The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 22, 1941, Page 2

t f From The Citizen Building Corner Greene end Ana Streets “ely Daily Newspaper {i eG Ns OR 66:1 te Ree er «tered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect. obituary notices, ete., will be charged the rate ofie cents a line. aad for entertainment by churches from which Si to be derived are & zents a line tizen open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general beer 2 but it will not publish anonymous communi- Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. $$ Paseabn FREEDOM OF THE PRESS Where news. is suppressed there is anarchy; where news is controlled there is fear; Only where news is free are human be- ings free. CARL ACKERMAN, Dean, School of Journalism, Columbia University. a mene ona pen rr mena We all are now for America first! The boys at Wake Island are wide awake. In Key West Maxwell means furniture, as well as coffee. Remember the forgotten kiddies and donate to the Lions Club fund for the poor children of Key West. The Japs have always been clever imitators. and, unfortunately for them- selves, have chosen to imitate the Germans instead of the American way of life. Although the war is just starting al- ready we are $57,000,000,000 in the hole. Take it easy; that’s still far from the $150,- 000,000,000, we are warned, to which the altitudinous debt will go. This column makes no pretensions to infallibility. The other day it stated that in their old building, the Rivero brothers needed only one cash register for recording their sales, but in their new Broadway Super Market they required two. This was | an understatement, for as a fact they are usifig three cash registers. to make amends, Germany doesn’t like the agreement made by the‘United States with the French authorities at Martinique, and has asked Vichy for the reason why. It is immaterial whether Germany doesn’t like it or Vichy does, as the pact is determined by the power of the United States... We are at war with Germany and not in the mood to appease Vichy, a Hitler puppet. In the Voelkisher Beobachter, Hitler's personal paper, a political writer says that “the Russians have proved themselves as good fighters as the Germans and in some eases even better.” This is a significant | statement and has important implications. To this writer it appears that Hitler has in mind to appease Stalin before his assault on Turkey and the march through Spain to get at Gibraltar from the rear. It would be a consolation if we knew that Stalin would carry out his threat to continue his on- aught on the Germans after he has driven 1 from Russia. He has sworn to aid in ‘the purge of Hitler, but willhe? That's the Always happy | KEY WEST’S OPPORTUNITY Key West can make of 1942 the cor- | ner stone of a new and solid prosperity. It ean become known as the Island | City, where life and property are more in- telligently safe-guarded than they are: in any other city in Florida. The city where the tourist and his family are safe from the contemptuous disregard for others that re=- | sults in manslaughter in cities and towns less ably governed. The possibility of achieving this record rests in the hands of one man. Into the hands of this man, our citizens entrusted the welfare of the community at the last election. Seldom has any man had such an op- portunity to exhibit courage, loyalty and the ability to discharge his obligations. That man is Mayor Willard M. Al- bury. He has a police force that will be ex- } actly as good as its directing head. If he regards his oath of office as binding, they will also. If he is fearless in the discharge of his duty; they will follow his ékample. “If he cam adt he depended: upon, neither:can they be nded upon. 2 age Yeni wilds a posite aay mam could be proud to occupy. ~It is~ his splendid opportunity to exhibit those quali- ties that we are proud to call American. In every situation he has but one problem to consider, “Is this a duty that I have sworn I would perform without fear or favor?” One of the most obvious opportunities that are his, isthe enforcement of traffic regulations, made by our legislative body for the protection of visitors and residents alike. The statute reads that the speed limit is 25 miles per hour. On this island, one may go from one end to the other in fifteen minutes, at that rate of speed. And, at that rate of speed, so-called “accidents” (which are usually discourteous contempts of the general welfare) would seldom have seri- | ous results. There can be Jittlé respect for a city | that does not respect itself; and self-re- spect demands that having issued an order, we require that order to be obeyed. The most flagrant violators of our laws, made and provided to insure the safety of human life and limb, are the de- livery trucks, whose drivers are often or- dered by their employers to cover ground without regard to law. Mayor Albury could take no initial step that would so clearly demonstrate his fitness to occupy the position which he has been hired to hold, as te demonstrate that Key West’ was the Florida city to which a this country and furnish in the daily news a story of bereavement and sorrow. that situation, there will be no doubt of his ability to do that for which the pegple have selected him to do,—execute judgment and govern rightly. SAN JOSE LEADS THE WAY Calif., has been changed into a defense pro- | duction center. There wasno large com- | pany in the town to serve as prime contrac- in this town were small. the lead and made a survey of all the ma- chine shops in the metropolitan area of San ‘Jose, collecting information on personnel, | equipment, floor space, and possibilities for | expansion. This data was disseminated | with the cooperation of the Army and OPM. | In June of this year the San Jose Manufacturers, Inc., | riages. The association is now installing ma- chinery in a leased concrete structure, and plan to go into actual production within a few weeks. The association will allot to the various thirty-seven machine shéps in San ciency. This is an excellent illustration of how one community has combined forces into a cooperative endeavor which will not only prove extremely beneficial to the com- munity but to the nation as well. visitor could come and escape the menace | of death and injury that haunt the cities of | And once he has shown his control of | The small fruit center of San Jose, tor through which small companies could | receive subcontracts. All machine shops The local Chamber of Commerce took | was organized as/| prime contractor, In September the group | obtained a $2,000,000 army contract to con- | | struct 105 millimeter howitzer gun car- | Jose, Oakland, and adjacent cities the vari- | ous parts of the contract, according to effi- | THE KEY WEST (MADE UP ! Chapter 25 | The Fire | ‘EVEN people were killed in } the fire,” Jeff said, “six of | the i and one member of | the company...the juvenile. His | body was found in his dressing wa to that ng room locked... from the outside. There was an -inquest, of .course,.and.the. cor- per yetiict wae meeer tps om or persons known. wasn't a scrap of evidence, and the tase went unsolved. But it could have been solved. There was a witness. Eve North saw Clint Bowers lock that door.” om Jeff, why? Why did he “He was rather reticent about the motive. It involved a woman who is still living. No one knew that woman and Clint Bowers but the juvenile. He on both of them, and when | neither could meet his demands threatened exposure. And he eH e meant it. reached floor. And there he found friend ping key before she slipped unconsciousness, overcome the smoke. Bowers hadn't i paging hadn't heard her gasp SERRE ip. id consequently Eve was left to burn . . . almost to death. ‘The firemen got to her in-time, but they didn’ j nile until te. om fe rp a i yi : iE s a rt F i i E i E another brandy and a water. “Now where — “I wasn’t lis- ia CITIZEN .sscaammma | and arms that so few knew abozt she took up her career again. She beceme famous and weezithy, the darling of the early twenties. Then she started slipping, ber looks weze going, her youth fad- ing, and she wasn'ta good enough actress. She was down, out.” “Poor Eve.” “Yeah; poor Eve, she had to re- sort to blackmail, a very esoteric type of blackmail. By then Bow- ‘ems was the white-haired boy of the American theater. She sim | on ceding: Mar al ox ome Os me, 5 me, or whole world will young man locked another young man in his dressing room in the Petree, Seater fire’ What could “He could produce for her.” “Exactly. He produced for her and starred her, and ruined him- self financially and artistically. It must have torn kim to pieces to do all those bedroom comedies and bad French translations after all the beautiful stuff he had been producing. It ripped him to shreds. The theater was his life. Some people let that —— to their lives. Why, “Go on, darling.” The Limit “pve. finally it got him. It ~ was either Eve or he. Rather gag 3 he decided it would be Eve. He just told us that he looked for a play for two years that would give him a chance to kill her. Finally he found Green Apples. It was perfect. It had a t seene exactly in the | right . But Phoebe Thomp- son —_— to put the flowers on | the table. Eve, the trouper, re- atranged the glasses instead of the flowers, and Carol, not Eve, got the poison. “Bowers dropped the poison into Eve’s glass just before the curtain went up on the third act. And what he must have gone through when Caro] got it... and when the play turned out to 1 e: be a hit! He told us if Eve hadn't figured out the poison was meant for her, he would have let her live, because Green Apples +] would’ve made enough money to put him back where he could roduce other plays, too, the he wanted to do.” Isuddenly remembered, “When you went in to talk to Eve be- tween the acts the second night “Yeah, that was the first time Eve heard about the poisoning.” “And Clint was in the hall; he heard you and Eve; he realized then that...” Jeff. nodded. “Right. When I asked her why she had been fussing around the table, she knew that she had changed the glasses, given Carol the poi “That chance came at Eve’ first exit in’ the second potent hands. Eve, waiting there in the wings for her next entrance, PR = came on her jacket. She whipped it off to look at it after she realized what had done. To be continued i e worked into Bowers’ | 1 & Prof. Alexander Petrunkevitch, noted Yale zoologist, born in | Russia, 66 years ago. William L. Evans of Ohio | State’ Univers:ty, professor of jchemistry, born in Columbus, Ohio, 71 years ago. Bainbridge Colby Gf New York | City, lawyer, onetime U. S. ses-— retary of state; born in St. Louis, bs years ago. jand full of enterprise. Success | will probably be. ultimately at- ‘Today's Horoscope | Today’s Anniversaries founder of Georgia, Died June 30, 1785. S the supreme court sets out in its | already been made, although the} MONDAY, DECEMBER 2 t3el PT el Classified Column KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY, | See cece ece cece seca eee eee eee ENS H— —— Hm enn mmm mmm FOR SALE—MISCELLANEOUS SUSINESS OPPrOS TUE” Happenings On This Date Ten’ Years Ago As Taken From Files Of ‘The Citizen | LAUNCH, gine. See William Wickers County Commissioners here; Porter Dock. decis sux should S i f ould prevent expenditures ! money by the school board for | vacuT TRITON, moored im purposes other than those for| Garrison Bight, 46%xiStx6.1 which levies have been made} mahogany furniture end trim galley, bath, lange sleeps seven. A pleasant home on the water’ for you Price » $1500. Address James Pinder, 1217 Petronia St. deckt-¢ is ruling on the controversy be-| tween the school board and the , county commissioners. | Having failed to do this, the; decision holds, the commssioners have no right to prevent the | XMAS CANDIES vy of taxes to discharge obli-'Just received attractive gift packages of delicious choco- i gations for which one levy has, proceeds of such levy may have} been diverted to some other pur- | poses. ia deci8- 5a L. P. Schutt of the Casa Ma-|LIVE RABBITS; cheap 1509 rina is hoping to obtain the Duncan street. dec80-Iwk services of a golf professional for the local country club course /POURTEEN ¥T OUTBOARD despite the fact that MOTOR BOAT Fully equippe< and one Johnsen Outboard mo tor, 4 hp. zx in the past, has accepted a place } Hampton, who has served = . i: Pinder, at the Riviera course in Miami. —s St. Paul's new organ was | TRAILERS. Apply heard for the first time yester- ee aan coe dag whibh's ‘social tp <ucebe WA powEs-! Stanley, Jr. who arrived to as-} sist in erecting the organ, at- LOT 215'x386". Reasonable tracted a large number to the) “on> gus Guivin amest - church. | deciS-iwk Every seat was taken and crowds stood in the cloister all POR RENT intent upon the beautiful music that poured forth at the touch MODERN ACCOMMODATIONS of the organist. | now available at Coral Hote! The Florida Congress of Par-| fice —, ens and Teachers has expressed to The Citizen its appreciation STORE, % bieck off Duval of the interest this paper has street. S18 Fleming St shown in Parent-Teachers work) decls-<f during the past year. | |DOWNTOWN APARTMENTS. Personal Mention: Everett Mi-; ROOMS, $8, $10 week Every- chael left yesterday for Miami; thing furnished. 152 BOW_ ord for a few days of business. . .| street, Miami Mie decl?-Tix Mrs. Frank Dale, who has been’ —— visiting in Miami for several CENTRALLY LOCATED BUILD- ‘ov returned yesterday on the ING sbout 20x30; suitable for Havana Special . Mrs. Jennie Storage Of office: electricity Butle> and son, Howard, were $1000 month Phone 136 passengers out yesterday after- Gecdd-lwix roon going to Miami to vis:t rela- > tives until after January. FURNISHED APARTMENT No pets children. S33 Oliva decis-o eee UNPURISBED 522 Carcline areet AP ' $58 month Ap The Citizen in editorial pare-| Ply 916 Virginie street TES “The mayor's plea that help BEING YOCE ViISTTINS tum should be extended to mo one COTTAGES, one furnished. 9m meet of = gucd night's ot with whose condition the donor unfurnished Inquire « w THE OVERSEAS SOTEL is not personally familiar ‘308 Duvet street Cera roc or ee Sa be observed by every man decls-4 ee woman in Key West who a S70 Fremng see the good of the city at - Nine’ tines out of ton the LS = ees mendicants tell are either @uct-<t exaggerations or lies made up - SE NRA A i tales not only means sympathy but encouraging un- worthy persons to continue their ere rrrrrers