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The Key West citizen., 1954-12-22
Mrs. Hodges
Fights For Her
MeteOrite
BY JAMES sPorsWoop

SYLACAUGA, Ala. R-Twenty.
two days ago Mrs. Hulitt Hodges,
a plump, pleasant-faced matron of
81, lay down to take a little nap.
In the back of her mind was
a tumble of plans-visiting friends,
getting ready for Christmas, house
hold duties. But they could wait.
She had a cold and needed rest.
She dozed.
Then there was a numerous
crash. She felt a violent blow on
her left arm and hip. Sunlight
shone through a hole in the CELL
ing. A rough-edged black crock"
lay near her.
She had been struck by a frag-
ment OF shooting star which had
hurtled to the earth from outer
space. Scientists said she was the
first person in recorded history
known to be hit by a meteorite.
She still has to spend part of
each day in bed because of the
severe bruises she suffered. She
has nightmares, in which sit seems
like I hear the sound"
She and her husband moved out
OF their comfortable frame resi-
dence to a smaller house after
her landlady Mrs. Birdie Guy filed
suit for the meteorite, for which
more than $1,000 has been offered.
Mrs. Guys lawyer said the Su-
preme Court has held that a
meteorite belongs to the owner of
the property on which it falls.
1.-THE meteorite is personal prop
erty," argues Atty. Huel M. Love
for Mrs. Hodges. 1T didn't come
to rest on Mrs. Guys property
it came to rest on Mrs. Hodges
and on her studio COUCH
Both the Smithsonian Institution
and Alabama State Museum at
the University of Alabama want
the fragment, but the Smithsonian
says the meteorite itself isn't worth
$500.
"Suing is the only way she'll
ever get it," said Mrs. Hodges of
Mrs. Guys suit. II feel like the
meteorite is mine. I think God in
tended it for me. After all, it hit
me-"
The meteorite is in care of her
lawyer now.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-22
Young Robinson
Wins Out Against
Robbery Charge

SANTA MONICA, Calf. R- A
robbery case against Edward G
Robinson Jr., ,21, son of the actor
has been dismissed.
He had been tried in November
but the jury disagreed, standing
Ill for acquittal. Retrial had beer
scheduled for Feb. IA but yester
day the prosecution recommended
dismissal.
Superior Judge Allen r. Lynch
commented that "since the prose
cution has no more evidence il
would be extremely difficult tc
convince another jury beyond &
reasonable doubt as to the defend.
ants guilt"
Robinson was charged with rob
blng two taxicab drivers on two
nights last July of a total of $3S
They identified him but he claimed
it was mistaken identity. He testi
fed, with corroboration from hi:
wife Frances and friends that hi
was at a movie one night anc
baby-sitting with his daughter
Francesca the other night.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-22
Clothing Fire
Injuries Two Men
In n. ]. Factory

ELIZABETH, N. J. R-Scream-
ing wildly, two men with clothing
atire rushed out of the Army Steel
Construction Co. plant into shop
ping crowds last night. Police and
pedestrians grabbed til em m and
snuffed out the flames with coats
and a rug.
The men, John Valiga, 80, and
Edward Lied, %, were listed in
fair or critical condition at Eliza
beth General Hospital.
Their clothes had become soaked
with a turpentine derivative while
they were removing paint from
steel plates. Lied's clothing burst
into flames when he went to an
oil stove, and Valiga's clothes
caught fire as he tried to help
Lied. The plant was undamaged.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-22
AID FOR SANTA

LOUISVILLE, Ky. R-For the
third straight year, the Welfare
Department has received from an
ANONYMOUS Santa Claus five crisp
$50 bills to be given to the five
neediest families in the city.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-22
Story About
.Apaches Heads
|Drive-In Bill

The momentous days when the
whole Southwest trembled under
the impact of 20, 900 Apaches sweep
ing down the vengeance trail are
thrillingly re-created on the screen
in Columbia Pictures Conquest Of
Cochise," opening Thursday at the
Island Theatre.
John Kodiak, in the title role as
the great Apache warrior, stars
with Robert Stack and Joy Page.
In Conquest of Cochise," short
ly after the war between Mexico
and the U. S., the border areas
are ravaged by raiding Apaches
and Comanches. Eventually, Co.
ehise, the great Apache chief,
comes forward to make his peace
with the white man, symbolized to
him by Major Burke, U. S. Cav
airy officer. But the war drums
throb once again when Cochise
kills a Comanche chieftain raid
ing a Mexican ranch. Further fuel
is added to the fires when Ccchise's
wife is killed and the fleeing MUIR
derer leaves an American rifle.
The major, given four days to
prove that an American was not
responsible for the murder of Co.
chise's wife, produces the evidence
in time, but the ComancheS i'm
patiently brush the restraining
Cochise aside and condemn him to
death at the tourture stake.
Companion feature for the show
ing 1.-The Conquest of Cochise" will
be Paramount's "A Place in the
Sum-"
This forceful and arreSting
screenplay stars Montgomery Cliff,
Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Win
ters.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-22
CROWD BURNS OFFICE

SAC JOAO DA BOA VISTA,
Brazil RAThe office and substa-
ton of a local power company
we're burned by a crowd of 1000
persons in protest over power
shortages.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-22
Fliers Ride Radar Fence

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah
R-Like cowboys riding fence, a
team of fliers here goes out al
most daily to check the invisible
radar fence that helps guard the
United States against air attack.
The mission of the 4677th Radar
Evaulation Flight was disclosed in
Washington Tesday by the Air
Force. The unit has been stationed
at Hill AFB, near Ogden, for about
a year. There are only two others
like it in the country-one at Ham
ilton AFB, Calf, and one at Grif-
fis AFB, N. Y.
Maj. James A. Gerwick. a big,
ruddy-cheeked man, is the Hill
units commander.
Describing his job, he searches
for precise terms.
81 think the best way to ex-
press it," he said, "is that we
Try 10 determine radar c0Verage.
We need to know just how much
territory our radar network takes
in"
To do this job, Gerwick has nine
airplanes in his flight-seven B29s,
one BIS and one CAT.
His men ride fence" for the
Central Air Defense Area, which
includes % states in the middle
of the country and stretches from
Mexico to Canada.
The radar testers fly around the
clock, winter and summer, going
out beyond the border and then
swinging back through the network.
Ordinarily the pilot doesn't know
whether he has been spotted by
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-22
Military To Prune Many From Roster
BY c. YATES Mcdaniel

WASHINGTON R-The military
services have been told to start
pruning 5000 from their present
overall strength to reach the g.
SIS, ,00O-man level the administra-
ton thinks is about right for the
current cold war.
In disclosing a manpower cut
back program Monday, Secre'
tary of Defense Wilson said it will
be accompanied by so per cent
slash in draft calls starting in
February, when the announced
quota of 10000 is to be dropped to
10000 or IL 900. Quotas have been
running about 10000 for many
months.
Wilson said an improved situa-
ton in the Far East and "better
opportunities for peace" every
where entered into President Ell
senhoWer's decision to trim the
services.
Only the Air Force, which will
continue its gradual buildup to
e75, 900 men in the next IS months
escapes the trimming.
In the same pertod-that is, by
June 30, 1956-the Army will drop
Is per cent of its current strength
to level off at an even one million
The Navy is down for a per cent
cut from present strength to reach
ESQ, 900 and the Marine Corps will
drop IA per cent to 100, 200. Overall
strength for all services last month
was 3,218,OOO.
There was no immediate reac.
ton from members of Congress,
but the decision seemed likay to
stir some controversy. A number
o. Democrats have complained
that the nations military might
is already dangerously weak.
The reduction spelled out by
Wilson both revived and speeded
up by a full year a program SET
aside by the Pentagon only last
year because of the crisis in Indo.
china and a threatening situation
around Formosa.
The Army, Navy and Marine
Corps will lose by next June
1O7, 900 uniformed people they have
money to maintain under the cur.
rent budget. They will have to drop
an additional 10000 in the II
months starting next July.
The new program calls for the
early return home from Korea o1
the 1st Marine Division and the
eventual move of one regiment oi
the 3rd Marine Division from ia.
pan. Some of the slack will be
taken up temporarily by the shift
of an Army division, one of two
now in Japan, to Korea. The net
result of these moves will be to
leave the equivalent of four Amer.
lean divisions in the two Far East
nations. The Army will continue
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-22

radar until he returns to base. BY
checking his known course and po-
sition against radar spottingS made
at the same time, Air Force Of
fIcers can tell whether the radar
tester has been picked up.
Sometimes Gerwick sends up
planes unannounced. ''Then we try
TO come in as an unknown" he
said. when we do, interceptors
investigate us Immediately"
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-22
Maybe Get
Donkey For Xmas

ATLANTA R - That bray you
hear Christmas morning may be
present.
r. G.. West, general agent of the
Railway Express Agency nj At
lanta, reported today he had six
Mexican purros waiting to be de-
livered as Christmas presents.
He said they were enroute from
Western states to points in Geor-
gia and other Atlantic Coast states
and that others already had been
delivered.
Several carried messages on
tsgs, such as:
Here's that jackass l prom
ised you. Merry Christmas.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-22
Tiny Twin Born
To Injured Woman
Dies In Calf.

LOS ANGELES Up - Tiny twin
girls were born yesterday to a
mother who remained unconscious
from a bullet wound in the head.
The smaller infant died four hours
later.
General Hospital physicians Of
fered little hope that the larger
one would survive. She weighed
3 pounds 8 ounces, only 2 ounces
more than her sister.
The mo her, Mrs. Jayarre
Spaulding. %, was found shot in
her apartment last Monday. Police
said she apparently had attempted
suicide. Her condition remained
critical.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-22

From four to eight per cent O,
human beings are left handed.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-22
False Advertising
Caused His Woes

BALTIMORE RLThe youthful
looking lonely hearts club photo
graph advertised the. husband
seeker as 5-feet-4 and 11S pounds.
But when he met the woman,
62-year-old Herbert Jackson testi-
fled before a Circuit Court exam
iner yesterday, "she was about $50
pounds and is over six feet tall. "
Jackson was awarded an abso-
lutte divorce from Bonnie Jackson.
81, after telling how his wife shot
at him, scalded him and said he
didn't appreciate a fat woman. u
The local steel worker said he
knew he twas stuck bad" but he
went through with the wedding.
she was too much for me-" he
added.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-22
She Just Wasn't
A Very Good Wife

BALTIMORE tR R- Edward R
Miller won a divorce here yester-
day after testifying he lost 80
pounds during Is months of mar
ried life. The 26-year-old ware
houseman attributed the weight
loss to his wife's failure to cook
his meals and to his having to
walk the streets at night while a
girl friend of his wife occupied his
half of the bed.
He said he's down to $50 pounds.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-22
Long Research
Goes Into
Making Film

Hollywood'S greatest production
wonder will always be the actual
putting onto film the product of a
scriptwriter's imagination turning
words and ideas into concrete, vi
sible reality.
Tbs is how it was done for one
Of the more spectacular battle
scenes in Columbia Pictures 1.-The
Black Knight" Alan Ladd's first
great spectacle adventure in color
by Technicolor at the Strand Thea
tre Thursday.
High on a hilltop, art director
Vetchinsky had constructed a grey
stone Druid's Temple. Here a Sar-
acen knight brings as captive,
Ladd's co-star, Patricia Medina,
and some captured monks, to be
sacrificed by the Druids to their
gods. While attendant maidens
dance around the stones, and the
Drulds and Saracens carouse, Pa
tricia is tied to the sacrificial
stone and the monks swing in wick
er baskets over bonfires.
The fires are lighted, and flames
leap up as Alan Ladd, the Black
Knight, rides in to the rescue, fol-
lowed by King Arthur and his
knights of the Round Table. re.
splendent in blue tabards and gold
armor. their horses in blue.
A team of top stunt men sur
round Ladd in thick of the fight
dying. riding and falling from rear.
ing horses, while others are roast
Ang in the wicker baskets over the
bonfires. In one almost too realistic
take, the basket in whcich one
stunt man swung caught fire and
his monks robe began to smolder
For mass hourse-riding scenes q
unit of cavalry, some 10 strons
was used. These men are crack rid.
ers, with horses in the pink oi
condition.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-22
US. Diplomats Worry About
Cuts In W. European Armies
By JOHN ScALl

WASHINGTON H-Top Ameri-
can diplomatic officials were re-
ported concerned today that West
ern European governments even
tually may follow the United
States example and cut the size
of their armies.
Any sizable European manpower
reductions, it was felt, would up.
set North Atlantic Treaty defense
plans for smashing possible Rus
sian invasion Of the West "at the
threshold" as Secretary of State
Dulles put it at his news confer
ence yesterday.
Dulles said the United States has
no present intentions of pulling out
its six divisions now in Europe
even though this country has plans
to cut its armed manpower. And,
he said, it would be inconsistent
and unfortunate if European ma
tions also reduced their armed
forces.
He said that Western Europe,
with its vast industries and skilled
labor, is such a prize that an ag-
gressor might gamble on a light
ming grab of this area, risking a
heavy retaliatory blow. That, he
said, is why larged armed forces
must be ready in Europe.
The defense of the Orient rep
resents a different problem, he
said. There the chief peril is from
Red subversion and the military
need is for fast-striking mobile
forces rather than big standing
armies.
In q formal statement, Dulles
said nuclear weapons will be in
troduced gradually in North At
antic Treaty Organization defense
preparations. He said the 14-na-
tion decision to lean heavily on
nuclear power "shows for the first
time the means of developing q
forward strategy which could be
relied on to protect Western Eu.
rope from invasion.
"As that capability is de-
veloped," he continued, 1T will
surely constitute the strongest de-
terrent against military aggres-
Sion."
Informed officials told a news
man Defense and State department
leaders do not believe there is
much danger European allies will
cut, back their armies in 1855.
They noted that at the 14.nation
North Atlantic treaty meeting in
Paris last weekend, all European
members agreed to maintain their
present armed forces in the next
IL months and to concentrate on
sharpening their combat effective
ness. But these officials expressed
concern about future years.
European public pressure for de-
tense cuts undoubtedly will mount
during the next year, they fear,
especially now that the U. S. De-
fense Department has disclosed
plans to cut American manpower
by 100000 in the next 1S months.
Dulles said the United States
actually will wind up stronger de-
spite the manpower reductions be.
cause of development of more
powerful weapons.
"The reductions are not due Il
the fact that we consider that the
threat has diminished" he said,
but merely due to the fact that
we think that we have other ways
to cope with that threat"
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-22

to keep the equivalent of six divi-
sions in Europe.
The Army will decide whether
it can maintain its division total,
now 10, under the cutback. Wilson
said the Navy might have to lay
up a few ships and man the re.
naming ones with fewer men.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-05-21

were against the British ~. The
Americans The Zionists :.
and they do not like us either ="
Gus" is the Christian Arabs,
many of whom are Greek Or
thodox and Catholic There are
a few Protestant
II was a teacher for three
months in an Arab school," Musah
told me :. "After that I left, for
1 felt that they did not particular
ly like me" Because of my re-
lgion
I asked Musah what opportun-
ity there was for higher learning
in the Arab countries He said
that other than the American or
French schools there is no uni
versity
wanted to know if there was
any way short of revolution in
the Arab countries by which the
plight of the poor Arabs could be
alleviated ;. He said he did not
think so ;.
Was there any organization a.
mong Arabs which could be COM
pared to the United Jewi is h
Appeal which sought to alleviate
the plight of their poor overseas?
He said there was no such
organized attempt; however, To-
cally the Arab faFilies do send
clothing and some money to their
people -.
Did the Betah family still have
any contact with Israel?
Musah revealed that they still
owned five beautiful homes in
Ramallah for which they still re-
ceive rentals However, their
orange groves which are on the
highway between Tel Aviv and
Haifa are in Jewish hands .
The family has asked the Israel
government for restitution, but
has had no word to date :.
It seems that in their flight
from Palestine which was spiked
by war talk and fear of what
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knowingly was doing its share in
making my forthcoming trip to
Israel good copy
In the course of conversation
Musah revealed that there are
now IS Arab families now living
in Jacksonville who formerly
made their home in Jaffa (now
Israeli and Ramallah, which is in
Jordon They have migrated
to the United States in the past
six years for what he termed
security" reasons
Constantine Betah had made
several trips to this country prior
to his settling here permanently
five years ago Like other OF
his kinsman he came first and
sent for his family later The
IS families which Musa mention
ed are all related in some manner
Musa, himself, came when he
did to escape drafting by the army
of Jordon during the Israel War
He was a student at the American
University in Beirut, and was
studying pharmacy +.
"How did you then feel about
the Zionists?" I asked him
He said he had not heard much
about them The creation O.
the Jewish state did not concern
him too much
"You see," he said, "the op
position to this idea comes mostly
from the Mohammedans +. They
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might happen, the family had left
without making sale of the groves,
consequently the neighbors took
over the management of the pro-
perty 4.
promised Musah would look
over the orange groves when I
went to Israel ).
"You will love it over there"
He said with a soft light coming
into his eyes 49,.
And although Musah called the
land over there palestine" and
I called it 'IsraeI' think l under
stood completely -.
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course, Jews MuSah knows
Jews very well He went to
high school with them in Jerus-
alem :. It was Catholic school
- Terra Santa" was its name,
and Musah told me that in Jerus-
alem "some of his best friends
were Jews"
From there on my interview
with Musah was most cordial
I felt that I was on familiar ter
ritory it was inevitable that
find out more about this Pal
estinian Arab family which un-
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LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE COUNTY JUDGES COURT,
IN AND FOR DUVAL COUNTY,
FLORIDA

File No. 21454-D
IN RE: ESTATE OF
Samuel p. Pink0Son,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
To all creditors and all persons having
claims or demands against said estate.
You, and each of you. are hereby
notified and required to present any
claims and demands which you, or
either of you, may have against the
estate of Samuel p. PinkoSon deceased,
late Of Duval County. Florida, to the
Hon. Mckinney J. Davis. County Judge
of Duval County, at his office in the
County Courthouse in Jacksonville,
Duval County, Florida, within eight
months from the date Of the first
publication Of this notice.
Each claim or demand must be In
writing and must state the place Of
residence and post.office address Of
the claimant and must be sworn to by
the claimant, his agent, or his attorney,
or it will become void according to
law.
Dated April 20. A. D. 1854.
M. w. GOLDSTEIN
AS Executor Of the Last VIII
and Testament of Samuel p.
PinkoSon, Deceased.
GOldStein & GoldStein
0l4 Florida Title Bldg.
Jacksonville 2, Florida
Attorneys
First publication on April 80.
April so May 7-14-21-1954.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1954-05-21
BY Ethel Teddy" Moscovi4z

Did someone say: cts small world?''
When you go into drug store in
Jacksonville for supplies for trip to
Israel and discover the proprietor is an
Arab whose home in Palestine was not
far from where your brother now lives
in Israel, it is very easy to believe that
it is a very small world . +. and one
full of coincidence -.
Musah Batch and his father, Constan-
tine, are proprietors Of the Brentwood
Pharmacy in Jacksonville :. They are
Arabs and bear a striking resemblance
to some of my kinsman who are, OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-13
Bonn S Parliament
To Probe John Case
BY the Assoeioted Press

BONN, Germany. Aug. 49,
Chancellor Konrad Adenaur's
Christian Democrats bowed last
night to a demand by their po-
litical foes for a special session
of Parliament to investigate the
otto John case.
The move came only after the
78-year-old chancellor an
nounced he Is breaking of his
summer vacation and will return
Monday to prepare for show
down fight with the opposition
Socialists over the John affair.
The Socialists demanded a
special session to fix the blame
in Adenaur's government for
what they called the West Ger
man security chiefs treason to
democracy"
Last night, the Christian DEM
ocrats announced they consider
it necessary" that Parliament
convene early in September to
consider Johns desertion. A for
mer British agent, he went over
to the Communists in East Ber-
lin July 20.
He capped this with a news
conference Wednesday at which
he declared Naziism is reviving in
West Germany under the eyes of
a chancellor too old to realize it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-13

on which was Inscribed q tele-
phone handset and enclosed in
double circles. Lettered in the
circle was the legend THE Bell
Answering System OF course,
it was registered In the Patent
Once.
The Smiths found the design
so effective they began branch
ing out. offering it to highest
bidders for use by answering
services throughout the country.
Mr.. Smith estimated the income
would be about $4,000 q month.
Rival answering services be-
gan Directing to the telephone
company, and A. r. and r. began
sQuirming. Soon there was q
deal: $4,000 to the Smiths If
they would drop the service
mark.
The Smiths had rung the bell.
They used the windfall for their
dream house at 500 Randolph
street, Falls Church. The tele-
phone company filed for full
patent protection of their priced
symbol.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-13
John Sees Paulus.

BERLIN, Aug. Is P.-Dr.
Otto John, turncoat ex-chief of
West Germany's security forces,
today visited Friedrich Paulus, a
Hitler field marshal now in semi
retirement in Dresden.
The Soviet zone news agency
ADM said John and Paulus. the
commander who surrendered to
the Russians at Stalingrad, had
a long discussion on methods for
unifying Germany.