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Evening star., 1952-03-01
Births Reported
D. C. Bureau Of vital Statistical }

From the D. c. Bureau Of vital Statistics.
BOYS.
William and Dorothy Fischer,
Edward and Phyllis Houser,
Israel and Edith Kramer,
Leonard and Anna LipShuitZ.
Clement and Marie MCGOWAN.
Henry and Lillian Wolf.
Joseph and Mary Dyson.
William and Miriam Jackson.
James and Melvina WatIingtOn.
Peter and Mary Hoffman,
jacques and Ann Kelly.
Robert and Kathleen Lee
Donald and Kathleen Loudefmiik.
John and Florence Reeves
Leroy and Pocohantas DeRdwyler.
Rudolph and Inna Ford
Carl and Lorraine Jones.
GIRLS.
Charles and Dorothy Barley.
James and Margeret Butler.
Gable and Gloria johnson.
Aurelius and Claragene Pickney.
John and Aurora Hook.
Russell and Ana Lindberg
Edward and Carol O'FIaGhertY.
John and Ahwuneda Brown.
Marvin and Mozella Clark
William and Katie Morrison.
John and Ozel1a Hogers
Nathan and Charlotte BadoR.
LAMAR and Cecil Knapp.
Alien and Jane Moore.
Ciauds and wiliis Xi6Tisht. 4
Evening star., 1952-03-01
Game
Find 81 or more words in


ONGICONE,
meaning, straight and gradually
tapering." Average is "a; limit, 80
minutes.
Rules-Words must be of four or more
letters. Words which acquire four letters
by the addition of IS" such as bats"
cats are not used. Only one form Of a
word Is used. Proper names are not used.
A list will be published Monday.
dace, dared, dead. dear. decor, dread
each, echo, cache. cared. card, cadre,
coached, ached, acre. accord, adder
adored, hard, hare. heard, hero, head
hoer, hoar, horde. hoard. cared, ocher
raced, reach, read, rhea, roach, road, rode
Evening star., 1952-03-01
Deaths Reported

Rrom the D. C. Bureau of Vital statistics.)
Evening star., 1952-03-01
By Frank Colby

|Urals Of Siberia. Others In Mada-
gascar, France, Bavaria, Maine,
North Carolina and Colorado. Most
Of the stones are small. The giant
of them all was found in Brazil. It
weighed 24S pounds. Uncut, 1t sold
for $25, 900.
Evening star., 1952-03-01
Contract Bridge

OOntTuCt Drl09e
By EosIey Blockwood
This is another hand from the
match between the team Of Cham
pion, Dale, Muzzy and Mrs. Keen
against the team from the Uptown
Club, whose members were named
(by the sheerest coincidence) North,
East. South and West.
South dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
NORTH.
(Mr. Dale)
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club Pass idma Dbl
aa'm'ds Pass Pass 9heaVts
Pass aheaFts Pass 4hearts
All pass
In yesterdays column Mr., Cham
plon told about the first time this
deal was played, He was deelareF
at four hearts In the East position
and made 1t by refusing to take the
finesse against the king Of trumps,
'Muzzy and ] defended against
the same contract, four hearts," said
Mr., Dale, but the way Muzzy de-
Tended, Mr., East didn't have al
chance to make it,"
well, then. East didn't play i'll
right" remarked Mr.. Champion.
Its ice-cold against any defense.
Led Heart Four.
II think he did, the way the play
came up," Mr.. Dale replied. Here's
what happened.
"Muzzy thought long and hard
about his opening lead. He was
squirting and seemed to be having
trouble with his bifocals. Finally
he reached for what he thought was
the eight Of spades-and out came
the four Of hearts!
"But that lead let's East make
f1ve-odd," commented Mr.. Keen.
Took FineSse.
"It would have" answered Mr..
Dale, "if East had been able to
see all the cards. But he had no
way Of knowing Muzzy had led from
the king doubleton. East now
planned to set up cross-ruff just
you did, Champion, and he led a
club at trick two.
"I won this" the old master con-
tinued, land returned heart. You
can hardly blame Mr.. East for tax
ing the finesse which, of course, lost
to Muzzy's lone king. Now there
was no way to prevent us from win
ming a trick in each suit for down
one"
Mr.. Champion spared one Of his
rare smiles. Looks like we've got
a five-man team" he said. "the four
Of us and Muzzy's bifocals."
copyright. 1852, General Features Corp
Evening star., 1952-03-01

Mother-You put several things
on the table and turn out the
light. I'll go in and feel them and
see how many I can name. Then
I'll fix some for you.
The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23

George Washington received un-
animous electoral votes both times
he was chosen President.
The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23
BY SAUL PETIT
lFor Hal BoyIel

HEMPSTEAD, N. Y. R-Every
now and then an obscure little man
rises up in wrath and smites the
sounds and sights Of world that
is too much with him.
In doing so, he becomes hero
to many of us who share his convic-
tions but not his courage.
Such a man is Frank P. Walsh.
Unable to submit any longer as
captive audience, he rehelled. He
shot his television set. He shot II
dead, right through its 12h-inch
eye.
But Walsh paid the price of
martyrdom. He lost his job. And
I'm still in my wife's doghouse,
he said. Its very cold"
Mrs. Walsh, mother Of five chill
dren ranging in age from S TO is,
can't explain her husbands pre-
cipitous action. The set may have
been on a little too loud" she con.
eeded. "But always before, when
he complained of the noise,
turned II down and that was that.
The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23
Ems. ROsen Here
For Supply Duty

Ensign Richard s. Rosen, USN.
recently reported to the Key West
Naval Station and had assumed
duties as Assistant Supply and Fis.
cal Officer. He has relieved 1t.
(JG) Emerson X. Fizer who will
proceed to duty at Subic Bay, Phil
lippine Islands.
Ensign RoSen completed Miami
Beach Senior High School in 1913
and entered the University Of North
Carolina where he attained q Ba.
chelor of Science Degree in Com
merce upon graduation. He enter
ed the service Immediately upon
completion of college in June OF
1852.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel T. Shapiro Of 3029 Bric.
kell Ave, Miami, Fla.
The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23

the first stolen car. They were en-
route to Miami.
Moral proome, q farmer oi
Stringtown. Tenn. He was tagged
down as he drove along the high
way and after the kidnapers aban-
doned the Indiana car about nine
miles from here on a narrow strip
mine road. He was forced to drive
the bandits until the car was
wrecked.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Tucker of
White County, Tenn, and their H.
year-old daughter. Theirs was the
third car stolen, and the one still
missing.
At one point, when Mrs. Tucker
failed to drive rapidly enough to
suit them, one of the bandits fired
his pistol, barely missing Tucker.
Several of the victims said they
were robbed Of small change, but
details of the individual escapes.
other than the Cooksons', were
not available Immediately.
The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23
Thirty-Three Year Old Man,
Blind Since Birth, Pounds
Radio School For Sightless

gan picking up a working know
ledge Of radio as a 12-year-old
hanging around a radio repair
shop. He added to it by asking
questions, experimenting, reading
braille and absorbing what was
read to him.
BY the time he went to college
for some work in physics and
math, he was running q part
time radio repair business on the
side.
When the war started Peterson
was operating his own business
but moved over to the Omaha
Eelectronics School for Soldiers
and Marines as teacher.
In a pitch-black room, the serv-
icemen learned how to repair field
radio equipment under battle con-
ditions. Meanwhile an idea was
beginning to jell in the instructors
mind.
Why couldn't the blind be taught
this same thing--and more? Why
couldn't the way be opened for
them as Peterson had opened it
to himself, to a better living?
In 1916, with a couple of sighted
fellow instructors who joined him
in the project, Peterson started
the Radio Engineering Institute
in the basement of the Omaha
YMCA.
BY this time Peterson had licked
one Of the problems that led others
to throw cold water on his own
radio ambitions. He had devised
testing equipment that combined
sound and touch to tell the blind
technician what the sighted radio
man learned from his meters.
Gradually the Veterans Admins
trati0n, various state and rehabil-
itation departments and the Army
gave their stamp Of approval to
the school.
Peterson acquired a couple Of
new partners and the school moved
from the basement of the 'Y'' to
a building of its own.
Peterson, his wife, who also is
blind, and their three sighted
children live pretty much like
other people in a bungalow they
are buying in . pleasant suburban
neighborhood.
The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23
Presidential
Race Can Be
Tmiing = Adlai
BY JAMES MARLoW

6f JAMES MANLOW
WASHINGTON Up - When he
opened his TV fireside talk last
night Gov. Stevenson mentioned
how tiring the long presidential
campaign can be on the candi-
dates. He might have added: on
the voters, too.
Steadily since early September
we've been listening to, or reading,
what he and Gen. Eisenhower have
had to say. And there's no rest in
sight for us for the next two weeks.
Yet, they can hardly say any
thing on the main campaign issues,
unless they reverse themselves.
which we haven't heard before.
It's been enough for most Of us
to have made up our minds about
them.
But the candidates and their
political advisers don't seem to
think so. Otherwise, they wouldn't
be embarking on the weIl-known
whirlwind finish before election
day.
Yet, even if the voters already
know all they need to know about
the position of the candidates on
the issues, between now and elec-
ton day other developments might
swing the election.
For instance, if major scandal
exploded before voting day. And
there is the influence-or effect
of other people who have been, or
will be, crowding into the picture.
There's President Truman, try
ing to rock and sock the general
into a defensive position to take
him off the backs of the Demo-
Gratis whom he had been merriIy
clubbing.
The President, who had been an
issue in the campaign anyway,
seems to have made himself q
brand new issue by his attacks on
Eisenhower. They may have won
votes for Stevenson or cost him
some.
In most of those who have
jumped into the campaign in one
way or another, the element of
surprise was missing. They said
what they were expected to say.
For instance, plugs for the
Democrats by Vice President
Barkley and plugs for the Repub.
hcanS by ex-President Hoover.
Some eyebrows went up when
Sen. Harry F. Byrd, Virginia Dem.
ocrat, said last week he couldn't
vote for Stevenson but for weeks
it had been suspected be might say
just that.
And when Sen. Wayne Morse.
Oregon Republican, finally came
out for Stevenson, there was no
sense of shock anywhere. He had
been edging in that direction for
weeks.
The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23
Police Search Three States
For Trio OF Desperate Thugs

SPARTA, Tenn. W Police
searched three states today for i
quartet of bandits whose leader
described himself as athree-gun
maniac" and lived up 70 the de-
scription in a highway kidnapping
spree.
The gang, including q bashful boy
of IS who carried boxing gloves
and q robe with him, abducted 10
persons and stole three cars yes-
terday.
The victims escaped Ia the same
haphazard manner they were kid
naped-one, two or three at 1 time
at different places along u. 5. Al.
The state highway patrol said
some Of them were fired On BY
the bandits as they got away, but
apparently none was injured.
A newly married couple nom
Houlton, Me-, were the first 10
escape. They jumped out at q stop.
light at Sparta and spread the
story Of the wild spree Of whole
sale kidnapping and petty robbery.
A wide ground and air search
was launched throughout middle
Tennessee. Roadblocks were set up
in Tennessee, Kentucky and Geor-
gia.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Cookson of
Houlton told this story:
AT daybreak yesterday, they were
awakened by two men "well
dressed and past middle age.--at
roadside park near Hasper,
Tenn, where they had slept the
night in their car.
This is q holdup,. the pair an
nounced, pointing two pistols. They
took some jewelry and 80 cash,
then ordered the Cooksoas into the
bandits car.
The couple said several other
captives already were in the back
seat on the floor and under wraps.
Three Of the abductors then took
the captives and drove off In ! car
owned by three Indiana youths al
ready held prisoner, While the
fourth sped off In the opposite d.
rection in the bandits car.
Four Of the captives were picked
up later In the day as the bandits
took their cars. The abduetors still
were at large early today IN the
third stolen car.
After the CooksonE, the others
escaped in this order:
James H. Barton, IS, Tennessee
Valley Authority employe from
Chattanooga. He was the first to Be
captured as he waited for q wreck
er to pick up his stalled ear On the
highway.
David Rennau, 20, Harold Hi.
bert, 20, and Don Walker, Is, al
of Hagerstown, Ind, who provided
The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23
BY ait DEAN

OMAHA LR - You don't find
many success stories about blind
men, but when you do they are
likely to be pretty spectacular.
Take the case of determined
red-haired kid at the Idaho School
for the Deaf and Blind.
To young Lavon Peterson, sue
cess meant two things: learning
to be radio repairman and being
able to live like those not handi-
capped by blindness.
But who ever heard of blind
man mastering the intricacies of
q finely wired radio circuit, fer
reting out troubles that could only
be traced by delicate meters and
making pin-point repairs with a
scorching soldering iron?
Today, at 80, Lavon Peterson
has found substantial measure Of
success.
He has proved that blind man
can make living repairing radios,
even teaching others how to do it.
And he's gone a good deal further
in giving other blind men chance
at a better living as radio tech
nicians.
Peterson created quite a stir
seven years ago when he estab-
Iished his Radio Engineering In
stitute here and enrolled three
blind students in radio technicians'
courses.
Today the school has IS students.
In seven years it has graduated
between 700 and 800. About 200 Of
them were blind, about as many
more had other handicaps.
OF the blind ones, Peterson says,
"a strong 70 per cent are making
a living at it."
Only eight of the students today
are blind. The rest come to Peter
sons school simply because it's q
good place to learn practical radio
and television mechanics.
1--WE put the emphasis not so
much on theory as on servicing
the manufactured article" Peter
son explains. "The students learn
by doing regular service jobs. In
big schools, they can't do that. I"
Peterson, blind since birth, be-
The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23
HAL BOYLE SAYS

Mrs. Walsh looked forlornly at
the empty corner Of her living roo
so recently occupied by her tele-
vision set.
81 feel so lost without it," she
said. 1T cost $258 and / don't know
when we can get another one. We
had il two years and only made
the last payment this August"
Mourning her loss, Mrs. Walsh
said television had become part of
her life. II was her habit, she said,
to turn it on at 10 in the morning
for an early movie while she
cleaned up in the living and din
ing room"
From 1880 to IL, she watched
Strike 1t Rich" while she got the
kids lunch ready" Then came
Bride And Groom, "Love OF
Life" and Search For Tomorrow.
IL almost always turned 1t off at
12:45 and didn't turn 1t on until 8
o'clock for just one-half hour of
The Big Payoff' ., Mrs. Walsh
said. Then | kept ii off until the
early show movie came on at 6:1s.
From then on, | used TO keep it on
until | went 10 bed"
Now we come back TO Frank
Walsh, who is 80, tall and thin. He
used to work nights for q private
detective agency and by day he
did odd electrical Jobs. Frank liked
the fights and the detective stories.
He had nothing against teIeyision
except when II disturbed his sleep.
Several times before the fatal in.
cident. he said. he had felt like
shooting the set when the sound
shook his early evening maps.
Finally" he said. 'It hap
pened. Sunday night | awoke hear.
ing somebody scream, Hey, Alb.
bottl" II was Abbott and Costello,
and / got nothing against them.
But ! was mad not being able to
sleep, | figured the easiest way
was the quickest.
"A got my IS Smith and wesson.
| walked out Of the bedroom and
leaned over the rail overlooking the
sunken living room. My wife and
all the kids were there.
II told them 10 move over and
then | fired from an angie. about
IS feet away. Caught the tube ia
the upper right corner. IL exploded
into = thousand little pieces bat the
glass didn't Ely far. Nobody was
hurt. bat the ~ set was ruined.
Il guess my wife got scared. she
took the kids outside and called
the cops, They came and saw |
was sober. They took my pistol
and pistol permit away. Without
them, | couldn't work and knew
Il. So after the cops left, l changed
my clothes and went dczn 10 a
neighhorhcod bar and really E0s
loaded =
wslsh Paused ard looksd 81 ais
wife.
NoN has it's ever and realire
all I've dcns. be Said. I'm sorry
did IL.
Mrs. walsh said nothing. she
past booked AZ the empty corner.
The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23

Royalties from his popular spell
ing book gave Noah Webster 20
years time for writing his diction-
airy.
The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23
Korean War Is
|Lkened To Greek
Tragedy In US.
BY JAMES MARROW

WASHINGTON tR-The Korean
War has assumed the full trap
pings of a Greek tragedy.
II is being argued with fury on
the American political stage as one
of the main issues in the presiden-
tial campaign.
From afar come the winged
messengers, in the hape Of news
bulletins, bearing daily tidings of
battles won and lost and of men
dying.
To this now will be added the
gloomy chorus of the diplomats de-
batting Korea in the halls of the
United Nations.
But in this play the authors, the
Communists, have refused. as il
The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23

enjoying the agony and the smell
of death, to write an ending.
The United States, backed BY
France and Britain, pushed for i'm.
mediate debate in the u. N. on
Korea. So the debate begins.
Secretary of State Acheson is ex-
pected to lay down today the case
for the U. S. and its allies.
Andrei Vishinsky, RuSsia's for
eign minister, is on hand to blast
the U. S. for the Communists.
Before it's over the u. S. and
other U. N. nations may condemn
the Communists who, operating on
the theory that sticks and stones
may break their bones but names
can't bother them, viii hardly be
impressed.
So before the debate begins
judging from what's happened in
the paSt--it would be sheer optim-
ism to believe any end to the war
VIII come out of the speeches in
the U. N.
The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23
PROCLAMATION

ON THIS DAY. let all men OF good will through
gut the earth turn their thoughts towd their brothers
N other londs
ON THIS DAY let each OF US pclse to remem-
Der mot whutever our race our language our
oeiets or the pigment OF our skin the needs
md osptrotions OF our neighbor ocross the border
1itteE but little from those OF our neghbor next door
and ourselves
ON THIS DAY let iuke pride in drecninc
dreaming OF q world in which oil men live forever
at peocs. For only out of dreams down through the
ages have come realities
SO ON THIS DAY. let oil men Of decency und
good will in all lunds and all the seas salute and
cherish The instrument which the n0scns have creo-
Ted 10 construct q lcsiinc peace Let Us !. on this
United Nations dcY sulute mcnkinds bright hope
-. THE UNITED NATIONS
NOW. THEREFORE. C B. HARVEY, MAYOR
or KEY WEST, do hereby proclaim Friday. October
"a 1852 UNITED NATIONS DAY. and coli upon GIL
Citizens OF Key West 10 join in the communicates
obssryCnces OF this event tribute 10 the men and
women who hcve pledged their lives TO protect or
nation 1guiass the iarous OF dcngsE wherever Il mcy
risa.
A n acknowledgment cf my endorsement Of
he cbjecnves os the United N1tons DcY. hcve hare
into 0shxed my signature Cnd the cs1eicl ssm ii
he City cs Key West Flu
gsl C. q HARVEY.
Attest A1yor os she City
Vlcfcr A. iowe. os Key West ia
City Clerk.
The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23
SEA 7
SECRETS

Smith, Milton, Fla.
A. Since waves occur in series,
they are commonly measured from
trough to crest, or from the low
est drop to the highest rise as
the wave passes by a given point.
Actual measurements of the high
est waves at sea, are of course
difficult to make accurately, and
are frequently reported much high
er than they actually are. Waves
estimated to have heights of 110
and 112 feet were observed from
the U. S. S. "Ramapo" in tIe
North Pacific in February, 1893.
This is considerably higher than
the next largest estimate, a height
of 80 feet reported in 1922 by the
British ship Majestic"
@. Is it true that the eel has two
hearts?
A. No. This incorrect notion is
held by many fishermen however
because of a yellowish, spindle
shape sac in the tail of an eel.
This "pulsatile sac" actually does
conduct some of the blood through
a special vein, but it cannot be
properly regarded as an accessory
heart, since the eel, as in other
fishes, possesses a closed vascular
system consisting Of heart, art
cries, veins, and capillaries, and
no secondary heart is known to
exist.
Q. What is the purpose OF a re-
versing thermometer?
A. This is a divice used to
measure the low temperatures en-
countered in deep ocean waters.
Like a fever thermometer whose
mercury column breaks" and re-
mains fixed at the greatest tenn
pertture reached until shaken
down" by hand, the reversing ther-
mometer is so designed that the
temperature at any desired time
may be "set', and later read ac-
curately, even though the tempera-
ture be quite different at the time
of reading. This is accomplished
by using thermometer with a
mercury bulb at each end and de-
signed so that the column breaks"
in a certain place the moment the
thermometer is upended. In prac-
tice, the reversing thermometer is
sent down on a wire cable to the
desired depth, when a heavy brass
weight weight of messenger is
slid down the wire and automati-
cally reverses the thermometer.
which is then hauled to the sur
face.
Q. What are Chaetognaths?
A. These are strangely-formed
small sea animals often called
arrow worms. Chaetognath
means 'bristly jaw", and is quite
descriptive in this case, since the
jaws, which are used to capture
the small shrimp-like creatures on
which it feeds, are recurved and
shaped like series Of tiny ice
tongS. These animals are usually
about an inch long and are found
In large numbers in clear ocean
water, often quite near the sur
face. The head is ended with a
pair of tiny eyespots; and the body
is smooth, tapering, and resem-
bles tiny rocket with a tailfin
at the tip and usually a pair of
side fins or vanes along either
side.
Q. Are sharks and rays related?
A. Yes. They both belong TO the
great Subclass Elasmobranchii.:
which includes fishes with skele-
tons composed of cartilage and
with a number Of separate gill
openings. Rays are considered TO
have descended from the more
primitive and. generalized sharks.
The angel shark. Squatina Ia ray
like shark, and the guitarfish.
Rhinobatus Ga sharklike rayl are
considered TO be somewhat inter.
mediate forms.
The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23
.CM To Teleyise
Inauguration

DETROIT NGeneral Motors
Corp. viii sponsor = nationwide
NBC television-radio description of
the presidential inauguration in
in Washington Jan. 20.
The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23

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roslsf Isss mix . eap q shspvea.
eoeked. psgtea pFunRs wlth i've
sesspooas grated es oranae rad
three ishiespoens os Sagar aad .
quarter teakpooa of elnnamoa.
The Key West citizen., 1952-10-23
ONLY SIS AUTO SAFETY
INSPECTIONS GIVEN

City Tax Collector Archie Ro-
berts said Wednesday that only IS
inspection stickers for autos had
been issued yesterday according to
the tally in his office.
Cars with no inspection stickers
viii continue to get police tickets
with = penalty Of 81. Owners who
come In voluntarily for car test
ing win be penalized only 81.
The process Of testing continues
at Poinciana fire station but stick
ers must be obtained at Roberts
Office.