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

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, May 4, 1954 The Key West Citizen Published daily (ex i ei i grt cept Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner of Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher o.0.00....... 1921 - 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN ....mmnnnnanninnnunnn Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-566) and 2-5662 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise in this paper, and also the local news pub- Member Associate Dailies of Florida PND chet ins ocr dn | nA Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Citizen is an open and invites discussion of public issues Phot publish The forum and subjects of local or general interest, but it will afionymous communications. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1, More Hotels and Apartments, 2. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. 3. Airports—Land and Sea. 4. Consolidation of County and City Governments. *5. Community Auditorium. INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS DAY In this era of deeper and deeper penetration into the awesome secrets of total annihilation, it is reassuring to be reminded that there are other great forces in the world besides the terrible force of an H-bomb. One such reminder is the observation on May 8 of International Red Cross Day. When Henri Dunant — the Swiss visionary whose birthdate is being celebrated — founded the Red Cross movement in 1863, he created a power stronger even than an atomic explosion. He awoke the conscience of the world and gave reality and practical expression to the great principles of mercy and helpfulness taught by the philosophers and religious leaders of the ages, The Red Cross is a force for good which has demon- strated over and over again in the 91 years of its existence that compassion for the suffering and the unfortunate is a universal emotion — that there are men and women of good will in all parts of the world. Today there are 71 internationally recognized nat- ional Red Cross societies and almost five per cent of the world’s population is affiliated with the Red Cross move- ment. The work of these societies and their members — in the relief of suffering, the prevention of disease, the assuagement of hunger — is a hopeful note in this troub- led time. It binds together in common cause men of dif- ferent race, creed and political opinion. Let us take advantage of International Red Cross Day, then, to rededicate ourselves to the service of human- ity under the Red Cross emblem if only because through its constructive power for good we may help avert the terrible catastrophe of world destruction foreshadowed by the mushroom cloud over Eniwetok. Few astronomers are atheists. Those who make promises and keep them are worth watching. A good church is that way because those running ‘it are on the job. The world is approaching the time when peace will be properly appreciated. If the Communists ever get control in India, Nehru and his brethren will wish the hated British wére back. If everyone gave one minute of time per day to a charitable act, it would increase life’s pleasures and life’s accomplishment. sa eee SIGIVIAIRIC ML JE [GAT IE} OIVISTTIE IRIE | IMIAIGIE|S| LJ OMBOIDIOIRIOIU|SMEAIS| 13. Lancelot’s beloved 14. Marshy place 15. Wigwam 16. Cook in an cre 11. Symbol) » for sodium 18. 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SUGGESTION SECONDED Editor, The Citizen: Let me “‘sécond the motion” of a recent People’s For- um suggestion that “Public Utility” offices stagger their open hours to conform to available time of the public. But, let’s be realistic. Unlike the numerous Civil Ser- vice and government agencies whose open hours are minimized under the guise of economy (?), the “Public” Utilities offices are not public at all, but Private Monopo- lies with the prerogative to do pretty much as they please. How would they gain? Except for public good, will and convenience, they wouldn’t, and quite obviously won’t. Some businesses have commendably conceded to the available public time by staying open longer and occas- ionally at night, and they have profited both in good will and increased biisinéss, But the Private Monopoly places no value on good will, and since their income is pretty well fixed, they do as they please. Rushing to pay bills during the noon hour (when do we eat?) usually finds the office understaffed since they eat at noon, too, except the poor, low-seniority personnel forced to endure the rush, usually alone. I was put under “third degree” questioning when I asked to have my meter checked, and was subsequeently advised to “be available’ when the utility man came “sometime at his convenience” during the following three weeks! I inclined to hold payment of the utility bill until this was done, but was cautioned to pay up or have the service cut off! That’s monopoly, brother, real solid! : HOV. B. P. O. Box 642 May b 1954 Key Weit, Fla. ANTICIPATES FUN Editor, The Citizen: Enforcement of the new city electrical code may be a source of headaches to some people, but to nine- year-old Johnnie Calleja of 713 Caroline Street, one item of the code opens up a vista of sheer delight. Surveying the big master switch installed on the wall of his daddy’s new apartment building next door, Johnnie exclaimed, “Oh boy! That’s going to be great for Hallow- een. Trick or treat! If they don’t treat we can pull the switch on all of ’em!” Tch, tch. You just can’t win. FREDERICK H. GREEN 645 United Street. Pravda Calls Pact US. Defeat MOSCOW #—Pravda today de- scribed the Geneva agreement to invite the Vietminh to take part in Indochinese talks there as a ‘new defeat for American policy.” The Communist party newspaper linked the agreement with Secre- tary of State Dulles’ long-planned departure from the conference and said it was a “flight” from Geneva. Geneva said Dulles’ departure, combined with the Indochinese agreement, showed the United States was “compelled, if not to make a complete retreat, at least to back up.” When the volcano, Krakatoa ex- Ploded in 1883, so much dust was thrown into the air that extraordin- ary color was observed in sunsets throughout the world for two years. 4 Foreign Market Outlets Studied WASHINGTON ~The govern- ment appeared today to be looking to foreign markets—rather than to domestic consumers—as an outlet for most of its 350-million-pound stock of surplus butter. Wilbur G. Carlson, Agriculture Department expert in charge of foreign market developments fo livestock and dairy products, said in an interview the government already has potential overseas markets for 150 million pounds. Secretary of Agriculture Benson told a news conference yesterday that negotiations are under way for sale of some 40 million pounds to Geat Britain. Carlson mentioned Egypt and India as other possible butter markets. Sand dunes can migrate at the rate of more than 100 feet a year. A . POTOMAC “j Treasury Dept. Has Openings For T-Men The United States Treasury De- partment has announced that its board of U. S. Civil Service exam- iners is seeking applicants for ca- reer jobs as Treasury Enforce- ment Agent from able - bodied men between the ages of 21 and 40 who have investigative and legal experience or experience as pharmacists. These ‘‘T-Men” will serve with the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Divi- sion of the Internal Revenue Ser- vice, the U. S. Secret Service, and the Bureau of Narcotics. They will investigate a variety of criminal cases involving violations of federal law and make other investigations relating to functions of the Trea- sury Department. Successful applicants will be hired at various points in the Caro- linas, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. Entrance salaries will be $3410, $4205, or $5060 a year, depending on experience and the actual duties to which assigned. Full informa- tion may be obtained from the lo- cal post office. Applications must be submitted not later than May 20. Treasury officials emphasize that this is an opportunity for a career in an exciting field of work, Some of the work is hazardous, but chances for promotion are good, and investigators are covered by an excellent retirement plan. Chapter 22 “O®” she said, “Jackson Yates, here.” “Get hold of yourself and hang on,” I told her, catching her by the elbows and clamping them hard to steady her. “How did it happen?” “I don’t know.” I walked to where Alchisez lay, stooped down and studied him. Then I went to Bensinger, who lay on his back. Right in Bensinger’s head, between his black eyebrows, was a round hole. There was some smudge around the wound—it hadn't been a contact shot, but pretty close in. The hole size was just short of .45 diameter—the same bore, say, as Ealing’s derringer had fired. Alchisez, face down as he was, would show me no wound unless I turned him over, and I wasn’t dumb enough to do that. I went back to J. D. “If you don’t know how it happened, just what do you know?” I asked. She said, “I had a note at the office—” “T saw it. Holmgren pointed it out to me.” “Well, I came out here. I knocked and rang, but nobody answered. The door wasn’t tightly closed, though it wasn’t all the way ajar. I pushed it open and came in. There they lay. Both of them.’ Back to Alchisez, I stooped and touched his with my fin- ger. It was cool, but not cold. I went to Bensinger. His hand fel! the same. “Not dead very long, either.” “Go back to the office. Remem= ber everything you've seen here. Every single thing. Be rar tell the truth, except for one lie.” “Lie?” she echoed. “Here’s the lie, and. commit it to memory. Lou and I came in , 4 I was wishing you were 1954 PULITZER PRIZE WINNERS REVEALED NEW YORK (#—The successful four-year fight by Newsday, Long Island daily newspaper, to break the power of a labor racketeer has meritorious public service. The 1954 Pulitzer awards, an- nounced yesterday, also John Patrick for his play ‘‘The Teahouse of the August Moon” and Brig. Gen. Charles A. Lindbergh for the autobiographical account of his 1927 transatlantic flight in his book “‘The Spirit of St. Louis.” There was no fiction award. The only repeat winner on the prize list was Herbert L. Block, cartoonist for the Washington Post and Times-Herald, who won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1942. This year’s award was for a cartoon on the death of Joseph Stalin. Newsday’s steady battle to ex- pose rackets in Long ‘Island har- ness race track and building con- struction unions led three weeks ago to the imprisonment of labor czar William C. DeKoning. DeKoning, who reached his peak of power as an official of Long Island’s AFL Building Council, was convicted of extortion and grand larceny and sent to Sing Sing Prison for from.1 to 1% years. = The drama award brought to Moon” its third honor as the top play of the season. It previously won the Antoinette Perry and New York Drama Critics Circle awards. Except for the drama and music prizes, duced during the 1953-54 season, the Pulitzer honors were for achievements during the calendar year 1953. Established By the will of the late publisher Joseph Pulitzer, the prizes are awarded annually by won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for “The Teahouse of the August awarded for work pro- the trustees of Columbia Univer- sity with the help of a special advisory board on Pulitzer Prizes. The news photography prize went to Mrs. Walter M. Schau, of San Anselmo, Calif., the first ‘woman and second amateur to win this award in the 12 years that it has been given, Mrs. Schau happened to have her camera with her a year ago yesterday when she witnessed a dramatic rescue of two men from the dangling cab of a truck that had smashed through the railing of a bridge. She snapped the Pic- ture and minutes later the cab dropped in flames to the ground below. The 29-year-old housewife, ad- vised that she had won the coveted prize, declared she was “no pho- tographer at all.” The Pulitzer award cites two Pictures—the rescue shot and a follow-up picture of the cab after it crashed to the ground. Mrs, Schau said only the first picture was hers and a spokesman for Columbia University later an- nounced: “Tt now appears this (the second picture) was taken by another pho- tographer. Mrs. Schau’s was the key picture of this rescue and, in the judgment of the advisory board, it was the outstanding pic- ture of 1953.” Both photographs were transmit- ted by Associated Press Wirephoto from Sacramento, Calif., May 4, 1953. Other journalism awards were: Local reporting (two awards) — The Vicksburg (Miss.) Sunday Post-Herald for its coverage of disastrous tornado last Dec. 5; and Alvin Scott McCoy of the Kansas City Star for a series that led to the resignation of Republican Na- Citrus Peel Used As Aid To Vaccines By FRANK CAREY AP Science Reporter PITTSBURGH (#—A_ substance derived from a material occurring jin citrus fruit peel may have pos- tain vaccines, a Philadelphia sci- entist reported today. Dr. Jack Moss of the National Drug Co. research laboratories said the substance is a phosphor- us—containing compound based on “hesperidin”—a material found in citrus fruit peel. He told the Society of American Bacteriologists (SAB) he had em- ployed it, in laboratory tests, in conjunction with vaccines against typhoid fever, whooping cough and one form of influenza, And he said there were indications that it’én- hanced the vaccines’ potency and of duration of immunizing power. He said there also are more ten: tative indications of a simiar pos- sible effect on materials designed to produce immunity. against lock jaw, diphtheria and one form of polio. Another doctor at the meeting told a reporter he had tried the same hesperidin compound in con- junction with the same influenza vaccine mentioned by Dr. Moss but had been unable to find any significant effect. together. I hopped out of my taxi just as you got out of your car. We came in at the door side by side. We both saw -each other, and neither of us saw the bodies sibilities for increasing the power and prolonging the effect of cer- Dr. Moss said trial of the mater- ial as a possible ‘‘adjuvant” or aid to a vaccine was based on this concept: The hesperidin compound has long been known to be capable of inhibiting the action of hyaluroni- dase, a chemical which normally aids the passage of materials through connective tissues of the body. Thus, he said, the hesperidin appears to slow up the absorption of a vaccine from the site of the injection and to set up a so-called “depot” mechanism that prolongs the vaccine’s effect. FOAMITE AIDS IN EMERGENCY LANDING HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah (®—When Capt. William A. Derie- mer, pilot of a C45, reported he | was’ circling the field with a locked brake on his landing gear, the base wire department was called out. The firemen sprayed Foamite for half a mile along a runway. As Deriemer landed, the locked wheel skidded in the slippery fire- extinguishing compound and the plane rolled to a halt without incident. Citizen Advertisements Help Save You Money By MANLY, WELLMAN. stuffy. Or, I asked myself, was it my imagination? - Then I stopped that and looked at Bensinger. There was some- thing funny about his position. first. They were dead when we came in. That way we can alibi each other.” She went out, as quietly obedi- ent as a little girl listening to teacher. I watched her. The fresh air must have helped her, for she got into the car all right and drove off. As she came to the cor- ner, she was already driving at her usual ball-hooting clip. n I went back to the phone and called the police. “Give me homi- cide,” I said. Because of that slug in his brain, of course. A bullet between the eyes shuts off the meter right then and there, without waiting a split second. Nine times out of ten you fall forward and lie still, unless it’s a .45 bullet with a big hopper of cordite back of it, like a serving from a police special or an old-time frontier model That's enough of a belt to throw you backward bodily, wherever it hits you. But then a .45, with There was the click-click of the connection. “Homicide,” rum- bled the voice of Winkle. “This is Jackson Yates, the in- vestigator,” I said. “Is your boss there—Raniel?” A moment of silence. Then a new voice. “This is Raniel. What do you want, Yates? Maybe you're ready to make some sort of statement. I’m about ready to pull you in, anyway.” “I'm returning I told him. “I’m your work for you. There’s a double murder at Dr. Stokes’s jer—you know Alchi- home, Al Bensing who he is, don’t you? sez, the doctor’s house boy. “You wait right there,’ Raniel. “If I come, I'll hung up. [ YENT been doubli have opened a window. I at a thermostat that automatical- ly regulated the furnace—it reg- istered about seventy-two or -three degrees, but it was still re I ood for evil,” loing some of * said you aren’t there when in” you “I wouldn’t be ere else for the world,” ees he back to fook at the two The room felt stuffy, though not warm. pet Sagi le-schooled Ww act at the scene of a murder, I'd looked the usual charge that goes with it, doesn’t stop inside the head. It goes right on through, cong up the back of the skull. I look at the wound again. It wasn’t quite a .45—even without any calipers, I figured a hair less, a .41, Such as comes out of a der- ringer. I bent down to look at his clothes. They weren't terribly mussed up. His loud jacket was fastened with one button and it looked almost neat on him—too neat, if he'd fallen and been bee: heaght ‘aide ecko m thro le and had buttoned the jacket again. I peered at the button and it shone as if it had been pol- ished. Whoever had it last was leaving none of nature’s little calling cards. I looked at my watch. Ten- twenty by now- was five minutes on the way. I went back to the pnone and called the office of Dr. Stokes. _ His receptionist hesitated about sStgaes en it I woukin’t sa what my iness was, but I bul. lied her into it. The doctor’s voice came on. “You'd better come out to your house,” I told him “There’s been a murder here. Two murders. Come on out.” (Te be continued) | tional Chairman C. Wesley Roberts under fire March 27, 1953. National reporting—Richard Wil- son of the Washington bureau ef the Cowles Newspapers for his ex- ‘clusive publication of the FBI re- Port to the White House in the Harry Dexter White case. International reporting—Jim G. ;Lucas of Scripps-Howard News- papers, for his “dispatches that |breathed of the human beings fighting” in Korea. Editorial writing — The Boston Herald for its editorial on national defense by Don Murray, All journalism awards are worth $1,000, except Newsday’s public service award, for which it re- ceived a gold medal. | Literature awards, in addition to {drama and biography, were: History—Bruce Catton, a 55-year- old fomer newspaperman, for his Civil War study “A Stillness at Appomattox.” Poetry—Theodore Roethke, for “The Waking.” The music award, which like those in literature is worth $500, went to Quincy Porter for his “Concerto for Two Pianos and Or- chestra.” A $1,500 traveling scholarship in art went to Henry E. Niese of Montclair, N. J. Political Announcements FIRST PRIMARY ELECTION 'Y 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 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” 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 RE-ELECT GERALD SAUNDERS Experienced and Able