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Coral Gables Riviera-Times
Tuesday, November 11, 1947, page 2 (of 8)
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Churchill Quits Sickbed To Denounce Labor Foes
LONDON, Nov. 11. (UP) — Winston Churchill left a sickbed against his doctor's advice today to denounce the Labor government in Commons as an incompetent dictatorship that threatened to lead Britain to bankruptcy and starvation. Showing little effect of the cold which had kept him in bed four days, Churchill tore into the government's attempt to limit the House of Lords veto power over Commonsapproved legislation to one instead of two years. Churchill shouted down repeated attempts to heckle him. They were led by Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Churchill pounded his dispatch box and wagged his finger at the government front bench as if at an obstreperous youngster. The government, Churchill charged in leading the Conservative attack on the Lords measure, was trying to make the Conservative-dominated upper house ineffectual and powerless.
Peasant Chief Sentenced To 'Life'
BUCHAREST, Nov. 11. (UP) — Dr. Juliu Maniu, president of the oppositionist National Peasant party, was convicted of treason today and sentenced to life imprisonment, the maximum penalty possible under Romanian law. Maniu, 75, was found guilty by a military tribunal on all counts. He was charged with an attempt against the independence of Romania, high treason, undermining constitutional order, and inciting rebellion and armed insurrection.
Margaret Doesn't Mind the Critics
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Nov. 11. (UP) — Unfavorable comment by music critics means little to Margaret Truman because "I'd much rather the people who have paid for their tickets enjoy my singing." And with that comment the attractive 23-year-old coloratura soprano brushed off the contention of some experts that she does not have a voice of concert quality and admitted that profits, if any, from her current tour will go to the benefit of "Little Maggie."
Sees 25-Cent Butter Through Co-ops
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. (UP) — A member of the House ways and means committe suggested today that consumer cooperatives might some day become strong enough to force the price of butter down to 25 cents a pound. This possibility was raised by Rep. Noah Mason, R., Ill., at committee hearings on proposals to repeal tax exemptions now enjoyed by farm co-ops. Mason said the 25 cent figure had been mentioned by a union official as a fair price for butter.
'No Minimum' Wage Seen
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. (UP) — Isadore Lubin, former presidential adviser and one-time U. S. Commissioner of Labor Statistics, said today that "for all practical purposes" the nation now has no minimum wage legislation. Lubin testified before a house labor subcommittee which is considering proposals to amend the fair labor standards act. Among these is one to raise the present 40-cent minimum hourly wage to 75 cents.
Mayor's Auto Stolen, Recovered
(Continued from Page One) his little car was a block from the spot where he had left it. Missing were four quarts of milk, a pair of shoes and a pair of gold-rimmed sun glasses. Gables police examined the car and found hand prints on the windows, indicating that the vehicle had been pushed. Fence Disapproved The Zoning Board of Appeals last night disapproved a request by Mrs. G. C. Bamberg to construct a wire fence in the rear of her home at 2017 Red Road, but reserved decision in two other cases. Leave for West "California here we come" is the motto of Mrs. Frederick Waters, 825 Coral Way, and her two daughters, Carolyn and Marilyn. Leaving today, they will join Mr. Waters soon in Burbank, Calif., where they will make their future home. State School Supt. Colin English has been a member of the teaching profession for 27 years. He first taught school in 1920 at Ocala High school.
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Negro Jailed For Attacking Police Officer
A Negro found guilty of reckless driving was fined $25, another Negro who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and striking an officer was sentenced to six months in jail and fined $150 and disorderly conduct charges against a third Negro were dismissed before Associate Municipal Judge E. B. Hunter yesterday afternoon. Four other Negroes, accused of gambling, failed to appear and each forfeited a $25 bond. They were Ben Wattley, Willie McDonald, Willie Albert and Louis Nelly. Jessie B. McCollum was found guilty of reckless driving which caused an accident at Avenue Wistaria and LeJeune Road on Nov. 5. Detective Lieut. A. M. Bishop appeared in court to testify on the multiple charges against 18-year-old Robert L. Taylor. Said Bishop, young Taylor had used violent and abusive language in a grocery store, had threatened to kill a police officer and had had to be subdued with a C-ten-Celt weapon. The case against George Wright, accused by his wife of attacking her with a knife, was dismissed by the court when the evidence against him proved insuffient.
2 U. M. Students Escape Injury in Car Crash Here
Two University of Miami students miraculously escaped serious injury at noon today when their car was struck broadside by another vehicle which, police say, failed to halt at a stop sign at the corner of Avenue Andalusia and Galiano street. The students, J. Stanley Weedon, 22, of 1865 N. W. 19th Terrace, and C. E. Johnson, 21, of 3155 S. W. 25th Terrace, were badly shaken up but otherwise unhurt. Their car, a 1941 Ford coach, was almost completely demolished by the impact. Driver of the second car, Aladar Brieger, 56, a Virginia man residing at 3115 S. W. 25th Terrace, was held in $150 bond for reckless driving, passing a stop sign and causing an accident. Officers Henry Roberts and Robert Ingersoll, who investigated the collision, say the students' Ford was smashed in from bumper to bumper.
Park Opponents Are Attacked By Pennekamp
Charges that the picture of the Everglades National Park is being distorted by the "sinister chicanery of selfishly inspired politicians," were heard today by members of the Coral Gables Kiwanis Club. John D. Pennekamp, member of the park commission and executive editor of The Miami Herald, told the civic club at its weekly luncheon at the Country Club that the 29 objectors to the park were opposing the will of two-and-one-half-million Floridians. He singled out particularly State Attorney General J. Tom Watson who filed objections to the park before the public lands committee in Washington on the grounds that the state's oil rights were being usurped by the federal government. Pennekamp maintained that the oil rights are being held in trust for the state and its citizens and called the 1,250,000-acre park the greatest publicly owned asset in the state. He estimated that 323,000 cars yearly will be brought into the state by the park, paying in gasoline taxes alone, $1,750,000. City Commissioner Thomas C. Mayes was in charge of the program.
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Doctors Tell Stalin To Go Easy, Former Brazilian Ambassador Reveals
By MATS LUNDQUIST United Press Staff Correspondent STOCKHOLM, Nov. 11 (UP) — Dr. Mario de Pimentel Brandao, former Brazilian ambassador to Moscow, said today that Premier Josef Stalin had been advised by his doctors to "leave his heavy burdens" to other officials. Dr. Brandao, who has just come out of Russia, said that was why Stalin was not at the big military parade in Red Square, Moscow, last Friday when the 30th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution was celebrated. But Stalin still has great influence and directs Russian foreign policy, Dr. Brandao said. Lives In Resort At last report, Stalin was living near the resort town of Sochi on the Black Sea. Eight leftwing labor party members of the British House of Commons who interviewed him there last month reported that he appeared in good health. Dr. Brandao said he had not seen any sign that Russia has the atomic bomb, although it had the help of several outstanding German scientists in its efforts to produce one. He said there were reports in Russia that big atomic laboratories had been built in northern Afghanistan. Broke Relations Brazil broke diplomatic relations with Russia on October 21 and Dr. Brandao and his embassy staff are on their way home. On October 24, the Russians put the Brazilian ambassadorial staff "under surveillance," charging that "Fascists" had stoned the Soviet embassy in Rio de Janeiro. The "surveillance" continued for nine days, until all Russian diplomats were out of Brazil. The departure of the Brazilians was delayed by a technicality, but finally they arrived here late last night. Dr. Brandao said Stalin's prestige was greater than ever and he expected the Communist regime to last, since it already had survived for 30 years. He disclosed that 3,000 German "intellectual prisoners" were being trained for propaganda work at home by the Russians. Embraced Communism The intellectuals, he said, were under former German Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus. The Russians captured him at Stalingrad, and he subsequently went over to their side and embraced communism. During his 16 months in Moscow, he said, he had seen no signs of aggressive spirit among the Russians. "They are sure they alone won the war and that the Communist regime is the highest example of democracy," he said. He was under the impression that the economic rehabilitation of the Soviet had been "pretty fast," with a good harvest, particularly in White Russia. Production in the Ukraine, Dr. Brandao said, had not been raised to the prewar level, but crops were better than last year. Production Good Dr. Brandao said iron and steel production apparently were good and transportation was the thing giving the Russians the most trouble. Poi Correa, former first secretary of the Brazilian embassy in Moscow, called transportation "Russia's Achilles heel." He said most Russian trucks were lend-lease and they only totaled 400,000, while railroad rolling stock was "very poor." "We know that the Russians are turning out everything," Correa said. "Their jet propulsion experiments and their fighter planes are very good. They have brilliant giant tanks and artillery, particularly anti-aircraft." Dr. Brandao said that during the time they were under "surveillance" they were guarded 24 hours a day and not permitted to send telegrams or receive visits from their friends." He said no Brazilian was left in all Russia. Dr. Brandao's son is married to a Russian. The Russians have refused to let him take her to Brazil on the ground that the state educated her and she has not paid for her education.
VA Sets Up Censorship For 'Security'
By JAMES C. AUSTIN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 —(UP)— The Veterans Administration unintentionally brought government secrecy proposals into the open when it set up, prematurely and without authorization, its own program for censoring information. It called its program one for "safeguarding information for national security." It was based on a sample proposal for classifying information as "top secret," "secret," "confidential" or "restricted" that was sent out to all executive departments and agencies by the security board. But the Veterans' Administration took the sample to be White House ukase and set up its own program. The resulting protest from the press resulted in abandonment of the "Security Program" by the Veterans Administration last week on direct order of Gen. Omar Bradley, Veterans Administrator. The VA security program, called a "gag rule" by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, turned the spotlight on what might have happened if the original proposals had been extended to every department and agency of the executive branch. Have D-Day Story The State, War and Navy Departments long have found it necessary for national security to classify its documents and files. But VA was among the many other agencies which never before had heard of classification. Here, chronologically, is the story of VA's ill-timed venture into classification of information: On March 22, 1947, Mr. Truman issued his Presidential directive setting up the loyalty program. A part of this charged the Security Advisory Board of the State-War-Navy Coordinating committee with setting up rules and regulations for the classification of information. In July, the board sampled every executive department and agency with its own set of definitions for security in the "top secret," "secret," "confidential" and "restricted" categories. The board asked the departments and agencies for comment and suggestions. But the Veterans Administration, taking the sample as a directive, put its own security program into effect on July 29 in "Circular No. 61." That document said VA considered such matters as veterans' records, legislative information, inspection and investigative information, administrative matters, and classified material received from other sources, to be eligible for restrictions. The press moved in on that one. The ASNE in a resolution asked President Truman to halt VA's action, and to stop such extension of the "gag rule" to other agencies; to stop a threat to freedom of the press. An official of the Security Advisory Board said that the Veterans Administration's action presumably was a "mistake," adding: "We sent a sample of the proposed regulations last summer to all branches of the executive department, asking for suggestions and comment. We did not advise any of these agencies to set up the program—that is outside our province. No Cover Up "VA apparently took it upon itself to establish the regulations. But I don't believe they did it with any thought of a 'cover-up'." R. P. Bronson, assistant Veterans Administrator for contact and administrative services, gave the United Press another version. He said he had set up the program on the "suggestion" of the Security Advisory Board. "We went ahead and did as they suggested," Bronson said. But he declined to say whether he thought that institution of classification throughout the executive department would lead to abuses. "It is not up to me to comment on that," he said. "The classification system is necessary to establish minimum regulations through-out the executive branch to permit a freer exchange of highly secret information." Announce Amendment The Security Advisory Board, meanwhile, sensitive to growing press criticism, announced on Oct. 28 an amendment of its definitions. It took out of the security regulations any reference to "administrative embarrassment" as a reason for restricting information. It likewise deleted reference to protection that should be given "governmental activities" on the grounds that disclosure of such "might cause serious injury to (their) interests and prestige." Even after these changes, VA still stood pat. It indicated that it was not invoking the controversial "administrative embarrassment" provisions, and it hinted that Bradley himself was the only official authorized to invoke restrictions. On Nov. 5, the Veterans Administration abandoned entirely its program for "safeguarding information for national security" First Bradley called in his branch public relations directors for a two-day briefing to tell them that the four classifications on information could be invoked only by the chief security officer with Bradley's consent. Then, considering the touchy matter further, Bradley revoked the order contained in "Circular No. 61." His office disclosed that "all 'kill order' had gone out after the security board had advised him that it was changing its terms and definitions.
Brenan Classmates Have Reunion Here
There's a reunion of school classmates over at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Arnold, 525 San Esteban, this week. Mrs. Beerman Thompson, former roommate of Mrs. Arnold at Brenau and the University of Georgia, arrived this week for a brief visit with the Arnolds.
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(Continued from Page 1) gram included filet mignons, choral numbers by the Andrew Jackson High School, a parade of Tequesta beauty contestants and three-minute speeches lauding Commissioner Crandon for his vision in bringing Crandon Park and Rickenbacker Causeway into actuality. The evening was climaxed by dancing under the stars to the music of Cy Washburn's orchestra. With Alex Balfe, president of the Miami Chamber of Commerce, acting as toastmaster, distinguished guests introduced included Earl M. DeNoon, president of the Country Club, County Commissioners Preston Birl, Val Cleary, Hugh Peters and I. D. MacVicar, Charles B. Tutan, president of the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce; [?word?] Stang, president of the South Miami Chamber of Commerce; Maj. Gen. Leland S. Hobbs, Brig. Gen. Homer C. Saunders, Col. Charles G. Mettler, L. A. Arnold, vice president of Eastern Airlines; Rear Admiral Ralph Davidson, Commandant Seventh Naval District, and Senator Spessard L. Holland. The event was sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of the Greater Miami Area.
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