The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 19, 1954, Page 4

wervrry fj tarnvan%) Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, May 19, 1954; The Key West Citizen ee Published d: ic Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner Only Daily ‘Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher ....ccin. 1921 - 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN veunnne 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 Lag pees of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise ited in this paper, and also the local news pub- lished here. : ‘ Member Associate Dailies of Florida nS 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 subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communicat IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. More TAXED WHILE IN RED. PRISON Homer H. Cox, former Army private, recently re- ceived ‘almost $6,000 in back pay from the United States Government. The pay covered time he spent confined in Russian prisons. : Cox was a military policeznan who was taken prison- er by the Russians in 1949. He was released in March of this year and, therefore spent almost five years in-various Communist prisons. The former GI says the Russians kid- ‘napped him and sentenced him to twenty-five years in prison on false charges. While he was glad to receive the $5,972 back pay due him, he has one kick. That i@he $700 he has been asked to pay as income tax to cont the years he spent in @ Soviet prison. The Internal Revenue Bureau’s position is that Cox earned the money as an Army private and that he is, therefore, obligated to pay income taxes on it. Cox says he doesn’t feel like he should pay tax on the income he earned in a foreign prison. While technically, the Internal Revenue Bureau may be correct, we suggest Congress pass a simple bill exempting Cox from payment. Obviously, any American who has spent almost five years in Russian prisons should be entitled to some con- sideration and Cox’s resentment over the tax levy is un- derstandable. Congress might as well give the former pri- vate a break, and all those unfortunate enough to be im- prisoned by the Russians while serving their country in a military uniform should be treated likewise. The cost would be negligible and the exemption would be a display of a proper spirit of appreciation to those citizens who are called upon to serve their country and experience the ill luck of imprisonment by Communist barbarians. Charity is of greater value to the giver than to the receiver, Those who seek to improve their minds will be the leaders of tomorrow. When the great men of this earth are revealed in the happy hereafter; there will be many surprises: Contrary to some of our friend’s opinions, the weight of the world is not balanced on their shoulders. When the government is spending over thirty billion dollars on defense it is difficult to have a depression, If American boys ever get bogged down in a fight with the Chinese in Indo-China that contest will make Korea seem like a picnic, T IG} (PIOIRIE ME SIAITIE} IRIATTIAMEPIAIS] TTIHIO!U|GIHMEGIR] | EIFS) [Vit EME CILIAID) 10 |W W/O [MIE IN} 'S{TIIPIE|NIO BM AIDIO[RIE! EISTSIEINIE|SBEOIEINISIE] divine 18. 19, Ragged moun’ crest 20, Flower 23. Ni jarrow roads 3 Ligne to ‘ cotton tabric aaa) Aaa 10. Leave out 11. Musical sound 16. Color quors 6. Ado 7. City in Chapter I LOOKED and looked at that gun he was pointing at me. It was derringer style, all right, a double-barreled all-steel job, black as a toy locomotive, the sort of gun that was being made up until recently. “So it wasn’t a two-gun ‘man who shot Alchisez and Bensinger, after all,” I said. “You gave them a sag apiece out’ df that double- “They were rats and black- mailers,” said Dr. Stokes, with- out any more hesitatidn’ or: ing than he’d shown in talking sbeat) the last days of Gwynne Al . He paused, and smiled again. “You're really a capable man, Yates. Everybody underestimated you. Even I did, until the last few minutes. It’s a pity you're through here in Smith City.” “Through in Smith City?” I re- peated. “Yes, through in Smith City. The best you can hope for is my help in getting out of town by the next and fastest train, and staying out.” That sounded like a silly deal to me. In his place, I'd never have even suggestéd it. I kept us both talking. “Your motive was the toughest to find,” I said. “But I found it— Alchisez was studying up on Gwynne Ealing, and before you put the police off with a cute explanation, I'd already figured on it. Richard Ealing had left you his gun collection—” “Worth thousands of dollars,” he said, “and long overdue to me from Dick.” “But it wasn’t all you hilled him for. Not even that museum piece of Oliver Cromwell’s, and the jeweled number the Orient, I think you had another motive. You didn’t want any- body else around who knew you'd murdered Gwynne Ealing, and SES, might tell his half of that al “Now you don’t sound so ca- pable,” he said. “Everybody knows that Gwynn Ealin i r¥ ‘heart stop) on am = “After it was starting to get well?” I said, glancing to wHere Mrs. Pettigrew lay, so limp;and| sli quiet, “That didn’t suit you,” I went on, “So you gave him medi- cine, something to work his heart overtime, so it would stop for lack of the blood it needed,” _ “You were about mo- tives a moment ago,” he said. Worm ates i nne ig. He was rich, but his money went to Dick, not to me.” “Because you helped him die, “| part of that money was to come to you,” I said. “And you got tired of waiting, just as Dick had been tired of waiting for his un- cle to die. You told him so, and he put a cap on it by reminding ou that you couldn’t afford to urry him.” , “It’s really too bad ing to fracture Mrs. Pettigrew’s skull before you leave this room,” he said. “Even now, with Proper treatment, she might re- cover from her concussion and tell the world what she seems to have told you’ about eaves- dropping on Dick and me. Alt right, since she’s going to: be found dead here—half a dozen things, any one of them, Would stop Gwynne Ealing’s rickety heart. I played safe by dosing him with three different items. He took them like a lamb, sure he was going to feel better. Get up from behind that desk.” “Tm to die standing?” ou’re go- FS “wat else do you know, or think you know? While yeu’re talking, take a sheet of paper out I have to|! ars] what you were doing, you shot him dead, probably with that heater you've got right now. Then you tweezed out your bullet, and id in theione he'd fired, to match his gun.” “I got it ‘out of his box of waste. It was a test bullet.” “To see if it was his wife who'd shot a slug into the jamb of the cellar door a month ago,” finished for him. “Don’t you think,” and he sounded as if he hated to bring up the subject, “that we've chatted long enough?” “Suppose I told you that I'd put most of this stuff in writing and given it to someone to hold in case I got murdered?” “Have I said you’d be mur- dered? It won't turn out like that’ if you-do as I tell you. I’m offer- ing you a chance to get away, at least to get a head start.” “One thing excites my idle curiosity.” I was hoping I didn’t show how desperately 1 played for time while I watched for a chance to hop in close and grab for that gun. “It was Diane’s gun that Ealing fired. Did he switch the guns upstairs in her room, or did you?” “Oh, Dick did. He was doing just what I told him. We'd patched up our little tiff about the money and I’d turned his attention to the question of. his wife’s possible enmity. I brought him proof—a snapshot of Diane and Jim Kuhl together. That took me a long time to get across to him, because up to then he wouldn’t believe she had turned against him—not even when a derringer bullet narrowly missed of the drawer and feed it into the roller of that typewritey” I pulled J. D’s typewrit to me and put a sheet of white pa- per in, “I know about thumb forceps,” I said. Seal take- bul. lets out of people, and sometimes they put bullets back in.” “As with Dick Ealing,” agreed, as silkily as an actor.in a movie. A good movie. A. good oe Hollywood should have had “ORO. “You got him to fire the gun he held,” I'said, “and before hé knew he him at -his cellar door, one night when she was supposed to be away from home.” “He fired the test bullet, to compare with the one he’d dug out of the jamb. I shot him,” and he twiddled his pistol in his gloved hand. “Then I switched bullets in the wound, went out and locked the door. I carried away the key, having set things up so I could come back, dis- cover the body, and leave the key where I wanted it—inside.” (To be continued) Meritorious Pay-Promotion Pian Backed By Postmasters Acting Postmaster Clyde Stickney of Key West announced today the National Association of Postmasters and the National Asso- ciation of Postal Superviscrs have rallied to the support of the Post Office Department’s meritorious promotion and pay plan for postal employees ‘in this city and else- where in a public statement issued in Washington, D. C. The 33,000-member. postmaster organization, and the 20,000-mem- ber supervisor group, have decided the administration supported “Rees Bill” (H. R. 8648) provides the “best opportunity for advance- ment and increased pay for postal employees, and is in the best in- terests of the public generally,” Mr. Stickney said. The administration plan, present- ed to Congress by Postmaster Gen- eral Arthur E. Summerfield and embodied in a bill by the Chairman P.y '$80 million would be “ri of the House ‘Post Office and Civil Service Committee, Rep. Edward H. Rees, Republican of Kansas, means “fair play” for postal em- ployees and American taxpayers alike, Mr. Stickeney explained. _ The Postmaster noted 7 major reasons why the associations de- cided to make their public plea to Congress. Believing both the publi¢ interest and postal em- ployees’ interest is best served by the Rees Bill, HR 8648, the post- master and supervisors stressed these reasons why this legislation should be enacted. Ll f equal’ work — and more pay’ for. increase is not the solution to our 1. It provides. equal pay felpeisiio said, “A blanket pay more responsible jobs. 2. It corrects injustices in wage paid postal employees. Ps 3.. It. provides opportunities’ for advancement and greater earnings. 4. It fairly- grades all po; jobs by duties and. responsibilit 5. It provides badly-nei re- wards . for promotion. 6. It increases starting generally to’ aid recruiting.” 7, It gives pay increas average of 5 cents hourly of 5 employees. The ‘administration plan “epsting in better service,” the Po: ister said. But, he noted, Co: ss is being pressured to pass le; tion for $800 yearly increases fopteach postal employee, costing * mil- lion yearly and leading to similar increases for other Federal work- ers at a total yearly cost of $1.2 billion to the tax-payer. While emphasizing fair’°postal pay, the associations feel there is much. misunderstanding pos- _ | tal employees get staan es Today’s average for a r postman is $4,067 yearly, and many long-service carriers get $4,370. The same salary averages apply to regular clerks. This is a $1.96 an hour average, and a $2.10 top. | q Pointing out this $1.96 per hour is 17 cents more than the national average pay for production work- problem. A program is needed to provide postal workers here and elsewhere with opportunities for advancement and increased pay and the pride: and satisfaction of winning recognition for extra skill.” In their statement, the Postmas- ter noted, the postmasters reveal- ed the average wage for ali post- masters now is $3,143 a year, and the average for first, second and third: class’ offices, not. including fourth class, is $4330. This is less by $30 than the average of the 25 year service letter carritr and clerk who earns $4,370 a year. Revealing he has received infor- mation indicating postal employee ‘letters to the Postmaster General show employees “have received an extraordinary amount of mislead- ing and confusing information” a- bout the Rees Plan, the Postmas- teresaid the statement refuted all of these. A typical misrepresentation com- pletely refuted was the misstate- ment that some employees would take pay cuts, where nore would, since 400,000 out of 500,000 postal employees would get pay hikes. Acting Postmaster Stickney said, “Since the issues involved are of such. vital inportance to all Am- ericans, suggest writing to our Congressman, the Hon. William C. Lantaff, House Office Building, Washington, D. C., letting him ers, including lead foremen, the know your views.” a > iP ~ This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb The Boy Scouts have a beautiful camp site up on West Summer- land Key. In previous years, the grounds have been maintained by the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District. County Commissioners are now urging that the State Road Board take over this main- tenance. Obviously the County Commis- sioners mean well but I think for the sake of the boys who use the camp, maintenance by an outside organization should -be limited strictly to improvements which could not be accomplished by the Boy Scouts themselves — using their own labor, ° Sounds harsh, huh? No, I’m not a penny-pincher and I like to see beautiful parks as well as the next) fellow. However, I don’t like to see our young boys robbed of the chance to go ‘native’ up on the Keys and work off a little of their ’wimy wigor, and witality.’ Before the County Commissioners brought up this subject, I had already men- tioned to Commissioner Gerald Saunders and to Scout Master Tony Martinez that it appeared to me that the Summerland Key camp was being fixed up a little too for- mal — a little too.much like a camp for dudes — for our boys to really enjoy’ themselves. We older folks mean well but we have a tendency to forget our younger days. Twelve to sixteen year old boys are filled with an ambition to accomplish things themselves. They haven’t develop- ed our aches and pains nor our am- bition to sit back in the shade and let some government agency pro- vide for our comfort. I’m one hun- dred per cent behind the State or County taking over projects at the Cap such as mosquito control or using machinery to do jobs that the boys could not do safely by themselves. But let’s leave the youngsters with a few obstacles re- ; quring scouting ability to over- come! Coddling A somewhat similar situation ex- ists here in Key West at school crossings. Many of your readers know that I’ve worked hard on Sa- {ety projects in Key West. It left me particularly ‘burned’ therefore, when a police officer held up traf- fic the other day at one of the only schools '# eveort a child across street against a red light. What kind of idiotic nonsense is this? Parents, teachers, and safety ‘educators struggle to impress’ on young children that they should al- ways wait for a green light before crossing the street and then a guy in uniform who should know bet- ter, sets a different example at the street corner. Not only is the nor- mal flow of traffic interrupted but the child loses its own initiative through such humoring. Safety is a habit forming pro- Position. Given the opportunity, most children prefer to be inde- pendent and do things for them- selves. A police officer at school crossings is there to impress upon both motorists and school children the necessity for obeying the law— not to humor or coddle anyone. Except under emergency _condi- tions, law enforcement officers who ignore mechanical safety devices such as traffie lights are merely making their work harder and con- the to mechanical signals, Safety Adversiting Have you been following the | humorous series of advertisements concerning Alex, The Cat With | Nine Lives? It is sponsored by The | Key West Citizen: in : cooperation | with The Key West. Safety Council. We suggest that . you. watch for these ads and call your children’s | attention to them also. ; Another Safety item in: The Citi- |zen being capably handled is by reporter Jim Cobb and City Ma- Mager Vic Lang: “Key West’s Traf- |fie Box Score,” featuréd most days on Page 1. This realistic eol- umn of facts, figures «and com- ment has created much favorable criticism. What are you doing to help our local Safety problem? T’d like to get about fifteen or twenty people who would meet once a month regularly and work out Safety measures. It would have nothing to do with polities. Will you be one of them? If so, call either Bill Gale, Mgr. of the Southern Bell T and T Co., or mySelf. SARNIA od RAIDERS ROB BOAT RANGOON, Burma (# — Rebel raiders disguised as’ Buddhist monks boarded a river boat Mon- day, killed four escort police and robbed 100 passengers, it was learned today. 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