The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 14, 1942, Page 2

PAGE 7 , Ng ~ eed. west an » Building hn Streets Oily Dally Newspaper in Key West and mroe Count tered at Key West Member of the Associated Press _ Florida, as second Ansde epubtication of all news dispatches credited to it or nd( otherwise credited in this paper and also the loc&l news published here, UBSCRIPTION RATES A DVERTISE N@ RATES Dade Kehip wp on applica tim: SPECIAL NOTICE ards of thanks, resolutions of ete., will be charged for at ding noti jituary noti 10 cents a line. ‘or entertainment by churches from which gis to be derived are 5 cents a line. zen is an open forum and. invites discus- f a lic issues and subjects of local or general | 1 it will not publish anonymous communi- M EMBER = FLORIDA PRESS AS ASOCATON Ee ‘NATION NAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION ‘. ernment i ted Press is excl .sively entitled to use | | now in Key | ed was kerosene with which to THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it w.thoyt fear and without favor; never be ‘0 attack ‘wrong or to applaud right; fight for progress; never be the or- the'mouthpiece of any person, clique, J or élass;.always do its utmost for the publi@welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustige; denounce vice and praise virtue, commghd good done by individual or organ- izatidh; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opini®ps: print only news that will elevate and W6t contaminate the reader; never corn- afraid, alwa: gan facti promfSe with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST “. ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN ~ Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Adeports—Land and Sea. Gansolidation of County and City Gov- ‘eernments. A.Modern City Hospital. i ALY’S TWIN FAILURES li-Duce, before the boasted. of Pp ess on land and sea. He called acite an an Italian Lake, out of ; should be expelled. Ital right to So much for war, rane ch foreign navic His arbjy would establish theE.colonial enterprises. oltpi's valk. The record reveals Italy’s armed forces theater of che wat die n forces have been significant}, In no sector of the battlefront 1s point with pride io any out- Their soldiers and jail- virtta In every lure anding victory. have failed completely. The Italian army invaded France, aft- er the lg{ter had given up. Its first test came attacked Greece, and here the Ital- | vate attempted to cpnquer chat nation., In Ethiopia and in Libya i fhas™ the same, inability against inferior or: een nerritory ? Navy Has not won.a single “When the war started uppsedly modern, fast- The British, with Mediterranean, pre- y Italian.control of the sea, and oie sneounter handled the Italian ships bade that seldom have they~ emerged from ubeir harbors. Exen now, ihe ana still have eight battleships, iwen- | 1 . eighty submarines, and | Phundred destroyer Yet, their of- The Italian naval single | i rlablye victory. possessed a leet of ships. in the after seriqus losses, lial anding many of | @ value is sli ave neyer seriously injured a ; Meonvoy, notwithst: ‘giled with far less protection than che italiaggg conld haved nought against them. are} gnd more, thee pare kumors that Italy i eabohit exhausted e ight soon fall out omthe AvamviscPhissdeltacle would have ahea r taken place if the Gértrans hadn* | sent nen, machines, and planes, both into and Atrica, to help their allies main- tain some fighting front for their forces. "Me showing of the Italian army and navy Wis been pitiable, particu'arly in view cé all Zhe boasting of Mussolini in the days ot peage. Aw advertisement is a signboard and one inZhe Citizen is read by the buyers are <9 unis verritory, ot | woman | conserve rubber, be | when the U.S. naval forces, | ful in holding | control of New Guinea and | the way will be open to sever Japanese sea | BUREAUCRATIC TOMFOOLERY That manpower problem is still stick- | ing out like a sore thumb, and yet the gov- still causing the people to lose hundreds of millions of manpower hours. The loss is caused by ihe endless num- ber of questionnaires the people, particular- ly business men, have to sign. As Senators and have declared, Byrd Vandenburg i 5 : | bureaus are making a racket ef the ‘ques tionnaire ‘natter. ' Consider incidents that are occurring with Here West in connection registration to obtain fuel oil. is. a? story, a true one, told The Citizen: “A colored woman came to me with a four-page questionnaire that is required to be filled out to obtain fuel oil. All she want- cook her meals, and the questionnaire given her wanted to know how much fuel it would re- | quire, approximately, to heat an aquarium of a given size, and there was a question about eleemosynary institutions, and much more irrelevant stuff along the same lines. “Tf T gotta fill out all dat,’ the colored told me, ‘then I guess I'll have to cock over rocks out in the yard.’ ” A, note was writt the colored woman; it told the rationing board that all she wanted, in the way of fuel, was enough kerosene with which to cook her. meals. We have not seen a questionnaire yet, en for | and we have seen dozens, that could not | | have been boiled down to one-tenth its length and have served its pur'pose just as e the question of registering tires. a good move by the government to but instead of requiring four pages to fill out about one’s tires, a slip of paper half as large as one’s hand would have been sufficient. What differ- ence did it make about the serial numbers of one’s tires? We know of a man who had to take off the tires on his cer to find out their serial numbers Doesn’t the government trust the pub- lic in matters of this nature? If it does, then | is it not sufficient for an Ameriena io say, “T have anly ‘five tires;’ ,the number che government permits one person to own for a private automobile? -But, no; there must questick this And ‘qtestion that’ to waste ink, paper and time, not to mention ihe wear | and tear on one’s nervous system. © There is more bureaucratic tomfoolery in civilian life in the United States voday than there has ever been at any other iim ir our history. OLD-STYLE NAVAL BATTLES The American people may iake pride in the naval operations of November 12th. 13th, Guadalcanal, under Vice- gave the Japanese their 14th and 15th around Admiral Halsey, | worst beating since Midway. “We hit them high, wide and hand- some,” says the Admiral, who adds that “we knocked the living daylights out of che Japs.” Such words goming from a Commanc- er distinguished for deeds rather ihan boasting mean that the American victory was smashing and tomplete. The Japanese lost twenty-eight more ships sunk in the fight which resem- | bled an old-time slugging match between.| surface ships, with battleships probably en- gaged on both sides. The carrier forces available both commanders have been seriously depleted to the or | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Loonmine WPA SERVED AMERICANS TO END ITS ACTIVITIES GAVE AID TO 30,000,000 jnéwed criticism }announcing its Works rvoject. sAamimstration!,, Despite the c 4 wi come tw an.end,jn all..states. hed June 3U, 1943, ac ing to an,, !qaer issued. to Dhajox+Generah} #hjuip B. Fleming, 4dministya-; tor, by President Roosevelt: Who; ‘points out tnat experience has lth ply justified the “belj eee eopenien oft | providing useful work is sy a to any and every kind of dole”... Pin, pk of dur ‘he President, in his letter, |: points out that the WPA gave! ,employment to 8,000,000 Ameri-! jcans, with 30,000,000 dependents, | bringing to them renewed nope and courage. The organization! was basegl upon Government ac-| ceptance of the responsibility to provide useful employment for} all who were able and willing to/ work without being able to find such opportunity in private in-/} dustry. ! WPA officials, reviewing the work of the organization, Point; out that peak employment was ‘reached in November, 1939, .when! 3,334,594 persons weré fon} the rolls. y November of this’ year, employment hag dropped :to 354,-'t6 take the. |619 persons. In seven years, the vember 7th, |work. relief agency received a; propriations of $10,458,276,000. It lists among its accomplish-' ments the construction of 644,- 000 miles of roads and 77,000 bridges; construction of 116,000 taltér its polity’ ivanking Néval ° {that'its present work'to the anv: los: j attention ‘tg fhe | journalists zie seem to bg elieve Navy offic; from the’ | crimes. e ae ‘chair srategi¥ts, full informatign the belief of res tions. Everybodys criticism outthe ed , the amafeur ca. 322 armories and other buildings for jforces; construction ment or enlargement of than 800 airports, including the composure and construction of 700 miles of run- strategy. ways; the serving of 8788,000,000 hot lunches to school the operation of 1,500 nursery} schools and the operation of a about 25,000 died down .for the armed |It, and similar, improve- | children; Todav's |Pearl Harbor and kstablished in May, 1935, the 8@8ements throughout the world. | little prospect that the Navy will jean’ Sailors in their battles with ussing the bor, it*might not be amiss to call ¢ who withhold news not yet conwimced that the war is not being operated for their ibenefit and, along with the arm- jand naval“feaders that policy would” imperil war opera- remembers was heard through- ed ; about a of this country offensive> until No- 4 when P-;States and Great Britain surpris- staging the successful and spec- the cl tacular oceupation of North Afri-, which is being conducted by Miss Woman's The denouement was amazing Clubhouse on Division street, has buildings of all kinds, including |and the secand-front répeated, however, as soon as the more ‘writers and ‘orators recover their morning from Philadelphia that Mrs. William R. Warren, who} Birthdave MONDAY, DECEMBER 14. t 194° ‘KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY | FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN By HUGO S. SiMS. Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen | of DECEMBER 14, 1932 of the delay in| losses, both at| in other en- Charles F. Hogeboom th ridicinn ethene as the Arthur Sawyer Post of ce a] i Le Hall. 83" iofig as high- held in American Legion officials believe pubilicty rules w mornin; antage of Ameri- Saenorey a will leave over the highway for Miami confer with Attorney Henry H. | Taylor about the quo warranto BY that George J. Rosen- thal has instituted in the supreme } his country. Navy’s | ses at Pearl Har- attitude of many radiocasters who that Army and! ! Corporation. The cargo from the steamer | Nord Vangen, which was stranded sa ; Suilty of serious, on the reef off Confites Cay, is oblicity boys are Lorenz W, Hansen, which will | leave here for Venezuela. want to have regardless of ponsible military such a the winner of a drill held by the local National Guards in the armory last night. Melvin E. Russell, superin- tendent of public instruction, an- nounced today that the schodls in Monroe county will be closed for the holidays on Friday, December 23. the States, especially the United It was announced today ss in parliamentary war-makers by law, Mollie Parker in the now grown to 27. The class meets every Thursday afternoon. talk has the time being. demands will be said map out their had been operated on in # hospital } in that city, is well on the road to, | recovery. The oyster supper given last; training program to Broence | skilled and " semi-skilled em-| ployes ‘which ~ enrolled 300,000 ; persons during the six-year pe- | riod. There is hardly a community lin the United States that has not | seen ‘some evidences of the ac-! tivity' of the WPA. The organi- | {gation was the subject of con-' iderable criticism and opponents elighted. in deriding its activi-: Nevertheless, the organiza- tye Marine” ion ‘performed creditably and it/Shuth Dartmout! ‘aviator, aerona' !born Alameda, ago. provost marsha Carrollton, Ky., is now. generally recognized that; Weymouth, Mass., Deane Keller, fessor, born New ago. much of the criticism was based jupon antagonism to the idea that the Government owed em- ployment to anybody. This viewpoint has largely dic- | appeared because thoughtful Americans. recognize that any future depression will result in| some organization similar to the WPA., There are few individ- uals left to assert that a govern- mental “do nothing” policy is justified when millions of Amer-! icans, willing to work, face pri- vation and starvation. Consequently there will general agreement with President’s statement that Jane Cowl, joy-general, president, born years age, Josef Lhevinn pianist, born in be ; ago. the | the! |WPA has earned “an honorable ;born 47 years ago. 3 Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle, Maj. Gen. Allen Maj. Gen, Charles G. Long of Corps, actress, | Boston, 58 years ago. George S. Gibbs, Postal - Telegraph e of New York, King George VI ‘night in the parish house by the} Altar Guild of St. Paul’s Church, utecal Cal., engineer, 46 years’ Said today. Fern Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, Adams. worthy matron, meeting held last night. W. Gullion, 1 general, born 62 years ago. at The Woman's Auxiliary of the | retired, of Presbyterian Church entertained ! Mass., born at attea yesterday afternoon. 73 years ago. feature of the entertainment fiat h, Dale artist-pro-| lighting service, The Rev. rived yesterday and is a guest of! the Rev. F. X. Dougherty and R. born in retired ma- Harlan, Towa, 67 15 Pront Street Phone 66 | The Southernmost Mattress Factory in the United States Russia, 68 years @ MATTRESSES RENOVATE was ‘1799, with sons | elected commander last night of found famed works, born American Legion at a meeting! Attorney J. Lancelot ~ Lester, Westener his to | 1881. ccurt against the Overseas Bridge! being transerred to the steamer {born in Corporal Charles L. Baker was ; public A telegram received here this] was a decided success, members | | At preceded serving tea was a candle | with a prologue Haven, 41 years given by Mrs. Andrew R. Miller. . M. McNally, S. J., ar- | gn Anniversaries ne 1739—Pierre Samuel Du Pont (de Nemours), first of name jhere, French economist and /to statesman, who migrated here in |7 who were to Died Today In History 1781—On day after Yorktown surrender, Gen. Greene reperts his destitution such that he has no ammunition, no paper even write report on and im field months without Ag his clothes off. | Aug. 6, 1817. 1799—Died—at Mount Vernon aged 67, George Washingten. | 1801—Joseph Lane, father of his country” iOregon governor, senator, famed Pig ns day. born Bun- N.C. Died April 19. soldier, } 1814—Treaty Ghent. France. ending second war with England —ne net teaching here February and. fighting mean- — = | 1811—Noah Porter, Congrega-'Gnu< Soc? oi and shout New 'tional clergyman, noted | president, born Conn. Died March 4, icombe Co., Yale 1819—Alabama admitted statehood—the 22nd state 1816—Alexander J. Stimson New York express pioneer, ed tor of the first magazine Boston. Died 1888—The American ical and Social shed Academy Soence in 1910—Andrew Carnegie estab shes Peace Fund with $10,088- 900 1906. 1850—Curtis H. Lindley, noted San Francisco lawyer, professor and judge, born Marysville, Cal Dic? Nov. 20, 1920. 911—Reald Amundsen ef Ner- reach the: South mth before Brit- H recat F. Stott ; 1852—Daniel De Leon, noted New York Socialist advocate this day, born in Venezuela. Died {May 11, 1914 1933—Flonda scheal bus trag- —10 children die and 30 burt L. Maureau of St. Mary the Sea Church Star Juan Carbone j daughter, Miss Martha C. . sailed sterday fc Havana r {the Governor C re atives and friends capital that} Mrs. The Citizen in an editor | graph says today “It is a curious |that the five pre: United States were elected at 20-ye jin 1840, 1860, 1800, Now we wonder if this |series of happerings w any superstitious aspirant , ‘I do not choose to | 1940. ” TRIUMPH COFFEE MILLS aT ALL GROCERS see eeececceccecccososees Uncle Sam Asks YOU _To Lend Him 10 PERCENT OF YOUR INCOME the | elected Mary Lowe! Buy U. S. War Savings Bends and Stamps Regularly { cnatiooaene | E FIRST NATIONAL KEY west Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation vvvvvvvvvvvvvvwery KEY WEST BEDDING CO.. @ FURNITURE UPHOLSTERELY | 22244444444244404444 of England, discharge” for a “good job well jdone and with a high sense of integrity”. | NAVY’S NEW POLICY | PUBLICITY BOYS ANGRY The Nawy’s of Pearl arbor has nee re- | | FIGHT : | ‘where release of its story | throat, back with’ “All the AS fons Sec bs “The People’s Way” 5. USE YOUR CREDIT! and, consequently, control of the vital area | in the Solomons depends upon superior gun- power nad strategy. The captain of an Ainterican _ battle- hip gives his version of the role that cap!- tal ships will play in the warfare with Ja- par. “Give my ship good air coverage,” he asseried, “and she will damn well go | she will sit on the Japanese supply lines of | the East Indies and the Japanese establish | ments there will wither.” | where she pleases and when the time comes, | This statement undoubtedly qutlinesy the present strategy of the United States in the Southwést Pacific. If we are sutcess- and extending our present positions in the Solomons and can acquir2 New Britain, routes which link Japan with her conquer- ed islands. The Japanese are well aware of this | threat to the exploitation of their conquests and, consequently, are determined to pre- vent the United States from guecessfully i developing and enlarging present positions. CROSS Sarcnain 10K SOLID GOLD 5738 it-rub 6 and Buy Your Christntas Wide choice of un- usual designs. 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