The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 23, 1954, Page 4

Page4 © THE KEY WEST CITIZEN — Wednesday, June 23, 1954 The Key West Citizen SSS Pr ag PPT a Per a een ee Published par Ei mee genie) from The Citizen Building, corner of Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher .. sesomnunsseeune W921 = 1954 NORMAN D, ARTMAN Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-566) and 2.5662 Momber of The Associated Press—The As: Press entitled to use for tal bewe aint to not otherwise ited in this paper, and ed here. is exclusi dispatches credited rg 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 ee OO Ue The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public is: and subjects of local or general intere it will not ‘publish anonymous communications. Say wil ace eat ee eeeeeeeeeSSSSSSSSSFSFSsMshseseses IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments, Beach and aaaee Pavilion. Comolldation of Couty’ and Ci Community Auditorium. py cereanents: ae SY COVENTRY GIVES UP ON CIVIL DEFENSE The City Council of the city of Coventry, England, which took a terrific fire bombardment from the Luft- waffe in World War II, recently decided to give up ef- forts to build up a civil defense system. The reason the Council surrendered was the news about the tremendous destructiveness of hydrogen bombs. The majority view of the Council was that it was a waste of time and money to attempt to prepare against hydrogen bomb raids. The hydrogen bomb’s power is so devasating, the Council believed, that there was little sense in taking feeble and inadequate measures which could not possibly cope with it. Although Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, British Home Sec- retary, wrote the Council a letter of rebuke saying he en- tirely disagreed with them, we sympathize somewhat with the attitude of the Coventry City Council. Certainly there is little that can be done to save Coventry if it is subjected to a hydrogen bomb attack. On the other hand, there is a very good possibility that the hydrogen bomb will never be used and that the conventional type weapons will be used in any future war. If that is the case, then Coventry certainly has every Teason to prepare a strong civil defense program, and it is for this reason that the City Council’s action is prema- ture and overly’ pessimistic. ARE THERE SEA MONSTERS? The long-debated question whether sea monsters roam the depths of the Atlantic and Pacific, and all oceans,-may be resolved in the next few years. This is indicated by major discoveries being made by scientists now making their way all the way to the bottom of the seas in éxperimental dives. ‘The divers are using recently built submersible craft of the type in which two Frenchmen recently set a new diving record. Professor Theodore “Monod, director of the French Institute of Dakar, recently submerged to a depth of 4,600 feet in the Atlantic, reaching the bottom off Dakar. Professor Monod reports that he found a new and larger species of crab, hitherto unknown to the world. The new crab has a shell which measures some twenty inches in, diameter. As scientists continue to delve deeper into the depths ' of the oceans no doubt they will discover new creatures of the sea, and perhaps they may’ discover the answers to strange reports from sailors over the ye telling of mysterious creatures observed at sea. The world has ‘waited many years for the answers. SCE at aa i The wisdom of the new look in defense will not be tested immediately, unless there is a war, and if there is one the new look had better represent some wisdom. CHANGEMSHEERS| Crossword Puzzle sae al Bie Across S|AID EST} 1. Footlike EINES part 4. Herring-like ISiUIE 7 SIEIRIEINIE MS IOINIA! T/A] ELMS! Tit | INIGEEOIR LAP MBAICIRIE |S CIAIR| a) GILEKY ose ut! CIRIAIDIE! 16. Batlots Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 17. Fabulous bird 18. Trapped 20. Incline 82. Notable period 28. Frolic 26. Jagged pro- tuberance 27. Slip back 31. Pertorm- DOWN 1. Fits of anger 2. Bievated position 3. Isolate 4. Preserve 5. Instigates 7. Ancient shaping form 8. Pendant ornaments 9. Valiant man 10. Above 11. Embiem of 19. Shred 31. Grassy field 24. Ordinary form of writing 25. Steep 29. Calm 30. Holland commune 32. Roars 33. Worthless SPEAKING OF ECLIPSES —- Reference To FDR Deleted From Report By ROWLAND EVANS JR. WASHINGTON # — A friendly reference to the late Franklin D. Roosevelt was deleted from a gov- ernment news release this week after some Republicans raised an- guished cries. It happened when the Veterans Administration issued a statement taking note of the 10th anniver- sary of the GI Bill of Rights. The release, as it first appeared, read this way: “The law, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 22, 1944, contained three major bene- fits . . . On signing the GI Bill in 1944, the President said...” A: second installment shortly ap- peared, reading this way: “The bill, signed into law June 22, 1944, contained three major benefits . . On signing the GI Bill in 1944, the White House said .. .” Gone was any reference to the abet War II Democratic Presi- t. “Unbelievable Sen. Hill (D-Ala) said today. pettifoggery,” “Tt Sen. Douglas (D-Ill) said: “Evi- dently the propaganda agencies of the Republican party are bent on A VA official, questioned about the change in the release said the first batch put out numbered about 3,500. When they were distributed, he said, some GOP congressmen he did not name “protests” This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb for problems’ and your ‘rare ability of making something out of nothing,’ as Auld tie cried out loud about you in one of his latest columns—and realizing readers of The Citizen are be- coming somewhat bored with the ‘private feud in public’ between H.V.B., A. C., B. M., and B. G— I would like to prevent to you MY problem in the hopes of breaking the monotony of these personal feuds and gain some in- formation that will help me and others facing the same problem. “It may be too much to antici- pate but I hope at the same time to divert the talents of the above- mentioned fellows from politics, cows, cheese, or what have you, into channels less obnoxious and more refined than those they have been wandering through of late. That is, except for William Meyers and the path he would have us follow. “My problem concerns things similar to those beloved by Mey- ers—things that only God can create — BIRDS! Specificially, parrakeets. “These bright little birds bring a lot of sunshine into homes all over the world. They offer com- panionship, showmanship, com- edy, color—all unaffected by the ob-| selfishness, stupidity, and down- found French Empire Totters On Both Sides Of World|: By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst CASABLANCA, Morocco (#—He is the sultan of the realm of Mo- rocco, but he is a weak, half-blind old man, living in fear in his pal- ace at Rabat. Gultan Moulay Mohammed Ben Arafa is a reluctant ruler, brought to the throne as a puppet of the French. Few in Morocco ecog- nize him as either a spiritual lead- er or a sovereign. His story is a symptom of the ailments that plague the French empire. The political pattern of Indochina is taking shape once again. Morocco is smoldering. The situation may not be so immedia- tely critical as that of France’s other North African protectorate, Tunisia, but the elements of prai- Tie fire lie beneath the surface. Moulay Mohammed has been sul- tan nine months. He was put into the job because the old Sultan, Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef, de- clined to be a puppet all his life. To understand the story ‘of the sultans, you have to go batk to 1912. The French were establish- ing their authority in Moroeco. Hadj Thami el. Glaoui Mezaouri, Pasha of Marrakech and ruler of the Berber tribesmen, threw in his lot with the French, He would re. main unchallenged ruler of the whole region of Marrakech. In the- ory only, he was the instrument of the Sultan. In 1927 Sidi Mohammed became sultan after the death of his fa- ther. He remained shy and man- ageable until 20 years ago, when the Istiqlal (independence) move- ment, looking for a rallying point, began calling him “our beloved king.” He liked that. During Sidi Mohammed’s rule, the French ended tribal wars and united Morocco. But the Sultan was “| not popular, nor did he get big ideas until after World War II. He leaned closer to Istiqlal while con tinuing a long-standing feud with local chieftains, the caids and pa- shas, and particularly the Pasha of Mrrakech. Nine months go Sidi Moham- med felt strong enough to balk at signing reforms announced by the French to appease nationalist fee}- ing. The French, using the threat of the Pasha’s three million Ber- bers, deposed him and exiled him to Madagascar. Morocco’s native population of 842 million—about 8 million of them illiterate—had disliked the Sultan as a money collector, The Berbers, Moors rather than Arabs, had paid little attention to him. But the mo- ment the French removed him, the non-Berber population sudden- ly and avidly supported him. He was their heriditary spiritual lead er and they insisted the French could not remove him. The situation worsened at once. There was an air of continuing crisis, spelling danger to the mighty American air bases newly built in the country. By day life went on normally in the flourishing cities built by the French. By night in dark al- leys mysterious groups of three leaving 36. Equivalence |_| 32, Prohibit PY Mien i 4. Inute Pe i? | | reg iad el BB Ed 43. Military assistant 45. Dress up 46. Large knife 49. Cistern 60. Feminine name men were hiring poverty-stricken Arabs for a few thousand francs to murder and terrorize, In the crowded slums nationalists tried to enforce boycotts of French goods. In the distance, French business- men could see a threat of creep- ing paralysis. Some appealed to Paris for a change in policy, but old-line colonists called for more firmness. That meant foree, ar- rests, curfews, repressions. Then more terror. Responsible natioral- ist leaders who might have checked the terror were in jail or exiled.|weapon. What, took | source? New men, more extreme, over. Moderate nationalists were then, was its As France weakened in Indo- becoming less and less ‘modrate, | china, extremists grew bolder here. even though they admitted Moroc- co had few people able to’ admin- ister what has become a modern nation in 40 years of French rule. Twice the new Sultan was almost killed in terror. attacks, and now he prefers to stay within his mag- nificent palace. Moslem national- ists insist there is ‘‘nobody on the throne.” The Marrakech region, with its Berber population, had thought it- self immune, but even there the terror is spreading, The octogen- arian Glaoui, friend of Britain’s Prime Minister Churchill and a master Oriental-style politician, fears for his life. He too, sulks in his palace, 5 Bombs. defiled the «Marrakech mosques, once in an attack on the Glaoui and once in an attack on visiting Sultan Ben Arafa. The Glaoui demonstrated what he would do if the French would let him. meet the situation Moorish style. He walked up to a man seized as a terrorist, and with his own machine gun shot the man through the head. But the terror grew. The na- tionalists disavowed it, publicly de- plored the use of murder as @ By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (#—President Ei- senhower summoned Republican and Democratic congressional lead- ers and his chief military advisers to a series of huddles today to lay a solid foundation for his im- minent talks with British Prime Minister Churchill. Thirty key Senate and House members were schedule? to meet with the President and Secretary of State Dulles and to hear @ re- port by Undersecretary of State Walter Bedell Smith on the dead- locked Geneva conference. Those negotiations with the Com- munists on peace in Indochima are expected to figure largely in the Eisenhower - Churchill discussions which start Friday. National Security Council was or- dered a conference whic the White House said was .“‘neteSsi- tated” by the forthcoming Church- ill visit. Still later, Eisenhower arr@ged to see Dulles in a more private conference. Eisenhower turned to ansher facet of this country’s Far Eastern problems—the future of Japaf—in a speech last night to the Natonal Editorial Assn. He told a comven- tion of editors of some 5,200 week- ly newspapers that Japan is the “key to the defense” of the west- ern Pacific. “So it becomes absolutely a0- datory for us,” he said, ‘‘thatJa- pan does not fall under the @™- ination of the Soviets or into the hands of the Kremlin.” And, he said, Japan cannot ive in the free world uniess someting is done to help her make her WY- He suggested that Japan mighté° Communist if this country does 30t give her money and other help #4 the chance to trade not only the West but with Red China 4s | well. An hour and a half latef, the, | Radio Cairo, apparently under Arab League sponsorship, hailed “liberation” in Indochina and called Arabs in North Africa to violence in the name of “‘Arabism.”” The Moroccan Communist party, 500 strong but extremely active, imported Moscow propaganda, much of it slanted against Amer- icans and the U.S. air bases. The French have brought in a new civilian resident genral, Fran- cis Lacoste, a Harvard-educated career diplomat. He told me: “Police action alone will not work. I come to -Morocco in a spirit of love. Serving France and serving Morocco will be the same thing to me. The big air bases in Morocco are part of the defense of the free world so. my mission is now more important than ever. Order must be preserved so this great weapon of resistance to Com- munist aggression can be kept safe.” Lacoste faces a tough job. If she cannot make concessions, ex- tremists will exploit that and the situation will worsen. The French say their prestige will not permit the return of Sidi Mohammed, the raging issue today. That is a bridge burned. The Summons Leaders Of Both Parties To Plan Conference Secretary Anthony Eden are due here Friday and will remain through Tuesday. The trip was announced when it appeared the Geneva talks had failed, but evidence of the last few days indicating that an Indo- china peace might still be nego- tiated has created some uncer- tainty about the talks. Smith, No, 2 man in the State Department, returned from Geneva yesterday. En route he saw French Premier Mendes-France. It was un- derstood Smith returned with these impressions: 1. That the Geneva conference has demonstrated the Chinese Com- munists and the Russians alike have no intention of making any real concessions to obtain peace in Indochina. - 2. That Eden believes the time has come for Britain to follow a much firmer policy regarding the formation of a united front against communism in Southeast Asia. 3. That Mendes-France is deter- mined to get peace in Indochina if possible, but that he does not intend to surrender completely or settle for peace at any price. Boy Is Best Cook GEORGETOWN, Del. (p—Com- peting against 42 girls plus four members of his own sex, 15-year- old Charles Voorhees Jr., of West Trenton, N. J. scored an upset yesterday at the National Junior Cooking Contest at the Delmarva Chicken Festival and won top honors. - Young Voorhees accepted the bouquet of roses reserved for the cooking “queen.” It was the first time a boy haf won first prize in the six years ith | the contest has been held. The average Canadian ate 140 |” Churehill and British FordgPounds of meat in 1953. 2 | 4 name didn’t add to or detract from the news value” of the state- ment. “We had a number of protests that the GI Bill was national leg- islation, passed without regard to political lines,” he said. ‘(We took these protests into consideration.” The official, asking not to be named, said he had no indication that anybody in the White House objected to the original language. “I’m. pretty positive we didn’t hear. from them,” he said. Reserves Up WASHINGTON, (#—Foreign na- gold and dollar reserves in the first three months of this year despite the business decline here, the government reported Mon- day. The Commerce Department re- right meanness in the world all about them. “Recently, the parrakeet we loved so much at our house died in the palm of my right hand. It was a great loss. Its death was brought ‘about by a disease com- mon—and oft-times deadly —to these birds, diarrhea. We nursed it according to instructions, gave it medicine prescribed for such cases, all to no avail. We watch- ed ‘Pretty Boy Billy’ slowly but surely get weak and weaker un- til he couldn’t fly at all—until all desire for food and water vanish- ed—until all ‘chatter’ died in his throat—until, finally, life itself was no more. “My problem is this: what éari be done to a parrakeet healthy and happy? And when it does become sick, just what can be done to bring it back to health as quickly and safely as pos- sible? “I would like to see response from your readers on this ques- tion. And, like I said at the be- ginning, I hope those feuding fellows will drop their acid pens and think about the beauty of Nature a little more often. “A parrakeet is a talking bird and it doesn’t matter whether it a male or female insofar as its ability to ta its vocal chords is concerned. It is generally that a male learns faster. a i ‘budgies,’ ‘budgerigars,’ birds,’ .” public ‘adopted’ them in a big way. > * “We—my wife, the kids, and I —want another parrakeet but would like to know more about them before we bring a newcom- er into our home. Thus, this re< quest for information. “Here's hoping . . . Sincerely, : “WILLIAM RUSSELL.” How About It? . You bird lovers—will you help one of your buddies with this ins formation? You can call Mr. Rus-: sell at 2-2944, write to him /at. 1210 South Street, or send your information to “This Rock,” where it will be printed in hopes of aiding all parrakeet-owners.: Beauticians Ask Buddha To Forgive | TOKYO # — Pale blue incense: rose toward the gilt ceiling. Low chanting spread through the YOQUNGSTERS TAKE dim temple, and a little silver bell | UNAUTHORIZED SWIM tinkled behind the sanctuary. Kimono-clad women knelt on the white straw mats and bowed deep- ly and reverently before the great golden image of Buddha. They were the beauty parlor operators of Kyushu, asking for- giveness — for cutting off all that mountain of girls’ hair in the Audrey Hepburn mania that has swept Japan’s island chain from Kushiro to Kagoshima A blue whale consumes as much as a ton of food a day. CHICAGO # — Sixteen young- sters from the crowded stockyard district went for a swim last night. And it took 10 squads of police to round them up out of the water. The trouble was the youngstérs” broke into a high school and took over the swimming pool. All were’ referred to juvenile authorities. Citizen Advertisements Help Save You Money Use This Convenient Want Ad Order-Gram . Count 5 Average Words One Line Minimum Space THREE LINES Figures or Initials Count As CITIZEN WANT ADS Address Please Print Ad Below START AD RUN AD ____. DAYS NUMBER LINES _____, ENCLOSED (ne Me } 4 LINES 5 LINES 6 LINES 7 LINES 8 LINES 9 LINES 10 LINES Sdays 6 days We We eit We