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Evening star., 1950-04-16
|VFW Legislature Group
Starts ParIey Tomorrow

A three-day conference Of the
National Legislative Committee OF
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
will open tomorrow at its head
quarters, 1925 Seventeenth street
NV.
For consideration on the agenda
are:
LEGISLATION authorizing the rails
ing of the battleship Arizona. sunk
at Pearl Harbor, or the removal
of the bodies of its crew to ap-
propriate cemeteries.
Rotation of the chairmanshir
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff every
two years.
Membership on the Joint Chiefs
Of Staff group for the COM
mandant Of the Marine Corps
without privilege Of Craftsmanship
The Legislative Committee also
will consider recommendations te
open homesteads to veterans ane
donating surplus food to munich
pal welfare agencies.
Evening star., 1950-04-16
Truman Will Address Newspaper Editors Session Thursday

The American Society of News
paper Editors will open its three.
day annual convention Thursday
at the Hotel Statler and heal
President Truman at a luncheon
session that day.
A discussion of Communism ir
Government" by Senator McCar-
thy, Republican, of Wisconsin
and the State Departments loyal
ty program by Don Nicholson
chief of the departments Secur.
ity Division, will highlight an {
pm. session Thursday.
/ Secretary of State Acheson viii
speak at the closing banquet Sat.
urday night.
/ The Nations military budge'
also will be discussed at the Thurs.
day night meeting by Representa-.
tive Mahon. Democrat, of Texas
chairman of the House Armed
Services Appropriations Subcom.
mittee.
The opening session at ga;
am. will include reports of of.
ficers and standing committed
chairmen.
| Special committees investigat-
ing the State Departments meth
Cd of furnishing information tt
the press and the policies oi
morning and afternoon releases by
press associations are to report
that morning. George Cornish
New York Herald Tribune, will
submit the report on the State
Department and Harold E. Wheel
er, Boston Traveller, on the pres!
associations.
A report on the covenant o1
human rights is to be read by
Edwin D. Canham, Christian
Science Monitor.
After the luncheon at which
President Truman will speak
there will be further special com
mittee reports at the session start
ing at 2:30 pm. Basil L. Walters
Knight Newspapers. will report or
world freedom of information
Lester Markell, New York Times
on the International Press In
stitute, and j. Donald Ferguson
Milwaukee Journal, on investiga'
Evening star., 1950-04-16

ton of the desirability of ASNE's
sponsorship of an appraisal of
self improvement possibilities of
American newspapers.
The Friday morning session at
$50 will hear A. H. Kirchhofer
Buffalo Evening News: DR.. Frank
Luther Mott. dean of the Univer-
sity of Missouri School of Journa-
lism, and Norval N. Luxon, assist
ant to the president of the Ohio
State University and chairman of
the ACEJ accrediting committee,
in a panel discussion of the jour-
nalism accrediting program.
Newspapers of Future" Topic.
How Newspapers Will be Pro-
duced in the Future" is the SUBJ
ject of William Baumrucker, jr.,
New York News. chairman of the
ANPA Research Committee. Rob-
ert j. Blakely, st. Louis STAR
Times, DR.. Henry Dew. Smyth. a
member of the Atomic Energy
Commission, and Gerald Piel, edi-
tor. of the Scientific American.
will conduct a panel discussion of
What Price Security"
David Lawrence. U. S. News and
World Report. is the scheduled
speaker for the Friday luncheon
at 1890 pm. His subject will be
THE ASNE as One Director Sees
It After 20 Years"
The afternoon session at 2
p m. will begin with an illustrated
talk by William J. White. jr.,
New York News picture editor,
on picture editing.
Covering Washington" is the
topic assigned to a panel includ-
ing Frank Ahlgren. Memphis
Commercial Appeal; w. l.. Beale.
jr., Associated Press Washington
bureau chief; Raymond P. Brandt,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, whose
subject will be Vigilance Is Not
Enough; Arthur Krock. New
York Times, who will speak on
"Interpretative Columns" and
Walter Trojan. Chicago Tribune
who will deal with the question,
Are Washington Reporters Do
ing the Job?"
Later Friday there will be a
reception for new members of the
ASNE board of directors.
Comics To Be Discussed.
The Saturday morning session
at $50 o'clock will be devoted to
newspaper comics. Speakers fof
the panel discussion are Felix r,
Mcknight, Dallas Morning News;
Milton Caniff, AL Capp, Norman
ISaacs, st. Louis Star Times;
James S. Pope, Louisville Courier
Journal, and Leslie Turner.
Roscoe Drummond, on leave
from Christian Science Monitor
as information director for the
ECA in Europe. and Barry Bing-
ham, Louisville Courier journal
and Times, now chief of the ECA
Mission to France, will speak at
the Saturday luncheon.
The afternoon session will bring
special committee reports on in
dexing ASNE proceedings and lin
iting the size of the society's men,
bership. Those reports will be
made by Hamilton Owens. Balti-
more Sun. and Jenkin L. Jones
Tulsa Tribune.
The convention will close with q
reception at 6 pm. and the ban
quet at 7 pm.
The Marine Band will play OF
Evening star., 1950-04-16

the Thursday luncheon and the
Army Band at the Saturday night
banquet.
Nominations will be presented
in a committee report Thursday
morning by L. D. Hotchkiss. Los
Angeles Times. Polls then will be
open until pm. Friday.
Other committee and officer re-
ports to be made Thursday morn
Evening star., 1950-04-16

ing are membership. Edward
Lindsay. Decatur Herald and Re
view; resolutions, Frank Clarvoe.
San Francisco News; program.
Kenneth Macdonald. Des Moines
Register and Tribune: memorials.
Grove Patterson. Toledo Blade:
acting treasurer. Alexander r.
Jones. Syracuse Herald-J Journal.
and secretary. Wright Bryan, At
lanta journal.
Evening star., 1950-04-16
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anywhere, any time-either by the driver or
the transmission.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-01-05
District Commissioners
OfSoiI Conservation To
Meet Jonuury 10th

Farmers who govern soil con
servation districts that now Gov.
or all of Mississippi viii meet in
Jackson January 10 for their an.
nual convention of the Mississippi
Association of Soil Conservation
District Commissioners, President
A. b. Adams of Clarksdale an
n0unced today.
High on the list OF Things to
De considered will be the impor-
tant place of good land use and
soil and water conservation in
producing the food, feed, fiber, and
fats needed during the present
national emergency President
Adams said. 'Obviously we want
b do everything possible to speed
the rate of soil conservation work.
FOR that a we also will
give serious consideration to a
systematic way of bringing all
groups and all interests, both farm
and urban. into the activities of
Dur soil conservation districts
the Clarksdale planter added.
Since the recent organization by
farmers of Sharkey, Issaquena,
and Tennessee River Soil Conser-
walton Districts, Mississippi is
sDlidly blanketed by districts,
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-01-05

Capus Waynick of North Carolina,
and groundwork for its activities
was laid in the widely discussed
Gordon Cray report, authored by
the new president of the University
of North Carolina. DR.. Henry c.
Bennett, president of Oklahoma
A. & M. College, has been made
executive director of the entire
Point Four program, and DR.. Paul
w. Chapman, of the University of
Georgia, will advise on develop
ment of rural industries. DR.. Rob-
ert P. Daniel, president Of Virginia
State College for Negroes, is also a
member Of the Advisory Board.
Dr.. Clarence Poe organized The
Progressive Farmer Company and
has been its president during the
magazines period of growth from
a circulation of 5000 to its present
monthly circulation Of more than
l,l50,O0O. Dr.. Poe has travelled
widely abroad and IS the author Of
two books on agricultural and in
dustrial conditions in Europe and
the Orient.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-01-05
DR.. Clarence Poe Explains
Point Four Program
South 70 Benefit. Soys
Progressive Former Editor

Birmingham, Ala, Dec. 20-Ad-
dressing a group of agricultural
leaders from Alabama, North Caro-
lima, Kentucky, Tennessee, and
Texas in Birmingham recently, DR..
Clarence Poe, President and Editor
of The Progressive Farmer, and re-
Gently appointed by President Tru-
man as a member Of the Advisory
Board of the Point Four Program,
said the whole South should profit
from development of under-devel-
oped areas of the world under the
Point -Four program.
The program, stated DR.. Poe, is
not a "give-away" project, but aims
to help foreign nations help them
selves through industrial and agri-
cultural development. DR.. Poe de-
fined the immediate objective Of
the programs committee as provid-
ing of employment in industry and
progress in agriculture with the aid
of technical assistance and sound
investments by American capital.
II is hoped that the program will
achieve a degree of agricultural
progress in many rural regions Of
the world comparable to that ac-
complished in our own South
through the Agricultural Extension
work of farm and home agents.
The interest of American bust
ness in the Point -Four program is
evidenced by the fact that Presi-
dent Truman secured Nelson A.
Rockefeller as chairman of the
board and Harvey S. Firestone. Jr..
as a member. The President also
appointed John l.. Savage, chief
designing engineer Of the Hoover
and Grand Coulee Dams, and. in
dicating the great emphasis to be
laid on public health. Dr.. Thomas
ParTan, former Surgeon General Of
the United States.
The South has a major interest n
the groundwork Of the program in
that the chief organizer has been
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-01-05
Adams renorted.

Adams reported.
He added that more than $4,000
Mississippi farmers are now carry.
ing out complete-farm soil anc
wster conservation programs or
$780, 900 acres with help from
their districts. Only Georgia, lar
gest state east of the Mississippi
River, is ahead of Mississippi in
the Southeast in the amount OF
land under whole-farm conserva-
ton plans, Adams said.
Two representatives of the Ma
tional Association of Soil Con-
servation Districts will be among
the speakers at the convention
opening at 9 am. January 10 in
the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson
They are Clay H. Stackhouse, ma
tional vice president of Wake
man, Ohio, and w. F. Hall, South
eastern vice president, Sparta,
Georgia.
r. Y. Bailey, regional research
representative of the Soil Conser-
walton Service at Spartanburg,
South Carolina, will discuss the
ways in which federal-state re-
search is contributing new plants,
new combinations of plants, and
new methods for soil and water
conservation.
President Adams, stressing that
this will be a working conven-
tion," emphasized the committee
reports to be made by w. r. Sto-
bic. Saucier, on district activities;
by w. F. Turman, Nesbit, on con-
servation education; Paul D.
Measell, Union, on legislation, and
A. T. Gunter, Winborn, on flood
control. The associations annual
financial report will be given by
j. w. Gray, secretary-treasurer,
of Dublin. Hugh Norman of Sum-
nit is chairman of the nominal
ing committee and G. L. Crawford
of Madison of the resolutions COM
mittee.
The work of our districts is
arousing great interest in and sup
port for soil conservation. water
conservation, and good land use,"
Adams said. During our annual
convention, we will consider. care
fully the best ways in which
every one interested in this work
can contribute direction to saving
and improving our land and wa
ter resources.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-01-05
Cards OF Thanks

We want to take this method of
expressing our thanks to all of
our friends for the kind words of
expression, all the sweet cards and
gifts that were sent to Betty Faye
while in the Mercy Hospital at
Vicksburg. May God bless each
of you.
Mr.. and Mrs. Audis Hathcock
and family.
38-17-1tnp
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-01-05

Mrs. j. l.. Shields, Mary Alice
and Mrs. c. r. Hamlin took Jeanne
Shields back to Millsaps College
in Jackson Monday. Miss Lor-
aine Norman, who spent the holt
days with Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Ham,
rick, returned with them.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-01-05

Miss Helen Ellis, of Sunflower,
Ole Miss student, and Pfc. A. l.,
Dowdy of Keesler Field. Biloxi,
were holiday guests of Abe, Jr.
and Mary Elizabeth Tahir.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-01-05
TCHULA NEWS

Mrs. Kate Owen of Clarksdale,
was the guest of her daughter,
Mrs. A. D. Moss last week.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-01-05

Mrs. Edwin McKibben visited
relatives in Zeiglerville and va
zoo City Friday.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1950-01-05

Try the Classified Ads -. II PaYsI
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-07

the good weather which prevail
ed today.
"The wind will begin to in
crease again Sunday" Goldsmith
said.
This will not keep up" he
fastened TO add. 1T is unusual 1t
is prevailing over the entire area.
AS far down as Bermuda the
weather has been unsettled"
Goldsmith said the weather
that Key West and this area has
been experiencing for weeks now
is what can be termed delayed
conditions" We usually have
these winds and squalls during
October" he said.
Because of weather conditions,
last season was the worse, from
financial standpoint, in the his
tory of this city's commercial
fishing industry Unless there is
and early abatement of weather
conditions this year will be even
more disastrous, said A. Maitland
Adams, of the Thompson Co.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-07
S. Go On Fishing
Trip OF Chamber
To No Name Key

Fifty-five persons yesterday
went on the fishing trip to No
Name Key sponsored By the Key
West Chamber Of Commerce for
tourists and winter visitors.
Those who made catches will
be presented certificate awards
at the Chambers Fun Mite party
next Wednesday evening. In
eluded d yesterdays Caravan to
No Name Key were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Kunzler Of
Union City, N. j.; A.. L, Kava-
nagh, st. Louis, Mo-; Edward
Jackemy. Alamada; Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Allen, Canada; Mr.. and
Mrs. c, F. Setback, Gill, Colo; Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Owens. Clear
water, Fla; Mr.. and Mrs. S. M.
Plat, New York City; Mr.. and
Mrs. T. T. Hackworth, Florence,
Ala.
]. P. Kyler, brownsville, o.;
Mrs. ]. P Kyler, brownsville, O.;
Fred c. Clarke, Toronto, Canada;
Mr.. and Mrs. We're Kelley, Clay
pool, Ind; Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie
Knox, Ind; Mr.. and Mrs.
Omer Benson, Hiawatha. Kas.::
Continued On Page Four
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-07
Air Force Raising B-5O From
Waters Where 1t Plunged; IL
In Grew; Two Believed Dead
Huge BOmbers Had
Been On TEST Flight
Friday; Trouble Over
Chociawhatchee Bay

TAMPA, Jan. 7.-P).At Ell
gin Field here, the Air Force is
preparing to raise one Of its huge
B-50 bombers from Choctawhat-
chez Bay, where it plunged yes
terday with II crewmen aboard.
Nine of the men reached life
RATS and were rescued. The other
two, whose names were temper
arily withheld, We're believed to
be pinned inside the plane. They
had not been accounted for sew
eral hours after the crash.
The plane had been on test
flight and was scheduled to re-
turn to the field after service
testing some new equipment.
Rescued crewmen said they
were forced to ditch the bomber
when trouble developed out over
the Bay as they were heading
back to the base.
Divers located the plane in Is
feet Of water, but darkness halt
ed the rescue efforts.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-07
us. Seeks Plan To
Lure Chinese Reds
AlCdy From Russia

WASHINGTON. Jan. p
-P).-The State Department
is believed to be working on
a policy aimed at Turing the
Chinese Communists away
from Moscow. An announce
ment of the new Far East
ern policy is expected to be
made shortly.
This statement would pro-
claim this countrY's firm
friendship for the people of
China. and it would leave the
way open for eventual recog-
milton of the new govern
.ment.
Secretary of State Acheson
will review wide U. S.
policy before the Senate and
House Foreign Affairs Com
mittees next Tuesday. He
may show up with a complete
statement of Far East policy
at the same time.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-07
Tentative Plans
Made For Paving
Some Streets

Tentative plans for the paving
Of several city streets on which
new homes are being constructed
were worked out an informal
meeting last night of the City
Commission.
Such matters as the dredging of
Garrison Blight and using the
mari taken from beneath the sur
face to pave the streets, as well
as financing of the proposed
work, were also discussed.
Since it was not a formal meet
ing of the City Commission no
action was taken. but members
of the City Commission said that
shortly the commission would
formally act.
The suggestion OF using mari
taken from Garrison Blight was
made to the assembled commits
.Sioners by Joe Sirugo, president
of the Sunshine Construction CO..
which has built many homes in
the city during the last year.
The Commission ascertained, in
general way, what new FILA
financed homes were in immedi-
ate prospect and on what streets
the homes were likely to be in
need of paving, a requirement OF
the FILA when ii makes a loan
to prospective home owner.
There were four other con-
tractors Of new homes, and all
CONTINUED On Page FiveJ
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-07
Sheriff Leaving
For Jacksonville


Sheriff Berlin A. Sawyer said
today that he would leave on
Monday for Jacksonville where
ne will attend the annual conven-
ton of the Florida Sheriffs Asso-
citation. Sheriff Sawyer said he
would be accompanied by Dept
ty Sheriff Frank Webber and by
George Lee.
Sheriff Rex Sweat of Duval
county, who is in charge of ar
arrangements for the convention,
informed Sheriff Sawyer that
Jacksonville will present the fl
nest entertainment any conven-
ton ever had.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-07

port approximately a drop of $780,
900 under an average years pay
ments to fishermen to date.
Charterboatmen have also suf-
fered a financial loss. Charters
that they were unable to accept
because of weather conditions
total more than $685. 900 to date.
The largest single days mack
erel catch for all boats to date
was $4,000 pounds. There has
been no commercial kingfish
catches of any size.
Up on the Florida Keys, fish
houses and boatmen are also be-
moaning the freakish weather.
They too have suffered a finan-
cial setback which will run into
six figures.
Sam Goldsmith, acting meteor
logist in charge at the Key West
Weather Bureau, said boatmen
should not get optimistic over
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-07
CITY MAKES Blight
DEPTH SOUNDINCS;
MIGHT BUILD PIER

City COMMISSIONS c. r. Har-
vey and Ivan Roberts, director %
city streets. are rapidly complet-
ing depth soundings Of Garrison
Blight so that the city may con.
struct the first part of a pier in
the blight for the mooring OF
yachts and other craft.
The blight, containing 81 acres
of water, has been divided in a
north-south direction by 100 foot
spaces and in an east-west direc-
ton by so foot spaces.
Harvey and Roberts have found
that the depth of the Blight, so far
as they have completed their
work, runs from 81 feet TO 2.01
feet. s4S4s
The section along Roosevelt
Continued On Page Six)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-07
NAM President
ASsailS SO-Called
Welfare State

MIAMI. Jan. Z. 49, lP). - The
president OF the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers, Wallace
Bennett. declared that welfare
state proposals can destroy the
iour fundamentals which made
America great He named these
fundamentals 'as our freedom,
car culture. and our spiritual
heritage
in d speech prepared for the
American National Livestock As
suriaiiun Bennett said that well
fare state Ga socialistic plans are
offered as something better, but,
hc added. each OF them would de-
Grease coz destroy those funda-
mcntals which have made this
country greet
Tho NAM President declared
that there is mo- chance that
American would accept Com
munism. but that u is frightening
thai many believe that there is
something better iu halfway be-
tween Communism and what we
have
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-07
Selected Si0tks
Demand Great A
Closing

NEW YORK. Jan. 7--ts4 ~.
mand Tor selected siocls cknEni
cd rapidly after a steady siafi .n
the market to-day.
Prices for favored lssael moves
up fractions % around 3 uaIni
heavy trading accompanied ihl
rise.
Activity extended o. rlulr az
the markets usual ifadfn hll
price action in fhat groap sns "a.
tremely limited.
Higher prices werr pan - 81
Regis Paper hexail DRUG Cahsn-
American Sugar. Admiral Cnf-
pOration. Emerson Radio isfIirn
Radio Corporation. Curtis Wnrhl.
Continued On PaEC fiscl
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-07
100000 Blaze
In DAYTON Now
Under Control

DAYTON. o.. Jan. ) II
was just plain luck that the fire
that blazed in the downtown
business section most Of the night
didn't burn out an entire block.
The fire started in the base
ment of a four-story brick build
ing only half a block from the
heart of the city, a building more
than 100 years old. For more than
four hours the fire burned inside.
Then, with huge puff, the
flames broke through the roof. 1t
collapsed an hour later.
Twenty-seven firemen were
overcome by smoke. A crowd of
5000 watched through the long
Continued On Page Six
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-07
Attempted
Bank Robbery
AtLake Alfred

LAKE ALFRED. Fla. Jan. -.
(P).-A young Negro man att
tempted to rob the Bank Of Lake
Alfred today, but fled under UNI
fire without obtaining any loot.
FBI Agent C. H. Carson said
the Negro handed the cashier a
note saying. Give me so twenty
dollar bills or I'll kill YOU"
The cashier, John Patterson,
looked up into the barrel Of a AS
calbre automatic pistol.
Carson said Patterson scream
ed, and grabbed for his own gun.
The unnerved Negro turned
and fled.
Bullets WHIPPED around him as
he ran from the bank Apparent
" he wasn't hit.
Frank NJ. Goodman. president
of the bank, said Patterson, the
cashier, and his son, Earl, a tell
er. followed from the bank,
shooting.
The bank employees jumped
into Goodman's car after spread
ing the alarm and took after the
fleeing Negro. The employees
kept shooting at him as he ran
down the street.
The bank men finally ran out
of bullets.
The Negro fled into a swamp,
waded up 10 his neck in water.
By that time the swamp was sur
rounded BY officers and Lake AL
fred residents.
E. M. North, a professional
bandsman from Winter Haven,
captured the Negro, He did not
have his pistol, but had several
bullets in his pockets.
The Negroes name was not
known. Officers took him to the
county Jail at Barlow.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1950-01-07
Ambulance On
Mercy Mission
Kills Tampa Man

TAMPA, Jan. 7.-R).-One ac-
cidental death led to another in
this city last night. An ambulance
answering one call. collided with
light truck. There was one
dead in each case.
Police Lieutenant J. II. Camp
bell said Richard G. Young, was
killed when the ambulance and
the truck met at an intersection.
Young was driving the truck.
A Negro woman, Elizabeth
Rutherford, was killed in the &C
cident for which the ambulance
was called.