The Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 106, Ed. 1 Friday, December 12, 1952 Page: 2 of 6
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»un News, Lsvslland, Tanas, Friday, December 11, 1JM
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MIRROR
MARFA GANG EVENS THE SOME
WITH MEN WHO GO TO THE COPS
e Pays Age-Old P&ndlfiy,"Squealing' On His
NEW
more money
fore.
Whether you have your share or
12 Oh- There’s
MM ever be-
iness, Industry and agriculture
prepare for the Christmas trade,
to move the crops, to finance the
big fall spurt in industrial produc-
To help the nation’s banks get
the funds that depositors want for
their Christmas shopping and that
businessmen want to finance trade
and industry, the federal reserve
system increased its discounts by
161 million dollars in the week to
bring these bank borrowings to
the highest level since July, 1921.
Banks Raise ( ash
The federal reserve also bought
271 million dollars more of U. S.
Treasury securities. Some of these
were sold to the system by the
banks wanting to raise cash for
their customers. Other securities
were sold by corporations seeking
cash to make their Dec. 15 tax
payments.
Add to the records being set by
leading New York anything bearing the dollar sign
increasingly larg- this report today from the Com-
inessmen for an in- merce Department: The total of
crease of oftp billion dollars since federal, state and local govem-
midyear. ment debts is now about ^89 billion
■Hre loans have been used by bus- dollars, an all-time high.
• not. there’s
dollars in eti
000 of them
Board repor
Money
96 million____
it says, as
their annual
stores. Money
U. S.
banks
presumably
citizena.
Almost evffothing else bearing
the dollar “*<**'- rising to a record,
if seasonal, ‘
^Spiral |
Bank loanf~to business continue
to spiral tflward. For the 14th
straight
banks have
er sums to.
number of
jlauon 30370,000,-
Faderal Reserve
Jumped by
the past week,
cans started
HAS trek to the
l circulation means
nat held in the
system, but
the Jeans of the
ritaUGGiJNG unlimited
BY JOACHIM JOEBTEN
The fifth and last chapter of
a aerie* in the smuggling
racket*, told by the well-known
traveler, author and lecturer.
—THE EDITOR*.
CHAPTER FIVE
The bl<*>d-spattered body of Eu-
gene Giannini was found in an
East Harlem gutter, in the early
morning hours of September 20,
1952. New York police didn’t have
to hunt long for a clue to the
murder.
One leak at the twe neat
bullet holes la tee back of the
victim’s head convinced the
detective# that Giannini had
suffered the traditional Maria
penalty for a squealer. One
look at their records told them
that the anonymous execu-
tioner — he hasn’t been found
yet — knew the score.
1111 » *
Giannini, once a big shot ip the
moat vicious, mop!, fifth less an
most lucrative of all smugt
rackets — dupe — bad turned'
former a little more ttym a yet
SPOTLITE
SERIES
ago. He didn’t have
choic
l
THE WORLD
TODAY
By JAMES MARLOW
HAL BOYLE SAYS
ran
> to Start wearing
it—>vell, success
[tthfo out of the
average man.
the American male
to get ahead in a
belongs to Dr. Bur-
ial Oollege in Phil-
s the Line at Wearing Girdle
1' m -Success can Washington had managed to win a
war without the help of a corset.
iliM’.i ;l:■ '■ - The chief abjection was that gir-
dles for men are basically imprac-
tical.
Family Too Weak
"My wife looks better in a glr-
die, and it is only reasonable to
admit that I would, too,” said one
man. “But here’s the problem. It
takes all the muscle that both my
wife and I have to pour her into
a girdle noWi
"There just isn’t enough strength
in our family to get us both into
girdles. If I started wearing a gir-
dle, she would either have to quit
wearing hers or I would have to
keep a hired man around just to
distinguished medic
cantribute to a gal’s
IN being by elevating
thus allowing her to
into Her lungs and
her body tissues,
are going to compete
successfully, he be-
had better start wear-
success weapon, too.
te Is 14-1
Just completed a
on this question,
as follows;
■^s£££.t3
U glve up right now' and
igliir Women rule the
#N!
sis L"
help me squirm into mine.”,-
OUR APOLOGIES
WASHINGTON — I* MaeArthur
will have to explain, if any ex-
plaining is done, why he chose
to say "there is a solution” to
the Korean War in a public speech
instead of quietly telling President
Truman, President-elect Eisenhow-
er br the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
MaeArthur could have communi-
cated his views privately, in a let-
ter or merob to the men directly
responsible for the conduct of the
war- Instead, he chose -n public
publicity.
As yet there has been no public
explanation and presumably only
MaeArthur can do the explaining.
Here is the sequence of events:
Early on Friday, Deck S, the
news came from Korea that Eisen-
hower, fulfilling his campaign
promise to go there to look for a
solution, had ended his visit and
didn’t think there were any easy
answers. This may have been a
disappointment to anyone who
thought Eisenhower could provide
a quick way out.
That night MaeArthur made his
speech before the National Asso-
at that. For he waa lodged la ah
uncomfortable Indian prison dell,
awaiting trial on g variety qf nar-
cotics charges, when<I?. Sr agents
in ,ikUyJ951 wept interview him
A few weeks later Glanatlni
was bark In the (IkTte/l States,
ostensibly a free man. At the
same time, one after another
of several ring* of narcotic*
smuggler* — all centered a-
round Glannini’n former Immm,
Lucky Luciano — were win Mail-
ed by Federal agents and New
Vdrti police. It wan one of
their most spectacular opera-
tions.
So G 1 a n n I u I became a
marked man.
R
In this respect, then, the
magnetic pull of the dollar,
drawing business away from
lean favored monetary areas,
ha* operated to the detriment
of eur nation.
While there is, of course, a good
| deal of narcotics smugglin going
on in other parts of the world,
North America in the past few
years has been the focal point of
this traffic, in which truly fantas-
tic profits are made. One pound
of .pure heroin, which can be pur-
chased for a few hundred dollars
Italy and,France, among other
1 jmjl. bring as much as
on the TJ. S- retail market.
Luciano, the reputed boss of the"
international dope - traffic, j is still
at large, though he is being kept
under dose surveillance by Italian
police. But nearly all of his top
men — Joe Plei; Frank Calaua,
-..rUtfr
Joseph Orsini, Salvatore Shillitani
and many ot^era arc tie hind
bars or jeitfiif* ■ ^ r:r:
For year*. the Itallan-Amer-
lean-French. Combine headed
by LtMladb hnd mulcted about
luo.uoo dope addicts In the U-
nited States and Canada of
hundreds of millions of dol-
lar*. It I* stilt doing so, though
on a reduced scale and at a
shrinking profit margin.
Basically, th$ reason why all the
world's dope peddlers in recent
years have concent rated their ef-
forts on the United States and Can-
ada, is the soundness of the dollar.
In a business as underhanded and
Ifgky as dope smugglin, the oper-
ators aren't inclined to take chan-
ces with blocked accounts, pegged
rates and the other currency re-*
strictions. They not only want to
make a fast buck, but also a free!
spendable one.
fc
> spite of the keen vigilance of
all fiw enforcement agencies, and
the Stiff penalties currently in store
faf convicted -narcotics offenders,
dope has been pouring Into this
country, in recent years, from all
directions and by every conceiv-
able mode of transportation.
Heroin, which Is inconspic-
uous and easily concealed,
comes In by ship and airplane
from Italy, France, Greece,
Turkey, Mexico and the Far
East. ; ; v ..
Cocaine te smuggled ,»from
Germany, France, Swltserianti*
and — as unprocessed cocoa
leaves —4 frOm Peru and rfu-
livia. 1 '
Raw opium comes from Chi-
na -(via Hon Kong), India,
Iran and Turkey, among other
countries.
Marijuana from Mexico Is
frequently brought ka by auto-
mobile. or oven by wejbaplpi
wading across the Kto Grand#.
Huslilsb Is shipped from Sy-
ria and Lebanon, among other
places.
There te a variety of leaner
known drugs, too long to e*
numerate.
The situation has shown some
improvement lately. Many dope
racketeers have been slapped into
Jail, here hnd abroad. A few sour-
ces of supply are drying up thanks
TO THE UG EFTS OF THE U. S.
TO THE UNTIRING ETS OF F
Narcotics Bureau and the United
Nations agencies concerned with
the supervision of drugs.
-Italy, once the world’s leading
manufacturer of heroin, most de-
structive of all narcotic drugs, has
finally been prevailed upon to sus-
pend manufacture.
Mexican airplanes are seeking
out and destroying illicit planta-
tions of opium poppy and Indian
hemp (wherefrom marijuana is
made). - \
Turkey has Instituted a state
monopoly to control the growth
and sale of opium in that coun-
try. | .
French police are cracking down
harder on illicit laboratories pro-
ducing heroin and cocaine. Ger-
many ahd other countries also are
tightening up their narcotics laws
and regulations.
Dope rounds out the fifth of the
principal “lines” of smugglers as
they effect American interests. The
others ' are old, diamonds, arms
and cigarettes. There are many
more, of course.
in Germany,
smuggling la on * u*r te»
black market in cigarettes^ Swiss
watches, nylon hosiery and many
other Items of lesser mportanoe
also go into the smuggler’s stock-
in-trade. Unlicensed shipments of
steel and other stratefc materials
to countries beyond the Iron Cur-
tain come under the heading of
contraband traffic.
In every tine, on# find# spe-
rluUste. But there are also •
good many Interlocking ring*.
The close connection between
sold and dtemend smuggling
has already been Panted •«*
In tills series. Smuggled g»W »
used to buy contraband dia-
monds.
Dope smuggling, experience has
shown, usually goes hand in hand
with counterfeiting and human
contraband (white slavery).
A few mouths ago, a Finnish
sailor waa washed ashore on
a Caribbean Island, after Ms
ship had vanished la the oeeaa.
somewhat mystertonsly, on a
trip from Miami to Africa.
Interrogated by the authorities,
the man readily conceded that his
skipper had been a,'global smug-
Rler "
* When asked what type of cargo
the ship had been < carrying, the
Finn shrugged his sfiouklers.
"Gold,” he said, “diamonds,
uns and dope.”
There wasn’t much he had
missed. , . ■ , _
(Copyright, 1952, by United Fea-
ture Syndicate, foe.) _ .., ,
END OF 8EH|J» i
MR. AND MRS. MURDERER!
thr^.sC^
SrS-tl"
•fitted; t
An;
ay the numtx
nstead ol<;
years of Barbara Kimbrough, Patsy Un-
In pay Do you coin and Gayle McDermitf on the
Too tight or too list of sophomores who'made this
, tnfbitsir fu*« »biii ic >' honor roil.* • i-»! u «Mt-Ilul »*>]
The surprising thing'about the ' Thanks (6 the leader vJhfr tXtiS-d'
ppll is that the men didn't object it to our attention, even to the
to girdlqg on the grounds they extent of telling us whoac had left
that George off. — Forrest Weimhdld.
A BEARD - A SUCCESS
By BOB THOMAS
HOLLYWOOD (lb Success is a
funny thihg. It can come from the
most trivial of happenings, such as
growing J beard.
Gene Evans made
Sven, he was a bum.
on, he's a hit actor
ays working
Gene in numerous
he’s the griz-
atthough once he
major. He's been
almost without
past 2Vj years,
as he’s been
bom in Holbrook,
fit up in Colton,
start in Little
assailed the Holly-
, To use a movie-
tiing! His film
few and paltry, and
Irregular
ere really rough, so
I moved Mp to a little place in
Topanga Canyon,” he recalled. "I
began to Jbink at myself as a
character, living up in the woods
there. So I grew a beard. That
did it. —
"I got ne*all for apart in ’Steel
Helmet.’ flpn Fuller, the writer
and dll si HI. Uked me and gave
me the Jtm He told me to keep
the baaed.*
Gem hag had the bush ever
since, CMiM'ter a two-month in-
terval. He ^.hacked It down to a
muitgehe for his role as the
_ In "Park
Row.” SJaHfice«tty. the picture
was not aij£eo«sful as his others,
although Returned a profit.
I asked ttn if he would keep
the beard ted become a rugged
Monty Hastes?. A t present, he
has trimmed;, it down to a sleek.
spade-Kte affair for his role as
the Oriental heavy in "The Golden
Blade.” £
whether I’ll keep
lepfled "I’m okay
beep making war
can work into
adventure ptetures like this one
But H might limit the kinds of
roles I can take.”
s "Ham Chris-
M a handsome
ter the holi-
It doesn’t
four million
I dollars worth its producer claims
it cost, it is properly garish for
a film of this scope. The plot is
admittedly a fairy tale, though not
as imaginative as the ones Ander-
sen himself concocted. There are
no surprises in the story. But the
dances are stunning, and the Frank
Loesser songs provide the best
new film musical score in years.
Danny Kaye is refreshingly re-
strained In the title role, and
Jeanmaire is excellent while danc-
ing. Farley Granger has a thank-
less part.
Club Gives Gifts
To Girls' Home
WHITHARRAL (Spl.) — The
Good Neighbor Club met in the
home of Mrs. C. C. Overman to
give gifts for the girls in the Milam
Home and Girlstown and for their
Christmas party Wednesday, Dec.
3.
The afternoon was spent in men-
ding for the Milan Home and Mrs.
J. L. Burnett presided at the busi-
rs.and em Kimyl w lywlwlw 1 wl
ding for the Milan Home and Mrs.
J. L. Burnett presided at the busi-
ness session, at which time the
gifts for the girls were presented.
Gifts were exchanged by those
present and refreshments were
served.
Attending were: Mmes. Hub
Spraberry, W. O. Ballow, C. G.
Landtn, C. H. Billings, J. D. Wa-
ters, Roy Taylor, Dock Martin, J.
L. Burnett, Roland Burnett, 3. H.
Kimbrough, A. D. Hutson, Will
Reding and the hostess, Mrs. Over-
man.
V. F. W. Hospital Beds
Are Needed Badly
A special committee of members
of the local V. F. W. Post held a
meeting Wednesday night. It was
discovered that several hospital
beds and wheel chairs, owned by
the Post, have been borrowed and
not returned.
If you have borrowed either of
these items and are not using them
now, please contact Poet Comman-
der John Staggs — 302 Ave. K..
or Charlie Copeland — 125 Pine
St.
had<<yritt*t t„
one_day before
W MaeArthur
speech wet*e Wled4ed on Thursday,
Dkd.'H^-tD'he published M meriting
papers of Dec. 6, since he would
deliver it on the night of Dec. 5*.
It probably had been prepared
before Dec. 4 because the NAM
is not in the bait of inviting its
mate speakers at' the last minute.
But apparently only an accident
in timing prevented MaeArthur
from getting nation-wide publicity
as the man who had a solution at
the very moment when the whole
country was waiting to see if Eisen-
hower could come up with one
If the Elsenhower people had
waited just one more day—until
sometime during Saturday, Dec. 6
—to break the news of his Korean
trip, it would have been MacAr-
thur, speaking on night of Dec. 6
prominence in the morning papers
As it turned out, the news of
the Eisenhower trip got so much
prominence in the Dec. 6 morning
papers, and required so much
space, that MaeArthur and his sug-
gestion of a solution were buried
on the inside page* of those papers
which printed tile story at all. ,
But MaeArthur got back into the
headlines wuickly when Eisenhow-
er, hearing that MaeArthur says
there is *• solution, arranged to
meet him and listen to his ideas.
So MaeArthur, who told Congress
in the spring of 1951 that old sol-
diers just fade away, hasn't faded
away after all.
LUNCHROOM MENU
The Levelland lunch room menu
for the week of Dec. 15 as an-
nounced by Mrs. W. O. Tipton,
cafeteria supervisor, is as follows:
• MONDAY
Barbecued Franks
Green Beans
Carrots
Lettuce Wedges
Bread
Milk
TUESDAY
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
Turkey and Dressing
Giblet Gravy
Cream Potatoes
English Peas
Cranberry Sauce
Pumpkin Pie
Bread
Milk
WEDNESDAY
Pinto Beans
Spinach
Tomato Sections
Relish
Cookies
Milk f
THURSDAY ■
Meat Loaf
Corn
itfbag* salad
Blackeyed
Apple Tshh
Jello
Radio Free Europe is telling all of Romania about this
bloodthirsty couple and their secret torture chamber!
[NTIL Iff A.M., December £^th, they, were
aimply Mr. and Mrs. Margmcann, diaihte
of BjUj* rasper led and admired
by the MjlTje'conujiunity. And thqa— j,
41i*yftadio Feet* F.urdie. People of
“ tea to tf|sa tefciffsteli w« have ye- .
the undrfground MFBlaj.. YeMleg
..the forest oat aide} of the Chjbf the Seoei’tyy
Police -are a young married cotipjr named Matf-
ginifilhu. Ttytethcr with other ap-mh^ra of the
govern in'•nta I gang, they patAnne blood orgies
nif^itly. Thoaq frrrdthn-loving Romanian* not’
f ‘in oyuSpathy wilVUte Communist regime are
dragged before tfoan end beaten- to death. WhHe*
the torture goes -on, the wine bottle is passed
'around—and there is much toasting and singing.
The names of pther regular participants are at
fallows..J » '
The Crimea against the'captive nation are re-
vealed each day by RidlflYrte Europe, Traitors,...
informers and “quislings” are named. Lives of**
antbemnmunAt patriots are saved. TVuth is piorc-
iag the Iron Curtain agff »prea<Dw f<*ar and con-
fusion among Communist overlords and their col- *
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But Radio Free Caropt urggtitly Heeds more
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The Crnsada for Freedom needs at least
$4,000,000 this year io support and expand the
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free Ajfo. \ . t .. ■ * /
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