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Show f Tuesday, December 28, 19 IS Accused Get High Court Protection; Top U. S. Officials Pay Inadequate; Now He Loafs in Florida, Catching Fish, Mermaids 7 - By BAUKIIAGE Newt Analyst and Commentator. FORT PIERCE, FLA. As you read these lines I expect to be back where the quiet along the Potomac will be dise turbed by the plans for an inauguration party and the beginning of a new legislative year. But as I write I can see the blue of the Indian river whose eastern shore line is a slim silhouette of palm trees screening the Atlantic beyond. old-tim- When I stand up I can look over the seawall and watch mullet Jumping higher than I ever saw a fish leap except when the Washington state salmon were hurdling the falls on their way to spawn. A little way north of here a wide breaches the natural strip of beach ntl I L L i Jj 1 I I If 1 1 and dune, scrub pine and palm cabbage which forms a part of the barrier be- tween the ocean and the great in- land waterway stretching from New York to Miami. harbor These occasional Intrusions of the ocean dont disIndian the turb river In the slightest for through the channels dredged come the fish and the deep-sefishing boats, the shrimpers and the freighters that mingle with the trim pleasure craft in the yacht basin. Approaching this spot on land you are welcomed by the brilliant red of the Turk's Caps, the flower that iever opens never has to. Perhaps It Is too lazy. It loafs along the ditches, growing wild in fields or tamed in gardens, showing no envy for its more aristocratic sister, the hibiscus which throws its Dames out in wide tongues, the dainty bouganvillea blossoms, or the languorous pomsettia. When. crane flashes op from the river edge, polished silver streak In the sun, you know you have left the northern city canyons far behind. Now the groves. Ripening oranges nmong the leaves shine like lt-tl- e golden brads against rich, green velvet tapestry. Quite a different green from the delicate tint of the little lizard sunning himself on the window screen-beki- de me. lie would match the tender tint of the clusters of new pine needles undulating In a breeze that kreps the palma fanning themselves with their rippling fronds. I am met in new, blue truck which also transports fish, groceries and whatnot even a marauding wildcat which has suffered his just deserts among the palmettos at dawn. Over the cottage great bulbous blossoms of the yellow trumpet vine are waiting until the sun sets to send out their intoxicating perfume. The next day starts, as It should, on the river. Overhead are the soaring flshhawks, the nervous kingfishers, the greedy, speedy and graceful black cormorants and high r above all the tireless birds with their wide sweeping M, which wings, like an upper-cas- e never seem to change their shape. Little snappers are so thick that we couldn't bait fast enough, but we are fishing for our supper! And so days pass with no sense of time passing with them trout and a few fighting Jacks that flop and grunt but which Is of little interest to the commercial fisherman. a - man-of-wa- fish like a trout or pompano, as my wife would say, making a little more euphemistic the terminology of the Not a 'honey-mone- commercial fisherman. Bill Turner smiles. lie knows the personal histories and habits of the furred, feathered or finny folk that Inhabit these parts and gets as much pleasure out of seeing somebody else land a catch as he does doing It himself. And he has an uncanny sixth sense that takes him straight to the spot close to the bank in the green shadow of the mangroves, outside on reef, deep in the cuts wherever fish will be If fish there are. -- ..I . watch isxy wife pull. In four speckled beauties I get none That's not what the male animal ordinarily calls good fishing. But 1 don't resent the fact that she is thr fisherrpan in this famtiv. In fact as far as I am concerned, she, not Hernando de Soto, discovered I land a snook, the place enough1 Fried, with corndogers, crisp and golden brown, a salad of grapefruit, oranges, pineapple and fresh cocoanut from the backyard, that snook is delicious. And so to bed. Next day I go after a different species of marine fauna. (See ac- ... Merphotograph ) companying maids arent as hara to find as they used to be before that in agfii-tlcugemous creature, homo-pres- s was discovered and carefully cultivated by the chambers of commerce of all energetic resorts. Although I didn't intend tq make a busman's holiday out of my vacation I couldn't help getting one or two interviews. I called on Douglas Silver, president of the local chamber of commerce. I had known him when his beat was Broadway and the New His ofYork advertising district. fice .was as busy as one In the Merchandise Mart or Radio City. Do you like It any better here7 I asked him. In some ways its worse, he said. I "nearly fell off my chair. Such a statement from a Floridian! Be saw my consternation, Immediately realized my misunderstanding, and hastily proceeded to put me right. see' you dont mean what 1 "I thought you mean. he said were asking me, if I like work any VI better here Frankly,' I have the same allergy to useful effort that you have But work for you up notth is all you have to do. Now He pointed out the look out there window to a gentleman in wrinkled slacks1 and a faded khaki' shirt sitting in a boat out on the river. Ever, from where we stood we could see the look of almost childish contentment oh hts tanned face Just then he stood up and began reeling In his taut line. Silver gave one look and pushed back bis chair. Listen," he said, "I can finish up what I have to do In about 15 minutes and we'll get right out there. But to answer your question: work is no better here than any place but the difference here is that when you quit you dont have to take a train or a plane to get where you really want to be youre there already. Shrimp Alto Abound There The lizard has moved over to get a patch of sunlight leaking through the leaves of the magnolia tree. Some scrimp boats are coming In through the inlet This Is probably the biggest shrimping port south of Savannah. I think I will go over and see if I can't get some nice fat ones. Bill Turner will clean them until they are sweet and delicate as a newly opened gladiolus. They will be boiled with Just the right amount of salt. They will be chilled (not drowned in ice water until they are mushy). My wife will do something miraculous to the sauce. How I long for that dish Why I havent had a rea. shrimp for 1 don't know how long it must have been as long ago e yesterday at lunch! , Into Fort Pierce Hat Hittory Fort Pierce was a real fort once built in 838 as one of the chain of east coast defenses against the Indians It was a strategic point on the Indian river because a natural opening to the sea permitted easy water commaniration withthe north- - Settlers came, fought off the Indians, planted their pineapples, citrus groves, and vegetables , for the winter markets. Later the artificial" inlet was dredged so the big ships could . dock Florida- - played more of a part in the t ivil war than most textbooks record. It was the food basket of tlie Confederacy and also one of the great blockade running bases, and I f sj n I have no doubt these cuts sheltered many a contraband cargo going to or from Cuba or the Bahama as tnev did in the days of the rum runners. The town felt the shoik of World War II. literally felt it, for the submarines crept clpxt to the coast and explos ons, rocked the houses far inland Wounded sur vivors were brought In and cared for here as in other poast towns Later, because land and water conditions could be simulated tc re semble the terrain tn the Pacific, it became th country's largest amphibious training base. - Baukhage and Friends art expressed nnstyste In these eolvmne, and not neceasartly they ere those ef sf thta newspaper.) HIGH COURT: Protects Accused he Supreme court split 5 to 4 on the issue, but the nations highest '1 tribunal sustained what Justice Black said was an established rule in holding that, In the United States, every person accused, of crime Is considered innocenf until proven guilty. 'Ihe court ruled that the rights of persons accused of crime extend to the guilty as well as the Innocent. DISSENTERS to the rule were Just, ins Jackson, Burton and Reed, and Chief Justice Vinson the majority opinion held In effect that: Regardless of whether there is any "third degree, a confession is invalid if it is obtained while a prisoner is being held illegally through failure to carry him promptly before a committing magistrate rt person accused of serious crime h is unqualified right to counsel when he needs that help for adequate defense. JUSTICE BLACK said the mam finding in an earlier case which set the precedent was that prisoners must be taken promptly before a He added that the magistrate plain purpose of this was to "check resort by officers to secret Interrogation of persons accused of crime. As one o the dissenters, Justice Reed held that the court's decision broadly extended the old rule. By his interpretation that rule was that psychological pressure, or, at least, something more than illegal detention, must be present to invalidate a IN ANNOUNCING Kai-she- k, secretar) of state, leave Blair house after having had tea with President and Mrs. Truman. Nobody would admit whether or not Mme. Chiang made her plea for more aid to China over the presidential teacups. ts Life Is Like That Dept.: We Life pegged a few boners in the plunder-worlthe on Chicago layout It's a favorite pastime . . of mag men and others who use the refuge of the nom de plume (or us common editona4 page) colyumers. . . . Anyhow, in the same Life layout was a picture of two Chicago police heroes in the . e V first-clas- Washington newsmen might have been pardoned had they uttered an involuntary: "Here we go again For President Truman, at a news conference, stated that he was going to press again for congressional approval of legislation to authorize the St Lawrence seaway and power project. InternaTHE tional project has as yet failed to win congressional approval. The President reiterated his intention to ask for an okay for the proposal after a reporter asked: Mr. President, are you again going to press for development of the St Lawrence7" The Piesident replied that he wax 'that he had urged approval for the multi million dollar project in almost all of his. state of the Union messages to y - , t j i j - time-horve- Astronomers Report Discovery of Planet -- ? s office of the Chicago The caption carelessly stated they were fired for failing to appear before a grand jury. My ed'tor In Chicago says they actually were fired because they dared to arrest a henchman of the Chicagorillas. Herald-Amer-ica- - Cerdan changed a French nose because he linked hsm with a noted Freni b canary. Cerdan has a wsf a,.-- . The dttarce racket expose has most lauyers in toun shivleast ering. The authorities claim at meltof the Sew York ings are framed via consent of both parties. . . . They say Empire City util become a trotter track next season to combat Roosevelt Raceuay competish. Champ i portsuriter's . one-fourt- h i IF YOU want to add color and warmth to your living room, decorate with these modtin sec- tional bookcases. You can build and install them yourself at sn tlll cost. As decorative as they are convenient, these cabinets can be placed along one wall, around a corner tas illustrated, or tie center sections can be placed along opposite walls. The full sie pattern offt-ciuw simplifies building these cjbinu's n a minimum of time. No spunl in,s or skill are required All maknuiS ."i o at lu r specifies can be purchased ard eveivwhere at small i xt ( pared to the price one pux foi n A made, unpamted sectional cjhntts most amune can build these mini s by following the simplified building piou-durouthned on the pattern It nut or lv lists materials to buv but also spcutits when and where each is used. t r v Insiders expect a bill to be Introduced raising Mr. Trus-velwages from 75 to 125Gs. . . . Mrs. FDR cad have her choice of a cabinet post (or ambassadorship) but won't consider the latter because she cant live abroad." . . The market hae dropped almost bux since the election, although l S. corporations profit last year made the highest In history. fifth-floo- SEAWAY: ' Round and Round Perhaps it was new, maybe it AA ' had was old. but 1948 flushed into the ken of astronomers as a "minor p'.inet Showing little Orig nalitv. the telescope-peeper- s dubbed it with the numeral of the year in which it ajpeared It was traveling a route, they said, which brings it within 140 million mile of earth. nieat-packin- g s Sign of the Times k - the new start- With headlines screeching of EDUCATION: death and injury in two major hotel fires, the nation's attention was By Congress? A national scholarship progrart turned again to the potential tragedies lurking in so many of its for college and univeisity students will be proposed to the 81st conhostelries FIVE LOST their lives. 11 were gress, according to an announceInjured and 187 were forced to flee ment by the National Education flames in Chicago's old, Association. DR. RALPH MCDONALD, execuLoop hotel, the Victoria. Ttvo of tive secretary of the NEAs departtjxe dead were Navy men on leave. Three victims were trapped in ment on higher education, said the One was found in the blackprogram will have bipartisan supr Another port ened hallway. died several hours after he was led Department officials have estifrom his blazing room. mated the program would require Just three days earlier, fire struck a minimum appropriation of over Chicago's Hubbard hotel, but that 100 million dollars for the first year. time all guests escaped the $100,000 They said this would open the doors blaze which destroyed the structure. of many colleges to approximately LUCKIEST GUEST: Mrs. An fi 250,000 able students. The scholarWells. Twice within the three days ships would be awarded on the basis she escaped death or injuries from of ability. On'y the highest the fires. A guest at the Victoria, or one third of high school she got safely out there, fled un- graduates would be eligible. the 150 guests who As a basis for the legislation, scathed escaped the Hubbard hotel blaze. McDonald said, the department will It' was too early to determine urge these provisions in the bill: cause of the fires, but it was safe NQ FEDERAL CONTROL of eito assume that investigations would ther the institution or the student. A stipend of at least $400 or $500 get underway swiftly as probers sought to eliminate fire hazards. Ob- annually. servers wondered if there were a Freedom of the student to select his own school and course of study. cycle in the making. Safeguards against any discrim-- ' INVASION: lnation in scholarship awards because of race, creed, sex, or other To the South social circumstance. In Costa Rica, erupting Tiny McDonald indicated It was not strife, held front page space in the to have the bill take planned nations press with charges that an ence over any measure to precedgive fed- from .was made being "invasion eral aid to the states for elemen- Nicarguan territory Who, or what, tary or secondary education. was behind the Costa Rican muddle? Communists again? That accusation was hurled. The Costa Rican government xyywg tin ' charged that dissident exiles, defeated in last spring's civil war, ' ganged up with Communists and ' Nicaraguan national guardsmen to launch the invasion. 'v THE COSTA RICAN incident was be to The little ignored. nothing country, smaller than South Carolina, is literally m Uncle Sam's own backyard and the issues involved were serious enough to mers concern. it The problem seemed squarely up to the western hemisphere republics for, under the Rio Pact providing for American help to repel an armed Invasion, the foreign ministers of the 21 republics would have to determine whether there really Rep. Karl E. Mundt (R., S. D.) has been an invasion, who is to acting chairman of the house blame, and what to do about it. activities committee, Their findings could result in the looked like he was trying to put the hex on suspeited Communists dispatch of American and other in the U. 8. when be announced troops to the aid of the Costa Rican government that the committee would subTHERE WERE FEW, however, poena 12 Important witnesses for who felt this would happen. The questioning In the Red spy Insituation was too muddled to justiquiry. fy any definite forecasts, but some NOT CLOTHES: facts were clear. For instance, the claimed In- But Birthplace vasion was incredibly small. Costa As the army sees it, it isn't Rica, herself, placed the number Of Tn aders at 200 or 300 men If clothes that make tlie- man-it'Communists were involved it W'as 'where hes born. MAKING PUBLIC a study on the that Anastasio Somoza, unlikely strong man dictator of Nicaragua, subject, the army declared that a apineal background has and an enemy of the (JoinmunBrti, rnarr had anv thing to do with it Instead, a fot to do with his muscles the- row looks mole- - like a post- Experts from Harvard univerelection quarrel earned on in the sity's department of anthropology compiled the findings fog the army ed Latin American wa New Englanders tended to be the "outs resorting to bullets and bnvoi ets in efforts to oust the strong, while the weakest of the "ins But, if the invaders were males were from the South Atlantic really aided by Nicaragua, then states. The Middle Atlantic states, tlie mater quite properly was a like New England, abound in "wells'tuation for hemispheric concern. muscled types SOLDIERS FROM the Pacific states weie generally found to be w ell balanced in fat and musee The se from the mountain states are often medium fat but muscular, or ery fat Further studv will be required to Men from tlie west north central determine whether the object is a states lean to average build Their new, or just an old timer planet neighbors slightly to the east, howmaking a new appearance Its next ever, included a number of hefty close approach will be in July. and muscular specimens of mascu1SH9. line humanity I here are about 1.5(0 Known In the south central area, men minor planets bel'eved to be remfrom the western section appeare.1 nants of larger celest.ai bodies to be better muscled than thei which shattered. neighbors to the east then-room- Congress would be asked to do 'something about It. The salaries of top U. S. officials were too low. For example, cabinet officials should get $25, (XX) annually. Instead of the present $15,000. It was none other than Budget Director James E Webb, talking. He told a senate civil service that "the need for men of ability in the government has never been more critical. Establishment of more adequate rates of pay for top government positions is an essential step. WEBB HURRIED to explain that he was not speaking for President Truman when he urged that the Presidents salary be raised. He said he had not even discussed the subject with the President. Declaring that any salary paid the chief executive would be low, he added that $150,000 a year would be far nVore acceptable than the present $75,000. Webb also suggested that the President be provided with a "realistic expense account, and that the $35,1X10 salary of the vice president be brought more In line with that of th President. was told: "No The Job in the world is more grueling than the President's. No soldier fights harder for his country than does the commander-in-chief- . Maybe Setc, Maybe Old Kai-she- e FIRE REEFS: Some Are Lucky U. S. TOP MEN: Need More Pay of an times." ' At his conference, the President said he did not favor New Yorks plan to develop jointly with the the hjdro elecprovince of Ontai-tric part of the St Laaience Cunning-ham-Reid- er, the navy hinted at much larger jet engines. It said the new starter is .more powerful than is needed for engines now in service, and will not be installed on aircraft types already announced or in ue. There are two versions of the small, multiple-usgas turbine. Both were developed under navy contract by the Air Research Manufacturing Company, of Los Angeles. They took 34 years and two million dollars to perfect. The navy said use of the engines is not confined to aircraft They may be adapted for ground auxiliary work on power units and in industrial applications. Mme. Chiang first lady of China, and Mrs. George C. Marshall, wife of the U. S. Be summed up: This decision puts another weapon into the hands of the criminal world. ON ONE of these occasions he termed the proposed project one of the greatest engineering piojects Man About Town: Dons Duke, who was so happy to be Just plain single again," has , lost her heart to Robert of the Philip Mountbatten crowd. . . . Mrs Is seeking an esChiang tate in Conn , near the Henry (Time)Luces Just m case her husbands regime falls . . . The Duke of Edinburgh and the royal femlee have phffft . . Critic Ward Morehouses favorite actress (on and off Archstage) is Peggy French. . . . duke Felix of Austria is the Bank of Mexicos new exec in Washington. . . . Curtis Swift of the mint and Helen Keating, the model, are idylltng on their own personal cloud. power-consumin- g confession. fongnst, The navy has announced the first for jet and successful turboprop aircraft engines- - At f resent these engines ape started with Cumbersome storage batteries or other heavy auxiliary units outside the plane. THE RADICALLY NEW selfstarter, which can be used on both fighters and bombers, weighs only 88 pounds and can be carried in the planes. This, the navy said, will enable Jet or turboprop aircraft to bases which are not equipped to start their engines The turbine engine powering the starter also can be used for air conditioning, cabin pressurization, and to operate heating and devices other Tlie power source of the new starter is a gas turbine engine identical in principle with the engine it serves. It uses fuel from the plane's regular tanks. self-start- Reds Named in Costa Rica Invasion IFIHTOK'N NOTE: Whrn pinion Western Newspaper Lnlen'e new Four -- Piece Bookcase For Your Living Room NEW STARTER: For Jets WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS three-fourt- ' Jones, cowboy actor reported among the dead in that Boston night club fire in 1942, told the Newark (O) Advocate he isn't dead. News services should follow this up to make sure the claimant is Buck. . . . Tito Schipa, the Fascist, took out his first citizenship papers last month. Please ask the U. S. Immigration Dept to look up his .Mussolini record . . . Lucien Ballard (Merle Oberon's ex) and the former Lorelle McCarver have called It "30 in Paree. . . Kurt Singer's new tome, "3000 Years of Espionage," was published on Pearl . Harbor Day. . Major M. R. Samuel has succeeded his late pater, (the head- of Shell Oil) as Lord Bearsted. . . . Nearly all of N. Y. is talking about two women who staged a bacchanalian orgy over on Park Ave. n the 50s. Buck c e For an economical solution to our bookcase and record cabimt prob n build one or more of tht e in N .si j f0 cents for nokcae PaDern No 41 Fasi Bild Pat rn Conpan, Dept Wf Pleasanu tlie, N Y Next time you cut out a diess, secure the paper pattern to the material with small striprs of scotch tape. If the pattern gets torn, it can be mended with the tape also. A small amount of leftover ham may be put through the meat chop-pand used as. a middle layer when fnaking scalldped potatoes. er When you pack a lunch box send soup along, occasionally, in the vacuum bottle. Hearty split pea soup tastes good with a sandwich, and so does fish chowder or a cream soup. - Plan the lighting in the living room so that each member of the family has his own reading space. Use mercerized or cotton thread Silk when mending kid gloves. thread has a tendency to tear the kid as it pulls through the fabric. Overcooked oysters are tough. Stop cooking them the edges begin to curl. stews are best cooked over always before Oyster water. . - well-know- n Gov. Clements will appoint Oswald Brown (The Louisville dist Her) to keep Vice-PrBarkleys Si nate pew warm for him until the 1950 elections. . . . Isnt J. Stalin (the famous Russian) gt tting more medieal treatment in Southern Russia? ei MENTUOLATUMj ... Ad agencies expec a wartime boom if Congress pushes through that excess profits tax. A tennistar has been jailed in Texas on embezzlement charges. . . . Evelyn Peterson, cutie (profiled in the Life as the gal who went home to Main Street because Broadway was too rough), will be d again soon. . . big Linda Darnell was told to leave her colored maid in California during the filming of 20ths Slattery's Hurricane" In Miami. Sophie Tucker always All the new hobrings hers. tels (but one) in Miami Beach have run out of hioney and are begging for 2nd moitgagi coin. Fuller Warren . . . Gov brought the Runyon Fund his "'$500 id "pesonf - ... town-boun- ...T hat Cancer Can Be Curbed I ... Our Best False Friend Dept,:. We skimmed over a . honked up rap printed about 'us (the other day) Just to observe that the knocker was the recipient of several requested "lifts through the years . Girl Friday (who has a memory like a memory) just put the fol low,ng on our dek It was written by the chap in 143 '"My dear The Waiter Thanks very much itim about needing blood (for the baby and my wifei brougl.t in so many donors the Margaret Hague Maternity Hosp wshes your good rvaders would gves their lab terh nicians a rest Elinor has had b transfusions but she- is s'ttmg up Gratitude. Walter is like a Summer breeze, you can feel its warmth but you can never see it or de scribe it Love, Jim " You Oh, that's all right, kid. must have needed the money very badly. FergetiL . - George McCoog, schoolboy of Paterson, New Jersey, had cancer of the thigh in 1938. Today, thanks to prompt, effective treatment, he is cured. If YOU think you have cancer, see your doctor at once. Early action can return a priceless dividend . . . years of healthy living to come. AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 47 BEAVER STREET, NEW YORK 4, N. Y. |
