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

PAGETWS ~*~ ‘The Key West Citizen Pee Hi s ING CO. INC. n Key West and Monroe County jurida, as second class matter MEMBER OF 'THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively éntifled to use for ¥ at or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the jocal news published here. “RSCRIPTION Rs'CES sped at Koy West, ee Yoar “x Months . Three Months ne Month wWeekl, ADVERTH Mate known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutioss of respect, obituary notices, etc. will be charged for at the rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which @ fevenne is to be derived are 5 cents a line. The Citizen is an open forum. and invites discus- sion of public issues and subjects of local or generat iiterest but if will not publish anonymous communi- cations. © WILL always seek the truth and print it w.thout fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; Glways 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 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 élevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. (@PROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water und Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartinénts. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Aitpurts—Land and Sea, Consolidation of County and City Gov- A Modern City Hospital. ne RATIONING—1943 AND 1932 There are millions of people in the United. States who think the rationing re- quired by the emergencies of war is a new experience for the United States. The rationing now going on in this country is regulated by the Government in order that every citizen will get a fair share. Whether gasoline, coffee, sugar, or food, an effort is made to make supplies available for distribution to the people of this coun- try. Walter Lecke contrasts the orderly ra- tioning now under way with the great ration- ing in 1980, 1931 and 1932. Tiere was no order or justice in the rationing of the depression. Part of the population had plenty, enough, but for a third or a half of the popu- lation it was tragic want in the midst of abundant plenty. Rationing today is caused by the war's cemands. Most Americans have the money te buy but the supplies are not available. In 1932, there were abundant supplies but the suffering Americans had no money with which to buy. The depression people in bread lines, others in shacks, oth- ers on the highway and wealthy men drop- ved into poverty. Farmers lost their farms, | workers their homes and widows and or- | phans their allowances, As. Mr. Locke well says, “That was the greatest, hatshest rationing in all our his- tory. Women grew wan and men died from the strain of it. Cruel, crue} time! This little rationing of wartime is nothing, for depriva- tion, to that raticning in time of peace”: Mr. Locke does not cotipare 1943 ra- tioning with that of 1932 for fun. He does it in an effort to make people understand that the “bitter, bitter disorderly rationing” | of the. depression was catised by economic | injustices, which led to inflation. The writer warns that the nation now ; ublication of all news dispatches credited to | another part had | : *. t rationing put many | CONCERT OF POWER It is the concert pqwer, the use of all | types ef weapons, from the bayonet to the battleship, that will win this war for the Al- | lied Nations, yet the argument still contin- | ues as to whether warships or airplanes play the more deadly role enemy. ! ment is as ridiculous as that preposterous i question, “If your mother and wife were | drowning, which one would you save first ?”’ While planes have accomplished: far more in this war than theit most ardent pro- ponent thought they woul, yet the destruc- tion they have wrought at sea has almost sistance they received from warships. With. out warships, particularly carriers, we would not have scored such victories as the battles at Midway and in the Coral Sea. Even on land, the plane, to be effec- other weapons. The Germans, in their de- structive divebombing attacks on Belgium, Holland and France, plished little without the cooperation of tanks end other mechanized vehicles an infantry on foot and in lorries. Conditions that may hever arise, such as the wife-and-mother question, and con- ditions that are interrelated, such as per- no solution, however may last. As to weapons, the bayonet, in hand- té-hand fighting, is far more important than either the plane or the warship, but the bayonet is cf no use whatever when the eti- emy is not at close quarters. Coordination of weapons is the most {important thing in winning this war, and coordination of planes and warships, as General Douglas MacArthur has pointed out on several occasions, has been the dom- inant factor in all the victories, some of them one-sided, that the Americans have scored in the Southwest Pacific. That is as true of the fighting on land ash the sea, because the plane and the warship made it possible for A'llied troops to teach New Guinea, the Solomons and other areas in that theatre of war. long the arguments critics have declared, and the plane is not the outstanding success in this war. No one weapon is outstanding, because the war would continue interminably if the Allies had to depend on the plane alone or on any other one weapon. All are ithportant, and the warship has been just as important in this war as it has been in any other. Concert of power is what counts. Bombing Germany may not win the wir but nobody can make ts believe that the Al- lied aerial offensive is helping Hitler. JAP “FIRST-STRING” GONE Lieuténant-General Geotge C. Ken- ney, Commander of Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific, says that the quality of Japanese pilots has “unquestionably de- teriorated.” Genera] Kenney says that the Japanese “highly skilled, first-string team is gone, while our first team is just beginning to get into line.” The General is presumably for the purpose of securing more planes for the Southwest Pacific thea tre of war, While declining to say so direct- ly, he admitted that ‘nobody would say that he would not like to have more planes.” more aiftplanes in the same manner that lie utilized his aviators to defeat the Japanese in the Bismarck Sea engagement. How many he will get and how many he has, are mat- ; ters unknown to the public and necessarily left to the judgment of our high command. Buy a War Bond and you join other Americans in supporting the home front. TROUBLE IN CHINA? ; a es: AES We haven't seen much about it ing newspapers but the other nv an item which asserted th of Gen. Chiang Kiai-Shek we cepposite the Communist Chinese army, in- | stead of the Japanese. | in annihilating the | 1 Reduced to the final analysis, the argu- always resulted from the cooperative as- | tive, must receive the cooperative power of | would have accom- | tain te weapons, lead to arguments that have | The warship is not obselete, as some | in the United States, | Undoubtedly, the General could use | THRE KEY WEST CITIZEN KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY FROM PILES OF THE CITIZEN RIL 6, 1933 Kenneth Ray | ‘montiis of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Burns, 1012, Elgin street, died yesierdav afternoon at }3:30 o'clock. ae eee ee Monroe county's ‘share of the Istate racing fund is $10,500, ac-, ftom Tallahassee. The chief of army engineers has recommended the appropriating of $956,300 to make improvements in | the harbor of Key West, a special’ | dispatch from Washington says in! j today’s Citizen. j ——— | Luis Estrada, member of the} House of Representatives of Cuba,! who was in Key West visiting, | friends, left today for Miami. | William R. Porter, vice presi-! j dent of the Overseas Bridge Cor-! | poration, said today, on his return |drom Miami, that he is still optim-j . | istic’ that funds will be obtained: j to pay for the construction of the | Proposed bridges. 4c ae —- ie Jack Thompson, who 4s in Ké | West spending his spring holiday. TRIO CF COLORED PERSONS ARRESTED _ James Moos, Willie May Brown and James Perkins, _ all colored, were arrested last night in an alleged house of ill fame. Police Captain Alberto Ca- mero and Policeman Elmer Del Pino charged Perkins with con- tWo. with occupying it. The cases will come up this afternoon at 4 o'clock before City Judge Wesley P. Archer. EEES KILL TWO HORSES MARYSVILLE, Calif. — Two cording to advises received today horses were stung to death and| i their driver severely wounded} when thousands of bees swarmed over them. The driver, John Col- lins, tried to. unhitch the horses but had to run for his life. Claroified’} FOR SALE | TECHNICAL BOOKS — New, Shipment weekly. A look at our Technical Shelf may save you dies of postage and weeks of waiting. PAUL SMITH, bookseller, 334 Simon- ton St. at Eaton St: aprl-tf 4: SPECIAL—One; thousand Manila! Second) Sheets, $1.00. 500 Sheets, 60c. These prices now “PEOPLE'S FORUM | ‘ i ther ; Burts, seven ducting the house and the o' i | editor, The Citizen: During my brief stay here I | have noticed the lack of cultural interest in this city. It seems especially {time that the finer things of lite ishould be stressed more than | they are. | I understand there are many jliterary people here—poets and jauthors. I wish they might be- ‘come better organized. | Respectfully, | A VISITOR | Key West, Fla., {April 2, 1943. i aoa { CITES CONDITIONS | Editor, The Citizen: | Absorption of acreage in Mon- jroe County is increasing at |very rapid tempo. It is not fair ifor the citizens of Key West to | bear this entire tax burden. For | years they carried on when the Navy barely had a skeleton force in the station and the Army about fifty men for maintenance. from Dartmouth with his parents,:: in effect. The Artman Press.|One calamity after another has | Mr. and: Mrs. Norberg Thompson, ‘went fishing yesterday and | brought back a large catch, which} jincluded five amberjack, Z | groupers and several muttonfish; and barracudas. i Mrs. Sam Kemp entertained | } members of the Happy Gathering! Club yesterday afternoon. The Key West Woman's Club; will give a fashion revue, begin-| nihg at 5 o’clock tomorrow after-+ hdon on the public library lawn.| i Mrs. O. £. Long and Miss Janice Mialoney will direct the revue. Mrs. Ellis Archer entertained | at a miscellaneous shower yester- | day afternoon in honor of Miss | Lois Sterling, who will shortly | wed Kenneth Archer. Mrs, J. B. Bussey, who had been: | visiting friends in Miami, return- led yesterday afternoon. i | Isadore Appelrouth, who had! | been visiting at various points {along the East Coast, returned | yesterday. Burrell Acheson, who had been in Key West several weeks for | medical treatment, returned yes- | terday to his home in Islamorada, jin a much improved condition. Today The Citizen says in ah editorial paragraph: |. “Cuba is making plans for four new gunboats, to be built in Spain. | Evidently, the Machado govern- | ment has forgotten or fails to ap- | preciate certain little incidents of | 35 years ago.” Today In History ee eeerennoed 1789—U. S. Senate's first ses- sion begins; counts the electoral votes and declares Washington and Adams President and Vice | Preside th P Bw | ; > a te 1792 ongré mint in Philadelphia. one v 1857—Historic Dred Scott de- cision by U. S. Supreme Court. 1830-—First Mormon organized at Palmyra, N. 1866—First G.A-R. post ganized at Decatur, Ill or- 1909—The North Pole discov- ered by Robert E. Peary. 1917—War declared on Ger- i many. | 1918—(25 years ago) Thitd righ Loan campaign Jaungh-| ed. | 1924—Army flyers on four larjes (2 finishing), begin first ound-the-world flight. | 4 —=— i 1933+Beer legal again in part! f country. 1941+-Germans invade Yugo-} ayia and Greece. : 1942—U. S. Supreme Court decision thdt sailors’. sitdown aprl-tf TWO-STORY HOUSE and LOT. “897 Olivia St. Apply 505 Louisa Street. aprl-6tx LADY'S and MAN’S BICYCLE. motor scooter, ironing cords. Apply Skating Rink. apr3-tf |STUDIO-COUCH and matching Chair. Dining Table with six Chairs. Three-burner Kerosene Stove. Apply 620 Dey Street, in rear. apr5-3tx WANTED COAT HANGERS WANTED. $1.00 a hundred. Phone 282, we will call. White Star Cleaners, 701% Duval St. apri-tf WANTED—Large trunk, ward- robe or steamer. If in good con- dition wili pay up to $30.00. 915 Grinnell. WE BUY OLD RECORDS, whole or broken. Factory needs scrap. J. R. Stowers Company. apri-if WANTED—Boat in good condi- tion from 50-80 feet. Engine to be good. Write A. Stama- tiadis, White House Cafe, Tar- pon Springs, Fla. apr5-4tx WANTED FOR CASH—Washing Machine: Any condition. J. W. Smith 210% Duval. HELP WANTED WANTED — Fountain Coisiter Girls and Waitresses. Good Southernmost City apritt salary. Pharmacy. WAITRESSES WANTED to work Dinner fror 5 to 10 o'clock. Good pay’ and tips, must have health card. Do not phone; ap- ply in person. Ocean View Res- aprl-tf street from bus station. \ eee apr5-tf a FOR RENT FOR RENT—DETECTIVE STOR- TES, The very newest and an antique in the : start as low as 10c per PAUL SMITH, book- seller, corner Simonton and Eaton St. aprl-tf ROOMS for men only. Hot wa- ter; twin beds. 513 Whitehead Street, across street from court- house. apr5-4tx LOST LOST — One Rolifast Bicycle, blue and gray. Notify MeKil- lip at Curry Sons. apr6-1tx LOST—Envelope containing car wegistration, “A” ration book. Geneva Pyle, 40A, Naval Air Station. apré-itx REAL ESTATE apr3-3tx { apr6-lix | befallen our city, and rumor has ix that absorption on Boca Chica will be possible. Our city is | completely surrounded with these new and rapidly expanding fa- | cilities. | In the early days of 1942 I | heard a lady looking for an apart- | ment remark: “I do not see why |they don’t take over the houses | here for us and put a gate up at | Boca Chica.” Our housing would not be so acute if many of the jfamilies attempting to keep up | with every change did not ex- | pect our community to provide | the increased burden. | In all fairness to the taxpay-! jer—and I do not mean recent |residents, but going back to our {families who have been hére jover a hundred years—cannot ithe absorbing factors assist in ‘providing fire protection, police | protection, help repair our streets that are becoming increasingly , worse from heavy truck traffic, help build our incinerator and! |our highway which is in a de- Plorable condition? ; Loss of the Casa Marina taxa-! tion is another terrific blow, but worse than this is the fact: which of our homes will! be the next razed? Federal! taxes are mounting daily, and a Steep incline of our local and State taxes is going to make our plight considerably worse. Key West has derived won- derful results from Army and Navy expansion, and possibly determined the future of this! city, and we are deeply appre- ;Ciative, but we need the coop- jeration of the Army and Navy jin helping us in this situation | now facing us. Where is the revenue coming }from—I ask—frankly I'd say— only Heaven knows. Hl ALBERT G. ROBERTS. |Key West Fla, April 3, 1943. tragic | i { i] Today’s Anniversaries _ 1866—Lincoln Steffens, alist, roving crusading born in San Francisco. Aug. 9, 1936. n-} Died ; 1868—Helen Hyde, noted an| ist, living in Japan for many years, born Lima, N. Y. Died! Pasadena, Cal. May 13, 1919. | ' 1869—May Yohe, stage star of; the 1890's, born. Died Aug. 2s,| 1938. | 1869—William Bayard Hale,} noted clergyman-journalist, born | Richmond, Ind. Died April 10,/ 1924. { 1874—Harry Houdini, magician, | born Appleton, Wis. Died Oct. 31, 1926. 1890—Anthony H. G. ‘Fokker,! pioneer:plane designer.and mak-| er, borp in Java. Died in New, York, Dec 23; 1939. Gardening Guide—12 FROM THE NORTHROPS’ SHORT CUTS TO SUCCESS AP Features Victory Garden gene do well to avoid ‘ists and take in war-;| al gardeners or tural stations. Seeds more often are too deep than too shallow should be only deep enough make sure they are in soi moist. Deep planting germination. Remove all growth mato plants to a h rt f inches up the stem; take th plants to a five foot pole Plant corn in square rather -than in a long cause corn has to be fertilized by pollen dropping from the oc tassel. In plots, the pollen virtually certain to T ze |matter which way blows. If partitions are used im seed starting boxes there will be less shock to the plant at transplant- ing time, as the separators per- mit a section of soil to be moved with each plant. Poison mixed with the soil around some of the larger plants. like tomatoes, will help kill in- sects. They from plots row, be- fi the wind a heart attack Teday’s Birthdays te Walter Huston, actor, born in Toronto, 59 years ago. Lowell Thomas, authr-broad- caster, born Darke Co, O, Si j years ago. U. S. Senator Millard E. Tdy- ings of Maryland, born there, 53 |years ago. Dr. Walter E. Dandy of Johns Hopkins, noted surgeon, born Sedalia, Mo., 57 years ago. Alexander W. Weddell, former | ambassador to Spain, born Rich mond, Va., 67 years ago. Louis Raomaokers of New York, famed refugee cartoonist from Holland, born 74 years ago Donald Wills Douglas of Santa Monica, Ca., airplane maker, born Brooklyn, N. Y., 51 years ago. Edward F. Sanford, Jr, of Sarasota, Fla, noted sculptor, born New York, 57 years ago. Logical Enough Mistress—So far you have broken more dishes and things than your wages amount to. What can we do to prevent this? New Maid—I dunno, ma‘am, less'n you raise my wages. Overseas T Company, Inc. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service —between— Business or Residential Lots All Parts of the Island; Terms “ Realtor faces another inflationary threat, as a re- sult of the demands of various blocs, and he Apparently, there is some difference | strike, even when ship at port, of opinion between the Chinese. The Gén- | Constitutes mutiny eralissimo had>several occasions to battle | —_smemmalinteti-—anchinleemens | Phones 124 and 736-R 505 Duval the Communists before the Japanese war Today’s Horoscope aprl-tf hopes that the people will understand what | will happen if another orgy of inflation pro- duces “4 and he may have to do so again. H |. The presumption in the United States rua ce MISCELLANEOUS _ is that everybody in China is loyally and en- |,,,TO¢2¥_ Bives a love of nature.’ kp ¥oGn LITTLE TOLL © ea Time sons | thusiastically behind the great leader of pendtt seer a. paca h eae a the — afternoons with ticn of the interests of the United States; | modetn China, but it seems that there is | writing; plenty of courage to} Miss Goodspeed’s. Nursery we have no proper conceit, as a govern- some division of sentiment in China, even in | ™¢et hard work, but chances are, caer ge gy as = ment, With the problems of other peoples. | the midst of the big war. Fi big ce rationing” in the future. | i \ ; | i | | { The foreign policy of the United States should be fixed upon one goal, the protec- tot so good-for the accumulation phone 551-M. — of much wealth. apr6-10-14-23x]| 4