The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 19, 1954, Page 7

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THIS COMPLETE MOBILE CRIME DETECTION UNIT is current! continue through Saturday. y on display at Duval and Fleming Streets. Sponsored by the Florida Peace Officers’ Association, the unit includes the latest devices for scientific criminal investigation, including an Yalcometer,” lie detector, In addition, there is an exact replica of the electrie chair at Raiford. Display, open to the public, will | | | i | Expert Tells Why... We Probably Have Company In The Universe By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE = from a warmth-giving star, proper Associated Press Science Reporter|™ass, atmosphere, and rotation NEW YORK @&—We are notiPetiod for night and day. : * glone in the universe, for there} That would mean only one life-forms. There is no reason what- are probably 100 million other|/bearing planet for every billion|¢veT to presume that Hamo Sa- Planets suitable for high forms of|stars. ers gee ae Mellifera (hon- diffe, says a famous Harvard as-| Still being skeptical, suppose re : # key orvus op eg s er that life went on to higher forms| ot biochemistry are tl meron some of them mayjon only one of every thousand of an éo.” ‘y and star our with beings su-/these planets. On the others, some-| , 2 to humans, he writes in aithing could have happened to end, N° earth-sized planets have yet! book, ‘Climatic Change,’ pub- life. been detected around other stars, ‘That still leaves 100 million plan-|Decause the stars are too bright, ets as life-theaters because there|2%4 the planets too small in grav- is cautious when itlare so many thousands of billions|'t@tional mass to affect the mo- : animal, vegetable or other organ- iams on other happier planets may sit a F B § i H support life. He fig-|Way alone, to which we belong,|™casuting methods, way: bas 100 billion stars, and ies | kar ve Calan apd a eee po ee one star or «0 fn are billions of Milky Ways or gal-/F pte i sri? a any planets at all.!axies, ‘9 which And suppose anly one in a thou-| These millions of planets egal feo wih the nabed ee a of those families of planetsicate that the life phenomenon iS saty Paap rdeal are hae the conditions ‘suitable for the;widespreac and of cosmic signifi |? Por ape Wing agi life experiment.” That means ajcance. We are not alone. And Were bine might have near-cireular orbit, proper distance) should admit, of course, that the Dr. Shapley is editor of, and writes the introduction for, the! book giving views of more than |20 different scientific specialists on |the causes of great climatic |changes on earth, and the effects upon life. Slight variations in the sun’s Guaranteed HB omb Ar ea PURE (Is Patrolled Against Spies By WILLIAM J. WAUGH PEARL HARBOR (Tough | Dial 2-6831 For Home or 5 Commer cial Use =e ae destroyer escorts today patrol the Pacific west of the H-bomb! We dre Prepared-To Furnish You |proving grounds on a 2%-hour With Clean, Pure oe the ocean depth with electronic eyes, alert for any strange sub> marines or—in the words of an officer—any sneak attempt by Hos- ° deserted islands. ‘ Pio ae gehen Nr closely . | alli air patrols swee Thompson Enterprises, Inc, | ii"‘utt"xc” Suu. reese a time, but now with hints of im- (Ice Division) pending H-bomb tests at Eniwetok, their presence is of even more Key West, Florida |}significance. of these sea patrols, I can say that there is more than the usual alertness: among the radar and sonar crews. lipped .about the test which soon may explode the world’s most awesome weapon. But you may he sure the.Navy is quite aware of They watch the skies and plumb Cube apes Crushed ICE itile parties “to set up shop” on Japan, The patrols go on all the Having just returned from one Everyone in the Pacific is tight- it. Overseas Transportation Company, Ine. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service between MIAMI and KEY WEST Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS Between Miami and Key West Express Schedule (Ne Stops En Route) LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P.M. Arrives at Miami at 12:00 o’cleck Midnight. EAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 12:00 o'clock Midnight ryt arrives at Key West at 6:00 o'clock Local Schedule LEAVES MIAM! DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 8:00 o'clock A.M. (Stops at All Intermediate Points) and arrives ne at Key West at 5:00 o'clock mM, at Miami at 4:00 o'clock P.M, SUNDAYS) at 9:00 o'clock A.M. and UBAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service FULL CARGO INSURANCE MAIN OFFICE and WAREHOUSE: Cor. Eaton and Francis Sta, TELEPHONE 2-706? “atom"’ comes up in casual con- versation. You hear this from top officers om down: “I don't know anything about it and I don’t want to.” The air lanes around Eniwetok are so Strictly regulated that no civilian planes are allowed and the only military planes going there. are: those specifically or A strengthened force of long- maintains special patrols for the upcoming tests. Wedding Causes Court Problem LOS ANGELES #—The prosecu- tion’s- chief witness has married the defendant, presenting a special problem for the district attorney’s ty employe. : The case opened speak selection of a jury to try Joseph M. Fowaer, 29, on charges of for- gery and grand theft. Fowzer js now wed to the former Corrine Clazebal, 25, in whose bank ac- count a $760 warrant, allegedly forged, was deposited. Fowzer worked for a county collection bu- reau. A wife cannot testify against her , husband, have far surpassed the terrestrial) ‘Officers. shudder if the word) Merit Exams To Be Given In Key West Announcement that Key West) would be one of the centers for State-wide Merit System examina- tions to be conducted on Saturday, March 6, was made in Tallahassee today. Examinations will be conducted) for clerical - stenographie positions with all Merit System agencies, and for several professional and technical classes with the Sta’ 1 i i i State ting just how many|of stars in the universe. Our Milky|#?S of their stars by present)/Board of Health and the Ue partment of Public Welfare, Other! state agencies under the Merit; |System are the Florida Crippled \Children’s Commission, the Florida) Industrial Commission, and the: ment Commission. Complete information concerning the examinations to be conducted in Key West may be dbtained from local offices of the Employment |Service and the Welfare Depart. |ment, or the County Health Unit, ‘or direct from the Merit System Office in Tallahassee. Formal ap- Plications to take the examinations ion March 6 should be filed with The President tentatively sched- juled a round of golf today at thejand CUBAN COF FEE Hospital Division of the Improve-|*b0oting a reported 87 for 18 holes Indochina Is Block To Okay On EDC Treaty PARIS Wh—The Berlin confer-| Laniel has deen working toward|Rerlin, may agfumer out its strae jence’s promise of Indochina pal Fi Assembly vote during the sec tegy next wee ae jtalks posed a new obstacle today/ond half of March or early April.) A new excuge for french delay to speedy French action on the It was not certain whether hejon EDC would hit the U.S. Con- jhotly disputed European army|would yield under the new pres-'gress just as it prepares to discuss a ila treaty, jsure for further delay. : lus. foreign aid ar SES 'y MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH Following Big Four agreement) The Cabinet, awaiting the return Many congressmen a PALM SPRINGS, Calif. u—The to —— va ‘April Py . discuss of Foreign Minister Bidault from impatient at the delay. Political advice Presidert Eisen- Prospects fem peace in Asia, even! - a soe 5S rm yr ee hower gets from Gov. Goodwin J. the supporters of the European’ Friday, February 19, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 7 Knight of California is this: if you |Defense Community faced this ste " want to defeat the Democrais at'dilemma: the polls, be kind to them. | 1, Press for the French Nation: The Republican governor visited|al Assembly to ratify the army with Eisenhower for half an hour/treaty at once—as the United | yesterday at the President’s vaca-/States wants—and perhaps so) tion retreat here. And Knight said/anger Russia that she would not fo newsmen after the session: juse her influence with the Chinese “I told the President his recent Communists and the Communists announcement that the best kind of leaders of the Vietminh rebels to Republicanism is to avoid bitter stop the war in Indochina; or Condemnation of Democrats is) > Delay the Assembly vote on very popular in California, because the army treaty until after the that is the way we have been beat- Geneva conference on Korea and ing the New Deal here for 20 indochina, and run the risk of the years.” 4 |American Congress cutting off all- Knight was alluding to Eisen-\important aid to France. hower's statement Feb. 10 that he| The conservative, neutralist af- Sainst extreme political parti- ternoon newspaper Le Monde, an ip. all-out opponent of EDC, probably Knight visited Eisenhower with t e' |sounded rallying ery for the California Republican National army plan's other numerous foes Committeeman Ronald Button,!as it proclaimed last night: who told reporters the President! “Solution of the Indochina Prob: | and his program rate high with\iem is a prior condition to the | Californians, Button said he gave/ratification of EDC.’ | Eisenhower a report to that effect) This was one of the first times based on a cross-section study of thi. rgument has been advanced Sentiment in the state, a study/to stall final action on the EDC hich he declared included the treaty, which was signed in May iews of Democrats and Republi-|i959. ans alike. : The final decision on when to The President and Mrs. Eisen! put thi reaty before the Assem- hower arrived here Wednesday bly with Premier Joseph | evening for a five-day vacation at Laniel and his Cabinet. | OVERSEAS Radio & Appliance Co the Smoke Tree Ranch home of Paul H. » Los Angeles bak- ery execu Aides to Eisen-| hower indicated, however, that he is enjoying himself so much his stay may be extended beyond Monday. Your Grocer SBLLS That Good | STAR * BRAND AMERICAN OVERSEAS Radio & Appliance Co. PHONE 2-325] 617 OUVAL ST Dopular Thunderbird course after|—-TRY A POUND TODAY — | be tgp aemiee Tamarisk Country yesterday, m Newsmen heard that Ben Hogan,| How Will You Bet? one of golf's topnotchers and Tamarisk's pro, fired a 4 under par 68 as Eisenhower's partner. They teamed up against Helms and Paul G. Hoffman, board chairman of the Studebaker Corp. who, with Helms, is co-host to the Eisenhowers on this vacation, Can you place a dime on the cover of this box without touching the sides? i IT'S NO GAMBLE -Y ithe Merit System Office here by \February a. == General Tells Of Rise Of Chinese Reds By DAVID J, ROADS HONG KONG (#—Was it poasible to have wiped out the Communist in China two decades age and pre- vented Mao Tze-tung’s rise to power? A retired Chinese general says yee. Gen. Che Long says he could have destroyed the Red srmy ina trap % years ago, but Chiang Kai- shek blundered in allowing it to escape. } Che campaigned for three years against the Reds from headquar- ters in Nam Chang, Kiangsi prov- ince, in the early "30s. “At one time our armies had the Communists trapped and in one more year we could have wiped jout communism in China forever,” Gen, Che said, “‘but orders came from higher authority to withhold our attacks and the Reds es- caped.”" : The Communists who escaped formed the core of the army that later swept over China and put Mao Tze-tung in power. When the Reds took over China, Che came to Hong Ki Here he keeps a close watch on the fighting in Indochina and developments on the Chinese mainland. “Reports that Chinese anti-Com- munist bands are active through- out the mountainous regions of China today are very true, but jthey can’t exist without outside help,” Che said. “For every guerrilla in the hills three Red soldiers are kept on the alert. A small band of guerrillas can keep quite a few Communists busy for a long time,” he said. Me said the anti-Communist bands can go into hiding easily and can infiltrate into any area jundetected. Their whole organiza- range planes, based at Kwajalein, |tion is fluid. They can become —— of the countryside by day an ters at night. “The Reds control the food sit- uation and in this way they can limit guerrilla activity, Dut they ‘cannot it,” he geld. 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