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By MANLY WELLMAN
/, knows most about death is a doc.

knows most about death is a doc
tor"
'Elucidate," he said, in the most
winning of voices. His hand was
still straying inside his bag.
Lets take the last two killings
first, or rather one of them. Ben
singer. They found he died with
out his breakfast. But he would
have had plenty of time to catch
bite if he got to your place, as
you say, after the time you left."
"Well,' said DR.. Stokes, IT was
gone from home to my Office at
about eight-fifteen or eight
twenty, and no Bensinger had
shown up"
"Why didn't he eat. them" /
demanded.
"I'm afraid you'll have to ask
him." said the doctor. Contact
him in the spirit world"
Mrs. Pettigrew was looking
from one of us to the other and
back again. She gathered her big
body together, as if for an effort
to rise. But, Keep your seat, Mrs.
Pettigrew," said DR.. Stokes GENT
ly, and she kept it.
The medical examiner saws
that Bensinger died around nine
o'clock" I took up my review
again. 'But Bensinger didn't die
quite as late in the morning as
that"
"No?" He looked mystified. Too
mystifed.
mo. He lay dead in a hot, hot
room, both he and Alchisez. The
heat of that room kept their
bodies from cooling off at a nor
NAL rate for this time of year.
and made it seem as if they'd
died LATER.
DR.. Stokes tilted his head back
and laughed, long and quietly,
and shook his head from side to
side. you're romancing, Yates.
The heat of that room was about
seventy degrees, as I remember"
"You remember" I threw at
him quickly. "What makes you SO
dead certain about the tempera-
ture of the room?"
Because / noticed it when
came back home after you called
me-" he said. 'Being a medical
man, I checked everything"
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Refugee Beauty
Queen Is Set
Graduate

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Up - A Uni
versity of Illinois beauty queen -
a fugitive from the Red zone of
Germany - is expected to receive
to receive her degree in one cal
endar year of study.
The student is Edithe Maria
Binde, 20, who is to receive a
bachelor of science degree Aug. 1
after c m pl eting two regular
terms and one summer session at
Illinois.
She won credit for 50 If the 100
hours of study required for the
degree. by taking proficiency ex-
aminations in various subjects.
Miss Binde was selected as one
of the six prettiest girls in the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-18
BY MARVIN L. ARRoWsMITH

WASHINGTON up - Watching
Pesident Eisenhower roam
around his Gettysburg farm, you
get the impression he might be
somewhat more interested in re-
firing there than he is in a second
White House term.
It's nothing more than an i'm
preston and you could be dead
wrong.
The President himself never has
given any public inkling as to
whether he will seek reelection
in 1856. Several of his close asso-
ciates say they don't know, and
they speculate that he probably
hasn't made up his mind.
They say the world situation and
the. political circumstance at the
time undoubtedly will Influence
his decision. That and the fact he
would be just a couple months
short of 10 years old at the end
of a second term.
But when you see him these days
at his 189-acre farm on the historic
Civil War battlefield at Gettys-
burg, Pa, you can't help but feel
that is where he would like to be
to stay, just as soon as possible.
The spacious new home the
President and Mrs. Eisenhower
are having built there has a lot
to do with the impression you get.
They visited it over the weekend
and spent more than an hour
proudly showing it off to the Presi-
dents youngest brother, DR.. Milton
S. Eisenhower, and his wife.
The place in the rolling Penn.
sylvania hills will be ready for oc-
cupancy by fall. 1t will be the first
home of their own they have had
since their marriage nearly 40
years ago. w..
Let's go look at my joint" said
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Eisenhower May Retire To
Farm Rather Than Run In Sc

the President enthusiastically as
he led his brother into the now
rOughed-out room which eventual.
ly will be his den and office.
And Mrs. Eisenhower remarked
with a laugh to her sister-in-law
as they wandered through the six
bedrooms on the second floor:
Ibid you ever know a woman
who had enough space?"
Building a new home and fur.
niShing it excites any man and his
wife.
But in this case you seem to
detect some unusual eagerness aft
er a life crammed as full of tire.
mendous responsibility and strain
as Eisenhower's has been for more
than the last decade.
Whenever he visits the farm
there is lively CLINT in his eye
and he talks about such things as
the sturdy oak beams salvaged
from the old original
structure for the ceiling of his den.
And about the cross breeding of
cattle he is planning when he &C.
quires a herd of his own.
There is plenty of room to
smack a golf ball across the
fields. There is a place, too, for
another of the Presidents favorite
hobbies - fishing. A private pond
has been built across the road
from the house.
And another thing: there will be
studio on the attic third floor of
the new home. Nothing has been
said officially about that as q
place for the President to haul
out his oil paints and easel, but
there is speculation that is what
he has in mind.
Yes, the impression you get
watching the President at the farm
could be dead wrong so far as a
second term is concerned.
But then again :.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-18
By Bill Glib

I've made up my mind that I'm
going to keep out of this City Hall
- City Commissioner Police
confusion that is going on at pre-
sent. The only thing 1 could give
you would be transformation and
you can easily get plenty of that
by going out and standing on the
street corner for a couple of min
uteS.
When the dust from the present
fight is settled, perhaps ."This
Rock of Ours" will be able to re-
port the winner. We don't have to
wait that long to say who the loser
is going to be - it's the folks who
allow this temporary discord to in
terrupt lifelong friendships.
That kind of enmity that is being
expressed at City Commission
meetings isn't conducive to good
government. If these commission
ers must be antagoniStic, the least
they could do would be to stop put
ting on a three-ring circus and
meet behind closed doors.
e., County Commission
An observer can't help but ad-
mire the County Commission for
the dignified manner in which it
conducts its meetings. The pro-
blems that confront this body are
just as important as any being
faced BY the City Commission. Why
so much difference then?
I think the answer lies in the
fact that county commissioners I'M
derstand enough psychology to rea-
lie the harm they will do if they
confuse the public by constant
pickering. They may have stiff ar
guments among themselves but
when a matter is taken to the
floor, personalities are eliminated.
The situation is somewhat ana
Joyous to decisions made by the
military. Probably admirals and
generals vehemently disagree with
each other before campaign as to
the tactics which should be en-
ployed. What would happen to the
morale of the enlisted men in
their command if such arguments
were made public, however?
once worked as firSt-aid man
and ambulance driver at hospi-
tai up in Tennessee. 1t used to be
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CHAPTER %

chapter ~
WELL. Yates" said the voice
~ of DR.. Stokes, and in he
came from the front Office. How
long he'd been there, listening,
had no way of telling. He set
on the desk a bag, the kind OF
little black bag all doctors carry.
well, where do you 20 for
new suspects?"
Right back to the head of the
list, DOCTOR" I told him, in a
voice l tried to make as smooth
and good-humored as his.
He. pursed. his mouth. "why,
now" he said, "that means me.
was at the head of the list, wasn't
Correct. DOCTOR" I said. "You
were"
Mrs, Pettigrew had been look
ing at him, with fear beginning to
grow and grow in her expression.
DO you need me any more, Mr..
Yates?" she asked me. IF you
don't, maybe I'd better"
But before she got up, DR.
Stokes put his hand on her arm
and gave her little push to keep
her in her chair.
NO" he told her. II think
you'd better stay until the end Of
this, Mrs. Pettigrew."
81 think you're right, doctor"
agreed. "a third party as a wit
ness may help lot"
II was thinking that very
thing" He sat in a chair, skid
ding little so that it was near
the half-open door to the front
office. He took his bag into his
lap, idly snapped it open and
rummaged inside. His eyes were
on me, very steady and bright
and smiling behind their thick
glasses. whats on your mind
Yates?"
Zone chief point, and I'll gel
to it at once" said. "The first
murder was champion for slick
ness, and the two others were
almost as slick. To do them the
way they were done took some
body who knows all about death"
paused, hoping that would make
1t impressive. "The man who
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.AP Nswsfsoivsss

That's right about the temper.
allure when you came back. But
what about when you left for
your office earlier, about eight.
thirty! what did the temperature
read when you switched the au-
tomato thermoStat back to bring
1t down from what you'd pushed
1t up to, and walked out, leaving
two dead men behind you to cool
extra slowly so as to give you
another of your clever alibis?"
He smiled like an indulgent
grownup at a fresh kid.
Doctor" I said, you don't
seem to get mad at what I'm say.
ing"
Because you're accusing me of
murder. And that only amuses
me-"
Mrs. Pettigrew got heavily to
her feet. 81 don't care what any
body says" she told as hastily,
I'm going"
She started for the door. But
DR.. Stokes got up too. His bag
hung open in his left hand, and
with his right hand he hit her
with something he'd taken out of
the bag. He hit her heavily, at
the side of the head. She gave q
sort of tired sigh and fell down.
I HAD started to get UP myself.
but DR.. Stokes shifted what he
had hit her with. It was a short.
black pistol and he'd held it by
the barrel, so that the butt end
had been like peen of hammer
to smack home on her temple.
Now he'd changed his grip to get
1t into firing position and was
pointing it at me. It had two bar
rels, one above the other, and
they were Al caliber. ] relaxed
in my chair again.
"Yes, sit quietly, Yates" said
DR.. Stokes. "You know, you
shouldn't have hit Mrs. Pettigrew
as hard as that
II hit herr" I fairly gobbled at
him.
Eyes. You hit her. After q
while, when have leisure to ar.
range it, you'll hit her again.
Fracture her skull. She'll lie
there a while, and die"
| CTe be eontinueD
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senior class by the university year
book.
Francis ]. Koenig, assistant
dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
said that in his Is years of ex-
perience ''this is the shortest time
l can recall that a person has
been able to get a degree from
the university"
Miss Binde, who escaped from
the Russian zone of East Germany
to Berlin and thence to the United
States, was graduated from Goethe
Schulz, Berlin.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-18
CAPTIVE TURTLE
BITES COLLECTOR

BALTIMORE IA small land
turtle bit 12-year.old Frank W.
Anders on the nose Sunday and
wouldn't let 60.
The turtle, one of II collected
Dy Frank and his friends, finally
surrendered when Franks mother
stuck a fork into a leg.hole In
the turtles shell.
Franks mother, Mrs Yvenne
Ford, said last night the boys mo
longer own IL turtles"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-18
US. Raps Red Efforts To Torment Strife
By NORMAN cARRIcNAN

WASHINGTON Up American
authorities said today they are con-
vinced Moscow has turned loose
Communist agitators to foment
strife and chaos in volatile Gen.
trail America
This belief, U. S. Diplomats said,
is based On recent developments in
Costa RIGA, Nicaragua and Hon
duras and climaxed now by an
apparently large shipment of
arms to Guatemala from Commu-
nist-controlled Stettin, once a Ger
man port but now incorporated
into Red Poland. I
The State Department an
nounced late yesterday that an
unspecified quantity and type of
arms now are being unloaded from
cargo ship of Swedish registry
at the Guatemalan port of Puerto
Barrios.
The announcement said that:
Because of the origin of these
arms, the point of their embarka-
ton, their destination and the
quantity of arms involved, the De-
partment of State considers that
this is development of gravity"
For number of years the
United States has blocked all arms
sales to Guatemala. It has re-
peatedly charged too that Guate-
mala is the center of Communist
agitation In Central America and
that its government is playing
the Communist game"
Looking back over unrest in Gen.
trail America during the past six
weeks, American authorities said
they believe the signal for this
activity came from Moscow late
last year.
At that time, they recalled Qua
temala's three top Communist
leaders visited Moscow.
Since then, they said, these
events have occurred:
On April 3, Nicaraguan exiles
from Costa Riea unnecessarily
tried to aSsassinate anti-Commu-
mist Nicaraguan President Anastas-
10 Somoza.
Somoza has ruled Nicaragua for
about 20 years and his death, Off
Gals said, would cause political
vacuum and a prolonged political
upheaval. He is also regarded as
one CT the most ""f'zn '';-C"'-'-
muniSts in Central America and
an arch-foe of Guatemala.
Subsequently a cacne of arms
was found along a lonely stretch
of the Pacific coast of Nicaragua.
Included were 2 submachineguns
20 hand grenades, 4 automatic pis.
tolls and 40 rifles described as
bearing hammer and sickle mark.
ings.
At the end of April, almost all
of the banana workers, numbering
over 10000, in the northern sector
of Honduras went out on a wildcat
strike. Workers in shops, telephone
exchanges and hospitals also
struck, paralyzing the entire area.
Guatemala lies just to the north
of Honduras.
The Honduran government threw
three newly arrived Guatemalan
consuls out of the area and last
week Secretary of State Dulles
suggested they may have triggered
the walkout. The strike has been
well disciplined with little or nc
violence, but it has been endorsed
by the Communist dominated Gen.
eral Labor Confederation of Qua.
temala and the Communist-run
World Federation of Trade Unions
"We feel even more clearly !"
said one US. official who asked
not to be named, that there is a
degree of activity in Central Amer.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-18
Gold Rush Fever Is Quickly Cured

RICHFORD, Vt. tR - George
Tyler will be remembered long as
the man who spoiled the week
end "gold rush. ir this border
town of 1900.
Diggers excavatj1g a cellar for
Knights of Columbus building
made the "strike" and a nitric
acid test, applied by a local jew
eler, seemed to indicate they had
struck the real thing.
But along came Tyler, principal
of nearby Enosburg High School,
to pronounce the gold iron or
copper pyrite-"foors gold"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-18
Red Vessel Sunk

TAIPEH, Formosa lR - The
Chinese Nationalist Defense Min
istry reported a lone Nationalist
warship sank one Communist yes
sci and damaged nine others in
a clash off the Chinese mainland
yesterday.
The ministry said 10 Communist
craft, including seven gunboats,
opened fire and attempted to en-
circle the Nationalist craft. The
announcement said the Nationalist
vessel returned unchanged.
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lea that cannot be. explained by
sources within the area itself.
each of these incidents re.
quires time, organization and
money. Conceivably each might be
explained by some local condition.
but Their timing and aim suggests
central direction and purpose"
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discrimination of these hearings
for good"
All four subcommittee Republic
ans voted for the recess until next
Monday proposed by Sen Dlrksen
(R-n). Previously it had rejected
SO a move by Sen. Jackson d.
WASH to recess until tomorrow.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-18
Trade Pact Extended

MANILA R-The Philippine Sem
ate and House of Representatives
last night passed an administra-
ton bill to extend the u. S.-Philip-
pine Free Trade Agreement of 1916
to Dec. 81, 1855.
A similar measure is pending in
the y. S. Congress.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-18

The u. N. Food and Agriculture
Organization thinks that 1t should
be possible to produce 50 per cent
more rice on areas now planted
in that crop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-05
End Of Meet Rotioning Creates
Chaos at Big London Market

Rationing actually died at mid
night July 3. but this was the
first free trading day.
Meat trucks rolled up from
all parts Of Britain to Smithfield,
the sprawling meat trading CEN
ter for greater London.
The vans soon damned the
markets great central archway.
About 100 meat handlers went
on flash strike when they found
the trafic Jam would force them
to carry sides of beef-400
pounds--as much as 100 yards
extra.
Some Of the younger men
never had handled such sides
before and older hands had to
show them how.
The strike was settled when
the butchers hurriedly moved
their vans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-05
Two Killed as Man Saves
| Wife in Plane Crash
BY the Associated Pres.

STERLING, Mass, July S.
Two persons were killed and
two others injured early today
when o private four-seater plane
crashed and burst into flames
during a takeoff from the Ster-
ling Airport.
Killed were Fritz Orlander,
IS, and his wife. Frances, 80,
owners Of the plane. Injured
were Jacob Ciberowski, SO, and
his wife, Mary, 80. operators of
the airport.
Mr.. Ciberowski suffered q bro
ken nose and his wife, cuts and
bruises.
Mr.. Ciberowski said he
smashed q rear window of the
plane after 1t struck a pine tree
at the end Of a 2.85O-foot run
way and managed to pull his
wife out before flames engulfed
the plane.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-05
Weakening of Western Unity
Eoreshodows Power ReshuffIe
Thony Problems Beset Grand Alliance;
Diplomats Gloomy Over Reversing Trend

the moment is recognition Of Red
China. Sir Winston and Gen.
Eisenhower found themselves
unable to develop a Joint plan
for handling this problem, which
has since become even more
thorny because of French nego-
tiations for peace in Indo-C China.
Gen. Eisenhower and Sir
Winston, authoritative inform
ants say, figured the French
would recognize Red China and
this would enormously increase
Communist pressure for a Chi
nese Communist seat in the
United Nations. Sir Winston
told Gen. Eisenhower he would
try to avert a showdown for
this year but inevitably the is
sue would have to be faced
sooner or later.
The week end word from
Britain was that If a vote comes
in the United Nations this fall
Britain will vote for Red China.
Gen. Eisenhower and Secretary
Of State Dulles have taken the
position-with strong support
from congressional leaders
that they will fight Chinese
Communist membership to the
bitter end
The Chinese Communist issue
Is not the only one which Is
(See ALLIANCE, Page A-3.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-05
Painters Union Calls
DC. Strike Tomorrow

District Council 81 Of the
Painters! Union today called a
strike, beginning tomorrow
morning. affecting all Metropol-
itan Washington employers who
have not agreed to a 13-cent
across-the-board pay increase.
Robert Iskowitz, council dele
gate from Local 1773 in Silver
Spring. declared that employers
have offered a Scent increase
with a provision which would do
away with the unions welfare
fund. The union. however, with
a top scale of So. Is demanding
10 cents more.
Union headquarters, Mr.. Isko-
WITT said. has ordered all union
painters to stay away from work
until their individual employer
has signed the new contract.
The strike involves Locals 368.
1877. 800 and 1773.
Mr.. Iskowitz said the present
contract expired May is. He
urged union members to con-
tact their headquarters at IT'S
street NV. for further in
formation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-05
District Boy browns
In Salvage Attempt

A 15-year-old Washington boy
drowned III the Potomac River
off Marshall Hall, Md, yester-
day while attempting to salvage
Sunken boat.
James Getz, OF 1901 Mime
sofa avenue Sc, dived into
about 10 feet Of water with a
rope in his hands. intending to
tie it to a sunken craft on the
bottom Of the river, Maryland
State police reported.
Thomas L. Miller, %, Of 1855
Calvert street NV, leaped into
the water after James when he
saw the youth was in trouble
MIR. Miller told police he once
managed to grab the floundering
boy by the hair, but James kept
struggling. Mr.. Miller gradu-
ally was being pulled under un-
til he was thrown a life belt
and helped to safety by Sterling
Muntz, 26, of Washington.
Divers from the Indian Head
Naval Powder Factory were
searching for the boys body to-
day.
James was the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James P. Getz. He had
lived in Washington most of
his life and was a student at
Anacostia High School. Besides
his parents, James leaves q 49,
year-old sister, Barbara.
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County after the family moved
from Arlington.
Mrs. Wuestenhagen said she
turned the dogs out into the
penned yard this morning. and
q few minutes later found two Of
them dead. Police said they dis
covered some meat in the yard
which apparently had been
treated with q fast acting poi
son. The meat and the dogs
stomach contents are being ana
lyzed to determine what kind Of
poison was used.
Police said the Wuesten-
hagen's valued the poisoned dogs
at approximately 5000. Mrs.
Wuestenhagen said $500 was
offered for Role, just one week
ago. but they weren't interested
| In selling him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-05
Hillary Climbers Report
'AbominabIe Snowman
BY The Assoeiated Press

NEW DELHI. July 5.-A mem
Der of Sir Edmund Hillary's
mountain climbing team was
reported today to have sighted
an "abominable snowman" in the
high Himalayas.
Four members Of the New
Zealand team. returning from
Sir Edmund's unsuccessful at
tempt to scale unconquered IT,
790-foot Mt. Makalu, arrived at
the border town Of Katmandu.
A Katmandu dispatch quoted
one member of the. team as
claiming he saw the legendary
half-human creature at 1900
feet in the Choyang valley of
Nepal. The report said the
party's tight schedule gave it no
time to chase the "abominable
snowman" There have been
previous reports of strange crea-
lures in the high Himalayas.
The four joined up with Sir
Edmund, conQueror Of Everest.
who had come ahead to Katman-
du with q member Of the team
. who had suffered frosthite.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-05

death was reported; the yea,
before, two.
There was a strong chance
that Independence Day week.
end death figures would be an
Improvement on like figures for
the Memorial Day weekend five
weeks ago. Then the totals
were: Traffic 1862, drowning
30. miscellaneous 84-total $50.
Toll Nears 1853 Figures.
But the toll was rapidly ap-
preaching last years final figures
for a similar three-day Fourth of
July week end-traffic 262,
drowning 121, 81 miscellaneous
total 434.
There seemed slight chance
that the number Of deaths would
approach records for a three-day
July Fourth week end-366
traffic deaths recorded in 1862,
and 676 deaths from all causes
In 1949.
The toll for a comparable
aop-holiday week end, June b.
~, was 400. An Associated Press
survey, made for comparison
purposes, broke this down: 225
traffic. 1876 drowning. 10 miscel-
laneous.