The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 21, 1943, Page 6

PAGE SIX Coal Bootleggers Aba ndon 3 ‘Diggins’ | | | DEATH TRAP—Makeshift coal pits such as this one caused many fatalities among 12,000 outlaw miners a few years ago. Now the war has given most of them Regular Jobs. uu DRY CIGARETTES ARE | COMING—HERE’S HOW TO BLOW THEM AWAY Ap Peitires There needn't be dry for cigarette smokers, though the industry expects that cellophane used to protect smokes, will be limited to provide c cellulose for war-needed gun ys ahead even cotton. You can literally blow the annoyance away. Previously aluminum and lead i ffoile was conscripted and Jaminat- ed paper with asphaltum as the fianginating agent was used to elp keep cigarettes fresh. Then nt miners in tions. Growing sterner as they success ahead,’‘ the commit ; which controlled production, is sued an edict that no new inde pendent diggings would be tol erated after Sept. 19, 1941. A tiot followed when state police blew shut four holes opened in defiance of the order. , Operators and officials the ideal permanent solution would be broad expansion of an thracite workings, opening _ ne collieries, discovering new us for anthracite and present markets—all of which would tend to absorb the men who can and want to dig coal regular opera- saw agree thr enlarging ; THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | LEAVES FOR TAMPA |GRADUATION EVENT | AT WESLEY HOUSE! Arrangements are now being} Mrs. Judge C Thos. ~s. G Caro, wife of Paro of the Monroe County | | Criminal Court of Record, left on|made for the Wesley House Kin- | Lana End’s the Florida Motor Lines bus this| dergarten Graduation morning. route to Tampa,| which will be rendered where e will spend days’ vacation. program, ! en at the | day, May 25. The invocation will be given! glycerine, used to absorb moisture! by Rev. Guillermo Perez. | irom the atmosphere, was re-| stricted. Again’ a substitute was! aranged fqr the occasion. found. Members of > the graduating! But Ceffophane cannot. be re-| class are? placedsAs:aresult, cigarettes may} Manuel AcdNti#]° Déaiiria’“Areh® | An excellent program is aba case | RICHARD LIGHT GOES TO BRAZIL * Richard Light wh who conducted - Inn, Simonton and Caroline streets, for almost five several | High School auditorium on Tues Beanie has gone to Brazil where lhe is employed as an interpreter. Mrs. Light and daughter will leave here Saturday to join Mr. Fish ‘sees Republiean ‘spicide” |if the party runs Willkie pens not-alWays reach smokers in the} er, Mary’ ;Ann Arnol@)j J {Hi} same condition they now do. | Brady, Paul Caraballot, DRabett| Spokesmen for the industry of. > Delgado, Mirta, Del. , Valle.) fer these ways in which a dry| Sandra Duane. | cigarette can be moistened by the! _Roy Willis Edwards, Jean Gar-! smoker jcia, Yolando Garcia, Gently blow through a cigarette | Marguerite Garcia, Donald Gib-| om both ends before it is light-| Son, Lourdes Marie tobacco will capture much | Barbara Harris, Shirley Hines, of the moisiure exhaled through} ——— — it. For an extremely dry ciga isten one end and then re" light the moistened end. Your} puff will draw the moisture | h the tobacco. | tap cigarettes or roll them; the palms of, your hands, e praciices loosen the to-/ bacco and contribute nothing to! smoking pleasure. 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Prop. - Phone SZ ———-We Reserve the Right To Limit Quantities ——_—_ MAY 2 19 PEEEEEEEE EEE EEE ENE EERE EERE E EEE EERE EERE EERE EE EEE ERE REE EERE buy More War Bonds By WILLIAM G; PP TONE i : ing the fold closed at other times. | H H if It's New and Women Wear It, Clara Has It" j oie Marie Shoppe “THE NEW FASHION CENTER” 528 Fleming St. PHONE 232 Key West, Fla. 1 G}SMOCK AP Features HARRISBURG, May 21.—Bootleg coal all fester that made King Coal miserable during the 1930’s in the Pennsylvania anthracite fields—is on the way out. Legi- timate operators, the United Mine Workers union and the state government hope to clinch its finish. _A honeycomb of 3,000 mine op-*: erations which some 12,000 men yp the bootleg, product and cred- peje sees Cy oe LB ae in| it the operators in their weekly a desperate effor' o fee eir | ducti haa: families has dwindled to some 830) sees een atan es free-lance holes this year: manned | ‘at move hurt the independ- by about 3,000 min jent breakers and they began The combined assistance of a} going out of business. The next global war with its peak demand | step was to hire more independ- for coal, a shortage of fuel oil and} the cooperation of operators, union and state were required to get at} a workable solution of bootleg- | ging. | War Ends Need | Bootleggers are miners who risk] “The Store That Serves their lives working mines which| You Best” legitimate companies have aban-|{ ‘aba usually tacuias thecal | PHONES 67 and 47 nearly exhausted and large scale | 814 Fleming Street operations no longer cc ler- | ed profitable. Bootleggers simply ; move in on mines which they do! not own. Becau of economic! conditions, public sympathy has! been solidly behind them and bootlegging has carried no stigma of dishonesty. :The economic reasons for boot- | leg mining no longer exist,” de-| elares Richard Ma acting state Secretary of mines. “Miners no longer are forced into the dangers of bootleg mining by the neces- sity of earning a living. Leigtimate | employmerit is available for all those desiring it.” i A production control plan, evolved by a committee of one toms. union lead ernment officiz being carried out. been proposed to require an in- spection of small mines which would compel many of them to close, Minc themselves are co-} operating, research is under-! way to find new uses for anthra- cite. When bootieg mining was its worst from 1939 to 1941, proximately 12,000 men their lives y in unsafe, unin- spected diggings to earn $3 or $4} each, Thirty thousand and children lived on such} Almost every attempt ak up the practice ended | in violence. Bootleg age of one 90,000 tons to one life KHON. § Wing Lee’ s Food? ful of healthful, appetite-tempting foods that DO NOT require Ration Stamps. We suggest a shopping trip to our Market, where you'll find many time-saving, ready-to- eat foods that will minimize your budget and be a delight to the fam- ily’s appetite. See how much more you CAN BUY AT WING LEE'S. 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