The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 29, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, December 29, The Key West Citizen shar. ross The Ctisce Building, corner of Greene and Aas Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County t. P, ARTMAN NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 25661 and 2-5662 or not » and also the local news Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Plcnosnnllatanennsnnttnaincelinteat eee Subscription (by carrier), 25e per week; year, $13.20; by mail, $15.60 IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN SHOOTING FOR 108 Adlai Stevenson, defeated Democratic candidate for the Presidency, told an Atlanta group recently he would be willing to shoot a 108, when asked about golf and poli- tics. Explaining this afterwards, he said he meant the Democratic Party went out in 562 and would be satisfied to come back in ’56. The subject of golf became involved when the for- mer I}inois Governor was reminded he was in the Presi- dent’s favorite golfing state. Thus the remark about the 108 score for the Democratic Party, After visiting in Georgia, Stevenson moved ‘on to Alabama, and other points, in an attempt to strengthen the Nationa] Democratic Party’s ties with the South. Dur- ing his trip to’the South, Stevenson was introduced as the next President of the United States and the next probable President of the United Statesyand soon. This sentiment is a reflection of the current wave of optimism in Demo- cratic circles, which is probably based on the troubles the Administration has had, thus far, in the farm and labor fields. There is one big if in the speculation about Steven- son's chances. If President Eisenhower refuses to run for reelection, no doubt Stevenson will have a good chance in the 1956 race, providing he gets the nomina- tion. Having polled almost 27,000,000 votes, in losing last year, Stevenson not only set a record for a losing candidate, but received more votes than any winning candidate ‘except Roosevelt in one election, and his op- ponent ifffthe 1952 race. e If you lose interest in life, you are dying. Theonly reason the rich pay taxes is because the paupers can’t, Most college students begin their studies when the football season ends, | THERE SEEM TO BE SO MANY The Empire Builder: Editor’s Note—The Soviet Union;the year—is comfortable compared Issues are vastly more important than men, but it requires men to make issues. Equality, be it understood, is not the rule of nature except in the language of the inferior. Tf some human beings really knew half they think they know, this world would be a much better place. _ | carefully staged and propagan- Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 34. Large 1, Existed serpent 35. And: Latin 4 Place of ic worship 36. Nothing 9. Literary more than facts 37. Scrutinizes 39, Redecorates a room 42. Encourage 43. Handle 44. Container . 13. Rent 14. Beam of light 15. Musical OC OMICTATSITIEMNATUIS) FIAIRMMOIN| | ON BMEIRIE| FIRIE(|ZIERMMVIAIPL I ID) SiMe WARN [011 IC] ROS] INBMPIALYIMIEINIT UIP METIEINIOREESITIAIR| ID] DMM OIOWIE RIE IRIA EIN] | [OMMSIE DIAINIMED) RIE|F|T INC (RMMP1O| | ISIE} FIEIEIOMNS!(/01N| AICIUITIEMMSICIENIEIRIY| CIOISMMOIRIE|AIRIMPIOIE| ELYIE Me VIEIAIRISME TIE IA is popularly known as Russia, but it actually encompasses 15 repub- lics beside the Russian republic where Moscow is situated. William L. Ryan visited eight republics in a 6,000 mile tour of the Soviet ‘Union. In this article, second of a series, he tells of Moscow’s efforts to Russify—and get the most out of—the outlying areas. By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst Tired-looking two-engine planes hit the ground with a soggy wheee, their wheels setting up a splattering storm of mud. Ancient passenger trains creak into dingy railway stations, en- crusted with the ice of long and weary miles through barren steppes, Rickety buses bounce crazily over narrow, frozen dirt roads, slamming their huddled, fur- capped passengers against the seats. In the capitals of central Asia and the Caucasus, the planes, trains and buses discharge unwill- ing pioneers, the new empire build- ers of Great Russia. By the thousands they pour into provincial capitals——Communist Party political experts, agrono- well dressed by Soviet standards, but they often look unhappy and joften they are accompanied by less happy fur-coated wives. For a long time these privileged people have had things too good. Now they must pay the first in- stallment of their debt to the So- |viet state for educating them. The palmy days are over for many. These “volunteers,” fresh from sides and lurehing them from their | with what the specialists face if and when they get to farms, vil- lages and machine-tractor stations. So the “volunteers” have to be pushed. The party cracks down hard, not only to round them up ‘but to get them moving into the fields. Young specialists, the ink on their diplomas scarcely dry, are being shoved out to the cold, re- mote regions for active work, even before livable quarters are ready for them. The “volunteers” can hardly be} blamed for wanting to stay in the ‘It takes only a glance to see that native populations. Many of the) local people, of course, have ad- ment ranks, but the key positions in all phases of life are held by. Russians. Russianization—the imposition of Moscow’s culture on all its sub- ject peoples—continues uncheck-| ed. It began long before Commu-| It began long before the Commu-} nists took power, eased off in the first flush of the revolution, and then returned with a vengeance. The Russians, like indulgent pa- trons, permit local peoples their ‘old customs, lore and culture—so| STEPS Moscow Sends Specialists To Outlying Areas Russian. Capital cities have more Russians than natives. National plays, national ballet and national opera are performed in these capitals but after they have been screened carefully to guard against traces of national- ism. Just as many, and probably more, Russian ballets, plays and) operas are performed. Streets are named more often for Russian} heroes than for the local ones.| Histories are rewritten to portray} as beneficent the influence of czar-| ist Russia. DON CAMERON = rang. Doran said, “It may be LOUD had caught up with Mor. | fF me. eae Cc rissey, all right. He said with. |. a me,” said Cloud, head- out preliminaries, “You're under |#"& OM Morrissey. arrest. You, Morrissey, for kid-| It was for Cloud. His voice, an- naping. You, Hemingway, on gen |swering, reached all of them, He eral principles till we can find a/said, “That's mighty interesting. better reason. You, King, as a ma-|. . . No, don’t turn them loose just terial witness — something’ you yet. Tell rty to bring them might have avvided if you "t} both to the old Mine Club... run out. You, Dexter, are the one| Yes, right now. exception; I have nothing on you} Cloud looked at Martin, smiling except that you keep bad com-/ faintly. “You'll be glad to know pany.” Barbara is in good hands. She and “You haven't anything on me,/her father will join us shortly. I either,” Morrissey said. “I'll want | Wasn't worried about her because to phone my lawyer.” “That's all right. He won't be | able to spring you. Mickey Logan, the bum you imported from Phi- j ladelphia with the late Danny | Myers, has talked, and so has Joe Lark.” “They don’t worry me. What | can they prove?” Cloud looked frostily at Martin. “What a big jaw Pas have, grand. ma, Wisdom tooth?” “Never mind. Look, Cloud, those snatchers spoke of Barbara Ennis. She’s missing. Morrissey practi- cally told me he'd had her picked up.” The iront door opened again and Doran entered. He seemed surprised to find Cloud and the | others there. He nodded to Marty. | “Just passing by,” he said. “Thought I'd have a quick drink. | What's the convention about?” “Right now,” Martin said, “it's about Barbara Znnis. What did you find out, Bill?” “Nothing. I mad@all the calls I could think of.” “Did you report it?” Doran shook his head. het | wouldn’t without seeing Ennis. How do I know they aren't to- gether?” “Together in a trap, maybe,” Martin said angrily, “with Mor- rie’s gunmen guarding them, Heep to kill them if things look Cloud said, “You've been read- ing the comic strips. Nothing's go- ing to happen to her.” telephone in Morrissey’s of- I had her tailed, too—right to that garage where you rented the car you smashed.up the other morn- Both of them were after the letters you hid under the carpet.” Morrissey looked at Dexter. ‘So,” he said. Martin told Morrissey, “Dexter didn’t know wher- your letter was, if that’s what you're makin, faces about. But I knew, and was hoping it would help burn you.” “Now, now,” Cloud chided. “Morrissey, I think it would be nice if all of us, including those who haven't yet arrived, could sit down together and compare notes about the murders of Searle and Mrs. Messmer, I'd planned on a jam session at headquarters, but this may save some persons the indignity of being police guests. Do you feel like closi: down your bar business for an hour in the interest of justice?” Morrissey shrugged.“ Why not?” He yelled at a white-jacketed man behind the bar, “Put out the lights, Pete. No service till I give the word.” pest people faced each other in a circle. Eight uneasy pee- ple drawn into an ill-matched group by the crimson thread of sie. and of them only Cloud was not on trial for his life at this moment. Of the seven others, at least one had the ugliest-of all crimes on his conscience. Know- ing it was not himself, Martin nevertheless felt insecure as he othonr Grave was certain that none looked guiltier then his own. 5 Cloud dominated the circie. Ev. eryone watched breathlessly as he thumbed the pages of a notebook, frowning, When his gray eyes of tension as if each were bracing himself for what was When he spoke, Cloud's voice was even and impersonal. “I could have saved myself trouble by throwing the whole im the, beeinaine’ That way in ing. at we ‘d have dodged a lot of exitaciem trom the newspapers and let the District Rapes decide which suspect he’ les to prosecute. But because I preferred not to make difficulties for innocent peo- ple—which all but one or two of you unquestionably are — I've forced myself to go slowly, pe ering evidence where I and testing it as I went along. It hasn't been easy and I can’t say that I've managed to win the confidence of any of you.” He tapped the notebook. “T've jotted down the main its of the evidence as it t each person here. I'm goii it now briefly. When I've fini we'll talk. 1 don't want just your explanations and alibis, but also whatever real information you may be able to offer and whatever considered opinions pow hold. I want »ou to be as fai frank as you dare to be. “This is your last it you're innocent, Aes et cl ~ this case withou' throug! See we've wad two murders a: investiga’ we've had to kill a criminal who did his best to murder two of detectives. I'm not going to any Bag lives. “When we're through when we've exhausted all the sibilities of this informal gather- ing—I'm going to take the mur- derer with me, or else the whole cough from Ennis was lot of you.” the caly sound in the room. He paused, and an studied the faces around him; he (Te be continued) Faces Prison MUSKOGEE, Okla, W— Mrs. Tommie Dene Doughty, 17-year- old unrepentant kidnaper of a 5- month-old Indiana child, today faced a 2l-year-term in federal prison for the crime. Mrs. Doughty, former carnival \FOR CRYIN’ OUT LOUD By C. GONZALEZ MENDOZA | | Robert C. Ruark, nationally syn-|(that crummy joint) if they catch ‘dicated columnist, claims that his you playing bolita. Go away, man, dreams are getting duller all the and permit me to lose gy money The Communists have built cities|strip teaser, pleaded guilty yes- time. I can sympathize with Mr. legitimately.” cities. Russians are well off there./in central Asia, but in their studied|terday to abducting the infant son|Ruark because my dream-life at; And then there was the dream attempt to make provincial capi-jof Mr,,and Mrs. Richard Lee Stam- this period in my life (34) has just about martial law having been de- they have introduced much of the) boy in Evansville, Ind. they are much better off than the tals little carbon copies of Moscow,mer while baby-sitting with the achieved full maturity and my|clared in the city of Key West be- dream world has taken on such|cause the underworld had taken drabness and monotony of the So-|. Yer. attorneys, appealing for a proportions that in comparison my over. Since the National Guard is vanced far in party and govern-/viet capital. Along with new build-| suspended ings, they brought the drudgery|/Doughty had a mother complex cry of the lowest order, of existence under a Communist! regime. Along with education came| the constant nagging of the party to get more from the people. Along with hospitals and institu- tions the Communists brought the monotonously depressing sight of women, young and old in capital after capital, dragooned like their sisters in Moscow into the heaviest of manual labor—digging ditches, carrying bricks, hacking ice from the roads or endlessly and listlessly long as this does not go too far. |Nothing must reflect against the! mists, veterinarians, engineers and | ‘progressive significance” of the) Along I ; mechanics of all grades, They are|annexation of these areas by czar-|houses and museums in which the sweeping streets with brooms fash-) ioned from bundles of twigs. with iomspign opera ist Russia. It is “bourgeois na-|Russians put so much store, the tionalism” to suggest that the local|Communists brought the drabness culture is not inferior and is not|of cramped home:, row on row of enriched by the Russian. jbad housing. Along with new in- Study of Russian is compulsory;dustry came the shabbiness of in the schools. All business is con-|goods in the stores, the drabness newspapers are in two and some-j|cracy putting new obstacles in the times three languages, central Asia the alphabets are'cult enough. dized celebrations of farewell and congratulations, have had. to be| pushed into the remote reaches of | the farflung Soviet empire to do | their part in the government’s des- | perate attempts to bring order to | the chaos of its consumer econo- | my. { Generations of Russians before | them brought Russian culture and | Russian domination to almond-eyed iKazakhs, gentle, swarthy /Tad- jiks, the nomad turkmen and all Today's Business Mirror By Sam Dawson sentence, said Mrs. because she had lost a baby of her own. Psychiatrists ruled her sane. After her arrest at her Bokchito, Okla. home., the young kidnaper said she would take the child again if given the chance. The boy was recovered unharmed. OBTAINS DECREE LOS ANGELES # — The fifth wife of silent film star Kenneth Harlan was free today of marital bonds. Actress-singer Helene Stan- lton, 25, obtained a divorce yester- day from the 58-year-old Harlan on grounds of cruelty. But is was a “real friendly’’ di- vorce, the actress told newsmen outside the courtroom. ireal life activities are mere mimi-'defunct, the Navy had to take over {but since it was after two in the Ruark boasts that at one time|morning the Navy was defunct be- in his life he could dream serials \cause of the that Admiral in Technicolor, and that be eating a|T0WMer had decreed. There was special diet of toasted cheese and/ly one salvation for Key West raw onions before bedtime, he and the Poinciana Cleaners on could pick up the action where he Simonton St, the heap big chief had, left it the night before. I re-jliving on Stock Island in semi- igret to inform Mr. Ruark that/retirement, had to come riding in \when I was a mere stripling Ion a Great White Fa, . I mean, ‘could accomplish the same thing.|Great White Horse. The heap big The only difference was a matter|thief went straight to City Hall and of diet, grits-and-grunts being the found a silent curtain there that he only activating ingredients. Now\tore apart, Behind this curtain thet I have matured as a dreamer, there was a big fat squaw surroun- the only food I require is pickled|ded by five bodyguards. The heap pigs’ feet lavished heavily with big chief toid the five bodyguards fresh horseradish, This bedtime|t go back to the decency and com- snack provides my dream - box fort that they were committed to, with all the fuel required to evoke|#"d then he kicked the big fat four . dimensional dreams with Squaw right out of city hall. After “It is just too bad we didn’t stereophonic effects. Not only can the heap big chief too over, get along,” she said. “He's really go backward and forward in|Was peace in Key West again. ducted in Russian. Street signs and|of endless, aggravating bureau-,very nice. Matter of fact, I think Time in my dreams, I can also I'll take him out to lunch.” but in|way of an existence already diffi-| The couple was married in 1949 ‘and separated last April. ‘New Quarters Found PUSAN, Korea (P—Three Koroen newspapers and four news agen- cies in Pusan which los: After this dream, I dreamed that the Sheriff of Monroe County. an, you should see C, Gon- sheriff. All that I smoked sheriff was Corona Plus Corona, cause anachronisms that are per- I was jfectly logical. jAnd, | However, this columr is not de-|2# \signed to make Mr. Ruark con-| spicuous as the moron he is as) far as dreams are concerned. All| of this is merely introductory to some phases of my dream-life. ere were all kinds of ma: and unsolved murders around but do you think that me? Man, you don’t kind of buildings in the fire here last/Permit me to tell you about SOME) sream, All that I month have found new homes in a group of nine Quonsets erected under the U. S. armes forces as- sistance-to-Korea program. Newspapers and press agen- cies settled into the Quonsets last) week. The three newspapers had been the scores of nationalities ce.) NEW YORK (—The housewifejand grocery prices doesn’t really using rented office rooms and of my dreams: The other night I dreamed that) I was a taxi-cab driver at the foot of Duval and that Admiral Towner was my passenger. Admiral Town- er had hired me to take him to the homes of Key West civilians) in order to solicit Community Chest contributions. Admiral Towner and} 7. Day's march 9. Flat circular plate for honey 46. Asiatic country 48. Razed 51. Female shi $2. Cit ‘in New instrument } Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN 1, Rainy 2. Swiss river 3. Labored to learn 4 European 5. Onionlike vegetables 6. Make lace 7. While of wealth $1. Style of poety 23. Statues col- vely $7. Smooth and glossy Roman roaa Pronoun 10. Short sleep 11, Continually: poetic 16, Rodents 18. Extended Anxious 48. Lock opene: 47. Be ingested 4% Guided 48. Larg mented into the Soviet Union. .... ... complains about the high cost of exist, that it just seems that way |printing their edit‘-~ 1 stopped at ten Key West homes’ whistle and the The new crop of pioneers has|food. The farmer complains about because people rely too much on Presses. The damaged presses are efore we gave it up for a lost| iinors wilt been assigned the task of exploit- jing the natural riches of these rich lands so that the Soviet Union’s home front will achieve the elas-|sists he hasn't profited from the people are being fooled because S¥Me more than a ton of fuel wood on pay-day at their jobs in the ticity it needs to cushion it against/seeming widening of the spread they are comparing two govern-|Per capita in a year. the possible shock of a new world conflict, The party pictures this as a glorious task, but there is little joy in it for the new ar- rivals, Debarking into the thick mud of a provincial airport, a specialist takes a shivering look at the great vastness beyond the republic cap- ital, and decides to stay in town, hoping to be part of a sort of head- quarters corps. But that won't do. “It is impossible,” said Tadjik- stan Communist, official paper, “to tolerate the fact that many specialists, instead of going to work im machine-tractor sta- tions and collective farms, con- tinue te Svein ities -and si |more packaging and preparing and) The consumers’ price index on\the making of sausage and aay vee poke to theie work.” adding of vitamins—all of which the other hand contains some non-| processed meats. This reflects Moscow’s irritation with the slowness of the new pro- gram. It has promised a great up- surge of farm. production in two|g»ne up all along the line—freight that this accounts for much of the farm pri to three years, but all depends on/and labor and packazing mater-'seeming spread between the in- cattle, w the peasants, and the peasants must have technical help. Even so remote a city as Alma/forth. This is the view that maybe spread is very apparent. The farm meet your bills, but it’ jAta in Kazakhstan—at the edge of much of the seeming widening of price index- has gone down nearly butcher would like you to keep iSiberia and frozen five months of the spread between farm prices 20 per cent since the first quartcz‘mind, anyway {the drop in the prices he gets. government statistics. jAnd the middleman complains) The National Industrial Confer- that he is misunderstood—and in- ence board suggests today that \between lower farm prices and not ‘so low grocery prices. ment statistical indexes. And at a number of important points the | All sides—including the govern- indexes are different and therefore jment—have been pouring in ex- comparisons give a distorted view. |planations of this seeming con- One is the general farm price ‘eggiaaary The explanations won't index measuring price movements jeut your grocery bill any, of at the farm level. The other is jcourse, but here are a few of the consumer’s food price index jthem: ‘reflecting price changes at the re- | 1. Many of the price drops at tail level. jthe farm level have been for the The trouble is, the conference poorer grades of food which the|board contends, that the general |housewife rarely buys, and some farm price index includes a broad lof the best grades haven't dropped range of nonfood items, such as much. cotton, wool, feed for animals and 2. The housewife demands more hay. Take these out and the index processing of food all the time— doesn’t show such a sharp decline. | lcosts money. farm foods, such as fish, and so | 3. The costs of bandling food foreign foods, such as bananas. jfrom the farm to the grocery have The conference board contends ials. Today still another is brought dexes. | To the reader, however, the r jbeing salvaged. cause. Eight of the ten civilians | whom we approached had already ‘ Canada, Brazil and Sweden con- contributed to the Community bmn | Navy Yard and the other two who} — \were not employed by the Navy of 1951, while the consumer’s food had contributed to local agencies. price index has gone up 2 per cent., And then there was the dream) On one point that the housewife about the dog-track. I was send) always watches closely—the price ing there at the betting window. In| of meat—the Agriculture Depart-one pocket I had my rent money; 'ment has a word to say for the in another, my grocery money; in ‘middleman. lanother I had money for miscel- | It reports that he aa pet. uaneous bills. In the mgs that creased his profits as . for myself e was finds on the contrary a slight de-|i *a@ mone? cline in the margins or price spreads of meat handlers. The department emphasizes that the big drop in the price of cattle came in the lower grade cattles. The housewife rarely buys this beef as retail cuts. It mostly goes into’ { i ing to bet the money mn the dogs. 1 had Charley Conch’s selections gripped tightly in one! fist because betting on-his sure bets. (Ha!) ems peddler called side. dolita ir Ci me a! bt to me: “C. Gonzales, what a oe mies housewives buy. The | said, “Go away, man, don’t you ice- index includes all beef now that gambling is illegal, es- here the lower grades pecially bolita? It is all right for me to throw my money (7) away legiti- other index cuts, have fallen much more sharply. y | This acglintiion war help vou to the dogs because this Is 's what your mate. But, man, I can't play bolita. :ajIt is sinful to play bolita and not only that they'll put you in jail b. 4 I couldn’t miss by) man, guess what happened—; want for Cuba Saturday?”/ bert C. Ruark. WORKED with