The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 26, 1943, Page 2

PAGE vo RIDA THE KEY WEST CITIZEN + ‘Today In History KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN OF MARCH 26 1933 ‘The 5 Key West i Citizen YTS wUDLINH ING. OGe INE im Sunday, by 2 Publisher FAIR SHARE OF EVERYTHING rec ACTOR PLOWS BETTER, FASTER’ Yé0s—Act of Congress divides nnn EW !Y-bought Liouisiana = ‘tory—southern part made Terri- tery of Louisiana. A little town in upper New York state Todas S He — ope had a similar experience in the. difficult: of obtaining foods that Key West is having’ j new, because a big town, from which the | | little town got its supplies, could sel] com- ATED PRESS modities “‘just around the corner,” as a re- ; tor ihe, Ammoctaced Dress ts excl eines ereaieed’ es | SUlt of which the smailer place was unable vy, mig publtoked Gi ted in this paper and also the | t obtain a good many of the necessaries of IUTION nates ‘i t life. i tyme Year. 2 eet ‘The people in the little town appealed to the state headquarters of the OPA, ani | the discrimination was forthwith stopped. The same thing is happening in Key West, particularly in the case of meats and !ecndensed and evaporated milk, becauss | Miami wholesalers can sell their comm 4)- | ties readily at home, and Key West has had to ge without them. R.S. Miller, representing the Food Dis- tribution Administration, in making his rounds of Key West with Paul G. Albu found evidence in every store that this city has been discriminated against by Miami | wholesalers. But, beginning April 1, Key West no longer will play the role of step-child, De- | spite the fact that, although practically ail : | commodities we will get will come through Miami, Key West will get its fair share, based on the OPA’s “equalization” plan. | chance to make an anchor in rich, At any time, as Mr. Miller told Mr. Ai- | porous ground. In_ plowing, the a > W. <; | top soil is turned under. Thus the Dr. James B. Conant, president bury, when Key West grocers and butchezs Toes gibi cudicneathe: of Harvard, born in Boston, 50 | know that discrimination is being practiced |-To reach it, ithe plants send Years ago. | in Miami against this city, state headquar- down long, healthy roots. These eene ts Only Dally Newsps er i in Key West and M » County _ as second class matter | , 1814—Gen. William Hull court- martialled for surrendering; De- troit to British in late found guilty. DR. AARON H. 3HIFRIN GENERAL PRACTICE Osteopathic Medicime and Surgery PHONE 612 W More than $50,000 of hoarded War— ‘gold has been popes in The First National Bank o: since it reopened for daa 1886—Railways of Midwest | ter the moritorium, 1t was tied up bv strikes as times get ‘ced ioday. bette: and labor more in demand —troops finally called out. * 2. YD: HOO *.. Bealthy, nice-looking gicis rat , Bersway girls ere scidom S ‘can't put on curves if y because it Was tite for _pr only $464 was Today was a f ——— iocal relief worke 1913—Winston Churchill, then payday. However, admiralty chief. urges Englani distributed. and Germany suspend navy builcing for a vear—year before war. FICTION - NON-FICTION TECHNICAL BOOES 2 &33 AM t 7 PL IF You'Re Leoneve Fee Vitamin Bi cod Is Yo of thanks, resolutioss of AU reading f .. Will be charged for at respect, obituary the rate of 10 cents @ tin Notices for entertainment by churehes from which @ revenuc is to ve derived are 5 cents a line. The Cit.zen is an open forum and invites discus- sion’ of public issues and subjects of local or general st but it will not publish anonymous communi- * \ The commit ed by the city co! investigation regar Navy Posal to issue script “will make its report in , Hall, beginning at 9 night. 1922—U. S. Prohibition Ap Features , - swings into action. if you're a garden general this spiing and mechanized forces are! available to you, it’s patriotic to | have a tractor plow up your large-| size Victory Garden. > Plowing ually does a better was to give on the job of soil preparation than spad-; _1929—Over 8 million. share (March 30, has be ing; therefore you'll harvest a|stock tumble in Wall Street. some time after larger crop. Many cities have ranged for tractor pl: ng of Vic- tory Gardens. You can do the job quicker and | more efficiently with tractor and plow than with a spade. Soil is turned to give seeds a the o'clock to- 1928—Government’s_ estimation of unemployed some 1,800,000— year before the depression. See Paut SmurrH 334% Simonton! The bridge party that Fer: Chapter, Order of the Eastern Sta MEMBER —~ FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION 'x*) afternoor 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- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or 1942-50 Jap planes bomb Corregidor for six hours. The Ladies Aid Society of the | Ley Memorial Churea will h a meeting on Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. “Two noes = M.A MI=-os mm LOCATED IN HEART OF CITY == ROOMS === Reasonable for Reservenons WITH BATH AND TELEPHONE FORD HOTEL PERSHING HOTEL 60 NE. 3rd Street 225 NE ist Avenue 80 Rooms - Elevator 108 Rooms - Elewetor The Civie Music Club will hold a meeting at 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon in the annex of the F: Methodist Church. et oday’s Bir thday Ss, Young People’s Day was served yesterday by all of tt 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 Wate1 and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airpurts—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. ° SIE ANON DLE a Tis! SESS FALLACY EXPLODED Tt has been a common practice when more taxes were needed by the Federal gov- ernmen!, to show that British government are higher than our Federal income taxes ineome taxes. Congressman Celler-of New York, now shows that is but a half truth. He says: “The .British government collected 90 per cent cf the total tax collections of that country in the f: in the United States, ment in 1941-42 of the total taxes. al year 1941-42; whereas j the Federal govern- | collected only 61 per cent | | | { | “In other respects—notably in the ab- | serce of heavy local taxation, in the exemp- | tion of capital gains, and in the treatment of corporate dividends miums end ‘pension contributions—the Brit- ish tax systein is less severe than ours. 1 a preliminary report prepared by Logistative Reference Service of the ct Congress, taxes reduced to per capilas basis were $191—Federal alone in the United States—and $187 in Britain. . : . If state, local and other taxes were added to the $191 estimate—Federai given as the total per capita burden in this coun- } ty weuld be approvimately $260, This es- ate does not include increased taxes un- cr the 1942 measure. “Before we pass fair aws, | for exemple a pay-as-yau-go plan, e musi fi nen can we. the Englishmen b than v 3 RESOURCES UNKNOWN vé.P LHIPPIN Secretary out that cannot of the Navy Frank Knox without adequate shipping maintain its position in the po-nt dupar South Pacific. Ms. Knox explains that losses inftiet- upon the Japanese merchant fleet by planes and submarine the plocess of att ed constit on, which is a ‘most 1 Japan's military future. ' ters cf the FDA should be notified, and ae: tior will be taken immediately to put a stop to it. It requires time, because of transporta- | | plowed as soon as it is dry enough ticn and distribution difficulties, to remedy | the shortages of some commodities in Key West, but Mr. Miller stated that conditions should be normal here, as compared with any other city in these days of rationing, in | from one week to 10 days. And there will be no further upping and upping of the prices of meats and other | foodstuffs, which have not yet been pegged. The ceiling ‘prices will be in effect on April | soil should be raked immediately. 1, and any violation,of them entails a heavy | fine as well as imprisonment. } Those ceiling prices will kill the black market, particularly in” beef, selling in Key West as high - as 90 cents a pound end in some cities in the country as | high as $1.25 a pound. It should he borne in mind that ceil- with steak | { world-famed | born Woburn, Mass. | France; Aug. 21, ings in rents, as well as in the prices of com- | modities, provide the chief weapon in the | fight against inflation. “What's the use of coupons for beef wher there is no beef to get,” a Key Wes housewife asks. But beef will be available here under the new system. Further, Key West will get its fair share of everything. Most newspaper men agree that second class mail is practically always first class material, A Key West wag defines point ration- ing as a very easy, but peculiar procedure. ; bern Salem, Mass. | ton, March 17, | | Andover |Jan. 4, 1852. | Ancient Order | men, N. C. Died Jan | field, Mass. | He says you point to tha grocer what you | life insurances pre- | i ‘ j } want and then try to get it. Advertisers who want business will tell | our readers about what they sell. Follow the advertiser. He wouldn’t advertise if he’ | didn’t know he had the goods at the right } prices, BIG FISH EAT LITTLE FISH As federally sponsored power projects enlarge their field of activity, they step on the toes of municipally-owned power proj- | ects. and just tax | st dispel the idea that English- | -omparatively, already pay more than j ; | tonio when all three wanted to acquire part “Let us do away with the fallacy that sara heavier tax burden | | | One of the latest examples is down in | ° | Texas where the Guadalupe-Blarco River | CHAN Authority, and the Lower Colorado River | \ustin 3 Authority tangled with the city of San An- or all of the San Company. : The political ramifications of the deal are of interest to the rest of the country as they illustrate how the current program to promote Federal socialization of large seg- merts of the electric industry destroys tax- paying private enterprise first, then local Antonio Public Service | home rule, and finally, state’s rights. i to estimate available’ Jap- ‘ nipping facilities is speculative, adds ; Who points out that we had information to how miany Starved vetar uraie Japan had before jhe war lnow their ability to build ships. The pattern for these proceedings fol- | lows the world trend of recent years where , the most powerful ute a part of ; country swallows ihe less powerful country, until finally indi- vidual freedom is wiped out and only bu- 1eaucracy remains. ‘ Well, it’s up to the people.-Their eye: should be open by this tinie: If they want to retain liberty and freédém of opportunity, they can reject Political, schemes to de- stroy private entefprise. This is ouf ia the : open at last. oem | (Count Rumford). | shire (Leonard) Marx, come- New York City, 52 “Chico” dian, born years ago. will pick up more moisture in dry , weather than short ones grow ing near the surface. The soil may be spaded or — Maj. Gen. Raymond E .Lee, born to work in early spring. in St. Louis, 57 years ago. Test it by squeezing a handful! tightly. If it sticks together, it’s Robert Frost ay, too wet. If it crumbles’ at the a ee ea slightest pressure, it's in prime Francisco, 68 years ago. | working condition. All clods should oa ° be comnletely crushed to eliminate William Hobby, publisher, ex- air vockets. governor of Texas, born Polk Co., After svading or plowing the Texas, 65 years ago. born San; Robert W. G. Vail, librarian of the New York State Library, born Victor, N. Y., 53 years ago. Todav’s Anniversaries Ursula Parrott, novelist,” born i in Boston, 41 years ago. LEGALS 1753 — Benjamin Thompson New Hamp-! English _ states- war minister, social __ scientist. Died “in teacher, man, Bavarian OF THE STATE OF D FOR MONROE “hancery- KANTOR, inant, 1814. Compla STE RE DOTY ana t 1773 — Nathaniel Bowditch,| DOTY. his wife, famed. astronomer-mathematician, Died in Bos- | 1838. 1780—Moses__ Stuart, Theologic&l Seminary 'teacher of clergymen, Biblical | scholar, born Wilton, Conn. Died parties through, said R. Doty, hi famed under Doty and Bessie wife, and all : claiming ny right, title oF in the property de- 3 herein P You are hereby required to_ap- 1820—John J. Upchurch, rail- year to the Bill of Complaint filed way master-mechanic, founder! against you in the above styled of United Work-! sEwis : ne| 1868, born Franklin Co.,! xatd < 18, 1887. involved i s follow Key West e and Sta follows 1850—Edward Bellamy, Spring-|"""1n_ the author of “Looking - Backward”, 1888, born Chicopee, Died May 22, 1898. LEGALS Florida, Part fourteen 11), of ori 7" | eighteen wiven that the; Walton Coate, ‘ounty, Flor- h i ation packs the Hone of the »ply to one! it Court 1 Cirenit off of South and runs in a forty right di- Arthur ides of th fe. ebt-angien In a 3 n one hundred, and C12) feet out to South to the point of begin- D ORDERE ND a Re CORK ant NEALOR CORN sapr2-9+16,19 42! lwuvwwwwververvvyy KEY WEST BEDDING CO. 515 Front Street Phone 66° The Southernmost Mattress . 1943, otherwise Factory in the United States inwill be takers ae MATTRESSES RENOVATED ¢' @ FURNITURE UPHOLSTERED J. F. SIKES LICENSED PLUMBER 1306 CATHERINE STREET to appear Complaint. for diverce use onthe 34 » published published in Done and Ordered th ——_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_ Suis cee eee COPED Fi Faneral Service { Established 1885 Fommie’ 8 ie SRATING FMR : jUMMER SESSIONS ' Aserstenst Tues. - Thurs. H and Sat.. 2:30 - 4:30 Licensed Funeral Directors 4) very Evening: #:00 - 10:30 p.m 4 and Embalmers i ') 24-Hour re, Service ¢! Sar for HEALTH'S SAKE# 5 a Phone §1:.|) PHONE 135 CHT 686 {| aan sci PB elecpal is - the east coast, returned home yes- | smooth out corrugated Methodist churches in Key We Meetings were held in all of tt churehes and discussions of s' jects pertaining to young peop occurred. * Mrs. W. B. Rude, formerly Miss Hespah Pritchard, arrived in k West yesterday to visit her mc er, Mrs. Agnes Pritchard, of P street. rs. Thomas “O. Otto returned yesterday from Miami, where had been visiting her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Mich- ael Price de Boe. Mrs. Homer Dickey and daugh- ter, Miss Virginia Le Dicky, who had been in Key West visiting relatives, returned yesterday their home in Miami. Bernie C. Papy. | -visiting at several who had been points along terday. Norman Carey, who came to Key West to attend the funeral] of his father, Henrv Carey, left yes- terday afternoon for his West Palm Beach. James Dunn, district deputy of the Knights of Columbus, was in Kev West yesterday on an official visit to Kev West Council, 1050 K. of C. The Citizen savs today editorial paragraph: “President Roosevelt has a good Hull for his ship of state.” in an Wonder-Worker Customer—Can you guar: this anti-wrinkle cream” Assistant—Madam, it iron! would SOIC I ICISISI SIS I III IOI I IOI TO TST I ETI I I OF BO Ie THE OLD JUDGE SAYS Solarium Heerec 3 BLOCKS FROM UNION BUS STATION “Electrical DON'TS” Ste ELECTRIC IRONS 1.—Don’t turn your iron on for a few pieces. Plan your ironing. 2.—Don’t drop your iron. Be sure the stand will support it. 3.—Don’t allow starch to accumulate on the sole plate. Keep it cleam by rubbing # lightly in kitchen salt, spread thinly on a smecth surface and applying pere- fin afterward, removing excess parafin while warm. 4.—Don’t iron over buttons, zippers, fc They roughen the sole plate. 90% of all iron trouble develops im the plug, termimals and cord. KKK EEAAE ARERR REE ERR EEE Give to the American Red Cross 1943 War Fund MENS RAES EERE RRR ERE. THE KEY WEST ELECTRIC COMPANY eevee “T’ve been meanin’ t6 ask Yall for the last couple of weeks, Judge, what you think of this prohibition talk that keeps croppin’ up every so often.” “T’ve heard some of it too, Henry, and I feel like this about it... ee from a comparatively small war, And, as we all remember, into nearly pelanesgalanas aca gobi nmeamee PPEPE EEE EEE EPO ROH e Oe hb bhbha hhh h hha hie