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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-17
Battle For
.Hwaclloll Dam
Is Intense
Thousands OF Red
Troops Now Massed
I'm Hills North Of Dam

TOKYO, April 17.-(R.-Thc
battle is mounting in intensity
for the huge Hwachon dam in
>ast-central Korea. Allied troops
are stepping up their attacks be-
hind saturation" artillery fire.
Smoke screens laid down by
the Communists have started to
lift and Allied warplanes dart
ed in with jellied gasoline
bombs, rockets and machine
gun fire.
Thousands of Communist troops
are maSscd in the hills north of
the dam. The Allied attack is
partly to keep the Reds from get
ling set for an expected about
offensive.
On the central front. an Allied
ank-infantry team has smashed
MO Red pocket of resistance.
The battle came on the main
Dad to Kumwha northeast of
iwachon. Fifty of $50 Reds were
lllcd in this area whore the Chi
.'f:se Reds are building up
ffength.
On the western front, Allied
roops ar keeping the pinch on
ChorWon, II miles north of Paral-
-cl SO. The iown has been de-
,trOyed by artillery and air at
ack, but the Communists arc still
sing it as base.
On the cast and extreme west,
here is only patrol ACTON.
Rotation Plan In Progress
To the strains OF Now is the
Eour," the first, group of Korean
var veterans showed off from
'usan today under the new rota-
lion program. Some 400 officers
and enlisted men arc on the way
home.
AS the transport pulled out,
those remaining behind heard the
nostalgic strains of Aud Lang
Syne."
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-17
British Sub
Disappears
nCha,lnel
The Affray Was
To Have Surfaced
About 1880 O'clock
This Morning

LONDON. April l7.-(P.-A
British submarine has disappear
ed in the English Channel.
The l.600-ton undcrseaS craft
The Affray-Was to have sur
faced about 7:30 a M. EST, but
there still is no word of her She
submerged yesterday afternoon
our time. with orders TO stay
down about II hours-and t.
make a slow run which coult
have covered about go miles.
But at the appointed hour to
day-no word from the ARRAY
The radio code signal was flashed
20 Royal Navy stations - the
word subsmaSh.
Mobilization was quick. Heir
copters and airplanes took off
to lscour the calm waters for
some clue to the fate of more
than rs men aboard the sub
marine. Surface ships. includ
ing two American destroYers.
put to sea.
The Royal Navy says there is
possibility that the commander
If the submarine misinterprctcd
lis instructions to surface after &
little more than IL hours. But
hey say, it's m IRE likely that
:omething has gone wrong.
The submarine has Schnorkel
breathing apparatus, and could
tay down for Alphabetically
Tor weeks and months if the APP
)aratus is operative The sub also
mas escape and warning appara-
tuS.
The hunt is for oil slick or fOI
5uoys that may have been sent
% the surface-indications OF
where the submarine is. A Royal
Javy salvage ship has rushed to
inc area, and divers are being
brought from bases in Scotland
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-17

BY SUSAN McAVOY

Every clerk in the world while
sitting at his dreary desk, dreams
of far-off lands and adventures
with strangers, beautiful women,
gallant benefactQrS.
Few do more than dream. At
sixty they ass stsll - heir desks.
their last goal tie minute pension
that awaits them at 65, which
may take them to a resort 100
miles away.
Norman Thomas, 24-ycar-oId
Welshman, sat at his clerks desk
in Wales for seven years.
His blue eyes grew blurred
each day with the long rows of
figures it was his Job to com
pute. His mind grew weary at
days end with the accounting or
tax sheets he worked on
He had even been deprived of
serving Great Britain in the air
force. He was rejected.
Every night, however. Norman
left his clerks desk for his writ
ing desk,
He wrote and reWrote the story
of what one young Wclshman has
lived, seen, felt and dreamed.
Forgotten were the hours over
cold figures, His pen brought to
life the experiences Of his young
life and he hoped that one day
readers throughout the nation
would share his experiences. on
the printed page.
Norman got midway through
five novels and dozens of short
stories.
Two years ago he read over his
latest efforts
1T was awful Stiltcd, unreal
cold | knew could do better
than that bat not chained to my
tax clerks desk for the best hours
of the day
Norman, growing desperate as
only youth can with the advanc
ing ycars-threw up his job. He
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-17
Peter Hemingway
Struck Rv Car

A car struck Peter Hemingway
IS he stepped rom the curb at
the corner of DuVal and Fleming
streets about 9:25 pm. Saturday.
The vehicle, which was driven
by Miss Audrey Wilson of 53l
Duval street. damaged the bicycle
which Hemingway was pushing.
An examination at Monroe
County Hospital did not reveal
any injury to Hemingway.
Miss Wilson agreed to pay for
The repairs of the bicycle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-17
Food Handlers
School Attended
By l1 Persons

One hupdre,; and fifty -fou,
persons attended the opening SEES,
sion today of the Joint Food
Handlers Training Program, con
Quoted by the Kew West Naval
Station and the County Health
Department in cooperation with
the State Board of Health.
The session was to be repeated
in the afternoon for persons who
were not able to attend the morn
ing program. The Junior Cham
Der of Commerce of Key West
sponsoring the conference.
After a welcoming address by
CONTINUED On Page Three,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-17
Fire In Auto
Is Extinguisheel

Shortly before 2 p. m yestef
day, the Key West Fire Depart
nent put out a fire in car
parked near the Monroe County
clinic.
The car, a l94l Nash sedan bc
longing to Arthur Lecours of I'll
Francis street. was locked. Fire
men had to break it open before
they could cxtinguish the. blaze
in the front and rear scat cushions
and upholstery.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-17
Dredger's Key
Open To- City
Until Monday

The City of Key West will con-
'inuc dumping trash on DredgerS'
Key until next Monday, Captain
c. c. Adcll. commander Of the
Key West Naval Base, announced
today.
Although tho city had been
Continued On Page Eight,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-17
EiSNEAR PREDICTS
ARMED FORCES WEEK
WILL BE BIG SUCCESS
Mayor Thanks Committee For
Their Willingness To SerDe

Representatives of many civic organizations and
the navy met yesterday at pm in the Chamber of Com
merce building to discuss plans for Armed Forces Week
May 14-19.
The civilians had been named by Mayor Louis Els
ncr to serve a committee to promote the big Week,
which will eliminate in Armed Forces Day. The navy
men will asson between the services and the
several organizations
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-17
City Aguirs Rejects
Raising Of Toxe$
10 Support Hosi3ifuI
PGpy Introduces
Salary Bills OF
O'Bry0nt, PutIpr

TALLAHASSEE. April II.
-tR1.-Representative Bern
ME c. PapY today introduced
HB328 fixing Monroe County
School superintendcnt's sal
airy at amount equal to maxi
mum paid other county Off
GERS, and Supervisor of Regis
tration's salary at $500 a
month.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-17
NgTRal
Her7su1ddnfY
Should Assess
For Full AmounS

1nc lily COMMISSION last
night put the question of
city support of Monroe Gen
eral Hospital through the
mill.
The climax of a long dis
cussion, begun when DR..
Ralph Herr asked the COM
mission to reconsider fin
ancial aid to the hospital,
came when Louis Carbonell
moved for support of Re-
preventative Bernie G.
Papy's proposal for a 2 mill
levy to get money for the
hospital. The motion died
for lack of a second.
Commissioner John Car
bonell was not present at
last nights meeting.
DR.. Herr began by tell
ing the commissioners that
the hospitals debt had been
reduced from $4,000 to
$1,000 in the past seceral
months. He said that the
city had formerly SUMMARIZED
the hospital and Should do
SO again.
Pointing to an article in Tho
Citizen which told of a cash
balance of more than 100000 in
the city Golfers. he said that he
could see no reason why some
of this money could not be given
to the hospital,
City Manager Dave King re-
piled that all Of this money had
been earmarked for the necess
sary, operations of the local gov
eminent and that the sum did
not indicate any excess.
Commissioner A. Maitland
Adams said he saw no REASONABLY
the money should not be assessed
by the county entirely instead Of
partly by one government and
partly by another.
Fred Dion asserted that citizens
of Key West would be paving
twice for the same thing il both
the city and the county were ~
give financial support to the hos
pital. He also pointed out that
the county budget comes up much
SOONER than the city budget and
Continued IN Page Three)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-17
Bananas And Bread Diet Not
Young Writer Sees us. On Shoestring
Much Fun For Welsh Tourist

took his savings and started to
seek a world that would color in.
stead of gray his writings.
After preliminary tours OF
France and Switzerland he made
the plunge across the big pond on
the lie de France.
He arrived at Ellis Island with
less than $500. How was he to
Continued On Page Eight
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-17

LONDON. April l7,-(P.-A
British submarine has disappear
ed in the English Channel.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-17

Key West. Florida. hos the
most equoble climate in the
country. with ON average
ronge of only l4' Fohrenheit
Evening star., 1951-09-16

@AAAAC1 AIaA1 paw NO 'NAASSi~AAO'
terms, either deliberately, in
order to reach a larger public,
or unconsciously, as a result of
having absorbed too many
American movies and novels.
But a strong reaction is already
beginning to manifest itself.
And its principal characteristic
is anti-American."
Deeply Rooted in Brazil.
Senior VerisSimo, at least,
does not seem to have followed
any European or North Ameri-
can pattern in his fiction. He
has gone his own way, and his
new book, a historical novel of
tremendous scope, has it's roots
deep in the soil of his own
Brazil.
Time and the Wind" is a
bold, sweeping attempt to re-
capture something of the es-
sense of life in the southern
most part of the country, in the
province of Rio Grande do Sui,
from early days to compara-
lively recent times. The ven-
ture succeeds to remarkable
degree.
The author has traced the
fortunes of single family, the
rra-Combaras, from 1745 to
Evening star., 1951-09-16

in its delineation of his adven-
lures and the people he has
known.
1t was not that DR.. Williams
thought of writing after he be-
gan knowing people through his
practice. He wanted to write
from adolescence. Becoming a
doctor was an interthought. but
it must have been an inspira-
ton, because as a physician
with special interest in pedia-
tries he is beloved in his COM
munity. He was determined from
the first that he would write
what he pleased. which meant,
he realized at once, that he could
not depend on it for a livelihood.
His early literary god was Keats,
and his first book of poems, writ
ten when he was in the medical
school at the University of Penn
Sylvania, was an exercise in
Keatsian lyricism. Realizing
later that Keats did not need
rewriting, he burned these lyrics
and turned to new forms.
DR.. Williams writes percep-
lively of his friends of early and
later years, among them III. d."
Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore,
Charles Demut, Gertrude Stein,
Ford Maddox Ford and Heming-
way. Is there no getting away
from Ezra Pound? But in the
photographers case there is
excuse. for he and Ezra went
to college together and often
met later, though DR.. Williams
says he could take the cryptic
poet only in small doses. DR..
Williams finally visited Pound
in st. Elizabeths Hospital, where
the poet was committed instead
of facing trial for treason.
DR.. Williams recollections of
his years as intern and resi-
dent in New York hospitals,
of his stays in Europe, of his
Spanish-speaking, rt-French
mother and his lively father are
particularly fascinating.
Evening star., 1951-09-16
The Life Story of a Busy Physician
Who Combined His Two Great SkiTs
RAPHY OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
(RdndODl House. S375j

thdHdOm house, S3.75.)
Through the years DR.. Will
liams has combined his voca-
ton, practicing medicine, with
his avocation. writing, to such
remarkable degree that not only
has one never interfered with
the other, but they have COM
plemented each other in a way
which has made them seem to
him almost single occupation.
Looking back, at 68, on a rich
and crowded life, he explains
that he has learned what he
has been able to write in his
poems and stories from his pa
tientS, from their reactions in
moments of stress, from un-
guarded comments when they
forgot to utter. the little con-
ventional lies with which peo-
pie meet most situations.
That is why" he points out,
"as a writer I have never felt
that medicine interfered with
me, but rather that it was my
very food and drink, the very
thing which made it possible for
me to write. Was I not inter-
ested in man? There the thing
was, right in front of me. I
could touch it, smell it. l
knew it was an elementary
world I was facing, but I have
always been amazed at the au-
thenticity with which the SIM
ple-minded often face that
world when compared with the
tawdriness of the public view
point exhibited in reports from
the world at large"
During the years DR.. Williams
practiced in and around the
town of Rutherford, N. j., living
half a mile from the spot where
he was born. he has written con-
stantly. Although he has done
novels and short stories, he has
always thought of himself as a
poet. Slowly, gradually, his
poems have brought him fame,
despite their novelty of form,
identified with the literary ad-
vance guard and little maga-
zines; despite the subtlety of
their content, which many a
reader must have puzzled over
at times.
There is, however, no Joycean,
Wolfesque obscurity of line or
meaning in this autobiography.
1t is straightforward account
OF the doctors life, absorbing
Evening star., 1951-09-16
A Readable Study of Anti-Semitism
THE MAGIC PEOPLE

THE MAGIC PEOPLE
An IriShman Appraises the
Jews. BY Arland usher. (The
DeUin -Adair Co.; $2.75.J
To a subject that usually
calls forth the most lugubrious
and oppressive in writer, Mr..
usher brings the wit of the
true-born Irishman, the ir-
reverence of the existentialist
and the not entirely conclusive
analytical powers of the Freud
ian. His book, which is sparkling
and provocative, is certainly at
least one of the most readable
analyses yet printed of the
springs of Anti-Semitisrn, which
is still the shame of the west
ern world.
He leads into the discussion
with a highly unorthodox, oc-
. casionally hilarious summary of
the Old Testament, followed by
a contentious recounting of the
life of Christ, wherein, of course,
he finds the crux of the matter.
1T is my belief that the long,
tragic misunderstanding be-
tween the Jew and the Gentle
can be ended on two condi-
tionS only-conditions perhaps
not very likely to be fulfilled,
and only capable of being full
filled in reciprocity: Namely
that the Jews learn to accept
the greatest of their sons
that the Christians consent to
honor the race which produced
the greatest child of man."
But it is in recounting the
staggering persecution of the
Evening star., 1951-09-16

Jews under Hitler that he pro-
duces his most disputable argu-
menC, The unspeakable oppres-
sions of the Jews by the Ger
mans came from the subcon-
Scious resentment, not just of
the Jews. but of Christ. 1T is
the hatred of Europe for its
King Jesus, a hatred which
threw the German masses at
the feet of their true master,
the modern Caesar"
Mr. usher insists it has not
heen intention to shock his fell
low Christians or to give pain
to the Jews. He may well have
done both. while disarming all
by the liveliness of his presen-
tation, his quizzical and shrewd
appreciation of the Jewish and
the Gentle character. 1t is
difficult to say how much good
his book will accomplish on the
practical level; it is avowedly
philosophical. Meanwhile he
has done no small thing in
bringing humor and airy candor
to the discussion.
MARY McGRoRY.
Evening star., 1951-09-16

1895. Even the technic of this
novel is original, does not de-
rive from any historical novelist
1 can recall. The narrative
opens in 1895, with the city of
Santa Fe beSieged by revolu-
tionists. Only one house holds
out at the moment, that of liz
curgo Combara, and enemy
snipers pick off his men when
they even go to the well for
water. His wife is in childbirth;
their situation is desperate, but
Licurgo, like all his family be-
fore him, has no thought of sur
render.
The Mystical Pedro.
The story flashes back. in a
part called 1.-The Source" to
1745. A priest from the Jesuit
mission is called to the side of
a dying woman. She dies, but
her baby lives. The Jesuits call
him Pedro, and he grows UP a
sharp lad, light enough to indi-
cate he is part European. Pedro
is gifted in music, as many In
dians are, and he has a mysti-
cal Side-he seems to foretell
events which affect them all.
Pedro is one of the founders of
the family.
The author sketches in per-
suasively the whole background
of one of those early missions.
We see the beauty of the ca
thedral which the priests and
Indians have built, the talents
of the Indians in music, painting
and sculpture, their skill in
crafts and their peaceful ways.
Then come the intrigues of the
conquerors, the striving between
Spain and Portugal for certain
territory, the removal of the
Indians from their homes and
their fierce revolt.
Like an Epic Poem.
The transitional story is too
comprehensive and complex
even to summarize. 1t comes
to more than 900 pages of close
print. and yet it is richly re-
warding in pictures of people
and changing eraS. Time and
the Wind" is particularly free
from the romantic cliches with
which most historical novels
abound. 1t has love and violence
in ample measure and yet they
seem to stem from the natural
ways of those involved, not from
an artificial plot. The writing
is swift and free in form, often
with the sweep of an epic poem.
Evening star., 1951-09-16

ory.
Mr.. Sowerby writes a sensi-
tive, delicately colored prose,
often highly effective. Un-
fortunately his narrative often
is too vague and eSoteric
to sustain the interest. He
introduces some promising
characters, but they fade into
a sort of mist, and sometimes he
indicates that they did not
really exist, but were merely
projections of the character
and his struggles, This SYM
bolism is confused. 1t is not
always clear what he is talking
about.
CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Evening star., 1951-09-16
Annual in Leesburq

The Loudoun Sketch Cub will
open it's fifth annual exhibition
next Friday in the Loudoun
County Court House at Leesburg.
Va, with Hermann Warner VIII
liamS, jr.. as guest of honor.
The show will include sculptured
studies by Katherine Hobbs of
Washington, of the Lipizaner
Spanish Riding SCHOOL, horses
recently seen at Madison Square
Garden and other major Amer
lean horse shows.
Evening star., 1951-09-16

was a professor of art at the
Corcoran School of Art for sew
eral years, and has been invited
to teach at the st. Paul School
or Art, the Cincinnati Academy
of Art and the Art Institute Of.
Chicago. He holds three Bronze
Medals from the Washington
Society of Artists, among others.
He painted the murals for the
Department of Interior Build
ing and the Post Offices at Sill
yer Spring and Towson, Md.
The IFA Galleries fall sched-
ule includes one-man and
group shows in all media
painting, prints, ceramics and
jewelry design.
Evening star., 1951-09-16

Senior Verissimo, a Brazilian
novelist. is one of the ablest
writer's in all South America.
Several years ago, in an article
written exclusively for The
Sunday Star Christmas Book
Section, he said: Let us Shun
all pretense and frankly admit
that the intellectual world of
Latin America has always been
a kind of mirror turned toward
Europe, the art and literature
of which it has reflected some
times with fidelity but more
often with distortions
Noting the failure of most
attempts to write in the native
Evening star., 1951-09-16
Dr.. Griffith Writes a New
Book About CONGRESS

Generally speaking, it's prob
ably not the best idea in the
world to write a book about your
boss while you're still working
for him. 1t can be done, though,
and no bones broken as proven
by Ernest Griffith, director of
the Legislative Reference Serv-
ice Of the Library of Congress,
and author of Congress: It's
Contemporary Role"
Quite naturally, DR.. Griffith,
who has ben answering congress
sional questions since 1910,
rather heSitated when first ap-
preached by New York Univer-
sity to give the Stokes lectures
on Congress. The lectures form
the basis of his book, which was
published on August 81.
After due consideration, he
decided that it could be done
judiciously while retaining the
friendship of his 531 bosses.
The regard is apparently
mutual. Since publication, DR..
Griffith has heard nothing but
praise from members, who are
pleased to have themselves IA
vorably presented for a change.
DR.. Griffith has been struck
again and again by the gulf
between the popular picture of
our national legislative body
and its reality" He thinks
that members of Congress could
do a great deal to rectify these
ideas by writing more about
their congressional careers. Has
ne ever suggested to some of
the more literate members that
they do this?
i never tell a member what
Evening star., 1951-09-16

Sunday. September %, its sew
enth year as an informal art
center, with two exhibitions of
paintings of "The City"
One will be a loan show from
the Museum of Modern Art,
New York City, comprising 20
paintings by American and
European artists, depicting New
York City, Paris and many
other metropolises.
The other will be a local-eye
view of THE City" by Is Wash
ington-area artists.
The brace of shows will con-
tinue through October 7.
Evening star., 1951-09-16

"Ah, My Foes, and Oh, My
Friends" the autobiography of
Tallulah Bankhead is due next
year from Harper's.
Also forthcoming is Gentle
men, Swords and Pistols" a stu
dy of old time southern dueling
by Harnett Kane, who reports
that his research has turned up
many a president, senator and
congressman very quick on the
draw.
Evening star., 1951-09-16
Art
ScuIptors' Group
Holds Interest
At Museum Show

The work of 81 local artists
selected by Eleanor Swenson
Quandt, curator of American art
at the Corcoran Gallery. is on
display in the fourth annual ex-
hibition of the Washington
Sculptors' Group, being held in
conjunction with the Kiln Club
for the second year, in the foyer
of the Natural History Building
of the National Museum.
First prize went to Maxim
Elias for his hammered lead
Evening star., 1951-09-16

portrait head of Ethel Butler.
Jane Love won second prize with
her Seated Figure" in plaster,
and the third prize was awarded
Shirley Lichtman for Aquatic
Form" executed in ricolite.
Honorable mention was made
of Dean Carter's plaster head.
Evening star., 1951-09-16
An English Poet
Writes 1st Novel
FRIGHT IN THE FOREST

FRIGHT IN THE FOREST
BY Benn Sowerby. (Knopt;'
So
In this first novel by an Eng
lish poet, the man who tells
the story looks back on his
life, trying to recall the events
and persons that did most
Evening star., 1951-09-16

ldlom a b o u t
t h e Indian.
the Negro or
the gaucho, he
pointed out
later in the
article: Many
Latin Ameri-
can novelists,
and I must
add that they
are not those
of the first
7 a n k, are
modelling their
fic ction on
American pat