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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-05
Red China Will
Not Accept U. S.
Repeat Protest

LONDON R-Red China has re.
fused even to accept a second
American protest against the shoot
ing down of British airliner off
Hainan last month, diplomatic Of
ficials said today. Three Americans
were among the 10 persons killed
in the attack.
The us. State Department dis
closed July % that the Peiping
regime had contemptuously turned
down American protests on both
that incident and a subsequent
fighter attack on two American
rescue planes in which the attack
ers were shot down.
The protests were relayed by
the British charge d'affaires, Hum
phrey Trevelyn. The Chinese would
not accept them from his hand.
1nformants here said Trevelyn
had sought anew to deliver Wash
ington's protest, but the Commu-
nists refused for the second time
even to consider it.
The United States does not rec
ognize Red China and has no dip
lomatic dealings with the Peiping
government.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-05
Post Office Motor Vehicles
Get Patriotic Color Scheme
Traditional Olive
Green Gives Way To
Red, White And Blue
By SUE JONES

There have been Bare
foot Mailmen" and Key
West has even had a "Sing-
ing Mailman" but never be-
fore has the Postal Service
sported mail trucks in any
color other than the trs a.
tional olive green, so far as
can be ascertained here.
This dull color is now Of
ficially a thing of the past.
Yesterday two trucks paint
ed red, white and blue were
delivered to the local office
and two more in the new
colors will be delivered next
week.
Kew West is the first office In
Florida, except Miami where the
new color scheme was pioneered,
to receive trucks with the new
look"
The newly-painted trucks will re-
place the fleet of four which has
been in operation in Key West for
tho mast several wears,
Further Additions
An additional two trucks, with
right hand drive, should arrive
within the next month and will in
crease the fleet to six. That's not
all, before the Christmas season
arrives, two three-wheeled scoot-
ers, also red, white and blue will
be added to the motorized equip
Continued on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-05
Women Protest
Idea
On Clothing

FRANKFURT, Germany B - A
battle-scarred us. Army colonel
ducked behind his combat ribbons
today as the wrath of a thousand
American women poured down on
him.
81 had no idea it would cause
such a fuss" smiled Col. John H.
Dilley, commander of the Frank
furt detachment, who issued an or
der advising Army wives und
daughters here to spruce up and
tone down their dress.
His directive said 1.-The attire be-
ing worn in public by some Ameri-
can women is not in good taste, "
and warned that if they didn't do
something about it positive &C.
ton" would be taken.
Forbidden Apparel
Outlawed were:
Bareback, halter-type sunsuits
worn without a jacket or wrap.
Bare midriff costumes.
Strapless, low-cut dresses (ex-
cept in clubs or at social func-
tionS).
Shorts on teen-agers or women.
Blue jeans on mature women"
Pin curriers', unless neatly COW
cred.
The colonel. West Point grad
uate who distinguished himself in
the African campaign in World
War II, said some women were
going to and from the Post Elk
change looking awful.
One of the women who likes her
Lewis said:
81 used to wear blue jeans to
the commissary to buy groceries.
Now l can't. / have two kids and
keep house. l can't change clothes
every time l want to 60 out of the
house"
Another said stoutly:
sour freedom is being threat
ened."
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-05
Burglary Suspect
Wounds Three
Cops In Flight

LAKE PLACID, NY. N - A
burglary suspect today shot and
wounded three policemen, one crit.
cally, and fed from q summer
camp into the woods at the edge
Of this Adirondack resort.
The man was believed armed
with a rifle and pistol.
About 300 police and volunteers,
aided by bloodhounds, searched
the thick woods, and state police
issued a 13-state alarm. All area
roads were blocked off.
Police found tracks in the woods
near Riki Hill on old Military
road, that they said. might be
tracks of the fugitive.
The shooting came in the wake
Continued on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-05
Judgment By
Default Filed
Against Hamlin

A judgment by default today
was entered against Roy Hamlin,
justice of the peace, for an unpaid
debt of $159.49.
According to papers on file in
the county court house, James E.
Doherty, doing business as Doher-
ty and Co., S46 olivia St., filed
suit in circuit court through his
attorneys, Neblett and Youmans,
seeking to collect $159.49 for paint
which Hamlin ordered from the
company.
The bill of complaint said Ham,
lin had owed Doherty the money
since Feb. %, 1858, and that Do
herty had tried to collect the sum.
The bill of complaint further
stated that on Feb. %, 1858, Ham,
lin wrote SIS check as payment
on the debt and that the check
bounced.
Doherty asked for a Judgment
for $159.49 plus interest and the
costs of the suit.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-05
Officers Find
NoTraceOf
Rape Suspect
Young Women Give
Meager Description
OF Their Assailant

TTTUSVLLE N-With only mea-
ger descriptions to help them, law
enforcement men of two Central
Florida counties early today had
no trace of q man two young
Titusville women said forced them
in his car at gunpoint last night
and raped the younger one-a pref
ty office worker Of 10.
The other, woman, n, married
and pregnant, told Sheriff H. T.
Williams the man held a gun point
ed at her WHIT she sat terrified In
the back seat of the ear and
watched him rip the clothes from
her friend and rape her in the
front seat.
The sheriff said the young wom-
en- could give few details and didn't
get a look at the license plate ct
the mans car. They described II
as a dirty cream-colored Buick
and said their assailant was about
80.
Pulled Gun
They said the man drove up a.
they walked down the street about
$50 pm. and asked them il they
could give him some directions.
When they approached the car,
they said, he pulled 4 gun and
commanded them to get in.
He drove west of town on State
Road so and into q field, where
he raped the younger woman, they
told the sheriff.
They said he drove them back
to Titusville and put them out Of
the car near First Methodist
Church, where the older woman's
husband was attending a stewards
The women rushed into
the building and reported the at
tack. 4-
The sheriffs office was called
and road blocks quickly set up in
adjoining Orange County. Orange
County, Orlando and Winter Park
and Air Force authorities from
nearby Orlando and Pinecastle
bases aided in the search.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-05
Nixon Names Committee To
Probe Conduct OF McCarthy
Group Will Consider
Proposals On Hand
For Censure Move

WASHINGTON IN Vice Presi.
dent Nixon today appointed six
member Senate committee to make
an investigation Of the conduct d
Sen. Mccarthy (R-Wis) and con
slider proposals that he be censured
The members:
Sen. Arthur v. Watkins (R-Utah)
Sen. Frank Carlson (R-Kans).
Sen. Francis Case (R-SD).
Sen. Edwin .. Johnson ID
Colo).
Sen. John C. Stennis (D-Miss).
Sen. Sam j. Erwin (D-NC).
While Nixon announced the ap.
pointees, the actual selections were
made by party leaders.
The Senate Democratic Policy
Committee had an early morning
meeting to decide finally on the
Democratic members.
At its conclusion, Sen. Lyndon
B. Johnson of Texas, Democratic
floor leader, said, without disclos-
ing the names, that his party'S
selections "are men who are SYM
bolS for patriotism, integrity and
judicial temperament"
Johnson added:
1.-TWO of them have had eminent
careers as jurists. The third is one
of the most beloved and respected
senior senators on the minority
side of the aisle"
johnson Of Colorado
Colorado'S Edwin johnson is the
senior senator to whom Lyndon
johnson referred.
Edwin c. Johnson, 70, has been
in the Senate since 1887 and is out
ranked by only seven senators in
point of service.
A former Colorado governor
(1933-37), he has announced his in
tention to retire from the Senate
and run again for the governor
ship.
Stennis, IS, is a former Mississip-
pi circuit Judge. He has been in the
Senate since 1947.
Erwin, 81, was appointed to the
Senate only last June 5 on the
death of the veteran Sen. CLYDE
Hoey (D-NC). Erwin stepped down
from his states Supreme Court
bench to accept the appointment.
JUdieious Men
Sen. Knowland of California, the
Republican leader, described his
task in advance as enc of selecting
men of judicious temperament who
had not become deeply involved in
the controversy over Mccarthy.
Watkins, 81, is a former Judge
in Utah. He was elected to the
Senate in 1916.
Carlson, 81, is a former governor
OF Kansas. He was elected to the
Senate in 1850.
Carlson had previously served
six terms in the House, 1S35-47.
Case, 81, has been in the Senate
since 1949. Previously, he had
served IL years in the House where
Continued on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-05
Forest Fire Is
Still Under
Control Today

JACKSONVILLE Up - Florida
Forest Service fire fighters,
pressed to keep a 5000 acre blaze
under control 10 miles east of here,
dispatched a crew and equip
ment today to a new blaze in the
Mandarin section south of Jack
Sonville.
The Flagler control tower said
the new fire, described as mot
big YETI, was first reported late
yesterday. The Mandarin fire de-
partment battled it throughout the
Continued on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-05
Flames Endanger More Whisky
At Illinois Distilling Plant
One Dead, Seven
Missing AS Fire
Enters Second Day

PEKIN, Ill. R-Fire fighters to-
day drew back from a flaming
American Distilling Co. whisky
rackhouse in fear that 4 new store
of alcohol might ignite and knock
over more storage buildings like
dominoes."
One person has been killed, more
than thirty injured, seven missing
and feared dead in two explosions
and fires since Wednesday morn
ing.
Some 10000 barrels Of aging
whisky-the equivalent of 1885,
600 fifths--have been destroyed.
This loss, plus the plant and equip
ment destruction, sent the cost of
the fire into the millions OF dol
lars.
The section of the plant burning
this morning is only 70 feet from
a building where 600, 900 gallons of
alcohol are stored.
Firsmen Pulled Back
The danger area was roped off.
Firemen were pulled back.
A half mile away from the burn
ing rackhouse is the huge works
of the Corn Products Refining Co.
The continuing fire, capped by a
dazzling, nighttime, atomic-like ex.
plosion seen rs miles away, de-
stroyed much of the company's
sprawling plant facilities In this
central Illinois city.
The explosion last night lifted the
roof and walls of one rackhouse-
a six story brick building-high
into the air. The debris rained
down on firemen and plant work.
ers fighting to halt the fierce.
whisky-fed blaze touched off II
hours earlier during a severe cleo
trical storm.
Bricks buried two fire trucks and
a fire chiefs car.
Firemen who were drawing their
water from the Illinois River and
repeatedly handicapped by a lack
OF sufficient pressure, were order
ed to retreat a quarter of a mile
because of the threat of new ex.
ploSionS.
Start Of Blaze
The fire yesterday morning con.
sumed two S-story rackhouses
where whisky is stored in barrels
for aging and a 4-story brick Gus
toms storage house. Some $4,000
barrels of whisky went up in this
fire.
Firemen from Peoria and a hall
dozen adjoining communities.
worked from 2::3O am. to extin.
guish the blaze.
But at 7:30 pm. rackhouse r
containing 68, 900 barrels of whisky
exploded with a binding flash.
Lawrence Nervear, 80, a plant
employe, was killed by falling
bricks.
Frank Drury, Pekin city com.
missioner, who was standing near
the rackhouse, said:
There was 4 big fash and
went down into the water and
Continued on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-05
Dim
View OF Reds
Farley Bid
Proposal Seen AS
Scheme To Wreck
Western Defenses

WARRINGTON R-Russia's new
proposal for . Big Four foreign
ministers meeting is officially re-
garded here as part of q persistent
drive TO wreck Western anti Com
munist defenses and to destroy
eventually American leadership Of
the free world.
Officials said today Britain and
France stand firmly with the Uni
ted States in opposition to this
Kremlin campaign. They forecast
that the Russian proposal for new
talks on European security will
be turned down by joint decision.
Three power talks on 4 reply are
now getting under way in London.
However, further Soviet moves
are expected. The belief here is
that the Russians may try to de-
wise proposals of increasing at
Effectiveness to Western Europe.
Their immediate major aim is to
block West German rearmament.
Alternative 10 KDe
Their proposal for an overall
European security system has been
put forth as an alternative to the
Western-Sponsored European De-
tense Community proposing to re-
arm Western Germany as part of
Six-nation army. EDO is due to
come up for action soon in the
French Assembly.
RusSia'S overall campaign
aimed at destroying US. leader
ship and isolating the United States
is being developed along two main
lines.
One is directed toward convin-
cling non-Communist nations not
only in Europe but all over the
world that the Communist bloc
wants only peace. The agreement
of the Reds to end the war in
Indochina fits into that line..
as does their European pla4.
The other line is directed toward
convincing the free nations that
the United States is not peaceful
Continued On Page Seven)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-05
NDOCHINA ENVOY
TO IMPORTANT FARLEY

SAN FRANCISCO N - Robert
McClintock, US. charge daffaires
in Indochina, arrived by plane to-
night en- route to what he described
as IAN urgent conference" In
Washington.
He planned to leave almost i'm
mediately for the nations capital
McClintock said he had been
summoned to Washington by Sec
rotary Of State Dulles. Beyond that
he would make no comment.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-05
KEY VESTS
TRAFFIC BOX SCORE
August

The city is getting off to a
fine start for August with only
four accidents reported to date.
That's an average of one per
day.
During the month of July
there was an average of IL
accidents per day.
It's true the drop is slight
but it's worth noting - and
working for q further reduction.
It'd be q happy situation If
we run, say for Z week, with
out \ single mishap.
Remember: Your safety zone
u within your head.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-05
School Board Asks State
Survey OF County System
Extensive Expansion Program Set
To Ease Over-CrO,Uded Schools

The Monroe County Board Of Public Instruction
has asked that the state conduct emergency survey of
the over-crowded school system.
They instructed Horace O'Bryant superintendent OF
instruction, to ask for the survey by team from the
State Department of Education aid them planning
for an extensive construction program accommodate
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-08-05

Key West Florida. has the
most equoble climote in the
country. with On uveroge
yonge OF only IL Fahrenheit
Evening star., 1954-11-30
Chicago Livestock

CHICAGO, Nov. 30 up (USDA).-
Salable hogs. 10000; moderately active,
ehs ten: sSeady to 20 higher on butchers;
most advance on weights over go D.;
5s9ws generally steady to strong: most
snsesers NH anG arsey ysqS 9aSS .na s
ssOVe So aTosnd lead bo,s Of ehSice S mostly
23O-260 ID. -17.50-IS.25; choice 36O-2S0
10. 17.00-17.50; q few $40 ID. 1878;
most sows around 400 ID. and light
l5.5o-16.25: a few 1850; blk 425-600
ID. l4.25-15.5Q; good clearance.
Salable cattle, $500: salable calves,
600;. slaughter steers uneven. mainly
steady with Monday: heifers mostly
sisasdy sssSI steady to 20 bulls
lots high choice to low prime steers
prime 1.050-1 ,346 lb steers 3o.00-
q 90; bulk good and choice steers
21.Q0-27. 90: commercial to low good
grades 17.00-20.60; choice and prime
heifers 24.50-26.60; good to low choice
20.25-24.25; commercial to low good
15.5O-20.00; utility and commercial
cows 9,5O-12:o0; Gamers and cutters
7.50 so: utility and commercial bulls
II O01ls g., s 90; good to prime veslers
saisbie sheer $500; slow; SLAUGHTER
lambs steady to so or more lower; sheep
steady; good and choice fed wooled
lambs 1S.00-19.50; d small patkage
choice to prime aO5O: Gull 10 low GOOD
l0.00-19 90; several double decks choice
and nrime 2-ldi lh shorn lambs with
No. l skins ~ tl00-19.50; deck OF
feeder lambs 1880 ,b. 1900; Gull to
good sheep : % $50.
Evening star., 1954-11-30
Treasury Is Pleased

The Treasury announced what
it called "very satisfactory pre-
liminary results of it's offer No
vember 18 to exchange about
17A billion dollars worth of ma
turing government securities for
new issues.
Preliminary figures, it said,
showed that at least $16.9 billion
of the maturing securities had
been swapped for new ones.
The Treasury said that ap-
proximately SGT billion of the
maturing issues have been eX-
changed for the 8-year, 8-month
bond paying 2l2 per cent inter-
est which was one of the three
issues the Treasury offered to
swap for the maturing securities.
Evening star., 1954-11-30
Chicuqo Grain

CHICAGO, Nov. 80 gp.-wheat and
ssoyyoeanS soyon & eased on the Board Of Trade
selling in, wheat reflected duh 10
mestic noEr business. fears Of deliveries
Of cash wheat on December futures and
some Of the dry areas Of the Southwest
over the next five days.
Wheat near the end Of the first hour
cnrn was to to = lower, lower December December 2.2sH;
oats u to. % higher, December s3ia: rye
unchnaged to "a lower, December .26M /;
Soybeans unchanged to Neent lower.
January Gents gsaNi sdrl and lard 10 cents lower
Holland bought a cargo of wheat,
6nt that was the extent Of the over
The Weather Bureaus five day outlook
ioreSaw moisture of 010 inch or less
IN the Oklahoma Panhandle and ex-
neb Kasss n with SG5
homs and Nebraska. Little or no pre-
elpitation was expected in Western
There was q lot of talk around that
there are. some large holders of wheat
futures who will have held the grain for
SIX months in December. Some grain
men men neneVe that these long lines will be
capitai gains tax applying after six
Cash corn receipts again were light
at 90 cars. Demand from the East has
picked up substantially in the last few
Gays and cash corn no longer is Selling
to doubt that there will be large Sa-
ttiyeries OF cash corn on the December
Secretary of State Dulles said there
ReS ReSid ch,n. 5s no a,F or naval blockade Of
mad been little buying in soybesns
yestsrdav on the possibility of such q
Evening star., 1954-11-30
Stock Prices Higher
In SeIecfive Trading;
Some Losses Heavy
By The As.oeiosed Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-The
stock market advanced today in
a selective way. In the early
afternoon prices were up be-
tween and 2 points at the
best. Losses were quite heavy
in a few instances because Of
corporate developments.
Trading again was at the 8
million rate.
Higher major divisions in
cluded steels, oils, airlines, mo-
ton pictures. coppers, aircrafts
and tobaccos.
Tipping lower were distillers,
electrical equipments and lead
ing building materials. Others
were mixed.
Zenith Radio opened on 1000
shares off 3A at 81 and then
sank around S points within a
short time.
Chrysler was up 11s at 81 on
5000 shares and then strength
ened still more on the settle
ment of a strike threat poised
by the United Auto Workers I'm
ion.
Armour & Co. was on the
tape with blocks as large as
5000 shares at IL up %. New
York Central was active and
higher on blocks of 1880 shares
at 26 up as. Allegheny Corp.
opened on 5000 UP 1s at SIS and
traded a block of 10000 shares
at 6A. Studebaker = Packard
opened on 10000 shares UP 5s
at 1917.
L. S. Starrett was under heavy
selling pressure after directors
cut back the dividend payments.
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal
was up around 6 points at times
and quite active for that issue.
The bond market moved mar
rowly. Government issues in the
over the counter market were
easy.
Evening star., 1954-11-30

from Kolowich interests and
remove a threat to the manage
ment OF the trailer company.
Mr.. Landa Is a director and
large stockholder in Fruehauf.
George j. Kolowich. then
president of D. and c. purchased
more than So million of Frue-
hauf stock from Harvey Frue-
hauf, former board chairman,
in July, 1858, and indicated he
planned to take over the Frue-
hauf company.
Mr.. Landa and Roy Fruehauf
then bought q large block of D.
and c. stock from Allegheny
Corp. and formed a stockholders
protective committee, which
brought suit against Mr.. Kolo-
wich for return Of d. and c. stock
he had transferred to a personal
company.
At the stockholders meeting
in April. the raiders gained sup
port Of other interests and
elected three members Of a
board of five to gain control. MIR.
Landa became president. Liqui-
dation was proposed.
Evening star., 1954-11-30
Sale Of FoIlansbee
ToRichmond Blocked
By U. 5. Court Order
BY the Associated Press

WHEELING, w. Va, Nov. 80
Sale of the Follansbee Steel
Corp, which was to have been
consummated today with a New
York financier for 1926, $40,
has been blocked by Federal
judge.
Judge Herbert Boreman yes
terday issued an opinion in
which he said the firms officers
withheld information from the
stockholders before they voted
on the proposed sale to Fred
erick w. Richmond.
The. Judge said he also will
block a proposed merger OF the
corporate shell of Follansbee
with Consumers Co. and From
tier Chemical Co., two Midwest
ern firms.
The judge said the share
holders were not told that the
firms officers stood to get good
jobs out of the merger.
Judge Boreman's action came
as the result of a petition filed
by 48 minority stockholders
seeking to block the sale. Judge
Boreman ordered the stockhold-
ers to post a 81 million bond to-
day if he is to issue an order to
sustain his opinion. Counsel for
the stockholders said they would
do so.
Attorneys for Follansoee had
no immediate comment except
that the next move in the case
will be up to the company.
Evening star., 1954-11-30
Bank CIearings SET
Record in November
And II Months

Washington bank clearings In
both November and IL months
of this year set new all-time rec
ords for those periods, it was
reported today by w. N. Cradlin,
assistant manager of the clear
ing house.
November, clearings totaled
$494 .891 $40, a gain of 1872 per
cent from $437, ,ls3,873 In Mo-
Yember, 1858.
Eleven months clearings
reached $5,323, ,908.777, an IN
crease of 6.8 per cent from
$4,983.544.955 a year earlier.
Mr.. Cradlin compiled the
monthly report in the absence
of Manager George H. Bright.
who was seriously injured in o
three-way car crash near his
home in nearby Virginia Satur-
day. He is in the Alexandria
Hospital.