Gladewater Daily Mirror (Gladewater, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 342, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 30, 1952 Page: 2 of 4
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WHnetwIay, April SO, 1061
SHBaF-^S
Glidrwatrr Dally Mirror
Politically-Minded
Actor Writes Letter
will hug and squeeze you, that is immaculately dean and
insists on bathing every other day, that eats onty once every
two or three months depending on how warm the weather
Every once in n while you get a
whift of the real America—and
whan you do, it it just like a fresh
breeze coining from the direction
of New York's harbor where the
Statue of Liberty still hold* up the
torch of hope and of freedom.
As Queen Juliana said the other
day, sometimes, for all the fog,
you can barely see the Statue's
arm and the torch.
But it is there, just the same—
and the story of Tony Ubino
proves it.
INI, I
WASHINGTON, April 2#;—M«
Walter O'Keefe, the politically*
minded actor who has been in a
* ta of extreme disgt untlemciit
ever since Wendell Willkle failed
to win the presidency, writes from
Hollywood:
"This administration will go
down as the time in American
history when wc repaired the
White House and let the rest of
the country go to pieces.”
is. and will continue such habits for 50 to 60 years ... just
order yourself a python.
This is the advice of Kitty Kelly, well-known Texas side
show operator now appearing in Gladewater with Moore’s
Southwestern Shows, locally sponsored by the Veterans of
Fortngn Wars.
Kitty's fajvorite python measures 22 feet from stem to
stern and weighs 170 pounds. The python’s name is Sheba
and has been owned by Kitty for more than seven years.
Miss Kelly purchased Sheba from the well-known Texas
hunter. Frank Buck, that made such terms as “Bring ’Em
Back Alive" a household by-word.
Sheba does not like these cool nights that we have been
having in Gladewater since she arrived here Monday. The
temperature of Sheba’s “home” must be kept at 80 degrees
id
and sometimes blankets are not enough, and hot water bot-
tles must be used to keep this pet comfortable. Pythons
originate from such warm climates as Africa and India and
do not completely appreciate the sudden changes offered by
the East Texas weatherman.
The good biological book on pythons claims that they
grow at a rate of about one foot per year and have been
known to live to be 100 years old, though this is an excep-
tion as the average life span is (like man) in the 50 to 60
year old bracket.
Despite their size and their appearance, pythons are
very delicate snakes. They must be carefully handled for
their backs are very easily broken. This seems strange since [
the python depends on the strength of its body’s crushing
power to kill its prey rather than the. deadliness of its bite.
The lightning fast striking ability of the snake is used to
catch and hold game while the power of the massive body
is used in subduing and killing the prey sought by’ the py-
thon. The main means used by all such constrictors in hunt-
ing is the squeezing power of its body as it drops from trees
onto its prey.
Sheba, like most snakes, is most fastidious. Miss Kelly
explained that Sheba has her own private bath tub and
bathes every other day in warm water. She doesn’t like to
get out of the tub either, and may cause a bit of a fuss
when removed.
Sheba iias been a good snake, explained Kitty Kelly,
with one exception. Sheba “ran away” in Illinois a short
while back.
At McLeansboro, Sheba slipped from her box and van-
ished completely, spending a two-month vacation in the Illi-
nois countryside. The mlws of the escaped python became
of national interest. Triple for many miles around feared
the snake, mamjd^hot allow their children to play out-
side the house. After two months, to the day, Sheba show-
Stf-up in a pcfrdffo patch and was ■rtAwaed to Kitty by the
farmer discovering the python.
The warmer the weather, the more often the snake eats.
When in very warm climate Sheba may eat as often as every
six weeks. Normally once every two or three months. It
has been about six weeks since Kitty last fed Sheba in
Laredo, Texas. Her diet consists chiefly of chickens and
pigeons. Her last meal included five pigeons.
The main method of eating is a process of crushing
and stretching out their food until it is of such size that
DREW PEARSON
Nicaragua's President Somoza
Invites Himself To Washington
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WASHINGTON—For the first
time since Queen Marie of Rou-
mania visited the United States
uninvited during the Hoover Ad-
ministration, Washington will wel-
come an uninvited chief-of-state
this week. He is Gen. Anastasio |
Somoza, the president—and dicta-
tor—of Nicaragua.
President Somoza was not in-
vited to visit the U.S.A., but he’s
coining anyway. He has to go to
the Leahy clinic in Boston for an
operation and sent word that since
he would have to be in the United
States, he would not think of neg
lecting to pay a return visit to
mo
they can swallow. Sheba may be getting hungry again as
fhtly oi
the other day she bit Miss Kelly lightly on the face. Forced
feeding should be used only as a last resort in saving the
life of such a snake. Forced feeding will often kill a snake.
There is little trouble in making a python eat when it is
ready to.
Kitty asked me if I’d like to pet her pet. Sheba was
well draped in Indian blankets and looked at me with a
look that indicated that I had disturbed her.
Newspapermen have lost arms for less reasons than pat-
ting a snake on the head so I tried it. After a “friendly”
pat or two I withdrew my hand and I firmly believe that
Sheba sighed as she cuddled back into the folds of the blan-
ket with the attitude of a celebrity who had done her duty
for the sake of the press.
Of course the visit with Sheba was only a small por-
tion of the tour of the carnival made last night. The show,
sponsored by the Gladewater Vets includes several kiddie
rides . . . what do you mean, kiddie rides? My wife and I
both hud as much fun as our kids on the merry-go-round.
The loop-o-^lane? No thank you I found out that I am
getting old. On the first couple of laps on the ferris wheel
I had to hang on . . . Go ahead, call me grandpa. The fact
is, I ain’t as young as I used to be.
ARE YOU?
the man who as "Senator Harry
Truman” had paid him a visit
while investigating the Pan Am-
erican highway as chairman of the
War Investigating committee.
Under these circumstances there
wasn’t much the White House
could do about it, so President
Somoza, arriving tomorrow, will
be given a quiet luncheon by
President Truman.
Reason neither the state depart- j
ment nor the White House parti-
cularly relishes an official visit j
from the chief of state of Nicara-1
gua is first, because our official
policy is to ignore and discourage
dictators; second, because Presi-
dent Somoza has consistently up-
set Democratic elections held un-
der the guidance of the United j
States.
During the Cooiidgc administra-
tion, Henry L. Stimson, later sec-
retary of state, was sent to Nicara-
gua to smooth out a nasty revolu-
tion and arrange to evacuate U S.
Marines. He organized a Nicara-
guan National Guard, trained by
across state lines was engaged in
interstate commerce.
The Lorain Journal case actu-
ally involved only the monopoly
question of refusal by the news-
paper to take ads, if advertisers
also patronized a competing radio
station. However, Justice Burton,
who happens to come from Cleve-
land, Ohio, adjacent to Lorain,
and who is considered the most
conservative member of the court,
went further than the justice de-
partment expected in upholding its
position.
Armed with this 7-0 ruling,
written by a Republican, the jus-
tice department was considcrang
broad moves against various news-
papers on monopoly charges.
the Marines; also held elections
under American supervision. Gen-
eral Somoza did so well under the
NOTICE . . . THE NINTH ANNUAL DAIRY SHOW
OPENS TOMORROW. PLAN TO ATTEND. IF YOU DON’T
LIKE FARMING, JUST REMEMBER ONE THING-THE
FARMER IS THE GENTLEMAN THAT SUPPLIES THE
MEAT. VEGETABLES, AND THE MILK THAT HAS
SOMEHOW BECOME SO IMPORTANT TO OUR LIFE.
Ordinarily, only one-third of a tree is cut into usable
lumber The rest of the tree remains in the forest as high
stumps or poor logs or comes out of the sawmill as saw-
dust.
OLADEWATW DAAY MIRROR
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U. S. Marines that he became head
of the National Guard. However,
after the United States its free
and fair election, supervised by
Harold Dodds, now president of
Princeton, General Somoza, train-
ed by the United States, waited
for our Marines to evacuate, then
threw out the duly elected presi-
dent—his uncle — and became
president himself.
Nicaraguan Nepotism
After about 12 years of ruling
Nicaragua, General Somoza got
bored, installed a puppet, Dr.
Leonardo Arguello, as president.
President Arguello, however, had
the nerve to demote Somoza's son-
in-law as head of the public health
department, relieved Somoza’s
elder son as inspector general of
the national guard, and relieved
another Somoza son as command-
er of the presidential guard.
Finally the new president start-
ed to oust another Somoza son-in-
law, Bill Sevilla-Sacasa, as ambas-
sador to the United States. Somo-
za's daughter, Lillian, however,
enjoyed the bright life of Wash-
ington, so such a move could not
be tolerated. Whereupon Somoza’s
supposedly puppet president found
himself thrown out of the palace
with General Somoza once again
assuming the role of dictator.
Note—President Roosevelt, less
worried about dictators than Har-
ry Truman, officially invited
President Somoza to Washington
twice. “He may be an S.O.B.," said
FDR, "but he's our S.O.B."
Truman vs. Newspapers
Newspaper publishers probably
didn’t know it, but President Tru-
man’s off-the-cuff remark about
power to seize the press may have
blocked certain antimonopoly
moves by the justice department
against certain newspapers.
For some time the justice de-
partment hus been considering
broad antitrust prosecution of
newspapers having a near mono-
poly of news in their ureas. Two
such moves already have been
made, on a limited scale.
One against the New Orleans
TimcH-Plcayune was on Ihc basis
of unfair advertising practices,
white a second and more sweep
mg case against the Lorain Ohio
Journal resulted in n Supieme
Court decision that any newspaper
i m e i v i n k press-sei vice new*
Prior Monopoly Moves
Previous to the Lorain Journal
case, the justice department actu-
ally had considered three mono-
poly suits. One was against the
Rochester, N. Y., Times-Union and
Democrat and Chronicle, owned
by Frank Gannett, who also owns
a radio station in Rochester. An-
other was against the Omaha
World-Herald which also operates
a radio station; and the third was
against the Kansas City Times and
Star and its radio station.
After careful consideration—
prior to the Lorain Journal de-
cision—it was decided not to move
against the Gannett newspapers in
Rochester because that city is lo-
cated in the northwest part of
New York State and not close
enough to the Pennsylvania bord-
er to have any appreciable inter-
state circulation. Such circulation
was considered important to show
that the paper was engaged in
interstate commerce.
Instead of Rochester, it was
tentatively decided to proceed
against the Kansas City Star and
Times which, located on the Mis-
souri river, have a heavy circula-
tion in both Kansas and Missouri;
also against the Omaha World-
Herald, which circulates substan-
tially in both Iowa and Nebraska.
Confidential fact is that a grand
jury was virtually called to con-
sider the case against the Kansas
City Star. But when the matter
came to the attention of the White
House, President Truman put his
foot down, on the ground that any
prosecution of a newspaper criti-
cal of him would boomerang.
All these moves were prior to
the Supreme Court decision in the
Lorain Journal case, which ruled
that a paper using a press service
and receiving news across state
lines was in interstate commerce.
After this, it was no longer neces-
sary for the justice department to
confine its monopoly prosecutions
to newspapers located on state
borders, suen as the Kansas City
Star. Thus,, the entire news-mono-
poly picture was rc-examlncd with
a v iew to other and wider suits.
However, in view of the Presi-
dent's press-conference statement
about power over newspapers and
the subsequent resolution of cen-
sure passed by the publishers, fu-
ture antimonopoly moves arc now
considered highly unlikely.
Note—Actually, justice depart-
ment off.cials believe that moves
to break up news monopoly would
strengthen any danger of govern-
ment control over the press. They
argue that experience in other
countries shows that when news
channels become too centralized,
it’s easier for a government to
take them over. Some publishers
concur in this.
Tony Ubino came to the United
States from Italy 58 years ago, at
the age of fourteen, and went to
work shining shoes at his uncle's
stand.
Like so many Italians, he saved
every nickel he could, and exactly
fifty years ago, he opened his own
shoesnine stand on Hanover
Square, right in the heart of the
shipping and financial district.
Among his very best customers
were the executives and employees
of the Grace Line.
Tony in a r i i c d his childhood
sweetheart from Italy and hud two
sons and three daughters.
He laid by enough money to buy
a fourteen-room home in Brook-
lyn and to have a very respectable
bank account.
Tester Of Army Jeeps
Makes Like U-Boat
SEEDS OF EDUCATION
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mineral baths within our (ratal are available
fj) to ovary guest. Courteous attendants ore
prepared to give soothing iruaige end treatment.
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HOT SPRINGS
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Came to the Majestic Hotel end lot us help
you gat rid of your echos and pah*S In *****
ferteble, friendly surroundings. Wb _tad*y
far further information.
But a few days ago was Tony's
great day.
Fifty years in business for him-
self!
At noon he was asked to come
over to the Grace Line offices.
There he found all the execu-
tives assembled.
They presented him with a gold
watch and made u few appropriate
speeches. Then they escorted him
through the great portals of the
firm and out into Hanover Square
where Richard R. Adams, presi-
dent of the line, made Tony get
upon his stand and personally
shined Tony's shoes.
The next day, Tony’s picture ap-
peared with an enormous cigar in
his mouth. It looked like at least a
fifty-center, and I presume it was
given to him by the Chairman of
the board.
By the way, on the way out to
his stand, Tony proudly passed
the desk of his 27-year-old son,
Joseph, who works for the Grace
National Hank.
Joseph's twin brother, Frank, is
an industrial psychology student
at the University of California.
A daughter, Phyllis, is a tele-
phone operator. Another daughter
is married to a civil engineer, and
the third is the wife of one of the
officials in an export firm.
TOLEDO, O. (U.R)—Orbin Shock
is all wet on his job most of the
time, but the boss doesn’t mind.
The graying, 57-ycar-old Shock
is chief underwater test driver for
the jeeps being built here for the
Army by Willys - Overland. A
waterproofed engine and electri*
cal system, plus two snorkels for
air intake and exhaust, enable the
latest military version of the
mighty little vehicle to run non*
chalantly along with everything
but the snorkels and the top of
the windshield completely under
water.'
Dressed in a heavy rubber suit
that makes him look like a Navy
frogman, Shock drives each new
army jeep into a pool at the plant.
He runs the submerge I vehicle
for 15 minutes. Then he cuts off
the motor and starts it up again—
the Army requires that each jeep
must be able to start under water
—and drives out of the pool.
In the "Staff News" of the Wal-
dorf-Astoria I read of some of the
promotions among the hotel's
staff.
Robert Castro from bus boy to
waiter. Rita, Fazio from pugc to
cIArk. Manuel Jimii.ez from dish-
washer to Incinerator man. Feli-
citas von Sendcnhorst from cash-
ier in the front office to the ac-
counting department. Miguel Gui-
leimo from dishwasher to pantry-
man. And many more. A veritable
United Nations—and all on the
way up.
Most of them, 1 guess, passed
the Statue of Liberty on their way
in. And for tpany of them their
dreams are coming true—just bs
they- did for Tony Ubino.
"(jbd Bless America!"
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
doesn’t have much to laugh about
these days what with the attempts
to trade on his reputation by fos-
tering the corruption probe onto
his shoulders. But he came up
against one that really doubled
him up the other day.
A prominent contractor was be-
ing questioned as to whether he
had ever been asked for graft by
a certain minor government offi-
cial in charge of a fairly good sized
federal project. The contractor re-
plied that no improper advances
had been made.
"Of course,” he added, "there
are many things about these con-
tracts that I don't know. 1 leave
most of the details to my assist-
ants.
"However, if there is any brib-
ing to be done, I handle that my-
self.”
Rep. Fred E Bus bey, of Illinois,
revealed the other day that he has
made a special study of art in
order to detect Communist influ-
ences, if any, in paintings.
He said his studies have already
paid off; that when he was in
Paris recently he was able to spot
Communist influences in an art
exhibit sponsored over there by
our State Department.
Rep. Sidney Yates, his Demo-
cratic opposite from Chicago, ask-
ed Mr. Busbey how he had come
by his art knowledge.
Rep. Busbey replied his tutor
had been an expert on modern art
at the Corcoran Art Gallery here
"This export,” he continued, "in-
formed me that when the so-called
modern artists were painting an
abstract they were expressing a
mood.
"I said to him, ‘Yes, J um begin-
ning to understand a little* about
it. It is a mood of revolution.’
"He replied, 'Precisely. If you
will look at some of these moderns
you will sec. If there is a pastoral
scene they do not paint a tree as
it photographs. They do not paint
grass as it photographs because
they rebel against the natural.
'They always paint the unna-
tural and that is why they never
“ ing with perpendicu-
always sec one cor-
ing going oti at an
They alwaj
1 and that I
t a bulletins
vails. Yuu a
of a btflkiii
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paint
iar wells,
ncr
Kep John T "Wt
York, cut in. “I always knew,*' said
Mr Rooney misehieviously, "that
the gentleman from Illinois we* an
eminent authority on government.
But I hud no idea of Ilia capa-
bilities as an art critic."
Retorted Hep. Busbey: "If the
gentleman from New York would
spend a little more time getting
acquainted with the gentleman
from Illinois he would be aware
he has keen perception."
"1 know the gentleman was
keen,” persisted Rep Rooney, "but
not in perception. Would the gen-
tleman say that the lcuiuug tower
of Pisa was communistic?"
Hep. Busbey replied that if it
leaned to the left he would not re-
Kurd it with high favor.
Incidentally, this is the explana-
tion the State Department gave to
Rep. Busbey about the art exhibit
it sponsored in Paris:
The pictures were loaned to the
State Depart mi i by the Museum
of Modern Art m New York which
chose 84 prints “as representative
of American contemporary art "
The pictures were loaned to the
government with tiie understand-
ing that they would be displayed
abroad for one year—and I sup-
pose we should be appreciative of
the time limit.
It's better thun aggravating our
foreign friends permanently.
Bathroom Not Unsafe,
Plumbers Maintain
There’s
bath-
<Iani
MILWAUKEE (UP1
been much talk about
room being the most dangerous
room in the home but llic plumb-
ers say it isn't so.
Eti J Massmo, president Of the
Wisconsin Master Plumbers Asso-
ciation, says insurance company
statistics show only 3.5 per cent
of all home rccirients occur in the
bathroom, compared with 30 per
cent in the kitchen-dining area, 18
per cent in living-sleeping quar-
ters and 12 |ier cent on steps and
stairs.
Tiie other household accidents
happen in the yard, basement,
utility room, attic or garage, he
said.
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