The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 13, 1954, Page 5

COMMITTEE CUTS 3 BILLION OUT OF FOREIGN AID BILL By G. MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON (#—The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, yielding to State Department ap- eals, reversed. itself late yester- day and struck out of its $3,100, 000,000 foreign aid bill a proposed Notice to France and Italy to join €& proposed European army or fore- 80 USS. help after Dec. 31. With two top Republican leaders voting against the.move, the com- mittee substituted less stringent language already approved by the House in a move to prod the two nations to approve the projected European Defense Community. Now the bill goes to the Armed Services Committee, perhaps for | further changes. That group con- | siders it because much of the over-| seas program is arms aid. Voting on the losing side in the) Foreign Relations Committee for the virtual ultimatum to France and Italy were Sen. Knowland of California, the Senate Republican | leader, and Sen. Ferguson of Mich- igan, chairman of the Senate GOP Policy Committee. The votes of five Democrats and three other Republicans gave the administration the 8-5 margin which deleted from the bill wording | which would have ordered a shutoff of all foreign aid, militayy and nonmilitary, to France and Italy Dec. 31 if they had not joined EDC or an acceptable substitute. The Provision had been tentatively ap- proved Saturday. ° Contributing to the reversal were a hurry-up visit to Capitol Hill by Secretary of State Dulles before he departed for diplomatic talks in Paris, and a warning from Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, supreme Al- lied commander in Europe. Gruenther, tele phoning from Europe,'termed the Senate version “dangerous,’ a term Dulles also reportedly had used. Sen. Wiley (R-Wis), Foreign Re- lations Committee chairman, said the reversal restored House-ap- proved language which would allow delivery to the two nations of equipment and materials on order from. the 1951, 1952 and 1953 foreign i aid programs, but will deny them ; any share in funds from the 1954 and 1955 programs unless they join EDC, a proposed six-nation army including West German troops. The allowable deliveries would keep the aid flow going to both countries for an undisclosed period. Wiley announced that those vot- ing for the milder language were Senators H. Alexander Smith (R- NJ), Aiken (R-Vt),, Wiley, George (D-Ga), Green (D-RI), .Fulbright (D-Ark), Sparkman (D-Ala) and Gillette (D-Iowa)..< 3 ¢fp; Voting “‘no” in the closed ses- sion, Wiley said, were ,Knowland, looper (R-Iowa), Langer (R-ND) and Mansfield (D-Mont). By a 7-6 margin, Wiley said, the committee adopted an amendment by Mansfield ordering the Foreign Operations Administration .abolish- ed next June 30 as the official dis- Penser of foreign aid. Mansfield’s amendment, Wiley said, would transfer handling of all military phases of foreign aid to the Defense Department, and non- military to the State Department, over objections voiced by Dulles. Wiley said the bill itself was ap- proved 11-2, with Langer and Gil- lette casting the “no” ballots. Wiley delayed an announcement of the specific cuts under the House version, estimated to total some 348 million dollars. The ad- ministration asked for 3% billions. The bill is only an authorization. Actual funds will be voted later, perhaps after further cuts. WRONG VICTIMS LOS ANGELES (Salesman J. N. Glikin, 49, was booked on sus- picion of forgery yesterday after giving a $5 check for two tickets to the police show. Police said the check bounced. Tuesday, July 13, 1954 Fiddling Woman Can Still THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 5 Do A Real Old-Time Breakdown Hal Boyle Says By MARTHA COLE LITTLE RIVER, Tex. #—Take a tentative scratch, a short whine and then roll into it—That’s fid- dling. “It takes old people really to fiddle it up,” says Mrs. Beatrice Bane of Little River. She’s 65. “I was given a talent I wouldn’t take a million dollars for,” she said. “I’ve been playing the fiddle since I was 9 years old back in Indian territory in Oklahoma. “I can play religious pieces that can make your hair rise. “I don’t know one note from an- other. But I can hear a tune one time. If I like it, I go around hum- ming it and inside three days I can fiddle it—it’ll be that long coming to me.” Mrs. Bane is a thin little gray- haired woman with quick motions. She and her husband live on a farm near Little River. She’s one of the few women who enter the old fiddlers contests held every year in Texas. Her husband, C. C. Bane, 68, can play the fiddle too. At the Fourth of July celebration in Belton this year, Bane won first place and his wife won fourth in the old fiddlers contest. But at Temple earlier this year, she beat him. “No, hon, he isn’t jealous,” Mrs. Bane said. “He hasn’t learned hardly any new pieces since I knew him. He plays by ear too. All the real old- time fiddlers do. “But he has some favorite pieces he plays right well. He likes ‘Sally Goodin’ and ‘Tom and Jerry.’ I don’t play those—those are men’s pieces, I think.” What’s the difference between fiddling and violin playing? , “Why, breakdown music—that’s fiddling, piddling or something. “There really aren’t any new breakdown pieces—same old pieces: ‘Hell Among the Earth,’ ‘Done Gone,’ ‘Eighth of January,’ ‘Oh Miss Sally, ‘How I Love You,’ ” Mrs. Bane thinks there’s danger of the old-time fiddlers dying out. But maybe not. “There’s this young fellow from Temple, O. A. Cathey, about 25. I heard him play in Temple and then I saw him at Belton. I told him, ‘Son, you play ‘Mockingbird.’ He did and won first place in the young fiddlers contest. “I tell you he’s mortally a fiddler.” Women Win On Road Deal TOKYO (#—Tax coffers were as dry as the roads were wet. So women of Okachi Island near Sase- bo decided to do something for their children who waded through mud to school during the proloneg tainy season, They planne a sumo tournament to,start a fund for a two-lane paved road. Husbands watched aghast as their wives — clad in the tradition- al sumo custome of scant breech cloth, rope and upswept hairdo— ecntorted through the grotesque leg-swinging, muscle-flexing warm- up routines in preparation for the wrestling matches The men hastily subscribed the money and built the road, paved with a hard promise that the women stay out of the sumo ring. Snake bites kill from 30,0¢0 to 40,000 people a year, most of them in Asia, according to estimates of the World Health Organization. NEW YORK (®—Any girl who fails to ambush a husband during the summer open season ‘on bach- elors can soothe her pride by going to Africa and mowing down an elephant. Miss Beverly Putnam is organ- izing the first all-girl elephant safari in history. The 49-day trip, starting Sept. 10, will cost $3,120, plus $214 for a license that “‘allows one elephant only.” “But the ivory from an elephant ordinarily sells for about $300,’ said Beverly, practically, ‘‘so that should cover the cost of the license. It isn’t necessary to buy an ele- phant gun. They can be rented.” Beverly, tall, pretty, dark-haired and 32, is no stranger to Africa. Since her childhood days in a con- vent, she had dreamed of adven- ture in far places. Last winter she threw up her job with American Airlines to lead a group of 14 girls on a 38-day safari to Africa. The party, ranging in age rom 27. to 60, included housewives, sin- gle girls, widows and divorcees. Two of the ladies took one long look at Africa, and headed back home. But a durable dozen stayed and had fine time, banging away at the landscape. “O!—some of us hunted with guns, and the rest used cameras,” said Beverly. She herself bagged a buffalo, a zebra, two gazelles, a wildebeest and a hardebeest. Can a dozen or more women ac- ‘tually have any fun together on a safari? “Of course they can,” said Bev- erly. “We'll have 5 white hunters and 45 native boys in the party. “We'll have hot water at all time, plenty of ice cubes (we take along a refrigerator), home-made ice cream, and fresh eggs every morning. The native chef special- izes in dishes such as antelope soup and gazelle barbecues. “The first three days are rough —personality-wise. You average 50 to 75 miles a day in hunting cars, and your bottom gets real sore. The sun gets you down at first, too, and sometimes the tsetse flies are bothersome. “But there is so much else to make up for it....the excitement during the day.....the nights around the campfire, listening to the coughing of distant leopards and the howling of hyenas. “The women soon leam to get along—if they are ever going to ge. along. Of course, sometimes there are some petty jealousies. The fight to get seats next to the white hunters at dinnertime can become pretty fierce.” However, the possibility of ro- mance isn’t altogether ruled out. Africa is studded with all-male hunting safaris, and when they learn that there is an all-girl soferi roaming the veldt, too, ' well—, she men sometimes like to ride over to our camp in the evening and discuss the day’s shooting,” said Beverly. But why an elephant safari? “I can’t explain the fascination of an elephant,” said Beverly, “but he does have a glamor. Tracking an elephant you’re on foot, not in a car, and if he does turn and trample you, he can make a bigger mess of you in a short time than any other animal. “But the girls will always be Attempt May Be Made To Stop Soviet Tanker TAIPEH, Formosa ® -Chinese Nationalist warships may attempt to intercept the 15,000-ton Soviet tanker Leningrad, which has cleared Singapore for Shanghai in Red China, a high Nationalist of- ficial indicated today. There was no comment concern- ing three other Soviet ships re- ported heading northward — two toward the Siberian port of Viadi- vostok, and one for Red China But there was widespread specu- lation here that the Soviet mer- chant ships might rendezvous with a submarine escort for the danger- ous voyage through waters patrol- led by Nationalist naval vessels, The Nationalists seized the 8,840- ton Soviet tanker Tuapse June 23. An official with top-level con- tracts, when asked today if the same fate faces the Leningrad, re- plied: “We have not received any offi- cial information on the movements of the Leningrad, but perhaps we will take the same action as we did in the case of the Tuapse.” The Leningrad reportedly carries a cargo of kerosene and diesel oil for Communist China. The Tuapse’s petroleum cargo, also destined for Shanghai, has been unloaded by the Nationalists. Search Party Sets Out After Drifting Raft SAN FRANCISCO «® —Another search party sails out after the vaft Lehi today — confident after air sightings and radio contacts she is still floating southward in the Pacific. The Lehi, only about 20 miles off central California, refused a Coast Guard tow to shore yesterday. Four of her five crew members stil hoped she would change course and drift the 2,200 miles southwest to Hawaii. The fifth, radio operator Don Smith, of Santa Rosa, Calif., re- peatedly radioed from the 32-foot, boxlike craft: “Get me off this damned thing.” He complained he was coming down with the flu and threatened to call the Coast Guard for help. The motorless raft was towed out of the Golden Gate Friday with no provisions, . The amateur adventurers plan- ned to live off the sea. They have caught one salmon and one small shark and made “a little water” in their solar still. LL under the protection of a white hunter. He’ll be at her side every moment.” If this trip turns out well, Bev- erly would like to run a series of low-cost tourist safaris for the poor working girls of America. “You’d be amazed how many Stenographers and _ secretaries dream of going hunting in Africa,” she said. Beverly also has hopes of leading further all-girl tiger hunts in India and all-girl diamond digging expe- ditions to Venezuela. But she has temporarily shelved her plans for an all-girl voyage to harpoon whales. “A captain I discussed this with said such a venture would wreck the ship,” she sighed. The ice cap of Greenland is twice the size of Texas, Cambodia is working to restore part of the irrigation system of the ancient and abandoned city of Angkor, seat of the lost Khmer civilization. Look Now, PLEASE How’s Your Supply of Letterheads... Business Cards ... Envelopes... Business Forms? It's not unusual to find yourself running out of letterheads — envelopes — some important business form you use or advertising matter you use in your business right along. This always happens just when you need it most. Sometimes the delay in getting new printing can prove costly and it's always embarrassing. May we suggest you check your supplies now? Somethng you need in a hurry? We'll bend over backwards to get it out for you. That's how we work! You'll like doing business with us! j Something You Need Now? 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Mrs. Trinidad Vera, 28, was con- victed by a jury yesterday of six felony counts, including four of as- sault, one of mayhem and one of assault with a deadly weapon. That makes her liable for a prison term of from 6 to 64 years. She had pleaded innocent and innocent by reason of insanity. Trial of the sanity plea begins Thursday. During the trial the child, Celia Sanchez, and other witnesses testi- fied that two years of mistrea- ment resulted in permanent dam- age to her vision, two skull fractures, many broken arms, loss of teeth and other injuries. Her thriee-broken left arm sfill is in a cast despite extensive treatment that started in April when her plight was discovered. Celia’s stepfather, Jose Cruz Cruz Vera, 43, an ex-convict, was charged during the trial with four counts of felonious assault against Celia and one count of child esrs- tation. He was jailed in lieu of $10,000 bail. The Veras have six children of their own. 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