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Page 2 She has to eat that much, doctors say. She has af intestinal tract 21 feet longer than normal, but/bout with very weak absorption. She gets little nourishment from her food. Vittorio Barbonis, her father, came to Rome to try to lay his problem before Prime Minister Giuseppe Pella: “On a salary and family allowance 40,000 lire a month (about $65) ean I feed her?” he asked. “Besides, she has five other brothers and sisters.” ORGOSOLA, Italy HA force of 500 national police invaded this bandit-infested Sardinian town yes- terday in a house-to-house’ search for outlaws who took 35 lives last year. Their principal discoveries a- mong the 3,500 inhabitants were scores of wea and stores of ammunition, also took 100 persons into custody, but released all but four by nightfall, MADRID, Spain W—Gen. Jose Millan Astray, founder of the Spanish Foreign Legion and one of his country’s leading military figures, died today of a heart at- tack at his home here. He was 74, BOLZANO, Italy “# — Storm winds whipped flames through the|Deficiency this year ..-.05 ins.| As of tiny nearby village of Corees Di Silandro early today, destroying 10 houses and leaving 50 homeless. BERLIN #—Soviet Foreign Min- ister V. M, Molotov has cabled [Sunrise ‘THE KEY WEST Citizen The_ ‘Weatherman toming SE to S Sunday. night about @8, high tomorfow a- 60. Florida: Clear to partly cloudy and slightly higher temperatures! thru Sunday except paftly cloudy land continued mild lower East coastal section. Jacksonville thru the Florida Straits and me Gulf: pe ag Easterly winds 8 portion and gen- Itle to oblertto Easterly winds N Portion becoming moderate BE to $ on Sunday. Partly cloudy in the Straits with a few isolated show- ers, otherwise clear to partly clou. dy weather: Western Caribbean: Moderate to occasionally fresh NE to E winds thru Sunday. Partly cloudy wea- “er emer * | All-Out Drive j L. P. ARTMAN (Contionsd Frum Page One) e wi 000. On Polio Slated th er tae, in 2 NEW ORLEANS The Nation-|1941 and until July of 1942, work-| al Foundation for Infantile Paraly-'ed a printer and, later, a reporter sis is to begin an-all-out drive on|for Mt. Artman. He and Mr. Laird| pany, but seemed doomed to dis- enough as a down payment on 4) machine, and the company was not Turned down; ‘Mr. Arman, te fected, was walking down Can : when be was hailed by 4) ther with widely scattered showers. Key West, Fla. Jan. 2, 1954 Observations Taken At City Office at SAM, est TEMPERATURES Highest yesterday i [Lowest last night 68 Mean —_.. 73 Normal 1 PRECIPITATION Total last 24 hours __ 0.00 ins. ‘Total this month —....... 0.00 ins. Deficiency this month . -.08 ins. Total this year 0.00 ins. DerSODS | Barometer (Sea Level), 7:00 A.M. 30.16 ins—=1021.8 mbs. Tomorrew’s Almanac —— 7:13 am. New Year's greetings to the East{Sunset .._.... 6:61 p.m. German Communist government, |tomonroWwS expressing hope that 1954 will ad- Vanee the cause of German unity. Molotov sent his wire to East Ger- man Foreign Minister Lothar Bolz, Ay ago Andrei Vishinsky, sent a similar message to the So- viet zone foreign minister, Georg Dertinger. Two weeks later. tinger was arrested as a spy.” to tri “Western NEW YORK w—Arthur Godfrey and Ris troupe, and a party in- cluding Air Secretary Harold Tal- hott and Gen. Curtis LeMay, turned yesterday after a Year’s Eve spent at Thule Air Force Base in Greenland, The group, which also included Mrs. Talbott, Mrs. Godfrey, and publisher William = Randol Hearst Jr., flew to the “loneliest air force base in the world” on Wednesday. “It was a wonderful trip,” Tal: bott said. “Mt was a wise thing from a morale standpoint and the the cars was attempting to race another and smashed into the me in which she was riding. Man watching the Ora 1 football game between on and Maryland toppled over in his seat during first half and died of a heart attack. He was Yo he as Ralph E. Frey, 50, ‘orl ‘a. He had been visit i eg ‘mi, Debarbeire, 52, a Bartender, watched the New Year fm and then opened the Bas jets in his stove. He left a note saying he was a very sick man. Detective W. P. McCre ligted the death as the first new year’s suicide. At Lake Worth a t0-yesrold doy was killed by a stray .82 caliber Bullet which struck him peiween the eyes while te was pleying with two younger cluldren in his own arc. He wae identified 2¢ Daniel jegen Cope, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rdgar Cope. 's deputies were unable to learn who fired the shot. \ He has never been b 4 a ever Deen Drought) ‘perth end) = +h Tm fIDES (Naval Bese) High Tide Low Tide 9:55 a.m. 3:34 am. 11:11 pan, 4:34 pm. Boca Chica Der-| gandy Pt.) oh 40m +14 & Minus sign: Corrections aetien ign Corrections te ( os bbe added. 'e-| ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA New| Reference Station: Te of Rett of Station— ‘Tide high water Bahia Heads (bridge) ——useh 1m = 8.8 Coast end) —+2h 20m Ph) fe Name Temperatures At 7:30 4.M., EST men were pleased and diverted,” /Atlanta a Hf Augusta —— 24 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaya u—|Billings —_ 38 Police jungle squads in Perak|Birmingham 30 State switched today from hunting|Bismark 7 Communist guerrillas to search for(Boston 22) three hairy manlike creatures with|Buffalo 24 fang-like teeth and wearing Join- 28 37 49 35 ala} 33 workers who were tapping trees, 28 ead M, ghee manager of} 45 ¢ estate, said the strange visitors id not appear untriendly. Galveston vl He discounted suggestions that|/*¢ksonville rd they were Communist guerrillas in|kansas City _________ 40 e or former Japanese Sol- WEST ___. __ 72 diers who had been in the jungle|Key Weet Airport " for eight or nine years. Los Angeles 50) “The fang-like teeth is one point |Louisville 37 » against either theory,” he said. |Meridian 37 70) FLA. HOLIDAY Minneapolis 20 (Continued trom Page One) [Memphis = ew leans eure sald he was seriously New York 35 Dan Furlow, a 22-year-old sai ottolk “| attached to the Boca Chica Navai[Otlthoma City Tl ir mn near Key West, was 5 eae Killed when two care callided on| Pensacola “ Seven Mile Bridge. Five other(Pittsburgh bd Navy men were injured. Roanoke 30 A car crashed into a train at/St. Louis 41 Winter Haven, killing Wiliam L,/San Antonio 43 Thornton Jr., 25, Bartow. San Francisco 45) Mary Becke, 46, was killed in a! ‘Seattle 46) head-on collision between 2 cars|T 37) south of Miami, Police said one of|Tampa — 60) Washington wo. ame 30 The average American uses the Output of about 7.4 acres to supply: his needs compared with less than @ quarter acre for a typical Jap- janese, IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of our loved One, Corabell Gibson, who passed away four years ago, Jan. 2, 1950: No one knows how much we miss you; No one knows the bitter pain We have suffered since we lost! you, Life will never be the same. {In our hearts gers, Always tender, fond and true. There's not a day, dear loved| one, We do not think of you. THE F/ MILY. | your memory lin- ! removed, EISENHOWER, AIDES | (Continued From Page One) | will deliver to Congress in person next Thursday. Then Eisenhower went off for a round of golf while his aides ‘worked on into evening on the doc-| ument. Press secretary, reported after the morning meeting that “quite a lot eee the message into final form. Work also continued on the annual budget and economic re- Ports to Congress. | elean.”” | Reimer said the restrooms were; James C. Hagerty, presidential dirty and that the becches in the they have dene. | Commissioner Allen said: AEROVIAS Q JOINS | (Continued trom Page One) Saunders and Bentley. They were| out of town, Reimer went on, “it is their re- | sponsibility te keep those places | waiting room were so dirty that; passengers wouldn't sit on them. the county had public liability in- surance covering the coufty’s part) of the Q terminal that it rents. com! “If the county deesn’t know it,” |squabble with the airlines. _‘is our duty to improve the field of progress” was made toward Reimer also said he wondered if| snd this is the only way we ean ldo it.” suramee at the field, Allen said:) te draw up the new rafe étrue ‘“] don't know.” ture,” allen said, “and we are Allen then said that the county standing behind him and the new missioners did not like to rates.” | As far as passenger reaction to “We have a kindly feeling te- the new 50-cent head tax, Reimer ward both National and Q,” he said four Marathon residents ¢an- | said, “and we appreciate the job celled their Cuban tours rather than pay — ae head tax “ fod ? fon each of a ee ee eal On the other hand, Allen said that a Mr. Maguire—a total strang- er to Allen—had phoned to Say that he was “perfectly happy to Allen was referring to the new pay the 50-cent charge.” rate structure, including a 50-cent| Allen quoted Maguire as saying | ‘h incoming @Md out- that he woul@ even be willing’ to The conferences here are being) “Mr. Reimer phoned me at 10 chafge for eac! - attended by Budget Director Jo-| a. m. yesterday, The @ terminal |going passenger. The county com-|pay $2, seph M, Dodge; Ambassador Hen-| ty Cabot Lodge, chief U.S. dele- »jgate to the United Nations; Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, head of the |Office of Defense Mobilization; Sherman Adams, Eisenhower's top -jassistant, and other White House! aides. pleted a report he will make to the nation Monday night on his ad- ministration’s first year in office. The speech will be carried on tele- vision and radio. The President plans to fly back Mex.|to Washington tomorrow, ending a visit which began Christmas Day. and tots tha operation to operating sembly line,” had in. Mexico Ci- Mr. Artman said, “Yes,” and SHERIFF’S OFFICE [showed the ring on his left ring (Continued From Page One) /finger. Mr. Lubins then lent Mr, dren, two narcoti¢s violations, four |Artman enough money on the ring drunks, nine auto accidents, four|to make the first payment om the motor vehicle violations, and 31|linotype machine. miscellaneous matters. He returned to Key West with There also are 29 pending in-| the machine, operated it a year Vestigations. for The Citizen, during which time he taught Perey Curry hew te run the machine. When Mr. Curry became proficient, Mr. Key Wost Press, the name of which he later changed fe the Artman Press. In 1921, he bought The Citizen, and, several years later, bought the Fort Pierce News » a weekly, which he changed to a daily newspaper. Later, still, he jowned the Ocean County Leader in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, be- ame part owner of the Okeecho- bee News, the Central Press in Miami and the Brunswick, Ga. Banner, all of which he later sold. Mr, Artman is survived by his’ widow, Mrs, Estella Artman; two sons, Lawrence P. (Poly) Artman, and Norman D, Artman; two sis- ters, Mrs. Mary Hirsch, St. Louis, ind Miss Gisela Artman, Los An- jgeles, and five grandehildren, Ca- tolyn, Diane, Gregory, Ronnie and, Mareia Artman. : POW HEAD COUNT (Continued From Page One) that steps might be taken to liber- ate about 8,000 anti-Communist Koreans in Indian custody if the head count continued. 2 The Communist protest agairst the head count. apparently was handled 507 radio messages last month. During December, vehicles of the sheriff's department travel- ed & total of 6,385 miles, FOUR (Continued From Page One) these funds has resulted in $1,661, 000 originally earmarked for Le- banon being withheld in Washing- ton. This money probably will be diverted to other areas. it eauses the delays in Lebanon? Political instability has been a big factor, In the two years of Point Four’s life in this country, Lebanon has had no less than seven different governments, and in the summer of 1952 its Presi- dent, Bechara el Khoury was ousted in a neat revolution. Each time anew government or regime eomes to power, Point Four is given a fresh appraisal. Pekde ry Figg projects have heen & crossfire of opposing interested ‘such as busi+ nessmen looking for contracts and sectional leaders trying to attract! projects for their regions. Losers launch violent press campaigns against Point Four. The most common accusations are that Point Four projects are really being used to benefit Israel, with whom Lebanon still is at war, and that Point Four personnel are spying for the Jewish state. ‘ernments have been shaken demands for extended explana- tions, STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE Artman withdrew and started the grou based on the fear that such action | iby the Indians ‘might compromise | POW WHO CHANGED «Contunued from Page One» many questions concerning condi- tions inside the camp. He said he did not want to in- criminate any of the men remain- ing, but it appeared that he might have been following the advice of U.S. Army officers who have talked with him for hours since his return to the U.N. Command Friday. Batchelor explained how he gradually picked up Communist es. “There were all kinds of study ps and bull sessions,” he said. “They gave us all kinds of litera: ture on Marxism, Communist ideology, the class struggle, politi- eal economy and American ag- Stession. Some of the books were by Stalin.” Batchelor said he did a lot of reading. “My mind was confused. Not all the Communist propaganda is wrong. They use a bit of truth or they could never convert anyone. “I never thought of myself as a Communist so much as a peace fighter—I wanted to fight against war and American aggressi But Batchelor said he never ee THAT ROCK ALL THE SP! on the issues. Each time the charges are made, the government has to give them serious consider- ation. These investigations cause more delays, Triumph Coffee Mill at ALL Grocers Your Grocer SELLS That Good STAR * BRAND and cusay COFFEE —— TRY A POUND TODAY o— STATION Francis at Truman DIAL 2.9193 PAWN SHOP 703 Duval Street Your PURE OIL Dealer Tires .. Tubes . . Batteries ACCESSORIES OUVE wx ort oF ————_—_—_ CIFELLI'S trex) MEARNS TV. Service| f Factory Methods Used== All Work Cuaranteed MEARNS alDs rine R. & Asst. 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He told me of missioners say that every cent of} “The airport needs fi 1 ” “and it condi- revenue brought in by the new ment, Allen quoted Maguire, “a! pe doidppmimasgy tome rates will be used to improve!l think this is a fair way to raise they didn’t get that dirty in ene |Meacham Field. hour. The condition must have | . business /field’s revenues are paid tc Harold) Allen said Maguire had onsets Luneehticeser tent | aa: wiigaryat iadiawel nalzportuad’|thatina (wit saj Seecoekcouneetae Dec. 31. “He must have been calling me viser hired by the county. | Wes appointment. His $1,000 was not) Eisenhower already has com- about his own filth,” Allen added.) “We hired @ competent edviser |the airlines, Allen went on to say that Com- missioner Clarence S, Higgs is chairman of the aitport committee ‘and that Higgs had told Allen that the matter will be properly taken care of. Asked about public liability in- | lieved Communist charges that| Americans used germ wart he said he no longer believes in| communism or that America is an aggressor. Batchelor described himself as a leader of the American prison- ers, but acknowledged that other POWs who talked with Indi: leers at the gate failed te pi information. This included the news that Cpl. Dickenson had returned to his home town in the United States and married, he said. “The Chinese told us he had been prosecuted,” Batchelor said. Batchelor told newsmen Satur- day he was. captured by Chinese Communists in November 1950. He id he was among 30 American infantrymen surrounded and with- out food on a North Korean hill. In Kermit, Batchelor’s parents planned a welcome home celebra- tion for the son they have not seen for almost three yea: “I feel just like shouitng,” hi mother said when heard me, week Mrs. Batchelor Only had said the answer to my prayers. I just thank God,” she sighed. RAISING MUSICAL COMEDY ~ ICE AND GINGER OF THE weet 1s UE Tua LATE 4 LED <1 wan! Bone abate 0 Mot Records Wyse} Cartoon PERFORMANCE jthe funds, I want to compliment ” ver, 10 per cent of theithe county commi . However, 10 pet e county told Bim \Key West and that he always wed Mat. 2.8 4:06 Night 6:12 & 8:18 AIR CONDITIONED STRAND Last Times Today | Sun. - Mon. - Tues. Sins of Jezebel COLOR 3:30 Night 6:30 & 8:38 AIR COOLED COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA SOMEBODY LOVES ME Sunday and Monday 7:00 and 10:58 s16 FFAIR ” Ae WITH A 5 TRANGER Friday and Saturday GRIDER SNES Mae Sunday and Monday teens SCS Starring . . . RICHARD GREEN and PAULA RAYMOND