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Poge4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, December 23, 1953 The Key West Citizen Exters roe The Ghines Building. corner of Greene’ and’ ann Street t. P. ARTMAN IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. More Hotels und Apartments. Beach and Pavilion. Airports—Land Sea. Ceneatidatien County Governments prem oop br hie ella iE IKE: THE GOING GETS ROUGH It is clear that the task facing the President of the United States is getting more difficult, not less. The President is obviously being forced to step into active leadership of his party in Capitol Hill to fill the vacancy caused by the passing of Senator Robert Taft. No doubt this decision is a reluctant one on the part of the Chief Executive, who likes to have good subordi- nates and who likes to see them handle their own prob- lems. In Bob Taft, the President had a man who could handle the problems arising on Capito] Hill better than any other Republican. All Taft had to do was make his views known and he had half the battle won—so great was the respect for his ability. But without the-Ohioan, Ike has found things more difficult. For one thing, he has no one to handle the controversial Senator from Wisconsin like Taft did. The President knows that if his kind of legslative program is put through Congress at the next session it will take some efficient leadership in the party. That is obvious in view. of the wide range of opinion, held by various members of the party in power. Roughly speaking, the party is divided into two wings, the Eisenhower-Dewey wing and the conservative, or traditional, wing. The job facing the White House is one to get the great majority of Senators and Congress- men from both wings to cooperate in enacting a pro- gressive legislative program. _ Since Congress is so closely divided it is even more important that Ike have a closely-working team on Cap- itol Hill, but there is little prospect that the breach be- tween the President and people like Senator McCarthy, of Wisconsin, will be healed, since each wing of the party has its own beliefs, and they are widely separated. All this points up the heavy blow to the party that resulted with the death of Senator Taft. Eisenhower must now step into the driver’s seat himself, guide his team in Congress in the coming months, in addition to bearing the responsibility of the country’s international course, That is an active and heavy burden for a military man accustomed to giving orders. It is a heavy burden for any man. The President seems to sense the heavy load ahead, but there is nothing he can do but shoulder’ it. He is the President and head of his party—which are two pretty big jobs to fill. The hardest job is the one that you put off until the last minute, _— AIL [OJE|SMATIEIAIRIS| Crossword Puzzle fms PIRIAINICIE MMRIAIVIEINIS noe ah taeen AR OMUITESIMEITETA Lspre bs DIT (SMBSIETSINE IR] uneconds SIE LIF MSIE} 8. Snatch Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie ry : Gone past % ae ise character 10, Insects 11. Ignoble i. Partty burned carbon 19. Collection 22. Not so ald 24. New Zealand it 25. Poorly 27. Short sleep 28. Pertinent 29. Have debts 30. Wager 35. Village in Meath 36. June bug 38. Goddesses of destiny @. Prima c M Christmas In Korea Editor's Note — Hundreds of, American cities and towns have pitched in to help the U.S. 8th] Army make this a big Christmas for the war-ravaged people of Ko- rea—especially the children or- phaned in the fierce struggle. Here's the story of what Gls are doing to make this a merry Christ- mas in Korea, with plenty of help from the folks back home. By FORREST EDWARDS SEOUL (@®—The bright-eyed, 4- year old Korean youngster cocked} his head to one side and pondered the question: “Who is Santa Claus?” Then his little brown face tit up with a knowing smile. “GI,” he said confidently. Whether he was actually answer- ing the question or whether he just ‘was repeating the one American word he knows best, it was the right answer. Practically every American and United Nations serviceman in Ko-| rea, directly or indirectly, is play-| ing Santa Claus this year to the) youngsters of this war-ravaged nation. The response of the servicemen| is so universal that to enumerate) the Santas would be to give away} a military seeret. The recipients, mostly youngsters, number—liter- ally—hundreds of thousands. There isn’t an American Army unit in Korea that hasn’t adopted) one or more.orphanages or villages of Korean youngsters, The 27th U.S. Infantry Wolfhound | regiment, for example, has| adopted two orphanges, a Korean! hospital, and a home for widows and children in the Seoul area. In addition, the Wolfhounds are continuing their four year support to the Holy Family Home for Orphans in Osaka, Japan, to which they have contributed more than ? Gls Are Santa Claus To Korean Youngsters with the same abandon as Ameri-;Halloween as part of that town’s can children. answer to an appeal from Sgt. As for party food, there will be/Donald Nielsen. nuts, candy, fruit, probably tur-; The Chamber of Commerce of key, but the old reliable standby/Grants Pass and Josephine County, will be rice. Until you have seen/Ore., pledged $1,500 from the a hungry Korean child attack a|merchants and citizens of that bowl of rice, you have never seen|area to the U.S. 10th Corps Christ- a child really settle down to se-|mas program. The move was rious eating. It’s a sight that never|sparked by Col. R. E. Button, fails to amaze the American sol-|senior reserve officer of the Ore- dier. gon military district, who once “They eat rice practically every|served with Col. Andrews Gamble, day they get something to eat,”/now 10th Corps civil affairs of- one bemused soldier said at ajficer. Christmas party last year, “and| Tenth corps also got $200 from yet look at them lined up at that|the Ladies Club of Ft. Monmouth, table. They have passed up|N.J. Mrs. Mary H. Epstein, club damned near everything at the president, said the money came table to get to their rice bowls|from profits of a thrift shop run first.” jby the club. Every unit in Korea has its own} The Parent-Teachers Assn. of story or stories about the cooper- ation and help from the people back home who opened their hearts to servicemen’s appeals for Christmas gifts for Korean chil- dren, Hundreds of towns in practically winter clothing and shipped it to Korea. Families of men and officers of the 5th Air Force had sent more than 100,000 pounds of clothing by Thanksgiving and the packages are Napa, Calif., collected a ton of) every state came through with/still rolling in from all over the Kg ARBARA ENNIS was not at home. She had gone out with- in the hour, after receiving a tele- mp call, saying ing about x destination or when she would be back. s He hooked the receiver and dug in his pockets for more coins. He ome out the number of the lorning Record on the dial and got Bill Doran without difficulty and said, “Check on Barbara En- nis right away. Get hold of her friends, her man, everybody. If you can't find her, get the cops the F. B. 1. and tell them she’s been kidnaped.” Doran's Page shed its — tom: cynicism. “ Lon, Maree if you’re sober—" “I was snatched by a pair of gunsters who made some cracks about her. Cloud had detectives tailing me or else 1 wouldn’t be talking to you now. If you haven't already got a story about one of the gunsters being killed, you'll be getting it any minute.” “Who—?”" “They were working for Mor- rissey, I'm sure. Joe Lark, the Gold Mine doorman, put me on the spot. Barbara got a call about the same time I did and went out, and hasn’t been seen since.” “Tl get busy right away, Marty. Where are you?” z “West Twentieth Street station. I came here with the detectives, but I'm not sore I'm going to | hunt up Morrie and give him the beating he ordered for me.” “Marty, you foal, listen” Martin broke the connection and got out of the booth. Crosswinds of powerful emotion whipped through him—a gale oi fear for Barbara and gusty wrath for Mor- rissey. He had told Williams and Weber he would follow them wu to Cloud’s office. Instead he went into the street and got a cab to the Gold Mine*Club. The gilded doors opened to his thrust. Lights gleamed about the bar, but there were no customers and no ler. As Martin By DON CAMERON | dy» AP New cote-3t 4 a strode toward the gloomy back|across the desk, his im: Tegions, however, Hemingway ap-/| mounting. “Where is she’ peared among the ghostly tables | “You'd ne a ee wouldn't on a you, Marty,”| you? And e te get my hands Wengens eit pag aoa Why don't we make Martin said, “Later. 'm in a/* deal? = “The only way Ill deal with : you is with my hands doubled. | “Give me the note and both of us will be satisfied. I'll guarantee .” ‘ “You rantee it!" Martin was sick of talk; it stuck in his trouble,” Hem- ingway told hi: “you're in a good place for finding it” He moved aside and Martin brushed {past him, heading for the half-| open door of Morrissey’s office, from which a band of yellow light shone through the gloom, IN ORRISSEY looked up from his +¥2 desk as Martin entered. If he was surprised he did not show it, although that could mean merely that the sound of Martin's voice, talking to Hemingway had =| ared him. Morrissey said, “Well, arty?" Martin leaned over the desk, his glance probing the gambler’s steady blue eyes. “Where is Barbara Ennis?” he demanded. Morrissey shuffled together an array of cancelled checks; he snapped a wide rubber band jaround them and dropped them} into a drawer of the desk. “If I wanted to find out I'd try her home,” he said. “That's the best I can offer,” “It won't do, Morrie. An hour ago two of your gorillas picked me up after Joe Lark spottes me for them. They cracked apout a girl before the cops killed ‘one of them and shackled the other. Now Barbara is missing and you're on a spot.” Morrissey leaned back; he looked tired and bored. “Sit down, Marty.” _Morrisse: watched him speculatively. “You'll get further by being reasonable than by acting like a hunk of muscle. If you're telling the truth about somebody getting killed, it’s | °°. too bad, because nobody would have hurt you unless you'd begged | fron’ for it.” A “That's not how they told it to me, But I didn’t come here to dis- cuss that.” Martin leaned farther and the sey, and at the muzzle automatic in Mi hand. A LIFE ABROAD By TOM STONE | FRANKFURT, Germany \?— |Thirteen daily newspapers and a big weekly publish Communist |propaganda in West Germany. | | The Allied High Commission | does not consider their efforts real-| ly damaging. An American public) affairs officer said today the Com-} munist reading audience is small, |—200,000 at the most—and the) daily doses of propaganda have “only a mild effect.” “The Communist papers used to| jbe hell raisers,” he said, “but they) |aren’t any more. Communism has/ |been slipping steadily in West Ger- PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen welcomes expressions of but the editor reserves the right to ir and confine the letters to 200 words of the paper only. Signature of the writer letters and will be published unless requested COMMUNITY CHEST COMMENT Editor, The Citizen: Rear Admiral George C. Towner’s operatic dijudtea- | tion of the citizens of Key West is debasement terribly unfitting of his station. Further, he claims, “The vast ma- jority of the officers and men here feel that the citizens have not lived up to their obligations...” He speaks, ° then, for the Navy, Perhaps the commander needs a rap across his own knuckles. In his shallowness he has overlooked two $150,000 in money and yearly|. clothing drives, money donations—| many as a direct result of an appeal from one of the town’s own servicemen. In Camp Bellesville, Ky., example, the Rotary .club and churches responded to the appeal! Sgt. Lewis Bell forwarded to his} wife, Lydia. Men and officers of three Signal! Corps posts in the United States— Ft. Monmouth, N.J.; Camp Gor- for| United States. |many since the peak days of 1946- Although approach of the Christ-\4g The Sept. 6 elections are proof. mas season has intensified the| cambais, eae Ag —~ cent of the total vote,” round affair | The last time the Communist It’s part of the huge aid to the|Press “really got out of hand Korean people program which|W@8 soon after the start of the Ko- ‘Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, com.|tean War in 1950, the official told manding general of the eighth|@ Teporter. - ; army, has been promoting for) ‘They started printing the worst |months. |kind of. stuff. They called General The Communists got only 2 per, ( things,*(1) there is no “conscription” among the civilians where all Community Chest donations are voluntary, and 2) the commander is not confronted with any list of | “unemployed personnel”, | He estimates between 8000 and 9000 heads of fam- ilies in Key West. He counted 500 who had contributed. He does not state the number of Navy personnel contrib- uting, only ambiguous averages: $1.45 per man; 56 per cent of the (total) amount collected. And he used the don,* Ga.; and Camp San’ Luis| ‘‘Whatever its other unhappy as-|MacArthur ‘The Butcher of Korea’) term: collected. Obispo ,Calif—are helping the| 22nd Signal Group in Korea spon- sor a children’s home in Seoul. Last year those three stateside Posts contributed more than $6,000 and several tons of food, clothing and toys. In Solvang, Calif., the story goes, a group of youngsters played “tricks or clothing for Korea” on Christmas parties since ‘1949, Throughout Korea, other service- men, individually and in groups, | have given hundreds of thousands of dollars—and are still doing it. Units along the front line, where there-are no orphanages, are mov-' ing into small villages and towns, | organizing Christmas parties com- plete with presents for youngsters | and adults alike. Thousands of gifts, especially desperately needed warm clothing, | already ‘have arrived in Korea from the folks back home. arrive until after Christmas day.| |vicemen are of the “practical” variety, many servicemen them-| selves have ordered toys from the pects,” Gen. Taylor said a while and they said our GIs were com- back, ‘the Korean struggle -has|mitting atrocious crimes.” Drought forth a feeling of kinship, The papers then were padlocked between our soldiers and the Ko-|one by one by the Allies for three- |by;produet of our military effort.” |were tamer with only scattered | To the Korean population, as | outbursts. jorphanage, Santa Claus is the/no visible means of suppori. Reve- {"GL” nue from circulation and adver- tisements does not cover produc- ‘tion costs. The papers are in the red, more ways than one. They are subsidized’ from the Soviet . | The editors are leading but low- leaders. and the number of their troops un- der arms is impressive Nevertheless, the Eisenhower paid functionaries. Their jobs are considered regular party duties. They must be able to turn every item into a Communist-slanted edi- Today By James Marlow aism where none exists. Almost any Communist can write for the party papers—without pay, | WASHINGTON #—Never before'!known only to the military people,of course. “People’s correspond- More thousands of packages des-|in the history of the country have|the President, his close advisers |ents” send in reports on beer hall tined for Korean youngsters. are on|the people had to depend so blindly |and the atomic experts. mor D the way. Some probably won’t}on the military wisdom of its} In the atomic field the size andjespecially incidents reflecting on jbrawls, rumors of any kind and |power of the bombs are not known the Allies. ithey are many times more power- ful than those dropped on Japan. |It was generally understood that ; Some idea of their power, |if you had enough troops, guns, torial, and see support for commu- j Fifty-six per cent. That’s a complimentary amount, to be sure, but it does not constitute grounds for the com- | mander’s unctuous denunciation of voluntary efforts of rean people which is a precious/month periods. Afterwards, they| the citizens of Key West. | Small wonder W. R. Neblett had nothing tosay. He to the little 4-year-old in a Seoul] The Communist press has almost| Showed magnanimous restraint, and, of course, natural | surprise. The duty of the chairman of the chest fund campaign is to accept the check, although personally I'd like to have seen him hand it back to the misanthropic | commander, The poor may be poor, but don’t take away their | pride. “4 ; H. V. B. | Key West, Fla., | P.O. Box 642, IT’S ANOTHER MANUEL PEREZ Editor, The Citizen: I want to make clear to all concerned that a Manuel Perez is running in one of the ballots for the Directors of the San Carlos Institute. I am not the Manuel Peres whose name appears on the ballot, and I am not going to Because so many gifts contrib-! The Russians have atom bombs,'by the public. They can’t even be| Four of the papers are named ryn for or against the Directors now serving on the San uted by families of American ser-|they may have hydrogen bombs, |imagined. Laymen know only that “Echo.” | Carlos Board. (Signed) U.S. and Japan. | MANUEL PEREZ DAVILA. a eS ir jadministration is planning to re-|aithough still beyond the ability of| ships, planes and traditional bombs, recognize the ‘n for warm clothing but many feel the Korean| i | 927 Thomas Street, p a |the lay mind to comprehend, was|your chances of winning were} é poccaoagee eit ed nian armed) civen by President Eisenhower in|pretty good. } Key West, Florida. youngster also should get a little! re -. {his fun out of Christmas. Air Force—this year and still fur-! Dec. 9 speech to the United | Everyone had pretty much the) : Caught In Act Teacher Fired ther next year. T |Nations. same sort of thing, more or less. Men and officers of the U.S. 10th ‘ He said the United States stock-|And there was no great mystery Corps, for example, ordered three me administration hag two mo-! pile of atomic weapons today “ex-|about the bombs. The bigger they tons of toys through the Corps ‘'Y®S ceeds by many times the explosive; were, the more powerful they were | civil affairs officer. ' 1. A desire to keep campaign total of all bombs and all shells and the more damage they could RICHMOND, Ky. ‘#—Carlos Ed- be rage Cleveland Scores of service handymen promises by reducing expenses. (that came from every plane and do. wards, 18, was writing the owner og rd of ery , fired {fashioned toys for youngsters in a| 2. More reliance on new weap- every gun in every theater of war| This country no doubt has 4 a note of thanks for the “Christ- end _ a ee aw mass production workshop set up.ons and the special teams and through all the years of World greater supply of atomic weapons mas money” when state police 7¢4?0ld teacher who refused t jin the special services.tent at the/Planes to deliver them War Il.” than the Russians since the United arrested him and two other teen- one questions before the Ohie {57th Field Artillery battalion. Since the wisdom of these de-) And as a warning to the Rus- States has been building them agers in the act of ransacking a U"-American Activities Commis | Other units have similar projects cisions may not be known for|sians he said anyone who tried an longer. In time the Russians may cafe pe: jgoing full blast years, it has to be assumed mean-jattack would be repaid quickly|have enough for wartime needs, if/ The note said: i The board found Edward Lik The goal is at least one toy plus|While that the military planners'\by having his homeland laid/|they don’t now. “Thanks for the money. I need/over. an instructor at the Cleve & complete winter clothing outfit/know what they are doing. waste. | When that happens both sides, jit for Christmas. I am a bad boy Jand Trades School, guilty of “com for each youngster in its adopted We are told that scientific de- This was an expression of con-jhaving sufficient bombs to blast/for doing this.” E ‘duet unbecoming a teacher.” orphanage or village. velopment of new’ weapons since fidence which the public, not know-|each other off the earth, may have’ The other two were iden‘ified as Likover questioned the legality A highlight of of the Christ-| World War H has been astonish-|ing the details, must take on faith. to revise all over again their ideas|George Smith, 16, and Leroy Jones,|of the commission when he Mas parties will be cartoon movies, ing, changing the old concepts of Military power was something:about warmaking, looking for still 17 peared before it at a bearing here ‘Even the shiest Korean youngster fighting a war. What the new de- which could be understood better newer ways to do it, unless in the The trio was charged with store- Dec, 2. is inclined to chuckle at those and velopments are, what can be ex- in World War II. meantime they can agree to let house breaking and held without? the bolder shout their enjoyment pected of them necessarily ig Then there were few mysteriez.‘zach other stay alive. bond. CITIZEN WANT ADS PAY OFF Parte eee «eee emenen nn es