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THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, February 13, 1954) CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTS WASHINGTON Left in. the lurch was most major legislation this week as Republicans set about the country making Lincoln Day speeches. “foul” from Democrats. House Minority Leader Rayburn of Texas sounded a party theme when he called Republican charges ‘mean, untrue and dastardly,” and called on President Eisenhower to order a halt, Eisenhower counseled modera- tion—he said the times are too serious for extreme partisanship. Bricker Amendment — All this shoved in the background the “great debate,” officially before the Senate, over a proposed con- stitutional amendment on treaty powers originally offered by Sen. Bricker (R-Ohio). A substitute proposed by Sen. George (D-Ga) provoked a bit of brisk debate be- FLORIDA BRIEFS ORLANDO (#—Deputy Sheriff The Weatherman | ys Ernest Crawford said mysterious | ticians’ pockets and spent others settlement and an end to the war y ‘circumstances surround the death on plush houses and women, inves-,in Indochina. | Key West and Vicinity: Mostly of 2 young engineer whose body |tigators said. | clear and sunny except for some’ was recovered from a lake near, A year ago, the bottom dropped the Western ideas, the three pri h late afternoon and early morning here yesterday. ‘cloudiness today thru Sunday. Tem-; er today and tonight, warmer Sun-|his car h Bot been found, the ‘day. Winds will be northeast toideputy said. easterly, locally moderate but mod-' Lane was missing a week. On storm had it not been for Japan's ing. Geneva and April 15 were sug- her sover erate to fresh off shore thru Sun-/Feb. 5 he left the International day. {Business Maohines Corp. office, n A principal mystery about the heavily. 4 GOP attacks raised cries of peratures will be only slightly cool-\death of Joel T. Lane, 24, is that| money. It followed the same route. should join in sponsoring a German (Continued From Page One) (Continued From Page One) | peace along as an insurance salesman Big Five by the a & after the war until he made a hit Communist governr in the.stock market with borrowed Secretary of State LD cash. Soon he was soliciting con- ain’s Anthony tributions. Georges Bidault told hi | He poured much of it into stocks would not dea] on spei - jbut also diverted some to poli- jects—particularly a Korean peace | CEILING FALLS ON BIG FOUR TROOP for completion of To compel Molotov to respond to pe jout of cotton textiles. Ito lost|sented him a spe He scrambled for new the Big Four—not the B c |. Even at that, investigators say,/rean conference as a first move Wai red f the Big jIto might have weathered the toward settling the Indochina fight- Four's wart P e to restore reaction was Poor farm crop last year, the worst|gested as the place and time. deep gloom. Hitlerian and Allied in 16 years. Farmers short of cash,| Informants said the place and occupations have stretched out 16 State of Florida: Clear to partly|where he worked, apparently to go|began badgering Ito for their|time were not particularly import- years. ‘southeast coast section. Rather) Deputy Crawford said Lane's portion, the water since about the time Marine Forecast for Jacksonville Lane disappeared, the deputy said. |thru Florida Straits and East Gulf Lane moved here from Tampa |Area: Moderate to fresh northeas- about a month ago. \terly winds necoerinesanierls bs) \Sunday. Clear to partly ly} a feasted except occasionally cloudy the American Can Co. to put their with a few widely scattered show. President back to work within six jdays or face the possibility of a cloudy thru Sunday except partly|to dinner and had not been re-|invested money. Down went Ito’s ant from the Western viewpoint ‘cloudy to occasionally cloudy onjported until his body was found. TAMPA (®—Union members told testimony reaches. tween the Georgian and some sen-|ers in the straits. | ators who don’t like either the|Observations Taken At City Office, George or Bricker version. At} Key West, Fla., Feb. 13, 1954 Sioa an a ees at 7 AM., EST he's nm since the started: —— In the middle of huddles aimed| | TEMPERATURES at finding a compromise accept-|Highest yesterday able to both Eisenhower and Sen-|Lowest last night ate amendment-seekers. Mean Normal 79) 67, 73) - 72 Warren — Earl Warren's nom- PRECIPITATION ination to be Supreme Court chief|Total last 24 hours 0 ins. justice sat in the same place .it/Total this month .. . 22 ins, has been for a month—the Senate |Deficiency this month ....... ».47 ins. Judiciary Committee. Word seeped \Total this year ... out of a dispute over procedure, Deficiency this year not Warren's fitness. Some com- mittee members were said to want an FBI check as a matter ceereee of course, while the Justice De-|Barometer (Sea Level), 7:00 A.M. partment held against investigat- 30.18 ins.—1022.4 mbs, ing an appointee to such high ju- Tomorrow's Almanac dicial office. ‘Sunrise 202 a.m. Coffee — Both action and inves- rane eat noe tigation featured Congress’ attack Moonset 4:44 a.m. on the soaring cost of a cup of i roe Java. The Senate whisked through | TOMORROW: a bill to allow federal supervision| [IDES over trading in coffee futures. Sen- ate banking subcommittee probers 1.68 ins. Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. 88% (Naval Base) High Tide Low Tide listened to some top coffee ex- : change officials from New York, ibe a we Pike rg called on coffee ahaa ReceiChics ~ * ass ler subpoena if necessary—to list futures trades and traders of re-|_ Sandy Pt. © —oh 40m cent months. Caldes Channel (north end) +2h 10m CCC—A 682 million dollar boost +14 ft. fo. the Commodity Credit Corp’s|(—)—Minus sign: Cor ions Sagging finances got okayed by to be subtracted. House and Senate. The farm price|(+)—Plus si support agency will want more soon: A bill to hike its borrowing authority by 1% billion dollars is in the works. Corrections to be added. ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West H Time of Height of Station— Tide high water: Bramblett — Rep. Bramblett|}Bahia Honda (R-Calif) was convicted on charges! (bridge) .....—oh 10m of falsifying his congressional of-\No Name Key fice payroll in ajsalary kickback} (east end) .....+2h 20m scheme. His lawyets promised the legal fight wasn't over: If neces- sary, they said, they'd carry it right up to the Supreme Court. 9.0 ft. Temperatures At 7:30 A.M., EST Atlanta Staff Management Augusta Billings Certificate Is Dirmiagiom Sent To Saunders [Buta Charleston A certificate showing he has/Chicago satisfactorily completed a course Corpus C in staff management today was Denver received by Gerald Saunders from! Detroit the Gulf Life Insurance Co, \El Paso Saunders, of the local Gulf Life Ft. Worth . office, completed the course at the| Galveston .. home office, Jacksonville, last! Jacksonville. Sept. 14 to 18. The certificate was Kansas City signed by the president and vice KEY WEST .. President of the company. Key West Airport Today Saunders is attending|tos Angeles a sales congress in Miami, The|ouisville congress, sponsored by the State! Meridian .. Association of Life Underwriters, Miami was to be held in the Electrical Minneapol Union Hall, Miami. Speakers from Memphis three of the nation’s largest life in-|New Orleans surance companies were to address|New York the group. f Norfolk .. Saunders, superintendent of the| oklahoma CRY... Gulf Life Insurance office here and|/Qmaha President of the local association! pensacol of Life Underwriters, was ac-| Pittsburgh companied to Miami by these other| Roanoke insurance men: St. Louis J. B. Symonette, Gulf Life dis-\San Antonio .. trict manager; Arthur Valladares, San Francisco Life of Georgia manager; and ceattle three Gulf Life agents—B. R. Pin-|ratlahassee der, E, L. Hopkins, and C. J. Hab- Tampa .. erland. Washington UNPAID RENT ADDS PARD FOF ATHANKS | (Continued From Page One) We wish to extend our heartfelt eral Bureau of Investigation had/thanks to our many friends who! asked no pictures be taken viewlextended their sympathy during death threats to one child which|the recent illness, and for the originated close to Connecticut. |peautiful floral offerings as well as Will appreciate prompt reply.” to all who attended the funeral) Last year Crum said letters had/of our dear mother, Mrs. Mercedes been received threatening the life Roque Perez. ef little Yasmin unless the child 4s reared as a Moslem. Rita has said she intends to raise the child as a Christian, — CARD OF THANKS Crum spiked a We take this means to thank Buenos hires quoting talatives a jour friends for their kindness and gaying that Haymes, weary of his|their words of sympathy after) legal difficulties in the U.S., would/the loss of our loved one and| geturn to Argentina to live. |mother, Sarah Elizabeth Gard- Haymes’ deportation troubles/ner. Those who gave the use of ASproeae he made|their cars, the donors of the -__ue government) beautiful floral offerings, Rev. fees oer bane into this James E. Statham, the choir and put ad a eg anyone else who might have The word “mind” origi lightened our burden during our, @ verb signifying pei cane hour of sessew. — (Signed) THE FAMILY. B45 29 69) 23) 35 4 1 25 43 x 7 48) 15; 25) 50; THE FAMILY, _————_—<—_—_—$—— | \staph pressmen to return to work jhis duty to order the pressmen to |return to work and they did so of BSESERSREEONESNB gaits kind, Italy’s top Roman Cath-| 33| Tourists spend about 24 million strike. Tracy Burnham, assistant plant manager, said the president of CIO United Steelworkers Local 2120, Pedro Perez, was suspended be- cause he refused to order litho- when they walked out briefly. Perez said the lithograph men| walked out because press feeders were used to man presses during the temporary absence of several Pressmen. Perez said it was not their own accord later. TAMPA (#—The Florida State Fair ends today, with an expected 5,000 members of the Florida 4-H Clubs celebrating their annual day at the big exposition. Teams from 39 counties are com- peting in the beef cattle judging contest. The winning team of four will get a trip to Chicago to take part in a national contest. Tonght, to cap off the busy two weeks of the fair, the Gasparilla Pirates will sail away for another year. A fireworks display will mark the departure. TAMPA #—C, P. Dickson is suing the Graham-Jones Paper Co, Inc., of Tampa for $130,000. Dickson said a pet fighting cock attacked him without provocation in the company’s office, knocked him to the floor, and pecked away at him until he suffered a perma- nent back injury, a fractured wrist and a cerebral concussion, TAMPA —Officers of the Re- Publican State Executive Commit- tee will meet with the state GOP advisory committee within 10 days to consider applications for South Florida’s new federal judgeship, the Tampa Tribune reported today. The Tribune said G. Harold Alexander, committee chairma ; had listed five applicants already: Miles H. Draper and Nathan R. Grahmam of Tampa, Clair Davis jof St, Petersburg, G, H. Martin of Fort Lauderdale and Emmette Choate of Miami. ITALIAN cops * (Continued From Page One) the Roaman Catholic religion as the Italian state religion. The new republican constitution | says “‘all religious confessions are | equal before the law.” Last month Dr, Cline Rex Paden | of Brownfield and Lubbock, Tex., who first organized the Church of Christ in Italy, visited the United jStates to report on what he called “continued difficulties” of the evangelical church in Italy, In the first collective letter of olic prelates warned Catholics Feb. 1 against what was described as Protestant propaganda, The letter, \signed by the cardinal archbishops \of eight major Italian cities and bishops and archbishops of 11 other cities, said: | “Pernicious errors are arising in Italy from Protestant propaganda |which tends to menace the spirit- jual unity of the Italian people.” dollars a year in Bermuda, Opens Monday ADMISSION . . . . . THE KEY WEST PLAYERS Present BARN THEATRE Tickets On Sale at Betty Ann Stationers, 516 Fleming Street In effect, Russia has thrown up jinterest to 2 per cent. Then down/and in fact are largely academic a roadblock to Austria’s indepen- jwent Ito’s company. junless Molotov is willing to aban-|dence that may stand for years. cool in the north portion today and body was fully clothed and $100} A chain reaction set in among 'don his idea of a conference which With Austria now added, Molotov’s tonight, warmer Sunday. Continued|was in the billfold. Condition of|Ito’s imitators. More than a dozen|is essentially a Big Five confer- interlocking network of diplomatic mild temperatures in the southern the body indicated it had been in similar companies went broke. jence. This would mean for him a Snares for the West has grown | A subcommittee of the Diet is)kind of slap in the face to Red appreciably in the first three weeks jinvestgating the case. Newspapers|China. No one can tell what the of a connerence called to relax jare clamoring for Ito to be called|Soviet minister will eventually do tensions. ee and give the case a full airing,/but there is no great optimism! As he has outlined Russia's no matter how high in politics his|here at the moment about reach- Position, there now cannot be an ing agreement on a Far East plan.|Austrian indepdence treaty until} Even Ito’s autobiography—once| Adamant before pleas from the both the Trieste and German a best-seller—is going begging now.|West, Soviet Foreign Minister V. problems are settled, there cannot It’s titled, “This Is How I Think.”|M. Molotov declared yesterday be a German treaty until both the Russian troops will remain in North Atlantic Treaty Organization SPLIT IN WESTERN [Avstria until a German peace and the European Defense Com- (Continued From Page One) treaty is written. To this new con- rae Project are Mauls aa ~ iti dition, he added an old one—the there cannot be peace in Asia until ves pe Daitish aticay they do/troublesome Trieste problem also/Red China is granted an honored Regarding Japanese “rearma-|Must be solved first. place among the world's big pow- ment, informed opinion here is| ,Westerm delegations indicated ers, a place the West insists she that the Soviets will try hard to Clearly the conditions could not be does not presently deserve. halt it. accepted. They now see no chance’ Despite the near hopelssnss of “ ; further discussion, the ministers fons AG rivgeeen FORMER RED called for another examination of said. “They want us to block the (Continued trom Pare One) jthe Austrian case at 3 p.m. (9 a.m. same thing in the Orient, with|Where he died later in the day. He EST) , Japan as the keystone, before it|“2S 00t identified until last night, Only on the Asian front do the has gone too far.” jwhen an official of the U.S. Immi-|Western ministers see any hope The third point — charges of|Station and Naturalization Service in the closing days of the confer- “colonialism’—aims to revive anti-| Viewed the body. ence. Dulles indicated his own de- Western sentiment among the Far|, White had said in the past that mand of progress by asking that Eastern governments created after |" Wemt to Moscow in 1931 for a|a committee be named to map out World War II. year of training in sabo‘age meth-|the conference’s unfinished work. The efficial said: “It would at/°0S: He broke with the party in He said he could not remain in- least try to convince them that | 2935. ; , \definitely in Berlin, but must get their best chance of remaining| 1” 1948, he testified at a hearing back to Washington next week to independent is to stay neutral in| Which resulted in the deportation report to President Eisenhower and the present struggle.” of a mysterious J. Peters, who Congress before going on to the The Russians, this source said,!¥#S “described as a top Communist Inter-American Conference open- will have some important factions\*8°%t in this country. ing March 1 at Caracas, Vene- F zuela, favoring them on all these points. . They can bargain for a settle- MURDER-SUICIDE nigteee Peano edn tegonne ment on the fighting in Indochina) (Continued From Page One) | Disarmament conference — No and perhaps even for an agree-|an’s husband, John McMillan, 48, i i ment on Korea, offering these in|arrived. He told officers he adie peanoniaiin Rrra Big turn for recognition of Red China/been here two weeks, trying to! pour A Western “no.” and a United Nations seat for the|Persuade his wife to leave Christi-| German treaty—“No” from both Peiping government. ano, with whom she had occupied} lente They can capitalize on public|the apartment six months. opinion in Japan—as distinguished} Police said Christiano’s bags from the Japanese government—|were partly packed. which largely opposes full rearma-| ‘‘He was leaving—giving her the ment. brushoff,” theorized Police Lt. M. Finally, they may be abje M. Baumgardner. “She got him neutralize any efforts to create anjmad, and he shot her and then alignment of Far Eastern nations, himself.” a project on which South : Korean President Syngman Rhee and his government is already POOR OLD CRAIG CIFELLI'S extending feelers. 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He suggested withdrawing troops from Vienna, the capital. Like Berlin, Vienna is in the middle of a Russian zone. Some Westerners said they suspected such a with- drawal might pave the way for a future Czechoslovak-type putsch. At any rate, Western troop: would have to pull back 75 mile: and leave all Vienna, instead of only part of it, in Russian control, Besides maintaining the Iron ain west of Vienna, the Molo- an would legalize the con- Presence in Communist and Romania of 80,000 troops, They are now there in lines of communica- n to Austria, where 44,000 Red soldiers are stationed. Military personnel of the United States, Britain and France in Austria totals less than 20,000. 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