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Commie Moves
In Indochina
f Are Unknown
r' By FRED HAMPSON
HONG KONG w—The invasion
f the kingdom of Laos by the
Indochina Communists causes anx
iety in this part of Asia because it
suggests that Red capabilities may
be expanding.
But the move also could mean
Communist weakness.
J The Northern Indochina war has
been fought for six years around
the French-held Red River Delta.
area is both the breadbasket
end chief population center of the
Northland.
> The side that holds the delta
holds control. In invading
o* the Communists are turning
ft reported 40,000 fighting men
■way from the main objective. In
1 ftffect, the Reds are sending them
Off on an expedition to conquer
tnore Jungles and mountains—a
•parse hinterland of which they
already have too much. The Reds
would get all ihat by default if
they conquered the delta. *
i The explanation for this appar
ent military sideshow is not yet
clear. There is some speculation
that R is for propaganda purposes,
•o the Reds can color another
area on the map. If this is true,
U is expensive propaganda.
Another speculation is that the
Reds’ objective is to squat on the
Burma and Thailand frontiers and
link up with Burmese and Thai
Communists. That would seem to
be a job for political infiltrators.
.However, the effect of 40,000
armed Reds on the border would
be a strong one in Burma and
Thailand, where political nerves
are on edge.
Still other observers say the
drive might be the first stride of
Invasion into Thailand and thence
to Malaya and Indonesia the
start of the long-feared drive into
Southeast Asia.
But that seems unlikely because
the invaders are Indochina Com
munists without any such capabil
ity. Only Mao Tze-tung, Chinese
Communist leader, has the armed
power to invade Southeast Asia
and there is no evidence that the
Laos strike is his work.
In fact, the Laos invasion
doesn’t look like Mao's work at
all.
If Mao should send his generals
and hordes into Indo China to con
quer Southeast Asia, they likely
will not begin with a military side
show like the Laos action.
They would roar down on the
Red River Delta like they crossed
the Yangtze River in China, a mil-
STATEMENT OF CONDITION
The FLORIDA NATIONAL BANK
AT KEY WEST 1 *
CONDENSED FROM REPORT TO COMPTROLLER APRIL 20. 1953
' Resources
Loans and Discounts . g j 475 go
Banking House, Furniture & Fixtures 203.787.21
Other Real Estate Owned . qq
Prepaid Expenses „ 5,383.1*
Other Resources jj qq
Accrued Interest and Income Receivable $ 42.269.05
U. S. Government Securities 8,275,357.67
Florida County and Municipal Bonds 378.184.06
Federal Reserve Bank Stock 18,750.00
Other Securities 1 I_oo
Cash on Hand and Due from Banks 3.800.681.55 12.515.243.33
$14,193,987.63
Liabilities
Capital Stock % 100,000.00
Sur Pfc 525.000.00
Undivided Profits 39,488.92 S 664.488.92
Reserve for Contingencies 65.79068
Reserve for Taxes. Interest, etc. 45,362.96
Interest end Income Collected, Not Earned 26,636.91
Dividends Declared. Not Yet Payable 1^250.00
o ** 4 . 13.396,458.14
$14,199,967.63
The Florida National Bank at Key West
WITH RANKING FACILITY AT MY W**T NAVAL. STATION
- 1. 1 TREY OR—President
A J. Pietfet Vice Preridest Ernest i. C. DeO. Vice President
C. L. Gardner. Vice Pres. A Cashier
Wilber U Potter As*L Center Kaihtoea Wsttons AseL Cssbter
Fsdrrst Detest* tsseresee CerpereNee j*ember Federal Reeerve
Member Pleride NaHaaat Qrmtp at lade
lot Jt f Rlt\l)l.Y COMMUNITY BiU ’
Wednesday, April 29, 1953
Tonight s Entries
(NOT POST POSITIONS)
First Race 5-16 mite
Agnus
Portis Boy
Phoned
Shattering
Nick Lutz * a
Top News
Highest Reward
Staver
Second Race 5-H mile
Slick Miss v
Tippy’s Cash
Lucky Teter
Focus
Eager Miss
Fire Hazard
Lightning Rodney
Beach Tramp
Third Race 5-H mile
Luck
Nadya’s Girlie
Reckless Trudy
Stop Over
All Time
Eascote
Lennox
Mer-Shak
Fourth Race 5-H milo
Jewel’s Trump
Hunter’s Choice
Restore
Turning Point
Guajira
Rolling Grace
Cameron Hilander
Cindy Sue
Fifth Race—s-H mile
Trail Breaker
Salter Path
Smart Dude
Queen’s Bomb
Careful Sir
Mail Pouch
Waneetah
Kitchen Maid
lion in a month, and force the
issue on the main target. Then
they would try for the natural road
to Southeast Asia, which is down
the Indochina coast.
The worrisome angle In the Laos
invasion is the knowledge that the
Reds have men and arms to
squander on oblique ventures.
Asa diversion, nobody here
thinks it will succeed. The French
are too smart to be decoyed out of
the perimeter by this bat.
The question is, have the Viet
minb Reds enough strengh to at
tack the delta perimeter in strong
concert with the Laos jab?
If they have, the situation may
become critical. If they haven’t,
this looks like a sideshow offering
few, if any, lasting benefits.
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
Sixth Race s*ll mile
Clara
Parking Sam
Navy Diver
Bonnie Acre
Farm Master
Jack Riboud
Whata Bug
Two-Ee
Seventh Race 5-H mile
Jack Q’Lish
Bar-K
Top Bracket
Chuckie’s Choice
Stirring News
Peck
My Bitsey
Old Refrain
Eighth Race —— 5-H mile
Initial
Bindle Comer
Glen Page
Roll Lassie
Val’s Clipper
Direct Answer
Candalon
Vendome
Ninth Race 5-H mile
Last Summer
Kitty Hutch
Avenger
Forward
Pease Note
Honest King
Stepping By . *
Melvia Jo
Tenth Race 3-1 mile
T. V. Star
Gay Beauty
Red Carpet
Scotch Lad
Beach Belle
Payette
Beseech ’
Wise Mike
Heavy Rains
Ended City’s
Water Shortage
DALLAS, Tex. <W\ —Heavy rains
in the watershed of Lake Dallas
just about ended this city’s water
shortage yesterday.
But at the moment, Dallas can’t
do much with its big new supply
of water for industry and resi
dences.
Somebody stole a power line
running from a transformer to the
lake gatehouse, making it impos
sible to get water from the huge
reservoir.
Page 9
Tells How
Friend Tried
To Poison Him
LOS ANGELES UPI Four inci
dents, says a young husband, led
him to suspect his best friend was
.trying to poison him.
Husky Robert Hayden described
them calmly yesterday as Richard
La Force went on trial on charges
of attempting to poison Hayden-so
he could try to win the love of the
latter’s pretty wife.
Hayden, a contractor’s helper,
said La Force was a frequent visi
tor at his home. The two youths
and Hayden’s red-haired wife
Joyce had been friends since high
school. All are 19.
Hayden said he first became ill
after La Force .gave him a soft
drink on a visit to the California
Institute of Technology, where the
defendant was a brilliant physics
student.
"I got dizzy. I got sick to my
stomach. I felt heavy,” Hayden
said.
Prosecuting Atty. Joseph Carr
told the jury Hayden bad symp
toms of arsenic poisoning.
The next three incidents oc
curred in his apartment last Jan
uary, Hayden testified.
“I drank some water from a
refrigerator container. It had an
unusual odor. After I drank it, 1
couldn’t stand up. ... My muscles
just didn’t work.”
Carr had said this was a symp
tom of potassium cyanide poison
ing.
The next time, the witness said,
he poured a drink from anew
water bottle.
“It smelled like the other one.
I took some in my mouth, then
spit it out. It we s just like I’d
been eating persimmons. It sort of
puckered up my mouth.”
Next, Hayden testified, his wife
poured two glasses of milk.
“I started to drink mine. She
had already tasted bers and said
‘Don’t drink it. It smells bad.’ But
I already had the glass to my
mouth.”
“What did it taste like?” Carr
asked.
“Puckery and bittery,” the wit
ness answered. “I spit the milk
out.”
Carr said an analysis indicated
the milk contained potassium cy
anide in a lethal dose.
Baseball Results
TODAY'S BASEBALL SCHEDULE
By Th* Amml>M Pru
ALABAMA-rLOBIDA
AndaluaU at Eufaula
Fort Walton at Gracevlll*
Dothan at Panama City
TEXAS
Dallas at Houston
Fort Worth at San Antonio
Oklahoma City at Shreveport
Tulsa at Beaumont
INTERNATIONAL
Rochester at Montreal
Syracuse at Ottawa
ftNrtngfirld at Toronto
Baltimore at Buffalo
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
Toledo at Indianapolis
Kansas Clta at LouisviUa
Coiukbus al Charleston
Only games scheduled
BASEBALL STANDINGS
By The Asseclsted Press
AMEBICAN ASSOCIATION
, _ W L Pet.
Indianapolis c | 730
St. Paul 7 , .700
Louiavilie 4 .*OO
Coiumbus 4* 5 4
Charleston 4 ft 406
Kan. City
Toledo 7 .364
Mumeapou. >7 JO#
TEXAS
_ W L Pec
Shreveport 10 * i
Dallas 7 sgj
Tulsa , J
Saa Antonio ■ 9
Fort Worth g g tan
Oklahoma City 7 7 joa
Beaumont • g 11 421
Hcuo. ,
PACIFIC COAST
, W L Pet.
******* • M
1 *
Portland 1 to
Hollywood it jj ju
San Franc taco 12 It t
Oakland • „ ®
Sacramento • 17 Jtc
Saa Diego • .5l
'There ISN'T any hank balance far that ‘rainy day'
you're always taikiaq about. You'd better oet a Joan
• horn CITY LOAN COMPANY"
• Never pet at! ttmmrf bem* repair* tor lack
W and of reedy cash. Jest pick up the phene sad emli
aw cempsey
CIIV LORD to.
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524 SOUTHARD ST. DIAL 2-S6Bl
The
Weatherman
Says
Key West and Vicinity: General
ly Air and warm today ami to
night. Thursday, increasing cloudi
ness with showers or thunder
showers likely in scattered places.
Moderate to fresh easterly to
southerly winds, occasionally mod
erately strong offshore. SMALL
CRAFT WARNING.
Florida: Clear to partly cloudy
today except increasing cloudiness
in the Tallahassee area with few
showers likely by late today. In
creasing cloudiness elsewhere
Thursday with showers. Slightly
warmer.
Jacksonville through the Florida
Straits: Moderate southeast to
south winds becoming occasionally
fresh by this afternoon. Partly
cloudy weather with few showers
Thursday.
East Gulf of Mexico: Moderate
to fresh southeast to south winds
today becoming south to south
west by Thursday except winds
increasing to moderately strong
over north portion by tonight.
Partly cloudy weather except be
coming cloudy over north portion
by tonight. Showers in extreme
north portion today or tonight and
elsewhere by Thursday.
Western Caribbean: Moderate to
occasionally fresh east and south
east winds through Thursday.
Partly cloudy weather with widely
scattered showers mostly over
northwest portion.
Observations taken et City Office
Key West. Fla., Apr. 29, 1953
9:00 A ML EST
Temperatures
Highest yesterday B6
Lowest last night - 76
Mean - 81
Normal 79
Precipitation
Total last 24 hours - .0 ins.
Total this month .47 ins.
Deficiency this month 1.85 ins.
Total this year - 7.58 ins.
Excess this year 51 ins.
Relative Humidity at 9:00 AJM.
71%
Barometer (Sea Laval) 9:00 A.M.
29.94 in 5.—1013.9 mbs.
Tomorrow's Almanac
Sunrise ............ —. 5:53 a.m.
Sunset .. 6:56 p.m.
Moonrise - 8:35 p.m.
Moonset 6:28 a.m.
TOMORROW'S
TIDES
(Naval Basal
HIGH LOW
9:11 a.m. 2:50 a.m.
9:02 p.m. 4:14 p.m.
000
ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA
Reference Statien: Key West
Time of Height of
Bahia Honda
(bridge) ■ -oh 10m 9.9 ft
No Name Key
(east end) f2h 20m
Boca Chica
Station— Tide high wmtm
Sandy PL) —oh 40m
Caldes Channel
(north end) +2h 10m
4-1.4 ft
(—)—Minus eig. t Corrections
to be subtracted.
(4-I— Plus sig- j Corrections la
oe added.
Commie Appointed
MOSCOW UF) Moscow news- ]
papers announced today the ap- \
pointment of Ivan A. Benediktov,!
former minister of Soviet agricul- !
tore, as Russian ambassador to !
India. He replaces K. V. Novikov, j
SUBSCRIBE TO THE CITIZEN
MAJOR
LEAGUE
LEADERS
By The Associated Press
NATIONAL LEAGUS
BATTlNG—Wyrostek, Philadel
phia, .486.
RUNS—Gilliam, Brooklyn, 14.
' RUNS BATTED IN Campa
nula, Brooklyn, 19.
HlTS—Ryan, Philadelphia, 19.
DOUBLES—Dark, New York, 7.
TRIPLES Bruton, Milwaukee
and O’Connell, Pittsburgh, 2.
HOME RUNS - Mathews, Mil
waukee, 6.
PITCHING - Surkont, Milwau
kee and Simmons, Philadelphia,
3-0, 1.000; Erskine, Brooklyn and
Drews, Philadelphia. 2-0, 1.000;
nine pitchers tied with 1-0, 1.000.
STRIKEOUTS—Simmons, Phil
adelphia, 17. ,
AMERICAN LEAGUE
BATTING Philley, Philadel
phia, .442.
RUNS—Mantle, New York, 13.
RUNS BATTED IN—Dropo, De
troit, 11.
HlTS—Philley, Philadelphia, 23.
DOUBLES—KeII, Boston, 7. •
TRIPLES Philley, Philadel
phia, Wertz, St. Louis and Jen
sen, Washington, 2.
HOME RUNS—Gernert, Boston,
4.
STOLEN BASES-Rivera, Chi
cago, 3.
PITCHING— Lemon, Cleveland
and- Kellner, Philadelphia, 3-0,
1.000; Parnell, Boston, Sain and
Lopat, New York, and Littlefield
and Stuart, St. Louis, 2-0, 1.000.
STRIKEOUTS - Shantx, Phila
delphia, 19.
Boxing Results
TUESDAY'S FIGHTS
By The Associated Frets
LOS ANGELES—AI Cruz, 126,
Los Angeles, stopped Jorge Man
jarrez, 126, San Diego, 9.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Jimmy
Martinez, 156, Glendale, Ariz.,
outpointed Del Flanagan, 150, St
Paul, 10.
STCKTON, Calif. - Tommy
Manaois, 134, Los Angeles, knock
ed out Gene Morris, 133,
Beach, Calif, 3.
BROOKLYN (Ridgewood Grove)
—Arthur Persley, 138 VI, New Or
leans, outpointed Georgia Dunn,
Hartford, 10.
HOUSTON. Tex-Joe Felan, IJS,
San Antonio, outpointed Joe Vas
ques, 137, Houston, 8.
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SHE NONET!
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Meat, hath, kbrtoe.
By petting M Hear e tlae glare where yen nee hat water the west,
yen'll ent ynaw aperating eneta. And with aa afeeteie water haeatav#
yea’s s§weys have p4eaty of hat tester* vithesi eevh ev wewy
City Electric System
I ; 1
l_ : 1 ■
Five Dead After
Lightning Struck
KILGORE, Tex. Five per
sons were dead here today after a
“flood of fire five feet high”
struck their home when lightning
exploded a crude oil tank.
Seven Negro homes were de
stroyed and twoothers damaged
yesterday when the bolt of light
ning struck during a violent rain
and thunderstorm.
The dead, all Negroes, were ten
tatively identified at Mrs. Chris
tine Beck, 34; her children, Lor
enzo, 6, and Elizabeth, 4; Brenda
Alexander, 4, and an unidentified
woman believed to be the Alex
ander child’s grandmother.
The exploding tank set fire to
another 500-barrel storage tv
and other oilfield equipment Al
though many oil wells dot the
area none was ignited.
Overseas Transportation
Company, Inc.
Fart, Dependable Freight and Express Service
MIAMI AND KEY WEST
Ala# Barring ALL POINTS ON t -ORIDA KEYS
Batwaan Miaul and Kfty Watt
Express Schedule
(Na Steps En Route)
LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT
SUNDAYS) • 4:99 P.M. Arrive, et
Miami at 12:99 a'clacfc Midnight.
LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT
SUNDAYS) at 12:11 o'clock Midnight
and arrive* et Key Meet et 4:M
e clock AJM.
Local Schedule
W,$T OA,LV twcBPT
SUNDAYS) at 1:99 a'dack A.M. and
(Step# At All Intermediate Feint*)
arrive* at Miami at 4:99 a'alack PJR.
• FS*
LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (BXCSFT
SUNDAYS) at 9:99 a'dack AJ*. and
arriva* at Kay Wa*t at 5:99 a'dack
Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service
FULL CARGO INSURANCE
MAIN OFFICE end WAREHOUSE: Cor. Eaten and Prerei* st.
‘ DIAL 2-7991
Louis Carbonell
Will Not Run Here
Fonner City Commissioner Louia
Carbonell today announced that ha
will not be a candidate for a seat
on the city commission in the No*
vember General Elections.
Carhonel], who has been extreme*
ly active in an attempt to bring
baseball to Key West as well as in
the promotion of other sporting
ventures, said that whatever he is
doing “is for the good of the town
and not for any personal political
ambitions.”
“A lot of people have approached
me and the general feeling seems
to be that 1 am going to run for
office—but that is not true," Car
bonell said today. “I have always
worked for the good of the town
when I was in office and I will con
tinue to do so in private life,” be
added.