The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 14, 1954, Page 2

By ROWLAND EVANS Jr. WASHINGTON — Senators ‘were ready today to check on re- ports that a former head of a federal lending agency made a} windfall profit on a government- insured apartment construction! loan after he left his government | Ib. a: person elose to the Senate Committee, asking not to be by name, said that Don A. Loftus of Wilmington, Del., would be asked about an Ohio apartment project from which a former government official alleg- edly profited. The onetime official was not identified, Loftus formerly was connected with Investors Diversified Servic- es, a Minneapolis concern which | made apartment loans insured by | the Federal Housing Administra- tion. Loftus was one of several witnes- ses posted the committee in its investigation of alleged ir- regularities in housing loan insur- Others included. Ralph J. Solow, who has been before the committee in secret session; Alfred Gross of New York, who shared in a re-| ported four-million-dollar windfall | profit on Glen Oaks Village, Inc., on Long Island, N.Y.; and Andrew Nichols, assistant to the county prosecutor of Bergen County, N.J. | Thete have been no allegations | that windfall profits, as such, are illegal, but the Banking Committee has been searching for evidence of corruption of collusion between builders and FHA officials in ar- Tanging for government insurance of loans inflated well beyond actual Sen. Capehart (R-Ind), Banking Committee chairman, estimates that windfall profits out of a post- war apartment building program total half a billion dollars. Capehart, meanwhile, said he| was undisturbed by a turn of| Probe Set On Windfall Profit Reported Made By Former Gov't Lending Agency Head On Gov't-Insured Construction Loan events yesterday which appeared to have torpedoed any chance for possible Justice Department ac- tion in connection with conflicting |testimony given the committee in| secret session June 22 by Solow of Englewood, +, and Sidney Sarner of Tenafl V.J., who were partners in a building concern un- til four years ago It appeared after the committee made the secret testimony «avail- able to newsmen tha neither wit- ness had testified under oath. The transcript had been sent to the |Justice Department Monday for |) .< run possible action. But Committee Counsel William Simon said if the two witnesses had not been put under oath there was no chance for perjury prose- cution. Sarner said from home last night that he was not sworn. Solow said he did not think he had been put under oath. Solow said, “The last time when I testified privately, I gave my full cooperation ... and will do so tomorrow.” He added: “I think I can clear myself.” Former POW To Do Film Work HOLLYWOOD (» — A former prisoner of the Communists—a Polish Army officer—has joined with seven other men in forming the nonprofit American Motion Pictures for Freedom. The ex-prisoner, John Much, now a naturalized citi of this coun- try, said yesterday | Page 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Nailed Object To Bear As A ‘Safety Symbol | GORE BAY, Ont. (Here on {Manitoulin Island “Smoky |Bear,” symbol of fire prevention, | A beaver has been called in to do |Smoky’s job. | .Smoky was created by the U.S.} | Forest Service to carry the mes- sage of protection against forest fires. Canada’s provincial govern- ;ments and the pulp and paper in- dustry have adopted him But here posters showing Smoky and two cubs leaving their fire-blackened forest home have been mutilated. John F. Walker, resident mana- ger for the Ontario Paper Co., first | noted destruction of Smoky posters |near the Sheshegwaning Indian re- | serve. The picture of the bear was, {in some cases, torn out of the | poster, leaving the fire-prevention message intact. Then the company learned of the superstition and forester Art Ra- cey, on a hunch, replaced the Smoky posters with Canadian For- estry Assn. signs using the beaver | 2s a symbol. These weren’t touched. | Frank A. Myers of Cleveland, honorary president of the Manitou- lin Historical Society, said he had learned some Indians believe the the| into Indian supersititions. ! “We plan to make pictures deal-|bear-walker is a person who can ing with life in America and with appear in another form—animal, life in Russia to show people the bird or ball of fire—and can put difference. The films will be made| the curse of death on an enemy. in various languages. | Read The Citizen | The slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains are drained by more | than 600 miles of streams. Belt Deflects Revolver Slug CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. () — Octavio Flores, 19, was feeling pretty chipper today — and very much relieved. Flores and Lupe Perez, 17, were wrestling yesterday when Perez playfully pointed a .32 revolver he thought was unloaded at Octavio and pulled the trigger. The pistol belched smoke and} |flame and Flores crumpled to the jground holding his stomach and gasping. But all the doctor at a- local hospital did about it was place a small strip of adhesive tape on the youth’s abdomen and tell him to go home. A Navy-style web belt stopped the bullet from point-blank range. The slug was found between Flores’ belt and his khaki trousers. Flores had a sorely bruised mid- | section, Cops Get Choice Assignment In Pa. PITTSBURGH \™ Several | Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) po- licement have a choice assign- ment. The cops, all golfers, will go out on the three county golf courses |mext week. They'll look like the average fellow trying to break par. But they have orders not to wor- ty too much about their scores. They’ve been ordered to keep on | the lookout for an apparently well- organized gang of boys stealing \ golf balls. Honey on ~ and only 245924 buys it! H AVE you been thinking you can’t afford a new Buick? Listen: If you can afford any new car, you can afford a Buick— and we boldly show our price here to prove it. Look again, and you'll see that this is the local delivered Speci 2-door, price of the new Buick 6-passenger Sedan. 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State Department officials said today the U.S. government still nist Czechs are holding an Ameri- can captain and six enlisted men who apparently wandered across the West German frontier while sightseeing. But Garret Ackerson, charge d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Prague, was said to have attended “several meetings” at the Czech Foreign Office during the past week. There was no indication of the nature of the talks. The Czechs have accused the Americans of spying. But a strong- lyy wored U.S. note rejected that charge and accused the Czechs of abducting the soldiers. Tip In Court CINCINNATI (® — An old fellow Pleaded guilty in Municipal Court yesterday to a disorderly conduct charge. He paid a small fine and left the courtroom. But befcre he went, he asked the probation officer, ‘‘What’s my case number?” Mrs. Cecil Woodberry replied: “25,411."" “That's the number I'll play to- ne the policy-playing gentleman said. TOO HOT IN COOLER DOWN IN OKLA. MIAMI, Okla. (® — It was even too hot in the “cooler” here yes- terday. With the temperature at 115 de- grees, Ottawa prisoners out of the jail, marched der shade of tree sand permitted them to play cards. “It was too hot in that fourth “even for law violators.” AIRLINER BRINGS SET OF TRIPLETS OKLAHOMA CITY ® — An air- liner, not the stork, brought a set of triplets into Oklahoma City yes- terday. The trio addition to the Bruce Howard family came on an air- ™month-old birthday. The boy ba- bies, each weighing slightly over four pounds, were accompanied by their mother and three Braniff Air- line hostesses. Tot Clings To Bumper On Unscheduled Ride LOS ANGELES — Herbert Grageda Jr., 3, grabbed a car’s rear bumper yesterday and hung on. When the car started, he was still there, unbeknown to the driv- er, Herbert Escarcega, 31. Three blocks later, shouting ped- estrians caused Escarcega to stop. Young Herbert let go, nursing a couple of scraped shins but other- wise okay. ‘Scar Still doesn’t know where the Commu-| ‘Spanish Language ‘Shows Where Musical Comedy H-Bomb Hit ‘At San Carlos | A new hit musical comedy com- | By STEVE LOWELL bining the talents and voices of| Luis Aguilar, favorite Latin- ALAMOGORDO, N. M. \® — The American tenor and leading man, | eyes of the passengers searched and curvaceous Maria Victoria, the hazy distance, following the/new sensation of the recording | jdirecting finger of the airliner’s studios and night clubs, will be pilot. | shown today at the San Carlos Under the shoulder of bleak, bar- | Theater. | ren Oscuro Range, they finally saw| Between them, the stars inter- | what he was trying to point out. | pret eight songs of famous com- It wasn’t much, just a little disk- poser Maria Grever, among them, shaped spot in the desert—a little | “Tipitipitin.” | darker than surrounding land. The story concerns the hilarious | Not much—that scar—not much | tribulations of a singing cowboy to show for the world-shaking event | whose village sends him to Mex- jthat happened there nine years | ico City to put their town’on the ago. That spot is all that remains map. There he is befriended by to mark the first atomic explosion } July 16, 1945. Some months ago a construction | outfit finished scraping up the| No Money Down Sale glasslike substance formed of the Now Going On surrounding sandy topsoil as the Buy Now and Save! intense heat of the blast melted it, EISNER FURNITURE CO, The Atomic Energy Commission | Poineiana Center Tel. 2-6951 RADIO and/ didn’t want to take any chances that the desert wind might stir up radioactive dust from the trinitite as it slowly disintegrated. 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