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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-12

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ne Key West Safety couneH
which via have IT, flrrt official
nesting next Tuesday Night wants
ard needs every person Ia town 70
become membsrs. Now, understand
this $50
IL you're . newspaper reporter,
Il you're . housewife, 4 you're 8
political power. o. Il yOu'se iuss q
laborer digging bitches Oh some
constructed toh - whether yoa're
black or white - Protestant, Jew,
Or Catholic - your presence al
Safety councll projects can 90 q
loi Of good. Not because yea pos.
ssss any Of the above mentioned
qualification bHa because you'ra
You.
SEINE Of us have had occasion
10 work In the midst Of major ci.
william eatastruphes. Quits q few
years ago. l vas called cut 10
maintain some semblanee o. order
In q make-shlis morgue loeated In
= church. There were nearly two
hundred bodies theFe-buFnt. crush
ed, and pretty well torn W. Nearby.
In another building. We had hun
oreds of seriously Injured people
still alive. To set 10 the point Of
the story
Amongst those dead and injured
there were political blg.wigs and
minor store.keepers; there were
prostitutes, society blue bloods,
drunkards. faithful church goers,
and what have you. Alive. they
lived opposite lives bit when they
were dead. they al looked and
ameiled very much aiikei More
over. the injured reporter or house.
wife suffered bust - much IS the
|mutilated truck drivers or bleed.
ing lahorers.
Il cant be emphasized too much
thai accidents are not respecters
|of personal They eaa happen 10
anyone and the reason TIE Safety
Council solleiis your active mem.
bership Il not because Of your oc.
eupation or positlon In society but
because you represent humanity.
There Is . best seller published
that lists . few cardinal rules for
proper living. One section Of Il en-.
tiled Exodus" makes the state
ment: Thou shalt not kill." Nest
Of ~ interpret that TO mean ''mur.
der" and proceed happily about
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-12
ROgell Threatened

DETROIT W-Peser Reslieh. a.
former Michigan middlewes9ht
boxing champion. ssormea NJ 10
william q. (Riiiyl nogell, former
Delroit Tiger sh0rtxlop. in CITY
Council chambers yesterday.
III Il happens again." Reatlch
npuitered. "I'n eive pea . bust
On The nose"
he accused RoEeil. ROW a city
councilman and up Cor reelection.
81 ether removing Restich Cor
eounea plaeards 90 tacklng RogeIl
slkna ever them al advantageous
apot1.
Nuts" Felcrted RoreIl. II
havent bought any posters You
can tear down any you find
Nobody's nose Rol Busted
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-12
Kranich Tells
About
Nat1COnclaye

A official report Il TIE Lsgion's
Nail0nal Convention held In 81.
Louis. Missouri. iasl week was Civ.
en- ~ Le9ionnalre Norwan c. KFa.
nieh during the regular meeting ol
Arthur Sawyer Post "A, Amefiean
Lewion. on Wednesday evening.
Certificates u Service g. issued
BY immediate 10th District Com.
mandef Bllly Andersen q Coral
Gables we're presented % he Sol.
loving Legionnairss ~ Pest Com.
mander Bethel p. johnson: Judson
stephens. who served ~ District
Patriolie 0bservaness Chairman:
c. b. Harvey. Citizenship training
Chairman: Frank nomagnera. DIS.
lriet Committeeman: Vance c. Stir.
rue. Civil Defense Chairman: and
John w. Miller, eo-Chalrman. Dis
aaler Relief Chairman.
Louis lsmay, was named Chair.
man Of Q committee 10 arrange
munthly entertainment for Legion.
naires and families. Serving with
Ismay are Carl plxlsy. Lewis Bays,
George Conans. Norman Kranich.
Robert G. sheldon, Antonio Aran.
90. Jr., and ~. Z. Lewis.
Norman G. Kranleh vas appoint.
cd Assistant Chaplain Of the
Pest.
Alan Dunsmore. Chairman Of the
House Committee. announced that
q dance with = special feature q.
"a aIl.male Fashion Show WI be
staged ~ TIE Pest Home On Sat-
urday evening. September 10th.
Commander johnson announced
the appointment a Kenneth NJ.
Browning - Assistant Sergeant At
Arms and Alan Dunsmore a. As.
alalant Service Officer.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-12

Peonie who DO not Eet ennngh
vllamh A lave poor 49, al
ni9Al.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-12
Your Safety Council
What Is Its Purpose!

our lives thinking thas we're On.
empt frem TIE lnlMnetion because
cur ''killing" is exedsahls under
tie iechnleal tern, "aeeident."
The Key West Safety Couneil
hopes nat h can throw ep0ugh
light On TIE subisei Of accidents q
show that In almost eveFy eass
they are avoidahfe. That even
where The suffering involved does
rot touch us personally. vera a.
iseted flnancially through increas.
ed Insurance. rates, maintenancg
q ialls ard hospitals. etc.
Consider ne fact that In 1871. &C.
eldents 81 all types cost cur aston
=. 100 .ooo GO. These were rsporta.
BE. serious aeridenis and dan't IN.
eiude many of the tines yea might
have spralned an ankle. dented q
ear fender. jammsd q nall n your
foot. or were otherwise ineonven.
fenced.
OF course. there Il q hrighseE
side 20 this eioomy picture that
has been painted 50 far. Organized
Industrial safety training has help.
ed 10 lower the accident rate In the
age groups from Is 10 e.. School
chlldren ere also living In their
safest year since the early twenties
because of safety training. 70 We
can make this cause Of Safety q
daily part Of every person's life,
there "a no reason that Key West
SHOULD not enjoy an accidentfFee
atmosphere IN ell walks and aeliv.
tiles Of life.
Let me euots . paragraph from
one of the National Safety puhilca.
tions entitled Accident Faets."
"A short year ago there were
$500 persons alive. boys and
glrls. men and women, Infants and
grandparents. all with names and
faces, al win families and friends.
ell with warm human personalities,
loving and beloved. A short year
ago. this was. Nov they are only
memories
II Il too late for us 10 DO any.
thing about the 1000 folks who
were killed last year. There were
Key Westers among them. You
people Who are reading this now
can. however, make q resolution
that their deaths won't have been
n vain. You can join the Key West
Safety Council. find out TIE causes
Of nur local tragedies, and with q
little effort - ellmlnaia them.
The cost of membefshipf - Moth
ing. Eventually. . plan win have d
be put into effect 10 RAISE needed
funds for such expenses 90 postage,
stationery, ETC.. bit eli that h en-.
pected from you right now Ia your
moral and intellectual support.
The Safety Couneli win meet a
the High School Tuesday 81 ep. m.
Wont you comet
THE END
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-12

INDIANAPOLIS lR-Coed Csnny
Krause put her regular clothes
o. and vent back 10 her regular
reporting bob here 10 write the
story al shat she uncovered IN .
grille show al ne indiana Siate
Fair.
Red-haired Cinny IL q reporter
ca TIE Indiana Daily Skudent. Indi-
ana University ngwspapef. See
toined TIE chorus line Thursday
Cor q flrst.hand study cg eoatuming.
Il felt pretty darned bare" she
said. she described her first outiit
as mostly feathers and sid the
a. mostly feathers ard said she
second sswouid lave &c IN .
matchbox.
she said the owner cf 10 show
offered her . permanent %.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-12
~ IAMns nAcoN
lRar Mah Thamaal

HOLLYWOOD @-Ths lie Of q
movie star IL q great one Il, like
Blna. he can lead the lie cf
Crosby.
Paramount sta 1ed the premiere
81 Blng'a rev msvle. Little Boy
Lost" last week but bing was Zoo
busy fishing In Idaho 10 attend.
II would have been . real chore
20 Get him 70 come even II be had
been In town 90 Paramount did
TIE next best thing. The studio
brought ee-star Nicole Maurey al
the way from Paris Just 10 attend
the opening.
But the voluptuous French doll
Crosby calls her q combination II
Rita Hayworth and the farmers
daughtef-more than earned her
plane fare.
she made three ielevisiun ap-
pearances. gave Is separate inter.
views 30 TIE press and met rep.
resensatives of tae foreign press In
one huge press conference. In I'd.
esston. she did several radio bread
casts. met with several French
groups. attended her own premiere
and also ere Of John wayne's.
made twe night club appearances
and went b several parties.
Al 81 this happened In less than
. week. She bearded q plane In
Paris On q Monday ard Travelled
eontlnually untl early Wednesday
morning.. she vas back "a the
plane en- route home the fcllowing
Sunday.
Tie Paramcunt publicity depart
ment reports that she wllhslood
The pace In great shape. even
though sic averaged less than six
hours sleep q aixhl. o. tie two
publicity nasm assigned % her. one
was unable 10 report Do work ghe
following week and TIE other one
showed ~ groggy.
IL there ever we're any misgiv.
'ings about the Boz office pun a.
ID. director George SidneY dispels
item here and nov.
AlthCugh never puhlicizea "A
sneh. SiGaey holds TIE dubieus dis
tinriien q BENG rs FIRST Sd d.
reetar. Back In she middle .sos.
Ne directed several Pete smith
shoFta n re new dimensisa.
Tie STARTS, 4 yoa recall. re-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-12

NICE. Francs. 1 - Gaudeste
Coloers, the actress, suffered a
slight arm injury n al auiamo-
BILE accident here. she lost cen.
trol ol her car ard Il Swerved
into another when ker DOG became
ear s.ek and SIC attempied 10 care
for the animal
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-12

Next tine yUu have > small
amount a raw hmmhurEar % hand.
Try browning Il IN q little fat and
adding 4 % eanned spaghetti h
tomato sauce Cor . quick dish.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-12

TUCSON. ARA H-The Indian
name for Tucson vas "Sgiukshnn. "
which has heen variously tranxlat.
ed as meaning dark SPRING and
''at TIE foot of q black hlll"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-12

Thomas Jefferson sent cora aaks
acorns from France 10 . TREAD IL
South Carollnm
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-09-12

Want 81 easy and different des
sertg Serve fresh plums with
cheese and crackers. Coed.
Evening star., 1953-12-04

starring Elizabeth Taylor and
Mickey Rooney, at 10 am. to-
morrow in the Avalon Theater,
5612 Connecticut avenue NV.
Evening star., 1953-12-04
Not This

Mother-To punish you for
being SO bad all morning, I'm
going to make you take a nap.
I can't stand your crossness an
other minute.
Evening star., 1953-12-04

Mother-I think you are cross
because you are a tired little
girl. If you have a nap or rest
a while in bed, you'll get up a
happier girl.
Evening star., 1953-12-04
School to Show Movie

The Lafayette Public School
will sponsor a special showing
of the movie National Velvet, :"
Evening star., 1953-12-04
Points for Purents-s, EsyFh. rhmoo. wo'es.

Putting child to bed to of badness
Gcceptabe-but not punishment, should be
associated only NTH rest quiet.
Evening star., 1953-07-27

we may see at any time an up
rising by the people and the
Army itself against Batista."
The government statement did
not announce how many had
been Jailed but said many of
those arrested had confessed
completely with persons con-
nected with the Prior regime"
Havana remained quiet but the
cabinet suspended all constitu-
tional guarantees for 80 days.
This permits BatiSta and the
army to rule unchecked.
Official sources said that a
number Of persons picked up in
Havana and Santiago de Cuba
for questioning had been re-
leased. Among them was re-
tired Gen. Jose Gracia Tunon,
who helped Batista stage his
coup against Prio and who after
the government overthrow served
Batista for four months as min
lister to Peru.
Attack During Carnival.
Col. Chaviano said about 200
Of the rebels attacked the bar
racks just after dawn yesterday,
during a 3-day carnival holiday
while much of the garrison was
keeping order in the city. The
attackers. he said, wore uniforms
similar to those of the United
States Army.
One group, he continued,
Swarmed into the main build
ing from three sides while an
other group forced it's way into
the military hospital, killing
seven hospitalized soldiers.
Before the attackers were
beaten down, the colonel said,
the dead totalled 80 Of the rebels
and is soldiers. Col. Chaviano
said 20 others were wounded in
the brief uprising.
Meanwhile, 80 men attacked a
rural guard post at Bayamo.
They, too. were defeated, with
the dead repeatedly two Of the
insurgents. a police sergeant and
three soldiers.
Leader Of Assault Escapes.
Col. Chaviano said the leader
Of the barracks assault was
Eidel Castro, a student leader,
and that he escaped in the
shooting. A report from Santi-
ago de Cuba said the city's for
mer mayor, Luis Casaro, had
Evening star., 1953-07-27

in March. 1852, of responsibility
for the attacks early yesterday
on the Monchada army barracks
ct Santiago de Cuba and a rural
guard post in the nearby town OF
Bayamo. The barracks COM
mander, Col. Alberto del Rio
Chaviano, said the rebels hoped
to launch a revolution to GUST
Gen Batista.
A government statement said
the insurgents were "mercenaries
in the services of persons who
had become wealthy during the
(Prio) regime, along with Com
munist elements"
Prio RidicuIes Charge.
Mr.. Prio, from his Miami,
Fla, home-in-exile denied and
ridiculed the charge. He de-
clared:
81 have said before the people
Of Cuba will never tolerate a
dictatorship. For that reason,
Evening star., 1953-07-27

sought refuge In the United
States Consulate. Mr.. Casaro
is a member of the Authentic
Revolutionary Party.
The barracks commander said
captured rebels admitted they
had come to the area in SO
automobiles during the previous
three days and had concentrated
at the farm Of a man identified
only as Jose Vazquez, who had
stored their equipment. The
army later raided the farm and
seized great quantities" Of am
munition and six automobiles,
the colonel said.
The attackers used hand
Evening star., 1953-07-27
Cubans Crush Rebels
In Attack on Army;
Declare Martial Law
ax the A.,oeiutsd Pres,

HAVANA. Cuba, July 81
President Fulgencio Batista
slapped martial law over Cuba
today after crushing an attack
by some $50 armed rebels on two
army posts in Eastern Cuba.
Fifty -four persons were reported
killed, including 35 Of the attack
ers. 18 soldiers and police SER
geant.
The government accused for
mer President Carlos Prio So
carraS, ouSted by Batista's coup
Evening star., 1953-07-27

grenades, pistols. automatic RI
f1es and machine guns, Col. Cha
viano said, adding that ammuni-
ton seized from the attackers
had Montreal. Canada. mark
ingS on it.
Evening star., 1953-07-27
Nurse Truinine Is Topic

Catholic University is expand
ing its nurse-training program
next fall. Plans will be discussed
at a tea for prospective students
at 4 pm. tomorrow at Regan
Hall on the campus.
Evening star., 1953-09-13

country where I was working. 1t
turned out, in fact, that he al
ready had heard the report.
Police Seized on Incident.
But that cut no Ice with the
police. They made out of the in
cident what they could. They
wrote out a statement. for my
signature. that I had given mill
tary information to Col. Atwood.
And I haggled about it and re-
wrote it. And, though it was still
damaging, I had been awake for
something like AZ hours. All !
could think of was that I must
sleep. They would not let me
sleep till I had signed it. and so
signed.
Later, they took all they had
about the two Of us, and about
the school, and worked it into a
weird statement that wound up
with my saying I had given Col.
Atwood information because ]
knew he was a spy.
Late one night, they pushed
that at me, and a police Off
cial told me, Sign this and
you don't need to worry"
It was so fantastic that even
as I read 1t I had to smile. And
I was so confused that I did not
see it for the BOBBY trap 1t was.
It seems, thought, that what
they want is to shoot off a heavy
charge Of propaganda and then
to expel Col. Atwood-and maybe
me, too.
I signed that statement. Then
they rewrote all my previous fac
tual statements; hopping them
up, needing fact with fancy,
painting me as black as they
could.
And by now I was so used to
signing papers. so conscious Of
my absolute helplessness, so con-
vinced that my only hope lay in
playing their game. that on every
page I wrote, II have read this.
1 have approved it. I have signed
1t. William Nathan Oatis."
And, finally, in court, recited
it-practically all of 1t just the
way they wanted me to recite 1t.
That is how the police got me,
and how they stuck me.
Tomorrow: Oatis' trouble be-
gan on first day in Prague.
Evening star., 1953-09-13

authorities would frown on "un-
official reporting" But there
was no hard-and-fast rule
against it.
What was more, other cor
respondents did it and got by
with it.
He knew that: His home office
sometimes asked him for "unof-
fetal" stories that other cor
respondents already had on
agency wires or in newspapers
abroad. If some such story dis
pleased somebody that mattered
in Czechoslovakia, the offending
reporter was simply bounced from
the 'country-until it came my
turn: ] got arrested.
Because I forgot who were the
people that really mattered. They
were not press officers at the
ministries of information and
foreign affairs. They were not
the Czechs that like Americans.
They were Czechs that did not
like Americans, unless the Amer
leans happened to be Commu-
nists or Communist sympathizers
They were the secret police.
Secret Police Are Busy.
I was their prisoner for over
two years. And I have my ex-
perience or their own words to
back up everything say about
them.
The secret police speak of
themselves as the guardians Of
"our republic" and "our party"
They aim, frankly, to wipe out
all opposition. They do this
mainly with the help Of the
laws on treason, espionage and
sabotage.
They are the men with the
most to do in preparing political
propaganda trials in CZecho-
slovakia. They arrest suspects
and question them until they
have enough on them to con-
vict them in a CZechoslovak
court. Then the state prosecu-
tor takes over, and a trial fol-
lows.
In any prosecution. there is
the law and there is the eYi-
Evening star., 1953-09-13
By the Associeted Press

William Nathan Oats is a
lanky HooSier reporter who
wears bow ties and admires
Ernest Hemingway's novels,
Louis Armstrong; trumpet
and hot tamales.
He is 80 years old, but he
has been in newspaper work
20 years with time out for the
Army and for the Prague i'm
prisonment he describes in his
story.
Back home in Marion,
Ind" as he expresses it, Mr..
Oatis finished high school with
first honors. He won a schol-
arship to De Pauw University
and spent a year there. He
quit school to go to work,
taking his first newspaper job
on his hometown morning
daily, the Leader-Tribune, in
1882.
Evening star., 1953-09-13
If Ootis Was |Spy' Would He Have Lived?

he issued the pardon in lo
sponse to an appeal from Mrs
Oats. To some in the West,
at least. it seemed more likely
the Czech official acted on
Moscow orders tied in with
trade or a peace offensive"
Moscow was pushing about
that time.
One thing seemed clear: If
Mr.. Oats really had been a
dangerous spy, as he was de-
scribed in court two years
earlier, the Communist regime
of Czechoslovakia would not
have let him live. let alone go
free after only two years of
a 10-year sentence. AS vari-
Gus journalistic organizations
brought out while he was still
in Jail, Mr.. Oats spying
consisted of reportorial activi-
ties which are normal in any
country with a free press.
Evening star., 1953-09-13

Five years later Mr.. Oats
joined the A. P. staff at Indian
apolis. He was filing editor
and rewrite man there until
the Army drafted him in 1912.
Then came 312 years in Army
public relations work at Camp
Crowder, Mo-, and the study
of Japanese in Army courses
at the Universities Of Mime
sofa and Michigan.
Returning to the A. P. in 1916,
Mr.. Oats worked on the news
services foreign desk in New
York. In 1948 he went to Lon
don, and in 1850 to Prague as
chief of bureau.
His article today describes
some of the things that hap
pened to him there. He was
pardoned last May.
President Antonin Zapo-
tocky of Czechoslovakia, said
Evening star., 1953-09-13

do what the police want them to.
they are lost.
They are left in little doubt
what the police would like for
them to say. On that score. the
system is practically foolproof:
The police simply write it out
for them and they sign it. and
then, in court. they recite it.
It is a gesture of despair, a grab
for a straw.
In the witness stall. primed to
talk away a part of their lives II
not life itself, they might well
say like Martin Luther, called
before a church council to an
swer for his teachings:
Here I stand-God help me.
I can do no other"
In my case. the police easily
established the fact that I had
done unofficial reporting"
They even confronted me with
another suspect who testified I
had sought unofficial news
that is, espionage news"
There it was. In the eyes OF
the police, all unofficial report
ing was espionage. And if I
knew what was good for me, I
should look at the matter
through the eyes of the police.
because my fate was in their
hands.
So signed a statement to the
effect that I had gathered mill
tary information in Czechoslo-
vakia and that thereby I had
committed espionage.
This was still low-level es-
pionage. punishable by three
months to three years in prison.
To indict me for high-level es-
pionage, the police must show
that I had obtained state Sc
cretS with the intention of be-
traying them to a foreign
power"
In January, 1851. I had met
1t. Col. George L. Atwood when
he came to Prague as Military
Attache of the United States
Embassy.
In talking with him, I learned
that toward the end of the war
he had gone to the japanese
language school of the Military
Intelligence Service at the Uni
versity of Michigan.
So had I, when I was in the
Army. We had been there at
the same time, though we had
never met there.
Among my effects. the police
had found an unfortunate SOU
venir-a pass issued to me at
similar school at Fort Smelling.
Mimi, where I had spent a
short time in transit to Ann
Arbor.
Neither school had anything
to do with peacetime intelli-
gence work. Both were designed
for the training of translators
and interpreters to question
prisoners and sift through cap
tured documents in the war
with Japan.
But to- the secret police,
military intelligence" and
there 1t was on the pass, in black
and white-meant only one
thing: Espionage. To their
minds, all this spelled a plot: I
was a spy and Col. Atwood was
a spy, and we were working to-
gether.
It was useless for me to point
out that I never had been in
military intelligence and that I
had cut all connections with the
Army over six years before.
Questioned as to how certain
things had got into my note
book, had told them how, one
day. I had picked up a rumor
at the Indian Embassy to the
effect that apartments in one
section of Prague were being
commandeered for Army Off
GERS, and how I had asked Col
Atwood what he knew about
this.
In talking to him about that
rumor. my intention was not to
give him information but to get
information from him-not for a
story, but for background help
full to my understanding Of the