The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-03-06
NEWS BRIEFS

didn't get much sympathy from
state police.
Jesse Carter told the police he
was making "flu medicine" in s.
gallon cans, copper tubing and so.
gallon wooden drums they confis-
Gated at his cabin Wednesday.
Two gallons of the medicine
/ they also confiscated tested 80
proof. They charged Carter with
possessing untaxcd liquor and with
owning a still.
TORONTO Up - Alvin Poser was
dirty, ragged, ragpicker who
lived alone in squalor.
He used TO bring money into a
trust company for deposit and
some of the employees there tried
to avoid waiting on him.
So he kept coming to George
Ernest Buchanan, an executive of
the company, who believed in
treating every customer as best
/ know how
The old ragpicker, aged 70, died
IL days ago. He left $25, 600
$15,0O0 of it TO Buchanan, the will
disclosed Wednesday.
| pnnhonon Cai1 Darnr mama r.
the trust company in 1918 with
s., 900. Aided by Buchanan's in
yestment advice, it grew to $25. 900.
The banker said he hadn't seen
the old man for four years.
1.-THE shape of his hands told
me he must have been cultured
man." Buchanan said.
"They were the hands of an
artist, once he washed them"
ROME R - A bill TO shut down
Italian houses of prostitution =
pending for three years - finally
was passed Wednesday night by
the Senate without a single vote
against it.
It won't become law, however,
until the Chamber of Deputies also
approves it. The government,
which has large majority in the
Chamber, favors the law and ap-
prevail is expected.
BONN, Germany R Four
German industrialists are suspect
ed of peddling industrial secrets
Of the rich Ruhr basin to Com
munist East Germany.
Announcing their arrest Wednes-
day, the West German Interior
Ministry said they we're seized at
their hotel at Kettwig, near Essen.
Other suspects were reported to
have gone into hiding.
The industrialists were not iden-
titled, and il was not indicated
what secrets they may have given
away.
| MOSCOW R - The Soviet press
today ridiculed assertions by the
government Of the Dominican Re-
public that Soviet submarines have
been sighted off the Caribbean
islands coast.
All papers, including the Com.
munist Party organ Pravda and
the government paper Izvestia,
headlined the story Failure Of
Anti-Soviet Fabrication" and noted
the Dominican governments story
was not supported by the United
States.
(The U. S. Navy first discounted
the reports but later ordered Rear
Adm. Marshall II. Grier, com
mander Of the 10th Naval District
at San Juan, Puerto Rico, to in.
vestigate. The Dominican defense
, minister said Tuesday the vessels
were identified as Russian by a
type OF light peculiar to Soviet
submarines.
| ATHENS, Greece M1 - Eight
Greek Communists sentenced to
| die as spies have won a stay of
execution until their cases can be
reviewed by pardons board.
/ A military court convicted the
eight Saturday OF leading Red
spy ring that radiocd military Sc.
crets to neighboring Iron Curtain
countries.
Il BONN, Germany R-Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer says West Ger,
many will join with any nation
that takes the initiative in drafting
a constitution for a United States
Of Europe.
"A united Europe would be nee.
essary even il there we're no Soviet
danger" Adenauer said in a radio
interview, because mo single Eu
ropean country can have the nee
essary living standard just from