The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 1, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, May 1, 1954 The Key West Citizen Bublsed daily (except Sanday) trom The Clizey Bulding, corner of ig Only Daity Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher ............... 1921 - 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN wenn Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2.5661 and 2.5662 ‘ Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusivel; Hn herve sails Ss ae td SS ts ak Member Associate Dailies of Florids ates Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 ee eee eee eee ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION 2 as hoe es hee are or anonymous communications. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. More Hotels and Apartments. 2. Beach and Bai Pavilion, ‘Land Sea. 4. Consolidation of and Governments. ‘ m comnty: City PENSION PLAN FOR SELF-EMPLOYED A new idea involving a tax-free sum of money, to be set aside each year by self-employed persons, is being given serious consideration ‘on Capital Hill. Although the general consensus of opinion is that the plan will not be enacted into law this year, nevertheless strong support from party leaders from both major parties has been ex- Pressed. ‘ Briefly, the new plan would allow self-employed Persons—who are not covered by company pension plans or other pension plans—to set aside a certain amount of money each year: (tax-free) for their old age. The Fe- eral Government would not collect taxes on this money although it would limit the amount set aside. The maximum amount allowed put aside would cov- er those persons in a very high income bracket. Those earning less money would be allowed to put aside smaller sums each year. At any time of total disability, or death, or at the age of 65, the money paid in over the years would be available in-a lump sum or in payments. The receiver of that money would pay income tax on it at the normal rates. Some such plan is needed because there are estimat- ed to ‘be 11,000,000 self-employed persons uot now cov- ered by some sort of pension plan. They are not able to set aside enough money for their future in most cases, and because of the fact that they must pay an increasing percentage of taxes on surplus money put aside, many find it difficult'to provide adequately for old age. The growing acceptance of pension plans for employes has been rapid and the time is fast approaching when prac- tically all employes will enjoy some sort of old-age secur- There is no reason to penalize self-employed per- sons. The new plan being given consideration on Capitol Hill should be acted upon. In a free enterprise country where initiative and aggressiveness are supposed to pay dividends, it is inconsistent to penalize self-employed Persons while employes and businesses alike are given tax- exemptions on money set aside for pension purposes. Today's CHICAGO — April threw a roadblock in the path of the re- cession. Businessmen are hoping today that in May the economy will try to regain a little of the lost ground. They are looking at April reports and May signposts for the nation as a whole, rather than for just this or any other one region. For many industries—like steel —April saw a slowing of the rate of decline which started about a year ago. For others—like autos— April brought a revival of business, as expected in the spring. A few —iketextilesfound the going rougher..and production and em- ployment declining. Let’s look at some of the hopes for May. Merchants are counting on a fairly steady stream of consumer dollars in the nation as a whole. Despite the toll from loss of aver- time by most workers, shorter work weeks for, many and even : Despite most executives’ fears, the business would get along nicely without them, iS We are tired of entertainers who thipk they win wars by doing a few shows for service men. The reason most small-town stores do a small-town business is that they run on a small-town system, There are some parents always ready to let some- body else’s son do the fighting necessary to protect them, and their possessions. — Crossword Puzzle furiias oaanean TIOINEIOMNOIE ISIASIE(D} on us Agia) WIAINIED Lae oe" RAT INMEICEMMAD ee SITILIEINICIEMMFIOIR NEVIEISIILIAIPIT 5 SEWING TIRIEITITIA FIURMEHIOI MDIAIRIT SIAMCUBINS animal Poy Eaving two sides 41. Be Berea obligation 48. Genus of state 15. Thick black liquid 16, Helj 18. Edible bulbs 20. Teamster’s 8. Elector fence 10. Transgres- sion 11. Little child 17, Ratifies 19. Cereal grass 22. Godly 23. Place betw unemployment for a sizable num- ber, store sales on a national ba- sis have held close to a year age. Income tax cuts increased take- home pay for many persons, and excise tax cuts lowered prices on some goods, Consumers as a whole have been Paying off their old debts faster than they’ve been taking on new ones. Interest rates in general are easing and May should see more idle money waiting for borrowers. Retailers and finance companies hope that in May the customers will step up. their on-time buying. The total of savings has risen despite the business dip. Merchants and manufacturers hope that means there’s plenty of money to be spent—when consumers get around to tapping it. Building plans indicate May should be a good month. Home starts are running around the year- ago mark, with only public hous- ing dropping much. Businessmen list their plant and equipment ex- Business Mirror By Sam Dawson pansion plans as around last year’s level. Yet contracts for heavy con- struction are lower than a year ago, indicating -that labor-saving tools and machinery rather than new factories are getting the big play now. And some of the giant compan- ies with big plans for building are leaning toward plants for produc- ing their own supplies. thus cut- ting off markets for their former suppliers. It could*be as much a shift in the economy as a growth. Steelmen: express hope that-out- put out of the mills has touched bottom and that May will see a modest pickup in orders. Some of the textile mills that closed down for a while in April hope thereby to have corrected their troubles. If so, May will see a better ratio of sales to output. Payments on defense orders (a big item in today’s economy) have been slower this year, but some see signs that the government’s cash will flow a little more freely in May and June. Inventories have been a prime target for many industries. April is believed to have racked up more gains for the whittlers. Belated Easter retail trade helped and if May sales go as now hoped, the stores will be reorder- ing—to the relief of factories whose order books have been light. Many manufacturers, in turn, are now thought to have got their own raw material inventories into better shape at last, and should soon be reordering from primary producers. Purchasing agents report new or- ders increasing, but most buyers still holding to 60 days as their top forward range. So run the hopes for May. Almost everyone stresses, how- ever, that if May shows gains, they’ll be modest ones. Many would settle for just an- other helping of April’s dish—a lit- tle less of the sour, a dash more of the. sweet. Free Movies At City Workhouse Tornado (ills One LITTLE ROCK, Ark. —Torna- does and vicious winds lashing six states in the Southwest and Mid- west left one person dead, at least 56 injured and caused dam- ages estimated in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Texas suffered the most damage | p; —39 injured in 23 towns and com- munities. Other states hit yester- day included Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Iowa. Mrs. Doot Sowell, 73-year-old Ne- gro of Many, La., was the only fatality reported. Her body was found draped around a fence post. Six persons in the Sowell home were injured. Eleven separate but small tor- nadoes struck in eastern Iowa. One twister injured five mem- bers of a family near Cedar Rapids when it tossed them about 100 feet into a field. Their farm home was destroyed. os same Lag 2 swept through Fayette, Iowa, wrecking cars, uprooting trees and stripping houses of their roofs, » ST. LOUIS —City Workhouse Warden Clarence Weismantel will have free movies nightly from his bedroom window soon. A new drive-in theater opens May 12 directly south of the work. house. The warden’s bedroom, which will be converted into a den, has a picture window with an un- obstructed view of the theater’s screen, Mayor Roy Parker of suburban rentwood, one of the owners of the theater, had had a speaker installed as a friendly gesture so the warden may also hear ‘ue movies. Prisoners in sue part of the workhouse also will have an unob- structed view of the screen—about 1,000 feet away—but they’ll have no speakers. THAT OLD MEANIE! DENVER wW—A gunman robbed Hummel’s Delicatessen of $292 Thursday night. Mrs. Mary R. Hummel, operator of the store, said the bandit had “the meanest face I ever saw.” She added, “le had a mean dis- Position too. He- even took the pennies,” Political Announcements FIRST PRIMARY ELECTION MAY 4, 1954 For United States Congress DANTE B. FASCELL For United States Congress ROBERT H. GIVENS, JR. “Send A Conch To Congress” For United States Congress CHARLES L. VOCELLE PULL LEVER 4A For Governor ROY COLLINS “Will Serve the People Best” For State Senator Re-Elect JAMES A. FRANKLIN 24TH DISTRICT For State Senator 24TH DISTRICT TRAVIS GRESHAM PULL LEVER 15-A For State Senator 24TH DISTRICT WILLIAM R. NEBLETT For State Senator 24th District MILTON A. PARROTT Help Monroe County Elect A Senator ee eee For State Representative BERNIE C. PAPY “Always Fighting for the Best Interests of Monroe Coynty” For County Commissioner 2ND DISTRICT FRANK BENTLEY Pnernne Sean a For County Commissioner SECOND DISTRICT ROD BETHEL Pull Lever 22-A For County Commissioner SECOND DISTRICT WILLIAM A. FREEMAN, JR. For County Commissioner 4TH DISTRICT WM. E. (BILL) CATES “Your Vote and Influence Will Be Appreciated” Fence Th heaton NAAN For County Commissioner 4TH DISTRICT RE-ELECT GERALD SAUNDERS Experienced and Able For Member School Board RE-ELECS J. CARLYLE ROBERTS. 3RD. DISTRICT ee For Member School Board ELECT KELLER WATSON 3RD DISTRICT ee eee For Member School Board Re-Elect EDNEY PARKER T= best defense is a good of- fense. While Diane Ealing was muss- ing her hair and~tearing her truth. But if I ean do that and still help Jim, I’m going to.” “Fair enough,” I agreed. “I want to know rag Aes and no shadow boxing. You still bay onto that story about being wit whl?” clothes, I got an inkling of what} Kuhl she figured to do. It also popped into-my mind that to make it look really convincing I'd have to die on my feet, as if I'd jumped up and grabbed her. That’s why I ceed on the divan as long as i When she told me to stand up the second time, she stepped for- ward so as to make herself tower threateningly over me. That put her within my reach. I was up and at her with a single kicking jump and my left hand grabbed the pistol. My thumb I drove in between ham- mer and breech as she pulled the trigger. The sharp little firing pin drove down into my thumb, just where the flesh is tenderest next to the nail, and for the moment it hurt worse than anything Raniel and Winkle had been able to do to me; but I kept the cartridge from exploding. Next moment I had twisted the gun away from her and I spun her around and shoved her down hard on the divan. I broke .the gun and shook the little cartritige into my palm. I put the cartridge into my pocket and laid the empty gun on the mantelpiece. “Now,” I said to Diane ling “you can be charged with assault *with a deadly weapon.” ‘Tm sorry,” she said, as if there had been a trifling accident, an I laughed. It hurt my cut ips. = “Who isn’t sorry?” I threw back at her. I put my hurt thumb in nye mouth and sucked it. “Let’s talk,” “All right,” she conceded, soft and weary. “At least we know where we both stand. And I'll tell you whatever I can. The Congress In No Mood To Approve War By EDWN B. HAAENSON WASHNGTON —Three Pemo- cratic senators said today Con- gress is in no mood to approve in- volvement of U. S. fighting units in the Indochina war. A Republican, Sen. Flanders (Vt), agreed that the thought of direct American intervention is un- popular in Congress. But he said the United States and the United Nations may be forced to take di- rect action, if the Communists threaten to overrun Indochina. Sen. Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo) took note of President Eisenhow- er’s news conference statement Thursday that this country will not get into a war except through the constitutional process, involving a declaration of war by Congress. “If the President waits for Con- gress to give him the go-ahead on sending U. S. troops to Indochina,” Johnson said, “he will wait for a long, long time. There is no senti- ment in the Senate for intervention in Indochina.” Sen. Monroney (D-Okla) said in a separate interview that “‘no case has been made as yet for the... use of American troops” in Indo- china and he added: “There is lit- tle likelihood that Congress would give such authority now.” Sen, Holland (D-Fla) said he would have to know much more “about the immediacy of the situa- tion (in Indochina) before I’d con- sent to sending our combat troops there.” In taking his somewhat different position Sen. Flanders said: “We can’t pass off all our dan- gers and troubles to’our children and grandchildren. We must face them.” Flanders is a member of the Senate Armed Services Commit- tee. Earlier in the week, the House defeated 214-37 a proposal by Rep. Coudert (R-NY) aimed at barring use of American combat forces in Indochina without prior congres- sional assent. The Indochina War has been a critical issue in the Geneva Con- ference, from which Secretary of State Dulles is preparing to return early next week. Diplomatic sources. here expect that Dulles’ return w'll bring to a crisis a cleavage of opinion within the U. S. government over how strong a policy the United States should adopt toward Indochina. Dulles and Adm, Arthur W. Rad- ford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are said to be the ‘action men” of Indochina policy. But there are others in and out of Con- gress who are not as ready as they for direct steps. NEGOTIATIONS CAN GET UNDER WAY PITTSBURGH (# — The way is clear for the opening of 1954 con- tract negotiations between CIO United Steelworkers and basic steel producers. The union has sent formal no- tices of contract termination to the companies and has asked them to set dates for talks on wages, STH DISTRICT ES q hours and other contract con- dit She shook her head and pinned up her hair some way. “No, I wasn’t. You spotted that lie. But the rest of what I said is true.” “You mean about fighting with your husband?” “It’s a terrible way to remem- ber Dick. The last words he spoke to me were threats and curses. He was poereing: mad at-me and at Jim. Somebody—I don’t know who—had told him about us.” “Well,” I summed up for her, “he found out.” “He showed me a letter he’d| hi written to Jim. It was blood- curdling. He told Jim if he—Jim —came around me any more, it would mean shooting. ‘Trespass- ers will be shot without second warning,’ that’s what Dick wrote.” I didn’t let on that I'd seen that letter, or part of it. I only Prompted her with, “Then what?” “He addressed an envelope—” “To Kuhl?” . “Of course. He got the address out of the telephone book. He put in the note and stuck on a stamp and went slamming out of the house. He must have gone to the mail box around the corner. Then he came back here and started in on me again. It wasn’t bad enough, he said, that Jim and I were in love, but between us‘ we were trying to do away with him. He’d suspected that, he said, for a month or more.” “A MONTH or more,” I re- Peated. “Since about the time, he put the codicil on his will.’ “Wefl—yes.” She'd found a straight pin somewhere and was fastening her torn blouse back together. “I guess that’s right.” “I don’t see how any of it clears Jim,” I rejoined, WASHINGTON (# — Completely polite, without batting an eye or raising his voice, Pvt. G. David Schine achieved in public and on TV too what Army privates have dreamed of since the first one carried a spear. He told off the big brass. Tall and trim, Schine’s was poised as he faced the Senate com- mittee investigating Sen. McCar- thy’s row with Army officials. At 26 he is perhaps the richest draftee in the Army. He finished Harvard and is president of his millionaire father’s chain of hotels. Yes, he said, Robert T. Stevens, secretary of the Army and there: fore boss of all the generals, had asked him, Schine, to pose with Stevens for a photograph last Nov. 17. That was 14 days after Schine had been drafted. Stevens had told the same com- mittee he had met Schine on that date but could not remember ask- ing him ‘to pose for a picture. Both Stevens and Schine testi- fied under oath at this hearing, where someone is obviously lying and the one who is, or the ones who are, may wind up on trial for perjury in federal court. Schine wasn’t standing alone. Roy M. Cohn said Stevens had asked Schine to pose for the pic- ture. Cohn was with Schine, Ste- vens, McCarthy and others on Nov. 17, and Cohn said McCarthy heard Stevens make the request too. Cohn and Schine had worked to- gether on McCarthy’s committee until Schine was drafted, Cohn as chief counsel and Schine as an un- paid consultant. At the heart of the trouble now is the question whether Schine shouldn’t have stood alone just a ‘little more. Stevens says that Mc- ‘Carthy called Schine a “pest” but t nevertheless tried to get special favors for him before and after he ‘was drafted. And Cohn, the Army charges say, tried to get a com- mission for the good-looking Schine before he was drafted and special treatment for him later. McCarthy and Cohn deny there was anything unusual in their con- cern for Schine and in turn charge the Army with using him as aj} “hostage” to pressure them into stopping or diverting their search for Communists in the Army. No matter what else they may have in common, Cohn and Schine have outward self-assurance. The resemblance seems to taper off there. Schine, relaxed, has a slight air of amusement about him. It is sometimes hard to tell whether Cohn is thinking or pout- ing. Cohn is a talker with fidgets. He bounces around as if he couldn’t wait to get the next word out. He’s never at a loss for one. Cohn’s father is a justice of New York’s Appellate Court. Besides his. salary from the, McCarthy com- mittee, Cohn at 27 is a member of a New York law firm. He finished Columbia Law School at 19 and had to wait till he was 21 to practice. “Wait.” she said. “I made a Point of telling you about the letter. I don’t temember Sore! what it said, except what quoted, but it must have been the first time Dick made = thing like an out-and-out charge against Jim, and it had a threat, Jim might have moved then— when he got the letter—to do something to save himself. defense—kill or be killed.” “Remember what you yourself told me,” I put in. “He mailed it no ear.’er than one o'clock. The afternooa mail pickup could hardly have brought it to Kuhl in time to give him any such a defense.” “Then Jim had no reason to kill Dick. I still think I've cleared I couldn't help but smile and hurt my cut mouth again. “You ought to be a lawyer yourself. A good trial lawyer, in criminal cases. “There’s nothing I can or do, then?” . os “Not a thing.” The door bell rang. Diane Ealing pinned herself together again and went to the door. I heard a man’s voice, soft for a moment, then loud and excited. James Kuhl. A moment later the two of them came in together. “What are you doing he Yates?” he demanded = one. “Spying? Snooping? Playing tricks?” “Right,” I said. “I think you're the one who framed the false evidence on Dr. Stokes. In fact, I know you are.” Kuhl was a big man, as tall as I am and with more flesh. What I said made him grow a little smaller. Maybe he let out the air in his lungs and bowed his head .That would have the effect of shrinking him. “All right, it’s true.” he said. ig | framed Dr. Stokes.” (To be continued) The World © Today By James Marlow Before joining McCarthy last year, he had been a special ap sistant to the attorney general and helped in the prosecution of New York’s second-string Communist leaders, in the trial and conviction of atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and the perjury indict- ment against Owen Lattimore. Schine, with an interest in hunt+ ing Communists, volunteered his services to McCarthy. Cohn and Schine had been friends before, McCarthy sent the pair to Europe last spring for 18 days to look into the United States Information Ser- vice. . McCarthy has_ continually praised them and their work, but they got almost universal criticism in the European press as they went around examining the bookshelves in American libraries. Whether they will enjoy what’s in store for them in the future de- pends on the outcome of the Senate investigation, which is getting rougher and tougher, day by day. And Cohn and Schine haven't fin- ished testifying yet. For STATE SENATOR ~ Help Lee, Hendry and Collier Coun- ties Elect A New State Senator Pull Lever 15-A For Travis Gresham | May 4th Ee (Pa. Pol. Advt.)