The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 15, 1941, Page 2

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The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- Hof public issues and subjects of local or general ons THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always Seek: the truth and print it || without fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the publie welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, | commend good done by individual or organ- | | ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airperts—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City’ Gov- ernments. € A Modern City Hospital. 2k eRe ee Lh The United States continues clize the numbers lottery. to monop- 4 The Briton is a’slow starter but a fast fintsher, Hitler will find that out, An exchange thinks the worst bottle- | -neck is a boarding house bathtub on Satur- day-night. | Axis propaganda is like our movie plots. Any similarity to real persons or | events is purely a coincidence. Many Americans who do not speak Spanish know what Cuba Libre means, and | that it has nothing to do with patriotism.— Key West Citizen. They know what vodka is even though they don’t. speak Russian, | too,—-Palatka Daily News. How can we aid all those warring Euro- pean countries without weakening our- selves? It is not logical, but that is just it, there is no more logic in this insane world. —Key West Citizen. Don’t be so down- hearted. The worst is yet to come.——San- ford Herald. Battles, famous in history, are not al- ways named after the places where the en- gagements took place. For instance, just | +o remind, are the Battle of Waterloo fought at Belle Alliance, and the Battle of Bunker Hill, not fought there at all, but at | Breed’s Hill, some distance from Bunker | Hill. History is slow to correct mistakes. A Reader’s Digest investigation shows | that three out of five times the American thotorist who stops a car for'repairs or ad- vice at a strange garage is going to be | gypped., The investigators travled 14,516 miles up, down and across the continent in | a Lincoln Zephyr coupe. Small towns and small garages were much more honest than large towns and elaborate garages. In | Florida the honest repair men were out- | numbered two to one. The two investiga- tors declare that the most crooked dealing was handed them in New York and Miami. The moral for Key Westers is to have their repair work done in Key West, where most | 60 homes for the rest. | ulation” and asserts that -—-——— —— FOR HOME IMPROVEMENT Any remedy for Key West's acute | housing shortage, as members of the homes | registration committee have agreed, boils | | down to the two steps of, j (i) Learning definitely what is i needed, and, | (2) Deciding what to do about it. } | From. there on the subject is open to debate, 3 | ‘y ¢=Bither the government will be called | upon to rush construction of enough homes | to accommodate the navy personnel, their families and the defense workers, or it will . begin by getting local homes in shape to ac- | commodate some of them—then build , First, of course, the problem of a full and true survey must be met, before either | ourse can be adopted. That is up to the ; members of the clubs upon whom the com- mittee has called for help, and upon the committee itself. As to what comes next, the situation, | briefly, is this: Forgetting some of the ordinary re- | strictions on loans (since it must spend money in ahy event) the government can help Key Westers improve their homes to a point where additional rooms and apart- ments will become available, or it can hold | improvement to a minimum through pres- ent restrictions and fill the need with tem- porary housing of its own construction. From the standpoint of Key West, we think the first course is desirable. Improvement of existing homes, where they can be improved, not only would leave | the city in a far better condition when the | emergency is over, but the rents would pro- | vide a widely scattered income, reaching many pockets. : Since Key West’s future is tied up with tourist trade, improvement of homes and betterment of sanitary conditions in those homes is of vital concern to the entire city. Construction of temporary housing units is | of no permanent value to anyone, except the owners of the property involved. } INFLATION| MUST BE AVOIDED Frankly, we do not know whether the | people of Key West have any idea of the havoc that can be wrought in this country | if inflationary tendencies develop into a genuine booming of prices such as the na- | tion witnessed during the World War era. Those who were living after the end of that epic struggle, and especially in- | dividuals who had obligations, can well re- | member the tragic episode that developed | with deflation, applied inthe Summer of | 1920. It is not too much to assert that the | nation, and particularly our farmers, have | never recovered from the beating that was | taken then. It is mighty easy to encourage rising prices, with speculators and nibbling citi- zens intrigued by sudden profits, but the aftermath will be a catastrophe that no one | can contemplate philosophically after the earlier experience of the country. Steps should be taken, immediately, | to put an end to the dangerous game that is now underway. It will take resolution by Congressmen and officials to nip the blooming profits that entrigue pseudo-pa- | triots, who talk glibly about national de- | | fense, but the long-run welfare of the coun- | try demands that every precaution be used | to avoid the calamities that followed the | 1920 debacle. | GOOD TRAINING WITHOUT WEAPONS | Smart-alec critics of the defense pro- | gram like to jibe at the training of soldiers without modern weapons and the glib com- ment has a tendency to fool some people. The War Department points out that | the “tactical employment” of a weapon is | more important than its “technical manip- “little training | value is lost by the substitution of a stove | pipe for a mortar or an oak for a machine gun,” While the army has expanded faster | than the manufacture of weapons, all units | have sufficient weapons for training and the soldiers have learned how to handle their basic arms, In training the weapons are not fired but the soldiers learn how to select the proper position for the guns, which is the “crucial factor,” The Germans practiced their soldiers with simulated weapons as late as 1938, | knowing well the truth of the War Depart- ment’s saying that ‘an imitation gun, well placed in manéuvers, may be better than a of our garage and repair men still believe that honesty is the best policy, real weapon that is sited in an exposed position.” } modern, | scared stiff of the rors in grammar, THE KEY WEST CITIZEN a 8 YESTERDAY: Henry ana ella Pell are, though Luella not admit it, on the verge of sep- arating although they have been married only. year. Marie Ma- son is the cause of Henry's back~ sliding—and Tommy Mcintyre, who had been in love with Marie, would like to make it up to Lu- ella if only she would let him. But she will not. Chapter 20 Marie’s Trip “we I come up for a few) moments?” Tommy asked, when he brought the car to a standstill in front of Luella’s house. “No, Tommy . ...” said Luella. Then, .suddenly: “Tommy, I’ve) got an ideal” ~ “What about?” “About you and Marie,” said Luella. “Why don't you go away for a while? Take that vacation rou’ve been planning—go down Florida to that cottage you told me about.” “Are you, by any chance, trying to get rid of me, Luella?” Tommy asked, half joking, half serious. “No . . . but maybe if Marie suddenly realized that you'd got- | ten out of the picture, so to speak, she would begin to under- stand how much she really needs |here for me to do.” | 1 J } ! s. a were slipping, unless you were on the pe 3 called uj Pode ‘Office, And when they t and gould gone out to Chi P be gone for 4 wi went panicky. I jumped a plane, and came out. I couldn’t write all I wanted to say, and yet I felt you should know exactly how things stood.” of Marie’s. “You were sweet to os that,” he said. “I appreciate it, cab z “There are not ‘Byte. Henry,” Marie interrupted. “You've to get back ‘to New York sell yourself to Rector and Everett,” “Pm interested in that radio job, Marie, really I am,” said, “but I> can’t possibly get back to New York before next | Wednesday. I have no earthly ex- |cuse for leaving here week is up. Besides there's plenty before the “But you will be back Wednes- day, won't you?” said Marie. “You | must promise me, Henry. It means }so much to me—more than I can | say.” “Vl do my darndest.” “T couldn't bear having you not get that job,” Marie went on. “There are so many things we can do together, and, as you said yourself, radio is the coming thing. Then there’s television.” Henry smiled. “And what a | you.” "T see ... There might be some- thing in it, but I can’t get away now. That's impossible.” Tommy inned. “Besides, I still remem- + how your other idea ended— ~ know, that proposal on ship- rd in the moonlight.” “Yes, I know,” “Well, get away when you can. ... [think it’s the thing to do. out- mwhile have an ho | in-the-open, heart-to-heart talk with Marie, Tommy. Maybe if we all. try real hard we can get things straightened out—as_ they should be,” She tried to smile. “I mean, you back with Marie, and Henry back with me.” “T’ve tried to talk to Marie several times,” said Tommy. “But she’s always busy... . It night. I telephoned on F. cause I knew it was one n she was usually fr But she *wasn’t at home.” “She's probably week -ending y with some of the radio officials. you _only t ; “Good night, Tommy “Good night, Lueila — dearest,” Tommy said very soft! Luella turned away back tears, fighting the her heart, and hurried inside. Ticklish Spot UT in Chicago Henry Pell was facing Marie Mason in a se- cluded corner of a hotel mezza- nine, fighting “It's fun being here tegether | like this, isn’t it?” id Marie. “Exciting—sort of—of—devilish.” “Yes, Marie,” said Henry, “but I—you see—” “Is anything troubling you, | Henry?” Marie asked, eyeing him closely. “No, only—” “You mean you're sorry I flew out here to see you?” “No, it’s not that exactly... .. It’s only that I hope no one sees us together. They might not— well—understand.” “And suspect the worst?” said | Marie. “Think the worst and tell Luella?” She shrugged. “Listen, Henry, darling, we're strictly you and I, and you mustn’t feel guilty, as though we'd been caught down home to- gether. . . After all, we're grown-up, and—” “Oh, I'm modern enough,” said | Henry. “I haven't any old-fash- | ioned ideas about people being ‘thou shalt nots’ . . . What does bother me, though, is having Luella find out, | } and take it into her head to—to— ; do something extreme.” “Nonsense!” laughed Marie. “Luella’s not an extremist—any- thing else but that! Besides, I did fly out here on business, That’s true, isn’t it?” “Yes, Marie, I know... . And it was swell of you to do it, espe- cially when you have to be back in New York Monday for your broadcast. . . . But—oh, the devil! «.. Are you sure Alma Latham’s about to land that job with Rec- tor and Everett?” “I certainly am!” said Marie. “Good heavens, Henry, you don’t | think I'd fly all the way to Chi- | Cago on a mere surmise or sus- picion, do you? Malcolm Rector’s in love with Alma—as I’ve told you before—and he’s strong for giving her the job. He likes for women to justify their existence, and Alma knows this. So she’s no stone unturned. She’s Seeving 0 even playing up to Mr. Everett.” rt She leaned toward Henry, her eyes big and shining. “The mo- ment I felt that your chances Highbrow Boner Speaking of grammatical er- was picked up by Punch who in- quired, “Then who else am we?” said Luella. ed last} b lovely thing you'll be in tele- | vision!” he said. Then, more seri- | oush ‘Maybe I could handle the |radio as a sort of avocation. You now, hold on to the job I have ne. “You couldn't possibly do that,” said Marie. “We'd never be able to get things done. You'd be pulled this way and that, if not by the realty job, then by Lu- ella.” “Oh, yes, Luella,” said Henry quietly. He stiffened. “Say, that {ro} ed like a man I know in New or r Pete’s sake, Henry, stop being so jittery,” said Marie... . “One would think you'd eloped e--that you'd run off with an who'd broken up your it!” said Henry. get just such an Delayed “Luella, nam- ga spondent!” she . “Don’t be absurd, Henry, If one ever names a ¢¢-Yespon- it it will have to be you. Lu- la will certainly never do it.” 0 sure.” said Henry. those who seem to be or the most long- the very ones who > kens wher they’re id mad.” He lit a cigarette, w a smoke-ring. “With this w job hanging in the fire, and e just trying ‘to get somewhere in ratio, I couldn’t afford to risk is!. Nor could you. Marie.” raid,” said Marie. a better than you >? ... I wonder about that, ie She'll slip quietly away and weep,” Marie went on, “but she will never have the courage to sue you, or name me or anyone else. Now, let's forget Luella, and | go back to business,” “That suits me all right.” said Henry. “I don’t relish the idea of Luella slipping off soméwhere to_weep.” “You still love her?” “I married her, didn’t 1?” Henry fenced. “Anyway I hate to think of her being hurt.” “Cautious man!” Marie teased. | “Come on, let’s forget business also for the time being, and go dancing.” jsome marvelous music coming from the grill.” Henry took her arm. They went down the stairs to the main floor. A few moments later they were moving as one over the shining ace in the grill room that was reserved for dancers, Marie flew back to New York | the next afternoon. Heary stood fon the edge of the airfield and | watched the plane that was tak- | jing her away. He closed his eyes / elt a great wave of | {a eeeay | worry and uncertainty engulfin; him. He fought it off with offort !and went to find a cab that would take him back to the city. There, jhe hoped, he would be | stretch out upon his bed and do some clear and , constructive | thinking. Marie, going places. jabout Henry Pell? | there were endless details to be tee bdo PPcagy were | complications. Gett back to |New York .on Wednesday was out of the question. He eouldn’t make it on Fires either. It was Friday before Henry could manage it. Now, at last, he was on his way home. The train would be pulling into Grand Cen- tral Station in a short time. He thought about Luella, He hoped she wouldn’t feel too bad ghout his not having written to er. Now the station. Now a taxi- cab, Now getting out in front of jthe house, paying the driver. Up two flights, down a hall. And then the apartment living room, neat and tidy as usual and very, very uiet, “Luella, I’m back,” he called, No answer. To be continued Juvenile Paradise Missionary — Now, in Africa, | rors, or to satisfy the purists, er- there are miles and miles with- | Lord Morley |out a single school. Why ought | ‘once said, “Neither you nor I am} ¥¢ © Save up our pennies? entirely ourselves”. His solesism' A frica. | Subscribe to The Citizen, WEEN Henry laid his hand over one j ow, and write songs as a side- | bt even name | ra able tq | Luella, silently weeping, . .. | And Henry Pell. . .. Well, what | Work piled up. On Monday | |attended to. Tuesday there were | Jackie—To pay our fare to i | ‘John’ Had b Prove She Wasn’t A Man) (Ry Associated Press) GREYBULL, Wyo., Aug. 15.— Mrs. Roy Hutchinson of Kent, | Wash., had to make a trip to | Wyoming to prove she was un qualified for army service. made out on May 1, mame was erroneously listed a “John M, Delk, male” and*it was | filed at Stringtown, Wyo.,-where, | When her birth certificate wa she was born, later and her father failed to de-| Her mother died several year: | tect the error. 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IN. boi ve. | RAUL NUNEZ, Defendant, - ORDER OF PUBLICATION 70:, RAUL NUNEZ, % Resicence—unknown, You are hereby required ta | pear to the Bill of Complaint above styled cause on the of. September, A. Dt. 1941, the allegations therein will be taken as‘confessed. This order. to be published tweek for four consecutive The Key West Citizen, a published in Key West, Florida, Done and Ordered, this 30th of July, A. D. 1941, (SEAL) Ross © Say ‘Clerk of the Circuit Court, ~ } County, Florida. i By: (Sa) Florence B. Saw. Deputy Ch | augi-8-15-22-29,1941 PIRCUIT COURT eat ye? CIAL IN AND FOR MONROE FLORIDA, IN CHANCERY, No. 8-30 SUZANNE PRATT THA (LEGALS NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR TAK q vs. (Senate Bill No. 163) 1 eee + NoTIGh IS HEREBY Givon, That | BERTRAM W. THAYER, ORDER FOR PUBLICATION . Curry Moreno, Rolane ce Tax} ertificate No. 225, issued the Ist ro. BE rH pie ert ig Was hs Mag 7) er er acid filed same in my office and has; Kansas City, Missouri. made application for @ tax deed to! You are hereby required t6 af be issued thereon. Said certificate | the above entitled cause om jembraces the following described; 1, Day is September, 1941, | |property in the County of Monroe, | 8.50% pein September 1, 1941, to. S| Stats of Pieridae, tow ndalay, Key {Dill for divoree filed against you! gat ane, » on. j the above entitled cause and Largo, Plat Book 1 Fage 194, Pt. Gov. Lot 3 & Lot 14 . 6-62-39, as recorded in Monroe County’ Records. : ‘The assessment of the said prop- erty under the sald certificate is- sj sued. was in the name of William L. eed. jafter to file such defense |shall think proper; ot jallegations of said bill for 4 {filed in said cause will be ti | confessed by you. Ordered and Done at Key Florida, this July 31st, 1941. (SEAL) (Sa@.) Ross C Clerk of the Circuit Court, County, Florida. Uniess safa certificate shall be | deemed according to law, the pro jerty described therein will be sold }to the highest bidder at the court Monday in the month of Septemben, 1941, whieh is the 1st day of September, 1941. Dated this 25th cay of July, 1941. Glerk or Cireult Court of Monn lerk ©} reu ‘ourt 0! lonroe ‘i County, Florida. ,to 1844 was not sold but jly26; augi-8-15 1941 given or exchanged. Si ci annals | YOUR NEWSBOY . . « buys his copies of The Citizen at sale, sells them at retail. . . « loses if a customer fails to pay- . . « is embarrassed if a customer is slow + . . goes the limit for his trade, is on the je rain or shine, serves his customers well. é him promptly and regularly. : See Circulation Departinent | | | | | |