The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 29, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TWO She Bei Thi Bul Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County vred at Key Went, Fi as second class matter Cre MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for republirat’ i} hews dispatehes credited ‘to Lor hot otherw d.ted In this paper and also the focal nga jy ere : ts TION RA'CES Made known on application. SPEC NOTICE All reading notice: of thanks, resolutioss of respect, obituary no .. Will be charged for at the rate of 10-cents a tiv Notices for entertainment by churches from which venme is to be derived are 6 cents a line.” 2 ‘itizen is an open forum and invites discus- sion of public issuex and subjects of local or general paterens bor it will not publish anonymous communi- Rtions. MEMBER — FLORIDA PRESS. ASSOCIATION, \ NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION s) WILL always seek the truth and print it w.thout fear and bib Aavor; , never, be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud tight; always fight for si never be th gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction 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 und not contaminate the reader; never com- vl ise with principle. ‘dPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN . Water and Sewerage. ‘More Hotels and Apartments. . Beach and Bathing Pavilion. 5. Consolidation of County and City Gov- . ernments. 6. _A Modern City Hospital. CRANKS PREVENT ACCIDENTS The head of the house who is usually very.careful about preventing or avoiding situations and conditions that might cause accidents is generally regarded as a crank by other members of the family. Accident statistics, however, warn us that the home is one of the places where we are most likely to be injured. Apparent- ly, carelessness about small matters often leads to serious injttri@s, This is apparent in the number of fires that take the lives of small children throughout the United States. It is frequent to read news stories telling of the death of | \ #n entire family, wiped out by a blaze that | swept through the family dwelling during | the quiet hours of the night. Tt may seem absurd to keep an eye on the fire that is left burning when the fame, ily retires but it is better to be over-cautious \ than te be burned to death. That more fat ilies are not snuffedygut by fire, is proba) cue to the activities of a “crank” around the house. More power to him, or her, ag the case may be. Advice: Pay up all your debts now, if possible, while money is more plentiful. Then keep out of debt. There are people in this world ready to accept all forms of hospitality without ever thinking that it is proper to return some of it, even if to a different people. Accitients took the lives of 93,000 American people during 1942 and more than | 9,300,900 Americans suffered serious in- juries, That’s‘war on the home front. D NEIGHBOR AT WORK is clothing, medieal supplies and othetgodds that move from this country carry tags and labels bearing the American flag and a greeting from the United States. This revelation will probably relieve some Americans who have worried lest we send the supplies and fail te get the proper credit. : The OWI announces that already sim- ilar notices are being prepared in German an ftalian, so that when we send supplies to unfortunate people of these nations they will know that the “Good Neighbor’? is at work, ae te te “SLIMY SNEAKS” ' ——— H | While The Citizen is aware that ru- | mcrs run spangbang into one another, so | great are their numbers, in connectign with | a situation as serious as the focd shortages | in Key West, yet some things The Citizer. ; knows to be true regarding the reports tha! . three olack markets have been operating in Key West. | i The Citizen. knows, for instance, che | Monroe County ‘Rationing Board has sub- mitted affidayits to the law-enforcement | branch of the OPA regarding irregularities | in one of the stores in question. Incidentally. | the affidavits were voluntarily given the beard by residents who had traded with the | man against whom they complain. | “~~ The Citizen knows further that, on the game day, one member of its staff paid 65 cents a pound for bacon at one store while another member cf the staff bought bacon, | of the highest quality, at another store for | only 45 cents a pound. H The Citizen knows, too, that the latter store has consistently refused to handle any preducts that it knew was in any way con nected with black marketing. A few evenings ago a Miami radio com mentator apologized because he could not | think up a more despicable term than, “slimy | sneaks” to denounce black market rack- cteers. He placed them in the same category with suboteurs. Black market racketeers, h asserted, stick the prefiteering knife to the | | hilt into the backs of the fo]ks at home while j | their fathers and sons are fighting and lying | to save this country from the clutches of | | heartless warlords who would substituie | the iron heel fcr freedom in ruling the | | world. | Meat market men ir Key West (these men are Key Westers, who were born here and giew up here) haye told The Citizen that, on trips to Miami to purchase meat, | they were tcld at wholesale houses, with ; which they had been dealing, that none was available, but they could have gene | across the street and bought all the meat they wished at another house that charged exorbitant prices. The Key Westers refused to buy there, because they did not want to transact business with any concern that contributed to the sky-high bocsting of prices for the necessaries of life. One of the storeke¢pers in Key West, against whom there has been rumors of black-market practices, is now accused of telling at least two customers that soap and soap powder were to be frozen at midnight Thursday. As E. P. Winter, of the local ra- tion board stated, the report was false. The OPA has had a hard time fighting the black market. It operates surreptitious- ly and itis difficult to obtain evidence egainst it. However, The Citizen hopes that any meat market man in Key West, regard- less of whom he may be, who has knowingly played the role of the “slimy sneak”’, will be apprehended and punished to the full ex- tent of the law. A GOOD DEAL In light of the current Key West boom and \ through no fault or generosity of Roy Crummer that city’s refunding contract with him has turned out to he a good deal and the city wants to complete it. Inv , Crummer, evidently seeing a handy cats- we this situation, as a performance prequi- ite-On his part, has demanded that Key West of- | ficitils get a clearance by March 25, from the Florida Securities Commission for the unlicensed Crummer Company, which inherited the contract as succes- sor to R. E. Crummer & Co., so that it can go ahead with the deal. The idea apparently being to force issuance of a license to the revamped Grummer company, which has been held up. Attorney General Tom Watson, who is also a member of the securities commission, seems, however, to have punctured that hove by ruling that the old dissolved company still had a license and can proceed legally to wind | up the Key West job. The refund covers $1,167,000 of bonds with $1,118,000 already exchanged and the balance involved in a pending Wilcox bank- ruptcy action. Approximately half of the hold-out bonds belong to Ed. C. Wright. The refunds call for 2, 3 and 4 per cent interest rates over succes- sive ten year periods. Crummer has operated with a pretty free hand | in the Key West-Monroe picture for a decade. In | the county refund, through - delinquent coupon manipulation of the gas tax fund, he has had one | of his cushiest situations. He long tried to hitch the | school and city refund to the gas tax wagon as he did in Pasco afid Manateé counties: being always | balked by the courts. (Except Pasco, where Federal | litigation is under way after Governor Hollarid | stopped payment on the famous “junior coupons”). | Few, if any, politico-economic situations in | Florida had sunk as disastrously low as had Monroe- | Key West in 1932-33. None have rigen to dizzier | heights under the red banners of war. There are 40,000 war-hectic people §n Key West compared | to 14,000 apathetic ones a decade ago. Auto traffic | and fresh water have come through State-Federal | funds. Army, Navy, Housing authorities, have | heaped tens of millions on the city. The new tax | laws have revived and clarified the real estate sit- on The duPont millions have flowed in.—Fui- i ler’s Florida Letter. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN OFFICIAL TABLE UF GUNSUmcn L : No. 1—Effective March 29, 1943 rum, ¢ALUES ruK MEAT, FATS, FISH, AND CHEESE MONDAY, MARCH 29, 194 Gardening Guide—7 EARLY PLANTING commoprry PAYS DIVIDENDS LAMB— MUTTON STEAKS AND CHOPS STEAKS AND CHOPS WOWEOmAW €0 ~1 00 09 08 09 «0 09 09 ~1 00 00 00 SWOT ee DPAOANGRN DD HAMBURGER Beef ground from necks, shanks, briskets, See NYROUNWew READY-TO- EAT MEATS COOKED, BOILED, BAKED, AND BARBECUED sy " “Except purchases in bulk units containing meve than Gve (5) pounds (net subdivided into units of 5 pounds or less). Fer such purchases see Official Table of Trade Point Values. ©. 6. GOVENKMENT PRINTING OFFICE 517306 CUT THIS OUT and PUT IT IN A CONVENIENT PLACE IN THE HOME xd crop to fallow county agricul- FOR REFERENCE! tion LEGAL NOTICE | WAY ABOVE SEA LEVEL DAYS GONE BY! Anniversaries | : 2 GPA BIS. 1847—Vera Cruz ceremonious- | th' ly ! surrenders —’ U.S.-Mexican | in; ; 1790—John Tyler, Virginia: War. FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN jawyer, governor senator, Vice! OF RCH 29, 1933 ‘President and 10th President at = aieaeant Harrison’s death, born Charles a T. H. Pittman, local manager Caer. ve We in” Rich: the Southern Bell Telephone Com-; 4 Fo: Sik g pany, was operated on for appen-j dicitis yesterday in a local hos. pital. His condition was reported) to be good today 1882—The Knights of Colum-} jbus incorporated at New Haven, | oe esas { 2 Fi Fl 1819—Isaac M. Wise, incin-} , 1890—International Union of}, nati Rabbi, religious ‘reformer, American Republics 'setablished | seminary founder, born in Bo-; Duresu 18 Warten hemia. Died March 26, 1900. REG 4 Sects | 1905—United States buys Arthur Sawyer Post of the Am-| g2)_Frank Leslie, _ pioneer | Panama Railroad. erican Legion deferred its action! yew york publisher of + illustrat- | tase | today to try to have an airport? A eee Be i built in Key West. led magazines, born in England. 916—Greece protests German} | Died Jan. 10, 1880. ;air raid on Salonica. Hilary Carey has started to re-| 1840—Isabelle Thoburn, mis-' 1918—(25 years ago) Gen Foch | pair the searchlights towers at! sionary educator in India, found-|9f France chosen commander- Fort Taylor and the Martello Ver of girls high schools there, | in-chief of the Allied forces in Towers. He is the artillery engi-! born St. Clairsville, Ohio. Died ; France. neer 3 Fort Ta¥lor. jin India, Sept. 1, 1901. a ——— t 1918—German long-range gun _John Randolph, who had been| 1853—Elihu Thompson famed kills 70 worshippers visiting relatives in Key West, re-; Lynn Mass. pioneer in electrical! church on Good Friday. turned yesterday to bis home in’ development, born in England. Memy mo {Died March 13, 1937. ogmiyy meee { poh cnnieas in. tactical march dashes 200 Mrs. Allan Knowles returned; 1869—Mattew B. Sellers, pat-! miles in under 12 hours. yesterday afternoon from Jack-' ent attorney, noted pioneer in sonville, where she had been vis-}gerodynamits, born Baltimore., iting the last two weeks. | Died April 5, 1932. } “Lighthouse Nan,” the comedy} - a | drama, which, on its first presen-| oe 7 4 7 a tation, was greeted with a tun) LOGa¥S Horoscope, Today's Birthdays house, will be given again with BAS Ee 3 a i ot the same cast in the Harris pub-¢ S™ rest aay are D = = lic school on Tuesday evening,! A proper training makes; Mrs. Frances .P. Bolton of April 4. j strong-minded people who make Cleveland, congresswoman, born their way in the world by sheer / there, 58 years ago. A program, in memory of de-} force of intellect. Success comes | SS ; parted members, will be given onto those who control their impet-; Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, famed an-— Sunday afternoon, beginning at 4’ yousness; and turbulence and ; thropologist of the U. S. Nation- yelock, by Temple 20, Pythian submit to. education and discip- al Museum, Washington, born Sisters, in their hall on Fleming’ jine. ‘in Bohemia, 74 years ago. “treet. i 1941—4th Motorized division 1942—Corregidor under fre- quent enemy air attacks. 2.810.900 CIVILIAN WORKERS | Mrs. Larz (Isabello) Anderson FOR THE UNITED STATES of Brookline, Mass., author and visiting Mr. and Mrs. Lonny Bak-! — “| traveler, born in Boston, 67 years | er. in” their ~home on Fleming; WASHINGTON. — There were j ago. street, left yesterday for Miami. ; 2,810,900 civilians employed by) fe dts { _— the Federal Government at the; Judge James V. Allred of The Junior B’s haye arranged! end of December, 1942, according! Houston, ex-governor of Texas, a boxing card for a series of bouts| to the Civil Service Commission.{ porn Bowie, Tex., 44 years ago. to be held tomorrow night in the! This is an increase of 73 per cent/ ee high schoel gymnasium. in one year in the Government's! Baxter, actor, born®: : Columbus, Ohio, 52 years ago. Mrs. Lucille Hall, who had been SACI IOI TRISITIOI ISIS I I ISI III III II III OAT AAC m | Warner Ri ast opener ‘oll. g.Wiland Russell, of the Vidgets tates border patrol, who had/be joined there by her husband,! prof Eugnee vage; nete? been in Miami on business, return-! Captain Jones, USA, and will mot- | yaje pee Te born “Cov- ed yesterday afternoon. or to Parris Island, S. C. iington, Ind., 60 years ago. _ John W. Pini who had font Hilary Albury, proprietor of in Key West visiting relatives, re-; Afbury's filling station, left’ yes-' turned yesterday to his home oni terday afternoon on a business Plantation Key. * Htrip to Miami. Victor. Larsen returned yester-} James Smith of the Southern} jav to Miami, following a brief) Bell Telephone Company, is in|» stay with relatives in Key West..| Key West on a business visit. Mrs. J. O. Jones, formerly Miss Euphemia Bott, who had been 0 of Miss Etta Patterson, left “A man by the name of yesterday for Daytona Beach to} married a miss Fish in Clevel: visit her father, S, C. Bott. She will ' Ohio, and Fish is Fried, after all” Today The Citizen says in ani ‘close the drawspan of the Moser !Channel Drawbridge for the pe- riod April jbeen made to the United States Engineers Office at Miami Beach, 'closure shall make tion in writing to the War De- |partment, the neers Office, Miami Beach, Flor- ida. “Electrical DON'TS” All persons are hereby notified | at a request has been made by e United States Naval Operat-| g Base, Key West, Florida, to WASHINGTON.—Lak= Titica- a, twelve thousand feet above sea level in Bolivia, the highest navigable body of water in the world. from March 23, 1943, to 23, 1943. Request has lorida, and any person wishing interpose an objection to such such objec- United States Engi- LIEUTENANT COMMANDER K. M. FENWICK, Public Works Officer, Naval Op- erating Base, Key West, Florida. mar24-29;apr5-12-19,1943 ‘DR. AARON H. SHIFRIN| GENERAL PRACTICE in Paris. Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery 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 om the sole plate. Keep it clean by rubbing it on a smooth surface and applying pera- fin afterward, removing excess parafm while warm. ' 34-—Dop't iron over buttons, zippers, ete 90% of all iron trouble develops plug, terminals and cord. im the ‘4 Give to the American Red Cross PU rural iter errr tier rer rir til