The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 13, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO st Citizen THE CITIZEN PUPUSHING CO. INC, Published Dail) —xcept Sunday By |. P. ARTMAN, ? resident and Publisher a .LEN, Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County sntered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press ociated Press is exclusively entitled to use | ication of all news dispatches credited to otherwise credited in this paper and also news published here. "SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. 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Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Corsolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. —————_— Dictators are worse than thieves. There is honor among thieves, none among dictators. A few days ago 835 marriage licenses were issued in New York in a single day, and the cops turr’ 1 more than 400 away. | Quite evident tha. the marital intent is to dodge the martial draft. Representative Martin of Massa- chusetts, chairman of the Republican Na- tional Committee, said in a recent speech | that President Roosevelt has “made and | broken” 57 major promises in eight years. Maybe those are 57 reasons why this coun- try is in such a pickle. At last some of the Reds are getting itin the neck. In New York 208 WPA em- ployees who registered as Communists in | the 1956 Presidential election were dis- All Communists or Nazis who have so declared themselves will be bar- red from WPA employment according to the provisions of the Emergency Act now in force. charged. Immigration to Mexico of 250,000 Spanish refugees who had fled to France ! during the recent civil war will revitalize that country to a marked degree, provided | they become citizens, and not return to the mother country after they have amassed a competency or send their earnings to in- | digent relatives during the process. iards are a_ hard-working thrifty. Span- people and In “America,” a book by Wyndham Lewis, an English writer, he discusses many things about America and its people. He regrets that he failed to write about what he regards as too much native em- phasis on masculinity in this country, but what he forgot to write in his treatise he told his publisher, William Soskin. Mr. Lewis thinks there is too much he-man- nishness here. Each man wants to make zyone else think he is far mere mas- culine than anyone else. Ernest Heming- way, who is a citizen of Key West and has very fine home on Whitehead street, is best example of this type of mind, the thor states. “He is like a small boy dis- Relief | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | MORE ON OUR STREETS One of Key West’s livest civic groups, the Junior Chamber of Commerce, took | recognition of the conditions of the city’s streets at their meeting this week and took | initial steps to see what can be done about all the chuck holes. Since publicized, these | chuck holes, in many cases, have become last {veritable shell craters as the heavy rains of the past few days acted to wear away mar! base and other vieces of road ma- terial on several streets. It is well, then, that the Jaycees have decided that there’s | been enough talk about the condition of | our streets—it’s time now for action. Difficulty will be experienced, The | Citizen suggests, when funds fer sponsor- ship of a WPA Project will be ’Twas ever thus in such matters—but, per- haps, this will prove to be an exceptional Ca: in Key West who fervently hope so. There is a danger, however, that should any street repair project get start- ed, it may take us into the middle of the | tourist season when every inch of the | streets will be needed, it is predicted, for visiting cars as well as our own. So—if there’s anything to be done on this subject, it seems impeyative that it be | done right away. If nothing more, a tem- poiary repair project could be instituted that would bring the streets into fair con- | dition. We will all trust that the fills will | hold until next spring when a permanent job can be started. | Other organizations should follow the lead provided by the Jaycees and give | thoughtful consideration to this matter of “poor streets’ WAR PROFITS AND A FORMER WAR | The people of the United States should not lose sight of the immense profits that some business interests expect to make | out of the national defense program. } We know that there are big business leaders who insist that they are patriotic | and ready to serve their country. Most of them are patriotic but they will charge the nation full price for any services en- dered. The experience of this country in the last war aptly demonstrates the truth of! this assertion. While we are not convinced that it is to the national interests at this time to commandeer industrial plants for national defense, we are thoroughly in favor of stringent legislation to regulate the profits | of war industries. If men are to be drafted for a year’s service in the Army, it is only | fair and equitable that business and indus- try make « reasonable contribution to na- | tional defense, which includes the protec- | tion of their interests. In this connection, it is interesting to note that the Justice Department has ask- | ed the Supreme Court to review two World | War decisions involving profits on ship- building contracts. The Government’s petition charges that the Bethlehem Ship- ' building Corporation had a contract to re- ceive the cost of constructing vessels, plus | a fixed profit of about ten per cent, with a “bonus for savings” equal to one-half of | the amount by which actual cost was less than estimated costs. It is charged that the shipbuilding com- pany submitted inflated estimates of costs, with the result that it would receive over $25,000,000 profits for doing work which | cost about $93,000,000, without running any risk of loss. The United States brought suit to re- cover excess profits paid to the Company ; in Pennsylvania. that the Government could not recover the profits already paid but he called the transaction a “daylight robbery” and said that the company’s conduct reminded him of Rob Roy “who admitted he was a rob- ber but proudly proclaimed that he was no thief.” The Government has asked the Su- preme Court to review the case because it is “now engaged in a program of military and naval armament comparable to or greater than that undertaken in 1917 and 1918” and that it is “of immediate national a concern that there should be an authorita- | tive determination of the extent to which the country’s need should place it at the mercy of its contractors.” Obviously, it is of vital importance to the Gcvernment to secure prompt ad- judication of the questions raised in order same sought. ! There are hundreds of auto drivers ' The Federal judge ruled | By VIRGINIA HANSON ters YESTERDAY: Adam drops at Kay's with an address book of Ivan’s containing the names of literary and theatrical people in New York and Hollywood and the dog-eared manuscript of a play. Then Sandra enters. Chapter 23 ‘Highborn Russian” I SMILED and Adam caught me at it. He raised his white | brows. : “Just imagining you in a pow- dered wig,” I said. “One of the things I like about you is that you understand me so thoroughly,” he returned blandly. . Sandra glanced from one to the other of us with baffled distrust. Then her small dark eyes rested on Adam in a child's frank ap- Praisal. “Your hair looks sort of pow- dered,” she said. “I never saw such white hair on a young man —it’s distinguished.” “Not white—just tow,” Adam corrected. But the most idiotic ex- pee of gratification sprained is face, and there was a gleam of approval in his eyes as he handed her tenderly into a chair. “It’s not every man,” he began expansively, “who is lucky enough to get a word alone with a bride on her wedding day——” “What do you mean alone?” I asked coldly. “Would you like me to withdraw?” “Dear me, no. Think of the proprieties! I was speaking in a relative manner only. Relatively alone, I meant to say.” “Then Ill relatively with- draw.” I stood up and strolled toward the inner bedroom, swishing my silk housecoat, making it swirl around my ankles. I had not missed the teasing note in his voice; neither had I missed his moronic response to Sandra’s crude flattery. I felt unreasonably irritated. I gave the door a push as I passed it, but it did not entirely close. Eventually, I knew, he was going to work around to asking her questions, and I wanted to hear the answers. So, having gathered up the necessary arti- cles, I settled myself near that partially open door and pro- ceeded to do my nails. He was wishing her happiness and making the usual remarks about Jeff being a lucky devil. “I’m so glad you feel that way,” she answered plaintively. “I’m in rather an awkward position here, | ed as you've probably noticed. Jeff tried to get another station, but Colonel Pennant insisted on hav- ing him in the regiment, so what could we do?” “I must be stupid. It seems to me an ideal arrangement—you're all such friends.” Her laugh was a little overdone as to bitterness. “You're not including Julia in that, are you? She’d scratch my eyes out if she dared. She wanted him herself, of course, and the poor boy had to make heroic ef- forts to break away. He couldn’t avoid being thrown with her a great deal when they were both at West Point—and he was so young he didn’t realize what he was letting himself in for.” The point of my nail file slipped, and I had to go into the bathroom to stanch the bleeding before I could finish. So I missed some of what followed. When I came back they were talking about Ivan’s play. She admitted that he had told her about it. “It was a shame the way they treated him,” she said indignant- ly. “It’s not as if he was entirely unknown—he had a play on Broadway last year.” “Did he?” Adam sounded sure prised. “What was the name of ae?” She told him. I had never heard of it. Neither, apparently, had Adam. ‘Devoted Servants’ Eee it have good notices? How long did it run?” “It was a wonderful play,” she said firmly. “But the critics chose to make fun of it. I ‘suppose because he was a Russian. People in this count think Russians are all crazy. Just as t! think Swedes are funny and Italians romantic. It’s a form of national conceit that is really just ig- norance.” “There’s something in what you say,” Adam admi' “So Ivan was Russian. You mean he was born in Russia?” , “He was smuggled out of Rus- sia by devoted servants when he was only a small child. His own people, af course, were all shot. They—they were too close to the czar.” A “The s&rvants brought him over ere? “First to England. They = him off as their own child, who died of privations on the way. But there were people who knew —other ot the British to it that he was ford. Then—then over here.” iy?” “It was mem! . They educated at he had to Ox- that he had powerful friends. }¥ou—you haven’t heard from any of them yet?” “You mean they would have read of his death in the papers?” He sounded skeptical. “No, I can’t say that we have. We had a wire from his people this morning— his mother and father in Brook- lyn. The address was among his Papers and we notified them last night. Early this morning, rather. Soon after we found him. They want the body sent home.” “The devoted servants,” San- dra breathed softly. “They would have followed him to the ends of the earth——” It sounded like a bad radio drama. Was it possible that San- dra believed all this stuff? Didn't she know that everyone who came out of Russia during the revolution was at least a grand duke? And there was that child- ish joke about Bertie Wooster that Gerald had pa last night, and Ivan’s outrageously phony British accent. He had never seen Oxford; I thought it unlikely that he had ever seen the British Isles. There was a short pause, then Adam spoke regretfully. “I had hoped you could help us. You see, it seems such a point- less crime. There’s no motive.” “Isn’t there?” My flesh crawled a little at that flat, emotionless voice. She might as well-have come right out and aceused Jeff. Did she really be- lieve he had killed Ivan? Could any woman marry a man she be- lieved to be a murderer? Adam chose to ignore the im- plicaticn. : “Well, you see,” he said smoothly, “hardly anyone here so much as knew him. Colonel Pen- nant says he had never seen the man; Mimi thought she might have met him once at your apart- ment, but she couldn’t be cer- tain; Jeff says he had only the most casual acquaintance with him. Now as a rule a crime like murder presupposes a strong mo- tive. I wonder—you say he had powerful friends. Had he any enemies?” ‘Spies’ 2 a highborn Russians have enemies,” she said gran- diosely. “But if you mean one of them killed him, that’s impossi- ble. They are all abroad—com- munist agents, spies.” “We have spies and communist agents in this country too, you know,” Adam said dryly. “And not all in books, either.” “But not here, on a Middle Western army post.” She sound- am “Why not? Maybe you read in the papers about a recent case that involved an enlisted man at Mitchel Field?” ‘No. No, I didn’t see that.” Tiere was a short pause, dur- ing which she seemed to be di- gesting this information, for when she spoke again she sound- ed less certain, less in command of the situation. “I_I can’t believe that. You're just trying to find an excuse, aren’t you? Aren’t you? Oh, I know how it is in the army— rotect the personnél at all cost. Expectally when it’s a civilian who gets killed. All this talk of spies! You don’t believe that, do you? Do you?” But there was no question in A mind that she sounded wor- ried. Adam was silent under this shrewd counterattack. Perhaps he was remembering the talk we had had before she came in. But he would not ask her what she eant, at whom she was hinting. Le) by marrying Jeff she had put herself in a position where she could not come out openly and accuse him. If that was what she wanted to do. And I was becom- ing increasingly more certain that it was. “If you are in possession of in- formation incriminating to any- one, regardless of the person, it is your duty to report it,” he said stiffly. Her attack had been shrewd, but she had lost ground with Adam by imoplvi t he would evade his duty. I may have remarked, Adam is a man of principle. “T’ve told you all I can,” she said, and with that equivocal re- sponse put a jod to the inter- view. I he: her rise and take her departure. I came out of the bedroom holding y fingers apart to let the enamel dry and found Adam standing in the middle of my sit- ting room staring at the floor. I asked him for a cigarette and he placed one between my li same air of “I was going to ask you to have supper with me,” he said abrupt- ly. “But I can’t now. I’ve got to see to things. I've decided to take the body 3 “Couldn’t someone else do that?” “Yes, but I want to talk to that pair—those devoted servants.” “Surely you don't believe that = In The School Hour Hush My son is six, he thinks that he's outgrown baby days mush, As off to school, flown; My heart is heavy in the school hour hush, He wants to go to school. His and breakfast my boy has is twelve, she knows that she has grown womanhoed and modern rush, off to school, flown; My heart is heavy im the school hour rush, She likes to go to school. |My girl To As my girl has My age is known, I'm sorry that Tve grown lonesome days and care-worn flush, off to school my flown; My heart is heavy in the school hour hush, I want toe go to school. To As kith have - FOOD FACTS IN A The Cashew nut, which comes from India, grows on the end of a fruit of apple-like appearance and the kernel is removed from the hard smooth shell of the seed. Cashews have increased in sale in the United States in the past ten years from 50,000 pounds annually to nearly 15,000,000 pounds and the demand is still growing. TOKAY GRAPES With an unusually heavy crop of Tokay grapes ready for mar- ket, growers have asked the food chains to assist in marketing the crop by featuring this item Housekeepers in turn are asked to co-operate by including To- kays on their menus for salads, fruit cocktails and desserts. APPLES The apple has been cultivated in England since the period of “the Roman occupation and by 1688 there were 78 varieties be- ing grown in and around Lon- don. There are now 2,000 dif- ferent varieties which can be distinguished. POTATO FROM PERU Believed to be a native of Peru, the potato was mentioned in Spanish books in 1553 as the “Papa”. Walter Raleigh culti- vated the potato on his estate near Cork, Ireland. TOMATO JUICE Originally a by-product of the canned vegetable, tomato juice has become so popular it is now a major industry in its own right and thousands of acres of toma- toes are grown annually for the juice. Today only carefully se- lected sun-ripened tomatoes are used for the juice. ‘Today's Birthdays General John J. Pershing, born in Linn County, Mo. 80 years ago. Sherwood Anderson of Marion, Va., famed novelist, born at Camden, Ohio, 64 years ago. Milton S. Hershey of Hershey, Pa., candy manufacturer, phil- anthropist, born in Dauphin Co., Pa., 83 years ago. U. S. Senator Henry F. Ashurst of Arizona born at Winnemucca, Nev., 66 years ago. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., of New York, born at Oyster Bay, N. Y., 53 years ago. Warden Lewis E. Lawes of Sing | Sing, N. Y., born at Elmira, N. Y. | 57 years ago. Maud Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America, New York, born in England, 75 years! ago. Isaac F. Marcosson, journalist- | author, born at Louisville, Ky., 63 years ago. Jesse L. Lasky, movie produc- er. born in San Francisco, 60 years ago. . Claudette Colbert, screen star, born in Paris, 33 years ago. Dr. Irvin Abell of Louisville Ky., noted surgeon, born at Le- banon, Ky., 64 years ago. FRID Satta LALA Ls IDELICHTS nautics Authority. when ment to the Wright Brothers was recently unveiled m Dayten, O Mr. Wright has not piloted plane since 1914 Montagu Ne been governor « England for 20 years » fine lawn im Kensingtor cabbage field this year geod crop is now being gz l The acreage of food crops tas been greatly British Isles siz gan. increased joe the Marion Ali oi crowned Miss Bror: the result of a beaut Negro girls at the N fair which closed in Chicage Labor Day. Iona V of Chicago, and Gladys We var be Mississippi won second and thard prizes, respectively Only three dent Roosevelt's remain—Secretary of Secretary of the 1 and Secretary of There have been freque that Miss Perkins we second term. 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