The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 18, 1943, Page 4

By HUGO 8. SIMS. Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen POSTAL SERVICE DETERIOR-! ed to by the delegations from the ATES {forty-four participating nations. RAILROADS ARE INADEQUATE | AUTOS AND PLANES NEEDED Postmaster-General Frank C. C. Walker reports ‘that, for the first time in twenty-four .yeg expenditurés were held! within revenues for the first. ten} months of the present fiscal year. | This is a record which deserves | praise, especially in view of ae | large volume of postagefree mail handled for the armed forces and the government agencies. It was accomplished despite the payment | of $35,000,000 for increased postal} salaries in recent months. H Now that we have called atten-} jconcerted effort to economize con- «lt may, be interesting to consid* er. the results of the conference which studied world problems of food and agriculture, ‘concluding that “the goal of freedom from want of food, suitable and ade- quate for the health and strength of all peoples, can be achieved.” Recognizing that the first task is.to complete the winning of the war, and to deliver millions of people from tyranny and plunder, the conference pointed out that during the periods of critical shortage, freedom from hunger can be achieved only by urging a sumption, to increase supplies and CALLED “CHURCHILL OF THE OPERA”! iti t, society, and indust: HAVANA—Celebrities of Goveronien ae jae & dustry the visit of Lauritz Melchior, Here he is shown (center, seated) ata ‘ Society of Fine Arts. Other parties followed his concert. They him in Havana not only as a golden THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | i | | i made liday. the now -voiced artist but also as a con- Nacional Hotel reception Py }to have more coffee. that patient to diet? ; food, and very little of it. ALIBI NO. 999,999) —COFFEE BRANCH (By Associated Press) CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.. June 18.—One Chattanooga lady told the ration board she sirtply had! “You see, I haven’t any teeth: and I have to dunk my food in coffee to eat it. With the amount jof coffee I get now, I just don’t | get enough to eat,” she explained. The ration board was very so |ry and all, but it refused the re-! quest. “Liat SER SSR ee ieee Good Figuring : Doctor's Wife — So Doctor — Yes. to eat only I ordered him the very plainest you told) PLEASE, SOMEBODY, TAKE IT AWAY (By Associated Press) AKRON, Ohio, June 18—Mem- bers of American Legion Post 19 thought they really had something worth giving away when they of- fered a ton of coal as a door prize | at a recent social function. They drew numbers for the prizes and the winner of the coal was Ed Wagner, local manager of the East Ohio Gas Co. “T burn gas,” Wagner protested ‘I don’t want it.” They drew another number. The winner was Dave Brown, the coal dealer who had donated the prize The ton of coal finally-went tc C. H. Brillhart, of the Dime bank a; d he, “can use it.” FLOATING DRESSER WARSAW, Mo.—Hastilv | Wife—Do you think that will! help him to get well? Doctor—It will help him jmoving articles from a dre | drawer as flood waters rose in TWO PROGRAMS AT NOB THEATER local t ‘ame here of USO-C. ual, he up for th ng comedy rangemen aggre tion to the good features of the) to distribute them to the best ad- him rests an assortment of Cuba’s finest, to | cabin, Sam Bishop stopped to light Postmaster-General’s announce- ment, it might not be out of place{ to make some observations as to the postal service itself. Many business men complain of delayed mail. Apparently, the cause of this somewhat general complaint is based upon more than the pressure of the present em- ergency. H It should Siti noted that the} Post Office tment has failed to utilize the automobile in the transportation of mail. Relying largely upon the railroads, which have curtailed schedules drastic- ally, and seldom utilizing depart- ment-owned trucks for the inter- city transportation of mail, the postal service has experienced some deterioration in the type of service offered to the public. Moreover, while airmail service has been made available to the larger cities of the land, it means’ little or nothing to the bulk of the population of the country. It seems to us that the airplane, like the automobile, should have been adopted by the postal service to improve and speed the delivery of mail: Of course, in making these ob- servations, we do not direct criticism toward present postal officials. Many of the matters are not entirely left to their discre- tion and they are dependent upon Congress for appropriations and authority to institute the changes suggested. However, we think that the ideas discussed deserve considera- tion and that improvement in the postal service is not only desirable but inevitable. WORLD FACES FOOD PROBLEMS CONFERENCE WAS HUMEROUS The United Nations’ conference on food and agriculture, which held its sessions at Hot Springs, Virginia, has given forth a declaration of principles, subscrib- 1 | | foreri¢é concluded that the produc- !larged industrial vantage. Thereafter, efforts to secure freedom from fear and freedom from want can be attempted. De- claring that “there has never been enough food for the health of alt people” and that this situation “is justified_neither by, ignorance nor by the justice of nature,” the con- tian of food panded. As “the fi ause ofhungur and malnutrition is poverty,’ it’ is “useless to produce amore fod} unless men ahd? Mations provide the market to absorb it.” Conse-| quently, there must be “an ex-} pansion af the whole world econ- omy to provide purehasing power | sufficient to maintain an adequate diet for all.” While “the primary responsibil- | ity lies with each nation” for meeting the needs of its own peo- ple and each nation must deter- | mine what steps it will take, the; goal can be achieved “only if all work together.” Consequently, it is recommend- | ed that the governments study the findings of the conference and take “the first step” without awaiting the solution of all other problems. There seems to be nothing dan- gerous to the liberties of any peo- ple in the conelusions of the con- ference. The delegates were in agrec- ment that there must be an ex- panded world economy to provide purchasing power to maintain an adequate diet but that “with full employment in all countries, en- production, the absence of exploitation, the in- creasing flow of trade within and between countries, the orderly management of domestic and in- ternational investment and cur- rency and sustained internal and international | economic equili- brium,” the problem can be suc- cessfully met and the world’s food can be madé available to all its people. noisseur of cigars. Before in a humidor of choicest Cuban woods, ple. Mr. Melchior, in hundreds of news photos pw! sized cigars. is rarely without one off stage. of the Cuban shown BIG FISH CATCH | MADE ON § SUNDAY! LARGEST OF JEWFISH TAKEN | WEIGHED 204 } POUNDS ! The best fishing story of ’em all} 449 pounds of Jewfish in 30 min-; utes—was related this week by} men at the Navy’s Commissary | Store. H The largest one weighed 204} pounds. Another scaled 95 and two ; others were about 75 pounds | apiece. } Elden Miller, Sk2c of Granite | City, Ill, said that the big cateh| was made Sunday at Bahia Honda ; Bridge by the party of 14 persons. | The 204-pound giant was hook- | ed by Jack Wright of Miami and} all hands stood by to haul the fish to the top of the bridge. Proof of } the catch was recorded on several | rolls of box camera film and a record of the strenuous hauling job was filmed by an unidenti- fied army officer who had a movie | camera. Angling in thé main channel in} the afternoon tide were Lieut. W. M. Holmberg, assistant officer in charge, of Birmingham, Ala.; Jack" Vann of Pompano, Eddie Sehr of , Chicago, Floyde Tabor of Miami, Harvey Denton of Henderson, Ky.,} and wright. ‘ Vann also did yeoman work by snaring not only the 95-pounder | but also one of those weighing 75 pounds. Denton cleaned the jack-! pot by dragging ashore the other} 75-pounder. } Lieut. (jg) Paul Clark, tempor-/ ary officer in charge, Atlanta, Ga. presented the singer on behalf who, like Winston Churchill, is ffing contentedly on banquet WEATHER REPORT Observation taken at 8:30 a. m.| E.W.T. (City Office) Temperatures Highest last 24 hoirs Lowest last night Mean Normal Precipitation Rainfall 24 hours ending 8:30 a. m., inches Total rainfall since June 1, inches Deficiency since June inches Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches Deficiency since January 1, inches Relative Humidity 68% Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise 6:38 a. Sunset 8:18 p. Moonrise 9:57 a. Moonset 8:06 a. Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) High Tide Low Tide 11:02; a.m. 4:26 a.m. p.m. 6:03 p.m. FOHECAST Key West and Vicinity: Con- tinued warm this afternoon and tonight; widely scattered show- ers or thunderstorms this after- ernoon. Florida: A few widely scatter- ed afternoon thundershowers; lit- tle change in temperature this afternoon and tonight. Hatteras, N. C., to Apalachi- cola, Fla: No small craft or storm warnings have been _is- sued. TEMPERATURES Temperature data for the 24 1, led the anglers on shore by catch- |hours ending 8:30 a. m., June 18, save money so he can pay my! bill. | Worse She: Aren't we fools? He: Kindly speak in the singu- lar. She: Aren’t you a fool? | jed out of the room | | troops. a cigarette ani sume his t found that the tu . Surprised, he dresser had float- Am mark as United { -————Buy More War Bonds————— 5 you're certain to find the one you want among Our Showing of Our Newest That You'll Want |) New Dress Fashions OFFICIAL DISTRIBUTORS Ua May The Navy Department has extended ihe approval and extended our license as Official Distributors of U_ S. NAVY UNIFORMS to June 30, 1944. He’s HARC.. Shoes ing a three-pound jack on a light) 1943, as reported by the U.S. FIDO III II III IIIT II IIIIS od, PRETTY LADY—WITH A MIND Sa i i i a i i ne i ee in ee ee ee By ROBBIN COONS HOLLYWOOD, June 18.—Ann Richards is a girl who knows her own mind. Theré have been plenty of pret- ty_young things who set out hope- fully for Hollywood, determined to make their way on the screen. | Ann Richards is the only one I; know who would set out from Aus- tralia, just after December 7, 1941, and dare a war to stop her. That's what she did. Ann is the girl who beat out several established beauties for the role opposite Brian Donlevy in King Vidor’s “America.” She had been on the M-G-M contract list a year, lost with the other “unknowns” in that vast. line-up of talent and beauty, and it didn’t make sense that she should pull down a plum. She did, and it still doesn’t make sense. Her perform- ance does. With the picture 12 weeks in production, and as many more to go, Ann Richards is al- ready “in.” t | ee j An American citizen through! her late father, an engineer who! settled and married in Australia, Ann had long wanted to visit America. She had made a name in Australian movies when the war} » curtailed production there, and | she decided then was the fime.j She was packing for thetrip when] the Japs struck, and.’theie was! doubt that her ship would sail at! al], When it did, all but 95 of the! passengers had heeded warnings, of the dangers involved in the| crossing and had cancelled pas- sage. Ann stayed on. The vessel dodged and zig-zagged its way to America—but it was a year before Ann reached “America.” | Through a friend, scenarist Car!| Dudley, who was writing at! M-G-M, Ann got inside the studio; and applied for a job. In two weeks | she was playing, at 23, a 60-year- old woman in a short, “A Woman in the House.” It won her a con- tract, arid a year of waiting. “But it’s better to wait longer ! ee war for something very nice,” she says, “than not so long for something disappointing.” She's a blonde, has an ingrati- ating smile, and a slight English accent that Has er insformied, for film ae ES jito ‘ an‘Irish brogue. 0; __ Ge utry wal to go int atvdhen ‘_ ret le oes ! com! soon as fils army-or- dered’ tour ‘iS finished. . . . Dinah Shore is to be in Eddie Cantor's “Show Business.” . .. Judy Canova, winding up at Republic with “Sleepy Lagoon,” says : she’s through with long-term contracts. She’s to do “Louisiana Hayride” for Columbia, and start her new air show, “Casa Canova,”—it’ll be “Americana, rather than _hillbil- ly,” she says. Why do all these people who rode to fame on the hillbilly highway want to get away, sooner or later? .. . Frances Gifford called it quits {with Tarzan and all other forms of jungle life. No more jungle movVies and no more jungle cos- tumes, she said. She would insist lon sirewing room roles and beau- ti 1 duds. So she-got her first assignment at M-G-M—in “Cry Havoc.” ,. The setting was a jungle on Ba- taan. Her glamorous wardrobe gonsisted of Coveralls. “At least I don’t have to swing from trees,” she consoled herself. Father's Helper A preacher, on looking up from the sermon he was reading, was horrified to see his young son in the gallery tossing down an occasjonal chestnut. Before he could get out a word of reproof, his young hope- ful cried out: “You tend to your preachin’, daddy; I'll keep ’em awake.” Dr. Murray Butler sees the end “sooner than you lod obiW awO op SB Bill Sadlre, Key West, put on quite a sideshow to the main! events by landing a 25-pound | shark with light trolling gear. 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