The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 22, 1953, Page 7

_ WILEY SUGGESTS BOTH PARTIES BE REPRESENTED AT PEACE TALKS Brooklyn Bridge Will See Its Seventieth Birthday Sunday. , fy JACK BELL WASHINGTON i — Sen. Wiley (R-Wis) proposed today that Presi- dent Eisenhower temper possible ing along representatives of both Eisenhower will. be under pres- sure from lawmakers on several vital issues to be discussed. with Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain and whoever is French Premier at the time of the mid- *~ June meeting, probably to be held Bermuda. Wiley, who heads the Senate For- eign Relations Committee, said in tic leader Raine observers “might help give Congress a better understand- of the problems faced by our is i ¥ i ! i E if g Gir ¢ F fF A i ‘The t i 5 re it e i; ri Hi A | ; f i i} z FF il iis 1 F By SAUL PETT Bridge will be 70 years old Sunday, and maybe it’s time to kill a few ugly rumors which have piagued the old lady since her days ac the glamor queen of suspension bridges. First off, there is no evidence to support the notion tiat the Brook- lyn Bridge ever was party to a confidence game. Old-timers in the city Depart- ment of Public Works, in the Po- lice Department ond district attor- ney’s office can’t reeall a single instance of record where anybody. actually tried to sell the bridge to a sucker, Nobody seems to know how the rumor got started in the first place. It took $15,500,000 and more than 13 years to build the bridge. At today’s prices, according to J. Frank Johnson, director of the Division of Bridges, its replace- ment would cost abnut $75,000,000. ‘When it was opened with fire- works and oratory in 1883, the bridge was the longest. suspension span in the world, stretching 1,594%4 inches across the East Riv- er. It held that title for 20 years, Today it ranks ninth: among sus- pension bridges, but for beauty of line and proportion many experts claim that its granite and steel ‘grace still is second to none. Also, poor buy at almost any price, The cruel truth about:the Brooklyn i ig that it earns no money; is been many years since it ei ie i] H ag * about. Steve Brodie, that ‘Ward ni something—was seen to eff the bridge. A few sec- fonds later, Brodie was hauled out NEW. YORK. (#—The Brooklyn j of the river by friends in a row- boat, It bas always remained a moot question whether Brodie actually jumped or simply dropped into’ the riyer from a. boat and waited for @ dummy to fall’ in. Right now, the Brooklyn Bridge is a one-way affair because of extensive reconstruction. By late this year or early next, the work. will be completed, and it will be able to handle twice as much traffic. Even so, it still won't make money. But you take the George Wash- ington Bridge or the Lincoln Tun- nel, Now there’s a buy. « Ad 9 World Citizen ° . e Sails For India . TILBURY, England W—‘World Citizen”? Garry Davis sailed toward India today’ after a sitdown strike outside Buckingham. Palace failed to win him permission to stay in England. The 31-year-old actor—who re- nounced his. American citizenship in. Paris in 1948 and called him- self world citizen No.1—boarded the liner Stratheden yesterday just seven hours before his deadline to leave the country. He had come to England originally in the cast of the play “Stalag 17,” which flopped. Davis won wide publicity when he camped in. front of Queen Eliz- abeth’s palace earlier this month in an effort to win an extension of: his. visitor’s permit. The police’ hustled him to court and charged him with “wandering about”—as British law terms vagrancy. The “| court gave him until yesterday to | get. out of England, A. philosopher in India has in vited him there for a visit. rentury they became a pest and before effictive control measures were introduced they covered 10 million acres. Switzerland cap raise an army of 700,000 on 72-hours notice. 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Democrats ‘generally lined up to restore deep cuts recommended by the appropriations committee in new funds for the Labor Depart-/ @# ment and the new Health, Educa- tion and Welfare Department for the fiseal year starting July 1. They hoped for enough Republi- White ean backing to upset the commit. | 9 hower and former President Tru-| other man. Rep.. Fogarty (D-RI), handling the bill for the Democrats, said dollaré for hospital $2,400,000 for voeational rehabilita- tion and about 1¥4 millions for hos- pital and medical care. The committee trimmed the hos- pital construction fund to.5¢. mil- lions, a cut of 25 millions from’ Truman requests and 10° millions from the Eisenhower budget. The effect of the committee ac- tion, Fogarty. claimed, would be to deprive -many. communities: ‘of fands they had expected to receive to supplement. local money for hospital construction. Fights also may develop over re- ductions in money for various La- bor Department activities—protest- ed. by Secretary. Durkin as being too deep—and for Office of Educa: tion activities, including payments to sehool districts, The bill would appropriate $254,- 424,000 for the Labor Department and $1,697,893,570 for the Welfare Department, This is 30 millions less than. Eisenhower wanted for the Labor Department and 25 mil- lions below what he requested for the new Welfare Department. MRS. ROOSEVELT ARRIVES IN JAPAN TOKYO ®—Mrs. Eleanor Roose« velt arrived at the Tokyo Inter- national Airport from the U.S, today. - She is expected to stay in Japan until June 25 on the invitation of the Japan Commitiee for Intéllec- tual. Interchange. weex After Small Down Payment [he would try to add 25. million|™ construction,