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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-21
Trouble Ahead
I'm Farm Prices

WASHINGTON @-Farmers can
look forward to about az much
trouble balancing income with out.
so In 1854 a. they are having N
1858.
This Is the opinion Of the Depart.
ment Of Agriculture. which report.
ed Monday that ''the cost-pries
squeeze Is likely b. continue In
1854 about the same rs In 1855"
The department said the squeeze
has been developing ior some time
and that during the first nine
months Of 1883 prices farmers re-
|ceived for their products were
down II per cent in comparison
with those Of the corresponding
period q year earlier. while prices
they paid for goods and services
used in production were down ealy
IA per cent.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-21
Mccarthy Seeks
To Question
Atomic Spy

WASHINGTON H-Sen. Mccar-
thy (R-Wis) said today the Justice
Department has agreed to let him
question the confessed atomic spy,
David Greenglass, in the federal
penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa.
Greenglass is the man whose
testimony helped to send his sis.
ter, Ethel Rosenberg, and her hus-
band Julius to the electric chair
last summer as spies. He is serv.
ing 15-year sentence for espio-
mage.
Mccarthy had asked permission
to question him in connection with
q new investigation of what he has
called security leaks at the Army
Signal Corps Fl. Monmouth, N. J.,
radar laboratories.
Mccarthy contends he has eyi.
dence that a spy ring headed by
Rosenberg was able some years
age to extract secret documents
from the laboratories almost at
viii" and that some Of the docu.
ments are now in Communist East.
ern Germany. The Army said il
knows of no unauthorized docu.
ments In Red hands there.
Mccarthy, after an inspection
trip to Fl. Monmouth yesterday,
impressed by the very aggressive
steps, taken to improve security
there.
Mccarthy said u persons had
been suspended as a result Of the
security investigation but Secre-
tary of the Army Robert T. Stew
ems. who accompanied the senator.
interposed. THAT figure is too
low"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-21
Riot At Bullring

GUATEMALA, Guatemala a, -
Gate crashers fought with ticket
holders for seats yesterday at the
bullfght here which was part of
the opening program for Guatema.
las annual October national fair.
Eight persons were injured and
the bullring was considerably dam
aged.
The government controlled mn.
tional radio said the gate crashers
were ''reactionaries trying 10
sabotage the state-sponsored ex.
position" xmssegKaIa
About $500 persons crashed ne
bullring gates and the scramble for
seats led to the riot with ticket
holders. An undisclosed number Of
arrests were made.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-21
Two Are Considered

OSLO, Norway tB-Sources close
to the Norwegian Nobel Committee
which chooses the winner of the
annual Nobel peace prize, said
top candidates for this years
prizes are Albert Schweitzer. Asa.
tan humanist and medical mis-.
Sionary, and Philip Noel . Baker.
British Laborite and humanist.
The prize, estimated at around
10000 kroner t$23. 7G0), either viii
be awarded to one of these two
or the sum may be shared be.
tween them, the informants said
Last year no peace prize was
awarded, because the five-member
committee found none of the can.
didates worthy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-21
Sweet Potato
Chips May Soon
Be Marketed
BY SAUL EElpMAN

SALTWATER, Okla. On - The
lowly yam finally NAV get in the
chips-sweet potato chips, that Is:
After studying the surplus yam
situation for years, scientists al
Oklahoma Ann think they've fl
nally hit on a solution.
II you can make potato chips
rom regular potatoes, why moi
chip up sweet potatoes?
Frank Cross, head of the hort,
culture department, says expert
ments show the new chips may
soon be the nibbling sensation.
They're big, golden yellow and
crisp with the sweet potato
favor brought out.
Some Of the first experimental
chips have been served this month
at field days around Oklahoma
and a survey Of those munchins
The delicacy show they're enthusi
astic.
Besides being colorful and
tasty. the chips made from swee'
potatoes are healthier" eros.
pointed out. "They have all the
nourishment of regular potato
chips plus vitamins.
Only q small part of the sweet
potatoes harvest can be sent to the
grocers because the majority is
Jumbo size and too big and pithy
for the table.
However, these big ones are per,
rect for making sweet potato chips,
The sweet potatoes are pro,
eessed for chips virtually the same
rs Irish potatoes.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-21
THE KEY WEST eIrzEs "Wednesday oe'.s.r n. i,s
Reward Money May Precipitate
Crab-Bag Feud In New Mexico
By JULIUS GOLDEN

ALBUQUERQUE, N. II. I'LL
a man charged with the Phantom
of the Turnpike slayiEgs is con-
victed In Pennsylvania, a grab-bag
style feud may ensue in the little
town Of Belen, N. n.
There's a matter Of $1l, 900 Of
fered by truck companies for the
arrest and conviction of the person
or persons responsible for the muir.
der Of two truck drivres on the
Pennsylvania Turnpike.
John Wesley Wable, "a, charged
with the slayings, was captured in
'Belen Oct. II after being spotted
by two young Caroline
Smith and Nudge Harmon of
Belen.
For a while, everything was
hunky-dory with a pat on the back
and good work. for the girls.
"A Pittsburgh reporter called Miss
Smith and told her she would be
in line for fancy sum IL Wable
were convicted Of the crimes.
Little Belen exploded and confu-
sion reigned.
The Belen News-Bulletin, q BIZ
weekly newspaper. ran a banner
story. The headline read:
"Eleven Thousand Dollar Re.
ward Poses Big Problem After
Capture of Murder Suspect In Be.
len Sunday"
The matter became q town prob.
lem. Dist. Atty. Flo Sedillo said:
Il feel everyone should claim
the reward If Wable is convicted
and If they had any connection al
all with events leading up to his
capture. This includes about doz.
en- people In New Mexico"
A total of about IL persons, In.
GLIDING police officers, were parts
|of the net which slowly closed
about Wable as he tried to make
good his escape. But Miss Smith
and Miss Harmon were the ones
who actually spotted the wanted
man and whose tip led to his cap
ture.
We've done nothing about the
reward" Miss Smith said. "AIl we
know Is what the newspapers
stated and what a Pittsburgh re.
porter told US over the telephone
II feel like I'm on exhibition.
Everybody looks at us all the time.
And eyeryone's talking. No one
knows what's going on"
Rumors that several Belen peace
officers saw lawyers to find Out
their chances of getting in on the
money appeared groundless after
checking.
A spokesman for one of the three
companies offering the reward
said in Pittsburgh his company
viii pay money without a claim
being filed upon conviction. HI
said the money would go to those
designated by proper authorities.
lSpokesmen for the other two com.
panies could not be reached for
comment.
At any rate, Belen once was q
quiet town. Now-wen, it just goes
to show what prospects Of q little
money can do.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-21

CLEVELAND IN - What would
anyone want with a hot" Grey
hound bus. It's simple.
81 just wanted to take q ride, ="
police quoted John Junior Watkins
indicted yesterday on bus-stealing
charges.
Police said Watkins. Il, took a
two-hour ride and was arrested
when he backed into q car.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-21
Unions Begin
Poll OF Members
On New Strike
sy FRED HOFFMAN

WASHINGTON K-Fifteen un-
ions started the machinery today
for polling one million telegraph
ers, clerks and other Incorporating
railroad workers on whether they
want to strike for q health plan
and other nonwage benefits.
But . union leader indicated o
strike Is unlikely, at least for sew
eral months.
The nions-which do not cover
engineers, firemen. trainmen or
Observation-Disclosures the strike
vote yesterday after, they said. the
railroads failed 70 accept IN invi-
tation to begin conferences here.
George e. Leighty, head Of the
telegraphers union and chairman
of . joint negotiating committee
set up BY the Is organizations, said
at the same time that the unions
have called on the national media
ton board to step In. Generally,
a strike-h authorized--is post
poned when the board intervenes.
The issues In the dispute center
around the health and welfare pro-
posal and four others-longer paid
vacations, pay for holiday work.
ovetime for Sunday duty, and .
free transportation plan.
The unions, accusing the rail-
roads Of ''protracted stalling,"
made public q letter sent to the
carriers representatives Oct. II in
which they said they were ''unwill-
ing to countenance any further de-
lay" In starting negotiations.
Leighty characterized counter
proposals made BY the railroads
as "stone age, bourbon" ideas
which he said would practically
write off" seniority and other pro-
visions In present agreements.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-21
Hilton Called
oTestifyIn
Wayne Divorce
BY JAMES sAcoN

Los ANGELES @-Nicky Hill.
ton, former husband of Elizabeth
Taylor, today was subpoenaed to
explain his week-long stay last
year at the John Wayne home az
the guest of Mrs. Wayne while
the rugged movie star was In
Honolulu.
Wayne charged yesterday during
the couples stormy divorce trial
that his wife entertained Hilton
during his absence. This followed
an accusation by Mrs. Wayne that
the movie box office king once had
an all-night tryst with actress Gail
Russell.
Hilton, son of hotel magnate Con.
rad Hilton, said he would save
comment until II testify in court .
Atty. Jerome Rosenthal, counsel
for Mrs. Wayne, said actress Betsy
Won Furstenberg would testify that
she asked Mrs. Wayne to house
Hilton while he recuperated from
accident injuries. Hilton aud Miss
Won Furstenbeeg were swee
hearts at the time.
On the stand yesterday, Mrs.
Wayne testified her brawny hus-
band hit her with everything from
the back Of his hand to upholstered
lpillows during six years of Holly
wood married life. But they always
kissed and made up, she added.
One reconciliation scene, she
said, took place in i Burbank hos
Ipital. She quoted the husky actor:
/ II know | have been q horrible
jerk with you, / need you very
much. Please give me one more
chance"
Just as she was about to give in
Ishe added, Wayne's press agen
arrived and asked: "Shall / cal
the reporters"
/ Mrs. Wayne said she snapped
l"What Is this, a reconciliation Of
IA publicity stunt?"
| She said Wayne agreed that th,
scene misfired and ordered tn,
publicist out Of the room by yelling
that he "had spoiled everything
by coming In too soon"
J, Another time Wayne embar
Irassed her, she testified, was whel
he left her stranded at a part,
while be took off with the boys.
They all went someplace wher.
there were stripteasers, call girls
prostitutes or whatever You wan
to call them. He came home til,
next morning very drunk, wit
a beeg, black bite on his neck"
4 Asked to explain what kind of !.
bite, Mrs. Wayne's large Latil
eyes grew big ana she empha
sized:
"Thees was. a human bein,
bite"
She said Wayne told her tina
zone of the stripteasers bit hin
without his consent.
She said her husband slappe,
lher around and banged on door,
with wooden tables and threw rub
bing alcohol in her face.
Wayne sat expressionles
Through most of the testimony, oc
OCCASIONALLY shaking his head. H,
Iemoted real pain when the cour
'tawarded her attorney 5000 NOR,
in Wayne funds to finance tria
costs.
II figured at that moment" ex
Iplained Wayne, "that / would hay,
to earn $50. 600 to pay that 5000
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-21
RESULTS or LONDON
TALKS TOLD BY DULLES
a nEw n xoaK ss s eIrzEs "wednesday.

NEW YORK n = Secretary Of
State Dulles says the recent for
eign ministers meeting in London
sought unifying principles which
might relax tension" in the world
but avoided platitudes without
practical relevancy"
Dulles adds that what the meet
Ing did not do Is as important as
what il did so, asserting:
I'VE did not undermine the NOR
al strength of the free world by
resort to measures Ct short-range
expediency."
The secretary Of state. In q
speech last night at the 2znd an
nual New York Herald Tribune
Forum, gave a panoramic view Of
the talks he had at London with
British Foreign Secretary Eden
and French Foreign Minister Bid
ault. Dulles returned Monday from
the meeting.
one Of the chief results of the
london sessions was the sending
to Russia Of a proposal for a
meeting Of foreign ministers at Lu-
gano, Switzerland, Nov. ..
"This (proposal)," Dulles said
last night, twill provide an answer
70 whether the Soviet government
Is willing to have a meeting on
terms which viii provide an ac-
tual testing Of its intentions In
terms sufficiently concrete to be
significant.
"That Is the single project now
before the Soviets. Their decision
In relation to that is what We now
await. We hope that the answer
win be affirmative. In any event
It win be revealing"
Dulles said q meeting on the for
eign ministers level was proposed
since "it is our view that few
things would be more dangerous
than Q meeting which produced
Illusion Of agreement, without the
reality Of agreement.
British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill has suggested q meeting
Of heads Of state Of Britain, France
The United States and Russia.
The secretary of State made
lhese comments on other decisions
reached at London:
Trieste-"A new concept is in
the making which could bury these
bitternesses. II would draw Yugo.
slavia together with Italy and the
other NAT0 allies In a common
strategy designed to ensure the
safety and well-being Of south Eu.
rope. Yugoslavia cannot be sure
as an independent nation without
association with its NATO neigh
hOrs
The Western ministers believe
their decision to relinquish the ad
ministration of Zone A Of Trieste
TO Italy" vii pave the way to I
final peaceful solution"
Korea-"The division Of Kore;
Is wrong and, unhappily, there ar,
similar wrongs elsewhere, as il
Germany. but new war is not til.
way to right such wrongs. The,
should be made to respond t.
peaceful treatment applied witt
patience, persistence and wisdom.
Indochina-The ministers "wel
coined" developments seeking t.
meet the aspirations for freedom
Of the people of Indochina while
protecting them ''from being taker
over by the enemies of freedom.
Israel-"It is the United Nation.
which played an essential part il
creating the state of Israel
So we agreed to join in askin,
the United Nations Security Coun
ell to take jurisdiction of this mat
ter (of recent Tsraeli-Arab ten
sions)."
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-21
Sprinkler Boys Down

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ. IA
city water truck crew stuck to its
schedule and drove out yesterday
to sprinkle dirt streets in north.
west Albuquerque. But it didn't
get the job done. The truck got
stuck in mud from the heaviest
rain the city has had in six
months.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-21

CHICAGO @-Some 800 chin.
chillas valued at an estimated
$40, 900 persisted yesterday in q
fire which destroyed the breeding
and sales plant Of the World Wide
Chinchilla Ranch In suburban Nor.
wood Park.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-10-21

Baja (Lower) California In Next.
co Is rich in minerals. but lack Of
transportation has hindered large.
scale developments.
Evening star., 1953-01-06
Educational TV Gets Workout
In Baltimore School Strike

shift containers throughout the
city.
Yesterday, 174 public schools
reopened after Christmas vaca-
ton.
One hundred and four were
closed after brief morning ses-
sions because their janitors had
Joined the strike and classrooms
were cold. Three operated on
curtailed schedules.
Pupils sent home from the cold
buildings were given homework
and told to report again tc6ay.
DR.. William H. Lenlmel, super
intendent of public instruction,
said they would be instructed to
stop in daily throughout the
strike to get more homework to
combine with their 1'V courses.
John w. Lewis. superintendent
for business management of
schools, said the strike would cost
100000 day in teachers SAL
aries and overhead.
At City Hall, Mayor Thomas
D'Alesandro huddled until the
wee hours for the third straight
night with representatives of the
AFL Teamsters Union without
reporting any agreement on a
new contract.
Both sides agreed to meet
again at pm. today.
Evening star., 1953-01-06
Truman Message
Tomorrow to Be
One of Longest
By the Assoeiuted Press

President Truman's State Of
the Union message, which will
go to Congress around noon to-
morrow, will be one of the long
est Of its kind ever drafted by a
President. It will run from H.
900 to $4,000 words.
The message is expected to
sum up Mr.. Truman's version
Of Democratic achievements and
set forth party policy.
For the first time the Presi-
dent will not appear personally
before Congress to read the
message. He Is planning to make
q Nationwide broadcast to the
American people January is.
celebrating on the message.
President-elect Eisenhower will
draft his own State Of the
Union message after the Repub-
lican administration takes over
January 20.
Evening star., 1953-01-06
Soviet Broadcasts
Peace Aid Offer
By the Assoeioied Press

An official Moscow broadcast
saying Russia is prepared to
cooperate to the utmost" to
reach a Korean settlement was
reported today by United States
Government monitors.
Boris Leontyev, a top Soviet
commentator, made the asser-
ton in the course of a statement
directed to America on Soviet
peace" aims for 1858.
do not believe the pessimists
who say there is only one thing
to look forward to, war, hot or
cold" Leontyev was monitored
as saying. This is not so. The
Soviet Union is prepared to CO.
operate to the utmost to reach
a peaceful solution of the heated
question of Korea"
State Department officials
read the statement with manifest
interest. without indicating they
believed it contained anything
more significant than more So
Wet propaganda.
Moscow has been taking q
milder tone since Premier Stall
ms detailed statement of Soviet
policy on the eve of the Com
munist Party Congress last fall.
The broadcast followed closely on
Stalin's Christmas expression of
willingness to meet with Presi-
dent-elect Eisenhower.
Leontyev said the desire to CO.
operate must be mutual" and
that "the rulers Of the United
States" must furnish concrete
proof Of this desire"
Evening star., 1953-01-06
Radioactive Pellets
Recovered in Crash
In Which II Died
Two Kansas Teachers
Among Plane Victims
At BeIfost Airport
BY the Associated Press

BELFAST. Northern Ireland,
Jan. 6.-Salvage squads with
Geiger counters hunted IL hours
today through the wreckage of
a British airliner before finding
a box of "highly dangerous" ra-
dioactive radon seeds in the
cargo.
Twenty-seven persons, includ-
ing two teachers from Kansas,
were killed when the British
European Always plane crashed
last night. Seven other passen-
gers were injured.
The Americans killed were
Miss Dolores Griffin, 80, of Smith
Center, Kans., and Miss Elda
Duerken, %, of Inman, Kans.
Packed in Lead Box.
Radon "a gas given off by
radium salts is used in medi-
cal radiotherapy. It is packed
in small gold capsules called
seeds" The consignment. came
from the Ministry of Supply,
which extracts the radon gas
from radium.
A Ministry spokesman said the
seeds were packed for safety
in a lead box. The whole con-
signment weighed 70 pounds.
The spokesman put its value at
only $40.
A Mortified crowd of relatives
and friends, gathered to greet
the passengers, saw the twin
engined British European Air
way plane hit a beacon tower,
careen against the airport's ra-
dio control building and crumble
in flames on the main runway.
Only one of the 35 persons
aboard-Steward Jack Young,
26. of Belfast-escaped unhurt.
He was flung from the tail Sec
ton into a muddy ditch when the
plane broke up.
Rips Into Beacon Mast.
The plane was OH a regularly
scheduled flight from London to
Nuts Corner Field, IA miles from
here. It made a normal landing
approach at 9:40 pm. until it
was about so feet off the ground.
Then it ripped into the beacon
mast and crashed.
A screaming, panic-stricken
girl ran from the wreckage with
her clothing afire. Rescuers
chased her 300 yards before they
were able to catch her and take
her to a hospital.
Evening star., 1953-01-06
Mossadegh Wins Vote
OF Confidence, 81 10 0
D, the Assoeioted Press

TEHERAN, Iran. Jan. g.
Premier Mohammed Mossadegh
won a $40 vote Of confidence in
Parliament today. It was q VIC
tory for the aging Premier over
Deputies he accused of foment-
ing disunity and threatening
Trans independence. There was
one abstention.
The Premier demanded the
ballot last night during a broad
cast in which he bitterly attacked
Is Deputies who sponsored bill
aimed at preventing the suspen-
sion Of the present Parliament.
This would nullify an election
law Mr.. MoSsadegh intends to
decree within a week.
Mr.. MoSsadegh declared the
Deputies who backed the bill had
given British propagandists a
pretext to assert that Iran's ma
tional front was upset and that
the Mails (the lower house of
Parliament) no longer had conf
dence in the government.
Evening star., 1953-01-06
Fall Off Garage Kills
Reservoir Road Man

Frank w. Meyers, IS, of 4452
Reservoir road, was killed today
in a fall from the roof Of q
two-story garage at his home.
Police said Mr.. Meyers was
evidently repairing the roof. He
landed in the back yard Of his
home and was rushed to George
town University Hospital, where
he was pronounced dead.
Mr.. Meyers was q retired mem
Der Of the pressmen's union and
had worked at the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing.
Evening star., 1953-01-06
Bolivia Puts Down Revolt
Of Traitors in Top Party
By the Associated Press

LA PAZ, Bolivia, Jan. O.
The government announced to-
day it had put down an at
tempted revolt by military and
civilian forces. President Victor
Paz Estenssoro blamed the at
tempt on traitors within his own
party.
The revolt in tin-rich Bolivia
had been planned for dawn, but
the government cracked down
with arrests of several former
military leaders and at least two
men high up in the National
Revolutionary Movement, the
governing party.
Mr.. Paz Estenssoro, who re-
turned from exile in Argentina
last April after a revolution top
pied a military regime, spoke to
a crowd in Plaza Murillo from
the balcony of Government
House. He attributed the at
tempt to ''reactionaries incrusted
in the MNR who proved to be
traitors to its ideals"
Evening star., 1953-01-06
Truman Air Aide Named
To Deputy Command Posi-

Maj. Gen. Robert B. Landry.
Air Force aide to President Tru-
man, will become deputy COM
manding general of the 18th Air
Force effective late this month,
departmental orders revealed to-
day.
The general, 43, has been aide
to Mr.. Truman since February.
1948.
A native Of New Orleans, he
attended Tulane University for
a year and then graduated from
West Point in 1882. During
World War II, Gen. Landry was
on extensive duty in Europe and
ended the war as assistant chief
of staff for operations Of the Air
Staff Of Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Forces.