The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 27, 1954, Page 2

Page 2 > THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘Weekend Toll Mounts To 20 In F lorida WASHINGTON w—Members of President Eisenhower’s Cabinet, By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | indulging in the year-end custom The 54-hour Christmas weekend of taking a look ahead, see 1955 cost Florida at least 20 dead from |*5 @ Year of peace but continuing violent means and the total may | tensions and of a stable and pros- |perous economy. go even higher when final reports | are in, But the National Planning Assn., less optimistic about the economy, As usual, traffic accidents took |szys the new year will be one of the most lives, accounting for 15 | rising unemployment unless buy- of the dead, the Florida Highway |ing power and production are Patrol reported. | stimulated by the government and Two were from fires, one!by industry. drowned, one was electrocuted and| The nonprofit, privately financed the last one was caused by acci- | organization representing business, dental discharge of firearms. labor, agriculture and the profes- Richard R. Roberts of Brattle-| sions, urged further tax cuts, in- | Monday, December 27, 1954 ~ French Assembly Convenes To C e ee onsider Fateful Decision By HARVEY HUDSON PARIS W—The French National Assembly convened shortly after | The Weatherman 3 p.m. today for a decision fateful for the government of Premier Pi- Says: erre Mendes-France and the de- fense of the Western world = aaiviiiers The Premier is asking for the sist West and Vicinity: Partly Assembly’s vote of confidence on 1eouas thru Tuesday with not much West Germany’s entrance into the change in temperature. Scattered} North Atlartic Treaty Organiza-| showers possible Tuesday. Low beh me a aot the nok ‘temperature tonight near 66 and networ'! ol ion-Paris accords ‘i A for West German rearmament as |!"'84 Tuesday mear 78 - 90. Light a partner in a seven-nation West-|'® moderate variable winds mostly ern European Union. easterly. The public and press galleries of the chamber were packed long be- fore the Assembly was called to order by its presiding officer, An-| dre Letroquer. | Outside, many others, including | knots of Communist demonstrators | hostile to West German rearma- ment, thronged against barricades waiting a turn to get inside. Police Guard | Hundreds of police stood on} guard at strategic points around the Assembly building, the Bour- bon Palace, to maintain order Shortly before the _ sessi n | opened, most of the political | groups were holding last minute | caucuses, and the odds appeared | to favor the Premier by a slim| margin. The executive committee of the | Independent Republicans, most of whom were hostile to the govern- | ment last week, advised party | members today to vote for the Premier. This, it said, should be done to support the Atlantic Al- liance and not as a gesture for Mendes-France personally. Various party spokesmen} planned to take the floor before Mendes-France himself presented a supreme last-minute appeal for the Assembly’s backing on his pro- Western foreign policy. Defeat | would mean the resignation of his six-month-old government. Two Main Points He is asking a vote of confidence today on two points—West Ger- many’s entrance into NATO, and endorsement of the government’s Position on three amendments to the ratification bill. If successful on those ballots, he was slated to demand that the As- | sembly reverse its refusal last Fri- | day to ratify the treaty permit- ting West Germany to rearm as a menmiber of the seven-nation Western European Union (WEU). | That, too, would be a question of | confidence which under Assembly | rules could not be voted on for 24 hours, probably tomorrow. Defeat. on any of the three votes would force the government to re- | sign, plunging France into anoth- er of its numerous postwar ~Cabi- net crises. Observers declined to predict in | advance of the Assembly session how the deputies would vote. But | it appeared that at best Mendes- France could hope only for ap-| proval of rearmament by a small margin, and with many Assembly | members abstaining from the bal- lot. Future Hopes { The whole future of the Western | alliance and of France’s position awaited the outcome of the As- sembly votes. The British govern- | ment, backed by the United States, has announced that West Germany will be rearmed regardless of the | French action, and that final French rejection of the treaties will result in reconsideration of the British pledge last fall to keep troops on the European continent In Augusta, Ga., White Hous Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced that President Eisen- | hower would consider cutting short | his Christmas holiday if the French | deputies refused to ratify the treaties. Though it rejected the Western European Union pact on Friday, the Assembly at that session ap- proved the treaty restoring West German sovereignty and also the French-German agreement on in- ternational control of the disputed | Saar. | Party positions on teday’s votes could not be set until after Mendes- | France addressed the deputies to| Plead for support | Balloting was expected late in| the afternoon. | TODAY'S STOCK MARKET NEW YORK & — The stock Market was higher on balance to- Gay in early dealings, There were plenty of minus signs in the list, but they usually were small. Gains ran to around a point at the best and dominated trading. Among significant blocks on the tape were Pennsylvania Railroad 2,700 shares up '% at 2412. New York Central 5,000 up % at 3114, 20th Century-Fox 2,000 off } | ' Florida: Partly cloudy and con- tinued mild thru Tuesday. Widely scattered showers mostly in east and extreme north portions. Jacksonville thru the Florida | Straits and East Gulf: Moderate occasionally fresh easterly winds thru Tuesday. Partly cloudy wea- ther and widely scattered showers mostly over north portion. Western Caribbean: Moderate northeast to east winds thru Tues- day. Partly cloudy weather and widely scattered showers. Observation Taken at Post Office Building. 7:00 A.M. EST, Key West, Fla., Dec. 27, 1954 Temperatures Highest yesterday ...... Lowest last night Mean .. a Normal .... Precipitation Total last 24 hours Total this month ... Deficiency this month Total this year Barometer (Sea Level), 7 A.M. 30.16 ins.—1021.3 mbs. . 7:11 a.m. . 5:47 p.m. 9:28 a.m. 9:03 p.m. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset TOMORROW'S TIDES (Naval Base) Time of Height of Tide high water Low Tides 5:47 a.m. 1 p.m. Station— High Tides 12:21 a.m. 11:34 p.m. ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Bahia Henda (bridge) ...... —oh 10m (east end) ...¢2h 20m Boca Chica Sandy Pt. No Name Key Caldes Channel (north end) 9.0 tH. —ch 4m +2h 10m | 41.4 ft, {—)—Minus sign: Corrections to be subtracted. | (+)—Plus sign: Corrections to be added. Temperatures AT 7:30 A.M., EST Atlanta — - 8 | vin Davidson, -|Marianna; James Frank Spann, | som, 37, Miami; William Freeman |sisters died at birth is in good| bero, Vt., was drowned on a fish: ing trip at Fernandina Beach. | brother-in-law, Raymond W. Guinn of Jacksonville, who accompanied | him, was still missing. | Mrs. Mary Lee Nichols, 20, of | Pensacela, died in a hospital of injuries received when a car over- turned and struck a_ telephone pole. Her husband, Charles B. Nichols, 27, was seriously injured. Patrol Report The highway patrol reported a series of deaths in various parts of Florida during the counting period from 6 p.m. Friday through midnight Sunday. The fatalities, all from traffi accidents, included William S. Hendrix, 18, Gainesville; Junior | Adams, 29, Okaloosa County; Jer- | ry May Weathers, Martel; Wil-| liam N. Lewis, Eglin Air Force Base airman; Emanuel Madny, 32, | Gadsden County. Gary David Williams, 5, Lake| Butler; Mr. and Mrs. John Mar- | of Atlanta, near 38, Lake City; Mrs. Sara S. Jack- Fowler, 57, Miami; Marine Sgt. Charles R. Edmiston, 24, Pitts- burgh, at Miami; Frances Shif- fers, 18 months old, at Avon Park, and George Boothby, 80, Conway, N.H., at Orlando. = Sherry Ann Locke, two-year-old daughter of a Miami Policeman, shot herself to death accidentally when she found a pistol under the Seat of the family car. A flash fire from an overheated, oil stove took the life of 20-month old Christine Hall of Daytona Beach. At Melbourne, Mrs. Lois Pickett Weeks, 46, was burned to | death when her bed caught fire, A 51-year-old Negro, Jerry May- weather, was electrocyted acci- dentally at Orlando when, his car struck a power pole and five wires fell across the vehicle. Completely New Supply OF Blood Given To Infant TOKYO —A two-day-old Japa-| nese girl vehose 14 brothers and| condition today following a trans-| fusion taat gave her a completely | new sapply of blood—donated by | ap American GI. Deetors at the Japanese Red Ounce girl would “surely have Ged” except for the blood donation working will provide a dependable Cross Center said the 5-pound, 4-| reased public spending on such things as schools, roads and hos- pitals, and higher wages. Cabinet officers wrote their sep- arate appraisals of 1954 and of 195 for ‘Nation’s Business,” monthly publication of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. While sev- eral of the 10 expressed a note of caution, there was no pessimism. Secretary of State Dulles said 1954 saw considerable progress to- ward world peace, but added that “formidable ébstacles” remain. He predicted the free world would be exposed to Communist trickery in 1955, and added: “We ‘shall strive that no incan- descent episode will flare into the. terrible eventuality of a third world war.” Secretary wrote: “We are determined to use our atomic leadership to serve the usages of peace, but we will take full account of our large and growing arsenal of nuclear weap- ons and the most effective means of using them against an aggres- sor if they are needed to preserve our freedom. “We do not necessarily seek the biggest air force in the world, but we do want the best and the most powerful ... second best is not good enough. . .” Secretary of the Treasury Hum- parey said the nation’s economy naust provide the weapons of de- fense and “an ever higher stand- ard of living as well as the social services which our people want and need.” “The economy for which we are of Defense Wilson flow of new and improved prod- ucts and new, better-paying jobs for a steadily increasing popula- tion,” Humphrey said. Somewhat more cautiously, Sec- retary of Commerce Weeks said “further economic growth in 1955 is probable, if an ae, gas Sat is favorable to businésS progr is maintained.” Weeks said his department is planning record federal outlays to aid construction of airports, high- ways and ships. The National Planning Assn., urging such public spending, said the national output should be boosted by 25 to 30 billion dollars next year. The organization’s trustees, head- ed by New York banker H. Chris-| tian Sonne, said in a statement made public last night that the | growth of the economy has failed to keep pace with the labor force ‘and increased output per worker, |and it continued: yer Army Pfc. Johann (John) Sliva, “The actual level of economic 25, of Little Rock. Ark. Doctors said the baby’s 40-year-|the child’s blood and replaced it activity is at present about 15 to, 20 billion dollars below the amount | of reasonable full employment.” The group said no general de- pression seems to be in sight, but it urged tax cuts to stimulate con-| sumer buying, and an improve- ment of social security legislation. Among nongovernment measures, the group said it considered “the | most important to be a rise in| wage rates and a reduction in prices in accord with increases | in producti is, Holiday Takes Lives Of 475 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A record accident death toll left a grim aftermath today of the na- tion’s Christmas holiday weekend. The violent death list reached, 475 during the 2-day, 54-hour period | from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday. | Deaths in traffic numbered 362. | Fires claimed 59 lives. The re-| maining 54 victims met death in a wide variety of mishaps. | The traffic toll came very close to the National Safety Council's pre-holiday estimate of 370 fatali-| ties. It was far heavier than the | earlier record of 277 traffic deaths | for a similar period at Christmas 1948. The over-all total, too, sur-| passed the 1948 mark of 396. Comparison Made | The holiday accident death fig-| ures compared with a non-holiday weekend count by the Associated Press Dec. 10-12 of 225 traffic! deaths, 39 in fires and 67 from | miscellaneous mishaps. Despite a strenuous campaign for safe and sober driving during | the Christmas weekend in Califor- nia, the populous state recorded | 27 deaths on streets and highways. | Other states with heavy traffic | tolls included Texas with 26, Penn-| sylvania, 25; Ohio and Illinois, 20 each; New York, 18, and Michi- gan 16. Six states reported no deaths | from accident of any sort during | the period—Nebraska, New Hamp- snire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, | Vermont and Wyoming. Towa’s eight traffic deaths put that state over the previous year’s record by four; the toll to date is | 629, ul DEATH MRS. NELL HAURY | Mrs. Nell Haury, 56, died Sun- day afternoon at Coral Gables. She is survived by her husband Ed Haury; her father, Clarence McClung; two daughters, Mrs. Ma- ry Larsen and Mrs. Charles Riggs, Jr.; two brothers. Homer Furr and Jack’ McClung; one sister, Mrs. Bell Miller; two nephews, Harold and Herbert McClung and four’ grandchildren. Mrs. Haury was a member of the | Pythian Sisters. the American Le- gion Auxiliary and Veterans of Fo eign Wars Auxiliary. Funeral se: vices under the direction of Prit- chard Funeral Home will be an-| With Dulles Ike’s Cabinet Members Predict like Confers Peace In’55 Despite Tension President France's re TA, Ga. — awaiting crucial vote on West Germ armament, had another long tele- phone consultation with retary of State Dulles this morning. The White House reported that Dulles told the President there was | z very little information at the pre: ent time on the progress of debate in the French National Assembly The plan to rearm the Germans ;as an equal partner in the free Western alliance must run the course of five more votes in the Assembly, and indications were that it would be late in the day before the final decision was reached. If the French reject the plan, the | DRIVER WON'T TALK (Continued from Page One) Concha Hotel, is from Louisivile, Ky. Worked In Miami He told Young that he and Bud worked at the Miami News in the cireulation department before he came to work at the La Concha Pfund added that Bud appeared in Key West Saturday night with the automobile. | The pair were en route to Miami t the time of the crash. | Young said the car, travelling at | a high rate of speed, overturned iv a mangrove swamp about 1,000/ feet from the point where it swery- | ed off the right side of the high- way. | The car then ran back across} the highway and overturned. Young added that Pfund said the car was travelling about 90 miles per hour when it crashed. EISNER Furniture Co. Poinciana Center _— Tel. 2-6951 Special This Week HOLLYWOOD BEDS $52.50 USE OUR LAY-AWAY PLAN SANDY'S Restaurant Roast Beef - Black Beans and Rice CUBAN SANDWICHES SPANISH DINNERS Phone M111 Duval St. CIFELLI'S F'se= Tv Factory Methods Used— All Work Guaranteed Marine Radios & Asst. Equipment |FOR PROMPT AND RELIABLE | gan, PATIENTS SAVED TOKYO W—Wind-driven flames destroyed most of a small Japa- ident may qeturn at once to Washington to grapple with a new} world situation. His personal plane sae eee mat | nese hospital today but all 100 pa- If German rearmament is ap-| tients were carried to safety with proved, Eisenhower will probably | a help of Americans from nearby stay at his holiday retreat here | U-S. Air Force bases. until J 3, working on his first me: s to the new Congress and playing some golf James C. Hagerty, White House press secretary. announced today it has been decided to send the President's budget message to In 1953 Americans bought 4,940,- | 000 new cars and 8,060,000 used cars. POOR OLD CRAIG | Congress Jan. 17 and foll the econor report Jan. 2 The F dent spent hours morning with G SERVICE auu4@ STATION SERVICE ‘ ; Francis at Truman Hauge, his personal fi d- AL | viser, and Dr. Arthur F alee chairman of the Council of E Your PURE OIL Declan nomic Advisers, working two messages Tires . . Tubes . . Batteries ACCESSORIES on the | Hauge and Burns will take the Grafts back to Washington for final revision Some other special messages to today SERVICE—SEE DAVID CIFELLI $28 Truman Avenue TELEPHONE 2-6008 Se Sune = nove. FOR YOUR TELEVISION OR RADIO Gat 28511 Fniico TV Sales and Service KEY WEST RADIO & TV SERVICE 826 DUVAL STREET Trade-In Allowances Congress are being drafted here, Hagerty said, and details will be aunounced over the c > of the next week if the President remains in Augusta. Rotarians Help Santa Claus At Christmas Party Key West Rotarians gave Santa | Claus a helping ha r an-| rual Ch part Concha Hotel last Ti: y As is customary, members ex- changed gifts mostly toys — and tien left them for St to de- Liver to Key West childrer In his brief Christmas m fe, Paul Sher, president of the local club, told the group thay, his Christ- mas wish was for ace on earth and good will towards all men.’ Art Hunt, fellowship chairman i troduced visiting Rotarians. Guy E. Bonney, Springfield Ilineis, Char- les Bledsoe, Angola, Indiana; H.4 Eroadus Jones, Wake Forest, North Carolina; John L. Sevier, Bain-| bridge. Harold Reilly, North York € Floyd M. Frane Monong Penna.; Wilber | Clark, Columbia, South Carolina; Hal Tukey, Lansing, Michigan; con Merryman, Dearborn, Michi- 2 Pieces of Furs Eskimo Nite Sunday Night will be Awarded Each Sunday Night TONIGHT BANDIL | SHERWOOD PORES! 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