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much in the hands of "the
Pentagon clique" that has been
carrying out the Truman poll
cies. Gen. Macarthur specified
that real leadership" by the
military as distinct from the
Pentagon variety was not to
be feared.
Gen. Macarthur was de-
cribed in one account at least
as using q Constellation for his
Mississippi flight. which raised
the question here of whether
his Far East military aircraft
was back in service for the oc-
casion. Accompanying reporters
say the airplane was not a Con-
stellation and that the host
State, Mississippi. provided it.
They noted that Mississippi
Republicans, who are for Sena-
tor Taft. did not show at the
Jackson celebration. which was
entirely in the hands Of the
States Fighters. The Macarthur
party was described as confident
the general could carry the
South il nominated.
The fortunes Of Senator Taft
are being closely followed here
where the Senator is best known.
That he is suffering from COM
bat fatigue is apparent and it
is not surprising. He has q
vigorous schedule that would
tax a younger man and the
weather is rugged.
The Senator shares one weak
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Doris FIeeson:

Senator Taft's forces are be-
ginning to complain that Gen.
Macarthur is dancing on their
candidates grave before his
body is cold.
The Taft people realize that
the general can't control all of
his admirers and they are rec
onciled to sporadic problems
such as the Fighters for Mac
Arthur are creating in Wiscon-
sin. But they definitely do not
like reports from the inner
reaches of the generals Wal
dorf-Astoria apartments.
These reports quote the Mac
Arthur staff as saying that SEN
ator Taft can't make it against
the rising Eisenhower tide and
that q conservative with mass
appeal is needed. The descrip-
ton obviously fits the general.
II Gen. Macarthur really
wants to reaSSure the Sena-
tor. he must take much more
positive steps and take them
more publicly than he has
hitherto.
It is cold comfort for the
Taft people that Gen. Mac
Arthur has been increasingly
bold in his attacks on the
Eisenhower candidacy. The
general really opened up on
that subject to reporters who
accompanied him to Mississippi
last week end.
Gen. Eisenhower. he told
them. was naive" and far too
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Dovid Lowrence:

Congress sooner or later is
going to wake up to the fact
that the individual citizen Is
seriously Disseminated against
under the tax laws of today as
compared with the treatment
given businesses Of all kinds.
The latest illustration is a
decision Of the Supreme Court
of the United States this week,
which said that a man who was
assessed by the Treasury an
additional $145, ,0O0aabove what
he had previously paid in gift
taxes and ultimately was re-
quired by the tax court to pay
a fraction of it-about SIG. 600
couldn't deduct as an expense
what he paid his attorneys to
fight the case.
While the majority Of the
court held that the present law
means that attorneys fees paid
for contesting the amount of a
Federal gift tax couldn't be de-
Quoted, three dissenting judges
felt the other way about it. This
means that Congress alone can
correct the inequity as portrayed
in the dissenting decision writ
ten by Justice Jackson.
The issue affects every tax
payer who is faced with the
choice of fighting q Treasury
assessment or yielding to the
demands Of the Government be-
cause the expense of litigation is
too great to bear.
The present law reads that
non-business expenses may be
deducted by the individual only
when they are incurred ''for
the production or collection Of
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Lowell MeNett::
Lowell MeNett:
Dollars Win Over DecenCv
That Happened in the House, but Effort to Combat
Wetbock' Menace Has Been Renewed in Senate

One Of those ever-recurring
battles between dollars and
decency has just been trans
ferred from the United States
House of Representatives to the
United States Senate. In the
House dollars won. An effort
to reverse the decision is being
made in the Senate.
Involved Is the increasingly
serious migratory Labor problem
now afflicting the country. Most
directly involved is the problem
presented by the hundreds of
thousands Of "wetbacks." the
Mexicans who slip across the
border for seasonal work in this
country.
One of the supplementary ap-
preparation bills before the
House contains an item of 81
million, requested by the Presi-
dent to strengthen the Immi-
grafton and Naturalization
Service and enable it to cope
with the task of turning back
these Illegal entrants. In line
with recommendations of q
Federal commissions report,
made after extensive study Of
the situation in a number of
States, the money was to be
used to increase the force of
inspectors and provide addition
al detention centers for the
workers now being smuggled or
smuggling themselves in. There
is now virtually no place to put
them.
The 50 million is not the real
money involved, however. The
real money is the difference be-
tween what American employers
pay the wetbacks and what they
would have to pay American
labor or legal entrants, brought
in under contract with the
Mexican government. The latter,
, numbering 240, 900 last year, are
protected by a minimum wage
scale and guaranteed decent
housing and health facilities.
The wetbacks have no protec-
ton whatever. They accept 20
to 80 cents an hour and sleep in
the brush. Their survival is
their own lookout and the NOR
tality rate among them is high.
They offer q threat. incidentally.
to the health Of any community
that harbors them. In some in
stances their condition is little
better than peonage. Being In
the country illegally they are
completely at the mercy Of
their employers.
The number Of them con-
tinues to grow. There were less
than zoo. 900 In 1947: more than
700. 900 last year.
The corporate and other bid
farms are the principal en-
ployers. Cotton. citrus fruits
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income" In the instant case,
the transaction arose out of q
gift of stock over which there
was a dispute as to its proper
valuation. There is often q diff
ference of opinion among ex-
pertS as to the valuation Of
stock for gift-tax purposes. It
so happens that the legal fees
paid by the taxpayer In trying
the case amounted to about
$1,000. but he saved in all about
$4,000 by going to court and.
as Justice Jackson says, the tax
payer was thus able to preserve
not only the capital but the
income on the sum conserved.
Justice jackson wrote:
Certainly contest against un-
warranted exaction, regardless
Of its amount or outcome, is for
the conservation of property and
its reasonable cost is deductible.
"A majority of my brethren
seem to think they can escape
this conclusion by going further
back in the chain Of causation.
They say the cause Of this legal
expense was the gift. OF course
one can reason, as my brethren
do. that If there had been no
gifts there would have been no
tax, If there had been no tax
there would have been no de-
f1ciency, if there were no
deficiency there would have
been no contest, II there were
no contest there would have
been no expenses. And so the
gifts caused the expense. The
fallacy of such logic is that it
would be just as possible to en-
ploy it to prove that the law
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by the President. The one
other member Of the subcom-
mittee, Senator Taft. was alb
sent from the city.
mot only do wetbacks pose
q most serious problem in agri-
culture the Senators say in
their letter, ''but they are also
increasingly penetrating indus
try. Statistics furnished the
subcommittee on wetbacks ap-
pretended In the Midwest be-
tween January 80 and Febru-
ary IS. 1852. indicate that Of q
total Of 1,148 persons, 1913 were
working on the railroads, los
in meat packing and processing.
81 in steel, 80 in hotels and res
taurants, 426 in other industries
and 76 in agriculture"
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vegetables, sugar beets. hops.
potatoes. peas, peaches and ap-
Piles are among their produce.
They find their way not only to
Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and
California. but to Oregon,
Washington. Idaho, Colorado
and Michigan.
In the Senate q subcommit-
tee Of the Labor Committee has
been holding hearings on the
subject. AS O result six Of the
seven members, Senators Hum
phrey, Douglas, Pastore, Nicely,
Morse and Ives, have written to
Chairman McKellar Of the SEN
ate Appropriations Committee
urging that the immigration
and Naturalization Service be
given the full amount requested
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DIPLOMATS CAN GET AWAY WITH MURDER
Continued from page seren

in one day, tearing along at 1890
mph. Never mind, you cops.
Burgess shouted, 81 have diplo-
matte immunity" Virginia's
governor sent an angry letter to
Muir, who forwarded it to the
British ambassador. Within a
week Burgess was on his way
back to England. Shortly after
ward he disappeared, with a
fellow diplomat named
Mclean. Presumably they went
behind the Iron Curtain.
Time and again during our
investigation in Washington, we
came up against proof that diplo-
mats - notably from Iron Cur
tain countries - come here to do
definite harm to our government.
Central Intelligence, Oh request
from Senator Pat McCarran,
reported that out of a hundred
average diplomats, ''twenty-nine
definitely worked against the in
terests of the United States"
The Two Mrs. Tsiangs
BUT this is a separate subject,
part of the Cold War. and one
which is being dealt with by our
various intelligence agencies.
Less dramatic but also impor-
tant Is the question of everyday
behavior of those possessing dip
lomatic immunity. Their private
escapades frequently furrow the
brows of men in the Department.
Take the case of DR.. T. F.
Tsiang, Chinese delegate to the
UN. He departed for UN meet
ingsin Paris, leaving Mrs. Tsiang
here. When he returned he had a
newer, younger Mrs. Tsiang,
together with a French marriage
certificate. The first Mrs. T.
sued for divorce, but DR.. Tsiang
blandly announced that he could
not be sued. He had diplomatic
immunity. The court had to up
hold him. Currently he is the
only known person on the Ameri-
can continent who openly admits
to two wives.
Again there was the case of
pretty young Lorraine Manville
Dresselhuys and her husband.
the dashing Count Yvan du
Monceau de Bergendal, military
attache of the Belgian embassy.
When she and the Count sepa-
rated, Lorraine was given Gus
tody of their child Tommy. Then
Continued on next page
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Dido. A coroner's jury ruled the
diplomat responsible for the
nurses death. saying he had
driven with gross negligence in a
willful, wanton manner.
But Santa-Liestra's ambas-
sador refused to divest the Sec
ond secretary of immunity. The
State Department because of
our delicate relations with Spain"
- would not declare him per-
soma non grata. Santa Liestra still
drives around Washington
streets, but today there is a diff
ference. He is now first secre-
tary of the Spanish embassy.
There was some redress when
Santa-Liestra's US. insurance
company made a settlement with
Lillian Hess's family.)
Sidewalk Driving II OK.
TRAFFIC problems provide Ray
Muir's most frequent headache.
Once, Marquis Mobile Bendetto
Capomazza. secretary to the
Italian. embassy. drove his car
up on the sidewalk in front of a
restaurant to keep a girl friend
from getting rained on.
When police rushed up, Capo-
mazza directed attention to his
privileged DPL license plate and
triumphantly drove away.
Muir's action in another traffic
case was curious prelude to one
of the most sensational inter-
national incidents of our times.
Guy Burgess of the British
Embassy was picked up by Vir-
ginia state troopers three times
Evening star., 1952-07-20
I'm Airline Steuaydess Must Be Suye!w

says Sylvia Montgomery
Of United Air lines
"Thot's why 50 mony Of Us
use Helene Curtis Creme
Shampoo. It's wonderful
anywhere. in ony climate.
with ony type Of woter.
Alwoys mokes my hoir eosier
to nsonose. more ivsfrous.
thun ony other shompoo
I've ever vsedl"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-09-03
Of Interest To You. But -.
Too Late To Classify
By RUSSELL. KAY

Way back in the days when
we used to have Republican
presidents, street cars and the
only flying saucer anybody ever
heard of was the one the wife
threw at you, I did a lot of
bowling and was fairly good at
it.
Then I drifted away from the
sport and hadn't been near a
bowling alley for about twenty
years.
Last week my athletically in
clined young daughter and some
of her equally vivacious girl
friends inveigled me into join
ing them for bowling party.
Remembering the good old
days / visioned the old ball fly
ing down the alley to smash out
strike or a spare. I even went
so far as to do little Dragging
about how / used to build up a
score.
Before ! realized what was
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Sincere sensitive dealists would do we'll to stay OF
of politics.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-09-03
THIS ROCK
OF OURS
By BILL cfBB

Water Shortage
The water shortage grows worse
all over town and yet another big
line is being tapped to increase
the flow to Geo. Allen Apis. on
First Street.
Residents in that area naturally
need water but will the new line
deprive other sections of the mea-
ger flow they now enjoy7
Enjoy did l say? Pardon me /.
Short-sightedness, not sudden
growth, created Key Vests water
shortage in my opinion. The Navy
warned the town months in advence
that steps should be taken with
regard to the water supply. Nothing
was done.
Key West now must pay three
dollars for water they never get.
Air flows through meters and no
answer has ever been furnished
to the popular question: do water
meters also register passage of
air?"
Many residents have installed
electric pumps. If people live on
a seeond-hoor, such installations
are absolutely necessary. But -
and this is important - instead Of
a minimum three dollar water bill,
they also have an increased electric
bill.
The entire situation calls for COM
plete investigation and study to
solve the problem. If necessary,
competent utility men from out
side should be called in. Floating
$12, 0OO, 900 bonds is fine but first,
let's make sure that the money
would solve our problems. Other
wise, we'd all do better to put the
twelve million into local cisterns
and pumps.
One last thing, our aqueduct CON-
mission should be a professional
outfit not controlled by political
appointments.
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Thanks Fire Department


Editor the Citizen:
Please accept our sincere thanks
for your heroic work in the recent
fire at 720 Galveston Lane. Al.
though the small house was de-
stroyed, the larger one was saved.
And it was through your efforts.
q complete loss Of both houses was
prevented.
II is an established fact, that
Key West firemen have always
gone beyond the call of duty ia
preventing and fighting fires. We
would like you 20 know that this
is not unnoticed or unappreciated.
We trust that the scant water sup
ply can be remedied soon, so that
your work viii not be hampered.
as it was yesterday.
And we shall always be grateful
for your help. We are proud
that Key West has a fire depart
ment in whom il may safely trust
for protection at all times.
Sincerely yours,
Arimentha Nelly and
Family
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happening ! found myself all
diked out in a pair of rented
bowling shoes, netting the balls
to find one that suited. ex-
pressed the opinion that l might
be a little rusty, seeing ! hadn't
played for so long, but when
my turn came l approached the
alley with complete confidence.
My four girl companions sat
quietly watching to see how the
old maestro did his stuff. could
tell by the expression on their
faces that they expected strike
or at least a spare.
Holding the ball up level with
my nose ! took a good sight
down the alley then in what |
considered my best professional
style let her roll. I'm not ex-
actly sure what happened, but it
seemed that a whole mess of un-
used and neglected muscles,
brought into play for the first
time in years, just naturally re-
fused to function.
For a minute / thought l wasn't
going to get my fool fingers out
and let the ball go, and visioned
myself flying down the alley
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HAL
BOYLE
SAYS
BY HAL BOYLE


HOMETOWN, u. S. A. RETrel-
lis Mae Feeble, Americas average
wife, felt little uneasy as she
entered the office of DR.. Alphonse
CCrtex, the celebrated psychia-
trist.
Nervously she sat in the waiting
room studying a faded photo of a
football team hung on one wall.
Dr.. Cortex had put it there for
a reason. He felt his new patients
had more confidence in him if they
knew he had played left tackle for
good old PSychosomatic Univer-
sity.
''The doctor will see you now,
Mrs. PEBBLE" the nurse said in
her professionally CHEEKY voice.
Trellis Mae hesitantly entered
the other room and DR.. Cortex
Immediately took command of the
situation.
"You are in tension, madam"
doomed the distinguished mind ex-
plorer. ''Lie down on the couch
and relax, please, while l 90 out
and dictate a few notes to my
nurse"
Trellis Mae lay down, took off
her shoes, sighed gratefully and
fell asleep. She always fell asleep
when she removed her shoes, no
matter where she was.
She dozed for a few moments,
but when DR.. Cortex returned she
was idly scribbling on a piece Of
paper. He quickly plucked it from
her hand, and read:
Hamburger, one pound, head
lettuce, pepper, two cans corn,
| frozen strawberries. What is the
meaning of this?"
''I just thought I'd make out my
grocery list" explained Trellis
Mae.
The pSychiatrist looked annoyed.
"Just what is your trouble?" he
asked bruSquely.
/ "Me?" said Trellis Mae, indig-
nantly, sitting up. There's moth
ing wrong with me. It's my hus-
band, Wilbur, I came to see you
| about"
"Your husband? This is rather
unusual. What's wrong with your
huSband?"
"He means and shouts in his
| Sleep"
'H-m-m-m-m-m. Have you had
any, any, er, er - shall we
say, marital. difficulties?"
Pm glad you brought that up
said Trellis Mae, as she arose and
put on her shoes. "But it's a long
/ story, doctor. Do you want to lie
down and rest while / tell your"
mo, thank you," said the psy'
chiatrist, blushing. "Just give me
the main facts, please. !"
"Well, | used to be a Republi
can, but now I'm for Adlai Steven
son." said Trellis Mae. Sand vii
bur used to vote the Democratic
ticket, but now he's all out fol
Eisenhower.
What does he shout in his
Sleep"
"Oh, he shouts things like, AT
taboy, Ike! Give it to 'em, Ike!
and when / shake him awake and
try to argue with him, he says,
'Aw, let me alone and then starts
snoring. 1t is maddening."
"You wish me to cure him oi
talking in his sleep?" inquired the
mental healer.
Either that" said TrelliS Mae
"or l want to find a way to make
him start saying, 'Hurrah for Ad
lai,' in his sleep. That would be
even better"
DR.. Cortex looked troubled.
'You know.it's just the other
way around in my family" he re
I marked. II have been a lifelong
Democrat, and still am. But my
wife recently switched to Eisen-
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hover. am really quite worried
about her.
"You know, I'd like to have you
chat with her - give her the wom-
ans viewpoint on Stevenson.
Trellis Mae stared at the psy-
chiatriSt.
"You mean | came here to get
you to help me get Wilbur's mind
off Ike, and now you want me to
help you get your wife's mind off
Ike?"
"Well -" began the doctor.
LET me out of here" said Trel-
lis Mae. I'm wasting my money"
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This is good time to start training that bird dog.
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HOLLYWOOD
NOTES
Rx Bob THoMAs

news for imitators of Marion Bran
do: He's taking diction lessons.
The young actors unique manner
of talk has been the butt of many
a jibe from night club, radio and
television comedians, as well as
his fellow actors. His free-Speaking
performance in "A Streetcar
Named Desire brought TV imi-
tations second in number only to
Johnny (Sob!l Ray.
I asked Brando if he had seen
a classic takeoff on him by Sid
Caesar.
Unfortunately no." he replied.
st understand Jerry Lewis had
good one, too. I'd like to have
seen them. I'd be the first one to
laugh"
Brando said he wasn't at all
sensitive about his manner of read
ing lines. (Why should he be? 1t
earns him 500, 900 a picture and
upwards.) But he's taking dicfion
lessons anyway. The reason for
this is that he's playing the second
Shakespearean role of his career.
You can't really count the first
one. 1t happened eight years ago
when Brando was 20 and playing
in a small-time summer theatre
on Long Island. He had small
role in Richard III" and he says
that he wore dyed long underwear
for tights.
His current Shakespeare is on
a slightly larger scale. This time
it's a film version of Julius
Caesar" and the cast includes
Greer Carson, Louis Calhern,
James Mason, John Gielgud, De-
borah Kerr, Edmond o'Brien, etc.
Faced with this formidable array,
Brando enlisted the aid of Shake
spearean teacher and a diction
coach. He explained his reasons:
''I think Shakespeare requires a
kind of diction which can be called
Stage English. Gielgud has it, so
does Calhern. Mason, on the other
hand, talks English English.
81 talk American English. It's
lot harder to change that to
Stage English than II is to change
English English.
81 accepted this role because !
thought it would be good expert
ence for me, and good discipline,
too. My kind of acting has always
been very free. / always like to
be easy and uninhibited in the
characterizatiins l do. But it's q
different matter when you do
Shakespeare. You Immediately
have certain bounds and limits
beyond which you cannot CO."
Since Hamlet is the legendary
goal Of all actors, l asked Brando
if he were interested in playing the
melancholy Dane.
81 don't know" he replied. II
think / might be afraid to. 1t seems
to me that playing Hamlet is
always the peak of any actors
career. After that, ne seems to
have nothing to achieve. John
Barrymore is a classic example
of that"
Shakespeare or no. Brando will
get chance to display his mus
cular frame in Julius Caesar"
When l saw him on the set, he
was dressed in nothing more than
pair of track shorts, Roman
style. He participates in a running
race in the Colosseum for the pic
ture.
There is some justification for
it," he explained. MARX Antony
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