The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 3, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, May 3, i9s¢ oe The Key West Citizen Bublished daily Cegcept Sinday) Grom The Clinen Building, comer of Only Daily Newspaper In Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher .................... 1921 - 1954, NORMAN D. ARTMAN Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 |Chaplin Film Seen At Church MEMPHIS, Tenn.. (® — The banned by the Memphis Board of Censors, was shown to a laughing audience of 100 at the First Uni- tarian Church last night. The slapstick comedy was post- poned a week after Chief Censor Lioyd T. Binford said the church would “violate the law” if it show- ed the movie. Church trustees later~ viewed the silent picture, said they found nothiag “‘morally wrong” with it and rescheduled it. Binford, who earlier said he might send police to stop the show- ing said last night, “I haven’t got anything to say ...” All ‘Chaplin films were banned here because Binford objected to the actor’s private life, of all’ dispatches credited ‘o it in this paper, apd also the local news pub. Member Associate Dailies of Florids Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 a ADVERTISING ‘RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an and invites discussion of public issues not publish and subjects of local eneral interest, but it will or IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED ‘ BY THE CITIZEN 1. ‘More Hotels and 2 Beach and Bai = Community "Auditorium, PRS ASSEN LARA EAS: WT > OT a ‘ GERMANY AND THE E. P. U. Shortly after World War II ended, eighteen Euro- i 2an countries joined in what was called the European Payments Union. The international financial agreement allowed trade to be conducted freely and nations paid off their balances to each other, or ran up credits or debts, as the trade progressed. _ In the last few weeks, the resurgence of West Ger- many has threatened the future of the E. P. U. This is ~ no one’s fault, but demonstrates the economic and com- mercial supremacy Germany is gaining over her neigh- bors in Europe. +> : . The latest figure shows the Germans are owed al- ~nost a billion dollars by the Payments Union, As the Un- ion now operates, the Germans can receive only half this amount in gold or hard currency, and they are pressing for a change in regulations to allow payment of at least Trainman Is Disrobed By Diesel Machinery LOUISVILLE, Ky. W—William Thomas’ clothes caught in the ma- chinery of a diesel engine yester- day and everything was pulled off except his shoes and socks. The worst THomas, a railroad maintenance man, was a broken arm. He was servicing the locomotive when his rain coat was caught by the spinning shaft of a radiator fan motor. po aa Political Announcements FIRST PRIMARY ELECTION MAY 4, 1954 PPavilion.” and City Governments. BEANS ? Only two months ago the citi- zens of Monroe County voted 6 to 1 against the plans of Bernie Papy to float a $14,000,000 aqueduct bond indenture. Yet, now it is flatly stated in the Red Infiltration Hearings Open In Michigan For United States Congress DANTE B. FASCELL For United States Congress sixty-five per cent of this in gold or hard currency. The British are thought to be considering withdrawal from the E, P. U. and, therefore, the organization which has done so much for European trade in recent years ap- pears to be headed for dissolution. Perhaps the only de- velopment—which is not likely—which would head off dissolution, would be greater industry and stiffer com- petition from Germany's neighbors in Europe. Unfortunately, matiy of her neighbors, such as Italy and France, do not séem to be able to compete with Ger- many in the business world. The Germans appear to be a more industrious people than some European nationalities and the recovery of West Germany clearly demonstrates this fact. Advertise your business any way you like, but adver- tise it, It’s surprising how few breaks really deserving people sometimes get. We had a humorous idea for this paragraph but for- got it; that’s funny, isn’t it? It’s easy to see which children get adequate atten- tion from their parents and those who do not. Advertising induces people to take money out of the bank, from a sock, and spend it. That’s why advertising creates business, Despite our confidence, the United States may oc- casionally be wrong and the’ British or French right, in foreign policy matters. It has happened before. Crossword Puzzle AIL|PRES|PIEOMEVIATSIT LEE RECIA|SIEROIHI | | TIAIRMMAISISI1 SITIAINIT] OIN | OINISMEGIE IE} ISIAIT ME SINIAIR] LINIG) TIAICITMEPIAL | ILINIOIR| AIGIOMPIA] | INISHETO/E| MIAIP REL | T INIGHEDIEIN|Y] PIRIE|SIE (NIT MEP IAIR} CIAIT ME CIOIMIPIE |L} BL LIAITIEIRIAIL Mm OlWIe! AICIEIRMBRIU|SIKBESIEIE! DIEIAIF BESIEITIA) DOWN 1, Comfort 2. Majority 3. Ourselves 4. Particle Don’t take newspaper exposes ‘seriously. They do it all the time. There are even associations and organizations which. gives prizes for the best or worst exposes — de- pending on how you look at them. Some Key Westers have been upset—some even up in arms— about stories in Miami papers re- cently. But it’s the same old story. Next week or next month, you won't hear or read a word about the current expose. (There should be an acute accent over the last ‘‘e” in expose but our Liontype doesn’t Speaking of last year’s exposes, how many recall last year’s Pulit- zer prize winners?. (Go ahead. Look them up.in the World Al- manac and then write a nasty let- ter to the editor.) You don’t even need to look as far back as last year. One Miami paper hadn’t even finished with the big expose of Monroe Céunty before it was starting on a big Navy tug boat expose. You got to keep the exposes going, if you are an editor. You should see some of the jer- ky exposes I’ve seen here and there, One paper I worked for in New York City made a regular sum- mer issue about germs in the wat- er near beaches. It was a real, big production. Every summer. One man was as- signed to do nothing but write a story a day about germs in water near the beaches. So what happened? Everybody who wanted to do so went swimming whenever they wanted. And the editors sat back, smiled smugly, and said: “Look at the big campaign and expose we put over about germs.” . Everybody was happy. The read- ers, the swimmers, the editors. Everybody was happy except one guy. He was the man who had to write the same story every day about germs in the water near beaches. It was the same story, ton. All he had to do each day was change the name of the. beac. infested with germs. There are lots of beaches near New York City. And apparently a lot of germs. You may not think this was a big-time expose. But it was, be- cause it carried all the trappings. The paper printed pictures of crow- ded—and presumably germ in- fested — beaches. Drawings of germs were printed. The germs were analyzed, named, counted and tattooed One of the larger germs was named Mamie. But the paper didn’t pay for all this counting and naming of germs, The health department did. This made the editor happy. Ed- itors do not like to spend money. I know. I’ve worked for enough of em. But milions of people still swimming every summer at New York beaches. There is another gimmick which sometimes goes along with news. paper exposes. This is the eager - beaver, Hol- reporter, - type ‘ You don’t see this type around New York City very often because the people who work on papers by DENIS SNEIGR there are professionals. They know an expose when they see one. So they just go along and routinely expose whatever the editor wants exposed at the moment. They mostly get paid the same anyway, whether they are cover- ing a precinct house or exposing germs. You have seen enough movies to recognize the Hollywood-type re- porter. If you haven’t, I’Hl tell you. He is a bright young man, Clear- eyes, suntanned and shamefully young, as Dwight Fiske used to say in one of his songs. He always needs a hair cut, as all Hollywood heroes do. I don’t mean he needs a hair cut in the sloppy, wine-drinker sort of way. He just has long hair, Neat but long. He is always on the ball. He al- ways gets the big story. Thank goodness, there weren’t any eager-beaver, Hollywood-type reporters around Key West during tais expose. They were all just plain work- ing stiffs. Like me. That’s why I wondered about some Key Westers being upset at these working stiffs. You must re- member that these working stiffs just work for an editor. The edi- tor wants a story slanted a parti- cular way. So the working stiff slants it that way. Next month the same editor might want a big dope ring in Mia- mi exposed. These same working Stiffs might be assigned to expose the big dope (that would be easy) ting in Miami. That would be their assignment and that’s what they would do. Or, some Miami big wheel might drive down here with an extra- curricular girl friend and have an auto wreck. . The Miami papers might want that exposed and these same re- Porters might be assigned to ex- pose the Miami big wheel and his extra-curricular girl friend. So don’t take newspaper exposes seriously. It’s all part of the game. Who knows? Next year the Key West newspapers might be expos- ing the Greater Bagels Beach Area? ; You should see the things that go on there, But before you knock it off and write a nasty letter to the editor which says you do so too know who last year’s Pulitzer prize win- ners were — the Pulitzer prizes are listed since 1918 in the 1954 World Almanac. Beginning on Page 504. ° ° Killers To Die ‘TOKYO, w—Japan’s new justice minister hasn’t had a chance yet to shake up his country’s scandal- rocked administration. But there’s no doubt he’s shaken nine condemned murders. Dr, Ryogoro Kato, a 71-year-old go | obstetrician, took over the minis- try April 22. In his first seven days he signed death warrants for ail nine’ men and told prison war- — sy get on with eee in Japan, justice ministers have traditionally shied away from the unpleasant job. The last minster, Takeru Inukai, let some of the warrants lie on his desk nearly a year. DETROIT ()—Rep. Kit Clardy ,(R—Minh) opens hearings today to determine. how far communisn has infiltrated into education and labor in Michigan. \ Clardy, chairman of a House Un-American Activities subcom- mittee, said he expected to call between 8 and 10 witnesses the first day, more than half of them educators, He said, however, one “pretty important” witness may be called from the labor field. The white-haired Michigan con- gressman, commenting on criti- cism by the CIO United Aito workers, said often the “most trouble is stirred up before a hearing.” He said he thought the haye been subpoenaed, would be one of the chief benefactors of the investigation. The first two witnesses, he said, were Sidney W. Graber, a savial studies teacher at a Detroit elc- mentary school, and Dr. Gerald Harrison, a faculty member and physicist at Wayne University. He said his group is not con- ducting a trial and is not trying “to determine who is guilty and who is not guilty.” He said it is merely trying to determine how far communism had infiltrated into the fields of labor and education. Death Of Heiress To Be Probed CHiCAGO, (P—An inquest was Florence Dibell Bartlett, 72-year- old heiress to a hardware fortune and art patroness, in a 17-story plunge yesterday from the patio of her Gold Coast penthouse. Acting Detective Chief William Touhy said two sealed envelopes he found in Miss Bartlett’s apart- ment will be opened then. One was addressed to Miss Bartlett’s maid, the other to Frank Wallace, who handled her financial affairs. Miss Bartlett was a member of the board of the Art Institute of Chicago. Police quoted her maid, Mrs. Marie Hijerto, that Miss Bartlett had been despondent since ~ the death last June 25 of her only brother, Frederic Clay Bartlett, architect and artist. Z She was the daughter of the late Adolphus Clay Bartlett, one of the founders of a Chicago hardware- manufacturing firm. Roll Call Trouble CAMP PICKET, Va. (» — The 1,000 officers taking part in the Army’s giant logistical maneuver, Logex-54, here this week have ro problem at all compared with the fellow who calls the roll. Working side by side in the paper work maneuver are Koutsogianno- poulos is of the Greek Army, Maj. Prasarn Prasassarakitch and Capt. Rien Disthabanchong are of the Thai army. They’re among 124 officers rep- resenting 29 foreign countries and are sharing information gained Pickett drawing boards. EAGER BASS CAUGHT DALLAS ( — Three» teen-age boys rowing a boat on a lake yes- terday suddenly heard a thump and feverish flopping. A 5-pound, 13-ounce sand bass had flipped into their boat. The boys, Jerry Wilson, Gibson union, some of whose members| = 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 Seuator For State Representative DAVE KING “Government by the People” LEVER 19-A For State Representative BERNIE C. PAPY “Always Fighting for the Best Interests of Monroe County” For County Commissioner 2ND DISTRICT 4 FRANK BENTLEY 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” For County Commissioner 4TH DISTRICT For Member School Board Board RE-ELECT J. CARLYLE ROBERTS 3RD DISTRICT, For Member School Board ELECT KELLER WATSON. SRD DISTRICT For Member School Board Re-Elect EDNEY PARKER Jester and Billy Youngblood, gave the bass to a nearby fishernman.' STH DISTRICT Marathon Keynoter that Papy plans to saddle the freeholders with this burden without giving them any _ Chance to say no. Alonzo Cothron, chairman of the aqueduct commission, admits, according to the Keynoter, that they now plan to float a new $14,000,000 bond issue without asking the free- holders’ consent. He made this statement several weeks ago, asking at the time that the news be withheld until he had “further information.” Could that further information have been the re-election of Rep. Bernie C. Papy? Evidently so. Cothron said in the Keynoter’s interview that Rep. Papy had promised the commission that he will aid them with the neces- sary legislation in the 1955 legisla- ture. How would it be done? Here’s the plan, as directed by Cothron: Instead of an ad valorem tax to satisfy bond holders, the Aque- duct Commission will be given power to raise water rates to an 5 unlimited amount to pay off the bonds! Freeholders won't have to vote for the bond issue because no ad valorem tax will be involved. Rep. Papy — as shown by his past actions in the legislature — is perfectly capable of pulling just this. Did Alonzo Cothron spill the beans too soon? (Paid Political Advertisement) Y= 2S TSS