The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 27, 1941, Page 2

wer Greehe and Ann Streets at Key ‘Wost, Florida, ag second class matter } is exclusively entitled to use all news di: es eredited to aes vention. : ASSOCIATION e _- Made known on application. ae SPECIAL NOTICE All readine notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of neaprct. Pl ged notices, ete., will be charged for at “the rate of 10 cents a I Notices for entertainm: JF evenue in to be derived are 5 cents a line. .. The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- ion of public issues and subjects of local or general {oterest but it will npt publish anonymous communt- ions. 4 : by churches from which sible. 3 community Fi THE KEY WEST CITIZEN land. WILL always seek the trith 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 public 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 d opinions; print only news that will elevate e and not contamjnate the reader; never com- promise with principle. | : IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hoteis and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Aurperts— and Sea. j Conpolidation % County ‘and’ City Gov- || ermments, * A Modern Cit) Hospital. ee eee 2 Since the government has repudiated its promise to induct the draftees for one < year only, detainees will be an appropriate “name for them. The national defense effort has been ~ slowed by labor quarrels and by the effort ~ of business to get the best possible bargain . from the government. y ; Congressmen are paid to do their duty and cast their yotes on any and all ques- tions, and not sit on the fence or stand in the side lines watching the action of the fear- less, own made. Sod oS een * In the “V” campaign now being waged | hy England it is in the hopeful last phase of Bi the Constantine slogan: “Veni, Vidi, Vici.” | th Great Britain has come and has seen; let us be hope she will also eonquer. mM At ; : a In bare majority of one is sufficient to | keep the boys in service two and a half | i years beyond the contractual one year’s | old _Service, but it does not represent the will of | B. the people which once was the law but | wel means nothing in the year of Our Lord | ty ~1941, | | Mi : . Recently President Roosevelt vetoed | ‘the bridge and road bill saying it smacked | of the pork-barrel, yet he continues with | 2*Dutch determination’ to advocate his pet | project, the St, Lawrence sea-way project | *swhich,; The New York Times says, “means ; sticking it into a pork-barrel bill for the | ‘sake of getting votes.” The President | ~ often speaks of “the orderly processes of -demoeracy”, but continues to force this ~ ‘project on Congress whieh rejected it seven years ago when he submitted it as a treaty. Last Spring he revived it as a “defense” measure, presenting it to Congress in the | form of an agreement, already signed, but | infectants. 2 Congress showed indifference to the pro- | _-pesal. Undaunted he wants his project in- J eluded now in an omnibus bill of the Rivers | part. “and Harbors committee. That is a totali- | “tarian method of procedure, and by no “steetch of the imagination could it be called rderly process of democracy,” _ world. years. THEY WANT TO SEE THE WATER - Gity councilmen who are supporting | immediate passage of an ordinance trans- | ferring the city’s underground water sys-— tem to the Florida Keys Aqueduct com- | mission are not doing so in ignorance of the © fact that the deal is not everything that could be desired. Naturally, m interests of-the-cil ‘ served if they were not required to pay. $50. per hydrant for the use.of water in fire pre- ‘ | | ing in obseurity for | great was the sensation originally created by the giant hoax that the statue has come | to have a certain historic value. —— » treasury “wo! 7 be They realize, too, that they would be scoring a victory if they could obtain a bond requiring the commission and the navy to perform their contract obligations : within a given length of time. There is, however, a single pressing fact which drives the councilmen to do everything in their power to avoid any more hitches or delays in the completion of the ‘resh water aqueduct to Key West. The people of Key West want fresh water, and they want it as quickly as pos- For as many years as there has been a on this island, its people have | dreamed of getting a sure source of fresh | water, whieh ean come only from the main- Most of the people in Key West now aré interestetin the one fact that the navy is standing by, ready to start work on the ‘dreamed-of and hoped-for project. sg | ef them probably feel that the navy, with 30 many other places where its money needed, may not wait too much longer. And that’s how we think it stands. The average person is not greatly in- | terested in whether the city obtains or fails | to obtain small concessions from the navy | and the aqueduct commission. | He wants to see the water. | Most is A DOUBLE FAKE / Among the many freaks and fakes ex- | hibited by the great showman, P. T. Bar- | num, who declared that “‘people liked to be | humbugged” and cashed in on the idea, was | the “Cardiff Giant,” represented to be a | petrified man, ten and a half feet tall. The “giant” was a fraud, Being a crude | statue of a man, carved out of gypsum in | Towa, and buried by a practical joker in | the bed of a creek near Cardiff, a hamlet? near Syracuse, N. Y. The joker then had the statue “discovered,” and spread the news of the find far*and wide. That was | in October, i \Later it was exhibited around the coun- | try as a “pétrified man,” and a good many | scientific men were inclined to believe it to be genuine until a Yale professor made an examination and exposed the fake. While the “giant” favor and drawing large crowds, Barnum tried to buy it to add to his collection of cireus sideshow attractions. owner named a price thought too high, Barnum proceeded to have a giant of his 1896. was in popular When the This imitation of a fake—a sort received some several decades. So PRIVATE ENTERPRISE SETS RECORD The oil industry supplies the fuel that keeps our machines and many of our fac- tories going. It has given the United States | 63 per cent of all the oil products in the | On top of that, the oi) industry is working wonders in other vital fields. Rubber is absolutely essential to the nation in peace and in war. All our natural rubber comes from abroad, and our present supply of crade is. sufficient for only two } If this became, exhausted and we could obtain no more, the oil industry could | meet our needs with an efficient synthetic vubber'made from petroleum, Recently it was found that the fumes | of pure gasoline are an effective anesthetic. Petroleum is being made into powerful dis- When it comes to other materials of war, the industry is likewise playing a big This is just one example of how our | natural resource industries are quietly help- | ing to build America’s defense—and at the {same time meeting America’s normal needs. |. yotthem, feel that, the ¢ of double fake—-was successfully exhibited | by Barnura as the Cardiff Giant, in Am- erica and abroad, for several years. The original “giant” fresh publicty some time ago owing to the fact that the Chamber of Commerce of Syraeuse wanted to have it brought back to that eity from Iowa, where it has been rest- jing judge of the U. S. Court of | engineer, born in \ | | | } | a YESTERDAY: Anne Willard is in the depths of the Yangsar des- ert on her way to join her par- ents, who are exploring the mys- teries of Shy-a Nago. The desert has dropped her at the proper place, and out of the silence comes @ young man who saves her from the sting of a desert viper. Now the man and woman her father has sent to meet her have arrived—and the young man gone, Chapter Two The Dagger T= man handed her a note. Tt was in her father’s hand- writing, but brief, constrained and disappointing in contents. She was. to.aecept the ceremonial emblem, to go ahead as planned | clos, and everything would be all right. The telegram had been au- thentic then, and she recalled his warning not to be alarmed at any- thing strange in the Nagaras’ be- havior, They were a primitive but dependable people. Yet they had come late to meet her, and if it hadn’t been for the appear- ance of the stranger, she might now be dead. She looked at them and waited. “Are. you—ready?” the man asked. His voice was guttural, but he spoke the words slowly and plainly. “I am,” she said and stood up. They. motioned her to sit down again, The man placed a bundle at her feet, a bundle such as she had seen American Indians carry wrapped in a shawl and tied by the four corners. He indicated she was to open it. Inside she found another wrapping of striped ga- tive homespun, tied in the same way. Then a third, and a fourth till she came to a silken coverjat the sight of which they rose apd stepped back sawtionsy. aused and looked She had heard a roar that diffe; from the roar of the telegra) “Where is the airplane thaf is to take me to father’s camg?” They shook their heads and mo- tioned for her to go on with what she had begun. Carefully she tn- loosened the silken cloth, Thee lay a fold of leather; a belt, sheath. She opened the flap. The hilt of a dagger. Her heart begin to pa So this was the Nagata emblem—a dagger? She saw the natives were re- gts her with curious, half} Phili fearful intensity like watching a child open a bee-hive —expecting the worst, yet not in- terfering. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ¢ wuceabinis Git el ane Sid tutiaeide’ Wile’, figtre tat man e on it, a green eye ir the middle of the forehead. This euch xou gold: ein Sie We “Take it—in your hand.” For a moment the Nagara’ + |B turbation iBleted “her then ‘she rasped the hilt Saceer from the sheath. It set up a queer. tingli a if, like an imprisoned ~bird, it throbbed with life. She turned it over, transferred it to the other hand and back again. She ran her Bile, a wenderti) ‘plese pf an. lade, a wot ‘ul Pp 9! ‘d cient art and ei deacule. Its beauty stirred her deeply. She pressed it to her breast in a little involuntary gesture of delight. ‘The pair of natives had crept er, “Would you like—to kill vour- self with the dagger?” “she man asked softly. She stared at him. “No,” she said explosively and held the handle to her cheek. “Seed of your father,” he mur- mured, rose and waved the lan- tern. Other forms closed in about them and i Anne's luggage to their backs, man pale Wear the dagger.” Then she ten ie ht or “ ie been brought up, opent coat and fastened the belt around her waist. “The camp—above. the cliffs, said the man. “This place is bad.” “And Poe left me to wait,” she reminded them indign: a They regarded her with black, un- fathomable eyes. “Strong people come to no harm in bad places.” “Who was that white man?” “We know of no white man.” They were not even curious. It gave her the most uncanny feeling. Nothing made sense any more. You just went ahead doing the thing that came to hand, trust- ing eventually to understand. Per- haps that was “surrender to Des- tiny.” Pete Maekey T= trip to the plateau above was not too difficult, though the natives had refused to touch Anne with a-helping hand when oe pormae and ap an e pony, She was given a ¢ rau ‘aut with a pallet in one cor- ner. The woman brought her warm water to wash in, then a bowl of tea and little fat cakes containing c: fruits and al- monds and other seeds she could not identify. She awoke in the morning with wit er mother and Philip Oliver.” It would be the first time she’d seen ip since she was a little girl. adults | He’d been a college boy then and }could use the biggest words. She wondered ten years had changed him much. Today's Birthdays Dr. Jerome C. Hunsaker of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, chairman of the Nationgl sry Committee for Aerc years ago. Dr. Lee de Forest of Los An; “les, famed inventor in the fiel} of radio, born in Council Bluffs Iowa, 68 years ago. t — Judge Finis J. Garrett, presid} Appeals, Weakley Customs and Patent Washington, born in Co., Tenn., 66 years ago. Caroline ‘Miller Ga., novelist, born there, 38 years ago. Dr. Henry A. Atkinson of New York, Congregational Church of- Next time, make your Collins with Ronrico and taste the difference. 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DISTILLED AND BOTTLED BY PUERTO RICO DISTILLING COMPANY, ARECIBO, P. R. W, S, Representative: Import Division, McKesson & Robbins, lac., #. ¥.C. ling in her hand as| hut. f thing she saw when rent out was the eget = re on live gona ‘uniform si : ler a wing lay a pile of blankets undoubtedly his bed. “Hil” she wards him. fepaned af from under the hood and jumped down and came to meet eyes, and a homely, weather-beat- me face, and a touch of grey at the temples. “T'm Mackey, Miss Willard,” he called with a Montana drawl. “Pete Mackey. I’m to take you to your father’s camp near Chuka.” She shook hands with him and presently asked, “Where are the natives?” “They left last night. Funny le.” vibey engaged tne fer. thie. sob ey eng: me for ol and had me fly up here two days ago to ready when you came, ind of mysterious.” Anne agreed. She knew the quest of Shy-a Nago was being kept quiet as ible and it Repety upon Nagara coopera- ion. “Ts there another white man with you?” she asked. “No,” he Ls “l'm my own mechanic.” He had an engaging grin. She felt an immediate trust in him. For a moment she was tempted to tell him of her en- counter of the night before, then refrained. “TH make you some tea and perrides.” he said. “I didn’t know was going to have to feed a agg Ks “Tea’s quite Jadylike,” she smiled. “Not the way I make it,” he grinned. “All T: rub, I’ve been in the country so long I'm kind of used to it my- elf.’ “It'll be good for me to get used to it, too.” She wished she could him more about himself. But she knew that Asia is dotted. with white adventurers who do not talk about the past. Reseue EN he finally got ready to abl tune up his motor, it refused to go, and it was noon before the: started. “That's all right,” he said. “We can make it in three hours and they told me there’d be an improvised landing field at your camp. The plateau they were on finally lane. was ie hei He touched her shoulder ere | for the noise of the motor, yet she ve got’s native | be . live on a boat, have sport WEDNESDAY, ‘AYGUST 27, 1 Speen a ecaeides | Advertisements under this heag will be inserted in The Citizen at the rate of one-cent (Ic) a word for each insertion. but the min. mum for the first insertion fp every instance 1s twenty-five ,eents (26¢). : Advertisers sould give their Street address as well ag their. telephone number if they desire results, 2 Payment for ciassified adyer- tisements is invariably im’ ad. ‘vance, but regular advertisers with ledger accounts may have - their advertisements charged. PROFESSIONALS LOUIS A. HARRIS Attorney at Law ran into a bare pinnacle-spiked range of mountains which sepa- rated them from another desert at a- much higher elevation. It was above this that Mackey spied the wreck of the blue and »gold ie in the fore and pointed. They couldn’t hear cried aloud, “There’s someone waving to attract our attention.” Mackay circled. The place was level but somewhat thiekly grown with desert shrubs. He made a perfect landing within a few hun- dred yards of the other ship. “That's a plane belonging to the government of Shani Lun,” said, and hopped out and ran to meet the other pilot. “A Mongolian, then,” thought Anne and watched them shake hands heartily before going on to load up with the other man’s possessions, 217 Duval St. a Bo ope be a pecean ine be bane stranger un’ e put down his meee burden and lifted his face. Mackey FOR RENT was declaring excitedly, “He’s an old friend of mine, Miss Willard, FIVE-UNIT APARTMENT an American. Call him Blaze. 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