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Page 2 Sunday Set As Biggest Day Ever In N.Y. Publishing NEW YORK #~It's BE (big edition) day on the New York pewspaper front tomorrow. The il-day sewspaper strike, which stretched over two Sundays, will make for the biggest publish-| ing day ‘in New York history. Here is the announced lineup for four of the six struck news- papers: Times: Biggest paper in its 102- year history, with the largest main news it has ever a the front page and a generdl Hews page as prepared each day for issues missed during the strike, and a 64-page children’s Christmas book issue. News: A 532-page paper, includ- ing regional sections, with 22,000 more lines of department store advertising than on the same Sun- day last year. Mirror: A capacity 96-page news section plus extra district sections. Journal - American: Oversized news and advertising sections, and twice the number of some of the paper's comic and feature supple- ments. The fpf two papers oo the photo-engravers, World Telegram and The Sun and the Post, do not publish Sundays, Separated Twins Reach Birthday CLEVELAND # —Cleveland’s separated Siamese twins reach their first birthday Monday, and except for a s sear they are iny other little any other children,” said Dr. Earl E, Smith, pediatrician for the two girls, Nancy and Ellen. “No one would know there was anything unusual about them,” Their birthday will be some- thing of a medical milestone. It will be the longest time that both members of a Siamese pair have survived a severing operation in the abdominal area. Nancy and Ellen—their last never have been revealed— joined where the chest and abdomen met by a band of flesh one and a half inches thick, No vital organs were involved and the band was cut a few hours after they were born, The litle girls, both chubby and lively, held a birthday preview for photographers yesterday. Nine Die In B36 Mountain Crash EL PASO, Tex, —A 10-engine B36 global bomber, lumbering in for a landing through swirling snow, rammed into a mountain! yesterday and blew up. Nine men were killed. Five of those aboard, including om the commander, had parachuted from a B36 over England last Feb- ruary, The bomber was letting down to land at Biggs Air Force B. here when it smashed into slope of bleak, 7,100-foot reach the scene, “were scattered ip and down the slope.” “One body was on fire. It was soaked with gasoline.” Carswell AFB, Fort Worth, said the B36 was being ferried to Biggs, where it was to have been} permanently stationed. Rescue workers, who had to slosh three fourths of the way up the mountain, planned to bring down the bodies today. Temperatures At 7:30 4.M., EST Gn | Augusta 36) Billings 38: Birmingham —..__.. 45 Boston te Ci Buffalo Charleston Chicago mnt Corpus Christi 4 4 66 51 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Seturday, December 12, 1953) (Congress May Cut The ” Weatherman ea lks Lodge Will Hold Gala Charity » j MOTHER STILL (Continued trom Paze One) | GUNSAN HELD IN (Conutues ftom ?ase Une) Tow. into their ear. ‘Collision Kills Foo2 | BENTON, Ky. Four versons auto attempted to pass a truck, “We will tell the prisoner the “Got Scared” \eollided with a station wagon and section contain-| ime A ‘Bids For Foreign , ee aa Says Ball Tonight | NN Sen. Cloudy with widely scattered show-| nae Coane peodicied Mans- rs and continued mild tonight and! j i i , ‘ . Winds should be moderate Congress will trim any request Sunday. | Cae icant | ito H 4 Fe | leg — rl Florida: Cloudy with showers and) F , Congress author-|* {ew thundershowers in the north lao "gaast corse in new money, portion. Partly cloudy with wide-| jalong with carry-over appropria-!¥ Scattered showers in the south, Soe amie a gerne Sunday with ihay seer — sides ag need) showers Cooler in the north] Mansfield, a member of the Sen- Portion tonight and Sunday. Con-! ate Foreign Relations Committee, tinued mild elsewhere. : bas advocated ending foreign con-| Jacksonville through the Florida omic aid except for Point Fqapr/Stralts and the East Gulf Area: technical assistance. Samll craft warnings are dis- | "The Montana senator said in an Played from the Cedar Keys and) jinterview he feels that public | Daytona Beach northward for mod. opinion is against any large-scale|erate to fresh southeasterly to Traditional opening of Christmas social season { letter contains a message from his| “But then I got scared and fig- mother,” the Indian spokesman ured they'd turn me in if I let them said. “If he accepts it and wishes £0,” the prosecutor quoted the sus- to make a reply we also will for-' pect as saying. ward that.” Sheriff Roy Traywick said Mat- Mrs. Howe flew to Tokyo in a thews told police they drove to 2 dramatic attempt to see her sol-/ junction of Highway 67 near Green- dier son across an explanation ville, Tex., where the gunman lock- table and urge him personally to ed Matthews into the auto’s trunk come home. jand raped Mrs. Matthews before Top military authorities -here resuming the trip. turned down her plea to be allowed; After an all-night drive, the rob- in Korea. jber stopped the car near Arkadel- In Washington, Defense Depart-|phia and raped the 20-year-old ment officials said that if Mrs.|woman a second time. Matthews Howe were allowed in Korea, it said. could bring demands from the| The husband said he was re- Communists that families be per- leased from the trunk and, after mitted to visit thousands of anti-idriving to Donaldson—10 miles Communist prisoners who have'south of here—the robber forced refused to return home, jhis victims from the car and jbound them to a tree with an STUDY APPROVED _[lectric cord and bicycle tape. aid abroad. But he said he thinks southerly winds and in the display most voters favor continuing mili-|area winds occasionally moderate- jtary assistance to build up North/ly strong 25-30 miles per hour near |strength in Europe. \the showers and thundezshowers “Of course,” he said, “we ob-| viously must continue to give as-| sistance in the fight against com- munism in Indochin-.” Recent surveys by the staff of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee have resulted in re- ports of strong opposition to con- jtinuance of foreign aid programs. Staff aids said they found feel-) jing more nearly unanimous on this} issue than almost any other, Face Is Finally Cone From TV Set BLUE POINT, N.Y. w—The face that looked out of Jerry Travers’ TV set for two days, with the set turned off or on, was identified by NBC yesterday as that of Francey Lane, a singer on one of its shows. Then “poof’—as Mrs, Travers described it—Miss Lane's face on the screen turned into a ball short- ly after lunch time and finally faded away. TV experts who at first said “it can’t happen” gave this possible explanation: Could be an explosion of elec- trons burned the image of a face into the fluorescent lining of the) picture tube. Could be the image just burned itself off, NBC has invited the Travers and their three small children to come face-to-face with the face (of Miss Lane) Monday. McCARTHY PROBES (Continued From Page One) ‘espionage act” by removing a 10- year limitation for prosecution of some peacetime espionage of- fenses, 2. A proposal to induce reluctant witnesses to testify about suspect- ed espionage or Communist activ- ity by granting them personal im- munity from prosecution, Bill Pending One such bill is pending in the House Lut has run into disagree- Ment as to whether Congress or the attorney general should have i) say in the granting of im- before Me- Carthy’s investigating group and similar Senate and House commit- tees have refused to answer ques- jincriminate themselves, McCarthy told reporters “I’m! with a request for investigation. He did not say exactly what file he meant. He had said earlier the government personnel fil Taylor have been “flagged’ a warning that they contain de- Togatory information raising ques- |tions of his loyalty to the govern- ‘ment. Taylor hi nied knowing of any such “flag” and expressed| confidence that ‘‘my record in the! government, both civilian and mil- itary, will bear any scrutiny on} matters of loyalty and security.” McCarthy said Taylor ‘‘should} be cleared if there are no/ grounds,” but otherwise should be) denied any pension as a retired tonight, Winds shifting to norther- north portion and diminishing. Moderately to sresh day. Partly cloudy to cloudy with where through Sunday. Western Caribbean: ‘east and southeast winds through Sunday. Partly cloudy weather with widely scattered showers. Key West, Fla., Deg. 12, 1953 at 8 AM. EST PRECIPITATION Highest yesterday ........ Lowest last night Total last 24 hours Total this month ... Deficiency this month .. Total this year .. Excess this year Relative ai ,? AM, 29.97 ins.—1015.2 mbs. 12:21 a.m. Quarter Corrections te ft Name Eey (east end) —+2h 20m SHOULDERS SAYS (Continued From Page One) release the complete text. ‘Why don’t they tell the whole id. “The public is the facts from the Police Board and the FBI.” Shoulders, who resigned from the police force soon after the inquiry started, said he wanted the pubiic to know the truth “ T gave it under oxth.” His resigna- tion has not been pted. Partner Suspended His partner in the arrest, Pa- trolman Elmer Dolan, was sus- pended by the Police Board and also faces department charges. Shoulders said he never stated the money-laden suitcases con- taining the ransom money were brought into the district polic station at the same time Hall w: booked there. | Officer. Accused After Speech th Ft. Monmouth investigation |morale, | “I deliberately sneaked those bags into, the station,” he said. McCarthy’s accusations followed|*1 tried to keep the whole thing |Y¢4r's election : @ speech Taylor made at the U.S. |secret from cece until we | dent Eisenhower's tremendous pop- Military Academy at West Point! knew if the child was alive or not.” jularity—and they don’t ha o|Dec. 5 saying methods used in| He said he and Dolan went out-/o" the ticket next year. side to a police car and brought 2qj threaten the Army's efficiency and the suitcases in within 10 minutes after the booking. ly tonight and Sunday over the! southerly winds over the south portion Sun- widely scattered showers else- Observations Taken At City Office gq brothers, Tillman Barometer (Sea Level), 7:00 A.M. | VANDALINE &. THOMPSON Mrs. Vendaline E. Thompson, 49 jdied last night at the Monroe Ge: Moderate eral Hospital after an extended ill- ness, Mrs. Thompson resided at 1001 Eaton Street. Survivors are the husband, Ar- chie Thompson; one daughter, Mrs. Edna Mae Dion; mother, Mrs, Susie Thompson; three _ sisters, Mrs. Etta Smith, Mrs. Lauriett Pierce and Mrs. Grace Sands, two and Wilbur \Thompson and three grandchil- qo\dren. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock from the Fleming Street Methodist “\Church with the Rev. J. E. Sta- "|tham officiating. Burial will be in “\the family plot in City Cemetery with Pritchard Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. HARRY RENO PEARCE Harry Reno Pearce, $2, retired building contractor, died suddenly [Thursday afternoon on Grassy Key. Mr. Pearce had been a resident of Marathon for the past seven years. He is survived» by the widow, Mrs. Ilo Pearce and one son, George Pearce. The body was taken to Miami by the Pritchard Fyneral Hom for funeral services and burial, DRAMATIC STORY OF (Continued From Page One) cumbed to treasure fever and have Tanged the Spanish Main up the secrets of the old Buccan- neers. They have recovered relics of the past from ancient cannons ito Spanish coins and pewter-ware, A dramatic bit of Keys history—' ithe reason why Looe Key was s0- ‘named, was solved by Thompson when an investigation started from clues he brought up from the depths | showed that the island was named for the 44 gun British frigate HMS Looe which went down In 1744 near there. Thompson actually discovered remnants of that ship and the Post article tells how the mystery was solved with the aid of British Ad- tions on the ground they might! confession and challenged the FBI/miralty records. to referring Taylor's file to the Army}, The story is packed full of inter- esting anedotes for those who love the and what is under it. DEMOS BACK (Continued From Page One) to upset the present House lineup of 21 Republicans, 215 Democrats and 1 independent. And party stalwarts are saying they can chalk up more gains in other parts e country. Averell Harriman of New York, | jholder of numerous top jobs in the Roosevelt and Truman admin- istrations, said in an interview: ‘There isn’t the slightest doubt e can get the House and perhaps the Senate, but we'll all have to work and pull together.” Lawrence said he is optimistic |because the GOP barely squeezed ‘control of Congress out of last, “even with Presi- him When Stevenson arrived late yes- terday, he listed the issue for 1954 jas foreign trade, foreign policy, | court and press comment on trials Both now are sharply limited. | Most judges do not permit court- room photographs and trial com ent subjects newspapers to pos- ible contempt action. CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS A Wide Selection Table Lamps . $7.50 to $12.50 Floor Lamps EISNER FURNITURE CO. 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Batteries Five others were: injured State police said the dead in- cluded Alex Winters Armstrong, 39, Paducah: Louis Carl Hays, 24, /Detroit; William Raymond Egner, |, Paducah; and Mrs. Faye Wiley, | Paducah. | Oran Henson, 32, of Hardin, driv- er of the station wagon, was hos- Pitalized at Paducah, where his condition was listed as critical. The planet Mercury, the smallest major planet of the sun, is 3,010 jmiles in diameter. Last Times -Today THOSE: a = FROM ‘eae. 7 is st, X GENE Guy eat tia MOOREHEAD BELL SISTERS ~ | | | i | | | Last Times Today Wings Of The Hawk IN 3 DIMENSION { with VAN HEFLIN JULIA ADAMS ANTONIO MORENO, NOAH BERRY, J STRONGHOLD HONEYCHILE MONROE “*” | POLICE OFFICER (Continued From Page One) {will be shown to Tenneson tomor-'couple when he forced his way were killed last night when their one that is serving time—other nig! girls have paid off but they Won't go to court and admit it.” When she was asked if she had actually made payments to any police officer, she said that she hadn't but said that one night she saw the patrol wagon moving slow- ly down the street and was told by a cab driver that “the cop was looking for a cadbie so that he could get his payoff." Four witnesses were called to testify yesterday but the committee adjourned after more than. two hours without interrogating officer William Gibb or Sgt. Frank~Car- |aballo. | Mat, 2 & 4:06 Night 6:12 & 8:18 AIR CONDITIONED Sun. and Mon. From M-G-M's taf ot Femet with Harry Carey and Edwina Booth Night 6:30 & 6:30. AIR COOLED Sun. and Mon, .*: The Court of Appeals in’ Wash-| Missing Mone |taxation, farm policy. He said his . ington hears arguments today on| Hall has said he had most of Speech would touch on “the state gsibehalf of seven New Yorkers who the’ $600,000 ransom at the time|/f the public mind, business, for- 4pjchallenge the McCarthy subcom-jof his’ arrest, When the two suit-|¢ig2 Policy, miscellaneous things, §3)mittee’s authority to force them jeases were opened by police, $303,-/2_maybe communism in gcv- 70|t0 testify at the Ft, Monmouth /720 was missing. ogieonigg ae|hearings, They lost « preliminary| Shoulders said Hall, who stated The former Illinois governor 7g found yesterday when Federal Dis-|in his confession that the suitcases S#id he didn’t bring along any mud 7ptrict Judge David A. Pine ruled|were not taken to the station with|t© toss at the Eisenhower admin- 4a)i2 Washington he had no juris-!him, just didn't see the luggage. |istration. 41/ diction. | Meanwhile, Hall was described Ben PY 46 ae said, be Karmel the/as a serene man by a priest but/Ammesty Bill Fails q2ilist of persons he deseri as the ison grapevine says he is) ve 4\linfiltrators of the office of the pean pen gievettea as the Pd taney aro oy hors get §1\U. S. high commissioner in Ger-/ecution date approaches. jamended. bill that would have 4y/many from Earl J. Carroll, an} The Rev. George L. Evans, an granted amnesty to persons con- 53,American lawyer who lives in Episcopal minister and schooldays yicteq of common and political 2q Frankfurt, Germany. jacquaintance, visited Hali Thurs-| rimes 65 McCarthy said Carroll had “doc-| ay. He said the condemned man! piranha Sree $5,Umentation” of his account that'told him he “now has an inward | Gast”? Hits L. A. LOS ANGELES -—A citywide 42/Communists fled Germany, be-jpeace that he never before has! 33)came U. S. citizens, returned to! known.” c 46;Germany and “were brought in”} But from death row, where Hall/pall of dust borne on an inland 43|to jobs with the high commission-|and Mrs. Heady are under con-\wind prompted ‘City Councilman 46 er’s office by Taylor and John/stant guard, came the report Hall|Harold Harry to propose that on 68/J. McCloy, former high commis-war showing increasing nervous-|such days the word “smog” 69'sioner, with whom McCsrthe also ness and has had trouble lately (smoke and fog) give way to a 44has clashed. getting to sleep. mew one: smust. Denver Detroit El Paso - Ft. Worth Galveston - acini’ Jacksonville —2 Kansas City KEY WEST __. Key West Los Angeles —_ Louisville Meridian Miami _. a RE i TS I New Orleans New York _. Norfolk Oklahoma City Pensacola Pittsburgh _ Roanoke St. Louis _. 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