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Evening star., 1952-11-27
CaroIinian Sentenced
To 7 10 3 Years in
Criminal Assault

A 22-year-old man was sem
fenced yesterday in the U. S. Dis
trict Court for the District of Co.
fumbia to serve from 2 to 8 years
for raping a 35-year-old mother
of three children last June in her
apartment.
The man given the time was
Floyd c. Raper. of Kannapolis,
N. c., who had pleaded guilty.
Sentence was by Chief Judge
Bolitha j. Laws.
Court attaches pointed out that
the woman attacked, according to
Raper's story, had been the inno-
cent victim of a cruel trick. Raper
told authorities he had been di-
rected to the victims apartment,
in the 1400 block of Fifteenth
street NV, by a scheming COL
ored couple. Assistant United
States Attorney Martin j. McNa-
mara said Raper'S story had been
confirmed in part by a subsequent
police investigation.
Other Sentences.
A number of other persons were
sentenced yesterday.
Leroy Davis, 81. colored, of the
first block of Randolph street
NV, was given from 2 to years
by Judge Edward M. Curran for
breaking into a Homan's room in
the 1900 block of Nineteenth street
NV. Davis had pleaded guilty to
single charge of houSebreaking.
A charge of simple assault was
dropped
In another case, Judge Curran
gave Robert Starks, 10, colored,
Of the first block of Fenton street
NE. from l to years for house.
breaking and larceny. Starks had
pleaded guilty to breaking into a
store in the 800 block of H street
NE. and stealing 1890 in cash in
addition to clothing. Two code
PENDANTS await trial.
Sentenced in Shooting.
Harry c. Young, 26, colored, of
the 500 block of Second street
S.W., was given from 3 to 9 years
by Judge Curran for shooting and
Woundlng another man, also
colored.
Two women were sentenced for
attempted abortions. One of them.
Mrs. Telzora Grimes, 81, colored.
OF the 100 block of F street S.W..
was given from to 81 months for
attempting an abortion on a IT.
year-old colored girl. ,
The other woman, Mrs. Fannie
Mae Ashton, 43, colored, of the
1900 block of Fourth street NV.
was given from 6 months to 2
years for attempting an abortion
on a 26-year-old colored womna
Mrs. Grimes was sentenced by
Judge Burnita Shelton Matthews
and Mrs. Ashton by Judge James
R. Kirkland.
Melvin A. Lightfoot, 47, colored
OF the 2200 block of Tenth street
NV, was given from S to IS
months by Judge Matthews for
operating numbers lottery.
Evening star., 1952-11-27
CD and Food Industry
To Confer on Mass FEEDING

Civil defense and food industry
officials will join in an all-day
conference on emergency mass
feeding, beginning at 10:3O am
tomorrow in the Shoreham Hotel,
Miss Edith Walker. assistant
secretary of the British Ministry
of Food. will outline English
methods. Mrs. Edith Ruthman,
chief of emergency feeding for
the Federal Civil Defense Admin
istration. will describe the Amer
ican program.
Other speakers will include Paul
S. Willis, president of the Grocery
Manufacturers of America, and
Maurice o. Ryan of the American
Hotel Association.
Evening star., 1952-11-27

the field Of educational television.
being conducted by the school
system, RCA Victor and WNBW.
The presentation was made by
Henry G. Baker. vice president and
general manager of RCA Victor
Evening star., 1952-11-27

place among the familiar sham.
rocks, roses and thistles.
1t is expected that the new
coins win go into general circula.
ton early next year.
Evening star., 1952-11-27

Home Instrument Department.
Commissioner Rosel Hyde Of the
Federal Communications COM
mission also appeared on the
program.
Evening star., 1952-11-27

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-07
End Steel Go.
Completes Terms

NEW YORK 1.-THE Bethlehem
Steel Co. Wednesday night became
the second major company to COM
plete final contract terms with the
CT0 United Steelworkers.
The announcement was made
jointly by Philip Murray, presi-
dent Of both the CI0 and the steel
workers union, and ]. NJ. Larkin,
BethIehem's vice president ia
charge Of industrial and public re-
lations.
The agreement will run until
June 30, 1854, with a wage re-
opening clause effective June 20,
1853.
The statement did not specify
what the Bethlehem contract con-
tains On the union ship, major de-
mand Of the steeiwOrkers. But the
nationwide settlement reportedly
called for q modified version Of
the union shop. under which new
workers must Join but can with
draw from the union and old en-
ployeS may remain non-union-
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Fla. Store Sales
Are Up For June

JACKSONVILLE Up - Depart
ment store sales in Florida jumped
Is per cent in June over June 1851;
furniture % and household ap-
pliances Is per cent.
This was due mainly to big
credit buying, said 7. A. Lanford,
vice president and manager of the
Jacksonville BrancL, Federal Re-
serve Bank of Atlanta, in a report
Tuesday.
He said there we're increases OF
e. per cent in installment pur-
chases in department stores: 81 in
furniture; and is in household APP
pliances along with a 5 per cent
increase in cash sales and Is in
charge sales in department stores:
II per cent cash sales in appliance
stores.
There was an 10 per cent furni-
ture store cash sale decline, he
said.
Florida department store sales
were the same as those in the
sixth district but far below the
districts II per cent in furniture
and 81 in appliances.
Lanford said all reporting cities
had increased dollar values in de-
partment stores bat that Tampa
furniture stores decreased 6 per
cent.
He reported Jacksonville had a
II per cent increase in department
store sales and 50 in furniture; 81.
Petersburg IS; Orlando and Tampa
Is: and Miami II in furniture and
very close in department stores.
Charge account and inStallmen,
receiyables increased L. per cent
and 8 per cent respectively in de-
partment stores over June a year
ago while furniture jumped n
He said Fioridians were paying
up department store charge &C
counts in so days against IS for
the district: s.s months for install.
neni obligations against 123 for
the district
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First Mail Pilot,
]. Huffman Dies

MIAMI Up - Funeral services
will be held Saturday for Stanley
c. (Jiggs) Huffman, widely known
aviation figure and managing di-
rector of Miami's All American Air
Maneuvers the last three years
they were held, who died of a
heart attack Wednesday. He was
So.
Huffman made his first flight
when he was II years old near
Springfield, o.. in a glider he
launched from the edge of a gravel
pit.
After service in World War I.
he won his wings at Kelly Field.
Tex, and flew the first night fire
works exhibition plane In 1924. He
flew the first air mail out of Gin
cinnati in 1927 and established a
worlds endurance record for C
class planes in 1929, staying aloft
rs hours and 40 minutes.
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Wonder Drug
"Chloromycetin'''
Being Studied
BY FRANK CAREY

Associated Press Science Reporter
WASHINGTON R-Chloromyce-
tin, the versatile wonder drug"
credited with saving thousands of
ives-but recently brought under
medical suspicious up for a
hearing before some of the ma
tons top scientists.
A special committee appointed
by the National Research Council
(NRC) is scheduled to study evil
dence in some 200 cases of blood
Notwithstanding at least nine
Enthusiastically reported among
an estimated eight million persons
treated with the drug since 1949.
The Food and Drug Administra-
ton (FDA) which requested the
NRC appraisal, said that upon the
committees advice" - together
with opinions of FDA's own re-
search experts-would depend the
future of the drug.
Chloromycetin, whose discovery
in a sample of soil from Venezuela
and whose early dramatic trials
in the jungles of Malaga constitutes
one of medicines great thrillers,
is the only known cure for typhoid
fever.
1t has also been used effectively
against a wide variety of other
ills, including Rocky Mountain
spotted fever, epidemic typhus.
scrub" typhus, undulant fever,
blood poisoning, certain pneumon-
las, urinary tract infections, men
nights and whooping cough.
The NRC, a quasi-governmental
scientific agency constituting the
top-drawer of American scientists,
was asked by the FDA to appoint
the special committee after FDA
had gathered all available facts in
the blood disorder" cases during
a nationwide investigation.
The NRC declined to release the
names of the six-man appraisal
committee, but it was understood
it numbers some of the top re-
search men on chloromycetin. and
on disorders of the blood.
There were no indications as to
when the committee would report
its findings on the evidence studied.
FDA officials told a reporter that
while any official action which the
agency might take with respect
to the drug will depend upon the
outcome of the current investiga-
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tons, these are the various posi-
bilities:
/. Outright banning of the drug
if-and the FDA emphasizes that
"if"-it should be definitely estab-
lished that the drug of itself, re-
CARELESS of great care in employ.
ing it, can cause deaths. The
agency said this was only a "re-
mote" possibility.
2. Restricting its use to typhoid
fever and to certain staphylococcus
infections against which none of
the other known wonder drugs"
are effective.
3. Allowing its continued use
against all the serious diseases sus-
ceptible to its action-but under a
strictly-defined method of treat
ment.
Meanwhile, the American Medi-
cal Association (AMA) and Parke
Davis & Company, Detroit, manu-
facturers of chloromycetin Grade
name for chloramphenicol), have
cautioned the medical profession
against "indiscriminate" and PRO
miscuous" use of the drug.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-07
Tells ROCK OF OURS
BILL GLIB

Ever sit down to write letter
and find yourself stumped for
something to say in it?
Writing a daily column often
presents the same complications.
"This Rock of Ours" by-passes the
trouble by Tipping the Bible open
and choosing a passage from what
ever verse looks appealing.
There are a lot of other books
on the shelf which could be used
for the same purpose - books
ranging in subject matter from
Jack Woodford's latest unexpur-
gated story to 'shoot-em-up' West
ems, mythology, philosophy, and
verse.
Sometimes the writer looks at
the conglomerated mess of subject
matter he reads and is quite force
ably struck by the truthfulness of
the mechanical foreman's (Percy
Curry's) remark: you're con-
fused"
Confused or not, books are pro-
badly the most wonderful compan-
ion on earth. There is one for every
mood. Marcus AureliuS for in
stance, is wonderful antidote for
that lost, lonesome feeling.
And when you're in love - don't
waste nickel in the juke box to
hear some city-born cowboy wall
about the empty prairie. Pick up
one of Browning's poems and get
real love songs - songs Stressing
the beauty of God, nation, and in
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-07
Democrat Leader
TO Vote For Ike

BALTIMORE R - Jules H.
Requard, a Democratic National
Convention delegate, said Wednes-
day he would vote for Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, the Republican
nominee, for President.
The lifelong Democrat said the
appointment of Wilson Wyatt as
campaign manager for Illinois
Governor Adlai Stevenson, Demo.
cratic presidential nominee, was
''too much for me to stomach. -
Requard said he regards Wyatt
as 'too far to the left and in
favor of too much government con-
troll" Wyatt's appointment, he add
ed, shows which way Stevenson
is headed.
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dividual.
Kipling can always be depended
upon to arouse a patriotic, adven-
turesome spirit and viii Durant's
stories of civilization and philoso-
ply are unsurpassed for the seri-
GUS thinker.
By and large, the best reading
book is the Bible, however. Too
many people fail to realize that
this beSt-seller will provide them
with solution for any and all
problems - in my own case, even
such minor problems as not hav-
! ing something to write about.
One-Way Traffic
New ordinances regulating traf-
fic have been praised by quite a
few folks insofar as Fleming and
Southland. Quite few complaints
have been made with regard to
Simonton and Duval, however.
Flow of traffic has been slowed
up perceptibly on Duval. Every
one going downtown uses this one
street, whereas coming from town
- southwards - there are two SITS.
which can be used, Whitehead and
! Simonton.
One reader has suggested that
the difficulty could be overcome by
forbidding parking on Duval. This
seems to be a doubtful solution un-
less all stores are required to have
a service entrance. The loading
and unloading of trucks causes
! most of Duval Streets congestion.
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E.asgg0g
BY SAM DAWSON

NEW 1Onh H-JOnl l.. LEWIS
as businessmen guessing again.
This time it's about his chances
of winning a wage boost for his
miners if there is a work Stoppage
in October-or of getting the pay
hike without strike. A coal price
boost doubtless would tag along.
Such wage price increase could
mean a hike in the cost of heating
homes and running factories-or
possibly, as Goals competitors
point out, a bigger market for oil
and gas.
That October date is the strong
est card in Lewis hand, as bust
nessmen see it. The mine union
leader says labor contracts with
the mines will 60 out the window
at the end of September, unless
renewed on a higher pay level.
The deadline comes just when
the political campaign will be at
its hottest-and the question of
using the Taft-Hartley Law would
be at its hottest too.
It comes also when steel mills
will still be trying to catch up with
defense and civilian needs, which
pyramided during steeps own
strike. And steel mills must have
coal.
Low cards in Lewis hand, as
businessmen see it, are these:
/. The country has the largest
supply of coal above ground since
January, 1943-a supply that could
last 80 days before Lewis could
make the strike pinch on an over
all basis.
2. Each time the price of coal
has gone up the industry has lost
markets to oil and natural gas
which can only reduce work for
miners.
8. European demand for Amer
lean coal-a bulwark for the indus
try in the last year or more, when
domestic demand was slack-is
also dropping off, and Europe is
intent on becoming independent of
American coal by the end of 1858.
Loss of this customer would
leave still less work for American
miners-which may worry both the
union and the operators as they
negotiate and talk of a strike.
This summer the steel strike fur
Their shrunk domestic demand for
coal, and miners have been work
ing three days a week or less.
Weakened family budgets could be
hard hit if a strike cuts off pay
checks.
A strike also would cut off the
30 cents a ton royalty mine owners
pay into the unions welfare fund
and could even threaten to end
benefit payments.
But Lewis has some trumps to
play on these tricks:
That huge stockpile of 80 million
tons of coal above ground isn't
evenly divided.
True, utilities usually keep large
stores on hand and could run along
for quite a while.
But many steel mills have limit
ed space for storing coal and might
quickly feel the Gripping effect of
a coal strike. They can't make steel
without coal. And the national
economy, defense and civilian,
could ill afford to have steel output
shut off again.
Some cynics contend that a coal
strike could have the same effect
they say the steel strike had for
that industry which previously had
been anticipating surplus.
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Food Prices Continue To Rise
Arnall Tells President Truman
Stronger Price
Controls Are
Being S died
BY VILLAIN o. warm

WASHINGTON R - President
Truman may give a hint today
whether he is going to call Con
greSs back and ask for stronger
;; price controls law.
The President also may say
whether Ellis G. Arnall. the former
Georgia governor, will continue as
price stabilizer or be permitted to
quit and 60 back to his private
business affairs in Atlanta.
Arnall went to the White House
Wednesday bearing his resignation
effective Sept. l. and report to
Truman that food prices again are
rising sharply.
Arnall said he told the President
it may be necessary to call Con-
gress back into special session eff
food prices continue to get out of
hand and skyrocket."
The price loss told reporters
Truman twas very attentive-he
said he was quite concerned about
the rising prices" Arnall added
that he also discussed with the
President ''the inadequate controls
law written just before the end
of the session of Congress.
Some administration sources re.
ported the President is reluctant
to see Arnall leave. Some of Ar
nails associates said, however,
that the price boss is extremely
anxious to get back to his private
law practice and business affairs.
Arnall said he told Truman that
1--WE need a stronger law to control
prices He said he suggested that
the act is Every weak due to Grip
ping amendments" Among these
factors he mentioned the decontrol
by Congress of fruits and vege-
tables in raw and processed forms.
He also mentioned that the Office
of Price Sterilization (OPS) is un-
able to do what he called an eff
fective job because of a slash by
Congress in its operating funds.
Between now and Sept. l OPS
must release more than half of
its 1900 employees in Washington
and in about 100 field offices.
with q skeleton crew in office,
the job (of initiation control) just
can't be DONE" Arnall said.
Arnall said he told the President
food prices increased a record ia
per cent between June Is and July
Is. He said that even after the
Korean outbreak food prices went
up only one Per cent a month.
Among factors affecting the in.
crease in the cost Of living. Arnall
said, is the widespread drought in
many states which is sharply re-
ducing the supply of fresh fruits
and vegetables for canning. He has
said this will create shortages He
said he also reported to Truman
that higher price ceilings on steel,
copper and aluminium will tend TO
force living costs up.
The National Gamers Associa-
ton, however. called Arnalrs pre-
diction Of shortages in canned
foods ridiculous Carlos Camp
bell, the associations executive
secretary, said there is every in
dication the 1852 pack of fruits and
vegetables, plus large carryover
from the 1851 pack, will insure
above-normal supplies.
Arnall, Is. has headed OPS since
last Feb. Il when he succeeded
Michael v. Disable. who quit to
run for the u. S. Senate in Ohio.
IT vva;iit ax,, ann~ak;a.. - 1AKf
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-07
Three Prisoners
Are Recaptured

ST. AUGUSTINE R - Three
Negroes who sawed their way out
of the St. Johns County Jail Mon
day night are back behind bars.
They were arrested in Lake Worth
after Policeman Harry Weaver
spotted them at a filling station
Wednesday.
The fugitives were identified as
Elmo Payne, Is. Metcalf, Ca; Joe
Pitts, 81, st. Augustine, and James
Wilbur, "a, Knowlton, Ala.
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U. 5. military operations in 1851
involved the flying of 5000 per-
sonnet and 5000 tons Of material
to the Far East.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-07
THE CITIZEN MAINTAINS YOU CAN
SAY MANY THINGS, YET SAY NOTHING

The Citizen in commenting the use of the English
language has said several occasions that you can say
many things and yet say nothing far as putting your
finger concrete idea.
Republican candidate Eisenhower, in speech in Los
Angeles Tuesday night the 53rd convention OF the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars concusvey proved the soundness
of that statement He outlined 1Opoint program, couch
ed in words that soohe the eye and the but obscate
the mind That effect true of all generaities however
brilliantly festooned they may be- and not once IN MS
speech did he cross the borderline of generalites
The 10-pont program runs into too much space to
give it in its entirely But let consider the first point
ITO increase Americas strength: spiritual, creative
and material"
He did not say how to attain any of those types OF In
creased strength your mind has nothing on which to
hinge thought But as we are at grips with Russia in the
most cold in history let us assume ne
meant military strength Che prefers the adjective ma
tera) is the strength Americans are camoring
for and our government is striving for.
In what way can we get that strength? Eisenhower
spoke about high prices in relation to the cost of v
ing far higher prices for weapons of If taxes
are reduced to the extent he says ne will reduce them
where is he going get the to buy weapons to in
crease strength?
Next he speaks about increasing our spiritual"
strength In what way he going to increase it? There
again the mind has nothing which to hinge thought
Surely does advocate holding countrywide religious
revivals attempt increase spiritual strength
Then in what way does he think he increase it? He
should have given us an nkng least of what he intends
to do to strengthen spirituality.
Then he speaks about increasing creative strength
That type of strength in the United States at its high
est level has the of the world wonderstruck its
expansiveness and ramfcaton in every field of endea
vor In what way does he intend to increase it further
Surely it would have been edifying had he told us.
Many political experts, after Deweys defeat in 194S
said he lost because he dealt almost wholly in his cam
paign speeches. in generalies few simple words in or
out of politics, that film ideas in the public mind are
worth far than mile-ong string of words that
says much generally and nothing particularly about
subject Read Eisenhowers 10-ponts they will convince
you that far expictness is concerned they are just
meaningless point like this would be:
To increase the living standard of every American
to provide bountifu table in every American home
the high of living and the week
ly salary to give all Americans from mionares
to the humblest more abundant life.
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Compliments cost little and yet produce excellent
turns anywhere.
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No people of any nation have dictator unless they
willing to accept dictator.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-07

Spend less than you earn and you can have
curity of your own.
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The individual who looks ahead and plans ahead will
be the to get ahead
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Your worst enemy won't do you nearly as much
as you might do to yourself
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1t takes wise to be satisfied with what he de-
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Many an enthusiastic spring gardener is now
to buy vegetables.