The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 13, 1942, Page 2

“AGE TWO 5 'UPEABN P Published Daily L. P. ANTMAN, Mresident ‘and’ Publisher Business Meaager | | | From The Citizen Bullding © Corner Greene and Ann Streets pei i Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and | Monroe County _ chtered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Assuciated Preas ‘he Associated Press is exclusive! | news publighed here, UDSCRIPTION RATES une Year .... Six Months Three Months One Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES, Made known on application, SPRCIAL NOTICR ; i All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of respect, obituary noticos, ete., will be charged for at he 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 communt- | MEMBER cars \ 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 injusti¢e; 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 | West | monthe | as HIS OWN HOME TOWN During the last week or so a Miami newspaper hsa published a series of letters about the treatment of service men in Key There have been letters also from the service men themselves in w,hich they expie this “knocks : As The Citizen remarked about ‘0, the vast majority of service men atistied wherever they may. be sta- city. Their letters chiefly were aye di . | tioned, Uncle Sam has stepped into their | homes, yanked them out and ‘sent them away to fight orto prepare to fight for :heir,\is one important frorit that Wwe’ stands and appreciates’ what’ the | Novem In many cases it is the first iime ,have neglected-in. this -respect? long: thankless; struggle you’ pie according country. these men have been away from home. Nat- | urally, some are dissatisfied with Key West, as tens of thousands are dissatisfied with the places where they are stationed. Behind that feeling are home es, which are the hardest of all iies to break and to forget. : Many a visitor has said that Key West is the most hospitable place in che country ; that here, more so than in any other locai- ity with one or two exceptions, the courteous spirit of the old South is still predominant. A Kley Wester will go out of his way any time to do a favor for a stranger. But all local service men have not been rubbed the same way. That is an impossi- bility. Some of them might have been un- intentionally crossed and,others might have been carried away by their own impatience, due io thoughts of home* that’ persist in dwelling in their minds. : But Key West expects to be knocked, all cther towns are knocked. A few years ago a world traveler said this of Mi- ami: “Miami is like a gaudily dressed wom- an, swaggering in the street with a iooth- pick stuck at-a rakish angle in her mouth.” That pictures Miami as a crude up- ed their regard or lack of regard for 100 LATE TO CLASSIFY \ | A lot has‘been’ said’ and ‘writ- blamed “you ‘for “your-.refusal to }ten about writing letters to the break with. Vichy, .thought you \men at the front, and it is im-’ stupid and blind. Now I: knew ities, as well as upon its produc-| That ‘means, of ‘course, they. are | Hadley, Mass. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1°42 | OUTMAN: TO" OUTLINE maining WAR CONTRACTS OLDIERS.. OF STATE ASSEMBLAGE PI ON (Special to The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, Nov. 13.— William? D. Gitrhan, Washington| American miners, like Ameri- director. of-the Florida—Advance-can-soldiers, are today .. engaged iment: Council, through whose in the toughest and most exact- hands___ negotiations _involving , ing fight of. their_. long history. ‘millions of dollars worth of Their objective is to meet the | Florida’ war ‘conttaéts have’ pass-’ ever-increasing. “demands .of our ‘ed, will throw intimate light upon | factories and: arsenals for the. riw. the.state’s Washington opportun- materials ‘of war: protluction. . Anniversaries... ee -1809—John A...B.. Dahlgren, {naval officer, inventor-chief of jardnance, who made America’s one of the world’s ~est, born im {Philadelphia Died July 12, 1870. | ' 1814—Joseph - Hooker, | famied Ciyil’ War Union general, born Died Oct. 31, pressed upon us how important what an’ able ‘and courageous, tive deficiencies, at. the twenty- fighting to produce more guns and | 1879. it is to make such letters cheer-'man you are and what a grand.Sixth annual. imembership .con- tanks, ships and planes for pfyl and encouraging, « jand, glorious sap I turned out.to But it seems to me that there be. Now all the world under- the “Home” front,’: There. area up in the face ‘of: the. -bitterest jlot of fellows..putting up a tough ‘kind of. opposition really .means and courageous fight on this pat- land how your actions paved. the ‘ticular front, and while some may , way for the glorious achievment have written them letters, -nat now progressing’ so favorably “in many have been very encourag- | Africa. ‘I’m sorry and I apolo- ing. i gize.. RK, I am just as guilty as the next > £: ty ,000, . é guy in this respect, and so I’ve United Nations General Staff, “open”. Washington, D. C. decided to direct some letters to.a few of the “home |, front boys” in this column and try and make up for my past} neglect. ‘ball park, I've been ‘sittin’ in the Here goes: entlemen yt Mr. Leon Henderson, loPa. this; guy. ‘out: or put-that one in, | I don’t know whether-you nave eee brass ; aes what, the score was or what in- considered rationing CROW * or We jhe not, but if you haven’t maybe ning we were playin’. When Mr. i Willkie’ intimated that’ you guys you better start thinkin’ about’ B in’ i lit, for it Moakal to me like WReck Se Ger Penns tame cae \of a lot would have to be eaten jin this country.’ I've got some ;comin’ to.me and am-passin’ my |plate herewith. . .R.K. i 000 |Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt, ; Commander-in-Chief. ’em, brother”. When the Japs and Huns pushed us around I started ‘Soundin’ off like a sing- lint teakettle:’When you! wouldn't ‘talk. and “blabber -all<you knew; {Deer Franklin: | | i ‘dust. I’m ashamed and my lit- | Like a lot of other folks, I was/tle face .is.. plenty .red. This |gettin’ downright worried about Suriday motning, November. 8, iyou. I was afraid’ you were lét-| 1942;T appreciate more than eyer |tin’ politics interfere with the what the Master was‘ drivin’ ‘at war effort, gettin’ hooked .with|when ‘he’ cried in angtiish, “Oh, Like a. peanut eatin’ fan at'‘a! , bleachers tellin’ you how: to. play, the game, howlin’ for you to’ take | ‘screamin’ for a pinch hitter and | ams ACA ey ae | Dear Leon: P fe home run, figurin’::you cock=} : JIN shats. didn’t. know! “ay = Mine ;on the back and said, “You tell’ {I madecup: the answers: myself ‘and. they: were -all bad, Now, | gentleman, I am humbled in, the} the jfergnce. of; the,, Florida , State. Arniy‘and thieNavy. “4 ut /Chember of Commerce here on Underground and..in the;pits, & +30. ad December 1; million ‘miners iare working daily to..an announcement with drills, picks, and dynamite “Milam, convention pro-. toblast, our-minerals—which, one. gram chairman, : \day,.as arms and equipment, will | Florida business Jeaders _at- be delivered to us. They are min= |tending the two-day’ session ‘will’ ing scores of different. minerals receive. from.Outman a first-hand: for=theusands of different. uses. ; wartime report by the man who‘ The coal they mine provides ‘has. kept this State's Producing power to..turn. the wheels. of. in- agencies and Washington pro- dustry; to fire the blast. furnaces curement officials’ in close daily where ore which ‘ther ‘miners ; contact with. each other ever have dug will be fused into iron ane the attack on Pearl Har-! and steel’. <* : Other speakers and varied dis- plays will disclose and portray how Florida has met the war { ‘fantry division. teen fons of it for every. million Cartridges we shoot. More than 4x¢$a hundred, tons.of copper rode in ie the Flying Fortresses and Libera- 5 DAYS. GONE . tors: Which.made . their famotis ft Ramer ee We: Pd: daylight attack”dn Lille, in Nazi- | FROM: FILES: “OP ¥FHEAGITIZEN ‘occupied France." ous Of: NOVEMBER13-1932-!0<9 "Miners: are ‘digging. out many -ts other’ metals, tod, without which 3) tet Providing us with. mere.-than. 1;- \990,000 tons of indispensable. cop- ner. There’s.a ton of it in the Ga- “sirand rifles of every triangular jin- ig =F we could not hope to fight. There’s In the .weather report-teday {G..S. Kennedy, ,in-charge:.of ‘theisenic, There’s” bauxite from 4 local. weather. bureau, it is shown) Which. aluminum is’made. And where Key. West had “a minimum’ les§. well known, but equally es- temperature of 56 degrées -at-- an; sential, are metals such as molyb- early hour this morning with . aj denum,. manganese, /maximum of 66: degrees for a:24- and chrome. Not one, but most of hour period. . This drop to 56 is them, are required to build any |shown to be the extreme lowest on of a hundred different. weapons record for this ume of year. with which we are training now, uy + with which we shajl later. fight. Albertus 4g) _ Working in the mines is no pic- vast nic. It means long hours of sweat Diaz, ; , This year.copper miners are} There gre four-} -by.zine,, Jead, mercury, tungsten, ar- | vanadium, | “1833—Edwin T.‘ Booth, “famed tragic actor, brothe? of’ Lincoln's | aSsassin, born/.irt Maryland. Died New York, June 7; 1893. 1850—Robert Louis Stevenson, |famed “!English’~ novelist, born. Died Dec. 3, 1894. 1853—John Drew, eminent ae- tor of-a noted-actor family,’ born jin Philadelphia. Died July 9Q, j 1856—Louis D. Brandeis, Bos- ton lawyer ahd liberal, ‘justice of |the U..S. Supreme Court; fanied dissenter, born Louisville, Ky. Died Oct. 5,..1941, n History Today 1781—John: Moody, ‘Amerikan ; Loyalist, hanged by Americans jin Philadelphia as a British spy {his brother a noted American Spy. 1851—First American seftlers to found Seattle, Wash., land at Alki, now within city’s limits. 1864—Sherman_devastates lanta, Ga., preparatory to historic “March to the Sea At- his ' 1889—The American College of ithe Roman Catholic Church opens tin Washington. Louis Stevenson assigns his birthday rights to little Anne Ide, then living in Samoa, betauSe ‘she had ben born on Christmas and was cheat- |bum - steers from bureaucratic -ye of-Jittle faith”.2 Whéen® E-\try i years‘old; died this morning at the bunglers and thinkin’ too much |te grasp-what has really happen- home, 619 United Street. De-| ‘of the fireside instead of the ring- | ed; the’ amazingachievément that | ceaséd’is stirvived by one? son, |side. Now I know how wrong. I saw. the.anovement of hundteds|Fdward Albertus; one daughter, |was and ‘what a whale of a job of thousands.of men, with arms!Dolotes Robles: two: ' grandsons, |you have been doing,’ keepin’’* n reas || start concerned only in a whirlwind of pleas- 3891—Robert ure with its attendant headaches. But ihat is true only of the outer fringe of Miami .30- ciety.. The real Miami is composed of sober and. batkbreaking. toil. For many it means days at a time far under- ground where..sunlight .never ‘{reaches. Yet our miners, like sol- re determined to make 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. Now is the watchword of the wise. Hitler now wants Turkey with his Greece, There are ever so many people on the home front trying to solve the problems of ihe battlefront. Berlin, the historians tell us, grew up in the midst of a great sandy plain; and will probably énd up in one. The theory of the law is magnificent, ‘but somehow the practice of.law has got- ten soiled with the taint of the dollar. The enefgy wasted by Americans in putting up a front, if harnessed to war work, would outproduce Hitler’s Europe. The nation is now in the midst of the vital decision that, will.determine what in- stitution of learning has the best football team. x panicle atih: earls CS There are about 2,000 Bpecies of fish, of which number about 675 species are denizens in the waters surrounding Key West. Despite aerial superiority it is noted that the British, in Egypt, depended upon artillery and infantry to make gains against the Axis. Hyde Park, N. Y., was named atfer Hyde Fark in Lordon, and some of ihe in- habitants on the American end still are British-minded. The flint stone was probably the fest wee pon that.one enemy threw at another, but civilization, so-called, hascimpxeved on this weapon to an alarming extent.’ 3 K $a te i Few workers have the idea that in- creasej:in wages and salaries are evil, nor do all merchants and business men think it evil to charge all the. traffic- will bear. AH things, no matter how old, come to the end of their usefulness and should give way to'new. developments, but /human cus- sedness never grows too old to become in- active, Godly people, so much'so it may well be called a “city of churches.” So, in Key West there are men, most of them importations, whose chief concern in the service man is to get as much as chey can out of him, while, on the other hand, the great bulk of Key Westers entertain | kindly regards.for the servicé man and are ever ready to do anything that may promote his comfort and contentment. Before complaining, however, ihe service man should bear in mind that no other town can substitute for his own home town. CARRIERS AND TORPEDO PLANES carriers, ihe Two of the seven aircraft with which the United States began war, have been sunk but eleven, in 1940, are in the process of launching, with the Essex in the water and the Lexing- ton ready io slide. b In addition, it is known that the Navy has altered its large cruisers of the Alaska type and:a number of smaller cruisers will be complet- ed as carriers. Furthermore, ., some) .mer- chantmengkgygemeen fitted. out. as: carriers, although London reports.that, most of che ships chi arg in British service, TE w. e*¢learythat:great,emphasis iis being placed upon warriers which,.,..with their torpedo planes, constitute a menace to.all surface ships. .Destroyers, designed for torpedo attacks, are being refitted with anti-aircraft guns in. order to increase.de- fense against enemy planes, although the torpedo-function has not been abandoned, Certainly, it is.wise for the, Navy. to stress its aircraft carrier program.:: Just the same, it might be risky to. abandon: oth- er ships, which: must present: overwhelm- ing broadsides to enemy. ships...» r The fact that torpedo carrying planes have been effective against surface ships, seven at heavy loss to the attacking planes, | should ndtlead us © overlook the pgssibil, | ,ity that the present ‘danger. of:.iorpedo | planes may be balanced by increaSet ‘of- | fensiye strength, § 2 > sion ~sSome.. idea’ that thig:is develdping | comes from reports in the Selomon Islands i area, where anti-aircraft guns are scoring.) important puccesses against Japanese | planes. Siberia, which Japan, covets, .covers | over 5,000,000 square miles, an area nearly | twice that. of the United States, and sparse-_ | ly settled... There is plenty of labensraum | for all on this earth. your chin up and your mind clear! of * submarine-infested jin the face of rabid criticism and ; when I ‘consider the. hours, days’ ‘and weeks and ‘months of ‘careful! impossible deniands. - You “might | have been justified in turning oa |the rabble at your heels and giv-; |in’ them a healthy mouthful, and! |now we all know there was plen- |ty you could have said, but you kept mum and went on. about your business knowing ‘that “in good time~-your - position would ‘did equipment, over. .vast areas watets, | preparation and -planning, and realize that all this was done so efficiently “and ~ effectively that until the hour of attack-ar- rived you had: kept’! the -segret and. insured -its .suecess, -1. think I can understand what you have @ontributed to the cause of hu- | Archie and Alton ‘Albertus, and “ers, are de {three great grand-children. every sacrifice the nation may pares }-; require of them. | Harry Anderson, who was stab- [bed in the breast in a row in a shack on South Beath yesterday, is Said’ to be restitg easy. The: cutting occurred during a row} ‘over a bottle of liquor that was} ‘solved to remain’ free Miners know that under Adolf Hitler's new order, they would be the first to féel the dégrading weight of Nazi chains. Hitler. knows, as They do this as free men re-! alléged to have béen taken “by Anderson: Durirfg the melee An- derson. was stabbed. Anderson we do, that the alppetitevof & mod- ef military machihe for raw ine- terials “is ravenous.”’ To” ordered | original plans.so that ihe | (quests for information for pris- {be justified. But it. takes a good man to do that, and my |hats off to you. . .R.K. | | 000 Mr. Cordell Hull, .manity and Democracy; :-and-=~I salute you. At last you have ‘given us of small minds and lit- | tle understanding. your answer, | not in idle words “but: in. the Secretary. of State. heroic deeds of fighting Recast 2 ll: and Marinés, of. seasoned-' Para- joss eos troops—of belching Naval Guns You haye proven - Yourself" a) and roaring Dive Bombers .that master statesman and diplomat |unite».theit might “in a” grand |and you-have done it-egainst the symphony of. Victory. You, are | toughest kindof odds. Like-a lot|vindieated and I. am ashamed, of other folks, I’ve questioned: but proud—oh, sé’ proud—that 1 |your actions: time «and again,'am an AMERICAN. . .R.K. a “flap EUTRAL ANGEL OF MERCY AMID TOTAL WAR iN | By FRANK BRUTTO: Wide World Features GENEVA, | Nov. | spreading battle lines of globatjate sent daily by the Red Cross. | war have increased the already} Correspondenéé is largely post- tremendous burden of the Inter-: fr oe (ae national Red Cross. but...the {Red} ‘Delegates of ‘the: International Cross‘isn’t“one to complain—it Red’ Cross!committe just goes ahead and does its job. j more ' thai And the job is seemingly with- | camips: and140'‘ ci ‘out end. ‘It must act ds a ‘eom- camps. Ansoatr as “pi pletely neutral but intenSely aa ites’ are sefit from Genéva. In terested party in ‘dealing with! the-far jeast ‘and ther places réliet ‘ships,’ réfugee problems, | where’ it is: ndt ., feasible“to send inspection of prison camps, pris-| Swiss -delégiies;the Swiss coh- oners’ mail dnd!a dozen othi jsul ofecommends Swiss citizens things that‘make up the backwash j living there.tq setve,.« <2? —..%)-> | of war’s miseries. All on‘shoe-;. Eight,. merchant -ships ‘which | striig, finances and a limited per- | now fly -the -oC¥ flagor | sonnel. | \ mercy Voyages have. heen, bolight To. illustrate the mushrooming by belligerents — chiefly Great | adtivity “of the present\war as Britain—gndithen chartered to | compared with World War 1, the the Red @rdis, {7/242 Bureaii of War prisoners!im 1914-}: +, Bedke* Distribtited | 1918 received and sent thrée mjl-| =Antellecttal assistance for pris- lign. messages. In ‘this conflict it ;oners<-is':-a\) rapidly expanding jalready has received almost 17,- | branch of !service» More than a | 000,000 messages and /has- dis. jot havebeen sent to patched another ‘17,000,000 ‘par~! prisoners, alongwith’ microscopes | cels’ of food, medivine, othing| and other equipment for i ‘and other itents, excluding’ book: sdiéntific : Volunteer Workers ©: More than 5000 workers are¢! gagedin the Central Agency. Switzerland, most pf them giving their services without pay. The vest! premises which house the varied functions of the Interna- tional Red Cross were mdae avail- joners. An average of: . 27.000: let- ters are lian” internee : coat of. Maintaining _ the staff of :delégatesenly” abdut 800 of mahiy'thousatids ‘are ‘paid is nowtabout 406,000 Swisttrants monthly, or a million” dollars’ nually! + ee tn: Pe able by the. Swiss government, b rent free. By ee Roane Chief, task isthe’ prisoners b reau which centralizes “informa- tion of prisoners ‘rom an official list sent to Geneva. by. Red.Cross, bureaus ‘in belligerent: countries. ‘One hundred petsons work ‘alt day at tables which contain files now holding 12,000,000 cards — each with arease history — and classify 34,000 cards daily on re- ernment, Swiss industry and Swiss ..peonle,,.-. About, a- million @ollars annually is*saved gh free rent ‘and ‘voluntary ® the war;a list of American pris- oners. heen. frlat Topde trough a | Red ‘possible, dele- | ices. |" ica’s entrance into it; he has not hesitated: the miners of all occupied Europe. He has worked thousands of them to death in his desperate attempts |to destroy Russia.~ He would like . . . , to do the same ‘thing here. | S. D. Pittman, assistant state’ | american miners look to us in auditor, arrived on the Cuba from ty armed = forces to remove this |Tampa this morning and began threat; to destroy Adolf Hitler and declared, it is aleged, that Wil-/ liam Waples, whom he called} '“Red”, was the man who stabbed ! him. the county officers. ‘fdrall. Butour miners do hot just | Pana _ |stand by aid ask us to fight alone. ; James F. Taylor, chief of. de- They know-their job, too in this jtectives of Los Angeles, . Calif.,| struggle and are giving it every- /Still believes that. he has. dis-| thing they’ve got. They are fight- covered Enslow Sawycr and that. jngi with us) As soldiers of pro- he is in a hospital . in ..Whittier,; duction, they are producing the |Calif., and has been there: .since| raw) materials for our arms and {receiving injuries when he and 14; smmumtién, . battleships - and aqueduct on ..which’ they weré tions.. They, as well as» workets working. Sawyer is charged with jn the factories and arsenals, are arson-in Key West. ‘the am behind the Army. |Without us; they. would be || Mrs. W. M.. Waite, who was| workers in chains. Without them, spending a few weeks with rel-} we would be an Army © without atives and friends. here, left yes+j atmms, Together, we can and will terday afternoon for her: home. in, whip.the Axis. Miami. W Betitow | (Mrs. Richar@°?Kinbwles ‘was: ar arrival over the'East»Coast: yes>1 ii terday to join’ MnKnowles, who: ‘cate in froni Islamorada Satur- day. : * Today's Editorial: ‘' “Miami -bar-. bers-are ¢u' haff for 10’ cents: -cutting ies +S will lése fmuch of their terror at that price.” As , a 1 Fi er Tae | err es ‘Today's. i OO | | ‘This*is a very: fortunate day-to be Dorn’ on; Both famé: and -fot- tone are favored under this de. | gree. The disposition 7 réstless one | Cross_ confirmations. No appesse | ts lave | jhis work auditing the books of pig jittler partner: of Japan once | | companions fell down a 300-foot | planes, tanks and cofnmunica-| | received.daily ‘and; an 13, —The average-of'90,000:communications| > +f JESUS’ iui 10-11 TT ARAA, ed out of a real birthday all her own. 1922—U. S. Supreme Court rules that Japs are ineligible for American citizenship. | Dr. Abraham Princeton, N. J., educator, born Louisville. '76 years ago Flexner ._ of famed, retired Ky., Bishop James Cannon, Jr., of Richmond, Va., retired Metho- dist clergyman, born Salisbury, Md., 78 years ago. Ralph H. Barbour, noted boys’ novelist, born Cambridge, Mass., 72 years ago. Dr. Joseph D. Eggleton, presi- ;dent emeritus of Hampden-Sid- ‘ney College. Virginia, born in Virginia, 75 years ago. Fruit cultivation in Eire (Ire- land), formerly a sideline, has become an important source of ‘income for farmers, the Depart- |ment of Commerce reported. Please take notice that I, Rob- ert'3: Léwis Rave Sold all of my right, title and interest. in. the scavenger business and garbage service whitn -I “heretofores“op> erated in Key West, Florida, to Jésis Carabalio who has agfeéd to js@nder service to all customers heretofore served by me. 'Dorié ‘this 7th day of Novem- =| ber, 1942. 1 ROBERT J. LEWIS VVV ICVTS VI T CT