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THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
Coalition Party Tak es Over
Control Of Irish Government
By TOM OCHILTREB
DUBLIN, Ireland (A—Associates
of John A. Costello said today the
oalition leader will give top pri
city to improvement and mod
miration of Irish agriculture
when he takes over as premier.
Costello’s control of the govern
ment was assured last night when
final returns from Tuesday’s gen
eral elections gave the group of
oarties headed by him a majority
n the new Dail (Parliament). Out
going Premier Eamon de Valera
onceded that his Fianna Fail
Men of Destiny) party had been
3feated’*and the opposition could
.')rm anew government.
The Dail is scheduled to convene
June 2 to launch the new regime.
While plans for formation of the
government still were in an early
tage, a friend of Costello said the
J’ine Gael (United Ireland) party
chief believes the future of Ireland
lies in developing her only major
asset—l 2 million acres of arable
land.
Through the years this most es
sential element of Ireland’s econ
omy has been neglected. The land
now is being tilled only at 60 per
OW GOVERNOR
He will not hesitate to rc! in the
public interest regardless of how
it may affect his political stature.
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cent capacity. American economic
aid experts have urged the repub
lic to do something about it.
With three seats still to be de
cided at a special election next
week, Tuesday’s voting gave the
parties this representation in the
147-seat Dail:
Fianna Fail—64.
Independents—s.
Coalition parties—7s. These in
cluded Fine Gael, 49; Labor, 18;
Clann Na Talmhan (Farmers), 5;
Clann Na Poblachta (Republi
cans), 3.
Fianna Fail suffered a net loss
of only six seats, but it had held
only a two-vote control in Parlia
ment.
De Valera, 71 and nearly blind,
has been a dominant figure in
Irish politics for more than a score
of years. In that time Costello has
been the only man to beat him,
and now Costello has done it
twice.
From 1948 to 1951, Costello was
premier of a coalition government
that eventually was ousted by the
Fianna Fail.
In conceding defeat, De Valera
stated his party “faced the unpop-
ularity of toe measures necessary
to set toe country’s finances
right”
Ireand’s economic ills were
largely responsible for the popular
old leader’s downfall as govern
ment chief.
The cost of food essentials has
jumped since the government
withdrew the bulk of its food sub
sidies in 1952. Taxes have been in
creased in the face of opposition
protests that they were stifling the
country’s economy. Unemployment
has mounted.
Costello, a 62-year-old Dublin at
torney, is a neat dresser with a
full head of white hair. His years
at the bar have given him a vig
orous debating style. Golf is his
one hobby.
He is a devoted family man,
with three sons and two daugh
ters. One son, Declan, also is a
member of the Dail.
The
Weatherman
Sayt
Key Weat and vicinity: Partly
cloudy to occasionally cloudy with
a few widely scattered showers oc
curing mostly offshore this after
noon and tonight. Saturday clear
to partly cloudy. Continued rather
warm with highest temperature to
day and Saturday 86 - 88 degrees,
low tonight 75 degrees. Gentle to
moderate north to easterly winds
thru Saturday.
State of Florida: Generally fair
thru Saturday. Slightly cooler in
the southern and central portions
tonight, slightly warmer in the
north portion Saturday.
Marine forecast Jacksonville
thru Fla. Straits and East Gulf
Area: Moderate north and north
east winds with generally fair wea
ther thru Saturday except for a
few scattered showers in the Flo
rida straits this afternoon.
Observations Taken At City Office
Key West, Fla., May 21, 1954
< at 7 A.M., EST
TEMPERATURES
Highest yesterday 88
Lowest last night 76
Mean 82
Normal 80
PRECIPITATION
Total last 24 hours T. ins.
Total this month .98 iris.
Deficiency this month _ .72 ins.
Total this year 14.13 ins.
Excess this year 5.28 ins.
Relative Humidity, 7 A.M.
_74%
Barometer (Sea Level), 7:00 A.M.
29.93 in 5.—1013.5 mbs.
Tomorrow's Almanac
Sunrise 5:41 a.m.
Sunset 7:06 p.m.
Moonrise 10:34 p.m.
Moonset 8:35 a.m.
TOMORROW'S
tides
(Naval Base)
High Tide Lew Tide
00:37 a.m. 4:45 a.m.
11:13 p.m. 6:36 p.m.
ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA
Reference Station: Key West
Time of Height ef
Station— Tide high water
Bahia Honda
(bridge) .—eh 10m 9.0 tt.
No Name Key
(east end) „..+2h 20m
Boca Chica
Sandy Pt. —oh 40m
Caldes Channel
(north end) +2H 10m
() —Minus sign: Corrections
to be subtracred.
(+)—Plus sign: Corrections to
be added.
TODAY’S
STOCK MARKET
NEW YORK UP> The stock
market moved higher today in
early trading, continuing the ad
vance started yesterday.
Gains were well distributed and
went to around a point at the best.
Losses were small.
New York Central, yesterday’s
most active issue with a gain of
1, opened today on a block of
7,000 shares up V* at 23% and then
added a little more.
Among other blocks were North
American Aviation 3,000 shares up
% at 31%, Celotex 3,000 up Vi at
20%, and Kennecott Copper 1,700
up % at 84Vi.
Railroads were well ahead as
they were yesterday. Motors were
higher on balance as were coppers,
chemicals, aircrafts, radio-televi
sions, and electrical equipments.
The steels were mixed.
Reporter Gets
News Of Fire
LYNCHBURG, Va. Iff) Tony
Stein, a reporter-photographer for
the Lynchburg Daily Advance,
called fire division headquarters
here yesterday to get some infor
mation on a fire from which he
had just returned.
The information he got, however,
was about another fire—firemen
told him his car was burning.
Stein raced downstairs to find
it was all too true. A passer-by
bad noticed the flames a few min
utes after Stein had returned to
the office and had called firemen.
The car was damaged severely.
Closed-Door
uu
Session Is $n
Again Today
By MAX HARRELSON
GENEVA H>e con
ference returned to closed-door
session today with the Western
Powers determined to find out
quickly whether there is any
chance of an armistice.
It is generally conceded that the
conference has reached a crucial
stage with both the West and the
Communists refusing to give
ground on basic issues.
There were reports that British
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
would fly to London Sunday to re
port personally to Prime Minister
Churchill. Eden conferred yester
day with both Russia’s Foreign
Minister V. M. Molotov and Red
China’s Minister Chou En
lai.
The primary purpose of Eden’s
talks was to break the procedural
deadlock which developed Wednes
day over Red demands that the
“resistance governments” of Laos
and Cambodia be invited to Gen
eva.
The West has opposed the de
mand. France labeled toe purport
ed governments “phantom re
gimes” which exist only on paper.
French sources said the Commu
nist leaders bad agreed to drop
their demands for toe moment,
but this left the two sides as far
apart as ever on the question of
getting the conflict stopped.
The United States was under
stood to feel further talks are fu
tile, but the American delegation
believes France should be toe one
to decide, when toe time comes,
to break off negotiations.
The French are reluctant to
break off talks until they have ex
hausted every possibility because
of the difficult internal situation
in France.
Eden and French Foreign Min
ister Georges Bidault will be in
Paris Saturday for toe 50to an
niversary for toe Entente Cordiale
between Britain and France. Bid
ault undoubtedly will have an op
portunity to consult bis colleagues
on the problem before returning
to Geneva.
The French have insisted the
problem of Laos and Cambodia
was separate from that of Viet
Nam. The French plan to end toe
fighting calls for an immediate
withdrawal of all Red forces from
Laos and Cambodia and a cease
fire in Viet Nam.
The Communists, on the other
hand, not only are insisting on an
armistice in all three Associated
States but also for political settle
ment on some issues before toe
armistice takes effect.
New Concessions
Are Planned For
Suez Settlement
NEW YORK UR-The New York
Times reported today the United
States and Britain are preparing
new concessions to Egypt far a
Suez settlement.
A dispatch to the (Times from
London said the U. S, government
has indicated for the .first time
that she will share responsibility
for safeguarding the massive Mid
dle East base after Britain’s
80,000 troops are evacuated. Under
this arrangement, it was said, Brit
ain no longer would insist she
leave 4,000 uniformed technicians
behind in the canal zone.
This demand has been a major
sore point with Egypt. She consid
ers it an affront to her sovereignty.
According to the London re
port by correspondent Benjamin
Welles:
The new proposal is now being
drafted by the London government
with Washington backing and Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden will present it to Cairo after
he returns home from the Geneva
Far Eastern conference.
Egypt, meanwhile, has hinted to
American diplomats she might
agree to reopen the base to British
troops in case of an attack on the
Arab League states or Turkey.
This issue has been deadlocked
over Egyptian insistence that Tur
key be excluded.
In place of the uniformed British
technicians, British and American
civilian contract workers would
supervise and maintain equipment
left in the canal zone under the
new proposal. They would be under
Egyptian authority but would be
supervised by their own nationals.
Respite For
Stevens Today
MILES CITY, Mont. IffV-Secre
tary of the Army Stevens was in
Miles City today for a brief re
spite from the McQarthy-Army
hearings and to attqpd sessions of
the Montana Stockgrowers Assn,
convention.
Stevens is a Montana rancher
with property between Twodot and
Big Timber in the eentral part of
the state.
Stevens said he had accepted an
invitation to attend t|is year’s con
vention and was “hippy to get a
break from the hearings.”
The Army secretary is due back
in Washington Monday.
Nat’l Editorial
Assn. Attacks
Ad Ban Proposal
WASHINGTON UR—Hue National
Editorial Asm. today attacked a
proposal to ban beer and liquor ad
vertising ae a repressive measure
that “could easily be extended to
other advertised commodities.”
William L. Daley, representing
the association’s 6,009 newspaper
members, said in a statement pre
pared for the House Commerce
Committee that enactment of toe
proposed legislation would estab
lish a far-reaching precedent.
“To single out one commodity,
where toe production or sale of
which raises on questions of consti
tutional validity, seems to us an
extremely hazardous proceeding,”
he stated.
“It would open toe gate to other
repressive measures relating to in
formation and advertising of other
commodities which the merchants
have for sale in tovns where our
newspapers circulate.”
The committee, meanwhile,
scheduled more witnesses on the
controversial bill to bar interstate
advertising of alcoholic beverages
in newspapers and magazines and
on radio and television.
The measure was introduced by
Rep. Joseph Bryson (D-SC), a pro
hibition crusader who died last
year.
159 Wounded
Are Removed i
,
From Fortress
By LARRY ALLIN 1
HANOI, Indochina UR --.The
French command says it has evac- i
uated 159 wounded from captured i
Dien Bien Pbu and hopes to fly
out 100 more today. i
Helicopters and Beaver aircraft
were making the slow but steady
shuttle from Dien Bien Phu to toe
royal Laotian capital of Luang !
Prabang, where the wounded are
relayed to Hanoi by Dakota trans- •
port.
The evacuation was slowed down
last night by violent monsoon
rams which made flying impossi
ble for several hours. Asa result
only 50 were flown out yesterday
instead of the scheduled 120.
A high command spokesman
said there still was no word about
Dien Bien Phu’s lone French air
force nurse—Miss Genevieve de
Galard Terraube. He said aU that
was known of rebel plans to re
lease the blue-eyed, 29-year-old
nurse was toe announcement to
that effect by a Vietminh spokes
man in Geneva Wednesday.
Newly arrived casualties from
Dien Bien Phu said Miss De Gal
lard was “with our wounded work
ing day and night.”
One Foreign Legionnaire told
newsmen at Lanessan hospital that
she was being helped by five
French male nurses. He said they
were aiding a corps of some 20
captive doctors.
Her friends in Hanoi believe the
nurse will stay on until the last of
the wounded is evacuated.' The
Vietminh have indicated they will
permit release of 753 altogether.
It was not yet known whether
toe rebels intend to repair Dien
Bien Phu’s shell-pocked airstrip to
permit big Dakota transports to
land and thus speed up the evacu
ation.
The French said they would go
on with the slow, piecemeal shuttle
in hopes some improvement might
be worked out at the Geneva con
ference.
The French continued to drop
food and medical supplies to the
2,000 wounded in the captured
northwest Indochina fortress.
French planes, continued to ham
mer rebel concentrations and con
voys only 50 miles from the delta.
The air strikes were concentrated
on rebel units around Mocchau on
provincial Route 41 along the
Black River.
Someone Must
Like Armadillos
RIVERHEAD, N. Y. (ff)—Sidney
Schwartz bought two armadillos
from Comfort, Tex., in order to
write a thesis on their birth habits
for a New York University doc
torate.
The armadillos, both females,
gave birth to seven offspring,
which makes nine armadillos.
Armadillos sleep during the day
time and like to whoop it up at
night. And they eat like mad.
For the sake of quiet and econ
omy, Schwartz tried to get rid of
at least the mama armadillos. But
nobody seems to want them, inclu
ding zoos and animal dealers.
“I can’t turn them loose, that
would be cruel,” Schwartz said
yesterday. “There must be some
body who likes armadillos.”
Crimp In Graduation
PHOENIX, Ariz. Iff) Girls’
fashions are putting a crimp in
plans for the eighth grade gradua
tion at Emerson School
The class isn’t big, but a whole
new bleacher section has to be
added.
It’s needed for the girls who this
year are wearing fluffy, full, stiff
crinoline petticoats.
Suspectls
Questioned In
Kidnap Case
CHICAGO lift—A 34-year-old man
wag summoned before a U. S.
commissioner today on a charge
of kidnaping a 7-year-old girl and
her 3-year-old brother in Beloit,
Wig., 10 days ago and taking them
to Illinois.
Joseph McElroy, identified by
toe FBI as having a police record
in Michigan and Indiana for mo
lesting children and young girls,
was seized by FBI agents and two
Beloit policemen yesterday at a
farm near Elwood, 111., about 50
miles southwest of Chicago.
Guy Banister, special agent in
charge of the Chicago FBI office,
said McElroy would be arraigned
on a charge of violating the Lind
bergh law, which carries a maxi
mum penalty of death.
Banister said McElroy lured the
girl and her brother into his pickup
truck on May 11 by offering them
chewing gum. The FBI agent said
McElroy stopped the truck several
times en route from Beloit to
Rockford, HI., and molested toe
girl sexually.
The children, who were not
identified by Banister, were freed
early the next morning in Rock
ford and were returned to their
parents.
Beloit police said the girl had
told them she and her brother
were playing in a parking lot
about half a block from their
home when a man approached
them and asked if they wanted to
go for a ride around the . block. The
FBI said the children got into the
truck and were driven to Rock
ford, 20 miles away.
Banister said McElroy has ad
mitted being in Beloit May 11 and
seeing the children. However, the
FBI agent said, he has denied kid
naping the children.
McElroy had obtained employ
ment at a farm near Elwood on
Wednesday. On the same day a po
lice officer at Plainfield, near
Elwood, telephoned the FBI in
Chicago to report seeing a truck
which fitted the description of the
one driven by the kidnaper at
Beloit
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No Serious
Reaction Seen
From Salk Test
CHICAGO 121—Not a singly case
of serious reaction or death has
been reported from among more
than 400,000 of toe nation’s school
children given inoculation* of the
Salk polio vaccine.
Dr. Robert F. Korns, a member
of the national polio vaccine eval
uation team, made the first official
report on toe mass experiment
yesterday to the annual convention
of the Illinois State Medical So
ciety.
At toe same time, Dr. Hart E
Van Riper, medical director of the
National Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis, said in New York that
the first phase of the nationwide
polio tests is completed and is a
success. He said 644,138 children in
44 states have now received the
first of a series of three injections.
Since toe trials started, Dr.
Korns said, polio has broken out
in Florida, Texas and Michigan
and three polio cases have oc
curred among the 644,000 children
in the study group.
One of toe polio cases is that of
a first-grade pupil in Florida who
is included in the study but who
did not receive shots of toe vac
cine.
The other two cases, one in
Michigan and one in Texas, re
ceived either the vaccine or an in
jection of a blank substance of no
medical value. Half of the chil
dren in those two states got vac
cine and half got the blank sub
stance, and which substance was
given will not be disclosed until
the final stages of toe study.
Dr. Korns said a final evaluation
of toe effectiveness of the Salk
vaccine probably will not be possi
ble until next year. Dr. Korns, an
Albany (N.Y.) Medical College as
sociate professor, is on leave to the
Poliomyelitis Vaccine Evaluation
Center at the University of Michi
gan in Aim Arbor, Mich. The eval
uation team is now in its fourth
week of observation.
Dr. Van Riper said more than
half the children already have re
ceived their second shots and the
final third inoculation will begin
the week of May 31.
Preliminary surveys showed, he
said, “an almost complete retura
of children” who took first shots,
to get the second. Checks in many
areas showed only 5 per cent
failed to continue the series.
“This is an unusually fine show
of cooperation for such a vast
project,” Dr. Van Riper said.
About five weeks more remain
before the last group of children
will have completed their series
of shots. All records will be for
warded to the evaluation center at
Ann Arbor.
More than half of the babies born
in the United States in 1950 had
fathers in their 20s.
Ears of the African elephant are
much larger than those of the In
dian elephant.
In France, Easter was regarded
as the first day of the year until
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