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Evening star., 1953-03-08

principal lighting in the dim
room played on Stalin's portrait
A mass of palms and funeral
flowers were clustered under the
picture.
Attendants declined to esti-
mate the number of callers OF
to permit inspection of the
autograph book. They explained
that the Embassy will continue
to receive those who wish tc
express their condolences to-
morrow.
Visiting hours, they said, will
be from 10 am. to l pm. and
from 3 to 6 pm.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
CunuI Towputh Hike

A seven-mile hike along the
C8SO canal towpath will be con-
Quoted from 2 until 5 pm. today
by a National Capital Park natu-
ralist. The group will meet at
stop No. 80 on the Cabin John
streetcar line, Macarthur boule-
ward and Walhonding road and
will follow the towpath to Stub
blefield Falls.
Evening star., 1953-03-08

jected constitution.
Overseas Areas Get Voice.
Earlier, Assemblymen voted to
grant a limited voice to French
overseas territories in the future
considerations lower house.
Members of the special con-
vention agreed to allot seven
extra seats to- France for the
overseas areas, raising Frances
total to 70, but refused to ex-
pand this to 80 or 80 seats.
The Assembly adopted this
controversial article on a roll
call ballot of "a to 3, with 20
abstentions representing a wide
span of opposition.
Under the plan, West Ger
many and Italy would each get
SO. Holland and Belgium each
80 and Luxembourg IL.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Parachute Used in 1877

PARIS.-Andre Garerin, a
Partisan, invented the parachute
and used it successfully in 1897.
Evening star., 1953-03-08
Overseas Areas Get Voice.

/ of the 116 articles in the pro-
jected constitution.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-02-01

mark. Nearly 20 percent of them
are Red Danes. The second most
popular breed is Black and White
Danish which resemble Holsteins;
there is also scattering of Jerseys
and Shorthorns.
The average milk yield of his herd,
Farmer Petersen told us, was around
10000 pounds, about 500 more than
the average for all herds enrolled in
Danish production testing. In a cor
ner of the barn were the new calves.
Farmer Petersen has about IL young
stock.
From the barn we walked out to
the fields that stretch back from the
house to include some 90 acres. This
is considerably larger than the aver
age size farm in Denmark. The aver
age for the country figures out at 38
acres. But actually the farms of Den
mark tend to fall into three different
size groups. At one end are the very
small farms and at the other the very
large ones. I visited one farm that
had 1880 acres of land, Around $500
acres were crop and pasture land.
But, of course, you could nearly
count on one hand all the farms of
this size in Denmark.
About half of the farms in Den
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-02-01
Farming in Denmark
2OO-Year-OId Farms Are
Modern, High Producing
By RALPH S. YOHE

MOST OF DENMARK is rolling
country with small, intensely cult
waited fields, neat clusters of farm
steads and pasture fields filled with
Red Danes and Black and White
cattle.
The newer farmsteads are scat
tered out across the countryside. But
I drove through many small farm
villages left over from the days of
the Middle Ages when the farm
steads were crowded in tight groups
for protection. Here, picturesque
timber and plaster farmsteads with
thick thatch roofs hover around cob
blestone courtyards. was told that
a good thatch roof of wheat straw
will last from 35 to so years. Squat
ty white painted brick churches
built in the 18th and 18th centuries
stand at the edge of the farm viii
lagos.
1t was in one of these old villages,
Himmelev, with many of the houses
built over 200 years ago, that Wis
tied typical medium size Danish
farmstead. The long, low, connect
ing farm buildings sat along the vii
lage street. Two large wooden doors
opened out of the archway that cut
through the brown, plastered build
ing into the courtyard Over the
doorway was painted the name of
the farm, "Egegaard." In English it
would be Oak Farm.
We drove through the archway
into the courtyard, vacant except
for the new British-made tractor and
wagon waiting to go out to the field
to bring in the sugarbeets. The own
er, Farmer Petersen, came out oil
the barn to greet us. He had prom.
Used to show us around his farm.
Switch TO Tile Roofs
1 told Farmer Petersen that
liked the ancient dignity of the moss
covered .thatch roof. It was ther
that I found out that thatch roof.
are gradually disappearing in Den
mark. Too much work to keep then
up and high fire insurance makes
them unpopular today. So more anc
more farmers are switching to til,
roofs.
Our first stop was in the dair.
barn where the 81 Red Dane mill
COWS, tied by neck straps, stood fac
ing the outside walls. There ar
about 100000 dairy cows in Den
8-Februory !, 1853
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-02-01

mark have Is acres o. less. They
cover about fifth of the farm land.
There are less than a thousand
farms with 800 acres or more. They
make up only 0.4 per cent of the
total farm numbers and they cover
about per cent of the farm land.
By far the greatest number are
the in-between size farms. They COW
er over three-fourthS of the farm
land of Denmark and make up over
half of the farm numbers. The av-
erage size of these farms in the
middle group is just slightly less
than so acres.
So you see, by American STAN
dards, most Danish farms are quite
small. And yet the average size is
the highest of any country in Eu-
rope, with the exception of England.
Most Europeans would say that
Farmer Petersen has a large farm.
Farm-Grown Feed
Most of the feed that Farmer
Petersen feeds to his cows comes
from his own farm. Protein feeds
must be bought from countries like
America. 1t is expensive for the
Danish farmer. So good Danish
farmers plan to get as much protein
as possible from high protein grasses
and legumes. In spite of the small
size of the Danish farms, large
proportion of the acreage is kept in
hay and pasture.
The Petersen farm keeps 80 acres
of the land in a mixture of grass
and clover and 10 acres in alfalfa
for hay.
Yields on Danish farms are high.
This year Pedersen's wheat yielded
90 bushels per acre. He got ITO BUSH
els of barley. heard of some yields
of 165 bushels of barley per acre.
Yields of grain in Denmark are
among the highest on record this
year because of the cool, wet sum-
mer.
Root crops are very important to
the Danish livestock farmer. Yields
for fodder beets and mangels are
extremely high. In terms of feed for
livestock they are the highest of any
crop. Sugarbeets are good cash
crop. So Farmer Petersen keeps
nearly 20 acres of his land in roots
Feeding beets for the cows are
put in a root cellar. During the win
ter they are run through a washer
that takes the dirt off, chopped anc
fed to the cows. There is an ingeni.
Gus device to keep the beets in the
cellar from freezing. Warm air from
the dairy barns is blown through
ducts in the floor and walls of the
beet cellar to keep it warm.
The beet tops go into the silo
Most of the silage in Denmark il
made from beet tops. They are pu
into large square silos about Is fee
Montana farmer-stockman., 1953-02-01

The Danish farmer has frozen food
lockers too. Here. Farmer Petersen
looks into his locker at the farmer
owned cooperative food locker plant.
high and preserved with AIV-type
acid. This is a common means of
preserving silage in Scandinavia.
Root tops normally go in the silo
late in the fall when the weather
begins to get cold. 1t would be diff
ficult to get the silage to ferment
properly so acid is added instead.
The farmers believe that acid treat
ment makes higher quality silage.
Acid Silage Preferred
Then, too, the Scandinavians think
that milk from cows fed acid silage
is safer to use for cheese. Since the
acid stops fermentation, there is no
chance for disagreeable smelling
butyric acid to form and give the
cheese an off flavor.
Typical of most Scandinavian
silos, the silo is inside the hay stor-
age portion of the barn. On most
Danish farms a portion of the barn
is reserved for hay storage. The hay
is piled from the ground up. Farmer
Petersen took us in to see his hay
storage barn. On either side was
neatly stacked sheayes of barley, rye
and wheat. In the center was a small
threshing machine powered by an
electric motor. In the winter time
when it is impossible to work in the
fields, the farm crew threshes out
the grain. This is common practice
among Danish farmers.
Most of the Danish farmers, like
Petersen, keep livestock - cattle,
hogs, and poultry. But it has not al
ways been that way.
During the early sos of the last
century the European markets were
flooded with cheap grain, much of it
from the new land of our own mid
west. Until this time, the Danish
farmer had used little fertilizer on
his land. His grain yields were low.
He found that he could not raise
grain cheap enough to compete on
the world market with the flood of
American grain. Gradually the ex-
port of Danish grain was replaced
by growing export of butter, bacon,
eggs and cheese, and even live cat
tie, to the rest of Europe.
Industries were being built up in
Great Britain and Germany. These
countries needed food for their peo-
pie, so they traded their new indus
trial products for Danish food. Then
too, Danish farmers began using
large amounts of fertilizer. Thus
Denmark gradually obtained repu.
tation as one of the most intensely
farmed regions in the world.
Proud of Farmstead
Farmer Petersen insisted that we
see his front yard and adjoining gar.
den, the family's pride and JOY. The
small handicapped lawn was sur
rounded by neatly pruned hedge.
trained vines dark green leaves
spread out over the sides of tn,
brick house. Apple trees wer,
trained to the sides of the barn wall
please turn to page 32)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-13
/ 2rDerl hoover
Il av Make Visit
To Kew West

MIAMI BEACH, Fla gg-Her-
bert Hoover left s.. Francis nos.
pisal today feeling much better"
and Immediately went aboard a
Oh rtered yacht .or two weeks
fishing in the Florida Keys,
he 7s.year-old former president
IVES taken 10 the hospital Saturday
with mild ease OF influenza.
He looked spry for his aee and
walked briSkly fran the Flamingo
Hotel to Me Yacht Sunset
I'm ust going fishing" he told
nswsmen. THAT Is On entirely non
partisan operation because all men
are equal before the fishes"
The former chief executive said
be thought President Eisenhower
had begun his term with yigor /"
The former chief executive win
be- accompanied oa the fishing trip
By his son, Allan Hoover, Clarence
Budington keilaad The author. and
hrS. kelland. and Lawrence Rich.
~. former White House secretary
and an old friend
Hoover said he is especially
anxious to SO bonefishing at Key
Continued on Page TEN
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cordings, teIevisiou and radio.
Their all time best seller album
Two Grand has just been refs.
sued by demand
whittemore and Lowe who both
come from the West net while
studying music 3, the Eastman
School Of Music, University Of Ro-
chester.
They started playing two piano
music as a lark, and continued
through a debut at Town Hall.
New York. 1870.
Serving throu CHOU; the war in
the Navy, and two artists resumed
their musical careers in 1886. They
drive their own car from concert
to concert with SesZ York License
Plate SSWI4 Eighty elgat Is the
number al keys an toe pauo key
beard They are followed BY 3 spe-
cial sTl&ck be@s.Gs. lsesE tss9 p5anoS.
Residents q s3iaEUe. Ioas Is
land. THE artists sIu. ara play
tennis. when they are not pTae.
ticing.
Last saFn mer they were seen on
FIVE day aee& se}evtSsoa sh0v
ea Mutual They fes arned FOR d
ueeklY stsow Ia Ibe fab TaeY hsve
heea t.a asJIoaal -uatEEt toAsg s4nGs
last meath.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-13
Tide Bullets
SeawaHs In
Europe Again
New Loss OF Life
And Property Is
Threatened Today

LONDON IA relentless tide
Numbered against hastily plugged
gaps in the<sea walls of Britain,
The Netherlands and Belgium to-
day. threatening a new loss of life
and property.
On both shores of the North Sea
the battle to hold back the waves
reached a new critical phase. The
fight, against the greatest expected
tides Of the month, will continue
until Thursday.
Britain. aided by the United
States and eight continental coun-
tries. got a sandbag airlift under
way. Millions of bags were loaded
into planes and ships to strengthen
the battered levees on Englsnds
east coast.
| British, Dutch and Belgian serv-
icemen and volunteers fought at a
new tempo to hold back the sea.
AS new weaknesses appeared in
the bikes, fresh crews rushed up
TO bolster the defense.
Britain and the low countries
counted more than 1000 dead from
the storms and floods that swept
against their shores from Jan. 81
to Feb. 2. All three countries are
better equipped now to prevent
more loss Of life.
Not only have coastal areas been
evacuated in many places, but
elaborate warning systems are in
operation.
The wind dropped over the North
Sea, but numbing cold was a new
enemy for the workers on the
dikeS. A blizzard continued over
much Of Northern Europe.
Spring tides. pulled by the moon,
will reach their peak Monday aft
ernoon. II no new gales whip the
waters, the three countries hope
to get safely by this period BY
the end Of next week. the giant
February tides win have begun to
recede.
Bitter weather gripped the con-
tinent. The French port Of lie
Havre had It's third snowfall Of
the winter, the first time this has
happened IN 50 years. Snow fell
as far as Marseille.
Heavy snowfails gave Denmark
its biggest transportation headache
10 years.
A snow storm sweeping down
if0m the Baltic Isolated several
Gsgmsn coastal villages High
water vas reported at several
places aloag the coast Same roads
we're flooded.
>ueaen experienced . vioisHi
Sroo storm with winds ap 10 se
mites an hoar, Heavy see stalled
dosens ef ships in the Baltic.
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Trespasser Fined
Ten Dollars Here

Artie Donaldson. Navy man 81
tached 10 the uSS Parie was fined
SO yesterday in Municipal Court
when he pleaded guilty 10 . charge
Of trespassing u the city cemetery
after dark.
Donaldson was arrested by Off
Ger Fernando stiTrnp In the GENE.
terry Wednesday night.
No evidence Of any damage 10
monuments in the cemetery was
discovered and Donsldson's finger
prints did not check with thoss
taken from damaged monuments
following last weeks wsnton dam
age In the cemetery which amousf.
I'd 10 over 80 100.
800 IN rewards has been POSTED
l0r TIE conviction Of anyoze who
vas connected with the ineioent.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-13
Eight Killed As
Air Rescue Plane
Crashes In Japan

TOKYO R-An amphibious air
rescue plane crashed in Southern
Japan today and all eight Amer
leans aboard we're killed, the Air
Force said today.
The dead included an Army SER
geant, his wife. a nurse and five
crew members.
The SA16 plane, en- route on an
air evacuation fligh. from Beppu
to Ashiya, in Southern Japan.
crashed two miles southwest Of
Moi on Honshu Island.
An Air Force spokesman said
the amphibian crashed into the
side Of hill or mountain shortly
after noon.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-13
Eerie Mystery Play Scores
Success On Opening Night
BY Margaret Feresmsn

Expert staging and lighting eff,
fects helped make the current
Barn Theatre production, THE
Bat" a success when it was pre-.
sented last night tc the first night
audience.
The element of suspense, vital
to this mystery play, was upheld
well, both by the performers and
by means of sound effects and
eerie lights.
Gertrude Splaine and Emily God
dard may divide the laurels for
their portrayals Of widely varied
parts well played. Mrs. Goddard.
as the dominating spinster lead.
did an excellent job, through facial
expression, voice and general
Characterization. of making Miss
Cornelia Van Gorder a belieyable
person.
Mrs. Splaine's side-splitting man.
nerisms as Lizzie, the timorous
maid who Is terrur.stricken
throughout the play, We'd with her
ear.splitting Shrieks in keeping the
audience on its toes. Lizzie's PEN
chant for finding bodies. seeing
ghosts, sitting on hot water bottles
and keeping the household in an
uproar in general lends note of
comic relief to the air Of horror
and suspense which prevails
throughout the play.
]. Burnham Maynard acquitted
himself we'll as The aatectiye who
is deriSiye Of old maids Who try
to follow clues. He was convincing
in his effort 10 discover the iden.
tity Of the Bat.
The juvenile leads. Deborah
Browne and David Hnschle, gave
good performances as tie seeming
| ly star-croSsed lovers. There were
spots in the play where they might
have given BIT more impact 10
certain scenes, bit IN general both
were fine ia their roles. HuschIe.
in particular. played his part more
eonyinefngly as the play progress
ed With little work on making
bis first entrance carry ! little
mere SAVIOR fsire and > little less
Of the gauche high school boy. On.
sure Of Just shat be is dong in
that spot in which he finds him.
self. be viii turn n az excellent
performance throughout.
Jerry Bremen, in the role q Dr.
Wells. gave an outstanding pre-
seniaticn Of b man about ahorn the
sssdssnce eo41ldnf make up their
minds. The sometimes airasghstor.
ward. sometimes f5rtfve air he
carried shrDa ghnaTf The perform.
ante ient ereeSeaes - hiss roe ns
ls . spienaad addaa 10 tire Play.
ftans sn4sesi Cd Page Teal
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Local Shrinapers
Report No Trouble

Key West shrimp operators
have reported no trouble this
year with the Mexican govern
menf who is elanping down on
the operation of shrimp boats
from Florida in what they claim
are their territorial waters.
Last year. two locally owned
boats were impounded by the
government of That county when
they said that they were yioIaf-
ing The rights by going TO close
in shore while fishing.
Mexican Navy Secretary San
chez Tahoada ordered port COM
manders there TO pursue he ves-
sells which he termed pirate
ships"
Long . source of friction be.
tween the American and Mexican
State Departments the question
of how close American boats can
operate to the Mexican shore has
yet to be decided finally. The
Mexican government says seven
miles is the limit while The U. S.
maintains that three miles is the
correct distance.
A treaty with Mexico signed In
1901, set the distance as three
miles
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-13
Conaty's Case
To Be Heard
At Jury Trial
..Iontlls Given
aaron Carlisle;
Fines Imposed
MARSHALL E. MILLER.

Criminal Court Judge Thomas
Caro- today told an accused cash
register taker that since his re-
cord showed he had been convict
ed other charges previously he
would recommend lawyer handle
his plea.
The man, Thomas p Conaty, Jr.
charged with breaking and enter
ing and larceny of a cash register
from The Jockey Club. was in
court today with his wife.
A character witness talked with
the judge after court pleaing len
ieney for Conaty on the ground
he had a five year old daughte
who needed medicai attention. /
The case win probably come up
before jury the week of Febru-
airy %. A jury was pulled yester-
day, names to be subpoenaed this
week for the not guilty pleas.
Last week before records were
available. Conaty had said his tot
ing the cash register down the
steps of the Jockey Club was his
first offense. AT that time the
Judge thought he could pass sen
tence this week. Today. however,
with the record before him, Judge
Caro- took a sterner attitude.
He told Conaty that be could go
ahead and get a lawyer If he
wanted to.
The Judge fined Dayton Edmund
Rieke $50 on a drunken driving
and reckless driving charge:
James Kirkwood Bethel, SIS on =
reckless driving charge. :
He sentenced Aaron Carlisle 10
six months in the county jail on
a petit larceny charge and fined
Leoia Rebecca Curry. SIS on a
drunken driving charge.
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Cancer Specialist
Will Make Address

Doctor Morton X. Hertz. New
York cancer research specialist,
will address the medical staff al
the Naval Hospital this afternoon
on latest developments in his work
Postgraduate cenaer of the New
York Universiiy's Bellevue Medical
Center.
early Diagnosis OF Mahgnancy
BY Means of Bood Tests will be
Or. Hertz theme wien he tells of
tests, similar to the .WaSxermsn,
which are given to oil patients en-.
tering the University Hospital in
"a effort 10 detect malignancy in
its earliest stages.
Or. Hertz maintains a winter
home In Key Vest al 300 Wash.
ingion Avenue.
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Pope Plus Asks
Mercy h, Case
OF Rosenbergs

VATICAN CITY, R-L'osserva-
tore Romano said today Pope Plus
XII has interviewed in behalf Of
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Atom
ic spies sentenced to death in the
United States.
The Vatican newspaper indicated
the pontiff has asked that, IL pos
Sible, their lives be spared.
The newspaper said its statement
was printed in reply to accusations
in some newspapers tnotably the
Communist press) that the pontiff
had remained .'impassive" TO pleas
directed to him to intervene in the
case.
II is well known" said loser.
vatore, that his holiness, even
without being able TO enter into
the merits of cases, never refuses
his interest when asked to save
human life for superior motives
of charity proper to his apostolic
mission.
"And. as he has mercifully done
in similar cases, so, also in this
he interviewed to the extent per-
mitted 10 him, considering there
is lack Of all official relations
with the competent governing au-
thorities Of the United States"
President Eisenhower declined
Wednesday to commute the Rosen-
berg sentences and new date for
their execution at Sing Sing Prison
is expected to be set in few
days.
The Vatican newspaper did not
indicate how the pope had inter.
yencd.
Lunita, official organ Of the
Italian Communist party. in a
roundup Of world reaction said
today the Christian Democratic
party Of East Germany was cen
,ccrned about the RosenbergS
L'Unita then recalled that an East
German request had been made
at Christmas time to the pope that
he intervene.
Until now" said the Communist
newspaper, ''this has not happened
and hopes are expressed that this
silence viii be broken before the
lives Of the two innocents are
broken on the electric chair"
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coRREcrIoa

The weddins ceremony 81
Miss oereshy Rose Link 10 ~.
o. q. Gillian which 10 10 take
place u 4 pm. Saturday will
be held in me First Baptist
Church instead u fhe First
Msshesiss.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-13
DuO-Pianiists
To Perform
At Convent
Whittemore, Lowe
Arrive In XIV
For February
10 Concert

Americas Number One two-pia-
mo team Arthur Whittemore and
Jack Lowe viii perform for Key
West music lovers at the Convent
auditorium ThslrSsay night. tFeb-
ruary 10.
The world,famous artists viii be
the last of the 1858 Community
Concert series here.
Arriving in town Tuesday wit
their two Baldwin pianos the musi-
clans viii prepare for what pro-
misses to be truly great concert
Thursday.
Last season the artists made
many friends while vacationing in
Key. West.
In constant demand as soloiSts
with the country's leading Orches-
tras, New York, Philadelphia, BoS-
ton, Chicago, and others, White
more and Lowe made Key West
concert stop this year because of
their love of the Island City.
The pianiSts not only perform in
live concerts, but on numerous re-
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FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH. pleasant day this year for
Mrs Ellen Curry She celebrating her 10th birthday today,
and her friends and family going to gather tonight to help
make the day gala for her Mrs Curry born the
Bahamas but she to Key West 81 She reared
her eight children and she has only been off the island
she moved here live Both times she
Point Pleasant, N j. for visits with there. Except
daughter in Miami and the in j. all her children live in
Key West She has 81 grandchldenCiizen Staff Photo by
Finch.