The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 11, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, May 11, 1954 The Key West Citizen di Peace wy hye tec Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner of Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monree County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher ................. « 1921 - 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN mee 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 i Lusi entitled to use for luction of all news dispatches credited tort or not otherwise in this » and th —— paper, also the local news pub- Member Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 “~~ ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues and subj of local or general interest, but it wil eres ot See g it it will not publish IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1, More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathin; Pavillon, Consoli of Count " and City Governments. dation ity ity \. GOOD ADVICE, NOW ELECTION IS OVER, *LET US THEN BE UP AND DOING’ As The Citizen. has remarked repeatedly over the years, where there is a contest of any kind there must be a winner and a loser. Its advice to the winner is not to crow, and to the loser to accept the result without spite or en- mity. Everybody admires the “good loser.” : Key West has just had a hot election, but by no means the hottest it has ever had. In this, or any other local election, if the heat is continued after the voters have expressed their choices, the only sufferer will be Key West itself. The Citizen is confident that the losers are just as much concerned in the welfare of Key West as are the winners. So winners and losers should not assume an at- titude that may cause harm to the economic life of our city. In local elections, many years ago, some losers were so steeped in spite they asserted, regarding movements designed to help Key West, that if So-and-So had any- thing to do with it, “Count us out.” Their reasoning was -Mnsound, because, in. thinking they were hitting back at the winners, they were, instead, lambasting their own hometown. Brooding over the past regarding anything, in or out of politics, is the most futile thing in all the world. The past is dead, and, in trying to resurrect it, we increase only our nervous tension, which, if persisted in, undermines our health. On that point, we get good advice from.a thousand writers. Longfellow tells us, “Let us then: be up and do- ing,” and Dr. Samuel Smiles says, “Enjoy the present and anticipate the glories of the future.” The Citizen is keenly alive to the fact that nobody likes to lose. But it does not lose sight of another fact: a man knows that if he enters a contest of any kind, he may win or he may lose, and that he should gird himself in the event that he loses. Key West is now experiencing its greatest progress, so let us unify ourselves in our efforts to increase that pro- gress, If-we do anything that may retard it, we hurt our- Selves as well as the entire community. Our major objective is to attract more tourists to Key West, and to build and build and build to provide accommodations for them. But in all other civic matters also, we should be “up and doing,” for therein lie “the glories of the future.” Most people forgive poor conduct on the part of wealthy friends. The glad-greeter who always meets you with a com- Pliment is sucking for something. ISIATCTSIMGIATS MECTLO]D} AILIOIP RAF IT] ABeS DEBRIE|N] IBIUIGHETIALY] SITIRIAINIGIL JE} ICIAIRITIOIOINEES] LIRIUIP [AINIOMEM( 1 [NIE} ISIE TAR | OlT|A) HIE (MSH TIRIYEETIRIO|T) Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie 8. Crazy: slang 9. Piled 10. Large lake 11. Division of acity 16. Note of Guido’s scale 18. Enticed 29. Seized 21. Mind 22. Diminish 23. Silkworm 26. Beard of grain 27. Cry of acat . Afresh 29. Optical glass 31, Fresh-water fish s 32. Coal 20. Clustered 21. Possesses 2%. Bitter vetch 24. About 25. Cudgel 26. Constella- . Dry 2. Jot 3. Downright 4. Destroys 5. Masculine nickname 6. Indian mulberry work, 50. Deposit of metal 5%, Sun disk 53. Dessert 54. Presently 7. Roman 55. Action roads TFET UPEP EPR Pr Ze 2 ae PCR CC form 43, Tissue 44, Myself . 46, Domestic fowl 47. Born 48. Close 51. Perform WoRKis—e Behind The Scenes With The FBI —S J. Edgar Hoover Marks 30 Years On The Job (Editor’s Note: In 30 years as director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover has run a gantlet of criti- cism ranging from charges he has abused civil rights to downright name-calling. Here’s his story of how he has: survived the blasts and what he has tried to accom- plish in service under five presi- dents. By DON WHITEHEAD Copyright 1954 By The Associated Press WASHINGTON (#—During his 30 years as chief of the FRI, J. Edgar Hoover has been assailed. as a sin- ister menace to American. liber- ties, an enemy of criminal refor- mation, a. “‘college-trained flat- foot” and a political partisan. What has been the end result? J. Edgar’ Hoover and the FBI still command a place of prestige which is unusua? in the nation’s government. Over the years Hoover has run a gantlet of more criticism and emerged with fewer scars proba- bly than any other man in public service. 5 His is one of the strangest and most absorbing stories in all of official Washington where “‘bureau- crats” come and go—but where Hoover remains year after year in a position that seems almost im- pregnable. What does Hoover himself think of this criticism? “T’m used to it now,” he said in an interview. “I’m not as sensitive any more—except when I think the criticism is unjust and unfair. “As I see our responsibility, °it is to protect the American people and to see they are guaranteed their rights accorded by the stitution. We are just as interested in proving innocence as: establish- ing guilt.” 5 The instructions given to FBI agents in the matter of observing civil rights are stern. Agents are admonished not to step beyond the boundaries of justice—not to give} even an impression of bullying or to cast suspicion. on anyone through their acts and manner: of questioning. This is a matter of record. The argument hinges on how well these written instructions are observed. On this score, Morris L. Ernst, sometimes counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote in fhe December, 1950, Reader’s Digest: “A real ‘smear’ campaign has been carried on against Hoover’s work. Those who feared the bu- reau—as I once did—will be glad to know the facts. The FBI is unique in the history of national police. It has a magnificent record of respect for individual freedom. It invites documented complaints against its agents. It has zealously tried to prevent itself from violat- ing the democratic precesses. “Among liberals, I am by no means alone in this opinion. A while ago Roger Baldwin, former director of the American Civil Lib- erties Union, wrote to J. Edgar Hoover: ‘It seems to me that your bureau. has accomplished an ex- ceedingly difficult task with rare judicial sense.’ “For me, that sums up the record.” The Ernst article carried the title: “Why I no Longer Fear the FBI.” Scandal has never touched Hoov- er in all his years as FBI chief— and neither has it involved the FBI. A longstanding complaint is that the FBI is moving in the direction death—which came before he could ! of becoming a “‘secret police.” What is the truth in this? Hoover himself brushes off such a suggestion as an absurdity and points to his record of consistently opposing proposals—some originat- ing in Congress—that the FBI be- come a national police force. Twenty years ago it was pro- posed in Congress that each state send two men here for FBI train- ing—the candidates to be chosen by the governors. Then these agents would return to their states and act as “roving” FBI men with- in the state’s boundaries. Hoover regarded this bill as the opening wedge in a move for a national police force. He issed in- structions to his bureau saying: “I do not want to be a party to any such fantastic and ridiculous plan ... be particularly careful that by no stretch of the imagina- tion. anyone gleans any inferma- tion from us that will place us even indirectly as encouraging any such program.” Hoover had been in the Depart- ment of Justice only a short time, as a special assistant to Atty. Gen. A. Palmer Mitchell, when crities first assailed him. This was in con- nection with the so-called Palmer raids of the early 1920’s. In those raids, FBI agents act- ing on warrants issued by the Im- migration Bureau, swooped down on aliens in a mass roundup of al- leged suspects in the anarchist terrorism that followed World War I. More than 2,500 aliens were br- rested. Agents broke into houses in the middle of the night. Suspects were herded by the huncreds into auditoriums and mauled around. They were given no chance to call families or relatives, And the due process of law, it was generally admitted, was pushed about. An FBI man familiar with the raids (but not then with the bu- reau) said: “It was a pretty grue- some ' proposition.” Hoover prosecuted the deporta- tion cases against some of the sus- pects, and 249.were deported to Russia. For years, afterward, Hoover’s name was linked with the raids although he protested that he had nothing whatever to do with the raids themselves and the man- handling of the suspects. In 1940, Morris Katzeff, a Boston attorney Who had helped in the defense of the suspected anar- chists, wrote to Hoover saying: to do with the irregularities and harsh treatment of aliens suspect- ed of being Communists, . . . And I recalled a hearing .. at which you deplored as sincerely as we did the incident attending the cir- cumstances ai Katzeff said he wrote merely to set the record straight as he was one of the few persons still living who knew the facts of the case. ist:ation of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, there were reports that intended to throw Hoover out of attorney general. John Wattawa, a nephew of Walsh and a practicing attorney here, gave this report of the in- cident in an interview: “In making preliminary arrange- ments to take over the Department of Justice, Sen. Walsh did discuss the question of reappointing Hoov- er as director of the FBI. There of stories about the part he had piayed in the Palmer raids. “Shortly before the senator’s “TI recalled that you had nothing | At the start of the first admin- | office when he (Walsh) became | was opposition to Hoover because! take office—I had dinner with him. He told me he had decided to re- appoint Hoover as he had found that Hoover had not been personal- ly responsible for the abuses that occurred in the raids and had been acting under orders.” The records show that orders for the raids were signed by Frank Burke of the Bureau of Investiga- tion, while Hoover at the time was in the Department of Justice. * Later in 1940 there was a flare- up of criticism against the FBI over the arrest of persons in De- troit in connection with recruiting Norris sharply criticized the FBI for the methods used in these ar- Tests. An investigation by the Depart- ment of Justice absolved the FBI agents of wrongdoing. Hoover likes to recall he attended a gridiron club dinner in Washington at this time and President Roosevelt called out to him: “Edgar, what are they trying to do to you on }the Hill?” “I told the President ‘It’s hard to say.’ “He turned his thumbs down on the table and said ‘That’s for them.’ And the attacks began to subside after that.” Hoover has been criticized, -too, for asking authority to tap tele- Phone wires in cases involving es- pionage, subversion, sabotage and kidnaping—and then bring this evidence into court. The use of wiretap evidence in federal courts is now forbidden. posed the use of wire tapping by the FBI. Now he sayd: “The FBI was the first agency to ‘take a stand against wire tapping. But world conditions have changed since that time. I’m just as much opposed to wiretapping as ever— except in cases of espionage, sab- otage, subversion and kidnaping. “When the life of the nation is at stake, then the sanctity. of tele- phone communications should not be extended to criminals. And even then wiretapping should be most restricted.” Hoover said there is a general impression the FBI taps ‘thou- sands of wires when as a fact at no time have FBI wiretaps exceed- ed 200.” And a tap is made, he | said, only after the attorney gen- eral gives his written approval. In the field of civil liberty vio- lations, the FBI has probed the operations of the Ku Klux Klan, and cases involving peonage, slav- ery, lynchings, etc. and these in- vestigations sometimes have brought attacks. Hoover says: “I don’t care about popularity as long as we are right. | If a law is bad if a law is un- | popular, that is a matter for Con- |gress to correct—not the director of the FBI. “The civil rights statutes are on force them.” As for the “college trained flat- feet’? jibe—Hoover is proud of the fact that his agents must meet a |high standard of education. “Our men must meet a high moral, educational *and physical standard,” he said, “in order to carry out their duties properly. By insisting on this type of men, our spirit within the FBI has beer wonderful. “Many of our people could leav the FBI today and go into industr or other fields and make mar 'times what they make here. B |they prefer to stay with the FP Their salaries can’t compensate § for Spanish loyalists. Sen. George | Years ago Hoover stoutly op-| Chapter 26 WE DROVE downtown and to the station. I escorted her in and up to the laboratory. There sat Holmgren at his table, study- ing a loose-leaf notebook. “Maybe some of these gun houses in the big cities can. tell us who bought a pair of derrin- gers lately,” he said to me. “How do you do, Mrs. Ealing, what can I do’for you?” “She’s here to do something for us,” I said. “What about the death gun in this Ealing case? Not the latest shooting, I mean the one found in Ealing’s hand.” “With the prosecutor. Probal locked up safely in his omice “Think hard, Holmgren. When you and I first got acquainted, it was over that very gun, and you mentioned a backspit from’ its firing.” He nodded. “That’s right. There was a streak of powder fouling and a slight burn on Ealing’s gun hand, right between the thumb and forefinger, in line with the eruption of the powder backward from the defective breech, When I fired it for a test bullet, I got we same fouling and burn on my an “The point is,” I said, “the gus Ealing was holding belonged to his wife. And the gun_ that matched it, the one that Ealing kept for himself in his gun room, was left to replace Mrs. Ealing’s own gun.” “In my bureau drawer up- stairs,” she added. “And I can’t think why the switch was made, and I doubt if maker can make Me understand why.” : “Who knew where you kept that gun, Diane?” I asked. “Dick did,” she replied. “No- body else. & 5 “Wait.” I said quickly. “Mrs. Pettigrew is pon housekeeper. Wouldn’t she know?” “Oh, yes, Mrs. Pettigrew might know. But she’d hardly dare med- dle with it. She left my personal things strictly alone.” “Now, what other are there?” I asked. ‘ 2 Diane Ealing turned as red as an Arizona sunset and shook her possibilities uhl?” Catholic Activity Committee ~ He never even oy. the house.” : a . Stokes?” $ ‘as Dick’s confidential friend, not mine. He couldn't have had jaccess to the gun.” “Tha. you for that. Diane,” said a “Vice from the door, and in w Dr. Stokes. “Sooner or later, Pa get off the list of sus- pects, amd somebody who Teally belongs on it will take my. place. He nodded at me, “Jim’ Kuhl made a“fool out of you and me both. Well, it didn’t last hours, and I’m back at being gen- erous: I’lksettle for written apol- ogies all“around, from: you and HOGS -here and the homicide det .“You'ge going to sue Jim,” said Diane Baling. She didn’t ask it, she sai 7 “I think I will, yes,” he said ‘inning. “After he’s through be- ing triedjfor obstructing justice and dis ed from legal practice and so on. Don’t glower at me, Diane.. You can hardly blame me, can you?”? She turned away from him and | di Holmgren spoke up mildly from where it, “What do you want | Rai here, or, besides a written apology? “To ‘Heap ewhat’s being found out about my servant's murder- er.” oh, “Nothing..as_ yet,” said Holm- gren, jr. Stokes sneered. His glasses @ around to confront me; “Yatés, ‘I haven’t any particu- Jar caused like you, but you and J. D. haweidbeen busy, at least, in this casey#low would you like to work onjf.for me?” “T’'m alféady on the case.” “Ive interest in it and I think ifPChire you and work through you I can square things friend and my serv- “Mak ie deal. with J. D. Thatcher,*'T told him. “Ring her up now: id Holmgren shoved the desk phone toward him. Dr. Stal sat on the edge of the desk.spigked up the phone and called office number. He with J. D. Then sy “Yates,” the doctor said to me, you've just begun working for me. I've hired J. D. and you by Fane Recent ences to her, and she'll report to me, in person— tonight at dinner.” He took off his spectacles, pol- ished them delicately, put ee on again, and sauntered out. I DROVE Diane home. Pettigrew met us. “Where's your wife?” I asked him. “I’m not saying.” “What, I yelled. “What do you mean, you're not saying?” “Police were here too, asking all about her. She was out at the time, and after they left, she = pened to call on the phone. I her to lay low.” . “I have to see her,” I told him. “If you don’t dig her up for me, you may land in jail yourself. Have you ever been in jail, Pet- er yet in all my life,” he aa A ae if it’s more than I cor sti going Anyway a husband can’t be are rested for re = five evi- lence against his wife.’ I went into the hall and called iniel. “What do you know, Yates?” pi-Tat checking on Al Beasingec “T’m checking on s last hour on earth.” “Who isn’t? he snickered. “All we can find out is where he wasn't. Nobody, seems to have seen him after he left his place at seven-thirty this morning.” “Tll see what I can learn about that, Raniel.” “Here's somnetning you able to kick around,” he soon as the newspapers got the dope from us on Alchisez being killed like that, they had some- thing to say about him. Last night he seems to have come down on a visit to them.” “To which newspaper?” “Every daily in town. Three. He was looking through their back files for something years ai ~—the articles on the death of Eal- i e's uncle, Gwynne Ealing, who ie! inj 1 ba SE (Te be continued) Knights ©£ColumbugTo Mark Anniversary Here tial ays + This Rock By Bill Gibb It isn’t often that we have to advertise for someone to come pick up ‘a box of money. However, that seems to be the case today. Billy Freeman, manager of Sto- wers, has a container of money belonging to the Monroe County Cerebral Palsy and Cripples As- sociation, Inc. He’d like for the proper official of that organiza- tion to come by and pick it up before some light-fingered vaga- bond appropriates the money for purposes other than charity. How about it? Is the treasurer of the Cerebral Palsy Association among this column’s readers? Speaking of Charity Variety Children’s Hospital is dedicated to all the sericusly sick children in Florida — regardless of race, faith, color, or financial status. Thousands of youngsters are treated each year for such illnesses as rheumatic heart dis- ease, rheumatic fever, bronchitis, asthma, polio, fractures. club feet, etc. Donations from the general public assure the success of this wonderful program. Are you doing your share to help this Florida hospital? Don’t let its Miami address confuse you into thinking that Variety caters to the sick children of that municipality alone. Those of you who have. wor- riedly followed the progress of po- lio. epidemics here in Key West will remember that the majority of victims have always been rush- ed up to Variety Children’s Hos- pital and that they received the best of care without regard to the financial status of their parents. If you have a few dollars to spare for one of the most worthy causes in Florida, how about sit- ting down now and writing a check to the Variety Children’s Hospital? You can send it in care of Roscoe Brunstetter, chairman contribution committee, 6125 South- west 31st Street, Miami 44, Fla. The bread you cast may come the books—and as long as they are | back as cake, |there, this bureau is going to eu- | ‘Sen. Thomas Walsh had said he} Campaign Promises It is hard to get away from the subject of politics after having list- ened to so many speeches during the past four or five weeks. This column would like, to praise one victorious candidate in particular for being the first to fulfill a cam- paign promise. I’m speaking about Gerald Saunders. Early in the race, Saunders re- juested all the politicians who or the time and sacrifices they we given.” The average FBI agent makes out $7,000 a year. The top sal- ‘y in the FBI is drawn by Hoover .nd is fixed by Congress at $20,000. A were postifig Ylection placards to join him in; aspromise to the peo- ‘ple that thesé‘signs would be re- moved as as possible after the election, For the past week, he has be is sy keeping this promise. eng Political;advertising is fine but | when it segved its purpose, for gosh sakege, why not get rid of it! There are glection placards decor- ating Key West’s landscape that date back as far as two — even four — years ago. I’ve just about made up my mind to vote against any candidate in the future who doesn’t show enough respect for the people to tear down these ugly re- minders of past elections. “Of course, if a fellow wanted to invoke ‘the*law, he might be suc- cessful ‘dX preventing such signs ever beiig posted. However, that is sort of like the mice seeking to’ bell *the cat: Who is going to tell sonté future candidate for she- riff thatthe should issue a warrant for his‘ own arrest? And what pri- vate citizen would willingly as- sume thé responsibility of inform- ing potential law-makers of the City ottsCounty that they should be jailet*or fined for defacement of public property? No +f think the answer to the problefi! lies in the cooperative- The Chairman of the Catholic Activity Committee, upon his ap- | pointment, selects from the mem- bership a half dozen members to assist him in carrying out the du- ties of his committee. Under. this committee are five sub-committees known as the Char- ity Committee, Devotior Com- mittee, Education Committee, Family Committee, and Youth Committee. Under the Charity Committee there are such things as extending donations to missions and the poor; participating in Ca- tholic Charity drives; planning out+ ings and parties for needy chil- dren, families, aged, sick and han- dicapped. The Devotion Committee is res- Ponsible for such activities as an- nual retreats; corporate come munions; Nocturnal Adorations De- votions and other religious demon- strations. . The Educational Committee car- ry out such projects as to sponsor lecture series; religious talks and exhibits; promote Catholic books for libraries; distribute Catholic Pamphlets; support Catholic Art movies and plays; oppose anti-re- ligious legislation and promote use use of religious Christmas Cards. The family committee is respon- sible for family participation in Catholic Council fraternal affairs, Plan the family communions and breakfast, family devotions and family devotions and family ro- sary. The Youth Committee looks after the planning of camping and out- ings for youths, Red Cross train- ing and first aid and water safety, Promote sports attendance, pro- mote interest in Columbian Squires and to provide the youth with the opportunity of participating in sports. ness @¥ fhe political candidates in removing their own signs the way Gerald Saunders is doing. Earth’s Bust-Up Is Long Way Off BERKELEY, Calif: #—The’ sun is gomg to blow tp’'ahd destroy our entire solar system—but don’t fret about it. = Dr.,,Walter Beade «f the Mt. Wilsop,and Palomar Chservatories who: made the prediction in a lec- ture! at‘the University of California says it won’t happen for a couple of lion years-or so. ty explained that as Old Sol gets Slder it gradually changes it hydrogen into helium. When 12 per cent #-the hydrogen thus is trans- formed; he added, things will get 807 sthe sun will explode and wipe out all planets:in its sys. Dee | ~ Wafits Dog, Not Hubby DALLAS, 2—A woman reported ton police that her husband had disappeared with her Chihuahua puppy. “J don’t care if my husband ever comes back,” she explained. “J just want to find my dog.” In order for the Catholic Activi- ty Committee to do its job well, besides the chairman and five group chairman, it requires three to five additional members to help assist each of the group chairmen. It requires approximately twenty members to fulfill the require- ments of this committee. Daniel Yike is the current chair- man of the Catholic Acitivity Com- mittee in the Father Dougherty Council. IChange In Voting Age Anticipated WASHINGTON (#—Sen. Hum- Phrey (D-Minn) says he is “opti- mistic” that the Senate will ap- Prove a proposed constitutional amendment to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 when the meas- ure comes up this week. The legislation has long had an okay from the Senate Judiciary Committee, but there has been no action in the House. Humphrey said yesterday Sen. Knowland of California, the GOP Senate leader, Citizen Advertisements Help Save You Money ro