The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 11, 1954, Page 10

Sale Of Ri Pro Ex-King Farouk’s Treasures Go On Sale Today By CHARLES MERCER NEW YORK #—Would you like English on alternating stamps. a bloodstoxe bodkin case? Or how) His thousands of stamps include about a gold etui “of elongated |such choice items as a special col- bombe shape chased with cupids|lection of the American Confeder- | and lovers on a matt ground, the ate states worth $7,500; a regis-| sides with sporting putti’? ‘These ate among tens of thous-|Single of rare Romanian stamps ands of items, valued at about|worth $4,000 to $5,000. three million dollars and formerly belonging to ex-King Farouk of | Egypt, which go on auction sale today in Cairo. It's the biggest|tioned under the direction of Soth- rummage sale of royal property|eby & Co. of London. the world has ever seen. The ben- eficiary is the Egyptian govern- ment. Dealers in New York, wonder- silver to keep the U. S. Mint busy) ing if Farouk’s playthings would/for a long time—Egyptian, Turkish, are scanning the cat- interest you, alogues. Grab a dictionary and an armload of catalogues. You'll con- clude, too, there couldn’t have been many dull moments in the palace of the King of Egypt. An etui, by the way, is a fancy ease for small articles. A putti is a nude, cupidlike child. A bod- kin is a sharp-pointed instrument, Gold, silver, precious stones, weird clocks and watches, stamps, coins, fantastic trinkets, bravura bric-a-brac — all the unnecessary things of life that make the differ- ence between a monarch and a mule skinner will be auctioned off through next month. Among Farouk’s kingly passions were stamps. A spokesman here for H, R, Harmer, Ltd., of London, the firm handling the auction of the royal stamp collection, esti- mates its value from $300,000 to $400,000. Farouk had one advantage over the average philatelist. When he wanted something special in the way of Egyptian stamps he simply ordered it made. Thus, for exam- ple, he had complete special sheets of stamps with “canceled” printed Pagel? THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, Februery 11, BEST WISHES ‘fo Aronovitz 123 DUVAL STREET 211 Simonton St. on Their Opening Key West Venetian Blind Co. T $. R. Silberman, Owner WELCOME! Our Congratulations fo Mangel’s and Aronoviiz Key West Neon Displays on the back cf each in Arabic and jtered letter bearing a pair and a But even more curious are the tens of thousands of rare and val- uable objects which are being auc- Here is a jeweled royal rattle in which the noisemaker, invisible, is a large ruby. Here is enough French, English designs in the shape of everything from sweet- meat dishes to candelabra so nu- merous they could light the. tower of the Empire State Building. One hugh set illustrates all the fables of La Fontaine. There’s enough silver table service, including such esoteric items as asparagus servers and sugar sifters, to feed a thousand guests. There are flagons, tank- ards, centerpieces, Heliopolis cups, salvers, rose bowls, trays, toast racks—plenty of each to clutter the apartment of next June’s brides. The citizens of a good-sized city could sneeze for a year on the snuff that could be contained in the diamond-encrusted snuff boxes. which hold handle-less small por- celain cups of Turkish coffee. Most of the world’s great gold- smiths and jewelers are represent- ed with cups, bell pushes, stick handles, paper knives, complete desk sets, cigarette cases, bonbon- nieres, a miniature roulette wheel. But this is only the beginning. and Mangels LEPHONE 2.5531 Tel. 2-3036 There’s a fascinating collection of Swiss and French watches, more than a century old, with automatic scenes and music. Of even greater rarity are the 18th century singing bird boxes, musical boxes, snuff boxes, harps, pendants and scent flacons with both mechanical and musical movements. And still it’s only the beginning, only a small part of the thousand ‘and one fabulous amusements of! Farouk when he was King Egypt. Loser Can’t Get Vanished Money BALTIMORE — Albert Bruns submitted proof in Common Pleas Court yesterday that he put $10,- 000 in his safety deposit box at a Union Trust branch between Nov. 6, 1952, and Feb. 16, 1953. When he returned to the box last June 15, it was empty. Even the tin container inside was gone. Bruns sued the Union Trust Co. But evidence showed the lease con- tract Bruns signed for the safe deposit box included a stipulation ‘that the bank would not be liable for the loss of any money kept in ‘the box. Bruns is out $10,000. And the bank is out a tin container for a safety deposit box. Fee aarti oe That Meter J ust Wasn’t There PENSACOLA, Fla. (#—An uni- dentified woman called the traffic bureau here yesterday and report- ed she had parked her car where there wasn’t a meter and when she returned she found both a me- ter and a parking ticket. Skeptical officials investigated and discovered that, sure enough, meters had been put up on that block while the car was parked. the new meters were installed had given her a ticket. She was excused from paying a parking fine because of ‘‘extenuat- ing circumstances.” Careless Hookey Players Nabbed OKLAHOMA CITY (#—Four jun- ior high school youngsters cooked up excuses to get out of school for a fishing excursion yesterday. The fish weren’t biting so they went to town. Wandering aimless- of the municipa] auditorium. For some citement they water-filled balloons on several pedestrians in the street below. It was a bad mistake. The win- ‘dow from which they were operat- ing was in full view of police head- quarters. Juve: officers C. W. | Pierce and C. B. Mead interrupted the prank, took the boys to head- quarters and called their parents. CONSTRUCTION CO. General Contractors 517% Duval Street — Upstairs Key West, Fla. CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES TO MANGEL'S |. ARONOVITZ and Tel. 2-2713 “We Built The Building” Another Commercial Structure We Are Proud Of CBS CONSTRUCTION CO. A policeman who passed by after ly, they ended up on the third floor like Needs To ‘Tone Down GOP Tactics | | PORTLAND, Ore. —President Eisenhower will have to use strong- er language if he really expects the Republican party to tone down jits campaign against Democrats, \the Democratic national chairman said here last night. “He cannot dissociate himself in a lofty way from what is clearly ofla deliberate campaign line which virtually his entire party leader- ship has adopted,” Stephen A. Mitchell told Oregon Democrats at a dinner meeting. Of the press conference yester- day in which the President advised restraint in partisanship matters, the Democratic party chairman commented: | “ | ‘He said he had not seen any accusations by members of his par- {ty charging that Democrats are tinged with treason. “Doesn't he read the papers? |Doesn’t he listen to the radio? Don’t they tell him what his own leaders are saying?” Mitchell made biting references to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York; Leonard W. Hall, Republi- can national chairman; and Secre- tary of Commerce Weeks, and said | ocrats’ loyalty, He called it ‘a ballyhoo cam- Paign of an extraordinarily ruthless and sinister nature—a campaig to drill into the public mind a sus- Picion that the Democratic party is somehow the party of commu- nism.” In part the tactic is to divert attention from adverse economic reports, Mitchell said, adding that cept responsibility both for eco- nomic conditions and for use o what he said were “unworthy” tactics. “The secretary of commerce is the very man who has responsibil- ity for action—yet he has all the Pollyana optimism, all the com- placency that the Republicans ex- uded last time when ‘prosperity was just around the corner.’ Bally- hoo is no substitute for leadership,” Mitchell said, Disposal Of Surp lus Food Is Discussed By EDWIN B, HAAKiNSON WASHINGTON — Sen. Aiken (R-Vt) suggested today that the government consider using surplus food and farm products to encour- age Communist satellites to break with Soviet Russia. “I believe that donations of corn and other food surpluses helped Yugoslavia carry out its break with the Kremlin,” Aiken, chair- man of the Agriculture Committee, said in an interview, Administration officials are cur- rently seeking some way to dis- Pose, at not too great a loss, of some six billion dollars worth of farm products piled up under gov- ernment farm price support pro- | grams, Aiken said that when the Yugo- slavs were desperately in need of | food and livestock feed, U, S. do- lof propaganda, and he added: “If a fellow is hungry, his politi- cal ideologies are liable to take | back seat.” The senator said he favors of- |fering East Germans all the sur- ;Dlus food they can use. Following |Tiots in that Communist-controlled | ment made food available in West |Germany for East Germans who jaared to come and get it, Many | Aiken said he is of the opinion |that many other Iron Curtain Eu- |ropeans are hungry and restive |and would welcome a chance to share in the U, S. surpluses. He said the administration has ample authority to use large quantities of the government-held farm sur- |pluses for this purpose. | He said Secretary of Commerce | Weeks probably did the wise thing products to Russia or her satellites. | “The American consumer sees red when anyone talks about sell- ing butter or other surpluses to the Reds at cut prices,” he said. | The Commerce Department, which controls exports to Iron Cur- tain countries through licenses, said yesterday Weeks “decided as |a Matter of policy tu deny com- | mercial export license applications for the export for cash of U. S. | government-owned surplus agricul- ural or vegetable fibre products to ‘}|Russia or her satellites.” This ban does not apply to such products acquired by exporters in the open market. Also, a way was left opén for barter deals. DOGS ESCAPE FIRE PORT HURON, Mich ®_Fire- men relaxed after an hour’s tough fight to put out a blaze that swept a restaurant and apartment build- ng last night. Then they were amazed. From the building ran through the chipstone assignment they all had taken part in a cam-| paign to try to discredit the Dem-| the Republicans would have to ac-} /mations meant more than any kind! | area last summer, this govern-| Old Soldier Is Fading Away —Unusual Garb AUSTIN, Tex, u—-Stout old Tom! PENSACOLA, Fla. —A woman | Riddle, 107, one of Texas, two sur- clad in a strapless evening gown viving Confederate veterans, bat- was charged with vagrancy and bat old Poe ~ = age eart loitering last night after detectives y i ates 5 neers Jah Tt, tha cid. ocbdier d her on a suburban street has been fighting pneumonia and hitchhiking. doctors had said his “ardent spirit’ They said she told them she was and will to get well” gave him Da Weatherington of Prichard, the upper hand. | ; and was thumbing her way But last night, Dr. Herman Wing, 'to Jasper, Fla., to visit her hus- ————— medical director at the Confeder-|band. Gainfully employed people are ate Home where Riddle has lived! The evening gown, she told the between 40 and 45 per cent of the since 1950, said the outlook was detectives, was ‘the only decent world's population, jbleak. [thing” she had to wear, Senators Fear U.S. May Be Backed Into Indochina War By RUSSELL BRINES baer a = eeaieee SHEDS STINGY MATE Russell (D-Ga) a lansfield (D- Moeasmcspsagess yee as backed tying that her husband Gene com- They called upon President Ei-/Plained her potato peelings were senhower to consult Congress be- too thick and constantiy inspected fore taking any further steps to/the sarbage to = if she threw help the French against renewed |*¥8Y anything edible. Communist attacks. Eisenhower) told his news conference yesterday there is no attempt to carry on any policy in the dark. The President said every move the government takes to aid anti- Communist forces in Indochina is carefully calculated to keep the United States from getting in- volved in a hot war there. | “What I am_ apprehensive about,” Russell said in an inter- view, “is getting backed into war Hitchhiker Has THIS TAG ON A USED CAR gives you NEW-CAR CONFIDENCE! of personnel.” Russell, a member of the Armed Services Committee, said the com- |mittee was not told about the assignment of 200 American Air Force technicians until they were on their way to Indochina. He said by then it was too late for the jcommittee to do anything. “There are plenty of mechanics \they could have gotten to go with- jout sending servicemen,” Russell | added. “There are plenty of me- chanics in France.” A The President said .there ap- peared to be some misunderstand-| ing about notifying the committee) in regard to the technicians, He added that the technicians will handle American - provided air- craft in Indochina, will not be in combat and are scheduled to be withdrawn by next June 15. Mansfield advised the adminis- tration to “‘ayoid the Truman mis- take” by “informing Congress be- lfore any action is taken.” “I don’t want to brought into Indochina by the back door,”he added in a separate interview. Boys Are Fined For Rock Tossing OCALA, Fla. #—County Judge D. R. Smith fined three white boys $60 each yesterday on charges stemming from a rock-throwing raid that terrorized a Negro com- munity near Reddick. Clyde Traxler, 19, Ronald Mor- ris, 17, and Wayne Sapp, 17, plead- Mulberg Chevrolet Co. ed guilty to destroying personal property, |Corner Caroline Street and Telegraph Lane Dial 2-674 The foray occurred in Buzzard’s! Roost in mid-December. Missiles were thrown from a slowly mov- ing car through windows of houses and a lighted flare was tossed into | 6 ways better @ Thoroughly Inspected @ Reconditioned for Safety @ Reconditioned for Performance @ Reconditioned for Valve @ Honestly Described ee ee ae @car. + { Sheriff Don McLeod said parents of the boys paid owners $191.50 for | damages to eight houses, one store | building and the car, Girls Are Foiled | Sy 2 : In Adventure ZANESVILLE, Ohio oe |Eisen, 13, her sister Linda, 12, jand Marian Dempsey, 13, all of \Dayton, made up their minds to} travel and gathered their total | resources—$1. They were tired of 4 baby-sitting and wanted to see the | world they said. | They set out for “either Penn-) sylvania or West Virginia.” They began hitchhiking and got as far as nearby Mt. Sterling without! trouble. | Bayne Bernier, a Hartford, Conn., truck driver, picked them up there and drove them to the Zanesville police station. \ “He certainly did us a dirty trick,” the youngsters told Police. | Gorilla Has I An Even Chance SARASOTA, Fla. (#—Toto II, a |4¥a-year-old circus gorilla who un- \derwent an operation by a brain |surgeon Saturday, is given an even ichance to recover from paralysis. Dr. J. Y. Henderson, veterinar-| ian with Ringlong Bros. and Bar- inum & Bailey Circus, said Toto lis suffering with an overabundance jof red blood cells which has caused some brain damage and also has) ja small tumor. Henderson and Henry Ringling North, vice president of the cir-! cus, called the preliminary report wonderful bes s 9 f hargain = Price tags show higher figures than ever these days. Practically everything you need costs more. But there’s one bargain left—the electricity you buy. As costs have soared, its price has stayed low. It’s a bargain in the kitchen . . . cooking meals, preserving food, heating water, washing dishes. they received yesterday favorable} It’s a bargain on washday . . . freeing you from and encouraging. | laundry work and worry. It’s a bargain throughout , | . Le your home . . . working for unbelievably low Indian ader | prices. It’s a wonderful bargain . . . in better living. Resigns Post GALLUP, N. M. —Gov. Con- \rad Lessarley of Zuni Pueblo, 23 | imiles south of here, has submitted jhis resignation, but tribal council- men complain he hasn’t done it in the accepted manner. Lessarley left the pueblo recent- ly to take a job as a native guide ion Santa Fe Railway trains through the picturesque Indian country between Gallup and Ra}, ton. But Leo Quetewke, teniente or head councilman, says Lessarley City Electric System ELECTRICITY TODAY’S BIGGEST. BARGAIN wo dogs, soaking wet but barking|should have turned over a cane. ind wagging their tails like alligiven the Zunis in 1863 by Presi- 3et out. They'd spent the time in-|dent Lincoln, to the lieutenant gov. side, unharmed. ernor, V.A., F.H.A. and Architectural Counseling | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | .: | | | | | | | | | | J; Fi . E ¥ P, Ei