The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 15, 1943, Page 2

Except Sunday, by Owner and Publisher Corner Greene Ann Streets Only Dally Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County #mtered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘The Associated Press is ex for republication of ali news or not ine credited in this pap hews published here SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year Six Months Three Months Gne Month Week!) ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. SPECIAL NOTICE , etc, Will be charged for at atertainment by churches from which be derived are 5 cents a line. open forum and invites disc nd subjects of local or gen jot publish anonymous communi- €DITORIAL_ SOCIATION pul interest t cau IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED ‘BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County ernments. 5. A Modern City Hospital. ~were and City Gov- LOS ANGELES AND DETROIT nee Mayor Fletcher Bowron, of Los An- geles, tells a California legislative investi- gating committee that the recent zoot-suit isorders were not attributable to “rac prejudice, Axis agents or other foreign in- fluences.” The mayor might as_ well save his wreath. There are people in the United States who attribute everything that hap- pens to racial prejudice, Axis agents or for- eign influences. They are not interested in discovering the truth because it suits their | purpose to put out this kind of propaganda. A member of the mayor's committee told the committee that the recent outbreak “imply grew from a minor altercation be- | tween Mexicans and service men, followed wy retaliations in large numbers on both vides. This ix probably the truth but it does not explain the hysteria of so-called “pa- tricot.” ravial prejudice. The same p is apparent ia tepyard to the race riot which recently oc- wrred in Detroit. It was immediately at- nomena tributed to the Ku Klux Klan, and influx of | Sauthern workers and fifth column groups. The Falsity of the charge that the riot m Detroit was caused by the influx of w@rker from the South is demonstrated by tht report of Dr. C. S. Ramsay, Director of ‘he Michigan Department of Social We!- tare. whe reported that this was “almost me factor” in the fighting between negroes and white persons Ur. Ramsay and his staff questioned meeriy five hundred persons arrested, most of whom were negroes, and they “wp racial discrimination in their schools Pe cae experiences.” He found thet Ot those interviewed had lived Niglte than five years,”’ that the wd pa te were employed in good | ihe and duxious to return to them. Governor Kelly accepted a of a fact-finding und “no elements of subversive and Attorney-General Herbert J. Rushton remarked that “when we get evi- Cemece that the riot was planned or inspired by-enemy influence,” there call « grand jury The hoWever recom- committee, will be time to conclusion«< carry no w propa randists whose these ht with officials, fanatical corstant reiterations of theis charges have much to do with cre- atimg « dangerous situation in the country. Little men seek honors from other “men we find it diffieult to un- times, exactly what has in mind, outside of politics, Personally Cerstana, at Congr Phe aerial offensive against Germany ay not win the war, but it will reduce the mber of Allied casualties when the sol- er invade Europe ene teeeeneemetaees There is in the general revenue fund the state of Florida the sum of $1,.300,- oo, That means the commonwealth had a first-class Governor Holland, and a no le=: first-class manager, Comptroller Lee, The i senate as the | 1 of directors hare in the accomplishment. house a alta had 3 usively entitled to use | ards of thanks, resolutioss of | who explain everything in terms of | reported | H SEEING IN THE DARK B. J. McQuaid, a writer cago Daily News, Secretary of the Na Knox’ paper or former paper, gives a viv dl for the Chi- | | account of the battle of Kula Gulf, but he | leaves the lay mind in darkness about the | efficiency of Uncle Sam's shoot as accurately at night as during day- light. He speaks about tracer shells and star clusters in lighting up the enemy ships, but | does not explain how it was possible, in 5 | pitchy darknes, for the tracers to pick out | their ob jectiv But he do | other layman would say, “It w utter and incredible perfection!” (We put ithe exclamation point at the end of the | sentence, because we believe it rates a dozen { exclamation points). It was not only dark but squally also, {so much so that, even after daybreak, the blackness of night decreased only a little. | But there, in Kula Gulf, in the dead of night, 'in squalls and in dungeon blackness. the | American fire was deadly. j In five minutes after contact with the enemy, our naval sharpshooters jhad sunk three Jap destroyers and two ! light cruisers, and the “slaughter” and the “execution,” as McQuaid characterizes the destruction of the enemy ships, continued + for 55 minutes, by which time 11 of them had been sent to the bottom or were burning | hulks on Kolombargara’s off-shore rocks. And our only loss was the light cruiser Helena, despite the fact that our ships were outnumbered and the further fact that the Jap flotilla included two heavy cruisers which were blasted into impotency a fe after they entered the fray. Precision instruments, about which we know nothing, and, if McQuaid is famili with them, he purposel; ly said nothing about | them, ere the things “hat have made our | Navy men masters of the sea and our air- men masters of the air. And our men who go up into the air cr out on the s trained to the ultimate finality ir of these instruments. We have instruments that can detect planes before the human ear can hear them or the human eye can see them. Further, the instrument indicates from.what tion the planes are coming, how high they | are and the exact spot in which they flying. And our bombsight can pick out a target from a plane at 30 thousand | feet up in the air, and our naval men have instruments that make firing at night as ac- | curate as firing in daylight. The Japs and the Germans have instru- | ments tod, but, so far as we a they were invented in this country before we en- tered the war and are not nearly as accurate as the instruments we we entered the war. It is struments that, where we Germans and Italians lose the Japs more than eight. “A one-sidedly s every as a thing of was made minute: are 5 or aware, have invented due since to those ir t and lose a plane, t almost five murde at rus tle,” McQuaid says of the figh » Kula Gulf. Phere have been many one-sided sea and air battles, too, since the United Stat ! entered the war, and there will be other one-sided battles, with the United States the top side, till Germany, Italy and J are crushed. Inventive genius, put into play by quick- and accurate-thinking American { winning the war, with a tempo is in creasing daily till it finally reaches its de- vastating climax Durkness, does not dim the because of those nstru- ' ments, “evesight” of naval men. When Uncle Sam wants money for his war effort, he alwacs finds appropriate slogans. For the next drive in Septe r the slogan will be: Back the attack with a Bond. MRS. ROOSEVELT’S PART M ceived many Roosevelt reports that she has re letters and read editorials ac- cusing her of having fomented race trot ble by her good-will attitude tow neg roes. There can be little doubt but the First Lady has exhibited an extremely casual attitude long-standing problem, without appare ing the t ific The solution for r be found in well-m advertised good-v toward a comprehend- f racial a power « nimosi ial issues is n resolut ning ms of t of individuals. It is to be found solely in the gradual developmer of esteem and respect by the peop vho live together in a give races lar This slow process cannot be pushed. It must teke root and grow. To attempt to reap a harvest before there has been ad quate cultivation will merely endanger the growing crop. naval men to, - S€€ PAUL SmitH THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Case No. 48 [MARY Wo HOLLEMAN, tn Chapter 23 plans she had drawn around the{ RALPH W Perhaps it was but she had noncaneer ri . sedi 2 possession of Terrence House. done all she knew to do. WHEN Ann opened her eyes! "But she would have to give| She'd leave Terrence House as 7 ‘as by g over her ry 4 TT SEL YN PAROOK “p, si a e them up. Her last hope Was’ she'd come. Alone except for Ma- ‘ RALI I'm all right,” she said at last.| burned with the will last night. | tilda. There wouldn't be anyone 126 HOUGH AY 4, “Plain case of hysterics,” his) She had just reached the con-| unless it was Bert to whom she > 5 Rm smooth professional voice ex- clusion that she would pack ber ; Might say goodbye. The thought | fi, required t» appear am the ath ; Plained. “You're to go ¢ ner bags this afternoon an¢ leave to-j| of Bert left her unmoved. He had a 1942, before i now and then tomor ie ee }mor ow when Gibbs appeared at! been nice to her in a way which jitled court to A better, we'll talk this thing en Re door. He stood, dripping hat| might have profited tim most but filed nae £ Tomorrow? Suddenly she hdpgd'in_ hand, ont said, “1 bm Palos didn't ‘ove hin, | femted z tomorrow would ndéver back way. Ain't nobody stirrin’ in| She stuck her finger into the | ™ i the seteeiber = She'd lost Terrence House: She'd; this we 3 | bird cage and let Matilda give it piste. ‘thle 2h % br .~ 4 Wea rece” shan " made a fool of herself to Jerzy.|_ “You be careful. Gibbs.! a pecking kiss. ; She was achingly unhappy }I know ught I'd deserted| «pm going to clean you up be- Court Bs. ow take this.” Bert held a you. I have wsket here for fore we travel if 1 can find that ittle white capsule to her mouth, You ‘ {crazy latch underneath.” : lifted her head while she sipped) |“? t the arab Matilde escteed. gn sindenotand Prertas, “tke Seale water. “If you need me in the he ret "he shui : night have someone call.” | his {cet that stuff. 'm "bout m8 eye and waited Cc rr duis, 1908 i Bh don’t you ask me 7 41s” T HE rain came down steadily som CHee, Cyoute, Court. Cia Cope what brought this en? Or don't . | Ldreary and depressing. Shut i (sa Sd) Kathleen 3 you want to know that your hun . little more! ting her off as like shutther off, , OTH oF semaaegweee ven — dred to one shot was no good? | too. Losing Terrence House hurt rr € ? You mean her he. pride but losing Jerry Lane iS HER —_— fi : two! burt her heart reac et halter ot wemee oral $ ” Gibbs.| She shivered a little with the ete gh gre Ite net bot we'll keep cold of what might have been ve and has made a + soing a days. | wanted to! Then she dragged out her grips a tax deed to be womid eTy Maney “I caught ry Lane in the talk to you anyy * and began to pack Said rertifieate eting., act.” Then him the story es It was growing dusk outside [riers in the County of Monroe, eer When st he said, crypt she Wy turned to Ma- | State uf Florida, to-wit: iat same in my ovfiee cally, “W 1 never win if “Y7OU ted to give “Now for you, young lady,” (Ataler's Park applicatéon for a tax you don’t p tet,” and left = it Mr Baxton id. wk 1 Page | Sohen tae taeootions er to figure that out for hersclf ‘ d you to| She opened the cage door, . in rer in the County of It n when we coaxed the bird to hop -to her ee of Flori to-wit 1 t her. hand. She carried her lightly to a eis Lot 1 Ser 6 Angler's up, and left her on its arm. H titan Section, The assessment o he spread newspapers on the ain't no sign of that fel-| floor and set the cage in the mid- ferty under the sa : i a jdie of them. She remembered | *" 4 was in the ; N it t all He irned it! e felt around behind t ; the hidden spring. The spring in turn released the wire top which fell completely apart from the base. knot of do him no A made it easy to give the Uniess certificate nn smi © cage a thorough cleaning. redeemed according to rain thoug' F . ively property described cai iar selniioar: Ann ran her fingers tentatively sold to the highest . turned the cage over, ex- it from several angles. ain may court h and I can go with it She spent a long minute wishing ‘ 5 P <ocan ala She ate a light she had watched mor closely down and dozed i | when her grandmother did it. — It was 3 | A fumbling knock on her door NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR stepped to é ver Lam, interrupted her She blue and get a geod answer it and found Jack Mason | powder blue w Lee in his had Th \, near the © it up. They were both drenched. The 1P vev's eves were big with f » : ors Dee = “Oh, Jack,” she cried, what's Po . crime. happened? " is none "aves. ‘ To be continued St ae Aue sas = = + -_-———-- * led same in and = — Monroe De issued there ‘Seed “cgrtifigate ce the following -desar KEY WEST IN Today’s Birthdays Today's Horoscope _ Fa tne Cantata Momees piste ee a JULY 15 JULY 15 . . 4 Richard S. W f jay gives a sympathetic na- *! u¢ ¢ aims. ure snd of hon ents, |b FROM FILES OF THE CITIZEN * ee eee aes eee Se Bon ead Gases OF JULY 15, 1933 ut with a secretive. sensitive dis- | position and a certain lack of en , 2 Senne Pa M MSI greet gen \ H M. Bemis if born in certain portions | § nS as " Marini: Hos and W ’ gc day. The earlier or treult ¢ ; ‘ f s are the best to be hoe! ‘ : x L t B 2. n = se : ; I { . = vor ATION ' r Dp r t For T. ” he Dr. I ' cian Daveng i (Senate Bill No. 163) ae iia Sainte 1 > years ag NOTICE 1S HEREBY GIVEN, That | ,):\)) 1 -_- ! . | Clerk Sey Weet Muusicinet tana G ude in inter-racial a sisal k rt in B F. Security id certificate em- i } 4 the Said | of Florida, to-wit SUMMER : erat i r 9 A ear P Afternoons: Tues. - Thurs. hth R ‘ ars| ; Se ' very Evening: 8:00 - 10:30 p.m H Ladies Invited ; = — = SKATE for HEALTH'S : ) ‘ CMmeurT COURT oF THE © assessment of the said prop- eNTH S fer the said certificate & Lessons ; . NAN : —— " 1 n ’ I 0 Peony dori GREAT DAMAGE N Ww tye ‘ FEVELANI D. “ t oF > “ ‘ ‘ > $400, ‘ logtisl ‘ ORDER oF sae ? MILLS ; j phir jie SEAL) : Roce sawyer AT ALL ? n De Y Cir t t nroe a te, Flor GROCERS 1. Ke Coconut 48 a sar | ‘ rerrrrerrrrrrrirrr ir i) “a ; s R . " ' 2 r ; : ELECTRIC APPLIANCES ! HOW TO GET LONGER LIFE FROM THEM Never immerse in water. ogee UR SIKES f fc act fi LICENSED PLUMBER 1306 CATHERINE STREET Keep them clean and ready for use Take good care of cords and plugs. When not im use store where they will not become damaged. 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