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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-10-02
Nisei Editors First Edition
Shows Democracy In Action
What makes an American?

what makes an American7
Forty-two Nebraska newspaper
publishers last June decided il
wasn't the slant of a mans ewes
or the color Of his skin when they
deserted their own business tn
help young Nisei Ben Kuroki
print a 40-page debut edition of
his newly purchased York Re-
publican
When Ben was born in Me-.
braska to his potato-farming
family, nobody noticed him at
all. He grew up unheralded. I'M
scorned and practically unnoticed.
On Pearl Harbor Day he and his
brother volunteered to enter the
Army. They were accepted. and
Ben went TO the Air Force. Only
then did he find discrimination
look at that Jap" Whats
he doing in uniform" But by
the time Ben had flown So bomb
ing missions in both Europe and
the Pacific and had been dec
GRATED for bravery. people began
70 make up their minds that this
was an American.
In bomber named The
Honorable Sad Saki" Ben had a
chance for many a lick at his
-dishonorable ancestors"
After Rehabilitation Ben made
up his mind to enter the news
paper field and he studied Jour-
nalism in Nebraska. Then he
bought the York Republican from
veteran Nebraska publisher
Joseph Alden. Alden is a ninth
generation descendant of Pilgrims
John and Priscilla.
His debut edition called Opera
ton Democracy" is in the way of
being welcome for young Ku-
roki to the Nebraska newspaper
fraternity In forty news and
feature and ad and picture-packed
pages appear the writing and the
bylines of Nebraska's well-known
community publishers, as well as
the usual staff
Kuroki says in his column
named in honor of his old bamb-
er. The Honorable Sad Saki",
that he wanted to call his column
sChopsticks and Rice" but his
Idaho-born wife Shige Tanabe
wouldn't let him.
In statement of intentions"
carried on his editorial page, Ku-
roki sets forth the things in which
he believes and on which he IN
tends to base his newspaper.
Though they are written by man
descended from an erstwhiIe
enemy, these intentions might
well be part of the American
creed:
We shall do our best to publish
both sides of each story when
controversy arises. We shall en-
deavor to present the truth at all
times.
NE snail support all religious
interests whatever denOmi-
nation or creed because we
believe religion and democracy
are inseparable.
I'VE shall cooperate whole
heartedly with the schools. for
we feel that the educational in
cfffrtfior7c ara correlated with tho
prominence and progress of our
nation.
I'VE shall PROFOUND and fight
for the democratic principles up
on which this nation was found
ed. for we believe there is no
other way of life equal to the one
It offers"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-10-02

LA HACIENDA, new apartments
and efficiencieS. Corner VII
liam and Washington SITS
aug28 BOT
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ADVISORY

Miami Weather Bureau Ad-
visory No. 5, George, 1890 am
EST, Oct. 2, 1850:
The hurricane in the Atlantic
has moved very slowly during the
past "a hours but appears to be
moving northnorthwest or north
about 5 or 6 mph. At 1890 EST
1907 -. the center was near
latitude 31-3 North and longitude
65.I West or about go miles south
southeast of Bermuda. Strongest
winds 90 to 95 mph near center
Hurricane force winds in west and
southwest quadrants-
Indications are for continued
very slow movement probably IN
northerly direction Bermuda
should prepare for hurricane
winds.
NORTON.
Weather Bureau
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-10-02

The Red River of the North,
which crosses the Us Canadian
border, is so called to distinguish
il from the Red River which
forms part of the Texas-Oklahoms
line
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-10-02

TWoBEDROoM furnished apart
ment. Hot water. lights. furn-
shed eos White Street Apply
T26 Whitehead Street, Phone 1877
sept30-5
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Use your phone Adver-
Eisements may be inserted
n these columns by phone
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MAGIC self-adhesiVe letters for
permanent changeable letter
signs Unlimited prospects Gen
erOus comm New deal never be
tore offered. Write Hubstick,
S55-B Congress, Boston. Mass.
Oc12-1 Ink
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Report

Key West. Fla, Oct 2. 1880
Observations taken at City Office,
eco AN, EST
Temperature
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Naval Base
TOMORROW
Eastern Standard Time
High Low
1:07 am 8:57 am
pm pm
ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA
Reference Station: Key West
Time of Height Of
Station Tide high watel
Bahia Honda
(bridgel oh ION go #
No Name Key
least end) --+2h 20m
Boca Chica
SANDY Pt.l oh 4Om
Saldes Channel
north endD -+2h 10m ia II
|lHMinus sign. Corrections
to be subtracted.
(+)-Plus sign: Corrections to
he added
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THREE unfinished apartments
: or Office Also furnished room
upstairs, with use OF hall Room
unfinished as kitchen Apply
2l7 DuvaI street. oct2-3f
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MODERN One-bedroOm furnished
house. Tile bath and kitchen
Couple only Rent $500. yearly
lease Call TOR oct2-3tx
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FURNISHED apartment. quiet
adults, no pets. frigidare, stove,
bath tub. hot water. Near park
5000 monthly Linens and utill-
ties furnished for $1,000 weekly
1906 Florida street. Phone 243-R-
oct2-tt
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FOR RENT-APARTMENTS

FURNISHED apartments, rooms
and bath $500 monthly. maid
and janitor service, linens and
utilities furnished Coral Hotel
Apartments, opposite Post Office.
sept6-tf
Evening star., 1950-04-27

that their party is abusing it's
constitutional right to be stupid.
No place has yet been made on
the Senate calendar for the Ke-
fauver resolution to probe Nation
wide crime. This is the resolution
which the Democratic leadership
reshaped so that the crime sub
committee could not be dominated
by conservative coalition from
the Judiciary Committee.
Outcry From COP.
tt was frankly feared that Judi
ciary Chairman Pat McCarran,
who has no love for the admin
istration, would appoint to any
subcommittee Senators Donnell of
Missouri and Ferguson of Mich
igan. Republicans who rarely find
any good acts or intentions in
sources Democratic.
A great outcry has gone up from
Republicans that this is un-Amer-
ican and that they will fight the
leadership's compromise. Their
outcry in turn is being utilized by
Majority Leader Lucas as his
reason for delay, on the pious
ground that the Senate has i'm
portant business which should not
be held up to make room for a
partisan political fight,
Evening star., 1950-04-27

to offset Communist propaganda
for German unif1cation, which
they maintain is prevented by the
Western Allies. To carry con-
viction to a Berlin audience that
he and his government were not
separatists. as the Communists
accuse, he led the audience IN
singing the last verse of "Deutsch-
land Uber Allies"
Immediately, there occurred a
crisis. Western allied comman-
dants pointedly remained seated;
Socialists walked out; and Ameri-
can correspondents reported Ado
nauer as reviving "the old German
imperialist anthem"
Song of Liberals.
The incident reveals the truth
Of ShakeSpeare's dictum that
There's nothing either good or
bad but thinking makes it So"
Probably nine-tenths of Ameri-
cans, Englishmen and Frenchmen
believe that Deutschland Uber
Allies is imperialist. and that it's
first line declares German inten-
tions to dominate the world. That
it has been on the lips of Ger
Evening star., 1950-04-27

omy slash does. Mr.. MeLenore.
1t cuts the delivery of mail In
residential areas to once a day.
curtailS the working hours of post
al clerks. and scrambles the col
lection hour signs on street corner
boxes so thoroughly that no one
can be sure when letter dropped
in the big green hamper will get
picked up and sent off by train,
plane, or canoe.
What Makes Heart Warm.
This new system will save mil
lions of dollars. but it is not the
saving which makes me want to
drop to my knees and bless Post
master General Donaldson. SIM
ply can't get excited when our
Government says it is saving
money. My brief existence as a
citizen has proved Ito me, any,
way that the savings are never
turned back to the ones it was
saved from. If the Government
ever announced that if it saved
5000 million. it would divide it
equally among the taxpayers, why,
you would see the most economy
minded folks in the world.
No, what makes my heart so
warm over the post Office slash
that almost have to pour ice
water over 1t to keep it from
burning me up, is the fact that
from here on out, am not going
to get as much mail as in the past.
For every letter I have ever
received announcing the death of
a near-forgotten uncle who went
to Australia as youth and struck
it rich by being the first one to
think of making cold-weather
hats from kangaroo pouches with
a small kangaroo on top that
Whirls when the wearer runs to-
ward grammar school SO as not to
be tardy and left his fabulous
wealth to me, I have received
Evening star., 1950-04-27
therefore,


raising every possible doubt con-
corning the wisdom and even the
integrity Of administration Of
flcials who deal with foreign af-
fairs; justified in continuing the
clamor over alleged communism
within the State Department:
justified IN keeping department
officials so busy answering reck-
less charges that little time is left
for the business of the depart
ment, as terribly serious as that
business is in these days.
Aware He Is American.
One man in position to give the
lie to this Misrepresentation of
the administrations conduct OF
foreign affairs is Warren R. Aus
tin, former Republican Senator
from Vermont. He gives it the lie
by the very position he holds.
head of the American delegation
to the United Nations. During the
years he has served in that ca
pacity, bearing the brunt OF the
frequent clashes between Ameri-
can policy and Russian policy in
the international arena, he has
had little reason to remind him
self that he is a Republican serv-
ing a Democratic administration
Instead he has had every reason
to be aware that he is an Ameri-
can, serving the American people
Most Importantly. for its bear
ing on the false issues that have
been raised, the head of our dele
cation at Lake Success has had
reason to know that the policies
he has helped carry out have not
been formulated or Influenced by
any little Communists hidden in
the Railways of the State Depart
ment or any other department Of
Evening star., 1950-04-27
On the Record
deutschland Uber Allies" Is the Song
Of German Liberals, Writer Points Out

mans who had such intentions
lends weight to the conviction.
But it's author must be turning in
his grave at such a notion.
For Deutschland Uber Allies"
was the song of the democratic
revolutionaries of 1848. It's author
Ferdinand Freiligrath, an en-
thusiastic liberal, was arrested and
suffered long exile for his poems.
The 1848 revolution sprang from
Napoleon's conqueStS, in which
the French conqueror found COL
laborators among the petty Ger
man princes-aS the British found
German princes to furnish merce-
naries against the American Revo-
luton. Deutschland Uber Allies"
was a cry for country over kings,
and for the democratic unity of
all Germans in an indivisible ma
ton, dearer than "all else in the
world"
This concept caused it's author
to be arrested for "lese majeste, u
and those who sang it to flee to
Switzerland. England, and Wiscon-
sin against reaction.
Never Kaiser's Anthem,
1t was never the national an
them of the Kaiser's Germany.
There was Hail Thou in Victors
wreath" sung to the same tune
as God Save the King" and
MY Country 'Tis of Thee" The
tunes Of national anthems have
a strangely international charac-
ter. The music of Deutschland
uosr Allies" is that of Haydn's
Austrian anthem, and Protestants
sing it to the words Glorious
Things of Thee Are Spoken"
When the first German republic
was created at Weimar, following
World War I. it adopted the
black-red-gold flag of the aborted
184S revolution that briefly flew
over a Parliament at Frankfurt
and made the song the anthem of
the new republic. AS I recall, It'll
was the first Socialist president of
the republic, Fritz Ebert, who sug-
geSted it.
The Nazis made a new anthem
the Horst Vessel song. Nation
alists before them rewrote parts
Of Deutschland Uber Allies" but
Adenauer quoted the original. It
reads:
Unity and law are freedom
For, the German Fatherland
If for these things we will strive,
Brotherly with heart and hand,
Unity and right and freedom,
Are the pledge of happiness,
Bloom then in this happiness,
Blossom. German Fatherland."
/ The words seem like a good
retort to the Communists. And
what shall the Germans sing?
The "Internationale"? Better,
perhaps, the great hymn "A
Mighty Fortress Is Our God" since |
in truth, God, if they serve him,
is their only fortress-and where
else can any one today invest his
trust?
released By the Bell Syndicate. Ine.)
Evening star., 1950-04-27

OdyO OOA 414S VIZ
Berlin airlift when American and
British transport planes were
traversing the Soviet zone OF Ger
many to keep 2 million Berliners
alive.
The peril is more extreme today
than it was then. If the Russians
had shot down any American
transport planes the United States
undoubtedly would have used
counterforce to see that the trans
ports got through, and that could
easily have led to a shooting war.
Soviet Hesitated Then.
The thing that kept the block
ade and airlift from starting a
full-scale conflict was the appar-
ent Russian determination not to
shoot at American aircraft. and
the hesitation of the Soviet high
command to take even a calcu-
lated risk of war.
Today the situation is different.
The Russians did not hesitate to
shoot down an American military
plane over the open Baltic Sea,
where the plane had a right to be.
The Soviet command in Germany
is making big plans for May Day
rallies which could cause East
West trouble not only in Berlin
but in all of Germany But worst
of all. the Russians are laying the
ground work for hot time in
Berlin May 81 and 20 when the
Free German Youth, numbering
hundreds of thousands, are sched-
uled to march on Berlin.
Evening star., 1950-04-27
On the Other Hand
Does Head of American Delegation
To L. n. Follow Communist Party Line?

the Government. Indeed, 1t is
something of a slander on the
character and intelligence of this
able ex-senator to suggest that
the policies to which he subscribes
have been thus influenced during
the five years he has been their
principal protagonist in the
United Nations.
Facts Overlooked.
Much has been made recently
of the recall of John Foster Dulles
to the State Department, follow
ing his defeat as Republican can
didate for Senator from New
York. and of the Probability that
he will head the United States
delegation to any japanese peace
conference. The same is true of
the selection of John Sherman
Cooper, former Republican SEN
ator from Kentucky, as top-level
adviser to the State Department.
1t has been pointed out, too, that
the head of the departments
security organization, General
Snow. is a lifelong New England
Republican, that the head of the
Loyalty Review Board, Seth w.
Richardson, is a former Repub-
lican Assistant Attorney General
and that the board itself is evenly
divided between Democrats and
Republicans.
Overlooked is the fact that the
very spearhead of department
policy in action is a man who en-
joyed the full respect and con-
f1dence of his Republican COL
leagues when he served in the
United States Senate.
OF course, you can't fool such
foreign experts as Jenner,
Wherry, Mundt, Mccarthy and
Taft-not in an election year,
You can't fool them any more
than you can fool the editor of
the Detroit Free Press concerning
the President of the United
States. Here is the editors de-
scription, as reprinted and distrib-
uted by the Republican National
Committee, of the man now
carrying the burden of the Amer
lean presidency:
"As for Harry Truman, he does
not know what it is all about.
He is a peddler of nostrums, a
political pitch man who has
learned his spiel. AS long as he
can hang on to the best paying
job in the United States and
keep his pals in bonded Bourbon
it doesn't matter to him whether
he is told to sell can openers or
brooms as he goes from door to
door, ringing bells at the whistle
stops"
Evening star., 1950-04-27
This Changing World
Soviet Seen Ready to Take War Risk
To Put Over Moves in Germany
Germany

While we are strengthening the
Western Berlin police and occu-
patton forces there to prevent, by
shooting if necessary, any march
on the Western sectors of the city.
the Russians are bringing thou
sands more Of Volkspolizei CPeo-
pies Police.
This new German army, trained
and equipped by the Russians to
do the Russian, will, carries even
a bigger threat than the many
thousands of young Germans
some mere children-who will go
to Berlin late next month. If the
Russians are set on violence, it
will be the youths who will touch
it off and the Peoples Police, sup
ported by Russian occupation
troops, who will follow through to
carry out the Red demand that
Berlin and all Germany be unified
under Communist rule.
Ground Laid for Explosion.
Never has the ground been so
we'll prepared for an explosion.
Many sparks have been struck in
the years since the cold war be-
gan, but they have fallen on damp
ground and died out quickly.
The American people have come
to feel-and the American Gov
ernment reflects that feeling
that Russia is intent on pushing
us just as far as it can and will
even risk war in order to get its
way. That risk could we'll be taken
in Berlin, where the Russians and
their German Communist servants
have been trying to expel us for
some years now.
When High Commissioner Nc
Cloy says the Western Allies will
not be forced out of Berlin, he ex-
presses the feeling not only of
American occupation authorities
in Germany but the American
people, too. Berlin may not be
worth much to us actually, in fact
it may be a positive liability in
many respects. but it is something
we won with American lives and
which we intend to hang on to,
even if it means the immediate
outbreak of war which more and
more is coming to seem inevitable.
The whole month of May will be
a period of extreme nervous strain
and tension for us. The cold war
is leading into new paths, we can
not be sure where.
Evening star., 1950-04-27
Polite Sparring Match
Strange Delay Seen in Senate Groups
Battle With Organized Crime

In still another arena, a Sem
ate commerce subcommittee is in
vestigating the interstate trans
mission of gambling information.
This is a wholly legitimate field
for the commerce committee,
though it covers ground that any
larger inquiry must also examine.
The hearings are disclosing GER
tain differences of opinion be-
tween the Justice Department and
the Federal Communications Com
mission about how the matter
might be handled. Nor are some
of the administration spokesmen
from urban centers exactly fiery
in their demands for action.
Bow to Bookmaker.
What has also struck the Cap
ital is the extreme politeness ac-
corded witnesses drawn from the
businesses which it is presumably
desired to declare illegal.
A Mr.. James j. Carroll of St.
Louis. who says he is a price
maker" on sports events and po-
litical contests, could not have been
better treated if he were presi-
dent of General Motors. Chair
man Mcfarland emphasized that
he was called because of his in
innate knowledge of bookmaking
operations and that there were
no allegations he had violated
Federal laws. Mr.. Carrolls at
torney was on hand and given
free rein to protect his client from
embarrassing questions.
Mr.. Carroll was in "a very COM
petitive business" explained his
mouthpiece in what is probably
the understatement of the week.
A Mr.. Frank Costello was to be
the committees next witness. Mr..
Costello, who has had consider
able publicity not calculated to
please his mother. was to be ques-
toned along the same lines as
Mr.. Carroll.
Accounts of these proceedings
must arouse certain nostalgia in
witnesses before other congress
sional committee. such as former
Acc Chairman Lilienthal, whose
experiences were so different.
Evening star., 1950-04-27
THE EVENING STAR. Washington, D. c. A-ls
THusSoAT n

4 million letters that have ISM
glass fronts.
Can Mean Grief.
And don't tell me that you
don't know VIII. a letter with a
front patterned after the front Of
an old type stove means II
means grief. It always has sum
of figures with printed directions
to pay the total in the right hand
column. and usually a nasty little
reminder that you have undoubt-
edly overlooked this and a re-
mittance would be appreciated.
There are some husbands-usu-
ally presidents of big corporations
who have no fear of going to the
mailbox. They don't care what
kind of letters are nesting in
the galvanized container. But not
most of us. I would swear that it
Evening star., 1950-04-27

has been year since I have re-
turned from the mailbox without
cold perSpiration StipplinG my
forehead.
Now. thanks 10 Postmaster
General Donaldson. I will only
undergo the rigors OF cold perSpi-
ration once day. Unsteady OF
twice.
II he would only make it Illegal
to send wedding announcements,
school graduation announcements.
and requests from great. bis.
wealthy stores for payment OF
trifling purchases you have made
from them. then would so whole
hog. give not fig for expense.
and spend a penny for . card to
declare my everlasting. undying
gratitude.
Distributed By McNsuEht Syndicate, lnel
Evening star., 1950-04-27

emily In favor
of a series of
polite and ex-
trenely politi-
cal sp arrin g
matches.
w h e t h e r
these prelimi-
narieS will en-
CO m p ass the
side = tracking
of the original
bout remains
to be seen. If
'Chey do, a great
m a ny Demo-
Gratis will feel
Evening star., 1950-04-27

celved an ova-
ton. His visit
had the pul'-
pose of encour-
aging Berlin re-
SiStance to East
German plot S
and of estab-
fishing an axis
b e t W e e n the
historic G e r.
man capt. a !
isolated in the
Russian zone,
and the West.
The visit also
Evening star., 1950-04-27

are men IN Cne
R e pu b lie a n
Party who rec
ogniZe this fact.
This is true de-
spite the per-
sistent effort of
t h e party's
louder Spokes-
men to create
the impression
that they have
been frozen out
of the Nations S
councils a n d
are justified,
Evening star., 1950-04-27

ing him on be-
half of all hus-
bands for his
new economy
move.
In case you
d mt m owe
around in post
Office circl S,
and are not in
the special de-
livery. general
delivery. a n d
p arcel post
swim, this is
what the econ
Evening star., 1950-04-27

10 go nlgneT.
At no time
since the Allies
withdrew their
e KIP e d itionary
fore eS from
Murmansk and
S i b eria after
World War I
h a v e t h e
United States
a n d r u S S l a
been SO close to
possible trouble,
nd this in
cludeS h oS e
iauc d1nriran the
Evening star., 1950-04-27
By Constantine Br0wn

The tension between East and
West as the month Of May ap-
proaches is probably the highest
it has ever been. and promising
Evening star., 1950-04-27
b. Doris FeeS0n

The proposed heavyweight en-
counter between a Senate subcom-
mittee and organized crime is
being strangely delayed, appar.
Evening star., 1950-04-27
By L0,ceH MeHen

There is a remarkable amount
of non-partisanship in the han
ding of foreign policy by the
American Government. And there
Evening star., 1950-04-27
McLemore
Hollis Plon to Cut
Mail Deliveries
By Henry McLemere

II penny postal cards didn't I
come so high. I would send one
of to Postmaster General Jesse
NJ. Donaldson today. congratulat-
Evening star., 1950-04-27
By Dorothy Thompson

Visiting Berlin on April II. the
of the West German
government, DR.. Adenauer, re-