The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 16, 1943, Page 4

PAGE FOUR AP Features for three years Adele Inge, girl acrobatic skating marvel, has been represented as the only person who can do a for- ward somersault on ice skates, toe-to-toe, without using the hands, and no one has disputed the elaim. Here’s the way the trick looks in synchronized photographs. The 18- year-old Adele, @ tall brunette whose home i: in Clayton, Mo., has been in Broadway since 1940, starred in the Hotel New Yorker's ice show. FOLLO We continue our review of f ball activities in Key West, dat Trojans ing from the late 1880's up to the | present. In the past months we viewed activities up to of 1939. ve re-| ebruary | 19, 1939, the Pi- rates downed the Blue Sox, 8 to 2, and the Conchs shutout the Seafood Grille nine, 2 to 0, in 10 innings. George Washington Malgrat was the winning pitcher in the first game and Puby (Specs) Ca bonell got credit for the white- wash victory. Kelly poled three for three and L. Lopez hit three out of four. Score of the first: R. H. £.| Pirates Blue Sox 211 Malgrat-and 1. Rodriguez; H. Gates (6), Molina and “M. Ace- vedo. Seore.of second: RvB. 000 000 000 2—2 8 000 000 000 0—0 Puby~Carbonell and C. Griffin; | Wickers and Joe Navarro, On February | ry the Pirates won | over the Blu: 4tol. Mario Sanchez held the Sox to one Hit, a fluke by Keliy. Sanchez aided d out two hits. 1 9 000 000 002—2 111 000 10x—4 nl J.° Fernandez; and D. Lopez. 2 Mlina M. | Sanchez | On February 26, two.wild bat- tles were enacted. ,Trejans claim- ed the first and the,Conchs took Key} the second : Clayton Sterfiayoung West sluggers white Harm. ed int the FicHiRa HAR Wa ge® be- fore) joining the Navy, was most of fstn@ine Witter croft gambs ‘He‘shimnmedunut thee glesianPahomérsseoveck twa and ‘dro¥e homessix. Cheta Baker, midget infielder, | poleti three safeties, as did Navarro, Key West's promising | backstop before the Coast Guard! got him 1 HIGH SCHOOL Gym | thse runs; WING « THRO UGH BY» AGUILAR | (2), Malgrat and I. Rodriguez. We continue from there. | the lose: | Conchs | Bethel and C. Griffin. 2' Pirates 8 2: Conchs Sox at Navy Field, | Grille nine own cause with a pair! battery mat Mario Hernandez also! did “Skippy” Rueda. °| | | ' i i ° «| Score of fir R.H.E.! 420 311 100—12 16 000 012 011I— 5 6 Salinero and Joe Navarro; Casa } In the nightcap, the hitting of | M. Acevedo was the feature for and Armando Acevedo} for the victors. } Armando, Key West's most outstanding shortstop, collected | four safeties, and Manolo, his brother, hit three. Score: Blue Sox R. H. E.} 001 005 100— 7 12 5| 200 070 21x—12 16 4] Gates (5), Diaz and M. Acevedo; | On March 5, in the first game ; ' that afternoon, Fred Carbonell Ait) taining three safely in four times. up. as) 813 4)the Key West Conchs rode to:an |;neavywei 6 | 8-1 victor y over the Pirates. | Robett: Bethel, Esmond Albury, | Torres ahd Cyril Griffin each matt | two safely. R. H. E.| 100 000 000—1 6 3; 105 020 00x—8, 12,2 Malgrat (3), Sarichez (5), Casa, | D, Lopez and I. Rodriguez; Puby Score: | Carbonell and C. Griffin. { In the second game, the Seafood | won over the Blue Sox, 9-2. Salinero hurled a for the victors. Joe great game Score: R. H. E.} Blue Sox 5 | Seafood Grillie 9 18 Diaz (4), M. Acevedo and A. Castro; Salinero and Joe Navarro. O00 The following players won priz- es offered by L. P. Artman, Sr., publisher of The Citizen, for out- standing performances in the aboye games: oring first run—C. Garcia. pfes=Villareal and C. ‘Vidal: F pst ‘putéut—A. Acevedo !.and the | Sfetfling. Taree safeties—Fred Carbonell. siekt |TPiplés—Atonzo and Joe Na-| AP Featur varko. Dputiie—Diaz. Scoring first \ run of second | Joe | game—Al. Acevedo. Three out of four—Salinero. TO BE CONTINUED CLOSED UNTIL MIDDLE |MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE rin te i OF COMING WEEK School last 1 Gymnasium | night, fol-| The closed High its doors (By Associated Press) American industry is spending millions to advertise dream Some of the best art lowing the regular basketball | most skillful writers, are de league -tripleheader, until nesday jf next; week, ‘it- Aas ,an-} Abe UES hu | sponsors haven't x Of+-selling drgams of the future. The | and hanged. \play, nounged today. In“ the meantime, sandihg and refinishing ing g6urt of the gymnasium will be ing progress. Two coat? ‘of| “Seal-O-San” preparation be uséd, which, Coa the High School declared today) should give the one of the finest floors South. will | in the} Results Of Games League games _ scheduled Monday were played of this week. Results of the games last night follow: First—High School Varsity 46, Air Station 16; Se¢ond—Submarines missary 19; Third — Athletic Department, NOB; 54, Air Station No. 3 17. Box scores of the games last night will be published Monday.1 } for | | 38, Cor : Stone, of | do, Thursday | loads . . Wed- | their talents to sumptuous displays advertising med- things that their got. They are in high-priced ms, selling thingggthe ideay they hope and expect to*have after victory. H Streamlined aluminum planes. $400 automobiles, with rear mo- said) plastic bodies . . . New vitamin products. growing Conch Home” } out of high-vacuum research .. . | Short wave phone services from your home to airlines. . . . Airplane travel at lower fares. Freight planes carrying box car- | New and deadlier insect sprays. | Burstproof water pipes . . . | Stainproof rugs . . . Suits and dresses that shed wa- ter like a duck... Super-streamlined ships . . . Are dreams like these of the future worth millions today. OPA allows rise in the ceiling price on fuel oil: sph: 5\ paper headlines during the last} Si nis takes - 64; Don Budge. with 63 and Helen DEMPSEY TOP SPORT HEADLINER; ~ TENNIS. HELENS LEAD WOMEN By DILLON GRAHAM. AP Features Sports Editor NEW YORK, Jan 16.—What, Helen Jacobs and Glenna Collett athlete commanded the most news- | vare. It is only natural that tennis and boxing competitions should have the most cards because they compete in many more tournaments and matches a year than men in other sports. Some of the greatest stars, such as Lefty Grove in baseball, Bobby Jones in golf, Cornelius How do we know? Because a spent a recent rainy afternoon) searching through our card index } file. This file has little oblong | white cards, whose typewritten| items tell the stories of the lifes} of our sports celebrities. Their | loves, their sorrows, their victories | and their defeats, their marriages | and divorces, and finally their} Joe Louis has 54, Paavo Nu- deaths. imeri 47, Dizzy Dean 44, and Fred 3 : “Perry, Ellsworth Vines,., Gene And in our bulky file the No. 1) ,°"TY> banesi man is the old. Manassa Mailer.| Tunney: and: Harry, Wills, 37 each. Dempsey has 94 cards, each'con-!' Other leaders are Henry Arm- an ‘average of threé epi-. Strong and Mickey Walker with 36; sodes that ‘brought the former | Suseet ie and Johnny Dun- sh cha ion into he dee wit 35; ef ShARPIR, St A George Lott!) and ‘Walter Hagen | with 34; Helen Jacobs 31 Mike 20 years? Jack Dempsey. paratively few cards. néws. i Given several ~guesses you | McTigue: an@®Frankie ‘Parker 307}! might have mentioned Demp- | Bitsy Grant 29; Bobby Riggs and sey, but the odds are you'd nev- | Gene Sarazen/28; Vinnie Richards er guess the runner-up. He's a }and Frank Shields 27; Max boxer, too, and fought Dempsey ‘|Schmeling and Glenna Collett Vare Luis Angel Firpo of the Ar- | 26. gentine, The Wild Bull of the | Pampas has 90 cards, e| Cal Sawyier is unique among ‘the University of Chicago sports At No. 3 is another of the Oldjset. He is the only successful in- Guard — The Babe. Home-run hit-| dividual performer. or team the ter Ruth has 72. Glen Cunningham, | Marons boasted in 1942. He scored Iron Horse,” has 71. Ten-|an upset triumph over Seymour the next three spots, |Greenberg in the western confer- William Tatum Tilden( 2nd, with! ence tennis singles championship. Otherwise, it was a bleak ath- Wills Moody Roark, whose 60 tops} letic year for Chicago U. all the sportswomen. | Chicago lost each of its confer- Of the 31 figures having more] ence basketball games, failed to than 25 cards, tennis contributed | score a point in indoor track, dit- 13 and boxing 11. Golf had three | to in outdoor track, finished last and baseball and track two each.|,in the baseball race, and didn’t Three were women; Mrs. Roark, compete in football. s 7! AFRICA'S QUIZ KID POPS SOME POSERS } Do you think the Liberian’ na | tives who threw peyper into’ ‘the WITH S. FORCES IN WEST} ocean actually believed that fish AFRICA yme day I hope some-| would come up’ to Sneeze and body will explain a few things to! permit themselves to" be speared? me, They really have me wor-| Photogenic Mermaids? ried. | I certainiy wouid like to know I would like to know, for ex-| if any good pictures ever have ample, if the black-skinned na-| been taken of the mermaids in the tive boatmen aiong a_ certain! Cavally River, the fabled stream stretch of Liberian coast honestly! which Hervey Allen called Rio believe a water devil will get them; Pongo in his “Anthony Adverse.” if they use their surfboats to as-| They are fishes with faces like sist the United States Army with| monkeys and perfectly formed unloading operations. Or have} presats for nursing their young. their fears been planted by subtle | German agents? Is if superstition! the Negress from Harlem, enjoys or sabotage? {her life as a sort of sub-queen in Do you suppose there are many! a Liberian village . . . And are people left like the three Africans; there any Fighting French agents caught roasting a small boy on a/ more colorful than Henri de Vil- spit a few years ago — not far|morin, who has crossed the desert from. where my tent is pitched?|many times on a camel with his They were tried for cannibalism | small two-way radio strapped’ to | its hump? Is it true that some natives in| I also wish I knew why 50 many the interior, worked up over.the} American army officers ,include prospect of being called en to fight | adding machines as a part of their guerrilla warfare, are once again} field equipment. Most of all, brewing deadly poisons in which! 3 would like to find’ out if the to dip their arrows and-spears? _} cobra, nestling in a pile of clothes I wonder if there ever have beenj on the cot next to mine, would anv wild animals in the world as/ have bitten me if my pal, Wilfred fortunate as the sacred crocodile | (Fred) Morgan of Washington, D. at Cape Palmas, Liberia, which | C., hadn’t discovered it? reportedly was given chicken and If ever you get the answers to cane juice by human worshippers jany of thsee questions, please By JOSEPH MORTON | every day. Is it true that once it|send them to me. And if I get any was fed a child? Funny Money | Did the French Ivory Coast na-| tive, who threw away the British coin bearing Queen Victoria's} likeness, really think it was bogus) WASHINGTON. — The earth because the queen was dead? . . .; completes one rotation on its axi: And has. the tribal bigwig, whose | in 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09 mechanical fan is propelled by | seconds. means of elaborate pulleys and cords attached to a phonograph,| ever heard of Rube Goldberg? more questions, Ill along to you. Pass them TIME OF ROTATION Pear] Harbor repa’ i ir was begun *before raids ended. sy | i i ! WE FIGHT IN SELF-DEFENSE | the Russians, the Chinese, the ISOLATIONISTS RESURGENT || British and other subject peoples. | ° Ray Tucker writes that “the be-| _ There is only one reason for our | lief widely held here (Washing-| P2*ticipation in the present war. It} ton) is that the United States will! 1 the aggression of the Axis pow- be more isolationist following this |@*% including Japan, which made struggle than,it was after the first it as clear as daylight, to every- World War.” body mt the congenital pacific- It is hard to_ believe that the|het im Soghe uaa people of the United States will ‘Sins wad Ss make the same mistake twice but] yp ited States. anre-we there is a possibility that Brother’ if on ‘Tucker is right for once. Already,| There is positive Proof to this| the politicians are pacing the way effect. Japan attacked the United for the catastrophe by adopting States in December, 1941, and extremely critical attitudes to: ward everything connected with \Italy declared war upon us. Our declarations of war ‘ere mean- Mysteriously, there seems to be ee ee Pes wees a failure of some citizens to un-| o¢ ch intelligence prety derstand why we are at war. The] 5 i. what had happened and that Gallup poll indicates that a large} ye had the courage to fight for percentage of Americans do not) our national ext have a clear idea of why we are " % = engaged in the greatest war of our While every one of the United j history. This is more than amaz-} Nations profits by the exertions | ing; it is national catastrophe. of the other, insofar as they con-° The same people have another] tribute to the downfall of the ag-| fancy of the same type, that Rus- | gressors, each and every United i Warmerdam in track, have com- ~ Benny Leonard, I wonder, too, if Pauline Smith, sialis fighting :for as, that. Great Byitain fights for us and that any- body who engages the Axis any- where is fighting for love of the good United, States. This reason- ing, conversely, leads these same simple-minded souls into the hal- lucination that we are fighting for | Nation is at war in its own pro- tection and in its own defense. If ever a group of nations fought in self-defense, the United Nations i fight to defend themselves and it; is the only justification needed for their participation in the struggle. | Like Father, They a (By Associated Press) EAST LANSING, Mich., Jan. 16. — Fred Stone, six-foot six jinch center at Michigan State College, has a basketball herit- age. | His father was captain of the 1912 Aggie hoop team. Distinction Fer Wilsen (By Associated Press) MIDDLETOWN, Jan. 16. — Woodrow. Wilsonwas ‘the. only. president of the United States to coach a college football team. He was Wesleyan’s mentor and er professor from) 1888. -to 2890. LONDON.—More than’ thirty {million tons of ‘raw snaterials' and ‘foodstuffs’ are imported by Brit- ain annually. ' Subscribe to The Citizen. i i MOTORS, Mer- cury Convertible Coupe, Trail- ers. Skating Rink. jan5-tf FOR SALE—1940 Indian Motor- cycle. Excellent tires. Apply L. H. Starling, Jefferson Hotel. dec29-tf TECHNICAL BOOKS: Books on Navigation and. 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Rock of New York, color technician. “Scientific research has shown that red and warm colors give tired minds and eyes a lift and that bluish tones contribute to mental depression,” Rock said at the annual conference of the Rocky Mouptair: Council of Painting and: Decorating Contractors. . In some war plants, he said, en- ‘tire preduction rooms, including ithe-machines, have been painted in these “war colors” and this has | accidents .and _ boosted ROTATION INCREASES NEW YORK.—Axial rotation of the world increases from zero at jithe poles to 1,030 miles an hour pat the equator. —— eee HELP WANTED WAITRESSES AWNTED. Side- walk Cafe, Duval and Fleming. — Fountain Counter | salary. ost City Pharmacy, janl-tf blue ribbon, Thursday, car near La Concha Hotel. reward, if returned to Hotel. jani5-2tx 'GAS RATION BOOK. Return to i 1209 Whitehead Street. jani6-3t LOST — Black Wallet with im- portant papers. Finder keep money and return wallet with papers to H. C. Hullender, 1217 Packer St. jan16-3tx WILL PERSON WHO TOOK Boy’s Bicycle from side of Gardner’s Drug’ Store, — corrective measures are taken | immediately this country will jan4+tf Every Evening: 8:00 - 10:30 p.m. Giris an ainomes, Good | Lessons IF You'Re Looxmwe Fen. 1 SATURDAY, JANUARY MOTORISTS WERE TOP CASUALTIES DURING 1942 ON THE HOME FRONT By GARETH MUCHMORE 6, 1943 AP Features IEW YORK, Jan. 16.—No. 1 c was the American motorist, whose driving so mixed pleasuit and business that the preblem of cutting down to essential car use gave war administrators their biggest headaches. The year was a parade of imcreasingly sever the ban on sales of new tiness- shortly after Pearl Harber to nationwide gasoline rationing— mileage rationing, to save rubber —early last month. ‘Main Reason—Rubber Rubber was the chief reason When the Japanese surged through Malaya, overran Singa- Pere and spread out into the Dutch East Indies, they seized the sources of 90 per cent of the rubber supplies of the United States and her z America wes ceught short and the reason why still is being argued. The plein fact was that mone had expected an invasion of such speed. ‘ Whatever the reason, motorists were warned ly in the year, at about the » the manu- facure of ceased. that the tires would iliam casualty of the war year 1942 ports from then until Jan. 1 anly 53,000 this against f 842,000 ng nothing have to last fi By early May tant ernment officials called the rub- ber situation “perilous”, and the Truman Senate committee urged national gasoline rationing and said seizure of tires might be es- sential later. In June Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson said the army faced a shortage of 200.000 tons ef rubber in 1943. But that same * menth it was predicted ways would be found to keep 20,000,000 of the nation’s 27,000,000 cars rolling. A collection of scrap rub- ber was ordered by President Roosevelt. Then in July the rubber indus. try proposed to provide tires for all, using reclaimed rubber chiefly. Final Report Made Displeased with the scrap col lection, President Roosevelt August told elder statesman Bernard Baruch to “get the facts about rubber. A few weeks who worked with technologists Karl Compton and James B. Conant, reported: to be so danaerous that unless, gov- = ENTERPRISE GETS ITS FOOT IN (Ry Annarinted Preae) CONCORDIA, Kar Those salesmen Concordia new umes. “Tm selling these things door to door because I am one the last stronghids of free prise,” one of them says edges his foot imto the door. housewives that’s in step wit line from later Baruch, as Rationing of canned foods will start im February. RS HOW TO CLEAN | TOP BURNERS ——»—— face both a military and civilian collapse.” That settled much of the con- troversy and spelled doom for any remaining driving as usual (the eastern states by then were veterans of gas rationing, brought on by a_ shortage of transportation for oil). Baruch’s figures showed a crude rubber stockpile of 578,000 tons on July 1, estimated im- 4. If burner has remov- able top section, be sure it is screwed firmly dewn when replaced. 5. Wash frequently | tray under burners and top grates. 6. Do not beil aluminum or enamel burners in seda. . - Thurs. and Sat., 2:30 - 4:30 for HEALTH’S SAKE Phone 9116 SKATE FICTION - NON-FICTION TECHNICAL BOOKS Open 8:30 A.M. to 7 PM. t See PAu Smite | 334 Simonton $7. —_——__g———_ KEY WEST GAS CO. ee Commencing-- Monday, Jan. 18th A New, Modern PHOTO STUDIO Portraits at Moderate Cost By Passes. 508 Duval St., Key West In Rear Pollock’s Jewelry Store