The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 14, 1954, Page 4

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, July 14, 1954 The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann ‘Streets. sceactegit Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, ‘Editor and Publisher ........ coneee 1921» 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN .. Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news pub- Page 4 Member Associate Dailies of Florida Subseription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 “"TADVERTISING 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 communications. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea, Consolidation of County and City Goveramenta. Community Auditorium. 1 2. 3. 4 5. THE QUESTION OF DEATH FOR SPIES A House Judiciary subcommittee recently approved 2 bill proposed by Attorney General Herbert Brownell which would permit the death sentence for spies in peace- time. Heretofore, the United States has imposed the death Penalty on spies only in times of war. There is, however, thought to be some opposition in the Senate Judiciary committee, and in the Senate itself. Although the bill only permits the death penalty — and does not make it mandatory — some members of the up- per legislative body are believed to oppose the measure. We point out, in this connection, that the upper legis- lative body is inclined to be perhaps more lenient in such matters, and this might be attributed to the greater age of most members of the upper body. No doubt many of the nation’s elder statesmen cling to the ideas and concepts of war which take into consideration the‘ chivalrous at- titude and the philosophy that wars should be fought in an honorable manner. These concepts are out of date in 1954. They are out of date because of the nature of atomic warfare and the scientific angle which now has become dominant in mili- tary operations. The theft of the country’s highest scien- tific secrets could well determine the outcome of a new war, and therefore, the elective death penalty for spies, convicted of selling government secrets to the enemy, is a necessity in the country. It may seem severe to many Christians, and the death Penalty for spying in peace time may be thouzht unneces- sary by some high-minded individuals, but the practical approach to survival and the preservation of our demo- ¢eratic civilization includes the realization that stern mea- sures are necessary to preserve the nation’s secrets in this atomic age. Nothing is as worthless to the recipient as a news- paper blurb. This is the time of year when it’s nice to watch the sun come up in the morning — after a night’s sleep, that is, Contrary to what some radio oracles hold, the world will not fall apart at the seams if the Reds win most of Indo-China. ‘ Successful business tycoons keep learning, and push- ing, after those with less drive have already decided fate is against them. If you don’t take care of yourself properly, listen to your heart beat next time you have a chance. If it isn’t beating, you’re dead. Crossword Puzzle 35. Ibsen heroine , 36. Prohibits 38. More costly 40. Fairy 41, Thirsty 42. Near (e) (14. Chilled 44. One in ILIA REMEIRIRIAITIA] 15. Food: slang authority BIN 11 16. Understand 48, That man EJATRINISHERIEINIDIS} 17.8 IsInclinea —«&0- Lengthy Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 2. Danish walk money 20. Head 22. Feminine 3. Forerunner ofthe sextant 4. Tableland 5. Gives up hope 6. Wrath 1. 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Attend and hear | their report of this excellent pro- gram. Key West Guard of Honor, Mon- day, July 19, 8 p.m., Post Home, Stock Island. Regular Post Meeting and initia- tion of new members, July 28, 8 p.m., Post Home, Stock Island. x * * History Of Our Post: Beginning next week I will run a paragraph or so about the history of the Post. I ran several of these last year and thought that I might again go into the history of our Post and let some of the newer members know what hap- pened years ago. I believe we are one of the few Posts in the National Department that has the Post Minutes of every meeting since the inception} of the Post in June of 1919. At present I hold the minutes but as soon as I finish with them they will again be on display in the trophy case at the Post Home for | Legionnaires to see and read if) they desire. *k * Bowling Team: Until last week our team held} its own in the Civic Bowling Lea- gue. After meeting the strongest team in the league with a team average of 140, the Knights of Columbus team knocked us over | for 3 points. We now are 4th in the league but hope to bring this up. We have a good team and shouldn’t finish up in the cellar. x & sk Membership: Did you know that the 1955 Legion membership drive was on? Well, it is and has been since the Convention in St. Petersburg back | in May and the National Conven- tion in August and September will | start the new cards rolling in. Let’s make it a banner year, not only for our own Post, but do our! share in making the 10th district | high in the standing this year, Membership to us means every- thing. Ask all that you know to} join up and especially talk to some of the old Legionnaires who haven't been with us for a few years. I am sure we can set a record if all will cooperate. Contact 1st Vice Commander M. | E. Lewis on membership. He will give you the latest information and| all necessary application blanks. See’em, Sell’em and Sign’em! Gas Station Is Scene Of Birth HERMOSA BEACH, Calif. 7» — When Mrs. Daniel Baker realized her husband couldn't reach the hospital in time, she ordered him to stop their car. That is why Anna Danette Baker entered the world yesterday at a serve-yourself gasoline station. Her parents, sheriff's deputies ind station attendants who helped vith the delivery are recovering. Anna Danette, who weighed in at 7 pounds 3 ounces, is doing fine. 3he’s in a hospital maternity ward 10W. American imports of mink fur rave doubled in the past seven years. « cee TS 7 ANTI- WESTERN ALLIANCE OF THE CHOU LINE. This Rock By Bill Gibb The Key West Safety Council meets tonight at 8 o'clock, at the ‘Lions Den, behind the high school gym. Important discussions are scheduled. Can you be there? Neglected Children Continuing with concrete ex- amples of why we should devote a little more energy toward help- ing to solve the community’s youth problem, let me cite a case in which I was involved last sum- mer, In mentioning these cases, 1 hope you understand that the Key West Police Department lacks both the facilities and the trained personnel to properly handle ju- venile problems. Yet every offi- cer does his best and hopes that someday the public will wake up to the fact that child welfare is a necessary part of community planning. About this time last year, I was stumbling along in the chuck- holes of Poinciana. Residents out there needed a foot patrolman as much as you and I need a hole in the head. Nevertheless, after the row raised by a lower Street group, I was grateful that my orders only carried me to Poinciana instead of the Botanical Gardens on Stock Island. Not having much to do, I used to hang around the Jay Teen Cen- ter and talk with the kids about safety. One night I noticed a young lady romping and wrest- ling with the younger teen-age boys. By that time I knew the area fairly well and I knew that she was married and had two Key West In Days Gone By July 14, 1934 P. J. Saunders is today president of the Peninsular and Occidental Steamship company. This an- nouncement was made in Jackson- ville from headquarters last night. W. M. Abernethy, assistant state auditor, wko came to Key West yesterday .with Clark Ross C Sawyer to compare the method of accounting used by Mr. Sawyer with the new uniform system to be installed, was surprised to find that with a few exceptions the system used by Mr. Sawyer is the same as that proposed. Dr. J. A. Valdes, optometrist of Duval street, is planning to leave Monday to take a post graduate course at the Northern Illinois Eye Clinic in Chicago. Steamship Cuba, of the P. and 0. S. S. company, sailed yesterday afternoon for Havana with 70 pas- sengers. Of this number there ‘were six from Tampa and 64 from Duval) Of Ours children. TI called her aside and suggested that it might be more fitting for her to play*with men and women closer to her own age. She must have taken me at my word for the next thing I knew, unattached sailors began to drift into the area. The girl’s babies were being neglected and their crying could be heard all over the neighborhood. I was at the end of my rope. I called the Juvenile authorities but there wasn’t much that they could do—Monroe County doesn’t have any facilities for handling babies. This went on for two or three months. The girl then adopted a little strategy of her own, She called Headquarters and reported that the policeman on duty in Poinciana was being un- duly “fresh and making intimate suggestions to her.” The boys at the station howled. They knew the girl and they knew how I had been sweating trying to solve the situation. Officer R. L. James stopped in his patrol car and laughingly suggested that I use a little more discrimination and taste in the women I offended. It would be nice to be able to conclude this by saying that the case was finally solved success- fully and the girl’s babies are now being cared for properly. I can’t do it, however. As far as I know, the same conditions still exist today unless the mother has moved to some county or state where citizens take proper“inter- est in these matters. |114-YEAR-OLD DIES LOS ANGELES (#—Jose Soto died yesterday. ; This would not be news except that he was born 114 years ago. | Members of his family who at- tested to his age said Soto was a young farmhand of 22 when Max- imilian’s forces invaded his native Mexico. Karakul sheep, new born lambs of which produce Caracul for fur, are: grown chiefly in the Soviet Union, says the National Geogra- phic Society, Key West. Also six automobiles and 290 sacks of mail. x x * duly 14, 1944 of “Reap the Wild Wind,” the background of which is Key West in its early days, has sold her ;| house and plot at the foot of Whit- head and South streets, the former J. Vining Harris property, to Eugene Churton Smith for $19,500. J. A. Harrell, of the OPA Rent |Control Office, reports, that A. E. Barker, investigator of the En- forcement Division, has been in Key West several days investigat ing violations of OPA Rent regula tion and Herman Siegl is joinins Mr. Barker today. Recreation Department of th City of Key West announced toda \the opening of a small children’ playground for Negroes, located c a vacant lot of Petronia stree between Simonton and Elizabet. Streets. Thelma Strable Godw:n, author | BLUE WATER by DENIS SNEIGR « I ought to demand my money back. Better still, I ought to have my head examined for believing Holly- wood hokum. Hollywood is still Hollywood— the world’s largest manufacturing center of baloney. I’m talking about the movie that | played here recently—New Faces. The advertisements urging you to see this wonder show said: “Exactly as Broadway cheered it,’ . “wonderful theatre excitement intact.” £ The movie version of New Faces wasn’t exactly as Broadway cheer- ed it and it wasn’t “intact.” I saw the stage show, New Faces, four times when it was on Broadway. When on Broadway, New Faces was a revue. That’s all, a revue. No plot. New York audiences ap- parently were satisfied with New Faces as it was—without the us- ual boy meets girl guff. The show ran for 365 perfor- mances on Broadway. But get a load of the Hollywood version. We see backstage shots of a love affair. We see the villain demanding payment for the show. We see the girl's father—ap- parently dragged into the show kicking and screaming to be left out—as a suspense element. Up until the last he is doubtful whether he will get up the dough to pay off the show’s debts, This is known as suspense. So much for the backstage stuff, none of which was in the Broad-| way version of New Faces. Now let’s take a look at those advertisements: “Exactly as Broadway cheered ser” “‘_wonderful theatre excitement | intact.” In the first place, Hollywood omitted from the screen version eight big fat, wonderful numbers. | Most of them were hilarious} sketches and they were all tops in| entertainment. The sketches that were omitted were: Restoration Piece, Read this free book... It’s a revealing, part-b) copy at our showroom. part comparison between Plymouth and the “other two” low-price cars. 8 big illustrated pages. Just ask for your free The Bard and the Beard, Nanty Puts Her Hair Up, Don’t Fall Asleep, After Canasta—What? Hark, the Extra Marital Lark, Convention Bound, and The Great American Opera. Why did the Hollywood producer cut these sketches from the film version? Beats me. Maybe he thought they were too funny for movie audiences. Anyway, they were left out of the film. Perhaps if the producer had omitted the boy-meets-girl guff, there would have been room for at least some of the worth while sketches. Besides, leaving out numbers, most of the sketches you did see on the screen were cut. They even cut some of the lyrics in Eartha Kitt’s “Monotonous.” In the Lizzie Borden number, Patricia Hammerlee riayed the role of Lizzie on Broadway. »In the movie version, the pro- ducer substituted Virginia De Luce for Miss Hammerlee. As far as I could see, Miss Ham- Defendant Weds Former Victim NEWARK, N.J. & — Daniel De Vito, 42, appeared before Chief Magistrate Harry Pine yesterday on a charge of the assault and battery of Virginia Howard. Detective Michael Skurla charged that De Vito quarreled with the lady in a tailor shop June 25 and beat her severely about the head and body. But when she took the stand yesterday, she refused to testify, claiming a wife’s immunity. She said she and De Vito were mar- ried a week ago while he was out on bail. Judge Pine dismi«sed the : charges. merlee wasn’t in the film version | at all. And the advertisements call that “exactly as Broadway cheered it’ and ‘“—wonderful theatre excite- ment intact.” In case there’s not a dictionary in Hollywood, intact means unm touched; left complete or entire. There were other changes, too. As I remember, the Hollywood pro- ducer also added some songs for Miss Kitt. That’s not bad because I think every number Miss Kitt sings is good. But it is not leaving the show “intact,” as Hollywood claims. The next time old Mr. Hollywood Producer comes around trailing several yards of high-class baloney —in color, yet—I am going to tell him what he can do with it. TELEVISION SALES and SERVICE 1105 WHITEHEAD STREET Expert Repairs TELEPHONE 2.3449 Reasonable Rates TAILORED INSTALLATION for MOTELS .. 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