The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 20, 1953, Page 3

- ADMINISTRATION WON'T SKIMP ON AIRFORCE APPROPRIATIONS, PRESIDENT PROMISES TUESDAY 60 Cents Of Each Defense Dollar To Go For Air Power ‘By JACK BELL WASHINGTON’ (® —. President Eisenhower told: the nation last night that; far from’ skimping on the Air Force, his administration will put 60. cents of every defense, dollar into offensive and defensive air ‘power. “These investments in air power represent and wiil continue to rep- resent the heaviest single annual gutlay°o four government,” the sident said in a national radio broadcast from the White House describing what -he*-termed his “middie. way” miiitary program. “It is. my. conviction that our @eveloping program—under con- stant review and study—will result in 4 steady growth in the sizd efficiency of the air defense, until ‘we haye attained an adequate level # secirity,”. he declared. ‘The President said the arms im had been based on ‘‘cal- and culated risks which have been pru-}. dently reasoned’’ to evoid natural bankruptcy but attain “lasting Strength.” His ‘speech won speedy praise and backing from Republicans in Congress; although some of them balked at the continued high taxes |. Eisenhower. called ‘for. But many Democrats. remained -eritical of the: GOP. administra- tion’s. decision to cut back, Air ~-Poree goals from the 143 wings set 1955 under the Democratic Truman administration to 120. Sen. Humphrey (D*Minn) voiced the view of this. group when he said in an. interview that “no amount. of rationalizing will gain- ~- fay the fact that tye Republicans -. are making “a severe cut in the New Type Movie Screen used for the first time on May HOLLYWOOD NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD w&#—The , most. re- fuctant TV star of the season is a hound - voiced singer - actor- Air Force.” i.e re Hid li g 5 te # Ss i i i ft = 3 lh Fe i 8 Hi | if | i iM é 3 4 ii 88 1 ene i i ; 4 ; 4 3 +7 i : z i F i s ve is FE ied jit 5 3 § itl 3 @edtructive of a truly free economy es could a chemical attack against army in the field. And: if, in s continuing danger, we ever to strain our cspacity until igid governmental evutrols, indef- i or permanently continued, me mandatory—where then be the freedoni we defend?” the military front, Eisen- sald, “there most be—far aoy slackening of effoit—a . & sharpening, a concen- it will extract the last value from every dollar estanlishment has the level of perfor. he said. “Until it HE iu AMT ctf 4 & Fez i F 3 E # tes, the President sald tt ish and dangerous “to hypnotized by magle numbers." military man would composer named Hoagy. Carmi- chael. S bjeset 5 g i & a= i & z “f j a ‘ i &3 5 = i e é. a i i | #5 H £ ! a é E z i ii j F = E gir He F ti of ak | than avi strength,” 3 “Ht may not scream with shrill crisis and @pargency. Ba realism,” WORKMEN INSTALL A NEW SCREEN for three dimensional movies at matiagement readies the house to bring a new type movie to Key Wesic 31.—Citizen Staff Photo. e Monroe Theatre as the ‘be mew screen is to be the wrong man for. the job. -He | cites his “limited talents.” NBC, which is conscious cf his success on radio, records, in the movies’ and music ousiness, is convinced otherwise. “4 “Tl only sing about three songs —the kind. of novelties I can do,” he remarked: “You can’t take too much of my voice, I play my rec- ‘ords three times and then I can’t stand them. It sounds awful monot- onous to .me,” If; he’s so convinced. he’s not wank for the job, why did he take i “My agent and business manag- EEPEE. ey PELs pipet I e F z t z i i Es E | ite | ut =i was like. | } @ i anny ' Hf transfixed by the frolicking dice | As in Gee gold tush days, enter- iameat is an important eoommod- | | two or three other Broadway and Hollywood serve as the highest paid shiils in the world. Shill: a person: hired: to stimulate gambling. You may have heard of some of the fantastic figures paid to énter- tainers by the Las. Vegas hotels. Some are inflated by a press agent’s pipe dream; others are fantastically true.’ Insiders here believe that the $25,000 .weekly figure announced for Betty Hutton is close to reality. “She might be worth that,” said one operator. ‘‘But only she and a few others would be.' The rest get around @ third of her figure, which is an excellent salary for a week's work. of an hour or two a night,” Others are angry at the publiciz- ing of such figures. “When you 2 | announce that you're paying Betty you ‘h Tony Martin for what you paid him last.time? “Prices are getting out of hand. When you hire a star for 25 G's, your whole show wall run around $40,000, You can’t hope to show a profit.” % But’ most of the others don’t ~ |seem to worry. They keep. on hir- ing the best names available at the highest prices mecessary. They hope that the gambiing tables. will assume any loss on the night clubs, and they generally do. Here’s an example of the kind of tshows that play here. Current headliners are Eddy Arnold at the Sahara; ‘Jane Powell, Desert Inn; Joe E. Lewis, Bi Rancho Vegas; John: Payne and ‘Lou Holtz, Fia- mingo; Rex Allen and Sons of the Pioneers, Thunderbird; Liberace and Phil Foster, Last Frontier; Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, Sands. But that isn’t all, Each place has top-flight acts, plus eight to. dozen girls, most of whom could-adora any magazine cover, Booking talent is a headache,” said one show producer. “You 5 | not only have to fight the other places in getting the best talent; you. also have to find talent that will stimulate betting.” ‘The best attractions for the heavy gamblers ate old-time nit- ery stars Ike Joe E. Lewis and Sophie Tucker. Oddly enough, Bob Crosby’s engagement was a stimu- Tus to the tables; the jwas that the Crosbys have many well-heeled friends. Spike Jones and othérs who attract the family trade are great for dining room basiness—“but the patrons drift out through the casino like a sieve.” A surprise ‘hit at the Sahara was {Lauritz Melchior and his young. singers, said to be the best show ever in Las Vegas. Van. Jobeson was also a big draw at the Sands. Although the number of sumspots varies in an 1}-year cycle, the ac- tual length ef individual cycles lity in the gambling halis, Stars of - ‘|turn the money to Lampropsulos;* He Lost The Girl But Still May Get His Money Back | WASHINGTON {p—Another. fel- j low got the girl but Congress may see to it that John Lampropoulos! | Sets back the $500 bond he put up from Greece, The House approved and sent to the Senate yesterday ‘a bill to re-) a Chicago shoe repair man and World War IE veteran. He posted the. bond so Tassia Papadopoulos could come to the U. S. to’marry him. A 1946 law authorized the admission of an alien intending to marry. a veter- an, if the marriage’ took place within three months. The bond was required to guarantee that the marriage took place. But on the last day of the three- month ‘period, a House Judiciary Committee report said, Tassia married James Kyriazis, described | as an American citizen’ but not aj veteran, : : The committee said: “It does not appear that the government has lost anything and that Lam~- propoulos has lost his prospective wife and his money.” PERSONAL @Quick cash loans to pay medical expenses Repay in easy nionthly payments ®Reasonable interest rates Investigate This Low Cost Way To Borrow Money TOWN FINANCE COMPANY 604 Duval St. ‘Dial 2-5504 | cans, and the T-ounce so she could enter this country | j, Symbo Senator’s Office WASHINGTON (®—In the: office of Seh. Stennis (D-Miss) is a chair lie Chairia ec, Maye, #30 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN”. Page HITLER ENVOY DIES. | DUESSELDORF, Germany | Rudolf Nadolny, one of Hitler's; DEPT. OF INTERIOR DROPS 2,098 ‘WORKERS WASHINGTON: 1 — The bad labeled” “reserved’—a chair - in| #™bassadors to the Soviet Union| news that their jobs are being abol- which no one ever sits. Placed so that it faces the sen-|co-operation with the Kremlin, ater when heis seated hehind his n| chair: is for. him—the man .who! If you like heer : ig | preg pre seaboy ewradriry ne yap tt yo ia 94 Fok aed homstg €-Poieanne scons “one-way” bottics that require mo deposit. esos The Beer that Made Milwaukee died here Monday. He was 80. their views, That chair isto re- mind me of them: ? “The average man’ doesn’t be- $ long to any political group. He's just a good citizen. He doesn’t talk much, He just listens. 1. want: to be sure I don't forget him. ‘That isn’t there.” STOR) FR iw land a. postwar advocate of close] ished has, reached 2.098 empioyes of the Interior Departnent by to- day, officials said. The, 30-day dismissal notices ‘went. out to headquarters here and to seattered field offices-when deep cuts in the department budget ap. peared certain. Former President Truman recommended $607;251,400, President Eisenhower’ $484,363,000, but: the: House’ voted »$406,130,343, The . department»: had’ 56,178 em- ployes March 31. Famous | eating Doeeig Compacts, Mecham Oy,