The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 5, 1942, Page 2

PAGE TWO The Key West Citizen ‘THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., ENC. Published Daily Exeept Sunday By L. P. AR'TMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Business Manager From he Citizen Bullting Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Datly Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press the Associated Press is exclusively entitled to. use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also | the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year .... Six Months Three Months One Month Week! “ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application, SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, ete., will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which & revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line, The Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- cations, MEMBER f FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION \ NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION , » 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 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 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. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. V-Homes are Free Homes! e@ Itignorant people would talk less their ignorance would not be so palpable. The instincts of cruelty and slavery, | ever at work in man, is in full aseerdancy in Germany. Fer a few days baseball will have its innings, so for & while let the world serious relax into a world series. The Citizen sports writer has picked the winning club of the World Series, but refuses to name the winner until after ihe series, The aim of legislation is to express the best conscience of the whole community, but sometimes that aim is Hti¢Plike the law onthe pin ball banditry. Trading at home will become popular as automobile tires wear out; smart mer- chants will seek methods to keep the habit going after the emergency expires, The Associated tress seems to be neutral, One of its sporting writers picks the Yankees to win the World Series, another picks the Cardinals. The AP can't | lose, Yéung men who leave Key West for ~ active ‘ervice should not be forgotten; a geod Way to show that you remember them séhi them The Citizen. There are i eens in the United States which a subscription to the home « iowa paper fcr every boy inthe sérvite’ froim’ those localities. { A gioup of Tampa advertisers have contracted for 52 pages of advertising in the Tampa Tribune to promote the sale of war bonds. Tae space will be devoted ex- clusively to the nation’s war effort, with no 1eference to the advertisers exeept their signatures under the line. “This adve~ tisement is a contribution of Tampa busi: | | actment but who seem determined | ployes, whose salaries had HEART-TO-HEART TALK The Citizen has performed its duty ef- tectively in the matter of five city officials, whose salaries are fixed by statutory en- to in- crease the amounts the law explicitly says they should receive, and now any interested Key Wester may stop them from getting more than they shouid get by the simple means of having an injunction issued against them by the circuit court for chis district. No other thing except right and duty prcmpted The Citizen to oppose the evident disregard for law that some officials have shown. Not a single word of censure was published by The Citizen against chose in- creases of salaries that did rot run foul with the law. instance in which it thought that some em- been raised, have been underpaid for many years. The Citizen is aware that some cials resent what it has done to try io stop the subterfuge to get money from the city which the law does not warrant them io get. Even the word “meddling” has been jused. But The Citizen has not been “med- dling’’; it is answerable to the public in all matters that concern that public, and when The Citizen fought to stop an evasion of the law, it was fighting for the public, whose sentiment was, and still is, in accord with The Citizen’s. Do the officers who have been trying to cbtain more money than the law si | should be given them feel that the public “meddling” in protesting against the arti- ficial raising of their salari Who put | them into office, whom are they expected to serve faithfully? Are they'serving faith- fully when they connive to increase their salaries unlawfully? Answer those questions conscien- ticusly, gentlemen, and then you will be able to appreciate the stand The Citizen has taken. The Citizen voices the sentiment of the public, and for voicing that sentiment it should be commended, not condemned, even by the men concerned in trying to get more money than they should get from ihe city. That’s the point, and there’s no enmity | whatever behind it. It is founded on right, and the people, with the exception of a few interested ones, always applaud what right. So, instead of grumbling against The Qitizen, which has not the least ill-wi'l against any of the officials concerned, they should have a heart-to-heart talk with their own consciences. 1S WARPLANE PRODUCTION The combined warplane production of Great Britain and the United States now exceeds the total output of Germany, Italy and Japan, according to Merrill C. Meigs, Deputy Director of the WFB Alircraft Di- vision. Mr. Meigs predicts that the Septem- ber output will be seventy-five per cent greater than that of the Axis nations. This is interesting information because ihe tigures are fcr “warplane production” and, presumably, eliminates trairing planes. While we know practically nothing about the production of airplanes in Great Britain, the output of the United States will increase greatly in the next six months. Cer- tainly, the number of four-engine bombers is growing and there is no reason to doubt the ability of the Anglo-American combi- | nation to blast Germany’s vital areas dur- ing the coming winter. TWO-THIRDS WERE CASUALTIES The Canadians, who made up _five- sixths of the force that attacked Dieppe, paid 4 very high price for the information and experience obtained. It is now revealed that 67 per cent of 5,000 Canadians were casualties in ithe heavy fighting that followed the large- scale raid. More than half of the attatkers ‘are recorded as missing, which means dead er captured. and 633 wounded. This leaves 1,650, ihe total of those who eseaped uninjured. The figures give us an indication of ihe diffi- culties and dangers connected with a “second front” in western Europe. We cannot understand the mentality Indeed, the Citizen cited an | offi- ! THE KEY WEST CITIZEN’ | | KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY HAPPENINGS ON THIS DATE TEN YEARS AGO AS TAKEN | FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN Attorney Raymond R. Lord has complained to the city council and the county commission about roaming cows that haye destroy- ed plant life in the yard of his home He said that it has been that as soon as he plants anything along come the cows and eat it up. Customs officers in Key West yesterday destroyed 60 quarts of ssorted liquors in front of the jfederal building. The destruc- jtion was carried out under the direction of Deputy Collector L. T. Bragassa. R. L. Walker, assistant fore- man of workmen taking care of water pipe lines of the Florida East Coast Railway on the Flor- ida Keys, was injured this morn- ing by a fell of 15 fcet from the top of a tank in Islamorada. He was brought to Key West on a stretcher aboard a train and was taken to a local hospital in an ambulance of the Lopez Funeral Home. Three local fishermen, thought to have been lost in the vicinity of the Western Dry Rocks, were brought to port today in a motor- boat captained by Vernon Spen- cer. The fishermen were James Curry, Simon Creole and Alfred Skinner. A statement was published in today’s Citizen from the Monroe County Democratic Executive Committee, urging all Key West- ers to vote for Roosevelt, citing} as one reason that, with him as president, the chances for the re- opening of the local naval station were far better than if Hoover were returned to office. A joint meeting of the Ladie: Aid Society and the Women’s Missionary Society of the Ley Memorial Church was held yes- terday afternoon to arrange for the Fall activities of those so- cieties. Eighty needy children are now iserved daily with soup in the Harris public school. This charit- !able work is being done by the | Parent-Teacher Association of that school. Each week a com- | mittee of members take care of !the service, and the committee this week is under the chairman- ship of Mrs. William P. Kemp. and baby for Tampa, Mrs. Winer Bethel will leave tonight from which city she will proceed to St. Petersburg to join Mr. Bethel, who is attached to the coast guard cutter Petrel sta- tioned in that port. The Citizen in an editorial paragraph says today: “The voting in the national election next month will not be as much in support of the Demo- cratic ticket as it will be a vote of protest against the adminis- tration at Washington”. Today’s Horoscope Today is likely to give a friv- Jolous nature. There is plenty of | ability, but the mind is inclined to be light and careless; rather improvident and careless of the future. | - PEOPLE’S FORUM | accompany the | be pubtinhed unless requested | other wine. ii RESENTS TREATMENT | Editor, The Citizen: | Perhaps there are some of your 3 | readers who are not aware of the; his aim to beautify his yard, but treatment accorde: d to strangers jin their midst. This should en- ‘lighten them about what I con- sider a deplorable situation. I came to your city six weeks ago. After a week spent in look- ing for a place to live, I met Mrs. X, who informed me that her husband was being transferred from Key West and that she !would be leaving soon. She also told me that her landlady was cut of town but that she (Mrs. X), having lived in the house long- jer than other tenant, had been given. the authority to rent any apartments that might become vacant during the landlady’s ab- ' sence. On the strength of this, ‘her apartment when she moved away. Experience had taught me that this is about the only| way that one can find living i quarters here; to know in ad- vance that someone is moving and make immediate application ‘for the place ta be vacated. So, for five weeks I have wait- ed for Mrs. X to receive word from her husband as to when she should leave here. During this time I have been living in a small room, paying more rent than I felt that I could afford, but saying to myself, “Oh, but when I get the apartment everything will be all right”. This morning I went to see ‘Mrs. X and learned that she wé leaving this evening. But, I also learned that I could not move into her apartment. I am_an jundesirable tenant. Why? Well, iyou see, I have a child. Someone jhad written to the landlady, in- ‘forming her that the apartment was to be vacant and she had written back that it could not be rented to anyone who had a child; or children. On several occasions, while looking for a place to live here, I have been told, “We don’t take | children”. Then, what are we go- ing to do with our children? It is our duty as parents to provide ‘some sort of heme -for move to another city and not be {able to make a home for your child; not™be able to give him a comfortable bed in which to sleep or the nourishing home- cooked food which his little grow- ing body needs, when the only ‘reason for your failure was the simple fact that he is a child? You may ask, “Well, why did you come hefe in the first place?” Here is my answer, and it is the same answér that millions women all OVer the country can give. My husband is in the serv- ice and has been stationed here for about three months. He has volunteered to help protect his home-land and his family (and | yours, incidentally); to give his ‘life; if necessary, in a fight for |the just cause of freedom, in or- she| ipromised me that I might have | them. ; How would you feel if you should } of: ‘for a long time, perhaps. Why| ‘are you so selfish that you de-j prieve us of this little bit of hap- | piness? When you refuse to let} our children have a i:ome in your city, aren’t you doing the same thing that one Adolf Hitler did| to the non-Aryans in his coun-} try? It has never occurred to! you that someone might call you; a “dictator”, has it? Well, think it over and figure it out for your- { self. | In order that our race may’ not become extinct, there must talways be children. The Master jloved little children and said, | |“Suffer them to come unto me”. | |I have aways been taught, and isincerely believe, that there is a just God who punishes those who persecute his children. Won't you help us, instead of hinder- |ing us, in our effort to make a home for our child? ! A MOTHER. iKey West, Fla., Oct. 3, 1942. | Today’s” Anniversaries 1703—Jonathan Edwards, colo- jnial New England Congregation- jal clergyman, called the first (great revivalist of modern times, jborn East Windsor, Conn. Died ;March 22, 1758. 1751—Jam Iredell, North Carolina jurist, appointed by Washington to the U. S. Supreme Court at the age of 38, and mak-! ing a notable record on it, born Edenton, N. C. Died Oct. 20, 1799. 1808—Lewis Gaylord Clark, {noted New York editor and lit-) ferary journalist, born Otisco, N. ‘Y. Died Nov. 3, 1873. i pemaietie i: 1808—Willis Gaylord Clark, his jtwin brother, famed Philadelphia poet, born. Died June 12, 1841. 1830—Chester A. Arthur, teach- er, New York lawyer, soldier, Vice President, 2Ist President, born Fairfield, Vt. Died Nov. 18, 1886. 1848—Edward L, Trudeau, pio- 'neer in the scientific treatment | of tuberculosis, founder of the sanitorium at Saranac Lake, N. ) Xs born in New York. Died (Nov. 15, 1915. — | 1813—Battle of the Thames in second war with Britain—Gen. Harrison, future President, de- feats combined English-Indian force, and British ally, Indian ‘chief Tecumseh is killed. 1877—Boston girls petition for the right to attend high school. 1877—Gen. Nelson A. Miles, after an epocal forced march, makes Chief Joseph and his Nex Perce warriors surrender after a five-day siege. 1880—Thomas Hughes, noted English author, opens a_ short- lived cooperative colony at Rug- ‘by, Tenn. ‘der that your child and his may: |not be slaves to a dictator gov- | ernment. | In the little time that is Icft to !us we would like to be a family, {with mother, father and child | living together in a “home”. Too {soon the time will “come when jfather must go away where {mother and child can not be with ‘him, where we can not see him BUSES DAILY io MI 1931—Clyde Pangborn and ‘Hugh Herndon, Jr., American| fliers, land at Wenatchee, Wash., from a flight from Japan with- out a stop—first Pacifi@ nonstop | flight. 1937 — President Roosevelt's! “quaranting aggressor nations” | Speech in Chicago. | AMI with convenient return schedules Lv KEY WEST: 2:30AM 6:30AM 8:30AM 10:30AM 12:30PM 2:30PM 4:36PM 6:30PM 8:30PM 10:30PM Ar MIAMI: Lv MIAMI: Ar KEY WEST: In addition, there are 170 known dead of those who desire war when peace is pos- | sible or yearn for peace when it is im- ness firms to America’s all-out war-effort.” | possible. 7:45AM 11:45AM 1:45PM _MIAMI TO KEY WEST 3:45PM 5:45PM 7:45PM 9:45PM 11:45PM 1:45AM 3:45AM 1:00AM 7:00AM 9:00AM 11:00AM 1:00PM 3:00PM 5:00PM 7:00PM 9:00PM 11:00PM 15AM 12:18PM 2:15PM 4:15PM 6:15PM 8:15PM 10:15PM 12:15AM 2:1SAM 4:1 SAM * THE WAR EFFORT COMES FIRST WITH FLORIDA MOTOR LINES FLORIDA MOTOR LINES TERMINAL Southard and Bahama Sts. oe ee —o— See “T will never want to drive my \s MC Chapter 22 Followed ETE followed her out to her car. “Call me,- then. in the morning wher you've talked to = will you?” jie pulled on her drivi bmg ea she noticed the fe Eee tire. Absolutely fiat. “Oh — look.” “Tough luck. Hope it wasn't a nail you pi¢ked up here in the yard.” He pulled’ keys out of his ket. “Here, you take my car. Pil have one of the boys change this tire-and I'll drop it at your | ‘ place on Pete's stream - red. Jj smooth the mi “This way home.” coupe was powerful. and conspicuously pet across the r seat, started purring softly. $poil me,” she said. own car after luxury.” But the drive back through un- savory water-front streets, held) more thrill than she’d bargained for. As she pulled farther awav from the yards into “dimmed-out” narrow pass under the railroad tracks, there was a feport and the glass in the wii ww be- side her cracked. For one startled moment, Julie's foot came off the accelerator. What was that! Then she realised. Someone—taking a shot at her! Down went-her slip- per against the throttle pedal. The powerful car lept forward just as a second shot sounded behind. Julie sent the car hurtling through darkened streets, sound- ing her horn. A traffic officer caught her frantic signal, pulled up as she came to a stop. “Probably some drunk,” the of- ficer said laconically when she'd told him what had happened. — Tl look into it for you, joc. “Thanks,” Julie smiled, calmer now, but perfectly sure it hadn't been “just a drunk.” _Pete was inclined to agree with him a few moments later when, safe at home again, she called hi reported ,the incident. somebody thought it was I driving that car, all right,” he said. “Sorry you had to be en- dangered. This convinces me we are on the trail of semething, all right.” And Julie’s conversation with Jarvis at the Kelland town house the next morning, convinced her, too. Mr. Kelland, according to Jarvis’ version. had gone to nis Klamath River property for a fishing trip to recover from the shock of his daughter’s death. He had decided to leave rather sud- a taste of this ONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 19-2 we. can't notif socal police dence than we laughing-stocks we were wro: would hate us He nodded that’ nt. it's all a big m They left e Julie. in a scarf knotted monition co hin her. “We're being said suddenly Tear-view mi “How do you know “That car behind just a block from you never dropped mc hundred yards atch.” Pete slowed the t y. let the speedo: back to thirty-five The car behind slow Pete stepped harder throttle, pushed-t around long c forty-fi The “Can't we He nodded. more preciou: finally out-m ar. Up they left behind the After two hi long flight. it seemed to take time out for Jul scrambled eges luxuriously, b into the bril side inn. Caught denly. And, no, he had left no/that messages. Flight North “ve suspected his calm accept- ance of Dawn's death right) from the start,” Julie told Pete an hour later when he came into her office. “Now I'm sure there is something haywire. Harry Kel- land — I don't care how sick he is — wouldn't calmly go fishing if he really believed Dawn's body lay somewhere up in those burned forests!” Pete nodded. “Go on.” “['m not sure we can believe} that he has actually gone to the Klamath. If he has, it’s because Dawn is there.” “Uh-huh. But why would Dawn and her boy-friend go any place as obvious as that if they were trying to keep an affair a secret?” “Because it isn’t ‘an affair.’ ” Julie said sharply. “It’s some kind of devilish plan part of which in- volved the fire and the torpede- ing of that tanker. I'm sure of it.” “That's a large order, Julie. How do you propose to find out | for sure?* “Go up there.” Pete stared at her. “To the Klamath?” “We can leave about {uigeight and be up there by daylight. If it really is a fishing trip, we can get away with her trembled in for the man paper to for tonight?” _ Julie smiled ing her voic around he across the st with much turning, he h rove to the turned left bear. ade end “I doubt i tf Pete muttered. “Be ers crossed. Tha as if he'd car a” loo! € pene Obediently. J fingers and wai retend we were just atcepting Kelland’s standing invitation to join him up there. If it isn’t — * ELECTRIC behind them To be centinsea SERVICE : Further Restricted We ci serve any more new customers. + le of homes or buildings which were either: 1. Completely wired and ready to receive service prior to July 1, 1942, or; = der main part of Under construction and foundations un- prior to July 1, 1942. : Production Board may many who have planned These new restrictions imposed by the War result in hardships on to use electricity. You know, of course, that we are as eager as ever te serve you and will lend ate with you within the every effort te cooper- letter and spirit ef the new regulations. We accept our part cheerfully ag an obligation of citizenship. If you find that you are affected by these rulings, consult with us and we shall be pleased to advise you. THE KEY WEST ELECTRIC COMPANY eeeeccccessesesseeecs