The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 6, 1943, Page 2

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Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A’ Modern, City Hospital. é 4 eas = FREEDOM oF THE bRESS ° Where news is suppressed there is vanarehy; where ‘news is controlled there is fear; only where news is free are human be- ings free. CARL ACKERMAN, Dean, School of Journalism, Columbia University. Not every man means what he says when he is excited, mad or embittered. War or no war, the annual crop of Spring poetry is just around the corner The man who makes a “pusiness go is} ay who persuades the eustomers: to 4 buy. a Thpie WilPDe'an eclipse of the sda this piontlt dnd an eclipse of the tuxpayernext menth. Some people thank strangers for doing what they cverlook when performed by fends. a 2 There may be something in a after all, if the contemplated Rum] plan | fajls to pass. into office there will be politicians seeking | the majority vote. Monroe County must keep up its ree~ | iid by promptly buying its full quota 4f, War Bonds—this is war business. Vegetable»gardens in 1943 * will be! tnt the catalogs lead you to expect. Is Hitler dead or insane? HONOR TO THE UNHONORED DEAD! It has always been so and, we pre- sume, it will continue always to be so, ihat the head of an army, or any of its subdi- i visions, gets the medai and the volume of | praise when a major victory is gained. Thus, General Bernard Montgomery, commander o/ tke british Kighth Army that | chased Rommeét'from. EJ Alemein over 1,300 Will be charged for at | decorated on Thursd | velt with the Congre | or, the highest honor thi | confer on any man. | che j out of 290, lay dead on the ground where | mand, i he began, miles of desert roads té the Tunisian border, is decorated by, ihe Britis a government and | applauded by the British people for the ex- ploit. Not a word is said, or a citation made, so iar the the public knows, about the members of his statf or other commissioned men, or about any of the soldiers who fought under him, thousands of whom are in their last resting place in the desert sands. Among our own great military leaders, General Alexander A. Vandergrift was by President Roose- ynal Medal of Hoa- government can t 7 to December 9, General Fiom Aug Vandergrift commanded the United states Marines, who, (hvugh at first out numbered, oeat tha Japs to a standstill on Guadaleanal. His offensive and defensive, ' 30 mastenly, the J aps, in the real of siaategy, were littl thore than children. Or the night i of August 20, they essayed to captitre’ the ‘ Marines’ position, and when dawn painter east 4 lurid red, 767 enemy troopers ; the tighting had occurred. While we shed a tear for those Marines | who lost their lives in that encounter and | taud those who fought valiantly and sur- | vived the battle, E not one of us, who knows the type of man Vandefgrift is, would de- tract from him one tithe oi the honor that has been accorded him. Anybody who read General Vander- | | grift’s letters to his wife, written while thc | campaign on Guadaicanal was in progress, was. convinced that here was a man brim- ful of feeling for every Marine in his com- here was a man in whose make-up was not an iota of egotism. In mentioning that fight to his wife, “The Japs made a grave mistake last night,” and added that, as the news | | about the battle had been_related over the radio, he was in a position to tell her about some of the things that had happened. And | in simple words he related the story, say- ing nothing about the part he had played | in the fighting, but giving the credit for the | victory to the men under him. then he told of his grief for his killed, and gave che And men who had_ been | name of one ot his colonels, who had lost his | lize. “One of his liitle fingers was worth more to the world than 100 Japs,” he wrote in effect. Yes, it will always be thus—the head ! | man gets the medal for the victory. We | don’t know much about General Montgom- | ery, but from all accounts he, too, isa worthy man. So, while we commend Van- dergrift and Montgomery, let us not forget | the men who made the victories possible. name | Honor to the unhonored dead! Tepe FOR AFRICA ire of the Anglo! UR aian afthy to dive all the Germans out.of Tuni- sia without delay has the idea-boys con- juring up all sorts of bdogies. There are fears that Hitler will march through Spain, take Gibraltar and by cross- ing into Spanish Morocco “cut off” our sol- diers and have them in a bag. In addition, Nazi agents are busy with the tribesmen in French territory and, “first thing you know,” | will be fighting a hostile population in his So long as a majority vote puts men | own backyard! There is just a chance that Hitler will | go through Spain and mové into Spanish Morocco but, supposehee@ meet him on better.te: in Belgium, where } wanted the Alllfes, 4 | of Europe’ a> If we ca apt ‘Jictory Gardens if you can raisé‘the food Africa, where they are far from Micit Name bases, how can we expect to beat them in | Eurcpe? The fact is that Hitler’s apparent Some peo- | determination to fight ‘for Tunisia, and ple are wondering since nothing has been | maybe Africa, is all in our favor. keard from him in some time, and he failed | to spéak to his people oh the tenth anniver- | concentrated in Tunisia, Sary of his ascendancy to his leadership. to skip a year’s taxes. The larger the number of Gerrans the easief ihe pickings for our air force. That a few | thousand German soldiers, corhéred in a when payments must be continued without | mies, plus the American and French units, 8 year’s interiude. The change is only ia is absurd unless it established that our the method of disgorging to Uncle Samuel. | fighting men are unequal to the Nazis; Gen. Risenhower | * | ithgton, Del, pate KEY WEST CITIZEN KEY WEST DAYS CONE BY FROM FILES | oF THE CITIZEN OF FEBRUARY 6. 1933 Roberts. niovel, con- layer of his wife and fath- i 1g yesterday | afternoon by Justic I owe, and was held wi‘hout for the action of the grand jury. W. W. Demeritt, superintendent of jighthouses in this district, left | yc.te.day on the tender Ivy on pection trip of lighthouses ! ether uids to navigation along the west coast of Florida. The matron of the Mercedes hospital re.orted today that funds for the operation of that institu- tion are practically exhausted. She appealed to the public for fi- 5 i According to an Associated Press dispatch published on the front page of The Citizen today, A toyney General La dis has in- formed Comptroller J. M. Lee that county commissioners can not le- galy reduce or increase assass- amc ince they fate niade by the dass®ssor and appried by the com- ‘nifsioners. « hares 3 Mosier, botanist, now in “Key West to help in the conserva- tion and beautification campaign, has informed Miss Mollie Parker that he will gladly identify and | classify any plant that is brought to him. Miss Edith Hilton, daughter of | Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hilton, and Joseph Ladd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ladd, were married yester- day by the Rev. A. B. Dimmick, rec‘or of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. “Aunt Dinah’s Quilting Party,” a comedy, will be presented next Monday evening, February 13, by Temple 20, Order of Pythian Sis- “ers. Mrs. Lenuel Baker today an- 10unced the approaching marriage of her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Baker, to Delmar Butler. The (ey will be performed on | Thursday evening, February 9, in |the First Methodist Church by | the pastor, the Rev. J. G. Strad- ' ley. Mrs, Ella King, 64, dicd tuis ' morning in a local hospital, where she recently underwent a surgical operation. Funeral services will be held at 4 o'clock tomorrow after- noon in the First Congregational Church, the Rev. E. R. Evans of- ‘ ficiating. | Mrs. John Key and Mrs. Emily Graves, sisters, who had been vis- iting in Havana, returned yester- | day. Mrs. J. J. Trevor, who had been in Columbia, S. C., to attend the funeral services for her fath- er, returned yesterday. of the Peace | RS. MURDOCK GSES ‘TAKES A. CASE Chapter 46 Exit Thorndike ESTOR looked at Ward Al- len. “It was true, wasn’t it. that story about the shortage of! accounts? Only it was Dean v was short—and on my account? “I'don’t know,” Ward said, watching Delia sip the brandy and water. “I knew he'd taken the bonds—not at first, but taday. I could only guess why he’d taken them.” Fenner stopped beside Thorn- dike. “You'd better lie down.” “It won’t matter now.” “Want a drink?” “Nothing thanks.” He _ re- mained sitting but the effect of the shock was passing and pain had begun to write its message on his face. “There are just one or two things I’d like to say.” He paused and seemed to be having trouble breathing. “Hestor. ... You're right about the hundred thousand. I was broke I tried to sell the ketch, but even that wouldn’t have made much difference. I was short. with no way of making up. When you told me you wanted to pay Clarke I knew it was the break I'd wanted. I sent the bonds up by Ward to make it look right. All i had to do was borrow them from my other clients for a few hours and then put them back; then when I gave you an accounting it would be in order. I heard Clarke quarreling with Ward*at Hestor’s party; I overheard him talking to Raeburn on the terrace —although I didn’t know who Raeburn was then—and it sourd- ed like blackmail. I hoped the murder would cover up the theft, but—then there was Hardacker.” “You were the one in the shadow of the house,” Joyce said softly, remembering the moment on the terrace. Thorndike did not notice the interruption. “IT hadn’t much choice,” he said. “It was getting the bonds or prison. And for me anything would be better than that—even this.” He was silent then and present- ly Hestor spoke. “Funny. Even now when we know where the bonds are, they don’t belong to me.” She shrugged. “I pay off and get nothing.” “The other thing,” Thorndike said, as though he had not heard, “is this I wouldn’t have hurt Delia, Ward. I had to make you think I would, though. I had to scare you both to silence. I wanted a chance to run for it. Anyone else, yes, I would have shot it out. But not her.” Delia got up. Ward tried to re- strain her but she shook off his hand. She went to Thorndike and kneeled beside him. “T believe you,” she said. Thorndike nodded and Delia’s eyes filled. Somewhere in the dis- tance a siren shrilled, drawing rapidly nearer, then dying out again as it stopped below the windows. Ward went to Delia. He put his hands beneath her elbows and lifted her gently to her feet. Bacon Burned Up a BACON gnawed on his lower lip and refused to be entirely placated, Arriving af the same time as the ambu- lance, he had sent Thorndike to the hospital with Sergeant Keogh and word had just come back that the man had died on the way. Now although the others had told him what had happened in the room, he was still far from satis- fied. “Every time I get mixed up with you in a murder case,” he The Citizen says today in an | editorial paragraph: “Astronomers are of the opin- ion that the plane, Mars is dry. j but is it?” } Gov. Ernest G irig’ of» Alas- ka, born New, York, aes years ago. Dr. Walter P. Pitkin, retiring | Columbia Uniy. psychologist, au- | born Ypsilanti, Mich., 65 years ago. Arthur Nutt, vice president, |Wright- Aeronautical, Paterson, N. J., born New Rochelle, N. Y., 48 years ago. U. S. Sen. Robert M La Fol- lette, Jr., of Wisconsin, born Madison, 48 years ago. Dr. William P. Murphy of Bos- ton, physician, Nobel. winner, \born Stoughton, Wis., ago. 51 \den, . J, founder -of the Ye: Talking Bisenive Co., Bon Wilm: 76 Years ako. | se .¥ | Horoscope —SSa | Today is likely to give a hard, jSelfish and astute nature, reserv- jed and self-reliant, but subject to | The only way to skip a yeat’s taxes is | small part of Africa, can stand off the fail | There is no skipping | might of the British Eighth and First ar- CHICAGO.—Coal has been known to man for more than 2,000 | years, but has been chemically ex- | ploited for less than a century. thor of “Life Begins at Forty”,| years | | “deg R. Johnson of Cam-; said to Murdock, “you hold out on me a little. Now you've got your wife doing it.” “She didn’t hold out. Except at first.” “She was comm t out with Allen. RAL you, and Fennees me? Bo. “I wasn’t sure,” este thought I was right byt I, be sure.” gins 3 have her. “Well, I got to ‘harid it 46 ‘you. Tt was nice figuring, that ‘part about Raeburn notibeing bie to get a gun. I had the;same idea this morning and we've been checking it. The nearest .pawn- shop to Hardacker’s office is five blocks away, and that closed at nine. So I'd been_ wondering. About Allen, mostly. We’d checked Thorndike’s alibi the night of Clarke’s murder. .It wasn’t any- ; thing. He was at his club like he said, but there are a couple of ways of getting out and in again besides the front door, The rec- ord showed him as. 7 in but it ae meen a thin; e turned to on act a ally did see AN ¥e indicating Delia, “That mint eo) Perry Clarke's?” Allen nodded, {I'd parked my car_and crossed ‘the street. Just as I was about to step inside the entrance, I saw hér round the cor- ner. I kept. on, ,not. believing it could be.'she; then I turned and dooked again. "When she went over her car t eg sure. I couldn’t Fait ote ‘hut there was noth- ig Pe could do. I had to see Clarke bra I didn’t want her to know ything about it.” The Ash Can sas Awe you went up and knocked and he let you in?” “I thought he was drunk. He staggered and fell backward. He never moved after that. I bent over him and then I saw the blood. He spoke just once. ‘She took the envelope,’ he said—I could hardly hear him—‘Dee did it?” Allen glanced about. “I'd seen her, you see, and knew that she must have been there. I never dreamed that instead of ‘Dee’— that’s what I always call her—he was trying to say, ‘Dean.’ He may even have said, ‘Dean,’ but hav- ing just seen her—and later find- ing the envelope and bonds gone —I could only think of that one word, ‘Dee.’” He sighed. “I didn’t know why you’d gone there but I knew Clarke, Delia. I thought he must have become abusive, that you had seen the gun and in desperation used it.” “He had to think that, Delia,” Murdock said. Clarke mentioned your name—or so 9 Sa tg weak “I tool e gun and got out,” Allen said. “I was a fool to it in that trash can, but I'd wij it off. I never really thought that I aa in Sees “a “Innocent people seldom do,” Murdock said. “No wonder you wouldn't todo. | Bacon said. “A fine how-to-do. You won't talk because youre | afraid for her, and she holding out because she'll involve you if she says anything.” He rl a yo Hestor. “You never said roca x ee to Thorndike about the envelope —or what was in it?” “I never knew there was an en- velope.” Hestor crossed her knees and her tone was curt. “If I'd known about the envelope and those copies, wouldn’t I have de- manded them when I paid over the hundred thousand?” “I guess you would.” To be continued ¥ er of. 'the Revolution, jaws! lyer and-senator, 3rd Vice ideale a tragic historical figu born Newark, N: J. 114, 1836. | 1807—Hiram Sibley, promoter- \financier’ of telegraphy, co-found- ler of Western Union, born Adams, !Mass. Died July 12, 1888. 1818—William M. Evarts, fam- ‘ed New York lawyer, orator and senator of his generation, born ‘in Boston. Died Feb. 28, 1901. | 1833—James E. B. Stuart, fam- \ed Confederate cavalry, leader, \born Patrick Co., ‘Died in |Richmond from Siittis received in battle, May 12, 1864. 1868—George A. Dorsey, noted; anthropologist, whose books be~ eee F Pagd Today's Horoscope ey Today turns out a powerful *mind—with.,proper training. But jf the mind’ should become per- ‘verted, the instincts will lead to fextreme viciousness. Parental |ance. NEW YORK.—Mpre than 100 million tons of eoak will be used | to provide chemicals in 1943. came a best-seller, born Hebron. Ohio. 29, 1931. Established 1885 Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers ” 24-Hour Ambulance Service > PHONE 135 ‘HIGHT 696 . POPP POSOO CTT POT YOUR NEWSBOY rice buys his copies of The Citizen at whole- sale, sells them at retail, Serena nen em ae ey pays cash for his papers. him promptly and regularly. Circulation | . . » loses if @ customer fails to pay. . . . is embarrassed if a customer is slow pay- . - « goes the limit for his trade, ic on the job tat shin ene etree Oe ee by paying THE CITIZEN i} 1 “He saw you | MANY MILLIONS OF TONS | Died New York, March | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1948 "THINGS POLITICAL ON CAPITOL HILL By JACK STINNETT “AP Features Service Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—If the ecnsensus of non-partisan observ- ers here means anything, Repub- licam party leaders came off with ‘T# neat bit of strategy in narhins Harristn E. Spangler, of bas qgitional chairnian “at said Isuis' Committee session. Yeddt is even said now Bacon looked down’his nhost*4t"Patently with seme authority) of Towa, that’ St (and ap- thdt ‘the selection ‘of Spangler had already been planned and plotted in smoking room sessions in Washington long before the committce meeting was held. The idea was not a “stop-Will- kie” campaign or a boost-any- body-else drive. The idea was to select a man who could go along quietly and efficiently for a cou cle of years wifhout stirring up a ccntroversy within the party The man they wanted was one who wasn't tarred with ’s brush or stamped di itely with any “isms” except good old GOP. Spangler was that man. If, on cecasion, as it was reported, he had said publicly that after the war, the United States would haye, to. take a grecter hand in wotld affairs, he nullified his statement about being infested ly, in, getting -— for! the Republican: party < whieh there were none in Mon- golia. On the other hand, that could hardly be held up 2s aa lationism” It's no secret the Willike unpopular with many of the top Republican leaders. The vote h rolled up in the presidential elec- tion of 1940 hasn't won him many friends among party leade 2 he didn't have before But that really wasn't peint, say the observers selection of Spangler. The le ers not only didn't want a W. kieite, they didn't want an “ite of any kind GOP leaders here are comvime ed that Republicans are 1944. As a result, it is said, the Re publican party will probably just play dead duck for the next two years, coming to life only to fly away with’ Democratic issues thet Plove unpopuiar,az to s@al m wrth that portion of the Democratic flock (it's already split om se eral major issues) which has the favor of the voters Why else, say the observers, the | Minority Cieedet Sor Baste gve Remmmmmnipe the party national chairman —$—<$— — — J. F. SIKES LICENSED PLUMBER 1306 CATHERINE STREET “wer “rrr TRY IT TODAY .. - | the Favorite in Key West STAR * BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE at ALL GROCERS anes dees sss , t1aining’ is, of, the utmost import- | } Died Sept. that [ ship, but to devote his entire time to manipulations of the party in the House? It is there, where their minority numbers within 2 few votes of the maj-rity. that the 1944 election pro will be determined. In the last year, there has been a lot of talk about the split m the Republican party. Since the November elections and @special- ly since ‘imtraparty squabbies among the Democrats broke out in the closing days of the 77th Congress, there's been a good deal r * talk here about the po bility of a third perty the Democ ic " bly Teday In# 1778 _Benjamir ountry 1815—C t Act—New Jersey rights to John 3 tall roec 1964—RussoJap War es 1918—@5 years 2. DONT clean exposed wires in unite with any metal instrument. A will not heat or will burn out 3. DON'T evér ishinersé = heating unit in - water. DON’T makeshift fuses for appli- 4s ances. Use the fuse that fs recommend.