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STRANGE NOTE FROM yUcosLAvIA

Secretary of Labor Martin P. Durkin was recently at
tackled in the Belgrade press because of what was called
unclean intentions. 1t that Durkn linked Yugo-
slavias Communism too closely with Moscows Commu-
nism.
The most interesting part of the blast was the Bel
grade presss championing of the Communist idea AS
proof that Yugosavs still strong for Communism the
press attack berated Durkn because he identified Yugo-
Blav Communism with the Moscow variety and it was as
serted that this unfaness to the great Communist
idea.
This blast is ample evidence that the Yugoslavs still
seek to sell Communism to the world though this
Communist country has had to appeal to nonCommuns
powers to sustain its economy and prevent bankruptcy
The United States has been of the main contributors
to the Yugosav cause, having sent millions of dollars
worth of military equipment and aid in recent
years to that country
1t is well to keep in mind while extending this aid
that the Yugosavs convinced Communists and that
they have been taught many lies about the United States
and u S. history Despite aid the Yugoslavs still have
q typcay Communist attitude toward this country and
Yugosav leaders, including Marshall Tito himself often
exhibit surprising ignorance of conditions in this country
Therefore, Yugosava could not be classed reliable
ally even though the Marshal ready to resist Mos
aggression at the moment.
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balls in the same place the left
eye. The only difference is that the
Englishman lost his eye, and the
Key West players eye became
normal again after four or five
months. Here is the R dispatch:
PRESTON, England --(tR)-An
operation was performed Tuesday
at the Preston Royal Infirmary for
the removal Of the left eye of a
golfer struck by his own golf ball.
Local golfers said ''the chance
il-a-million-accident" oecurred
when a bali driven by Charles
Langley, IS. struck a mound and
rebounded into his eye.
AS the U didn't describe the type
of accident, other than being hit
by ones own ball, 1t happened
twice in Key West. Before telling
the story about the local man who
was hit in the eye, here's what
happened to J. J. Kirschenbaum,
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who came near being knocked out
by his own ball: Kirschy, who was
playing with Bob Spottswood, lofted
his approach into the trap on No.
5, and, in trying to come out, his
ball hit a rock, bounded back and
struck him in the middle of the
forehead. The blow was so hard,
it knocked him down and stunned
him. Bob said he resisted an urge
to joke when he saw that Kirschy
was so badly hurt.
However, toward the end of the
round, when Kirschy said he had
fully recovered, Bob got in his dig.
KirSchy used to be a baseball play
er, and good one among amateurs
so when he began to play golf he
swung at the ball in the same way
as he swung at a baseball, and still
has the same stroke until today.
Bob's joke was in line with KRIS
chy'S former baseball playing.
KirSchy used to be a catcher, and
Bob said, when you made that
play in the trap, you should have
had on a mask"
Commander Hart, 20 years ago,
drove his tee shot into the first
trap on the No. fairway. The
trap was deep and the bunker was
high, and large stones projected
from the inside of the bunker. U.s.
ing a niblick, in trying for an out,
he drove the ball into a stone, and
the ball bounced back, with terrific
force, and struck him in the left
eye. In 10 minutes, the eyelids
were twice their normal size, and
in half an hour they were blush
black.
Commander Hart was the most
imperturbahle player on the local
links in those days. What did he
say when the bah struck him in
the eye? Nothing. What did he say
when he made good or a poor
shot? Nothing. He played with
Sam Harris many times, and Har-
ris says Commander Hart didn't
comment about his shots, good or
bad. and his shooting In no way
affected his cool expression. He
was back on the course playing the
next day, with his left eye swollen
and blackened. He told Harris, 81
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-30
HAL BOYLE SAYS

Shelly Bay, Bermuda R ~ Fish
are more friendly in summer than
in winter. A fish also finds it easier
to figure out the personality of a
person than person does that of
a fish.
"And all fish do have personali-
ties" insists b onson Hartley, who
knows a number If them well
enough to call them by their first
names.
Bronson, a tall, slender ex-New
Yorker of 80. has spent more than
one sixth of his life under water
in the seas around Bermuda.
And his pretty dark-eyed Cuban
wife, Martica, have taken more
than 5000 tourists for deep
sea dives and conducted walks
along the ocean floor here in the
last five years.
The hidden life that swarms
around the coral reefs has fasci.
mated Bronson since he built his
first diving helmet at the age Of
1.-THE helmet he himself still
uses.
He spent two years working with
DR. William Beebe, the famous I'M
derseas explorer. After completing
military service, he went TO work
for an oil company here, but was
unhappy.
Il would hop on my bike and
ride out to the ocean, and think,
Gee. what a waste of a wonderful
day, +" he recalled.
So he threw up the job. and de-
cided to do what he most wanted
to do--find out what really goes on
in the strange world beneath the
waters.
There is more 20 learn here
than anyone could find out in many
lifetimes," he said.
Martiea and he lead happy, ar
duous lives. But Martiea, who
steers their boat. ''The Arc" and
supervises the diving operations,
laughs at the idea there Is any
danger to ii.
I'VE have taken down children
Of S, and people as old as So. :"
she said. 1T is much safer a. the
bottom of the ocean than Il is on a
highway"
Over the years Bronson has made
pets of many fish, which he feeds
by hand. His fayorites are two
beautiful angel fish - Helen and
Ruth.
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''Helen is so tame now she viii
swim through a hoop for me, and
eat out of anybody'S hand" he
said. 1T took me only six months
to tame her, but a year TO make
friends with Ruth.
Il can make two appointments
a day with Helen, and she will al
ways be there on time. But Rath
is unpredictable.
Ruth has an unusual ability. She
can sense whether a stranger is
neurotie or odd in any way, and
viii Immediately swim away. Il
never fails. She sometimes can
judge a stranger much quicker
than my wife or l can. On the
other hand, she loves children -
unless they are mentally deficient.
And believe me, she can sense Il
if they are, and won't come near.
! asked Marticia IL she were ever
jealous of Helen, and she threw
back her head and laughed:
That's the kind of competition
| don't mind"
The Hartleys recently managed
to raise a tame herd Of 200 sea
horses by feeding them vitamins
and hope their experiments viii
ultimately benefit commercial fish
cries.
"0ur real interest is in scientific
research, he said.
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BROAD MOBILIZATION BASE RETAINED

Sources close to the White House indicate that the
President has decided to retain the broad mobilization
base concept in the u s. rearmament program after
disagreement to its value within the Administrations
inner circle For time believed that Secretary of
Defense Charles e. Wilson lacked enthusiasm for the
broad base plan and favored instead narrowing of the
program with output concentrated in fewer and larger
plants.
The broad base program is one which deeentralizes
production depending output from many scattered
plants rather than heavier production figures from fewer
plants There in the Defense Department who
believe that the broad base plan costs the taxpayer
IN the long rum although this is the there
advantages in the plan which may outweigh the disad
santages.
The major advantage in the broad base plan is that
he Government retains many factories which convert
large-scale armament production in short time. Pro-
action facilities would also be difficult to eliminate
air attack if scattered. in many plants than if
ated in fewer, larger ones.
We believe broad base mobilization should not be dis
Atnued in the interests Of economy for the amportan
ison that in any future war; the United States will not
be the traditional year two in which to prepare TO
We war The next may fall upon the country with
ampact yet experienced and a hroadbase mobiliza
Tx plan may be the salvation Of the countrys defense
prauction.
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What chance has a golfer on the
Key West Golf Course to make a
hole in one on No. 4, or No. a.?
Whatever your estimate may be, it
falls far short of a "chance in
a million" accident, according to
the Associated Press, that occurred
in England last Tuesday. A Simil-
ar accident occurred on the local
golf course 20 years ago, and the
chances are stretched to far more
than a million when it is consider
ed that the EngliShman and the
local player were struck by their
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SNAKE on TeLEylstcN

OKLAHOMA CITY - A
retghEor exettetly called Mrs
Frank Gshson for help. she was
getting the unexpected CO Der rev
tsleTixsoz set.
Mrs. Gibson ran To TIE rcsrue,
and foaad a 4zaach snake haA
er2wae3 cgt e gee eahSnet.
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Talk - THEn AcTloa

ROCKVILLE CENTRE. n. Y.
r. - ThErty five village rallesFnen
here beard q lertare CO lie fan
danentalk q obstetrics, - taey
woaid knew kew 10 psnehhsi a.
miawtyes If TIE reed arose.
Dx. G. E0eaen GraSEey tann
opene3 , c2sssssz aad-zntasr PR
80
II was ext saarg wAen ns re<8iv
"a ~ eeFgengy GsesT fs3 t.
Merry 4sspaa&
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like to hear you cuss. It reminds
me of grand opera"
Harris GREAT PUTT
Speaking about Hart, Harris
says:
Il wondered many times If it
was possible for anything to hap
pen to him on the course that
could draw from him an express
sion either of delight or disgust.
In those days, the No. 6 green re-
Sembled small waves at sea, rang
ing from one or two to three or
four feet in height. Putting on it
was far harder than that on any
other green on the course. The
same Kirsehy, who was knocked
down by his ball in the No. 5 trap,
was the clubs pro and green's
keeper. For some reason, which
Kirschy himself alone knew, he
put the cup or hole on No. 6, atop
the crest or ridge on the highest
wave
Zone afternoon, Clayton Kirkland,
who frequently played skins with
Bob SpottSwood and Glenn Price,
was playing with Bob, Kirschy and
me. Kirt, after he had missed his
fourth putt on No. 6, complained:
"KirSchy, why did you put the
hole up there? If you putt too
easily, your ball rolls back to you;
if you putt too hard, it. rolls over
the top and down the other side.
well, Kirschy said, it's as
fair for one as it is for the other
"Kirt pointed to the top of a
darling plum tree in back of Ell
green. IT would be as fair for one
as it is for the other if you put it
up there
''The next day the cup was put
in trough of the waves.
1.-THE greatest putt I ever saw
was made by Commander Hart on
No. 6 when the cup was on the
crest Of the wave: Harris ball was
on the apron of the green at the
extreme right. He got down on one
knee to study the curvature of the
waves for a moment then stood.
addressed his ball and putted. The
ball zigzagged over the waves, ran
up the side Of the highest one and
seemed for an instant to be going
over. but, instead, developed Eng.
lish" that kept it on the ridge till
1t fell into the cup.
"By jingo' I exulted, but Hart
didn't say a word"
1osRINc BOB
Bob Spottswood was in the top.
most bracket of Key West players
in those days, but Bob proved the
truth of that old saying that two
heads. even though one Is d cab
tss-ADD coNcEI OBSERVES
bage head, are better than one. In
this case, instead Of being two
heads. it was three players against
one.
Cookie Mesa, Ole BY and Sam
Harris were buffers. but even as
buffers there wasn't a hole on the
course they had not pared, and,
with the possible exception Of M.
7, on which they had not made .
birdie. Bob proposed TO them to
play their low bali. ard they i'm
metiiately accepted the challenge.
AS though il had been set by
fate. not q single hole was played
without one Of Bob's three oppon-
ents Gaming through with topnotch
golf Each d. the three sliced and
hooked and topped ard dlgOted but
they did not do II at tire same
time One was sure to play vel.
and the result vas Bob did not win
a hale ard tsas4 srrs3w a fnzr
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II Is hsAevea *has tA@ Esngsst Is
ne uasy fisa wh.eA Caa be srssa
10 - eva Ia
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IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED
By THE CITIZEN
!. More Hotels and Apartments
z. Beach and Bathing Pavilion.
.. AirpoTts-Land ana Sea-
4. Consolidation Of County and City Governments.
5. Community auditorium.
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Bathing beaches offer many attractions these days
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-06-30

We sometimes wonder if people are paid for movie
dialogue.
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Despite your fears the world can set along usual
with0t you, and will.
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honey is still comparatively plentiful and jobs OBJ
tainaae despite 1852 forecasts. The true in
1852 aneernng 1851 forecasts.
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Read The Citizen Want Ads
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Inc Citizen IS an forum and invites discussion public
nd subjects of Local general interest not publish
1onynous communications
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THE CONCH OBSERVES

BY SID McPHID

IlWNWlMwM%MW
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mber Florida Press Association Daes of Florida
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The
@s
Wcatherman
Says
Says

n 4
Key West and vicinity: Partly
cloudy. continued not and humid
today thru Friday; isolated show.
ers and thundershowers. Gentle to
moderate variable winds mostly
east. Lowest tonight about IS de.
grees. Highest Friday about 90 de-
grees.
Florida: Continued hot and part
" cloudy thru Friday. Scattered
afternoon thundershoWers ID north
portion and widely scattered after.
noon thundershoWers elsewhere.
jacksonville thru the Florida
Straits and East Gulf: Gentle to
moderate winds, east to southeast
over extreme south portion and
variable. mostly south to west else.
where. Partly cloudy weather with
widely scattered thundershoWers.
Western Caribbean: Moderate
easterly winds and partly cloudy
weather with widely scattered
showers thru Friday.
Weather summary for the trUpi-
cal Atlantic, Caribbean Sea area
and the Eastern Gull Of Mexico:
Weather conditions are normal to-
day with no signs Of 4 tropical dis
tnrhance.
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Senate Leaders
Try To Win On
Emergency Loan

WASHINGTON Senate lead
ers make : second try to-day Il
winning approval Of multimiIlion.
dollar program Of emergency loans
and aid for drought-stricken farm
ers and ranchers.
Angry arguments over govern
ment buying Of live cattle led 10
barbed political exchanges during
nearly six hours Of debate yester-
day.
Pending was 3 proposal By Sen.
Griswold tR-Nebl+60 require Secre-
tary Of Agriculture Benson to buy
up cows and pay farmers to have
heifers spayed to prevent them
from having calves.
Griswold's contention is there are
too many cattle and that govern
ment buying program would cut
livestock population and push beef
prices upward.
Sen. Kerr ID Oklal derided Gris-
wold,s proposal as birth c0ntrOl'
for cows, and Sen. Tobey GRIND
shouted: What nonsensel Don't
Griswold's proposal was offered
as q substitute for q demand by
Kerr that Benson be ordered by
Congress to support beef cattle
prices at high levels.
Sen. Aiken lR.Vtl, Chairman Of
the agriculture committee who was
seeking quick passage of the dis
aster loans measure, told Kerr he
was injecting politics into an emer-
gency program and doing no good
to the farmers Of the United
States"
He said the 0klahoman .shas
done as much harm to the farmers
Of Oklahoma as has been done by.
any other factor In our whole
economy"
The 0klahoman said many farm.
ers and ranchers have gone bank
rupt and he told Aiken:
your party already has assured
the success of the Democratic
party in the next election cam
paign."
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u. S. INFANTRY

Continued From Page Onel
has been raging since Monday. A
staff officer said the Reds poured
1900 rounds Of ertiilery and NOR
tar shells on the area in the u
hours ended at 3. m. Thursday,
including 1000 believed to be
'katusha" rockets.
The u S. Eighth Army said
more than 100 Reds were killed
and wounded in terrific artillery
duels and close quarter fighting
some Of il hand-to-hand with gun
butts and knives.
Z. n. casualties were not dis
closed.
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IITnGE GIBSON WARNs

Continued From Page One,
want 10 return. was continued fc<
further Investigation.
The lad, son Of . Navy man. was
unprecedented % Stock Island. He
said that he was headed for = boy
scout camp on Big Pine KEY. He
would not giye his name or address
10 the ofIIcer who picked him up.
The boy told the court that be
left home and did ROT want to 80
back because his mother made him
do the Homework and the cooking.
Juvenile workers win check bis
case.
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MRS. LuRLEAN coRcELL

Mrs. Lnrlean CordeI. IS, died
early this morning At ne residence
Ol her brother, 1s06 Newton Street.
Survivors include, one daughter.
Mrs. Harriet Niles of Miami. Fla;
two brothers. Ray Higgs and Ed
ward Higgs. Key West: two sisters.
Mrs. Leath Albury and Mrs. Edna
Roberts. and three grandchildren,
Tommy, Steve and Terry Niles Of
Miami.
Funeral services WI be held
Sunday afternoon al 40 from the
Glad Tidings Tabernacle Church,
the Rev. D. 7. Newman officiating.
The body VIII be placed ii the
Church at 2 o'clock with Pritchard
Funeral Home in charge Of ar
rangements. Burial win be il the
family plot IN City Cemetery.
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Iron Curtain
Is Lifted In
East Berlin
First Free Travel
i Permitted Since
june IL Riosing
D. TON REEpY

BERLIN aa-The Communists
Lifted the Iron Curtain before riot
torn East Berlin today, permitting
Tree Western travel into the Rus
sian sector of the divided city for
the first time since open rebellion
brought tank-enforced martial law
three weeks ago.
Border erOsseFs said Is major
factories Ii the Soviet-occupied
city stiil were seriously affected
BY SitdOwn strikes which broke out
yesterday TO demand release of
workers arrested 10 June revolt.
Apparently the strikers put little
credence In the Red zone govern
ment's announcement last night
that the great ma jority" Of these
had bee released.
Reports from the East zone out
side Berlin indicated dozens Of
plants In Jena. Magdeburg. Leip.
zig, Halle, Brandenburg and Ores
den were hit BY sIowdowns for
the same reason. Refugees said
the Russians long since had lifted
martial law outside Berlin but still
maintained 2 four.hour nightly
curfeW in Halle. where rebellious
workers set fire TO the giant Leuna
chemical plant on June IL.
Though Red German infantry
and police patrols were doubled
along the 27.mile frontier between
East and West Berlin, the Com
munists paid scant attention TO
the thousands again riding the pre-.
yiously blocked elevated trains and
subways across the border.
Each automobile and truck at
the dozens Of crossing points was
checked, however, and Red Police
Chief Waldemar Schmidt declared
on Radio Berlin that "eyery fas.
cist pr0yOcateur and propagandist
win be arrested and dealt with
sternly.',
Restoration Of the normal inter.
sector travel had been i secondary
demand Of the strikers yesterday.
The Reds announced they would
accede only = few hours after the
sitdowns started. West Berlin's
three Allied commandments also had
demanded In two notes that the
blockade be ended.
NCn-German Wegterners first
peep inside the East since tie
June II outbreak revealed the
Communists puppei East German
government had sealed itself off
Heavily armed East German in
tantrymen ringed the regimes
headquarters buiIdingchief tar
set OF the June II marchers--and
stopped all but recognized Com
munist officials from approaching
There were no Russian soldiers
IN sight. however, apparently il
token support for the satellite gov
ernment's declaration that its 20.
lice would maintain law and order
~ East Berlin. The Russian Army
had done this Job since ii roared
IN three weeks ago to smash the
bloody uprising.
Lifting Of the border blockade
today cancelled the last Of the en-
ergency restrictions III East Ber.
lin. but Maj. Gen. r. Z. Dibroya
the Red Army commandant, has
not yet formally declared an end
70 martial law In the city.
Untll today, only persons with
special passes had heen permitted
g cross Tie, boundary, and these
went only to Germans working
across the frontier.
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CITY FATnrRS SAY

Continued mn Page onel
Tho srrsnssa for The bond Is
sue which nearly fell through
when i became doubtful that
the city could pay for iss 10
tirsmsnt out Of revenue from
the system.
Nliainl. Tor example. not only
assesses . sewer rate higher than
that in Key West. but also has
an additional fee tackled on -
their water bin to paw for mo
posed sewer construction Nj
amians will pay 4 tremendous
rate q interest on their sewer
project which win not bring
sewer service to anyone who
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YOUTHS REPORT ON

lC0nt1nued nom Page Une1
named to the Posts House Com.
mittee.
Melvin J. Edwards, General
Chairman 81 the 4th Of July OBJ
seryance sponsored BY the Post
gave the final report Of the gala
event.
The Post voted to purchase .
SET Of col0rs for Boy Scout Troop
256 witch the Post now sponsors.
Scout Chairman Norman Kranich
outlined the progress being made
by the Troop.
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docs not have II at ne present
time.
Currently. . tax payer has
brought suit against the City Of
Miami in protest Of the manner
which the Miami bond issue for
sewer Improvement was handled.
They viii pay 4 whOpping inter-
est rate Of IS per cent.
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TAX COLLECTION

Confined from PAGE 0nel
like that. II WIN pay of whenever
you have another bond issue 10 sell
as L Is things lika this that de-
termine the value q municipal
credit.
Kindest regards.
&C. 7. MeCREEDY."
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GCLIST ARRIVES

Continued from Page 0nel
though he could 'sleep for .
week. |"
'tThe trip Is something I'll al.
ways remember" he declared
proudly, 1T feels good to be home,
though"