The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 17, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TWO he She Key West Citizen THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC. Published Daily, Except Sunday, by L ct es Owner and Publisher Business Manager Probe ‘The Citizen Building: Corner Green@ and Ann Streets Only Daily iworerer in Key West and Monroe County SF SECTS ONDE PUNE cere ah acer he SE ‘tered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter — , ‘Sragnas OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ie Ey i4 is exclusively entitled to use igor othe lated Press tion of all news dispatches credited to Fwise credited in this Denes and also the 3 news published’ here.“ ADVERTISING RATES Made Rnown on application. 8 B es, cards of thanks, resolutioss of respect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at theyrate of 10. cents a line. ‘tainment by churches from which jerived are 5 cents a line. open forum and invites discus- dlog.of public, issues and subjects of local or general mtn but it will not publish anonymous communi- NA €DITORIA! ASSOCIATI gr-thout fear and without favor; never be ® to attack wrong’ or to applaud right; Blways fight for mever be the or- ‘gan or the mouth; person, clique, faction of class; always do its utmost for the Public welfare; my Sore eg Prvvlgnd a00k8 doce te or organ- Hation; tolerant of views and ‘gpinions; print only news, that will elevate tnd not contaminate the ler; never com- Promise with principle. i’ IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST . ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 4, Water sn Oowenige. ; More Hotels and Apartments. é Beach and Bathing Pavilion, & Alrports—tand and Sea, ° & Consolidation of County and City Gov- . ernments. - »)); ;: 4 A. Modern City Hospital, sa tn tn = A PITIFUL PICTURE “ Newsweek summed up a recent week’s news on the food front with dreary words that have a familiar ring to millions of con- sumers: “ . .. There ‘was still no move in Washington to deal with the critical food propblefn as a whole.” ™, How much longer is the country going toginvite disaster by allowing half a dozen different agencies of government to argue interminably in helpless confusion? As Newsweek points out, the OPA worries about prices, the Office of Defense Trans- portation about shipments, the Food Dis- trifution AdministratfoA ‘bout allocation, the: Department of Agritulture about pro- dugtion, the War Manpower Commission | alout farm labor, and-the War Production Board about farm oy. Overy alt: reigns the Washington watt T politics, wit sof ficials sof one agency seeking to gr, powers and. prestige of other a; while people in some’ Stetiot's of the Edun: try, faée, fYod shortages, It is a pitifulmpic- tufe forthe richest nation on earth to pre- sent} tg, the world, The fault for its making | ages not tie with subordinate officials. They are doing the best they can in most in- stances, The real fault lies with the Ex- ecutive branch of government, which has stéadfastly followed a policy of balancing | thé’ powers of one official against the pow- | erg of*another. No one has the necessary | authority to wet a job done. This policy in- | creases the gravity of the food problem. » Representatives of the food industry have long urged the adoption of an integrat- ed program which would rank food produc- tiof, processing and distribution together | inthe category of a vital war industry un- der the supervision of a single administra- tory , “4 The reformer might as well understand that himan nature doesn’t change in a day, or’after the passage of an act, Résidents of the United States of Amer- icacwho are dissatisfied with the land where they live might try some other place. . The Federal government has contract- edfor the use of 350,000,000 pounds of pa- per in 1943, an increase of 60 per cent over 1941. Those 40,000 part-time and 4,000 full- titiepropaganda writers have to have something on which to scribble, or they'd he out of jobs. | that “Italy must and will return to Africa.” THE KEY WEST CITIZEN CHALLENGE TO A CONCH All in all, that is a good law which re- quires that every candidate in city elec- | | tions pay an entrance fee of five per cent | ef the annual salary he will receive in the | event of his election. Two good reasons exist for the adop- tion of such a law. First, to 0 PrOVic ide | the ci with money, with whi h, 49, RASle ction, penses, as is the case in primary, 4 jeations: be 4 ‘aps 2 blanket, ‘as’ frequently” © Wag" ‘Happen with 24 candidates for the council a It is doubtful, though mee latter end will be attained. Practica) V~ erybody in Key West has a fair amount of | eet alone. of the payment of entrance fees, left, including their own, which has been | race. Risking that amount to obtain $1,- face of popular disapproval, to boost sal- centage of them will have forgotten that | tions. tratice ‘fees, certain city officials were“ trot to keep as many newcomers as possible out | who had no idea of aspiring for city offices. money, and few persons, The Citizen ‘pe- lieves, will be kept out of the races because Offsetting that requirement are the | higher salaries city officials will receive. A majority of the present council, bent on draining the city treasury and keeping it ‘drained, have boosted salaries right and increased from $32 to $75 a month. Probably there is not a Key Wester, | who had intended running for the council, 4 ‘who will be scared off by the $45,entrance fee he will be obliged pay to» gnter nd 800, which will be the,sum he will get in two years, he will consider in the nature of | an investment instead of a speculation. | Further, he is aware that a majority of the | city councilmen, in its determination, in the aries, establish “relief accounts” ‘and to spend the city’s money as freely as though it was composed of leaves plucked from a tree, has created resentment among severai | thousand voters, and while a big per- resentment by the time election day rolls ; around, yet the number who will vote as | they now feel will be sufficiently large to heavily handicap the councilmen who seek | reelection, with possibly one or two excep- | The Gitizen approves the fees, if for | no other reason.than to make the candidate | pay for the election, instead of requiring | the city to pay it./But The Citizen realizes also that, i maving the law adopted for en- seo much concernéd in the city’s welfare as they: were in their own political fortunes. Those officials realize that an incumbent has an advantage over a newcomer, and the dominant thought in the politico’s mind was | of the contest by compelling them to pay fees. It is hard, hard to fool a Conch, nour- ished on grits and grunts, and it would nit surprise The Citizen if a good many Corchi will now enter the races because of the very | fees they will have to pay. | “Darned if you’re going tv keep me! out!” willbe the expletive of many a | Conch. : | Reading a book often requires more in- telligence than writing it, if you are to avoid ‘making the same mistakes that misled the a pee at ays re 3 Ness tle service paper; Saf tistocal: Naval Statien, says that a member of the Merchant Ma- rine is in a German “interment” camp. Buried dead or alive? ITALY LOSES AFRICA FOREVER Earlier this month, Premier /ussolini told a cheering crowd of Italian Fascists The Italian dictator spoke from the | same balcony where, seven years ago, he celebrated the triumphant end of the Ethio- pian campaign, during which he said, “We defy the world and open new ways ivi-«| 3. lization.” J The Duce admitted that, 7 undertaking is not finished. aiid that “it is merely in rupled. as This is putting <ibpel Empire in Africa is RPeTTUT it is at an end. "OITA Regardless of Mjussolini’s! boast .that | “we shall return” there is little propect that Italy will be permitted to reacquire any foothold on the southern coast of the Medi- terranean. 4 até di, ‘ Ne ee 4 4 | The people who believed that Victory getting @ new slant on the subject. Ever since | ) behe‘tinatlaaaa a |e / secondly, to keep the tickétfrom apne | Se rahe Chapter 3 {pPORELL WARD got up and paced the office. His face was! wpake it,” Powell told Penny.t! Pink; with exasperation. He came}, Penny lifted the receiver. Words ‘backend pounded his shining desk | burned into ner ears., uw ‘sd-hard the’ jade Chinese paper|- “yes—yes,” she said excitedly; ee bounced. He glowered at} “Bring it right in!” She retumed the phone shakily. “It’s a letter am want to..know is— postmarked ee Hope: ae films?"} 2€ from Bill!” Penny Son Pegi tor to| “Doggone!” said Gieve. “C ee, Both Penny and’ Powell Ward stared at him. The manager’s phone: rang. { G know that, too. It was queer. Yet| ld Bull. Wrote as soon as he} the information she really wanted | could. most was about Bill. Nearly two| But it wasn’t Bill Vance’s hand- weeks had dragged ‘by since the| writing on the envelope. With news of his plane cr: and the} heart sinking, Penny noticed that only word that had come wasj at once. It was a quer, flattened, _Teday In History Today’ s Horoscope), from the Royal Canadian Mount- ed Police. Nothing from Bill him- self. She looked at the battered camera. When had 3ill's hands touched it last? Memories of her brother, his intent bhie eyes squinting for new picture angles, his perpetually led blond hair, his loose-jointed walk, crowded Penny’s mind. “Blasted carelessness?” shouted Powell. “Stupid police! What tood’s a camera without films? it_a camera? Fit ef @& lovely! Wil ¢aption reading; ‘Exclusive shots of the new Alcan A Read takenywwith this-cametad >The St well came Bit sea i eine “You sent tons ae “Did I?” said Powell Ward. “Why?” Cleve shrugged, flicked the ashes} of the cigarette he was smoking on the manager’s prize oriental rug, and approached the desk, eyes narrowing. “Bill Vance’s camera,” he said. “I'd know it anywhere. Bill loved it better thar his right arm. Where're the films?” “No films,” said Penny. Cleve’s gaze noted her briefly, then passed to Powell Ward. “How come?” 4 Bets manager exploded. “How do I know? The camera arrives, We open it. Nothing there.” Cleve thought about that. His! ae smouldered. His jaws hard- ened. “There begins to be a peculiar odor about this whole affair.” he said grimly. I unfamiliar scrawl in pale ink. Barely legible. The-envelope was yellow with age, rain-spotted and dirty. The Canadian ‘stamp was askew. The three of them. gathered around the torn single sheet of ruled paper inside, puzzled over the slanting words. “I rite for Mister Bill Vance’,” Penny read slowly. “‘He sick here in my shack. He say to tell boss he tak e, pitcher and tri ada gud U. dda Tibse films. of Burs i es valuable, Close-ups and trucking-sho' high officials on inspection. Trust Bill!” Cleve nodded. “Sure—he got *em all right. Bill never misses.” “But where the devil are they?” demanded Powell. He ran his fin- gers through his smoothly brushed blond hair, then distraughtly felt for_a comb to repair the damage. “But more important,” said Cleve, “where’s poor Bill?” OWELL WARD looked sur- prised. “What do you mean, where’s Bill?” He tapped the let- ter. “He’s up there in this half- breed’ s shack. It says so right here.” * “But where's the shack?” “Why—” Powell Ward looked | annoyed, flipped over the envel- jo “Why — at Hudson’s Hope. That's the postmark here.” Cleve said: “The shack might ‘be fifty, a hundred” ‘er More miles * 1642—Montreal, Canada, foutka| ed. 1666—Newark, N. J., settled by | Connecticut colonists. 1792—New York Stock Ex- change founded by 24 brokers meeting under a Wall Street but-} tonwood tree. 1838 — Philadelphia’s Pennsyl- | vania Hall fired and destroyed by) an anti-slavery mob. Today indicates peculiar voca- | , tion or strange experience in en- | vironment. It carrie$ industry and inventive skill coupléd with pa- tience and thrift. There will be more wealth thah the native |Teally needs and gdod fortune by marriage. ries | EE | BOUQUET TO SENOR DON PABLO (CP. A) aw: ” ‘He ‘stood® up, plungin han: “Pi . s deep im d ofiPrene’s s! Juke, the u just what Penny had i Bill, too banged up vetido write a letter, alone with halé-bnepd) miles from civiliza- tion ip the far oa How had he jefre le Frene’s shack? . id he lain there? In ut’cordition? He had sent her ty love, told her not to worry. But he asked the impossible of her. Not knowing was agony. Penny stood up blindly. Powell said, “We've mre to get hold of those films..Got “Put someone else a that Greenland assignment, Ward. I'll go sa to Hudson’s Hope for you.” “But—’ “With Bill laid up, you ought to have another Bhotogtapher ub up there to get shots, in case can’t be located. I can pinch-hit.” Powell Ward said thoughtfully. “All right, Pl take you along.” Both Penny and Cleve looked astonished. “You mean you're going up naseter= demanded Cleve.! “2M » REAINLY.” said Powell 4, Ward, “I’d.come to that de- even before you—ah—sug- any joing. It’s the only thing vit make a thorough inves- i Son, with the help of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. I'll get of| to the bottom of the disappearance of those films, and bring them back—” “And Bill,” said Cleve. “Bill, too, of course.” Penny cried, “I’m going, too!” “But darling,” said Powell Ward tolerantly, “that's out of the ques- tion.” “Absolutely,”” said Cleve, pat- ting her shoulder in a soothing, brotherly fashion. “That's rough country up there, no place for you, tot. Bill wouldn’t—” “If you think for one moment I'm _ going to stay here, when I could be up there looking after Bill,. you’re both crazy!” said Penny. “I tell you I’m goin; Powell, you've got to let me. you don’t T'll—I’'ll break our en- gagement!” Powell Ward looked helplessly into her determined gray eyes, and gave in. Lo be continued aprpersties data for the 24) Pouke ending 8:30 a, m., May. 17,' 1943, as reported? by the U.S. Weather Bureau: Highest last 24 hours | Lowest last night 66 jAtiay 56 | Bost 3 | Brdetisville } Charleston | ' Galveston {Jacksonville —_. | Kansas City — |KEY WEST - (Answer to poem in The Citizen K.W. AIRPORT 87 1864—U. S. Postal Money Order | wean Ib ee io System established. }And so you hide HéRind a nom; Derby| de plume Louis- | And cast a thorny bouquet in my face —— | When I. . . in solitude 1883—.Buffalo Bill’s first Wild} wasted rhymes. West, xhibition opens in Omaha. 1875—First. Kentucky run at Churchill Downs, ville. pen S wrapped in > 1930—Da War debts | begins. hi or, 1932—John H. Curtis, Norfolk, Va., shipbuilder, confesses to Lindbergh hoax. he 4 Companion to the flalves of lemon | there. And may I add fickle god)— Has ceased to trample on my woman's heart; I merely think—and write—and} "know I play Eros—(that 1942—Italian subs reported off our Eastern coast. sweetne§s is dh | Memphis | Miami | Minneapolis _ 53. |New Orleans _ 89 |New York __ 65 Norfolk _. 78 Oklahoma City 71 ; Pensacola | Pittsburgh 'St.,Louis 83 84 — 81 NEW YORK.—The Mediterrah- dai Seaiwas!so called by:ithe!4n- cieat{Latinssbecause they/believ- dd. tit .to., be. the middle ™ of,. the earth”. Moscow Pravda praises Allies’! | hetp in Africa and in the air. | i | VIV IV VV ETT TCI.) Today’s Birthdays Dr. John A. 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