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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-20
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-20

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Service and AP Features
For IS Years Devoted to the
Best Interests of Key West
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-20

Key West. Florida. has The
most equable climate In TIE
country, with an average
range Of only - Fahrenheit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
Party Of Dutch Officials
Reaches London for Talks

LONDON, Dec. 26 (P.-Premier
Willem Schermerhorn and a party
of high Dutch government officials
arrived here from The Hague to-
day to inaugurate discussions of the
Tndonesian~ situation with, Prime
Minister Attlee and other members
.of the British government.
Accompanying Premier. Scher-
.nerhorn were Acting Foreign Min
lister j. H. van Royen, Minister for
Overseas Territories j. H. A. Loge-
mann and Dr.. Hubertus ]. van
sMook, acting governor general of
the Netherlands Indies.
The question Of recognition of the
Sef- proclaimed Indonesian repub-
lic in Java will be uppermost. DR..
van Nook has recommended rec
ognition of Premier Sultan Sjah-
rir's government, but the Neither
lands cabinet rejected the proposal
Mr.. Attlee was believed to have
made it clear that Great Britain
wants an immediate settlement.
Some quarters expressed belief that
he had asked the Dutch for their
specific intentions in Indonesia.
An informed source said last week
That Mr.. Attlee was understood to
be holding in allegiance a military
decision to strengthen British &C.
eupation forces in the islands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
HoIdup Man Returns;
Tables Are Turned
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.-Twice
within three hours Monday night
the same holdup man ordered the
night manager and an elevator
operator at the Midtown Hotel to
lie on the floor of the lobby so he
could rob the desk cash register.
On his first visit just after mid
night, the holdup man, identified
by police as Thomas Curtin, %,
walked off with $40 after telling his
victims he didn't want the money
in their pockets because it was
Christmas. s :
Henry Walker, the manager, and
Charles Paul, the elevator operator
notified the police and resumed their
work, Shortly before am, the
front door opened. -,-
Its him again. Mr.. Paul whis-
pered to Mr.. Walker.
ION the floor again." the holdup
man said.
A guest, Glen Roberts, approached
the desk and was ordered to join
the others on the floor. Then the
holdup man turned to his business.
Up from the floor came Mr.. Walker,
Mr.. Paul and Mr.. Roberts, seized
him and found he was unarmed.
Hello, police" Mr.. Walker tele-
phoned the police. Hes back, but
this time he's on the floor"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
Blind Italian Boy Brought
To U. S. for Operation
BY the Associated Press.

ny the ASSOCIATED Pfess.
NEW YORK, Dec. ga blind
Italian boy. befriended by members
OF the 88th Blue Devil Division
arrived here yesterday aboard the
storm-battered carrier Randolph en-
route to Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, for an operation to re-
store his sight.
The boy. 8-year-old Gianfranco
Cabbia, clad in an Army uniform,
arrived in the company of Pfc. How
ard w. Gorgas, Montpelier, Ohio,
who said the boy had been blinded
when kicked in the face by a Ger
man horse in September, 1914, in his
home town Of Feltre.
Members of the division. Pvt.
Gorgas said, raised $3,40o to finance
an operation at Johns Hopkins. He
said the boy was admitted to the
United States on a temporary pass
port visa and would return to Italy
after the operation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
Mrs. Patton Rests
With Daughter Here

Mrs. Beatrice Baton, widow OF
Gen. George s. Patton, jr., was
resting today at the home of her
son-in-law and daughter, Col and
Mrs. John K. Waters, 5000 Tunlaw
road NV, after arriving by air
plane from Europe yesterday in
time to have Christmas dinner and
open presents with her grandchil-
dren.
Mrs. Patton arrived at National
Airport at 1880 pm. on a flight
from Paris. She attended funeral
services for her husband at Hamm
Luxembourg, Monday.
The Air Transport Command
C-54 on which Mrs. Patton trav-
eled stopped at Bedford, Mass, and
La Guardia Field. N. Y, before
landing in Washington. Col. and
Mrs. Waters, 1t. Col. and Mrs. James
K. Totten and her son George met
her at the field here. Mrs. Totten
who lives at 1900 Forty-fifth street
NV, Is another daughter.
Mrs. Patton will stay at the
Waters home "for a while" before
returning to her home in South
Hamilton, Mass.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
b. the Associated Press.

NEW YORK.-Dr. Lin Yutang,
who spends a lot of his time writ
ing best sellers, has turned inventor
with a typewriter that he believes
will give his homeland of China a
big boost toward the streamlined
world of tomorrow
His machine is an Oriental YER
sion of the typewriter. That might
seem a pretty easy job of CONVEX
sion until you remember that the
Chinese Language is a monosyllabic
tongue, with each word represent
ed by a different picture symbol
and there are about $4,000 such
characters in use.
Now, after 30 years OF planning
and sinking a good little fortune, u
DR.. Lin is confident he has the So
luton. 1t Is machine, IL by 10 by
8 inches in size, with a five-row
keyboard of GA keys. The top three
rows represent the top halves OF
Chinese word symbols, the other
rows the lower halves.
10000 Combinations.
In the same way that you have
to know how to spell word in Eng
lish, you have to know what picture
symbol represents the Chinese word
Then on DR.. Lin's machine you
press the two half" keys simulta-
neously, press a third button with
your thumb-and there is the word
The operation takes about as long
as hitting single letter on ar
American typewriter.
What the key operation does /.
quickly to rotate a drum mechan.
ism on the inside of the machine
on which are banked up all of thu
complete word symbols. DR.. Liz
says 10000 word combinations art
possible on the apparatus. Hi.
model machine, now being manu-.
featured, includes the English al
phabet, and there Is plenty of room
left for the Japanese, Korean ant
Hebrew alphabets, to mention ,
few.
The author calls the invention
"my greatest gift to China" ant
forecasts that it will revolutioniz
business methods in the Far East.
Previous efforts at developing
Chinese typewriter, DR.. Lin says
were limited to curiosity contriv
lances" in which each word symbo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26

starter; there were 1000, then 5000
g, 000-8, 000-and the final esti-
mate was 5000.
Local police and laborers were
hustled to the scene to help main
tain order. The children were sort
ed into shifts and admitted 300 at
time, while frantic CT hosts delved
into duffle bags for impromptu addi-
tional gifts.
The program was curtailed and
speeded and sweating Red Cross
workers handed out doughnuts until
their arms ached.
BY nightfall, only 5000 of the 5000
had been entertained. The others
still were waiting. hungrily and
hopefully, outside in the sharp cold.
Their friends who had been lucky
enough to get inside shared gifts
and described the wondrous event in
rapid-flre Japanese-then the thou
sand Of wooden clogs pounded down
the hill into the darkness. ..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
Lin Yutong Invents Typewriter
Using Chinese Alphabet

had to be picked manually out of a
rack containing thousands of metal
Tugs.
The result has been that COM
merce and government have had to
rely upon the slow process of having
everything written by hand, includ-
ing correspondence of the central
government at Chungking, in the
Embassy at Washington and even
the Bank of China. There was no
such thing as a carbon copy, and
that was a tough situation when six
duplicates were needed.
DR.. Lin feels that his machine has
great future possibilities in opening
up a printing industry for China.
Until now there has been no appara-
tus similar to the Western linotype
for efficient and speedy printing.
Everything has to be hand set.
To Be Manufactured Here.
Feeling that the Chinese market
will call for $4,000 typewriting ma
chimes within three years, Dr.. Lin
plans to have them manufactured
in this country as product of
American technical workmanship
and Chinese intelligence"
He declares, This invention will
destroy Chinese penmanship," but
is sure that there will be compen-
sating circumstances.
ut will bring into existence in
China the class of Americans I ad-
mire greatly-I mean the stenog-
raphers," DR.. Lin explains. "You
are going to see a lot of bright young
things around Chinese Office from
now on, and that, of course, keys up
the office atmosphere anywhere,
makes 1t neater, more pleasant.
Chinese Offices still stick to men
secretaries principally, because the
art of Chinese penmanship is. SO
difficult and not many girls can
qualify. With the typewriter any
Chinese girl can now step into the
position and produce neat, profess
sional correspondence. That means
a whole lot, because a whole new
profession will be created"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
b the Associated Press.


i KANSAS CITY.-Sergt Nathan
Fruitt, a 58-year-old colored soldier
with a background of more than
30 years in the Regular Army, was
hurrying through union station here
recently when from behind him
game gruff shout:
.i"Pruitt!"
!. Later explaining, 81 knew there
was brass in that voice." Pruitt
executed a neat about-face, and
saw a portly gentleman in civilian
clothes accompanied by q beaming,
.rnotherly woman.
= After a moments puzzlement the
sergeant exclaimed, why, Gen.
Lear!" 1t was the former deputy
commander of ground forces in the
European Theater, 1t. Gen. Ben
Lear, and his wife.
Between their trains, the general
and the sergeant snapped yarns
OF two decades ago when Gen. Leal
Eas stationed at Fort Leavenworth,
Kans.. and Pruitt was on his staff
rs a stable boy.
q Many passersby noted the con-
tersationalists, particularly the SER
geant, whose uniform doomed In
The station throng like 4 barber
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
81 Party for 800 Jap Children
Is Neor-Riot as 1000 Show Up
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOKYO, Dec. 26.-It began as a
CTS idea to entertain q few hun
dred children-and nearly ended in
a juvenile riot.
Officers and men of the 18th
Corps planned a Christmas party
yesterday for 600 children Of Jap
anese laborers employed by the
corps. Soldiers contributed gifts.
candy and cookies. A special pro-
gram was prepared.
But the Yanks had forgotten
about Japan's birth rate. Guests be-
gan arriving long before party time.
They came tumbling in droves from
the adjacent streetcar station and
clattered gleefully up the short hill
on their wooden clogs.
Their CT hosts soon swore that
the whole Tokyo-Yokohama area
must have been denuded of young
life. Six hundred? That was only q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
Veteran Rigs Up BOBBY Trap
As Burglar Alarm, Fools Expert

The other day, Mrs Olsen's fiance,
Frank r. Carr, 81, also war veter-
an, was helping her and Arnold
clean house for Christmas. He
went into the pantry and some min
utes later came an explosion that
ratified every dish in the room.
ut works." young Olsen shouted
exultaptly, as he ran to the pantry
and found Carr lying on the floor
near the open window, bleeding
from superficial cuts on his arm and
neck.
Young Olsen explained his BOBBY
trap and apologized for not telling
Carr about it. Carr spluttered:
And to think I was a demolition
squad expert! Why, I must have
dug up those things by the gross
while I was In France"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
Inquest Slated in Stabbing
Of Man in Roominq House

An inquest was scheduled today
into the death Of John j. Heard, As
year-old rooming house operator,
who was found stabbed with a To-
inch Japanese dagger Monday night
In the basement OF his home in the
1000 block of B street NE.
Kermie E. Bledsoe, 10. who identi-
fed himself as Government Print
ing ONCE employee living in the 1000
block of Massachusetts, avenue NE,
has been charged by police with the
stabbing. He is being held at the
ninth precinct station.
Homicide squad detectives said the
stabbing followed an argument dur
ing q Christmas eve party IN
Heard's home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
Identity Of Two Killed
In Stolen CAT SOUGHT
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ONTARIO, Calf. Dec. 20
Authorities today continued their
efforts to identify two victims of the
crash of a stolen" CAT plane yes
terday.
Coroner r. E. williams reported
the bodies badly burned and crushed.
The craft, flown here recently by
E. E. Nelson of Los Angeles, a test
pilot for the Aero-Jet Engineering
Corp, took of from the Ontario
Army Air Base and dived into q
vineyard moments later, 4 miles
away. 1t caught fire and burned.
The coroner said the plane was
definitely stolen" but told investi-
gators he could offer no hint of the
victims identities. Army flyers are
no longer stationed at the field.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
~ the Associated Press,

CHICAGO.-With a 3-inch ma
newer shell, Arnold Olseen, 10, a for
mer soldier just back from Germany,
fixed up BOBBY trap of his own in
vention as burglar alarm in his
mothers home.
Olsen knew that the shell, which
the Army uses in training troops for
combat, was harmless except at
close range. He also knew it made
loud noise.
=. He planned the trap in the case
nnent of a pantry window, which his
mother, Mrs. Hazel Olsen, described
as the point most vulnerable to
house providers. The shell was en-
bedded so that any upward move
rnent of the sash would. Olsen
hoped, set it off.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
Wiley Urges Damages
For Plants Struck in
Violation Of Contract
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
A suggestion that labor unions be
made liable for damages resulting
from strikes in violation of contracts
came today from Senator Wiley, Re-
publican, of Wisconsin.
That should do away with ire
sponsible strikes" Senator Wiley
told reporter. He added he be-
lieved such step alone would "prac-
tically solve" the strike problem.
The Wisconsin Senator said he
intended to discuss his proposal in
the Senate when Congress recon-
venes January IA. Labor legislation
Is one OF the big items on the sched-
ule for the returning legislators.
President Truman asked earlier
this month for law to set up fact
finding procedures in labor disputes
with major effect on the public in
terest.
Hearings Scheduled.
Senator Ellender, Democrat, OF
Louisiana has introduced a bill to
carry out the Presidents proposal.
Hearings are to start by the Labor
Committee Immediately after Con-
gress returns.
The House Labor Committee held
a week Of hearings before the recess.
Labor Leaders William Green, Philip
Murray and John L. Lewis all round
ly denounced the Presidents pro-
posal, Mr.. Lewis calling it IAN evil,
vile-smelling mess"
The committee took no action, but
decided to proceed on a "boarder
basis" after the holidays.
Some legislators particularly close
to organized labor are understood
to be urging that union leaders ac-
cept Mr.. Truman's idea. They con-
tend that otherwise Congress may
enact some more restrictive meas
ure.
Stronger Legislation Favored.
Considerable sentiment for leeis-
lation going beyond the White
House proposal has been evident.
Senator Hatch, Democrat, OF New
Mexico, one Of the Presidents clos
est friends and most loyal supports
ers, told reporters he thought Mr..
Truman did not 60 far enough"
Senator Hatch is co-author with
Senator Ball, Republican, OF Min
nesota Of a long pending measure
that would establish machinery for
settlement of labor disputes through
arbitration.
Restrictions on political activities
txy.
tons Of contracts have support in
the House Military Affairs Commit
tee as amendments to a bill for
repeal of the Smith onnally Acts
strike vote provisions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
Socialists in Canada
See Victory in 1913
Jas Result Of Crisis
BY DAVID M. NICHOL,

Foreign Correspondent Of The Star and
the Chieaso Daily News.
OTTAWA.-Canada's closest po-
litical cousin of the Labor party in
Great Britain is hoping to come to
power here about 1948.
Leaders Of the Cooperative Com
monwealth Federation, better known
simply as the CCF, believe that by
that time the present government
will be faced with an unparalleled
domestic crisis, and that Canadian
voters will turn to socialism, as
voters have in large sections of
Europe.
They believe that there is a back
log of about $1,000 900 900 in con-
sumner purchasing power as a re-
suit Of war-year restrictions. 1t
will be SUFFICIENT, they think, to
bring Canada's vastly expanded in
dustry through the pangs of recon-
version and to support it for about
two years. Then, they say, will
come the collapse
How well their prediction is borne
out will depend on variety of fac
tors, not all Of them Canadian.
Smoothly functioning international
trade, with a minimum Of restric-
tons, might provide Canada with
the $1,750, 000, 900 annual export
market that Is believed essential.
The Liberal party government is
committed, in an ofhcial white
paper, to a program Of jobs for ALL
with adequate housing, health in
surance and much broader social
security provisions in general. Even
the CCF admits that it looks good
on paper. 1t contends that the gov
eminent will be unable to imple-
ment its own elaborate plan.
On the coldly political plane Is the
fact that Ontario and Quebec Prov
inces control between them consid-
erably more than a majority OF the
seats in the Dominion Parliament,
and that in these two provinces the
CCF faces its toughest fight.
Quebec, with IS seats guaranteed
by constitutional provision, is ira
ditionally Liberal party territory.
Even should that break down, the
CCF still faces the nationalist sus-
picions Of the French-C Canadians
and the intense opposition of the
Roman Catholic Church to any
form Of Socialist government.
Ontario's case is different. In
dustrialized and wealthy and much
more concerned about its British"
heritage than any other portion of
the Dominion, the province by ma
ture Is conservative. The CCF
made astonishing gains there in
l943, but lost heavily. going from "a
to members In the Provincial Leg
islature in 1945.
In three other provincial cleo
tions this year, CONGRATULATIONS
British Columbia and Nova Scotia
the CCF has gained both In total
vote and in percentage of the vote
cast. Curiously, it lost legislative
seats In both British Columbia and
Nova Scotia. Immature organiza-
ton and lack Of operating funds
were blamed.
Last year the CCF won a sweep
ing victory in the Province Of Sas-
katchewan and established North
Americas first avoyedly Socialist
government.
The party is led by an able poll
tician, M. j. Coldwell, who came
from Great Britain to be a school
teacher In Regina and has been In
Parliament since 1885. The party,
was formed In 1882.
tCopyrisht, 194S)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
Indonesian Premier
CIubbed in ATTEMPT
To Steal His Car
sEy the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
BATAVIA, Java, Dec. 26.-
Shots were fired at Premier
.Sutan Sjahrir of :. the unrecog-
nized Indonesian republic and he
was dubbed with a pistol butt
today in what the Dutch news
agency Aneta said apparently
was an attempt by several Meth
erlands Indies soldiers to steal
his car.
: II don't think they knew who
was Sjahrir was quoted by cor
respondent of Aneta, the official
Dutch news agency.
: Four men in Dutch uniforms in
another car pulled alongside the
Premier's automobile and fired three
bullets against the hood, forcing him
TO halt, Sjahrir reported. He said he
had gotten out of his car when one
OF the soldiers struck him with the
pistol. At one time, Sjahrir said,
Netherlands officer pointed a pistol
at his head. He said a group of
about Is men in all approached the
car but fed on the appearance of a
British patrol.
( Six Soldiers Arrested.
r British military police arrested six
soldiers, who said they were Eura-
SLAMS and Surinamese. Netherlands
Army authorities said there was no
doubt that the offenders would be
punished
= Meanwhile, Dutch sources said two
Dutch soldiers were killed in Ba-
tavia when they were ambushed on
Christmas eve. Dutch Amboinese
troops, these sources said, set sew
eral nearby Indonesian houses afire
In retaliation.
Informed quarters said British
and Dutch authorities we're likely
to renew peace talks with 1ndo-
nesian leaders after the holidays.
Sjahrir, key figure in Indo-
nesian-Allied relations, who has
urged moderation on his followers,
returned yesterday from tour Of
Java. During his absence, the
British arrested several Eurasians
who were attempting to break into
his Batavia home.
Christmas Rioters Jailed.
~ Several British soldiers, mostly
parachute troopers, were arrested
for Christmas rioting at the cap
ital's largest Chinese restaurant, the
Yen Pin. They were charged with
raiding the buffet after they were
denied more liquor. Thousands of
patrons, including women and chill
sdren, fed in panic. Police closed
the cafe.
The cafe manager. lie Shueh-wen,
charged that doors and windows of
the establishment were smashed
last night, grand piano was hurled
from the stage, crystal chandelier
was torn down and liquor stocks
and eouipment were smashed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
Boy, II, Hangs Self
Reaching for Gifts

By the Associated Press.
SUNNYDALE, Utah, Dec. 49,
Joseph Carl Fahl, II, went to a
closet to bring out some Christmas
presents Monday night.
He climbed up on a box to reach
the gifts on a shelf.
When Joseph's mother went to
look for him Is minutes later the
boy was dead, hanging from a
leather strap.
Deputy Sheriff Frank Ellis said
the boy apparently slipped. and in
falling caught his neck in the strap
hanging in the closet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
Man, 70, Dies Of Burns
After Fall on Stove

James Eddy, 10, of 1856 Twelfth
street Sc, died yesterday in Cas-
ualty Hospital of burns on his arms,
face and the upper part of his body
which he suffered Christmas eve
when he fell on a lighted gas stove
at his home, according to police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
Gen. Lear and Veteran Sergeant
Meet in Station After 2OYeurs

pole with 81 service stripes and 20
ribbons.
Pruitt was en- route to his home
In Junction City, Kans., to spend
90-day leave before being dis
charged and donning what he calls
my first suit of grown.up civvies."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-26
% Written Candidates
For Justice Reject Post
BY the Associated Press.

bs the Associated fress.
M1NNEOTA, Minn.-The Min
neota Village Council has hung up
"help wanted" sign for justice
of the peace.
In an election SO residents received
votes for the office which was left
vacant on resignation of P. M.
Berg. justice for 40 years.
The write-in candidates have told
the council they don't want the Job.