The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-03-11
News Briefs

News Briefs
AUDUBON, N. ]. IN = william
Wright, 8, likes his ,elevision.
He stayed home from schoo.
Monday because he had a cold.
When his mother went out to a
parent.teachers meeting William
took up a seat BY the Ty set.
While watching program he.
smelled smoke and found fire
in the attic. He called the fire
department and returned to watch
the end of the program.
Firemen saved some furniture
as the interior of the house was
destroyed. They had to lead vii
liam away from the Tv set.
PEORIA, Ill. R ~ Things just
didn't 60 right for the burglar
who smashed a window 10 gain
entry tc the Rossetter Motor Co.
Police investigated Monday and
said evidence indicated the burglar
crawled through a window and step
ped into a pan of crankcase oil.
Then, the cops decided, he slipped
and fell into the pan and set off
a fire extinguisher which, presum-
ably, sprayed him with foam.
No money was missing.
! NEW YORK R-The National
Council of the Churches of Christ
/ in America has produced statistics
to show that church membership,
far from dying" in America, is
/ growing twice as fast as the popu'
! lation as a whole.
| While the population of the coun,
try grew only 1856 per cent be.
tween 1926 and 1850, the council
said Monday, the total member
ship of the alrger church groups
increased 1913 per cent.
The figures cover 81 religious
bodies having more than $4,000
members each. The 81 groups, the
council said. have increased their
membership in the 24-year period
! from So, 397 SIS TO IS, 3l9. 274.
The council represents Protestant
and Eastern Orthodox churches.
OTTAW AtR Big, blond Will
Bruentien, an immigrant German
| farmland, flies back TO Vancouver
| tonight with the happy knowledge
that he didn't bring canada's cur
rent outbreak CT foot and mouth
disease from a German farm.
He was cleared Monday night
of suspicion he might be The in
| nocent carrier OF the cattle disease
after II days Of federal laboratory
tests. But the mystery of the
scourge which struck in Saskatche-
wan and brought turmoil 10 Can.
ada s livestock and meat industries
still was unsoived.
/ Authorities had feared that the
| q. year old Brucntjen might have
brought the dread cattle virus on
| his clothes from o farm in Ger.
many where he worked and where
| il troke out before his departure.
| TUNIS, Tunisia Several new
outbreaks of violence attributed 20
| Independence seeking Tunisian ma
| tionalists, brought death to one
man. injury &C. three others and
scattered damage Monday night.
WASHINGTON IN ~ This sea
sons early lamb crop in principal
producing states is about 5 per
cent smaller than last year. the
Agriculture Department reported
Monday.
| WASHINGTON IN Congress
has set the ball rolling for next
years presidential Inauguration
The House passed and sent 10
the Senate Monday a series OF
resolutions, authorizing a S.. 100
appropriation for the protection Of
. life and property in connection with
the ceremonies. permitting the
ouartering Of troops in public build
ings. and governing the granting
Of permits for use Of public proper
ity during the exercises.
/ WASHINGTON GR Dividend
payments in January approx
mated sos. 7oD. 900. or 2 per cent
more than the 494 million dollars
| paid out in January . year ago. the
Commerce Department reports
WASHINGTON ID - The prcsi.
dents bomb shelter ut the White
| Huose il going 70 cost $o6s 900 in
stead Of ssis 900. Congress- learned
today.
Hearings on the independent Of.
fees appropriation bill. released
by the House Appropriations Com.
m,,tee disclosed that the Army
/ Engineers re-examined specified
tions fer the shelter and recon-