The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 25, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TWo a a a THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO., INC, Published Daily, Except Sunday, by i. P. ARTMAN, Owner and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Business Manager «. From The Citizen Building Corner Gre d Ann Streets in Key West and Monroe County ‘tered at Key West, Florida, as seeond class matter MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘The Associated Press *or republication of all n di spate! it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also ‘cal news. published. here. the tix Month: Une Mo. Weekly pee ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. ca 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. NoticéS for entertainment by churches trom which @ revenue 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 general ee bUt it will not publish anonymous communi- fations, ~~ IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST = ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. each ‘and Bathing Pavilion. orts—Land and Sea. lidation of County and City ernments. A@Modern City Hospital. bi BRITISH DOING THEIR FIGHTING Gov- The future peace of the world and the safety of the United States and Great Britain“require that the two English-speak- ing nations continue their close cooperation after the conclusion of the present war. Because of this fact, almost self-evident to students of world politics, we think it is important for Americans to appreciate the contribution that the British are making to the ovérthrow of Hitlerism. Such recogni- tion wf] not detract from the glory of our own fighting men. It4s a mistake for Americans td believe that they are doing all the fighting. It would be tragic if our war news over-emphasics any plase of the great war, especially if it persuades us that the British, French, Nor- wegiay§, Greeks and other poeple have made yelatively small contributions to the common cause, Roane Waring, National Commander of the American Legion, just back from North Africa, takes cogniance of this fact, we believe, when he says that the British are not-“letting somebody else do their fighting for them.” He says they are doing it magMificently,” and adds that the British soliders in Africa “have been through hell and itsfires have not daunted them.” We yield to no one in admiration of ‘American fighting men but, like the Legion leader,-we admit that the British deserve eredit for a great record in this war. What- ever may have been the suspicion about the fighting qualities of the men of England, Scotland, Wales and Ulster before this war began, there is but one opinion today and arty 3 it. , He's run! ¢ > only a Walker, but watch him Making plans for the future is often a way to-escape work in the present. Franco, of Spain, suggests that neither side can win the present war, but not so long ago he was sure of an Axis triumph. TOJO WARNS ANGLO-AMERICANS! General Hideki Tojo, premier of Ja- pan, says that Japan is now ready to “deal a thorough and crushing blow to the en- emy’sarmed power” and expresses the conviction of Japan that she will so effee- tively erush America and Britain” as to re- move their.“baneful tentacles” from East Asia. ©, This entitles Honorable Tojo to a seat alongside the Japané¥e admiral who an- nounced that peace would: be dictated by him in-the White House — Yamamoto, a suicide-or killed in an airplane accident. Ifyou have any idea that isolationism is dead read the Congressional Record. ‘TWere is, we discover, little truth to the | suggestion that men work better after a biz meal. « - Iivesponsible utterances in the press and on the air help to make the war diffi-| cult to‘tinderstand, j A line, in an oldtime song reads, “I | hope you'll understand.” The Citizen doesn’t | recall whether or not the hope was realized, but The Citizen does know that some Key | Westers, regardless of how plainly and simply one may write, apparently find it an insuperable task to understand sometimes. For instance, The Citizen pulled no punches when it flayed the city council for spending the city’s money carelessly, and The Citizen doesn’t take back a single word it said in those instances. But The Citizen is actuated only by one motive—fairness—, and that rule is applied to the city council- men as well as to anybody else. The Citizen hasn’t “got it in’ for the councilmen, hasn't “got it in’ for anybody, individually or col- lectively. The Citizen keeps its eye peeled for the city’s interests, which means the peo- ple’s interests, and if anybody tries to curb or to crush those interests, The Citizen hastens to denounce such action. All of which leads us to the matter in hand. One day last week The Citizen pub- lished an editorial taking the people to | task for not supporting their councilmen in their movement to rid Duval street of saloons and night clubs. mended the councilmen and_pinked that rockingchair type of faultfinder, who makes no effort civically to try to promote | the interests of his community. And what happened? Several of that type of resident said in effect that The Citi- | zen is riding again with the councilmen. But The Citizen is not riding with the coun- cilmen or with anybody else; The Citizen is playing fair, playing fair with the council- men as well as with everybody else. What would the Manin the Kockingchair have The Citizen do—rib the councilmen when the councilmen are right? The Citizen maintains that if the kind | of night life that is going on in saloons on Duval and on the street itself, continues to | go on, the blame for that condition fits just | as snugly on the head -of the man in the | Rockingchair as does the hat he wears. When he stays home and cusses, instead of participating in civic meetings designed to promote the interests of the community, if the outcome of those meetings are not in ac- | cord with his opinion, blame is himself. The Man in the Rockingchair has never assisted in buifding up a community; in- stead, he is a drawback; if a community progresses it progresses in spite of him. The local Man in the Rockingchair must get out of it and become active in the the only person to civic life of Key West, if Key West is to suc- | ceed as it should succeed in postwar days. Advertising is a business booster but it doesn’t work itself. “Unconditional surrender” worked very well in North Alfrica, and eventually will work very well in Europe. NAZIS OUT IN A HURRY Dispatches from Tunisia describe the disorganization and demoralization of German troops under Allied pressure. The soldiers of the Axis who were so im- pressive when the odds were with them ir Poland, France and Greece, surrendered wholesale. Many of them had ample sup- plies of food and ammunition. The Tunisian victory demonstrates again that the Germans are not “last ditch’”’ fighters. When the tide of battle turns against them, they have no stomach for a battle against great odds. They quit fighting and they quit in a hurry. The behavior of German soldiers in Tunisia indicates what will happen in Ger- many when the people are convinced, be- yond doubt, that further fighting is hope- less. It is our prediction that the Germans, as in 1918, will fold up fast when hope ex- pires, The man who gives away money is us- ually handling somebody else’s cash. “GREATEST SEA VICTORY” An advertisement for a recently pub- lished book promises “a complete picture of the greatest sea victory in American his- tory.” Strange to say, few Americans can name the battle, tell when it was fought, or tell what the results were, The battle took place in the year 1942, during which the United States scored re- The Citizen com- | of the engagement THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Citizen | THE MAN IN THE ROCKINGCHAIR | Chapter 9 PENNY came up out of black- | ness to see Cleve’s worried up- side down face above her, framed in sky. When she:stirred in his arms, he said, “Thank, heaven, you're all right!” “Am _ 1?” asked Penny doubt- fully. She felt wet and celd, and her head throbbed dismally. Her hand fluttered up to touch Cleve’s lean cheek, still glistening from the river. A muscle jerked under her brushing fingertips. “Don’t do that!” said Cleve sharply. _, "Why not? I just wantec to see if I were awake—if you were real.” She sighed. “You're awake,” he said, “and I'm real—and, unfortunately, this is no dream.” He put her down gently, but firmly, on the ban’, and walked off. Penny sat up. “Where are you going?” “To take stock of what I man- aged to save from the water.” Penny rose and straggled after. Her boots oozed at every step. Her plastered-down air dripped. Wolf appeared from a thicket, yapping. He paused to shake him- self energetically. Drops sparkled from his coat. He. frisked after Penny and Cleve. : | Cee was looking down rue- fully at a little pile of things on the shore. Penny’s soaked bed- roll. The first aid kit she had brought for Bill. A can of flour, beans, and rice. The bacon was gone. Most of the contents of the grub box was in the river. Penny reached a timii hand to Cleve’s arm. “I’m sorry,” she said. “It’s all my fault. We're in a fix, aren't we?” “Yes.” “How far do you think we’ve come?” “Maybe fifty miles.” “Then—we're just about mid- way between Hudson’s Hope and Pierre le Frene’s shack?” “That’s right.” “Well—do we go back, or for- ward?” His dark eyes flicked her face. “What do you think?” She squeezed it out as she went. | Cl “Ym for going on. of course,” said Penny. “So am I. But it won’t be a pleasant stroll. Canoe gone. Food reduced to the minimum, Rough terrain. No ammunition.” Penny nodded soberly: ‘Sudden- ly sho remembered the map and irections in her shirt pocket. She felt. for it, brought out a gsy sheet veined with running “Our directions—look!” Cleve patted her arm. “Don’t worry. ! can r-.member e:.ough to draw another map, I think. We'll find Bill all right.” In the gruelling hours that fol- lowed, Penny herself was far from sure. “We'll have to walk ourselves dry and warm again,” Cleve said. “No rest until then.” HE carried Penny’s bed-roll and the food. Penny, her first- aid kit. As they strugglea along the riverbank, climbing, descend- ing, through underbrush and over driftwood, clouds. gathered and covered the sun. The breeze was cool, Once Penny shivered in her damp clothing. “Walk faster!” commanded leve. “Cleve, I can’t. 'm dead.” “You've got to,” he said. “Come op. If you don’t, you’ll get chilled.” “And if I do,” said Penny-grim- ly, “I merely fall apart. Maybe you shouldn’t have bothered fish- = me out of the river, Cleve.” ip ahead, the little husky paused in his tireless sniffing and trailing of smells, to look back at them. Cleve laughed. “Wolf's having the time of his life. To him, this is a lot more fun than riding tamely in a canoe.” “We didn’t ride so tamely,” said Penny, In spite of her fa- tigue, she smiled, too. At noon they were ravenously hungry. Cleve managed, with considerable profanity, to ham- mer the can of beans open with a sharp rock. Both the can opener and his jack-knife had been lost in the canoe -disaster. They ate the beans with relish. “This tastes better than many “You’ve got some bean juice on your chin, tot,” said Cteve shortly. Penny looked at him in sur- prise. A moment before he'd beer gay and companionable. Now his brown face had settled intc graven, inscrutable lines. She caught a glimpse of pain deer in his brown eyes before he turned from her and stood up Perhaps, she thought, those ol¢ wounds he’d got in Warsaw were bothering him. Cleve would never say. He was like Bill. “We'd better get going,” ne said. “I figure it’s twenty-five dian encampment there. We ee come more than four or oe” They wen‘ hard ‘going this morning, this afternoon was pure torture. They lously in the stony-bottomed, fast- swirling water in order to follow the shoreline. “I don’t try dare cutting through the woods,” Cleve said. | “We could lose our way.” PENNY didn’t answer because she couldn’t. All she could do was to pick up her heavily-booted feet laboriously and set them down again. Step by step—each | one an accomplishment. Cleve helped her, encouraged her, made jokes. But fatigue masked his j own face. His movements were as dogged, nearly, as Penny’s were. _“T’'ve simply got to rest for a bit,” Penny said faintly. She sank down on a fallen log. | Cleve joined her. “How far do you think we've come so far?” she asked, leaning against him. “Td hate to say,” he said. “Blamed few miles, Pm afraid.” They got up after a while and went on. Penny moved forward automatically through a fog of | weariness. The sun inched lower. Shadows stretched. Suddenly Cleve shouted. “Smoke!” spruce ahead.” A few minutes later they stag- gered into the warming circle of a campfire. A man rose to greet them, a pan full of crisping bacon in one hand. a dinner I’ve had with Powell at the Waldorf.” said Penny. To be continued DAYS GONE BY FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN: OF MAY 25. 1933 i Workmen today started to make repairs to the home of Ernest Hemingway at Whitehead and! Olivia streets. William R. Porter, vice presi- dent of the Overseas Bridge Cor- | poration, left this afternoon for | Miami, where he will hold several conferences regarding the efforts that are being made to obtain a loan from the Reconstruction Fi- nance Corporation to construct the proposed bridges. | the bills that have been introduc- ed in this session of the legisla- ture, affecting Monroe county. | West, which is preparing a new published the various changes it is intended to make in the char- | ter. Mrs. T. E. Motlow and son ar- are guests of the former's parent Pine street. Students of the Key West High School tomorrow night will pre- sent “Seventeen,” a comedy in four acts, in the high school audi- | torium, A meeting of the Parent-Teach- er Association of the Harris pub- | lie school was held yesterday af- ternoon, during which there was a review of the work the asso- | ciation has done during this school | year. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Hicks; who |had been in Key West visiting | friends, returned yesterday to their * | home at Miami Beach. Mrs. Charles. Williams and. son John left yesterday. for, Islamor-. jada, where they intend to spend | several weeks. | .Mrs. J. H. Keathley and four | children, who had been here twe | weeks visiting relatives, left yes. | terday afternoon for their home in | Miami. Julius Mendell, who had been peated sea victories over the Japanese in | the Pacific. They include: The Battle of | the Coral Sea, the Battle of Midway, the ac- tion off the Santa Cruz island and the fight | around Savo Island, in November. KEY WEST IN city charter, proposed to have} WHO KNOWS? ANSWERS ON PAGE FOUR 1. What cabinet position did Winston Churchill hold in World ‘War I? | 2. What is the size of Attu? 3. What “hater of the British” is now in England? 4. Recent news from Russia stresses aerial offensives, tank battles or artillery barrages? 5. Who is Lin Sen? 6. Tokyo said we landed on Attu on Wednesday but Washing- |ton said Tuesday. Which was correct? 7. How many reciprocal treaties have been signed? 8. What is the wage formula of the War Labor Board? 9. How does our war produc- | Mr. Churchill? in Miami on a business trip, re- jturn yesterday afternoon. The Economic League of Key) Mrs. Herman Demeritt, who had | been visiting her sister, Miss Maude Welch, in Miami, returned | yesterday. hy Today The - Citizen says in an “editorial paragraph: “A British safety rived ‘yesterday from Miami and | says that every driver should learn; Today’s Birthdays Lt. Gen. Lesly J. McNair, re- cently wounded on the Tunisian front, born Verndale, Minn., 60 years ago. . peat Philip Muray, president of the CIO, born in Scotland, 57 years ago. Dr. John. R. Mott of New : York, famed YMCA. leader, born | there, 54 years ago. ‘ Bennett A. Cerf, New York {book publisher, born there, 45 years ago. | Alaa trade | Bill Robinson, dancer-actor, | born Richmond, Va., , ago. 65 years | James J. (“Gene”) Tunney, |. Mayor William H. Malone made tion compare with normal years?! pow a Navy physical director, | an address at the luncheon of the! 10. How many conferences have ‘born New York, 45 years ago. Rotary Club today. He discussed; been held by the President and| | Igor I. Sikorsky of Stamford, Conn., aeronautical engineer, jborn in Russia, 54 years ago. John Holmes, president of Swift & Co., Chicago, born in Treland, 52 years ago. ‘Today’s Horoscope Today is a well-balanced one, miles to Moose Creek and the In- | t on. If it had been | had to scale cliffs or wade peri- | See — above those | | NY | 1803—Ralph Waldo | famed Concord thinker, poet | born in Boston | 1882. sage and | 1835—Henry C. New | York P. E. bishop, fearless ix | behalf of truth and right, bern | Schenectady, N. Y. Died July | 21, 1908. Potter, 1840—Alfred J. Reach, lar early baseball player wi ! came a milionaire | born England. | 1928. popu. be- business Died Jan i4 | 1862 — Eugene Zimmermar | CZim”), cartoonist, born Switzerland. Died March | 1935. 26. 1866—Carl E. Schultze, car | toonist, creator of “Foxy Grand- pa,” born Lexington, Ky. Di Jan. 18, 1939, IN THE COUNTY JUDGE'S COURT IX AND MOXNRGs CoUNTt FLORIDA SOTKE OF FILING PFINas REPORT AND APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE Nowem ane Derewr gpes & z _ Today In History. 1787—Constitutional | tion begins sitting in phia. Conven- Philade! 1790—Tennessee Territory tablished by Congress 1825—The American Uni ‘Association founded in Boston 1898—President issues call for 75,000 volunteers for the | with Spain. war 1905—Act of Congress returns part of the Boxer indemnity to | China. 1918—(25 years ago) German subs begin sinking American merchant ships—19 sunk off coast from New Jersey to Virginia in next three weeks. ,;. 1923—Former Allies agree to jhave American Army of Occupa- | tion on Rhine cost paid for by RCUIT COURT oF THE TH JUDICIAL CERCEST HE STATE OF FLORIDA. ,; Germany—paid only very small} part. 1923—American steel {refuse to abandon 12-hour day 1925—U. S. Supreme Court {holds Japs and other Asiatics in- eligible for U.S. citizenship— even ‘tho served in U. S. army. 1942—A Tokyo broadcast jclaims Pearl Harbor no treach- erous act. | Lend-lease aid in March was at new peak. LEGALS COUNTY JUDGE'S COUR’ D FOR MONROE COUNTY. FLORIDA. IN PROBATE. In re Estate of ELIZABETH 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 Administrate: |of the Estate of Elizabeth Ra dall, deceased, has filed w ithe Honorable Raymond R. Lord County Judge of Monroe 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 May, 1942 FRED J. DION. As Ancillary Administrator of the | Estate of Elizabeth Randall, de- | ceased. | may11-18-25:jum1,1943 ww to skid his car and bring it} with considerable talent. It us-| 9 | voluntarily take any lessons like | that, it will be a correspondence merit, often to great heights. It} course.” | trust and today’s natives rise by is not a day for great wealth. REAL ICE Is-More ECONOMICAL. . .It’s Healthy and Safe. . It’s Pure THOMPSON ENTERPRISES (ICE DIVISION) oe * Mr. and Mrs. William Nelson, of}out of the skid safely. If.we ever| ually leads up to positions of | * * sores Don't allow frost to over perature. and clean weekly. AAA RRR ERA RARER ERR REE RRR ERR EERE REDE owners} t herein on t 3 A. D. 1943, the same is hereby confirmed im all respects { 2 That Nellie E Herrin, peti- tioner hereim be and she is here- by granted icense jtake charge of. and control Ber own estate and property. and t become a free dealer in every re- spect im accordance with the te at Miamt | April, Florida, this 36th day of D. 1943. “Electrical DON'TS” ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR accumulate on the freeser %4" thick as this decreases the cabinet tem- Don't store moist foods without covers. as this increases frost on the freezer. Don't crowd the shelves with food to the point Don't wait too long to clean your cabinet. defrest Don't allow perspiretion or grease to semain on door gasket as this causes the rubber to soften DON’T WASTE ELECTRICITY on Gina so ae a IN WAR ALL WASTE IS SABOTAGE