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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-03
Woman Gives Birth
To Her 18th Child

FORT KENT, Me-. Feb. ga
Canadian farmers wife has given
birth to her 25th child-and she
says she wants more babies.
An eight-pound daughter was
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Heliodore
Cyr of Lodges. New Brunswick,
! Sunday at the Peoples Benevo-
lent Hospital here. 1t was the
first, in the family born in
hospital.
Eighteen of the Cyr children
are living, II of them still at
home. The oldest is "a. There
have been no multiple births in
the Is arrivals in 26 years. And
DR.. Richard Savage of Fort Kent
delivered II of the babies.
Mrs. Cyr, married when she
was II. is now AZ. Her husband
! is At.
/ The new baby. which evened
the score at nine boys and nine
girls, hasn't been named yet.
What caused the delay? The
family expected boy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-03
Alteration Society 10 Pray
For Berlin Conference

The Nocturnal Alteration Soci-
ETY. of Washington will offer
prayers for success Of the Berlin
conference and peaceful unifica-
ton Of Germany. beginning at
10 pm. tomorrow.
The principal devotion will be
at the Shrine of the Sacred
Heart. Sixteenth street and Park
road NV, where men from So
Catholic parishes will worship
throughout the night.
Services also will be held from
6 pm. to IL pm. tomorrow in
st. Matthew's Cathedral and st.
Francis de Sales Church, from
8 pm. Friday.
The Arizona post., 1954-10-01
Nahum Goldman Diplomat

DR.. Nahum Goldman, at
sixty, is the undisputed lead
er of world JeWry beyond the
borders of Israel. Leadership
came to him, inevitably, as a
consequence of his PERSONAL
ty and of events which COM
bined to precipitate him into
the center of Jewish affairs
at a crucial period in history.
DR.. GOldmaann has devoted
his life to Zionism and the
struggle for Jewish rights.
To these causes he brings re-
markable talents as a diplO-
matist and negotiator. He
possesses a gift for peaceful,
inciSive speech t h a t cuts
through the fogs of doubt
and confusion. Primarily he
is a realist. When reality die
tateS bold moves he is daring.
In the autumn of 1916,
when the Palestine situation
had reached an impasse and
the gates of immigration
were shut tight, DR.. Gold
mann proposed partition "a
Viable Jewish State in part
of Palestine. 1t took courage
and foresight for a Zionist
leader to make such a pro-
poSal at that time. Partition
wasn't a new idea and it was
not popular. He convinced
his colleagues. Then he flew
to Washington where he dis
cussed the problem with the
President and the Secretary
of State. He left Washington
with assurances of American
support.
DR.. Goldman was the tar
get of criticism for his ac-
tions. But the wisdom of his
stand was vindicated by the
history of the months that
followed. Acting on the ma
jority report of that body,
the U.N. General Assembly
worked out the partition
plan which, on Nov. %, 1947,
The Arizona post., 1954-10-01

of 1851, ten years later, he
met with representatives Of
the new German government
and laid before them for the
first time, the Jewish peo,
| pies demand for cOmpensa,
ton.
DynamiSm of Zionist
AS a lifelong Zionist, DR..
Goldman fervently believes
in the dynamism of the move
ment. Were it allowed to be-
come static it would be
doomed. The existence of Is
rael may require a new Zion
iSt orientation but the move
ment, he is convinced, has yet
to fulfill its destiny within
the framework of Jewish his
tory.
"It is essential" he has
said, ''for the Zionist move
ment to orientate itself not
only toward Israel, but to-
ward Jewish life in the Dia-
spora as it is connected with
Israel" He sees few differ
ences between Zionists and
non-Zionists in terms of re-
lationS to and support of Is
rael. He would enlist their
aid and solicit their views.
For the past decade, DR..
Nahum Goldman has been,
in effect, a rowing Ambassa-
dor of Jewry. His home is
New York City where he and
his family have lived since
1941. But for a good part of
the year he is abroad, in Is
rael and shutting between
the capitals of Western Eu-
rope, wherever issues that eff
feet the future of the Jewish
people and the Jewish State
are at stake. There are those
who prophesy that within five
years after DR.. Goldman
goes to Israel to live (and he
plans to do so in about a
year, he will become ISraeIs
Prime Minister.
The Arizona post., 1954-10-01
MILTON A. SAFFIR, Ph.D.

AS Milton Cohen'S" bar
m i tZV a h approached, his
teacher asked about his con-
tinuing with Jewish educa-
ton. 'I don't think he wants
to-" replied Mrs. Cohen, "and
frankly 1 don't think he'll
have the time when he gets
to eighth grade and then
high school. After all, he's not
going to become a rabbi"
Millions teacher could un-
doubtedly present many rea-
sons why a boy should con-
tinue Jewish schooling be-
yond bar mitzVah. The world
of Jewish learning which Mil
ton could not acquire before
his thirteenth birthday, study
as a major obligation of Ju-
daiSm, the need for Well-edu-
Gated Jewish lay leaders, are
very valid arguments. I'm
fortunately, despite the ad-
vanceS represented by post
confirmation groups a n d
classes by institutions such as
Hillel foundations, despite
programs of adult education
and the increase in day
schools and yeShivoth, it is
clear that far too many of
the small proportion of Jew
ish children who receive any
Jewish education at all, term
mate their studies far too
early.
PARENTS MIGHT WELL
recognize that the present day
thinking of secular educators
reinforce the traditional argu-
ments for longer Jewish edu-
cation,
The need for more educa-
ton to prepare an individual
for the complexities of mod
ern society has pushed up the
compulsory school attendance
age to ii, IS, 16, and beyond.
The Arizona post., 1954-10-01
Religious Education Is
A Continuing Process

With high school diplomas so
commonplace, college educa.
ton is becoming little more
than ordinary preparation for
modern living. With the wide
acceptance of more and more
years of schooling as basic
for American youth, should
there not be the same point
of view about the amount of
Jewish education necessary to
prepare for full Jewish liV-
ing?
AMONG THE REASONS
for longer formal schooling is
that the public school has TAX
en- over training functions
that were once the sole re.
sponsibility of the home.
Surely Jewish parents should
see that the religious school
too has become responsible
for a larger segment of the
child'S total Jewish training
than ever before. Mrs. Cohen
retains much JeWiShness de-
spite limited schooling be-
cause her parents provided a
home atmosphere that was
infinitely more Jewish than
she provides for Milton, How,
except through longer Jew
ish school attendance, can Mil
ton ever get anywhere near
the Jewish background his
parents received?
And, finally, educators now
understand that what the
child learns is related to his
readiness for that kind of
learning. Even if Jewish edu-
cation became so efficient that
a ten-year curriculum could
be squeezed into a five-year
program, it could never hope
to teach pre-adolescent what
requires an adolescent's ma
turity to assimilate.
National Jewish Post.
ARIZONA POST, October 1, 1854
The Arizona post., 1954-10-01

was ADOPTED.
DR.. Goldmann's personal
role in the creation of the
Jewish State was over-shad-
owed by the enormity of the
event. Prominent as a Zion
iSt figure in Europe almost
since his adolescence, he was
less known to American Jew
ry when in the winter of 1949
he headed the re-organiZed
Jewish Agency Executive in
New York.
At this juncture, a new
task confronted him. This
was to press the claims of
Israel and world JeWry for
the material damages inf1ict-
ed upon Jews by the Third
Reich. Speaking in Baltimore
as early as 1941, when the
world had only a faint inkling
of the enormity of Nazi
crimes against the Jews.
DR.. Goldman enunciated the
principle that the Jewish peo-
pie as a whole were entitled
to receive restitution for Nazi
depredationS. In the summer
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-03

STOCK CAR
ROUNDUP
By DAVID MASON

The Key West Stock Car Racing
Association wishes to thank every
one for the tremendous turnout for
the intended Cancer Benefit races
and to express their regret that
the races had to be called off at
the last moment.
The spring tide covered about
half the track. Caught the boys
by surprise. They had just put a
large amount of oil on the track to
control the dust. Now the problem
shifts to mud. Bring on the spirin,
please. This writer will wager, any
old time Conch could have told
them this would happen, but I
guess no one drought to explore
these channels.
Tuesday nights meeting of the
Stock Car boys should have plenty
Of head scratching and deep think
ing, trying to solve this one.
Here's hoping they can come up
with something that will keep the
races going in Key West. AS the
racing enthusiasm has grown by
leaps and bounds among the COM
petitors as well as spectators.
Keep your eye on The Citizen
sports page for our next announce
ment.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-03
Determine Was
LIST Grey Horse
To Win Derby

LOUISVILLE, KY. Up - A little
grey colt with a terrific appetite
and a decided dislike for work is
going after two-thirds of the turf's
coveted Triple Crown after break
ing a jinx that plagued horses of
his color through 80 years of the
Kentucky Derby.
No grey ever won Americas No.
/ glamor race until Andy Crevo-
Inns Determine, a tiny horse out of
Alhambra, Calf, came from Sec
ond place in the stretch to hang a
length and a half defeat on the
swift Hasty Road last Saturday.
Fifteen other 3-year olds, includ-
ing the favored Correlation, were
up the stretch as D e m n e
reached the end of the mile and a
quarter in 2:03.
Determines next stop is the
Preakness at Pimlico on May q.
Then, according to present plans
of his owner and trainer Willie
Molter, he'll head back west where
he racked up six straight stake vic
tories before arriving in Kentucky
where he bowed to Hasty Road by
a head in the mile of the Derby
Trial last Tuesday.
The little colt, who got his name
because his owner was determined
to find a good one, is not eligible
for the Belmont Stakes, third race
of the Triple Crown.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-03
Two Games Set For Little,
Loop Opener In Bayview PIX,
Fourth Season
Opens With
DOubLeheader

Key Vests Little League
baseball season will get un-
derway tonight in Bayview
Park when the Kiwanis Club
nine opposes the Shrine Club
baseballers at 6:45 p. m. and
the VFW tangle with the
Evans Enterprises nine in a
battle set for 8:15 p. m.
It will be a big moment for
more than 12G boys ranging
in age from eight to IL
years, when Mayor C. B.
Harvey throws out the first
ball with city manager Vic
tor Lang receiving his toss.
It will mark the fourth year of
Little League baseball in Key West.
For the second straight year,
there will be eight teams of Is boys
each participating in the two loops
= the American and the National.
Earl Adams is president of the
American League while Frank
Wayne heads up the National Lea
que.
Teams composing the American
League are the Elks, Shriners,
Jaycees and Kiwanis. In the Ma
tional, the Lions, VIEW, Rotary and
Evans will race for, the champion
ship.
Each team will play Is games
with the schedule ending the first
week in July, weather permitting.
After the regular season, a team
will be selected from both leagues
to represent their respective lea
CUES in a district tournament, with
the possibility of going on to play
in the Little World Series, held
each year in Williamsport, Pa. -
the home of Little League base
ball.
The local schedule calls for dou-
BILE headers each Monday, We'd
nesday, Friday and Saturday with
two teams from each league par
ticipating.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-03
Neopolitans Fear
Year OF Bad Luck

NAPLES, Italy R-Catholic Neo-
politans feared today the city faces
a year of bad luck-the hardened
blood Of their patron, st. Januarius,
was a day late in melting this year.
The blood is kept in two silver
pitfalls in the Naples Cathedral. For
the past four centuries, it is said,
it has softened on the first Satur-
day of May in answer to prayers.
Three times the blood remained
hard-before a bubonic plague in
1927, a cholera epidemic in 1884
and the 1914 eruption of Vesuvius.
Bell ringing and fireworks sig
nailed the public joy yesterday
when the cathedral announced the
blood of the martyred saint finally
had liquified.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-03
Prison Game
Ends Quickly As
Spectators Flee

ATMORE, Ala. IA ball game
between two prison teams ended
abruptly in the fourth inning yes
terday when 10 of the spectators
shipped their way through a steel
mesh fence under a sleeping tower
guard.
Seventeen escapes from Atmore
State Prison were rounded up yes
terday. The search for the two
convicts still missing spread out
today.
Henry Sawyer, the tower guard
who admitted falling asleep, was
fired Immediately. Three other
guards were suspended pending an
investigation.
State Prison Director J. M. Nc.
Cullough said the Is Negroes re-
captured admitted they had no.
ticed Sawyer asleep in his tower
ard cut their way through the
fence almost directly below him.
The other three guards were Sus-
pended because "they could have
stopped the break if they had been
alert" Mccullough said. They ap.
parently were so interested in the
close game that they didn't see the
bleachers emptying.
The Negro team from Kilby
Prison at Montgomery was leading
the Atmore club 3-2 in the fourth
inning when the escape ended the
game.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-03

Narleski and Hal Newhouser
nailed down the first game.
Only four homers were hit in
the American League but two of
them, by rookie Bill Wilson and
Chico Carrasquel, provided John.
sons cushion for Cbicago's first
game verdict over Philadelphia.
Valo got his chance to win the
second after Bill Renna singled
and was moved to second on jim
Finigan's sacrifice. Valo's blast off
the right field wall wasn't even
chased.
Hoeft almost had an abbreviated
no-hitter until Andy Carey doubled
with two out in the fifth. After
the young Tiger pitcher retired the
next hitter, the game was called.
Ray Boone's second-inning homer
was all Hoeft needed. The Yanks
slammed out 13 hits in the first
game as Allie Reynolds coddled
the lead with two-hit relief ball
over the last innings.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-03
|Conch Players
Commend Bill
Gates Today

The high-fying Key West High
School baseball team today took
time out to thank William "Bill''
Gates, all-time great local high
school diamond performer, and for
many years member OF the
Brooklyn Dodger chain, for his aid
during the current season.
In petition submitted to The CT
tizen today, they said:
1--WE the undersigned would like
to take this opportunity to express
our sincere thanks and gratitude
to Mr.. Bill Gates. He has untire-
ingly given of his time, efforts and
words of wisdom to each and every
ono OF us during the past two
weeks under the hot sun at Wick.
ers Field.
Although he has never asked
for, or expected any type of credit
or praise, we feel that this type
of public spirit should not go un-
mentioned to Key West baseball
fans. We all feel that he has, help
ed us to improve our playing abb
lily and want him to know that
he has the admiration and thanks
of every one Of u.s.
The petition was signed by Jul
lilo Henriquez, Gibby Gates, Eloy
Rodriguez, Harold Solomon, Fred
Curry, George LaStres, Don Cruz,
Biff Salgado, George Haskins, Jer-
ry Pita, Julio Santana, Stuart Vat
eS, Jimmy Tynes, Roger Bean and
Sidney Kerr.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-03
Sports Roundup
BY GAYLE TALBOT

NEW YORK Up - The fastest
growing sport in the country, we
are solemnly informed, is skin
diving. At the end of World War II
there were no more than 500 of the
wet fraternity, counting some OF
them twice, and now there are
more than a million, with the num-
Der growing daily.
Skin divers, as the name implies,
are men and women who put on
bathing suits and goggles and
swim fins to kick with and go hell
ing down into deep water. Some ,ot
them spear fish while they are
down there, but many just like to
look around and see how the other
fish live. Devotees of the new
craze claim there's nothing like il
for pure pleasure.
At the most recent count there
were more than 400 skin-diying
clubs in this country alone, all OF
them affiliated with the recently
formed International Underwater
Spearfishing Assn, which is quar-.
tered at Helms Hall in Los An
geles. California leads the states
with some 100000 of the human
submarines and Florida is second
with about 10000.
Manufacturers of equipment for
the sport looked up suddenly and
found they had a bonanza. 1t is es-
timated that 40 million dollars was
spent in this country last year for
breathing tubes, masks, swim fins,
lungs" Photographic equipment
and spear guns.
There are, it seems, two distinct
schools of skin diving, In the first
stage the embryo addict stays
fairly near the surface and con.
tents himself with looking at the
sights. This is described as invig-
Grating and habit forming.
When the tyro gets enough of
that and is firmly hooked, he
straps a cylinder of compressed
air or oxygen on his back and be-
gins going, deep, down among the
big bull fish. He totes spear pow
cred either by large rubber band,
which has range of about nine
feet, or a more powerful weapon
employing springs or carbon diox-
ide gas.
It is not, the skin divers insist,
an unequal battle. They have
learned that a 10-pound fish, irri-
tated at being stuck by a spear,
can haul a 1SO-pound man all over
the ocean floor. Since the hunter
who is operating without breathing
aids has only about a minute to
get down there, shoot his fish and
return to the surface, this can
prove awkward.
Bags of UP to so pounds of fish
are, however, not uncommon. The
biggest one yet wrestled to shore
in this country, at least, was a
Jewish weighing just under 45O
pounds.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-03
Historic Title
Fight Held In
Bangkok, Siam
By oLEN CLEMENTS

BANGKOK R,AIt was cham
pionship fight to be remembered
wherever fans, argue the ultimate
in gruelling classics.
For the record, Australian jim
my Carruthers narrowly retained
his worlds bantamweight crown
last night against Chamrern Song
kitrat, the Bangkok police ieuten-
ant who graduated from the drop
kicking Thailand school of fighting.
Australian referee william Hene-
berry, the only official, gave Car
ruthers 321s points and Songkitrat
271a for the 12-round fight. Both
weighed 117A.
That doesn't tell the story.
Carruthers and Songkitrat fought
for the title on a Sunday night in a
torrential downpour that spilled
one inch of rain onto the canvas in
less than an hour.
Fans began collecting in the
morning at the outdoor National
Auditorium. They stood, milled
around and sat all day in the rain.
By fight time it still was pouring
and there were $4,000 people wait
ing. There was $225, 900 in the till.
The sponsoring Police Welfare
Fund closed its weather eye and
the fight was on.
The canvas was so slippery the
fighters fought barefooted. That
set the stage for a rare time-out in
the third round when a floodlight
fell and shattered glass fragments
around the ring. It took two min
utes to sweep clear the canvas.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-03

wants to make = career of base
ball.
Nunez is a dimhutive righthand.
er with a corking ast ball.
Fran Herrera, big 1s-year-old
first sacker has had two years of
experience with the Monarchs and
should be greatly improved this
season. Many scouts liked his &C.
ton last season and theyoungsters
may be the 25th Monarch to 10
into organized baseball.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-03
Record Sum Paid

HOLLYWOOD up - Producer
Daryl F. Zanuck says he has paid
a record sum-two million dollars
for screen rights to "The Great.
est Story Ever Told" the late
Fulton Ooursler's account of the
life of Christ.
Twentieth Century-Fox Studios,
where Zanuck is production head,
announced yesterday that the GU.
mulative price was agreed upon
in conferences between Zanuck
and executors of Oursler's estate.
Production of the picture is
scheduled to start next year.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-03
s THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
Kansas City MonarchsMeet
indianapolis Clowns Tonight

The famed Kansas Monarchs
hold a record that will be difficult
to top by any other Negro club
Manager. Buck O'Neil's crew
who will battle the In
dianapolis Clowns tonight at s:15
p. m. in the WickerS Field Stadium
in the first of a two game series
have sent an astounding total Of
"a players into organized baseball
in the last few years.
The second game will be played
tomorrow night at the same time.
The last two to go to the majors
are Ernie Banks and Gene Baker.
two former Monarchs, who now
from the double play combination
for the Chicago Cubs. Banks played
for the MonarchS last season and
Baker performed for the same
club in 1948 and 1949. These young
sters have been receiving much
publicity because of their fine play
this spring for the National league
team.
The excellent scouting system of
the Monarchs is the chief reason
the club gets so many outstanding
players each year. Again this sea-
son the club has balance, a fine
pitching staff, excellent catching
and a stout infield.
Berto Nunez, Dick Phillips, Jim
Gilmore, Conrado Flores, Bill Bell,
Ernest Webster, Bob Mitchell, and
Henry Mason are the hurlers.
1t was Mason, who turned back
the Philadelphia Stars in the open
er at Blues stadium, Kansas City,
in sixteen innings and then left for
the service. He is back again and
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-03
'HS-l Downs
.FlyersOn


The 1854 Island City baseball
league race got off to an auspi.
clous start when Robinson hurled
no-hit ballgame for the HS.1
Helicopters to defeat the Naval
Air Station nine, ITO.
Robinson famed IL batters and
allowed just two runners to reach
second base - both of them on
errors in racking up the win.
The only play that looked like a
hit was a roller to short in the
fifth inning when the throw drew
the first baseman off the bag.
The Copterman scored six runs
in the first inning and three more
in the second on four hits and six
errors.
Silva was the leading hitter for
the winners with four hits in five
tries. He also stole three bases.
Gilbert hit two doubles and stole
five bases for the winners. In the
field, Cardillo, Anderson and Ro.
binson shone for the flyers and
Cook and Pollard were the stars
for the winners.
Sunday night, the Cuban Club de-
feated the Naval Station, 1876 in
another league start.
Bunny Villareal started on the
mound for the Cuban Club with
Bobby Lastres finishing the game.
Clevak and Stevens split the hurl-
ing duties for the Navy.
League action will resume at s
p. m. Wednesday with the Eagles
meeting the USS Gilmore.
mn
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-03
MOnroney Doesn't
Predict Recession

CRANSTON, RI. R-Sen. Mon
roney (D-Oka) says he is one
Democrat who doesn't think the
country is moving into a recess
sion.
''If we're headed ON the train
for economic perdition," he said
in weekend speech here, ''it's the
first time I've ever seen the trip
being made with all the parlor
car seats sold" ~
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-03
COMPOSER DIES

HOLLYWOOD R-Arthur James
Johnston, IS, a composer of sever
al hit tunes and for 20 years
pianist for Irving Berlin, died yes
terday after a long illness. He
wrote the music for such songs as
pennies From Heaven, Cock
tails for Two "Just One More
Chance and Thanks a Million.