The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 22, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TWO She xey West € THE JAPS’ DOWNFALL Don’t underestimate the Jap, Amer- ; icans have been warned, time and again. Cornet Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ered at Key West. Florida, as second class matter | Member of the Associated Press be Associated Press is excl.sively entitled to use ‘cr republication of all news dispatches credited to or not otherwise credited in thig paper and elso the local news published here. SUUSCRIPTION RATES cre Year tix Months -hree Months sne Month Weekly ADVERTISING RATES Madg known on application. SPECIAL NOTION All reading notices, cardg of thanke, resolutions of respect, obituary notices, ete., will be eharged for at the rate of 19 cents @ line. Notices for entertainment by ehurches trom which ¢ revenue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. ‘The Citizen ig an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or general Interest~but it will not publish anonymous eommuni- | cations. MBMBER FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION \, \\ NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION ‘< 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- gaé or, the mouthpiece of any person, clique, fadlion, 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. ————_—_—_ gE ac E ST SEE IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 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. a ‘The only: blocethat is almost unrepre- sented in Amercian politics is the majority of the epople. ‘There are some Americans who are putting out the kind of stuff that Hitler would discuss were he in the United States. 11942 was a year of preparation for war, so far as the United States is con- cerned; 1948 will be the year of casual- wies!..-» It’s an unpleasant subject but, believe us, you might as well make preparation now to pay your income tax in March— you’ll need the money. It is pleasing to know that our govern- ment has generously supplied Russia with weapons of war, but how much more pleas- ing it woyld be to hear that China has been welll iaken gare of also. G | GVe We were about to write, in paraphras- ing that old saying about Nero, “While the council fiddles, the trash and garbage pile up all over the city,” when we learned thai the council did the most sensible thing that could be done in the circumstances: hired all available trucks in the city and pressed | them into service immediately. Circumstantial évidence sometimes is as strong or stronger than direct evidence, as, for instance, in that old story of ihe milk- man who said his milk was pure, but, on opening his container, tadpoles were seen to bé@ squirming in the milk. But when the web of circumstance is broken in a dozen places, as it was in the Massi case, tried in circuit court in Key West, it is inconsequen tial in the eyes of the,layy,., Mankind is prone to help.a man who does the best he can with the best he has, ; and does it patiently, uncomplainingly. That | is a‘true picture of the Chinese. Il-equip ped, they have been fighting the ireacher. ous Japs for more than fiye years, and not a squeak of complaint has come out of China. It is because of that fact that senti- ment in this country is so widespread and | insistent that we help the Chinese far more than-we are belping them now. | warfare. In none of That warning began to be heard when the Japs, from sheer overwhelming num- | bers and an almost blind bulldoggedness, overran country after country for several months after the perfidy at Pearl Harbor. While bulldoggedness is an excellent quality for a soldier to have, provided he has initiative, it is of little consequence in | modern warfare when its possessor is unable | to think for himself and is ata loss as to what to do when faced with rapidly changed conditions while a battle is raging. Without strategy, pertinacity is of lit- tle consequence. That has been demonstrat- ed scores of times in the land, air and naval battles that have been fought in the Pacific. | Sheer numbers beat the Americans in ihe | Philippines. There, the Japs had more than 10 soldiers to match every American and Filipino in the armed service. But in other instances where the number of Japs was | not more than three or four to one, they have been beaten every time by the Amer- icans and Australians. The same thing has been true in naval the clashes ‘did ihe Japs lack ships; they outnumbered us in the Coral Sea, at Midway and off the Solomons, | but ‘they were defeated just the same by superior strategy and marksmanship. It was freely said, at the beginning of this country’s entrance into the war, that the J didn’t know when they were whip- | ped. But they have come to know it. Their | ships have hightailed it, time and again, and their soldiers have been fighting retreating actions in New Guinea and Guadalcanal the last three months. The United Nations are fortunate that the Japs don’t know one-tenth as much about the science of warfare as do.ihe Ger- mans. As Admiral Halsey said, give him “a | little more weight” and he will continue on to Towyo. He needs that “weight” to over- come the Japs’ numbers, not their fighting ability. In the air, despite their speedy Zeros, the American pilots have mad the Jap pilots look like amateurs. Five to one, eight to one, as high as 17 to one, has been the score in our favor in air fighting against them, not only in the Southwest Pacific but in China also, where the American “Tigér”’ flyers have trounced the Japs every time they, met. The Japs have modern weapons of war, copied from the Americans, the Eng- lish and the Germans, but they don’t use them as efficiently as do the nationals of those countries, and therein lies the faust that will bring about the Japs’ downfall. PLEASURE DRIVING “POSTPONED” The ban on pleasure driving is now in effect, and is intended to assure an increase in the already dangerously low supplies of petroleum products along the Atlantic Sea- board. While the reasons for the ban may not be explicitly stated by responsible officials, the people affected can safely assume that it is connected with the war emergency. Naturally, we would not expect the Chief of Staff ts advise our enemies that our troops abroad lack necessary gasoline and fuel. The probability is that the gasoline ban is also associated with the serious shortage of fuel oil and the health-danger which ac- companies colder weather. There may be Americans who would prefer to have their pleasure driving, while other Americans, including women, children and sick per- sons suffer from excessive cold weather, but we are sure that they are few and far between. “AN IMPULSE” Urstla Parrott, author of red-hot books that have been widely read, pleads inno- cent to the charge of aiding a soldier de- sert, but admits that she concealed him in j her automobile and sped away from the camp. The author comes forth with an excuse that is probably equal to those explana- tions that abound in her books. She admits hat the “officer in charge accosted me” but explains that her act was just “an im- pulse.” If this explanation and excuse js sui- ficient to justify her act and prevent her punishment according to law, it will set a | Precedent that should be of tremendoys value to, automobile thieves, burglars ard other people who “act on impulse.” THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Today's ' Todae’s Birthdays | | —— | 1799—John H. Lathrop, _pio-' —. neer higher education in Middle; David Wark Griffith, oldtime West, builder-president of State movie director, born LaGrange, } universities, born Sherburne, N. Ky., 63 years ago. | H The beautifying of the lot ad- Y. Died Aug. 2, 1866. | od | ‘ a Dr. Robert E. Doherty, presi- joining tl i was 180% —Richerd | Upinhn, noted | dent of the Carnegie Institute ofl beaaataiay eles areca New York architect, who did at | Technology, Pittsburgh, born!of Mr. and Mrs. Hiryant Kirke. 'least one mission church a year Clay City, Ill, 58 years ago. { * free, born England. Died Aug.! 5 ee =i | = 17, 1878. } Sa \ 1849—Terence’ V. © Powderly,} machinist, Scranton, Pa., mayor, head of the powerful Knights~oft Labor commissioner of ‘immigra-| tion, born Carbondale, Pa. Died June 24, 1924. born in Tennessee, 62 years ago. | |FROM F 2 OF JANUARY 22, 1833 Herbert Wilks, the new _mana- tucky, ofthe U. S. Court of/Lodge arrived in Key West this als, Washington; born Lousia, | morning from New York. He will 53 years: ago. }leave sometime during the after- ne ead jnoon for Pirates Cove. Irving S.° Olds, noted steel} ae jhead, born’Erie, Pa. 56 years} Obadiah Higgs, 79, died yester- | ago. day afternoon in his home in the 1852—Joshua W. Alexander,’ SS |rear of 809 Fleming street. Fun- jurist, Missouri congressman, sec-| Lt. Gen. Stanley D. Embick, re-jeral services will be conducted retary of commerce under Wilson, |tired, born Franklin Co, Pa., 66;this afternoon, beginning at 4 born Cincinnati. Died Feb. 27, years ago. | o'clocx, in the First Congrega- 1936. {tional Church, of which Mr. | Haig Patigian of San Fran-/| Higgs was a charter member. 1874—Edward S. Harkness, cisco, noted sculptor, born in Ar-! —_——- philanthropist, born Philadelphia. | menia, 67 years ago. Died Jan. 29, 1940. LEGALS , George J. Rosenthai, in his at- {tempts to block action of the Fulton Oursler of New York,|Qverseas Bridge Corporation, has noted editor, born in Baltimore, now asked for an injunction |50 years ago. ‘against the county commission- cas ‘ers. The validity of his suppos- rp | a \ed franchise was denied in an TT: Today In History action heard before Judge Jef- |ferson B. Browne in circuit court, and now Rosenthal has switched jhis action from the corporation | to the commissioners. “ piaintiff, |, .1813—Gen. James Winchester, Bee jand some 800 Americans, killed Defend: tor taken prisoner by English at Y .., Raisin River, Mich—2nd -war "| with England. vs. DOROTHY LOUISE P ORDER OF PUBL DOROTHY LOU 144 Old Street, W Portsmouth, Virgin E Ras You are herebs: required to ap-\ 1850—First issue of San Fran- ea o the Bill o: Complaint, for); * * =: “4 pear to the Bill of Complenuze on (cisco’s first daily, the Alta Cali- the Ist day of Mar D. 1943, | fornia. otherwine the therein v k as confesse: *, Winnie Order into be published once | 1873—Congress abolishes a week for four con e weeks | franking privilege. lin The Key West C ws- i {paper published in Key Wes ida Done and ¢ january, A. D. 19 The Key West Municipal Band will hold a meeting tonight in San Carlos Hall. Arrangements for a series of concerts to be given in Bayview Park will be made at the meeting. | TO: The city council, at a special ;meeting Saturday afternoon, |granted a lease to the Arthur 1895—The National Association|S#wyer Post of the American i this 14th day of jot Manufacturers organized in| L¢gion and the local Spanish War d tenancy ; Veterans on the old incinerator the ordere ) $ of the Cireuit Court, | County, Florida By (Sd.) Florence grounds, which, it is intended, 1912—American troops occupy will be converted into an airfield. |Tientsin, China, in disorders, | \there. Mrs. William Cates, of Virginia street, who had been visiting rela- 1917—Historic President Wil-| tives in Lakeland, Fla., returned wT OF THE|sOn’s “Peace ~ Without Victory”! today, as a result of a telegram L_CIRCUIT address before Senate. , calling her home due to the serious Or oa =) o | illness of her husband. eee * “") 1932—President Hoover signs, = : see NO. 8-458 |Reconstruction Finance Corpora-| Claude Lowe, who had been in FRANK GORDON ee ition Bill Key West visiting relatives and oe DIVORCE! pee ASe | friends, returned yesterday to his | MARY ELL FISHER, | 1941—Costly Allis - Chalmers | home in Tavernier. Defendant, a A | TION ‘strike begins. ORDER OF PUBLIC NEEDLE NEAR HEART | (Sa) ALLAN FE | Solicitor f | feb5,1943 | Ke No. 8-458 W.H. Pierce, who had been spending his vacation in Key West, left today vO: Mary Ellen Fishei Madison | Street, Cortland, New York. You are hereby required to pear to the Bill of Complaint, divorce, in the above styled cause the Ist'day of February, A. D. 1 | KANCEAS CITY, Jan. 22—While otherwise the allegations therein|OM duty as a watchman, Theodore | will be taken as confessed. Kubicki, 32, suffered violent pains | This Order is to be published| + i é ange oa ¥ s i) in the region of his heart. The} s 5 auases 2 nce a week for four secutive | lowing a fortnight’s visit in Mi- ap- for on er. Anniversaries 2 7 Gen. Philip B. so | DAYS GONE BY OF THE CITIZEN | _ Judge Frederick M. Vinson of ger of the Pirates Cove Fishing} for Sombrero , Lighthouse, where he is the keep-! Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Russell, fol- | weeks in The Key West Citizen newspaper published in Key Wes Florida. Done and Ordered this 30th day of doctor who was summoned found | that a needle had pierced his body in the region immediately above his heart. The needle was removed | | and Kubicki returned to his home. jsmi, returned home yesterday. Edney Parker, constable of the third district, who had been in Key jonroe | West on official business, returned County, i | yesterday to Tavernier. By (Sd.) Florenc NOT SO GOOD | ALTA LOMA, Calif, Jan. 22— jJan1-8-15-22,1943 | While practicing a “strong man” ae z | act, Lee Statom, 17, managed to lift VLERENTE SUIDChALe eee two 100-pound dumbbells over his Or THE st. j head, but the weights pulled him ‘iover backward with such force |that both his wrists were frac- tured in his fall. CAT FROZEN ON ROOF DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 22.—| Borrowing an ice pick, Policeman | Anthony Mihalovich climbed up on | the roof of a house and chopped loose the foot and tail of a cat which had become frozen there. } ‘The cat suffered no apparent ill effects. | |« FIRST PLANE RIDE AT 100 (Sa.) ALLAN B. CL Solicitor for Plaint Miss Doris Johnson returned yesterday from Miami, where she |had been visiting relatives. The Citizen says today in an | editorial apragraph: | “The boosting of every hero is usually followed by a campaign | of humanizing, or what in common 2 | parlance is known as debunking.” vs. SARAH ALEXANDER, Det. ORDER OF PUB TO: SARAH ALEXA? Street, Richmond, You are hereby required ap- pear to the Bill of Complaint, for divorce in the above styled cause on |the ist day of February, A. D. 1943, | otherwise the allegations therein will be taken as confessed. This Order is to be published once a week for four consecu weeks in The Key West Citizen, a News- paper published in Key West, Flor- ida. Done and Ordered this 31st day of December, A. D, 1942. (SEAL) Ross C Sawyer Clerk of the Cireuit Court, Monroe County, Florida. By (Sd.) Kathleen Nottage, Deputy Clerk. Sd.) ALLAN B. CLEARE, JR., Solicitor for Plaintiff. Jan1-8-15-22,1943 LEGAL NOTICE All persons are hereby notified (that a request has been made by the United States Naval Operat- ing Base, Key. West, Florida, to close the drawspan of the Moser Channel Drawbridge for the pe- riod from January 8, 1943, to February 8, 1943. Request has been made to the United States| to Engineers Office at Miami Beach, | flamed Florida, and any person wishing to interpose an objection to such closure shall make such” objec-| qi heist Engi- tion in writing to, K. M. FENWICK, Public Works Officer, Naval Op- eraing Base, Key West, Florida. By direction of the Commandant. jan8 to febs agecacconcracecerqececes STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE to 4° ST. GEORGE, Utah, Jan. 22.— Charles W. Seegmiller recently celebrated his one hundredth birthday by taking his first air- plane ride. On his return from the ride, he was greeted by more than 500 relatives and friends, How To Relieve Bronchitis be- | H. E. CANFIELD, M. D, | Specialistin Diseases of tna EYES. Will See Patients Each Evening at Dr, Galey’s Office. 417 Egton Street FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1943 | |Today’s Horoscope now called the No. 1 Steel industry. ; customer of | Today gives a reflective and steady nature, a_ scientific versatile mind. There is great independence of thought. It is a day of the discoverer of hidden things and favors the birth of an inventor, who not only adds to the world’s wealth but also brings wealth to himself. Chamber head urges we take world leadership after the war. Subscribe to The Citizen. J. F. SIKES © PLUMBER SEE PAUL SmuitrH pe THERINE STREET | PO StmowvonsT. peer | Notice To Property Owners Important New Law Relating te Tangible Personal Property Taxes In Florida CAUTION: Under Chapter 20723, Laws of Florida, Acts of 1941, it is MANDATORY that every person, fi: tion, trustee, executor, administrator, rece fiduciary owning or having control, manageme of taxable personal property in the State of Fi nually a sworn Tangible Personal Property Tax Re Tax As: r of the County in which such property is MERCHANTS—File returns on all equipment and inventories, etc. BUSINESS and PROFESSIONAL MEN—File returns all furniture, fixtures, professional equipment and libraric HOTEL and APARTMENT OWNERS—File returns all furniture, fixtures and equipment. Name of lessees concessions should be given on returns. LANDLORDS—File returns on value ef furnishings rental houses and show name of lessee on January 1, 1543. TENANTS—File returns on household goods and per- sonal effects, claiming constitutional exemption, if eligible To be eligible for exemption, applicant must be a citizen of Florida and head of a family. HOME OWNERS—File and personal effects of fa which eligible. ACCOUNTANTS and ATTORNEYS—See that fiduciary returns, or other returns for y are filed promptly SECTION 34, Provid ‘Any person who fails to make a tax return, as required by th shall pey as a PENALTY, in addition to and as part tax, 2 sum equal to 10% of the tax found to be due eturns on all househeld goods ly, claiming any exemption for The date of assessment is January 1 | It is my sincere wish that we | single penalty for failure to file returns. Ef returms ape mot filed, however, it is mandatory that the penalty be added The penalty is also added for property omitted from the m=- turns. If you need a return form, phone r se card and one will be mailed pr ™ office from 9 AM. to 5 PM INTANGIBLES—Must be re and April Ist, including equit in non-resident trusts and estates i bonds, mortgages, receivables, bank acc any other intangible property owned If not reported, W% penalty is MANDATORY. All returns and || filed by April Ist. |} Court House, Key West, Florida nd us 2 post- Forms available at apy exemption must be A CLAUDE Monroe GANDOLFO. County Tax Assessor i