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Page 2 THE XEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, December 29, 1953 US. Chamber Plan For Aiding Oldsters Comes Under Attack Sy STERLING F.GREEN WASHINGTON ® — The United, EIS. States Chamber of Commerce to-| day found its proposal to qualify! five million more older citizens for! im co BRIEFS in an economists’ debate as a) “baby Townsend Plan.” | CENCINNATI, w — A used car The proposal, part of the Cham-|4-ajer advertised today all pur- ber's plan to put social a, (chasers of post-war models would on a pay-as-you-go basis ai tbe given a week's vacation free at federal aid for direct reliet of the pogo Fag Sida societies in ser| Sky Pontiac said in a.want ad it sion here. {would foot the room bill at the All the speakers—including W./Surf Hotel in Miami for seven Campbell, research economist tiers tial security tar'should be allowed| LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg (7 to rise to 2 per cent as scheduled |—Grand Duchess Chariotte has ap- on Saturday. jpointed Foreign Minister Joseph President Eisenhower last year Bech premier of Luxembourg. He askec congress to — the con- ee Dupong, who died tribution at 1% each on 4 workers po couplagers. Congress | Bech, a veteran of European did not act. Some have speculated |diplomacy, will retain the foreign he might again ask ~ a ir , jministry. retroactive to New Year’ ay, | ——— ong $. The| DEVONPORT, England w — Congress boost would nullify the benefits of|Forty - one engine room gauges Lowest last night the ineome tax eut, also due Jan.jhave been smashed on the 18,000- Mean _ 1, for many low income families. |ton aircraft carrier Warrior, Royal Normal Evidence that professional econ- |Navy headquarters reported here! omists believe the country is in for |last night. a mild recession throughout 1954 A spokesman said New Year's \ e was the highlight of yesterday’s|leave had been suspended for g9/Total this month eee feicacs meets ica room sailors while an tn- |Deficiency this month _ Assn. \Total | vestigation is carried out. ‘At one meeting of some 300 of! “It was hooliganism, not aa a9 this year the economists, the delegates in-|tage,” the spokesman declared. dicated by a show of hands that) pect a 1954 production de-| VIENNA, ‘® — Kuno Rainer, a per cent or more from leading member of the German- 1953's record. lAustrian team of mountaineers would leave 1954 | which climbed 26,660-foot Mt. Nan- second and most pros-/ga Parbat in the Himalayas this perous year, but it contrasted with }year, was reported out of danger Sunset the expressed view of Eisenhower |but still badly hurt today from a administration statements that the |90-foot fall in the Austrian Alps.) Moonset _ autumn dip in business activity 5| Rainer, an Austrian, tumbled off | the side of a peak in the Ziller- a few months’ duration. None of}taler Alps in the Tyrol Saturday. a “readjustment” of probably only the economists, however, forecast | the decline would progress into "| AUCKLAND, New Zealand, ®— depression. The Duke of Edinburgh will in- Sen. Knowland (R-Calif). the |terrupt the royal tour of New Zea- Senate GOP leader, took issue with land to fly to Wellington for mass the view that a recession is in funeral services Thursday for the progress. and With Sen. Douglas victims of this country’s Christ-/ (D-Ill), who contends the goverm}mas Eve railway disaster - the |Caldes ment should be moving in with} worst: in its history. plans for further tax cuts and pub-; The possjble :death toll in the} lie works. |wreek was reduced today from 161 “There are no indications of @/t 147, Thus far 117 bodies have substantial recession depres-|been . re ed from the train, sion,” Knowland told reporters to-| which proms at into the Wangaehu day. “There have been some ad-) River. “and onty°3 remain unac- justment from the wartime highs, | egunted for. but no one expected an economy} based on wartime peaks.” GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. @ — A Ford Motor Co. official said imjyrrs) John H. Folger, stage-and remarks prepared for the econei¢itm star in the days of silent pic- mists’ meeting that “prospects for tures, died yesterday at her home the automobile industry are good. jhere. She was 66. R. J. Eggert, program planning) 4s Violet MacMillan, the “Cin-| \The ——SSSSSSE INDIA RAPPED FOR | More than half of the world’s | een | sContinuea From Page One) eect employed people are W th JEA’ cerity of “an Indian gentleman” — (—————________ eatherman Se 5S im" BOOR OLD CRAIG | | Mrs. Lovise Singleten Pierce (would lose lege! custody of the SERVICE | Mrs. Louisa Singleton Pierce, 86,|prisoners after Jan. 22. Thimayya TATION | Key West and Vicinity: Mostly died yesterday afternoon at Mon-is chairman of wah NNRC J . | y tered show-Toe General Hospital after a short) Pyun declared he was certain eneis at Tromar pigs ae illness. ithe United States U. N. Command DIAL 2.9193 ers. today thra Wednesday. Con-| > and - j ) i ; Funeral services will be held South Korea will stand by the tinued mild and humid. a to-| Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 in the|Jam. 22 release date. | Your PURE OIL Dealer night about 70 degrees; to- Chapel of the Lopez Funeral Home. i morrow about 89 degrees. Light The Rev. Eldon Simmons will of-| Three mountain ranges in North| Tires es Tubes aig Batteries) 'to gentle variable winds becoming ficiate at the services. Burial will|Carolina bear | ACCESSORIES moderate to fresh southerly and De im the family plot at City Ceme- is, Natabalas and Cowees. : shifting to northerly Wednesday. | Survivors are the husband, Eu- Florida: Mostly cloudy with o¢- gene F. Pierce; a daughter, Mrs. easional rain in north portion and Eugenia Pent; a grandson, Robert partly cloudy with widely scatter-/Hyston Pent; and numerous nieces = - ed showers elsewhere thru Wednes-|and nephews. al ager ogee anne Mrs. Pierce was a member of |Straits ai ° the Degree of Pocahontas who will - THURSD. . to occasionally fresh south to south- attend the funeral and hold grave- WEDNESDAY AY FRIDAY jwest winds thru Wednesday. Part- side services. | ly cloudy weather with widely) scattered showers. Western Caribbean: Moderate| Temperatures east and southeast winds thru) re Wednesday. Partly cloudy weather At 7:30 A.M., EST with widely scattered showers. | Key West, Fla, Dec. 29, 953 | Observations Taken At City Office ot 8 AM., EST | TEMPERATURES in psa Appearing On Our Stage IN PERSON oS B2K _ e o PRECIPITATION Total last 24 hours this year Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. 96% Barometer (Sea Level), 7:00 A.M. | 30.08 ins.—1018.6 mbs. i Tomerrow’s Almanac (Sunrise _ ———. 7:11 om. I Moonrise BNSSSBBRSARSALSASSRSAESVSsSVsE »~ | | | be OBSERVATORY IS ADDITIONAL fIDE DATA (Continued From Page One) | | Reference Station: Key West {housings probably would be safe INTERNATIONAL DANCE TEAM i ‘but heat from the fire might de- | Tide high water|stroy the delicate alignment of oth- er instruments if the fla! ac-| tually reached the observ: le and ; SUSPENDED POLICE | TOMMY ACOSTA (Continued From Page One) manager, noted thgt consumers! gerolia Girl,” she played a testing Sherwood To TV was arrested. Conley | IMITATOR OF CARMEN MIRANDA hold 60 per cent méte liquid as-|rot¢ in original production of the | he was called to sets than before thar, and that) musical “The Time, the Place and) HOLLYWOOD (#—Robert Sher-|city manager and consumers’ spendable income i8/n¢ Giri,” which had a three-year! wood whose Broadway plays have |2ey- expected to contin in the next . ites mein “El Hs preet ree.|7U" on broadway. ord high Jevel.”” : BOMBAY, India, ™—Fifty - nine “The movement of population S\persons were injured today when toward the suburbs, thus creating |the crack Bombay-Poona electric an increased need for cars, he | express crashed into a stationary press lifer, Pe he Soe aS suburban train in Victoria Station ‘The economists’ attention swung) **"° |won him four Pulitzer Prizes to-; “He looked like he had | Come---See These \night makes his debut as a play-|couple of drinks, but I lwright for television. |he was sober,” Conley steted. | Yvonne de Carlo Wendell Cor-| Police said that they did not give RADIO and | V STARS ey Gene Lockhart and Thomas/him the customary drunkometer Mitchell star in “Backbone ofjtest although they did not give any| America,” a satirical comedy|reason why. of Cuba and New York jabout 4 high-powered advertising, Police officer Lionel Soriano, who rit | f = to saaial ity at a joint session) santa, up — Reinforced acd firm that goes on a search to find|made the arrest, said that he was Beautiful Costumes last night of the American Eco-| nomic Assn, and the Industrial Re-|2ttalions toda lations Research Assn. Rep. Kean (R-NJ), sponsor of ad- y prepared to han- |pected to see Ramon Magsaysay America’s most typical family. |ealied to the scene where he found It will be seen over NBC-TV|Gibb lying on the ground. : |dle the half - million persons ex-/from 8 to 9 p.m. EST. | “When he stood up, he was stag-| Fine Entertainment Sherwood came out here to su-|gering and I smelled liquor on his {sworn in tomorrow as president of i i , I ” ‘ ifi / ministration-supported legislation| inv Philipp! a Pt of| pervise the presentation. He's un-|breath,” Soriano testified yester- to broaden social security cover- age by millions of workers and iM: | btacksmith’s son who won fame der contract to write eight more, |day. He jailed both Fabal and Gibb Magsaysay, stocky 46-year-old) at that time. arc ge aie oS ser cusm (tenes 3 SHOWS DAILY . : g the Communist - led Huk/ “tt proposal to freeze social security! rebels, will take the oath at mid-|, ‘Continued trom Page One} | . ae has “‘politieal appeal” |i, Army batteries and Atmerican “Pm opposed to a fi ot lea seivtes Manila Harbor will time. Benefits ate now greater than can be supported at the pres-| mpccentin teers sapenmmmers! TODAY'S the free world. q “Onty thus can the free world! Gibb gave this story of his 4:00, 6:15 and 8:30 P.M. |prevent the launching of Red ag-|Ventures om the day im : |gression and bring lasting peacc|"l was home dri BOX OFFICE WILL OPEN 1:45 P.M. TOMORROW to the earth.” }my mother until about 11 o’clock Rhee declared, “The current in-/when I went out to transact some enter a pay-as-you-go plan instead) ternational situation does not per- business on Truman Avenue. I of building a trust fund reserve SEOCK MARKET = us to take the action we so/Walked into Che Che's Bar to wis! for payment of future benefits. If} desperately want to take,” but add-'them a Merry Christmas and had we freeze today, we would almost| NEW YORK, (®—Prices moved/ed ominously: ja beer or two,” he said. inevitably have to adopt the pay-|iTregularly today in the stock mar- as-you-go system in the future.’ (Ket in early dealings. Kean criticized the U. S. Cham-| Losses extended to around a ber plan to pay minimum benefits Point while gains were confined —inereased from the present $25 | small fractions in a limited area to $90 a .nionth—to about ifve milf the list. ; lion retired persons over 65 who Movie issues, which yesterday “Better that-we alf die together| Gibb added that Fabal came! than that we leave part of our/along and “tried to pick a fight.” people in slavery: Solidly united, “I told him that I didn’t want to in heart, power and purpose, we|do any fightmg and that I'd call have resolved to fight resolutely the wagon if he started one,” Gibb for the eradication of communism /¢ontinued. He said that Fabal then in our country and the freeing of beat him in the bar until he was are now ineligible for social seeur-|8Ve & buoyant touch to an other-|our enehained countrymen. told to leave by the owner. He ity and have not contributed to it, Wise depressed market, held un- ~._ Nothing could deter us from|added that he was knocked down This would rain the social se-|“hanged today. curity trust fund of $1,800,000,000) Holding steady to higher along that objective.” when he was outside the place, as | well, a year, the legislator said, would|With the movie shares were rubbers) 'VASION OF LAOS |_“! can’t understand it,” said “break faith with those who have) ™¢tchandising issues, farm impie- paid into the fund,” and might)™ents, and the utilities make of social security a “political Heading down were steels, mo- football.” jtors, aircrafts, distillers, coppers, and air lines. The railroads were Gold From Soviet preardoapy with the oils and Lower stocks included U.S. Steel, LONDON ‘®—Another shipment General Motors, Douglas Aircraft, of Soviet “hammer and sickle’/Schenley Industries, Zenith Radio, gold bars—the fourth this winter—|American Telephone, Kennecott arrived in Londor last night. The Copper, American Cyanamid, Gen- shipment valued at $4,200,000 was'eral Electric, and Standard Oil taken from the airport to the Lon-/(NJ). doa branch of the Soviet State’ Higher were Goodrich, Montgom Bank. : ety Ward, International Harvester, Official sources said Iast week/Commonwealth Edison, and Sin. Russia has flown 65 million dol-jclair Oil = Bo gold into Britain this win- comets ler. Financial sources said the cold ¢ imis ; fs being. purchased by the Bank CUbam Minister Quits ef England in sterling. They said HAVANA Cuba W—Ernesto de the Russians want the British cur-la Fe, Cuba’s minister of informa- remcy so they cam purchase for-jtion, resigned Jast night eign consumer goods to bolster He gave no reason and it was Premier Georgi Malenkov’s drive not immediately known whether to step up the Soviet standard of President Fulgencio Batista yould living accept f2 resignation | «Conumued from ¢age une, (Gibb, “we have never had any in Saigon, issued a statement deny-Touble before.” ing newspaper speculation there, But Fabal took exception to that that the United States would send Statement. He testified that the to Indochina the two divisions it ‘Touble began last Tuesday night is withdrawing from Korea. Heath Yhe2 be was in a Duval Street recalled, however, that Eisenhow- Bar when Gibb entered. er said American troops would be “Gibb told the bartender net to maintained in the Far East in suf-\S¢'ve me,” Fabal said, “and I told ficient numbers to provide secur-/4im it was none of his business.” ity. Fabal then said that they went The Foreign Ministry spokesman |Utside at which time, Gibb puil- refuted reports France was con- ¢d a gun on him. He was suspend- sidering asking for American/¢d from the police force at that troops, saying, “There is abselute- time, Fabal added. F, xx News iy nothing in it, and 1 cam deny, “That's the Kind of trouble we've o completely.”” a said. He then accus- Office Opem: 1:45 - .M. 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