The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 7, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TWo | CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. Published Daily, Except Sunday, by Ae Son ute. Owner and Publisher & ALLEN, Business 7 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 Ca ache endlicatala ne itches Cacti cinta casese aR PRESS Leb: Spent ively entitled to use dunendopslor: 1 news lispatches credited to or not otherw: fhis paper and also the news publi, here. jUBSCRIPTION RATES $10.00 5.00 2.50 85 20 ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPEC! ‘aed ite reading notices, cards of thanks, resolutioss of obittary notices, etc., will be charged for at the ae of 0 cent line. 4 © f pI es and subjgets of local or general saterest but" it will not publish anonymous communi- cations. EDITORIAL “. ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN ay Moré Hotels and Apartments. 2. Beagh and Bathing Pavilion. 3. Airpgris—Land and Sea. 4. Con§glidation of County and City Gov- “ernments. 5. A Médern City Hospital. SAYS STALIN SEEMS SATISFIED Glenn Babb, Associated Press War Analyst, makes a_ pertinent observation when he remarks that: : “The indications are strong that Joseph Stalin knows much more about American- British invasion plans than either the enemy or the Allied public and also that he is satis- fied. It iS.difficult to read his recent declara- tions of Admiration for the solidarity with his Allies inTany other light.” a In view of the facts referred to, it would seem that American arm-chair strategists can forget their worries about what the United States and Great Britain are doing-to help Russia. Recent information from Germany in- dicates not only a possibility that Hitler is holding in reserve a substantial body of soldiers for what may happen in Western and Southern Europe, but that a consider- ‘able proportion of Nazi fighter plane strength i§ scattered throughout Germany in an attempt to thwart the aerial offensive. BETTER HEALTH The-best argument for food rationing in England is that since it began the British have improved their public health level. They attribute the factor to plain nutrition. Those foods that we still take pretty much for grantéd are rarities in England. Eges are a luxtiry and have’ been lost for some time to most British menus. Consider the words of Lord Woolton, head of food ministry of England as; “Jt isn’t emfort we’re after. It’s winning this war—ande«using our food to keep us fit to win this ‘War. ... It’s a fighter standard, closely calculated. All we ask for is that we shall havé enough of it and no more, to give us stregth for our day’s job. We may, in- deed, ha¥e to have less than we are having now. We've maintained a fighting standard of fitness; we shall maintain it if we hus- band all-eur resources—all of them—with the utmost care, each taking only according to his neéd.” : And"what is truein this case there can apply tots in Key West and we can meet it equally: well. The tack of any meaning in life leads | to mentaf.confusion.. ~ Nothing is sillier than a man; in a big job, who“ls afraid of competition. wo ; LT oo ee Moststatements should be prefaced by “T think,2*then they can be properly eval- uated, ObeYing the laws yourself is not suf- ficient; you must also see to-it that others obey them, too. at a urs age Cathy The Citizen at all times is willing to publish any items that government agencies send in ifrequest is made that the items be published as a contribution to the war ef- fort, but #f they are demanded peremptor- ily, they are most likely to be found in the wastebasket than in the columns of The Citizen, 7 { AFTER THE WAR IS OVER the beginning of the war, growing rapidly. | For instancé, Poinciana Place is some- thing of a “village” in itself, so much so that a movement is underway to obtain a fire- house, a ‘police station and a schoolhouse for the 700 families that are residing there. Can we live up to this growth when the war is over? That is the most important question, aside from the war itself, that concerns Key Westers, and therein lies the reason for us to be up-and-doing in post- war planning. The city councilmen are keenly aware of that condition, and they will join, at their next meeting, with the county com- missioners in providing one-half of the sal- der the various’ actions measures that will be taken to assure work for the thousands of men in Key West who will be without jobs when the war comes to an end. committees are» granted by the Federal tertain any fears about our economic con- dition when hostilities cease. Bue we must. go even further than postwar planning, for the day will come, probably a year or so after the war, when there will not be any more postwar work. We should try, when thé postwar matters are properly attended to, along substan- tial and far-reaching lines, to have indus- proposed industries can be launched by Key Westers themselves, but we must try to interest outsiders in others. fare. Heretofore, Key West has not been a big tourist town, comparatively speaking, gether different after the war. Key West now has several thousands new dwellings, including apartments, that are comparable with any of their type in any other part of the country. Coral Gables and Miami Beach, in their palmiest days, never had more attractive houses or more beautiful subdivisions than Key West has today. The fact is, they had nothing to com- pare in tropic splendor with Poinciana Place. With these attractive accommodations, modern up to the minute, with running wa- ter and sewers, tourists most surely will come here to occupy them if they are avail- able. J. W. Ricketts, vice president and building director of Coral Gables, during writer that the only things that Key West needed to attract tourists were comfortable accommodations and _ attractive surround- ings. “Key West has the warmest climate in winter,” Mr. Ricketts concluded, ‘and the vast majority of tourists are seeking warmth, and they will go where they can conveniences of life.’” a Key West will afford those conven- iences after the war is over. The Japs have a gift of almost exact imitation; and will soon imitate what we are doing to Germany. Hitler’s annual income is estimated at some $10,000,000. It pays to be a dictator, very long. BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Rest in peace might be spoken now, through June and until July 1, as the na- tion slowly buries the WPA. So passes an agency, this Works Projects Administra- tion, which in its hey-day, spent more than ten billion dollars for the relief of the na- tion’s unemployed. All of the work’s proj- ects are liquidated and those which have selves in winding up affairs. Thirty states have already completed the final ritual and so there passes from the mails those thou- | sands of relief checks. At one time 3,300,000 and in most cases they came at an oppor- tune time. With work now available, with wages filling the vacant envelopes, this project used as a means of relieving ~— | ployment, dies. May the necessity of revi | ing it, not occur! 4 \ Many of us are not fully aware of the | | extent to which Key West has grown since | and it is still } ary to be paid to a secretary to keep in or- | and conclusive | If only one-half of the projects that are | being considered by the postwar planning Works Agency, Key Westers need not en-) tries established in Key West. Some of those | However, we will not be entirely de- | pendent on industries for our economic wet- | because we did not have the proper accom- | modaticns, except on a limited scale, to of- | fer tourists. In those days, it did not require | many tourists to fill up our hotels and room- | ing houses, but that condition will be alto- | and after the boom in that city, told the | find it, if they are afforded the modern’ but the fruits of dictator are not enjoyed | not been completed will be finished by the | local sponsors, the agencies busying them- i ; people in one month received WPA checks | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Chapter 19 Bes. STRINGER stepped to- ward Penny, pale eyes glint- ing. She moved back, got the table between herself and him. “Sit down and eat,” he said. “Eat! Do you think I'd share food with #~a snake?” His jaw hardened. “Careful with your words, miss.” “What else are you?” Penny lashed out at him furiously. She forgot every caution. “There’s nothing you wouldn't stoop to, ‘is there, Mr. Bert Stringer? From Stealing films from a man who risked his life getting them, to—” Too late, she clapped a hand to her mouth. “So!” he said. She stood, aghast at what she’d done. In a fit of blind anger, she’d given away her terribly impor- tant knowledge of his having Bill’s films. By just so much, she’d inadvertently lessened her chances of somehow getting them back. Oh why—why had she been such a little fool? “What do you know about.an: Spt he demanded. “Out with it! Very well, thought Penny de- spairingly, she would. out with it. The damage was irreparable. At least she’d have the satisfac- tion of letting Bert Stringer hear the truth. “I saw the films,” she flung at him, “when they rolled out of your dunnage bag the night you and Cleve had the fight.” “What makes you think they belong to your brother? They’re mine.” “A likely story!” said Penny scornfully. “You're not a pho- tographer. Yo. don’t even carry a camera!” He blinked thin-lashed lids at her. “‘Well—so what? Maybe your brother gave them to me to take back for him.” PENNY laughed hysterically. “I never heard anything so utterly far-fetched. If that were so, why didn’t you hand them over to Cleve and me when we met? You denied even having seen Bill then.” “All right then,” he said, “I’ll admit I—found them.” “Found them.” said Penny. “in- side a camera in the wreckage of Bill’s plane.” “Well—yes.” “Stole them.” “Now, Miss Vance—” “Tf you didn’t—hand them over to me now!” This time it was Bert Strin, who laughed, harshly, raspingly. “Do I look like a fool? Those films are valuable. No,” he said. “I aim to hang on fo them. Find- ers keepers.” There could be no doubt of his meaning it. He was «determined. Sick with disappointment and hopelessness, Penny walked over and began to get together her aol blankets and first-aid it. “Better get some nourishment inside you,” he said, turning to his own cold breakfast with gusto. | “No, thank you,” said Penny. She went on packing, jerking angrily at straps, wondering how long it would take her to hike to the mouth of Moose Creek. Fin- ished, she hoisted the bed-roll to her shouldes, took her first aid ‘sit, and started for the door, He was standing in front of it. ‘She hadn’t heard him move from the»table. “Going some place?” “I'm not staying here,” Penny shortly. “You\are until I've done with chow and ready to hit the trail.” preny gulped “Ridiculous. I’ve a_long way to’ go, on foot, thanks to your thoughtfulness in sending Marie downstream with the canoe. I’ve no time to waste.” “Sweetheart,” he said, “maybe we better get this straight. You continually under-estimate me. I'm not a dumb man. I got a brain—here.” He tapped his tem- ple with a grimy forefinger. “A lot of criminals are smart,” said Penny. “If I let you go your own sweet way, what would you do? The first chance you got you’d be putting ideas into some Mounty’s head. Ideas which might injure my reputation and lead to un- pleasantness.” He shook his head. “Oh, no!” Penny stared. “You don’t mean you're going to try to keep me here—shut up in. this musty, out-of-the-way cabin!” ‘Tm not going to keep you hére, ‘sweetheart. I'm going to take you with me. A man sets said lonely travelling by himself. I hanker for companionship.” “What makes you think I'd go with you?” flared Penny. “This.” The gun that had shot Cleve lay in his big palm. Terror hit Penny like a blow. T| She shrank back, her gaze on the gun. “You—you wouldn’t shoot me?” _Stringer’s laughter sawed the air. “Providing you act reason- able, no. I prefer my women alive.” She sank to a chair. “What— what do you want me to do?” Bert Stringer grinned. He put the gun away. “That’s better,” he said. “Now we can talk.” “ail right,” said Penny dully. “In the first place, you could do a lot worse than to string along with me. I’m going to make alot of money.” _ Pretend, pretend, Penny cau- tioned herself. Play up to his male conceit. You can’t be any worse off. It worked pretty well this morning before you lost your temper about Marie and gave everythi away. Maybe you can still fool him. “A lot of money,” she repeated slowly. “How?” H= said, “These films, for one thing.” He waved his hand. “Now don’t get on your high horse. Your brother couldn’t pos- sibly get as mucl. from this news service as I can.” i Somehow, Penny managed an admiring smile. “You mean—?” “Sell them to the highest bid- der,” said Bert Stringer. “There are plenty of—people who’d pay plenty for pictures of the Alcan. I-got certain connections.” All of Penny’s instinctive dis- trust of Bert Stringer, from the first moment of meeting, was being more than justified. As the |full realization of what he was, of what he would do for money, | dawned upon her, she felt sick. Bert Stringer intended to sell Bill’s films to anyone who'd give him his ‘price, to the hi ited bidder. And that bidder might be an enemy agent! “What's more,” said Stringer expansively, “I'll even make it right with your brother by see- ing he gets his share of the profits.” To be continued KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN! OF JUNE 7. 1933 | Mrs. Nellie Williams, who| went to Cornwall, Conn., to attend the commencement exercises in Rumsey Hall, at which her grand-| son, Paul Williams Vecker, was main in Key West several days before returning to his home inj | Havana. if i The younger students in the| | Convent of Mary Immaculate will} give an entertainment this eve-| ning in St. Celilia’s Hall. | The services at the Salvation Army Hall, Fleming and Grin- nell streets, will be conducted to-; morrow evening by the RevJ>G.4 Gekeler, pastor of the First*Pres* byterian Church, The class’ d f thie e likey ‘West High, benaueeemn deta held’ this evening in, .the high | school auditorium. G. A. Baker, first assistant keeper in the American Shoals: lighthouse, arrived in Key West} today to spend his quarterly va- cation. Mrs. Simmons Edgar left yes- terday afternoon for Miami where she will visit relatives for the next two weeks. Representative J. Mark Wilcox, | according to a special dispatch | published in The Citizen today. | will make a tour of his district after the adjournment of congress | Sometime between now and.June | 15. Mr. Wileox-said that he will visit Key West shortly aftershis; artival in;his district. ‘ Se Se Susan Baker, who had been } arnéd yesterday to her home in | Miami. It was Mrs. Baker's first | visit here in two years. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. David arriv- ed from Miami yesterday and are guests of Mr. and Mrs. John F. | Sweeting. | Joseph Jaycocks left yesterda |for Miami, where he intends to |remain a few days Today’s Horoscope Today cess. es to the utmost. TENDERS’ NAMES NEW YORK.—Small bays, straits and inlets. RETREADS IN INDIA DELHI.—One must have treaded tire in India. and Mrs. Lain Dobbs. > Mr..and Mrs. in Miami. editorial. paragraph: gives fair opportunity for | The intellectual powers y not be particularly brilliant, and much labor may be needed.!Grammars and. 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