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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-04-20
Woman Chases
Bank RObber,
And Catches Him

ST. LOUIS.-(P).-Bank rob-
bers do not scare Miss Audrey
Lorenzen, of St. Louis.
Miss Lorenzen is a bank teller.
When the bank in which she
works was held up. she chased
the robber through the streets. 1t
was quite chase-for several
blocks and in and out of a num-
Der of stores. Miss Lorenzen and
others who joined he4 finally
caught the fellow, who turned
out to be 81 years old. Ee suffer
ed a heart attack as a result of
the footwork. But he has re-
covered sufficiently to be jailed,
Miss Lcrenzen didn't know
that her quarry was much
wanted man. He has been identi-
fled as William R. Evans, who
has a record going back to 1907
FBI agents say Evans has been
involved in bank robberies
amounting to more than a mill
lion dollars
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-04-20
Senate's Fiibuster Rule
Tries To Do Two Things

BY EDWARD H. SIMS. Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON.-Wih q senate hlibuster just Ground the
corner Tor perhaps progress when you read his timely
10 discuss some unknown facts about senate rules
IN the first place Y citizens think the rules of the Senoe
one ochoic. und outofsep this twentieth century. They
say thot when minority tie the entire senate
me mooriy from voting for Days and weeks something
is wrong with the rules
Because this argument good the senGte lost Yeor
changed its rules Southern THE major hbuser boc)
giving their right hbuser indefinitely Few reporters
realized the significance of this the but the l949
promise rules change in the senate oer Southern buste)
did major hng disposed of the Southern senator's right
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-04-20
Charm School
Is Opening In
Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA Up. The
day of the dowdy school marin is
done. She doesn't pay off. This is
the age of charm, and the Phil
adelphia Board of Education is
not to be left behind. Yes-the
board has opened a charm school
for school marms, and it has an
nounced program of advance
ment based in part on success in
this field. The more charm the
more money. Here's bit of what
the Boards announcement says:
8 Would you care to glimpse
come of the newest fashions in
clothes?
Would you like to know some
of the hair-dos becoming to diff
ferent types?'
Or this
Does your voice have that
quality which makes pupils want
to listen?"
All these and many more per-
sonality points are listed in the
Board of Education announce
ment to it's teachers. And the
board charm School offers to
teach the teachers which hairdo
will do the job best-Which cloth
es are most becoming and-a big
point-how to oil that squeaky
voice Ladies who show special
accomplishment in the charm
school will get special considera-
ton for promotion and salary in
creases. e. for effort
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-04-20

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Critics of the rules change
compromise of 1949 say a fill
buster is harder to break now
than ever, but this is untrue.
For the first time in years any
filibuster can be broken if sixty
four senators vote for cloture,
limited debate. 1t is that simple.
under the new rule. Of course,
sixty-four senators is quite a
number, but not an impossible
number, in any sense. There are
only twenty-five Southern sepa-
tors, one or two of whom do
not support filibuSterS. So of the
ninety-Six senators on the floor,
the South can count on only
twenty. That leaves seventy-Six
senators. When sixty-four decide
debate should be limited, they
can limit it. And that would take
into consideration the possibility
that twelve other senators voted
with the filibusters. Even then
debate could be limited.
Thus the new rule, while not
easy to invoke, is indeed work
able. Some will ask why a two
thirds majority (sixty-four of
ninety-six) is required to halt
debate in the senate. Few re-
alize that quite often a bare ma
jority in the upper body repre-
Sents much less than half the
population. Because senators
are not chosen on representa-
tive basis, from population fig
ures, they stand for states, not
people.
And twenty-five states Cor
fifty senators) often represent
less than third of the people.
1t would be dangerous to let
those representing a third of the
population halt debate on an is
sue which vitality concerned two
thirds of the nations people,
for example. And yet twenty
five less populous states could
send fifty men to the senate
with that power if a two
thirds majority wasn't required
for halting free debate. In the
senate, freedom of speech is a
cherished liberty. It is often
abused, but many senators feel
that the present rule, which pre-
vents excessive abuse, is a good
one, and that easier curtailment
of debate would be undesirable.
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urally. But then. after the
mourning had ended-in July
Ford attempte dto reopen the
theatre. A great national howl
went up. And eventually the
government had to rescue Ford
from financial disaster. The build
ing was taken over and convert
ed into an office building. But
that was not the end of tragedy
for Ford's Theatre. In June of
1893, when the building was fill
ed with clerks and officials, three
of its floors collapsed. Twenty
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-04-20
The Veterans
Corner
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
OF INTEREST TO VETERANS

Here are authoritative answers
from the Veterans Administration
to four Questions about compen-
sation and pension of interest to
former servicemen and their de-
pendents:
Q. Last year, / was awarded
compensation from VA, but | re-
nounced my payments. If | de-
eide that l would like to receive
compensation payments at some
future date, will they be re-
sumed?
A. Compensation will be re-
sumed if the ice-connected
condition is shown by medical
evidence to exist to compensate
degree at the time you file new
application for such benefits
Compensation, if approved, will
not be made retroactive.
@. l had a disability before l
entered service during World
War II, but the disability has in
creased considerably since then.
Is compensation payable for the
increase in severity occurring
during enlistment?
A. Existing legislation pro-
vides compensation for disabili-
ties aggravated during and as the
result of active service
Q. What are the compensation
rates payable for World War II
veterans for service-Connected
disabilities?
A. The rates range from SIS a
month for 10 percent disability
to $3.50 month for 100 percent
or total disability. Statutory
awards for loss of leg, arm, eye,
etc, plus additional compensa-
ton for dependents of totally
disabled veteran may run the
total payment to $45l a month.
Q. My late husband "a World
War II veteran, died of non-ser-
vice connected disability. Am l
entitled TO a pension?
A. As his widow, you may be
entitled to pension if your hus-
bands service meets the require
ments and your income does not
exceed $1,000 per year if without
minor child, or $500 if with
minor child or children.
(Vetearhs wishing further in
formation regarding veterans
benefits may have their ques-
tions answered by writing or
visiting your VA Office.
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PAGE SEVEN

two persons were killed and SO
injured.
After that the building was
closed up and stayed that way
for nearly 40 years. Finally, IN
1882, the old theatre was re-
built as it had been in Lincoln's
time And it is now museum.
The rather grisly reminders of
that murder of 1865 attract III
least 100000 tourists every year
But the lights and gayety that
once enlivened Ford's are gone
forever.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-04-20
STRICTLY BUSINESS

A piece of paper, slipped under
the windshield wiper of the
brand-new convertible parked in
the mo Parking" zone bore the
words "Attorney-am inside at
tending to business.
Below, very neatly written, APP
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-04-20

peared the additional note: 'Po-
liceman-am outside attending
to business"
And on the door handle was a
parking ticket.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-04-20

Gordium, where Alexander
cut the gordian knot, is in west
central Turkey.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-04-20

Oak wilt will kill white oak
in one or two years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05
Ships Have Evacuated
5000 Korea Casualties

The Defense department sale
yesterday that ships have evacua-
ted approximately 5000 casualties
from Korea to Japan during the
Korean conflict and have brought
more than 1,400 of the wounded
from Japan to the United States
since mid-September.
Both groups were transported
aboard ships of the military sea
transportation service, operated
by the Navy.
Announced policy had been tc
evacuate all wounded from Japan
to the United States by air: Asked
by a reporter why some of the
wounded were transported by ship
since mid-September. a defense
spokesman said this was done in
order to clear service hospitals in
Japan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05
Republicans
/(Continued From First Page.)

Co
timed for release with the Presi-
dents speech. "Mr. Truman has
the audacity to tell the country
all is well
Mr.. Stassen began his speech
by alluding to the abortive at
tempts of two Puerto Rican revo-
lutionists to assassinate President
Truman last Wednesday.
Then launching into an attack
on American foreign policies, par
ticularly in the Far East, the Re-
publican leader said every Ameri-
can citizen is asking:
How can it be that five short
years after winning a sweeping
victory in World War II, so much
Of what we fought for has been
lost, the bright hopes of peace
have been destroyed. one third of
the peoples of the world have been
brought under Communist dicta-
torships, and the churches of all
faiths, Catholic, Protestant and
Jewish, are under vicious attacks
in one third of the world?"
The bad news, Mr.. Stassen de-
clared, dramatizes 1.-The terrible
results of unbelievable errors" in
American policy in the Far East
since the end of World War II
He added
1.-THE startling facts are that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05

the same kind Of mistakes are
still being made"
He said that lit has just beer
revealed" that when President
Truman ordered the United
States Seventh Fleet to safeguard
Formosa during the Korean fight.
ing he also ordered the fleet tt
break the Chinese Nationalist
blockade of the Communist Chi
nest coastline.
He also charged that in August
1947. the Soviet ship Mikhai
Kutuzov, sailed from New Yorl
with atomic devices and ma
chinery for Russia" and thai
these postwar shipments =" ane
the spying of Klaus Fuchs ano
Harry Gold are the direct reason
that the Communists of Russia
have atomic bombs today"
MIR. Stassen said "these fact.
point up and prove" that the pres
Ient administration has been "se
weak and confused and spy
riddled" that this, more than any.
thing else. accounts for the tragic
f1ve-year loss of the bright hope:
of peace" for which many fought
and died in World War II.
These revelations Of postwar
foreign policy" Mr.. Stassen added
make it clearer day by day thai
the President has been caught be-
tween very bad advice from hi!
State Department and very bae
politics Of the Missouri Pendergas
machine moved up to a nationa
operation"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05

AS a result. we got the Republican
no-good, do-nothing 80th Con-
gresS.
Right away, the Republicans
began to tear down what we had
done for the farmer.
They cut the soil conservation
program and tried to weaken the
farmer committee system. They
attacked the price support pro-
gram. They cut down the author
ity of the Commodity Credit Corp.
to store grain. In 1913. for this
very reason, many farmers were
forced to sell corn at 40 or so
cents less than the support price.
The people saw that the Repub-
lican Party hadn't changed bit.
1t still didn't care what happened
to the farmer. So the people
threw the Republican Congress
out.
Farmers Now Prosperous.
The Democratic 81st Congress
repaired the damage the Repub-
licans had done. We restored the
power of the Commodity Credit
Corp. to store grain. We started
a rural telephone program. We
strengthened the soil conserva-
ton program and the price sup
port program.
Today, farms and farm people
are strong and prosperous. And be-
cause farmers are better off, the
whole country is better off.
But the Republicans say: vote
for us again. Vote us back in
so we can save you from this ter
rible Democratic farm program
that has made you farmers so
prosperous"
I said in this hall in l948 that
any farmer who votes for the Re
publican Party is voting against
his own interests-and ought to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05
Secretary Snyder
Gets 'Grondpow'
Salute of Humans
BY the Asseeiated Press

Secretary of the Treasury Sny-
der became a grandfather yes
terday.
An eight and a half pound
daughter was born to the former
Edith Cook "Drucie" Snyder, now
the wife of John E. Horton. Mother
and daughter were reported doing
well at George Washington
Hospital.
The baby was named Evlyn
Spencer Horton, after ner ma
ternal grandmother.
Margaret Truman, close friend
of Mrs. Horton, found an occasion
to welcome Secretary Snyder with:
"Hi, Grandpaw!"
That was at National Airport
when President Truman was TAX
ing off for st. Louis.
Mr.. Truman, amid the con-
gratulations for Mr.. Snyder. pulled
from his pocket an advertisement
Of a pajama clad young man hold
ing a baby. 1t bore a caption
papa" in front of which the
President had written grand"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05
Franco Spain Blockade Lifted
by 1910 u. S. Assembly Vote

sends an ambassador to Spain.
The United States at present has
Ia charge d'affaires in Madrid.
Some Latin American nations
already have established full-dress
diplomatic relations with Spain,
despite the 1916 U. N. embargo.
Reports from Madrid have de-
scribed Spain as showing no en-
thusiasm about joining only spe-
cial U. N. organizations. The
Spanish press has clamored for
full membership or nothing.
AS they did in the Special Po-
litical Committee earlier this
week. Guatemala. Israel. Mexico.
Uruguay and Yugoslavia joined
the five Soviet-bloc countries in
opposing the resolution.
Lack of Change Cited.
Israel pointed out that while
Gen. Franco did not himself per-
secute the Jews, his regime was
installed by Hitler and Mussolini,
who did. The other -Commu-
mist opponents held that nothing
has changed in Spain" since 1916.
The Spanish Republican gov
eminent in exile. in an eleventh.
hour appeal. called on the AS
sembly yesterday to keep the
restrictions against Gen. Franco.
saying that lifting the bans would
strengthen the Fascists and
undermine the prestige of the
United Nations.
All five Soviet bloc delegates
took a similar position today.
In the strongest speech, DR..
Eduard Goldstucker of Czecho-
slovakia, called Gen. Franco the
greatest Fascist war criminal
who has escaped punishment,
thanks to his friends among
United States ruling circles, the
Vatican and elsewhere.
Seantor Sparkman, Democrat, Of
Alabama, United States delegate,
made no speech today. In the
Special Political Committee three
days ago, however, he denied
Soviet charges of a United States
Franco military entente, saying
they were exposed as "fabrica-
lions" in 1949 and were Just as
false today.
Before the vote, the Assembly
decided under new rule for lin
iting debate not to open the sub
ject again. The vote was 80 to
5 with 10 abstentions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05
By q Sior Sieff Correspondent

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 4.-Local po-
lice hit the jackpot tonight in
their extraordinary efforts to
guard President Truman. Demo-
cratic National Committee Chair
man William M. Boyle. jr.. who
came from Washington with the
President. Jagged a few feet be-
hind the party, and promptly
found himself barred from the
Jefferson Hotel as Mr.. Truman
and the others strobe in.
After standing around until Mr..
Truman had taken an elevator to
his quarters. Mr. Boyle was adj
mitted to the lobby with the
White House press party which
also had been blockaded by the
police to whom credentials meant
nothing.
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder
and Sidney w. Souers. presidential
adviser on national security-both
st. Louisans-almoSt got the Boyle
treatment, but they were identi-
fled to the satisfaction of the
police, and got by.
The measures taken here tc
safeguard the President were re-
Election of those applied in Wash
ington for his departure from Ma
tional Airport.
The entire four mile route from
Blair House to the airport was
under heavy guard yesterday as
Mr.. Truman took off.
The presidential encourage Of
three cars-two for the guards
left the rear of the roped-of Blail
House at lao pm. and his plane
the Independence. took off from
the airport at 2:03 withou
incident.
Pedestrians and cars were bar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05
Truman Guard Plays 1t Safe,
Even Stops Boyle At Hotel Door

red from the Memorial Bridge and
the Mt. Vernon highway leading
to the airport. Policemen were
stationed along the entire route
and even atop the two Fourteenth
street bridges and the railroad
bridge.
Mrs. Truman and Miss Margaret
Truman rode with the President
to the airport where Mr.. Truman
appeared in a jovial mood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05

have his head examined. That was
true then. and it is true now.
And the same thing is true fol-
the working man.
In 1882 unemployment rose to
more than Is million. Wages
were low. Labor was disorganized
The Democratic Party set out
to help the workers. In spite OF
the bitterest kind Of Republican
opposition, the Democratic pro-
gram went through. AS a result,
the working people of this country
got better wages. higher stand
ard of living. and social security
Then along came the no-good
Republican 80th Congress, and
they started out to tear down
the progress we had made.
They took away social security
from nearly million people.
They started to destroy the
unions through the infamous
Taft-Hartley law.
They were on the way back to
the conditions the special interests
like - low wages. unemployment,
weak unions.
But the people found out what
they were up to. and elected a
Democratic Congress. And the
Democratic 81st Congress set out
to correct the damage the Repub-
licanS had done.
Minimum Wage Raised.
The 81st Congress raised the
minimum wage from 40 cents an
hour to rs cents an hour.
The 81st Congress put a stop
to the Republican effort to under
mine the labor unions. And just
as sure as I am standing here, we
are eventually going to get rid of
the union busting provisions of
the Taft Hartley law.
The Democratic 81st Congress
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05
iContinued From First Page.)

Union, Uruguay, Yugoslavia-10
Abstentions: Australia, Burma
Cuba, Denmark, Ethiopia, France
India. Indonesia, New Zealand
Norway. Sweden, Britain-12.
The Assembly decision leaves it
up to the members to decide for
themselves whether to send their
top diplomats back to Madrid
Similarly. it leaves it to the special
U. N. agencies to vote on Spanish
membership.
Truman Outlines Stand.
While the United States sup
ported the resolution, President
Truman told a news conference
Thursday that it will be a long,
long time before this country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-11-05

broadened social security to cover
10 million more people. We raised
social security benefits by II pei
cent.
Today, labor is a responsible
and prosperous element in oul
community and our national life
And because workers are better off
the whole country is better off.
But the Republicans would like
to get back in. What are they
Offering to labor?
Frankly. I don't know. I think
they have about given up talking
to the working man. They know
that no matter what they say, no.
body is going to believe them-the
Republican record on labor is toe
plain.
Now let's take the record on
business.
For a long time now. the Re
publican Party has been claiming
that it was good for business
'There is no evidence to support
this claim. I am getting sick and
tired of it. The special interests
are just as bed for business as they
are for the rest of the country.
Back in 1888, business turned to
the Democratic Party and cried
Save us!" And we did.
In 1882, the corporations Of this
country were 3 billion dollars in
the red. Under the program OF
the Democratic Party. corporate
profits had increased to 23Ea
billion dollars by 1916.
Then along came the Republi-
can 80th Congress and the special
interests. They tried to please the
real estate lobby, and the oil lobby
and all the other Hobbies. They
passed a rich mans tax bill.
BY the end of the 80th Congress
busienss was headed for trouble
again. just as it always is when the
special interests are in the saddle
The Democratic Party and the
f81st Congress put a stop to that
We got the economy of the
country back on the right track
Business Thriving.
And today, business is better of
than it ever was. The Democratic
Party has been the salvation OF
free enterprise in this country
and don't let anybody tell you
anything different.
The story has been the same
in every phase of our national life
The Republicans have fought
every great progressive measure
that has been adopted for the
good of the people in the last II
years.
And they are just the same
today as they always were. They
haven't changed bit.
Now the Republicans are facing
an impossible task. They are try
ing to win an election with q
record they are ashamed to admit
and a program they want tt
conceal.
What the Republican leaders
really want to do is to put stop
to the New Deal and the Fail
Deal. They want to turn the
country over to the special inter
ests to run as they please. But
of course, the Republicans don't
dare to tell the people that.
So they have been trying to
scare the people-to scare them
so they will forget the terrible
record of the Republican Party.
AS usual, they are trying tc
scare us by saying that the coun-
try is on the brink Of disaster
that the end is in sight. But no.
body is going to fall for that line
of tommyrot at a time when the
Evening star., 1950-09-17
.Ohioon Married
InCopitoI Rite

Miss Wilma Laralie Lii, 1ale.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Merwin
3. Lilliedale of Akron, Ohio, be-
came the bride yesterday of Mr..
Patrick John Phelan in a cere-
mony in st. Anthony's Church
with the Rev. John Dressed offici-
ating at the nuptial mass.
Mr.. Phelan is the son of Mr.
Raymond Phelan, assistant at
tache with the United States En-
bassy in Panama. and Mrs. Phelan.
The bride was escorted to the
altar by her father and was at
tended by her sister, Miss Marina
Lilliedale, who was maid of honor.
Miss Jean Dale Shafer, cousin of
the bride and daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Blynn Shafer of this city,
was bridesmaid.
Mr.. Albert Phelan was his
brothers best man. Another
brother, Mr.. Fletch Phelan, and
Mr.. Leon Robinson and Mr.. Law
renee Brady served as ushers.