The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 17, 1942, Page 2

ent79 Cue tac d) Wiest Witisen, | Publis LP. Only Datly Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County te red “at Ke y_ West. Florida, as second el Member of the Associated Press he Associated Press is excl.sively entitled to use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the ‘al news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES vne Year bes Bix Months Three Monchs e Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES __Made_knwn on application. SPECIAL NOTICE eading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at of 10 cents a line. for entertainment by churches from which @ revenue is to be derived are & cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum and invites diso gion of public issues and subjects of local of gene! Interest but it will not publish anonymous communt- cations MEMBER FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION 4 NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION \ ° | any, good now. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it w.thout 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. Airpurts—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. 6. A Modern City Hospital. ee CLAPBER DEFENDS RED TAPE it is rather “unusual al for a newspaper colur t to write in deferse of red tapc, but ie Clapper, popular columnist, hes recently attempted to demonstrate chat ind of Government supervision ry to prevent our war industry from some i a neces breaking down. By inference, ies to our peace-time production. the argument likewise | _like some of the bus drivers and people | at ae counters in the stores—are not al- . courteous, ofter they are stupid and | dcen’t xnow their business and you and { could do it a let better ourselves. We think | that every day in our contact with Govern- and with private business: We havc ivate business as well as public business. Both tend to go co seed t and to become absorbed in doodling han getting out the goods.” Mr. Clapper applies the clincher io his arzument by referring .o complaints | t WPB. He points out that che “men he ren WEB were only a few months ago, iy es; men who were denouncing Wash- 1 bureaucracy. Now they are Wash- bureaucracy—and WPB is about as any of the New Deal agencies when o bureaucracy. | { ment bure: in fs r } abc heton 1 ome. HOW MUCH WOULD YOU BUY? An American sailor, from the cruiser | ¥ , which waa sunk, tells of his es- | cape: “] jumped about 13 or 15 feet into the | watcr. Most of the men in the water were cel Some had no life jackets. They | hung on to those who had them, The water | was warm at first but got chilly toward morning.” How many war bonds would you buy | te-avcid that experience? How much would | it-be worth to you not to take the chances those sailors took, several men afloat on a p-ererver made for only cope? And, in the daik, without knowing if a ship would ever pick you up? When you buy War Bonds, you give nm hing. You'll get all your money back, with interest So, the question should be. how much money will you loan, in gratitude that you won't be asked to pass ‘through sueh-an experience? incennc | prices. | ecean, infested with | boats! KEEP THE PRICES PEGGED one of them is, “Misery loves company.” It because somebody else, besides himself, is in misery. courage prefers to endure his misery in ai- | | lence—even a word of sympathy cross- grains kim. So it is, in passing from the field of bedily ills to economies, that one gets no comfo-t in being reminded that the high cost of living today is much lower than it ; was during the last World War. The cost today would have been far less had the gov- | ernment acted promptly in curbing prices as soon as the war began in Europe, and in adjusting the rest of our economic life to conform with those prices. In the grocery stores in Key West ever y day there are discussions about the prices | that were charged for foodstuff in World Warl. Asarule, the discussions are led by | the owners of the stores in efforts to offset complaints about the high prices today, and | the chief response is, “That doesn’t do me However, the Office of Price Adminis tration in Florida must think that a compar- ison of prices during the first World War | and today will put a stop to the complaints of mary a housewife about today’s high Hughes L. Swanson, OPA food specialist in Florida, cites a few compara- | tive prices during the iwo periods. For instance, that most pleasant of frying foods, bacon, sold for 70 cents a pound during World War I, and today the price is 41 cents; evaporated milk was 15 \ | cents 2 can then, and is eight cents now; su- ; gar, 11 then, 6 1-2 now; butter, 74 then, 57 on through a list of a dozen | now, and so items. Naturally, everybody is pleased that the prices today are not as high as they were in the first World War, but even today there is no justification for many high prices. They reached their present level while ihe OPA was giving its major attention io rents and forgetting the skyrocketing prices of foodstuffs. However, the people will be gratefui | if the pegging of prices for foodstuffs is kept pegged. At present no two stores in Key West se!l any given thing at the same price. There are some marked discrepan- cies, which shows that the OPA is not op- erating effectively in Key West. Keep ihe prices pegged. The hard work of most people often explains their success. Trading in Key West is a matter of | good business judgment. During a cold spell there are more un- deicover men than usual. What the world needs today is millions of honest, hard-working citizens. A FIGHT WITH SHARKS Citizens who are complaining about gasoline shortages and coffee rationing, | should stop to think what other people are | going through with to help the United | States win this war. We won't mention the thousands of | men who have already given their lives, to | | safeguard and protect the liberty and free- dom which all of us enjoy and want to keep. These have paid the highest price, yielded their lives in defense of their nation’s rights. However, consider the experience of | Marine Corporal Theodore S. Taylor, who comes from the little town lower South Carolnia. of Ruffin, in If one of the com- plainants could have had his experience, | there’d be no further cup of coffee a day. fussing about one Corporal Taylor was on a U.S. eruiser, | which was sunk in the Solomon Islands, dur- | ing a surprise night encounter with the Japs. Swimming away from his sinking ship, battered by enemy shell-fire, Corpor- al Taylor tells of his effort to escape in the | darkened waters: “T found a life-raft and remained on it with some twenty. other men for about seven hours. During this time we were continu- | ally fighting sharks near the raft. Finally, | we were picked up by a reseue vessel.” Next time you think tinges are hard be- cause you are asked to buy War Bonds, cut | down on coffee, ride less in your car, or any- thing else, ask whether you'd like to have | had this marine’s seven-hour float in a dar!: Indeed, the man of spirit and sharks and hostile | THE KEY WEst CITIZEN YESTERDAY soyece Muraock dishkea Perr, Clarke the mo- ment he crashea the hittie cock- | tat party she ana two trienas. Wara Allen ana Det:a Stewart. | were having it soon was obvious i that the others velt the same way and that Wara even tearea the newcomer Ana Joyce: cu- j riosity got a filly when sne | | searneq that Clarke naa oeen ; marriea a short time to Hestor Losado who had been Mrs Mur- dock before Joyce assumed that ttle Chapter Three Something Wrong | P'HEY waited in the toyer while Allen claimed his coat &nd nat. and nu one said anything un- ; il thev were on the sidewalk. “Who was that?” Deha asked. verv ousv with the fitting of ner gloves “Perry Clarke?” Allen_ was watcning the doorman signal a sab “Oh iust a guy | used to’ “T promised myselt I'd now in South America. Nasty ittle pounder isn’t he?” t really a friend “Hardly “ Allen taughed. “As a matter of tact when | left Ca apue | think 1 promised mvse t{ td kill nim the next time | sawj aim” “Ward!” | “But that wa: quite a while zo” He laughed again “It’s all; right Dee. He's not worth thi sother now” The cat drew alongside and ne; ened the doo: and handed them; They made zoom for him in inter it’s an eignt-torty ve lj iust about catch it.” ne said | Mis voite wa: right now: so was his smile. There was noraut ward indication that seeing Perry Clarke ndd upset nim and vet somehow Joyce could not forget 10w the man had watched Ward; Allen nor the Jook of grim natred om Ward’s face when the other nad moved awav All the wavy to the theatre she! wondered about it trving to re- | call the things that were said She| ; wondered. too about Hestor Lo- | sade. and no matter which wav’ curtain BMRS.“MURDOCK by Snares Many of the old saws are not true, and | ET AK ES iN e AS S E | is a poor sort of man who senses any relief | her thoughts moved she tound _them strangely disturbed. Strained Relations Weer Ward Allen had eased the coupe into the open space ‘in front of her apartment house j Delia waited for him to turn off the ignition and dim the lights She sat there. not looking at him. junti! she felt his eves upon her and inew that he was about to onen the door: then she said: “No cigarette?” “Oh—I'm sorry.” He reached for his case and she leaned forward and turned the | ignition key. When he had giver her a cigarette and a light they | settled back and smoked in si- lence It was part of a long practiced routine When Ward brought her home tate he never came up to the anartment: instead he hac adopted the practice of spending the last few minutes here in the car Always there was the cutting kill him,” Ward said of the motor. the dimming of lights. the cigarette: then they would sit and talk—about the evening or themselves. sometimes ;for five minutes. sometimes for te an hovur. It was very quiet now. and ; dark. There was no traffic on this side street and no pedestrians al- theugh now and then she would get a glimpse of a car as it sped bv the intersection up aneag She waited a minute or so for mz arm {to slip about her shoulder and when wt did not come. her mind went back to the first time they jnae done this. ‘Nothing, | Guess isis months ago almost to day. Before that he had never 30 muth as touched her except tc nelp her in or out of a cat. In the geginning she had met him oe- | cause he worked for Dean Thorn- dike. and when her father nad gone to London. insisting that she remain here. Thorndike. her fa- ther's cousin. had assumed the responsibility for her. knew. why there nad beer, no offered cigarette. He was no: thinking of her. but of something of which she had nc part. She pu: her hand on his arm. “What is it. darling?” “Oh—I don’t know.” He looked | at her. smiling a little. his voic- light. “Nothing. | guess.” Her fingers touched his face. tracing the hollow of his check | and the line of his chin. To be continued Today’s Anniversaries 1740—Peturn J. Meigs, brilliant} | Cohn. wolutionary soldier, | Ohio pioneer,: born’ Middletown, | Conn. Died Jan, 28, 1823, { 1760—Deborah Sunidon! Mass.,! Revolutionary heroine, who serv. ed three years in the Continental | army disguised as a man, born’ Plymouth, Mass. Died Sharon, Mass., April 27, 1827. 1787—Joseph Henry, famed Physicist, first secretary of the! Smithsonian Institution, born} Albany, N. Y. Died May 13,; 1878. | 1 ' famed, beloved New England| |Quaker poet, born Haverhill, | |Mass. Died Hampton Falls, N./ | HL, Sept. 7, 1892. i 1818—John Laurence Smith, | Southern chemist, who taught |the Turks agriculture and Ct | ing, born Charleston, S. C. Died} | Ogt. 12, 1883. | | 1835—Alexander Agassiz, nat-; uralist and oceanographer, de-j |veloper of copper mines, son of | the famed naturalist, born inj | Switzerland. / 1910. { PERSIAN WORD { | khaki comes from a Persian word, ““khak”, meaning dust. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS James H. McGraw, New York publisher; born Panama, N. Y., 82 years ago. Hetbert C. Hengstler, consul- gerieral to Toronto, born Middle- own, Ohio, 66 years ago. Bishop Titus Lowe of the Methodist Church, Indianapolis, | born in England, 65 years ago. Arthur Fieldler of Boston, mu- sical conductor, born there, 48 years ago. William M. Martin, Jr., one- 1807—John Greenleaf Whittier,' tims president of the New York) tock Exchange, now in army, born St. Louis, 36 years ago. Philip A. Benson of Brooklyn, |N. Y., banker, born New York, 61 years ago. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada, born 68 years ago. TODAY’S HOROSCOPE Today's nature is very enthus- Died March 27, /iastie, and the native may be will be ‘given to excessive indulgence in ‘whatever is in the mind at the (siza | time. Fortunately, this is in the | Clerk |mental activities, and it will! WASHINGTON — The word probably carry the native far on| | the road to success. Cultivate jmederation. | TODAY IN HISTORY | 1866—Historic Mi Miligan case \decision by U. S. Supreme Court |—that no branch of Government {can invalidate the writ of ha- |beas corpus where the courts are |open. | 1895—Memorable message to | Congress on Venezuela by Pres. | Cleveland. 1903 — Birth of aviation— | Wright brothers first in history ito fly in a heavier-than-air ma- jchine, at Kitty Hawk, N. C. Four! {flights made that morning, long- {est lasting 57 seconds. 1919—Rhode Island sues in U. Is, Supreme Court to have Pro- hibition annulled. 1921—House passes 20 million- dollar famine relief bill for starv- ing Russians. 1937—7 million dollars worth of Jap gold comes here—making a third of a billion of gold to come here from Japs in past nine ' months. “Admiral Graf Montevideo, 1939—German Spee” scuttled off | Uruguay. 1941—President Roosevelt es- tablished censorship. | REPLACE COPPER BALTIMORE — Organic sub- stances are being developed to re- place copper and lead in_ fungi- cides for spraying orchards. 5 Seis eS | TIPPED WITH MANY POINTS NEW YORK—Massive antlers of the American elk are tipped with as many as_ seven @points each. LEGALS NOTICE OF INTENTION TO MAKE APPLICATION FOR LICENSE ‘AS FREE DEALER Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, a married woman, a | resident of Monroe County, State of Florida, intends to apply on Satur- day, the 9th day of Januar: A.D 1943, or as soon thereafter as the undersigned may be heard, to the Honorable Judges of the Cireuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Cir- for Monroe ting, for a license to manage, tal charge of, and control her propert and to become a free dealer in every respect Dated at Key West, Florida, this gth day of December. A. D. 1942 GLADYS MULB 4-31,1942; jan7,19 ‘PT COURT OF THE ENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT) OF THE STATE OF AND FOR MONROE COUNTY. IN CHANCERY | € ODELL M. KENNE: Piaintitt DIVORCE. KENNEDY, Defendant PUBLICATION FLORIDA: vs RALPH W ORDER OF THE STATE OF TO RALPH W. K }BROC ‘ON, 3 4 ‘s It is hereby ordered that you are required to appear on the 26th of December, 1942, before the ahove entitled court to the Bill of Com- plaint filed against you in the above entitled cause, and The Key West Citizen is herehy designated as the newspaper in which this order shall jbe published once week for four (4) consecutive week Witne the Honorable Arthur Gomez as One of the Judges of this |Court and the Seal of this Court in the Ci tity at Key V reuit Court, 3 lorida. (Sd.) Florence Deputy Clerk dec3-10-17,1942 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE ELI NTH JUDICIAL CIRCT! = IN oF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, AND FOR MONROE COUNTY. CHANCERY. { EIAVARD F. | Plaintiff, s. DIVORCE. HANES. Defendant PUBLICATION FLORIDA v MARIE ORDER ©) THE STATE ©} | £0 MARIE HAN! 16001 84th ROA | JAMAICA, Le | It is hereby order required to appear December, 1942, bef: entitled court to the plaint filed against you in t entitled ca and The Key Citizen is hereby designated as the newspaper in which this order shall be published once a week for four (4) consecutive weeks. Witness the Honorabl Gomez as One of the J Court and the Seal of t the City of Key West, Monroe y, Florida, this 25th day of AND. that you are West Arthur Ross C Sawyer Clerk Cire uit Court, Monroe County Florida | By: (Sd.) Florence E. Sawyer. Deputy Clerk. dec3-10-17,1942 | IN THE CIRC OURT OF THE ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY. STATE OF FLORIDA. IN CHAN- CERY. nov26; Cane No, | | | JOHN DONALT R444 SNODGRASS, Plaintiff, vs. HAZEL HAWKINS SNODGRASS, Defendant. ORDER OF PUBLICATION ZE AAV NoD- UN- You are hereby required to ap- !pear to the Bill of Complaint, for |divorce in the above styled cause on }the ist day of February, 4. D. 1943, jotherwise the allegations therein ken as confessed. nd Ordered this %th day of A. 1, 1942. Ross C f the Circuit Court, ‘ounty, Florida. By (Sd.) Kathleen Nottage, Deputy Clerk Done December, Sawyer Monroe | | THOMAS S. CARO, Solicitor for Plaintiff. deci@-17- a | buying a license, | 24-31,1942! THURSDAY, - DECE) MBER 1 . petites WEST IN =» a sage DAYS GONE BY = FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN of DECEMBER 17, 1932 NEW YORK - Na The Citizen today publishes a) ceive story from its Washington corre- spendent in which it stated that the post office department’! ceived granted an allotment of $73,-! wages 76 to the Key West post office to} paid t Pay extra help to attend to rush of mail during the Christmas holiday period. — The hearing into the case of M R. Hallack, charged v ing business in the city withc was continued } by Judge Jefferson B. Browne! this morning, and Hallack’s : was increased from $25 to $50. ith solic t ail The Key West Chapter Red Cross has sent in a requ another consignment of be distributed among the necd\ this community. The City Council. at a meeting held last night, voted to stop the salc uf firecrackers in the city limits during the holiday season It also voted to make a do! to the sufferers from the storm that struck in the vici of Camaguey, Cuba. E yw: vyvvvve sa SLOPEZ Funeral Service { , Established 1885 > Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers ,,» 24-Hour Ambulance Service 4 } PHONE 135 NIGHT 69€ ¢ ee ‘ 4 < 4 Miss Betty Boyden, daughter Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Boyden, is a student in a college at Kal amazoo, Mich., arrived yesterc to spend the holidays with parents. Miss Annic Burns Cale, making her home in Mir rived yesterday to spend the hee days with her paren’ Mrs. Frank C. Cale. | Have Your “| Alarm Clocks REPAIRED We have the services of a good clock Jack Thompson, who is dent in Dartmouth College rived yesterday to be with parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nort Thompson, during the holic season. a stu secured Miss Janice Maloney, of Mrs. Louise Maloney turned from Miami, where had been visiting relatives friends. —o also we will maker buy any clock, plain or electric. POLLOCK Old? Get Pep, Vim RELIABLE JEWELER bereft: dr B, 508 Duval St Key West 21,4 $0. 60, Don't be = broken alarm has re- E. A. Strunk, Jr., treasurer the Monroe County Council Unemployment Relief. said t Headquarters for CHRISTMAS GIFTS ge Ties say tablece) ee eo Shout the big money-sav.ng “Economy” sise For ae at all good drug s everywhere—in Key West Gardner's Pharmacy Gift Advice from SCAMMONS WHERE QUALITY PREVAILS _ : 518 Fleming Street Key West, Fla. Your Gift Money Spreads More Cheer With a Jewelry Gilt Christmas is a special occasion. What better way to cele brate it than to give the gift most appreciated. most remembered after the event! Ladies’ and Men’s Nationally Advertised WATCHES _ $20 .. $150 DIAMONDS - 5 - WATCHES - - JEWELRY RINGS for Men and Women Men’s MILITARY SETS - Lovely DRESSER SETS Pay Cash and Pay Less THEN BUY THE BEST