The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 18, 1943, Page 2

THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. pare, Daily, tre gt a, by L. P. ARTMAN, Owner and blisher JOE ALLEN, Business From The Citizen og Corner Gre nd Ann Si Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and ig i Monroe County ig ‘tered at Ke West, Florida, as second class matter MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use tor republication of all news dispatches credited to ft or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the socal news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ne 00 THE FRIGID SHOULDER A Miami newspaper, in a drooling, | Monroe county’s representative, to try to} | be ‘a DICTATOR of Dade (the capitals | are the property, free and clear of allen-| cumbrances, of the Miami paper), to block tudeof the editorial, that the answer to that b+) | question is hard'to find. But the answer is a | as readily apparent as is the answer to the ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. 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END BAD PRACTICE NOW The Guffey Coal Act came into being in 1935 on. the demand of John L. Lewis, to prevent a coal strike. The Supreme Court held the first act unconstitutional. A revised Guffey Act was passed in 1937, again un- der the spur of coal strike, threats. Mr. Lewis insisted on a law such as the Guffey Act which forced the mine opera- tors to raise coal prices so that the mines could pay higher wages to labor. This was an indirect way of leving a direct tax on the public for the benefit of a specified group. The Giiffey Coal Act was to have ex- pired in April, but the House and Senate extended it for thirty days on the ground that Congress should have time to consider its renewal. In spite of the fact that a majority of coal operators have been virtually sub- sidized to the point of acquiescence in this legislation, against their better judgment as to its soundness as an economic prin- ciple, there is an undercurrent in Congress that it may be better to eliminate it entire- ly before our republic reaches that stage arrived at by Diocletian in 300 A.D. when sons were compelled to follow the vocations of their fathers under penalty of death. Diocletian formulated a complex and vast system of price fixing, labor relations, and a scheme of government that constricted liberty to the point of making his subjects thoroughly miserable. It broke down. The New York Times points out the folly of our endeavors to fight inflation, and at the same time prolong the life of an Act like this which not only encourages but | compels prite and wage ‘boosting which all consumers must pay for the benefit of a special class. It says in part: “Tf it were sound to set up a selling monopoly for the coal industry, so that it can raise prices against the public in order to pay miners high wages, then it would be | equally sound to turn other industries into selling monopolies so that they could boost the price of their products and pay higher wages to their workers. The Guffey Act is a flagrant contradiction of .the economic policy that government has been advocat- ing in other fields. Coal prices should be subject to ceilings like the prices of all other necessities today. This very ‘special gift to Mr. Lewis ought to be allowed‘ to,ex pire quietly.” It is high time that powerful minority groups which have not hesitated to jeopar- dize the safety of the nation, be required to operate under the same legislation that ap- plies to all the people. The peril of inflation is not over and it behooves all people in Monroe County to | take note of that fact. Some American give head-hunters of question, “How many do two and two make? Papy’s “dictator” role is holding up a bill in committee that would give Stanley Milledge, who takes office as state attorney to work in connection with his office in Dade. Als the money comes out of the pock- ets of the people of Dade county themselves, and not from the state at large, the que: to tell Dade countians what they should or should not spend. However, Papy has .every reason to re- sent anything: that particular’ paper: says about him, for its political , writer has gone | out of his way, time, and again, tootake a crack at Papy, The! writer hasreven; done | that when Papy has not had anything what ever to do with the niatter under discussion But that is beside the point. Dade has } a man in the senate and three representa- | | tives in the house, and it is they that the paper should call upon to see that the par- ticular bill in question becomes a law. Don’t | fulminate against Papy for his fight in a lost countians in the legislature. If they are un- of Dade should send other men, men who can fight better, to the legislature. scenes of the play Papy is staging. He is resentful because Milledge refuses to name, as his assistant in Monroe county, the man whom Papy favors. That phase of the question has before been discussed by The Citizen, which took the stand, and still ad- heres to it, that Milledge should be given a free hand to choose whom he wants as his assistant in Monroe, as well as in Dade. If Milledge then fails, he will be unable to shift the blame of his failure on any other man. | Some politicians die hard. It cuts like a | buzzsaw against the grain of human na- ture to demand of a man who wins that he name to office men who fought him unre- lentingly. when he ran for office. He is the best politician who takes his defeat gra- | ciously. Such a man is admired; the diehard | is coldshouldered. | eS AE actecaanttaas | The usual crop of Spring poetry is ap- pearing, but, so far, no epoch-making verse has come to light. | | In Tunisia the Germans got a taste of what the Anglo-American combination will do to them in Europe > Now that the Vistar Loan’ hasbeen concluded, with emineht success, it shightybe! | tion needs monéysevery month. Buy more war bonds and as soon as you can. France dropped out of the war, and the world will soon see how Mussolini’s brave nation will react to a dangerous situation. SHORTER AND SHORTER Maybe they got the idea from seeing some of our Key West boys wearing their shirts on the outside of their pants, this idea of shortening the tails and limiting shirt length to'thirteen inches .Sonie men around here haven't felt the change though it went | into effect the middle of Décember. The* /cuffless trouser should have prepared Us | ‘for this and we may expect there will be | more curtailment to come. The fellow who heedlessly stretched his length in bed will” tion on sheets. Most of us won’t do too much | worrying about the restricted length of cas- swing bands might | the Solomons the wrong impression of our civilization, or do they give the right impression? | kets, we’ll take it when it comes, but you) | | can’t blame us for being a bit upset about the shirt tail edict when we are faced with | | appearing in society with our shi te ing in and out and up and dB We will | have to confine our movements té'Slow mo- ion, raising our arms less, twisting rarely and jerking never. Well, with” a warm summer ahead the short sheet and the short | shirt will give us more air, come what may | with next winter’s winds. i | | tear-spilling editorial, demands, in quiver- | ing tones, What right has Bernie Papy,'| the will of its better than 300,000 citizens?” i One would think, judging by the ampli- | early in July, $10,000 to hire an investigator | tion suggests the answer: Papy has no righi | | cause; train the artillery on the four Dade | able to thwart the action of one man from | a small county like Monroe, then the people | It is easy enough to see behind the | | editorial paragraph: | kinds of bills these days. Pass a ;the PE. Church, San Francisco, | years ago. good for all-¢ius to rerhember, thers the yta- ic, { | The Italians will soon know how the | British felt in the summer of 1940, when | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY’ FROM FILES OF TI OF THE crrizen | OF MAY 18, 1933 | | | County Tax Collector Frank H. Ladd today issued 23 beer licenses. One of the 23 ‘was a wholesaler. Miss May Hill, honor guest at | the Kev West Rotary luncheon to-| |day, sang several selections. J. Jj | Trevor made an address in the in- | | terest of Troop 5, Boy Scouts of | | America. The Naval ‘Radio Station in Key| | West is to be continued in opera- tion, according to a_ special dis- patch from Washington in The Citizen toda.y. An advisory from the Weather | Bureau in Washington, said today} | that a tropical disturbance, north- } west of Yucatan, has made little| progress since yesterday. | | Sam Pinder will preach this eve- | ning at the Salvation Army Ser- | | Vices to beheld in the hall at Flem- | ing and Grinnell streets, begin-} {ning at 8 o'clock. Charles Lowe, British vice con-} |sul in Key West, on going this | morning to his automobile, which} was parked in a street Overnight, learned that some despicable van- dal had cut up his four tires on | the car and his spare also. | Claude R. Albury today as- | sumed charge of the local immi-| gtation office, following an ab-| sence of several months while on} duty at Ellis Island in New York | j harbor. Edward Thompson, who is now! making his-home in Jacksonville, | jis in Key West visiting relatives. | Chita Baker, local lightweight; boxer, returned today from a short} {stay in Miami. Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Waldron, /} who had been visiting the latter's! parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ar- | cher, Caroline street, returned yes-! | terday to their home in Deerfield, | | Florida. Mrs. George Perpall and her son, Everett, who had been visit- ing in Cuba, returned yesterday | on the steamship Florida. Mrs. J. L. Williams, formerly | Miss Annie Garing of Key West,| is here visiting relatives. Today The Citizen says in an “The legislature is passing all few down this way if they are not too inflated.” Today’s Birthdays | Bishop Edward L. Parsons of retired, born New York City, 75 Frank Capra, film director, now in army, born in Italy, 46 years ago. Thomas Midgley, Jr., of Detroit, noted research chemist, born Beaver Falls, Pa., 54 years ago. Josephus Daniels of Raleigh, N. ex-secretary of the navy and x-ambassador, born Washington, 'N. C., 81 years ago. Dr. John G. Bowman, chancel- lor of the Univ. of Pittsburgh, born Delhi, N. Y., 53 years ago. Dr. Albert W. Palmer, president of the Chicago Theological semi- nary, born Kansas City, Mo., 64 years ago. Bertrand Russell, English philo- | sopher-author, born 71 years ago. | OBLIGING ‘POSSUM | i KNOXVILLE, Tenn—As a warning against running away from home, Carolyn Parks, 3, was | told that an opossum would get | her. Demanding to see the animal, er father took her to an imagi- ry. hunt in the back yard. He ‘yfully poked in an old stump id, to Bis amazement, a mamma mand a brood of three lit- . ohes, strolled out. “Convinced, stays home now. find his stretch limited by the new regula-_ AL & JOE ‘RADIO SERVICF 629 Eaton, Cor. Elizabeth “THE FASTEST ed LOPEZ Fux ‘uneral Service iste Sock ties and Embelmers |. 1 — (ewan sas saan 24-Hour Ambulance PHONE 135 penny stepped through the hatch of the big bi-motored plane for her first close-up of a | northern frontier trading post. They'd arrived safely at Hudson’s Hope. Immaculate in a gray business suit, Powell preceded her. Cleve, in an old slouch hat and slacks, trailed along behind. “Tl look after the luggage,” he called. “Meet you at the hotel in a few minutes.” Penny wasn’t listening. The marvelous view of river, moun- tains and canyon held her atten- tion. Below them, in its cut-deep valley, was the mighty Peace. Across on the far side, sweeping up the slope and to the horizon, she could see the massed green of spruce and jack-pine. Stark wilderness everywhere | around her. It was breathtaking, mysterious and—and a litt! le frightening, too. Somewhere in ot rugged land fate had dumped She said to Powell, “Well, what- do you think of it?” le paused to take her arm. “It looks a bit bleak,” he said. “I'm afraid the accommodations won't be any too good.’ Penny laughed. Powell was re- ferring to the town and the hotel. The impact of the country itself had escaped him. He’d completely overlooked the gorgeous settin; for this poky little settlement o! log shacks and cluttered houses. | He hadn’t even seen the three Indian tepees down there on the first bench of the river. “T think it’s wonderful,” Penny said, breathing eel: “Air tangy with Pine. Everything new and | clean and primitive.” ‘HE hotel was called Baird’s Stopping Place. Men in top boots clanked through the door. | On the rough board walk outside were small groups of trappers and prospectors with hoary heads and time-grooved faces, half-breeds | fi | and Indians. Everyone stared at Penny. She went in with Powell to register, looking curiously around. Fire crackled in the great hearth at one end of the high-beamed room. There were shaggy skins on the rough-hewn floor, antlered heads on the walls “What sree = fing first?” she ask: ik om the mounted Soliceman?” Her fiance nodded. Mr. Baird, the proprietor, came forward to ret them. Baird wore a dark woolen shirt, open at the throat, and eer of moc- ed, his feet casins. When he seemed to whisper. He shook hands with them. He said, “Did you bring your bed- rolls?” Powell stared. “Certainly not!” “I think I can provide sheets and blankets for the young lady, and a room for her.” He smiled at Penny. Powell bristled. “But what about Mr. Rockwell, my assistan’ and myself?” he soked. “We'll want separate rooms, of course.” cunt —— his noes, “In this a said, “everyone ings his own bedroll and bunks = the floor.” Powell choked. He looked at Penny. Then he yanked at his tie. “I didn’t know what we were getting into.” “THe be fun to rough it!” Penny glanced about her approvingly. “Don*t you see, Powell, it will be like camping out.” “I don’t mind camping — Powell said. “What I object to camping in.” Penny burst out laughing. He ies a gpg s oe iow lon; ou janning stay?” ask Mr. Bair ‘4 “A week or two, I imagine,” an- swered Powell. He was getting over his huff and, like Penny, catching some of the adventure of this experi- — ae squeezed arts arm, “We’l meanage somehow.” Then, to Baird: best you can sad ce I comet spare any ex- peBehind them something thump- ed loudly on the floor. aera was Cleve with their 1 camera oes Suipmaatty and Penny’s first- kit and box of _—— for | ni; Bin. Cleve had hired tw - breeds to fetch it all isa here. AS was Batf in his arms and holding a Soe wht I picked up,” he said. San eerie Penny shouted aelighteay, “a. Teal husky! Oh, look, Nl, isn’t he cute?” Ag ieey almost pure wolf,” Cleve “Look at his pointed ears. fst thick coat. He’s all yours. -Today In History | | ' { | 1783.—Vanguard of some 30,000 Loyalists, fleeing country er revolution, reach St. John, N from New York. 1836.—Congress authorizes the} Wilkes: expedition to Antarctic—} first scientific expedition fitted out by Government. 1885—The Canadian Railway opens. Pacific} 1899.—First Peace Conference, | called by Russian Czar, opens = The Hague. i ! 1917—Congress enacts first} | Selective Service Law. 1918—(25 years ago} In New York speeches, Pres. Wilson de- clares we will stand by Russia and there will be no limit to the number of men sent to France. | } 1922.—Pres. Harding suggests to country’s steel makers they abolish the 12-hour shift. i 1936.—U. S. Supreme Court in-| validates Guffey Coal Act. i 1941.—Italians in Ethiopia sur- render. 1942.—Price control in effect. WHO KNOWS? ANSWERS ON PAGE FOUR 2. Is Cap Bon peninsula larger than Bataan? 3. How many Americans must} Pay income taxes this year for the! first time? 4. What American is paying a visit to Moscow? 5. Name four European nations | j Not involved in the war. 6. Who is a_ self-styled “cur- mudgeon?” 7. The Navy reports occupation | of the Russell Islands, where are | j they and when were they occu- | pied? 8. Why are Wendell Willkie, Thomas E. Dewey, Gen. Douglas! MacArthur, John W. Bricker and Harold E. Strassen often dis-! cussed together? 9. What was “the little green) house on K Street?” 10. In tén.major night raids in) April the dropped 10,000 | tons of bombs German indus- | trial cities. How many bombers did the RAP "lése?* “*“** FOUND IN CANADA ST. LOUIS. — Specimens of Douglas fir trees have been found in Canada which are believed to} ‘be more than 700 years old. REAL ICE Is More ECONOMICAL. . .It’s Healthy and Safe. . It’s Pure TUESDAY, MA do| Penny. Here, I bought him for you.” “Cleve—you don’t mean it!” Powell said, “He looks like a thoroughbred, all right. ‘Thanks, old man. He'll be company for Penny.” They were all in wonderful good humor. Penny took the puppy from Cleve and hugged it T, shining-eyed. Presently Mr. Baird showed her to her room. It was clean and bright with a nice view of the river. She unpacked and there was a photo graph of Bill. She caught it up affectionately. “Bill,” she said. “It won't be long now. We'll find Le Frene’s t forse and you'll get well quick- "the Bill in the picture smiled back understandingly. Was there ever a brother like him, Penny wondered. She spent the rest of the morn- ing ok Pl and playing with the baby malemute. Reais be their mascot, she decided. She'd name him “Wolf.” It was thought- ful of Cleve to give him to her. She was glad he song Bill ‘would be pleased, too. GuppeMLy, there was a knock at her door. Penny ran to open it. The moment she looked into Powell's face she knew something Her fiance stalked in, kissed her absent-mindedly, then plunked down in a chair. “Of all the rotten luck!” he muttered. ; “What's happened?’ “I can't possibly do about those films for pate two weeks.” “Why not?” Powell spread out a arms in “Our mounted 2 rl Con- stable Rennick, is away on patrol. He eg ted back for a fort- Possibly aes | ae % dear! . Then she brightened. “But we're ——e for him, we can go and Powell shook his head. sible. Le Frene's aoskianean r wilderness count ic gg ape ey all the way. No, my dear, all the cards seem to be stacked against us.” To be continued DENNIS CASH Deceased NOTICE OF FILING FINAL REPORT AND APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE is b IN THE CIRCUIT co ELEVENTH J RCUIT COURT OF THE TH JUDICIAL CmCUrT STATE OF FLORIDA. FOR MONROE Cors- IN CHANCERY. ¢ the App (Today's Horoscope ; Today indicates one disposed to! jfind happiness in the ordinary cog \ 1. Where’s the Tyrrhenian Sea? | routine of life. Portions of the day bring power and authority, which jmay include a rather arbitrary | spirit, which should be guarded! ; against to avoid loss of friends. | Subscribe to The Citizen. LEGALS = THE COUNTY JUDGE'S CouRT | | FOR MONROE COUNTY, FLONIDA. IN PROBATE. jin_r 1 j i tate of LIZABETH RANDALL. Deceased NOTICE OF FILING FINAL REPORT AND APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE Notice is hereby given to all persons that Fred J. Dion, the un-/| |dersigned Ancillary Administrator of the Estate of Elizabeth Ra: | dan, deceased, has filed with jthe Honorable Raymond R. Lord, County Judge of Monree County | Florida, his final report as said {Ancillary Administrator and has also made and filed with said Judge application for his discharge as_said Ancillary Administrator. Dated this 11th day of Mays FRED J. 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