The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 17, 1953, Page 2

‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, June 17, 1953 Truman Says He “Left Worries At Door Of The White House” Editor’s Note: Ernest B. Vac-~ @aro covered Harry S. Truman as @ senator from Misscuri, then was @ssigned to the White House to @over him as President for nearly @ight years. Passing through Kan-. sas City recently, Vaccaro looked up his old friend). By ERNEST B. VACCARO WASHINGTON —It was late @f a hot Missouri Sunday after- Roon. The gray-haired man with a tan to match his smartly creased summer suit grinved through the erowd gathered in front of the Aladdin Hotel. He had driven in from Indepen- dence, he explained to this report- er, to welcome two automobile earavans from Texas and Okla- homa on their Kansas City stop en route to the. National Junior Chamber of Commerce convention in Minneapolis. Harry S. Truman, former Presi- dent of the United States, betrayed no impatience whatsoever that one delegation was iate. “The only thing is that I prom- ised Mrs, Truman I'd hurry home and move some furniture out of our bedroom so ‘t can be painted tomorrow,”” he confided. “1 don’t want to be too late.” He looked years younger than| when he left the White House. He looked more adjusted to private life than during his first few weeks back in Missouri, A long rest in Hawaii had accustomed him to moving at a slower pace. Signing of a contract for the memoirs he intends to write and making plans for the future have provided the work he needs. “I tried to leave my worries at the White House door.” * He was eager for word of mem- berg of his old White House staff, congressmen, senators, newspaper- men and others, He’li see many of them when he visits Wahington next week. From Washigton he'll go to Philadelphia to speak on June 26 and to New York for an- other speech on the 29th. The conversation was interrupt- ed by a telephone call. Would Tru- man like to visit in the manager’s suite. He would, and he did, The manager introduced his wife and small daughter. The child charmed the distinguished visitor immediately, chattering, dancing and showing her heavily laced fancy pants. Watching the little girl, Truman was reminded of his daughter, Margy, as he calls Margaret, when she was that little, Hé beamed when’ he waé told everyone enjoyed her appearances on television shows, “TI don’t get to see her on tele- vision here,” he said rather tn- happily. “They tell me she’s get- ting better all the tame, And no- body can say that she has her contract because her daddy's in the White House.” Finally the telephone rang; the gee were on hand, Truman They made little speeches in front of the hotel, and Truman told the delegates he hoped they had a successful convention. He was made chiet of the Okla- homa Junior Chamber of Com- merce tribe and received a beauti- ful Indian war bonnet. Some of the visitors displayed some fancy Indian. war dancing and whoops echoed for blocks in the otherwise quiet Sabbath, The ex-President wouldn't put on the war bonnet, despite the plea of the photographers, but held it in his arms, the tail end trailing down to the sidewalk. As he turned to go, Truman gathered the bonnet carefully into his arms and started down the street with the reporter to a ga- rage, where he planked down his money with his parking ticket. A big, shiny new car with all the modern gadgets was rolled out. Harry Truman climbed behind the wheel after putting the bonnet in the back seat, waved a “See you at lunch tomorrow" an@ rolled out into the traffic bound for Inde- pendence, 12 miles away, to move the furniture for Mrs. Truman, Children Saved By Pilot’s Act FORESTVILLE, Md. & — The lot of an F86 jet plane was cred- ed by eyewitnesses today with steering his disabled plane into a clump of woods rather than crash- ing it onto a schoolground where children were playing | US. Air Force Outgrows The Korean War By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON @—The Korean War is getting too old-fashioned for the U. S. Air Force. The en- emy is using antique airplanes which radar won’t detect and which fly so slow and so low that superspeed jets can’t cope with them. This, in substance, is the explan- ation at Air Force headquarters of how the old Sovict-made PO2 bi- planes come drifting in at night and bomb United Nations air bases and other installations in South Korea, . . Fifteen made a successful sortie Monday night against Kimpo Air- field and the port of Inchon, touching off fires visible for 20 miles. Other smaller raids have been made by the same type planes. There have been remark- ably few interceptions. wood PO2s, and there is no elec; Russians in 1927 as a_ training plane, is a wood-and-fabric job. Wood and fabric, an Air Force spokesman explained today, is a poor target for radar impulses. Ra- dar sends out on impulse which reflects against an object, prefer- ably metallic, then bounces back to be picked up by a receiver, The character of the returned signal together with the time required for it to return, provides data for es- timating the direction, distance and speed of the object, as well as indication of its nature, But the radar warning network doesn’t work on the old cloth-and- wood PO2s. and there is no elec. | ended tronic word of the enemy’s ap- proach. And when he gets in close, a new complication comes. Many modern anti - aircraft guns, They won’t operate on PO2s. The best the ground defenders have been able to do is put up barr fire, hoping to knock down a pla by filling the air with flak, A po2 has a maximum speed of about 110 miles an hour, A jet fighter pulling down to that speed to fire upon one of the old biplanes would be clese to “‘stalling out” from loss of adequate airspeed to keep in the gir. The Air Force spokesman ‘insist- ed the situation wasn’t serious, that these were nuisance raids. If it became serious, he said, meas- ures would be taken to deal with the POs. But he didn’t say, just how. It is embarrassing enough to be hit with museum-type aircraft. But the ordnance used by the biplane force is even more humilating to those who have been fighting fires touching off by the raiders. Con- yerted artillery shells and even hand grenades, tossed from the open cockpits, have been used in some instances. Lone Graduate Gets Diploma CUTTYHUNK ISLAND, Mass. W—The entire graduating class of this tiny island’s one-room gram- mar school slept late today. The whole class is pretty Cath- erine Carney, 14. She starred in the island's first graduation in five years last nigh. Cathy said she was tired after weeks of preparation, including an exciting trip to the mainland to buy her first ankle-length dress for the graduation. Western-most of the Elizabeth Islands, Cuttyhunk is 14 miles off- shore from the old whaling port of New Bedford. Two school superintendents came from the mainland to help out at Cathy's graduation. The town’s dozen familics and 40 sum- mer visitors were on hand for the commencement in town hall, The little school won't produce another graduate for two years when Catherine's brother Robert is due to finish the eighth grade, also alone. Cuttyhunk Constable Manuel Sar- mento came over from _neighbor- ling Nashawena Island last night to see that law and order prevailed in the excitement. He bad not made an arrest in his 2 years in office |Lemmings Begin Mass Suicide Trek Early This Year POINT BARROW, Alaska @— Hundreds of thousands of lem- mings, said to face a “starve or drown” choice, are choosing drown- ing again in a mass migration waters, The migration staried here early this week and the little furry- footed rodents with the short tail |and odd teeth have been pouring |out from shore onto the sea ice in a continual stream since then. There is no food on the ice either—just death by cold or drowning as they scamper off the |floes into the water. Some have been observed as far as 25 miles from shore, still scampering over the sea ice. Dr. John Buckley, biologist for the University of Aiaska in Fair- banks, said science can’t fully ex- | plain the periodic suicide migra- But, he said, “when they exhaust their food, they haven’t got much choice. They either starve on land or go out to sea anc Rag The lemmings feed on roots, and the scarcity of such forage in the bleak arctic coastline seems bear out Dr. Buckley’s explana- tion. They migrate to their death periodically. The last time was in 1949. Countless thousands of them perished that year, Lemmings are found in the cold, northern extremes of North Ameri- ca and Europe, Straggler Taken . MANILA #—The Defense De- partment today said an Army patrol captured a Japanese World War If straggler in mountainous on Province southeast of Ma- a. The holdout, Pvt. Kaichiro Ino- chi, 35, told Army investigators he did not know the Pacific war had Coming Events WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17— Gym classes for 0.W.C., Plane Base, 10 a.m. Navy Thrift Shop, 10 am. to Ipm ' P Navy Wives’ Bowling Lea; Naval Station Alleys, 1 p.m. Meeting, Junior Ch. Commerce at » § p.m. . Island City Navy Wives Club No. 88, meeting at White Hat Club Lounge, 10 a.m. ; Movies at the Jayteen Youth Center, Poinciana, 8 p. m, HS-1 0. W. C. luncheon, place to be announced. ZX-11 monthly bridge-luncheon at Raul’s, 12:30 p.m, Monroe County PTA Council, Sea men’s Club, 8 p. m. Ft. Taylor OWC Book Review group, Ft. Taylor, 10 a. m. Naval Air Station 0. W. C. luncheon 12:30 p.m. Dade Lodge No. 14, Scottish Rite Temple, 8 p. m, THURSDAY, JUNE 18— Navy Wives’ Bowling League, at Auxiliary at hospital, 2 p.m. 5 Ceramic Classes and hand weav- 1 to 4 p.m., West Martello School, County Beach. Anonymous, closed meeting for members only, 515% Duval Street. Rotary Club luncheon, St. Paul’s Parish Hall, 12:15 p.m. C.A.P. Cadets, Key West High School, 7:30 p.m. Poinciana Jayteen Youth Cen- ter, movies at 8 p.m. Elks Lodge, at clubhouse, 8 p.m. V. F. W. Post No. 3911, VFW Post Home, 8 p. m. VX-1 Officers’ Wives Club lun- cheon, Sun and Sand Beach Club with swimming and bridge. Cocktails at 12:30 p.m. Martha Linda Franks circle of WMU, First Baptist Church, 10 a. m. FRIDAY, JUNE 19— Old Fashioned hymn sing and into the Arctic Ocean’s frigid | | tions of the lemmings in the arctic. | tery. “to | Alfonso, Ernesto Cano, Jr., Daniel Gospel Hall Meets Tonight, Friday Special meetings at the Gospel Hall, Southard Street ate taking place tonight, Friday and Tuesday nights, according to an announce- ment made today. {meetings August Van Ryn who/| conducts the meetings will continue | them on Tuesdays, Wednesdays| and Fridays for the next several | weeks at 7:45 p.m. ‘DEA MRS. BLANCA CANO. 85 Mrs. Blanea Cano, 85, died yes- terday afternoon at her residence, 912‘Center Street, after a linger- ing illness. Funeral services will be held this | afternoon 5:30 o’clock in Chapel of the Lopez Funeral Home. The Rev. Manuel Figueroa of the Cuban | Methodist will officiate at the ser- vices. Burial will be in City Ceme- Survivors include two sons, Ern- esto Cano and Oswaldo Cano; two daughters, Procesa Cano, and Con- suela Cano Garcia;-one Brother, W, G. Camero; the following grand children, Adriana Cano, Milta Cano Garcia, Mario Garcia and Edna Garcia Martinez; and nieces, Mrs. N. W. Ketchings, Mrs. E. Parodi, Miami, Mrs. Raymond — Sprague, Miami, and Mrs. Antistia Garcia. Several nieces and nephews of grandchildren also survive. ROSENBERGS’ (Continued From Page One) the law dealing specifically with atomic espionage. ‘The husband and wife had been scheduled to die at 10 p. m. to- morrow at Sing Sing prison at Ossining, N. Y. 10 LOCAL BOYS (Continyed from Page One) residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Gardner, 1206 South St., sponsored by the Key West Kiwanis Club. All the above students are in the elevneth grade at the Key West High School. It is the largest group of boys ever to attend Boys State from Key West. Arthur Sawyer Post is very grateful that so many local civic organizations have ¢o- operated in this project. Spanish Counterfeiting (Continued From Page One) ed by widespread postwar black markets in money. Baughman disclosed the story of the Spanish gang’s operations and capture, as reported by Hierro Martiriez, in respamse to a query here. The Treasury last January an- nounced that International Police were seeking the source of several false Export-Import Bank checks which had turned up. The joker was, ond is, that the Export-Import Bank, although it Ymakes U. S, Government loans abroad, issues no loan checks of | its own. The government bank es- tablishes credits in U. S, and for- eign commercial bunks when it) makes a loan, and these banks issue loan checks, | Neverthel the false Export-| Import Bank checks repeatedly passed scrutiny in Swiss interna. tional banking institution and in) New York banks, and were stopped | only when they were presented at the Bank of Manhattan in New| ed to make it appear that they | had been issued by the Export- | Import Bank against an account | in the Bank of Manhattan. Twelve such checks were presented a: turned down. They came in from Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and Germany. One check was traced to | a black market in La Paz, Bolivia, | where it was sent from Madrid for | passing. Most of the supposed Ex-Im checks were for $1,000 or $1,500, | but one was for $18,500 and an- other was for $20,000. Losses were | borne by merchants and black | market dealers who accepted the | checks, giving merchandise or cash | for them. There was no loss to |the government bank. | Additionally the Spanish check jcounterfeiters printed travelers checks on a New York bank that does not issue travelers checks. | Baughman first head of the Ex. {Im checks from A. Mj Anderson, fellowship program, Poinclana) s.:ictant treasurer ot pe govern: Baptist Church, 8.30 p.m. Navy Thrift Shop, 1 to 5 p.m. Jayteen Youth Center dance, Poinciana, 8 to 11 p, m. Triangle Club, Pythian Sisters, 7:30 pn. Shrine Club, Jaycee’s club house, 7:30 p.m The plane exploded in midair; and sailed home with his record SATURDAY, JUNE 20— just before hitting the trees and/ seattering wreckage over a 200. yard area near the schoolgropnd. | intact, Today the islanders settled back to the business of getting ready for Youth for Christ Rally, Fleming Street Methodist Church, 722 Fierning Street, 7:30 p.m. The pilot, tentatively identified as|summer tourists. The population | MONDAY, JUNE 2~ Capt, Francis T. Evans of Wash-/ ington, D. C., wos killed | Witnesses said he either tried to | ing, tourists are the most profitabie | bail out or was ejected from the crashing plane seconds after he} headed it for the wooded area Fred. Spinks, president of the Forestville Citizens Association | who saw the crash, said: “It was an act of heroism. The plane would have hit the school if be hadn't steered & away,” A spokesman at nearby Andrews of 40 will jump to ebout 250 in the next two weeks. Next to bass fish- bu: Air Force Base said something went wrong with the plane's hy- draulic system. The "s body was found about 36 feet from the plane. His head was crushed and his partially opened parackete May crum)de beside Sim. Gym classes for O.W.C,, Sea Plane Base, 10 a.m. Alcoholics Anonymous open meeting, 51542 Duval Street, 8 pm. Jayteen Youth Center, Poiaciana movies, 3 b mn. Beta Sigma Phi sorority, San Carlos School, § p. m. Anchor Lodge No. 182, Scottish Rite Templig. & p.m. Methodist Men, Wesiry Op 2. House ment bank, who wrote to Baugh- | man last Nov. 10 that a $4,800) jcheck drawn upon a supposed Ex- jim account in the Bank of Man jhattan, had turaed up, This was {quickly followed by three more ; Baughman put a U. S.jTreasury jeaent in Paris on the Base im (mediately. This agent ca¥ed upon Interpol, the European Internation- al Police netw ich hax head. jquarters in Paris, and the inves- | tigation quickly back from ; Swiss banks to Madrid, where the | checks were put in circulation, | Gen. Hierro Muartines took it jfrom there, in co-operstion with }the U. S. Treasury agent and In- | terpol links in France, Switzerland, | Maly, Germany and other coca) tries. ' Gea. Hierro Martiner, report did not deseribe in any detail just how the gang was caught, bet be told Baughman that bis net scooped ia ‘every m Havana, Cuba, and several great |! Funny Men Will Appear In Movie At The Islander The famed comedy team, Bud Abhott and Lou Costello, combine | their talents again in what is re- portedly their funniest screen of- fering. It's “Abbot and Costello Meet Captain Kidd,” a Woodley production in Supercinecolor for Warner Bros. with Charles Laugh- ton playing Captain Kidd in’ the new film, It runs June 19 and 20 at the Islander Drive-In Theatre. The story tells how Captain Kidd, with his pirate crew, sails to the island of Tortuga for a rendezvous with a beautiful blonde buccaneer competitor and then becomes in- volved with two tavern waiters. When Kidd mistakenly receives a love note, and the map to a hidden treasure falls into the hands of the waiters, hilarious complications re- sult. As the tavern waiters who vie with Captain Kidd, in the search for buried treasure, comics | Abbott and Costello are given am- ple opportunities to display their zany antics. 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