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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-19
A Grain
Of Salt
By Bill SpiIIman

All this yapping about fluoride
is getting sort of old. You would
think that the good old fashioned
method of preventing cavities, by
q sound brushing of the teeth
after meals, was falling by the
WaySide.
The fluoride subject has made
friends between people who have
been at each others throats for
yearS-it has also made enemies.
! heard of one case OF near-fisti-
cuffs over the subject.
Instead OF saying hello to your
neighbor, it is now common to
start the day off with, 'How do
you feel ABBOTT the fluoride situa-
tom"
The Junior Chamber of Com
merce boys took step in the right
direction. They decided that they
would hear both sides of the story.
Last Wednesday nigh tat their reg
ular meeting, DR.. Delio Cobo, a
dentist, was invited to give his
views on the subject. Since he is
one Of the sponsors of fuoride, it
Is pretty obvious how he talked.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-19
Johns Treason Seen AS Political H-Bomb

DR.. John calls on West Germans
to initiate the British, who he saws
"are striving to find modus
of the world.
And he repeats dramatically
what many of his countrymen al.
ready fear - if there is another
war, Germany will be obliterated
by atomic weapons at its very
start.
The timing of Johns treason is
one of its most disturbing features
to Allied diplomats. Closely asso-
ciated with the British Secret Ser.
vice for 10 years, he bolted east.
ward just when Britain and the
United States had hit a postwar
peak of diSsension in their grand
alliance.
Natty in blue suit and wine-red
tie, he appeared last week on a
flOwer-decked East Berlin stage to
aSSail what he called the "war-
mongering" United States and its
best German friend, Chancellor
Adenauer, to 400 world newsmen.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-19
by DANIEL De LUCE

BONN, Germany R-Dr. Otto
Johns treason to the West is a
kind Of political hydrogen bomb.
In four weeks since the Bonn
republics security chief - a noted
protege of the British Secret Ser
vice-deSerted to the Soviet zone,
his explosive case has:
1. Poisoned Allied re-
lations and strengthened Russian
diplomacy.
2. Shaken the European army
project, which faces the French
National Assembly'S crucial vote
In 4 couple Of weeks.
). Thrown grave suspicion that
all German and Allied intelligence
organizations may contain other
Soviet double agents.
4. Humiliated Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer'S government and high
Allied officers, who had worked
here with John for years in top
secret anti-Communist espionage.
The human suffering from DR..
Johns detection ranges from ira
gedy to trivia:
1. Dead by his own hand, US.
Counterintelligence Capt. Wolfgang
E. Hoefer is still a mystery figure.
The German-born naturalized Am
erican had been Johns school
chum in boyhood. He shot himself
when questioned by other GIG Of
tieers in Berlin three days after
Johns treason.
:. Mrs. Lucie Marlen John, seven
years her 4S-year-old husbands
senior, has been left stranded by
him in the West. For her, much
public sympathy is expressed.
;. A half dozen night club cuties
are bereft of the companionship
of DR.. WoNgang Wohlgemuth, the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-19
Desire For Music
Leads To Arrest
OF "Money-Maker'

TRONDHEIM, Norway IA
crackpot counterfeiter who made
more than five billion kroner in
fake Norwegian currency was be-
hind bars today because he wanted
to make music too.
Police refused to name him, saw
ing he was mentally deranged and
they would ask a court to commit
him to a mental institution.
The money-maker was arrested
yesterday in the nearby village of
Selbu after he mailed an order
for a harmonica to an Oslo dealer
in musical instruments. He en-.
closed 5O-kroner note from his
own press.
The sheriff at Selbu rounded I'D
the culprit and also his printing
production. When police finally
finished counting last night, the
total came to 500, O74, 6lO kroner
-$714.S56,3SS worth had it been
real.
Experts said most of the bills
were faithful repicaS of genuine
notes, ranging from 5 to 1000
kroner denominations. But there
were such fanciful productions as
a billion-kroner bill, four million.
kroner notes, and a few decorat.
ed with small poems to an unidep-
titled girl.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-19

A friend OF mine gave me 4 re-
port that was written about the
experiments of a western univer.
sity in which rats were given
fluoridated water where the mix.
ture was five parts of fluoride to
one million parts water. The re.
suits showed the rats that took
the solution as a steady diet, lost
weight and had other degenerative
defects.
There is no doubt that the test
were honest and are fully control.
ed. However, it is recommended
that one part Of fluoride be put
with one million parts Of water
for the proper amount of mixture
NOT five times that much as was
used by the western university in
their experiments.
Fluoride-smaride don't let all
this keep your children from be-
ing old fashioned and being taught
to brush their teeth at a very ear.
ly age. Don't wait until their teeth
begin to fall out Of their mouth,
then say, 81 wish we had fluoride
in the water" A good brushing
is better than huoride ever was.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-19
By RELMAN NORM
iEor Hal RovIOl

NEW YORK R-Remember thu
famous story Of "the curse of the
Pharaohs?"
1t came from the dim receSseS
of the tomb of Tutankhamen, q
king who ruled Egypt and died a:
an early age about 5000 years ago.
The tomb was discovered and
opened in 1922. There the archae.
ologists came upon a staggering
profuSion of gold and jewelry
furniture, chariots, household ar.
ticles, and the mummy of the
young sovereign, encased in nearly
= ton of solid gold.
They also noted a warning en-
graved on the wall-"Cursed be he
who touches me-"
Such messages were not unusual
In the royal tombs. They probably
were put there to frighten away
grave robbers. If so, they failed,
for, virtually every tomb-royal,
noble or cOmmOn-WaS rlfled thou
sands of years before the modern
Psychologist ever began probing
into the tombs.
However, less than a year after
the opening of Tutankhamen's
tomb, the man who financed the
expedition, Lord Carnarvon, died
suddenly. The cause of death-cu-
riouS combination!-was recorded
as pneumonia and the effects of a
mosquito bite.
This started the story of "the
curse of the PharaohS."
1t merely amuses the profession
al Psychologist. He reminds you
that the other members of the Car
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-19
Recent Events Bring Back Old
Course OF Pharaohs" Question

| narvon expedition lived to a ripe
old age and died quietly in bed.
And also, that thousands OF people
have been exposed" to the dire
warnings, engraved on the walls Of
the tombs.
Yet, a strange and tragic mis-
fortune has overtaken one Of the
scientists connected with the dis
covery of the "Solar boat" found
few months ago beside the Grand
Pyramid Of Cheops.
His two daughters died suddenly,
within few months of each other,
while the work was in progress.
Zaky Nour is keeper of antiqui-
ties for the region where the boat
has been found. He was one of the
directors of the excavation of it.
In Cairo 4 few weeks ago, he told
me this story:
Leila, the oldest girl, went to
school as usual that day. She was
nine years old and apparently in
good health. During the afternoon,
she suddenly developed a nose
bleed. They couldn't stop the flow.
She died before SHUTDOWN"
Doctors diagnosed 1t as q heart
attack, he said.
Three months later, his younger
daughter, Wafaa collapsed and fell
dead at play. She was six. Zaky
Nour said the cause Of her death
is not known.
She died the day before the open
ing OF the chamber holding the
"solar boat"
He said, "as 4 scientist, IF
course, can't believe this is any
thing but a coincidence. But there
are many things we don't know"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-19
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-19

It was almost the very hour that
former Prime Minister Clement
Attlee and seven other British la.
borites had chosen to take off on a
flying visit to Red China.
When John spoke of Germany
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-19

Britons as for Germans, cocks
tence with the Soviet bloc looks
like the one hope of survival in the
thermometer age. Their island
realm might become a sitting duck
for Soviet H-bomb humiliation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-19

destined to become a field of rs-
dioactive death if there is war,
his words seemed directed at
Britain as well.
1t is acknowledged in Western
diplomatic circles that for many
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-19
Boy browns

ta14 eessu fd33Oaed 10
MIAMI, Fla. R-Police pulled
the body of 9-year-old Jimmy Ber.
rian from the Coconut Grove
Yacht Basin yesterday but efforts
by a fire department respirator
unit failed to revive him.
Homicide Detective W. P. Nc
Clure said witnesses told him the
boy and a playmate had been try.
ing to see who could stay under
wateT longer.
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-22
Grim Battle
Seen When
COnchs Meet
Blue DeUiEs
BY jim COBB
Citizen Sports Editor

The Key West Conchs
may be able to stop the Mi
ami Tech ground assault but
whether or not they can
handle the expected Blue
Devil aerial attack is a ques-
ton that will be decided
sometime after 8 o'clock
Friday evening.
The Conchs held an extended
scrimmage session Tuesday at
which time the second string threw
a fairly well polished Tech offense
against the varsity. The Key West
defenders managed to stymie the
scrub ground attack - but they
seemingly didn't know what to do
when the passes started flying.
With Quarterback Paul Higgs
calling the turn, the scrubs work
ed Techs hybrid T" offense with
frequent shifts to single wing
plays. They threw long passes,
short passes, screen passes and
latheral passes.
The scrubs completed maybe so
per cent of their losses.
If the Blue Devils can match
that percentage come Friday, it
bodies i'll for the Conchs.
The performance of the Conch
forward wall, however, gave those
taking a look at the scrimmage,
cause for rejoicing. The "Black
Bean Brigade" consistently charg-
ed through to the second string
backfield and to break up their
tea party.
Wayne Brantley, Julio Henriquez
and Ralph Garcia, in particular,
showed well.
Line hacker Johnny DeMerritt
also put in good afternoons
work on defense.
Today, the Conchs were sche-
duled to hold another extended day.
light workout, their last before the
game. They'll view movies of last
years Tech game (the Conchs won
2-0) and hear Coach Ed Beckman
lecture on their assignments Thurs
day.
The largest crowd ever to wit
ness a high school game here is
expected to turn out for Fridays
battle. According to the high
school athletic department the A.
100 paid admissions at the st. The
resa game was the second highest
to date. Last years Tampa Jeffer-
son clash produced the largest
crowd since the revival of high
school football four years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-22

between Oct. l and Dec / That
gives any interested parties slight.
ly over two months to wind thing.
up.
The Associated Press was told
authorltatively last night that sale
OF the Athletics couldn't possibly
be completed in a matter of hours.
In the first place, johnson report.
edly has made only a verbal offer
for the club-a reported S45OO GOO
including Connie Mack Stadium.
S2,5OO,OOo without the park. Moth.
ing has been put in writing vel
The American League would
have to approve the sale and auy
transfer of the franchise to another
city. Those little details would
require more than a few hou~s
However, there was a feeling
that at long last things we're reaIlv
beginning to jell.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-22
Douglass High Cridders Meet
Delray Beach In Opener Sat.
Decision On As Due TODAY

PHILADELPHIA P-The cur.
rent owners of the PHILADELPHIA
Athletics called series of closed
door lets make up our minds
meetings today amid reports the
ball club will be sold within a
matter of hours.
Almost everyone but the princi-
pals involved seemed ready 10
concede the AS would be sold 20
Arnold Johnson of Chicago and the
franchise moved to Kansas City,
now an American Assn. City. The
big question appeared to be
"When?"
The Chicago Tribune reported
last night it had learned from high
authority the AS would be sold 10
Johnson within "a hours. johnson
declined to comment on that time
element but said his previous offer
to buy the ball club still stood.
Roy and Earle Mack, who own
the controlling stock interest in the
AS along with their father. Connie
Mack ST., gave indirect credence
to the general belief something was
afoot by scheduling a series of
meetings today.
The whole deal showed every
sign of still being in the talking
stage but reaching the limit of that
phase. A major league rule forbids
the transfer of a franchise EXCEPT
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-22
Navy Golfers
In Pensacola


The Naval Base Golf Team has
Just returned from the Sixth Ma
val District Golf Tournament held
in Pensacola, Florida with runner
up honors. The tournament was a
~ hole medal play event Is 16
Sept.
The Key West golfers found the
Pensacola Golf Course a real OBJ
stacle course, with narrow fair
ways, sandy roughs and pitted
greens. The fairways, if you have
not played there, are narrow and
lined with pine trees. The Pensa-
cola Navy players edged Key West
"a strokes with total of 1851 to
take the 6 D rotating team trophy
The Naval Air Station, Memphis,
Tenn. team placed third with a
total of 1891.
The participants representing
Key West were Gene Witzel Of
SurAsDevDet, Larry Rouse OF Ho1,
Adam Borylo of HS1, Jimmy Wor-
sham of the Naval Station and L.
J. Hare of the Naval Station.
The field consisted of 50 entries
throughout the 6ND. The top six
places were captured by the fol-
lowing: Champion Andy Petnuch,
Pensacola; Runner : up Joe Mac
Donald, Memphis; Third Bill Scar
brough, Memphis; Fourth ]. ].
Christopherson, Whiting Field; Fiji
tn Gene Witzel, Key West; Sixth
position was tied by Larry Rouse
and Adam Borylo of Key West.
The highlight of the tournament
was on the 37S yard par 4, 18th
hole of the second IS holes when
Gene Witzel sank seven iron shot
from 140 yards out from the green
for an eagle 2.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-22
Battle Of rs
Looms At High
School Field

The Delray Beach Car
yer Eagles will do battle
with the Douglass Tigers
Saturday night, and the out
come will DE an interesting
one from more than one as
pect. These two teams have
the same size student bodies
from which to draw their
teams, and it might be just
a coincidence but both teams
run from the "T".
In any case Coach Pompey will
have a well drilled efficient outfit
when they invade the Island City
this weekend. The Carver Coach
is recognized as an astute strate-
gist by gridiron followers all over
the district, and the state for that
matter.
Coach White and his Tigers are
aware of the lightning like charges
of the Carvermen, and the free
wheeling of their backs as the Tig-
erS took this outfit into camp last
season.
This game should test the speed
of the Tigers as they are certain
to meet bevy of smooth perform
ing, ightning-like backfield men.
The Green and White can prove
its mettle in stopping these expon-
ents of the ct" who handle the
ball with the finesse of collegians.
Coach Charles White has been
drilling on pass defense as a means
of polishing his Tigers defense for
Saturday night. They have shown
a need for quite a bit of brushing
up in the aerial defense depart
ment. The new mentor feels that
his boys will not be taken from
the air. There'll be little JOY in
Tigerland if the Beach backs are
not forced to keep their attack on
terra firma.
Douglass has an aerial attack
that may not be lethal but might
prove its worth because of the
harassing effect. Short bullet like
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-22
BY BEN oLAN

NEW YORK R-The New York
Giants, with a solid defensive per.
former at each position, will take
smoother-working and healthier
infield than Cleveland into the 51st
World Series next week.
With Whitley Lockman, Davey
Williams, Alvin Dark and Hank
Thompson, the newly-crowned Ma.
tlonal League champions rate the
edge over the Indians quartet OF
Vic Wertz, Bobby Avila, George
Strickland and AL Rosen. Only at
shortStop where Strickland is con-
sidered a shade the better fielder
than Dark does Cleveland shine.
That's defensively. At the bat,
the Giants infielders cannot match
the power of Wertz and Rosen or
the consistency of Avila, the Amer
lean Leagues leading batter.
Whether Rosen physically will be
at his peak is questionable. The
latest report has AIS fracture
healed. But he's now suffering
from multiple ills-a charley horse
in his right thigh, calcium deposits
In his left foot and muscle spasms
In his back. He'll be ready for the
opener in the Polo Grounds next
Wednesday. But how ready?
Strickland, too, may pose a
problem for Manager AL Lopez.
Only two weeks recovered from a
broken jaw, George has batted .O95
since his return to the lineup with
only 4 hits in AZ at bats.
At first base, there's little to
choose between Lockman and
Wertz. Both are converted out
fielders, but Whitley made the
switch in 1851, the Giants last
pennant-winning campaign and Vic
shifted in June of this year, short
ly after his acquisition from Balti-
more. Wertz is more of a home
run threat. Lockman, New York's
leadoff hitter, is more consistent
Aylla, with a 1886 batting mark
to Williams .225, is the better hit
ter by far. Davey's strength lies
In his ground-covering and pivot
making abilities, no small facor in
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-22

TUESDAYS RESULTS
New York 3, Washington /
Boston "A, Philadelphia 3-3 (first game
10 innings)
Chicago 9. Cleveland 7
Baltimore 4, Detroit
WEDNESDAYS SCHEDULE
Chicago at Cev@,and
Washington at New York
Detroit at Baltimore
(Only games ccheduled)
TUESDAYS PLAYOFF RESULTS
DIXIE SERIES
Houston (TL) 10, Atlanta (SA) 4 CHouston
leads l-0)
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
Louisville 4, Columbus louisville wins
40
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Rochester at Montreal postponed (Mon.
treal leads 3-2)
Syracuse at Toronto postponed (Syra.
Gu Sc leads 2-2)
WEDNESDAYS PLAYOFF SCHEDULE
BY The Associated Press
DIXIE SERIES
Houston (TL) at Atlanta (SA)
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Syracuse at Toronto
Rochester at Montreal
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
Louisville at Indianapolis
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-22
AMERICAN LEAGUEuu

BATTING -Avila, Cleveland, 1886.
RUNS Mantle, New York, 1913.
RUNS BATTED M Dolby, Cleveland and
Berra, New York, 124.
HOME RUNS-D Dolby, Cleveland, 20.
PITCHING - Consuegra, Chicago, Is J.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-22
Major League
Leaders
NATIONAL LEAGUE

BATTING Mays, New York, .346.
RUNS Musial. st. Louis l19.
RUNS BATTED N-KluszewslSi, Cincin.
maj, $50.
Ho7TE RUNS K'u szeweski. Cincinnati, 80
PITCHING Ant3RejH, New York, as,
.778.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-22
Strand Defeated

The Babe Ruth An-Stars defeat
ed the Strand Theater baseball
team, 7 : S in the final game of
their series at the Wickers Field
Stadium.
Hoppy hurled for the Stars CIV
ing up just five hits and tanning
IL batters.
Snow hurled for the losers and
gave up ten hits.
L. Curry hit three singles, Sims
and Saunders had doubles and Hop
Ply a triple for the winners. Casas.
Key and Snow paced the losers at
the plate. Four errors also hurt
the Strand cause.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-22
INDUSTRIAL LOOP
ACTION STARTS HERE

Action will get underway tonight
in the Industrial Bowling League
with is teams racing for the cham
pionship.
Action set for the Double A al
leys: Navarro, Inc. VS.. Bills South
ernmost Garage; Two Friends
Bar VS.. Moody's Grocery; Pepsi
Cola VS.. Jack and Ars Service
Station; Recapero Marine Service
VS.. Key West Electric Repair Ser
vice.
At the Rollaway Alleys: Roy's
Bool- Store VS.. Miller's High Life:
Double A Bowling Alleys VS.. Home
Milk; LOUIS Westinghouse VS.. She'll
ey Tractor.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-22
COnchs Work On Defense
To Stymie Tech Attack
Giants Have Better Infield

the Giants pennant drive. Avila,
too, has improved considerably in
the field this season.
Dark, with 1856 hits and a .295
batting average, presents a hit
and-run threat in the No. 2 spot
in New York's hitting order.
Strickland is hitting .215 for the
year.
Off his most valuable Player per-
Torrance of 1853, Rosen has had
a disappointing season. His 300
average sprinkled with "a home
runs and 101 runs batted in is
nothing to Sneeze at. But last year,
he hit 1886 with 43 circuit blows
and las RIBS.
Thompson, the Giants third base
man, is a first-rate glove man.
month and currently shows 26
homers and So runs batted in.
Both clubs have versatile infield
reserves.
First Basemen
Player, Club G ABB X III HR RBI PCT
Wertz, Gle. 12O 1888 50 SO 16 81 ,258
Lockman,N.Y. 143 556 u 142 l6 60 ass
Second Basemen
Ayila, Gle. 1879 545 l09 1873 Ia IS 1896
Williamson. /: I1e as 22s
Dark, NY. /. las m 90 oos
Strickland,Cl 100 - 80 rs So .215
tn ID &2ser-er
Rosen, Gle. 1913 400 "a 1913 "A 1O1 800
Al = ,Jn,N.Y. l3I - "a az 70 s, ,loI
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-22
JUST A COINCIDENCE

LOS ANGELES u Adolph
Spreckels II and his sixth wife,
from whom he has a divorce de-
cree, left for Mexico City last
night aboard the same plane. Both
said it was merely a coincidence
Spreckels, AZ, member of a veal
thy sugar family, obtained a di-
vorce from Judith Powell Spreck-
els, 22, last March after "a days
of marriage. The decree will not
be final for q year.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-22
Boxing Results
TUESDAYS FIGHTS

NEW ORLEANS - Carlos Chavez, I4OIk,
Los Angeles. Outpointed Bobby Woods,
l35h, Spokane, TO-
DETROIT Rocky castillo, I4Ol4, Blue
Island, H.. outpointed Bob Rosie, I48Jh,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, g.
MIAMI BEACH Miguel Diaz, $50,
Havana. outpointed joey Klein, I5I1s. New
York. 10.
HAZLETON, Pa. Lulu Perez, 1872.
Brooklyn, outpointed Jerry Drouin, 1874,
Montreal, 10.
GLASGOW, Scotland Peter keenan,,
117l5, Glasgow, knocked out John Kelly.
III. England, 8, (for British bantamweight
title).
RICHMOND. Calf Ruben Hernandez
1853, San Francisco, Outpointed Rocky
Haynes, 157, Eureka. Calf, g.
passes will be the order of the
might by Douglass backs.
To determine the result of this
fracas Sis,tto say that speed can
stop speed.