The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 9, 1943, Page 4

TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY } By JAMES A, MERRILL i] | and War Production Board as one of 10 American workers who made aordinary ,contributign to THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Chemist Wins Award by Safety Device |For Flyers and Urges All to Buy Bonds is resistant to aromatic fuels. This; Rolg Swicegood , barrier, which must necessarily | A quiet: research chemist at, the War Effert by the develop- | Edward’ Matthews (Cited by President Roosevelt ,°dyear, who insists he is just do-| ment of an effective barrier that ' CONTRIBUTIONS TO | WAR FUND CAMPAIGN : Daniel Sumner Post No, 30, ! Colored Veterans of World War tas z Today's Anniversaries $5.00 1738.—Rufus Putnam. Mass. 1.09/ Wheelright, Revolutionary sol- ‘90! dier, leader of Ohio company, set 1,00 | Hing Ohio, born Sutton, Mass “| Died Marietta, Ohio, May 4, 1824 | Cora Matthews ; Peter Gonzalis - } " SUNSETS et PRI DAY, APRIL 9, 1945 BRITISH COMMAND HEADHUNTERS’ ARMY (By Amoctuted Porer) LONDON, April $.—On the am-Burma varder. ficers ca H /Temain a military secret, is used | Contributicns fram Nurses. U. 9,0. i - - the War Effort). Recently'afl_Indiatva’ Congress~| Set the State Livestock Be nt id man paid tribute tothe newspa- borden y to make out your pers of thé Watidn for the part they'| I¢ome’ oy Repay x 3 have played in furthering ete geile jin’ sore dlitenticin-/ican, but when I signed for ten effort. It was'a' tribute justly'de- formation on what Florida pers | Per cent deductions on the Payroll served. "1! ‘i¥ necks 4" 15) apeidoing along this line, T picked | Savings Plan I had a much more It has long been evident! ‘thn’! dozer weeklies at random from practical view of ouf Govern- neither the government~nor the! the several hundred published in| ment’s wartime financial needs. public fully appréclate/the impor-; the state; I carefully measured the} “A war worker with a wife and tance of the average newspaper's; amount of news and advertising! four children has ta look at the contribution to the welfare and! matter carried, and, believe it or; practical side of things. We did advancement of the nation. { nat, thig is what I discovered: {a lot of budget balancing to put No industry in America giyes| One 6-column, 6-page weekly | that ten per cent in Uncle Sam’s more and asks less than the news-| made up its total of 720 column| care and it’s going to stay there as! papers, So long has this been true] inches as follows: 236 1-2 inches! a fund to provide a college educa-° that the average citizen and the|purely promotional material’ tion for our children. } government itself have came to! against 227 1-2 inches of paid ad-| “Some people have the idea that teke the unselfish service and|vertising. In other words, the pro-/they’re sacrificing when they, generqus contribution of the news-| motional material carried at the) place part of their pay in War! Papers as a matter of course and| urgency and for the benefit of} Bonds. Ten years hence they'll; they have become indignant at! some cause of governmental ac-| know that was a foolish attitude. | any effort a publisher might make} tivity took up nearly half of the! War Bonds are a safe, lucrative | 2 “Buying War Bonds is the pa- rioti¢’ duty of every true Amer- JAMES A. MERRILL to resist the action of aromatic! ,. E Naval: Hospitel’ : gasoline on the other materials in Mis ee ithe bullet-seal tank. Merrill's dis-| Miss Falk i cevery has been officially adopted | Miss Larner by the Army and Navy air forces, ' iss Aycock - and consequently has been added’ Miss Davis i to the specification for fuel tank Miss Clinker j building throughout the nation. | Miss McWilliams Merrill was recommended for a: Miss D. Haas | WPB award by the War Produc-! Miss J. Haas ‘tion Drive Committee established | Miss Tanis |jointly by the United Rubber| Miss Ward ‘workers Union ‘and the Goodyear | Miss Scruggs ‘Tire and Rubber Co. | Miss Ellis | Because Merrill has worked! Miss Molvin Lwith other Goodyear chemists in! Miss Galaer ‘the development of the bullet-seal, Arlene and Thea tank for more than two years, he; thews {has been able to understand the! necessity of expeditious action in; :solving problems by suddenj ! changes in aircraft specifications. ; 1.00 1.00 1,00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1,00 1.00 0.50 0.50 adora Mat- FROM THE NORTHROPS’ 19. Busetts cangressman ua; born: Dedham, M.: 1827.—Maria thor of be Lamplighter, | Died Boston, Oct. 1, 1666. 1865.—Charles P. 'world-famed Americ: wizard, born in Germar Oct. 26, 1923. 1880.—Herbert A. Gibbons, correspondent and auth . Annapolis, Msi. Died Aug. to curtail or limit such gratuities,| paper's news columns and prac-| investment that will not only go With the growth of bureaucracy,} tically a third of the entire pub-| far toward winning the war, but Public officials have consistently | Jication, demanded more and, mi the newspapers. Departments, bu: teaus, commissions, ,,administra tions, committees and... whataat maintain costly publicity, depart), ifrom|.,.,This free publicity, for that i hat. itis; was a gift from a: gen: Ssbid q : ficiaries;were as) follows: A, 53 inches; Navy Re- newspaper,,,publisher and ; { will provide a nice nest egg for the! purchaser after the conflict is over. “It will also take taxes to win | this war. I hoipe all my fellow) ; workers will kepe in mind the new ' ments to grind oyt, reams, of, pror), CrHiting, 6 inches; Red Cross, 16! slogan of Uncle Sam, “It Takes Ppaganda. Millions of dollarsjof,inghesc,, W: taxpayers’ money ‘are: spent,,with a lavish hand for the services of expert publicists, for typewriters, mimeographs, multigravhs, en- gravings, mats and all the other things that go into the mass pro- duction of promotional material, All this is paid for in good hard cash. But the publisher, on whom the success of such a campaign de- pends, gets not one thin dime for the countless columns he employs in breathing the breath of life i to such material and converting} it from just so much “waste paper” to a living message which is cir- culated throughout the width and 8 inghes;, State Welfare Board, 11 ' inches; State Department of Agri- culture, 10 inches; OWT, 57 1-2 | inches; Agricultural Extension , Service, 37 inches; Farm Credit Administration, 10 inches; State Defense Council, 12 inches; U. S. | Treasury Department, 16 inches. | Not counting the value ‘of the white space, which at regular ad- vertising rates would be worth $84.60, the newspaper man gave lapproximately one third of his time that week to setting up and TAVE Recruiting, | Both,” and heed its meaning, pay your taxes and keep up your War | Bond purchases.’ | a? ed , _ James A. Merrill lives in Akron, | Ohio. He is a research chemist with | MLLT. He is a member of Phi Kap-' | pa Psi and the American Chemical Society. : ' studied liberal | The background for his achieve- ment in this field has come from Is Practical Patriot ' "extensive research in the field of’ University have been | ing his job, Merrill has been suc-; tank lining and latex. Since he!of the United States: cessful in surmounting one of the! Came to Goodyear in 1930 from} confronting M.LT., Merrill has been instru-: Principal obstacles h our air forces in the development! Mental in adapting latex to new the Goodyear Tire- and Rubber! uses arid diverting Co., Akron, Ohio. Born in Akron, | Preduct to exclusive war produc- Mr! Merrill, 35 years old, attend. tion in bladders for life rafts and ed lecal schools, graduating at vests. His first venture into rub- Asheville, N. C., High School. He ber tank material was made sev- arts at Cornell eral years ago when the company University, and received his B.S.’ Marketed a lining for ‘Storage degree in chemical engineering at tanks. of bullet-seal airplane fuel tanks. He is married and has four chil- He was awarded his Citation for, dren. Most of his spare time is suggestions which materially aid spent fishing. & HARRY WEINTRAUB GIVEN ASSIGNMENT "MEET AMERICA’S FIGHTING — that rubber | making up Santa Claus packages | {Special to The Citizen) of valuable publicity for a lot of! NEWARK AIR BASE, N. J. everything else they get but folks who joyfully pay cash for, April 9.—Private Harry Wein- | MOUNTAINEERS By ROBERT GEIGER {back at Robertson. He motioned breadth of the land. Since Pearl Harbor the newspa- pers of America, particularly. the weeklies in the smaller eommuni- ties, have’contributed millions of dollars worth of space and count- Jess man and machine hours to in+ sure the success of War)Bond drives, Salvage Cam Vie~ tory Gardens, Ration‘ Recruit. ing and what have you.» ©} At the same time they have been equally generous in informing’ their readers as to the noble work of the Welfare Board, the amazing efficiency -of the Industrial ,Com- | ; would howl their heads off if a Weintraub, 700 Elizabeth street, | country newspaper publisher sug- gested that they might find a paid ad. worthwhile now and then. The other papers analyzed all @arried an amazing amount of similar material and I believe a} careful check of state papers would | show that all of them average | from 15 to 20 per cent a week in such space contributions. waiting for some smart bureau- erat ar publicity promoter to,make @ nasty crack about the selfish * T’'ve got these marked copies all! ed away in a safe place, just! | traub, son of Mr. and Mrs. Berman ; Key West, has been assigned to the Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Newark Airport. | This assigninént follows his gradu- jation: from! isthe ‘Photography Schol at Lowry Field, Colo. | He graduated from the Uni- | versity of Florida with a Bachelor of Science degreé and was a reg- istered pharmacist with the Lane drug stores before joining the Air | Forces last Septémber. | AP Features Writer ! in the direction of Lebel, far away CAMP HALE, Colo., April o—| on the other side of the mountain. Mukluks, Mom! That’s what your} Without hesitation Lady raced Doughboy Johnnie is wearing,| straight to Lebel. In war time the With. parkas and snowshoes, Just; message she carried would vital, | (like an Eskimo. And he’s loving} containing information by which} The Southern Cross’ is the | the life he leads at Camp Hale,/a battery might blow an enemy/popular name for a southern junder the eaves of the nation’s} camp from ‘the face of a distant constellation situated ‘near Continenital Divide where icicles| go eons ea rragrear ae | © us a demonstre- a eee tion of his dog team. He hitched White-suited ski troopers zip| them to a Yukon sled. “Ahead,” down one of the world’s best ski/he shouted. Away they went, courses. A mile-long single file of pulling a 200 pound load. A shout- | Today’s Birthdays Harvard| Maj. Gen. Charles H. Bonesteel, president /9n duty in iceland. born Sidney, Neb., 58 years ago. Frank O:'King, 6f'’Kissiminiee Fla., cartoonist, chester of * Franklin D. Roosevelt. lire Ail¢y,” bere Caaiiton, W Rutherford B. Hayes was aj 80 years ago: | Sraduate of the law school. | SCRAPBOOKS graduates ' Four of Jéhn Adams John Quincy Adams Theodore Roosevelt RSS, Joseph H. Nuellé; president, Del- The first U. S. President to| aware & Hudson’R. R. born in {speak over the radio, President |'Chicago, 52 years ago Harding in 1923. ariaaiged ! ——— Charles E. Burchfield, ef New | March 30, 1867—Treaty signed | York, noted artist, born Ashtabu- with Russia for purchase of! la, Ohio, 50 years ago. Alaska for $7,200,000—about two FRE eee cents an acre. Judge David H. Kincheloe of | —— . the U.S. Customs Court, New The Alaskan summer is a sea-| ‘son of almost unbroken day-| light. The sun shines brilliant- ly for 18 or 20 hours a day, and {in the remaining hours it is twi- | light. OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE, | SURGERY and X-RAY | Under the ;98-117 A. D., the Roman em- pire at its greatest extent. con- sisted of 1,996,000 square miles, an area larger han that of Ar-, |gentina today. Emperor Phone 612-W the | Antarctic circle, R | It consists of . four... bright stars: The Southern Cress is |visible all over the. southern |hemisphere and in the northern |hemisphere up to about latitude degrees north. he proper 9c f a teat he-man. Re- om the Nega hill ceustry along the eastern and ontrer | of Assam. provmee. and fram territory alang iver south of Manipur Yor Fort | * 54 year J. F. SIKES LICENSED PLUMBER 1308 CATHERINE STREET Trajan, | $25 Whitehead—Opp. Lighthouse . 24-Hour Ambulance Service » PHONE 135 mules, laden with pack artillery, | ed “Gee” turned them to the right, } WEATHER REPOR -| climbs another mountain. ... | “Haw” to the left. Those are all the | \ | eae a4 boom aie the ne een they need. Gardner said! jside. Rifle fire crackles on the| they could pull 500 pounds on an! Earns column by! Observation taken at 8:30 a. m,|ice-covered target range. A dog} yp trail, through soft snow. DETROJT.—In 19766 Rhode Tar and page by page! E.W.T. (City Office) | Sled team gees and haws up a val-; Geal Is Norway |land enacted laws “for the pre-| | pe ‘ley. H ry | servation of the oyster“ to keep Temperatures ¥ ‘We started down with Mace, e letisheat’ task 94h atl Shades of Dan‘l Boone | whose youthful, wiry legs had! coastal beds fram being scraped aes eat si Mee “7q| This is Camp Hale, tow miles’ outdistaneed’ the rest of us on the! bare. 3 Soe St es high in the Rockies, where the’ ypward climb. He’s just out of * | Mean 78) ‘ PRBS 5. {UP j bNoeial ~ “ye|Army is training its mountain) Grinnell college andenewly mar-} Good Guess ' . men. Not since the days of Dan’l) ried. | “Here's my bill,” said the at. By JACK STINNETT Idecipher some of those water-| |Boon has woodlore and the ways' “Most of the men hope we) torney, “Please pay $100 down and, AP» Features Writer jsmeared addresses, but when it! | of the wilderness had so many stu-/ fight in Norway.” he said. “A lot; $25 a week thereafter for ten/ WASHINGTON, April 9.—For| was all over, only a score or so the first time the Army has set! of the letters had to be sent to | dents. : : of Norwegian descent. This life; weeks.” 0.11] re eee ar “i > snows appeals to them.” | “Bounds ae buying an auto- : ERPS - “v'"} Shoe cla . Stuart ‘ace, com-; « ‘way, mobile,” sai jient, up a schdol for postmen. the dead letter office. ; |Deficiency since April 1 lcaender of ICD (eanine) detactial ‘ie I hope we get to Norway, ee — > aie Officially, it's the Post-;, When the Atlantic Clipper) inches _. - = i ment. He’s off to inspect his base-' Then he told us that in civilian flay: ie: took its tragic plunge near Lis-|'Total rainfall since Jan. 1, | iikice" itesas deco tale Soe eater bea eae no pp sites office School at Pennsylvania bon recently, it was carrying} jnches - camp huskies, is P in| life, as a botanist, he had discav-! in Nerway, even while he’s study- State Teachers College, West! 176,000 V-mail letters. According | Deficiency sin Chester, Pa. Every two weellygi¢gGo} .W...A. Kenyon, deputy’ j 125 men will be gradua' frat re of & theo. y Postal} iced within lV4@i shouts. the 3.99 | the wilderness. jered a new way to produce an/ ing orchids. 1.12} One-half mile up a hard-packed | orchid that grows in mountains. That's the kind of fellow John- the six-weeks course of ins! tion in deliveri iginal§ of Work ten beaten eld in {Ne -Fe- | Sunrise Were on! Sunset _- ‘trail we go, into Cochetopa Na-| He won't sidestep a fight in, nie Doughboy is, up at-Camp | tional Forest. It’s 12,000 feet high! Norway, but he wants to go there | Hale. But there's Yeoeg P ERT, It's really a*post Eradunte echook praenr ene itheir way ; | Moonrise Moonset | —more than two miles in the air.} for another reason, too. because it’s open only to former Tomorrow's Tides t= Motorized equipment is waiting; “To study their orchids,” said; ¥V¥¥Y¥UY EY VUrreeery Postoffice employes now in the| Originals of V-mail letters are Army, Wii iisusretaineteene tea eset The Army’s mail history is a mn receiv: ey reached | (Naval Base) “| there. Secret weapon stuff. We: Mace, “I've a theory that it was the Your Grocer Sells THAT GOOD long one. When George Wash-| their destination, Thus, for the| | jump on a bob sled, towed like @/ seeds of those orchids, powder| STAR * BRAND | 4 ington’s ragged little Continental | first time there’s a method of} - | Kid behind a racing car. We ride| fine, that blew across the ocean “lan a twisting, climbing mountain | and grew, in these Rocky Moun- CUBAN COFFEE TRY A POUND army was playing hare andj assuring delivery, despite sink- hounds with the British, the im-}ings, bombings, fire and high mission, the wonderful accom-! newspapers and “What.are they plishment ‘of the Agricultural Ad-| doin’ to help win the war?”—and justment | Administration, ..the|J'll ram ’em down his little pink pleasures and advantages of Point|'throat item by item, Rationing, the adversities that be-| column, i : PROTECT OYSTERS & 3 i : ARMY GETS THE MAIL THROUGH HAH | Precipitation Rainfall 24 hours ending | 8:30 a. m., inches — , Total rainfall since Apr. }\. inches — REAL ICE Is More ECONOMICAL. . It's Healthy and Safe. . It's Pure MOU EN LERE 4 Of A014 bey MMT non Aste... xof7 10! stuff) pseu A “Electrical DON'TS” 0.31 . ™. o20D CROC LCODTODOLECCRS See Con eeeeceoes | trail so narrow the pine branches) tains. fd like to check . up on! impression that Use Coupen Ne, portance pf mail to the troops| water. i | slap us briskly across the face. | them.” i Dense forest begins and it’s the He gave the he'd be a pretty tough guy to stoP | . agpanaeasanasasans was recognized. The general himself pleaded with the post to jend of the motor trail. We climb/| jout and strap' on snowshoes—! | “webs” to the rugged mountain} do better in getting letters from home to the men on the firing line. By,the time World War 1 came around, the morale value of a mesgage from mama or the girl friend was an_ established fact and the APO went to town. Compared to mail delivery prob- lems of World War II, however, those of fhe first orld War were simple. | APO ices row cine! globe. en our trobpa; in North/Africa, “shoot men” wi among th get theirMfeet wet. lobite past; offices n@v move so glo&déiMo the. front lingS that they frequently are unde§ fire. In New Guinea, where almost every foot had to be hacked out of mountain. jun- gles, they were right behind the mobile mess trucks. There are , APOs in India, Iceland, Panama; Alaska, Ireland, Greenland and New Zealand—to mention only a few spots: But that's not half the story. Not long. ago a big ferry com- mand plane went down in the North Atlantic. It carried sev- eral thousand letters of: Army mail. The plane sank in com- paratively shallow water. Divers went down and brought up the. 1e Every convoy that goes out of the U. S. carries tons of mail, If there is anything to the U- boat menace at all, some tons of that mail must be at the bottom of the seven seas. Still millions of those letters are goil through under condi- tions never imagined a few years.ago. From now on, a large proportion of the. mailmen who iver them will be grad- yates’ o ‘West Chester ‘school h oopaet Poe schools to be : } be id jmen | ne mid pegs 2 abe ® iF be hone inst to ot who gets"ih'theré ation machine: ' well } icel- PIG MISNAMED NEW YORK,—The guinea pig was misnamed from belief that the small South American rodent found in Guinia was actually found in Guinea on the African coast, Auld Acquent Emily—Is Cora yones a friend ‘of.yours? Beatrice—Yes, What has she been saying about me? mail sacks. It took weeks of] Sixteen ration points weekly for| work at the New York APO to] meats, canned fish, fats, cheese. | Key West and Vicinity: Little | change in temperature tonight;) seattered showers and thunder-| storms this afternoon and to- night. Florida: Little change in tem- ; perature tonight; scattered | showers and local thunderstorms | in Florida Keys this afternoon! and tonight and in extreme} }northwest portion late this aft-! |ernoon and tonight. | Hatteras, N. C., to Apalachi-| ‘cola, Fla: No small craft or | storm warnings have been is-/| | sued. | CHIGAGO.—One egg out of} every geven produced in 1943 will} | be maffe into. egg powder for use by th nited States armed forces !on far-flung battlefronts, and by | the Allies, . _ REPRE Seen FOR ARMED FORCES | And It Works i | Wilber, having been to New} | York, was telling his cronies of the! sights he saw. i “An’ up at the hospital I seed| | one of these machines that tell if a | man’s lying.” “Pooh,” said Luke from his | corner. | “Pooh? Did you ever see one?” “See one? I married one!” Public spending first year of | war set a record of $81,900,000,000. | | ward. The gentle snow becomes a) lare freighting food and ammuni- | tain, Lebel to another. Robertson men. Snow begins to fall. Snow Stings With Lieutenants Mace and Jo- seph Kane, of Johnstown, N. Y., trainer-veterinarian, we climb up- } howling blizzard. It drives sting- ingly into our faces. For 2 1-2) miles we puff and pant against! the storm, { A neat group of green tents ap- pears, set in a pine thicket. Pretty} as a picture, but frigid. é The snow troopers are learning their woodlore from experts. | Mace was a mountain climber-| botanist in civilian life. He's} climbed mountains from Mexico to} Canada. { Dog driver Vernon Gardner of; uechee, Vt., greeted us at camp./ eo civilian life he was a dog sled freighter. Now he and his dogs tion from the end of the motor) trail to base camp, getting ready | for winter maneuvers. Dog Carries Message Pvt. Robert Robertson of San Francisco and Pvt. Oscar Lebel of Lewiston, Me., with Lady, a bea! tiful black Belgian shepherd dog, compose a messenger team. Rob- ertson was an Alaskan trapper and dog man. He went to one side of a moun- PINE SIDING—1x6 and | LIND “Complete Line of BUILDING HARDWARE and PAINT” LUMBER PHON ' ELECTRIC THE WRINGER in use, $ clothes types. full width. “THE. WASHER AER HEIDI IESE IIIT IORI tr water to water line. 1x8 . SLEY COMPANY E71 DON’T leave pressure on rolis when not DON’T use same pressure for all ot adjust wringer fer DON’T use the center section of rolls, use DON’T allow grease to. accumulate’ on ends of rolls, as this attached a message to Lady’s spe- cial metal collar. Lady started on the run, stopped and glanced Simonton and Division Streets WASHER will rot the rubber. LEU EE EERIE EERE EEE EEE ENTE ESOS ORES TREE DON’T overload, fill with clothes and DON’T start washer with full load, put clothes in after washer is running. DON'T leave agitater on shaft, remove and clean after each washing.