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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-02-10
|Pope's Health
Still Improves,
Vatican Says

VATICAN CITY R-The Vatican
again today reported improvement
in the condition of Pope Plus XII,
confined to his apartment for the
past 20 days with a serious stom.
ach ailment.
The Vatican press office said the
Pontiff now is able to take some
"Semiliquid nourishment orally
and also was able to walk about
his apartment yesterday.
Previously the Pope had Difficult.
ty retaining even liquids and had
been able to sit up only for a
short while daily.
The 77-year-old head of the Ro-
man Catholic Church has spent
most of the past three weeks in
bed, gravely weakened by a Stub
born gastric ailment that was &C
companied for much of that time
by persistent hiccupin.;. During the
past three days he repeatedly has
showed definite improvement.
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BOY SCOUTS TAKE

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suit when Plumbing Inspector Har.
ry Alsing took his replacement,
Gary Murphy, out on an acutal
construction job to check the pro.
gress of the plumbing.
The scouts were also treated to
a ride on the city's fire trucks and
toured the city hall to observe first
hand, the operation of the mum.
cipal government.
Captain Anthony Dropp, chair.
man of the Boy Scout Week was
in overall charge of yesterdays
activities. He was assisted by Car.
Teton Smith, Camping and Activi.
ties Chairman and Claude. Spears,
Organization and Extension Chair.
man.
The event is an annual affair in
Key West.
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Since being stopped by Kid Cav.
Ian, Davey has faded from the
limelight. His manager, Hec
Knowles, hopes to recapture some
of the glory with Black, a swarm.
ing type of fighter who has won
"a out of % bouts and scored IT
knockouts. Only once, however. has
the GAINESVILLE, Wis, youngster
gone 10 rounds. That was in de.
feating ring-worn Ike Williams.
Vejar, although only %. has a
big edge over Black in experience.
He has lost only four times in 50
pro starts and has won Il out Of
Is since being defeated in his last
go against Davey. That one loss
was to Vince MARITIME: after beat.
ing him in a first meeting. Vejar
has 20 Kos to his credit.
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Continued From I One)
cation to the State Leg. AZURE. He
was named the outs''a fresh.
man legislator in 1851 b. .ewsmen
lin Tallahassee and i, '.3 was
selected as among the ten outstand.
ing legislators.
Fascell commented that his leg
Iislative experience has taught him
to keep in close touch with the
district he represents and he pro-
missed that Key West and the Keys
would get their full share of repre-
sentation.
Conservation of South Florida
fisheries is also high on the list of
programs he advocates. He point
ed out that he has been active in
maintaining the states marine re-
search appropriations for the Uni
verslty of Miami's Southeastern
Fisheries Institute.
He commented that private in
dustry can afford to maintain only
limited program of research and
it is up to the government to aug
ment it.
Every encoura cement should
be given all phases of the fishing
lndustry-we need not only to pro-
tect the fisheries we have, but we
need to develop new ones" he
commented.
Fascel added that he is particu-
ariy interested in the future of
Key Vests defense establishment.
He also pointed out that he advo-
Gates an investigation of the Mon
roe County utility program on a
federal level.
Il have a firm faith in the de-
velopment of the keys and can fore
see a great economic future for
them," he concluded.
A resident of Kendall, in Dade
County, Fascell has been practic-
ing law In Miami since 1893. He is \
and the father Of two
children. !.
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TOP OFFICIAL VIII.

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Unit Sc, as we'll as free drinks. A
ten-piece band will provide the
music for those desiring to dance
!. or listen.
The Key West visit comes on the
last leg of long tour of Branches
within the Southeast District, Knic.
Kerbocker is head of the largest
Region of the Fleet Reserve AS.
ISOLATION extending from Florida
to Bermuda south to Trinidad
through the Virgin Islands. Cuba
and as far south as the Canal Zone
and Panama westward as far as
TexS.
The Regional head is just back
from an extensive tour during
which he visited practically all of
the outlying branches, under his
jurisdiction. The Fleet Reserve AS
ISOLATION itself has branches
throughout the world.
Kniekerboeker had a Iono and
distinguished career in The U. S.
Navy before he returned 10 civil.
ian life. He has been particularly
active IN the Fleet Reserve AS.
soeiation since 1881, and has held
numerous important positions at
practically all levels.
The Knickerbockers will arrive
In Key West by car from their st.
Cloud, Florida, home tomorrow
morning. They will be met at the
Fleet Reserve Home, and during
the afternoon they will make a
tour of Key West. They will leave
for a Miami commitment on Fri
day. While in this city they will
stay at the LaConcha Hotel.
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Vejar, Black Fight Tonight

CHICAGO Up - welterweights
Chicago Vejar and Jed Black. a
pair of former university students,
tear into each other tonight in a
nationally televiSed hereunder al
Chicago Stadium.
Vejar, Stamford, Conn, battler
who attended New York Univer-
sity, now is an Army corporal sta
toned at Fl. Benning, Ga.
He is expected to be a 81 ia
vorite by fight time at 10 pm,
EST.
Black, %, and who is making
his first main event TV start,
gained top recognition in collegi-
ate boxing ranks while at Michi-
gan State. He once was NCAA
welterweight king. He is a stable
mate of Chuck Davey, who twice
in 1852 beat Vejar.
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TRUMAN TO CONFER

COLUMBIA, Mo. R-Former
President Harry S. Truman
planned to meet with University OF
Missouri officials today to discuss
the possibility of housing his pri.
vate papers at the university.
He said at Kansas City last night
the university arranged the meet.
ing and he was coming here "sim-
ply to see what they have to say"
Truman said his visit here had
no connection with reports that he
might become president of the
school.
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REBEL TROOPS IN
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royal doorstep, then withdrew with.
out trying an assault.
But the French conceded that
even if the Vietminh did not follow
through on their current threat,
they already had forced the
French-Laotian forces to withdraw
from the northern part of the king.
dom and had immobilized several
battalions in Luang Prabang.
The Vietminh advance troops
were reported at PAX Hou, IL miles
north of the capital, and at PAX
Suong, six miles to the northeast.
There were reports also that
rebel troops had taken to the Hou
River, which flows into the Mekong
north of Luang Prabang. The
French said RATS had been seen
OH the Hou but that bad weather
for the past three days had kept
the French air force from obsery.
ing the river traffic closely.
Elsewhere in Indochina:
The French for the first time
announced that los American Air
Force technicians and mechanics
had arrived a week ago at the
north lndochina port of Haiphong
to help maintain U.S. furnished
planes "for civilian cargoes."
These presumably were in add.
ton to lbs Air Force technicians
previously reported in Indochina to
aid the French. In all, 200 more
Americans were expected for this
work.
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Business And
Pleasure Mix
.AtCof Clubs

ATLANTA 1.-THE American
country club can mix Is holes OF
golf with talk about par and par
values and produce a fiuctuation
on the stock market.
Anyway, that's what the nation
club managers are claiming.
They say the turnStiles of Amer.
lean economics are clicking in the
locker rooms and lounges more
than in the oak-paneled retreats
Of corporation directors.
The Club Managers Assn. OF
America, in annual convention
here, reports rising popularity OF
clubs throughout the country
yacht clubs. horseback clubs, coun-
try clubs, downtown athletic clubs.
skiing clubs, water skiing clubs.
The public, concluded the man
ayers, is learning how to relax
and enjoy life-but also is com.
bining business with pleasure.
The idea is that a few good
Wednesday afternoon rubbers OF
bridge among business titans can
be stimulus to real estate sales,
cotton futures or the rutabaga
market.
There's more business trans
acted at our place than anywhere
else in town." ventures Alice L.
Nelson, attractive manager of a
traditional Omaha club which is
restricted to men.
Louise K. Buell. of Chicago thinks
she has collected enough informa-
ton about business while man.
aging her all-male club to upset the
entire baking industry. She runs
the Bakers Club of Chicago.
81 know all the secrets" she
says.
This nationwide preoccupation of
clubbers with business pursuits has
been accompanied by another tend
too.
More than ever before, say the
club managers, the little woman
has come right out of her kitchen
and Sauntered away to the golf
links and into club precincts once
sacred to the male.
Thus, modern man can have his
meals with his wife, do a days
work, and caper that night at a
1inner-dance-all without leaving
The club. Or going home either.
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Six Tell
Codfrey's
Bad Takeoff

WASHINGTON R-Six persons
have testified they heard Arthur
Godfrey talk back to the Teter-
bOro, NJ, airport control tower
after narrowly missing the tower
last Jan. 7.
All six agreed that when the
tower controller asked Godfrey by
radio if he had had mechanical
trouble, the radio-televiSion per-
sonality replied:
mo, that's normal takeoff for
Teterboro."
The Civil Aeronautics Admins.
tration (CAA) asked the Civil
Aeronautics Board (CAB) yeSter-
day to suspend Godfrey's pilot GER
tificate for at least 80 days, or
until Godfrey obtains an appro.
pirate medical certificate issued by
the administrator"
S. W. Bobskill, CAA regional at.
torney, said the CAA gave "due
consideration, as mitigating fac
tor" to Godfrey'S past good flying
record. Nevertheless, he said, the
public interest requires mo less
action than that"
The CAA contends that Godfrey.
annoyed because he had been de-
MED permission to take off on the
runway of his choice, deliberately
"buzZed" the tower with his twin
engine DC3. 1t charged that God
frey thus endangered the tower &C.
cupantS and the occupants of three
airplaneS waiting to take off. The
complaint said Godfrey missed the
waiting planes by only 20 to 80
feet.
Godfrey has blamed a gusty
cross wind for driving his plane
off course.
Of this, the CAA said there were
gusts up to so miles an hour which
might have caused the plane to
Swerve before it got into the air,
but it added:
There is no authority, however,
that such a wind could have
caused the change in the aircraft
bearing once it was airborne."
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JUDGE GIBSON WILL

Continued From Page One)
Director, State Department of Pub.
lie Welfare; Mrs. Sylvia Carothers,
Executive Secretary of the Florida
Children's Commission; Bob Gates,
ConSultant, for the State Depart
ment of Education's program for
exceptional children and Broward
County Juvenile Judge, Dorr S.
Davis.
North Miami Police Chief. Carl
Engle, president of the Florida Po-
lice Chief Association and John
Mccormick, counselor to the Lake
County Juvenile Court will also
participate.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-02-10
By Gayle Talbot

had how they ever teach show dogs
TO stand with their hind legs
stretched out behind them like they
were looking for fight. the answer
is that they don't. At least, not the
ones We saw. What happens is that
the handler squatS beside his ami
NAL and keeps yanking his legs
back every few moments as he
sees the judge coming. Most of
the heightened dogs did not appear
10 like this any better than the one
in our house does.
If it is possible after only one
session to generalize about hand.
lers, we would suggest that anyone
thinking of entering his pet in fast
company should get himself in fair
ly good shape too. Al a certain
point the judge is going to ask
each pair-dog and master-to take
couple of fast turns around the
ring, and 20 or so pounds of extra
Suet on the latter can be q handi.
cap.
We saw two lady handlers finish
this ordeal in bad shape. their
breath coming in gasps that could
be heard. While the Judge almost
certainly is not supposed 10 take
this into account. We could not help
noticing that in each case first
prize went TO dog whose handler
looked like he could run all day
In between studying the finer
points of judging and handling. We
managed TO learn a thing or two
about dogs in general that misht
be news TO some. Probably the
biggest piece of dog news is that
the beagle now is the most popular
dog in this country. having passed
the cocker spaniel, the previous
Ititleholder, during the past year.
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ECONOMY OF SOUTH
(C0tinued from rage Onel

sippi, tennessee, Alabama, Geor-
gia, Fbrida and North Carolina.
In Tnnessee, about 5000 inter-
state taims are on file, double
last yer's total.
Aaoma: interstate claims up
to 2,SS for January, 100 per cent
over tie previous four-month per-
iod.
Geopia: a steady increase of
claimsover the past five months,
rangini from no in September to
1873 l January.
Florsa: January claims 1855,
about 900 more than for the same
periodin 1858.
Mort Carolina: 2,746 new inter-
state .laims in January. a 81 4
per Get increase over 1858.
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Sports
Roundup

NEW YORK IA maiden yisj,
to a firSt-claSS dog show such as
that of the Westminster Kennel
Club. which annually takes over
Madison Square Garden for two
days of blue-blooded yappine car
be both interesting and rewardins
if one keeps his ears and ewes
open and doesn't get into any argu.
mentS about dogs.
In the first place, it is quite a
sight just to see the floor of the
Garden around the judging rings
packed with persons from MANY
states, with the overflow extending
high into the balconies, and 10
realize that every last one of them
lis there because he thinks that dog
us mans best friend. II is a more
sober, tense gathering than one
sees at the horse show.
Tightly clutched in most fists is
"a copy of the official program.
which retails at $3.50. without pic.
lures. Most of those sitting or
standing six deep around the rings
have their copies opened at the
right page and spend their time
studying the small type with the
same rapt absorption seen on a
race track special out of Penn Sta.
ton.
Except for the murmur of voices.
it is a quiet gathering. The dogs.
one assumes, have been taught TO
keep their yapS shut while they are
being picked over by the Judges
Now and then a brief Splatter of
applause is heard when a blue
ribbon is awarded. This comes en-
tirely from the spectators. as the
defeated dogs and their handlers
only stare straight ahead, coldly.
If you've ever wondered, as we
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Just A Dummy

BUFFALO, N. Y. R-Two men
carried five-foot-long object
wrapped in white sheet INTO the
lobby of the United States Court
house yesterday.
Spectators gasped when they
saw blonde hair protruding from
one end of the bundle.
The men waited quietly for an
elevator. Then they rode up to the
office of the FBI.
A body? No, said the FBI. A
department store mannequin used
in a police training course.
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AtOmic-Driven
Locomotive Has
Been Developed

SALT LAKE CITY R-An atom
ic locomotive that would run for
a year on only Is pounds of uran-
ium will be described today to
railroad and manufacturing repre-
Sentatives by a University of Utah
nuclear scientist.
The scientist, DR.. Lyle B. Borst,
yesterday made public plans for
what could be the worlds first
atomic-driven locomotive. He said
the plans were developed during
his advance physics course at the
university.
Today he will outline the plans
70 representatives of the five rail-
roads and nine industrial concerns
which cooperated with the project.
At press conference yesterday,
he said the locomotive would be
driven with Steam-produced cleo
tricity and would cost an estimated
81, 200 900. 1t would look much the
same as the diesel locomotives now
In use and would develop 1000
horsepower.
The scientist said the engine
could run for q year on approx
mately Is pounds of uranium. He
said that even if the uranium cost
$1,000 a pound the fuel expendi-
ture per year for the locomotive
would be about $3.50, 600, compared
with the present $4,000 that is
spent annually on diesel develop
ing the same horsepower.
He said he did not know the cost
Of uranium but said = recent pub
hshed report estimated it at around
5000 a pound.
He emphasized that the project
was still in the classroom stage
but predicted that I'VE will have
atomic locomotives before we have
atomically produced electric ener-
Gr on an industrial scale"
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5000 Children
Stage A Second
.Casparilla March

TAMPA R-Another GaspariIla
parade, this time by 5000 children,
entertained thousands of visitors
today.
The So floats were all made by
chlldren's organizations, schools,
clubs and churches. ALI were
pulled by older children them
selves. The parade had a circus
theme.
Just like the adult Gasparilla
pirates Monday, the youngsters
march through downtown Tampa,
out to the State Fairgrounds and
received the keys to the city at
the grandstand there.
Budd Porter Jr., 16, q Jackson
vile high school youth, won the
first statewide safe driving con-
test sponsored by the Florida High
way Patrol for teen-age drivers.
The finals, with IL district win
ners competing, were held in front
OF the grand stand. The test in
GUIDED parallel parking, backing
into a small space and following
"a zlgzag course, in addition to a
written examination given earlier.
Porter won 1854 Pontiac sedan.
They had to share billing with
Acting Gov. Charley Johns who
sad ne realized citrus men are
worried about the slump in prices
OF oranges and grapefruit.
The decline and rumors that
prices are being rugged have given
me much concern" he told 400
business, civic and political lead
ers of the area.
We cannot afford to let prices
crop. hope that they (the inves-
ugators) uncover something and
get the price back where they be-
long"
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'Stenllis Raps
Sending Airmen
To IndOchina
BY EDWIN q. HAAKlNsoN

WASHINGTON R-Sen. Stennis
(D-Miss) commended today the Eli
senhower administration violated a
pledge by sending 200 Air Force
mechanics into Indochina before
consulting key congressman.
Stennis, a member of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, said
in an interview he favors immedi-
ate recall of the u. S. mechanics
as a move to avoid possible direct
involvement in the long anti-Com-
munist war there.
Declaring that I'm no isolation
ist," he said he believes a major
ity of the Senate Armed Services
Committee opposed sending the
mechanics into Indochina. He add
ed he favors increased American
aid in money and equipment.
Sen. Byrd DIVA, in a separate
interview, called it risky step"
to send the mechanics. He, too,
said members of the Armed Serv-
ices Committee were not informed
in advance, and that they. were
told of the plan by Adm. Arthur
w. Radford, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, at a secret session
last Friday.
That followed publication of
newspaper accounts saying 125 or
more technicianS had been sent.
Byrd said the next steps would
be requests by the French for US.
pilots and ground forces in Indo-
china, adding he would oppose
that. Secretary of Defense Wilson
told a news conference yesterday
the fighting is going satisfactorily,
and that he sees no need to step
up American aid.
Sen. George (D-Ga) of the For
eign Relations Committee said he
doubts it was a wise move" to
send in the mechanics. He agreed
States should send fighting forces
into Indochina, Red China prob
ably would send in forces as it
did in Korea.
Wilson said yesterday that I'M
less the Red Chinese intervene on
a mass scale; or some similar new
factor enters the picture, he thinks
chances are good for a military
victory in the eight-year war.
Republican Leader Knowland of |
California told the Senate Monday |
night the Eisenhower administra-
ton had no desire or intention of
sending combat forces into Indo-
china.
Stennis told the Senate yesterday
that Radford'S report to the Armed
Services Committee caused cal
most unanimous alarm and grave
concern" among senators pres
ent.
Sen. SaltonStall (R-Mass), the
committee chairman, said he first
learned of the plan in newspapers,
and he added:
II was disturbed when I read
that 200 uniformed mechanics of
BUR Air Force were to be sent"
SaltonStall said he had been as.
sured by Wilson that we will be
out of Indochina by June r."
If the American people want to
get involved in the Indochina war
that is all right, Stennis said, add.
ing:
But I do not want to see them
committed step by step, so that
eventually they will have no choice
but will be compelled to 60 in i;
step by step, We are leading
10 a situation in which we may Il
have no choice except to go in
there with ground troops"
No Republican replied to Stennis
On the Senate floor.
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PRISON TERM SET

NEW YORK IA Chinese res.
taurant worker who killed his girl
friend last October and then cut
up her body has been given pris-
on sentence of from ia to 20 years
for manslaughter.
james Lew, "a, had pleaded
guilty to the charge last December.
Police said Lew stabbed the
white voman-who used the name
Kay Gibson but was known as
Floren@ Pearl Gibbon in her
home bwn of Worcester, Mass
after ae slapped his face in an
argumnt over another man.
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losses throughout the list were
confined to minor fractions.
Steels and motors we're lower
along with the chemicals. The rub.
berS were higher, and oils were
steady.
Among higher stocks were New
York Central, Santa Fe, Goodyear.
Boeing, and Douglas Aircraft.
Lower were US. Steel, General
Motors, National Distillers, Anieri.
can Telephone, Kennecott Copper.
and American Cyanamid.
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TODAY'S
STOCK MARKET

NEW YORK, Up - The stock
market moved along a narrow
path today with the aircrafts and
railroads higher.
Neither of these divisions extend
ed their gains very much, and
with few exceptions gains and