The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 2, 1943, Page 3

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> — — wz = SaaS She wanted to run but re- strained herself. To run would show him she was frightened and x, Ss ;"as still possible, te had evil purpose it would simpl: her to his PP me lly $ conf “ould walk as fast as she But the man gained on her. B: the time she was half way to the other side he was only a few Panic clutched her heart, turned her knees t. water. Then spoke. “Ann! Ann Har- rh ler name. He knew her name and, thank heaven, she knew his She stopped, drew a breath of relief that turned almost at once are you doing here?” ¢ ndec of Jerry Lane. “You scared me half to death.” “I'm following you. You've no business down here this time of night alone.” “I suppose you've appointed yourself my body — “You need one. Sarah told me you were off on some wild goose chase. 1 waited in the lobby to See you when you came in and instead you went out. So I came along” LOSER TAKE ALL By Adelaide Hazeltine - mean, hasn't anything turned up juice to Mrs. Mason. At 10 o'clock the patient's fever was definitely breaking and Ann called Dr. Miller to report. He was gratified, fect actor, caught | assured her she was doing every- was not willing to|thing possible and promised to e will been found?” | I thought you . . . you wanted to tell me?” r | RUT. strive as Ann could to fill it my grandmother's will?” behind her was intent on| “Will?” That not t 4 le of surprise —— an. the bridge, just the right in- in his voice was flection for a per! in a deceit he admit. “Has thi “Your charity case simpiy | k aroused my curiosity T'd see what you we So he wasn't going t he | will. He intended to keep that Builty secret to himself | Her faith in human nature h tricked her. How foc supposed he would rer claim to a health resort when that stood between him and it was |) a scrap of paper which he himself Possessed and I thought | fi call him. Sh She had expected ¢ | for refusing the Masons’ case. Yet “Why should 5 tect me,” she said in tone, “when it would be advantage for s me over the head She whirled around jried on toward the He didn't follow re la time she glanced back he was | Standing where |his tall figure making line against the nig! Sickened with shar hating herself for having him, she half ran up the incline to the street above the Masons’ It wasn't so much the loss of the | “CT had left him. trusted | ° “Obviously.” Then she remem- Sered that he had found the will last night and she let her anger cool. She could at least be civil se. to give him_a chance to tell her al it. Perhaps that was the reason he waited in the | the lobby for her. “You wanted to. . . see me about something spe- cial?” she said. “Special?” He hesitated. “No, nothing special except,” she couldn't see his eyes but she felt they were intent on hers, “well, I thought it you had to be out late I'd better be with you.” “But wasn't there anything . . . About the only time the aver-! cempetent no account so and so.— ‘Then there is always the indig- nett taxpayer who.is continually if he wants to b: writing letters to the paper howl- his property f img about the fees the clerk gets tain and calling him a Court House le Gremlin All of which, I suppose, is prop: t and according to Hoyle fr ndpeimt of good Democratic dure. But this past week-end i pent yveral davs milling! that Court nd wit. Cireuit Court Clerks! soft job. but « ‘ the ecent conference in 2 Jacksonville and 1 found them to’ they ghty fine bunch of folks. Every time we have a legisla t ession they revise a lot of 1 laws and pass a flock of new mes that directly affect the duties f the Clerks and the boys have to et together i try to figure out the laws mean and how they hould be applied wh. This last session they passed 4 humdinger revising the 1941 tax aws The darn thing is longer to tec than a bad dream @nd is so gum- up with legal language eases. ifs, butsamd howe t even the lawyers got ton- gue-tied tryin’ to explain it What the lawmakers had in was a law with teeth enough 1 to put the well known bee he delinquent taxpayer and ke him either pay up or lose but the procedure wires the Clerk to do mes much checkin’ and double , . srehin’ and research n’ and notifvin’ that ui dizzy tryin’ to dope For t vs the fellows sat tering hot confer e taking up the law sec- tron by section and paragraph by ' an effort to famili h it sufficient exp! t to the folks back ' ‘ i pe rm their duty to i th its terms. Now Kill entitled an Act” thing and a sure c 1 something cl « while a flock of super- . mis can concoct a Bill ner anvbody else y know whether it will work t until they try to enfo nd th atter goes to the Su preme Court for a decision Lawmakers during a legislative sion spend Ss and wecks guin’ over bill, amending and sing it, only to have the Su- preme Court throw the darn thing mm the ashean m tr. back alley iooks you're a@ few months later inheritance that drew a band of pain tight around her heart was the loss of something infinite ly more valuable. A man’: She tried to forget Jerry by herself in the problems of lasons. She spent mainder of the night making the sick woman com that Mr. Mason w her early bottle the « was feeling better. Ann made old fash syrup and sa ind Jack. Then TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY after two day » and « “g guy hears anything about the'con I didn't know mu Clerk of the Circuit Court is dur- I did when the « ng an election and then all the’ and fellows who are out sto take his other way from him try their best the te make you believe he is an in- duty of enforcing m nally decide iffs and ail th MUCH LESS EQUIPMENT NEW YORK and 20,000 few with me this alin zz a7 ry to see the woman during the isn’t | day. her mind with other things, n disappointment over Jerry's lure to reveal the will kept nagging her. She asked herself again and again what she should have done when she saw him find jit. what steps she should have t n to insure its safety. Returning to Terrence House late that offernoon she found four messages from Bert, all of them r to call him. n't sure she wanted to > hadn't forgiven him She wa good sense reminded her that he had had it presented to him in a biased way. If Ann herself had talked to him the result might have been quite different. So in end she called him. It was reassuring to hear his hearty “Hello” but as soon as he realized it was she he launched into a list of grievances which in- cluded the fact she had broken a diner date with him last night. J ntioned it she had ered the date at all! . Bert. Truly I am.” me knew where you he complained. “I rang your phone off the wall.” j In her complete exhaustion vidently hadn't heard it. S h the Masons most of said, in the blazes are the ” She didn’t feel up to f Bert’s evenings and still anted to talk to him. Per- could help her get Jerry »wledge possession of the To be continued ONE NIGHT OF RUSSIAN OPERA By WILLIAM McGAFFIN AP Features MOSCOW, July 2.—The war changed many things in Rus a—but not the Russian k of peratic wagedy This correspondent discovered that th ‘other’ night in joining ra the “Bo! taged in a_ the five-tiered golden horse he Opera Hou the for the vou wm str 1 es. These sons and’ daughters f kets and peasants who are the beckhone of modern Russia, just as much as the om aristocrat Prices ubles for the orche may sit in the LAWYER 89 TOO YOUNG TO RETIRE Press) FLYING WITH RAF MANY MILES OF TRACK )ELPHIA REQUIRES 75 TRAINS DETROIT.—Movement armored division and Of the Earth, Earthy “John,” said facing north. Now what have you couldn't wash it off this morning. HARRY WoHL ens of the capital for a night) Cter niscent of the Metro-! n New York | ; ' cmeurr courT oF PERL wTies THE KEY WEST CITIZEN As debated by Samuel Wolchok John W. Scoville Pres. of the United Retail, Wholesale Nationolly-known Industria’ and Department Store Em- Economist. Writer and ployees of America, €.1.0. Lecturer. MR. WOLCHOK OPENS: The Wag-| MR. SCOVILLE OPENS: No arti- ner Act merely protects the right of /cle in the U. S. Constitution ecnfers |He started out on a mounted road =m: ‘ jcompany. After four miles, the with niggly sergeant was champing at the bit j annoyed at the ; the first halt and he s' hind. He was PAGE THRE.- LONG DISTANCE RUN | AVERAGE EIGHT MOVES IN NATURAL STYLE ciicaco—soldiers make at average of eight moves by Tait (By Asnectated Press) road between induction and em CAMP BEALZ, Calif, July 2. Lor¢ation for servicé overiems. —Sergeants of the Armored Force can demand an extra amount respect from rookies today all be- Fast Man cause of the feet of Technical Ser-: My. Newrich (iouring in his new |geant Harmon Ligon of the 13th car): “Where are we now?” Armored Division stationed her 5 r “Holfway between Marseille, sir.” Don't bother me © details. What country are we in?” low pace. Came _ <8 25-mile is- h with = his t seen fidgeting employees to bargain collectively.| upon Congress power to deal with ,©%@Speratingly with his shoes as J F SIKES Congress insisted upon this recogniz- | collective ae abrnening The Wagner | the column shoved off. Twerty- s . ing that denial led to costly disloca-| act is a usurpation of powers belong- (one miles after the initial halt tions of commerce by strikes and lockouts. Congress recognized that , trade unionism, fostered and pro-|PUTPose of tre law is to remove ob- |ing to the several states. The alleged |a barcfoot soldier, running ton » LICENSED PLUMBER fast to be identified, passed t! tected through 50 years on our rail-| structions to the free flow of com- | weary column and fel! inte th 1306 CATHERINE STREET roads, brought industrial peace in|merce between the states due to {proper cadence only when h place of strife. Congress’ intent has/strikes and labor controversies by | ycached the front renk. It wa vuevvevvvvve been weil realized. At the time of|encouraging collective bargaining. Sregeant Likon < Grocer Sells THAT GOOD the Act's passage few labor-manage-| This purpose -has not been realized. ment agreements existed. Today 13.-|1¢ we compare the seven years since 000,000 men and women work under | the act was vs hap ahr written agreements setting forth | receding pecraageenely si gcse ad working conditions and providing day-by-day grievance machinery. In fr the early days, when the Liberty | ness due to strikes has increased 38% League declared the Act unconstitu-| while the number of workers in- tional, 4700 strikes resulted —50% | volved has more than doubled. In over issues of union recognition and | order to maintain power, it is aeces- anti-union discrimination. In excess | sary for the labor organizer or offi- of 28,000,000 man days were wasted. cial to tantly foment dissatisfac- Today. not a single day is lost , through strikes authorized by union |", Unrest, grievances and strikes. action. Today, 12,000,000 trade union-| The Wagner Act causes the very ists, subject to union discipline, work | interruptions to commerce which it with fellow employees without fear | was supposed to prevent. Since it has of surveillance, violence or discrimi- failed to atiain its objectives, the Act nation. This is the American way:|should be repealed. The most fan- Freedom from Fear on the produc-|tastie and absurd arguments have tion front. To ignore the experiences | heen used to increase the number of and procedures of the Act is to blind! workers who can qualify as being ourselves to benefits accruing to man-| ‘Ger the Aet Obviously state labor agement, labor and the public. To tarn back the clock is to create a|'@¥s which apply to all the employ- Pandora's Box of strikes and indus- ees in the state are superior to a trial anarchy destructive of the basic federal law which applies only te rights of collective bargaining those workers connected with inter- MR. SCOVILLE CH oe ee In the decade since C tempted to deny employers to contract with individua ber of strikes has been th as great as in the ten ye: ing. The means (cc MR. WOLCHOK CHALLENGES: Mr Scovilie’s argument on constitu- s tionality is erroneous, since the Su- s preeed- preme Court's series of decisions, va gein- April, 1937, upheld every stage of the ing) have not ac Act. His position was taken objective. Instead. the Liberty League kangaror commerce from strikes a vurt. Because employers universally trebled. z violated the Act, on advice of th If the many recent str = ¥ e. is unfair authorized, how can 2 to compare the employers deal with unions? If they are a posdisag- rag hep gaat e and after the Courts action. period before and after iw means strikes and indu vs show a 36% drop for five | then labor leaders + ster the Court's action, cum- mental coercion of » five years before. More sig- than the ives of o ae man days lost—2937, hat the safety of our cw »i- i942 only 4,182,557 due to MR. WOLCHOK Rk. employers-employees “OVULLE REPLIES: To bar- Act became law th again collectively. The unrest is due to risir \ot imereases industrial un- the threat of inflatior ‘ass war; promotes labor social dislocations f +> and enables labor organ- come unless effe back living costs pect industry to cont if the gover: tandards for labor unions. an countries destroy or co e the Nazis. root of these evils and repeal the Act |later period the man days of idle- | | are covered stance whic fates swimming. ee ee CHICAGO.—The bodies of and “man days lost” figures | More indicative figures are . iually is just as sacred a gage in racketeering, co- uidation, strikes and vio- pe er the protective shield of | graxkkkkekkekeeeae “Factory To You sesssaseeeeeeeeeee ment ¢ ted States Government. It that employers alone are been administered by als who are hostile The culmination of |this vicious class legisfation was the trol organized labor. Let us, here,| walk: out of all coal miners. Heil nizations like trade unions, | Hitler! 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