The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 7, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE. KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen Published Greene and Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe.County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher cnn. 1921 - 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN einninnninumunmnnnnunn Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 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 credited in this paper, and also the local news pub- lished here. Member Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 ———— ee Eee ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not p anonymous communications. ——— eee IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach snd | Bath Pavilion. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Auditorium. 1 2. 3. 4 5. OUR AMERICAN HERITAGE “On May 25 Monroe County voters will have selected the men they believe to be best qualified to fill positions in our government. We will again have exercised our right as free-born Americans — a right that millions of people behind the Iron Curtain would gladly give up their birth- right to possess, In the hands of these elected representatives rests the future growth and progress of Monroe County. And who among us does not believe that our county has a bright future? : The Citizen believes that our responsiblility as Am- ericans does not end when we leave the voting booth. We will have placed a great responsibility on the shoulders of those we have elected. To serve us best, these men need the support and confidence of all of us. The Citizen believes that all of us should stand four- square behind the choice of the people. We believe that all Monroe County residents will do just that. Regardless of how we may have voted, or what our views were on the issues raised in the recent campaign, let us make the jobs of our elected representatives easier by giving them the support they will need. NEW AIRCRAFT GYROSCOPE The most sensitive implement ever devised for use in aircraft is now being produced in Minneapolis. Named the hermetic integrating gyroscope, it is said to be cap- able of detecting motion which is three thousand times slower than the hour hand on a watch. The new gyroscope is going into automatic flight con- trol systems for supersonic aircraft and is also designed for use on ocean-going vessels and heavy tanks. Engin- eers of the Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company say the gyroscope could measure the width of a city block on the moon—if there was a city block on the moon to be measured, Other examples which show the fantastic effective- ness of the new instrument are most interesting. It is Friday, May 7, 1954 daily (except Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner of said that a youngster on a sled could slide one thousand miles down a one-foot high grade if he could succeed in reducing friction as much as it has been reduced in the new instrument. Work on this new device has gone on for five years, based originally on a design laid out at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Dr. C. S. Draper. Despite the fact that the instrument is highly sensitive, it is also rugged and has been hammered with an ordinary ham- mer and still remained effective. The new gyroscope is thought to give U. S. armed forces an advantage, or lead, over those of other coun- tries just as U. 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On the wal 47 dé ee a aa Laniee Woes ____* Corporation Profits Are About Even With First Quarter 1953 By WAYNE OLIVER NEW YORK (#—Profits of 616 leading American corporations for the first quarter of this year ran about even with a year ago, an Associated Press Compilation showed today. Their aggregate net income was $1,884,221,000 compared with $1,878,826,000 in the first three months of 1953—actually a gain of a little less than three tenths of 1 per cent. Elimination of the excess profits tax last Dec. 31 played a major Part in sustaining earnings and enabled some companies to show substantial gains. The giant General Motors Corp., with a tax bill 144 million dollars lower than a year ago, gained nearly 38 million dollars in profits. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. had 48 million dollars less in taxes and 17 million more in earnings. But industries and companies did not share alike. Fifty-seven railroads showed a 50 per cent de- cline in profits, 19 textile’ com- panies were down 84 per cent, 37 steel companies were off nearly 22 per cent, and 19 nonferrous metals companies. down 16 per cent. Eight airlines reporting had an aggregate loss of more than three million dollars compared with 4% million profits a year ago. On the other hand, seven aircraft manufacturers were 48 per cent ahead of a year ago due in large part to heavy output of military planes. Thirty-one ‘oil companies, re- ceiving tax benefits under depltion allowances, turned in profits near- ly 17 per cent higher than in the first three months of 1953. Fifteen pulp and paper companies gained 20 per cent and 67 electric and gas THE VETERANS CORNER Here are authoritative answers from the Veterans Administration to four questions of interest. to former servicemen and their fam- ilies: Q. I’m a World War Il veteran who went back on active duty after Korea. When I did so, I put my National Service Life | Insurance premiums under waiver. I’ve just been separated, and I understand that the waiver will last for 120 days after my separation. How- ever, I plan to go back into ser- vice again before the 120 days are up. Will I have to apply for an- other waiver of premiums? A: No; there will be no need for you to apply for another waiver. So long as you re-enter service within the 120-day- period, VA will continue to waive your premiums while you’re on active duty — just as though you never had left the service. Q. I am the widow of a World War I veteran, and I have applied for a VA pension. At the present time, I am in a nursing home. My nephew is paying the expenses. In figuring my annual income, for pension purposes, must I include the cost of keeping me at the nursing home? A. Money paid to the nursing home, to cover cost of maintain- ing you there, is_not considered as income, for purposes of a VA pension. Q. I want to go to school under the Korean GI Bill. Since I was discharged before August 20, 1952, utilities companies were up 7 per cent. ‘A gain of 9 per cent was show by 24 food and nonalcoholic bev- erage companies, and eight firms making liquor or beer were down 2 per cent. Besides General Motors and Du Pont, there were some other big gainers. General Electric Co. made 14 million dollars more than a year ago. The Bell Telephone sys- tem, consisting of American Tele- Phone & Telegraph Co. and its 21 principal telephone subsidiaries, was up 13 million but on increased investment so that its rate of profit remained about the same. Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) was 20 million dollars ahead of last year, Standard of California up 10 million, Westinghouse Elec- tric Corp. up 9% million and the Texas Co. 8 million. Those eight corporations alone| had an aggregate gain of 129% million dollars in profits over a year ago. General Motors ran counter to the trend in the automotive field among companies making finan- cial reports. The giant Ford Motor Co., not having publicly owned stock outstanding, is not required to file reports, so its results are not known. However, Chrysler Corp. skidded from $24,428,740 in the first quarter of 1953 to $7,681,053 in the latest quarter, and Nash, Studebaker and Packard showed sharp de- clines. The latest compilation, bolstered ! by reports from most of the big moneymakers of industry, com- pared more favorably with last year than an earlier AP tabulation two weeks ago. It covered the first 150 corporations to report, and they showed a decline of nearly 12 per cent in profits from 1953. it be possible for me to file my application now, and begin class this coming fall? A. No. Under the present law, you actually must begin your stu- dies before the August 20 cut-off date. The filing of an application alone is not enough. Q. I'd like to train in a foreign college under the Korean GI Bill. Will VA pay my way abroad and| back? A. No. You will have to pay for your own travel. All you will re- ceive from VA will be a single monthly allowance to cover each month of training. (Veterans living in Key West who wish further information about their benefits should contact the VA office at Room 104, Federal Bldg.) Puppy Dispute LOS ANGELES ®—Concert vio- linist Elliott Fisher’s wife has countersued him for divorce de- claring he has no community inter- est in Ricky, a 5-month-old Chi- huahua puppy. Mrs.. Lisette Fisher, 22, alleged Ricky was a gift to her from her husband befove their estrange- ment. - Fisher’s divorce suit filed earli- er listed the dog as community Property along with $1500 worth of jewelry and $600 worth of house- hold effects, When infant marriage was com- No Matter How You Slice It, It’s Bacteria By FRANK CAREY AP Science Reporter PITTSBURGH (#—Sliced bac- teria, cut something like baloney, offer a new aid in the study of normal and cancerous growth, a Princeton University scientist has announced. Dr. George B. Chapman, de- scribing the first successful prep- aration of germ slices thin and stable enough to allow real payoff study with an electron microscope, said the technique already has pro- vided new information about the process of cell division, one of the basic mechanisms of all growth. He told the Society of American Bacteriologists that bacteria only 1-25,000th of an inch around and only three times that long to start with, had been sliced lengthwise as thin as 1-250,000th of an inch. The bacteria, imbedded in plas- tic, were attached to a rotating wheel which was brought to bear against a stationary knife. That’s the reverse of most butchers’ meat slicers, and while, in effect, the bacteria are sliced like baloney, the slicing is done lengthwise in- stead of crosswise. | Chapman said that studies of | these slices with the electron | microscope had disclosed suca uew information as this: 1. When a single-celled bacterium undergoes a kind of pinching-in process which eventually results in there being two germs instead of | one, only a single layer of material is involved in the “partitioning” process. Formerly it was believed | there were two such layers. 2. Separate particles of cellular substances are involved in the lay- Chapter 24 I HEADED for Bensinger's hotel, to find J. I had got there first. I faced J. D. “Find anything?” “Lots of things.” She Pointed to drawers she’d opened and papers she'd strewn around. “But noth- ing about why he should have been killed. The clerk did tell me that Al Bensinger got a phone call last night. It was a voice with an accent—Alchisez, who seemed to want to see Bensinger.” “See him last night?” _ “Apparently not, because Ben- singer went to bed. He left early this morning—about seven-thirty. “Good. Now let’s push along, you and 1. The boys in blue are going to be up here and they'll feel hurt if we get in their way.” Her car was at the curb and we whizzed back to the office. We found Holmgren just putting on his hat. “Hi-ho, hi-ho,” he sang as we came in, “it’s back to work I go.” “To the department, you mean?” T asked. “Yes, they just phoned me. My suspension’s been revoked. Keep a touch with me, you lucky peo- le” He left, and J. D. and I sat down. Her eyes were like two dips out of the sea, noon and eve- ning. “I think,” said she, “that we have more things to work on and more things to figure out.” D. was making notes again. in this new shooting. The only derringer we know of is in the Possession of Diane Ealing. If she used it, or let it be used—” “Somehow I figure her out of it,” I said. “She's no killer, unless she learned awfully fast since I was out there this morning. She pulled a gun on me and wasted so much time talking herself into using it, I took it away from her.” “You didn’t tell me about that,” said J. D., her eyes growing wide. “T haven’t had time, but Ill tell you now.” And I did. Also of | how Kuhl was definitely in the “We must find the gun or guns | as! clear. More notes by J.,D., and discussion of them. It was noon when the phone rang. J. D. an- swered it, then held it out to me. “Yates?” said Raniel’s worst- tempered voice. “That's right.” “Will you come over here to my office?” “Sorry, Raniel. I'm just going out to lunch.” “I'll buy you your lunch,” he offered, and I gave in a littie. “Buy it for both my boss and me and maybe we'll come.” “Okay.” He named a restaurant and I hung up. “Free chow,” I said to J. D. “Our genial host is Lieutenant Raniel, bright star of the homi- cide detail. He has a great, big, green olive branch in his hand.” RANIEL was waiting and a big fat blonde waitress took our orders. “Now,” said Raniel, look- ing as if his corns hurt him and { was to blame, “I vote we all stop fighting and start working together. Let’s forget all our squabbles.” “I deduce,” and J. D. turned to me, “that you’ve been cleared in every aspect of the case.” “That's right,” nodded Raniel, as if admitting it gave him ulcers, “So now what?’ I said. “You’ve made several mis- takes,” he said, “but I think youre up on some things I’m not. et’s Pook our findings and go after this murderer together.” “Just what are the findings?” I ked. “You tell me.” “No,” said J. D. “This is your proposition, Lieutenant, and your move. For one thing, what does the medical examiner say, and what is the laboratory doing?” He made another sad grimace. He hated to give out a single word, but he did. “Bensinger and Alchisez were killed at about the same time. Very shortly before you phoned me, Yates. Couldn’t have been earlier than nine o'clock, and probably later. By that time, as Dr. Stokes’s office can prove, the doctor was in his con- Terry Offers Some Tips On First Base Know-How STRETCH—Here’s what former Giant manager and first baseman Bill Terry means by stretching. This picture was taken in 1933 when Terry, now a member of Baseball's Hall of Fame, batted. 322. A classy fielder, he batted .310 or better his TERRY last 10 years. Playing first base is not extre- mely complicated, but it does have more complex duties than some managers appear to reeognize these days the way they stick just anyone at that position. ing down of this “‘cross-wall” par- tition. And the scientist declared such | findings represent contributions to- | wards better understanding of the | —a process he said holds the an- | swers to such questions as ‘What | makes a cell divide when it does divide and what makes some cells divide faster than others, as in cancer?” And with the new technique, he added, ‘“‘we hope, to learn more about the bacterial nucleus (cen- tral core) so that ultimately there might be better means of attack- ing bacteria.” ' ee Fishy Story SPRINGFIELD, Colo. (?—Game Warden Preston Steele, coming upon a family fishing at Two Buttes Reservoir, asked a girl in the party for her fishing license. She: said she was only 16 and was just holding the pole while her mother took care of her baby brother. She promised to buy a license the next day, so Steele took no action. None, that is until he learned (1) the girl is 20; (2) is married and (3) the ‘baby brother” is really Ker son. She was fined $30 for fishing without a license. Smart And Brilliant Appear In Court NEW YORK (#—Walter Smart and Morton Brilliant were ar- raigned in Night Court Wed. night. But Magistrate Louis Kaplan had all the answers. Brilliant, 39, an accountant hop- ing to take a bar exanfination soon, was held in $500 bond for Traffic Court on the basis of 21 pending traffic summonses. I understand I’ll have to begin be- fore August 20 of this year. Would ss | mon in India dolls often were giv- en among the presents to the bride. Smart, 606, drew six months on a disorderly conduct charge. In reviewing the several duties | and maneuvers one expects a good |first baseman to perform, and in recalling my own career at first base with the New York Giants, basic nature of the growth process | Hees arya items einnane cts selt | preservation. The initial lesson <o master is to learn how to keep from being spiked by the runner. There is a knack of placing one’s foot by the bag instead of on top of it. Along the line of making con- tact with the base, there is ano- other thing to remember that is quite important. A good first base- | man will never shift from one foot *{to the other in changing sides to take a throw. By the same token, he will never flick his foot back at the bag the moment he catches |the ball. That shifting of feet always puts me in mind of a ham actor. There is, of course.a right and | wrong way to hold a man on base. |So many first basemen these days | play in foul territory while trying | to keep a runner close. They should never do that. Being in fair terri- tory gives the first baseman a jump in getting out toward second for a ground bail. It enables him to give more protection to the sec- ond baseman . who has inherited |some of his territory anyway. Still talking basic things, those who aspire to be first basemen, or, on making the double play to sec- ond, getting back to the bag in time to complete the play. Another, and rarer, angle on the same play is where the first base- man tags the batter first then throws to second. This erases the fore at second. Get Fast Man First The first baseman must know his runners in this example. If the bat- ter is very fast and the man on first much slower, it ‘is wise, if possible, to get the fast man. Then 4 better first basemen, should work | get the slow man, provided there is not a runner in scoring position, else you may never complete the double play. Other fundamental details of playing first include certain: plays such as cut offs on extra base ; hits. On the latter, the first base- | man never leaves his bag until the batter is well around first and too far to come back. One of the man- euvers of this phase includes back- ing up home plate and being able to make a play there if necessary. These days many men are tried at first base — men who are not | fitted for the position. As for my- self, I used to get a kick from my very young days of stretching for throws, picking up the low ones and trying to get a runner picked off. It always seemed to be more natural for me than any other posi- tion, although I started out as a pitcher in professional ball. I see all sorts of players, men who have come up as catchers, outfielders .and infielders at other spots, put on first base. It seems | the popular trend is that if a man ican’t play any place else, or is beaten out of his job they put him | at first. | I have never considered it that | simple. A good first baseman can | save a team a lot of base hits by | going after the close ones. He | should stretch on every play, au- tomatically. A good first baseman lean save a team a lot of errors by fielding the bad ones. | “I have said nothing about field- ing balls in the dirt. One assumes a player can do that or he would not be there in the first place. He doesn’t necessarily have to possess a good arm but should be able to make the throw to any base from any position. In many instances this will be from a stoop- ing or bent over position. The United States has 45 million passenger cars and 9,147,000 trucks in use today comvared to 15% mil- lion and 2,125,000 respectively in 1924. ' Citizen Want Ads Pay Off! sulting room. He didn't until fe got your cal eae “Which again el i Suspicion,” a gina aa “How about the murder gun?” ee Snook his —— “Not uns. That was Holmgren’s first finding when he came back to work. Two guns, both .41 caliber, with lightly charged shells. Prob- ably another pair of derringers Ae a = Ealing house. low. w roves ate! do you people “That Alchisez called Bensinger last night and apparently asked him out for a conference this morning,” said J. D. “Likewise, that Bensinger left his lodgings around seven-thirty a.m. If he wasn't at Stokes’s before the doe- tor left for his office, that gives us an hour to wonder about him.” “We can also wonder about what the killer took from his in- side pocket,” I added. “Something was taken out, and his coat but- toned up.” “T figured that out myself,” said ae aoe — ae of his voice shows ie hadn’t ed thing of the kind. os me Personally,” Raniel said, “T think it begins to eliminate down to the Pettigrews. One or the “Mrs. Ealing got home about the time they did,” I told him. “Maybe she's in it, too,” said faen ; . “I can alibi her myself,” I said. “T was with her around nine o'clock and quite a little while past, this morning.” “Where were the Pettigrews?” “The man was working in the yard. Mrs. Pettigrew “was out shopping, She didn’t come in while I was there.” “Get it?” he said. “She could have been at Doc Stokes’s place, killing those two with guns stolen from Ealing’s collection.” “Mrs. Pettigrew as Two-Gun ae a 2 ~s . I’m going to bring her ia,” de- cided Raniel. “and ask her some tude questions.” (To be continued) Little Richard Sees Big Fire Engine LOS ANGELES Little Rich- ard Roberts, 2, got his feet caught in the hollow of concrete blocks under a! redwood picket fence be- hind his home Wed. When the firemen arrived and used hammer and chisel to free him, he didn’t cry—he just kept his eyes glued to the fire apparatus. His mother, Mrs. David Roberts, said: “What some kids won't do to see a fire engine!” An eighty per cent turn-out at last Tuesday’s election proved that the people of Monroe County are not unmindful of their political rights. Now — if I could just get that many people to consider the safe- ty of themselves and others by using good tires on their vehicles — I'd be a happy man. The easiest thing to talk about today would be politics but if you’re like I am, you’re sick of the word. So let’s turn to the sub- | ject of how we make a living. . . For some folks, work is drud- gery. For others, it is a ples- ¢ — something to Ie“ 7 Why the difference? I think the answer can be sound .. tude toward the job and its eltect on others. For instance, my job is repair- ‘ing tires, operating a recap shop, even handling new stock, is hot, heavy labor. True, a lot of tech- nical knowledge is required and much of the heaviest work can be done by hired labor. To be really successful in the tire business and please your customers with good workmanship, however, a fellow still finds himself doing plenty of hard physical labor. The thing that keeps me from | being just a white-collar salesman of automobile and truck tires and thus avoiding the sweat and dirt mentioned above is a little philo- sophy I’ve picked up. You know, we all can’t be rich and we all can’t escape the unpleasantness of hard work, But if we do the best we can on a job and sincerely try to help other people, we can do even the dirtiest job and come a- way with a clean, happy feeling of success. “Dick’s is headquarters for U, S. Royals. We also have a Lodi re- capping shop — the only one in town. Handling this kind of top- notch products, business isn’t too hard to find. Experienced vehicle owners already know that at Dick’s they get the best in quality and workmanship. It is to give them a little extra something that we write these columns and so often stress Safety. Dick has a standing offer of a free Safety inspection of your tires. way not take advantage of it? Stop at 929 Truman Ave. and let experts look ovez your tires for de- fects that escape inexperience eves but could easily cost a life on the highway. The phone no. 2-2842, (adv