The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 9, 1942, Page 2

ae GE TWO The Key West Citizen LEN PUBLISHING GO., INC. Daily Except Sunday B; A} sident and Publisher . Business Manager From The Citizen Bullding Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Datly Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County -ntered at Key West, Florida, as second clase matter Member of the Associated Press she Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use fer republication of all news dispatches credited to or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the lepal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES *~ ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, carde of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary ni eit ete., Will be charged for ‘at ment by churches from which & revenue is to be derived are 6 cents a line. The Citizen is an open fotum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general >a but it will not publish anonymous communt- eattons. ‘4 MEMBER Mgté FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION vig) NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION \, « THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it avithout fear and without favor; never be alraid to attack wrong of to applaud right; always fight for progres4; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, Clique, Yaction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or ‘thjustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, fommend 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. Airpurts—Land and Sea, Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. ‘The National Safety Council suggesis a safe rule for hoarding gasoline—don’t. Of every dollar the Government is spending, all but 7.6 goes for war. Why capnect we get along on that in peace times? Advice to People Who Sell: Give the buying public quality and they will pay yaur price. 3 _z Judging from press reports some of our best generals are in Congress and the best Congressmen are in the Army or Navy. =~ Cairo, the biggest city in Africa, seems to have a just claim for more “Le- bensraum”. It occupies only eight square niles, yet has a population of 14% million; while Detroit, with the game popula ceeupies more than 100 square miles. bi Mac Oe OE ell ee paar} enator Nortis, defeated in the” Specant election after serving 30 years as a Senator, nilist [eel embittered at the treatment by his constituents, though at his age he may take thé defeat philosophically. He did not de- six® t¢ run again, but did so on the insist- ente of President Roosevelt. Ihe American youth of 18 or 19 years re has just what it takes to be a good <odier— mental keenness, enthusiasm and | lave of adventure. That is why the Army ismow effering him his choice of any one of 13branches of service upon his voluntary | entistment. But people; but too wondérful ot ag many have found out ‘even r whr. Japs made wonderful servants the world over, and if a master aid find his Jxp servant pouring over his charts and soundings of his local harbors—well, each toshis tastes, the trusting master said. to be * It has been often noted that taxation istthe power to destroy. cGuld be destroyed in like manner by im- péSing heavy fines on the culprits, in Miami Peach, for instance, they are fined as much a87$300. But the impesition of jail sen- tézices would cool off this gertry and put e Balt,to the law infractins more quickly. LATE FAREWELL Many residents declared we were lucky when Saturday’s | harmlessly south of Key West. Certainly, any town a_ hurricane mi is lucky, but situation, not luck, has accounted for many hurricanes that passed near to Key West without striking it. Thirty miles east of Key West, most terrific hurricane in the history the of water 40, 50, 60 feet high as it tore through | the Gulf Stream, in a northeasterly direc- | tion. it was 2 o’clock in the afternoon, and Weatherman Kennedy, studying his weather-map, remarked: “The good Lord surely blessed Key West when He tucked it here in the west.” That was the Labor I hurricane of 1935, and hurdreds of Key Westers fami- | liar with hurricanes consider it to be by far the worst that has ever occurred in this part of the world. Att least two men who sur- | vived on Matecumbe said they felt confi- dent the wind attained a velocity of more | than 200 miles an hour, and weather bureau officials say that barometric readings were | lower than those of any other hurricane. Now, that terrific hurricane have struck Key West if we had not been tucked in to the west. Had our position ; been due south of Miami, or even of Mate- cumbe, the hurricane would have lashed | amians to task many times for | persions about Key West being a “hurri- |) any place. | nobody knows where a hurricane is going us in all of its fury. The same thing is true of other hurricanes that have passed east | of us without doing us any damage, but had we been out on the line of the upper Florida | Ieys they would have struck us full force. Back nearly a quarter of a century | ago, some Miamians were wont to speak of Key West as the “hurricane city”. Yet, in the last 21 years, we have had but one hur- ricane, that of 1919. The:Citizen took Mi- their as- cane city”. Since then, Miami has had two or three hurricanes and several near-hurricanes, but The Citizen says now, as it said that it does not wish to see a hurricane hit It says now, as it said then, that to hit, and it has cited Weather Observer | Richard W. Gray’s “physical impossibility” year was down in the Caribbean, recurved and devastated Miami. Our “tucked in” position has saved us time, as such times have come before, when it will not save us. Hurricanes hit any- where, sometimes in Florida and sometimes they take a notion to hit up in the New Eng- jJand States, as one did in September 1938. Saturday’s blow took our hurricane season beyond what we consider its end— October. We are happy to bid it a late fare- | well. OUR NAVY PAYS THE PRICE The fighting now going on around Guadalcanal Island represents the deter- mined effort of a fighting power to recap- ture lost ground. Heavy losses may be ex- pected by both sides. It is significant that Secretary of the | Navy Frank Knox points out that our naval | forces, operating in the Solomons, are in- ferior to those of the enemy. This is a : ols situation and, while we wait for news of the outcome of the battle, we might in- The Japs have been known ‘as a won- | before } Racketeering | quire about the reason for our plight. The Navy of the United States entered | upon our present wars without adequate | ships to do the job. | been considerably erilarged dent Roosevelt, it remained | navy when the seven-ocean war began. This condition was the result of our dis- | armament folly, a policy of national e¢on- omy at the expense of adequate defense and the pacifist attitude of many people in the United States. “There is no use to blink at ihe truth. American ships are being destroyed and American sailors are losing their lives around the Solomon Island because of foolish national policies, promulgated and followed in this country after the first | World War. The price is now being paid for econ- omy in years of peace, promulgated and up- held by Americans who chanted that “no- body would ever attack the United States.” Unfortunately, the price is not being paid | by the economy-group and the pacifist- group whose policies almost led this coun- itry to its own destruction. under Presi- a one-ocean | then, | fiasco of 1926 when the hurricane of ihat | on several occasions but there may come 4 | of | seri- | While the Navy has | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Nothing 1% Sacred! hurricane passed ' Ef wun ( SIstATUSE, ¢ f, f\ | the Florida Keys was throwing up walls of , TELEGRAPH OFFICE would , Chapter 23 The Offer DD and Hazen walked out of the stadium together to Hazen’s car. Most of the traffic had melted away by then and they had little difficulty. 1 “T'll come straight to the point.” Hazen said bluntly. “You know I'm an engineer, 1 assume. Well. T'm taking over a tremendo project down in South America next June. It’s big. Really big.” he emphasized. “We're going to have a small army of men work- ing down there—Americans and natives mixed. Maybe four or five ; |thinking -about thousand, and about 90 per cent of them aren’t going to have| their families with them. | planned activity to help keep ’em | happy and that’s where you come in,” Hazen went.on. “I want you to come down there when you | graduate and set up and direct.an athletic program for those men. | In addition, you'll be sort of an administrative assistant to me. | You'll be doing me a great sc:-| | vice, and what’s more you'll be | doing those men and your coun- try an even greater service. i “I can start you at fifty a week ; and all your expenses. I hope you'll find that satisfactory,” said | Hazen, “because you're the man 1 want.” Finally Todd said, “South America—why I don’t know—it! seems like a swell opportunity, but—” “But what?” “Why do you want me?” Todd asked him simply. Hazen kept his eyes on the street ahead. “I know exactly what's in the back of your mind,” he said easily, “so I'll put you straight right away. I know ev- erything about you that I need to know, including a little un- pleasantness you've had lately. I | think I'd have picked you any- way, but it happens I went to Pete Bailey and I told him 1 wanted a State athleté to do (this, job for me and asked him to rec- | ommend a man. You were it.” It -was a little too muchfor Todd to think about then. and there. He was a-little bewildered. “Tl have to give :t some thought, | Mr. Hazen. I just don’t know. I | was considering the air force.” “Of course,” Hazen said. “Take your time. Give you a -nonth.” | “Those men are going to need! PROFESSIONAL DRY PROPAGANDISTS ee ORGANIZE MASS TELEGRAPHIC BARRAGE TO “CELEBRATE” MOTHER'S DAY. On second thought, Todd fig- ured, maybe this was the oppor- tunity he was iooking for. Maybe f he took the job he could get fazen to advance him part of his nlary—say a half year’s—that id be at least $1500. That was f the amount Duke needed. It | vas a possibility. Susan found out about Todd’s ‘Ter on a fast double play—Lutt- ell'to Jane to Drake. Somehow, Susan knew she was supposed to form some kind of opinion — her private opinion— 'but an opinion nevertheless. But | jevery time she caught herself it she stopped short of the complete answer. If Todd Malone wanted to go ‘to South America he could go. H If he wanted to join the air force he could join. If he wanted to take a rocket ship to the moon, he could. * In other words, she told her- self, she didn’t intend to let her- jself become involved in cven a remote manner. If he should come to her and ask for an idea she’d be glad to give it to him, but Susan wasn’t counting on seeing him. | 3 He had made up ‘his mind and that was that. The more she thought of his wooden-headed- ness the more she thought he should go to South America and | get himself lost in some nice im- penetrable jungle. The Small Glass Bottie ‘HE next day Susan got a phone call from the manager of Varsity Hall, the bachelor quarters where Phil Humphries | had lived. There was a book with her name in it, and a picture of | herself which had been among Phil’s effects. If she cared to get them back she could drop by and pick them up at the desk. Susan didn’t particularly care to get the picture but she remem- bered she had loaned Phil a vol- ume of modern voetry that she would like to have. She walked over after her last class. The manager wasn’t there but the housekeéper was. The housekeep- er, a stoutish, pleasant woman named Mrs. Woods got the book out of a cupboard. “It was such a shame about our Mr. Humphries,” she said, handing the book to Susan. “He was al- ways 'so pleasant, always had a joke and a smile for me. He was a devilish one, too,” she sighed. Jeepers! DDIE was all excited when Todd told him about Hazen’s/ offer. “Jeepers it’s wonderful!’} Eddie enthused. ’You’re going to take it, of course. You can’t af- ford not to. Not because of the | money, but think of the expe- | rience, the opportunities it pre- | sents.” There was an undecided look on Todd’s face. “It sounds swell,” ne admitted. “Wisr. I knew. May-} be I ought to write Dad. He might have an angle on it. Also— ' thought we were going to join ‘the air corps together after grad- uation.” Eddie made an impatient ges- ture. “Sure we were. but don’t you, realize you'll actually be do- ing as much down th-e as you could in the air force. Look it squarely in the face.” “T've got a month to make up my mind. I'l probably change it twelve time in those 30 days.” “Do you know,” she continued. |“I was bringing him some fresh linens to his room and he’d just come home after having a drink or two. He liked the stuff, Mr. Humphries did. Anyway, he’d al- ways have his joke with mc. He took up a tiny small glass bottle of some greenish-silver stuff from his drawer and said if he as much as dropped it the whole house would be blown higher than a kite.” Mrs. Woods shook her head. “He had me scared for a minute, the way he handled that thing, and then I knew he must be hav- ing one-of his jokes.” Susan smiled grimly. Phil was always full of jokes. Especially | when he'd had a few drinks. Like that night in Tony’s when he touched off the news about Todd’s father. ., . Susan thanked Mrs. Woods, put the book under her arm and walked out. To be continued HUMBLE BOMBS AN ALASKAN ARMY OUT-| POST.—On the barrel of one of, loaded in Alaska was an scription. From breech to muz- zle, it read, “Sg Solly, Please.” The gun has gone into firing ithe heavjest field guns ever un-| position, ~ in-| MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9. WAR QUESTIONS | ANSWERS TO YOUR but use I get «a Q—I don’t own a car, ‘a relative’s. ‘How can |gas rationing book? | A.—Two people can‘t obtain lrationing books for the same tear. You or the owner may get |the book, but the book goes with | |the car. |. Q—My divorced husband and {I have both remarried. We have ia small son. Now, both my hus- |bands are in the army and both have given my son as a depend- jent. From which will I receive jan allotment for the child? | A—Either can make an allot- tment but not both. | Q—Can I make 2 personal {friend beneficiary of my army | insurance? i A—No. Army |for your relatives. i = Q.—How does a girl get a job | ferrying planes overseas? A—Write to Air Transport Command, War Department | Washington. But don’t write unless you are between 21 and 35, a high school graduate, and a licensed pilot with more than {500 hours of certified flying Q—Is there any law | storing my car for the duration? A.—No. insurance is | Q—Will married men in their tearly 40’s without children drafted? | A.—Your age won’t keep you) out at present. Q—Is it true that meat will be rationed to farmers? | A—Meat rationing may come jnext year, but at present each} !person is requested to volun- ‘tarliy limit his meat consump-| \tion to 2% pounds a week. Q.—Aren’t stores required to give a trade-in allowance on rub- !ber boots if you buy a new pair? | A—No. Q.—Some people say to stock |up emergency food shelves; oth- ers say this isn’t |'Who's right? A—Don’t hoard anything, it ;merely makes a bad situation | worse. Subscribe to The Citizen, 20c weekly. against | be} necessary. | KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN of NOVEMBER 9. 1932 Ballots were ers in Tuesday's election and ail the cast by 3,160 v Democratic nominees in Mon roe County were elected with bi Karl O nominee majorities Thompsor for Clevelan vent; Ross C Democratic was elected Niles, the incu Sawyer, also Democratic nomine¢ for clerk of the Circuit | won out over George V. Perpall {Ray Elwood, Democratic 1 jinee for constable, won out over John F. Roker. over court, 1 Mowing aoe opposition many fronts, the Democrats day were in complete contr the Seventy-third Congress. I ‘dications today are that the Der ocrats have a majority of 50 t 1 100 in the House. Incomplee turns give Roosevelt 472 electo ral votes, and Hoover, 59. The popular vote prbably will reac the 40,000,000 mark. Three medals, of bronze one of silver and one of gold, a to be given as prizes to the mem bers of Battery E, 250th regi- jment, Fiérida National Guard, for different activities carried on among members of the local com- pany. The ‘William V. ants Leslie Harris one donors Albury Russell and Lie and W [ry Approval of the plan to start {beautification 2nd mosquito erad ication work on the Keys hk j been received by the local jty Council for unemployment lief. from Tallak Oper: j will begin on that stretch « ;on Key Largo running fror mzin highway Anglers Camp This is the only piece of road jowned by Monroe county, jother roads having been taken the State Road Depart ssee. n€ jover ment by the new dedicated The court room 'Federal building this afternoon. The |were opened by William H lone, who introduced Judge ferson B. Browne as the princ pal speaker. 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