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The Phoenix Jewish news., 1952-02-22
ONE UNIFIED CAMPAIGN FOR
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OVERSEAS NEEDS

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which includes and reconstruction program Of the joint
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New Americans national and local agencies
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05

stopped for the train, which was
approaching the crossing.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05

papers a long account of his ap-
pealS to the woman to give up
thought of suicide. He said he
urged her 10 think Of her two
children still living.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05

throughout the day they sway back
and forth as their smiling faces
greet passers-by. When the mantle
of night falls and darkness covers
the earth the Hibiscus folds its col
orful leaves content to rest.
The shrub blossoms forth every
day OF the year; and many of the
blooms live but a single day. Hi
discus flowers range in color from
white, through the reds, yellow,
orange and puppies. The mixtures
of these are as endless as the col
ors on an artists palette. Some of
these flowers have exceptionally
good texture. It is not recorded who
first introduced the Hibiscus to
Florida; but here it thrives to per.
fection;- bringing intense joy to
the seeker of beauty. These flowers
are single and double and such va.
rietieS as the Common Red, Versi.
color, Peachblow, Double Pink and
grown from cuttings. My good
friend George Adams grated IS
different colored doubles on a "sin-
gle" shrub and is constantly add.
ing more. Hibiscus should be plant
ed where it can grow freely, and
must be trimmed back often. /
have seen many of these blooms
10 inch beauties, while others are
no larger than a half dollar.
Among the relatives of the Hibis-
Gus is cotton The rose of Sharon
and common mallow. Botanists call
it rosa-sinensis (Rose of China). It
is a handsome shrub and lends it.
self well as hedge. have often
seen The Common Red grow 20 to
Is feet in height. 1t is interesting
to notice that the leaves vary so
on different plants; some are
round, some narrow and some SER
rated.
Spraying is very beneficial to the
plants, and watering twice weekly
is better than little every day.
The Hibiscus blooms lend them
selves admirably for indoor decor
alton. Pick them early in the morn
before they are fully open; keep
them in the refrigerator part of the
day, (they will not open until re-
moved from the cold.) Many varie-
ties remain open for a couple of
days after they are picked and they
need not be placed in water. In
Hawaii the flowers are arranged
in large vases, with their stems
inserted into the hollow ends of
slender bamboo. Hibiscus have no
fragrance, but they possess a
transcendent beauty that will en-
rich your life, make noble your
thoughts, and help smooth the
pathway on which you trod.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05
Miami Crash
Kills Four

MIAMI Up - Four persons. In
Guiding the brother of Band Leader
Benny Goodman, died in twisted
metal and flames Monday night
when Gas plane crashed at Mi
ami's International Airport.
ALI aboard were killed-the pilot
Capt. George E. Smith, about 80,
Miami; co-pilot John N. Goodman,
Vincennes, Ind, 26-year-old broth
er of Benny Goodman; and two
teen aged boys, Thomas, Is, and
Glenn Slaughter, Is. brothers from
Orlando.
The plane was the personal
property of r. Paul Weesner, pres
ident of Resort Airlines, Inc, a
non-scheduled line operating out of
Miami. It was being flown here
after overhauling at Burbank, Cal,
with a stop at San Antonio, Tex.
Upon approaching Miami at H.
Il p. m. EST, Smith radioed the
fields control tower that he had
no aileron control, which governs
the ascent and descent of planes.
Witnesses said the plane came
over the field 20 minutes later,
Swooped in for a landing, then
zoomed up several hundred feet
before it plunged to earth, nose
first.
Fire-fighting equipment was at
the scene and the flames were
quickly extinguished. Airport Au-
thorities said all four occupants
died on impact. The plane oyer
turned on striking the ground.
A spokesman for Resort Air
lines said the two boys were picked
up in San Antonio and were STEP
sons of Capt. Dixie Walker, a Re-
sort Airlines pilot.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05
Husband Dies
After Wife
Shoots Doctor

LIVE OAK Up - Sam McCollum,
wealthy Negro farmer and alleged
bolita operator whose wife is
charged with first degree murder
in the shooting of a State Senate
nominee, died in 0cala Monday of
a heart attack.
Sheriff Sim Howell said McCol-
lum was generally known in the
county as "Bolita Sam" and that
he was reputedly one of the major
numbers operators in Polk County,
Howell said the woman had adj
mitted the shooting. She was taken
to the state prison at Raiford.
The sheriff said McCollum ap-
parently went to ocala with their
three children for safety after the
shooting. He said a deputy and
J. j, Elliott, Gov. Warren's special
investigator, went to Ocala to
verify MeCollum'S death.
as we'll as one of the wealthiest
men in the county.
The sheriff said McCollum was
about IS years old.
McCollum's wife, Ruby, 81, was
charged Monday with the fatal
shooting of DR.. c. Leroy Adams,
Democratic nominee for the State
Senate. A grand jury investigation
has been called for Saturday.
Funeral services for Adams, who
was shot in his downtown office
Sunday apparently in a dispute
over medical bill, were scheduled
for this afternoon.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05
Bean" Schools

FORT LAUDERDALE R-"Bean
schools" opened in Broward Coun-
ty Monday but only six students
showed up at Deerfield Beach in
protest against the early opening.
Bean" schools open a month
early for Negro children so the
youngsters can take a month off
in mid-winter to help harvest
beans.
Parents in the Deerfield Area
hired Attorney william L. Flacks
Hollywood, to help fight unfair
labor practices in the bean fields.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05
Five Killed
AT RR Crossing

PEMBROKE, Ont. IN - Five
members of a family were killed
when a freight train crashed into
their automobile at a level crossing
10 miles north of here Monday.
One child survived but was seri-
ously injured.
The dead were Percy Touseant,
30-year-old laborer, Pembroke; his
wife, Evelyn, Is, and their three
sons. aged five, three and two
years. Their daughter, seven, was
hurt.
Witnesses said Touseant swung
out to pass another car that had
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05

Magical Fascinating:- Beau
tiful:- Superlatives are necessary
in describing this frost-free:-
queen city of Key Vest parti-
cularly when writing of the magni-
ficent flora. This subtropical city
where winter never comes is but
one mile wide. On the south shore
the shimmering seagreen waters of
the great Atlantic Ocean rise and
fall; while on the north shore the
turquoise waters of the Gulf of
Mexico ebb and flow. Both bodies
of waters are an unforgettable
sight displaying every color of the
rainbow, vying with the many tro-
pical flowers that bloom profusely
every day of the year. One may
raise shrubs, vines and trees to
hearts content from far distant
lands,-Africa, The Malayan Is
lands, Hawaii and from sun baked
climes in the Tropic of Cancer.
They will flourish here, rest as
sured, and grow in such profusion;
with little care; you will be delight
ed and enjoy the slight labor. Key
West is always a riot of color with
over 40 flowers blooming, especial
ly during the winter months. Gen.
tie, soft southeast trade winds blow
almost steadily, and make the
winters ideal with temperatures
beween 20 and 80 degrees. The sea
waters rarely go below 20 degrees
and more folks swim in January
and February than they do during
the summer, because of the great
influx of visitors. Seldom does the
temperature rise above 80 degrees
in the depth of summer. 1t is al
ways cool in the shade or while
basking under a coconut tree on
the sandy beach.
The summer sun is brilliant and
hot. 1t is more direct over head in
Key West than elsewhere in the
United States. It's actinic violet
rays have helped hundreds of folks
burdened with rheumatism and
kindred inflammations. Its Pollen
free air relieves those with hay
fever. Truly a Garden of Eden;
the South Seas under the American
Flag. Outstanding among tropical
shrubs is The Rose of China where
it originated. Hibiscus in now its
name and it ranks above all other
shrubs, vines and trees in subtro-
pical Key West and is deservedly
most popular. There are hundreds
of varieties here over 500 - In
Hawaii over 1000. When the bright
red sun seemingly rises from the
ocean depths at break of dawn,
the lovely Hibiscus blooms unfold.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05

1t. Melvin G. Larson, USN, re-
Gently reported to the U. S. Fleet
Sonar School, Key West, Florida,
for duty as an instructor in anti
submarine warfare.
He entered the Navy in 1943 as
a seaman apprentice in the Viz
Program at the University of Colo
RADIO. In 1914, he was transferred
to the Naval Reserve Officers
Training Corps and received his
commission as Ensign in the Unit
ed States Naval Reserve in 1945.
After graduating from the Steam
Engineering School at Newport,
Rhode Island, 1t. Larson reported
to the USS d. H. Fox (DD-779).
While serving on board the Fox, he
was appointed as Ensign in the
United States Navy on January /,
1947.
In April of 1916, he reported to
the USS Krishna (ARL-38) and re-
NAMED on board until May of 1851
when he was transferred to the
USS Calling (DD-671). He served
on the Calling until May of 1852
when he received his orders to re-
port to the u. S. Sonar School.
1t. Larson is entitled to wear
the American Defense and Euro
pean Occupation theater ribbons,
and the World War II Victory
Medal.
1t. and Mrs. Larson, the former
Elaine Claw of Rochester, N. Y,
reside at AID Sigsbee Road, Key
West, Florida.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05
Newly Elected
Comdr. Dies

MADISON R - Francis E.
Brigham, go, died of a heart attack
here Monday just one day after
he was elected state American
Legion commander.
Brigham, Winter Haven citrus
grower and for IL years superin-
tendent of Polk County schools,
died in the office of DIR. A. F.
Harrison, Sheriff Simeon II. Moore
said, where he had stopped and
complained of not feeling well.
Brigham was on his way home
from the Legion convention in Tai
lahassee which ended Sunday after
naming him commander.
He was also an official of the
Florence Citrus Growers Associa-
ton for many years and held a
number of civic positions in Winter
Haven. Before becoming legion
commander, he had been state
Judge advocate, district command
er and had held almost every of
flee of the Winter Haven post.
Frank ]. Falsome, whom Brig
ham succeeded as state command.
er. said he believed bylaws pro-
vided for him Co call an executive
committee meeting to pick a new
commander but said he would have
to study the bylaws, adopted at
the recent convention, before being
sure of the exact procedure.
Besides his widow, Brigham is
survived by two married daughters
Mrs. George Hardy Jr., Winter
Haven. and Mrs. Frank E. Bryant,
Sehring. and a sister, Miss Dorcas
Brigham. Northampton. Mass.
Funeral plans have not yet been
announced.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05

Flacks reported. DeerfieId had 341
students at the end of the first
month last year.
About normal opening day regis
trations were reported at Oakland
Park and Pompano Beach, other
bean schools" in the county.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05
Coal Strike
Possibility
Worries Owners

WASHINGTON Up - The specter
of another industry -throttling strike
before the steel mills have had. a
chance to get back to full blast
production arose today as John l..
Lewis served notice that his United
Mine Workers contracts are end
ing next month.
Lewis, president of the mine
workers union, wrote Joseph E.
Moody, president of the Southern
Coal Producers. Association, that
his present work contract will ex-
pire Sept. 80.
That's 60 days from the date on
Lewis letter. Terms of the existing
contract provide termination upon
60 days notice by either side.
The notice to Moody, following
by 10 days similar word to the
Bituminous Coal Operators Associ-
alton, is certain to mean shut
down of all but a small portion of
soft coal mining the end of next
month unless Lewis, Moody and
Harry M. Moses agree on new
contract terms. Moses heads the
bituminous operators association,
representing an estimated 24O mil
lion tons Of annual production,
much of it owned by the steel
industry. The Moody group pro-
duces around 100 million tons a
year.
Lewis, It was also learned, has
served contract termination notice
on the anthracite, or hard coal
industry, which employs 100000
miners. The bituminous diggers
number 10000.
Still not a party to the series of
recent Lewis letters are operators
in Indiana and the Far West, with
an estimated 90 to so million tons
a year and a scattering Of soft
coal producers in a dozen other
states.
In the last 10 years or more,
Lewis and the soft coal operators
have reached a contract agree
ment without a strike or showdown
only twice-in 1913 and 1851.
The 1851 agreement, which was
signed Jan. Is and boosted miners
daily wages $3.50, was influenced
by knowledge that the government
was about ready to slap a wage
freeze on the nation. That freeze
came a week later but because
the 1851 agreement had already
been signed Lewis is now entitled
to a minimum of 10 or II cents
an hour wage boost for all his
bituminous miners to compensate
for cost of living increases since
Jan. 26, 1851.
A soft coal industry official said
there is little likelihood of any
full-scale bargaining talks for sew
eral weeks.
The board of directors Of the
Southern producers meets in White
Sulphur Springs, w. Va, Aug. H..
That conference may play a signi-
ficant role in establishing the pat
tern of negotiations and in shaping
Lewis expected demands.
The coal industry as whole is
said to be in depressed economic
position. Exports have not lived
up to hopes; the steel strike has
weakened demand; and the present
soft coal stockpile has reached an
84-day supply, one of the highest
ever.
But Lewis is considered likely
to demand a wage increase at
least the size of that won by Philip
Murray's CLIO Steelworkers Union
last month-21 cents an hour. In
addition to his cost-of-living allow
ance, he is expected to cite greatly
increased productivity. or output
per man hour, in the soft coal
industry
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05
|Jax Gamblers

JACKSONVILLE R - Florida
gamblers did their best business
during the 1852 fiscal year n
the month of June.
Ten per cent excise taxes paid
into the office of Collector of In
ternal Revenue John L. Fahs for
June totaled $49, 6O1.35
The previous high month was
May, for which $4S, 474.75 in taxes
was paid on numbers, parlays,
bookmaking and raffles.
Since the tax on wagers went
into effect in November, Florida
gamblers have paid a total of $2s7.-
202.8S in excise taxes, indicating
q gross of $2,S72,028.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05
Heroic Rescuer
Accused OF Hoax.

WASHINGTON R - A young
mother who was reported bent on
making a suicide leap from a sixth
floor ledge last Thursday now says
the whole thing was a hoax to
get publicity for the Medal of Hon
or winner credited with saving her.
Mrs. Ernestine Lucille Whomble,
Il, mother of two children, said
Monday she was offered $500 to
take the Jump attempt because
Maynard H. "Snuffy" Smith, hero
of World War II, wanted publicity
In his campaign for governor of
Virginia.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
Clark King promptly charged
Smith with making false report
to police and firemenJ A similar
charge was filed against Roland
Bennett, described as Interested in
furthering Smith'Y political for
tunes.
Smith, Al, and Bennett, 81, are
fellow employees in a radio shop.
Smith told reporters the incident
last Thursday was no hoax. He
suggested Mrs. Whomble may be
suffering from Authorizations of
grandeur"
''If this girl was making an act,
she should be in Hollywood" Smith
said. He said he had never seen
or met her before the encounter
on the ledge.
He added it was ridiculous" for
anyone to say he was running for
governor of Virginia. He moved
only recently into nearby Virginia,
he said. and doesn't know anyone
there.
II require no publicity. I've had
q lot in my lifetime"
Bennett said "There is not a
grain of truth in what this young
lady has said"
Smiths wife said II was ''ridicu.
ious 10 say Snuffy is planning to
run for governor and said she
doubted there had been a hoax. But
she added:
"Snuffy is a daring type of fellow
who might be talked into some
thing like that"
Smith, who won the nations
highest military award for single
handedly bringing a burning Flying
Fortress and IFS wounded crew
members safely across the English
Channel, has been involved with
the law before.
In 1913 he pleaded guilty TO
charge of violating food and drug
laws by misbranding a "rejuvera-
tion" cream which he sold to an
elderly Virginia man.
King said Smith and Bennett con-
sidered Mrs. Mhomhle a natural
for the faxed suicide attempt be.
cause her five.months old daugh-
Ter had died a few days before.
According to Mrs. Whomble's
signed report. Bennett made the
first suggestion that she fake a
suicide. She said she told her hus.
band, taxi driver, about ii and
be tried 10 diSsuade her.
But she said she went ahead
anyway because she feared Ben.
nett, She said she wanted to back
out al the last minute but Bennett
had told her he would be on the
street below the YNCA building
''to see that I did it, while Smith
would be on the sixth fear TO see
that l went through viii i"
She climbed cut on The narrow
ledge, and Smith followed. A photo
graph of the incident shows her
apparently being pinned by Smith
on the ledge.
"What's really happening Is that
I'm trying to get back inside the
building by walking past him and
he's trying TO block me. / was
scared to death" she said.
At the time. Smith gave news
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05
Mental Marvel

LOS ANGELES Up - Leonard
Ross, 7-year-old mental marvel who
dropped into FEC offices here July
q and won his novice radio op-
orators license, visited the FEC
again Monday.
This time he passed the more
igid operators test.
Bernard Linden, local FEC chief,
personally congratulated the lad.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05

search. Members of the society
include experts who helped de-
veSiop the wartime vi and Va
flying bombs, with which the Ger
mans battered London from across
the English Channel.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-05
Postal Rocket

COLOGNE. Germany tE - A
model of a postal rocket whose
inventors claim it viii shoot mail
between Europe and America in
50 minutes will be shown at the
German inventors exhibition Aug.
223I.
The model has been prepared
by the Society for Rocket Re
The Arizona post., 1952-09-05

Hon. Evo De Concini, Phoenix,
Justice Supreme Court of Ari-
ZOna
Elsie Brandes, Tucson
James L. Permutt, Birmingham
John B. Mills, Phoenix
Harry Cameron. Tucson
Rachel Himmelsteib, Tucson
Rabbi Albert T. Bilgray, Tucson
A. A. Kalish, Tucson
DR.. Royal w. Rudolph, Tucson
George Jessel, Beverly Hills
Charles Korrick, Phoenix
DR.. Marcus Breger, Tucson
King D. Shwayder, Detroit
Mrs. A. B. Cohen, Cincinatti
Harry J. Lazarus, Chicago
The Arizona post., 1952-09-05

Eddie Cantor, Hollywood
Leonard Laser, Chicago
Benjamin z. Posner, Chicago
Max Goldberg, Denver
Harry M. Friedlander, Mobile
Miss Margaret Knight. Tucson
Mrs. H. H. d'Autremont, Tucson
Rev. George Ferguson, Tucson
M. M. Field, Houston
Newton RosensWeig, Phoenix
Bertram S. Kraus, Ph.D., Tucson
Lee d. Sherman, New York
M. J. Duberstein, Dayton
Benjamin Solot, Tucson
Jack Klein, ODE, Montreal
Sidney Weissberger, Tucson
Irvine E. Ungerman, Tulsa
Hyman Myerson, Tucson
Barry Goldwater, Phoenix
The Arizona post., 1952-09-05
HONORARY NATL. Co-CHAIRMEN

HONORARY NATL. CO-CHAIRMEN
James A Farley, New York
William r. Mathews, Tucson
NATIONAL OFFICERS
Oran Sarrels, President
Harry Shift. Vice-President
Raphael Brandes, Secy.-Treas.
ADVISORY and BOARD MEMBERS
Hon. Howard Pyle, Governor
State of Arizona
John Sakrison, Tucson
Jack Benny, Beverly Hills
George Amos, Tucson
Edward G.. Robinson, Beverly Hills
DR.. Benson Bloom, Tucson
Morton R. Cohen, Chicago
Monte Mansfield, Tucson
The Arizona post., 1952-09-05
MEDICAL CoNsULTANTs

MEDICAL CONSULTANTS
Harry L. Bacal, MD, Montreal
Murray H. Bass, MD, New York
Benson Bloom, MD, Tucson
Alton Goldbloom, MD, Montreal
julius H. Hess, MD, Chicago
Benjamin Kramer, MD, Brook
lyn
M. Murray Peshkin, MD, New
York
Solon D. Samuels. MD, Los An
geleS
Mandel Sherman, MD, Ph.D.,
Chicago-LoS Angeles
Leon Unger, MD, Chicago
NATIONAL FIELD DIRECTOR
I. Stewart Birnam
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Raphael Brandes
The Arizona post., 1952-09-05

All the values which have helped make the Brandes
School what it is will continue:-
Indvidualized care
High scholastic performance (again in 1852 its stu
dents placed in the first ten percent of the national
scholastic achevement).
Highest standards of health care.
Personal interest in each child
The School and Camp will continue accepting boys
and girls from to S years of from the first to the
twelfth grades They will continue accepting then-each
on his own merits and economic needs In short the Foun
daon and the school following the traditions of good
private independent schools which offer Scholarships and
which non-prot and non-sectaran The Foundation
and School have added reason and incentive for the Scho
arshp planhe devastating illnesses in children for whom
frequently the only hope and last resort Tucson and
the program at Brandes and for whom these would be
beyond their economic capacity.
YOU CAN HELP in this great undertaking
l. Continue to place your children in the Brandes
School at Tucson and the Brandes Ranch Camp,-and
recommend that YOUR friends do So You will have the
rewardng knowledge that the earnings from the full
tuition will help, in part less privedged children
whose health needs are often tragic beyond descrp
tion
g. You and your friends help by making contribu-
tions to the National Foundation for Asthmatic Chill
dren We hope that these will be generous enough
to be really helpful
g. Interest your organization in adopting" child for
partial or total Scholarship
Help form Chapters for the National Foundation
Asthmatc Children.
s. Interest your friends the Foundation activities
You will be pleased to know that the National Founda-
ton for Ashmatc Children has been approved by the Child
Weare DIVISION OF Arizona department. PUBLIC wei
fare and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue of the
United States that contributions to the Foundation
axdeductibe 1t will please you, too, that of
leading and women in the State of Arizona and else
where have joined Directors and Advisory Boards;
that nationally known medical consultants guiding and
helping us maintain sound medical policy partial
list appears below.
Official information and data about the Foundation may
be obtained by contracting office.
Sincerely yours
Oran Sarrels President
Raphael BrandeS Executive Director