any previous February. It exceed- ed the level of a year ago by over a-million, There was a rise of nearly half @ million in non-farm employment who ar- daring the month, but farm em- | ployment cont d its mid-winter side, falling off per cent. Non - farm employment this February was nearly two mil lion higher than a year before Commesting on the Eebruary rise: in non - agricultural employ- mont, Secretary of Commerce Weeks said: “At its present level, the num- ber employed on non-farm work is about 19 million higher than at the peak of World War II and five mitifon greeter than in the months preceding the Korean conflict.” The government report said un- employment was down from 1,892,- in J ty to 1,788,000 in Feb- 300,900 less than a year before (Editor’s Note: John Randolph, | and. gunfire when American and veteran Associated Press corres- | Allied troops fought to regain con- | pondent in Korea, has made a tour |trol of the mutinous camp. of Communist prisoner of war| Today, the once-notorious Com- camps to see why violence r-;pound 76, where Communist lead- sists long after the United Nations |ers captured the camp command- Command thought it had been con- jer, Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd, is trolled. This is the second of ajonly an empty field—a helicopter series of three stories presenting landing strip. his: observations after nine days | Today, in place of the old brood- among the camps.) |ing terror, there is an air of bus- |tling wholesomeness. Nearly 3,000 VIOLENCE PERSIST IN PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS? | “And we deal direct with. the ,ers in his subeamp on Yoneho Is- men themselves— are nojland, near Koje, lest week, and /ist in the only other U. N. camp more Communist ‘leaders’ to say | the killing of nearly 99 others last | for pro-Communist war prisoners— what’s what in the compounds. | January at another subeamp on|Camp 8 at Cheju City on Ceju “Second, we keep our guards | the neighboring islet of Pongam. Island, 50 miles south of the Ko- alert, and we have a good intel- ligence system “Third, if quick, and prisoners defy 5 use tear gas or vomiting gas to | west of Koje. e is trouble, we hit /S¢t. them back under’ control—it| Less than 6,000 Chinese Reds are hit hard. If the |!8 by far the most humane way. | held there, but for sinister atmos- » don’t bargain | BUt as doesn’t always work....| phere, for controlled tension and rs | Then we have to use riot squad |jatent menace it is far, far grim- tactics, with rifle butts and bayo- e with them. We 8 up adequate | fe give them an order, and mer than the larger “new” Koje. “In that case we first try to | rean mainland and 180 miles south-| } t { . RED RADIO STRONGER BERLIN (@—West Berlin radio Jexperts said here that Communist | Almost the same proportions ex- Radio Berlin's transmitter power is to be stepped up soon to make it again Europe's strongest. These sources sid they had learned the transmitter power jwould be boosted from 300 to 600 : kilowatts. Ze Only tast January’in the radio war with the East, West Berlin's |American-operated station RIAS \tripled its power to 300 kilowatts to equal that of the East German 'goverament radio. By JOHN RANDOLPH buildings stretch far up the two KOJE ISLAND, Korea ‘#—“‘We| V-shaped valleys that hold the have no big problems now.” | main camp. It is for all the world Col. H. L. Taylor, a straight-|like any other big American Army forward, quick-talking officer wear- | post. ing the green scarf of the Military; Prisoner work parties, with their Police Corps, sat at a big curved | rifle-toting guards, are all over desk Communist prisoners of war |—Sardening, building fences, and jcamp that if any man is ever if they don’t obey we go in and} enforce it. “T have a standing order in this | seized in a compound like Gen. Dodd—whether it is myself or a buck private—we will do just two} nets. We never shoot unless the Its commander, biuff, hearty Col. | | prisoners attack our men. But if} De Forest R. Roush of Hillsboro | |O., summed it up: “The thing you got to remember we have to shoot, we shoot.” Taylor, in his mid-40s, has had 12 years of active service and now : issi ike |about these Communist prisoners | has a regular commission. ana thet they “are not prisoners— | most other top men in the Pris- € 1 oner of War Command today, he | they are simply Red soldiers who| Duke and Mrs. | 000 or about 1.5! had made for him and waved his hand at a huge map of Koje Is- land. “We have a fot of little prob- lems,” Taylor said, “‘but we h--> uacontested control. Our work now is to keep it, and We Wu « op u. We have learned our lesson.” From this room Taylor com- mands, with an authority that is not seriously challenged, more than | 76,000 pro-Communist North .Ko- |rean war prisoners and the nearly division-sized force of American and Republic of Korea infantry it takes to guard them. These are all the pro-Commu- nist North Koreans left in Allied hands. Anti-Communist North Ko- reans were removed to the main- land months ago. Today, as you walk the peace- ful roads through the camp, it is hard to imagine last spring’s Red terror and the smoke and flame building the stone and adobe bar- | racks that, six to a compound, hold the new small groups of 500 prisoners that now give U. N. ‘troops full control, “They are pretty well behaved | now,” Taylor explains. “They've lost a lot of crazy notions since | last year. Now they know we mean business and they are more po- lite. ... “We certainly don’t mistreat them, and you can’t even say we are rough. It’s just that we don’t {take any nonsense from them, and | they have finally come to realize it”. |. Taylor | damental | brought | change. “First, we treat these prisoners with absolute fairness. We give |them proper administration, fol- \lowing the Geneva Convention to ithe letter ... listed the three fun- principles that * have about this amazing {to the recent ki things: We’ll give them an instant} ultimatum to produce the man un- harmed and if ‘they don’t we'll smash right in and bring im out, | let the chips fall where they may This order is essenticl to protect} “We can’t depend much on in- the American eniisted men who | formers—the Commies are too well spend the daylight hours inside the |known to each other ...” said barbed wire fences as compound | Maj. George A. Scholl of Detroit, commanders. | Mich., the camp’s assistant intel- One of these Gis, Pvt. Eyvind |ligence officer. Ekset of New York City, was mur-! “But these Reds are great letter dered by three prisoners last Jan- | writers... They depend on pass- uary. His killers have been iden-,ing documents from compound to tified, but a qu’ in the U. N.}compound. It’s a good thing for administration provides no courts | us, for we intercept a lot of them, martial for the prison camps and } possibly most of them. It gives they have so far goe unpunished.|a pretty good idea of what’s Privately, camp officers are bit-| cooking ...” ter at this failure to provide a! Scholl and Taylor estimate that system of justice for their pro-|only about 5 per cent of the pris- tection. foners are top agitators. Another “Sometimes, in spite of every-|15 per cent are tough leaders and thing, the prisoners force an in-| “muscle men,” and the remainder cident,” Col said, referring | are more or less pro-Communists of 23 prison-!or simple North Koreans. lis Arlington, Va. | The camp’s intelligence section has built up an amazing network of sources. ‘Hawaii In Union ‘Will Change Flag WASHINGTON (#—If Hawaii be- comes the 49th state, the U. S. ‘flag will change for the first time in more than 40 years. Not. since 1912, waen New Mex- ico and Arizona came into the Union, has a new state been added. What happens to the new flag? Who designs it? Oddly, there’s no set pattern for this. But the Library of Congress experts on flags say that the last ‘time Old Glory was designed, with six rows of eight stars, the Presi- dent asked the Navy to do the job. Presumably the same proce- dure would be followed again. Best bet: seven rows of seven stars. CHARGE NOW FOR *|GOVERNMENT BOOK WASHINGTON (#—A new book is on the- market now at the best- seller price of $3 a copy. It is the annual report of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, usually distributed free by the thousands. : A form letter told.those receiv- ing it in past years of the $3 price, fixed by Atty. Gen. Brownell. His aides explained this was “a part of the general economy move,” and cited a 1951 congres- sional act authorizing a charge for government publications, SEARCHERS FIND BODIES ELSINORE, Calif. uw — Search boats combing the waters of Lake Elsinore for a missing father and ‘his four children have found the bodies of three of the youngsters. Kenneth Anders, 40, a butcher, and two sons and two daughters went out on the lake late Tuesday. Sheriff's deputies identified . the bodies fonnd as Valerie, 2, Judy, 3, and Patrick, 7. Missing along with his father ts Hal, 12. Anders* power boat was found | Tuesday night floating near a pier. At the time of its first census in 1820 there were 127,901 people in Alabama, the founda Paramownt’s stars —i5 Jet Planes Are Ever Alert In Japanese Skies | By WILLIAM C, BARNARD AN AIRBASE IN SOUTHERN |JAPAN #® — Forty-five minutes }from Shanghai, U. S. jet inter- |ceptors circle Southern Japan by. { day and night, like hornets defend-|radar is just as elaborate and} ing their nest. | careful. Here on n's southernmost! Radar stations track an average island of Kyushu, you do not feel }of 35,000 planes in flight every the same tenseness as there is| month. Their reports are fed to a among Japan Air Defense Force | big war room at tnis base. (JADF) pilots on the far northern! A miniature semaphore on a island of Hokkaido, where U. S.;huge table map in the war room jet pilots have chased and battled | marks every sighted plane. A doz- Russian plaaes ‘en men with earphones connected Down here no potentially hostile to radar sites keep pace with the aircraft have been sighted. But the | plane’s movement. continuing watch by plane and) If any plane is not identified | ae HE EQS a SB bag he Be he v4 hil ” b2ui » n OF Me hh , ’ rile To Budget Meals | With Perky Ever Had— HEINZ TOMATO : | KETCHUPE \ Rich With Heinz “Aristocrat” Tomatoes And Spices, tee Spicy Sauces, (Thy The New Sneck-Size Tins, Teo!) is a top-quality officer. His home | are still fighting at every chance | they get. You can’t ever forget | jit.” | Lately, Camp 8 has been plagued | by a rash of “suicides” that look suspiciously like Koje-style Com- munist ‘lynchings of unfaithful | Reds. In some compounds, Red leaders have regained a secret con- trol. To find and catch these lead- ers—and isolate them—Roush and his men have been using every | means available. } Sometimes a harassed prisoner | turns informer. At these times, thé Red fanatics go almost crazy with | hate, and scream ‘“Tsa, Tsa,” the Chinese word for “Kill, kill.” Tamed and controled as they are, these fanatical prisoners, Chi- nese and North Korean alike, are only waiting—waiting for the first sign of weakness to regain their | incredible power in our midst. after it is spotted by radar, alarm | bells start ringing. Pilots of the F94 Starfire inter- | ceptors sprint for their planes and | whoosh into the sky. Im any weather the Starfire in- terceptor can be poison to intrud-| ing planes. Its radar locks on a target plane. When the F94 | reaches the proper distance its guns are fired automatically by | radar at the target. } Subscribe to The Citizen | | i! Glorified With og Hain Doh? * Reomed MEINZ Strained Foods...Junior Foods! ARCHER'S SUPERETTE MARKET The Best Deal In Town... It’s Natural At Archer’s! . 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