The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 15, 1943, Page 2

YAGE TWO ae LISHING CO., INC. ve Sunday By i Publisher ut - Citizen Building — che and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and al Monroe County a aussie teed at Key West. Florida, as second class matter | Member of the Associated Press | soetwea- Press is excl sively entitled to use publication of all news dispatches credited to t otherwise credited in this paper and also ) jocal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION we ‘ADVERTISING RATES Mage known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE Alf-reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of | pituary notices, etc., will be eharged for at the fate of 19 cents a line. Nottves ‘for entertainment by churches from which @ revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Tie Citizen an open forum and invites’ discus- | rut public issnes _ subjects of local or gene ‘est but it will nm publish anonymous eommuni- MEMBER : FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION \, NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION ‘x ) ) Se WILL always seek the truth and print it w.thout fear and without favor; never be affaid to attaek ps Yo Mplaug righty” always fight for pro} H or-; gan or the mouthpiece of 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. A Modern City Hospital. - & Bee oe ee rs ng _ = z = This business of living during these diffcult times is both complex and arduous, and unquestionably makes us appreciative <= People who jaw complainingly about seemg their names in a paper generally are | 1@-pecple who are most anxious to sec {héir names in a paper. = The President’s budgetary message 0 Congress calls for more billions than were ‘ the federatgovernment from 178 | j | depends intoned. Often it means “Y nee, when you~ te a.surprising | nd the listener gloats, ‘No-o-0-0!” a” The OW! says'eRht! hd! est selliits criiks around army camps Gxecoffee, miRY mafied milk and bottled ssoft drinks. Our sufdiers have enough it seems, to preter to be sober. sense, | ~- One Key Wester says the siren in ihe Army Barracks sounds like ihe quacking o(-& gigantic duck; another says it reminds | hija of the lovelorn call of a bull moose in | thé,Maine woods. = The Japs aré far worse than the Ger- | maps in trying to determine the American | poycholegy. German lies try to undermine srale or make us turn against our Al- Jap lies try to frighten us. ij Oldtime Key Westérs remembe Millen you /tustt fo work at & o’cloe ning jowaldays, fiat’s the same time sands of kes used toserty tot faciéries back in the good old days. But i as 6 o'clock then. Key West time has | Leen siepped up two hours; one in the first { Werld War, one in this war —< -_—___ sz Wood pulp that formerly went into ‘HS manufacture of newsprint and paper West Citieen ha little more | front | | quaniils j able to | icans? “FIGHTINGEST” AMERICANS Admiral Halsey, who declared that if | he is given a “liltle more weight,” the war icific will be over by the end of this r, is characterized as one of che “‘fight- ” Americans ihis country has ever more in this year te n the year was li do ic if we are given weight.” Whether he is right wrong in esti- mating thé time it will require to smash the or | Japs, the fact stan4s ovt, nonetheless, chat f all Americans. those on the home front, as the firing line, possessed spirit, the ell as those or that “fighting shortened by many months. People who s at home should bear i at what they do will be as impor- at the fighting Americans do If we ai home falter, so will ur men at the front falter. A few days ago a story came out of Washington that “The iv | war will be won on ihe home front.” In the fin that statement is true. We are the producers; the men on the the executors, and if we don’t give them the weapons, in quality and with which to execute, ihe war willbe drawn out interminably. in planes, Japan, in ships, everything, are face to face Ss are Ad Italy, with production that does not come up to their requirements. No longer is Germany pound England with bombs drop- ged from large squadrons of planes, and it s Cue primarily to the lack of a sufficient vumber of aircraft that has caused, and still | is causing, the Germans to retreat in Rus- sia. Cold weather has something io do with | the success of the Russians, but what chance would they have against the Ger- mans if they could throw into the battle -as many planes as they used in the countries they have conquered, as they used in forc- ing France to cry for peace and-subjecting devastating air attacks in ingland to the the summer of 1940? But the destruction of German planes has been far in excess of production in the last two year: Japan is cramped for shipping. She is | losing ships three times faster than she can produce them, and military circles in all Allied Nations are agreed that the Japs are already facing an acute srortage in shipping facilities. Who can deny that Admiral Halsey‘s estimate of time is right, who can gainsay that the war will be shortened appreciably “fightingest” Amer- if all of us become ? LOYALTY ON THE HOME FRONT We feel sure that the people of Monroe | county will cheerfully accept the hardships that accompany war-time restrictions upoa | their activities. After all, the nation is engaged in a terrible war which involves every citizen, whether on the home or fighting fronts. Fortunately, we are relatively sate from bombing attacks but, if the war is to be won, the civilian population must be ready to accept sacrifices in order that our soldiers and sailors can have what they need to whip the Axis. Naturally, there will be some grumb- ling. This is inevitable. The lamentations will be utiered by persons who, in other breaths, will loudly proclaim their willing- ness to make any sacrifice to whip the Axis and their earnest desire to accept any hard- | ship in order that our fighting men may | have everything that they need in combat | action. SUBMARINE LOSSES | A reader of The Citizen wants to know | 33 | whether the submarines of the enemy na- | tions:are: sinking many of the ships of ihe | United’ Nations. awe” have no available infor- | mation upon which to base a reasonable an- answer. Certainly, the U-boats are iakinz a toll but since no official figures, as'to sink- | ings are released, it is impossible to estimate | how many ships go down at sea. The situation war will be | is supposedly better Seo pe oe —- ) CS THE KEY WEST CITIZEN . EO Omrrue > a x = | __» WA sEUNGTON By HUGO S. SIMS. Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen PEARL HARBOR HUMILIAT- ING OUR FORCES WERE SUR- PRISED JAP TREACHERY EXPECTED The American White Book, re- [cently issued by the State Depart- ment, whigh reviewed ten years of American diplomacy preceding Peari Harbor, reveals that Ambas- sador Grew warned trom Tokyo that there was danger that the Japanese might launch a “surprise mass attack at Pearl Harbor” in |cese of troubie with the United States. While the warning of the Am- bassador was timely, the past his- tory of Japan clearly revealed Jap- anese strategy. Repeatedly, against the Chinese, the Japanese Army moved without notice and without declaration of war. In beginning the war with Russia, the Japan- ese instituted a surprise attack without any declaratis. of war. Practically every American, in- cluding officers of the Army and | Navy, familiar with the history of Japan, expected a surprise attack in the event that Japan decided to wage war against the.United States. While the Japanese attack up- :on,the American fleet” in Pearl | Harbor was treacherous, it was al- so humiliating to the United States. | It is hard to understand the amaz- | ing success of the attack which our {armed forces flatfooted in the | Hawaiian Islands. It is worth noting, however, | that the surprise achieved at Pearl Harbor was duplicated, some hours later, in the Philippine Islands when Japanese aviators succeeded in damaging most of the air- planes that were assigned for ser- | vice there. While battleships were the chief victims of the attack at Pearl Harbor, it has been revealed that at the time at least two na- | val task forces, including carriers, were at sea. Certainly, the Japan- se eluded the vigilance of these vessels and their planes. Moreover,’ they managed to avoid discovery by the long-range | aerial. patrol..that was operating from the Islands. Unfortunately, there was a failure to properly je aluate the pre8ence of a small | Jap sub, discovered before the at- ttack, Or to take advantage of the | fact that the Japanese planes were | “discovered” by the sound detec-| | tion apparatus. With more than e year behind lus, sincé the disaster at Pearl Harbor and with most of the dam- | age repaired, the nation can take pride in what its fighting men | have accomplished in the Pacific since that time. However, we must continue to mourn the loss of brave men who were kliled and lregret the unfortunate failure | which permitted the Japanese to deliver such a humiliating blow. ARMY’S GROWTH INSPIRING INCREASE TWENTY-FOLD | The people of the United States | have every reason to be proud of | the record made by the Army, | which, es Secretary Stimson points } out, has grown from 65,000 men in July, 1940, to more than 5,000,- 000 men, with 1,000,000 already | overseas, on January Ist, 1943. | This stupendous growth natural- ly involved many problems and | difficulties. The rapidly expand- | ing Army could not increase its size twenty times without making mistakes. Errors involved person- nel and material but as.we fa the fture, there is general agree- | ment that the Army is “the best ALL then it was. The United States has put into \ stévk is now being used by the Hercules | service many additional ships, designed to- Pewder Compary in the manufacture of eXplosives, and is said to have increase4 »fGduction 25 percent. So don’t “blow up* make it unsafe for submarine operations and the convoy spread use. system is in more wide- | } i equipped for war the world has ever seen.” The Secretary of War pays trib- “te to the worx done by General George C. Mashall, Chief of Staff and his associates. He warns against appeals arising trom “ti Spurious patriotism” thet wou. seek to strip them from their re- sponsioiity, saying tl woulu be a rash thing for any man without ureir information and training “to challenge their mature decisions.” The growth of the Army has been cquatied by that of the Air Force. From 50,000 men, with 2,- 175 pilots in the summer of 1940, Force now ains “well : 1,000,000 men with tens of of pilots." We have moved a long way from two yi ago when there was not enc ammunition in the count ply our forces now ove single day’s fighting. Moreover, yin the making of arms, our pro- been multiplied twen- organized in trained as they leave Stimson, is. being units equipped and tactical units before these shores. He stresses the fact thei our rifies, tanks. 1f-propell- ed artillery and airplanes are among the world’s best. Mr. Stimson declares that the soldiers are being trained ‘with ‘more solicitous care for their health and welfare than those of any other army in history.” He points out that the fe sol- dier “is a sober man,” declaring that only ten per cent drink dis- tilled liquors. The Secretary adds that ‘their attendance at church far exceeds the rate of attendance by civilians and that the general disease rate, including venereal disease, “is less than in any previous war.” Today In History 1777—Vermont proclaims a! Declaration of Independence ot’ her own—an independent Repub- lic till admitted a State in 1791. 1811—Congress authorizes the President to seize nominally Spanish West Florida, what is to-} day Louisiana, Mississippi and} Alabama, if any foreign power; attémpted its occupation. t i ‘ 1861—Elisha G.° Otis of Yonk-} evs, N. Y., patents his steam ele-; vatcr—dies soon after, and busi-! ness carried on by his sons. | .1891—Gen. Nelson A. Miles in South Dakota Indian council, averts serious Sioux outbreak, in- flamed by supposed coming of an Indian Messiah. 1908—United States remits back to China a goodly part of the Boxer Indemnity. 1931—The Sobbs Act, making eases involving less than gallon of liquor a petty instead of a fel- ony, signed by Pres. Hoover. 1937—2500 parading WPA workers in Washington demand more jobs and higher pay. 1942—Inter-American _Confer- ence, to unite against Axis, opens in Rio de Janeiro. GREATER PRODUCTION NEW YORK.—The American | roduction of magnesium in 1943 will be 102 times as great as it} was in 1939, it has been estimated. BIG PAINT SPECIAL PAINT BRUSHES SIZES~ “Complete Line of BUILDING HARDWARE and PAINT” LINDSLEY FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1943 H ' ER DAYS GONE BY FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN y, OF JANUARY 14, 1933 : Today's Anniversaries Today’s Hor e a is a degree of self-in- julgence vi e! y 1716—Philip Livingston, New ere cabbieanie atta ps ‘ork merchant, signer of the tain determination of purpose is HDeclaration of Independence, needed. There is a certain elast- ;who sold part of his property to icity of spirit, which i: fortunate. sustain public credit, born Al- for the life abounds in pitfalls. : According to a dispatch on the 2 is front page ofhe Citizen todaepeaBwa N.Y... Died June 12, 177 the Reconstruction Corpoiation; ‘ nit: se will not. take any action till; 1746—Gershom M. Seixas, New “ity as “spearhead of v March 4 on the application of the | York Rabbi, Revolutionary pa- a — Overseas Highway Corporation | triot, advocate of democracy, for a joan to construct the proposed born New York. Died July 6, 7 bridges. | 1816. . 7. H SS : ee i ‘on nee The Conservation Committee of! 1800—Moses Y. Beach, ea | Se Key West, of which W. W. Demer-'N. Y, Sun publisher of ‘Pe Suse itt is chairman, today outlined its born Wallingford, Conn. Died) tim plans for the improvements that it | July 19, 1868. am is to make in Key West. Connentey,, KEY WEST BEDDING CO. 515 Front Street Phone 66° The Southernmost Mattress Factory in the United States eo MATTRESSES RENOVATE - C. _ Breckinridge,’ @ FURNITURE UPHOLSTEREv Kentuc ator, Vice President jof the Confederate secre Members of the Brotherhood of ia... of born Lexineion, Wa. ae Maintenance of Ways Committee | 212, yw 71 Pour, exinetom V2 DR. AARON H. SHIFRIN GENERAL PRACTICE held a meeting yesterday after- noon in the Patriotic Order of} 4945 ria Paes Woune <a TTD =e ‘leag.’s able and energetic school Sane _ s of America Hall on Duval superintendent, born Buffalo, N : Y. Died Oct. 16, 1918. ox. oT ee } President «Roosevelt «aeciaims : = ma ee { 1809 — Cornelia ues neesline oe reersetes foundress of the Society of the bby oetacynhae rca aay \Holy Child Jesus, born Philadel- da reads, “Japa Accuse s g Unvted States of Furnishing China |! Died Apiel- 18, 4572: sith Arms, Ammunition and Fi 2: cial Aid.” ste John ys na nn nnn nnn nnnnnee U. Ralph Sanders, who is connec- ted with the Weather Bureau in Atlanta, left yesterday for that city to sume his duties, after having visited Mrs. Sanders at the home of ‘her mother, Mrs. Leslie A. Curry. Mrs. Sanders and sor expect to remain in Key West two months longer. Majors will send 36,000 base balls, 9,000 bats to service men. MUTTOUAMAAAAELANAAT MOULDED tT, awaiting action by congry No} wonder the country is br Con- gress gets entirely tod™ much credit!” j ee H.'E. CANFIELD, M. D. Specialist in Diseases of tre EYES EARS. NOSF and THROAT Wili See Patients Each Evening at Dr. Galev’s Office. 417 TW Www rwrrrrw~ ‘Armando Mato, field agent of S LOPEZ Funeral Service { the Pan American Airways in|> i P| Cienfuegos, Cuba, who had been |> Established 1885 visiting relatives in ‘Ki West, Licensed Funeral Directors ¢ left yesterday for Miami. and Embalmers ‘ Eaton Street > 24-Hour Ambulance Service HOURS 7:00 to 8:00 > PHONE 135 NIGHT 696 ass | CAAAAASALAAABAALAS “TUTTE Miss Jennie Comas left er- day for Miami, where she will be the guest for the next week of Mrs. A. Wolkowsky. 4 < 4 $ wevcecccececccosesecsese eeecccees iss Doris Baker, who had been ting in Miami, returned yes. terday. REAL ICE ASSURES USERS OF REFRIGERATION CERTAINTY Mrs. Quentin Starling, who had been here a fortnight visiting re- latives and friends, left yésterday for her home in Belgrade, Fla. The Junior-Senior Parrent- Teacher Association will hold a meeting tomorrow evening, at which Miss, Eliza Gardner will read a history ‘of the’ association and a musical program will be given under the direction of Miss Alice Curry. When you place your re- frigeration reliance upon the regularity.of OUR ICE DELIVERY service you know that not only is your ice chest to be properly and Will Hesson, who has been resid- ing in Miami for several months, is in Key West on a visit. a Gustavo Lombard, of the local colony of Cuban refugees, left yesterday for Miami Elliott Patterson, head of the W. B. Fair interests in Havana, arrived here vesterdav for a short stay and then proceeded for Tam- na. Or hic return fram that citv. he will spend several days here with his sisters, Mrs. Federica Prindle end Mi Ftta Patterson. REAL ICE Is More ECONOMICAL. . .It's Healthy and Safe. . It’s Pure THOMPSON ENTERPRISES (ICE DIVISION) INC. Phone No. 8 Key West, Fla. Soe ceccesceseeesesSessceessseessssseseesseeses The Citizen savs in tod»y’s ed torial paragraph: “Press rene says that more than 1,500 bills are THE OLD JUDGE SAYS... This has probably cut losses | LUMBER COMPANY PHONE 71 Simonton and Division Streets “you: favorite newspaper Her, itg,curtailment means more explosives / ourwrmed forces. but so long as our men and cargoes -nust | travel thousands of miles across the oceans | there will be losses. Key West. Fla.