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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-07-17
Veteran Pilot
Sets New Jet
Record
7l5.7 Miles Per
Hour Il Speed
Clicked In FOOD
D. gAeK sTEvRNSoN

| THERMAL, Calf. M--An FS6D
sabre Jet and rs veteran Ali
Force pilot have blazed to Z new
worlds air speed record Of 7iS1
miles an hour. That's travelling one
mile aS you count to five.
II. Col. William +. Barns, g,
sometimes reaching speed Of more
than IL miles Z minute In the
|nine.ton Jet interceptOr, ecIipsed
yesterday the record Of co. SOS e.
tahlished only last November over
the same three- kilometer (1.063-
miIel course By Capt. ]. Slade
Nash.
Barns flashed through two COM
|plete contest runs, each consisting
|cf two trips In both directions
along she straightaway course.
Each of the eight trips was faster
than Nash's record and the best
was 721,SS when the wind was Il
the colonel's favor.
Barns hr0 the record with an
average 0k 713.e On the first run.
ne changed planes and came hack
70 re-establish the record 3 couple
|of miles per hour higher. Each
run was Ct about 100 feet altitude.
The speed pilot said the weather
for the runs was quite turbulent.
1--WE didn't have the optimum
conditions today. = be commented.
The temperature was right Tower
100 degrees), but / think the tur-
hulence and wind cut The speed
down"
How long does be think the rec
lord win last?
'FrOm what hear there are
several airplanes eoming along
which win be capable Of higher
speed when they have the bugs
worked out We're progressing
|fast."
Meanwhile new FAC Starfire
Jet fighter sped yesterday from
Burbank to Hamilton Air Force
base ct IN average speed Of SO
Im.p.h. The Air Force thereupon
claimed = new Los Angeles-San
Francisco air speed record.
The Jet. with Capt. CRAIG Keller,
80, San Carlos, Calif., Il the con.
trolls. covered the distance ID *.
|actly y minutes.
The previous record for the s2t-
mile flights minutes-was set
by an Air Force FSO Shooting Star
JET fighter IN 1850.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-07-17
Thieves Smash
Automobile

Thieves, who stole the autOmO'
bile Of local Navy man nearly
wrecked Il early this morning on
Roosevelt Boulevard, Police said
today.
According 10 the report Of patrol.
man John Linehan. the. car was
stolen from Thomas H. johnson d
Continued On Page Five)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-07-17

NEW "BAHY~ ROTARY CLUB MEMBERS with bonnets atop
their heads Ice hs listening their welcome
the organization ~ speaker w. Curry Harris Behind the
initiates ad old Of the local Rotary group alfred in
supervisors regsias oaA member, Archie Hunt Of the
"aby fonsoe obscured with his sponsor Charles Thorn
burg behind post The others seated in vew Bob Van
Deepou in bandana: Ben Adams in peaked cap with chin
bow and in perky bonnet NJ E mckinley Edwardl Bennett
Back standing gnatus Lester in Partisan chapeau; Otto
Krchhciner in aunty cap with Truman oOkl and Ed
Srunk, complete with noseven The initiation took place
yesterday at the regular luncheon meeting Of the eubC
zen Staff Photo, Finch
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-07-17
Air Travel From Cuba To Key West Hits
All Time Peak With IA Planes On July 5
30 dir Passengers Fly
Into MeGchGna Field From
Cuban Capital In One Day
By SUSAN MeAvoY

The largest number of air passengers in the his.
tory of Cuban-American flights arrived in Key West
from Havana ON July 5, according TO Roy Alderman,
Deputy COllector.in-charge of Customs.
On that day ID planes of Aerovias @ carried 364
passengers into Meacham Field from Havana, Alder.
reported today This record surpasses by ia the
previous peak of 24O air tourists from Cuba he said
Evening star., 1953-06-28

The Mysterious Suspect. BY
John Rhode. (Dodd, Mead
& Co.: $3.50 =
The eminent DR.. Priestly &C
tually visits the scene Of crime
this time to prevent Inspector
Waghorn of Scotland Yard
from being led astray by the
obvious. The reader gets less
chance than usual to share in
the sleuthing but the murder
methods are ingenious and all
loose ends are painstakingly
knotted to the satisfaction of
DR.. Priestly and probably his
followers.
The Venus Death. BY Ben
son. (Mill & Morrow; $2O
A state trooper with a per-
fectly good sweetheart and a
promising future gets involved
with a strange and glamorous
type improbably named Man
cite Venus. Her sudden de-
mise-preSumably at the hands
of the troopers other girl
puts the trooper in something
of a spot. Rapid action COM
bined with high-caliber detec-
ton by professionals for a
readable, well-paced adventure.
The Singing Sands. BY jose
phine Tey. Macmillan Co.;
$2.750
Every mystery novel the late
Miss Tey wrote was dis
tinguished for its sensitive
Evening star., 1953-06-28

the way to win. When he kills
a man in the ring. it has a
profound effect on him. though
it does not stop his career.
The boys love affair with a
neurotic white girl, a Green
wich Village artist, adds little
to the story, except a sordid
touch. though this, too,
changes his whole outlook.
The girl. bored, immoral, sees
Baby fight and considers his
ring technique the poetry of
motion, himself a bronze fate.
It is she who forces the affair.
What Ultimately happens to
her is too bad, but 1t is doubt
full If any one will care any
more than she does.
The atmosphere of the box
ing arena and the training
camp, including the .charac-
ters who go with it, Is de-
scribed with wonderful fidel-
ity. Even the autocracy of
the International Boxing Club
is not overlooked.
&C. B.J.
Evening star., 1953-06-28
Crime. and Mystery
Reviewed by Miriom Ottenber!


writing. impeccable plot and
acute Characterization. This
one. found among her effects.
is no exception. Inspector
Grant. approaching mental ILL
ness from overwork, is haunted
by the memory of a dead boys
face and a scrap of verse scrib-
bled on a newspaper. Idly, he
tangles with a mystery that
takes him from Scotland to
the Hebrides and back to Lon
don in search of an explana-
ton for the bit of verse. The
answer he finds is lent added
melancholy by the fact that
this must be Inspector Grants
last case.
POisons Unknown. BY Frank
Kane. (IveS WaShburn, Inc;
$2.500
Name almost any crime and
you'll spot it here-along with
an orgy or two, crooked cops,
high-powered females and a
.45-toting private detective.
The setting is New Orleans and.
environs. The pace is feverish
and the vice unlimited. There
is no diScernible connection
between title and plot.
Evening star., 1953-06-28

flood Of German princes had
poured into England" hopeful,
no doubt. Of alliances with
some Of the granddaughter Of
old George III. King Leopold
and Stockmar had planned for
Albert to marry Victoria when
Parliament declared her heir
ess presumptive to the throne.
Fortunately for them these
youthful cousins took to each
other. Immediately.
When Albert made a visit
to England, Victoria, only
81, already was queen. and
she felt that she should pro-
pose and she did. Albert, who
was the same age, replied by
taking the young queen in his
arms.
Interest in Public Affoirs
After the marriage, in 1840,
Albert was eager to take part
in public affairs. He had not
been brilliant student. but
his tastes were cultural and
intellectual and, though he
and Victoria were a devoted
couple, he found the court
dull. Victoria had no con-
versation," and she discussed
public affairs only with Mel
bourne, the prime minister.
Albert seemed to have two
strikes on him, because he was
an alien and because of a GER
tain stiffness and reserve in
his demeanor.
At first Victoria would not
talk to him about affairs of
state. Gradually this regal
reserve was broken down and
she came to depend on him.
In time he was the intermedi-
ary between her and the min
listers of state. He took an in
creasing part in the govern
ment, Shaping policies from
his place in the background.
In a few years, astonishingly
enough. he was to all purposes
king. though he never had a
title beyond the one he in
herited in Coburg. Disraeli
could say, after Albert's death
from typhoid at AZ, 1--WE have
buried our sovereign"
Albert's personal life was
beyond criticism. Indeed, the
biographer points out, the
rigid and even prudish NOR
ality that came to be called
Victorian stemmed more from
him than from Victoria. He
insisted that the court be
without scandal novelty
and most brilliant members
of the aristocracy were glad to
stay away; one of them
thanked heaven his character
was too bad for the job"
The translation, always
highly readable, is by Ralph
Mannheim.
Evening star., 1953-06-28
The Violent Wedding
BY Robert Lowry. doubleday; $3.J


One Of the ablest Of our
younger novelists. 2 close OBJ
server of the life about him.
has written his new novel
around the prize ring. And
there has. been no more pene-
trating portrait of a fighter
and his environment.
Paris (Baby) James, q young
Negro from Harlem, has ev-
erything a great fighter needs
speed, clevernesS, a punch.
In the course Of The story lie
becomes middlewcight cham
pion. But of more interest to
Mr.. Lowry than Baby's success
is what this pugilist is really
like. Without ever slowing up
his story, which moves with
the swiftnesS of q crucial
round, the author has pre-
sented a clear picture of
James, inside and out. He is
considered a killer" but ac-
tually he is not. He does not
enjoy fighting: he is in it for
the money and he gives It ev-
erything he has because that's
Evening star., 1953-06-28
IsIond ldyIl
Idle Reudinq
For Summer
Our Virgin Island
BY RODD WnlCe.
DOUBLEDAY & Co.: $780,

tDOUOSSND4 " wv P~'vV/
Tastes differ, Of course. Some
of us feel put upon If we have
to stand up on a bus, Other
people, however. not only toll
crate inconvenience; . they
court it fervently. In the last
named group must be counted
Robb White, a poor but proud
young writer. who in the 30s
took his beautiful bride away
from a trust fund and a
house with four bathrooms to
the British Virgin Islands.
Their honeymoon was spent
in Sea Cow Bay. in a crum-
bling house that was a rem
devious point for wild dogs,
mongooses, spiders. curious
native children and the village
idiot. From there, they moved
to their own island. Marina
Cay. where they built a pretty
house and a good marriage.
They almost starved to death
too, had several near brushes
with the deep and even enter
tanned his mother-in-law.
They loved it, though, maybe
because they were young and
in love.
They paid $50 down on the
island to the Crown, but fin
ally H. M. Government, miffed
at something he wrote, refused
to sell it to them. Meantime
anyway, came the war, putting
an end to their island idyll.
Even those who couldn't live
such a life for five minutes will
enjoy Robb Whites candid,
engaging account of their
struggles and triumphs.
M. Meg.
Evening star., 1953-06-28
Archive.

plicable to the sort of person
who does not have that swift
accurate conviction that he is
going to step on a broken
celluloid doll in the dark"
Later. she calls her life "a
round Of hemlines and choco-
late pudding"
Miss jackson presents no
picture of herself molding
little minds. She has all she
can do to keep up with her
clamorous brood. Her children
present grave problems in ap-
piled psychology. For in
Sance, Laurence, the eldest,
comes home from kindergar-
ten with hair-raising reports
of a terror named Charles.
His parents are some time
finding out who Charles really
is. Jamie, the older girl, is
trying, too. She is actually
the second Mrs. Ellenoy with
seven daughters named Mar
tina. Miss Jackson has to take
the whole crowd with her
when she goes shopping. Her
trials with the children-re-
corded with unnervingly ac-
curate transcripts Of childish
babble and Squabbles are
enormously diverting. Equally
so are her encounters with a
driving instructor, a bank
manager playing Santa Claus
(only for the moment) and
her husbands air gun.
The only thing she doesn't
tell is how she found the time
to write this admirable book.
We can only rejoice that she
did.
Evening star., 1953-06-28
The Great Man
BY Howard Swiggett. Doubleday; S5J

Mr.. Swiggett, whose recent
book was a life Of Gouverneur
Morris. is we'll aware of the
voluminous writings about
George Washington, including
the several-volumed biography
which Douglas Southall Free
man left unfinished. THE
Great Man." described as an
informal biography, is an at
tempt to present the more
human side of our first Presi-
dent. In the course of his
preparation, Mr.. Swiggett sent
out q QUESTIONABLE to so
adults, all more than ordinarily
we'll read, asking what they
would like to know about
Washington. Among the quer-
les were: "Was he penurious?
Did he drink, and what? Did
he smoke? How did he feel
about higher education? Did
he speak foreign languages?
Did he have any close friends?
Did he really love Martha?"
Mr.. Swiggett is particularly
concerned with trying to
show what Washington was
not the aloof. austere fig
Evening star., 1953-06-28

ure which his portraits and
some accounts of him suggest.
A Philadelphia liveryman who
dined with Washington in
1871 wrote in a diary: "Presi-
dent Washington is an I'M
assuming, easy and sociable
man." Washington once re-
piled to a friend. a bon vivant,
who had written of a hilarious
experience: II commend you
for passing the time in as
merry a manner as you could;
it is assuredly better to go
laughing than crying thro' the
rough journey Of life"
But Mr.. Swiggett is more oc-
pied with Washington's seri-
Gus problems-the controver-
sizes, successes and failures that
marked his life as commander
in chief, as President and as
the Mount Vernon planter.
The author obviously has done
an immense amount of work
and has tapped some unusual
sources. Unfortunately the
material is not well organized
and the book, written in a
plodding way, is hard reading.
&C. B. j.
Evening star., 1953-06-28

Queen Victoria has been de-
picted brilliantly by Lytton
Strachey and ably by other BIZ
ographers. Any account Of her
life necessarily is closely en-
twined with that of her con-
sort, Prince Albert. And yet
this new biography is Albert's
own story, beyond much doubt
the best and most complete
chronicle of his career.
It remained for a French
woman to explain Albert more
fully and to write Sympathet-
ically of the 81 years he dedi-
Gated not only to Victoria and
their children, but to doing his
utmost for England. With the
special flair Of the French for
biography, FRANCHISE de Ber-
nardy searched out all the
more significant episodes in
Albert'S life, from his boyhood
to his early death. She shows
also a remarkable understand
ing of the British and their
way of looking at things and
at the whole European scene
in the middle of the last CEN
tury.
Court Personalities
She has written a first-rate
biography, colorful. never dull.
enlivened it with wit and
touched with the varied and
often clashing personalities
that surrounded the British
court in Albert'S time.
Albert was a Prince of the
Duchy Of Coburg. In the
early decades of the 10Th CEN
tury, German princes and
dukes. especially CoburgS, oc-
cupied nearly every throne in
Europe. Even Napoleon III.
educated in Germany, spoke
French with a slight German
accent. Leopold I, King of
the BelgianS, was a Coburg,
and for many years he ma
nipulated royal marriages and
otherwise meddled in the des-
tines Of various countries. He
was Albert'S uncle and exer-
cised enormous influence over
the Prince and through him
the British government. There
were so many girls and boys
of royal blood growing up in
the scattered states of a not
yet-united Germany. No won-
der many Englishmen deplored
the German influence at court
and never fully accepted AL
bert. Victoria. Of course, and
the house Of Hanover were of
German blood. but Albert was
considered a foreigner"
Then there was the Baron
Stockmar, Albert's m e n tor
from teen-age, who came to
England periodically to put in
his oar. Beginning In 1888 a
Evening star., 1953-06-28

Since the great feminine
outcry on home VS.. career be-
gan, we have had many a
volume on life with mother.
I venture to say that Shirley
Jackson's will be definitive in
the field. Its humor is not
forced: 1t is killing-that is,
dead-level and deadpan. The
savages of the title are her.
children. and she makes no
apologies either for it or for
them.
Miss Jackson's previous
reputation as one of our more
striking young authors was
based on her studies of mass
malevolence. Who could for
get '"The Lottery" which de-
scribed so balefully the crazy
Surging of evil amid the peo-
pie of a small town. At first
blush, this domestic report
might seem a far cry. It isn't
though. In her white-pillared
old Vermont mansion, she is a
missionary in a dark land try
ing to bring light and order
to the primitive little people
she and her husband live with.
It is a back-breaking, nerve
wracking existence, also mo-
notonous.
This is the way Of life my
husband and I have fallen
into. inadvertently, as though
we had fallen into a well and
decided that since there was
no way out we might Just as
well stay there and set up a
chair and a desk and a light
=. It is occasionally bewilder-
ing and perhaps even mex
Evening star., 1953-06-28
Miss Spring
BY Cecily Grove.
(R1ndonl House: $3.)

tH0N0OM HOUSE, $JJ
This is the story of a beau
tiful, serene supervisor Of a
home for wayward girls who.
discovers some unexpected
waywardness in herself.
At Al, Martha Spring, a
heroine to the unfortunate
girls who are washed UP on
her shore. falls in love with
the institution psychiatrist, a
slightly younger married man.
Neither Of them seems able to
summon up the arguments
they use on their charges to
discourage such arrangements
and soon they have embarked
on an affair, one which has
disastrous consequences for
one of their girls. It is termi-
mated in a civilized fashion.
Miss Grove writes with per-
ception and some nice sar-
donic touches. She doesn't
however, really come to grips
with the central situation of
the story. M. Meg.
Evening star., 1953-06-28
As ! Saw 1t
BY D. R. Fitzpatrick.
(Simon & SchuSter: $5.D

BY D. R. Fitzpatrick.
(Simon G. Schuster;; $5.J
Daniel R. Fitzpatrick has
been a cartoonist for the st.
Louis Post-Dispatch since 1918.
This collection of his powerful,
impressionistic political draw
ings ranges from 1895 to early
in 1853. He is q Pulitzer Prize
winner and his cartoons, often
reprinted, are familiar to read
ers OF many newspapers and
magazines. The earliest car
toons shown in this book
attack the late Tom Pen
dergast, then boss of Kan
sas City. Later cartoons show
Fitzpatrick usually backing
New Deal measures on the
domestic side and fighting
autocracy in every form on
the foreign front. The car
toonist has written explana-
tory notes for all the pictures.
There is a profile of Fitzpat-
rick by Thomas B. Sherman,
literary editor of the Post
Dispatch. and a foreword by
Joseph Pulitzer, publisher @f
the paper. &C. 3. ]
Evening star., 1953-06-28
Majority. 7937-7952
BY Hamish Hamilton.

--NNo~e@~~e
british Book Centre: $5.75J
In this admirable volume,
Hamish Hamilton, a London
publisher, presents the choic-
est samples of 81 years of pub
fishing. The uniformly high
quality of the selections show
how good a publisher he is.
He Is also q fine editor.
This is the best anthology I
have seen since Somerset
Maugham's Travellers Library.
A mention Of just a few of
its 81 items will convey the
excellent taste of the volume.
Nancy Mitford's enchanting
"The Pursuit Of Love" is here
in its entirety. j. D. Salinger's
For Esme-With Love and
Squalor," and James Thurber's
THE Catbird Seat" which in
any constant readers book
must rate with the best short
stories Of the last decade, are
among the rich array of short
stories. Beyond that, there is
a marvellous selection of cur
rent history, literary biography
and criticism. several plays, a
smattering Of poetry, and even
some entries from the Existen-
tialistS.
Majority" coming at the
beginning of the weekend
season. when people are sup
posedly avid for occasional
reading, is seasonal. It's much
more than that, though. It's
an extremely good cross-sec-
ton of some of the best writ
ing that has been done in the
past 81 years. IN. Meg.
Collectors Item. BY Amber
Dean. doubleday & Co.,
Inc, $2.50)
Crime Club.
For sheer suspense, dimin-
ished not at all by disclosure
OF the murderer, this tale of
sudden death on an upstate
New York farm emerges as
one Of the seasons best. The
hero Is a scrawny scholar,
awkward but appealing. He's
more interested in an old
mystery of buried treasure
than in a quite fresh "acci-
dent" The accident" that
overtakes him sets the stage
for mighty fancy finale.
Evening star., 1953-06-28
The KremIin vs.. the People
BY Robert Magidoff. Doubleday; $500
Reviewed BY Earl H. Voss

This is an authoritative ac-
count Of the strain on the
Soviet dictatorship imposed by
the Kremlin's own ambitious
program to remake the Soviet
Union and all the people in 1t.
The author calls the Krem-
lin VS.. people struggle the cold
civil war.
Recalling that hundreds of
thousands. maybe millions of
Soviet citizens voluntarily
Evening star., 1953-06-28
Corcorun Instructors

The Corcoran Gallery Of
Art. whose summer school is in
full swing, and whose chill
dren's summer classes started
last Monday. all to continue
through July, is showing in
gallery 43, work by the three
instructors in charge: Joseph
de Martini, John Chapman
Lewis and Eugen Weisz. vice
principal. Registrations will be
closed after Tuesday.
The gallery is given over
largely to gouaches and water
colors by Mr.. de Martini of
Philadelphia. who is teaching
here for the first time. Rich
ard Lahey, principal Of the
Corcoran School, characterized
him as "a modern Romantic
whose approach to figure
Evening star., 1953-06-28

fought their own government
as collaborators or in enemy
armed forces in World War II.
Mr.. Magidoff goes into detail
about the simmering unrest
throughout the country to-
day. Although written be-
fore Stalin's death, the book
still has value. It presents
enough statistical backing for
it's conclusions to serve as a
reference book.
Evening star., 1953-06-28
:'Austere Painting

Fernando de SZySzlo Of Peru
is on his first visit to the
United States, and is having
his first American exhibition,
at the Pan American Union
through next Saturday. He is
a young artist, in his late
20S, and had his first one
man show in Lima, his native
city, only six years ago.
A detailed biographical and
critical introduction to the
catalogue at the Pan American
states that Sr. de SZySzlo be-
gan his career as a realist,
but in the intervening years he
has become q non-objective
painter. The oil, tempera and
pastel paintings on view here,
are all non-objective and iden-
titled only by numbers. Pre-
dominant colorS are dark red,
black and brown, and a few
other low-keyed colors, and
the compositions are made up
Evening star., 1953-06-28
Lithuuniun Artists

Inc FeSClVal OF Lithuanian
Art and Music given at the
Statler Hotel June 20, for
hundreds of guests to cele-
brate the Nations tooth an
niversary. was duly reported
by society editors and music
critics. The best work of IL
Lithuanian artists now living
in the United States was
shown in the Federal Room
that evening. and last Sunday
from lot 4. It was probably
the first group shown by Lith-
uanian artists in this country.
Most of those represented have
come to America since World
War II.
Most prominent placement
was given a sculptured heroic
sized bust by Vytautas Kasuba,
a strong. impressive. imagina-
tive conception of Mindaugas,
nfSC KING OF Lthuanla,
crowned in 1853. The same
sculptor also showed q work
in modern idiom.
A majority of the paint
ingS were naturalistic, much
simplif1ed, in character. Most
interesting from the local
standpoint were two paintings
by Jonas Aleksandravicius,
who lives in Washington, and
has exhibited in the last three
Metropolitan State Art con-
tests at the National Museum.
Last November he was award
ed second oil prize in that ex-
hibition.