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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-07
HAL
BOYLE
SAYS

NEW YORK IA powerful cpl
demic is reaching across America
now, affecting millions of house
holds.
The malady usually picks as its
welcome victim the man-of-the-
house.
1t is spread by mems clothing
stores and carried into the home
by newspapers. It is called 1.-THE
semi annual clearance sales fe-
ver."
symptoms: An itching in the wal
let; accompanied by a delirious
male urge to buy !. buy !. buy.
Treatment: The wise wife will
let her little man enjoy the fever
until it runs its course, and his
wardrobe is re-stocked. It is the
only known cure.
Since women do most of the
buying today, special sales are
held for them all over the calendar.
But men get to exercise their hunt
ing instincts only twice a year
during the storewide winter clear
ance, and the summer clearance
held sometime after the fourth of
July.
These are the only periods when
a papa gets to buy some pretty
feathers for his very own self.
The rest of the year he is doing
out dough for the rest of the
family.
But the morning he opens his
paper and reads, sale! Mems
suits, shirts, shoes mared DOWN.
well, a wild look comes into his
eyes.
He is like a hungry Indian who
sees the track of disabled deer
in the snow. Off he spirits for
the store, damned with other bar
gain hunters.
They wave checkbooks and wal
lets, paw through shirt stacks,
burrow into sock piles, and play
tug-of-war with each other when
they grab the same special-priced
necktie. They are swept up in a
group dance of swirling madness.
The statesmen stand on the out
skirts, taking money from the sur
vivors as they waddle out of the
churning mass, their arms loaded
with loot.
Men are always kidding wom-
en- about their shopping behavior"
one salesman said. ''but / wish
sometimes that we had specta-
tors gallery here during our mems
sales, so wives could see how their
husbands act.
They'd really get a laugh. It's
like watching a bunch of kids
,who've been turned loose in a
candy store and told they could
have all they wanted for penny"
But he added that men rarely
get into hair pulling tussels or
tongue flashing duels, as women
sometimes have been known to do
when two wanted the same piece
of apparel.
There is a kind of unwritten
sportsman's code in such situa-
tions," he said. IF two men want
the same shirt. they usually toss
a COMMAND it is matter of honor
for the loser to grin and take defeat
like man, chin up.
That's pretty hard sometimes,
too, particularly Il it's a green
shirt. For some reason man with
passion for a green shirt can
hardly stand the thought of losing
one"
A man who shows up with his
wife at a semi-annual clearance
sale is not only regarded as hem
pecked by his fellow male bargain
seekers, they feel he is stretching
their chivalry too far. They. hate
to elbow-bruise lady, but after
all they only get thi fun twice
year.
Anybody who brings his wife
along at a time like this" / once
heard one grumDle, sis like an
Indian who'd drag his squaw with
him IN = harffaln hunt =
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-07
SWAP WEEK PLANNED
FOR CHRISTMAS TIES

TROY, N. Y. R-That Christmas
tie may look crazy" TO you but
someone else may think ii's
.'okay."
Using this idea. students at Rens-
selaer Polytechnic Institute win
dig out those horrible cravats and
start Swap Week Monday.
Each ',trade-in" win Be worth .
coupon. This. with . dime. win buy
another tie. Men without trade.ins
must pay q little extra. The pro-
ceeds viii 60 TO the student fellow
ship.
C1sl A. IT, lNsss~
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-07

II Is estimsted that the averaFe
dlsposable personal income fer
each perscn in the Uniied States
in 1851 was S1.tsi. hut that this
income WA Only sssa h dollars q
the 1858 value.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-07

George Renna. chairman Of the
Motel and Hotel Commission of
the Key West Chamber of Com.
meree, in commenting on the
slight slump in the eity's tourist
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-07

We have no idea that the atomic bomb or any other
discovery is beyond the capicty of men to control
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-07

Oceaa waves car attain . heszht
a 20 feet or mare.
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Evening star., 1953-07-26

ton. But 1t has great value In
chicken feed. The improved
chickens and turkeys are due in
part to fish neal.
The menhaden. which seldom
grow beyond 10 inches. run in
big schools. When they are dis
turbed by approaching boats,
they start circling about furious
ly which gives the crew an op-
portunity to lower couple Of
boats and run a net around
them.
Otis H. Smith. president Of
Fish Products, Inc, the largest
operation in the industry, is also
mayor of Lewes.
The fishing boats have cap
tain and engineer and a crew OF
about 81. The crews are Negroes
and the great majority of the
officers white. There are a few
Negro captains and engineers.
There's no color line in this
industry" he says. Its ability
that counts"
Menhaden have their ups and
downs like other fish. From 1926
to 1888 there were hardly any
in the Atlantic.
you could work a boat from
Maine to Florida without get
ting a full load" he said. Then
the menhaden came back. There
was similar industry on the
Pacific coast with another type
of fish, called a sardine in the
trade, which has disappeared.
This year the menhaden are very
plentiful, much to the satisfac-
tion of the poultry and paint
industries.
The oil pressed from the fish
is very valuable in making paint.
The fish meal is considered a
necessity in raising fur-bearing
animals, mink, silver fox, etc.
1t gives a gloss to the fur.
The boats have been coming
in nights loaded above the gun
whales. There is money in it
for the captains and the crews.
They are paid off every two
weeks. A typical payment is
about $4,000, but the last pay
ments were between $4,000 and
$4,000.
Evening star., 1953-07-26

breakwall, is still something to
pass in a high wind. Ben Davis
shoals is another difficult one on
the way to Philadelphia.
For Erring Wife.
Every name has a story be-
hind it, says Jay. There are the
Joe Flogger Shoals. The story
is that in the days of sail, a cap
tain let his wife take the wheel
at this point and she ran the
vessel on a bar. 1t seems the
captain was merely beating his
wife for this woeful example of
female steering when the mate
shouted: "Flog her, Joe, fog
herr"
The summer tourist is likely
to be disappointed by the indus
trial appearance of the Lewes
Evening star., 1953-07-26

shore. To the right are two
great smoking factories. That is
where the menhaden catch is
processed for Lewes is one of
the principal ports of the indus
try.
The menhaden catch is the
second in money value of all fish
taken commercially in American
waters. First is the salmon.
$40 Million Harvest.
Last year the value of this fish
arriving at the processing plants
was more than $40 million.
There are landsmen who have
never heard of the menhaden for
the very good reason that the
fish, which is also called the ale
wife and the bunker, is conSid-
cred unfit for human consump-
Evening star., 1953-07-26
Beach Lots Priced
Today at SIS Because
OF 1852 Land Grant
By George Kennedy
Stor Stoff Correspondent

LEWES. Del, July 25.-Some
like the surf and others like
little plashy waves but every one
in the Washington area likes
cool salt water when a heat
wave is on.
The little town of Lewes (pro-
nounced Lewis which is just
behind the breakwall across the
mouth of Delaware Bay, has the
plashy type waves. But it also
has the cool salt water-the
straight-from- -the-ocean Mccoy
and it is the closest beach to
Washington where this relief
can be obtained.
If you were surveying and
should run a line from the Wash
ington Monument to the Capitol
the west-east axis of the Dis
trict-and beyond. it would pass
through Lewes, Del, just about
10 miles east of the dome. Co
ing by highways and the Chesa-
peake Bay Bridge, it is about
120 miles.
People with little children like
Lewes beach. They play about
in the ripples without getting
tumbled and frightened and
eventually they learn how to
swim.
Lots for S25.
LeWes Beach is one of the
greatest real estate bargains on
the Atlantic coast. You can get
a lot on the beach, not more than
100 yards from the water, for $25.
There is no catch to it. The $25
is not down payment. 1t gives
you leasehold.
All you have to do is to agree
to build a $500 structure on it
within a year. After that all you
have to pay is the taxes on the
house and on the leaSehold which
comes to less than $1O0 a year.
1t seems that in 1852 a man
named Edmond Warner obtained
a grant by petition to the court
(the legislature) for Cape Hen
lopen and the river front. In his
petition, he put forth that the
river front and the great marches
behind it would always be COM
mons for the people OF Lewes and
Sussex County,; where they could
pick cranberries and "hockel-
berries"
The commissioners of the town
of Lewes have kept the COM
mitment. The houses on the
beach are all on land leased from
this commons. The leases are
Evening star., 1953-07-26

too, than when he started 20
years ago. His closet is stuffed
with items like long underwear
and high boots and lined woolen
Jackets that he used to wear in
the days when they went out in
-oared skiffs. Today even the
English and Scandinavian ships
have heated pilot houses and they
go out to the pilot boat on sta
tion near OverfallS Light, a few
miles east of the opening in the
breakWall, in power driven ten
ders with heated cabins.
But the river still has the same
tight places. No one in the mar
itime industry suggests that pi-
lots are or will be unnecessary,
even with radar warnings. Brown
Shoals, a few miles inside the
Evening star., 1953-07-26

I indetermlnate. They have not
been disturbed for decades. The
houses and leaseholds can be sold
and mortgage money is advanced
for construction of houses by
local financial people. as on any
other property.
Carries No Vote.
The only drawback is that the
residents of the beach do not
have the same voting rights in
local elections as those with
property in the town proper.
Instead of being freeholders, the
residents o6 the beach are lease
holders.
Many of the residents of the
beach are townspeople of Lewes
who, in the summer, move a
distance of a mile or so from
their comfortable town houses
to their cooler beach houses.
While the beach residents do not
constitute a summer colony of
wealth and social superiority,
they do have persons of distinc-
ton among their number. j.
Caleb BoggS, Governor of Della
ware, known in Washington for
his postwar service in the House,
and John w. Rollins, Lieutenant
Governor of the State, are
present residents.
Lewes probably would disap-
point the summer tourist expect
ing a picturesque fishing village
just off the sea. There are
some interesting antiquities, st.
Peters Episcopal Church with
old headstones crowding one
another on the lawn in front,
and some interesting 10Th CEN
tury frame houses owned by men
in the China trade or pilots on
the river.
There is the Zwaanendael
Museum built by the State to
commemorate the original set
tlement Of Lewes by the Dutch
in 1881.
The colony was wiped out in
an Indian massacre during its
first winter. The museum is de-
signed after a fascinating
medieval building. the town hall
of Hoorn, the Netherlands town
where most of the Inflated
colonists came from. The name
"Zwaanendael" comes from the
report of those first colonists. It
means "the valley of the swans"
Lewes is the home of most of
the 70 Delaware river pilots.
They are the men who know the
channels so we'll that they re-
place the masters of the vessels
in the job of bringing them up
to Philadelphia or out to sea
again. OF the 80 big frame
houses with touches of Victorian
Gothic along Pilottown road.
overlooking the bay. 25 were
built by pilots.
The pilots life probably seems
pretty soft to the summer visi-
tors. jay" Wright Rowland, a
big man and tan as a life guard.
was just back from the golf links
when interviewed.
It seems a little easier to him,
Evening star., 1953-08-14
Man Held in HoIdup
Of Finance Company
Is Sent 10 Asylum

An ex-convict charged in the
holdup Of q Chevy Chase (Md.)
finance company has been COM
mitted to q State mental hos
pital after cutting his wrists
trying to hang himself, and
refusing to eat for 10 days
in the Montgomery County Jail
The prisoner, Thomas e. Dick
erson. 80, was committed yeSter-
day to the Spring Grove Hos
pital, criminal division, near
CatonSville, by Circuit Court
Judge Charles w. Woodward.
Judge Woodward also ordered
the Board of Mental Hygiene
to examine Dickerson to deter
mine whether he is sane.
Dickerson is charged with
armed robbery in the 1912 hold
up Of the Regional Finance Co.
last July II. He was arrested
in Arlington.
DickerSon and Mrs. Hilda
Gray Humphrey, 80, identified
as the driver Of the holdup car.
are slated for preliminary hear
ings next Friday in Bethesda
police court. She is still con-
fined in the county Jail in Rock
vile.
A county police official said
Dickerson Wednesday night cut
his wrists with the tongue of q
belt which he had tried to
sharpen by Scraping it on the
floor Of his cell. He also was
reported to have refused to eat
anything for 10 days. Dickerson
had tried to hang himself by
looping his belt around his neck
and his bed, authorities said.
Evening star., 1953-08-14
NLRD Examiner Tells
BIadensburg Firm 10
Reinstate 4 Drivers

The Southern Oxygen Co. of
Bladensburg. Md, today was
ordered by a National Labor Re-
lationS Board trial examiner to
reinstate four truck drivers who
were discharged February II.
The four men were ordered re-
inStated to their former posi-
tions without prejudice. The
company was ordered to reim-
burse the men for pay lost as a
result of the dismissal.
Company President Robert B.
Swope said the decision of Trial
Examiner Sidney l.. Feiler will
be appealed to the full board.
Termed a Reprisal.
The examiners findings were
that the company was guilty of
an unfair labor practice, under
terms of the National Labor Re-
lations Act, by taking reprisal
action against the truckers who
were engaging in concerted ac-
tivities by opposing a change in
working conditions"
The company was ordered to
stop unfair labor practices by
"discouraging membership in a
labor organization of its en1-
ployes by discharging or other
wise discriminating against any
Of its employees"
The truck drivers named by
the examiner to be reinstated
are James Cammarata, Henry j.
Nebel, Joseph Owen and Will
liam Wild. No further identi-
fication of the men was available.
Won Injunction.
Discharge of the men was ef.
fected on February IL and
termed a decentralization and
economy move by the company.
A strike was called by other
employees, members of Local
355, Truck Drivers and Helpers
Union, OF Baltimore.
The company secured an in
junction in Marlboro Circuit
Court on February II banning
the union from using physical
interference, threats or intimi-
dation," during the strike.
The injunction was secured fol-
lowing arrest of two striking
employees on charges of ram
ming a company auto which
had been detailed to guard a
truck making deliveries. The
two men were arrested by Vir-
ginia State Police and fined
total of $500 by the Manassas
(Va0 Trial Magistrates Court,
a company official said.
Evening star., 1953-08-14
U. s., Red Cross Aid
In Greek Earthquakes

Washington area residents
may make inquiries about rela-
tiveS in the Greek earthquake
area through the State Depart
ment and the District Red Cross
Telephone inquiries should be
made by calling Executive $1,000
extension 331. The inquiries will
be channeled through the Ameri-
can Red Cross tele-communica-
tionS system.
However, the Red Cross en-
phasized that because commune
cations systems have been hard
hit there is little hope for an
early reply.
The State Department said
persons living here may make
inquiries through the depart
ment's ONCE of Special Consular
Services.
This Office then will send tele-
grams to consular officials in the
area for a check on the welfare
of specific persons at the expense
Of the person making the in
Quiry.
The Greek Embassy also is
accepting inquiries by Greek
nationals in this area. They
may telegraph or write to Spyros
E. Tetenes, First Secretary, at
2211 Massachusetts, avenue NV.
The Red Cross also announced
ALLEGATION Of $4,000, of which
$4,000 will be used for blankets
for Greece and $4,000 for anti
biotic drugs, now en- route to
Athens by plane. Chapters
throughout the country are ac-
cepting contributions for Greek
relief.
Evening star., 1953-08-14
Byron A. Bargeron, 56,
Retired RFC EmpIoye

Byron A. Bargeron, 56, retired
Reconstruction Finance Corp.
employe. died Wednesday at the
Jolliffe Nursing Home in Silver
Spring.
A native of Savannah, Ca,
Mr.. Bargeron came here in 1882
with the Home Owners Loan
Corp. He was forced to retire
from the RFC in 1914 because
of i'll health.
Surviving are two brothers,
Carlisle Bargeron, of 112 Sum-
merfield road, Chevy Chase, and
l.. M. Bargeron, of Birmingham,
Ala, and three sisters, Mrs. F.
c. r. James of New Orleans, La,
and Miss Melba Bargeron and
Mrs. T. L. Anderson, both of
Savannah.
Funeral services and burial
will be private.
Evening star., 1953-08-14
Waller I. Grow, Il,
West Point Cadet

Funeral services were to be
held in the Fort Myer Chapel at
2 pm. today for West Point
Cadet Walter Thomas Grow,
who died in a fire at his home
near Falls Church early yester-
day.
Cadet Grow, 81, was the son
of Army Maj. Gen. Robert w.
Grow, former military attache
to the United States Embassy in
M oScow, who was court
martialed because the Russians
got hold Of his private diary.
Cadet Grows body was found
in his charred bedroom after
t1remen extinguished the early
morning blaze at the Grow home
SGT Valley lane, Ravenwood sub
division.
Gen. and Mrs. Grow were
sleeping downstairs and got
safely out of the house. Gen.
1IoW TuSneQ INTO MS sons bed
room after he was awakened, but
was prevented from entering by
a wall of flame.
DR.. Manuel Newman, Fairfax
County coroner, said death was
caused by sutfocation.
County Fire Marshall Willis
Burton today ruled out faulty
wiring as possible cause of the
blaze. He said the probable
cause" was pipe the youth had
been smoking when he went up
stairs. Mr.. Burton said the pipe
may have ignited papers on a
desk.
Cadet Grow is to be buried in
Arlington Cemetery. The Grows
have another son, 1st 1t. Robert
M. Grow, who is expected home
soon from Korea.
Evening star., 1953-08-14
Mrs. Richard 5. Butler,
Wife Of Ex-HofeI MANAGER

Mrs. Richard 8. Butler, 40
wife of former hotel manager
here, died yesterday at Maryland
General Hospital, Baltimore, OF
cancer.
Born in Durango, Colo, she
was the former Ellen Hansen.
She married Comdr. Butler. who
before World War II was man
ager of the Hotel 2400, and the
Hamilton and Annapolis Hotels.
During most of World War II,
the couple lived at the Balm
bridge (Md.) Naval Training
Center. where Comdr. Butler was
commissary officer.
Since the war they built and
operated the Canvasback Inn at
Perryville, Md.
While here, Mrs. Butler was
active in women's golf circles
and in 1941 she won the Wash
ington Post Cup.
Funeral services will be held
at 2:30 pm. tomorrow at st.
Marks Episcopal Church, Aiken,
Md. Burial will be in the church
yard.
Evening star., 1953-08-14
Ii. Col. LemueI A. HasIup,
Florida Law School Dean

Funeral services were held to-
day at Fort Myer Chapel for
1t. Col. Lemuel A. Haslup,
U. S. M. c.. retired, dean of Stet-
son Law School in DeLand, Fla,
who died Monday at Daytona
Beach. Fla. Burial was in Ar
lington Cemetery.
A native of Laurel. Md, and a
graduate of the University of
Maryland. Col. Haslup retired
from the Marine Corps in 1898.
He previously had earned his
law degree from George WASH
ington University.
During World War II, Col.
HaSlup was recalled to active
duty, stationed here for five
years in the Navy Judge Advo-
cate Generals Office and at the
Naval Gun Factory. While here
he lived at 3237 Worthington
street NV.
Col. Haslup had held the post
as dean since 1916.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Mildred M. Haslup, of DeLand: j:
son, DR.. Allen L. Haslup, of
403 Thirty-seventh place Sc,
and two brothers, Edwin and
Charles HaSlup, of Laurel.
Evening star., 1953-08-14
Alexander Farmer,
Ex-MiIitary Assistant
At Chungking, Dies

Alexander w. Farmer, SO,
former Assistant Military Attache
at the American Embassy in
Chungking, China, died yester-
day at Mount Alto Hospital.
Born in Penicuik, Scotland, he
was brought to this country as
a child by his parents. The
family settled in Pittsburgh
where he was reared and
educated.
Mr.. Farmer enlisted in the
Marine Corps in 1884 and served
most of his hitch in Shanghai,
China.
Assigned Here in 1912.
In 1899 he joined the Army
and after serving as a recruiting
officer in Pittsburgh, came here
in 1912 when assigned to the
Far Eastern Division of Army
Intelligence.
He served on the staff Of the
military attache in Chungking
from 1943 to 1945. Discharged
as a lieutenant colonel in 1916,
he continued in China until
1949. first with United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Ad-
ministration and later with the
Texas Oil Co.
Active in Scout Work.
Returning to the United States
in 1949 he settled in Arlington,
where he has lived at 814 South
Twenty second street. After
coming back to the Washington
area he was active in Boy Scout
work.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Martha G. Farmer, of the Ar
lington address, his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. William Farmer, and
brother, David D. Farmer, all
of Pittsburgh.
Funeral services will be held
at 10 am. tomorrow at the
Chambers Funeral Home, 3072 M
street NV.
Evening star., 1953-08-14
Eisenhower Signs
Six Bills, One 10 Study
Changing Weather
BY the Assoeintsd Pres.

DENVER, Aug. 14.-President
Eisenhower yesterday signed the
following bills at his summer
vacation headquarters:
/. A bill authorizing creation
Of an 11-member advisory COM
mission to study methods Of
changing the weather. The COM
mission is directed to advise the
President whether the Federal
Government should regulate all
weather-changing activities, with
special emphasis on rain-making
2. A bill designed to strength
en- controls over exports OF
atomic energy materials and
other strategic goods which the
law forbids sending abroad.
Under the present law articles
being exported illegally can be
seized along with the vehicle,
ship or airplane being used for
the purpose. The new bill ex-
tends this authority so that a
carrier used for an illegal ex-
portation can be confiscated after
the article has been smuggled
out of the country. The article
itself could be seized later upon
return to this country.
3. A bill putting the Atomic
Energy Commission on a par
with other Government agencies
with reference to State tax liza
bility.
The measure was designed to
correct a situation which arose
after a Supreme Court decision
last year that certain Acc con-
tractors were exempt from Ten
neSsee'S sales and use taxes.
4. A measure extending for five
years a government program OF
loans to fur farmers. Under the
extension, supplementary loans
can be made only to farmers who
previously have received govern
ment credit under the program
Sponsors of the bill said the ex-
tension was necessary to prevent
some of these farmers from de-
faulting on their own loans.
5. A bill increasing to $33 mil
lion the ceiling on the money
which Congress can appropriate
for the Eklutna hydroelectric
project near Anchorage, Alaska
The project originally was au-
thorized in 1850 with a limit OF
$40, 1855 400 on appropriations for
it. However. this sum has been
about entirely used up and the
project is only 60 per cent COM
plete.
6. A bill to permit settlers on
reclamation projects to exchange
lands unfit for irrigation for ir-
rigable tracts.