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Evening star., 1953-04-05
Peace Hopes Increase Feryor
|Of kored's Easter Devotions

condition that the God who sent
this message to his children so
many centuries ago gives us to-
day the same assurance of final
victory"
Gen. Mark Clark, United Ma
tions Far East commander. said
in his Easter message:
"Our hearts hold new hope
that we may be near an honor
able end Of this grim but imper-
ative task Of upholding with our
lives the ideals which flow from
the influence of Christ on man
kind"
Admiral BriScOe's Message.
The United States Far East
Navy chief, Vice Admiral Rob-
ert P. Briscoe, said:
"As rising hope dawned in the
hearts of men Of good will on
the first resurrection day, so on
the commemoration of that joy
Gus day our hopes rise high for
the devine blessing of peace as
discussions for exchange of pris-
oners of war are initiated"
The chief of United States Air
Force chaplains. Maj. Gen.
Charles Carpenter conducted the
mountainside services at Scouts
shrine of a thousand steps.
Episcopalians planned a COM
munion service in Seoul.
In the same city, Catholic
solemn high mass was to be
sung at the Immaculate Con-
ception Cathedral.
Mass Is Celebrated.
Bishop Monsignor MousSet, a.
French missionary who has lived
in Korea since 1901, celebrated a
mass for the French battalion.
Bishop Harry S. Kennedy,
episcopal bishop of Honolulu,
conducted services for the United
States 1st Marine Division.
In the early afternoon, the
Catholic bishop Of Seoul, Paul
Ro, was to bless statue Of Our
Evening star., 1953-04-05
AIeck, the Gonder
In Love With Oil
Drum, Now on TV
By The Assoeioted Press

WACO. Tex, April 4.-Aleck.
the gander who's in love with an
oil drum, now is TV actor.
For three hours this week,
Aleck faced the cameras. The
film is to be telecast from New
York as an Easter feature.
Alexis story Of his devotion
to the oil drum was told a few
weeks ago. The romance started
seven years ago.
Alexis first wife. q goose, was
killed by q car. Owner William
Tell Hayes. jr.. cremated her
body In an oil drum Aleck hasn't
strayed from the drums side
since.
Mr.. Hayes puts some goslings
in the drum on its side. The
goslings waddle out, and-Mr
Hayes SayS-Aleck thinks his
wife has given him another
family.
This time the goslings wand
cred out through a hole cut in
the side of the drum by the Tv
cen. Made a better picture, they
| said.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Jews and Arabs He|p
Jerusalem Greeks
Transfer Holy Fire
By the Assoeioted Press

JERUSALEM, Israeli Section.
April Arab and Jew buried
differences today for the ancient
ceremony of transferring the
holy fire from the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre, in the Arab
Old City. to the Greek Ortho-
dox churches in the New City.
governed by the Israelis.
The handing-over of the holy
fire was carried out in mo mans
land" Mandelbaum Square, half
way between the Arab and Israeli
police posts at the borderline
that sewers the Holy City.
1t was a colorful. dignified
ceremony.
Archimandrite IgnatiuS of the
San Simeon Monastery, in the
Israeli section of the city. dressed
in black clerical robes and wear
ing cylindrical black hat, ad-
vanced slowly to the center of
the open square accompanied by
a blue-uniformed corporal of
Israeli police.
From the opposite. side came
Archimandrite Philomenos, with
a khaki-clad Arab Legionnaire
in a tall spiked helmet carrying
the holy flame in two glass in
closed Oil lamps.
Meet in Middle of Square.
They met in the middle Of the
square. Archimandrite Ignatius
made the sign of the cross, took
the lamps and carried them back
to the Israeli side. -
Waiting at the Israeli side of
the square were two patriarchal
Officials. They made the sign of
the cross as IgnatiuS approached,
kissed the archimandrite's hand
and took the lamps to waiting
motor cars flying the Greek
patriarchal flag.
4AAC AdAANO WC4C bk1C1l OI4vC11
off to LYDIA and Ramle, in
Israel, where the fire will kindle
eternal lights in the Churches
of Saint George. From there they
will be taken to Greek Orthodox
churches in Jaffa, Acre and
Nazareth.
Flame Kindled Yearly.
The fame is kindled yearly at
the tomb of Jesus on Easter Eve
and is used to light the lamps OF
Greek Orthodox churches in
Israel. They will burn till next
Easter.
Tomorrow, Easter Sunday,
about 500 members of the clergy
of all Sects of the Western and
Eastern churches will cross into
Arab Jerusalem from Israel at
the Mandelbaum gate to cele-
brate Easter high mass at the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
The ancient Jaffa gate in the
Old City will be opened especi-
ally for the consular corps OF
the Roman Catholic nations, who
will follow the traditional route
of the patriarchal procession.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
By the Associoted Press

SEOUL. Sunday, April S.
Men of war knelt on Korea's rag
ged hillsides and greeted today's
Easter dawn with prayers for
peace.
Throughout South Korea,
soldiers and airmen f1ocked to
sunrise services. They gathered
in the cathedrals of Seoul and
the churches of other cities, on
broad mountainsides and in tiny
valleys, in tents and in snug
bunkers. for the great renewal Of
faith. ........
This was an Easter of reborn
hope.
The great expectations grew
out of the furry of activity for
exchanging disabled prisoners of
war. That first move towards
armistice hinges on meeting to-
morrow of Allied and Communist
officers.
Message From Chaplain.
They grew too out of Red
China Premier Chou En-lai's
message that the last barrier to
Korean armistice-exchange of
other prisoners-could be lifted
now. The United Nations COM
mand eyed his proposal warily
but planned to test it fully.
The chief chaplain of the q. S.
Army, Maj. Gen. Ivan Bennett,
told an outdoor congregation at
the front:
Because Of our faith in Jesus
and because He lived, we can
face tragedies and disappoint-
ments of the present hour and
labor and suffer and make sac
rifices to achieve better world.
I'm the Resurrection we have
assurance that the power of evil
is broken. It is the destiny of
man that he can overcome evil. I"
Taylor Is Hopeful.
1t. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor
attended a sunrise service at the
Shrine of a Thousand Steps on
a Seoul mountainside. He told
his 9th Army troops in a mes
sage:
THE Easter season is the as
surance of the ultimate triumph
of freedom from slavery, of right
over wrong and of life over
death. AS I extend the greetings
of this holy season it is with the
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Only One City in Asia
100 Pet. Electrified

GANDHIDHAM, India.-ThiS
city Of 5000, only two years old.
boasts that it is the only COM
munity in Asia that is 100 per
cent electrified.
It consists Of Hindu refugees
from PakiStan. The name means
"Gandhi's town." in honor of the
late Mahatma Gandhi.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
81. Peter's S Thronged
As Pilgrims Await
Address by Pope
Rx the As,oeintad Press

VATICAN CITY, April A.
Thousands Of pilgrims from
many lands thronged st. Peters
baSilica today as pealing of
church bells Signalled the end of
Lent and the approach Of Easter
Sunday.
Pope Plus II will make his an
nual address Easter noon from
the central loggia of the basilica,
an address to be broadcast in Is
languages by the Vatican radio.
His message is expected to be
brief and to touch, as he has in
the past. on the prospects for
peace. He will conclude with
his blessing "urbi ct orbi'-to
the city and the world.
AS the bells rang at the end
Of a papal mass in st. Peters,
priests, robed in lacy caSSocks
and accompanied by altar boys
who carried pots of holy water,
began their annual pilgrimage
through the streets of Rome to
bless homes and business places.
Dutch Cleric OfIiciates.
The pontif1cal mass was cele-
brated by Dutch-born Msgr.
John SmitS, titular Bishop of
Paralo, who also gave the bless
ing Of fire in the atrium of the
basilica and the blessing of the
holy water founts.
When the founts had been
blessed, IL canonS of the basilica
passed through the throng,
sprinkling persons with the new
blessed water. This recalled an
cient Holy Saturday rites when
it was the custom to administer
baptism.
Pilgrims and tourists by the
thousands have been streaming
into Rome for the past several
days. They came from the
United States, Germany, France,
England, Belgium, Holland,
Switzerland and Ireland.
Firing Of Cart Succeeds.
In Florence, throngs in the
cathedral square watched the
traditional Holy Saturday "fir-
ing of the cart" In the cent
uries-old rite, a metal dove, pro-
PEELED by fireworks, is ignited
at the cathedral altar. It shoots
along on a wire attached to the
altar, through the cathedral
and out into the square. If all
goes well, it plunges into a cart
loaded with fireworks and flow
ers. touching off series of ex-
plosions.
Florentines consider the sue
cessful firing of the cart a good
luck sign, and it was successful
today. Glad cries went up and
the cathedral's bells rang.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Push-Button Freight Yurd

ROSEVILLE, Calf. GA
vast freight yard. with more than
Al miles of new track, has been
constructed by the Southern Pa.
cif1c here near the bsae Of the
Sierra Nevada. It is a push
button" classification yard, into
which freight cars move by grav-
ity under remote control. to be
assembled according to their
destinations.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Moscow Cathedral
OverfIows With
Easter Crowds

LONDON, April 4.-Mos-
cows Epiphany Cathedral
was packed tonight for Eas-
ter services, the Soviet radio
reported.
THE cathedral couldn't
accommodate the congrega-
tion," the announcement
said. Crowds were stand
ing within the precincts and
outside" 81 ss -
The services were con-
Quoted by Patriarch Alexius.
The broadcast said his Eas-
ter message Ito believers"
would be read in all Russian
churches tomorrow during
Easter services.
Evening star., 1953-04-05

Lady Of Fatin1a, made in Portu-
gal. for the 1st Marines.
The Greek battalion attended
an ancient ecclesiastical reSur-
rection mass of the Eastern ortho-
dox faith. It was celebrated in
a peak-lined valley. Later in
the morning, bearded Chaplain
Charlton Simeonides was to sing
another high mass outdoors.
Evening star., 1953-04-05
Puy Gap in Red Army

WASHINGTON.-A general in
the Soviet army gets 800 times as
much pay as an ordinary soldier.
In the United States Army, a
major general gets only 10 times
as much as the raweSt recruit.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-12
INAUGURATION SIDELTGHT

publican Inauguration committee has cooked
.raction for out-of-town guests coming to see
ton of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. The
in the form of an embassy tour, which will be
n Saturday, the 18th of January. At least
IS will be visited, and the toll will be Hve
funds going to the National Symphony Or
open to all corners and tickets can be pur-
eral Washington hotels
AcGarraghy. chairman of the inaugural COM
3 made the announcement, says he expects up
.llion visitors in Washington for the big epent.
les are being used in an effort to provide ac-
for the mass of visitors expected. More than
IS for rooms have already been received by
officials, over and above the normal requests
zone to hotels, and committee spokesman say
DIS to the number.
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City Cemetery

City Cemetery
Regular readers of this column
will remember that a while back
the disgraceful condition of the
City Cemetery was one its SUBJ
JectS. The column, with the aid
of Citizen photographer Ellis Finch,
showed in words and pictures the
evidence of this neglect. Now
comes the nicer side of the story.
Whether "This Rock of Ours"
had anything to do with it is negli-
gible but after publication of the
conditions in the cemetery, two
permanent men were assigned the
duty of cleaning up the entire area.
Their progress has necessarily been
slow because their work is
thorough.
Reggie Russell, sexton wasn't to
blame for conditions. He had his
hands full often working long
overtime hours without pay be-
cause of late funerals.
Let's continue the subject, only
this time on an unpleasant basis. g..
Logic alone must show most of
us that in fairness TO the City and
taxpayers, the burden of cleaning
privately owned lots cannot con-
tinue. Perhaps City Attorney Igna-
thus Lester could devise a system
where such cleaning could be
charged to the survivors of the
deceased. l doubt the practicable
part of this because there would
be confusing argument of what
brother, sister, son, or daughter.
etc. should be held responsible for
paying the bill. Moreover, there
are many lots whose families have
died out or moved away forever
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-12
EDERAL SCHOOL AID OUTLOOK

cts for federal aid to education tumbed bit
Of the Republican capture of the majority in
The new chairman of the Education-Labor
N the lower legislative body will be Samuel K.
Jr., 51-year-old Republican from Pennsyl-
onnell is not in favor of any federal grants to
md wants to see education handled as local
2foblem. He has already made it clear that he
lie on any effort to get federal-aid-to educa-
ough the House committee he heads.
ag chairman of the committee, Representative
arden of North Carolina, Democrat, tried un-
y to get some sort of federal aid to education
the House on one or two occasions but the
Ways died somewhere along the line Now that
~ favors no such program, chances are more
or any federal aid bill in the next two years.
. does favor a continuation of the program of
for schools in areas where government ac-
3ver-taXed facilities, and this aid is expected
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-12
THIS ROCK OF OURS
BY BILL GLIB

and are not interested in their
ancestors graves.
AS partial solution to the pro-
blem, it seems to me that the
City of XIV could hire a clerk who,
through the aid of existing plats,
could study the situation. He could
contact the owners of lots when
the latter needed cleaning and In
a frank but humble way, get the
job accomplished.
He could set up a tracing system
and write absentee owners of plots
in the cemetery = informing them
that they must have someone take
care of their grounds or condem.
nation proceedings would be in.
stituted for public health, safety,
or something similar. (ThiS point
would depend upon Mr.. Testers
legal opinion.)
Again, depending upon Attorney
Testers opinion, unregistered
graves and those of families long
since extinct, could be moved to
sector of the cemetery where
they would occupy a minimum
amount of space. 1t would be the
City's responsibility to care for
these graves. In this way, fresh
cemetery lots would be provided
for sale by the City and continual
need for expansion eased to a less.
er degree.
Think over the situation and
take a ride through our cemetery
to judge the need of some solu-
ton to the problem. A clerk who
accomplished the job efficiency
would be much cheaper than per-
manently hiring two laborers who
are needed for street repair and
other important work.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-12
TAFT DECIDES TO
TAKE ACTIVE PART
TN FOREIGN POLICY

A tentative COP lineup was re-
ported for another key committee,
armed services, which has a hand
In the foreign field.
Republicans were reported
agreed on adding Senators Mar
garet Chase Smith of Maine. Case
of South Dakota, Hendrickson of
New Jersey and Potter of Michi-
gan to the armed services group.
The committee will be headed
by Sen. Saltonstall of Massachu-
sets. COP holdovers are Senators
Bridges of New Hampshire, Know
land, and Flanders of Vermont
Sen. Morse of Oregon, who
broke with the COP during the
election campaign, has been a Re-
publican member of the armed
services committee. He says he
will fight to stay on it, but COP
leaders have reserved no place for
him. In his new Iole as an in
dependent, Morse evidently will be
moved to minor committees.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-12

common sense governmental phi
loSophy in the United States.
We need to concentrate our eff
forts upon improving the good
things that we have now, and using
our talents and energies to meet
ing our present problems, rather
than looking far over the horizons
and engaging in visionary expert
mentations.
The citizens of our state and
nation are looking to the Congress,
and the new national Administra-
ton, to make government operate
more smoothly, more efficiently,
and with less cost in taxes and
personal liberties.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-12
BY JACK BELL

WASHINGTON Up - Sen. Taft
(R-Ohio), essaying stronger role
has decided to take place on the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit.
tee and an active laid in shaping
foreign policy under the EiSen-
hover administration.
The Ohio senator, a1reaGy serv-
ing as COP floor leader, expects
to give up his high rank on the
tax-handllng Senate Finance Com
mittee to become fifth man in the
Republican line on foreign rela-
tons.
In that place, he will be in a
position along with other commit
tee members to get first-hand re-
ports from John Foster Dulles,
Eisenhower's secretary of state.
Appearing on an NBC television
program yesterday, Taft said he
wanted to switch from the finance
committee to foreign relations be-
cause foreign affairs are affected
by all but about 20 billion of the
1914 billion dollars President Tru-
man has proposed to spend in the
fiscal year starting July /,
The solution to every domestic
policy is linked to "the tremen-
douS burden of the expenditure for
war" Taft said.
He added that he believed he
would be in a position TO have
some influence with those handling
foreign policy in the COP admins
tration.
Those who know him we'll sew
Taft took the floor leadership place
primarily so he couu sll .n Oh
the formation Of the legislative
program before If reaches the &C
tual bllI-drafung stage
As a foreign relations member.
he would have the same intimate
knowledge Of the formation Of for
eign policies which require imple-
mentatloa 58 Con Erc>s, as most
Of them nov do
The Ohio senator. who has op-
posed many Of the Truman admin
Is.~ation moves in the foreign field
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-12
Smathers' Legislation Plans
Include Major Changes In Law

! and industry I have to securing
their enactment.
| also expect to be active in my
efforts to help form national policy
on other matters. Without surren-
derlng any progressive aspects of
our democratic government, this
Congress has a real mandate from
the people to establish solid and
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-01-12

WASHINGTON: The 83rd Con-
reSs is off to a traditional flying
start and there will be a furry
of excitement until the Committee
assignment are made and the
Senate organized. The new Re-
publican leadership, in taking over
committees, will have to organize
the professional stats, get COM
mittee and hearing rooms arrang-
ed, and make other necessary pre-
parations for the real work of Con-
greSs. 1t is expected to be at least
a month before any real work will
be done on legislation.
During the recent holidays l pre-
pared my own legislation program
which viii place emphasis on
three main detectives:
/. Reform of the nominating and
election system of the Federal
Government by Constitutional
Amendment.
2. undermining the taxation syS-
tenn with greater relief as
prime objective.
3. Stabilizing of political think
ing in a common sense" ap-
proach to national and inter-
national problems.
By the time you read this I will
have seven measures in the Con
gress and hold high expectations
of seeing some of these proposals
enacted into law. Of course these
matters mentioned will not be the
limit of my activities There are
many diversified questions always
arising in which | will be inter
eSted and will offer amendments,
debate and vote on.
Most of you by this time are
familiar with my proposals to:
| l. abolish the electoral college
system of electing the President
and Vice President, and to eStab-
liSh system under which the
electoral votes would be divided
among the candidates upon the
basis of the percentage of popular
votes received by each.
2. provide for selection of the
candidates of the major political
parties for President and Vice
President in general primaries.
3, provide for the holding Of
special elections to fill vacancies
in the office of President where
such vacancies occur at least 80
days prior to offyear congressional
elections
l also have a bill which if en-
acted would provide three days for
national elections. / have not yet
introduced this bill as I'm not en-
tirely sold on its worth, although
Bill Hearst who suggested it TO me
makes persuasive arguments for
it. (For instance. if a bad storm
hit Florida on election day. which
falls in the hurricane season" il
might be impossible for many vot-
ers to get to the pools or even
for polling to be opened
Some of the other measures
which we have introduced and hope
to see become law are:
A bill to permit the deduction
Of ordinary medical expenses
for Federal Income Tax pur-
poses
A bill 10 permit deductions from
gross income for Federal In
come Tax purposes Of certain
expenses incurred By mothers
in providing care for their
children while they are at
work.
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active serv.ce u the Arnel
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These are very important nea-
Slres n nv oplaa}a ard ! expect
10 give ese9 bar Of TIC energy
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