The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 20, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TYO est Citizen ISHING © on Builting 4 Stree Only Datly Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County t Key West. Florida, as s Member of the Asso ited Press Associated Press is excl .sively entitled to use } fevublication. of all news dispatches credited to or not erwise credited in this paper and also local news published her: i “SUBSCRIPTION ond class matter RATES jonths Months .. ures Month eekly ADVERTISING RATES known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE Maa All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutions of | obituary notices, ete., will be charged for at: of 19 cents @ line. s for entertainment by churches from which ere ue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The sion st but it will not publish anonymous communi- Ze, MEMBER “ FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION , \ y NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION WILL always seek the truth and print it w-thout fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; alvjays fight for progress; never be the or- gaa or the mouthpiege of any person, clique, Gg tacin 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 js* | Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. 6. A Modern City Hospital. ep \dvertising is worth the w Know. how to spend your morey. “Who doesn’t like the smell of nice, fresh paint?” The fellow who has to pay the bill. iB The Citizen regularly. ~ If one-half the Germans the Reds say _ 4 3 Fy they have killed, wounded and captured is | a. The farm labor situation may require the mobilization of school ather the crops. Why not? Food is ¢ vo victory. sen- Theeinelegant word ‘“guts’” was once ified use. Then the designation was ip subsiaboe but in “tS abstract as “intes- Bib rated." Are you aware that “are sa unit of @perticial land measure? But it is prob- Ounted “air,” while the verb “are” is pro- | nounced like the letter There are many words inthe English language that are spelled alike and are differentiated only by pronounciation. + The qu ends the better licker ihe war it will suit most Americans but if we think | qur problems will end when the fighting Stops. we are mistaken. We have involved Gyrselves in the European entanglement @hd will not now be able to wriggle our- | ive’ cut of it. An American lieutenant, over the ra- fo Sanday, told of a Jap, whonmhe attempt- | tried to? RAL WY | to rescue, who American,’ with a revolver. “Whats grateful wretch!” we heard a woman ex claim. Before forming judgment, however Wwe should bear in mind that Jap warlords Tie to their own soldiers, They have been | told that if they are captured, they will be killed; hence, they fight to the last mo- ment. United States Marines, on Guadal- anal have told of the surprise of Jap ‘prisoners when they learned they would b permitted to live. ‘itizen is an open forum and invites discus- | f public issues and subjects of local or general | We know of no Key West boy in ihe | armed forces, who would not enjoy receiv- | e, then Hitler surely is in a bad way in | children to | exe how they are referred io not | THAT WELL-KNOWN “NEST EGG” H ] + Iv one city in Florida a movement has | heen started to raise a community chest fund of almost half a million dollars. We had heard that busines was “not sod” in that city, despite the fact that.! ; c and sailors are sta- tionec environs. Th: ; has been a “one-crop” town, ard, like one-erop farmers, it runs the ‘risk of not being able to make both ends | should anything adverse happen io one crop.” Tourists comprise that “crop,” and the war, with the resultant rationing of iires and gasoline, has wellnigh eliminated che “crop” this season. £ Sirce Key West lost nearly all of ‘ts | industries, tourists have been an important “crop” to us also. But we have not been wholly dependent on it; besides, we have been fortunate in having millions spent | here for defense projects. And the spen@ | ing is still continuing, with not the leasi indication yet of, its being curtailed. For the first time since the last World War, Key West is not in need of a community chest. Everybody who is able and willing | to work car get a job, and families in every | stratum of the social scale are benefitted. That brings us again to something we veral-times. It may be epi- od in this warning: This is the time to save, Key Westers, while che harvesting | is at ils height; be sure the day is coming | when most of us will not be able to save; be | sure the time is coming when hard times ovain will be “a-knockin’ at the door.” While we hope that the community | chest will be brimful when the collections sre concluded in the city in question, we should not forget to be grateful for our boom that is supplying every home with money than has gone into it in many but we should not forget it will not thus, and should be thrifty lay ide that well-known 1 have discussed mor a da) be always to a enough “neat ¢ | UNITED NATIONS MUST STAY UNITED There is a lot of nonsense in the air | about the terms of peace when the war is | over but it is encouraging that people are | | beginning to think about the problem of | ‘the post-war world. There looms one inescapable faet in | any consideration of Europe, which it will ; do well to keep constantly in mind. That is the undoubted fact that, when Germany 's whipped, the Russian army will be the | greatest force on the continent. ] Such being the case, and there is no y to dispute it, peace plans that do not well in Moscow may have little or no | importance when the time comes io settle | the war. The Soviet will have its own ideas, | perhaps, about a “defense line” and the Red | army will probably be on it when the ar- mistice comes. | sit Nations are agreed upon the necessity of preventing another war. This means secur- y against German attack. It is possible | that Russia, having experienced the invad- | ing | “security” than the Americans and the | British, who are a bit farther removed from the German menace. : As near as we can see, the world situa- tion shapes up into this, that there must be effective cooperation between the United | States, Great Britain, Each nation may have to make some con- cessiors to get the benefits of cooperation. It is necessary for Americans to bear this in mind. Meanwhile, the United Nations | must get on with the war. Victory is the only important item on the present agenda. | When it is seeure, there will be time, if need- ed, to get together with our allies in intelli- gert and cooperative consideration fo lesser problems. MALTA’S BRAVE ROLE Highly significant is the statement that | large reinforcements of war materials and | supplies have been landed at Malta ‘‘with- out major interference from the enemy.” While the Mediterranean is not, as yet, a British lake, the ability of the royal navy to deliver the goods to the island fortress contrasts strangely with the pounding that | Was given a similar convoy just six months ago. The island stronghold, called the most heavily bombed spot on the globe, is ath- wart the Italian line of communication, be- tween Sicily and Tunisia. Ht has been a | ously challenging every effort to send suv- | plies to North Africa. The leaders of our four largest United | s, will have a different idea of | China and Russia. | constant thorn in the side of the Axis, seri- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN MRS.° MURDOCK BXSEZ3 ‘TAKES A. CASE Chapter 31 Beyond Their Depth -- TOOK quite a while to ex- change stories with all the ac- companying details. Joyce told everything except the finding of the man in the closet, but Delia, although she gave all her impres- sions had very little to add. She had opened the door, and some- one — Raeburn, probably — had been waiting behind it. “He hit you?” Joyce asked. “He threw something over my head. His coat, I imagine. He must have hit me—there’s a little bump on my head and it’s sore—but I didn’t feel it at the time. I don’t remember it anyway. I thought | I'd just fainted.” “Stand up,” Joyce ordered, “and let’s see if you're all right.” “Of course I’m all right.” Joyce watched her and decided she was. She was glad of this be- cause she had made up her mind. It would be pretty horrid for Delia but it had to be done. She took a breath and stood up. “Come on,” she said, and led the way to the other room. She put Delia in the !eather chair but before she cone pat the girl gave a quick gasp an pressed her fingers to her mouth as though to stifle it. “But, Joyce . . .!” Her eyes were wide and startled now. “It wasn’t Raeburn! He’s not the one that came last evening. It was another man.” “T know.” . “But what does it mean? What—” “Wait.” Joyce made her voice calm and took out cigarettes, She was deliberately silent until Delia had a light; then she said: “You | mustn’t let it get you, but I think you'll have to know. There’s a dead man in that closet.’ “Oh.” Quick alarm flicked at Delia’s face, but she had rebuilt | her forces well and she accepted the announcement with relative calmness. “Oh,” she said again, her voice remote. “And when you're ready,” Joyce said, “I think you should look at him and see if he’s the one.” “Tm ready now.” Joyce watched the girl stand on her feet. “It’s not a pleasant sight.” “I’m all right.” She lifted her chin and _ smiled _sardonically. “Really. I think I’ve been condi- tioned for most anything now.” “Good girl.” The Same Man | eee stepped to the closet and opened the door. She realized then, that she, too, had been con- ditioned. Everything was different now. Before, her nerves had been strained and raw because of her} | fears for Delia, and terror had | struck without warning; now ske | * was prepared. There was a job to| do and she tried to face it with} reasonable objectivity. The closet, she saw, was large. | with rough shelves along eithe:! side. On the left these had been filled with stacks of paper-filled | manila folders. On the right there | were some books and suppiies—a quart bottle of ink, boxes of en- velopes, packages of paper. At the back of the closet and between the shelves was an old wooden filing cabinet, or rather a section of one, which was perhaps three feet long and eighteen inches high. It was against this that the man sat. | His feet were spread, the legs | + forming a wide V, and although | his body sagged in the middle his! head was tipped back, the ncck | resting against the edge of the} filing cabinet so that his face had | an upward tilt. It was difficult | now to imagine what he had been like in life, but to Joyce it seemed \ t j | Taday In History 1781—Some New Jersey troops | of Revolutionary Army mutiny— | Gen. Washington has. a: brigade sent after them, has two ringjead- ‘ers shot and quells mutiny. © 1783.—Armistice signed with England ending Revolutionary War—Americans sign as “The United States of North America.” | | Sees i | 1798.—United States sends new | | warship as present to the Dey of} | Algiers—as bribe for signing peace | pact with us. i USERS | | 1874.—Congress repeals historic | | and notorious “Salary Grab” of | | previous Congress, which had) LEGAL NOTICE All persons are hereby notified | |that a reauest has been made by, the United States Naval Operat-| jing Base, Key West, Florida, to \close the drawspan of the Mo: | Channel Drawbridge for the ve jriod from January 8, 1943, to; February 8, 1943. Reauest i jbeen made to the United States; Engineers Office at Miami Beach, } Florida, and any person wishing |to interpose an objection to such closure shall make such objec-! |tion in writing to the War De-/ |parement, United States Engi- \neers Office, Miami Beach, Flor- ‘ida. | LIEUTENANT COMMANDER | K. M. FENWICK, Public Works Officer, Naval Op- eraing Base, Key West, Florida. | By direction of the Commandant. | i jan8 to febs i | | Estate Harmon Coxe jthat he had been Lis 5 not | jtoo tall, with a round face and }thin brown hair of no perticular shade. Above one ear she theught she could see a tiny hole, al- though she was not sure and would not lean down to find: out: the other side of the face was aap one great reddish stain. “Yes,” Joyce turned, realizing she had been so intent in her own study that she had not heard Delia come up beside her. ! “He’s the man. I’m sure of it.” Joyce eased Delia away from | the doorway, seeing the white- ness around her mouth, but not- ing with relief the ‘controlled steadiness of the brown eyes. She | closed the door. / “What should we’ do?” Delia | asked. “I think we should telephone Jack Fenner.” “Oh?” “And I think we’ve got to call the police.” “Joyce!” | “I mean it. Look, darling.” She | motioned Delia back in the chair and stood in front of her, slim and straight in her checked tweed coat, her hands thrust deep in the | pockets, her eyes somber m_ the shadow of her hat brim. “Here | we are, a couple of rankest ama- | teurs ‘ing to figure out a mur- der all by ourselves, and without getting involved. It doesn’t make mi sense, does it?” i | “I know,” Joyce said, “but let’s think it out. We've confided in no one, and naturally no one can help us. Neither of us has the faintest idea of who killed Pe: 1 Clarke. We've decided it wasn't Ward—not logically, but because | we’ve made up our minds not to admit it. Kent might have helped us but we wouldn’t tell him; your uncle Dean might have helped. We've even been naive enough to think that we could keep on skirting the edges indefinitely without being caught at it by the police. And now we have two murders on our hands. I think we're getting beyond our depth. Tm also quite sure that you are alot more involved than you imagine.” “Me?” “Why do you think Lieutenant Bacon asked you to look at that cigarette case this morning?” Delia looked puzzled. The hair | on the side opposite the part had fallen across the angle of her forehead and she shook it slightly and pushed it back.g “You had’a drink with Clarke,” Joyce said. “You must have left our fingerprints on that glass. Jou definitely left them on the | -igarette case.” Delia accepted this with resig- nation. “You knew it,” she said. “That’s why you asked to see . | “But you see what I mean. They saust know by now that you were in Clarke’s apartment. You can’t deny it and you'll have to tell them something. I believe you ould tell the whole story—except the part about seeing Ward's car —without making it any worse ' for yourself.” Delia thought it over. She looked at Joyce, studying the lines of her face and seeing the irect and steadfast eyes. When | oyce talked like that you had to n. The quiet good sense of arguments impressed her and | was reassured. Il right. Whenever you think 3 “best.” Joyce went to the desk and picked up the telephone. “I don’t say we should tell the police but I think we should be ready if we have to. I think we should ask Jack Fenner and do what he says.” To be continued raised their own salaries and made them retroactive. 1914—President Wilson ad-| dresses Congress on regulation of | large corporations — one of his} major objectives when elected. Ys 1987-President Franklin D. Roosevel orn into office for 1940.Churchill warns Eu- rope’s neutrals they cannot keep out of War, and asks them to join the Allies. 1941. — President Roosevelt takes Office for third time. 1942.= Russians pusn Germans | back from Moscow. LEGALS gouge I NOTICE OF PROBATE | IN THE COUNTY JUDGE'S COURT, | MONROE COUNTY, STATE OF) FLORIDA. 1 of ISTO DE AGUERO, Deceased. The State of Florida, to All Persons | Interested in the Estate of said | Decedent: | You are hereby notified that a| written instrument purporting to be | .the Last Will and Testament of said jecedent has been admitted to pro- te in said Court. ou are hereby commanded within jendar months from the date of ication of this notice to | ourt and show cause, | if any you can, why the action of said Court in admitting said Will to pro- bate should not stand unrevoked. (SEAL) RAYMOND R. LORD, County Judge, Monroe County, Flor- ida. Jan6-13-20-27,1943 Avat DR. AARON H. SHIFRIN GENERAL PRACTICE Ost thic Medici 2 aH Surgery PHONE 612-W “+ —_—_—_—_—_————— Today’s Anniversaries ae 1732.—Richard H. Lee, Virgini: born stratford, Va. Died June 19, 1794, 1798.—Anson Jones, physician, Texas pioneer, last president o: the Texas Republic, born Barring- ton, Mass. Died Jan. 9, 1858. 1806.—Nathaniel P. Willis, New Maine. Died Jan. 20, 1867. 1832—William Larrabee, Iowa farmer, flour miller, banker, gov- ernor, born Ledyad, Conn. Died Nov. 16, 1912. 1856.—Harriot Stanton Blatch, lecturer, daughter of the -famed Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born ' Seneca Falls, N. Y. Died Nov. 20, 1940. 1859.—Charles A. Lindbergh, Little Falls, Mont. Lawyer, con- gressman, Non-Partisan leader, | father of the aviator of the name, | born in Sweden. Died May 24, 1924. Todav’s Birthdays Mischa-Elman. famed violinist, born in Russia, 52 years ago. Richard LeGallienne, man of letters, born in Russia, 52 years ago. Rey. Raphael C. McCarthy, Milwaukee, born 54 years ago. Harold Gray, creator of “Orphan Annie,” born Kankakee. Ill.. 49 years ago. Dr. J. Hugh Jackson, dean of the Stanford University Graduate School of Busi born Warren Co., Iowa, 51 years ago. Archbishop John J. Mitty of San Francisco, Catholic prelate, born New York, 59 years ago. Josef Hofmann. famed pianist, porn in Poland, 67 years ago. Ruth St. Denis, dancer-teacher, born Newark, WN. J,, 63 years ago. NON-STOP FLIGHTS WASHINGTON.— Several air- planes have made non-stop flights between Africa and the United States during the present war. LEGALS RCUIT COURT omits ELE TH JUDICIAL CH IN AND FOR MONROE COUNTY, STATE OF FLORIDA. IN CHAN~- CERY. Plaintiff, UX, or PUB ‘ACTA DEMEA Street, Co} na. hereby required to Rill of Com™'agnt a ap- pear to th for divorce in the above styled caus y of March, A. D. i allegations therein ered this 5th day of 943, AL) Ross C Saw Clerk of the Cireuit Court, Count ai By: .) Kathleen Nottay Deputy (¢ THOMAS S. CARO, Sclicitor for the Plaintiff. jan6-13-20-27,1943 NOTICE TO CREDITORS (1983 Probate Act, Sees. 119, 120) IN THE COURT OF THE COUNTY JUDGE, MONROE COUNTY, FLOR- PROBA ate of USTO DE AGUERO, Deceased. To All Creditors and Persons Havinge Claims or Demands Against Said Estate: You and each of you are hereby; notified and required to present any ims and demands which you, or er of you, may have against the te of Augusto de Aguero, de- i, late of said County, to the Judge of Monroe County, Florida, at his office im the court house of said County at Key Wes Florida, within eight calenda: months from. the time of the first publication of this notice. Each and shall state the place of resi- dence and post office address of the claimant, and shall be sworn to by the claimant, his agent, or his at As executor of the Last Will and Testament of Augusto de Aguero, deceased. ENRIQUE ESQUINALDO, JR., Attorney for Executor. jané-1 ‘J. F. SIKES LICENSED PLUMBER 1306 CATHERINE STREET [3-20-27,1943 Rideategeps fei Gian coke ‘TRIUMPH COFITE MHLS . AT ALL Monroe | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1945 | | KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY a ‘farmer, patriot, signer of the |/FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN | Declaration of Independence, sen- | ator, one of six famed brothers, | OF JANUARY 20, 1933 An invitation by the Machado ; government to leave Cuba is a ‘“command” Cuban Congressman ;Herman Lopez, who left Key | West today for stated jduring his stay said he was aware of the fate that had ; ¥ork writer, noted man of letters | befallen other Cubans, who had {bis generation, born Portland, | not “accepted President Ma- ;¢hado’s invitation to leave Cu- | ba”, and, not wishing for it. to |befall him, he had left as soon ‘as he was “invited”. Machado’s complaint against iCcngressman Lopez, he said, was that he had been too active in j°PPosition politics. Mayor William H. Malone said {today that matters wer reaching ‘a crisis in the city of Key West In a column-long interview with a Citizen reporter, the mayor outlined what he considers the bes. measure to follow in at- |tempts to relieve Key West of its \financial difficulties. | | James Robert, Jr., negro, con- {fessed slayer of his wife and fa- ither at Tavernier, was brought jto Key West today and lodged in jthe county jail. When the mur- } i Today’s Horoscope Today gifts a gift of direetmess and celerity im action. Strive to look on the brighter side of life, as the tendency is to follow the inherent impuises. Goci parential training is important. U.S. business organizes to pro- ‘bel Contreras and Ms. Isabel \its weekly Ball. - Miss Elizabeth Gwynn and Eloy Villate Bacelio were married yesterday afternoon by Ennqu- Esquinaido, notary pubiic. Mrs. Ulric Gwynn was hostess to the Happy Gathering Club at meeting . Wednesday afternoon. = Judge Jefferson B. Browne entertained at dinner last night in his home im honor of Major M. S. Lombard, chief surgeon at the Marine Hospital, Lombard. Greatha Roberts left yes- for New Smyrna, where er daughter, Mrs. Jennie Nicho- Mrs. terday he The Citizen im an paragraph today says “Imitating Amos some economists are now reflation’. jder was discovered in Tavernier, * jit was thought that the junior |Roberts had been slain also, but it turned out that the third negro killed had been a friend of the 'family. This other man, the de- jfendant said, was killed by the ‘older Roberts, and then he, the | president of Marquette University, |defendant, murdered his wife and father. A special dispatch in today’s Citizen from Washington says {that $130,000 has been allotted for the digging of the waterway ‘from Miami to this city. But that amount, it was explained, jwill complete the waterway only as far down as the southerly end of Key Largo. | Miss Florence Sawyer that the meeting of the Key West Junior Woman's Club, ‘scheduled for tonight, has been postponed until Friday. Joint hostesses will include Miss Clara- said Stadt dtndataetindintan te tetintin ttn TRY IT TODAY... the Favorite in Key West STAR * BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON’SALE at ALL GROCERS 44241 2442444444444 H i F t Hers ii i F a Hf i é i i F Y d 4 ot Oj Zi | Notice To Property Owners Important New Law | tion, trustee, executor, fiduciary owning or having « H ' of taxable personal property i uated. BUSINESS and Florida and head of a family. which eligible. | claim or demand shall be in writing, ! } i } | Relating to Tangible Personal Property Taxes In Florida CAUTION: Under Chapter 20723, Laws of Florida, Acts of 1941, it is MANDATORY that every person, firm, corpora- administrator, control, receiver or other or custody management y in the State of Florida, file an- HOME OWNERS—File returns on ail and personal effects of family, claiming any exemption for nually a sworn Tangible Personal Property Tax Return with Tax Assessor of the County in which such property is sit- MERCHANTS—File returns on all furniture, fixtures, equipment and inventories, etc. AL returns On all furniture, fixtures, professional equipment and libraries. HOTEL and APARTMENT all furniture, fixtures and equipment. concessions should be given en returns. LANDLORDS—File returns on value of furnishings rental houses and show name of lessee on January 1, 1943. TENANTS—File returns on all household goods and per- sonal effects, claiming constitutional exemption, if To be eligible for exemption, applicant must be 2 ci ‘We metus oo Name of lessees of = elgsble. tizen of household goods