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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06
INDUSTRIES OPPORTUNITY

William j. Meinel president of the Heinz Manufac-
turing Company in Philadelphia, recently reminded
group of business American industry and u S. man.
agement had talked for many years about what would
be done the free enterprise system ever again
mitted to return That competitive market situation is
now at hand, he said.
Meinel puts the challenge of these times squarely
up to American industry With expanding population
high national income and market awaiting further de-
veopment, u S. business today has great opportunity
to make the progress has long talked about If the
sensus of business opinion of pessims which
cludes the immnence of inevitable depression then
little progress will be made.
On the other hand if business takes the bull by the
horns unrestricted it is and manages to turn out
better goods at lower COST through improved methods
production then the u S. market for goods will be in
creased production will forward and business will
generally make progress.
Not only Americans, but observers in every country
in the world watching the U. S. economy carefully
these days An economic bust will give both Communists
and Socialists powerful opposition in their argument for
more and more controls the economy.
U. S. industry and business u.s. therefore, on the spot
Ito produce results If the competitive free enterprise
system is to continue popular achieve beneficial
results. .Sl
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06
SUNBURN CAN BE FATAL

The death of twenty -four-year-od man from sun
burn is reported from another state and the tragedy
should serve to all persons and especially faskn-
ned people, that be dangerous to expose ones self
unduly to the rays of the sun.
1t not always the brightness of the that
fatal burns On slightly days. the solar rays
filter through and be powerful the bright
light
We do not know too mucn about the rays of the sun
other than they extremely powerful Some patients
exposed to the rays of the sun treatment especially
tuberculosis Victims but it is safe to assume that if bene
fetal results be secured, there is the possibility of
harmful effects.
We do not go into the question of pigmentation
which explains why some people easily sunburned
and others not It is we'll for everybody to be TEMPER
ate in exposure until well-tanned
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06
BY JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
AP Diplomatic Reporter

WASHINGTON Up - Top Allied
leaders are resigned to losing a
great block of Indochina to the
Communists.
The shooting war was around
Hanoi and peace negotiations be-
tween French-led forces and the
Communists have gone beyond the
point where the United States can
influence them decisi7ely.
The issue of. Red Chinese bids
for recognition and for United Ma
lions membership is expected to
press hard upon the heels of any
Indochina settlement.
With Moscow needing, this is
sue promises to make grave trou-
BILE among the United States, Brit
ain and France in the fall.
Other forces, too, are working to
pull the Western Allies apart de-
spite the emphasis placed here
last week on what Sir Winston
Churchill called an ''unbreakable
solidarity"
1t is over. a week now since
Churchill flew into Washington by
his own request to talk, alongside
Foreign Secretary Eden, with
President Eisenhower and Secre-
tary of State Dulles.
It was an intensive we e k
in other ways. Talks on the South
east Asian crisis have been held
by Dulles with Australians Foreign
Minister Richard Casey, New Zea-
lands Ambassador Leslie Munro
and Thailand's foreign minister,
Prince Wan Waithayakon. The sit
uation has been touched upon in
official British American state
ments, in a Churchill talk and in
an Eisenhower press conference.
The conclusions stated above
have been drawn from an analysis
of all these developments, and
from many talks with knowledge
able diplomatic sources.
The ability of the free world to
meet the Communist threat inside
Indochina appears not to have
been materially increased. Dulles
efforts to get going at once on
collective defense for Southeast
Asia remain frustrated and frozen
although some thought is now
being given to trying to change this
situation.
There is among officials of the
Eisenhower administration an OBJ
vious feeling that general relations
with Britain are for the moment
little better, but do not show
very much improvement in basic
ways. There has been no evidence
of any gleeful shouting on the part
of any of the people who have par.
ticipated in the extraordinary diplo.
matte activity.
The situation may best be seen
in the light of two or three recent
incidents. On March 9 the Amer.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06
This Rock
Of Ours
By Bill Glib

The Juror being created by
published reports concerning can
Ger and cigarette smoking is in
teresting. So far, / haven't en-
countered any person who didn't
consider smoking harmful. Nor
have found any smoker willing
to give up the habit because of
these harmful effects. Human ma
ture is a funny thing.
Prohibitionists are seeking to
curtail liquor advertising. Every
crook, gangster, hoodlum, and
petty bootlegger will 60 out Of
his way to help this effort be-
cau.. If successful, it means that
once more the market can be
flooded with cheap 'rotgut.' Cur
tailment of advertising isn't 60
ing to stop drinking but it most
assuredly will create ignorance
amongst drinkers as to what kind
Of liquor is the least harmful to
their systems.
Since it seems that everyone
must have a pet peeve, This
Rock Of Ours" is going to come
out with a campaign against can
dy manufacturers who package
their products in the form Of i'm
itation cigarettes.
I wonder what the prohibition
lists would say if 'soda-pop' COM
panies started bottling their cola
drinks, ETC., in bottles patterned
after liquor decanters? Such a
practice would be somewhat SIM
liar to what the candy companies
are doing.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06

dogs and thoughtless, selfish
owners.
Mind you, ! like animals. Per.
haps that is why l get so pro.
voked when a selfish dog-owner
over-rides human decency and re-
spectability by walking his dog
in the park or on the beach.
Bayview Park is used as a
picnic area. An area where chill
dren can be put down on the grass
and allowed to play around. The
same thing holds true for the
beach. Which comes first-dogs or
children? Is 1t fair to allow a dog
owner who doesn't want his own
yard messed up" to use public
Fairgrounds for this purpose?
I'm not criticizing the Humane
Society. Those people are doing
their best! 1t seems to me that
the worst enemy an animal can
have Is an owner who is selfish
enough to forget the rights of
other people.
Line Must Be Drawn
A line has to be drawn some
where to distinguish the rights of
humans and the rights of animals.
There are dog-owners who permit
their animals to wander in the
streets, barking at pedestrians
and chasing cars. Hurt one of these
dogs and you're considered a
monster. But what if the dog hurts
you? That's just an unfortunate
incident!
l was walking a police beat one
morning about 2 o'clock when a
dog came rushing from a house,
snarling and with teeth barred. It's
owner shouted, Don't move or it
will bite you." 1 had my gun out
by that time but fortunately for
the dog, I couldn't make up my
mind whether to shoot it or the
man who had turned such a
dangerous beast out to wander the
streets in the middle of the night.
Animals are fine. If you wish to
be kind to them, treat them as
animals and don't let them in
fringe on the rights of humans.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06
Photog Misses
Big Opportunity

TULSA, Okla. 1.-THE Tulsa
World didn't get a picture of
Fourth of July traffic jam yes
terday-it got picture Of a plane
crash instead.
The World said it sent CONNER
cial photographer Howard Hopkins
aloft to get a picture of a traffic
jam. The plane ran out of gas
and IL crash.landed at the intersec-
ton of US. 6s and State High
way 80.
Hopkins and the pilot both
walked away from the crash un-
hurt. The big traffic jam the pho
tographer had been looking for all
day formed around the crashed
plane.
But Hopkins found, to his hor-
ror, he had used his last film TAX
ing pictures of the crash.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06

i emphasized harmony and CLOSED
over contradictions OF view.
Churchill built his rambling re
marks to a press luncheon-and SC
to the American people-on the
theme that peaceful co-existence
with Russia is possible. He said
it would be given "a real good
try" because the alternative is a
devastating war from which the
Allies would emerge victorious on
a heap of ruins"
The same question about the pos
sibility OF co-existence was ad.
dressed to Eisenhower at a news
conference two days later. He said
he too hoped for peaceful co-exist.
ence but then declared he would
never be party to any treaty that
makes anybody a slave" and
wanted nothing to do with any ap'
peasement Of the Communists.
Many who heard both men gain
the impression that though both
would like nothing better than as.
surance of peaceful co-existence
with Russia, Churchill has some
faith that it is a practical possibl.
ity and Eisenhower has little or
no such faith.
The public statements did not
develop it, but Churchill as the
leader OF nation living on a tight
little vulnerable island, has another
feeling that the President does not
seem to share, at least to the same
That is a pressing compulsion to
60 to almost any lengths to find
some way of making terms with
the Communists because of the
dreadful alternative of an increas.
ing danger of conflict.
The British point of view is moi
that of the United States and Rus.
STA, whose apprehensions about de.
struction are quite often obscured
by muscle-nexing in the form ot
new jet bomber flights and atomic
weapons claims.
England is no longer a champion
in a world of two giants. 1t is
desperately seeking a way to pre-.
vent the giants from coming to
blows. For many months now this
effort has tended to pull it away
from the United States.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06
Salute Damages
Winning Yacht

BOSTON R-When Francis Lee
blanc's yacht Glee won a race in
the South Boston Yacht Clubs hol-
iday regatta yesterday, the judges
boat fired small cannon in sal
ute-and the wad encasing the
powder charge went right through
the Glee's sail.
Leblanc said the wad missed
him and his two-man crew BY
inches and scared the life out of
US. Wen probably have to buy a
new sail"
He said the mishap occurred be-
cause the cannon had been pointed
across the finish line instead of
away from II.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06
mas Auto
|HobbyShOp
Improves

The Auto Hobby Shop Of the
Naval Air Station Key West, 70
now better than ever. New equip
ment recently added inc,ddes i
steam cleaner, facilities and toob
for body and fender work, q spark
plug cleaning machine and many
small hand and power tools. :.
The new equipment makes Il
possible for q man to perform
nearly all motor overhaul Jobs
Car washing equipment, hoists and
greasing equipment are all avail
able as well as complete painting
facilities. About five cars per
week are painted at the shop.
The Auto Hobby Shop was put;
into operation less than four weeks
ago by the Special Services De-
partment of the Naval Air Station.
At that time the shop had limited
facilities. The tools recently add.
ed were purchased from the pro-
fits of the Navy Exchange and the
shop is now one of the best-equip-i
ed auto hobby shops on Naval In.
stallations. 20
The use Of the equipment is free
but parts used are paid for by the
owner. The Auto Hobby Shop ID
open six days a week between s
pm. and 10 pm. On Saturday.
Sunday and Holidays the hours Of
operation are from 9 pm. to SPIN.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06
ALLIED LEADERS ARE
RESIGNED TO LOSING
MUCH OF INDOCHINA

Editors Nots-How close is the
free world to losing out in South
east Asia?
Did Eisenhower and Churchill
really settle British-American dis
putes?
What are the United States and
Britain really trying to do about
Indochina?
A week of frantic diplomacy in
Washington produced more sparks
than light, more words than in
formation. In the following story,
AP diplomatic reporter John M.
Hightower looks behind the scenes
of the White House meeting and
its official statements to report
what was really accomplished and
what may be expected to happen.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06

lean government, through a speech
by Dulles, issued an emergency
call for united action" to halt
Communist expansion in Southeast
Asia. Privately, officials were talk
ing in terms of Intervention in the
Indochina war.
France and Britain were cool.
In mid-April Dulles flew to Lon
don and Paris. On his return home,
he thought he had agreement to
have conference and begin draw
ing up a donation Southeast Asian
pact. q. A bitter controversy with
Eden arose when the British
blocked his plans for a meeting
few days in advance of the Gen.
eva conference. Britain wanted no
part of such a move before Gen.
eva. She promised to explore it
when peace negotiations were
ended.
Since that time U. S. policy has
been Stymied. For various reasons
it proved impossible to set up an
alliance without Britain. A few
weeks ago it appeared that Geneva
would fail to get peace. But then
French government upheaval and
certain Communist maneuvers
caused the British, French and
others to take more hope. Mean
while, Churchill had sent word he
wanted to come to Washington.
Also, five Asian countries-Indo-
nesia, India, Pakistan, Burma and
Ceylon-met at Colombo and dis
cussed the twin problems, as they
see them, of Western colonialiSm
N d international communism.
They tended to split between the
Western and Communist sides.
Just before coming to Washing
ton, Eden suggested a nonaggreS-
sion system which would involve
Western countries and Red China
in guarantees to secure the safety
of Indochina. This was an obvious
bid by Britain for the support of
India and if possible, Indonesia-
countries the British knew would
never join in a Southeast Asian
anti-Communist pact.
Another development parallel
with the Churchill talks here was
the visit of Red China's premier
and foreign minister, Chou En-lai,
to Pandit Nehru on his way home
from Geneva.
In all these matters initiative
seemed to rest with the French
in trying to get an Indochina
peace, with the British in trying to
find new approach to the Asian
problem, and with Red China in
trying to woo Nehru out of his
chosen neutralism into a friendli-
er attitude toward Peiping.
Some Of the nations most friendly
to the United States in the South
west Pacific-Southeast Asia area
are distressed by the way things
have gone. The recently reelected
Australian government has hard
ened its position on Southeast Asia
and now is urging action much fas-
ter than is Britain. New Zealand
seems to have taken the same po-
sition. At a meeting last Wednes-
day, representatives of Australia,
New Zealand and the United States
expressed Satisfaction" - appar-
emily a carefully selected word -
with the Churchill Eisenhower
agreement that plans for a collec-
tive Asian defense should be
pressed forward. But among them
selves they agreed upon, and an
nounced, a need for immediate
action" Diplomats say the Philip
pines and Thailand feel the same
way about it
Secretary Dulles. has before him
a plan to go ahead quickly and
create some kind of a coalition by
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06

defense whether the war goes on
or not.
But in fact, the strong hope is
now based, as one official put it,
on a conviction that the Commu-
nistS "simply can't be 50 stupid
as to throw away the opportunity
to make an extremely favorable
settlement in Indochina with the
new Pierre Mendes-France govern
ment at Paris.
If the war does 60 on, then the
whole question of Intervention will
again become live issue. But
there is no evidence that the Ell.
senhower administration would
again crank up the strong enthusi-
asm shown by some OF its leaders
two to three months ago fol' inter
vention.
A peace failure now might stiff
fen the French policy; it might
also result in a kind of collapse.
But the. Communists do risk a diff
ferent kind of war if they present
demands SO tough that even
Mendes-France can't tolerate
them. Despite the winding trail
followed by U. S. diplomacy over
the past IL weeks, the threat OF
American intervention does stand
in the background. There it may
have some influence on Red estim-
ates of what they ought to do. But
it is only a background threat, and
is neither sharp enough nor hex-
IDLE enough to be used as a means
of decisively influencing the kind
of settlement which might be
agreed upon.
One reason the United States is
not now able to exercise a more
decisive influence is that there
seems to be no agreement either
inside the U. S. government or
outside it among allies as to where
any Indochina dividing line can be
drawn and therefore what commit
mentS can be promised.
There is some apprehension here
that as part OF any deal the Reds
will demand and may well get
French recognition for Communist
China. Some authorities at least
regard this as a probability. Coup
led with existing British recognition
and with British efforts TO improve
relations with Red China, French
acceptance OF the Peiping regime
would strengthen Red China's bid
for membership in the United Ma
tons in place of Nationalist China.
The United States recognizes the
Nationalist and its policy in that
respect is rock-hard. The whole
issue may well develop fast
enough for a showdown in the U.N.
meetings in the fall.
The Red China problem is one
of the. most disruptive in British.
American relations. II has caused
more political attacks on Britain
here, and more on the United
States in Britain, than probably
any other question.
Furthermore, the passage Of
time seems not to mellow but to
freeze the opposing policies. IN
Congress now there is talk Of pull.
ing the United States out of the
u. N. if Red China goes in. That
would split this country apart from
its allied to an extreme degree.
There is, finally, a deeper diff.
ference between the United States
and Britain-or between Churchill
and Eisenhower-which was dram,
atically exposed in the statements
made by the President and Prime
Minister to newsmen last week,
even though their joint statements
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06

| common understanding or agree
ment among nations willing to CO.
operate - and to do so with or
without Britain
Eden has taken the position it
will require a long time to work
out a treaty. Even when Indo-
chinese peace negotiations have
taken a decisive turn, perhaps
within the next IS days, American
authorities are not sure how en-
Enthusiastically the British will act
on a security system.
For that matter some of the best
informed and most astute US. au-
thoritieS are not sure how quickly
this country can move either.
Watching parts of Indochina "go
down the DRAIN" as the saying is.
the government clearly has been
OF two minds. Some authorities like
Dulles Cat least last March, and
Adm. Arthur W.. Radford, chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
felt the United States had to inter.
vene to save Indochina. There were
others who talked strongly and
publicly about the possible need
for Intervention, among them Sen.
ate Republican Leader Knowland
and Vice President Nixon. Still
others such as Secretary of De-
tense Wilson made clear that no
money nor authority was being
asked of Congress for such action
and Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey virtually ruled it out
with statements about keeping
taxes at nonemergency levels.
1t is always difficult for a ma
ton with divided councils at home
abroad. French diplomats pointed
tins out privately. So did the
British and others. There were
forces in Britain pressing toward
separate action on her part. The
United States itself took the posi-
ton that Indochina was a French
problem and the French would
nave to solve it as best they could.
1t is difficult to say when the
chances of American Intervention
dropped off virtually to zero.
1t probably was shortly after the
tan OF the fortress of Diem Bien
pnu. 1t became apparent then that
tne French could not continue in.
definitely to fight the war with the
combat help of only native forces
while policy makers of the Allied
world haggled over the conditions
and circumstances under which
one or another nation might join
In and give help.
FlShlng in such muddy and trou.
oled waters as those which cover
Ihe whole disastrous Indochina sit.
uation, American officials at the
moment are able to define the best
anu "oTSt tney hope for.
Al best they believe that the
French Communist Negotiations
may produce a settlement which
VIII keep most of Indochina free
1ney envision such settlement
as partitioning Wet Nam, between
me Reds in the North and the ma
ave non-Communist government in
tne south, and leaving Laos and
Camoodia whole and free to nm
their own affairs.
At the worst - and tbers i -.
possibility this is the way If nav
90 - the Reds would take over =
large area of Wet Nam and get
poliucal agreements covering ths
rest OF that state and of Laos and
Camoodla which would pave the
way for successful Red infiltration
and seizure of power later on. That
way all of Indochina would On
down the drain. o
! lnere is chance, of course. that
tne peace negotiations viii col.
lapse. Eisenhower and Churchill
agreed to prepare for collective
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06

The Humane Society informs
me that this column is wrong
when it speaks of STRAY dogs" in
Key West. Seems that a stray
dog is one without an owner and
that this sort Of animal is a rarity
in our town. Technically, I guess
the Society is right.
In the future, the column will
refrain from using the term. We
will just speak Of neglected
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06
TEN YEARS AGO
July 8, 1874

For the first time in more than
a year, the Overseas Road and
Toll Bridge District showed a gain
in all departments in June. accord.
ing to figures issued today by
Auditor Clifford G. Hicks.
New hopes were aroused last
night that city-county financed
beach project may yet be achiev.
ed when ]. Frank Roberts, chair.
man of the Board of County Com.
missioners, succeeded in having
its Key West Housing Authority
checks totaling $s37.14 earmarked
for that purpose. Another check
for $1,14S was for the school board.
In Story-book climax to. the
most spectacular diamond classic
seen at the Naval Operations Base
in years, the Coast Guard, on
Fourth of July, defeated the Island
Servicemen's League All-Star BAH
club, 80, when Lieut.. (ig) Irving
Stumble dashed out a sensational
home run in the last inning to
provide the victorious margin.
Frank Bentley has been named
clerk by the Board of Public Works
to succeed the late Harold Pinder,
who had held that position for
many years.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06
LONGEVITY RECIPE

SACRAMENTO, Calf. u Asa.
dor Bagdazian of Freeport cele.
brated his 10lst birthday yesterday
and had this advice on how tc
live long: Don't worry about
things. It doesn't do any good"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06
TWENTY YEARS AGO
July s, 1894

B. NJ. Duncan, who has accepted
the position of administrator for
the FERA in Key West, is expected
to return here by Monday and take
up The duties of his position.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06

John c. Park was installed as
Noble Grand of Equity Lodge No.
10, I.0.0.F., at a meeting held
last night at the hall on Caroline
Street.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-07-06

More than three out of five peo-
pie are in favor of the New Deal,
as shown by the final returns Of
The Literary Digest's nationwide
poll on Roosevelt's acts and poll
cies the tabulation Of which will
be published on tomorrow's issue
of the magazine.