The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 16, 1943, Page 3

SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, FEW HINTS ARE GIVEN RELATIVE TO RATIONING SLIGHT IDEA PRESENTED AS/ TO HOW SYSTEM ON FOOD STUFFS WILL BE HAN-| DLED By HERMAN ALLEN AP Features Service Writer The “point rationing” system won't seem so complicated if you look on your coupons as a sort of money. Beginning probably in Febru- ary, you will have to “spend” these coupons for most varieties of canned, dried and frozen fruits 1943 Chapter 28 To The Rendezvous Dee sat up, wondering what time it was, her nerves still | vibrating from the insistence of the bell. With an effort she | struggled to her feet. She groped her way across the rogm, trying to remember .what had happened and why she was there. The an- swer Cate” with stdden clarity and something ycold clamped about her heart! }’ Still not knowing what time it was but only that she had been waiting for this call since early afternoon, she fumbled for the telephone and picked it up. Yes?” “I’m the guy that spoke to you about that envelope.” It was a reedy, drawling voice, barely loud enough to be distinct. MRS. MURDOCK Fer TAKES A CASE THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘i door before Joyce could take her arm, “I'm going with you,” Joyce said, and opened the closet door. Delia stamped her foot ‘n ex- asperation and tried to pull Joyce aside. “I won’t have it, I tell you. You're not going.” Tears of vexa- tion brimmed in her eyes and then Joyce opened the door and was talking fast, her chin firm and eyes resolute. “I’m going, Delia. I won’t even get out of the car. You can meet | ___ By SPOON RIVER SAM WHITE HOUSE, HERE WE COME! AP Features When you start talking about} new timber ; got just the man. I can’t think of his name right | seems bent on knocking himself now, clipping around the place some- | be whittled down to $10,000. Con- where. {Til look it up for you- This man is in Washington, but for President, I've} but it's in a newspaper Before I finish this piece (hold on, now, don’t rule him out a bureau needed help to get start- ted. Anyway, this man is now busy |tearing down his bureau, all on purpose, and I figured that would j appeal to you. What he started was the United | States Travel Bureau, and its first | breath of life was a $100,000 ap- propriation. But for the present fiscal year this gentleman, who lout of a job, asked that the fund | gress was but they f gave in. He used to have 132 employes. | suspicious, him by yourself, but Pll drive | that oughtn’t to be held against | Of his own accord he cut the num- you there. . shouldn’t we? much time.” In the car Delia said: I lost my temper.” “You didn’t really,” Joyce said. | “But I had to come.” | Delia fell silent and watched | | the pancrama of lights slide past | the car windows. The city was We should hurry, | There can’t be ee “Tm sorry | - start up Two years ago a government bureau he helped; ber down to three, trimming the; travel bureau on account of for- j Payroll so fast it was only by yet). Personally, I never knowedj quick thinking on his part that he remembered not to fire himself. Now he tells the budget director to forget the whole thing and close up his bureau. Well, sir, I was leary of writ- ing about this man, fearing may- be he was out of his head and there’d be another piece in the papers about him being led off to the booby hatch. But it’s on the level, |and mind, which adds to his sta- ‘ture in Washington. | Now Ill look up that clipping. 'T see his name is W. Bruce Mac- Namee. Never heard of him be- fore, but I say the man ought to be President. Says he formed that and he’s sound of frame} PAGE THREE drumming up tourist trade, and he | @ campaign for America to “See thought there ought to be a “See|Bruce MacNamee First” before. America First” move. Well, per-| we start picking any nominees for sonally, I think there ought to be! 1944. NS HOTEL LEAMINGTON - N. E. Ist Street at Bidcayne Boulevard = Overlooking Bayfront Park and Biscayne Bay 3 Opposite Union Bus Station MIAMI, FLORIDA | One Block from Shopping District and Amusements 2 PARKING.,LOT ADJOINING HOTEL = eign agencies being over here Alfred Simons. Manager | x. IIAP ILELL Lee eek TI FIIPPISLAPPELLLLLLLL LL! WHENEVER YOU WANT ANYTHING OR ANYTHING DONE—WE'LL HELP YOU! 9 hn hn hind De ttt bn tn tn tn tnt tn tn tn tn tp tn tn tn tinh “Yes, I—you said you'd call this deste Gdiptattntecintindortotnd-doctetndnntoetntntttnttatetntiete | WATCH REPAIRS on new character now. adually the welter of little | neon signs became more widely } spaced until there were none at IVY VV VV VV VV VV JOHN C. PARK and vegetables just as you spend | kel, id di Of course you asa nickels and dimes. course y | a : A r, he will) stiM have to fork over those} qachcoenets wy unc. Eemicall STELL’S BEAUTY NOOK ing now. ... You got it?” nickels and dimes too. For a second or two fear closed her throat. Why hadn’t she brought the envelope here? She knew even as the thought came; they had decided to leave it with | Joyce so that it would be safe re- gardless of any further attempts Your contain red and blue coupons numbered 1, 2, 5 and 8 and letter- ed from A ‘to. Z. The numbers stand for point values and the let-| ters for time periods. The blue coupons are to be used for the processed foods and the red ones later for meat. It may be’ ‘that for the first month. of rationing you will be permitted to use all coupons Tet= * tered A, B and C. If so, you will | have 48 points-to“spend",on pro- | cessed food. Tfsonly the coupons lettered A and Biare released for | the first month, you will have only 32 points. As food supplies up or down, the OPA may | permit you to use more—or few- er—coupons in any period of time. ‘The OPA explains that point ra- tioning is necessary for things like canned foods where it is not nec- essary for things like coffee and . The reason is that there are few if any common substitutes for coffee or sugar. If you ration them you've just about covered the field. With canned goods it’s a different story. If you ration just one item, like peas, you simply send people mpering to buy other things s and before you know it you have a shortage in them too. So you have to ration the whole list of canned, dried and frozen vege- tables to keep the supply on an even k Here's the way it will work. Let's "pretend for the-moment that only dried beans are involved. Let’s say a shortage has devel- oped in navy beans. It won’t do any good to ration them, because the folks will simply jump in and buy up all the kidney beans, lima beans, black-eyed peas (which are really beans) and pin- to beans they can get their hands on. So you ration ALL kinds of dried beans. The e plenty of lima beans —skads and scads of them—and about as many kidney beans. and pinto beans are not quite so plentiful. Ob- viously the thing to do is to push lima beans and kidney beans so that there will still be enough navy beans for everybody to get at least a few. So you get out a point ration | book. You decide that grocery buyers will have to ay” only one point a pound for lima beans and two points for kidney beans You decide to, charge four points for black-é¢yét peas and six’ for pinto begs. But. the very scarce, a pound q pound that, the gen- eral bean’ sittation” is ‘such: that you can allow each customer 32 points worth of beans in Febru- ary. You announce that coupons lettered A and B are good for that month. That means the housewife can buy pounds of lima beans for each member of her house- hold, or 8 pounds of black-eyed peas—but only 2 2-3 pounds of navy beans. She can take it all in lima beans, or divide it up any way she pleases, but she gets only 32 points worth of beans all told for each person. ns, which are you charge 12° ports Welles urges a post-war “asso- ciation” of United Nations. i) ONG ARM BRAND COFFEE TRIUMPH “COFFEE § MILLS BAT ALL GROCERS FTI ANNOUNCEMENT H. E. CANFIELD, M. D. Specialist in Diseases of tne EYES. EARS, NOSE and THROAT Will See Patients Each Evening at Dr, Galey’s Office. 417 Eaton Street HOURS ———— 7:00 to 8:00 “UQQUUUATSNEOLUUESEDEOUA TERRE ELEY “Ration Book No. 2” will! milar to peas, | she say? “Well?” the voice demanded. “Yes,” Delia said, “Yes, I have it.” “Then .listen. I want you to bring it to this address. Memorize it. Two seven three Morton Street. | Room twenty-four. I’m going to give you twenty minutes.” “Oh, please.” She was trembling now, and panicky lest she forget. “Can’t you talk a little louder? “Morton.” wes “In twenty minutes.” “That's not time enough.” She was grasping at straws now be- cause she had to get to Joyce. “‘!'m not dressed.” She, waited, afraid to press the point’and yet knowing twenty minutes was not | enough. “Okay,” the voice said. “A half hour; no longer. And get this. No| tricks. Come alone... . stand?” “T’'m to come alone.” “If you don’t, if you stall me, I call the cops.” “I'll be there,” Delia stopped, aware that she ing over a dead wire. .A half hour. Twenty-nine min- utes now. id; then ag talk- Hysteria HE left the motor of her car! running, sped up the two flights of stairs without waiting + for elevator, me thy et tiie’ UGE Wine ‘ahi baer eRe eee ara she ating halt aloud: “Oh, thank God!” and then the door was open and Joyce was there. She rushed past, hearing’ the door close behind her, turning, | finding Joyce in front of her| again. “The envelope, Joyce! Oh, I'm so glad you're here.” “You got the call?” Delia wanted to she stand there for she see what it meant? “Oh, darling, hurry!” she plead- ed.. “Give it to me. If I’m not| there by thirteen minutes after ten he may be gone.” Joyce started to pro! stepped quickly to the opened the drawer. “But can’t you tell m | said, “Have you called J ner? Where are you going? “Morton Street.” “Alone? But you can’t.” | “I have to.” “You haven't called Jack Fen-| ner,” Joyce said sharply. “A And | you've got to, Delia. He’s got to Bo, with you. “There isn’t time. And the man | Said I must.come alone or—” She broke off, seized the en- | velope and thrust it in her coat pocket. She had started for the «USED FOR LEATHER NEW YORK — Skin from. flounders is being used in Holland for shoe leather and to repair auto- mobile tires. pam. Would ? Couldn't but | and | » she | Fen- | { eccccccccccce ecco ese | | | Phone No. 8 to find it here. But what should | q.,;, Iwo seventy-three what street?” if Under- | © Ir j next corne’ REAL ICE Is More ECONOMICAL. . .It’s Healthy and Safe. . THOMPSON ENTERPRISES (ICE DIVISION) all save those on all-night drug- stores and greasy-looking sand- wich shops that posed as restau- rants. Presently Joyce turned right and then they were in a could not flourish. "re nearly there,” Joyce is is Morton Street.” must have been a dis- raging prospect; at night it had become an avenue of empti- ness and shadows, where three- and four-story brick buildings marched a in unbroken ranks and the st! lamps on the cor- ners served only to make the The Number next ees: 1 think,” 1 if you can T’S the ar was throttled down as far as it would go now, and when they crossed the intersection, Joyce shifted into second so that »ve even slower. Nes id prese is it. I just saw number 220.” “Park anywhere,” Delia said “Not too close, Joyce.” > car nosed in toward the the ignition and lights. For a few t there without a , and Delia could look.down along the empty sidewalk to the “Well.” for the doc take me long.” “You're sure you don’t want me id, and reached e. “It shouldn't to— “Quite. The rest should be easy. Ree, twenty-four, he said.” She ‘lt a hand press ‘hard on her:arm and for just an ‘instant her de- termination wavered; then the moment passed and she was all right again. She put her hand on Joyce’s and pressed it, and found hers on the pavement.- “I’m glad you came,” she said. “I needed, you. “And if you’re not back in five ce. Make it ten.” nt,” Joyce said. “And then you'd better call the police. You're not to follow me. no matter what you think.” She shut the door and went along the empty sidewalk, snug- gling her coat more tightly about her, telling herself she was silly, melodramatic, talking about the police, and what to do if she did not come back within ten minutes. There was no sense in that. The man wanted the envelope, not her. Above a doorway she saw the figures 264 and realized that the numbers did not run consecutive- ly, but jumped ahead at will. Stepping from the curb, she started diagonally across the pavement, her shoes clicking loudly in ‘the surrounding quiet. The number she sought was stamped in stone above a narrow doorway. To be continued FINISHED IN 1836 WASHINGTON.—The of the Inter-Ameri from Laredo, Texas, to Mex- | ico City, was completed in 1936. 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