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Page 4 THI KEY WEST CITIZEN Sty* sCnj Citif*it Published daily (except Sunday) by L P. Artman, owner and pub iiaber, trom The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County U P. ARTMAN Publisher NORMAN D. ARTMAN ___________ Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use tor reproduction of all news dispatches credited to tt m not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local newt published here. Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year sl2: By Mall $1f.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of local or general interest, but tt will not publish anonymous communications. VueTiuiiMryv FLORIEhi^WtESS Asso^mnoN IMPROVEMENTS FOR |KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. More Hotels and Apartmants A Beach and Bathing Pavilion. A Airports— Land and Sea. A Consolidation ot County and City Governments. A Community Auditorium. THE IRANIAN KNOT Premier Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran recently won a minor victory in his fight against the British over oil nationalization in Iran, when a Venetian judge denied a British motion for seizure of Iranian oil brought to Italy. The judge denied the motion on the ground that he had no competence to overrule Iranian nationalization. Though the British appealed the Venetian judge’s decision immediately, that decision has been hailed in Iran as a breach of the British Government’s legal blockade against the shipment of Iranian oil. If other victories of this nature can be won, the Iranians may attempt to mar ket their oil in various countries Of course, the British can always resort to naval ac tion to shut off the flow of oil, though this is a resort to war, which the Allies wish to avoid. If the British can maintain their legal position, which has been challenged by the Venetian judge, the shipment of Iranian oil will actually be illegal and the British will have a right to seize such shipments. The international Reaction is important, and the de cisions of judges in other countries have a direct bearing on Iranian policy. After the Venetian judge’s decision Premier Mossa degh seemed to stiffen his opposition to the latest British proposal for a settlement and, In a radio address to the people of Iran, he expressed the belief that, by holding out against the British, Iran could win “a great national victory.’* The result of the Venetian judge’s decision, the strengthening of Mossadegh’s opposition to the British proposal for a settlement (the principal being submission of the dispute to the World Court), is to make any early settlement of the Iranian oil dispute unlikely. The danger of a coup in Iran, or of a deterioration of the situation into one involving the use of force by Great Britain and Iran is therefore a continuing problem in the Middle East. No two lawyers agree on anything, it seems. What New Yorkers think is smart, on the stage, is not necessarily smart. There comes a time when a wearer of trousers is needed in every home. BUCKLEY j; n*t rmsornr Wednesday, April. M. I*sl FiRST YOU DtSTßAa^^^^^— — •' ' '. ■ • '\kft#-~ • Scotland Yard Ready To See Queen Protected By SEYMOUR TOPPING LONDON/ April 22 (FI Scotland Yard is forging a security cordon around Britain to intercept the crooks, cranks and political agita tors who might disrupt the cele bration of Queen Elizabeth’s coro nation. The yard’s Special Branch is be ing heavily reinforced to screen the thousands of foreigners flood ing into London for the June 2 ceremony. Police of every coun try outside the Iron Curtain have been asked to alert the yard to the movement of any “undesira bles” toward Britain. At seaporti and airfields visitors will be checked against black lists supplied by British embassies and Interpol, the international police information center In Paris. There will be no unpleasant grilling. The polished and tactful gentlemen of the yard are more discreet than that. But all suspects will be trailed and watched. This screening is only one of the yard’s precaution! to safe guard the queen and the thousands of tourists coming here for the coronation. Scotland Yard naturally ia re luctant to discuss its security plans, but some details are known about the elaborate security wall which will go up around West minster Abbey when the queen la crowned. Overall police supervision of the coronation will be directed from an “information loom” in new Scotland Yard, which is only a five minute wailk from the abbey. Top yard officials there will be kept abreast of every development by a stream of radio reports from patrolling radio cars. When the queen rides in her golden coach from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey, the “information room" will map her movement almost yard by yard. The shifting crowds along the way will get hawk-eye attention. Mo bile police will be rushed by radio to quash any demonstration or meet any emergency Regular traffic will he barred from the processional route at midnight coronation eve. A still larger coronation area will be off limits to all cars without special passes after 2 a m coronation day. The yard win check every one of the thousands of person* occu pying a seat in the stands along the route cr at a window over looking it. Every person granted such a place must register with the police ia advance. Between 12,000 and 15.000 police. MO troops and 1.000 serv ice per sonnel will line the processional route to control the crowds Mounted police will help foot po lice, locked arm la arm, keep spectators in check. Women police officers will moth er the thousands tt school chil dren who will pack special stands on Victoria embankment. Sightseers or trouble makers will find it practically impossible to shinny up lampposts to get a view of the procession. Police will grease the Urr.opo*ts with petro leum jelly before the great day da eras Police wiß look coasuatiy for faces ia • famous yard dossier which describes tits several Ms drod ntmii who have attempted to molest the royal family or vkh tftg realty West are erteftpet* or faaacct Bat the pMtee Cmt these ere the type* wbe could most likely cause i trouble ’ Mrgaauad subversives would be KEY BOOKS •y A. de T. GINCRAS (THE RIFT IN THE LUTE by Noel Langley, Humorous novel, drawings by Regina Tor. publish ed by Coward McCann, Inc., New York City.) Now and then in the critical per egrinations of a book column, the j reviewer comes upon a novel; which seems to have elements of greatness. The discovery is an ex citing experience. This book’s dust jacket says the 1 author’s short stories have been appearing in such magazines as Good Housekeeping and Saturday Evening Post. He has also done important film scipts for Holly wood. But to this reviewer Mr. Langley was completely new, and his book a brilliant star among a lot of very dim ones. He manages to combine irony, wit. allegory and fantasy with an excellent story. And he puts it all down in some of the clearest and most effective prose this reviewer has read in a long time. The hero of the book is Lao-Ti, a Chinese Candide, who was born in the year of the amorous dragon in the province of Qui-Tung in the Middle Kingdom. A child of dispep tics parents, when he was sixteen his mother died choking upon a fishbone while disparaging his fa ther to the cook. The author’s device for getting Lao-Ti started on his Candidian travels is a capricious concubine. She refuses to marry the boy’s father unless he sends Lao-Ti away. Whereupon papa tell his son the gods were all thumbs when they worked upon him. So he dish es out a series of platitudinous parental clinches of advice, and sends Lao-Ti on his way. And so the sixteen year old goes out into the world. He tangles with everything from a decadent young man, to a war lord sired by a ghoul; from an innocent and beau tiful servant to a lascivous middle aged harlot. By placing his story in some an cient Chinese yesterday in a neb ulous middle kingdom. Mr. Lang ley frees himself from the neces sity of detailed contemporary or historical props. He places his in nocent and youthful hero ia a ser ies of fundamental human situa tions as old as the good and evil in man. He does not hesitate at the same time to use the license of the folk or fairy tale to intro duce the supernatural. Because of the distance away in time of the setting, this doesn’t disturb the reader. Foxes becomes ladies aad old men left for dead, arise again. Ghouls prowl the forest and go walking without their evil heads. A poetic story of innocence abroad in the world told by a mas with gayety and wisdom in his heart and prose, the book ia one which should live beyond this pub lisher’s year of IhS3 (MSA ROO AND THE Bt?NNIES by Rachel Leanard, child’s pic ture book, illustrated by Tom Funk, published by Houghton Mif flin Cos . Boston. Mass.) This little yard com tunes two of the first animal peculiarities brought to the attention of chS dren the fecundity of rabbit* aad the frontal pouch at kangaroos. The story begins when Mat matt likely to Mar*, far political r,ka. a deaaettstrstie* again*: the institution 4 royalty British Communists have shouted tor a tong, time in fav.tr it 'healthy re pubmaftisat" AS subversives wd) be watched by the petite on coronation day . Flossie O’Cotton, a lady rabbit, asks Mrs. Roo, a lady kangaroo, to baby sit for her four bunnies while she goes to town to buy an Easter bonnet. And immediately Mrs. Roo and her charges begin to display the traditional' biological pecularities for which they have become fa mous. Mrs. Roo baby sita in a most original fashion. She takes the four bunnies for a ride in her famed pouch. And no sooner has the lady kangaroo gone leaping over the trees and mountains, when the bunnies start multiplying When they stop for lunch in a field of carrots, the four bunnies have become eight bunnies. So Mrs. Roo is subjected to sev eral indignities. The other ani mals give her the very loud rasp berry because of her unusual pouch cargo. Also the bunnies con tinue to multiply in an alarming fashion* pouch, fashioned by nature to carry a couple of deli cate bilv | kangaroos also begins to suffer.’ ? The devices of the author to get Mrs. Roo obi of these several em barrassing traps are rather arti ficial. But everything turns out happily, even Mrs. Roo’s much abused pouch. (TWO REELS AND A CRANK by Albert E. Smith in collaboration with Phil A. Khoury, non fiction, illustrated, published by Double day Publishing company, New York City.) Thomas Edison’s incandescent lamp was still a novelty, and Ted dy Roosevelt had not yet led his Rough Riders up San Juan hill, when the author of this book aband oned his stage career at the age of twenty to ally himself with the new entertainment craze of the day • pictures that moved. This was in 1665. The Edison company had developed the kine foscope. a big Mack box with a slit in the top popularly known as Tom Ediaon’a peep show. Tat a nickel, the viewer saw a forth foot •trip of fUm rapidly pulled past his gaze. Thia gave the illusion of pictures moving. Smith, a mechanical genius, set out to invent a machine which would project enlarged reproduc Urns of this strip 4 film on a •beet. The devices he invented are ■ still in use today, such as the Smith ! setting devices he invented are still in use today, such aa the Smith setting device and the Smith noo-flidter shutter. He called this first machine Vitagrath. vita mean ing life and graph picture The first films, shown ia vaude ville houses between acts, lasted one minute each, and toe subject* were chosen tor their motion val ue only They pictured racing Bn engines, cable cars on Broadway, and a famous train, the Mach dia mond express, which terrified toe audience as it thundered down the track. The public, however, eventually tired at these momentary scenes • that flickered on the screen. No one had yet thought at filming a story ; aequeeee. or at injecting some of i that intriguing subject paraded <m the stage of toe beer dare*. . sex. Vit*graph, fo feet, would have Med and died were it not for events shaping up to toe wethi tn j tm, the hotttoahtp Marne wee sunk sn Havana harbor War and toe newest movie was horn’ The anther toils at the adventures in : eocoentered as to* camera record-1 ed to* charge up San Juan ME. toe battle at Santiago bay. aa* I later a senes of events m toe Boer! TCey West In Days Gone By From The Citizen Files 26 YEARS AGO City Council, at its regular meet ing last night, brought up the sub ject of proposed changes in the city charter, and decided to hold a meeting next week with the mayor, city attorney ami other of ficials at which time the matter will be generally discussed. With watches, silver spoons and ether valuables of easy ac cess te the public, not one arti cle was missing from the brok en window in the curios store of Frank Johnson on Duval Street near Greene. Vincente Moiinh, who had been on a business trip to points in the state, returned yesterday over the East Coast. Judge Jefferson B. Browne en tertained et dinner last night in honor of his house guests, Miss Albert Perschenske of Topeka, Kan., and Mrs. Willia S. Blan chard of Atlantic Baach, Fla. A call meeting of the Junior Woman’s Club has been announc ed for Monday afternoon, April 24, at 5 o’clock in the club house, 1307 Division Street. Under tha auspicas of Harris Schaal Parent-Teacher Associa tion a delightful event of yester day afternoon was a benefit bridge at Pythian Sisters hali on Fleming Street, near William. 10 YEARS AGO William H. Malone arrived in Key West at 1:30 o’clock this after noon to make an address at a joint meeting of the Odd Fellow and Rebekah lodges in this city. Sydney Thompson, former city electrician, who has been absent from the city for about a year, has returned to Key West. The sixth organ recital schedul ed for presentation on last Mon day evening was postponed due to the inclement weather. The organ program will be rendered next Monday evening, April 26th, begin ning at 8 o’clock, by Charles Rob erts, organist. Tha Strang Coast Guard base ball team continued its undefeat ed ways last night at the top of the American Division of the Is land Service Men's League by conquering the Boca Chica tut ors. Work was started this morning on four of the 20 duplex (houses the Stewart-Page Company, of Mi ami will construct in the site im mediately adjoining the High School annex that is now in course of construction east of the govern ment commissary. Pirates Cove Fishing Ledge, an Sugar Leaf Key, has been taken ever by the Coast Guard, it was officially announced this morn ing. war. The story of these episodes has all the suspense of a mystery Bovet. Another milestone in the devel opment of motion pictures was the first scene filmed by artificial light The Jeffries-Ffttsimmons fight was scheduled for the Coney (Continued on Page Fifteen) Crossword Puzzle acnose 1. Scolded I. Bovine animal 6 Owns mg agent 11 fUbbit 11 Jap*.. *• 14. Irritable 14. Arabic letter 14 Negative 17. Net good IK Bold la readiness SB. Iron worfctftg turner* ft. Born 21 Beam 29, Pinna* 97 Beck W. Italian capital ft. Make lace It, Anxiety 34. Affirmative 34, Repentant* 31 Free S7.t able 31 Rive 41. Milder 45. it** 44, MaioXfal 47. Wa* carried 44. Optica) glass 4. Nfoccaito SO. Awry 91. Accept a Beverage Give tem porarily OOWW _ t. Bun tightly __ j J £77t TANARUS" tg if U h," -t-f * %* I I t 4’ l 1 ! 7% ——r~~>i —pi —p- —p pjzsl p4p !* rl’iH-- —r-r-i |h-:. v PpH" WtSSSSim" J PSwjgfef * ■> mmSm# ' m Warnfe Jm Wmm I*&■&.. .’•.-SfiXY’” |Kgßu i-sSg DAN B. BEARD, director of Everglades National Park who was guest speaker at the Monroe County Audubon Society reception at Wesley House, Saturday night.—Citizen Staff Photo. “Big Three” In Automobile Industry May Soon Be Ended By DAVID J. WILKIE DETROIT, April 22 UP The automobile industry someday may have a “big four" instead of “big j three" and 1 if that comes about it | likely will be a Henry J. Kaiser ■ enterprise. | That’s the speculation among | | veteran auto industry analysts | since announcement the Kaiser- Frazer Corp. Has completed an agreement to purchase the 50- year-old, Wiilys-Ovcrland Motors. The merger still must be ratified by the stockholders. Audgcity and perfect timing are among the attributes credited to Kaiser. An unbounded capacity for ; work, tremendous patience and dy namic application to the job arc j characteristics of his son, Edgar F. Kaiser, | The elder Kaiser, son of a shoe j factory mechanic, i. head of a i far-flung chain of enterprises that i do an annual .business in excess of 800 million dollars. Edgar Kaiser is president and general manager of Kaiser-Frazcr and an official in several other units of toe Kaiser empire. ( The proposal to take over WiUys | Overland involves more than 62 million dollars, but that’s a rel i atively minor item in the develop | merits that have brought the Kai | sers to rank anions the nation's : most talkcd-about industrialists. The companies making up the empire have more than 100 plants that produce more than 200 prod ucts; they have 60 000 employe* and some 67,000 stockholders. The products rahjf* from auto* to alu minum, cement to chemicals, ship* to steel, hospitals to housing. Contrary to widespread impres sion toe Kaiser companies gener ally are autonomous unit* All the companies making up the big and varied industrial enterprise are p - on a protit busts excepting K F I Those who believe several auto i mobile companies wiß be added i to the Kaiser interests base their Ootutioa of VceUrdsy't Puaaie 2. Ylgoreue 3. Flower 4. Protection KJY*n*tore*d C M*.<*’. m elrumua* 1 fhanor i. Nst.’Vf Esm Indian ' . • geest to, gxr.led It. Funeral pit* It Fflgtsie sand' etnas * Ifc Mvy tt Resanre 23 Pm a revet m, rites*** £5 Wi-man city 26, Mating wage* 22. Carve 3k. laii .> letter 22. Mtedto Deep hale % Lght hepwo i*. w*d tighter Nb htfiiuc *mo eto*n> Mtodt twaie tt fesw to* ♦J.FSrtt 4ic*> *6Os*-w if*** limjSMf belief on several factors: The Kaiser ambition; a conviction a merger of independent auto com panies to set up major competi tion for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler long has been in the works, and the determination of the Kaisers to beet "the toughest thing we ever tackled.” The phrase was well chosen. Since the Duryea brother* built their first automobile some CO years ago more than 2,500 differ ent comranies have built car*. To day there are fewer than 20 es tablished companies and 12 of these are grouped hi the “big three.” Obviously it was audacity that prompted Henry Kaiser in 1939 tv bid on a government job involv ing five million barrels of cement for Shasta Dam when he had no cement plant. He underbid oth~r cement companies and with bor rowed money built the perms ncnte c*- He was audacious, too, when be fore World War II he underbid rivals for a part of toe Hoover Dam construction job, wor’i on the Bonneville Dam project and work on Grand Coulee dam. Until this time, the elder Kaiser, born in Sprout Creek. N. May 8, 1882, waa not widely known. It took Hoover Dam and a huge wartime shipbuilding project to bring him into industrial promi nence. Henry Kaiaer got his firs* job as a cash boy in a Utica. N. Y„ drygoods store. Several other jobs followed, and in 1914. with 616,006 of borrowed capital be went into construction work, bidding suc cessfully on a 6325,000 paving job in British Columbia. The Kaisers’ built 1.400 shipa for the government during the war, among there 010 Liberty ships. When the operation ran into dif ficulties because the Kaisers could no* get steel pistes, they built their own steel mill When the Kaiser Fraaor auto mobile project ran tote materials shortages and supply company re luctance to furnish parts to a new comer. Edgar Kaiaer engineered establishment of an auto engfoto dm* ion and a foundry Henry Kaiaer reported to a con gressional committee that MS mo tion dollar* of prewar business was done entirely with private capital; that during the war he borrowed 1152.700.000 fopm the RFC for par tial financing of operations that aaved the government upward at m million dollars us stop*, steel* bulk cement and other material*. Right now mem at the Kaiaer enterprtae*. excepting Kaiaer Fra- Th* kT mdebUtaT? to* RFC 4 Ol nullvn dollars would he re duced by ti m Slmmi defiers out at the mttfion dollars to ho bor rowed privately to handle the Wtoys-Overiaad purchase A* head of the varied Kaiaer bam summoned ms my time* to ta>*4vfw mi .a non arnaaitmet koaeuswu EO-gg j E* a 1 JYFgfiw w ! one* asked Mai why. ot Me tma of life and with financial taoKtr. and subjected htmoMf la ao assay “1 LETS GO DOG RACING FIRST PACE 0 If PAL DAILY DOUBLE Is* A tod ODttetfLAS tVCRV PACE