The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 28, 1943, Page 2

“PAGE TWO She Key West Citizen | THE CITIZEN Published Daily, Except Sunday, by ly P. ARTMAN. Owner and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Business Manager From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and | Monroe County } — -- tered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter - ««. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use ““or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the *eal news published here. aie SUBSCRIPTIO: ‘TE! IN RATES Three ‘Months oe Une Month Weekly . $10.00 ¥ 5.0 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. Nee cag SPECIAL NOTICE All reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutioss of fespect, obituary notices, etc., will be charged for at hi te 10 cents a line. for entertainment by churches from which enue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. e Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- #0n of public issues and subjects of local or general pov ag but it will not Dyblish anonymous communi- TIONAL EDITORIAL. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Gov- ernments, A Modern City Hospital. THE \GROGGY FIGHTER The fighter is groggy; as punch after punch thuds on his jaw, in his eyes or his + solar plexus, he staggers around the ring, + while the crowd yells to the referee to stop eee ee eee es :w : the. fight. But the referee lets the fight go = on, despite the boos and the catcalls. That groggy fighter in this war is Italy, and, as Key Westers read in the papers or heard over the radio, Prime Minister Wins- ton Churchill is keenly aware of that fact. > Tuesday, at a press conference in Washing- ton, Churchill called on the Italian people to throw out the Fascists and Nazis and to withdraw from the. war. : That would be the wisest thing for them + to do, but will they do it? Their “referee”, < Mussolini, knows that, if Italy surrenders } unconditionally, it means the end of him, { probably in more ways than one. Even ‘qwith that conditio cing him, the likeli- hood is he would order Italy’s withdrawal from the war if he did not have a power over him far greater than the power he has over the Italian people. * Behind Mussolini is Hitler, and Musso- lini echoes what Hitler says. With Italy having lost her African empire, with unrest airéthreats and grumblings at home, with more than one-half of the Italian fleet hav- ing-been destroyed, with many Italian cities being blasted from the skies, with Italy tot- tering, like that groggy man in the ring, Miuissolini, a few days ago, in sending a con- gratulatory message to Hitler about the four-year economic and military pact be- tween Italy and Germany, declared, “We will win the war.” Italy, impotent, her warships a joke, 18,500 of her best airmen lost since her en- trance into the war, her airplanes little more than targets for the fire of Allied airmen, will, with the help of her master, “‘win the war.” : And what of that master? His cities gradually are being pulverized from the air, and his men are drenching Russian soil with | their blood. He, too, is in a bad way. As| Churchill remarked at that same press con- | ference, if Hitler had his cards to play | again, he would play them in an altogether | different way. It is purely a guess to try | to enumerate the several different ways he would play them, were he given the privi- lege to play them again, but of one thing the world may be certain, he would not plunge head on into an undeclared war on Russia. Instead, he would nurse that coun- try, try to keep her neutral and try to get as | large a volume of raw or finished material from her as possible along peaceable lines. Hitler has made a good many mistakes. but by far his worst mistake was his attack on Russia. His vast losses of men and equip- ment in that country would be of inestim- able worth to him today in his fight to stand off the on-rushing Allies. Groggy Italy reels and totters, but you may be sure Italy will continue in the war | tea wens on ts eee ee until the Italian people rise in all their might i and crush Mussolini and his horde of black- | hearted Black Shirts. Vacations will not be enjoyed this Sum- | mer by the men on the firing line, regardless | of-how necessary a rest may be to the people! THE CIGARETTIST Elbert Hubbard, 35 years or so ago, | wrote an article, which had a circulation of several million, entitled “The Cigarettist’’. The writer read the article but, at this late date, all he can recall is that Fra Elbertus | was dead set against smoking cigarettes. If you don’t inhale, smoking a cigarette is no worse than smoking a pipe or a cigar; if you inhale, smoking a pipe or a cigar is just as bad as smoking a cigarette. Smok- ing is sm@king, regardless of the medium through which you satisfy your yearning for nicotine. Some doctors say smoking is injurious and some doctors say it is not. The former point to youths, who were excessive smok- ers, dying at an early age, the latter name men and women too who began smoking in their early childhood and rounded the cen- tury mark. The writer’s paternal grandfather liv- ed to be 104, and he began chewing’ and smoking when he was 14 years of age; his maternal grandfather lacked four months and two days of living 100 years, and he | rushed in, and Penny closed ‘her So take | never used tobacco in any form. your choice: Would one have lived longer had he not smoked, or would the other have lived longer had he smoked? It; nybody’s guess regarding the good or of smoking, but this. editorial is concerned with socking the cigarette by Florida’s legislature. Practically every ci- garette smoker has said at one time or an- | other he was going to “cut out” smoking; and | other cigarettists have switched to cigars or pipes in order to reduce the number of “fags” they smoked daily. If ever there has been a time when the cigarette smoker had an imeplling force to stop smoking, now is the time. With Flor- ida socking him three cents on every pack of 20 cigarettes, in addition to Uncle Sam’s seven cents, when he buys a pack, beginning July 1, 50 per cent of the sum he will pay will be in the form of taxation, provided the pack costs 20 cents. As it probably will be sold by most dealers for 19 cents, the smok- | er pays more than one-half in taxes. Other Florida legislatures, during the last 20 years or so, have enjoyed the pastime of socking owners of automobiles, with a “take” of one-third in taxation for gasoline |. Chairman William W. Deme: and sums running as high as $40 or $50, in the old days, as licensés for private automo- biles. The latest move against the cigarette leads one to believe that the mentality of Florida’s solons runs in a single groove. The governor said the state needed additional revenue annually of about $3,500,000 to balance the budget for the next two years, so the legislators pounced upon the cigar- ette for the full sum. Florida used to be a big cigar-produc- ing state, and the cigarette tax may drive thousands of Floridians to the cigar, solely | because of resentment in “picking” on the } cigarette. One representative, who opposed the | bill, said the only good thing about it was that it did not “force” the people to smoke | cigarettes, The confirmed cigarettist will shrug his shoulders, pay the tax and smoke as many cigarettes as he has ever smoked, but there will be thousands of smokers who will cut down on their consumption and other thousands who will cut out’ cigarettes. Taxation is essential and necessary, that burns one up is the type that strikes too hard in the same place. Corporal Hitler’s military genius con- sisted in having more men and material. The talk about states rights would be more effective if the states used their rights. ability to take care of ourselves in interna- tional affairs. world of war instead of,see tunes, as in years past: ete ELA recent book, “OnesWorld;”, tdidi the Stuart | News last week “Jupiter Island is the finest | never visited Key West. ; walking should be on the alert against acci- ed if people would just think,” stated Asher cil. at home. particularly in these times, but the taxation | There are Americans who doubt our } |Rogers delivered a THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Chapter 11 ILEVE’S face was dark with anger. He stood over Bert Stringer’s prone body, eyes flash- ing. Penny had never seen him so completely, silently. furjous. Lips were pressed tight as if he were trying to hold himself in| check. He was balanting on his toes. The knuckles on his fists showed white. From the ground Stringer glared up at him: Penny cried, “Cleve, can’t we settle this some other way? Mr. Stringer will apologize, I’m sure.” Stringer leaped to his feet. “No apologies,” he muttered. “No quarter, either.” He squared around toward Cleve, half a head | taller, many pounds heavier than the photographer. “When you struck me, mister, you started something, you—” His voice trailed off in an ugly oath. An arm flashed out and the blow missed Cleve Rockwell by inches. Suddenly, head down, he eyes in terror. She could hear the shuddering impact of their fighting, their hard breathing—the sound of their booted feet crackling over twigs and dead sticks. Every now and then she could hear Stringer curse. The. fear that maybe Cleve might be gett’. the worst of it made her reopen her eyes. “Oh, Cleve!” she whispered. Her own body shook and trem- bled. She bit her: lips and stared. The‘ two men‘were locked in a tight clinch, swaying dangerously close to the fire. Flames licked out toward them. Penny shouted warningly. “Look out, Cleve. Czreful!” Cleve broke away and his hand shot toward Stringer’s jaw. It landed squarely, drove the other man’s head back, sent him crash- ing. As Stringer fell across his own bed-roll, one foot knocked over a brown dunnage bag, Its contents spilled over the ground,) puppy, launch himself, snarling, among the scattered kettles and] at Bert Stringer. E drew Stringer’s attention pans. Then Penny’s eyes almost Bes é started from her head. For a H for a brief instant, just long breathless moment she thought| enough for Cleve to leap to one she must be seeing things. It as the revolver didn’tseem. possible. The very}flame. Its report thundered unexpectedness of the sight had] through the quiet of the woods. taken her completely unawares.| “Cleve! Cleve!” Penny sobbed. He’d been knocked back by the prom Stringer’: dunnage bag] force of the byllet, then had fallen t there had fallen, among other | just a few feet m.’Penny. She things, three rolls of film. was beside.him instantly, leaning Bill’s, thought Penny numbly.| ever, oblivious of-her own danger. There couldn’t be any other ex-} “Cleve,” she breathed, trem- planation. This man Stringer] bling. “Oh, Cleve—you're hurt!” | must have stolen them. It wasn’t} Cleve tried to sit up. She forced | hard to believe. him down again with all her She had no proof, really, except | strength. In the back of her mind | her own black certainty. Call it} was one thought—to help him | feminine intuition, call it any-] somehow, make it <asie- for him. thing—but there it was. Through] Her eyes were streaming with Penny’s mind flashed a vivid pic-| tears. ture of what must have happened. “I'm okay, tos” Cleve said. “I Bert Stringer had come upon the} want to get up and finish this.” scene of the plane wreca. He had} She had to hold him. There was | left the camera and taken the}a hole ‘n his sleeve and a dark films. He was the man, then, who] stain growing darker. Now Cleve had caused all of Powell’s anxiety,} was shaking his head groggily, who planned to profit from Bill’s|. like someone trying desperately misfortune. Somehow, he’d|to stay awake. The little male- guessed the great value of the| mute, who had trotted over, was Alcan shots. eo . whimpering at Penny’s side. at once, en, as er widened eyes sought Cleve, she] JN that moment, the whole world was aware that the fight had|~ Seemed to be crashing chaos taken a new, ominous turn, too.|around Penny. So this was to be Cleve stood: by the fire. There| the end of it all. Cleve wounded. was a baffled expression on his| hope of rescue gone. But she’). face, almost a look of surprise.|mustn’t think of that now. *} Probably. he was, too,stunned to} She said, “I can help you, move. THe sight pf the man he'd [Cleve But you've got to lie still” just Knockéd down ’tising up, arm} ““Where’s Stringer? i outthrust, revolver clutched in} Penny didn’t know and didn’t hand, had shocked Cleve into in-|care. He had disappeared. Cleve action. ~ |was beginning to blink his eyes For a_ split-second, he was| and grind his teeth, for the pain speechless, too. Then he said|WaS,starting, 9 quietly, contemptuously, “I might “Tm all right,” he insisted. = | have known—you rat!” can take it, Penny. I can— Stringer said, “You got it com-| . He made a last futile effort to 2.” rise. Penny clung to him desper- Penny tried to scream. All that] ately. She kept repeating over came from her parted lips was a|and over, “You mustn't, Cleve choked, half-smothered cry. Then] dear. You mustn’t. she saw Wolf, the little malemute To be continued in, KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN: OF MAY 28, 1933 itt has called a meeting of the Monroe County Relief Council for; Friday evening in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. f Frank Wolkowsky, as adminis- trator of the estate of his father, Abraham Wolkowsky, was in-! formed today by David Burnett,' commissioner of internal revenue, that he has been awarded dver-! assessments of income taxes to the amount of $96,996.67. Memorial church the Rev. Dr. S. W. lecture on “Who Is a Missionary?” At the Ley last night Mrs. Fred Demeritt, following; /\a stay of a week with relatives in! Miami, returned yesterday after- | noon. | A memorial mass for the heroes! of America’s war will be said to-; morrow morning in St. Mary’s| Star of the Sea Catholic church, | beginning at 8:30 o’clock. { —— j Dr. J. N. Fogarty, formerly of} _Key West, but, who has been re-| siding at Daytona. Beach for sev-}| eral years, arrived’ today on a, visit to.relatives, and friends. } County .Cammissioner Braxton | B.; Warren, as:chairman of. the ; ferry committee, ‘left for No Name j AL & JOE are now giving High school graduates go out into a king their for- i Wendell Willkie. Republican “Ader | and “world citizen’: in. Stuart.for, a. well- | earned rest afterthe «train sof svriting his | spot on earth” for a vacation. But he has “More than ever people driving or | dents. People have become careless of each | | other, and as a result many have been kill- | ed or injured, all of which could be prevent- — Frank, Director of the Florida Safety Coun- ‘ full time to SERVICING RADIOS, JUKE BOXES and ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES All Work Guaranteed The Fastest Radio Service in South Florida TRY IT and SEE! 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Beauregard, | company. , ;Soldier-hero of Mexican War, | 3 SS |famed Confederate general, born Miss Ruth Thompson, who had: New Orleans. Died Feb. 20,/ been in Key West visiting her | 1893. aunt, Mrs. Robert R. Knowles, | and cousin, Miss Catherine, 1837—Tony Pastor, actor, Knowles, returned yesterday to| pong-writer, manager of vaude- her home in Miami. wille and variety shows, born = }New York. Died Aug. 26, 1908 The Patriotic Order, Daughters | a Rae of America, will give an entertain- 1893 — Louis Weitzenkorn, ment tomorrow evening in the au-| journalist-playwright, author of ditorium of the Key West High! “Fiye Star Final,” born Wilke: School. | barre, Pa. Died there, in fire, Mrs. Ralph Lionel Higgs and, P°®: 7 194%. daughter June arrived yesterday; from Miami to visit the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hicks. Five ships launched by Dionne Quintuplets at Superior, Wis. 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It told how Hitler cause that would create disunity, waste the time of Congress and legislatures in wet-dry arguments and cripple our war effort. It OF KEY WEST 629 Eaton, Cor. Elizabeth St.