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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-05

0NE Sunday afternoon last summer, state
" highway policeman knelt conspicuously
by the side of a main highway in Southern
state. He was holding small black box, and
he focused it. like camera. at each passing
Car.
Traffic proceeded at cautious crawl. just
as the policeman intended it should.
A few hundred feet ahead of the cop big
highway sign shouted: Speed Checked by
Radar." The sign had been there for months
but the policeman hadn't.
The black box he held so tenderly was not
a radar speed control device. such as are
operated nowadays from police squad cars in
AZ states and the District of Columbia. 1t
was cardboard breakfast food carton.
painted black that morning after the police
radar set had broken down.
However, the breakfast food box was doing
just what the radar set would have done, with
one important exception. 1t was slowing down
traffic on dangerous stretch of road that
once had tempted speed demons. 1t probably
was making the road safer. What it wasn't
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-12-05

detector. The speed and intensity with which
they return enables the apparatus to clock the
speed of each passing car. This shows on a
dial in the front of the police car and is also
recorded on graph over a dissspce Of $50
feet of roadway.
1ow Xhey Gaeeh Yea
SUPPosE you are passing the parked police
car, going five or 10 miles over the limit. You
won't even see the black box, probably. until
it has already bounced its tell-tale waves off
your chassis. What happens then?
The policeman who is watching the radar
dial picks up his radiophone. He calls the
second police car which is parked mile down
Continued OB page 81
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-20
1854 Activity Is
Planned By Upper
Keys Chamber

The new Board of Directors OF
the Upper Keys Chamber Of Com
merce, at its first meeting, set a
determined policy for greater ac-
tivity in 1854.
President G. A. Ellis urged every
one to work together so that all
may benefit. He named cllairmen
for the usual standing committees
and added several new groups that
he feels will be of value In fields
that have been neglected in the
past.
Immediate work is TO be started
on the 1854 director with Harlow
Bedding, chairman.
Plans will begin at once for the
Second Annual Upper Keys Lime
Festival IN December. Suggestions
are being urged from all Upper
Keys organizations.
A Large contingent from the Up
per Keys attended cornerstone lay.
ing ceremonies of the Marathon
American Legion on Sunday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-20
TROOPS MOBILIZE

Ell PAS0, Tex. R-Troops in
six northern Mexican states have
been modified to prevent a gen.
|eral exodus of farm workers to the
United States seeking employment,
the Ell Paso Times said yesterday
Mexico closed its borders to
farm workers Saturday night fol.
lowing the collapse of negotiations
for renewal of the United States.
Mexico migrant labor pact. Fear
has been expressed that farm
workers would stampede to the
border.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-20

since "Hell's Angels" usually
rated the classic among Hollywood
air films.
That picture, begun In 1928, es-
tablished Hughes as the industry's
most fabulous producer. No one,
not even De Mile, has challenged
him since.
.sHell's Angels" was made as a
silent movie for three million, then
"a record budget. Greta Nissen, q
Danish beauty, was the star but
she never got in the theaters with
the picture. Hughes saw his first
talkie, strapped much of the film
and spent a million more to make
lit talkie. He replaced the heavily
accented Miss Nissen with an I'm.
known named Jean Harlow. The
picture made eight millions at the
box office.
A lesser known Hughes discovery
Us Faith Domergue. She first met
him when barely out Of high
school at a yacht party. The yacht
was the million-dollar- Oceania, a
ship that resembled a miniature
ocean liner.
She recalls that she was intro,
duced to an untidily dressed char
she mistook for one Of the crew
1T was Hughes, owner Of the yacht.
Howard dated her for lunch, took
her for plane ride, then took
her home, met her parents--her
father later went to work at
Hughes Aircraft-and put her un-
der contract. He told her he didn't
expect to put her in picture for
some time, q classic understate-
ment.
She soon became known as Hol-
lywood's most unseen. actress in
the three million dollar movie
Venuetta, WHICH dugneS neiu Tor
years.
81 didn't mind being under con-
tract to Howard. / studied, got
married, lived in South America
and had a baby and got q weekly
salary all the while"
Actor George Doblenz practical
ly made career out of "Ven-
detta," the only picture he made
in five years and always on pay
roll.
Il admire Howard, though, !"
comments Doblenz. ssHe could
have just squandered his fathers
money as some sons of rich men
do"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-20
w.da.a., ,.nv.r, y 1854 THE kTY WEST c,rz1s Pas.

|preferring instead TO keep one a
GOODWIN studio two miles away.
Whether he has even visitee
RkO Is a matter Of conjecture
The story is that he came in ont
morning, toured around the lot
and then gave a two-word order a,
he left: "Paint it," Another yer
sion has him never visiting ths
studio but flying low over it one
morning and phoning the same
order.
AT any rate, the studio wal
painted not long afterward.
Hughes, Of course, denies all d
this. He says he has been there
several times.
Most Of his work Is done at night
and in the early morning hours.
Often he viii sit with. aides In
Ia projection room at Goldwyn run
ming OFF the RKO product and die
tating memos. Jane Russell re,
ports that Hughes notices the mos
minute details in the daily rushes,
tive had him send me q memo
wanting to know why wore q
lavender garter in one scene where
he had ordered pink one"
One Of the movies that Hughes
runs necessarily is "Jet Pilot, !"
completed four years ago at a cost
of four million dollars and still
unreleased.
One aide who has fallen asleep
many times in the projection room
during the screening of this movie
reports that Howard runs the air
scenes over and over again, order.
Ing retakes.
He won't release this picture
until the cloud formations hit him
just right. He's the perfectionist
to end all perfectionists,' reports
the aide-who prefers to remain
anonymous.
The long time spent on the pic
tnre has enriched actor John
Wayne. star of the film, some
$4,000, a record payment for pic
|ture salary.
Wayne doesn't seem to mind
whether the picture is released as
long as he gets paid.
However" adds Wayne, ssfor
|Howard's sake, think it should
come out before very long. Even
the Jet age can't last forever"
The one who win probably suffer
the most is Janet Leigh, an I'M
known when the picture was made.
Even now, she is not the worlds
best actress. She can hardly ex-
|pect to advance her career with
a picture that win show her green,
gawky and CARRIED in obsolete
styles.
Those who have seen the pic
|ture call the air scenes the best
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-20
hughes Means
|RKO Takes Too
Much Time

HOLLYWOOD IN - Howard
knei,es means that RKo Pictures
rms les than 4 per cent Of his
s1emillion-dollar empire, YET take.
= IS Per cent Of his time.
some minority stockholders have
enc 70 court 10 moan hat Hughes
pends 8 per cent too much Of his
enc running the ssudio-and offer
- million dollars IN Losses as eyi.
dence.
Hughes b . mechanical genius,
kut ii,ere are many ii Hollywood
wiio question that's the type d
genius d movie studio needs. In
: dog-cak-dog existence, decisions
must be made On the spot. He who
hesikates finds other producers al.
ready moving h on an idea.
Hngies' great knack for unavail.
ability has proven his downfall a
nKO. Take the case Of producer
Trank Ross and The Robe"
Ross was producer at RKO
when be served up the screen
6efts Il the Lloyd Douglas best.
eeller. Ross knew the box-office
boterkial Of @TIhe Robe" and ap-
parvnEly 20 did Hughes. The multi
lHnzIionaire sank 4 million or more
d preparations for the filming.
Dut les Ross tell X:
eve we're al ready 10 rob sew.
| eral tines, then down through q
lmase AZ secretaries, minor execu-
lligeS and mysterious telephone
cnila would come word that How
rd didn't want to start Il yet.
Ono poslponement followed anOth-
rlunk1 / frankly felt that I was
btcut TO 60 out Of my mind. II
ew nnat II I could Just sit down
III Hughes for q few minutes,
. c0sild iron everything out and
4 nlis picture made.
A. everyone knows by now,
Iarrya zanuck finally bought "The
|obes and Ross and touched of
y CinemaScope era with II. In
first three months, "The Robe
koesed 20 million same fig
h KKO lot under Hughes first
We years Il the studio.
W course, he 20 millions rep
scents box-Office take which is
InGiderably more than the studies
h rentals from theaters. II
DO was the first CinemaScope
Eture, 4 fact that added much
he box-office appeal.
What b Hughes version Of "The
be" and RK0?
sKO. according TO Hughes, had
Ieady spent $500, 900 On tlie film
fore Hughes even bought into
company.
by NE time ] got there, Floyd
lum (tile former owner) had al
tdy canceaed the picture,' = says
ghes. There was nOt ! dlrec-
or producer on tlle lcktswho
nked TO make IT,
N explained that eli felt 4 TOO
i uhsive q production 10 justify
Hbling on 1t.
ghes said the former owners
htried 10 peddle the property
6dhlvage what the studiO had
nm Il.
sold Il 20 Zanuck for q price
4 few know but one that com.
ely recouped RKO's invest.
n. The Board Of Directors con.
bred Il q greal deal"
toward admits he made him.
unavailable TO Ross but "strict.
IoM the advice OF my lawyers.
Ross and RKO were locked h
lawsuit over how much he was
receive IN the sale Of the prop
~.
frank just wanted more money
lys Hughes, land my lawyers
hvised me 10 make myself IN
valuable =
Ross was not the only RK0 ex.
lcutive VINO had trouble seeing the
loss. Some even jokingly doubt
e,at the man exists. He never has
kiaintained IN Office at the studio,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-01-20

ARTIST JOHN L sTEINHouR. Dina works on the cover de-
sign for Welcome Aboard booklet Squadron vl plans to
release 70 all SQUADRON personnel as new unit
bers The AnDevRon public information office announced
plans for the booklet this week The new book now in the
development stage win show in pictorial form how the squadron
functions to fulfill its mission as well recreational
Invites Designed to promote group feeling and supply needed
information at the same time publication is planned in about
month
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-17

who had emigrated in 1898 and
acquired American citizenship.
Promoting for himself a
coast-to-coast tour Of the United
States. John returned from it
in mid-June after being COR
daily welcomed to the CHA head
quarters and Pentagon in Wash
ington and to United States
defense plants
AT 8 pm. on July 20-the
10th anniversary of the bomb
plot-John was driving Wohlge-
muth and himself in the latter's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-17

sedan when g West Berlin Gus
toms ofncer halted them at the
sandkrug bridge over the Spree
Canal.
Wife Left Behind.
Behind in a British sector hotel,
Mrs. John, q woman seven years
older than her husband. and
Prince Louis Ferdinand were
waiting for John to come back
from an unexplained errand and
join them at dinner. They had
all attended unnerving memo,
rial services that day for anti
Nazis slaughtered by the Ges-
tapo.
II must warn you that you
are entering the Soviet sector !.
the customs officer told John.
That's where we want to
CO." he answered lightly, and
drove on.
It was three days later. on
July %, that Capt. Hoefer. while
being questioned on the John
case by two higher intelligence
officers, went distraught into the
next room Of his Berlin apart
ment, took out his service pis-
toll. and killed himself with a
bullet through the head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-17
Power Source

CHICAGO. - Coal generates
twice as much electric power as
all Of the Nations hydroelectric
! plants combined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-08-17

At last resettling in the Bonn
Republic, John was the British
favored choice in 1856 to head
the new federal security Office.
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer did
not care for him, but John got
the job.
He cultivated two old friends,
DR.. Wolfgang Woh1gemuth,
much-married West Berlin play
boy and parlor pink. and United
States counterintelligence Capt.
Wolfgang Hoefer, German
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
By Dr.. Paul Popenoe

Mr.. c. is no mind reader, but
apparently his wife expects him
to be one. He is always trying to
outgueSS her, and is always "a
hours behind time. Today, when
she wants to be treated as an
equal, he treats her as a clinging
vine. Tomorrow, when she will
think it would be Just wonder
full to have some big, strong man
solve all her problems for her,
he will insist on treating her as
an equal.
Mr.. c. is not the only husband
who is losing in this guessing
contest. Most husbands are fac
ing the same problem, and I'm
glad we have support from a
member of the other sex, namely
DR.. Rosalind Cassidy, professor
of physical education at the
University of California in Los
Angeles. It's time for women to
grow up, she told delegates to a
YWCA conference in emphatic
language. She urged them to
forget their adolescence - the
desire to be child at one point,
protected and. INDUCED, yet in
other ways demand all the priv
1legeS of an adult" It's time for
women to take their full place
in society with men," she in
sisted.
Every thoughtful husband will
agree with her; and I hope We
are setting our wives a good ex-
ample. Write me in care of this
newspaper for a copy of my self
rating scale to measure Just
how adult are you?" 1t will be
sent free to any reader, on re-
quest accompanied by a stamped,
self-addreSSed envelope.
This desire to be a pampered
child when convenient and a re-
Sponsible adult when it suits her
whim is one of the common
reasons why women are difficult
to understand. OF course some
men are working that side of
the street. too. Do you re-
member the story of the man
who was asked if he really felt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Modern Marriage
Low Man in GUESSING Game

that his wife understood him?
mo, I wouldn't say that she
understands me-" he replied.
"She merely sees through me. "
Many husband, then, could
go along with his wife in seek
ing on his own account the three
goals which Dr.. Cassidy said
women should seek:
l. Be more secure persons.
2. Accept more fully a COM
Elementary, cooperative. nom
competitive partnership with
men and be willing to work with,
not against, men
3. Be able to stand the strain
of anxiety. uncertainty, and con-
fusion-to maintain health and
indignation of the personality
and develop a strong, expressive
instrument for living,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07
Inner Wheel Club
Valentine Pdrtv

With their Rotarian husbands
as honor guests. members of the
Inner Wheel Club will give their
annual Valentine luncheon at
1915 pm. Friday at the May
flower Hotel.
The guest speakers will be
Jerry and Jimma Strong,
WMAL-TV's Mr.. and Mrs.
Team"
The husbands will receive sur
prise Valentine favors and will
be serenaded with the song, Let
Me Call You Sweetheart"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-31

Congress shall have power to
regulate all executive and other
agreements with any foreign power
or international organization. All
such agreements shall be subject
to the limitations imposed on
treaties by this article"
Bricker points out that many
foreign agreements are not formal
treaties, subject to senatorial ap-
prevail. This section Of his amend
ment, he says, would permit Con-
gress to supervise these agree
ments in any way seen fit. And
each foreign agreement having
domestic effects would have to go
through the augmentation pro-
cedure outlined for treaties.
The administration claims that
more congressional supervision of
the scores of executive agreements
negotiated and the thousands of
administrative arrangements made
with foreign countries each year
would be disastrouSly cumber-
some. Effective checks on these
foreign agreements already exist,
the administration claims.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-31
Italy

XXTHEN ITALIAN school children
w in future years recite the
list of their countrys premiers
they can be excused if they forget
the name of Amintore Fanfani.
Signor Fanfani was Sure-enough
Premiership is, technically-but
his government had less perma-
hence than bottle of Chianti at
a wedding feast.
Mr.. Fanfani was a left-of center
member of the middle-of -the-road
Christian Democrat Party. He was
asked ID form government after
his liberal supporters overthrow
the right-of-center government of
Giuseppe Pella, also a Christian
Democrat. Mr.. Fanfani tried to
line up parliamentary support for
young, liberal government
pledged to reform at home and CO.
operation with the anti Communist
countries abroad.
Last week, after II days as
Premier, his government fell when
he went to the Chamber of Depu-
ties for approval of his cabinet
and program. He had no support
from either conservative or Com
munist-line parties. The vote
against him was 303 to 26O.
Technically, Mr.. Fanfani remains
Premier until another candidate
can be found or until new cleo
tions can be held. The next move
probably will depend on the views
of Alcide de Gasperi, leader of the
Christian Democrats, largest Ital-
ian party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-31
Korea

CINGING AND CHANTING slo-
- gans, 81 former American SOL
diers rode off into the Communist
shadow world last week to fight
for peace"
Their departure into North Korea
just about wound up the bizarre
episode of the Korean war prison.
ers. Left behind in the care of the
India-led Neutral Nations Repa-
triation Commission we're II anti
Communist prisoners waiting trial
for crimes allegedly committed in
the POW compounds and 104 anti
Communists who wanted to 60 to
some country other than South
Korea or Nationalist China.
The remaining 21,700-odd anti
Communist prisoners had been
declared free and last week were
being interviewed by South Korean
and Chinese Nationalist officials.
Most prisoners indicated they
would join the army where they
were freed. Others would return
to civilian life.
The 81 Americans who chose
to stay with the Communists were
dishonorably discharged last week
by order of Secretary of Defense
Wilson. They already had burned
their own bridges, however. They
made this clear when they talked
to the Western press in the neutral
zone. In individual and group
interviews they said they would
not live in America where men
are jailed for speaking for peace"
but would 60 to live in the real
democracies" of North Korea and
Red China.
So they, 1926 pro-Communist
South Koreans and one Briton
went gaily of to the peoples de-
mocracies.
Back in the United States, De-
Tense Department officials went
ahead with plans to punish re-
turned prisoners who had violated
military law during their impriSon-
ment. President Eisenhower said
the men should be treated with
sympathy and tolerance. They
would be punished for specific
crimes proved, he indicated, not
for simple mistake, committed
under the most trying of circum-
stances and later repented.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-31
Messages

RESIDENT EISENHOWER and
L his Council of Economic Ad-
visers last week made public the
Economic Report which is required
annually under the Employment
Act of 1916. The 225-page volume
was replete with facts, figures,
opinions and forecasts which
added up to cautious optimism plus
preparedness in case the optimism
is misplaced.
Republican doctrine holds that
there is no depression and no real
danger of one. It admits, however
that things are not quite so good
as they were in booming 1858. But
this is a temporary situation, the
G. o. p. says.
The Presidents report reaff1rmed
these views. And the facts and
statistics arrayed in the report
seemed to bear them out. Com
pairing 1916, the first postwar year,
and 1858, these facts emerge:
Gross national product in 1853
dollars was up 20 per cent over
1946.
Population over IA years of age
grew 8 per cent, but the labor force
expanded IL per cent. Meanwhile,
unemployment shrank to 81 per
cent of the 1916 figure.
. Average lD0rk aDeek was the
same in both years, but Average
hourly earnings in 1858 were up So
per cent over 1916.
. Industrial production rose 40
per cent. But agricultural produc-
tior, increased only 8 per cent.
. New construction of all kinds
mushroomed by 1858 to POI per
cent of its 1916 volume. NeU hous-
ing starts were up two-thirds over
1916. Businesses tDere expanding
their plants, too; the 1858 figure
was 81 per cent greater than that
of 1916.
. Prices remained high, but ,0dges
and profits were higher. The con-
sumner price inder ("cost-of -hv-
ing") was up 81 per cent, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-31
Housing

The Presidents housing pro-
gram, given to Congress earlier in
the week, was built around a cou-
pie of truisms with which no one
could quarrel. They were:
Good housing is vital to good
health and citizenship. A prosper
ing construction industry is good
for the Nations economy.
He proposed a program of $4,000
public housing units annually for
the next four years with the Fed
eral Government easing itself out
Of the home financing picture. He
would shift this responsibility to
private industry and local govern
ments.
In brief, he would reduce the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-31

turned to the topic the West most
wanted to discuss.
Mr.. Eden presented the Vests
proposed sequence for handling
the German question: Hold free
elections in both East and West
Germany; have the elected assem-
bly, draft and adopt a constitution;
form an alderman government
to negotiate a peace treaty.
This, of course, is the same
Western sequence which the Reds
think they cannot afford to accept.
East Germans would vote the Com
munists out of power in free cleo
tons. The Kremlin would prefer
to form a government first-plac-
ing Red stooges strategically, no
doubt, so that the elections could
be manipulated, if they were ever
held.
France and the United States
contributed supporting statements
for the Eden plan Saturday. Mr..
Dulles Unexpectedly credited the
Soviet Union with sincerity in its
expressed desire to achieve security
in Europe. He pleaded that we
explore this matter not in any sense
as representing opposing facts, but
as group of countries which, with
the Germans, seek a single goal
the Transforming of Europe from
cockpit of war to home of abid-
ing peace"
Later in the. day MIR. Dulles and
MIR. Molotov started secret talks on
President Eisenhower's proposal to
pool atomic resources for peaceful
uses.
Next week, the locale of the con-
ference switches from West Ber-
lin to Communist East Berlin. The
Western powers are expecting an
other wearisome exposition of the
Red plan for unifying Germany in
side a Communist straitjacket.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-01-31
Taxes

The pattern of the 1854 tax pro-
gram as the House leadership
would like to see it became visible
last week.
President Eisenhower had rec
commended that excise taxes be
kept at present levels, that the
scheduled April reduction in cor
poration income taxes be post
poned and that a little relief be
given to certain injustice or hard
ship cases.
All tax bills originate in the
House. So the views of the Speak
er and of the ranking men on the
Ways and Means Committee, which
writes the bills, are vital in the
tax-making process. Last week it
was announced that Speaker Mar
tin and Representative Simpson, a
key Republican on Ways and
Means, had agreed to this pro-
gram: