The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 15, 1942, Page 2

PAGE TW CITIZEN PUBLI Published Daily Except Sunday By L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOR ALLEN, Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ~ntered at Member of the Assoc! fhe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use | for republication of all news dispatches credited to otherwise credited in this paper and also | al news » known on app SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of , obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at e of 10 cents a line. tices for entertainment by churches from which iue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. ne Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest Lut it will not publish anonymous communi- “MEMBER 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- rnments. A Modern City Hospital. It is useless to Neade the draft by shut- ting the door or window. Oné thing about advice that you don’t pay for there is no loss if you fail to fol- low it. Every bloc, of which we have ever so many, must have a head; none be acephalous. Ergo, bloc-heads. can Thé idea that the Japanese are afraid of the Americans may be reestablished be- fore Beesene aerial warfare ends, Getman aircraft Remoniteatcd one of st’ways to whip Germany and her U- iow a good way to pulverize Japan, the be boats that is would-be pur- If ou Wee anything to sell worth tHe money to the chaser fhe zen wiiljattend to the selling. Ev@rybody in Key West can help in the serap collection campaign; you need noi wait on any organization or committee get your scrap and trucks for that purpose, will cart it away. Jt ‘Those not in the combat service of our country often say that we must be willing to die for our country if we are to win ihe | war, and they say it glibly. Perhaps they would Whistle a different tune were they piaced fn the front line. Uhe British probably wonder what has. Lecomesof the American expert who said no nation could match Germany in the skics. While his statement was true at ihe time heasaid it, he didn’t take into caleula- ticn thé power this country could develop in so sh@rt a time. 4 : According to the results of the Gallup poll 94 "per eent have read newspaper ar- ticles about the present drive to scrap metal, and only 6 per cent declared they had read nothing about the drive, but | undoubtedly heard about it from those who did read about this successful war effort. There is, of course, a certain pereentage who ce vA ot read and, perhaps, a few. pro- Hitlers who did not want to read anything unfavorable to the German cause. | the entire labor movement. ivertising columns of The Citi-. | put on the steam to collect | NEWS IS THE THING One W. Shakespeare said, “The play’s the thing’, and a newspaperman may re- spond, ‘News is the thing.” The Citizen’s concern is to publish as | much news as it can get, and it always iries | | to see that that news is true. Ex- or Democratic | ecutive Committee of Jose Espinosa, “Smckey Joe’, as he is known to many of | his friends. Two or three acutely interested bar- ties blatantly declared that The Citizen van about the nomination of Es- by the Monroe County the stories picture. A thousand times The Citizen has de- clared it does not play any favorites in the “family affairs’ of the Democratic party. | The Citizen was neither against Espinosa nor for Ray Altwell: The Citizen was mere- ly publishing the news as it occurred. man who wrote the stories likes Smokey, | Joe just as well as he does Atwell, but if | anything of an untoward nature happens ainst Joe in his attempt to get the nomi- | | nation! The Citizen publishes it just the | Same as it would publish anything that is | nomination. no favorites: let the | adverse to Atwell’s Pl win, or, 2 | that is The Citizen's policy. But there are some men who kick like tickled mule if The Citizer fails to throw sht with their candidate. But let | them kick. The vast majority Westers know that The Citizen is not play- | ing any fiddle, first or second, io attract favorable attention to any man in or out of | political life. The Citizen publishes the | best man unintentional. THE NEWS IS DHE THING. THE GNLY PANACEA A man who has been a member of one of the principal old-time labor unions for 26 years, and who is now serving in the Army, recently protested some of the cur- rent comment on labor. He said that some writers are “poisoning the public mind about organized labor,” the union to which he belongs has called That strike y week and was won by the union. This man has a case. But the unfor- tunate part of the matter that labor racketeering has cast a dark shadow over is unions, of course,. There are unions which have done the working man and the entire country a tremendous service. There are unions which fully realize their respon- sibility to the country in war or peace, they have accepted the decisions of official ar- bitration bodies. But other, irresponsible unions have undone much of this good work. The excesses of tarred the entire union movement with che same brush. The union man in question said he hoped that someone will find “a panacea for the wrong impressions being formed in the publie mind about organized labor.” all labor leaders, to live up to the vast pub- lic responsibility which confronts them io- day. 93 SHIPS IN SEPTEMBER American shipyards deliver ninety-three | cargo vessels, with a deadweight’ tonnage | of 1,009,800 cons. This tonnage In September, represents complished in 1941. It compares with 460 | vessels during the first eight months of this year, totaling 5,101,966 tons. Sixty-seven of the vessels delivered in | September were Liberty ships, with thirty- seven of them coming from Kaiser's four West Coast shipyards. The other ships in- cluded seven cargo-carriers for Great Britain, seven large tankers, three C-1 ves- | sels, four C-2s, three C-3s, and cargo vessel and one rier. | If the same rate of production can be~ maintained during October, November and | December, the shipyards will reach ihe | President's objective of 8,000,000 tons in 1942. All of which pertains to the selection pinosa in an attempt to brush him out of the | The | in this contest, ihe better man—- | news as true as it is possible to obtain it, and when it errs occasionaily, the erring is | and observed that | only one strike in more than a generation. | called to obtain the 44-hour There are good | a few labor leaders have ! The only possible panacea is for all unions, | almost as | much ship construction as the nation ac- | THE KEY WEs TT. CITIZEN = THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 194 nd | STRANGE BED-FELLOW | eccccccccccccccecceccccccccosesccs Classified Column .|KEY WeST IN DAYS GONE BY — | MAPPEMINGS ON - ON THIS DATE TEN YEARS AGO AS TAKEN: FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN Cloth for distribution among the needy in Key West was re- ceived today, according to an announcement made by William W. Demeritt;. chairman: of the ; Monroe County Council for, Un- | employment Relief.) Mr. Demer- litt said he had been authorized to use some of the money that jhas been sent to Key West to em- | ploy women to make clothes for :needy school children and other !needy children. { |. The contract for printing the | ballots for the November elec- | tion was awarded to The Artman | Pre: ss by the County Commission- ‘ers at their meeting last night. The commissioners also named the inspectors for the election. \ The Monroe Conuty Democratic Executive Committee, in an an- nouncement today, cautioned lo- cal voters that, in casting their! votes for Roosevelt, they should |mark the first seven names on |the ballot. The Citizen was informed to- day that the Overseas Bridge Corporation, which now has rep- |resentatives in Washington, has |retained Edward E. Gann, hus- | band of Dolly Gann, half sister jof Vice President Curtis. Mr.! {Gann has offered his services | free of cost, as he is a friend of | Glenn Skipper, president of the | Corporation. of Key); Joe Smith, sponge buyer from | Tarpon Springs, is due to arrive in Key West Monday, and it is expected that he will buy many |lots of: sponge during his stay j here. Sheriff Cleveland Niles says he | was informed today that a house, owned by R. Perky at the north- jerly end of Key Largo, was de- !stroyed by fire on October 12. | It was announced today that | | unemployment relief work in| | Key West will be started on Mon-! day. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the | ;Ley Memorial Church will hold a Hallowe’en party Monday night | on the church grounds. Troop 5, Boy Scouts of Amer. ica, hiked to the picnic trees on South Beach last night, played ; games and enjoyed supper. Sidney Aronovitz, son of Mr.! jand Mrs. Cherles Aronovitz, left |today for Miami, where he will |spend the week-end with rela-| |tives in that city. Faustino Rendueles left yester- | day for Havana to spend several | | weeks with relatives in that city. Mrs. J. Y. Porter, Jr., and daughter, Mary Louise, left yes- jterday for Miami to visif rela- | | tives. | The Citizen in an_ editorial paragraph says today: “All of a sudden a lot of folks} now in Key West tell us they are |from Missouri. We didn’t know that that state was so well rep-/ resented here.” 1. The germ imbeds itself deepl. 2. You must reach the germ°to kill it. | 3. It takes strong penetrating | fungicide. 4. Te-ol solution made with 90‘% | alcohol increases penetration. Feel jit take hold. Apply at night. Your 35c back at any drug store next {morning if not pleased. Locally} ee Gardner’s Pharmacy.—advt. | Svvvewvwrwvvvereve| LOPEZ Funeral Service { Established 1885 4) Licensed Funeral Directors | and Embalmers > 24-Hour Ambulance Service |) PHONE 135 | STRONG ARM TRIUMPH COFFEE | MILLS AT ALL one passenger | large ore-car- | ‘Tommie’s SKATING RINK | SUMMER SESSIONS \ Afternoons: Tues. - Thurs. and Sat. 2:30 - 4:30 Every Evening: 8:00 - 10:30 p.m. Aapriee, Savited | SKATE for HEALTH’S SAKE | Lessons Phone $116) Le ABOUT “ATHLETE'S FOsE | ‘DID YOU KNOW? , Today’s Anniversaries 1840—Helen Hunt poet, novelist, author of “Ra- mona,”, born Amherst, Mass. Died ‘Aug. 12;°1885, 1833—Denman Thompson, star in and author of “The Old Home- stead,” born Girard, Pa. Died April 14, 1911. 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Call 423-W for appointment. octl2-6tx 1941 CHEVROLET, Tudor, good tires. Going to Army. W. E Fowler, Harris School oct10-6tx FOR SALE—Reconditioned, like new, Hoover Vacuum Cleaner. Bargain at $30.00. Also, one GE Cleaner, good shape and cheap at $15.00. New Electrolux Vacuums if you have priority See O’Sweeney before it is too late. octi@-ti FANS, AIR CONDITIONERS. See Thomas at the Skating Rink. sept30-tf SIGNS—“For Rent”, “Rooms For Rent”, “Apartment For Rent”, “Private Property, No Tres- passing”. THE ARTMAWN PRESS. jan2$-tf FEMALE HELP WANTED SPANISH SPEAKING YOUNG LADIFS f (20 to 36 command Write cent photc cation. < Sa of S HELP WANTED WAITRESSES WA walk Cafe, Duva — SAMPLES OF CHRISTMAS CARDS have arrived and ca be seen at Citizen office. Beau- tiful designs and wide assort- ment. Suitable for men in Armed Services. sept22-tf LOST LOST—Gas_ Rationing Books, A-Book No. 1, C-Book 3. Re- turn to Oliver Robinson, Boyn- ton Beach, Florida, General Delivery. oct13-3tx LOST—Girl's number 51384, 1529. Left in fron Theater. Reward for 1028 Division street. LEGALS IS TRE Ci MCT EE © OUBT OF THE EL cunculT PLOmIDA. i IN Bicycle sé license numbe of Monroe return t oct 15-2tx or THI f STATE MONROE COUNTY. ¥. Ne. hereby sounives. ar to the bil otherwise the a d bill will be taken f September A Sawyer (Sd.) Kathleen Nottage, Deputy Clerk MONROE Is Doing Bond Quota fer September. . - Bond Sales for September. . - LOUIS A. HARRIS Attorney-at-Law 217 Duval St HOTELS BRING YOUR VISITING f | im need of a good nig to THE OVERSEAS Clean rooms, enjoy t atmosphere 917 Flem Subscribe u weekly. J. F. SIKES LICENSED PLUMBER 1308 CATHERINE STREET COUNTY Its Share $ 80,000.00 154,875.08 Our Quota for Octeber - $80,000,00 HAVE YOU DONE YOUR PART? FIRST NATIONAL ef KREEY WeEstT Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation