The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 23, 1941, Page 2

Cetera Rat Ll Rhy PS eee eg, an a ee Tata CMe ie Se in Key West and esis ecacaael sae SPECIAL NOTICH - Att notices, respect, obit the ra of 10 canta e8, etc., Will be charged for at f ‘OF en: to be derived are 5 cents The Citizen js an open forum ‘ana imvit glow of publie issues and subjects of Tocal oe ‘en ps ery but it will not publish anonymous commual- 2 VATA the truth and print it without) fear-and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, | faction or class; always do its utmost for the ; public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustiee; denounce vice and praise virtue, commend gooil done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and » Spinions; 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 Hoteis and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Aitperts—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern. City Hospital. Chiang Kai-Shek predicts that the Sino-Japanese war will end in 1942. Let’s hope he is a8 good a prophet as he is a fighter. The Japanese have beaten the Chinese, by all the rules of the military experts, but the Chinese do not seem to know that they | are whipped, : Rearmament is a good peace policy for the United States, but the drive for de- be accomplished under . one responsible head, The President’s reluctance to yield ‘power to others, as should be done in this , is not the least cause of the slow mo- You ervation of the required tools. the Eurgpean war, air- the greatest form of e past few years great strides have been made in the manufacture of planes for private and commercial use, | and ag soon as the war is over and the pro- duction facilities of the nation are not all directed in the building of combat planes, a vast armada of private planes will be built | supplemental to those built for commercial | purposes. They will ¢ost no more than auto- mobiles and the gas consumption will be about the same. Transportation by air- plane will be even less dangerous than by automobile but the chief factor in its gen- eral use will be its speed. The press of the Reich ha’ expressed satisfaction that Piesident’ Roosevelt com- pared Hitler. to a: zatidesnake in-his recent speech, and.in. da:the,charge, one of the papers stated t t ac Encyclopedia Britatiiica, “it is not easy to provoke a rattlesnake, but once provoked, the snake defends itself stubbornly.” How- ever, if you will look up your Encyclopedia ta te bods Cheb SES he Sk hte eee bot ei ty t it has to say about the rattlers: ‘They are deavor to escape or, if cornered, to frighten the aggressor by rattling and puffing them- selves out as much as possible.” On one point the comparison is not correct, for a 2 yattler will watn before striking, Hitler 4 : cards of thanks, resolutions of- it by churches from which |- a line, f r : stood park, They need the land; always fight for progress; never be the or- ]| 1 fense should be accelerated, and can best | yrding to the | Britannica, you will find that this is what | not easily provoked, and will usually en- | WE COULD GET A BALL PARK A local sports enthusiast supplements our contention that it is time for the city “and county to begin thinking about a base- ‘ball diamond here. We hadn’t thought of it, but our in- formant points out that it is silly for the city or county to spend any appreciable sums on the Trumbo Island field, since it | is entirely possible that its owners will dis- Sports followers aré of the opinion that the Trumbo (Price) field ought to be put in playing condition now, but the goal ‘toward which they really are shooting is a diamond on city-owned land, preferably in the vicinity of the incinerator. No one appears to know at the moment what the city will do with the $3,000 it set up in the budget for sports last week, but there are plenty of people here who have a ‘good idea what they would do with it if they could, It does seem—and maybe the council- | men agree—that it would be better to spend the $3,000 in a lump for something like a baseball park than to fritter it away in lit- tle activities which would leave nothing to foroted at the end of the year, The ball players contend that a very little eity cooperation could make it pos- apie for the baseball enthusiasts here to get they some dirt to fill in the low spots around the incinerator grounds, and they need a little money to buy lumber and the other necessities. On the credit side, they have oceans of enthusiasm; they have the promise of the carpenters’ union to give them free labor, and they have the desire to give Key West a ball park which will furnish recreation | for most of the community. We would like to see the city give them the go-ahead signal. HENDERSON & CO. ARE ATTACKED | Chairman Martin Dies doesn’t declare | | any moratoriums on Communists, and de- | spite friendly relations between the United | } States Government and Soviet Russia, Dies finds no reason to suppress his opinion that | Leon Henderson of the Office of Price Ad- ministration and Civilian Supply should be made to ‘walk the plank” and take with him some of the principal members of his organization, who are also accused of be- ing affiliated with the Communist move- ment. Mr. Dies goes into details in a letter to the President. Evidently Chairman Dies is not very likely to get early action—even if’ he is given White House cooperation—inasmuch as Harry Bridges is still enjoying the glorious climate of Califernia after several years of demands, prosecutions, and in- vestigations of his right to remain in the United States because he is alleged to be a Communist. ‘The only real good that can be accom- plished through the Dies letter to the Presi- dent is that it may attract public attention to Henderson, who should be judged by his official acts in'connection with his position ag a key man in National Defense. In that connection he-has issued some of the most éxtraordinary. one-man orders for the con- trol of American citizens and business that could be conceived, or concocted by the human mind, There is a sort of a pause in enforcing objections to Communism since Churchill and Roosevelt accepted Russia as } “g friend in need who has been a friend in- | } | deed” in pounding the stuffin’ out of Hitler. The Senate of the United States has been inclined to judge Henderson on his \ merits. A lot of the statesmen believe he has no authority to fix prices, and muddle so many problems relative to national de- fense. CIVILIANS SUFFER MOST The eighteen-day war in Belgium, in May, 1940, resulted in the deaths of more civilians than soldiers, according to official | figures recently released in Brussels. ‘There were 10,000 civilians; pied |e while the numberof military dead was only 7,500. Soldiers wounded numbered 18,-: 583 but no official figures have been given for the civilians who were wounded. Warfare has certainly changed wher a nation, in the midst of modern fighting, loses more civilians than soldiers. | The Belgian figures reveal that ap- proximately 200,000 Belgian soldiers were captured. This indicates that casualties in Belgium, where the small army was over- whelmed, were less than thirteen per cent of those engagd. | into the greeting. — See disbars Jews from voting; © but 91 Bi Be be mi complicated, she has found. Chapter 24 Tight Moment “QO ‘that’s it,’ muttered Lar inside the hut. “We just too! it ot ee the fellow ae be a from Chuka—bu: Sherwood has his nerve.” No ie else spoke, Anne found she could better control her trembling Knees if she sat down. Sherw.od handed Oliver two it red papers. “Letters of in- ction in case you require them,” he said dryly. “And this—” opening a pretentious parchment, “is an ial proclamation to the effect that I am of a rank equivalent to a—‘Mandarin of the Setond Button’— and must be re- ceived and treated as such,” he fog with a slightly. deprecat- ing smile. ‘4 Bed ilip took the dotus it over it slowly. “I tread bne word in kas ters Larry. “Shut up,” hissed “They IL be hearing po Mac! = stari doubt- | sca: yy ee os pi yess Titig’ aac ag ie others Fir arn appear, but Sherwood t his eyds glued on Philip i and his face as expression- less as a Chinese diplomat's. ® At length Philip handed back the document. “I suppose there's nothing I can do about it,” he said coldly, “but you must know you're not welcome here.” “T've come only to observe— not. te interfere.” Sherwood’s voice held a note of placation. Oliver snfugged skeptically and then stiffened. “How about Anne?” Sherwood’s face froze—all but the eyes. “What do you mean?” Inside the hut Beth caught her breath with a surprised gu ip. The others were so quiet that they could hear the tinkle of the cot- ton’ leaves slapping each -other in the faint breeze. Mackey squared off as if expecting -to have to break up a fight. Oliver was brave enough. He saw Sherwood's eyes but still he answered: “I mean that. wedding ceremony in Arishar foes not pve, you the right to be called er husband.” “{ don't know as he’s asked for the right,” Diana tittered inside the Pe his wife: isitive- ns to keep. you from ie Tight,” Blaze an- swerei “Dee “Them’s lei words,” quoted | 1 “So fi ae > our ame,” sneered Philip. “Well, we've dis- covered—” he glanced towards the hut and changed his mind. Anne felt sure he was thinking of the birth charts. “I won't knock you down as you deserve,” said Blaze through clenched teeth, “because 1 under- stahd your provocation, but I'm to stay and I suggest that to get along together. I've broug tt a cook and. equipment. Td like you to assign us a place itch our tents.” fy one relaxed. The light- ning had t itself in thunder, Oliver spoke civilly. “I suggest you come greet my. colleagues now. I believe you’ ‘ve met them and their wives.” “I have,” said Sherwood falling into step ith him and motionin; Mackey to follow. “I just in Hami that the a rae and Huffs big NSIDE the hut vides ed. press aoe es Rope ake she could face this peer or not until she saw Diana watching her Sharply. Beth came over and took resid hand and squeezed it ex- citedly. “Gosh you're lobking swell,” she wi red, and scrutinize Anne criti ically. “IT never notice before what pesto eyes bea have. Maybe Blaze ot od ad a scoundrel as Philip thin! “And maybe he’s pare? an- swered Anne, coldly drawing her hand away. For a moment every- thing appeared a blur to her. She heard tsteps, saw undifferen- tiated figures float into the room. Diana rushed forward. Blaze was shaking her hands and reach- ing for the talons to draw him The kitchen door was ry ot for Anne. wae fie ow stoed star! blindly at the cook whose cheeks were puffed out like bladders. He had just filleé up with water— China-cook fashion—to sprinkle the earthen floor. In h’s be, gale at the way ‘she ‘stared, igllowed the fluig ioe ‘But you'll have thon sometime,” she said 3 it Tout “Yes, Missie,” Shiped the cook. “You can’t- go around like a | tragedy jueen. “No, She’ dia not hear him. In a mo- ; ment she had herself in hand Ree had been coutpletett Blaze gazing down at Beth. He lifted his head and looked across at Anne, his face expressionless. as a ae into the Although armour of the . mid- dle ages was designed for protec- tion, fashions changed at the whim of armourets much as do| by men’s clothes of today: THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | saa to ee Jess,” said the anche jm) adie | to blame but himself if the Na- | iasermnaate gays. 4. RERGCi eEESiEnelnnInIanInnEEaieeT today In History vy im see what she ex- do you do, Blaze,” she said. 1 pleasantly and walked over | behind Philip’s chair to avoid go- | RIN. Y. State's colonial | legisla for representatives in the’ Gen- \eral Assembly. 1779—Historic sea fight of the Revolution—Capt. Paul Jones, in the “Bon Homme Richard”, car- ing out ey the center of the oe aie ae at: Py are ‘Tm _ feeling ae swered, meeting / i faze, un- flinchingly, be segesggern y: ‘An | eight ons =~ S no more than’ food for thi His eyes aareened a little with some unexpressed emotion. “But who'd believe it until he's tried -; it?” She let her his shoulder. “Hello, Pete. Glad to see you bay ” Mackey grinned, | ‘ilip rose impatiently. “We'll choose a-place for your tents now.” ‘The men went out and the wo- men sat down and looked at each other. “Did you twe quarrel all the time you were on the desert?” | Beth asked. “What do you think?” de- | manded Anne crossly. { Diana. laugher. “Blaze knows how.to take care of himself.” Beth lashed out at her. “Then where do, vou. think you'll get an 2 - se ial ern Ahne ‘and rose. oy Gaze slide across Be like pe $ on se. ™m in eo ea and ee i CHinese ovel jseage Sepia the ob- ate he nay ne ead out on a a few fooa Ene stones which looked as if the scratches on them might | be inseriptions, She took a paper and peneil.and attempied to copy the markings and see if she could resplve them into glyphs. The sudden taking off of the plane brought her to her feet. The ship circled for altitude and then soared southeast in the di- rection of the Bekkan Bula peaks. “Where’s Blaze sending Pete now?" she wondered, and when she turned facing c..mp, started at the sight of Mackey coming to- wards her across the uneven ground. She ‘drew him into the shade of her ¢lay ridge and asked him what he knew. “Migs Anne,” he said, “I’m so med ‘that if Pa bite myself Td die of poison. Did you see that ship-go off?” “Tethought it was you.” New Danger i baked Blaze. He’s messing in with the Nagara tribesmen.” That brought her head up. “He’s gone to look for those fool Russians on the chance that, | we still alive.” they're |. “Then the rumor's true about the “Russians?” “Tt's true,” confirmed Mac! | bitterly. “They're probably car’ 4 inva dogmeat by now and Blaze is sing himself out for the same of fare.” nne looked apprehensive. &s he planning to land among the men? “I don’t know about that, But if he Jands on the plateau of the treasure city, he’s doomed. Un. til that place is revealed to the | world according to the way of the | prophecy, mo man except the “elect” sees it and lives, I've been | getting a few earfuls about this Proposition lately. They tell that | a Swedish explorer once stumbled | upon the city and ae his Date / bones, in a sack with a few of his other péssessions, were found far out on the desert. A gang of Chi- | nese gold seekers invaded the | mountains and never returned. In Shani Lun they also tell of a native aga bap who happened to see the city from the air and tame “back with the story. He killed hi ,one night when | some. str: ‘Horseman rode into the: eapital and gave him a a ger with whith: oe do the ak tanger “Mhese eee | — “T see you don’t eithen”” yi leve it aga: ogg about them as ‘remain that w intend to They hunt down and kill any gi who agg ied off and mai outside kill sale in, into the teibe Sark re surroun races.” Anne | shuddered. “I wish we | digit Blaze tet mgowitn him? | i f “Because ect ves the Na- garas get thelr man. han’ Se wouldn’t risk my skin,” troubled eye te th Ring | ‘01 eyes. a | we, can about it hes a pene f “Not that I know of. Doddap | is praying. And when the lama | prays off schedule it means he’s | at the sun and bsscspail back taean camp in ae ‘ara. | believe all this PF ion be Ie | garas do him in,” declared Oliver. To be continued Seis eines heres cows in New York state has changed only slightly in the past 70 years, bykiemmet foe product ioh has al- cthe war'jto England, defeat> ing ste org rig “Serapis” off Scot- Jand’s coast. expedition, given “up for lost, /return$ to St. Louis to the un-1) bounded delight and joy of the country. 1869—The University of Cali- | fornia opens at Berkeley. 1911—Birth of the air mail, when Earl L. Ovington sworn in jas “Air Mail Pilot No. 1”, at Gar- den City, N. Y. 1918—More than 9,000 Spanish \influenza cases reported from army camps. 1926—Gene Tunney Jack Dempsey for championship, in Philadelphia. 1935—Bituminous coal strike | starts—400,00) workers in 21 States. = Adm. Ray Spear, chief, bu- reau of supplies and accounts, born in Illinois, 63 years ago. John A. Lom er, folk-lore Goodman, ithority, born in . 71 years ago, Ben (Benjamin V.) New Deal adviser, born in Mun- } cie, Ind., 47 years ago. Walter Lippmann of New| York, columnist, born there, kel years ago. William L. Shirer, journalist, jauthor, born: in Chicago, 37 | years ago. Elliott Roosevelt, jthe Presi- dent's son, born in New York, 31 years ago. Wayman Adams of New. York, portrait painter, born in Muncie, |Ind., 58 years ago. Alan John Villiers, sea story | writer, born in Australia, 38 years ago. Michael J. Cleary, president of | the Northwestern Life ; ance, Milwaukee, born in Iowa (County, Wis. 65 years ago. To relieve ears COLDS 666 ote tors SORE PROS Try ‘ub-My—Tiem”—a We Woenderfa} iniment DR. AARON H. SHIFRIN, | Osteopathic Medicine and S: | GENERAL, PRACTICE 925 Whitehead Street | Key West, Fla. Phone 612-W —24-Hour. 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